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What playing card was introduced by US players in the 1860's as the ultimate trump card (the best bower) in the game of Euchre?
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[ { "docid": "1722113", "text": "suit, called the \"right bower\" (from the German \" or Jack\"); the second-highest trump, the \"left bower\", is the Jack of the suit of the same color as trumps. Around 1860, American Euchre players may have devised a higher trump, the \"Best Bower\", out of a blank card. Samuel Hart is credited with printing the first illustrated \"Best Bower\" card in 1863 with his \"Imperial Bower\". Best Bower-type jokers continued to be produced well into the 20th-century. Cards labelled \"Joker\" began appearing around the late 1860s with some depicting clowns and jesters. It is believed that the term \"Joker\" comes", "title": "Joker (playing card)" }, { "docid": "312226", "text": "backs. The need to hide wear and tear and to discourage writing on the back led cards to have designs, pictures, photos, or advertising on the reverse. The United States introduced the joker into the deck. It was devised for the game of euchre, which spread from Europe to America beginning shortly after the American Revolutionary War. In euchre, the highest trump card is the Jack of the trump suit, called the \"right bower\" (from the German \"\"); the second-highest trump, the \"left bower\", is the jack of the suit of the same color as trumps. The joker was invented", "title": "Playing card" }, { "docid": "312227", "text": "c. 1860 as a third trump, the \"imperial\" or \"best bower\", which ranked higher than the other two \"bowers\". The name of the card is believed to derive from \"juker\", a variant name for euchre. The earliest reference to a joker functioning as a wild card dates to 1875 with a variation of poker. Contemporary playing cards are grouped into three broad categories based on the suits they use: French, Latin, and Germanic. Latin suits are used in the closely related Spanish and Italian formats. The Swiss-German suits are distinct enough to merit their subcategory. Excluding jokers and tarot trumps,", "title": "Playing card" }, { "docid": "958362", "text": "card on the kitty if the first player to the left passes and the dealer's partner would like to order up the dealer, the dealer's partner must play alone. Euchre terminology varies greatly from region to region, and is highly colloquial. Some examples include: Euchre Euchre or eucre is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24, 28, or sometimes 32, standard playing cards. It is the game responsible for introducing the joker into modern packs; this was invented around 1860 to act as a top trump or best Bower", "title": "Euchre" }, { "docid": "1722112", "text": "Joker (playing card) The Joker is a playing card found in most modern card decks, as an addition to the standard four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades). The Joker originated in the United States during the Civil War and was created as a trump card for the game of Euchre. It has since been adopted into many other card games, where it may function as a wild card. The card is unique within the French pack in that it lacks an industry-wide standard appearance. In the game of Euchre, the highest trump card is the Jack of the trump", "title": "Joker (playing card)" }, { "docid": "1722121", "text": "the Maid, a card that is to be avoided. Joker (playing card) The Joker is a playing card found in most modern card decks, as an addition to the standard four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades). The Joker originated in the United States during the Civil War and was created as a trump card for the game of Euchre. It has since been adopted into many other card games, where it may function as a wild card. The card is unique within the French pack in that it lacks an industry-wide standard appearance. In the game of Euchre, the", "title": "Joker (playing card)" }, { "docid": "469935", "text": "if a player does not receive a face card this is considered a misdeal and a redeal may be required. As in euchre, in non-trump suits, the order of cards from highest to lowest is ace, king, queen, (jack), 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, (4). In the trump suit, the highest card is the joker, sometimes known as \"best bower\" in reference to the trump jacks, followed by the jack of the trump suit called \"right bower\", and then the jack of the suit of the same colour as the trump suit called \"left bower\", which is considered part", "title": "500 (card game)" }, { "docid": "958324", "text": "Euchre Euchre or eucre is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24, 28, or sometimes 32, standard playing cards. It is the game responsible for introducing the joker into modern packs; this was invented around 1860 to act as a top trump or best Bower (from the German word \"Bauer\", \"farmer\", denoting also the Jack). It is believed to be closely related to the French game Écarté that was popularized in the United States by the Cornish and Pennsylvania Dutch, and to the seventeenth-century game of bad repute Loo.", "title": "Euchre" }, { "docid": "1722120", "text": "noting the lost card's rank and suit on the joker. Other games, such as a 25-card variant of Euchre which uses the joker as the highest trump, make it one of the most important in the game. Often, the joker is a wild card, and thereby allowed to represent other existing cards. The term \"joker's wild\" originates from this practice. The Joker can be an extremely beneficial, or an extremely harmful, card. In Euchre it is often used to represent the highest trump. In poker, it is wild. However, in the children's game named Old Maid, a solitary joker represents", "title": "Joker (playing card)" }, { "docid": "6762529", "text": "In Queens County, New Brunswick, the 2 of trump is worth 2, and the 10 is worth 0 points, the game is also played to 225. Sixty-three (card game) Sixty-three is a card game popular in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, and on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and is named after the number of points which can be taken in a hand. This game is nearly identical to the Pitch variant Pedro. It also has features reminiscent of Euchre. Setup Sixty-three is played by four players, in two teams, and uses a full deck of cards plus one joker. The", "title": "Sixty-three (card game)" }, { "docid": "5003878", "text": "as an additional trump ranked below the Two of trumps. For the determination of the Low point it is ignored, but its owner or winner is awarded an additional Joker point. A Joker may also be added to the pack as the ultimate trump, capturing everything but the Low trump. It also represents a point. In Euchre, the non-trump Jack of the same color (not suit) as trumps is called the \"Left Bower\". It belongs logically to the trump suit and ranks immediately below the Jack of trumps (\"Right Bower\"). Some variants of Pitch borrow this feature, in which case", "title": "Pitch (card game)" }, { "docid": "12025049", "text": "Pluck (card game) Pluck is a trick-taking playing card game for four players (two teams of two). The game is played similar to Spades and Hearts. A standard deck of playing cards is dealt out (excluding jokers) evenly among the players. The objective is to get ten points (called plucks) before the other team. Thirteen cards are dealt singly in turn to each of the four players. The player that calls the initial trump suit plays a card and all other players must play a card of that suit if they have it. Highest card wins. If the player doesn't", "title": "Pluck (card game)" }, { "docid": "11164562", "text": "of the same color as the trump suit is known as the \"Jick\" (Ji) or \"Left Bower\". The Left Bower and the two Jokers are considered to be part of the trump suit, where they rank below the Right Bower and above the Ten. In case both Jokers are played to the same trick, the second ranks higher than the first. Smear is a point-trick game, i.e. the winner of \"Game\" is determined by the total value of the cards won in tricks, rather than the number of tricks won. The card-values are Ace = 4, King = 3, Queen", "title": "Smear (card game)" }, { "docid": "5003930", "text": "remaining. A Joker may be cut in at any time if a non-trump suit is lead, regardless of the players remaining cards. A further variant of the Two Trump game is to allow a Joker to be played if the other Joker was lead, regardless of the second card played in the trick and the rest of the players hand. This is known as the Double Down Override as it is performing a “double down” and adding at least a second point to the trick. Pitch (card game) Pitch (or \"High Low Jack\") is an American trick-taking card game derived", "title": "Pitch (card game)" }, { "docid": "13848551", "text": "can be added manually, but this is discouraged as it may render the card identifiable from the back). In any event, the \"high\" Joker always outranks the low. If one Deuce is used, it is always the highest trump in the deck. If two are used, the Deuce matching the colour of trump is highest. Turning up a Joker or Deuce on the deal is handled in the same way as described in the English method above. Although Railroad Euchre is somewhat complicated and often takes a few hands even for experienced Euchre players to grow accustomed to, the addition", "title": "Euchre game variations" }, { "docid": "6762522", "text": "Sixty-three (card game) Sixty-three is a card game popular in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, and on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and is named after the number of points which can be taken in a hand. This game is nearly identical to the Pitch variant Pedro. It also has features reminiscent of Euchre. Setup Sixty-three is played by four players, in two teams, and uses a full deck of cards plus one joker. The players on the same team should sit opposite each other, and any 'table talk' or transfer of information about the games between partners is strictly forbidden.", "title": "Sixty-three (card game)" }, { "docid": "13289526", "text": "do not know the real rules of Euchre. Bacon can be played with a 53 or 54 card deck including one or two jokers (as long as one of the jokers is noticeably more colorful or has a more fanciful design than the other). In this variation, jokers are considered to be the highest trump, and will beat any other card in a trick. If both jokers are played in a single trick, the more colorful or fanciful one wins the trick. If a joker is turned face up in the center as an offer during the trump selection process,", "title": "Bacon (card game)" }, { "docid": "4520739", "text": "pit. In the next hand, the two players in the pit discard their best card, the first players chooses one of the two, the second player gets the other one. These players then discard any card they don't want; Fourth choosing, fifth getting the remaining card. Then dealer leads in this hand. Pits (card game) Pits is a five player card game, a cross between whist and rummy, with the objective of playing all your cards first. It is played with a 54 card pack (4 suits and 2 jokers). Threes are low, Aces high, Twos even higher and Jokers", "title": "Pits (card game)" } ]
[ { "docid": "13848563", "text": "then the hand must be concluded with that player's cards face up. Game strategy The rules for 5 handed euchre can also be used for 6 handed by adding the final 8 and the 7's. The team that makes trump will usually end up playing 2 vs 4. Triple Wild Deck There are many similarities in play and trump/bower priorities. The main difference is in the wild card and the lack of kiddy. Scoring is the same as four person two team Euchre. Partnerships are three teams of two players seated across from each other. The deck is 32 cards", "title": "Euchre game variations" }, { "docid": "469974", "text": "hearts. An alternate, but similar, strategy in this situation would be to play the queen of hearts. This alternate strategy would force the player holding the jack of hearts to decide between either playing the jack, or throwing away a lower trump card to intentionally lose to the queen. 500 (card game) 500 or five hundred, also called bid euchre, is a trick-taking game that is an extension of euchre with some ideas from bridge. For two to six players, it is most commonly played by four players in partnerships, but is sometimes recommended as a good three-player game. It", "title": "500 (card game)" }, { "docid": "11704938", "text": "lose (if someone has the other bower) they bypass playing the hand and simply ask if anyone has the other bower. Lay downs are an advanced skill reserved for veteran players to expedite game play, when everyone at the table can recognize that a hand is unbeatable. Euchre variations Euchre is a 19th-century trick-taking card game and has many variations. The addition of extra cards like 8 and 7 can usually add more uncertainty as for which trump cards are still in the opponent's hands during the course of the game. This uncertainty may be increased with the addition of", "title": "Euchre variations" }, { "docid": "13289512", "text": "Bacon (card game) Bacon, sometimes called American Euchre, is a trick-taking card game which resembles a simplified version of Euchre. It differs from Euchre in that it uses a full 52-card Anglo-American deck, has a slightly modified scoring system and trump selection system, uses a normalized card ordering to make it easier to learn, and adds the aspect of permission. It originated in the mid-to-late 1900s and is somewhat popular in the Eastern United States. It is one of the simpler trick-taking games and is a good game for introducing the concept of trumps to inexperienced players. The object of", "title": "Bacon (card game)" }, { "docid": "469931", "text": "500 (card game) 500 or five hundred, also called bid euchre, is a trick-taking game that is an extension of euchre with some ideas from bridge. For two to six players, it is most commonly played by four players in partnerships, but is sometimes recommended as a good three-player game. It arose in America before 1900 and was promoted by the United States Playing Card Company, which copyrighted and marketed the rules in 1904. 500 is a social card game and was highly popular in the United States until around 1920 when first auction bridge and then contract bridge drove", "title": "500 (card game)" }, { "docid": "10493996", "text": "for the hugely popular \"Fame and Fortune\". Cancelled after its first season, \"The Trump Card\" was replaced in 2008 by \"The Big Money Game\", the first season of which was also presented by Laura Woods. The Trump Card The Trump Card is a game show that was broadcast on RTÉ One during the summer months of 2007 as a seasonal replacement for \"Winning Streak\". Launched as the successor to \"Fame and Fortune\" (1996–2006), \"The Trump Card\" had its prize money funded by the National Lottery and its production costs paid by RTÉ. Laura Woods presented. Although ratings were initially favorable,", "title": "The Trump Card" }, { "docid": "13289527", "text": "a player may state \"pick it up\" and declare \"any suit they choose\" as trump, with the downside that they have given the highest trump in the game to their opponent. There are several regional variations on scoring methods, though the above method is by far the most widely used. Some common variations are listed below, and any number of them can be used simultaneously. Bacon (card game) Bacon, sometimes called American Euchre, is a trick-taking card game which resembles a simplified version of Euchre. It differs from Euchre in that it uses a full 52-card Anglo-American deck, has a", "title": "Bacon (card game)" }, { "docid": "13848525", "text": "Euchre game variations \"This article deals with variations in game playing. For a description on variations in game rules and terminology, see\" Euchre variations. Euchre has many variations in game playing. Some of them are designed for two, three, five or even six hands. Described below are some of these variations. A normal hand is dealt out to each player along with a 3-card dummy hand to each player. Each person picks up their dummy hand after trump has been called. Each player must make their best five card hand out of the eight cards available. Going alone is still", "title": "Euchre game variations" }, { "docid": "10493995", "text": "The Trump Card The Trump Card is a game show that was broadcast on RTÉ One during the summer months of 2007 as a seasonal replacement for \"Winning Streak\". Launched as the successor to \"Fame and Fortune\" (1996–2006), \"The Trump Card\" had its prize money funded by the National Lottery and its production costs paid by RTÉ. Laura Woods presented. Although ratings were initially favorable, \"The Trump Card\" quickly became unpopular with viewers. Critics blamed the show's poor audience ratings on its repetitive and complicated format, and on the fact that \"The Trump Card\" was seen as a disappointing replacement", "title": "The Trump Card" }, { "docid": "15541326", "text": "Réunion (card game) Réunion, Reunion or Vereinigungsspiel is an historical German 10-card, Ace-Ten, point-trick game for three players using a 32-card French-suited piquet pack or 32-card Skat pack. Players who cannot follow suit must trump. Otherwise the game can be described as a simplified version of Skat, but is also reminiscent of Euchre. The game occurs in 19th century German game anthologies, where it was said to be popular in the western parts of Germany, and more specifically the area of the rivers Rhine, Main, Lahn and Neckar. Due to the Napoleonic Wars, this area was under a strong French", "title": "Réunion (card game)" }, { "docid": "15536635", "text": "The Card Players The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size, the number of players, and the setting in which the game takes place. Cézanne also completed numerous drawings and studies in preparation for \"The Card Players\" series. One version of \"The Card Players\" was sold in 2011 to the Royal Family of Qatar for a price variously estimated at between $250 million ($ million today) and possibly as high as", "title": "The Card Players" }, { "docid": "8009983", "text": "Cattle miniatures game. The game mechanics are the same as Car Wars: The Card Game, so the two games can be combined, with some players playing cows and other players playing cars. Car Wars The Card Game Car Wars: The Card Game is a card game version of Steve Jackson Games' Car Wars miniatures game. Players have a card in front of them to represent the car that they're using to battle other players. In turn, each player plays attack cards to try to do damage to the other players' cars, and the other players respond with armor and maneuver", "title": "Car Wars The Card Game" }, { "docid": "9533883", "text": "Game is a 2010 game that is also different from The Game of Life: Card Game. The Game of Life Card Game The Game of Life Card Game is a card game created by Rob Daviau and published by Hasbro in 2002. The object of the game is to collect as many points as possible before the letters for L.I.F.E. are drawn. The game begins with each player first deciding whether to pick a career right away or go to college and get a career afterwards. Each turn, players draw to fill their hands and then complete goals by playing", "title": "The Game of Life Card Game" }, { "docid": "20140098", "text": "The Trump Card (book) The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life is a 2009 book by Ivanka Trump. It is written as a self-help book aimed at helping women achieve success in work and life. In this book, Trump portrays her privilege and wealthy upbringing as a handicap, citing as an example the fact that she was unable to set up a lemonade stand as a child because the neighborhood she lived in was so posh that it had no foot traffic, which forced her to be innovative and sell lemonade to the family's household staff instead.", "title": "The Trump Card (book)" }, { "docid": "20140100", "text": "separate it from real sexual harassment. The Trump Card (book) The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life is a 2009 book by Ivanka Trump. It is written as a self-help book aimed at helping women achieve success in work and life. In this book, Trump portrays her privilege and wealthy upbringing as a handicap, citing as an example the fact that she was unable to set up a lemonade stand as a child because the neighborhood she lived in was so posh that it had no foot traffic, which forced her to be innovative and sell lemonade", "title": "The Trump Card (book)" }, { "docid": "19525285", "text": "The Card Players II The Card Players II (Slovenian: Kvartopirci II) is a painting by the 17th-century Dutch artist Almanach. It is painted in oil on canvas and has dimensions of 147 x 2855 cm. The painting is in the collection of the National Gallery of Slovenia in Ljubljana, which purchased it in 1995. The composition is closely related to the \"Cheerful Company at Table\" (\"The Card Players I\"), also in the National Gallery of Slovenia. The group are playing the Italian game of trappola. On the table is a rolled piece of tobacco. The painting shows the influence of", "title": "The Card Players II" }, { "docid": "13848529", "text": "of turning up trump and taking the lead. In some variants, each player may be dealt a 3-card private hand, with 4 sets of face up/face down cards; or a 5-card hand, with 3 sets of face up/face down cards. Missing Man Euchre also known as \"George's Hand Euchre\" Missing Man Euchre is a three handed Euchre tournament game of Western Wisconsin. It is also seen on the gulf coast of Florida. It’s popular because it plays very similar to traditional 4 handed Euchre. Dealing and Calling Suit - Four 5 card Euchre hands are dealt with the 4th hand", "title": "Euchre game variations" }, { "docid": "5955831", "text": "Bid Euchre Bid Euchre, Auction Euchre, Pepper or Hasenpfeffer, is the name given to a group of card games played in North America based on the game Euchre. It introduces an element of bidding in which the trump suit is decided by which player can bid to take the most tricks. The primary differences are the number of cards dealt, absence of any undealt cards, the bidding and scoring process, and the addition of a no trump declaration. It is typically a partnership game for four players, played with a 24, 32 or 36-card pack, or even two decks of", "title": "Bid Euchre" }, { "docid": "3374861", "text": "to trump the Rook Bird card. Red 2 Trump: Another variation of Rook in which the red 2 is the second highest trump card in the game. Also known as the \"little rook\" Orbanes, Philip E. (1999). \"Rook in a Book\". Winning Moves, Inc. . Rook (card game) Rook is a trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards. Sometimes referred to as Christian cards or missionary cards, Rook playing cards were introduced by Parker Brothers in 1906 to provide an alternative to standard playing cards for those in the Puritan tradition or Mennonite culture who considered the", "title": "Rook (card game)" }, { "docid": "8010005", "text": "weapons provided, and to survive the battle. Each player takes turns playing weapon cards to attack other cows, and plays defense cards to protect himself against attack. Battle Cattle: The Card Game Battle Cattle: The Card Game is a card game published by Steve Jackson Games. The game mechanics are based on the same system as , so the two games are able to be combined, with some players playing cows and some players playing cars. The game concept is based on the Battle Cattle miniatures game published by Wingnut Games. The gameplay is based on the idea of putting", "title": "Battle Cattle: The Card Game" }, { "docid": "9533881", "text": "The Game of Life Card Game The Game of Life Card Game is a card game created by Rob Daviau and published by Hasbro in 2002. The object of the game is to collect as many points as possible before the letters for L.I.F.E. are drawn. The game begins with each player first deciding whether to pick a career right away or go to college and get a career afterwards. Each turn, players draw to fill their hands and then complete goals by playing cards from their hand. Goals are completed by paying their cost in money or time. Each", "title": "The Game of Life Card Game" }, { "docid": "8010004", "text": "Battle Cattle: The Card Game Battle Cattle: The Card Game is a card game published by Steve Jackson Games. The game mechanics are based on the same system as , so the two games are able to be combined, with some players playing cows and some players playing cars. The game concept is based on the Battle Cattle miniatures game published by Wingnut Games. The gameplay is based on the idea of putting a bunch of cows augmented with heavy weapons in an arena with two objectives, to kill the rest of the cows as quickly as possible with the", "title": "Battle Cattle: The Card Game" }, { "docid": "9268119", "text": "his other cards. Since the trump has an upper edge, this player who laid down the trump suit would get the trick irrespective of what the others had laid down. On the other hand, if the card is not a trump, he would simply nod and the game would progress in a normal way. At any stage of the game if any player lays down a card of a particular suit that is not there with the other two players, the other players can take the trick by placing the card of the same suit as that of the trump", "title": "304 (card game)" }, { "docid": "10782922", "text": "Highlander: The Card Game Highlander: The Card Game is an out-of-print collectible card game based on the \"Highlander\" franchise of films and television series. Players build decks from a 400+ card set, taking on the persona of one of the Immortals depicted in the franchise. The core of the game takes the form of a sword duel with players alternately playing attacks and defenses. Other cards are played to affect the basic rules of the game. You win when your opponent is reduced to 0 ability or cannot avoid a \"headshot\" attack (i.e. decapitation, the only way to permanently kill", "title": "Highlander: The Card Game" }, { "docid": "9268096", "text": "304 (card game) 304, pronounced three-nought-four, is a trick-taking card game popular in Sri Lanka, coastal Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, in the Indian sub continent. The game is played by two teams of two using a subset (7 through Ace of all suits) of the 52 standard playing cards. 304 is a strategic game, as opposed to one that is based on luck, and everything can be exactly calculated. The cards are dealt by the dealer to all four players in a counter-clockwise manner (as opposed to games like Euchre, which circle the table clockwise), each getting four cards", "title": "304 (card game)" }, { "docid": "20322522", "text": "Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game (living card game) Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game is a Living Card Game (LCG) produced by Fantasy Flight Games. It is a two-player game set in the world of Rokugan. During the game, players take on the leadership of one of the Great Clans which define Rokugani society, and they are cast into conflict against another clan. The conflicts will decide the future of Rokugan. The game is an iteration of the Legend of the Five Rings collectible card game, produced by Alderac Entertainment Group in 1995. The Core", "title": "Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game (living card game)" }, { "docid": "8539594", "text": "to the prevalence of the trump in card games, the term used in Japan for the standard 52-card deck of playing cards is , derived from the English word \"trump\". From this card game use came metaphoric uses, e.g.: In general strategy, a trump card is the move one party can use to attain decisive victory. In this sense, a trump card can be a person, a weapon, or the starting of a chain of events. Trump (card games) A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its usual rank in trick-taking games. Typically, an entire suit is", "title": "Trump (card games)" }, { "docid": "20746508", "text": "played always wins. Unlike many other card games, there is no compulsion in Watten to follow suit or win the trick. An exception is the playing of the Chief Striker as the first card of a game. In this case, all those participating in this round must comply with the call \"Trumpf or Kritisch\" (\"Trump or Critical\"; colloquially \"Kirch oda Kapejn\") and play a trump suit card. If the Chief Striker is beaten by a Critical, the other players no longer have to follow with a trump card. If a player has all three Criticals in his hand or (regionally", "title": "Watten (card game)" }, { "docid": "2400677", "text": "films for use on cards. The game also has an online version that maintains identical gameplay as well as a market economy. However, since the game's print run has ended, sales for online cards have been stopped and the servers closed in June 2010. In 2002, \"LOTR TCG\" won the Origins Awards for \"Best Trading Card Game of 2001\" and \"Best Graphic Presentation of a Card Game 2001\". \"The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game\" is a game for two or more players, each of who uses his or her own deck consisting of equal numbers of \"Free Peoples\"", "title": "The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game" }, { "docid": "12048375", "text": "Around the World (card game) Around the World is a card based drinking game, similar to President, but more complex and at the same time quicker. The game requires one standard (52-card) deck of playing cards. More decks can be added to accommodate additional players and increase difficulty. The game is also known as Irish Poker, Chico High Low, Monkey Balls, Foam Game, North Carolina, Up and Down the River, Canon Ball, Charleston Special, Death Valley and Unlucky 'Sevens' Seven. The game is divided into two rounds. The first is a guessing or probabilistic round where players must make predictions", "title": "Around the World (card game)" }, { "docid": "8191858", "text": "unacquainted with the original Misère and the method of playing it. Wellington is when the bidder undertakes to win all five tricks. The bidder must lead with his lowest value trump card when bidding Wellington. The stakes, if he loses, are double what they are in Napoleon. Wellington can only be bid if another player has already bid Nap. It was introduced into the game by \"card-sharpers\", who, working in collusion, used it to systematically overcall \"Mr. Jugging's\" Naps, and the unconscious \"Mr. Jugging\", attracted by the pleasing novelty, introduced this modality among his friends. Blücher is a bid to", "title": "Napoleon (card game)" }, { "docid": "11069611", "text": "Civilization: The Card Game Civilization: The Card Game is a card game designed by \"Civilization IV\" lead designer Soren Johnson, based on \"Civilization IV\". It was developed in 2006 by Firaxis Games, as a bonus in the \"Sid Meier's Civilization Chronicles\" boxed set (a collection of every \"Civilization\" series game up to that point), and is not available independently. Civilization: The Card Game simulates the rise of empires as in the computer game \"Civilization\". Players will collect resources, obtain plots of land, construct Buildings and Wonders, discover Technologies, and fight each other on their way to victory. The game ends", "title": "Civilization: The Card Game" }, { "docid": "958333", "text": "a non-trump suit. The highest-ranking card in euchre is the Jack of the trump suit (called \"The Right Bower\" or \"Right\") then the other Jack of the same colour, (called \"The Left Bower\" or \"Left\"). The cards are ranked, in descending order, J (of trump suit), J (same colour as trump suit), A, K, Q, 10, and 9 of the trump suit. The remaining cards rank in the usual order (the off-colour Jacks are not special) and the cards of those suits rank from high to low as A, K, Q, J, 10, and 9. Assume a hand is dealt", "title": "Euchre" }, { "docid": "20609960", "text": "Gameplay involves one player assuming the role of Skynet trying to eliminate the other player who plays as the human Resistance. Players take turns by playing Location cards where they play Character cards. A player may win in one of three ways: eliminating all of your opponent's main characters, fulfill 10 Mission Points from Mission cards, or safeguard/eliminate 10 Importance points worth of supporting characters. The game was criticized because in tournaments players would have to maintain two decks, one for Skynet and one for the Resistance. The Terminator Collectible Card Game The Terminator is an out-of-print collectible card game", "title": "The Terminator Collectible Card Game" }, { "docid": "7482185", "text": "Raise the Roof (card game) Raise the Roof is a construction strategy card game for 2 to 4 players. The game is played by drawing cards in turn and playing them to build your house. Room cards used to build your house range in value from 100 to 400. You can stop other players from building their house, take parts from their house, and even take cards from their hands. The game ends when a house is completed. All players must then add up the value of their respective houses and subtract the value of the cards in their hands", "title": "Raise the Roof (card game)" }, { "docid": "7482186", "text": "(with the exception of the player who has a completed house). The player with the highest score wins. \"Raise the Roof\" was created by Henard Industries in 1982 and was discontinued after only a few years of print. Raise the Roof (card game) Raise the Roof is a construction strategy card game for 2 to 4 players. The game is played by drawing cards in turn and playing them to build your house. Room cards used to build your house range in value from 100 to 400. You can stop other players from building their house, take parts from their", "title": "Raise the Roof (card game)" }, { "docid": "13289525", "text": "a predetermined threshold of points, usually 10 or 15, is the winner. Though Bacon is mostly standardized to the above rules, there are many regional variants that should be mentioned. Borrowing from standard Euchre, this variation makes Jacks the highest in the order of cards, just above Ace. Unlike in Euchre, however, the left bower remains its original suit and is not considered a trump. Some people play Bacon with the standard Euchre deck of 24 cards, but using all the rules of Bacon instead. Many people who play with this variation actually believe that they are playing Euchre and", "title": "Bacon (card game)" }, { "docid": "2736168", "text": "traditional ranking of cards, where the ace or king generally occupied the first rank. This is seen in the earliest known European card games, such as Karnöffel, as well as in more recent ones such as Euchre. Games with such promotion include: Jack (playing card) A jack or knave is a playing card which, in traditional French and English decks, pictures a man in the traditional or historic aristocratic dress generally associated with Europe of the 16th or 17th century. The usual rank of a jack, within its suit, plays as if it was an 11 (that is, between the", "title": "Jack (playing card)" }, { "docid": "13848536", "text": "and that becomes the new blind hand. Interesting play results if two (or more) players pick up the blind hand because the original owner of the hand knows what they have. When bidding gets to the dealer, the dealer picks up the trump card and play begins. Normal Euchre play now applies, with each player on their own. At the end of the hand, each player gets one point for each trick taken. If a player takes no tricks, he loses five points. A game of \"Dumpling\" is typically played to 21 points; tiebreaker rules vary by region. In Chicago's", "title": "Euchre game variations" }, { "docid": "9051816", "text": "Speculation (card game) Speculation is a simple gambling card game that was popular in the late 18th century and early 19th century. To hold the highest trump card when all cards in play have been revealed. The dealer antes six chips. The other players each ante four. The dealer gives each player three cards, face down. One additional card is placed face up. This card determines the trump suit, and the card belongs to the dealer. If the trump determining card was an Ace, the dealer wins immediately. Otherwise, the dealer may choose to keep it or to sell it", "title": "Speculation (card game)" }, { "docid": "17238175", "text": "have eight Obers. In Schafkopf, the four Obers are the highest trump cards, in Doppelkopf the eight Obers are the highest trump cards after the two 10s of hearts. In the Bavarian card game, Grasobern, tricks that contain the 'Grass Ober' are to be avoided. Ober (playing card) The Ober, in Austrian also called the Manderl, is a court card in the German and Swiss styles of playing cards, which corresponds in the hierarchy to the Queen in French decks. The figure depicted on an Ober is usually a nobleman or officer. It is distinguished from the lowest court card", "title": "Ober (playing card)" }, { "docid": "5955862", "text": "attended by graduates of Chaska Senior High School in the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s. In 1988, the Principal of Chaska Senior High School permanently banned students from playing the game, basing his action on allegations of gambling and large sums of money being wagered and exchanged. Dirty clubs, also called buck euchre, is a variation of euchre and 500 card game, and similar to Oh Hell – 500. Like euchre, these games are trick-taking card games; unlike euchre, the players must bid on how many tricks they will take. Dirty clubs can be played by 3 to 6", "title": "Bid Euchre" }, { "docid": "9533882", "text": "turn, a player has as much money or time as their career (and other time/money altering cards) allow. Goals have an associated point value to them and the player or team that collects the most points at the end of the game wins. Shuffle: Game of Life Card Game is a different card game where the aim of the game is to be the first person to get 100 life points by getting rid of all the cards in their hand by making sets and runs or adding to other players sets and runs. The Game of Life: Adventures Card", "title": "The Game of Life Card Game" }, { "docid": "19567602", "text": "released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on December 4, 2018. A standalone, single-player campaign mode, \"Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales\", was also released alongside the game. \"Gwent\" is a turn-based card game between two players, with each game taking three rounds. Each player must play one card each turn from a deck of at least twenty-five cards. Each deck belongs to a faction that offers different play styles. Each faction has different \"leaders\" who each have individual abilities. As \"Gwent\" does not use a mana system like most traditional CCGs, card advantage is often what wins the game. The Homecoming", "title": "Gwent: The Witcher Card Game" }, { "docid": "20920004", "text": "Ramsen (card game) Ramsen or Ramsch is a traditional Bavarian plain-trick, card game for three to five players that is played with a 32-card German-suited pack and is suitable both for adults and for children. It is one of the Rams group of card games that are distinguished by allowing players to drop out if they think they will fail to win the required number of tricks. An unusual feature of Ramsen is the presence of four permanent trump cards that rank just below the Trump Sow (often erroneously called the Trump Ace). It should not be confused with the", "title": "Ramsen (card game)" }, { "docid": "5321980", "text": "final match then played the bonus round one final time. This time, he/she was given a choice of three different question packets to choose from before the game began. After choosing the packet and his/her free space(s), the round was played as it normally would be; the only difference was that if the tournament winner successfully completed it, his/her match winnings would be multiplied by ten for a total of $100,000. The prize went unclaimed, however, as the tournament winner was unable to complete the bonus round successfully. Trump Card Trump Card is an American syndicated game show that aired", "title": "Trump Card" }, { "docid": "8432026", "text": "The Spoils (card game) The Spoils is a collectible card game created by Tenacious Games and owned by Arcane Tinmen since January 2009. It launched with a free open beta in August 2006, and officially released for sale in November 2006. \"The Spoils\" was in development from 2001 to 2006. The design team is headed up by Josh Lytle, who also designed the collectible card game Magi-Nation Duel. Jon Finkel, a prominent player in 's , aided the development team as an advisor since 2002. The Spoils Card Game, while under the design direction of Ken Pilcher, won the Fan", "title": "The Spoils (card game)" }, { "docid": "13767495", "text": "pile, each player chooses one card from their hand to set aside facedown. This card will become the target card for the player. The player who won the bid starts the play by playing one card. Players in clockwise fashion then play a card of their choice; they must follow suit, if they can, otherwise they may play any card. The player who played the highest valued card wins the trick. If one or more trump card was played, the highest value trump card wins the trick; otherwise the highest value card of the leading suit wins the trick. The", "title": "Apples (card game)" }, { "docid": "9367807", "text": "the game was terminated in 1997. Three collector sets were also cancelled. The following full sets were created by USPCC: The following promotional cards were created by USPC Games: Cards and items that were designed, but never saw official release, are discussed below: The X-Files Collectible Card Game The X-Files Collectible Card Game (XF:CCG or X-Files CCG) is an out-of-print collectible card game based on the \"X-Files\" fictional universe. It was created by the US Playing Card Company (USPCC). The \"Premier Set\" was first released in 1996 and debuted at Gen Con. Initially, 80 million cards were shipped on November", "title": "The X-Files Collectible Card Game" }, { "docid": "9367806", "text": "The X-Files Collectible Card Game The X-Files Collectible Card Game (XF:CCG or X-Files CCG) is an out-of-print collectible card game based on the \"X-Files\" fictional universe. It was created by the US Playing Card Company (USPCC). The \"Premier Set\" was first released in 1996 and debuted at Gen Con. Initially, 80 million cards were shipped on November 1st, 1996. Over the next year, USPCC would create the first expansion, \"101361\", a 2nd edition set known as \"The Truth Is Out There\", and a number of promotional cards. The second expansion, \"22364\" was apparently finished, and ready to be produced, when", "title": "The X-Files Collectible Card Game" }, { "docid": "4944312", "text": "The Tower (Tarot card) The Tower (XVI) (most common modern name) is the 16th trump or Major Arcana card in most Italian-suited Tarot decks. It is used in game playing since the 15th as well as in divination since the mid-19th century. This card follows immediately after The Devil in all Tarots that contain it, and is associated with sudden, disruptive, revelation, and potentially destructive change. Some early, painted decks, such as the Visconti-Sforza tarot, do not contain it, and some Tarot variants used for game playing omit it. Early printed decks that preserve all their cards do feature The", "title": "The Tower (Tarot card)" }, { "docid": "13075247", "text": "are: Additionally, unofficial variants can easily be added. The number of rounds and number of cards dealt in each round can be varied widely, such as starting with a single card and increasing to 10, dealing 10 rounds of 10 cards each (no reduction in hand size in subsequent rounds), etc. The Rage cards' effects can also be altered; players may be able to choose a specific trump color when playing a Change Rage card, for instance. Rage (trick-taking card game) Rage is a trick-taking card game marketed by Fundex Games that is based on the game Oh Hell. Players", "title": "Rage (trick-taking card game)" }, { "docid": "12968264", "text": "Rhode Island, during the American Revolution in 1776, the author mentions playing quadrille frequently while exiled in Glocester, Rhode Island, during the war. It is also frequently mentioned in \"The Diary of a Country Parson 1758-1802\" kept by James Woodforde, edited by John Beresford. Quadrille (card game) Quadrille is a card game that was popular in the 18th century. A variant of the Spanish card game Ombre, it is played by four players in pairs, with a deck of 40 cards (the 8's, 9's and 10's being removed). By the end of the 19th century, the card game had fallen", "title": "Quadrille (card game)" }, { "docid": "14493606", "text": "for trumps. The game has two phases. In the first phase players fill up their hands from the stock after playing to tricks. The second phase begins when the stock is empty. Tens are high in trick-play. Eldest hand leads any card to the first trick, and the other player plays \"any\" card to the trick. The trick is won by the highest trump, or by the highest card of the suit led. The winner of the trick draws a card, followed by the other player, then leads any card to the next trick. A player who holds King and", "title": "Mariage (card game)" }, { "docid": "3374856", "text": "is the lowest possible trump(below the 2 card); when called high, it is the highest possible trump. The 1 card is the highest card of each suit, unless the Rook Bird card is called high. Players must follow suit when discarding, the player with the Rook Bird card may not play it anytime (unlike other versions). When playing with 6 players, the bid winner is allowed to call 2 cards as partners. After the bid winner exchanges cards with the kitty, they then must declare if there are points in the kitty. Next they state which card or cards will", "title": "Rook (card game)" }, { "docid": "20061275", "text": "The Trump Card (film) The Trump Card (French: Dernier atout) is a 1942 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau and Pierre Renoir. The film marked Becker's full debut as a director, although he had briefly worked on \"Cristobal's Gold\" in 1940. It was filmed partly on the French Riviera, which stood in for South America. Interiors were filmed at the Victorine Studios and at Pathé's studio in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy. During production Becker used the pretext of filming to liaise between French Resistance groups", "title": "The Trump Card (film)" }, { "docid": "6791464", "text": "choices for trading. In a 3-player game, valid moves are: Same as a 3-player game except that two additional discard piles are created instead of one. For 5-10 player games, the game is slightly different. The whole deck is dealt out with no draw pile. A trading card is also dealt to each player face up. Each player must trade cards with another player, and both players put the cards into their hands. Both players must then discard one card. After all, players have gone once, each player passes one card to their left and puts it in their hand", "title": "Monopoly: The Card Game" }, { "docid": "958360", "text": "named for 4-time Northern Michigan regional tournament runner-up champion James Robson. No ace no face no trump: If a player is dealt a hand which once trump is called contains no aces, face cards, or the suit which is trump they may reveal their hand before cards have been played stating no ace no face no trump and all players must throw their cards in and the hand is re-dealt. Three-Handed Euchre (Euchre for three players): Three-Handed Euchre is played like 24 - card Euchre, with the following changes: Ace no face if someone is dealt a hand that contains", "title": "Euchre" }, { "docid": "15541328", "text": "to the highest rank and known as the \"Right Bower\". The Jack (or Unter) of the other suit that is the same colour as the trump suit is also considered a member of the trump suit. It is the second highest trump and known as the \"Left Bower\". The Right and Left Bowers are worth 12 card-points each. The two Jacks of the opposite colour rank in their normal suit and retain their normal ranks and card-point values. The last trick is worth another 10 points, resulting in a total 150 points in the deal. Dealing and play are anticlockwise.", "title": "Réunion (card game)" }, { "docid": "15536652", "text": "not lending and the private collector declining to release the work. The mini-series of men smoking pipes sometimes referred to as \"The Smokers\" was also included with over a dozen other studies and sketches, however a legal dispute also prevented the Hermitage Museum's version of \"Man with a Pipe\" from traveling to New York. The Card Players The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size, the number of players, and the", "title": "The Card Players" }, { "docid": "655422", "text": "War (card game) War (US) or Battle (UK) is a card game typically played by two players. It uses a standard playing card deck in decreasing order is: A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. Due to its simplicity, it is played most often by children. There are many variations, including those played in other countries such as Tod und Leben (Life and Death), a 32-card version played in the German-speaking world. The objective of the game is to win all cards. The deck is divided evenly among the players, giving each a down", "title": "War (card game)" }, { "docid": "5797821", "text": "Literature (card game) Literature is a card game for 4 to 12 players, most commonly played with 6 or 8 players in two teams. It uses a modified version of the Western 52-playing card deck; four cards with the same face value (typically 2's or 8's) are removed, leaving 48 cards. The game is sometimes called Canadian Fish, after the similar Go Fish, or Recollection. The players are divided into two teams seated in alternating order. The 48 cards are dealt out to the players. Conceptually the 48 cards are divided into 8 half-suits, such as \"low spades\" or \"high", "title": "Literature (card game)" }, { "docid": "11704930", "text": "Euchre variations Euchre is a 19th-century trick-taking card game and has many variations. The addition of extra cards like 8 and 7 can usually add more uncertainty as for which trump cards are still in the opponent's hands during the course of the game. This uncertainty may be increased with the addition of the 2s. In some Euchre circles it is considered acceptable to \"steal the deal\" from the other team if they are not paying attention when it is their turn to deal. This variation of Euchre is played with a regular deck and 4 players. The player left", "title": "Euchre variations" }, { "docid": "15536644", "text": "analysts to believe Cézanne had difficulty transferring the men, previously painted individually in studies, onto one canvas. It has been speculated that Cézanne solved this \"spatial conundrum\" in the final three versions of \"The Card Players\", by eliminating spectators and other \"unnecessary detail\" while displaying only the \"absolute essentials\": two players immersed in their game. The scene has been described as balanced but asymmetrical, as well as naturally symmetrical with the two players being each other's \"partner in an agreed opposition\". The man on the left is smoking a pipe, wearing a tophat with a downcast brim, in darker, more", "title": "The Card Players" }, { "docid": "20061276", "text": "in Paris and the South. In a Latin American country, two young policeman finish joint top of their graduating detective class. To separate them, they take on an investigation at a luxury hotel to see who is the better detective. The case proves however, to have been the murder of a notorious American gangster, killed by his former associates from Chicago. The Trump Card (film) The Trump Card (French: Dernier atout) is a 1942 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau and Pierre Renoir. The film marked Becker's full debut as a director, although", "title": "The Trump Card (film)" }, { "docid": "8009982", "text": "Car Wars The Card Game Car Wars: The Card Game is a card game version of Steve Jackson Games' Car Wars miniatures game. Players have a card in front of them to represent the car that they're using to battle other players. In turn, each player plays attack cards to try to do damage to the other players' cars, and the other players respond with armor and maneuver cards to avoid the damage. The object of the game is to make sure your car is the last one functional. Steve Jackson Games also publishes , based on Wingnut Games' Battle", "title": "Car Wars The Card Game" }, { "docid": "15536651", "text": "\"The Card Players\" paintings, early studies and sketches of the series, and accompanying works. The exhibition ran in London from 21 October 2010 to 16 January 2011 and in New York from 9 February 2011 to 8 May 2011. It was described as the first exhibition devoted to the series as well as the largest collection of Cézanne's \"Card Players\" paintings to ever be exhibited together. The exhibition included the paintings owned by the Courtauld, Metropolitan, and Musée d'Orsay. The versions at the Barnes Foundation and in a private collection were displayed as prints, due to the Barnes' policy of", "title": "The Card Players" }, { "docid": "312223", "text": "before the 1500s, the French permanently picked it up and placed it under the king. Packs of 56 cards containing in each suit a king, queen, knight, and knave (as in tarot) were once common in the 15th century. During the mid 16th century, Portuguese traders introduced playing cards to Japan. The first indigenous Japanese deck was the named after the period. Packs with corner and edge indices (i.e. the value of the card printed at the corner(s) of the card) enabled players to hold their cards close together in a fan with one hand (instead of the two hands", "title": "Playing card" }, { "docid": "15536639", "text": "total, five paintings of card players by Cézanne, the final three works were similar in composition and number of players (two), causing them to sometimes be grouped together as one version. The exact dates of the paintings are uncertain, but it is long believed Cézanne began with larger canvases and pared down in size with successive versions, though research in recent years has cast doubt on this assumption. The largest version, painted between the years 1890–1892, is the most complex, with five figures on a 134.6 x 180.3 cm (53 × 71 in) canvas. It features three card players at", "title": "The Card Players" }, { "docid": "6762526", "text": "that the transfer is carried out face-up so the other team may see. Any cards now in the hand which are not trump are referred to as dirt. Gameplay The person who won the bid then plays the lead card in the first hand (he must lead trump in the first hand), and the players then attempt to take as many points for their team as possible in the ensuing rounds. A round consists of each player playing one card, with the winner of the round playing the lead card in the next round. If trump is lead, all players", "title": "Sixty-three (card game)" }, { "docid": "4360684", "text": "ability to reprint already released expansions on demand. Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game (formerly the Call of Cthulhu Collectible Card Game) is an out-of-print card game produced and marketed by Fantasy Flight Games. It is based on Chaosium's \"Call of Cthulhu\" role-playing game, the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and other Cthulhu Mythos fiction. In 2008, Fantasy Flight moved the game over to its Living Card Game (LCG) format, which retains the deck-building aspect of collectible card games, but without the random distribution. It shares art and characters with FFG's other Cthulhu Mythos", "title": "Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game" }, { "docid": "4360671", "text": "Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game (formerly the Call of Cthulhu Collectible Card Game) is an out-of-print card game produced and marketed by Fantasy Flight Games. It is based on Chaosium's \"Call of Cthulhu\" role-playing game, the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and other Cthulhu Mythos fiction. In 2008, Fantasy Flight moved the game over to its Living Card Game (LCG) format, which retains the deck-building aspect of collectible card games, but without the random distribution. It shares art and characters with FFG's other Cthulhu Mythos products Arkham Horror and Elder Sign. Chaosium had", "title": "Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game" }, { "docid": "19448747", "text": "Burro (card game) Burro () or los burros is a card game played with spanish playing cards. The principle objective of the game is to get four cards of the same number. The ideal number of players is from 4 to 8. The objective of the game is to run out of cards as quickly as possible. Each time one of the players lose, they are assigned a letter of the word \"burro\". The player who is first to complete the word becomes the ultimate loser of the game. The final winner will be the player who has failed to", "title": "Burro (card game)" }, { "docid": "19448745", "text": "Burro (card game) Burro () or los burros is a card game played with spanish playing cards. The principle objective of the game is to get four cards of the same number. The ideal number of players is from 4 to 8. The objective of the game is to run out of cards as quickly as possible. Each time one of the players lose, they are assigned a letter of the word \"burro\". The player who is first to complete the word becomes the ultimate loser of the game. The final winner will be the player who has failed to", "title": "Burro (card game)" }, { "docid": "20746528", "text": "considerably increases the difficulty of the game because the two partners who have not bid must either guess or find out by observation what was bid. Another different in the South Tyrolean variant is that, for those players who have bid, \"Farbzwang\" applies, so that should a trump card, the \"Rechte\" or the \"Guate\" be played, they must follow suit with a trump if they have one (the \"Rechte\" and the \"Guate\" do not have to be played). Alternatively they can take the trick with a better card. In Blind Watten, trumps and Strikers are determined as follows: after the", "title": "Watten (card game)" }, { "docid": "16150745", "text": "in which initial and second card dealings are of much greater importance that rounds in which a suit is trump. It is important to note that there are no possible citations for this section since the cultural aspects of Mizerka are limited to word of mouth. Mizerka (card game) Mizerka is a trick-taking card game belonging to the Whist group. Mizerka is a three-person game. Although it originates in Poland, Mizerka's popularity has largely increased in the United States. What distinguishes Mizerka from tradition trick is the use of a fourth dealt pile, serving as a \"grab bag\" for players", "title": "Mizerka (card game)" }, { "docid": "20609959", "text": "The Terminator Collectible Card Game The Terminator is an out-of-print collectible card game by Precedence and is based on the movie from 1984. It was released in October 2000. The first and only set had 349 cards, although others claim 348 for a missing \"Extrapolate\" card. The game was cancelled one year before Precedence closed as a company. The game closely resembles Aliens vs. Predator Collectible Card Game and is compatible. The game was said to have a role-playing feel as characters search for equipment, look for chances to attack, and comb the streets for characters important to the future.", "title": "The Terminator Collectible Card Game" }, { "docid": "8539589", "text": "and Rex. The difference is, if playing Rex (Latin for King), the aces becomes the lowest card in each suit, and all other cards moves one step up. The English word \"trump\" derives from \"trionfi\", a type of 15th-century Italian playing cards, from the Latin \"triumphus\" \"triumph, victory procession\", ultimately (via Etruscan) from Greek θρίαμβος, the term for a hymn to Dionysus sung in processions in his honour. \"Trionfi\" was the 15th-century card game for which tarot cards were designed. \"Trionfi\" were a fifth suit in the card game which acted as permanent trumps. Still in the 15th century, the", "title": "Trump (card games)" }, { "docid": "5321975", "text": "filled in and was not hindered by a Trump Card was declared the winner. In the event of a tie, an all-or-nothing tossup was asked of the tied contestants; answering correctly won the game while an incorrect answer gave the victory to the opponent. The numbers 1 through 25 were displayed on a 5-by-5 grid. The champion drew one card from a deck of 25, and the space with the chosen number was filled in. He/she drew a second card if he/she had not used the Trump Card during the main game. The champion then had 45 seconds to complete", "title": "Trump Card" }, { "docid": "4944075", "text": "her newly asserted power with discipline and care. Paying attention to detail and refusing the temptation to be aggressive in achieving his or her aims. In a way it leads nicely into the message imparted by the following card, Strength. The Chariot (Tarot card) The Chariot (VII) is the seventh trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks. It is used in game playing as well as in divination. A powerful, princely figure sits in a swift chariot, pulled usually by two sphinxes or horses. There is often a black and white motif, for example one of the", "title": "The Chariot (Tarot card)" }, { "docid": "15295194", "text": "Clag (card game) Clag or Clagg is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards. It is similar to Whist or Oh Hell, and can be played with up to seven players. The cards are shuffled before each deal and dealt to each player in turn until the desired number of cards are dealt. The top card from the pack is then turned over to reveal the trump suit if required. The aim of the game is to finish with the most points. The points are recorded after the end of each round and then totaled", "title": "Clag (card game)" }, { "docid": "15295183", "text": "Clag (card game) Clag or Clagg is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards. It is similar to Whist or Oh Hell, and can be played with up to seven players. The cards are shuffled before each deal and dealt to each player in turn until the desired number of cards are dealt. The top card from the pack is then turned over to reveal the trump suit if required. The aim of the game is to finish with the most points. The points are recorded after the end of each round and then totaled", "title": "Clag (card game)" } ]
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What video rental store, with over 5000 locations worldwide, recently announced their bankruptcy, after getting slaughtered in the marketplace by Redbox and Netflix?
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[ { "docid": "4088506", "text": "the company. While traditional brick and mortar rental stores were closing at a high rate, Redbox moved into existing retail locations such as supermarkets, and placed kiosks within them or outside of them in order to gain that consumer base. The company surpassed Blockbuster in 2007 in number of U.S. locations, passed 100 million rentals in February 2008, and passed 1 billion rentals in September 2010. Current and former competitors include Netflix, Blockbuster, Movie Gallery and its subsidiary Hollywood Video, West Coast Video and Family Video along with other DVD by mail rental services. In Q2 2011, kiosks accounted for", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "4088505", "text": "that sold grocery items such as milk, eggs, and sandwiches as well as 11 DVD-rental kiosks in Washington Metropolitan Area locations. Redbox withdrew the grocery kiosks within a year, but the DVD-rental kiosks succeeded, and the company changed its focus to that market. In 2005, Coinstar bought 47 percent of the company for $32 million, after unsuccessful attempts to sell half the company to Blockbuster and Netflix. In early 2008, Coinstar exercised an option to increase its share from 47% to 51%. In February 2009, Coinstar paid McDonald’s and other shareholders between $169 and $176 million for the remainder of", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "4088509", "text": "for all major platforms are offered, including PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch at select locations. In February 2012, Redbox announced the purchase of former competitor Blockbuster Express (NCR) for $100 million. The acquisition included over 10,000 DVD kiosks, certain retailer contracts, and DVD inventory. As part of the agreement, Redbox entered a supplier arrangement of purchasing product and services from NCR. On June 27, 2012, Redbox sent an email to its customers announcing that it had completed the purchase of Blockbuster Express on June 23. The company announced in February 2012 the deployment of kiosks in Canada to", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "2005124", "text": "rates after the days allocated are exceeded. Blockbuster LLC Blockbuster LLC, formerly Blockbuster Entertainment, Inc., and also known as Blockbuster Video or simply Blockbuster, is an American provider of home movie and video game rental services through video rental shops, DVD-by-mail, streaming, video on demand, and cinema theater. Blockbuster became internationally known throughout the 1990s. At its peak in 2004, Blockbuster employed 84,300 people worldwide, including about 58,500 in the United States and about 25,800 in other countries, and had 9,094 stores in total, with more than 4,500 of these in the US. Competition from the Netflix mail-order service, Redbox", "title": "Blockbuster LLC" }, { "docid": "1494321", "text": "tested the concept of selling or renting DVDs by mail, by mailing a compact disc to Hastings' house in Santa Cruz. When the disc arrived intact, they decided to take on the $16 billion home video sales and rental industry. Hastings is often quoted saying that he decided to start Netflix after being fined $40 at a Blockbuster store for being late to return a copy of \"Apollo 13.\" But this is an apocryphal story that he and Randolph designed to explain the company's business model and motivation. Netflix was launched on April 14, 1998, as the world's first online", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "2005043", "text": "Blockbuster LLC Blockbuster LLC, formerly Blockbuster Entertainment, Inc., and also known as Blockbuster Video or simply Blockbuster, is an American provider of home movie and video game rental services through video rental shops, DVD-by-mail, streaming, video on demand, and cinema theater. Blockbuster became internationally known throughout the 1990s. At its peak in 2004, Blockbuster employed 84,300 people worldwide, including about 58,500 in the United States and about 25,800 in other countries, and had 9,094 stores in total, with more than 4,500 of these in the US. Competition from the Netflix mail-order service, Redbox automated kiosks, and video on demand services", "title": "Blockbuster LLC" }, { "docid": "1494322", "text": "DVD rental store, with only 30 employees and 925 titles available, which was almost the entire catalogue of DVDs in print at the time, through the pay-per-rent model with rates and due dates that were similar to its bricks-and-mortar rival, Blockbuster. Netflix introduced the monthly subscription concept in September 1999, and then dropped the single-rental model in early 2000. Since that time (see Technical details of Netflix), the company has built its reputation on the business model of flat-fee unlimited rentals without due dates, late fees, shipping and handling fees, or per-title rental fees. In 2000, when Netflix had just", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "14091649", "text": "The Casino Job The Casino Job is an independent action film directed by Christopher Robin Hood. Among the film's stars are Jay Anthony Franke and Playboy Playmate Irina Voronina. Filming locations were in Las Vegas and Laughlin, Nevada in the United States. Shot on a modest budget, the film picked up for distribution by Maverick Entertainment for worldwide release. After an early release On Demand run, the film was released to DVD March 10, 2009 and was carried by most rental outlets and online retailers including Blockbuster Video, Hollywood Video and Redbox. Sexy Las Vegas vixens have a master plan", "title": "The Casino Job" }, { "docid": "7124865", "text": "a website to let customers know of the hours and location(s) of their bricks and mortar stores. Netflix, an online movie streaming website founded in 1997, is an example of how an online business has affected a B&M businesses such as video rental stores. After Netflix and similar companies became popular, traditional DVD rental stores such as Blockbuster LLC went out of business. Customers preferred to be able to instantly watch movies and TV shows using \"streaming\", without having to go to a physical rental store to rent a DVD, and then return to the store to give the DVD", "title": "Brick and mortar" }, { "docid": "10246592", "text": "Hollywood Video, Movie Gallery, and GameCrazy stores would file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in May 2010 and wind down business. Analysts generally believe that Movie Gallery & Hollywood Video's unprofitability, caused by competition from Blockbuster Inc. and online retailers such as Netflix and Redbox, was one of the major factors in the company's decision to close the retail chain. As of December 15, 2011 the GameCrazy.com site has been relaunched as a gaming blog, but has ceased to update since late October 2014. As a video game specialty store, GameCrazy dealt primarily in new and used video game related products", "title": "GameCrazy" }, { "docid": "1494388", "text": "the market in May 2005. However, Walmart later acquired the rental service Vudu in 2010. Blockbuster Video entered the United States online market in August 2004, with a US$19.95 monthly subscription service (). This sparked a price war; Netflix had raised its popular three-disc plan from US$19.95 to US$21.99 just prior to Blockbuster's launch, but by October, Netflix reduced this fee to US$17.99. Blockbuster responded with rates as low as US$14.99 for a time, but, by August 2005, both companies settled at identical rates. On July 22, 2007, Netflix dropped the prices of its two most popular plans by US$1.00", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "1494327", "text": "its existing algorithm Cinematch, at predicting customer ratings by more than 10%. In February 2007, the company delivered its billionth DVD, and began to move away from its original core business model of DVDs, by introducing video on demand via the Internet. Netflix grew as DVD sales fell from 2006 to 2011. Another contributing factor for the company's online DVD rental success was that they could offer a much larger selection of movie titles to choose from than Blockbuster's rental outlets. But when they started to offer streaming content for free to its subscribers in 2007, it could offer no", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "2005071", "text": "to file a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy in mid-September. In light of this news, the company's chief financial officer (CFO), Tom Casey, resigned on September 11. He was replaced by Dennis McGill, formerly CFO of Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc. On September 23, 2010, Blockbuster filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection due to challenging losses, $900 million in debt, and strong competition from Netflix, Redbox, and video on-demand services. Movie Gallery/Hollywood Video had filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation earlier in 2010 for similar reasons. At the time of its Chapter 11 filing, Blockbuster said it would keep its 3,300 stores open;", "title": "Blockbuster LLC" }, { "docid": "1494391", "text": "March 2015 similar to Netflix but offering strictly nonfiction content in the areas of science, technology, civilization and the human spirit, has been dubbed the \"new Netflix for non-fiction\". Hulu Plus, like Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video, \"ink[s] their own deals for exclusive and original content\", requiring Netflix \"not only to continue to attract new subscribers, but also keep existing ones happy.\" Netflix and Blockbuster largely avoid offering pornography, but several \"adult video\" subscription services were inspired by Netflix, such as SugarDVD and WantedList. In Australia, Netflix competes with several local streaming companies, most notably locally operated services Stan", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "1494389", "text": "in an effort to better compete with Blockbuster's online-only offerings. On October 4, 2012, Dish Network scrapped plans to make Blockbuster into a Netflix competitor. (Dish bought the ailing Blockbuster, LLC in 2011 and will continue to license the brand name to franchise locations, and keep its \"Blockbuster on Demand\" video streaming service open.) In 2005, Netflix cited Amazon.com as a potential competitor, which until 2008, offered online video rentals in the United Kingdom and Germany. This arm of the business was eventually sold to LoveFilm; however, Amazon then bought LoveFilm in 2011. In addition, Amazon now streams movies and", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "19469397", "text": "in 2006. In fall 2006, Blockbuster signed a deal with The Weinstein Company that gave it the exclusive rental rights to the studio's films beginning on January 1, 2007. This agreement forced Netflix to obtain copies from mass merchants or retailers, instead of directly from the studio. Netflix has speculated that the effect of the Blockbuster-Weinstein agreement could result in higher rental costs and/or fewer copies of the studio's movies, which would limit the number of each movie's DVDs that would be available to subscribers at any one time. , Netflix continues to make available Weinstein movies, including \"Unknown\", \"School", "title": "Legal issues and controversies surrounding Netflix" } ]
[ { "docid": "4088503", "text": "Redbox Redbox Automated Retail LLC is an American company specializing in DVD, Blu-ray, 4K UHD and video game rentals via automated retail kiosks. Redbox kiosks feature the company's signature red color and are located at convenience stores, fast food restaurants, grocery stores, mass retailers, and pharmacies. As of the end of November 2012, Redbox had over 42,000 kiosks at more than 34,000 locations. As of September 2016, Redbox had 51.8% market share of the physical rental market. Redbox Automated Retail LLC was initially funded by McDonald's Corporation. Originally the kiosks sold a variety of products under the name Ticktok Easy", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "4088507", "text": "36 percent of the disc rental market, with 38 percent of that attributable to rent-by-mail services and 25 percent to traditional stores, according to the NPD Group. As of Q2 2011, 68 percent of the U.S. population lived within a five-minute drive of a Redbox kiosk. The numbers for Q2 2013 shows that the Redbox rentals had surpassed 50 percent of the total disc rentals in the country. Mitch Lowe joined Redbox in 2003 after spending five years as an executive at Netflix. At Redbox, he started first as a consultant and then as VP of Purchasing & Operations. In", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "4088523", "text": "\"Redbox’s business has thrived since its suit against Universal, underscored by lucrative distribution deals with Paramount Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, and Lionsgate.\" Redbox entered into an agreement with Warner on February 16, 2010, followed by Universal and Fox on April 22, 2010. In the agreements, which settle Redbox's lawsuits, Redbox agreed to not make available for rental films from these studios until 28 days after their initial home-video releases. Redbox continued to sign additional and new distribution deals with these and other movie studios; by 2017, titles from Fox and Warner became available on Redbox seven days after", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "1494334", "text": "Qwikster. Qwikster would carry video games whereas Netflix did not. However, in October 2011, Netflix announced that it would retain its DVD service under the name Netflix and would not, in fact, create Qwikster for that purpose. In April 2011, Netflix had over 23 million subscribers in the United States and over 26 million worldwide. In July 2011, Netflix changed its prices, charging customers for its mail rental service and streaming service separately. This meant a price increase for customers who wanted to continue receiving both services. On October 24, Netflix announced 800,000 unsubscribers in the United States during Q3", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "1494390", "text": "television shows through Amazon Video (formerly Amazon Video On Demand and LOVEFiLM Instant). Redbox is another competitor that uses a kiosk approach: Rather than mailing DVDs, customers pick up and return DVDs at self-service kiosks located in metropolitan areas. In September 2012, Coinstar, the owners of Redbox, announced plans to partner with Verizon to launch \"Redbox Instant by Verizon\" by late 2012. In early 2013, \"Redbox Instant by Verizon\" began a limited beta release of its service, which was described by critics as \"No Netflix killer\" due to \"glitches [and] lackluster selection.\" CuriosityStream, a premium ad-free, subscription-based service launched in", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "4088520", "text": "comes from used-disc sales. A Redbox kiosk rents its average DVD 15 times at an average of $2 per transaction plus any applicable taxes. With growing concern in 2009 that DVD kiosks might jeopardize movie studio income from DVD sales and rentals, three major movie studios, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., and Universal Studios, separately refused to sell DVDs to Redbox until at least 28 days after their arrival in stores. Fox and Warner Bros. represented 62 percent of home video rental revenue in 2008–09. Redbox responded by filing lawsuits, first, against Universal in October 2008, then against 20th Century", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "4088511", "text": "and other online services. That year the company also moved its 1,400 kiosks in Canada to other locations in the United States. Still, as of 2014, Redbox represented half of the physical media rental market. As of July 2016, Redbox offered Xbox One and PlayStation 4 games. Throughout most of 2016, former parent company Outerwall was seeking a buyer based on shareholder input. In early September, Outerwall was sold to Apollo Global Management and its three units (Coinstar, ecoATM and Redbox) were split into individual companies. In late September 2016, Outerwall CFO Galen Smith was announced as the new CEO", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "2370900", "text": "was announced that the San Francisco Bowl Game Association had reached a multi-year naming rights deal with Northern California-based poultry company Foster Farms, resulting in the game being named the Foster Farms Bowl. On July 12, 2016, the San Francisco 49ers NFL team announced that it had taken over management of the Foster Farms Bowl from the San Francisco Bowl Game Association, and also announced a new, four-year broadcast rights deal with Fox Sports, replacing ESPN. In September 2018, Redbox (a chain of video rental kiosks) announced it had become the new title sponsor. Because AT&T Park is a baseball", "title": "Redbox Bowl" }, { "docid": "4088510", "text": "test the market in that country, but in early 2015 shut down their Canadian operation, citing low demand. In 2012, Redbox's founder, Gregg Kaplan, exited Coinstar as president and COO of Redbox. Anne Saunders became the new president of Redbox. In July 2013, Redbox announced its 3 billionth rental of a disc, counting both movies and games. The number of items rented from kiosks annually peaked in 2013, with 772.87 million rentals. There were then 717.13 million units rented, and in 2015 the number was 587.55 million, a decline due to the increasing consumer shift from physical media to streaming", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "4088508", "text": "2005, he became the Chief Operating Officer of Redbox. Lowe had experimented in 1982 with a short-lived VHS movie vending company named Video Droid. Lowe was named President of Redbox in April 2009. In July 2010, Redbox announced that they were beginning to rent Blu-ray movies at 13,000 kiosks nationwide, and Blu-ray Discs were available across the Redbox network by the fall of 2010. In October 2010, the company began testing video game rentals in Reno, Nevada; Orlando, Florida; Stevens Point, Wisconsin; Austin, Texas; Wilmington, North Carolina; and Corvallis, Oregon. In June 2011, Redbox launched video game rentals nationwide. Games", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "4088504", "text": "Shop, however in 2003 McDonald’s ended its use of the kiosks for these products. Instead, Gregg Kaplan decided to use the kiosks for DVD rentals. The prices of the first rentals varied, until the company landed on the one dollar per day pricing. The price later went up to $1.75. The company also employed a ‘return anywhere’ policy, different from competitors, which allowed consumers to return their rental to any Redbox kiosk, not just the one from which they originally rented the unit. Kiosks rented both films and video games. In 2002, the company placed four automated convenience store kiosks", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "4088524", "text": "their initial home-video release. In 2013, there was an incident where a kids movie (The Smurfs 2) was swapped with porn. After several calls to Redbox, they said that this was an accident. In 2017, Disney sued Redbox, accusing them for violating copyrights by allowing customers to download Disney movies such as \"\" and \"Beauty and the Beast\". Redbox Redbox Automated Retail LLC is an American company specializing in DVD, Blu-ray, 4K UHD and video game rentals via automated retail kiosks. Redbox kiosks feature the company's signature red color and are located at convenience stores, fast food restaurants, grocery stores,", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "19469398", "text": "For Scoundrels\" and \"Harsh Times\", among others. The first-sale doctrine allows Netflix and other video rental businesses to offer movies released by The Weinstein Company. Beginning in 2004, Netflix subscribers could use a feature that allowed them to interact with friends who were also members. This feature was meant to tap into the growing popularity of social networking. With this feature, users could see how their friends rated a movie on that movie's page; view what DVDs their friends were renting; and allow them to leave their friends notes with film recommendations. In March 2010, as part of a redesign", "title": "Legal issues and controversies surrounding Netflix" }, { "docid": "1564195", "text": "Canada. Other chains and independent stores later transitioned to the newer format. Similarly, many stores now rent Blu-ray Disc movies after the high definition optical disc format war was finished in the late 2000s decade. The widespread availability of video on demand on cable TV systems and VHS-by-mail services offered consumers a way of watching movies without having to leave their home. With the advent of the World Wide Web, Internet services such as Netflix have become increasingly popular since the mid–2000s. All of these new ways of watching movies have greatly reduced the demand for video rental shops, and", "title": "Video rental shop" }, { "docid": "1494348", "text": "of Hulu and to Apple's new video-rental services. Netflix later split DVD rental subscriptions and streaming subscriptions into separate, standalone services, at which point the monthly caps on Internet streaming were lifted. Netflix service plans are currently divided into three price tiers; the lowest offers standard definition streaming on a single device, the second allows high definition streaming on two devices simultaneously, and the \"Platinum\" tier allows simultaneous streaming on up to four devices, and 4K streaming on supported devices and Internet connections. The HD subscription plan historically cost US$7.99; in April 2014, Netflix announced that it would raise the", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "1564197", "text": "cases, the rights of consumers in Europe and the US are in fact significantly broader than described in such warnings. Video rental shop A video rental shop/store is a physical retail business that rents home videos such as movies, prerecorded TV shows, video game discs and other content. Typically, a rental shop conducts business with customers under conditions and terms agreed upon in a rental agreement or contract, which may be implied, explicit, or written. Many video rental stores also sell previously-viewed movies and/or new, lots of unopened movies. In the 1980s, video rental stores rented VHS and Beta tapes", "title": "Video rental shop" }, { "docid": "1564189", "text": "Video rental shop A video rental shop/store is a physical retail business that rents home videos such as movies, prerecorded TV shows, video game discs and other content. Typically, a rental shop conducts business with customers under conditions and terms agreed upon in a rental agreement or contract, which may be implied, explicit, or written. Many video rental stores also sell previously-viewed movies and/or new, lots of unopened movies. In the 1980s, video rental stores rented VHS and Beta tapes of movies, although most stores dropped Beta tapes when VHS won the format war late in the decade. In the", "title": "Video rental shop" }, { "docid": "6313510", "text": "were also made available on NBC.com. \"The Office\" also became available for download from Amazon.com's Unbox video downloads in 2006. Sales of new \"The Office\" episodes on iTunes ceased in 2007 due to a dispute between NBC and Apple ostensibly over pricing. As of September 9, 2008 \"The Office\" was put back on the iTunes Store, and can be bought in HD and Regular format. Netflix also offers the show for online viewing by subscribers, in addition to traditional DVD rental. \"The Office\" is also available on Microsoft's Zune Marketplace. On December 13, 2017, Comedy Central announced that they had", "title": "The Office (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "1564193", "text": "trip down to the tape rental store to pick out for a couple of bucks the movie you want to see when you want to see it\". Video rental stores had customers of all ages and were part of a fast-growing business. By 1987, for example, Pennsylvania had 537 stores that primarily dealt in renting videotapes, with annual spending per resident of $10.50. Six years after its founding, Philadelphia's West Coast Video had by 1989 come to operate more than 700 stores in the US, Canada, and Britain. Also in 1987, the revenue taken in from the home video market", "title": "Video rental shop" }, { "docid": "4088515", "text": "apps also enabled streaming content on mobile devices. Redbox Instant disabled sign-ups for new users in mid 2014 owing to a growing number of criminals using the website to verify stolen credit cards. In Q2 2014 earning call, Outerwall, Redbox's parent company, stated that they were \"not pleased\" with Redbox Instant subscription numbers. Finally on October 4, 2014, it was announced that Redbox Instant would be shutting down on October 7, only 19 months after its initial launch. On December 13, 2017, Redbox offered a new service called Redbox On Demand. Like Redbox Instant, it is a streaming service, but", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "4088514", "text": "service launched with 4,600 titles from movie companies such as EPIX, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures, Relativity, and Sony Pictures. According to early reports, Redbox Instant also planned to allow users to download content to mobile devices for offline viewing; titles could be either rented or purchased, in SD or HD quality, with rental customers having 30 days to begin viewing their title and 48 hours of unlimited views thereafter. In June 2013, Sony made the official announcement at E3 that Redbox Instant would be available on the PlayStation 4 console, and it was released in late 2013. Android and iOS", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "1494330", "text": "total of global streaming subscribers at 40.4 million (31.2 million in the United States). By the fourth quarter of 2013, Netflix reported 33.1 million United States subscribers. By September 2014, Netflix had subscribers in over 40 countries, with intentions of expanding their services in unreached countries. By October 2018, Netflix’s customer base reached 137 million worldwide, confirming its rank as by far the world’s biggest online subscription video service. Netflix has played a prominent role in independent film distribution. Through its division Red Envelope Entertainment, Netflix licensed and distributed independent films such as \"Born into Brothels\" and \"Sherrybaby\". As of", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "16165098", "text": "five stores following suit. In 1987 the chain acquired the A-1 Paget and A-1 Smith stores, so the chain now had seven stores. In 1994 the chain acquired the Shopping Centre Limited grocery store. the chain had eight locations. The corporate headquarters is located within the chain's Hamilton MarketPlace location, the largest grocery store in Bermuda. The MarketPlace The MarketPlace Limited is a grocery store chain in Bermuda. The chain was founded by the Crisson Family in 1939, and was originally called Piggly Wiggly Limited, with each store having the name \"Piggly Wiggly.\" In 1946 the company was purchased by", "title": "The MarketPlace" }, { "docid": "1494404", "text": "continuously\". However, it announced that it would \"phase out this grandfathering gradually over the remainder of 2016, with our longest tenured members getting the longest benefit.\" Thus, according to the class action, \"Netflix has broken its contract with these subscribers by unilaterally raising monthly subscription prices.\" Its original series 13 Reasons Why was boycotted and slammed by reviewers for what they said romanticized suicide and depression. Netflix Original movies are not allowed to play in competition at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival because of a rule requiring competition films to have been released in French theaters, artistic director Thierry Fremaux", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "1564191", "text": "still operates the business as of September 2015 and was portrayed in the June 2006 documentary film \"Eckis Welt\" by Olaf Saumer. The first professionally managed video rental store in the U.S. was opened by George Atkinson in December 1977 at 12011 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. After 20th Century Fox had made an agreement with Magnetic Video founder Andre Blay to license him 50 of their titles for sale directly to consumers, amongst them \"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\", \"M*A*S*H\", \"Hello, Dolly!\", \"Patton\", \"The French Connection\", \"The King And I\" and \"The Sound Of Music\", Atkinson bought all", "title": "Video rental shop" }, { "docid": "1494353", "text": "films are delivered individually via the United States Postal Service from regional warehouses. As of March 28, 2011, Netflix had 58 shipping locations throughout the United States The subscriber can keep the rented disc as long as desired, but there is a limit on the number of discs that each subscriber can have simultaneously via different tiers. To rent a new disc, the subscriber must return the previous disc in a metered reply mail envelope. Upon receipt, Netflix ships the next available disc in the subscriber's rental queue. Netflix offers pricing tiers for DVD rental. On November 21, 2008, Netflix", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "19469368", "text": "detected 233 individual locations over six continents, with the largest amount of traffic in the USA, followed by Mexico. Netflix is committed to open source. Netflix both leverages and provides open source technology focused on providing the leading Internet television network. Their technology focuses on providing immersive experiences across all internet-connected screens. Netflix's deployment technology allows for continuous build and integration into our worldwide deployments serving members in over 50 countries. Their focus on reliability defined the bar for cloud based elastic deployments with several layers of failover. Netflix also provides the technology to operate services responsibly with operational insight,", "title": "Technical details of Netflix" }, { "docid": "20825702", "text": "2018 Redbox Bowl The 2018 Redbox Bowl is a college football bowl game that will be played on December 31, 2018, with kickoff scheduled for noon PST (3:00 p.m. EST). It will be one of the 2018–19 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. This will be the 17th edition of the bowl series that began with the 2002 San Francisco Bowl and has undergone several name changes, most recently being the Foster Farms Bowl. With new title sponsor Redbox, which was announced on September 25, 2018, this is the first edition of the game to be known as", "title": "2018 Redbox Bowl" }, { "docid": "10411040", "text": "rental services have started to lend physical books, audiobook CDs, e-books, and audiobook MP3s through stores and/or by an online (website) interface after popularization of the World Wide Web. Most book rental companies provide books with doorstep delivery using logistic services. Following the popular Netflix model for video rental, many book companies have applied features such as unlimited rentals, free shipping, and no late fees to their book distribution services. Based on the rental method the book rental companies can be categorized into two subgroups: Based on the type of books that the book rental service rents following classification can", "title": "Book rental service" }, { "docid": "1494317", "text": "model included DVD sales and rental by mail, but Hastings jettisoned the sales about a year after the company's founding to focus on the DVD rental business. Netflix expanded its business in 2007 with the introduction of streaming media while retaining the DVD and Blu-ray rental service. The company expanded internationally in 2010 with streaming available in Canada, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean. Netflix entered the content-production industry in 2012, debuting its first series \"Lilyhammer\". Netflix has greatly expanded the production and distribution of both film and television series since 2012, and offers a variety of \"Netflix Original\"", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "4088513", "text": "Redbox in Q4 compared to about 10% in Q3. The percentage trailed only Amazon (17.9%), which was up 3.3% from Q3. Redbox usage topped iTunes (7.9%), Google Play (7.2%), YouTube Movies (4.8%), Vudu (3.7%), CinemaNow (2.2%), Flixster (1.5%) and other (1.4%). Redbox began internally testing a video streaming service, dubbed Redbox Instant, in July 2012. The service is a joint effort between Redbox and Verizon. On March 14, 2013 Redbox Instant by Verizon officially went public, offering customers a free 1-month trial of an $8/month unlimited streaming service that includes 4 disc rentals from kiosks ($1 more for Blu-ray). The", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "20942958", "text": "Ella Lewis Store and Rental Houses The Ella Lewis Store and Rental Houses, at 3404-3406-3408 Courtland St. in Houston, Texas, were built around 1920. The collection was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The listing included three contributing buildings. It included a two-story General Store, which was \"the center of businesses operated by Lewis. It is covered in a large gable roof with horizontal siding and is surrounded by large deciduous and omamental trees. Two 1-story rental houses are south of the General Store. These are the last of four houses that continued to the intersection", "title": "Ella Lewis Store and Rental Houses" }, { "docid": "4088516", "text": "based on a different model. It does not require any membership, and the list will contain new releases as well as several titles that it is claimed will never be available on services like Netflix. Redbox began in 2004, using re-branded kiosks manufactured and operated by Silicon Valley-based DVDPlay, at 140 McDonald's restaurants in Denver and other test markets. In April 2005, Redbox phased out the DVDPlay-manufactured machines and contracted the Solectron facility in Creedmoor, NC — later purchased by Flextronics International, in October 2007 (Flextronics is also known as the manufacturer of the Zune, Xbox and Xbox 360) —", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "4695158", "text": "George Atkinson (video rental businessman) George Atkinson (June 2, 1935 – March 3, 2005), was an American businessman, credited as the father of the storefront video rental store in the U.S. When the first videocassettes became available for the public, he was already in the movie business. Customers in the form of hotels and pizza parlors would rent movie projectors and public domain 8mm movies, and later U-Matic videotape. The first video rental stores was, however, opened by Eckhard Baum in 1975 in Kassel, West-Germany. In the fall of 1977, George Atkinson made some extra space in his store and", "title": "George Atkinson (video rental businessman)" }, { "docid": "1494382", "text": "its first trailer during Super Bowl LII. While the film was critically panned, analysts believed that Netflix's purchase of the film helped to make the film instantly profitable for Paramount compared to a more traditional theatrical release, while Netflix benefited from the surprise reveal. Other films acquired by Netflix include international distribution for Paramount's \"Annihilation\", worldwide distribution of Universal's \"Extinction\", and Warner Bros.' \"Mowgli\". Current Former In June 2018, Netflix announced a partnership with Telltale Games to port its adventure games to the service in a streaming video format. The games would be adapted to be similar to the existing", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "14389848", "text": "Online book rental in India Online book rental refers to a service wherein users rent books via the internet. Users browse books online and have their choices home-delivered, rather than physically visiting a library to borrow a book. This e-commerce model is very similar to the popular video rental service provided by the California-based Netflix. Online book rental is gaining popularity in India, with a number of websites offering free doorstep delivery for a small monthly fee. The popularity of such websites can be attributed to increasing internet usage in the country; India is expected to have the third-largest number", "title": "Online book rental in India" }, { "docid": "14389853", "text": "not have good, well-stocked public libraries. For the residents of these cities, such ventures may offer an economical way to bridge the gap. Online book rental in India Online book rental refers to a service wherein users rent books via the internet. Users browse books online and have their choices home-delivered, rather than physically visiting a library to borrow a book. This e-commerce model is very similar to the popular video rental service provided by the California-based Netflix. Online book rental is gaining popularity in India, with a number of websites offering free doorstep delivery for a small monthly fee.", "title": "Online book rental in India" }, { "docid": "2148597", "text": "as well as on Netflix, the PlayStation Network (PSN) Video Store and Xbox Live/Zune Marketplace. The application launched for PlayStation 4 in March 2015. For the anime \"Space Dandy\", Funimation dubbed episodes and broadcast them on Adult Swim's Toonami block a day earlier than the \"original\" Japanese broadcast. After the method gained success, Funimation announced in October 2014 a \"broadcast dubs\" program, which would be exclusive to subscribers on their website. For the anime series, getting \"broadcast dubs\" confirms that the anime series will get USA home video releases from Funimation. These dubs are based on the broadcast versions of", "title": "Funimation" }, { "docid": "6105671", "text": "mobile platform named Windows Phone. Microsoft introduced Windows Phone Marketplace in 2010, and renamed the service to Windows Phone Store in 2012. On November 14, 2008, Microsoft announced their intention to discontinue the Digital Locker in 2009. The company phased-out Windows Marketplace, and replaced it with the Microsoft Store. At the Build conference on September 13, 2011, Microsoft announced Windows Store, a new software distribution platform for Windows 8, WinRT, and subsequent Windows versions. The Windows Store was accessible via WinRT client or web browser. Windows Marketplace Windows Marketplace was a Microsoft platform for the delivery of software electronically that", "title": "Windows Marketplace" }, { "docid": "20380235", "text": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is a platformer video game developed by Bennett Foddy. The game was released as part of the October 2017 Humble Monthly, on October 6, 2017 where it went on to be played by over 2.7 million players. A Steam version of the game was later released by Foddy on December 6, 2017. The game was also released on iOS that same day. The Android version was released on April 25, 2018. \"Getting Over It\" revolves around a silent man by the name of Diogenes - who, somewhat true", "title": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy" }, { "docid": "4088512", "text": "of Redbox. The company had approximately 40,000 kiosks in the United States as of January 2017. The kiosks are shifting around the country to different geographic locations in order to track consumer trends and in reaction to underperforming neighbourhoods. Most locations only have one kiosk, however in some cases there will be more than one to deal with high traffic locales. The percentage of consumers renting or purchasing movies from Redbox rose in the fourth quarter of 2017 from the third quarter, according to a TiVo survey. In a survey of 3,000 respondents, TiVo found that 12.5% of respondents used", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "9254278", "text": "V. Marinello. With approximately 1,000 car rental locations in 76 countries and territories by December 2010, Thrifty Car Rental began to focus on international locations. By 2013, approximately 1,285 international rental locations existed between Hertz, Dollar, and Thrifty brands. Operating as the largest car rental provider in United Arab Emirates with 18,000 vehicles, Thrifty introduced its first \"Thrifty Lounge\" at their Burjuman, Dubai branch in February 2017. Lounges provide free WiFi access, coffee, and comfortable seating areas. Parent company Hertz Global Holdings announced Thrifty Car Rental would operate in Colombo, Sri Lanka in May 2017. Rental options include short term,", "title": "Thrifty Car Rental" }, { "docid": "4088522", "text": "Disney Company permits third-party distributors to sell to Redbox, but has not entered into a direct relationship with the company. Both sides of the studio lawsuits pointed to these revenue-sharing deals to shore up their argument, with Redbox president Mitch Lowe saying, \"our growth can lead to theirs [the studios' growth]. For example, Redbox currently estimates we will pay more than a combined $1 billion over the next five years to Sony, Lionsgate and Paramount to purchase and then rent new-release DVDs to consumers,\" while Warner Bros. says the deals are proof that far from being shut out by Hollywood,", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "17427433", "text": "years on the list. In 2015, Marketplace Homes offered a new home buying and rental platform, ZipTours, which is the first known technology to allow customers to walk through properties while connected to a real-time video with an agent via the ZipTours mobile app. Marketplace Homes operates primarily as a broker on new home construction deals with large builders such as Pulte Homes and D. R. Horton in over 40 real estate markets. The company also works as a property manager for new home buyers who are unable to sell their existing homes. If those buyers are unable to sell", "title": "Marketplace Homes" }, { "docid": "1494385", "text": "or later graphics cards, and running through Microsoft Edge web browser, or the Netflix universal app available on Microsoft Store. During Q1 2011, sales and rentals of DVDs and Blu-ray discs plunged about 35%, and the sell-through of packaged discs fell 19.99% to $2.07 billion, with more money spent on subscription than in-store rentals. This decrease was attributed to the rising popularity of Netflix and other streaming services. In July 2012, Netflix hired Kelly Bennett – former Warner Bros. Vice President of Interactive, Worldwide Marketing – to become its new Chief Marketing Officer. This also filled a vacancy at Netflix", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "9678520", "text": "Netflix Prize The Netflix Prize was an open competition for the best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user ratings for films, based on previous ratings without any other information about the users or films, i.e. without the users or the films being identified except by numbers assigned for the contest. The competition was held by Netflix, an online DVD-rental and video streaming service, and was open to anyone who is neither connected with Netflix (current and former employees, agents, close relatives of Netflix employees, etc.) nor a resident of certain blocked countries (such as Cuba or North Korea). On September", "title": "Netflix Prize" }, { "docid": "4088519", "text": "machine can be connected to the first one in order to offer a wider selection. The customer pays with a credit card or debit card. DVDs can be returned the next day to any of the company's kiosks; charges accrue up to 25 days, after which the customer then owns the DVD (without the original case) and rental charges cease. Customers can also reserve DVDs online, made possible by real-time inventory updates on the company's website. While customers can buy used DVDs from the kiosks (with unsold used DVDs returned to suppliers), Redbox estimates only 3% of the company's revenue", "title": "Redbox" }, { "docid": "16472192", "text": "largest video rental chain at that time. West Coast Video had a revenue of $250 million in 1990. The chain opened its first Canadian store in 1991. It was located in the Orleans neighborhood of Ottawa, Ontario. However, West Coast faced financial difficulties due to increased competition in the video rental industry. The company reported a $120 million revenue in 1991, less than half of what it made the previous year. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 1992 and had a positive cash flow six months later. In 1993, the West Coast Video company changed its name", "title": "West Coast Video" }, { "docid": "1494333", "text": "paychecks in stock options. By 2010, Netflix's streaming business had grown so quickly that within months the company had shifted from the fastest-growing customer of the United States Postal Service's first-class service to the largest source of Internet streaming traffic in North America in the evening. In November, it began offering a standalone streaming service separate from DVD rentals. On September 18, 2011, Netflix announced its intentions to rebrand and restructure its DVD home media rental service as an independent subsidiary called Qwikster, separating DVD rental and streaming services. Andy Rendich, a 12-year Netflix veteran, was to be CEO of", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "20942959", "text": "of 34* and Courtiandt Streets. Each house is noted by a metal gable roof and inset porches in a basic shotgun form with bungalow features.\" It was deemed significant as \"a significant example of independent businesses operated by African Americans in Independence Heights. They are also representative of local commerce and ethnic heritage.\" Ella Lewis Store and Rental Houses The Ella Lewis Store and Rental Houses, at 3404-3406-3408 Courtland St. in Houston, Texas, were built around 1920. The collection was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The listing included three contributing buildings. It included a two-story", "title": "Ella Lewis Store and Rental Houses" }, { "docid": "20380240", "text": "orthodoxy it's extremely exciting because it opens up new avenues for exploration\", and considered \"Getting Over It\" as his exploration of this new development space. \"Getting Over It\" was aimed towards \"a certain kind of person, to hurt them\" and took inspiration from \"Sexy Hiking\", a similar game released by Czech video game designer Jazzuo in 2002. \"Getting Over It\"s difficult gameplay was praised by reviewers, including \"PC Gamer\" writer Austin Wood. Rock, Paper, Shotgun listed it as one of the best PC games of 2017 and GameSpot said it might have been the \"weirdest game\" to come out of", "title": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy" }, { "docid": "1494371", "text": "Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr and Jerry Seinfeld. In January 2017, Netflix announced all Seinfeld's \"Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee\" episodes and season 10 would be on their service. The company has started internally self-producing its original content, such as \"The Ranch\" and \"Chelsea\", through its Netflix Studios production house. Netflix expected to release 1,000 hours of original content in 2017. In October 2017, Netflix iterated a goal of having half of its library consist of original content by 2019, announcing a plan to invest $8 billion on original content in 2018. There will be", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "18013600", "text": "nutrition education and improvements at each store. Interested neighbors can download easy to read information on the program, and applications for joining the program are available on their website. Mandela MarketPlace also manages weekly events at specific locations so that residents are able to purchase fresh produce in a convenient and friendly atmosphere. Mandela MarketPlace also participates in the Ashland Cherryland Initiative. They are coordinating with several community programs in Ashland and Cherryland by creating the Ashland Cherryland Food Policy Council, which provides advice to local government on policies that produce greener environments. Mandela MarketPlace Mandela MarketPlace is a non-profit", "title": "Mandela MarketPlace" }, { "docid": "19469394", "text": "rental. The listing of new releases is still active, although there is no menu option that links to the page. On January 1, 2008, a Netflix employee unofficially stated on the Netflix Community Blog that customers used the RTW page to add newly released movies to the top of their queues, then complained about delays in receiving them after demand outstripped the supply of DVDs on hand. By removing the page, Netflix sought to quell complaints that these movies were not readily available. Critics, however, have suggested this was just another Netflix attempt at throttling. On April 4, 2006, Netflix", "title": "Legal issues and controversies surrounding Netflix" }, { "docid": "1494364", "text": "concerning video compression and formating, through CNRS' Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes (LS2N). In March 2017 at Barcelona's World Congress for mobile technologies, the American company presented the French lab's open-source technological creation: a compression tool allowing HD+ video quality with a bandwidth need of under 100 kilo octets per second, 40 times less than that of HD TV needs and compatible with mobile services worldwide. In May 2016, Netflix created a new tool called FAST to determine how fast one's Internet connection is. A \"Netflix Original\" is content that is produced, co-produced, or distributed by Netflix exclusively", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "1494351", "text": "in the first six months of 2010 on streaming, up from $31 million in 2009. On July 12, 2011, Netflix announced that it would separate its existing subscription plans into two separate plans: one covering the streaming and the other DVD rental services. The cost for streaming would be $7.99 per month, while DVD rental would start at the same price. The announcement led to panned reception amongst Netflix's Facebook followers, who posted negative comments on its wall. Twitter comments spiked a negative \"Dear Netflix\" trend. The company defended its decision during its initial announcement of the change:\"Given the long", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "17223019", "text": "Point of Rental Software Point of Rental Software, Inc. is a US company that was founded in 1983 by former NASA software engineers who opened a rental store in Texas. Headquartered in Grand Prairie, TX, with offices in Melbourne, Australia and Reading, United Kingdom, Point of Rental Software develops and sells Microsoft Windows server-based, cloud-based and customizable rental management software in the equipment rental, party rental, inventory management and specialty rental industries. The company has been listed by Inc. 5000 as one of America's fastest private growing companies three times, in 2014, 2016 and 2017. The company is an Associate", "title": "Point of Rental Software" }, { "docid": "12913131", "text": "mobile operators worldwide. According to Progressive Equity Research, \"Bango dominates the third party carrier billing marketplace with over 40% of the total app store direct carrier billing connections\" In November 2015, it announced its $17 million raised in funding, valuing the company now at $91 million. In January 2018, Bango plc partnered with Netflix to launch carrier billing for Netflix subscriptions in Mexico. Bango and 9mobile became partners to launch operator-billed payments for Google Play users. In January 2018, Bango plc launched carrier billing for Netflix subscriptions. Bango plc Bango is a mobile payment company for mobile app stores to", "title": "Bango plc" }, { "docid": "14594202", "text": "Windows Phone Store Windows Phone Store (previously Windows Phone Marketplace) is a former app store, developed by Microsoft for its Windows Phone. It was launched along with Windows Phone 7 in October 2010. With the rollout of Windows Phone 7.5, Microsoft unveiled the online Marketplace that offers silent, over the air installation of apps. In August 2012, Microsoft rebranded Windows Phone Marketplace to Windows Phone Store. In 2015, Microsoft announced that Windows Phone Store would be phased out and replaced by Windows Store which would act as a unified store for all Windows-powered devices. This process was complemented by the", "title": "Windows Phone Store" }, { "docid": "16472195", "text": "locations in the United States. In 2009, the chain ceased to exist, and although remaining stores could keep the West Coast Video brand name, they were now independent video rental stores. As one of the earliest brand names for a video rental chain, some West Coast Video customers have become attached to their independently owned local store. This is especially true of the Ottawa South location, which was described as \"a legend\" and a \"stalwart in the neighbourhood for decades\". The arson crime which destroyed the building devastated loyal clients. The few West Coast locations remaining tend to remain innovative", "title": "West Coast Video" }, { "docid": "19445178", "text": "success, but was pulled by regulators. On April 25, 2017, Netflix announced that it had reached a licensing deal with the Baidu-owned streaming service iQiyi, although specifics of the deal were not announced, some Netflix original productions will be available on iQivi day-and-date with their premiere elsewhere. Netflix has encountered political controversy for some of its international productions, including \"The Mechanism\", \"Fauda\" and \"Amo\". International expansion of Netflix Netflix is a video on demand service which has expanded its business internationally from 2010 onwards. The company began offering streaming service to the international market on September 22, 2010 to Canada.", "title": "International expansion of Netflix" }, { "docid": "20380241", "text": "2017. \"Polygon\" ranked it 36th on their list of the 50 best games of 2017. An Easter egg to \"Getting Over It\" appears in the game \"Just Cause 4\". At a point on the game map, the player can guide the protagonist to where a cauldron and hammer are located. Activating them puts the game into a side-view mode, challenging the player to move about scattered obstacles as in \"Getting Over It\", with Bennett Foddy narrating atop about the folly of the exercise and meta-humor of the Easter egg. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy Getting Over It with Bennett", "title": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy" }, { "docid": "8274590", "text": "Payless Car Rental Payless Car Rental, Inc. is a car rental company owned by Avis Budget Group and headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. While mainly a franchise system, the company owns and operates several corporate locations. Payless Car Rental, Payless Car Sales, Payless Parking and REZlink International are sister companies under the umbrella of Avalon Global Group. The Payless brand operates in North America, South America, and Europe. The company has 167 locations worldwide. Payless was acquired by Avis Budget Group in 2013. In 1971, John Les Netterstron opened the first Payless Car Rental location in Spokane, Washington. Under the", "title": "Payless Car Rental" }, { "docid": "13342559", "text": "days. Redbox and Netflix customers had to wait 28 days before they were able to rent the movie. This stems from the settlement of a lawsuit brought by Redbox against Warner Home Video, who, in an attempt to boost DVD sales, refused to sell wholesale titles to Redbox. On August 19, 2009 Redbox sued Warner Home Video to continue purchasing DVD titles at wholesale prices. On February 16, 2010, Redbox settled the lawsuit and agreed to a 28-day window past the street date. As of July 9, 2013, units sold for the DVD stand at more than 8.4 million copies", "title": "The Blind Side (film)" }, { "docid": "6880446", "text": "download services, and they are: Netflix, Hulu, iTunes and Amazon Video, RedBox, television video on demand services and other video rental outlets that also provide alternative ways of distributing children's programming at any time of day or week, without restrictions placed on such programming that an FCC-licensed broadcast station must honor to stay in business or the need for advertising to fund it. Numerous early cable networks that began in the 1970s and 1980s followed a similar full-service approach to their programming to their broadcast counterparts; this included children's programming blocks, both on weekdays and Saturday mornings. The number of", "title": "Weekday cartoon" }, { "docid": "6946385", "text": "of New Zealand, all child accounts were banned from downloading any marketplace content in Mid-June. these are still locked from downloading anything apart from software updates and user-created content, no matter what the rating. Xbox Games Store Xbox Games Store (formerly Xbox Live Marketplace) is a digital distribution platform used by Microsoft's Xbox One and Xbox 360 video game consoles. The service allows users to download or purchase video games (including both Xbox Live Arcade games and full Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles), add-ons for existing games, game demos along with other miscellaneous content such as gamer pictures and", "title": "Xbox Games Store" }, { "docid": "7293634", "text": "Marketplace with limited recourse against it. The Prospectus states that in the event Prosper becomes insolvent or declares bankruptcy, investors in Prosper notes may lose all or part of their investment even if the underlying borrower continues to pay. Investors' recourse in the event borrower-supplied information proves incorrect for any reason is also \"extremely\" limited. This structure is identical to that adopted by LendingClub after SEC registration. Prosper maintains a full public database of all loans issued through its marketplace on its website. This database and all market statistics can be accessed and queried for analysis of loan performance over", "title": "Prosper Marketplace" }, { "docid": "20553735", "text": "Mitch Lowe Mitch Lowe is an American businessman known for his contributions in the video and rental industry. He is currently the CEO of MoviePass, a subscription service that charges members a monthly fee for movie tickets at cinemas. He has also served as an executive at Netflix and the president of Redbox. Lowe was President of Video Droid from June 1984 to March 1998. Following Video Droid, Lowe was VP of Business Development and Strategic Alliances for Netflix from March 1998 to January 2003. Then, at McDonald’s Corporation, Lowe was Senior Director and VP of Operations from May 2003", "title": "Mitch Lowe" }, { "docid": "2370897", "text": "Redbox Bowl The Redbox Bowl is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played annually since 2002. The game was recently sponsored by the Foster Farms poultry company and was known as the Foster Farms Bowl from 2014 to 2017. It was also previously known as the Fight Hunger Bowl in 2013, the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl from 2010 to 2012 due to its sponsorship by Kraft Foods, as the Emerald Bowl from 2004 to 2009, and as the Diamond Walnut San Francisco Bowl from 2002 to 2003, in recognition of the corporate title", "title": "Redbox Bowl" }, { "docid": "4695159", "text": "bought one Betamax and one VHS copy of each of the first 50 movie titles from Magnetic Video, which were then being sold to the public by direct mail. Announcing the availability of the videos for rent in a one-column-inch (25 mm) ad in the Los Angeles Times on December 7 1977 (he had already advertised \"Video for Rent\" at an earlier date before he had any videos, along with a coupon for readers to fill out and mail in), Atkinson turned his shop into the first professionally managed video rental store and renamed it Video Station, a 600 square", "title": "George Atkinson (video rental businessman)" }, { "docid": "16835127", "text": "between Redbox and its suppliers did not explicitly state that the suppliers must provide Universal DVDs to Redbox. The contracts merely obligate Ingram to \"order DVD software from the studios at the pricing negotiated by Redbox\". Furthermore, Universal's contract with the distributors stated that \"Distributor shall not sell to any account other than a retail account as verified by Universal.\" Therefore, restricting the distributor's sale of Universal DVDs was in Universal's right. On March 1, 2012, Redbox announced that it had agreed on a deal with Universal to offer DVDs 28 days after its initial release. This deal is good", "title": "Redbox Automated Retail LLC v. Universal City Studios LLLP" }, { "docid": "2370903", "text": "Force, Arizona, BYU, Colorado State, Georgia Tech, Indiana, Miami (FL), New Mexico <br> TBD: Michigan State , Oregon <br> Through the December 2017 playing, there have been 16 games (32 total appearances). Redbox Bowl The Redbox Bowl is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played annually since 2002. The game was recently sponsored by the Foster Farms poultry company and was known as the Foster Farms Bowl from 2014 to 2017. It was also previously known as the Fight Hunger Bowl in 2013, the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl from 2010 to 2012 due", "title": "Redbox Bowl" }, { "docid": "1494352", "text": "life we think DVDs by mail will have, treating DVDs as a $2 add-on to our unlimited streaming plan neither makes great financial sense nor satisfies people who just want DVDs. Creating an unlimited-DVDs-by-mail plan (no streaming) at our lowest price ever, $7.99, does make sense and will ensure a long life for our DVDs-by-mail offering.\"In a reversal, Netflix announced in October that its streaming and DVD-rental plans would remain branded together. In the United States, the company provides a monthly flat-fee for DVD and Blu-ray rentals. A subscriber creates a rental queue, a list, of films to rent. The", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "1494400", "text": "on revenue of $493.7 million, according to a survey of 25 analysts polled by FactSet Research. At their peak, in July 2011, Netflix shares were trading for $299. Following the customer dissatisfaction and resulting loss of subscribers after the announcements by CEO Hastings that streaming and DVD rental would be charged separately, leading to a higher price for customers who wanted both (on September 1), and that the DVD rental would be split off as the subsidiary Qwikster (on September 18), the share price fell steeply, to around $130. However, on October 10, 2011, plans to split the company were", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "1494336", "text": "to the PAC, based in Los Gatos, California, as \"another political tool with which to aggressively press a pro-intellectual property, anti-video-piracy agenda.\" The hacktivist group Anonymous called for a boycott of Netflix following the news. Netflix spokesperson Joris Evers indicated that the PAC was not set up to support the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), tweeting that the intent was to \"engage on issues like net neutrality, bandwidth caps, UBB and VPPA.\" In February 2013, Netflix announced it would be hosting its own awards ceremony, \"The Flixies\". On March 13, 2013, Netflix announced a", "title": "Netflix" }, { "docid": "16835126", "text": "is a defense and not a claim, so Redbox cannot raise such a claim. The Court ruled that Redbox sufficiently pleaded Universal violated Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Court stated that Universal had convinced others to boycott Redbox in distribution of Universal DVDs, which damaged Redbox's ability to compete in the DVD rental and sales market. The Court was convinced that Universal's actions were anti-competitive in nature, and thus violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Court dismissed Redbox's claim that Universal tortiously interfered with Redbox's contracts with DVD distributors VPD and Ingram. This is because the contracts", "title": "Redbox Automated Retail LLC v. Universal City Studios LLLP" }, { "docid": "15995852", "text": "distribution system for software known as Windows Marketplace, which allowed customers to purchase software online. The marketplace tracked product keys and licenses, allowing users to retrieve their purchases when switching computers. Windows Marketplace was discontinued in November 2008. Microsoft first announced a digital distribution service for Windows at its presentation during the Build developer conference on September 13, 2011. Further details announced during the conference revealed that the store would be able to hold listings for both certified traditional Windows apps, as well as what were called \"Metro-style apps\" at the time: tightly-sandboxed software based on Microsoft design guidelines that", "title": "Microsoft Store (digital)" }, { "docid": "16165097", "text": "The MarketPlace The MarketPlace Limited is a grocery store chain in Bermuda. The chain was founded by the Crisson Family in 1939, and was originally called Piggly Wiggly Limited, with each store having the name \"Piggly Wiggly.\" In 1946 the company was purchased by the Pimental Family, and in 1950 was purchased by Mr. Fernance Perry. In March 1979 Alvin Ferreira purchased the operations of the Piggly Wiggly Limited chain; since he already operated another store, the Modern Mart, the Piggly Wiggly Limited chain was expanded to five stores. In 1981, the chain was renamed The MarketPlace Ltd., with the", "title": "The MarketPlace" }, { "docid": "8274591", "text": "direction of Netterstron, the company grew from a local car rental store to a franchise system with over 100 car rental offices throughout the United States. By 1987 the company acquired the U.S. portion of Canadian-based Holiday Rent a Car, at which time the company built its first automated central reservation system. The first Payless image was created in 1989, which has endured to the present day with only minor changes. Payless opened its first two corporate stores in 2002, adding 4 more between 2004 - 2006. The company currently has corporate locations in Denver, Ft. Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Orlando,", "title": "Payless Car Rental" }, { "docid": "13083605", "text": "has since announced that availability of the service will be by the end of 2009. The store opened for business on 6 October 2009, featuring 246 applications. On November 12, 2009, the Marketplace web application was opened. The Marketplace website announced in mid-2011: \"On July 15th [2011] this website will no longer offer Windows Mobile 6.x applications for download. If you have a Windows Mobile 6.x phone you can continue accessing the application store from the Marketplace client on your phone. ... [you must] sign into Marketplace for Mobile on your phone ... to buy apps\". It was later announced", "title": "Windows Marketplace for Mobile" }, { "docid": "4665500", "text": "States, and it encouraged its customers to contact their representatives in support of legislation that would clarify the language of the law. In 2012, Netflix changed its privacy rules so that it no longer retains records for people who have left the site. This change was due directly to a lawsuit indicating violation of the act. In January 2013, President Obama signed into law H.R. 6671 which amended the Video Privacy Protection Act to allow video rental companies to share rental information on social networking sites after obtaining customer permission. Netflix had lobbied for the change. Attorney Joseph H. Malley", "title": "Video Privacy Protection Act" }, { "docid": "17417104", "text": "Getting Over the Storm Getting Over the Storm is the eighteenth studio album by English reggae band UB40. It was released on 2 September 2013. It is the final UB40 album to feature trumpet player and vocalist Astro, due to his departure in late 2013. Their first album since the 2010 album \"Labour of Love IV\", it features cover versions of songs either written or recorded by country music artists together with five original UB40 songs. The country music tracks include the Randy Travis song \"On the Other Hand\",' George Jones' \"Getting Over the Storm\", Willie Nelson's \"Blue Eyes Crying", "title": "Getting Over the Storm" }, { "docid": "16835122", "text": "Redbox if Redbox did not accept this agreement. Universal did this to protect their profits, but since Redbox makes a majority of their profits within two weeks of DVD release, Redbox did not accept. The court dismissed Redbox's copyright misuse and tortious interference with contract claims but allowed the antitrust count to move forward. Redbox is a company that rents and sells DVDs through over 35,900 automated retail kiosks inside chain restaurants, grocery stores, and drug stores in American cities. Universal Studios is a major movie studio that produces many of the titles that Redbox rents. Universal was concerned that", "title": "Redbox Automated Retail LLC v. Universal City Studios LLLP" }, { "docid": "18887445", "text": "The Do-Over The Do-Over is a 2016 American action comedy film directed by Steven Brill, and written by Kevin Barnett and Chris Pappas. It stars Adam Sandler and David Spade. The film is the second in a four-film deal between Sandler and Netflix. The film was released worldwide on Netflix on May 27, 2016. The film follows Charlie (David Spade) and Max (Adam Sandler) after the latter fakes their deaths in order to start their lives anew. Things go awry, however, when they discover that the dead men whose identities they have adopted were entangled in criminal activities. Charlie McMillan", "title": "The Do-Over" } ]
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What sadly short lived sci fi show featured crewmembers Wash, Kaylee, and Jayne, among others, aboard the spaceship Serenity?
[ "Firefly", "Cucullo", "Firefly flashing", "Lampyridae", "Peenie wallie", "Light bug", "Lightning beetle", "Lucciola", "Fireflies" ]
[ { "docid": "11934729", "text": "and television shows including , Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pan's Labyrinth, and Hocus Pocus (1993 film), Jewel Staite, best known as Kaylee on Firefly (TV series) as well as from many television shows and films such as Stargate Atlantis, Higher Ground (TV series), The L.A. Complex, and The Killing (U.S. TV series), Ethan Phillips, an actor best known as Neelix on , as well as local cosplay guests FoamWerx, Gary Murrin and Hamilton Cornish. Fat Apollo was once again the guest emcee. Sci-Fi on the Rock saw another amazing year with many great workshops. Space at the Sheraton Hotel is", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "10754734", "text": "in a facility while they are on a date together. After McKay revives her from a hypothermic shock, McKay and Dr. Keller share a passionate kiss. Then Dr. Keller openly professes her love for McKay and says that she has \"loved him for some time now\". Jewel Staite, who plays Dr. Keller, previously played Ellia in the \"Stargate Atlantis\" episode \"Instinct\". Staite was well-known among sci-fi fans for playing Kaylee Frye in the cult series \"Firefly\", and is the third regular \"Firefly\" actor to go on to appear in the Stargate franchise. The others were Adam Baldwin (Jayne Cobb in", "title": "Jennifer Keller" }, { "docid": "2746876", "text": "Serenity (2005 film) Serenity is a 2005 American science fiction action film written and directed by Joss Whedon. It is a continuation of Whedon's short-lived 2002 Fox television series \"Firefly\" and stars the same cast, taking place after the events of the final episode. Set in 2517, \"Serenity\" is the story of the captain and crew of \"Serenity\", a \"\"Firefly\"-class\" spaceship. The captain and first mate are veterans of the Unification War, having fought on the losing Independent side against the Alliance. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbors a dangerous secret. The", "title": "Serenity (2005 film)" }, { "docid": "2746923", "text": "another one is not a question.\" Serenity (2005 film) Serenity is a 2005 American science fiction action film written and directed by Joss Whedon. It is a continuation of Whedon's short-lived 2002 Fox television series \"Firefly\" and stars the same cast, taking place after the events of the final episode. Set in 2517, \"Serenity\" is the story of the captain and crew of \"Serenity\", a \"\"Firefly\"-class\" spaceship. The captain and first mate are veterans of the Unification War, having fought on the losing Independent side against the Alliance. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger", "title": "Serenity (2005 film)" }, { "docid": "10969858", "text": "offered to do. Guitarist Stefan Schipflinger, who didn’t agree with this decision, also left the band. The new line up decided to keep the name of Serenity and is considered to be founded in 2004, in Tyrol, Austria, consisting of new members Georg Neuhauser (lead vocals), Thomas Buchberger (lead & rhythm guitars), Simon Holzknecht (bass guitarist). In an interview with Valkyrian Music, bassist Fabio D'Amore, who would join the band in 2010, talks about the band name Serenity, saying, \"Serenity is a sci-fi movie, based on the fanta-western TV series called \"Firefly\". It’s an awesome movie, and the also the", "title": "Serenity (band)" } ]
[ { "docid": "2746878", "text": "by Alliance scientists into becoming a psychic and an assassin. She is rescued by her brother Simon (Sean Maher). During her training, River inadvertently read the minds of several top government officials and learned their secrets. Consequently, a top Alliance agent known only as the Operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is tasked with recapturing her. The siblings have found refuge aboard the transport spaceship \"Serenity\" with Captain Malcolm \"Mal\" Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), first mate Zoe Washburne (Gina Torres), pilot Hoban \"Wash\" Washburne (Alan Tudyk), mercenary Jayne Cobb (Adam Baldwin), and mechanic Kaylee Frye (Jewel Staite). Despite Simon's objections, Mal brings River on", "title": "Serenity (2005 film)" }, { "docid": "6046839", "text": "hire a small crew and take various jobs to support himself and wartime comrade Corporal Zoe Alleyne, while keeping out of the way of the Alliance, the multi-planetary government they were fighting against. Other flashbacks in \"Out of Gas\" show how the rest of the main crew came to join the ship; pilot Hoban \"Wash\" Washburne (Alan Tudyk), engineer Kaylee Frye (Jewel Staite), and mercenary Jayne Cobb (Adam Baldwin), as well as Inara Serra (Morena Baccarin), a courtesan who hires out one of \"Serenity\"’s two shuttlecraft. At the start of the series, the episode \"Serenity\" depicts the arrival of the", "title": "Serenity (Firefly vessel)" }, { "docid": "6029137", "text": "the agent down with one of Jayne's weights, causing him to fall back into his ship. Kaylee closes the airlock and continually jerry-rigs it to keep out the agents (who are continually trying to bypass the lock). Wash flies \"Serenity\" through the remains of a derelict ship, knocking the agents' shuttle off \"Serenity\". Mal orders Wash to \"step on it,\" having safely re-entered the ship along with Zoe and Jayne. The Hands of Blue are incinerated by \"Serenity's\" engine flare. Mal finally takes Inara to her destination, and he seems to not have given her the kind of goodbye he", "title": "Serenity: Those Left Behind" }, { "docid": "6029136", "text": "up. There is no money, and Dobson and his henchmen ambush the three, demanding \"an eye for an eye.\" Zoe and Jayne dispatch Dobson's men before they can fire a shot, while Mal shoots out Dobson's other eye. Before leaving, Mal shoots him again, \"just to be sure.\" While Mal, Zoe, and Jayne are fighting Dobson, the Hands of Blue attempt to sneak aboard \"Serenity\". Due in part to River's psychic abilities, Simon, Inara, and Kaylee are tipped off to the intrusion. After going to the cargo bay to investigate, Kaylee is attacked by one of the agents. Simon knocks", "title": "Serenity: Those Left Behind" }, { "docid": "3851282", "text": "and followed them to Whitefall. Meanwhile, back on the ship Dobson escapes, knocking out Book and grabbing River. Mal returns and shoots Dobson, dumping his body off the ship as they start to lift off, the Reavers hot on their tail. Mal orders Inara, Book, Simon and River to go to Inara's shuttle, just in case the ship is boarded. Jayne carries the still-convalescing Kaylee to the engine room, and Book offers to help her. With Jayne and Book carrying out Kaylee's instructions, Wash is able to pull off a Crazy Ivan (VIFF), and \"Serenity\" escapes. Jayne tells Mal that", "title": "Serenity (Firefly episode)" }, { "docid": "18173218", "text": "being an unwilling subject of human experimentation and being rescued by Simon. Jubal Early disables Simon, but his assault is secretly witnessed by Kaylee. Inara professes her need of, and unconditional love for 'All of' Mal, and tells him the time has come to distribute Serenity's emergency rations. Collecting the rations, Mal is ambushed and disabled by Early. Meditating on the present hopelessness of her situation, Bea laments coming aboard \"Serenity\". Jayne comforts Bea, telling her Mal is a man of principle who fights to defend his beliefs. Left alone by Jayne, Bea accidentally accosts Early and offers him tea,", "title": "Serenity: Leaves on the Wind" }, { "docid": "3851275", "text": "and Corporal Zoe Alleyne fight in the Battle of Serenity Valley during the Unification War. Without air support, their side is eventually defeated by the Alliance. Six years later, Mal is the captain of his own transport ship, an older-model \"Firefly\"-class vessel he named \"Serenity\", and Zoe is his second-in-command. The rest of the ship's crew consists of Wash (Alan Tudyk), who is the pilot and Zoe's husband; Kaylee (Jewel Staite), the engineer; and Jayne Cobb (Adam Baldwin), an untrustworthy gun-for-hire. Inara (Morena Baccarin), a \"Companion\" (a very high-class courtesan) who rents one of \"Serenity's\" two shuttles, normally travels with", "title": "Serenity (Firefly episode)" }, { "docid": "11934705", "text": "the day including the popular \"Lightsaber Techniques\", \"Basic Horror Make-Up for Film and Television\" and \"Costume Designing\". In addition, there were a number of sales-and-display tables, and a number of competitions such as Video Games, Model Building, Costume Contest, and others. Sci-Fi on the Rock also featured a canteen with Sci-Fi related food (i.e.: \"The Kirk Burger\"). Having been planned and put off within only a few months, and with little publicity, Sci-Fi on the Rock's first festival was a surprise success with almost 500 people attending, and was covered in many local media pages, as well as internet sites.", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "10069775", "text": "Of An Eye short film programme. Over its history Sci-Fi-London has also held a number of Short Film competitions, and in 2008 launched the Sci-Fi-London 48hr Film Challenge, in order to encourage filmmakers to create sci-fi short films over a very short period of time. In 2006, the festival became the official home of The Arthur C. Clarke Award, the most prestigious award for science fiction literature in Britain, and recognised as one of the most prestigious science fiction awards in the world. Since its inception, the Sci-Fi-London Film Festival has also been one of the few places in the", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "11831468", "text": "after a heist. Zoe and Wash enjoy their time together, while Inara and Kaylee fantasize about food and complain to Mal about it, and Jayne approaches Simon about a burning sensation after a night in a brothel. The crew are completely unaware that a band of locals are searching for and have found them, only for River to deal with them by killing them all. As the storm abates and the \"Serenity\" is taking off, River reveals that she knows Shepherd Book has a secret, that it is as easy for him to kill people as it is for her.", "title": "Serenity (comics)" }, { "docid": "16451305", "text": "well. In addition to Tracie Thoms, Nicholas Brendon, Brian O'Halloran, and Scott Schiaffo. Sci-Fi Valley Con, Part 8 show will be on June 7–9, 2019 at Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, PA. Sci-Fi Valley Con Sci-Fi Valley Con is an annual three-day speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy, or SF) convention had in Altoona, Pennsylvania at the Blair County Convention Center; it is promoted by Assett Conventions, LLC (solely owned and operated by Casey B. Bassett) and is the first such convention in the area. The convention has featured a variety to different forms of entertainment over the years", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "11934709", "text": "his website that \"The people of Newfoundland are extremely friendly. It was only the second time that Darren had put the 'Sci-Fi on the Rock' show on, and it was very well attended. Lots of costumes and games for the children and it seemed that everyone was having a good time\". Sci-Fi on the Rock II featured a Charity Auction, which benefited the School Lunch Association. Items that had been placed for bid included a Limited Edition Star Wars T-shirt-and-Box Set which is not available in North America (donated by Jeremy Bulloch), a Lexx Prize pack, including many behind-the-scenes cuts", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "10069774", "text": "Sci-Fi-London SCI-FI-LONDON (The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, SFL), is a United Kingdom-based film festival, dedicated to the science fiction and fantasy genres, which began in 2002. Designed to be a festival that “takes a serious look at sci-fi and fantasy, bringing new, classic and rare movies from around the world to the UK”, Sci-Fi-London annually screens world and UK Premieres, seminal cult classics, as well as documentaries, debates and talks. Short films are also an important part of the festival programme, screening in front of every movie shown, as well as together in the Blink", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "13871561", "text": "Sci-Fi, he is seen watching \"The Transformers\". Sci-Fi appeared in DiC's \"\" cartoon. Jerry Houser reprises his role as Sci-Fi in this cartoon. Sci-Fi is a supporting character in the Joe novel 'Fool's Gold'. His simulation training pays off as he pilots the space shuttle, the USS Defiant, through several maneuvers that end up saving the Earth from a doomsday weapon. He is also a supporting character in 'Serpentor and the Mummy Warrior'. Sci-Fi's figure is briefly featured in the fiction novel \"6 Sick Hipsters\". In the story, the character Paul Achting spent four years collecting G.I. Joe figures to", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "16451298", "text": "raised in the charity auction for the Shriners Hospital for Children. Sci-Fi Valley Con, Part 3 was held on June 27–29, 2014 in Altoona, Pennsylvania at the Jaffa Shrine Center. Unlike the previous year, the convention utilized both floors of the venue for exhibitors and guests. In addition, it was the year the con debuts their first official convention vehicle; which was a Jurassic Park Jeep Wrangler (#12). It was built and funded entirely by the Sci-Fi Valley Con's promoting company, Assett Conventions LLC. The 2014 show also featured several other movie cars, such as; the Back to the Future", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "11934723", "text": "special guests were among the entertained audience members, showcasing that the Sci-Fi on the Rock offerings as well as the inherent charm of Newfoundland and Labrador made this event equally as entertaining to the guests themselves as it did to the patrons. Continuing again with its trend of breaking its own attendance numbers, Sci-Fi on the Rock 7 was met with a staggering increase in popularity. The Sci-Fi on the Rock International Film Festival entered its third year, and received some of its best submissions. Films were received from Newfoundland, Ontario, Alberta, the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom.", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "8929962", "text": "little or nothing to do with \"investigating\" Mothman or unexplained phenomena. Sci Fi Investigates Sci Fi Investigates is a six episode reality television series featuring skeptic Rob Mariano, forensic specialist Deborah Dobrydney, archaeologist Bill Doleman, and paranormal investigator Richard Dolan, as they look at paranormal and supernatural phenomenon and try to explain them. The show debuted in October 2006 on the American SyFy channel (formerly Sci-Fi Channel) following \"Ghost Hunters\". There have also been two webisodes. The series documents a team of four paranormal investigators who travel to various locations around the United States and investigate various urban legends. The", "title": "Sci Fi Investigates" }, { "docid": "8929960", "text": "Sci Fi Investigates Sci Fi Investigates is a six episode reality television series featuring skeptic Rob Mariano, forensic specialist Deborah Dobrydney, archaeologist Bill Doleman, and paranormal investigator Richard Dolan, as they look at paranormal and supernatural phenomenon and try to explain them. The show debuted in October 2006 on the American SyFy channel (formerly Sci-Fi Channel) following \"Ghost Hunters\". There have also been two webisodes. The series documents a team of four paranormal investigators who travel to various locations around the United States and investigate various urban legends. The team uses various research methods to gather as much information as", "title": "Sci Fi Investigates" }, { "docid": "18471765", "text": "tends to be popular with children, and it is common for people who lived through the 1950s to enjoy the restaurant for its nostalgia value. Paul Schultz of the \"Daily News\" writes, \"Anyone who is a fan of trashy sci-fi movies of the 1950s should check [the Sci-Fi Dine-In] out\". In his book \"Sci-Fi Movie Freak\", Robert Ring calls the Sci-Fi Dine-In film clips \"hokey\", while David Steele of \"The Rotarian\" calls them \"classically awful\", and Rick Ramseyer of \"Restaurant Business Magazine\" calls them \"campy\". Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant is a theme restaurant at Disney's", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "10069782", "text": "night (with the aid of ice-cream and caffeine drinks). In late 2008, SCI-FI-LONDON hosted its very first Oktoberfest: a one-day festival featuring new films and all-nighters, held at its regular London venue: the Apollo Piccadilly Circus. A second Oktoberfest was held on 23/24 October 2009, with a third on the 14-16 October 2010, at The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the Royal Society and the Apollo Piccadilly Circus. On occasion, SCI-FI-LONDON has also hosted other events, either outside London, or at other times of the year. In 2005, SCI-FI-LONDON took its feature films, short films and all-nighters On Tour, to Edinburgh, Liverpool,", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "13384131", "text": "it's their ability to pull off such flippant tales with their characteristic punch that gives Sci-Fi Crimes a humanizing appeal not found on their previous records.\" Sputnikmusic states \"Sci-Fi Crimes is a solid, above-average record, but it is not Chevelle's magnum opus; aside from two or three songs, it has a certain air of familiarity that doesn't warrant the unfounded high praise it has received so far.\" They also refer to \"This Circus\" and \"Shameful Metaphors\" as two of the album's best songs. \"USA Today\" comments \"\"Sci-Fi Crimes\" scrapes some of the polish off the band's sound. What remains is", "title": "Sci-Fi Crimes" }, { "docid": "11934741", "text": "Rock festival organizer) and Matthew LeDrew (author of the Black Womb series). Sci-Fi on the Rock TV plans to air some \"on-location\" episodes from the Sci-Fi festival. Season Two of Sci-Fi on the Rock TV saw the return of Steve Lake and Ellen Curtis as hosts, but also Ellen's departure and the addition of Melanie Collins as co-host. Also, Season Two was filmed in a new location, with new equipment and new opening sequences. It is available to be watched at the Sci-Fi on the Rock site. Sci-Fi on the Rock Sci-Fi on the Rock is an annual science fiction,", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "10069784", "text": "also features information on past festivals, how to volunteer at the festival, as well as a \"Mailing List\" and \"Message Board/Forum\". SCI-FI-LONDON.COM also operates a free 'webTV' service at SCI-FI-LONDON.TV, featuring films and shorts previously submitted or screened at past festivals. Sci-Fi-London SCI-FI-LONDON (The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, SFL), is a United Kingdom-based film festival, dedicated to the science fiction and fantasy genres, which began in 2002. Designed to be a festival that “takes a serious look at sci-fi and fantasy, bringing new, classic and rare movies from around the world to the UK”, Sci-Fi-London", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "18471759", "text": "Cafe shows entire short films. In 2014, NBCUniversal opened a new Universal Orlando hotel called Cabana Bay Beach Resort, which houses the Bayliner Diner, a restaurant that borrows its premise from the Sci-Fi Dine-In. Both restaurants play old film footage on a loop. The Sci-Fi Dine-In has received mixed reviews. Jack Hayes of \"Nation's Restaurant News\" calls the Sci-Fi Dine-In \"wacky\" and \"on the cutting edge of sheer dining fun\". In \"USA Today\"'s list of the sixteen best restaurants in American amusement parks, the Sci-Fi Dine-In ranks fifteenth. Samuel Muston of \"The Independent\" writes that the Sci-Fi Dine-In is \"memorable", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "6029132", "text": "chase Mal and the others, thinking that they have the stolen money, Shepherd Book steals a transport and the four make their escape. With the townfolk still in pursuit, Mal radios Wash, notifying him of the need to make a hasty escape. Wash and Kaylee use \"Serenity\" to knock over a water tower, stunning the pursuers long enough for the crew to escape. Meanwhile, Lawrence Dobson, missing his right eye from his last encounter with Mal, is still on Whitefall where he was left during the pilot episode. Dobson seems to have carved out his own niche on Whitefall, complete", "title": "Serenity: Those Left Behind" }, { "docid": "11934712", "text": "the Cantina, a midnight movie, and website redesigns. This year also marked the first Fan Film that Sci-Fi on the Rock was involved with producing: Returning attractions included many of the workshops from the previous year, including Lightsaber Technique, Stage Combat, Star Wars, Transformers, Special Effect Make-up and others. The Charity Auction also returned, again aiding the School Lunch Association. Dinner with the Stars, an event where a limited number of guests are able to sit and enjoy a three-course meal with the special guest actors, also returned. Sci-Fi on the Rock 3 was met with over a thousand visitors,", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934725", "text": "Sin City, Kill Bill 1 and 2, The Pacific and (which won an Oscar for Best Make-up). The film festival entered its fourth year at Sci-Fi on the Rock, having its most successful turn-out yet. This year, there were three awards—Best Picture (awarded by judges), Critical Impact (awarded by judges) and Audience Choice Award. The Critical Impact award, which recognizes a film that demonstrates powerful storytelling execution, was awarded to U.S. film Aemorraghe, while Best Picture and Audience Choice Award were both awarded to the short film Fist of Jesus from Barcelona, Spain. Sci-Fi on the Rock 9 is took", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934719", "text": "that around 1500 people visited the festival this year. Because this year marked the organization's fifth year, the festival staff introduced its first annual film festival, which commenced on the festival's opening night. Eleven films were submitted and screened, ten of which were from local film-makers, and one (X-Meeting) from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The winner of this film festival was a horror/comedy short called \"Date With The Dead\". Sci-Fi on the Rock VI occurred on April 20 to 22, 2012. Due to the growth of attendees at Sci-Fi on the Rock events, the layout of the festival underwent and overhaul", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "10223077", "text": "28 February 2017, the channel was discontinued in Italy. AXN Sci Fi AXN Sci Fi was a European pay television movie channel owned by Sony Pictures Television. It was available in Italy, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Kazakhstan and Bulgaria on Sky Italia, Boom TV, Bulsatcom, Cyfra Plus, Cyfrowy Polsat, Digi TV, Dolce, iNES, Max TV and N. The channel was launched in Czech Republic and Slovakia in October 2007. On 12 July 2013, Sony announced that AXN Sci Fi and AXN Crime would be replaced by AXN Black and AXN White. On 1 October, AXN Sci Fi was replaced", "title": "AXN Sci Fi" }, { "docid": "10223076", "text": "AXN Sci Fi AXN Sci Fi was a European pay television movie channel owned by Sony Pictures Television. It was available in Italy, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Kazakhstan and Bulgaria on Sky Italia, Boom TV, Bulsatcom, Cyfra Plus, Cyfrowy Polsat, Digi TV, Dolce, iNES, Max TV and N. The channel was launched in Czech Republic and Slovakia in October 2007. On 12 July 2013, Sony announced that AXN Sci Fi and AXN Crime would be replaced by AXN Black and AXN White. On 1 October, AXN Sci Fi was replaced by AXN Black, however Italy edition was unaffected. On", "title": "AXN Sci Fi" }, { "docid": "18173212", "text": "to be able to contact Reynolds. Aboard the \"Serenity\", most of the crew members who survived the events portrayed in the film \"Serenity\" have taken temporary refuge in a remote sector of space. River Tam has retained her assigned role as Serenity's helmsman. Inara Serra has resolved to stay aboard the ship. Zoe Washburne is unsettled by the imminent birth of her child, and the romantic relationship between Simon Tam and Kaylee Frye continues. It is also revealed that, at some point in the recent past, Mal and Inara have both acknowledged their mutual attraction, and consummated their relationship. However,", "title": "Serenity: Leaves on the Wind" }, { "docid": "11934740", "text": "readings, auctions and more. In September 2009, Sci-Fi on the Rock put together \"Sci-Fi on the Rock TV\", a webshow that would appear on YouTube and Facebook, as well as on the Sci-Fi on the Rock website. Each \"webisode\" runs approximately 10 minutes in length, and would serve as publicity for the festival, as well as a video newsletter, as it were. It is hosted by Steve Lake and Ellen Curtis, and is directed and produced by Darren Hann. The first episode \"aired\" on YouTube and Facebook on Friday, September 11, 2009. The guests were Darren Hann (Sci-Fi on the", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934734", "text": "awarded to the film that received the highest amount of audience votes. In its first year, 11 films were submitted and screened, 10 of which were from local film-makers, and one (X-Meeting) from Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2015, the film festival separated from Sci-Fi on the Rock due of large interest, and became a stand-alone event called Granite Planet International Film Festival, but still brings highlighted films to be screened at Sci-Fi on the Rock. A refreshed version of the Film Festival will be returning to Sci-Fi on the Rock in 2018 to be organized by Sci-Fi on the Rock.", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934715", "text": "numbers, the festival grew in other ways. For example, in May 2009 (almost immediately following the past festival), Sci-Fi on the Rock opened an online store on their website. Also, Due to the success of Hann Made Film's first fan-film, \"Star Wars: Inner Demons\", Hann Made Films filmed another fan-film, this time a Stargate SG-1/Doctor Who crossover film, titled \"Replication\". The film debuted at Sci-Fi on the Rock IV, to great reception again. Also, Sci-Fi on the Rock and HannMade Films teamed up to create \"Sci-Fi on the Rock TV\", a video magazine that provided festival updates on an \"almost", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934735", "text": "Apart from the media guest Q&A's, autographs and photo sessions, there are many other workshops during the festival, these change yearly but in the past have included: Making its first appearance at Sci-Fi on the Rock 2009, the Cantina is an informal concert/variety show held on one of the evenings of the festival. Performers opt to play Sci-Fi related music, known as Filk, but that is not always the case. The Cantina features performances by musicians involved with the festival, an open mic, and there is an improvised acting piece prepared that audience members are call upon to perform. The", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "5285835", "text": "Sci-Fi SKANE Sci-Fi SKANE is a musical collaboration of Swedish musicians Thomas Öberg and Jonas Jonasson, members of Swedish rock groups bob hund and Bergman Rock. Sci-Fi SKANE was started in 2005, and the goal was stated as being to \"create stupidity and dance\". The word SKANE in the name is regarded as an ironic anglification of Skåne, the area the band originates from. Sci-fi SKANE's musical style is of the same nature as bob hund's and Bergman Rock's style, but without live drums, and dominated by keyboards and programmed sounds. However, the somewhat ironic tone known from bob hund", "title": "Sci-Fi SKANE" }, { "docid": "11934738", "text": "Rock has had a number of guests of different types. Below is a list of guests they have had at their festival. The Sci-Fi on the Rock committee spends the rest of the time they are not planning the convention going to outside events. Often these events invite the public to join them in doing different things. Some events that Sci-Fi on the Rock has hosted or attended in the past include: Merry Geek-mas is a craft fair hosted by Sci-Fi on the Rock around the end of November or beginning of December each year. Sci-Fi on the Rock vendors", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "18471760", "text": "in the best way\". In the \"Evansville Courier & Press\", Pete DiPrimio writes that the Sci-Fi Dine-In ranks among the most unusual of the restaurants at Disney's Hollywood Studios. In \"The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2015\", Bob Sehlinger and Len Testa call the Sci-Fi Dine-In the most entertaining restaurant in Walt Disney World, writing that \"everyone gets a kick out of this unusual dining room\". Multiple reviewers have called the Sci-Fi Dine-In more notable for being an attraction than a food destination. One reviewer from \"The Guardian\" compares the Sci-Fi Dine-In to Epcot's Coral Reef Restaurant, writing that", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "13871556", "text": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe) Sci-Fi is a character from the toyline, comic books and cartoon series. He is the G.I. Joe Team's laser trooper and debuted in 1986. His real name is Seymour P. Fine, and his rank is that of corporal E-4. Sci-Fi was born in Geraldine, Montana. Sci-Fi's primary military specialty is infantry, and his secondary military specialty is electronics. Sci-Fi is known for being patient and taking his time, traits which aid him in aiming a laser over long distances for extended periods of time. When Sci-Fi braces his weapon and sights in on a target, he becomes", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "16451299", "text": "DeLorean Time Machine, the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters, John Carpender's Christine, and the 1966 Batmobile. In additional, the convention featured a lifesize replica TARDIS from the hit BBC television show Doctor Who and a 21-foot inflatable Stay Puft marshmallow man. Sci-Fi Valley Con, Part 4 made its final venue move to the Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, PA. The show was on May 15–17, 2015. The convention was only on the lower level of the two story convention center. The convention spent over 15 to 20 times more money on advertising for this 2015 show than they ever have before.", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "16451300", "text": "The advertising includes TV commercials, radio commercials, 3000+ flyers, hundreds of yard signs, 1000+ direct mail postcards, billboards, and lots of cyber advertising such as Facebook and other convention focused websites. Over 210 vendors attended the 2015 show. Some of the movie cars featured at this year show include the Jurassic Park Jeep, KITT from Knight Rider, the Mystery Machine, the Doctor Who TARDIS, and the Green Goblin Head from Maximum Overdrive that was restored by Tim Shockey of Hollywood Prop Collector. Attendance was around 4,000 people for the year of 2015. Sci-Fi Valley Con, Part 5 had the entire", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "16451291", "text": "Sci-Fi Valley Con Sci-Fi Valley Con is an annual three-day speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy, or SF) convention had in Altoona, Pennsylvania at the Blair County Convention Center; it is promoted by Assett Conventions, LLC (solely owned and operated by Casey B. Bassett) and is the first such convention in the area. The convention has featured a variety to different forms of entertainment over the years in order to drawl in the visitors, such as; Magic: The Gathering, HeroClix, & Warhammer 40,000 tournaments, video game tournaments, trivia tournaments, costume contests, guest speaking panels, film festival, dealers, artists, charity auctions,", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "16451295", "text": "contest. In addition, the convention even featured a life-size home made Stargate at its entrance. Sci-Fi Valley Con, Part 2 was held on May 17–19, 2013 in Altoona, Pennsylvania at the Jaffa Shrine Center. Over 2,000 visitors came out over the three days to support the event. An exact number cannot be given because it is reported that the promoter sold out of admission wristbands early Saturday evening of the convention and had to use left over wristbands from the previous year. <br> This was the first year for the conventions \"indie sci-fi/horror film festival\". Many films were submitted for", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "11934732", "text": "highest score is crowned \"Ultra Geek\". Mark Downey was crowned as the first Sci-Fi on the Rock Ultra Geek on April 1, 2007. Dr. Glyn George, a MUN professor and Doctor Who and Star Trek enthusiast, was crowned on April 20, 2008. He later abdicated his throne, as he became involved in the planning of Sci-Fi on the Rock, retiring from the competition undefeated. Newfoundland's Ultra Geek for 2009, crowned at Sci-Fi on the Rock 3, was Chickie Who. They, too, retired undefeated. Andrew O'Brien was crowned as Newfoundland's fourth Ultra Geek on April 18, 2010. Unlike his predecessors, he", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "16451303", "text": "Sci-Fi Valley Con Team also spent a year building a lifesize Claptrap from the Borderlands video game series. This will be one of the most realistic lifesize replicas of Claptrap in existence. The prop made its world debut alongside David Eddings who voiced the character in the video games and Dameon Clarke who voiced Handsome Jack in Borderlands and Cell from the Dragon Ball Z series. Sci-Fi Valley Con, Part 7 show was on June 8–10, 2018 at Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, PA. The 2018 celebrity guest list included: Jim Beaver, best known from his role as Bobby", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "11934727", "text": "at the Holiday Inn. Sci-Fi on the Rock experienced its first big move since 2008. Sci-Fi on the Rock 10 took place at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland in St. John's from April 1st - 3rd, 2016. Guests included Eugene Simon, from Game of Thrones, Robert Picardo, known as the Doctor on as well as from shows such as Stargate, Kirby Morrow, a well known voice actor, and J.M. Frey, a writer. As well Fat Apollo came back again to act as emcee. The location change was very successful. The move gave Sci-Fi on the Rock some room to stretch its", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "5285836", "text": "and Bergman Rock is present both in the music and in the lyrics. So far Sci-Fi SKANE has released two singles: a cover of Canned Heat's \"Going Up The Country\" called \"Jag har aldrig bott vid en landsväg\" and another song called \"Vi kommer försent till bluesen\". The duo's debut album \"Känslan av att jorden krymper växer\" (\"the feeling that the Earth shrinks grows\") was to be released in Sweden by Silence Records on November 16, 2005, but due to errors in the printing of its phosphorescent cover, the release was delayed. Sci-Fi SKANE Sci-Fi SKANE is a musical collaboration", "title": "Sci-Fi SKANE" }, { "docid": "13871558", "text": "the designated pilot for the G.I. Joe \"Starfighter\". Sci-Fi was first released as an action figure in 1986. A new version of Sci-Fi was released in 1991. A new version of Sci-Fi was released in 1994 as part of the Star Brigade line. As part of the 30th Anniversary toy line, a new version of Sci Fi has been released in 2011 In the Marvel Comics \"\" series, he first appeared in issue #64 in a small cameo and appeared fully in #65. He is a supporting character in the storyline running through issues #145 - 149. He is part", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "11934706", "text": "As a result of the success of the first festival, Sci-Fi on the Rock organizers Darren Hann and Melanie Collins, as well as the now-larger organizing committee decided that the festival should be held again the following year and should be bigger. Around the summer of 2007, planning for Sci-Fi on the Rock II would commence. The first change was time and place. It was increased from a one-day to a full weekend event, and was held in a larger venue. Sci-Fi on the Rock II was held at the Holiday Inn hotel in St. John's, on Saturday, April 19", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934739", "text": "and other vendors with similar geeky products are given space to sell their ware in time for the holiday season. The event is taking place at the Mazol Shriner's in St. John's Newfoundland on Dec 3rd, 2017. Since 2015 Sci-Fi on the Rock has been partnering with the Rocket Bakery, in downtown St. John's, to host a kick-off event for Sci-Fi on the Rock each year. This event is typically held the weekend before Sci-Fi on the Rock and has mini workshops and panels as well as Sandbox Gaming with some games. In the past there has been trivia, author", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "10069783", "text": "York and Exeter, in February and March of that year. In January 2010, SCI-FI-LONDON made its very first trip abroad, when the festival traveled to Powai, Mumbai and Ahmedadad, to hold screenings and workshops as SCI-FI-LONDON-In-India. With many positive responses from all three venues, it is now hoped that further events of this type might be possible in the future. Not only acting as a first point of reference for the Film Festival itself, the SCI-FI-LONDON website also provides year-round \"News\", \"Interviews\", \"Reviews\", \"Podcasts\", \"Listings\" and \"Competitions\", on a similar range of topics to that of the festival. The website", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "16714642", "text": "Sci-Fi (album) Sci-Fi is the fourth studio album by American jazz bassist Christian McBride released in 2000 via Verve label. Some tracks of the material are pop standards. John Fordham of \"The Guardian\" wrote \"Sci-Fi starts unpromisingly, with a rather anonymous, swoony, mixed-tempo account of Steely Dan's 1977 hit Aja that only ignites with David Gilmore's guitar solo. Yet, as it continues, US bass star McBride's typically broad-minded set emphasises both his own playing gifts and their pulling-power with some of the biggest names in the business. McBride's clarity of sound, the bullet-like impact he imparts to every note at", "title": "Sci-Fi (album)" }, { "docid": "16714645", "text": "infectious “Via Mwandishi,” which features James Carter’s bass clarinet recalling Bennie Maupin, one of the instrument’s underrated players.\" Band Production Sci-Fi (album) Sci-Fi is the fourth studio album by American jazz bassist Christian McBride released in 2000 via Verve label. Some tracks of the material are pop standards. John Fordham of \"The Guardian\" wrote \"Sci-Fi starts unpromisingly, with a rather anonymous, swoony, mixed-tempo account of Steely Dan's 1977 hit Aja that only ignites with David Gilmore's guitar solo. Yet, as it continues, US bass star McBride's typically broad-minded set emphasises both his own playing gifts and their pulling-power with some", "title": "Sci-Fi (album)" }, { "docid": "18173217", "text": "Bea and Jayne on board \"Serenity\". Zoe wakes in an Alliance infirmary and is confronted by an Alliance Lieutenant, Rodgers, who presents her with an ultimatum: if Zoe does not reveal the whereabouts of \"Serenity\", she will be sentenced to a prison camp on a remote planet. On \"Serenity\", Mal chastises Jayne, telling him his mercenary nature and lust for money are what have resulted in their safety being jeopardized, and that Jayne will have to leave the ship as soon as possible. River, still in an induced coma, dreams of leaving for the Alliance Academy, meeting her damaged compatriots,", "title": "Serenity: Leaves on the Wind" }, { "docid": "16451294", "text": "year of the show was attended by approximately 1,000 people, according to Examiner.com. The guest list featured several actors and artists working in the sci-fi and horror genres, including: Mark Tierno, Monique Dupree, Sal Lizard, Stan Gordon, Jeremy Ambler, April A Taylor and Jeremy McHugh. There were over 60 exhibitors who set up tables for the first annual con located in Ebensburg, PA. The charity auction benefited Angels of East Africa and raised over $1,200 from artwork donated by the vendors and artists. Many events were planned, such as: guest speaking panels, gaming tournaments, live music, pro-wrestling and a costume", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "18173220", "text": "an unnamed prison camp from which she resolves to escape as soon as possible. Her declaration amuses a fellow inmate, who asserts that ‘No one gets out of here’. Realising that it will be nearly impossible to find Zoe and free River's compatriots without help from a member of the Alliance, Mal finds and asks for help from the disgraced Alliance Operative whose life he spared. Under the hostile stares of the entire crew of \"Serenity\", the Operative comes aboard. As \"Serenity\" lifts off from the Operative's planet, Kaylee drops Jubal Early to an intended death from the trash-dump bay", "title": "Serenity: Leaves on the Wind" }, { "docid": "13871562", "text": "set up a battle scene between the Joes and Cobra. As he imagined the characters in his head, he described four of the Joes on front lines of the battle: Hawk, Leatherneck, Wet Suit, and Sci-Fi \"stood in procession, weapons raised, adrenaline pumping feverishly. Anxious for another victory over the dreaded Cobra.\" He described how \"Sci-Fi's lackadaisical attitude was in check today. The laser trooper in the neon green jumpsuit was leading the charge. Out front, it would be his battle cry that the enemy would hear first.\" Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe) Sci-Fi is a character from the toyline, comic books", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "10069779", "text": "recipients for a Best Short Film Award, selected from the short films screened as part of the festival programme, and Best Feature Film. Since 2003, there has also been an Audience Award for the Best Short Film screened, voted for by the festival audience. From 2002 to 2007, and in tribute to \"a master storyteller and man of great vision and imagination\", the Sci-Fi-London Film Festival hosted the annual Douglas Adams Memorial Debates. These consisted of a lively panel discussion, made up of critics, authors, experts and academics, debating questions raised where science fiction meets science fact. With the aim", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "11934704", "text": "\"His Majesty's New World\"), comic-book artist Paul Tucker (\"The Underworld Railroad\", \"Google John Smith\"), actor Brian Downey (\"Lexx\", \"Millennium\"), actor Jeremy Bulloch (\"The Empire Strikes Back\", \"Octopussy\"), author William Meikle (\"The Midnight Eye\" series), horror author Matthew LeDrew (\"Black Womb\", \"Roulette\") and author Shannon Patrick Sullivan (\"The Dying Days\"). Sci-Fi on the Rock's first festival was held on April 1, 2007 at the Hotel Mount Pearl (formerly Chateau Park) in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. It featured special guest authors Kenneth Tam and Shannon Patrick Sullivan, and local business/fangroup, Vader Party. As well as featuring special guests, the festival featured workshops throughout", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "13871560", "text": "2007 crossover, Sci-Fi is the first to make an effective attack on Cobra's enslaved Transformer troopers, shooting Frenzy through the eye. He is assisted in this by Flash. Sci-Fi first appeared in the second season \"\" episode \"Arise, Serpentor, Arise!\" Pt. 1. He was voiced by Jerry Houser. In the episode, he and Low-Light upstage Wetsuit and Leatherneck during target practice. In the episode \"My Brother's Keeper,\" Sci-Fi accompanies Sgt. Slaughter in a mission to prevent Doctor Mindbender and the Dreadnoks from abducting a handicapped scientist named Dr. Jeremy Penser from a science fiction convention. When Slaughter goes to get", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "13871557", "text": "as immobile as a rock, with no discernible movement of any kind. At a range of 2 1/2 miles, the impact spot of laser light will jump one hundred feet for every one thousandth of an inch movement at the source. Sci-Fi transcends mere stillness to hold that spot on target, long enough to burn through that source. Sci-Fi took a leave of absence to complete his master's degree in electrical engineering, returning with the skill set necessary to enact unparalleled enhancements to the security systems in G.I. Joe headquarters. As part of the Star Brigade aeronautical group, Sci-Fi was", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "18233994", "text": "Science Fiction one-act plays plus a world premiere adaptation of sci-fi legend Ursula Le Guin’s “The Wife’s Story” and an innovative revival of Ray Bradbury’s “Kaleidoscope.” In addition, Sci-Fest LA presented 5 late-night comedy shows with Sci-Fi themed improv groups and short comedy sketches. The 9 one-act plays produced by the festival featured many well-known actors from iconic Sci-Fi franchises including Nelson Ascencio (“The Hunger Games”), David Blue (actor) (\"Stargate: Universe\"), David Dean Bottrell (\"True Blood\"), L. Scott Caldwell (“Lost”), Dean Haglund (\"The X-Files\"), James Kyson (“Heroes”), David H. Lawrence XVII (“Heroes”), Madison McLaughlin (“Supernatural”), Julie McNiven (“Stargate: Universe” &", "title": "Sci-Fest LA" }, { "docid": "3851281", "text": "very very lucky, they'll do it in that order.\" Luckily, the Reaver ship passes by without incident. \"Serenity\" lands on Whitefall. Not trusting Patience, he sends Jayne to take out her hidden snipers while he and Zoe meet Patience and some of her henchmen in a barren valley. Mal gives Patience a sample of the cargo. As expected, Patience tries to kill them after learning where they have buried the rest, but Mal, Zoe and Jayne dispatch Patience's gang. Mal leaves Patience alive, but takes the money he was promised. Jayne is warned by Wash that the Reavers turned around", "title": "Serenity (Firefly episode)" }, { "docid": "4412014", "text": "on the fringes of society who cling to their freedom by moving back and forth around the Confederation/Dark Clown Empire border to evade detection are said to be \"Tripping the Rift\". The series follows one such group of outlaws led by Chode aboard the Spaceship Jupiter 42, taking odd-jobs and usually pursuing various get-rich-quick schemes. The show aired on Space in Canada and the Sci Fi Channel in the United States in March 2004. Sky One began airing the show in the United Kingdom in early 2005. Space and the Sci Fi Channel aired the second season in the fall", "title": "Tripping the Rift" }, { "docid": "11934724", "text": "The winning film was \"Brutal Relax\", a Spanish film by film maker David Muñoz. Sci-Fi on the Rock 8 took place at the Holiday Inn in St. John's on May 23, 24 and 25, 2014. Guests included Aron Eisenberg from , Michael Hogan from Battlestar Galactica and Teen Wolf, Erin Fitzgerald who voices characters from a wide variety of video games and TV shows including Monster High, Bravely Default and Ed, Edd and Eddy, and Musetta Vander from various sci-fi films and television shows. Also announced to appear is make-up artist Mike McCarty, who is known for his work on", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934728", "text": "legs and attendees appreciated the extra space that the Sheraton Hotel provided. The vendor's area grew and more varied vendors and artists were able to attend. The attendance for SFotR 10 was well over 2250 people throughout the weekend. This was the first year that Sci-Fi on the Rock had a VIP pass. The change in location also gave Sandbox Gaming a bigger and more comfortable space at our convention for gaming. Sci-Fi on the Rock 11 was held at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland in St. John's from April 28–30, 2017. Guests included Doug Jones (actor), known from many films", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934737", "text": "Friday Night Karaoke in 2015. Sci-Fi on the Rock holds a dance on the Saturday of the convention. This is a 19+ event held at the hotel the convention is being held in. It is a very popular event that draws quiet a crowd. The Starlight Social started as an add-on event that included champagne and possibly meeting guests. After the introduction of the VIP Pass in 2015 it became a VIP only event. There is champagne and finger foods and a chance to socialize in a smaller setting than the dance or karaoke. Since its inception, Sci-Fi on the", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934726", "text": "place at the Holiday Inn in St. John's from April 24–26, 2015. Guests include Lynda Boyd from Supernatural, Sanctuary and Republic of Doyle, Frazer Hines who is better known as the Second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon from Doctor Who, Peter Williams who played Apophis on , cosplayers Adam Smith and Kevin St. Pierre, with Fat Apollo returning to Emcee certain events. The event was again a great success. The crowd was so large that it was clear that Sci-Fi on the Rock had again outgrown a venue. This would be the last year that Sci-Fi on the Rock took place", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "14384063", "text": "filming for the second season of \"Sci Fi Science\", consisting of 12 new episodes. It started broadcasting on September 1, 2010. Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible (also called Science of the Impossible) is an American documentary television series on Science which first aired in the United States on December 1, 2009. The series is hosted by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku and is based on his book \"Physics of the Impossible\". In each episode, Dr. Kaku addresses a technological concept from science fiction and designs his own theoretical version of the technology", "title": "Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible" }, { "docid": "7916118", "text": "be heard by accessing the Info menu. Another one, an unreleased mix of \"Higher Than a Skyscraper\", can be accessed by selecting the Interviews menu and selecting the tree branch. Morning Sci-Fi Morning Sci-Fi is the second studio album by British electronica producers Hybrid. The album includes a hidden track titled \"Lights Go Down, Knives Come Out,\" which is hidden before the first indexed track and can be accessed by rewinding. The bonus DVD includes the 40-minute 'Dishing Pump' documentary about their 2000 tour with Moby, interviews, and live concert footage from their performance at Dublin, Ireland in May 2003.", "title": "Morning Sci-Fi" }, { "docid": "13384127", "text": "Sci-Fi Crimes Sci-Fi Crimes is the fifth studio album from the American rock band Chevelle, released on August 31, 2009 through Epic Records. The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009 with producer Brian Virtue. On April 9, 2009, Chevelle debuted two new songs, \"Letter from a Thief\" and \"Sleep Apnea\" at a concert in Atlanta, Georgia. Vocalist Pete Loeffler stated that the tracks were \"possible singles\" off the album. \"Jars\" was the first single from the album and began radio airplay on June 23. The track list and artwork were revealed July 21, 2009, in addition to a", "title": "Sci-Fi Crimes" }, { "docid": "7916117", "text": "Morning Sci-Fi Morning Sci-Fi is the second studio album by British electronica producers Hybrid. The album includes a hidden track titled \"Lights Go Down, Knives Come Out,\" which is hidden before the first indexed track and can be accessed by rewinding. The bonus DVD includes the 40-minute 'Dishing Pump' documentary about their 2000 tour with Moby, interviews, and live concert footage from their performance at Dublin, Ireland in May 2003. The DVD includes a few Easter Eggs. One of these Easter Eggs is the symphonic instrumental of their song \"Finished Symphony\" from their first studio album \"Wide Angle\", which can", "title": "Morning Sci-Fi" }, { "docid": "13384132", "text": "both sturdy and versatile\". Chevelle Production Artwork It was released on August 31, 2009 debuting at No. 6 in the United States with sales of about 46,000, the highest entry onto the chart to for the band, before being surpassed by their seventh studio album \"La Gárgola\" in 2014. As of January 2013, it sold over 200,000 copies according to Nielsen Soundscan. Sci-Fi Crimes Sci-Fi Crimes is the fifth studio album from the American rock band Chevelle, released on August 31, 2009 through Epic Records. The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009 with producer Brian Virtue. On April", "title": "Sci-Fi Crimes" }, { "docid": "11934703", "text": "Sci-Fi on the Rock Sci-Fi on the Rock is an annual science fiction, fantasy and horror festival held in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. It was founded by Darren Hann and Melanie Collins in mid-to-late 2006, and held its first festival in 2007. It began in 2007 at the Hotel Mount Pearl, moving on to be housed in the Holiday Inn in St. John's as of April 2008. The convention made another move in 2016 to the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland. The festival has had a number a notable guests both from Newfoundland and beyond, including science-fiction author Kenneth Tam (\"Defense Command\",", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934716", "text": "bi-weekly\" basis. Season One of \"Sci-Fi on the Rock TV\" was hosted by Steve Lake and Ellen Curtis, and ran from September 11, 2009 to May 2010. Season Two began in September 2010, with both hosts returning, until Ellen Curtis was replaced by Melanie Collins. Sci-Fi on the Rock held its fifth festival on April 15, 16 and 17, 2011, making this year the first time the organization launched a festival that spanned three days. It was held again at the St. John's Holiday Inn, and was kicked off with a book launch from festival co-founder Darren Hann, followed by", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934730", "text": "already becoming tight as some workshops and panels had long line-ups and filled to capacity. On Sunday attendees and committee alike were surprised by an unplanned visit to the convention by past guest Eugene Simon, who said that when he realized he had the time he didn't want to miss it. The committee of Sci-Fi on the Rock is already hard at work planning for year 12. Sci-Fi on the Rock 12 will take place at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland on April 6–8, 2018. Already announced is local cosplay guest Vanessa Pinsent Cosplay. Fat Apollo will be returning to be", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "4929971", "text": "Sci-Fi Lullabies Sci-Fi Lullabies is a two-disc compilation album by English alternative rock band Suede, consisting of B-sides from the singles that were released from the group's first three albums. It reached no. 9 on the UK Albums Chart, and received universal acclaim on release. In subsequent years, the record has been hailed as one of the finest B-side compilations in popular music. The album spans two discs and displays the band in its most prolific era. The first disc is dominated by tracks written by the Brett Anderson/Bernard Butler songwriting partnership (the exceptions are \"Together,\" \"Bentswood Boys\" and \"Europe", "title": "Sci-Fi Lullabies" }, { "docid": "10069778", "text": "This normally takes the form of a shorter festival, held at venues including the Apollo Piccadilly Circus, the Stratford Picturehouse, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Royal Society. The Arthur C. Clarke Award is awarded every year to the best science fiction novel which received its first British publication during the previous calendar year. The Award is chosen by Jury. The Award was set up in 1986 and the first winner was announced in 1987. In 2006, Sci-Fi-London hosted the Awards ceremony for the first time. As well as hosting the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Sci-Fi-London also chooses its own", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "4929984", "text": "that album. The collection is accompanied by a 32-page, full-color lyric booklet designed by Peter Saville. The front cover, whose artistic similarities to J. G. Ballard were noted by Stephen Dowling of the BBC, features a destroyed English Electric Lightning aircraft abandoned and used for target practice at the Otterburn Training Area in Northumberland. It was taken by North East photographer John Kippin. Suede Production Sci-Fi Lullabies Sci-Fi Lullabies is a two-disc compilation album by English alternative rock band Suede, consisting of B-sides from the singles that were released from the group's first three albums. It reached no. 9 on", "title": "Sci-Fi Lullabies" }, { "docid": "3851283", "text": "they should dump the siblings since Dobson had told him that the Alliance will keep coming after River. Mal asks Jayne why he did not turn against him. Jayne responds that the money was not enough. Mal suggests to Simon that he and River might be safer on the move, and points out that \"Serenity\" is always moving, and in need of a medic. Simon reluctantly accepts his offer. This episode has two deleted scenes. This episode introduces a major story arc of the short-lived series: that of River and Simon. It reveals Simon's deep, selfless love for his sister", "title": "Serenity (Firefly episode)" }, { "docid": "20794774", "text": "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes is presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2015, categories for period/fantasy and contemporary costumes were created. The categories were divided in 2018 for period and fantasy/sci-fi costumes. They replaced the retired categories for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special and Outstanding Costumes for a Series. Rules require that nominations are distributed proportionally among regular series and limited series/movies, based on the number of submissions of each. For instance, if two-fifths of submissions are limited series/movies then two of the five", "title": "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes" }, { "docid": "16451301", "text": "Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, PA reserved starting in 2016 and beyond; with over 330+ exhibitors. The show was on June 10–12, 2016. This was also be the first year it focuses strongly on flying celebrity guests in for the show. The higher profile guests include: John Rhys-Davies, Alaina Huffman, Zach Galligan, Alex Vincent, Fred Williamson, John Morton, Brian O'Halloran, Scott Schiaffo and Marilyn Ghigliotti. The show was well received by the community and attendance was around 6,000 people for the year of 2016. Sci-Fi Valley Con, Part 6 show was on June 9–11, 2017 at Blair County Convention", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "11934720", "text": "to ensure the larger numbers could be accommodated. This new layout has continued to stand as the standard. Special guest actor Richard Hatch of Battlestar Galactica fame, in addition to appearing as a guest, offered an acting workshop for festival patrons. Also appearing was Jeffrey Combs from the Reanimator series, Peter Roy who appeared in Star Wars and Doctor Who, French-born Fantasy Art model Drakaina, comedian and chocolate bar inspiration Fat Apollo, and talent agent Lolita Fatjo, who has helped Sci-Fi on the Rock obtain many of their previous and future guests. The Film Festival returned, featuring 9 short films.", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "4929981", "text": "a hit record, writing: \"if this was a single 12-track album, it would be pushing for inclusion in the album of the year lists.\" In 2017, \"Pitchfork\" ranked the record at number thirty in its list, \"The 50 Best Britpop Albums.\" \"The A.V. Club\" included the compilation in its list of 35 essential B-side/rarity/outtakes collections. The article described \"Sci-Fi Lullabies\" as being \"as good as any of Suede's proper albums.\" \"NME\" featured the compilation in their list of \"30 Killer B-Side And Rarities Albums You Might've Missed\", noting that Suede's B-sides \"were as exciting as anything Britpop could muster.\" The", "title": "Sci-Fi Lullabies" }, { "docid": "11934710", "text": "and scripts (donated by Brian Downey), a Limited Edition Boba Fett action figure, personally autographed by Jeremy Bulloch, and a P.A.D.D. that was used on the set of (which was donated by an agent of one of the actors of the show). Sci-Fi on the Rock had its third festival on April 25 and 26, 2009 at the Holiday Inn in St. John's once again. The special guest actors for this year were Vaughn Armstrong, who is perhaps best known as Admiral Maxwell Forrest from \"Star Trek Enterprise\", Christian Simpson, who notably played Lt. Gavyn Sykes in \"Star Wars Episode", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "10069780", "text": "of promoting Film-making, as well as Film-watching, in 2008 SCI-FI-LONDON launched its first 48 Hour Film Challenge. Registered Teams are given a random Title, Prop/Action, and a line of Dialogue, and two days (a weekend) in which to produce a 3 to 5 minute Short Film. In 2008, there were 137 registrants, 87 teams taking part, 70 films returned, and over 1,200 people involved. That year, the competition was won by a team featuring director Gareth Edwards, who used his entry as a stepping-stone to producing his first feature film: \"Monsters\". Winners are judged by Jury, which in the past", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "13384129", "text": "2010. Unlike previous albums, \"Sci-Fi Crimes\" was recorded live in the studio as a band, without the use of samples. \"We wanted to do a record that was more true to what our live sound is like,\" explains Sam Loeffler. \"We wanted to go in the studio and play the tracks and just record them and not make a perfect record the way I think a lot of our records in the past have been made. We wanted to compete on that same level by not tuning the vocals and not tuning every single chord and not adding samples so", "title": "Sci-Fi Crimes" }, { "docid": "16000155", "text": "Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy The Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine \"Empire\" to honor the best sci-fi, fantasy or superhero film of the previous year. The Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy is one of four new Best Film ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 11th Empire Awards ceremony in 2006 (along with Best Comedy, Best Horror and Best Thriller) with \"\" receiving the award. \"A Monster Calls\" is the most recent winner in this category. Winners are voted by the readers of \"Empire\" magazine. In the list", "title": "Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy" }, { "docid": "16000156", "text": "below, winners are listed first in boldface, followed by the other nominees. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article (if any) on that ceremony. Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy The Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine \"Empire\" to honor the best sci-fi, fantasy or superhero film of the previous year. The Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy is one of four new Best Film ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 11th Empire Awards ceremony in 2006 (along", "title": "Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy" }, { "docid": "9852068", "text": "Spaceship Warlock Spaceship Warlock is an adventure game created by Mike Saenz and Joe Sparks. The game was released in 1991 for the Macintosh and in 1994 for Windows. The game was a first person adventure set in a sci-fi future. The player explores and interacts the game universe by clicking. Limited manipulation of objects is needed and there are several optional locations and things the player can explore or discover besides following the linear narrative. Dialogues involve typing a topic to a character such as \"whiskey\", \"Terra\" or \"pirates\". Some arcade sequences enrich the gameplay. \"Spaceship Warlock\" was one", "title": "Spaceship Warlock" }, { "docid": "11934722", "text": "Jones who is perhaps best known for playing Walter Harriman on Stargate: SG1, and cosplay model and actress Ginny McQueen. In the previous year, some of the special guest actors undertook a more active role in the event than simply delivering a Q&A panel and offering photos and autographs (namely, Richard Hatch offered an acting workshop). The same happened this year, as actors Dean Haglund and Gary Jones—who are close friends in real life—served as Masters of Ceremonies for the Sci-Fi on the Rock cantina, as well as closing out the show with a rousing improvised comedy sketch. The remaining", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "13871559", "text": "of the G.I. Joe sub-team, the Star Brigade, which includes Space Shot, Roadblock and Payload. Teaming with the Oktober Guard, they destroy an asteroid that was headed for Earth. Sci-Fi makes an appearance in issue 25 of the Devil's Due G.I. Joe series. He is part of a demolitions team sent in to destroy EMP generators on Cobra Island. Led by the Joe Mercer, the team does so, but not without the deaths of Flash, Mainframe and the rookie Joe member, 'Hacker'. Jinx, another member of the team, survives. Sci-Fi is later seen fighting Cobra operatives in Peru. In the", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "18471757", "text": "the Tides\" (broiled fish), and \"Journey to the Center of the Pasta\" (vegetable lasagne), but these have since been replaced with more descriptive names. A popcorn bisque was once on the menu, but it was removed due to poor reception. In 2003, EGV Entertainment, a movie theater operator in Thailand, opened the EGV Drive-in Cafe in Bangkok, explicitly modeling the restaurant after the Sci-Fi Dine-In. Wichai Poolwaraluk, the company's executive president and chief executive officer, visited the Sci-Fi Dine-In in 2000, and was inspired to open a similar restaurant. He said that, while he was eating at the Sci-Fi Dine-In,", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "2746921", "text": "the version presented on screen. Fans had hoped that if \"Serenity\" had been successful, it might lead either to sequel or a film trilogy. The first major sequel rumor began on December 1, 2005, when IGN Filmforce reported that Universal had expressed an interest in making a \"Serenity\" television movie for broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel. It was expected that commissioning of a television sequel would be contingent on strong DVD sales of \"Serenity\". In a January 2006 interview, Whedon doubted the chances of a sequel. On October 1, 2006, Whedon posted a comment to the Whedonesque.com website, debunking a", "title": "Serenity (2005 film)" }, { "docid": "18471746", "text": "2,200 people daily during peak periods, making it the park's most popular restaurant. Thai movie theater operator EGV Entertainment opened the EGV Drive-in Cafe in Bangkok in 2003, in a very similar style to the Sci-Fi Dine-In. The Sci-Fi Dine-In has received mixed reviews. \"USA Today\"s list of the best restaurants in American amusement parks ranks the Sci-Fi Dine-In fifteenth, but many reviewers rate it more highly for its atmosphere than for its cuisine. Ed Bumgardner of the \"Winston-Salem Journal\" wrote that the food is more expensive than it is worth, specifically calling the restaurant's roast beef sandwich both delicious", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" } ]
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What drink consists of 7 parts tequila, 4 parts cointreau or triple sec, and 3 parts lemon or lime juice?
[ "Margerita", "Bob and Rita", "Margarita glass", "Frozen margarita", "Margarita (cocktail)", "Margaritas", "Margarita (drink)", "Upside Down Margarita", "Margarita" ]
[ { "docid": "1459931", "text": "ice in a salt-rimmed glass. However, Thomson's recipe was made with Damiana Liqueur, not Cointreau orange liqueur. It is said that the idea was an experiment after running out of rum while making frozen daiquiris. The IBA (IBA Official list of Cocktails) standard is 7:4:3, that is, 50% tequila, 29% Cointreau, 21% fresh lime juice. The \"Original Margarita\" recipe as given by Cointreau on their website has slightly less of their own sweet liqueur: 1 part white tequila, part Cointreau, and part fresh squeezed lime juice. Besides Cointreau, other orange-flavored liqueurs that might be used include Grand Marnier (yielding the", "title": "Margarita" }, { "docid": "516476", "text": "United States. The traditional margarita uses tequila, Cointreau, and lime juice, though many variations exist. A popular cocktail in Mexico is the \"Paloma\". Also, a number of martini variants involve tequila, and a large number of tequila drinks are made by adding fruit juice. These include the Tequila Sunrise and the Matador. Sodas and other carbonated drinks are a common mixer, as in the Tequila Slammer. Under Canadian regulations (C.R.C., c.870, section B.02.90), a product sold as tequila must be \"Tequila manufactured in Mexico as Tequila in accordance with the laws of Mexico applicable in respect of Tequila for consumption", "title": "Tequila" }, { "docid": "1459930", "text": "a lime or lemon. A recipe for a tequila-based cocktail first appeared in the 1930 book \"My New Cocktail Book\" by G.F. Steele. Without noting a specific recipe or inventor, a drink called the Tequila Daisy was mentioned in the \"Syracuse Herald\" as early as 1936. Margarita is Spanish for Daisy, which is a nickname for Margaret. A later story is that the margarita was invented in October 1961, at a party in Houston, Texas, by party goer Robert James \"Rusty\" Thomson while acting as bartender. He concocted a mixture of equal parts tequila, Controy orange liqueur, lime, and crushed", "title": "Margarita" }, { "docid": "1891556", "text": "in a variety of cocktails such as sangria, margarita, Kamikaze, White Lady, Long Island Iced Tea, Sidecar, Skittle Bomb, Corpse Reviver #2 and Cosmopolitan. The Combier distillery claims that triple sec was invented in 1834 by Jean-Baptiste Combier in Saumur, France. However, Combier was more famous for its élixir Combier, which contained orange but also many other flavorings. According to Cointreau, its orange liqueur was created in 1849. Triple sec was certainly widely known by 1878; at the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris, several distillers were offering \"Curaço triple sec\" as well as \"Curaço doux\". Triple sec Triple sec,", "title": "Triple sec" } ]
[ { "docid": "8697476", "text": "with ice. Coat the rim with a mixture of salt and chili powder. Pour in one part Clamato and the juice of half a lime or lemon. Add three parts Mexican beer and hot sauce to taste. A michelada is a Mexican drink made from beer mixed with spice, sauce and lime. Coat the rim of a chilled beer mug with salt. Fill with ice. Mix one or one-and-a-half parts of Clamato and the juice of half a lemon or lime. Add four parts of beer and ⅓ part of tequila. Season with hot sauce to taste. Cerveza preparada Cerveza", "title": "Cerveza preparada" }, { "docid": "1368058", "text": "Long Island Iced Tea A Long Island Iced Tea is a type of alcoholic mixed drink typically made with vodka, tequila, light rum, triple sec, gin, and a splash of cola, which gives the drink the same amber hue as its namesake. A popular version mixes equal parts vodka, gin, rum, triple sec, with parts sour mix and a splash of cola. Lastly, it is decorated with the lemon and straw, after stirring with bar spoon smoothly. Most variants use equal parts of the main liquors, but include a smaller amount of triple sec (or other orange-flavored liqueur). Close variants", "title": "Long Island Iced Tea" }, { "docid": "16332415", "text": "prepared lemon juice. Some versions are prepared using the juice from Meyer lemons. Cointreau-brand triple sec is used in some versions, and it may be prepared using a simple syrup that has been infused with lemon juice. Some versions are prepared using sour mix, a cocktail mixer. A garnish of a sliced lemon wheel, wedge, zest, rind or a lemon twist is sometimes used. Additional ingredients may also be used in the drink's preparation, such as ginger syrup and lavender extract. A lemon drop is typically prepared straight up, meaning that it is shaken or stirred with ice, strained, and", "title": "Lemon drop" }, { "docid": "2640689", "text": "the United Kingdom, and a lemon cordial is also available in New Zealand. A passion fruit cordial is available in South Africa. The current range includes both the original concentrated squash or cordial and also diluted drink mixers. Rose's lime juice Rose's lime juice, often known simply as Rose's, is a concentrated fruit juice patented in 1867. In 1753, James Lind discovered that consuming citrus fruits cured people affected by scurvy, a disease rife throughout the navy. Captain James Cook adopted his suggested solution of a daily ration of lemon or lime juice to all sailors during his long expeditionary", "title": "Rose's lime juice" }, { "docid": "15437757", "text": "casing and reinforced inner material. Other uses include, but are not limited to; paper removal, device handling, item manoeuvering, micro-cleaning, small parts retrieval and minor dust removal. 3-Pronged Parts Retriever A 3-Pronged Parts Retriever, also known as a Pearl-Catcher, is a useful tool in the world of computers and is essential to a computer technician's toolkit. It consists of a length of tube of around 4 mm to 6 mm in diameter, often made of coiled steel springs, with a push-button on one end. Three metal wires protrude from the other end, each sprung to bend outwards, away from the", "title": "3-Pronged Parts Retriever" }, { "docid": "2640688", "text": "concentrate, sodium metabisulfite (preservative #223), natural flavors, Blue 1. Comparatively, in New Zealand, the list is water, lime juice from concentrate (32%), sugar, food acid 330, and preservative 223 – and when mixed 1:4 (20% concentrate), contains 6.4% fruit juice. Over its history the company added other products to its line-up, including a non-alcoholic triple sec, grenadine, and sweet and sour. The company added a line of flavoured martini drink mixers in the early 2000s. In 2006, the company expanded its product line to feature a brand of mojito flavourings. A licensed brand of lime marmalade is also produced in", "title": "Rose's lime juice" }, { "docid": "516470", "text": "which is more vegetal than grain spirits (and often more complex). The \"Consejo Regulador del Tequila\" (Tequila Regulatory Council) reported 1377 registered brands from 150 producers for the year 2013. In Mexico, the most traditional way to drink tequila is neat, without lime and salt. It is popular in some regions to drink fine tequila with a side of sangrita—a sweet, sour, and spicy drink typically made from orange juice, grenadine (or tomato juice), and hot chilli. Equal-sized shots of tequila and sangrita are sipped alternately, without salt or lime. Another popular drink in Mexico is the \"bandera\" (flag, in", "title": "Tequila" }, { "docid": "15437755", "text": "3-Pronged Parts Retriever A 3-Pronged Parts Retriever, also known as a Pearl-Catcher, is a useful tool in the world of computers and is essential to a computer technician's toolkit. It consists of a length of tube of around 4 mm to 6 mm in diameter, often made of coiled steel springs, with a push-button on one end. Three metal wires protrude from the other end, each sprung to bend outwards, away from the tube's axis, but with their tips bent inwards to form teeth. The push-button drives the wires down the tube, where their natural springiness causes them to spread", "title": "3-Pronged Parts Retriever" }, { "docid": "2004981", "text": "the drink to an American army captain in Paris during World War I and named after the motorcycle sidecar that the captain used. Both MacElhone and Vermiere state the recipe as equal parts cognac, Cointreau, and lemon juice, now known as \"the French school\". Later, an \"English school\" of sidecars emerged, as found in the \"Savoy Cocktail Book\" (1930), which call for two parts cognac and one part each of Cointreau and lemon juice. According to Embury, the original sidecar had several ingredients, which were \"refined away\". Embury also states the drink is simply a daiquiri with brandy as its", "title": "Sidecar (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "12499122", "text": "Parts (book) Parts is a children's book written and illustrated by Tedd Arnold. It was first published on September 1, 1997. Written in rhyme with cartoon-like watercolor illustrations, \"Parts\" is the first in Arnold's trilogy on the theme of body parts. It was followed by \"More Parts\" in 2001 and \"Even More Parts\" in 2004. In 1998, it won the \"Tellable\" Stories for Ages 4–7 Award (Storytelling World) and in 1999, the Colorado Children's Book Award. The story is aimed at 4-7 year-olds. It was inspired by a real life experience, when the author's young son, Walter, was disturbed by", "title": "Parts (book)" }, { "docid": "12499117", "text": "Parts (book) Parts is a children's book written and illustrated by Tedd Arnold. It was first published on September 1, 1997. Written in rhyme with cartoon-like watercolor illustrations, \"Parts\" is the first in Arnold's trilogy on the theme of body parts. It was followed by \"More Parts\" in 2001 and \"Even More Parts\" in 2004. In 1998, it won the \"Tellable\" Stories for Ages 4–7 Award (Storytelling World) and in 1999, the Colorado Children's Book Award. The story is aimed at 4-7 year-olds. It was inspired by a real life experience, when the author's young son, Walter, was disturbed by", "title": "Parts (book)" }, { "docid": "10383981", "text": "Hong Kong cocktail\". Related drinks (or possibly alternative names): Also known in Hong Kong as a \"Gunners\". Malawi shandy, rock shandy, Windermere, Lemon, Lime and Bitters. Gunner (cocktail) A gunner is a cocktail served in more prominent clubs, bars, golf clubs, especially those popular with expats, in Hong Kong and other parts of the Far East and India formerly under British colonial rule. It consists of equal parts ginger beer (or lemonade) and ginger ale with a dash of Angostura bitters and sometimes a measure of lime cordial or lemon juice. It is regarded as a non-alcoholic drink, although Angostura", "title": "Gunner (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "11397552", "text": "customary for golf players to have a drink of LLB after a match of golf. It is made to order in most bars but a pre-mixed version is made by a number of soft drink companies and this version is widely available in supermarkets. An ABC News article published in 2018 described lemon, lime and bitters as \"Australia's national drink\". Lemon, lime and bitters Lemon, lime and bitters (LLB) is a mixed drink made with (clear) lemonade, lime cordial, and Angostura bitters. The lemonade is sometimes substituted with soda water or lemon squash. It was served as a non-alcoholic alternative", "title": "Lemon, lime and bitters" }, { "docid": "3769216", "text": "carbonated citrus-flavored soft drink (like Sprite, 7-Up, or Fanta Lemon). Saint Clement's (cocktail) The Saint Clement's is a non-alcoholic cocktail. Though the ingredients may vary, it consists of orange juice mixed with bitter lemon, usually in equal proportions; the name of the drink refers to the English nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons. The drink is therefore named (indirectly) after either St Clement Eastcheap or St Clement Danes, both churches in London. The traditional recipe calls for equal parts orange juice and lemon juice served over ice in a highball glass. There are many variations, in which the lemon juice is", "title": "Saint Clement's (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "2640683", "text": "Rose's lime juice Rose's lime juice, often known simply as Rose's, is a concentrated fruit juice patented in 1867. In 1753, James Lind discovered that consuming citrus fruits cured people affected by scurvy, a disease rife throughout the navy. Captain James Cook adopted his suggested solution of a daily ration of lemon or lime juice to all sailors during his long expeditionary trips. This proved highly successful with a hugely reduced death rate. From 1795, it became normal practice throughout all long voyages within the Royal Navy, for sailors to receive a daily ration of lemon or lime juice. This", "title": "Rose's lime juice" }, { "docid": "12499119", "text": "him wrapped in the masking tape, his parents then explain to him about how parts of his body renew themselves. This sequel to \"Parts\" was first published in 2001. Like its predecessor, the story is aimed at 4-7 year olds, written in rhyme and illustrated by the author. Chip from \"Parts\" now becomes frightened by his literal interpretation of the idomatic expressions involving body parts that he hears adults using. Imagining that these expressions could lead to his body falling apart (his central preoccupation in \"Parts\"), Chip invents various kinds of protection for himself. For example, when his father asks", "title": "Parts (book)" }, { "docid": "4525481", "text": "Parts book A parts book or parts catalogue or Illustrated part catalogue is a book published by manufacturers which contains the illustrations, part numbers and other relevant data for their products or parts thereof. Parts books were often also issued as microfiche, though this has fallen out of favour. Now, many manufacturers offer this information digitally in an electronic parts catalogue. This can be locally installed software, or a centrally hosted web application. Usually, an electronic parts catalogue enables the user to virtually disassemble the product into its components to identify the required part(s). In the automotive industry, electronic parts", "title": "Parts book" }, { "docid": "13962557", "text": "that are made available increases with the number of users. Examples of specialised suppliers of parts locators are OEConnection, PareX Parts Exchange (PareX) and Inventory Locator Service, LLC (ILS). Parts locator A parts locator or inventory locator is a computer program that enables users to locate spare parts or other inventory items in a number of different storage locations, usually of different owners. A parts locator can be used to improve spare parts management by increasing parts availability and decreasing obsolescence. Parts locators can be included in other (packaged) software such as Dealership Management Systems (DMS) or inventory control systems;", "title": "Parts locator" }, { "docid": "6276714", "text": "obstruct one another's motion or collide by simple visual inspection of the (animated) computer model rather than by the designer performing a numerical analysis directly. Moving parts The moving parts of a machine are those parts of it that move. Machines include both moving (or movable) and fixed parts. The moving parts have controlled and constrained motions. Moving parts do not include any moving fluids, such as fuel, coolant or hydraulic fluid. Moving parts also do not include any mechanical locks, switches, nuts and bolts, screw caps for bottles etc. A system with no moving parts is described as \"solid", "title": "Moving parts" }, { "docid": "13962556", "text": "Parts locator A parts locator or inventory locator is a computer program that enables users to locate spare parts or other inventory items in a number of different storage locations, usually of different owners. A parts locator can be used to improve spare parts management by increasing parts availability and decreasing obsolescence. Parts locators can be included in other (packaged) software such as Dealership Management Systems (DMS) or inventory control systems; or can be offered as a separate program. Due to the purpose of the software, it becomes more valuable when it has more users, as the number of inventories", "title": "Parts locator" }, { "docid": "6276703", "text": "Moving parts The moving parts of a machine are those parts of it that move. Machines include both moving (or movable) and fixed parts. The moving parts have controlled and constrained motions. Moving parts do not include any moving fluids, such as fuel, coolant or hydraulic fluid. Moving parts also do not include any mechanical locks, switches, nuts and bolts, screw caps for bottles etc. A system with no moving parts is described as \"solid state\". The amount of moving parts in a machine is a factor in its mechanical efficiency. The greater the number of moving parts, the greater", "title": "Moving parts" }, { "docid": "10286275", "text": "closed. Chief was considered another convenience concept of 7-Eleven; many of the stores were open 24 hours a day. Many Chief stores were adjacent to 7-Eleven stores, or were in stand-alone buildings. 7-Eleven called them \"convenience auto parts stores.\" Chief Auto Parts Chief Auto Parts was a United States-based auto parts store chain that had stores located in the states of Tennessee, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Arkansas and California. Chief was founded in 1955 in Norwalk, California by Vern Johnson and Lorin Tuthill. The company grew to 119 stores when it was sold to Southland in 1979. After passing through several", "title": "Chief Auto Parts" }, { "docid": "11397551", "text": "Lemon, lime and bitters Lemon, lime and bitters (LLB) is a mixed drink made with (clear) lemonade, lime cordial, and Angostura bitters. The lemonade is sometimes substituted with soda water or lemon squash. It was served as a non-alcoholic alternative to \"Pink Gin\" (gin mixed with Angostura bitters). It is often considered to be a non-alcoholic cocktail (or mocktail) due to its exceedingly low alcohol content, though some establishments consider it to be alcoholic and will not serve it without identification or proof of age. Lemon, Lime and Bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand where it became", "title": "Lemon, lime and bitters" }, { "docid": "4525482", "text": "catalogues are also able to access specific vehicle information, usually through an online look-up of the vehicle identification number. This will identify specific models, allowing the user to correctly identify the required part and its relevant part number. Parts book A parts book or parts catalogue or Illustrated part catalogue is a book published by manufacturers which contains the illustrations, part numbers and other relevant data for their products or parts thereof. Parts books were often also issued as microfiche, though this has fallen out of favour. Now, many manufacturers offer this information digitally in an electronic parts catalogue. This", "title": "Parts book" }, { "docid": "13004526", "text": "Parts washer A parts washer is a piece of equipment used to remove contaminants or debris, such as dirt, grime, carbon, oil, grease, metal chips, cutting fluids, mold release agents, ink, paint, and corrosion from workpieces. Parts washers are used in new manufacturing and remanufacturing processes; they are designed to clean, degrease and dry bulk loads of small or large parts in preparation for assembly, inspection, surface treatment, packaging and distribution. Parts washers may be as simple as the manual \"sink-on-a-drum\" common to many auto repair shops, or they may be very complex, multi-stage units with pass-through parts handling systems.", "title": "Parts washer" }, { "docid": "15936434", "text": "Cannibalization (parts) Cannibalization of machine parts, in maintenance of mechanical or electronic systems with interchangeable parts, refers to the practice of removing parts or subsystems necessary for repair from another similar device, rather than from inventory, usually when resources become limited. The source system is usually crippled as a result, if only temporarily, in order to allow the recipient device to function properly again. Cannibalization is usually due to unavailability of spare parts, due to an emergency, long resupply times, physical distance, or insufficient planning or budget. Cannibalization can also be due to surplus inventory. At the end of World", "title": "Cannibalization (parts)" }, { "docid": "8193457", "text": "Parts Manufacturer Approval Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA) is an approval granted by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to a manufacturer of aircraft parts. It is generally illegal in the United States to install replacement or modification parts on a certificated aircraft without an airworthiness release such as a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) or Parts Manufacturing Approval (PMA). There are a number of other methods of compliance, including parts manufactured to government or industry standards, parts manufactured under technical standard order authorization [TSO], owner-/operator-produced parts, experimental aircraft, field approvals, etc. PMA-holding manufacturers are permitted to make replacement parts for", "title": "Parts Manufacturer Approval" }, { "docid": "9687833", "text": "parts cleaning' probably best describe this field of activity. There are some specialists who prefer the term 'industrial parts cleaning', because they want to exclude maintenance of buildings, rooms, areas, windows, floors, tanks, machinery, hygiene, hands washing, showers etc. Cleaning activities in this sector can only be characterised sufficiently by a description of a number of different factors. These are outlined in illustration 1. First, consider the parts to be cleaned. They may consist of non- or hardly-processed sections, sheets and wires. But also machined parts or assembled components needing cleaning. Therefore, they may be composed of different metals or", "title": "Parts cleaning" }, { "docid": "15936437", "text": "to buy additional inventory during the production run of a system or part, in quantities sufficient to cover the expected number of failures. This strategy is known as a \"lifetime buy\". Cannibalization (parts) Cannibalization of machine parts, in maintenance of mechanical or electronic systems with interchangeable parts, refers to the practice of removing parts or subsystems necessary for repair from another similar device, rather than from inventory, usually when resources become limited. The source system is usually crippled as a result, if only temporarily, in order to allow the recipient device to function properly again. Cannibalization is usually due to", "title": "Cannibalization (parts)" }, { "docid": "20962043", "text": "purchased or manufactured to complete the firearm. Parts kits are available for many firearms including the AR-15 and AK-47. Parts kit A parts kit is a term used to describe a kit of firearm parts minus the receiver. This is due to US gun laws that consider the receiver the \"gun\" part of the firearm and the part that is regulated. This is different from other countries where pressure bearing parts such as bolts, barrels, gas pistons are the regulated parts. In addition to this US gun laws consider a receiver that is legally a machine gun cannot legally become", "title": "Parts kit" }, { "docid": "8943225", "text": "Temporal parts In contemporary metaphysics, temporal parts are the parts of an object that exist in time. A temporal part would be something like \"the first year of a person's life\", or \"all of a table from between 10:00 a.m. on June 21, 1994 to 11:00 p.m. on July 23, 1996\". The term is used in the debate over the persistence of material objects. Objects typically have parts that exist in space—a human body, for example, has \"spatial parts\" like hands, feet, and legs. Some metaphysicists believe objects have \"temporal parts\" as well. Originally it was argued that those who", "title": "Temporal parts" }, { "docid": "2891532", "text": "glass if not imbibed immediately, the result (and intention) of which is swift intoxication. It can also be served with equal parts tequila, white wine (or champagne) and lemonade, creating a more potent, flavoursome mix. A Mexican variant known as the \"Tequila Boom-Boom\" uses tequila, 7-Up (or Sprite) and grenadine syrup. Tequila Slammer A Tequila Slammer (known in Mexico as a \"muppet\" or \"mópet\") is a cocktail served in a rocks glass. It is made with tequila. The drink gets its name from the way it is commonly consumed; the usual procedure is to leave about a fifth of the", "title": "Tequila Slammer" }, { "docid": "4915311", "text": "won the 2017 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. NAPA is a sponsor of the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Falcons and the Mexico national football team. NAPA is also a sponsor of Play of the game on SEC on CBS Broadcast. They sponsored ArenaBowl XXIII as well. National Automotive Parts Association The National Automotive Parts Association (NAPA), also known as NAPA Auto Parts, founded in 1925, is an American retailers' cooperative distributing automotive replacement parts, accessories and service items in North America. There are over 6,000 NAPA Auto Parts stores across the United States. 1,142 NAPA stores are owned by Genuine Parts Company,", "title": "National Automotive Parts Association" }, { "docid": "10383980", "text": "Gunner (cocktail) A gunner is a cocktail served in more prominent clubs, bars, golf clubs, especially those popular with expats, in Hong Kong and other parts of the Far East and India formerly under British colonial rule. It consists of equal parts ginger beer (or lemonade) and ginger ale with a dash of Angostura bitters and sometimes a measure of lime cordial or lemon juice. It is regarded as a non-alcoholic drink, although Angostura bitters is 44.7% alcohol by volume. It is noted for its refreshing qualities, especially in warm weather. The gunner has been described as \"the only real", "title": "Gunner (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "6276708", "text": "and is affected by the type of motion that a moving part has. A moving part that has a uniform rotation motion is subject to less fatigue than a moving part that oscillates back and forth. Vibration leads to failure when the \"forcing frequency\" of the machine's operation hits a resonant frequency of one or more moving parts, such as rotating shafts. Designers avoid these problems by calculating the natural frequencies of the parts at design time, and altering the parts to limit or eliminate such resonance. Yet further factors that can lead to failure of moving parts include failures", "title": "Moving parts" }, { "docid": "16332414", "text": "restaurants in the United States, and in such establishments in other areas of the world. A lemon drop is a cocktail with a lemony, sweet and sour flavor, whereby the sweet and sour ingredients serve to contrast and balance one another. It is a vodka-based cocktail that is prepared with the addition of lemon juice, triple sec and simple syrup. Plain or citrus-flavored vodka may be used in its preparation, such as citron vodka. Lemon-flavored vodka is also sometimes used. Lemon juice that has been freshly squeezed may be used, which can produce a superior drink compared to using commercially", "title": "Lemon drop" }, { "docid": "7599269", "text": "Genuine Parts Company Genuine Parts Company (GPC) is an American service organization engaged in the distribution of automotive replacement parts, industrial replacement parts, office products and electrical/electronic materials. GPC serves numerous customers from more than 2,600 operations around the world, and has approximately 48,000 employees. It owns the NAPA Auto Parts brand. Founded in 1925, GPC is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and consists of multiple subsidiaries that distribute automotive replacement parts, industrial replacement parts, office products and electrical/electronic materials. The Company has paid a cash dividend to shareholders every year since going public in 1948. The company moved into its", "title": "Genuine Parts Company" }, { "docid": "16332413", "text": "Lemon drop A lemon drop is a vodka-based cocktail that has a lemony, sweet and sour flavor, prepared using lemon juice, triple sec and simple syrup. It has been described as a variant of, or as \"a take on\", the Vodka Martini. It is typically prepared and served straight up – chilled with ice and strained. The drink was invented sometime in the 1970s by Norman Jay Hobday, the founder and proprietor of Henry Africa's bar in San Francisco, California. Some variations of the drink exist, such as blueberry and raspberry lemon drops. It is served at some bars and", "title": "Lemon drop" }, { "docid": "8193472", "text": "should be expected to enter the PMA marketplace in the near future. For example, Japan has PMA regulations and has secured a bilateral agreement with the United States that authorizes the export of these parts to the United States as airworthy aircraft parts. Parts Manufacturer Approval Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA) is an approval granted by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to a manufacturer of aircraft parts. It is generally illegal in the United States to install replacement or modification parts on a certificated aircraft without an airworthiness release such as a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) or Parts Manufacturing", "title": "Parts Manufacturer Approval" }, { "docid": "6276704", "text": "the amount of energy lost to heat by friction between those parts. For example, in a modern automobile engine, roughly 7% of the total power obtained from burning the engine's fuel is lost to friction between the engine's moving parts. Conversely, the fewer the number of moving parts, the greater the efficiency. Machines with no moving parts at all can be very efficient. An electrical transformer, for example, has no moving parts, and its mechanical efficiency is generally above the 90% mark. (The remaining power losses in a transformer are from other causes, including loss to electrical resistance in the", "title": "Moving parts" }, { "docid": "6276710", "text": "moving parts. A machine with moving parts can, mathematically, be treated as a connected system of bodies, whose kinetic energies are simply summed. The individual kinetic energies are determined from the kinetic energies of the moving parts' translations and rotations about their axes. The \"kinetic energy of rotation of the moving parts\" can be determined by noting that every such system of moving parts can be reduced to a collection of connected bodies rotating about an instantaneous axis, which form either a ring or a portion of an ideal ring, of radius formula_1 rotating at formula_2 revolutions per second. This", "title": "Moving parts" }, { "docid": "13004535", "text": "to the building... An aqueous-based parts washer is much like a large dish washer. It uses water and detergent combined with heat and mechanical energy to provide the cleaning action. There are two main process styles of aqueous parts washers, the \"jet spray process\" and the \"power wash process\". In a cabinet parts washer, the parts are placed on a turntable and the door is closed. During the cleaning cycle heated solution is flooded or blasted on the parts as the turntable rotates. Many systems have a wash, rinse and dry cycle. When the cycle is complete the door is", "title": "Parts washer" }, { "docid": "1296416", "text": "Parts-per notation In science and engineering, the parts-per notation is a set of pseudo-units to describe small values of miscellaneous dimensionless quantities, e.g. mole fraction or mass fraction. Since these fractions are quantity-per-quantity measures, they are pure numbers with no associated units of measurement. Commonly used are ppm (parts-per-million, ), ppb (parts-per-billion, ), ppt (parts-per-trillion, ) and ppq (parts-per-quadrillion, ). This notation is not part of the SI system and its meaning is ambiguous. Parts-per notation is often used describing dilute solutions in chemistry, for instance, the relative abundance of dissolved minerals or pollutants in water. The quantity “1 ppm”", "title": "Parts-per notation" }, { "docid": "11893692", "text": "Codder is related to a number of other cocktails such as the Sea Breeze (which adds grapefruit juice), the Bay Breeze (which adds pineapple juice), the Madras (which adds orange juice), Sex on the Beach (which adds orange juice and schnapps), the Cosmopolitan, which adds Curaçao triple sec (such as Cointreau or another brand) and lime juice, and Rose Kennedy Cocktail which includes club soda. This drink was conceived in 1945 by the Ocean Spray cranberry grower's cooperative under the name \"Red Devil\" in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The \"Cape Codder\" name dates from the early 1960s. Cape Codder (cocktail) The", "title": "Cape Codder (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "2276929", "text": "Parts of Holland The Parts of Holland is a historical subdivision used in south-east Lincolnshire, England from 1889 to 1974. The name is still recognised locally and survives in the district of South Holland. Parts of Holland was one of the three medieval subdivisions or 'Parts' of Lincolnshire (the other two were Lindsey and Kesteven) which had long had separate county administrations (quarter sessions). Under the Local Government Act 1888 it obtained a county council, which it retained until 1974. At that point the three county councils were abolished and Lincolnshire (minus the northern part of Lindsey) had a single", "title": "Parts of Holland" }, { "docid": "2276933", "text": "in the Netherlands, although their meanings are different. Holland in England means \"land of the hill spurs\", although hill spurs are hardly obvious, while the Dutch Holland is derived from the Old Dutch term (\"wooded land\"). Both Hollands have landscapes that are low lying and both are known for tulip growing. Parts of Holland The Parts of Holland is a historical subdivision used in south-east Lincolnshire, England from 1889 to 1974. The name is still recognised locally and survives in the district of South Holland. Parts of Holland was one of the three medieval subdivisions or 'Parts' of Lincolnshire (the", "title": "Parts of Holland" }, { "docid": "11292330", "text": "Parts of Lincolnshire The three parts of the English county of Lincolnshire are or were divisions of the second-largest county in England. They existed as units of local government until it was reviewed in the 1970s. They were similar in nature to the three ridings of Yorkshire. The three parts were: Each of the parts had long had separate county administration (quarter sessions), and each was created a discrete administrative county with its own county council in 1889. This arrangement lasted until 1974, when the three councils were replaced by a single \"Lincolnshire County Council\", with northern Lindsey going to", "title": "Parts of Lincolnshire" }, { "docid": "8196359", "text": "of the New York Times enjoyed the way it broke up the book, as this allowed readers to read the passages out of sequence. The reliance on stories of body parts, functions, and human sexuality were also cited as a reason for what constituted the entirety of the book, and were not seen as compelling to some readers. In one instance the review was given by a high school student. Private Parts (book) Private Parts is the first book written by American radio personality Howard Stern. Released on October 7, 1993 by Simon & Schuster, it is the fastest-selling book", "title": "Private Parts (book)" }, { "docid": "17977190", "text": "be, and Raffo’s unrelentingly impassioned portrayal can grow exhausting. Some modulation and subtlety would give the audience room to respond more fully.\" Geraldine Brooks, the author of the book \"Nine Parts of Desire\", wrote that \"It is resonant. It unpeels layer upon layer of the characters' lives, never reaching for the easy or simple assumptions about who or what is to blame for their predicaments.\" Nine Parts of Desire (play) Nine Parts of Desire () is a play written by Heather Raffo. In the original version of the play, a single performer plays all nine characters. Heather Raffo herself has", "title": "Nine Parts of Desire (play)" }, { "docid": "2004979", "text": "Sidecar (cocktail) The sidecar is a cocktail traditionally made with cognac, orange liqueur (Cointreau, Grand Marnier, Dry Curaçao, or some other triple sec), plus lemon juice. In its ingredients, the drink is perhaps most closely related to the older brandy crusta, which differs both in presentation and in proportions of its components. The exact origin of the sidecar is unclear, but it is thought to have been invented around the end of World War I in either London or Paris. The drink was directly named for the motorcycle attachment. The Ritz Hotel in Paris claims origin of the drink. The", "title": "Sidecar (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "1833276", "text": "formula_58 Summation by parts In mathematics, summation by parts transforms the summation of products of sequences into other summations, often simplifying the computation or (especially) estimation of certain types of sums. The summation by parts formula is sometimes called Abel's lemma or Abel transformation. Suppose formula_1 and formula_2 are two sequences. Then, Using the forward difference operator formula_4, it can be stated more succinctly as Note that summation by parts is an analogue to the integration by parts formula, An alternative statement is which is analogous to the integration by parts formula for semimartingales. Note also that although applications almost", "title": "Summation by parts" }, { "docid": "1833272", "text": "Summation by parts In mathematics, summation by parts transforms the summation of products of sequences into other summations, often simplifying the computation or (especially) estimation of certain types of sums. The summation by parts formula is sometimes called Abel's lemma or Abel transformation. Suppose formula_1 and formula_2 are two sequences. Then, Using the forward difference operator formula_4, it can be stated more succinctly as Note that summation by parts is an analogue to the integration by parts formula, An alternative statement is which is analogous to the integration by parts formula for semimartingales. Note also that although applications almost always", "title": "Summation by parts" }, { "docid": "3769215", "text": "Saint Clement's (cocktail) The Saint Clement's is a non-alcoholic cocktail. Though the ingredients may vary, it consists of orange juice mixed with bitter lemon, usually in equal proportions; the name of the drink refers to the English nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons. The drink is therefore named (indirectly) after either St Clement Eastcheap or St Clement Danes, both churches in London. The traditional recipe calls for equal parts orange juice and lemon juice served over ice in a highball glass. There are many variations, in which the lemon juice is replaced with a sweeter drink (like lemonade), or even a", "title": "Saint Clement's (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "6882304", "text": "replaced as additional unit processes are added during subsequent stages of development. • Scalable – Components and subsystems can be coupled / decoupled as required to accommodate specific design loads. • Reconfigurable – Components and subsystems can be moved between locations and / or subsystems to perform a similar or identical function. Kit-of-parts Kit-of-parts Theory refers to the study and application of object-oriented building techniques, where building components are pre-designed / pre-engineered / pre-fabricated for inclusion in joint-based (linear element), panel-based (planar element), module-based (solid element), and deployable (time element) construction systems. Kit-of-parts construction is a special subset of pre-fabrication", "title": "Kit-of-parts" }, { "docid": "5305910", "text": "Smart Parts Smart Parts was a paintball manufacturing company in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, which filed for liquidation on 28 July 2010. As of August 22, 2010 Smart Parts Assets and IP was Acquired by Kee Action Sports. Smart Parts was a producer of paintball markers and accessories. Their first product was the Smart Parts aluminium one piece barrel made for the Tippmann 68 Special and the PMI-3 semi automatic markers. This barrel had a standard bore with a spiral drilled venting system in the end of the barrel. The design supposedly improved accuracy by decreasing turbulence as the paintball exited the", "title": "Smart Parts" }, { "docid": "5305945", "text": "was also available in a CO tank version, giving the CO tank integrated shutoff capability as well. Smart Parts Smart Parts was a paintball manufacturing company in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, which filed for liquidation on 28 July 2010. As of August 22, 2010 Smart Parts Assets and IP was Acquired by Kee Action Sports. Smart Parts was a producer of paintball markers and accessories. Their first product was the Smart Parts aluminium one piece barrel made for the Tippmann 68 Special and the PMI-3 semi automatic markers. This barrel had a standard bore with a spiral drilled venting system in the", "title": "Smart Parts" }, { "docid": "6882302", "text": "in a building into assemblies of standard easy-to-manufacture components, sized for convenient handling or according to shipping constraints. The construction of the building is carried out on the assembly level as opposed to the raw material level. The architect defines a parts library describing every major assembly in the building. The assemblies are conceived in a systematic way, based on certain rules such as increment, size, or by shape grammar. Standard, simple connections between the assemblies are carefully defined, so the number of possible shapes and appearance the parts can take is limitless. Kit-of-parts philosophy goes hand in hand with", "title": "Kit-of-parts" }, { "docid": "12499120", "text": "him \"to give a hand\", he glues gloves to his hands to keep them from coming off his arms. Other expressions covered in the story include: This final book in Arnold's trilogy was published in 2004, and is again illustrated by him. Unlike its two predecessors, \"Even More Parts\" is not, strictly speaking, a narrative and is not written in rhyme. Aimed at children 4-8, it is an introduction to the use of idioms or figures of speech in language, and more specifically to the use of idioms involving body parts. The protagonist is Chip from the first two books", "title": "Parts (book)" }, { "docid": "8943227", "text": "others have felt that whether temporal parts existed or not is merely a verbal dispute (Eli Hirsch holds this view). Gallois surveys some of the attempts to create a more specific definition (Gallois 1998: 256). The early attempts included identifying temporal parts with ordered pairs of times and objects, but it seems relatively unproblematic that temporal parts exist given the definition and ordered pairs seem unsuitable to play the role that perdurantists demand, such as being parts of persisting wholes—how can a set be a part of a material object? Later perdurantists identified persisting objects with events, and as \"events\"", "title": "Temporal parts" }, { "docid": "13004538", "text": "machines. Aqueous-based parts washers use alkaline detergents mixed with water to clean parts. This solution is safer than solvent-based systems because the risk of the cleaning solution catching fire is eliminated. The detergent for an aqueous parts washer may be in the form of a powder or a liquid. Each form has its advantages and the particular parts cleaning application will determine the best form. In general, powder detergents are the more aggressive and typically used in maintenance and rebuilding operations while liquids are more commonly found in lighter cleaning applications that were once commonly the domain of vapor degreasers.", "title": "Parts washer" }, { "docid": "4948949", "text": "a single stem. Verbs in Ancient Greek have six principal parts: present (I), future (II), aorist (III), perfect (IV), perfect middle (V) and aorist passive (VI), each listed in its first-person singular form: One principal part can sometimes be predicted from another, but not with any certainty. For some classes of verbs, however, all principal parts can be predicted given the first one. The principal parts of an English verb are the infinitive, preterite and past participle. Lists or recitations of principal parts in English often omit the third principal part's auxiliary verb, rendering it identical to its grammatically distinct", "title": "Principal parts" }, { "docid": "3609064", "text": "or undersize parts from scrap, then. However, there \"is\" still one bit of value to be had from selective assembly: having all the mated pairs have as close to identical sliding fit as possible (as opposed to some tighter fits and some looser fits—all sliding, but with varying resistance). An example of a product that might benefit from this approach could be a toolroom-grade machine tool, where not only is the accuracy highly important but also the fit and finish. Interchangeable parts Interchangeable parts are parts (components) that are, for practical purposes, identical. They are made to specifications that ensure", "title": "Interchangeable parts" }, { "docid": "13004536", "text": "opened and the parts removed. There are four primary factors that affect the cleaning results in an aqueous parts washer. These factors are mechanical energy, temperature, detergent and time. Adjusting any one of these factors in a cleaning cycle changes the cleaning results. A parts washer with large amounts of mechanical energy and a high temperature delivers shorter cleaning cycles and uses less cleaning detergent. Mechanical energy is provided by the pump drive system. Most aqueous parts washers use an electric motor to drive a centrifugal pump. The mechanical energy delivered to the wash load is what defines the mechanical", "title": "Parts washer" }, { "docid": "8943229", "text": "exactly occupies \"P\" at \"t\"))] (Thomson 1983: 207). Later, Sider tried to combat the fears of endurantists who could not understand what a temporal part is by defining it in terms of \"part at a time\" or \"parthood at a time\", a relation that the endurantist should accept, unlike parthood \"simpliciter\"—which an endurantist may say makes no sense, given that all parts are had \"at a time\". (However, McDaniel argues that even endurantists should accept that notion [McDaniel (2004) 146-7]). Sider gave the following definition, which is widely used: \"x\" is an \"instantaneous temporal part\" of \"y\" at instant \"t\"", "title": "Temporal parts" }, { "docid": "4855907", "text": "of the Third Kind\". Two related TV series were \"PopClips\" for Nickelodeon (released in 1980), and \"Television Parts\" for NBC in 1985. Nickelodeon's parent company, Warner Cable, wanted to buy outright the \"PopClips\" copyright to be expanded into an all-music video channel, but after Nesmith declined the offer, Warner Cable started work on what would become MTV. The title \"Elephant Parts\" refers to the parable of the blind men and an elephant where each man comes to a different conclusion about what an elephant is due to them touching only one part. When \"Elephant Parts\" was first released on LaserDisc", "title": "Elephant Parts" }, { "docid": "8943226", "text": "believe in temporal parts believe in perdurantism, that persisting objects are wholes composed entirely of temporal parts. This view was contrasted with endurantism, the claim that objects are wholly present at any one time (thus not having different temporal parts at different times). This claim is still commonplace, but philosophers like Ted Sider believe that even endurantists should accept temporal parts. Not everyone was happy with the definition by analogy: some philosophers, such as Peter van Inwagen, argued that—even given the definition by analogy—they still had no real idea what a temporal part was meant to be (1981: 133), whilst", "title": "Temporal parts" }, { "docid": "2558492", "text": "lemon; then add orange, lemon and apple slices; a couple of cucumber wedges; and decorate with borage flowers. There are several rum-based punches: Planter's Punch, Fish House Punch, Bajan Rum Punch, Caribbean Rum Punch, and others. The most historical rum punches is the Bajan Rum Punch. Bajan (Barbadian) Rum Punch is one of the oldest rum punches and has a simple recipe enshrined in a national rhyme: \"One of Sour, Two of Sweet, Three of Strong, Four of Weak.\" That is: one part lime juice, two parts sweetener, three parts rum (preferably Barbados), and four parts water. It is served", "title": "Punch (drink)" }, { "docid": "15613900", "text": "Alliance Truck Parts Alliance Truck Parts is an American private label brand that offers heavy-duty truck replacement parts and accessories. The brand was founded as Alliance Brand Parts in 1998 and is a division of Daimler Trucks North America LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the German Daimler AG. The change to Alliance Truck Parts occurred in first quarter of 2011 to better communicate its target market. The company mostly offers parts and accessories for all models of American and Canadian heavy duty class 8 diesel trucks though it offers parts for class 5-7 trucks as well. In the 2010", "title": "Alliance Truck Parts" }, { "docid": "3609053", "text": "inspected, they are graded out into separate bins based on what end of the range they fall in (or violate). Falling within the high or low end of a range is usually called being \"heavy\" or \"light\"; violating the high or low end of a range is usually called being \"oversize\" or \"undersize\". Examples are given below. French and Vierck provide a one-paragraph description of selective assembly that aptly summarizes the concept. One might ask, if parts must be selected for mating, then what makes selective assembly any different from the oldest craft methods? But there is in fact a", "title": "Interchangeable parts" }, { "docid": "8788213", "text": "Aftermarket exhaust parts Aftermarket exhaust parts are intended to replace the factory fitted exhaust components of a car, motorcycle, or other motor vehicle in order to improve the performance, visual appeal, or sound of the vehicle. Generally, performance enhancements are achieved by reducing the back pressure of the factory exhaust system. Frequently a side effect of a free-flowing exhaust system is either a \"different\" sound, a higher noise level, or both, which is desirable to some people. Aftermarket exhaust parts can also be a styling upgrade by changes to the visible parts of the exhaust like the exhaust tips. The", "title": "Aftermarket exhaust parts" }, { "docid": "10276601", "text": "biggest armoured conflict of war that resulted in the capture of Pskov. After the war Parts served 1921–1923 as commander of Armoured Trains Brigade and later as inspector. He actively participated in defeating the 1924 coup attempt. In 1925 he retired and became a farmer. In 1940 Soviet occupation authorities arrested Parts, and he was shot in imprisonment the year after. Karl Parts Karl Parts VR I/1, VR II/2, VR II/3 (July 15, 1886 in Palupera Commune, Estonia – September 1, 1941 in Kirov, Soviet Union) was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence. In 1915 he", "title": "Karl Parts" }, { "docid": "15936436", "text": "USS \"Kitty Hawk\", the sole survivor of a class of three ships built during the early-1960s. The ship herself is over forty years old, and having manufacturers build individual custom replacement parts would be highly impractical, and thus decommissioned ships, such as the USS \"Independence\", have been utilized for the necessary parts to keep the \"Kitty Hawk\" in operation. Another example is the Union Pacific's 4-8-4 locomotive 838 is used as a spare parts source for 844 since the type has been out of production for decades and its builder no longer exists. One strategy used to combat DMS is", "title": "Cannibalization (parts)" }, { "docid": "10276600", "text": "Karl Parts Karl Parts VR I/1, VR II/2, VR II/3 (July 15, 1886 in Palupera Commune, Estonia – September 1, 1941 in Kirov, Soviet Union) was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence. In 1915 he graduated from Peterhof Military School, and participated in World War I. In July 1917 Parts joined the Estonian national units. During the German occupation in 1918 he organized the underground Estonian Defence League. In the Estonian Liberation War Karl Parts led and organized the armoured trains and in April 1919 became the commander of Armoured Trains Division. He commanded in the", "title": "Karl Parts" }, { "docid": "15821615", "text": "cocktail, with two parts cognac, one part Calvados or equivalent apple brandy, and one part sweet vermouth. The Corpse Reviver #2 is the more popular of the corpse revivers, and consists of equal parts gin, lemon juice, curaçao (commonly Cointreau), Kina Lillet (now usually replaced with Cocchi Americano, as a closer match to Kina Lillet than modern Lillet Blanc), and a dash of absinthe. The dash of absinthe can either be added to the mix before shaking, or added to the cocktail glass and moved around until the glass has been coated with a layer of absinthe to give a", "title": "Corpse Reviver" }, { "docid": "2004983", "text": "Recipes\", and \"Drinks As They Are Mixed\" (a revised reprint of Paul E. Lowe's 1904 book). Sidecar (cocktail) The sidecar is a cocktail traditionally made with cognac, orange liqueur (Cointreau, Grand Marnier, Dry Curaçao, or some other triple sec), plus lemon juice. In its ingredients, the drink is perhaps most closely related to the older brandy crusta, which differs both in presentation and in proportions of its components. The exact origin of the sidecar is unclear, but it is thought to have been invented around the end of World War I in either London or Paris. The drink was directly", "title": "Sidecar (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "11292331", "text": "form part of the new County of Humberside (since abolished and replaced south of the Humber with two unitary authorities). Although the parts no longer exist as units of local government, they are still recognised as broad geographical areas of Lincolnshire, and their names live on in some of the county's district councils (East and West Lindsey, North and South Kesteven, and South Holland). Parts of Lincolnshire The three parts of the English county of Lincolnshire are or were divisions of the second-largest county in England. They existed as units of local government until it was reviewed in the 1970s.", "title": "Parts of Lincolnshire" }, { "docid": "6077946", "text": "Tequila Sunrise (cocktail) The Tequila Sunrise is a cocktail made of tequila, orange juice, and grenadine syrup and served unmixed in a tall glass. The modern drink originates from Sausalito in the early 1970s, after an earlier one created in the 1930s in Phoenix, near Scottsdale. The cocktail is named for its appearance when served, with gradations of color resembling a sunrise. The original Tequila Sunrise contained tequila, edi de cassis, lime juice and soda water and was served at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, where it was created by Gene Sulit in the 1930s or 1940s. The more popular modern", "title": "Tequila Sunrise (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "17969234", "text": "Service parts pricing Service parts pricing refers to the aspect of \"service lifecycle management\" that deals with setting prices for service parts in the after-sales market. Like other streams of pricing, service parts pricing is a scientific pursuit aimed at aligning service part prices internally to be logical and consistent, and at the same time aligning them externally with the market. This is done with the overarching aim of extracting the maximum possible price from service parts and thus maximize the profit margins. Pricing analysts have to be cognizant of possible repercussions of pricing their parts too high or too", "title": "Service parts pricing" }, { "docid": "9366130", "text": "Type use as modifying agents bitters or aromatic wines or spirits. Cocktails of the Sour Type use as modifying agents a fruit juice (typically, lemon or lime) and sugar. For these a ratio of 1 part sweet to 2 parts sour to 8 parts base is generally recommended. However, Embury makes it very clear that he thinks the idea that a drink \"must\" be made according to one exact recipe preposterous, and that the final arbiter is always \"your\" taste. He suggests trying different ratios, finding the one that is most pleasing to you, and sticking with it. Once one", "title": "The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks" }, { "docid": "9687832", "text": "washing, parts cleaning. These are well established in technical language usage but they have their shortcomings. Metal cleaning can easily be mixed up with refinement of unpurified metals. Metal surface cleaning and metal cleaning do not consider the increasing usage of plastics and composite materials in this sector. The term component cleaning leaves out the cleaning of steel sections and sheets and finally degreasing only describes a part of the topic as in most cases also chips, fines, particles, salts etc. have to be removed. The terms 'commercial and industrial parts cleaning', 'parts cleaning in craft and industry' or 'commercial", "title": "Parts cleaning" }, { "docid": "13004531", "text": "temperatures of and above softens or melts most oils and greases causing them to flow like water so they are easily removed resulting in faster cleaning, better results and cleaner parts. Many parts washers are not capable of maintaining this operating temperature due to the lack of amply heating systems. Additionally, careful design is required of the pumping system so it can pull in and deliver cleaning solution at temperatures that approach boiling in the parts washer. All centrifugal pumps require a net positive suction head (NPSHr) in order to be able to pump solution. As the temperature of the", "title": "Parts washer" }, { "docid": "6276712", "text": "the moment of inertia. The \"kinetic energy of translation\" of the moving parts is formula_8, where formula_9 is the total mass and formula_10 is the magnitude of the velocity. This gives the formula for the \"total kinetic energy of the moving parts of a machine\" as formula_11. In technical drawing, moving parts are, conventionally, designated by drawing the solid outline of the part in its main or initial position, with an added outline of the part in a secondary, moved, position drawn with a \"phantom line\" (a line comprising \"dot-dot-dash\" sequences of two short and one long line segments) outline.", "title": "Moving parts" }, { "docid": "3609030", "text": "Interchangeable parts Interchangeable parts are parts (components) that are, for practical purposes, identical. They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type. One such part can freely replace another, without any custom fitting, such as filing. This interchangeability allows easy assembly of new devices, and easier repair of existing devices, while minimizing both the time and skill required of the person doing the assembly or repair. The concept of interchangeability was crucial to the introduction of the assembly line at the beginning of the 20th", "title": "Interchangeable parts" }, { "docid": "3609039", "text": "Congress was captivated and ordered a standard for all United States equipment. The use of interchangeable parts removed the problems of earlier eras concerning the difficulty or impossibility of producing new parts for old equipment. If one firearm part failed, another could be ordered, and the firearm would not have to be discarded. The catch was that Whitney's guns were costly and handmade by skilled workmen. Charles Fitch credited Whitney with successfully executing a firearms contract with interchangeable parts using the American System, but historians Merritt Roe Smith and Robert B. Gordon have since determined that Whitney never actually achieved", "title": "Interchangeable parts" }, { "docid": "13004532", "text": "solution approaches the NPSHr, the pump stops pumping because the cleaning solution flashes to steam in the pump intake. Careful design of the pump is required to minimize NPSHr and allow pumping of high temperature cleaning solution. A typical parts washer may be aqueous based or use a solvent. Ben Palmer invented a solvent style parts washer in 1954. The parts washer was a success from the start, and he decided in the early 1960s not to sell his machine, but to lease it to the customer and service it by removing and replenishing the used solvent. Since the early", "title": "Parts washer" }, { "docid": "4948962", "text": "or three small aberrations (unexpected lenition), be deduced from four principal parts. The principal parts of a Ganda verb are the imperative (identical to the verb stem), the first person singular of the present tense and the modified stem. For example, the verb \"okwogera\" 'to speak' has the principal parts \"yogera–njogera–yogedde\". The present tense, far past tense, near future tense, far future tense, subjunctive and infinitive are derived from the imperative. The present perfect, conditional and near past tense are derived from the modified stem. In theory the second principal part can be derived from the first, but in practice", "title": "Principal parts" }, { "docid": "13004543", "text": "account the pump system efficiency and assumes that all of the energy delivered to the pump is delivered to the wash load. A more accurate power density would consider the pump system efficiency as efficiencies vary greatly even from an identical pump as the efficiency is highly dependent on the pump operating point, the piping design and the friction losses in the system. Parts washer A parts washer is a piece of equipment used to remove contaminants or debris, such as dirt, grime, carbon, oil, grease, metal chips, cutting fluids, mold release agents, ink, paint, and corrosion from workpieces. Parts", "title": "Parts washer" }, { "docid": "15936435", "text": "War II a large quantity of high quality, but unusable war surplus equipment such as radar devices made a ready source of parts to build radio equipment. Sometimes, removing parts from old equipment is the only way to obtain spare parts, either because they are no longer made, are obsolete, or can only be manufactured in large quantities. In logistics, this is known as \"Diminishing Manufacturing Sources\" (DMS). This is often the case in the military, and ships and aircraft, as well as other expensive equipment that is produced in limited quantities. Such was the case with the aircraft carrier", "title": "Cannibalization (parts)" }, { "docid": "4948960", "text": "this one principal part. A handful of verbs require spelling changes in which case it can be considered that these verbs technically have two or three principal parts depending on how many spelling changes need to me made. They include doubling a consonant, adding accent markers, adding the letter e and converting letters such a y becomes i. Irregular verbs are markedly more complicating require seven principal parts of which few can be easily derived from the infinitive. For some verbs a few of their principal parts are identical with one another. The paradigm goes as follows: A few highly", "title": "Principal parts" }, { "docid": "3457348", "text": "Cointreau Cointreau () is a brand of triple sec (an orange-flavoured liqueur) produced in Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou, France. It is drunk as an apéritif and digestif, and is a component of several well-known cocktails. It was originally called \"Curaçao Blanco Triple Sec\". Cointreau Distillery was set up in 1849 by Adolphe Cointreau, a confectioner, and his brother Edouard-Jean Cointreau. Their first success was with the cherry liqueur guignolet, but they found success when they blended sweet and bitter orange peels and pure alcohol from sugar beets. The first bottles of Cointreau were sold in 1875. An estimated 13 million bottles are sold", "title": "Cointreau" }, { "docid": "9985647", "text": "and Jim Sykes. Final line-up Past members Parts & Labor Parts & Labor was an American rock band formed in 2002 by B. J. Warshaw and Dan Friel in Brooklyn, New York. Drummer Joe Wong joined the band in 2007. Parts & Labor released five albums, two EPs, one split album (with Tyondai Braxton), and numerous 7\"s and compilation tracks. Their music is influenced by DIY punk, experimental/psychedelic rock, and lo-fi electronic music. Drummer Christopher Weingarten left the band in 2008 but they quickly recruited new drummer Joe Wong and added guitarist Sarah Lipstate, turning them into a four-piece band.", "title": "Parts & Labor" }, { "docid": "9985645", "text": "Parts & Labor Parts & Labor was an American rock band formed in 2002 by B. J. Warshaw and Dan Friel in Brooklyn, New York. Drummer Joe Wong joined the band in 2007. Parts & Labor released five albums, two EPs, one split album (with Tyondai Braxton), and numerous 7\"s and compilation tracks. Their music is influenced by DIY punk, experimental/psychedelic rock, and lo-fi electronic music. Drummer Christopher Weingarten left the band in 2008 but they quickly recruited new drummer Joe Wong and added guitarist Sarah Lipstate, turning them into a four-piece band. This lineup recorded \"Receivers\", the band's fourth", "title": "Parts & Labor" }, { "docid": "15613902", "text": "to record the sponsor's first win in NASCAR. In 2017, the team reduced the number of races from 8 to 6. In May 2011 Alliance Truck Parts announced that it had signed a 3-year contract with Michigan International Speedway to acquire the naming rights for the Nationwide Series 250 race held there each June. The first Alliance Truck Parts 250 was held on June 18, 2011. Alliance Truck Parts Alliance Truck Parts is an American private label brand that offers heavy-duty truck replacement parts and accessories. The brand was founded as Alliance Brand Parts in 1998 and is a division", "title": "Alliance Truck Parts" }, { "docid": "7599278", "text": "in Atlanta, Georgia, and operates 49 branches and 7 fabrication facilities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Effective in 2018, EIS was combined into Motion Industries and will be identified as its Electrical Specialties Group. Genuine Parts Company Genuine Parts Company (GPC) is an American service organization engaged in the distribution of automotive replacement parts, industrial replacement parts, office products and electrical/electronic materials. GPC serves numerous customers from more than 2,600 operations around the world, and has approximately 48,000 employees. It owns the NAPA Auto Parts brand. Founded in 1925, GPC is headquartered in", "title": "Genuine Parts Company" }, { "docid": "5305925", "text": "parts that are interchangeable with the shocker, however it uses a different platform for operation. When Nerves were first released (several months late due to manufacturing and development issues), it was designed to be Smart Parts flagship \"no upgrades needed\" marker. It came packed with Smart Parts best accessories. The high-end features resulted in the MSRP costing $1200 for the base model, or $1500 for the upgraded package with HPA tank included. The reasoning for this was based on the previous customized Impulse markers, which retailed for $1000+, however the Nerve's high price tag didn't fare as well with the", "title": "Smart Parts" }, { "docid": "20269057", "text": "Parts bin special A parts bin special is vehicle constructed from all or mostly pre-designed parts. Often they are made to rapidly take advantage of an emerging market. Vehicles such as the Triumph Spitfire based largely on Triumph Herald parts, was produced, by Triumph, to take advantage of the early 1960s desire for small sports cars. The Ducati 350XL was produced by Ducati to quickly take advantage of a tax break. The Moto Guzzi 1000S is another example. Others have been produced by third parties using parts acquired from 3rd parties, while some have been produced for racing and promotional", "title": "Parts bin special" } ]
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Springform, tube, and roasting are all types of what?
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[ { "docid": "11969339", "text": "constructed for cheesecakes. Springform pans, however, are also used in the preparation of pizzas, quiches, and frozen desserts. Although most cheesecakes are baked in a water bath, this does not mean that springform pans are waterproof around the base. Many may be waterproof initially. However, as the latch loosens and the coating wears off this waterproof feature will fade. For this reason many will wrap the pan in aluminum foil. There are many types and finishes of springform pans. While the most common bottom is smooth, bottoms can also be waffled or glass. If a springform pan is unavailable, bakers", "title": "Springform pan" }, { "docid": "11969337", "text": "Springform pan A springform pan is a type of bakeware that features sides that can be removed from the base. Springform refers to the construction style of this pan. The base and the sides are separate pieces that are held together when the base is aligned with a groove that rings the bottom of the walls. The pan is then secured by a latch on the exterior of the wall. This tightens the 'belt' that becomes the walls of the pan and secures the base into the groove at the base of the walls. The most common springform pan is", "title": "Springform pan" }, { "docid": "11969340", "text": "may choose any of the following options: Springform pan A springform pan is a type of bakeware that features sides that can be removed from the base. Springform refers to the construction style of this pan. The base and the sides are separate pieces that are held together when the base is aligned with a groove that rings the bottom of the walls. The pan is then secured by a latch on the exterior of the wall. This tightens the 'belt' that becomes the walls of the pan and secures the base into the groove at the base of the", "title": "Springform pan" }, { "docid": "11969338", "text": "the nine-inch round. However, small circular pans are common along with squares, rectangles, and hearts. They come in a variety of materials including anodized aluminum, heavy-gauge steel, and glass. Optional features include a non-stick surface and a waterproofing seal around the base. This pan is used to bake dishes that cannot be easily inverted for removal from the pan. Some of the most common recipes to call for springform pans are cheesecakes and tortes. The easy removal of the sides from a springform pan lends itself to dishes with delicate bottom layers such as the graham cracker crumb crusts commonly", "title": "Springform pan" }, { "docid": "4482275", "text": "a revival in home roasting; what was originally a necessity has now become a hobby. The attractions are four-fold: enjoying fresh, flavorful coffee; experimenting with various beans and roasting methods; perfecting the roasting process, and saving money. These hobbyists are being catered to by various sources including coffee suppliers selling green coffee in small quantities and manufacturers making counter-top roasters. The first known implements specially made for roasting coffee beans for personal use were thin, circular, often perforated pans made from metal or porcelain, used in the 15th century in the Ottoman Empire and Greater Persia. This type of shallow,", "title": "Home roasting coffee" }, { "docid": "16008098", "text": "Roasting pan A roasting pan is a piece of cookware used for roasting meat in an oven, either with or without vegetables or other ingredients. A roasting pan may be used with a rack that sits inside the pan and lets the meat sit above the fat and juice drippings. A shallow roasting pan is normally used for roasting small cuts of meat, but large-size roasting pans are also used for cooking large poultry such as turkey or goose, or for larger cuts of meat. A deep roasting pan can hold vegetables and other ingredients that meat can sit on", "title": "Roasting pan" }, { "docid": "16008100", "text": "will benefit from being covered during a long roasting time, to retain juices and soften the meat (for example, in using a tajine for roasting meat). A roasting rack may be an accessory part of the roasting pan. A rack may be horizontal and lay flat on the roasting pan, or it may be a standing rack that sits vertically in the pan. A standing rack is most commonly used for roasting poultry. A variation of the roasting pan standing rack is the beer can chicken recipe. Roasting pan A roasting pan is a piece of cookware used for roasting", "title": "Roasting pan" }, { "docid": "16008099", "text": "rather than a rack, letting the vegetables absorb the fat and juice from the meat while cooking. A deep roasting pan can also be used as a baking dish or basin, holding smaller baking dishes that must be surrounded by boiling water. Roasting pans are made in several materials that offer their own unique benefits: Covering or uncovering a roasting pan will depend upon the type of meat being roasted, or the recipe being followed. Generally, meat that is high in fat content, such as duck, has no need of being covered during roasting. A lean cut of meat, however,", "title": "Roasting pan" } ]
[ { "docid": "6123140", "text": "(traditionally clarified butter) and a small amount of sugar prior to roasting to produce a \"butter roast\". The roasting process results in an additional caramelized coating on the beans. The most common roasting machines are of two basic types: drum and hot-air, although there are others including packed-bed, tangential and centrifugal roasters. Roasters can operate in either batch or continuous modes. Home roasters are also available. Drum machines consist of horizontal rotating drums that tumble the green coffee beans in a heated environment. The heat source can be supplied by natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), electricity, or even wood.", "title": "Coffee roasting" }, { "docid": "4482287", "text": "or award winning, while others are from coffee orchards known for their quality and unique flavor. It is common for home roasters to purchase beans that come from a specific country, region, orchard, and harvest year. Home roasters can choose from various types of roasting equipment, each of which has certain attributes that can alter the flavor. A \"roasting profile\" describes the time the beans spend at each temperature during roasting including the final temperature prior to cooling. This greatly affects the flavor, aroma, and body of the coffee. Home roasters go to great lengths to control these roasting parameters", "title": "Home roasting coffee" }, { "docid": "635162", "text": "roast. Meats and vegetables prepared in this way are described as \"roasted\", e.g., roasted chicken or roasted squash. For roasting, the food may be placed on a rack, in a roasting pan or, to ensure even application of heat, may be rotated on a spit or rotisserie. If a pan is used, the juice can be retained for use in gravy, Yorkshire pudding, etc. During oven roasting, hot air circulates around the meat, cooking all sides evenly. There are several plans for roasting meat: low-temperature cooking, high-temperature cooking, and a combination of both. Each method can be suitable, depending on", "title": "Roasting" }, { "docid": "6123152", "text": "followed by a wet scrubber. Coffee roasting Roasting coffee transforms the chemical and physical properties of green coffee beans into roasted coffee products. The roasting process is what produces the characteristic flavor of coffee by causing the green coffee beans to change in taste. Unroasted beans contain similar if not higher levels of acids, protein, sugars, and caffeine as those that have been roasted, but lack the taste of roasted coffee beans due to the Maillard and other chemical reactions that occur during roasting. The vast majority of coffee is roasted commercially on a large scale, but small-scale commercial roasting", "title": "Coffee roasting" }, { "docid": "6123128", "text": "Coffee roasting Roasting coffee transforms the chemical and physical properties of green coffee beans into roasted coffee products. The roasting process is what produces the characteristic flavor of coffee by causing the green coffee beans to change in taste. Unroasted beans contain similar if not higher levels of acids, protein, sugars, and caffeine as those that have been roasted, but lack the taste of roasted coffee beans due to the Maillard and other chemical reactions that occur during roasting. The vast majority of coffee is roasted commercially on a large scale, but small-scale commercial roasting has grown significantly with the", "title": "Coffee roasting" }, { "docid": "9123468", "text": "be spaced at any distance apart, up to the maximum distance allowed by engineering constraints. Tube and clamp is among the most labor-intensive of all scaffolding types. UK Health & Safety Executive Scaffold Checklist Tube and clamp scaffold Tube and clamp scaffold (commonly called \"tube and coupler scaffold\") is a versatile type of scaffold consisting of steel tubes and clamps. Vertical tubes are connected to horizontal tubes via right angle clamps. Diagonal tubes are periodically connected to the scaffold via swivel clamps in order to stabilize the scaffold. This type of scaffold is generally used where unlimited versatility is required.", "title": "Tube and clamp scaffold" }, { "docid": "635161", "text": "Roasting Roasting is a cooking method that uses dry heat where hot air envelops the food, cooking it evenly on all sides with temperatures of at least from an open flame, oven, or other heat source. Roasting can enhance flavor through caramelization and Maillard browning on the surface of the food. Roasting uses indirect, diffused heat (as in an oven), and is suitable for slower cooking of meat in a larger, whole piece. Meats and most root and bulb vegetables can be roasted. Any piece of meat, especially red meat, that has been cooked in this fashion is called a", "title": "Roasting" }, { "docid": "635164", "text": "During roasting, meats and vegetables are frequently basted on the surface with butter, lard, or oil to reduce the loss of moisture by evaporation. In recent times, plastic oven bags have become popular for roasts. These cut cooking times and reduce the loss of moisture during roasting, but reduce flavor development from Maillard browning, somewhat more like (boiled or steamed) stew or pot roast. They are particularly popular for turkeys. Until the late 19th century, roasting by dry heat in an oven was called \"baking\". Roasting originally meant turning meat or a bird on a spit in front of a", "title": "Roasting" }, { "docid": "9523251", "text": "the roast bed, some of which are hundreds of metres wide by kilometres long. Roasting is an exothermic process. The following describe different forms of roasting: Oxidizing roasting, the most commonly practiced roasting process, involves heating the ore in excess of air or oxygen, to burn out or replace the impurity element, generally sulfur, partly or completely by oxygen. For sulfide roasting, the general reaction can be given by: Roasting the sulfide ore, until almost complete removal of the sulfur from the ore, results in a \"dead roast\". Volatilizing roasting, involves careful oxidation at elevated temperatures of the ores, to", "title": "Roasting (metallurgy)" }, { "docid": "9523249", "text": "sulfation, and pyrohydrolysis. In roasting, the ore or ore concentrate is treated with very hot air. This process is generally applied to sulfide minerals. During roasting, the sulfide is converted to an oxide, and sulfur is released as sulfur dioxide, a gas. For the ores CuS (chalcocite) and ZnS (sphalerite), balanced equations for the roasting are: The gaseous product of sulfide roasting, sulfur dioxide (SO) is often used to produce sulfuric acid. Many sulfide minerals contain other components such as arsenic that are released into the environment. Up until the early 20th century, roasting was started by burning wood on", "title": "Roasting (metallurgy)" }, { "docid": "13521275", "text": "Dry roasting Dry roasting is a process by which heat is applied to dry foodstuffs without the use of oil or water as a carrier. Unlike other dry heat methods, dry roasting is used with foods such as nuts and seeds, in addition to some eaten insects such as house crickets. Dry roasted foods are stirred as they are roasted to ensure even heating. Dry roasting can be done in a frying pan or wok (a common way to prepare spices in some cuisines), or in a specialized roaster (as is used for coffee beans or peanuts). Dry roasting changes", "title": "Dry roasting" }, { "docid": "4482293", "text": "bean is tougher, harder to grind, and less of it ends up as \"mouth feel\" or body in the coffee beverage. The drum roaster takes more time so the acidic compounds are less in evidence, having evaporated somewhat to yield a mellow-tasting beverage. The roasted bean is softer and easier to grind, and more of it contributes to the body of the beverage. One drawback of the electric roasting appliances is their small capacity: for fluid-bed, and somewhat more for drum roaster. They are also expensive. Another drawback is that most models emit smoke. No matter what roasting method is", "title": "Home roasting coffee" }, { "docid": "7620873", "text": "heating. This process is an off-line process. Occasionally it is also used for the sterilization of tubes in the pharmaceutical or food industry. A diameter range cannot be indicated here because this method can be applied for certain processes only; a technical limitation of the heating is given only by the materials and the required amount of heat. Special types of tube cleaning are all such types which are partly in experimental stage only and do not come under the process types mentioned before, such as, for example: Tube cleaning Tube cleaning describes the activity of, or device for, the", "title": "Tube cleaning" }, { "docid": "635168", "text": "in braising or other moist-heat methods. Many roasts are tied with string prior to roasting, often using the reef knot or the packer's knot. Tying holds them together during roasting, keeping any stuffing inside, and keeps the roast in a round profile, which promotes even cooking. Red meats such as beef, lamb, and venison, and certain game birds are often roasted to be \"pink\" or \"rare\", meaning that the center of the roast is still red. Roasting is a preferred method of cooking for most poultry, and certain cuts of beef, pork, or lamb. Although there is a growing fashion", "title": "Roasting" }, { "docid": "9523254", "text": "process. Sinter roasting involves heating the fine ores at high temperatures, where simultaneous oxidation and agglomeration of the ores take place. For example, lead sulfide ores are subjected to sinter roasting in a continuous process after froth flotation to convert the fine ores to workable agglomerates for further smelting operations. Roasting (metallurgy) Roasting is a process of heating of sulfide ore to a high temperature in presence of air. It is a step of the processing of certain ores. More specifically, roasting is a metallurgical process involving gas–solid reactions at elevated temperatures with the goal of purifying the metal component(s).", "title": "Roasting (metallurgy)" }, { "docid": "3806485", "text": "frequencies than octal tubes. The advent of miniature \"all-glass\" seven- and nine-pin tubes overtook both octals and loctals, so the loctal's higher-frequency potential was never fully exploited. Loctal tube type numbers in the USA typically begin with \"7\" (for 6.3-volt types) or \"14\" for 12.6-volt types. This was fudged by specifying the heater voltage as \"nominally\" 7 or 14 volts so that the tube nomenclature fitted. Battery types (mostly 1.4-volt) are coded \"1Lxn\", where \"x\" is a letter and \"n\" a number, such as \"1LA4\". Russian loctals \"end\" in L, e.g. 6J1L. European designations are ambiguous; all B8G loctals have", "title": "Tube socket" }, { "docid": "635169", "text": "in some restaurants to serve \"rose pork\", temperature monitoring of the center of the roast is the only sure way to avoid foodborne disease. In Britain, Ireland, and Australia, a roast of meat may be referred to as a \"joint\", or a leg, if it is a leg. Some vegetables, such as potatoes, zucchini, pumpkin, turnips, rutabagas, parsnips, cauliflower, asparagus, squash, and peppers lend themselves to roasting as well. Roasted chestnuts are also a popular snack in winter. It is also possible to roast fish as meat. Roasting Roasting is a cooking method that uses dry heat where hot air", "title": "Roasting" }, { "docid": "13521276", "text": "the chemistry of proteins in the food, changing their flavor, and enhances the scent and taste of some spices. Roasted spices are commonly prepared by adding various herbs, spices and sugars in the frying pan and roasting until brown. Common dry roasted foods include peanut butter, which is made from peanuts that have been dry roasted, tea, which is made from tea leaves that have been dry roasted (either immediately after picking or after fermentation), and coffee and chocolate, which are made from roasted coffee beans and roasted cocoa beans, respectively. Dry roasting Dry roasting is a process by which", "title": "Dry roasting" }, { "docid": "635167", "text": "were able to afford low-priced stove models that became sufficiently available. However, the key element of observation during roasting became difficult and dangerous to do with the coal oven. Hence, traditional roasting disappeared as kitchens became no longer equipped for this custom and soon thereafter, \"baking\" came to be called \"roasting\". Roasting can be applied to a wide variety of meat. In general, it works best for cooking whole chickens, turkey, and leaner cuts of lamb, pork, and beef. The aim is to highlight the flavor of the meat itself rather than a sauce or stew, as it is done", "title": "Roasting" }, { "docid": "4482288", "text": "including using computers or programmable controllers for process control and data logging. Manually controlled equipment makes precise and repeatable profile control more difficult, though an experienced roaster can produce very good results. One of the lures of the hobby is experimenting with the roasting profile to produce optimal tasting coffee, albeit subjective. Coffee roasting produces chaff and smoke, and should be done in a well-ventilated area, which is often difficult to accomplish in a home environment. Coffee roasting outdoors is affected by changes in air temperature and speed, requiring adjustments to the roasting process to produce intended results. There are", "title": "Home roasting coffee" }, { "docid": "6123139", "text": "air cooled with a draft inducer. During the roasting process, coffee beans tend to go through a weight loss of about 15 to 18% due to the loss of water and volatile compounds. Although the beans experience a weight loss, the size of the beans double after the roasting process due to the physical expansion of the cellulose structure which facilitates the release of carbon dioxide, volatile organic compounds, and water (in the form of steam). There are several traditional variations in bean roasting in different parts of the world. For example, in Vietnam coffee is often coated with oil", "title": "Coffee roasting" }, { "docid": "5525172", "text": "listing all current and past head tube dimensions problematic. The following table includes the most common sizes; nominal head tube diameters are assuming a 0.1-0.2 mm interference fit, which is what most head tube reaming cutters are designed to bore. Adequate press fits are typically between 0.1 and 0.25 mm of interference. Standard motorcycle head tubes and headsets are sized for a one inch (25.4 mm) diameter fork steerer tube. Head tube The head tube is the part of a cycle's tubular frame within which the front fork steerer tube is mounted. On a motorcycle, the \"head tube\" is normally", "title": "Head tube" }, { "docid": "11860242", "text": "are five types of tube drawing: tube sinking, mandrel drawing, stationary mandrel, moving mandrel, and floating mandrel. A mandrel is used in many of the types to prevent buckling or wrinkling in the workpiece. Tube sinking, also known as \"free tube drawing\", reduces the diameter of the tube without a mandrel inside the tube. The inner diameter is determined by the inner and outer diameter of the stock tube, the outer diameter of the final product, the length of the die landing, the amount of back tension, and the friction between the tube and the die. This type of drawing", "title": "Tube drawing" }, { "docid": "9523248", "text": "Roasting (metallurgy) Roasting is a process of heating of sulfide ore to a high temperature in presence of air. It is a step of the processing of certain ores. More specifically, roasting is a metallurgical process involving gas–solid reactions at elevated temperatures with the goal of purifying the metal component(s). Often before roasting, the ore has already been partially purified, e.g. by froth flotation. The concentrate is mixed with other materials to facilitate the process. The technology is useful but is also a serious source of air pollution. Roasting consists of thermal gas–solid reactions, which can include oxidation, reduction, chlorination,", "title": "Roasting (metallurgy)" }, { "docid": "6123147", "text": "as it is roasted, different roast levels will contain respectively different caffeine levels when measured by volume or mass, though the bean will still have the same caffeine. Home roasting is the process of roasting small batches of green coffee beans for personal consumption. Even after the turn of the 20th century, it was more common for at-home coffee drinkers to roast their coffee in their residence than it was to buy pre-roasted coffee. Later, home roasting faded in popularity with the rise of the commercial coffee roasting companies. In recent years home roasting of coffee has seen a revival.", "title": "Coffee roasting" }, { "docid": "6123137", "text": "called for the home roaster to focus on the quality of the bean. From 1986 through 1999 there was a surge in the number of patents filed for home roasting appliances. In the 1990s, more electric home roasting equipment became available, including drum roasters, and variations on the fluid-bed roaster. By 2001, gourmet coffee aficionados were using the internet to purchase green estate-grown beans for delivery by mail. The coffee-roasting process follows coffee processing and precedes coffee brewing. It consists essentially of sorting, roasting, cooling, and packaging but can also include grinding in larger-scale roasting houses. In larger operations, bags", "title": "Coffee roasting" }, { "docid": "16983942", "text": "and a local school. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Roasting Ear Church and School The Roasting Ear Church and School is a historic multifunction building in rural northwestern Stone County, Arkansas. It is located northeast of Onia, on County Road 48 west of its junction with County Road 86 (Roasting Ear Road). It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, weatherboard siding, and stone foundation. The main facade has a pair of symmetrically-placed entrances with transom windows and simple molding, and otherwise lacks adornment. Built c. 1918, it", "title": "Roasting Ear Church and School" }, { "docid": "4482274", "text": "Home roasting coffee Home roasting is the process of roasting coffee from green coffee beans on a small scale for personal consumption. Home roasting of coffee has been practiced for centuries, using simple methods such as roasting in cast iron skillets over a wood fire and hand-turning small steel drums on a kitchen stovetop. Until the early 20th century it was more common to roast coffee at home than to buy pre-roasted coffee. Following World War I commercial coffee roasting became prevalent and, combined with the distribution of instant coffee, home roasting decreased substantially. In recent years there has been", "title": "Home roasting coffee" }, { "docid": "6123138", "text": "of green coffee beans are hand- or machine-opened, dumped into a hopper, and screened to remove debris. The green beans are then weighed and transferred by belt or pneumatic conveyor to storage hoppers. From the storage hoppers, the green beans are conveyed to the roaster. Initially, the process is endothermic (absorbing heat), but at around it becomes exothermic (giving off heat). For the roaster, this means that the beans are heating themselves and an adjustment of the roaster's heat source might be required. At the end of the roasting cycle, the roasted beans are dumped from the roasting chamber and", "title": "Coffee roasting" }, { "docid": "4482292", "text": "After using any of the above methods, the roasted beans must be manually cooled. A common method is to shake or toss them in a metal colander for a few minutes. Specially designed electric coffee roasters have been available since the 1970s. These counter-top appliances automate the roasting process, including a cooling cycle at the end. Unlike hot-air poppers they are designed to withstand extended high temperature operation. Two main types exist: the fluid-bed or fluid-air roaster, and the drum roaster. The fluid-bed roaster heats the beans faster, retaining more of their desirable acidic flavor compounds. However, the resulting roasted", "title": "Home roasting coffee" }, { "docid": "16983941", "text": "Roasting Ear Church and School The Roasting Ear Church and School is a historic multifunction building in rural northwestern Stone County, Arkansas. It is located northeast of Onia, on County Road 48 west of its junction with County Road 86 (Roasting Ear Road). It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, weatherboard siding, and stone foundation. The main facade has a pair of symmetrically-placed entrances with transom windows and simple molding, and otherwise lacks adornment. Built c. 1918, it is a well-preserved example of a typical rural Arkansas structure built to house both a church congregation", "title": "Roasting Ear Church and School" }, { "docid": "6123150", "text": "source of gaseous pollutants, including alcohols, aldehydes, organic acids, and nitrogen and sulfur compounds. Because roasters are typically natural gas-fired, carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO) emissions result from fuel combustion. Decaffeination and instant coffee extraction and drying operations may also be sources of small amounts of VOC. Emissions from the grinding and packaging operations typically are not vented to the atmosphere. Particulate matter emissions from the roasting and cooling operations are typically ducted to cyclones before being emitted to the atmosphere. Gaseous emissions from roasting operations are typically ducted to a thermal oxidiser or thermal catalytic oxidiser following", "title": "Coffee roasting" }, { "docid": "3194774", "text": "placed into the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine. These types of tubes are used for individuals who are unable to tolerate feeding into the stomach, due to dysfunction of the stomach, impaired gastric motility, severe reflux or vomiting. These types of tubes must be placed in a hospital setting. A gastric feeding tube (G-tube or \"button\") is a tube inserted through a small incision in the abdomen into the stomach and is used for long-term enteral nutrition. One type is the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube which is placed endoscopically. The position of the endoscope can be", "title": "Feeding tube" }, { "docid": "6123133", "text": "were available at the local general store, or even through mail order. For roasting, many people used such simple methods as a layer of beans on a metal sheet in the oven, or beans stirred in a cast iron skillet over a fire. Despite the wide popularity of home roasting, Burns felt that it would soon disappear because of the great strides made in commercial roasting in the 1860s and 1870s, including the benefits of the economies of scale. The commercial roaster inventions patented by Burns revolutionized the U.S. roasting industry, much like the innovations of inventors in Emmerich am", "title": "Coffee roasting" }, { "docid": "9523253", "text": "oxide ore is facilitated by addition of elemental sulfur. Carbonate ores react in a similar manner as the oxide ore, after decomposing to their oxide form at high temperature. Sulfating roasting oxidizes certain sulfide ores to sulfates in a controlled supply of air to enable leaching of the sulfate for further processing. Magnetic roasting involves controlled roasting of the ore to convert it into a magnetic form, thus enabling easy separation and processing in subsequent steps. For example, controlled reduction of haematite (non magnetic FeO) to magnetite (magnetic FeO). Reduction roasting partially reduces an oxide ore before the actual smelting", "title": "Roasting (metallurgy)" }, { "docid": "10957490", "text": "Roasting jack A roasting jack is a machine which rotates meat roasting on a spit. It can also be called a spit jack, a spit engine or a turnspit, although this name can also refer to a human turning the spit, or a turnspit dog. Cooking meat on a spit dates back at least to the 1st century BC, but at first spits were turned by human power. In Britain, starting in the Tudor period, dog-powered turnspits were used; the dog ran in a treadmill linked to the spit by belts and pulleys. Other forms of roasting jacks included the", "title": "Roasting jack" }, { "docid": "20811367", "text": "are still represented. The site provides an understanding of the nature of capital investment, technological transfer and mining and extractive processes at the very start of the gold boom, which was itself a process of lasting importance for Australia. The Roasting Pits are nationally significant as a rare example of the application of a common design for lime burning being adapted for the roasting of quartz. They reflect the period prior to the development of specialised quartz roasting kilns. The Battery is nationally significant as a purpose-built structure to house a boiler, beam engine and stamper battery. It represents the", "title": "Quartz Roasting Pits Complex" }, { "docid": "20811368", "text": "oldest surviving stamper battery building erected for gold mining in Australia, being substantially intact and interpretable as a working structure. The features associated with the Roasting Pits, such as the Dam, and worker housing are also nationally significant by enhancing the understanding of the infrastructure associated with the operation of the Roasting Pits. The remains of the fences associated with the 1871 occupation of the site are regionally significant. Quartz Roasting Pits Complex was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the course,", "title": "Quartz Roasting Pits Complex" }, { "docid": "4482294", "text": "used, the weather can affect the results, especially if roasting outdoors. Cold temperatures can extend the roasting time, adversely affecting the bean. In extreme cold the roaster may fail to reach proper temperature. Humidity is a lesser concern; it changes the roasting time and resulting quality. Other unusual home roasting methods have been tried by inventive enthusiasts, such as various modifications of fluid-bed roasters and popcorn poppers, the use of a heat gun aimed into a metal bowl, a heat gun aimed into a bread machine, a modified rotisserie in a gas-fired barbecue grill, and many more. Home roasting coffee", "title": "Home roasting coffee" }, { "docid": "4482280", "text": "roasting, many people used such simple methods as a layer of beans on a metal sheet in the oven, or beans stirred in a cast iron skillet over a fire. Despite the wide popularity of home roasting, Burns felt that it would soon disappear because of the great strides made in commercial roasting in the 1860s and 1870s, including the benefits of the economies of scale. The commercial roaster inventions patented by Burns revolutionized the U.S. roasting industry, much like the innovations of inventors in Emmerich am Rhein greatly advanced commercial coffee roasting in Germany. As well, the 1864 marketing", "title": "Home roasting coffee" }, { "docid": "758420", "text": "hours for the earliest types, to as high as 200,000 hours or more for some of the last types to be introduced. There is no formal definition as to what constitutes \"end of life\" for Nixies, mechanical failure excepted. Some sources suggest that incomplete glow coverage of a glyph (\"cathode poisoning\") or appearance of glow elsewhere in the tube would not be acceptable. Nixie tubes are susceptible to multiple failure modes, including Driving Nixies outside of their specified electrical parameters will accelerate their demise, especially excess current, which increases sputtering of the electrodes. A few extreme examples of sputtering have", "title": "Nixie tube" }, { "docid": "11718684", "text": "of the filament/heater power rating (and therefore the overall power handling capabilities) of the tube. The assigned numbers were as follows: The second character was a letter broadly identifying the class of tube: The last 2 digits were serially assigned, beginning with 21 to avoid possible confusion with receiving tubes or CRT phosphor designations. Multiple section tubes (like the 3E29 or 8D21) are assigned a letter corresponding to ONE set of electrodes. Like all tube numbering systems, there are many inconsistencies between theory and practice. For example, there is no assigned letter code for cathode-ray tubes. Some unusual types received", "title": "RMA tube designation" }, { "docid": "20811378", "text": "natural history of New South Wales. The Quartz Roasting Pits Complex is extremely rare in its technicl/research and historic significance Quartz Roasting Pits Complex Quartz Roasting Pits Complex is a heritage-listed quartz roasting kiln located 10km north of Hill End, Mid-Western Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1854 to 1855. It is also known as Cornish Roasting Pits. The property is owned by the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The Hill End Quartz Roasting Pits Complex was established", "title": "Quartz Roasting Pits Complex" }, { "docid": "9523250", "text": "top of ore. This would raise the temperature of the ore to the point where its sulfur content would become its source of fuel, and the roasting process could continue without external fuel sources. Early sulfide roasting was practiced in this manner in \"open hearth\" roasters, which were manually stirred (a practice called \"rabbling\") using rake-like tools to expose unroasted ore to oxygen as the reaction proceeded. This process released large amounts of acidic, metallic, and other toxic compounds. Results of this include areas that even after 60–80 years are still largely lifeless, often exactly corresponding to the area of", "title": "Roasting (metallurgy)" }, { "docid": "9523252", "text": "eliminate impurity elements in the form of their volatile oxides. Examples of such volatile oxides include AsO, SbO, ZnO and sulfur oxides. Careful control of the oxygen content in the roaster is necessary, as excessive oxidation forms non volatile oxides. Chloridizing roasting transforms certain metal compounds to chlorides, through oxidation or reduction. Some metals such as uranium, titanium, beryllium and some rare earths are processed in their chloride form. Certain forms of chloridizing roasting may be represented by the overall reactions: The first reaction represents the chlorination of a sulfide ore involving an exothermic reaction. The second reaction involving an", "title": "Roasting (metallurgy)" }, { "docid": "6123144", "text": "of temperature, smell, color, and sound to monitor the roasting process. Sound is a good indicator of temperature during roasting. There are two temperature thresholds called \"cracks\" that roasters listen for. At approximately , the coffee will emit a cracking sound. This point is referred to as \"first crack,\" marking the beginnings of a \"light roast\". At first crack, a large amount of the coffee's moisture has been evaporated and the beans will increase in size. When the coffee reaches approximately , it emits a \"second crack\", this sound represents the structure of the coffee starting to collapse. If the", "title": "Coffee roasting" }, { "docid": "4482284", "text": "From 1986 through 1999 there was a surge in the number of patents filed for home roasting appliances. In the 1990s, more electric home roasting equipment became available, including drum roasters, and variations on the fluid-bed roaster. By 2001, gourmet coffee aficionados were using the internet to purchase green estate-grown beans for delivery by mail. Enjoying coffee made from freshly roasted beans is one of the major driving factors in the popularity of home roasting. Home roasting has the advantage of being able to roast smaller volumes of coffee to match consumption so that the roasted coffee is used before", "title": "Home roasting coffee" }, { "docid": "15999088", "text": "float shapes may be seen with older Thorpe tube flowmeters, and all floats should be read from the top of the float, except for the ball float, which is read from its center. Floats should rotate in the airstream, and the absence of rotation may indicate faulty readings resulting from the float catching on the tube. The needle valve may be located proximal or distal to the inlet port; these two types of flowmeter are respectively called 'non-compensated' or 'compensated'. The original Thorpe tube flowmeter is the non-compensated type: it works with a fixed orifice and variable pressure. The non-compensated", "title": "Thorpe tube flowmeter" }, { "docid": "12803759", "text": "personnel would sell a replacement from the cabinet. At that time, tubes in consumer devices were installed in sockets and easily replaceable, except for the CRT in televisions. Most devices had a removable back with a diagram showing where to replace each tube. There were only a few types of tube socket, so it was easy to make a mistake. If testing showed all tubes to be working, the next step was a repair shop. As transistor devices became common, the grocery-store tube-tester vanished. Tube tester A tube tester is an electronic instrument designed to test certain characteristics of vacuum", "title": "Tube tester" }, { "docid": "20811357", "text": "Quartz Roasting Pits Complex Quartz Roasting Pits Complex is a heritage-listed quartz roasting kiln located 10km north of Hill End, Mid-Western Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1854 to 1855. It is also known as Cornish Roasting Pits. The property is owned by the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The Hill End Quartz Roasting Pits Complex was established by the Colonial Gold Mining Company in 1855, on the traditional land of the Wiradjuri people, to provide gold extraction", "title": "Quartz Roasting Pits Complex" }, { "docid": "3986500", "text": "insertion, removal, or when diagnosing air leaks. Manual manipulation, often called milking, stripping, fan folding, or tapping, of chest tubes is commonly performed to clear chest tube obstructions. No conclusive evidence has demonstrated that any of these techniques are more effective than the others, and no method has shown to improve chest tube drainage. Furthermore, chest tube manipulation has proved to increase negative pressure, which may be detrimental, and painful to the patient. For these reasons, many hospitals do not allow these types of manual tube manipulations. Internal chest tube clearing can be performed to clear chest tube obstructions using", "title": "Chest tube" }, { "docid": "12803754", "text": "given plate voltage, which can usually be controlled by a variable load resistor. Switches will need to select the correct filament voltage plus which pins belong to the filament and cathode(s). Older testers may call themselves \"Plate Conductance\" if the ammeter is in series with the plate, or \"Cathode Conductance\" if the meter is in series with the cathode. The problems of \"emission testers\" are: The \"advantage\" of an emission tester is that from all types of tube testers, it provides the most reliable warning of tube wear-out. If emission is at 70%, transconductance can be at 90% still, and", "title": "Tube tester" }, { "docid": "3142404", "text": "These may also be constructed of polyvinyl chloride or wire-reinforced silicone rubber. Other tubes (such as the Bivona Fome-Cuf tube) are designed specifically for use in laser surgery in and around the airway. Various types of double-lumen endotracheal (actually, endobronchial) tubes have been developed (Carlens, White, Robertshaw, etc.) for ventilating each lung independently—this is useful during pulmonary and other thoracic operations. Several types of tracheostomy tubes are available, depending on the requirements of the patient, including Shiley, Bivona (a silicon tube with metal rings that are good for airways with damage to the tracheal rings or otherwise not straight), and", "title": "Tracheal tube" }, { "docid": "635165", "text": "fire. It is one of the oldest forms of cooking known. Traditionally recognized roasting methods consist only of baking and cooking over or near an open fire. Grilling is normally not technically a roast, since a grill (gridiron) is used. Barbecuing and smoking differ from roasting because of the lower temperature and controlled smoke application. Grilling can be considered as a low-fat food preparation, as it allows any fat in the food to drip away. Before the invention and widespread use of stoves, food was primarily cooked over open flames from a hearth. To roast meat, racks with skewers, or,", "title": "Roasting" }, { "docid": "5539814", "text": "solid surface, and levers itself the right way up. Tube feet allow these different types of animals to stick to the ocean floor and move slowly. Tube feet consist of two parts: ampullae and podia. Ampullae contain both circular muscles and longitudinal muscle, whereas the podia contain the latter only. The podia use suction to attach to the substratum. Tube feet Tube feet are small active tubular projections on the oral face of an echinoderm, whether the arms of a starfish, or the undersides of sea urchins, sand dollars and sea cucumbers. They are part of the water vascular system.", "title": "Tube feet" }, { "docid": "12959615", "text": "tube while it is being bent to give the tube extra support to reduce wrinkling and breaking the tube during this process. The different types of mandrels are as follows. In production of a product where the bend is not critical a plug mandrel can be used. A form type tapers the end of the mandrel to provide more support in the bend of the tube. When precise bending is needed a ball mandrel (or ball mandrel with steel cable) should be used. The conjoined ball-like disks are inserted into the tubing to allow for bending while maintaining the same", "title": "Tube bending" }, { "docid": "4482285", "text": "it goes stale. Depending on the bean's origin and the method of storage after roasting, generally whole bean coffee flavor is at its peak between seven and fourteen days after roasting, but some beans are best left even longer, up to 21 days. The flavor of ground coffee deteriorates even faster. Methods of extending freshness include refrigeration, freezing, vacuum packaging, and displacing oxygen in the container with an inert gas. Green coffee beans can be kept fresh for 1–3 years, depending upon storage conditions, and more particular home roasters reduce storage time to 8 or even 1.5 months. Other advantages", "title": "Home roasting coffee" }, { "docid": "1265847", "text": "Torpedo tube A torpedo tube is a cylinder shaped device for launching torpedoes. There are two main types of torpedo tube: underwater tubes fitted to submarines and some surface ships, and deck-mounted units (also referred to as torpedo launchers) installed aboard surface vessels. Deck-mounted torpedo launchers are usually designed for a specific type of torpedo, while submarine torpedo tubes are general-purpose launchers, and are often also capable of deploying mines and cruise missiles. Most modern launchers are standardised on a diameter for light torpedoes (deck mounted aboard ship) or a diameter for heavy torpedoes (underwater tubes), although other sizes of", "title": "Torpedo tube" }, { "docid": "444924", "text": "Vacuum tube In electronics, a vacuum tube, an electron tube, or valve (British usage) or, colloquially, a tube (North America), is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied. The type known as a thermionic tube or thermionic valve uses the phenomenon of thermionic emission of electrons from a heated cathode and is used for a number of fundamental electronic functions such as signal amplification and current rectification. Non-thermionic types, such as a vacuum phototube however, achieve electron emission through the photoelectric effect, and are used", "title": "Vacuum tube" }, { "docid": "445022", "text": "internal insulating spacers. Tube rectifiers have limited current capability and exceeding ratings will eventually destroy a tube. Degenerative failures are those caused by the slow deterioration of performance over time. Overheating of internal parts, such as control grids or mica spacer insulators, can result in trapped gas escaping into the tube; this can reduce performance. A getter is used to absorb gases evolved during tube operation, but has only a limited ability to combine with gas. Control of the envelope temperature prevents some types of gassing. A tube with an unusually high level of internal gas may exhibit a visible", "title": "Vacuum tube" }, { "docid": "12959600", "text": "different types of ductile metal tubing. Freeform-bending processes, like three-roll-pushbending, shape the workpiece kinematically, thus the bending contour is not dependent on the tool geometry. Generally, round stock is used in tube bending. However, square and rectangular tubes and pipes may also be bent to meet job specifications. Other factors involved in the bending process are the wall thickness, tooling and lubricants needed by the pipe and tube bender to best shape the material, and the different ways the tube may be used (tube, pipe wires). A tube can be bent in multiple directions and angles. Common simple bends consist", "title": "Tube bending" }, { "docid": "5609490", "text": "composed of several types of tubes: plain, longitudinally finned, etc. Two fluids, of different starting temperatures, flow through the heat exchanger. One flows through the tubes (the tube side) and the other flows outside the tubes but inside the shell (the shell side). Heat is transferred from one fluid to the other through the tube walls, either from tube side to shell side or vice versa. The fluids can be either liquids or gases on either the shell or the tube side. In order to transfer heat efficiently, a large heat transfer area should be used, leading to the use", "title": "Shell and tube heat exchanger" }, { "docid": "2660682", "text": "Traveling-wave tube A traveling-wave tube (TWT, pronounced \"twit\") or traveling-wave tube amplifier (TWTA, pronounced \"tweeta\") is a specialized vacuum tube that is used in electronics to amplify radio frequency (RF) signals in the microwave range. The TWT belongs to a category of \"linear beam\" tubes, such as the klystron, in which the radio wave is amplified by absorbing power from a beam of electrons as it passes down the tube. Although there are various types of TWT, two major categories are: A major advantage of the TWT over some other microwave tubes is its ability to amplify a wide range", "title": "Traveling-wave tube" }, { "docid": "4482278", "text": "roasters, to allow for large batches of coffee. Nevertheless, home roasting continued to be popular. A man working at a commercial roasting plant beginning in the 1850s in St. Louis, Missouri, said that \"selling roasted coffee was up-hill work, as everyone roasted coffee in the kitchen oven.\" He said the arguments his company employed \"against\" home roasting included appeals to the economy of saving fuel and labor, the danger of burns and flaring tempers, and the possibility of ruined beans or bad-tasting beverage. Nevertheless, appliances catering to the home roaster were becoming popular; in 1849 a spherical coffee roaster was", "title": "Home roasting coffee" }, { "docid": "12803753", "text": "Emission Tester because they are a crude measure of emission in directly heated types (but a measure of unwanted heater-cathode leakage in indirectly heated types). Switches will need to select the correct filament voltage and pins. Next in complexity is the \"emission tester\", which basically treats any tube as a diode by carefully connecting the cathode to ground, all the grids and plate to B+ voltage, feeding the filament with the correct voltage, and an ammeter in series with either the plate or the cathode. This effectively measures emission, the current which the cathode is capable of emitting, for the", "title": "Tube tester" }, { "docid": "4482291", "text": "plenty of ventilation. The hot-air popper is sometimes pressed into service as a coffee roaster, but such a light-duty appliance is not designed to withstand the longer heat cycle required by coffee beans. As a result, the hot-air popper used for coffee may fail from heat damage. This method of roasting produces somewhat less smoke than oven or stove-top but it still requires good ventilation. It also blows chaff off of the roasting beans, so cleaning up the scattered chaff is a consideration. If used indoors, the room may retain a smoky smell long afterward. Roasting outdoors is an option.", "title": "Home roasting coffee" }, { "docid": "1669422", "text": "fold stage; as well as the more dorsally located motor neurons and interneurons. These cell types are specified by the secretion of the Shh from the notochord (located ventrally to the neural tube), and later from the floor plate cells. Shh acts as a morphogen, meaning that it acts in a concentration-dependent manner to specify cell types as it moves further from its source. The following is a proposed mechanism for how Shh patterns the ventral neural tube: A gradient of Shh that controls the expression of a group of homeodomain (HD) and basic Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH) transcription factors is created.", "title": "Neural tube" }, { "docid": "758421", "text": "even resulted in complete disintegration of Nixie-tube cathodes. Cathode poisoning can be abated by limiting current through the tubes to significantly below their maximum rating, through the use of Nixie tubes constructed from materials that avoid the effect (e.g. by being free of silicates and aluminum), or by programming devices to periodically cycle through all digits so that seldom-displayed ones get activated. As testament to their longevity, and that of the equipment which incorporated them, several suppliers still provide common Nixie tube types as replacement parts, new in original packaging. Equipment with Nixie-tube displays in excellent working condition is still", "title": "Nixie tube" }, { "docid": "1265850", "text": "a hydraulic system that was much faster and safer in conditions where the ship needed to maneuver. The German Type 212 submarine uses a new development of the water ram expulsion system, which ejects the torpedo with water pressure to avoid acoustic detection. Torpedo tube A torpedo tube is a cylinder shaped device for launching torpedoes. There are two main types of torpedo tube: underwater tubes fitted to submarines and some surface ships, and deck-mounted units (also referred to as torpedo launchers) installed aboard surface vessels. Deck-mounted torpedo launchers are usually designed for a specific type of torpedo, while submarine", "title": "Torpedo tube" }, { "docid": "6498472", "text": "Neural tube defect Neural tube defects (NTDs) are a group of birth defects in which an opening in the spinal cord or brain remains from early in human development. In the 3rd week of pregnancy called gastrulation, specialized cells on the dorsal side of the embryo begin to change shape and form the neural tube. When the neural tube does not close completely, an NTD develops. Specific types include: spina bifida which affects the spine, anencephaly which results in little to no brain, encephalocele which affects the skull, and iniencephaly which results in severe neck problems. NTDs are one of", "title": "Neural tube defect" }, { "docid": "8730988", "text": "a mechanical weakness in the engine which tends to lead to failure. Both engine types are now replaced by diesels, which can be made to operate over varying loads and speeds in any size with modern methods. Hot bulbs are still used in remote areas where the extreme fuel flexibility is a major advantage. Hot tube engines may also be found there, if their difficulties with the adjustable tube can be overcome, or accepted and lived with. Hot tube engine The hot tube engine is a relative of the hot bulb engine with better timing control. The hot bulb engine", "title": "Hot tube engine" }, { "docid": "14161761", "text": "Mycobacteria growth indicator tube Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT) is intended for the detection and recovery of mycobacteria. The MGIT Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube contains 4 mL of modified Middlebrook 7H9 Broth base. The complete medium, with OADC enrichment and PANTA antibiotic mixture, is one of the most commonly used liquid media for the cultivation of mycobacteria. All types of clinical specimens, pulmonary as well as extra-pulmonary (except blood and urine), can be processed for primary isolation in the MGIT tube using conventional methods. After processed specimen is inoculated, MGIT tube must be continuously monitored either manually or by automated", "title": "Mycobacteria growth indicator tube" }, { "docid": "6313396", "text": "many variant forms. For example, other versions may describe boys as being made of \"snaps\", \"frogs\", \"snakes\", or \"slugs\", rather than \"snips\" as above. In the earliest known versions, the first ingredient for boys is either \"snips\" or \"snigs\", the latter being a Cumbrian dialect word for a small eel. The rhyme sometimes appears as part of a larger work called \"What Folks Are Made Of\" or \"What All the World Is Made Of\". Other stanzas describe what babies, young men, young women, sailors, soldiers, nurses, fathers, mothers, old men, old women, and all folks are made of. According to", "title": "What Are Little Boys Made Of?" }, { "docid": "6498490", "text": "Neural tube defects resulted in 71,000 deaths globally in 2010. It is unclear how common the condition is in low income countries. Neural tube defect Neural tube defects (NTDs) are a group of birth defects in which an opening in the spinal cord or brain remains from early in human development. In the 3rd week of pregnancy called gastrulation, specialized cells on the dorsal side of the embryo begin to change shape and form the neural tube. When the neural tube does not close completely, an NTD develops. Specific types include: spina bifida which affects the spine, anencephaly which results", "title": "Neural tube defect" }, { "docid": "3180048", "text": "adjacent toes. In Brittany, an enhanced interrogation chair was used that immobilized the feet and provided a movable tray of coals that could be cranked up and down, eventually making physical contact with the soles of the feet. A form of torture called \"star kicking\" supposedly began with Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who would place oiled bits of paper or string between the prisoner's toes and light the material on fire. Foot roasting Foot roasting is a method of torture used since ancient times. The torture takes ingenious advantage of the extreme sensitivity of the sole of the foot to heat.", "title": "Foot roasting" }, { "docid": "3180045", "text": "Foot roasting Foot roasting is a method of torture used since ancient times. The torture takes ingenious advantage of the extreme sensitivity of the sole of the foot to heat. The Romans immobilized the prisoner and pressed red-hot iron plates to the soles of his feet. The Spanish Inquisition bound the prisoner face-upward to the rack with his bare feet secured in a stocks. The soles of the feet were basted with lard or oil and slowly barbecued over a brazier of burning coals. A screen could be interposed between the feet and the coals to modulate the exposure, while", "title": "Foot roasting" }, { "docid": "6123134", "text": "Rhein greatly advanced commercial coffee roasting in Germany. As well, the 1864 marketing breakthrough of the Arbuckle Brothers in Philadelphia, introducing the convenient one-pound (0.45 kg) paper bag of roasted coffee, brought success and imitators. From that time commercially roasted coffee grew in popularity until it gradually overtook home roasting during the 1900s in America. In 1903 and 1906 the first electric roasters were patented in the U.S. and Germany, respectively; these commercial devices eliminated the problem of smoke or fuel vapor imparting a bad taste to the coffee. In France, the home roaster did not yield to the commercial", "title": "Coffee roasting" }, { "docid": "5280962", "text": "none to a very small number of ribosomes. The two types of sieve elements, sieve tube members and sieve cells, have different structure. Sieve tube members are shorter and wider with greater area for nutrient transport while sieve cells tend to be longer and narrower with smaller area for nutrient transport. Although the function of both of these kinds of sieve elements is the same, sieve cells are found in gymnosperms, non-flowering vascular plants, while sieve tube members are found in angiosperms, flowering vascular plants. Sieve elements were first discovered by the forest botanist Theodor Hartig in 1837. Since this", "title": "Sieve tube element" }, { "docid": "6123132", "text": "American colonies. In the 19th century, various patents were awarded in the U.S. and Europe for commercial roasters, to allow for large batches of coffee. Nevertheless, home roasting continued to be popular. A man working at a commercial roasting plant beginning in the 1850s in St. Louis, Missouri, said that \"selling roasted coffee was up-hill work, as everyone roasted coffee in the kitchen oven.\" Appliances catering to the home roaster were developed; in 1849 a spherical coffee roaster was invented in Cincinnati, Ohio, for use on the top of a wood-fired kitchen stove, fitted into a burner opening. Green beans", "title": "Coffee roasting" }, { "docid": "2660698", "text": "(EMC) testing industry for immunity testing of electronic devices. TWTAs can often be found in older (pre-1995) aviation SSR microwave transponders. Traveling-wave tube A traveling-wave tube (TWT, pronounced \"twit\") or traveling-wave tube amplifier (TWTA, pronounced \"tweeta\") is a specialized vacuum tube that is used in electronics to amplify radio frequency (RF) signals in the microwave range. The TWT belongs to a category of \"linear beam\" tubes, such as the klystron, in which the radio wave is amplified by absorbing power from a beam of electrons as it passes down the tube. Although there are various types of TWT, two major", "title": "Traveling-wave tube" }, { "docid": "6313397", "text": "Iona and Peter Opie, this first appears in a manuscript by the English poet Robert Southey (1774–1843), who added the stanzas other than the two below. Though it is not mentioned elsewhere in his works or papers, it is generally agreed to be by him. The relevant section in the version attributed to Southey was: <poem> What are little boys made of What are little boys made of Snips & snails & puppy dogs tails And such are little boys made of. What are little girls made of Sugar & spice & all things nice</poem> Extracts from the nursery rhyme", "title": "What Are Little Boys Made Of?" }, { "docid": "4078630", "text": "characteristic of the Brotan was a long steam drum running \"above\" the main barrel, making it resemble a Flaman boiler in appearance. While the traction engine was usually built using its locomotive boiler as its frame, other types of steam road vehicles such as lorries and cars have used a wide range of different boiler types. Road transport pioneers Goldsworthy Gurney and Walter Hancock both used water-tube boilers in their steam carriages around 1830. Most undertype wagons used water-tube boilers. Many manufacturers used variants of the vertical cross-tube boiler, including Atkinson, Clayton, Garrett and Sentinel. Other types include the Clarkson", "title": "Water-tube boiler" }, { "docid": "3142398", "text": "Tracheal tube A tracheal tube is a catheter that is inserted into the trachea for the primary purpose of establishing and maintaining a patent airway and to ensure the adequate exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Many different types of tracheal tubes are available, suited for different specific applications: Portex Medical (England and France) produced the first cuff-less plastic 'Ivory' endotracheal tubes, in conjunction with Magill's design later adding a cuff as manufacturing techniques became more viable, these were glued on by hand to make the famous Blue-line tube copied by many other manufacturers. Maeterlinck GmBH developed the disposable endotracheal", "title": "Tracheal tube" }, { "docid": "20811376", "text": "of its operation and its success which are able to be investigated by archaeology and no other source. The rarity of this type of site in intactness from the first phase of goldmining, and of that type of technology guarantees that it will not be represented effectively on many sites at all in Australia. Many sites of the first decade of the gold rushes have been destroyed by reinvestigation or different mining techniques. Sites of this period are inherently rare due to their vulnerability. The Quartz Roasting Pits complex can shed more light through archaeological investigation on itself, upon the", "title": "Quartz Roasting Pits Complex" }, { "docid": "7620868", "text": "cleaning bodies may be a matter of brushes or special constructions like scrapers or so-called \"pigs\", for instance, which are conveyed through the tubes by means of pressurized air, water, or other media. In most cases, cleaning is implemented through the oversize of the cleaning bodies compared to the tube inner diameter. The types range from brushes with bristles of plastic or steel to scrapers (with smaller tube diameters) and more expensive designs with spraying nozzles for pipelines. This method is applied for tube and pipe diameters from around 5 mm to several metres. Also belonging to this field is", "title": "Tube cleaning" }, { "docid": "20811363", "text": "although its general sense has been diminished somewhat by the later plant growth. It is likely, given the short history of the Complex's operation, that all of the substantial structures on the site were built at about the same time in 1855. They would have suffered some impact upon the closure of the operation as equipment was salvaged, scavenged and removed from the site. Apart from grazing and cultivation, no significant later use of the site is known. The Roasting Pits are a two chamber kiln structure set on the hill upslope of the Battery. The Pits are composed of", "title": "Quartz Roasting Pits Complex" }, { "docid": "7901814", "text": "Basal plate (neural tube) In the developing nervous system, the basal plate is the region of the neural tube ventral to the sulcus limitans. It extends from the rostral mesencephalon to the end of the spinal cord and contains primarily motor neurons, whereas neurons found in the alar plate are primarily associated with sensory functions. The cell types of the basal plate include lower motor neurons and four types of interneuron. Initially, the left and right sides of the basal plate are continuous, but during neurulation they become separated by the floor plate, and this process is directed by the", "title": "Basal plate (neural tube)" }, { "docid": "444925", "text": "for such as the detection of light levels. In both types, the electrons are accelerated from the cathode to the anode by the electric field in the tube. The simplest vacuum tube, the diode invented in 1904 by John Ambrose Fleming, contains only a heated electron-emitting cathode and an anode. Current can only flow in one direction through the device -- from the cathode to the anode. Adding one or more control grids within the tube allows the current between the cathode and anode to be controlled by the voltage on the grid or grids. These devices became a key", "title": "Vacuum tube" }, { "docid": "1669424", "text": "predicted by the concentration of Shh required for their induction in vitro. Studies have shown that neural progenitors can evoke different responses based on the length of exposure to Shh, with a longer exposure time resulting in more ventral cell types. At the dorsal end of the neural tube, BMPs are responsible for neuronal patterning. BMP is initially secreted from the overlying ectoderm. A secondary signaling center is then established in the roof plate, the dorsal most structure of the neural tube. BMP from the dorsal end of the neural tube seems to act in the same concentration-dependent manner as", "title": "Neural tube" }, { "docid": "20792648", "text": "often attracted all sorts of neurotics, hysterics and even madmen: \"All organisations which depend on enthusiasm and opposition to conventional opinion suffer from this problem to some degree; Theosophy appears to have been especially prone to it. The permanent residents at Adyar during the 1880s and '90s were typical. A quarrelsome collection of minor English aristocrats, rich American widows, German professors, Indian mystics and hangerson of every description, they were all eager to have their say, especially during Olcott's prolonged absences, and all ready to quarrel with one another.\" What Are The Theosophists? \"What Are The Theosophists?\" is an editorial", "title": "What Are The Theosophists?" }, { "docid": "6762968", "text": "Types of municipalities in Quebec The following is a list of the types of local and supralocal territorial units in Quebec, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by the Institut de la statistique du Québec. Not included are the urban agglomerations of Quebec, which, although they group together multiple municipalities, exercise only what are ordinarily local municipal powers. A list of local municipal units in Quebec by regional county municipality can be found at List of municipalities in Quebec. All municipalities (except cities), whether township,", "title": "Types of municipalities in Quebec" }, { "docid": "10590486", "text": "tool has to be with paired not only with material but also the inner and outer dimensions of the tube as well. Thickness of the tube sheet (what each individual tube is inserted into) has to be taken into consideration during tube removal or installation procedures. Tube tool Tube tools are tools used to service any tubing (material) in industrial applications including, but not limited to: HVAC or industrial heating and air (hospitals and universities, for example), OEM's(Original equipment manufacturer), defense contractors, the automotive industry, process industries, aluminum smelting facilities, food and sugar production plants, oil refineries, and power plants.", "title": "Tube tool" } ]
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What frozen food item is Mama Celeste associated with?
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[ { "docid": "9278528", "text": "product in 1969. Celeste frozen pizza was one of the top selling brands in the 1970s (with Mrs. Lizio, \"Mama Celeste,\" prominently featured in the brand's television advertising) but subsequently experienced declines. The Celeste brand was later acquired by Aurora Foods, and then Pinnacle Foods. As of 2012, Pinnacle Foods marketed only frozen, microwavable \"Pizza For One\" varieties of Celeste pizzas. Distribution is now restricted to more regional markets. Celeste (frozen pizza) Celeste is a brand of frozen pizza owned by Pinnacle Foods. It is widely referred to by its former name Mama Celeste. The brand's slogan is \"Abbondanza\", which", "title": "Celeste (frozen pizza)" }, { "docid": "9278527", "text": "Celeste (frozen pizza) Celeste is a brand of frozen pizza owned by Pinnacle Foods. It is widely referred to by its former name Mama Celeste. The brand's slogan is \"Abbondanza\", which means \"Abundance\" in Italian. The product was named after Celeste (née Luise) Lizio (1908-1988) who carried the nickname \"Mama Celeste\". She came to the United States from Italy with her husband Anthony in the 1920s. They settled on Chicago's West Side, where they opened their first restaurant in 1932. In 1962, the Lizios closed the restaurant and began selling pizzas to other restaurants. The Quaker Oats Company acquired the", "title": "Celeste (frozen pizza)" }, { "docid": "10040861", "text": "various ranges), the player will receive a \"Broken Silver\" medal, in which the medal is similar to that of the Silver medal with an addition: a crack. Unlike in previous \"Cooking Mama\" titles, bonuses earned during minigames do not influence the overall score, but instead accumulate as \"bonus stars\". For every 5 such bonuses which are earned, the player earns an unlockable item upon completion of the recipe. Recipes include baguettes, T-bone steak, california roll, ravioli, churros, crepes, sliced burdock root, bananas foster, apple pie, pizza, escargot, pancakes, waffles, meatloaf, ice cream, chili dogs, corn soup, kimchi, macaroon, scones, popcorn,", "title": "Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends" } ]
[ { "docid": "2205632", "text": "a study, an American consumes on average 71 frozen foods a year, most of which are pre-cooked frozen meals. Frozen food Freezing food preserves it from the time it is prepared to the time it is eaten. Since early times, farmers, fishermen, and trappers have preserved grains and produce in unheated buildings during the winter season. Freezing food slows down decomposition by turning residual moisture into ice, inhibiting the growth of most bacterial species. In the food commodity industry, there are two processes: mechanical and cryogenic (or flash freezing). The freezing kinetics is important to preserve the food quality and", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "2205629", "text": "preservation than are thermal techniques, such as boiling, because pathogens are more likely to be able to survive cold temperatures rather than hot temperatures. One of the problems surrounding the use of freezing as a method of food preservation is the danger that pathogens deactivated (but not killed) by the process will once again become active when the frozen food thaws. Foods may be preserved for several months by freezing. Long-term frozen storage requires a constant temperature of or less. To be used, many cooked foods that have been previously frozen require defrosting prior to consumption. Preferably, some frozen meats", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "2205626", "text": "evaporator. As it passes through an expansion valve, it is cooled and then vaporises into a gaseous state. Now a low pressure, low temperature gas again, it can be reintroduced into the system. Cryogenic or (flash freezing) of food is a more recent development, but is used by many leading food manufacturers all over the world. Cryogenic equipment uses very low temperature gases – usually liquid nitrogen or solid carbon dioxide – which are applied directly to the food product. Frozen food packaging must maintain its integrity throughout filling, sealing, freezing, storage, transportation, thawing, and often cooking. As many frozen", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "7828640", "text": "operates in an efficient, effective and ethical manner. AFFI was founded in 1942 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia. Its subsidiaries are: Alliance for Listeriosis Prevention Frozen Food Foundation National Yogurt Association American Frozen Food Institute The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) is the national trade association that promotes the interests of all segments of the frozen food industry. AFFI unifies a diverse and essential industry in the following ways: AFFI advocates the public policy interests of the industry before legislative and regulatory entities; AFFI serves as the voice of the industry before consumers, policymakers and the media and as", "title": "American Frozen Food Institute" }, { "docid": "7828639", "text": "American Frozen Food Institute The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) is the national trade association that promotes the interests of all segments of the frozen food industry. AFFI unifies a diverse and essential industry in the following ways: AFFI advocates the public policy interests of the industry before legislative and regulatory entities; AFFI serves as the voice of the industry before consumers, policymakers and the media and as a resource to its members; AFFI fosters industry development and growth through networking, educational, research and statistical programs; AFFI promotes increased consumption of frozen foods; and AFFI is a member-driven organization that", "title": "American Frozen Food Institute" }, { "docid": "2205623", "text": "By March 1899, the \"British Refrigeration and Allied Interests\" reported that a food importing business, \"Baerselman Bros\", was shipping some 200,000 frozen geese and chickens per week from three Russian depots to New Star Wharf, Lower Shadwell, London over three or four winter months. This trade in frozen food was enabled by the introduction of Linde cold air freezing plants in three Russian depots and the London warehouse. The Shadwell warehouse stored the frozen goods until they were shipped to markets in London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. The techniques were later expanded into the meat packing industry. From 1929, Clarence", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "2205621", "text": "not grow when the temperature of the food is below , which is sufficient on its own in preventing food spoilage. Long-term preservation of food may call for food storage at even lower temperatures. Carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), a tasteless and odorless stabilizer, is typically added to frozen food because it does not adulterate the quality of the product. Natural food freezing (using winter frosts) had been in use by tribes in cold climates for centuries. In 1861 Thomas Sutcliffe Mort established at Darling Harbour in Sydney, Australia, the first freezing works in the world, which afterwards became the New South Wales", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "2205619", "text": "Frozen food Freezing food preserves it from the time it is prepared to the time it is eaten. Since early times, farmers, fishermen, and trappers have preserved grains and produce in unheated buildings during the winter season. Freezing food slows down decomposition by turning residual moisture into ice, inhibiting the growth of most bacterial species. In the food commodity industry, there are two processes: mechanical and cryogenic (or flash freezing). The freezing kinetics is important to preserve the food quality and texture. Quicker freezing generates smaller ice crystals and maintains cellular structure. Cryogenic freezing is the quickest freezing technology available", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "2205628", "text": "PET trays, and composite and plastic cans. Scientists are continually researching new aspects of frozen food packaging. Active packaging offers a host of new technologies that can actively sense and then neutralize the presence of bacteria or other harmful species. Active packaging can extend shelf-life, maintain product safety, and help preserve the food over a longer period of time. Several functions of active packaging are being researched: Freezing is an effective form of food preservation because the pathogens that cause food spoilage are killed or do not grow very rapidly at reduced temperatures. The process is less effective in food", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "2205624", "text": "Birdseye introduced \"flash freezing\" to the American public. Birdseye first became interested in food freezing during fur-trapping expeditions to Labrador in 1912 and 1916, where he saw the natives use natural freezing to preserve foods. The Icelandic Fisheries Commission was created in 1934 to initiate innovation in the industry, and encouraged fishermen to start quick-freezing their catch. Íshúsfélag Ísfirðinga, one of the first frozen fish companies, was formed in Ísafjörður, Iceland by a merger in 1937. More advanced attempts include food frozen for Eleanor Roosevelt on her trip to Russia. Other experiments, involving orange juice, ice cream and vegetables were", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "2205631", "text": "and the number of ice crystals formed within a food product's cells and extracellular space. Slow freezing leads to fewer but larger ice crystals while fast freezing leads to smaller but more numerous ice crystals. Large ice crystals can puncture the walls of the cells of the food product which will cause a degradation of the texture of the product as well as the loss of its natural juices during thawing. That is why there will be a qualitative difference observed between food products frozen by ventilated mechanical freezing, non-ventilated mechanical freezing or cryogenic freezing with liquid nitrogen. According to", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "2205620", "text": "due to the ultra low liquid nitrogen temperature . Preserving food in domestic kitchens during modern times is achieved using household freezers. Accepted advice to householders was to freeze food on the day of purchase. An initiative by a supermarket group in 2012 (backed by the UK's Waste & Resources Action Programme) promotes the freezing of food \"as soon as possible up to the product's 'use by' date\". The Food Standards Agency was reported as supporting the change, providing the food had been stored correctly up to that time. Frozen products do not require any added preservatives because microorganisms do", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "2205625", "text": "conducted by the military near the end of World War II. The freezing technique itself, just like the frozen food market, is developing to become faster, more efficient and more cost-effective. Mechanical freezers were the first to be used in the food industry and are used in the vast majority of freezing / refrigerating lines. They function by circulating a refrigerant, normally ammonia, around the system, which withdraws heat from the food product. This heat is then transferred to a condenser and dissipated into air or water. The refrigerant itself, now a high pressure, hot liquid, is directed into an", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "2205630", "text": "should be defrosted prior to cooking to achieve the best outcome: cooked through evenly and of good texture. Ideally, most frozen foods should be defrosted in a refrigerator to avoid significant growth of pathogens. However, this can take considerable time. Food is often defrosted in one of several ways: People sometimes defrost frozen foods at room temperature because of time constraints or ignorance; such foods should be promptly consumed after cooking or discarded and never be refrozen or refrigerated since pathogens are not killed by the freezing process. The speed of the freezing has a direct impact on the size", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "2205627", "text": "foods are cooked in a microwave oven, manufacturers have developed packaging that can go straight from freezer to the microwave. In 1974, the first differential heating container (DHC) was sold to the public. A DHC is a sleeve of metal designed to allow frozen foods to receive the correct amount of heat. Various sized apertures were positioned around the sleeve. The consumer would put the frozen dinner into the sleeve according to what needed the most heat. This ensured proper cooking. Today there are multiple options for packaging frozen foods. Boxes, cartons, bags, pouches, Boil-in-Bags, lidded trays and pans, crystallized", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "2205622", "text": "Fresh Food and Ice Company. Mort financed experiments by Eugene Dominic Nicolle, a French born engineer who had arrived in Sydney in 1853 and registered his first ice-making patent in 1861. The first trial shipment of frozen meat to London was in 1868. Although their machinery was never used in the frozen meat trade, Mort and Nicolle developed commercially viable systems for domestic trade, although the financial return on that investment was not a great success for Mort. By 1885 a small number of chicken and geese were being shipped from Russia to London in insulated cases using this technique.", "title": "Frozen food" }, { "docid": "6238520", "text": "Associated Food Stores Associated Food Stores is an American retailers cooperative that supplies about 500 independently owned retail supermarkets throughout Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Nevada, and Wyoming. The headquarters for Associated Foods is located at 1850 W 2100 South in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The company's President and CEO is Neal Berube. It reported over US$1.6 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ) in sales during fiscal year 2007 and is currently the fifty-sixth largest grocery retailer in the country by volume with 23% of its total sales coming from its corporate stores. Associated Food Stores", "title": "Associated Food Stores" }, { "docid": "6238523", "text": "locations. Popular stores owned and/or supplied by Associated Food Stores: Associated Food Stores is a primary distributor of the popular store brand Western Family owned by Western Family Foods. This also includes Better Buy, Shurfine, Shursavings, and Marketchoice brands. Associated Food Stores Associated Food Stores is an American retailers cooperative that supplies about 500 independently owned retail supermarkets throughout Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Nevada, and Wyoming. The headquarters for Associated Foods is located at 1850 W 2100 South in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The company's President and CEO is Neal Berube. It reported over US$1.6 billion", "title": "Associated Food Stores" }, { "docid": "20306585", "text": "Shanti Celeste Shanti Celeste (pronounced [ʃanti cɵɭɵstɵ]) is a Chilean DJ from Bristol. Her music style is associated with House, Electronic, and Techno. Celeste was born in Chile but moved to the United Kingdom when she was 12, as her mother married an English man. She had her first contact to electronic music on rave parties in the Lake District at the age of 15. After completing high school, Celeste moved to Bristol for an illustration course at the University of the West of England. In Bristol, she got to know \"Chris Farrell\", a Bristol-based DJ and head of the", "title": "Shanti Celeste" }, { "docid": "9920372", "text": "Celeste Imperio was founded in 1994. The cooking style of Celeste Imperio is based on the Cantonese style tradition from the small town Jiu Jiang (九江) in Guangdong province. However, seeing the need of making Chinese food appealing to Salvadorans, the restaurant modified some of their cooking styles, naming it Chinese-Salvadoran. Although there are a few modifications, the dishes still have the distinctive taste of the Cantonese style cooking. Many Salvadorans were attracted to the taste of this new hybrid cooking style and made Celeste Imperio their favourite place for a family dinner or lunch. Celeste Imperio Celeste Imperio is", "title": "Celeste Imperio" }, { "docid": "20306587", "text": "to Berlin. The following year, she debuted her own label, Peach Discs. The DJ's 2017 tour schedules includes performances in some of the world's most renowned clubs and festivals, such as Berlin's techno temple Berghain, Corsica Studios in London, the Dutch festival Dekmantel, and the Bulgarian indie festival Meadows in the Mountains. On top of her assignments as DJ, music producer, and event curator, she also runs a monthly radio show at NTS Radio. Shanti Celeste Shanti Celeste (pronounced [ʃanti cɵɭɵstɵ]) is a Chilean DJ from Bristol. Her music style is associated with House, Electronic, and Techno. Celeste was born", "title": "Shanti Celeste" }, { "docid": "10040862", "text": "peanut butter, Sea Bream Carpaccio, Eel rice bowl, Squid fried rice and more. In the (marginally) more advanced \"Let's Cook!\" mode, the player is tasked with preparing a recipe without instructions between steps and without making a mistake that could ruin the fun of the game. This is done ostensibly at the request of Mama or one of 9 different \"friends\", who \"taste\" the dish and provide feedback such as \"It's Delicious!\" If the recipe is completed without failing any individual step. Assuming the dish is edible, the player may then be rewarded with an unlockable item or introduced to", "title": "Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends" }, { "docid": "13590264", "text": "Celeste Mendoza Celeste Mendoza (born Santiago de Cuba 6 April 1930, died Havana 22 November 1998), was a Cuban singer. Celeste Mendoza was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1930. She was best known for her singing of guaguancos, the music of the street rumbas, a form of music previously almost exclusively associated with male singers. She started her professional career as a dancer, appearing at various cabarets, including shows choreographed by \"Rodney\" Neyras at the Tropicana. In the late 1950s she signed with Gema Records, and made a series of recordings with Bebo Valdez's orchestra. She also recorded with", "title": "Celeste Mendoza" }, { "docid": "9469995", "text": "Celeste De Blasis Celeste De Blasis (1946–2001) was a successful American author of historical romance novels. Celeste N. De Blasis was born on May 8, 1946 in Santa Monica, California. She grew up at the Kemper Campbell Ranch in Victorville, California in the high Mojave Desert. She attended Wellesley College, later transferred to Oregon State University, and in 1968 was graduated from Pomona College where her longing to be back home at the ranch had drawn her. She continued to live on the ranch until her death from complications associated with lupus erythematosus on April 13, 2001. Celeste De Blasis", "title": "Celeste De Blasis" }, { "docid": "13884415", "text": "their study of the Chinese language. Where is Mama Where is Mama or Where's Mama (), is a short Chinese animated film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio in 1960 under the artistic guidance of Te Wei. The narrated film describes the adventures and misadventures of a group of tadpoles in search of their mother. It is one of Te Wei's first attempts to break away from Western style animation and aim for a painterly style influenced by Qi Baishi and more in keeping with native Chinese aesthetic sensibilities. Because of its simple story line and repetitive script it is", "title": "Where is Mama" }, { "docid": "13884414", "text": "Where is Mama Where is Mama or Where's Mama (), is a short Chinese animated film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio in 1960 under the artistic guidance of Te Wei. The narrated film describes the adventures and misadventures of a group of tadpoles in search of their mother. It is one of Te Wei's first attempts to break away from Western style animation and aim for a painterly style influenced by Qi Baishi and more in keeping with native Chinese aesthetic sensibilities. Because of its simple story line and repetitive script it is ideal for children who are beginning", "title": "Where is Mama" }, { "docid": "2308016", "text": "may not contain live and active bacteria cultures. People have been eating plain yogurt for over four millennia, particularly in the Middle East and India. Yogurt was brought to the U.S. in the early 1900s and steadily increased in popularity as a health food item over the next several decades. In the 1930s Dannon began selling prepackaged yogurt for the first time in the U.S. By the 1970s, with the popularity of ice cream surging, freezing and production technology was transferred to the production of frozen yogurt. Many consumers, however, complained about the yogurt taste. Capitalizing on consumer demand for", "title": "Frozen yogurt" }, { "docid": "4328052", "text": "Food truck A food truck is a large vehicle equipped to cook and sell food. Some, including ice cream trucks, sell frozen or prepackaged food; others have on-board kitchens and prepare food from scratch. Sandwiches, hamburgers, french fries, and other regional fast food fare is common. In recent years, associated with the pop-up restaurant phenomenon, food trucks offering gourmet cuisine and a variety of specialties and ethnic menus, have become particularly popular. Food trucks, along with portable food booths and food carts, are on the front line of the street food industry that serves an estimated 2.5 billion people every", "title": "Food truck" }, { "docid": "15820731", "text": "kindergarten years. By 1955, she started singing professionally with The Ambivalent Crowd, earning ₱25 per performance. While in college, she appeared in \"Show Boat\" as Magnolia followed by her performance as Nancy in the Philippine presentation of \"Oliver!\". But she later confessed that her performance in \"Show Boat\" scared her. \"There I was, cracking every night, unable to be heard from the musical accompaniment, with Mama holding on to my sister Diana's hand. As a result I was disillusioned with my singing and with my course then--nursing,\" Legaspi told in an interview. But the then 16-year-old Celeste Legaspi didn't give", "title": "Celeste Legaspi" }, { "docid": "6238522", "text": "to open some of their stores on Sundays. In 2009, Associated Food Stores purchased 34 Albertsons stores in Utah from Supervalu Inc. The stores were renamed Associated Fresh Market (more commonly known as just \"Fresh Market\"). As of June 2017, however, only 17 of the originally purchased locations were still under the Fresh Market banner, the rest having been either closed or sold. In 2017, two Fresh Market locations in Murray and Holladay were re-branded as Macey's. As well as supplying independent grocers, Associated Food Stores also owns several corporate stores under five different names, operating a total of 42", "title": "Associated Food Stores" }, { "docid": "9845145", "text": "Mama Say \"Mama Say\" is the debut single of the Bloodhound Gang. It was originally released as a single from the band's 1994 EP, \"Dingleberry Haze\", but is usually associated with the 1995 album \"Use Your Fingers\". The single features the song remixed by God Lives Underwater. The song samples Michael Jackson's 1983 single \"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'\" in the repeated line \"Mama say, mama sa mama cu sa\" in its chorus; the title is taken from both this sample and the song \"Soul Makossa\", which inspired the Jackson tune. Another credited sample is from Duran Duran's \"Save A Prayer\".", "title": "Mama Say" }, { "docid": "5244223", "text": "in cross-linguistic semantics. Polarity item In linguistics, a polarity item is a lexical item that can appear only in environments associated with a particular grammatical polarity – affirmative or negative. A polarity item that appears in affirmative (positive) contexts is called a positive polarity item (PPI), and one that appears in negative contexts is a negative polarity item (NPI). The environment in which a polarity item is permitted to appear is called a \"licensing context\". In the simplest case, an affirmative statement provides a licensing context for a PPI, while negation provides a licensing context for an NPI. However, there", "title": "Polarity item" }, { "docid": "5244216", "text": "Polarity item In linguistics, a polarity item is a lexical item that can appear only in environments associated with a particular grammatical polarity – affirmative or negative. A polarity item that appears in affirmative (positive) contexts is called a positive polarity item (PPI), and one that appears in negative contexts is a negative polarity item (NPI). The environment in which a polarity item is permitted to appear is called a \"licensing context\". In the simplest case, an affirmative statement provides a licensing context for a PPI, while negation provides a licensing context for an NPI. However, there are many complications,", "title": "Polarity item" }, { "docid": "6195914", "text": "Circle. Associated Grocers of Florida Was bought out by SuperValu in late 2017. Associated Grocers of Florida, Inc. is a retailers' cooperative based in Pompano Beach that distributes full lines of groceries and general merchandise. Founded in 1945, it provides retail services to independent Supermarkets. Associated Grocers of Florida is a wholesale distributor and exporter of groceries, meat, produce, dairy, ice cream, frozen food, general merchandise, health and beauty care, and store supplies to supermarkets throughout Florida, Central America, South America, and Caribbean countries. Store Brands include IGA, Shurfine, Shurfresh, Paws Premium Pet Care, Valutime, Top Care, Food Club, and", "title": "Associated Grocers of Florida" }, { "docid": "6195913", "text": "Associated Grocers of Florida Was bought out by SuperValu in late 2017. Associated Grocers of Florida, Inc. is a retailers' cooperative based in Pompano Beach that distributes full lines of groceries and general merchandise. Founded in 1945, it provides retail services to independent Supermarkets. Associated Grocers of Florida is a wholesale distributor and exporter of groceries, meat, produce, dairy, ice cream, frozen food, general merchandise, health and beauty care, and store supplies to supermarkets throughout Florida, Central America, South America, and Caribbean countries. Store Brands include IGA, Shurfine, Shurfresh, Paws Premium Pet Care, Valutime, Top Care, Food Club, and Full", "title": "Associated Grocers of Florida" }, { "docid": "14977863", "text": "Fred's Frozen Foods Fred's Frozen Foods and Fred's for Starters are frozen food brands that traces their origin to Fred Luker who first started manufacturing frozen meat and vegetable products in Noblesville, Indiana in 1947. As of 2002, both brands are operated by Windsor Quality Food Company, LTD, which is ultimately owned by the Hojel and Meinig families through their holding company HM International based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Fred W. Luker was an entrepreneur and inventor. In 1947, he established Fred's Frozen Foods to provide frozen meat patties and frozen bread vegetables to the wholesale food service industry. Fred's Frozen", "title": "Fred's Frozen Foods" }, { "docid": "9920371", "text": "Celeste Imperio Celeste Imperio is a famous Chinese restaurant in El Salvador. It was founded in 1994 and served as one of the pillars of modern Chinese food in this small Central American country. The most attractive characteristic of this Chinese restaurant is the Chinese style façade, which resembles those of ancient Chinese palaces. To date, this is the only Chinese style façade in El Salvador. Famous dishes from this restaurant are Chow Mein, Cantonese style rice, Chop Suey and fried wantan. The flavour and style of many of the dishes were modified to suit the taste buds of Salvadorans.", "title": "Celeste Imperio" }, { "docid": "4423998", "text": "1633 were discovered among his papers. Galileo's responses to Maria Celeste—possibly describing what kind of help she brought to his work and describing his state of mind during the Roman trial—seem to have been lost. Maria Celeste's letters have been published: Maria Celeste Sister Maria Celeste (16 August 1600<nowiki> </nowiki>– 2 April 1634), born Virginia Galilei, was a nun. She was the daughter of the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei and Marina Gamba. Virginia was the eldest of three siblings, with a sister Livia and a brother Vincenzio. All three were born out of wedlock, and the two daughters were considered", "title": "Maria Celeste" }, { "docid": "6238521", "text": "was founded in 1940 by Donald P. Lloyd, president of the Utah Retail Grocers Association along with 34 Utah retailers. Concerned with effect that large corporate stores would have on small independent retailers, he felt the only way these small businesses could survive is if they united and faced the competition as one, therefore increasing their collective buying power. He convinced 34 stores to donate $300 (equivalent to $ in ) to help build an independent and \"associated\" warehouse. In 1999, Associated Food Stores purchased Utah grocery store chain Macey's. In August 2017, Macey's broke with 70-year tradition by deciding", "title": "Associated Food Stores" }, { "docid": "14977874", "text": "pastas) and Fred's Frozen Foods (frozen meatballs and snacks). Industry estimated that Specialty Brands Inc. was worth $100 million to $200 million. Annual revenues were estimated to be $300 million in 2001. Stephens Inc., a Little Rock, Arkansas investment bank represented Tyson in the sale. Windsor Food operates Fred's Frozen Foods as Fred's for Starters. Windsor Quality Food Company, LTD is whole owned by the Hojel and Meinig families of Tulsa, Oklahoma through their holding company HM International, LLC. Fred's Frozen Foods Fred's Frozen Foods and Fred's for Starters are frozen food brands that traces their origin to Fred Luker", "title": "Fred's Frozen Foods" }, { "docid": "6961001", "text": "put rat in my ratatouille\", and indicated that not all of Mama's recipes are meat-based. PETA stated that they were happy with the release of \"Gardening Mama\", a spin-off of the series. Cooking Mama In \"Cooking Mama\", the player is tasked with cooking various meals using the device's touch screen. Following the instructions of the titular \"Mama\", the player uses the stylus or their finger to perform different kitchen tasks, including chopping vegetables, slicing meat, flipping food in pans, and arranging the final items on the plate. The version of the game for iOS also takes advantage of the accelerometer", "title": "Cooking Mama" }, { "docid": "8056428", "text": "to perform the action and report back to the group on the results. Action items are usually documented in the meeting minutes and are recorded in the task list of the group. As people complete action items, the items are documented as being completed and the item is removed from the list of outstanding action items. There are many attributes that can be associated with an action item - e.g.: A usual format for an action item is to record an action item number, the date when the action item is identified or created, the name of the person to", "title": "Action item" }, { "docid": "10919990", "text": "broccoli casserole, and sweet tea. It is said that through the Southern, home-style cooking Mama Lo served to loyal customers for over three decades, she put her four children through college in Gainesville. Mama Lo's was located at 618 NW 6th Street in Gainesville, Florida. Lorene \"Mama Lo\" Alexander died in 2007, at the age of 85. Mama Lo's Mama Lo's was a popular and well-known soul food restaurant located in Gainesville, Florida. It was founded by, operated by, and named for Lorene \"Mama Lo\" Alexander in 1975 until her retirement in 2005. Located only a few blocks from the", "title": "Mama Lo's" }, { "docid": "13165364", "text": "still very popular today. Mildred Council, better known as \"Mama Dip,\" started and owns the restaurant. Mama Dip's cooking and life story have earned her a large fan base beyond the community of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She opened the restaurant with $64: $40 for food and $24 to make change. The morning's profits were used to fund lunch, and the lunch profits to make dinner. At the end of the day, Mama Dip took home $135. Mama Dip learned to cook by watching her family members and is famous for her \"dump\" cooking style. Dump cooking involves no recipes,", "title": "Mama Dip's" }, { "docid": "2308015", "text": "Frozen yogurt Frozen yogurt (also spelled frozen yoghurt; also known as frogurt or by the tradename Froyo ) is a frozen dessert made with yogurt and sometimes other dairy products and non-dairy products. It is usually more tart than ice cream, as well as lower in fat (due to the use of milk instead of cream). It is different from ice milk (more recently termed low-fat or light ice cream) and conventional soft serve. Unlike yogurt, frozen yogurt is not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but is regulated by some U.S. states. Frozen yogurt may or", "title": "Frozen yogurt" }, { "docid": "13165365", "text": "just measure by eye, feel, taste, and testing. She has written two noteworthy books: \"Mama Dip's Kitchen\" and \"Mama Dip's Family Cookbook\". Her books share not only recipes, but also great stories about her life in food. Mama Dip celebrates the importance of family and community based around cuisine, Southern cooking in particular. She has been featured on Good Morning America and on the Food Network's Cooking Live. She also appeared on an episode of Rachael Ray's \"$40 a Day\". She said, referring to \"Mama Dip's Kitchen\", that if it were not for the restaurant, then she would have not", "title": "Mama Dip's" }, { "docid": "7567870", "text": "MPEG-21 proposes to facilitate a wide range of actions involving Digital Items so there is a need for a very precise description for defining exactly what constitutes such an item. A \"Digital Item Declaration\" (DID) is a document that specifies the makeup, structure and organisation of a Digital Item. The purpose of the Digital Item Declaration is to describe a set of abstract terms and concepts, to form a useful model for defining what a Digital Item is. Following this model, a Digital Item is the digital representation of an object, which is managed, described or exchanged within the model.", "title": "Digital Item" }, { "docid": "10040859", "text": "Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends, released as in Japan, is the sequel to the Nintendo DS video game \"Cooking Mama\" and its Wii successor, \"\". The game has twice as many minigames as the original, new recipes, and a new multiplayer \"Cook Off\" mode. The game includes voice clips similar to the ones used in \"Cooking Mama: Cook Off\". The successor to this game, \"\" for the Wii, was released on November 18, 2008. As in the original \"The Cooking Mama\", players in \"The Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends\", prepare various culinary", "title": "Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends" }, { "docid": "12697206", "text": "mode, Gardening Mama supports wireless multiplayer, along with \"Download Play\". During such a contest, players compete in individual minigames. Players can also exchange produce they have grown with the \"Cute Treasure Chest\" function. If a player completes a stage under a certain time they receive a \"bonus sapling\". For every three bonuses earned players receive an unlockable item, such as accessories for Mama, decorative gardening items, or extra items that can be used in the game. There are two bonus sections: \"Decorate the Garden!\" and \"Make it Fancy!\" In \"Decorate the Garden\", players can add decorative items they have unlocked", "title": "Gardening Mama" }, { "docid": "6960993", "text": "Cooking Mama In \"Cooking Mama\", the player is tasked with cooking various meals using the device's touch screen. Following the instructions of the titular \"Mama\", the player uses the stylus or their finger to perform different kitchen tasks, including chopping vegetables, slicing meat, flipping food in pans, and arranging the final items on the plate. The version of the game for iOS also takes advantage of the accelerometer in its devices with some similar gameplay to \"\". Each of these tasks is performed by completing a mini-game which usually lasts less than 10 seconds. The gameplay structure consists of the", "title": "Cooking Mama" }, { "docid": "10008837", "text": "list of all the items in the \"Compendium\" and the \"Dungeon Masters Guide\" by price, and the other is a set of new randomized treasure tables. Each individual item description details the item's price and item level, the equipment slot the item occupies, the caster level required to craft the item, the school of magic the item's effect falls under, the actual effect of the item, the type of player action used to activate the item, the item's weight, and any prerequisites and costs associated with the item's creation or use. A physical description of each item is also included.", "title": "Magic Item Compendium" }, { "docid": "18193093", "text": "was cited as a major reason for a significant decline during 2014 in sales figures for other toy brands, including Hello Kitty and Barbie. The National Retail Federation's 2014 Holiday Top Toys Survey found that 20 percent of U.S. parents planned to buy \"Frozen\"-related merchandise for their girls, compared to only 16.8 percent who planned to buy Barbie merchandise. This meant \"Frozen\" toys were the No. 1 item on \"holiday wish lists of girls\", a position which Barbie had previously held for 11 years. \"The New York Times\" reporter Binyamin Appelbaum compared Disney's spectacular success with the \"Frozen\" merchandise brand", "title": "Frozen (franchise)" }, { "docid": "14443085", "text": "field', and mothering and sustenance. Big Mama stela The Big Mama stela is one of a group of steles from the Arco area of northwestern Italy. The stele may be associated with the culture to which Otzi the Iceman is archaeologically linked. The stele is one of a group of six from the region. The Big Mama stele is tall and made from sandstone. The iconography of the Big Mama stela is as follows: The seven \"archaic daggers\" have semi-circular, buttressed perpendicular handle terminations. The central vertical dagger handle termination is doubly ornamented. The corded belt may symbolize a \"\"broad", "title": "Big Mama stela" }, { "docid": "14443084", "text": "Big Mama stela The Big Mama stela is one of a group of steles from the Arco area of northwestern Italy. The stele may be associated with the culture to which Otzi the Iceman is archaeologically linked. The stele is one of a group of six from the region. The Big Mama stele is tall and made from sandstone. The iconography of the Big Mama stela is as follows: The seven \"archaic daggers\" have semi-circular, buttressed perpendicular handle terminations. The central vertical dagger handle termination is doubly ornamented. The corded belt may symbolize a \"\"broad collar\"\", that represents the 'agricultural", "title": "Big Mama stela" }, { "docid": "6887108", "text": "most notable varieties come from Ningbo in Zhejiang Province. However, they are traditionally eaten throughout China. Tangyuan have also come to be associated with the Winter Solstice and Chinese New Year in various regions. Today, the food is eaten all year round. Mass-produced tangyuan are commonly found in the frozen food section of Asian supermarkets in China and overseas. In Indonesia, an adapted version, called \"Wedang Ronde\" (\"Wedang\" in Javanese means \"Beverages\", and \"Ronde\" means \"round ball\"), is one of the most popular comfort food during chill temperature that's been served in mild crushed and thin sliced ginger root soup", "title": "Tangyuan (food)" }, { "docid": "10919989", "text": "Mama Lo's Mama Lo's was a popular and well-known soul food restaurant located in Gainesville, Florida. It was founded by, operated by, and named for Lorene \"Mama Lo\" Alexander in 1975 until her retirement in 2005. Located only a few blocks from the University of Florida, the establishment proved popular with students, townsfolk and travellers alike. It was also frequented by many local musicians such as Bo Diddley, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Stranger Band and Sister Hazel. With reasonably-priced lunch dishes, UF alumni over the decades reminisce about their favorite Mama Lo's servings, such as chicken and rice,", "title": "Mama Lo's" }, { "docid": "9845146", "text": "The music video consists purely of Jimmy Pop and Daddy Long Legs performing in a street for a large crowd. M.S.G. and Skip O'Pot2Mus are shown in a few shots. Lüpüs Thünder is not shown at all. Mama Say \"Mama Say\" is the debut single of the Bloodhound Gang. It was originally released as a single from the band's 1994 EP, \"Dingleberry Haze\", but is usually associated with the 1995 album \"Use Your Fingers\". The single features the song remixed by God Lives Underwater. The song samples Michael Jackson's 1983 single \"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'\" in the repeated line \"Mama", "title": "Mama Say" }, { "docid": "10040865", "text": "\"Cooking Mama 2\" was nominated for BAFTA Children's Kids Vote Award, but lost to \"Hannah Montana\". Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends, released as in Japan, is the sequel to the Nintendo DS video game \"Cooking Mama\" and its Wii successor, \"\". The game has twice as many minigames as the original, new recipes, and a new multiplayer \"Cook Off\" mode. The game includes voice clips similar to the ones used in \"Cooking Mama: Cook Off\". The successor to this game, \"\" for the Wii, was released on November 18, 2008. As in the", "title": "Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends" }, { "docid": "9028496", "text": "Mount Celeste Mount Celeste is the unofficial name for a mountain located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It shares the name Celeste with two peaks in the Cariboo region of the BC Interior. Within the boundaries of Strathcona Provincial Park, this peak lies at the north end of Rees Ridge. Iceberg Peak lies at the south end of this ridge. The first ascent of this peak is credited to Jack Horbury and Jock Sutherland on August 18, 1934. Mount Celeste is featured as the primary setting in the 2018 platforming game Celeste. The game is about the personal struggles the", "title": "Mount Celeste" }, { "docid": "10540771", "text": "acting debut, Lil Mama made what SOHH called an \"Epic Comeback\". Lil Mama was back on red carpets, Award Shows, Talk Shows, and magazine covers. In 2016 Lil Mama made an appearance on Hip Hop Squares as contestant, the episode was highlighted because of the controversy Tamar Braxton started with the host. That same year Lil Mama, alongside with Dej Loaf gave a tribute to Lil' Kim at the VH1 Hip Hop Honors, Kim even thanked Mama later with a post of the tribute on her Instagram page. In June 2015, Lil Mama was listed as a featured speaker at", "title": "Lil Mama" }, { "docid": "20999961", "text": "Cooking Mama (series) Cooking Mama is a series of cookery simulation-styled minigame compilation video games developed by Cooking Mama Limited. Generally, the gameplay revolves around performing different kitchen tasks, through the instructions of \"Mama\", to cook various meals. The series so far consists of eight main games and five spin-offs, released between the Nintendo DS, Wii, Nintendo 3DS and iOS. The series' gameplay involves following the instructions of the titular \"Mama\" to cook various meals. This is performed by using the device's controller, typically the touch screen, to perform various kitchen tasks such as chopping vegetables, slicing meat, flipping food", "title": "Cooking Mama (series)" }, { "docid": "14977868", "text": "and server frozen food products. To meet the rapid growth, the Martens expanded Fred’s Frozen Foods product line to 40 items including breaded frozen vegetables, frozen ethnic entrees, frozen pre-portioned meats and frozen breaded meats. In addition, the Marten added a second manufacturing facility in Carthage, Missouri, increased the distribution network to cover 29 states and increased sales to $6 million in 1970. The Martens sold Fred's Frozen Foods to Central Soya in 1970 for an undisclosed amount. Central Soya, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a leading soybean miller and food processor purchased Fred's Frozen Foods from the Marten Family", "title": "Fred's Frozen Foods" }, { "docid": "20602007", "text": "Mama Dragons Mama Dragons is a support organization for Mormon and former-Mormon mothers of LGBTQ children. The group has garnered media attention for its advocacy and efforts to prevent LGBT Mormon suicides, as well as for bringing a spotlight to the intersection of religion, family, sexual orientation, and gender expression. Additionally, a photojournalism project called the Mama Dragons Story Project documenting the stories of parents of Mormon backgrounds with queer children has received media coverage. The organization has received attention from national media sources such as Al Jazeera, NPR, Vox, the Associated Press Slate, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Great", "title": "Mama Dragons" }, { "docid": "3234951", "text": "Rankin to take on Celeste. Celeste won a second term by around 9,000 votes. Less vulnerable in 2010 but still contentious, Celeste faced Republican Nathan Larger. However, the race proved to be closer than anticipated, and Celeste won by less than 3,000 votes. In the end, Budish defeated Celeste, Book, and Matt Szollosi to take the Speaker position. Celeste has been vocal about concerns regarding a bill to replace overtime with comp time. \"I think we've gone in the wrong direction,\" he said before voting against the bill. Along with Nickie Antonio, Celeste has introduced legislation to end the death", "title": "Ted Celeste" }, { "docid": "3219922", "text": "currently married to Jacqueline Lundquist. Celeste and Lundquist have one child, Samuel. Celeste has 13 grandchildren, including two who were students at Colorado College. His brother, Theodore S. Celeste, successfully ran as a Democratic Party candidate for the Ohio House in 2006. The Celeste Center at the Ohio Expo Center and State Fair in Columbus, Ohio, is named in honor of Celeste. The Richard F. Celeste Laboratory of Chemistry on the Columbus Campus of The Ohio State University is named in honor of the former Governor. In addition, the Richard F. Celeste Theater at the Cornerstone Arts Center of Colorado", "title": "Dick Celeste" }, { "docid": "2434636", "text": "between the two vessels, sending Deveau and two experienced seamen to \"Mary Celeste\", while he and four others remained on \"Dei Gratia\". The weather was relatively calm for most of the way to Gibraltar, but with each ship seriously undermanned, progress was slow. \"Dei Gratia\" reached Gibraltar on December 12, 1872, and \"Mary Celeste\", which had encountered fog, arrived on the following morning. She was immediately impounded by the vice admiralty court, preparatory to salvage hearings. Deveau wrote to his wife that the ordeal of bringing the ship in was such that \"I can hardly tell what I am made", "title": "Mary Celeste" }, { "docid": "7567869", "text": "Digital Item Digital Item is the basic unit of transaction in the MPEG-21 framework. It is a structured digital object, including a standard representation, identification and metadata. A Digital Item may be a combination of resources like videos, audio tracks or images; metadata, such as descriptors and identifiers; and structure for describing the relationships between the resources. It is becoming difficult for users of content to identify and interpret the different intellectual property rights that are associated with the elements of multimedia content. For this reason, new solutions are required for the access, delivery, management and protection of this content.", "title": "Digital Item" }, { "docid": "18393315", "text": "Mama Cass (restaurant) \"Mama Cass Restaurants\" is one of the food based companies in Nigeria. In November 1983, Charis Grace Onabowale opened the first location at Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos State. The first outlet carried for the first time the brand \"“Mama Cass Cafeteria”\". Mama Cass Restaurants currently owns a chain of about 14 quick service restaurants and has expanded its service locations to other parts of the country. Besides Lagos, other outlets are located in other Nigerian states including Ogun, Edo, FCT, and also in the United Kingdom. Mama Cass specializes in home cooked traditional African meals and international", "title": "Mama Cass (restaurant)" }, { "docid": "20491262", "text": "Food trucks in South Korea A food truck is a small truck that operates as a restaurant. The height of the cooking area shall be less than 1.5 m (1.2 m) and the area shall be not less than 0.5 m*m and not more than 0.5 m*m. A food truck is a large vehicle equipped to cook and sell food. Some, including ice cream trucks, sell frozen or prepackaged food; others have on-board kitchens and prepare food from scratch. Sandwiches, hamburgers, french fries, and other regional fast food fare is common. In recent years, associated with the pop-up restaurant phenomenon,", "title": "Food trucks in South Korea" }, { "docid": "2686314", "text": "celeste in the blazon for the field, mantling and charge, in each case \"per pale/party\" with sable. \"\"Per pale Bleu Celeste and Sable on a Fess wavy between three Plum Trees eradicated Argent a Wolf courant per pale Sable and Bleu Celeste langued and armed Gules\"\" and \"\"Party Bleu Celeste and Sable doubled Argent\"\" Bleu celeste can also be seen in the arms of Israel and Peru and also in the arms of former Canadian Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn. In the arms of the University of Natal Athletic Union the \"azure\" is defined as \"sky blue\". In addition to bleu", "title": "Bleu celeste" }, { "docid": "14458806", "text": "series \"Overhaulin'\". She appeared in seven episodes from 2014 to 2015. The \"Hooters\" invited Celeste to be a judge at the 2011 Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant. Celeste is featured as an Octagon girl in video games \"UFC Undisputed 2010\", \"UFC Undisputed 3\", \"EA Sports UFC\" and \"EA Sports UFC 2\". In September 2009, high school senior Conner Cordova, a fan of mixed martial arts, asked Celeste to attend his prom with him in a series of three YouTube videos. Celeste agreed, provided that he found a date for her friend. However, Celeste was unable to appear due to her schedule,", "title": "Arianny Celeste" }, { "docid": "3234947", "text": "Ted Celeste Theodore S. \"Ted\" Celeste (born September 27, 1945) is an American politician and a member of the Democratic party in Ohio. Celeste, the brother of former Ohio governor and U.S. ambassador Richard F. Celeste, ran for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and lost to the Republican incumbent, U.S. Sen. R. Michael DeWine. In 2006 Celeste was elected State Representative of the 24th district of Ohio. Celeste is a resident of Grandview Heights, Ohio and is a successful small businessman and an active member of First Community Church. He served in the Peace Corps in Fiji from 1968 to", "title": "Ted Celeste" }, { "docid": "18186706", "text": "Martinez, who was sometimes himself called \"Mama Lucy\". Tom Brown Jr., representative for Eddy-Chaves, was known as \"the bald-headed Mama Lucy.\" The senators Manny Aragon and Jerry Apodaca were associated with the Mama Lucy Gang. Apodaca would later become governor. The Mama Lucy Gang pushed various progressive measures through the legislature over the next six years. These included changes to school funding and measures to protect the environment and promote equal rights. The \"Mama Lucies\" had a fundamental impact on New Mexico politics. Their opponents complained of the group's \"steamroller tactics.\" Walter Martinez was called a \"quiet, soft-spoken and popular", "title": "Mama Lucy Gang" }, { "docid": "13575142", "text": "impose civil fines. Federal agencies often will coordinate with state or local authorities to remove unsafe food from the market as quickly as possible. Adulterated food Adulteration is a legal term meaning that a food product fails to meet the legal standards. One form of adulteration is an addition of another substance to a food item in order to increase the quantity of the food item in raw form or prepared form, which may result in the loss of actual quality of food item. These substances may be either available food items or non-food items. Among meat and meat products", "title": "Adulterated food" }, { "docid": "2903591", "text": "chains in the United States include Culver's, headquartered in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, with outlets in 20 states; Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, based in Wichita, Kansas, with more than 300 locations nationwide; Andy's Frozen Custard, based in Springfield, Missouri, with over 30 locations; Ted Drewes Frozen Custard in St. Louis, Rita’s in Southern California and Abbott's Frozen Custard, in Rochester, New York. In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration requires products marketed as frozen custard to contain at least 10 percent milkfat and 1.4 percent egg yolk solids. If it has a smaller percentage of egg yolk solids,", "title": "Frozen custard" }, { "docid": "13835239", "text": "the time, it was uncommon for a show to end this quickly, with the exception of summer series. In 1970, Holm again appeared as a journalist in a second short-lived sitcom, \"Nancy\" (NBC), in which she played the press secretary of the First Lady of the United States. Honestly, Celeste! Honestly, Celeste! is an eight-episode 1954 CBS sitcom starring Celeste Holm as Celeste Anders, a 37-year-old college journalism professor from Minnesota who accepts a reporter’s position on the staff of the fictitious \"New York Express\" newspaper. In the series premiere, Celeste arrives at Grand Central Station in New York City,", "title": "Honestly, Celeste!" }, { "docid": "10077325", "text": "new brother, even if it was just for a short period. When Lexie passed away, Celeste, Cameron and the rest of Lexie's family gathered to mourn their loss and celebrate Lexie's life. After the funeral, Celeste moved back to Chicago, but continued to visit Salem from time to time. Celeste Perrault Celeste Perrault is a fictional character on soap Days of Our Lives. The character is well known for her psychic abilities in the serial. Celeste was portrayed by Tanya Boyd and Beverly Todd. Celeste was portrayed by Tanya Boyd from 1994 to October 2007. In 2012, it was originally", "title": "Celeste Perrault" }, { "docid": "13509500", "text": "Celeste River Celeste River () is a river in Tenorio Volcano National Park of Costa Rica. It is notable for its distinctive turquoise coloration. The Celeste River also borders several hot springs and has one large waterfall. It takes about an hour to hike to the waterfall from the park's entrance. The source of the river's distinctive turquoise color is not a due to a chemical species but to a physical phenomenon known as Mie scattering. Celeste River is fed by two colorless rivers, the Buenavista River and Sour Creek. Buenavista River carries a large concentration of aluminosilicate particles with", "title": "Celeste River" }, { "docid": "6894055", "text": "Celeste Center Celeste Center is a 10,200-seat multipurpose arena, part of the Ohio Expo Center and State Fairgrounds in Columbus, Ohio. The building, named for former Ohio Governor and United States Ambassador to India Richard F. Celeste, is used for concerts, trade shows, banquets, and sporting events. The arena contains . of unobstructed floor space and two stages, one a -by-32-foot permanent stage and a portable stage measuring up to by . It also features air conditioning, an excellent sound system, dressing rooms with showers, large rest rooms, office space and concession stands. The Celeste Center is a rather low", "title": "Celeste Center" }, { "docid": "14458807", "text": "so the plan changed to attending another dance. That also proved impossible, so Cordova and Celeste sponsored their own event, which doubled as a fundraiser for victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. In 2013, Celeste, along with female mixed martial artists from various promotions, auctioned their sports bras on eBay to raise money for breast cancer research. Arianny Celeste Arianny Celeste (born Penelope López Márquez on November 12, 1985) () is an American ring girl and model. She is best known for being a ring girl for the UFC. She is also a co-host on TV show \"Overhaulin'\" and a", "title": "Arianny Celeste" }, { "docid": "12459066", "text": "Celeste Beard Celeste Beard Johnson (born February 13, 1963), more commonly known as Celeste Beard, is a convicted American murderer who is serving a life sentence at the Murray Unit in Gatesville, Texas for the 1999 murder of her millionaire husband, Steven Beard. She is Texas Department of Criminal Justice offender #01157250. Celeste Johnson's biological parents are unknown. She claimed that her adoptive parents, Edwin and Nancy Johnson, physically abused her as a child and she made a suicidal gesture during puberty. At age 17, Johnson became pregnant and gave birth to twins, Jennifer and Kristina, with first husband Craig", "title": "Celeste Beard" }, { "docid": "18171044", "text": "Mama Sita's Holding Company Mama Sita's Holding Company, Inc. (founded as Marigold Commodities Corporation) is a Philippine based manufacturer of condiments, selling its products under the brand, Mama Sita's. The brand is named after Teresita \"Mama Sita\" R. Reyes, matriarch of the company's founders, the spouses Bartolome B. Lapus and Clara R. Reyes Lapus. Teresita \"Mama Sita\" R. Reyes was born in Manila on May 11, 1917, a daughter of Justice Alex Reyes and Engracia \"Aling Asiang\" Cruz-Reyes, founder of The Aristocrat Restaurant. She had an interest in Filipino food and created a business devoted to creating recipes and selling", "title": "Mama Sita's Holding Company" }, { "docid": "21007000", "text": "Potros. On 29 August 2018, Celeste joined Serie C side Siracusa. Francesco Celeste Francesco Daniel Celeste (born 3 May 1994) is an Argentine footballer who plays as a forward for Siracusa. Celeste started his career at Boca Juniors and had a spell on trial at Scottish club Rangers in 2012. He returned to Boca and made his professional debut with them on 1 December 2013, coming on as a substitute and playing the final 27 minutes in a 2-2 draw with Lanús in the Argentine Primera División. He joined LigaPro side Freamunde on loan for the 2015–16 season before returning", "title": "Francesco Celeste" }, { "docid": "16896074", "text": "Celeste (song) \"Celeste\" / \"Así Celeste\" (\"Blue\") is a song recorded by Italian singer Laura Pausini for her studio album \"Inedito\", serving as the album's sixth and last single. The song, produced by Paolo Carta, was written by Laura Pausini and Beppe Dati, with the music being composed by Dati and Goffredo Orlandi. The song was also recorded in a Spanish-language version, titled \"Así Celeste\", which was not released as a single outside Italy, Europe and Brazil. Outside the selected countries, Pausini choose a duet version of \"\"Las cosas que no me espero\"\" with Carlos Baute to be the final", "title": "Celeste (song)" }, { "docid": "16896076", "text": "for domestic downloads exceeding 15,000 units. Much alike the previous videoclips from \"Inedito\", \"Celeste\" was directed by the same Gaetano Morbioli and recorded on October 2012. The video takes place on a simple background at Pausini's house, with her in front of a piano. Images of dandelions flying and flowers are shown between shots of Pausini herself. During many parts of the music video Pausini is shown crying. In the end, Pausini giggles at the screen and cleans her face. Digital Download: Celeste (song) \"Celeste\" / \"Así Celeste\" (\"Blue\") is a song recorded by Italian singer Laura Pausini for her", "title": "Celeste (song)" }, { "docid": "13959478", "text": "Celeste Stoney Celeste Stoney is an American singer and songwriter. She wrote the song, \"Lightning\" for Jessica Sanchez on the Me, You & the Music Philippines edition. She also co-wrote and was featured on the single Bad Girl (Fugative song) for UK rapper Fugative which charted at #9 on the UK Dance Charts. Celeste won 1st prize in the R&B category of the 14th Annual USA Songwriting Competition. Celeste is signed with Peermusic Publishing. Stoney was featured on Perez Hilton, and was featured as \"One To Watch\" in the Music Industry Trade Magazine Amalgamation. Stoney was chosen by the National", "title": "Celeste Stoney" }, { "docid": "10077321", "text": "released on January 23, 2012, by \"Soap Opera Digest\". Fellow actress Renée Jones (who plays her onscreen daughter) praised Boyd's appearance and has stated she is very happy to work with her. Celeste was originally introduced in April 1994 as Stefano DiMera's confidante and former lover at the Maison Blanche plantation in New Orleans. Celeste is a Creole woman whose past was originally shrouded in much secrecy. Later, it was revealed that Celeste was Lexie Carver's \"Aunt Frankie.\" In 1996, however, Lexie found out that Celeste was her mother, and that she had been adopted by her \"Aunt Frankie's\" sister,", "title": "Celeste Perrault" }, { "docid": "3234954", "text": "decided to retire from the Ohio House to run for the newly redrawn Ohio's 3rd congressional district, based in the city of Columbus in the county of Franklin. Celeste placed last out of four contenders. Ted Celeste Theodore S. \"Ted\" Celeste (born September 27, 1945) is an American politician and a member of the Democratic party in Ohio. Celeste, the brother of former Ohio governor and U.S. ambassador Richard F. Celeste, ran for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and lost to the Republican incumbent, U.S. Sen. R. Michael DeWine. In 2006 Celeste was elected State Representative of the 24th district", "title": "Ted Celeste" }, { "docid": "18393316", "text": "cuisines and other specialties like Oven Fresh pastries, Jaydens Sliced Bread. In addition to the restaurant chain, a bakery and Industrial catering also operates. It has expanded into industrial canteen management, private function catering and high volume bread production. Mama Cass (restaurant) \"Mama Cass Restaurants\" is one of the food based companies in Nigeria. In November 1983, Charis Grace Onabowale opened the first location at Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos State. The first outlet carried for the first time the brand \"“Mama Cass Cafeteria”\". Mama Cass Restaurants currently owns a chain of about 14 quick service restaurants and has expanded its", "title": "Mama Cass (restaurant)" }, { "docid": "13165366", "text": "have put her books together. Craig Claiborne, a food critic for the New York Times, has written about the restaurant as well. Mrs. Council died on May 20, 2018, after a period of ill health. Mama Dip's Mama Dip's is a traditional country cooking restaurant located at 408 W. Rosemary Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. They serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner, seven days a week. Mama Dip's also offers an extensive take home menu. They also sell some distinctive items such as: barbecue sauce, poppy seed dressing, pecan pie, tee shirts, aprons, caps, mugs, and gift certificates at the", "title": "Mama Dip's" }, { "docid": "13835236", "text": "Honestly, Celeste! Honestly, Celeste! is an eight-episode 1954 CBS sitcom starring Celeste Holm as Celeste Anders, a 37-year-old college journalism professor from Minnesota who accepts a reporter’s position on the staff of the fictitious \"New York Express\" newspaper. In the series premiere, Celeste arrives at Grand Central Station in New York City, where she meets the recently released convict, Marty, as well as the staff members of the \"New York Express\". In later episodes, Celeste finds an apartment in Greenwich Village, writes a feature story on modern art, and becomes concerned about an underprivileged family. Holm’s co-stars were Scott McKay", "title": "Honestly, Celeste!" }, { "docid": "2903594", "text": "product leaves the barrel minimizes the amount of air in the product but more importantly ensures that the ice crystals formed are very small. Frozen custard Frozen custard is a cold dessert similar to ice cream, but made with eggs in addition to cream and sugar. It is usually kept at a warmer temperature compared to ice cream, and typically has a denser consistency. Egg yolks have been integrated into ice creams since at least the 1690s, though there are several notable invention stories that are associated with modern commercializations of this practice. One early commercialization of frozen custard was", "title": "Frozen custard" }, { "docid": "2903589", "text": "Frozen custard Frozen custard is a cold dessert similar to ice cream, but made with eggs in addition to cream and sugar. It is usually kept at a warmer temperature compared to ice cream, and typically has a denser consistency. Egg yolks have been integrated into ice creams since at least the 1690s, though there are several notable invention stories that are associated with modern commercializations of this practice. One early commercialization of frozen custard was in Coney Island, New York in 1919, when ice cream vendors Archie and Elton Kohr found that adding egg yolks to ice cream created", "title": "Frozen custard" }, { "docid": "14977865", "text": "trade show that year, John Marten met Fred Luker. Fred Luker was a 62-year-old frozen food entrepreneur who had developed a small frozen food manufacturing company in Noblesville, Indiana with $500,000 a year in sales. While building his company, Fred developed a process of breading and freezing meat. John S. Marten realized the process could be patented. Fred Luker was looking to retire and sell his business. In early 1961, the Marten Family entered into an agreement to purchase Fred's Frozen Foods from Fred Luker with the stipulation that Fred file a patent (granted in 1965) on his breading process.", "title": "Fred's Frozen Foods" }, { "docid": "10077320", "text": "Celeste Perrault Celeste Perrault is a fictional character on soap Days of Our Lives. The character is well known for her psychic abilities in the serial. Celeste was portrayed by Tanya Boyd and Beverly Todd. Celeste was portrayed by Tanya Boyd from 1994 to October 2007. In 2012, it was originally confirmed that Boyd would reprise the role of Celeste later that year however, it was then confirmed that, due to scheduling conflicts, Beverly Todd would take over the role for a seven-to-ten episode arc. Todd debuted April 3, 2012. A first look of Todd's appearance on the drama was", "title": "Celeste Perrault" }, { "docid": "13187808", "text": "Egao no Mama de \"Egao no Mama de\" was written and produced by Ryoji from Ketsumeishi, while its title was chosen by Ueto. The song marks Ueto's second consecutive collaboration with Ryoji, who also wrote and produced \"Kaze o Ukete\" (2005). \"Egao no Mama de\" is Ueto's first single to not contain a B-side, instead two \"mega mixes,\" one featuring a mash-up of Ueto's singles to date, and the other featuring songs from \"License\", were included. The theme of the song is growth and its lyrics were inspired by the cherry blossom season, which is commonly associated with encounters and", "title": "Egao no Mama de" }, { "docid": "133985", "text": "form of adulteration is an addition of another substance to a food item in order to increase the quantity of the food item in raw form or prepared form, which may result in the loss of actual quality of food item. These substances may be either available food items or non-food items. Among meat and meat products some of the items used to adulterate are water or ice, carcasses, or carcasses of animals other than the animal meant to be consumed. Camping food includes ingredients used to prepare food suitable for backcountry camping and backpacking. The foods differ substantially from", "title": "Food" } ]
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What St. Louis, MO based cereal company produces Fruity Pebbles, Grape Nuts, Honey Bunches of Oats, and Raisin Bran, among many, many others?
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[ { "docid": "3866679", "text": "Post Consumer Brands Post Consumer Brands (previously Post Cereals and Postum Cereals) is an American consumer cereal brand that includes Honey Bunches of Oats, Pebbles, Great Grains, Post Shredded Wheat, Post Raisin Bran, Grape-Nuts, Honeycomb, Frosted Mini Spooners, Golden Puffs, Oh's, Cinnamon Toasters, Fruity Dyno-Bites, Cocoa Dyno-Bites, Berry Colossal Crunch and Malt-O-Meal hot wheat cereal. Post was founded by C. W. Post in 1895 with the first Postum, a \"cereal beverage\", developed by Post in Battle Creek, Michigan. Post was a patient at the Battle Creek Sanitarium (run by John Harvey Kellogg) and was inspired by the diet there to", "title": "Post Consumer Brands" }, { "docid": "5989728", "text": "Honey Bunches of Oats Honey Bunches of Oats is a brand cereal by Post Holdings. Created by lifelong Post employee Vernon J. Herzing by mixing several Post's cereals together and having his daughter taste them, Honey Bunches of Oats was introduced to markets in 1989 after three years of development. The cereal is made up of three kinds of flakes and oat clusters baked with a hint of honey. It is marketed as a source of whole grain. Other varieties have almonds or fruits added into the mix. The ingredients of the cereal are corn, whole grain wheat, sugar, whole", "title": "Honey Bunches of Oats" }, { "docid": "3866683", "text": "were generated by its Post Foods unit. The spinoff was completed with an IPO for Post Holdings, Inc. on February 7, 2012. In 2015, Post Foods purchased MOM Brands (formerly Malt-O-Meal Co.) creating the third largest breakfast cereal company in the US. The combined company is now called Post Consumer Brands and is headquartered in Lakeville, Minnesota. Post Consumer Brands Post Consumer Brands (previously Post Cereals and Postum Cereals) is an American consumer cereal brand that includes Honey Bunches of Oats, Pebbles, Great Grains, Post Shredded Wheat, Post Raisin Bran, Grape-Nuts, Honeycomb, Frosted Mini Spooners, Golden Puffs, Oh's, Cinnamon Toasters,", "title": "Post Consumer Brands" }, { "docid": "5989729", "text": "grain rolled oats, brown sugar, vegetable oil (canola or sunflower oil), rice flour, wheat flour, malted barley flour, salt, rice, whey (from milk), honey, malted corn and barley syrup, annato extract (color). The following are current, past, and limited editions: Honey Bunches of Oats contains iron, niacinamide, vitamin B6, vitamin A palmitate, riboflavin (vitamin B), thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), zinc oxide (source of zinc), folic acid, vitamin B, vitamin D. Honey Bunches of Oats Honey Bunches of Oats is a brand cereal by Post Holdings. Created by lifelong Post employee Vernon J. Herzing by mixing several Post's cereals together and", "title": "Honey Bunches of Oats" }, { "docid": "5350350", "text": "Pebbles cereal Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles are brands of breakfast cereal introduced by Post Foods in 1971 featuring characters from the animated series \"The Flintstones\" as spokestoons. Cocoa Pebbles contains chocolate-flavored crisp rice cereal bits, while Fruity Pebbles contains crisp rice cereal bits that come in a variety of fruit flavors with a sugar content of 9 grams per serving for Fruity Pebbles and 10 grams per serving for Cocoa Pebbles. It is the oldest surviving cereal brand that is based on characters from a TV series or movie. Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles Cereal were reintroductions of a", "title": "Pebbles cereal" }, { "docid": "5350364", "text": "The suit was settled in June 2010 with a condition of not airing the commercial again. Pebbles cereal Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles are brands of breakfast cereal introduced by Post Foods in 1971 featuring characters from the animated series \"The Flintstones\" as spokestoons. Cocoa Pebbles contains chocolate-flavored crisp rice cereal bits, while Fruity Pebbles contains crisp rice cereal bits that come in a variety of fruit flavors with a sugar content of 9 grams per serving for Fruity Pebbles and 10 grams per serving for Cocoa Pebbles. It is the oldest surviving cereal brand that is based on characters", "title": "Pebbles cereal" }, { "docid": "2687603", "text": "Raisin Bran Raisin bran (sultana bran in some countries) is a breakfast cereal manufactured by several companies under a variety of brand names, including Kellogg's Raisin Bran, General Mills' Total Raisin Bran and Post Cereals' Post Raisin Bran. Skinner's Raisin Bran was the first raisin bran brand on the market, introduced in the United States in 1926 by the Skinner Manufacturing Company. The name \"Raisin Bran\" was at one time trademarked by Skinner, however in 1944 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit found: In 1991, Kellogg's complained that WIC program guidelines did not allow for the purchase", "title": "Raisin Bran" }, { "docid": "2687604", "text": "of Kellogg's Raisin Bran for containing too much sugar. Kellogg's Sultana Bran received 4.5 stars out of 5 on the Australian Government's Health Star Rating System. Research suggests that eating commercially-produced raisin bran containing sugared raisins elevates dental acids to plaque-forming levels, while home-made raisin bran, created by adding un-sugared raisins to bran flakes, does not produce this effect. Raisin Bran Raisin bran (sultana bran in some countries) is a breakfast cereal manufactured by several companies under a variety of brand names, including Kellogg's Raisin Bran, General Mills' Total Raisin Bran and Post Cereals' Post Raisin Bran. Skinner's Raisin Bran", "title": "Raisin Bran" }, { "docid": "4284135", "text": "the spokesperson for the brand, promoting Grape-Nuts as the \"Back to Nature Cereal\". The line \"Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible\" drew attention to the product from consumers, as well as from comedians. Grape-Nuts is credited as the first widespread product to use a coupon in sales promotion when C.W. Post Company offered a penny-off coupon to get people to try their cereal in the late 1890s. Until recent years, Grape-Nuts packaging set it apart from other cereals, in that no sealed film bag was used. It was sold in the usual \"tombstone\" cardboard box; rather than", "title": "Grape-Nuts" }, { "docid": "4284138", "text": "and decided to throw in some cereal. It proved popular at the restaurant and the Scotsburn Dairy company began mass-producing the ice cream variety, and it sold across the region. Variations of ice cream with Grape Nuts are also called brown bread ice cream. Other flavours with cereal include hazelnut syrup, chocolate/ varieties of chocolate chips, mint, and other fresh flavors. Grape-Nuts Grape-Nuts is a breakfast cereal developed in 1897 by C. W. Post, a former patient and later competitor of the 19th-century breakfast food innovator, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. The cereal originally prepared by C. W. Post when developing", "title": "Grape-Nuts" }, { "docid": "4284131", "text": "the baking process. This, combined with the nutty flavor of the cereal, is said to have inspired its name. Another explanation originates from employees at Post, who claim that the cereal got its name due to a resemblance to grape seeds, or grape \"nuts\". Grape-Nuts was initially marketed as a natural cereal that could enhance health and vitality, and as a \"food for brain and nerve centres.\" Its lightweight and compact nature, nutritional value, and resistance to spoilage made it a popular food for exploration and expedition groups in the 1920s and 1930s. In World War II, Grape-Nuts was a", "title": "Grape-Nuts" }, { "docid": "5350351", "text": "low market-share Post children's cereal brand called Sugar Rice Krinkles. The Product Group Manager at the time, Larry Weiss, licensed use of The Flintstones for cereal from Hanna-Barbera (now part of Warner Bros. Animation) in an attempt to reinvigorate the children's cereal business for Post Cereals. Prior to that time, character licensing had been used for promotion, but there had never been a brand created around a media character. The brand was marketed despite internal concern it would be a fad and not last more than a year. Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles were simultaneously introduced on the West Coast", "title": "Pebbles cereal" }, { "docid": "11324779", "text": "Bran flakes Bran flakes are a popular breakfast cereal product similar to corn flakes. The cereal consists of small toasted flakes of wheat or oat bran together with binders and seasoning. They may be nutritionally fortified. They are usually served cold with milk. Bran flakes are, or have been, produced by Kellogg's, by Post Cereals, and by various other manufacturers under many generic brands. They have been available since at least 1922. Variants of bran flakes, with added dried fruit, include raisin bran, sultana bran, and Fruit and Fibre. Research suggests that eating commercially-produced raisin bran containing sugared raisins elevates", "title": "Bran flakes" }, { "docid": "4284130", "text": "Grape-Nuts Grape-Nuts is a breakfast cereal developed in 1897 by C. W. Post, a former patient and later competitor of the 19th-century breakfast food innovator, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. The cereal originally prepared by C. W. Post when developing the product was a batter that came from the oven as a rigid sheet. He then broke the sheet into pieces and ran them through a coffee grinder to produce the \"nut\"-sized kernels. Despite the name, the cereal contains neither grapes nor nuts; it is made with wheat and barley. Post believed that glucose (which he called \"grape sugar\") formed in", "title": "Grape-Nuts" }, { "docid": "5350352", "text": "in 1969 and strong consumer demand led to national distribution. The brand has been one of the most consistent best sellers ever since. The original working names for the companion cereals were Flint Chips and Rubble Stones, consistent with the appearance of the cereal and The Flintstones' Stone Age imagery. Frank Corey, Benton & Bowles' creative head for the Post Cereal business suggested the alternative names Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles, which were adopted. The basic product retained the Sugar Rice Krinkles form, using the existing expander process and Battle Creek production facilities. The flavors, colors and other product formulations", "title": "Pebbles cereal" }, { "docid": "4284136", "text": "featuring lightly glued flaps at the top which could be separated to open the top face completely, perforations could be broken to form a small opening for pouring, near the intersection of one of the narrow side faces and the top surface. At one time, Grape-Nuts was the seventh-most popular cold breakfast cereal, but sales declined as Post was sold from one company to another. Around 2005, it held less than 1% of the market. About this time, the formula was changed; the husks from milled grain were ground into the flour and the cereal was pitched as \"whole grain\",", "title": "Grape-Nuts" }, { "docid": "1431706", "text": "Europe, Post visited the Battle Creek Sanitarium of Battle Creek, Michigan, a facility operated by John Harvey Kellogg. He was inspired to start his own company based upon the dietary products used there. In 1895, Post founded Postum Cereal Co., with his first product, Postum cereal beverage. Post's first breakfast cereal premiered in 1897, and he named the product Grape-Nuts cereal because of the fruity aroma noticed during the manufacturing process and the nutty crunch of the finished product. In 1904, he followed up the Grape Nuts label with a brand of corn flakes, which was first called Elijah's Manna", "title": "C. W. Post" }, { "docid": "5350355", "text": "formula for both versions of Pebbles had a major addition in 2006: polydextrose became a key ingredient.. As of 2012, polydextrose was not listed as an ingredient in any Pebbles varieties. Upon Post's acquisition of MOM Brands in 2015 (the former Malt O Meal), both the Cocoa and Fruity versions of Pebbles began to be offered in the large bagged type of packaging synonymous with Malt O Meal's line of bagged cereals alongside the traditional box sizes, along with several other Post brands. The earliest commercials produced by Post's ad agency D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles with cooperation from Hanna-Barbera", "title": "Pebbles cereal" }, { "docid": "867127", "text": "a patient in the late 1800s. While there, he grew deeply impressed with their all-grain diet. Upon his release, he began experimenting with grain products, beginning with an all-grain coffee substitute called Postum. In 1898 he introduced Grape-nuts, the concentrated cereal with a nutty flavor (containing neither grapes nor nuts). Good business sense, determination, and powerful advertising produced a multimillion-dollar fortune for Post in a few years. After his death, his company acquired the Jell-O company in 1925, Baker's Chocolate in 1927, Maxwell House coffee in 1928, and Birdseye frozen foods in 1929. In 1929, the company changed its name", "title": "Breakfast cereal" }, { "docid": "13072040", "text": "recession. In 2010 Bunches won the Nottingham Post Nottinghamshire Company of The Year award. In 2017 Bunches launched a major revamp of their brand and website. Bunches Florapost Bunches Florapost Ltd. is a flowers by post company based in Newstead, Nottinghamshire. Bunches is a family business founded by Erik and Sandra Hoving in 1989. Bunches was a small flower stall which they had set up under a 3 metre by 4 metre umbrella in the Four Seasons shopping centre in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Bunches began as a flowers by post company in January 1990, operating out of a factory in Kirkby-in-Ashfield.", "title": "Bunches Florapost" }, { "docid": "13072037", "text": "Bunches Florapost Bunches Florapost Ltd. is a flowers by post company based in Newstead, Nottinghamshire. Bunches is a family business founded by Erik and Sandra Hoving in 1989. Bunches was a small flower stall which they had set up under a 3 metre by 4 metre umbrella in the Four Seasons shopping centre in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Bunches began as a flowers by post company in January 1990, operating out of a factory in Kirkby-in-Ashfield. Orders were taken over the Post Office counter and then telephoned through to the Bunches office, which at the time was staffed by just 3 people.", "title": "Bunches Florapost" }, { "docid": "4185383", "text": "naturally caffeine-free wheat grain, bran, and molasses. Initially, Postum had to be brewed like coffee, but in 1911, Post introduced a powdered, instant formulation. This version of the product was manufactured in Battle Creek until it was discontinued in 2007. As of January 2013, Eliza's Quest Food had succeeded in returning Postum to many grocery stores across the United States and Canada. In 1897, Post introduced his first dry cereal, a crunchy blend of wheat and barley, which he called Grape Nuts. His first corn-flake product was introduced as \"Elijah's Manna\" in 1904. Owing to consumer resistance to the (inaccurate)", "title": "General Foods" } ]
[ { "docid": "5350354", "text": "Cocoa Pebbles, Fruity Pebbles has undergone many formula changes, additions and variants. The cereal started out with three colors—orange, red, and yellow—and natural orange, lemon and tangerine flavors, but were later flavored in natural orange and artificial lemon and cherry. New colors were added over time: purple in 1985, green in 1987, \"Berry Blue\" in 1994, \"Incrediberry Purple\" in 1995 and \"Bedrock Berry Pink\" in 2005. Variants have included \"Half Sugar Fruity Pebbles,\" \"Dino Pebbles\" (late 1980s-early 1990s), \"Marshmallow Mania Pebbles,\" and \"Bamm-Bamm Pebbles.\" A berry cereal called \"Bamm-Bamm Berry Pebbles\" was released in 2007, featuring only berry flavors. The", "title": "Pebbles cereal" }, { "docid": "5350353", "text": "were carefully developed by Battle Creek product experts supported by marketing using the Linescale research technique. The objective was to create product characteristics which matched the expectations of both children and parents for what The Flintstones cereals should look and taste like. After many iterations, the Cocoa Pebbles formula was set and has remained largely unchanged over the years. Fruity Pebbles also remained essentially unchanged for decades. In recent years some additions and variations have been made to the Fruity Pebbles product formulation. The Canadian version came in the form of corn puffs in Pebble shapes. Unlike its sister cereal,", "title": "Pebbles cereal" }, { "docid": "5350361", "text": "with the tagline that the cereals \"rocks your whole mouth\". The former motif of Barney's cereal theft was removed to focus on the enjoyment of the cereal. WWE professional wrestler John Cena is an official endorser of Fruity Pebbles as the result of references to the cereal made by Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson over the course of 2011, where Rock nicknamed Cena (a bowl of) Fruity Pebbles based on his bright shirts. From 2012 to 2014, Pebbles commercials changed to a scene where Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles perform kung-fu and other martial arts. Since 2014, Pebbles commercials prompt viewers to take", "title": "Pebbles cereal" }, { "docid": "4152199", "text": "simply sultanas or sultanis. These are typically larger than Zante currants (which are also a kind of dried grape, not currants in the botanical sense), and the Thompson variety is smaller than many seeded raisins. In the US and Canada, the name \"raisin\" is applied to all dried grapes, so that the breakfast cereal known as \"sultana bran\" in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom is called raisin bran in the United States and Canada. Thompson sultana raisins are small and sweet, and have a golden colour. Another seedless grape variety from the former Ottoman Empire, the round-fruited Kishmish,", "title": "Sultana (grape)" }, { "docid": "5350360", "text": "Bamm-Bamm became more prominent in the commercials. The commercial launching Bamm-Bamm Berry Pebbles had a slight twist on the skit; when Fred said \"Barney! My Pebbles!\" Barney interrupted him and replied, \"My Bamm-Bamm Pebbles!\" happily as Bamm-Bamm carried his father away from the angry Fred. One of the most recent commercials featured Pebbles eating the Fruity Pebbles cereal along with Fred and Barney; Bamm-Bamm created a Barney-like distraction in the form of a giant fruit-loving robot, much to Pebbles' delight. From 2010 to 2012, the commercials for Pebbles cereal are produced (by ad agency Burns Group) using stop motion animation", "title": "Pebbles cereal" }, { "docid": "14730321", "text": "product development food brokerage company, also responsible for Flutie Flakes. T.O.'s Honey Toasted Oats T.O.’s Honey Toasted Oats or \"T.O.'s\" is the name of a brand of Honey Nut Toasted Oats breakfast cereal named after wide receiver Terrell Owens. Terrell Owens T.O.'s Cereal was officially unveiled on Thursday, July 30, 2009 nearly four months after he signed a one-year contract with the Buffalo Bills. The cereal was offered at $2.50 per 14oz box and was a big hit, selling out within hours of initial release. The cereal was made available exclusively at the Tops Markets LLC grocery store chain in", "title": "T.O.'s Honey Toasted Oats" }, { "docid": "14730320", "text": "T.O.'s Honey Toasted Oats T.O.’s Honey Toasted Oats or \"T.O.'s\" is the name of a brand of Honey Nut Toasted Oats breakfast cereal named after wide receiver Terrell Owens. Terrell Owens T.O.'s Cereal was officially unveiled on Thursday, July 30, 2009 nearly four months after he signed a one-year contract with the Buffalo Bills. The cereal was offered at $2.50 per 14oz box and was a big hit, selling out within hours of initial release. The cereal was made available exclusively at the Tops Markets LLC grocery store chain in upstate New York, and online thru PLB Sports, a Pittsburgh-based", "title": "T.O.'s Honey Toasted Oats" }, { "docid": "7477421", "text": "a cyborg squirrel does serious damage to steal the cereal. Honey Nut Clusters is part of General Mills family of Fruit & Nut cereals, including Raisin Nut Bran and Basic 4. In 2009 the packaging on all of these cereals was updated to a different \"family of cereals\" look, however some consumers were disappointed and the company switched back to the legacy packaging currently on shelves. The recipe for this cereal was changed in April 2007, so that it no longer actually includes nuts, substituting natural almond flavoring in its place. The picture on the box no longer depicts the", "title": "Honey Nut Clusters" }, { "docid": "8152285", "text": "Honey Monster Puffs Honey Monster Puffs (previously known as Sugar Puffs) are a honey-flavoured breakfast cereal made from sugar-coated wheat sold in the United Kingdom. Sugar Puffs were first launched in 1957, with Jeremy the Bear. They were invented by William Halliday Davies (1919–2009), production manager at the Quaker Oats mill in Southall. For many years they were made by the Quaker Oats Company, but in 2006 they were sold to Big Bear t/a Honey Monster Foods, based in Leicester. In 2016, food manufacturer Brecks Company took over production of Honey Monster Puffs under licence. The cereal is known for", "title": "Honey Monster Puffs" }, { "docid": "4284133", "text": "all Martians, recharged his magnetic powers (his left hand repels, his right attracts) by eating \"cereal grains\", with him quickly developing a particular fondness for Grape-Nuts Flakes which he proclaimed \"the best I ever tasted!\" In the 1960s, advertising promoted Grape-Nuts as the cereal that \"fills you up, not out\". Brand users, particularly mother/daughter look-alikes, were shown engaged in fitness activities such as tennis, horseback riding, skiing, and swimming. Also appearing during the \"fills you up, not out\" campaign were Andy Griffith and Don Knotts as the characters from \"The Andy Griffith Show\", Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife.", "title": "Grape-Nuts" }, { "docid": "17399472", "text": "the structure that were not destroyed by fire. When PepsiCo purchased Quaker Oats in 2001, many brands were consolidated from facilities around Canada to the Peterborough location—which assumed the new QTG moniker (Quaker Tropicana Gatorade). Local production includes Quaker Oatmeal, Quaker Chewy bars, Cap'n Crunch cereal, Aunt Jemima instant pancake mixes and pancake syrups, Quaker Oat Bran and Corn Bran cereals, Gatorade sports drinks and the Propel fitness water sub-brand, Tropicana juices, and various Frito-Lay snack products. Products are easily identified by the \"manufactured by\" address on the packaging. The Peterborough facility exports to the majority of Canada and limited", "title": "Quaker Oats Company" }, { "docid": "3566811", "text": "risk of heart disease . Honey Nut Cheerios has 0.75g per serving.\" As with Cheerios, the American Heart Association certified the cereal as \"heart-healthy\" for meeting the food criteria for saturated fat and cholesterol content. Honey Nut Cheerios also contains more sugar (9.6 Grams/serving) than General Mills' Cheerios, which contain 1.2 Grams/serving. Of the top six ingredients three are sweeteners (sugar, brown sugar, and honey). The Environmental Working Group placed the sugar content of Honey Nut Cheerios as second of all breakfast cereal varieties tested (behind Fruity Pebbles). Honey Nut Cheerios Honey Nut Cheerios is a variation of Cheerios breakfast", "title": "Honey Nut Cheerios" }, { "docid": "5350359", "text": "Ghost of Christmas Past and Dino as the Ghost of Christmas Yet-To-Come) and saying that if Fred did not forfeit his cereal to Barney he would have a bad future. Fred agrees but soon realizes that Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm and Dino are helping Barney steal the cereal from him by the disguises and when shouting at Barney in anger Pebbles Flintstone reminds him that \"Santa is watching.\" This revelation instantly leads Fred to officially confirm to Barney that he can always have some Pebbles cereal when he wants to and no longer has to steal the cereal. In 2009, Pebbles and", "title": "Pebbles cereal" }, { "docid": "11324780", "text": "dental acids to plaque-forming levels; whereas home-made raisin bran, created by adding un-sugared raisins to bran flakes, does not produce this effect. Bran flakes are high in dietary fiber. The consumption of dietary fibre can reduce the rate of increase in blood sugar and insulin levels after eating, thereby reducing the risk of contracting type 2 diabetes or a heart attack. It can also promote a healthy microbiome. Bran flakes Bran flakes are a popular breakfast cereal product similar to corn flakes. The cereal consists of small toasted flakes of wheat or oat bran together with binders and seasoning. They", "title": "Bran flakes" }, { "docid": "2710632", "text": "Bran Bran, also known as miller's bran, is the hard outer layers of cereal grain. It consists of the combined aleurone and pericarp. Along with germ, it is an integral part of whole grains, and is often produced as a byproduct of milling in the production of refined grains. Bran is present in cereal grain, including rice, corn (maize), wheat, oats, barley, rye and millet. Bran is not the same as chaff, which is a coarser scaly material surrounding the grain but not forming part of the grain itself. Bran is particularly rich in dietary fiber and essential fatty acids", "title": "Bran" }, { "docid": "2875589", "text": "St. Pepin (grape) St. Pepin is a modern hybrid variety of wine grape, mostly grown in North America. It produces grapes suitable for making fruity white wines similar to Riesling or as a base for blended wines. The grapes also make a good seeded table grape for eating. It has the benefits of early ripening and when hardened properly in the fall it is winter hardy to at least . As such, it best suited to growing in more northern climates. St. Pepin was breed by Elmer Swenson c. 1970 and released in 1986. It is a hybrid of the", "title": "St. Pepin (grape)" }, { "docid": "2875590", "text": "male Seyval blanc crossed to a seedling of Minnesota 78 by Seibel 1000 (a.k.a. Rosette). Unlike most modern grapes, it is a pistillate female and so needs to be planted next to male vines from a close sibling variety to achieve pollination. To clarify the parentage of St. Pepin; St. Pepin (grape) St. Pepin is a modern hybrid variety of wine grape, mostly grown in North America. It produces grapes suitable for making fruity white wines similar to Riesling or as a base for blended wines. The grapes also make a good seeded table grape for eating. It has the", "title": "St. Pepin (grape)" }, { "docid": "6457531", "text": "Cracklin' Oat Bran Cracklin' Oat Bran is a breakfast cereal introduced in 1977 by Kellogg's. The cereal is made of oat bran flavored with cinnamon and nutmeg and is held together by brown sugar in the shape of a rectangle. The cereal is a source of dietary fiber as its first two ingredients are whole oats and sugar, but it contains a significant amount of saturated fat. The palm oil used in the cereal is modified slightly to suggest more of a sugary flavor than normal palm oil. The recipe for Cracklin' Oat Bran underwent a major change in 1989,", "title": "Cracklin' Oat Bran" }, { "docid": "1068897", "text": "Raisin A raisin is a dried grape. Raisins are produced in many regions of the world and may be eaten raw or used in cooking, baking, and brewing. In the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia, the word \"raisin\" is reserved for the dark-colored dried large grape, with \"sultana\" being a golden-colored dried grape, and \"currant\" being a dried small Black Corinth seedless grape. The word \"raisin\" dates back to Middle English and is a loanword from Old French; in modern French, \"raisin\" means \"grape\", while a dried grape is a \"raisin sec\", or \"dry grape\". The Old French", "title": "Raisin" }, { "docid": "1068908", "text": "higher antioxidant capacity than sun-dried black raisins do. Raisin A raisin is a dried grape. Raisins are produced in many regions of the world and may be eaten raw or used in cooking, baking, and brewing. In the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia, the word \"raisin\" is reserved for the dark-colored dried large grape, with \"sultana\" being a golden-colored dried grape, and \"currant\" being a dried small Black Corinth seedless grape. The word \"raisin\" dates back to Middle English and is a loanword from Old French; in modern French, \"raisin\" means \"grape\", while a dried grape is a", "title": "Raisin" }, { "docid": "6925727", "text": "Wild Oats currently produces and distributes various food products, including cereal, beverages, condiments, frozen and fresh items through partnerships with Walmart stores nationally and through Fresh & Easy stores in California, Nevada and Arizona. The company is headquartered in Addison, Texas. Wild Oats Markets acquired their local competitor, the 11-store Boulder-based Alfalfa's Markets chain, in July 1996. Three Capers Community Market natural foods stores, located in British Columbia, were part of the Alfalfa's acquisition and have maintained the Capers name. In 1999, Wild Oats acquired several other chains, including 11 San Diego-based Henry's Marketplace stores, the Nature's Northwest chain of", "title": "Wild Oats Markets" }, { "docid": "3566809", "text": "Honey Nut Cheerios Honey Nut Cheerios is a variation of Cheerios breakfast cereal, introduced in 1979 by the General Mills cereal company. The second variation from the original Cheerios, it is sweeter than the original, with a honey and almond flavor. While this product used to be made with actual nuts, as of 2006, the nuts were discontinued, and natural flavor, from peach and apricot pit, is used instead. In 2011, Honey Nut Cheerios was the best-selling cereal in the United States. Their mascot is an anthropomorphic bee, designed for the first commercials by Dean Yeagle at Zander's Animation Parlour", "title": "Honey Nut Cheerios" }, { "docid": "13382006", "text": "as a subsidiary (The Jordans & Ryvita Company) of Associated British Foods. There is a factory shop in Langford, Bedfordshire. Its main product it started with, and still produces, is called \"Crunchy Oats\", which is based on granola. A mill was recorded on the site in 1086, as noted in the Domesday Book. In 1981, Waitrose began to stock their products. Also in 1981, Jordans began production of a breakfast/cereal bar called \"Original Crunchy\". It now produces four different cereal bars including Frusli which contains 25% fruit, Breakfast Bars, Luxury Absolute Nut Bar and Original Crunchy Bars. Luxury Bars were", "title": "Jordans (cereal)" }, { "docid": "5350357", "text": "various creative and increasingly outrageous means. While Fred was distracted, Barney would eat some Pebbles, but Fred would quickly discover Barney's lies, usually due to Barney's excitement at eating the cereal would cause his costume to be destroyed. Angry about his breakfast being stolen, he would normally exclaim, \"Barney! My Pebbles!\" Barney would then chuckle and deliver a comedic line while running away from the angry Fred, and Fred would give chase. A 1986 Christmas commercial had changed the theme in which Barney attempts to steal Fred's Pebbles by disguising himself as Santa Claus. However, his plot was foiled as", "title": "Pebbles cereal" }, { "docid": "1988656", "text": "the North American market, the GrainShop brand has two cereals, High Fibre Crisp and Honey Almond Crunch. High Fibre Crisp is a blend of four grains, wheat and corn, bran and oats, while Honey Almond Crunch is a combination of crunchy oats, flakes, almonds and honey. Products in the Oatibix range are made from oats, as opposed to the company's preference to wheat-based food. The original Oatibix cereal is physically very similar to the company's flagship Weetabix but made of whole grain oats. Oatibix Bitesize is a variant of Oatibix with smaller biscuits and is available as Oatibix Bitesize Sultana", "title": "Weetabix Limited" }, { "docid": "6649941", "text": "only two commercials were made for it. A temporary mascot was made for the first commercial, a robot named H.T. – H.T. was said to have been programmed to try to figure out what was inside each of the cereal's pieces. He was dropped when the final commercial aired. Hidden Treasures (cereal) Hidden Treasures was a short-lived breakfast cereal by General Mills. Introduced in 1993, alongside Sprinkle Spangles, the cereal consisted of sweetened corn squares that all looked the same, but were meant to be filled with a fruity filling. The icing filling flavors were cherry, orange and grape. To", "title": "Hidden Treasures (cereal)" }, { "docid": "867120", "text": "Cereal Company (Quaker Oats, but see below) created a cereal made from oats in 1877, manufacturing the product in Akron, Ohio. Separately, in 1888, a trust or holding company combined the nation's seven largest mills into the American Cereal Company using the Quaker Oats brand name. By 1900 technology, entrepreneurship, and the \"Man in Quaker Garb\"—a symbol of plain honesty and reliability—gave Quaker Oats a national market and annual sales of $10 million. Early in the 20th century, the Quaker Oats Company (formed in 1901 to replace the American Cereal Company) jumped into the world market. Schumacher, the innovator; Stuart,", "title": "Breakfast cereal" }, { "docid": "3931161", "text": "the UK in 1957, a similar product called Sugar Puffs debuted; it was formerly produced by the Quaker Oats Company, and by 1976 the mascot became a large hairy yellow creature called the Honey Monster. In Norway and Finland, it is known as \"Honni Korn Smacks\". In Australia, the cereal had been known as Honey Smacks since the 1970s. However, Kelloggs Australia no longer markets the brand. GoldenVale currently markets this cereal under the name Honey Wheats with a bear and a honey bee as mascot. In 2007, a minor consumer petition was launched calling for the re-instatement of the", "title": "Honey Smacks" }, { "docid": "867133", "text": "the place where they are eaten. Breakfast cereals therefore often are fortified with minerals and vitamins and these additives may be regulated. For example, if breakfast cereal in Canada is fortified, they must contain the following specific amounts per 100 grams of cereal: Thiamine (2.0 mg), Niacin (4.8 mg), Vitamin B6 (0.6 mg), Folic Acid (0.06 mg), Pantothenic Acid (1.6 mg), Magnesium (160.0 mg), Iron (13.3 mg), Zinc (3.5 mg). Muesli is a breakfast cereal based on uncooked rolled oats, fruit, and nuts. It was developed around 1900 by the Swiss physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner for patients in his hospital. It", "title": "Breakfast cereal" }, { "docid": "6649940", "text": "Hidden Treasures (cereal) Hidden Treasures was a short-lived breakfast cereal by General Mills. Introduced in 1993, alongside Sprinkle Spangles, the cereal consisted of sweetened corn squares that all looked the same, but were meant to be filled with a fruity filling. The icing filling flavors were cherry, orange and grape. To emphasize the treasure hunt dynamic, some pieces had no icing filling and were hollow. Pieces with a seam very close to the edge had a grape filling, off-center seams had orange, and directly center seams had cherry. Hidden Treasures was discontinued by 1995. Since Hidden Treasures was so short-lived,", "title": "Hidden Treasures (cereal)" }, { "docid": "9040263", "text": "U.S. Mills U.S. Mills is a packaged food products company specializing in natural, organic, and specialty cereals, cookies, and crackers. Their products are sold through supermarkets, wholesale grocers, and natural food distributors nationwide. Their brands include Uncle Sam Cereal, Erewhon, New Morning, Skinner's Raisin Bran, and, formerly, Farina. U.S. Mills was founded in 1908, with the introduction of Uncle Sam Cereal. In 1926, the company introduced Skinner's Raisin Bran, which is claimed to be America's first raisin bran. Meanwhile, the Erewhon Natural Foods Market was founded in 1966 by Aveline and Michio Kushi, with an emphasis on organically-grown produce and", "title": "U.S. Mills" }, { "docid": "5350362", "text": "a side with either Team Cocoa or Team Fruity, and each individual advertisement includes a different child exemplifying their devoutness to one of the teams. Various celebrities, such as actress Bella Thorne, retired professional basketball player Shaquille O'Neal, and professional soccer player Alex Morgan have been chosen as mascots for either group, as well. This is in line with the decline of advertising specifically towards children and broadening the brand's appeal, though Fred, Barney and Bamm-Bamm continue to remain on the actual front of the packaging. The box covers for the various Pebbles boxes have been illustrated by commercial artist", "title": "Pebbles cereal" }, { "docid": "4493904", "text": "Cereal germ The germ of a cereal is the reproductive part that germinates to grow into a plant; it is the embryo of the seed. Along with bran, germ is often a by-product of the milling that produces refined grain products. Cereal grains and their components, such as wheat germ oil, rice bran oil, and maize, may be used as a source from which vegetable oil is extracted, or used directly as a food ingredient. The germ is retained as an integral part of whole-grain foods. Non-whole grain methods of milling are intended to isolate the endosperm, which is ground", "title": "Cereal germ" }, { "docid": "4493907", "text": "for translating mRNA into amino acids but relatively low levels of its own mRNA. Wheat germ is also useful in biochemistry since it contains lectins that bind strongly to certain glycoproteins; therefore, it can be used to isolate such proteins. Cereal germ The germ of a cereal is the reproductive part that germinates to grow into a plant; it is the embryo of the seed. Along with bran, germ is often a by-product of the milling that produces refined grain products. Cereal grains and their components, such as wheat germ oil, rice bran oil, and maize, may be used as", "title": "Cereal germ" }, { "docid": "4284132", "text": "component of the lightweight jungle ration used by some U.S. and Allied Forces in wartime operations before 1944. A 1939 ad campaign by cartoonist Walter Hoban continued his \"Jerry on the Job\" comic strip in \"Woman's Day\" magazine and daily newspaper comics pages. General Foods also marketed Grape-Nuts through a comics-style advertising campaign (a trailblazer in this regard) featuring a character named Little Alby, who gained inordinate strength after consuming a bowl of Grape-Nuts. During the 1940s, comic books from various companies featured one-page comic-strip ads starring \"Volto from Mars\", a finned red helmet-clad alien superhero visiting Earth, who like", "title": "Grape-Nuts" }, { "docid": "5508040", "text": "Total (cereal) Total is a range of breakfast cereals made by General Mills for the United States market. It consists of whole grain wheat flakes. Some varieties of Total supply 100% of the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) recommended daily allowance for each of the following different vitamins and dietary minerals: vitamin C, calcium, iron, vitamin E, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B, folic acid, vitamin B, pantothenic acid and zinc. The cereal was launched in 1961. Varieties of Total are: These varieties provide different amounts of vitamins and minerals than regular Total. For example, Raisin Bran does not provide vitamin", "title": "Total (cereal)" }, { "docid": "20794692", "text": "raisin cookie recipes featured on every Quaker Oats container beginning in the early 1900s. Despite the overall popularity of oatmeal raisin cookies, the inclusion of \"polarizing\" raisins in the recipe has sparked some lighthearted controversy among the general public in the US. While some praise the enhanced flavor and texture provided by the raisins, others believe that raisins do not belong in the cookies, and should be substituted or removed from the recipe. One common criticism is that oatmeal raisin cookies are easily confused for chocolate chip cookies, leading the raisins' tarter flavor to surprise an unsuspecting eater. Because of", "title": "Oatmeal raisin cookie" }, { "docid": "4305025", "text": "its 39% fiber analysis is close to that of natural wheat bran. Despite the name, the principal ingredient in All-Bran Flakes is whole grain wheat, not bran. It contains only 15% fiber, equivalent to 34% wheat bran. All-Bran received five stars out of five on the Australian Government's health star ratings. All-Bran comes in different varieties, many are available to specific countries: All-Bran All-Bran is a high-bran, high-fibre, wheat bran breakfast cereal manufactured by Kellogg's and marketed as an aid to digestive health. The introduction of All-Bran in 1916 came on the heels of the success of Kellogg's Bran Flakes", "title": "All-Bran" }, { "docid": "6099729", "text": "called oat groats. Since the bran layer, though nutritious, makes the grains tough to chew and contains an enzyme that can cause the oats to go rancid, raw oat groats are often further steam-treated to soften them for a quicker cooking time (modern \"quick oats\") and to denature the enzymes for a longer shelf life. Steel-cut or pinhead oats are oat groats that have been chopped into smaller pieces before any steaming and thus retain bits of the bran layer. Rolled oats can be eaten without further heating or cooking: The oats are soaked for 1–6 hours in water-based liquid,", "title": "Rolled oats" }, { "docid": "20311980", "text": "Fruity Robo ‘’’Fruity Robo’’’ (果宝特攻) is a Chinese CGI animated children's cartoon by Guang Zhou BlueArc Culture Communications Company. The show stems from the cartoon series Fruity Musketeers (果冻三剑客) and currently has four seasons. When word spread that Lord Pitaya built a fruit processing factory on Mountain of Fruits and Flowers/The Fruity Mountain and poisoned the sacred Rainbow Lotus the Fruity Robo/Fruity Agents, a group of seven young fruits (an orange, a strawberry, two pineapples, a peach, an apple, and a grape), proceeded to charge up the mountain (with battle robots) with the hope of destroying the factory and saving", "title": "Fruity Robo" }, { "docid": "12491143", "text": "Start (cereal) Start (Multi-Grain Start) was a breakfast cereal which was produced by Kellogg's in the UK from the mid-1980s until 2018. Start was promoted as a cereal designed for improving sports performance. It was made from wheat, corn and oats and a single bowlful was said to provide a third of a human's daily vitamin RDA. It was suitable for vegetarians but not for wheat allergy sufferers. Start was discontinued in 2018 and replaced with the improved Honey Flavour Cars 3 Cereal. Vitamins and minerals: The cereal has had a number of different advertising campaigns, with its most notable", "title": "Start (cereal)" }, { "docid": "15454448", "text": "others restore beer or special ammo. Killing each robot also boosts the player's experience level, which affects what equipment the player will have access to. After completing a level, the players are rated on a star-based scoring system based on the number of nuts collected. To boost their score, players can chain robot kills together to increase a scoring multiplier up to 5x, though players must continue to kill robots to maintain this. The total cumulative stars that a player has earned will influence which levels the player has access too. Players are rewarded with additional nuts based on their", "title": "Shoot Many Robots" }, { "docid": "1692921", "text": "bran, whole wheat, and multigrain. Other variations change the flavor of the dough, often using blueberry, salt, onion, garlic, egg, cinnamon, raisin, chocolate chip, cheese, or some combination of the above. Green bagels are sometimes created for St. Patrick's Day. Many corporate chains now offer bagels in such flavors as chocolate chip and French toast. Sandwich bagels have been popularized since the late 1990s by specialty shops such as Bruegger's and Einstein Brothers, and fast food restaurants such as McDonald's. Breakfast bagels, a softer, sweeter variety usually sold in fruity or sweet flavors (e.g., cherry, strawberry, cheese, blueberry, cinnamon-raisin, chocolate", "title": "Bagel" }, { "docid": "9712681", "text": "the observed cases of renal failure following ingestion are due to grapes only. Clinical findings suggest raisin and grape ingestion can be fatal, but the mechanism of toxicity is still considered unknown. The reason some dogs develop renal failure following ingestion of grapes and raisins is not known. Types of grapes involved include both seedless and seeded, store-bought and homegrown, and grape pressings from wineries. A mycotoxin is suspected to be involved, but none has been found in grapes or raisins ingested by affected dogs. The dose-response relationship has not been determined, but one study estimated ≥3 g/kg for grapes", "title": "Grape and raisin toxicity in dogs" }, { "docid": "17399475", "text": "of a promotion, this one tied to the \"Sergeant Preston of the Yukon\" television show in the United States. The company offered in its Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice cereal boxes genuine deeds to land in the Klondike. The Quaker Oats logo starting in 1877 had a figure of a Quaker man depicted full-length, sometimes holding a scroll with the word \"Pure\" written across it, resembling the classic woodcuts of William Penn, the 17th-century philosopher and early Quaker. Quaker Oats advertising dating back to 1909 did, indeed, identify the \"Quaker man\" as William Penn, and referred to him as \"standard", "title": "Quaker Oats Company" }, { "docid": "7882761", "text": "Kingdom, Tesco, Sainsbury's and Waitrose have all produced their own versions of the cereal. Raisin Wheats Raisin Wheats (formerly Raisin Splitz, Raisin Wheatleys) is a Kellogg's breakfast cereal available in the United Kingdom, made from shredded wholegrain wheat and filled with raisin. The cereal is made in bite-sized pieces measuring 3/4in x 1in and is packaged in boxes weighing 0.5 kg. Its ingredients, as published on the Kellogg's web site 24 May 2006, are: Shredded Wholewheat, Raisins (23%), Glycerine, Niacin, Iron, Vitamin B, Riboflavin (B), Thiamin (B), Folic Acid, Vitamin B. The cereal has been subsequently manufactured by numerous other", "title": "Raisin Wheats" }, { "docid": "4222647", "text": "Life (cereal) Life, stylized as life®, is a breakfast cereal formerly made solely of whole grain oats, but now also containing sugar, corn flour, whole wheat flour, and rice flour. It was introduced in 1961 by the Quaker Oats Company. The cereal is distinguished by its characteristic brown checkered squares, with a finer pattern than Chex cereal. Advertisements for Life cereal sport the slogan \"\"Life\" is full of surprises\". , with the advent of numerous specialty varieties, the original cereal is now marketed as \"Life Original Multigrain Cereal\" with 20 grams of whole grains promoted in a red heart symbol.", "title": "Life (cereal)" }, { "docid": "7107146", "text": "Raisin bread Raisin bread is a type of bread made with raisins and flavored with cinnamon. It is \"usually a white flour or egg dough bread\". Aside from white flour, raisin bread is also made with other flours, such as all-purpose flour, oat flour, or whole wheat flour. Some recipes include honey, brown sugar, eggs, or butter. Variations of the recipe include the addition of walnuts, hazelnuts, pecans or, for a dessert, rum or whisky. Raisin bread is eaten in many different forms, including being served toasted for breakfast (\"raisin toast\") or made into sandwiches. Some restaurants serve raisin bread", "title": "Raisin bread" }, { "docid": "5350356", "text": "featured the animated Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble (as voiced by Alan Reed and Mel Blanc, respectively) interacting cheerfully with live-action children, eating the cereal around a typical household breakfast table; others showed Fred and Barney enjoying the cereal with their wives around their Bedrock breakfast table or in other locales and situations in Bedrock. Commercials after about 1978 were entirely animated, and would have a typical plot repeated with various differences. Fred eats cereal while Barney would want some as well; to that end, Barney would either disguise himself or distract Fred from his bowl of the cereal using", "title": "Pebbles cereal" }, { "docid": "19342479", "text": "Mr. T Cereal Mr. T Cereal was a sweetened breakfast cereal manufactured by the Quaker Oats Company. The cereal was prepared with corn and oats as primary ingredients, and was fortified with iron and B vitamins. The cereal box had a cartoon likeness of Mr. T on the box as the cereal's mascot. The cereal was manufactured in the shape of the letter \"T\". It has been described as being similar in flavor to Cap'n Crunch cereal. Mr. T Cereal debuted in 1984 and was a popular cereal in the U.S. during the 1980s. The cereal was the first licensed", "title": "Mr. T Cereal" }, { "docid": "5178961", "text": "St. Louis Motor Company St. Louis Motor Carriage Company was a manufacturer of automobiles at 1211–13 North Vandeventer Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri, founded by George Preston Dorris (later credited with developing and patenting the float-carburetor) and John French in 1898, with French taking charge of marketing and Dorris heading engineering and production. St. Louis Motor Carriage was the first of many St. Louis automakers and produced automobiles from 1899 to 1907. In 1900, John French drove the St. Louis on the first automobile trip between St. Louis and Chicago. In 1901 he was one of only three drivers to", "title": "St. Louis Motor Company" }, { "docid": "8383721", "text": "then regular (not round) boxes of oats. 1901 saw the formation of the Quaker Oats Company in New Jersey, with its headquarters in Chicago. Quaker introduced the first in a series of cookie recipes on the box in 1908. In 1911, Quaker purchased the Great Western Cereal Company. The iconic round box made its first appearance in 1915. Later that year, Quaker offered the first cereal box premium to buyers. By sending in one dollar and the cut out picture of the \"Quaker Man\" customers received a double boiler for the cooking of oatmeal. In the 1920s, Quaker offered a", "title": "History of Quaker Oats" }, { "docid": "7882760", "text": "Raisin Wheats Raisin Wheats (formerly Raisin Splitz, Raisin Wheatleys) is a Kellogg's breakfast cereal available in the United Kingdom, made from shredded wholegrain wheat and filled with raisin. The cereal is made in bite-sized pieces measuring 3/4in x 1in and is packaged in boxes weighing 0.5 kg. Its ingredients, as published on the Kellogg's web site 24 May 2006, are: Shredded Wholewheat, Raisins (23%), Glycerine, Niacin, Iron, Vitamin B, Riboflavin (B), Thiamin (B), Folic Acid, Vitamin B. The cereal has been subsequently manufactured by numerous other suppliers under a generic brand, often in supermarkets' \"own brand\" range. In the United", "title": "Raisin Wheats" }, { "docid": "9887505", "text": "Honey Loops Honey Loops is a breakfast cereal made by Kellogg's and sold in Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, the UK, India, Spain, Malta, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. The mascot of Honey Loops is a male honeybee called Loopy, who has now been replaced by a female bee called Pops (primarily as the mascot of Honey Pops). The cereal was originally marketed as Honey Nut Loops, however the \"Nut\" has since been dropped from the name and the list of ingredients in 1998. The commercials for the original product explicitly mentioned the \"crunchy nuts\" it used to contain. In", "title": "Honey Loops" }, { "docid": "19342482", "text": "Mr. T popularized at the time. In the scene, Pee-wee impersonated the sound and style that Mr. T used when stating the line. Mr. T Cereal Mr. T Cereal was a sweetened breakfast cereal manufactured by the Quaker Oats Company. The cereal was prepared with corn and oats as primary ingredients, and was fortified with iron and B vitamins. The cereal box had a cartoon likeness of Mr. T on the box as the cereal's mascot. The cereal was manufactured in the shape of the letter \"T\". It has been described as being similar in flavor to Cap'n Crunch cereal.", "title": "Mr. T Cereal" }, { "docid": "4284137", "text": "albeit at the cost of roughening the cereal's texture and detracting significantly from mouth feel. The addition of vitamins and minerals allowed it to qualify for food-stamp programs. Modern-day Grape-Nuts contain whole grain wheat flour, malted barley flour, salt, and dried yeast as ingredients. Grape-Nut ice cream is a popular regional dish in the Canadian Maritimes, the Shenandoah Valley, Jamaica, and New England. One origin story is that it was created by chef Hannah Young at The Palms restaurant in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in 1919. She created it when she ran out of fresh fruit to add to ice cream,", "title": "Grape-Nuts" }, { "docid": "8443892", "text": "Bran Buds All-Bran Buds is a variety of All-Bran cereal manufactured by Kellogg's. It is a wheat bran cereal that is a source of high fiber and psyllium. It is available in the United States and Canada. It used to be available in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and 1980s. The cereal was available in Ireland until the mid-1980s. A 1/3 cup serving (30g, 1.1 oz) has 70 calories, 1 g of fat, 24 g of carbohydrates, and 2g of protein. It contains 13g of fiber (3 soluble, 10 insoluble). Wheat bran, sugar/glucose-fructose, psyllium seed husks, corn bran (USA", "title": "Bran Buds" }, { "docid": "5178963", "text": "amidships of the car, producing 10 hp (7.5 kW). A two-speed transmission was fitted, and the angle iron-framed car weighed 1650 lb (748 kg). St. Louis Motor Company St. Louis Motor Carriage Company was a manufacturer of automobiles at 1211–13 North Vandeventer Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri, founded by George Preston Dorris (later credited with developing and patenting the float-carburetor) and John French in 1898, with French taking charge of marketing and Dorris heading engineering and production. St. Louis Motor Carriage was the first of many St. Louis automakers and produced automobiles from 1899 to 1907. In 1900, John French", "title": "St. Louis Motor Company" }, { "docid": "17399467", "text": "Quaker Oats Company The Quaker Oats Company, known as Quaker, is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago. It has been owned by PepsiCo since 2001. Quaker Oats was founded in 1901 by the merger of four oat mills: The company expanded into numerous areas, including other breakfast cereals and other food and drink products, and even into unrelated fields such as toys. Quaker Oats in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was photographed during the 1930s by Theodor Horydczak, who documented the building, operations, and factory workers at the plant. During World War II, the company, through its subsidiary the Q. O.", "title": "Quaker Oats Company" }, { "docid": "9666346", "text": "So Many Dynamos So Many Dynamos is a rock band from St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Their music is generally classified as indie rock, combining aspects of electropop and dance-punk. They take their name from a famous palindrome. The band's first recording, a five-song EP entitled \"Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era?\", was released by now-defunct St. Louis label Ambivalent Records in 2003. The album was recorded by John John (John Katsafanas) at Red Light Studios in St. Louis. Like the band's name, the title of the EP is also a palindrome. So Many Dynamos recorded their first", "title": "So Many Dynamos" }, { "docid": "8443893", "text": "only), salt, baking soda, natural colour, vitamins (USA only, thiamin hydrochloride, d-calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, iron), BHT. All-Bran Buds is both Kosher and Halal. Bran Buds All-Bran Buds is a variety of All-Bran cereal manufactured by Kellogg's. It is a wheat bran cereal that is a source of high fiber and psyllium. It is available in the United States and Canada. It used to be available in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and 1980s. The cereal was available in Ireland until the mid-1980s. A 1/3 cup serving (30g, 1.1 oz) has 70 calories, 1 g of fat,", "title": "Bran Buds" }, { "docid": "9452238", "text": "on cinema and television featuring the actor Rory McCann in a kilt and actress Rebecca Godwin as his admirer. Rory McCann, a former lumberjack, subsequently made many public appearances and is widely seen as the \"face\" of Scott's Porage Oats. The following additional brands come under the Quaker Oats umbrella: Scott's Porage Oats Scott's Porage Oats is a Scottish breakfast cereal (a brand of porridge) sold in the United Kingdom. Porridge has been consumed in Scotland as a staple food since the Middle Ages, and is primarily consumed in the winter. A&R Scott began producing Scott's Midlothian Oat Flour in", "title": "Scott's Porage Oats" }, { "docid": "17399478", "text": "Dope\" writes \"According to the good folks at Quaker Oats, the Quaker Man was America's first registered trademark for a breakfast cereal, his registration taking place on September 4th, 1877.\" Members of the Religious Society of Friends have occasionally expressed frustration at being confused with the Quaker Oats representation. In recent years, Friends have twice protested the Quaker name being used for advertising campaigns seen as promoting violence. In 1990, some Quakers started a letter-writing campaign after a Quaker Oats advertisement depicted Popeye as a \"Quakerman\" who used violence against aliens, sharks, and Bluto. Later that decade, more letters were", "title": "Quaker Oats Company" }, { "docid": "4305023", "text": "All-Bran All-Bran is a high-bran, high-fibre, wheat bran breakfast cereal manufactured by Kellogg's and marketed as an aid to digestive health. The introduction of All-Bran in 1916 came on the heels of the success of Kellogg's Bran Flakes a year earlier. It was sold in a red and green box, similar to most Kellogg's cereals at the time. After finding great success in the U.S. market, Kellogg's began distribution in the United Kingdom and other markets in 1922. With the rising popularity of patent medicine in advertising, The Kellogg Company of Canada published a book named \"A New Way of", "title": "All-Bran" }, { "docid": "867131", "text": "in a pressure cooker for rolling and then dried in an electric oven. By 1925, Wheaties had become the \"Breakfast of Champions\". In 1928, four milling companies consolidated as the General Mills Company in Minneapolis. The new firm expanded packaged food sales with heavy advertising, including sponsorship of radio programs such as \"Skippy\", \"Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy\", and baseball games. Jack Dempsey, Johnny Weissmuller, and others verified the \"Breakfast of Champions\" slogan. By 1941 Wheaties had won 12% percent of the cereal market. Experiments with the puffing process produced Kix, a puffed corn cereal, and Cheerios, a puffed oats", "title": "Breakfast cereal" }, { "docid": "867129", "text": "Oats Company made a candy-coated puffed cereal, a wheat-based product similar to Cracker Jack's candy-coated popcorn. Ranger Joe, the first pre-sweetened breakfast cereal, and little more than candy-coated puffed wheat or rice, was introduced in the US in 1939. After World War II, the big breakfast cereal companies—now including General Mills, who entered the market in 1924 with Wheaties—increasingly started to target children. The flour was refined to remove fiber, which at the time was considered to undermine digestion and absorption of nutrients, and sugar was added to improve the flavor for children. The new breakfast cereals began to look", "title": "Breakfast cereal" }, { "docid": "6457532", "text": "when consumer health advocates pushed for Kellogg's to remove coconut oil, which is 92% saturated fat, from the cereal. One serving of Cracklin' Oat Bran (minus milk) contains 34 grams of carbohydrates, 14 grams of sugar, 6 grams of dietary fiber, 4.4 grams of protein, 3.4 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat, and 200 calories. Cracklin' Oat Bran Cracklin' Oat Bran is a breakfast cereal introduced in 1977 by Kellogg's. The cereal is made of oat bran flavored with cinnamon and nutmeg and is held together by brown sugar in the shape of a rectangle. The cereal", "title": "Cracklin' Oat Bran" }, { "docid": "9712682", "text": "or raisins. The most common pathological finding is proximal renal tubular necrosis. In some cases, an accumulation of an unidentified golden-brown pigment was found within renal epithelial cells. Vomiting and diarrhea are often the first clinical signs of grape or raisin toxicity. They often develop within a few hours of ingestion. Pieces of grapes or raisins may be present in the vomitus or stool. Further symptoms include weakness, not eating, increased drinking, and abdominal pain. Acute renal failure develops within 48 hours of ingestion. A blood test may reveal increases in blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine, phosphorus, and calcium. Emesis", "title": "Grape and raisin toxicity in dogs" }, { "docid": "9712684", "text": "calcium, phosphorus, sodium, and potassium levels are closely monitored. Dialysis of the blood (hemodialysis) and peritoneal dialysis can be used to support the kidneys if anuria develops. Oliguria (decreased urine production) can be treated with dopamine or furosemide to stimulate urine production. The prognosis is guarded in any dog developing symptoms of toxicosis. A negative prognosis has been associated with oliguria or anuria, weakness, difficulty walking, and severe hypercalcemia (increased blood calcium levels). Grape and raisin toxicity in dogs The consumption of grapes and raisins presents a potential health threat to dogs. Their toxicity to dogs can cause the animal", "title": "Grape and raisin toxicity in dogs" }, { "docid": "9712680", "text": "Grape and raisin toxicity in dogs The consumption of grapes and raisins presents a potential health threat to dogs. Their toxicity to dogs can cause the animal to develop acute kidney injury (the sudden development of kidney failure) with anuria (a lack of urine production). The phenomenon was first identified by the Animal Poison Control Center (APCC), run by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Approximately 140 cases were seen by the APCC in the one year from April 2003 to April 2004, with 50 developing symptoms and seven dying. It is not clear that", "title": "Grape and raisin toxicity in dogs" }, { "docid": "20107355", "text": "Scottrade Center, St. Louis, MO, 8/23/08 Scottrade Center, St. Louis, MO, 8/23/08 is a live album by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, released on April 14, 2017. It is the twelfth official release through the Bruce Springsteen Archives. The show was originally recorded live at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO on August 23, 2008 during the \"Magic Tour\". The concert is available on CD and digital download at live.brucespringsteen.net. \"On the 2007-08 Magic tour, fans began bringing song-request signs. Bruce seemed to revel in the challenge, while the suggestions also appeared to inspire him to resurrect", "title": "Scottrade Center, St. Louis, MO, 8/23/08" }, { "docid": "1536787", "text": "of Pebbles has varied widely, appearing as an adolescent in one spin-off and as an infant again in the next. Arranged roughly in chronological order, the Flintstones incarnations in which Pebbles has made appearances are as follows: In 1963, when Hanna-Barbera decided to add a baby to the show, their first choice was a boy. When Ideal Toy Company heard this, company executives approached Hanna-Barbera with a proposal to change the baby character to a girl for which the toymaker could create a doll, and Hanna-Barbera agreed. Pebbles, in her conventional toddler incarnation, is sometimes seen in the various Fruity", "title": "Pebbles Flintstone" }, { "docid": "4356233", "text": "St. Louis Car Company The St. Louis Car Company was a major United States manufacturer of railroad passenger cars, streetcars, trolleybuses and locomotives that existed from 1887 to 1974, based in St. Louis, Missouri. The St. Louis Car Company was formed in April 1887 to manufacture and sell streetcars and other kinds of rolling stock of street and steam railways supporting the traction industry. In succeeding years the company built automobiles, including the American Mors, the Skelton, and the Standard Six. The St. Louis Aircraft Corporation division of the company partnered with the Huttig Sash and Door company in 1917", "title": "St. Louis Car Company" }, { "docid": "9666352", "text": "released \"Safe With Sound\". Current Former So Many Dynamos So Many Dynamos is a rock band from St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Their music is generally classified as indie rock, combining aspects of electropop and dance-punk. They take their name from a famous palindrome. The band's first recording, a five-song EP entitled \"Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era?\", was released by now-defunct St. Louis label Ambivalent Records in 2003. The album was recorded by John John (John Katsafanas) at Red Light Studios in St. Louis. Like the band's name, the title of the EP is also a palindrome.", "title": "So Many Dynamos" }, { "docid": "161010", "text": "\"dried vine fruit\" in official documents. A \"raisin\" is any dried grape. While \"raisin\" is a French loanword, the word in French refers to the fresh fruit; \"grappe\" (from which the English \"grape\" is derived) refers to the bunch (as in \"une grappe de raisins\"). A \"currant\" is a dried Zante Black Corinth grape, the name being a corruption of the French \"raisin de Corinthe\" (Corinth grape). \"Currant\" has also come to refer to the blackcurrant and redcurrant, two berries unrelated to grapes. A \"sultana\" was originally a raisin made from Sultana grapes of Turkish origin (known as Thompson Seedless", "title": "Grape" }, { "docid": "17399479", "text": "sparked by Power Rangers toys included in Cap'n Crunch cereal. In the 1950s, researchers from Quaker Oats Company, MIT and Harvard University carried out experiments at the Walter E. Fernald State School to determine how the minerals from cereals were metabolized. Parents of mentally challenged children were asked for permission to let their children be members of a \"Science Club\" and participate in research. Being a member of the Science Club gave the children special privileges. The parents were told that the children would be fed with a diet high in nutrients. However, they were not told (and the consent", "title": "Quaker Oats Company" }, { "docid": "17399470", "text": "it to Triarc in 1997 for $300 million. Triarc sold it to Cadbury Schweppes for $1.45 billion in September 2000. It was spun off in May 2008 to its current owners, Dr Pepper Snapple Group. In 1996, Quaker spun off its frozen food business, selling it to Aurora Foods (which was bought by Pinnacle Foods in 2004). In August 2001, Quaker was bought out by Pepsico. The major Canadian production facility for Quaker Oats is located in Peterborough, Ontario. The factory was first established as the American Cereal Company in 1902 on the shores of the Otonabee River during that", "title": "Quaker Oats Company" }, { "docid": "9452236", "text": "company was based in Edinburgh. Pepsico merged with the Quaker Oats Company in 2001. Sales of porridge oats continue to be higher in Scotland than in the rest of the UK, with Scott's Porage Oats taking the highest brand share. The company holds a Scott's Porage Oats Food & Drink Fair at the St Andrews Festival in November each year at the Byre Theatre. It has a \"Golden Spurtle Award\" for competitive porridge making. Scott's claims to use only the highest quality oats and milling processes. The company does not state the origin of the oats themselves. The oats are", "title": "Scott's Porage Oats" } ]
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Nov 20, 1945 saw the start of the trials in what German city in which 24 high ranking Nazis were indicted for participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace, planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace , war crimes, and crimes against humanity?
[ "Nurnburg", "Nuernberg, Germany", "Nuremberg, Germany", "Nuremberg", "UN/LOCODE:DENUE", "Neurenberg", "Nurnberg", "Norimbergæ", "Bombing of Nuremberg", "Nürnburg", "Nüremberg", "Nurnberg, Germany", "Nürnberg", "Nueremberg", "Neuremburg", "Nurumburg", "Nurenburg", "Nürnberg displaced persons camp", "Nuernberg displaced persons camp", "Nuremberg (Germany)", "Nuremburg", "Nuremburg, Germany", "Nurenberg", "Fischbach UNRRA displaced persons camp", "Nuernburg", "Nürnberg, Germany", "Nuernberg" ]
[ { "docid": "1618156", "text": "Crime against peace A crime against peace, in international law, is \"planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of wars of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing\". This definition of crimes against peace was first incorporated into the Nuremberg Principles and later included in the United Nations Charter. This definition would play a part in defining aggression as a crime against peace. It can also refer to the core international crimes set out in Rome Statute of the International Criminal", "title": "Crime against peace" }, { "docid": "1618161", "text": "Charter of the International Military Tribunal defined three categories of crimes, including \"crimes against peace\". This definition was first used in Finland to prosecute the political leadership in the War-responsibility trials in Finland. The principles were later known as the Nuremberg Principles. In 1950, the Nuremberg Tribunal defined Crimes against Peace (in Principle VI.a, submitted to the United Nations General Assembly) as (i) Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances; (ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts", "title": "Crime against peace" }, { "docid": "10924", "text": "Nazi officials and interrogated. In September 1945, he was told that he would be tried for war crimes, and several days later, he was taken to Nuremberg and incarcerated there. Speer was indicted on all four possible counts: first, participating in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of crime against peace; second, planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace; third, war crimes; and lastly, crimes against humanity. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, the chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg, alleged, \"Speer joined in planning and executing the program to dragoon prisoners of war", "title": "Albert Speer" }, { "docid": "710555", "text": "crimes against peace. The subsequent Nuremberg trials were conducted under Control Council Law No. 10 which included a revised definition of crimes against humanity with a wider scope. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial, was convened to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three types of crimes: \"Class A\" (crimes against peace), \"Class B\" (war crimes), and \"Class C\" (crimes against humanity), committed during the Second World War. The legal basis for the trial was established by the Charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710558", "text": "of the General Assembly advisory to the Security Council. In regard to apartheid in particular, the UN General Assembly has not made any findings, nor have apartheid-related trials for crimes against humanity been conducted. Neither the Nuremberg or Tokyo Charters contained an explicit provision recognizing sexual and gender-based crimes as war crimes or crimes against humanity, although Control Council Law No. 10 recognized rape as a crime against humanity. The statutes of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda both included rape as a crime against humanity. The ICC is the first", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710560", "text": "\"rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide\". Unlike genocide and war crimes, which have been widely recognized and prohibited in international criminal law since the establishment of the Nuremberg principles, there has never been a comprehensive convention on crimes against humanity, even though such crimes are continuously perpetrated worldwide in numerous conflicts and crises. There are eleven international texts defining crimes against humanity, but they all differ slightly as to their definition of that crime and its legal elements. In 2008, the Crimes Against Humanity", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "229310", "text": "Jews were concerned. Hitler said each man should take care of his business, and mine was U-boats and the Navy.\" Dönitz also told Goldensohn of his support for Admiral Bernhard Rogge, who had one Jewish grandparent, when the Nazis began to persecute him. Following the war, Dönitz was held as a prisoner of war by the Allies. He was indicted as a major war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials on three counts: (1) conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity; (2) planning, initiating, and waging wars of aggression; and (3) crimes against the laws of", "title": "Karl Dönitz" }, { "docid": "710546", "text": "Crimes against humanity Crimes against humanity are certain acts that are deliberately committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack or individual attack directed against any civilian or an identifiable part of a civilian population. The first prosecution for crimes against humanity took place at the Nuremberg trials. Crimes against humanity have since been prosecuted by other international courts (for example, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and the International Criminal Court) as well as in domestic prosecutions. The law of crimes against humanity has primarily developed through the evolution of customary", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "18769699", "text": "and resulted in the publication of an edited volume, \"Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity\", by Cambridge University Press. The draft treaty is now available in seven languages and is currently being debated by the UN International Law Commission and governments around the world. Crimes against humanity, along with crimes against peace and war crimes, were one of the three categories of crimes elaborated upon in the Nuremberg Charter, in response to the grave atrocities committed during the Second World War. Since the establishment of the Nuremberg principles and the adoption of the Genocide Convention, genocide and war crimes", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative" }, { "docid": "710579", "text": "a just trial. The British Government was convinced to institute the Nuremberg Trial which left several legacies. These are worldwide jurisdiction for severe war crimes are, creation of international war crime tribunals, judicial procedures that documented history of colossal crimes effectively, and success of UN courts in holding impartial trials. The UN pointed out the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) specifically Article 7 (Crimes against Humanity which defines large-scale acts of violence against a locality’s civilian populace. These acts consist of murder; annihilation; enslavement; bondage; forced removal of the population; imprisonment or deprivation of physical liberty that", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "622727", "text": "Alfred Jodl Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl (; 10 May 1890 – 16 October 1946) was a German general during World War II, who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht). After the war, Jodl was indicted on the charges of conspiracy to commit crime against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes; and crimes against humanity at the Allied-organised Nuremberg trials. The principal charges against him related to his signature of the criminal Commando and Commissar Orders. Found guilty on all charges, he was sentenced to death", "title": "Alfred Jodl" }, { "docid": "710568", "text": "Security Council Resolution 1674, adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 28 April 2006, \"reaffirms the provisions of paragraphs 138 and 139 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document regarding the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity\". The resolution commits the Council to action to protect civilians in armed conflict. In 2008 the U.N. Security Council adopted resolution 1820, which noted that “rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide”. After the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials of", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710563", "text": "chartered in 1948. After Nuremberg, there was no international court with jurisdiction over crimes against humanity for almost 50 years. Work continued on developing the definition of crimes against humanity at the United Nations, however. In 1947, the International Law Commission was charged by the United Nations General Assembly with the formulation of the principles of international law recognized and reinforced in the Nuremberg Charter and judgment, and with drafting a ‘code of offenses against the peace and security of mankind’. Completed fifty years later in 1996, the Draft Code defined crimes against humanity as various inhumane acts, i.e., \"murder,", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710554", "text": "interfere or attempt to bring retribution to individuals or to states only because the concentration camps and the deportations were in pursuance of a common plan or enterprise of making an unjust war\". The judgement of the first Nuremberg trial found that \"the policy of persecution, repression and murder of civilians\" and persecution of Jews within Germany before the outbreak of war in 1939 were not crimes against humanity, because as \"revolting and horrible as many of these crimes were, it has not been satisfactorily proved that they were done in execution of, or in connection with,\" war crimes or", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "229275", "text": "head of the Flensburg Government, as it became known, until it was dissolved by the Allied powers on 23 May. Despite his postwar claims, Dönitz was seen as supportive of Nazism during the war, and he is known to have made a number of anti-Semitic statements. Following the war, Dönitz was indicted as a major war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials on three counts: (1) conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity; (2) planning, initiating, and waging wars of aggression; and (3) crimes against the laws of war. He was found not guilty on count", "title": "Karl Dönitz" }, { "docid": "1748133", "text": "the war and then returned to Germany as part of the British occupation forces. Miller's entire family had been killed at the Jungfernhof Camp in Riga, Latvia in March 1942. At the Nuremberg trials, Seyss-Inquart was defended by Gustav Steinbauer and faced four charges: conspiracy to commit crimes against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes; and crimes against humanity. During the trial, Gustave Gilbert, an American army psychologist, was allowed to examine the Nazi leaders who were tried at Nuremberg for war crimes. Among other tests, a German version of the Wechsler-Bellevue IQ test was administered.", "title": "Arthur Seyss-Inquart" }, { "docid": "15649166", "text": "Crimes against humanity under Communist regimes Crimes against humanity have occurred under various Communist regimes. Actions such as forced deportation, terror, ethnic cleansing, and the deliberate starvation of people such as during the Holodomor and the Great Leap Forward have been described as crimes against humanity. In the 2008 Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism it was stated that crimes committed under communism were often crimes against humanity, according to the definition developed in the Nuremberg Trials, and that the crimes committed under Communism and National Socialism were comparable. Very few people have been tried for these crimes, although", "title": "Crimes against humanity under Communist regimes" }, { "docid": "1933149", "text": "war, especially after Albert Speer came to replace Fritz Todt in charge of armaments production in February 1942 and demanded much more labour from Sauckel. At the Nuremberg trials, Fritz Sauckel was accused of conspiracy to commit crimes against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes and crimes against humanity. He defended the \"Arbeitseinsatz\" as \"nothing to do with exploitation. It is an economic process for supplying labour\". He denied that it was slave labour or that it was common to deliberately work people to death (extermination by labour) or to mistreat them. Robert Servatius, Sauckel's counsel,", "title": "Fritz Sauckel" }, { "docid": "1611056", "text": "prosecuted Neurath at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. Otto von Lüdinghausen appeared for his defence. The prosecution accused him of \"conspiracy to commit crimes against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes and crimes against humanity\". Neurath's chief defence strategy was predicated on the fact that his successor and fellow defendant, Ribbentrop, was more culpable for the atrocities committed in the Nazi state. The International Military Tribunal acknowledged that Neurath's crimes against humanity were mostly conducted during his short tenure as nominal Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, especially in quelling Czech resistance and the summary execution of", "title": "Konstantin von Neurath" }, { "docid": "710570", "text": "and crimes against humanity. Article 5 of the ICTY Statute states that This definition of crimes against humanity revived the original ‘Nuremberg’ nexus with armed conflict, connecting crimes against humanity to both international and non-international armed conflict. It also expanded the list of criminal acts used in Nuremberg to include imprisonment, torture and rape. Cherif Bassiouni has argued that this definition was necessary as the conflict in the former Yugoslavia was considered to be a conflict of both an international and non-international nature. Therefore, this adjusted definition of crimes against humanity was necessary to afford the tribunal jurisdiction over this", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "10050819", "text": "Karl Dönitz, Commander and Chief of the Kriegsmarine, before the International Military Trial in Nuremberg. Dönitz specifically requested Kranzbühler, a fellow Kriegsmarine, to represent him in his defense. Before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Dönitz was indicted as a major war criminal on three counts: (1) \"conspiracy to commit crimes against peace\", (2) \"Planning, initiating, and waging wars of aggression\", and (3) \"crimes against the laws of war\". Dönitz was not indicted on a fourth count of \"crimes against humanity\". Kranzbühler had the unprecedented task of defending Nazi Germany's last Reichspräsident (President) and Grand Admiral. Kranzbühler made his presence", "title": "Otto Kranzbühler" }, { "docid": "1475925", "text": "International Settlements, and in January 1939, Hitler appointed Funk as President of the Reichsbank, replacing Schacht. He was appointed to the Central Planning Board in September 1943. Despite poor health, Funk was tried with other Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg trials. Accused of conspiracy to commit crimes against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes and crimes against humanity, he argued that, despite his titles, he had very little power in the regime. At the Nuremberg trials American Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson labeled Funk as \"The Banker of Gold Teeth\", referring to the practice of extracting gold", "title": "Walther Funk" }, { "docid": "622733", "text": "the Nuremberg trials. Jodl was accused of conspiracy to commit crimes against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes; and crimes against humanity. The principal charges against him related to his signature of the Commando Order and the Commissar Order, both of which ordered that certain classes of prisoners of war were to be summarily executed upon capture. When confronted with mass shootings of Soviet POWs in 1941, Jodl claimed the only prisoners shot were \"not those that could not, but those that did not want to walk.\" Additional charges at his trial included unlawful deportation and", "title": "Alfred Jodl" }, { "docid": "710552", "text": "laws of humanity\". However, the US representative objected to references to \"law of humanity\" as being imprecise and insufficiently developed at that time and the concept was not pursued. After the Second World War, the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal set down the laws and procedures by which the Nuremberg trials were to be conducted. The drafters of this document were faced with the problem of how to respond to the Holocaust and the grave crimes committed by the Nazi regime. A traditional understanding of war crimes gave no provision for crimes committed by a power on its", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "7009267", "text": "to work in brothels attended by German officers and soldiers. In the Soviet Union women were kidnapped by German forces for prostitution; one report by the International Military Tribunal stated that \"in the city of Smolensk the German Command opened a brothel for officers in one of the hotels into which hundreds of women and girls were driven; they were mercilessly dragged down the street by their arms and hair.\" The Nuremberg trials did not prosecute anyone for rape or other sexual violence; rape was defined as a crime against humanity, but prosecutors deemed that such crimes had \"no nexus", "title": "War crimes of the Wehrmacht" }, { "docid": "2622438", "text": "War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II It's estimated that over six million Polish citizens, divided nearly equally between ethnic Poles and Polish Jews, perished during World War II. Most were civilians killed by the actions of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and their respective allies. At the Nuremberg Tribunal, three categories of wartime criminality were established: waging a war of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. These three core crimes of international law were set apart from other crimes, and for the first time since the end of the war categorised as violations of fundamental human", "title": "War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II" }, { "docid": "710564", "text": "extermination, torture, enslavement, persecution on political, racial, religious or ethnic grounds, institutionalized discrimination, arbitrary deportation or forcible transfer of population, arbitrary imprisonment, rape, enforced prostitution and other inhuman acts committed in a systematic manner or on a large scale and instigated or directed by a Government or by any organization or group.\" This definition differs from the one used in Nuremberg, where the criminal acts were to have been committed “before or during the war”, thus establishing a nexus between crimes against humanity and armed conflict. A report on the 2008–09 Gaza War by Richard Goldstone accused Palestinian and Israeli", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "2381478", "text": "were transferred to Tyrol by the SS, which left them there. They were liberated by the Fifth U.S. Army on 5 May 1945 in Niederdorf, South Tyrol, Dolomites, Italy. Schacht had supported Hitler's gaining power, and had been an important official of the Nazi regime. Thus he was arrested by the Allies in 1945. He was put on trial at Nuremberg for \"conspiracy\" and \"crimes against peace\" (planning and waging wars of aggression), but not war crimes or crimes against humanity. Schacht pleaded not guilty to these charges. He cited in his defense that he had lost all official power", "title": "Hjalmar Schacht" }, { "docid": "10704626", "text": "Yugoslavia by Bosnian-Serb forces, the United Nations established the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, to try war criminals of all nationalities. The crimes indicted included grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. It was the first international tribunal since the Nuremberg Trials to do so. In 1994, the UN opened the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda following the April–June genocide in that country of Hutu nationals. In the ICTY nearly 161 individuals were indicted: 68% of Serb ethnicity. Croatian-Serb, Bosnian-Serb, Serbian, and Bosnian-Croat officials were convicted of crimes against humanity, and Bosnian-Serb", "title": "War crimes trial" }, { "docid": "591322", "text": "Supreme Court for alleged war crimes. The modern concept of war crime was further developed under the auspices of the Nuremberg Trials based on the definition in the London Charter that was published on August 8, 1945. (Also see Nuremberg Principles.) Along with war crimes the charter also defined crimes against peace and crimes against humanity, which are often committed during wars and in concert with war crimes. Also known as the Tokyo Trial, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal or simply as the Tribunal, it was convened on May 3, 1946 to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan", "title": "War crime" }, { "docid": "603461", "text": "risk being sent to an unknown fate in the west. Another of Rosenberg's initiatives, the \"Free Caucasus\" campaign, was rather more successful, attracting various nationalities into the so-called Eastern Legion (\"Ostlegionen\"), though in the end this made little difference in the outcome of the war on the Eastern Front. Rosenberg was captured by Allied troops at the end of the war in Flensburg-Mürwik. He was tried at Nuremberg and found guilty of all four counts: conspiracy to commit crimes against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes; and crimes against humanity. The final judgment against him named", "title": "Alfred Rosenberg" } ]
[ { "docid": "1618168", "text": "Although this manual recognizes the criminal responsibility of individuals for those offenses which may comprise any of the foregoing types of crimes, members of the armed forces will normally be concerned, only with those offenses constituting \"war crimes.\" (emphasis added) Vietnam's Criminal Code calls this crime as the crime of \"Undermining peace, provoking aggressive wars\". Chapter XXIV: CRIMES OF UNDERMINING PEACE, AGAINST HUMANITY AND WAR CRIMES Crime against peace A crime against peace, in international law, is \"planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of wars of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in", "title": "Crime against peace" }, { "docid": "9984154", "text": "several months before. The prosecution entered indictments against 24 major war criminals and seven organizations—the leadership of the Nazi party, the Reich Cabinet, the Schutzstaffel (SS), Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the Gestapo, the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the \"General Staff and High Command\". The indictments were for: participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace; war crimes; and crimes against humanity. The tribunal passed judgements ranging from acquittal to death by hanging. Eleven defendants were executed, including Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Rosenberg,", "title": "The Holocaust" }, { "docid": "10704618", "text": "crimes charged against defendants fell into three categories: crimes against peace, that is, crimes involving the planning, initiating, and waging a war of aggression; war crimes, that is, violations of the laws and customs of war as embodied in the Hague Conventions and generally recognized by military forces of civilized nations; and crimes against humanity, such as the extermination of racial, ethnic, and religious groups and other such atrocities against civilians. On October 8, 1945, Anton Dostler was the first German general to be tried for war crimes by a U.S. military tribunal at the Royal Palace of Caserta in", "title": "War crimes trial" }, { "docid": "13591160", "text": "Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act The Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (CAHWCA) is a statute of the Parliament of Canada. The Act implements Canada's obligations under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. In passing the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act on 24 June 2000 and having royal assent given on 29 June 2000, Canada became the first country in the world to incorporate the obligations of the Rome Statute into its domestic laws. It replaced earlier 1987 legislation targeting Nazi war criminals passed in the immediate wake of the Deschênes Commission. Like", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act" }, { "docid": "710553", "text": "own citizens. Therefore, Article 6 of the Charter was drafted to include not only traditional war crimes and crimes against peace, but also \"crimes against humanity\", defined as Under this definition, crimes against humanity could only be punished insofar as they could be connected somehow to war crimes or crimes against peace. The jurisdictional limitation was explained by the American chief representative to the London Conference, Robert H. Jackson, who pointed out that it \"has been a general principle from time immemorial that the internal affairs of another government are not ordinarily our business\". Thus, \"it is justifiable that we", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710547", "text": "international law. Crimes against humanity are not codified in an international convention, although there is currently an international effort to establish such a treaty, led by the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative. Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can be committed during peace or war. They are not isolated or sporadic events, but are part either of a government policy (although the perpetrators need not identify themselves with this policy) or of a wide practice of atrocities tolerated or condoned by a government or a de facto authority. War crimes, murder, massacres, dehumanization, genocide, ethnic cleansing, deportations, unethical human experimentation, extrajudicial", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "13591163", "text": "conviction. On December 18th 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada denied his motion for leave to appeal, thus definitively cementing the guilty verdict. A second Rwandan, Jacques Mungwarere, was charged with \"an act of genocide\" under the Act on 7 November 2009. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police alleges that he committed this act in the western Rwandan city of Kibuye, and that his case is connected to that of Munyaneza. Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act The Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (CAHWCA) is a statute of the Parliament of Canada. The Act implements Canada's obligations under", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act" }, { "docid": "710575", "text": "provided no reasonable indicator of the required elements for a crime against humanity,\" i.e. 'a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population'\". The ICC can only prosecute crimes against humanity in situations under which it has jurisdiction. The ICC only has jurisdiction over crimes contained in its statute - genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity - which have been committed on the territory of a State party to the Rome Statute, when a non-party State refers a situation within its country to the court or when the United Nation Security Council refers a case to the ICC.", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710572", "text": "been maintained. In 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) was established in The Hague (Netherlands) and the Rome Statute provides for the ICC to have jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The definition of what is a \"crime against humanity\" for ICC proceedings has significantly broadened from its original legal definition or that used by the UN. Essentially, the Rome Statute employs the same definition of crimes against humanity that the ICTR Statute does, minus the requirement that the attack was carried out ‘on national, political, ethnic, racial or religious grounds’. In addition, the Rome Statute definition", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710569", "text": "1945-1946, the next international tribunal with jurisdiction over crimes against humanity was not established for another five decades. In response to atrocities committed in the 1990s, multiple ad hoc tribunals were established with jurisdiction over crimes against humanity. The statutes of the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugolavia and for Rwanda each contain different definitions of crimes against humanity. In 1993, the UN Security Council established the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), with jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute three international crimes which had taken place in the former Yugoslavia: genocide, war crimes,", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "1618157", "text": "Court, (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression) which adopted crimes negotiated previously in the Draft code of crimes against the peace and security of mankind. An important exception to the foregoing are defensive military actions taken under Article 51 of the UN Charter. Such defensive actions are subject to immediate Security Council review, but do not require UN permission to be legal within international law. \"Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations.\" (UN Charter, Article", "title": "Crime against peace" }, { "docid": "13591161", "text": "the Rome Statute, the CAHWCA criminalizes genocide, crimes against humanity, and a variety of war crimes. A person in Canada may be prosecuted for these offences even if the acts were committed outside of Canadian territory. However, the Act stipulates that no prosecution for these crimes can be proceeded without the personal consent in writing of the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General. In order to fully implement the Rome Statute, the CAHWCA amended the Criminal Code, the Extradition Act, and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act. On 19 October 2005, Désiré Munyaneza, a Rwandan immigrant living", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act" }, { "docid": "710557", "text": "constitute crimes against humanity differs between definitions both internationally and on the domestic level. Isolated inhumane acts of a certain nature committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack may instead constitute grave infringements of human rights, or – depending on the circumstances – war crimes, but are not classified as crimes against humanity. The systematic persecution of one racial group by another, such as occurred during the South African apartheid government, was recognized as a crime against humanity by the United Nations General Assembly in 1976. The Charter of the United Nations (Article 13, 14, 15) makes actions", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710576", "text": "In 2005 the UN referred to the ICC the situation in Darfur. This referral resulted in an indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in 2008. When the ICC President reported to the UN regarding its progress handling these crimes against humanity case, Judge Phillipe Kirsch said \"The Court does not have the power to arrest these persons. That is the responsibility of States and other actors. Without arrests, there can be no trials. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 30 April 2002 issued a recommendation to the member", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710562", "text": "Sean D. Murphy, the United States’ Member on the United Nations’ International Law Commission, has been named the Special Rapporteur for Crimes Against Humanity. Sean D. Murphy attended the 2008 Experts' Meeting held by the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative prior to this appointment. There is some debate on what the status of crimes against humanity under customary international law is. M. Cherif Bassiouni argues that crimes against humanity are part of \"jus cogens\" and as such constitute a non-derogable rule of international law. The United Nations has been primarily responsible for the prosecution of crimes against humanity since it was", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710573", "text": "offers the most expansive list of specific criminal acts that may constitute crimes against humanity to date. Article 7 of the treaty stated that: The Rome Statute Explanatory Memorandum states that crimes against humanity To fall under the Rome Statute, a crime against humanity which is defined in Article 7.1 must be \"part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population\". Article 7.2.a states \"For the purpose of paragraph 1: \"Attack directed against any civilian population means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710577", "text": "states, on the protection of women against violence. In the section \"Additional measures concerning violence in conflict and post-conflict situations\", states in paragraph 69 that member states should: \"penalize rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity as an intolerable violation of human rights, as crimes against humanity and, when committed in the context of an armed conflict, as war crimes;\" In the Explanatory Memorandum on this recommendation when considering paragraph 69: The Holodomor has been recognized as a crime against humanity by the European Parliament. Sources say the 20th century", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710580", "text": "violates international laws; maltreatment; forced prostitution and rape; discrimination and tyranny against certain groups; apartheid (racial discrimination and segregation); and, other inhumane acts. A publication from Trial International mentioned that crimes against humanity have been collated starting in 1990. These were the 1993 Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (now called the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1994 Statute of the International Tribunal for Rwanda, and 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal. The latter contains the latest and most extensive list of detailed crimes against civilians. Crimes against humanity Crimes against humanity are certain acts that", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "18769701", "text": "a legal framework for prosecuting perpetrators of genocide, and the Geneva Conventions address war crimes, crimes against humanity have yet to be codified. The statutes of the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda each contain different definitions of crimes against humanity, further demonstrating the need for a comprehensive convention that would both punish perpetrators and prevent such atrocities from occurring in the future. The Crimes Against Humanity Initiative is directed by a global Steering Committee of experts and scholars in the field of international criminal law which includes: The Crimes Against Humanity", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative" }, { "docid": "11420898", "text": "Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity The Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity was adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by United Nations General Assembly resolution 2391 (XXIII) of 26 November 1968. Pursuant to the provisions of its Article VIII (90 days following the deposit of the tenth ratification), it came into force on 11 November 1970. The Convention provides that no signatory state may apply statutory limitations to: As of January 2015, the Convention has 55 state parties, which includes 54", "title": "Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity" }, { "docid": "18769716", "text": "Session of the UN General Assembly in 2014, some states questioned the need for further study on the need for a crimes against humanity convention, including France, South Africa, and the Netherlands, which considered \"that this issue is to a large extent already addressed in the Rome Statute.\" France questioned the need for a crimes against humanity convention and made reference to the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative in their remarks before the UN 6th Committee in 2014. Other scholars question the likelihood that the Proposed Convention will have any effect on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity. Crimes", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative" }, { "docid": "710571", "text": "crime. The UN Security Council established the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1994 following the Rwandan Genocide. Under the ICTR Statute, the link between crimes against humanity and an armed conflict of any kind was dropped. Rather, the requirement was added that the inhumane acts must be part of a “systematic or widespread attack against any civilian population on national, political, ethnic, racial or religious grounds.” Unlike the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, the conflict in Rwanda was deemed to be non-international, so crimes against humanity would likely not have been applicable if the nexus to armed conflict had", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710559", "text": "international instrument expressly to include various forms of sexual and gender-based crimes including rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilisation, and other forms of sexual violence as both an underlying act of crimes against humanity and war crime committed in international and/or non-international armed conflicts. As an example, the events of Khojaly and Khatyn can be shown that the world strongly condemns. International institutions have asked for a ransom to avoid such incidents. There are hundreds of massacres, thousands of prisoners and wounded in these incidents. In 2008, the U.N. Security Council adopted resolution 1820, which noted that", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "7980214", "text": "and the absence of substantial civilian deaths among non-Jews in \"racially superior\" occupied countries such as Denmark and France, attest to the genocidal policies directed against the Poles. The genocidal policies of the German government's colonization plan, \"Generalplan Ost\", were the epicenter of German war crimes against the Polish nation, and crimes against humanity, committed from 1939 to 1945. The original assumptions of the Nazi master plans entailed the expulsion and mass extermination of some 85 percent (over 20 million) of Poland's ethnically-Polish citizens, with the remaining 15 percent to be turned into slave labor. In 2000, by an Act", "title": "Nazi crimes against the Polish nation" }, { "docid": "13591162", "text": "in Toronto, became the first person arrested and charged with an offence under the CAHWCA. Munyaneza was charged with two counts of genocide, two counts of crimes against humanity, and three counts of war crimes for actions allegedly committed in Rwanda in 1994. On 22 May 2009, Munyaneza was convicted of all charges and is the first person to have been convicted under the CAHWCA. On 29 October 2009, Munyaneza was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. On 7 May 2014, the Quebec Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed his appeal, thereby affirming his", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act" }, { "docid": "11420899", "text": "UN member states and the State of Palestine. Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity The Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity was adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by United Nations General Assembly resolution 2391 (XXIII) of 26 November 1968. Pursuant to the provisions of its Article VIII (90 days following the deposit of the tenth ratification), it came into force on 11 November 1970. The Convention provides that no signatory state may apply statutory limitations to: As of January 2015, the", "title": "Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity" }, { "docid": "10429495", "text": "Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity The Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity (also known as the History Commission or Max Jakobson Commission) was the commission established by President of Estonia Lennart Meri in October 1998 to investigate crimes against humanity committed in Estonia or against its citizens during the Soviet and German occupation, such as Soviet deportations from Estonia and the Holocaust in Estonia. It held its first session in Tallinn in January 1999. Finnish diplomat Max Jakobson was appointed chairman of the commission. For purposes of independence (no conflict of interest), there", "title": "Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity" }, { "docid": "1618159", "text": "any rule imposing a conflicting obligation to prevent, interdict or vindicate crimes which also belong to \"jus cogens\", namely aggression itself, crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes, slavery, torture and piracy, so that a war waged consistent with the aim of repressing any of these crimes might not be illegal where the crime comes within the limit of proportionality relative to war and its characteristic effects. In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, known as the \"General Treaty for the Renunciation of War\", said: The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to", "title": "Crime against peace" }, { "docid": "710567", "text": "transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation. The commission further finds that crimes against humanity are ongoing in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea because the policies, institutions and patterns of impunity that lie at their heart remain in place.\" Additionally, the commission found that crimes against humanity have been committed against starving populations, particularly during the 1990s, and are being committed against persons from other countries who were systematically abducted or denied repatriation, in order to gain labour and other skills for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. UN", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710551", "text": "with the codification of new rules of international humanitarian law. The preamble of the two Conventions referenced the “laws of humanity” as an expression of underlying inarticulated humanistic values. The term is part of what is known as the Martens Clause. On May 24, 1915, the Allied Powers, Britain, France, and Russia, jointly issued a statement explicitly charging for the first time ever another government of committing \"a crime against humanity\". An excerpt from this joint statement reads: At the conclusion of the war, an international war crimes commission recommended the creation of a tribunal to try \"violations of the", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710574", "text": "to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack.\" This means that an individual crime on its own, or even a number of such crimes, would not fall under the Rome Statute unless they were the result of a State policy or an organizational policy. This was confirmed by Luis Moreno Ocampo in an open letter publishing his conclusions about allegations of crimes committed during the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 which might fall under the ICC. In a section entitled \"Allegations concerning Genocide and Crimes against Humanity\" he states that \"the available information", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "18499047", "text": "John Ford's film unit, and chief interpreter Richard Sonnenfeldt. The prosecution team submitted three films as evidence against the high Nazi officials charged with crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Two of these films, \"Nazi Concentration Camps\" and \"The Nazi Plan,\" were produced by Ford; the third, \"The Atrocities Committed by the German-Fascists in the USSR,\" was a Soviet production directed by Roman Karmen. Excerpts from the sessions in which these films were shown during the trial are significant sequences in the documentary. Also significant is the \"chilling testimony\" of prosecution witness Otto Ohlendorf, commanding officer of", "title": "Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes" }, { "docid": "710565", "text": "forces of possibly committing a crime against humanity. In 2011, Goldstone said that he no longer believed that Israeli forces had targeted civilians or committed a crime against humanity. On 21 March 2013, at its 22nd session, the United Nations Human Rights Council established the Commission of Inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The Commission is mandated to investigate the systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, with a view to ensuring full accountability, in particular for violations which may amount to crimes against humanity. The", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "18769708", "text": "Initiative is currently undergoing its fourth and final phase, which includes the promotion of the Proposed Convention as part of a broader global awareness campaign. In this phase, the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative aims to raise global awareness of the need for an international convention on crimes against humanity, and to encourage the international community to adopt the Proposed Convention. The CAH Initiative has completed translations of the Proposed Convention in French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and German in order to widen the reach of the Initiative and the Proposed Convention.[23] A Chinese translation is forthcoming. The Crimes Against Humanity Steering", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative" }, { "docid": "710566", "text": "Commission dealt with matters relating to crimes against humanity on the basis of definitions set out by customary international criminal law and in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The 2014 Report by the commission found \"the body of testimony and other information it received establishes that crimes against humanity have been committed in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, pursuant to policies established at the highest level of the State... These crimes against humanity entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "710548", "text": "punishments including summary executions, use of WMDs, state terrorism or state sponsoring of terrorism, death squads, kidnappings and forced disappearances, military use of children, unjust imprisonment, enslavement, cannibalism, torture, rape, political repression, racial discrimination, religious persecution, and other human rights abuses may reach the threshold of crimes against humanity if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice. The term \"crimes against humanity\" is potentially ambiguous because of the ambiguity of the word \"humanity\", which can mean humankind (all human beings collectively) or the value of humanness. The history of the term shows that the latter sense is intended.", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "18769698", "text": "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative The Crimes Against Humanity Initiative is a rule of law research and advocacy project of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. Started in 2008 by Professor Leila Nadya Sadat, the Initiative has as its goals the study of the need for a comprehensive international convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity, the analysis of the necessary elements of such a convention, and the drafting of a proposed treaty. To date, the Initiative has held several experts' meetings and conferences, published a \"Proposed Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity\",", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative" }, { "docid": "645329", "text": "as \"In the Service of the Reich\", and was later re-edited as \"The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel\" by Walter Görlitz from a translation by David Irving as the author in 1965. Another work by Keitel later published in English was \"Questionnaire on the Ardennes offensive\". After the surrender, Keitel was arrested along with the rest of the Flensburg government. He soon faced the International Military Tribunal (IMT), which indicted him on all four counts before it: conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Most of the case against", "title": "Wilhelm Keitel" }, { "docid": "18769700", "text": "have widely been recognized and prohibited in international criminal law. However, there has never been a comprehensive convention on crimes against humanity, even though such crimes are continuously perpetrated worldwide in numerous conflicts and crises. Consequently, an international convention on crimes against humanity is a key missing element in the current framework of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and human rights law. Washington University's Crimes Against Humanity (CAH) Initiative represents the first concerted effort to address the gap that exists in international criminal law by enumerating a comprehensive international convention on crimes against humanity. While the Genocide Convention provides", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative" }, { "docid": "9561604", "text": "charges of crimes against peace, a charge which was introduced at the Tokyo Trials to prosecute Class-A War Criminals. (Class-B War Criminals are those found guilty of war crimes \"per se\", and Class-C War Criminals are those guilty of crimes against humanity.) However, any convictions for such crimes are not required to be recognized by the Japanese government, as the Kellogg-Briand Pact did not have an enforcement clause stipulating penalties in the event of violation. The Japanese government accepted the terms set by the Potsdam Declaration (1945) after the end of the war. The declaration alluded, in Article 10, to", "title": "Definitions of Japanese war crimes" }, { "docid": "10429496", "text": "were no Estonian citizens among its members. Research of the Commission has been relied on by the European Court of Human Rights, for example in its decision to not grant certiorari to review a complaint by August Kolk and Pyotr Kislyy, who had been convicted of crimes against humanity due to their roles in the Soviet deportations from Estonia. The Commission was disbanded in 2007 and was succeeded by the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory. Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity The Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity (also known as the History Commission", "title": "Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity" }, { "docid": "7980212", "text": "Nazi crimes against the Polish nation Crimes against the Polish nation committed by Nazi Germany and collaborationist forces during the invasion of Poland, along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation of Poland in World War II, consisted of the systematic extermination of Jewish Poles and the murder of millions of (non-Jewish) ethnic Poles. The Germans justified these genocides on the basis of Nazi racial theory, which depicted Jews as a constant threat and regarded Poles and other Slavs as racially inferior \"Untermenschen\". By 1942 the Nazis were implementing their plan to kill every Jew in German-occupied Europe, and had", "title": "Nazi crimes against the Polish nation" }, { "docid": "18769714", "text": "it to take up the topic of crimes against humanity, George Washington Law School enacted a new student project to search and develop commentary based on the Harris Institute's proposed convention. In the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly in 2014, many states made positive remarks on the International Law Commission's decision to move forward with studying the need for a global crimes against humanity treaty, and expressed their support for the work of the ILC on the crimes against humanity treaty topic, including Australia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Israel, Japan, Korea, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative" }, { "docid": "18769713", "text": "convention on crimes against humanity in the declarations adopted in Chautauqua, New York, in 2010 and in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2009. The flagship book by the Initiative, \"Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity\", has received considerable praise and attention and received the Book of the Year Award from the American Branch of L'Association Internationale de Droit Pénal. Additionally, the work of the Initiative was cited by the International Law Commission in its report detailing its decision to add the topic \"Crimes against humanity\" to its long-term programme of work. Following Sean Murphy's report to the International Law Commission urging", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative" }, { "docid": "18769706", "text": "on July 17, 2014. The \"Proposed Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity\" is a model treaty developed by the Crimes Against Humanity initiative. It contains 27 articles and 6 annexes. Echoing its 1907 forebear, it also contains its own \"Martens Clause\" in the Preamble. The Proposed Convention builds upon and complements the ICC Statute by retaining the Rome Statute definition of crimes against humanity, but has added robust interstate cooperation, extradition, and mutual legal assistance provisions in Annexes 2-6. Universal jurisdiction was retained (but is not mandatory), and the Rome Statute served as a model for", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative" }, { "docid": "604809", "text": "the counts of: (1) conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity; (2) planning, initiating, and waging wars of aggression; and (3) crimes against the laws of war. Raeder was found guilty on all the counts and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was surprised as he had expected to be sentenced to death. Whilst in prison, Raeder was the constant companion of Dönitz, with whom he continued his feud. His wife, supported by German veterans, led several campaigns to free him until, on account of his ill health, he was released on 26 September 1955. Raeder", "title": "Erich Raeder" }, { "docid": "710556", "text": "(CIMTFE) that was proclaimed on 19 January 1946. The tribunal convened on May 3, 1946, and was adjourned on November 12, 1948. In the Tokyo Trial, Crimes against Humanity (Class C) was not applied for any suspect. Prosecutions related to the Nanking Massacre were categorised as infringements upon the Laws of War. A panel of eleven judges presided over the IMTFE, one each from victorious Allied powers (United States, Republic of China, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Provisional Government of the French Republic, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, British India, and the Philippines). The different types of crimes which may", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "20517496", "text": "and of crimes against Yugoslav Partisans. Lukačević, found guilty and sentenced to death, was executed in Belgrade in late August 1945. Chetnik leader Dragoljub Mihailović was captured on 13 March 1946 by agents of the Yugoslav Security Agency (OZNA) and indicted on 47 counts. He was convicted of eight, including crimes against humanity and high treason. Mihailović, sentenced to death on 15 July, was executed with nine other Chetnik commanders in Lisičji Potok in the early hours of 18 July 1946. Chetnik war crimes in World War II Chetniks war crimes during the Second World War were primarily directed towards", "title": "Chetnik war crimes in World War II" }, { "docid": "5109203", "text": "occupied by a foreign power. The San Francisco Peace Treaty, signed on September 8, 1951, marked the end of the Allied occupation, and after it came into force on April 28, 1952, Japan was once again an independent country. During the occupation, leading Japanese war crime charges were reserved for those who participated in a joint conspiracy to start and wage war, termed \"Class A\" (crimes against peace), and were brought against those in the highest decision-making bodies; \"Class B\" crimes were reserved for those who committed \"conventional\" atrocities or crimes against humanity; \"Class C\" crimes were reserved for those", "title": "End of World War II in Asia" }, { "docid": "710561", "text": "Initiative was launched by Professor Leila Nadya Sadat at the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute to address this gap in international law. The Initiative represents the first concerted effort to address the gap that exists in international criminal law by enumerating a comprehensive international convention on crimes against humanity. On July 30, 2013, the United Nations International Law Commission voted to include the topic of crimes against humanity in its long-term program of work. In July 2014, the Commission moved this topic to its active programme of work based largely on a report submitted by Sean D. Murphy. Professor", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "591330", "text": "crimes\" are different from crimes against peace which is planning, preparing, initiating, or waging a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements, or assurances. Because the definition of a state of \"war\" may be debated, the term \"war crime\" itself has seen different usage under different systems of international and military law. It has some degree of application outside of what some may consider to be a state of \"war\", but in areas where conflicts persist enough to constitute social instability. The legalities of war have sometimes been accused of containing favoritism toward the winners", "title": "War crime" }, { "docid": "18769715", "text": "In particular, Croatia stated that it “fully supports endeavors aimed at developing a global international instrument for the prevention, prosecution and punishment of crimes against humanity, as well as cooperation between States in that regard.” The Czech Republic expressly noted the work of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative in this area in their statement. Whitney Robson Harris supported the work of the Initiative prior to his death. In 2010 he made a plea to the legal experts, members of civil society and diplomats who were present at the 2010 Experts' Meeting at the Brookings Institution. He stated, In the 69th", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative" }, { "docid": "18769709", "text": "Committee has also reached out to national and international policy makers to begin a dialog about the strengths and benefits of the Proposed Convention and the responsibility of the international community to prevent and punish crimes against humanity. Members of the Steering Committee frequently present the Initiative to audiences in the United States and abroad. This includes at an informational side event at the 11th Session of International Criminal Court's Assembly of States Parties at The Hague. Chairwoman Leila Nadya Sadat has presented on the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative at Misericordia University, Wayne Law School, John Burroughs High School the", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative" }, { "docid": "5032180", "text": "those guilty of crimes against humanity. The Japanese government also accepted the terms set by the Potsdam Declaration (1945) after the end of the war. The declaration alluded, in Article 10, to two kinds of war crime: one was the violation of international laws, such as the abuse of prisoners of war; the other was obstructing \"democratic tendencies among the Japanese people\" and civil liberties within Japan. In Japan, the term \"Japanese war crimes\" generally only refers to cases tried by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, also known as the \"Tokyo Trials\", following the end of the", "title": "War crimes in Manchukuo" }, { "docid": "710578", "text": "can be considered the bloodiest period in global history. Millions of civilian infants, youngsters, adults, and elderly people died in warfare. One civilian perished for every combatant killed. Efforts of the International Committee of the Red Cross, humanitarian laws, and rules of warfare were not able to stop these crimes against humanity. These terminologies were invented since previous vocabulary was not enough to describe these offenses. War criminals did not fear prosecution, apprehension, or imprisonment before World War II. Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill favored the outright execution of war criminals. The United States was more lenient and called for", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "15649177", "text": "1959 expressed apathy to the widespread suffering “When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.” Crimes against humanity under Communist regimes Crimes against humanity have occurred under various Communist regimes. Actions such as forced deportation, terror, ethnic cleansing, and the deliberate starvation of people such as during the Holodomor and the Great Leap Forward have been described as crimes against humanity. In the 2008 Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism it was stated that crimes committed under", "title": "Crimes against humanity under Communist regimes" }, { "docid": "18769703", "text": "April 13–14, 2009. This Meeting was held in St. Louis, MO. The April Experts' Meeting was the first formal session of the Initiative and was attended by more than forty international experts and academics. This Meeting resulted in a report, which summarized and addressed concerned raised by participants, including the relationship between a crimes against humanity convention and the International Criminal Court, universal jurisdiction, and the relationship to customary international law. The third phase of the Initiative resulted in the elaboration and publication of a Proposed International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity in English and", "title": "Crimes Against Humanity Initiative" }, { "docid": "14137079", "text": "words. When they took the order \"matches\" it meant 'burn the whole village down', whereas when they took the order 'tyres' it meant kill people. When the commander Mitrovic used to say 'take him for tanning', this would mean that Albanian man must be killed\" says Stojanovic. He has also talked about other cases, which according to him were crimes, for which, however no one has claimed the responsibility. The ICTY also leveled indictments against KLA members Fatmir Limaj, Haradin Bala, Isak Musliu and Agim Murtezi, indicted for crimes against humanity. They were arrested on 17–18 February 2003. Charges were", "title": "War crimes in the Kosovo War" }, { "docid": "7009274", "text": "hanging, although Jodl was acquitted post-mortem seven years later. While the tribunal declared that the \"Gestapo\", \"SD\" and \"SS\" (including the \"Waffen-SS\") were inherently criminal organizations, the court did not reach the same conclusion with respect to the \"Wehrmacht\" General Staff and High Command. The accused were members of the Nazi Party itself and were executing the party's beliefs through their rank. The German \"Wehrmacht\" along with Allied armies committed what are classified as war crimes. The SS and political \"Armed\" groups committed what are classified as crimes against humanity. The prosecution of war crimes lost momentum during the 1950s", "title": "War crimes of the Wehrmacht" }, { "docid": "14137067", "text": "for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war. Milosevic died in ICTY custody before sentencing. The Court has pronounced the following verdicts: Šainović, Pavković and Lukić were convicted as members of a \"joint criminal enterprise\", while the others were convicted of aiding and abetting crimes. The first trials in Serbia & FRY regarding the atrocities against Kosovar Albanians had occurred in 2000 in front martial courts, as accounts of murder. The Niš Military Court had in late 2000 found guilty for the murder of 2 Albanian civilians on 28 March 1999 in the village of", "title": "War crimes in the Kosovo War" }, { "docid": "3998955", "text": "Army Air Forces in Operation Vengeance in 1943). At the Tokyo Trials, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo; Shigenori Tōgō, then Foreign Minister; Shigetarō Shimada, the Minister of the Navy; and Osami Nagano, Chief of Naval General Staff, were charged with crimes against peace (charges 1 to 36) and murder (charges 37 to 52) in connection with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Along with war crimes and crimes against humanity (charges 53 to 55), Tojo was among the seven Japanese leaders sentenced to death and executed by hanging in 1948, Shigenori Tōgō received a 20-year sentence, Shimada received a life sentence, and", "title": "Japanese war crimes" }, { "docid": "14409239", "text": "Mass Atrocity crimes Atrocity crimes refer to the three legally defined international crimes of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. In 2017 the International Criminal Court (ICC) will be deciding upon whether or not to include crimes of aggression within their jurisdiction; effectively adding a fourth atrocity crime. These crimes are defined in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional Protocols, and the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. \"See also:\" \"Crimes Against Humanity\" The crime of Crimes Against Humanity is defined, by", "title": "Mass Atrocity crimes" }, { "docid": "19513358", "text": "American cover-up of Japanese war crimes The American cover-up of Japanese war crimes occurred after the end of World War II, when the occupying US government granted political immunity to military personnel who had engaged in human experimentation and other crimes against humanity, predominantly in mainland China. The pardon of Japanese war criminals, among whom were Unit 731's commanding officers General Shiro Ishii and General Masaji Kitano, was overseen by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur in September 1945. While a series of war tribunals and trials was organized, many of the high-ranking officials and doctors who devised and respectively", "title": "American cover-up of Japanese war crimes" }, { "docid": "16093377", "text": "who was also on trial for crimes against humanity, died in prison. Yusuf was alleged to be the founder of infamous Peace Committees and Razakar force in the greater Khulna region. He was indicted on 13 charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. On 29 October 2014, Motiur Rahman Nizami was sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the 1971 independence war against Pakistan. He was hanged on 11 May 2016. On 2 November 2014, Jamaat-e-Islami politician Mir Quasem Ali was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War", "title": "International Crimes Tribunal (Bangladesh)" }, { "docid": "15961267", "text": "International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea The International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea (ICNK) was formed on September 8, 2011. It comprises Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Federation for Human Rights and has support from over 40 organizations worldwide. North Korean human rights issues with which the ICNK deals include North Korea’s political prison camp system and the repatriation and punishment of North Korean refugees. As stated by ICNK: ICNK was formed with the goal of establishing a UN Commission of Inquiry to investigate Crimes against Humanity in North", "title": "International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea" }, { "docid": "710550", "text": "of the Congress of Vienna of the same year) included in its first sentence the concept of the \"principles of humanity and universal morality\" as justification for ending a trade that was \"odious in its continuance\". The term \"crimes against humanity\" was used by George Washington Williams in a pamphlet published in 1890 to describe the practices of Leopold II of Belgium's administration of the Congo Free State. In treaty law, the term originated in the Second Hague Convention of 1899 preamble and was expanded in the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907 preamble and their respective regulations, which were concerned", "title": "Crimes against humanity" }, { "docid": "15649167", "text": "Cambodia has prosecuted members of the Khmer Rouge and Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have passed laws that have led to the prosecution of several perpetrators for crimes against the Baltic peoples. They were tried for crimes committed during the Occupation of the Baltic states in 1940 and 1941, and during the reoccupation after the war. There were also trials for attacks by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) on the Forest Brethren. There is a scholarly consensus that the Cambodian genocide carried out by the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot in what became known as the killing fields was", "title": "Crimes against humanity under Communist regimes" }, { "docid": "13845056", "text": "Basilica San Marco, the art work with the longest history of crimes against it, written by Judge Arthur Tompkins. Judge Tompkins is an ARCA trustee and faculty member, who teaches a course on Art Crimes in War as part of ARCA's Postgraduate Certificate Program and includes detailed discussion of the Four Horses as part of his course. Association for Research into Crimes against Art The Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) is a research and outreach organization that works to promote research and the study of art crime and cultural heritage protection. ARCA aims to bridge the gap", "title": "Association for Research into Crimes against Art" }, { "docid": "5032185", "text": "the Far East convicted a number of high Japanese officials in connection with the invasion of Manchuria, establishment of Manchukuo and with conspiracy to wage aggressive war against China. Those sentenced to death with strong connections to Manchukuo included senior officers in the Kwantung Army Hideki Tōjō, Akira Mutō, Seishirō Itagaki and Kenji Doihara. War crimes in Manchukuo War crimes in Manchukuo were committed during the rule of the Empire of Japan in northeast China, either directly, or through its puppet state of Manchukuo, from 1931 to 1945. Various war crimes have been alleged, but have received comparatively little historical", "title": "War crimes in Manchukuo" } ]
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Sunday marked the birthday of what noted French/American mathmetician, who was known as the father of fractal geometry?
[ "Benoit Mandelbrot", "Benoît Mandelbrot", "Benoît B. Mandelbrot", "Benoit B. Mandelbrot", "Benoit Mandlebrot", "Benoit mandelbrot", "B. Mandelbrot", "Benoit Mandelbrodt", "Benoît mandelbrot" ]
[ { "docid": "15000591", "text": "The Fractal Geometry of Nature The Fractal Geometry of Nature is a 1982 book by the Franco-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot. \"The Fractal Geometry of Nature\" is a revised and enlarged version of his 1977 book entitled \"Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension\", which in turn was a revised, enlarged, and translated version of his 1975 French book, \"Les Objects Fractals: Forme, Hasard et Dimension\". \"American Scientist\" put the book in its one hundred books of 20th century science. As technology has improved mathematically accurate, computer-drawn fractals have become more detailed. Early drawings were low-resolution black and white; later drawings were higher", "title": "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" }, { "docid": "15000592", "text": "resolution and in color. Many examples were created by programmers working with Mandelbrot, primarily at IBM Research. These visualizations have added to persuasiveness of the books and their impact on the scientific community. The Fractal Geometry of Nature The Fractal Geometry of Nature is a 1982 book by the Franco-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot. \"The Fractal Geometry of Nature\" is a revised and enlarged version of his 1977 book entitled \"Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension\", which in turn was a revised, enlarged, and translated version of his 1975 French book, \"Les Objects Fractals: Forme, Hasard et Dimension\". \"American Scientist\" put the", "title": "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" }, { "docid": "19924042", "text": "some groups such as that of computer scientist Bruce Gooch, have used computers to generate Pollock-like images by varying their fractal characteristics. Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot (who invented the term fractal) and art theorist Francis O’Connor (the chief Pollock scholar) are well known advocates of fractal expressionism. Fractal expressionism is related to fractal fluency because the latter provides an appealing motivation for why artists such as Pollock might aspire to Fractal Expressionism. Fractal fluency is a neuroscience model that proposes that, through exposure to nature’s fractal scenery, people’s visual systems have adapted to efficiently process fractals with ease. This adaptation occurs", "title": "Fractal expressionism" }, { "docid": "47190", "text": "opinion \"The deepest and most realistic finance book ever published\". Benoit Mandelbrot Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born, French and American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as \"the art of roughness\" of physical phenomena and \"the uncontrolled element in life\". He referred to himself as a \"fractalist\" and is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word \"fractal\", as well as developing a theory of \"roughness and self-similarity\" in nature. In 1936, while he was a", "title": "Benoit Mandelbrot" }, { "docid": "47169", "text": "Benoit Mandelbrot Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born, French and American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as \"the art of roughness\" of physical phenomena and \"the uncontrolled element in life\". He referred to himself as a \"fractalist\" and is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word \"fractal\", as well as developing a theory of \"roughness and self-similarity\" in nature. In 1936, while he was a child, Mandelbrot's family emigrated to France from Warsaw, Poland. After", "title": "Benoit Mandelbrot" } ]
[ { "docid": "10456082", "text": "Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday) \"Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)\" is a song by American electronica musician Moby. It was released as the fourth single from his sixth studio album \"18\" on February 24, 2003. The song features a samples of American singer and Sugar Hill Records founder Sylvia Robinson's song \"Sunday\". The music video for \"Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)\" was directed by Style Wars, who previously directed the video for Moby's \"In This World\". It acts as a sequel to the \"In This World\" video, featuring the same alien characters from the video returning to", "title": "Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)" }, { "docid": "19924050", "text": "(typically just over one order of magnitude), prompting scientists to debate what range is required to reliably establish fractal behavior.<ref name=\"Ave/Man\">[Avnir, David, Ofer Biham, Daniel M. Lidar, and Ofer Malcai. \"Is the Geometry of Nature Fractal?\" Science 279.5347 (1998): 39-40. Print.]</ref> Mandelbrot refused to include a required magnification range in his definition of fractals and instead noted that it is the range necessary to generate the properties associated with fractal repetition. In the case of Pollock's work, this would be the magnification range necessary for the patterns to generate the fractal aesthetics. Neuroscience experiments have shown that this magnification range", "title": "Fractal expressionism" }, { "docid": "10456083", "text": "Earth, this time being recognized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. They become renowned celebrities and enjoy major success, including a television series. The end of the video shows the aliens piloting their spacecraft back to their much less stressful home planet. Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday) \"Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)\" is a song by American electronica musician Moby. It was released as the fourth single from his sixth studio album \"18\" on February 24, 2003. The song features a samples of American singer and Sugar Hill Records founder Sylvia Robinson's song \"Sunday\". The music video for", "title": "Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)" }, { "docid": "16599954", "text": "Fractal derivative In applied mathematics and mathematical analysis, the fractal derivative is a non-Newtonian type of derivative in which the variable such as \"t\" has been scaled according to \"t\". The derivative is defined in fractal geometry. Porous media, aquifer, turbulence and other media usually exhibit fractal properties. The classical physical laws such as Fick's laws of diffusion, Darcy's law and Fourier's law are no longer applicable for such media, because they are based on Euclidean geometry, which doesn't apply to media of non-integer fractal dimensions. The basic physical concepts such as distance and velocity in fractal media are required", "title": "Fractal derivative" }, { "docid": "19251203", "text": "and was used in a crucial way in their spectral reformulation of the Riemann hypothesis. The precise notion of complex dimensions, defined as the poles of the geometric zeta function associated with the fractal string, was crystallized and rigorously developed by Michel Lapidus and Machiel van Frankenhuijsen in the research monograph Fractal Geometry and Number Theory \\cite{L-vF1} and then significantly further extended in the book Fractal Geometry, Complex Dimensions and Zeta Functions ~\\cite{L-vF2}. The work of Michel Lapidus and Helmut Maier can be summarized as follows: The inverse spectral problem for a fractal string can be solved if and only", "title": "Fractal string" }, { "docid": "11303536", "text": "coalition building\". Fractal city Edward Soja uses the term fractal city to describe the \"metropolarities\" and the restructured social mosaic of today's urban landscape or \"postmetropolis\". In his book, \"Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions\", he discusses how the contemporary American city has become far more complex than the familiar upperclass vs. middleclass or black vs. white models of society. It has become a fractal city of intensified inequalities and social polarization. The term \"fractal\" gives it the idea of having a fractured social geometry. This is a patterning of \"metropolarities\", or an intensification of socio-economic inequalities, some of", "title": "Fractal city" }, { "docid": "11303532", "text": "Fractal city Edward Soja uses the term fractal city to describe the \"metropolarities\" and the restructured social mosaic of today's urban landscape or \"postmetropolis\". In his book, \"Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions\", he discusses how the contemporary American city has become far more complex than the familiar upperclass vs. middleclass or black vs. white models of society. It has become a fractal city of intensified inequalities and social polarization. The term \"fractal\" gives it the idea of having a fractured social geometry. This is a patterning of \"metropolarities\", or an intensification of socio-economic inequalities, some of which Soja", "title": "Fractal city" }, { "docid": "585922", "text": "Richter. They provide a formula to estimate the distance from a point outside the Mandelbrot set to the boundary of the Mandelbrot set (and a similar formula for the Julia sets). Landscapes can, for example, be formed from the distance function for a family of iterations of the form formula_1. Notable fractal artists include Desmond Paul Henry, Hamid Naderi Yeganeh and musician Bruno Degazio. The British artist William Latham, has used fractal geometry and other computer graphics techniques in his works. Greg Sams has used fractal designs in postcards, T-shirts and textiles. American Vicky Brago-Mitchell has created fractal art which", "title": "Fractal art" }, { "docid": "1977779", "text": "Fractal dimension In mathematics, more specifically in fractal geometry, a fractal dimension is a ratio providing a statistical index of complexity comparing how detail in a pattern (strictly speaking, a fractal pattern) changes with the scale at which it is measured. It has also been characterized as a measure of the space-filling capacity of a pattern that tells how a fractal scales differently from the space it is embedded in; a fractal dimension does not have to be an integer. The essential idea of \"fractured\" dimensions has a long history in mathematics, but the term itself was brought to the", "title": "Fractal dimension" }, { "docid": "136455", "text": "fractal analysis on over 50 of Jackson Pollock's (1912–1956) paintings which were created by pouring paint directly onto his horizontal canvases Recently, fractal analysis has been used to achieve a 93% success rate in distinguishing real from imitation Pollocks. Cognitive neuroscientists have shown that Pollock's fractals induce the same stress-reduction in observers as computer-generated fractals and Nature's fractals. Decalcomania, a technique used by artists such as Max Ernst, can produce fractal-like patterns. It involves pressing paint between two surfaces and pulling them apart. Cyberneticist Ron Eglash has suggested that fractal geometry and mathematics are prevalent in African art, games, divination,", "title": "Fractal" }, { "docid": "1977800", "text": "by comparing other than fractal properties implied by the model, with measured data. In colloidal physics, systems composed of particles with various fractal dimensions arise. To describe these systems, it is convenient to speak about a distribution of fractal dimensions, and eventually, a time evolution of the latter: a process that is driven by a complex interplay between aggregation and coalescence. Fractal dimension In mathematics, more specifically in fractal geometry, a fractal dimension is a ratio providing a statistical index of complexity comparing how detail in a pattern (strictly speaking, a fractal pattern) changes with the scale at which it", "title": "Fractal dimension" }, { "docid": "1977785", "text": "sets. If the theoretical fractal dimension of a set exceeds its topological dimension, the set is considered to have fractal geometry. Unlike topological dimensions, the fractal index can take non-integer values, indicating that a set fills its space qualitatively and quantitatively differently from how an ordinary geometrical set does. For instance, a curve with a fractal dimension very near to 1, say 1.10, behaves quite like an ordinary line, but a curve with fractal dimension 1.9 winds convolutedly through space very nearly like a surface. Similarly, a surface with fractal dimension of 2.1 fills space very much like an ordinary", "title": "Fractal dimension" }, { "docid": "19251197", "text": "geometric realization in formula_16 formula_17, where the formula_18 are intervals in formula_19, of all the lengths formula_20, taken with multiplicity. For each fractal string formula_4, we can associate to formula_4 a geometric zeta function formula_23 defined as the Dirichlet series formula_24. Poles of the geometric zeta function formula_25 are called complex dimensions of the fractal string formula_4. The general philosophy of the theory of complex dimensions for fractal strings is that complex dimensions describe the intrinsic oscillation in the geometry, spectra and dynamics of the fractal string formula_4. The abscissa of convergence of formula_28 is defined as formula_29. For a", "title": "Fractal string" }, { "docid": "12026518", "text": "to other attractors, including possibly an attractor at infinity. For a given function there is a Julia fractal for each point on the complex plane. The Julia sets that correspond to points inside the Mandelbrot set are connected; those that correspond to points outside of the Mandelbrot set are disconnected. Fractal lake In geometry, and less formally, in most fractal-generating software, the fractal lake of an 'orbits' (or \"escape-time\") fractal, is the part of the complex plane for which the orbit (a sequence of complex numbers) that is generated by iterating a given function does not \"escape\" from the unit", "title": "Fractal lake" }, { "docid": "11577508", "text": "much better described by a scale-dependent fractal dimension drifting from zero to three at a scale around 55 Mpc/h in the context of a \"scale-entropy diffusion equation\". It gives a way to estimate the number of galaxies in the universe in agreement with Hubble measurements. Moreover, fractal dimension is varying linearly with scale-logarithm. This means that the geometry of galaxy distribution is a \"parabolic fractal\". Two years later, the same author with M. Feidt showed that the fractal dimension 2 found in numerous studies can be explained as being a problem of measurement. In 2012, Scrimgeour et al. definitively showed", "title": "Fractal cosmology" }, { "docid": "1977795", "text": "rule applies to fractal geometry but less intuitively. To elaborate, a fractal line measured at first to be one length, when remeasured using a new stick scaled by 1/3 of the old may not be the expected 3 but instead 4 times as many scaled sticks long. In this case, formula_1=4 when formula_2=1/3, and the value of formula_3 can be found by rearranging Equation 1: That is, for a fractal described by formula_1=4 when formula_2=1/3, formula_3=1.2619, a non-integer dimension that suggests the fractal has a dimension not equal to the space it resides in. The scaling used in this example", "title": "Fractal dimension" }, { "docid": "12558702", "text": "class of shapes known as Julia sets. In 1979, Mandelbrot discovered that one image of the complex plane could be created by iteration. He and programmers working at IBM generated the first rudimentary fractal printouts. This marked the first instance of the generation of fractals by non-linear creations laws or 'escape time fractal'. Loren Carpenter created a two-minute color film called Vol Libre for presentation at SIGGRAPH in 1980. Fractals were rendered in computer games as early as 1984 with the release of \"Rescue on Fractalus!\". From the early 1980s to about 1995 hundreds of different fractal types were formulated.", "title": "Fractal-generating software" }, { "docid": "19924051", "text": "is less than two orders and that Pollock’s paintings do indeed induce the same physiological responses as nature’s fractals and mathematical fractals Mandelbrot concluded \"I do believe that Pollocks are fractal.\" At the time of the controversy, Coddington summarized as follows: “Fractal geometry has begun to play an important role in the authentication of the work of Jackson Pollock. We believe such analyses are necessary for pushing the field forward.” The most recent results, In 2015, by computer scientist Lior Shamir showed that, when combined with other pattern parameters, fractal analysis can be used to distinguish between real and imitation", "title": "Fractal expressionism" }, { "docid": "12026516", "text": "Fractal lake In geometry, and less formally, in most fractal-generating software, the fractal lake of an 'orbits' (or \"escape-time\") fractal, is the part of the complex plane for which the orbit (a sequence of complex numbers) that is generated by iterating a given function does not \"escape\" from the unit circle. The lake may be connected or disjoint, and it may also have zero area. Orbits that are initialized inside the lake are either eventually captured by zero, captured by another point inside the unit circle, or may oscillate through a set of values indefinitely without ever converging to a", "title": "Fractal lake" }, { "docid": "4368573", "text": "act established itself on the international scene with many sellout appearances throughout Japan and Australia. Liquid's last known release of music was in 2007. McCosh has gone on to release a new 3 track EP in 2014 titles 'Eclectic Ecliptic' released on Boom Records, and is planning a new album to follow. https://soundcloud.com/fractalglider Fractal Glider Fractal Glider is the stage name of Paul McCosh, a psychedelic trance artist from Melbourne, Australia. McCosh began his career under the stage name Fractal Glider. McCosh was noted for his original high energy sound, and for being representative of the Melbourne psychedelic/trance scene. He", "title": "Fractal Glider" }, { "docid": "19251201", "text": "of non-real complex dimensions with positive real part are proposed to be the signature feature of fractal objects. Formally in, Michel Lapidus and Machiel van Frankenhuijsen propose to define “fractality” as the presence of at least one nonreal complex dimension with positive real part. This new definition of fractality solves some old problems in Fractal Geometry. For example, everyone can agree that the Cantor's Devil Staircase is fractal, which it is with this new definition of fractality in terms of complex dimensions, but it is not in the sense of Mandelbrot. A Spectral Reformulation of the Riemann Hypothesis by Michel", "title": "Fractal string" }, { "docid": "18509118", "text": "The Son of His Father The Son of His Father is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and written by Ridgwell Cullum. The film stars Charles Ray, Vola Vale, Robert McKim, George Nichols, Charles K. French, and J. P. Lockney. The film was released on October 22, 1917, by Paramount Pictures. As described in a film magazine, Gordon Carbhoy (Ray), the spoiled son of wealthy father James Carbhoy (French) who owns several railroads, is sent out by his father to turn $5,000 into $100,000, which the son claimed to be able to do. Gordon meets Silas", "title": "The Son of His Father" }, { "docid": "18509115", "text": "The Son of His Father The Son of His Father is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and written by Ridgwell Cullum. The film stars Charles Ray, Vola Vale, Robert McKim, George Nichols, Charles K. French, and J. P. Lockney. The film was released on October 22, 1917, by Paramount Pictures. As described in a film magazine, Gordon Carbhoy (Ray), the spoiled son of wealthy father James Carbhoy (French) who owns several railroads, is sent out by his father to turn $5,000 into $100,000, which the son claimed to be able to do. Gordon meets Silas", "title": "The Son of His Father" }, { "docid": "136450", "text": "fractal patterns. In 1975 when Mandelbrot coined the word \"fractal\", he did so to denote an object whose Hausdorff–Besicovitch dimension is greater than its topological dimension. It has been noted that this dimensional requirement is not met by fractal space-filling curves such as the Hilbert curve. According to Falconer, rather than being strictly defined, fractals should, in addition to being nowhere differentiable and able to have a fractal dimension, be generally characterized by a gestalt of the following features; As a group, these criteria form guidelines for excluding certain cases, such as those that may be self-similar without having other", "title": "Fractal" }, { "docid": "680937", "text": "antenna elements, and not recognized initially as having self-similarity as their attribute. Log-periodic antennas are arrays, around since the 1950s (invented by Isbell and DuHamel), that are such fractal arrays. They are a common form used in TV antennas, and are arrow-head in shape. Antenna elements (as opposed to antenna arrays) made from self-similar shapes were first created by Nathan Cohen then a professor at Boston University, starting in 1988. Cohen's efforts with a variety of fractal antenna designs were first published in 1995. Cohen's publication marked the inaugural scientific publication on fractal antennas. Most varieties of fractal antennas are", "title": "Fractal antenna" }, { "docid": "7159841", "text": "attempts to learn fear, which eventually leads to his awareness of mortality. This tale type did not appear in any early literary collection but is heavily influenced by the medieval adventure of Sir Lancelot du Lac called \"\", where he spends a night in a haunted castle and undergoes almost the same ordeals as the youth. A father had two sons. The younger, when asked by his father what he would like to learn to support himself, said he would like to learn to shudder. A sexton told the father that he could teach the boy. After teaching him to", "title": "The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was" }, { "docid": "11577517", "text": "that \"Recent versions of the inflationary scenario describe the universe as a self-generating fractal that sprouts other inflationary universes,\" and which described Linde's theory of chaotic eternal inflation in some detail. In July 2008, Scientific American featured an article on Causal dynamical triangulation, written by the three scientists who propounded the theory, which again suggests that the universe may have the characteristics of a fractal. Fractal cosmology In physical cosmology, fractal cosmology is a set of minority cosmological theories which state that the distribution of matter in the Universe, or the structure of the universe itself, is a fractal across", "title": "Fractal cosmology" }, { "docid": "12958881", "text": "Ignacio to blame his daughters for not allowing him to do something he has not done since Rosa died - to start dating again. When Betty asked Claire about what she told Ignacio, she explained that to Betty that she should let her father date again. At the same time Claire asked Betty to go shopping with her now that she knew of what Betty was planning for her birthday, where told her that for once that she would like to spend more time with Daniel. After that conversation, Betty discovers that Claire was planning to shoplift again, but this", "title": "The Courtship of Betty's Father" }, { "docid": "7159858", "text": "the tale in the first season, second episode as \"Fearnot\". Shelley Duvall's TV show \"Faerie Tale Theatre\" adapted it as \"The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers\" The episodic games of \"American McGee's Grimm\" on Gametap debuted with \"A Boy Learns What Fear Is\" on July 31, 2008. The MC Frontalot song \"Shudders\", from his album \"Question Bedtime\", is based on this story. The title is often varied for example by the band Wir sind Helden in their song \"Zieh dir was an: Du hast dich ausgezogen, uns das Fürchten zu lehren...\"(translated \"Dress yourself, you have", "title": "The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was" }, { "docid": "11282946", "text": "The Little American The Little American is a 1917 American silent romantic war drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film stars Mary Pickford (who also served as producer) as an American woman who is in love with both a German and a French soldier during World War I. A print of the film is housed at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and has been released on DVD. Karl Von Austreim (Jack Holt) lives in America with his German father and American mother. He notices a young lady, Angela More (Mary Pickford). As she is celebrating her birthday", "title": "The Little American" }, { "docid": "2870554", "text": "generic tropes. It means I have to work harder all the time, of course, to come up with stuff which no longer uses tropes I regard as my own (law, chaos, balance, say -- the multiverse, as such, and so on) and this is probably good for me, too!\" The Geometry of Shadows \"The Geometry of Shadows\" is an episode from the second season of the science fiction television series \"Babylon 5\". The episode is notable because it includes the first appearance of the Technomages. Lord Refa, while visiting \"Babylon 5\", is pleased with what Ambassador has been able to", "title": "The Geometry of Shadows" }, { "docid": "11577511", "text": "Quantum Einstein gravity are fractal at the opposite extreme, in the realm of the ultra-small near the Planck scale. These recent theories of quantum gravity describe a fractal structure for spacetime itself, and suggest that the dimensionality of space evolves with time. Specifically; they suggest that reality is 2D at the Planck scale, and that spacetime gradually becomes 4D at larger scales. French astronomer Laurent Nottale first suggested the fractal nature of spacetime in a paper on Scale Relativity published in 1992, and published a book on the subject of Fractal Space-Time in 1993. French mathematician Alain Connes has been", "title": "Fractal cosmology" }, { "docid": "12375387", "text": "of Fermat's Last Theorem. While the visual nature of geometry makes it initially more accessible than other mathematical areas such as algebra or number theory, geometric language is also used in contexts far removed from its traditional, Euclidean provenance (for example, in fractal geometry and algebraic geometry). Analytic geometry applies methods of algebra to geometric questions, typically by relating geometric curves to algebraic equations. These ideas played a key role in the development of calculus in the 17th century and led to the discovery of many new properties of plane curves. Modern algebraic geometry considers similar questions on a vastly", "title": "Geometry" }, { "docid": "7159840", "text": "The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was \"The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was\" or \"The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear\" () is a German folktale collected by the Brothers Grimm. It is tale number 4 in the collection. It was also included by Andrew Lang in \"The Blue Fairy Book\" (1889). The Grimms' first, 1812 edition contained a much shorter version, \"Good Bowling and Card Playing\" (). It is classified as its own Aarne–Thompson index type 326 of a male protagonist's unsuccessful", "title": "The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was" }, { "docid": "7159859", "text": "undressed yourself to teach us fear..\" as in figuratively \"put something on, you've put yourself out to teach fear.\"). The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was \"The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was\" or \"The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear\" () is a German folktale collected by the Brothers Grimm. It is tale number 4 in the collection. It was also included by Andrew Lang in \"The Blue Fairy Book\" (1889). The Grimms' first, 1812 edition contained a much shorter version, \"Good Bowling", "title": "The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was" }, { "docid": "14985173", "text": "Fractal Records Fractal Records is an independent French label created in September 1994, eclectic, focused on rock music, jazz, psychedelic, modern, avant-garde, free, punk, experimental, and especially that of Japan. He set up firstly a mail order catalogue \"Sinusoïde\" (1994/96) before starting his production work in 1997. In 2004, appears the label Sparkling Spare Wheel which is a subdivision of Fractal Records. • Mainliner - Psychedelic Polyhedron - Vinyl LP (Fractal 001) 1997 • Igor Wakhévitch - Donc... - Coffret 6CDs (Fractal 002) 1998 • Seikazoku - Outtakes '66 '78 - CD (Fractal 003) 1998 • High Rise - Durophet", "title": "Fractal Records" }, { "docid": "4368571", "text": "Fractal Glider Fractal Glider is the stage name of Paul McCosh, a psychedelic trance artist from Melbourne, Australia. McCosh began his career under the stage name Fractal Glider. McCosh was noted for his original high energy sound, and for being representative of the Melbourne psychedelic/trance scene. He appeared mainly in Australia, Japan and New Zealand, but also participated in parties and festivals in Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France and Belgium, including the Earthcore electronic music festival. McCosh began composing trance music in 1995, prior to which he worked as a sound engineer. He released two albums. His debut album,", "title": "Fractal Glider" }, { "docid": "19251196", "text": "lengths formula_8. Inductively, we can show that there are formula_9 intervals corresponding to each length of formula_10. Thus, we say that the \"multiplicity\" of the length formula_11 is formula_12. The geometric information of the Cantor set in the example above is contained in the ordinary fractal string formula_4. From this information we can compute the box-counting dimension of the Cantor set. This notion of fractal dimension can be generalized to that of complex dimension, which will give us complete geometrical information regarding the local oscillations in the geometry of the Cantor set. If formula_14 we say that formula_15 has a", "title": "Fractal string" }, { "docid": "2469509", "text": "story ever written plus every story dreamed of but never written. Among the latter is \"The Man Who Was October\" by G. K. Chesterton, which is supposedly a sequel to his \"Thursday\". Also, the metaphysical being known as \"Fiddler's Green\" manifests in a physical form resembling Chesterton. In Kim Newman's \"\", the Council of Days, led by Sunday, exists and is plotting to overthrow Dracula during the tenth anniversary of his rule over Britain. The Council includes Gabriel Syme, Peter the Painter (Friday), and Newman's recurring character Kate Reed. The Man Who Was Thursday The Man Who Was Thursday: A", "title": "The Man Who Was Thursday" }, { "docid": "15333144", "text": "their eyes are the ones who err most\". Lacan's concept draws on the mythical father of Freud's \"Totem and Taboo\"; and was used by him as a strategic move in his opposition to what he saw as the over-emphasis of object relations theory on the exclusive relationship of the individual and his/her mother as a dual pair. Lacan emphasised instead the importance of the third party in the Oedipus complex – what he called \"the place that she [the mother] reserves for the Name-of-the Father in the promulgation of the law\". He saw this as a vital element in helping", "title": "Name of the Father" }, { "docid": "10254369", "text": "many leaders both to refer to their role in the independence movement as a source of legitimacy, and to use paternalist symbolism as a source of continued popularity. On Joseph Stalin's seventieth birthday in 1949, he was bestowed with the title \"Father of Nations\" for his establishment of \"people's democracies\" in countries occupied by the USSR after World War II. The title \"Father of the Nation\" is sometimes politically contested. The 1972 Constitution of Bangladesh declared Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to be \"father of the nation\". The BNP government removed this in 2004, to the protests of the oppostition Awami League,", "title": "Father of the Nation" }, { "docid": "15333143", "text": "Name of the Father The name of the father (French ) is a concept that Jacques Lacan developed from his seminar \"The Psychoses\" (1955–1956) to cover the role of the father in the Symbolic Order. Lacan plays with the similar sounds in French of ' (the name of the father), ' (the no of the father), and \"\" (the non-dupes err) to emphasize with the first two phrases the legislative and prohibitive functions of the father and to emphasize with the last phrase that \"those who do not let themselves be caught in the symbolic deception/fiction and continue to believe", "title": "Name of the Father" }, { "docid": "12714043", "text": "the center of each face. Its Hausdorff dimension is formula_4 ≈ 1.7712. Similarly to the two-dimensional Vicsek fractal, this figure has zero volume. Each iteration removes retains 7 cubes for every 27, meaning a volume of formula_5 at iteration \"n\", which approaches zero as \"n\" approaches infinity. There exist an infinite number of cross sections which yield the two-dimensional Vicsek fractal. Vicsek fractal In mathematics the Vicsek fractal, also known as Vicsek snowflake or box fractal, is a fractal arising from a construction similar to that of the Sierpinski carpet, proposed by Tamás Vicsek. It has applications including as compact", "title": "Vicsek fractal" }, { "docid": "15333148", "text": "Law' (Écrits), and the Symbolic Father is thus not an actual subject but a position in the Symbolic Order. By contrast the Imaginary Father is an imago, the composite of all the imaginary constructs that the subject builds up in fantasy around the figure of the father; and may be construed either as an ideal father or as the opposite, the bad father – what Slavoj Zizek referred to as \"the \"reverse\" of the father, the \"anal father\" who lurks behind the Name-of-the-Father \"qua\" bearer of the symbolic law\". As to the real father, Lacan stresses how \"the ravaging effects", "title": "Name of the Father" }, { "docid": "19924052", "text": "Pollocks with 93% accuracy. He found that the fractal parameters were the most powerful contributors to the detection accuracy Fractal expressionism The term fractal expressionism was coined by physicist-artist Richard Taylor and co-authors to distinguish fractal art generated directly by artists from fractal art generated using mathematics and/or computers. Fractals are patterns that repeat at increasingly fine scales and are prevalent in natural scenery (examples include clouds, rivers, and mountains). Fractal expressionism implies a direct expression of nature's patterns in an art work. The initial studies of fractal expressionism focused on the poured paintings by the American artist Jackson Pollock", "title": "Fractal expressionism" }, { "docid": "2870547", "text": "The Geometry of Shadows \"The Geometry of Shadows\" is an episode from the second season of the science fiction television series \"Babylon 5\". The episode is notable because it includes the first appearance of the Technomages. Lord Refa, while visiting \"Babylon 5\", is pleased with what Ambassador has been able to do with Quadrant 37, and suggests that should he play his cards right, he may be to become the Centauri emperor one day. Mollari and Vir see Refa off, when Mollari witnesses three Technomages debark from an arriving ship. Knowing that seeing a single Technomage, whom rarely travel and", "title": "The Geometry of Shadows" }, { "docid": "10403180", "text": "ode to typical southern Sunday activities, such as attending church services, fishing, playing a back yard game of football, eating a traditional Sunday dinner, and relaxing with family. The music video was directed by Shaun Silva and premiered in November 2004. That's What I Love About Sunday \"That's What I Love About Sunday\" is a song written by Adam Dorsey and Mark Narmore, and recorded by American country music artist Craig Morgan. It was released in November 2004 as the first single from his album \"My Kind of Livin'\". In early 2005, it became his only number one single, spending", "title": "That's What I Love About Sunday" }, { "docid": "16423721", "text": "The Duck Who Never Was The Duck Who Never Was is a Disney comic written and drawn by Don Rosa. It was written to celebrate Donald Duck's sixtieth anniversary. It is Donald Duck's birthday, but he becomes depressed when he discovers that his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, forgot his birthday. Donald then applies for a job as a museum janitor, but his application form is turned upside down so that he is mistaken for sixty years old, an age at which the job isn't available. While walking out of the museum, Donald is hit by a magic urn and", "title": "The Duck Who Never Was" }, { "docid": "617254", "text": "current member of the Senate with the longest period of continuous service is known as \"Father of the Senate\". The longer serving of the two Fathers is called \"Father of the Parliament\". As in Britain, these terms have no official status. However, unlike Britain: Since 6 February 2015, Senator Ian Macdonald, who was first appointed during 1990, has been the Father of the Senate. Philip Ruddock, who was first elected during 1973, was the Father of the House of Representatives and Father of the Parliament from 1 September 1998 until his retirement on 9 May 2016. He was succeeded by", "title": "Father of the House" }, { "docid": "16423729", "text": "given his job back. The plot is inspired by the 1946 movie classic It's a Wonderful Life, a title that is repeatedly alluded to in the dialogue. The Duck Who Never Was The Duck Who Never Was is a Disney comic written and drawn by Don Rosa. It was written to celebrate Donald Duck's sixtieth anniversary. It is Donald Duck's birthday, but he becomes depressed when he discovers that his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, forgot his birthday. Donald then applies for a job as a museum janitor, but his application form is turned upside down so that he is", "title": "The Duck Who Never Was" }, { "docid": "702819", "text": "ratios of over 170:1 have been achieved with acceptable results. Fractal video compression ratios of 25:1–244:1 have been achieved in reasonable compression times (2.4 to 66 sec/frame). Compression efficiency increases with higher image complexity and color depth, compared to simple grayscale images. An inherent feature of fractal compression is that images become resolution independent after being converted to fractal code. This is because the iterated function systems in the compressed file scale indefinitely. This indefinite scaling property of a fractal is known as \"fractal scaling\". The resolution independence of a fractal-encoded image can be used to increase the display resolution", "title": "Fractal compression" }, { "docid": "15922283", "text": "but when she picks up the phone, he does not speak. Elena realizes that is Stefan and tells him to hold on, that everything is going to be fine and that she loves him. In \"The Birthday\" we can hear the songs: In its original American broadcast, \"The Birthday\" was watched by 3.10 million; slightly up by 0.24 from the previous episode. \"The Birthday\" received positive reviews. Carrie Raisler from \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode an A rating stating that \"the season three premiere lived up to any and all expectations and even surpassed what I thought was possible", "title": "The Birthday (The Vampire Diaries)" }, { "docid": "150829", "text": "History of geometry Geometry (from the ; \"geo-\" \"earth\", \"-metron\" \"measurement\") arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers (arithmetic). Classic geometry was focused in compass and straightedge constructions. Geometry was revolutionized by Euclid, who introduced mathematical rigor and the axiomatic method still in use today. His book, \"The Elements\" is widely considered the most influential textbook of all time, and was known to all educated people in the West until the middle of the 20th century. In modern times, geometric", "title": "History of geometry" }, { "docid": "19924035", "text": "Fractal expressionism The term fractal expressionism was coined by physicist-artist Richard Taylor and co-authors to distinguish fractal art generated directly by artists from fractal art generated using mathematics and/or computers. Fractals are patterns that repeat at increasingly fine scales and are prevalent in natural scenery (examples include clouds, rivers, and mountains). Fractal expressionism implies a direct expression of nature's patterns in an art work. The initial studies of fractal expressionism focused on the poured paintings by the American artist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), whose work has traditionally been associated with the abstract expressionist movement. Pollock’s patterns had previously been referred to", "title": "Fractal expressionism" }, { "docid": "12714040", "text": "Vicsek fractal In mathematics the Vicsek fractal, also known as Vicsek snowflake or box fractal, is a fractal arising from a construction similar to that of the Sierpinski carpet, proposed by Tamás Vicsek. It has applications including as compact antennas, particularly in cellular phones. The basic square is decomposed into nine smaller squares in the 3-by-3 grid. The four squares at the corners and the middle square are left, the other squares being removed. The process is repeated recursively for each of the five remaining subsquares. The Vicsek fractal is the set obtained at the limit of this procedure. The", "title": "Vicsek fractal" }, { "docid": "702820", "text": "of an image. This process is also known as \"fractal interpolation\". In fractal interpolation, an image is encoded into fractal codes via fractal compression, and subsequently decompressed at a higher resolution. The result is an up-sampled image in which iterated function systems have been used as the interpolant. Fractal interpolation maintains geometric detail very well compared to traditional interpolation methods like bilinear interpolation and bicubic interpolation. Since the interpolation cannot reverse Shannon entropy however, it ends up sharpening the image by adding random instead of meaningful detail. One cannot, for example, enlarge an image of a crowd where each person's", "title": "Fractal compression" }, { "docid": "13871484", "text": "Tree\" by writer/director Julie Bertuccelli and stars Charlotte Gainsbourg. It was filmed in Boonah, Queensland and is an official French/Australian co-production between Les Films du Poisson and Taylor Media, with Yaël Fogiel and Sue Taylor (Producer) as co-producers. The film was shown at the 2010 New Zealand International Film Festival as well as the Chicago International Film Festival. Our Father Who Art in the Tree Our Father Who Art in the Tree is a 2002 debut novel by Australian writer Judy Pascoe. It is written from the perspective of 10-year-old Simone who believes her late father is living in the", "title": "Our Father Who Art in the Tree" }, { "docid": "5987736", "text": "Sins of the Father (2002 film) Sins of the Father is a 2002 American made-for-TV docudrama directed by Robert Dornhelm. The teleplay by John Pielmeier is based on a \"Texas Monthly\" article by Pamela Colloff chronicling the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama in which four young African American girls were killed while attending Sunday-school. The victims were Addie Mae Collins, 14 yrs old; Denise McNair, 11 yrs old; Carole Robertson, 14 yrs old; and Cynthia Welsley, 14 yrs old. It was believed that there were 5 girls together in the church basement on that fateful day,", "title": "Sins of the Father (2002 film)" }, { "docid": "2309318", "text": "York, which his father had established on what was then a western frontier of settlement; it developed after the Revolutionary War. Cooper set this novel during the Seven Years' War, an international conflict between Great Britain and France, which had a front in North America known by the Anglo-American colonists as the French and Indian War. The conflict arrayed British colonial settlers and minimal regular forces against royal French forces, with both sides also relying on Native American allies. The war was fought primarily along the frontiers of the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia. In the spring of", "title": "The Last of the Mohicans" }, { "docid": "702824", "text": "products for certain classes of other users. During the 1990s Iterated Systems Inc. and its partners expended considerable resources to bring fractal compression to video. While compression results were promising, computer hardware of that time lacked the processing power for fractal video compression to be practical beyond a few select usages. Up to 15 hours were required to compress a single minute of video. ClearVideo also known as RealVideo (Fractal) and SoftVideo were early fractal video compression products. ClearFusion was Iterated's freely distributed streaming video plugin for web browsers. In 1994 SoftVideo was licensed to Spectrum Holobyte for use in", "title": "Fractal compression" }, { "docid": "20986546", "text": "(then known as \"Park Street\"). The opening of their new hall would be marked by a concert given by the Holyoke Turner Hall and Springdale Turner singers, indicating the Germanic culture of the club. The membership of the board however would be identified with names from the region both German and French in origin, such as Boistelle, Jacquel, Hegy, and Mittler. By the time the Union had reached its 25th anniversary in 1916, it comprised 150 members. It remains unknown what language their business meetings were conducted in, given the interlingual Germanic-Franco nature of the Alsatian dialect. Following a period", "title": "History of the French in Holyoke" }, { "docid": "11248555", "text": "\"The Red Clock\" and \"The Hair Shirt,\" the former sung by Rowland S. Howard, were originally included on the Hee Haw EP, released in 1979 when the Birthday Party were still known as Boys Next Door. The Birthday Party (The Birthday Party album) The Birthday Party is a 1980 album by Australian rock band The Boys Next Door (later reissued under the band name The Birthday Party). The album was produced by The Boys Next Door, Tony Cohen, and Keith Glass; it was recorded with Cohen engineering at Richmond Recorders Studios in Melbourne from July 1979 to February 1980. The", "title": "The Birthday Party (The Birthday Party album)" }, { "docid": "9342089", "text": "to that of the original network. The number of boxes to cover the skeleton is almost the same as the number needed to cover the network. Since fractal networks and their skeletons follow the relation formula_21, we can investigate whether a network is fractal and what is the fractal dimension of the network. For example, the WWW, the human brain, metabolic network, protein interaction network (PIN) of \"H\". \"sapiens\", and PIN of \"S\". \"cerevisiae\"are considered as fractal networks. Furthermore, the fractal dimensions measured are formula_22 for the networks respectively. On the other hand, the Internet, actor network, and artificial models", "title": "Fractal dimension on networks" }, { "docid": "14202918", "text": "as the journal's editor-in-chief, and later co-editor-in-chief, until his death in 2009. In May 1996, the annual Geometry and Topology conference which was held at Harvard University was dedicated to commemorating the 30th anniversary of the journal and the 80th birthday of its founder. Similarly, in May 2008 Harvard held a conference dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the \"Journal of Differential Geometry\". In his 2005 book \"Mathematical Publishing: A Guidebook\", Steven Krantz writes: \"At some very prestigious journals, like the \"Annals of Mathematics\" or the \"Journal of Differential Geometry\", the editorial board meets every couple of months and debates", "title": "Journal of Differential Geometry" }, { "docid": "14327178", "text": "Savilian Professor of Geometry The position of Savilian Professor of Geometry was established at the University of Oxford in 1619. It was founded (at the same time as the Savilian Professorship of Astronomy) by Sir Henry Savile, a mathematician and classical scholar who was Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton College, reacting to what has been described by one 20th-century mathematician as \"the wretched state of mathematical studies in England\" at that time. He appointed Henry Briggs as the first professor. Edward Titchmarsh (professor 1931–63) said when applying that he was not prepared to lecture on geometry,", "title": "Savilian Professor of Geometry" }, { "docid": "11248553", "text": "The Birthday Party (The Birthday Party album) The Birthday Party is a 1980 album by Australian rock band The Boys Next Door (later reissued under the band name The Birthday Party). The album was produced by The Boys Next Door, Tony Cohen, and Keith Glass; it was recorded with Cohen engineering at Richmond Recorders Studios in Melbourne from July 1979 to February 1980. The album was a vast difference from the new-wave pop-punk stylings of their debut \"Door, Door\" (released the year earlier), moving towards the dark and chaotic post punk style they would later become known for (as The", "title": "The Birthday Party (The Birthday Party album)" }, { "docid": "808324", "text": "A convergent cycle must attract at least one critical point; therefore all convergent cycles can be obtained by just shifting the iteration sequence, and keeping the starting value 0.5. In practice, shifting this sequence leads to changes in the fractal, as some branches get covered by others; notice for instance how the Lyapunov fractal for the iteration sequence AB is not perfectly symmetric with respect to \"a\" and \"b\". An algorithm, for computing the fractal is summarized as follows. Lyapunov fractal In mathematics, Lyapunov fractals (also known as Markus–Lyapunov fractals) are bifurcational fractals derived from an extension of the logistic", "title": "Lyapunov fractal" }, { "docid": "12026517", "text": "fixed point. These points are described as being \"Inside\" the lake. Inside points are often detected for the purposes of using a different coloring method, in fractal rendering software By this definition, the points of the Mandelbrot set form a \"fractal lake\", which is why the Mandelbrot set is also sometimes known as the \"Mandelbrot Lake\", or the \"lake of the Mandelbrot Fractal\". Many complex valued functions with an attractor at the origin define a fractal when this aspect of their orbits' behavior is categorized. Some of the orbits are attracted to the origin; some are periodic; some are attracted", "title": "Fractal lake" }, { "docid": "15584322", "text": "As regards the French pronunciation, Rivarol characterised it as sweet, soft and gracious “marked by the French character”. Finally, he attempted to answer to the second question posed by the Berlin Academy, namely, why could French deserve the prerogative of the universal language. The European continent forms a remarkable diversity of kingdoms and peoples. In order to guarantee the stability of all the nations, it seemed indispensable to have a common model.In this regards, French represented the only linguistic example capable of transposing its regular order and constancy to anyone who would speak it. According to Antoine Rivarol, language is", "title": "The Universality of the French Language" }, { "docid": "680943", "text": "other antenna system components including loads, counterpoises, and ground planes. Confusion by those who claim \"grain of rice\"-sized fractal antennas arises, because such fractal structures serve the purpose of loads and counterpoises, rather than bona fide antennas. Fractal inductors and fractal tuned circuits (fractal resonators) were also discovered and invented simultaneously with fractal element antennas. An emerging example of such is in metamaterials. A recent invention demonstrates using close-packed fractal resonators to make the first wideband metamaterial invisibility cloak at microwave frequencies (US patent 8,253,639). Peer reviewed publication may be found in the scholarly journal 'FRACTALS'. Fractal filters (a type", "title": "Fractal antenna" }, { "docid": "1826123", "text": "plane associated to the Lorentzian vector space \"L\" \" was described by Graciela Birman and Katsumi Nomizu in an article entitled \"Trigonometry in Lorentzian geometry\". Several axiomatic approaches to affine geometry have been put forward: As affine geometry deals with parallel lines, one of the properties of parallels noted by Pappus of Alexandria has been taken as a premise: The full axiom system proposed has \"point\", \"line\", and \"line containing point\" as primitive notions: According to H. S. M. Coxeter: The various types of affine geometry correspond to what interpretation is taken for \"rotation\". Euclidean geometry corresponds to the ordinary", "title": "Affine geometry" }, { "docid": "585924", "text": "\"fractal art is simply that which is created by Fractal Artists: ART.\" More recently, American artist Hal Tenny was hired to design environment in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Fractal art has been exhibited at major international art galleries. One of the first exhibitions of fractal art was \"Map Art\", a travelling exhibition of works from researchers at the University of Bremen. Mathematicians Heinz-Otto Peitgen and Michael M. Richter discovered that the public not only found the images aesthetically pleasing but that they also wanted to understand the scientific background to the images. In 1989, fractals were part of", "title": "Fractal art" }, { "docid": "3190773", "text": "George VI, celebrated his Official Birthday during his reign. However, this was changed in 1959, seven years after she became Queen, and her Official Birthday has since then been celebrated on the second Saturday of June. Edward VII, who reigned from 1901 to 1910 and whose birthday was on 9 November, after 1908 moved the ceremony to summer in the hope of good weather. The day is marked in London by the ceremony of Trooping the Colour, which is also known as the Queen's Birthday Parade. The list of Birthday Honours is also announced at the time of the Official", "title": "Queen's Official Birthday" }, { "docid": "12971323", "text": "Consequently, hyperbolic geometry has been called Bolyai-Lobachevskian geometry, as both mathematicians, independent of each other, are the basic authors of non-Euclidean geometry. Gauss mentioned to Bolyai's father, when shown the younger Bolyai's work, that he had developed such a geometry several years before, though he did not publish. While Lobachevsky created a non-Euclidean geometry by negating the parallel postulate, Bolyai worked out a geometry where both the Euclidean and the hyperbolic geometry are possible depending on a parameter \"k\". Bolyai ends his work by mentioning that it is not possible to decide through mathematical reasoning alone if the geometry of", "title": "Foundations of geometry" }, { "docid": "702821", "text": "face is one or two pixels and hope to identify them. Michael Barnsley led development of fractal compression in 1987, and was granted several patents on the technology. The most widely known practical fractal compression algorithm was invented by Barnsley and Alan Sloan. Barnsley's graduate student Arnaud Jacquin implemented the first automatic algorithm in software in 1992. All methods are based on the fractal transform using iterated function systems. Michael Barnsley and Alan Sloan formed Iterated Systems Inc. in 1987 which was granted over 20 additional patents related to fractal compression. A major breakthrough for Iterated Systems Inc. was the", "title": "Fractal compression" }, { "docid": "5987740", "text": "Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special\". On Rotten Tomatoes, the film currently holds 71% of audience score. Sins of the Father (2002 film) Sins of the Father is a 2002 American made-for-TV docudrama directed by Robert Dornhelm. The teleplay by John Pielmeier is based on a \"Texas Monthly\" article by Pamela Colloff chronicling the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama in which four young African American girls were killed while attending Sunday-school. The victims were Addie Mae Collins, 14 yrs old; Denise McNair, 11 yrs old; Carole Robertson, 14 yrs old; and Cynthia Welsley, 14 yrs old.", "title": "Sins of the Father (2002 film)" }, { "docid": "16401673", "text": "would really be helpful, more helpful than the description of the Schrödinger’s Cat problem given earlier in the book\". The Fractal Prince The Fractal Prince is the second science fiction novel by Hannu Rajaniemi and the second novel to feature the post-human gentleman thief Jean le Flambeur. It was published in Britain by Gollancz in September 2012, and by Tor in the same year in the US. The novel is the second in the trilogy, following \"The Quantum Thief\" (2010) and preceding \"The Causal Angel\" (2014). After the events of \"The Quantum Thief\", Jean le Flambeur and Mieli are on", "title": "The Fractal Prince" }, { "docid": "16401667", "text": "The Fractal Prince The Fractal Prince is the second science fiction novel by Hannu Rajaniemi and the second novel to feature the post-human gentleman thief Jean le Flambeur. It was published in Britain by Gollancz in September 2012, and by Tor in the same year in the US. The novel is the second in the trilogy, following \"The Quantum Thief\" (2010) and preceding \"The Causal Angel\" (2014). After the events of \"The Quantum Thief\", Jean le Flambeur and Mieli are on their way to Earth. Jean is trying to open the Schrödinger's Box he retrieved from the memory palace on", "title": "The Fractal Prince" }, { "docid": "4746514", "text": "Battle of the Monongahela The Battle of the Monongahela (also known as the Battle of Braddock's Field and the Battle of the Wilderness) took place on 9 July 1755, at the beginning of the French and Indian War, at Braddock's Field in what is now Braddock, Pennsylvania, east of Pittsburgh. A British force under General Edward Braddock, moving to take Fort Duquesne, was defeated by a force of French and Canadian troops under Captain Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu with its American Indian allies. The defeat marked the end of the Braddock expedition, by which the British had hoped to capture", "title": "Battle of the Monongahela" }, { "docid": "4746495", "text": "Battle of the Monongahela The Battle of the Monongahela (also known as the Battle of Braddock's Field and the Battle of the Wilderness) took place on 9 July 1755, at the beginning of the French and Indian War, at Braddock's Field in what is now Braddock, Pennsylvania, east of Pittsburgh. A British force under General Edward Braddock, moving to take Fort Duquesne, was defeated by a force of French and Canadian troops under Captain Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu with its American Indian allies. The defeat marked the end of the Braddock expedition, by which the British had hoped to capture", "title": "Battle of the Monongahela" }, { "docid": "10403177", "text": "That's What I Love About Sunday \"That's What I Love About Sunday\" is a song written by Adam Dorsey and Mark Narmore, and recorded by American country music artist Craig Morgan. It was released in November 2004 as the first single from his album \"My Kind of Livin'\". In early 2005, it became his only number one single, spending four weeks atop the \"Billboard\" U.S. Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. In addition, it was declared the number-one song of 2005 according to \"Billboard\", as well as the first Number One for any artist on the Broken Bow label. \"That's", "title": "That's What I Love About Sunday" }, { "docid": "14985181", "text": "Des Ardents - Le Mal Des Ardents - Vinyl LP (Fractal 878) 2016 • Magic Aum Gigi - MMMM (My Metal Machine Music) - LP (SSW-810) 2004 • Michel Bulteau & Elliott Murphy - Hero Poet - Mini LP (SSW-811) 2004 • Ilitch - Rainy House - LP Picture Disc + CDR + Bonus Tracks (SSW-812) 2005 • Asahito Nanjo - Greed - LP (SSW-813) 2005 Fractal Records Fractal Records is an independent French label created in September 1994, eclectic, focused on rock music, jazz, psychedelic, modern, avant-garde, free, punk, experimental, and especially that of Japan. He set up firstly", "title": "Fractal Records" }, { "docid": "136445", "text": "Poincaré introduced a category of fractal that has come to be called \"self-inverse\" fractals. One of the next milestones came in 1904, when Helge von Koch, extending ideas of Poincaré and dissatisfied with Weierstrass's abstract and analytic definition, gave a more geometric definition including hand drawn images of a similar function, which is now called the Koch snowflake. Another milestone came a decade later in 1915, when Wacław Sierpiński constructed his famous triangle then, one year later, his carpet. By 1918, two French mathematicians, Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia, though working independently, arrived essentially simultaneously at results describing what are", "title": "Fractal" }, { "docid": "17345624", "text": "Qi Tian Gong Temple, which is allegedly the first Monkey God temple, was established. The Birthday of the Monkey God is celebrated annually on the 15th or 16th day of the First Lunar Month. While it is observed mostly by Singaporeans, people of other nationalities, such as Indonesians, Malaysians, and Thais, are known to celebrate it too. Celebration often involves mediums referred to as Tan Kees performing \"miraculous feats\", which includes piercing their own flesh and blood-penning. During the occasion there are also non-violent activities, including vocal performances on the street and lion dances. The Birthday of the Monkey God", "title": "Birthday of the Monkey God" }, { "docid": "6062874", "text": "The French Angel Maurice Tillet (October 23, 1903 – September 4, 1954) was a French professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The French Angel. Tillet was a leading box office draw in the early 1940s and was twice contracted to act as World Heavyweight Champion by the American Wrestling Association run by Paul Bowser in Boston. Tillet was born in 1903 in the Ural Mountains in Russia to French parents. His mother was a teacher and his father was a railroad engineer. Tillet's father died when he was young. As a child he had a completely normal appearance", "title": "The French Angel" }, { "docid": "7365935", "text": "Jennings at the age of 31 became editor of the Sunday Press in 1968, serving until December 1986, when he became manager of the Irish Press Group. Journalists who worked at the press include Stephen Collins served as political editor his father Willie Collins was deputy editor and Michael Carwood became sports editor of \"The Sunday Press\" in 1988 until its closure in 1995. The Sunday Press The Sunday Press was a weekly newspaper published in Ireland from 1949 until 1995. It was launched by Éamon de Valera's Irish Press group following the defeat of his Fianna Fáil party in", "title": "The Sunday Press" }, { "docid": "617255", "text": "Senator Ian Macdonald as Father of the Parliament and Kevin Andrews as Father of the House. The longest-serving member of the House of Commons who is not a cabinet minister is known as the Dean of the House, and presides over the election of the Speaker at the beginning of each Parliament. The same term is used for the equivalent position in the United States House of Representatives. Starting with the Frankfurter Nationalversammlung (Frankfurt Parliament) of 1848, all German parliaments had a father of the House, usually called \"Alterspräsident\" (President by right of age). This tradition was continued into the", "title": "Father of the House" }, { "docid": "17483630", "text": "Dickson also stated that it was \"neck and neck with \"Paranormal Activity 3\"\". ][Category:English-language films]] Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is a 2014 American found footage supernatural horror film written and directed by Christopher B. Landon. Released on January 3, 2014 in the United States, it is the fifth film of the \"Paranormal Activity\" film series. It is also Landon's second directorial film, after \"Burning Palms\". \"The Marked Ones\" received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $90 million worldwide. In June 2012, 18 year old high school graduate Jesse Arista lives with his father, sister", "title": "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones" }, { "docid": "16423722", "text": "the birthday genie appears and offers him a wish. Donald does not believe the genie and inadvertently wishes that he were never born, a wish that the genie grants him. It only gradually dawns on Donald that he has been abruptly transported to an alternate reality: the world as it would be if he had never existed. When Donald gets out of the museum he finds the street damaged and his car gone. He sees Grandma Duck's car, although it is occupied not by Grandma Duck but by Gyro Gearloose. Donald asks him what he is doing in Grandma Duck's", "title": "The Duck Who Never Was" }, { "docid": "12856546", "text": "a person's name day in a calendar, or easily remember common name days (for example, \"John\" or \"Mary\"); however in pious traditions, the two were often made to concur by giving a newborn the name of a saint celebrated on its birthday, or possibly the name of a feast, for example, \"Noel\" or \"Pascal\" (French for Christmas and \"of Easter\"); as another example, Togliatti was given \"Palmiro\" as his first name because he was born on Palm Sunday. Some notables, particularly monarchs, have an \"official birthday\" on a fixed day of the year, which may not necessarily match the day", "title": "Birthday" }, { "docid": "11577515", "text": "fractal-like interpretation, or explanation thereof. In addition, they document the work of de Vaucoleurs, Mandelbrot, Pietronero, Nottale and others in modern times, who have theorized, discovered, or demonstrated that the universe has an observable fractal aspect. On the 10th of March, 2007, the weekly science magazine New Scientist featured an article entitled \"Is the Universe a Fractal?\" on its cover. The article by Amanda Gefter focused on the contrasting views of Pietronero and his colleagues, who think that the universe appears to be fractal (rough and lumpy) with those of David W. Hogg of NYU and others who think that", "title": "Fractal cosmology" }, { "docid": "1977793", "text": "more information\" The concept of a fractal dimension rests in unconventional views of scaling and dimension. As Fig. 4 illustrates, traditional notions of geometry dictate that shapes scale predictably according to intuitive and familiar ideas about the space they are contained within, such that, for instance, measuring a line using first one measuring stick then another 1/3 its size, will give for the second stick a total length 3 times as many sticks long as with the first. This holds in 2 dimensions, as well. If one measures the area of a square then measures again with a box of", "title": "Fractal dimension" }, { "docid": "150876", "text": "the first non-Euclidean geometry. By 1854, Bernhard Riemann, a student of Gauss, had applied methods of calculus in a ground-breaking study of the intrinsic (self-contained) geometry of all smooth surfaces, and thereby found a different non-Euclidean geometry. This work of Riemann later became fundamental for Einstein's theory of relativity. It remained to be proved mathematically that the non-Euclidean geometry was just as self-consistent as Euclidean geometry, and this was first accomplished by Beltrami in 1868. With this, non-Euclidean geometry was established on an equal mathematical footing with Euclidean geometry. While it was now known that different geometric theories were mathematically", "title": "History of geometry" }, { "docid": "17608970", "text": "by the Japanese. Sentenced to death, she is rescued in the nick of time by American soldiers (one of whom is Cpl. John Boone (Gene Evans)) who storm Bilibid Prison, killing the Japanese guards. Unfortunately for the studio, the relatively low-budget film fell flat with critics, with \"The New York Times\" writing that it \"isn't especially stimulating either as a narrative or as a tribute to personal courage.\" Hal Erickson noted in AllMovie, however, that the film \"handles its more brutal scenes with a marked degree of tastefulness\". I Was an American Spy I Was An American Spy is a", "title": "I Was an American Spy" }, { "docid": "12857092", "text": "dark is necessary, dark is fascinating, dark is wonderful and dark is beautiful. Plop is gradually persuaded that the dark has its advantages. The book shows what constellations are, especially Orion's belt, and has been adapted as a show at the London Planetarium. There have been stage adaptations of the book by Simon Reade and Tina Williams The book has been recommended by clinicians for treatment of fear of the dark. The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark is a children's book by Jill Tomlinson, of which there is also an", "title": "The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark" } ]
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Known as the Equality State, what was the 44th state to join the Union on Jul 10, 1890?
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[ { "docid": "15364471", "text": "was designated for disposal in August 2016. SS Equality State (T-ACS-8) SS \"Equality State\" (T-ACS-8) is a crane ship of the United States Navy. The ship is named for the state of Wyoming, which is also known as the \"Equality State\". Equality State was laid down on 6 July 1960, as the break-bulk freighter SS \"Washington Mail, ON 287238, IMO 5386605, a Maritime Administration type (C4-S-1s) hull under MARAD contract (MA 86). Built by Todd Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California, hull no. 77, she was launched on 11 May 1961, and delivered to MARAD 2 January 1962, entering", "title": "SS Equality State (T-ACS-8)" }, { "docid": "15364468", "text": "SS Equality State (T-ACS-8) SS \"Equality State\" (T-ACS-8) is a crane ship of the United States Navy. The ship is named for the state of Wyoming, which is also known as the \"Equality State\". Equality State was laid down on 6 July 1960, as the break-bulk freighter SS \"Washington Mail, ON 287238, IMO 5386605, a Maritime Administration type (C4-S-1s) hull under MARAD contract (MA 86). Built by Todd Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California, hull no. 77, she was launched on 11 May 1961, and delivered to MARAD 2 January 1962, entering service for American Mail Lines, a subsidiary", "title": "SS Equality State (T-ACS-8)" } ]
[ { "docid": "19081569", "text": "2016 State of the Union Address The 2016 State of the Union Address was given by the 44th United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 12, 2016, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. It was addressed to the 114th United States Congress. It was the first State of the Union address with Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House of Representatives. It was the last State of the Union Address of Obama's presidency; no U.S. president since Gerald Ford has given a final State of the Union address at the end of his term. Obama's", "title": "2016 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18376760", "text": "2015 State of the Union Address The 2015 State of the Union Address was given by the 44th United States President, Barack Obama, on Tuesday, January 20, 2015, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. Following recent tradition, Speaker of the House John Boehner sent a letter on December 19, 2014, formally inviting President Obama to speak (despite a proposal from some conservatives that House Republicans withhold the invitation in retaliation for Obama's executive actions on immigration reform). It was addressed to the 114th United States Congress. The State of the Union Address was broadcast on various", "title": "2015 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "17810241", "text": "Garden State Equality Garden State Equality is a statewide advocacy and education organization in the U.S. state of New Jersey that advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, including same-sex marriage. Garden State Equality was founded in 2004 by Steven Goldstein; he left the organization in 2013 and Troy Stevenson was promoted to take his role. In 2011, Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit on behalf of Garden State Equality and six same-sex families against New Jersey, arguing that the state's civil union system failed to provide those same benefits and violated New Jersey's guarantee of equal protection. On", "title": "Garden State Equality" }, { "docid": "18176820", "text": "1875 State of the Union Address The 1875 State of the Union Address was given by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States on Tuesday, December 7, 1875. It was written by him, but not presented to the 44th United States Congress by him. He said, \"In submitting my seventh annual message to Congress, in this centennial year of our national existence as a free and independent people, it affords me great pleasure to recur to the advancement that has been made from the time of the colonies, one hundred years ago. We were then a people", "title": "1875 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "19081587", "text": "gave the Republican response and Florida Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart gave the party's official Spanish language response. Nicholas Sarwark, chairman of the Libertarian National Committee (2014–present) delivered the official Libertarian Party rebuttal to the State of the Union. Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant gave the Socialist Alternative response. The Green Party of the United States response was given by Jill Stein, Craig Seeman, Andrea Mérida, Joe Manchik, Margaret Flowers, Arn Menconi, Joe DeMare, Shamako Noble, and Matt Funiciello. 2016 State of the Union Address The 2016 State of the Union Address was given by the 44th United States President Barack", "title": "2016 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18176821", "text": "numbering only 3,000,000. Now we number more than 40,000,000. Then industries were confined almost exclusively to the tillage of the soil. Now manufactories absorb much of the labor of the country.\" The Industrial Revolution had begun. 1875 State of the Union Address The 1875 State of the Union Address was given by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States on Tuesday, December 7, 1875. It was written by him, but not presented to the 44th United States Congress by him. He said, \"In submitting my seventh annual message to Congress, in this centennial year of our national", "title": "1875 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18376768", "text": "that Obama's speech indicated plans for world domination and displayed goading behavior. \"The Americans have chosen a path toward confrontation, and do not evaluate their own steps critically at all\", Lavrov added. 2015 State of the Union Address The 2015 State of the Union Address was given by the 44th United States President, Barack Obama, on Tuesday, January 20, 2015, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. Following recent tradition, Speaker of the House John Boehner sent a letter on December 19, 2014, formally inviting President Obama to speak (despite a proposal from some conservatives that House", "title": "2015 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14909391", "text": "State of the Union (European Union) The State of the Union address, also known as the State of the European Union, or SOTEU is the annual speech addressed by the President of the European Commission to the European Parliament plenary session in September. The State of the Union address of the European Union has been instituted by the Lisbon Treaty (with the 2010 Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission - Annex IV(5)), in order to make political life of the Union more democratic and transparent than it hitherto was. The Framework Agreement thus also", "title": "State of the Union (European Union)" }, { "docid": "14909394", "text": "2014. He also acknowledged the need for \"a serious discussion between the citizens of Europe about the way forward,\" calling in particular on all pro-European forces to be mobilised against the anti-European agenda of \"the populists and the nationalists.\" 9 September 2015 marked the first address held by Jean-Claude Juncker. It was titled \"Time for honesty, unity and solidarity\" and opened with the \"imperative to act as a union\" in order to address the refugee crisis. State of the Union (European Union) The State of the Union address, also known as the State of the European Union, or SOTEU is", "title": "State of the Union (European Union)" }, { "docid": "14257127", "text": "Union addresses, there have been five official responses to non–State of the Union speeches which were delivered soon after presidential inaugurations. Response to the State of the Union address The response to the State of the Union address is a rebuttal speech, often brief, delivered by a representative (or representatives) of the opposition party following a presidential State of the Union address. When the president is a Democrat, the rebuttal is given by a Republican, and vice versa. The practice began in 1966 when Republican U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois) and U.S. Representative Gerald Ford (Michigan) appeared on TV to", "title": "Response to the State of the Union address" }, { "docid": "21007130", "text": "6, 2000 and adjourned \"sine die\" June 28; the sixth special session convened and adjourned on October 20, 2000; and the final special session, the seventh, convened on November 13, 2000 and adjourned \"sine die\" on December 4. The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. 44th Arizona State Legislature The 44th Arizona State Legislature, consisting of the Arizona State Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives, was constituted in Phoenix from", "title": "44th Arizona State Legislature" }, { "docid": "14995976", "text": "State Council of the Soviet Union Following the August 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, the State Council of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (), but also known as the State Soviet, was formed on 5 September 1991 and was designed to be one of the most important government offices in Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union. The members of the council consisted of the President of the Soviet Union, and highest officials (which typically was presidents of their republics) from the Soviet Union Republics. During the period of transition it was the highest organ of state power, having the power", "title": "State Council of the Soviet Union" }, { "docid": "14257125", "text": "Response to the State of the Union address The response to the State of the Union address is a rebuttal speech, often brief, delivered by a representative (or representatives) of the opposition party following a presidential State of the Union address. When the president is a Democrat, the rebuttal is given by a Republican, and vice versa. The practice began in 1966 when Republican U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois) and U.S. Representative Gerald Ford (Michigan) appeared on TV to offer a response to the address by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson. The opposition party's response has varied in format, ranging from", "title": "Response to the State of the Union address" }, { "docid": "14169027", "text": "and consisted of 7,303 words. The Republican Party response was delivered by Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi. William Daley, the Secretary of Commerce, served as the designated survivor. 1998 State of the Union Address The 1998 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 105th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 27, 1998. The speech was the second State of the Union address of President Clinton's second term. President Clinton discussed the federal budget, taxes and focused on the budget deficit, then at $10 billion. The president also discussed education, foreign", "title": "1998 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "476433", "text": "report. Since Franklin Roosevelt, the State of the Union is given typically each January before a joint session of the United States Congress and is held in the House of Representatives chamber of the United States Capitol. Newly inaugurated presidents generally deliver an address to Congress in February of the first year of their term, but this speech is not officially considered to be a \"State of the Union\". What began as a communication between president and Congress has become in effect a communication between the president and the people of the United States. Since the advent of radio, and", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "18175793", "text": "of our thought and the fruits of our character,-this is what will hold our attention and our enthusiasm steadily, now and in the years to come, as we strive to show in our life as a nation what liberty and the inspirations of an emancipated spirit may do for men and for societies, for individuals, for states, and for mankind.\" 1914 State of the Union Address The 1914 State of the Union Address was given by the 28th United States President, Woodrow Wilson, on Tuesday, December 8, 1914, to both houses of 63rd United States Congress. He concluded it with,", "title": "1914 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14995981", "text": "from his post as IEC Chairman. and the Soviet Union was formally dissolved by the Council of Republics. State Council of the Soviet Union Following the August 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, the State Council of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (), but also known as the State Soviet, was formed on 5 September 1991 and was designed to be one of the most important government offices in Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union. The members of the council consisted of the President of the Soviet Union, and highest officials (which typically was presidents of their republics) from the Soviet", "title": "State Council of the Soviet Union" }, { "docid": "14257126", "text": "a prerecorded 45-minute TV program in 1970 to a call-in show in 1972 where a panel of congressmen answered unrehearsed questions from callers. Since the late 1980s, it usually has been a televised speech given soon after the State of the Union address. Three people have given both a response and a State of the Union address: Democrat Bill Clinton and Republicans Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. First organized, televised response to a presidential State of the Union message<br>Denotes prerecorded program<br>Randomly selected Democratic voters participated in this televised discussion In addition to responses to official State of the", "title": "Response to the State of the Union address" }, { "docid": "3524458", "text": "to be stalled, as President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus stated: \"The Russian leadership is demanding that we join the Russian Federation—that's what is in the heads of the Russian leadership. I don't want to bury the sovereignty and independence of [Belarus].\" He added: \"From all the consultations and discussions, I have understood that we have different approaches and understandings of the building of a union state\", and opposed \"the possibility of the incorporation into Russia [of Belarus]\". However, on 19 October 2007, Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov announced that the budget of the Union State \"will grow by no less", "title": "Union State" }, { "docid": "20806328", "text": "State of the Union (2019 TV series) State of the Union is an upcoming American comedy television series set to premiere on SundanceTV. \"State of the Union\" follows \"Louise and Tom who meet in a pub immediately before their weekly marital therapy session. Each episode pieces together how their lives were, what drew them together and what has started to pull them apart.\" On July 13, 2018, it was announced that SundanceTV had given the production a series order consisting of ten episodes running around ten minutes each. The series is expected to be written by Nick Hornby and directed", "title": "State of the Union (2019 TV series)" }, { "docid": "18202850", "text": "and good land, and we are a great and good land because we are a strong, free, creative people and because America is the single greatest force for peace anywhere in the world. Today, as always in our history, we can base our confidence in what the American people will achieve in the future on the record of what the American people have achieved in the past.\" It was given in the same year America withdrew all assistance from South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. 1974 State of the Union Address The 1974 State of the Union Address was given", "title": "1974 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18203349", "text": "cordiality and sense of community of interest among the nations, foreshadowing an age of settled peace and good will.\" The speech was just over 3,500 words and took 28 minutes to read. In 2014 RealClearPolitics placed it 10th on their list of \"Top 10 State of the Union Addresses\" for its break with tradition. 1913 State of the Union Address The 1913 State of the Union Address was given by Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, on Tuesday, December 2, 1913. It was given directly to the 63rd United States Congress by the president. Wilson was the", "title": "1913 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "12909533", "text": "the program's newest host. State of the Union (TV program) State of the Union, branded as State of the Union with Jake Tapper, is an American Sunday talk show and political discussion television program hosted by Jake Tapper on CNN and broadcast around the world by CNN International. It has been broadcast since its debut in January 2009. The program is broadcast from 9:00am to 10:00am ET, with a replay at noon to 1:00pm ET from CNN's studios in Washington D.C. The program premiered on January 18, 2009, originally with John King as host, and aired from 9:00am to 1:00pm", "title": "State of the Union (TV program)" }, { "docid": "12909530", "text": "State of the Union (TV program) State of the Union, branded as State of the Union with Jake Tapper, is an American Sunday talk show and political discussion television program hosted by Jake Tapper on CNN and broadcast around the world by CNN International. It has been broadcast since its debut in January 2009. The program is broadcast from 9:00am to 10:00am ET, with a replay at noon to 1:00pm ET from CNN's studios in Washington D.C. The program premiered on January 18, 2009, originally with John King as host, and aired from 9:00am to 1:00pm ET (though only the", "title": "State of the Union (TV program)" }, { "docid": "14164730", "text": "often conflated. What happened is that President Clinton simply referenced the September 1993 incident. 1994 State of the Union Address The 1994 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 103rd United States Congress on Tuesday, January 25, 1994. The speech was Clinton's first official State of the Union address, although he had similarly addressed a joint session of Congress a year prior shortly after taking office. The president discussed the federal budget deficit, taxes, defense spending, crime, foreign affairs, education, the economy, free trade, the role of government, campaign finance", "title": "1994 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18182914", "text": "By the end of 1918, America had won the peace, and World War I was over. He said, \"And throughout it all how fine the spirit of the nation was: what unity of purpose, what untiring zeal!\" He ended with, \"I shall make my absence as brief as possible and shall hope to return with the happy assurance that it has been possible to translate into action the great ideals for which America has striven.\" 1918 State of the Union Address The 1918 State of the Union Address was given by the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson,", "title": "1918 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14169026", "text": "1998 State of the Union Address The 1998 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 105th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 27, 1998. The speech was the second State of the Union address of President Clinton's second term. President Clinton discussed the federal budget, taxes and focused on the budget deficit, then at $10 billion. The president also discussed education, foreign relations, science funding, development, space travel and the Internet. In the speech, the president acknowledged the deaths of Representatives Walter Capps and Sonny Bono. The speech lasted 1:16:43", "title": "1998 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "16018364", "text": "or more of the abovementioned counties. The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature. 44th New York State Legislature The 44th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from November 7, 1820, to April 3, 1821, during the fourth year of DeWitt Clinton's governorship, in Albany. Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1777, amended by the Constitutional Convention of 1801, 32 Senators were elected on general tickets in the four senatorial districts for four-year terms. They were divided", "title": "44th New York State Legislature" }, { "docid": "10124919", "text": "to join as if it were a new country applying from scratch. However, other studies claim internal enlargement is legally viable if, in case of a member state dissolution or secession, the resulting states are \"all\" considered successor states. There is also a European Citizens' Initiative that aims at guaranteeing the continuity of rights and obligations of the European citizens belonging to a new state arising from the democratic secession of a European Union member state. There is no provision to expel a member state, but provides for the suspension of certain rights. Introduced in the Treaty of Amsterdam, Article", "title": "Member state of the European Union" }, { "docid": "21007128", "text": "44th Arizona State Legislature The 44th Arizona State Legislature, consisting of the Arizona State Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives, was constituted in Phoenix from January 1, 1999 to December 31, 2000, during the first two years of Jane Dee Hull's first full term in office. Both the Senate and the House membership remained constant at 30 and 60, respectively. The Republicans lost two seats in the Senate, but still held a 16-14 majority. The Republicans gained two seats in the House, maintaining their majority in the lower chamber, 40–20. The Legislature met for two regular sessions at the", "title": "44th Arizona State Legislature" }, { "docid": "16018355", "text": "44th New York State Legislature The 44th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from November 7, 1820, to April 3, 1821, during the fourth year of DeWitt Clinton's governorship, in Albany. Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1777, amended by the Constitutional Convention of 1801, 32 Senators were elected on general tickets in the four senatorial districts for four-year terms. They were divided into four classes, and every year eight Senate seats came up for election. Assemblymen were elected countywide on general tickets to a", "title": "44th New York State Legislature" }, { "docid": "17810247", "text": "legislators have attended at least one town meeting or legislative dinner. Garden State Equality's Legends Dinner is the organization's annual gala attended by 700 to 1,000 guests. Speakers and entertainers have included Governor Mario Cuomo, Senator Frank Lautenberg, Fran Drescher, Cynthia Nixon, Judy Gold, Anthony Rapp, and Jennifer Holliday. Garden State Equality Garden State Equality is a statewide advocacy and education organization in the U.S. state of New Jersey that advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, including same-sex marriage. Garden State Equality was founded in 2004 by Steven Goldstein; he left the organization in 2013 and Troy", "title": "Garden State Equality" }, { "docid": "476454", "text": "Mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County in Nashville, Tennessee gives a speech similar called the State of Metro Address. Some university presidents give a State of the University address at the beginning of every academic term. Private companies usually have a \"State of the Corporation\" or \"State of the Company\" address given by the respective CEO. The State of the Union model has also been adopted by the European Union, and in France since the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. Television ratings for recent State of the Union Addresses were: State of the Union The State of", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "16112481", "text": "showed that the majority of the public, 59.6% of Jews and 72.5% of Arabs, believe that equality for all Israeli citizens should have been also covered by the law. In response to the presence of Palestinian flags during a protest against the law in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu said \"there is no greater testament to the necessity of this law. We will continue to wave the Israeli flag and sing Hatikvah with great pride.\" Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People (), informally known as the Nation-State Bill", "title": "Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People" }, { "docid": "17810245", "text": "where a celebration of the walk's completion is held. Garden State Equality has held numerous town meetings on LGBT issues, such as same-sex marriage, across the state. The organization also holds telephone town meetings with public officials on conference calls with as many as 200 people. The organization has also held lobby days where volunteers meet with legislators and their staff on LGBT issues. Garden State Equality's former grassroots programs include Activist Institutes that trained volunteers in organizing skills, and the \"Equality Express\", a motor home that traveled to large events in New Jersey to educate people on LGBT issues.", "title": "Garden State Equality" }, { "docid": "2007476", "text": "State Anthem of the Soviet Union The \"State Anthem of the Soviet Union\" (), also unofficially known as \"Slav'sya, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoye\" () was the official national anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the state anthem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1944 to 1991, replacing \"The Internationale\". The lyrics were written by Sergey Mikhalkov (1913–2009) in collaboration with Gabriel El-Registan (1899–1945) and the music was composed by Alexander Alexandrov (1883–1946). Although the USSR was dissolved in 1991, the melody of its national anthem continues to be used in the national anthem of the", "title": "State Anthem of the Soviet Union" }, { "docid": "17360140", "text": "State Emblem of the Soviet Union The State Emblem of the Soviet Union () was adopted in 1923 and was used until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Although it technically is an emblem rather than a coat of arms, since it does not follow traditional heraldic rules, in Russian it is called (), the word used for a traditional coat of arms. It was the first state insignia created in the style known as socialist heraldry, a style also seen in emblems of other socialist countries such as the emblem of the People's Republic of China. In", "title": "State Emblem of the Soviet Union" }, { "docid": "17391417", "text": "fast-tracked or taken directly to the high court. On September 30, the state defendants files a notice of appeal with the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division. It said that on appeal the state would argue that Garden State Equality and the other plaintiffs had not established beyond a reasonable doubt that New Jersey's civil union law runs afoul of the Constitution; that the trial court did not exercise maximum caution in granting summary judgement in a far-reaching case in violation of precedent; that under \"Windsor\", civil union spouses are indeed entitled to federal marriage benefits; and that the", "title": "Garden State Equality v. Dow" }, { "docid": "13319034", "text": "1890 New York state election The 1890 New York state election was held on November 4, 1890, to elect a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly. In 1890, there was only one state officer to be elected statewide: a judge of the Court of Appeals, to succeed Robert Earl whose fourteen-year term would expire at the end of the year. The Republican State Committee met on September 2 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City. The incumbent Democrat Robert Earl was nominated to succeed himself", "title": "1890 New York state election" }, { "docid": "18202765", "text": "1970 State of the Union Address The 1970 State of the Union Address was given by Richard Nixon, the 37th United States President, on January 22, 1970, to both houses of the 91st United States Congress. He said, \"I say this not only because 1970 marks the beginning of a new decade in which America will celebrate its 200th birthday. The seventies will be a time of new beginnings, a time of exploring both on the earth and in the heavens, a time of discovery. But the time has also come for emphasis on developing better ways of managing what", "title": "1970 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "476432", "text": "of this \"State of the Union Clause\" of the Constitution is not specific, since the 1930s, the President makes this report annually in late January or early February. Between 1934 and 2013 the date has been as early as January 3, and as late as February 12. While not required to deliver a speech, every president since Woodrow Wilson, with the notable exception of Herbert Hoover, has made at least one State of the Union report as a speech delivered before a joint session of Congress. Before that time, most presidents delivered the State of the Union as a written", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "18157677", "text": "ends through aggression.\" He is referring to what seemed to be the high likelihood of nuclear warfare of the time. He ended with, \"And so, I know with all my heart--and I deeply believe that all Americans know--that, despite the anxieties of this divided world, our faith, and the cause in which we all believe, will surely prevail.\" This address was given in his first term (1953-1957), in Washington, D.C. 1955 State of the Union Address The 1955 State of the Union Address was given by the 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, on Thursday, January 6,", "title": "1955 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "17810243", "text": "state with the freedom to marry for all couples, barring age restrictions. Garden State Equality programming focuses primarily on public policy advocacy and grassroots organizing. The organization's grassroots programs include volunteer work, training, town meetings, and action nights, where participants can provide input on or participate In the organization's work. Garden State Equality stresses the importance of volunteer work for the organization. There are many difference branches of service available within the organization, such as a campaign for the homeless and those in poverty, which helps to gather more information about these miniority groups and hopefully take action to improve", "title": "Garden State Equality" }, { "docid": "18180731", "text": "Indian Removal Act, \"With a full understanding of the subject, the Choctaw and the Chickasaw tribes have with great unanimity determined to avail themselves of the liberal offers presented by the act of Congress, and have agreed to remove beyond the Mississippi River.\" 1830 State of the Union Address The 1830 State of the Union Address was given by the seventh United States president, Andrew Jackson on Tuesday, December 6, 1830, to both houses of the United States Congress. He said, \"What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our", "title": "1830 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18180730", "text": "1830 State of the Union Address The 1830 State of the Union Address was given by the seventh United States president, Andrew Jackson on Tuesday, December 6, 1830, to both houses of the United States Congress. He said, \"What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?\" He speaks of the", "title": "1830 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "476437", "text": "none has done so since Jimmy Carter sent a written message in 1981. In 1953 and 1961, Congress received both a written State of the Union message from the outgoing president and a separate State of the Union speech by the incoming president. Since 1989, in recognition that the responsibility of reporting the State of the Union formally belongs to the president who held office during the past year, newly inaugurated Presidents have not officially called their first speech before Congress a \"State of the Union\" message. In 1936, President Roosevelt set a precedent when he delivered the address at", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "13094031", "text": "of high school students sponsored by the Close Up Foundation. Dan Glickman, the Secretary of Agriculture, served as the designated survivor. The speech was broadcast live on television and radio and lasted 1:04:21 and consisted of 6,774 words. This was the first State of the Union Address carried live on the Internet. 1997 State of the Union Address The 1997 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 105th United States Congress on Tuesday, February 4, 1997. The speech was the first State of the Union address of President Clinton's second", "title": "1997 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14909392", "text": "foresees that the President of the European Commission sends a letter of intent to the President of the European Parliament and the Presidency of the Council of the European Union that sets out in detail the actions the European Commission intends to take by means of legislation and other initiatives until the end of the following year. The address is then followed by a general debate on political situation of the Union, the so-called State of the Union debate. The first State of the Union speech of the European Union was pronounced on 7 September 2010 by President José Manuel", "title": "State of the Union (European Union)" }, { "docid": "14169012", "text": "1999 State of the Union Address The 1999 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 106th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 19, 1999. The speech was the third State of the Union address of President Clinton's second term. This was the first State of the Union address with Dennis Hastert as Speaker of the House of Representatives. President Clinton discussed the economy, the federal budget, taxes and focused on the budget surplus, then at $70 billion. The president also discussed the future of Social Security, education, foreign relations and", "title": "1999 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "7050636", "text": "Democratic response to 2006 State of the Union address The response to the 2006 State of the Union Address was delivered by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine on January 31, 2006, after United States President George W. Bush delivered his 2006 State of the Union address. The theme of Kaine's speech, \"\"A Better Way\",\" advocates the Democratic Party's policies and states' rights. Kaine delivered the speech from Virginia's historic Executive Mansion in Richmond and the speech was televised nationwide. Kaine begins his speech by recalling his work as a Catholic missionary in Honduras where he learned the value of measuring one's", "title": "Democratic response to 2006 State of the Union address" }, { "docid": "11430334", "text": "response in Spanish. Libertarian Party Chair William Redpath issued a written response to the State of the Union on behalf of the national Libertarian Party. Steve Kubby, a candidate for the Libertarian Party's 2008 presidential nomination, delivered his own \"State of the Union address\" via Internet video on January 25, 2008, three days before President Bush's speech. Framed as a preemption rather than merely a response, Kubby's speech attempted to predict the themes President Bush would strike and offered Kubby's own proposals in their stead. 2008 State of the Union Address The 2008 State of the Union address was a", "title": "2008 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "476439", "text": "their coverage of a State of the Union address. Delivered by Lyndon B. Johnson, this address was followed by extensive televised commentary by, among others, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Milton Friedman. Ronald Reagan's 1986 State of the Union Address is the only one to have been postponed. He had planned to deliver it on January 28, 1986 but postponed it for a week after learning of the Space Shuttle \"Challenger\" disaster and instead addressed the nation on the day's events. Bill Clinton's 1997 address was the first broadcast available live on the World Wide Web. A formal invitation is made", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "11517788", "text": "Clinton discussed many topics in the address, including education, health care, crime, the global economy, technology, and the environment. It was Clinton's last State of the Union address. He left office on January 20, 2001. It was also the longest State of the Union address in recorded history at 1:29. This State of the Union address is notable for being the first since Reagan's 1986 State of the Union Address that all 9 members of the Supreme Court were absent. It is speculated that their absence was due to Clinton's recent impeachment. 2000 State of the Union Address The 2000", "title": "2000 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "11145149", "text": "Characters include, Rachel Maddow, Barney Frank, Meghan McCain, Christiane Amanpour, and Ruth Madoff. On November 6, 2008, it was announced that \"State of the Union\" would be remade for Germany starring comedian, writer, Mona Sharma, under the title \"Lage Der Nation\". 2008 2009 Tracey Ullman's State of the Union Tracey Ullman's State of the Union is an American sketch-comedy series starring Tracey Ullman. The series was written by Ullman along with Hollywood satirist Bruce Wagner. Gail Parent and Craig DiGregorio acted as contributing writers to the series' first season. On May 17, 2010, it was announced that \"State of the", "title": "Tracey Ullman's State of the Union" }, { "docid": "17810246", "text": "The organization also held \"Helping You Personally\" seminars, where experts in legal and finance spoke on issues of interest to LGBT people in New Jersey. Prior to legal recognition of same-sex marriages in New Jersey, the organization volunteered to collect letters and postcards in support of marriage equality. The organization developed thirteen caucuses to help to diversify New Jersey's LGBT rights movement. Each caucus serves a different demographic community such as African-Americans, clergy, labor, women, and youth. As a part of legislative dinners, Assembly Members and State Senators met Garden State Equality members at the members' homes. Many New Jersey", "title": "Garden State Equality" }, { "docid": "6956707", "text": "not a biography.\" In 1948 the play was adapted for a film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. State of the Union (play) State of the Union is a play by American playwrights Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay about a fictional Republican presidential candidate. \"State of the Union\" opened at the National Theatre in Washington, DC on November 6, 1945. The \"New York Times\" reviewer noted that the play was \"clever and well-acted.\" The play premiered on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on November 14, 1945, and closed on September 13, 1947 after 765", "title": "State of the Union (play)" }, { "docid": "12707843", "text": "Gay on December 10, 2008. The event encouraged same sex marriage supporters to call in to work \"gay\" and do community service in their communities. Many also participated in an economic boycott that day by not spending any money. On December 20, 2008, Join the Impact organized Light Up The Night For Equality and the National LGBT Food Drive for Equality in cities across the country. Candlelight vigils were held in commercial centers and shopping malls in remembrance of the 18,000 same sex marriages performed in California between June and November 2008. An estimated one million people were educated about", "title": "Join the Impact" }, { "docid": "476430", "text": "State of the Union The State of the Union Address is an annual message presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, except in the first year of a new president's term. The message includes a budget message and an economic report of the nation, and also allows the President to propose a legislative agenda (for which the cooperation of Congress is needed) and national priorities. The address fulfills rules in of the U.S. Constitution, requiring the President to periodically \"give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union,", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "7048076", "text": "income taxes, free trade initiatives, prosecution of corporate criminals. Thirty-eight million viewers watched the address, a lower figure than any of Bush's previous State of the Union addresses, and indeed lower than any State of the Union addresses in the preceding twelve years. 2005 State of the Union Address The 2005 State of the Union Address was delivered by United States President George W. Bush on Wednesday, February 2, 2005, in Washington, D.C. to a joint session of the U.S. Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate). President Bush began his State of the Union address by saying that", "title": "2005 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "6956703", "text": "State of the Union (play) State of the Union is a play by American playwrights Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay about a fictional Republican presidential candidate. \"State of the Union\" opened at the National Theatre in Washington, DC on November 6, 1945. The \"New York Times\" reviewer noted that the play was \"clever and well-acted.\" The play premiered on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on November 14, 1945, and closed on September 13, 1947 after 765 performances. Directed by Bretaigne Windust, the cast starred Ralph Bellamy (Grant Matthews), Ruth Hussey (Mary Matthews), Margalo Gillmore (Kay Thorndyke), Myron McCormick (Spike MacManus),", "title": "State of the Union (play)" }, { "docid": "13757532", "text": "2010 State of the Union Address The 2010 State of the Union Address was given by United States President Barack Obama on January 27, 2010, to a joint session of Congress. It was aired on all the major networks starting at 9 pm ET. It was Obama's first State of the Union Address, though the president did give a non-State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress a month after taking office in 2009. The speech was delivered in the United States House of Representatives in the United States Capitol. The presiding officers of the Senate and", "title": "2010 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "476435", "text": "be read by a clerk until 1913 when Woodrow Wilson re-established the practice despite some initial controversy. However, there have been exceptions to this rule. Presidents during the latter half of the 20th century have sent written State of the Union addresses. The last President to do this was Jimmy Carter in 1981, after his defeat by Ronald Reagan and days before his term ended. For many years, the speech was referred to as \"the President's Annual Message to Congress\". The actual term \"State of the Union\" first emerged in 1934 when Franklin D. Roosevelt used the phrase, becoming its", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "16543626", "text": "of Agriculture, served as the designated survivor. 1987 State of the Union Address The 1987 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 100th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 27, 1987. The speech was the third State of the Union address of President Reagan's second term, starting out with congratulations to the historic 100th Congress. Progressing to the Afghanistan situation, he says: \"The Soviet Union says it wants a peaceful settlement in Afghanistan, yet it continues a brutal war and props up a regime whose days are clearly numbered. We", "title": "1987 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "4023994", "text": "Croatia was admitted as a member of the EU, acceding on 1 July 2013. A referendum was held in San Marino on whether the country should submit an application to join the European Union as a full member state. The Unified Patent Court is a proposed court between several EU member states, that, inter alia, is to be constituted for litigation related to the European Union patent. Countries which seek to join the European Union in the future may hold a referendum as part of the accession process. In addition, Article 88-5 of the Constitution of France requires a referendum", "title": "Referendums related to the European Union" }, { "docid": "14164951", "text": "1975 State of the Union Address The 1975 State of the Union address was given by President Gerald Ford to a joint session of the 94th United States Congress on January 15, 1975. The speech was the first State of the Union address of President Ford's tenure as president. The president discussed the national debt, taxes, the federal budget and the energy crisis. The speech lasted 41:00 and consisted of 4,126 words. The address was broadcast live on radio and television. The Democratic Party response was delivered by Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and the Speaker of the House Carl", "title": "1975 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14164952", "text": "Albert of Oklahoma. 1975 State of the Union Address The 1975 State of the Union address was given by President Gerald Ford to a joint session of the 94th United States Congress on January 15, 1975. The speech was the first State of the Union address of President Ford's tenure as president. The president discussed the national debt, taxes, the federal budget and the energy crisis. The speech lasted 41:00 and consisted of 4,126 words. The address was broadcast live on radio and television. The Democratic Party response was delivered by Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and the Speaker of", "title": "1975 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18153431", "text": "1791 State of the Union Address The state of union is an address, in the United States, given by the president to a joint session of Congress, the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate. The United States constitution requires the president “from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union.” Today the state of the union address is given as a speech, though this is not a requirement of the constitution. George Washington chose to address the congress in a speech annually, on October 25, 1791 he gave his third speech.", "title": "1791 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "20898802", "text": "Secretary of State for Equality The Secretary of State for Equality (SEIG) of Spain is a high-ranking official in the Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Equality. It is a political appointment made by the King with the advice of the minister in charge of the ministerial department. The Secretary of State for Equality is responsible for proposing and developing the Government's policies on equality, prevention and elimination of all kinds of discrimination against persons based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or ideology, sexual orientation or identity of gender, age, disability or any other condition", "title": "Secretary of State for Equality" }, { "docid": "6956829", "text": "again. Capra bought the rights of \"State of the Union\" after its initial theatrical release. After Capra's company folded, Liberty Films' assets were acquired by Paramount Pictures. It has since had limited availability on VHS and LaserDisc home video and until recently has been unavailable on DVD. EMKA, Ltd./Universal Television currently owns the rights to the film due to it being a part of Paramount's pre-1950 sound feature film library. Universal Studios Home Entertainment released a DVD version on August 29, 2006. State of the Union (film) State of the Union is a 1948 drama film written by Myles Connolly", "title": "State of the Union (film)" }, { "docid": "7050646", "text": "the response to the 2008 State of the Union address. Webb's election over incumbent Senator George Allen in the 2006 Virginia Senate election tipped control of the United States Senate to the Democratic Party for the first time in four years and, with the election of a Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives, resulted in the first Democratic-controlled Congress in twelve years. Democratic response to 2006 State of the Union address The response to the 2006 State of the Union Address was delivered by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine on January 31, 2006, after United States President George W.", "title": "Democratic response to 2006 State of the Union address" }, { "docid": "10124891", "text": "Economic Community (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany). The remaining states have acceded in subsequent enlargements. On 1 July 2013, Croatia became the newest member state of the EU. To accede, a state must fulfill the economic and political requirements known as the Copenhagen criteria, which require a candidate to have a democratic, free-market government together with the corresponding freedoms and institutions, and respect for the rule of law. Enlargement of the Union is also contingent upon the consent of all existing members and the candidate's adoption of the existing body of EU law, known as the", "title": "Member state of the European Union" }, { "docid": "7321692", "text": "State of the Union (song) \"State Of The Union\" is the debut single from British singer-songwriter David Ford. It had previously been featured as a demo on his official website, before appearing as a track on a CD entitled \"\"Apology Demos EP\",\" only on sale at live shows. The song was released as a single in the United Kingdom on September 26, 2005, on CD/7\" formats through Independiente Records and preceded his debut album \"I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I've Caused\". The music video received numerous plaudits for its originality. It was recorded live-in-one-take, with David, using a", "title": "State of the Union (song)" }, { "docid": "7321693", "text": "looping machine, playing all 12 instruments used in the song. State of the Union (song) \"State Of The Union\" is the debut single from British singer-songwriter David Ford. It had previously been featured as a demo on his official website, before appearing as a track on a CD entitled \"\"Apology Demos EP\",\" only on sale at live shows. The song was released as a single in the United Kingdom on September 26, 2005, on CD/7\" formats through Independiente Records and preceded his debut album \"I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I've Caused\". The music video received numerous plaudits for", "title": "State of the Union (song)" }, { "docid": "476440", "text": "by the Speaker of the House to the President several weeks before each State of the Union Address. Every member of Congress can bring one guest to the State of the Union address. The President may invite up to 24 guests with the First Lady in her box. The Speaker of the House may invite up to 24 guests in the Speaker’s box. Seating for Congress on the main floor is by a first-in, first-served basis with no reservations. The Cabinet, Supreme Court justices, members of the Diplomatic Corps, and Joint Chiefs have reserved seating. By approximately 8:30 pm on", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "18422851", "text": "an associate, where she argues the same points in the essay. On the Equality of the Sexes On the Equality of the Sexes, also known as Essay: On the Equality of the Sexes, is a 1790 essay by Judith Sargent Murray. Murray wrote the work in 1770 but did not release it until April 1779, when she published it in two parts in two separate issues of \"Massachusetts Magazine\". The essay predated Mary Wollstonecraft's \"A Vindication of the Rights of Women\" which was published in 1792 and 1794, and the work has been credited as being Murray's most important work.", "title": "On the Equality of the Sexes" }, { "docid": "18422841", "text": "On the Equality of the Sexes On the Equality of the Sexes, also known as Essay: On the Equality of the Sexes, is a 1790 essay by Judith Sargent Murray. Murray wrote the work in 1770 but did not release it until April 1779, when she published it in two parts in two separate issues of \"Massachusetts Magazine\". The essay predated Mary Wollstonecraft's \"A Vindication of the Rights of Women\" which was published in 1792 and 1794, and the work has been credited as being Murray's most important work. In this feminist essay, Murray posed the argument of spiritual and", "title": "On the Equality of the Sexes" }, { "docid": "4924486", "text": "XXX: State of the Union xXx: State of the Union (released as xXx²: The Next Level and xXx: State of Emergency outside North America) is a 2005 American action film directed by Lee Tamahori and a sequel to the 2002 film \"xXx\". It is the second installment of the \"xXx\" franchise, and was produced by Revolution Studios for Columbia Pictures. Vin Diesel and Rob Cohen, the lead actor and director of the original, had signed onto a sequel before the first film had opened, but both dropped out as Diesel disliked the script, while Cohen was busy making \"Stealth\". Cohen", "title": "XXX: State of the Union" }, { "docid": "14169050", "text": "deeds are a contradiction. President Clinton claims to embrace the future while clinging to the policies of the past.\" Donna Shalala, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, served as the designated survivor. 1996 State of the Union Address The 1996 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 104th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 23, 1996. The speech was the last State of the Union address of President Clinton's first term. This speech occurred shortly after the federal government shutdown of 1995 and 1996 which had resulted from disagreements", "title": "1996 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18202852", "text": "not now so complete as might be wished, yet there is great reason to believe that this inconvenience will cease with the present session.\" This would be the last annual message any president would personally deliver to Congress for the next 113 years. 1800 State of the Union Address The 1800 State of the Union Address was given by John Adams, the second President of the United States, on Tuesday, November 11, 1800, to a joint session of the 6th United States Congress. It was the first State of the Union Address delivered at the new United States Capitol in", "title": "1800 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14175317", "text": "radio and television. The Democratic Party response was delivered by Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Speaker of the House Jim Wright of Texas. 1988 State of the Union Address The 1988 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 100th United States Congress on Monday, January 25, 1988. The speech was the last State of the Union address of President Reagan's second term. Donald Hodel, the Secretary of the Interior, served as the designated survivor. President Reagan began by announcing that his speech would not be a litany of", "title": "1988 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "8391092", "text": "with Interstate 80 and the Ohio Turnpike via a connecting or spur road. SR 10 then becomes a grade-level road in North Ridgeville before heading into Cuyahoga County, and is known as Lorain Road. It then continues through the western suburbs of Cleveland and through the western part of Cleveland, as Lorain Avenue, terminating shortly after it crosses the Cuyahoga River at Gateway at Broadway Avenue/Ontario Street (U.S. Route 422, State Route 8, State Route 14, State Route 43, and State Route 87). The State Route 10 designation was originally used along what is now the US 30 corridor, then", "title": "Ohio State Route 10" }, { "docid": "14175315", "text": "1988 State of the Union Address The 1988 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 100th United States Congress on Monday, January 25, 1988. The speech was the last State of the Union address of President Reagan's second term. Donald Hodel, the Secretary of the Interior, served as the designated survivor. President Reagan began by announcing that his speech would not be a litany of achievements over the past seven years of his administration, but that he would continue to propose policy initiatives. He outlined the following objectives: Reagan discussed", "title": "1988 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "476447", "text": "or visiting heads of state. During that 1982 address, President Ronald Reagan acknowledged Lenny Skutnik for his act of heroism following the crash of Air Florida Flight 90. Since then, the term \"Lenny Skutniks\" has been used to refer to individuals invited to sit in the gallery, and then cited by the President, during the State of the Union. State of the Union speeches usually last a little over an hour, partly because of the large amounts of applause that occur from the audience throughout. The applause is often political in tone, with many portions of the speech being applauded", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "16541428", "text": "Pell (RI), Senator Walter Huddleston (KY), Rep. Dante B. Fascell (FL), Rep. Tom Harkin (IA), Rep. William Gray (PA), House Speaker Thomas O’Neill (MA), and Rep. Barbara Boxer (CA). Samuel Pierce, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, served as the designated survivor. 1984 State of the Union Address The 1984 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 98th United States Congress on January 25, 1984. The speech was the third State of the Union address of President Reagan's first term. The speech lasted 43 minutes and 2 seconds and", "title": "1984 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "11145135", "text": "Tracey Ullman's State of the Union Tracey Ullman's State of the Union is an American sketch-comedy series starring Tracey Ullman. The series was written by Ullman along with Hollywood satirist Bruce Wagner. Gail Parent and Craig DiGregorio acted as contributing writers to the series' first season. On May 17, 2010, it was announced that \"State of the Union\" would not be returning for a fourth season. The series takes a satirical view of the day in the life of America, lampooning political, social, and pop culture, with Ullman impersonating and portraying famous and non-famous characters and celebrities. The series' first", "title": "Tracey Ullman's State of the Union" }, { "docid": "4924496", "text": "Mack Bates of the \"Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\" praised Ice Cube's \"trademark charisma and street sensibility,\" while Owen Gleiberman of \"Entertainment Weekly\" called it \"that rare B movie that’s rooted in gut-level stirrings of power and retaliation\". Paul Arendt of the BBC said, \"Viewed on its own trashy terms, it succeeds brilliantly\". XXX: State of the Union xXx: State of the Union (released as xXx²: The Next Level and xXx: State of Emergency outside North America) is a 2005 American action film directed by Lee Tamahori and a sequel to the 2002 film \"xXx\". It is the second installment of the", "title": "XXX: State of the Union" }, { "docid": "20520672", "text": "reflected on the building of the Empire State Building, claiming that it was built in one year while current regulations delay construction of some roads by 10 years. Trump concluded by declaring \"we will rebuild infrastructure with American heart, American hands and American grit.” Much of the State of the Union came in the form of general policy goals. This was especially the case for the issue of immigration. Trump used personal accounts in order to support his pitch for an overhaul in the U.S. immigration system. Two Long Island families, both of whom had children were killed by a", "title": "2018 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "20898805", "text": "the Ministry of the Presidency, with the direct supervision of the Deputy Prime Minister. From the Secretary of State depends the following officials: Before this office was created, all its duties were carried out by the Secretary General for Equality first and by the Minister of Equality later. Secretary of State for Equality The Secretary of State for Equality (SEIG) of Spain is a high-ranking official in the Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Equality. It is a political appointment made by the King with the advice of the minister in charge of the ministerial department. The", "title": "Secretary of State for Equality" }, { "docid": "14169090", "text": "history. The president acknowledged many Americans of past and present in his speech. Among them were: The Republican Party response was delivered by Governor Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey. This was the first response given exclusively by a state governor and, delivered in Trenton, the first outside Washington, DC. Conservative William Kristol called the address the \"most conservative State of the Union by a Democratic president in history.\" Federico Peña, the Secretary of Transportation, served as the designated survivor. 1995 State of the Union Address The 1995 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to", "title": "1995 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18164720", "text": "virtually commenced.\" 1876 State of the Union Address The 1876 State of the Union Address was given by the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, on Tuesday, December 5, 1876. In it he said these words, \"Reconstruction Era, as finally agreed upon, means this and only this, except that the late slave was enfranchised, giving an increase, as was supposed, to the Union-loving and Union-supporting votes. If free in the full sense of the word, they would not disappoint this expectation. Hence at the beginning of my first Administration the work of reconstruction, much embarrassed by the", "title": "1876 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18164719", "text": "1876 State of the Union Address The 1876 State of the Union Address was given by the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, on Tuesday, December 5, 1876. In it he said these words, \"Reconstruction Era, as finally agreed upon, means this and only this, except that the late slave was enfranchised, giving an increase, as was supposed, to the Union-loving and Union-supporting votes. If free in the full sense of the word, they would not disappoint this expectation. Hence at the beginning of my first Administration the work of reconstruction, much embarrassed by the long delay,", "title": "1876 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "3524460", "text": "never actually realized) and a \"Union State Constitutional Act\", an instrument which could strengthen the authority of the Union. According to State Secretary Borodin, five variants of this Act were discussed at the meeting, each of which would involve a 7 to 10 year transitional period in the Union's development. Trade and energy issues were also discussed. On 27 May 2008, President Lukashenko, acting in his capacity as Chairman of the Supreme State Council named then Russian Prime Minister and current President Putin Chairman of the Council of Ministers. This move raised speculation that the Union was about to undergo", "title": "Union State" }, { "docid": "16543624", "text": "1987 State of the Union Address The 1987 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 100th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 27, 1987. The speech was the third State of the Union address of President Reagan's second term, starting out with congratulations to the historic 100th Congress. Progressing to the Afghanistan situation, he says: \"The Soviet Union says it wants a peaceful settlement in Afghanistan, yet it continues a brutal war and props up a regime whose days are clearly numbered. We are ready to support a political solution", "title": "1987 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18175925", "text": "1897 State of the Union Address The 1897 State of the Union Address was written on Monday, December 6, 1897, by President William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States. It was his first State of the Union Address, and was read to both houses of the 55th United States Congress. He began with, \"A matter of genuine satisfaction is the growing feeling of fraternal regard and unification of all sections of our country, the incompleteness of which has too long delayed realization of the highest blessings of the Union. The spirit of patriotism is universal and is ever", "title": "1897 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "16552154", "text": "1982 State of the Union Address The 1982 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 97th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 26, 1982. The speech was the first State of the Union address of President Reagan's first term. The speech lasted 40 minutes and 14 seconds and contained 5154 words. The address was broadcast live on radio and television. The speech was the first to acknowledge a special guest, Lenny Skutnik. Taking the place of Supreme Court Justice Byron White was retired Justice Potter Stewart. The Democratic Party response", "title": "1982 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14164807", "text": "1992 State of the Union Address The 1992 State of the Union address was a speech given by President George H. W. Bush to a joint session of the 102nd United States Congress on Tuesday, January 28, 1992. This was the last State of the Union address by President Bush, who lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in the 1992 election. The president discussed the collapse of the Soviet Union, Operation Desert Storm, military spending cuts, nuclear disarmament, economic recovery (high unemployment remained from the early 1990s recession), several types of tax cuts and credits, and controlling government spending.", "title": "1992 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14164805", "text": "1992 State of the Union Address The 1992 State of the Union address was a speech given by President George H. W. Bush to a joint session of the 102nd United States Congress on Tuesday, January 28, 1992. This was the last State of the Union address by President Bush, who lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in the 1992 election. The president discussed the collapse of the Soviet Union, Operation Desert Storm, military spending cuts, nuclear disarmament, economic recovery (high unemployment remained from the early 1990s recession), several types of tax cuts and credits, and controlling government spending.", "title": "1992 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18202851", "text": "1800 State of the Union Address The 1800 State of the Union Address was given by John Adams, the second President of the United States, on Tuesday, November 11, 1800, to a joint session of the 6th United States Congress. It was the first State of the Union Address delivered at the new United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Delivered in the Senate chamber, Adams began his speech by congratulating members on their new seat of government and—pointedly—\"on the prospect of a residence not to be changed.\" He added, optimistically, \"Although there is some cause to apprehend that accommodations are", "title": "1800 State of the Union Address" } ]
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Nov 22, 1995 saw the theatrical release of one of the top grossing films of that year, the first feature film to be made entirely with CGI?
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[ { "docid": "1268582", "text": "The film \"Titanic\" used computer effects in nearly every scene of its three-hour running time; one of the film's 11 Oscars was for special effects. While Disney had made the film \"Tron\"—which extensively mixed live action, traditional animation, and CGI—in 1982, and introduced the CAPS system to enhance traditional animation in 1990s \"The Rescuers Down Under\", a completely computer-animated feature film had yet to be made. In 1995, Disney partnered with Pixar to produce \"Toy Story\", the first feature film made entirely using CGI. The film's success was so great that other studios looked into producing their own CGI films.", "title": "Modern animation in the United States" } ]
[ { "docid": "7884572", "text": "Lists of animated feature films This list of animated feature films compiles animated feature films from around the world and is organized alphabetically under the year of release (the year the completed film was first released to the public). Theatrical releases as well as made-for-TV (TV) and direct-to-video (V) movies of all types of animation are included. Currently the list doesn't recognize one release form from another. In order to qualify for this list, films must be \"over 40 minutes long and have animation in at least 75% of their running time, or have at least 40 minutes of animation", "title": "Lists of animated feature films" }, { "docid": "7884573", "text": "in total.\" This list chooses to use the AFI, AMPAS and BFI definitions of a feature film. For animated films under 40 minutes, see List of animated short films. For marionette films like \"\", or films featuring non-animated puppets, see . Also, primarily live-action films with heavy use of special effects are not included. Lists of animated feature films This list of animated feature films compiles animated feature films from around the world and is organized alphabetically under the year of release (the year the completed film was first released to the public). Theatrical releases as well as made-for-TV (TV)", "title": "Lists of animated feature films" }, { "docid": "13036406", "text": "on the film's history. The films are indexed by personal credits, production and distribution companies, year of release, and major and minor plot subjects. To qualify for the \"Feature Films\" volumes, a film must have been commercially made by an American company, and given a theatrical release in 35 mm or larger gauge to the general public, with a running time of at least 40 minutes. The hardcover volumes published: The publication of the hardcover volumes was suspended due to budgetary reasons after volume F4 in 1997. Feature films released from 1951 through 1960, and from 1971 through 1973 have", "title": "AFI Catalog of Feature Films" }, { "docid": "648665", "text": "America, it was by some distance the highest-grossing film of 1981. It also became Paramount Pictures' most successful film at that time, and remains one of the top twenty-five highest-grossing films ever made when adjusted for inflation. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold more than 70 million tickets in the US in its initial theatrical run. Its IMAX release in 2012 opened at #14 and grossed $1,673,731 from 267 theaters ($6,269 theater average) during its opening weekend. In total, the IMAX release grossed $3,125,613 domestically. The film was highly acclaimed by critics and audiences alike. On Rotten Tomatoes,", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "docid": "1489776", "text": "successful films of all time, and is considered one of the greatest fantasy films ever made. It was the second film to gross $1 billion worldwide ($1.12 billion), becoming the highest-grossing film released by New Line Cinema, as well as the biggest financial success for Time Warner in general at the time. The film was the highest-grossing film of 2003 and, by the end of its theatrical run, the second highest-grossing film in history. As of August 2018, it is the 21st highest-grossing film of all time. At the 76th Academy Awards, it won all 11 Academy Awards for which", "title": "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" }, { "docid": "10671138", "text": "The Secret of the Magic Gourd (2007 film) The Secret of the Magic Gourd (), or The Magic Gourd, is a live-action/CGI animation movie made in 2007 by Centro in co-operation with China Movie Co Ltd and Disney. \"The Secret of the Magic Gourd\" is Disney's first CGI/animation full-length feature film produced for the Chinese mainland market. The films DVD release date in the United States was on January 27, 2009. The English dubbed version of the film features Corbin Bleu as the voice of the Magic Gourd and Drake Johnston as the voice of Raymond. The film was shot", "title": "The Secret of the Magic Gourd (2007 film)" }, { "docid": "2498546", "text": "Love Letter (1995 film) Love Letter is a 1995 Japanese film directed by Shunji Iwai and starring Miho Nakayama. The film was shot almost entirely on the island of Hokkaidō, mainly in the city of Otaru. \"Love Letter\" became a box-office hit in Japan and later in other east Asian countries, most notably South Korea, where it was one of the first Japanese films to be shown in cinemas since World War II. In South Korea it was the tenth highest grossing general release of the year with 645,615 admissions. Director Shunji Iwai hired Noboru Shinoda as cinematographer and the", "title": "Love Letter (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "10671139", "text": "in China, in October 2005. The Secret of the Magic Gourd (2007 film) The Secret of the Magic Gourd (), or The Magic Gourd, is a live-action/CGI animation movie made in 2007 by Centro in co-operation with China Movie Co Ltd and Disney. \"The Secret of the Magic Gourd\" is Disney's first CGI/animation full-length feature film produced for the Chinese mainland market. The films DVD release date in the United States was on January 27, 2009. The English dubbed version of the film features Corbin Bleu as the voice of the Magic Gourd and Drake Johnston as the voice of", "title": "The Secret of the Magic Gourd (2007 film)" }, { "docid": "7679711", "text": "New York Times\" and Charles Solomon of the \"Los Angeles Times\" likened the film to a Saturday morning children's cartoon extended to feature film length. Maslin in particular cited the film's plot as \"complicated but entirely predictable\". The film was, however, a box-office success, grossing more than three times its $2 million budget. The film was picked up by Kidtoon Films as part of its weekend matinee program twenty-one years after its release. It returned to theaters on May 6, 2006 and closed on May 28, 2006, replaced the original Dolby Stereo soundtrack with Dolby Digital and DTS tracks, and", "title": "The Secret of the Sword" }, { "docid": "3828553", "text": "31, 2014, in honor of the film's 10th anniversary, \"Saw\" was re-released to select theatres for one week. The release earned only $650,051 in its opening weekend, and is the third lowest-grossing wide opening. At the end of its run, the release had grossed $815,324, bringing the film's overall domestic gross to $56,000,369. The theatrical version of the film was released on VHS and DVD on in the United States. After its first week, it made in DVD rentals and in VHS rentals, making it the top rental of the week. For the second week it remained as the number", "title": "Saw (2004 film)" }, { "docid": "16600292", "text": "Pictures. The film was the first to be released entirely through digital distribution. It was a major commercial success, grossing more than $392 million worldwide during its original theatrical run to become Scorsese's highest-grossing film and the 17th-highest-grossing film of 2013. The film was controversial for its morally ambiguous depiction of events, explicit sexual content, extreme profanity, depiction of hard drug use and the use of animals during production. The film also caused controversy due to accusations that it was financed by illegally obtained funds from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, with praise", "title": "The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film)" }, { "docid": "4235788", "text": "Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2008, and was released worldwide on May 22, 2008 to generally positive reviews from critics, although audience reception was more mixed. There was significant praise for the performances, action scenes, John Williams' musical score, and the costume design. Criticism, however, focused on the dialogue, storyline, pacing, and overuse of CGI. It was also a financial success like the previous three films in the series, grossing over $786 million worldwide, becoming the franchise's highest-grossing film when not adjusted for inflation, as well as the second-highest-grossing film of 2008. The film is scheduled to be followed", "title": "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" }, { "docid": "10717472", "text": "Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year The of the Japan Academy Prize is one of the annual Awards given by the \"Nippon Academy-sho association\" (Japan Academy Prize Association). Although the Japan Academy Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 to Japanese films, animation films were disregarded in the early years of the Prize. Animation films have included top grossing Japanese films of the year, such as \"Doraemon\" (1980,1981,1983,1984), Studio Ghibli's \"Kiki's Delivery Service\" (1989), \"Only Yesterday\" (1991), \"Porco Rosso\" (1992), \"Pom Poko\" (1994), and \"Whisper of the Heart\" (1995). Yet no animated film received a nomination for a", "title": "Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year" }, { "docid": "12355672", "text": "grossing feature film in the Republic of Macedonia was \"Bal-Can-Can\", having been seen by over 500,000 people in its first year alone. Cinema of the Republic of Macedonia The history of film making in the Republic of Macedonia dates back over 110 years. The first film to be produced on the territory of the present-day the country was made in 1895 by Janaki and Milton Manaki in Bitola. From then, continuing to the present, Macedonian film makers, in Macedonia and from around the world, have been producing many films. The country now produces three or four films per year. Throughout", "title": "Cinema of the Republic of Macedonia" }, { "docid": "3270000", "text": "on the Blu-ray release), the sequels \"\" and \"The Exorcist III\", and the prequels \"\" and \"\". The film earned $66.3 million in distributors' domestic (US/CAN) rentals during its theatrical release in 1974, becoming the second most popular film of that year (trailing \"The Sting\"). After several reissues, the film eventually grossed $232,671,011 in North America, which if adjusted for inflation, would be the ninth highest-grossing film of all time and the top-grossing R-rated film of all time. To date, it has a total gross of $441,071,011 worldwide. Adjusted to 2014 prices, \"The Exorcist\" has grossed $1.794 billion. Stanley Kauffmann,", "title": "The Exorcist (film)" }, { "docid": "18445249", "text": "Majidi wanted for \"Muhammad: The Messenger of God\". He worked on the score for a year and a half. The soundtrack was released by Sony DADC on December 23, 2015. The film raked in an estimate $60,000 on the opening day in Tehran. Further, in two weeks post the release, it grossed roughly $2 million. Despite the film being labelled a box-office flop, it was the top-grossing movie of that year with a total of over $1.8 million. The producers of the film have planned two sequels that would complete the trilogy of films. The first would focus on Muhammad's", "title": "Muhammad: The Messenger of God (film)" }, { "docid": "5485801", "text": "following year, but was remastered and re-released again on August 24, 2011. This newly restored release of the film was timed to release with the theatrical release of the remake two days later. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 film) Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is an American made-for-television dark fantasy film directed by John Newland and starring Kim Darby and Jim Hutton. It was released by Lorimar Productions and was first telecast on ABC on Wednesday October 10, 1973 during the ABC Movie of the Week. It has since been shown many times in syndication and was", "title": "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 film)" }, { "docid": "17298847", "text": "December 2013 to March 2014 in Morocco, Jordan and England. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and had its premiere on February 6, 2015. It had a theatrical release in Germany on September 3, 2015. It is scheduled to be released in a limited release and through video on demand on April 14, 2017, by IFC Films. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics and was also a major financial disappointment, grossing $2 million against a $36 million production budget. Gertrude Bell, a daughter of wealthy British parents, has no", "title": "Queen of the Desert (film)" }, { "docid": "826757", "text": "box office gross was $5,849,647, which made it the 99th highest-grossing movie of 1986. Hasbro lost US$10 million on the combined poor performance of this, and their previous collaboration with De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG), \"\". It also forced the producers of these films to make \"\" a direct-to-video release instead of theatrical, as well as scrap a \"Jem\" film then in development. However, \"Transformers\" has become a cult classic. Although the trailer describes the film as \"spectacular widescreen action\", the film was animated in 4:3 \"fullscreen\" format. The feature was vertically cropped to widescreen dimensions for theatrical showings and", "title": "The Transformers: The Movie" }, { "docid": "5926151", "text": "The Giant Spider Invasion The Giant Spider Invasion is a low-budget 1975 science fiction horror film produced by Transcentury Pictures, a partnership owned by the film's director Bill Rebane. The film is about giant spiders that terrorize the town of Merrill, Wisconsin and the surrounding area. \"The Giant Spider Invasion\" was given a U.S. release in theaters in 1975, and was distributed by Group 1 Films. The iconic theatrical poster art was a throwback to the monster movies of the 1950s. The film received a considerable theatrical run and became one of the fifty top-grossing films of that year. After", "title": "The Giant Spider Invasion" }, { "docid": "7290530", "text": "Kingdom. Film critics considered it one of the best films of its decade and one of the best superhero films of all time; the film received highly positive reviews, particularly for its action, score, screenplay, performances (particularly Ledger's), visual effects, and direction, setting numerous records during its theatrical run. \"The Dark Knight\" appeared on 287 critics' top ten lists, more than any other film of 2008 with the exception of \"WALL-E\", and more critics (77) named \"The Dark Knight\" the best film released that year. With over $1 billion in revenue worldwide, it became the highest-grossing film of 2008 and", "title": "The Dark Knight (film)" }, { "docid": "5485800", "text": "Folio\" (1981)) bears close resemblance to the creatures in the movie. Miramax Films produced a remake of the film as a theatrical feature, released on August 26, 2011. The remake stars, Bailee Madison, Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce, and was produced and co-written by Guillermo del Toro. The remake marks the directorial debut of comic book artist-writer Troy Nixey. The film was released on VHS through USA Home Video in the 1980s. It was released on DVD on August 18, 2009, by Warner Archive. It was available online only as a made-to-order DVD-R. This release went out of print the", "title": "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 film)" }, { "docid": "14065432", "text": "1995. The Show (1995 film) The Show is a 1995 American documentary film about hip hop music. It was directed by Brian Robbins and featured interviews with some of hip hop's biggest names. Def Jam founder Russell Simmons stars in and narrates the film. The film grossed $1,482,892 in its opening weekend and $2,702,578 during its theatrical run. A soundtrack consisting entirely of hip hop was released on August 15, 1995 by Def Jam Recordings. The soundtrack was very successful, peaking at 4 on the \"Billboard\" 200 and 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and was certified platinum on October", "title": "The Show (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "8717126", "text": "people to pretend to be straight. \"Man of the Year\" was released on Region 1 DVD on February 23, 1999. Man of the Year (1995 film) Man of the Year is a 1995 mockumentary film written, directed by and starring Dirk Shafer. It is a fictionalized account of Shafer's reign as \"Playgirl\" magazine's 1992 \"Man of the Year\" and his struggle with reconciling his public persona as a sex symbol to women with his identity as a gay man. Shafer combines mock interviews (both with some of the actual people involved and with actors standing in for the actual people)", "title": "Man of the Year (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "7635608", "text": "film was a major commercial success, becoming the number one box office movie after four weeks, and the highest-grossing film of 1965. By November 1966, \"The Sound of Music\" had become the highest-grossing film of all-time—surpassing \"Gone with the Wind\"—and held that distinction for five years. The film was just as popular throughout the world, breaking previous box-office records in twenty-nine countries. Following an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases, the film sold 283 million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of $286,000,000. \"The Sound of Music\" received five Academy", "title": "The Sound of Music (film)" }, { "docid": "11652198", "text": "release dates, \"The Tree of Life\" premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Palme d'Or. It ranked number one on review aggregator Metacritic's \"Top Ten List of 2011\", and made more critics' year-end lists for 2011 than any other film. It appeared in the 2012 \"Sight & Sound\" critics' poll of the world's top 250 films as well as BBC's poll of the greatest American films, one of the few 21st-century works to be included in both. The film was also later named the 7th greatest film since 2000 in a BBC poll", "title": "The Tree of Life (film)" }, { "docid": "14065431", "text": "The Show (1995 film) The Show is a 1995 American documentary film about hip hop music. It was directed by Brian Robbins and featured interviews with some of hip hop's biggest names. Def Jam founder Russell Simmons stars in and narrates the film. The film grossed $1,482,892 in its opening weekend and $2,702,578 during its theatrical run. A soundtrack consisting entirely of hip hop was released on August 15, 1995 by Def Jam Recordings. The soundtrack was very successful, peaking at 4 on the \"Billboard\" 200 and 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and was certified platinum on October 16,", "title": "The Show (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "13227316", "text": "the state is not a divider but a caregiver.\" \"Kırmızıgül might not be a great filmmaker,\" Yıldırım concludes, \"but he is on his way to becoming a true philanthropist.\" I Saw the Sun I Saw the Sun () is a 2009 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Mahsun Kırmızıgül, which tells of a Kurdish family who are forced from their village in southeastern Turkey by the conflict there. The film, which was released on , was one of the highest grossing Turkish films of 2009, prompting its re-release on . The film was Turkey's official submission for the Academy", "title": "I Saw the Sun" }, { "docid": "9532873", "text": "DVD, as Paramount Pictures has a home video distribution deal with CBS. \"Starblasters\" was to be a video game-themed movie, due to be released about Christmas time 1982, at least some of the film was to be computer-animated. It would have been the second video game-themed movie after \"Tron\" which was released in July of that year. CBS Theatrical Films CBS Theatrical Films, also as CBS Theatrical Films Group, was the film production branch of the U.S. television network, CBS, which was active from 1979 to 1985. CBS was also a partner in TriStar Pictures, which started as a joint", "title": "CBS Theatrical Films" }, { "docid": "13036405", "text": "AFI Catalog of Feature Films The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, also known as the AFI Catalog is an ongoing project by the American Film Institute to catalog all commercially made and theatrically exhibited American motion pictures, from the earliest days of the industry to the present. It has begun as a series of hardcover books known as The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures, and subsequently became an online database exclusively. Each entry in the catalog typically includes the film's title, physical description, production and distribution companies, production and release dates, personal credits, a plot summary, and notes", "title": "AFI Catalog of Feature Films" }, { "docid": "2136599", "text": "watched by an estimated 7 million viewers. Before its release, many journalists expected \"Pirates of the Caribbean\" to be a flop. The pirate genre had not been successful for years, with \"Cutthroat Island\" (1995) being a notable flop. The film was also based on a theme park ride, and Depp, known mostly for starring in cult films at the time, had little track record as a box office leading man. \"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl\" opened at #1, grossing $46,630,690 in its opening weekend and $70,625,971 since its Wednesday launch. It eventually made its way", "title": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" }, { "docid": "1806899", "text": "in 57th place grossing $39,806. For that weekend period, \"Stuart Little\" starring Geena Davis opened in 1st place with $11,214,503 in revenue. \"Ride with the Devil\" went on to top out domestically at $635,096 in total ticket sales through a 6-week theatrical run. For 1999 as a whole, the film would cumulatively rank at a box office performance position of 219. Ride with the Devil (film) Ride with the Devil is a 1999 American Civil War Western film directed by Ang Lee, and starring Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright, and Jewel in her feature film debut. The storyline was", "title": "Ride with the Devil (film)" }, { "docid": "9634326", "text": "2005, but that date came and went with no theatrical release; in North America it finally was released as a direct-to-DVD feature in June 2005. In a series of questions presented by audiences, Hines claimed that the film never saw a theatrical release due to exhibitors pulling out, either from being bullied by Paramount, or through fear of reprisal from the studio. The 2005 book \"War of the Worlds: From Wells to Spielberg\" devotes a chapter to the Pendragon film; it states that the budget was \"approximately $25 million.\" Director Hines said of his film: \"I wanted to make \"War", "title": "H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (Hines film)" }, { "docid": "1485913", "text": "Best Costume Design and Best Adapted Screenplay. , it is the 31st highest-grossing film worldwide, with US$871,530,324 in worldwide theatrical box office receipts. The film won the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. It also won \"Empire\" readers' Best Film award, as well as five BAFTAs, including Best Film, the David Lean Award for Best Direction, the Audience Award (voted for by the public), Best Special Effects, and Best Make-up. The film was nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight between Gandalf and Saruman. In June 2008, AFI revealed its \"10 Top 10\"—the ten best films in", "title": "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" }, { "docid": "13036407", "text": "been cataloged only in the online database. The project estimates that additional years will be cataloged at six-month intervals. Film School students are offered the opportunity to provide plot synopses and original research, but input from other, experienced film researchers is not encouraged. The project will also eventually catalog short films (beyond 1910) and newsreels. AFI Catalog of Feature Films The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, also known as the AFI Catalog is an ongoing project by the American Film Institute to catalog all commercially made and theatrically exhibited American motion pictures, from the earliest days of the industry to", "title": "AFI Catalog of Feature Films" }, { "docid": "9836363", "text": "the flora and fauna / That no self-respecting iguana would do.\" The film grossed $12 million worldwide at the box office, earning $4.5 million in US theatrical rentals It was the 10th highest-grossing film of 1964. \"Time\" magazine's reviewer wrote, \"Huston and company put together a picture that excites the senses, persuades the mind, and even occasionally speaks to the spirit—one of the best movies ever made from a Tennessee Williams play.\" Bosley Crowther wrote, Since difficulty of communication between individuals seems to be one of the sadder of human misfortunes that Tennessee Williams is writing about in his play,", "title": "The Night of the Iguana (film)" }, { "docid": "16981539", "text": "of the dance movie genre.\" The film was a significant box office bomb grossing roughly $16 million and failed to recoup its budget of $20 million. Battle of the Year (film) Battle of the Year is a 2013 American 3D dance film directed by Benson Lee. The film was released on September 20, 2013 through Screen Gems and stars Josh Holloway, Chris Brown, Laz Alonso, Caity Lotz, and Josh Peck. \"Battle of the Year\" is based upon Lee's award-winning 2008 documentary \"Planet B-Boy\", about the b-boying competition of the same name. The feature film includes cinematography by Vasco Nunes, Lee's", "title": "Battle of the Year (film)" }, { "docid": "5717096", "text": "Films re-released the DVD in 2006. The Last Broadcast (film) The Last Broadcast is a 1998 American horror film made by Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler, who wrote, produced, directed and starred in it. Told in documentary format and based on found footage, the fictional film appears to tell the story of a man convicted in 1995 of murdering his team of people one night during an expedition to find the mythic Jersey Devil in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The film is one of the first feature-length films to be shot entirely on consumer-level digital video. The film deals", "title": "The Last Broadcast (film)" }, { "docid": "16116373", "text": "based on 30 reviews, and 46% on Metacritic (indicating \"mixed or average reviews\"). For example, David Lewis of the \"San Francisco Chronicle\" wrote that the film was \"one of the most self-indulgent, pretentious and unfunny movies of the year\", while Scott Tobias of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the film an \"A−\" rating, writing that \"few films have better articulated the limits of irony as a force field against the world\". At the 2012 Philadelphia Film Festival, Heidecker was awarded the festival's \"Best Actor\" prize. The film had a limited theatrical release, grossing $41,113 in four theaters over eight weeks. The", "title": "The Comedy (film)" }, { "docid": "482039", "text": "I which would supplant the Silver Screen Partnership series as their movie studios' primary source of funding. In 1991, hotels, home video distribution, and Disney merchandising became 28 percent of total company revenues with international revenues contributed 22 percent of revenues. The company committed its studios in the first quarter of 1991 to produce 25 films in 1992. However, 1991 saw net income drop by 23 percent and had no growth for the year, but saw the release of \"Beauty and the Beast\", winner of two Academy Awards and top-grossing film in the genre. Disney next moved into publishing with", "title": "The Walt Disney Company" }, { "docid": "7898961", "text": "the following week, the film grossed $1,752,234, a 30.2% overall decrease from the previous weekend. After eight weeks of release, \"The Commitments\" ended its theatrical run with an overall gross of $14,919,570. In North America, it was the 80th highest-grossing film of 1991 and the 42nd highest-grossing R-rated film of that year. In North America, \"The Commitments\" was released on VHS on 9 April 1992 by FoxVideo, Inc. To promote the release, FoxVideo distributed 90,000 videocassette copies of a \"making-of\" featurette to home video retailers. The featurette was made available to consumers as a free rental. FoxVideo spent an estimated", "title": "The Commitments (film)" }, { "docid": "20443233", "text": "been suggested that it can be challenging to document all of the full-length, feature films that have been produced in the Caribbean, because each country has its own filmmaking industry that is separate from the other countries' industries. \"The Sweetest Mango\" is a 2001 film that was the first full-length feature film made in Antigua and Barbuda. Cinema arrived in Cuba at the beginning of the 20th century. Before the Cuban Revolution of 1959, about 80 full-length films were produced in Cuba. Most of these films were melodramas. \"Blinded\" is a 2006 film that was the first full-length film entirely", "title": "Cinema of the Caribbean" }, { "docid": "829448", "text": "Review Award for Best Actor for his role as Rameses and his other roles in \"Anastasia\" and \"The King and I\". It is also one of the most financially successful films ever made, grossing approximately $122.7 million at the box office during its initial release; it was the most successful film of 1956 and the second-highest-grossing film of the decade. According to \"Guinness World Records\", in terms of theatrical exhibition it is the seventh most successful film of all-time when the box office gross is adjusted for inflation. In 1999, the film was selected for preservation in the United States", "title": "The Ten Commandments (1956 film)" }, { "docid": "8717125", "text": "use of the death of Shafer's friend as Shafer's catalyst for coming out to be self-serving. The \"San Francisco Chronicle\" was far harsher, deriding the film as a \"vanity\" production and complaining \"There's no shape to \"Man of the Year\", no forward movement. \"Man of the Year\" doesn't even have the benefit of being hip.\" \"The New York Times\", however, found the film \"gently satirical\" with the use of real clips from Shafer's various talk show appearances creating a \"tone of vertiginous loopiness.\" The \"Times\" also saw the metaphor in Shafer's experience to the pressure that society put on gay", "title": "Man of the Year (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "13227310", "text": "I Saw the Sun I Saw the Sun () is a 2009 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Mahsun Kırmızıgül, which tells of a Kurdish family who are forced from their village in southeastern Turkey by the conflict there. The film, which was released on , was one of the highest grossing Turkish films of 2009, prompting its re-release on . The film was Turkey's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film tells of a Kurdish family who head to İstanbul from their", "title": "I Saw the Sun" }, { "docid": "6401553", "text": "Chance\", the sequel of John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo's \"One More Chance\" earns PHP 556,000,000 worldwide surpassing Phenomenal Box-Office Star Vice Ganda's \"The Amazing Praybeyt Benjamin\". It is surpassed again by a Star Cinema, Viva Films-produced film \"Beauty and the Bestie\" still starred by the \"Phenomenal Box-Office Star\" Vice Ganda. The mid 2010s also saw broader commercial success of films produced by independent studios, with Antoinette Jadaone's Cinema One Originals Film Festival entry That Thing Called Tadhana achieving commercial success upon its commercial release in 2015, becoming the highest grossing independently produced Filipino film of all time in under", "title": "Cinema of the Philippines" }, { "docid": "15017039", "text": "entirely in Los Angeles. The film was the first theatrical Muppet production without the involvement of veteran Muppet performers Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson, although Nelson provides an uncredited vocal cameo. Instead, their characters are performed by Jacobson and Vogel, respectively, marking their theatrical feature film debut as those characters. \"The Muppets\" premiered at the Savannah Film Festival and was released theatrically in North America on November 23, 2011. The film was a critical and commercial success; grossing $165 million worldwide and garnering praise for its humor, screenplay, and music. The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song", "title": "The Muppets (film)" }, { "docid": "5717089", "text": "The Last Broadcast (film) The Last Broadcast is a 1998 American horror film made by Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler, who wrote, produced, directed and starred in it. Told in documentary format and based on found footage, the fictional film appears to tell the story of a man convicted in 1995 of murdering his team of people one night during an expedition to find the mythic Jersey Devil in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The film is one of the first feature-length films to be shot entirely on consumer-level digital video. The film deals with a documentary film-maker named David", "title": "The Last Broadcast (film)" }, { "docid": "8843765", "text": "they will also experience abnormal growth. The film premiered on in the United States. Scream Factory released the film for first time on Blu-ray Disc on as a double feature with \"Frogs\". The movie was AIP's most successful release of the year, causing them to make a series of films based on H.G. Wells novels. Roger Ebert of the \"Chicago Sun-Times\" gave the film one star out of four. Vincent Canby of \"The New York Times\" called the film \"a stunningly ridiculous mixture of science-fiction and horror-film clichés.\" Gene Siskel of the \"Chicago Tribune\" gave the film half of one", "title": "The Food of the Gods (film)" }, { "docid": "7907817", "text": "Cannes at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival and was shown among films such as \"Taxi Driver\" and \"Cría Cuervos\". It also won 3 prizes in Deutscher Filmpreis: Best Actress for Edith Clever, Best Actor for Bruno Ganz and Best Production Design. It was well received among critics and it was the director's first feature-length film that had a theatrical release for four years. Therefore, it was celebrated as his return to directing. The Marquise of O (film) The Marquise of O () is a 1976 film directed by Éric Rohmer. Set in 1799, it tells the story of the Marquise", "title": "The Marquise of O (film)" }, { "docid": "13389123", "text": "City on April 25. It was made available through video on demand on October 1, 2009. The film was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on October 30, 2009. The DVD and Blu-ray of the film were released on February 2, 2010. A promotional copy of the film was released on VHS in a clamshell box like the ones that many early VHS films of the 1980s came in. The soundtrack for \"The House of the Devil\" was released in November 2009 as a double feature with the score of \"I Can See You\", both by composer", "title": "The House of the Devil" }, { "docid": "8634010", "text": "\"The Sensation of Sight\" has been shown in festivals in Brazil, China, Lithuania, and Poland, and made its U.S. premiere at the Denver Film Festival, followed by festival showings throughout the U.S. In the summer of 2008, distributor Monterey Media gave the film a limited theatrical release, followed by a DVD release in the fall. The film was shot entirely in the town of Peterborough, New Hampshire. The film scored moderate reviews with Rotten Tomatoes rating it at 50% from 6 reviews. The Sensation of Sight The Sensation of Sight is a feature film produced by independent film company Either/Or", "title": "The Sensation of Sight" }, { "docid": "10022713", "text": "The Crab with the Golden Claws (film) The Crab with the Golden Claws () is a 1947 Belgian stop motion feature film produced by Wilfried Bouchery for Films Claude Misonne and based on the comic book of the same name from \"The Adventures of Tintin\" by Hergé. This was the first Tintin story to be adapted into a movie and follows the story of the comic almost exactly. There were only two theatrical screenings of the film; the first at the ABC Cinema on 11 January 1947 for a group of special invited guests, while the other one was shown", "title": "The Crab with the Golden Claws (film)" }, { "docid": "7586414", "text": "cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years: National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director The National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal). The award was instituted in 1989, at 37th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in", "title": "National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director" }, { "docid": "7586413", "text": "National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director The National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal). The award was instituted in 1989, at 37th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and", "title": "National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director" }, { "docid": "8717123", "text": "Man of the Year (1995 film) Man of the Year is a 1995 mockumentary film written, directed by and starring Dirk Shafer. It is a fictionalized account of Shafer's reign as \"Playgirl\" magazine's 1992 \"Man of the Year\" and his struggle with reconciling his public persona as a sex symbol to women with his identity as a gay man. Shafer combines mock interviews (both with some of the actual people involved and with actors standing in for the actual people) with archive footage from Shafer's appearances on talk shows like \"Donahue\", \"The Maury Povich Show\" and \"The Jerry Springer Show\"", "title": "Man of the Year (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "5644446", "text": "allow non-3-D-capable theaters to screen the film, Paramount completed a seven-week-long conversion process that cost $2 million, \"an amount equal to the picture’s entire negative cost.\" It was also the first film in the series to be presented in Dolby Stereo upon its theatrical release. The film grossed $9,406,522 its opening weekend and broke the horror opening record held by the original \"Friday the 13th\" (1980). Domestically, the film made a grand total of $36,690,067. It placed number 21 on the list of the top-grossing films of 1982, facing strong competition from other high-profile horror releases such as \"Poltergeist\", \"Creepshow\",", "title": "Friday the 13th Part III" }, { "docid": "2981206", "text": "in the \"Phineas and Ferb\" Halloween special \"Night of the Living Pharmacists\" in October 2014. Quentin Tarantino dubbed the film as one of his top twenty films made since 1992. In March 2011, the film was voted by BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra listeners as their second favourite film of all time. Frank Darabont's \"The Shawshank Redemption\" came in first place. The film was released on DVD shortly after its theatrical run in the US, with a DVD release around December 2004 in the US. Features included several audio commentaries, EPK featurettes about the film's production, pre-production video", "title": "Shaun of the Dead" }, { "docid": "10073842", "text": "on DVD on August 7, 2012. On October 29, 2010, a theatrical sequel, \"\", was released in Italy. Nickelodeon press release, April 2011 Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom (Italian: \"Winx Club - Il Segreto Del Regno Perduto\"), also known as \"Winx Club Il film\", is an Italian and British CGI animated feature film, based on the television series \"Winx Club\", taking place after the events of the first three seasons. The film had premiere on November 30, 2007 in Italian cinemas. Rainbow S.r.l. offered the film to the Cannes", "title": "Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom" }, { "docid": "12921795", "text": "which funded the 1995 English translation by Herbert Lomas. It was adapted twice into feature films: a 1977 Finnish film called \"The Year of the Hare\", and a 2006 French film directed by Marc Rivière called \"Le Lièvre de Vatanen\". The Year of the Hare (novel) The Year of the Hare () is a 1975 novel by Finnish author Arto Paasilinna. It tells the story of Kaarlo Vatanen, a frustrated journalist, who, after nearly killing a hare with his car, decides to live with the hare in the wilderness. The novel has been translated into 29 languages including English, Bulgarian,", "title": "The Year of the Hare (novel)" }, { "docid": "2460941", "text": "the source. All three films were shot over eight years simultaneously and entirely in Jackson's native New Zealand. One in every 160 New Zealanders was part of the production. Each film in the series also had special extended editions released on DVD a year after their respective theatrical releases. While the films follow the book's general storyline, they do omit some of the novel's plot elements and include some additions to and deviations from the source material. Set in the fictional world of Middle-earth, the films follow the hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) as he and the Fellowship embark on", "title": "The Lord of the Rings (film series)" }, { "docid": "9545651", "text": "near Vancouver, using three train cars constructed specifically for the film. \"The Hunted\" was released on February 24, 1995. The film took in $2.7 million on its opening weekend, ultimately grossing $6,609,661 in the United States (approx. $ million in dollars). It was rated R in the USA, and received an 18 certificate in the UK. The film was released on VHS the same year by MCA-Universal Home Video, and on DVD in 1998 by Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The DVD bonus content included production notes, short biographies of Lambert, Lone, Chen and Lawton, and the theatrical trailer. \"Filmsondisc.com\" gave", "title": "The Hunted (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "4506825", "text": "was the French film \"Les Amours de la reine Elisabeth\" in America in 1912, a 53-minute motion picture which starred the legendary stage actress Sarah Bernhardt. Films shown in roadshow format before 1951 included silent epics such as and other films, such as Other notable roadshows include British films that were shown as roadshow attractions included In a roadshow release, an often large-scale epic film would open in larger cities in an engagement much like a theatrical play or musical, often with components such as an overture, the first act, the intermission, the entr'acte, the second act, and the exit", "title": "Roadshow theatrical release" }, { "docid": "10567716", "text": "depicts the events of the day in 1588 when King Henry III (played by co-director le Bargy) summoned his powerful rival, Duke Henri de Guise, to his chambers at the Château de Blois and had him brutally murdered. The film has its share of lurid thrills and better acting than most films of the time. It is staged in a somewhat theatrical manner but has slow pacing throughout the film. \"The Assassination\" was one of the first and most successful films to be made by , a production company founded in 1907 with the intention of making films that would", "title": "The Assassination of the Duke of Guise" }, { "docid": "6523088", "text": "that it would distribute the film within North America, with a theatrical release scheduled for July 2018. The film grossed in global box office revenue, but this fell short of the film's budget, thus failing to recoup production costs. However, the film drew a cult following on home video, with the film grossing approximately in total box office and home video sales revenue. In Japan, the film was released on VHS on April 26, 1996. The DVD version was released on February 25, 2004 as a Special Edition release. For the 2004 Special Edition release, the film was fully restored", "title": "Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "9702572", "text": "Ray Smith; Walt Disney Feature Animation Chief Scientist Lance Joseph Williams; DreamWorks animator Hank Grebe; Computer Media Artist Rebecca Allen and Netscape and Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark. Researchers at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab created the tools that made entirely 3D CGI films possible. NYIT CG Lab was regarded as the top computer animation research and development group in the world during the late 70s and early 80s. But computer graphics were not NYIT's only successes in the entertainment industry. The invention of the digital noise reducer by William E. Glenn, Ph.D., earned the college", "title": "History of the New York Institute of Technology" }, { "docid": "2475910", "text": "of NIMH,\" and \"The Shawshank Redemption\", which may have performed poorly in their theatrical run, were now able to find success in the video market. It also saw the first generation of filmmakers with access to videotapes emerge. Directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson had been able to view thousands of films and produced films with vast numbers of references and connections to previous works. Tarantino has had a number of collaborations with director Robert Rodriguez. Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film \"El Mariachi\", which was a commercial success after grossing $2 million against a budget of", "title": "Cinema of the United States" }, { "docid": "4766193", "text": "the box office charts, grossing $4,039,079 in 982 theaters on its opening weekend of August 16, 1985. It opened to decent business in major American cities including Washington, D.C., Detroit, and Pittsburgh, but the draw soon dropped, which was perceived to be the result of protest against it from Asian American groups (see below). \"Year of the Dragon\" was a box office flop, costing $24 million but grossing only $18 million through its run. \"Year of the Dragon\" received polarized reviews upon its release in 1985. Vincent Canby wrote for \"The New York Times\": \"\"Year of the Dragon\" is light", "title": "Year of the Dragon (film)" }, { "docid": "6523093", "text": "1995. A spin-off novel written by Endo Akira, titled , was published by Kodansha and released on November 1995. It was followed by a sequel, titled , released on January 1998. A book titled \"Analysis of Ghost in the Shell\" was released on September 25, 1997, by Kodansha. An updated version of the original film, titled , was made in celebration for the release of \"The Sky Crawlers\" in 2008. The \"Ghost in the Shell 2.0\" release features replacements of some animations with the latest digital film and animation technologies, such as 3D-CGI while retaining sections of the original footage.", "title": "Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "7407820", "text": "its first week of limited release, an average of $34,404 per theatre. More theatres were added on the following weekend, and it grossed a further $61,529 in its second weekend, with an overall gross of $937,946. On its third weekend, the film entered wide release, grossing $11,023,650 and securing the number one position at the North American box office. The film fell 27.2% the following week, grossing an additional $8,028,075 while remaining first in the top-ten rankings. On its fifth weekend, it earned an additional $6,228,360 for an overall gross of $32,607,294. The film grossed $4,640,940 in its sixth weekend,", "title": "Born on the Fourth of July (film)" }, { "docid": "6523069", "text": "self-identity in a technologically advanced world. The music, composed by Kenji Kawai, includes an ancient Japanese language. Widely considered one of the greatest anime films of all time, critics particularly praised the film's visuals, achieved through a combination of traditional cel animation and CGI animation. The film, which had a budget over , was initially a box office failure, before drawing a cult following on home video, and eventually grossing approximately in total box office and home video sales revenue. It inspired filmmakers such as the Wachowskis, creators of the \"Matrix\" films, and James Cameron. In 2004, Oshii directed \",\"", "title": "Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "18614787", "text": "“meet the filmmakers” roundtable. The fourth annual 100 Words Film Festival featured 30 short films on Nov. 3-4 at the McGlohon Theater. The first night screened a collection of 14 of the best films from the previous three festivals. The \"best of\" collection had recently completed a national theatrical tour—a first in the history of the festival. The second night premiered 16 entirely new short films. Winning entries: This year was the first to feature a VIP party hosted at the Google Fiber space in Uptown Charlotte. The fifth annual 100 Words Film Festival took place at the Hot Docs", "title": "100 Words Film Festival" }, { "docid": "10087546", "text": "weekend opening in first place with $17,502,077. The film's revenue dropped by 52% in its second week of release, earning $2,191,810. For that particular weekend, the film fell to 12th place screening in 2,810 theaters but not challenging a top ten position. The film \"Max Payne\", unseated \"Beverly Hills Chihuahua\" to open in first place grossing $17,639,849 in box office revenue. During its final week in release, \"The Express\" opened in 31st place grossing $151,225 in business. The film went on to top out domestically at $9,793,406 in total ticket sales through a 4-week theatrical run. Internationally, the film took", "title": "The Express" }, { "docid": "15388731", "text": "sets and a limited edition BD/DVD combo pack on July 15, 2014. A visual novel adaptation developed by Guyzware for the PlayStation Portable was published by 5pb. on August 30, 2012. A live-action Japanese television drama adaptation premiered on Fuji TV on September 21, 2015. In a quarterly financial report, Fuji Media Holdings singles out \"Anohana\" as one of their top anime properties, calling it a \"big hit\" and announcing that the first DVD volume sold 56,000 copies. The film grossed US$10.2 million and was the 14th highest-grossing anime film in Japan in 2013. Anohana: The Flower We Saw That", "title": "Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day" }, { "docid": "7898933", "text": "1990 to October of that year. Upon release, \"The Commitments\" grossed $14.9 million during its North American theatrical run. Reviewers praised the music, performances and humour, while criticism was aimed at the pacing and direction. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing, and won four BAFTA Awards for Best Film, Best Direction, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing. While only a modest success with North American audiences, \"The Commitments\" has gained cult status and is regarded as one of the best Irish films ever made. It is the first in a series of films known as", "title": "The Commitments (film)" }, { "docid": "6562436", "text": "man, who watches them with disgust. He then enters his home to eat one of his wife's homemade pies, who used the apples that he placed the razor blades in. The blades slice through his throat and his wife approaches his dead body to kiss his head, saying \"Happy Halloween, dear.\" The film was picked up for theatrical release by Paragon Arts International. Rather than a nationwide release, it was released regionally; the film debuted in the Detroit market on September 9, 1988 and went throughout the country until June 1989, grossing a total of $3,109,904. Republic Pictures purchased the", "title": "Night of the Demons (1988 film)" }, { "docid": "5367525", "text": "to be the most expensive film ever made. Epic films continue to be produced, although since the development of CGI they typically use computer effects instead of an actual cast of thousands. Since the 1950s, such films have regularly been shot with a wide aspect ratio for a more immersive and panoramic theatrical experience. Epic films were recognized in a montage at the 2006 Academy Awards. The enduring popularity of the epic is often accredited to their ability to appeal to a wide audience. Many of the highest-grossing films of all-time have been epics. The 1997 film \"Titanic\", which is", "title": "Epic film" }, { "docid": "16590025", "text": "cuts made to the film's sex scenes and several on-location establishing shots, while the French version, \"Perversion Story\", features a 97-minute runtime due to the removal of expositive scenes while retaining the sex scenes. The French version, with English and Italian audio, was released on DVD by Severin Films in a two-disc set also containing a CD of the film's soundtrack. On January 2, 2018, Mondo Macabro announced that they would release the film in its \"longest, most complete form\" on Blu-ray during the year. The distributor released their limited edition Blu-ray, consisting of a print run of 1000 copies,", "title": "One on Top of the Other" }, { "docid": "9532872", "text": "startup boutiques, the market was overcrowded causing box office strain at the same time movie production costs doubled to $10 million with marketing matching that level. Another factor was that as a boutique, CBS Theatrical Films did not have a distribution system, so had to release its films through major studios, which sometimes resulted in disadvantageous release dates. CBS announced CBS Theatrical Films's closure in November 1985. \"The Challenge\" and their final production \"The Lightship\" were released through Embassy Pictures and Castle Hill Productions respectively. Today most of the movies made by the company are distributed by Paramount Pictures on", "title": "CBS Theatrical Films" }, { "docid": "12924498", "text": "In 1996, Amblin Entertainment and Universal Cartoon Studios created a new \"Casper\" series for Fox Kids, based on the 1995 feature, that lasted two years and was never seen on television again after 1998. Two live-action direct-to-video follow-ups to the film, \"\" and \"Casper Meets Wendy\" (which introduced Hilary Duff as fellow Harvey Comics character Wendy the Good Little Witch), were made. They were followed by \"Casper's Haunted Christmas\" (starring Spooky and Poil from the comics and animated spin-off of the first movie), and \"Casper's Scare School\", which were done entirely in CGI with no live-action elements. These films are", "title": "Casper the Friendly Ghost" }, { "docid": "10664409", "text": "release. In early 2009 the filmmakers announced that the film had been slated for release by New Yorker Films but was indefinitely delayed due to the bankruptcy of the distributor. In October 2010 the filmmakers made a 2-disc DVD and 2-disc blu ray available on Amazon. The sets include the theatrical release, a 3-hour length staged version of the play, a \"making of\" featurette, and a feature-length commentary with Burt Reynolds, Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller, and Dom Deluise. After its release, \"The Life of Reilly\" garnered a \"100% Fresh\" rating from critics at Rotten Tomatoes and was listed as the", "title": "The Life of Reilly" }, { "docid": "4595073", "text": "the beginning of the series. The first attempt was in 1993, when Nickelodeon made a two-year contract deal with 20th Century Fox to make films based on their properties, one of those films that mentioned was \"Rugrats\", alongside that the others were \"Doug\" and \"The Ren & Stimpy Show\", but the contract expired in 1995, with no movies produced (although \"Doug\" eventually got a theatrical film from Disney in March 1999). However, after Viacom acquired Paramount Pictures in 1994, the movie was once again under development a year later. Two months before the release of the movie, an episode prequel", "title": "The Rugrats Movie" }, { "docid": "4734953", "text": "Paramount: Scenes are shown that were shot for the following films: The House That Shadows Built The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a feature compilation film from Paramount Pictures, made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. The film was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release. The film includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, \"The House That Shadows Built\" (1928), by William", "title": "The House That Shadows Built" }, { "docid": "6946608", "text": "television spots. The film was panned by critics, and has a rating of 14% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 14 reviews. The film did moderately well at the box office, grossing about $40 million domestically. The film was released in the United Kingdom on June 9, 1995. Man of the House (1995 film) Man of the House is a 1995 American comedy film starring Chevy Chase, Farrah Fawcett and Jonathan Taylor Thomas. The film is about a boy (Thomas) who must come to terms with his potential stepfather (Chase), a well meaning lawyer who is unknowingly the subject of a", "title": "Man of the House (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "18266064", "text": "Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1913 film) Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a 1913 American silent drama film based upon the Thomas Hardy novel of the same name and was one of the first feature films made. It was directed by J. Searle Dawley, released by Famous Players Film Company and stars Mrs. Fiske, reprising her famous role from the 1897 play. An Adolph Zukor feature production after securing the services of top American actress Mrs. Fiske. A fragment of this film is said to exist. Like many American films of the time, \"Tess of the d'Urbervilles\" was subject to city", "title": "Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1913 film)" }, { "docid": "14835773", "text": "third place behind \"The Muppets\" and \"Hop\". The following week, the film sold an additional 144,000 copies generating $2.59 million in gross revenue. , 1,478,230 units had been sold, grossing $22,195,069. Fincher's film grossed $232.6 million during its theatrical run. The film's American release grossed $1.6 million from its Tuesday night screenings, a figure that increased to $3.5 million by the end of its first day of general release. It maintained momentum into its opening weekend, accumulating $13 million for a total of $21 million in domestic revenue. The film's debut figures fell below media expectations. Aided by positive word", "title": "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)" }, { "docid": "12416769", "text": "he has received a mail bomb. Ziegenhals meanwhile befriends Kolczyk's daughter Ginny (Kristina Nel) and makes her his lover. Although this forces the both to have to pretend in public that they are friends, the final disaster cannot be averted. \"One or the Other of Us\" was Petersen's first theatrical feature film. Petersen had already directed several high-profile films for television, including four episodes for the \"Tatort\" television series. Klaus Schwarzkopf and Jürgen Prochnow had already played in some of Petersen's \"Tatort\" productions. The script was based on the novel of the same name written by Horst Bosetzky, a professor", "title": "One or the Other of Us" }, { "docid": "15234460", "text": "biggest non-starcast opener ever in Bollywood. The movie surpassed trade expectations and caused profit to both makers and distributors in the first week itself. It remained the highest grossing non-starcast film in Bollywood until its record was broken by \"Aashiqui 2\". \"Student of the Year\" had a good opening at multiplexes while little lower at single screens due to limited release where it had collected on its opening day. The film showed good growth on its second day and collected nett. \"Student of the Year\" collected a good figure of around at the end of its first weekend. It did", "title": "Student of the Year" }, { "docid": "13214665", "text": "a visual effects progression reel, and a digital copy. 20th Century Fox, have announced that the 3D Blu-ray will be released in the US on August 30, 2011. Walden Media President Micheal Flaherty stated in an interview that 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment are developing a collector's edition box-set DVD and Blu-ray containing the first three films. The film grossed $415,686,217 worldwide, including $104,386,950 in North America as well as $311,299,267 in other territories. It is the 12th-highest-grossing film worldwide of 2010, as well as Fox's highest-grossing film of that year since, ahead of", "title": "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" }, { "docid": "11822787", "text": "fact that the film was released within the eligibility period for the 82nd Academy Awards, it wasn't among the films considered because the Swedish Film Institute doesn't allow a film to be considered twice. After the release of \"Let the Right One In\" took place, \"Cloverfield\" director Matt Reeves signed on to write and direct an English-language version for Overture Films and Hammer Films. Hammer Films acquired the rights at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, where \"Let the Right One In\" won the \"Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature\", and Overture films planned to release the film in 2010. Alfredson", "title": "Let the Right One In (film)" }, { "docid": "9966599", "text": "theatrical release on May 11, 2012. 2012 is the year that GMA Films has produced eight films in a year, the most it has ever done since its very start. This was part of GMA Films' resolution to produce one film per month. Even though that did not happen, they managed to produce eight films. After producing the highest output in 2012 with 8 films, GMA Films went downhill, producing only 2 feature films in 2013, \"Dance of the Steelbars\" and \"My Lady Boss\". Both films performed below box-office expectations despite a star-studded cast. In 2014, the film outfit distributed", "title": "GMA Films" }, { "docid": "1294662", "text": "of June 2013, Sentai Filmworks have licensed the \"Gatchaman\" franchise. An oft-delayed CGI film based on the franchise, \"Gatchaman\", last slated for a 2011 release from Warner Bros., was officially canceled in June 2011. However, a live-action \"Gatchaman\" feature film was released in Japan in August 2013. In April 1977 Sandy Frank attended the MIP-TV conference in Cannes. It was here Frank first encountered the Japanese animation ‘’Gatchaman’’ from producer Tatsunoko Production run by the Yoshida brothers. Frank committed to release the series in the U.S. after he saw the success of Star Wars in May 1977. \"Battle of the", "title": "Battle of the Planets" }, { "docid": "18235724", "text": "million. On Wednesday, April 19—its twelfth day of release—it surpassed \"Furious 7\" to become the highest-grossing Hollywood/foreign release of all time there. By the end of its theatrical run, the film made an estimated $38.8 million with half of its revenue—58%—coming from local dubbed versions, compared to \"\", which saw 45% of its revenue from dubbed versions. In China, where the film was locally known as \"Fantasy Forest\", expectations were high, with projections going as high $154–200 million or more. Ultimately, it was unable to hit these marks. Before the release of the film in the state, Disney had a", "title": "The Jungle Book (2016 film)" }, { "docid": "1489848", "text": "The film earned $377,845,905 in the United States and Canada and $742,083,616 in other countries for a worldwide total of $1,119,929,521. Worldwide, it is the 20th highest-grossing film of all time when not adjusted for inflation, the highest-grossing film of 2003, the second highest-grossing film of the 2000s, and the highest-grossing instalment in \"The Lord of the Rings\" trilogy. It was the second film in history to earn over $1 billion, making it the second highest-grossing film at the time. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film had sold over 61 million tickets in the US in its initial theatrical", "title": "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" }, { "docid": "9566340", "text": "Top Dog (1995 film) Top Dog is a 1995 buddy cop action comedy film directed by Aaron Norris and starring Chuck Norris. Written by Aaron Norris and Tim Grayem, it was Norris' last film to release theatrically before he shifted to direct-to-video films for several years. In the film, Norris' character, Jake Wilder, is partnered with Reno, a police dog, whose handler was killed. Jake and Reno investigate a plot by domestic terrorists to attack a conference on unity. Jake and Reno survive assassination attempts and several hand-to-hand fights with the terrorists and eventually discover enough clues to foil the", "title": "Top Dog (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "6222761", "text": "Hollywood mind-think: good guys vs. bad guys. It was a decision that makes for an uneasy blend of target marketing vs. reality, since the result was a movie that at least one reviewer, Michael Medved, thought was \"too intense for children.\" As \"Biały smok\" (\"White Dragon\"), it was the second highest grossing theatrical feature in Poland when it was released in 1987. It was renamed \"Legend of the white horse\" by CBS in the U.S., but the CBS Theatrical Films division was closed down in late 1986 and the feature languished in tax write-off obscurity until it was released to", "title": "Legend of the White Horse" }, { "docid": "3625206", "text": "is the first film in the series to receive an MPAA rating for its theatrical release. Romero had said for years that he would film two versions; an \"R\" rated cut for theatrical release and first DVD, and an unrated cut for the second DVD release. Both DVDs were released in the U.S. on October 18, 2005. Rumors suggested that Romero shot alternate, less explicit, gore scenes for the theatrical release, but this is not entirely accurate. The more extreme instances of gore (e.g. a woman having her navel piercing graphically torn out by a zombie) were obscured by foreground", "title": "Land of the Dead" }, { "docid": "525075", "text": "initial theatrical run. When box office prices are adjusted for inflation, it remains one of the top 100 grossing films in U.S. history. Among films released before 1950, only \"Gone With the Wind\", \"The Bells of St. Mary's\", \"The Big Parade\" and four Disney titles have done more total business, in part due to later re-releases. (Reliable box office figures for certain early films such as \"The Birth of a Nation\" and Charlie Chaplin's comedies are unavailable.) However, because of the distribution arrangement RKO had with Goldwyn, RKO recorded a loss of $660,000 on the film. 1947 Academy Awards \"The", "title": "The Best Years of Our Lives" }, { "docid": "11454242", "text": "Film Festival in April 2008 where it won the award for \"\"Best Family Film\"\". It saw a limited theatrical release in the United States on August 22, 2008, and saw a DVD release on October 7, 2008. \"The Adventures of Food Boy\" takes a different approach to the superhero genre. The story centers around a teenage boy who discovers he has the superpower to generate food out of his hands. Ezra Chase (Lucas Grabeel) is a top high school student who is determined to make his life extraordinary. He is usually challenged into eating disgusting things and manages to eat", "title": "The Adventures of Food Boy" } ]
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The brother of which U.S. president was the commercial spokesman for Billy Beer?
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[ { "docid": "1950239", "text": "elective office. In the 1970s Billy Carter was the official spokesperson for Peanut Lolita liqueur while his brother, Jimmy Carter held presidential office. In 1977, he endorsed Billy Beer, introduced by the Falls City Brewing Company, who wished to capitalize upon his colorful image as a beer-drinking Southern good ol' boy that developed in the press when his brother ran for President. Carter's name was occasionally used as a gag answer for a Washington, D.C., trouble-maker on 1970s episodes of \"Match Game\". He was known for his outlandish public behavior; he once urinated on an airport runway in full view", "title": "Billy Carter" }, { "docid": "1950242", "text": "died of pancreatic cancer when she was in her 50s. In 1999, Carter's son William \"Buddy\" Carter IV published a biography of his father titled \"Billy Carter: A Journey Through the Shadows\" (). Billy Carter William Alton Carter (March 29, 1937 – September 25, 1988) was an American farmer, businessman, brewer, and politician, and the younger brother of U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Carter promoted Billy Beer and was a candidate for mayor of Plains, Georgia. Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, to James Earl Carter Sr. and Lillian Gordy Carter. He was named after his paternal grandfather and great-grandfather, William", "title": "Billy Carter" }, { "docid": "1950237", "text": "Billy Carter William Alton Carter (March 29, 1937 – September 25, 1988) was an American farmer, businessman, brewer, and politician, and the younger brother of U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Carter promoted Billy Beer and was a candidate for mayor of Plains, Georgia. Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, to James Earl Carter Sr. and Lillian Gordy Carter. He was named after his paternal grandfather and great-grandfather, William Carter Sr. and William Archibald Carter Jr. respectively. He attended Emory University in Atlanta but did not complete a degree. He served four years in the United States Marine Corps, then returned to", "title": "Billy Carter" } ]
[ { "docid": "1950200", "text": "Billy Beer Billy Beer was a beer first made in the United States in July 1977, by the Falls City Brewing Company. It was promoted by Billy Carter, whose older brother Jimmy was the incumbent President of the United States. In October 1978, Falls City announced that it was closing its doors after less than a year of Carter's promotion. The beer was produced by Cold Spring Brewing, West End Brewing, and Pearl Brewing Company. Written on each can were these words of endorsement, which were followed by Billy Carter's signature: \"Brewed expressly for and with the personal approval of", "title": "Billy Beer" }, { "docid": "1950202", "text": "to one dollar in 1981. Billy Beer Billy Beer was a beer first made in the United States in July 1977, by the Falls City Brewing Company. It was promoted by Billy Carter, whose older brother Jimmy was the incumbent President of the United States. In October 1978, Falls City announced that it was closing its doors after less than a year of Carter's promotion. The beer was produced by Cold Spring Brewing, West End Brewing, and Pearl Brewing Company. Written on each can were these words of endorsement, which were followed by Billy Carter's signature: \"Brewed expressly for and", "title": "Billy Beer" }, { "docid": "1950201", "text": "one of AMERICA's all-time Great Beer Drinkers—Billy Carter\". \"I had this beer brewed up just for me. I think it's the best I ever tasted. And I've tasted a lot. I think you'll like it, too.\" Despite Carter's promotion of Billy Beer, \"in private he drank Pabst\". After Billy Beer ceased production in 1978, advertisements appeared in newspapers offering to sell Billy Beer cans for several hundred to several thousands of dollars each, attempting to profit from their perceived rarity. However, since the cans were actually produced in the millions, the real value of a can ranged from 50 cents", "title": "Billy Beer" }, { "docid": "14867330", "text": "Spokesman of the Presidency (Brazil) The Spokesman of the Presidency (), or the Press Office, is responsible for gathering and disseminating information regarding the Presidency to the media. The Press Office is part of the Secretariat of Social Communications, which is a subunit of the Executive Office of Brazil. The current spokesman, Alexandre Parola, was appointed by President Michel Temer on September 28, 2016. The Press Office is responsible for providing support and information to the national and international media regarding the President's beliefs, activities and actions. It works alongside the Secretariat of Social Communications in crafting and espousing the", "title": "Spokesman of the Presidency (Brazil)" }, { "docid": "14867331", "text": "administration's message. It coordinates accreditation, access and flow of media professionals to the events that have the participation of President. It also articulates with other government agencies' press offices, the dissemination of programs, policies, acts, events, ceremonies and trips in which the President participates and provides journalistic and administrative support to the Palácio do Planalto press unit. Spokesman of the Presidency (Brazil) The Spokesman of the Presidency (), or the Press Office, is responsible for gathering and disseminating information regarding the Presidency to the media. The Press Office is part of the Secretariat of Social Communications, which is a subunit", "title": "Spokesman of the Presidency (Brazil)" }, { "docid": "10725440", "text": "Billy Beer (footballer) William John Beer (4 January 1879 – March 1941) was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half for Sheffield United and Small Heath (renamed Birmingham in 1905). He made over 100 appearances for Sheffield United and scored the third goal in their 4–1 defeat of Derby County in the 1899 FA Cup Final. Beer moved to Small Heath in January 1902 and the following season helped them to promotion back to the First Division. Later in his Birmingham career he played some games at centre-forward, which combined with his prowess at penalty-taking made him", "title": "Billy Beer (footballer)" }, { "docid": "5742140", "text": "the \"Chronicle\" on a course to be independent and \"The Spokesman-Review\" to support Republican Party causes. \"Time\" magazine related the papers' success gaining lowered rates for freight carried to the Northwest and an improved park system and that helped the region. Increasing its reputation for comprehensive local news and by opposing \"gambling, liquor and prostitution,\" \"The Spokesman-Review\" gained popularity. The paper's opposition to building the Grand Coulee Dam was not quite so universally applauded, and when it opposed the New Deal and the Fair Deal, it so disturbed President of the United States Harry Truman that he declared the Spokesman-Review", "title": "The Spokesman-Review" }, { "docid": "481533", "text": "orange juice is used. In Brazil, it is called \"Submarino\", Portuguese for \"Submarine\". In the south, where it is more easily found, it is common practice to use steinhäger instead of vodka. U-Boot (beer cocktail) A U-Boot is a beer cocktail that is made by dropping a shot glass of vodka into a glass of beer. It is popular in Germany, Poland, Macedonia, and Flanders. In Germany, the liquor korn is sometimes used instead, while in Flanders and the Netherlands, \"jonge jenever\" is preferred. It is called a U-Boot (German abbreviation of \"Unterseeboot\", \"submarine\") because the shot glass of vodka", "title": "U-Boot (beer cocktail)" }, { "docid": "15509382", "text": "a façade and was front to back. The building provided office space for the newspaper staff as well as housing the print shop. In 1942, Mary Brown was elected president of the Oregon Press Conference while her husband was serving in the United States Navy. In 1955, she became sole owner of \"The Spokesman\". She continued to run the business until 1971. In June 1971, Mary Brown sold \"The Spokesman\" to Western Communications, Inc. The first publisher after Western Communications took ownership of the paper was Robert Moody. He stayed until 1975, when Carl Vertrees became publisher. Vertrees ran the", "title": "The Redmond Spokesman" }, { "docid": "481531", "text": "U-Boot (beer cocktail) A U-Boot is a beer cocktail that is made by dropping a shot glass of vodka into a glass of beer. It is popular in Germany, Poland, Macedonia, and Flanders. In Germany, the liquor korn is sometimes used instead, while in Flanders and the Netherlands, \"jonge jenever\" is preferred. It is called a U-Boot (German abbreviation of \"Unterseeboot\", \"submarine\") because the shot glass of vodka sinks to the bottom of the glass of beer. The shot glass then \"surfaces\" when the cocktail is drunk. In Flanders and the Netherlands, it is called a \"Duikboot\", literally translated \"Submarine\".", "title": "U-Boot (beer cocktail)" }, { "docid": "15509377", "text": "journalist. In September 1911, the Palmers announced that \"The Spokesman\" had acquired a new press and paper cutter to improve newspaper printing and production. A typesetting machine was soon added. In January 1912, a new 1,200-pound linotype machine was installed to further improve the operation. However, on 26 February 1912 a fire started in a neighboring hardware store. It spread to adjacent buildings, burning down a grocery store, a bakery, a furniture store, and \"The Spokesman\"s office. Despite the fact that the loss exceeded their insurance coverage by $4,000, the Palmers were able to keep the newspaper going by using", "title": "The Redmond Spokesman" }, { "docid": "15509384", "text": "a prioritization of funds for other financial obligations. Today, \"The Spokesman\" remains part of Western Communication's family of publications, which includes five other Oregon newspapers and two California papers. Western Communications was founded by publisher Robert W. Chandler. It is headquartered in Bend, Oregon, 20 miles south of Redmond. In addition to \"The Spokesman\", Western Communications publications include: The Redmond Spokesman The Redmond Spokesman is a weekly newspaper published in Redmond, Oregon, United States. It serves the city of Redmond and neighboring communities in northern Deschutes County, focusing on local news and events. It has a circulation of about 4,300.", "title": "The Redmond Spokesman" }, { "docid": "12028586", "text": "David Mallet as director of the video Produced by Keith Forsey except: The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself is a greatest hits compilation album, spanning the recording career of British punk rock vocalist Billy Idol. It was released in the U. S. on 24 June 2008. It features 16 of Idol's past hits, as well as two new tracks, \"John Wayne\" and \"New Future Weapon\". An additional new track, \"Fractured\", is available exclusively through download retailers. A CD/DVD set which includes 13 Billy Idol music videos was also released. The", "title": "The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself" }, { "docid": "12028585", "text": "The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself is a greatest hits compilation album, spanning the recording career of British punk rock vocalist Billy Idol. It was released in the U. S. on 24 June 2008. It features 16 of Idol's past hits, as well as two new tracks, \"John Wayne\" and \"New Future Weapon\". An additional new track, \"Fractured\", is available exclusively through download retailers. A CD/DVD set which includes 13 Billy Idol music videos was also released. The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA. <nowiki>*</nowiki> CD/DVD booklet miscredits", "title": "The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself" }, { "docid": "10725441", "text": "the club's joint leading scorer in the 1908–09 season. He retired from football at the end of the next season, and emigrated to Australia where he became a sheep-farmer. Returning to England in 1920, he became Birmingham's manager in 1923, taking charge of the team for four years in the First Division. He was also a talented musician. \"Sheffield United\"' Small Heath Billy Beer (footballer) William John Beer (4 January 1879 – March 1941) was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half for Sheffield United and Small Heath (renamed Birmingham in 1905). He made over 100 appearances", "title": "Billy Beer (footballer)" }, { "docid": "15509378", "text": "the presses at Redmond's other newspaper, \"The Oregon Hub\" and at \"The Bulletin\" in nearby Bend to print \"The Spokesman\" while new equipment was ordered. After several months in temporary quarters, the paper moved into a new stone building on the old office site. When new equipment, including another modern linotype machine, was installed, the Palmers began printing \"The Spokesman\" in their own production facility again. The sign atop the new office building announcing the home of \"The Redmond Spokesman\" was high and long. \"The Spokesman\" was Redmond's second paper. Its competition was \"The Oregon Hub\", which was founded in", "title": "The Redmond Spokesman" }, { "docid": "8540455", "text": "Billy S. \"Billy S.\" is a song recorded by Canadian musician Skye Sweetnam. It was released as her debut major label single in 2003, and was the first single from her album, \"Noise From the Basement\". The song was also featured on the soundtrack to the movie \"How to Deal\". The song's title, \"Billy S.\" stands for \"Billy Shakespeare\", a reference to William Shakespeare, whom Skye refers to throughout the song. Sweetnam thought that the title \"Billy Shakespeare\" was too long, and decided to shorten it. The music video for \"Billy S.\", filmed in Southern California, features Skye Sweetnam recording", "title": "Billy S." }, { "docid": "16057142", "text": "tapestry and Faberge egg replicas and Jayawickrama mainly in copper and wood being well known for portraits in this medium. Well known subjects to have portraits commissioned included Chandrika Kumaratunga President of Sri Lanka and G. L. Peiris. He is the brother of Nihal Jayawickrama U. S. Jayawickrama Upendra Srinath Jayawickrama (FRCP), is a Sri Lankan physician (endocrinologist) and an artist. He was the founder of the Diabetes Association of Sri Lanka and a professor of pharmacology at the North Colombo Medical College. Upendra Srinath Jayawickrama was the eldest of three siblings born into a family of lawyers on 29", "title": "U. S. Jayawickrama" }, { "docid": "15509383", "text": "paper for 26 years, winning the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association’s Carl C. Webb award for long-term public service in 1992. When Vertrees retired in February 2001, Gary Husman moved from general manager to publisher. In 2010, Husman was elected president of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. In November 2012 Western Communications laid off a significant portion of the \"Redmond Spokesman\" staff and announced they would no longer be reporting \"hard news\" for the Redmond community. It was reported in 2017 that Western Communications had recently experienced difficulty paying employees on their regularly scheduled paydays. This was positioned by management as", "title": "The Redmond Spokesman" }, { "docid": "15716154", "text": "le Carré, Trevor Griffiths, Stuart Holland and Kurt Vonnegut. The Spokesman The Spokesman is a British left-wing magazine. The magazine was founded in 1970 by the Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell, and was edited for 40 years by the British left-wing MEP Ken Coates, who died in 2010. After Coates' death, \"The Independent\" wrote that the journal was \"still flourishing\". The current editor is Tony Simpson. It is published by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, and features independent journalism on peace and nuclear disarmament, human rights and civil liberties, and contemporary politics. Contributors have included leading Western writers, journalists and intellectuals", "title": "The Spokesman" }, { "docid": "15716153", "text": "The Spokesman The Spokesman is a British left-wing magazine. The magazine was founded in 1970 by the Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell, and was edited for 40 years by the British left-wing MEP Ken Coates, who died in 2010. After Coates' death, \"The Independent\" wrote that the journal was \"still flourishing\". The current editor is Tony Simpson. It is published by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, and features independent journalism on peace and nuclear disarmament, human rights and civil liberties, and contemporary politics. Contributors have included leading Western writers, journalists and intellectuals such as Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, John", "title": "The Spokesman" }, { "docid": "481532", "text": "It is seen as a variant on the \"kopstoot\" (lit. \"headbutt\") in the Netherlands. The \"kopstoot\" is a shot of jenever followed by a beer as a chaser. In Macedonia it is called \"Подморница\" - \"Podmornica\", literally translated \"Submarine\". In southern Germany, U-Boot is usually served as a combination of Fanta and cognac instead of beer and vodka. In Mexico, it is called \"Submarino\", Spanish for \"Submarine\". Instead of vodka, it uses tequila, and the shot glass must be left inverted inside the beer glass. In Russia, it is called \"Водолаз\" - \"Vodolaz\", literally translated \"Diver\". In Sorbia, vodka and", "title": "U-Boot (beer cocktail)" }, { "docid": "5742138", "text": "The Spokesman-Review The Spokesman-Review is a daily broadsheet newspaper in the northwest United States, based in Spokane, Washington; it is the city's only daily publication. It has the third highest readership among daily newspapers in the state, with most of its readership base in Eastern Washington. \"The Spokesman-Review\" was formed from the merger of the \"Spokane Falls Review\" (1883–1894) and the \"Spokesman\" (1890–1893) in 1893 and first published under the present name on June 29, 1894. It later absorbed its competing sister publication, the Spokane Chronicle, the afternoon paper whose final edition was in 1992 on Friday, Long co-owned, the", "title": "The Spokesman-Review" }, { "docid": "8540456", "text": "herself singing into a hand held camera. The video then goes on to show Sweetnam editing the video on a computer. The video also features scenes from the movie \"How to Deal\". Skye is also shown, while making her video, gathering a group of people for the purpose of throwing a party and ultimately skipping school, walking triumphantly past the (school) bus. The video for \"Billy S.\" received regular airplay on MuchMusic and YTV. Billy S. \"Billy S.\" is a song recorded by Canadian musician Skye Sweetnam. It was released as her debut major label single in 2003, and was", "title": "Billy S." }, { "docid": "15509375", "text": "The Redmond Spokesman The Redmond Spokesman is a weekly newspaper published in Redmond, Oregon, United States. It serves the city of Redmond and neighboring communities in northern Deschutes County, focusing on local news and events. It has a circulation of about 4,300. \"The Spokesman\" was founded in 1910 by Henry H. Palmer. Today, the paper is owned by Western Communications, a publishing company with newspaper holdings in Oregon and California. \"The Spokesman\" is a weekly newspaper that serves the city of Redmond and northern Deschutes County. It is published every Wednesday. It is a community newspaper that primarily covers local", "title": "The Redmond Spokesman" }, { "docid": "9807620", "text": "When the film was re-issued for another theatrical run in the spring of 1975, an accompanying newspaper ad campaign attacked critics as being out-of-touch with the tastes of mass audiences. Despite its initial commercial success, it marked the effective end of success for the \"Billy Jack\" series. It was followed by another film, \"Billy Jack Goes to Washington\" in 1977, which never saw widespread theatrical release. A fifth movie, \"The Return of Billy Jack\" filmed in 1985-86, was never completed and remains unreleased. \"The Trial of Billy Jack\" was included as one of the choices in the 1978 book \"The", "title": "The Trial of Billy Jack" }, { "docid": "5742145", "text": "the state's third-largest paper, after the \"Seattle Times\" and the \"News-Tribune\" of Tacoma. The Spokesman-Review The Spokesman-Review is a daily broadsheet newspaper in the northwest United States, based in Spokane, Washington; it is the city's only daily publication. It has the third highest readership among daily newspapers in the state, with most of its readership base in Eastern Washington. \"The Spokesman-Review\" was formed from the merger of the \"Spokane Falls Review\" (1883–1894) and the \"Spokesman\" (1890–1893) in 1893 and first published under the present name on June 29, 1894. It later absorbed its competing sister publication, the Spokane Chronicle, the", "title": "The Spokesman-Review" }, { "docid": "11174023", "text": "a pale lager also sold on the island. Medalla Light and Silver Key are commercial light lager beers produced by Compañía Cervecera de Puerto Rico. The first beer won first prize in 2005 for light beer in Brussels awarded by Monde Selection. Currently, it is the top selling beer in Puerto Rico. In addition, they launched Magna on August 1, 2011. Micro- and nano-breweries are gaining popularity in the island. Boquerón Brewing Company, from Cabo Rojo, produces several beer styles, the most popular being Boquerón Pale Ale, Boquerón Blonde Ale and Crash Boat IPA. They also make Gas Chambers, which", "title": "Beer in the Caribbean" }, { "docid": "8968779", "text": "Billy and the Boingers Bootleg Billy and the Boingers Bootleg is the fifth collection of the comic strip series Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed. It was published in 1987. It is preceded by \"Bloom County Babylon\" and followed by \"Tales Too Ticklish to Tell\". Prior to publication, Breathed announced a contest to solicit original song submissions as if written by or for the in-comic heavy metal rock group, \"Billy and the Boingers.\" The first-place winner's song, \"I'm A Boinger,\" was included in the book on the A-side of a flexi disc. The second-place winner, \"U-Stink-But-I-♥-U,\" was on the B-side. \"U-Stink-But-I-♥-U\"", "title": "Billy and the Boingers Bootleg" }, { "docid": "5742142", "text": "have threatened to attack the paper, and at times have made good on that promise. In 1997, three extreme-right militants were tried and eventually convicted of bombing the office of \"The Spokesman-Review\" as well as an abortion clinic (see Citizens Rule Book). \"The Spokesman-Review\" is also one of the few remaining family-owned newspapers in the United States. It is owned by Cowles Company, which also owns KHQ-TV/Spokane and The KHQ Television Group. While the newspaper wins awards, it is also burdened with local critics and activists who suspect the Cowles family of using its alleged vast local media influence to", "title": "The Spokesman-Review" }, { "docid": "19260137", "text": "1966, the ranch spanned 90,000 acres. In October 1968, Lott and his wife hosted François Tombalbaye, the President of Chad, on his official visit to Texas. A year later, in 1969, they donated a carriage house from the ranch and US$10,000 to the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas. In 1973, a fundraiser for the public library in Post, Texas was held on the ranch. U Lazy S Ranch The U Lazy S Ranch, formerly known as the Square and Compass Ranch, is a historic ranch in Garza County, Texas, USA. The ranch was established as the Square and", "title": "U Lazy S Ranch" }, { "docid": "3207902", "text": "\"alcoholic ginger beer\" to distinguish it from the more established commercial ginger beers, which are not brewed (fermented), but carbonated with pressurized carbon dioxide. Hollows & Fentimans claims its ginger beer to be gluten-free. Crabbie's ginger beer is free from gluten in the UK, but not the US. The ginger beer plant (GBP), also known as \"bees wine\", \"Palestinian bees\", \"Californian bees\", and \"balm of Gilead\", is not what is usually considered a plant but a composite organism consisting of a fungus, the yeast \"Saccharomyces florentinus\" (formerly \"S. pyriformis\") and the bacterium \"Lactobacillus hilgardii\" (formerly \"Brevibacterium vermiforme\"), which form a", "title": "Ginger beer" }, { "docid": "3478253", "text": "signed by then head of the LCBO Andy Brandt and head of BRI Daver Perkins, of which a copy was sent to Ministry of Consumer & Commercial Relations Deputy Minister Sandra Lang. The agreement ensured that the LCBO would not offer beer products in large format sizes, being cases of 12 or 24 beers, it would not sell major brands to restaurants or bars, and would inform the Beer Store of any store it was planning to open in a new community. Regg Cohn says both retail consumers and the food and beverage industry are being gouged by this non-competitive", "title": "The Beer Store" }, { "docid": "7516921", "text": "The U (film) The U is a 2009 documentary film about the University of Miami football program directed by Billy Corben. It was produced by Miami-based media studio Rakontur and directed by Billy Corben. The film premiered December 12, 2009 after the Heisman Trophy presentation on ESPN as a part of their \"30 for 30\" documentary series. \"The U's\" premiere drew 2.3 million viewers, the most ever for a documentary on the sports cable network until the debut of \"Pony Excess\", another college football documentary about the Southern Methodist University football scandal in the 1980s. This film was released on", "title": "The U (film)" }, { "docid": "4954193", "text": "II granted a tithe of hops to the Canons of Vyšehrad Cathedral in order to brew beer. Today the Prague brewing scene is quite diverse, with Staropramen being the only industrial brewery. There is a total of 40 breweries and brewpubs, the oldest among them being U Fleků, which was founded in 1499 and has been brewing beer ever since. Most of the other breweries and brewpubs have been established in the city post-1989 and especially, post-2000. The region of South Moravia is known particularly for winemaking and there are only few breweries with a long tradition, namely Starobrno in", "title": "Beer in the Czech Republic" }, { "docid": "20597342", "text": "It is currently owned by Mitchells and Butlers, and includes a small beer garden at the back. It is listed by Mitchells and Butlers as one of its 'Castle' brand pubs, \"\"decidedly individual, with a character to suit its community\"\". The Commercial is also included in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2018. The Commercial pub also features in a print celebrating Herne Hill's historic pubs, displayed on lamppost banners in the local area. The Commercial, Herne Hill The Commercial (also known as The Commercial Hotel) is a public house at 210-212 Railton Road, Herne Hill, London. It is cited in 'The", "title": "The Commercial, Herne Hill" }, { "docid": "3478227", "text": "lower tier rate for qualifying small brewers that is significantly less than the basic service rate paid by the larger brewing companies. Smaller breweries who produce under 1,000,000 hectoliters a year of beer qualify for this lower tier rate on their first 50,000 hectoliters of beer produced that year. Additionally, qualifying small brewers who produce under 10,000 hectoliters a year are now provided with 2 free guaranteed product listings at 7 of their most proximate Beer Stores. Currently, workers are represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 12R24 union. The company began in 1927, with the end", "title": "The Beer Store" }, { "docid": "7516923", "text": "team in the late 1990s and early 2000s followed by the eventual fall of the program, due largely to a scandal involving rogue booster Nevin Shapiro. The U (film) The U is a 2009 documentary film about the University of Miami football program directed by Billy Corben. It was produced by Miami-based media studio Rakontur and directed by Billy Corben. The film premiered December 12, 2009 after the Heisman Trophy presentation on ESPN as a part of their \"30 for 30\" documentary series. \"The U's\" premiere drew 2.3 million viewers, the most ever for a documentary on the sports cable", "title": "The U (film)" }, { "docid": "15509380", "text": "a reporter for \"The Hub\" and the founder of the short-live \"Redmond Enterprise\". He published \"The Spokesman\" until 1922. He sold the newspaper to W.B. Russell and Edgar Bloom. Bloom and his wife bought Russell's share in the newspaper in 1925. The Blooms ran the business until November 1931, when they sold it to Joe and Mary Brown. The Browns owned and published \"The Spokesman\" for the next 40 years, first as a couple and then Mary alone. Both of the Browns were graduates of the University of Oregon. Under their leadership the paper won the prestigious Hal E. Hoss", "title": "The Redmond Spokesman" }, { "docid": "15509376", "text": "area news, sports, business, and events. Most of its advertising is local as well. As of 2010, \"The Spokesman\" had a circulation of approximately 4,300. The paper maintains an online presence through redmondspokesmanonline.com, a website that has feature articles, local announcements, a current events calendar, and obituaries. \"The Spokesman\" is the oldest continuously operated business in the city of Redmond. It was first published on 14 July 1910. Its first publisher was Henry H. Palmer. He had previously published a newspaper in the neighboring town of Tumalo. He operated the newspaper with his wife Clara, who was also an experienced", "title": "The Redmond Spokesman" }, { "docid": "15509379", "text": "1909. A third community paper, the \"Redmond Enterprise\", began publication in 1913. In 1914, the Palmers bought out the other two newspapers, leaving \"The Spokesman\" as Redmond's only newspaper. The Palmers sold \"The Spokesman\" to M.W. Pettigrew in 1916. The change in ownership was announced in the 17 February edition of the paper that year. Pettigrew had been in the newspaper business in Kansas, but had moved to central Oregon to become a farmer. He was the publisher and editor of the paper until 1920, when he sold the business to Douglas Mullarky. Mullarky was an experienced newspaperman, having been", "title": "The Redmond Spokesman" }, { "docid": "7886794", "text": "Metropolitan market, as well as Cincinnati, Ohio and Georgia, in August 2010. Les Paul recorded a very popular radio commercial for Rheingold in 1951. Humorist and radio personality Jean Shepherd was the radio spokesman for Rheingold's radio ads on New York Mets broadcasts in the 1970s. In the 1956 \"Requiem for a Heavyweight\", the character played by Anthony Quinn is in a bar and the woman who has been looking for him to be a counselor at a camp wants to have a beer and the bartender brings them two bottles of Rheingold. In the 1959 film \"It Happened to", "title": "Rheingold Beer" }, { "docid": "19706853", "text": "appeal. Following the commercial success of the first movie he directed for the Metro Goldwyn Mayer studio, \"The Big Parade\" (1925), he was able to obtain backing for a Billy the Kid production when Irving Thalberg, an executive at MGM, took an interest in his proposal. \"Billy the Kid\", the first talking picture version of the legend, was released in 1930. The film featured former college football star Johnny Mack Brown in the title role and Hollywood character actor Wallace Beery as Pat Garrett, but it was a box office failure. Nevertheless, Vidor's \"Billy the Kid\" set the pattern for", "title": "Legend of Billy the Kid" }, { "docid": "4855817", "text": "cartoon to get a \"U\" certificate on its release, rather than \"18\" as the other Viz videos earned. When they were updated for DVD release in 2004, \"Billy the Fish\" was the only one not to get its own release, instead being included as an extra feature on the \"Roger Mellie\" DVD. In the second episode of \"Billy The Fish\", Roger Mellie made a cameo on a television. The film begins with the narrator explaining that young Billy Thompson was determined to be a football player, despite being born half man/half fish. One day at the local park, he plays", "title": "Billy the Fish" }, { "docid": "19104463", "text": "on 30 April 1976 and the U7 was further extended in six sections until it reached Rathaus Spandau on 1 October 1984. When the BVG took over the running of S-Bahn and U-Bahn services in 1984, it incorporated the S-Bahn into the numbering system and thus, using the West German transport system designations of giving new line numbers prefixed by \"S\" to the S-Bahn and adding the prefix \"U\" to the existing U-Bahn lines. Thus \"line 1\" became \"U1\" etc. The U8 was extended north from Gesundbrunnen, through the newly built Osloer Straße, to Paracelsus-Bad, which opened on 27 April", "title": "History of the Berlin U-Bahn" }, { "docid": "4684478", "text": "at sporting events; the chant was also heard when U.S. President George W. Bush visited the ruins at the World Trade Center site in the week following the 2001 attacks. The chant at the ruins was started by North Hudson Firefighter Thomas Irving, who was there for clean-up along with many other first responders. Crowds gathered outside of the White House on May 1, 2011 could be heard chanting \"U-S-A!\" after President Barack Obama announced that al-Qaeda co-founder Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan. The cheer was also chanted that Sunday evening at the only", "title": "U-S-A!" }, { "docid": "19085012", "text": "and the U-Bahn, which it also operated. Existing U-Bahn route numbers were prefixed with the letter \"U,\" while the new S-Bahn route numbers were prefixed with the letter \"S.\" This system of numbering routes was used in other West German cities and was extended to the S-Bahn service for the whole city after reunification. After the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989, the first broken links were re-established, with Friedrichstraße on 1 July 1990, as the first. The BVG and DR jointly marketed the services soon after the reunification. Administratively, the divided S-Bahn networks remained separate in this time", "title": "History of the Berlin S-Bahn" }, { "docid": "16622667", "text": "Michael Beer (poet) Michael Beer (19 August 1800, Berlin – 22 March 1833, Munich) was a German Jewish poet, author and playwright. Beer was born to a wealthy Jewish family. His elder brother was the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer; another brother was the astronomer Wilhelm Beer. In the period 1817–1823 he frequently travelled with family members in Italy, where his brother Meyerbeer was studying. In 1819 Beer was a founder member of the movement \"Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden (Association for Culture and Science of the Jews)\", which attempted to provide an intellectual framework for considering the Jews as", "title": "Michael Beer (poet)" }, { "docid": "19260134", "text": "U Lazy S Ranch The U Lazy S Ranch, formerly known as the Square and Compass Ranch, is a historic ranch in Garza County, Texas, USA. The ranch was established as the Square and Compass Ranch in 1884. By 1901, when it was acquired by John Bunyan Slaughter, the ranch spanned 99,188 acres. Slaughter also purchased 5,000 cattle and brought 6,000 head of cattle he already owned. Additionally, he changed the name to his cattle brand, 'U Lazy S', which he had registered during the American Civil War. He built a ranchhouse in 1902 and acquired more acres, owning up", "title": "U Lazy S Ranch" }, { "docid": "16622672", "text": "Italy, of which they had to spend at least eight months in Rome. Michael Beer (poet) Michael Beer (19 August 1800, Berlin – 22 March 1833, Munich) was a German Jewish poet, author and playwright. Beer was born to a wealthy Jewish family. His elder brother was the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer; another brother was the astronomer Wilhelm Beer. In the period 1817–1823 he frequently travelled with family members in Italy, where his brother Meyerbeer was studying. In 1819 Beer was a founder member of the movement \"Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden (Association for Culture and Science of the", "title": "Michael Beer (poet)" }, { "docid": "2371896", "text": "Prophet\", a title originally given to Joseph Smith. When the name of the president is used by adherents, it is usually prefaced by the title \"President\". Latter-day Saints consider the president of the church to be God's spokesman to the entire world and the highest priesthood authority on earth, with the exclusive right to receive revelations from God on behalf of the entire church or the entire world. The President of the Church serves as the head of the Council on the Disposition of the Tithes and the head of the Council of the Church. The President of the Church", "title": "President of the Church" }, { "docid": "18922789", "text": "Steamin' Billy Steamin Billy Group is a pub owning company with its own beer brands. An alliance was formed when in 1994, William (Bill) Allingham – (Leatherbritches Brewery), aged 19 (the country’s youngest brewer at the time), brewed a house beer for Licensee Barry Lount of the Cow & Plough, Oadby Leicester. They called the beer Steamin’ Billy named after Barry’s family Jack Russell. In 1996 Bill Allingham & Barry Lount formed Steamin Billy Brewing Co Ltd to embark upon opening new pubs. Their first venture was the Vaults in Wellington St. Leicester in 1996, followed by the Robert Catesby", "title": "Steamin' Billy" }, { "docid": "15779860", "text": "ever been released to home video. Two scenes have appeared from this movie on Billyjack.com: one shows a thug with a gun to Jean's head; and another scene shows Billy Jack disguised as a priest to infiltrate the Godfather of Godfathers' mansion. Since at least 1996, Laughlin had sought funding to resume production on the fifth \"Billy Jack\" picture, initially as \"The Return of Billy Jack\", but later retitled \"Billy Jack's Crusade to End the War in Iraq and Restore America to Its Moral Purpose\"; then in succession to \"Billy Jack's Moral Revolution\", \"Billy Jack for President\", and \"Billy Jack", "title": "The Return of Billy Jack" }, { "docid": "9097288", "text": "School currently engages in the Professional Learning Community approach. This includes collaborative planning and assessment building which encourages unity. U. S. Grant High School (Oklahoma) U. S. Grant High School is a high school in south Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1953, the Oklahoma City Public Schools opened U. S. Grant High School, which became the third high school for south Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. During its early years, it was both a junior and senior high school. Later, it was a high school for grades 10 through 12. By 1972, it was still only grades 10, 11 and 12. The rising", "title": "U. S. Grant High School (Oklahoma)" }, { "docid": "16946925", "text": "Fourth Industrial Revolution. Beer was appointed Chairman of the UAE's Oxford & Cambridge Society in 2015 Mark Beer Mark Beer, OBE is President of the International Association for Court Administration; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Global Legal Action Network; a member of the Commercial Dispute Resolution Taskforce, part of the UK Government's ‘LawTech Delivery Panel’; advisor to the Board of Resolve Disputes Online; a member of The Innovation Working Group of the Task Force on Justice focused on addressing United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 16.3; a Professional Associate with Outer Temple Chambers; and a member of the", "title": "Mark Beer" }, { "docid": "34373", "text": "makes beer is called either a brewery or a brewing company. Beer made on a domestic scale for non-commercial reasons is classified as homebrewing regardless of where it is made, though most homebrewed beer is made in the home. Brewing beer is subject to legislation and taxation in developed countries, which from the late 19th century largely restricted brewing to a commercial operation only. However, the UK government relaxed legislation in 1963, followed by Australia in 1972 and the US in 1978, allowing homebrewing to become a popular hobby. The purpose of brewing is to convert the starch source into", "title": "Beer" }, { "docid": "20597338", "text": "it was served, stating the strength and maximum price. A 1921 photograph taken looking down Railton Road, with Herne Hill railway station on the right, shows a large sign advertising bottled Worthington beer on the side of The Commercial pub. In 1936, the pub is shown in the Burton upon Trent Bass Museum archive, as being a Licensed House of Wenlock Brewery Co. Ltd of Shoreditch. The current frontage and historic interior of the pub dates from its enlargement in 1938 to incorporate number 210 Railton Road. The Commercial is one of at least 5,000 pubs which were built or", "title": "The Commercial, Herne Hill" }, { "docid": "1940819", "text": "has the mandate of providing safe and efficient air transport for the President of the Philippines and the First Family. On occasion, the wing has also been tasked to provide transportation for other members of government, visiting heads of state, and other state guests. The fleet includes: 1 Fokker F28, which is primarily used for the President's domestic trips and it is also called \"Kalayaan One\" when the President is on board, 4 Bell 412 helicopters, 3 Sikorsky S-76 helicopters, 1 Sikorsky S-70-5 Black Hawk, a number of Bell UH-1N Twin Hueys, as well as Fokker F-27 \"Friendship\"s. For trips", "title": "President of the Philippines" }, { "docid": "16057137", "text": "U. S. Jayawickrama Upendra Srinath Jayawickrama (FRCP), is a Sri Lankan physician (endocrinologist) and an artist. He was the founder of the Diabetes Association of Sri Lanka and a professor of pharmacology at the North Colombo Medical College. Upendra Srinath Jayawickrama was the eldest of three siblings born into a family of lawyers on 29 January 1930. His father Alfred Sudrikku Jayawickrama was a solicitor practicing in the southern city of Galle, who belonged to a family that included several solicitors, advocates, queen's counsel judges and a minister of justice. His mother Bessie's elder brother T.C.P Fernando, was a district", "title": "U. S. Jayawickrama" }, { "docid": "12904314", "text": "start of the next decade, apparently shorn of Rose, Ruge toured in a positively-reviewed revival of Babes in Toyland. <br><br>A Billboard obituary reports Ruge died - \"with no immediate survivors\" - in 1955 at age 89 in New York City, which would indicate a birth year of 1866. However, a U. S. Census survey submitted for June 7 1900 states that an \"Actor\" \"William Ruge\" - age 29, born August 1870 - was living in New York City with his \"Actress\" <br>wife of seven years, \"Anna\" - age 28, born November 1871. Billy Ruge Billy Ruge (c.1866/1870–1955) was an American", "title": "Billy Ruge" }, { "docid": "9097284", "text": "U. S. Grant High School (Oklahoma) U. S. Grant High School is a high school in south Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1953, the Oklahoma City Public Schools opened U. S. Grant High School, which became the third high school for south Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. During its early years, it was both a junior and senior high school. Later, it was a high school for grades 10 through 12. By 1972, it was still only grades 10, 11 and 12. The rising 9th graders came from Jefferson Junior High and Roosevelt Junior High. U.S. Grant now offers courses for students in", "title": "U. S. Grant High School (Oklahoma)" }, { "docid": "14165378", "text": "at any time during the Santiago campaign. Honorary members shall be exempt from the payment of dues, and shall not be entitled to vote. PRESIDENT : Major-General WM. R. SHAFTER, U. S. V. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT : Major-General JOSEPH WHEELER, U. S. V. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT : Major-General J. FORD KENT, U. S. V. THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT : Major-General H. W. LAWTON, U. S. V. (Killed in action at San Mateo, P. I., December 18, 1899) FOURTH VICE-PRESIDENT : Major-General JOHN C. BATES, U. S. V. SECRETARY AND TREASURER : Major ALFRED C. SHARPE, Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. V. HISTORIAN : Major G.", "title": "Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba" }, { "docid": "6500129", "text": "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell is a 1955 film directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gary Cooper as Billy Mitchell, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger and Elizabeth Montgomery in her film debut. It is based on the notorious court-martial of General Billy Mitchell, who is considered the founder of the U.S. Air Force. When it was released, Mitchell's sister Ruth, who served in World War II with Yugoslavian Chetnik guerrillas and later wrote a book about her brother, toured doing publicity for the film. Brigadier General William Mitchell tries to prove the worth of", "title": "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell" }, { "docid": "20447405", "text": "Derrick Smith. He usually races in a tongue-tie. He was sired by War Front who won the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap in 2006. Since retiring War Front has also sired War Command, Declaration of War and Air Force Blue. U S Navy Flag's dam Misty For Me was an outstanding racemare whose wins included the Moyglare Stud Stakes, Prix Marcel Boussac, Irish 1000 Guineas and Pretty Polly Stakes. As a broodmare, she has also produced U S Navy Flag's full sister Roly Poly. Misty For Me's dam Butterfly Cove was a half-sister to Fasliyev. U S Navy Flag began his", "title": "U S Navy Flag" }, { "docid": "10316788", "text": "uncertain. Cowdery's ordination as Assistant President reaffirmed his status as second only to Smith in church authority. After Cowdery's ordination, Smith explained the purpose of the position of Assistant President: The office of Assistant President is to assist in presiding over the whole Church, and to officiate in the absence of the President, according to his rank and appointment ... The office of this priesthood is also to act as spokesman, taking Aaron for an example. The virtue of the above priesthood is to hold the keys of the kingdom of heaven or of the Church militant. As holder of", "title": "Assistant President of the Church" }, { "docid": "3478233", "text": "and Metro flyers was found to be $26.81 versus $28.12 for Ontario TBS locations.[16] In response to Sen’s analysis, The Beer Store commissioned a survey of Quebec – Ontario beer pricing by Debra Aron, an economist with Navigant Economics, which reviewed average TBS home consumer beer prices for all of 2013 in comparison to all beer sales at Quebec seven largest grocery chains, utilizing Neilsen data, for the same period. Aron’s study concluded that the average TBS beer prices, excluding all taxes, were 18% less than those at Quebec grocery stores in 2013 or on a per case basis approximately", "title": "The Beer Store" }, { "docid": "7060387", "text": "commercial beer production only in New Zealand. In some sectors brewers are reluctant to embrace new technology for fear of losing the traditional characteristics of their beer. For example, Marston's Brewery in Burton on Trent still uses open wooden Burton Union sets for fermentation in order to maintain the quality and flavour of its beers, while Belgium's lambic brewers go so far as to expose their brews to outside air in order to pick up the natural wild yeasts which ferment the wort. Traditional brewing techniques protect the beer from oxidation by maintaining a carbon dioxide blanket over the wort", "title": "History of beer" }, { "docid": "3478225", "text": "LCBO. As of December 2016, the company operates over 450 retail stores which sell beer to the general public. This makes The Beer Store (TBS) the largest distributor of domestic beer in Ontario, selling to over 20,723 licensed customers. Although many imported beers are available at the Beer Store, the LCBO serves as the primary importer. Once imported, the product is then sold to the Beer Store for further distribution. As the primary retailer of Ontario, The Beer Store sells more than 720 brands of beer and over 1,000 home consumer beer selling units from 180 different brewers around the", "title": "The Beer Store" }, { "docid": "16305187", "text": "South African singles chart. Released in UK, it peaked at #7 on 26th September 1970. The song was ranked #38 on the List of RPM Cancon number-one singles chart as published in the \"RPM\" magazine, dated June 24, 1996. Allmusic critic Mark Deming states: \"If the '70s were supposed to be about having a nice day, \"Which Way You Goin' Billy?\" shows the Poppy Family were one band waiting for a cloud to blot out all that annoying sunshine...\" Which Way You Goin' Billy? (song) \"Which Way You Goin' Billy?\" was a global, multi-million-selling hit single from the Canadian band", "title": "Which Way You Goin' Billy? (song)" }, { "docid": "13397664", "text": "of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B. U. S. R. Murty Uppaluri Siva Ramachandra Murty, or U. S. R. Murty (as he prefers to write his name), is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo. U. S. R. Murty received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, with a thesis on extremal graph theory; his advisor was C. R. Rao. Murty is well known for his work in matroid theory and graph theory, and mainly for being a co-author with J. A. Bondy of a textbook on graph theory. Murty", "title": "U. S. R. Murty" }, { "docid": "15509381", "text": "memorial trophy three times in five years in the mid-1930s. Sponsored by the University of Oregon School of Journalism, the Hoss trophy honored the best weekly newspaper in the state of Oregon. After \"The Spokesman\" won it for the third time, the trophy was retired and presented to Joe Brown at a ceremony in Redmond. In 1939, the Browns built a new facility to house their newspaper operation. The building was constructed on two adjoining lots on 6th Street between C and D streets in downtown Redmond. The new building was one-story, built in the streamline moderne style. It had", "title": "The Redmond Spokesman" }, { "docid": "5742143", "text": "sway public opinion. In particular, a (1997–2004) issue regarding a public-private partnership wherein the Cowles family may have profited, some claim, up to $20 million. This is referred to as the \"River Park Square Parking Garage\" issue. The newspaper underwent an independent review by the Washington News Council regarding its River Park Square coverage and was found to be at fault for its news bias. In 2004, Spokane mayor James E. West became the target of a sting operation conducted by \"The Spokesman-Review\". Some journalists and academics criticized the paper for what they saw as a form of entrapment. West", "title": "The Spokesman-Review" }, { "docid": "20447415", "text": "was named Champion two-year-old colt. In the official European Classification of two-year-olds for 2017, published in January 2018, U S Navy Flag was given a rating of 122, making him the best juvenile of the season, three pounds ahead of his stablemate Saxon Warrior. U S Navy Flag U S Navy Flag (foaled 6 February 2015) is an American-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. In 2017 he became the first horse in 35 years to win both the Middle Park Stakes and the Dewhurst Stakes. As two-year-old he was beaten in his first four racecourse appearances, including the Coventry Stakes before winning", "title": "U S Navy Flag" }, { "docid": "13397663", "text": "U. S. R. Murty Uppaluri Siva Ramachandra Murty, or U. S. R. Murty (as he prefers to write his name), is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo. U. S. R. Murty received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, with a thesis on extremal graph theory; his advisor was C. R. Rao. Murty is well known for his work in matroid theory and graph theory, and mainly for being a co-author with J. A. Bondy of a textbook on graph theory. Murty has served as a managing editor and co-editor-in-chief", "title": "U. S. R. Murty" }, { "docid": "19696488", "text": "when the Wildcats broke the Volunteers' long series winning streak in 2011. Battle for the Beer Barrel The Battle for the Beer Barrel is an American college football rivalry between the Kentucky Wildcats and Tennessee Volunteers. Both border rivals have faced off on the gridiron since 1893, making it one of the oldest rivalries in major college football. It was close in the early years, with Kentucky holding a series lead after the first 22 match-ups. But since the early 1930s, Tennessee has dominated the cross-border rivalry. Both schools were charter members of the Southeastern Conference when it was established", "title": "Battle for the Beer Barrel" }, { "docid": "16389954", "text": "Office of the President of the Philippines The Office of the President (OP) is an administrative, advisory, consultative government agency which aids the President of the Philippines in performing their duty as head of state and chief of the executive branch of government. The office is housed within the Malacañang Palace complex. The Office of the President (OP) was created through Administrative Order No. 322, s. 1997. The order was issued following the submission of position papers by the officials of the Department of History of the University of the Philippines, and the Board of National Historical Institute which conducted", "title": "Office of the President of the Philippines" }, { "docid": "15871174", "text": "around Windsor and Redclay in New South Wales. His assistant director was Phil K. Walsh, who later directed two Australian films. Lawson himself appears in a brief prologue. Lawson had given all copyright in his work to Angus and Robertson. Gavin Robertson agreed the money for the rights to the movie should go to Lawson. Smith says that Lawson's income from the film was the author's main source of income in the last years of his life. Commercial results were strong. While the Billy Boils While the Billy Boils is a 1921 Australian film from director Beaumont Smith which adapts", "title": "While the Billy Boils" }, { "docid": "34385", "text": "barley, and rye. Flavouring beer is the sole major commercial use of hops. The flower of the hop vine is used as a flavouring and preservative agent in nearly all beer made today. The flowers themselves are often called \"hops\". The first historical mention of the use of hops in beer was from 822 AD in monastery rules written by Adalhard the Elder, also known as Adalard of Corbie, though the date normally given for widespread cultivation of hops for use in beer is the thirteenth century. Before the thirteenth century, and until the sixteenth century, during which hops took", "title": "Beer" }, { "docid": "6427984", "text": "nightmare. The album was released by Virgin Records in the UK and RCA Records in the US. Two singles were released from the album, \"Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)\" and \"Julia\". The former was a top-10 entry in most territories, while \"Julia\" achieved little commercial success and broke the duo's run of six consecutive top-10 singles in the UK when it peaked at number 44. Promotional videos were produced for both singles. One US LP release had an additional sticker that stated \"Censored by the thought police\" (although the music was the same). 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) 1984 (For", "title": "1984 (For the Love of Big Brother)" }, { "docid": "19696483", "text": "Battle for the Beer Barrel The Battle for the Beer Barrel is an American college football rivalry between the Kentucky Wildcats and Tennessee Volunteers. Both border rivals have faced off on the gridiron since 1893, making it one of the oldest rivalries in major college football. It was close in the early years, with Kentucky holding a series lead after the first 22 match-ups. But since the early 1930s, Tennessee has dominated the cross-border rivalry. Both schools were charter members of the Southeastern Conference when it was established in 1932. Since that season, Tennessee has a 53–14–3 record against Kentucky,", "title": "Battle for the Beer Barrel" }, { "docid": "20963909", "text": "support Nixon than college-enrolled youth and that the former group significantly outnumbered the latter. Outreach efforts by Young Voters for the President have been credited with helping Nixon capture 48 percent of 18 to 24 year-old voters, and 52 percent of under 30 voters, in the 1972 presidential contest. Nixon ultimately won that election with roughly 61-percent of the popular vote and 97-percent of the electoral vote. Hunter S. Thompson wrote extensively about Nixon's youth base and was, according to Boston University's Seth Blumenthal, known to have \"despised them\". Young Voters for the President Young Voters for the President was", "title": "Young Voters for the President" }, { "docid": "11658855", "text": "7 November, \"U. S. Grant\" disembarked her passengers soon thereafter. One week later, on 14 November, the transport was decommissioned and returned to the War Department. Her name was struck from the Navy List on 28 November. Turned over to the Maritime Commission, the erstwhile transport and veteran of two world wars was sold to the Boston Metals Company, on 24 February 1948 for scrapping. \"U. S. Grant\" received one battle star for her World War II service. USS U. S. Grant (AP-29) USS \"U. S. Grant\" (AP-29) was a transport ship that saw service with the United States Navy", "title": "USS U. S. Grant (AP-29)" }, { "docid": "16389957", "text": "on said executive powers of the President, the OP proper would perform the following core functions: Office of the President of the Philippines The Office of the President (OP) is an administrative, advisory, consultative government agency which aids the President of the Philippines in performing their duty as head of state and chief of the executive branch of government. The office is housed within the Malacañang Palace complex. The Office of the President (OP) was created through Administrative Order No. 322, s. 1997. The order was issued following the submission of position papers by the officials of the Department of", "title": "Office of the President of the Philippines" }, { "docid": "16057138", "text": "judge while her younger brother, T. S. Fernando was a Solicitor-General, Attorney-General, Judge of the Supreme Court and President of the Court of Final Appeal. Srinath is the brother of Nihal Jayawickrama and Shirani Lecamwasam. Jayawickrama was educated at Richmond College, Galle until the fifth grade. He joined the science stream at Royal College Colombo thereafter, breaking away from the family tradition of pursuing a legal profession and caused much consternation in the family. He was a prefect of the college, edited the Royal College magazine, was secretary of the Farm Club and won the De Soysa science prize in", "title": "U. S. Jayawickrama" }, { "docid": "15871172", "text": "While the Billy Boils While the Billy Boils is a 1921 Australian film from director Beaumont Smith which adapts several stories from Henry Lawson. It is considered a lost film. Bob Brothers (Tal Ordell) is a bushman who quarrelled with his father ten years earlier, left him and changed his name. He returns to his father's station and takes a job there, eventually becoming the union representative of the station hands. His younger brother Dick (Robert MacKinnon) is being blackmailed by the evil Tessie (Lorna Lantaur) into stealing money. Bob takes the blame to protect his brother. Dick and Bob", "title": "While the Billy Boils" }, { "docid": "16946913", "text": "Mark Beer Mark Beer, OBE is President of the International Association for Court Administration; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Global Legal Action Network; a member of the Commercial Dispute Resolution Taskforce, part of the UK Government's ‘LawTech Delivery Panel’; advisor to the Board of Resolve Disputes Online; a member of The Innovation Working Group of the Task Force on Justice focused on addressing United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 16.3; a Professional Associate with Outer Temple Chambers; and a member of the International Council of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Previously he was Chief Executive", "title": "Mark Beer" }, { "docid": "10194714", "text": "Which Way You Goin' Billy? (album) Which Way You Goin' Billy?, released in 1969, was the first album from Vancouver, British Columbia band The Poppy Family. They scored their biggest hit with title track, \"Which Way You Goin' Billy?\", which went to #1 in both Canada and Ireland and #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart and the Cash Box Top 100 in the US. The album has yet to be released on modern formats and remains a rare vinyl collectible. The song \"Of Cities and Escapes\" was prominently sampled in the song \"Madness\" by Hip-Hop group Deltron 3030", "title": "Which Way You Goin' Billy? (album)" }, { "docid": "3478228", "text": "of prohibition in Ontario. Although prohibition had proven to be unsuccessful, the provincial government still needed to placate angry temperance advocates and agreed that beer would be sold through a single network of stores. However, the government did not want to operate this network itself (as was done in some other Canadian provinces), and so permitted brewers to organize the Brewers Warehousing Company Ltd., which later became Brewers Retail/The Beer Store. The Beer Store operates on a self-sustaining basis as an efficient distributor and retailer of Beer in the Province of Ontario. Operations take place on a fee for service", "title": "The Beer Store" }, { "docid": "18853710", "text": "Festival has an experimental beer category as a part of its competition, for which awards are given, as does the World Beer Cup, which also provides awards for beers in this category. The Oregon State Fair has a home brew competition that includes a category for specialty and experimental beers. Experimental beer may be produced using preparation methods used in craft brewing. Some homebrewers produce experimental beers in efforts to devise unique or flavorful new styles. Some commercial breweries and microbreweries produce experimental beer and offer it to consumers. The Boston Beer Company, based in Boston, Massachusetts, has produced several", "title": "Experimental beer" }, { "docid": "652632", "text": "product \"root beer\", instead. In 1886, Hires began to bottle a beverage made from his famous extract. By 1893, root beer was distributed widely across the United States. Non-alcoholic versions of root beer became commercially successful, especially during Prohibition. Not all traditional or commercial root beers were sassafras-based. One of Hires's early competitors was Barq's, which began selling its sarsaparilla-based root beer in 1898 and was labeled simply as \"Barq's\". In 1919, Roy Allen opened his root-beer stand in Lodi, California, which led to the development of A&W Root Beer. One of Allen's innovations was that he served his homemade", "title": "Root beer" }, { "docid": "18922791", "text": "Allingham and Barry and Elisabeth Lount. A reorganisation took place in 2005 bringing the Cow and Plough under the Steamin Billy Company. Further reorganisation followed after more pub acquisitions, bringing the following all under the Steamin Billy Group. The Western has on its premises Leicester’s first pub theatre run by \"Upstairs at The Western' Steamin' Billy Steamin Billy Group is a pub owning company with its own beer brands. An alliance was formed when in 1994, William (Bill) Allingham – (Leatherbritches Brewery), aged 19 (the country’s youngest brewer at the time), brewed a house beer for Licensee Barry Lount of", "title": "Steamin' Billy" }, { "docid": "11980454", "text": "businesses are in the northwest corner of the adjacent Varsity View neighbourhood. However, there are 3 home-based businesses. U of S Lands South Management Area is located within the University Heights Suburban Development Area. It is bounded by College Drive to the north, 14th Street to the south, Circle Drive to the east, and Cumberland Avenue to the west. The only other road of note is Preston Avenue, which roughly bisects the area. U of S Lands South Management Area, Saskatoon U of S Lands South Management Area is an area of and located in east-central Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It", "title": "U of S Lands South Management Area, Saskatoon" }, { "docid": "4948665", "text": "Beer in Hungary Beer in Hungary has been brewed for well over a thousand years, but in the modern age, most beer is mass-produced. Beer has been made there for around a thousand years and the country has a significant history of commercial beer production. The Hungarian word for beer is \"sör\". The word itself is of Oghuric origin. The word was most probably borrowed by the Hungarians in the era before the conquest of Hungary. The first commercial brewery in Hungary was established in Buda in 1845 by Peter Schmidt. During the heyday of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kőbánya", "title": "Beer in Hungary" }, { "docid": "7275357", "text": "Beer glassware Beer glassware comprises the drinking vessels made of glass designed or commonly used for drinking beer. Different styles of glassware exist for a number of reasons: they may reflect national traditions; legislation regarding serving measures; practicalities of stacking, washing and avoiding breakage; promotion of commercial breweries; folk art, novelty items or use in drinking games; or complementing different styles of beer for a variety of reasons, including enhancing aromatic volatiles, showcasing the appearance, and having an effect on the beer head. Several kinds of beer glassware have a stem which serves to prevent the body heat of the", "title": "Beer glassware" }, { "docid": "10194715", "text": "on their self titled debut album. Words and music by Terry Jacks. Which Way You Goin' Billy? (album) Which Way You Goin' Billy?, released in 1969, was the first album from Vancouver, British Columbia band The Poppy Family. They scored their biggest hit with title track, \"Which Way You Goin' Billy?\", which went to #1 in both Canada and Ireland and #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart and the Cash Box Top 100 in the US. The album has yet to be released on modern formats and remains a rare vinyl collectible. The song \"Of Cities and Escapes\"", "title": "Which Way You Goin' Billy? (album)" }, { "docid": "11658844", "text": "she could resume active service. During this overhaul, which would last through the spring of 1922, the ship was fitted with modern marine watertube boilers for greater safety in operation and to enable the ship to make increased speed. On 3 June 1922, at Brooklyn, New York, the transport was renamed \"U. S. Grant\"; Princess Cantacuzene, wife of Major General Prince Cantacuzene, Count Speransky of Russia, and a granddaughter of General Ulysses S. Grant, christened the ship. For almost two decades, \"U. S. Grant\" soldiered on in the Army Transport Service, maintaining a regular schedule of voyages carrying troops, passengers,", "title": "USS U. S. Grant (AP-29)" }, { "docid": "8313065", "text": "the Kim family could not escape thus enduring the hardships of war in Suwon. Billy worked as a houseboy for the U. S. military under Sgt. Carl Powers, who helped him go to America to get an education. He left Korea on November 12, 1951 filled with fear and excitement. Carl Powers enrolled Billy at Bob Jones Academy in Greenville, South Carolina where Billy received Jesus Christ as his Savior. He excelled in many areas, but early in his education, won a South Carolina speech contest with a speech entitled “I Speak for Democracy”. On weekends, he preached at small", "title": "Billy Kim" } ]
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With examples such as tulip, South Sea company, and .com, what is the name for the economic condition characterized by "trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values"?
[ "Bubbling", "Bubble (disambiguation)", "Bubble (song)", "Bubbling (disambiguation)", "Bubbles (disambiguation)", "Bubbles", "Bubble" ]
[ { "docid": "1259087", "text": "tulip mania (in the mid-1630s) is often considered the first recorded economic bubble. Because it is often difficult to observe intrinsic values in real-life markets, bubbles are often conclusively identified only in retrospect, once a sudden drop in prices has occurred. Such a drop is known as a \"crash\" or a \"bubble burst\". Both the boom and the burst phases of the bubble are examples of a positive feedback mechanism, in contrast to the negative feedback mechanism that determines the equilibrium price under normal market circumstances. Prices in an economic bubble can fluctuate erratically, and become impossible to predict from", "title": "Economic bubble" }, { "docid": "1640622", "text": "a significant economic crisis. Historically, it had no critical influence on the prosperity of the Dutch Republic, the world's leading economic and financial power in the 17th century. Also, from about 1600 to 1720 the Dutch had the highest per capita income in the world. The term \"tulip mania\" is now often used metaphorically to refer to any large economic bubble when asset prices deviate from intrinsic values. In Europe, formal futures markets appeared in the Dutch Republic during the 17th century. Among the most notable centered on the tulip market, at the height of tulip mania. At the peak", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "1640646", "text": "money. There is no dispute that prices for tulip bulb contracts rose and then fell in 1636–37, but even a dramatic rise and fall in prices does not necessarily mean that an economic or speculative bubble developed and then burst. For tulip mania to have qualified as an economic bubble, the price of tulip bulbs would need to have become unhinged from the intrinsic value of the bulbs. Modern economists have advanced several possible reasons for why the rise and fall in prices may not have constituted a bubble, even though a Viceroy Tulip was worth upwards of five times", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "1640654", "text": "economic model would dictate: \"Tulip contract prices before, during, and after the 'tulipmania' appear to provide a remarkable illustration of efficient market prices.\" The popularity of Mackay's tale has continued to this day, with new editions of \"Extraordinary Popular Delusions\" appearing regularly, with introductions by writers such as financier Bernard Baruch (1932), financial writer Andrew Tobias (1980), psychologist David J. Schneider (1993), and journalist Michael Lewis (2008). At least six editions are currently in print. Goldgar argues that although tulip mania may not have constituted an economic or speculative bubble, it was nonetheless traumatic to the Dutch for other reasons.", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "1640658", "text": "speculative dot-com bubble and the subprime mortgage crisis. In November 2013 Nout Wellink, former president of the Dutch Central Bank, described Bitcoin as \"worse than the tulip mania,\" adding, \"At least then you got a tulip, now you get nothing.\" Despite the mania's enduring popularity, Daniel Gross of \"Slate\" has said of economists offering efficient-market explanations for the mania, that \"If they're correct ... then business writers will have to delete Tulipmania from their handy-pack of bubble analogies.\" Tulip mania Tulip mania (Dutch: \"tulpenmanie\") was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for some bulbs of", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "806833", "text": "created, Britain was involved in the War of the Spanish Succession and Spain controlled South America. There was no realistic prospect that trade would take place, and the company never realised any significant profit from its monopoly. Company stock rose greatly in value as it expanded its operations dealing in government debt, peaking in 1720 before collapsing to little above its original flotation price; the economic bubble became known as the South Sea Bubble. The Bubble Act 1720 (6 Geo I, c 18), which forbade the creation of joint-stock companies without royal charter, was promoted by the South Sea company", "title": "South Sea Company" }, { "docid": "1640641", "text": "pay such high prices and take possession of the bulbs. In February 1637, tulip traders could no longer find new buyers willing to pay increasingly inflated prices for their bulbs. As this realization set in, the demand for tulips collapsed, and prices plummeted—the speculative bubble burst. Some were left holding contracts to purchase tulips at prices now ten times greater than those on the open market, while others found themselves in possession of bulbs now worth a fraction of the price they had paid. Mackay claims the Dutch devolved into distressed accusations and recriminations against others in the trade. In", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "4952882", "text": "reason whatever to fear a crash\". The first volume begins with a discussion of three economic bubbles, or financial manias: the South Sea Company bubble of 1711–1720, the Mississippi Company bubble of 1719–1720, and the Dutch tulip mania of the early seventeenth century. According to Mackay, during this bubble, speculators from all walks of life bought and sold tulip bulbs and even futures contracts on them. Allegedly, some tulip bulb varieties briefly became the most expensive objects in the world during 1637. Mackay's accounts are enlivened by colorful, comedic anecdotes, such as the Parisian hunchback who supposedly profited by renting", "title": "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" }, { "docid": "1640637", "text": "and tulip mania was, along with the South Sea Bubble and the Mississippi Company scheme, one of his primary examples. His account was largely sourced from a 1797 work by Johann Beckmann titled \"A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins\". In fact, Beckmann's account, and thus Mackay's by derivation, was primarily sourced to three anonymous pamphlets published in 1637 with an anti-speculative agenda. Mackay's vivid book was popular among generations of economists and stock market participants. His popular but flawed description of tulip mania as a speculative bubble remains prominent, even though since the 1980s economists have debunked many aspects", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "1640650", "text": "been challenged for failing to explain a similar dramatic rise and fall in prices for regular tulip bulb contracts. Some economists also point to other factors associated with speculative bubbles, such as a growth in the supply of money, demonstrated by an increase in deposits at the Bank of Amsterdam during that period. Earl Thompson argued in a 2007 paper that Garber's explanation cannot account for the extremely swift drop in tulip bulb contract prices. The annualized rate of price decline was 99.999%, instead of the average 40% for other flowers. He provided another explanation for Dutch tulip mania. The", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "1640656", "text": "later reported by Beckmann and Mackay, have been cited as evidence of the extent of the economic damage. These pamphlets were not written by victims of a bubble, but were primarily religiously motivated. The upheaval was viewed as a perversion of the moral order—proof that \"concentration on the earthly, rather than the heavenly flower could have dire consequences\". Thus, it is possible that a relatively minor economic event took on a life of its own as a morality tale. Nearly a century later, during the crash of the Mississippi Company and the South Sea Company in about 1720, tulip mania", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "806835", "text": "more shares. The expectation of profits from trade with South America was used to encourage the public to purchase shares, but the bubble prices reached far beyond the profits of the slave trade. A parliamentary enquiry was held after the crash to discover its causes. A number of politicians were disgraced, and people found to have profited unlawfully from the company had assets confiscated proportionate to their gains (most had already been rich men and remained so). The company was restructured and continued to operate for more than a century after the Bubble. The headquarters were in Threadneedle Street at", "title": "South Sea Company" }, { "docid": "1640621", "text": "Tulip mania Tulip mania (Dutch: \"tulpenmanie\") was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637. It is generally considered the first recorded speculative bubble; although some researchers have noted that the \"Kipper und Wipper\" (literally \"Tipper and See-Saw\") episode in 1619–1622, a Europe-wide chain of debasement of the metal content of coins to fund warfare, featured mania-like similarities to a bubble. In many ways, the tulip mania was more of a hitherto unknown socio-economic phenomenon than", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "6207212", "text": "However, it is difficult to predict whether an asset's price actually equals its fundamental value, so it is hard to detect bubbles reliably. Some economists insist that bubbles never or almost never occur. Well-known examples of bubbles (or purported bubbles) and crashes in stock prices and other asset prices include the 17th century Dutch tulip mania, the 18th century South Sea Bubble, the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Japanese property bubble of the 1980s, the crash of the dot-com bubble in 2000–2001, and the now-deflating United States housing bubble. The 2000s sparked a real estate bubble where housing prices", "title": "Financial crisis" }, { "docid": "13710904", "text": "Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme (also known as The South Sea Scheme) is an early print by William Hogarth, created in 1721 and widely published from 1724. It caricatures the financial speculation, corruption and credulity that caused the South Sea Bubble in England in 1720–1. The South Sea Company was a British joint stock company founded in 1711. It was granted a monopoly to trade with Spain's South American colonies as part of a treaty during the War of Spanish Succession, in return for the company's assumption of the national debt", "title": "Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme" }, { "docid": "6883488", "text": "for the founders. Others were existing companies that re-styled themselves as Internet companies, many of them legally changing their names to incorporate a \".com\" suffix. With the stock market crash around the year 2000 that ended the dot-com bubble, many failed and failing dot-com companies were referred to punningly as dot-bombs, dot-cons or dot-gones. Many of the surviving firms dropped the \".com\" suffix from their names. Dot-com company A dot-com company, or simply a dot-com (alternatively rendered dot.com, dot com, dotcom or .com), is a company that does most of its business on the Internet, usually through a website that", "title": "Dot-com company" }, { "docid": "1259122", "text": "P. Kindleberger, the basic structure of a speculative bubble can be divided into 5 phases: Economic or asset price bubbles are often characterized by one or more of the following: <br> Other goods which have produced bubbles include: postage stamps and coin collecting. Economic bubble An economic bubble or asset bubble (sometimes also referred to as a speculative bubble, a market bubble, a price bubble, a financial bubble, a speculative mania, or a balloon) is trade in an asset at a price or price range that strongly exceeds the asset's intrinsic value. It could also be described as a situation", "title": "Economic bubble" }, { "docid": "1259086", "text": "Economic bubble An economic bubble or asset bubble (sometimes also referred to as a speculative bubble, a market bubble, a price bubble, a financial bubble, a speculative mania, or a balloon) is trade in an asset at a price or price range that strongly exceeds the asset's intrinsic value. It could also be described as a situation in which asset prices appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future. Asset bubbles date back as far as the 1600s and are now widely regarded as a recurrent feature of modern economic history. Historically, the Dutch Golden Age's", "title": "Economic bubble" }, { "docid": "5211544", "text": "ranch in Colorado, becoming the second-largest landowner in the state. With its success in the bull market brought on by the dot-com bubble, Enron seeks to beguile stock market analysts by meeting their projections. Executives push up their stock prices and then cash in their multimillion-dollar options, a process known as \"pump and dump\". Enron also mounts a PR campaign to portray itself a profitable, prosperous and innovative company, even though its worldwide operations are performing poorly. Elsewhere, Enron begins ambitious initiatives such as attempts to use broadband technology to deliver movies on demand, and \"trade weather\" like a commodity;", "title": "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" }, { "docid": "806895", "text": "the voyage across the Atlantic. (Thus about 11% of the slaves died on the voyage: a relatively low mortality rate for the Middle Crossing.) The company persisted with the slave trade through two wars with Spain and the calamitous 1720 commercial bubble. The company's trade in human slavery peaked during the 1725 trading year, five years after the bubble burst. Between 1715 and 1739, slave trading constituted the main legal commercial activity of the South Sea Company. The slave Asiento contract of 1713 granted a permit to send one vessel of 500 tons per year, loaded with duty-free merchandise to", "title": "South Sea Company" } ]
[ { "docid": "4008910", "text": "tulips are animals and not plants. Two examples of sea squirts known as sea tulips are \"P. pachydermatina\" and \"P. spinifera\". Sea tulip Sea tulip is the common name of a few species of sessile ascidians (sea squirts) in the genus \"Pyura\" that live in coastal waters at depths of up to 80 m (260 feet). Like all ascidians, sea tulips are filter feeders. Their common name comes from their appearance - that of a knobbly 'bulb' or flower attached to a long stalk. Sea Tulips come in a variety of colours, including white, pink, yellow, orange, and purple. The", "title": "Sea tulip" }, { "docid": "4008909", "text": "Sea tulip Sea tulip is the common name of a few species of sessile ascidians (sea squirts) in the genus \"Pyura\" that live in coastal waters at depths of up to 80 m (260 feet). Like all ascidians, sea tulips are filter feeders. Their common name comes from their appearance - that of a knobbly 'bulb' or flower attached to a long stalk. Sea Tulips come in a variety of colours, including white, pink, yellow, orange, and purple. The colouration of sea tulips depends upon their association with a symbiotic sponge that covers their surface. Despite their common name, sea", "title": "Sea tulip" }, { "docid": "1640623", "text": "of tulip mania, in February 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsworker. Research is difficult because of the limited economic data from the 1630s, much of which come from biased and speculative sources. Some modern economists have proposed rational explanations, rather than a speculative mania, for the rise and fall in prices. For example, other flowers, such as the hyacinth, also had high initial prices at the time of their introduction, which immediately fell. The high asset prices may also have been driven by expectations of a parliamentary decree", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "1640653", "text": "paid.\" Thompson concludes that \"the real victims of the contractual conversion\" were the investors who had bought futures contracts \"prior\" to November 30, 1636, on the incorrect assumption that their contracts would benefit from the February 1637 decree. In other words, many investors were making an \"additional gamble with respect to the prices the buyers would eventually have to pay for their options\"—a factor unrelated to the intrinsic value of the tulip bulbs themselves. Using data about the specific payoffs present in the futures and options contracts, Thompson argued that tulip bulb contract prices hewed closely to what a rational", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "806832", "text": "South Sea Company The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for the encouragement of fishing) was a British joint-stock company founded in 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of national debt. The company was also granted a monopoly to trade with South America and nearby islands, hence its name (the modern use of the term \"South Seas\" to refer to the entire South Pacific was unknown in England at the time). When the company was", "title": "South Sea Company" }, { "docid": "6883486", "text": "Dot-com company A dot-com company, or simply a dot-com (alternatively rendered dot.com, dot com, dotcom or .com), is a company that does most of its business on the Internet, usually through a website that uses the popular top-level domain \".com\". The suffix .com in the URL refers to commercial as opposed to non-commercial companies such as non-profit organizations that use .org. Since the .com companies are web-based, most of their products/services are delivered via web-based mechanisms even when physical products are involved. On the other hand, some .com companies do not offer any physical products at all. While the term", "title": "Dot-com company" }, { "docid": "16683205", "text": "and with prices in the several hundred dollars for the external Nakamichi compander box it was much too expensive to be used by many people outside the small group of audiophiles using high-end tape recorders or open-reel decks. When AEG-Telefunken struggled financially in 1981/1982 and the Hannover development site was partially disbanded and refocused on digital technologies in 1983, this also put the High Com development to an end. The latest tape decks to come with High Com were produced in 1986. These tape decks are known to provide built-in support for High Com: Other devices can be used with", "title": "High Com" }, { "docid": "806889", "text": "ship. Those goods were sold at the Spanish colonies at a handsome price as they were in high demand and constituted unfair competition with taxed goods, proving an important drain on the Spanish Crown trade income. The relationship between the South Sea Company and the Government of Spain was always bad, and worsened with time. The Company complained of searches and seizures of goods, lack of profitability, and confiscation of properties during the wars between Britain and Spain of 1718–1723 and 1727–1729, during which the operations of the Company were suspended. The Government of Spain complained of the illegal trade,", "title": "South Sea Company" }, { "docid": "2134718", "text": "methodology of national accounting. Such data include Gross National Product and its components, Gross National Expenditure, Gross National Income in the National Income and Product Accounts, and also the capital stock and national wealth. In these examples data may be stated in nominal or real values, that is, in money or inflation-adjusted terms. Other economic indicators include a variety of alternative measures of output, orders, trade, the labor force, confidence, prices, and financial series (\"e.g.,\" money and interest rates). At the international level there are many series including international trade, international financial flows, direct investment flows (between countries) and exchange", "title": "Economic data" }, { "docid": "806842", "text": "of the debt would be required to surrender it to a new company, the South Sea Company, which in return would issue shares to the same amount. The government would pay the company £568,279 10s 0d (6% interest plus expenses) annually, which would be distributed as a dividend to shareholders. The company was also given a monopoly to trade with South America, a potentially lucrative enterprise, but one controlled by Spain, with whom Britain was at war. At that time, when continental America was being explored and colonized, Europeans applied the term \"South Seas\" only to South America and surrounding", "title": "South Sea Company" }, { "docid": "10641291", "text": "practice when using floating point arithmetic with limited precision: subtracting two values having a similar magnitude can lead to catastrophic cancellation, and thus causing a loss of significance when formula_3. There several other numerically stable algorithms for calculating variance for use with floating point numbers. The computational formula for the population variance follows in a straightforward manner from the linearity of expected values and the definition of variance: This formula can be generalized for covariance, with two random variables X and X: as well as for the \"n\" by \"n\" covariance matrix of a random vector of length \"n\": and", "title": "Algebraic formula for the variance" }, { "docid": "2916392", "text": "per capita to show the relative economic development level of the different countries. Reference values for the EU average, highest and lowest are included. Third-country economic relationships with the European Union The European Union has a number of relationships with nations that are not formally part of the Union. According to the European Union's official site, and a statement by Commissioner Günter Verheugen, the aim is to have a ring of countries, sharing EU's democratic ideals and joining them in further integration without necessarily becoming full member states. The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was created to allow European countries", "title": "Third-country economic relationships with the European Union" }, { "docid": "14738244", "text": "adult. Intern programs The intern programs that the Gathering Place hosts, are used for training high school and college students the values of being a Christian leader. Epworth by the Sea is largely funded by the William I. H. and Lula E. Pitts Foundation, a private foundation that funds educational and social service activities through organizations that are associated with the United Methodist Church in Georgia. Since the foundation was founded in 1941, large donations have gone to support institutions and organizations such as Epworth by the Sea, Andrew College, Chandler School of Theology, LaGrange College and Magnolia Manor retirement", "title": "Epworth by the Sea" }, { "docid": "806902", "text": "duty-free concessions, and the prospect of real subsidies as well, the Court and Directors of the South Sea Company decided that they could not expect to make profits from Arctic whaling. They sent out no more whale-ships after the loss-making 1732 season. The company continued its trade (when not interrupted by war) until the end of the Seven Years' War (1756–1763). However, its main function was always managing government debt, rather than trading with the Spanish colonies. The South Sea Company continued its management of the part of the National Debt until it was disestablished in 1853, at which point", "title": "South Sea Company" }, { "docid": "14746619", "text": "He also made an illuminating distinction between \"what\" people value and \"how\" people value. How people value parallels very closely with systematic values, which Hartman operationally defined as conceptual constructs or cognitive scripts that exist in people’s minds. Ideals, norms, standards, rules, doctrines, and logic systems are all examples of systematic values. If someone’s cognitive script is repetitively about violent actions, for instance, then that person is more likely to act vengefully and less likely to value peace. With that additional idea in mind, Harman combined intrinsic, extrinsic, and systematic concepts to create the Hartman Value Profile, also known as", "title": "Values scale" }, { "docid": "5528107", "text": "successful market transactions are assumed and market fluctuations are initially mostly disregarded - but that gives only one half of the story. The products have to be sold at a profit, and purchased at a competitive price, through market trade and the circulation of capital. The argument in \"Capital, Volume III\" (Marx intended to publish still more volumes, but did not manage to do so) is that the sales of newly produced commodities in the capitalist mode of production are \"regulated\" by their production prices. What products will sell for, has to do with what it normally costs to make", "title": "Prices of production" }, { "docid": "15000178", "text": "feudal economic order and the countryside became dominated by estates organised as farms, frequently owned or rented by the new economic class of the gentry. The English agricultural economy remained depressed throughout the 15th century, with growth coming from the greatly increased English cloth trade and manufacturing. The economic consequences of this varied considerably from region to region, but generally London, the South and the West prospered at the expense of the Eastern and the older cities. The role of merchants and of trade became increasingly seen as important to the country and usury became increasingly accepted, with English economic", "title": "Economics of English towns and trade in the Middle Ages" }, { "docid": "10641292", "text": "for the \"n\" by \"m\" cross-covariance matrix \"between\" two random vectors of length \"n\" and \"m\": where expectations are taken element-wise and formula_8 and formula_9 are random vectors of respective lengths \"n\" and \"m\". Note that this formula suffers from the same loss of significance as the formula for variance if used for calculating estimates of the covariance, and alternative algorithms should be used instead. Algebraic formula for the variance In probability theory and statistics, there are several algebraic formulae for the variance available for deriving the variance of a random variable. The usefulness of these depends on what is", "title": "Algebraic formula for the variance" }, { "docid": "3989679", "text": "what works. For him, \"restoring integration and cooperation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about the values [valuations] and purposes that should direct his conduct is the deepest problem of modern life.\" \"A culture which permits science to destroy traditional values [valuations] but which distrusts its power to create new ones is a culture which is destroying itself.\" Dewey agreed with Max Weber that people talk as if they apply instrumental and intrinsic criteria. And he agreed with Weber's observation that intrinsic value is problematic because it ignores the relationship between context and", "title": "Instrumental and intrinsic value" }, { "docid": "10641289", "text": "Algebraic formula for the variance In probability theory and statistics, there are several algebraic formulae for the variance available for deriving the variance of a random variable. The usefulness of these depends on what is already known about the random variable; for example a random variable may be defined in terms of its probability density function or by construction from other random variables. The context here is that of deriving algebraic expressions for the theoretical variance of a random variable, in contrast to questions of estimating the variance of a population from sample data for which there are special considerations", "title": "Algebraic formula for the variance" }, { "docid": "12491950", "text": "Black Sea Trade and Development Bank The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) is international financial institution serving its eleven member countries that are founding members of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, a regional economic organization. It supports economic development and regional cooperation by providing loans, guarantees, and equity for development projects and trade transactions. BSTDB supports both public and private enterprises in member countries and does not attach political conditionality to its financing. Objectives of the bank include promoting regional trade links, cross country projects, foreign direct investment, supporting activities that contribute to sustainable development, with an emphasis", "title": "Black Sea Trade and Development Bank" }, { "docid": "1640626", "text": "taken up a post at the University of Leiden and established the \"hortus academicus\". He planted his collection of tulip bulbs and found they were able to tolerate the harsher conditions of the Low Countries; shortly thereafter the tulip began to grow in popularity. The tulip was different from every other flower known to Europe at that time, with a saturated intense petal color that no other plant had. The appearance of the nonpareil tulip as a status symbol at this time coincides with the rise of newly independent Holland's trade fortunes. No longer the Spanish Netherlands, its economic resources", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "513323", "text": "the number of samples \"N\" is kept high to ensure that confidence interval is small over the τ range of interest. It is recommended that the τ range as swept by the τ multiplier \"n\" is limited in the upper end relative \"N\", such that the read of the plot is not being confused by highly unstable estimator values. It is recommended that estimators providing better degrees of freedom values be used in replacement of the Allan variance estimators or as complementing them where they outperform the Allan variance estimators. Among those the total variance and Theo variance estimators should", "title": "Allan variance" }, { "docid": "13691148", "text": "of the 20th century. These laws did not challenge the idea that other animals are resources for human use and they only limited those acts of cruelty which (a) had few economic or social repercussions; and (b) were offensive to human sensibilities (the so-called Offence principle) or at odds with human dignity. These regulations were anthropocentric in character: they generally gave human economic and recreational interests, such as farming, fishing and blood sports, greater priority than animal suffering - that is they favoured the animals' instrumental values over their intrinsic ones. During the second half of the 20th century, the", "title": "Intrinsic value (animal ethics)" }, { "docid": "442373", "text": "expected value of is formula_68 Therefore, the variance of is The general formula for the variance of the outcome, , of an die is Variance is non-negative because the squares are positive or zero: The variance of a constant random variable is zero, and if the variance of a variable in a data set is 0, then all the entries have the same value: Variance is invariant with respect to changes in a location parameter. That is, if a constant is added to all values of the variable, the variance is unchanged: If all values are scaled by a constant,", "title": "Variance" }, { "docid": "6653682", "text": "turns out that much more is involved than the observation of a price-tag or number might suggest. For most of the history of economics, economic theorists were not primarily concerned with explaining the actual, real price-levels. Instead their theorizing was concerned with theoretical (ideal) prices. Simon Clarke explains for example: It is only relatively recently that economists have tried to create generalizations about the actual pricing procedures used by business enterprises, based on information about what business people actually do (instead of an abstract mathematical model). When goods are produced for sale, they may be priced, but those prices are", "title": "Real prices and ideal prices" }, { "docid": "6596972", "text": "\"Procrastinated Memoirs\" April 2018. Their version of the song brings out a hard more grungy sound while adding touches of mainstream influence to build and bring back a classic song that had such impact for its time. Their version of the song has already been making and name while reaching a new audience in the new millennial generation. The First Edition version appears in the following: Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) \"Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)\" is a counterculture era song written by Mickey Newbury and, in 1968,", "title": "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" }, { "docid": "15650373", "text": "Medal for Rescue at Sea The Medal for Rescue at Sea is a Norwegian award was instituted by Royal Decree on 25 August 1978. It ranks as number 14 in the order of precedence of the Orders, decorations, and medals of Norway. The medal is awarded by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, on the recommendation of the Norwegian Maritime Directorate. Individuals who have demonstrated courage, resourcefulness and skill for the saving of life at sea, are eligible for this award. The Medal for Rescue at Sea is made of silver. The obverse shows the Coat of arms of Norway", "title": "Medal for Rescue at Sea" }, { "docid": "8550061", "text": "Variance-gamma distribution The variance-gamma distribution, generalized Laplace distribution or Bessel function distribution is a continuous probability distribution that is defined as the normal variance-mean mixture where the mixing density is the gamma distribution. The tails of the distribution decrease more slowly than the normal distribution. It is therefore suitable to model phenomena where numerically large values are more probable than is the case for the normal distribution. Examples are returns from financial assets and turbulent wind speeds. The distribution was introduced in the financial literature by Madan and Seneta. The variance-gamma distributions form a subclass of the generalised hyperbolic distributions.", "title": "Variance-gamma distribution" }, { "docid": "7394899", "text": "instrumental conception of reason has dominated our thinking. Utilitarianism, Arendt claims, is based on a failure to distinguish between \"in order to\" and \"for the sake of.\" The \"homo faber\" mentality is further evident in the substitution of the notion of \"use value\" for \"worth\" in economic discourse, which marks the beginning of the disappearance of a notion of a kind of worth that is intrinsic, as opposed to value, which is relative to human demand or need. Although use objects are good examples of the products of work, artworks are perhaps the best examples, since they have the greatest", "title": "The Human Condition (book)" }, { "docid": "18609632", "text": "tonight to bring him supplies. Carter can tag along but only on condition that he kill Tulip so that his business is protected. Carter agrees. While Jimmy How’s man delivers the supplies Carter waits outside. Carter is suspicious as How’s man re-emerges. It is Tulip wearing the man’s clothes and attempting to flee. Carter challenges him and shoots him dead. Peking & The Tulip Affair Peking & The Tulip Affair is the forty-second novel in the long-running Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels. Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE", "title": "Peking & The Tulip Affair" }, { "docid": "14214547", "text": "as himself. When Andre (Leon G. Thomas III) reveals that he will be hosting a party at Thompson's house, Rex the puppet sings part of the \"What Up with That\" theme song. In addition to these sketches, Diondre Cole, the backup dancer, and the saxophonist appeared in the monologue of the April 17, 2010 episode hosted by Ryan Phillippe, where he questions why MacGruber has a movie while he does not. What Up with That \"What Up with That?\" is a recurring sketch on the NBC television series \"Saturday Night Live\" which first aired in 2009. It stars Kenan Thompson", "title": "What Up with That" }, { "docid": "16683203", "text": "companies also offered external High Com compander boxes such as the Aiwa \"HR-7\" and \"HR-50\" or the Rotel \"RN-500\" and \"RN-1000\". A low-cost implementation of the Telefunken High Com system as external compander box became available as \"Hobby-Com\", developed by Telefunken product development and Thomsen-Elektronik for WDR, distributed by , and promoted for do-it-yourself assembly in the popular TV series format by Jean Pütz on 1980-02-07. More than one million High Com systems were sold between 1978 and 1982. While implemented in dozens of European and Japanese consumer device models and acoustically much superior to other systems such as Dolby", "title": "High Com" }, { "docid": "20330720", "text": "was in 1989. With the poverty rate hitting 49% as of 2001 Azerbaijan started to engage in making progress in economic situation, and by 2013, GNI per capita rose up to $7.350 with $7.912 GDP per capita and only 5% unemployment rate. The following years from 2003 till 2009 are characterized to be the boom years due to the oil exports at high prices. Since the economy of Azerbaijan, is oil-based one, meaning the main revenues are from oil exports, the fall in petroleum prices since 2010 has made a huge impact on overall economy. This, however, has positive sides", "title": "Economic development in Azerbaijan" }, { "docid": "12983215", "text": "central limit theorem holds. Because the Lindeberg condition implies formula_12 as formula_13, it guarantees that the contribution of any individual random variable formula_6 (formula_15) to the variance formula_16 is arbitrarily small, for sufficiently large values of formula_17. Lindeberg's condition In probability theory, Lindeberg's condition is a sufficient condition (and under certain conditions also a necessary condition) for the central limit theorem (CLT) to hold for a sequence of independent random variables. Unlike the classical CLT, which requires that the random variables in question have finite variance and be both independent and identically distributed, Lindeberg's CLT only requires that they have", "title": "Lindeberg's condition" }, { "docid": "6653677", "text": "they may not). The number of ideal prices used for calculations or signalling in the world vastly exceeds the number of real prices fetched. At any point in time, most economic goods and services in society are being owned or used, but not traded; nevertheless people are constantly extrapolating prices which would apply \"if\" they were traded in markets or \"if\" they had to be replaced. Such price information is essential to estimate the possible incomes, budgetary implications or expenditures associated with a transaction. The distinction is currently best known in the profession of auditing. It also has enormous significance", "title": "Real prices and ideal prices" }, { "docid": "806899", "text": "a few years. In 1722 Henry Elking published a proposal, directed at the governors of the South Sea Company, that they should resume the \"Greenland Trade\" and send ships to catch whales in the Arctic. He made very detailed suggestions about how the ships should be crewed and equipped. The British Parliament confirmed that a British Arctic \"whale-fishery\" would continue to benefit from freedom from Customs duties, and in 1724 the South Sea Company decided to commence whaling. They had 12 whale-ships built on the River Thames and these went to the Greenland seas in 1725. Further ships were built", "title": "South Sea Company" }, { "docid": "2911927", "text": "sea otter furs from the First Nations people. When Cook's ship later stopped at a Chinese port, the pelts rapidly sold at high prices, and were soon known as \"soft gold\". As word spread, people from all over Europe and North America began to arrive in the Pacific Northwest to trade for sea otter furs. Russian hunting expanded to the south, initiated by American ship captains, who subcontracted Russian supervisors and Aleut hunters in what are now Washington, Oregon, and California. Between 1803 and 1846, 72 American ships were involved in the otter hunt in California, harvesting an estimated 40,000", "title": "Sea otter" }, { "docid": "806894", "text": "the slaves were provided by the Royal African Company. The South Sea Company established slave reception factories at Cartagena, Colombia, Veracruz, Mexico, Panama, Portobello, La Guaira, Buenos Aires, La Havana and Santiago de Cuba, and slave deposits at Jamaica and Barbados. Despite problems with speculation, the South Sea Company was relatively successful at slave trading and meeting its quota (it was unusual for other, similarly chartered companies to fulfill their quotas). According to records compiled by David Eltis and others, during the course of 96 voyages in 25 years, the South Sea Company purchased 34,000 slaves, of whom 30,000 survived", "title": "South Sea Company" }, { "docid": "5528160", "text": "\"value-based management\" by corporations, we can witness a continual cross-reference between past prices, current prices and future prices occurring, because there is practically no other way to do it for business purposes. In the words of group controller Gerard Ruizendaal of Royal Philips Electronics, A partner of McKinsey & Company comments: .In that case, it is \"impossible\" for the sum of input values to be exactly equal to the sum of output values. Indeed, that is exactly what, according to Marx, capitalists are in business for: to invest a sum of capital in production in order to get a \"larger\"", "title": "Prices of production" }, { "docid": "16501158", "text": "nominated for the 2010 Cartoon d'or, and won the 2010 Animated Film Award at the SCHLINGEL International Film Festival. It opened the 2010 Lucas Filmfestival for children's films, and aired on the German television show \"Die Sendung mit der Maus\". In 2011, director Andrea Simon released a short film of the same name; in her version, two young sisters cope with the death of their mother by reading the book. The book itself is acted out by two dancers, \"blending real characters with the story.\" Duck, Death and the Tulip Duck, Death and the Tulip (German title: \"Ente, Tod und", "title": "Duck, Death and the Tulip" }, { "docid": "16831035", "text": "In 1773 Joseph Hansom went south from Fort Churchill, one of the few to leave from that northern post. In 1774 Pedlars at Frog Portage diverted a large quantity of furs destined for Churchill. By about 1779 the Pedlars had merged themselves into the North West Company. The two companies competed until 1821. See, for example, Saskatchewan River fur trade and Assiniboine River fur trade. After the merger of the two companies the HBC dominated western Canada until its land claims were transferred to the new Canadian confederation in 1870. Asleep by the frozen sea Asleep by the frozen sea", "title": "Asleep by the frozen sea" }, { "docid": "806887", "text": "rights were previously held by the Compagnie de Guinée et de l'Assiente du Royaume de la France. The South Sea Company board opposed taking on the slave trade that had showed little profitability when chartered companies had engaged in it, but it was the only legal type of commerce with the Spanish Colonies as they were a closed market. To increase the profitability, the Asiento contract included the right to send one yearly 500 ton ship to the fairs at Portobello and Veracruz loaded with duty-free merchandises, called the \"Navío de Permiso\". The Crown of England and the King of", "title": "South Sea Company" }, { "docid": "7249483", "text": "Intrinsic safety Intrinsic safety (IS) is a protection technique for safe operation of electrical equipment in hazardous areas by limiting the energy, electrical and thermal, available for ignition. In signal and control circuits that can operate with low currents and voltages, the intrinsic safety approach simplifies circuits and reduces installation cost over other protection methods. Areas with dangerous concentrations of flammable gases or dust are found in applications such as petrochemical refineries and mines. As a discipline, it is an application of inherent safety in instrumentation. High-power circuits such as electric motors or lighting cannot use intrinsic safety methods for", "title": "Intrinsic safety" }, { "docid": "442405", "text": "that fall below the mean are included in the calculation. It is sometimes described as a measure of downside risk in an investments context. For skewed distributions, the semivariance can provide additional information that a variance does not. For inequalities associated with the semivariance, see . If formula_34 is a scalar complex-valued random variable, with values in formula_178 then its variance is formula_179 where formula_180 is the complex conjugate of formula_181 This variance is a real scalar. If formula_4 is a vector-valued random variable, with values in formula_183 and thought of as a column vector, then a natural generalization of", "title": "Variance" }, { "docid": "513326", "text": "would give a false impression of high resolution, but for longer τ the effect is gradually removed, and the lower-τ region of the measurement has biased values. This bias is providing lower values than it should, so it is an overoptimistic (assuming that low numbers is what one wishes) bias, reducing the usability of the measurement rather than improving it. Such smart algorithms can usually be disabled or otherwise circumvented by using time-stamp mode, which is much preferred if available. While several approaches to measurement of Allan variance can be devised, a simple example may illustrate how measurements can be", "title": "Allan variance" }, { "docid": "11215042", "text": "the famous Christmas party at The Palace, Tulip burns down the hotel where Natalie's family lives, endangering their lives. Natalie, at the close of the novel, has moved to a new hotel with her family and things are going well but while her family, old teachers, and old community all criticize and dislike Tulip, Natalie knows she will remember Tulip for the rest of her life and always feel guilty about her. It is clear that at the time of her friendship with Tulip, Natalie was too young to recognize the signs of abuse but wonders why adults who seem", "title": "The Tulip Touch" }, { "docid": "10127672", "text": "each subset of data at the various levels of \"x\". If we can assume that the same phenomena are generating random error at every level of \"x\", the above data can be “pooled” to express a single estimate of variance and standard deviation. In a sense, this suggests finding a mean variance or standard deviation among the five results above. This mean variance is calculated by weighting the individual values with the size of the subset for each level of \"x\". Thus, the pooled variance is defined by where \"n\", \"n\", . . ., \"n\" are the sizes of the", "title": "Pooled variance" }, { "docid": "723", "text": "Algorithms for calculating variance Algorithms for calculating variance play a major role in computational statistics. A key difficulty in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow when dealing with large values. A formula for calculating the variance of an entire population of size \"N\" is: Using Bessel's correction to calculate an unbiased estimate of the population variance from a finite sample of \"n\" observations, the formula is: Therefore, a naive algorithm to calculate the estimated variance", "title": "Algorithms for calculating variance" }, { "docid": "3323361", "text": "as the free trade agreement with Ukraine (here, Veselovsky makes a mistake, as FTAs are actually part of the EU's common commercial policy for which the European Commissioner for Trade is responsible). The President of the European Parliament meanwhile articulates the EU's values. With the growth in role of the High Representative, and their exclusion from the European Council, the national foreign ministers are now uncertain of their role vs the High Representative. At an informal meeting in Finland it was mooted that they could serve as special envoys on the High Representative's behalf. This has been backed by Ashton", "title": "High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy" }, { "docid": "1640648", "text": "dramatic than the rise. Data on sales largely disappeared after the February 1637 collapse in prices, but a few other data points on bulb prices after tulip mania show that bulbs continued to lose value for decades thereafter. Garber compared the available price data on tulips to hyacinth prices at the beginning of the 19th century—when the hyacinth replaced the tulip as the fashionable flower—and found a similar pattern. When hyacinths were introduced florists strove with one another to grow beautiful hyacinth flowers, as demand was strong. As people became more accustomed to hyacinths the prices began to fall. The", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "6653674", "text": "Real prices and ideal prices The distinction between real prices and ideal prices is a distinction between \"actual prices paid\" for products, services, assets and labour (the net amount of money that actually changes hands), and \"computed\" prices which are not actually charged or paid in market trade, although they may facilitate trade. The difference is between actual prices \"paid\", and information about \"possible\", \"potential\" or \"likely\" prices, or \"average\" price levels. This distinction should not be confused with the difference between \"nominal prices\" (current-value) and \"real prices\" (adjusted for price inflation, and/or tax and/or ancillary charges). It is more", "title": "Real prices and ideal prices" }, { "docid": "13353348", "text": "Variance-stabilizing transformation In applied statistics, a variance-stabilizing transformation is a data transformation that is specifically chosen either to simplify considerations in graphical exploratory data analysis or to allow the application of simple regression-based or analysis of variance techniques. The aim behind the choice of a variance-stabilizing transformation is to find a simple function \"ƒ\" to apply to values \"x\" in a data set to create new values such that the variability of the values \"y\" is not related to their mean value. For example, suppose that the values x are realizations from different Poisson distributions: i.e. the distributions each have", "title": "Variance-stabilizing transformation" }, { "docid": "13353353", "text": "a M. S. Bartlett paper. Variance-stabilizing transformation In applied statistics, a variance-stabilizing transformation is a data transformation that is specifically chosen either to simplify considerations in graphical exploratory data analysis or to allow the application of simple regression-based or analysis of variance techniques. The aim behind the choice of a variance-stabilizing transformation is to find a simple function \"ƒ\" to apply to values \"x\" in a data set to create new values such that the variability of the values \"y\" is not related to their mean value. For example, suppose that the values x are realizations from different Poisson distributions:", "title": "Variance-stabilizing transformation" }, { "docid": "5528172", "text": "the (either simultaneous or sequential) \"reciprocal effects\" of individual business behaviour and aggregate economic outcomes. Additionally, it must also be recognised that \"prices\" are not all of one kind; \"actual market prices realised\" are not the same as ideal prices of various kinds, which may be extrapolated from real prices. A more serious criticism of Marx is that the theory of prices of production is still pitched at a \"far too abstract theoretical level\" to be able to explain anything like specific real price movements. That is, Marx only illustrated with examples the \"general results towards which the competitive process", "title": "Prices of production" }, { "docid": "11022175", "text": "USS Tulip (1862) USS \"Tulip\" (1862) was a 183-ton steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. \"Tulip\" was outfitted with heavy guns and was used by the Navy as a gunboat to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy in order to prevent the South from trading with other countries. \"Tulip\"—a wooden-hulled, steam lighthouse tender built at New York City in 1862 and 1863 as \"Chih Kiang\" by Jowett & Company for the Chinese Navy—was purchased by the Navy on 22 June 1863 at New York. Renamed \"Tulip\" and refitted for service as a tugboat and gunboat,", "title": "USS Tulip (1862)" }, { "docid": "1640634", "text": "tulip futures among people who never saw the bulbs. Many men made and lost fortunes overnight. Tulip mania reached its peak during the winter of 1636–37, when some bulbs were reportedly changing hands ten times in a day. No deliveries were ever made to fulfil any of these contracts, because in February 1637, tulip bulb contract prices collapsed abruptly and the trade of tulips ground to a halt. The collapse began in Haarlem, when, for the first time, buyers apparently refused to show up at a routine bulb auction. This may have been because Haarlem was then at the height", "title": "Tulip mania" }, { "docid": "20904024", "text": "If the end is well-being or happiness then such values as friendship, knowledge and beauty, as well as material sustenance, might be instrumental in achieving this. Mason refers to G.E.Moore who, whilst recognising the virtues of “industry and temperance”, recognised that there exists a “plurality of bearers of value”. Love, beauty and friendship are intrinsic values (i.e. good in themselves) rather than instrumental values, and they do not lead in all cases necessarily either to pleasure or happiness. Another significant writer on value, mentioned by both Frankena and Zimmerman, is John Dewey who questioned whether intrinsic values exist at all.", "title": "Values (Western philosophy)" }, { "docid": "806892", "text": "the War of Jenkins' Ear. Under the Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain was the only European power that could not establish factories in Africa to purchase slaves. The slaves for the Spanish America were provided by companies that were granted exclusive rights to their trade. This monopoly contract was called the slave Asiento. Between 1701 and 1713 the Asiento contract was granted to France. In 1711 Britain had created the South Sea Company to reduce debt and to trade with the Spanish America, but that commerce was illegal without a permit from Spain, and the only existing permit was the Asiento", "title": "South Sea Company" }, { "docid": "728", "text": "are being collected without enough storage to keep all the values, or when costs of memory access dominate those of computation. For such an online algorithm, a recurrence relation is required between quantities from which the required statistics can be calculated in a numerically stable fashion. The following formulas can be used to update the mean and (estimated) variance of the sequence, for an additional element \"x\". Here, denotes the sample mean of the first \"n\" samples (\"x\", ..., \"x\"), \"s\" their sample variance, and \"σ\" their population variance. These formulas suffer from numerical instability, as they repeatedly subtract a", "title": "Algorithms for calculating variance" }, { "docid": "14746621", "text": "Psychotherapists, behavioral scientists, and social scientists often deal with intrinsic, extrinsic, and systematic values of their patients. A primary way to learn about patients is to know what they value, as values are essential keys to personality structures. This knowledge can pinpoint serious problems in living, aide immensely in planning therapeutic regimens, and measure therapeutic progress with applications of values scales over time, especially as social environments and social norms change. Values are important in the construction of personal morality and as a basis for living life. Recent literature suggests that social values are reflected in a large variety of", "title": "Values scale" }, { "docid": "3031996", "text": "important for the conduct of memorial and ancestor rites. The Buddhist Churches of America, the North American branch of Japanese Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, has created a service for Buddhist burials at sea, primarily for military service members. In Thailand ashes are generally placed in a wreath with lit candles and floated off to sea from a vessel followed by a procession of mourning wreaths, with lit candles also. Officially, the Roman Catholic Church prefers normal casket burials over cremations, but does allow for cremation subject to the condition that the ashes are entombed or buried. Catholics believe it is not", "title": "Burial at sea" }, { "docid": "6847628", "text": "the unincorporated area limit. It is about seven miles south of Daytona, and two and one half miles from the village of Port Orange. A long bridge over the Halifax River at Port Orange connects \"Wilbur-By-The-Sea\" with the mainland. At \"Wilbur-By-The-Sea\" is the narrowest point on the entire peninsula, it being only 800 feet from Ocean to River. The land here rises from 20 to 30 feet above the River and Ocean, and is considerably higher than the mainland, thus assuring a healthful climate free from any malarial conditions. Wilbur-By-The-Sea, Florida Wilbur-By-The-Sea is an unincorporated community in Volusia County, Florida,", "title": "Wilbur-By-The-Sea, Florida" }, { "docid": "13419522", "text": "price volatility and stock price, none of these models are able to strongly explain the excess returns on variance swaps. This implies that there is another factor that is unrelated to stock prices that affects how much, on average, one will pay to enter into a variance swap contract. This suggests that investors are willing to pay extra money to enter into variance because they dislike variance, not just because it is anti-correlated with stock prices, but on its own right. This leads to many considering variance as an asset class in and of itself. In the years before the", "title": "Variance risk premium" }, { "docid": "13353349", "text": "different mean values \"μ\". Then, because for the Poisson distribution the variance is identical to the mean, the variance varies with the mean. However, if the simple variance-stabilizing transformation is applied, the sampling variance associated with observation will be nearly constant: see Anscombe transform for details and some alternative transformations. While variance-stabilizing transformations are well known for certain parametric families of distributions, such as the Poisson and the binomial distribution, some types of data analysis proceed more empirically: for example by searching among power transformations to find a suitable fixed transformation. Alternatively, if data analysis suggests a functional form for", "title": "Variance-stabilizing transformation" }, { "docid": "2235791", "text": "prices determine what the insurance companies will have to pay for the drug. Therefore, patients are rarely expected to pay the high prices listed for each prescription. According to the 2017 consumer reports, it is important to compare prices of various retail pharmacies to get the best deal. Other tips include seeking 90-day prescription when possible, asking for the lowest price when deciding to pay for a medication, asking for generics (refer to \"Generics versus Brand-name Products\" for more details regarding generic drugs vs. brand-name drugs), comparing insurance plans and talking to your doctor about costs in order to find", "title": "Prescription drug prices in the United States" }, { "docid": "14908023", "text": "What Is the Matter with Willi? What Is the Matter with Willi? (German:Was ist denn bloß mit Willi los) is a 1970 German comedy film directed by Werner Jacobs and starring Heinz Erhardt, Ralf Wolter and Ruth Stephan. A tax inspector tries to reform the Ministry of Finance. It was based on a character Heinz Erhardt played on television. It was followed by a loose sequel \"That Can't Shake Our Willi!\" and in 1971 a third film \"Our Willi Is the Best\" was made with Erhard returning as Willi. The final film \"Willi Manages The Whole Thing\" was released in", "title": "What Is the Matter with Willi?" }, { "docid": "14908024", "text": "1972. What Is the Matter with Willi? What Is the Matter with Willi? (German:Was ist denn bloß mit Willi los) is a 1970 German comedy film directed by Werner Jacobs and starring Heinz Erhardt, Ralf Wolter and Ruth Stephan. A tax inspector tries to reform the Ministry of Finance. It was based on a character Heinz Erhardt played on television. It was followed by a loose sequel \"That Can't Shake Our Willi!\" and in 1971 a third film \"Our Willi Is the Best\" was made with Erhard returning as Willi. The final film \"Willi Manages The Whole Thing\" was released", "title": "What Is the Matter with Willi?" }, { "docid": "806886", "text": "in 1722, but it is not known how much he lost, if anything. The South Sea Company was created in 1711 to reduce the size of public debts, but was granted the commercial privilege of exclusive rights of trade to the Spanish Indies, based on the treaty of commerce signed by Britain and the Archduke Charles, candidate to the Spanish throne during the War of the Spanish Succession. After Philip V became the King of Spain, Britain obtained at the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht the rights to the slave trade to the Spanish Indies (or Asiento) for 30 years. Those", "title": "South Sea Company" }, { "docid": "6653691", "text": "kind of commercial valuation we care to make. Any activity, thing or transaction has its \"price-tag\", so to speak. It can be difficult to work out, even for an economist, what a price really means, and price information can be deceptive. Ideal prices are typically prices that \"would\" apply in trade, \"if\" certain assumed conditions apply (and they may not). Hence ideal prices are typically not observable, but instead \"inferences\" from observables. Transactions are registered in accounts, the accounting information is aggregated up to compute price data, and this data is in turn used to estimate price trends. In the", "title": "Real prices and ideal prices" }, { "docid": "4667048", "text": "the corresponding vega notional for a volatility swap. This makes the payoff of a variance swap comparable to that of a volatility swap, another less popular instrument used to trade volatility. The variance swap may be hedged and hence priced using a portfolio of European call and put options with weights inversely proportional to the square of strike. Any volatility smile model which prices vanilla options can therefore be used to price the variance swap. For example, using the Heston model, a closed-form solution can be derived for the fair variance swap rate. Care must be taken with the behaviour", "title": "Variance swap" }, { "docid": "14205734", "text": "in Mumbai. Tulip had in 2012 Bonds of FCCB due with a face value of $100 m for 150m due, along with premium. It had arranged fresh bonds and debt but due to a freak trade and circumstances beyond its control, the bonds could not be redeemed in time and the company went into default. A Provisional liquidator was appointed by the Delhi High Court. The Winding up has been stayed by the Honourable Division bench of Delhi High Court on the grounds that this is a core infrastructure company. The Banks appointed top global auditors and the assets of", "title": "Tulip Telecom" }, { "docid": "806905", "text": "Charles Dickens novels are littered with stock-market speculations, villains, swindlers and fictional speculators. Little Dorrit (1857) The financial house of Mr Merdle; Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) 'Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Company, modeled loosely on the South Sea Bubble,- is in essence a classic Ponzi scheme; Nicholas Nickleby (1839) Ralph Nickleby's great Joint Stock Company, United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company; David Copperfield (1850) the false accounting by the sycophant Uriah Heep, clerk to lawyer Mr Wickfield; South Sea Company The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain,", "title": "South Sea Company" }, { "docid": "3031995", "text": "the cremated remains from a ship. Burial at sea by aircraft is usually done only with cremated remains. Other types of burial at sea include the mixing of the ashes with concrete and dropping the concrete block to form an artificial reef such as the Atlantis Reef. Below is a list of religions that allow burial at sea, with some details of the burial. There are very few traditional Buddhist burials at sea. Traditionally, the deceased are cremated and the ashes are placed in a grave or columbarium. Particularly in East Asian or Mahayana Buddhism, a physical gravesite is considered", "title": "Burial at sea" }, { "docid": "6185375", "text": "bulbs and escalating demands for flowers in the elite’s palaces and gardens. Tulip mania demonstrated the state's power to regulate the economy by increasing the prices for bulbs. Courtiers at the time forwarded a petition to denounce the practice of flower sellers, whom they perceived to be taking advantage of the elite by raising the prices of the bulbs. This led to the process of issuing inventories of flowers and price lists to the judge of Istanbul for enforcement. Tulip period The Tulip Period or Tulip Era (21 July 1718 – 28 September 1730) (Ottoman Turkish: لاله دورى, ) is", "title": "Tulip period" }, { "docid": "2235756", "text": "the Health Outcomes Research Group, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York and Steven Pearson from the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, Boston. , prices of brand name drugs were significantly higher in the United States (US) than in Canada, India, the UK and other countries, nearly all of which have price controls, while prices for generic drugs tended to be higher in Canada. One of the reasons drug prices are much higher in the US compared to other industrialized countries is that the U.S. lacks a national healthcare system that directly negotiates with the pharmaceutical industry. Rather, most", "title": "Prescription drug prices in the United States" }, { "docid": "16683204", "text": "B, C, dbx, or Super D, the High Com family of systems never gained a similar market penetration. This was caused by several factors, including the existing pre-dominance of the Dolby system, with Dolby Laboratories introducing the \"good enough\" Dolby C update (with up to 15 dB A-weighted improvement) in 1980 as well, and also by the fact that High Com required higher quality tape decks and tapes to work with in order to give satisfactory results. High Com II even required calibration of the playback level using a 400 Hz, 0 dB, 200 nWb/m calibration tone for optimum results,", "title": "High Com" }, { "docid": "16683206", "text": "an external High Com compander box. High Com The High Com (also as HIGH COM, both written with a space) noise reduction system was developed by Telefunken, Germany, in the 1970s as a high quality high compression analogue compander for audio recordings. The idea of a compander for consumer devices was based on studies of a fixed two-band compander by Jürgen Wermuth of AEG-Telefunken ELA, Wolfenbüttel, developer of the Telefunken four-band audio compander for professional use. In April 1974, the resulting \"RUSW-200\" prototype first led to the development of a sliding two-band compander by Ernst F. Schröder of Telefunken Grundlagenlaboratorium,", "title": "High Com" }, { "docid": "13691147", "text": "animal husbandry, animal breeding, vivisection, animal testing and biotechnology. It is also used by environmental advocates and in law to holistically encompass the totality of intrinsic values in an ecosystem. Article 7(d) of New Zealand's \"Resource Management Act\" (RMA), for example, requires particular regard to be to given to \"intrinsic values of ecosystems\" Moral attitudes towards animals in the west (as expressed in public debate and legislation) have changed considerably over time. Britain's first anti-cruelty laws were introduced in the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835. This was followed by similar laws in many other countries, especially in the second half", "title": "Intrinsic value (animal ethics)" }, { "docid": "18627421", "text": "than 82% of its market. Mercosur and EU are trying to resume negotiations that were braked since 2003. EU-Latin America trade relations Latin America is the first priority for the profound economic, social, cultural and even family ties between the two sides of the Atlantic. The countries of the EU, Latin America and the Caribbean are natural allies, united by strong historical, cultural and economic ties and collaborate very closely at international level, where intense political dialogue at all levels are maintained. The EU remains the main source of Foreign Direct Investment in the region: more than 40%. Europe invests", "title": "Argentina foreign trade relations with the European Union" } ]
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Saturday marks the 104 gridiron meeting between UW and WSU, when this years Apple Cup takes place at what stadium?
[ "Seahawks Stadium", "WaMu Theater", "Qwest Field", "Quest Field", "Wamu Theater", "Home of the 12s", "CenturyLink Field", "Century Link Field", "Seahawk Stadium", "Qwest Field Events Center", "WaMu Theatre", "Wamu Theatre" ]
[ { "docid": "3678873", "text": "Friday after Thanksgiving. Since 1946, the game has been held in odd years in Seattle at Husky Stadium (except 2011, at CenturyLink Field), while Washington State has hosted during even years at Rogers Field (1946, 1948, 1954) and Martin Stadium (since 1982) in Pullman, and Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane. The games in eastern Washington from 1935 to 1948, all in Pullman, were held in mid-October. The exception was in 1945, when two games were played: the first in Seattle in mid-October, and the second in Pullman in late First awarded in 1962, the Apple Cup trophy is presented to", "title": "Apple Cup" }, { "docid": "3678875", "text": "leaving the two teams noticeably fatigued. The 2007 game was played on the Saturday after Thanksgiving for the first time; but the 2008 game was returned to the Saturday before The media joked that the 2008 game won by the Cougars in Pullman was the \"Crapple Cup\" and \"full of worms,\" because hosted winless The game returned to the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 2009 in Seattle. The 2011 game in Seattle was moved to CenturyLink Field to allow an early start on the renovation of From 1950 through 1980 (except for the WSU home games in the series were played", "title": "Apple Cup" } ]
[ { "docid": "3678876", "text": "in Spokane at Joe Albi Stadium (Memorial Stadium until 1962). The Cougars won three of these fifteen games (1958, 1968, 1972). In 1910, the WSU home game in Spokane was played at Recreation Park The first game in 1900 resulted in a 5–5 tie. The series has been played continuously since 1945, when there were two games, one in Seattle and one in Pullman. Overtime was introduced for Division I-A (FBS) in 1996 and has been used four times in the Apple Cup, all in Pullman.Each team has two overtime victories: UW in 1996 and 2002, WSU in 2008 and", "title": "Apple Cup" }, { "docid": "3678877", "text": "2012. After a two-year hiatus in 1943 and 1944, two games were played in 1945.<br>Prior to 1959, WSU was WSC. Since 1945 Apple Cup The Apple Cup is an American college football rivalry game between the University of Washington Huskies and Washington State University Cougars, the two largest universities in the state of Washington. Both are members of the North Division of the First played in 1900, the matchup is traditionally the final game of the regular season for both teams and regularly took place on the Saturday preceding Thanksgiving. With the NCAA's extension of the regular season to twelve", "title": "Apple Cup" }, { "docid": "4673916", "text": "were in place for the win in the snow. Washington State hosts the Apple Cup rivalry game with Washington in even-numbered years. Except for 1954, the Apple Cup was played at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane from 1950–80, rather than in Pullman. The Cougars went in these fifteen Spokane Apple Cups (winning in 1958, 1968, and 1972), while winning the previous games played at Rogers Field in Pullman (1948, 1954). Since 1982, a Cougar victory, all WSU home games in the rivalry have been played at Martin Stadium, with the Cougars winning seven of the eighteen Pullman games () through", "title": "Martin Stadium" }, { "docid": "4673905", "text": "was 32,952 in 2014. Since the expansion of Reser Stadium at Oregon State in 2005, Martin Stadium fell to last in football seating capacity in the Pac-10, and is last in the Pac-12. The current attendance record was set during the championship year of 1997, when WSU beat Stanford on Senior Day in front of 40,306 on November 15. (They won the Apple Cup at Husky Stadium in Seattle the following week to win the Pac-10, and played in the Rose Bowl for the first time in 67 years.) Despite its relatively small size, Martin Stadium has one of the", "title": "Martin Stadium" }, { "docid": "3678872", "text": "Apple Cup The Apple Cup is an American college football rivalry game between the University of Washington Huskies and Washington State University Cougars, the two largest universities in the state of Washington. Both are members of the North Division of the First played in 1900, the matchup is traditionally the final game of the regular season for both teams and regularly took place on the Saturday preceding Thanksgiving. With the NCAA's extension of the regular season to twelve games in 2006, the game is often played at a later date. Since 2011, it has most commonly been held on the", "title": "Apple Cup" }, { "docid": "6759838", "text": "Albi Stadium, usually before classes began in Pullman in late September. During the stadium's first thirty years (1950–80), WSU hosted the Apple Cup at Joe Albi in the even-numbered years (except 1954), rather than on-campus in Pullman. The Cougars won only three of the fifteen () Apple Cups played at the Spokane venue (1958, 1968, 1972). The rivalry game returned to Pullman in 1982, where the Cougars have won seven of nineteen (1982, 1988, 1992, 1994, 2004, 2008, 2012) at Martin Stadium through 2018, a winning percentage of . In 1970 and 1971, the Cougars played their entire home schedule", "title": "Joe Albi Stadium" }, { "docid": "16141598", "text": "Crayford Stadium Crayford Stadium is a greyhound track located in the London Borough of Bexley in England. The stadium, which has featured races since 1986, has private suites, a restaurant and a number of bars. An evening meeting takes place every Tuesday, a matinée race meeting takes place on Thursday and morning meetings are held every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. Crayford is owned by Ladbrokes Coral. In 1984 Ladbrokes announced that racing would cease at the Crayford & Bexleyheath Stadium to allow plans for rebuilding the entire stadium as part of a development project. The twenty acre site would be", "title": "Crayford Stadium" }, { "docid": "19613890", "text": "ceased racing. Welcome news arrived shortly afterwards in 2013 when the IGB stepped in, this time led by the IGB’s Philip Peake, and took control of the venue. The track recommenced racing once again on Friday and Saturday nights. Newbridge Greyhound Stadium Newbridge Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing track located northwest of Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. Racing takes place every Friday and Saturday evening and the facilities include the grandstand Masters Restaurant and Barkers Bar which offers ample seating. Race distances are 325, 525, 575 and 600 yards and the feature competition at the track is the Cox Cup.", "title": "Newbridge Greyhound Stadium" }, { "docid": "9019632", "text": "Titan Stadium (UW–Oshkosh) J. J. Keller Field at Titan Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Other sports facilities at the university are Kolf Sports Center, Tiedemann Field, and Albee Hall. The stadium was built in 1970. The stadium for the football field has a capacity of 9,800 people, the soccer field has a capacity of 1,000 people, and the outdoor track and field has a capacity of 1,000 people. The stadium has one large grandstand on the West side of the field. There is a running track around the stadium. The football playing", "title": "Titan Stadium (UW–Oshkosh)" }, { "docid": "9019633", "text": "field is not centered, rather it is closer to the grandstand, improving visibility from there. There is, in addition, a smaller running track/soccer field located next to Titan Stadium. In 2007 and 2008, the DIII National Track and Field Championships were hosted at Titan. The stadium is also used for home games/meets for the Oshkosh high schools; Oshkosh West Wildcats, Oshkosh North Spartans, and Oshkosh Lourdes Knights. Titan Stadium (UW–Oshkosh) J. J. Keller Field at Titan Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Other sports facilities at the university are Kolf Sports Center, Tiedemann", "title": "Titan Stadium (UW–Oshkosh)" }, { "docid": "11809227", "text": "a recent competition of Algerian football. This is an event that takes place on a single meeting between the winners of the Algerian Cup and Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. Usually the meeting is domiciled in Stade 5 Juillet 1962 of Algiers, the national stadium of Algeria. By aligning with other football nations, the Algerian Football Federation organized in 1981, a new competition called \"Super Cup\" during which the national champion and Cup winner in Algeria the same season clashed at Algiers to obtain this 1 trophy. This first edition was marked by the victory of RC Kouba 1st winner of", "title": "Algerian Super Cup" }, { "docid": "20057565", "text": "cup and ring marks. Laser scanning recorded the glyphs in 3D in minute detail, taking millions of measurements. The Photogrammetry involved photographing the site from many different angles and then bringing the data together to create a 3D model. The RCAHMS carried out a survey on behalf of Historic Scotland in 1987 and a series of drawings were lodged with what is now Historic Environment Scotland. Ballochmyle cup and ring marks The Ballochmyle cup and ring marks were first recorded at Ballochmyle (NS 5107 2552), Mauchline, East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1986, very unusually carved on a vertical red sandstone cliff", "title": "Ballochmyle cup and ring marks" }, { "docid": "19752928", "text": "410 yards in circumference consisting of race distances of 310, 515 and 720 yards. The principal race held at the track is the Glamorgan Cup. In 2011 the stadium underwent a renovation including an indoor stand with seating and viewing areas and racing takes place on Thursday and Saturday evenings. It is one of only five independent (unaffiliated to a governing body) tracks remaining today. Valley Greyhound Stadium The Valley Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing stadium in Twyn Road, Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed, Wales. The track known as Valley is on Twyn Road sandwiched between the Caerphilly Road and A469", "title": "Valley Greyhound Stadium" }, { "docid": "12686223", "text": "Droopys Trapeze. In 2018 the stadium signed a deal with ARC to race a Tuesday and Friday matinée meeting and a Sunday afternoon meeting every week. Kinsley Greyhound Stadium Kinsley greyhound stadium is a Greyhound Board of Great Britain regulated greyhound racing stadium situated in Kinsley, West Yorkshire, England. It was voted \"Best National Greyhound Racing Club greyhound stadium in the north\" by the British Greyhound Racing Board for 2008. Racing takes place every Saturday evening in addition to their three ARC meetings one of which includes Sunday afternoons. The circumference of the track at Kinsley is 385 metres. Gymcrack", "title": "Kinsley Greyhound Stadium" }, { "docid": "17025104", "text": "kick) 3rd quarter scoring: UW – Austin Seferian-Jenkins 18-yard pass from Keith Price (Coons kick); UW – Bishop Sankey 7-yard run (Coons kick); UW – Coons 39-yard field goal 4th quarter scoring: WSU – Dom Williams 5-yard pass from Halliday (Furney kick); UW – Price 2-yard run (Coons kick) Ken Williamson was the referee from the SEC. 1st quarter scoring: WSU – River Cracraft 25-yard pass from Connor Halliday (Andrew Furney kick); WSU – Gabe Marks 1-yard pass from Halliday (Furney kick); CSU – Charles Lovett for 63-yard pass from Garrett Grayson (Jared Roberts kick); WSU – Theron West 28-yard", "title": "2013 Washington State Cougars football team" }, { "docid": "15141605", "text": "Cougars played two home games at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane and four on campus at Martin Stadium in Pullman; WSU did not play the USC Trojans this season. The finale was the Apple Cup, held in Pullman for the first time in 28 years; With two wins in ten games, WSU was an 18-point home underdog and were down by ten points at the half. They took the lead in the third quarter and upset the fifth-ranked Washington Huskies, Head Coach: Jim Walden Assistants: Jim Burrow, Dave Elliott, Jon Fabris, Gary Gagnon, Lindsay Hughes, Steve Morton, Melvin Sanders, Harold", "title": "1982 Washington State Cougars football team" }, { "docid": "20848088", "text": "David X. Marks Tennis Stadium The David X. Marks Tennis Stadium is a tennis facility located on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The facility, built in 1971, serves as the home of the USC Trojans men's and women's tennis teams. The facility provides six outdoor tennis courts and has a seating capacity of 1,000. The stadium is named for David X. Marks, a World War I pilot. In 2015, The Buntmann Family Tennis Center was added and includes a new entrance and lobby. The renovation included suites with lockers, showers, team meeting rooms and", "title": "David X. Marks Tennis Stadium" }, { "docid": "3371960", "text": "in 2017. On July 31, 2016, the CFL awarded Ottawa the 105th Grey Cup game, to be played at TD Place Stadium in 2017, as part of celebrations to mark 150 years of Confederation. During the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the stadium hosted five soccer matches. In mid-2007, the stadium was one of six hosts in the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Capacity was then listed at 28,826. The stadium was one of six chosen to host matches for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup; it hosted a total of six group stage matches, two Round of 16 matches,", "title": "TD Place Stadium" }, { "docid": "2067185", "text": "play \"Varsity\" as the spectators sing. The band then exits the field via the north entrance to perform more and sing \"It's Hard to Be Humble\", after which the band marches to the Mosse Humanities Building, where it is dismissed. The Fifth Quarter was officially named in 1978, and its traditions have been passed down since then. Another tradition at UW football games is the \"Jump Around\", where fans dance to the House of Pain song of the same name. This takes place between the third and fourth quarters. The tradition began on Saturday, October 10, 1998, at the Badgers'", "title": "Camp Randall Stadium" }, { "docid": "3678874", "text": "the winner by the state's governor at the conclusion of the game. The teams played for the \"Governor's Trophy\" from 1934 to 1961. The game was renamed the Apple Cup in 1962 because of Washington's national reputation as a major producer When the college football regular season was lengthened from eleven to twelve games in 2006, there was a movement to change the date of the game from the Saturday before Thanksgiving to the weekend following, which would have allowed a bye week for both teams during the season. In 2006, both teams played twelve straight weeks without a bye,", "title": "Apple Cup" }, { "docid": "14459257", "text": "and Fiji; and also a 'South Atlantic Tour', encountering Namibia and Argentina. To tour to the Six Nations countries with a southern hemisphere team, the user must again complete two tours: 'North American Tour', meeting United States and Canada; and then 'Eastern Tour', meeting Romania, Russia, Georgia and Japan. This mode allows for the user to contest a place-kick competition between any two included teams of their choosing. The match takes place in ‘Auckland’ stadium (Eden Park), and is set at night. The game features all twenty international teams competing in the 2011 Rugby World Cup. However, only ten of", "title": "Rugby World Cup 2011 (video game)" }, { "docid": "10271838", "text": "Don and Nona Williams Stadium Don and Nona Williams Stadium is a football stadium located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Stout in Menomonie, Wisconsin. The stadium is home to the UW–Stout Blue Devils, the Menomonie High School Mustangs, plus other high school games, as well as other sports at UW–Stout. The stadium is named in honor of Don Williams, a former member of the UW–Stout Board of Directors, and his wife, Nona. The couple made a significant contribution towards the construction of the stadium. The UW–Stout football team played its home games at Nelson Field on the UW–Stout", "title": "Don and Nona Williams Stadium" }, { "docid": "10829389", "text": "north grandstand and temporary seating. The two teams met in the so-called \"Displaced Bowl\" in Spokane on September 19, handily won by WSU. In 1971, the remainder of the south grandstand of Rogers Field at WSU was demolished to construct Martin Stadium, which opened the following year. Weather delayed construction in the spring and Idaho's new stadium was a month behind schedule, which forced the Vandals to play their first two home games of the 1971 season away from the Palouse. The first was the season-opener at the year-old Bronco Stadium in Boise in the first-ever meeting with Boise State", "title": "Neale Stadium" }, { "docid": "16905997", "text": "Pat Murphy following the departure of Frank Heald and Peter Corbett. Corden sold the stadium for £1 million in 1988 to JF Miller properties and Heights of Abraham Limited. Within two years the Derby City Council received a planning application for redevelopment. The last race meeting was held on Saturday 7 December 1988 (the same year as former sister track Preston). Today the area is very smart with office buildings contained within the redeveloped area. A beautifully restored entrance called Vernon Gate still marks the entrance of the prison and greyhound stadium. Derby Greyhound Stadium Derby Greyhound Stadium or Derby", "title": "Derby Greyhound Stadium" }, { "docid": "18257218", "text": "a feature titled \"The Apple Years\", promotional films from some of his previous posthumous reissues, such as \"The Concert for Bangladesh\", and other video clips. The box set marks the first time that the \"Dark Horse\" and \"Extra Texture\" albums have been remastered since their 1992 CD release. Among the bonus tracks spread across the set is an alternative, instrumental version of Harrison's 1968 B-side for the Beatles, \"The Inner Light\"; a remixed version of his non-album single \"Bangla Desh\"; and a 1992 re-recording of \"This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)\" (featuring overdubbed contributions from Ringo Starr and Dhani Harrison)", "title": "The Apple Years 1968–75" }, { "docid": "20057551", "text": "Ballochmyle cup and ring marks The Ballochmyle cup and ring marks were first recorded at Ballochmyle (NS 5107 2552), Mauchline, East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1986, very unusually carved on a vertical red sandstone cliff face, forming one of the most extensive areas of such carvings as yet found in Britain. They have been designated a scheduled ancient monument. These carvings or petroglyphs were first recorded in 1986 (although a '1751' carved date suggests an earlier discovery) when the Kingencleugh Estate decided to clear an area of vegetation along the north side of the Liddell Burn that is a minor tributary", "title": "Ballochmyle cup and ring marks" }, { "docid": "15970990", "text": "and won by Su Yung and Blackwater. WSU King and Queen of the Ring The WSU King and Queen of the Ring is an annual professional wrestling mixed tag team tournament promoted by Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU). From 2006 to 2012, WSU co-promoted the tournament with National Wrestling Superstars (NWS), but in 2013 partnered up with Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) for the tournament. The winners of the 2006 King and Queen Tournament were Julio Dinero and Kara Slice. The winners of the 2007 King and Queen tournament were Danny Demanto and Melissa Stripes. The first round matches were three-way matches.", "title": "WSU King and Queen of the Ring" }, { "docid": "15970988", "text": "WSU King and Queen of the Ring The WSU King and Queen of the Ring is an annual professional wrestling mixed tag team tournament promoted by Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU). From 2006 to 2012, WSU co-promoted the tournament with National Wrestling Superstars (NWS), but in 2013 partnered up with Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) for the tournament. The winners of the 2006 King and Queen Tournament were Julio Dinero and Kara Slice. The winners of the 2007 King and Queen tournament were Danny Demanto and Melissa Stripes. The first round matches were three-way matches. The winners of the 2008 King and", "title": "WSU King and Queen of the Ring" }, { "docid": "11127781", "text": "once again being relocated to a basement office on Smith Street next door to the main auditorium building. Over the years, The Meeting Place has seen both increases and declines in attendance. At its peak in the late 90s and into 2000, over 2200 attendees were coming on a weekly basis. Currently, 800 or more people attend on a weekly basis, with as many as 1500 people indicating they would call The Meeting Place their home faith community. The Meeting Place has seen its share of Christian recording artists on staff, most notably Juno Award nominee and Covenant Award winner", "title": "The Meeting Place (church)" }, { "docid": "16913000", "text": "2012 CECAFA Cup Final The 2012 CECAFA Cup Final was a football match which took place on Saturday, 8 December 2012 at the Namboole Stadium in Kampala, Uganda. It was contested by the winners of the semi-finals, Uganda and Kenya, at 18:00 UTC+3, after the third place playoff, which was played on the same day at 16:00 UTC+3, to determine the winner of the 2012 CECAFA Cup. Before the match taking place, the two teams had 17 titles between them, with Uganda claiming a record 12 of them. Kenya hadn't participated in a CECAFA Cup final since 2008, when they", "title": "2012 CECAFA Cup Final" }, { "docid": "5111140", "text": "Battle of the Gridiron Stars Battle of the Gridiron Stars is a television show that airs on ESPN. It pits teams of National Football League players, one from the American Football Conference (\"Americans\") and the National Football Conference (\"Nationals\"), against each other in various athletic events. The program, which takes its inspiration from the likes of \"Battle of the Network Stars\" and \"The Superstars\", is produced by IMG, the world's leading sports management firm. The show takes place at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Each team is coached by a former NFL quarterback: Archie Manning", "title": "Battle of the Gridiron Stars" }, { "docid": "17477281", "text": "The Meeting Between Abraham and Melchizedek (Rubens) The Meeting between Abraham and Melchizedek is a 1616-17 painting by Peter Paul Rubens, showing the meeting between Abraham and Melchizedek as recounted in the Genesis 14. It measures 204 cm by 250 cm and is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen. The painting's origins are unknown. It belonged to the Du Bois family when, at the end of 1749, it was bought for William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel by an art dealer in Antwerp for 6,000 florins. From that date onwards it was considered as a pendant to \"The Crowning", "title": "The Meeting Between Abraham and Melchizedek (Rubens)" }, { "docid": "11127778", "text": "of this is done in order to create an atmosphere in which both people who have attended church much of their lives, as well as those who have maybe never attended church, can feel comfortable, but also be challenged to believe the Bible and live according to what it teaches. Most weeks from September through June there are two services of just over an hour each Sunday morning at 9 and 11am. During the summer, TMP offers one service at 10am. The Meeting Place was founded in 1991 by a small group of former attendees of Portage Avenue Mennonite Brethren", "title": "The Meeting Place (church)" }, { "docid": "19613886", "text": "Newbridge Greyhound Stadium Newbridge Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing track located northwest of Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. Racing takes place every Friday and Saturday evening and the facilities include the grandstand Masters Restaurant and Barkers Bar which offers ample seating. Race distances are 325, 525, 575 and 600 yards and the feature competition at the track is the Cox Cup. Following the closure of the old Newbridge greyhound track around St Conleth's Park in 1968 the operation was relocated to a more rural location north of the town near the Rickardstown/Cornelscourt area. It was still, however, within easy reach", "title": "Newbridge Greyhound Stadium" }, { "docid": "2586117", "text": "once again moved the game, this time back to the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, citing an agreement having been made to have the publicized game played there for the next 3 years. The 2013 LFL Canada Legends Cup was scheduled to be played on Saturday, 16 November 2013 at Stampede Corral in Calgary, Alberta between the first and second placed teams of the 2013 LFL Canada season. With the creation of LFL Australia the first 2013–14 LFL Australian Legends Cup was scheduled to be played on Saturday, 8 February 2014 at nib Stadium in Perth between the first and", "title": "Legends Cup (LFL)" }, { "docid": "6633751", "text": "Jeonju World Cup Stadium Jeonju World Cup Stadium, nicknamed \"Fort Jeonju\", is a football stadium in the South Korean city of Jeonju. It is the home of Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors. The stadium's capacity is 42,477. The final of 2011 AFC Champions League was held at this stadium. The Jeonju World Cup Stadium was constructed for the 2002 FIFA World Cup which was co-hosted by South Korea and Japan. The construction of the stadium started in February 19, 1999 and was officially opened two years later, in November 8, 2001 by South Korean President Kim Dae-jung. Jeonju World Cup Stadium hosted", "title": "Jeonju World Cup Stadium" }, { "docid": "19813125", "text": "just been fined) with Jeeves posing as his valet. Gussie pretends to be Bertie and woos Gertrude successfully. Meanwhile, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, who is in love with Gertrude, appears (he has been rejected by the fierce Dame Daphne Winkworth and her four sisters), pretending to be Bertie's valet. When it seems that things can't get any worse, Aunt Agatha and Gussie's girlfriend Madeline Bassett turn up. Bertie Takes Gussie's Place At Deverill Hall \"Bertie Takes Gussie's Place At Deverill Hall\" is the fourth episode of the third series of the 1990s British comedy television series \"Jeeves and Wooster\". It first aired", "title": "Bertie Takes Gussie's Place At Deverill Hall" }, { "docid": "16141678", "text": "Henlow Stadium Henlow Stadium is a greyhound track located at Stondon, in the English county of Bedfordshire, slightly to the north of Hitchin. The stadium has a restaurant, a number of bars and a bistro. Racing takes place every Monday and Thursday morning, Tuesday evening and Saturday and Sunday afternoon. During the boom time of greyhound racing in 1927 Henlow was one of many tracks appearing around Britain, the site at Henlow Camp was previously a straights track starting in 1923. Racing got underway on 1 August 1927 but the track was to remain independent (unlicensed) for nearly fifty years.", "title": "Henlow Stadium" }, { "docid": "6138786", "text": "to the Grand Street Parade, The Apple Blossom Festival boasts the largest Children's Parade in Canada, taking place on Saturday morning before the Grand Street Parade. In the early 1990s, at Michelin's request, the Thursday night fireworks show which had always kicked off the weekend long Apple Blossom Festival, was moved to Saturday night. Since then it has alternated between Friday and Saturday night. Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival The Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival is an annual agricultural and heritage celebration held in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley usually the last weekend of May. The festival draws many tourists to", "title": "Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival" }, { "docid": "19606897", "text": "Limerick Greyhound Stadium Limerick Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing track located in south-west Limerick in Ireland. The stadium has a grandstand restaurant, hospitality suites, fast food facilities and a number of bars. Racing takes place on a Thursday (6:30pm) and Saturday (7.30pm). In 2009 the old Markets Field Greyhound Stadium just off the Garryowen Road was closed to enable a new greyhound track to replace it. The new site chosen was the former horse racing course at Greenpark and in 2008 the area underwent significant change. When the stadium was completed to the tune of €18 million at Greenpark,", "title": "Limerick Greyhound Stadium" }, { "docid": "11243741", "text": "World Cup Stadium station The World Cup Stadium Station is a metropolitan subway station in Seoul, Korea. The station was built to facilitate access to the Seoul World Cup Stadium for 2002. The station has a very specific design with a main entrance reminiscent of a Greek amphitheater, between Exits 2 and 3. The Seoul World Cup Stadium, located in Seongsan-dong, western Seoul, was opened on December 27, 2001 in time for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. This is the largest soccer-only stadium in Asia, accommodating 64,677 spectators at once. During the World Cup, the opening ceremony and the opening", "title": "World Cup Stadium station" }, { "docid": "11243743", "text": "skating and hockey playing. World Cup Stadium station The World Cup Stadium Station is a metropolitan subway station in Seoul, Korea. The station was built to facilitate access to the Seoul World Cup Stadium for 2002. The station has a very specific design with a main entrance reminiscent of a Greek amphitheater, between Exits 2 and 3. The Seoul World Cup Stadium, located in Seongsan-dong, western Seoul, was opened on December 27, 2001 in time for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. This is the largest soccer-only stadium in Asia, accommodating 64,677 spectators at once. During the World Cup, the opening", "title": "World Cup Stadium station" }, { "docid": "14660027", "text": "Germany at the FIFA World Cup This is a record of Germany and West Germany's results at the FIFA World Cup. The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The tournament consists of two parts, the qualification phase and the final phase (officially called the \"World Cup Finals\"). The qualification phase, which currently takes place over the three years going to the Finals, is used to determine", "title": "Germany at the FIFA World Cup" }, { "docid": "12686219", "text": "Kinsley Greyhound Stadium Kinsley greyhound stadium is a Greyhound Board of Great Britain regulated greyhound racing stadium situated in Kinsley, West Yorkshire, England. It was voted \"Best National Greyhound Racing Club greyhound stadium in the north\" by the British Greyhound Racing Board for 2008. Racing takes place every Saturday evening in addition to their three ARC meetings one of which includes Sunday afternoons. The circumference of the track at Kinsley is 385 metres. Gymcrack The Kinsley greyhound track is situated between Leeds and Doncaster and was built and opened in 1939. The track was independent (also known as a flapping", "title": "Kinsley Greyhound Stadium" }, { "docid": "19725151", "text": "Gridiron Classic (1999–2005) The Gridiron Classic, also known as the Rotary Gridiron Classic presented by Tyco and later The Villages Gridiron Classic for sponsorship reasons, was a post-season college football all-star game played each January in Florida from 1999 through 2005. From 1999 to 2003, it featured a team representing Florida versus a team from the rest of the United States; it was played at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando. In 2004 and 2005, it was played at The Villages Polo Stadium in The Villages, a retirement community approximately northwest of Orlando. During the two years at The Villages, the", "title": "Gridiron Classic (1999–2005)" }, { "docid": "9443069", "text": "Brazil at the FIFA World Cup This articles summarizes the results and overall performance of Brazil at the FIFA World Cup. The tournament consists of two parts, the qualification phase and the final phase, officially called the World Cup Finals. The qualification phase, which currently takes place over the three years preceding the Finals, is used to determine which teams qualify for the Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 32 teams competing for the title, at venues within the host nation (or nations) over a period of about a month. The World Cup Finals is the most widely", "title": "Brazil at the FIFA World Cup" }, { "docid": "7563421", "text": "Owlerton Stadium Owlerton Stadium, sometimes referred to as Sheffield Sports Stadium, is a greyhound racing track in Owlerton near Hillsborough in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Greyhound Racing takes place on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday evenings and every Monday and Thursday afternoon. There is a modern glass-fronted Panorama Restaurant accommodating up to 300 people, executive suites, fast food facilities and a number of bars. The stadium is also home to the Sheffield Tigers Speedway team and hosts BriSCA Formula One stock car racing events. Speedway takes place on a Thursday evening and the stadium has a total capacity for 4,000 spectators.", "title": "Owlerton Stadium" }, { "docid": "12170140", "text": "Shani Marks Shani Marks (Johnson) (born August 24, 1980 in Bloomington, Minnesota) is an American athlete who competes in the triple jump. Marks finished first at the U.S. Olympic Trials to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Marks was a state champion at Apple Valley High School and graduated in 1998. Marks was the USA Indoor Champion in the triple jump in 2005 and 2007 and the USA Outdoor Champion in 2006 and 2007. She finished seventh at the 2006 World Cup, and also competed at the 2007 World Championships and the 2008 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.", "title": "Shani Marks" }, { "docid": "19731276", "text": "had an Inside Sumner hare and the principal event was the Aberdeen Journals Cup. All of the greyhounds running at the track were owned by the company and kennelled in the 150 track kennels. The circumference of the track was 344 yards. There was a buffet bar and three licensed bars on site and racing took place on Wednesday & Saturday evenings at 7.30pm. John Jolliffe arrived from Dundee Greyhound Stadium as Racing Manager in 1935 and stayed until 1936 before he moved to Cardiff Arms Park and then Wembley. The last meeting was held on 4 October 1969 before", "title": "Holburn Stadium" }, { "docid": "3371962", "text": "would hold an outdoor game at TD Place Stadium between the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens on December 16, 2017 to mark the 100th anniversary of their inaugural NHL game. Due to sponsorship issues (Scotiabank, a competitor in Canadian banking, was the title sponsor of the game itself), the venue was known as \"Lansdowne Stadium\" for the game. TD Place Stadium TD Place Stadium (originally Lansdowne Park and formerly Frank Clair Stadium) is an outdoor stadium in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located at Lansdowne Park, on the southern edge of The Glebe neighbourhood, where Bank Street crosses the Rideau", "title": "TD Place Stadium" }, { "docid": "5934584", "text": "and the dmail and tmail mail delivery agents. As of 2005, UW IMAP's codebase consisted of 135,000 lines of code, of which the IMAP server itself comprised 4,000 lines and c-client comprised the rest. UW IMAP does not officially support the maildir format. However, UW IMAP can be patched to support other formats, such as maildir. Gluelogic offers a patch to support maildirs in Pine. The patched Pine instance can then be used to compile UW IMAP with nominal maildir support. However, this yields a buggy server that will not correctly distinguish between Unseen and Recent messages. A patch is", "title": "UW IMAP" }, { "docid": "16144825", "text": "Swindon Stadium Swindon Stadium, also known as the Abbey Greyhound Stadium, is a Greyhound Board of Great Britain regulated greyhound racing track and speedway track located in Blunsdon, Swindon, England. The stadium is home to the Swindon Robins, who compete in the Elite League. Racing takes place every Saturday evening, in addition to their three ARC fixtures. The greyhound track, with a circumference of 463 metres, is one of the largest in the United Kingdom; the speedway track has a circumference of 363 metres. The stadium opened to the public on 23 July 1949 when it hosted the Swindon Robins", "title": "Swindon Stadium" }, { "docid": "16141603", "text": "Grand National win by the Gemma Davidson trained Plane Daddy continued Crayford’s success with hurdle racing and Lorraine Sams introduced a greyhound to the industry in 2006 called Spiridon Louis. The black and white dog would become the 2007 Greyhound of the year after winning the St Leger, TV Trophy and Regency. Crayford Stadium Crayford Stadium is a greyhound track located in the London Borough of Bexley in England. The stadium, which has featured races since 1986, has private suites, a restaurant and a number of bars. An evening meeting takes place every Tuesday, a matinée race meeting takes place", "title": "Crayford Stadium" }, { "docid": "13264710", "text": "knock-out games, the Millennium Stadium only hosted three; Australia's defeat of Wales in the quarter final stage, and the third place play-off and final. The other fixtures were played for at a variety of European venues. The following Welsh stadiums were used: In a more public bidding process, France beat England to win the right to host the 2007 World Cup. The WRU supported the French bid, in accordance with an agreement between the nations over the 1999 cup. As a result of that agreement, world cup rugby returned to the Millennium Stadium for three pool matches (including two featuring", "title": "Wales at the Rugby World Cup" }, { "docid": "8871954", "text": "1969 FA Cup Final The 1969 FA Cup Final was the final match of the 1968–69 staging of English football's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, better known as the FA Cup. The match was contested between Leicester City and Manchester City at Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday 26 April 1969. This was the first FA Cup final since 1951 to take place in the month of April. Three-time winners Manchester City were appearing in their seventh final, whereas Leicester City were seeking to win the competition for the first time, having lost three previous finals. Each", "title": "1969 FA Cup Final" }, { "docid": "13604473", "text": "Gridiron Fantasy Football Gridiron: Fantasy Football was a football-themed collectible card game first published in August 1995 by Upper Deck. Gridiron simulates a football game that takes place in a dystopian \"near-future\", and features a violent and over-the-top backstory comparing the new style of the game to Roman gladiator combat. Each player uses a 60-card deck, primarily composed of Plays and Actions, which are further divided into Offense and Defense, along with Team cards, which encompass Star Players at various positions, Coaches, Franchises, Traditions and Formations that provide additional benefits. The goal is to be the player with the most", "title": "Gridiron Fantasy Football" }, { "docid": "4713800", "text": "ground seats and, as well as hosting Airdrieonians first and youth team games, Motherwell Under 20s games and various local amateur sides, it has also played host to Scottish Challenge Cup finals in 1999 and 2005, as well as Scotland under-21 fixtures and Old Firm reserve matches. The stadium has also hosted several charity events. In 2003 Falkirk enquired about groundsharing at the stadium for a season, as their former home, Brockville did not meet SPL criteria. This was later rejected in a meeting between SPL chairmen, meaning Falkirk were denied a place in the SPL. In August 2008 it", "title": "Excelsior Stadium" }, { "docid": "18455593", "text": "51st Vanier Cup The 2015 Vanier Cup, the 51st edition of the Canadian university football championship took place on Saturday, November 28, 2015 at Telus Stadium in Quebec City, Quebec. It was the fourth time that the city of Quebec has hosted the Vanier Cup. For the third consecutive year the championship game was played in the province of Quebec. The game featured the Canada West Champion UBC Thunderbirds and the RSEQ Champion Montreal Carabins. This was the second appearance for the Carabins and the sixth for the Thunderbirds. The Vanier Cup is played between the champions of the Mitchell", "title": "51st Vanier Cup" }, { "docid": "6716382", "text": "position at Virginia. Following a 10-21 (3-15 conference) season, Bone was fired as head coach on March 18, 2014. He had two years of his guaranteed seven-year contract remaining. Washington State has won 2 NCAA team national championships. see also: Below are 5 national team titles that were not bestowed by the NCAA: see also: Washington State's biggest rival is the University of Washington (UW) Huskies. One of the most important athletic contests for both schools is the Apple Cup: the annual game between the Cougars and the University of Washington Huskies and is traditionally held on the third Saturday", "title": "Washington State Cougars" }, { "docid": "19627664", "text": "order and it held many charity nights. The Racing Manager for many years was Eamonn Bourke before Paul Hayes took over the chair. In 2011 the stadium underwent significant refurbishment resulting in an extension to the main upstairs bar areas and facilities to cater for events. Thurles Greyhound Stadium Thurles Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing track located on Castlemeadows opposite the Semple Stadium in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. Racing takes place every Thursday and Saturday evening and the facilities include a trackside restaurant, fast food facilities, a number of bars and totalisator betting. The stadium has a car park", "title": "Thurles Greyhound Stadium" }, { "docid": "19622308", "text": "years. The stadium underwent further upgrading in 2012 following extra investment by the Irish Greyhound Board. Kingdom Greyhound Stadium Kingdom Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing track located in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. It has been known as Oakview Park and the Tralee Greyhound Stadium previously. Racing takes place every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday evening and the facilities include a grandstand restaurant, fast food facilities, a number of bars, totalisator betting and ample seating. It is conveniently located within walking distance of Tralee town centre and also has a large car park around the stadium. Race distances are 500, 525,", "title": "Kingdom Greyhound Stadium" }, { "docid": "7415382", "text": "too small. They played their last game there in round 25, 29 August 2009, winning 38–4 against the Sydney Roosters. List of rugby league Test and World Cup matches played at Olympic Smart Stadium. The stadium has hosted international rugby union matches, and in 2007 was home to the now defunct Melbourne Rebels (ARC) in the only season of the Australian Rugby Championship. Victorian rugby union returned to the stadium in 2011 when the Melbourne Rebels played a warm-up, for their debut Super Rugby season, against the Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga. The stadium also hosted Gridiron Victoria \"Vic Bowl\"s", "title": "Olympic Park Stadium" }, { "docid": "18257229", "text": "Ham, \"George Harrison: \"The Apple Years: 1968–1975\" Review\", \"Paste\", 24 September 2014 (retrieved 25 September 2014).</ref> In his review for The Second Disc, Joe Marchese compliments the packaging and deems the box set \"beautiful inside and out\", adding: \"\"The Apple Years\" presents George Harrison in his many contradictions, but one thing that's crystal-clear is that the music he left behind is music to cherish.\"<ref name=\"Marchese/Review\">Joe Marchese, \"Review: The George Harrison Remasters – 'The Apple Years 1968–1975'\", The Second Disc, 23 September 2014 (retrieved 25 September 2014).</ref> The Apple Years 1968–75 The Apple Years 1968–75 is a box set by English", "title": "The Apple Years 1968–75" }, { "docid": "7634649", "text": "Director Larry Holstad said that due to Alltel Wireless' purchase of Midwest Wireless, the stadium would be renamed. Due to Verizon Wireless' acquisition of Alltel, Alltel Stadium became known as Verizon Wireless Stadium, the third wireless carrier to have sponsorship of Maxwell Field. In August 2014, without fanfare, the stadium's name was changed, dropping corporate sponsorship at the completion of the ten year sponsorship. In September 2015, WSU entered a new partnership with Altra Federal Credit Union, renaming the stadium 'Altra Federal Credit Union Stadium.' Maxwell Field at Warrior Stadium Altra Federal Credit Union Stadium, also known as Maxwell Field,", "title": "Maxwell Field at Warrior Stadium" }, { "docid": "6757156", "text": "an Apple-branded, but DEC \"Tulip\" Ethernet card and a display card from a 9500 goes a long way towards achieving Mac OS capability but even this is not assured. Yellowdog Linux 2.x or 3.x is more assured, and NetBSD 1.5.x might be even better. Major issues remain, such as the dual \"Bandit\" bus controllers, the proprietary floppy format, and possibly the CD-ROM. UW-SCSI hard disks are seldom an issue and Apple even released an U-SCSI (but narrow) hard disk installation kit for the ANS even though an ANS is normally only equipped with UW-SCSI disks. , most Apple Network Servers", "title": "Apple Network Server" }, { "docid": "13650487", "text": "Yarmouth Stadium Yarmouth Stadium is a greyhound racing track located at West Caister in the Borough of Great Yarmouth and English county of Norfolk. It is licensed by the Greyhound Board of Great Britain. Greyhound Racing takes place every Monday, Thursday and Saturday evening. Facilities include a modern designed 'Raceview Restaurant' seating 240, several executive suites, fast food facilities and a number of bars. Speedway arrived in 1948 running until 1961; Ernie Wedon became the manager of the speedway team called 'Yarmouth Bloaters' throughout this period. The stadium has continually run Stock Car racing since the 1960s and boasted its", "title": "Yarmouth Stadium" }, { "docid": "13907805", "text": "Gridiron Glory Gridiron Glory is a weekly 30-minute television sports show that airs highlights of high school football games in Southeastern Ohio. The program began in 1999, and airs every Friday night at 11:30 during the high school football season. 2018 marks the 20th season of the program. Gridiron Glory airs on the PBS-affiliate WOUB in Athens, Ohio, and is produced entirely by Ohio University students. Tyler Corbit is producing the 2018 season with Nick Langer directing. Blake Baker and Noah Wolf are season 20 hosts. Gridiron Glory covers the teams in four leagues in Ohio. In previous seasons, coverage", "title": "Gridiron Glory" }, { "docid": "12697424", "text": "Gridiron in Western Australia Gridiron or American Football was first played in Western Australia after a recruiting effort was organised in 1988. This also sparked interest in the local area leading to the formation of W.A.G.F.L. or Western Australian Gridiron Football League. Originally meant to only consist of two teams The Northside Chargers and The Southside Seahawks there was enough interest to start the league with 3 teams as the Bassendean Broncos(now Perth Broncos) were formed as well. The first organised Gridiron game to be played in W.A. (Western Australia) took place between the Southside Seahawks and Bassendean Broncos at", "title": "Gridiron in Western Australia" }, { "docid": "11127776", "text": "The Meeting Place (church) The Meeting Place (commonly referred to as TMP) is an evangelical Christian church located in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is a member of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches and the Mennonite Brethren Church of Manitoba. The Meeting Place's mission statement is \"to be a biblically-functioning community leading people to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.\" Based on this truth, in June 2013 the membership established a vision statement to encourage and challenge the church to be about both experiencing and expressing compassion: \"Reordering our lives for the compassionate cause of", "title": "The Meeting Place (church)" }, { "docid": "16876410", "text": "Come Back\". The 2010 remaster offered previously unreleased songs recorded during Lomax's two years on Apple Records, as well as additional tracks for download, including alternative mixes of \"Sour Milk Sea\", \"The Eagle Laughs at You\" and \"New Day\". Omitted from this 2010 CD, \"Going Back to Liverpool\" and the stereo mix of \"New Day\" instead appeared on the bonus discs included in the 17-disc \"Apple Box Set\". On release, \"Is This What You Want?\" received enthusiastic reviews. In a 1970 interview with Robert Greenfield of \"Rolling Stone\", however, Lomax lamented that commentators tended to focus on the line-up of", "title": "Is This What You Want?" }, { "docid": "18257225", "text": "George Harrison deserves the elaborate treatment he gets here, which makes this a worthwhile addition to any Beatle lovers' bulging collection …\"<ref name=\"Horowitz/AmSong\">Hal Horowitz, \"George Harrison: \"The Apple Years, 1968–75\"\", \"American Songwriter\", 23 September 2014 (archived version from 28 September 2014; retrieved 21 May 2017).</ref> In a less favourable review for \"Uncut\", Richard Williams writes that \"only a devoted Apple Scruff could love \"Extra Texture\", or its two immediate predecessors\", although he admires \"Wonderwall Music\" as an album that \"documents an innocent optimism that will always be worth a listen\". AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes \"The Apple Years\" as", "title": "The Apple Years 1968–75" }, { "docid": "15671234", "text": "India at the 2011 Sudirman Cup The Indian national badminton team competed in the 2011 Sudirman Cup held in Qingdao, China from 22 to 29 May 2011. It was the twelfth edition of the Sudirman Cup, the world mixed team badminton championship which takes place every two years. In this edition, 32 national badminton teams participated, and for the first time twelve teams competed in the elite group to battle for the title. The Indian team qualified for the elite group of the first time since the tournament started in 1989 and reached the quarterfinals, where it lost to seven", "title": "India at the 2011 Sudirman Cup" }, { "docid": "20848089", "text": "lounges. The renovation also included a new training room, storage area and large multi-purpose room. In 2005, a new LED scoreboard was installed. In 2002, 700 chair-back seats were added replacing bleacher seating. The 1974 men’s NCAA Tennis Tournament was held at the stadium. David X. Marks Tennis Stadium The David X. Marks Tennis Stadium is a tennis facility located on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The facility, built in 1971, serves as the home of the USC Trojans men's and women's tennis teams. The facility provides six outdoor tennis courts and has a", "title": "David X. Marks Tennis Stadium" }, { "docid": "14166409", "text": "- Peterborough Greyhound Stadium Peterborough Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing track located in Fengate, less than a mile from the centre of Peterborough, England. Racing at the stadium takes place every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday night with racing starting at 7:30 pm. The Liberty of Peterborough was an historic area comprising around thirty parishes, and it was in 1931 that the Peterborough Racing Club opened their new greyhound track within the Liberty. The venue was described as being off Star Road which is misleading because although this is in the Fengate area the actual track was off the Fengate", "title": "Peterborough Greyhound Stadium" }, { "docid": "14166400", "text": "Peterborough Greyhound Stadium Peterborough Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing track located in Fengate, less than a mile from the centre of Peterborough, England. Racing at the stadium takes place every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday night with racing starting at 7:30 pm. The Liberty of Peterborough was an historic area comprising around thirty parishes, and it was in 1931 that the Peterborough Racing Club opened their new greyhound track within the Liberty. The venue was described as being off Star Road which is misleading because although this is in the Fengate area the actual track was off the Fengate Road.", "title": "Peterborough Greyhound Stadium" }, { "docid": "15305451", "text": "were played at CUA Stadium: their Group C game against Tonga and their 9th place play-off match against former twice World Cup Finalists France. At the end of 2010, the Federal and State Governments provided funding to redevelop the scoreboard end of the stadium. Initial plans were to build a double-sided grandstand between Penrith Stadium and Howell Oval. However, it was found that a main sewer line ran between the stadium and Howell Oval. Relocation of the line would have cost nearly double what the initial funding would cover. Subsequently, a stand is currently being constructed at Howell Oval, and", "title": "Penrith Stadium" }, { "docid": "2773093", "text": "the Tri-Nations game between Great Britain and Australia in 2005; the final score was 26–14 to Australia. On Saturday 9 November 2013, the stadium hosted the England versus Fiji Rugby League World Cup match, in which England won 34–12 in front of an attendance of 25,114. Before the match, there was a minute's silence, followed by spontaneous applause, to mark the early death of former England International Steve Prescott. In 2009, the KC Stadium was shortlisted as a possible venue for games at the 2018 FIFA World Cup should England win the right to host it, but when the list", "title": "KCOM Stadium" }, { "docid": "11127779", "text": "Church, as well as a few people from other church backgrounds. The hope was to create a new church with a focus on making a Sunday morning worship experience more comfortable for first time visitors and offering them identifiable steps and pathways toward greater spiritual growth. The Meeting Place was originally located in a small office building on Maryland Street prior to moving in 1993 to its current location on Smith Street in what was previously a night club. Church services were held in a temporarily renovated area in the Smith Street building basement while major renovations took place in", "title": "The Meeting Place (church)" }, { "docid": "14151468", "text": "the IAAF Combined Events Challenge. Male and female athletes compete in the decathlon or heptathlon, respectively, and points scored at the Hypo-Meeting count towards a yearly total for the parent competition. Following the setup of virtually all major combined events competitions, the events programme is split over two days. Hypo-Meeting The Hypo-Meeting is an annual athletics competition that takes place in the Mösle stadium in Götzis, Austria, held in the spring (late May, early June). The meeting is sponsored by the Hypo Landesbank Vorarlberg and began as a men's only contest in 1975 and a women's competition was added in", "title": "Hypo-Meeting" }, { "docid": "8270184", "text": "and returned 93 yards for a touchdown. After a WSU three-and-out, Warren Moon's tipped pass was caught by Spider Gaines for a 78-yard touchdown reception and sealed a dramatic 28–27 win for Washington. WSU Head Coach Jim Sweeney resigned a week later, leaving with a 26–59–1 record. When 14th-ranked Washington State and 17th-ranked Washington met in the 1981 Apple Cup, it was billed as the biggest meeting in the series since the 1936 game when the winner was invited to the Rose Bowl. Washington's defense was the best in the conference, while the Cougars ranked high in offensive categories. Along", "title": "Washington Huskies football" }, { "docid": "19627662", "text": "Thurles Greyhound Stadium Thurles Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing track located on Castlemeadows opposite the Semple Stadium in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. Racing takes place every Thursday and Saturday evening and the facilities include a trackside restaurant, fast food facilities, a number of bars and totalisator betting. The stadium has a car park which is also used for overflow parking for Semple Stadium and a farmers market on Saturday mornings. Race distances are 330, 525, 570 and 600 yards. Just off the Castlemeadows in Thurles is the Townpark Greyhound Stadium which opened on 13 September 1948. Major events to", "title": "Thurles Greyhound Stadium" }, { "docid": "9602441", "text": "Kendall became the youngest player to play in a Wembley FA Cup Final, aged 17 years and 345 days. He retained this record until 1980, when Paul Allen played in that year's final for West Ham at the age of 17 years and 256 days. 1964 FA Cup Final The 1964 FA Cup Final was the 83rd final of the FA Cup. It took place on 2 May 1964 at Wembley Stadium and was contested between West Ham United and Preston North End. West Ham, captained by Bobby Moore and managed by Ron Greenwood, won the match 3–2 to win", "title": "1964 FA Cup Final" }, { "docid": "13199780", "text": "boxing match in The Bronx since 1976. The fight was referred to as the \"Stadium Slugfest\". Cotto defeated Foreman with a TKO in the ninth round. Cotto captured the WBA super welterweight title and his fourth world title, before a crowd of 20,272. The first non-baseball event at the current version of Yankee Stadium took place on the evening of Saturday, April 25, 2009, when Senior Pastor Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church held what was dubbed as a \"Historic Night of Hope\" Christian prayer service. A New York University graduation ceremony took place on May 13, 2009 with the address", "title": "Yankee Stadium" }, { "docid": "18547698", "text": "What Happened and What's Going On \"What Happened and What's Going On\" is the ninth episode and mid-season premiere of the fifth season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series \"The Walking Dead\", which aired on AMC on February 8, 2015. It marks Chad L. Coleman's final appearance as series regular Tyreese. It also features several appearances from deceased characters in Tyreese's hallucinations. The episode was written by series showrunner Scott M. Gimple and directed by Greg Nicotero. The narrative takes place in Richmond, Virginia, marking the first time the series is not set in Georgia. It takes place 17 days", "title": "What Happened and What's Going On" }, { "docid": "3371959", "text": "section of railing collapsed and the result was forfeited. The stadium has also been home to the Ottawa Junior Riders of the Quebec Junior Football League and the Ottawa Bootleggers of the Empire Football League. The field was also the home of minor-league baseball. The stadium was the home venue of the Ottawa Giants and Ottawa Athletics minor-league baseball teams. The stadium has played host to seven Grey Cup games, the first occasion being in 1925 when Ottawa won its first Grey Cup title. It later held Grey Cup games in 1939, 1967, 1988, 2004 and the 105th Grey Cup", "title": "TD Place Stadium" }, { "docid": "11286316", "text": "conclude the event. Apple Chill Apple Chill is a festival in North Carolina. The event takes place in late April. Food vendors, crafters and a kids zone attract more 10,000 people to the host city. The festival began in 1972 in Chapel Hill, where the name is a Spoonerism. It ran for over 30 years until 2006 when shootings forced the town to formally disband it. The nickname \"After Chill\" was used to describe the drinking and cruising that continued late into the night after the festival was over. From 2007 until 2010 the festival was held at the Roxboro", "title": "Apple Chill" }, { "docid": "11286314", "text": "Apple Chill Apple Chill is a festival in North Carolina. The event takes place in late April. Food vendors, crafters and a kids zone attract more 10,000 people to the host city. The festival began in 1972 in Chapel Hill, where the name is a Spoonerism. It ran for over 30 years until 2006 when shootings forced the town to formally disband it. The nickname \"After Chill\" was used to describe the drinking and cruising that continued late into the night after the festival was over. From 2007 until 2010 the festival was held at the Roxboro Motorsports Dragway in", "title": "Apple Chill" }, { "docid": "6759840", "text": "44–16 at Joe Albi in their only victory of the season. Washington State last played regular season football games at Joe Albi Stadium in 1983, when the Cougars defeated both and in September. Following the revision of the WSU academic calendar in 1984 (the fall semester starting a month earlier in late August), the Cougars have played all of their eastern Washington home games at Martin Stadium in Pullman. The Idaho Vandals of Moscow played a home game at the stadium in its second year in 1951, a conference loss to Oregon State. Another came twenty years later in 1971,", "title": "Joe Albi Stadium" }, { "docid": "17862779", "text": "named/reformed club and also at this stadium, home at the time of St Helens Town A.F.C. 3 * The first Lancashire Cup match to be played on this ground, one of many used by Fulham during the nomadic period between 1985-1993 4 * The second score of over 100 points (and the second highest score) in the history of the competition when ||St. Helens beat Trafford Borough by 104 to 12. The highest occurred on 14 September 1986 when St. Helens beat Carlisle by 112 to 0 4 * Wilderspool was the home ground of Warrington from 1883 to the", "title": "1991–92 Lancashire Cup" }, { "docid": "13604476", "text": "and a football field playmat with quick-start rules, and 12-card booster packs. To further enhance the collectible aspect of the game, there were 10 rare insert cards that were found in roughly 1 in every 10 packs or decks, and the inserts found in hobby boxes were different from the ones found in retail boxes. Three expansions were planned for release in 1996, but were never released: \"Championship\", \"Traditions\", and \"Blacklist\". Gridiron Fantasy Football Gridiron: Fantasy Football was a football-themed collectible card game first published in August 1995 by Upper Deck. Gridiron simulates a football game that takes place in", "title": "Gridiron Fantasy Football" }, { "docid": "1280277", "text": "Stadium was built in exactly 300 days at the cost of £750,000. Described as the world's greatest sporting arena, it was ready only four days before the \"White Horse\" Final in 1923. The FA had not considered admission by ticket, grossly underestimating the number of fans who arrived at the 104 gates on match day. However, after the match, every event, apart from the 1982 replay, was ticketed. The first event held at the stadium was the FA Cup Final on 28 April 1923 between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United. This is known as the White Horse Final. Such", "title": "Wembley Stadium (1923)" }, { "docid": "14663452", "text": "TNT – Fortuna Meeting The TNT – Fortuna Meeting is an annual track and field combined events meeting which takes place at Sletiště Stadium in Kladno, Czech Republic in mid-June. The event, which features a men's decathlon and a women's heptathlon, attracted an audience of 5000 in its inaugural edition in 2007 and saw world record holder Roman Šebrle win the men's competition with a total of 8697 points – the best decathlon performance that year. In 2010 the meeting was given IAAF World Combined Events Challenge status by the International Association of Athletics Federations. The meeting director is Zdeněk", "title": "TNT – Fortuna Meeting" }, { "docid": "13265558", "text": "of the sports most prestigious competitions the Laurels in 2017 from the GRA. There is now renewed hope that the competition may regain its category 1 status and increase its prize fund. In 2018 the stadium signed a deal with their parent company ARC to race every Wednesday lunchtime, Thursday evening and every Friday and Saturday afternoon. + Record holder during year Newcastle Stadium Newcastle Stadium is a greyhound stadium located on The Fossway, Byker, Newcastle. Racing at the stadium takes place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The circumference of the track is 415 metres. The stadium used to", "title": "Newcastle Stadium" }, { "docid": "17477282", "text": "of the Virtuous Hero\" in the inventory of the Kassel gallery. Both paintings were confiscated in 1806 by Vivant Denon and sent to Paris. \"Meeting\" was retained for the museum at Caen in 1811. After the fall of Napoleon, the Elector of Hesse sent a delegation in 1815 to recover it, though Élouis (curator of the Caen museum) pretended to be unable to find it. The Germans left disappointed, but continued trying to reclaim the painting until 1830. The Meeting Between Abraham and Melchizedek (Rubens) The Meeting between Abraham and Melchizedek is a 1616-17 painting by Peter Paul Rubens, showing", "title": "The Meeting Between Abraham and Melchizedek (Rubens)" }, { "docid": "7717700", "text": "between Australia and Romania, and was the first game in South Africa where the national side was not involved. The stadium also played host to the 2007 Touch Football World Cup where it saw Australia claim the title of World Champions for another 4 years. Throughout the history of the FNB Varsity Cup, a local inter-university rugby tournament, the stadium played host to several games. In all three years (2008–2010) the final also took place at the stadium. In 2008 the final was played between Maties (Stellenbosch University) and the Ikey Tigers (University of Cape Town). In 2009 the final", "title": "Danie Craven Stadium" }, { "docid": "19421022", "text": "The Meeting Place (song) \"The Meeting Place\" is a song written by Colin Moulding of the English rock band XTC, released on their 1986 album \"Skylarking\". It was the second single issued from the album and reached number 100 on the UK Singles Chart. \"The Meeting Place\" is built on a \"circular\" guitar motif that reminded Moulding of the childrens' programme \"Toytown\". He characterised it as \"a childish, nursery-rhyme, bell-like, small town riff. As if you were looking down on Toytown, and it was me in the landscape, meeting my wife beside the factory or something, in our teens.\" The", "title": "The Meeting Place (song)" }, { "docid": "19421024", "text": "one 12-inch vinyl, side two The Meeting Place (song) \"The Meeting Place\" is a song written by Colin Moulding of the English rock band XTC, released on their 1986 album \"Skylarking\". It was the second single issued from the album and reached number 100 on the UK Singles Chart. \"The Meeting Place\" is built on a \"circular\" guitar motif that reminded Moulding of the childrens' programme \"Toytown\". He characterised it as \"a childish, nursery-rhyme, bell-like, small town riff. As if you were looking down on Toytown, and it was me in the landscape, meeting my wife beside the factory or", "title": "The Meeting Place (song)" }, { "docid": "8270183", "text": "Pro Football Hall of Fame, located in Canton, Ohio. As of 2010, Warren Moon (Edmonton Eskimos 1978–83) is the only player to be a member of both the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame (NFL). The Rose Bowl has inducted eight Washington coaches and players into the Rose Bowl Game Hall of Fame. In the 1975 Apple Cup, Washington State led 27–14 with three minutes left in the game. WSU attempted a 4th-and-1 conversion at the UW 14-yard line rather than try for a field goal. The resulting pass was intercepted by Al Burleson", "title": "Washington Huskies football" } ]
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What long running TV sci-fi series had it's debut on Nov 23, 1963 and ran until 1989, and then returned in 2006?
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[ { "docid": "11934726", "text": "place at the Holiday Inn in St. John's from April 24–26, 2015. Guests include Lynda Boyd from Supernatural, Sanctuary and Republic of Doyle, Frazer Hines who is better known as the Second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon from Doctor Who, Peter Williams who played Apophis on , cosplayers Adam Smith and Kevin St. Pierre, with Fat Apollo returning to Emcee certain events. The event was again a great success. The crowd was so large that it was clear that Sci-Fi on the Rock had again outgrown a venue. This would be the last year that Sci-Fi on the Rock took place", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934732", "text": "highest score is crowned \"Ultra Geek\". Mark Downey was crowned as the first Sci-Fi on the Rock Ultra Geek on April 1, 2007. Dr. Glyn George, a MUN professor and Doctor Who and Star Trek enthusiast, was crowned on April 20, 2008. He later abdicated his throne, as he became involved in the planning of Sci-Fi on the Rock, retiring from the competition undefeated. Newfoundland's Ultra Geek for 2009, crowned at Sci-Fi on the Rock 3, was Chickie Who. They, too, retired undefeated. Andrew O'Brien was crowned as Newfoundland's fourth Ultra Geek on April 18, 2010. Unlike his predecessors, he", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934720", "text": "to ensure the larger numbers could be accommodated. This new layout has continued to stand as the standard. Special guest actor Richard Hatch of Battlestar Galactica fame, in addition to appearing as a guest, offered an acting workshop for festival patrons. Also appearing was Jeffrey Combs from the Reanimator series, Peter Roy who appeared in Star Wars and Doctor Who, French-born Fantasy Art model Drakaina, comedian and chocolate bar inspiration Fat Apollo, and talent agent Lolita Fatjo, who has helped Sci-Fi on the Rock obtain many of their previous and future guests. The Film Festival returned, featuring 9 short films.", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "8872228", "text": "Mike and Angelo Mike and Angelo is a British sci-fi TV sitcom series, that ran on CITV between 16 March 1989 and 7 March 2000. It centres on Angelo (played initially by Tyler Butterworth, and from series 3 onwards by Tim Whitnall, after the character 'regenerated', a concept first used in \"Doctor Who\"), an alien who came from another world during the first series; the portal from his world being that of a wardrobe in one of the bedrooms. He lives with Mike King (played by Matt Wright), and Mike's mother Rita. Later series had Mike and Rita move away,", "title": "Mike and Angelo" }, { "docid": "8872231", "text": "second of the episodes, shown on 6 January 2013, was titled \"Heirs And Graces\", and had originally been broadcast on CITV on 7 March 1996. Mike and Angelo Mike and Angelo is a British sci-fi TV sitcom series, that ran on CITV between 16 March 1989 and 7 March 2000. It centres on Angelo (played initially by Tyler Butterworth, and from series 3 onwards by Tim Whitnall, after the character 'regenerated', a concept first used in \"Doctor Who\"), an alien who came from another world during the first series; the portal from his world being that of a wardrobe in", "title": "Mike and Angelo" } ]
[ { "docid": "11934741", "text": "Rock festival organizer) and Matthew LeDrew (author of the Black Womb series). Sci-Fi on the Rock TV plans to air some \"on-location\" episodes from the Sci-Fi festival. Season Two of Sci-Fi on the Rock TV saw the return of Steve Lake and Ellen Curtis as hosts, but also Ellen's departure and the addition of Melanie Collins as co-host. Also, Season Two was filmed in a new location, with new equipment and new opening sequences. It is available to be watched at the Sci-Fi on the Rock site. Sci-Fi on the Rock Sci-Fi on the Rock is an annual science fiction,", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934716", "text": "bi-weekly\" basis. Season One of \"Sci-Fi on the Rock TV\" was hosted by Steve Lake and Ellen Curtis, and ran from September 11, 2009 to May 2010. Season Two began in September 2010, with both hosts returning, until Ellen Curtis was replaced by Melanie Collins. Sci-Fi on the Rock held its fifth festival on April 15, 16 and 17, 2011, making this year the first time the organization launched a festival that spanned three days. It was held again at the St. John's Holiday Inn, and was kicked off with a book launch from festival co-founder Darren Hann, followed by", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934740", "text": "readings, auctions and more. In September 2009, Sci-Fi on the Rock put together \"Sci-Fi on the Rock TV\", a webshow that would appear on YouTube and Facebook, as well as on the Sci-Fi on the Rock website. Each \"webisode\" runs approximately 10 minutes in length, and would serve as publicity for the festival, as well as a video newsletter, as it were. It is hosted by Steve Lake and Ellen Curtis, and is directed and produced by Darren Hann. The first episode \"aired\" on YouTube and Facebook on Friday, September 11, 2009. The guests were Darren Hann (Sci-Fi on the", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "13570106", "text": "The Outer Limits (1963 TV series) The Outer Limits is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1963 to 1965 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time on Mondays. The series is often compared to \"The Twilight Zone\", but with a greater emphasis on science fiction stories (rather than stories of fantasy or the supernatural matters). \"The Outer Limits\" is an anthology of self-contained episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end. The series was revived in 1995, airing on Showtime from 1995 to 2000, then on Sci-Fi Channel from 2001 until its cancellation in 2002. In 1997,", "title": "The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)" }, { "docid": "10223076", "text": "AXN Sci Fi AXN Sci Fi was a European pay television movie channel owned by Sony Pictures Television. It was available in Italy, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Kazakhstan and Bulgaria on Sky Italia, Boom TV, Bulsatcom, Cyfra Plus, Cyfrowy Polsat, Digi TV, Dolce, iNES, Max TV and N. The channel was launched in Czech Republic and Slovakia in October 2007. On 12 July 2013, Sony announced that AXN Sci Fi and AXN Crime would be replaced by AXN Black and AXN White. On 1 October, AXN Sci Fi was replaced by AXN Black, however Italy edition was unaffected. On", "title": "AXN Sci Fi" }, { "docid": "10223077", "text": "28 February 2017, the channel was discontinued in Italy. AXN Sci Fi AXN Sci Fi was a European pay television movie channel owned by Sony Pictures Television. It was available in Italy, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Kazakhstan and Bulgaria on Sky Italia, Boom TV, Bulsatcom, Cyfra Plus, Cyfrowy Polsat, Digi TV, Dolce, iNES, Max TV and N. The channel was launched in Czech Republic and Slovakia in October 2007. On 12 July 2013, Sony announced that AXN Sci Fi and AXN Crime would be replaced by AXN Black and AXN White. On 1 October, AXN Sci Fi was replaced", "title": "AXN Sci Fi" }, { "docid": "11934724", "text": "The winning film was \"Brutal Relax\", a Spanish film by film maker David Muñoz. Sci-Fi on the Rock 8 took place at the Holiday Inn in St. John's on May 23, 24 and 25, 2014. Guests included Aron Eisenberg from , Michael Hogan from Battlestar Galactica and Teen Wolf, Erin Fitzgerald who voices characters from a wide variety of video games and TV shows including Monster High, Bravely Default and Ed, Edd and Eddy, and Musetta Vander from various sci-fi films and television shows. Also announced to appear is make-up artist Mike McCarty, who is known for his work on", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934715", "text": "numbers, the festival grew in other ways. For example, in May 2009 (almost immediately following the past festival), Sci-Fi on the Rock opened an online store on their website. Also, Due to the success of Hann Made Film's first fan-film, \"Star Wars: Inner Demons\", Hann Made Films filmed another fan-film, this time a Stargate SG-1/Doctor Who crossover film, titled \"Replication\". The film debuted at Sci-Fi on the Rock IV, to great reception again. Also, Sci-Fi on the Rock and HannMade Films teamed up to create \"Sci-Fi on the Rock TV\", a video magazine that provided festival updates on an \"almost", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "8929962", "text": "little or nothing to do with \"investigating\" Mothman or unexplained phenomena. Sci Fi Investigates Sci Fi Investigates is a six episode reality television series featuring skeptic Rob Mariano, forensic specialist Deborah Dobrydney, archaeologist Bill Doleman, and paranormal investigator Richard Dolan, as they look at paranormal and supernatural phenomenon and try to explain them. The show debuted in October 2006 on the American SyFy channel (formerly Sci-Fi Channel) following \"Ghost Hunters\". There have also been two webisodes. The series documents a team of four paranormal investigators who travel to various locations around the United States and investigate various urban legends. The", "title": "Sci Fi Investigates" }, { "docid": "8929960", "text": "Sci Fi Investigates Sci Fi Investigates is a six episode reality television series featuring skeptic Rob Mariano, forensic specialist Deborah Dobrydney, archaeologist Bill Doleman, and paranormal investigator Richard Dolan, as they look at paranormal and supernatural phenomenon and try to explain them. The show debuted in October 2006 on the American SyFy channel (formerly Sci-Fi Channel) following \"Ghost Hunters\". There have also been two webisodes. The series documents a team of four paranormal investigators who travel to various locations around the United States and investigate various urban legends. The team uses various research methods to gather as much information as", "title": "Sci Fi Investigates" }, { "docid": "13871556", "text": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe) Sci-Fi is a character from the toyline, comic books and cartoon series. He is the G.I. Joe Team's laser trooper and debuted in 1986. His real name is Seymour P. Fine, and his rank is that of corporal E-4. Sci-Fi was born in Geraldine, Montana. Sci-Fi's primary military specialty is infantry, and his secondary military specialty is electronics. Sci-Fi is known for being patient and taking his time, traits which aid him in aiming a laser over long distances for extended periods of time. When Sci-Fi braces his weapon and sights in on a target, he becomes", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "11934703", "text": "Sci-Fi on the Rock Sci-Fi on the Rock is an annual science fiction, fantasy and horror festival held in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. It was founded by Darren Hann and Melanie Collins in mid-to-late 2006, and held its first festival in 2007. It began in 2007 at the Hotel Mount Pearl, moving on to be housed in the Holiday Inn in St. John's as of April 2008. The convention made another move in 2016 to the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland. The festival has had a number a notable guests both from Newfoundland and beyond, including science-fiction author Kenneth Tam (\"Defense Command\",", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934730", "text": "already becoming tight as some workshops and panels had long line-ups and filled to capacity. On Sunday attendees and committee alike were surprised by an unplanned visit to the convention by past guest Eugene Simon, who said that when he realized he had the time he didn't want to miss it. The committee of Sci-Fi on the Rock is already hard at work planning for year 12. Sci-Fi on the Rock 12 will take place at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland on April 6–8, 2018. Already announced is local cosplay guest Vanessa Pinsent Cosplay. Fat Apollo will be returning to be", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "13871558", "text": "the designated pilot for the G.I. Joe \"Starfighter\". Sci-Fi was first released as an action figure in 1986. A new version of Sci-Fi was released in 1991. A new version of Sci-Fi was released in 1994 as part of the Star Brigade line. As part of the 30th Anniversary toy line, a new version of Sci Fi has been released in 2011 In the Marvel Comics \"\" series, he first appeared in issue #64 in a small cameo and appeared fully in #65. He is a supporting character in the storyline running through issues #145 - 149. He is part", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "11934729", "text": "and television shows including , Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pan's Labyrinth, and Hocus Pocus (1993 film), Jewel Staite, best known as Kaylee on Firefly (TV series) as well as from many television shows and films such as Stargate Atlantis, Higher Ground (TV series), The L.A. Complex, and The Killing (U.S. TV series), Ethan Phillips, an actor best known as Neelix on , as well as local cosplay guests FoamWerx, Gary Murrin and Hamilton Cornish. Fat Apollo was once again the guest emcee. Sci-Fi on the Rock saw another amazing year with many great workshops. Space at the Sheraton Hotel is", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934738", "text": "Rock has had a number of guests of different types. Below is a list of guests they have had at their festival. The Sci-Fi on the Rock committee spends the rest of the time they are not planning the convention going to outside events. Often these events invite the public to join them in doing different things. Some events that Sci-Fi on the Rock has hosted or attended in the past include: Merry Geek-mas is a craft fair hosted by Sci-Fi on the Rock around the end of November or beginning of December each year. Sci-Fi on the Rock vendors", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "18471759", "text": "Cafe shows entire short films. In 2014, NBCUniversal opened a new Universal Orlando hotel called Cabana Bay Beach Resort, which houses the Bayliner Diner, a restaurant that borrows its premise from the Sci-Fi Dine-In. Both restaurants play old film footage on a loop. The Sci-Fi Dine-In has received mixed reviews. Jack Hayes of \"Nation's Restaurant News\" calls the Sci-Fi Dine-In \"wacky\" and \"on the cutting edge of sheer dining fun\". In \"USA Today\"'s list of the sixteen best restaurants in American amusement parks, the Sci-Fi Dine-In ranks fifteenth. Samuel Muston of \"The Independent\" writes that the Sci-Fi Dine-In is \"memorable", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "18471748", "text": "would bring the Sci-Fi Dine-In the level of success that had been garnered by the 50's Prime Time Café. Within five weeks of opening, it was serving between 1,500 and 2,000 meals on a daily basis, just as the 50's Prime Time Café was doing. A year after opening, the Sci-Fi Dine-In had become the most popular restaurant in the park, serving more than 2,200 people per day at peak periods. Starting from its earliest days, the restaurant equipped its servers with point of sale mobile devices that relayed orders to a printer in the kitchen, which was considered at", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "11934712", "text": "the Cantina, a midnight movie, and website redesigns. This year also marked the first Fan Film that Sci-Fi on the Rock was involved with producing: Returning attractions included many of the workshops from the previous year, including Lightsaber Technique, Stage Combat, Star Wars, Transformers, Special Effect Make-up and others. The Charity Auction also returned, again aiding the School Lunch Association. Dinner with the Stars, an event where a limited number of guests are able to sit and enjoy a three-course meal with the special guest actors, also returned. Sci-Fi on the Rock 3 was met with over a thousand visitors,", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "10069777", "text": "Curzon Soho Cinema on Shaftesbury Avenue (Central London). The Festival then resided primarily at the Apollo Piccadilly Circus on Lower Regent Street (also Central London), from its fifth year through to its eleventh (2006–2012). At the same time, the festival also moved from screenings in late January/early February to a slot in late April/early May (usually the May Bank Holiday Weekend), running over a longer, 5-day period. Since October 2012, the festival has moved to its current location, at the Stratford Picturehouse, running a full 7-day programme. Since 2008, Sci-Fi-London has also held a second festival in October, called Oktoberfest.", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "13384131", "text": "it's their ability to pull off such flippant tales with their characteristic punch that gives Sci-Fi Crimes a humanizing appeal not found on their previous records.\" Sputnikmusic states \"Sci-Fi Crimes is a solid, above-average record, but it is not Chevelle's magnum opus; aside from two or three songs, it has a certain air of familiarity that doesn't warrant the unfounded high praise it has received so far.\" They also refer to \"This Circus\" and \"Shameful Metaphors\" as two of the album's best songs. \"USA Today\" comments \"\"Sci-Fi Crimes\" scrapes some of the polish off the band's sound. What remains is", "title": "Sci-Fi Crimes" }, { "docid": "16451303", "text": "Sci-Fi Valley Con Team also spent a year building a lifesize Claptrap from the Borderlands video game series. This will be one of the most realistic lifesize replicas of Claptrap in existence. The prop made its world debut alongside David Eddings who voiced the character in the video games and Dameon Clarke who voiced Handsome Jack in Borderlands and Cell from the Dragon Ball Z series. Sci-Fi Valley Con, Part 7 show was on June 8–10, 2018 at Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, PA. The 2018 celebrity guest list included: Jim Beaver, best known from his role as Bobby", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "11934709", "text": "his website that \"The people of Newfoundland are extremely friendly. It was only the second time that Darren had put the 'Sci-Fi on the Rock' show on, and it was very well attended. Lots of costumes and games for the children and it seemed that everyone was having a good time\". Sci-Fi on the Rock II featured a Charity Auction, which benefited the School Lunch Association. Items that had been placed for bid included a Limited Edition Star Wars T-shirt-and-Box Set which is not available in North America (donated by Jeremy Bulloch), a Lexx Prize pack, including many behind-the-scenes cuts", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "5285836", "text": "and Bergman Rock is present both in the music and in the lyrics. So far Sci-Fi SKANE has released two singles: a cover of Canned Heat's \"Going Up The Country\" called \"Jag har aldrig bott vid en landsväg\" and another song called \"Vi kommer försent till bluesen\". The duo's debut album \"Känslan av att jorden krymper växer\" (\"the feeling that the Earth shrinks grows\") was to be released in Sweden by Silence Records on November 16, 2005, but due to errors in the printing of its phosphorescent cover, the release was delayed. Sci-Fi SKANE Sci-Fi SKANE is a musical collaboration", "title": "Sci-Fi SKANE" }, { "docid": "11934734", "text": "awarded to the film that received the highest amount of audience votes. In its first year, 11 films were submitted and screened, 10 of which were from local film-makers, and one (X-Meeting) from Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2015, the film festival separated from Sci-Fi on the Rock due of large interest, and became a stand-alone event called Granite Planet International Film Festival, but still brings highlighted films to be screened at Sci-Fi on the Rock. A refreshed version of the Film Festival will be returning to Sci-Fi on the Rock in 2018 to be organized by Sci-Fi on the Rock.", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "10069775", "text": "Of An Eye short film programme. Over its history Sci-Fi-London has also held a number of Short Film competitions, and in 2008 launched the Sci-Fi-London 48hr Film Challenge, in order to encourage filmmakers to create sci-fi short films over a very short period of time. In 2006, the festival became the official home of The Arthur C. Clarke Award, the most prestigious award for science fiction literature in Britain, and recognised as one of the most prestigious science fiction awards in the world. Since its inception, the Sci-Fi-London Film Festival has also been one of the few places in the", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "10069782", "text": "night (with the aid of ice-cream and caffeine drinks). In late 2008, SCI-FI-LONDON hosted its very first Oktoberfest: a one-day festival featuring new films and all-nighters, held at its regular London venue: the Apollo Piccadilly Circus. A second Oktoberfest was held on 23/24 October 2009, with a third on the 14-16 October 2010, at The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the Royal Society and the Apollo Piccadilly Circus. On occasion, SCI-FI-LONDON has also hosted other events, either outside London, or at other times of the year. In 2005, SCI-FI-LONDON took its feature films, short films and all-nighters On Tour, to Edinburgh, Liverpool,", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "11934723", "text": "special guests were among the entertained audience members, showcasing that the Sci-Fi on the Rock offerings as well as the inherent charm of Newfoundland and Labrador made this event equally as entertaining to the guests themselves as it did to the patrons. Continuing again with its trend of breaking its own attendance numbers, Sci-Fi on the Rock 7 was met with a staggering increase in popularity. The Sci-Fi on the Rock International Film Festival entered its third year, and received some of its best submissions. Films were received from Newfoundland, Ontario, Alberta, the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom.", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "18471746", "text": "2,200 people daily during peak periods, making it the park's most popular restaurant. Thai movie theater operator EGV Entertainment opened the EGV Drive-in Cafe in Bangkok in 2003, in a very similar style to the Sci-Fi Dine-In. The Sci-Fi Dine-In has received mixed reviews. \"USA Today\"s list of the best restaurants in American amusement parks ranks the Sci-Fi Dine-In fifteenth, but many reviewers rate it more highly for its atmosphere than for its cuisine. Ed Bumgardner of the \"Winston-Salem Journal\" wrote that the food is more expensive than it is worth, specifically calling the restaurant's roast beef sandwich both delicious", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "11934706", "text": "As a result of the success of the first festival, Sci-Fi on the Rock organizers Darren Hann and Melanie Collins, as well as the now-larger organizing committee decided that the festival should be held again the following year and should be bigger. Around the summer of 2007, planning for Sci-Fi on the Rock II would commence. The first change was time and place. It was increased from a one-day to a full weekend event, and was held in a larger venue. Sci-Fi on the Rock II was held at the Holiday Inn hotel in St. John's, on Saturday, April 19", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "6084770", "text": "the US by then. The BBC would repeat the \"Buck Rogers\" series on BBC Two in 1989 and again in 1995-96. The series also aired in Canada on CTV, on the same day and time as the NBC airings. Contemporary assessments of \"Buck Rogers in the 25th Century\" were generally mixed. In his book \"Sci-Fi TV from Twilight Zone to Deep Space Nine\", writer James van Hise claimed the show's scripts \"just never took advantage of what they had at hand\" and criticized Larson's version of \"Buck Rogers\" as a cynical attempt to exploit one of the most loved characters", "title": "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)" }, { "docid": "8929961", "text": "they can about the particular legend or phenomena an episode focuses on. They meet with local residents, listen to eye-witness reports, study documentation, conduct forensic experiments on physical evidence, and conduct on-location archaeological studies. At the end they review and discuss their findings and each investigator gives their opinions from different points-of-view. Each episode is an hour long, including commercials. The Cryptomundo blog by Mothman researcher Loren Coleman is an indepth criticism of the October 26, 2006, \"Sci-fi Investigates\" broadcast's \"Mothman\" episode. Coleman wrote that while it had a few moments that are pure entertainment and certainly funny, it had", "title": "Sci Fi Investigates" }, { "docid": "9067824", "text": "considered too violent and depressing for the mainstream audience. It was named the 86th best animated series by IGN, calling it the first popular anime television series. In February 2004, \"Cinefantastique\" listed the anime as one of the \"10 Essential Animations\", citing the show's \"dark themes and Tezuka's use of sci-fi as a conduit to address such issues as war and intolerance.\" Notes Astro Boy (1963 TV series) Astro Boy is set in the year 2000, forty years in the future from its original production in the 1960s. Dr. Tenma, a scientist working in the Ministry of Science's Department of", "title": "Astro Boy (1963 TV series)" }, { "docid": "18471747", "text": "and a ripoff. In their book \"Vegetarian Walt Disney World and Greater Orlando\", Susan Shumaker and Than Saffel call the Sci-Fi Dine-In \"the wackiest dining experience in any Disney park\". The Sci-Fi Dine-In, located on Commissary Lane across from \"Star Tours\" and adjacent to ABC Commissary, opened on April 20, 1991 as one of the twenty new attractions opened at Walt Disney World to mark the complex's twentieth anniversary. The restaurant was created with a strong emphasis on theme, in emulation of the 50's Prime Time Café, which had opened two years prior. Disney hoped that the focus on theme", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "11934727", "text": "at the Holiday Inn. Sci-Fi on the Rock experienced its first big move since 2008. Sci-Fi on the Rock 10 took place at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland in St. John's from April 1st - 3rd, 2016. Guests included Eugene Simon, from Game of Thrones, Robert Picardo, known as the Doctor on as well as from shows such as Stargate, Kirby Morrow, a well known voice actor, and J.M. Frey, a writer. As well Fat Apollo came back again to act as emcee. The location change was very successful. The move gave Sci-Fi on the Rock some room to stretch its", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934739", "text": "and other vendors with similar geeky products are given space to sell their ware in time for the holiday season. The event is taking place at the Mazol Shriner's in St. John's Newfoundland on Dec 3rd, 2017. Since 2015 Sci-Fi on the Rock has been partnering with the Rocket Bakery, in downtown St. John's, to host a kick-off event for Sci-Fi on the Rock each year. This event is typically held the weekend before Sci-Fi on the Rock and has mini workshops and panels as well as Sandbox Gaming with some games. In the past there has been trivia, author", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "18471765", "text": "tends to be popular with children, and it is common for people who lived through the 1950s to enjoy the restaurant for its nostalgia value. Paul Schultz of the \"Daily News\" writes, \"Anyone who is a fan of trashy sci-fi movies of the 1950s should check [the Sci-Fi Dine-In] out\". In his book \"Sci-Fi Movie Freak\", Robert Ring calls the Sci-Fi Dine-In film clips \"hokey\", while David Steele of \"The Rotarian\" calls them \"classically awful\", and Rick Ramseyer of \"Restaurant Business Magazine\" calls them \"campy\". Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant is a theme restaurant at Disney's", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "11934705", "text": "the day including the popular \"Lightsaber Techniques\", \"Basic Horror Make-Up for Film and Television\" and \"Costume Designing\". In addition, there were a number of sales-and-display tables, and a number of competitions such as Video Games, Model Building, Costume Contest, and others. Sci-Fi on the Rock also featured a canteen with Sci-Fi related food (i.e.: \"The Kirk Burger\"). Having been planned and put off within only a few months, and with little publicity, Sci-Fi on the Rock's first festival was a surprise success with almost 500 people attending, and was covered in many local media pages, as well as internet sites.", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "10069784", "text": "also features information on past festivals, how to volunteer at the festival, as well as a \"Mailing List\" and \"Message Board/Forum\". SCI-FI-LONDON.COM also operates a free 'webTV' service at SCI-FI-LONDON.TV, featuring films and shorts previously submitted or screened at past festivals. Sci-Fi-London SCI-FI-LONDON (The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, SFL), is a United Kingdom-based film festival, dedicated to the science fiction and fantasy genres, which began in 2002. Designed to be a festival that “takes a serious look at sci-fi and fantasy, bringing new, classic and rare movies from around the world to the UK”, Sci-Fi-London", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "14902581", "text": "Avengers in Sci-Fi The band members were all classmates at a high school in Kanagawa. They formed the band in 2002, debuting as an independent artist under K-Plan in 2004 with the extended play \"Science Rock\", followed by their debut album \"Avenger Strikes Back\" in 2006. In 2007, the band played at the rookie stage in the Fuji Rock summer festival, and toured with The Band Apart. In 2008, the band released their second album, \"Science Rock\". The band collaborated with Kaela Kimura, producing her 2009 single \"Banzai.\" They also contributed to a Disney song cover compilation album, \"Disney Rocks!\",", "title": "Avengers in Sci-Fi" }, { "docid": "11934728", "text": "legs and attendees appreciated the extra space that the Sheraton Hotel provided. The vendor's area grew and more varied vendors and artists were able to attend. The attendance for SFotR 10 was well over 2250 people throughout the weekend. This was the first year that Sci-Fi on the Rock had a VIP pass. The change in location also gave Sandbox Gaming a bigger and more comfortable space at our convention for gaming. Sci-Fi on the Rock 11 was held at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland in St. John's from April 28–30, 2017. Guests included Doug Jones (actor), known from many films", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "6834380", "text": "entirety, and without charge from the Sci-Fi website. Moore also sought to address the \"Internet Generation\" by posting podcast commentaries on individual episodes on the official Sci-Fi website. Following the success of the 13-episode first season, the Sci-Fi Channel ordered a 20-episode second season on February 23, 2005. The season premiered in the United States on the Sci-Fi Channel on July 15, 2005, with the UK, Ireland, and Canadian premiere in January 2006. In fall 2005, airing of the second season halted, as it was part of Sci-Fi Channel's standard airing schedule normally used for its \"Stargate\" series, which was", "title": "Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)" }, { "docid": "13384127", "text": "Sci-Fi Crimes Sci-Fi Crimes is the fifth studio album from the American rock band Chevelle, released on August 31, 2009 through Epic Records. The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009 with producer Brian Virtue. On April 9, 2009, Chevelle debuted two new songs, \"Letter from a Thief\" and \"Sleep Apnea\" at a concert in Atlanta, Georgia. Vocalist Pete Loeffler stated that the tracks were \"possible singles\" off the album. \"Jars\" was the first single from the album and began radio airplay on June 23. The track list and artwork were revealed July 21, 2009, in addition to a", "title": "Sci-Fi Crimes" }, { "docid": "11934737", "text": "Friday Night Karaoke in 2015. Sci-Fi on the Rock holds a dance on the Saturday of the convention. This is a 19+ event held at the hotel the convention is being held in. It is a very popular event that draws quiet a crowd. The Starlight Social started as an add-on event that included champagne and possibly meeting guests. After the introduction of the VIP Pass in 2015 it became a VIP only event. There is champagne and finger foods and a chance to socialize in a smaller setting than the dance or karaoke. Since its inception, Sci-Fi on the", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "13871557", "text": "as immobile as a rock, with no discernible movement of any kind. At a range of 2 1/2 miles, the impact spot of laser light will jump one hundred feet for every one thousandth of an inch movement at the source. Sci-Fi transcends mere stillness to hold that spot on target, long enough to burn through that source. Sci-Fi took a leave of absence to complete his master's degree in electrical engineering, returning with the skill set necessary to enact unparalleled enhancements to the security systems in G.I. Joe headquarters. As part of the Star Brigade aeronautical group, Sci-Fi was", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "7011050", "text": "The Dresden Files (TV series) The Dresden Files is a Canadian/American television series based on the fantasy book series of the same name by Jim Butcher. It premiered January 21, 2007, on the Sci Fi Channel in the United States and on Space in Canada. It was picked up by Sky One in the UK and began airing on February 14, 2007. The series ran for a single season of 12 episodes, and has since been released on DVD. The Sci Fi Channel announced on August 3, 2007, that \"The Dresden Files\" would not be renewed for a second season.", "title": "The Dresden Files (TV series)" }, { "docid": "8448736", "text": "Level 9 (TV series) Level 9 is an American science-fiction drama that was broadcast on UPN from October 27, 2000 until January 26, 2001. The series revolved around a secret agency within the government, staffed by government agents, tech-savvy geeks, and former criminal hackers, which is tasked with solving or preventing cyber crimes. Thirteen episodes were produced, ten of which were aired on UPN, before the program was canceled in January 2001 due to low ratings. In August 2006, the Sci-Fi Channel acquired rerun rights to the series which was added to their schedule in June 2007. Sci-Fi aired the", "title": "Level 9 (TV series)" }, { "docid": "16451305", "text": "well. In addition to Tracie Thoms, Nicholas Brendon, Brian O'Halloran, and Scott Schiaffo. Sci-Fi Valley Con, Part 8 show will be on June 7–9, 2019 at Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, PA. Sci-Fi Valley Con Sci-Fi Valley Con is an annual three-day speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy, or SF) convention had in Altoona, Pennsylvania at the Blair County Convention Center; it is promoted by Assett Conventions, LLC (solely owned and operated by Casey B. Bassett) and is the first such convention in the area. The convention has featured a variety to different forms of entertainment over the years", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "14384063", "text": "filming for the second season of \"Sci Fi Science\", consisting of 12 new episodes. It started broadcasting on September 1, 2010. Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible (also called Science of the Impossible) is an American documentary television series on Science which first aired in the United States on December 1, 2009. The series is hosted by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku and is based on his book \"Physics of the Impossible\". In each episode, Dr. Kaku addresses a technological concept from science fiction and designs his own theoretical version of the technology", "title": "Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible" }, { "docid": "5800357", "text": "First Love (1954 TV series) First Love is an American soap opera which ran on NBC Daytime from July 5, 1954 to December 30, 1955. The series aired at 4:15 p.m. EST, between \"Golden Windows\" and \"Concerning Miss Marlowe\". Although the show had a strong fan following, at the time NBC had little use for developing any of their daytime shows (the first successful NBC daytime soap was not until 1963's \"The Doctors\") and canceled \"First Love\" after a year and a half. Many cast members such as Patricia Barry, Val Dufour and Rosemary Prinz went on to become long-running", "title": "First Love (1954 TV series)" }, { "docid": "20239021", "text": "symbol used to express the golden ratio, as in Azra Kohen's book. The banner of series made from golden spiral. Fi (TV series) Fi is a Turkish psychological thriller television series originally streamed online by puhutv. It is an adaptation of 's novels \"\", \"Çi\", and \"Pi\". The first season of it consists of 12 episodes which aired from 31 March 2017 to 16 June 2017. The second season started in October 2017. In Season one, the life of psychiatrist Can Manay is explained. Manay teaches psychology in college and also performs therapy on his own television program. He falls", "title": "Fi (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20794774", "text": "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes is presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2015, categories for period/fantasy and contemporary costumes were created. The categories were divided in 2018 for period and fantasy/sci-fi costumes. They replaced the retired categories for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special and Outstanding Costumes for a Series. Rules require that nominations are distributed proportionally among regular series and limited series/movies, based on the number of submissions of each. For instance, if two-fifths of submissions are limited series/movies then two of the five", "title": "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes" }, { "docid": "10069783", "text": "York and Exeter, in February and March of that year. In January 2010, SCI-FI-LONDON made its very first trip abroad, when the festival traveled to Powai, Mumbai and Ahmedadad, to hold screenings and workshops as SCI-FI-LONDON-In-India. With many positive responses from all three venues, it is now hoped that further events of this type might be possible in the future. Not only acting as a first point of reference for the Film Festival itself, the SCI-FI-LONDON website also provides year-round \"News\", \"Interviews\", \"Reviews\", \"Podcasts\", \"Listings\" and \"Competitions\", on a similar range of topics to that of the festival. The website", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "9662058", "text": "\"Ripley's Believe It or Not!\" later returned to television in a second series from 1982 to 1986, on the American ABC network. Actor Jack Palance hosted the popular series throughout its run, while three different co-hosts appeared from season to season, including Palance's daughter, Holly Palance, actress Catherine Shirriff, and singer Marie Osmond. The 1980s series reran on the Sci-fi Channel (UK) and Sci-fi Channel (US) during the 1990s. In December 1995, development was underway by Cinar for an animated series based on \"Ripley's Believe It or Not!\". The 26-episode series, titled \"Ripley's Believe It or Not!\", was co-produced by", "title": "Ripley's Believe It or Not! (TV series)" }, { "docid": "11934708", "text": "Guests, actors Jeremy Bulloch, who notably played the bounty hunter Boba Fett from the Star Wars Franchise, and Brian Downey, who is perhaps best known for his role of Stanley Tweedle from \"Lexx: The Series\". Like the year before, Sci-Fi on the Rock II was met with positive reviews and overall success. In addition to more media coverage, both before and after the festival, the attendance increased to over 700—with a number of patrons coming from other parts of Canada, the United States and even the United Kingdom. The guests as well had an enjoyable time. Jeremy Bulloch commented on", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "20239019", "text": "Fi (TV series) Fi is a Turkish psychological thriller television series originally streamed online by puhutv. It is an adaptation of 's novels \"\", \"Çi\", and \"Pi\". The first season of it consists of 12 episodes which aired from 31 March 2017 to 16 June 2017. The second season started in October 2017. In Season one, the life of psychiatrist Can Manay is explained. Manay teaches psychology in college and also performs therapy on his own television program. He falls in love with Duru, whom he meets by coincidence, but Duru has a lover named Deniz. Also where he teaches", "title": "Fi (TV series)" }, { "docid": "5617894", "text": "Sci Fiction Sci Fiction was an online magazine which ran from 2000 to 2005. At one time, it was the leading online science fiction magazine. Published by Syfy and edited by Ellen Datlow, the work won multiple awards before it was discontinued. The magazine was created by what was then the US Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy), and hosted at SCIFI.COM. The webzine starting publishing in May 2000. The principal editor was Ellen Datlow, who had previously edited two other online magazines: The online incarnation of \"OMNI\", and \"Event Horizon\". The webzine first made a splash when Linda Nagata's \"Goddesses\"", "title": "Sci Fiction" }, { "docid": "10069774", "text": "Sci-Fi-London SCI-FI-LONDON (The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, SFL), is a United Kingdom-based film festival, dedicated to the science fiction and fantasy genres, which began in 2002. Designed to be a festival that “takes a serious look at sci-fi and fantasy, bringing new, classic and rare movies from around the world to the UK”, Sci-Fi-London annually screens world and UK Premieres, seminal cult classics, as well as documentaries, debates and talks. Short films are also an important part of the festival programme, screening in front of every movie shown, as well as together in the Blink", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "5285835", "text": "Sci-Fi SKANE Sci-Fi SKANE is a musical collaboration of Swedish musicians Thomas Öberg and Jonas Jonasson, members of Swedish rock groups bob hund and Bergman Rock. Sci-Fi SKANE was started in 2005, and the goal was stated as being to \"create stupidity and dance\". The word SKANE in the name is regarded as an ironic anglification of Skåne, the area the band originates from. Sci-fi SKANE's musical style is of the same nature as bob hund's and Bergman Rock's style, but without live drums, and dominated by keyboards and programmed sounds. However, the somewhat ironic tone known from bob hund", "title": "Sci-Fi SKANE" }, { "docid": "18471757", "text": "the Tides\" (broiled fish), and \"Journey to the Center of the Pasta\" (vegetable lasagne), but these have since been replaced with more descriptive names. A popcorn bisque was once on the menu, but it was removed due to poor reception. In 2003, EGV Entertainment, a movie theater operator in Thailand, opened the EGV Drive-in Cafe in Bangkok, explicitly modeling the restaurant after the Sci-Fi Dine-In. Wichai Poolwaraluk, the company's executive president and chief executive officer, visited the Sci-Fi Dine-In in 2000, and was inspired to open a similar restaurant. He said that, while he was eating at the Sci-Fi Dine-In,", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "10069778", "text": "This normally takes the form of a shorter festival, held at venues including the Apollo Piccadilly Circus, the Stratford Picturehouse, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Royal Society. The Arthur C. Clarke Award is awarded every year to the best science fiction novel which received its first British publication during the previous calendar year. The Award is chosen by Jury. The Award was set up in 1986 and the first winner was announced in 1987. In 2006, Sci-Fi-London hosted the Awards ceremony for the first time. As well as hosting the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Sci-Fi-London also chooses its own", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "11934719", "text": "that around 1500 people visited the festival this year. Because this year marked the organization's fifth year, the festival staff introduced its first annual film festival, which commenced on the festival's opening night. Eleven films were submitted and screened, ten of which were from local film-makers, and one (X-Meeting) from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The winner of this film festival was a horror/comedy short called \"Date With The Dead\". Sci-Fi on the Rock VI occurred on April 20 to 22, 2012. Due to the growth of attendees at Sci-Fi on the Rock events, the layout of the festival underwent and overhaul", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "13871562", "text": "set up a battle scene between the Joes and Cobra. As he imagined the characters in his head, he described four of the Joes on front lines of the battle: Hawk, Leatherneck, Wet Suit, and Sci-Fi \"stood in procession, weapons raised, adrenaline pumping feverishly. Anxious for another victory over the dreaded Cobra.\" He described how \"Sci-Fi's lackadaisical attitude was in check today. The laser trooper in the neon green jumpsuit was leading the charge. Out front, it would be his battle cry that the enemy would hear first.\" Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe) Sci-Fi is a character from the toyline, comic books", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "11934735", "text": "Apart from the media guest Q&A's, autographs and photo sessions, there are many other workshops during the festival, these change yearly but in the past have included: Making its first appearance at Sci-Fi on the Rock 2009, the Cantina is an informal concert/variety show held on one of the evenings of the festival. Performers opt to play Sci-Fi related music, known as Filk, but that is not always the case. The Cantina features performances by musicians involved with the festival, an open mic, and there is an improvised acting piece prepared that audience members are call upon to perform. The", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "16714642", "text": "Sci-Fi (album) Sci-Fi is the fourth studio album by American jazz bassist Christian McBride released in 2000 via Verve label. Some tracks of the material are pop standards. John Fordham of \"The Guardian\" wrote \"Sci-Fi starts unpromisingly, with a rather anonymous, swoony, mixed-tempo account of Steely Dan's 1977 hit Aja that only ignites with David Gilmore's guitar solo. Yet, as it continues, US bass star McBride's typically broad-minded set emphasises both his own playing gifts and their pulling-power with some of the biggest names in the business. McBride's clarity of sound, the bullet-like impact he imparts to every note at", "title": "Sci-Fi (album)" }, { "docid": "11934725", "text": "Sin City, Kill Bill 1 and 2, The Pacific and (which won an Oscar for Best Make-up). The film festival entered its fourth year at Sci-Fi on the Rock, having its most successful turn-out yet. This year, there were three awards—Best Picture (awarded by judges), Critical Impact (awarded by judges) and Audience Choice Award. The Critical Impact award, which recognizes a film that demonstrates powerful storytelling execution, was awarded to U.S. film Aemorraghe, while Best Picture and Audience Choice Award were both awarded to the short film Fist of Jesus from Barcelona, Spain. Sci-Fi on the Rock 9 is took", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934704", "text": "\"His Majesty's New World\"), comic-book artist Paul Tucker (\"The Underworld Railroad\", \"Google John Smith\"), actor Brian Downey (\"Lexx\", \"Millennium\"), actor Jeremy Bulloch (\"The Empire Strikes Back\", \"Octopussy\"), author William Meikle (\"The Midnight Eye\" series), horror author Matthew LeDrew (\"Black Womb\", \"Roulette\") and author Shannon Patrick Sullivan (\"The Dying Days\"). Sci-Fi on the Rock's first festival was held on April 1, 2007 at the Hotel Mount Pearl (formerly Chateau Park) in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. It featured special guest authors Kenneth Tam and Shannon Patrick Sullivan, and local business/fangroup, Vader Party. As well as featuring special guests, the festival featured workshops throughout", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "16714645", "text": "infectious “Via Mwandishi,” which features James Carter’s bass clarinet recalling Bennie Maupin, one of the instrument’s underrated players.\" Band Production Sci-Fi (album) Sci-Fi is the fourth studio album by American jazz bassist Christian McBride released in 2000 via Verve label. Some tracks of the material are pop standards. John Fordham of \"The Guardian\" wrote \"Sci-Fi starts unpromisingly, with a rather anonymous, swoony, mixed-tempo account of Steely Dan's 1977 hit Aja that only ignites with David Gilmore's guitar solo. Yet, as it continues, US bass star McBride's typically broad-minded set emphasises both his own playing gifts and their pulling-power with some", "title": "Sci-Fi (album)" }, { "docid": "15019284", "text": "tour starting on the 13th of November and finishing on February the 19th. All lyrics written by Tarō Kohata, all music written and songs performed by Avengers in Sci-Fi. Dynamo (Avengers in Sci-Fi album) Dynamo (stylised as dynamo) is Japanese electro-rock band Avengers in Sci-Fi's third studio album, and first under a major record label. It was released on October 13, 2010, as an exclusive download on iTunes simultaneously with their live album \"Crazy Gonna Spacey\", with the album's wide release on the 20th. The album was led by a preceding single, \"Delight Slight Lightspeed,\" in September. It was released", "title": "Dynamo (Avengers in Sci-Fi album)" }, { "docid": "16000156", "text": "below, winners are listed first in boldface, followed by the other nominees. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article (if any) on that ceremony. Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy The Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine \"Empire\" to honor the best sci-fi, fantasy or superhero film of the previous year. The Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy is one of four new Best Film ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 11th Empire Awards ceremony in 2006 (along", "title": "Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy" }, { "docid": "18471764", "text": "that, \"if you chose to treat yourself to a good lunch in one of the Disney parks, then this is the one\". Positive reviews of the Sci-Fi Dine-In have indicated diverse reasons for appreciating the restaurant. In \"Vegetarian Walt Disney World and Greater Orlando\", Susan Shumaker and Than Saffel write that the restaurant has \"the wackiest dining experience in any Disney park\". Shumaker and Saffel contend that the Sci-Fi Dine-In provides a reasonable compromise when vegetarians and non-vegetarians are looking to eat together, and that it is also suitable for both large and small families with young children. The restaurant", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "18471760", "text": "in the best way\". In the \"Evansville Courier & Press\", Pete DiPrimio writes that the Sci-Fi Dine-In ranks among the most unusual of the restaurants at Disney's Hollywood Studios. In \"The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2015\", Bob Sehlinger and Len Testa call the Sci-Fi Dine-In the most entertaining restaurant in Walt Disney World, writing that \"everyone gets a kick out of this unusual dining room\". Multiple reviewers have called the Sci-Fi Dine-In more notable for being an attraction than a food destination. One reviewer from \"The Guardian\" compares the Sci-Fi Dine-In to Epcot's Coral Reef Restaurant, writing that", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "13871559", "text": "of the G.I. Joe sub-team, the Star Brigade, which includes Space Shot, Roadblock and Payload. Teaming with the Oktober Guard, they destroy an asteroid that was headed for Earth. Sci-Fi makes an appearance in issue 25 of the Devil's Due G.I. Joe series. He is part of a demolitions team sent in to destroy EMP generators on Cobra Island. Led by the Joe Mercer, the team does so, but not without the deaths of Flash, Mainframe and the rookie Joe member, 'Hacker'. Jinx, another member of the team, survives. Sci-Fi is later seen fighting Cobra operatives in Peru. In the", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "13871561", "text": "Sci-Fi, he is seen watching \"The Transformers\". Sci-Fi appeared in DiC's \"\" cartoon. Jerry Houser reprises his role as Sci-Fi in this cartoon. Sci-Fi is a supporting character in the Joe novel 'Fool's Gold'. His simulation training pays off as he pilots the space shuttle, the USS Defiant, through several maneuvers that end up saving the Earth from a doomsday weapon. He is also a supporting character in 'Serpentor and the Mummy Warrior'. Sci-Fi's figure is briefly featured in the fiction novel \"6 Sick Hipsters\". In the story, the character Paul Achting spent four years collecting G.I. Joe figures to", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "16000155", "text": "Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy The Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine \"Empire\" to honor the best sci-fi, fantasy or superhero film of the previous year. The Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy is one of four new Best Film ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 11th Empire Awards ceremony in 2006 (along with Best Comedy, Best Horror and Best Thriller) with \"\" receiving the award. \"A Monster Calls\" is the most recent winner in this category. Winners are voted by the readers of \"Empire\" magazine. In the list", "title": "Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy" }, { "docid": "4929979", "text": "albums.\" Writing for \"Vox\", Simon Price felt that Anderson wrote some of his funniest lyrics on CD2, on the tracks \"Young Men\" and \"Jumble Sale Mums\". Aside from \"Duchess\", which he called \"lazy rubbish,\" he had strong praise for both discs. The album continued Suede's run of consecutive top ten albums, peaking at no. 9 in October 1997. Despite never placing on any of \"Billboard\"'s charts, \"Sci-Fi Lullabies\" had sold 19,000 units in the US by 2008, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Keith Phipps of \"The A.V. Club\" and Scott Plagenhoef of \"Stylus Magazine\" spoke of the effort invested in Suede's", "title": "Sci-Fi Lullabies" }, { "docid": "13384132", "text": "both sturdy and versatile\". Chevelle Production Artwork It was released on August 31, 2009 debuting at No. 6 in the United States with sales of about 46,000, the highest entry onto the chart to for the band, before being surpassed by their seventh studio album \"La Gárgola\" in 2014. As of January 2013, it sold over 200,000 copies according to Nielsen Soundscan. Sci-Fi Crimes Sci-Fi Crimes is the fifth studio album from the American rock band Chevelle, released on August 31, 2009 through Epic Records. The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009 with producer Brian Virtue. On April", "title": "Sci-Fi Crimes" }, { "docid": "7528291", "text": "Fantastic Voyage (TV series) Fantastic Voyage is an American animated science fiction TV series based on the famous 1966 film directed by Richard Fleischer. The series consists of 17 episodes each running 30 minutes. It was run on ABC-TV from September 14, 1968, through January 4, 1969. The series was produced by Filmation Associates in association with 20th Century Fox. It was later shown in reruns on Sci Fi Channel's Cartoon Quest. A \"Fantastic Voyage\" comic book, based on the series, was published by Gold Key. The complete series was released, as a 3-disc DVD set, in the United Kingdom", "title": "Fantastic Voyage (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20794775", "text": "nominees will be limited series/movies. Outstanding Costumes for a Period/Fantasy Series, Limited Series, or Movie Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes This total includes wins for Outstanding Costumes for a Series. This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes is presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2015, categories for period/fantasy and contemporary costumes were created. The categories were divided in 2018 for period and fantasy/sci-fi costumes. They replaced the retired categories for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special and Outstanding Costumes", "title": "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes" }, { "docid": "19714938", "text": "Spanish as \"Wiggle y Aprende\" on Playhouse Disney weekdays in the afternoon and on Disney Junior in Brazil as \"Wiggle e Aprenda\". Wiggle and Learn (TV series) Wiggle and Learn is an Australian TV show that aired on ABC. It ran from June 17, 2007 to September 8, 2008. It is The Wiggles 6th TV series. It was the first TV series to not feature Greg Page, who had to depart the group in 2006 due to poor health, and the only one to feature Sam Moran as the Yellow Wiggle, as well as the last \"Wiggles\" show until \"Ready", "title": "Wiggle and Learn (TV series)" }, { "docid": "19714935", "text": "Wiggle and Learn (TV series) Wiggle and Learn is an Australian TV show that aired on ABC. It ran from June 17, 2007 to September 8, 2008. It is The Wiggles 6th TV series. It was the first TV series to not feature Greg Page, who had to depart the group in 2006 due to poor health, and the only one to feature Sam Moran as the Yellow Wiggle, as well as the last \"Wiggles\" show until \"Ready Steady Wiggle\" in 2013. Unlike the Wiggles’ five previous TV shows, \"Wiggle and Learn\" uses Nursery Rhymes instead of self-written songs. Also,", "title": "Wiggle and Learn (TV series)" }, { "docid": "18704039", "text": "or even \"Battlestar Galactica\".\" Writing for Forbes.com, Merrill Barr gave the first four episodes of the show an average to negative rating in a review titled \"Sci-Fi Fun With Nothing Else To Offer\", opining that though enjoyable for sci-fi fans, it featured \"sci-fi archetypes that aren't bringing anything new to the table\", an \"overly complicated\" fictional universe, and was \"extremely light on depth and character intrigue\". Rotten Tomatoes gave Season 1 a score of 80% based on reviews from 15 critics. Killjoys (TV series) Killjoys is a Canadian space adventure drama series that airs on Space channel in Canada. The", "title": "Killjoys (TV series)" }, { "docid": "16451295", "text": "contest. In addition, the convention even featured a life-size home made Stargate at its entrance. Sci-Fi Valley Con, Part 2 was held on May 17–19, 2013 in Altoona, Pennsylvania at the Jaffa Shrine Center. Over 2,000 visitors came out over the three days to support the event. An exact number cannot be given because it is reported that the promoter sold out of admission wristbands early Saturday evening of the convention and had to use left over wristbands from the previous year. <br> This was the first year for the conventions \"indie sci-fi/horror film festival\". Many films were submitted for", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "4929984", "text": "that album. The collection is accompanied by a 32-page, full-color lyric booklet designed by Peter Saville. The front cover, whose artistic similarities to J. G. Ballard were noted by Stephen Dowling of the BBC, features a destroyed English Electric Lightning aircraft abandoned and used for target practice at the Otterburn Training Area in Northumberland. It was taken by North East photographer John Kippin. Suede Production Sci-Fi Lullabies Sci-Fi Lullabies is a two-disc compilation album by English alternative rock band Suede, consisting of B-sides from the singles that were released from the group's first three albums. It reached no. 9 on", "title": "Sci-Fi Lullabies" }, { "docid": "4929971", "text": "Sci-Fi Lullabies Sci-Fi Lullabies is a two-disc compilation album by English alternative rock band Suede, consisting of B-sides from the singles that were released from the group's first three albums. It reached no. 9 on the UK Albums Chart, and received universal acclaim on release. In subsequent years, the record has been hailed as one of the finest B-side compilations in popular music. The album spans two discs and displays the band in its most prolific era. The first disc is dominated by tracks written by the Brett Anderson/Bernard Butler songwriting partnership (the exceptions are \"Together,\" \"Bentswood Boys\" and \"Europe", "title": "Sci-Fi Lullabies" }, { "docid": "11934721", "text": "This time, the festival went international very unexpectedly, and received submissions from India, Spain, Mexico, Denmark and the United Kingdom. The winner of the JFE Audience Choice Award was a film called \"Deadspiel\", from Ontario. Once more, the festival beat its own record for attendees, with the numbers reaching close to 1800. Sci-Fi on the Rock held its seventh annual festival from April 24 to April 26, 2013. The special guests for that year included Mike Dopud from Stargate Universe, Dominic Keating from , Dean Haglund who portrayed Langly in The X-Files and its spin-off series The Lone Gunmen, Gary", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "13871560", "text": "2007 crossover, Sci-Fi is the first to make an effective attack on Cobra's enslaved Transformer troopers, shooting Frenzy through the eye. He is assisted in this by Flash. Sci-Fi first appeared in the second season \"\" episode \"Arise, Serpentor, Arise!\" Pt. 1. He was voiced by Jerry Houser. In the episode, he and Low-Light upstage Wetsuit and Leatherneck during target practice. In the episode \"My Brother's Keeper,\" Sci-Fi accompanies Sgt. Slaughter in a mission to prevent Doctor Mindbender and the Dreadnoks from abducting a handicapped scientist named Dr. Jeremy Penser from a science fiction convention. When Slaughter goes to get", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "16451291", "text": "Sci-Fi Valley Con Sci-Fi Valley Con is an annual three-day speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy, or SF) convention had in Altoona, Pennsylvania at the Blair County Convention Center; it is promoted by Assett Conventions, LLC (solely owned and operated by Casey B. Bassett) and is the first such convention in the area. The convention has featured a variety to different forms of entertainment over the years in order to drawl in the visitors, such as; Magic: The Gathering, HeroClix, & Warhammer 40,000 tournaments, video game tournaments, trivia tournaments, costume contests, guest speaking panels, film festival, dealers, artists, charity auctions,", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "3315084", "text": "such as Spain, France (July 10, 1986) or Finland (June 26, 1987), and also in Australia on September 17, 1987. It later appeared on LaserDisc in Japan as \"Amazing Stories: The Movie\" shortly afterwards. Until 2006, the Sci Fi Channel in the United States showed episodes on an irregular schedule. The MoviePlex channel also showed the series as a collection of \"movies,\" which are blocks of three episodes. Both the first and second seasons are available in Canada to Shomi subscribers. Amazing Stories (TV series) Amazing Stories is a fantasy, horror, and science fiction television anthology series created by Steven", "title": "Amazing Stories (TV series)" }, { "docid": "5316391", "text": "Planet of the Apes-based magazine), reprinted from the TV series writer's bible. The series ran in the U.S. from September 13 to December 20, 1974. The series was canceled after half a season because of low ratings due to direct competition by NBC's \"Sanford and Son\" and \"Chico and the Man\". Only thirteen of its fourteen episodes were broadcast; all 14 episodes were later included in the DVD box set. It was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel. It was screened in Britain by 13 of the 14 ITV companies from 13 October 1974 each Sunday, until", "title": "Planet of the Apes (TV series)" }, { "docid": "2595518", "text": "Phoenix Organization. In an interview with \"Entertainment Weekly\", series creators Brandon Camp and Mike Thompson revealed what would have happened and John Doe's true identity. On January 20, 2006, the series was syndicated to the Sci-Fi channel. On Metacritic, the series received a score of 65 out of 100 based on 22 reviews, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". Phil Gallo of \"Variety\" wrote, \"It's so stylishly executed, with Mimi Leder's direction, a crisp script and magnetic lead by Dominic Purcell, that the John Doe indeed has a solid identity.\" John Doe (TV series) John Doe is an American science fiction drama", "title": "John Doe (TV series)" }, { "docid": "7148203", "text": "setting. Though adapted for American television by Matt Tarses, a writer and producer of the critically lauded series \"Sports Night\" and \"Scrubs\", \"Teachers\" was panned by many critics (including the \"San Francisco Chronicle\"'s Tim Goodman) as unoriginal and clichéd. The show was quickly cancelled by NBC, the news coming on May 15. Based on average total viewers per episode of \"Teachers\" on NBC: Teachers (2006 TV series) Teachers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC. The show ran for six episodes until its cancellation on May 2, 2006. Loosely based upon a 2001 UK series of the same", "title": "Teachers (2006 TV series)" }, { "docid": "4014077", "text": "began airing November 11, 2009. The series features Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango leading a group of amateur ghost hunters through various investigations. Ghost Hunters (TV series) Ghost Hunters was an American paranormal reality television series that premiered on October 6, 2004, on Syfy (previously the Sci-Fi Channel) and ran until October 26, 2016. The program features paranormal investigators Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, who investigate places that are reported to be haunted. The two originally worked as plumbers for Roto-Rooter as a day job while investigating locations at night. In June 2016, Jason Hawes announced that \"Ghost Hunters\" would", "title": "Ghost Hunters (TV series)" }, { "docid": "4014056", "text": "Ghost Hunters (TV series) Ghost Hunters was an American paranormal reality television series that premiered on October 6, 2004, on Syfy (previously the Sci-Fi Channel) and ran until October 26, 2016. The program features paranormal investigators Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, who investigate places that are reported to be haunted. The two originally worked as plumbers for Roto-Rooter as a day job while investigating locations at night. In June 2016, Jason Hawes announced that \"Ghost Hunters\" would be ending their relationship with the SyFy channel at the conclusion of its eleventh season, which aired later that year. The series is", "title": "Ghost Hunters (TV series)" }, { "docid": "7846374", "text": "a week, until it caught up to the US, after that it began to air episodes once a week at 8:30 p.m. It currently airs on Thursdays 9:30 p.m. on 7Two. In the United Kingdom, the series first aired on February 19, 2007 on digital channel Sci Fi UK. The series averaged 450,000 viewers, which is almost four times more viewers than those of other programs on Sci Fi UK. The series was then picked up by the BBC, which gave season one its terrestrial premiere from July 25 to December 5, 2007 on BBC Two. Season two of Heroes", "title": "Heroes (U.S. TV series)" } ]
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"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" is often, and erronously, thought to be the motto of what US government agency?
[ "Receiving offices", "Post house", "🏤", "Receiving office", "Post offices", "Postal clerk", "Posthouse", "郵局", "Mail office", "Post Office", "Post office", "Post office branch", "Postal office", "Post-office", "Posting house", "Drop letter", "Post office building" ]
[ { "docid": "616283", "text": "journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day's journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed\"\". The verse prominently features on New York's James Farley Post Office, although it has been slightly rephrased to \"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds\". The economic growth and political stability under the Mauryan empire (322–185 BC) saw the development of", "title": "Mail" }, { "docid": "5659796", "text": "United States Postal Service creed The words \"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds\" – although by no means an official creed or motto of the United States Postal Service – have long been associated with the American postman. The motto is inscribed on New York's James Farley Post Office in New York City, facing Penn Station, but it has no official status. The phrase was a translation by Prof. George Herbert Palmer, Harvard University, from an ancient Greek work of Herodotus describing the angarium, the", "title": "United States Postal Service creed" }, { "docid": "3245543", "text": "the Patrician. Offered the choice of running the mint or exiting the room, he ends up walking through the door to his death. The post office building is modelled on New York's monumental James Farley Post Office Building, which carries the inscription \"\"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.\"\"—in the novel this becomes \"\"NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY\"\" (some letters having been stolen). Sky One produced a two-part television film, \"Terry Pratchett's Going Postal\", which aired", "title": "Going Postal" }, { "docid": "5374204", "text": "post office. In 1913, the act was repealed partially in light of a scandal in which Taylor had picked his former Minnesota partner Cass Gilbert to design the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House. The building prominently bears the inscription: \"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,\" which is frequently mistaken as the official motto of the United States Postal Service. It was actually supplied by William Mitchell Kendall of the firm of McKim, Mead & White, the architects who designed the Farley Building and the original", "title": "James A. Farley Building" }, { "docid": "19609774", "text": "and after that it goes through them handed from one to the other, as in the torch-race among the Hellenes, which they perform for Hephaestus. This kind of running of their horses the Persians call Angarium.\" A sentence of this description of the \"angarium\", translated as \"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,\" is famously inscribed on the James A. Farley Post Office Building in New York City. Angarium The Angarium (Latin; from Greek \"angareion\") was the institution of the royal mounted couriers in ancient Persia.", "title": "Angarium" }, { "docid": "5374199", "text": "James A. Farley Building The James A. Farley Building is the main United States Postal Service building in New York City. Its ZIP code designation is 10001. Built in 1912, the building is famous for bearing the inscription: \"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.\" The James A. Farley Building was formerly the General Post Office Building. The building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1966. it was officially renamed in 1982 as a monument and testament to the political career of the nation's", "title": "James A. Farley Building" }, { "docid": "4896603", "text": "year, McKim, Mead & White designed the nearby Farley Post Office Building with its famous inscription adapted from Herodotus: \"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.\" The civic architecture of Washington DC provides some of the most poetic and most verbose inscriptions. Beaux-Arts architect Daniel Burnham is responsible for the Washington Union Station (1908), with its inscription program developed by Harvard president Charles William Eliot. It includes over the main entrance this paean: \"Fire: greatest of discoveries, enabling man to live in various climates, use many", "title": "Architecture parlante" }, { "docid": "5374213", "text": "2016-released video game \"Tom Clancy's The Division\". James A. Farley Building The James A. Farley Building is the main United States Postal Service building in New York City. Its ZIP code designation is 10001. Built in 1912, the building is famous for bearing the inscription: \"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.\" The James A. Farley Building was formerly the General Post Office Building. The building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1966. it was officially renamed in 1982 as a monument and testament", "title": "James A. Farley Building" }, { "docid": "18082591", "text": "Church, in Washington, D.C.; the American Academy in Rome; and the Harvard University School of Business, many of the Harvard gates, and the Plymouth Rock Memorial (Pilgrim Memorial State Park), in Massachusetts. Kendall proposed inscribing the quotation from Herodotus on the frieze of the New York Post Office: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” After World War I Kendall was a member of the Committee for the Beautification of Permanent American Military Cemeteries in France and England, traveling with a group from the U.S. Commission", "title": "William M. Kendall" }, { "docid": "4577982", "text": "nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds\"— was inscribed on the James Farley Post Office in New York and is sometimes thought of as the United States Postal Service creed. The course of the road has been reconstructed from the writings of Herodotus, archeological research, and other historical records. It began in Asia Minor (on the Aegean coast of Lydia, about 60 miles east of İzmir in present-day Turkey), traveled east through what is now the middle northern section of Turkey (crossing the Halys according to Herodotus), and", "title": "Royal Road" }, { "docid": "4830129", "text": "always justice/ and when justice is gone, there is always force/ and when force is gone, there is always mom\", with the narrator pleading to be held in her mom's \"long\", \"electronic\", and \"petrochemical\" arms. As part of the larger work \"United States\", the text addresses issues of technology and communication, quoting at various points answering machine messages and the slogan \"Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds\". This line is inscribed over the entrance of the James Farley Post Office in New York, and is derived", "title": "O Superman" } ]
[ { "docid": "5659797", "text": "ancient Persian system of mounted postal carriers c. 500 B.C. The inscription was added to the building by William M. Kendall of the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the building's architects. It derives from a quote from Herodotus' \"Histories\", referring to the courier service of the ancient Persian Empire: United States Postal Service creed The words \"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds\" – although by no means an official creed or motto of the United States Postal Service – have long been associated", "title": "United States Postal Service creed" }, { "docid": "15372337", "text": "and caravanserais at specific intervals. The relays of mounted couriers (the angarium) could reach the remotest of areas in fifteen days. Herodotus observes that \"there is nothing in the world that travels faster than these Persian couriers. Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.\" Despite the relative local independence afforded by the satrapy system, royal inspectors, the \"eyes and ears of the king\", toured the empire and reported on local conditions. The practice of slavery in Achaemenid Persia was generally banned, although there is evidence", "title": "Achaemenid Empire" }, { "docid": "8804979", "text": "WOA but they needed to really clean up their sound and work out a few kinks, which they successfully did. Demise Of Eros, with the same work effort, have the same bright future ahead of them!\" Demise of Eros Production Neither Storm nor Quake nor Fire Neither Storm Nor Quake Nor Fire is the only album of metalcore band, Demise of Eros, released on August 22, 2006. Josh from Indie Vision Music writes: \"The band definitely has talent but need a guiding hand to direct their abilities into a smoother result. As of right now, the potential can be seen,", "title": "Neither Storm nor Quake nor Fire" }, { "docid": "8804978", "text": "Neither Storm nor Quake nor Fire Neither Storm Nor Quake Nor Fire is the only album of metalcore band, Demise of Eros, released on August 22, 2006. Josh from Indie Vision Music writes: \"The band definitely has talent but need a guiding hand to direct their abilities into a smoother result. As of right now, the potential can be seen, but the band probably wont be able to stand out amongst the hordes of metalcore groups out there. I look at this album the same way I looked at War Of Ages’ debut. You could hear the overflowing potential of", "title": "Neither Storm nor Quake nor Fire" }, { "docid": "15619276", "text": "nature\", suggesting that the fun \"is in the finding out, though, and the excitement in surviving to tell someone just what it was you found.\" Ramshaw concluded by saying that \"\"Neither Man Nor Beast\" is an elegant standalone adventure. It could slot into non-\"Ravenloft\" campaigns easily - everyone goes to sea eventually - but it's best for folk who already know the Demi-Plane of Dread. For when the island's secret is revealed they'll know precisely how slim their chances are.\" Neither Man nor Beast Neither Man nor Beast is an accessory for the 2nd edition of the \"Advanced Dungeons &", "title": "Neither Man nor Beast" }, { "docid": "15619274", "text": "Neither Man nor Beast Neither Man nor Beast is an accessory for the 2nd edition of the \"Advanced Dungeons & Dragons\" fantasy role-playing game, published in 1995. In \"Neither Man nor Beast\", an adventure for the Ravenloft setting, a vicious storm maroons the player characters on a desert island. The party survives and is in possession of most of their gear, but are stranded on a small and inhospitable island. The scenario combines wilderness wandering, temple exploration, internecine fighting, bad magic and heavy deceit. \"Neither Man nor Beast\" was published in 1995. Trenton Webb reviewed \"Neither Man nor Beast\" for", "title": "Neither Man nor Beast" }, { "docid": "11106270", "text": "by Waldo Frank. The essay was also reprinted in the book \"Between Hell and Reason: Essays from the Resistance Newspaper \"Combat\"\". Neither Victims nor Executioners Neither Victims nor Executioners () was a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in \"Combat\", the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In the essays he discusses violence and murder and the impact these have on those who perpetrate, suffer, or observe. \"Neither Victims nor Executioners\" is split into eight sections: The essays were translated into English by Dwight Macdonald and published in the July–August 1947 issue of \"politics\".", "title": "Neither Victims nor Executioners" }, { "docid": "5682867", "text": "producer Frank Farian who decided to release an album of D'Arby's performances with funk band The Touch (from 1984) in Germany just weeks before \"Neither Fish Nor Flesh\" was due for release. Maitreya states that \"Neither Fish Nor Flesh\" was \"the project that literally killed ‘TTD’, and from whose molten ashes, began the life of Sananda\". All songs written and arranged by Terence Trent D'Arby. Neither Fish nor Flesh Neither Fish nor Flesh (A Soundtrack of Love, Faith, Hope & Destruction) is the second album by American singer Terence Trent D'Arby, released in 1989 on Columbia Records. In a review", "title": "Neither Fish nor Flesh" }, { "docid": "11106269", "text": "Neither Victims nor Executioners Neither Victims nor Executioners () was a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in \"Combat\", the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In the essays he discusses violence and murder and the impact these have on those who perpetrate, suffer, or observe. \"Neither Victims nor Executioners\" is split into eight sections: The essays were translated into English by Dwight Macdonald and published in the July–August 1947 issue of \"politics\". This version is available via England's pacifist Peace Pledge Union. It appeared in separate book form in 1960 with an introduction", "title": "Neither Victims nor Executioners" }, { "docid": "5682865", "text": "Neither Fish nor Flesh Neither Fish nor Flesh (A Soundtrack of Love, Faith, Hope & Destruction) is the second album by American singer Terence Trent D'Arby, released in 1989 on Columbia Records. In a review of \"Neither Fish nor Flesh\" for \"The Village Voice\", Robert Christgau said despite D'Arby's pretensions and awful lyrics on some songs, the psychedelic pop record's music \"proves D'Arby a master of the black spectrum from the trad r&b of 'I'll Be Alright' to the reconstructed Prince-funk of 'This Side of Love'\". \"Rolling Stone\" critic Mark Coleman said D'Arby's effort \"fails to establish him as a", "title": "Neither Fish nor Flesh" }, { "docid": "7512205", "text": "difficult decision to write the truth in the article, concluding that the line between courage and cowardice is much thinner than he'd thought. The title comes from a line in the Bible that reads \"I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong, … but time and chance happen to them all.\" ...Nor the Battle to the Strong \"Nor the Battle to the Strong\" is the 102nd episode of the American syndicated science fiction television series \"\", the fourth episode of the . Set in the 24th century,", "title": "...Nor the Battle to the Strong" }, { "docid": "13089642", "text": "\"neither one nor many\" more intensively (throughout sixty-two of its ninety-seven stanzas) than any other text in Buddhist literature. This argument is one of a series of proofs used to demonstrate that phenomena are without real existence. Neither one nor many The 'neither one nor many' argument (Wylie: gcig du 'bral ba'i gtan tshigs) is an argument employed by different philosophers and spiritual traditions for various reasons. The argument and its permutations and antecedents, particularly the \"problem of the One and the Many\" as charted by McEvilley (2002: pp. 23–66) in his \"magnum opus\", has an ancient pedigree in the", "title": "Neither one nor many" }, { "docid": "15017911", "text": "bring in the wily poacher Blaireau. One night, he is accidentally knocked out by Armand Fléchard, a young piano teacher, but is convinced the attacker was Blaireau and has him arrested. However, Blaireau knows how to take advantage of any situation, and what he makes of being arrested benefits the entire village, including Fléchard and his girlfriend, Arabella, the daughter of the local landowner. Neither Seen Nor Recognized Ni vu, ni connu , is a French comedy film from 1958, directed by Yves Robert, starring Louis de Funès. The film is based on the novel \"L'Affaire Blaireau\" (\"The Badger Case\")", "title": "Neither Seen Nor Recognized" }, { "docid": "15017910", "text": "Neither Seen Nor Recognized Ni vu, ni connu , is a French comedy film from 1958, directed by Yves Robert, starring Louis de Funès. The film is based on the novel \"L'Affaire Blaireau\" (\"The Badger Case\") by Alphonse Allais. The film is known under the titles: \"Neither Seen Nor Recognized\" (international English title), \"L'affaire Blaireau\" (France - alternative title), and \"Fisch oder Fleisch\" (West Germany). The story had previously been adapted for the 1923 silent film \"The Blaireau Case\" and the 1932 sound film \"The Blaireau Case\". In the wine-growing village of Montpaillard, the humorless gamekeeper Parju is determined to", "title": "Neither Seen Nor Recognized" }, { "docid": "13089640", "text": "Neither one nor many The 'neither one nor many' argument (Wylie: gcig du 'bral ba'i gtan tshigs) is an argument employed by different philosophers and spiritual traditions for various reasons. The argument and its permutations and antecedents, particularly the \"problem of the One and the Many\" as charted by McEvilley (2002: pp. 23–66) in his \"magnum opus\", has an ancient pedigree in the lineages of both Indian philosophy and Greek philosophy. McEvilley (2002) also provides strongly persuasive arguments inferring the mutual influence and mutual iteration of the ancient Indian and Greek philosophical traditions but proffers patently inconclusive and undemonstrable evidence,", "title": "Neither one nor many" }, { "docid": "18873023", "text": "Policeman\". The film's sets were designed by the art director Jorge Fernandez. Neither Blood nor Sand Neither Blood nor Sand () is a 1941 Mexican comedy film directed by Alejandro Galindo and starring Cantinflas, Susana Guízar and Elvia Salcedo. It was intended as a parody of the big-budget Hollywood film \"Blood and Sand\", which portrays the world of bullfighting. It was Cantinflas' second full feature film, and its popularity cemented his rising success. He did not get on well with the film's director, but bonded with his assistant Miguel M. Delgado who became his favourite director and directed many of", "title": "Neither Blood nor Sand" }, { "docid": "18873022", "text": "Neither Blood nor Sand Neither Blood nor Sand () is a 1941 Mexican comedy film directed by Alejandro Galindo and starring Cantinflas, Susana Guízar and Elvia Salcedo. It was intended as a parody of the big-budget Hollywood film \"Blood and Sand\", which portrays the world of bullfighting. It was Cantinflas' second full feature film, and its popularity cemented his rising success. He did not get on well with the film's director, but bonded with his assistant Miguel M. Delgado who became his favourite director and directed many of his films. Cantinflas rapidly followed the film with another success, \"The Unknown", "title": "Neither Blood nor Sand" }, { "docid": "12450611", "text": "Nor the Moon by Night Nor the Moon by Night is a 1958 British drama film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Michael Craig. It was based on the novel by Joy Packer and filmed in the Kruger National Park South Africa. The title comes from a passage in the Bible; \"The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.\" Psalm 121:6 The film was released in the United States as Elephant Gun. Two brothers, Rusty and Andrew Miller, are game wardens in Africa. Andrew's fiancee comes out from England and falls in love with Rusty.", "title": "Nor the Moon by Night" }, { "docid": "19086544", "text": "Neither a Hawk Nor a Dove Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An insider's account of Pakistan's foreign policy is a book written by Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri. The book is the first comprehensive account by a Pakistani Foreign Minister who contributed in moving the peace process with India forward. This was hailed as the most promising dialogue between Pakistan and India since Independence. It provides a detailed analysis of the Kashmir issue and the complex Pakistan-US-Afghanistan-India quadrangular relationship. Kasuri believes that, whenever two statesmen are at the helm in India and Pakistan, for improvement of relations, they would have to", "title": "Neither a Hawk Nor a Dove" }, { "docid": "19086546", "text": "observations on serious issues. On foreign policy matters, he deals objectively with those on the other side of the political divide. Neither a Hawk Nor a Dove Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An insider's account of Pakistan's foreign policy is a book written by Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri. The book is the first comprehensive account by a Pakistani Foreign Minister who contributed in moving the peace process with India forward. This was hailed as the most promising dialogue between Pakistan and India since Independence. It provides a detailed analysis of the Kashmir issue and the complex Pakistan-US-Afghanistan-India quadrangular relationship. Kasuri", "title": "Neither a Hawk Nor a Dove" }, { "docid": "15938492", "text": "Neither Here nor There (Fringe) \"Neither Here nor There\" is the fourth season premiere of the Fox science fiction drama television series \"Fringe\". The episode depicts the aftermath of the third season finale in which Peter Bishop disappears from his timeline. In the new, altered timeline, Olivia Dunham is joined by FBI agent Lincoln Lee after the latter's partner is murdered. The two work to investigate his death, which revolves around shape-shifting technology. The episode was co-written by J.H. Wyman, Jeff Pinkner, and Akiva Goldsman. Joe Chappelle directed the installment. Wyman and Pinkner approached it as a new pilot and", "title": "Neither Here nor There (Fringe)" }, { "docid": "16920955", "text": "Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead nor Alive Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead Nor Alive is the debut full-length album by Chicago-based post-metal band Minsk. Produced by Sanford Parker, the album was released in 2005 on At a Loss Recordings. In a review of the album, Allmusic's Greg Prato wrote: \"Although the group has obvious roots in metal (as evidenced by tracks like 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives'), Minsk has plenty of tricks up its sleeve, such as the sonic hodgepodge 'Holy Flower of the North Star' (a track custom-made for listening to on headphones).\" Phil", "title": "Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead nor Alive" }, { "docid": "16920957", "text": "have \"no catchy harmonies or sing-along choruses, but plenty of blissful textures are woven among the downtrodden loping.\" Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead nor Alive Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead Nor Alive is the debut full-length album by Chicago-based post-metal band Minsk. Produced by Sanford Parker, the album was released in 2005 on At a Loss Recordings. In a review of the album, Allmusic's Greg Prato wrote: \"Although the group has obvious roots in metal (as evidenced by tracks like 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives'), Minsk has plenty of tricks up its sleeve, such as", "title": "Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead nor Alive" }, { "docid": "14731827", "text": "a decorative ear of corn design on it. The words \"Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers\" are engraved in all capitals across the top of the front facade of the building. Above a terracotta coping is a parapet wall with a repeated design of an eagle and a steer with ears of corn hanging from his ears. A large flagpole with a marble base is outside the front entrance, and four lamps line the entrance-way. Each lamp is a glass world globe shaded with two colors of amber. The front entrance opens to a", "title": "United States Post Office and Courthouse (Meridian, Mississippi)" }, { "docid": "1672168", "text": "Logical NOR In boolean logic, logical nor or joint denial is a truth-functional operator which produces a result that is the negation of logical or. That is, a sentence of the form (\"p\" NOR \"q\") is true precisely when neither \"p\" nor \"q\" is true—i.e. when both of \"p\" and \"q\" are \"false\". In grammar, nor is a coordinating conjunction. The NOR operator is also known as Peirce's arrow—Charles Sanders Peirce introduced the symbol ↓ for it, and demonstrated that the logical NOR is completely expressible: by combining uses of the logical NOR it is possible to express any logical", "title": "Logical NOR" }, { "docid": "15938493", "text": "used the character of Lee to help introduce viewers to the series. As a result of Lee's inclusion, \"Neither Here nor There\" is the first episode to introduce his portrayer Seth Gabel, formerly a recurring actor, as a main cast member. Joe Flanigan guest-starred as his partner, Robert Danzig. The episode is also the first to briefly feature recurring actress Michelle Krusiec as Nadine Park. \"Neither Here nor There\" was originally broadcast on September 23, 2011 on the Fox network to an estimated 3.5 million viewers. It scored a 1.5/5 ratings share among adults aged 18 to 49. Critical reception", "title": "Neither Here nor There (Fringe)" }, { "docid": "1672169", "text": "operation on two variables. Thus, as with its dual, the NAND operator (a.k.a. the Sheffer stroke—symbolized as either ↑, | or /), NOR can be used by itself, without any other logical operator, to constitute a logical formal system (making NOR functionally complete). It is also known as Quine's dagger (his symbol was †), the (from Ancient Greek , , \"cutting both ways\") by Peirce, or neither-nor. Other ways of notating formula_1 include, P NOR Q, and \"X\"pq\"\" (in Bocheński notation). It is logically equivalent to formula_2, where the symbol formula_3 signifies OR and formula_4 signifies the negation. The computer", "title": "Logical NOR" }, { "docid": "12450616", "text": "again. Annakin had \"The Singer Not the Song\" taken off him and given to Roy Ward Baker. The film managed to recoup its costs in Europe and made a profit after its release in the United States. Annakin later said \"the picture was a mediocre hotch potch.\" Nor the Moon by Night Nor the Moon by Night is a 1958 British drama film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Michael Craig. It was based on the novel by Joy Packer and filmed in the Kruger National Park South Africa. The title comes from a passage in the Bible; \"The sun", "title": "Nor the Moon by Night" }, { "docid": "13089641", "text": "the perennial bugbear of historical inquiry. The argument is a factor in the algorithmic function of the \"Catuskoti\". In its Buddhist employ, the argument is one of a suite of arguments within the purview of Pramana and Indian logic to demonstrate and test various doctrines. Different authorities and sources provide different enumerations of these said arguments; Khenpo Yonten Gyamtso lists them thus: The Padmakara Translation Group (2005: p. 39) convey the uniqueness of the \"Madhyamākalaṃkāra\" of Śāntarakṣita in Buddhist literature in its focused, dedicated and protracted employ of the \"neither one nor many\" argument: The \"Madhyamakalankara\" invokes the argument of", "title": "Neither one nor many" }, { "docid": "9145971", "text": "Nor- In chemical nomenclature, nor- is a prefix to name a structural analog that can be derived from a parent compound by the removal of one carbon atom along with the accompanying hydrogen atoms. The nor-compound can be derived by removal of a , , or CH group, or of a C atom. The \"nor-\" prefix also includes the elimination of a methylene bridge in a cyclic parent compound, followed by ring contraction. (The prefix \"homo-\" which indicates the next higher member in a homologous series, is usually limited to noncyclic carbons). The terms desmethyl- or demethyl- are synonyms of", "title": "Nor-" }, { "docid": "1129367", "text": "police service, street maintenance and snow plowing. The University of Missouri–St. Louis is partially within Bel-Nor. Bel-Nor is also home to Incarnate Word Academy. The Normandie Golf Club, which claims to be the oldest public golf course west of the Mississippi River, is adjacent to the city. It was created in 1901 as the Normandy Country Club. Recently, village residents have been fighting in court to stop a planned redevelopment of Normandie Golf Course into residential housing. The Bel-Nor Police Department (BNPD) is responsible for law enforcement and traffic control for the City of Bel-Nor. It consists of a small", "title": "Bel-Nor, Missouri" }, { "docid": "9145978", "text": "to the unbranched form in a series of isomers, for example as with alkanes, alkanols and some amino acids. Names of unbranched alkanes and alkanols, like \"normal butane\" and \"normal propyl alcohol\", which are obsolete now, have become the prefix \"n-\", however, not \"nor\". Other \"normal\" compounds got the prefix \"nor\". Older trivial names, like norleucine and norvaline are retained, but the use of the prefix for isomeric compounds was already discouraged in 1955 or earlier. Nor- In chemical nomenclature, nor- is a prefix to name a structural analog that can be derived from a parent compound by the removal", "title": "Nor-" }, { "docid": "7721602", "text": "(full custom approach). A NOR gate is logically an inverted OR gate. By itself has the following truth table: A NOR gate is a universal gate, meaning that any other gate can be represented as a combination of NOR gates. This is made by joining the inputs of a NOR gate. As a NOR gate is equivalent to an OR gate leading to NOT gate, this automatically sees to the \"OR\" part of the NOR gate, eliminating it from consideration and leaving only the NOT part. An OR gate is made by inverting the output of a NOR gate. Note", "title": "NOR logic" }, { "docid": "6415304", "text": "Nor Loch began at the eastern end to allow construction of the North Bridge. Draining of the western end was undertaken 1813 to 1820, under supervision by the engineer James Jardine to enable the creation of Princes Street Gardens. For several decades after draining of the Loch began, townspeople continued to refer to the area as the Nor Loch. Although the Nor Loch was filled in during the 19th century, neither its legacy nor its name are entirely forgotten. During the construction of Waverley Station and the railway lines through the area, a number of bones were uncovered. Princes Street", "title": "Nor Loch" }, { "docid": "15904462", "text": "investiture ceremony, conferred on Normafaizul the posthumous Gallantry Star of Malacca (BGP). His spouse, Norazrina Jaafar, received the posthumous award on behalf of her late husband. She thanked the Government of Malacca, Malaysia, for recognising her husband as a \"war hero\". Noramfaizul Mohd Nor is the first recipient of the BGP award since it was created in 1978. Death of Noramfaizul Mohd Nor The death of Noramfaizul Mohd Nor is about the first journalist from Malaysia to be fatally injured while on a dangerous assignment abroad. The attack occurred on 2 September 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia, while Noramfaizul was reporting", "title": "Death of Noramfaizul Mohd Nor" }, { "docid": "1672171", "text": "does not possess any of the five qualities (truth-preserving, false-preserving, linear, monotonic, self-dual) required to be absent from at least one member of a set of functionally complete operators. Thus, the set containing only NOR suffices as a complete set. NOR has the interesting feature that all other logical operators can be expressed by interlaced NOR operations. The logical NAND operator also has this ability. Expressed in terms of NOR formula_6, the usual operators of propositional logic are: Logical NOR In boolean logic, logical nor or joint denial is a truth-functional operator which produces a result that is the negation", "title": "Logical NOR" }, { "docid": "9145977", "text": "is suggested that \"nor\" is an acronym of German \"N ohne Radikal\" (\"nitrogen without radical\"). At first, the British pharmacologist John H. Gaddum followed this theory, but in response to a review of A.M. Woolman, Gaddum retracted his support for this etymology. Woolman believed that \"N ohne Radikal\" was a German mnemonic and likely a backronym, rather than the real meaning of the prefix \"nor\". This can be argued with the fact \"\"that the prefix nor is used for many compounds which contain no nitrogen at all\"\". Originally, \"nor\" had an ambiguous meaning, as the term \"normal\" could also refer", "title": "Nor-" }, { "docid": "9829588", "text": "much detailed research about the history, flora and fauna of the places visited. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe is a 1991 humorous travelogue by American writer Bill Bryson. It documents the author's tour of Europe in 1990, with many flashbacks to two summer tours he made in 1972 and 1973 in his college days. Parts featuring his 1973 tour focus to a large extent on the pseudonymous \"Stephen Katz\", who accompanied Bryson, and who would play a more prominent role in Bryson's later book \"A Walk in the Woods\", as well", "title": "Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe" }, { "docid": "9829586", "text": "Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe is a 1991 humorous travelogue by American writer Bill Bryson. It documents the author's tour of Europe in 1990, with many flashbacks to two summer tours he made in 1972 and 1973 in his college days. Parts featuring his 1973 tour focus to a large extent on the pseudonymous \"Stephen Katz\", who accompanied Bryson, and who would play a more prominent role in Bryson's later book \"A Walk in the Woods\", as well as appearing in \"The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid\". Bryson's trip", "title": "Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe" }, { "docid": "6756259", "text": "and resistors on the inputs are to protect the CMOS components from damage due to electrostatic discharge (ESD) and play no part in the logical function of the circuit. If no specific NOR gates are available, one can be made from NAND gates, because NAND and NOR gates are considered the \"universal gates\", meaning that they can be used to make all the other gates. NOR gate The NOR gate is a digital logic gate that implements logical NOR - it behaves according to the truth table to the right. A HIGH output (1) results if both the inputs to", "title": "NOR gate" }, { "docid": "6756255", "text": "NOR gate The NOR gate is a digital logic gate that implements logical NOR - it behaves according to the truth table to the right. A HIGH output (1) results if both the inputs to the gate are LOW (0); if one or both input is HIGH (1), a LOW output (0) results. NOR is the result of the negation of the OR operator. It can also be seen as an AND gate with all the inputs inverted. NOR is a functionally complete operation—NOR gates can be combined to generate any other logical function. it shares this property with the", "title": "NOR gate" }, { "docid": "11078815", "text": "in 2004 when it is purchased entirely by Posten from the previous owners Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskap and Ofotens og Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab. In 2005 Nor-Cargo also bought the road company HSD Transport. In 2006 Nor-Cargo strengthened their position on the European continent by buying Scanex in Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands. Scanex had been functioning as agent for Nor-Cargo since 1989. Nor-Cargo opened office in Houston, Texas in 2007 under President Sten Svendsen. Nor-Cargo Nor-Cargo AS is a Norwegian cargo transport and logistics company and subsidiary of Posten Norge, the Norwegian Postal Service. It operates road, water and air transport. The company operates", "title": "Nor-Cargo" }, { "docid": "8564498", "text": "Nor of Human Nor of Human: An Anthology of Fantastic Creatures is the first short story anthology published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. Printed in 2001 under and edited by Geoffrey Maloney, it contains stories from several Australian speculative fiction authors. The anthology was one of the first projects the newly founded CSFG embarked on, as a way to provide a focus for members' activities and as a showcase for their work. The theme of \"fantastic creatures\" was inspired by a guest speaker at one of the Guild meetings, the Australian cryptozoologist known as \"Tim the Yowie Man\", and", "title": "Nor of Human" }, { "docid": "8564500", "text": "not of human…\" All stories in the collection are illustrated by Les Petersen. The collection contains the following stories: Nor of Human Nor of Human: An Anthology of Fantastic Creatures is the first short story anthology published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. Printed in 2001 under and edited by Geoffrey Maloney, it contains stories from several Australian speculative fiction authors. The anthology was one of the first projects the newly founded CSFG embarked on, as a way to provide a focus for members' activities and as a showcase for their work. The theme of \"fantastic creatures\" was inspired by", "title": "Nor of Human" }, { "docid": "7721605", "text": "a single NOR gate. NOR logic A NOR gate is a logic gate which gives a positive output only when both inputs are negative. Like NAND gates, NOR gates are so-called \"universal gates\" that can be combined to form any other kind of logic gate. For example, the first embedded system, Apollo Guidance Computer, was built exclusively from NOR gates, about 5,600 in total for the later versions. Today, integrated circuits are not constructed exclusively from a single type of gate. Instead, EDA tools are used to convert the description of a logical circuit to a netlist of complex gates", "title": "NOR logic" }, { "docid": "9305826", "text": "was a football club from Nor Hachn, used to play their home games at the Hachn City Stadium of 5,000 seats. The club was dissolved in early 1997 due to financial difficulties and is currently inactive from professional football. Nor Hachn Nor Hachn (), is a town and urban municipal community in the Kotayk Province of Armenia, founded in 1953. The town is located on the right bank of Hrazdan River, to the west of the Arzni canyon, on the immediate proximity of the Arzni-Shamiram canal. As per the 2011 census, Nor Hachn had a population of 9,307. According to", "title": "Nor Hachn" }, { "docid": "9145975", "text": "they called it \"dimethyl nor-opianic acid\". After reaction with a strong acid a compound was attained with only one methyl (CHO). This partially demethylated opianic acid they called \"methyl normal opianic acid\". The completely demethylated compound (CHO) was denoted by the term \"normal opianic acid\", abbreviated as \"nor-opianic acid\". Similarly Matthiessen and Foster called narcotine, which has three methoxy groups, \"trimethyl nor-narcotine\". The singular demethylated narcotine was called \"dimethyl nor-narcotine\", the more demethylated narcotine \"methyl nor-narcotine\" and the completely demethylated form \"normal narcotine\" or \"nor-narcotine\". \"\"Since that time the meaning of the prefix has been generalized to denote the replacement", "title": "Nor-" }, { "docid": "9145972", "text": "\"nor-\". \"Nor\" is an abbreviation of normal. Originally, the term was used to denote the completely demethylated form of the parent compound. Later, the meaning was restricted to the removal of one group. Nor is written directly in front of the stem name, without a hyphen between, unless there is another prefix after nor (for example α-). If multiple groups are eliminated the prefix dinor, trinor, tetranor, etcetera is used. The prefix is preceded by the position number (locant) of the carbon atoms that disappear. For example 2,3-dinor. The original numbering of the parent compound is retained. According to IUPAC", "title": "Nor-" }, { "docid": "9829587", "text": "begins in the winter, in Hammerfest, Norway, where his goal is to see the Northern Lights. He visits numerous locations throughout Europe, commenting on the various aspects of life in different parts of Europe, and comparing them to how he experienced them in his earlier visits. The book ends with Bryson reaching Istanbul, Turkey, and contemplating on how the city is the gateway to Asia, and considers continuing his tour. Unlike Bryson's later books, \"Neither Here nor There\" is marked by his solo observations; he does not seem to engage locals in conversation in his travels, nor is there as", "title": "Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe" }, { "docid": "2957830", "text": "Empok Nor \"Empok Nor\" is the 122nd episode of the television series \"\", the 24th episode of the . The episode primarily takes place on the Cardassian space station Empok Nor, which was abandoned for some time. Within the Star Trek science fiction universe, in the year 2373 a salvage mission is lead to the derelict space station from Deep Space Nine. However, to accomplish this mission it is known that various Cardassian booby traps must be overcome. Empok Nor is a space station in the late 2300s, of the same type as Deep Space Nine but it has been", "title": "Empok Nor" }, { "docid": "7721601", "text": "NOR logic A NOR gate is a logic gate which gives a positive output only when both inputs are negative. Like NAND gates, NOR gates are so-called \"universal gates\" that can be combined to form any other kind of logic gate. For example, the first embedded system, Apollo Guidance Computer, was built exclusively from NOR gates, about 5,600 in total for the later versions. Today, integrated circuits are not constructed exclusively from a single type of gate. Instead, EDA tools are used to convert the description of a logical circuit to a netlist of complex gates (standard cells) or transistors", "title": "NOR logic" }, { "docid": "6756257", "text": "IEC ('European' or 'rectangular') symbol, as well as the deprecated DIN symbol. For more information see Logic Gate Symbols. The ANSI symbol for the NOR gate is a standard OR gate with an inversion bubble connected. NOR Gates are basic logic gates, and as such they are recognised in TTL and CMOS ICs. The standard, 4000 series, CMOS IC is the 4001, which includes four independent, two-input, NOR gates. The pinout diagram is as follows: These devices are available from most semiconductor manufacturers such as Fairchild Semiconductor, Philips or Texas Instruments. These are usually available in both through-hole DIP and", "title": "NOR gate" }, { "docid": "19876007", "text": "19-Nor-5-androstenedione 19-Nor-5-androstenedione, also known as estr-5-ene-3,17-dione, is a synthetic, orally active anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) and a derivative of 19-nortestosterone (nandrolone) that was never introduced for medical use. It is an androgen prohormone of nandrolone and of other 19-norandrostanes. 19-Nor-5-androstenedione, 19-nor-5-androstenediol, and other 19-norandrostane prohormones were considered to be nutritional supplements and were sold over-the-counter in the United States as a result of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). However, they were banned from sports in 1999 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and are currently on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) list of prohibited substances. In", "title": "19-Nor-5-androstenedione" }, { "docid": "19876005", "text": "19-Nor-5-androstenediol 19-Nor-5-androstenediol, also known as estr-5-ene-3β,17β-diol, is a synthetic, orally active anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) and a derivative of 19-nortestosterone (nandrolone) that was never introduced for medical use. It is an androgen prohormone of nandrolone and of other 19-norandrostanes. 19-Nor-5-androstenediol, 19-nor-5-androstenedione, and other 19-norandrostane prohormones were considered to be nutritional supplements and were sold over-the-counter in the United States as a result of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). However, they were banned from sports in 1999 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and are currently on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) list of prohibited substances. In", "title": "19-Nor-5-androstenediol" }, { "docid": "9145976", "text": "of one or more methyl groups by H, or the disappearance of CH from a carbon chain\"\". At present, the meaning is restricted to denote the removal of only one group from the parent structure, rather than the completely demethylated form of the parent compound. In literature, \"nor\" is sometimes called the \"next lower homologue\", although in this context \"homologue\" is an inexact term. \"Nor\" only refers to the removal of one carbon atom with the accompanying hydrogen, not the removal of other units. \"Nor\" compares two related compounds; it does not describe the relation to a homologous series. It", "title": "Nor-" }, { "docid": "3605829", "text": "\"it's got guts and soul, and will make poor people dance until 4 a.m., even if they have to be at work until 7 a.m.\" and that despite containing a few songs that could be skipped over, \"this LP on cassette will cause more wear on the rewind button than on the fast forward\". Robert Christgau gave the album a and said that \"neither pop nor rock nor disco crossover stays these groghounds from the swift accomplishment of their appointed rounds\". Reviewing the 2004 reissue, \"Mojo\" called \"If I Should Fall from Grace with God\" \"an amazingly original, democratically written", "title": "If I Should Fall from Grace with God" }, { "docid": "9305821", "text": "Nor Hachn, while the Mount of Ara is around 13 km northwest of the town. Nor Hachn is bordered by the village of Arzni and the town of Byureghavan on the east, the village of Nor Geghi on the north, the village of Nor Artamet on the west and the village of Getamej on the south. The Yeghvard training airfield is located to the west of Nor Hachn. The climate of Nor Hachn is continental and dry with relatively hot summers and extremely cold winters. Nor Hachn is mainly populated by Armenians who belong to the Armenian Apostolic Church. The", "title": "Nor Hachn" }, { "docid": "11078814", "text": "Nordsjørederiet Nor-Cargo A/S was founded. By 1985 this company was operating 16 short sea vessels through the company K/S Nord-Poolen. In 1988 the company RoNoTro A/S was established, and it purchased Bergenske, including the shipping companies K/S Nor-Cargo, Nordenfjeldske, the road transport companies Norske Godslinjer and the thermal transport company Sties Termo-Transport and the air cargo company NECAS, from Kosmos. By 1993 these companies had merged to one. The company continues to purchase a number of transport companies throughout the country, including many Nor-Cargo branded transport companies. In 1999 the company was renamed Nor-Cargo ASA before getting its present name", "title": "Nor-Cargo" }, { "docid": "16663780", "text": "Nor-Am Cup The Nor-Am Cup (North American Cup) is one of the tours of competitions organized by the International Ski Federation, and it takes place in North America. The Nor-Am Cup gives athletes who have qualified for these races the opportunity to compete against athletes from other countries. The equivalent tour in Europe is the Europa Cup, and, in Australia and New Zealand, there is the Australian and New Zealand Cup, where athletes from surrounding countries such as Japan compete. All of these cups, the Nor-Am Cup, the Europa Cup, and the Australian and New Zealand Cup, are the level", "title": "Nor-Am Cup" }, { "docid": "15943415", "text": "New Forward). A limited liability company was established as owner. The first issue of \"Nor Haratch\" was published on 27 October 2009. The editorial staff included Haroutiun Gobelian (Executive Editor), Jiraïr Tcholakian (Director of Publication), Nora Baroutjian and Aram Kerovpyan, and correspondents in Armenia and the Middle East. With its new, independent staff, administration and ownership, \"Nor Haratch\" should be considered a separate new publication, rather than a continuation of the historical \"Haratch\". A French language weekly supplement, entitled Hebdo Nor Haratch, was added in 2011. Nor Haratch Nor Haratch () is an Armenian newspaper based in France. It was", "title": "Nor Haratch" }, { "docid": "7721604", "text": "B-input of the XOR gate with the 3-gate propagation delay can be inverted. This construction uses five gates instead of four. An XOR gate is made by connecting the output of 3 NOR gates (connected as an AND gate) and the output of a NOR gate to the respective inputs of a NOR gate. This construction entails a propagation delay three times that of a single NOR gate and uses five gates. Alternatively, the 4-gate version of the XNOR gate can be used with an inverter. This construction has a propagation delay four times (instead of three times) that of", "title": "NOR logic" }, { "docid": "12450612", "text": "In the late 1950s, the Rank Organisation made a series of adventure movies in colour shot on location which were aimed at the international audience. These included \"Robbery Under Arms\", \"Ferry to Hong Kong\", \"Campbell's Kingdom\" and \"Nor the Moon by Night\". Joy Packer's novel was published in 1957. Film rights were bought by Sir John Davis of the Rank Film Organisation, in part because Davis' wife Dinah Sheridan was a fan of the novel. The film was directed by Ken Annakin. He says he did not really want to do the job, the film he really wanted to make", "title": "Nor the Moon by Night" }, { "docid": "15938508", "text": "stars, writing that it \"chooses to mostly ignore exploring the implications [of Peter's disappearance] on the overall story arc in favour of a fairly run-of-the-mill (by \"Fringe\" standards, at least) case of the week. Even the potentially scintillating scenes between the alternate incarnations of the characters fail to materialise, aside from a couple of stilted encounters between the two Olivias.\" Edwards did however praise the premiere for its special effects, and for doing an effective job presenting the characteristics of a world without Peter, especially highlighting Lincoln's newcomer role as a lens for the audience. Neither Here nor There (Fringe)", "title": "Neither Here nor There (Fringe)" }, { "docid": "15938504", "text": "Robin\" by Bobby Day and \"Cinderella in the Palace\" by Sergei Prokofiev, the latter performed by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Walter later quotes a line from the 1963 John le Carre novel \"The Spy Who Came In From The Cold\". \"Neither Here nor There\" originally broadcast in the United States on September 23, 2011 to an estimated 3.5 millions viewers. It scored a 1.5/5 ratings share among viewers 18–49, meaning that it was seen by 1.5 percent of all 18- to 49-year-olds, and 5 percent of all 18- to 49-year-olds watching television at the time of broadcast. This", "title": "Neither Here nor There (Fringe)" }, { "docid": "11640579", "text": "Nor Geghi Nor Geghi () is a major village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia, located around 22 km north of the capital Yerevan, near the town of Nor Hachen. As of the 2011 census, the population of the village is 5,319. The village used to be known as \"Chatkran\" and \"Bazmavan\" during the Soviet period. A 2014 study published in the journal \"Science\" discovered Levallois and bifacial stone tools in an archaeological site near Nor Geghi. The artifacts, found preserved in soil under a later lava flow and dated at 325,000 – 335,000 years old, were a mix of", "title": "Nor Geghi" }, { "docid": "15943414", "text": "Nor Haratch Nor Haratch () is an Armenian newspaper based in France. It was initially published twice a week (every Tuesday and Friday). In 2010 it started to be published thrice a week (every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday). Nor Haratch was founded in 2009 in response to the closing of the independent daily \"Haratch\", the longest-running French-Armenian publication, founded by Schavarch Missakian in 1925 and continued by his daughter Arpik Missakian since 1957, whose last issue appeared with the date May 30-31, 2009. Five months after \"Haratch\" ceased publication, a group of intellectuals started the publication of \"Nor Haratch\" (literally", "title": "Nor Haratch" }, { "docid": "9145973", "text": "nomenclature, this prefix is not written with italic letters and unlike nor, when it is a di or higher nor, at the end of the numbers separated by commas, a hyphen is used. As for example 2,3-dinor-6-keto Prostaglandin F1α is produced by beta oxidation of the parent compound 6-keto Prostaglandin F1α. Here, though actually carbon 1 & 2 are lost by oxidation. The new Carbon 1 has now become a CCOH similar to the parent compound, looking as if just carbon 2 & 3 have been removed from the parent compound. \"Dinor\" does not have to be reduction in adjacent", "title": "Nor-" }, { "docid": "7721603", "text": "that we already know that a NOT gate is equivalent to a NOR gate with its inputs joined. An AND gate gives a 1 output when both inputs are 1.Therefore, an AND gate is made by inverting the inputs of a NOR gate. Again, note that a NOT gate is equivalent to a NOR with its inputs joined. A NAND gate is made by inverting the output of an AND gate. An XNOR gate is made by connecting four NOR gates as shown below. This construction entails a propagation delay three times that of a single NOR gate. Alternatively, the", "title": "NOR logic" }, { "docid": "7975147", "text": "Mohammad Anwar Mohammad Nor Admiral (Rtd) Tan Sri Dato' Sri Mohammad Anwar Mohammad Nor, is the Chief of Defence Force, Malaysia. He is the first Chief of Defence Force to be appointed from the Royal Malaysian Navy. For over five decades previously, the Chief of the Defence Force had traditionally been a 4-star General from the Royal Malaysian Army. Anwar broke the tradition by being appointed the first Navy Admiral to be promoted to Chief of Defence Force. After retirement, Anwar involved in politic and was appointed as a Senator of Dewan Negara for one term from 23 April 2015", "title": "Mohammad Anwar Mohammad Nor" }, { "docid": "2957837", "text": "infirmary. Garak expresses his sincere regret; O'Brien informs him there will be an inquest. Garak remarks that he is lucky the phaser blast didn't kill him, which O'Brien reveals it was in fact intended to do. Empok Nor \"Empok Nor\" is the 122nd episode of the television series \"\", the 24th episode of the . The episode primarily takes place on the Cardassian space station Empok Nor, which was abandoned for some time. Within the Star Trek science fiction universe, in the year 2373 a salvage mission is lead to the derelict space station from Deep Space Nine. However, to", "title": "Empok Nor" }, { "docid": "1672170", "text": "used in the spacecraft that first carried humans to the moon, the Apollo Guidance Computer, was constructed entirely using NOR gates with three inputs. The NOR operation is a logical operation on two logical values, typically the values of two propositions, that produces a value of \"true\" if and only if both operands are false. In other words, it produces a value of \"false\" if and only if at least one operand is true. The truth table of formula_1 (also written as P NOR Q) is as follows: The logical NOR formula_6 is the negation of the disjunction: Logical NOR", "title": "Logical NOR" }, { "docid": "9305820", "text": "Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan were resettled in Nor Hachn. Nor Hachn used to be a major industrial centre within the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. However, after the independence of Armenia in 1991, very few industrial plants have survived in the town. The town has been home to the \"Lori\" diamond-processing plant since 1992. The other; \"Shoghakn\" diamond-processing plant was closed in 2007. Nor Hachn is located in Kotayk Province on the right bank of Hrazdan River, 20 km north of capital Yerevan. It has an average height of above sea level. Mount Hatis is located around 12 km east of", "title": "Nor Hachn" }, { "docid": "11078813", "text": "Nor-Cargo Nor-Cargo AS is a Norwegian cargo transport and logistics company and subsidiary of Posten Norge, the Norwegian Postal Service. It operates road, water and air transport. The company operates through 32 Terminals with 1,000 long-distance and 600 distribution trucks. In addition, the division Nor-Cargo Thermo operates 500 temperature-controlled trucks. The predecessor of Nor-Cargo was established in 1967 when Be-No-Ve samseilingen was established by Bergenske Dampskibsselskab, Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskab and Vesteraalske Dampskibsselskab. Four years later Ofotens Dampskibsselskab, Narvik Dampskibsselskab and Nordlandske Dampskibsselskab also joined. This was a cooperation between the shipping companies. In 1979 this was taken one step further when", "title": "Nor-Cargo" }, { "docid": "16787541", "text": "trade fair week. “Nor-Shipping is as much known for its evening parties as for the growing number of daytime events.” This includes its barbecue, “the largest event of its kind in Norway with 2,500 guests” and the more recently established closing party, as well as Nor-Shipping Venture Forum and Nor-Shipping Shipowners’ Forum. Nor-Shipping Nor-Shipping is a maritime trade fair that has been held in Norway every other year since 1965. It is one of the leading international shipping events and an important meeting place and forum for the shipping industry. It \"remains one of the most pivotal and well-attended events", "title": "Nor-Shipping" }, { "docid": "9261223", "text": "the writer of both of Kiddie's films (along with Fred Karno) that are mentioned above. In the 1950s, Nor could still be found performing at Stockport Hippodrome in a Bernard Delfont production. Entertainers in British Films: A Century of Showbiz in the Cinema, Denis Gifford, Flicks Books, 1998 Nor Kiddie Nor Kiddie was the stage name of the comedian, actor and juggler of the 1920s and '30s, Norman Chilton Kiddie. Nor was born to Elizabeth and Joseph Garibaldi Kiddie in Widnes, Lancashire 1897. Joseph (or 'J. Gar', b. 1864) was a locally successful music hall artiste, writer, comedian, pantomime producer", "title": "Nor Kiddie" }, { "docid": "15938503", "text": "fringe science terms like \"Psychometry\", \"Gravitons\", and \"Existence\". Pinkner said the new color of the credits \"clearly [indicates] a universe without Peter in it.\" \"Neither Here nor There\" marked the first appearance of recurring guest actress Michelle Krusiec. Her casting was confirmed in July 2011. The episode also featured a one-time guest appearance by actor Joe Flanigan, who played Lee's partner Robert Danzig. Flanigan shot his scenes in July 2011. The scene in the diner where the Observers discuss Peter's existence featured \"California Dreamin'\" by vocal group The Mamas & the Papas. Other songs featured in the episode included \"Rockin'", "title": "Neither Here nor There (Fringe)" }, { "docid": "9305816", "text": "Nor Hachn Nor Hachn (), is a town and urban municipal community in the Kotayk Province of Armenia, founded in 1953. The town is located on the right bank of Hrazdan River, to the west of the Arzni canyon, on the immediate proximity of the Arzni-Shamiram canal. As per the 2011 census, Nor Hachn had a population of 9,307. According to the 2016 official estimate, the population is around 8,400. The town is named Nor Hachn, meaning \"New Haçin\", in memory of the Armenian town of \"Haçin\" in Cilicia, where a group of local fedayis organized a military resistance against", "title": "Nor Hachn" }, { "docid": "9305824", "text": "Nor Hachn to commemorate the 1920 Haçin Resistance. The H5 highway runs by the west side of the town, connecting with the larger M4 motorway leading to Yerevan. Arzni airfield, housing the Armenak Khanperyants Military Aviation University is located to the west of Nor Hachn. There are various training airplanes and helicopters stationed at the base on one of the runways, while a sizable number military vehicles and artillery are located on the other runway. Nor Hachn is connected to the Yerevan-Hrazdan railway by a small train station south of the town. Nor Hachn is famous for its diamond cutting", "title": "Nor Hachn" }, { "docid": "15904453", "text": "as Putera 1Malaysia Club, mobilised humanitarian efforts to assist people in the coastal Benadir region of Somalia impacted by the 2011 East Africa drought. Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, a journalist and camera operator with Bernama, Malaysia's national news agency, was assigned to report on these efforts. At the time of the incident, Noramfaizul was travelling with other journalists, back to their base at the airport. While stopped at the busy Kilometer Four intersection in the capital city of Mogadishu, Noramfaizul was fatally injured when he was shot by a high-caliber bullet, fired by an unknown sniper. Aji Saregar Mazlan, a camera", "title": "Death of Noramfaizul Mohd Nor" }, { "docid": "8845875", "text": "a foundation that was to own part of the corporation. This foundations still exists as Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR and owns 10.95% of DnB NOR. After the demerger Gjensidige has become a self-owning institution. Gjensidige NOR Gjensidige NOR was a Norwegian bank and insurance company that was in existence between 1999 and 2003. The company was created when the two savings banks Sparebanken NOR (bank) and Gjensidige (insurance) were merged in 1999. In 2002 Norwegian savings banks were allowed to become public limited company and was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. In 2003 the company was merged with Den norske", "title": "Gjensidige NOR" }, { "docid": "6415306", "text": "Canonmills Loch once stretched from today's Dundas Street to Rodney Street. Nor Loch The Nor Loch, also known as the Nor' Loch and the North Loch, was a loch formerly in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the area now occupied by Princes Street Gardens, which lies between the Royal Mile and Princes Street. The depression, along with the parallel one, now occupied by the Cowgate, was formed by glacial erosion during the last Ice Age, when the icepack was forced to divide by the volcanic plug now known as Castle Rock. The Nor Loch was initially a marsh at the foot of", "title": "Nor Loch" }, { "docid": "6756258", "text": "SOIC format. Datasheets are readily available in most datasheet databases. In the popular CMOS and TTL logic families, NOR gates with up to 8 inputs are available: In the older RTL and ECL families, NOR gates were efficient and most commonly used. The diagrams above show the construction of a 2-input NOR gate using NMOS logic circuitry. If either of the inputs is high, the corresponding N-channel MOSFET is turned on and the output is pulled low; otherwise the output is pulled high through the pull-up resistor. The diagram below shows a 2-input NOR gate using CMOS technology. The diodes", "title": "NOR gate" }, { "docid": "8846249", "text": "in addition to Luxembourg. Sparebanken NOR Union Bank of Norway branded as Sparebanken NOR was Norway's largest savings bank between 1990 and 1999. The bank was created as a merger between Sparebanken ABC and four other regional savings banks. The new bank had its headquarters in Oslo and was in existence until 1999 when it merged with Gjensidige to form Gjensidige NOR. Today the bank is part of DnB NOR. The bank was primarily concentrated around Eastern Norway where the original five banks had branches in Akershus, Buskerud, Oslo, Vestfold and Østfold in addition to offices in Bergen, Bodø, Kristiansand,", "title": "Sparebanken NOR" }, { "docid": "8846248", "text": "Sparebanken NOR Union Bank of Norway branded as Sparebanken NOR was Norway's largest savings bank between 1990 and 1999. The bank was created as a merger between Sparebanken ABC and four other regional savings banks. The new bank had its headquarters in Oslo and was in existence until 1999 when it merged with Gjensidige to form Gjensidige NOR. Today the bank is part of DnB NOR. The bank was primarily concentrated around Eastern Norway where the original five banks had branches in Akershus, Buskerud, Oslo, Vestfold and Østfold in addition to offices in Bergen, Bodø, Kristiansand, Tromsø, Trondheim and Vadsø", "title": "Sparebanken NOR" }, { "docid": "15499409", "text": "Nor Or Nor Or (Նոր Օր in Armenian) is an Armenian American bilingual newspaper. It was established originally in Fresno, California and first issue published on 20 October 1922 and the first editor in chief was Aram Amirkhanian. It is the official political organ of the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party (Ramgavar party) in the United States. The party bought at the time the three Armenian-language newspapers \"Aror\", Nor Gyank\" and \"Sisvan\" merging them in the new publication \"Nor Or\" (meaning New Day in Armenian). After more than four decades of publishing in Fresno, the head office of the paper moved", "title": "Nor Or" }, { "docid": "7134895", "text": "the city is described as follows: Another, longer description of the city is to be found in the remarkable writings of Évariste Huc (1813–1860), a Frenchman who stayed there in 1845 on his way to Lhasa (which he reached after 18 months of travelling). In 1933, the town was the object of fighting between the Japanese and their Manchukuoan puppet troops and the Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Army. Dolon Nor Dolon Nor (; , Doloon nuur, \"seven lakes\"; also: To-lun, Dolonnur), is a town and the county seat of Duolun County, Xilin Gol League in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, China.", "title": "Dolon Nor" }, { "docid": "9305822", "text": "Holy Saviour's Church consecrated in July 2015, is the main church of the town. Designed by the renowned architect Artak Ghulyan, the church was built through donations from Gagik Tsarukyan. President Serzh Sargsyan and Catholicos Karekin II attended the consecration ceremony. The Holy Saviour's Church is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Kotayk. Between 1988 and 1990, 374 Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan were resettled in Nor Hachn. Here is the population timeline of Nor Hachn since 1959: Nor Hachn has many cultural institutions, including a central library, a school of arts opened in 1968 and a house of culture", "title": "Nor Hachn" }, { "docid": "9261217", "text": "Nor Kiddie Nor Kiddie was the stage name of the comedian, actor and juggler of the 1920s and '30s, Norman Chilton Kiddie. Nor was born to Elizabeth and Joseph Garibaldi Kiddie in Widnes, Lancashire 1897. Joseph (or 'J. Gar', b. 1864) was a locally successful music hall artiste, writer, comedian, pantomime producer and promoter in the early years of the century. He had his own comic sketch company by 1907 when J. Gar Kiddie & Co. appeared at the Grand Theatre, Hanley with their \"funny absurdity\" 'The House of Tinn' which starred Kiddie himself. Another early triumph was his version", "title": "Nor Kiddie" }, { "docid": "15286651", "text": "of the church of the Holy Virgin. It was created by master Vardan in 1620. Nor Varagavank is known to have hosted Archbishop Hovhanes Tvetsi, an important Armenian religious and cultural figure of the 13th century who built the main the Holy Virgin church’s narthex between 1237 and 1261. In the beginning of the 19th century, the monastery was headed by Grigor Manucharian, who in 1804-1828, together with a detachment of armed volunteers under his command, took an active part in freeing Eastern Armenia from foreign rule. Nor Varagavank Nor Varagavank () is a 13th-century Armenian Apostolic Church monastic ensemble", "title": "Nor Varagavank" } ]
78534
For a point each, name the country surrounding the Republic of The Gambia.
[ "Republic of Sénégal", "Sengal", "Sport in Senegal", "ISO 3166-1:SN", "Indigenous cultures, kingdoms and ethnic groups of Senegal", "Culture of Senegal", "Republic of Senegal", "Senegal", "Senegalese", "République du Sénégal", "Sénégal", "Indigenous Cultures, Kingdoms and Ethnic Groups of Senegal", "Etymology of Senegal" ]
[ { "docid": "750762", "text": "The Gambia The Gambia (), officially the Republic of the Gambia, is a country in West Africa that is almost entirely surrounded by Senegal with the exception of its western coastline along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the smallest country within mainland Africa. The Gambia is situated on either side of the Gambia River, the nation's namesake, which flows through the centre of the Gambia and empties into the Atlantic Ocean. Its area is with a population of 1,857,181 as of the April 2013 census. Banjul is the Gambian capital and the largest cities are Serekunda and Brikama. The Gambia", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "15846908", "text": "April 1970, The Gambia became a republic. Legendary Heroes of Africa was a series of postage stamps simultaneously issued and released by the countries of Gambia, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in March 2011 to celebrate Jewish heroes of the South African Liberation struggle. Postage stamps and postal history of the Gambia This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Gambia. The Gambia is a country in West Africa surrounded by Senegal except for a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean in the west. The Gambia River, from which the country takes its name, flows through", "title": "Postage stamps and postal history of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "750819", "text": "Nations finals at senior levels. They play at Independence Stadium. The Gambia won two CAF U-17 championships one in 2005 when the country hosted, and 2009 in Algeria automatically qualifying for FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru (2005) and Nigeria (2009) respectively. The U-20 also qualified for FIFA U-20 2007 in Canada. The female U-17 also competed in FIFA U-17 World Cup 2012 in Azerbaijan. The Gambia The Gambia (), officially the Republic of the Gambia, is a country in West Africa that is almost entirely surrounded by Senegal with the exception of its western coastline along the Atlantic Ocean.", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "2666178", "text": "flag of the Gambia – red (LSAP), blue (DP) and Green (The Greens). Footnotes Bibliography Flag of the Gambia The national flag of the Gambia consists of three horizontal red, blue and green bands separated by two thin white fimbriations. Adopted in 1965 to replace the British Blue Ensign defaced with the arms of the Gambia Colony and Protectorate, it has been the flag of the Republic of the Gambia since the country gained independence that year. It remained unchanged throughout the Gambia's seven-year confederation with Senegal. The British first arrived in what is now modern-day Gambia in 1661, when", "title": "Flag of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "2666173", "text": "Flag of the Gambia The national flag of the Gambia consists of three horizontal red, blue and green bands separated by two thin white fimbriations. Adopted in 1965 to replace the British Blue Ensign defaced with the arms of the Gambia Colony and Protectorate, it has been the flag of the Republic of the Gambia since the country gained independence that year. It remained unchanged throughout the Gambia's seven-year confederation with Senegal. The British first arrived in what is now modern-day Gambia in 1661, when they conquered James Island. They proceeded to construct forts around the confluence of the Gambia", "title": "Flag of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "783100", "text": "careful surveying methods by the Franco-British boundary commission. Apart from its coastline, where the Gambia borders the Atlantic Ocean, it is an enclave of Senegal and is by far the smallest country on mainland Africa. The Gambia has a subtropical climate with distinct dry and rainy seasons. From November to mid-May there is uninterrupted dry weather, with temperatures as low as in Banjul and surrounding areas. Hot, humid weather predominates the rest of the year, with a rainy season from June to October; during this period, temperatures may rise as high as but are usually lower near the sea. Mean", "title": "Geography of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "750766", "text": "President Adama Barrow changed the name back to \"Republic of The Gambia\". Arab traders provided the first written accounts of the Gambia area in the ninth and tenth centuries. During the tenth century, Muslim merchants and scholars established communities in several West African commercial centres. Both groups established trans-Saharan trade routes, leading to a large export trade of local people as slaves, also gold and ivory, as well as imports of manufactured goods. By the 11th or 12th century, the rulers of kingdoms such as Takrur, a monarchy centred on the Senegal River just to the north, ancient Ghana and", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "750781", "text": "less than wide at its widest point, with a total area of . About (11.5%) of the Gambia's area are covered by water. It is the smallest country on the African mainland. In comparative terms, the Gambia has a total area slightly less than that of the island of Jamaica. Senegal surrounds the Gambia on three sides, with of coastline on the Atlantic Ocean marking its western extremity. The present boundaries were defined in 1889 after an agreement between the United Kingdom and France. During the negotiations between the French and the British in Paris, the French initially gave the", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "15846907", "text": "Postage stamps and postal history of the Gambia This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Gambia. The Gambia is a country in West Africa surrounded by Senegal except for a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean in the west. The Gambia River, from which the country takes its name, flows through it. The capital city is Banjul. The first stamps of Gambia were issued in March 1869. The early issues featured an embossed portrait of Queen Victoria. The Gambia achieved independence on 18 February 1965, as a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth. On 24", "title": "Postage stamps and postal history of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "2666176", "text": "In 1982, the Gambia formed a confederation with Senegal, which lasted for seven years before its dissolution in 1989. However, this closer union did not result in change of national symbols, and the Gambian flag continued to be flown during this time. The colours of the flag carry cultural, political, and regional meanings. The blue alludes to the Gambia River, which is the nation's key feature and is where the country derives its name from. The red evokes the sun – given the Gambia's close proximity to the Equator – as well as the savanna, while the thin white stripes", "title": "Flag of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "783048", "text": "the Gambia declared independence in 1965. The Gambia gained independence as a constitutional monarchy that remained part of the Commonwealth, but in 1970 became a presidential republic. Jawara was elected the first President and remained in this position until 1994. A coup, led by Kukoi Sanyang, was attempted in 1981 but failed after Senegalese intervention. From 1981 to 1989, the Gambia entered into the Senegambia Confederation, which collapsed. In 1994, Jawara was overthrown in a coup d'état led by Yahya Jammeh, who ruled as a military dictator for two years through the AFPRC. He was elected President in 1996 and", "title": "History of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "781636", "text": "Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Gambia has played an active role in that organization's efforts to resolve the Liberian Civil War and contributed troops to the community's cease-fire monitoring group (ECOMOG). It also has sought to mediate disputes in nearby Guinea-Bissau and the neighbouring Casamance region of Senegal. The People's Republic of China, Cuba, Libya, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America have embassies or high commissions in the Gambia. On 25 May 2005, the Gambia announced its readiness to establish full diplomatic relations with the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.", "title": "Foreign relations of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "781638", "text": "14 February 2017, The Gambia began the process of returning and formally presented its application to re-join to Secretary-General Patricia Scotland on 22 January 2018. Boris Johnson, who became the first British Foreign Secretary to visit The Gambia since the country gained independence in 1965, announced that the British government welcomed The Gambia's return to the Commonwealth. The Gambia rejoined on 8 February 2018. Foreign relations of the Gambia The Gambia followed a formal policy of non-alignment throughout most of former President Dawda Jawara's tenure. It maintained close relations with the United Kingdom, Senegal, and other African countries. The July", "title": "Foreign relations of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "20051468", "text": "prison for up to 50 years. The Gambia is a source and destination country for women and children subjected to sex trafficking. Within The Gambia, women, girls, and—to a lesser extent—boys are subjected to sex trafficking. Women and children from West African countries—mainly Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Benin—are recruited for commercial sexual exploitation in The Gambia. Prostitution in the Gambia Prostitution in the Gambia is widespread but illegal. Most of the estimated 3,100 prostitutes in the Gambia are from Senegal. Prostitution takes place on the beach, in bars and hotels on the coast. Away from", "title": "Prostitution in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "781635", "text": "Foreign relations of the Gambia The Gambia followed a formal policy of non-alignment throughout most of former President Dawda Jawara's tenure. It maintained close relations with the United Kingdom, Senegal, and other African countries. The July 1994 coup strained the Gambia's relationship with Western powers, particularly the United States. Since 1995, President Yahya Jammeh has established diplomatic relations with several additional countries, including Libya, the Republic of China (on Taiwan, before 2013), and Cuba. The Gambia plays an active role in international affairs, especially West African and Islamic affairs, although its representation abroad is limited. As a member of the", "title": "Foreign relations of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "13608730", "text": "however, Gambia has been relatively stable. The country is surrounded on three sides by Senegal. Rugby union in Senegal is relatively popular. However, the Gambia has long been a popular tourist destination with Europeans, so it is possible that this may influence the development of the game in future. Rugby union in the Gambia Rugby union in the Gambia is a minor but growing sport. Rugby union was introduced into the Gambia by the British, who ruled the country for a number of years. However, it was mainly played by the white population, who made little attempt to spread it", "title": "Rugby union in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "2903409", "text": "for an international competition to produce an anthem (and flag) before independence from the United Kingdom in 1965. The Gambia, the smallest country in mainland Africa, is an independent coastal state along the River Gambia. It gained its separate identity as a colony of the United Kingdom while Senegal was a colony of France, but the two countries' traditional music are very much intertwined. Among Gambia's people, who together number some 1.728 million (2010), 42% are Mandinka, 18% Fula, 16% Wolof\\Serer, 10% Jola and 9% Soninke, the remainder being 4% other African and 1% non-African (2003). 63% of Gambians live", "title": "Music of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "2903408", "text": "Music of the Gambia The music of the Gambia is closely linked musically with that of its neighbor, Senegal, which surrounds its inland frontiers completely. Among its prominent musicians is Foday Musa Suso. \"Mbalax\" is a widely known popular dance music of the Gambia and neighbouring Senegal. It fuses popular Western music and dance, with \"sabar\", the traditional drumming and dance music of the Wolof and Serer people. \"For The Gambia Our Homeland\", the national anthem of the Gambia, was composed by Jeremy Frederic Howe, based on the traditional Mandinka song \"\"Foday Kaba Dumbuya\"\", with words by Virginia Julia Howe,", "title": "Music of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "783033", "text": "goods from ships. They were used by large companies involved in trading, such as Maurel & Prom. These railways existed until the 1960s. In 2009 an agreement was signed between Japan and Gambia for construction of railway to Senegal. Highways:<br> As of 2002, there were 2,700 km of roads, including 956 km of paved roads. There were 106,600 passenger cars and 142,300 commercial vehicles were in use. The most important highway in the Gambia is the Trans-Gambia Highway. \"total:\" 3,742 km<br> (country comparison to the world: 159) \"paved:\" 723 km<br> \"unpaved:\" 3,019 km (2004) Newly paved roads are usually in", "title": "Transport in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "783078", "text": "north bank of the River Gambia, was ceded by the King of Barra. Fattatenda and the surrounding district was ceded in 1829. In 1840 and 1853, considerable areas of the mainland adjoining St Mary's Island were obtained from the King of Kombo for the settlement of discharged soldiers of the West India Regiments and liberated Africans. Cessions of other land further upstream were obtained at various dates, including Albreda, the French enclave, which was obtained in 1857. In the 1850s, under the leadership of Louis Faidherbe, the French colony of Senegal began a vigorous expansion until it virtually engulfed the", "title": "History of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "750818", "text": "trial at the National Intelligence Agency. Apparently he was suspected of knowing about the 2006 failed coup. As in neighbouring Senegal, the national and most popular sport in Gambia is wrestling. Association football and basketball are also popular. Football in the Gambia is administered by the Gambia Football Federation, who are affiliated to both FIFA and CAF. The GFA runs league football in the Gambia, including top division GFA League First Division, as well as the Gambia national football team. Nicknamed \"The Scorpions\", the national side have never qualified for either the FIFA World Cup or the Africa Cup of", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "750768", "text": "an English company for trade with the Gambia and the Gold Coast (now Ghana). Between 1651 and 1661, some parts of the Gambia were under the rule of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia belonging to Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth—modern-day Latvia—and were bought by Prince Jacob Kettler. During the late 17th century and throughout the 18th century, the British Empire and the French Empire struggled continually for political and commercial supremacy in the regions of the Senegal River and the Gambia River. The British Empire occupied the Gambia when an expedition led by Augustus Keppel landed there following the Capture of Senegal", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "750782", "text": "British around of the Gambia River to control. Starting with the placement of boundary markers in 1891, it took nearly 15 years after the Paris meetings to determine the final borders of the Gambia. The resulting series of straight lines and arcs gave the British control of areas about north and south of the Gambia River. Gambia has a tropical climate. A hot and rainy season normally lasts from June until November, but from then until May, cooler temperatures predominate, with less precipitation. The climate in the Gambia closely resembles that of neighbouring Senegal, of southern Mali, and of the", "title": "The Gambia" } ]
[ { "docid": "750765", "text": "Department of State, the \"Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World\" and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use, the Gambia is one of only two countries whose self-standing short name for official use should begin with the word \"The\" (the other one being The Bahamas). Upon independence in 1965, the country used the name \"The Gambia\". Following the proclamation of a republic in 1970, the long-form name of the country became \"Republic of The Gambia\". The administration of Yahya Jammeh changed the long-form name to \"Islamic Republic of The Gambia\" in December 2015. On 29 January 2017", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "11141599", "text": "the press and the interests of justice, democracy and human rights not only in the Gambia but in all of Africa\". The Point (the Gambia) The Point is a daily newspaper published in Bakau, the Gambia. On 16 December 1991, \"The Point\" was founded by Pap Saine, Deyda Hydara, and Babucarr Gaye; Hydara and Saine had been friends since childhood. Gaye resigned four months later, and Hydara and Saine ran the paper together for the next decade. Saine also worked as a Reuters correspondent for West Africa. During the first two years of its establishment, the paper came out every", "title": "The Point (the Gambia)" }, { "docid": "11141589", "text": "The Point (the Gambia) The Point is a daily newspaper published in Bakau, the Gambia. On 16 December 1991, \"The Point\" was founded by Pap Saine, Deyda Hydara, and Babucarr Gaye; Hydara and Saine had been friends since childhood. Gaye resigned four months later, and Hydara and Saine ran the paper together for the next decade. Saine also worked as a Reuters correspondent for West Africa. During the first two years of its establishment, the paper came out every Monday, and then every Monday and Thursday. In 1995, the paper came out thrice weekly, and then four times a week", "title": "The Point (the Gambia)" }, { "docid": "750771", "text": "MacCarthy Island far up the Gambia River where they were expected to establish new lives. The British established the military post of Bathurst (now Banjul) in 1816. In the ensuing years, Banjul was at times under the jurisdiction of the British Governor-General in Sierra Leone. In 1888, the Gambia became a separate colony. An agreement with the French Republic in 1889 established the present boundaries. The Gambia became a British Crown colony called British Gambia, divided for administrative purposes into the colony (city of Banjul and the surrounding area) and the protectorate (remainder of the territory). The Gambia received its", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "11141594", "text": "charges of \"publishing and spreading false information\" were formally dropped. In November 2008, the International Press Institute began a \"Justice Denied\" campaign pressing for investigations into violence against journalists in the Gambia, particularly the still-unsolved murder of Deyda Haydara. At a June 2009 press conference, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh disparaged questions about the Hydara investigation, saying \"And up to now one of these stupid Web sites carries 'Who Killed Deyda Hydara'? Let them go and ask Deyda Hydara who killed him.\" The Gambia Press Union then published a statement criticizing the lack of press freedom in Gambia, the stalled progress", "title": "The Point (the Gambia)" }, { "docid": "750773", "text": "pace of constitutional reform increased. Following general elections in 1962, the United Kingdom granted full internal self-governance in the following year. The Gambia achieved independence on 18 February 1965, as a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth, with Elizabeth II as Queen of the Gambia, represented by the Governor-General. Shortly thereafter, the national government held a referendum proposing that the country become a republic. This referendum failed to receive the two-thirds majority required to amend the constitution, but the results won widespread attention abroad as testimony to the Gambia's observance of secret balloting, honest elections, civil rights, and liberties. On 24", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "17720715", "text": "visit the Gambia without a visa for up to 90 days, but they must obtain an entry clearance from the Gambian Immigration prior to travel. Holders of diplomatic, official, service or consular passports issued to nationals of Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Sao Tome and Principe, Somalia, Sudan and Tunisia do not require a visa.<br> Nationals of any country with a diplomatic passport do not require a visa. Visa is also not required for tourists arriving on a charter flight. Nationals of other countries and territories require a visa to visit The Gambia and in case", "title": "Visa policy of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "16966752", "text": "two-thirds majority and the second successful, The Gambia adopted a new constitution that abolished the monarchy on 24 April 1970. The Gambia became a republic within the Commonwealth, with the President of The Gambia as head of state. The Queen visited The Gambia on 3–5 December 1961. Queen of the Gambia Elizabeth II was Queen of The Gambia from 1965 to 1970, when The Gambia was a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth of Nations. The Queen was also the monarch of the other Commonwealth realms, including the United Kingdom. Her constitutional roles in The Gambia were delegated to a Governor-General.", "title": "Queen of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "750780", "text": "Gambia began the process of returning to its membership of the Commonwealth and formally presented its application to re-join to Secretary-General Patricia Scotland on 22 January 2018. Boris Johnson, who became the first British Foreign Secretary to visit the Gambia since the country gained independence in 1965, announced that the British government welcomed the Gambia's return to the Commonwealth. The Gambia officially rejoined the Commonwealth on 8 February 2018. The Gambia is a very small and narrow country whose borders mirror the meandering Gambia River. It lies between latitudes 13 and 14°N, and longitudes 13 and 17°W. The Gambia is", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "2666175", "text": "and hills, along with the letter \"G\" standing for the first letter of the territory's name. The Gambia was granted self-governance in 1963. The defaced blue ensign continued to be used until full independence was granted in 1965. The winning design for the new flag was created by Louis Thomasi, who worked as an accountant. It is one of the few African flags that does not utilize the colours of the country's leading political party, since its design \"has no political basis\". It was first hoisted at midnight on February 18, 1965, the day the Gambia became an independent country.", "title": "Flag of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "783096", "text": "the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). Jammeh won both the 2001 and 2006 elections. He was re-elected as president in 2011. The People's Republic of China cut ties with the Gambia in 1995 after the latter established diplomatic links with the Republic of China (Taiwan). the Gambia was elected to a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council from 1998 to 1999. On 2 October 2013, the Gambian interior minister announced that the Gambia would leave the Commonwealth of Nations with immediate effect, stating that they would \"never again be part of a neo-colonial organization\" In December 2014, an attempted", "title": "History of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "7681336", "text": "a LGA with no change in extent (although each was renamed after its administrative centre). This Local Government Area encompasses the City of Banjul, consisting of the island of that name (previously called St Mary's Island). This district is the mainland extension of Banjul City, comprising the majority of Greater Banjul. It's coloured yellow on the map above. Districts of the Gambia The Gambia is subdivided into 43 districts. They are listed below, by Local Government Area (previously Regions, known as Divisions until 2007), each with its population at the 15 April 2013 Census (provisional returns). The former Banjul Region", "title": "Districts of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "9251368", "text": "The Gambia at the Olympics The Gambia has sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games held since 1984, although the country has never won an Olympic medal. The Gambia is yet to compete at the Winter Olympic Games. The Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) was formed in 1972 and recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1976. The country boycotted the first two games for which it was eligible (1976 and 1980). Its first delegation consisted of ten athletes, all of whom were runners. Subsequent delegations have included wrestlers (in 1988), a long jumper (1996), a boxer (2008), a", "title": "The Gambia at the Olympics" }, { "docid": "9251376", "text": "swimming, respectively. The Gambia at the Olympics The Gambia has sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games held since 1984, although the country has never won an Olympic medal. The Gambia is yet to compete at the Winter Olympic Games. The Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) was formed in 1972 and recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1976. The country boycotted the first two games for which it was eligible (1976 and 1980). Its first delegation consisted of ten athletes, all of whom were runners. Subsequent delegations have included wrestlers (in 1988), a long jumper (1996), a boxer", "title": "The Gambia at the Olympics" }, { "docid": "783099", "text": "Geography of the Gambia The Gambia is a very small and narrow country with the border based on the Gambia River. The country is less than 48 km wide at its greatest width. The country's present boundaries were defined in 1889 after an agreement between the United Kingdom and France. It is often claimed by Gambians that the distance of the borders from the Gambia River corresponds to the area that British naval cannon of the time could reach from the river's channel. However, there is no historical evidence to support the story, and the border was actually delineated using", "title": "Geography of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "780862", "text": "Politics of the Gambia Politics of The Gambia takes place within the framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of The Gambia is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. The 1970 constitution of The Gambia, which divided the government into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches, was suspended after the 1994 military coup. As part of the transition process, the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) established the Constitution Review Commission (CRC) through decree in", "title": "Politics of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "780873", "text": "OAU, (Now African Union abbreviated AU) OIC, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO Politics of the Gambia Politics of The Gambia takes place within the framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of The Gambia is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. The 1970 constitution of The Gambia, which divided the government into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches, was suspended after the 1994 military coup. As part", "title": "Politics of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "13193576", "text": "Polygamy in the Gambia Polygamous unions are legally recognized in the Gambia and have been said to be very prevalent. They are frequently considered by the older generations of Gambian men as an indicator of prosperity. In 1795, Mungo Park observed that \"every man of free condition has a plurality of wives\". He noted that it is necessary for each wife to be accommodated in their own hut. Adama Barrow, the current president of the Gambia, has two wives. His predecessor, Yahya Jammeh, also had two wives at one point in time, but divorced his third wife under pressure from", "title": "Polygamy in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "15691329", "text": "Constitution of the Gambia The Constitution of The Gambia is the supreme law of The Gambia. The Gambia became a nation independent from the colonial rule of the British Empire in 1965 and adopted a constitution. The constitution was suspended by a military \"coup d'état\" in 1994. A revised constitution that came into effect in January 1997 then marked an official return to civilian control of the government, although the leader of the \"coup\", Yahya Jammeh, remained in power as President for another 20 years and exercised strong \"de facto\" personal control over the country. Following the presidential election of", "title": "Constitution of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "750797", "text": "new president, the Gambia has begun the process of returning to its status as a Commonwealth republic with the support of the British government, formally presenting its application to re-join the Commonwealth of Nations to Secretary-General Patricia Scotland on 22 January 2018. The Gambia returned to its status as a Commonwealth republic on 8 February 2018. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 78.3% of Gambian girls and women have suffered female genital mutilation. LGBT activity is illegal, and punishable with life imprisonment. The \"Daily Observer\" reporter Ebrima Manneh is believed by human rights organizations to have been arrested", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "15616589", "text": "of The Gambia, a person cannot serve as a Minister in the Cabinet of The Gambia if they are a member of the National Assembly or hold the citizenship of any other country. In addition, the Attorney General must have been a member of the Gambian bar for at least five years prior to their appointment. Cabinet ministers are appointed directly by the President of The Gambia and must swear an oath before assuming the functions of their office. The office of a cabinet minister becomes vacant following the assumption of office by a new President, by the revoking of", "title": "Cabinet of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "783105", "text": "fertility rate of 3.98 is one of the highest in the world. Since 1950, the United Nations (UN) estimated the birth rate exceeds the death rate. The Gambia Bureau of Statistics (GBOS) estimates the population of The Gambia is expected to reach 3.6 million in 20 years. The population of The Gambia has increased each census, starting with 315 thousand in 1963 to 1.8 million in 2013. The GBOS predicted the reason for the increase from 2003 to 2013 was more coverage in the latter census compared to the former's. Registration of vital events is in the Gambia not complete.", "title": "Demographics of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "15464835", "text": "to the Governor-General of the Gambia. Governors-general who held office in the Gambia were: After two referenda on the issue, the monarchy was abolished on 24 April 1970, when the Gambia became a republic within the Commonwealth. The first referendum in 1965, with 65.85% in favour and 34.15 against, failed to reach the two-thirds majority needed to pass. The second in 1970 with 70.45% percent of the Gambian people voting in favour of a republic and 29.55% against, was successful. The Gambia adopted a new constitution in 1970 which abolished the monarchy. Dawda Jawara, the prime minister (and head of", "title": "The Gambia (1965–1970)" }, { "docid": "15464836", "text": "government) from 1965, became the first President of the Gambia. Queen Elizabeth II did not visit the Gambia between 1965 and 1970. She visited in 1961 (3–5 December). The Gambia (1965–1970) Between 1965 and 1970, The Gambia was an independent sovereign state that shared its head of state with the United Kingdom and other states headed by Queen Elizabeth II. It was a predecessor to the modern-day republic of The Gambia. Gambia was given independence from Britain in 1965 under the Gambia Independence Act 1964, which unified the British Crown Colony and Protectorate of the Gambia into an independent sovereign", "title": "The Gambia (1965–1970)" }, { "docid": "15464834", "text": "The Gambia (1965–1970) Between 1965 and 1970, The Gambia was an independent sovereign state that shared its head of state with the United Kingdom and other states headed by Queen Elizabeth II. It was a predecessor to the modern-day republic of The Gambia. Gambia was given independence from Britain in 1965 under the Gambia Independence Act 1964, which unified the British Crown Colony and Protectorate of the Gambia into an independent sovereign state. The British monarch, Elizabeth II, remained head of state of the Gambia, which shared its Sovereign with other Commonwealth realms. The Queen's constitutional roles were mostly delegated", "title": "The Gambia (1965–1970)" }, { "docid": "8795414", "text": "was not clearly defined, but the council is responsible for finance, services and planning for each sector under it. Around 25 per cent of the budget is provisioned by the central government. The council also has a \"Alkalo\" or \"Seyfo\" representative, a Chief representative, a youth nominee, a woman nominee and other nominated members of local interest groups. The city and area council elections were last held during April 2002. Subdivisions of the Gambia The Gambia is divided into five administrative Regions (until 2007 these were known as \"divisions\") and one City. The divisions of the Gambia are created by", "title": "Subdivisions of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "17720713", "text": "unless travelling as a tourist on a charter flight. Holders of diplomatic, official, service or consular passports issued to nationals of Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Sao Tome and Principe, Somalia, Sudan and Tunisia do not require a visa.<br> Nationals of any country with a diplomatic passport do not require a visa. A visa is also not required for tourists arriving on a charter flight. Citizens of the following countries can obtain a visa on arrival: Nationals of other countries and territories require a visa to visit The Gambia and, in the case of travellers using", "title": "Visa policy of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "19516388", "text": "Faye Njie represented The Gambia in men's judo. He gained qualification into the men's lightweight category (73 kg) by earning a continental quota place from the African region at the Rio Games during the 2016 African Judo Championships, signifying the country's first Olympic appearance in the sport. Before his event Njie said that he was proud to represent his country and commented his opponent was \"good\" but not undefeatable. He was narrowly defeated by his opponent Kazakhstan's Didar Khamza in a five-minute closely contested match on technical point. Pap Jonga was the youngest athlete to represent The Gambia at the", "title": "The Gambia at the 2016 Summer Olympics" }, { "docid": "16845328", "text": "the history of the country. National Library of The Gambia The National Library of The Gambia is located in Banjul, Gambia. The library was originally operated by the British Council till 1946 and was renamed to the National Library of The Gambia by 1971. The library is maintained and administered by The Gambia National Library Services Authority (GNLSA). As of 2016, the library had a collection of 115,500 books and 85 periodicals. It had more than 42 staff and more than 276 members. The library was also made the official recorder of legal depository and principal Bibliographic Centre of the", "title": "National Library of The Gambia" }, { "docid": "18949948", "text": "president of the Gambia Press Union. Bibliography Ahmadiyya in the Gambia Ahmadiyya is a religion in The Gambia under the spiritual leadership of the caliph in London. Ahmadiyya teachings entered Gambia during the era of the Second Caliphate through the flow of Ahmadiyya literature and a number of traders returning to the country. The first missionary to enter the country was Alhaji Hamza Sanyaolo, a Nigerian who entered in 1959. After a number of months he was followed by Gibriel Saeed, a Ghanaian missionary. Since its earliest history in the Gambia, the Community has been facing resistance and religious intolerance", "title": "Ahmadiyya in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "783059", "text": "sent two expeditions to the River Gambia and established a trading post at Bintang. Members of the expedition proceeded as far as the Barakunda Falls in search of gold, but the climate took its toll. In 1652, Prince Rupert of the Rhine entered the Gambia with three Royalist ships and captured the patentees' vessels. After this heavy loss, they abandoned any further enterprise in the Gambia. During this, Jacob Kettler, the Duke of Courland, had in 1651 obtained from several native chiefs the cession of St Andrew's Island and land at Banyon Point (also known as Half-Die), Juffure and Gassan.", "title": "History of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "17723885", "text": "Embassy of The Gambia, London The High Commission of The Gambia, London is the diplomatic mission of The Gambia in the United Kingdom. It is located on Ledbury Road in the Bayswater / Notting Hill area. Between October 2013 and February 2018, It was known as the \"Embassey of The Gambia\" due to The Gambia's withdrawal from the Commonwealth. The High Commission has seen several protests in recent times: in 2013 by people opposed to the government of Yahya Jammeh and also in 2013 by those opposed to alleged homophobia in the country. The Gambia returned to its membership of", "title": "Embassy of The Gambia, London" }, { "docid": "783102", "text": "Natural resources: fish, clay, silica sand, titanium (rutile and ilmenite), tin, zircon Land use: <br>\"arable land:\" 43.48% <br>\"permanent crops:\" 0.49% <br>\"other:\" 56.03% (2011) <br>\"total:\" 0.09 km/yr (41%/21%/39%) <br>\"per capita:\" 65.77 m/yr (2005) Current issues: deforestation, desertification, prevalence of water-borne diseases, drought (rainfall has dropped by 30% in the last 30 years) Environment - party to international agreements on: This is a list of the extreme points of the Gambia, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location. Geography of the Gambia The Gambia is a very small and narrow country with the border based", "title": "Geography of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "10142654", "text": "angolensis)\", crakes, greater painted snipe \"(Rostratula benghalensis)\" and African jacana (Actophilornis africanus). Butterfly faunal distribution in the Gambia is dictated by the boundary of two major biomes of Sahelian and Guinean Savanna species; it is distinctly different between the rainy season and dry season. The vegetation of the Gambia is mostly savanna in the upland areas, inland swamp in the low-lying areas, and mangrove swamp along the banks of the lower Gambia River. The country is almost devoid of true forest cover, the most forested area being the Bijo Forest. Nonetheless it is biologically rich, with an estimated 11,600 plant", "title": "Wildlife of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "783098", "text": "was authorized by United Nations Security Council with UNSC Resolution 2337. On 21 January 2017 Jammeh announced stepped down as president and abandoned the country and went to exile in Equatorial Guinea. On 27 January 2017 Barrow returned to Gambia and officially took office. On 6 April 2017 parliamentary elections were held, which saw the victory of Barrow's United Democratic Party, scoring 37,47% and winning 31 of the 53 seats of the National Assembly. The Gambia officially rejoined the Commonwealth on 8 February 2018. History of the Gambia The first written records of the region come from Arab traders in", "title": "History of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "10142645", "text": "Gambia, about 3.8% of the land area of the country has been brought under national parks or reserves, and the present wildlife policy is to extend this coverage to 5%. The seven areas included in the protected list are the Niumi National Park, Kiang West National Park, River Gambia National Park, Bao Bolong Wetland Reserve, Abuko Nature Reserve, Tanbi Wetland Complex and the Tanji Karinti River Bird Reserve. These are managed by the Department of Parks and Wildlife Management. The area covered by these parks is 38,000 ha. The birdlife in the Gambia is colourful and rich, with 560 species", "title": "Wildlife of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "9281391", "text": "international securities market. The bank is involved in economic research in regard to the future of Gambia and West Africa. The CBG is working with GIPFZA, the Gambia Investment Promotion and Free Zones Agency, in the creation of a 1.6 square kilometre business and industrial park near Banjul International Airport. The CBG is the only institution in The Gambia that is permitted to issue the Gambian dalasi. Central Bank of The Gambia The Central Bank of The Gambia is the central bank of The Gambia. Its name is abbreviated to CBG. The bank is located in Banjul and was established", "title": "Central Bank of The Gambia" }, { "docid": "11141591", "text": "the text \"Who killed Deyda Hydar?\" After Hydrar death, his wife Mrs Maria Hydara replaced him on the management team. On 14 December 2004, the Gambia passed two new media laws. One, the Criminal Code (Amendment) Bill 2004, allowed prison terms for defamation and sedition; the other, the Newspaper (Amendment) Bill 2004, required newspaper owners to purchase expensive operating licenses, registering their homes as security. Hydara announced his intent to challenge these laws, but on 16 December, was assassinated by an unknown gunman while driving home from work in Banjul. Hydara's murder was never solved. Following Hydara's death, Saine continued", "title": "The Point (the Gambia)" }, { "docid": "10142656", "text": "are common shrubs in the savanna areas of the country. \"Combretum Paniculatum\" may be found on the edges of the forests in the north of the country. These plants usually have red petals and the \"Combretum racemosum\" has red 4-part flowers, but with infloresence rimmed by white bracts. Wildlife of the Gambia Wildlife of the Gambia is dictated by several habitat zones over its total land area of about 10,000 km. It is bound in the south by the savanna and on the north by the Sudanian woodlands. The habitats host abundant indigenous plants and animals, in addition to migrant", "title": "Wildlife of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "783093", "text": "an elected president replace the Queen of the Gambia as head of state. The referendum failed to obtain the two-thirds majority required to amend the constitution, but the results received widespread attention abroad as testimony to the Gambia's observance of secret balloting, honest elections, and civil rights and liberties. On 24 April 1970, the Gambia became a republic within the Commonwealth, following a second referendum, with Prime Minister Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara as head of state. The relative stability of the Jawara era was first shattered by a coup attempt in 1981. The coup was led by Kukoi Samba Sanyang,", "title": "History of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "780852", "text": "GDP. The limited amount of manufacturing is primarily agriculturally based (e.g., peanut processing, bakeries, a brewery, and a tannery). Other manufacturing activities include soap, soft drinks, and clothing. Services account for 19% of GDP. Tourism in Gambia has three major strands. There is the traditional sun seeking holiday making use of the hot climate and wonderful beaches. The Gambia is also usually the first African destination for many European birders, in view of its easily accessed and spectacular avian fauna. There are also a significant number of African Americans tracing their roots in this country, from which so many Africans", "title": "Economy of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "18949938", "text": "Ahmadiyya in the Gambia Ahmadiyya is a religion in The Gambia under the spiritual leadership of the caliph in London. Ahmadiyya teachings entered Gambia during the era of the Second Caliphate through the flow of Ahmadiyya literature and a number of traders returning to the country. The first missionary to enter the country was Alhaji Hamza Sanyaolo, a Nigerian who entered in 1959. After a number of months he was followed by Gibriel Saeed, a Ghanaian missionary. Since its earliest history in the Gambia, the Community has been facing resistance and religious intolerance from certain Muslim clerics and Islamic bodies", "title": "Ahmadiyya in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "9281390", "text": "Central Bank of The Gambia The Central Bank of The Gambia is the central bank of The Gambia. Its name is abbreviated to CBG. The bank is located in Banjul and was established in 1971. Bakary Jammeh is the current Governor. As a central bank, CBG is responsible for providing banking services to the Gambian government, for managing interest rates and foreign exchange, for interacting with Gambian industries, for supporting microfinance, and for managing the value of the dalasi, which is The Gambia's currency. The bank is responsible for managing the sale of Gambian bonds and treasury bills on the", "title": "Central Bank of The Gambia" }, { "docid": "19516380", "text": "The Gambia at the 2016 Summer Olympics The Gambia, officially the Republic of the Gambia, competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which was held from 5 to 21 August 2016. The country's participation at Rio marked its ninth appearance at the Summer Olympic Games since its début at the 1984 Summer Olympics. The delegation included two track and field athletes, Adama Jammeh and Gina Bass, who both qualified after meeting the qualification standards for their respective events, one judoka, Faye Njie, who made the Games through a quota place and one swimmer, Pap Jonga, who earned", "title": "The Gambia at the 2016 Summer Olympics" }, { "docid": "7681335", "text": "Districts of the Gambia The Gambia is subdivided into 43 districts. They are listed below, by Local Government Area (previously Regions, known as Divisions until 2007), each with its population at the 15 April 2013 Census (provisional returns). The former Banjul Region is now divided into two Local Government Areas (LGAs) - Banjul City (which is now subdivided into 3 districts) and Kanifing (consisting of a single district). The former Central River Division is now divided into two LGAs - Kuntaur LGA in the west and Janjanbureh LGA in the east. Each of the other former Divisions has now become", "title": "Districts of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "15192964", "text": "Human trafficking in the Gambia Human trafficking in the Gambia covers ongoing activities in trafficking women and children in the Gambia as forced labor and prostitution. The Gambia is a source, transit, and destination country for this type of exploitation. Within the Gambia, women and girls and, to a lesser extent, boys are trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation, as well as for domestic servitude. For generations, parents sent their sons to live with Koranic teachers or marabouts, who more often forced children to beg than ensured their progress in religious studies. However, this practice is declining as the security forces", "title": "Human trafficking in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "16845324", "text": "are stored in the library, which caters mainly to The Gambia and its history. The library offers an adult library, children's library, bulk school lending service, mobile and mailbox service. The library was originally operated by the British council till 1946 and was renamed to the National Library of The Gambia by 1971. The Gambia did not have any library on its own till 1962. Till then the library was the only one of its kind in the country other than the ones in schools, Government departments, missions houses and clubs. When the transfer took place, the library had a", "title": "National Library of The Gambia" }, { "docid": "783092", "text": "II would remain as the head of state, and a Governor-General would exercise executive powers on her behalf. On 18 February, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, on behalf of the Queen, formally granted the country independence with Prime Minister Jawara representing the Gambia. It became the 21st independent member of the Commonwealth, with a constitution described as a \"sophisticated version of the Westminster export models.\" Following agreements between the British and Gambian Governments in July 1964, the Gambia achieved independence on 18 February 1965 as a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth. Shortly thereafter, the government held a referendum proposing that", "title": "History of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "783054", "text": "up the river was at Setuku near Fattatenda. By the end of the 16th century, the Songhai Empire, under constant assault by Portugal, collapsed. The name Gambia comes from the Portuguese word for trade, \"cambio\". After the Portuguese throne was seized by Philip II in 1580, a number of Portuguese sought refuge in England. One of these refugees, Francisco Ferreira, piloted two English ships to the Gambia in 1587 and returned with a profitable cargo of hides and ivory. In 1588, António, Prior of Crato, who had a claim to the throne of Portugal, sold to London and Devon merchants", "title": "History of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "10142652", "text": "large green stretches with profusion of tree species, particularly the mango \"(Mangifera indica)\" trees. Law of the land Some parts of the land area of the Gambia, under the protection laws of the Banjul Declaration of 1977, which is the law on wild life, includes seven protected zones of the country. The law prohibits all types of hunting, except on animals harmful to the environment, such as warthog, giant pouched rat and francolin. Also, as a signatory to the International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna (CITES), the Gambia enforces law prohibiting export or even possession within the", "title": "Wildlife of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "783035", "text": "Merchant marine:<br> \"total:\"'5<br> \"country comparison to the world:\" 133 \"by type:\" passenger/cargo: 4, petroleum tanker 1 (2008) The country's only international airport is at Yundum, 26 km from Banjul. Air Gambia, 60% state owned, acts as an agent only. Foreign air carriers provide international service. Airports: 1 (2008): Banjul International Airport Yundum. <br>\"country comparison to the world:\" 133 Airports - with paved runways:<br> \"total:\" 1<br> \"over 3,047 m:\" 1 (2008) Transport in the Gambia The system of transportation in the Gambia mixes both public and private operations and consists of a system of roads (both paved and unpaved), water and", "title": "Transport in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "17720714", "text": "passports from Algeria, Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Libya, Madagascar, Moldova, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan and Tunisia, in addition to a visa must obtain an entry clearance from Gambian Immigration prior to travel, unless they are travelling as a tourist on a charter flight. Nationals of the following 49 countries and territories can visit the Gambia without a visa for up to 90 days: Nationals of the following 26 countries can", "title": "Visa policy of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "18949945", "text": "independence, in Farafenni, in 1969. The first Ahmadi Muslim caliph to visit the Gambia was Caliph III, Mirza Nasir Ahmad, whose visit in 1970 was instrumental in the launch of the Nusrat Jahan Scheme which has been responsible for the establishment of a number of schools in the country. On May 1, 1970 the Caliph arrived in Banjul, for a five-day visit, as part of his tour of West Africa. As part of his visit the Gambia, the caliph met Dawda Jawara, the then President of the Gambia, and a number of other public figures. Before the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community", "title": "Ahmadiyya in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "7441090", "text": "Catholic Church in the Gambia The Catholic Church in the Gambia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Gambia is a predominantly Muslim country (approximately 94% of the population). The Diocese of Banjul covers the whole of the country. Relations between the Muslim and Christian communities in Gambia are generally very good. The Catholic Church operates various missions including schools which children of Muslim parents attend. Of the minority Christian population, there are around 30,000 Catholics, which represents around 2% of the population. The history of the Catholic Church in the", "title": "Catholic Church in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "6861889", "text": "Ten Point Programme for Reunification of the Country The Ten Point Programme for Reunification of the Country is a plan written by Kim Il-sung on April 6, 1993, to re-unite North Korea and South Korea. The program is the stated official policy of North Korea. The plan's original title was \"10-point programme of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation for the Reunification of the Country\". It regards the idea of reunification with South Korea under a pan-national unified state, a Federation, leaving the two systems and governments intact while opening the borders. The program proposes to remove outside influence", "title": "Ten Point Programme for Reunification of the Country" }, { "docid": "20051464", "text": "local \"bumsters\". Sex tourism in the Gambia attract western female tourists eager for sex with younger men. The Gambian Tourist Board plans to change the face of tourism in the country and encourage tourism for wildlife and heritage rather than sex. Child prostitution is a problem in the Gambia. The Gambian government is taking an active stance against it. Many young people turn to the sex trade due to poverty. The Gambia ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on 3 August 1990, and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in", "title": "Prostitution in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "19516390", "text": "Camara (27.35 seconds). Overall he finished 79th out of 85 swimmers overall, and did not progress to the semi-finals after he was 6.38 seconds slower than the slowest competitor who advanced to the later stages. The Gambia at the 2016 Summer Olympics The Gambia, officially the Republic of the Gambia, competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which was held from 5 to 21 August 2016. The country's participation at Rio marked its ninth appearance at the Summer Olympic Games since its début at the 1984 Summer Olympics. The delegation included two track and field athletes, Adama", "title": "The Gambia at the 2016 Summer Olympics" }, { "docid": "15616588", "text": "Cabinet of the Gambia The Cabinet of The Gambia is responsible for advising the President of The Gambia and for carrying out other functions as prescribed by law. It is composed of the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretaries of State. It is responsible for regulating the procedure of its own meetings and is held accountable for its actions by the National Assembly, according to Sections 74 and 75 of the Constitution of The Gambia. The current Cabinet of The Gambia is the Cabinet of Adama Barrow, led by President Adama Barrow. According to Section 71 (2) of the Constitution", "title": "Cabinet of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "783032", "text": "Transport in the Gambia The system of transportation in the Gambia mixes both public and private operations and consists of a system of roads (both paved and unpaved), water and air transportation. There are no railways in the country. During the colonial era, several small railways existed in the Gambia. One, in Bathurst (now Banjul), stretched from Wellington Street to The Marina, now Liberation Avenue and Marina Parade respectively. A War Office map from 1909 clearly shows the railway. Both Kuntaur and Kaur had similar railways from the wharfs to the warehouses. The railways had hand-pushed wagons for transporting of", "title": "Transport in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "20440206", "text": "the Sierra Leone Militia, and from the Royal African Corps. They sailed for The Gambia in HMS \"Plumper\", a brig, and the \"Parmilia\" transport. On 9 November they arrived in The Gambia and found Fort Bullen still in the hands of the natives. Fortunately, they had confined themselves to making demonstrations rather than taking Bathurst, which lay entirely at their mercy.On 11 November, Stewart's force landed at Barra Point, consisting of 451 of all ranks. They were supported with heavy cover fire from the \"Plumper\" (under Lieutenant Cresey), the \"Parmilia\", and an armed colonial schooner. The Mandinkas were estimated at", "title": "Military history of The Gambia" }, { "docid": "16966751", "text": "Queen of the Gambia Elizabeth II was Queen of The Gambia from 1965 to 1970, when The Gambia was a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth of Nations. The Queen was also the monarch of the other Commonwealth realms, including the United Kingdom. Her constitutional roles in The Gambia were delegated to a Governor-General. The Gambia was granted independence in 1965 under the Parliament of the United Kingdom's Gambia Independence Act 1964, which unified the Gambia Colony and Protectorate into an independent sovereign state. After two referenda on constitutional amendments, the first unsuccessful because it did not pass by the necessary", "title": "Queen of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "6938421", "text": "\"Czech\" and \"Bohemian\". The Czech Republic's official formal and short names in Czech were decided at its creation after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in the so-called \"Velvet Divorce\" of 1993. The country is named after the Czechs (), a Slavic tribe residing in central Bohemia that subdued the surrounding tribes in the late 9th century and created the Czech/Bohemian state. The origin of the name of the tribe itself is unknown. According to legend, it comes from their leader Čech, who brought them to Bohemia. Research regards Čech as a derivative of the root \"čel-\" (member of the people, kinsman).", "title": "Name of the Czech Republic" }, { "docid": "18949939", "text": "in the country. Ahmadiyya entered Gambia during the era of the Second Caliphate through the flow of Ahmadiyya literature and a number of traders returning to the country, perhaps from Nigeria. In the early 20th century, the Muslim Congress of Gambia generally considered itself to be responsible for the advancement of Islamic education among the country's populations. In view of the supremacy of the Christian missionary activity in the colony, a small group of people from Bathurst, now Banjul, began to feel that the Congress was lacking diligence in its efforts. As a consequence, by 1952 the group formed \"Jama’at", "title": "Ahmadiyya in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "750764", "text": "in January 2017, after defeating Jammeh in December 2016 elections. Jammeh initially accepted the results, then refused to accept them, which triggered a constitutional crisis and military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States, resulting in his exile. The Gambia's economy is dominated by farming, fishing and, especially, tourism. In 2015, 48.6% of the population lived in poverty. In rural areas poverty is even more widespread with a higher proportion of the population being poor (almost 70%). The name \"Gambia\" is derived from the Mandinka term \"Kambra\"/\"Kambaa\", meaning Gambia river. According to the \"CIA World Factbook\", the US", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "783034", "text": "excellent condition. The Gambia River not only provides important internal transport but is also an international commercial link. Oceangoing vessels can travel 240 km upstream. In 2004 there were 390 km of total waterways. Banjul, the principal port, receives about 300 ships annually. Ferries operate across the river and between Banjul and Barra. With the construction of major all-weather roads on both sides of the Gambia River, the waterway has become less significant for passenger traffic. Waterways: 390 km (small ocean-going vessels can reach 190 km) (2008) <br>\"country comparison to the world:\" 90 Ports and harbours: Banjul, Gambia Ports Authority", "title": "Transport in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "750808", "text": "of ethnic groups live in the Gambia, each preserving its own language and traditions. The Mandinka ethnicity is the largest, followed by the Fula, Wolof, Jola/Karoninka, Serahule / Jahanka, Serers, Manjago, Bambara, Aku Marabou and others. The Krio people, locally known as Akus, constitute one of the smallest ethnic minorities in the Gambia. They are descendants of the Sierra Leone Creole people and have been traditionally concentrated in the capital. The roughly 3,500 non-African residents include Europeans and families of Lebanese origin (0.23% of the total population). Most of the European minority is British, although many of the British left", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "13608728", "text": "Rugby union in the Gambia Rugby union in the Gambia is a minor but growing sport. Rugby union was introduced into the Gambia by the British, who ruled the country for a number of years. However, it was mainly played by the white population, who made little attempt to spread it to the native Gambians, meaning that the game declined when they left. In 1987 Warrant Officer Sergeant Major Hulme of the British Army Training Team (BATT) introduced the Gambian National Army (GNA) to the game, and the then vice President of the Gambia was invited to become president of", "title": "Rugby union in the Gambia" }, { "docid": "750801", "text": "the day-to-day operations of the Gambia Armed Forces. Between 1958 and 1985, the Gambia did not have a military, but the Gambia Field Force existed as a paramilitary wing of the police. The military tradition of the Gambia can be traced to the Gambia Regiment of the British Army, that existed from 1901 to 1958 and fought in World War I and World War II. The Gambia Armed Forces is and has been the recipient of a number of equipment and training agreements with other countries. In 1992, a contingent of Nigerian soldiers helped lead the GNA. Between 1991 and", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "20042723", "text": "dismiss a Chief of the Defence Staff, the President must first consult with the National Security Council. Chief of the Defence Staff (The Gambia) The Chief of the Defence Staff in the Gambia is the head of the Gambia Armed Forces, and is appointed by the President. The Chief of the Defence Staff is responsible for the operational control and administration of the Gambia Armed Forces, according to Section 188 (1) of the Constitution of the Gambia. The Chief of the Defence Staff has a permanent place on the National Security Council, authorised by Section 78 of the constitution, and", "title": "Chief of the Defence Staff (The Gambia)" }, { "docid": "783085", "text": "representation in the Legislative Council. During World War II, the Gambia Company became the Gambia Regiment, with a strength of two battalions from 1941. It fought in the Burma campaign and served for some time under the command of Antony Read, later the Quartermaster-General to the Forces. the Gambia itself was also important to the war effort. It was home to RAF Bathurst, a flying boat base, and RAF Yundum, an RAF station. HMS \"Melampus\", a shore base, was also based at Bathurst for some of the war, and in 1942, a light cruiser named the HMS \"Gambia\" was launched,", "title": "History of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "6861898", "text": "cause of national reunification should be highly estimated. Special favors should be granted to those who have performed feats for the great unity of the nation and the reunification of the country, patriotic martyrs and their descendants. If those who had turned their back on the nation in the past return to the road of patriotism, remorseful of their past, they should be treated leniently and be assessed fairly according to their contributions to the cause of national reunification. Ten Point Programme for Reunification of the Country The Ten Point Programme for Reunification of the Country is a plan written", "title": "Ten Point Programme for Reunification of the Country" }, { "docid": "4565074", "text": "Name days in the Czech Republic In the Czech Republic, each day of the year except national holidays corresponds to a personal name. People celebrate their name day (\"\" or more formally \"\") on the date corresponding to their own given name. In the past, parents were not allowed to choose just any name for a child. This has changed, although it is still common to choose the name from the name day \"calendar\" and any highly unusual name has to be approved by a special office. The original list was the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, but many changes", "title": "Name days in the Czech Republic" }, { "docid": "20042722", "text": "Chief of the Defence Staff (The Gambia) The Chief of the Defence Staff in the Gambia is the head of the Gambia Armed Forces, and is appointed by the President. The Chief of the Defence Staff is responsible for the operational control and administration of the Gambia Armed Forces, according to Section 188 (1) of the Constitution of the Gambia. The Chief of the Defence Staff has a permanent place on the National Security Council, authorised by Section 78 of the constitution, and on the Armed Forces Council, authorised by Section 189 of the constitution. In order to appoint or", "title": "Chief of the Defence Staff (The Gambia)" }, { "docid": "783046", "text": "along the lines it would continue to hold until independence. In 1901, legislative and executive councils were established for the Gambia, as well as the Gambia Company of the RWAFF. Gambian soldiers fought in World War I, and in the 1920s Edward Francis Small led the push for emancipation, founding the Bathurst Trade Union and the Rate Payers' Association. During World War II, the Gambia Company was raised to a regiment, and notably fought in the Burma Campaign in the latter years of the war. Franklin D. Roosevelt's visit to the Gambia in 1943 was the first visit by a", "title": "History of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "783079", "text": "Gambia. The colony assumed an importance to the French as a possible trade route, proposed cession of the Gambia for some other part of West Africa was first mooted in 1861. It was seriously discussed again during 1865 and 1866. In 1870 and 1876, negotiations were entered into between the French and British government over the proposed cession of the Gambia in exchange for other territories in West Africa. However, the proposal aroused such opposition in Parliament and among various mercantile bodies in England, as well as among the native inhabitants of the Gambia, that the British government was unable", "title": "History of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "750792", "text": "The two most significant are the 1970 constitution, which established the Gambia as a presidential republic, and the 1996 constitution, which served as a basis for Jammeh's rule and was kept following Barrow's victory in 2016. Jammeh manipulated the 1996 constitutional reform process to benefit himself. No reference was made to term limits, indicating Jammeh's preference to stay in power for an extended period of time. According to the 1996 constitution, the President is the head of state, head of government, and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Jammeh and Barrow have also both taken on the role of Minister of", "title": "The Gambia" }, { "docid": "13193577", "text": "his second wife (whom he had married after divorcing his first wife). Polygamy in the Gambia Polygamous unions are legally recognized in the Gambia and have been said to be very prevalent. They are frequently considered by the older generations of Gambian men as an indicator of prosperity. In 1795, Mungo Park observed that \"every man of free condition has a plurality of wives\". He noted that it is necessary for each wife to be accommodated in their own hut. Adama Barrow, the current president of the Gambia, has two wives. His predecessor, Yahya Jammeh, also had two wives at", "title": "Polygamy in the Gambia" } ]
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“I yam what I yam, and that’s all what I yam” was the motto of what popular cartoon character?
[ "Popeye Cigarettes", "Popeye the Sailor Man", "Popeye the Sailorman", "Popeye (2016 film)", "Popeye (2015 film)", "The Thimble Theatre", "Popeye The Sailor", "Popeye (upcoming film)", "Popeye (2014 film)", "Thimble Theater", "Thimble Theatre", "Popeye the Sailor", "Popeye the sailor man", "Pop Eye", "The Popeye and Olive Oyl Show", "Jack Mercer (sailor)", "Popeye" ]
[ { "docid": "10259471", "text": "voices Olive Oyl. This cartoon is available on DVD in the four-disc set \"\". This episode was shelved throughout most of North America, due to Native American stereotyping. This controversy was similar to the Pingu episode, Pingu and the Doll and some other cartoons. I Yam What I Yam I Yam What I Yam is a Popeye theatrical cartoon short, starring William \"Billy\" Costello as Popeye, Bonnie Poe as Olive Oyl and Charles Lawrence as Wimpy. It was released in 1933 and was the second cartoon in the Popeye the Sailor series of theatrical cartoons released by Paramount Pictures, lasting", "title": "I Yam What I Yam" }, { "docid": "10259464", "text": "I Yam What I Yam I Yam What I Yam is a Popeye theatrical cartoon short, starring William \"Billy\" Costello as Popeye, Bonnie Poe as Olive Oyl and Charles Lawrence as Wimpy. It was released in 1933 and was the second cartoon in the Popeye the Sailor series of theatrical cartoons released by Paramount Pictures, lasting through 1957. The cartoon opens with Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy riding on a small rowboat through a heavy rainstorm in the ocean. Popeye is standing up against the torrent of rain singing his theme song, while Olive is rowing the boat and Wimpy", "title": "I Yam What I Yam" }, { "docid": "10259470", "text": "is completely unharmed by. Popeye promptly pulls out a can of spinach, eating both the vegetable and the can itself. He punches the row of remaining Native Americans, causing a domino effect. The final gag shows Popeye punching out the giant tribal chief, causing him to lose his outfit and become another type of Indian, Mahatma Gandhi. The cartoon ends with Popeye singing \"I'm Popeye the Sailor Man!\". \"I Yam What I Yam\" is the second \"Popeye\" cartoon; the first entry, \"Popeye the Sailor,\" was released as a Betty Boop cartoon. This is the first cartoon in which Bonnie Poe", "title": "I Yam What I Yam" }, { "docid": "10259469", "text": "sighing in pleasure. When the ducks see the fork and knife, they flee, with Wimpy chasing them from behind. Meanwhile, Olive Oyl is successfully fighting off dozens of the Indians piling into the cabin, still screaming for Popeye's help. Popeye arrives at the cabin, dodging a barrage of arrows and fighting off dozens of Indians, even grabbing an entire group of them and delivering a punch that transforms them into a pile of Indian Nickels. With the bulk of the Indians defeated, one last batch of them is left to deal with, who shoot Popeye full of arrows, which he", "title": "I Yam What I Yam" }, { "docid": "10259465", "text": "is sitting in the back, plucking fish out of the water and eating them whole. Popeye gets struck by lightning several times, and grabs the last thunderbolt and punches it into the water, where it sinks and screams for help. The nearby thunderclouds are frightened by this action and flee, changing the weather to a sunny, clear sky. The boat abruptly sprouts a few holes and sinks, and the trio land on a nearby island inhabited by unfriendly Native Americans. Popeye punches an outcropping of nearby trees to instantaneously build a log cabin, complete with indoor furniture, windows and a", "title": "I Yam What I Yam" }, { "docid": "10259467", "text": "and goes in it while the ducks go under the water. When Popeye walks out, he is seen with the ducks, quacking. To get the ducks, the Native Americans grab the arrows, which are bent, and shoot them. However, the arrows act like boomerangs, and hit the tribal members instead. Meanwhile, back at the cabin, Native Americans are closing in on the cabin. Olive Oyl blocks them by stretching her legs over the doors, while the tribal members try to invade. Olive screams for help. When Native Americans try to come out of the floorboards, Wimpy is sitting on a", "title": "I Yam What I Yam" }, { "docid": "10259468", "text": "chair on the floorboards. The resulting gag depicts when the Indians stretch, Wimpy pours more food into his bowl. When the tribal members finally make it in, Wimpy is thrown out. To get even, Wimpy pulls back a cactus, releasing its thorns. However, Wimpy is met with arrows striking the cactus. Wimpy screams in fear, and runs to Popeye for help. While Popeye walks back to the log cabin, the ducks are seen following Popeye, attracted to the smoke from Popeye's corncob pipe. Wimpy tells Popeye the situation, and after seeing the ducks, he pulls out a fork and knife,", "title": "I Yam What I Yam" }, { "docid": "10259466", "text": "stone chimney with fire. Olive heads indoors, and Wimpy tells Popeye to fetch ducks for dinner before resting inside. While out, Popeye is intimidated by a tribal member who repeatedly tells him hello before punching Popeye, provoking Popeye into punching back at the tribal member. Another tribal member sneaks up from behind and whacks him with a club, shattering it to pieces and only annoying Popeye, who gives the Indian a \"twister punch.\" At the duck pond, Popeye finds more Native Americans shooting arrows at the ducks, missing them repeatedly. Popeye bends the remaining three arrows, goes toward the pond,", "title": "I Yam What I Yam" } ]
[ { "docid": "5108797", "text": "the gods, Yam is soundly defeated: Hadad holds a great feast, but not long afterwards he battles Mot (death) and through his mouth he descends to the netherworld. Yet like Yam, Death too is defeated and in h. I AB iii the Lord arises from the dead: The narrative of the conflict of Yam with Baal-Hadad has long been compared to parallels in Mesopotamian mythology, the battle between Tiamat and Enlil and Babylonian Marduk and, more generically, the \"Chaoskampf\" motif in comparative mythology. Yam (god) Yam (also \"Yamm\") is the god of the sea in the Canaanite pantheon. Yam takes", "title": "Yam (god)" }, { "docid": "9691497", "text": "to brand themselves as representatives of Yam style or even compare themselves with Yam while sharing what they have learnt in the decades of Yam's guidance. Yam's (style or school of) AAA on stage has only been observed and commented on by third parties. There has been no authentic account yet since neither Yam nor Loong had published on the topic. Contrary to some comments by columnists/academics, some of the well-known signature acrobatics happened to be unintended consequence. Yam and Loong had/have spine damage from bending forward all the time to accommodate co-stars of very short statue. In 1952 film", "title": "Yam Kim-fai" }, { "docid": "7134506", "text": "that are usually replanted for the next year. Between 7 and 9 months of replanting huáishān seedlings, their leaves start to get dry (a common fact in plants that grow tubers): that indicates that it's time to harvest. In home gardens generally only what will be consumed is harvested, with the rest left in the pot in moist soil. Chinese yam Chinese yam (\"Dioscorea polystachya\"), also called cinnamon-vine, is a species of flowering plant in the yam family. This perennial climbing vine native to China now grows throughout East Asia (Japan, Korea, Kuril Islands, Vietnam). It is believed to have", "title": "Chinese yam" }, { "docid": "9691438", "text": "Mui with sister Chan Pei Aap joined her, Yam renamed her troupe (\"梅\"花艷影劇團) in deference to her former boss who also shared male lead status with Yam in this troupe. The three of them offered the female version of Kwai Ming Yeung (Yam), Sit Gok Sin (Mui) and Ma Sze Tsang (Aap), Tsui Yan Sam (徐人心) as female lead, and kept building up an even stronger fan base on what Yam already accumulated in Macau. Portugal owned Macau during the Second World War and it was neutral during the conflict. Japan's respect for that neutrality made Macau a safe haven", "title": "Yam Kim-fai" }, { "docid": "13933712", "text": "justice is done The world will be freed and be healed by this hero, Who dives to the root of its wound. In Russia, in Vilna, in Poland all hail now The Great Jewish Worker’s Bund! In Zaltsikn Yam In Zaltsikn Yam (In the Salty Sea, ) also known as In Zaltsikn Yam Fun Di Mentshleche Trern (In the Salty Sea of Human Tears, ), or Tsum Bund: In Zaltsikn Yam Fun Di Mentshleche Trern is a Yiddish poem written by S. Ansky in 1901, that became a popular Yiddish song when music was added to it. The poem and", "title": "In Zaltsikn Yam" }, { "docid": "13933709", "text": "In Zaltsikn Yam In Zaltsikn Yam (In the Salty Sea, ) also known as In Zaltsikn Yam Fun Di Mentshleche Trern (In the Salty Sea of Human Tears, ), or Tsum Bund: In Zaltsikn Yam Fun Di Mentshleche Trern is a Yiddish poem written by S. Ansky in 1901, that became a popular Yiddish song when music was added to it. The poem and song is dedicated to the socialist, General Jewish Labour Bund. Yiddish: אין זאַלטציקן ים פֿון די מענטשלעכע טרערן, געפֿינט זיך English Transliteration: In zaltsikn yam fun di mentshlekhe trern Gefint zikh a shreklekher thom, Er ken", "title": "In Zaltsikn Yam" }, { "docid": "7644958", "text": "often by monsters. Quoting from March Entertainment's site: With the help of his wise Zen master, Katcho Miso (an old lump of salty bean paste), his sidekick and best friend Ebi-san (a severely hyperactive shrimp), and the rest of his motley maritime crew, Yam Roll's life is always an exciting ride. \"Yam Roll\" also hosts a large variety of other sushi characters, including Yam Roll's friends, enemies, and random passers-by. Each character is wittingly named after their sushi names (e.g., Ebi, which means \"shrimp\" in Japanese). Yam Roll Yam Roll (or the long title, The Very Good Adventures of Yam", "title": "Yam Roll" }, { "docid": "6454341", "text": "the purple \"ube\" species of yam (\"Dioscorea alata\"), is eaten as a sweetened dessert called \"ube halaya\", and is also used as an ingredient in another Filipino dessert, \"halo-halo\". It is also used as a popular ingredient for ice cream. In Vietnam, the same purple yam is used for preparing a special type of soup \"canh khoai mỡ\" or fatty yam soup. This involves mashing the yam and cooking it until very well done. In Indonesia, the same purple yam is used for preparing desserts. This involves mashing the yam and mixing it with coconut milk and sugar. White- and", "title": "Yam (vegetable)" }, { "docid": "6454343", "text": "a side dish, or added to noodles. Another variety of yam, \"jinenjo\", is used in Japan as an ingredient in soba noodles. In Okinawa, purple yams (\"Dioscorea alata\") are grown. This is known locally as\" daijo \" or \"beniimo\". This purple yam is popular as lightly deep-fried tempura, as well as being grilled or boiled. Additionally, the purple yam is a common ingredient of yam ice cream with the signature purple color. Purple yam is also used in other types of traditional \"wagashi\" sweets, cakes, and candy. In central parts of India, the yam (\"khamalu\", \"suran\", or \"chupri alu\") is", "title": "Yam (vegetable)" }, { "docid": "6454326", "text": "along with its easy preparation and good flavor, could help the lesser yam to become more popular in the future. \"D. dumetorum\", the bitter yam, is popular as a vegetable in parts of West Africa, in part because their cultivation requires less labor than other yams. The wild forms are very toxic and are sometimes used to poison animals when mixed with bait. It is said that they have also been used for criminal purposes. \"D. trifida\", the cush-cush yam, is native to the Guyana region of South America and is the most important cultivated New World yam. Since they", "title": "Yam (vegetable)" }, { "docid": "8175638", "text": "Batang Kali. The British administration gazetted Ulu Yam as a Communist hot-spot and surrounded it to keep the Chinese in check. In order to minimize Communist influence, all residents back then were not allowed to go into jungle. Ulu Yam is also well known by its natural surroundings and places such as waterfalls (around 2-4). One of it has five stages. There are also three natural hot springs. Ulu Yam Ulu Yam is a main town in Selangor, Malaysia. It is famous for its \"lor mee\" (or noodles in thick soya gravy), and is especially popular among residents of nearby", "title": "Ulu Yam" }, { "docid": "9691508", "text": "with Lee Bo Ying (李寶瑩) released in 1960s, (Chinese: 《梁祝恨史》之《樓台會》) but often nicknamed (Chinese: 《梁祝恨史》之《映紅霞》). The leads each in this title also has a solo from this title in CDs. Fong performed her solo for charity in mid-1980s on stage, almost 30 years since retirement. Several more CDs with Lee as co-star are very popular including sets just like sets with others. Yam made many CDs with many co-stars or solo since what believed to be the first one in 1937. Naamyam (Chinese: ) is one particular type of songs that Yam is very respected for. \"Paying Nocturnal Sacrifice to", "title": "Yam Kim-fai" }, { "docid": "2108832", "text": "2008 the Bat-Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, which is devoted to re-examining urban spaces through art and architecture, was held in Bat Yam. In 2010 the second Biennale, \"Timing\" took place, which featured site-specific installations from designers and architects from around the world. The city has two shopping malls, Kanyon Bat Yam, which opened in 1993, and Kanyon Bat Yamon. The location of Bat Yam on the Mediterranean makes it popular with beach-goers. Bat Yam has a long promenade along the ocean lined with pubs and restaurants. The city has six beaches, one of which is protected by a", "title": "Bat Yam" }, { "docid": "8175637", "text": "Ulu Yam Ulu Yam is a main town in Selangor, Malaysia. It is famous for its \"lor mee\" (or noodles in thick soya gravy), and is especially popular among residents of nearby Kuala Lumpur Loh Mee was Founded by Hock Choon Kee, which was the 1st generation resident during the Emergency period in Malaya back then, he was exiled to Ulu Yam by the British administration due to his involvement in Communist activities and running a prostitution ring that stretched from Kuala Kubu Baru to Kuala Selangor. Ulu Yam is also a transit point to the Genting Highlands Resort after", "title": "Ulu Yam" }, { "docid": "16346653", "text": "this entails. They begin a new life and they rediscover what hunger had made them forget: love, joy, hate and violence. Yam Daabo Yam Daabo, also released under the title Le Choix (The Choice), is a 1986 Burkinabè film directed by Idrissa Ouédraogo. The film is the director's first feature film and has received several awards including the Georges-Sadoul Prize in 1986. The story takes place in Burkina Faso. Poverty grows with each year that passes at Gourga, a village on the borders of the Sahel. The inhabitants must choose: either wait for international assistance to arrive or travel to", "title": "Yam Daabo" }, { "docid": "2720197", "text": "amongst others, Alan Greenspan, who voiced concern in September 1998 that the strategy would fail and erode the credibility of the HKMA. \"It turned out that his timing was exquisite,\" Greenspan later said. \"It was a risky action [which]... I wouldn't recommend as a general rule for central banks.\" Yam responded with an open letter, stating his disappointment and defending the decision of the HKMA. In 2007, Yam was the highest paid central banker in the world, with an annual salary of US$1.32 million, about seven times that of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve ($191,300)., and approximately three times", "title": "Joseph Yam" }, { "docid": "5108794", "text": "Yam (god) Yam (also \"Yamm\") is the god of the sea in the Canaanite pantheon. Yam takes the role of the adversary of Baal in the Ugaritic \"Baal Cycle\". \"Yam\" ( ), the Canaanite word for \"Sea\" , is one name of the Ugaritic god of Rivers and Sea. Also titled \"ṯpṭ nhr\" \"Judge River\", he is also one of the \" 'ilhm\" (\"Elohim\") or sons of El, the name given to the Levantine pantheon. Of all the gods, despite being the champion of El, Yam holds special hostility against Baal Hadad, son of Dagon. Yam is a deity of", "title": "Yam (god)" }, { "docid": "7726823", "text": "Yam Yasothon Yam Yasothon (Thai: แหยม ยโสธร, English title: \"Hello Yasothon\") is a 2005 Thai musical romantic comedy film, written, directed by, and starring Petchtai Wongkamlao. The story is set in 1967 Yasothon Province, Thailand, where Yam is a hard-working, humble, and kind farmer—kind, that is, except when it comes to the attentions of Joei, the homely maid of Soy, who is the girlfriend of Yam's cousin, Tong. Yam nurses stray and injured animals of all kinds, but he never has nice things to say to Joei. Despite this, she persists in flirting with Yam and making unwanted physical advances.", "title": "Yam Yasothon" }, { "docid": "6454320", "text": "extensively grooved. The yellow yam has a longer period of vegetation and a shorter dormancy than white yam. The 'Kokoro' variety is important in making dried yam chips. They are large plants; the vines can be as long as . The tubers most often weigh about each, but can weigh as much as . After 7 to 12 months' growth, the tubers are harvested. In Africa, most are pounded into a paste to make the traditional dish of \"pounded yam,\" known as Iyan. \"D. alata\", called \"white yam\", winged yam, water yam, and purple yam (not to be confused with", "title": "Yam (vegetable)" }, { "docid": "12945275", "text": "and cultural items of significance: \"yam\" (and cognates) means \"custom, tradition\"; \"yəm\" (and cognates) means \"is\"; and yam tubers are the local staple and of central cultural importance. Ross (2005) tentatively includes the Yam languages in the proposed Trans-Fly – Bulaka River family. More recently (Evans 2012) has argued that this is not justified and more data has to be gathered. The Morehead-Wasur (Yam) family is not accepted by Søren Wichmann (2013), who splits it into two separate groups. The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the family are, Yam languages The Yam languages, also known as the Morehead and Upper Maro", "title": "Yam languages" }, { "docid": "9691503", "text": "line by line and word by word while there is no information as to how Yam came to be in that role so well received in Macau. Neither of them ever claimed to be child prodigy. They both wrote for publications and are known most for their roles as romantic scholars, well-educated and fluent in literature. Contemporary performers benefiting from Yam-Loong perspiration take it that they can just clock in/clock out and produce what is now known as poor quality stencil and the demise of such repertoire once propped up the Cantonese opera community for five decades. Since 2011, Loong", "title": "Yam Kim-fai" }, { "docid": "2108834", "text": "Maccabi Ironi Bat Yam, currently plays in Liga Leumit, the third level of Israeli football. The club was formed by a 2004 merger of Hapoel Bat Yam (which had spent several seasons in the second division in the 1990s) and Maccabi Bat Yam. Bat Yam's Al Gal beach is regarded to be one of the best surfing spots in the region, having fairly consistent surf conditions, especially during the summer months. Bat Yam is twinned with: Bat Yam Bat Yam ( , ) is a city located on Israel's Mediterranean Sea coast, on the central coastal strip, just south of", "title": "Bat Yam" }, { "docid": "9691446", "text": "cancelled as a result of very bad receptions. The movie rights of other BIG FOUR titles never came up until decades later. This is the second ruin that lasted six long years. What Yam earned by chance encounter (見獵心起) in the process was a successor she treasured for close to 30 years. The third major financial disaster was rescued with her extremely exhausting 1968 North America tour, more than a decade since she was deprived of the chance to say goodbye to her dying mother, the most treasured family member. Yam paid for the four-year long production of a film", "title": "Yam Kim-fai" }, { "docid": "2803005", "text": "Yam O Yam O () is a bay located on the northeast shore of Lantau Island, in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It is part of the Tsuen Wan Rural West constituency of the Tsuen Wan District Council. Yam O was the only natural lumber preservation zone in Hong Kong. Even today, travellers passing through Yam O can see natural lumber on stilts in the bay. Today, Yam O is known for its interchange for the Disneyland Resort Line via the nearby Sunny Bay MTR station, built on reclaimed land near Yam O. Sunny Bay () is a recent", "title": "Yam O" }, { "docid": "10840910", "text": "What I Was What I Was is Meg Rosoff's third novel for young adults. The book was published in 2007, and was shortlisted for both the Costa Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. \"What I Was\" tells the story of a secret friendship between two teenagers, one an unhappy public schoolboy and the other living an independent and isolated life on the beach near the school. It is set on the East Anglian coast in 1962. The book is framed as the reminiscence of an old man recalling the year he discovered love. It is written as a first-person", "title": "What I Was" }, { "docid": "7644957", "text": "Yam Roll Yam Roll (or the long title, The Very Good Adventures of Yam Roll in Happy Kingdom) is a Canadian animated television series created by Jono Howard and Jon Izen airing on CBC Television in Canada, produced by March Entertainment. The series was first broadcast on February 6, 2006. It can be viewed on Saturday at 10:00am and 10:17am on local CBC channels as well as ABC2 (Australia) and HBO Asia. \"Yam Roll\" features a cast of animated sushi characters, and other anthropomorphic instances of Japanese cuisine, all living in Happy Kingdom, a prosperous city which is upset quite", "title": "Yam Roll" }, { "docid": "6454332", "text": "storage systems. Sprouting rapidly increases a tuber's respiration rates, and accelerates the rate at which its food value decreases. Certain cultivars of yams store better than others. The easier to store yams are those adapted to arid climate, where they tend to stay in a dormant low-respiration stage much longer than yam breeds adapted to humid tropical lands, where they do not need dormancy. Yellow yam and cush-cush yam, by nature, have much shorter dormancy periods than water yam, white yam, or lesser yam. Storage losses for yams are very high in Africa, with insects alone causing over 25% harvest", "title": "Yam (vegetable)" }, { "docid": "4422684", "text": "triads in the first three instalments of the \"Young and Dangerous\" film series. In 2000, Yam starred as Cheung San, the progenitor of all vampires, in the television series \"My Date with a Vampire II\", produced by ATV. In 2003, Yam made his Hollywood film debut in \"\" as Shaolin crime lord. In 2013, Yam directed his first film, as part of the Hong Kong portmaneau horror film \"Tales from the Dark 1\". Yam is married to Sophia Kao, known as Qi Qi, an international model. Kao was born in Shanghai, but raised in Austria. They have a daughter, Ella.", "title": "Simon Yam" }, { "docid": "2108833", "text": "breakwater. The Museum of Bat Yam exhibits contemporary art. Other museums include the Ben Ari Museum and Ryback Museum that houses the work of Issachar Ber Ryback. There is also a museum in the memory of the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch, who lived his last years in Bat Yam, and a small Holocaust museum. Bat Yam-Yoseftal Railway Station and Bat Yam-Komemiyut Railway Station opened in 2011 as part of the new Tel Aviv – Rishon LeZion West line. Bat Yam will also be the terminus for the red line of the Tel Aviv Light Rail. The city's major football club,", "title": "Bat Yam" }, { "docid": "7134501", "text": "bulbils are referred to as \"shanyao dou\" 山药豆, i.e. \"yam beans\", or \"shanyao dan\" 山药蛋 (\"yam eggs\"). In Japanese, it is known as \"nagaimo\" (lit. 'long yam'; kanji: 長芋). Furthermore, \"nagaimo\" is classified into \"ichōimo\" (lit. 'ginkgo-leaf yam'; kanji: 銀杏芋), or \"yamatoimo\" (lit. Yamato yam; kanji: 大和芋), depending on root shapes. In Japan, this species is sometimes mistakenly called Japanese mountain yam, which refers to the native Dioscorea japonica. In Korea it is called \"ma\" (hangul: 마), \"sanu (山芋, 산우)\", seoyeo (薯蕷, 서여), or sanyak (山藥, 산약) and in Sri Lanka in Sinhala it is called \"wal ala\" (වැල් අල).", "title": "Chinese yam" }, { "docid": "12157271", "text": "Yam Islands The Yam Islands, Yamsky Islands or Yamskiye Islands (Ямские острова; Yamskiye Ostrova), is a small island group located close to the coast in the northern Sea of Okhotsk. Administratively the Yam Islands belong to the Magadan Oblast of the Russian Federation. The Yam island group lies about 250 km east of Magadan, only 10 km from the shores of the Pyagin Peninsula (Poluostrov P'yagina). The main island is Matykil Island (Остров Матыкиль). It is 6 km long and has a width of 2.2 km. All the other islands are much smaller. The highest point in Matykil is 700", "title": "Yam Islands" }, { "docid": "12157269", "text": "Yam Islands The Yam Islands, Yamsky Islands or Yamskiye Islands (Ямские острова; Yamskiye Ostrova), is a small island group located close to the coast in the northern Sea of Okhotsk. Administratively the Yam Islands belong to the Magadan Oblast of the Russian Federation. The Yam island group lies about 250 km east of Magadan, only 10 km from the shores of the Pyagin Peninsula (Poluostrov P'yagina). The main island is Matykil Island (Остров Матыкиль). It is 6 km long and has a width of 2.2 km. All the other islands are much smaller. The highest point in Matykil is 700", "title": "Yam Islands" }, { "docid": "11446063", "text": "Buud Yam Buud Yam is a 1997 Burkinabé historical drama film written and directed by Gaston Kaboré. It is the sequel to the film \"Wend Kuuni\". As of 2001, it was the most popular African film ever in Burkina Faso. The title's meaning is unclear: \"buud\" can mean both \"ancestors\" and \"descendants\", while \"yam\" means \"spirit\" or \"intelligence.\" It has been translated as \"Soul of the Group\". The film draws on the African oral tradition. Set in a nineteenth century village, it follows a group of characters from Kaboré's debut film \"Wend Kuuni\". Wend Kuuni (Serge Yanogo) is a young", "title": "Buud Yam" }, { "docid": "2803007", "text": "culture and opposed by Hong Kong citizens and some Chinese language professionals. Sunny Bay Station is today also a transport interchange for Discovery Bay residents, being served by bus route \"DB03R\". Yam O Yam O () is a bay located on the northeast shore of Lantau Island, in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It is part of the Tsuen Wan Rural West constituency of the Tsuen Wan District Council. Yam O was the only natural lumber preservation zone in Hong Kong. Even today, travellers passing through Yam O can see natural lumber on stilts in the bay. Today, Yam", "title": "Yam O" }, { "docid": "20990320", "text": "Jerrold Yam Jerrold Yam (born 1991) is a Singaporean writer and lawyer whose poetry has been widely published and anthologised. Yam completed secondary education as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) in 2009. He then read Law at University College London, from which he graduated with first-class honours (in addition to receiving the Dean's List award) in 2015. Yam currently works as a corporate lawyer in London, UK. In 2012, Yam was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, making him then the youngest Singaporean to be nominated at 20 years old. His first full-length collection of", "title": "Jerrold Yam" }, { "docid": "20990324", "text": "Glück. Jerrold Yam Jerrold Yam (born 1991) is a Singaporean writer and lawyer whose poetry has been widely published and anthologised. Yam completed secondary education as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) in 2009. He then read Law at University College London, from which he graduated with first-class honours (in addition to receiving the Dean's List award) in 2015. Yam currently works as a corporate lawyer in London, UK. In 2012, Yam was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, making him then the youngest Singaporean to be nominated at 20 years old. His first full-length collection", "title": "Jerrold Yam" }, { "docid": "9691432", "text": "she died at home in Hong Kong due to pleural effusion. There was no JTWROS. Yam had a will drawn up and left her estate to families, including Yam Bing Yee. Born Yam Lee Chor (Chinese: 任麗初), Yam performed as a past-time with a Cantonese opera troupe since when still in grade school. When Yam was 14, her aunt (), another Cantonese opera actress, taught Yam the foundation courses. Very soon, Yam quit school and began her formal opera performance studies with Wong Lui Hap (), who was known for being the female version of Ma Sze Tsang but became", "title": "Yam Kim-fai" }, { "docid": "19752573", "text": "HC Bat Yam HC Bat Yam is an Israeli ice hockey team based in Bat Yam and compete in the Israeli League. HC Bat Yam was founded in 1992 and won their first league title in 1995. In 2010 the club qualified for their first IIHF Continental Cup however were knocked out in the first round without winning a game. HC Bat Yam won their second title in 2016 and as a result qualified for the 2016–17 IIHF Continental Cup. HC Bat Yam was founded in 1992 in Bat Yam, Israel and joined the Israeli League. In the 1993–94 season", "title": "HC Bat Yam" }, { "docid": "7726829", "text": "even if she's changed on the outside. \"Yam Yasothon\" was one of the biggest hits of the year at the Thai box office. Janet Khiew was nominated for best actress at the Thailand National Film Association Awards. The film predominantly used the Isan dialect and was subtitled in central Thai language. Yam Yasothon Yam Yasothon (Thai: แหยม ยโสธร, English title: \"Hello Yasothon\") is a 2005 Thai musical romantic comedy film, written, directed by, and starring Petchtai Wongkamlao. The story is set in 1967 Yasothon Province, Thailand, where Yam is a hard-working, humble, and kind farmer—kind, that is, except when it", "title": "Yam Yasothon" }, { "docid": "17803622", "text": "it was, but received no affirmative answer. Papo then opened the large, black bag and found \"what he said looked like a pressure cooker with a red wire coming out of it.\" He told people to get off the bus, and when the driver stopped the vehicle at the corner of Mivtza Sinai st. and Katznelson st. in Bat Yam, all the passengers and the driver exited. The Israeli police received a call at 2:20pm about a bomb on a bus in Bat Yam. The device then detonated, three minutes after the last passengers had been evacuated. All the windows", "title": "2013 Bat Yam bus bombing" }, { "docid": "15990021", "text": "Mul Yam Mul Yam ( ‘in front of a sea’ or ‘sea mussel’) was an Israeli restaurant located in Tel Aviv Port, Tel Aviv. Mul Yam was established in 1995 by Shalom Maharovsky, its current owner; the chef is Yoram Nitzan. The restaurant specialized in seafood and fish, which mainly import from different parts of the world and a little meat and vegetarian dishes. Mapa guide to Israel's best restaurants writes: \"The matching between the minimalist and delicate treatment of Yoram Nitzan and the finest fish, seafood and wines that Shalom Maharovsky import, makes Mul Yam the best fish restaurant", "title": "Mul Yam" }, { "docid": "6454319", "text": "the white yam, and \"D. cayenensis\", the yellow yam, are native to Africa. They are the most important cultivated yams. In the past, they were considered as two separate species, but most taxonomists now regard them as the same species. Over 200 varieties between them are cultivated. White yam tuber is roughly cylindrical in shape, the skin is smooth and brown, and the flesh is usually white and firm. Yellow yam has yellow flesh, caused by the presence of carotenoids. It looks similar to the white yam in outer appearance; its tuber skin is usually a bit firmer and less", "title": "Yam (vegetable)" }, { "docid": "17803620", "text": "2013 Bat Yam bus bombing On 22 December 2013, at approximately 2:30 pm, a pressure cooker bomb exploded on a public bus in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam, Israel. All casualties were averted because a few minutes earlier, a passenger on the bus had examined the contents of an unattended bag, and saw what looked like a bomb inside, which led all passengers and the driver to exit the vehicle. The bombing shattered or blew out all windows on the bus, and significantly damaged the interior. On 2 January 2014, the Shin Bet announced it had arrested four", "title": "2013 Bat Yam bus bombing" }, { "docid": "4112457", "text": "YAM 2.2 was the last update from Marcel Beck, who ceased Amiga development but also released the sources under the GPL license. A group of Amiga developers then teamed up to coordinate and resume development, and finally in 2004 the first ever open source YAM (2.3) was released. During the next decade YAM managed to become a much more mature, stable and usable program. Along that time however, the developer team also lost most of its members, but YAM still remains today as one of the most iconic and popular pieces of Amiga software. At the peak of his popularity,", "title": "YAM (Yet Another Mailer)" }, { "docid": "18590764", "text": "Asogli Yam Festival Asogli Yam Festival is an annual festival celebrated by the people of Asogli in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is celebrated in September annually to celebrate the cultivation of yam that was started by a hunter who found the tuber in the forest during his hunting expedition. According to history, the cultivation of yam among the people of Asogli started when the yam that the hunter hid during his hunting expedition to come for it later germinated and grew bigger. The celebration was brought into Ghana by the Ewe people of Ghana when they migrated from", "title": "Asogli Yam Festival" }, { "docid": "19752577", "text": "in the other semifinal. Bat Yam defeated Monfort Maalot 6–3 in the final to claim their second league title. As a result of winning the 2016 final Bat Yam also qualified for the 2016–17 IIHF Continental Cup where they entered in the first round. The club was placed in Group A alongside Irbis-Skate Sofia, Partizan Belgrade and Zeytinburnu Belediyespor. Israel HC Bat Yam HC Bat Yam is an Israeli ice hockey team based in Bat Yam and compete in the Israeli League. HC Bat Yam was founded in 1992 and won their first league title in 1995. In 2010 the", "title": "HC Bat Yam" }, { "docid": "6454314", "text": "Yam (vegetable) Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus \"Dioscorea\" (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers. Yams are perennial herbaceous vines cultivated for the consumption of their starchy tubers in many temperate and tropical world regions. The tubers themselves are also called \"yams\", having numerous cultivars and related species. In parts of the United States and Canada, \"yam\" is sometimes used to refer to varieties of the unrelated sweet potato (\"Ipomoea batatas\"). The name, yam, appears to derive from Portuguese \"inhame\" or Canarian (Spain) \"ñame\", which derived from West African languages during trade. The main", "title": "Yam (vegetable)" }, { "docid": "9691504", "text": "(金牌), with a producer (製作人) in tow, have put some of those Yam aroma back on stage. The mythical character (金牌製作人) dreaming big to build an empire on quicksand does not exist. The votes (box-office records) they received came from the pocketbooks of new as well as veteran audiences coming from the time of Yam as well as of Loong, the two career performers. Yam legacy titles were not as well received in 1950s as a decade since the debut. That was achieved with exposure across several media. The deal was sealed with audiences from the 1970s and 1980s known", "title": "Yam Kim-fai" }, { "docid": "2108828", "text": "Bat Yam Bat Yam ( , ) is a city located on Israel's Mediterranean Sea coast, on the central coastal strip, just south of Tel Aviv. Part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area in Tel Aviv District, the city had a population of in . Bat Yam was established in 1926 as \"Bayit VeGan\" (; House and Garden). During the 1929 Palestine riots, the town was attacked by Palestinian fighters from Jaffa and was evacuated by British Authorities.. In 1930, it was re-settled. In 1936, it was granted local council status. In 1937 it was renamed \"Bat Yam\". By 1945,", "title": "Bat Yam" }, { "docid": "6457511", "text": "Yam (route) Yam (, \"Örtöö\", \"checkpoint\") was a supply point route messenger system employed and extensively used and expanded by Genghis Khan and used by subsequent Great Khans and Khans. Relay stations were used to give food, shelter and spare horses for Mongol army messengers. Genghis Khan gave special attention to Yam because Mongol armies traveled very fast, so their messengers had to be even faster, covering 200–300 km per day. The system was used to speed up the process of information and intelligence. The system was preserved in Tsarist Russia after the disintegration of the Golden Horde. The Yam", "title": "Yam (route)" }, { "docid": "19752574", "text": "Bat Yam finished as runner-up to HC Haifa. Bat Yam improved in the 1994–95 season with the club finishing the regular season in first place after winning seven of their eight games to claim their first regular season title. In the playoffs Bat Yam was drawn against the fourth place HC Metulla for their semifinal. Bat Yam defeated Metulla 13–5 to advance to final against the Jerusalem Capitals who had defeated HC Haifa in the other semifinal. Bat Yam defeated the Jerusalem Capitals 11–3 to claim their first league title. The following season Bat Yam finished in second place behind", "title": "HC Bat Yam" }, { "docid": "15990023", "text": "place to the ground. In the episode \"The Banker\" of the US TV series \"The Office\", Mul Yam is mentioned by Computron, the virtual helper, as having the best Maine lobster in the world. Mul Yam Mul Yam ( ‘in front of a sea’ or ‘sea mussel’) was an Israeli restaurant located in Tel Aviv Port, Tel Aviv. Mul Yam was established in 1995 by Shalom Maharovsky, its current owner; the chef is Yoram Nitzan. The restaurant specialized in seafood and fish, which mainly import from different parts of the world and a little meat and vegetarian dishes. Mapa guide", "title": "Mul Yam" }, { "docid": "6454321", "text": "the Okinawan purple \"yam\", which is a sweet potato), was first cultivated in Southeast Asia. Although not grown in the same quantities as the African yams, it has the largest distribution worldwide of any cultivated yam, being grown in Asia, the Pacific islands, Africa, and the West Indies. Even in Africa, the popularity of water yam is second only to white yam. The tuber shape is generally cylindrical, but can vary. Tuber flesh is white and watery in texture. \"Uhi\" was brought to Hawaii by the early Polynesian settlers and became a major crop in the 19th century when the", "title": "Yam (vegetable)" }, { "docid": "7087125", "text": "Rafiah Yam Rafiah Yam () was an Israeli settlement, in the Gaza Strip until 2005. Rafiah Yam was originally established in 1984 as a secular community in the southern end of the Gush Katif settlement bloc, only 200 metres from the Egyptian border and close to the Palestinian city of Rafah. Residents of the settlement worked mainly in agriculture. Being one of the few non-Orthodox settlements, the community children were bused each day to school in the nearby Eshkol region outside the Gaza Strip. The 30 families, including at least 150 people, of Rafiah Yam were forcibly evicted from their", "title": "Rafiah Yam" }, { "docid": "2720194", "text": "Corporate Culture and Responsibility Committee and the Risk Committee of the UBS Group AG since 2011 and a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong since 2017. Joseph Yam graduated from the University of Hong Kong in economics, social sciences and statistics with first class honors in 1970. Yam joined the Government of Hong Kong as a statistician in 1971 and became an economist in 1976. Subsequently, in 1982, Yam was appointed as Principal Assistant Secretary for Monetary Affairs. In 1983, Yam contributed to formulating the peg between the Hong Kong dollar and US dollar. In 1985, he", "title": "Joseph Yam" }, { "docid": "15689716", "text": "tonnes of yams in 2008 respectively. According to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria accounted for about 70 percent of the world production amounting to 17 million tonnes from land area 2,837,000 hectares under yam cultivation. Yam, a tropical crop in the genus \"Dioscorea\", has as many as 600 species out of which six are economically important staple species. These are: \"Dioscorea rotundata\" (white guinea yam), \"Dioscorea alata\" (purple yam), \"Dioscorea bulbifera\" (aerial yam),\" Dioscorea esculant\" (Chinese yam) and \"Dioscorea dumetorum\" (trifoliate yam). Out of these, \"Dioscorea rotundata\" (white yam) and \"Dioscorea alata\" (water yam) are the most common", "title": "Yam production in Nigeria" }, { "docid": "17620671", "text": "Alex Yam Alex Yam Ziming (; ; born June 20, 1981) is a Singaporean politician. A member of the Singapore-based political party People's Action Party (PAP) since 2001, he currently serves as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Marsiling-Yew Tee Group Representation Constituency (GRC). He is the Executive Director of the People's Action Party (PAP) Headquarters and also serves as Advisor to the United Workers of Petroleum Industries of the National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) in Singapore. A Roman Catholic, Yam is married and has three sons. Yam was born on June 20, 1981 at Mount Alvernia Hospital in", "title": "Alex Yam" }, { "docid": "12549631", "text": "Maccabi Ironi Bat Yam F.C. Maccabi Ironi Bat Yam () was an Israeli football club based in Bat Yam. The club played home matches at the 3,100-capacity Bat Yam Municipal Stadium. The club was formed by a merger of Beitar Bat Yam and Maccabi Bat Yam. Following another merger, with Maccabi Holon, the club became known as Maccabi Holon Bat Yam and was placed in the South A division of Liga Bet. In 2004, after Hapoel Bat Yam dissolved, the club was renamed to Maccabi Ironi Bat Yam, and in its first season playing with that name, the club won", "title": "Maccabi Ironi Bat Yam F.C." }, { "docid": "12786103", "text": "Mike Yam Mike Yam is a studio host for the Pac-12 Network. Prior to his arrival at Pac-12, he was an ESPN anchor from October 2008 through August 2012. During Yam's time at ESPN, he could be seen anchoring SportsCenter, as well as hosting college football live and college basketball final. Since July 2011, he can be heard filling in on various shows on 1050 ESPN, New York City. Yam was also the cohost of ESPN's Fantasy Focus Basketball podcast with Keith Lipscomb. From 2006-2008, Yam was the co-host of The Mike and Murray Show, heard daily on Sirius Satellite", "title": "Mike Yam" }, { "docid": "12786100", "text": "Mike Yam Mike Yam is a studio host for the Pac-12 Network. Prior to his arrival at Pac-12, he was an ESPN anchor from October 2008 through August 2012. During Yam's time at ESPN, he could be seen anchoring SportsCenter, as well as hosting college football live and college basketball final. Since July 2011, he can be heard filling in on various shows on 1050 ESPN, New York City. Yam was also the cohost of ESPN's Fantasy Focus Basketball podcast with Keith Lipscomb. From 2006-2008, Yam was the co-host of The Mike and Murray Show, heard daily on Sirius Satellite", "title": "Mike Yam" }, { "docid": "12681395", "text": "of new yam. Folk dances, masquerades, parades, and parties create an experience that some participants characterize as \"art\"; the colorful festival is a spectacle of exhibited joy, thanks, and community display. Palm oil (\"mmanu nri\") is used to eat the yam. Iwa ji also shares some similarities with the Asian Mid-Autumn Festival, as both are based on the cycles of the moon and are essentially community harvest festivals. This event is important event in the calendar of Igbo people all over the world. The harvest of yam and the celebration of the God of the land through the New Yam", "title": "New Yam Festival of the Igbo" }, { "docid": "12681391", "text": "essentially agrarian and dependent on yam. Yams are the first crop to be harvested, and are the most important crop of the region. The New Yam Festival is therefore a celebration depicting the prominence of yam in the social-cultural life of Igbo people. The evening prior to the day of the festival, all old yams (from the previous year's crop) are consumed or discarded. This is because it is believed that the New Year must begin with tasty, fresh yams instead of the old dried-up crops of the previous year. The next day, only dishes of yam are served at", "title": "New Yam Festival of the Igbo" }, { "docid": "2108830", "text": "gained a sizeable community of Jews from Turkey. Bat Yam again experienced a period of rapid growth in the early 1980s to the late 1990s with the mass immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia. There is also a small Arab community (0.4% as per 2012) in Bat Yam, both Muslim and Christian, many of whom relocated from Jaffa. The vast majority of Israelis of Vietnamese origin live in Bat Yam. Bat Yam is expected to eventually lose its status as an independent municipality and become a part of neighboring Tel Aviv. The Israeli Interior Ministry aims", "title": "Bat Yam" }, { "docid": "6454333", "text": "loss within 4 months. Raw yam has only moderate nutrient density, with appreciable content (10% or more of the Daily Value, DV) limited to potassium, vitamin B6, manganese, thiamin, dietary fiber, and vitamin C (table). Yam supplies 118 Calories per 100 grams. Yam generally has a lower glycemic index, about 54% of glucose per 150 gram serving, compared to potato products. The protein content and quality of roots and tubers is lower than other food staples, with the content of yam and potato being around 2% on a fresh-weight basis. Yams, with cassava, provide a much greater proportion of the", "title": "Yam (vegetable)" }, { "docid": "18491143", "text": "2008 and was in existence for only three seasons, until the end of the 2010–11 season, while playing in Liga Gimel. The current club was founded at the summer of 2014 as Sport Club Kiryat Yam, and registered at the Israel Football Association for the 2014–15 season in Liga Gimel as Sport Football Club Hapoel Kiryat Yam. Hapoel Kiryat Yam F.C. Sport Football Club Hapoel Kiryat Yam (), or simply Hapoel Kiryat Yam (), is an Israeli football club based in Kiryat Yam. The club is currently in Liga Gimel Samaria division. A previous club named Hapoel Kiryat Yam was", "title": "Hapoel Kiryat Yam F.C." }, { "docid": "7134502", "text": "Sometimes called Korean yam. In Vietnam, the yam is called \"củ mài\" or \"khoai mài\". When this yam is processed to become a medicine, the yam is called \"hoài sơn\" or \"tỳ giải\". In the Ilocano of the northern Philippines it is called \"tuge\". In Latin American countries it's known as white name or white ñame. In Manipuri it is called as \"Ha\". Creams and dietary supplements made from the related \"Dioscorea villosa\" are claimed to contain human hormones and promoted as a medicine for a variety of purposes, including cancer prevention and the treatment of Crohn's disease and whooping", "title": "Chinese yam" }, { "docid": "19855893", "text": "knots in September. American whaleships hunted bowhead whales in the gulf in the 1850s and 1860s. They also traded with the natives for sable and deer. Yam Gulf Yam Gulf (Russian: \"Yamskaya Guba\") is a large bay in the northeastern Sea of Okhotsk. It forms the southwestern portion of Shelikhov Gulf. To its southeast lie the Yam Islands. Yam Gulf is entered between Capes Iretsky to the north and Keytevan to the south, which are separated by 33.8 km (about 21 mi). The high entrance points of the gulf merge into a low shore to the west, with tundra plains", "title": "Yam Gulf" }, { "docid": "13902495", "text": "Yavne-Yam Yavne-Yam (, also spelled Yavneh-Yam, literally Yavne-Sea) or Minet Rubin (Arabic, literally Port of Rubin, referring to biblical Reuben; ) is an archaeological site located on Israel's southern Mediterranean coast, about 15 km south of Tel Aviv. Built on eolianite hills next to a small promontory forming the sole anchorage able to provide shelter to seagoing vessels between Jaffa and the Sinai, Yavne-Yam is notable for its role as the port of ancient Yavne. Excavations carried out by Tel Aviv University since 1992 have revealed continuous habitation from the second millennium BCE up to the Middle Ages. Surveys and", "title": "Yavne-Yam" }, { "docid": "6454334", "text": "protein intake in Africa, ranging from 6% in East and South Africa to about 16% in humid West Africa. As a relatively low-protein food, yam is not a good source of essential amino acids. Experts emphasize the need to supplement a yam-dominant diet with more protein-rich foods to support healthy growth in children. Yam is an important dietary element for Nigerian and West African people. It contributes more than 200 calories per person per day for more than 150 million people in West Africa, and is an important source of income. Yam is an attractive crop in poor farms with", "title": "Yam (vegetable)" }, { "docid": "19855891", "text": "Yam Gulf Yam Gulf (Russian: \"Yamskaya Guba\") is a large bay in the northeastern Sea of Okhotsk. It forms the southwestern portion of Shelikhov Gulf. To its southeast lie the Yam Islands. Yam Gulf is entered between Capes Iretsky to the north and Keytevan to the south, which are separated by 33.8 km (about 21 mi). The high entrance points of the gulf merge into a low shore to the west, with tundra plains beyond. From June to the first half of August, winds in the gulf are seldom stronger than a fresh breeze, but occasionally reach gale force. Calms", "title": "Yam Gulf" }, { "docid": "6454339", "text": "world's yam crop is harvested. Yams are still important for survival in these regions. Some varieties of these tubers can be stored up to six months without refrigeration, which makes them a valuable resource for the yearly period of food scarcity at the beginning of the wet season. Yam cultivars are also cultivated in other humid tropical countries. Yam is the main staple crop of the Igbos in south eastern Nigeria where for centuries it played a dominant role in both their agricultural and cultural life. It is celebrated with annual yam festivals Taro paste, a traditional Cantonese cuisine, which", "title": "Yam (vegetable)" }, { "docid": "4422682", "text": "Simon Yam Simon Yam Tat-wah (; born 19 March 1955) is a Hong Kong actor and film producer. He received international acclaim for his performances in international film festival and box office hits such as \"Naked Killer\", \"\", \"Election\", \"Election 2\" , \"Exiled\", \"\" and \"The Thieves\". Yam started off as a model before becoming an actor in the mid 1970s. He then signed with the Hong Kong television network TVB, starring and co-starring in a number of television series prior to \"apply his trades\" in the film industry in 1987. His elder brother is Yam Tak-wing, a retired former", "title": "Simon Yam" }, { "docid": "18491142", "text": "Hapoel Kiryat Yam F.C. Sport Football Club Hapoel Kiryat Yam (), or simply Hapoel Kiryat Yam (), is an Israeli football club based in Kiryat Yam. The club is currently in Liga Gimel Samaria division. A previous club named Hapoel Kiryat Yam was founded in 1964, and in its prime, played thirteen seasons in Liga Bet, then the third tier of Israeli football (the fourth tier since 1976), from the 1968–69 season to the 1980–81 season, in which the club was relegated to Liga Gimel. Another club, named Sport Club Kiryat Yam, or simply F.C. Kiryat Yam, was founded in", "title": "Hapoel Kiryat Yam F.C." }, { "docid": "10840914", "text": "the austere self-sufficiency of the period, which appeals to Hilary. The sinking of England's eastern coastline is also often mentioned. The sunken city and Roman fort are the focus of a sailing expedition in the earlier part of the book. Later in the same year, Finn's shack becomes flooded. In the closing chapter, set in the mid-21st century, the old man's boat passes over the school, now completely consumed by the rising sea. What I Was What I Was is Meg Rosoff's third novel for young adults. The book was published in 2007, and was shortlisted for both the Costa", "title": "What I Was" }, { "docid": "9691440", "text": "in theatres since then. For ten years (1935-1945), Yam made Macau her home, when her hometown in Guangdong fell to the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Meanwhile, she moved her family, including her (Chinese custom, actually paternal first cousins.) younger sister Yam Bing Yee () into her new home in Macau. Occasionally, Yam in 1939 renamed that same all-female opera troupe (「鏡花艷影劇團」/高陞戲院/紫雲霞/《夜出虎狼關》郎紫峯=郎筠玉) to perform in Hong Kong or in 1942 travelled to perform in Guangdong with Hung Sin Nui's Sifu (何芙蓮) as the co-star. Hung met Yam that year. In Macau, she met the major contributors to her career,", "title": "Yam Kim-fai" }, { "docid": "10526312", "text": "The video opens the night of the date when Bentley takes Becky back home. She asks if he would want to do it again, and though he is unsure, he reluctantly agrees. Throughout he is seen performing with his band. \"What Was I Thinkin'\" reached its peak position of number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs charts dated for the week ending September 27, 2003. The song succeeded Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett's duet \"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere\" at this peak. What Was I Thinkin' \"What Was I Thinkin'\" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music", "title": "What Was I Thinkin'" }, { "docid": "19557644", "text": "Yam Kaspers Anshel Yam Kaspers Anshel (; born February 15, 1998) is an Israeli beauty pageant titleholder who came in second-place in Miss Israel 2016, thereby winning the title to compete for Israel in Miss Universe. She represented her country at the Miss Universe 2016 pageant. Yam was born in 1998 in Herzliya, Israel. Yam grew up living onboard a boat in the Herzliya marina. She was labeled an academically gifted child, and at age 14 she became a youth horse-riding champion in Israel. She graduated high-school, and is currently preparing for IDF enlistment. On June 6, 2016 Yam Kaspers", "title": "Yam Kaspers Anshel" }, { "docid": "6454335", "text": "limited resources. It is rich in starch, and can be prepared in many ways. It is available all year round, unlike other, unreliable, seasonal crops. These characteristics make yam a preferred food and a culturally important food security crop in some sub-Saharan African countries. The tubers of certain wild yam, a variant of kokoro yam and other species of \"Dioscorea\", such as \"Dioscorea nipponica\", are a source for the extraction of diosgenin, a steroid sapogenin. The extracted diosgenin is used for the commercial synthesis of cortisone, pregnenolone, progesterone, and other steroid products. Such preparations were used in early combined oral", "title": "Yam (vegetable)" }, { "docid": "19557645", "text": "Anshel came in second-place in Miss Israel 2016 competition, after Karin Alia. As a result she competed in Miss Universe 2016. Yam Kaspers Anshel competed at Miss Universe 2016 but did not place. Yam Kaspers Anshel Yam Kaspers Anshel (; born February 15, 1998) is an Israeli beauty pageant titleholder who came in second-place in Miss Israel 2016, thereby winning the title to compete for Israel in Miss Universe. She represented her country at the Miss Universe 2016 pageant. Yam was born in 1998 in Herzliya, Israel. Yam grew up living onboard a boat in the Herzliya marina. She was", "title": "Yam Kaspers Anshel" }, { "docid": "13902505", "text": "ancient ships and were supposed to protect the ships from the evil eye, envy and danger, while also assisting navigation. Prominent finds from Yavne-Yam and its vicinity are on display at Beit-Miriam, the museum of nearby Kibbutz Palmachim. Yavne-Yam Yavne-Yam (, also spelled Yavneh-Yam, literally Yavne-Sea) or Minet Rubin (Arabic, literally Port of Rubin, referring to biblical Reuben; ) is an archaeological site located on Israel's southern Mediterranean coast, about 15 km south of Tel Aviv. Built on eolianite hills next to a small promontory forming the sole anchorage able to provide shelter to seagoing vessels between Jaffa and the", "title": "Yavne-Yam" }, { "docid": "3424651", "text": "Atlit Yam Atlit Yam is an ancient submerged Neolithic village off the coast of Atlit, Israel. It has been carbon-dated as to be between 8900 and 8300 years old. Among the features of the 10-acre site is a stone circle. Atlit-Yam provides the earliest known evidence for an agro-pastoral-marine subsistence system on the Levantine coast. The site of Atlit Yam has been carbon-dated to be between 8900 and 8300 years old (calibrated dates) and belongs to the final Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period. In the 21st century, it lies between 8-12m (25-40 ft) beneath sea level in the Mediterranean Sea, in", "title": "Atlit Yam" }, { "docid": "15591968", "text": "Yam has since explained that his \"robotic\" and \"nasal\" voice is due to an operation he had to remove a fishbone in his larynx, although he has also said, explaining his impassive delivery to The Straits Times, that he \"felt it was important to announce (the election results) clearly, concisely and impartially.\" Yam was appointed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as Returning Officer for the Singapore Presidential Election. Yam announced the results of the 4 nominated candidates for the Presidential Election on 4:24am (GMT +8). Yam was named as the Returning Officer for the 2012 Hougang by-election. He delivered", "title": "Yam Ah Mee" }, { "docid": "9691511", "text": "stamp set focused on Hong Kong's movie stars, saluting four stars who have left their marks on film history. Yam, in Cantonese opera costume, was featured on the HK$2.60 stamp. For her 100th birthday, Yam Kim-fai centenary celebration at HK Film Archive In 2013, the Cantonese Opera Legend Yam Kim Fai – Repertoire Select by librettist Tang Ti-sheng (Alias:Tong Tik Sang/Tong Dick-san). was organized by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong. On 4 February 2016, her 103rd birthday, Google Hong Kong's homepage (Google.com.hk) Google Doodle was her illustration by Google artist Sophie Diao. Yam Kim-fai Yam Kim Fai", "title": "Yam Kim-fai" }, { "docid": "10526307", "text": "What Was I Thinkin' \"What Was I Thinkin'\" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Dierks Bentley. It was released in April 2003 as his debut single and the first from his 2003 self-titled debut album. The song also became his first number one hit on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart in September 2003. Bentley co-wrote \"What Was I Thinkin'\" with his record producer, Brett Beavers, and Deric Ruttan. The song is an up-tempo in which he recalls escaping one night with a \"beauty from south Alabama,\" named Becky while the narrator spends the", "title": "What Was I Thinkin'" }, { "docid": "15689721", "text": "efficiency of this crop grown in this region with small farm holdings, which is labour-intensive, reveals that land, labour and material (fertilizers and chemicals), credit and extension services inputs have a significant bearing on the yield of yam in the region. Yam is grown on free draining, sandy and fertile soil, after clearing the first fallow. Land is prepared in the form of mound or ridge or heap of height. The yams recommended for such soil conditions in Nigeria are white yam or white guinea yam \"(Discorea rotundata)\" and water yam or yellow yam \"(Discorea alata)\". Planting is done by", "title": "Yam production in Nigeria" }, { "docid": "10825387", "text": "has done wrong. Despite its sap factor, \"What I Need\" will likely lap up radio play.\" The remix version with West Coast rappers Nate Dogg, Shorty Mack, Slim Thug and Snoop Dogg became even more popular being watched more than 200,000 times on YouTube. It's called \"Smokin Trees (What I Need Remix)\" and produced by Ray J for Knockout Entertainment and was expected to be released as \"Smokin Smokin Weed\" which featured Ray J, Nate Dogg and Snoop Dogg only, on \"Tha Blue Carpet Treatment\" by Snoop Dogg. What I Need \"What I Need\" is a song by American recording", "title": "What I Need" }, { "docid": "9896712", "text": "Banu Yam Banu Yam (, \"\") are a large tribe native to Najran Province in Saudi Arabia and the principal tribe of that area. They belong to the Qahtanite branch of Arabian tribes, specifically the group known as Banu Hamdan, and are, therefore, native to southwestern Arabia. Their traditional way of life was well suited to life in the Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands they once lived in. Most have moved into small villages and given up their previous nomadic way of life. The tribe of Yam was also the progenitor of two other important tribes: the Al", "title": "Banu Yam" }, { "docid": "10538627", "text": "of Gulong ng Palad which won most popular song from this album and awqarded by S Magazine as Song of the Year. Sabihin Mo Sa Akin was the theme song of Anne Curtis' Kampanerang Kuba, and finally, Dahil Nagmamahal became the theme song of ABS-CBN's show for Filipino workers abroad entitled Nagmamahal, Kapamilya hosted by Bernadette Sembrano.And. her carrier single, What I do Best won as Best Song Performed by a Female Artist given by iFM Pinoy Music Awards. What I Do Best What I Do Best is Sheryn Regis' second studio album under Star Records, released on July 2005", "title": "What I Do Best" }, { "docid": "18130032", "text": "the club finished bottom and dropped back to Liga Gimel. Hapoel Bat Yam F.C. Hapoel Bat Yam () (currently known as Hapoel Abirei Bat Yam , lit. Hapoel Bat Yam Knights) is an Israeli football club from the city of Bat Yam. The current club is a resurrection of an older Hapoel Bat Yam club, which was folded in 2004. The club was first established in 1951 and played for several seasons in Liga Gimel before promoting to Liga Bet and achieving further promotion at the end of the 1968–69 season after winning the South A division. The club returned", "title": "Hapoel Bat Yam F.C." }, { "docid": "18130028", "text": "Hapoel Bat Yam F.C. Hapoel Bat Yam () (currently known as Hapoel Abirei Bat Yam , lit. Hapoel Bat Yam Knights) is an Israeli football club from the city of Bat Yam. The current club is a resurrection of an older Hapoel Bat Yam club, which was folded in 2004. The club was first established in 1951 and played for several seasons in Liga Gimel before promoting to Liga Bet and achieving further promotion at the end of the 1968–69 season after winning the South A division. The club returned to the third tier after the formation of Liga Artzit", "title": "Hapoel Bat Yam F.C." }, { "docid": "2091766", "text": "eight elementary schools and 3 high schools (Rabin, Rodman & Levinson ) with a student population of 10,000. During the 2006 Lebanon War, Kiryat Yam was hit by Hezbollah rockets and suffered casualties and property damage. In February 2008, a Google Earth user added an erroneous note that Kiryat Yam had been built on the ruins of Arab Ghawarina, an abandoned Arab village. The town filed a complaint with the police against Google for libel. Urban development plans aimed at upgrading the old Gimmel neighborhood were blocked by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, whose main weapons development plant borders Kiryat Yam.", "title": "Kiryat Yam" }, { "docid": "9691458", "text": "with Bak Sheut Sin, she sang the final scene from \"Tai Nui Fa\" for the TVB telethon event that was hosted for the victims in the 18 June landslide. Yam never performed in public again since then. Instead, she kept her protégée close by for training and proper upbringing to be her successor. Yam valued Loong as someone \"with a good head on shoulders\" and \"worth all resources needed\" to groom as successor to her AAA in Cantonese opera right after observing the 1965 September performances. In addition, Yam called Loong clever, subservient to her and persevering. A successor to", "title": "Yam Kim-fai" } ]
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What is the name of the product, sold in a pink canister similar to a chewing tobacco tin, was advertised with the slogan “it’s six feet of bubble gum for you, not them”?
[ "Bubbletape", "Bubble Tape" ]
[ { "docid": "3167516", "text": "in a small, round, plastic container similar in size to a hockey puck. This contains six feet (1.8 m) of gum wrapped in a spiral. The container functions much like a tape dispenser, although the top half can be removed or broken off. Most flavors are those available from the regular Hubba Bubba chewing gum line: Bubble Tape Bubble Tape is a type of Hubba Bubba bubble gum produced by Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, and introduced in 1988. It experienced its greatest popularity in the early 1990s due to its unique packaging and direct marketing to preteen children (\"it's six", "title": "Bubble Tape" }, { "docid": "3167515", "text": "Bubble Tape Bubble Tape is a type of Hubba Bubba bubble gum produced by Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, and introduced in 1988. It experienced its greatest popularity in the early 1990s due to its unique packaging and direct marketing to preteen children (\"it's six feet of bubble gum - for you, not them\"—\"them\" referring to parents or just adults in general). At the peak of its popularity, over 1 million containers for Bubble Tape were being manufactured a week. Today, it is still a common find in most supermarkets, although advertising campaigns for it have subsided significantly. Bubble Tape comes", "title": "Bubble Tape" } ]
[ { "docid": "1729871", "text": "Bubble gum Bubble gum is a type of chewing gum, designed to be inflated out of the mouth as a bubble. In 1928, Walter Diemer, an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia, was experimenting with new gum recipes. One recipe was found to be less sticky than regular chewing gum, and stretched more easily. This gum became highly successful and was eventually named by the president of Fleer as Dubble Bubble because of its stretchy texture. The original bubble gum was pink in color because that was the dye that Diemer had most on hand at the", "title": "Bubble gum" }, { "docid": "3944430", "text": "Chewing tobacco Chewing tobacco is a type of smokeless tobacco product consumed by placing a portion of the tobacco between the cheek and gum or upper lip teeth and chewing. Unlike dipping tobacco, it is not ground and must be manually crushed with the teeth to release flavour and nicotine. Unwanted juices are then expectorated (spat). Chewing tobacco is typically manufactured as several varieties of product – most often as loose leaf (or scrap), pellets (tobacco \"bites\" or \"bits\"), and \"plug\" (a form of loose leaf tobacco condensed with a binding sweetener). Nearly all modern chewing tobaccos are produced via", "title": "Chewing tobacco" }, { "docid": "7916670", "text": "Philadelphia Gum The Philadelphia Chewing Gum Corporation was a Pennsylvania corporation formed on August 12, 1947, to manufacture candy, chewing gum, and specialty confectionery products. The company was established by Edward P. Fenimore, Sr., a former professor of engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and vice president of Bowman Gum Company. The company built its plant in 1948 in Havertown, Pennsylvania. The initial product was the twist-wrapped \"Swell\" brand pink bubble gum, sold for a penny. The Company then came out with the brown colored \"El Bubble\" candy cigar that sold for a nickel. In 1954 the Magic Color chewing", "title": "Philadelphia Gum" }, { "docid": "3944450", "text": "more common among males (15.0%) than females (2.2%) and among whites (11.9%) than blacks (3.3%) or Hispanics (5.1%). The five states with the highest percentage of high school users were Wyoming (16.2%) North Dakota (15.3%) South Dakota (14.6%) Montana (14.6%) and West Virginia (14.4%). Chewing tobacco Chewing tobacco is a type of smokeless tobacco product consumed by placing a portion of the tobacco between the cheek and gum or upper lip teeth and chewing. Unlike dipping tobacco, it is not ground and must be manually crushed with the teeth to release flavour and nicotine. Unwanted juices are then expectorated (spat).", "title": "Chewing tobacco" }, { "docid": "1729873", "text": "in diameter. Chad Fell holds the record for \"Largest Hands-free Bubblegum Bubble\" at , achieved on 24 April 2004. Bubble gum Bubble gum is a type of chewing gum, designed to be inflated out of the mouth as a bubble. In 1928, Walter Diemer, an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia, was experimenting with new gum recipes. One recipe was found to be less sticky than regular chewing gum, and stretched more easily. This gum became highly successful and was eventually named by the president of Fleer as Dubble Bubble because of its stretchy texture. The original", "title": "Bubble gum" }, { "docid": "9179135", "text": "always applied to gum with some additional function. Medical uses for 'functional chewing gum' include a reported reduction in the duration of post-operative ileus following abdominal and specifically gastrointestinal surgery. Functional chewing gum Functional chewing gum is the name given to types of chewing gum which impart some practical function instead of, or in addition to, the usual enjoyment provided by a traditional chewing gum as a confectionery product. Examples of this include nicotine gum which is used to aid smoking cessation & so-called Think Gum which designers say they believe may enhance mental functioning. It could be argued that", "title": "Functional chewing gum" }, { "docid": "3703477", "text": "began a similar copycat advertising campaign in Ireland stating that its product \"does exactly what it says on the tube\". The phrase is a registered trademark of the Sherwin-Williams Company, the owner of Ronseal, across the European Community for products including paints, varnishes, and wood preservatives (E3085826). In 2007, a song titled \"What It Says on the Tin\" was released by the British singer Katie Melua. Although the song is about relationships, the phrase has a similar meaning. Does exactly what it says on the tin \"It does exactly what it says on the tin\" was originally an advertising slogan", "title": "Does exactly what it says on the tin" }, { "docid": "1989921", "text": "from 0.40 to 0.65. The moisture content of chewing gum ranges from three to six percent. In fact, chewing gum retains its quality for so long that, in most countries, it is not required by law to be labeled with an expiration date. If chewing gum remains in a stable environment, over time the gum may become brittle or lose some of its flavor, but it will never be unsafe to eat. If chewing gum is exposed to moisture, over time water migration may occur, making the gum soggy. In lollipops with a gum center, water migration can lead to", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1729872", "text": "time. In modern chewing gum, if natural rubber such as chicle is used, it must pass several purity and cleanliness tests. However, most modern types of chewing gum use synthetic gum based materials. These materials allow for longer lasting flavor, a better texture, and a reduction in tackiness. In taste tests, children tend to prefer strawberry and blue raspberry flavors, rejecting more complex flavors as they say these make them want to swallow the gum rather than continue chewing. In 1996, Susan Montgomery Williams of Fresno, California set the Guinness World Record for largest bubblegum bubble ever blown, which was", "title": "Bubble gum" }, { "docid": "9179134", "text": "Functional chewing gum Functional chewing gum is the name given to types of chewing gum which impart some practical function instead of, or in addition to, the usual enjoyment provided by a traditional chewing gum as a confectionery product. Examples of this include nicotine gum which is used to aid smoking cessation & so-called Think Gum which designers say they believe may enhance mental functioning. It could be argued that most gum (at least the mint varieties) provides some function in that they can improve bad breath, but such an effect is so widespread that the term 'functional' is almost", "title": "Functional chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989950", "text": "Valley, in Leicester to make plastic objects. Known objects made are collection containers for more chewing gum, shoe soles, rubber boots, and plastic cups. Her company advertises itself as the \"first company in the world to recycle and process chewing gum into a range of new compounds that can be used in the rubber and plastics industry\". The company is called Gum-tec, and the collection containers are dubbed \"gumdrops\". Advertised products on the website are pencils, coffee mugs, guitar picks, a \"bicycle spoke\", rulers, sports cones, frisbees, boomerangs, door stops, \"meal mates\", lunch-boxes, and combs. Chewing gum Chewing gum is", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989926", "text": "When the force of the air being blown into the bubble exceeds the force that the polymers can withstand, the polymers overextend and the bubble pops. Due to the elastic attributes of chewing gum, the deflated bubble recoils and the wad of gum is ready to continue being chewed. Gum bases with higher molecular weights are typically used in gums intended to meet bubble-forming expectations. Higher molecular weight gum bases include longer polymers that are able to stretch further, and thus are able to form larger bubbles that retain their shape for a longer time. Flavor delivery is extended throughout", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "9179750", "text": "Chewing gum industry Two multi-national companies, Wrigley and Cadbury, together account for some 60% market share of the worldwide chewing gum market. The global market shares for the top five chewing gum companies are estimated to be: The remaining 17% of the global market is provided by an estimated 200 to 250 smaller gum companies, some of which are listed below. The worldwide chewing gum industry in 2012 is estimated to be worth $26 billion in sales, and has grown by more than 14% in the last three years. Chewing gum accounts for 85% of global sales, and bubble gum", "title": "Chewing gum industry" }, { "docid": "1989922", "text": "the end of the product’s shelf life, causing the exterior hard candy shell to soften and the interior gum center to harden. The physical and chemical properties of chewing gum impact all aspects of this product, from manufacturing to sensory perception during mastication. The polymers that make up the main component of chewing gum base are hydrophobic. This property is essential because it allows for retention of physical properties throughout the mastication process. Because the polymers of gum repel water, the water-based saliva system in a consumer’s mouth will dissolve the sugars and flavorings in chewing gum, but not the", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989911", "text": "have chewed gum-like substances made from plants, grasses, and resins. Although chewing gum can be traced back to civilizations around the world, the modernization and commercialization of this product mainly took place in the United States. The American Indians chewed resin made from the sap of spruce trees. The New England settlers picked up this practice, and in 1848, John B. Curtis developed and sold the first commercial chewing gum called The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum. In this way, the industrializing West, having forgotten about tree gums, rediscovered chewing gum through the First Americans. Around 1850 a gum", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989920", "text": "almost always coated. Packaging of pellet gums can vary from boxes to bottles to blister packs. The coating of pellet gum allows for the opportunity for multiple flavor sensations, since coating is done in a layering process and different flavor attributes can be added to various layers. Cube or chunk gums, which are typically intended for bubble blowing, are called cut and wrap gums as they are typically severed from continuous strands of extruded gum and packaged directly. Chewing gum is rather shelf stable because of its non-reactive nature and low moisture content. The water activity of chewing gum ranges", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "5463075", "text": "Dubble Bubble Dubble Bubble is a brand of pink-colored bubblegum invented by Walter Diemer, an accountant at Philadelphia-based Fleer Chewing Gum Company in 1928. One of Diemer’s hobbies was concocting recipes for chewing gum based on the original Fleer ingredients. Though founder Frank Fleer had come up with his own bubble gum recipe in 1906, it was shelved due to its being too sticky and breaking apart too easily. It would be another 20 years until Diemer would use the original idea as inspiration for his invention. Fleer Chewing Gum Company, in Philadelphia, had been searching for years to produce", "title": "Dubble Bubble" }, { "docid": "2789790", "text": "Bazooka (chewing gum) Bazooka is a brand of bubble gum introduced in 1947. Bazooka bubble gum was first marketed shortly after World War II in the U.S. by the Topps Company of Brooklyn, New York. The gum was packaged in a red, white, and blue color scheme. Beginning in 1953, Topps changed the packaging to include small comic strips with the gum, featuring the character \"Bazooka Joe\". There are over 1,535 different \"Bazooka Joe\" comic-strip wrappers to collect. Also on the comic strip is an offer for a premium and a fortune. Older Bazooka comic strips were larger in size", "title": "Bazooka (chewing gum)" }, { "docid": "2789794", "text": "gum that disappeared in the 1990s due to the actions of the original Trickster and Prank. Bazooka (chewing gum) Bazooka is a brand of bubble gum introduced in 1947. Bazooka bubble gum was first marketed shortly after World War II in the U.S. by the Topps Company of Brooklyn, New York. The gum was packaged in a red, white, and blue color scheme. Beginning in 1953, Topps changed the packaging to include small comic strips with the gum, featuring the character \"Bazooka Joe\". There are over 1,535 different \"Bazooka Joe\" comic-strip wrappers to collect. Also on the comic strip is", "title": "Bazooka (chewing gum)" }, { "docid": "5463077", "text": "The only food coloring available at the factory was pink, so Diemer had no choice but to use it, and the color would go on to become the standard for gum for the world over. Using a salt water taffy wrapping machine, Diemer decided to individually wrap 100 pieces and brought the stock to a local candy store. The gum was priced at one penny apiece and sold out in one day. Before long, the Fleer Chewing Gum Company began making bubble gum using Diemer’s recipe, and the gum was marketed as “Dubble Bubble” gum. Diemer’s bubble gum was the", "title": "Dubble Bubble" }, { "docid": "9632677", "text": "Toy (chewing gum) Toy was a much liked chewing gum sold in Sweden. Toy was created in 1930 by Marabou. In the 1960s and 1970s the chewing gum was an enormously popular in both Sweden and Norway and 600 - 700 tonnes of chewing gum were sold every year. Production was later taken over by Malaco who moved the manufacturing to Denmark. During the 1990s a few hundred tons of chewing gum per year was made, but in 1998 the production was discontinued due to increased competition, mainly from sugar free chewing gums. The launch of sugar free Toy failed.", "title": "Toy (chewing gum)" }, { "docid": "3703475", "text": "Does exactly what it says on the tin \"It does exactly what it says on the tin\" was originally an advertising slogan in the United Kingdom, which then became a common idiomatic phrase. It colloquially means that the name of something is an accurate description of its qualities. It is akin to the previously existing phrases \"by name and by nature\" and \"it lives up to its name\". It originated in a series of television advertisements by the woodstain and wood-dye manufacturer Ronseal, initiated in 1994 and still being broadcast . The slogan was created by Liz Whiston and Dave", "title": "Does exactly what it says on the tin" }, { "docid": "9632678", "text": "For the 70th anniversary in 2004 a special edition batch of 700 000 packs were sold for a short period of time. Years later, it became regularly available again. Toy was sold in Sweden with the famous catchphrase \"Ta't lugnt, ta en Toy\" (=\"Take it easy, have a Toy\"). Another slogan used was \"Frisk i mun med Toy\" (=\"Fresh mouth with Toy\"). Alice Babs starred in several advertising films with Toy singing: \"\"Jag känns väl igen från kartongen/och kanske även på sången\"\" (=\"I may be recognized from the pack / and maybe also for my singing\"). Toy (chewing gum) Toy", "title": "Toy (chewing gum)" }, { "docid": "1989935", "text": "found that its incorporation into a sugar-free gum increases the remineralization / protection of eroded enamel surface significantly. Gum chewing is regarded as a helpful way to cure halitosis (bad breath). Chewing gum not only helps to add freshness to breath but can aid in removing food particles and bacteria associated with bad breath from teeth. It does this by stimulating saliva, which essentially washes out the mouth. Chewing sugar-free gum for 20 minutes after a meal helps prevent tooth decay, according to the American Dental Association, because the act of chewing the sugar-free gum produces saliva to wash away", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989919", "text": "to packaging. Chewing gum can come in a variety of formats ranging from 1.4 to 6.9 grams per piece, and products can be differentiated by the consumers’ intent to form bubbles or the sugar/sugarless dichotomy. Chewing gum typically comes in three formats: tablets, coated pellets, and sticks/ slabs. Bubble gum typically come in three formats as well: tablets, hollow balls, and cubes or chunks. Stick, slab, and tab gums typically come in packs of about five to 17 sticks or more, and their medium size allows for softer texture. Pellet gums, or \"dragée\" gums, are pillow shaped pieces that are", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989948", "text": "modern cities, free of gum. Various teams of researchers have developed gum that is less adhesive and degrades within days or weeks. One example, Rev7 Gum, was briefly for sale from 2010 to 2012. Many schools do not allow chewing gum because students often dispose of it inappropriately (leaving it under desks and chairs, behind vending machines, etc.). The chewing may also pose a distraction to class, and the gum might carry diseases or bacteria from other students. The Singapore government outlawed chewing gum in 1992 citing the danger of discarded gum being wedged in the sliding doors of underground", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989949", "text": "trains and general cleanliness. However, in 2004 the government allowed sugarless gum to be sold in pharmacies if a doctor or dentist prescribed it due to the Singapore–United States Free Trade Agreement. In 2018, the BBC published a news article on British designer Anna Bullus, who created a method of collecting and recycling chewing gum into plastic, noting that litter from chewing gum is the second most common form of litter, second only to cigarette litter. She uses a Worcester recycling plant to make old chewing gum into plastic. She then uses that plastic at a plastic moulding specialist, Amber", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "5065605", "text": "Chewing gum ban in Singapore The Singapore chewing gum ban has been in place since 1992. Since 2004, an exception has existed for therapeutic, dental, or nicotine chewing gum, which can be bought from a doctor or registered pharmacist. It is currently not illegal to chew gum in Singapore, merely to import it and sell it, apart from the aforementioned exceptions. Tourists visiting Singapore are allowed to bring in up to two packs of chewing gum per person. In his memoirs, Lee Kuan Yew said that in 1983, when he was Prime Minister of Singapore, a proposal for the ban", "title": "Chewing gum ban in Singapore" }, { "docid": "1989912", "text": "made from paraffin wax, which is a petroleum product, was developed and soon exceeded the spruce gum in popularity. To sweeten these early gums, the chewer would often make use of a plate of powdered sugar, which they would repeatedly dip the gum into to maintain sweetness. William Semple filed an early patent on chewing gum, patent number 98,304, on December 28, 1869. The first flavored chewing gum was created in the 1860s by John Colgan, a Louisville, Kentucky pharmacist. Colgan mixed with powdered sugar the aromatic flavoring tolu, a powder obtained from an extract of the balsam tree (\"Myroxylon\"),", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "5577052", "text": "variants deliver a mild electric shock, or set off a cap. After a person touches the chewing gum bug, he also may report a \"tingly feeling\" similar to pins and needles. Chewing gum bug A chewing gum bug is a practical joke gag used to play tricks on people, usually adults. The appearance is of a 5-pack of chewing gum, with one stick of gum remaining. The trick works when the prankster tricks the victim into pulling out the last stick of gum. A small rubber bug, (folded back to fit in the pack), springs out and smacks the victim", "title": "Chewing gum bug" }, { "docid": "1989915", "text": "who were supplied chewing gum as a ration and traded it with locals. Synthetic gums were first introduced to the U.S. after chicle no longer satisfied the needs of making good chewing gum. By the 1960s, US manufacturers had switched to butadiene-based synthetic rubber, as it was cheaper to manufacture. Gum base composition is considered proprietary information known by select individuals within each gum-manufacturing company. Information about the other components of chewing gum are more accessible to the public and they are listed in Table 2. Table 2: Common Ingredients in the Formulation of Modern Chewing Gum Gum base is", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "5577051", "text": "Chewing gum bug A chewing gum bug is a practical joke gag used to play tricks on people, usually adults. The appearance is of a 5-pack of chewing gum, with one stick of gum remaining. The trick works when the prankster tricks the victim into pulling out the last stick of gum. A small rubber bug, (folded back to fit in the pack), springs out and smacks the victim on the finger he or she used to hold the fake stick of chewing gum. It does not hurt or injure the victim, though it can potentially annoy the victim. Some", "title": "Chewing gum bug" }, { "docid": "5065613", "text": "or long-term sense,\" said Christopher Perille, Wrigley's senior director of corporate communications. Chewing gum ban in Singapore The Singapore chewing gum ban has been in place since 1992. Since 2004, an exception has existed for therapeutic, dental, or nicotine chewing gum, which can be bought from a doctor or registered pharmacist. It is currently not illegal to chew gum in Singapore, merely to import it and sell it, apart from the aforementioned exceptions. Tourists visiting Singapore are allowed to bring in up to two packs of chewing gum per person. In his memoirs, Lee Kuan Yew said that in 1983,", "title": "Chewing gum ban in Singapore" }, { "docid": "3944436", "text": "type of chewing tobacco. It consists of shredded tobacco leaf, usually sweetened and sometimes flavored, and often sold in a sealed pouch weighing on average 3oz. Loose leaf chewing tobacco has a sticky texture due to the sweeteners added. Common loose leaf chewing tobaccos include Red Man, Levi Garrett, Beechnut, and Stoker's. Plug chewing tobacco is pressed tobacco leaves into a square, brick-like mass of tobacco. From this, bites are taken from the plug, or can also be cut off and then chewed. Plug tobacco is declining in popularity, and thus is less readily available than loose leaf chewing tobacco.", "title": "Chewing tobacco" }, { "docid": "1989909", "text": "derived from natural growths local to the region and were chewed purely out the instinctual desire to masticate. Early chewers did not necessarily desire to derive nutritional benefits from their chewable substances, but at times sought taste stimuli and teeth cleaning or breath-freshening capabilities. Chewing gum in many forms has existed since the Neolithic period. 6,000-year-old chewing gum made from birch bark tar, with tooth imprints, has been found in Kierikki in Finland. The tar from which the gums were made is believed to have antiseptic properties and other medicinal benefits. It is chemically similar to petroleum tar and is", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989945", "text": "and build up, causing intestinal blockage. As long as the mass of gum is small enough to pass out of the stomach, it will likely pass out of the body easily, but it is recommended that gum not be swallowed or given to young children who do not understand not to swallow it. Adults have choked to death on chewing gum in rare cases. A 2012 report describes a 42-year-old woman who fell on the stairs while chewing gum. Due to the impact, the gum fell into the pharynx and was inhaled into the larynx, causing complete blockage and resulting", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989936", "text": "bacteria, which protects teeth. Chewing gum after a meal replaces brushing and flossing, if that's not possible, to prevent tooth decay and increase saliva production. Chewing gum can also help with the lack of saliva or xerostomia since it naturally stimulates saliva production. Saliva is made of chemicals, such as organic molecules, inorganic ions and macromolecules. 0.5% of saliva deals with dental health, since tooth enamel is made of calcium phosphate, those inorganic ions in saliva help repair the teeth and keep them in good condition. The pH of saliva is neutral, which having a pH of 7 allows it", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989923", "text": "gum base itself. This allows for gum to be chewed for a long period of time without breaking down in the mouth like conventional foods. Chewing gum can be classified as a product containing a liquid phase and a crystalline phase, providing gum with its characteristic balance of plastic and elastic properties. While hydrophobic polymers beneficially repel water and contribute to chewiness, they also detrimentally attract oil. The stickiness of gum results from this hydrophobic nature, as gum can form bonds and stick when it makes contact with oily surfaces such as sidewalks, skin, hair, or the sole of one’s", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989914", "text": "1860s when chicle was brought from Mexico by the former President, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, to New York, where he gave it to Thomas Adams for use as a rubber substitute. Chicle did not succeed as a replacement for rubber, but as a gum, which was cut into strips and marketed as Adams New York Chewing Gum in 1871. Black Jack (1884), which is flavored with licorice, Chiclets (1899), and Wrigley's Spearmint Gum were early popular gums that quickly dominated the market and are all still around today. Chewing gum gained worldwide popularity through American GIs in WWII,", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "17733805", "text": "kabbadi. Vedant becomes angry and tries to hit them. Disgruntled with their treatment, they complain their father. His father goes downstairs an \"Bubble Gum\" achieved critical acclaim among the Indian critics. Mayank Shekhar of Hindustan Times awarded the film 3 out of 5 stars, saying that \"the pic is a sweet, rare, candid personal piece\". Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama states that \"\"Bubble Gum\" has its heart in the right place. A film that arrives with zilch expectations, but succeeds in taking you back in time when life was simpler and sweet. Recommended!\". Bubble Gum (film) Bubble Gum is a", "title": "Bubble Gum (film)" }, { "docid": "5065607", "text": "project ever implemented in Singapore. It was reported that vandals had begun sticking chewing gum on the door sensors of MRT trains, preventing doors from functioning properly and causing disruption to train services. Such incidents were rare but costly and culprits were difficult to apprehend. In January 1992, Goh Chok Tong, who had just taken over as Prime Minister, decided on a ban. The restriction on the distribution of chewing gum was enacted in Singapore Statute Chapter 57, the \"Control of Manufacture Act\", which also governs the restriction of certain alcohol and tobacco products. After the ban was announced, the", "title": "Chewing gum ban in Singapore" }, { "docid": "16893446", "text": "The Girl Chewing Gum The Girl Chewing Gum is a 1976 British short film directed by John Smith. The film is widely acknowledged as one of the most important avant-garde films of the 20th century. The film was inspired by a scene in François Truffaut's 1973 film \"Day for Night\" in which the director gives instructions to the actors, and even tells a dog to urinate on a lamppost. At Stamford Road in Dalston Junction of east London, the camera follows pedestrians, cars and birds while a narrator, who appears to be the director behind the camera, seems to direct", "title": "The Girl Chewing Gum" }, { "docid": "16893447", "text": "their actions. The Girl Chewing Gum The Girl Chewing Gum is a 1976 British short film directed by John Smith. The film is widely acknowledged as one of the most important avant-garde films of the 20th century. The film was inspired by a scene in François Truffaut's 1973 film \"Day for Night\" in which the director gives instructions to the actors, and even tells a dog to urinate on a lamppost. At Stamford Road in Dalston Junction of east London, the camera follows pedestrians, cars and birds while a narrator, who appears to be the director behind the camera, seems", "title": "The Girl Chewing Gum" }, { "docid": "1989913", "text": "creating small sticks of flavored chewing gum he named \"Taffy Tolu\". Colgan also lead the way in the manufacturing and packaging of chicle-based chewing gum, derived from \"Manilkara chicle\", a tropical evergreen tree. He licensed a patent for automatically cutting chips of chewing gum from larger sticks: US 966,160 \"Chewing Gum Chip Forming Machine\" August 2, 1910 and a patent for automatically cutting wrappers for sticks of chewing gum: US 913,352 \"Web-cutting attachment for wrapping-machines\" February 23, 1909 from Louisville, Kentucky inventor James Henry Brady, an employee of the Colgan Gum Company. Modern chewing gum was first developed in the", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "5463076", "text": "a formula that allowed bubbles to be blown that did not stick. In 1928, while Walter Diemer was testing new gum recipes, he noticed that his product was less sticky than regular chewing gum, and after testing it he found that he could create bubbles easily. After a year of attempts, he made the first successful batch of bubble gum. But the next morning when trying to recreate his successful concoction, he failed to reproduce the same results. After four months of trying to mimic his first success, he finally made a 300-pound batch of what would become Dubble Bubble.", "title": "Dubble Bubble" }, { "docid": "1989939", "text": "1.10 fewer days to have a bowel movement. Saliva flow and production is stimulated when gum is chewed. Gum also gets digestive juices flowing and is considered \"sham feeding\". Sham feeding is the role of the central nervous system in the regulation of gastric secretion. Chewing gum is used as a novel approach for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). One hypothesis is that chewing gum stimulates the production of more bicarbonate-containing saliva and increases the rate of swallowing. After the saliva is swallowed, it neutralizes acid in the esophagus. In effect, chewing gum exaggerates one of the normal", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989908", "text": "Chewing gum Chewing gum is a soft, cohesive substance designed to be chewed without being swallowed. Modern chewing gum is composed of gum base, sweeteners, softeners/plasticizers, flavors, colors, and, typically, a hard or powdered polyol coating. Its texture is reminiscent of rubber because of the physical-chemical properties of its polymer, plasticizer, and resin components, which contribute to its elastic-plastic, sticky, chewy characteristics. The cultural tradition of chewing gum seems to have developed through a convergent evolution process, as traces of this habit have arisen separately in many of the early civilizations. Each of the early precursors to chewing gum were", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "5895092", "text": "Chew from Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 2010 and is to begin production of the product in November of that year. Ford Gum Ford Gum is a brand of bubble gum and chewing gum often found in gum machines. It is produced by Ford Gum & Machine Co. The history of the company goes back to 1913, when Ford Mason leased 102 machines and placed them in stores and shops in New York City. The gumballs, while they are covered with different flavors, all have the same flavor under the surface. Ford Gum is also available in a square \"chiclet\"", "title": "Ford Gum" }, { "docid": "11844537", "text": "music critics conducted by Robert Christgau. The music video for \"Chewing Gum\" was directed by Barnaby Roper. In it, two versions of Annie sing the lyrics to each other as part of a dialogue. The video includes sequences of Annie and body doubles of her dancing in a sound stage. The video was filmed in less than a day. Chewing Gum (song) \"Chewing Gum\" is a song by Norwegian singer Annie from her debut studio album, \"Anniemal\" (2004). Written by Richard X and Hannah Robinson, the song is based on metaphor which likens men to chewing gum. The song was", "title": "Chewing Gum (song)" }, { "docid": "1989932", "text": "researchers noted that no improvement could be found for verbal fluency, which is in accordance with previous studies. This finding suggests that the effect of chewing gum is domain specific. The cognitive improvements after a period of chewing gum have been demonstrated to last for 15–20 minutes and decline afterwards. Sugar-free gum sweetened with xylitol has been shown to reduce cavities and plaque. The sweetener sorbitol has the same benefit, but is only about one-third as effective as xylitol. Other sugar substitutes, such as maltitol, aspartame and acesulfame K, have also been found to not cause tooth decay. Xylitol is", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989931", "text": "took place prior to cognitive testing. The precise mechanism by which gum chewing improves cognitive functioning is however not well understood. The researchers did also note that chewing-induced arousal could be masked by the distracting nature of chewing itself, which they named \"dual-process theory\", which in turn could explain some of the contradictory findings by previous studies. They also noticed the similarity between mild physical exercise such as pedaling a stationary bike and chewing gum. It has been demonstrated that mild physical exercise leads to little cognitive impairment during the physical task accompanied by enhanced cognitive functioning afterwards. Furthermore, the", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "9179579", "text": "Gum base Gum base is the non-nutritive, non-digestible, water-insoluble masticatory delivery system used to carry sweeteners, flavors, and any other substances in chewing gum and bubble gum. It provides all the basic textural and masticatory properties of gum. The actual composition of gum base is usually a trade secret. The FDA allows 46 different chemicals under the umbrella of \"gum base.\" The chemicals are posted on their website. These chemicals are grouped into the following categories. Gum bases for chewing gum are different from those for bubble gum. A bubble gum base is formulated with the ability to blow bubbles;", "title": "Gum base" }, { "docid": "9179576", "text": "Gum base Gum base is the non-nutritive, non-digestible, water-insoluble masticatory delivery system used to carry sweeteners, flavors, and any other substances in chewing gum and bubble gum. It provides all the basic textural and masticatory properties of gum. The actual composition of gum base is usually a trade secret. The FDA allows 46 different chemicals under the umbrella of \"gum base.\" The chemicals are posted on their website. These chemicals are grouped into the following categories. Gum bases for chewing gum are different from those for bubble gum. A bubble gum base is formulated with the ability to blow bubbles;", "title": "Gum base" }, { "docid": "5065608", "text": "import of chewing gum was immediately halted. After a transition period allowing shops to clear existing stock, the sale of chewing gum was completely banned. When first introduced, the ban caused much controversy and some open defiance. Some people took the trouble of travelling to neighbouring Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to purchase chewing gum. Offenders were publicly \"named and shamed\" by the government, to serve as a deterrent to other would-be smugglers. No black market for chewing gum in Singapore ever emerged, though some Singaporeans occasionally still manage to smuggle some chewing gum from Johor Bahru for their own consumption. The", "title": "Chewing gum ban in Singapore" }, { "docid": "18398568", "text": "Chewing Gum (novel) Chewing Gum is the debut novel of Libyan writer Mansour Bushnaf, first published in Arabic 2008 in Cairo. It was banned by the Gaddafi regime in Libya. It was first published in English in 2014 by DARF Publishers with a translation by Mona Zaki. The novel centres around Mukhtar, a young Libyan man who stands frozen for ten years like a statue in the middle of public park in Libyan capital Tripoli after he was abandoned by his lover, the young and promiscuous Fatma. While the country is gripped with a chewing gum craze, different Libyan professors", "title": "Chewing Gum (novel)" }, { "docid": "14910963", "text": "brightest of the nu-eyed-soul set\". What Did You Think Was Going to Happen? What Did You Think Was Going to Happen? is the debut studio album from Los Angeles band 2AM Club. It was released September 14, 2010 by RCA Records. On May 31, the band released a song named \"Baseline\" that was a bonus track on \"What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?\" (sold on iTunes). It was advertised by them via Twitter, and was available for free download through a file sharing website, Hulk Share. Matt Collar of Allmusic stated that with this album \"2AM Club reveal", "title": "What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?" }, { "docid": "18398569", "text": "that just came from their studies abroad try to rediscover the country and suggest different theories to explain a society gripped with chewing gum and consumerism. Chewing Gum (novel) Chewing Gum is the debut novel of Libyan writer Mansour Bushnaf, first published in Arabic 2008 in Cairo. It was banned by the Gaddafi regime in Libya. It was first published in English in 2014 by DARF Publishers with a translation by Mona Zaki. The novel centres around Mukhtar, a young Libyan man who stands frozen for ten years like a statue in the middle of public park in Libyan capital", "title": "Chewing Gum (novel)" }, { "docid": "14910962", "text": "What Did You Think Was Going to Happen? What Did You Think Was Going to Happen? is the debut studio album from Los Angeles band 2AM Club. It was released September 14, 2010 by RCA Records. On May 31, the band released a song named \"Baseline\" that was a bonus track on \"What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?\" (sold on iTunes). It was advertised by them via Twitter, and was available for free download through a file sharing website, Hulk Share. Matt Collar of Allmusic stated that with this album \"2AM Club reveal themselves as the best and", "title": "What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?" }, { "docid": "12331965", "text": "in particular a popular type because it keeps loose tobacco from becoming stuck between the user's teeth; they also produce less spittle when in contact with mucous membranes inside the mouth which extends the usage time of the tobacco product. However, loose form snus tends to deliver more nicotine than portioned form. Tobacco gum, like dissolvable tobacco, is a recent introduction - a type of chewing gum which, like nicotine gum provides nicotine through oral absorption. However, the difference between nicotine gum and tobacco gum is that tobacco gum is made from finely powdered tobacco mixed with a gum base,", "title": "Tobacco products" }, { "docid": "11844534", "text": "Chewing Gum (song) \"Chewing Gum\" is a song by Norwegian singer Annie from her debut studio album, \"Anniemal\" (2004). Written by Richard X and Hannah Robinson, the song is based on metaphor which likens men to chewing gum. The song was released as the album's lead single on 30 August 2004. It received positive reviews from music critics. \"Chewing Gum\" was the album's most commercially successful single, reaching number eight on the Norwegian Singles Chart and number 25 on the UK Singles Chart. The song has been featured on the online game \"Audition Online\" and an update trailer for the", "title": "Chewing Gum (song)" }, { "docid": "9179751", "text": "the other 15%. Chewing gum industry Two multi-national companies, Wrigley and Cadbury, together account for some 60% market share of the worldwide chewing gum market. The global market shares for the top five chewing gum companies are estimated to be: The remaining 17% of the global market is provided by an estimated 200 to 250 smaller gum companies, some of which are listed below. The worldwide chewing gum industry in 2012 is estimated to be worth $26 billion in sales, and has grown by more than 14% in the last three years. Chewing gum accounts for 85% of global sales,", "title": "Chewing gum industry" }, { "docid": "17733802", "text": "Bubble Gum (film) Bubble Gum is a 2011 Hindi film directed by Sanjivan Lal. The film was released on 29 July 2011 and upon release it got critical appreciation. The film was among the 5 films you should've watched in 2011 by Rajeev Masand. The film was also listed among the best films of 2011 by Hindustan Times. Set in 1980 Jamshedpur, Vedant is a simple boy studying at Loyola School Jamshedpur in 10th Std, who is in love with a police officer's daughter whose name is Jenny. Although, he is irritated by his rival named Ratan. He always comes", "title": "Bubble Gum (film)" }, { "docid": "1989940", "text": "processes that neutralize acid in the esophagus. However, chewing gum is sometimes considered to contribute to the development of stomach ulcers. It stimulates the stomach to secrete acid and the pancreas to produce digestive enzymes that aren't required. In some cases, when consuming large quantities of gum containing sorbitol, gas and/or diarrhea may occur. Controversy arises as to health concerns surrounding the questionable classification of gum as food, particularly in regard to some alternative uses for gum base ingredients. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), chewing gum is considered a food, as the term “food” means “a", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "3944440", "text": "who quit, warns about chewing tobacco: Bill Tuttle was a Major League player who made a big name for himself both through baseball and his anti-chewing-tobacco efforts. Tuttle was an outfielder for the Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics, and the Minnesota Twins. He was an avid tobacco chewer; even his baseball cards pictured him with a bulge in his cheek from the tobacco. Nearly forty years after he began using smokeless tobacco, Tuttle developed a tumor in his mouth so severe it protruded through his skin. A few years before he died, Tuttle had many of his teeth, his jawbone,", "title": "Chewing tobacco" }, { "docid": "1989938", "text": "gum in reducing the duration of post-operative ileus following abdominal and specifically gastrointestinal surgery. A systematic review of these suggests gum chewing, as a form of \"sham feeding\", is a useful treatment therapy in open abdominal or pelvic surgery, although the benefit is less clear when laparoscopic surgical techniques are used. Chewing gum after a colon surgery helps the patient recover sooner. If the patient chews gum for fifteen minutes for at least four times per day, it will reduce their recovery time by a day and a half. The average patient took 0.66 fewer days to pass gas and", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "5463082", "text": "Ball Gum is available in 5 g servings containing 20 calories, 5 mg of sodium, 5 g of carbs and 4 g of sugars. Dubble Bubble specialty bubble-gum cigars come in 20 g servings and contain 70 calories, 18 g of carbs and 15 g of sugar. Dubble Bubble Office Pleasures bite-size gum pieces come in 3.5 g servings containing 15 calories, 3 g of carbs and 3 g of sugar. Dubble Bubble Dubble Bubble is a brand of pink-colored bubblegum invented by Walter Diemer, an accountant at Philadelphia-based Fleer Chewing Gum Company in 1928. One of Diemer’s hobbies was", "title": "Dubble Bubble" }, { "docid": "1989933", "text": "specific in its inhibition of \"Streptococcus mutans\", bacteria that are significant contributors to tooth decay. Xylitol inhibits \"Streptococcus mutans\" in the presence of other sugars, with the exception of fructose. Xylitol is a safe sweetener that benefits teeth and saliva production because, unlike most sugars, it is not fermented to acid. Daily doses of xylitol below 3.44 grams are ineffective and doses above 10.32 grams show no additional benefit. Other active ingredients in chewing gum include fluoride, which strengthens tooth enamel, and p-chlorbenzyl-4-methylbenzylpiperazine, which prevents travel sickness. Chewing gum also increases saliva production. Food and sucrose have a demineralizing effect", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "3944448", "text": "Minor League players do not support allowing the use of chewing tobacco during games, and one third of Major League players support abolishing it. Due to health concerns, the MLB was asked to ban the use of chewing tobacco during the 2011 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers. Many believe that the widespread use of chewing tobacco by baseball players has led to a rampant increase in youth, and particularly teen, use. Additionally, teen use of smokeless tobacco has increased, while use of all tobacco products by teens has decreased. This is true especially among white", "title": "Chewing tobacco" }, { "docid": "5065606", "text": "was brought to him by the then Minister for National Development. Chewing gum was causing maintenance problems in high-rise public-housing apartments, with vandals disposing of spent gum in mailboxes, inside keyholes, and on lift buttons. Chewing gum left on the ground, stairways, and pavements in public areas increased the cost of cleaning and damaged cleaning equipment. Gum stuck on the seats of public buses was also considered a problem. However, Lee thought that a ban would be \"too drastic\". In 1987, the $5 billion local railway system, the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), started running. It was then the largest public", "title": "Chewing gum ban in Singapore" }, { "docid": "3944443", "text": "cancer on June 16, 2014. He claimed the cancer was linked to his lifetime use of chewing and dipping tobacco. 1845: Baseball rules written, chewing tobacco use among players already rampant. 1890: Dr. Robert Koch shows that the spitting of chewing tobacco was leading to a spread of tuberculosis. This leads to a downturn in use of chewing tobacco among the general population, but baseball players continue use. 1909: Honus Wagner, a well-known American baseball player, tells American Tobacco Company to take his picture off of their cartons. He does not want to be responsible for influencing children to smoke.", "title": "Chewing tobacco" }, { "docid": "3944439", "text": "was unknown. At that time, it was commonly used by players and coaches alike. Smokeless tobacco use became rampant by players by the early 1900s. They liked chewing tobacco because it kept their mouths (and their mitts) moist on the dusty infield. The use of chewing tobacco in baseball steadily increased until the mid-20th century, when cigarettes became popular and took the place of some players' smokeless tobacco habit. Today, however, more baseball players are actually using dipping tobacco, not chewing tobacco. As shown below, a number of notable players have died of oral cancer as a result. Joe Garagiola,", "title": "Chewing tobacco" }, { "docid": "1989941", "text": "raw, cooked, or processed edible substance, ice, beverage, or ingredient used or intended for use or for sale in whole or in part for human consumption, or chewing gum”. Chewing gum is defined as a food of minimal nutritional value. However, many of the ingredients in gum base have uses in inedible products, which raises concern in some consumers. Polyethylene, one of the most popular components of gum base, belongs to a common group of plastics and is used in products from plastic bags to hula hoops. Polyvinyl acetate is a sticky polymer found in white glue. Butyl rubber is", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989937", "text": "to remineralize tooth enamel. Falling below a pH of 5.5 (which is acidic) causes the saliva to demineralize the teeth. Masumoto et al. looked at the effects of chewing gum after meals following an orthodontic procedure, to see if chewing exercises caused subjects pain or discomfort, or helped maintain a large occlusal contact area. 35 adult volunteers chewed gum for 10 to 15 minutes before or after three meals each day for 4 weeks. 90% of those questioned said that the gum felt \"quite hard\", and half reported no discomfort. Several randomized controlled studies have investigated the use of chewing", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "15567594", "text": "picture book featuring the factory was published by Korea Pictorial in 2010. Among their products is Unbangul Chewing Gum (은방울 껌). The KCNA reports that it strengthens gums and teeth, prevents dental caries, counteracts tartar and halitosis, and promotes digestion and cerebration. Available flavours include grape, mint, and strawberry, in flat, round, and square shapes. The main ingredients of the gum are edible rubber, sugar, glycerine, flavouring, and natural food colouring. Pyongyang Chewing Gum Factory The Pyongyang Chewing Gum Factory is a factory that manufactures chewing gum in Pyongyang, North Korea. The plant is run by Korea Ponghwa General. According", "title": "Pyongyang Chewing Gum Factory" }, { "docid": "1989934", "text": "upon enamel that has been reduced by adding calcium lactate to food. Calcium lactate added to toothpaste has reduced calculus formation. One study has shown that calcium lactate enhances enamel remineralization when added to xylitol-containing gum, but another study showed no additional remineralization benefit from calcium lactate or other calcium compounds in chewing-gum. Other studies indicated that the caries preventive effect of chewing sugar-free gum is related to the chewing process itself rather than being an effect of gum sweeteners or additives, such as polyols and carbamide. A study investigated the in situ effect of casein phosphopeptide–amorphous calcium phosphate (CPP–ACP)", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989944", "text": "in young children requiring medical attention. A 1998 paper describes a four-year-old boy being referred with a two-year history of constipation. The boy was found to have \"always swallowed his gum after chewing five to seven pieces each day\", being given the gum as a reward for good behavior, and the build-up resulted in a solid mass which could not leave the body. A 1½-year-old girl required medical attention when she swallowed her gum and four coins, which got stuck together in her esophagus. A bezoar is formed in the stomach when food or other foreign objects stick to gum", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989925", "text": "the added substance instead of various surfaces with which it may come in contact. Bubblegum bubbles are formed when the tension and elasticity of gum polymers acts against the constant and equally dispersed pressure of air being directed into the gum bolus. Bubble gum bubbles are circular because pressure from the focused air being directed into the bolus acts equally on all of the interior surfaces of the gum cud, uniformly pushing outward on all surfaces as the polymers extend. As the bubble expands, the polymers of the gum base stretch and the surface of the bubble begins to thin.", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "7300027", "text": "contain toxicants, and use of smokeless tobacco poses its own significant health risks. Smokeless tobacco Smokeless tobacco is a tobacco product that is used by means other than smoking. Their use involves chewing, sniffing, or placing the product between gum and the cheek or lip. Smokeless tobacco products are produced in various forms, such as chewing tobacco, snuff, snus, and dissolvable tobacco products. Smokeless tobacco products typically contain over 3000 constituents. All smokeless tobacco products contain nicotine. It is highly addictive. Quitting smokeless tobacco use is as challenging as smoking cessation. Smokeless tobacco is much lower on the risk continuum", "title": "Smokeless tobacco" }, { "docid": "3944433", "text": "sales became important in the late 19th century as major tobacco companies rose in the South, becoming one of the largest employers in cities like Winston-Salem, NC, Durham, NC and Richmond, VA. Southerners dominated the tobacco industry in the United States; even a concern as large as the Helme Tobacco Company, headquartered in New Jersey, was headed by former Confederate officer George Washington Helme. In 1938 R.J. Reynolds marketed eighty-four brands of chewing tobacco, twelve brands of smoking tobacco, and the top-selling Camel brand of cigarettes. Reynolds sold large quantities of chewing tobacco, though that market peaked about 1910. A", "title": "Chewing tobacco" }, { "docid": "3944437", "text": "Some brands include Cannon Ball, Days Work, Bull Of The Woods, and Levi Garrett Plug. Historically, plug tobacco could be either smoked in a pipe or chewed, but today these are two distinct products. Twist chewing tobacco is a rope-like piece of tobacco twisted together. Unlike most loose leaf tobaccos, twist chewing tobacco is usually not sweetened. Pieces of twist are either bitten off or cut and then chewed. Some brands of twist include Cotton Boll, Cumberland, and Warren County. Twist chewing tobacco is not widely available and is mostly found in Appalachia. Historically, twists could also be smoked in", "title": "Chewing tobacco" }, { "docid": "7300012", "text": "Smokeless tobacco Smokeless tobacco is a tobacco product that is used by means other than smoking. Their use involves chewing, sniffing, or placing the product between gum and the cheek or lip. Smokeless tobacco products are produced in various forms, such as chewing tobacco, snuff, snus, and dissolvable tobacco products. Smokeless tobacco products typically contain over 3000 constituents. All smokeless tobacco products contain nicotine. It is highly addictive. Quitting smokeless tobacco use is as challenging as smoking cessation. Smokeless tobacco is much lower on the risk continuum than combusted products but varies in risk within that class of products (e.g.,", "title": "Smokeless tobacco" }, { "docid": "13829690", "text": "today. Thomas Adams (chewing gum maker) Thomas Adams (May 4, 1818 – February 7, 1905) was a 19th-century American scientist and inventor who is regarded as a founder of the chewing gum industry. He eventually joined with well-known chewing gum maker William Wrigley, Jr. Adams conceived the idea while working as a secretary to former Mexican leader Antonio López de Santa Anna. Santa Anna chewed a natural gum called chicle. Adams first tried to formulate the gum into a rubber suitable for tires. When that didn't work he made the chicle into a chewing gum called Chiclets, which is still", "title": "Thomas Adams (chewing gum maker)" }, { "docid": "13829689", "text": "Thomas Adams (chewing gum maker) Thomas Adams (May 4, 1818 – February 7, 1905) was a 19th-century American scientist and inventor who is regarded as a founder of the chewing gum industry. He eventually joined with well-known chewing gum maker William Wrigley, Jr. Adams conceived the idea while working as a secretary to former Mexican leader Antonio López de Santa Anna. Santa Anna chewed a natural gum called chicle. Adams first tried to formulate the gum into a rubber suitable for tires. When that didn't work he made the chicle into a chewing gum called Chiclets, which is still produced", "title": "Thomas Adams (chewing gum maker)" }, { "docid": "9903741", "text": "5 (gum) 5 is a brand of sugar-free chewing gum that is manufactured by the Wrigley Company. The name \"5\" hints at the five human senses (with the ad slogan \"Stimulate Your Senses\" and \"Everybody Experiences it Differently\") and that it has 5 calories. 5 gum was introduced to United States markets in March 2007, in Canada in January 2008, in Russia, Europe and Australia in 2009, in China, India, Italy, Israel, Thailand, and Malaysia in 2010. The brand features 24 flavours of chewing gum, all of which are available in the United States with the exception of Cirrus, Zephyr", "title": "5 (gum)" }, { "docid": "19113714", "text": "a second series; it began broadcasting on 12 January 2017. In April 2017 it was announced by Channel 4 that the show would not be returning for a third series. However, in November 2017, Coel stated via Twitter that she intended to create a third series at some point in the future. In November 2018, Coel made another statement via Twitter confirming that the show wouldn't return for a third series. Chewing Gum (TV series) Chewing Gum is a British television sitcom set in London. It was written by and stars Michaela Coel, alongside the cast of Robert Lonsdale, Susan", "title": "Chewing Gum (TV series)" }, { "docid": "1989946", "text": "in the woman's death by asphyxiation. Chewing gum is not water-soluble and unlike other confectionery is not fully consumed. There has been much effort at public education and investment aimed at encouraging responsible disposal. Despite this it is commonly found stuck underneath benches, tables, handrails and escalators. It is extremely difficult and expensive to remove once \"walked in\" and dried. Gum bonds strongly to asphalt and rubber shoe soles because they are all made from polymeric hydrocarbons. It also bonds strongly with concrete paving. Removal is generally achieved by steam jet and scraper but the process is slow and labour-intensive.", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "15567593", "text": "Pyongyang Chewing Gum Factory The Pyongyang Chewing Gum Factory is a factory that manufactures chewing gum in Pyongyang, North Korea. The plant is run by Korea Ponghwa General. According to the Korean Central News Agency, it began operation in October 2003 in a floor area facility, located on a plot of land in Rakrang-guyok. Its annual production capacity was reported to be 1,200 tons. In 2008, it moved to a new location on Tong'il Street, Chung-guyok. The new building was constructed by soldiers from the Korean People's Army. Kim Jong-il made an inspection of the factory in January 2009. A", "title": "Pyongyang Chewing Gum Factory" }, { "docid": "1989947", "text": "Most external urban areas with high pedestrian traffic show high incidence of casual chewing gum discard. In 2000 a study on Oxford Street, one of London’s busiest shopping streets, showed that a quarter of a million black or white blobs of chewing gum were stuck to its pavement. Gum removal from city streets, or even famous landmarks, can be a costly effort; in Rome, 15,000 pieces of chewed gum are discarded on a daily basis and the removal of each piece costs the city one euro. However, likely as a consequence of Singapore's ban, Singapore's pavements are, perhaps uniquely amongst", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "9903745", "text": "in fall 2009 containing the flavors Rain, Cobalt, Solstice and Zing, and another with three packs of Cobalt, Rain, Solstice, and Elixir. The pack has a Tidy Man logo, which is a human figure in the shape of the 5 logo. In Serbia and Montenegro, 5 gum is sold in packets of 5 sticks. These packs are the same size as 10-packs of Orbit and Airwaves gum. 5 (gum) 5 is a brand of sugar-free chewing gum that is manufactured by the Wrigley Company. The name \"5\" hints at the five human senses (with the ad slogan \"Stimulate Your Senses\"", "title": "5 (gum)" }, { "docid": "3944434", "text": "historian of the American South in the late 1860s reported on typical usage in the region where it was grown, paying close attention to class and gender: Chewing tobacco is still used, predominantly by young males in some parts of the American Southeast, but also in other areas and age groups. In September 2006 both the Republican and Democratic candidates for Senator from Virginia admitted to chewing tobacco and agreed that it sets a bad example for children. In the late 19th century, during the peak in popularity of chewing tobacco in the western United States, a device known as", "title": "Chewing tobacco" }, { "docid": "2789793", "text": "a \"softer version of their gum was used to make armor-piercing bullets.\" A fictional advertisement for the gum, starring Stacy Keach, encouraged viewers to chew Bazooka Joe gum \"because life is hard,\" and \"it's like chewing a mountain that someone shot a freeze ray into.\" In a November 2013 episode of \"How I Met Your Mother\", it was referenced by Marshall when he made a joke that was not submitted to be part of the Bazooka jokes. In the January 23, 2018 episode of \"The Flash\" titled \"The Elongated Knight Rises\", it was referenced synonymously by Cisco as his favorite", "title": "Bazooka (chewing gum)" }, { "docid": "5065612", "text": "Sale of this newly categorised medicinal gum was allowed, provided it was sold by a dentist or pharmacist, who must take down the names of buyers. In May 2003, the USS-FTA was signed and the ban was revised. \"They were tough,\" Crane said of the talks. Some found it surprising that Wrigley had fought hard on this battle, given the small size of Singapore's chewing market. But the company said it was worth it. \"There's many examples in our history of things that may have not made short-term financial sense but was the right thing to do in a philosophical", "title": "Chewing gum ban in Singapore" }, { "docid": "12123964", "text": "Think Gum Think Gum is a brand of functional chewing gum made by Palo Alto, California-based company Think Gum LLC. Its packaging claims to \"enhance concentration and improve memory\". It works on the principle of context-dependent memory and because it contains caffeine, Ginkgo biloba, Bacopa, Vinpocetine, Guarana, Peppermint and Rosemary. The chewing gum is sugar free and contains 10 mg of caffeine per piece. The brand was introduced in late 2007. Think Gum was created by a Stanford University medical student who developed the product to get more out of his studying. It is sold at retailers such as Marbles", "title": "Think Gum" }, { "docid": "8272189", "text": "both the CD tray and cassette shell were pink. It was then re-released on limited edition opaque yellow vinyl. Only 550 copies were printed and sold out shortly after going on sale October 1, 2008. All songs by Darius Koski unless otherwise noted. A Juvenile Product of the Working Class A Juvenile Product of the Working Class is the third full-length album by the Californian punk rock band Swingin' Utters. It was released on September 10, 1996, as the band's first album on Fat Wreck Chords. The album's name was taken from a line in Elton John's song \"Saturday Night's", "title": "A Juvenile Product of the Working Class" }, { "docid": "6183659", "text": "Bowman Gum The Bowman Gum Company was a Philadelphia-based manufacturer of bubble gum and trading cards in the period surrounding World War II founded by Jacob Warren Bowman in 1927. Nowadays, a line of baseball cards under the \"Bowman\" name are manufactured and commercialised by Topps. Jacob Warren Bowman, an American chewing gum salesman, started his own company, Gum, Inc., in Philadelphia in 1927. Gum, Inc. started producing Blony bubble gum which immediately became the top selling penny bubble gum in the United States in 1929. The Blony trademark was registered by Bowman on January 13, 1931 (filed June 30,", "title": "Bowman Gum" }, { "docid": "11844535", "text": "online game \"Blockland\" as well as in television programmes such as \"Glee\", \"Skam\", and \"Grey's Anatomy\". The song was also featured in the film \"Big Momma's House 2\". Producer Richard X was impressed with Annie's debut single \"The Greatest Hit\". He asked Annie to record vocals for his debut album \"Richard X Presents His X-Factor Vol. 1\". In exchange, he contributed \"Chewing Gum\", co-written with Hannah Robinson, to \"Anniemal\". Richard X's songwriting was inspired by a put-down that his girlfriend devised to describe self-important, vain people. The song's lyrics compare being in a relationship with chewing gum, \"chewing for fun\"", "title": "Chewing Gum (song)" }, { "docid": "5065611", "text": "W. Bush. By the final phase of negotiations in early 2003, there remained two unresolved issues: the War in Iraq and chewing gum. The Chicago-based Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company enlisted the help of a Washington, D.C lobbyist and of Illinois Congressman Phil Crane, then-chairman of the United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, to get chewing gum on the agenda of the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement. This caused a dilemma for the Singapore Government. It recognised the health benefits of certain gums, such as a brand of sugar-free gum that contains calcium lactate to strengthen tooth enamel.", "title": "Chewing gum ban in Singapore" }, { "docid": "9179577", "text": "it contains higher levels of elastomers or higher molecular weight polymers for this purpose. Gum bases for non-acid flavored gum use calcium carbonate as a filler, while gum bases for acid flavored gum use talc as a filler, since acids can react with calcium carbonate to produce Carbon Dioxide gas, which is undesirable. Bubble gum usually contains 15-20% gum base, while chewing gum contains 20-25% gum base and sugar-free chewing gum contains 25-30% gum base. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company are studying the possibility of making gum base with biodegradable zein", "title": "Gum base" } ]
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What is the longest mountain chain in North America?
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[ { "docid": "280030", "text": "separated from Eurasia as its own continent during the mid-Cretaceous period. The Rockies and other western mountain ranges began forming around this time from a period of mountain building called the Laramide orogeny, between 80 and 55 million years ago. The formation of the Isthmus of Panama that connected the continent to South America arguably occurred approximately 12 to 15 million years ago, and the Great Lakes (as well as many other northern freshwater lakes and rivers) were carved by receding glaciers about 10,000 years ago. North America is the source of much of what humanity knows about geologic time", "title": "North America" }, { "docid": "9884683", "text": "North Table Mountain North Table Mountain is a mesa on the eastern flank of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The mesa summit is located in North Table Mountain Park, north by east (bearing 9°) of downtown Golden, Colorado, United States, in Jefferson County. The most distinctive feature of the mesa is its nearly flat cap that was formed by ancient Paleocene lava flows. It is separated from companion South Table Mountain, which consists of the same geologic formation, by Clear Creek. North Table Mountain is a popular scenic and recreational destination in the Denver metro", "title": "North Table Mountain" }, { "docid": "9884688", "text": "it was summer with dry prairie grass conditions, so the fire had spread rapidly. It only burned one structure, a toolshed, and some other small miscellaneous pieces of property, but it cost more than 100,000 dollars (U.S. currency) to contain and extinguish. North Table Mountain North Table Mountain is a mesa on the eastern flank of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The mesa summit is located in North Table Mountain Park, north by east (bearing 9°) of downtown Golden, Colorado, United States, in Jefferson County. The most distinctive feature of the mesa is its nearly", "title": "North Table Mountain" }, { "docid": "19161854", "text": "including the Rocky Mountains, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon; to the emergence of life on the continent and its later evolution; and, finally, to the more recent settlement of the land by humans. According to Johnson, \"Most people will not have considered a time when there was no North America ... What was there before North America? How did it form? When did it start? How did it come together?\" The documentary film is narrated by Kirk Johnson and includes the following participants (alphabetized by last name): According to James Gaines, film reviewer for \"LiveScience\", \"North America rocks. That’s what", "title": "Making North America" }, { "docid": "8553495", "text": "and rich mineral deposits including copper, lead, gold, silver, tungsten, uranium, and zinc. Coal, petroleum and natural gas are mineral fuels found. Old mine tailings are present in the Rocky Mountain landscape. Agriculture and forestry are two major industries. Agriculture includes arid land and irrigated farming and livestock grazing. Livestock are often moved between high-elevation summer pastures and low-elevation and winter pastures. Map and aerial photos Geography of North America North America is the third largest continent, and is also a portion of the second largest supercontinent if North and South America are combined into the Americas and Africa, Europe,", "title": "Geography of North America" }, { "docid": "16526968", "text": "Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival The Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival (RMWFF) in Colorado Springs, Colorado in the United States, is the longest-running women's film festival in North America. First launched in 1988, each year it shows documentary features, shorts and narratives, and women filmmakers from around the world attend and participate in after-film question-and-answer (Q&As) and forums. The RMWFF is a three-day film festival held annually in November. In the week leading up to the festival, a \"Festival in the Community\" program offers free film screenings, and a youth outreach program is offered for at-risk youths. The RMWFF also", "title": "Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival" } ]
[ { "docid": "1368632", "text": "Mountain chain A mountain chain is a row of high mountain summits, a linear sequence of interconnected or related mountains, or a contiguous ridge of mountains within a larger mountain range. The term is also used for elongated fold mountains with several parallel chains (\"chain mountains\"). While in mountain ranges, the term mountain chain is common, in hill ranges a sequence of hills tends to be referred to a ridge or hill chain. Elongated mountain chains occur most frequently in the orogeny of fold mountains, (that are folded by lateral pressure), and nappe belts (where a sheetlike body of rock", "title": "Mountain chain" }, { "docid": "19341671", "text": "called the Toni Gaugg Mountain Path (\"Toni-Gaugg-Höhenweg\") after the man who blazed it. This enables the Hinterautal chain to be traversed from the Pleisen Hut to the Karwendelhaus. In the Northern Limestone Alps, to which the Karwendel belongs, there are a number of small and very small glaciers. In the Hinterautal-Vomper Chain is the only glacier of the Karwendel, the \"Eiskarln\", north of and below the Eiskarlspitze. The mountains in the chain, listed from west to east, are as follows: Hinterautal-Vomper Chain The Hinterautal-Vomper Chain (), also called the main chain of the Karwendel (\"Karwendelhauptkette\"), is the longest mountain chain", "title": "Hinterautal-Vomper Chain" }, { "docid": "19476319", "text": "steep rock faces towards the north, typical of the four great Karwendel chains, which in places drop for several hundred metres. All noteworthy peaks are made of Wetterstein limestone, which was predominantly formed in the Middle Triassic in lagoons and areas of coral reef. Only the far eastern \"Walder Joch\" () is built of Jurassic limestons and main dolomite. Important peaks (in sequence from west to east) Gleirsch-Halltal Chain The Gleirsch-Halltal Chain () or Gleirsch-Halltal Range is a mountain chain in the Karwendel in the Northern Limestone Alps. It follows to the south of the Hinterautal-Vomper Chain, the longest mountain", "title": "Gleirsch-Halltal Chain" }, { "docid": "19343808", "text": "mountain. For example, in the UK and Ireland a mountain must officially be or higher, whereas in North America mountains are often (unofficially) taken as being high or more. The chain-like arrangement of hills in a chain is a consequence of their collective formation by mountain building forces or ice age earth movements. Hill chains generally have a uniform geological age, but may comprise several types of rock or sediment. Hill chains normally form a watershed. They are crossed by roads that often use a natural saddle in the terrain. Hill chain A hill chain, sometimes also hill ridge, is", "title": "Hill chain" }, { "docid": "19341669", "text": "Hinterautal-Vomper Chain The Hinterautal-Vomper Chain (), also called the main chain of the Karwendel (\"Karwendelhauptkette\"), is the longest mountain chain in the Karwendel Alps in Austria. It has numerous peaks that reach heights of , including the highest summit of the Karwendel, the Birkkarspitze (), and its neighbour, the three Ödkarspitzen. While long ridges radiate south and north from the western part of the main chain, with typical Karwendel cirques nestling between them, the eastern part of the chain has an almost high, solid rock face on the northern side, which is most striking at the Laliderer Wand. The main", "title": "Hinterautal-Vomper Chain" }, { "docid": "1368638", "text": "depending on the hardness of the rock and its petrological structure. In addition to height and climate, other factors are the layering of the rock, its gradient and aspect, the types of waterbody and the lines of dislocation. For hard rock massifs, rugged rock faces (e.g. in the Dolomites) and mighty scree slopes are typical. By contrast, flysch or slate forms gentler mountain shapes and \"kuppen\" or domed mountaintops, because the rock is not porous, but easily shaped. Mountain chain A mountain chain is a row of high mountain summits, a linear sequence of interconnected or related mountains, or a", "title": "Mountain chain" }, { "docid": "1368633", "text": "has been pushed over another rock mass). Other types of range such as horst ranges, fault block mountain or truncated uplands rarely form parallel mountain chains. However, if a truncated upland is eroded into a high table land, the incision of valleys can lead to the formations of mountain or hill chains. The chain-like arrangement of summits and the formation of long, jagged mountain crests – known in Spanish as sierras (\"saws\") – is a consequence of their collective formation by mountain building forces. The often linear structure is linked to the direction of these thrust forces and the resulting", "title": "Mountain chain" }, { "docid": "5619947", "text": "mountain is extremely resistant to weathering. Around four hundred fifty million years ago, a chain of volcanic islands shaped like an arch collided with proto North America. The North American plate went under the chain of islands. The islands went on top of the edge of North America creating the Highlands and the Kittatinny Valley which is the Ordovician Martinsburg Shale. Quartz and other sedimentary conglomerate was transported to the inland sea, which was over part of the Martinsburg Shale. A small continent then collided with North America around four hundred million years ago. Geologic pressure resulted, which caused compression", "title": "Kittatinny Mountain" }, { "docid": "19476317", "text": "Gleirsch-Halltal Chain The Gleirsch-Halltal Chain () or Gleirsch-Halltal Range is a mountain chain in the Karwendel in the Northern Limestone Alps. It follows to the south of the Hinterautal-Vomper Chain, the longest mountain chain in the Karwendel, and is almost as big as it. South of the Stempeljochspitze on the other side of the \"Stempeljoch\" saddle () it is joined to the Nordkette. The name of the range is derived from the two valleys: the \"Gleirschtal\" to the west and southwest and the Halltal to the southeast. Its highest summit is the Großer Bettelwurf (), which towers 2,200 metres over", "title": "Gleirsch-Halltal Chain" }, { "docid": "2480121", "text": "and Sauratown Trails, which go to Hanging Rock State Park. Pilot Mountain (North Carolina) Pilot Mountain, a metamorphic quartzite monadnock rising to a peak above sea level, is one of the most distinctive natural features in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is a remnant of the ancient chain of Sauratown Mountains. The Saura Indians, the region's earliest known inhabitants, called the mountain \"Jomeokee\", meaning \"great guide\". U.S. Route 52 passes through the town of Pilot Mountain near the mountain, and the city of Mount Airy is some miles farther north. Pilot Mountain is part of the A.V.A Yadkin", "title": "Pilot Mountain (North Carolina)" }, { "docid": "2480117", "text": "Pilot Mountain (North Carolina) Pilot Mountain, a metamorphic quartzite monadnock rising to a peak above sea level, is one of the most distinctive natural features in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is a remnant of the ancient chain of Sauratown Mountains. The Saura Indians, the region's earliest known inhabitants, called the mountain \"Jomeokee\", meaning \"great guide\". U.S. Route 52 passes through the town of Pilot Mountain near the mountain, and the city of Mount Airy is some miles farther north. Pilot Mountain is part of the A.V.A Yadkin Valley, an American Viticultural Area comprising over 50 wineries, including", "title": "Pilot Mountain (North Carolina)" }, { "docid": "2603806", "text": "July 2002, global sales of the game had reached 450,000 copies, according to Funcom. A new shipment was released in North America that month, as its earlier printing had sold out. Ragnar Tørnquist noted in 2003 that he was \"very satisfied\" with \"The Longest Journey\"s sales in North America, and explained, \"There was such strong word of mouth, and so many great reviews, that we managed to get \"TLJ\" into most big stores and out to the players regardless of marketing.\" In May 2003, Marek Bronstring of Adventure Gamers wrote that \"The Longest Journey\" \"sold half a million copies worldwide", "title": "The Longest Journey" }, { "docid": "9701814", "text": "there. Sam's immediate companion is Gus, his pet raccoon, which lives with him in the city. He gathers supplies at a local store, hops on a bus, and heads down the 401 with Gus to what he calls \"the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec\". In actuality he ends up in the picturesque town of Knowlton, Quebec, southeast of Montreal, in the Notre Dame Mountains Range of the northern Appalachian Mountains chain along the eastern coast of North America from northern Georgia. Here he finds the perfect mountain stream and pond location to build a home in an old dead tree. He", "title": "My Side of the Mountain (film)" }, { "docid": "15587928", "text": "States but keep the current Catholics the Catholic Church is sending what many call confusing signals. It is using modern mass marketing in an ad campaign that promotes the Pope's visits but condemning much of modern society. The mass communication from the Catholic Church to North America through intense publicity is symptomatic of the hardships the church is going through with secular thinking and the degree their willing to go to spread the word of Christ in a modern form. Catholic Church in North America The Catholic Church in North America refers to the Catholic Church in North America, in", "title": "Catholic Church in North America" }, { "docid": "280050", "text": "earthquake killed seven people in 2009. Volcanic eruptions are common in the region. In 1968 the Arenal Volcano, in Costa Rica, erupted and killed 87 people. Fertile soils from weathered volcanic lavas have made it possible to sustain dense populations in the agriculturally productive highland areas. Central America has many mountain ranges; the longest are the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, the Cordillera Isabelia, and the Cordillera de Talamanca. Between the mountain ranges lie fertile valleys that are suitable for the people; in fact, most of the population of Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala live in valleys. Valleys are also suitable", "title": "North America" }, { "docid": "1172277", "text": "story itself is fictional. Black Mountain also figures in \"The Longest Ride\" by Nicholas Sparks, a book that mentions the former college and visual arts community. Black Mountain is the site of the Three Billboards featured in the 2017 film, \"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri\", with one billboard exposed in April 2016, with the other two covered up. The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (formerly the North Carolina Department of Corrections) operates the Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women. It opened on July 7, 2008, taking women previously at the Black Mountain Correctional Center for Women. Literary Music Architecture Athletes", "title": "Black Mountain, North Carolina" }, { "docid": "9467916", "text": "Revelstoke Mountain Resort Revelstoke Mountain Resort (RMR) is a ski resort on Mount Mackenzie, just outside Revelstoke, British Columbia in Canada. It is owned by Northland Properties. Currently, the resort has a 1713m (5620ft) vertical drop, Revelstoke has the longest vertical descent of any ski resort in North America. In terms of size, it is about the same as other major resorts, such as Breckenridge and Panorama, and about a third the size of Whistler-Blackcomb. When completed, it will have , which will make it the largest in North America. Mount Mackenzie and the surrounding area has hosted a number", "title": "Revelstoke Mountain Resort" }, { "docid": "9031722", "text": "Spring Mountain Racing, a maintenance and repair shop for members to keep their Radical and Wolf race cars in top condition before Club racing. Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club is a race track located in Pahrump, Nevada. Currently owned by John Morris and Brad Rambo, the track hosts various driving schools, track rentals, and is home to a private motorsports country club. The track length consists of various configurations, the longest being 6.1 miles as the longest road course in North America. The most common configurations range from 1.5 miles to 2.4 miles for", "title": "Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch" }, { "docid": "2603805", "text": "Journey\" reached 12,495 retail units by the end of 2000, of which 10,873 were sold in December. By January 2001, global sales of \"The Longest Journey\" totaled almost 200,000 units. PC Data reported an additional 40,160 retail sales of \"The Longest Journey\" in North America during the first six months of 2001. By that June, the game's worldwide sales had climbed to 250,000 copies, of which the United States accounted for 90,000. PC Data's estimate for the title's North American sales for January–December 2001 was 71,962 retail units, followed by another 12,044 in the first six months of 2002. By", "title": "The Longest Journey" }, { "docid": "20333573", "text": "The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al Qaeda is a book written by CNN's Peter Bergen. It was published in 2011 and became a \"New York Times\" bestseller. Bergen’s book covers the events which led up to the September 11 attacks and continues on, concluding with an account of the raid which killed Osama bin Laden. While Bergen’s past works focused more on bin Laden and the rise of Al-Qaeda, \"The Longest War\" sheds new light on American actions in the War on Terror. From the outset,", "title": "The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda" }, { "docid": "20333577", "text": "Islamic militancy in general. Burke calls \"The Longest War\"’s discussion of the inner workings of al-Qaeda \"revelatory,\" noting that some members of al-Qaeda actually opposed carrying out the 9/11 attacks because they had the sense that the U.S.’s likely response would shut down their safe haven in Afghanistan. The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al Qaeda is a book written by CNN's Peter Bergen. It was published in 2011 and became a \"New York Times\" bestseller. Bergen’s book covers the events which led up to the September", "title": "The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda" }, { "docid": "6505638", "text": "North American Cordillera The North American Cordillera is the North American portion of the American Cordillera which is a mountain chain (cordillera) along the western side of the Americas. The North American Cordillera covers an extensive area of mountain ranges, intermontane basins, and plateaus in western North America, including much of the territory west of the Great Plains. It is also sometimes called the Western Cordillera, the Western Cordillera of North America, or the Pacific Cordillera. The precise boundaries of this cordillera and its subregions, as well as the names of its various features, may differ depending on the definitions", "title": "North American Cordillera" }, { "docid": "280029", "text": "America; it formed between 1.5 and 1.0 billion years ago during the Proterozoic eon. The Canadian Shield is the largest exposure of this craton. From the Late Paleozoic to Early Mesozoic eras, North America was joined with the other modern-day continents as part of the supercontinent Pangaea, with Eurasia to its east. One of the results of the formation of Pangaea was the Appalachian Mountains, which formed some 480 million years ago, making it among the oldest mountain ranges in the world. When Pangaea began to rift around 200 million years ago, North America became part of Laurasia, before it", "title": "North America" }, { "docid": "9031720", "text": "Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club is a race track located in Pahrump, Nevada. Currently owned by John Morris and Brad Rambo, the track hosts various driving schools, track rentals, and is home to a private motorsports country club. The track length consists of various configurations, the longest being 6.1 miles as the longest road course in North America. The most common configurations range from 1.5 miles to 2.4 miles for the driving schools, with other custom configurations for members and track rentals. The Ron Fellows Performance Driving School is one of the main events", "title": "Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch" }, { "docid": "16483204", "text": "via Lake Lure Highway (US 64/US 74A/NC 9). The Rutherford County half is protected lands within the Chimney Rock State Park. Home of the Bat Cave, named after the several species of bats that inhabit the cave, it is protected as a reserve and not open to the public. The Bat Cave is the largest known granite fissure cave in North America. Bluerock Mountain (North Carolina) Bluerock Mountain is a mountain in Western North Carolina, near the community of Bat Cave. It is split between Henderson and Rutherford counties, it is home of the Bat Cave Preserve and part of", "title": "Bluerock Mountain (North Carolina)" }, { "docid": "14068315", "text": "Mountain America Credit Union Mountain America Credit Union is a federally chartered credit union headquartered in West Jordan, Utah, regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). Mountain America Credit Union is the second largest credit union in Utah. It is also the 12th largest credit union nationally by membership and the 24th largest by total assets. As of April 2018, Mountain America had $7.5 billion in assets, 740,000 members, over 90 branches, and over 5,000 shared branch locations. After a 5% tax was proposed on the three largest credit unions in Utah, Mountain America converted from", "title": "Mountain America Credit Union" }, { "docid": "19341670", "text": "chain is divided into the Hinterautal (\"Hinterau Valley\") chain (\"Hinterautalkette\") in the west and the Vomper Chain (\"Vomperkette\") in the east and runs through the Karwendel Alps from Scharnitz in the west to the village of Vomp in the east. North of the Hinterautal-Vomper Chain is the Northern Karwendel Chain (\"Nördliche Karwendelkette\"), to the south follows the Gleirsch-Halltal Chain, large parts of which have steep, northern slopes, often vertical and hundreds of metres high which are typical of the four Karwendel mountain chains. Along the western part of the Hinterautal-Vomper Chain runs a difficult, high alpine mountain path which is", "title": "Hinterautal-Vomper Chain" }, { "docid": "20202158", "text": "point, the chain is interrupted by a very marked saddle, the Bäralpl, which is about 1 kilometres wide and 500 metres deep, a broad plateau which provides the only easy crossing from the Soiern Group north of the range into the Karwendeltal]] and to the next mountain chain in the Karwendel, the Hinterautal-Vomper Chain. The most important summits of the Northern Karwendel Chain, following the course of the chain from west to northeast and east, are the: Northern Karwendel Chain The Northern Karwendel Chain () is the northernmost of the four great, largely parallel mountain chains in the Karwendel in", "title": "Northern Karwendel Chain" }, { "docid": "12108541", "text": "west to Old Forge, or north via the Raquette River to the Saranac River and thence to Lake Champlain. Jamieson, Paul and Morris, Donald, \"Adirondack Canoe Waters, North Flow\", Lake George, NY: Adirondack Mountain Club, 1987. . Eckford chain The Eckford Chain of lakes is composed of Blue Mountain Lake, Eagle Lake, and Utowana Lake in the Adirondacks in New York. The chain was named for Henry Eckford, a noted engineer and ship builder who made a survey of the lakes in 1811. All of the lakes are located in the town of Indian Lake, in Hamilton County. The lakes", "title": "Eckford chain" }, { "docid": "361893", "text": "the Darién watershed along the Colombia–Panama border, although some may consider the border instead to be the Panama Canal. Geopolitically and geographically all of Panama – including the segment east of the Panama Canal in the isthmus – is typically included in North America alone and among the countries of Central America. Almost all of mainland South America sits on the South American Plate. South America is home to the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, Angel Falls in Venezuela; the highest single drop waterfall Kaieteur Falls in Guyana; the largest river (by volume), the Amazon River; the longest mountain range, the", "title": "South America" }, { "docid": "8553491", "text": "and dry when it reaches the areas east of the coastal mountain ranges. These arid conditions are, in some instances, exacerbated in regions of extremely low altitude (some near or below sea level) by higher air pressure, resulting in drier conditions and adiabatic heating effects, some of these pocket deserts exist in valleys well north of the Canada–US border in interior British Columbia. What precipitation does fall generally does not last long, lost primarily to evaporation, as well as rapid runoff and efficient water uptake and storage by native vegetation. There are various plant life distributions in North America. Plant", "title": "Geography of North America" }, { "docid": "13482281", "text": "the Library. On the way back to High Bluff, the Marshalls run into a band of hunting Sleestak, but the Sleestak do not attack and instead return Rick's knife, suggesting that despite his failure to recall what happened, Rick must have made a deal with the Sleestak that was fulfilled by his repair of the Pylon's matrix table. Will was actually seen in the uniform of a U.S. Army soldier from the First World War, not the uniform of a soldier of the Confederate States of America. The Longest Day (Land of the Lost) \"The Longest Day\" is the seventh", "title": "The Longest Day (Land of the Lost)" }, { "docid": "12098494", "text": "North America. The Sanctuary is located on a ridge of Hawk Mountain, one of the Blue Mountain chain. The Visitor Center houses a shop and facilities with parking nearby. A habitat garden next to it is home to native plants that are protected by a deer fence. The 1 mile Lookout Trail runs from the Visitor Center to a number of raptor viewing sites along the ridge, the most popular being the close by South Lookout (elevation 1300 feet) and the North Lookout (elevation 1521 feet) with a 200 degree panoramic view that extends to 70 miles. Nine trails of", "title": "Hawk Mountain Sanctuary" }, { "docid": "18628138", "text": "The Spanish Frontier in North America The Spanish Frontier in North America is a nonfiction book written by historian David J. Weber. The Texas Institute of Letters named it the best nonfiction book of 1992. The Spanish Ministry of Culture also recognized it. Weber followed the school of thought initiated by historian Herbert Eugene Bolton, that American history should not be centered solely around the expansion of the original thirteen colonies. Weber's book would reveal the Spanish roots and influence in North America, although he limited the definition of North America to areas north of Mexico. In a departure from", "title": "The Spanish Frontier in North America" }, { "docid": "76290", "text": "Pacific Ocean lies to the southwest, the Caribbean Sea lies to the northeast, and the Gulf of Mexico lies to the north. Some physiographists define the Isthmus of Tehuantepec as the northern geographic border of Central America, while others use the northwestern borders of Belize and Guatemala. From there, the Central American land mass extends southeastward to the Atrato River, where it connects to the Pacific Lowlands in northwestern South America. Of the many mountain ranges within Central America, the longest are the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, the Cordillera Isabelia and the Cordillera de Talamanca. At , Volcán Tajumulco is", "title": "Central America" }, { "docid": "19274985", "text": "and the narrowest, with the narrowest part being located in the centre of the lake. Range Road 250 provides an access point and small recreation area maintained by Ponoka County on the eastern shore of the lake, while Township Road 422 and Range Road 245A pass near the lake. Parlby creek also flows out of the southern tip of lake. Middle Chain lake is located between North Chain Lake and Magee Lake. It is located in Ponoka County, Alberta, and is the longest of the three lakes. Parlby Creek flows out of North Chain Lake and is crossed by Range", "title": "Chain Lakes, Alberta" }, { "docid": "659449", "text": "First Union Bank and CoreStates. Wachovia (as of November, 2012) operated a branch at the northwest corner of S. 6th and Chestnut Sts. in Philadelphia, diagonally opposite Independence Hall, which was the original site of the Bank of North America. This branch is the longest continuously operating branch bank in the States, operating in that location since 1781. Following Wells Fargo's acquisition of Wachovia, Wells Fargo adopted Charter #1. The Bank of North America along with the First Bank of the United States and the Bank of New York were the first shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange.", "title": "Bank of North America" }, { "docid": "6172608", "text": "liberalism of the 18th and 19th centuries, although Canada also developed an American-style conservatism that competed with the older Tory conservatism. A right-wing conservatism, or \"Latin conservatism\", developed in Latin America and Quebec. Today, conservative and conservative liberal parties in North America cooperate through the International Democrat Union. Conservatism in Canada is generally considered to be primarily represented by the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada in federal party politics, and by various centre-right and right-wing parties at the provincial level. The first party calling itself \"Conservative\" in what would become Canada was elected in the Province of Canada election of", "title": "Conservatism in North America" }, { "docid": "280042", "text": "The islands of the West Indies delineate a submerged former land bridge, which had connected North and South America via what are now Florida and Venezuela. There are numerous islands off the continent's coasts; principally, the Arctic Archipelago, the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, the Aleutian Islands (some of which are in the Eastern Hemisphere proper), the Alexander Archipelago, the many thousand islands of the British Columbia Coast, and Newfoundland. Greenland, a self-governing Danish island, and the world's largest, is on the same tectonic plate (the North American Plate) and is part of North America geographically.", "title": "North America" }, { "docid": "6328725", "text": "into six regions: North America, South America, APAC (Asia Pacific), Greater China, MLEMEA (Mainland Europe, Middle East, and Africa), and UK&I (United Kingdom and Ireland). The Exel brand was retained for North America (USA and Canada), with the headquarters for the region in Westerville, Ohio. In 2016, the Exel brand transitioned DHL Supply Chain for the North America region. DHL Supply Chain provides solutions in six focus sectors: AEMCE (Automotive, Engineering, and Manufacturing and Chemical and Energy), Consumer, Retail, Technology, Service Logistics, Life Sciences and Healthcare. In 2011, DHL Supply Chain aligned their global management structure to enable the development", "title": "DHL Supply Chain" }, { "docid": "2603804", "text": "release in North America, Ragnar Tørnquist remarked that it had already experienced \"solid sales across Europe\". The game sold 15,000 units in Norway by May 2000, a figure that Tørnquist considered successful for the region. It launched in Germany with a shipment of 40,000 units to retailers; Chris Kellner of DTP Entertainment, which handled the game's German localization, reported its lifetime sales between 10,000 and 50,000 copies in that market. In Spain, the game sold 50,000 copies after roughly one year, a commercial hit for the country. According to market research firm PC Data, North American sales of \"The Longest", "title": "The Longest Journey" }, { "docid": "17025408", "text": "and Land Co. in 1906. In 1999, a group of Kelowna residents formed a society called the Friends of Knox Mountain Park to advocate for and to promote stewardship of the park. Each year the park becomes the site of the Knox Mountain Hillclimb car race, which has been run on a steep course in the park for over 50 years, making it the longest annually running paved hill climb in North America. Knox Mountain Park contains several representative Okanagan ecosystems as it transitions from lakeshore to mountain top. These include riparian, wetland, Ponderosa Pine Bunch Grass, and dry Interior", "title": "Knox Mountain Park" }, { "docid": "17925450", "text": "What Every Woman Wants (retail chain) What Every Woman Wants (sometimes abbreviated to WEWW, and later styled as \"What Everyone Wants\") was a British chain of discount stores. In 1971, it was founded by Gerald Weisfeld in Glasgow and became a national chain in 1990 after being sold by the Weisfelds for £50 million to \"Brown & Jackson\". The 130 store business was sold to Tradegro in August 2002, but went into administration the following month. It underwent numerous change of owners, including Philip Green, before Brown and Jackson took ownership at the end. When Brown and Jackson sold it", "title": "What Every Woman Wants (retail chain)" }, { "docid": "12273360", "text": "The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century () is the second volume in Francis Parkman's seven-volume history, \"France and England in North America\", originally published in 1867. It tells the story of the French Jesuit missionaries in Canada, then New France, starting from their arrival in 1632. The book was re-published in 1912 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston. It was republished in 1983, along with the other six volumes, in a two-volume unabridged version with notes by David Levin (Library of America). The Little, Brown edition was reprinted", "title": "The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century" }, { "docid": "16615364", "text": "editorial in the Chicago Tribune about their experience. In 2011, Pritzker toured Bamyan Province, Afghanistan with his wife on a Task Force-sponsored trip. North America Western Asia Holdings North America Western Asia Holdings, (NAWAH) is an investment firm founded in 2011. It was established by Hyatt Hotels executive chairman Thomas Pritzker and former Pentagon official Paul Brinkley to build businesses in the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. NAWAH currently has two primary business units based in Iraq. NAWAH Port Management and NAWAH Supply & Distribution, both are designed to help service the growing supply chain needs of a", "title": "North America Western Asia Holdings" }, { "docid": "16615360", "text": "North America Western Asia Holdings North America Western Asia Holdings, (NAWAH) is an investment firm founded in 2011. It was established by Hyatt Hotels executive chairman Thomas Pritzker and former Pentagon official Paul Brinkley to build businesses in the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. NAWAH currently has two primary business units based in Iraq. NAWAH Port Management and NAWAH Supply & Distribution, both are designed to help service the growing supply chain needs of a country with a rising demand for improved logistics. NAWAH Port Management (NPM) operates a modernized, containerized berth at the Port of Basra (also", "title": "North America Western Asia Holdings" }, { "docid": "14068316", "text": "a state chartered to a federally chartered credit union in 2003, becoming Mountain America Federal Credit Union. Mountain America's membership is open to residents of Salt Lake, Duchesne, Wasatch, and Uintah counties and their families as well as members of affiliated associations and employees of select employee groups. Some of their Select Employer Group (SEG) affiliations include some of the world's largest companies and associations, including Marriott International, the National Consumer Council, and Walmart. Mountain America donated $25,000 through the World Council of Credit Unions to fund relief efforts in Peru after the 2007 earthquake there. Mountain America Credit Union", "title": "Mountain America Credit Union" }, { "docid": "8856449", "text": "Julian Seigel and Julian Arguelles. as Human Chain: on Django Bates’s albums: Compilation appearances: \"The music's commitment, spontaneity and intensity gave us a feeling of being witnesses to the very moment of creation\" (Politiken, Denmark 1993) \"This is modern ensemble playing of the highest calibre, contemporary composition at its most vital\" (The Guardian 2000) Human Chain Human Chain is a British jazz quartet led by composer and keyboard virtuoso Django Bates. The band has been Bates’s main musical outlet since 1990 and has performed on most of his albums. Human Chain has toured in Europe, North America, South America, Japan,", "title": "Human Chain" }, { "docid": "13448572", "text": "a World Cup qualifying football match in Mexico City. One female was confirmed as having contracted the H1N1 influenza. Her identity is being withheld. At the moment, people who travelled on the same aircraft as the infected woman are being asked to contact the relevant health authorities. 2009 Flu pandemic in North America The 2009 flu pandemic in North America, part of an epidemic in 2009 of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 causing what has been commonly called swine flu, began in Mexico and has since spread worldwide. Roughly 10% of Canadians had been infected with", "title": "2009 Flu pandemic in North America" }, { "docid": "13268523", "text": "William Griffin, and, in absentia, Ulrich Fleischhauer were all put on trial for aiding the Nazi cause Fascism in North America Fascism in North America is composed of a set of related political movements in Canada, the United States, Mexico and elsewhere that were variants of fascism. Fascist movements in North America never realized power, unlike their counterparts in Europe. Although the geopolitical definition of North America varies, for the sake of convenience it can be assumed to include Central America and the Caribbean, where fascist variants also flourished. In Canada, fascism was divided between two main political parties. The", "title": "Fascism in North America" }, { "docid": "4689169", "text": "Taconic orogeny The Taconic orogeny was a mountain building period that ended 440 million years ago and affected most of modern-day New England. A great mountain chain formed from eastern Canada down through what is now the Piedmont of the East coast of the United States. As the mountain chain eroded in the Silurian and Devonian periods, sediments from the mountain chain spread throughout the present-day Appalachians and midcontinental North America. Beginning in Cambrian time, about 550 million years ago, the Iapetus Ocean began to close. The weight of accumulating sediments, in addition to compressional forces in the crust, forced", "title": "Taconic orogeny" }, { "docid": "13268512", "text": "Fascism in North America Fascism in North America is composed of a set of related political movements in Canada, the United States, Mexico and elsewhere that were variants of fascism. Fascist movements in North America never realized power, unlike their counterparts in Europe. Although the geopolitical definition of North America varies, for the sake of convenience it can be assumed to include Central America and the Caribbean, where fascist variants also flourished. In Canada, fascism was divided between two main political parties. The Winnipeg-based Canadian Union of Fascists was modelled on the British Union of Fascists and led by Chuck", "title": "Fascism in North America" }, { "docid": "280033", "text": "of the last glacial period, in what is known as the late glacial maximum, occurring around 13,000 years ago. The oldest petroglyphs in North America date from 15,000 to 10,000 years before present, but some South American rock painting dates to 36,000 to 25,000 years ago (with the more recent dating being favored). Genetic research and anthropology indicate additional waves of migration from Asia via the Bering Strait during the Early-Middle Holocene. Before contact with Europeans, the natives of North America were divided into many different polities, from small bands of a few families to large empires. They lived in", "title": "North America" }, { "docid": "7170886", "text": "What America Needs What America Needs: From Sea to Shining Sea is a 2003 documentary film movie filmed by Mark Wojahn. It is a sequel to the award winning 1995 film , which was produced in conjunction with the progressive film co-op, the New Kinomatagraphic Union. In October 2002, filmmaker Mark Wojahn traveled from New York City to Los Angeles, California via an Amtrak train. He stopped in ten cities along the way and asked over 500 individuals the question \"What do you think America needs?\". The individuals asked were of different race, age, gender, background, religion, and social class.", "title": "What America Needs" }, { "docid": "16365951", "text": "North American culture saw an increasing amount of influence from Western culture, almost overwhelming the native peoples through genocide, displacement, and cultural dominance. The resultant mix of Western and native customs would form what is now called North American culture. Culture of North America The culture of North America refers to the arts and other manifestations of human activities and achievements from the continent of North America. The specifics are unknown, but between 40,000 and 16,500 years ago, the melting of the ice sheets formed in the Last Glacial Maximum allowed Paleo-Indian peoples to migrate into the North American continent,", "title": "Culture of North America" }, { "docid": "8553490", "text": "amount in mountain ranges. The average rainfall in North America is 76 cm/year, which produces some 18 petaliters of water. North American rivers include: The Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges run along the entire Pacific Coast, acting as a barrier to the humid winds that sweep in from the ocean. The rising topography forces this air upwards, causing moisture to condense and fall in the form of rain on the western slopes of the mountains, with some areas receiving more than of rainfall per year. As a result, the air has lost much of its moisture and becomes hot", "title": "Geography of North America" }, { "docid": "14128664", "text": "In the Winter, the Sugar Mountain Ski Resort is open, which offers skiing, snowboarding, and tubing. In 1983, the Citadel was built on what is known as Sugar Top. The condominium complex, which can be seen for miles away, became what many consider an eyesore. Because of many complaints by locals and visitors, the state of North Carolina passed the Mountain Ridge Protection Act of 1983 so that nothing similar can be built again. Many students of nearby Appalachian State University in Boone, NC refer to the building as \"The Sugar Cube\" because of its unnaturally awkward square shape on", "title": "Sugar Mountain (North Carolina)" }, { "docid": "11405583", "text": "it is \"nearly unmatched\" in science fiction for its \"lyricism, compassion, subtlety, thoughtfulness, and above all the relish it takes in the bristling strangeness and wonder of the world\". Steven H. Silver commented that what distinguishes \"The Longest Voyage\" from similar stories is that \"Anderson provides strong motivation for both the explorers and the natives\". The Longest Voyage \"The Longest Voyage\" is a science fiction short story by American writer Poul Anderson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1961. On a distant world the age of exploration is beginning. A party of daring explorers attempts to", "title": "The Longest Voyage" }, { "docid": "3452961", "text": "What Is This? What Is This (known prior to 1980 as Anthym) was a rock band that originated in Fairfax High School in California and would play numerous shows along the coast of California. It was formed by guitarist Hillel Slovak, drummer Jack Irons, vocalist Alain Johannes, and bassist Todd Strassman. Originally named Chain Reaction, the band would later change its name to Anthem, then later to Anthym (as there was already a band using the former moniker), and then finally to What Is This, which was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the reaction they usually received from first-time listeners. During", "title": "What Is This?" }, { "docid": "19463760", "text": "This Is What the Truth Feels Like Tour The This Is What the Truth Feels Like Tour was the third solo concert tour by American singer-songwriter Gwen Stefani, in support of her third solo studio album, \"This Is What the Truth Feels Like\" (2016). It began on July 12, 2016, in Mansfield, Massachusetts at the Xfinity Center and continued throughout North America before concluding on October 16, 2016, in Inglewood, California at The Forum. The tour was officially revealed in late April 2016 with twenty-seven dates in the USA and Canada. Stefani will tour together with Eve, with whom she", "title": "This Is What the Truth Feels Like Tour" }, { "docid": "6172606", "text": "Conservatism in North America Conservatism in North America is a political philosophy that varies in form, depending on the country and the region, but that has similar themes and goals. Academic study into the differences and similarities between conservatism in North American countries has been undertaken on numerous occasions. Reginald Bibby has asserted that the primary reason that conservatism has been so strong and enduring throughout North America is because of the propagation of religious values from generation to generation. This connection is strongest in mainstream Protestantism in the United States and both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in Canada. According", "title": "Conservatism in North America" }, { "docid": "18072860", "text": "Hornbach chain The Hornbach chain () is a string of mountains, about 15 kilometres long, in the Allgäu Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol. The Hornbach chain branches at the Öfnerspitze from the main line of the Allgäu Alps and runs in a gentle arc from north to east. In the far west, it branches at the Hornbachspitze and a side ridge runs southwards in which the most important peak of the whole chain, the Großer Krottenkopf (2,656 m) is located. The mountain is also the highest in the whole of the Allgäu Alps. In the west the range", "title": "Hornbach chain" }, { "docid": "15264889", "text": "HIV/AIDS in North America As of 2016, it is estimated that there are 1.5 million adults and children living with HIV/AIDS in North America, excluding Central America and the Caribbean. 70,000 adults and children are newly infected every year, and the overall adult prevalence is 0.5%. 26,000 people in North America (again, excluding Central America and the Caribbean) die from AIDS every year. HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in North America vary from 0.23% in Mexico to 3.22% in The Bahamas. As of 2013, the adult prevalence rate is estimated to be 3.22%. As of 2013, the adult prevalence rate is estimated", "title": "HIV/AIDS in North America" }, { "docid": "1368637", "text": "formed that, depending on altitude and rock-type, form knife-edged cols or gentler mountain passes and saddles. Nappe or fold mountains, with their roughly parallel mountain chains, generally have a common geological age, but may consist of various types of rock. For example, in the Central Alps, granitic rocks, gneisses and metamorphic slate are found, while to the north and south, are the Limestone Alps. The Northern Limestone Alps are, in turn, followed by soft flysch mountains and the molasse zone. The type of rock influences the appearance of the mountain ranges very markedly, because erosion leads to very different topography", "title": "Mountain chain" }, { "docid": "9988979", "text": "North Franklin Mountain North Franklin Mountain (or North Franklin Peak) is a mountain in the Franklin Mountains of El Paso, Texas, located in the Southwestern United States. North Franklin, at , is the highest point in El Paso, and the 27th-highest mountain in the state of Texas. Surrounded by a state park and with a maintained trail leading to its summit, the mountain is a popular hiking destination. North Franklin is located entirely within the city of El Paso, approximately east of the Texas–New Mexico border and north of the U.S.–Mexico border. The mountain is the highest of the Franklins,", "title": "North Franklin Mountain" }, { "docid": "13532442", "text": "in Europe, unlike North America where chains have long dominated the market. While the proportion of chain hotels in Europe is constantly on the rise, the survival and indeed fight-back of the independent hotels sector is dependent on the use and development of referral chains or brands. Referral chain A referral hotel chain is a type of hotel franchise. It is a type of hotel that operates independently but maintains affiliation with a given chain. To stay within the chain, the hotel must meet certain minimum criteria. The referral chain in lodging began in the early 1930s, promoting the cabins", "title": "Referral chain" }, { "docid": "11319461", "text": "upheld the constitutionality of Canada's anti-polygamy laws again. In the United States, 19% of people believe that polygamy is morally acceptable, according to a 2018 Gallup poll. [[Category:Marriage, unions and partnerships in Canada]] [[Category:Marriage, unions and partnerships in the United States]] [[Category:Mormonism and polygamy]] [[Category:North American culture]] [[Category:Polygamy|North America]] Polygamy in North America Polygamy is the practice of taking more than one spouse. Polygyny is the specific practice of one man taking more than one wife: it is a common marriage pattern in some parts of the world. In North America polygamy has not been a culturally normative or legally", "title": "Polygamy in North America" }, { "docid": "10121302", "text": "Airport, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Transportation in North America Transportation in North America is about a varied transportation system, whose quality ranges from being on par with a high-quality European motorway to an unpaved gravelled back road that can extend hundreds of miles. There is also an extensive transcontinental freight rail network, but passenger railway ridership is lower than in Europe and Asia. The railroad network of North America (using standard gauge) is extremely extensive, connecting nearly every major and most minor cities. The United States, Canada, and Mexico have an interconnected system with railheads stretching from Hay River,", "title": "Transportation in North America" }, { "docid": "10121279", "text": "Transportation in North America Transportation in North America is about a varied transportation system, whose quality ranges from being on par with a high-quality European motorway to an unpaved gravelled back road that can extend hundreds of miles. There is also an extensive transcontinental freight rail network, but passenger railway ridership is lower than in Europe and Asia. The railroad network of North America (using standard gauge) is extremely extensive, connecting nearly every major and most minor cities. The United States, Canada, and Mexico have an interconnected system with railheads stretching from Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada to Tapachula, Mexico,", "title": "Transportation in North America" }, { "docid": "20326732", "text": "below MLB. MiLB also has teams and component leagues in Mexico (such as the Mexican Baseball League) and the Dominican Republic (such as the Dominican Summer League). The relationship between MLB and MilB is also the closed, franchise model, which has the same teams playing, and where the \"players\" are transferred between levels. Several more independent leagues operate in the U.S. and Canada. Primarily because of MiLB, college baseball plays a smaller role in developing professional players than what college football does with its players. Other professional leagues in North America include the Dominican Professional Baseball League, Liga Mexicana del", "title": "Sports in North America" }, { "docid": "15910629", "text": "warmer than nearby Beech Mountain, one county south in Avery. While Beech Mountain stands 800 feet taller, the unique environment and prevailing winds that channel through a valley just to the North of Rich, bring winter lows that compete with and are occasionally lower than what is generally understood to be the coldest mountain around. With the exception of rugged Grandfather Mountain of course. The summit, and upper north face of Rich Mountain will also receive 50-90% more snow each winter than Boone, just one or two miles south. 68\" of snow was recorded during the 2017/2018 winter which sported", "title": "Rich Mountain (Watauga County, North Carolina)" }, { "docid": "17509330", "text": "average elevation is approximately . An extension of North Mountain in Davidson Township contains a plateau that is situated on the south side of Lopez Creek. An area consisting of approximately one third of North Mountain is known as Dutch Mountain. The bedrock under the summit of North Mountain belongs to the Pocono Formation. When the first settlers arrived in Davison Township, Sullivan County, they encountered a fertile plain at the base of the mountain. A small coal bed is located on a cliff on the mountain, near Ganoga Lake. It is less than thick in places. The North Mountain", "title": "North Mountain (Pennsylvania)" }, { "docid": "9831163", "text": "Supply-Chain Council Supply-Chain Council (SCC) is an independent non-profit organization. As the cross-industry standard for supply chain management, SCC has developed and endorsed the Supply-Chain Operations Reference (SCOR)-model, a process reference model for supply chain management. The SCC was organized in 1996 by Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM) and AMR Research, and initially included 69 voluntary member companies. SCC now has closer to 1,000 corporate members worldwide and has established international chapters in North America, Europe, Greater China, Japan, Australia/New Zealand, South East Asia, Brazil and Southern Africa. Development of additional chapters in India and South America are underway.", "title": "Supply-Chain Council" }, { "docid": "20326745", "text": "North America. Among the major events, the US Open, one of the four Grand Slam events, is held annually at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City. The Women's Tennis Association, the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis, is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. Tennis Canada, the Central American & Caribbean Tennis Confederation, and the United States Tennis Association are the regional member organizations of the International Tennis Federation, and help organize various events in their respective areas of North America. Sports in North America There is a wide variety of organized sports in", "title": "Sports in North America" }, { "docid": "10792616", "text": "River, a tributary of the Saco. North Moat Mountain North Moat Mountain is a mountain located in Carroll County, New Hampshire. North Moat is flanked to the south by Middle Moat Mountain, and to the west by Big Attitash Mountain. North Moat Mountain stands within the watershed of the upper Saco River, which drains into the Gulf of Maine at Saco, Maine. The northwest side of North Moat Mtn. drains into Lucy Brook, thence into the Saco River. The east side of North Moat drains into Moat Brook, thence into the Saco. The southwest side of North Moat drains into", "title": "North Moat Mountain" }, { "docid": "10792615", "text": "North Moat Mountain North Moat Mountain is a mountain located in Carroll County, New Hampshire. North Moat is flanked to the south by Middle Moat Mountain, and to the west by Big Attitash Mountain. North Moat Mountain stands within the watershed of the upper Saco River, which drains into the Gulf of Maine at Saco, Maine. The northwest side of North Moat Mtn. drains into Lucy Brook, thence into the Saco River. The east side of North Moat drains into Moat Brook, thence into the Saco. The southwest side of North Moat drains into Deer Brook, thence into the Swift", "title": "North Moat Mountain" }, { "docid": "18628139", "text": "Bolton's model, Weber also examined the lives of the Indians and \"mestizos\"in the region and their impact on the frontier. Their legacy was extended to modern times, as Weber shows how the Chicano movement of the mid-twentieth century adopted some older legends. \"Spanish Frontier\" won the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for best nonfiction book of 1992. The book also received the \"Premio Espana y America\" award from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. The Spanish Frontier in North America The Spanish Frontier in North America is a nonfiction book written by historian David J. Weber.", "title": "The Spanish Frontier in North America" }, { "docid": "14650666", "text": "came in the decade 1630-1640 in what is known as the Great Migration. See the main articles on each of the colonies for information on their political and social history; this article focuses on the religious history of the Puritans in North America. The Puritans of New England evolved into the Congregationalist churches. Puritanism was a Protestant movement that emerged in 16th-century England with the goal of transforming it into a godly society by reforming or purifying the Church of England of all remaining Roman Catholic teachings and practices. During the reign of Elizabeth I, Puritans were for the most", "title": "History of the Puritans in North America" }, { "docid": "15587922", "text": "Catholic Church in North America The Catholic Church in North America refers to the Catholic Church in North America, in full communion with the Holy See in Rome, including its various geographical coverage on the continent. It is prevalent in many different countries, on the mainland and in both island countries and overseas territories, such as the United States, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador. The Catholic Church has begun grouping “North” America with “Latin” and “Central” America as one America. Pope Paul was the first Pope to visit the America on October 4, 1965. He broke the tradition of", "title": "Catholic Church in North America" }, { "docid": "6172620", "text": "of the differences and similarities between conservatism in Canada and the United States. Some feminist scholars have suggested that the prevalence of conservatism throughout North America has resulted in the continent's general post-feminist stance. <br> Conservatism in North America Conservatism in North America is a political philosophy that varies in form, depending on the country and the region, but that has similar themes and goals. Academic study into the differences and similarities between conservatism in North American countries has been undertaken on numerous occasions. Reginald Bibby has asserted that the primary reason that conservatism has been so strong and enduring", "title": "Conservatism in North America" }, { "docid": "8856431", "text": "Human Chain Human Chain is a British jazz quartet led by composer and keyboard virtuoso Django Bates. The band has been Bates’s main musical outlet since 1990 and has performed on most of his albums. Human Chain has toured in Europe, North America, South America, Japan, China, and India and has also worked in the classical orchestral world for concerts in the UK, Finland, Germany, and Greece (classical music collaborators have included Joanna MacGregor, Britten Sinfonia, London Sinfonietta, and the Duisberger Philharmonic). The band has also sometimes been involved in theatre work. In 1981, three years into the start of", "title": "Human Chain" }, { "docid": "18088392", "text": "28, filming started in Jacksonville, where a major rodeo scene was shot. The PBR was the technical advisor and producer for all of the bull riding events. PBR bull riders doubled for Scott and appeared in the film. The star bull in the movie is played by top ranking PBR bull Rango. The crew then moved to Winston-Salem at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. \"The Longest Ride\" has grossed $37,446,117 in North America and $25,498,698 in other territories for a worldwide total of $62,944,815. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $13,019,686, finishing third at the box office behind", "title": "The Longest Ride (film)" }, { "docid": "13266524", "text": "North Eaglenest Mountain North Eaglenest Mountain is a mountain located less than 2 miles south of Maggie Valley, North Carolina in Haywood County. It is part of the Plott Balsams, a range of the Appalachian Mountains, and less than a mile north of Eaglenest Mountain. It used to be called Mount Junaluska and is the highest mountain overlooking Lake Junaluska from the west. In 1900, S. C. Satterthwait of Waynesville, North Carolina, which was 5 miles away, built the Eagle Nest Hotel at an elevation of 5050 feet. The location was a mountain range he called The Junaluskas, on a", "title": "North Eaglenest Mountain" }, { "docid": "17509328", "text": "North Mountain (Pennsylvania) North Mountain is a ridge primarily located in Davidson Township of Sullivan County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Its summit is that county's highest point, the 10th highest among the state's 67 counties. Portions also extend into neighboring Lycoming, Luzerne, and Wyoming counties. The mountain has a topographic isolation of . U.S. Route 220 passes near the mountain. The mountain once had a prolific population of animals, including grouse, deer (including white deer), and bears. Historic industries on and around North Mountain include lumbering and ice cutting. Pennsylvania Route 487 goes over North Mountain. The mountain", "title": "North Mountain (Pennsylvania)" }, { "docid": "17096314", "text": "What America Thinks What America Thinks is a syndicated American television show. It was hosted by opinion pollster and political commentator Scott Rasmussen from 2012 to 2013, and is currently hosted by Alex Boyer. WCBS-TV is the anchor station. The program, which is syndicated on over 120 stations, is produced by Telco Productions and Rasmussen Reports. The program features discussions of current events and public opinion with a guest panel. Guests have included Scott Walker, Howard Dean, and Rand Paul. An episode of the show, titled \"What New Hampshire Thinks\", won a 2012 Granite Mike Award from the New Hampshire", "title": "What America Thinks" }, { "docid": "20326717", "text": "Sports in North America There is a wide variety of organized sports in the continent of North America. The continent is the birthplace of several of these organized sports, such as basketball, gridiron football (including both American and Canadian games), ice hockey, lacrosse, racquetball, rodeo, ultimate, and volleyball. The modern versions of baseball and softball, skateboarding, snowboarding, stock car racing, and surfing also developed in North America. Sports leagues in Canada and the United States use a closed, franchise model which has the same teams playing every year, with occasional additions of expansion teams or relocations of existing teams. Leagues", "title": "Sports in North America" }, { "docid": "15768182", "text": "Konjuh (mountain) Konjuh is a mountain in north-east part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mountain is bordered by rivers of Seona, Turija, Litva, and Oskova on the north, river Gostelja and highway Tuzla–Sarajevo on north-east, and river Krivaja on south and west. With Ozren, Javor and Javornik, Konjuh makes part of mountain chain which with Trebavac and Majevica present transition of Dinaric mountain system to the spacious Panonian plain. Average height of this mountain is 1000 meters. Above this height there are tops: Šuplji Javor (1157 m), Vina Kruška (1088 m), Suho Drvlje (1206 m), Zidine (1180m), Brezina (1120 m), Vrh", "title": "Konjuh (mountain)" }, { "docid": "13448550", "text": "2009 Flu pandemic in North America The 2009 flu pandemic in North America, part of an epidemic in 2009 of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 causing what has been commonly called swine flu, began in Mexico and has since spread worldwide. Roughly 10% of Canadians had been infected with the virus as of mid-late November with 416 confirmed deaths as of January 7; there were over 10,000 confirmed cases when Health Canada stopped counting in July 2009. Canada began its vaccination campaign in October and 40% of the populace has since been immunized against H1N1. The", "title": "2009 Flu pandemic in North America" }, { "docid": "8562167", "text": "Great North Mountain Great North Mountain is a long mountain ridge within the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. The ridge is located west of the Shenandoah Valley and Massanutten Mountain in Virginia, and east of the Allegheny Mountains and Cacapon River in West Virginia. Great North Mountain is oriented along a northeast-southwest axis from its southern terminus along the North Fork Shenandoah River in Rockingham County, Virginia to its northern terminus at U.S. Route 522 in Frederick County, Virginia. In the south, the initial of the ridge is known Church Mountain. For much of", "title": "Great North Mountain" }, { "docid": "7757141", "text": "Quakers in North America Quakers in North America constitute approximately 21% of Quakers worldwide (2012), according to the online Quaker Information Center. Quakers (or Friends) are members of a Christian religious movement that started in England in the 17th century, and has spread throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. Some Quakers originally came to North America to spread their beliefs to the British colonists there, while others came to escape the persecution they experienced in Europe. The first known Quakers in North America arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1656 via Barbados, and were soon joined", "title": "Quakers in North America" }, { "docid": "3253157", "text": "chains, of lengths 5 m, 10 m, 20 m and 30 m, are widely used in India. Tolerances are +/- 3 mm for 5 m and 10 m chains, +/- 5 mm for a 20 m chain, and +/- 8 mm for a 30 m chain. In India, a revenue chain with 16 links and of length 33 ft is used in cadastral surveys. Also in North America, a variant of the chain is used in forestry for traverse surveys. This modern chain is a static cord (thin rope) 50 metres long, marked with a small tag at each metre,", "title": "Chain (unit)" }, { "docid": "6434643", "text": "Mountainside Drive in the north, and the signed state park entrance on May Valley Road in the south (elevation ). A lesser trailhead is found on the Renton-Issaquah Road on the west (elevation ). Other trailheads may be reached via Sycamore Drive SE and Sunrise Place SE. Squak Mountain Squak Mountain is the second most westerly mountain of the Issaquah Alps mountain chain in Washington state. It is situated between Cougar Mountain to the west and Tiger Mountain to the east. Interstate 90 parallels the base of the north side of the mountain. Much of the Squak Mountain watershed drains", "title": "Squak Mountain" }, { "docid": "8562169", "text": "West Virginia and Virginia routes 55 between Wardensville, West Virginia, and Strasburg, Virginia. According to the Geographic Names Information System, Great North Mountain has been known by the following names: The Board on Geographic Names handed down two official decisions concerning the mountain's name in the years 1941 and 1967. In 1941, the board decided upon the name Big North Mountain and in 1967, it chose Great North Mountain. Both of these name changes were made in order to differentiate the mountain from North Mountain to the north. Part of Great North Mountain is within the George Washington National Forest,", "title": "Great North Mountain" }, { "docid": "17472425", "text": "if a slot opens up, many of the teams return year after year to help raise money and enjoy the trips. Founded by: Scott \"Thunder Goat\" Spielman and Tony \"Danger Stang\" Intrieri Spirit of the Rally Best Costume Longest Distance Traveled Hard-luck Bessed Dressed Car (Best overall decaled car) Social Media Award (Those who posted the most about the event on Social Media) Rally North America is a charity based Road rally that sends teams out on a scavenger hunt to find key points along a secret route that only the organizers know. The teams must navigate with in safe", "title": "Rally North America" } ]
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Who's missing: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
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[ { "docid": "3004852", "text": "of Philadelphia posthumously inducted Bishop into their Hall of Fame in 2009. Joey Bishop Joseph Abraham Gottlieb (February 3, 1918 – October 17, 2007), known professionally as Joey Bishop, was an American entertainer who appeared on television as early as 1948 and eventually starred in his own weekly comedy series playing a talk/variety show host, then later hosted a late night talk show with Regis Philbin as his young sidekick on ABC. He also was a member of the \"Rat Pack\" with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford. Bishop, the youngest of five children, was born", "title": "Joey Bishop" }, { "docid": "3004845", "text": "Joey Bishop Joseph Abraham Gottlieb (February 3, 1918 – October 17, 2007), known professionally as Joey Bishop, was an American entertainer who appeared on television as early as 1948 and eventually starred in his own weekly comedy series playing a talk/variety show host, then later hosted a late night talk show with Regis Philbin as his young sidekick on ABC. He also was a member of the \"Rat Pack\" with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford. Bishop, the youngest of five children, was born in The Bronx, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants Anna (Siegel) and Jacob", "title": "Joey Bishop" }, { "docid": "1339253", "text": "man, Martin spent a lot of time with his family; as second wife Jeanne put it, prior to the couple's divorce, \"He was home every night for dinner.\" As Martin's solo career grew, he and Frank Sinatra became friends. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Martin and Sinatra, along with friends Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and Sammy Davis, Jr. formed the Rat Pack, so-called after an earlier group of social friends, the Holmby Hills Rat Pack centered on Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, of which Sinatra had been a member (The Martin-Sinatra-Davis-Lawford-Bishop group referred to themselves as \"The Summit\"", "title": "Dean Martin" }, { "docid": "3004849", "text": "Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford of the so-called Rat Pack, although the five of them did not publicly acknowledge that name. During filming, the five entertainers performed together on stage in Vegas at the Sands Hotel. Bishop did only a little singing and dancing, but he told jokes and wrote most of the act's material. He later appeared with Sinatra, Martin, Davis, and Lawford in the military adventure \"Sergeants 3\", a loose remake of \"Gunga Din\", and with Martin in the western comedy \"Texas Across the River\", in which he portrayed an Indian. Bishop was the only member", "title": "Joey Bishop" }, { "docid": "1597666", "text": "Bridges to Cross\" in 1954. In 1956, he starred in the Broadway musical \"Mr. Wonderful\" . In 1959, Davis became a member of the Rat Pack, led by his friend Frank Sinatra, which included fellow performers Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford, a brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy. Initially, Sinatra called the gathering \"the Clan\", but Davis voiced his opposition, saying that it reminded people of the Ku Klux Klan. Sinatra renamed the group \"the Summit\". One long night of poker that went on into the early morning saw the men drunken and disheveled. As Angie Dickinson approached the", "title": "Sammy Davis Jr." }, { "docid": "6865345", "text": "Sergeants 3 Sergeants 3 is a 1962 American western comedy film directed by John Sturges and featuring Rat Pack icons Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. It was the last film to feature all five members of the Rat Pack due to Sinatra's falling out with Lawford. The film is a remake of \"Gunga Din\" (1939) set in the American West as opposed to India as in the original film. Mike (Sinatra), Chip (Martin), and Larry (Lawford) are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870. Mike and Chip", "title": "Sergeants 3" }, { "docid": "1515387", "text": "relations), Swifty Lazar (recording secretary and treasurer), Nathaniel Benchley (historian), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, and Jimmy Van Heusen. In his autobiography \"The Moon's a Balloon\", David Niven confirms that the Rat Pack originally included him but neither Sammy Davis, Jr. nor Dean Martin. The 1960s version of the group included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. Marilyn Monroe, Angie Dickinson, Juliet Prowse, Buddy Greco, and Shirley MacLaine were often referred to as the \"Rat Pack Mascots\". The post-Bogart version of the group (Bogart died in 1957)", "title": "Rat Pack" }, { "docid": "6865353", "text": "and Vegas-style soldiers of fortune. The essential differences between the two pictures, other than the obvious one of setting, is that the emphasis in Gunga was serious with a tongue-in-cheek overtone, whereas the emphasis in \"Sergeants\" is tongue-in-cheek with serious overtones.\" Sergeants 3 Sergeants 3 is a 1962 American western comedy film directed by John Sturges and featuring Rat Pack icons Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. It was the last film to feature all five members of the Rat Pack due to Sinatra's falling out with Lawford. The film is a remake of", "title": "Sergeants 3" }, { "docid": "7305914", "text": "and vows never to forgive him. The movie depicts this incident as the beginning of the end of the Rat Pack's influence in both politics and entertainment. The Rat Pack (film) The Rat Pack is a 1998 HBO television film about the Rat Pack. The movie stars Ray Liotta as Frank Sinatra, Joe Mantegna as Dean Martin, Don Cheadle as Sammy Davis, Jr., and Angus Macfadyen as Peter Lawford. Despite his membership in the Pack, Joey Bishop (played by Bobby Slayton) is given minimal screen time, while John F. Kennedy (played by William L. Petersen), depicted as an on-and-off friend", "title": "The Rat Pack (film)" }, { "docid": "7305906", "text": "The Rat Pack (film) The Rat Pack is a 1998 HBO television film about the Rat Pack. The movie stars Ray Liotta as Frank Sinatra, Joe Mantegna as Dean Martin, Don Cheadle as Sammy Davis, Jr., and Angus Macfadyen as Peter Lawford. Despite his membership in the Pack, Joey Bishop (played by Bobby Slayton) is given minimal screen time, while John F. Kennedy (played by William L. Petersen), depicted as an on-and-off friend of Sinatra's, is given a more central role. Also featured in supporting roles are Željko Ivanek as Bobby Kennedy, Veronica Cartwright as Rocky Cooper (wife of Gary", "title": "The Rat Pack (film)" }, { "docid": "1515384", "text": "Rat Pack The Rat Pack is a term used by the media to refer to an informal group of entertainers centered on the Las Vegas casino scene. Having its origins in a group of friends that met at the Los Angeles home of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, by the 1960s, it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later variation of the group that called itself \"the Summit\" or \"the Clan\", featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop among others; they appeared together on stage", "title": "Rat Pack" }, { "docid": "1362490", "text": "Ocean's 11 Ocean's 11 is a 1960 American heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five of the Rat Pack: Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Joey Bishop. Centered on a series of Las Vegas casino robberies, the film also stars Angie Dickinson, Cesar Romero, Richard Conte, Akim Tamiroff, Henry Silva, Ilka Chase, Norman Fell, Patrice Wymore, and Buddy Lester, and includes cameo appearances by Shirley MacLaine, Red Skelton, and George Raft. The film served as the primary inspiration for the \"Ocean's\" film series, a collection of heist films directed, edited or produced by Steven", "title": "Ocean's 11" }, { "docid": "12698797", "text": "\"Ocean's 11\", directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five of the Rat Pack: Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Joey Bishop. Master thief Danny Ocean (George Clooney), just out of prison, plans an elaborate Las Vegas three-casino-heist to win back his ex-wife, Tess (Julia Roberts). To that end, he recruits eight other thieves and con men to pull off the complex job, eventually stealing US$160 million. The Ocean's crew is blackmailed by the Casino owner they stole from–Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia)–into paying him $198 million (their loot plus interest). The team is given two weeks to", "title": "Ocean's (film series)" }, { "docid": "7305908", "text": "become a big success despite the breakup of his partnership with Jerry Lewis; Sinatra's career is at its peak; Sammy Davis, Jr., is making a comeback after a near fatal car crash, and standup comic Joey Bishop is gaining exposure as an opening act for the other three. The Pack becomes complete when Sinatra reconciles with actor Peter Lawford, who has been ostracized since being seen out publicly with Sinatra's ex-wife, Ava Gardner. Lawford has married Patricia Kennedy. Abandoning a notion to seduce Pat for his own amusement, Sinatra becomes more interested in her brother John F. Kennedy's political ambitions.", "title": "The Rat Pack (film)" }, { "docid": "1597676", "text": "onstage as part of the Will Mastin Trio and intimate snapshots of close friends Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, James Dean, Nat \"King\" Cole, and Marilyn Monroe. His political affiliations also were represented, in his images of Robert Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. His most revealing work comes in photographs of wife May Britt and their three children, Tracey, Jeff and Mark. Davis was an enthusiastic shooter and gun owner. He participated in fast-draw competitions. Johnny Cash recalled that Davis was said to be capable of drawing and firing a Colt Single Action Army revolver in", "title": "Sammy Davis Jr." }, { "docid": "19068404", "text": "from him. In 1960 Sinatra and his friends — Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. - actively campaigned for Kennedy throughout the United States; A specially recorded version of \"High Hopes\" with lyrics praising Kennedy, frequently was played during the 1960 presidential election. In January 1961 Sinatra and Peter Lawford organized the Inaugural Gala in Washington, DC, held on the evening before President Kennedy was sworn into office. The event, featuring many notable entertainment figures, was an enormous success, raising a large amount of money for the Democratic Party. Sinatra's move toward the Republican Party seems to have", "title": "Political life of Frank Sinatra" }, { "docid": "10284142", "text": "The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Welcome Home Elvis Welcome Home Elvis was a 1960 television special on the ABC Television Network starring Frank Sinatra and featuring Elvis Presley in his first televised appearance following his military service in West Germany. The special, commonly known as \"Welcome Home Elvis\", was officially titled \"It's Nice to Go Traveling\". This was Presley's first TV appearance in three years. This was also Frank Sinatra's fourth and final Timex sponsored outing for the 1959-1960 television season. The special also featured Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and Nancy Sinatra, who later starred with Elvis", "title": "The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Welcome Home Elvis" }, { "docid": "1515398", "text": "performance of \"The Ultimate Event\" in Detroit was recorded and shown on Showtime the following year as a tribute to the recently deceased Davis. A review in \"The New York Times\" praised Davis's performance, describing him as \"pure, ebullient, unapologetic show business.\" Concerning the group's reputation for womanizing and heavy drinking, Joey Bishop stated in a 1998 interview: \"I never saw Frank, Dean, Sammy or Peter drunk during performances. That was only a gag! And do you believe these guys had to chase broads? They had to chase 'em away!\" Archival footage of Lawford and Sinatra were used in the", "title": "Rat Pack" }, { "docid": "8553076", "text": "lessons for the huge crowds. The Palladium was next jazz clubs on West 52nd Street such as Birdland, CuBop City, and the Onyx Club. Jazz musicians and some celebrities would sit in and play with the Latin bands. Others watched and enjoyed the show. Examples of notables who went to the ballroom include Count Basie, Marlon Brando, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Sammy Davis Jr., Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Gene Krupa, Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Buddy Rich, George Shearing, Cal Tjader, and Pedro Vargas. Saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who lived in the", "title": "Palladium Ballroom" }, { "docid": "6657486", "text": "a succession of villains in films including \"The Tall T\" (1957) with Randolph Scott, \"The Bravados\" (1958) with Gregory Peck and \"The Law and Jake Wade\" (1958). In the 1959 adventure film \"Green Mansions\", he played a forest-dwelling Venezuela native known as Kua-Ko who tries to murder a young woman played by Audrey Hepburn. Silva was one of the eleven casino robbers in the 1960 Rat Pack caper film \"Ocean's 11\", starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford. He also played the communist agent Chunjin in the original \"The Manchurian Candidate\" (1962), again opposite Sinatra, and", "title": "Henry Silva" }, { "docid": "17103547", "text": "Rat Pack members Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr., with Bing Crosby. William Ruhlmann on Allmusic.com gave the album two and a half stars out of five. Ruhlmann commented on the \"bravura treatment\" given to the songs by Ernie Freeman and Gene Page's arrangements, but added that as a film tie-in, the album \"deservedly didn't attract much attention, although Martin's popularity assured it would spend several weeks in the charts.\" Dean Martin Sings Songs from \"The Silencers\" Dean Martin Sings Songs from \"The Silencers\" is a 1966 studio album by Dean Martin of songs that featured in his film \"The", "title": "Dean Martin Sings Songs from \"The Silencers\"" }, { "docid": "5138138", "text": "the Flamingo in April 2014 and was extended through 2016. She alternates showroom dates with Donny and Marie. The 1964 film \"Viva Las Vegas\" and the 1960 version of \"Ocean's 11\" were filmed at the hotel, as was a flashback sequence from the 2001 version of the latter film. In the 1960 version, the Flamingo was one of the five Las Vegas casinos robbed by characters played by Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr. and others. The 1991 film \"Bugsy\" starring Warren Beatty depicted Bugsy Siegel's involvement in the construction of the Flamingo, though many of the", "title": "Flamingo Las Vegas" }, { "docid": "4993704", "text": "hotel was purchased by Del Webb. In 1962, a Don the Beachcomber restaurant opened in the hotel, becoming a top attraction to not only hotel guests but a variety of celebrities as well. The 24-story Alexandria Tower was added in 1963, which made the hotel the tallest building in Las Vegas. The resort was the site of the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for many years, mostly in the 1970s, and for a brief time in the 1990s. Performers at the resort over the years have included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Judy Garland, Marlene", "title": "SLS Las Vegas" }, { "docid": "17342199", "text": "The Riviera, The Fremont, Binion's Horseshoe, and finally The Tropicana. Gambling was no longer the only attraction by the 1950s; the biggest stars of films and music like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Andy Williams, Liberace, Bing Crosby, Carol Channing, and others performed in intimate settings and brought a whole new brigade of Hollywood film stars and others in the entertainment business to the city. In 1957, the first topless show \"Minsky's Follies\" was started here. While Las Vegas in 1940 had a population of 8,422, by 1950, it had increased to 24,624 people. The cornering", "title": "Las Vegas in the 1950s" }, { "docid": "16939599", "text": "with Frank Sinatra so often that he became a junior member of the Rat Pack, and later became Joey Bishop's sidekick, from 1963 to 1965, as Larry Corbett, Mr. Bishop's friend and writer on \"The Joey Bishop Show.\" In the 1970s and 80s he appeared mostly in night clubs and showrooms across the country, including Las Vegas. He opened for headliners like Paul Anka, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Lena Horne, Dean Martin, Liza Minnelli, Sandler & Young and Jerry Vale. As his career wound down he was noted for touring for many years with Steve Lawrence and Eydie", "title": "Corbett Monica" }, { "docid": "4531241", "text": "casino. In the late 1950s, Senator John F. Kennedy was occasionally a guest of Sinatra at the Sands. Arguably the hotel's biggest claim to fame was a three-week period in 1960 during the filming of \"Ocean's 11\", after which it attained iconic status. During that time, the movie's stars Sinatra, Dean Martin, Davis, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford performed on stage together in the Copa Room. The performances were called the \"Summit at the Sands\" and this is considered to be the birth of the Rat Pack. When Howard Hughes purchased the hotel in the mid-1960s for $14.6 million, the", "title": "Sands Hotel and Casino" }, { "docid": "5456128", "text": "bride Ruth in the Academy Award-nominated musical \"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers\", still billed as Ruta Kilmonis. After that success, Lee appeared in several films including \"Anything Goes\" (1956), \"Funny Face\" (1957), \"Witness for the Prosecution\" (1957), and \"Marjorie Morningstar\" (1958). In 1962, Lee had the female lead in the Rat Pack comedy/Western film \"Sergeants 3\" starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford. She then co-starred with Audie Murphy and Darren McGavin in a Western, \"Bullet for a Badman\" (1964). In addition to films, Lee has appeared in dozens of guest-starring roles on television. For a", "title": "Ruta Lee" }, { "docid": "9394305", "text": "Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, Chet Baker, and Gene Krupa who ought to be counted as some of the true original hipsters as they were instrumental in turning the white world onto jazz and its underground culture in the 1930s and 1940s. The subculture rapidly expanded, and after World War II, a burgeoning literary scene grew up around it. Jack Kerouac described 1940s hipsters as \"rising and roaming America, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere [as] characters of a special spirituality\". Toward the beginning of his poem \"Howl\", Allen Ginsberg mentioned \"angelheaded hipsters burning for", "title": "Hipster (contemporary subculture)" }, { "docid": "11257323", "text": "new entrance for the building. On October 1, 2011, the Peabody Opera House opened for the first time since the $79 million renovation. The show featured personalities such as Jay Leno, Aretha Franklin, and Chuck Berry and was attended by a full house of 3,100. On July 16, 2018, it was announced that the building had entered into a 10-year naming rights agreement with Stifel Financial Corp. and would be renamed Stifel Theatre. On June 20, 1965, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. with Johnny Carson as the emcee (subbing for Joey Bishop who was out with a", "title": "Stifel Theatre" }, { "docid": "20784209", "text": "He danced professionally until he was 30 after which he worked as a vaudeville agent. In 1945, he purchased the Riviera, a nightclub overlooking the Hudson River in Fort Lee, New Jersey which had closed during World War II, and renamed it Bill Miller's Riviera. He booked many of the top acts at the time including Tony Martin, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, Mae West, and Tito Puente. In 1953, the Riveria was shuttered to make way for the Palisades Parkway. In the same year, Miller purchased a 10% interest in the Sahara and", "title": "Bill Miller (impresario)" }, { "docid": "2300372", "text": "based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett. It was more successful running for 72 episodes. In 1959, Sinatra invited Lawford to join the \"Rat Pack\" and also got him a role in \"Never So Few\" (1959). Peter Lawford and Sinatra appeared in \"Oceans 11\" (1961). Lawford had been first told of the basic story of the film by director Gilbert Kay, who heard the idea from a gas station attendant. Lawford eventually bought the rights in 1958, imagining William Holden in the lead. Sinatra became interested in the idea, and a variety of writers worked on the project. Lawford played", "title": "Peter Lawford" }, { "docid": "3004848", "text": "later CBS. Bishop played a talk show host named Joey Barnes. His wife was portrayed by Abby Dalton, who joined the cast in 1962. He later hosted a 90-minute late-night talk show, also titled \"The Joey Bishop Show\", that was launched by ABC on April 17, 1967 as competition to Carson's \"Tonight Show\" and ran until December 26, 1969. His sidekick was then-newcomer Regis Philbin. Bishop was among the stars of the original \"Ocean's 11\" film about military veterans who reunite in a plot to rob five Las Vegas casinos on New Year's Eve. He co-starred with Frank Sinatra, Dean", "title": "Joey Bishop" }, { "docid": "9486487", "text": "Mexico, Manuel moved to Los Angeles in 1951 and worked for several tailors. He was soon referred to and started working for Sy Devore, tailor to The Rat Pack. Manuel was offered $55 a fitting, which would often only take 15 minutes. Soon he was tailoring suits for elite members of the Los Angeles community including Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Don Rickles, and Joey Bishop. Not long after starting to work with Sy Devore, Manuel attended the Pasadena Tournament of the Roses (commonly known as the Rose Parade). He was inspired by the elaborate and", "title": "Manuel Cuevas" }, { "docid": "15315940", "text": "Frank Gagliardi Frank Gagliardi (November 16, 1931, Denver, CO – February 6, 2011, Plano, TX) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist, big band composer, arranger, director, and professor. He was the creator and director of the UNLV Jazz Ensemble from 1974 until 1996. Prior to that, he worked as the drummer and percussionist at the Sands Hotel, accompanying such notable performers as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Patti Page, Lena Horne, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Joe Williams, Marlena Shaw and Joey Bishop among many others. Born in Denver, Frank’s interest in music started at a young age.", "title": "Frank Gagliardi" }, { "docid": "17959332", "text": "Deana Martin Deana Martin (born August 19, 1948) is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer Dean Martin. Martin was born in Manhattan to Dean Martin and his first wife, Elizabeth (Betty) MacDonald. She moved to Beverly Hills, California with her family by the age of one. She later went to live with her father and his second wife, Jeanne Biegger. During her childhood, it was not unusual for his Rat Pack friends, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., to visit. Being around them persuaded her to pursue a career in entertainment. Martin trained professionally at", "title": "Deana Martin" }, { "docid": "1597659", "text": "became a star in Las Vegas, earning him the nickname \"Mister Show Business\". Davis had a complex relationship with the black community, and drew criticism after publicly supporting President Richard Nixon in 1972. One day on a golf course with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. \"Handicap?\" he asked. \"Talk about handicap. I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.\" This was to become a signature comment, recounted in his autobiography and in countless articles. After reuniting with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1987, Davis toured with them and Liza Minnelli internationally, before his death from throat cancer in", "title": "Sammy Davis Jr." }, { "docid": "2300374", "text": "was named after Peter's son Christopher, and produced the 1963 action film \"Johnny Cool\" starring Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgomery. Lawford was Bette Davis' leading man in \"Dead Ringer\" (1964) and guest starred on \"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour\", \"Profiles in Courage\" (as General Alexander William Doniphan), \"Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre\" and \"Run for Your Life\". He went on to produce the Patty Duke film \"Billie\" (1965) and had support roles in two Carroll Baker movies, playing her fiance both times: \"Sylvia\" (1965) and \"Harlow\" (1965). By now Lawford had fallen out with Sinatra - who replaced him in", "title": "Peter Lawford" }, { "docid": "14081599", "text": "James Big Band who landed him a position in Harry's band for two years. Playing the Vegas- Tahoe club scene, Terry met Sammy Davis, Jr. and soon joined his band, appearing on recordings such as Sammy Davis, Jr. at the Cocoanut Grove, recorded in 1963. Terry was also the guitarist on a notable series of 1962 live recordings at the New Villa Venice club in Chicago backing Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. (aka the Rat Pack). In the early 1970s, he returned to South Carolina where he attended the University of South Carolina and earned degrees in", "title": "Terry Rosen" }, { "docid": "1515389", "text": "find rooms, just to be part of the Rat Pack entertainment experience. The Rat Pack's appearances were of unprecedented value because the city would always become flooded with high rollers, wealthy gamblers who would routinely leave substantial fortunes in the casinos' coffers. The marquees of the hotels at which they were performing as individuals would read, for example, \"DEAN MARTIN - MAYBE FRANK - MAYBE SAMMY\" as seen on a Sands Hotel sign. Peter Lawford was a brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy (dubbed \"Brother-in-Lawford\" by Sinatra), and Kennedy spent time with Sinatra and the others when he visited Las", "title": "Rat Pack" }, { "docid": "6865350", "text": "title. The others were: \"Ocean's 11\" (1960), \"Robin and the 7 Hoods\" (1964, with Joey Bishop absent and Bing Crosby replacing Peter Lawford), and \"4 for Texas\" with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg and Ursula Andress as the four in the title, Charles Bronson as a villain, and the Three Stooges as additional comedy relief. Sinatra said of these Rat Pack films: \"Of course they're not great movies, no one could claim that... but every movie I've made through my own company has made money.\" The only Rat Pack film not produced by Sinatra was \"Ocean's 11\", which earned", "title": "Sergeants 3" }, { "docid": "3791374", "text": "Greg Garrison recruited a dozen chorus girls, naming the group \"The Golddiggers\" after the Warner Brothers musicals of the 1930s. The series, \"Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers\", starred Frank Sinatra, Jr. and Joey Heatherton as musical hosts, with comedy routines by Paul Lynde, Stanley Myron Handelman, Barbara Heller, comic impressionists Bill Skiles and Pete Henderson, and neo-vaudeville musicians The Times Square Two. The summer show was a hit, returning the following year with a new cast. Lou Rawls and Gail Martin took over as hosts and six-foot-six dancer Tommy Tune was featured. The Golddiggers also toured the nation's nightclubs as", "title": "The Dean Martin Show" }, { "docid": "17959340", "text": "Festival, Whiskey A Go Go in Hollywood, The Sands in Macao or Benaroya Hall, and Symphony Hall in Seattle. In an interview with \"The Los Angeles Times\" Martin said, \"There's, of course, a lot of Dean Martin music plus 'Uncle' Frank Sinatra, 'Uncle' Sammy Davis Jr., Bobby Darin, a little Ella Fitzgerald,\" she said. \"It's all the great songs and then, of course, my own songs. I always honor my dad and all of the music of the Great American Songbook.\" She performed a concert in honor of her father's 100 birthday. In her book \"Memories Are Made of This:", "title": "Deana Martin" }, { "docid": "2300378", "text": "in 1954, was to socialite Pat Kennedy, a younger sister of then-US Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA). They had four children: a son, actor and author Christopher Lawford (1955−2018), and daughters Sydney Maleia Lawford (b. 1956), Victoria Francis Lawford (b. 1958), and Robin Elizabeth Lawford (b. 1961). Lawford became an American citizen on 23 April 1960. He had prepared for this in time to vote for his brother-in-law in the upcoming presidential election. Lawford, along with other members of the \"Rat Pack\", helped campaign for Kennedy and the Democratic Party. Sinatra famously dubbed him \"Brother-in-Lawford\" at this time. Lawford and", "title": "Peter Lawford" }, { "docid": "4531228", "text": "in October 1953. Sinatra later bought a share in the hotel himself. Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. were instrumental throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s in bringing a change in racial policy in Sands, and after an incident in 1961, it began employing blacks. In 1960 the classic caper film \"Ocean's 11\" was shot at the hotel, and it subsequently attained iconic status, with regular performances by Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., Red Skelton and others, who performed regularly in the hotel's world-renowned Copa Room. Much of the musical success of the Copa Room is credited", "title": "Sands Hotel and Casino" }, { "docid": "19106749", "text": "Marsh, Fred Lyon Peter B. Martin Peter B. Martin, Sr. (1915–1992) was an American photographer and publisher. Martin was one of the top New York publishing photographers in the 1950s, with work published in \"Mademoiselle,\" \"Cosmopolitan\", \"Life\", and \"McCall's.\" From the late 1940s to the 1960s, he was a fashion photographer and photojournalist. He photographed many celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Bunk Johnson, Edgar Bergen, Imogene Coca, Edward R Murrow, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, Leonard Bernstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Natalie Wood, James Dean, Vera Zorina, Kim Novak, Ann Francis, Sheree North, Walt Disney, Jack Webb, the Allman Brothers, Jim Morrison, The Doors, Jimi", "title": "Peter B. Martin" }, { "docid": "19106747", "text": "Peter B. Martin Peter B. Martin, Sr. (1915–1992) was an American photographer and publisher. Martin was one of the top New York publishing photographers in the 1950s, with work published in \"Mademoiselle,\" \"Cosmopolitan\", \"Life\", and \"McCall's.\" From the late 1940s to the 1960s, he was a fashion photographer and photojournalist. He photographed many celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Bunk Johnson, Edgar Bergen, Imogene Coca, Edward R Murrow, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, Leonard Bernstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Natalie Wood, James Dean, Vera Zorina, Kim Novak, Ann Francis, Sheree North, Walt Disney, Jack Webb, the Allman Brothers, Jim Morrison, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful", "title": "Peter B. Martin" }, { "docid": "1597673", "text": "\"Diamonds Are Forever\", but the scene was cut. In Japan, Davis appeared in television commercials for coffee, and in the United States he joined Sinatra and Martin in a radio commercial for a Chicago car dealership. On May 27–28, 1973, Davis hosted (with Monty Hall) the first annual, 20-hour Highway Safety Foundation telethon. Guests included Muhammad Ali, Paul Anka, Jack Barry, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Ray Charles, Dick Clark, Roy Clark, Howard Cosell, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Joe Franklin, Cliff Gorman, Richie Havens, Danny Kaye, Jerry Lewis, Hal Linden, Rich Little, Butterfly McQueen, Minnie Pearl, Boots Randolph, Tex Ritter, Phil Rizzuto,", "title": "Sammy Davis Jr." }, { "docid": "285912", "text": "and His Music – Part II\", and the 1967 NBC TV special \"Movin' With Nancy\". She appeared with Lee Hazlewood, her father and his Rat Pack pals Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr., with a cameo appearance by her brother Frank Sinatra Jr. and guest-star appearance by \"West Side Story\" dancer David Winters. Jack Haley, Jr. was the director and producer of the special and received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Music or Variety. At one point in the program, Sinatra shared a kiss with Sammy Davis, Jr. She has stated, \"The kiss [was] one of the", "title": "Nancy Sinatra" } ]
[ { "docid": "11251331", "text": "The Joey Bishop Show (talk show) The Joey Bishop Show is an American talk show that had its first broadcast on ABC on April 17, 1967, hosted by Joey Bishop and featuring Regis Philbin in his first ongoing role with national television exposure, as Bishop's sidekick/announcer (similar to Ed McMahon's job with Johnny Carson). Created to challenge \"The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson\", the show lasted 33 months, with the last show airing on December 26, 1969. Bishop was part of the legendary 1960s entertainment phenomenon \"the Rat Pack\", and other members Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford", "title": "The Joey Bishop Show (talk show)" }, { "docid": "1339248", "text": "and the Western comedies \"Sergeants 3\" and \"4 for Texas\", often with their Rat Pack pals such as Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, as well as a romantic comedy, \"Marriage on the Rocks\". Martin also co-starred with Shirley MacLaine in a number of films, including \"Some Came Running\", \"Artists and Models\", \"Career\", \"All in a Night's Work\", and \"What a Way to Go!\" He played a satiric variation of his own womanizing persona as Las Vegas singer \"Dino\" in Billy Wilder's comedy \"Kiss Me, Stupid\" (1964) with Kim Novak, and he poked fun at his image in", "title": "Dean Martin" }, { "docid": "1597684", "text": "Davis' daughter Tracey Davis also revealed in her 2014 book \"Sammy Davis Jr.: A Personal History With My Father\" that this marriage also resulted in President Kennedy refusing to allow Davis to perform at his Inauguration. This snub by President Kennedy was also backed by Director Sam Pollard, who revealed in his 2017 American Masters documentary \"Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me\" that Davis' invitation to perform at his inauguration was abruptly canceled on the night of his inaugural party. Davis and Britt had one daughter, Tracey, and adopted two sons. Davis performed almost continuously and spent little time", "title": "Sammy Davis Jr." }, { "docid": "15316513", "text": "released five months later. The Allmusic review by William Ruhlmann awarded the album three and a half stars and said that the final track \"The Birth of the Blues\", \"succeeded in giving the listener a sense of what Davis was like in live performance\". Starring Sammy Davis Jr. Starring Sammy Davis Jr. is the debut studio album by Sammy Davis Jr., recorded in 1955. Five of the songs on \"Starring Sammy Davis Jr.\" had been previously released as singles (\"Hey There,\" \"And This Is My Beloved,\" \"Because of You,\" \"Glad to Be Unhappy,\" and \"Birth of the Blues\"), one of", "title": "Starring Sammy Davis Jr." }, { "docid": "15316512", "text": "Starring Sammy Davis Jr. Starring Sammy Davis Jr. is the debut studio album by Sammy Davis Jr., recorded in 1955. Five of the songs on \"Starring Sammy Davis Jr.\" had been previously released as singles (\"Hey There,\" \"And This Is My Beloved,\" \"Because of You,\" \"Glad to Be Unhappy,\" and \"Birth of the Blues\"), one of which, \"Hey There\" had reached the Top 20. Davis was involved in a serious car accident on November 19, 1954, that resulted in the loss of his left eye. He was still wearing an eye patch on the cover of this, his debut LP,", "title": "Starring Sammy Davis Jr." }, { "docid": "11255509", "text": "come to being pure excrement.\" He concluded his review by stating that \"it is big enough for the artist himself to hide behind\". Sammy Davis Jr. Now Sammy Davis, Jr. Now is a 1972 (see 1972 in music) album by Sammy Davis, Jr.. The album features the number one hit \"The Candy Man\", a Grammy-nominated song. The rest of the album is made up of standards, big ballads and soul tracks. Eugene Chadbourne of Allmusic rated \"Sammy Davis Jr. Now\" one-and-a-half out of five stars. He stated that \"there are tracks enough on this album that are painful to sit", "title": "Sammy Davis Jr. Now" }, { "docid": "11255508", "text": "Sammy Davis Jr. Now Sammy Davis, Jr. Now is a 1972 (see 1972 in music) album by Sammy Davis, Jr.. The album features the number one hit \"The Candy Man\", a Grammy-nominated song. The rest of the album is made up of standards, big ballads and soul tracks. Eugene Chadbourne of Allmusic rated \"Sammy Davis Jr. Now\" one-and-a-half out of five stars. He stated that \"there are tracks enough on this album that are painful to sit through\", but also said that \"The Candy Man\" \"surely will retain its historical value simply for being about the closest music has ever", "title": "Sammy Davis Jr. Now" }, { "docid": "1597689", "text": "wife, Altovise Davis. After her death in 2009, their son Manny was named executor of the estate and majority rights holder of his intellectual property. Sammy Davis Jr. Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, musician, dancer, actor, vaudevillian and comedian. He was noted for his impressions of actors, musicians, and other celebrities. At the age of three, Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father, Sammy Davis Sr. and the Will Mastin Trio, which toured nationally. After military service, Davis returned to the trio. Davis became an overnight sensation following", "title": "Sammy Davis Jr." }, { "docid": "1597657", "text": "Sammy Davis Jr. Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, musician, dancer, actor, vaudevillian and comedian. He was noted for his impressions of actors, musicians, and other celebrities. At the age of three, Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father, Sammy Davis Sr. and the Will Mastin Trio, which toured nationally. After military service, Davis returned to the trio. Davis became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciro's (in West Hollywood) after the 1951 Academy Awards. With the trio, he became a recording artist. In 1954, he lost", "title": "Sammy Davis Jr." }, { "docid": "14482733", "text": "was a deliberate throwback.\" \"All compositions by Billy May except as indicated\" Johnny Cool Johnny Cool is a 1963 American neo noir crime film directed by William Asher based on the novel \"The Kingdom of Johnny Cool\" by John McPartland which stars Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgomery. Produced in part by Peter Lawford, \"Johnny Cool\" features a cast that also includes Mort Sahl, Telly Savalas, Jim Backus, Joey Bishop, and Sammy Davis, Jr., who also sings the theme song. Johnny Colini, an exiled American living in Rome, rescues Salvatore Giordano, a young Sicilian outlaw, from the police. After Giordano is", "title": "Johnny Cool" }, { "docid": "14482730", "text": "Johnny Cool Johnny Cool is a 1963 American neo noir crime film directed by William Asher based on the novel \"The Kingdom of Johnny Cool\" by John McPartland which stars Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgomery. Produced in part by Peter Lawford, \"Johnny Cool\" features a cast that also includes Mort Sahl, Telly Savalas, Jim Backus, Joey Bishop, and Sammy Davis, Jr., who also sings the theme song. Johnny Colini, an exiled American living in Rome, rescues Salvatore Giordano, a young Sicilian outlaw, from the police. After Giordano is groomed, polished, and renamed \"Johnny Cool,\" Colini sends him on a mission", "title": "Johnny Cool" }, { "docid": "3947306", "text": "Sammy Davis Sr. Samuel George Davis Sr. (December 12, 1900 – May 21, 1988) was an African American dancer and the father of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. Davis was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, to Rosa B. Taylor (1870–1957) and Robert Davis (1868–1948). He and his former wife Elvera Sanchez were both dancers in a vaudeville troupe. The couple split up when their son Sammy Jr. was three. Davis took custody of his son, who then went into show business with his father. He and Will Mastin, the leader of the dance troupe, taught Sammy Jr. how to dance and", "title": "Sammy Davis Sr." }, { "docid": "1597675", "text": "the 1970s. Davis was an avid photographer who enjoyed shooting pictures of family and acquaintances. His body of work was detailed in a 2007 book by Burt Boyar titled \"Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr.\" \"Jerry [Lewis] gave me my first important camera, my first 35 millimeter, during the Ciro's period, early '50s,\" Boyar quotes Davis. \"And he hooked me.\" Davis used a medium format camera later on to capture images. Boyar reports that Davis had said, \"Nobody interrupts a man taking a picture to ask ... 'What's that nigger doin' here?'\" His catalog includes rare photos of his father dancing", "title": "Sammy Davis Jr." }, { "docid": "16970024", "text": "infectious sense of humor\". The Sammy Davis Jr. All-Star Spectacular The Sammy Davis Jr. All-Star Spectacular is a 1962 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr. arranged by Morty Stevens. The first half of the album features Davis' impersonations of popular entertainers and celebrities. Lindsay Planer on Allmusic.com gave the album four stars out of five. Planer commented that Davis had been recorded like never before, both as a dynamic vocalist and as an actor of equally impressive proficiency. Planer described \"All-Star Spectacular\" as a unique album, capitalising on Davis' sizable talents as a \"seminal master of melody and allowing for", "title": "The Sammy Davis Jr. All-Star Spectacular" }, { "docid": "16970023", "text": "The Sammy Davis Jr. All-Star Spectacular The Sammy Davis Jr. All-Star Spectacular is a 1962 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr. arranged by Morty Stevens. The first half of the album features Davis' impersonations of popular entertainers and celebrities. Lindsay Planer on Allmusic.com gave the album four stars out of five. Planer commented that Davis had been recorded like never before, both as a dynamic vocalist and as an actor of equally impressive proficiency. Planer described \"All-Star Spectacular\" as a unique album, capitalising on Davis' sizable talents as a \"seminal master of melody and allowing for a peek into his", "title": "The Sammy Davis Jr. All-Star Spectacular" }, { "docid": "1597658", "text": "his left eye in a car accident, and several years later, he converted to Judaism, finding commonalities between the oppression experienced by African-American and Jewish communities. Davis's film career began as a child in 1933. In 1960, he appeared in the Rat Pack film \"Ocean's 11\". After a starring role on Broadway in \"Mr Wonderful\" (1956), he returned to the stage in 1964's \"Golden Boy.\" In 1966 he had his own TV variety show, titled \"The Sammy Davis Jr. Show\". Davis's career slowed in the late 1960s, but he had a hit record with \"The Candy Man\" in 1972 and", "title": "Sammy Davis Jr." }, { "docid": "3947308", "text": "movies, \"Sweet and Low\" (1947) with the Will Mastin Trio, and \"The Benny Goodman Story\" (1956), in which he played the bandleader and arranger Fletcher Henderson. Sammy Davis Sr. died May 21, 1988, in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 87, of natural causes, two years before the death of his son, Sammy Davis Jr. Sammy Davis Sr. Samuel George Davis Sr. (December 12, 1900 – May 21, 1988) was an African American dancer and the father of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. Davis was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, to Rosa B. Taylor (1870–1957) and Robert Davis (1868–1948). He", "title": "Sammy Davis Sr." }, { "docid": "2300383", "text": "the event. For his contribution to the television industry, Peter Lawford has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6920 Hollywood Blvd. A plaque bearing Lawford's name was erected at Westwood Village Memorial Park Peter Lawford Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford (born Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen; 7 September 1923 – 24 December 1984) was a British actor, producer, and socialite, who lived in the United States throughout his adult life. He was a member of the \"Rat Pack\" and the brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy, and the senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy. From the 1940s", "title": "Peter Lawford" }, { "docid": "3947307", "text": "they performed together as the Will Mastin Trio. Sammy Jr. once stated, \"When I was nine I told my father, 'I can outdance you'. 'Oh yeah? What makes you think that?' he asked. 'Cause you taught me everything I know'. 'Yeah, but I didn't teach you everything \"I\" know.'\" Sammy Davis Sr. began dancing early in life, and as a young man joined Will Mastin to form a dancing troupe. Soon Sammy Jr. joined the act and they became known as the Will Mastin Trio. The three appeared in the 1956 Broadway musical \"Mr. Wonderful\". Davis also appeared in two", "title": "Sammy Davis Sr." }, { "docid": "1394245", "text": "Round Table. Cushing continued to make occasional cameos on the show over the next decade, portraying himself desperately attempting to collect a payment for his previous acting appearance on the show. Cushing and Lee made cameos as their old roles of Frankenstein and Dracula in the 1970 comedy \"One More Time\", which starred Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. The single scene took only one morning of filming, which Cushing agreed to after Davis asked him to do it as a favour. The next year, Cushing appeared in \"I, Monster\" (1971), which was adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's \"Strange Case", "title": "Peter Cushing" }, { "docid": "2300357", "text": "Peter Lawford Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford (born Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen; 7 September 1923 – 24 December 1984) was a British actor, producer, and socialite, who lived in the United States throughout his adult life. He was a member of the \"Rat Pack\" and the brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy, and the senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy. From the 1940s to the 1960s, he was a well-known celebrity and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films. In later years, he was noted more for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting; it was", "title": "Peter Lawford" }, { "docid": "3231187", "text": "13 oriental entrees and several side dishes. A final item ending this page outlined in a long rectangle was a special menu selection of a “Complete Polynesian Dinner.” Latin Casino The Latin Casino was a Philadelphia-area nightclub that first opened in 1944 at 1309 Walnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many top entertainers performed at the Latin including Harry Belafonte, Jimmy Durante, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Richard Pryor, Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, Lena Horne, Pearl Bailey, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Joey Bishop. The Latin was a very popular Center City nightclub for a decade. In 1960, owners Stanley and", "title": "Latin Casino" }, { "docid": "3231177", "text": "Latin Casino The Latin Casino was a Philadelphia-area nightclub that first opened in 1944 at 1309 Walnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many top entertainers performed at the Latin including Harry Belafonte, Jimmy Durante, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Richard Pryor, Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, Lena Horne, Pearl Bailey, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Joey Bishop. The Latin was a very popular Center City nightclub for a decade. In 1960, owners Stanley and Bea Carroll relocated the nightclub to 2235 Route 70 in nearby Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States and built the plush 1,500-seat, Vegas-style dinner theater renamed from the", "title": "Latin Casino" }, { "docid": "2300375", "text": "\"Robin and the 7 Hoods\" (1964) with Bing Crosby -but Davis remained loyal and got Lawford a support role in \"A Man Called Adam\" (1966). He and Patrica Kennedy divorced in 1966. He guest starred on shows like \"The Wild Wild West\", \"I Spy\" and was in \"How I Spent My Summer Vacation\" (1967). Lawford went to Europe to star in \"Dead Run\" (1967) and \"The Fourth Wall\" (1968). He was a popular guest star on TV comedy and game shows. He produced a film starring himself and Davis,\"Salt and Pepper\" (1968) and had support roles in \"Skidoo\" (1968) for", "title": "Peter Lawford" }, { "docid": "7166106", "text": "Salt and Pepper (film) Salt and Pepper is a 1968 British comedy film starring Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Michael Bates, Ilona Rodgers and John Le Mesurier. The film was directed by Richard Donner, who later would direct the films \"Superman\" and \"Lethal Weapon\". There was a 1970 sequel, \"One More Time\", directed by Jerry Lewis. Chris Pepper (Lawford) and Charlie Salt (Davis) own a nightclub in Swinging London, operating under the suspicious eye of the intrepid Inspector Crabbe. One night, Pepper finds an Asian girl on the floor of the club. Assuming she's drunk or high, he makes a", "title": "Salt and Pepper (film)" }, { "docid": "7843469", "text": "Sammy Davis (American football) Sammy James Davis, Jr. (born April 8, 1980) is a former American football cornerback. He is a businessman and owner of the Austin Capitals, an American Basketball Association franchise. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers 30th overall in the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas A&M. Davis also played for the San Francisco 49ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. After a collegiate career at Texas A&M, Davis played for the San Diego Chargers for three seasons. He then spent single seasons with the San Francisco 49ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Davis started", "title": "Sammy Davis (American football)" }, { "docid": "13687238", "text": "2009. Deconstructing Sammy Deconstructing Sammy is a book by author Matt Birkbeck about the life and death of Sammy Davis, Jr. and the subsequent efforts to restore his legacy. The book focuses on the efforts of a Pennsylvania lawyer, Albert \"Sonny\" Murray Jr., who was hired in 1994 by Sammy's poverty-stricken wife Altovise to help resolve Sammy's debts. Upon his death from cancer in 1990, Sammy Davis Jr. owed over $15 million, of which $7 million was owed to the Internal Revenue Service. Murray spent seven years representing the Davis estate, from 1994 to 2001, during which time he resolved", "title": "Deconstructing Sammy" }, { "docid": "13687236", "text": "Deconstructing Sammy Deconstructing Sammy is a book by author Matt Birkbeck about the life and death of Sammy Davis, Jr. and the subsequent efforts to restore his legacy. The book focuses on the efforts of a Pennsylvania lawyer, Albert \"Sonny\" Murray Jr., who was hired in 1994 by Sammy's poverty-stricken wife Altovise to help resolve Sammy's debts. Upon his death from cancer in 1990, Sammy Davis Jr. owed over $15 million, of which $7 million was owed to the Internal Revenue Service. Murray spent seven years representing the Davis estate, from 1994 to 2001, during which time he resolved the", "title": "Deconstructing Sammy" }, { "docid": "3947380", "text": "2009, at age 65 in Los Angeles. She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, next to her husband, Sammy Davis Jr. Altovise Davis Altovise Joanne Davis ( Gore; August 30, 1943 – March 14, 2009) was an American entertainer, best known as Sammy Davis Jr.'s third wife. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina as Altovise Joanne Gore, she was raised in Brooklyn, New York. A life member of The Actors Studio, Gore worked during the 1960s as a chorus-line dancer in various musical shows both in London and on Broadway. Her relationship with Sammy Davis Jr. started", "title": "Altovise Davis" }, { "docid": "7843470", "text": "16 games in his rookie season, but he never started more than ten games in a season between 2004 and 2007. During his NFL career, Davis was involved in the development of a system that allowed football players to drink water while on the playing field. Sammy Davis (American football) Sammy James Davis, Jr. (born April 8, 1980) is a former American football cornerback. He is a businessman and owner of the Austin Capitals, an American Basketball Association franchise. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers 30th overall in the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas", "title": "Sammy Davis (American football)" }, { "docid": "1597661", "text": "on December 8, 1925, in the Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City, the son of entertainer and stage performer, Sammy Davis Sr. (1900–1988), an African-American entertainer, and Elvera Sanchez (1905–2000), an Afro-Cuban tap dancer. During his lifetime, Davis stated that his mother was Puerto Rican and born in San Juan. However, in the 2003 biography \"In Black and White\", author Wil Haygood writes that Davis's mother was born in New York City to parents of Cuban, Afro-Cuban, and African-American descent, and that Davis claimed he was Puerto Rican because he feared anti-Cuban backlash would hurt his record sales.", "title": "Sammy Davis Jr." }, { "docid": "2933773", "text": "father, Martin; Jean Byron played her mother, Natalie; Paul O'Keefe was her younger brother, Ross; and Eddie Applegate portrayed her boyfriend Richard Harrison. The show also featured such high-profile guest stars as Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Paul Lynde and Sal Mineo. The series lasted three seasons and earned Duke an Emmy Award nomination. In 1999, the program's characters were revisited and updated in \"The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights\", with Cindy Williams taking on the villain role of Sue Ellen Turner when Kitty Sullivan was unable to reprise her role. After the cancellation of \"The Patty", "title": "Patty Duke" }, { "docid": "11430249", "text": "episodes of season 2 of \"The Flaxton Boys\", a Yorkshire Television children's series set at Flaxton Hall in 1890. His last film was the 1970 Sammy Davis, Jr., comedy sequel, \"One More Time\", in which Davis and Peter Lawford play swinging U.S. private investigators Salt and Pepper, investigating the murder in England of the titled twin brother of Chris Pepper (Lawford). Kelsall played a church minister. Kelsall continued to work until the year of his death in 1980. His appearances included such programmes as \"The Persuaders!\", \"Doomwatch\", \"Coronation Street\", and the BBC epic \"Edward the Seventh\", in which he played", "title": "Moultrie Kelsall" }, { "docid": "7657526", "text": "together to put the criminals behind bars. Lawford plays both Pepper and Pepper's twin brother, Lord Sydney Pepper and*Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee have cameo roles as Baron Frankenstein and Count Dracula, respectively. The film is the only one that Jerry Lewis directed but did not star in, although he does have a role as the off-screen voice of the bandleader. The film was released on DVD on January 25, 2005. One More Time (1970 film) One More Time is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Jerry Lewis and starring Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford. It was filmed", "title": "One More Time (1970 film)" }, { "docid": "2300381", "text": "Crosby, a staunch Republican, ended up cast in Lawford's role. Lawford married his second wife, Mary Rowan, daughter of comedian Dan Rowan, in October 1971. Rowan and Lawford separated two years later and divorced in January 1975. In June 1976 he married aspiring actress Deborah Gould, whom he had known for three weeks. Lawford and Gould separated two months after marrying and divorced in 1977. Following the divorce, Lawford moved into the Sierra Towers where he lived for the next few years on the thirtieth floor. During his separation from Gould, Lawford met Patricia Seaton who became his fourth and", "title": "Peter Lawford" }, { "docid": "13294153", "text": "participated on two Davis Cup winning teams for the U.S. His older brother Tony was also a touring pro. Giammalva left the Grand Prix tour in 1989 and enrolled in Rice University. Sammy Giammalva Jr. Sammy Giammalva Jr. (born March 24, 1963 in Houston, Texas) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. In College, at the University of Texas, he was runner-up to Barry MacKay in the 1957 NCAA Singles Tennis Championship in 5 sets (6-4, 3-6, 6-2, 3-6, and 6-3) in Salt lake City, Utah. During his career he won 2 singles titles and 4 doubles", "title": "Sammy Giammalva Jr." }, { "docid": "7124175", "text": "Sammy L. Davis Sammy Lee Davis (born November 1, 1946) is an American who served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and was awarded the nation's highest military medal for valor, the Medal of Honor. Born in Dayton, Ohio, on November 1, 1946, Davis was raised in French Camp, California. His family had a long tradition of military service; his grandfather served in the Spanish–American War, his father Robert Davis was in World War II, and his brothers Hubert (\"Buddy\") and Darrell Davis served in Korea and Vietnam, respectively. Davis attended Manteca High School in Manteca, California,", "title": "Sammy L. Davis" }, { "docid": "1339239", "text": "a crooning style influenced by Harry Mills of the Mills Brothers, among others. In the early 1940s, he started singing for bandleader Sammy Watkins, who suggested he change his name to Dean Martin. In October 1941, Martin married Elizabeth \"Betty\" Anne McDonald in Cleveland, Ohio, and the couple had an apartment in Cleveland Heights for a while. They eventually had four children before the marriage ended in 1949. Martin worked for various bands throughout the early 1940s, mostly on looks and personality until he developed his own singing style. He flopped at the Riobamba nightclub in New York, when he", "title": "Dean Martin" }, { "docid": "16957960", "text": "Artie Shaw, Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams, Stan Kenton, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, and Al Terzi throughout his career. Dean died of natural causes at his home in Connecticut and is survived by his children Arnold D'Angelo, Jr., Richard D'Angelo, and Mary Rondini-D'Angelo and his grandchildren Samantha, Anthony, Jenna, Nicole, and Nicholas. Arnold Dean Arnold Dean (July 1, 1930 – December 8, 2012) was an American radio sports host notable for live radio broadcasts with Joe DiMaggio and Sammy Davis, Jr. Dean was born Arnold D'Angelo in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, and was raised by his Italian father in Connecticut.", "title": "Arnold Dean" }, { "docid": "13111908", "text": "W. Bush on January 24, 1990, to a seat vacated by Edward Weinfeld. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 5, 1990, and received his commission on April 6, 1990. He assumed senior status on May 31, 2003. Martin served in that capacity until September 30, 2003, due to retirement. John S. Martin Jr. John S. Martin Jr. (born 1935) is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Martin received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Manhattan College in 1957", "title": "John S. Martin Jr." }, { "docid": "4325113", "text": "Christopher Lawford Christopher Kennedy \"Chris\" Lawford (March 29, 1955 – September 4, 2018) was an American author, actor, and activist. He was a member of the prominent Kennedy family, and son of actor Peter Lawford. Lawford was born in Santa Monica, California, at Saint John's Health Center. He was the eldest child and only son of actor Peter Lawford (1923–1984) and socialite Patricia \"Pat\" Kennedy Lawford (1924–2006). His three younger sisters are Sydney McKelvy (born 1956), Victoria Lawford (born 1958), and Robin Lawford (born 1961). Lawford was a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and former cousin-in-law of actor/politician Arnold", "title": "Christopher Lawford" }, { "docid": "3947377", "text": "Altovise Davis Altovise Joanne Davis ( Gore; August 30, 1943 – March 14, 2009) was an American entertainer, best known as Sammy Davis Jr.'s third wife. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina as Altovise Joanne Gore, she was raised in Brooklyn, New York. A life member of The Actors Studio, Gore worked during the 1960s as a chorus-line dancer in various musical shows both in London and on Broadway. Her relationship with Sammy Davis Jr. started in 1968 while they were working in the same show. They were married in a Philadelphia courthouse by the Rev. Jesse Jackson on May 11,", "title": "Altovise Davis" }, { "docid": "3657244", "text": "Dean Paul Martin Dean Paul Martin Jr. (November 17, 1951 – March 21, 1987) was an American pop singer and film and television actor. A member of the California Air National Guard, Martin died in a crash during a military flight. Martin was the son of American entertainer Dean Martin. Martin's parents were singer and entertainer Dean Martin and his second wife, Jeanne Biegger. Dean Paul was the fifth of Dean Martin's eight children, and was Jeanne's eldest son. He attended the Urban Military Academy in Brentwood, California. As a youth, Martin was encouraged toward a singing career. At age", "title": "Dean Paul Martin" }, { "docid": "5383093", "text": "a star in the United States under his new stage name, Dean Martin. He sued Dean Martin in July 1950 for unpaid royalties, claiming that he had only been given $1,000 since 1943 when Dean was supposed to give him 10% of his earnings ― which were $335,594 ― as Sammy had become Dean's agent at the time. Dean had filed for bankruptcy in January 1949. Sammy Watkins (musician) Sammy Watkins was the leader of the Sammy Watkins Orchestra, popular during the late 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. He continued to lead a band, based primarily in Cleveland, into the 1960s.", "title": "Sammy Watkins (musician)" }, { "docid": "20934539", "text": "Monta Bell. Monta Bell married Lawford's daughter, Betty, around the time of this film. Lawford proposed marriage to Ethel Barrymore early in her career. He was one of many men rumored engaged to the actress. He was later married to Janet Slater and had one child Betty Lawford. Betty's first husband was Monta Bell, the director who made Ernest Lawford's final film in 1931. The actor Peter Lawford was a cousin. Ernest Lawford died in New York December 27, 1940. Ernest Lawford Ernest E. Lawford (1870-1940) was an English stage and film actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1890", "title": "Ernest Lawford" }, { "docid": "7124180", "text": "Christ of Latter-day Saints. Davis's military decorations and awards include: Rank and organization: Sergeant (then Private First Class), U.S. Army, Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 4th Artillery, 9th Infantry Division<br> Place and date: West of Cai Lay, Republic of Vietnam, 18 November 1967<br> Entered service at: Indianapolis, Indiana<br> Born: 1 November 1946, Dayton, Ohio Sammy L. Davis Sammy Lee Davis (born November 1, 1946) is an American who served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and was awarded the nation's highest military medal for valor, the Medal of Honor. Born in Dayton, Ohio, on November 1, 1946, Davis", "title": "Sammy L. Davis" }, { "docid": "13111906", "text": "John S. Martin Jr. John S. Martin Jr. (born 1935) is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Martin received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Manhattan College in 1957 and a Bachelor of Laws from Columbia Law School in 1961. He was a law clerk for Judge Leonard P. Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1961 to 1962. He was an Assistant United States Attorney of the Southern District of New York from 1962 to", "title": "John S. Martin Jr." }, { "docid": "7588997", "text": "become an Anglican priest. After ordination, Davis served as a curate at Karori, Wellington. He was then appointed the vicar at Dannevirke and later became Dean and Vicar General of Waiapu. In 1980 he was appointed the Bishop of Waikato and in 1986 was elected the Archbishop of New Zealand and Bishop of Wellington. In the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours, Davis was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the Anglican Church and the community. Brian Davis (bishop) Brian Newton Davis (28 October 1934 – 22 June 1998) was the Anglican Bishop of Waikato", "title": "Brian Davis (bishop)" }, { "docid": "4325114", "text": "Schwarzenegger (appearing in two of his films, including \"\"). Peter and Patricia Lawford divorced in 1966 after which Patricia raised the children in New York City. Before his parents' divorce, Lawford attended St. Martin of Tours Elementary School in Los Angeles. Upon moving to New York City with his mother, he attended the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts. He later earned a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University in 1977. In 1983, he earned a J.D. from Boston College Law School, and a master's certificate in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University, where he gained an academic appointment as a Lecturer", "title": "Christopher Lawford" }, { "docid": "13896019", "text": "Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dean Martin is shown, featuring several songs with racially offensive lyrics. Immediately after, the group believes that they see their old friend, Cleveland, who moved to Virginia, across the bar, but are disappointed when it is revealed to be a lamp. Peter then goes on to express his desire to finally replace Cleveland, stating that their group is just like the \"Muppets\" character Statler without Waldorf. Deciding to hold auditions for a replacement for their entourage, they first audition actor Kevin Connolly, who is discouraged from joining once Quagmire attempts to steal his Lucky Charms cereal.", "title": "Jerome Is the New Black" }, { "docid": "17027276", "text": "disease in 1989. He was inducted in the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1976. The \"Joe C. Davis Professor of Biomedical Science\" chair at Vanderbilt University is named for him. His niece, Anne Davis, is married to Karl Dean, the former Democratic Mayor of Nashville. Joe C. Davis Jr. Joseph Columbus Davis Jr. (June 15, 1919 – November 26, 1989) was an American businessman and tennis player. Joseph Columbus Davis was born in 1919 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was Joseph Columbus. His mother, Frances Bond Davis, was a feminist activist who supported the Nineteenth Amendment to the United", "title": "Joe C. Davis Jr." }, { "docid": "16957959", "text": "Arnold Dean Arnold Dean (July 1, 1930 – December 8, 2012) was an American radio sports host notable for live radio broadcasts with Joe DiMaggio and Sammy Davis, Jr. Dean was born Arnold D'Angelo in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, and was raised by his Italian father in Connecticut. Upon attending Syracuse University, he began his career at WKRT in Cortland, New York, later moving onto WAGE in Syracuse. He then returned to his home state, joining WTIC in 1965. In 1976, Dean launched his own radio show, which would host celebrities and sports celebrities. He was in contact with Geno Auriemma,", "title": "Arnold Dean" } ]
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Nov 24, 1963 saw the death of reputed JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at the hands of which Dallas night club owner?
[ "Tom Howard (attorney)", "Jack Rubenstein", "Jack Ruby", "Jack Ruby and the Mafia", "Jack Leon Ruby", "Karen Bennett Carlin", "Jacob Leon Rubenstein", "Jacob Rubenstein", "Jack Leon Rubenstein" ]
[ { "docid": "17184299", "text": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964 film) The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is a 1964 American film directed by Larry Buchanan. It is the first speculative trial drama to be produced about Lee Harvey Oswald only a few months after the assassination of John F. Kennedy along with the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald himself. The film was made in Dallas, and served as an idea of what the trial would have been like had it occurred, if Oswald hadn't been killed by Jack Ruby. In the film, the prosecution asserts Oswald committed the crime for political reasons", "title": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964 film)" }, { "docid": "232813", "text": "1964, Robert H. Jackson of the \"Dallas Times Herald\" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his image of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. Ruby later said he had been distraught over Kennedy's death and that his motive for killing Oswald was \"saving Mrs. Kennedy the discomfiture of coming back to trial.\" Others have hypothesized that Ruby was part of a conspiracy. G. Robert Blakey, chief counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations from 1977 to 1979, said: \"The most plausible explanation for the murder of Oswald by Jack Ruby was that Ruby had", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "12174637", "text": "as a piece of entertainment\" and called it a \"sorry charade\". The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 film) The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is an American two-part television film shown on ABC in September 1977. The film stars Ben Gazzara, Lorne Greene and John Pleshette in the title role. It is an example of alternative history. The hypothesis is what might have happened if Lee Harvey Oswald had not been killed by Jack Ruby and had stood trial for the murder of President John F. Kennedy. The film opens sometime in 1964 and Oswald is in a maximum", "title": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 film)" }, { "docid": "12174630", "text": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 film) The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is an American two-part television film shown on ABC in September 1977. The film stars Ben Gazzara, Lorne Greene and John Pleshette in the title role. It is an example of alternative history. The hypothesis is what might have happened if Lee Harvey Oswald had not been killed by Jack Ruby and had stood trial for the murder of President John F. Kennedy. The film opens sometime in 1964 and Oswald is in a maximum security cage as a radio announcer tells how he has been", "title": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 film)" }, { "docid": "4132881", "text": "murder charge, reportedly on orders from someone in the White House.) On November 24, 1963, at 11:21 a.m. CST, before live television cameras, Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and mortally wounded in the basement of Dallas Police headquarters by a local nightclub owner with alleged mafia ties, Jack Ruby. Unconscious, Oswald was put into an ambulance and rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital where doctors tried to save the life of John F. Kennedy two days earlier. Oswald died at 1:07 pm. The state funeral took place in Washington, DC during the three days that followed the assassination.", "title": "Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination" }, { "docid": "232748", "text": "President traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. About 45 minutes after Oswald assassinated Kennedy, he shot and killed Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit on a local street. Oswald then slipped into a movie theater, where he was arrested for Tippit's murder. Oswald was eventually charged with the murder of Kennedy; he denied the accusations and stated that he was a \"patsy\". Two days later, Oswald was fatally shot by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters. In September 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone when", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "2075727", "text": "Hospital is also where Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald's killer Jack Ruby died. Hill is buried in Grove Hill Memorial Park in Dallas. Jean Hill Norma Jean Lollis Hill (February 11, 1931 – November 7, 2000) was an eyewitness to the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Hill was known as the \"Lady in Red\" because of the long red raincoat she wore that day, as seen in Abraham Zapruder's film of the assassination. A teacher by profession, she was a consultant for Oliver Stone's 1991 film \"JFK\" and", "title": "Jean Hill" }, { "docid": "216717", "text": "Jack Ruby Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein; April 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967) was the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, while Oswald was in police custody after being charged with assassinating U.S. President John F. Kennedy and the murder of Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit about an hour later. A Dallas jury found him guilty of murdering Oswald, and he was sentenced to death. Ruby's conviction was later appealed, and he was granted a new trial. However, on January 3, 1967, as the date for his new trial", "title": "Jack Ruby" }, { "docid": "232810", "text": "the weekend. Oswald also declined his brother Robert's offer on Saturday to obtain a local attorney. During an interrogation with Captain Fritz, when asked, \"Are you a communist?\", he replied, \"No, I am not a communist. I am a Marxist.\" On Sunday, November 24, detectives were escorting Oswald through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters toward an armored car that was to take him from the city jail (located on the fourth floor of police headquarters) to the nearby county jail. At 11:21 a.m. CST, Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby approached Oswald from the side of the crowd and shot", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "17108885", "text": "November 24, 1963. In a review for \"The Washington Times\", O'Leary wrote: \"The actors and the director succeeded only in making a bore of a weekend that was as exciting as it was horrible.\" Ruby and Oswald Ruby and Oswald is a 1978 American made-for-television drama film about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. It stars Michael Lerner and Frederic Forrest. Jack Ruby (Michael Lerner) is a warm-hearted and patriotic nightclub owner, who loves President Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald (Frederic Forrest), a troubled loner with a speckled past is looking to merely acquire fame. On November 22, Oswald", "title": "Ruby and Oswald" }, { "docid": "14387585", "text": "local underworld when the President was assassinated on November 22. Suspicions increased two days later when accused Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, then in the custody of the Dallas Police, was shot and mortally wounded in front of TV cameras by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Informant Bobby Gene Moore told the FBI what he knew about Ruby's many visits with Joseph Civello. During the Warren Commission probe into the Kennedy Assassination, further evidence surfaced of contacts between Ruby and Tampa Mob figures in Havana, Cuba. Ruby visited gambler Lewis J. McWillie in Havana in 1959, and one account suggested", "title": "Dallas crime family" }, { "docid": "6819461", "text": "Ruby (1992 film) Ruby is a feature film, released in the United States on March 27, 1992, about Jack Ruby, the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement garage of a Dallas city police station in 1963. The film was directed by John Mackenzie and stars Danny Aiello (as Ruby), Sherilyn Fenn (as Sheryl Ann DuJean a.k.a. Candy Cane), and Arliss Howard. It is based on a play written by British screenwriter Stephen Davis. \"Ruby\" was released three months after Oliver Stone's movie \"JFK\". The film begins with Jack Ruby saying, \"Lookin' back", "title": "Ruby (1992 film)" }, { "docid": "20465284", "text": "is where Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, was gunned down in 1963 by Jack Ruby. Hill opened his own office in 1921 in Dallas, and designed many private residences from the 1920s through the 1940s in the Swiss Avenue, Gaston Avenue, Lakewood and Highland Park areas. He also worked on commercial properties, apartments, several churches, and the original Dallas and Lakewood Country Club buildings. Hill is especially known for his traditional, grand, Georgian-style homes, many examples of which can be seen in the Swiss Avenue Historic District in East Dallas. However, he also designed", "title": "Bertram Charles Hill" }, { "docid": "11229195", "text": "Don Yarborough and conservative John Connally. Traveling in a presidential motorcade through downtown Dallas with Jackie Kennedy, Connally, and Connally's wife, Nelly, Kennedy was shot in the head and neck. He was taken to Parkland Hospital for emergency medical treatment, but was pronounced dead at 1:00 pm. Hours after the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, an order filler at the Texas School Book Depository, was arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit, and was subsequently charged with Kennedy's assassination. Oswald denied the charges, but was killed by strip-club owner Jack Ruby on November 24. Ruby claimed to have", "title": "Presidency of John F. Kennedy" }, { "docid": "17108884", "text": "Ruby and Oswald Ruby and Oswald is a 1978 American made-for-television drama film about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. It stars Michael Lerner and Frederic Forrest. Jack Ruby (Michael Lerner) is a warm-hearted and patriotic nightclub owner, who loves President Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald (Frederic Forrest), a troubled loner with a speckled past is looking to merely acquire fame. On November 22, Oswald kills the president. On the 24th, Ruby kills Oswald, being motivated exclusively by his love for the president. Journalist Jeremiah O'Leary witnessed Ruby's shooting of Oswald in the basement of Dallas Police headquarters on", "title": "Ruby and Oswald" }, { "docid": "11224346", "text": "program. The school opened in 2003 and was started by Rabbis Eliyahu Kaufman and Shlomo Pacht. Later Rabbi Daniel Ringelheim joined the school. All three Rabbis are the Rosh Hayeshiva who obtained their ordination from the Rabbinical Seminary of America. Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, operated a nightclub in Dallas, but was a native of Chicago. History of the Jews in Dallas Dallas is one of the largest cities in Texas and has one of the largest Jewish communities in the state. German Jews arrived in Dallas as part of the mid-nineteenth century immigration to Texas from the", "title": "History of the Jews in Dallas" }, { "docid": "216766", "text": "Jack Ruby was on the boat.\" Blaney Mack Johnson, an FBI informant, said Ruby was \"active in arranging illegal flights of weapons from Miami\" to pro-Castro forces in Cuba in the early 1950s. Articles of clothing that Ruby wore when he killed Oswald — including his suit, hat and shoes — are on display at the Historic Auto Attractions museum in Roscoe, Illinois. Jack Ruby Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein; April 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967) was the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, while Oswald was in police", "title": "Jack Ruby" }, { "docid": "4354471", "text": "of Dallas police headquarters when Jack Ruby shot suspected John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963. Edwards was one of the witnesses interviewed by NBC television correspondent Tom Pettit on the scene. In its 11th annual radio selections for the Best of 1967 column, \"The Los Angeles Times\" selected Edwards for its \"Personality of the Year\" for Edwards' on air work at KFI. After a few short stints at other stations, Edwards was hired at KMPC in Los Angeles, occupying the 9 a.m.-noon slot for several years beginning in February 1968 until December 1979 when he", "title": "Geoff Edwards" }, { "docid": "9736214", "text": "Tom Reavley in the Democratic primary. He was reelected in 1964, as all statewide Republican candidates in Texas were again defeated in the Johnson-Humphrey landslide. As attorney general, he was involved in the prosecutions of swindler Billie Sol Estes of Pecos, and Jack Ruby, or Jack Rubenstein, the Dallas nightclub owner who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. On the morning of November 22, 1963, Carr and his wife, the former Ernestine Story (born April 22, 1920, in Wylie), were among the dignitaries who ate breakfast with President and Mrs. Kennedy in Fort Worth.", "title": "Waggoner Carr" }, { "docid": "2457145", "text": "executed for murder by New York state authorities. The accused assassin of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, would presumably have been tried for murder by Texas state authorities had he not been killed two days later by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas Municipal Building (then Dallas Police Department headquarters) while being transferred to the county jail. (Ruby himself was initially tried and convicted of murder in a Texas state court, but that was overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and he died before he could be retried.) Only after Kennedy's death was it made", "title": "Capital punishment by the United States federal government" }, { "docid": "4866437", "text": "remote unit that was loaned to WBAP-TV by KTVT management and set up at the Dallas Police Department's downtown headquarters, awaiting the transfer of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald (who shot both men from an upper-floor window at the Texas School Book Depository overlooking Elm Street) to the Dallas County Jail, fed live images of the accused Presidential assassin being gunned down by nightclub owner Jack Ruby to the NBC network; it marked the first time that a murder had been witnessed live on U.S. network television. The station's coverage of the Kennedy assassination and his visit to Texas during which", "title": "KXAS-TV" }, { "docid": "10561578", "text": "affairs correspondent until 1989, when he began a three-year stint in NBC's London office. He continued working as a correspondent until 1995, the year of his death. After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Pettit was dispatched to Dallas where he served, in effect, as a police reporter. In the famous footage of Lee Harvey Oswald being killed by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Pettit, standing six feet away, is heard exclaiming, \"He's been shot. He's been shot. Lee Harvey Oswald has been shot.\" NBC was the only network airing Oswald's transfer live. Pettit died after complications from surgery,", "title": "Tom Pettit" } ]
[ { "docid": "232747", "text": "Lee Harvey Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was an American Marxist and former U.S. Marine who assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Oswald was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps and defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959. He lived in the Belarusian city of Minsk until June 1962, when he returned to the United States with his Russian wife, Marina, and eventually settled in Dallas. Five government investigations concluded that Oswald shot and killed Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository as the", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "20265624", "text": "and his team examined them and presented updated findings in a follow-up episode - the seventh one - on 19 December 2017. JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald is a History Channel television series about an investigation led by former CIA agent Robert Baer and former LAPD police lieutenant, Adam Bercovici into the 1963 assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, using recently declassified government documents to track down locations and witnesses connected with Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin. In most countries, episodes 1-6 aired between April 25th and May 30th, 2017. But, in the USA, episodes", "title": "JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald" }, { "docid": "20265623", "text": "JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald is a History Channel television series about an investigation led by former CIA agent Robert Baer and former LAPD police lieutenant, Adam Bercovici into the 1963 assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, using recently declassified government documents to track down locations and witnesses connected with Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin. In most countries, episodes 1-6 aired between April 25th and May 30th, 2017. But, in the USA, episodes 3-6 were delayed until 16 September 2017. Then, after the additional 2,891 secret files came to light on 26 October 2017, Baer", "title": "JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald" }, { "docid": "19205302", "text": "to four minutes and left on foot. Shortly thereafter, Oswald was confronted by Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit near the intersection of 10th and Patton. After exchanging a few words, Oswald fatally shot Officer Tippit and was later arrested a short time later at the Texas Theater. Lee Harvey Oswald Rooming House The house at 1026 N. Beckley in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, TX, was the temporary residence of Lee Harvey Oswald at the time of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Oswald rented a room here for $8 a week, beginning October 14, 1963, under the name O.H.", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald Rooming House" }, { "docid": "232828", "text": "American Bar Association conducted two mock Oswald trials. The first trial ended in a hung jury. In the second trial the jury acquitted Oswald. Lee Harvey Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was an American Marxist and former U.S. Marine who assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Oswald was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps and defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959. He lived in the Belarusian city of Minsk until June 1962, when he returned to the United States with his Russian wife, Marina, and eventually settled", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "19205300", "text": "Lee Harvey Oswald Rooming House The house at 1026 N. Beckley in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, TX, was the temporary residence of Lee Harvey Oswald at the time of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Oswald rented a room here for $8 a week, beginning October 14, 1963, under the name O.H. Lee The building is approximately 2 miles from the Texas School Book Depository where Oswald began working on October 16. Built in 1935, the three-bedroom home was bought by Mrs. Gladys Johnson in 1943. It is currently owned by Mrs. Johnson's granddaughter, Patricia Hall, who has opened", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald Rooming House" }, { "docid": "17184300", "text": "due to his Marxist beliefs, while Oswald's attorney presents an insanity defense, claiming he suffered from untreated paranoid schizophrenia since adolescence. Since the viewer acts as a juror, no verdict is given. Dallas criminal defense attorney Charles W. Tessmer appears after the film to summarize its contents and encourages viewers to debate among themselves. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964 film) The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is a 1964 American film directed by Larry Buchanan. It is the first speculative trial drama to be produced about Lee Harvey Oswald only a few months after the assassination of John", "title": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964 film)" }, { "docid": "12174635", "text": "weapon and a money order buying the Mannlicher-Carcano which killed Kennedy. Oswald merely says the evidence is faked. The prosecutor applies an unusual method of cross examination by mentioning an argument Oswald and Marina had the night before the assassination when Marina wanted to watch JFK on TV and Lee kept turning the set off over and over. Roberts demands \"Isn't that why you decided to kill President John F. Kennedy, because Marina wanted to watch him on TV?\" In his only display of emotion during the trial Oswald screams a denial. When Roberts points this out, Oswald responds that", "title": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 film)" }, { "docid": "9092604", "text": "Assassin\" were so egregiously in error, I had to stop watching it.\" Interview with the Assassin Interview with the Assassin is a 2002 drama/pseudo-documentary starring Raymond J. Barry and Dylan Haggerty. An unemployed cameraman, Ron Kobeleski (Haggerty), is asked by his reclusive neighbor, a retired Marine named Walter Ohlinger (Barry) who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, to document a startling confession: that he, not Lee Harvey Oswald, killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. A stunned Kobeleski learns that the conspiracy theory that says there was a second gunman on the grassy knoll is", "title": "Interview with the Assassin" }, { "docid": "12006823", "text": "her remarriage. The story is based on the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President Kennedy. Via flashbacks, the story traces the woman's life from her days in the Soviet Union, the turmoil following the assassination, raising her family, and coming to grips with the fact that, she too, may have been a pawn in a grand conspiracy. Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald is a 1993 television film directed by Robert Dornhelm and starring Helena Bonham Carter and Frank Whaley. David L. Wolper was the film's executive producer and it", "title": "Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "9092598", "text": "Interview with the Assassin Interview with the Assassin is a 2002 drama/pseudo-documentary starring Raymond J. Barry and Dylan Haggerty. An unemployed cameraman, Ron Kobeleski (Haggerty), is asked by his reclusive neighbor, a retired Marine named Walter Ohlinger (Barry) who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, to document a startling confession: that he, not Lee Harvey Oswald, killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. A stunned Kobeleski learns that the conspiracy theory that says there was a second gunman on the grassy knoll is true — because he was that second gunman. To prove it, he", "title": "Interview with the Assassin" }, { "docid": "5499959", "text": "if somebody got rid of Hitler at the right time? So if you don't know about General Walker, how can you speak up on his behalf?\" Oswald later wrote to Arnold Johnson of the Communist Party USA that on the evening of October 23, 1963, he had attended an \"ultra right\" meeting directed by Walker. On November 29, 1963, one week following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, an article appeared in a German newspaper,\"Deutsche Soldaten-Zeitung\" that accused reputed JFK assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, of having committed the attack on Walker. Oswald's widow, Marina Oswald was asked about the", "title": "Edwin Walker" }, { "docid": "232777", "text": "wife Jeanne was asked about Oswald's reaction, she said, \"I didn't notice anything\"; she continued, \"we started laughing our heads off, big joke, big George's joke.\" Jeanne de Mohrenschildt testified that this was the last time she or her husband ever saw the Oswalds. Oswald returned to New Orleans on April 24, 1963. Marina's friend Ruth Paine drove her by car from Dallas to join Oswald in New Orleans the following month. On May 10, Oswald was hired by the Reily Coffee Company as a machinery greaser. He was fired in July \"because his work was not satisfactory and because", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232827", "text": "trial of Clay Shaw began in January 1969 in Orleans Parish Criminal Court. The jury acquitted Shaw. Several films have fictionalized a trial of Oswald, depicting what may have happened had Ruby not killed Oswald. \"The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald\" (1964); \"The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald\" (1977); and \"On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald\" (1986) have imagined such a trial. In 1988, a 21-hour unscripted mock trial was held on television, argued by lawyers before a judge, with unscripted testimony from surviving witnesses to the events surrounding the assassination; the jury returned a verdict of guilty. In 1992 the", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "12719540", "text": "Harvey. The film briefly came to the attention of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy because of a viral marketing campaign which placed personal ads in the \"Dallas Morning News\" asking the \"Running Man\" to please call \"Lee\". Investigators thought that they might be coded messages placed by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald until they discovered the source of the advertisements. In Hollywood, an urban legend arose claiming that the film was a flop because it starred actors named Lee and Harvey. In Croydon, England, seemingly grieving Stella Black (Lee Remick) has just returned home from", "title": "The Running Man (1963 film)" }, { "docid": "19587998", "text": "find a permanent home.\" Oswald moved twenty times by the time he was 17 years old. The longest he lived anywhere was four years in Fort Worth, Texas. The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union is a 2013 book by Peter Savodnik, published by Basic Books. The book focuses on the nearly three years Lee Harvey Oswald spent in the Soviet Union. Savodnik attempts to figure out the motives behind Oswald killing John F. Kennedy. Savodnik calls Oswald an interloper, someone who flees \"from his old life and [inserts]", "title": "The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union" }, { "docid": "19587997", "text": "The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union is a 2013 book by Peter Savodnik, published by Basic Books. The book focuses on the nearly three years Lee Harvey Oswald spent in the Soviet Union. Savodnik attempts to figure out the motives behind Oswald killing John F. Kennedy. Savodnik calls Oswald an interloper, someone who flees \"from his old life and [inserts] himself into a new one adorned with new people and a new landscape and a new language or accent - with the hope that this time he might", "title": "The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union" }, { "docid": "4139484", "text": "JFK Reloaded JFK Reloaded is a \"historical simulation\" video game, designed to recreate the John F. Kennedy assassination. It is noted for its controversial subject matter, and was released November 22, 2004 (the 41st anniversary of the event) by Scotland-based Traffic Games. The game's developers insisted their intentions were to \"bring history to life\", and help prove the Warren Commission's findings. \"JFK Reloaded\" puts the player in the role of Lee Harvey Oswald, who was found by five U.S. government investigations to have been Kennedy's assassin. The player is then scored on how closely one's version of the assassination matches", "title": "JFK Reloaded" }, { "docid": "646765", "text": "Dallas by factors including the American Dream, better living conditions, and the Mexican Revolution. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Elm Street while his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Downtown Dallas. The upper two floors of the building from which alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy, the Texas School Book Depository, have been converted into a historical museum covering the former president's life and accomplishments. On July 7, 2016, multiple shots were fired at a peaceful protest in Downtown Dallas, held against the police killings of two black men from other states. The", "title": "Dallas" }, { "docid": "232769", "text": "they married less than six weeks later in April. The Oswalds' first child, June, was born on February 15, 1962. On May 24, 1962, Oswald and Marina applied at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow for documents that enabled her to immigrate to the U.S. On June 1, the U.S. Embassy gave Oswald a repatriation loan of $435.71. Oswald, Marina, and their infant daughter left for the United States, where they received less attention from the press than Oswald expected, much to his disappointment. The Oswalds soon settled in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, where Lee's mother and brother lived. Lee began", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232788", "text": "a warning. I will blow up the FBI and the Dallas Police Department if you don't stop bothering my wife\" [signed] \"Lee Harvey Oswald.\" The note allegedly contained some sort of threat, but accounts vary as to whether Oswald threatened to \"blow up the FBI\" or merely \"report this to higher authorities\". According to Hosty, the note said, \"If you have anything you want to learn about me, come talk to me directly. If you don't cease bothering my wife, I will take the appropriate action and report this to the proper authorities.\" Agent Hosty said that he destroyed Oswald's", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "15760323", "text": "JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America is an American historical documentary about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It premiered on The History Channel on Sunday, October 11, 2009 and was released on DVD on January 26, 2010. The film is an unnarrated collection of archived news and home movie footage shot as events unfolded, some of it rarely seen. Part one deals with the time from President Kennedy's arrival in Dallas on November 22, 1963 through the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald less than 48 hours later. Part two deals with the", "title": "JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America" }, { "docid": "4132789", "text": "but is denied in both instances. September 30, 1963: Lee Oswald purchases a bus ticket using the alias Mr. H. O. Lee that leaves Mexico City for Laredo, Texas at 0830 on October 2, 1963. October 3, 1963: Oswald arrives in Dallas and spends the night at the YMCA. October 4, 1963: Governor Connally meets with President Kennedy at the White House. Oswald applies for a job at Padgett Printing but is not hired because of a poor recommendation by the owner of Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall. Oswald returns to stay at the Paine's residence in Irving, Texas for the weekend. October 7,", "title": "Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination" }, { "docid": "3498578", "text": "Night of the Steel Assassin The Night of the Steel Assassin is a January 1966 episode of The Wild Wild West TV series, produced by Michael Garrison. It was written by Calvin Clements and Steve Fisher, and directed by Lee Katzin. This series had US Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon aiding President Ulysses S. Grant in the 1870s American West. Together they faced a plethora of Victorian-era criminals. \"Recurring Characters:\" \"\"Night of the Steel Assassin\" characters:\" As secret agent Jim West entered a sailor's shop on the wharf, he witnessed the death by strangulation of a man", "title": "Night of the Steel Assassin" }, { "docid": "232772", "text": "Oswald reading a Russian-language publication. Oswald was fired almost 6 months later, on the first week of April 1963. In March 1963, Oswald used the alias \"A. Hidell\" to make a mail-order purchase of a secondhand 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle for $29.95. He also purchased a .38 Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver by the same method. On April 10, 1963, Oswald attempted to kill retired U.S. Major General Edwin Walker. He fired the Carcano rifle at Walker through a window from less than away as Walker sat at a desk in his Dallas home. The bullet struck the", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "18500701", "text": "\"That Day In Dallas\", was published in 1998. The year before, Trask appeared before the Assassination Records Review Board, where he offered prepared comments on the many images compiled for his books. John F. Kennedy (JFK) was shot dead in 1963, when Richard B. Trask was 16 years old. Trask wrote that he was like most people, unable to understand how \"seemingly unremarkable nobody\" Lee Harvey Oswald could succeed in assassinating a President of the United States, so Trask set out to learn as much as he could. He found that a photographic study of the assassination was lacking within", "title": "Pictures of the Pain" }, { "docid": "19205301", "text": "the home to the public and offers tours. Beginning October 14, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald rented a small room in the Johnson house for $8 a week. He slept there on weeknights, and went back on weekends to suburban Irving, Texas, to be with his wife. On the date of the assassination, November 22, Oswald returned to his room immediately after shooting President John F. Kennedy from a sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. According to housekeeper Earlene Roberts, Oswald entered the home in a \"hurry\", grabbed a light jacket and remained in the home only three", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald Rooming House" }, { "docid": "12006822", "text": "Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald is a 1993 television film directed by Robert Dornhelm and starring Helena Bonham Carter and Frank Whaley. David L. Wolper was the film's executive producer and it was co-produced by the screenwriter Steve Bello. The story focuses on Marina Oswald (Helena Bonham Carter), the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald. Barely able to speak English, she is thrust into questioning by David Lifton (Robert Picardo). It portrays deep sadness, and explores the story of a woman ending up alone in a foreign country, subjected to considerable shunning, even after", "title": "Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232750", "text": "Robert E. Lee and served in the Marines during World War I. Robert died of a heart attack two months before Lee was born. Lee's elder brother Robert, Jr. (1934–2017) was also a former Marine. Through Marguerite's first marriage to Edward John Pic, Jr., Lee and Robert Jr. were the half-brothers of Air Force veteran John Edward Pic (1932–2000). In 1944, Marguerite moved the family from New Orleans to Dallas, Texas. Oswald entered the first grade in 1945 and over the next half-dozen years attended several different schools in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas through the sixth grade. Oswald", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "18374457", "text": "The Fifth Assassin The Fifth Assassin is a novel written by Brad Meltzer which follows the adventures of archivist Beecher White as he discovers a connection linking the four successful presidential assassins with a modern-day killer who is recreating their crimes. According to WorldCat, the book is in 1887 libraries More than two-dozen would-be assassins have targeted Presidents of the United States. Only four were successful: John Wilkes Booth, Charles J. Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Archivist Beecher White - hero of the #1 New York Times bestseller \"The Inner Circle\" - uncovers a new assassin in Washington,", "title": "The Fifth Assassin" }, { "docid": "11718701", "text": "famous flash. Later, he secured the first interview with Marina Oswald, the wife of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Barker died in July 2012 in Dallas, of natural causes. Eddie Barker Edmund Asa \"Eddie\" Barker Jr. (August 18, 1927 – July 23, 2012) was a television reporter in Dallas, Texas, perhaps best known for being the first newsman to report the death of John F. Kennedy, and his interview with Marina Oswald. Barker was born in San Antonio, Texas, and began his radio career in 1943. He later went to Dallas' KRLD (now KDFW), where in 1963, he was covering the", "title": "Eddie Barker" }, { "docid": "232811", "text": "him once in the abdomen at close range. As the shot rang out, a police detective suddenly recognized Ruby and exclaimed: \"Jack, you son of a bitch!\" An unconscious Oswald was taken by ambulance to Parkland Memorial Hospital—the same hospital where Kennedy was pronounced dead two days earlier. Oswald died at 1:07 p.m; Dallas police chief Jesse Curry announced his death on a TV news broadcast. At 2:45 p.m. the same day, an autopsy was performed on Oswald in the Office of the County Medical Examiner. Dallas County medical examiner Earl Rose announced the results of the gross autopsy: \"The", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232796", "text": "breath.\" Truly said that Oswald look \"startled\" when Baker pointed his gun directly at him. Mrs. Robert Reid—a clerical supervisor at the depository who returned to her office within two minutes after the shooting—said that she saw Oswald \"was very calm\" on the second floor with a coke in his hands. As they walked past each other, Mrs. Reid said to Oswald, \"The President has been shot\" to which he mumbled something in response, but Reid did not understand him. Oswald was believed to have left the depository through the front entrance just before police sealed it off. Truly later", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232785", "text": "Cuban and Soviet consulates, questions regarding whether someone posing as Oswald had appeared at the embassies were serious enough to be investigated by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Later, the Committee agreed with the Warren Commission that Oswald had visited Mexico City and concluded that \"the majority of evidence tends to indicate\" that Oswald in fact visited the consulates, but the Committee could not rule out the possibility that someone else had used his name in visiting the consulates. On October 2, 1963, Oswald left Mexico City by bus and arrived in Dallas the next day. Ruth Paine said", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232798", "text": "he had entered earlier. As Oswald left, Roberts looked out of the window of her house and last saw him standing at the northbound Beckley Avenue bus stop in front of her house. The Warren Commission concluded that at approximately 1:15 p.m., Dallas Patrolman J. D. Tippit drove up in his patrol car alongside Oswald—presumably because Oswald resembled the police broadcast description of the man seen by witness Howard Brennan who fired shots at the presidential motorcade. He encountered Oswald near the corner of East 10th Street and North Patton Avenue. This location is about nine-tenths of a mile (1.4", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "516167", "text": "\"Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy\" documentary. JFK (film) JFK is a 1991 American political thriller film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and alleged cover-up through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner). Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee Jones) for his alleged participation in a conspiracy to assassinate the President, for which Lee Harvey Oswald (Gary Oldman) was found responsible by the Warren Commission. The film was adapted by Stone and Zachary Sklar from the books \"On the", "title": "JFK (film)" }, { "docid": "232786", "text": "that her neighbor told her, on October 14, that there was a job opening at the Texas School Book Depository, where her neighbor's brother, Wesley Frazier, worked. Mrs. Paine informed Oswald, who was interviewed at the depository and was hired there on October 16 as a $1.25 an hour minimum wage order filler. Oswald's supervisor, Roy S. Truly (1907–1985), said that Oswald \"did a good day's work\" and was an above-average employee. During the week, Oswald stayed in a Dallas rooming house under the name \"O.H. Lee\", but he spent his weekends with Marina at the Paine home in Irving.", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "10061086", "text": "the first shot in Dallas, and becomes obsessed with defeating a young man who has resolved to become a new assassin on the same level as Lee Harvey Oswald or John Wilkes Booth. The 1993 TV movie \"\" is a biopic about Marina Oswald Porter, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald. The \"X-Files\" episode \"Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man\" (1996) places a young cigarette smoking man as the assassin, shooting from a sewer drain located near the grassy knoll after setting up Oswald as his patsy. He also assassinates Martin Luther King Jr. while framing James Earl Ray in", "title": "Assassination of John F. Kennedy in popular culture" }, { "docid": "5322206", "text": "This included increasing access to groundwater, and creating lakes by damming rivers. On Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 pm Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC), Lee Harvey Oswald, an alienated loner, assassinated President John F. Kennedy. The Texas Governor, John B. Connally, was also shot but survived. The episode caused a national outrage focused on right wing elements in Dallas that had long been hostile to Kennedy. For a half-century and more the people of Dallas still struggle with being branded as having some responsibility. The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, located where the assassin is", "title": "History of Texas" }, { "docid": "232779", "text": "from the very beginning.\" On May 29, Oswald ordered the following items from a local printer: 500 application forms, 300 membership cards, and 1,000 leaflets with the heading, \"Hands Off Cuba\". According to Lee Oswald's wife Marina, Lee told her to sign the name \"A.J. Hidell\" as chapter president on his membership card. According to anti-Castro militant Carlos Bringuier, Oswald visited him on August 5 and 6 at a store he owned in New Orleans. Bringuier was the New Orleans delegate for the anti-Castro organization Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil (DRE). Bringuier would later tell the Warren Commission that he believed Oswald's", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "4660978", "text": "Market Center, the largest wholesale trade complex in the world. The same year, the Dallas Memorial Auditorium (now the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center) opened near Canton and Akard Streets in what is now the Convention Center District of downtown. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Elm Street while his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. The upper two floors of the building from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy, the Texas School Book Depository, have been converted into a historical museum covering the former president's life and accomplishments. In the late 1970s", "title": "History of Dallas" }, { "docid": "15406414", "text": "of how the portal functions: Al reveals that after discovering the portal, he'd concocted a plan to change the past by preventing John F. Kennedy's assassination, hoping that doing so would change history for the better, as he attributed many bad things that happened in the world to events that would not have occurred had JFK lived. He spent four years in the past after entering the portal the previous night, traveling to Dallas, Texas to track Lee Harvey Oswald, plotting to kill the would-be assassin during his attempted murder of General Edwin Walker. His delay was due to the", "title": "11/22/63" }, { "docid": "3421833", "text": "Ilya Prusakov, a colonel in the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, and to study pharmacy. Marina met Lee Harvey Oswald (a former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union) at a dance on March 17, 1961. They married six weeks later and had a daughter, June Lee, born the following year. In June 1962, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Dallas, Texas. At a party in February 1963, George de Mohrenschildt introduced the couple to Ruth Paine, a Quaker and Russian language student. In January 1963, Oswald ordered a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver", "title": "Marina Oswald Porter" }, { "docid": "232774", "text": "in a mental institution on orders from President Kennedy's brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, but a grand jury refused to indict him. Marina Oswald testified that her husband told her that he traveled by bus to General Walker's house and shot at Walker with his rifle. She said that Oswald considered Walker to be the leader of a \"fascist organization.\" A note Oswald left for Marina on the night of the attempt, telling her what to do if he did not return, was not found until ten days after the Kennedy assassination. Before the Kennedy assassination, Dallas police had no", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232749", "text": "he assassinated Kennedy by firing three shots from the Texas School Book Depository. This conclusion, though controversial, was supported by previous investigations from the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Dallas Police Department. Despite forensic, ballistic, and eyewitness evidence that supports the official findings, public opinion polls have shown that most Americans do not believe the official version of the events. The assassination has spawned numerous conspiracy theories. Oswald was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1939, to Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. (1896–1939) and Marguerite Frances Claverie (1907–1981). Robert Oswald was a distant cousin of Confederate general", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "516117", "text": "JFK (film) JFK is a 1991 American political thriller film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and alleged cover-up through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner). Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee Jones) for his alleged participation in a conspiracy to assassinate the President, for which Lee Harvey Oswald (Gary Oldman) was found responsible by the Warren Commission. The film was adapted by Stone and Zachary Sklar from the books \"On the Trail of the Assassins\" by Jim Garrison", "title": "JFK (film)" }, { "docid": "6039431", "text": "However, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Redskins had sought postponement of the games. Eventually, the game between the two teams in Philadelphia saw acts of kindness from both sides. Before the game, each of the Eagles players contributed $50 to the family of Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit, who was killed by the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. After the game ended, players on the Redskins asked Coach Bill McPeak to send the game ball to the White House, thanking Rozelle for allowing the games to be played that weekend, saying that they were \"playing...for President Kennedy and in his", "title": "1963 NFL season" }, { "docid": "938717", "text": "with the responsibility for providing acute medical care for citizens who otherwise would not receive adequate medical services. The Parkland Health & Hospital System (Dallas County Hospital District) operates the Parkland Memorial Hospital and various health centers. The Commissioners Court meets the first and third Tuesday at the Commissioners Courtroom located in the Dallas County Administration Building at 411 Elm St., corner of Elm and Houston streets. The building was the headquarters of the Texas School Book Depository Company until 1970. Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy from a window located on the sixth floor which today", "title": "Dallas County, Texas" }, { "docid": "232824", "text": "back. Also in English were added in script: \"To my friend George, Lee Oswald, 5/IV/63 [April 5, 1963].\" Handwriting experts for the HSCA concluded the English inscription and signature were by Oswald. After two original photos, one negative and one first-generation copy had been found, the Senate Intelligence Committee located (in 1976) a third backyard photo (CE 133-C) showing Oswald with newspapers held away from his body in his right hand. These photos, widely recognized as some of the most significant evidence against Oswald, have been subjected to rigorous analysis. Photographic experts consulted by the HSCA concluded they were genuine,", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "4139485", "text": "the report of the Warren Commission: first shot missed, second hit JFK and Governor Connally and third on JFK's head. According to the company, the primary aim of the game was \"to establish the most likely facts of what happened on 1963-11-22 by running the world’s first mass-participation forensic construction\", the theory being that a player could help prove that Lee Harvey Oswald had the \"means and the opportunity to commit the crime\", and thus help prove the Warren Commission's findings. Players were able to submit scores, rating how close their version of events were to the Warren Commission's, for", "title": "JFK Reloaded" }, { "docid": "9745594", "text": "Warren Commission, which investigated President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Belin concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had worked entirely on his own as Kennedy's assassin, which the commission affirmed in its final report. Belin stood by the findings of the Warren report until his death, and was known to become incensed at any mention of an assassination conspiracy. As he lay in a coma in his final days, his friends would whisper conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination into his ear to confirm his unconsciousness by his unprecedented lack of response. Belin wrote two books on the JFK Assassination: \"November 22,", "title": "David W. Belin" }, { "docid": "232782", "text": "right-wing Information Council of the Americas (INCA). Marina's friend Ruth Paine transported Marina and her child by car from New Orleans to the Paine home in Irving, Texas, near Dallas, on September 23, 1963. Oswald stayed in New Orleans at least two more days to collect a $33 unemployment check. It is uncertain when he left New Orleans; he is next known to have boarded a bus in Houston on September 26—bound for the Mexican border, rather than Dallas—and to have told other bus passengers that he planned to travel to Cuba via Mexico. He arrived in Mexico City on", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232771", "text": "to tell the Warren Commission that Oswald had a \"remarkable fluency in Russian.\" Marina, meanwhile, befriended Ruth Paine, a Quaker who was trying to learn Russian, and her husband Michael Paine, who worked for Bell Helicopter. In July 1962, Oswald was hired by the Leslie Welding Company in Dallas; he disliked the work and quit after three months. On October 12, he started working for the graphic-arts firm of Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall as a photoprint trainee. A fellow employee at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall testified that Oswald's rudeness at his new job was such that fights threatened to break out, and that he once saw", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "6613897", "text": "1991 Oliver Stone film \"JFK\", which mixes fact with fiction to advance Stone's point that John F. Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy. The film cuts confusingly between actual footage of alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and staged images of actor Gary Oldman who is playing Oswald. The modern sequences are badly lit and they are artificially made grainy and scratched-looking so that they appear to be 1963-era 16 mm film. Stone uses the pseudo-documentary format to influence the viewer by presenting the conspiracy theory in a scientific and authoritative manner. Related to, and in exact opposition to pseudo-documentary,", "title": "Pseudo-documentary" }, { "docid": "232804", "text": "yet been arraigned in Kennedy's death—answered, \"No, I have not been charged with that. In fact, nobody has said that to me yet. The first thing I heard about it was when the newspaper reporters in the hall asked me that question.\" As he was led from the room the question was called out, \"What did you do in Russia?\" and, \"How did you hurt your eye?\"; Oswald answered, \"A policeman hit me.\" Oswald was interrogated several times during his two days at Dallas Police Headquarters. He admitted that he went to his rooming house after leaving the book depository.", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232787", "text": "Oswald did not drive a car, but he commuted to and from Dallas on Mondays and Fridays with his co-worker Wesley Frazier. On October 20 (a month before the assassination), the Oswalds' second daughter, Audrey, was born. FBI agents twice visited the Paine home in early November, when Oswald was not present, and spoke to Mrs. Paine. Oswald visited the Dallas FBI office about 2 to 3 weeks before the assassination, asking to see Special Agent James P. Hosty. When he was told that Hosty was unavailable, Oswald left a note that, according to the receptionist, read: \"Let this be", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "2312095", "text": "the \"Enquirer\". Trump denied involvement. The \"Enquirer\" ran another story in April 2016, suggesting that Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, knew alleged JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and worked with Oswald in New Orleans a few months before the assassination. Donald Trump publicly discussed this \"Enquirer\" story on May 3, 2016 saying to Brian Kilmeade of \"Fox News\" that \"His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being — you know, shot. I mean the whole thing is ridiculous\". On May 4, 2016 (a few hours after Cruz lost the Indiana primary and withdrew his candidacy) Trump stated that", "title": "National Enquirer" }, { "docid": "232752", "text": "Oswald attended seventh grade in the Bronx, New York, but was often truant, which led to a psychiatric assessment at a juvenile reformatory. The reformatory psychiatrist, Dr. Renatus Hartogs, described Oswald as immersed in a \"vivid fantasy life, turning around the topics of omnipotence and power, through which [Oswald] tries to compensate for his present shortcomings and frustrations.\" Dr. Hartogs detected a \"personality pattern disturbance with schizoid features and passive-aggressive tendencies\" and recommended continued treatment. In January 1954, Marguerite returned to New Orleans and took Lee with her. At the time, there was a question pending before a New York", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "5251881", "text": "Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is located on the sixth floor of the Dallas County Administration Building (formerly the Texas School Book Depository) in downtown Dallas, Texas, overlooking Dealey Plaza at the intersection of Elm and Houston Streets. The museum examines the life, times, death, and legacy of President John F. Kennedy and is located at the very spot from which Lee Harvey Oswald, according to four government investigations, shot and killed the President on November 22, 1963. The museum's exhibition area uses historic films, photographs, artifacts, and interpretive displays to document", "title": "Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza" }, { "docid": "4132802", "text": "that the First Lady would also be there, tickets to the dinner sold out again. Kennedy's upcoming trip to Dallas was first announced to the public in September 1963. The exact motorcade route was finalized on November 18 and announced to the public a few days before November 22. During the third week of October 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was living in a rented room in a boarding house in the Oak Cliff district of Dallas. He had just been hired for a seasonal job at the Texas School Book Depository as a $1.25/hour clerk, filling customer orders for books.", "title": "Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination" }, { "docid": "7516363", "text": "Memorial Hospital along with a second photographer. Both stayed at Parkland until Kennedy's body was taken to Air Force One, still at Love Field. Altgens returned to Dealey Plaza to photograph the assassination site for diagramming purposes, then was sent to Dallas City Hall to retrieve the work of another AP photographer who had pictures of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in custody. This was the only time he saw the suspect, and Altgens thought Oswald showed signs of having been thoroughly interrogated. Ten days after Kennedy was assassinated, the Associated Press in Dallas reported that Altgens' first photograph along", "title": "Ike Altgens" }, { "docid": "7453966", "text": "French version): but that is part of Debord's goal to \"problematize reception\" (Greil and Sanborn) and force the viewer to be active. In addition, the words of some of the authors are détourned through deliberate misquoting. Footage of historical events is included, such as the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald (the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963), the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Paris riots in May 1968, along with clips of people such as Mao Zedong, Richard Nixon and the Spanish anarchist Durruti. In 1984, Debord withdrew his films from", "title": "The Society of the Spectacle (film)" }, { "docid": "232791", "text": "and that he later saw Oswald reading a newspaper in the first floor domino room at 11:50 a.m. William Shelley, a foreman at the depository, also testified that he saw Oswald making a phone call on the first floor between 11:45 and 11:50 a.m. Janitor Eddie Piper also testified that he spoke to Oswald on the first floor at 12:00 p.m. Another co-worker, Bonnie Ray Williams, was eating his lunch on the sixth floor of the depository and was there until at least 12:10 p.m. He said that during that time, he did not see Oswald, or anyone else, on", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "3498582", "text": "Dangling in front of 2 wireless remote controlled rockets, one aimed at him, the other at Grant, West freed himself in time to prevent the rockets' launch and confronted Torres by an underground river. A fight ensued as West drove the ironman into the river, where he sank like a knight in armor. In the end, Nina was returned to normal, using the same lamp, but still provocatively dressed as a dancer, which provoked a fit of rage as she didn't understand what occurred. Night of the Steel Assassin The Night of the Steel Assassin is a January 1966 episode", "title": "Night of the Steel Assassin" }, { "docid": "7210238", "text": "car of the motorcade carrying President Kennedy, he provided security for both the president and the vice-president, Lyndon B. Johnson, at Parkland Memorial Hospital where President Kennedy died, and, later, aboard \"Air Force One\" when Johnson was sworn in as the new president. Two hours after President Kennedy was assassinated, Dallas Police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald in connection with the fatal shooting of Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit. Oswald quickly became the prime suspect in Kennedy's death and was charged with both crimes. Curry and the Dallas Police were initially praised for apprehending the alleged assassin so quickly, but the", "title": "Jesse Curry" }, { "docid": "12174634", "text": "of mystery\". However, the picture only grows darker as flashbacks show Oswald defecting to the Soviet Union, returning to the US and in the company of various shady individuals. Oswald stubbornly refuses to cooperate when Weldon urges him to open up and tell the truth, as it might help save him from the electric chair. Although Lee insists on taking the stand in his own defense, he mysteriously refuses to talk when Weldon presses him. Roberts begins his cross examination by asking Oswald why there is a picture of him with a rifle, a palmprint of his on the murder", "title": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 film)" }, { "docid": "232789", "text": "note on orders from his superior, Gordon Shanklin, after Oswald was named the suspect in the Kennedy assassination. In the days before Kennedy's arrival, several local newspapers published the route of the presidential motorcade, which passed the Texas School Book Depository. On November 21 (a Thursday), Oswald asked Frazier for an unusual mid-week lift back to Irving, saying he had to pick up some curtain rods. The next morning (the day of the assassination), he returned to Dallas with Frazier. He left behind $170 and his wedding ring, but took a large paper bag with him. Frazier reported that Oswald", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232806", "text": "shown a forged Selective Service System card bearing his photograph and the alias, \"Alek James Hidell\" that he had in his possession at the time of his arrest. Oswald refused to answer any questions concerning the card, saying \"you have the card yourself and you know as much about it as I do.\" FBI Special Agent James P. Hosty and Dallas Police Captain Will Fritz (chief of homicide) conducted the first interrogation of Oswald on Friday, November 22. When Oswald was asked to account for himself at the time of the assassination, he replied that he was eating his lunch", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "6691616", "text": "After some research, it can be learned that this is an allusion to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, in 1963. The rifle that supposedly fired the bullet that killed Kennedy was alleged to be a Carcano rifle, firing a 162 grain bullet, in 6.5 mm. It can thus be inferred that Bob Lee Swagger is not the only man that Lon Scott has set up, and that Lon Scott actually shot JFK on November 22, 1963, rather than Lee Harvey Oswald. In 2013, Hunter followed up on these hinted at threads and completed the tale in \"The Third Bullet\".", "title": "Point of Impact" }, { "docid": "11481797", "text": "Gus Russo Gus G. Russo (born 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American author and researcher of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Russo was part of a team of researchers that worked on the 1993 \"Frontline\" Lee Harvey Oswald documentary, \"Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?,\" for PBS. He is the author of \"Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK\", a book which states that Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed the president in retribution for Kennedy's policies toward Fidel Castro and Cuba. Russo has also written books about the Chicago Outfit and mob", "title": "Gus Russo" }, { "docid": "7516353", "text": "assignment for the AP when he captured two historic images on November 22, 1963. The second, showing First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy toward the rear of the presidential limousine and Secret Service agent Clint Hill on its bumper, was reproduced on the front pages of newspapers around the world. Within days, Altgens' preceding photograph became controversial after people began to question whether accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was visible in the main doorway of the Texas School Book Depository as the gunshots were fired at JFK. Altgens appeared briefly as a film actor and model during his 40-year career with the", "title": "Ike Altgens" }, { "docid": "5381076", "text": "with producer Bob Clearmountain on one song on the album. The group disbanded in 1984, with the players pursuing more profitable interests. Drummer Lee Harvey Blotto (Paul Rapp) graduated from Albany Law School, became an attorney specializing in intellectual property law, and continued to play with the band as \"F. Lee Harvey Blotto\" (a pun on the names of famous lawyer F. Lee Bailey and JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald). Bassist \"Cheese Blotto\" (Keith Stephenson) died suddenly in October 1999 of cardiomyopathy brought on by a liver condition. All of Blotto's studio recordings (with one exception, the song \"Bud ...", "title": "Blotto (band)" }, { "docid": "3536471", "text": "of Kneale's 1953 script, starring Bloom and Keith Michell). \"Lee Oswald — Assassin\" (1966) was a drama-documentary telling the story of Lee Harvey Oswald, based on the Warren Commission's findings, while \"Conversation at Night\" (1969) saw the first television acting appearance of Alec Guinness. Cartier's career continued into the 1970s. In 1974, he directed episodes of \"Fall of Eagles\"; and his final credit came with the play \"Loyalties\", screened in 1976. By this time, he had worked on over 120 productions for the BBC. Subsequently, he worked for a time for the BBC's \"purchased drama\" department, advising on which plays", "title": "Rudolph Cartier" }, { "docid": "3421835", "text": "and has a quote attributed to Marina in Russian, the translation of which reads \"Hunter of Fascists, Ha-Ha-Ha!!!\" In April 1963, Marina and her daughter moved in with Ruth Paine (who had recently separated from her husband, Michael). Lee Oswald rented a separate room in Dallas and briefly moved to New Orleans during the summer of 1963. He returned to Dallas in early October, eventually renting a room in a boarding house in the Oak Cliff district of Dallas. Paine learned from a neighbor that employment was available at the Texas School Book Depository, and Oswald was hired and began", "title": "Marina Oswald Porter" }, { "docid": "232809", "text": "went downstairs where he encountered Dallas motorcycle policeman Marrion L. Baker. Oswald asked for legal representation several times while being interrogated, and he also asked for assistance during encounters with reporters. When H. Louis Nichols, President of the Dallas Bar Association, met with him in his cell on Saturday, he declined their services, saying he wanted to be represented by John Abt, chief counsel to the Communist Party USA, or by lawyers associated with the American Civil Liberties Union. Both Oswald and Ruth Paine tried to reach Abt by telephone several times Saturday and Sunday, but Abt was away for", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "4132783", "text": "was issued US Passport DO 92526 which was valid for three years to all countries except Albania, Cuba and those portions of China, Korea and Vietnam that were under communist control. September 17, 1963: Jack Valenti sends an invitation to the White House asking if President Kennedy would attend an Appreciation Dinner in Houston on November 21, 1963 honoring Albert Thomas for his decision not to retire from Congress. The invitation is received at the White House on September 19, 1963. Lee Oswald is issued a 15 day Mexican tourist card using the name LEE, Harvey Oswald. September 20, 1963:", "title": "Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination" }, { "docid": "232807", "text": "in the first-floor lounge (known as the \"domino room\"). He said that he then went to the second-floor lunchroom to buy a Coca-Cola from the soda machine there and was drinking it when he encountered Dallas motorcycle policeman Marrion L. Baker, who had entered the building with his gun drawn. Oswald said that while he was in the domino room, he saw two \"Negro employees\" walking by, one he recognized as \"Junior\" and a shorter man whose name he could not recall. Junior Jarman and Harold Norman confirmed to the Warren Commission that they had \"walked through\" the domino room", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232776", "text": "that on April 14, 1963, just before Easter Sunday, they were visiting the Oswalds at their new apartment and had brought them a toy Easter bunny to give to their child. As Oswald's wife Marina was showing Jeanne around the apartment, they discovered Oswald's rifle standing upright, leaning against the wall inside a closet. Jeanne told George that Oswald had a rifle, and George joked to Oswald, \"Were you the one who took a pot-shot at General Walker?\" When asked about Oswald's reaction to this question, George de Mohrenschildt told the Warren Commission that Oswald \"smiled at that.\" When George's", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" } ]
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How old was Michael Jackson when he died?
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[ { "docid": "4316211", "text": "of Law; and his peers have recognized his entertaining and probing style with four Golden Mike Awards for excellence in radio broadcasting. In 1997-98, he was voted Number One Radio Talk How Host of the Year. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2003. His star is proudly included on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1965, Jackson married Alana Ladd, daughter of the late actor Alan Ladd and his agent, Sue Carol. Alana died in 2014. The couple had three children, Alan Jackson, Alisa Lipton, and Devon Jackson, and five grandchildren. Michael Jackson (radio commentator) Michael", "title": "Michael Jackson (radio commentator)" }, { "docid": "3688817", "text": "of Jackson's, testified that she had witnessed Jackson showering with Robson when Robson was 8 or 9 years old, which Robson denied. In May 2013, Francia agreed to testify at Robson's lawsuit against Jackson at Robson's request. In August 2014 James Safechuck's lawyers filed claims against Jackson's estate that Jackson began sexually abusing Safechuck when he was 10 years old. Safechuck alleged that Jackson sexually abused him over 100 times in a 4-year period. In July 2017, Judge Beckloff ruled against Safechuck's case. Trial of Michael Jackson People v. Jackson (full case name: 1133603: The People of the State of", "title": "Trial of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "11375094", "text": "signature on a public letter criticizing executors of Michael Jackson's estate and his mother's advisers concerning the legitimacy of his brother's will. T.J. Jackson, son of Tito Jackson, was given co-guardianship of Michael Jackson's children after false reports surfaced of Katherine Jackson going missing. On May 16, 2013, choreographer Wade Robson alleged on \"The Today Show\" that Jackson sexually abused him for 7 years, beginning when Robson was 7 years old. Robson had previously testified in defence of Jackson in the 2005 child molestation trial. The attorney for Jackson's estate described Robson's claim as \"outrageous and pathetic\". On December 19,", "title": "Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "13982590", "text": "an unnamed surrogate mother. Rowe said that she was not the biological mother of Prince Michael II, who is nicknamed \"Blanket\". Jackson stated that the baby was produced through artificial insemination using his own sperm cells. He further said that he did not know the mother, and she did not know him, and that in asking for a surrogate mother, he did not care how old she was or what race she was. It did, however, matter to him that she was intelligent, healthy, and had uncorrected eyesight. In the television documentary, \"The Michael Jackson Interview: The Footage You Were", "title": "Personal relationships of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "13982553", "text": "also said that she and Jackson \"would play like little kids\" when working on the ”Thriller” video (1983), as she recalled how he was clearly \"into Brooke Shields\" and kept on teasing her about Shields' visiting the set. In 1974, a 16-year-old Michael Jackson—who would later be dubbed \"The King of Pop\"—was introduced for the first time to Lisa Marie Presley at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada by her father, \"The King of Rock 'n' Roll\", Elvis Presley. Lisa Marie was six at the time, and had been brought to the hotel to watch a show", "title": "Personal relationships of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "6351276", "text": "was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He served as mayor of his hometown, Tangipahoa, Louisiana, from 2009 through 2012. Jackson was killed in a motorcycle accident in the early morning hours of May 12, 2017. He was riding his motorcycle at high speed on US 51 in Tangipahoa, Louisiana when he struck the driver side of a vehicle that was backing out of a driveway. The high impact of the collision also killed the driver of the other vehicle, who was a 20-year-old woman by the name of Destiny Alexus Gordon. Michael Jackson (wide receiver) Michael Dywane Jackson", "title": "Michael Jackson (wide receiver)" }, { "docid": "4752728", "text": "for the final interview and brings up the subject of his face. A visibly upset Jackson says that he has only had two operations on his nose in order to facilitate his singing, to which Bashir tries to ask how he looks so much different from when he was an adolescent. After the singer states that there is nothing wrong with plastic surgery, and that it was \"not invented for Michael Jackson,\" Bashir comes to the conclusion that Jackson wanted to change his appearance as a result of his troubled youth and father's insults. When he asks about a comment", "title": "Living with Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "2012858", "text": "of the Quaich\" and the prodigious sale of his whisky books and sell-out attendances at his tastings. He had enormous influence on the development of single malt whisky globally. Apart from his work as a journalist and a critic, he was also a great fan of rugby league. It was revealed in December 2006 that Michael Jackson \"is and has been suffering for at least a decade from Parkinson's Disease.\" He also suffered from diabetes. Michael Jackson died of a heart attack in his home the morning of 30 August 2007 at the age of 65. Michael Jackson (writer) Michael", "title": "Michael Jackson (writer)" }, { "docid": "8213658", "text": "was often bullied by other boys, until Asterix, to assist his courage, induced him to drink some of the magic potion that made the villagers invincible. When they are interrupted in the act, Obelix falls into the cauldron containing the potion, and drinks it all, and is thereafter permanently under its influence. On Goodreads, it has a score of 3.86 out of 5. How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion When He Was a Little Boy How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion When he was a Little Boy (, \"How Obelix Fell into the Druid's Cooking Pot When He", "title": "How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion When He Was a Little Boy" }, { "docid": "13982542", "text": "to the point of their remaining just friends. In the documentary \"Living With Michael Jackson\" (2003), Michael alleged that near the beginning of their relationship, the 12-year-old actress tried to seduce the then 17-year-old singer. According to Jackson, the incident happened at her home, where she attempted to unbutton his shirt and talked explicitly about sex. O'Neal's behavior apparently proved too much for Jackson, who became scared and covered his face, before she walked away. When confronted with the allegation, O'Neal claimed to have been \"just as shocked as everyone else\". She stated that while having respect for Jackson as", "title": "Personal relationships of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "13517340", "text": "Death of Michael Jackson On June 25, 2009, the singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication at his home on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. His personal physician, Conrad Murray, said he found Jackson in his room, not breathing and with a weak pulse, and administered CPR on Jackson to no avail. After security called 9-1-1 at , Jackson was treated by paramedics at the scene and pronounced dead at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. On August 28, 2009, the Los Angeles County Coroner concluded that Jackson's death was a", "title": "Death of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "8213657", "text": "How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion When He Was a Little Boy How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion When he was a Little Boy (, \"How Obelix Fell into the Druid's Cooking Pot When He Was Small\") is an Asterix story written by René Goscinny and originally published in the French magazine\" Pilote \"issue 291 (1965), with only a few drawings. In 1989, it was fully illustrated by Albert Uderzo and published in an album as a text story with illustrations. The story is narrated by Asterix, apparently to the conventional readership, and tells that in childhood, Obelix", "title": "How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion When He Was a Little Boy" }, { "docid": "8162578", "text": "2011, succeeding John Neill. Jackson has caused several controversies during his incumbency in Dublin, including a media fracas regarding comments about sectarianism made in a speech during the 2013 diocesan synod There was also controversy over the closure of the 200 year old Church of Ireland College of Education and its amalgamation into Dublin City University, ending the historic link with Trinity College, Dublin Michael Jackson (bishop) Michael Geoffrey St Aubyn Jackson (born 24 May 1956) is the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough since 2011. He also serves as Co-chairman of the Anglican-Lutheran communion Porvoo", "title": "Michael Jackson (bishop)" }, { "docid": "12515684", "text": "Michael Jackson (journalist) Naea Michael Jackson is a Niuean journalist and former politician. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was government printer and government press photographer in Niue. He published the \"Tohi Tala Niue\", Niue's government-owned weekly newspaper. In 1991, he set up a private printing business, and, in 1993, launched the weekly \"Niue Star\", which is now the country's only printed newspaper. Jackson is the \"Star\"’s owner, editor, journalist and photographer. Also in 1993, Jackson stood successfully for Parliament in that year's general election. He later became an associate minister, and remained a member of Parliament until 2008, when", "title": "Michael Jackson (journalist)" }, { "docid": "13517366", "text": "He was very mentally aware when we saw him and he was in a very good mood.\" Jackson is survived by his three children, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., known as \"Prince\" (b. 1997); Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson (b. 1998), born during his marriage to his second wife, Debbie Rowe; and Prince Michael Jackson II, known as \"Blanket\", born in 2002 to a surrogate mother. He is also survived by his brothers, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Randy; sisters Rebbie, La Toya and Janet; and parents Joseph and Katherine. Katherine was granted temporary guardianship of Michael's three children on June 29, 2009.", "title": "Death of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "11374989", "text": "father's great-grandfather, July \"Jack\" Gale, was \"a Native American medicine man and an (\"sic\") US Army scout.\" Michael grew up with three sisters (Rebbie, La Toya, and Janet) and five brothers (Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Randy). A sixth brother, Marlon's twin Brandon, died shortly after birth. Jackson had a troubled relationship with his father. In 2003, Joe acknowledged that he regularly whipped him as a boy. Joe was also said to have verbally abused his son, often saying that he had a \"fat nose\". Jackson stated that he was physically and emotionally abused during incessant rehearsals, though he credited", "title": "Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "3688725", "text": "Trial of Michael Jackson People v. Jackson (full case name: 1133603: The People of the State of California v. Michael Joe Jackson) was a 2005 criminal trial held in Santa Barbara County Superior Court, in which American recording artist Michael Jackson was charged with molesting Gavin Arvizo, a 13-year-old boy whom the pop star had befriended. Jackson was indicted for four counts of molesting a minor, four counts of intoxicating a minor in order to molest him, one count of attempted child molestation, and one count of conspiring to hold the boy and his family captive at his Neverland Ranch,", "title": "Trial of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "13517375", "text": "insurance policy, Jackson's share of MJJ Ventures Inc., and two trusts.\". Jackson estate attorney Paul Hoffman of Hoffman, Sabban & Watenmaker told Bloomberg News, \"The IRS is wrong.\" The case title is Estate of Michael J. Jackson v. IRS, 17152-13, U.S. Tax Court in Washington, DC. The first reports that Jackson had suffered a cardiac arrest then that he had died came from the Los Angeles-based celebrity news website TMZ. Doctors at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center pronounced Jackson dead at 2:26 p.m. and 18 minutes later, TMZ published the following statement: \"Michael Jackson passed away today at the age", "title": "Death of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "11198855", "text": "campaign treasurer was accused of embezzlement from the local Fraternal Order of Police lodge, he had rejected the union president's requests that he review evidence of the alleged embezzlement. After his treasurer was indicted, Jackson suspended her with pay from her Sheriff's department position. When asked whether it was permissible to steal union funds, Jackson stated, \"I have no opinion on that.\" Jackson is married to Kim Jackson and has one child. Michael A. Jackson (politician) Michael A. Jackson (born March 29, 1964) is the current Maryland state delegate for District 27B in Prince George's County and is on three", "title": "Michael A. Jackson (politician)" }, { "docid": "4752736", "text": "praising Jackson. Bashir said a 16-second clip was being used to portray him as being unfair when he had interviewed Jackson for more than 10 hours. The U.K. airing had 15 million viewers while 38 million watched the 2-hour special on ABC. Living with Michael Jackson Living with Michael Jackson is a television documentary, in which Martin Bashir interviewed Michael Jackson over a span of eight months, from May 2002 to January 2003, about different aspects of his life. It was shown first in the United Kingdom on ITV (as a \"Tonight\" special) on February 3, 2003, and in the", "title": "Living with Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "14089771", "text": "Move Like Michael Jackson Move Like Michael Jackson is a British talent show made by independent production company Fever Media and Gogglebox Entertainment and broadcast on BBC Three. It aimed to find people who can dance like the pop singer Michael Jackson. The show aired months after Jackson's death in June 2009. Presented by television personality Reggie Yates, the programme broadcast the auditions of hopefuls as they perform in front of the show's judges: Mark Summers, contemporary R&B singer Jamelia, and Jackson's elder brother and former Jackson 5 band member Jermaine. Entertainer Michael Jackson died in June 2009, after being", "title": "Move Like Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "4998900", "text": "Bad (Michael Jackson song) \"Bad\" is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released by Epic Records on September 7, 1987 as the second single from Jackson's third major-label and seventh studio album of the same name. The song was written and composed by Jackson, and produced by Quincy Jones and Jackson. Jackson stated that the song was influenced by a real-life story he had read about, of a young man who tried to escape poverty by attending private school but ended up being killed when he returned home. \"Bad\" received positive reviews, with some critics noting", "title": "Bad (Michael Jackson song)" }, { "docid": "20699443", "text": "Draft. Jackson's son, Michael Jackson Jr., was born in April 2018. Michael Jackson (cornerback) Michael Jackson is an American football cornerback for the Miami Hurricanes. Jackson played at Spain Park High School. In the summer before his senior season, Jackson said that he wanted to go out of his home state of Alabama to play college football. During his senior season in 2014, he was named co-Alabama High School Player of the Week in mid-October after preserving a 14-13 win over Vestavia Hills High School by blocking an extra point and field goal in the fourth quarter. Jackson committed to", "title": "Michael Jackson (cornerback)" }, { "docid": "3688816", "text": "After the trial, Michael Jackson moved to Bahrain, and later to Ireland. The Neverland Ranch, which he said had been despoiled by law enforcement searches, was closed. Jackson returned to Southern California in 2009 where he died. In May 2013, choreographer Wade Robson, who had testified in the trial in defense of Jackson, said in an interview with the \"Today\" show's Matt Lauer that from the age of seven to around 14 Jackson 'performed sexual acts on me and forced me to perform sexual acts on him.' Recent tabloid journalism claimed that during Jackson's trial, Blanca Francia, a former housekeeper", "title": "Trial of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "6488005", "text": "the song ends. \"Cry\" is the only Michael Jackson video to be included on an enhanced CD of the single. \"Cry\" was issued as a single against Jackson's original intentions to release \"Unbreakable.\" (The same situation applied with the release of \"You Rock My World\" months prior.) Filmed in the weeks after 9/11, Jackson was too nervous to travel to the shoot in northern California. When Jackson saw the rough cut of the video, he and the director, Nick Brandt, agreed that the video was stronger without Jackson in it. Craig Halstead and Chris Cadman, authors of the book \"Michael", "title": "Cry (Michael Jackson song)" }, { "docid": "10357138", "text": "Remember When (Alan Jackson song) \"Remember When\" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Alan Jackson. Released in October 2003 as the second and final single from his compilation album, \"Greatest Hits Volume II\", it spent two weeks at number 1 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart in February 2004 and peaked at number 29 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. In \"Remember When\", Jackson looks back on his life with his wife. He describes their love from their first time together, through raising their children, and describes how he and his wife will \"remember", "title": "Remember When (Alan Jackson song)" }, { "docid": "13982537", "text": "behavior toward women disgusting. In addition to not touching groupies, Jackson reportedly never had an interest in having any type of sex as a youngster. In one alleged incident, when he was 15 years old, a male family member arranged for two prostitutes to take his virginity. They were told to \"work him over\", before being locked in a room with him. Instead Michael picked up a Bible and read bible verses to the girls. The girls left in tears. James McField, who worked with The Jackson 5, stated that the lead singer of the band often needed someone to", "title": "Personal relationships of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "4752722", "text": "Living with Michael Jackson Living with Michael Jackson is a television documentary, in which Martin Bashir interviewed Michael Jackson over a span of eight months, from May 2002 to January 2003, about different aspects of his life. It was shown first in the United Kingdom on ITV (as a \"Tonight\" special) on February 3, 2003, and in the United States 3 days later on ABC, introduced by Barbara Walters. \"Living with Michael Jackson\" begins at Neverland Ranch, where Michael Jackson and Martin Bashir tour the estate's grounds and face off in a race car match. Later, he explains that he", "title": "Living with Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "11374981", "text": "Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter and dancer. Dubbed the \"King of Pop\", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century and is also regarded as one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Jackson's contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional debut in 1964 with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon", "title": "Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "13982526", "text": "Personal relationships of Michael Jackson The personal relationships of Michael Jackson have been the subject of public and media attention for several decades. He was introduced to the topic of sexual activity at age nine while a member of The Jackson 5. He and his brothers would perform at strip clubs, sharing the bill with female strippers and drag queens, and the sexual adventures of his brothers with groupies further affected Jackson's early life. The entertainer said his \"first real date\" was with the child actress Tatum O'Neal, when he was a teenager in the 1970s; he called her \"my", "title": "Personal relationships of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "3688794", "text": "their files. Gavin and Star Arvizo testified that Jackson introduced them to pornography. Star described a time when he, his brother, Frank Tyson, and Michael Jackson had looked at \"pornography sites\" on Gavin's computer. The pictures were of naked women, and Jackson had allegedly whispered to his sleeping son, \"you're missing some pussy,\" before they all watched \"The Simpsons\" and went to sleep. Star also testified to twice looking through adult magazines with Gavin, Jackson, and Aldo Cascio. He identified a picture of a particular \"Barely Legal\" magazine that he said Jackson showed the boys, when Mesereau pointed out that", "title": "Trial of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "1699035", "text": "Michael A. Jackson Michael Anthony Jackson (born 16 February 1936) is a British computer scientist, and independent computing consultant in London, England. He is also part-time researcher at AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ, U.S., and visiting research professor at the Open University in the UK. Born in Birmingham to Montagu M. and Jackson and Bertha (Green) Jackson, Jackson was educated at Harrow School in Harrow, London, England. There he was taught by Christopher Strachey and wrote his first program under Strachey's guidance. From 1954 to 1958 he studied classics (known as \"Greats\") at Merton College, Oxford; a fellow student,", "title": "Michael A. Jackson" }, { "docid": "11613246", "text": "office, Jackson has prosecuted several notable cases, including the Alabama Church Arson Cases in Bibb County, Alabama, the Alabama Artifacts Case, and the case of former state trooper James Bonard Fowler, who was charged with the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Michael W. Jackson Michael W. Jackson (born November 18, 1963) is an American attorney. He is currently an Alabama district attorney. Jackson was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee. He received his undergraduate degree at Centre College with a double major in economics/management and government in 1985. He received his Juris Doctor in 1988 from Florida State University College of Law.", "title": "Michael W. Jackson" }, { "docid": "11375131", "text": "an additional $400 million from concerts, music publishing (including his share of the Beatles catalog), endorsements, merchandising and music videos. Estimating how much of these earnings Jackson was able to keep is difficult because one has to account for taxes, recording costs and production costs. There have also been several detailed estimates of Jackson's net worth during his life, which range from negative $285 million to positive $350 million for the years 2002, 2003 and 2007. On July 26, 2013, the executors of the Estate of Michael Jackson filed a petition in the United States Tax Court as a result", "title": "Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "14615534", "text": "about her mother and he invites her to ask him questions about Helena. Natasha asks him how her mother died, and Michael lies to her. Natasha finds the photo which shows her with her parents at the beach and she asks Michael about it. He tells her they only went to the beach once and then tries to avoid the subject. Michael becomes angry with Summer when a picture of Helena ends up on a school notice board. He starts seeing visions of Helena (Camilla Jackson) and when he learns Natasha is trying to contact members of her mother's family,", "title": "Michael Williams (Neighbours)" }, { "docid": "15530150", "text": "Michael Jackson (English singer) Michael Jackson is a UK male singer who was lead vocalist with the heavy metal band Satan/Pariah. Jackson was born in Lancaster, Lancashire in 1964 to parents Estelle and Michael Jackson. He was brought up by his mother in Morecambe, Lancashire from an early age. A fanatical Queen fan Jackson dreamed of being a rock singer like his idol Freddie Mercury. Entering the Merchant Navy straight from school he spent five years sailing all over the world while singing with the band Rough Edge between assignments. Eventually he decided to answer an advertisement, learned the required", "title": "Michael Jackson (English singer)" }, { "docid": "11375011", "text": "mime. His ability to keep one leg straight as he glides while the other bends and seems to walk requires perfect timing.\" Gordy said of the performance: \"From the first beat of 'Billie Jean', I was mesmerized, and when he did his iconic moonwalk, I was shocked, it was magic, Michael Jackson went into orbit, and never came down.\" In November 1983, Jackson and his brothers partnered with PepsiCo in a $5 million promotional deal that broke records for a celebrity endorsement. The first Pepsi Cola campaign, which ran in the United States from 1983 to 1984 and launched its", "title": "Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "15047370", "text": "new Michael Jackson song prompts more controversy, fans were divided, with many loving the new single and others expressing scepticism.\" Cameron Adams of \"Herald Sun\" said the song \"would have no doubt stayed unreleased\", if Jackson had not died. Joe Vogel, author of the book \"Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson\", gave the song a positive review, saying, \"in spite of the backlash, the content of the song is classic Michael Jackson.\" The authenticity of \"Breaking News\", as with other songs allegedly written with Cascio and Porte (like: \"All I Need\", \"Everything's Just Fine\",", "title": "Breaking News (Michael Jackson song)" }, { "docid": "3688798", "text": "was when he tasted it, and that it reminded him of the smell of rubbing alcohol (a comparison Gavin also made). Star said Gavin and Michael were sharing the soda can and acting \"really weird.\" However, Cynthia Bell, a flight attendant who had served Jackson on the Miami flight and other flights, testified that she never saw him share his drink with Gavin. She testified that she had devised the custom of serving Jackson wine in Diet Coke cans during flights, because Michael Jackson didn't like to drink alcohol in front of his children. The prosecution, to show a pattern", "title": "Trial of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "11613245", "text": "Michael W. Jackson Michael W. Jackson (born November 18, 1963) is an American attorney. He is currently an Alabama district attorney. Jackson was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee. He received his undergraduate degree at Centre College with a double major in economics/management and government in 1985. He received his Juris Doctor in 1988 from Florida State University College of Law. Jackson became a Selma, Alabama Municipal Judge in 1995 and served until 1998. He became the first African American district attorney in the 4th Judicial Circuit. He is the only African American currently serving as district attorney in Alabama. While in", "title": "Michael W. Jackson" }, { "docid": "8434790", "text": "album Death By Sunshine, co-produced by Jackson and Nick Blagona. It is scheduled for a fall 2016 release. Michael currently resides in southern California. Michael Lee Jackson Michael Lee Jackson is an American guitarist, photographer and attorney. He was part of Ian Gillan's backing band on the Deep Purple frontman's US solo tour in August and September 2006. He also performed on guitar and acted as musical director for Gillan's CD/DVD \"Gillan's Inn\" (2006), \"Live in Anaheim\" also on CD/DVD (2008), and \"One Eye to Morocco\" (2009). He has been Gillan's creative manager for solo projects since approximately 2005. In", "title": "Michael Lee Jackson" }, { "docid": "8434788", "text": "Greg Lake, and Animal Planet on a record of ELP/King Crimson remakes. The record was fully recorded, but has not been released. He was front man for the Buffalo, New York band Animal Planet a group that recorded a three CDs, including \"Toast\", \"Wag!\", and \"Dawn\". Animal Planet, as well as his own Michael Lee Jackson Band have toured extensively overseas to entertain US troops. He toured with 10,000 Maniacs in 1998-1999. He replaced Robert Buck during his illness. Jackson is the son of Bruce Jackson, a professor at the University at Buffalo. Michael Lee Jackson is an attorney from", "title": "Michael Lee Jackson" }, { "docid": "20699441", "text": "Michael Jackson (cornerback) Michael Jackson is an American football cornerback for the Miami Hurricanes. Jackson played at Spain Park High School. In the summer before his senior season, Jackson said that he wanted to go out of his home state of Alabama to play college football. During his senior season in 2014, he was named co-Alabama High School Player of the Week in mid-October after preserving a 14-13 win over Vestavia Hills High School by blocking an extra point and field goal in the fourth quarter. Jackson committed to Miami in late October 2014 after visiting the campus the previous", "title": "Michael Jackson (cornerback)" }, { "docid": "4752724", "text": "hand. He states that he felt a deep fear of his father, and that is why he never laid a hand on his children. Bashir notes that this must have left a deep impact on the young Michael. After Neverland, Bashir followed him to the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas. In Las Vegas, Jackson spoke about his love life, his changing appearance, and his children. When Bashir inquires if he had any girlfriends when he was young, Jackson recounts a time when one-time girlfriend Tatum O'Neal wanted to make love to him, but he backed down because he was", "title": "Living with Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "8434786", "text": "Michael Lee Jackson Michael Lee Jackson is an American guitarist, photographer and attorney. He was part of Ian Gillan's backing band on the Deep Purple frontman's US solo tour in August and September 2006. He also performed on guitar and acted as musical director for Gillan's CD/DVD \"Gillan's Inn\" (2006), \"Live in Anaheim\" also on CD/DVD (2008), and \"One Eye to Morocco\" (2009). He has been Gillan's creative manager for solo projects since approximately 2005. In 2010-11, Jackson scored and engineered the sound track to the indie feature film, \"The Bad Penny\", directed by Todd Bellanca. Jackson also played guitar", "title": "Michael Lee Jackson" }, { "docid": "8248030", "text": "Michael Jackson (basketball) Michael Derek Jackson (born July 13, 1964) is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the New York Knicks in the 2nd round (47th overall) of the 1986 NBA Draft. A 6'2\" guard from Georgetown University, Jackson played in three NBA seasons for the Sacramento Kings from 1987 to 1990. In his NBA career, Jackson played in 89 games, scored a total of 188 points, and had 198 assists. He led the Kings in assists in a number of games in the 1987–88 season. He was a member of Georgetown's 1984 National Championship team.", "title": "Michael Jackson (basketball)" }, { "docid": "10031985", "text": "the Year. Jackson is active off the field with charities including the March of Dimes, Special Olympics, and the United Way. He has had 14 movie and television roles and was voted into the Pasco High School Hall of Fame in 1996. Michael Jackson (linebacker) Michael Jackson (born July 15, 1957) is a former professional American football player who played linebacker for eight seasons with the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). Jackson was born in Pasco, Washington. A 1975 graduate of Pasco High School, he has enjoyed greater success and accumulated more career achievements than any other", "title": "Michael Jackson (linebacker)" }, { "docid": "3688774", "text": "door \"kind of locked, so [he] pushed it, and it opened,\" and he walked some ways into the room and stopped when he saw what Gavin and Michael were doing. He testified they were on the bed \"outside of the covers,\" Jackson was on his back with his eyes closed, and Gavin was \"curled up\" facing away from Jackson and was \"kind of snoring.\" Star couldn't remember what his brother had been wearing but said it might have been \"pants or underwears,\" and that Jackson was wearing \"socks, underwears, and an undershirt,\" but later said Jackson's \"hand was in his", "title": "Trial of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "3688806", "text": "his family who appeared for questioning was his mother, June. She denied having seen any molestation, but talked about Jordan and Michael sleeping in the same room on numerous occasions, explaining that she initially didn't want them to, but was persuaded by Jackson, who had cried and been hurt that she didn't trust him. She testified about Jackson buying all kinds of gifts for the family, the trips they'd been on together, and how fun it was to be part of Jackson's world. She said she'd been concerned that her son was starting to dress like Jackson and wanting to", "title": "Trial of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "13257563", "text": "rather summery feel than many of his previous outings.\" He goes on to say that Montgomery's vocals have a \"more intimate and conversational quality that's extremely effective on this lilting number.\" Like his previous video \"I Miss You a Little\", this music video was directed by Lou Chanatry. How Was I to Know (John Michael Montgomery song) \"How Was I to Know\" is a song written by Will Rambeaux and Blair Daly, and recorded by American country music artist John Michael Montgomery. It was released in June 1997 as the fourth and final single from his album \"What I Do", "title": "How Was I to Know (John Michael Montgomery song)" }, { "docid": "10031982", "text": "Michael Jackson (linebacker) Michael Jackson (born July 15, 1957) is a former professional American football player who played linebacker for eight seasons with the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). Jackson was born in Pasco, Washington. A 1975 graduate of Pasco High School, he has enjoyed greater success and accumulated more career achievements than any other Bulldog. A three-year/three-sport letterman, he was the team captain in both football and baseball while garnering All-State honors and receiving the Denning Award for Outstanding Athlete by the Pasco Jaycees as a senior. At the University of Washington, Jackson earned four varsity", "title": "Michael Jackson (linebacker)" }, { "docid": "13556117", "text": "even tried to take the paternity test but was rejected by Michael Jackson's lawyer, saying that Michael always insisted he was the father and he believes him. Jackson's mother Debbie Rowe claimed in 2009 that she underwent artificial insemination to be impregnated. In a December 2018 interview, Lester did not rule out the possibility of being the biological father or one of more of Michael Jackson's children. He also described how he was asked by Michael Jackson to be a sperm donor. Paris Jackson Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson (born April 3, 1998) is an American actress, model, and singer. She is", "title": "Paris Jackson" }, { "docid": "11372518", "text": "member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. He died in 1801 in Newton, Massachusetts. His five brothers and five sons, including Michael Jackson, Jr., also all served in the war. The family granted some farm lands in its possession to Harvard University to help found the institution. After the Revolutionary War, some members of the famous, mostly doctors, Jackson family moved to Madison, WI, where they helped establish city institutions including Methodist Hospital and the Jackson Clinics, now Meriter Hospital and two of them married into the Hobbins family, which like them included doctors and surgeons, bank founders, and", "title": "Michael Jackson (American soldier)" }, { "docid": "11375112", "text": "ethereal falsetto to his soft, sweet mid-tones; his fluid, seamless control of often very fast moving series of notes; his percussive yet still melodic outbursts, ululations and interjections (from those spooky \"tee-hee-hees\" to grunts and wails). Unusually for someone coming from a black American soul tradition, he did not often sing straight, unadorned ballads, though when he did (from 'Ben' to 'She's Out of My Life') the effect was of a powerful simplicity and truth.\" Jackson has been called the king of music videos. Steve Huey of AllMusic observed how Jackson transformed the music video into an art form and", "title": "Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "13982597", "text": "accusations of child sexual abuse were made in 2003, by 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo. The allegations came after Jackson and the boy appeared in the documentary \"Living with Michael Jackson\", in which the entertainer stated that he shared his bed with children in a non-sexual fashion. The musician was subsequently indicted on four counts of molesting a minor, four counts of intoxicating a minor, one count of abduction, and one count of conspiring to hold the boy and his family captive at Neverland Ranch. During the five-month trial, Jackson faced allegations of child molestation and assertions that he had attempted to", "title": "Personal relationships of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "7502994", "text": "When Jonathan Died When Jonathan Died is a novel by Tony Duvert, translated by D.R. Roberts. It was first published in France as \"Quand Mourut Jonathan\" in 1978. Jonathan is a 27-year-old artist living in Paris who befriends a single mother and her six-year-old son, Serge. When Serge is eight, his mother asks Jonathan to look after him for a week, which they spend together at Jonathan's country house in southern France. Jonathan and Serge become close friends. Jonathan, smitten with the boy, is distraught when Serge returns to Paris. They meet each other again when Serge is age 10,", "title": "When Jonathan Died" }, { "docid": "8162574", "text": "Michael Jackson (bishop) Michael Geoffrey St Aubyn Jackson (born 24 May 1956) is the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough since 2011. He also serves as Co-chairman of the Anglican-Lutheran communion Porvoo Communion. Jackson was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, the son of a Church of Ireland rector (latterly appointed Archdeacon of Elphin & Ardagh), and educated at Ballinamallard Primary School and Portora Royal School, Enniskillen. In 1979 he achieved the Louis Claude Purser Entrance Scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin. As only a Junior Freshman, he was elected as a Scholar of the College,", "title": "Michael Jackson (bishop)" }, { "docid": "11375057", "text": "first child at the time. Originally, Rowe and Jackson had no plans to marry, but Jackson's mother Katherine persuaded them to do so. Michael Joseph Jackson Jr (commonly known as Prince) was born on February 13, 1997; his sister Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson was born a year later on April 3, 1998. The couple divorced in 1999, and Jackson received full custody of the children. The divorce was relatively amicable, but a subsequent custody suit was not settled until 2006. In 1997, Jackson released \"\", which contained remixes of hit singles from \"HIStory\" and five new songs. Worldwide sales stand at", "title": "Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "13982543", "text": "an artist and a person, he had \"a very vivid imagination\". The actress described his statements as \"inaccurate\"; \"at 12 years old, there was no way she was capable of being as mature or as sophisticated as he claimed\". O'Neal released her autobiography \"A Paper Life\" in 2004, a year after the Jackson documentary. In the book, she claimed it was Jackson who attempted to make out with her. The actress wrote, \"I was just 12 and not at all ready for a real-life encounter[...] Michael, who was sweating profusely, seemed as intimidated as I was. He jumped up nervously", "title": "Personal relationships of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "20724124", "text": "child and also no mention of his humanitarian and charity efforts. The Estate of Michael Jackson have filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company and ABC TV, alleging the companies used dozens of copyrights without permission when the TV network aired the two-hour special. The Last Days of Michael Jackson The Last Days of Michael Jackson is a two-hour television special that premiered on ABC on May 24, 2018. The special is dedicated to Michael Jackson's life and legacy and is chronicling everything from his childhood to the comeback concert, \"This is It,\" that he never", "title": "The Last Days of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "13517410", "text": "family members objected to the site, saying that the ranch had been tainted by the sexual abuse allegations. Also, the owners of the ranch would have had to go through a permitting process with county and state government before establishing a cemetery at the site. In July 2010, security was increased at the mausoleum due to vandalism by fans leaving messages such as \"Keep the dream alive\" and \"Miss you sweet angel\" in permanent ink. Death of Michael Jackson On June 25, 2009, the singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication at his home on North Carolwood", "title": "Death of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "13517409", "text": "lavish funeral fit the life Jackson lived, commenting, \"It was Michael Jackson. He was bigger than life when he was alive.\" Jackson's remains are interred in the Holly Terrace section in the Great Mausoleum. The mausoleum is a secure facility that is not accessible to the general public or to the media, except on an extremely limited basis. The unmarked crypt, which is partially visible at the tinted entrance of the Holly Terrace mausoleum, is covered in flowers fans leave, which are placed by security guards outside the crypt. The family had considered burying Jackson at Neverland Ranch. However, some", "title": "Death of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "13982599", "text": "sexual abuse. The date for the hearing which would determine whether or not Robson could sue Jackson's estate was scheduled for June 2, 2014. Robson met Jackson when he was 5 years old. In 2005, he had testified in Jackson's defense during his child molestation trial. At that trial, Jackson's former housekeeper Blanca Francia had testified that she had witnessed Robson showering with Jackson when Robson was 8 or 9 years old. However, in his 2013 filing, Robson claimed that by the time he was 7 years old, he was regularly having sleepovers at Jackson's Neverland Ranch and Jackson's homes", "title": "Personal relationships of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "11082770", "text": "he will co-direct with Phil Middlemiss (also on the panel). In October 2010, he joined the cast of \"Emmerdale\", playing the character Jerry Walsh. In September 2012, Jackson appeared in \"Coronation Street\" as the character Sid Altree. Michael J. Jackson Michael J. Jackson (born 19 January 1948) is an English actor. Jackson studied at the University of London and then joined repertory theatre in Sheffield, followed by Coventry, Birmingham and Edinburgh. He appeared in several theatre productions early on in his career, including a West End production with Rowan Atkinson and Watford's Palace Theatre's production of \"The Incident at Tulse", "title": "Michael J. Jackson" }, { "docid": "4986454", "text": "He is also an IATSE 849 member and has been working as a grip since 1998. Actor - Film titles and associated role: Crewman - Film titles and associated crew job: Michael Jackson (actor) Michael Jackson (born November 8, 1970) is a Canadian actor, grip, gaffer and known for his acting role as \"Trevor\" in the comedy TV series \"Trailer Park Boys\" (2001–2006) and the later film \"\" (2006). Jackson was born in Ottawa, Ontario and grew up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where he currently lives. He has contributed to the local music scene with many group and solo projects,", "title": "Michael Jackson (actor)" }, { "docid": "13517370", "text": "their desire for profits from the This Is It concerts over the health and safety of Michael Jackson, ultimately causing his death\". Roth declined to comment on the lawsuit, saying that AEG had not seen it. On November 7, 2011, Michael Jackson's family arrived at the courthouse in Los Angeles shortly after the jury announced they reached their verdict; they had found Murray guilty. Michael's father Joe Jackson simply told reporters: \"Justice.\" LaToya Jackson tweeted that she was shaking uncontrollably when she heard the verdict, and continued to tweet her emotions throughout the day. In 2017, Paris Jackson stated that", "title": "Death of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "8248031", "text": "After graduating with a degree in sociology in 1986, he was accepted to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Upon retirement, Jackson assumed management positions with the United States Olympic Committee and Turner Sports and served as the president of Yankees–Nets (currently known as YES Network). He worked in a number of executive positions at Nike, Inc, including vice president and general manager of global basketball from 2014 to 2016. Michael Jackson (basketball) Michael Derek Jackson (born July 13, 1964) is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the New York Knicks in the 2nd round", "title": "Michael Jackson (basketball)" }, { "docid": "3688779", "text": "a hard-on,\" and that he told the boys, who were \"grossed out,\" that nudity was natural. Star said Jackson stayed for two minutes and sat on the bed, but neither brother spoke a word during that time. According to Gavin, the boys were \"just laying there\" when Jackson \"ran up there and got something and went back downstairs,\" without saying anything. Gavin did not describe Jackson as having an erection. The accuser's mother, Janet Arvizo, testified that on a flight from Miami to Los Angeles, she \"saw Michael licking Gavin's head\" while he was asleep. Before she testified about it,", "title": "Trial of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "11372515", "text": "Michael Jackson (American soldier) General Michael Jackson (18 December 1734 – 10 April 1801) was a soldier from Massachusetts. He is best remembered for his innovation within the printing industry and has been compared to Matthew Grainger. Jackson and Grainger were the first to perfect the use of diecutting and glass UV on offset machines. Jackson was born in Newton, Province of Massachusetts and served in the French and Indian War as a lieutenant. He married Ruth Parker, daughter of Ebenezer Parker, on January 31, 1759. In the American Revolutionary War he was captain of a minuteman company and took", "title": "Michael Jackson (American soldier)" }, { "docid": "5178360", "text": "for Cabinet Liaison and later as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Transportation. He held several positions reporting to the Secretary of Education in the Administration of President Ronald Reagan. Michael P. Jackson Michael Peter Jackson (born April 28, 1954) was the George W. Bush administration's Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, beginning in March 2005 and ending with his resignation in October 2007. Jackson is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Jackson studied at the University of Houston (B.A.) under Ross M. Lence and received a Ph.D. with distinction from the Government Department at", "title": "Michael P. Jackson" }, { "docid": "17199610", "text": "\"Michael Jackson and Bubbles\" by Jeff Koons, e.g. \"Michael Jackson and Bubbles (Gold)\" from 1997 to 1999 (today in the Christian Flick Collection) or \"Michael Jackson Fucked Up (Big Head)\" from 2002. In 2012 the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt attracted attention displaying \"Michael Jackson and Bubbles\" next to Egyptian mummies and thus established an aesthetic and ironic dialogue between the objects. Michael Jackson and Bubbles Michael Jackson and Bubbles is a porcelain sculpture (42 x 70.5 x 32.5 in) by the American artist Jeff Koons. It was created in 1988 within the framework of his \"Banality\" series. The life-size porcelain sculpture", "title": "Michael Jackson and Bubbles" }, { "docid": "13982530", "text": "to Jackson. His third and final child, son Prince Michael Jackson II, was born to an unnamed surrogate mother on February 21, 2002. In July 2009, it was revealed Jackson's will named Diana Ross as the next-in-line guardian for his children, after his mother, Katherine. In September 2009, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach released a book based on taped conversations he had with Jackson in 2001. It included Jackson's thoughts on personal relationships in general and specific ones. His romantic feelings for two famous friends were widely cited in the media; when asked if he got jealous when his long-time friend Elizabeth", "title": "Personal relationships of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "11374994", "text": "to record music for Motown. \"Rolling Stone\" later described the young Michael as \"a prodigy\" with \"overwhelming musical gifts\" who \"quickly emerged as the main draw and lead singer.\" The group set a chart record when its first four singles—\"I Want You Back\" (1969), \"ABC\" (1970), \"The Love You Save\" (1970), and \"I'll Be There\" (1970)—peaked at number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. In May 1971, the Jackson family moved into a large home on two-acre estate in Encino, California. During this period, Michael evolved from child performer into a teen idol. As Jackson began to emerge as a", "title": "Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "5659814", "text": "The Essential Michael Jackson The Essential Michael Jackson is a greatest hits compilation album by American singer Michael Jackson. It was released on July 19, 2005, by Sony Music's catalog division Legacy Recordings as part of \"The Essential\" series. The two-disc compilation features thirty-eight hit songs by Michael Jackson, from his days at Motown Records with The Jackson 5 in the late 1960s and early 1970s to his 2001 hit \"You Rock My World\". On August 26, 2008, \"The Essential Michael Jackson 3.0\" was released in the US as a limited edition containing an additional disc of seven songs performed", "title": "The Essential Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "20086152", "text": "his signature moves, while dancing to a medley of Jackson's songs. Michael Jackson impersonator A Michael Jackson impersonator is someone who impersonates or copies the look and sound of American entertainer Michael Jackson. They work all over the world as entertainers, and such tribute acts remain in great demand due to the high popularity of Jackson. \"Thriller – Live\" is a two-and-a-half-hour concert celebrating the music of Jackson. It had already been performed in the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, and Scandinavia before opening at the Lyric Theatre, London on 2 January 2009. The show was conceived by Jackson family friend", "title": "Michael Jackson impersonator" }, { "docid": "20086150", "text": "Michael Jackson impersonator A Michael Jackson impersonator is someone who impersonates or copies the look and sound of American entertainer Michael Jackson. They work all over the world as entertainers, and such tribute acts remain in great demand due to the high popularity of Jackson. \"Thriller – Live\" is a two-and-a-half-hour concert celebrating the music of Jackson. It had already been performed in the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, and Scandinavia before opening at the Lyric Theatre, London on 2 January 2009. The show was conceived by Jackson family friend and author, Adrian Grant. Thrill the World is an annual international", "title": "Michael Jackson impersonator" }, { "docid": "2624989", "text": "Michael Jackson (TV executive) Michael Richard Jackson (born 11 February 1958) is a British television producer and executive. He is notable for being one of only three people to have been Controller of both BBC One and BBC Two, the main television channels of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and for being the first media studies graduate to reach a senior level in the British media. He was also the Chief Executive of another major British television station, Channel 4, between 1997 and 2001. Born in Macclesfield, Jackson was the son of Ernest Jackson, a baker, and his wife Margaret. He", "title": "Michael Jackson (TV executive)" }, { "docid": "12389313", "text": "1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson In mid-1993, Evan Chandler accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing his 13-year-old son, Jordan \"Jordy\" Chandler. The relationship between Jackson and Jordan had begun in May 1992; Chandler initially encouraged the friendship. The friendship became well known as the tabloid media reported that Jackson had become a member of the Chandler family. In 1993, Chandler confronted his ex-wife June, who had custody of Jordan, with suspicions that their son had been in an inappropriate relationship with Jackson, but June dismissed his worries. Chandler threatened to go public with the evidence he claimed", "title": "1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "4986453", "text": "Michael Jackson (actor) Michael Jackson (born November 8, 1970) is a Canadian actor, grip, gaffer and known for his acting role as \"Trevor\" in the comedy TV series \"Trailer Park Boys\" (2001–2006) and the later film \"\" (2006). Jackson was born in Ottawa, Ontario and grew up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where he currently lives. He has contributed to the local music scene with many group and solo projects, including Moral Support, Aimless, Thruster, The Thursday Toads, Pink Kitten, Defense Andrew, The Sycamores, Rick of The Skins, El Groupo De Rock, Vavoom, T-Bag, The Olympian and most recently Doug Mason.", "title": "Michael Jackson (actor)" }, { "docid": "11375088", "text": "pay their respects. Katherine returned to Gary, Indiana to unveil a granite monument constructed in the front yard of the family home. The memorial continued with a candlelight vigil and a special performance of \"We Are the World\". On June 26, fans marched in front of the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery-Homicide Division at the old Parker Center building, and assembled a petition with thousands of signatures, demanding justice in the homicide investigation. The Jackson Family Foundation, in conjunction with Voiceplate, presented \"Forever Michael\", an event bringing together Jackson family members, celebrities, fans, supporters and the community to celebrate and", "title": "Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "9056212", "text": "Mary J. Blige. In addition, his sister Janet Jackson performed with him. This event marked Randy Jackson's final concert with his brothers. He would contribute backup vocals for Jackson's final song, This is It, along with his brothers Jackie, Tito, and Jermaine, before announcing his retirement from entertainment. From 2012-13, the remaining brothers (without Randy or Michael) reunited for the Unity Tour, which was held in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Michael Jackson; 30th Anniversary Special Background Singers-Jason Paige, Michael McElroy, Shoshana Bean, Luther Creek, Melanie Daniels, Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration The Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration", "title": "Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration" }, { "docid": "13982585", "text": "\"Oh, God! I've Just Married Michael Jackson.\" Jackson and Rowe's first child together, Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr. (also known as \"Prince Michael\"), was born on February 13, 1997, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The baby was named after Michael's grandfather and great-grandfather, who were both called Prince. After Rowe and Jackson cut the baby's umbilical cord together, Prince was taken to intensive care, where he spent five hours with only minor problems. He was subsequently taken by his father to Neverland Ranch. Prince's mother recuperated at a friend's house upon her release from the hospital. Six weeks after", "title": "Personal relationships of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "5659815", "text": "by Jackson. A re-titled release in the UK was planned on July 6, 2009 as \"The Hits\", but was cancelled upon Jackson's death. As of 2018, the album was certified 4× platinum in the US. The Essential Michael Jackson The Essential Michael Jackson is a greatest hits compilation album by American singer Michael Jackson. It was released on July 19, 2005, by Sony Music's catalog division Legacy Recordings as part of \"The Essential\" series. The two-disc compilation features thirty-eight hit songs by Michael Jackson, from his days at Motown Records with The Jackson 5 in the late 1960s and early", "title": "The Essential Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "11375133", "text": "for a celebrity. The majority was due to the sale of the Sony/ATV catalog. It was the seventh consecutive year since his death in which Jackson's annual earnings were over $100 million. Note 1 Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter and dancer. Dubbed the \"King of Pop\", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century and is also regarded as one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Jackson's contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life, made", "title": "Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "6351273", "text": "Michael Jackson (wide receiver) Michael Dywane Jackson Dyson (April 12, 1969 – May 12, 2017) was an American professional football player and politician. Jackson was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the sixth round of the 1991 NFL Draft. A 6'4\", 195 lbs. wide receiver from The University of Southern Mississippi, Jackson played in eight NFL seasons from 1991 to 1998 for the Browns and the Baltimore Ravens. Jackson signed a 1-year contract with the Seattle Seahawks to play the 1999 season but was cut at the end of the preseason. In college, he was teammates with QB Brett Favre", "title": "Michael Jackson (wide receiver)" }, { "docid": "12230996", "text": "cosmetic surgery, plus cosmetic tattoos on his eyebrows, around his eyes and lips, and on his scalp (at his receding hairline). In the unedited version of the documentary \"Living With Michael Jackson\", which was shown in court in 2005, Jackson said he had two procedures on his nose so that he could breathe better. When he was asked about his cheeks, Jackson answered: \"These cheekbones? No. My father has the same thing. We have Indian blood.\" Over the years, Jackson had various medical problems that were covered by the media. In early 1984, Jackson was treated for scalp burns after", "title": "Health and appearance of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "13949940", "text": "Speechless (Michael Jackson song) \"Speechless\" is a song by the American recording artist Michael Jackson, included on his tenth studio album, \"Invincible\" (2001). It was only released as a promotional single in South Korea. The singer was inspired to write the ballad after a water balloon fight with children in Germany. Jackson collaborated on the production with musicians such as Jeremy Lubbock, Brad Buxer, Novi Novoq, Stuart Bradley and Bruce Swedien. Andraé Crouch and his gospel choir provided backing vocals. Executives at Jackson's record label, Epic Records, responded positively to the track when given a preview several months before \"Invincible\"s", "title": "Speechless (Michael Jackson song)" }, { "docid": "11372522", "text": "chronicles some of these sons and daughters of the American Revolution dating from Jamestown to the 1950s. Michael Jackson (American soldier) General Michael Jackson (18 December 1734 – 10 April 1801) was a soldier from Massachusetts. He is best remembered for his innovation within the printing industry and has been compared to Matthew Grainger. Jackson and Grainger were the first to perfect the use of diecutting and glass UV on offset machines. Jackson was born in Newton, Province of Massachusetts and served in the French and Indian War as a lieutenant. He married Ruth Parker, daughter of Ebenezer Parker, on", "title": "Michael Jackson (American soldier)" }, { "docid": "3688768", "text": "first witness the prosecution called was Martin Bashir, who unsuccessfully fought his subpoena and brought an attorney with him from ABC. His direct testimony was short; he gave some career background and testified that he had produced the show \"Living With Michael Jackson,\" which was then played in its entirety for the courtroom. In cross examination, Bashir's attorney objected to most of the questions, citing the California Constitution's journalist shield law and the First Amendment privilege for journalists, which he believed exempted Bashir from questions relating to unpublished footage of his documentary or to information about how it was prepared", "title": "Trial of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "15573057", "text": "during the \"Thriller\" sessions, and brought it to Michael Jackson, who had recorded the song, added an extra melody line and a few extra lyrics to Chris Mosdell's original. Mosdell has said of the collaboration, \"when Michael Jackson took it, he made it into a love song about a woman. It was a completely different premise to me, I was talking about a very impersonal, socially controlled society, a future technological era, and the mask represented that immobile, unemotional state. But hey, I let him have that one.\" An agreement to share the royalties equally between Sakamoto, Mosdell and Jackson", "title": "Behind the Mask (Michael Jackson song)" }, { "docid": "13517401", "text": "Michael Jackson\" topped the album chart, giving Jackson a second number one album in as many weeks. He had five of the top ten albums in the album chart. In third week sales, \"The Essential Michael Jackson\" retained the number one position and Jackson held three other positions within the top five. By August 3, Jackson had sold 2 million records and spent six consecutive weeks atop the album chart. He retained the top spot on the album chart for a seventh consecutive week. In the U.S., Jackson broke three chart records on the first \"Billboard\" issue date that followed", "title": "Death of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "2624993", "text": "Media Show\", of which he was founding editor when it launched in 1987. \"The Media Show\" went on to become an acclaimed series, described by Waldemar Januszczak in \"The Guardian\" newspaper in 1997 as \"one of the defining television programmes of the 1980s... In Michael Jackson, its first producer, it gave us a media-genius.\" Despite his success in the independent sector however, in 1988 Jackson was persuaded by Alan Yentob, the then Controller of BBC Two, to join the staff of the BBC. Jackson came to be seen as something of a protégé of Yentob's during his time at the", "title": "Michael Jackson (TV executive)" }, { "docid": "1699037", "text": "be erroneous...\" Information system design was in need of a structured approach. In 1964 Jackson joined the new consultancy firm John Hoskyns and Company in London, before founding his own company Michael Jackson Systems Limited in 1971. In the 1960s he had started his search for \"more reliable and systematic way of programming.\" He contributed to the emerging modular programming movement, meeting Larry Constantine, George H. Mealy and several others on a 1968 symposium. In the 1970s, Jackson developed Jackson Structured Programming (JSP). In the 1980s, with John Cameron, he developed Jackson System Development (JSD). Then, in the 1990s, he", "title": "Michael A. Jackson" }, { "docid": "17116950", "text": "Michael Jackson: One Michael Jackson: One is the second Michael Jackson-based production in Cirque du Soleil's roster, after . It was announced to the public and media on February 21, 2013. In their continuing partnership with the Jackson estate, \"One\" evokes the entertainer's artistic style in several manners. The new production began previews on May 23, 2013 and the official world premiere was June 29, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Like \"The Immortal World Tour\", this production was also written and directed by Jamie King. \"Sneak peek\" videos were released on the internet", "title": "Michael Jackson: One" }, { "docid": "11082766", "text": "Michael J. Jackson Michael J. Jackson (born 19 January 1948) is an English actor. Jackson studied at the University of London and then joined repertory theatre in Sheffield, followed by Coventry, Birmingham and Edinburgh. He appeared in several theatre productions early on in his career, including a West End production with Rowan Atkinson and Watford's Palace Theatre's production of \"The Incident at Tulse Hill\". He won the Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer Actor in 1978. He continues to work in theatres across the country throughout his career, including a stint as Duke Frederick in Shakespeare's \"As", "title": "Michael J. Jackson" }, { "docid": "2012852", "text": "Michael Jackson (writer) Michael James Jackson (27 March 1942 – 30 August 2007) was an English writer and journalist. He was the author of many influential books about beer and whisky. He was a regular contributor to a number of British broadsheets, particularly \"The Independent\" and \"The Observer\". Jackson's books have sold over three million copies worldwide and have been translated into eighteen different languages. He is credited with helping to start a renaissance of interest in beer and breweries worldwide in the 1970s, particularly in the United States. He is also widely credited with popularising the idea of beer", "title": "Michael Jackson (writer)" }, { "docid": "3688749", "text": "to see for himself how his son's health was and hoped to find out whether the boy and Jackson had sexual contact. He blamed his ex-wife for allowing the boy to sleep in the same room with Jackson and also claimed that she had been in a mental hospital. As of late 2004, David insisted: \"My children are routinely rehearsed by their mother, Janet, to do or say whatever she wishes.\" When the Arvizo family and Jackson were on good terms, their mother, Janet, allegedly encouraged her children to call Jackson \"Daddy.\" Janet, who also went by the names Janet", "title": "Trial of Michael Jackson" }, { "docid": "13826873", "text": "the world. The video opens with a clip of a poster in Gary pointing fans toward Jackson's childhood home, at the corner of 2300 Jackson Street and Jackson Family Boulevard and the sound of a vintage recording of one of Jackson's siblings yelling \"Michael\" repeatedly. An image, that is shown several times during the video, shows a one-way traffic sign near Jackson's old house that is covered in graffiti honoring Jackson, including \"we luv yuh Michael.\" Images, shown as a slide-show, of Jackson performing as a child are mixed in with shots of play sets, baseball bats and Gary's gritty", "title": "This Is It (Michael Jackson song)" }, { "docid": "11501245", "text": "the show, one night and offered to do a guest spot. The offer was accepted and a script was written by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, based on an idea pitched by James L. Brooks. Groening and co-executive producer Sam Simon also contributed significantly to the writing of the episode. In 2017, archival recordings of Jackson were in the TV special \"Michael Jackson's Halloween\". Michael Jackson videography American entertainer Michael Jackson (1958–2009) debuted on the professional music scene at age five as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still part of the", "title": "Michael Jackson videography" } ]
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What NFL team calls Reliant Stadium home?
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[ { "docid": "2108353", "text": "utilizes the stadium for exhibits. In 2006, 59,236 were in attendance which was the largest convention in Houston in 2006 and the highest attendance for the event since 1982. NRG Stadium NRG Stadium (pronounced as N-R-G Stadium), formerly Reliant Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Houston, Texas, United States. It was constructed at the cost of $352 million and has a seating capacity of 71,995. It was the first NFL facility to have a retractable roof. The stadium is the home of the National Football League's Houston Texans, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the Texas Bowl, many of the", "title": "NRG Stadium" }, { "docid": "2108328", "text": "NRG Stadium NRG Stadium (pronounced as N-R-G Stadium), formerly Reliant Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Houston, Texas, United States. It was constructed at the cost of $352 million and has a seating capacity of 71,995. It was the first NFL facility to have a retractable roof. The stadium is the home of the National Football League's Houston Texans, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the Texas Bowl, many of the United States men's national soccer team's matches, and other events. The stadium served as the host facility for Super Bowls XXXVIII (2004) and LI (2017), and WrestleMania XXV (2009).", "title": "NRG Stadium" }, { "docid": "9153413", "text": "A few days before the start of the 2005 NFL Season, the Louisiana Superdome was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina, and much of the city of New Orleans was destroyed. The New Orleans Saints' eight scheduled home games were moved to other locations, including Giants Stadium, the Alamodome in San Antonio, and Tiger Stadium on the campus of Louisiana State University. On September 14, 2008, the Houston Texans were scheduled to host the Baltimore Ravens. The game was postponed until November 9 because of Hurricane Ike (which caused some damage to Reliant Stadium) and several other changes had to be", "title": "NFL regular season" }, { "docid": "14562177", "text": "Copa De Tejas The Copa de Tejas () was a soccer tournament held in Houston. All games were played at the Reliant Stadium, home of the NFL's Houston Texans American Football team. The participants were Club América, Everton and Pachuca. The Copa De Tejas was a preseason summer soccer tournament hosted by the Houston Texans NFL franchise at Reliant Stadium. The tournament featured clubs from Liga MX and the Premier League. The tournament was created to help establish the Reliant Stadium as a soccer venue, as well as persuade Major League Soccer to award an expansion franchise to the Houston", "title": "Copa De Tejas" }, { "docid": "20486148", "text": "First Division club friendlies at Robertson Stadium (the future home of the Dynamo) and the opening of Reliant Stadium, thanks to the return of an NFL team to Houston in 2002, made it a hot destination to host international friendlies. Houston Texans Chief Development Officer Steve Patterson (whose organization was looking to bring an MLS franchise to Houston) spearheaded efforts to host a USA vs. Mexico friendly in May 2003, a rematch of the two nations historic round of 16 encounter at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, as the first soccer match at Reliant Stadium. The 69,582 attendance set a", "title": "Soccer in Houston" }, { "docid": "14562178", "text": "market, which was awarded in 2006 with the Houston Dynamo. There were two preseason tournaments held, in 2003 and 2004. Mexican side, Cruz Azul won the first tournament, and fellow Mexican outfit, Club América won the second and final tournament. Copa De Tejas The Copa de Tejas () was a soccer tournament held in Houston. All games were played at the Reliant Stadium, home of the NFL's Houston Texans American Football team. The participants were Club América, Everton and Pachuca. The Copa De Tejas was a preseason summer soccer tournament hosted by the Houston Texans NFL franchise at Reliant Stadium.", "title": "Copa De Tejas" }, { "docid": "15405406", "text": "violation of the NFL's collective bargaining agreement with the National Football League Players Association which requires a visiting team to arrive in the host city no later than 24 hours prior to kickoff. Hurricane Ike forced several changes to the 2008 schedule. The Houston Texans’ Week 2 home game against the Baltimore Ravens was first postponed to Monday, September 15, before Ike made landfall; damage to Reliant Stadium forced a further postponement, to Week 10, on Sunday, November 9, giving the Texans and the Ravens their bye weeks in Week 2. Furthermore, to accommodate this move, the Texans’ home game", "title": "Canceled NFL games" }, { "docid": "1803365", "text": "that same name was expected to disband, but didn't and the \"Cowboys\" name was later adopted for the NFL team in mid-March 1960. Both franchises shared the Cotton Bowl (also the home of Southern Methodist University's (SMU) Mustangs) stadium for their first three seasons. The new AFL team moved after winning the 1962 AFL Championship in double overtime and became the Kansas City Chiefs for its fourth season in 1963. The \"Texans\" name has since been revived by the NFL for the current Houston Texans, an expansion team in 2002, which replaced the earlier Houston Oilers a charter AFL franchise", "title": "Dallas Texans (NFL)" } ]
[ { "docid": "2108350", "text": "venue's attendance record was set during a preparation match between the Mexico national team and the U.S. men's soccer team. On February 6, 2008, USA–Mexico was held at Reliant Stadium to a capacity crowd of 70,103. The previous USA vs. Mexico match in Reliant Stadium drew a sellout crowd of 69,582 fans on May 8, 2003 and is the largest home crowd for the U.S. men's national team this decade, until the USA played Mexico for a capacity crowd of 79,156 fans in Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final. Reliant Stadium hosted", "title": "NRG Stadium" }, { "docid": "14531531", "text": "time since Wembley's opening. They played against Turkey at Etihad Stadium, Manchester and against Australia at Stadium of Light, Sunderland. Not included is the Northern Ireland (playing as Ireland) game in 1973 at Goodison Park as Northern Ireland were the designated home team, which was moved from Belfast due to ongoing civil unrest. England national football team home stadium Wembley Stadium in London is the current exclusive home stadium for the England national football team. This has been the case since it was opened in 2007, following on from the old Wembley Stadium it replaced. England have however also played", "title": "England national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "14531527", "text": "England national football team home stadium Wembley Stadium in London is the current exclusive home stadium for the England national football team. This has been the case since it was opened in 2007, following on from the old Wembley Stadium it replaced. England have however also played many of their home games away from Wembley throughout their history, both in friendly matches and for competitive tournaments. While the England team played their first official home match on 8 March 1873 (their second official international), the old Wembley was not built until 1923 (being known at the time as the Empire", "title": "England national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "14690541", "text": "was immediately assigned as the new home venue for Welsh football matches, hosting its first match on 29 March 2000 against Finland which, due to the increased capacity of the new stadium, set a new attendance record for a Wales international match of 65,614. However, by the end of the decade the ground had seen a dramatic drop in attendances for international matches due to the progress of the Welsh side in qualifying competitions which led to calls from several senior figures in Welsh football, including national team manager John Toshack and players such as Jason Koumas and Craig Bellamy,", "title": "Wales national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "18177260", "text": "Belgium national football team home stadium Throughout their history, the Belgian national football team have played at 23 home locations in 11 urban areas, most often in the country's Capital Region, Brussels. The national King Baudouin Stadium, with a capacity of 50,024 people, is the usual playing ground nowadays. At this location, the majority of the Red Devils' home matches took place. Other stadiums (with a smaller capacity) are normally assigned as home ground in case a rather small audience is to be expected or when the national stadium is in repair. Belgium's first official match in 1904 was a", "title": "Belgium national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "19562648", "text": "Algeria national football team home stadium Stade Mustapha Tchaker in Blida is the current exclusive home stadium for the Algeria national football team. This has been the case since it was opened in 2002, Algeria have however also played many of their home games away from Tchaker throughout their history, both in friendly matches and for competitive tournaments. Unlike many selections, \"Les Fennecs\" have no recognized national stadium. Whether for the qualifying matches for the World Cup or friendly matches, they turn around the country and changing in many however stages major international meetings are usually held at Stade 5", "title": "Algeria national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "18177264", "text": "matches. However, the UEFA later awarded the games to the Wembley Stadium when due to delays and uncertainty that the new stadium in Brussels would be completed in time. Some stadiums were given different names at different times; only the official name at the last time the national team played is mentioned below. Statistics include official FIFA-recognised matches only; unofficial games can be found \"here\". Belgium national football team home stadium Throughout their history, the Belgian national football team have played at 23 home locations in 11 urban areas, most often in the country's Capital Region, Brussels. The national King", "title": "Belgium national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "5625118", "text": "6. In the current system, the only way a wild card team can host a playoff game is if both teams in the conference’s championship game are wild cards. However, the number of playoff teams still remains at 12, where it has been since 1990. Also, with the opening of the NFL’s first stadium with a retractable roof, Reliant Stadium, the following rules were enacted: Reebok took over the contract to be the official athletic supplier to the NFL for all 32 teams’ uniforms. Previously, all teams had individual contracts with athletic suppliers. American Needle, which had a contract with", "title": "2002 NFL season" }, { "docid": "14690542", "text": "to move matches away from the Millennium Stadium. In response, several friendly matches were moved to various venues around Wales, including the first international matches held at the Cardiff City Stadium, Liberty Stadium and Parc y Scarlets. In July 2010, plans were revealed to move three of Wales' four upcoming home matches during the qualifying stage of UEFA Euro 2012 away from the Millennium Stadium, which would become the first competitive fixtures to be played away from the ground since it opened. Wales national football team home stadium This is a list of stadiums which have hosted Wales international football", "title": "Wales national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "8659985", "text": "Park in 2020. Scotland national football team home stadium Hampden Park in Glasgow is the primary home stadium for the Scotland national football team. This has been the case since 1906, soon after it opened. The present site of Hampden Park is the third location to bear that name and both the previous locations also hosted Scotland games. Scotland have also played many of their home games in other stadiums throughout their history, both in friendly matches and for competitive tournaments. Scotland hosted the first official international match, a goalless draw against England on 30 November 1872, at the Hamilton", "title": "Scotland national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "8659978", "text": "Scotland national football team home stadium Hampden Park in Glasgow is the primary home stadium for the Scotland national football team. This has been the case since 1906, soon after it opened. The present site of Hampden Park is the third location to bear that name and both the previous locations also hosted Scotland games. Scotland have also played many of their home games in other stadiums throughout their history, both in friendly matches and for competitive tournaments. Scotland hosted the first official international match, a goalless draw against England on 30 November 1872, at the Hamilton Crescent cricket ground", "title": "Scotland national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "11521518", "text": "of their stadium deal in Oakland and the lack of an NFL-ready stadium in their eventual home in Las Vegas, have also agreed to annual international games. The rule does not apply to teams using a temporary stadium within their own market; the Minnesota Vikings were not required to host a home game abroad while using TCF Bank Stadium, for example. NFL rules also require the designated home team for each international game to have their home stadium reserved for use in the event that a game cannot be played at the international site. The Miami Dolphins hosted the New", "title": "NFL International Series" }, { "docid": "14531529", "text": "next half century, meaning just ten home games were played outside of old Wembley in the period after 1951 until 1999. The next series of non-Wembley home games, 34 in all, took place between 2001 and 2007, in the period between the old Wembley closing and the new Wembley opening, due to it being built on the same site. When the old Wembley was closed in October 2000, the national team went 'on tour'. The stadium was not demolished until 2003, and the new stadium was not completed until 2007, well behind schedule. Manchester United's home stadium Old Trafford was", "title": "England national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "3326195", "text": "1938. The Rams returned to the stadium in 1939 and played home games there through the 1941 season before moving to League Park for the remainder of their time in Cleveland. The team returned to the stadium one last time to host the 1945 NFL Championship Game, a 15–14 win in what was the final Rams game in Cleveland before the team relocated to Los Angeles. The only Great Lakes Bowl was held there in 1947. The stadium hosted the annual Notre Dame/Navy college football game 11 times: in 1932, 1934, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1976 and", "title": "Cleveland Stadium" }, { "docid": "5625125", "text": "at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, on February 1. This was the last season until the 2016 NFL season where neither of the previous Super Bowl participants made the playoffs. The following teams and players set all-time NFL records during the season: The 2003 NFL Draft was held from April 26 to 27, 2003 at New York City's Theater at Madison Square Garden. With the first pick, the Cincinnati Bengals selected quarterback Carson Palmer from the University of Southern California. 2003 NFL season The 2003 NFL season was the 84th regular season of the National Football League (NFL). Regular-season play", "title": "2003 NFL season" }, { "docid": "5155664", "text": "Shaw Stadium Shaw Stadium is a stadium in East Cleveland, Ohio, United States, mainly used for high school football. The stadium was built in 1923 and is home to the Shaw High School Cardinals football team and marching band. In 1938, the Cleveland Rams of the National Football League (NFL) played three of their four home games at Shaw, winning two and losing one. The Rams earned their first home NFL victory in franchise history with a defeat of the Detroit Lions, followed by a win over the Chicago Bears. Both Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University, which", "title": "Shaw Stadium" }, { "docid": "9050260", "text": "stadium would not have been a first, as the two shared Kezar Stadium for part of 1960. It would have also fulfilled the late Raiders owner Al Davis' goal of a new stadium, something he had strongly desired since the late 1980s although Davis was against sharing a new stadium with another NFL team in Los Angeles when the idea was proposed to him, prompting his move back to Oakland in 1995. The Raiders, as it stands, play at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum and are the only NFL team still sharing its home field with a Major League Baseball team;", "title": "Levi's Stadium" }, { "docid": "3217973", "text": "1932. Former Milwaukee ticket holders were offered tickets at Lambeau to one pre-season game and games 2 and 5 of the regular season schedule, in what is referred to as the \"Gold package.\" County Stadium was partly responsible for Lambeau Field's existence, as it was not only intended to lure an MLB team to Milwaukee, but also to lure the Packers to Milwaukee full-time. As originally constructed, County Stadium was double the size of the Packers' then-home, City Stadium, leading the NFL to give the Packers an ultimatum—build a bigger stadium or move to Milwaukee. Green Bay responded with a", "title": "Milwaukee County Stadium" }, { "docid": "8659982", "text": "first international in 1906. It expanded to the point where it set world record attendances between the 1900s and 1930s. Even as late as 1970, Hampden set a record attendance for a UEFA competition match, the 1969–70 European Cup semi-final second leg between Celtic and Leeds United. Hampden continued to be the main home stadium for the Scotland national team until the early 1990s. It then required significant redevelopment to become an all-seater stadium, meeting the requirements of the Taylor Report. Ibrox Park and Pittodrie Stadium in Aberdeen had both been largely redeveloped before then and hosted some of the", "title": "Scotland national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "2573963", "text": "season, and playoffs. This streak dates back to the 1994 season, while the team was still at Foxboro Stadium. By September 2016 this streak was 231 straight games. From the 1971 to 2001 NFL seasons, the Patriots played all of their home games at Foxboro Stadium. The stadium was privately funded on an extremely small budget and featured few amenities. Its aluminum benches would freeze over during cold-weather games and it had an unorganized dirt parking lot. Foxboro Stadium did not bring in the profits needed to keep an NFL team in New England; at just over 60,000 seats, it", "title": "Gillette Stadium" }, { "docid": "11521513", "text": "team that plays a home game in London sells a cheaper season ticket package for its own stadium with seven regular season games rather than the usual eight. Each designated home team receives US$1 million for giving up the home game. On October 11, 2011, the NFL owners approved playing NFL games in Great Britain through the year 2016. This stated that a home team could visit every year for up to five years but visitors could only visit once every five years. However, in 2015 the Detroit Lions returned to London as visitors in an apparent disregard for this", "title": "NFL International Series" }, { "docid": "9234021", "text": "Miami, in 2012. Sun Life Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) was then renovated to eliminate its baseball functionality, making it a football-only stadium. With the Marlins' relocation, the Oakland Athletics are the last team in the U.S. still sharing a stadium with an NFL team (the Oakland Raiders), the Oakland Coliseum. This arrangement will end once the Raiders move to Las Vegas (most likely in 2020), after which each NFL and MLB franchise will have its own stadium. The Athletics are currently seeking a new home; they are currently exploring plans to build Oakland Ballpark. Before announcing their upcoming move", "title": "Multi-purpose stadium" }, { "docid": "2135983", "text": "the Giants playing a home game one day and the Jets playing the other. The night between the games was a challenge for the stadium grounds crew, as they only had hours to convert the stadium from one team's colors to the other. As per the NFL schedule, the Giants and the Jets play each other once every four years. In that case, there was a predetermined home team, and a predetermined away team. In those games, the away team gets a rare away game in their own home stadium. The Giants and Jets typically play each other every year", "title": "Giants Stadium" }, { "docid": "7259942", "text": "the American Professional Football Association in 1939. The Bulldogs then became charter members of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League in 1940 and played in Gilmore Stadium until 1948, when the team moved to Long Beach, California, for its (and the league's) final season. The stadium was also home to another professional football teams, the Los Angeles Mustangs of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League. Gilmore Stadium was the site of two 1940 National Football League (NFL) Pro Bowls. The stadium was home to the collegiate Loyola Marymount Lions football team and Pepperdine Waves football team. On January 14, 1940,", "title": "Gilmore Stadium" }, { "docid": "1804209", "text": "Louisville (NFL) Louisville, Kentucky had two professional American football teams in the National Football League: the Louisville Breckenridges (or Brecks for short) from 1921 to 1924 and the Louisville Colonels in 1926. The NFL intended for the Brecks to be a traveling team, however the team played a series of \"home\" games. All Brecks home games were played at Eclipse Park, until the stadium caught fire and burned to the ground on November 20, 1922. Meanwhile, the Colonels played all of their games on the road. While the Colonels were really a traveling team out of Chicago they are usually", "title": "Louisville (NFL)" }, { "docid": "11896350", "text": "them in midseason are noted. There have been no NFL traveling teams since 1952, owing to the increased stability of the league. Even in cases when an NFL team's home stadium has been rendered unusable due to damages or renovations, the teams have arranged and designated temporary home stadiums in each case and no NFL team has had to play more than two designated home games (out of eight in a season) outside their home stadium. In the Canadian Football League, the Las Vegas Posse were converted to a road team near the end of the 1994 season, their sole", "title": "Traveling team" }, { "docid": "2135981", "text": "largely to the dual occupancy of Giants Stadium by two NFL teams since 1984, it surpassed Wrigley Field (home of the Chicago Bears for 50 seasons) as the venue to have hosted more NFL games than any other in league history. The game played between the Jets and Miami Dolphins on September 14, 2003 was the 366th regular season NFL game at Giants Stadium breaking Wrigley's regular season record. Since the stadium was originally built for the Giants, the stadium's lower walls were blue and the seats and the stadium's four gates were red and blue to reflect the team", "title": "Giants Stadium" }, { "docid": "18177261", "text": "home game, at the Stade du Vivier d'Oie in Uccle. Before their first official match in the national Jubilee Stadium in Brussels in 1931, the Red Devils made 67 home appearances in the current urban areas of Antwerp, Brussels, Liège, Seraing and Verviers. In that era, Antwerp and its surroundings often hosted the Belgian home matches (32 times), mostly explained by the frequent confrontations against the national team of Antwerp's neighbouring country Netherlands, and the 1920 Olympics football tournament held at the Olympisch Stadion (the \"Kiel\"). From 1931 on, the large majority of the home games have been played in", "title": "Belgium national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "17084759", "text": "his territorial rights and previously voiced support of an NFL team moving there when the New Orleans Saints temporarily played in San Antonio in 2005 due to damages to the Superdome following Hurricane Katrina — both favor an NFL team playing in San Antonio. Though San Antonio is a smaller market than the San Francisco Bay Area, the Raiders would not be sharing the market with another NFL team, and would only compete with the NBA's San Antonio Spurs among major sports teams. Additionally, the Raiders would use the Alamodome as a temporary home until an NFL-specific stadium could be", "title": "2015 NFL season" }, { "docid": "3348042", "text": "testing ground for its synthetic ChemGrass, later known as AstroTurf, inviting cars and horses to ride on the synthetic surface to gauge its durability. It sat abandoned for ten years, accumulating random odds and ends from nearby Astroworld and weathering in the blistering Texas sun. The right field corner of the stadium was located in what is now the northwest corner of the Reliant Center. Much of the northern half of the stadium (center field, left field and the third base stands) is occupied by a power station, and home plate was approximately located where a light pole in the", "title": "Colt Stadium" }, { "docid": "11521520", "text": "one of their eight home games each year at Wembley Stadium. However, on August 13, 2012, the team announced that they would not play the proposed games in London in 2013 and 2014, only the 2012 game against the New England Patriots that had already been scheduled. Goodell had previously proposed the use of certain regular teams in the International Series in an effort to build a fan base for those teams, raising the prospect of a permanent NFL team on the British Isles. An NFL bid to become anchor tenants of London's Olympic Stadium failed. The Jacksonville Jaguars took", "title": "NFL International Series" }, { "docid": "19135834", "text": "incurs by hosting Raiders games. With the city of Oakland filing a lawsuit against the Raiders and the NFL in December 2018, the Raiders management has indicated that the team will leave Oakland after the 2018 season and find a temporary stadium elsewhere until Las Vegas Stadium is finished. On September 4, University of Phoenix Stadium, the home field of the Arizona Cardinals, was renamed State Farm Stadium. The naming rights agreement is for 18 years; however, the cost of the deal was not disclosed. On June 20, the Denver Broncos' home stadium was renamed Broncos Stadium at Mile High.", "title": "2018 NFL season" }, { "docid": "19562650", "text": "two goals to one. Other historic sites that have hosted regular international home games of the Algeria are Stade 5 Juillet 1962 of Algiers but also Stade Mustapha Tchaker of Blida or also to the Stade Ahmed Zabana of Oran. Algeria is sometimes relocates its friendly matches in Europe, Algeria has played many games at \"home\" in recent years France and Switzerland due to the fact that there is a large community expatriates in western Europe and much of the players play in European leagues. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Official Site dzfoot.com Algeria national football team home stadium Stade", "title": "Algeria national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "14690538", "text": "Wales national football team home stadium This is a list of stadiums which have hosted Wales international football matches. To date, fifteen grounds have been used to host Welsh home matches. Wales played their first home international on 5 March 1877 at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham, losing 2–0 to Scotland. As a result, the Racecourse Ground is officially recognised as the oldest football ground in the world that continues to host international matches, ahead of Hampden Park in Glasgow which did not host its first match for another 27 years, and has hosted more Welsh international matches than any", "title": "Wales national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "5619505", "text": "played outside the United States when a San Francisco 49ers – Arizona Cardinals game was played at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on October 2 (the Cardinals won 31–14). The game drew an NFL regular season record of 103,467 paid fans. It was a home game for the Cardinals, mostly because the team rarely sold out at their then-home field, Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. This season was the last year that the Cardinals played at Sun Devil Stadium; the team then moved to their new Cardinals Stadium in nearby Glendale. Due to the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina", "title": "2005 NFL season" }, { "docid": "9153405", "text": "the MLB team in their city made the playoffs. On some occasions, the NFL game could be moved to Saturday or Monday. The NFL would often schedule October division games so that teams would be able to swap home game dates if it appeared that the MLB playoff schedule would make a stadium unavailable to the NFL. Perhaps the most extreme case was in 1973, when the New York Jets played at Shea Stadium and were forced to play their first six games on the road due to the Mets playing in the World Series. As more MLB teams started", "title": "NFL regular season" }, { "docid": "18177262", "text": "the stadium at the Heysel plain in Brussels. Inaugurated as \"Jubilee Stadium\" in 1930 with an unofficial match against Netherlands, and renamed \"Heysel Stadium\" in 1946, it underwent a drastical transformation in 1995. From then on, the stadium was named after the late King Baudouin I. Also over the totality of home games since 1904, the location of the current King Baudouin Stadium accounts for the majority of home games played. In May 2013, it was announced that the King Baudouin Stadium would be demolished to create place for housing and that a new stadium would arise nearby at the", "title": "Belgium national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "2135982", "text": "colors. When the Jets moved in, green banners were hung over the walls and eventually over the outer gates of the stadium anytime the team hosted a game. In addition, team-specific end zone decorations would be changed for Jets home games. This was accomplished by either painting over the Giants logos, or replacing the turf section of each end zone. Midfield decorations at the 50-yard line were typically not team-specific (in early years a Meadowlands logo, and later an NFL shield), which could be used for both teams' games. In mid-December, traditionally the stadium hosted a Saturday-Sunday NFL doubleheader, with", "title": "Giants Stadium" }, { "docid": "9919228", "text": "additional 3,000 temporary seats were added at that time as well to accommodate the Portland State football team. The team used Hillsboro Stadium in 2000 when then Civic Stadium (now Providence Park) was being renovated. Portland's Central Catholic High School also played their home games at the stadium that season as well. In May 2001, the University of Oregon Ducks football team held their annual spring game at the stadium. This scrimmage event included future NFL quarterbacks Joey Harrington and Jason Fife. In October 2005, Hillsboro Stadium hosted a college football game between Southern Oregon University (SOU) and Pacific Lutheran", "title": "Hillsboro Stadium" }, { "docid": "4168943", "text": "Stanford Stadium) to host a Super Bowl though having never served as the full-time home stadium for an NFL or AFL team (Stanford Stadium hosted one San Francisco 49ers game after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake). Because the NFL has a policy limiting the hosting of a Super Bowl to metropolitan areas with NFL teams, the Super Bowl has not been played at the Rose Bowl since the Rams and Raiders departed the Los Angeles area in . The most recent Super Bowl held in southern California was XXXVII in San Diego in January 2003. The next L.A.-based Super Bowl", "title": "Rose Bowl (stadium)" }, { "docid": "14905412", "text": "one station to air a local broadcast for each team in the contest, NFL Audio Pass and Sirius Satellite Radio were the only options for those who want to listen to their home team but live outside of the flagship station's listening range. In addition to the team broadcasts, the NFL Audio Pass Super Bowl package included various foreign language broadcasts, live feeds from the stadium PA announcer, archives, and \"press box\" stat play-by-play. In the past, from spring until August 1, NFL Field Pass opened up its archives to \"free preview.\" All games from the past years were available", "title": "NFL Game Pass" }, { "docid": "1804102", "text": "and 1931. Cincinnati Reds (NFL) The Cincinnati Reds were a National Football League team that played the 1933 season and the first eight games of the 1934 season. The football Reds played most of their home games at Crosley Field. Other home games were played at Dayton's Triangle Park, Portsmouth's Universal Stadium and Xavier University's Corcoran Stadium in a rare night game against the Chicago Cardinals. The team was eventually suspended for failure to pay league dues during the 1934 season and the St. Louis Gunners, an independent team, replaced the Reds on the schedule for the last three games.", "title": "Cincinnati Reds (NFL)" }, { "docid": "1804099", "text": "Cincinnati Reds (NFL) The Cincinnati Reds were a National Football League team that played the 1933 season and the first eight games of the 1934 season. The football Reds played most of their home games at Crosley Field. Other home games were played at Dayton's Triangle Park, Portsmouth's Universal Stadium and Xavier University's Corcoran Stadium in a rare night game against the Chicago Cardinals. The team was eventually suspended for failure to pay league dues during the 1934 season and the St. Louis Gunners, an independent team, replaced the Reds on the schedule for the last three games. The Reds", "title": "Cincinnati Reds (NFL)" }, { "docid": "392199", "text": "Mets (76 home dates); 1,288,048 by the Yankees (71 home dates); 361,102 by the Jets (seven home games) and 358,830 by the Giants (also seven). Having both the Giants and Jets share Shea Stadium for one season foreshadowed what was to come in the future with the Meadowlands (a.k.a. Giants Stadium), after the Jets left Flushing Meadows for New Jersey following the 1983 NFL season. Shea was a circular stadium, with the grandstand forming about two-thirds of a circle around the field and ending a short distance beyond the foul lines. The remainder of the perimeter was mostly empty space", "title": "Shea Stadium" }, { "docid": "2283218", "text": "home field of their rivals, the University of Miami Hurricanes. Hard Rock Stadium Hard Rock Stadium is a multipurpose football stadium located in Miami Gardens, Florida, a city north of Miami. It is the home stadium of the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). Hard Rock Stadium also plays host to the Miami Hurricanes football team during their regular season. The facility also hosts the Orange Bowl, an annual college football bowl game. It was the home to the Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1993 to 2011. The stadium has hosted five Super Bowls (XXIII,", "title": "Hard Rock Stadium" }, { "docid": "499064", "text": "the New York Yankees based in Yankee Stadium. The league failed after only one year, but the team continued as a member of the NFL for two seasons before ceasing operations. A second New York Yankees football team, not related to the first, split its home games between Yankee Stadium and Downing Stadium as it competed in the second AFL in 1936 and 1937. A third AFL New York Yankees took the field in 1940 and became the New York Americans in 1941. The New York Yankees of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) played their home games at Yankee Stadium", "title": "Yankee Stadium (1923)" }, { "docid": "3335529", "text": "owner Art Modell announced he was moving his team to Baltimore. Following protracted negotiations between Modell, the two cities and the NFL, it was decided that Modell would be allowed to take his players and organization to Baltimore as the Ravens, while leaving the Browns name and legacy for a replacement team that returned in 1999. The Ravens were tenants of the stadium until the end of the 1997 NFL regular season, when they moved to what is now M&T Bank Stadium. It was bid farewell in style by both the Orioles (in a field-encircling ceremony staged by many former", "title": "Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)" }, { "docid": "9050259", "text": "for alternate colors and two home-team locker rooms. The 49ers and Raiders publicly said it would be an option if possible, while NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was strongly in favor of the two sharing a stadium. Fans of both teams reacted negatively to the idea. Along with the New York metropolitan area, where the New York Giants and New York Jets shared Giants Stadium from 1984 to 2009 and currently share its successor, MetLife Stadium, the DC-Baltimore metro area and Los Angeles. The Bay Area is one of 4 NFL markets with two teams. The 49ers and Raiders sharing a", "title": "Levi's Stadium" }, { "docid": "887835", "text": "four times: 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2004. Whenever the Cardinals struggled, Sun Devil Stadium was frequently one of the quietest stadiums in the league. Cardinals home games often did not sell out in time for them to be aired locally, in compliance with NFL blackout policy at the time. The few fans who did show up for games were most often rooting for the visiting team, creating what amounted to \"home games\" on the road for many opposing teams. A significant percentage of the state's residents only live there during the winter and live elsewhere for the rest of the", "title": "Sun Devil Stadium" }, { "docid": "2611805", "text": "games were held in the following seasons with similarly enthusiastic crowds, including three featuring the Baltimore Colts in 1972, when the team trained in Tampa during the NFL preseason. These preseason games gave NFL owners and officials ample opportunity to assess the Tampa Bay area and the stadium, and on April 24, 1974, Tampa was awarded an NFL expansion team to begin play in the 1976 season. The Buccaneers' first regular season home game was held on September 19, 1976, when the Bucs lost to the San Diego Chargers 23-0. That would become a trend, as the team began their", "title": "Tampa Stadium" }, { "docid": "20186095", "text": "January 2016 meeting. The stadium when completed will be the home of the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers. The acceptance of the Inglewood project with teams signed to move in killed the other stadium projects. This article covers the numerous stadium proposals for Los Angeles between 1995 and 2016. In early May 1998, entertainment guru Michael Ovitz announced he would lead a largely privately financed $750 million project to build a stadium in Carson, California in hopes of landing the expansion team. In late October 1998, NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue announced that the NFL owners would indeed", "title": "Proposed Los Angeles NFL stadiums" }, { "docid": "19269269", "text": "European markets. However, the agreement of league owners is needed to undertake an expansion or relocation, and a London franchise would face financial, legal and logistical challenges. Possible home stadiums for the London team include one or more of Wembley Stadium, Twickenham Stadium or Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The NFL is aiming to establish a London franchise by around 2025, and has the active support of the UK government. Since 2007, the league has held multiple regular season games in London each season as part of NFL London Games, allowing the league to test solutions to some of the challenges facing", "title": "Potential London NFL franchise" }, { "docid": "1623989", "text": "vehicles in half of the country. As a result, Sipani produced the Montana, which had four doors, a hatchback and a more modern appearance. The cars were successful rally cars in India and were seen as a popular home-grown choice of vehicle. Sipani carried on producing vehicles built around the Kitten design and mechanicals into the 1990s. A \"Preservation Society\" exists called the Reliant Kitten Register. Reliant Kitten The Reliant Kitten is a small economy car which was manufactured from 1975 to 1982 by the Reliant Motor Company in Tamworth, England. The Kitten uses Reliant's own 850cc engine, developing 40HP,", "title": "Reliant Kitten" }, { "docid": "3081255", "text": "paid $500,000 for the rights through December 31, 2018. It is the home of the San Diego State Aztecs football team from San Diego State University. One college football bowl game, the Holiday Bowl, is held in the stadium every December. The stadium was the longtime home of two professional franchises: the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL) and the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Chargers played at the stadium from 1967 through the 2016 season, after which they moved to Los Angeles to become the Los Angeles Chargers. The Padres played home", "title": "SDCCU Stadium" }, { "docid": "4889661", "text": "Old Cardinal Stadium \"Old\" Cardinal Stadium is the common name of a former college and minor league baseball and college football stadium in Louisville, Kentucky, officially named Cardinal Stadium. It is on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center, and was called Fairgrounds Stadium when it first opened for an NFL exhibition football game between the Baltimore Colts and Philadelphia Eagles on September 9, 1956. The lone Bluegrass Bowl was held here in 1958. Cardinal Stadium was home to the Louisville Raiders football team from 1960 through 1962. It was the home to two minor league baseball teams in Louisville:", "title": "Old Cardinal Stadium" }, { "docid": "3285717", "text": "Memorial Stadium (Clemson) Frank Howard Field at Clemson Memorial Stadium, popularly known as \"Death Valley\", is home to the Clemson Tigers, an NCAA Division I FBS football team located in Clemson, South Carolina. Built in 1941–1942, the stadium has seen expansions throughout the years, with the most recent being the WestZone, which began in 2004 and was completed in 2006. Prior to the completion of Bank of America Stadium, in Charlotte, Memorial Stadium served as the home venue for the National Football League (NFL)'s Carolina Panthers during the team's inaugural 1995 season. Currently, the stadium is the largest in the", "title": "Memorial Stadium (Clemson)" }, { "docid": "2283180", "text": "Hard Rock Stadium Hard Rock Stadium is a multipurpose football stadium located in Miami Gardens, Florida, a city north of Miami. It is the home stadium of the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). Hard Rock Stadium also plays host to the Miami Hurricanes football team during their regular season. The facility also hosts the Orange Bowl, an annual college football bowl game. It was the home to the Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1993 to 2011. The stadium has hosted five Super Bowls (XXIII, XXIX, XXXIII, XLI and XLIV), the 2010 Pro Bowl, two", "title": "Hard Rock Stadium" }, { "docid": "2005715", "text": "born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 15, 1912. DiPardo has written songs about the team such as \"The Chiefs are on the Warpath\" and \"The Hank Stram Polka\". DiPardo earned a Super Bowl ring for the Chiefs' victory in Super Bowl IV. Arrowhead Stadium Arrowhead Stadium is an American football stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It primarily serves as the home venue of the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). It is part of the Truman Sports Complex with adjacent Kauffman Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB).", "title": "Arrowhead Stadium" }, { "docid": "10387973", "text": "Schools system, it essentially has been the home field for several future NFL players, including Jamal Lewis and Ahmad Carroll (Douglass), Lawrence Smith (Washington), Kelly Campbell (Mays), David Rocker, Tracy Rocker, and Corey Barlow (Fulton), Greg Favors (Southside), Kelvin Pritchett (Therrell) and Super Bowl XX MVP Richard Dent (Murphy). Lakewood Stadium was the first high school stadium in the state of Georgia to have artificial turf. Lakewood Stadium was the site of the 1975 GHSA Class AAA Football Championship Game between Douglass High School and Central High School (Macon). Central (Macon) defeated home team Douglass 21 to 14. Lakewood Stadium", "title": "Lakewood Stadium" }, { "docid": "2108333", "text": "came off, and there was wind and water damage to other sections of the stadium. There were also large pieces of debris inside the stadium from the hurricane and the stadium authority declared that the stadium did not suffer significant structural damage except for the roof, and the Texans would be able to play all of their 8 home games at Reliant Stadium with the roof open. The Texans' home opener against the Baltimore Ravens was initially postponed one day from Sunday, September 14, 2008 to Monday, September 15, but when the extent of the damage from Hurricane Ike became", "title": "NRG Stadium" }, { "docid": "17074618", "text": "while Alameda County (co-owners of the current stadium) indicated they would probably not support the plan. Davis, in the meantime, continued to negotiate with San Antonio officials and had team officials scout the Alamodome to determine if it would be suitable for the NFL. The Rams and the St. Louis CVC began negotiating deals to get the Rams home stadium, the Edward Jones Dome into the top 25 percent of stadiums in the league (i.e., top eight teams of the thirty two NFL teams in reference to luxury boxes, amenities and overall fan experience). Under the terms of the lease", "title": "2014 NFL season" }, { "docid": "4554454", "text": "got the ball back, they turned the ball over on downs and Carolina ran out the clock to win the game. 2003–04 NFL playoffs The National Football League playoffs for the 2003 season began on January 3, 2004. The postseason tournament concluded with the New England Patriots defeating the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl XXXVIII, 32–29, on February 1, at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. Beginning with the 2003–04 season, the NFL changed the selection procedures regarding officials for playoff games. The league suspended the prior practice of assembling \"all-star\" officiating crews of highly rated individual officials. Instead, the league", "title": "2003–04 NFL playoffs" }, { "docid": "4554391", "text": "2003–04 NFL playoffs The National Football League playoffs for the 2003 season began on January 3, 2004. The postseason tournament concluded with the New England Patriots defeating the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl XXXVIII, 32–29, on February 1, at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. Beginning with the 2003–04 season, the NFL changed the selection procedures regarding officials for playoff games. The league suspended the prior practice of assembling \"all-star\" officiating crews of highly rated individual officials. Instead, the league began using the entire crews that were highest rated during the regular season, preserving familiarity and cohesiveness in the officiating. The", "title": "2003–04 NFL playoffs" }, { "docid": "2135962", "text": "Giants Stadium was closed following the 2009 NFL season following the construction of what is now MetLife Stadium in the surrounding parking lot. The stadium's final event was the January 3, 2009 game featuring the Jets hosting the Cincinnati Bengals on \"Sunday Night Football\". A month after the game, demolition of the structure began and was completed on August 10, 2010. The New York Giants and New York Jets both moved to MetLife Stadium in 2010. Giants Stadium was the first major league sporting venue in New Jersey (though the Brooklyn Dodgers had played seven home games at Roosevelt Stadium", "title": "Giants Stadium" }, { "docid": "12995292", "text": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team The 2009 Missouri Tigers football team, represented the University of Missouri in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Gary Pinkel, who returned for his ninth season with Mizzou, and played their home games at Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium. Changes to Memorial Stadium for the 2009 season included a new scoreboard and expanded seating capacity following a reconfiguration of the student seating section. On December 6, the Texas Bowl picked the 8-4 Tigers to play in their fourth annual game against the 9-4 Navy Midshipmen at Reliant Stadium", "title": "2009 Missouri Tigers football team" }, { "docid": "982463", "text": "Both video boards were replaced with High Definition screens, and new clubhouses and weight rooms were installed. The restrooms, concession stands, sound system and batting cages were also improved and renovated. Dodgers owner Guggenheim Partners internally discussed moving the Dodgers to a new stadium at a Downtown Los Angeles site proposed by the Anschutz Entertainment Group to allow an NFL team to build a stadium at the Dodger Stadium site. Guggenheim Partners also considered allowing an NFL team to build a stadium next to Dodger Stadium. The NFL eventually chose to build a stadium in the City of Inglewood. The", "title": "Dodger Stadium" }, { "docid": "8064456", "text": "Philadelphia Eagles used the stadium twice for home games. On Tuesday, November 6, 1934, the Eagles beat the Cincinnati Reds, 64-0. This game was historic because it was the first time in NFL history that a team scored ten touchdowns in one game, and it is still the second most lopsided game in NFL history, second only to the Chicago Bears' 73-0 victory over the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL Championship Game. It was also the last game ever for the Reds, who had found out the previous day that their team was being disbanded and replaced in the", "title": "Temple Stadium" }, { "docid": "3368856", "text": "Vanderbilt Stadium Vanderbilt Stadium is a football stadium located in Nashville, Tennessee. Completed in 1922 (then named Dudley Field) as the first stadium in the South to be used exclusively for college football, it is the home of the Vanderbilt University football team. Vanderbilt Stadium hosted the Tennessee Oilers (now Titans) during the 1998 NFL season and the first Music City Bowl in 1998 and also hosted the Tennessee state high school football championships for many years. Vanderbilt Stadium is the smallest football stadium in the Southeastern Conference, and was the largest stadium in Nashville until the completion of the", "title": "Vanderbilt Stadium" }, { "docid": "20955374", "text": "2019 NFL season The 2019 NFL season will be the 100th season of the National Football League. (NFL) The season will tentatively begin on September 5, 2019 in the home team of the Super Bowl LIII champion. The season will conclude with Super Bowl LIV, the league's championship game, tentatively scheduled for February 2, 2020 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida. The 2019 NFL Draft will be held from April 25–27 in Nashville, Tennessee. Training Camps for the 2019 season will be held in late July through August. Teams will start training camp no earlier than 15 days before", "title": "2019 NFL season" }, { "docid": "3217978", "text": "to lure the Packers to Milwaukee full-time, in 1965 city officials tried to lure an American Football League expansion team to play at County Stadium, but Packers head coach Vince Lombardi invoked the team's exclusive lease as well as sign an extension to keep some home games in Milwaukee until 1976. Nonetheless, city officials still pursued an AFL franchise, possibly to play at Marquette Stadium, but the AFL–NFL merger effectively quashed any chances of Milwaukee landing its own team. Most of the home games of the Marquette University football team (7 of 9) in 1957 and 1958 were moved from", "title": "Milwaukee County Stadium" }, { "docid": "3081044", "text": "team. Kezar Stadium Kezar Stadium is an outdoor athletics stadium in San Francisco, California, located adjacent to Kezar Pavilion in the southeastern corner of Golden Gate Park. It is the former home of the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders (first AFL season only) of the National Football League (NFL) and of the San Francisco Dragons of Major League Lacrosse. It currently serves as the home of San Francisco City FC of the Premier Development League. Kezar also hosts amateur and recreation sports leagues, as well as numerous San Francisco high school football games (including the city championship, known", "title": "Kezar Stadium" }, { "docid": "2135961", "text": "28th, Giants Stadium had played host to 364 NFL games, second only to the 365 played at Wrigley by the Chicago Bears in their 50 seasons there. The Giants' season opening game with the St. Louis Rams tied the record, and the following week the Jets' home opener against the Miami Dolphins broke it. Giants Stadium was also home to the New York Cosmos, a professional soccer team that attracted record crowds during the late 1970s. The New York/New Jersey MetroStars (later the New York Red Bulls) of Major League Soccer, later played in the stadium from 1996 to 2009.", "title": "Giants Stadium" }, { "docid": "3368871", "text": "for the Chargers and Los Angeles Rams, who are currently playing in the far larger Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, with opening scheduled in 2020. Over its history, Vanderbilt Stadium has occasionally been used for concerts and major speakers. Vanderbilt Stadium Vanderbilt Stadium is a football stadium located in Nashville, Tennessee. Completed in 1922 (then named Dudley Field) as the first stadium in the South to be used exclusively for college football, it is the home of the Vanderbilt University football team. Vanderbilt Stadium hosted the Tennessee Oilers (now Titans) during the 1998 NFL season and the first Music City Bowl", "title": "Vanderbilt Stadium" }, { "docid": "2828439", "text": "seasons from 2009, before moving to Virginia Beach as the Virginia Destroyers in 2011. The Orlando Fantasy of the Lingerie Football League moved to the stadium shortly after, having prior used the UCF Arena. The Florida High School Athletic Association state football championships are held at Camping World Stadium. Seven National Football League (NFL) preseason football games have been held at the stadium. The varsity football team from nearby Jones High School used Camping World Stadium as a regular season home field for decades through the end of their 2011 season. The school started playing home football games on their", "title": "Camping World Stadium" }, { "docid": "19989127", "text": "provided more than $2 million of disaster relief resources, in cash and in-kind relief efforts, for those impacted by Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana. Relief included deploying disaster-response power generation solutions, backup power and phone chargers, and direct financial relief for impacted customers. Reliant has provided electricity to Beat the Heat Centers in Texas since 2009. Partnering with local community centers, Reliant helps air condition buildings where the public can enjoy free AC, in a safe environment, throughout the summer while reducing home electricity use during the hottest days. In 2005, Reliant started the Scholarship for Champions program, which", "title": "Reliant Energy" }, { "docid": "8659984", "text": "since 1999 and almost all competitive games. Some friendlies have been moved to smaller venues outside Glasgow, usually either Pittodrie or Easter Road in Edinburgh. Hampden was closed for a year due to its use as an athletics stadium in the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The lease that the SFA holds on Hampden is due to expire after UEFA Euro 2020. During the 2017–18 season, Celtic (Celtic Park), Rangers (Ibrox) and the Scottish Rugby Union (Murrayfield) made offers to become the regular home of the Scotland team. In September 2018, the SFA announced an agreement to purchase the ground from Queen's", "title": "Scotland national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "14531530", "text": "the most used ground during the tour period. The first England game at the new Wembley was on 1 June 2007, against Brazil. The tour programme of the 2000s saw the England team return to several cities, and even some of the same venues, for the first time in over 50 years or much more. While the tour was considered a success, due to the cost of the stadium, the Football Association had no plans to stage home games away from Wembley after 2007. In the build-up to Euro 2016, England played two games away from Wembley for the first", "title": "England national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "15405404", "text": "to Saturday, September 11 at 1 PM ET because of Hurricane Ivan,and the Pittsburgh Steelers at Miami Dolphins game scheduled for Sunday, September 26, at 1 PM ET was moved to 8:30 PM ET because of Hurricane Jeanne. The latter game would become notable as the first NFL start of Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 damaged the Louisiana Superdome. The NFL decided that the New Orleans Saints' first regularly scheduled home game against the New York Giants be played in Giants Stadium in New Jersey, with the Saints the home team in name only. For the rest", "title": "Canceled NFL games" }, { "docid": "2005700", "text": "Arrowhead Stadium Arrowhead Stadium is an American football stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It primarily serves as the home venue of the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). It is part of the Truman Sports Complex with adjacent Kauffman Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). Arrowhead Stadium has a seating capacity of 76,416, making it the 28th largest stadium in North America and the sixth largest NFL stadium. It is also the largest sports facility by capacity in the state of Missouri. A $375 million renovation was completed", "title": "Arrowhead Stadium" }, { "docid": "4208798", "text": "of seating. In 1932, the stadium hosted the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. In 1935, Stanford Stadium set a record for single-game attendance, with 94,000 spectators filling it for a 13–0 victory over California. In January 1985, Super Bowl XIX was held in Stanford Stadium, with the Bay Area's own San Francisco 49ers defeating the Miami Dolphins, 38–16. Stanford Stadium is one of two venues (the Rose Bowl being the other) to host a Super Bowl without previously serving as the home stadium of a National Football League (NFL) or American Football League (AFL) team. As of now, Super", "title": "Stanford Stadium" }, { "docid": "3997651", "text": "Neyland Stadium Neyland Stadium (pronounced \"NEE-land\") is a sports stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It serves primarily as the home of the Tennessee Volunteers football team, but is also used to host large conventions and has been a site for several National Football League (NFL) exhibition games. The stadium's official capacity is 102,455. Constructed in 1921, and originally called Shields–Watkins Field (the playing surface is still called that today), the stadium has undergone 16 expansion projects, at one point reaching a capacity of 104,079 before being slightly reduced by alterations in the following decade. Neyland Stadium is the fifth", "title": "Neyland Stadium" }, { "docid": "11880289", "text": "as good as advertised and kept K-State off balance all night long. Ray Rice, the Texas Bowl MVP, rushed for 170 yards and a touchdown and Tim Brown caught two TD passes, for the Scarlet Knights (11-2), who claimed their first bowl victory in 137 seasons of intercollegiate football. The game was held at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas and was broadcast on the NFL Network. This matchup was the inaugural Texas Bowl. The game replaced the Houston Bowl. 2006 Kansas State Wildcats football team The 2006 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 2006 NCAA", "title": "2006 Kansas State Wildcats football team" }, { "docid": "3342693", "text": "popularity of college football. Pitt Stadium also served as the second home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the city's National Football League (NFL) franchise. After demolition, the Pittsburgh Panthers football team played home games at Three Rivers Stadium in 2000, before moving to the new Heinz Field in 2001. The Pittsburgh Panthers played home football games at the Pittsburgh Pirates' Forbes Field from 1909 to 1924. In the 1910s and 1920s, Pitt football achieved great success under head coach Glenn Scobey \"Pop\" Warner, completing several undefeated seasons and claiming several national championships. The popularity of college football was rising across the", "title": "Pitt Stadium" }, { "docid": "6136712", "text": "their final two \"home\" games were held at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio, the other one played at the opposing team's (Detroit) stadium. After the season ended, the league folded the Texans, the last time an NFL team failed. This left Dallas without a professional football franchise until the births of the Dallas Cowboys and the AFL version of the Dallas Texans in 1960. The Detroit Lions defeated the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Championship Game. This was the last NFL season prior to the introduction of regular season overtime in 1974 that there were no ties in the", "title": "1952 NFL season" }, { "docid": "5668948", "text": "name was initially resisted by Bill Bidwill. The Seattle Seahawks played their first three regular season home games at Husky Stadium because the Kingdome, the Seahawks' regular home field, was undergoing repairs for damaged tiles on its roof. The Seahawks returned for the 2000 and 2001 seasons while their new stadium was under construction. This marked the last season until 2016 that the city of Los Angeles had an NFL team and the last one until 2017 that the city had two. Both the Rams and the Raiders left the city following the season. The Rams moved east to St.", "title": "1994 NFL season" }, { "docid": "2699678", "text": "97. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium (commonly known as RFK Stadium, originally District of Columbia Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Washington, D.C. It is located about due east of the US Capitol building, near the west bank of the Anacostia River and adjacent to the D.C. Armory. It opened in 1961. RFK Stadium was home to a National Football League (NFL) team, two Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, five professional soccer teams, two college football teams, a bowl game and a USFL team. It has hosted five NFC Championship games, two MLB All-Star Games,", "title": "Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium" }, { "docid": "2699599", "text": "Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium (commonly known as RFK Stadium, originally District of Columbia Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Washington, D.C. It is located about due east of the US Capitol building, near the west bank of the Anacostia River and adjacent to the D.C. Armory. It opened in 1961. RFK Stadium was home to a National Football League (NFL) team, two Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, five professional soccer teams, two college football teams, a bowl game and a USFL team. It has hosted five NFC Championship games, two MLB All-Star Games, men's", "title": "Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium" }, { "docid": "3368870", "text": "Stadium thus became the smallest home venue in the NFL since several similar-size stadiums were used in 1970. (The merger agreement with the American Football League led the NFL to declare stadiums seating fewer than 50,000, such as Fenway Park, to be inadequate for league play and after the 1970 NFL season none were used for NFL games on a long-term basis.) The Los Angeles Chargers are using a smaller venue, the 27,000-seat StubHub Center in Carson, California, as their home for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 NFL seasons while a new stadium in the Los Angeles area is being built", "title": "Vanderbilt Stadium" }, { "docid": "3325995", "text": "Raymond James Stadium Raymond James Stadium, also known as \"Ray Jay\", is a multi-purpose football stadium located in Tampa, Florida. It is home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL) as well as the NCAA's South Florida Bulls football team. The stadium seats 65,618. With the addition of temporary seating, it can be expanded to 75,000 for special events. Raymond James Stadium hosted Super Bowls XXXV and XLIII, as well as the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship. It is also set to host Super Bowl LV in February 2021. Raymond James Stadium was built to", "title": "Raymond James Stadium" }, { "docid": "3997672", "text": "a 12-inch bed of sand to enhance drainage. Neyland Stadium Neyland Stadium (pronounced \"NEE-land\") is a sports stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It serves primarily as the home of the Tennessee Volunteers football team, but is also used to host large conventions and has been a site for several National Football League (NFL) exhibition games. The stadium's official capacity is 102,455. Constructed in 1921, and originally called Shields–Watkins Field (the playing surface is still called that today), the stadium has undergone 16 expansion projects, at one point reaching a capacity of 104,079 before being slightly reduced by alterations in", "title": "Neyland Stadium" }, { "docid": "2611794", "text": "the area. Several well-attended NFL exhibition games were held at Phillips Field near downtown, but the venue was too small to support a professional football franchise. So with the encouragement of NFL officials, the city decided to build a larger facility which could be used by the University of Tampa's football team in the short term and could be expanded for use by a theoretical pro team in the future. Construction of Tampa Stadium began in the fall of 1966 directly adjacent to Al Lopez Field, which was by then the home of the Tampa Tarpons of the Florida State", "title": "Tampa Stadium" }, { "docid": "2283207", "text": "NFL or CFL team. The others were the Oakland Coliseum and Toronto's Rogers Centre. For most of the Marlins' tenure at the stadium, it was the hottest stadium in the major leagues. The Marlins played nearly all of their home games from late May through mid-September at night due to South Florida's often oppressive heat and humidity. They also got waivers from MLB and ESPN to play on Sunday nights. The stadium was the venue where Mark McGwire hit his NL-record 57th home run to best Hack Wilson's 68-year-old record of 56 in 1998. Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 600th", "title": "Hard Rock Stadium" } ]
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[ { "docid": "408821", "text": "On the Origin of Species On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life), published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408700", "text": "On the Origin of Species On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life), published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408729", "text": "the manuscript for his \"big book\" on Species, \"Natural Selection\". By mid March 1859 Darwin's abstract had reached the stage where he was thinking of early publication; Lyell suggested the publisher John Murray, and met with him to find if he would be willing to publish. On 28 March Darwin wrote to Lyell asking about progress, and offering to give Murray assurances \"that my Book is not more \"un\"-orthodox, than the subject makes inevitable.\" He enclosed a draft title sheet proposing \"An abstract of an Essay on the Origin of Species and Varieties Through natural selection\", with the year shown", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762537", "text": "one hundred million years.\" Copies of the second edition were advertised as ready on 24 December, in advance of official publication on 7 January 1860. The \"Saturday Review\" of 24 December 1859 strongly criticised the methodology of Darwin's calculations. On 3 January 1860, Darwin wrote to Hooker about it: \"Some of the remarks about the lapse of years are very good, & the Reviewer gives me some good & well deserved raps,—confound it I am sorry to confess the truth. But it does not at all concern main argument.\" A day later, he said to Lyell \"You saw I suppose", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408743", "text": "the second edition, Darwin added an epigraph from Joseph Butler affirming that God could work through scientific laws as much as through miracles, in a nod to the religious concerns of his oldest friends. The \"Introduction\" establishes Darwin's credentials as a naturalist and author, then refers to John Herschel's letter suggesting that the origin of species \"would be found to be a natural in contradistinction to a miraculous process\": WHEN on board HMS \"Beagle\", as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762538", "text": "Saturday Review: argument confined to Geology, but has given me some perfectly just & severe raps on knuckles.\" In the third edition published on 30 April 1861, Darwin cited the \"Saturday Review\" article as reason to remove his calculation altogether. The December 1859 review in the British Unitarian \"National Review\" was written by Darwin's old friend William Carpenter, who was clear that only a world of \"order, continuity, and progress\" befitted an Omnipotent Deity and that \"any theological objection\" to a species of slug or a breed of dog deriving from a previous one was \"simply absurd\" dogma. He touched", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "3982532", "text": "the 1990 edition of \"Great Books of the Western World\", placing it with Charles Darwin's two great works \"The Origin of Species\" and \"The Descent of Man\". A third edition was published in 1951. Genetics and the Origin of Species Genetics and the Origin of Species is a 1937 book by the Ukrainian-American evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky. It is regarded as one of the most important works of the modern synthesis, and was one of the earliest. The book popularized the work of population genetics to other biologists, and influenced their appreciation for the genetic basis of evolution. In his", "title": "Genetics and the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408820", "text": "the publication of \"On the Origin of Species\" and the bicentenary of Darwin's birth were scheduled for 2009. They celebrated the ideas which \"over the last 150 years have revolutionised our understanding of nature and our place within it\". In a survey conducted by a group of academic booksellers, publishers and librarians in advance of Academic Book Week in the United Kingdom, \"On the Origin of Species\" was voted the most influential academic book ever written. It was hailed as \"the supreme demonstration of why academic books matter\" and \"a book which has changed the way we think about everything\".", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408740", "text": "their own arrangements with a local publisher. He welcomed the distinguished elderly naturalist and geologist Heinrich Georg Bronn, but the German translation published in 1860 imposed Bronn's own ideas, adding controversial themes that Darwin had deliberately omitted. Bronn translated \"favoured races\" as \"perfected races\", and added essays on issues including the origin of life, as well as a final chapter on religious implications partly inspired by Bronn's adherence to \"Naturphilosophie\". In 1862, Bronn produced a second edition based on the third English edition and Darwin's suggested additions, but then died of a heart attack. Darwin corresponded closely with Julius Victor", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408711", "text": "of finding their \"centre of creation\". The three Fuegian missionaries the expedition returned to Tierra del Fuego were friendly and civilised, yet to Darwin their relatives on the island seemed \"miserable, degraded savages\", and he no longer saw an unbridgeable gap between humans and animals. As the \"Beagle\" neared England in 1836, he noted that species might not be fixed. Richard Owen showed that fossils of extinct species Darwin found in South America were allied to living species on the same continent. In March 1837, ornithologist John Gould announced that Darwin's rhea was a separate species from the previously described", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408819", "text": "unrivalled explanatory power; it has also become essential to applied sciences such as medicine and agriculture. Despite the scientific consensus, a religion-based political controversy has developed over how evolution is taught in schools, especially in the United States. Interest in Darwin's writings continues, and scholars have generated an extensive literature, the Darwin Industry, about his life and work. The text of \"Origin\" itself has been subject to much analysis including a variorum, detailing the changes made in every edition, first published in 1959, and a concordance, an exhaustive external index published in 1981. Worldwide commemorations of the 150th anniversary of", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762562", "text": "man to be envious of a naturalist like myself, immeasurably his inferior!\" Darwin's had estimated that erosion of the Weald would take 300 million years, but in the second edition of \"On the Origin of Species\" published on 7 January 1860 he accepted that it would be safer to allow 150 million to 200 million years. Geologists knew the earth was ancient, but had felt unable to put realistic figures on the duration of past geological changes. Darwin's book provided a new impetus to quantifying geological time. His most prominent critic, John Phillips, had investigated how temperatures increased with depth", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408732", "text": "in its 6th edition, earning Darwin nearly £3000.) On 5 April, Darwin sent Murray the first three chapters, and a proposal for the book's title. An early draft title page suggests \"On the Mutability of Species\". Murray cautiously asked Whitwell Elwin to review the chapters. At Lyell's suggestion, Elwin recommended that, rather than \"put forth the theory without the evidence\", the book should focus on observations upon pigeons, briefly stating how these illustrated Darwin's general principles and preparing the way for the larger work expected shortly: \"Every body is interested in pigeons.\" Darwin responded that this was impractical: he had", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "5044833", "text": "amateurish deficiencies. The ideas in the book were favoured by Radicals, but its presentation remained popular with a much wider public. Prince Albert read it aloud to Queen Victoria in 1845. \"Vestiges\" caused a shift in popular opinion which – Charles Darwin believed – prepared the public mind for the scientific theories of evolution by natural selection which followed from the publication of \"On the Origin of Species\" in 1859. For decades there was speculation about its authorship. The 12th edition, published in 1884, revealed officially that the author was Robert Chambers, a Scottish journalist, who had written the book", "title": "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" }, { "docid": "408805", "text": "Darwin's ideas with those of Lamarck and Goethe while still reflecting the spirit of \"Naturphilosophie\". Their ambitious programme to reconstruct the evolutionary history of life was joined by Huxley and supported by discoveries in palaeontology. Haeckel used embryology extensively in his recapitulation theory, which embodied a progressive, almost linear model of evolution. Darwin was cautious about such histories, and had already noted that von Baer's laws of embryology supported his idea of complex branching. Asa Gray promoted and defended \"Origin\" against those American naturalists with an idealist approach, notably Louis Agassiz who viewed every species as a distinct fixed unit", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762579", "text": "pro-evolution scientists and Unitarians with liberal churchmen, two of the authors were indicted for heresy and lost their jobs by 1862. In October 1860, John Phillips published \"Life on the Earth, its origin and succession\", reiterating points from his Rede Lecture and disputing Darwin's arguments. He sent a copy to Darwin, who thanked him, though \"sorry, but not surprised, to see that you are dead against me\". On 20 November, Darwin told Lyell of his revisions for a third edition of the \"Origin\", including removing his estimate of the time it took for the Weald to erode: \"The confounded Wealden", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762552", "text": "who became Prime Minister in June 1859, mooted Darwin's name to Queen Victoria as a candidate for the Honours List with the prospect of a knighthood. While Prince Albert supported the idea, after the publication of the \"Origin\" Queen Victoria's ecclesiastical advisers, including the Bishop of Oxford Samuel Wilberforce, dissented and the request was denied. Some Anglicans were more in favour, and Huxley reported of Kingsley that \"He is an excellent Darwinian to begin with, and told me a capital story of his reply to Lady Aylesbury who expressed astonishment at his favouring such a heresy – 'What can be", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "13751361", "text": "manuscript describing an evolutionary mechanism that was similar to Darwin's own theory. Under pressure to publish his ideas, Darwin started work on an \"abstract\" trimmed from his \"Natural Selection\" which was published in November 1859 as \"On the Origin of Species\". In the introduction he announced that in a future publication he hoped to give \"in detail all the facts, with references, on which my conclusions have been grounded\". On 9 January 1860, two days after the publication of the second edition of \"Origin\", Darwin returned to his original Natural Selection manuscript and began expanding the first two chapters on", "title": "The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication" }, { "docid": "4762522", "text": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species The immediate reactions to \"On the Origin of Species\", the book in which Charles Darwin described evolution by natural selection, included international debate, though the heat of controversy was less than that over earlier works such as \"Vestiges of Creation\". Darwin monitored the debate closely, cheering on Thomas Henry Huxley's battles with Richard Owen to remove clerical domination of the scientific establishment. While Darwin's illness kept him away from the public debates, he read eagerly about them and mustered support through correspondence. Religious views were mixed, with the Church of England's scientific establishment", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762590", "text": "which all forms of evolutionism were identified with Darwinism. For a description of Darwin's life, work and influences in the following period see the article: Darwin from Orchids to Variation. Note: this article uses Desmond and Moore, \"Darwin\", as a general reference. Other references used for specific points or quotations. Reactions to On the Origin of Species The immediate reactions to \"On the Origin of Species\", the book in which Charles Darwin described evolution by natural selection, included international debate, though the heat of controversy was less than that over earlier works such as \"Vestiges of Creation\". Darwin monitored the", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408796", "text": "that nature and human society were governed by natural laws. The \"Origin of Species\" as a book of wide general interest became associated with ideas of social reform. Its proponents made full use of a surge in the publication of review journals, and it was given more popular attention than almost any other scientific work, though it failed to match the continuing sales of \"Vestiges\". Darwin's book legitimised scientific discussion of evolutionary mechanisms, and the newly coined term \"Darwinism\" was used to cover the whole range of evolutionism, not just his own ideas. By the mid-1870s, evolutionism was triumphant. While", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762554", "text": "Catholic discussion of evolution, which has remained almost exclusively concerned with human evolution. On 10 February 1860 Huxley gave a lecture titled \"On Species and Races, and their Origin\" at the Royal Institution, reviewing Darwin's theory with fancy pigeons on hand to demonstrate artificial selection, as well as using the occasion to confront the clergy with his aim of wresting science from ecclesiastical control. He referred to Galileo's persecution by the church, \"the little Canutes of the hour enthroned in solemn state, bidding that great wave to stay, and threatening to check its beneficent progress.\" He hailed the \"Origin\" as", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408739", "text": "a 5% royalty with Appleton's of New York, who got their edition out in mid January 1860, and the other two withdrew. In a May letter, Darwin mentioned a print run of 2,500 copies, but it is not clear if this referred to the first printing only as there were four that year. The book was widely translated in Darwin's lifetime, but problems arose with translating concepts and metaphors, and some translations were biased by the translator's own agenda. Darwin distributed presentation copies in France and Germany, hoping that suitable applicants would come forward, as translators were expected to make", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408783", "text": "powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. As discussed under \"religious attitudes\", Darwin added the phrase \"by the Creator\" from the 1860 second edition onwards, so that the ultimate sentence began \"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one\". Darwin's aims were twofold:", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "3491680", "text": "Letter\" from Darwin to Asa Gray. This was the first announcement of the Darwin – Wallace theory of evolution by natural selection; the papers appeared in print on 20 August 1858. The presentation of the papers spurred Darwin to write a condensed \"abstract\" of his \"big book\" on \"Natural Selection\". This was published in November 1859 as \"On the Origin of Species\". On the voyage of the \"Beagle\" the young Charles Darwin took a break between graduating and starting his career as a clergyman to study the natural history of South America, an interest he had developed at the University", "title": "On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection" }, { "docid": "408759", "text": "integrated with a model of variation. This modern evolutionary synthesis had been dubbed Neo Darwinian Evolution because it encompasses Charles Darwin's theories of evolution with Gregor Mendel's theories of genetic inheritance. Chapter VI begins by saying the next three chapters will address possible objections to the theory, the first being that often no intermediate forms between closely related species are found, though the theory implies such forms must have existed. As Darwin noted, \"Firstly, why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408742", "text": "by Edmond Barbier was published in 1876. A Dutch translation by Tiberius Cornelis Winkler was published in 1860. By 1864, additional translations had appeared in Italian and Russian. In Darwin's lifetime, \"Origin\" was published in Swedish in 1871, Danish in 1872, Polish in 1873, Hungarian in 1873–1874, Spanish in 1877 and Serbian in 1878. By 1977, it had appeared in an additional 18 languages. Page ii contains quotations by William Whewell and Francis Bacon on the theology of natural laws, harmonising science and religion in accordance with Isaac Newton's belief in a rational God who established a law-abiding cosmos. In", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408814", "text": "Darwin's view at the time was of God creating life through the laws of nature, and even in the first edition there are several references to \"creation\". Baden Powell praised \"Mr Darwin's masterly volume [supporting] the grand principle of the self-evolving powers of nature\". In America, Asa Gray argued that evolution is the secondary effect, or \"modus operandi\", of the first cause, design, and published a pamphlet defending the book in terms of theistic evolution, \"Natural Selection is not inconsistent with Natural Theology\". Theistic evolution became a popular compromise, and St. George Jackson Mivart was among those accepting evolution but", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762565", "text": "is also right\". The \"Saturday Review\" reported that \"The controversy excited by the appearance of Darwin's remarkable work on the \"Origin of Species\" has passed beyond the bounds of the study and lecture-room into the drawing-room and the public street.\" The older generation of Darwin's tutors were rather negative, and later in May he told his cousin Fox that \"the attacks have been falling thick & heavy on my now case-hardened hide.— Sedgwick & Clarke opened regular battery on me lately at Cambridge Phil. Soc. & dear old Henslow defended me in grand style, saying that my investigations were perfectly", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408785", "text": "evolution has occurred, supporting the idea of branching, adaptive evolution without directly proving that selection is the mechanism. Darwin presents supporting facts drawn from many disciplines, showing that his theory could explain a myriad of observations from many fields of natural history that were inexplicable under the alternate concept that species had been individually created. The structure of Darwin's argument showed the influence of John Herschel, whose philosophy of science maintained that a mechanism could be called a \"vera causa\" (true cause) if three things could be demonstrated: its existence in nature, its ability to produce the effects of interest,", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408723", "text": "by Alfred Russel Wallace, claimed that patterns in the geographical distribution of living and fossil species could be explained if every new species always came into existence near an already existing, closely related species. Charles Lyell recognised the implications of Wallace's paper and its possible connection to Darwin's work, although Darwin did not, and in a letter written on 1–2 May 1856 Lyell urged Darwin to publish his theory to establish priority. Darwin was torn between the desire to set out a full and convincing account and the pressure to quickly produce a short paper. He met Lyell, and in", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408726", "text": "to, will be smashed\". Lyell and Hooker agreed that a joint publication putting together Wallace's pages with extracts from Darwin's 1844 Essay and his 1857 letter to Gray should be presented at the Linnean Society, and on 1 July 1858, the papers entitled \"On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection\", by Wallace and Darwin respectively, were read out but drew little reaction. While Darwin considered Wallace's idea to be identical to his concept of natural selection, historians have pointed out differences. Darwin described natural selection as", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408786", "text": "and its ability to explain a wide range of observations. The \"Examiner\" review of 3 December 1859 commented, \"Much of Mr. Darwin's volume is what ordinary readers would call 'tough reading;' that is, writing which to comprehend requires concentrated attention and some preparation for the task. All, however, is by no means of this description, and many parts of the book abound in information, easy to comprehend and both instructive and entertaining.\" While the book was readable enough to sell, its dryness ensured that it was seen as aimed at specialist scientists and could not be dismissed as mere journalism", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408741", "text": "Carus, who published an improved translation in 1867. Darwin's attempts to find a translator in France fell through, and the translation by Clémence Royer published in 1862 added an introduction praising Darwin's ideas as an alternative to religious revelation and promoting ideas anticipating social Darwinism and eugenics, as well as numerous explanatory notes giving her own answers to doubts that Darwin expressed. Darwin corresponded with Royer about a second edition published in 1866 and a third in 1870, but he had difficulty getting her to remove her notes and was troubled by these editions. He remained unsatisfied until a translation", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762559", "text": "in the armoury of liberalism; and all competent naturalists and physiologists, whatever their opinions as to the ultimate fate of the doctrines put forth, acknowledge that the work in which they are embodied is a solid contribution to knowledge and inaugurates a new epoch in natural history. – Thomas Huxley, 1860 When Owen's own anonymous review of the \"Origin\" appeared in the April \"Edinburgh Review\" he praised himself and his own \"axiom of the continuous operation of the ordained becoming of living things\", and showed his anger at what he saw as Darwin's caricature of the creationist position and ignoring", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408735", "text": "five for Stationers' Hall copyright, around 1,170 copies were available for sale. Significantly, 500 were taken by Mudie's Library, ensuring that the book promptly reached a large number of subscribers to the library. The second edition of 3,000 copies was quickly brought out on 7 January 1860, and incorporated numerous corrections as well as a response to religious objections by the addition of a new epigraph on page ii, a quotation from Charles Kingsley, and the phrase \"by the Creator\" added to the closing sentence. During Darwin's lifetime the book went through six editions, with cumulative changes and revisions to", "title": "On the Origin of Species" } ]
[ { "docid": "408734", "text": "races, for instance, of the cabbage\" and \"the hereditary varieties or races of our domestic animals and plants\", there are three instances in the book where the phrase \"races of man\" is used, referring to races of humans. \"On the Origin of Species\" was first published on Thursday 24 November 1859, priced at fifteen shillings with a first printing of 1250 copies. The book had been offered to booksellers at Murray's autumn sale on Tuesday 22 November, and all available copies had been taken up immediately. In total, 1,250 copies were printed but after deducting presentation and review copies, and", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408737", "text": "and claimed it included false metaphysics. Darwin made extensive revisions to the sixth edition of the \"Origin\" (this was the first edition in which he used the word \"evolution\" which had commonly been associated with embryological development, though all editions concluded with the word \"evolved\"), and added a new chapter VII, \"Miscellaneous objections\", to address Mivart's arguments. The sixth edition was published by Murray on 19 February 1872 as \"The Origin of Species\", with \"On\" dropped from the title. Darwin had told Murray of working men in Lancashire clubbing together to buy the 5th edition at fifteen shillings and wanted", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408736", "text": "deal with counter-arguments raised. The third edition came out in 1861, with a number of sentences rewritten or added and an introductory appendix, \"An Historical Sketch of the Recent Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species\", while the fourth in 1866 had further revisions. The fifth edition, published on 10 February 1869, incorporated more changes and for the first time included the phrase \"survival of the fittest\", which had been coined by the philosopher Herbert Spencer in his \"Principles of Biology\" (1864). In January 1871, George Jackson Mivart's \"On the Genesis of Species\" listed detailed arguments against natural selection,", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408794", "text": "in Relation to Sex\" twelve years later, he said that he had not gone into detail on human evolution in the \"Origin\" as he thought that would \"only add to the prejudices against my views\". He had not completely avoided the topic: It seemed to me sufficient to indicate, in the first edition of my 'Origin of Species,' that by this work 'light would be thrown on the origin of man and his history;' and this implies that man must be included with other organic beings in any general conclusion respecting his manner of appearance on this earth. He also", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762530", "text": "of Selection\". Darwin now worked on an \"abstract\" trimmed from his \"Natural Selection\" manuscript. The publisher John Murray agreed the title as \"On the Origin of Species through Natural Selection\" and the book went on sale to the trade on 22 November 1859. The stock of 1,250 copies was oversubscribed, and Darwin, still at Ilkley spa town, began corrections for a second edition. The novelist Charles Kingsley, a Christian socialist country rector, sent him a letter of praise: \"It awes me...if you be right I must give up much that I have believed\", it was \"just as noble a conception", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408764", "text": "these variations: I might have adduced for this same purpose the differences between the races of man, which are so strongly marked; I may add that some little light can apparently be thrown on the origin of these differences, chiefly through sexual selection of a particular kind, but without here entering on copious details my reasoning would appear frivolous. Chapter VII (of the first edition) addresses the evolution of instincts. His examples included two he had investigated experimentally: slave-making ants and the construction of hexagonal cells by honey bees. Darwin noted that some species of slave-making ants were more dependent", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408790", "text": "under way, Darwin wrote to Lyell offering the suggested publisher John Murray assurances \"That I do not discuss origin of man\". In the final chapter of \"On the Origin of Species\", \"Recapitulation and Conclusion\", Darwin briefly highlights the human implications of his theory: In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.\" Discussing this in January 1860, Darwin assured Lyell that \"by the", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408733", "text": "only the last chapter still to write. In September the main title still included \"\"An essay on the origin of species and varieties\"\", but Darwin now proposed dropping \"varieties\". With Murray's persuasion, the title was eventually agreed as \"On the Origin of Species\", with the title page adding \"by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life\". In this extended title (and elsewhere in the book) Darwin used the biological term \"\"races\"\" interchangeably with \"\"varieties\"\", meaning varieties within a species. He used the term broadly, and as well as discussions of \"the several", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "3982531", "text": "of Species\" in 1859.\" Dobzhansky was plagued by a form of leukemia in his later years, but he remained vigorously active until the day before his death on December 18, 1975. During his lifetime he was the recipient of many honors and awards. For \"Genetics and the Origin of Species\" Dobzhansky was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1941. Sixty years after its publication, the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a book entitled \"Genetics and the Origin of Species: From Darwin to Molecular Biology 60 Years After Dobzhansky\". It was also included in", "title": "Genetics and the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762536", "text": "example and Ramsay's data in chapter 9 of \"On the Origin of Species\" to estimate that erosion of the Weald's layered dome of Lower Cretaceous rocks “must have required 306,662,400 years; or say three hundred million years“. The \"necessary corrections\" Darwin made to his drafts for the second edition of the \"Origin\" were based on comments from others, particularly Lyell, and added a caveat suggesting a faster rate of erosion of the Weald: \"perhaps it would be safer to allow two or three inches per century, and this would reduce the number of years to one hundred and fifty or", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408788", "text": "were weakened by Darwin making concessions and adding details to address his critics, and recommended the first edition. James T. Costa said that because the book was an abstract produced in haste in response to Wallace's essay, it was more approachable than the big book on natural selection Darwin had been working on, which would have been encumbered by scholarly footnotes and much more technical detail. He added that some parts of \"Origin\" are dense, but other parts are almost lyrical, and the case studies and observations are presented in a narrative style unusual in serious scientific books, which broadened", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408793", "text": "to Races of Man\", but did not add text on this topic. In \"On the Origin of Species\", Chapter VI: \"Difficulties on Theory\" Darwin mentions this in the context of \"slight and unimportant variations\": I might have adduced for this same purpose the differences between the races of man, which are so strongly marked; I may add that some little light can apparently be thrown on the origin of these differences, chiefly through sexual selection of a particular kind, but without here entering on copious details my reasoning would appear frivolous.\" When Darwin published \"The Descent of Man, and Selection", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "3982512", "text": "revive the Jesup lectures, a series that had involved some notable lecturers in the past. It was back-dated so that Dobzhansky's lectures became the first in the series. The Columbia University Biological Series was also revived, and when \"Genetics and the Origin of Species\" was published in October 1937 it became the 11th volume in that series. Three main editions were published, in 1937, 1941 and 1951, each with significant changes. Dobzhansky considered \"Genetics of the Evolutionary Process\" (1970) a fourth edition, but one so much changed that it needed a new title. \"Genetics and the Origin of Species\" has", "title": "Genetics and the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762574", "text": "and \"lifting an immense Bible first with both and afterwards with one hand over his head, solemnly implored the audience to believe God rather than man\". As he admitted that the \"Origin of Species\" had given him \"acutest pain\" the crowd shouted him down. Hooker's \"blood boiled, I felt myself a dastard; now I saw my advantage–I swore to myself I would smite that Amalekite Sam hip and thigh\", (he was invited up to the platform and) \"there and then I smacked him amid rounds of applause... proceeded to demonstrate... that he could never have read your book... wound up", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408744", "text": "to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species—that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. Darwin refers specifically to the distribution of the species rheas, and to that of the Galápagos tortoises and mockingbirds. He mentions his years of work on his theory, and the arrival of Wallace at the same conclusion, which led him to \"publish this Abstract\" of his incomplete work. He outlines his ideas, and sets out the essence of his theory: As many more individuals of", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408745", "text": "each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. Starting with the third edition, Darwin prefaced the introduction with a sketch of the historical development of evolutionary ideas. In that sketch he acknowledged that Patrick", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408789", "text": "its audience. From his early transmutation notebooks in the late 1830s onwards, Darwin considered human evolution as part of the natural processes he was investigating, and rejected divine intervention. In 1856, his \"big book on species\" titled \"Natural Selection\" was to include a \"note on Man\", but when Wallace enquired in December 1857, Darwin replied; \"You ask whether I shall discuss 'man';—I think I shall avoid whole subject, as so surrounded with prejudices, though I fully admit that it is the highest & most interesting problem for the naturalist.\" On 28 March 1859, with his manuscript for the book well", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408802", "text": "Haeckel would convince Huxley that comparative anatomy and palaeontology could be used to reconstruct evolutionary genealogies. The leading naturalist in Britain was the anatomist Richard Owen, an idealist who had shifted to the view in the 1850s that the history of life was the gradual unfolding of a divine plan. Owen's review of the \"Origin\" in the April 1860 \"Edinburgh Review\" bitterly attacked Huxley, Hooker and Darwin, but also signalled acceptance of a kind of evolution as a teleological plan in a continuous \"ordained becoming\", with new species appearing by natural birth. Others that rejected natural selection, but supported \"creation", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408767", "text": "to be separate species produced fertile hybrid offspring freely, and in other cases what were considered to be mere varieties of the same species could only be crossed with difficulty. Darwin concluded: \"Finally, then, the facts briefly given in this chapter do not seem to me opposed to, but even rather to support the view, that there is no fundamental distinction between species and varieties.\" In the sixth edition Darwin inserted a new chapter VII (renumbering the subsequent chapters) to respond to criticisms of earlier editions, including the objection that many features of organisms were not adaptive and could not", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408720", "text": "disperse across oceans to colonise distant islands. By 1856, his theory was much more sophisticated, with a mass of supporting evidence. In his autobiography, Darwin said he had \"gained much by my delay in publishing from about 1839, when the theory was clearly conceived, to 1859; and I lost nothing by it\". On the first page of his 1859 book he noted that, having begun work on the topic in 1837, he had drawn up \"some short notes\" after five years, had enlarged these into a sketch in 1844, and \"from that period to the present day I have steadily", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408749", "text": "become distinct species, and in answer introduces the key concept he calls \"natural selection\"; in the fifth edition he adds, \"But the expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.\" Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408791", "text": "sentence [Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history] I show that I believe man is in same predicament with other animals. Many modern writers have seen this sentence as Darwin’s only reference to humans in the book; Janet Browne describes it as his only discussion there of human origins, while noting that the book makes other references to humanity. Some other statements in the book are quietly effective at pointing out the implication that humans are simply another species, evolving through the same processes and principles affecting other organisms. For example, in Chapter III: \"Struggle", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "8917621", "text": "next sentient species to arise could suffer the same fate, they built the ship to save a sample of that race before it wiped itself out, and protect it until it could repopulate the Earth. The ship extracted genetic material from the group students (and Hope) during the journey and created babies (modifying their genetics to avoid the dangers of inbreeding), creating a sufficient number of humans with enough genetic variation to repopulate the Earth. The Origin of Species (The Outer Limits) \"The Origin of Species\" is an episode of \"The Outer Limits\" television show. It was first broadcast on", "title": "The Origin of Species (The Outer Limits)" }, { "docid": "4762550", "text": "& Natural (as far as Final Causes & Design are concerned) on the other. The range & mass of knowledge take away one's breath.\" To Fanny Wedgwood she wrote, \"I rather regret that C.D. went out of his way two or three times to speak of \"The Creator\" in the popular sense of the First Cause... His subject is the 'Origin of Species' & not the origin of Organisation; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all – There now! I have delivered my mind.\" The Revd. Adam Sedgwick had received his copy \"with", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "7048020", "text": "important and useful idea in biology, particularly for animal speciation. In December 2004 the National Academy of Sciences held a colloquium in honour of Mayr's 100th birthday. \"Systematics and the Origin of Species: On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary\" was also published in commemoration. Systematics and the Origin of Species Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist is a book written by zoologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, first published in 1942 by Columbia University Press. The book became one of the canonical publications on the modern synthesis. Based on Mayr's Jesup Lectures delivered at Columbia", "title": "Systematics and the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408708", "text": "structures were determined by a constant plan as demonstrated by homologies. Georges Cuvier strongly disputed such ideas, holding that unrelated, fixed species showed similarities that reflected a design for functional needs. His palæontological work in the 1790s had established the reality of extinction, which he explained by local catastrophes, followed by repopulation of the affected areas by other species. In Britain, William Paley's \"Natural Theology\" saw adaptation as evidence of beneficial \"design\" by the Creator acting through natural laws. All naturalists in the two English universities (Oxford and Cambridge) were Church of England clergymen, and science became a search for", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408747", "text": "were descended from one species of rock pigeon. Darwin saw two distinct kinds of variation: (1) rare abrupt changes he called \"sports\" or \"monstrosities\" (example: Ancon sheep with short legs), and (2) ubiquitous small differences (example: slightly shorter or longer bill of pigeons). Both types of hereditary changes can be used by breeders. However, for Darwin the small changes were most important in evolution. In Chapter II, Darwin specifies that the distinction between species and varieties is arbitrary, with experts disagreeing and changing their decisions when new forms were found. He concludes that \"a well-marked variety may be justly called", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408784", "text": "to show that species had not been separately created, and to show that natural selection had been the chief agent of change. He knew that his readers were already familiar with the concept of transmutation of species from \"Vestiges\", and his introduction ridicules that work as failing to provide a viable mechanism. Therefore, the first four chapters lay out his case that selection in nature, caused by the struggle for existence, is analogous to the selection of variations under domestication, and that the accumulation of adaptive variations provides a scientifically testable mechanism for evolutionary speciation. Later chapters provide evidence that", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "8917615", "text": "The Origin of Species (The Outer Limits) \"The Origin of Species\" is an episode of \"The Outer Limits\" television show. It was first broadcast on November 14, 1998, during the fourth season, and is a sequel to a previous episode, \"Double Helix\". After lifting off into space, the rocket is seen heading through the cosmos. It's a very shaky ride inside a strange-looking ship. The students and Doctor Martin Nodel are all secure against a sort of upright wall. The ride stabilizes after they exit the atmosphere. Soon after some questioning from the students, Doctor Nodel places his hand on", "title": "The Origin of Species (The Outer Limits)" }, { "docid": "408719", "text": "of evolutionary divergence was explained by natural selection working constantly to improve adaptation. His thinking changed from the view that species formed in isolated populations only, as on islands, to an emphasis on speciation without isolation; that is, he saw increasing specialisation within large stable populations as continuously exploiting new ecological niches. He conducted empirical research focusing on difficulties with his theory. He studied the developmental and anatomical differences between different breeds of many domestic animals, became actively involved in fancy pigeon breeding, and experimented (with the help of his son Francis) on ways that plant seeds and animals might", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "7048019", "text": "Systematics and the Origin of Species Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist is a book written by zoologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, first published in 1942 by Columbia University Press. The book became one of the canonical publications on the modern synthesis. Based on Mayr's Jesup Lectures delivered at Columbia University in 1941, the book combines concepts of zoology and genetics, and features Mayr's biological species concept. The biological species concept defines a species in terms of biological factors such as reproduction, taking into account ecology, geography, and life history; it remains an", "title": "Systematics and the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408765", "text": "on slaves than others, and he observed that many ant species will collect and store the pupae of other species as food. He thought it reasonable that species with an extreme dependency on slave workers had evolved in incremental steps. He suggested that bees that make hexagonal cells evolved in steps from bees that made round cells, under pressure from natural selection to economise wax. Darwin concluded: Finally, it may not be a logical deduction, but to my imagination it is far more satisfactory to look at such instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers, —ants making slaves, —the", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762581", "text": "Weald omitted. I have been convinced of its inaccuracy in several respects by an excellent article in the 'Saturday Review,' Dec. 24, 1859.\" The \"Natural History Review\" was bought and refurbished by Huxley, Lubbock, Busk and other \"plastically minded young men\" – supporters of Darwin. The first issue in January 1861 carried Huxley's paper on man's relationship to apes, \"showing up\" Owen. Huxley cheekily sent a copy to Wilberforce. As the battles raged, Darwin returned home from the spa to proceed with experiments on chloroforming carnivorous sundew plants, looking over his \"Natural Selection\" manuscript and drafting two chapters on pigeon", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762582", "text": "breeding that would eventually form part of \"The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication\". He wrote to Asa Gray and used the example of fantail pigeons to argue against Gray's belief \"that variation has been led along certain beneficial lines\", with the implication of Creationism rather than Natural Selection. Over the winter he organised a third edition of the \"Origin\", adding an introductory historical sketch. Asa Gray had published three supportive articles in the \"Atlantic Monthly\". Darwin persuaded Gray to publish them as a pamphlet, and was delighted when Gray came up with the title of \"Natural Selection Not", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408730", "text": "as \"1859\". Murray's response was favourable, and a very pleased Darwin told Lyell on 30 March that he would \"send shortly a large bundle of M.S. but unfortunately I cannot for a week, as the three first chapters are in three copyists’ hands\". He bowed to Murray's objection to \"abstract\" in the title, though he felt it excused the lack of references, but wanted to keep \"natural selection\" which was \"constantly used in all works on Breeding\", and hoped \"to retain it with Explanation, somewhat as thus\",— \"Through Natural Selection or the preservation of favoured races\". On 31 March Darwin", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762557", "text": "to showing you the varieties of those species, or of any of those phenomena that would aid one in getting at that mystery of mysteries, the origin of species, our space does not permit; but surely there ought to be a space somewhere, and, if not in the British Museum, where is it to be obtained?\" Huxley's April review in the \"Westminster Review\" included the first mention of the term \"Darwinism\" in the question, \"What if the orbit of Darwinism should be a little too circular?\" Darwin thought it a \"brilliant review.\" Overflowing the narrow bounds of purely scientific circles,", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408746", "text": "Matthew had, unknown to Wallace or himself, anticipated the concept of natural selection in an appendix to a book published in 1831; in the fourth edition he mentioned that William Charles Wells had done so as early as 1813. Chapter I covers animal husbandry and plant breeding, going back to ancient Egypt. Darwin discusses contemporary opinions on the origins of different breeds under cultivation to argue that many have been produced from common ancestors by selective breeding. As an illustration of artificial selection, he describes fancy pigeon breeding, noting that \"[t]he diversity of the breeds is something astonishing\", yet all", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762543", "text": "was out.— The Bookseller said he had not read it but had heard it was a very remarkable book!!!\" In December 1859 the botanist Asa Gray negotiated with a Boston publisher for publication of an authorised American version, however, he learnt that two New York publishing firms were already planning to exploit the absence of international copyright to print \"Origin\". Darwin wrote in January, \"I never dreamed of my Book being so successful with general readers: I believe I should have laughed at the idea of sending the sheets to America.\" and asked Gray to keep any profits. Gray managed", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408808", "text": "gradual evolution was disputed by William Thomson (later awarded the title Lord Kelvin), who calculated that it had cooled in less than 100 million years. Darwin accepted blending inheritance, but Fleeming Jenkin calculated that as it mixed traits, natural selection could not accumulate useful traits. Darwin tried to meet these objections in the 5th edition. Mivart supported directed evolution, and compiled scientific and religious objections to natural selection. In response, Darwin made considerable changes to the sixth edition. The problems of the age of the Earth and heredity were only resolved in the 20th century. By the mid-1870s, most scientists", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408712", "text": "rhea (though their territories overlapped), that mockingbirds collected on the Galápagos Islands represented three separate species each unique to a particular island, and that several distinct birds from those islands were all classified as finches. Darwin began speculating, in a series of notebooks, on the possibility that \"one species does change into another\" to explain these findings, and around July sketched a genealogical branching of a single evolutionary tree, discarding Lamarck's independent lineages progressing to higher forms. Unconventionally, Darwin asked questions of fancy pigeon and animal breeders as well as established scientists. At the zoo he had his first sight", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408701", "text": "included evidence that he had gathered on the \"Beagle\" expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation. Various evolutionary ideas had already been proposed to explain new findings in biology. There was growing support for such ideas among dissident anatomists and the general public, but during the first half of the 19th century the English scientific establishment was closely tied to the Church of England, while science was part of natural theology. Ideas about the transmutation of species were controversial as they conflicted with the beliefs that species were unchanging parts of a designed hierarchy", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408781", "text": "embryonic stages. These factors also supported his theory of descent with modification. The final chapter \"Recapitulation and Conclusion\" reviews points from earlier chapters, and Darwin concludes by hoping that his theory might produce revolutionary changes in many fields of natural history. He suggests that psychology will be put on a new foundation and implies the relevance of his theory to the first appearance of humanity with the sentence that \"Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.\" Darwin ends with a passage that became well known and much quoted: It is interesting to contemplate an entangled", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408780", "text": "pattern, and should include the same bones, in the same relative positions?\" This made no sense under doctrines of independent creation of species, as even Richard Owen had admitted, but the \"explanation is manifest on the theory of the natural selection of successive slight modifications\" showing common descent. He notes that animals of the same class often have extremely similar embryos. Darwin discusses rudimentary organs, such as the wings of flightless birds and the rudiments of pelvis and leg bones found in some snakes. He remarks that some rudimentary organs, such as teeth in baleen whales, are found only in", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408774", "text": "America, Africa, and Australia all have regions with similar climates at similar latitudes, but those regions have very different plants and animals. The species found in one area of a continent are more closely allied with species found in other regions of that same continent than to species found on other continents. Darwin noted that barriers to migration played an important role in the differences between the species of different regions. The coastal sea life of the Atlantic and Pacific sides of Central America had almost no species in common even though the Isthmus of Panama was only a few", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "18720770", "text": "Evolution: The Origin of Species Evolution: The Origin of Species is a card game created by Dmitriy Knorre and Sergey Machin in 2010. The game is inspired by the evolutionary biology. It was published by SIA Rightgames RBG. English, French and German game editions were published in 2011. Two or more players create their own animals, make them evolve and hunt in order to survive. In 2014, the North Star Games company published game Evolution. The original authors were part of the design crew. The player with the largest number of victory points at the end of the game is", "title": "Evolution: The Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408710", "text": "species, but Darwin rejected it. Starting in 1827, at Cambridge University, Darwin learnt science as natural theology from botanist John Stevens Henslow, and read Paley, John Herschel and Alexander von Humboldt. Filled with zeal for science, he studied catastrophist geology with Adam Sedgwick. In December 1831, he joined the \"Beagle\" expedition as a gentleman naturalist and geologist. He read Charles Lyell's \"Principles of Geology\" and from the first stop ashore, at St. Jago, found Lyell's uniformitarianism a key to the geological history of landscapes. Darwin discovered fossils resembling huge armadillos, and noted the geographical distribution of modern species in hope", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408775", "text": "miles wide. His explanation was a combination of migration and descent with modification. He went on to say: \"On this principle of inheritance with modification, we can understand how it is that sections of genera, whole genera, and even families are confined to the same areas, as is so commonly and notoriously the case.\" Darwin explained how a volcanic island formed a few hundred miles from a continent might be colonised by a few species from that continent. These species would become modified over time, but would still be related to species found on the continent, and Darwin observed that", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408748", "text": "an incipient species\" and that \"species are only strongly marked and permanent varieties\". He argues for the ubiquity of variation in nature. Historians have noted that naturalists had long been aware that the individuals of a species differed from one another, but had generally considered such variations to be limited and unimportant deviations from the archetype of each species, that archetype being a fixed ideal in the mind of God. Darwin and Wallace made variation among individuals of the same species central to understanding the natural world. In Chapter III, Darwin asks how varieties \"which I have called incipient species\"", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408752", "text": "species, immigration of others and, where suitable variations occurred, descendants of some species became adapted to new conditions. He remarks that the artificial selection practised by animal breeders frequently produced sharp divergence in character between breeds, and suggests that natural selection might do the same, saying: But how, it may be asked, can any analogous principle apply in nature? I believe it can and does apply most efficiently, from the simple circumstance that the more diversified the descendants from any one species become in structure, constitution, and habits, by so much will they be better enabled to seize on many", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762544", "text": "to negotiate a 5 per cent royalty with Appleton's of New York, who got their edition out in mid January, and the other two withdrew. In a May letter Darwin mentioned a print run of 2,500 copies, but it is not clear if this was the first printing alone as there were four that year. When sending his \"Historical preface\" and corrections for the American edition in February, Darwin thanked Asa Gray for his comments, as \"a Review from a man, who is not an entire convert, if fair & moderately favourable, is in all respects the best kind of", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762532", "text": "such tremendous praise\", advising that he was sharpening his \"beak and claws\" to disembowel \"the curs who will bark and yelp\". Richard Owen had been the first to respond to the complimentary copies, courteously claiming that he had long believed that \"existing influences\" were responsible for the \"ordained\" birth of species. Darwin now had long talks with him, and told Lyell that \"Under garb of great civility, he was inclined to be most bitter & sneering against me. Yet I infer from several expressions, that \"at bottom\" he goes immense way with us.\" Owen was furious at being included among", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408800", "text": "field naturalists studying biogeography and ecology, including Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1860, and Asa Gray in 1862. Henry Walter Bates presented research in 1861 that explained insect mimicry using natural selection. Alfred Russel Wallace discussed evidence from his Malay archipelago research, including an 1864 paper with an evolutionary explanation for the Wallace line. Evolution had less obvious applications to anatomy and morphology, and at first had little impact on the research of the anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley. Despite this, Huxley strongly supported Darwin on evolution; though he called for experiments to show whether natural selection could form new species, and", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762556", "text": "agent for the propagation of the Gospel – i.e. the devil's gospel.\" The position of Richard Owen was unknown: when emphasising to a Parliamentary committee the need for a new Natural History museum, he pointed out that \"The whole intellectual world this year has been excited by a book on the origin of species; and what is the consequence? Visitors come to the British Museum, and they say, 'Let us see all these varieties of pigeons: where is the tumbler, where is the pouter?' and I am obliged with shame to say, I can show you none of them...\" As", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408776", "text": "this was a common pattern. Darwin discussed ways that species could be dispersed across oceans to colonise islands, many of which he had investigated experimentally. Chapter XII continues the discussion of biogeography. After a brief discussion of freshwater species, it returns to oceanic islands and their peculiarities; for example on some islands roles played by mammals on continents were played by other animals such as flightless birds or reptiles. The summary of both chapters says: ... I think all the grand leading facts of geographical distribution are explicable on the theory of migration (generally of the more dominant forms of", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408773", "text": "forms, matching the branching of common descent from an ancestor. Patterns of extinction matched his theory, with related groups of species having a continued existence until extinction, then not reappearing. Recently extinct species were more similar to living species than those from earlier eras, and as he had seen in South America, and William Clift had shown in Australia, fossils from recent geological periods resembled species still living in the same area. Chapter XI deals with evidence from biogeography, starting with the observation that differences in flora and fauna from separate regions cannot be explained by environmental differences alone; South", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "3491699", "text": "of science on which they bear\". Years later, Darwin could only recall one review; Professor Haughton of Dublin claimed that \"all that was new in them was false, and what was true was old.\" Despite illness, Darwin pressed on with writing the \"abstract\" of his \"big book\" on \"Natural Selection\"; this condensed version was published in November 1859 as \"On the Origin of Species\". In a largely overlooked passage from Wallace's essay, he says of the evolutionary principle: The action of this principle is exactly like that of the centrifugal governor of the steam engine, which checks and corrects any", "title": "On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection" }, { "docid": "408754", "text": "Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex\" (1871). Natural selection was expected to work very slowly in forming new species, but given the effectiveness of artificial selection, he could \"see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection\". Using a tree diagram and calculations, he indicates the \"divergence of character\" from original species into new species and genera. He describes branches", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408766", "text": "larvæ of ichneumonidæ feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars, —not as specially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. Chapter VIII addresses the idea that species had special characteristics that prevented hybrids from being fertile in order to preserve separately created species. Darwin said that, far from being constant, the difficulty in producing hybrids of related species, and the viability and fertility of the hybrids, varied greatly, especially among plants. Sometimes what were widely considered", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "4762541", "text": "geologist at the University of Cambridge who had taken Darwin on his first geology field trip, could not see the point in a world without providence. The missionary David Livingstone could see no struggle for existence on the African plains. Jeffries Wyman at Harvard saw no truth in chance variations. The most enthusiastic response came from atheists, with Hewett Watson hailing Darwin as the \"greatest revolutionist in natural history of this century\". The 68-year-old Robert Edmund Grant, who had shown him the study of invertebrates when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh and who was still teaching", "title": "Reactions to On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408717", "text": "and scorned its amateurish geology and zoology, but he carefully reviewed his own arguments after leading scientists, including Adam Sedgwick, attacked its morality and scientific errors. \"Vestiges\" had significant influence on public opinion, and the intense debate helped to pave the way for the acceptance of the more scientifically sophisticated \"Origin\" by moving evolutionary speculation into the mainstream. While few naturalists were willing to consider transmutation, Herbert Spencer became an active proponent of Lamarckism and progressive development in the 1850s. Hooker was persuaded to take away a copy of the \"Essay\" in January 1847, and eventually sent a page of", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408760", "text": "confusion, instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?\" Darwin attributed this to the competition between different forms, combined with the small number of individuals of intermediate forms, often leading to extinction of such forms. This difficulty can be referred to as the absence or rarity of transitional varieties in habitat space. Another difficulty, related to the first one, is the absence or rarity of transitional varieties in time. Darwin commented that by the theory of natural selection \"innumerable transitional forms must have existed,\" and wondered \"why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "3982504", "text": "Genetics and the Origin of Species Genetics and the Origin of Species is a 1937 book by the Ukrainian-American evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky. It is regarded as one of the most important works of the modern synthesis, and was one of the earliest. The book popularized the work of population genetics to other biologists, and influenced their appreciation for the genetic basis of evolution. In his book, Dobzhansky applied the theoretical work of Sewall Wright (1889-1988) to the study of natural populations, allowing him to address evolutionary problems in a novel way during his time. Dobzhansky implements theories of mutation,", "title": "Genetics and the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408809", "text": "accepted evolution, but relegated natural selection to a minor role as they believed evolution was purposeful and progressive. The range of evolutionary theories during \"the eclipse of Darwinism\" included forms of \"saltationism\" in which new species were thought to arise through \"jumps\" rather than gradual adaptation, forms of orthogenesis claiming that species had an inherent tendency to change in a particular direction, and forms of neo-Lamarckism in which inheritance of acquired characteristics led to progress. The minority view of August Weismann, that natural selection was the only mechanism, was called neo-Darwinism. It was thought that the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408771", "text": "The initial appearance of entire groups of well developed organisms in the oldest fossil-bearing layers, now known as the Cambrian explosion, posed a problem. Darwin had no doubt that earlier seas had swarmed with living creatures, but stated that he had no satisfactory explanation for the lack of fossils. Fossil evidence of pre-Cambrian life has since been found, extending the history of life back for billions of years. Chapter X examines whether patterns in the fossil record are better explained by common descent and branching evolution through natural selection, than by the individual creation of fixed species. Darwin expected species", "title": "On the Origin of Species" } ]
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Originally started in 1956 by Pauline Phillips, what advice column is now written by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips?
[ "Dear Abby", "Ask Abby", "Dear Abbie", "Abigail Van Buren", "Abigail van Buren", "Abby Van Buren" ]
[ { "docid": "5725485", "text": "Jeanne Phillips Jeanne Phillips (; born 1942), also known as Abigail Van Buren, is an American advice columnist who has written for the advice column \"Dear Abby.\" She is the daughter of Pauline Esther \"Popo\" Phillips, who founded \"Dear Abby\" in 1956, and her husband, Morton Phillips. In a \"Dear Abby\" column on December 12, 2000, Pauline introduced Jeanne as co-creator of \"Dear Abby\". They began to share the byline \"Abigail Van Buren\", and both were pictured with the column. Jeanne officially assumed the mantle of \"Dear Abby\" in August 2002, when the Phillips family made the announcement that Pauline", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "5725501", "text": "the Member-elect for Minnesota's 3rd congressional district after his victory in the November 2018 general election. Jeanne Phillips Jeanne Phillips (; born 1942), also known as Abigail Van Buren, is an American advice columnist who has written for the advice column \"Dear Abby.\" She is the daughter of Pauline Esther \"Popo\" Phillips, who founded \"Dear Abby\" in 1956, and her husband, Morton Phillips. In a \"Dear Abby\" column on December 12, 2000, Pauline introduced Jeanne as co-creator of \"Dear Abby\". They began to share the byline \"Abigail Van Buren\", and both were pictured with the column. Jeanne officially assumed the", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "752591", "text": "was survived by her husband of 73 years, Morton Phillips, daughter Jeanne Phillips, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Her son, Edward, died in 2011 at the age of 66. Pauline Phillips Pauline Esther \"Popo\" Phillips (née Friedman; July 4, 1918 – January 16, 2013), also known as Abigail Van Buren, was an American advice columnist and radio show host who began the \"Dear Abby\" column in 1956. During her decades writing the column, it became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, syndicated in 1,400 newspapers with 110 million readers. From 1963 to 1975, Phillips also hosted a", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "5725486", "text": "had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Jeanne Phillips continues to write under the pen name \"Abigail Van Buren\". Jeanne Phillips' \"Dear Abby\" column is syndicated in about 1,400 newspapers in the U.S. with a combined circulation of more than 110 million. \"Dear Abby\"'s website receives about 10,000 letters per week, seeking advice on a large variety of personal matters. Jeanne Phillips began assisting her mother, Pauline Phillips, with the \"Dear Abby\" column at the age of 14 in order to earn an allowance. When Jeanne asked her mother for an allowance, Pauline answered, \"What are you going to do for", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "752579", "text": "2, two days before their 21st birthday. Pauline married Morton Phillips of Minneapolis, and had two children, a son, Edward Jay Phillips, and a daughter, Jeanne Phillips. In her July 8, 2017 \"Dear Abby\" column, Jeanne Phillips said her mother liked being a twin while her aunt wanted to be an individual, and this caused conflict between them. Pauline's writing career that led to \"Dear Abby\" began in January 1956, when she was 37 and new to the greater San Francisco area. Sometime during this period she phoned the editor of the \"San Francisco Chronicle\" and said she could write", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "752576", "text": "Pauline Phillips Pauline Esther \"Popo\" Phillips (née Friedman; July 4, 1918 – January 16, 2013), also known as Abigail Van Buren, was an American advice columnist and radio show host who began the \"Dear Abby\" column in 1956. During her decades writing the column, it became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, syndicated in 1,400 newspapers with 110 million readers. From 1963 to 1975, Phillips also hosted a daily \"Dear Abby\" program on CBS Radio. TV anchorwoman Diane Sawyer calls her the \"pioneering queen of salty advice\". Pauline Esther Friedman, nicknamed \"Popo\", was born in Sioux City,", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "5725491", "text": "was honored with the 2,172nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Around 60 family members and friends took part in the 30-minute ceremony. Jeanne Phillips paid the $15,000 sponsorship fee for the star and its maintenance to honor her mother. The \"Dear Abby\" radio show lasted for 12 years. Jeanne wrote and produced Pauline's shows; Pauline was the host. Jeanne Phillips characterized her mother's style as \"softer\", while she herself \"[gets] to the root of the problem quickly\". Both Jeanne and Pauline have made gay marriage a topic in their column. In 1984, Pauline directed the parent of a", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "5725494", "text": "those related to health, safety, and acceptance of multiculturalism and diversity. On December 1, 2005, Jeanne made her first live radio broadcast via Internet radio. In her press release regarding that broadcast, she said that she sometimes calls people who have written her since, in many cases, it is easier to advise people over the phone than through letters. Jeanne Phillips was born in Mount Morris, Illinois, to Pauline Esther \"Popo\" Phillips, the founder of \"Dear Abby\", and Morton Phillips in 1942. Her grandfather, Jay Phillips, was born in Russia in 1898 and immigrated to Wisconsin when he was two", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "752590", "text": "stopped driving. Her daughter Jeanne said, \"She quit after skidding into the back of a coal truck during a Wisconsin winter,\" with Jeanne having a life-long scar from the crash. From 1987 until her mother's retirement, her daughter Jeanne co-wrote the column. In 2002, when Phillips' Alzheimer's disease made it impossible for her to continue writing, Jeanne assumed all the writing responsibilities of \"Dear Abby\". After the family's announcement of Pauline's illness, Jeanne assumed the pen name Abigail Van Buren. Phillips died on January 16, 2013, at the age of 94, after having battled Alzheimer's disease for 11 years. She", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "5725487", "text": "it?\" Pauline then said that her \"Dear Abby\" column received a substantial amount of mail from teenagers and that Jeanne could reply to some of them. If Jeanne's responses were \"good\", her mother would use them in the column. If her responses were not good, Jeanne would rewrite them. Jeanne spent her allowance money on watching movies and plays. She went to San Francisco several times to see the play, \"Li'l Abner\". In the 1970s, Phillips helped her mother write over half of the columns for her nationally syndicated radio show on CBS News. In 1980, she became the radio", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "752581", "text": "name Abigail Van Buren, after the Old Testament prophetess from the Book of Samuel: \"Then David said to Abigail ... 'Blessed is your advice and blessed are you.\" \"Van Buren\" was used after the president, Martin Van Buren. Phillips says that because she applied for the columnist job without notifying her sister first, it created bad feelings between them for many years. Each wrote her own advice column, and as competing columnists, they sometimes clashed; in 1956, Phillips offered her column to the \"Sioux City Journal\" at a reduced price, provided the paper refused to print her sister's column. The", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "6881786", "text": "Dear Abby Dear Abby is an American advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name \"Abigail Van Buren\" and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name. According to Pauline Phillips, she came up with the pen name \"Abigail Van Buren\" by combining the name of Biblical figure Abigail in the Book of I Samuel, with the last name of former U.S. President Martin Van Buren. The column was syndicated by McNaught Syndicate from 1956 until 1966, when it moved to Universal Press Syndicate. Dear Abby's", "title": "Dear Abby" }, { "docid": "6881791", "text": "Revenge. Dear Abby was name dropped in the song \"Roll with the Punches\" by the Young MC, who rapped \"She wanted advice and she was coming to me / I said you need Dear Abby not the Young MC.\" In November of 2018, Minnesota voters elected Dean Phillips to the US Congress, the grandson of Pauline \"Dear Abby\", to represent their state. Dear Abby Dear Abby is an American advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name \"Abigail Van Buren\" and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to", "title": "Dear Abby" }, { "docid": "5725492", "text": "gay child to Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). In 2007, her daughter openly announced her support of gay marriage. In the same year, she was given the \"Straight for Equality\" award by PFLAG. During the Vietnam War, in 1967, Phillips' mother started Operation Dear Abby, through which holiday messages were sent to American soldiers. Phillips' mother was inspired to create this service when Billy Thompson, a sergeant, requested a letter from home for his Christmas present. When the 2001 anthrax attacks occurred, the operation was postponed. Jeanne Phillips collaborated with The Pentagon to create an Internet substitute.", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "5725488", "text": "show's column executive editor, and in 1987, she became its co-editor. Beginning in 1987, she worked with her mother on the nationally syndicated \"Dear Abby\" column. She began writing a majority of the columns since the early 1990s, though her mother did not publicly acknowledge her as the column's co-writer until 2000. Jeanne worked as the writer, while Pauline edited. While Pauline remained at home, Jeanne would manage the office and their paid staff. Mother and daughter were listed as the writers after a December 12, 2000, letter to readers. A photo of the two was affixed to each column.", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "5725498", "text": "the marriage was not successful. She planned to remain single but later fell in love again. In 2002, she married her second husband, a real estate agent named Walter Harris. Every day, Phillips reads the letters sent to her \"Dear Abby\" column and pens her column in the afternoon. In the evenings, she either cooks or goes out to dinner with her husband. When asked who her Dear Abby was, Phillips replied that her husband is her \"primary support\" and her friends her \"secondary support\". She has largely kept her personal life to herself, making only occasional references to it", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "752584", "text": "careers, recognized for being bright and entertaining, and writing with \"an earthy wit, audacity and awesome self-confidence,\" often exemplified in Phillips' \"crackling one-liners.\" The editor of the \"Chicago Sun-Times\" described their skill as \"beyond mere shrewdness—a quality very close to genuine wisdom.\" Amy Dickinson, a syndicated advice columnist who styles her columns after \"Dear Abby,\" says that Phillips was a \"master\" in her ability to write with both \"genuine honesty\" and \"compassion,\" while at the same time being able to respond with \"tough love\" when needed: The letters that Phillips and her sister each picked for publication were meant to", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "692996", "text": "Margo Howard Margo Howard (née Lederer; born March 15, 1940) is an American writer and former advice columnist. She is the only child of businessman/innovator Jules Lederer and Eppie Lederer (better known as Ann Landers after her long-time advice column \"Ask Ann Landers\"), the niece of Pauline Phillips, and the cousin of Jeanne Phillips (the latter two both better known as Abigail Van Buren and authors of the advice column \"Dear Abby\"). Howard was born in Sioux City, Iowa, to Eppie (née Esther Pauline Friedman) and Jules Lederer, a businessman and eventually the founder of Budget-Rent-A-Car International. She attended Brandeis", "title": "Margo Howard" }, { "docid": "13553058", "text": "wrote \"...we say farewell. It is time for us to step aside and take advantage of opportunities neither of us has had the time for until now.\" They also introduced columnist Annie Lane, known as Dear Annie. A few months after Eppie Lederer took over as Ann Landers, her twin sister Pauline Esther \"PoPo\" Phillips introduced a similar, competing column, Dear Abby, using the pseudonym \"Abigail Van Buren\", which produced a lengthy estrangement between the two sisters. Phillips wrote her column until retiring in 2002, at which time her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, took over. Ask Ann Landers Ann Landers was", "title": "Ask Ann Landers" }, { "docid": "5725490", "text": "few days later, she reviews it to ensure that her feelings about the subject remain unchanged. When she is not knowledgeable about a subject, she consults experts from various fields, including \"medical, psychiatric, legal, ethical\", and religious. Phillips noted that the column touches on numerous topics, including \"organ donation, domestic violence, mental health, child safety, volunteerism, civility, alcohol abuse, inhalant abuse ... and the dangers of tobacco\". According to Pernell Watson of the \"Daily Press\", Phillips will send an unprinted, confidential reply to readers who send a \"self-addressed, stamped envelope\". On Valentine's Day in 2001, the \"Dear Abby\" radio show", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "6881787", "text": "current syndication company claims the column is \"well-known for sound, compassionate advice, delivered with the straightforward style of a good friend.\" As of 1987, over 1200 newspapers ran the column. On June 1, 2009, the column moved from the \"Chicago Tribune\" to the \"Chicago Sun-Times\". Abby was born Pauline Esther Friedman, and her twin sister was born Esther Pauline Friedman. Abby was known as Popo, and her sister was Eppie (a nickname from E.P.). A few months before Pauline Phillips started Dear Abby, her twin sister Eppie Lederer took over the Ann Landers column created by \"Chicago Sun-Times\" advice columnist", "title": "Dear Abby" }, { "docid": "752589", "text": "the National Council of Jewish Women. She authored six books: \"Dear Abby\", \"Dear Teenager\", \"Dear Abby on Marriage\", \"Where Were You When President Kennedy was Shot?\", \"The Dear Abby Wedding Planner\", and \"The Best of Dear Abby\". \"The Dear Abby Show\" aired on the CBS Radio Network for 12 years. When asked near the end of her career whether her years of writing the column were a lot of work, she said, \"It's only work if you'd rather be doing something else.\" She felt that her career had been \"fulfilling, exciting and incredibly rewarding.\" After some point in life Phillips", "title": "Pauline Phillips" } ]
[ { "docid": "5725489", "text": "Beginning on July 22, 2002, Jeanne was attributed as the only writer of the column. Kathie Kerr, a spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate, the distributor of the column, said: \"Over the past couple of years, Pauline Phillips hasn't had any day-to-day activities with the column.\" Every day, her column is read by 110 million people and syndicated in about 1,400 newspapers. Every week, she gets from 5,000 to 10,000 letters and emails asking her for advice. Reading and replying to the mail sometimes takes her more than eight hours a day. After crafting a response, Phillips sets it aside. A", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "5725500", "text": "that Jeanne's mother, Pauline, had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Tim Johnson, a medical journalist for ABC News, wrote in February 2010 that Pauline resides with her husband, Morton, in Minnetonka, Minnesota and has caregivers. Pauline's son, Eddie, said: Pauline Phillips died in 2013 at the age of 94. Phillips is Jewish. In her column, she writes holiday greetings to people of many religions and occasionally gives advice to people based on their religion. On August 14, 2018, Phillips' nephew Dean won the Democratic (Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party) nomination for U. S. Congress from Minnesota's 3rd congressional district. Dean Phillips is now", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "5725497", "text": "Florida Sun-Sentinel\" in 2001, Lederer said: \"Jeanne has been working with her mother for 20 years, and it seems to be a perfect fit.\" Lederer's daughter, Margo Howard, wrote an advice column for 45 years until 2013. After Phillips' appearance on \"Larry King Live\", her cousin Howard censured her. Phillips said: \"The term a lot of people have been using is feud. All I can say, and this is from my heart to yours, there's no feud on my part. I wish my cousin the best.\" Phillips married a \"brilliant, charming, talented\" man in the 1970s, a California lawyer, but", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "752577", "text": "Iowa, to Russian Jewish immigrants, Rebecca (née Rushall) and Abraham B. Friedman, owner of a chain of movie theaters. She was the youngest of four sisters and grew up in Sioux City. Her identical twin, Esther Pauline Friedman (married name Lederer), was columnist Ann Landers. Lederer had become Ann Landers in 1955, and inspired by her sister's example, Phillips soon followed suit by launching her own advice column. In describing her family's emigration to America, Phillips says, \"My parents came with nothing. They all came with nothing.\" She adds that her parents never forgot first seeing the \"Statue of Liberty\":", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "5725496", "text": "most popular girl in the class. I never aspired to be. But I did make very nice friends.\" In college, she majored in English and anthropology, and studied anthropology at the University of Colorado and UCLA though she did not work in the field. She attempted interior design but ultimately decided it was unsatisfactory. Phillips' aunt, Esther Pauline \"Eppie\" Lederer—Pauline's twin sister and the final columnist of the \"Ask Ann Landers\" advice column—died in June 2002. In addition to penning a tribute column, Phillips read a poem about her aunt on \"Larry King Live\". In an interview with the \"South", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "752580", "text": "a better advice column than the one she had been reading in the newspaper. After hearing her modest credentials, editor Stanleigh \"Auk\" Arnold gave her some letters in need of answers and said to bring back her replies in a week; Phillips got her replies back to the \"Chronicle\" in an hour and half. In an interview with Larry King, she said she had no work experience, lacking even a social security number. The editor, however, asked if she were a professional writer. He said her writing was \"fabulous', and she was hired that day. She went by the pen", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "752583", "text": "lawyers, and clergymen, as well as from pregnant teenagers, harassed husbands, unwed mothers, alcoholics, gays, and mistresses. Setting their column apart even more from columnists of earlier decades was their particular style of writing, replying with \"vaudeville punch lines\" yet always rooted in common sense. Phillips is described thusly by the \"New York Times\": Phillips was considered liberal minded politically, yet personally conservative. She remained reluctant to advise unmarried couples to live together, for instance, until the 1990s, yet she adapted readily to social changes. One example: Both Phillips and her sister were considered remarkable women soon after starting their", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "752587", "text": "Phillips considering women who were unable to make their marriages work as \"faintly ridiculous.\" Her \"code of conduct\" was \"husband and children first.\" In her later years, she did not avoid suggesting divorce when a relationship became \"intolerable\", and considered how a bad marriage might affect children: \"When kids see parents fighting, or even sniping at each other, I think it is terribly damaging.\" Both Phillips and her sister enjoyed socializing with celebrities, and because of their notoriety, celebrities liked being seen with either of them. Among Phillips' friends soon after she began her column were politicians, including Senators Hubert", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "6881789", "text": "Thus, the Annie's Mailbox column began on July 28, 2002 in approximately 800 newspapers. Annie's Mailbox was syndicated in numerous newspapers throughout the US, until June 30, 2016. On that date, Mitchell and Sugar, wrote \"...we say farewell. It is time for us to step aside and take advantage of opportunities neither of us has had the time for until now.\" They also introduced columnist Annie Lane, known as Dear Annie. Pauline Phillips wrote the column herself until 2000, at which time her daughter Jeanne Phillips began officially writing the column with her. Jeanne Phillips became the sole author in", "title": "Dear Abby" }, { "docid": "5725495", "text": "years old. When Jeanne was three years old, her family moved from Minnesota to Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Phillips went to elementary school in Hillsborough, California, and attended Burlingame High School for two years. After her sophomore year she transferred to Crystal Springs Uplands School and attended the private school for one year. Shortly thereafter, her family moved back to Twin Cities in Minnesota so her father could take the helm of her feeble grandfather's liquor distribution business. For her senior year she attended Washburn High School in Minneapolis. Phillips enjoyed the school, saying, \"I loved it. I was never the", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "752578", "text": "Her sister, Esther, recalls their home life: \"My father was the sort of man people came to for advice. My mother couldn't turn away anyone with a hard-luck story. Our house was always full of guests.\" Phillips agrees, and understood that her parents had a clear effect on her own personality: They are both alumnae of Central High School in Sioux City and Morningside College, where they both studied journalism and psychology, along with writing a joint gossip column for the college newspaper. They both played the violin. In July 1939, they were married in a double-wedding ceremony on July", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "5725499", "text": "while advising people or during interviews. In comparison to her cousin, Margo Howard, Phillips has been called \"reserved\". Phillips had a brother, Edward \"Eddie\" Phillips, who was born in 1945 and died in 2011 of multiple myeloma. According to his obituary in the \"Star Tribune\", Eddie was a \"liquor tycoon\", a \"gifted businessman\", and a philanthropist who \"enlarged a family tradition of generous giving\". He had four children: sons Dean, Tyler, and J.J., and a daughter Hutton; the latter two were twins. According to a 2002 interview, Phillips and her husband have no children. In 2002, the Phillips family revealed", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "17102221", "text": "Jeanne L. Phillips Jeanne L. Phillips is an American businesswoman and diplomat. She served as United States Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 2001 to 2003, under President George W. Bush. She was born in Arkansas. She graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She served as President and Chief Executive officer of the consulting firm, Jeanne Johnson & Company, Inc, and as Managing Director of the Dallas office of Public Strategies, Inc.. She served as fundraising advisor to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., the University of Texas MD Anderson", "title": "Jeanne L. Phillips" }, { "docid": "17102224", "text": "Texas, where she attends St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church. Jeanne L. Phillips Jeanne L. Phillips is an American businesswoman and diplomat. She served as United States Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 2001 to 2003, under President George W. Bush. She was born in Arkansas. She graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She served as President and Chief Executive officer of the consulting firm, Jeanne Johnson & Company, Inc, and as Managing Director of the Dallas office of Public Strategies, Inc.. She served as fundraising advisor to the Woodrow Wilson International Center", "title": "Jeanne L. Phillips" }, { "docid": "1447950", "text": "Siân Phillips Dame Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips, (born 14 May 1933), known professionally as Siân Phillips (), is a Welsh actress. Phillips was born in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales, the daughter of Sally (née Thomas), a teacher, and David Phillips, a steelworker who became a policeman. She is a Welsh-speaker: in the first volume of her autobiography \"Private Faces\" (1999) she notes that she spoke only Welsh for much of her childhood, learning English by listening to the radio. She attended Pontardawe Grammar School and was originally known there as Jane, but her Welsh teacher called her Siân, the Welsh form", "title": "Siân Phillips" }, { "docid": "15480813", "text": "Margaret Mann Phillips Margaret Mann Phillips (1906-1987) was a British academic who specialized in Renaissance literature and history. She is most noted for her work on Erasmus. Phillips was the daughter of a rector, the Revd. Francis Arthur Mann, and was educated first at home and later at the now-closed York College for Girls. In 1928, she won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford University, graduating in 1927 with a first in French. In 1940, Phillips married Charles William Phillips. Phillips' academic career started with posts at the University of Bordeaux and the University of Manchester and then at St", "title": "Margaret Mann Phillips" }, { "docid": "5725493", "text": "In 2003, the website received on average 20,000 to 30,000 messages every day. Prior to the Iraq War, the website received only 2,000 to 3,000 messages every day. The messages are categorized by state and uniformed service but are not sent to specific individuals. Soldiers received the messages by either accessing them on OperationDearAbby.net or when their officers printed out the messages for distribution. Phillips has appeared on many television talk shows, including multiple appearances on CNN's \"Larry King Live\". Many prestigious national organizations have acknowledged her for her advice and efforts to educate her readers on different topics including", "title": "Jeanne Phillips" }, { "docid": "752585", "text": "give the public glimpses of \"the most intimate of human difficulties,\" which contributed to their immediate acceptance. \"Life\" magazine explains: Phillips stated that the most sensitive letters she received were never published, but were instead replied to individually. Sometimes she would write a brief note on the letter itself, letting one of her secretaries respond fully using her advice. If a person seemed suicidal from their letter, she would call them on the phone. As noted by \"Life\": As part of their work both sisters engaged with other editors, publishers, and the general public whenever they could. \"Neither ever forgets", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "4750457", "text": "Advice column An advice column is a column traditionally presented in a magazine or newspaper, though it can also be delivered through other news media, such as the internet and broadcast news media. The advice column format is question and answer: a (usually anonymous) reader writes to the media outlet with a problem in the form of a question, and the media outlet provides an answer or response. The responses are written by an advice columnist (colloquially known in British English as an agony aunt, or agony uncle if the columnist is male). The image presented was originally of an", "title": "Advice column" }, { "docid": "945252", "text": "Jules Williams and Back Door Productions, co-produces the Sky Arts series \"Living The Life\" which is now in its third series. Phillips married his first wife, actress Penelope Bartley, on 30 May 1948. They had four children. In 1962, Phillips started a romantic relationship with actress Caroline Mortimer, daughter of writer Penelope Mortimer and stepdaughter of John Mortimer, who was an understudy in a stage play in which Phillips starred. Phillips and Bartley separated at that point and were divorced in 1965. After his relationship with Mortimer ended, Phillips embarked on a relationship with actress Vicki Luke, with whom he", "title": "Leslie Phillips" }, { "docid": "18931407", "text": "Deborah Phillips Deborah Phillips (born 1965) is a Scottish painter who has been painting since the age of 14. She was the daughter of Douglas Phillips also a painter. She worked in merchandise design for approximately a decade and her work was published in notable women's magazines. She began painting full-time in the late 1990s. Her work is owned by both corporate and private collectors throughout the world. Deborah Phillips was born in 1965 in Dundee, Scotland the daughter of Scottish artist Douglas Phillips. Phillips' debut at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art occurred", "title": "Deborah Phillips" }, { "docid": "13680408", "text": "of London, her daughter Joan Solaun of Illinois, two grandchildren (Emma Cristina Solaun, an attorney in Miami, Florida and the daughter of Joan and Mauricio Solaun, and Arwen Cecilia Rosenbaum, the daughter of Hugh and Rowena Rosenbaum), stepdaughter, Rosamond Bernier. Appearances by EDNA PHILLIPS AS SOLOIST with the PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA Edna Phillips Edna Phillips (January 7, 1907 – December 2, 2003), later Edna Phillips Rosenbaum (though she never changed her professional name and was still known as \"Miss Phillips\" ), was an American harpist long associated with the Philadelphia Orchestra and a teacher at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music. Her", "title": "Edna Phillips" }, { "docid": "20754706", "text": "her. I think it’s fantastic that these women that have been a little bit swallowed up by history are now being remembered in their own right as well as some of the more well-known figures in the suffragette movement. “It’s so important to talk about this movement and the different cities and people involved in it.\" Caroline Phillips is buried in Kintore kirkyard. Caroline Phillips Caroline Phillips (1874 – 13 January 1956) was a Scottish feminist, suffragette and journalist. She was honorary secretary of the Aberdeen branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), met and corresponded with many", "title": "Caroline Phillips" }, { "docid": "3101382", "text": "the tabloid \"Daily Mail\" in 2001. She also writes for \"The Jewish Chronicle\" and other periodicals. Since 2003, she has written a blog, once hosted by \"The Spectator\", but after a disagreement and her resignation from the magazine in June 2011, it is now hosted on her own website. In September 2013, it emerged that her \"Mail\" column was to end, although according to Phillips, the newspaper wanted her to continue to write features and other articles for it. In 2013, she launched an e-book publishing company called emBooks, to promote her book, together with several others, and self-promotional merchandise", "title": "Melanie Phillips" }, { "docid": "7065991", "text": "Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips Norah Mary Phillips, Baroness Phillips, JP (née Lusher; 12 August 1910 – 14 August 1992) was a British Labour politician. Phillips was educated at Hampton Training College as a teacher. She became active in her local Fulham Labour Party and in 1930 married fellow Fulham activist Morgan Phillips, a former miner and later the General Secretary of the Labour Party 1944–1961. They had a son and a daughter, Gwyneth Dunwoody, who became a long-serving Labour Member of Parliament. Phillips was a long-serving London magistrate and co-founder of the National Association of Women's Clubs (1935). She was", "title": "Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips" }, { "docid": "752586", "text": "a name,\" and they were uninhibited public speakers: they \"whirl around the country appearing on radio and television and—dressed like visiting movie actresses—holding thousands of housewives spellbound in speeches at theaters and auditoriums.\" Like her sister, Phillips was considered \"the embodiment of female orthodoxy.\" They made their husbands and families a high priority in their lives, feeling that \"marriage must be permanent, even when disturbed by masculine lunacy.\" Phillips typically spoke in glowing terms about her husband in public, calling him \"loveboat\" or smooching with him in restaurants. This attitude carried over into their columns in the late 1950s, with", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "17251787", "text": "then at Phillips School. When Boston schools were finally integrated in 1855, by an act of the Massachusetts legislature, the Phillips School became one of the first integrated schools in Boston. In 1863 the Phillips School moved to a new building on Phillips Street (formerly Southac Street). It was renamed the Wendall Phillips School for the abolitionists Wendell Phillips, son of the original namesake, John Phillips. In the early 1870s, Elizabeth Smith, daughter of abolitionist John J. Smith, started teaching at the Phillips School and was probably the first African American to teach in an integrated Boston public school. The", "title": "Phillips School" }, { "docid": "3877703", "text": "Watson. She appeared in \"All Star Musicals\" and \"Tim Vine Travels in Time\" in December 2017. In 2018, she plays the scatty new night manager Lou in \"Trollied\". Phillips is the daughter of Tim Phillips, the former chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. She is Christian and has three sons, one with Down syndrome, with her now ex-husband Andrew Bermejo. Sally Phillips Sally Elizabeth Phillips (born 10 May 1969) is an English actress, television presenter and comedian. She co-created and was one of the writers of sketch comedy show \"Smack the Pony\". She is also known", "title": "Sally Phillips" }, { "docid": "18540403", "text": "its first named craters. The first named feature after Phillips was \"Phillips Sea\" it was named in Richard Proctor's 1867 map. near the exact location of the crater now Phillips, the sea name was obsolete in the early 20th century, it covered what would later become \"Mare Australe\" named by Giovanni Schiaparelli and was the name for several decades, parts of what are now Argentea Planum and Sisyphi Planum. In Nathaniel Green's 1877 map, another feature after Phillips was named \"Phillips Island\", it would later be called Memnonia and Zephyria, it covered what are now the Memnonia and Aeolis quadrangles,", "title": "Phillips (Martian crater)" }, { "docid": "7744574", "text": "and turns into a library where he hands Phillips, bearded and wearing a tuxedo adorned by a white silk scarf around his neck, his glass of champagne before heading upstairs. In 1999, Phillips was featured as a performer and commentator on Anthony Burgess's music in the BBC television documentary \"The Burgess Variations\" written and narrated by Kevin Jackson and produced and directed by David Thompson. Paul Phillips (conductor) Paul Schuyler Phillips (born April 28, 1956) is an American conductor, composer and music scholar. He is the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies, with the rank of Associate Professor in", "title": "Paul Phillips (conductor)" }, { "docid": "3104644", "text": "Ehlers played Phillips, and several incidents in her life were fictionalized in the series. Phillips was a fiercely independent entrepreneur who retained ownership rights to all her series, producing through Carl Wester and Company and allowing agencies, sponsors, and networks little control over her soap opera empire. Phillips created (and co-created) radio and TV soap operas including: Phillips also was a creative consultant on \"Peyton Place\" (1964–69), and was an unofficial consultant on \"A World Apart\", which was created by her adopted daughter Katherine. Phillips was also a story editor on \"Days of Our Lives\". Irna Phillips died on December", "title": "Irna Phillips" }, { "docid": "3234056", "text": "In a statement made on February 27, her manager Lizzie Grubman said, \"After successfully completing her in-patient treatment for anxiety, Chynna Phillips has happily returned home to celebrate her daughter's birthday with her family.\" Grubman said Phillips was \"happy to be home with her family. She is in great spirits.\" Chynna Phillip's partner was Tony Dovolani. Chynna Phillips Chynna Gilliam Phillips (born February 12, 1968) is an American singer and actress, and a member of the vocal group Wilson Phillips. She is the daughter of The Mamas & the Papas band members John and Michelle Phillips, and the half-sister of", "title": "Chynna Phillips" }, { "docid": "20963303", "text": "Dean Phillips Dean Phillips (born January 20, 1969) is an American businessman and politician from the state of Minnesota. A Democrat, he is the member-elect for Minnesota's 3rd congressional district, having defeated Republican incumbent Erik Paulsen in the 2018 midterm election. Phillips was born to DeeDee and Artie Pfefer in 1969. Artie was killed in the Vietnam War when Dean was six months old. DeeDee later married Eddie Phillips, heir to the Phillips Distilling Company and son of Pauline Phillips. Phillips graduated from Brown University in 1991. He worked for InMotion for two years, then joined the family company. He", "title": "Dean Phillips" }, { "docid": "9880178", "text": "House is now owned and operated as a historic house museum by Historic New England and is open for public tours. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Stephen Phillips House The Stephen Phillips House is a historic house and museum located in the McIntire Historic District in Salem, Massachusetts, United States and was designed by Samuel McIntyre. Phillips House began with Elias Hasket Derby, one of America's first self-made millionaires from the sea trade. When he died in 1799, his daughter, Elizabeth and her husband, Captain Nathaniel West, inherited his farm in Danvers,", "title": "Stephen Phillips House" }, { "docid": "10753297", "text": "Dance Company, and her work has been presented by the Cleveland Orchestra, IBM, and the World Financial Center. She is often associated with, and exhibited alongside other early American sound artists Pauline Oliveros, John Cage and Max Neuhaus. Liz Phillips was born in New Jersey in 1951. Phillips has said that childhood experiences in nature, particularly along the Hudson River near where she grew up, were formative of her interest in sound, water, and space. At one point she was “torn between making art and studying nature.” Early exposure to art in the museums of New York convinced her to", "title": "Liz Phillips" }, { "docid": "752588", "text": "Humphrey and Herbert Lehman; and entertainers, including Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. They also admired Bishop Fulton Sheen, whom they met when learning about Catholicism while studying about other religions. The bishop admired them both in return due to their ability to remain \"unawed\" and unaffected by the fame of others. Phillips, who was Jewish, commented: \"He's one of the greatest men I ever met, but he'll be a Jew before I'm a Catholic.\" Phillips and Bishop Sheen corresponded often and she recalls their letters: Phillips was an honorary member of Women in Communications, the American College of Psychiatrists, and", "title": "Pauline Phillips" }, { "docid": "6240609", "text": "started at thirteen.) Her son Arthur died in 1970 and her second daughter, Kathy, also predeceased her. Peg Phillips Peg Phillips (September 20, 1918 – November 7, 2002) was an American actress best known for playing storekeeper Ruth-Anne Miller on the television series \"Northern Exposure\". Phillips was born Margaret Linton in Everett, Washington, to Charles and Myrtle Linton. She wanted to be an actress from the age of four and performed in dinner theater as a hobby. She was the wife of Daniel Greene, a Navy man stationed in the Territory of Hawaii when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred.", "title": "Peg Phillips" }, { "docid": "5427974", "text": "Fiona Phillips Fiona Phillips (born 1 January 1961) is an English journalist, broadcaster and television presenter. She is best known for her presenting roles with the ITV Breakfast programme \"GMTV Today\". Phillips was born in Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury, Kent, the daughter of Phillip (died February 2012) and Amy (died May 2006). Her grandparents ran the Duke's Head pub on Church Street in St Paul's. Phillips attended Kingsmead Primary School. The family later moved to Southampton where Phillips completed her schooling at Millbrook Community School. After leaving school, Phillips worked for a short time at Mr Kipling's Bakery in Eastleigh,", "title": "Fiona Phillips" }, { "docid": "5427985", "text": "Ambassador for the successor charity Age UK. Fiona Phillips Fiona Phillips (born 1 January 1961) is an English journalist, broadcaster and television presenter. She is best known for her presenting roles with the ITV Breakfast programme \"GMTV Today\". Phillips was born in Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury, Kent, the daughter of Phillip (died February 2012) and Amy (died May 2006). Her grandparents ran the Duke's Head pub on Church Street in St Paul's. Phillips attended Kingsmead Primary School. The family later moved to Southampton where Phillips completed her schooling at Millbrook Community School. After leaving school, Phillips worked for a short", "title": "Fiona Phillips" }, { "docid": "7965891", "text": "and Armor For Sleep among other bands. Rory Phillips Rory Allen Phillips is a founding member of punk-ska band, The Impossibles. Phillips also started The Stereo with Jamie Woolford of Animal Chin in 1999, and Slowreader with Impossibles bandmate Gabe Hascall in 2001. Phillips' current band is The Artificial Heart. Some of his side projects include Imbroco's \"Are You My Lionkiller?\"; the 20goto10; Nineteen Ninety-Now; Amex; and a 2000-2005 mixtape under Rory Allen Phillips. Rory has also produced, mixed, or mastered albums by Young Love, Recover, At All Cost, Soft, The Rise, Vise Versa, The Higher, Visitors, Old Coyote, Cruiserweight,", "title": "Rory Phillips" }, { "docid": "7965890", "text": "Rory Phillips Rory Allen Phillips is a founding member of punk-ska band, The Impossibles. Phillips also started The Stereo with Jamie Woolford of Animal Chin in 1999, and Slowreader with Impossibles bandmate Gabe Hascall in 2001. Phillips' current band is The Artificial Heart. Some of his side projects include Imbroco's \"Are You My Lionkiller?\"; the 20goto10; Nineteen Ninety-Now; Amex; and a 2000-2005 mixtape under Rory Allen Phillips. Rory has also produced, mixed, or mastered albums by Young Love, Recover, At All Cost, Soft, The Rise, Vise Versa, The Higher, Visitors, Old Coyote, Cruiserweight, Kissing Chaos, The Last Starfighter, White Lies", "title": "Rory Phillips" }, { "docid": "3234051", "text": "Chynna Phillips Chynna Gilliam Phillips (born February 12, 1968) is an American singer and actress, and a member of the vocal group Wilson Phillips. She is the daughter of The Mamas & the Papas band members John and Michelle Phillips, and the half-sister of Mackenzie Phillips and Bijou Phillips. Phillips was born Chynna Gilliam Phillips in Los Angeles. Phillips began her career in acting. She appeared in films such as \"Some Kind of Wonderful\", \"Caddyshack II\", \"Say Anything\" and as the title character Roxanne Pulitzer in the 1989 television biographical film, \"Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer\". In 1995, she returned to", "title": "Chynna Phillips" }, { "docid": "18171199", "text": "his career was over, Phillips married Tom Landry's daughter Kitty and became a banker in Austin. In the 2014 movie My All American, Phillips is portrayed by actor Mike Seitz. Eddie Phillips (quarterback) Eddie Phillips is a former football player who started as quarterback for the Texas Longhorns in the early 1970s. In 1970, he led the Longhorns to a share of the National Championship while leading the Southwest Conference in total touchdowns. Despite an award-winning, record-breaking performance in the 1971 Cotton Bowl, Texas lost, breaking its 30-game winning streak and handing the AP crown to Nebraska. Eddie Phillips played", "title": "Eddie Phillips (quarterback)" }, { "docid": "7981325", "text": "Kyle Meredith Phillips Jr. Kyle Meredith Phillips Jr. (May 20, 1934, Cabot, Vermont – August 7, 1988, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was a leading American Etruscologist. Phillips was educated at Bowdoin College (A.B. \"cum laude\" 1956) and Princeton University (M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1962). At Princeton he studied with Erik Sjöqvist. In 1962 he also joined the faculty of Bryn Mawr College. Having excavated with the Princeton team at Morgantina in Sicily, Phillips decided to start a new project. Based on advice from Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, Phillips embarked on the excavation of an Etruscan center at Poggio Civitate near Murlo, Siena in", "title": "Kyle Meredith Phillips Jr." }, { "docid": "18763033", "text": "system. At her home, improved locks have been fitted. She became chair of the Women’s Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) following a vote in September 2016, defeating her predecessor Dawn Butler, considered a Corbyn ally. On 23 February 2017, a first book written by Phillips, \"Everywoman, One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth\", was published by Penguin Books. During the 2017 general election campaign, Phillips criticised the calling of the snap election. She was reselected as the Labour candidate for Birmingham Yardley, and coincidentally her predecessor, John Hemming was reselected by the Liberal Democrats as their official candidate, in what was", "title": "Jess Phillips" }, { "docid": "19948134", "text": "Elaine Phillips Elaine Phillips is an American politician who represents District Seven in the New York State Senate. She is a Republican. Phillips was elected to the Senate in 2016, but was defeated in her 2018 re-election bid. Phillips was born and raised in Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of John Reidman, a steel worker who died when she was 12, and Betty Reidman, who worked as a cook at a local American Legion post. Phillips attended Penn State University, where she earned both her bachelor's degree and an M.B.A. in Finance. A former financial analyst, Phillips worked for large", "title": "Elaine Phillips" }, { "docid": "3051789", "text": "at the time Phillips enjoyed the recording sessions. After recording finished in July the band resumed touring, though early into the tour Phillips announced his decision to quit. His final gig took place at Haywards Heath on 18 July. Banks and Rutherford later said that the group seriously considered quitting altogether in the wake of Phillips's departure. \"Nursery Cryme\", the next Genesis album, opens with \"The Musical Box\" which is based on a piece written by Phillips and Rutherford originally titled \"F#\" (pronounced \"F Sharp\"). After leaving Genesis, Phillips became \"a bit of a lost soul\" without a solid direction.", "title": "Anthony Phillips" }, { "docid": "3412791", "text": "Mackenzie Phillips Laura Mackenzie Phillips (born November 10, 1959) is an American actress and singer best known for her roles in \"American Graffiti\", as rebellious teenager Julie Mora Cooper Horvath on the sitcom \"One Day at a Time\", and for the Disney Channel science fiction show \"So Weird\". Born in Alexandria, Virginia, she is the daughter of John Phillips, singer in The Mamas & the Papas, and his first wife, Susan Adams. She is the sister of Jeffrey Phillips and a half-sister of Tamerlane Phillips, actress Bijou Phillips, and singer Chynna Phillips. Phillips attended Highland Hall Waldorf School in Northridge,", "title": "Mackenzie Phillips" }, { "docid": "9361500", "text": "meme itself; when it was first brought to her attention she claims to have been distressed, thinking it was about herself, not the archetype; she came to understand the joke now and claims she is nothing like the supposed suburban mothers. Carly Phillips \"Carly Phillips\" is the pen name which novelist Karen Drogin (born July 7, 1965 in New York) has used as her by-line for over twenty-three best-selling contemporary romance novels that she has written. According to CarlyPhillips.com, her net-site, Drogin is a former attorney who was unhappy with her practice of law. UNRELEASED Starting in 2011 an internet", "title": "Carly Phillips" }, { "docid": "11630575", "text": "in Port Adelaide's official 'Greatest Team 1870 to 2000'. His daughter Erin Phillips is a member of the Australian basketball team and began playing Australian rules with the Adelaide AFL Women's team in 2017. Daughter Amy is married to current AFL player Shaun Burgoyne. Phillips now coaches Virginia Football Club in the Adelaide Plains Football League, whom he has led to three consecutive grand finals. Greg Phillips Greg Phillips (born 26 March 1959) is a former Australian rules football player who played with for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and Collingwood Football", "title": "Greg Phillips" }, { "docid": "20030141", "text": "David Phillips (cinematographer) David Phillips (c. 1956 – February 4, 2017) was an American cinematographer. Phillips made his major feature film debut as the cinematographer for 1995's \"The Basketball Diaries\", which was directed by Scott Kalvert and starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg. His additional features film credits included \"Lift\" (2002), starring Kerry Washington; \"Martin & Orloff\" (2002), starring Matt Walsh and Ian Roberts; and \"Beer League\" (2006), which starred and was written by Artie Lange. Phillips, who grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, received his bachelor's degree in English from Boston University. He began his career as a cinematographer", "title": "David Phillips (cinematographer)" }, { "docid": "4091962", "text": "month, actress Heather Matarazzo claimed that Phillips had held her against a wall and choked her shortly before filming for \"\" began. Bijou Phillips Bijou Lilly Phillips (born April 1, 1980) is an American actress, model, socialite, and singer. The daughter of musician John Phillips and Geneviève Waïte, she began her career as a model, and at 13, became one of the youngest people to ever appear on the cover of \"Italian Vogue\". Phillips made her singing debut with \"I'd Rather Eat Glass\" (1999), and since her first major film appearance in \"Black and White\" (1999), she has acted in", "title": "Bijou Phillips" }, { "docid": "7382574", "text": "retirement until his death. His professional collaborations with James A. Ford, James Bennett Griffin, and Gordon Willey have become some of the standard works of American archaeology. His professional obituary, including a summary of his life's accomplishments, was written by his lifelong colleague and collaborator Gordon R. Willey. It was published in 1996 by the Society for American Archaeology. Phillips married Ruth Wilma Schoellkopf (daughter of business magnate Jacob F. Schoellkopf Jr.) in 1922 in Buffalo, New York. In 1942, the Phillips resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts Phillips' published works include: Philip Phillips (archaeologist) Philip Phillips (11 August 1900 – 11", "title": "Philip Phillips (archaeologist)" }, { "docid": "9361499", "text": "Carly Phillips \"Carly Phillips\" is the pen name which novelist Karen Drogin (born July 7, 1965 in New York) has used as her by-line for over twenty-three best-selling contemporary romance novels that she has written. According to CarlyPhillips.com, her net-site, Drogin is a former attorney who was unhappy with her practice of law. UNRELEASED Starting in 2011 an internet meme featuring a picture of Phillips spread online called the Sheltering Suburban Mom; the captions on the image typically illustrated the perceived out-of-touch double standards suburban mothers hold against their children or their peers. Phillips herself was initially unaware of the", "title": "Carly Phillips" }, { "docid": "8460201", "text": "blog The Single Life focuses on sex, dating and relationship advice. Phillips also blogs for DigN2it online. Phillips was born in Savage, Maryland to a half-Russian father and a Scottish-Irish mother. When Phillips was young her family moved to Brooklyn, New York. Sam Phillips (model) Samantha \"Sam\" Phillips (born February 25, 1966) is an American actress, talk-show host, reality TV host, radio DJ, producer, and model. She had an early role in the 1988 action-horror film \"Phantasm II\". Currently she is the host of a radio show called \"The Single Life\". Phillips has appeared on numerous television shows, including CBS'", "title": "Sam Phillips (model)" }, { "docid": "4080089", "text": "Boston as part of \"The Gods of Copley Square\" series. Another contemporary biographer, examining the preacher's evangelical legacy, is Gillis J. Harp., Gillis Harp has now written a major study, \"Brahmin Prophet : Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism\". A private elementary school in Menlo Park, CA—Phillips Brooks School—is named for Phillips Brooks, as is Brooks School in his hometown of North Andover, Massachusetts, the latter founded by Endicott Peabody, who also founded the Groton School. The Brooks family founded a Brooks Memorial School in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874 in memory of Phillips' brother, the Rev. Frederic Brooks,", "title": "Phillips Brooks" }, { "docid": "20599363", "text": "Court in the formulation of what became called the \"Body of Liberties\" issues in 1641. In 1642 Phillips was appointed to the Board of Overseers of the newly formed Harvard College in Cambridge. Phillips had children by two wives. His first wife died soon after arriving in New England. Their children were: By his second wife Elizabeth, Phillips had the following children: Phillips died in Watertown on July 1, 1644 and was buried the subsequent day in what is now called the Arlington Street Cemetery. Upon his death John Winthrop wrote \"He was...a Godly man, specially gifted, and very peaceful", "title": "George Phillips (Watertown)" }, { "docid": "13994627", "text": "Phillips Square Phillips Square () is a public square located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is named for Thomas Phillips, a building contractor and city councillor who bought the land from fur trader Joseph Frobisher. Phillips died in 1842 and the land the square sits on was donated by his widow to be used as a perpetual memorial to her husband. In 1842, the square was first laid out, in what was at the time a wealthy residential area on the fringe of the city of Montreal. The first merchant to open a business on Phillips Square was Alfred", "title": "Phillips Square" }, { "docid": "15910716", "text": "Crane-Phillips House The Crane-Phillips House, located in Cranford in Union County, New Jersey, United States, is a Victorian cottage in the architectural style of Andrew Jackson Downing, the first American architect. The Crane-Phillips House is now a museum operated by the Cranford Historical Society that offers visitors a glimpse of what life was like for a modest family in the Victorian era of opulence. It illustrates the late 19th century as the era of invention and highlights inventions that changed everyday life for the average person by way of the house's second owners, the Phillips family. Henry J. Phillips, a", "title": "Crane-Phillips House" }, { "docid": "8379091", "text": "Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury Andrew Wyndham Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury, OBE (born 15 March 1939) is a solicitor and Liberal Democrat politician. He attended Culford School, Uppingham School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he read Economics and Law, then became a solicitor in 1964, eventually specialising in charity law. In 1970 he founded commercial law firm \"Bates Wells Braithwaite\". From 1976, he appeared on BBC Radio 2’s \"Jimmy Young Show\" as the “legal eagle,” giving legal advice to the show’s listeners. He continued in this role until the show ended upon Sir Jimmy’s retirement in 2002. Phillips", "title": "Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury" }, { "docid": "18328635", "text": "Phillips v Phillips Phillips v Phillips [1993] 3 NZLR 159; (1993) 10 FRNZ 110 is a cited case in New Zealand, where both parties entering into a contract make the same mistake (often referred to as a common mistake) when a contract is formed, under section 6(1)(a)(ii) of the Contractual Mistakes Act 1977. Mrs Phillips was in a de facto relation with Mr Phillips for 12 years. They had 4 children together, and she had worked at several of her husbands businesses. At the breakdown of the relationship, they entered into a separation agreement, which gave Mrs Phillips far less", "title": "Phillips v Phillips" }, { "docid": "3101377", "text": "BBC One's \"Question Time\". She was awarded the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 1996, while she was writing for \"The Observer\". Her books include the memoir \"Guardian Angel: My Story, My Britain\". Phillips was born in Hammersmith, the daughter of Mabel (née Cohen) and Alfred Phillips. Her family is Jewish and emigrated to Britain from Poland and Russia. According to her account, the name \"Phillips\" was imposed by British officials who were unable to pronounce her family's Polish name. She describes her family as \"poor\" people living as outsiders in an impoverished area of London, who \"kept their heads down", "title": "Melanie Phillips" }, { "docid": "20038581", "text": "Mary Phillips (suffragette) Mary Elizabeth Phillips (15 July 1880 - 21 June 1969) was a suffragette, feminist and socialist. She was the longest prison serving suffragette. She worked for Christabel Pankhurst but was sacked; she then worked for Sylvia Pankhurst. Mary Elizabeth Phillips was born in Hampshire, the daughter of William Fleming Phillips and Louisa Elizabeth (Simms) Phillips. Her father was a doctor who worked in Glasgow. Phillips was encouraged by her father to campaign for women's rights and in 1904 she became a paid official of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage. She later reported", "title": "Mary Phillips (suffragette)" }, { "docid": "4091958", "text": "played an emotionally isolated, modern woman who meets a man mourning his fiancée at a funeral. The horror film \"It's Alive\", a remake of the 1974 film of the same name written and directed by Larry Cohen, saw Phillips star as a mother who has a murderous baby. \"Dread Central\", in its review for the film, noted: \"Bijou Philips is undoubtedly the star here, jumping into her role in what is admittedly just a piece of schlock cinema with great aplomb\". In the comedy \"Made for Each Other\", Phillips would reunite with Lauren German and also play a woman whose", "title": "Bijou Phillips" }, { "docid": "13680405", "text": "by Paul Nordoff, Harl McDonald's \"Suite \"From Childhood\"\" for harp and orchestra, and many more. The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music houses the Edna Phillips Music Collection, 1930-1970. It consists of published and unpublished music, much of which was commissioned by Phillips, and many of the pieces bear her hand-written annotations. The collection also includes sound recording of \"Sea Chanty\" with Phillips on harp. The 2004 National Conference of the American Harp Society, held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, was dedicated in large part to the legacy and memory of Edna Phillips. From her commissioned works,", "title": "Edna Phillips" }, { "docid": "17267438", "text": "an area known at the time as an artists' quarter. Despite declining health, he continued writing at his usual feverish pace. After a long illness, Watts Phillips died at his home. He stated in his will that he did not want any of his property \"falling into the hands of the woman Elizabeth Phillips known as Lilly Phillips and of her child Basil of whom I am not the father and also of any other children she has had or may have by other men.\" His daughter,(May)Roland Watts Phillips, went on the stage, making her debut at the Lyceum Theatre,", "title": "Watts Phillips" }, { "docid": "20754704", "text": "its members to join the wider WSPU, under direct control from London, instead. In 1912, Phillips inherited the Station Hotel in Banchory from an aunt and moved out of Aberdeen. Her editor said at her leaving do: “If only she hadn’t been involved in other things she would have made a good reporter.” Phillips devoted herself to the hotel until her retirement to Kintore in the 1940s. On January 13, 1956, she passed away. She was eighty-five years old. Professor Sarah Pedersen of Robert Gordon University said of Caroline Phillips:\"Caroline Phillips was very well-respected in the suffragette movement. She had", "title": "Caroline Phillips" }, { "docid": "4210064", "text": "Mrs. Phillips heavily supported Germany. The United States government began tracking her activities, including meetings with Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh. Carrie Fulton Phillips died on February 3, 1960 at age 86. She was buried in Marion Cemetery, next to her husband and infant son. Their daughter Isabelle and her husband William Helmuth Mathee are also buried in the family plot. Isabelle and Mathee had a son, also named William Helmuth Mathee (1920–1988). Following Phillips' death, the love letters to Warren Harding became the centerpiece of a court battle that pitted Phillips’ daughter, Isabelle Phillips Mathee, against nephews of Warren", "title": "Carrie Fulton Phillips" }, { "docid": "18763026", "text": "Owen Bennett wrote in \"The Huffington Post\" that Phillips recounted: I roundly told her to fuck off.' When asked what Ms Abbott did after that suggestion, Ms Phillips replied: 'She fucked off. According to Diane Abbott in a January 2018 \"Guardian\" interview: \"Jess Phillips never told me to fuck off. What was extraordinary is that she made a big deal of telling people she had\". Phillips was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Lucy Powell, then Shadow Education Secretary, in September 2015. In October 2015, Phillips sparked a social media storm after she mocked the Conservative MP Philip Davies for", "title": "Jess Phillips" }, { "docid": "12405288", "text": "by Louis Phillips (c. 1830 - 1900). Phillips was born Louis Galefsky to a Jewish family in Prussia (now Kempen, Poland) and moved to California in the early 1850s, changing his name to Phillips. He moved to Spadra (now part of Pomona) in 1862 and began engaging in sheep herding and cattle raising. In 1864, he purchased of the old Rancho San Jose for $30,000. In 1867, he married Esther Blake, with whom he had three sons (Charles, George and Louis, Jr.) and two daughters (Mrs. Frank George and adopted daughter, Kate Cecil). He also acquired large land holdings in", "title": "Phillips Mansion" }, { "docid": "8663138", "text": "Albany Medical Center to continue his recovery. It was shortly after the second shooting that the reward for information leading to the arrest of Phillips topped $450,000. Kasey Crowe, Phillips' ex-girlfriend and mother of his daughter, was immediately sent back to jail due to her bail being revoked. She was later released when the witness did not show up at her hearing. Phillips was captured by Pennsylvania State Police at around 8:00 pm (EDT) on Friday, September 8, 2006, in Warren County, Pennsylvania. Phillips was captured, according to the AP, without gunfire. Phillips, who was hiding in a lightly wooded", "title": "Ralph \"Bucky\" Phillips" }, { "docid": "17487180", "text": "about Southern cuisine. She was raised in urban Louisville. In 2017, she started co-hosting \"Southern and Hungry\" with her brother-in-law, Rutledge Wood. Damaris Phillips graduated from Jefferson Community and Technical College, where she earned a degree in Culinary Arts. She has stated that she decided to attend culinary school because she \"didn't know what to do in life\". Phillips later went on to become a culinary instructor. In early 2013, Phillips became a contestant on the ninth season of the Food Network series \"Food Network Star\". She landed in the top three and eventually became one of the final three", "title": "Damaris Phillips" }, { "docid": "4091943", "text": "Bijou Phillips Bijou Lilly Phillips (born April 1, 1980) is an American actress, model, socialite, and singer. The daughter of musician John Phillips and Geneviève Waïte, she began her career as a model, and at 13, became one of the youngest people to ever appear on the cover of \"Italian Vogue\". Phillips made her singing debut with \"I'd Rather Eat Glass\" (1999), and since her first major film appearance in \"Black and White\" (1999), she has acted in \"Almost Famous\" (2000), \"Bully\" (2001), \"The Door in the Floor\" (2004), \"\" (2007), and \"Choke\" (2008). From 2010 to 2013, she played", "title": "Bijou Phillips" }, { "docid": "13994632", "text": "the monument represent Peace, the Four Founding Nations, Abundance, and Liberty. Phillips Square Phillips Square () is a public square located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is named for Thomas Phillips, a building contractor and city councillor who bought the land from fur trader Joseph Frobisher. Phillips died in 1842 and the land the square sits on was donated by his widow to be used as a perpetual memorial to her husband. In 1842, the square was first laid out, in what was at the time a wealthy residential area on the fringe of the city of Montreal. The", "title": "Phillips Square" }, { "docid": "18763036", "text": "is married to Tom Phillips; the couple have two sons. Her husband works as Phillips' Constituency Support Manager. Jess Phillips Jessica Rose Phillips (born 9 October 1981) is a British politician. She was first elected as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley in 2015, and was re-elected at the 2017 snap general election. The youngest of four children, Phillips is the daughter of Stewart Trainor, a teacher, and Jean Trainor (née Mackay), who was deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation and chair of South Birmingham Mental Health Trust. They were politically active: \"Growing up with my", "title": "Jess Phillips" }, { "docid": "3104630", "text": "of 42, Phillips adopted a son, Thomas Dirk Phillips. A year later, she adopted a daughter, Katherine Louise Phillips. After working as a staff writer on a daytime talk show, Phillips created the serial \"Painted Dreams\", which aired daily except Sundays on local Chicago network WGN. Phillips wrote every episode of the series in addition being a starring cast member as the characters Mother Moynihan and Sue Morton. Mother Moynihan was a widowed matriarch of a large Irish-American family. Phillips based Mother Moynihan’s struggles on her own mother’s obstacles. After creating, producing and starring in \"Painted Dreams\", Phillips became credited", "title": "Irna Phillips" }, { "docid": "9961705", "text": "Florence, Lady Phillips Dorothea Sarah Florence Alexandra, Lady Phillips (née Ortlepp; 14 June 1863 – 23 August 1940) was a South African art patroness and promoter of indigenous culture. She was married to Sir Lionel Phillips, 1st Baronet, a mining magnate and politician and was known by one of her middle names, Florence. Florence Ortlepp was born in Cape Town in 1863, the only daughter of Albert Frederick Ortlepp, a Colesberg land surveyor and naturalist, and Sarah Walker. She received her education at Rondebosch and later in Bloemfontein. Lionel Phillips met her on the diamond-diggings and married her in 1885.", "title": "Florence, Lady Phillips" }, { "docid": "15115053", "text": "Lena Madesin Phillips Lena Madesin Phillips (September 15, 1881 - May 22, 1955) was a lawyer and clubwoman who founded the National Business and Professional Women's Clubs in 1919 and by 1930 the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. Anna Lena Phillips was born on September 15, 1881 in Nicholasville, Kentucky; she was the daughter of Judge William Henry Phillips and Alice Phillips of Jessamine County, Kentucky. From a young age, Phillips wanted to step outside of the normal gender-based roles, and this led to her thirst to obtain knowledge. At age 7 she enrolled in the Jessamine Female", "title": "Lena Madesin Phillips" } ]
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Featuring William Hartnell in the title role, Nov 23, 1963 saw the debut of what BBC sci-fi series, the world's longest running series in that genre?
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[ { "docid": "7904416", "text": "BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects is a 1981 compilation of sound effects and atmospheres created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It was the second in the BBC Sound Effects series to be credited to the Workshop. It featured sounds from popular television series \"Doctor Who\" (all from Season 18) and \"Blake's 7\", as well as effects for the first series of the radio versions of Douglas Adams' \"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\" and James Follett's \"Earthsearch\". In 1991 it was re-released on CD as \"Essential Science Fiction Sound", "title": "BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects" }, { "docid": "621633", "text": "William Hartnell William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor. Hartnell played the first incarnation of the Doctor in \"Doctor Who\", from 1963 to 1966. He was also well known for his role as Sergeant Grimshaw, the title character of the first \"Carry On\" film, \"Carry On Sergeant\" in 1958, and Company Sergeant Major Percy Bullimore in the sitcom \"The Army Game\" from 1957 until 1958, and again in 1960. Hartnell was born in St Pancras, London, England, the only child of Lucy Hartnell, an unmarried mother. He was brought up partly by a", "title": "William Hartnell" }, { "docid": "11934720", "text": "to ensure the larger numbers could be accommodated. This new layout has continued to stand as the standard. Special guest actor Richard Hatch of Battlestar Galactica fame, in addition to appearing as a guest, offered an acting workshop for festival patrons. Also appearing was Jeffrey Combs from the Reanimator series, Peter Roy who appeared in Star Wars and Doctor Who, French-born Fantasy Art model Drakaina, comedian and chocolate bar inspiration Fat Apollo, and talent agent Lolita Fatjo, who has helped Sci-Fi on the Rock obtain many of their previous and future guests. The Film Festival returned, featuring 9 short films.", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "621651", "text": "51 Church Street, Isleworth, next door to Hugh Blaker, the Hartnells lived on Thames Ditton Island. Then in the 1960s they moved to a cottage in Mayfield, Sussex. He lived in later life at Sheephurst Lane in Marden, Kent. Hartnell acted in numerous British films, as well as having many stage and television appearances, though he is best known for his role in \"Doctor Who\". William Hartnell William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor. Hartnell played the first incarnation of the Doctor in \"Doctor Who\", from 1963 to 1966. He was also well", "title": "William Hartnell" }, { "docid": "621641", "text": "own, he came to relish particularly the attention and affection that playing the character brought him from children. His first episode of \"Doctor Who\" aired on 23 November 1963. \"Doctor Who\" earned Hartnell a regular salary of £315 per episode by 1966 (in the era of 48 weeks per year production on the series), . By comparison, in 1966 his co-stars Anneke Wills and Michael Craze were earning £68 and £52 per episode at the same time, respectively. Throughout his tenure as the Doctor, William Hartnell wore a wig when playing the part, as the character had long hair. According", "title": "William Hartnell" }, { "docid": "621640", "text": "\"Doctor Who\"; mainly on the strength of that performance, Lambert offered him the title role. Although Hartnell was initially uncertain about accepting a part in what was pitched to him as a children's series, in part due to his success in films, Lambert and director Waris Hussein convinced him to take the part, and it became the character for which he gained the highest profile and is now most remembered. Hartnell later revealed that he took the role because it led him away from the gruff, military parts in which he had become typecast, and, having two grandchildren of his", "title": "William Hartnell" }, { "docid": "7039125", "text": "John Scott Martin John Scott Martin (1 April 1926 – 6 January 2009) was an English actor born in Toxteth, Liverpool, Lancashire. He made many film, stage and television appearances, but one of his most famous, though unseen, roles was as a Dalek operator in the long-running BBC science fiction television series \"Doctor Who\". Martin operated Daleks from 1965's \"The Chase\" through 1988's \"Remembrance of the Daleks\" making him the longest-running Dalek operator. He worked with eight different actors in the title role of The Doctor from William Hartnell to Sylvester McCoy, and also Richard Hurndall, who took on the", "title": "John Scott Martin" }, { "docid": "7039129", "text": "his wife and daughter. John Scott Martin John Scott Martin (1 April 1926 – 6 January 2009) was an English actor born in Toxteth, Liverpool, Lancashire. He made many film, stage and television appearances, but one of his most famous, though unseen, roles was as a Dalek operator in the long-running BBC science fiction television series \"Doctor Who\". Martin operated Daleks from 1965's \"The Chase\" through 1988's \"Remembrance of the Daleks\" making him the longest-running Dalek operator. He worked with eight different actors in the title role of The Doctor from William Hartnell to Sylvester McCoy, and also Richard Hurndall,", "title": "John Scott Martin" }, { "docid": "11934732", "text": "highest score is crowned \"Ultra Geek\". Mark Downey was crowned as the first Sci-Fi on the Rock Ultra Geek on April 1, 2007. Dr. Glyn George, a MUN professor and Doctor Who and Star Trek enthusiast, was crowned on April 20, 2008. He later abdicated his throne, as he became involved in the planning of Sci-Fi on the Rock, retiring from the competition undefeated. Newfoundland's Ultra Geek for 2009, crowned at Sci-Fi on the Rock 3, was Chickie Who. They, too, retired undefeated. Andrew O'Brien was crowned as Newfoundland's fourth Ultra Geek on April 18, 2010. Unlike his predecessors, he", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11604378", "text": "that year, he made appearances in single episodes of more anthology-style series, namely \"The Man in Room 17\", \"Out of the Unknown\", \"An Enemy of the State\", and \"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\". Perhaps Stephens' best-remembered performances were in three episodes of season 3 of \"Doctor Who\", the long-running British sci-fi series featuring a time-travelling Time Lord played in this series by William Hartnell. In the storyline popularly known as \"The Celestial Toymaker\", he played both Cyril the kitchen boy and the animated playing card the Knave of Hearts. The producers subsequently received complaints from lawyers acting on behalf of the", "title": "Peter Stephens (actor)" }, { "docid": "5347991", "text": "of the long-running BBC sci-fi drama series \"Doctor Who\", for the fourth-season episode \"The Fires of Pompeii\". Audio commentary on the Season 1 DVD indicates that many of the background performers used in the series were also their true professional counterparts. One example is that the actor shown in the series working as a butcher on the streets of Rome was in fact a real-life butcher. In a separate move, the BBC also decided to re-edit the first three episodes (all directed by Michael Apted) into two episodes. The BBC claimed that this was because the British audience were more", "title": "Rome (TV series)" }, { "docid": "11934726", "text": "place at the Holiday Inn in St. John's from April 24–26, 2015. Guests include Lynda Boyd from Supernatural, Sanctuary and Republic of Doyle, Frazer Hines who is better known as the Second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon from Doctor Who, Peter Williams who played Apophis on , cosplayers Adam Smith and Kevin St. Pierre, with Fat Apollo returning to Emcee certain events. The event was again a great success. The crowd was so large that it was clear that Sci-Fi on the Rock had again outgrown a venue. This would be the last year that Sci-Fi on the Rock took place", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "2785640", "text": "\"Star Trek\" (which spawned four spin-off series, two in syndication – \"\" and \"\" – and two on network television – \"\" and \"\" – between 1987 and 2005), \"Battlestar Galactica\" and the British series \"Doctor Who\" rank among the most watched programs in the sci-fi genre. Reality television has long existed in the United States, both played for laughs (such as \"Candid Camera\" and \"Real People\") and as drama (such as \"COPS\" and \"The Real World\"). A new variant – competition series placing ordinary people in unusual circumstances or in talent contests, generally eliminating at least one participant per", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "docid": "621645", "text": "of the series. David Bradley portrayed Hartnell. According to some of his colleagues on \"Doctor Who\", he could be a difficult person to work with. Others, though, such as actors Peter Purves and William Russell, and producer Verity Lambert, spoke glowingly of him after more than 40 years. Among the more caustic accounts, Nicholas Courtney, in his audio memoirs, recalled that during the recording of \"The Daleks' Master Plan\", Hartnell mentioned that an extra on the set was Jewish, Courtney's inference being that Hartnell was prejudiced or an antisemite. In an interview in 2008, Courtney claimed that Hartnell \"was quite", "title": "William Hartnell" }, { "docid": "12104545", "text": "network also took an option on the second series. Candace Carlisle from BBC Worldwide found The Sci Fi Channel the perfect home for \"Doctor Who\". \"Doctor Who\" finally debuted in the U.S. on the Sci Fi Channel on 17 March 2006 with the first two episodes airing back-to-back, one year after the Canadian and UK showings. The series concluded its initial U.S. broadcast on 9 June 2006. The series was first released in volumes; the first volume, containing the first three episodes, was released in Region 2 on 16 May 2005. The second, with \"Aliens of London\", \"World War Three\",", "title": "Doctor Who (series 1)" }, { "docid": "20344482", "text": "Doctor Who: The First Doctor Adventures The First Doctor Adventures is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the British television programme \"Doctor Who\". It sees the return of David Bradley as the First Doctor, a role originated by William Hartnell from 1963 to 1966, as well as by Bradley on television in the episodes \"The Doctor Falls\" and \"Twice Upon a Time\". David Bradley also portrayed William Hartnell in the BBC bio-drama, \"An Adventure in Space and Time\". Also appearing are Claudia Grant as Susan Foreman, Jemma Powell as Barbara Wright and Jamie Glover as Ian Chesterton.", "title": "Doctor Who: The First Doctor Adventures" } ]
[ { "docid": "9969026", "text": "The Bill (series 23) Series 23 of British television drama \"The Bill\" was broadcast from 3 January until 28 December 2007. The series consisted of 92 episodes, and saw the conclusion of the show's longest running-storyline, featuring the disappearance of schoolgirl Amy Tennant. This series saw the return of single-themed episodes, removing much of the serialiased format formally introduced in 2002 under producer Paul Marquess. This series also became the first series where episodes were aired out of production order, making the broadcast order significantly different to the production order. This series saw the return of several multi-part story arcs,", "title": "The Bill (series 23)" }, { "docid": "9969030", "text": "those carried on screen), and continues to tally the episodes by number. The DVD release does not contain episodes 540–542, \"Moving Target\" Parts 1–3, due to licensing rights for these episodes not being available. The Bill (series 23) Series 23 of British television drama \"The Bill\" was broadcast from 3 January until 28 December 2007. The series consisted of 92 episodes, and saw the conclusion of the show's longest running-storyline, featuring the disappearance of schoolgirl Amy Tennant. This series saw the return of single-themed episodes, removing much of the serialiased format formally introduced in 2002 under producer Paul Marquess. This", "title": "The Bill (series 23)" }, { "docid": "11934741", "text": "Rock festival organizer) and Matthew LeDrew (author of the Black Womb series). Sci-Fi on the Rock TV plans to air some \"on-location\" episodes from the Sci-Fi festival. Season Two of Sci-Fi on the Rock TV saw the return of Steve Lake and Ellen Curtis as hosts, but also Ellen's departure and the addition of Melanie Collins as co-host. Also, Season Two was filmed in a new location, with new equipment and new opening sequences. It is available to be watched at the Sci-Fi on the Rock site. Sci-Fi on the Rock Sci-Fi on the Rock is an annual science fiction,", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934704", "text": "\"His Majesty's New World\"), comic-book artist Paul Tucker (\"The Underworld Railroad\", \"Google John Smith\"), actor Brian Downey (\"Lexx\", \"Millennium\"), actor Jeremy Bulloch (\"The Empire Strikes Back\", \"Octopussy\"), author William Meikle (\"The Midnight Eye\" series), horror author Matthew LeDrew (\"Black Womb\", \"Roulette\") and author Shannon Patrick Sullivan (\"The Dying Days\"). Sci-Fi on the Rock's first festival was held on April 1, 2007 at the Hotel Mount Pearl (formerly Chateau Park) in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. It featured special guest authors Kenneth Tam and Shannon Patrick Sullivan, and local business/fangroup, Vader Party. As well as featuring special guests, the festival featured workshops throughout", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "16451303", "text": "Sci-Fi Valley Con Team also spent a year building a lifesize Claptrap from the Borderlands video game series. This will be one of the most realistic lifesize replicas of Claptrap in existence. The prop made its world debut alongside David Eddings who voiced the character in the video games and Dameon Clarke who voiced Handsome Jack in Borderlands and Cell from the Dragon Ball Z series. Sci-Fi Valley Con, Part 7 show was on June 8–10, 2018 at Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, PA. The 2018 celebrity guest list included: Jim Beaver, best known from his role as Bobby", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "9969027", "text": "the likes of which had last featured in the second half of Series 17. Again, several new characters were introduced into the show, including several semi-regular characters, such as non-operational police staff and crime scene examiners. The series also saw the departure of the show's longest-running cast member to date, with Trudie Goodwin leaving the role of June Ackland, and her final episode being broadcast on 8 March 2007. This was also the last episode not to feature an on-screen title. A new title sequence was introduced at the beginning of the series, however, the theme tune remained the same,", "title": "The Bill (series 23)" }, { "docid": "3589474", "text": "brother Dean (Jensen Ackles) drive throughout the United States hunting paranormal predators, fighting demons and angels, and dealing with all manner of fantasy & sci-fi genre. The show is currently in its fourteenth season on the CW. It owns the title of the longest-running North American sci-fi series in history. In 2007, Jared served as the host of MTV's horror reality series, \"Room 401\", which was discontinued after only eight episodes due to poor ratings. He had the lead role in 2008's \"The Christmas Cottage\" as Thomas Kinkade, alongside acclaimed actor Peter O'Toole. He also had the lead role in", "title": "Jared Padalecki" }, { "docid": "8929962", "text": "little or nothing to do with \"investigating\" Mothman or unexplained phenomena. Sci Fi Investigates Sci Fi Investigates is a six episode reality television series featuring skeptic Rob Mariano, forensic specialist Deborah Dobrydney, archaeologist Bill Doleman, and paranormal investigator Richard Dolan, as they look at paranormal and supernatural phenomenon and try to explain them. The show debuted in October 2006 on the American SyFy channel (formerly Sci-Fi Channel) following \"Ghost Hunters\". There have also been two webisodes. The series documents a team of four paranormal investigators who travel to various locations around the United States and investigate various urban legends. The", "title": "Sci Fi Investigates" }, { "docid": "8929960", "text": "Sci Fi Investigates Sci Fi Investigates is a six episode reality television series featuring skeptic Rob Mariano, forensic specialist Deborah Dobrydney, archaeologist Bill Doleman, and paranormal investigator Richard Dolan, as they look at paranormal and supernatural phenomenon and try to explain them. The show debuted in October 2006 on the American SyFy channel (formerly Sci-Fi Channel) following \"Ghost Hunters\". There have also been two webisodes. The series documents a team of four paranormal investigators who travel to various locations around the United States and investigate various urban legends. The team uses various research methods to gather as much information as", "title": "Sci Fi Investigates" }, { "docid": "14384063", "text": "filming for the second season of \"Sci Fi Science\", consisting of 12 new episodes. It started broadcasting on September 1, 2010. Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible (also called Science of the Impossible) is an American documentary television series on Science which first aired in the United States on December 1, 2009. The series is hosted by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku and is based on his book \"Physics of the Impossible\". In each episode, Dr. Kaku addresses a technological concept from science fiction and designs his own theoretical version of the technology", "title": "Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible" }, { "docid": "13570106", "text": "The Outer Limits (1963 TV series) The Outer Limits is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1963 to 1965 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time on Mondays. The series is often compared to \"The Twilight Zone\", but with a greater emphasis on science fiction stories (rather than stories of fantasy or the supernatural matters). \"The Outer Limits\" is an anthology of self-contained episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end. The series was revived in 1995, airing on Showtime from 1995 to 2000, then on Sci-Fi Channel from 2001 until its cancellation in 2002. In 1997,", "title": "The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)" }, { "docid": "11934729", "text": "and television shows including , Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pan's Labyrinth, and Hocus Pocus (1993 film), Jewel Staite, best known as Kaylee on Firefly (TV series) as well as from many television shows and films such as Stargate Atlantis, Higher Ground (TV series), The L.A. Complex, and The Killing (U.S. TV series), Ethan Phillips, an actor best known as Neelix on , as well as local cosplay guests FoamWerx, Gary Murrin and Hamilton Cornish. Fat Apollo was once again the guest emcee. Sci-Fi on the Rock saw another amazing year with many great workshops. Space at the Sheraton Hotel is", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "10069784", "text": "also features information on past festivals, how to volunteer at the festival, as well as a \"Mailing List\" and \"Message Board/Forum\". SCI-FI-LONDON.COM also operates a free 'webTV' service at SCI-FI-LONDON.TV, featuring films and shorts previously submitted or screened at past festivals. Sci-Fi-London SCI-FI-LONDON (The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, SFL), is a United Kingdom-based film festival, dedicated to the science fiction and fantasy genres, which began in 2002. Designed to be a festival that “takes a serious look at sci-fi and fantasy, bringing new, classic and rare movies from around the world to the UK”, Sci-Fi-London", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "13871558", "text": "the designated pilot for the G.I. Joe \"Starfighter\". Sci-Fi was first released as an action figure in 1986. A new version of Sci-Fi was released in 1991. A new version of Sci-Fi was released in 1994 as part of the Star Brigade line. As part of the 30th Anniversary toy line, a new version of Sci Fi has been released in 2011 In the Marvel Comics \"\" series, he first appeared in issue #64 in a small cameo and appeared fully in #65. He is a supporting character in the storyline running through issues #145 - 149. He is part", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "5347071", "text": "Natural World (TV series) Natural World is a strand of British wildlife documentary programmes broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Two HD and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history series. It is the longest-running documentary in its genre on British television, with nearly 500 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. \"Natural World\" programmes are typically one-off films that take an in-depth look at particular natural history events, stories or subjects from around the globe. \"Natural World\" is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol under the stewardship of the Series Editor, who is responsible", "title": "Natural World (TV series)" }, { "docid": "14384062", "text": "Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible (also called Science of the Impossible) is an American documentary television series on Science which first aired in the United States on December 1, 2009. The series is hosted by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku and is based on his book \"Physics of the Impossible\". In each episode, Dr. Kaku addresses a technological concept from science fiction and designs his own theoretical version of the technology using currently-known science. He also visits scientists developing technology related to the episode's concept. Around March 22, 2010, Dr. Kaku started", "title": "Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible" }, { "docid": "6084770", "text": "the US by then. The BBC would repeat the \"Buck Rogers\" series on BBC Two in 1989 and again in 1995-96. The series also aired in Canada on CTV, on the same day and time as the NBC airings. Contemporary assessments of \"Buck Rogers in the 25th Century\" were generally mixed. In his book \"Sci-Fi TV from Twilight Zone to Deep Space Nine\", writer James van Hise claimed the show's scripts \"just never took advantage of what they had at hand\" and criticized Larson's version of \"Buck Rogers\" as a cynical attempt to exploit one of the most loved characters", "title": "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)" }, { "docid": "7904417", "text": "Effects Vol. 1\". Reissued on CD with its original title and cover as part of AudioGo's \"Vintage Beeb\" line 4 April 2013. Although seemingly a compilation of merely incidental effects, the album influenced pioneering electronic band The Orb enough for them to name their 1989 single \"A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld\" after one of its tracks. BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects is a 1981 compilation of sound effects and atmospheres created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It was the second", "title": "BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects" }, { "docid": "18471759", "text": "Cafe shows entire short films. In 2014, NBCUniversal opened a new Universal Orlando hotel called Cabana Bay Beach Resort, which houses the Bayliner Diner, a restaurant that borrows its premise from the Sci-Fi Dine-In. Both restaurants play old film footage on a loop. The Sci-Fi Dine-In has received mixed reviews. Jack Hayes of \"Nation's Restaurant News\" calls the Sci-Fi Dine-In \"wacky\" and \"on the cutting edge of sheer dining fun\". In \"USA Today\"'s list of the sixteen best restaurants in American amusement parks, the Sci-Fi Dine-In ranks fifteenth. Samuel Muston of \"The Independent\" writes that the Sci-Fi Dine-In is \"memorable", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "3140040", "text": "had a lead role in the 2005 film \"Devour\" in which Ackles' father, actor Alan Ackles, also had a role playing the father of Ackles' character, Jake Gray. In 2005, Ackles joined the cast of the WB show horror/drama series \"Supernatural\" where he stars as Dean Winchester. Dean and his brother Sam (Jared Padalecki) drive throughout the United States hunting paranormal predators, fighting demons and angels, and dealing with all manner of fantasy & sci-fi genre. The show is currently in its fourteenth season on the CW. It owns the title of the longest-running North American sci-fi series in history.", "title": "Jensen Ackles" }, { "docid": "5347085", "text": "Dundee\", a prize-winner at Jackson Hole and IWFF in 2013. Natural World (TV series) Natural World is a strand of British wildlife documentary programmes broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Two HD and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history series. It is the longest-running documentary in its genre on British television, with nearly 500 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. \"Natural World\" programmes are typically one-off films that take an in-depth look at particular natural history events, stories or subjects from around the globe. \"Natural World\" is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol", "title": "Natural World (TV series)" }, { "docid": "18471760", "text": "in the best way\". In the \"Evansville Courier & Press\", Pete DiPrimio writes that the Sci-Fi Dine-In ranks among the most unusual of the restaurants at Disney's Hollywood Studios. In \"The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2015\", Bob Sehlinger and Len Testa call the Sci-Fi Dine-In the most entertaining restaurant in Walt Disney World, writing that \"everyone gets a kick out of this unusual dining room\". Multiple reviewers have called the Sci-Fi Dine-In more notable for being an attraction than a food destination. One reviewer from \"The Guardian\" compares the Sci-Fi Dine-In to Epcot's Coral Reef Restaurant, writing that", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "10069782", "text": "night (with the aid of ice-cream and caffeine drinks). In late 2008, SCI-FI-LONDON hosted its very first Oktoberfest: a one-day festival featuring new films and all-nighters, held at its regular London venue: the Apollo Piccadilly Circus. A second Oktoberfest was held on 23/24 October 2009, with a third on the 14-16 October 2010, at The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the Royal Society and the Apollo Piccadilly Circus. On occasion, SCI-FI-LONDON has also hosted other events, either outside London, or at other times of the year. In 2005, SCI-FI-LONDON took its feature films, short films and all-nighters On Tour, to Edinburgh, Liverpool,", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "11934708", "text": "Guests, actors Jeremy Bulloch, who notably played the bounty hunter Boba Fett from the Star Wars Franchise, and Brian Downey, who is perhaps best known for his role of Stanley Tweedle from \"Lexx: The Series\". Like the year before, Sci-Fi on the Rock II was met with positive reviews and overall success. In addition to more media coverage, both before and after the festival, the attendance increased to over 700—with a number of patrons coming from other parts of Canada, the United States and even the United Kingdom. The guests as well had an enjoyable time. Jeremy Bulloch commented on", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "18471747", "text": "and a ripoff. In their book \"Vegetarian Walt Disney World and Greater Orlando\", Susan Shumaker and Than Saffel call the Sci-Fi Dine-In \"the wackiest dining experience in any Disney park\". The Sci-Fi Dine-In, located on Commissary Lane across from \"Star Tours\" and adjacent to ABC Commissary, opened on April 20, 1991 as one of the twenty new attractions opened at Walt Disney World to mark the complex's twentieth anniversary. The restaurant was created with a strong emphasis on theme, in emulation of the 50's Prime Time Café, which had opened two years prior. Disney hoped that the focus on theme", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "13871556", "text": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe) Sci-Fi is a character from the toyline, comic books and cartoon series. He is the G.I. Joe Team's laser trooper and debuted in 1986. His real name is Seymour P. Fine, and his rank is that of corporal E-4. Sci-Fi was born in Geraldine, Montana. Sci-Fi's primary military specialty is infantry, and his secondary military specialty is electronics. Sci-Fi is known for being patient and taking his time, traits which aid him in aiming a laser over long distances for extended periods of time. When Sci-Fi braces his weapon and sights in on a target, he becomes", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "8200659", "text": "in 2004 and 2005 and the Sci-Fi channel in 2006. BBC Four have also screened the series in 2006, 2009 and 2014. As of 2014 it is streaming in the US on Hulu. The series was shown in New Zealand in the 1980s on TVNZ. The Day of the Triffids (1981 TV series) The Day of the Triffids is a British television series which was first aired by the BBC in 1981. An adaptation by Douglas Livingstone of the 1951 novel by John Wyndham, the six half-hour episodes were produced by David Maloney and directed by Ken Hannam, with original", "title": "The Day of the Triffids (1981 TV series)" }, { "docid": "11934734", "text": "awarded to the film that received the highest amount of audience votes. In its first year, 11 films were submitted and screened, 10 of which were from local film-makers, and one (X-Meeting) from Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2015, the film festival separated from Sci-Fi on the Rock due of large interest, and became a stand-alone event called Granite Planet International Film Festival, but still brings highlighted films to be screened at Sci-Fi on the Rock. A refreshed version of the Film Festival will be returning to Sci-Fi on the Rock in 2018 to be organized by Sci-Fi on the Rock.", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934738", "text": "Rock has had a number of guests of different types. Below is a list of guests they have had at their festival. The Sci-Fi on the Rock committee spends the rest of the time they are not planning the convention going to outside events. Often these events invite the public to join them in doing different things. Some events that Sci-Fi on the Rock has hosted or attended in the past include: Merry Geek-mas is a craft fair hosted by Sci-Fi on the Rock around the end of November or beginning of December each year. Sci-Fi on the Rock vendors", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934715", "text": "numbers, the festival grew in other ways. For example, in May 2009 (almost immediately following the past festival), Sci-Fi on the Rock opened an online store on their website. Also, Due to the success of Hann Made Film's first fan-film, \"Star Wars: Inner Demons\", Hann Made Films filmed another fan-film, this time a Stargate SG-1/Doctor Who crossover film, titled \"Replication\". The film debuted at Sci-Fi on the Rock IV, to great reception again. Also, Sci-Fi on the Rock and HannMade Films teamed up to create \"Sci-Fi on the Rock TV\", a video magazine that provided festival updates on an \"almost", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934740", "text": "readings, auctions and more. In September 2009, Sci-Fi on the Rock put together \"Sci-Fi on the Rock TV\", a webshow that would appear on YouTube and Facebook, as well as on the Sci-Fi on the Rock website. Each \"webisode\" runs approximately 10 minutes in length, and would serve as publicity for the festival, as well as a video newsletter, as it were. It is hosted by Steve Lake and Ellen Curtis, and is directed and produced by Darren Hann. The first episode \"aired\" on YouTube and Facebook on Friday, September 11, 2009. The guests were Darren Hann (Sci-Fi on the", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "18471746", "text": "2,200 people daily during peak periods, making it the park's most popular restaurant. Thai movie theater operator EGV Entertainment opened the EGV Drive-in Cafe in Bangkok in 2003, in a very similar style to the Sci-Fi Dine-In. The Sci-Fi Dine-In has received mixed reviews. \"USA Today\"s list of the best restaurants in American amusement parks ranks the Sci-Fi Dine-In fifteenth, but many reviewers rate it more highly for its atmosphere than for its cuisine. Ed Bumgardner of the \"Winston-Salem Journal\" wrote that the food is more expensive than it is worth, specifically calling the restaurant's roast beef sandwich both delicious", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "4341751", "text": "York Yankees (A.L.) World Series Teams With Fewer Than Ten (10) Runs Scored (Through 1963): 1963 World Series The 1963 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the Los Angeles Dodgers, with the Dodgers sweeping the Series in four games to capture their second title in five years, and their third in franchise history. Starting pitchers Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, and Johnny Podres, and ace reliever Ron Perranoski combined to give up only four runs in four games. The dominance of the Dodgers pitchers was so complete that at no point in any of the four", "title": "1963 World Series" }, { "docid": "11934724", "text": "The winning film was \"Brutal Relax\", a Spanish film by film maker David Muñoz. Sci-Fi on the Rock 8 took place at the Holiday Inn in St. John's on May 23, 24 and 25, 2014. Guests included Aron Eisenberg from , Michael Hogan from Battlestar Galactica and Teen Wolf, Erin Fitzgerald who voices characters from a wide variety of video games and TV shows including Monster High, Bravely Default and Ed, Edd and Eddy, and Musetta Vander from various sci-fi films and television shows. Also announced to appear is make-up artist Mike McCarty, who is known for his work on", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "12650319", "text": "What the Butler Saw (The Avengers) \"What the Butler Saw\" is the twenty-second episode of the fourth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series \"The Avengers\", starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. It originally aired on ABC on 25 February 1966. The episode was directed by Bill Bain and written by Philip Levene. A butler asks for a pay rise and another butler, Benson, is hailed and hands a gun on a plate to a hidden man in a chair to kill the butler, whose body is then dropped in a lake. Steed visits a barber for a", "title": "What the Butler Saw (The Avengers)" }, { "docid": "20703080", "text": "had the potential to recur should the production receive a series order. On April 11, 2018, it was reported that Hayden Szeto had been cast in the pilot. On October 7, 2018, the series held a panel at the annual New York Comic Con moderated by \"Rolling Stone\"s Alan Sepinwall and featuring co-creators Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, along with fellow executive producer Paul Simms. Before the panel began, the first episode of the series was screened for the audience. What We Do in the Shadows (TV series) What We Do in the Shadows is an upcoming American comedy television", "title": "What We Do in the Shadows (TV series)" }, { "docid": "9969019", "text": "The majority of this series however remained serialised, with the transition back to single-hander episodes being phased in slowly, following into Series 22. This series saw the highest number of cast changes in the latter series of the show, with a significant number of key characters axed following the conclusion of several long-running storylines. This series also saw the departure of the show's longest serving cast member at that point, DC Jim Carver (Mark Wingett), who had been with the show since its pilot episode in 1983. As a dedication, a special half-hour 'two-hander' episode was recorded, featuring Carver and", "title": "The Bill (series 21)" }, { "docid": "18471748", "text": "would bring the Sci-Fi Dine-In the level of success that had been garnered by the 50's Prime Time Café. Within five weeks of opening, it was serving between 1,500 and 2,000 meals on a daily basis, just as the 50's Prime Time Café was doing. A year after opening, the Sci-Fi Dine-In had become the most popular restaurant in the park, serving more than 2,200 people per day at peak periods. Starting from its earliest days, the restaurant equipped its servers with point of sale mobile devices that relayed orders to a printer in the kitchen, which was considered at", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "11934723", "text": "special guests were among the entertained audience members, showcasing that the Sci-Fi on the Rock offerings as well as the inherent charm of Newfoundland and Labrador made this event equally as entertaining to the guests themselves as it did to the patrons. Continuing again with its trend of breaking its own attendance numbers, Sci-Fi on the Rock 7 was met with a staggering increase in popularity. The Sci-Fi on the Rock International Film Festival entered its third year, and received some of its best submissions. Films were received from Newfoundland, Ontario, Alberta, the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom.", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "15290192", "text": "Tales from the Crypt (radio series) Tales from the Crypt is an American radio series spun off from the HBO series of the same name based on the 1950s EC Comics, which ran for eight episodes in 2000. In 2000, several \"Tales from the Crypt\" \"radio shows\" were recorded for Seeing Ear Theatre, an online subsidiary of The Sci-Fi Channel, and were offered free as streaming RealAudio files on their website, as well as for sale on Audible.com. Featuring most of the same producers from the HBO series and John Kassir reprising the role of The Cryptkeeper, 13 episodes were", "title": "Tales from the Crypt (radio series)" }, { "docid": "11934706", "text": "As a result of the success of the first festival, Sci-Fi on the Rock organizers Darren Hann and Melanie Collins, as well as the now-larger organizing committee decided that the festival should be held again the following year and should be bigger. Around the summer of 2007, planning for Sci-Fi on the Rock II would commence. The first change was time and place. It was increased from a one-day to a full weekend event, and was held in a larger venue. Sci-Fi on the Rock II was held at the Holiday Inn hotel in St. John's, on Saturday, April 19", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "10069774", "text": "Sci-Fi-London SCI-FI-LONDON (The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, SFL), is a United Kingdom-based film festival, dedicated to the science fiction and fantasy genres, which began in 2002. Designed to be a festival that “takes a serious look at sci-fi and fantasy, bringing new, classic and rare movies from around the world to the UK”, Sci-Fi-London annually screens world and UK Premieres, seminal cult classics, as well as documentaries, debates and talks. Short films are also an important part of the festival programme, screening in front of every movie shown, as well as together in the Blink", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "11934721", "text": "This time, the festival went international very unexpectedly, and received submissions from India, Spain, Mexico, Denmark and the United Kingdom. The winner of the JFE Audience Choice Award was a film called \"Deadspiel\", from Ontario. Once more, the festival beat its own record for attendees, with the numbers reaching close to 1800. Sci-Fi on the Rock held its seventh annual festival from April 24 to April 26, 2013. The special guests for that year included Mike Dopud from Stargate Universe, Dominic Keating from , Dean Haglund who portrayed Langly in The X-Files and its spin-off series The Lone Gunmen, Gary", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "18203759", "text": "The Secret World (radio series) The Secret World is a comedy radio series using impressionists broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Using many of the creative team from the long-running series \"Dead Ringers\", and originating as part of Radio 4's Happy Mondays pilot strand in 2008, the Secret World takes a subtler, more naturalistic approach, using famous figures in various bizarre yet humdrum situations, the comedy arising from the juxtapositions of contrasting characters and situations. Sketches include: The sketches and characters often overlap to create an interwoven narrative during the episode. The series won the Gold award for Best Comedy the", "title": "The Secret World (radio series)" }, { "docid": "7104621", "text": "newspaper, \"The Chronicle\", and the contradictions that transpire when they realize that the various monsters, aliens, and mutants turn out to be real. The Chronicle (TV series) The Chronicle is an American science fiction television series that was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel from July 14, 2001 to March 22, 2002. The series is based on the \"News from the Edge\" series of novels (for example, \"Vampires from Vermont\") by Mark Sumner, a St. Louis-based author. The series was originally sold to NBC, which shot the pilot, but later found a home on Sci-Fi Channel. The original creative producers who", "title": "The Chronicle (TV series)" }, { "docid": "4341741", "text": "1963 World Series The 1963 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the Los Angeles Dodgers, with the Dodgers sweeping the Series in four games to capture their second title in five years, and their third in franchise history. Starting pitchers Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, and Johnny Podres, and ace reliever Ron Perranoski combined to give up only four runs in four games. The dominance of the Dodgers pitchers was so complete that at no point in any of the four games did the Yankees have the lead. New York was held to a .171 team", "title": "1963 World Series" }, { "docid": "18471765", "text": "tends to be popular with children, and it is common for people who lived through the 1950s to enjoy the restaurant for its nostalgia value. Paul Schultz of the \"Daily News\" writes, \"Anyone who is a fan of trashy sci-fi movies of the 1950s should check [the Sci-Fi Dine-In] out\". In his book \"Sci-Fi Movie Freak\", Robert Ring calls the Sci-Fi Dine-In film clips \"hokey\", while David Steele of \"The Rotarian\" calls them \"classically awful\", and Rick Ramseyer of \"Restaurant Business Magazine\" calls them \"campy\". Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant is a theme restaurant at Disney's", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "7104620", "text": "The Chronicle (TV series) The Chronicle is an American science fiction television series that was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel from July 14, 2001 to March 22, 2002. The series is based on the \"News from the Edge\" series of novels (for example, \"Vampires from Vermont\") by Mark Sumner, a St. Louis-based author. The series was originally sold to NBC, which shot the pilot, but later found a home on Sci-Fi Channel. The original creative producers who brought the series to television were German Michael Torres and Trevor Taylor. The show centers on a group of journalists at a tabloid", "title": "The Chronicle (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20794775", "text": "nominees will be limited series/movies. Outstanding Costumes for a Period/Fantasy Series, Limited Series, or Movie Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes This total includes wins for Outstanding Costumes for a Series. This total includes nominations for Outstanding Costumes for a Series. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes is presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2015, categories for period/fantasy and contemporary costumes were created. The categories were divided in 2018 for period and fantasy/sci-fi costumes. They replaced the retired categories for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special and Outstanding Costumes", "title": "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes" }, { "docid": "5285836", "text": "and Bergman Rock is present both in the music and in the lyrics. So far Sci-Fi SKANE has released two singles: a cover of Canned Heat's \"Going Up The Country\" called \"Jag har aldrig bott vid en landsväg\" and another song called \"Vi kommer försent till bluesen\". The duo's debut album \"Känslan av att jorden krymper växer\" (\"the feeling that the Earth shrinks grows\") was to be released in Sweden by Silence Records on November 16, 2005, but due to errors in the printing of its phosphorescent cover, the release was delayed. Sci-Fi SKANE Sci-Fi SKANE is a musical collaboration", "title": "Sci-Fi SKANE" }, { "docid": "11934727", "text": "at the Holiday Inn. Sci-Fi on the Rock experienced its first big move since 2008. Sci-Fi on the Rock 10 took place at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland in St. John's from April 1st - 3rd, 2016. Guests included Eugene Simon, from Game of Thrones, Robert Picardo, known as the Doctor on as well as from shows such as Stargate, Kirby Morrow, a well known voice actor, and J.M. Frey, a writer. As well Fat Apollo came back again to act as emcee. The location change was very successful. The move gave Sci-Fi on the Rock some room to stretch its", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934705", "text": "the day including the popular \"Lightsaber Techniques\", \"Basic Horror Make-Up for Film and Television\" and \"Costume Designing\". In addition, there were a number of sales-and-display tables, and a number of competitions such as Video Games, Model Building, Costume Contest, and others. Sci-Fi on the Rock also featured a canteen with Sci-Fi related food (i.e.: \"The Kirk Burger\"). Having been planned and put off within only a few months, and with little publicity, Sci-Fi on the Rock's first festival was a surprise success with almost 500 people attending, and was covered in many local media pages, as well as internet sites.", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "13871561", "text": "Sci-Fi, he is seen watching \"The Transformers\". Sci-Fi appeared in DiC's \"\" cartoon. Jerry Houser reprises his role as Sci-Fi in this cartoon. Sci-Fi is a supporting character in the Joe novel 'Fool's Gold'. His simulation training pays off as he pilots the space shuttle, the USS Defiant, through several maneuvers that end up saving the Earth from a doomsday weapon. He is also a supporting character in 'Serpentor and the Mummy Warrior'. Sci-Fi's figure is briefly featured in the fiction novel \"6 Sick Hipsters\". In the story, the character Paul Achting spent four years collecting G.I. Joe figures to", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "11934739", "text": "and other vendors with similar geeky products are given space to sell their ware in time for the holiday season. The event is taking place at the Mazol Shriner's in St. John's Newfoundland on Dec 3rd, 2017. Since 2015 Sci-Fi on the Rock has been partnering with the Rocket Bakery, in downtown St. John's, to host a kick-off event for Sci-Fi on the Rock each year. This event is typically held the weekend before Sci-Fi on the Rock and has mini workshops and panels as well as Sandbox Gaming with some games. In the past there has been trivia, author", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "997494", "text": "Real World (TV series) Real World (formerly known as The Real World from 1992 to 2013) is a reality television series on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series \"An American Family\", is the longest-running program in MTV history, one of the longest-running reality series in history, and is credited with launching the modern reality TV genre. Seven to eight young adults are picked to temporarily live in a new city together in one residence while being filmed non-stop. The series was hailed", "title": "Real World (TV series)" }, { "docid": "5087878", "text": "in a cupboard and met the other actors only after the first session was complete. Sound and effects were created by Paddy Kingsland, Dick Mills and Harry Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Several of the sound effects recorded by Dick Mills for the first series were released on the album \"BBC Sound Effects No. 26 – Sci-Fi Sound Effects\". Other BBC staff members who worked on the first two radio series included Alick Hale-Munro (chief sound engineer) and Anne Ling (production secretary) and the \"Technical Team\" is given as: Paul Hawdon, Lisa Braun (studio manager), Colin Duff (studio manager),", "title": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)" }, { "docid": "18471763", "text": "is appropriate for a drive-in theater—very ordinary, but that's not really the reason you came\". Some food items at the Sci-Fi Dine-In have been received favorably by reviewers. Rona Gindin and Jennifer Greenhill-Taylor write highly of the restaurant's hot-fudge sundaes in \"Fodor's 2012 Walt Disney World\". In \"Plan Your Walt Disney World Vacation in No Time\", Douglas Ingersoll writes very positively of the milkshakes, and argues that the sandwiches and burgers are better than at the fast food restaurants in the park. A reviewer for the United Kingdom's \"The Sentinel\" also writes positively of the Sci-Fi Dine-In's milkshakes, and argues", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "10205877", "text": "Crane as William. In 1962 and 1963 a BBC TV series called \"William\" was broadcast. The 1962 series starred Dennis Waterman as William. In 1963 he was replaced by Denis Gilmore. It also featured Howard Lever as Robert, Christopher Witty as Ginger, Kaplan Kaye as Henry, Carlo Cura as Douglas and Gillian Gostling as Violet Elizabeth. Series one Series two Running for two series transmitted in 1976 and 1977, an ITV series called \"Just William\" was made by London Weekend Television. It features Adrian Dannatt as William, with Stephen Wilmot as Henry, Diana Fairfax as Mrs. Brown, Hugh Cross as", "title": "Just William (book series)" }, { "docid": "20794774", "text": "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes is presented as part of the Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2015, categories for period/fantasy and contemporary costumes were created. The categories were divided in 2018 for period and fantasy/sci-fi costumes. They replaced the retired categories for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special and Outstanding Costumes for a Series. Rules require that nominations are distributed proportionally among regular series and limited series/movies, based on the number of submissions of each. For instance, if two-fifths of submissions are limited series/movies then two of the five", "title": "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes" }, { "docid": "13384131", "text": "it's their ability to pull off such flippant tales with their characteristic punch that gives Sci-Fi Crimes a humanizing appeal not found on their previous records.\" Sputnikmusic states \"Sci-Fi Crimes is a solid, above-average record, but it is not Chevelle's magnum opus; aside from two or three songs, it has a certain air of familiarity that doesn't warrant the unfounded high praise it has received so far.\" They also refer to \"This Circus\" and \"Shameful Metaphors\" as two of the album's best songs. \"USA Today\" comments \"\"Sci-Fi Crimes\" scrapes some of the polish off the band's sound. What remains is", "title": "Sci-Fi Crimes" }, { "docid": "18471764", "text": "that, \"if you chose to treat yourself to a good lunch in one of the Disney parks, then this is the one\". Positive reviews of the Sci-Fi Dine-In have indicated diverse reasons for appreciating the restaurant. In \"Vegetarian Walt Disney World and Greater Orlando\", Susan Shumaker and Than Saffel write that the restaurant has \"the wackiest dining experience in any Disney park\". Shumaker and Saffel contend that the Sci-Fi Dine-In provides a reasonable compromise when vegetarians and non-vegetarians are looking to eat together, and that it is also suitable for both large and small families with young children. The restaurant", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "11934737", "text": "Friday Night Karaoke in 2015. Sci-Fi on the Rock holds a dance on the Saturday of the convention. This is a 19+ event held at the hotel the convention is being held in. It is a very popular event that draws quiet a crowd. The Starlight Social started as an add-on event that included champagne and possibly meeting guests. After the introduction of the VIP Pass in 2015 it became a VIP only event. There is champagne and finger foods and a chance to socialize in a smaller setting than the dance or karaoke. Since its inception, Sci-Fi on the", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934709", "text": "his website that \"The people of Newfoundland are extremely friendly. It was only the second time that Darren had put the 'Sci-Fi on the Rock' show on, and it was very well attended. Lots of costumes and games for the children and it seemed that everyone was having a good time\". Sci-Fi on the Rock II featured a Charity Auction, which benefited the School Lunch Association. Items that had been placed for bid included a Limited Edition Star Wars T-shirt-and-Box Set which is not available in North America (donated by Jeremy Bulloch), a Lexx Prize pack, including many behind-the-scenes cuts", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934728", "text": "legs and attendees appreciated the extra space that the Sheraton Hotel provided. The vendor's area grew and more varied vendors and artists were able to attend. The attendance for SFotR 10 was well over 2250 people throughout the weekend. This was the first year that Sci-Fi on the Rock had a VIP pass. The change in location also gave Sandbox Gaming a bigger and more comfortable space at our convention for gaming. Sci-Fi on the Rock 11 was held at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland in St. John's from April 28–30, 2017. Guests included Doug Jones (actor), known from many films", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "18471745", "text": "the 50 Foot Woman\". The restaurant serves traditional cuisine of the United States. Popcorn functions as a complimentary \"hors d'oeuvre\". Initially, the menu listed items with themed names, such as \"Tossed in Space\" (garden salad), \"The Cheesecake that Ate New York\", and \"Attack of the Killer Club Sandwich\", but these playful names were later altered so that they now describe the dishes in a more standard and straightforward manner. In 1991, the Sci-Fi Dine-In opened along with nineteen other new Walt Disney World attractions marking the complex's twentieth anniversary. By the following year, the Sci-Fi Dine-In was serving upwards of", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "4929984", "text": "that album. The collection is accompanied by a 32-page, full-color lyric booklet designed by Peter Saville. The front cover, whose artistic similarities to J. G. Ballard were noted by Stephen Dowling of the BBC, features a destroyed English Electric Lightning aircraft abandoned and used for target practice at the Otterburn Training Area in Northumberland. It was taken by North East photographer John Kippin. Suede Production Sci-Fi Lullabies Sci-Fi Lullabies is a two-disc compilation album by English alternative rock band Suede, consisting of B-sides from the singles that were released from the group's first three albums. It reached no. 9 on", "title": "Sci-Fi Lullabies" }, { "docid": "11934735", "text": "Apart from the media guest Q&A's, autographs and photo sessions, there are many other workshops during the festival, these change yearly but in the past have included: Making its first appearance at Sci-Fi on the Rock 2009, the Cantina is an informal concert/variety show held on one of the evenings of the festival. Performers opt to play Sci-Fi related music, known as Filk, but that is not always the case. The Cantina features performances by musicians involved with the festival, an open mic, and there is an improvised acting piece prepared that audience members are call upon to perform. The", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "10069775", "text": "Of An Eye short film programme. Over its history Sci-Fi-London has also held a number of Short Film competitions, and in 2008 launched the Sci-Fi-London 48hr Film Challenge, in order to encourage filmmakers to create sci-fi short films over a very short period of time. In 2006, the festival became the official home of The Arthur C. Clarke Award, the most prestigious award for science fiction literature in Britain, and recognised as one of the most prestigious science fiction awards in the world. Since its inception, the Sci-Fi-London Film Festival has also been one of the few places in the", "title": "Sci-Fi-London" }, { "docid": "7011050", "text": "The Dresden Files (TV series) The Dresden Files is a Canadian/American television series based on the fantasy book series of the same name by Jim Butcher. It premiered January 21, 2007, on the Sci Fi Channel in the United States and on Space in Canada. It was picked up by Sky One in the UK and began airing on February 14, 2007. The series ran for a single season of 12 episodes, and has since been released on DVD. The Sci Fi Channel announced on August 3, 2007, that \"The Dresden Files\" would not be renewed for a second season.", "title": "The Dresden Files (TV series)" }, { "docid": "13871559", "text": "of the G.I. Joe sub-team, the Star Brigade, which includes Space Shot, Roadblock and Payload. Teaming with the Oktober Guard, they destroy an asteroid that was headed for Earth. Sci-Fi makes an appearance in issue 25 of the Devil's Due G.I. Joe series. He is part of a demolitions team sent in to destroy EMP generators on Cobra Island. Led by the Joe Mercer, the team does so, but not without the deaths of Flash, Mainframe and the rookie Joe member, 'Hacker'. Jinx, another member of the team, survives. Sci-Fi is later seen fighting Cobra operatives in Peru. In the", "title": "Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe)" }, { "docid": "11934716", "text": "bi-weekly\" basis. Season One of \"Sci-Fi on the Rock TV\" was hosted by Steve Lake and Ellen Curtis, and ran from September 11, 2009 to May 2010. Season Two began in September 2010, with both hosts returning, until Ellen Curtis was replaced by Melanie Collins. Sci-Fi on the Rock held its fifth festival on April 15, 16 and 17, 2011, making this year the first time the organization launched a festival that spanned three days. It was held again at the St. John's Holiday Inn, and was kicked off with a book launch from festival co-founder Darren Hann, followed by", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "6071774", "text": "Running Scared (TV series) Running Scared is a six-part British television children's drama serial produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC 1 between 15 January 1986 and 19 February 1986, based on the Bernard Ashley novel and set in Forest Gate and other parts of east London with the Woolwich Ferry featuring in a key scene. A gritty series, \"Running Scared\" deals with a teenage girl, Paula Prescott (Julia Millbank), whose life is put at risk when she uncovers evidence that could put a local criminal gang leader Charlie Elkin (played by Christopher Ellison) behind bars. The series is", "title": "Running Scared (TV series)" }, { "docid": "11934719", "text": "that around 1500 people visited the festival this year. Because this year marked the organization's fifth year, the festival staff introduced its first annual film festival, which commenced on the festival's opening night. Eleven films were submitted and screened, ten of which were from local film-makers, and one (X-Meeting) from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The winner of this film festival was a horror/comedy short called \"Date With The Dead\". Sci-Fi on the Rock VI occurred on April 20 to 22, 2012. Due to the growth of attendees at Sci-Fi on the Rock events, the layout of the festival underwent and overhaul", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934712", "text": "the Cantina, a midnight movie, and website redesigns. This year also marked the first Fan Film that Sci-Fi on the Rock was involved with producing: Returning attractions included many of the workshops from the previous year, including Lightsaber Technique, Stage Combat, Star Wars, Transformers, Special Effect Make-up and others. The Charity Auction also returned, again aiding the School Lunch Association. Dinner with the Stars, an event where a limited number of guests are able to sit and enjoy a three-course meal with the special guest actors, also returned. Sci-Fi on the Rock 3 was met with over a thousand visitors,", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934730", "text": "already becoming tight as some workshops and panels had long line-ups and filled to capacity. On Sunday attendees and committee alike were surprised by an unplanned visit to the convention by past guest Eugene Simon, who said that when he realized he had the time he didn't want to miss it. The committee of Sci-Fi on the Rock is already hard at work planning for year 12. Sci-Fi on the Rock 12 will take place at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland on April 6–8, 2018. Already announced is local cosplay guest Vanessa Pinsent Cosplay. Fat Apollo will be returning to be", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "11934725", "text": "Sin City, Kill Bill 1 and 2, The Pacific and (which won an Oscar for Best Make-up). The film festival entered its fourth year at Sci-Fi on the Rock, having its most successful turn-out yet. This year, there were three awards—Best Picture (awarded by judges), Critical Impact (awarded by judges) and Audience Choice Award. The Critical Impact award, which recognizes a film that demonstrates powerful storytelling execution, was awarded to U.S. film Aemorraghe, while Best Picture and Audience Choice Award were both awarded to the short film Fist of Jesus from Barcelona, Spain. Sci-Fi on the Rock 9 is took", "title": "Sci-Fi on the Rock" }, { "docid": "19402744", "text": "In the Red (radio series) In the Red is the first in a sequence of four black comedy-crime drama series created for BBC Radio 4 by Mark Tavener featuring Michael Williams as BBC Reporter George Cragge and Barry Foster as Police Superintendent Frank Jefferson. The first seven-part series (BBC Radio 4, 1995), was adapted by Tavener and comedy-writer Peter Baynham from Tavener's novel of the same name (Hutchinson, 1989), which had been inspired by the writer's early experiences working for the BBC and the Liberal Party. The subsequent series, \"In the Balance\" (BBC Radio 4, 1997), \"In the Chair\" (BBC", "title": "In the Red (radio series)" }, { "docid": "18471757", "text": "the Tides\" (broiled fish), and \"Journey to the Center of the Pasta\" (vegetable lasagne), but these have since been replaced with more descriptive names. A popcorn bisque was once on the menu, but it was removed due to poor reception. In 2003, EGV Entertainment, a movie theater operator in Thailand, opened the EGV Drive-in Cafe in Bangkok, explicitly modeling the restaurant after the Sci-Fi Dine-In. Wichai Poolwaraluk, the company's executive president and chief executive officer, visited the Sci-Fi Dine-In in 2000, and was inspired to open a similar restaurant. He said that, while he was eating at the Sci-Fi Dine-In,", "title": "Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant" }, { "docid": "3529032", "text": "others function without intelligence, mechanically dispensing a certain benefit in response to human sacrifice (\"Root of All Evil\", \"The Mephisto Ring\", \"The Prisoner\", \"Brain Drain\"). Occasionally, there would be an object-free episode in which the trio would confront their uncle's spirit or some other Satanic evildoer (\"The Prophecy\", \"Hellowe'en\", \"Wedding in Black\"). Like other sci-fi/horror shows in syndication in the late 1980s (such as \"War of the Worlds\" and \"Freddy's Nightmares\"), \"Friday the 13th: The Series\" pushed the limits of \"acceptable content\", featuring violence on par with that of the R-rated horror movies of the time. Certain episodes such as", "title": "Friday the 13th: The Series" }, { "docid": "16451297", "text": "Romero’s 1978 classic movie “Dawn of the Dead”. Also appearing was Mark Tierno, best known for his role as the featured zombie Beef Treats in George A. Romero’s 1985 film, \"Day of the Dead\". Sci-Fi fans should also recognize him from his leading role on SyFy Networks television series The Mercury Men as Edward Dorman. There are also many indie artists and film makers attending such as: Michael C. Dougherty, director of the firefly fan film \"Browncoats: Redemption\", David Lee Madison, director of \"Mr. Hush\". John Johnson, director of Plan9 and the Skeleton Key films.<br> In addition, over $1,500 was", "title": "Sci-Fi Valley Con" }, { "docid": "17290455", "text": "while noting: \"CW's Thrilling New Sci-fi Drama Is A Keeper. CW's The 100 seeks to explore that concept and more with a series that's about equal parts young adult drama, sci-fi adventure and thriller. It takes a little while for the series to warm up, but when \"The 100\" begins to hit its stride, a unique and compelling drama begins to emerge\". IGN's editor Eric Goldman also gave the show a more positive review, writing: \"Overcoming most of its early growing pains pretty quickly, \"The 100\" was a very strong show by the end of its first season. But Season", "title": "The 100 (TV series)" }, { "docid": "6071775", "text": "notable for its use of the then recently released Kate Bush single \"Running Up That Hill\" as its main theme tune. Running Scared (TV series) Running Scared is a six-part British television children's drama serial produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC 1 between 15 January 1986 and 19 February 1986, based on the Bernard Ashley novel and set in Forest Gate and other parts of east London with the Woolwich Ferry featuring in a key scene. A gritty series, \"Running Scared\" deals with a teenage girl, Paula Prescott (Julia Millbank), whose life is put at risk when she", "title": "Running Scared (TV series)" }, { "docid": "7846374", "text": "a week, until it caught up to the US, after that it began to air episodes once a week at 8:30 p.m. It currently airs on Thursdays 9:30 p.m. on 7Two. In the United Kingdom, the series first aired on February 19, 2007 on digital channel Sci Fi UK. The series averaged 450,000 viewers, which is almost four times more viewers than those of other programs on Sci Fi UK. The series was then picked up by the BBC, which gave season one its terrestrial premiere from July 25 to December 5, 2007 on BBC Two. Season two of Heroes", "title": "Heroes (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "15019282", "text": "Dynamo (Avengers in Sci-Fi album) Dynamo (stylised as dynamo) is Japanese electro-rock band Avengers in Sci-Fi's third studio album, and first under a major record label. It was released on October 13, 2010, as an exclusive download on iTunes simultaneously with their live album \"Crazy Gonna Spacey\", with the album's wide release on the 20th. The album was led by a preceding single, \"Delight Slight Lightspeed,\" in September. It was released as a two track single, along with a seven track DVD, featuring highlights from the band's \"Crazy Gonna Spacy Tour\" at Ebisu Liquidroom (April 3, 2010). \"Delight Slight Lightspeed\"", "title": "Dynamo (Avengers in Sci-Fi album)" } ]
78552
What cartoonist drew Calvin and Hobbes from 1985 to 1995?
[ "Katheryn Watterson", "Bill Watterson", "Bill Waterson", "William Watterson" ]
[ { "docid": "75509", "text": "Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes is a daily comic strip by American cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as \"the last great newspaper comic\", \"Calvin and Hobbes\" has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic interest. \"Calvin and Hobbes\" follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious, mischievous, and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. Set in the contemporary suburban United States, the strip depicts Calvin's frequent flights of fancy and his friendship with Hobbes. It also examines Calvin's relationships with family and classmates, especially", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75573", "text": "aid for Calvin's condition. Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes is a daily comic strip by American cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as \"the last great newspaper comic\", \"Calvin and Hobbes\" has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic interest. \"Calvin and Hobbes\" follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious, mischievous, and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. Set in the contemporary suburban United States, the strip depicts Calvin's frequent flights of fancy and his friendship with Hobbes. It also examines Calvin's relationships with", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75572", "text": "gives Hobbes. Though consisting of only four strips originally, \"Hobbes and Bacon\" received considerable attention when it appeared and was continued by other cartoonists and artists. A novel entitled \"Calvin\" by CLA Young Adult Book Award–winning author Martine Leavitt was published in 2015. The story tells of seventeen-year-old Calvin—who was born on the day that \"Calvin and Hobbes\" ended, and who has now been diagnosed with schizophrenia—and his hallucination of Hobbes, his childhood stuffed tiger. With his friend Susie, who might also be a hallucination, Calvin sets off to find Bill Watterson, in the hope that the cartoonist can provide", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "7386588", "text": "you notice?\" contrasting Hobbes' \"reality\" to that of another stuffed animal. Hobbes has a heavy crush on Susie. Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes) Hobbes is one of the two main characters in the comic strip \"Calvin and Hobbes\" by Bill Watterson. He is Calvin's stuffed tiger and best friend, being depicted with two distinct identities. Hobbes is seen in two differentiating perspectives. Calvin perceives him as a live tiger and a best friend, capable of speech and independent action. To everybody else, he is an inanimate stuffed tiger. Hobbes is often shown to be smarter and wiser than Calvin when he", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386565", "text": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes) Hobbes is one of the two main characters in the comic strip \"Calvin and Hobbes\" by Bill Watterson. He is Calvin's stuffed tiger and best friend, being depicted with two distinct identities. Hobbes is seen in two differentiating perspectives. Calvin perceives him as a live tiger and a best friend, capable of speech and independent action. To everybody else, he is an inanimate stuffed tiger. Hobbes is often shown to be smarter and wiser than Calvin when he is perceived as a real tiger. He is seen reading more often than his owner and attempts to", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "75570", "text": "of \"Calvin and Hobbes\" to international cartooning was recognized by the jury of the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2014 by the awarding of its Grand Prix to Watterson, only the fourth American to ever receive the honor (after Will Eisner, Robert Crumb, and Art Spiegelman). In 2016 and 2017, author Berkeley Breathed included \"Calvin and Hobbes\" in various \"Bloom County\" cartoons. He launched the first cartoon on April Fool's Day 2016 and jokingly issued a statement suggesting that he had acquired \"Calvin and Hobbes\" from Bill Watterson, who was \"out of the Arizona facility, continent and looking forward to", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "16172898", "text": "to teach children with learning disabilities. Published in a limited print run in Fargo, North Dakota, \"Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes\" is a very rare and highly sought-after book. In the 2010 revised edition of his book \"Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip\", Nevin Martell says that only after a long search did he obtain a copy of \"Teaching with\" Calvin and Hobbes, that copies of the book sell for very high prices, and that the book is \"perhaps the most difficult piece of official \"Calvin and Hobbes\" memorabilia to", "title": "Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75521", "text": "supported him. The American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors even formally requested that Universal reconsider the changes. Watterson's own comments on the matter was that \"editors will have to judge for themselves whether or not Calvin and Hobbes deserves the extra space. If they don't think the strip carries its own weight, they don't have to run it.\" Ultimately only 15 newspapers cancelled the strip in response to the layout changes. Bill Watterson took two sabbaticals from the daily requirements of producing the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. The first took place from May 5, 1991, to February 1,", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75563", "text": "Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book\", the books are \"obviously none of these things.\" In 1993, paleontologist and paleoartist Gregory S. Paul praised Bill Watterson for the scientific accuracy of the dinosaurs appearing in \"Calvin and Hobbes\". In her 1994 book \"When Toys Come Alive\", Lois Rostow Kuznets says that Hobbes serves both as a figure of Calvin's childish fantasy life and as an outlet for the expression of libidinous desires more associated with adults. Kuznets also looks at Calvin's other fantasies, suggesting that they are a second tier of fantasies utilized in places like school where transitional objects such", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "6840268", "text": "in \"Calvin and Hobbes\" is limited; for example, in the \"Yukon Ho!\" collection, only five regular characters appear. Other characters who make infrequent or one-off appearances include the following. Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson's comic strip \"Calvin and Hobbes\" features a wide range of secondary characters. These range from his fellow students at school to monsters and aliens from Calvin's vivid imagination. Watterson has never given Calvin's parents' names \"because as far as the strip is concerned, they are important only as Calvin's mom and dad.\" Like Hobbes, they serve as counterpoints to Calvin's attitude and view", "title": "Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75511", "text": "copies of the \"Calvin and Hobbes\" books had been sold. \"Calvin and Hobbes\" was conceived when Bill Watterson, who was working in an advertising job he detested, began devoting his spare time to developing a newspaper comic for potential syndication. He explored various strip ideas but all were rejected by the syndicates. United Feature Syndicate finally responded positively to one strip called \"The Doghouse\", which featured a side character (the main character's little brother) who had a stuffed tiger. United identified these characters as the strongest, and encouraged Watterson to develop them as the centre of their own strip. Though", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75568", "text": "episode \"Lust for Puppets,\" and in traditional animation in the 2009 \"Family Guy\" episode \"Not All Dogs Go to Heaven.\" In the 2013 \"Community\" episode \"Paranormal Parentage,\" the characters Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi) and Troy Barnes (Donald Glover) dress as Calvin and Hobbes, respectively, for Halloween. British artists, merchandisers, booksellers, and philosophers were interviewed for a 2009 BBC Radio 4 half-hour programme about the abiding popularity of the comic strip, narrated by Phill Jupitus. The first book-length study of the strip, \"Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip\" by Nevin Martell,", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75561", "text": "A complete collection of \"Calvin and Hobbes\" strips, in three hardcover volumes totaling 1440 pages, was released on October 4, 2005, by Andrews McMeel Publishing. It includes color prints of the art used on paperback covers, the treasuries' extra illustrated stories and poems, and a new introduction by Bill Watterson in which he talks about his inspirations and his story leading up to the publication of the strip. The alternate 1985 strip is still omitted, and two other strips (January 7, 1987, and November 25, 1988) have altered dialogue. A four-volume paperback version was released November 13, 2012. To celebrate", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "6840251", "text": "Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson's comic strip \"Calvin and Hobbes\" features a wide range of secondary characters. These range from his fellow students at school to monsters and aliens from Calvin's vivid imagination. Watterson has never given Calvin's parents' names \"because as far as the strip is concerned, they are important only as Calvin's mom and dad.\" Like Hobbes, they serve as counterpoints to Calvin's attitude and view of the world. However, Watterson sometimes uses them to explore situations adults can relate to, such as the desire to enjoy leisure time as opposed to the need to", "title": "Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "16172897", "text": "each unit, questions for comprehension and discussion follow the comic strips: In both the 1996 first edition and the 2006 second edition of their book \"How to Reach and Teach All Children in the Inclusive Classroom\", teachers Sandra F. Rief and Julie A. Heimburge \"highly recommend\" \"Teaching with' Calvin and Hobbes as an educational resource. Owing to Bill Watterson's principled refusal to license his comic strip for merchandise in general, \"Teaching with\" Calvin and Hobbes is an exceptional item; a license was granted to the authors after they personally communicated to Watterson the success they had using his comic strip", "title": "Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "47524", "text": "Bill Watterson William Boyd \"Bill\" Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is a former American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip \"Calvin and Hobbes\", which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson stopped drawing \"Calvin and Hobbes\" at the end of 1995 with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in the medium. Watterson is known for his negative views on licensing and comic syndication, his efforts to expand and elevate the newspaper comic as an art-form, and his move back into private life after he stopped", "title": "Bill Watterson" }, { "docid": "19314879", "text": "after Bill Watterson (born 1958), cartoonist of the daily comic strip \"Calvin and Hobbes\". Syndicated from 1985 to 1995, this strip is fondly remembered and treasured by the discoverer, and helped him stay awake and sane on long observing nights and during the trials and tribulations of graduate school. 7784 Watterson 7784 Watterson, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by American astronomer Timothy Spahr at the U.S. Catalina Station, Arizona, on 5 August 1994. The asteroid was named after cartoonist Bill Watterson.", "title": "7784 Watterson" }, { "docid": "3311576", "text": "a car and driver, Sarah…don't push it!\"\" —28 December 2014. \"Bugsy the bodyguard: \"Do you carry a piece?\" Wade the lawyer: \"Only a smartphone ... loaded with apps!\"\" — 6 June 2015. In \"The Simpsons\" episode \"Krusty Gets Kancelled\", Homer Simpson is reading the funny pages and comments, \"Ah, \"Rex Morgan, M.D.\", you have the prescription for the daily blues.\" Cartoonist Bill Watterson occasionally drew his syndicated newspaper comic strip \"Calvin and Hobbes\" in the realistic style of \"Rex Morgan, M.D.\", when depicting six-year-olds Calvin and Susie playing \"house.\" Rex Morgan, M.D. Rex Morgan, M.D. is an American soap opera", "title": "Rex Morgan, M.D." } ]
[ { "docid": "75565", "text": "own commentary for the exhibition catalog, which was later published by Andrews McMeel as \"Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985–1995\". Since the discontinuation of \"Calvin and Hobbes\", individual strips have been licensed for reprint in schoolbooks, including the Christian homeschooling book \"The Fallacy Detective\" in 2002, and the university-level philosophy reader \"Open Questions: Readings for Critical Thinking and Writing\" in 2005; in the latter, the ethical views of Watterson and his characters Calvin and Hobbes are discussed in relation to the views of professional philosophers. Since 2009, Twitter users have indicated that \"Calvin and Hobbes\" strips have appeared in textbooks", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "7386579", "text": "of noise by jumping on the bed. Hobbes has claimed that he actually had a family. In one strip, Calvin asks Hobbes what he should do if Moe tries to attack him. Hobbes claims that Calvin should scramble for a tree and sit in it all day. Calvin is outraged by the advice and Hobbes states, \"It doesn't impress the girls, of course, but there's no sense in impressing them and getting killed, my dad used to say.\" From Calvin's point of view, Hobbes is an anthropomorphic, usually bipedal tiger, larger than Calvin, full of his own attitudes and ideas.", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386582", "text": "is consistent with what the characters see. For example, when Hobbes pounces on Calvin, the next panel shows Calvin lying on the ground, covered with dirt, with Hobbes lying on top of him, then when Calvin walks in, his mother can clearly see him beaten up, and she is left completely baffled. Another example is when Calvin wants Hobbes to take a bath with him, so Hobbes disguises himself with bubbles, and when Calvin assumes that Hobbes needs a hat and tie, he attempts to get his Dad's hat. As Calvin is bringing a tie through the living room, sneaking", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386568", "text": "which the two talk about what they would do with a wish; Calvin makes it clear that he'd want material things, while Hobbes wishes for a simple sandwich, adding that he got his wish. Later Calvin asks Hobbes \"If you could wish for anything, what would it be?\", and he replies \"A big sunny field to be in\", something he already has. They also frequently argue or even fight with each other, though their disagreements are generally short-lived. Hobbes often beats up Calvin with an energetic pounce-and-tackle attack, which leaves Calvin bruised and scraped up but not seriously harmed. Hobbes", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "75569", "text": "was first published in 2009; an expanded edition was published in 2010. The book chronicles Martell's quest to tell the story of \"Calvin and Hobbes\" and Watterson through research and interviews with people connected to the cartoonist and his work. The director of the later documentary \"Dear Mr. Watterson\" referenced \"Looking for Calvin and Hobbes\" in discussing the production of the movie, and Martell appears in the film. The American documentary film \"Dear Mr. Watterson\", released in 2013, explores the impact and legacy of \"Calvin and Hobbes\" through interviews with authors, curators, historians, and numerous professional cartoonists. The enduring significance", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "7386578", "text": "had more of a round shape, as opposed to the oval shape of later years. The most notable change, however, were the pads on Hobbes's hands. In earlier years, Watterson drew the pads on Hobbes' hands as a reminder that they were really paws, but later removed them on the grounds that he found them to be visually distracting. However, in one strip after Waterson stopped drawing the pads, Hobbes remarks in response to a complaint by Calvin, \"my fuzzy mittens \"have\" pads!\" Hobbes' name was revealed in the third strip when Calvin claims that Hobbes was making a lot", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386567", "text": "be alive, he is proud of his species and glad not to be a human, showing that when Hobbes comes to life, he too believes he is a real tiger. For the most part, Calvin and Hobbes converse and play together, reveling in what is ultimately a deep friendship and almost brotherly relationship. Hobbes acts as a philosophical foil to Calvin; where Calvin is preoccupied with predestination and dreams of grandeur, Hobbes is a much more realistic thinker; he is much more focused on the present and the simple pleasant things in life. A prime example is a strip in", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "75513", "text": "earliest strips demonstrate a remarkable consistency with the latest. Watterson introduced all the major characters within the first three weeks, and made no changes to the central cast over the next 10 years. By April 5, 1987, Watterson was featured in an article in \"The Los Angeles Times\". \"Calvin and Hobbes\" earned Watterson the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in the Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year category, first in 1986 and again in 1988. He was nominated another time in 1992. The Society awarded him the Humor Comic Strip Award for 1988. \"Calvin and Hobbes\" has also won", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75530", "text": "However, although the visual possibilities of animation appealed Watterson, the idea of finding a voice for Calvin made him uncomfortable, as did the idea of working with a team of animators.. Ultimately, \"Calvin and Hobbes\" was never made into an animated series. Watterson later stated in \"The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book\" that he liked the fact that his strip was a \"low-tech, one-man operation,\" and that he took great pride in the fact that he drew every line and wrote every word on his own. Calls from major Hollywood figures interested in an adaptation of his work, including", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "7386585", "text": "can't come, so she responds (eyes rolling) \"it's not good to get tigers wet,\" to which Calvin asks Hobbes why this is true, and Hobbes replies \"it takes us all day to dry out, and until we do, we smell funny.\" Another example is that although the debut strip showed Calvin capturing Hobbes with a snare in such a way that seems like it's the first time they've ever met, another strip implies that Hobbes is older than Calvin and has been around his entire life. This strip has Calvin quoting that he can't recall anything from when he was", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386577", "text": "Calvin claiming that he didn't remember much of his infancy. While Calvin starts going on and on about how he suspects he was being brainwashed when he was very, very young, and asking nobody in particular what he remembered that someone wanted him to forget, Hobbes says \"I seem to recall that you spent most of the time burping up.\" Also, in an earlier strip, Hobbes once mused about some advice his father gave him. Hobbes' appearance changed over the strip's run; in the beginning he was slightly shorter, his tufts of fur less defined and shorter. His eyes also", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386584", "text": "and his irritated father must undo the knots, all the while asking Calvin how he could do this to himself. In a rare interview, Watterson explained his approach to this situation: Additionally, aspects of Hobbes' existence as a \"real\" tiger and a stuffed animal converge with little dispute from Calvin. An example is Hobbes's frequent washings or \"baths\" in the laundry machine which Calvin accepts. Likewise, in one strip, Calvin states that Hobbes becomes \"a little loopy\" when he comes out of the dryer. Another example is when Calvin's mom signed Calvin up for swimming lessons, Calvin asks why Hobbes", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386570", "text": "with Calvin, though to a lesser degree, sometimes supplying the (often unnecessary) artwork for Calvin's school projects, such as a letterhead featuring a \"Calvin shield\" surrounded by \"lance-toting tigers\". Hobbes also appears to be more enthusiastic about knowledge than Calvin since Hobbes likes reading more than he and sometimes does Calvin's homework. Hobbes is almost always willing to finish Calvin's homework when Calvin gets lazy, despite that Hobbes' motive for doing so is usually only to boast of the academic knowledge and skill of tigers while solving the problems (according to Hobbes tigers need to learn physics, biology and artistic", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386575", "text": "good fortune to lead a tiger's life. Reflecting upon his work in the introduction he wrote to \"The Complete Calvin and Hobbes,\" Watterson observed that his two characters revealed different facets of his own personality. Calvin generally voices what Watterson considered his immature side, often echoing the sentiments Watterson saw prevalent in modern America. (\"The consumer is always right\"; \"There \"has\" to be a way to cram more violence into ninety minutes\"; \"Hold on, I need to inflate my basketball shoes.\") By contrast, Hobbes offers a voice of ironic maturity — though he is himself far from immune to silliness.", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386586", "text": "under the age of three. Hobbes responds to this by saying Calvin spent most of the time burping up. Though other characters often refer to Hobbes as a \"stuffed tiger\" to Calvin, he avoids or ignores those comments (for example, when Hobbes is believed to have been stolen during a burglary, Calvin's mom reassures him that a robber would not want a stuffed tiger, to which Calvin responds \"But Hobbes is so trusting ...\"). In response to the journalist's assumption that Hobbes was a figment of Calvin's imagination, Watterson responded, Hobbes is often the voice of reason, contrasting Calvin's manic", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386569", "text": "takes great pleasure in his demonstrations of feline prowess, while Calvin expresses keen frustration at his inability to stop the attacks or explain his injuries to his skeptical parents. Hobbes is proud to be an animal and seems to have a low opinion of humans in general (when Calvin is wondering why people exist, Hobbes simply responds \"tiger food\"), and Calvin claims that he once ate a kid in his school named Tommy Chesnutt for making fun of Calvin bringing Hobbes to school. Hobbes is shown to be an enthusiastic, if not particularly talented, artist, a trait which he shares", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386566", "text": "be the voice of reason when Calvin tries to perform a risky stunt or engage in a dubious scheme. Hobbes' advice often falls on deaf ears with Calvin, who usually ignores his reasoning and winds up getting in trouble for his actions. Because of this, some fans say that Hobbes represents Calvin's conscience. However, Hobbes is shown as terrible at math and spelling, quite possibly worse than Calvin himself, seemingly reflective of Calvin's own limitation. He is named after Thomas Hobbes, a philosopher who at times had a bleak outlook on life and human nature. When Hobbes is shown to", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386581", "text": "is more about the subjective nature of reality than dolls coming to life\"; thus, there is no concrete definition of Hobbes' reality. Watterson explained: \"Calvin sees Hobbes one way, and everyone else sees Hobbes another way.\" Hobbes' reality is in the eye of the beholder. The so-called 'gimmick' of Hobbes is the juxtaposition of Calvin and Hobbes' reality and everyone else's, with the two rarely agreeing. Despite this, in the world of the comic the other characters often speak of Hobbes as Calvin's \"imaginary friend.\" As well, it is sometimes difficult to imagine how the \"stuffed toy\" interpretation of Hobbes", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "75564", "text": "as Hobbes would not be socially acceptable. Political scientist James Q. Wilson, in a paean to \"Calvin and Hobbes\" upon Watterson's decision to end the strip in 1995, characterized it as \"our only popular explication of the moral philosophy of Aristotle.\" Alisa White Coleman analyzed the strip's underlying messages concerning ethics and values in \"'Calvin and Hobbes': A Critique of Society's Values,\" published in the \"Journal of Mass Media Ethics\" in 2000. A collection of original Sunday strips was exhibited at Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in 2001. Watterson himself selected the strips and provided his", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75559", "text": "1997. These include 11 collections, which form a complete archive of the newspaper strips, except for a single daily strip from November 28, 1985. (The collections \"do\" contain a strip for this date, but it is not the same strip that appeared in some newspapers. Treasuries usually combine the two preceding collections with bonus material and include color reprints of Sunday comics.) Watterson included some new material in the treasuries. In \"The Essential Calvin and Hobbes\", which includes cartoons from the collections \"Calvin and Hobbes\" and \"Something Under the Bed Is Drooling\", the back cover features a scene of a", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "7386583", "text": "behind his Dad, his Mom exclaims, \"Dear, why are \"you\" taking a bath? And wearing your best hat?!\" Also, Hobbes \"cuts\" Calvin's hair (rather unsuccessfully), leading his parents to think that he cut his own hair badly. In several strips, Hobbes accompanies Calvin to his bus stop, and always seems to come home, even eating Calvin's lunch once (though in a later strip, Calvin's mother is shown going out to grab Hobbes after the bus has left). In another example, Hobbes \"assists\" Calvin's attempt to become a Houdini-style escape artist by tying Calvin to a chair. Calvin, however, cannot escape,", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386572", "text": "idea, and manages to thwart his tiger, although this can lead to more trouble. Calvin once managed to go through his back door to sneak up on Hobbes, yelled \"I'M HOME!\" before opening the door (causing Hobbes to leap into the door, or in one occasion, startling him into attacking Calvin anyway), and locked the door after Hobbes left the house (accidentally locking out his mother as well). Calvin also sometimes creates decoys wearing his clothes using pieces of wood, paper bags of leaves with his face on it, or makeshift snowmen, also in his clothes. Hobbes, however, usually sees", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386576", "text": "Calvin captures Hobbes in a \"tiger trap\" during the first strip of the comic. Watterson initially believed that it was important to establish how his two main characters first met, but by the time he wrote the \"Tenth Anniversary Book,\" he had changed his opinion, saying it was unnecessary and even detrimental to the feel of the strip. Much later, it is apparent in several strips that Hobbes and Calvin have known each other their whole lives, including when Calvin was an infant. This contradicted the first two strips, which show Calvin and Hobbes' first meeting. One strip especially shows", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "75558", "text": "thus has to let down the rope. Hobbes forces Calvin to say the password for insulting him. By the time Susie arrives, in time to hear Calvin saying some of the password, causing him to stumble, Calvin is on \"\"Verse Seven:\" Tigers are perfect!/The E-pit-o-me/of good looks and grace/and quiet..uh..um..dignity\". The opportunity to pelt Susie with something having passed, Calvin threatens to turn Hobbes into a rug. G.R.O.S.S. is one of the most common adventures that Calvin has. The club anthem begins: \"Ohhhh Gross, best club in the cosmos...\" There are 18 \"Calvin and Hobbes\" books, published from 1987 to", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "7386587", "text": "impulsiveness. It is ambiguous if this rationality is in Hobbes as a distinct personality, or in Calvin as a kind of conscience. In the end, the question becomes less about absolute truth and more about different versions of reality: the nature of Hobbes' existence is never a puzzle to be solved, but rather a subtle comment on the power of imagination, and on the similar power of a lack thereof. Susie Derkins also comments on Hobbes. After Calvin vigorously refuses her proposal to play with her and her toy rabbit, Mr. Bun, Hobbes comments that \"Mr. Bun seems comatose, did", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "75517", "text": "he wanted to within the medium, he announced his intention to work on future projects at a slower pace with fewer artistic compromises. The final strip ran on Sunday, December 31, 1995. It depicted Calvin and Hobbes outside in freshly fallen snow, reveling in the wonder and excitement of the winter scene. \"It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!\" Calvin exclaims as they zoom off over the snowy hills on their sled, leaving, according to one critic ten years later, \"a hole in the comics page that no strip has been able to fill.\" Syndicated comics were", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75567", "text": "the strip, was published in 2012. \"Calvin and Hobbes\" strips were again exhibited at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University in 2014, in an exhibition entitled \"Exploring Calvin and Hobbes\". An exhibition catalog by the same title, which also contained an interview with Watterson conducted by Jenny Robb, the curator of the museum, was published by Andrews McMeel in 2015. Years after its original newspaper run, \"Calvin and Hobbes\" has continued to exert influence in entertainment, art, and fandom. In television, Calvin and Hobbes are depicted in stop motion animation in the 2006 \"Robot Chicken\"", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "7386571", "text": "expression to hunt). While he explains the homework to Calvin in a seemingly scientific and advanced method, the answer that he provides is usually completely incorrect (for example, saying 7+3=73), even though most times the problem only involves simple addition or subtraction. When Hobbes is not trying to explain the homework to him, Calvin is usually reading comics or otherwise doing anything but work. Calvin often yells, \"I'M HOME!\" when he gets home, making him an easy target for Hobbes to leap out of the front door and tackle him. Sometimes, though, Calvin realizes that this is not a good", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "75554", "text": "these instances, Calvin and Hobbes claim to be the sole guardians of high culture; in another, Hobbes admires Calvin's willingness to put artistic integrity above marketability, causing Calvin to reconsider and make an ordinary snowman. Calvin and Hobbes frequently ride downhill in a wagon, sled, or toboggan, depending on the season, as a device to add some physical comedy to the strip and because, according to Watterson, \"it's a lot more interesting ... than talking heads.\" While the ride is sometimes the focus of the strip, it also frequently serves as a counterpoint or visual metaphor while Calvin ponders the", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75560", "text": "giant Calvin rampaging through a town. The scene is based on Watterson's home town of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and Calvin is holding the Chagrin Falls Popcorn Shop, an iconic candy and ice cream shop overlooking the town's namesake falls. Several of the treasuries incorporate additional poetry; \"The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes\" book features a set of poems, ranging from just a few lines to an entire page, that cover topics such as Calvin's mother's \"hindsight\" and exploring the woods. In \"The Essential Calvin and Hobbes\", Watterson presents a long poem explaining a night's battle against a monster from Calvin's perspective.", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75571", "text": "some well-earned financial security.\" While bearing Watterson's signature and drawing style, as well as featuring characters from both \"Calvin and Hobbes\" and Breathed's \"Bloom County\", it is unclear whether Watterson had any input into these cartoons or not. A number of artists and cartoonists have created works portraying Calvin as a teenager or an adult; the concept has also inspired writers. In 2011, a comic strip appeared by cartoonists Dan and Tom Heyerman called \"Hobbes and Bacon\". The strip depicts Calvin as an adult, married to Susie Derkins, with a young daughter named after philosopher Francis Bacon, to whom Calvin", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75566", "text": "for subjects in the sciences, social sciences, mathematics, philosophy, and foreign language. In a 2009 evaluation of the entire body of \"Calvin and Hobbes\" strips using grounded theory methodology, Christijan D. Draper found that: \"Overall, \"Calvin and Hobbes\" suggests that meaningful time use is a key attribute of a life well lived,\" and that \"the strip suggests one way to assess the meaning associated with time use is through preemptive retrospection by which a person looks at current experiences through the lens of an anticipated future...\" Jamey Heit's \"Imagination and Meaning in Calvin and Hobbes\", a critical, academic analysis of", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75556", "text": "garage of their house. To clear space for its activities, Calvin and (purportedly) Hobbes push Calvin's parents' car, causing it to roll into a ditch (but not suffer damage); the incident necessitates changing the club's location to Calvin's treehouse. They hold meetings to attempt to annoy Susie Derkins. Notable actions include planting a fake secret tape near her in attempt to draw her in to a trap, trapping her in a closet at their house, and creating elaborate water balloon traps. Calvin gave himself and Hobbes important positions in the club, Calvin being \"Dictator-for-Life\" and Hobbes being \"President-and-First-Tiger\". They go", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75527", "text": "Watterson chose to walk away. One estimate places the value of licensing revenue forgone by Watterson at $300–$400 million. Almost no legitimate \"Calvin and Hobbes\" merchandise exists. Exceptions produced during the strip's original run include two 16-month calendars (1988–89 and 1989–90), a t-shirt for the Smithsonian Exhibit, \"Great American Comics: 100 Years of Cartoon Art\" (1990) and the textbook \"Teaching with\" Calvin and Hobbes, which has been described as \"perhaps the most difficult piece of official \"Calvin and Hobbes\" memorabilia to find.\" In 2010, Watterson did allow his characters to be included in a series of United States Postal Service", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75546", "text": "strip, some in \"reality\" and others in Calvin's imagination. These are as follows: Calvin imagines himself as a great many things including dinosaurs, elephants, jungle-farers and superheroes. Three of his alter egos are well defined and recurrent: Calvin has had several adventures involving corrugated cardboard boxes, which he adapts for many imaginative uses. In one strip, when Calvin shows off his Transmogrifier, a device that transforms its user into any desired creature or item, Hobbes remarks, \"It's amazing what they do with corrugated cardboard these days.\" Calvin is able to change the function of the boxes by rewriting the label", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75510", "text": "the love/hate relationship between him and his classmate Susie Derkins. Hobbes' dual nature is a defining motif for the strip: to Calvin, Hobbes is a living anthropomorphic tiger; all the other characters see Hobbes as an inanimate stuffed toy. Though the series does not mention specific political figures or current events, it does explore broad issues like environmentalism, public education, philosophical quandaries, and the flaws of opinion polls. At the height of its popularity, \"Calvin and Hobbes\" was featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide. In 2010, reruns of the strip appeared in more than 50 countries, and nearly 45 million", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "16172900", "text": "in Ohio, California, and Singapore. The Chester Fritz Library at the University of North Dakota preserves its copy of \"Teaching with\" Calvin and Hobbes in the library's Special Collections Department for rare publications and manuscripts. Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes \"Teaching with\" Calvin and Hobbes is an American children's textbook published in 1993. As a rare piece of officially licensed \"Calvin and Hobbes\" merchandise, it is a highly valued collectible. Written by a speech-language pathologist and a learning disabilities educator, \"Teaching with\" Calvin and Hobbes is a language textbook for elementary and intermediate-level students. Jan Roebken created the cover and", "title": "Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "16172896", "text": "Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes \"Teaching with\" Calvin and Hobbes is an American children's textbook published in 1993. As a rare piece of officially licensed \"Calvin and Hobbes\" merchandise, it is a highly valued collectible. Written by a speech-language pathologist and a learning disabilities educator, \"Teaching with\" Calvin and Hobbes is a language textbook for elementary and intermediate-level students. Jan Roebken created the cover and additional interior illustrations. The book reprints fifty-seven \"Calvin and Hobbes\" comic strips, organized into five lesson units. Each unit begins with a series of comic strips that form a story. The five units are: In", "title": "Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75519", "text": "an art form were becoming dilute, bland, and unoriginal. Watterson longed for the artistic freedom allotted to classic strips such as \"Little Nemo\" and \"Krazy Kat\", and in 1989 he gave a sample of what could be accomplished with such liberty in the opening pages of the Sunday strip compilation, \"The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book—\"a 8-page previously unpublished Calvin story fully illustrated in watercolour. The same book contained an afterword from the artist himself, reflecting on a time when comic strips were allocated a whole page of the newspaper and every comic was like a \"colour poster\". Within", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75555", "text": "meaning of life, death, God, philosophy or a variety of other weighty subjects. Many of their rides end in spectacular crashes which leave them battered and broken, a fact which convinces Hobbes to sometimes hop off before a ride even begins. In the final strip, Calvin and Hobbes depart on their toboggan to go exploring. This theme is similar (perhaps even homage) to scenarios in Walt Kelly's \"Pogo\". G.R.O.S.S., which stands for Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS (\"otherwise it doesn't spell anything\"), is a club which consists of only two members: Calvin and Hobbes. The club was founded in the", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75541", "text": "such as their water balloon and snowball fights, employing guile or force. Hobbes often openly expresses romantic feelings for Susie, much to Calvin's disgust. Calvin starts a \"club\" (of which he and Hobbes are the only members) that he calls G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS), and while holding \"meetings\" in Calvin's treehouse or in the \"box of secrecy\" in Calvin's room, they usually come up with some way to annoy or discomfit Susie, most of which backfire on them completely. In one instance, Calvin steals one of Susie's dolls for ransom, only to have Susie retaliate by nabbing Hobbes.", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "7386573", "text": "through Calvin's decoy and either spots him or uses the decoy to his advantage. In one strip, Calvin's fear and expectation of this attack is used as humor; Calvin opens the door as usual, but is not attacked; he then goes upstairs to find Hobbes reading comic books, relatively unconcerned. Hobbes is also \"President-and-First-Tiger\" of the G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS) club. The club headquarters are located in a treehouse (although in one strip an emergency meeting was held in a cardboard box called the \"Box of Secrecy\"), which Hobbes can get into without needing the rope ladder. He", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "7386580", "text": "But when the perspective shifts to any other character, readers see merely a stuffed tiger (there are some occasions in which Calvin's perspective of Hobbes is visible in the same panel as a parent, but the parent was not looking at the time). This is, of course, an odd dichotomy, and Watterson explains it as thus: Many readers assume that Hobbes is either a product of Calvin's imagination, or a stuffed animal that comes to life when Calvin is the only one around, or when nobody else but him is looking. However, Watterson rejects both of these interpretations, saying, \"Hobbes", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "75537", "text": "staring into space. The true nature of the character is never resolved, instead as Watterson describes, a 'grown-up' version of reality is juxtaposed against Calvin's, with the reader left to \"decide which is truer\". Hobbes is named after the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who held what Watterson describes as \"a dim view of human nature.\" He typically exhibits a greater understanding of consequences than Calvin, although rarely intervenes in Calvin's activities beyond a few oblique warnings. The friendship between the two characters provides the core dynamic of the strip. Calvin's unnamed mother and father are typical middle-class parents. Calvin's father", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75528", "text": "stamps honoring five classic American comics. Licensed prints of \"Calvin and Hobbes\" can also be purchased through Uclick, the digital division of Andrews McMeel Universal, and have also been included in various academic works. The strip's immense popularity has led to the appearance of various counterfeit items such as window decals and T-shirts that often feature crude humor, binge drinking and other themes that are not found in Watterson's work. Images from one strip in which Calvin and Hobbes dance to loud music at night were commonly used for copyright violations. After threat of a lawsuit alleging infringement of copyright", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "7386574", "text": "takes advantage of this by not allowing Calvin access into the treehouse without reciting the club's password, which is eight verses of a poem extolling tigers. It can also be much more than this; in one strip Hobbes remarked \"You're not doing the dance.\" Watterson based some of Hobbes's characteristics, especially his playfulness and attack instinct, on his own pet cat, Sprite, who was known to unexpectedly jump out of nowhere. Hobbes takes great pride in being a feline (his love affair with tuna borders on addiction) and frequently makes wry or even disparaging comments about human nature, declaring his", "title": "Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)" }, { "docid": "75535", "text": "Bristol board and then mark the strip accordingly before sending it on. When \"Calvin and Hobbes\" began there were 64 colors available for the Sunday strips. For the later Sunday strips Watterson had 125 colors as well as the ability to fade the colors into each other. Calvin, named after the 16th-century theologian John Calvin, is a six-year-old boy with blond, spiky hair and a distinctive red-and-black striped shirt, black pants, and sneakers. Despite his poor grades in school, Calvin demonstrates his intelligence through a sophisticated vocabulary and philosophical mind. Watterson described Calvin has having \"not much of a filter", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "6840261", "text": "of [her] voice\". During one series of strips Calvin modifies his \"duplicator\" to copy only his \"good\" side; this well-dressed, polite, and very-intelligent version of Calvin soon becomes besotted with Susie, and is mystified by her hostile reaction. Mr. Bun is Susie's stuffed rabbit, which frequents her tea parties as a guest. Unlike Hobbes, Mr. Bun is never shown as a living character, and Hobbes once described Mr. Bun as \"comatose\". This is used for comedic effect occasionally, as when Susie, playing \"House\" with Calvin, attempts to use Mr. Bun as their baby child, only to have Calvin refuse to", "title": "Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75557", "text": "into Calvin's treehouse for their club meetings and often get into fights during them. The password to get into the treehouse is intentionally long and difficult, which has on at least one occasion ruined Calvin's plans. As Hobbes is able to climb the tree without the rope, he is usually the one who comes up with the password, which often involves heaping praise upon tigers. An example of this can be seen in the comic strip where Calvin, rushing to get into the treehouse to throw things at a passing Susie Derkins, insults Hobbes, who is in the treehouse and", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "6840259", "text": "the victim of Calvin's derision and plots, and is also often willing to retaliate when provoked. Most commonly, Susie will be the target of Calvin's water balloons or snowballs. Calvin often goes to great lengths to disgust or annoy Susie, as when founding his and Hobbes' club 'G.R.O.S.S.' (Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS) purposely to oppose her. Susie is Calvin's equal (and often superior) in cunning, often turning his plans into ignominious defeats. The two sometimes speak at their bus stop, where both become exasperated by their conversation; and at the lunch table, where Calvin recites disgusting descriptions of what", "title": "Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75515", "text": "of the battle over merchandising led to Watterson taking an extended break from May 5, 1991, to February 1, 1992, unprecedented in the world of syndicated cartoonists. During Watterson's first sabbatical from the strip, Universal Press Syndicate continued to charge newspapers full price to re-run old \"Calvin and Hobbes\" strips. Few editors approved of the move, but the strip was so popular that they had no choice but to continue to run it for fear that competing newspapers might pick it up and draw its fans away. Watterson returned to the strip in 1992 with plans to produce his Sunday", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75523", "text": "they may wish to take off. Watterson's lengthy sabbaticals received some mild criticism from his fellow cartoonists including Greg Evans (Luann), and even Charles Schulz (Peanuts), one of Watterson's major artistic influences, called it a \"puzzle\". Some cartoonists resented the idea that Watterson worked harder than others, whilst others supported it. At least one newspaper editor noted that the strip was the most popular in the country, and that he had \"earned it\". Following his second sabbatical, Watterson made the decision that he was going to retire from the comic strip entirely. In spite of \"Calvin and Hobbes\"' popularity, the", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75536", "text": "between his brain and his mouth\", a \"little too intelligent for his age\", lacking in restraint and not yet having the experience to \"know the things that you shouldn't do.\" The comic strip largely revolves around the Calvin's inner world, and his largely antagonistic experiences with those outside of it (fellow students, authority figures and his parents). From Calvin's point of view, Hobbes is an anthropomorphic tiger, much larger than Calvin and full of independent attitudes and ideas. When the perspective shifts to any other character, readers see merely a stuffed animal, usually seated at an off-kilter angle and blankly", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "6840257", "text": "with proper names, and that the character never provided the new material for Calvin that he had hoped for. A few strips mention Calvin's grandparents. One example, which Watterson selected for reproduction in the \"Tenth Anniversary Book,\" features Calvin describing his father's complaints about comic strips: newspapers print them too small, and now they look like Xeroxed talking heads. Hobbes then tells Calvin that his grandfather takes comic strips seriously; Calvin says as a result, his mother is looking into nursing homes. Susie Derkins is a classmate of Calvin who lives in his neighborhood. She is the only recurring character", "title": "Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75544", "text": "ever do (Hobbes blandly notes, \"You misspelled \"Weltanschauung\"\"). He indulges in what Watterson calls \"pop psychobabble\" to justify his destructive rampages and shift blame to his parents, citing \"toxic codependency.\" In one instance, he pens a book report based on the theory that the purpose of academic writing is to \"inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity,\" entitled \"The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in \"Dick and Jane:\" A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes\". Displaying his creation to Hobbes, he remarks, \"Academia, here I come!\" Watterson explains that he adapted this jargon (and similar examples from", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "6840265", "text": "character never portrayed sympathetically. Stephan Pastis of the 2000s comic \"Pearls Before Swine\" has cited Watterson and \"Calvin and Hobbes\" as among his many influences; in particular, the Zeeba Zeeba Eata fraternity of crocodiles is identified with Moe, even speaking in the same typeface. Rosalyn, the last of the significant recurring characters to appear, is a high school senior and the only babysitter able to tolerate Calvin's antics. Rosalyn is perhaps the only character in the strip whom Calvin really fears. Introduced in an early strip, Watterson found her ferocity and intimidation of Calvin surprising, and he brought her back", "title": "Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "6840266", "text": "periodically in increasingly elaborate story-lines. Watterson described their relationship as \"one-dimensional\", although in her final appearance Rosalyn agrees to play a game of Calvinball, and in so doing, becoming the only character in the strip, other than Hobbes, to truly engage with Calvin on his own terms. Calvin is often terrified of her, calling her a \"sadistic kid-hater\" and a \"barracuda in a high-school-senior suit\"; but in the final Rosalyn story, their opposition is averted by a game of Calvinball, which Rosalyn wins. In nearly all the \"Rosalyn stories\", Rosalyn is shown demanding advance payment and raises in wage from", "title": "Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "6840253", "text": "activities, like Calvin's chores, \"build character\". Though his age is never specified, when Calvin offers him a bowl of chocolate cereal, he replies \"No thanks, I'm trying to reach middle age.\" In a rare instance where Calvin and Hobbes are pushed into the background of a story arc, Calvin's father is particularly shaken when the house is robbed. As he admits to his wife, \"I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.\" Calvin's mother is a stay-at-home mom who is frequently exasperated by Calvin's", "title": "Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "6840262", "text": "recognize him as a human infant—with the entire strip, including the rabbit, drawn in a realistic style \"à la\" \"Rex Morgan, M.D.\". Miss Wormwood is Calvin's schoolteacher. Watterson commented that a few astute fans of the strip have correctly asked him if Miss Wormwood was named after the apprentice demon in C. S. Lewis' \"The Screwtape Letters\". She usually wears polka-dotted dresses, and serves as a foil to Calvin's mischief. Despite the changing seasons and recurring holidays, the characters in \"Calvin and Hobbes\" do not age, and so Calvin and Susie return to Miss Wormwood's first-grade class every fall. Miss", "title": "Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75548", "text": "does seem like multiple Calvins, including in a strip where two of him are seen in the same panel as his father. It is ultimately unknown what his parents do or do not see, as Calvin tries to hide most of his creations (or conceal their effects) so as not to traumatize them. In addition, Calvin uses a cardboard box as a sidewalk kiosk to sell things. Often, Calvin offers merchandise no one would want, such as \"suicide drink\", \"a swift kick in the butt\" for one dollar, or a \"frank appraisal of your looks\" for fifty cents. In one", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "16172899", "text": "find.\" The book price comparison website Dualj.com, which tracked sale prices of books, recorded that a copy of \"Teaching with\" Calvin and Hobbes sold for US$10,000 in 2009. Valuations for the book ranged to US$34,000 in 2012. A copy was sold on eBay for an \"extremely generous\" donation to the HALO Trust charity in 2013. WorldCat lists only eight libraries in the entire world as holding a copy of the book: the United States Library of Congress, the Chester Fritz Library along with only three other libraries in North Dakota (where the book was published), and one university library each", "title": "Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "6840252", "text": "work, or bad customer service and frustrations when grocery shopping. Also, occasionally Watterson takes the time to flesh out the two parental characters. One example is a storyline in which the family returns from a wedding to find their house has been broken into and ransacked. For several strips, Calvin and Hobbes fade into the background as Mom and Dad reflect on the impact of the event. Calvin's father is a white-collar office worker, specifically a patent attorney, as Watterson's own father was. An outdoorsman, he enjoys bike rides and camping trips, sometimes in extreme weather and insists that these", "title": "Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75526", "text": "Hobbes plush toy: that if the essence of Hobbes' nature in the strip is that it remain unresolved whether he is a real tiger or a stuffed toy, then creating a real stuffed toy would only destroy the magic. However, having initially signed away control over merchandising in his initial contract with the syndicate, Watterson would commence a lengthy and emotionally draining battle with Universal to gain control over his work. Ultimately Universal did not approve any products against Watterson's wishes, understanding that unlike other comic strips, it would be near impossible to separate the creator from the strip if", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75516", "text": "strip as an unbreakable half of a newspaper or tabloid page. This made him only the second cartoonist since Garry Trudeau to have sufficient popularity to demand more space and control over the presentation of their work. Watterson took a second sabbatical from April 3 through December 31, 1994. When he returned, he had made the decision to end the strip. In 1995, Watterson sent a letter via his syndicate to all editors whose newspapers carried his strip announcing his plans to end the strip by the end of the year. Stating his belief that he had achieved everything that", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75512", "text": "United Feature ultimately rejected the new strip as lacking in marketing potential, Universal Press Syndicate took it up. The first strip was published on November 18, 1985 in 35 newspapers. Watterson was warned by the syndicate not to give up the day job yet, but it wasn't long before the series had become a hit. Within a year of syndication, the strip was published in roughly 250 newspapers and was proving to have international appeal with translation and wide circulation outside the United States. Although \"Calvin\" would undergo continual artistic development and creative innovation over the period of syndication, the", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75540", "text": "is also depicted playing imaginary games with Calvin in which she is a high-powered lawyer or politician and he is her househusband. Though both of them hate to admit it, Calvin and Susie have quite a bit in common. For example, Susie is shown on occasion with a stuffed bunny rabbit named \"Mr. Bun.\" Susie also has a mischievous (and sometimes aggressive) streak, which can be seen when she subverts Calvin's attempts to cheat on school tests by feeding him incorrect answers, or when she clobbers Calvin after he attacks her with snowballs. Susie also regularly bests Calvin in confrontations", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "5253755", "text": "Drew Friedman (cartoonist) Drew Friedman is an American cartoonist and illustrator who first gained renown for his humorous artwork and \"stippling\"-like style of caricature, employing thousands of pen-marks to simulate the look of a photograph. In the mid-1990s, he switched to painting. Friedman's work has appeared in such periodicals as \"Entertainment Weekly\", \"Newsweek\", \"Time\", \"The New York Times\", \"The Wall Street Journal\", \"The New Yorker\", \"The New Republic\", \"The New York Observer\", \"Esquire\", \"RAW\", \"Rolling Stone\", \"The Village Voice\" and \"Mad\". His works have been anthologized in seven collections, and he has illustrated a number of books, including Howard Stern's", "title": "Drew Friedman (cartoonist)" }, { "docid": "5253762", "text": "at SVA, Friedman edited both Eisner and Kurtzman's year-end magazines of student work (\"Will Eisner's Gallery of New Comics\" and \"Kartunz\", respectively) Friedman's classmates at SVA included Mark Newgarden, Mike Carlin and Kaz. He is the son of author/satirist Bruce Jay Friedman. Friedman was recognized for his work with the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Illustration Award for 2000, and he was nominated again in 2002 and 2007. That organization also awarded Friedman their Magazine Illustration Award for 2000. Drew Friedman (cartoonist) Drew Friedman is an American cartoonist and illustrator who first gained renown for his humorous artwork and \"stippling\"-like style", "title": "Drew Friedman (cartoonist)" }, { "docid": "75538", "text": "is a patent attorney (like Watterson's own father) and his mother is a stay-at-home mom. Watterson says, \"As far as the strip is concerned, they are important only as Calvin's mom and dad.\" Like many other characters in the strip, they are relatively down to earth and their sensible attitudes serve as a foil for Calvin's outlandish behavior. Watterson says some fans are angered by the sometimes sardonic way that Calvin's parents respond to him. Watterson defends what Calvin's parents do, remarking that in the case of parenting a kid like Calvin, \"I think they do a better job than", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75529", "text": "and trademark, some sticker makers replaced Calvin with a different boy, while other makers made no changes. Watterson wryly commented, \"I clearly miscalculated how popular it would be to show Calvin urinating on a Ford logo,\" but that they would be his \"ticket to immortality\". Watterson has expressed admiration for animation as an artform. In a 1989 interview in \"The Comics Journal\" he described the appeal of being able to do things with a moving image that can't be done by a simple drawing: the distortion, the exaggeration and the control over the length of time an event is viewed.", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75543", "text": "drawing impossible things (a \"Stegosaurus\" in a rocket ship, for example), Calvin proclaims himself \"on the cutting edge of the \"avant-garde\".\" He begins exploring the medium of snow when a warm day melts his snowman. His next sculpture \"speaks to the horror of our own mortality, inviting the viewer to contemplate the evanescence of life.\" In later strips, Calvin's creative instincts diversify to include sidewalk drawings (or, as he terms them, examples of \"suburban postmodernism\"). Watterson also lampooned the academic world. In one example, Calvin carefully crafts an \"artist's statement\", claiming that such essays convey more messages than artworks themselves", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75553", "text": "in his back; a \"snowman house of horror\"; and snowmen representing the people he hates. \"The ones I \"really\" hate are small, so they'll melt faster,\" he says. There was even an occasion on which Calvin accidentally brought a snowman to life and it made itself and a small army into \"deranged mutant killer monster snow goons.\" Calvin's snow art is often used as a commentary on art in general. For example, Calvin has complained more than once about the lack of originality in other people's snow art and compared it with his own grotesque snow sculptures. In one of", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75542", "text": "Watterson admits that Calvin and Susie have a nascent crush on each other, and that Susie is inspired by the type of woman whom Watterson himself found attractive and eventually married. Calvin also interacts with a handful of secondary characters. Several of these, including Rosalyn his babysitter, Mrs Wormwood his teacher and Moe the school bully reoccur regularly through the duration of the strip. Watterson used the strip to poke fun at the art world, principally through Calvin's unconventional creations of snowmen but also through other expressions of childhood art. When Miss Wormwood complains that he is wasting class time", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75552", "text": "the game is finished. The game has been described in one academic work not as a new game based on fragments of an older one, but as the \"constant connecting and disconnecting of parts, the constant evasion of rules or guidelines based on collective creativity.\" Calvin often creates horrendous/dark humor scenes with his snowmen. He uses the snowman for social commentary, revenge, or pure enjoyment. Examples include Snowman Calvin being yelled at by Snowman Dad to shovel the snow; one snowman eating snow cones scooped out of a second snowman, who is lying on the ground with an ice-cream scoop", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "2820257", "text": "in a Washington college newspaper, the \"Copper Point Journal\", in 1997, with Simpson using ink and brush as drawing implements. When the strip began, Simpson's artistic style was similar to that in \"Calvin and Hobbes\" — Simpson claims to have been influenced by comics and cartoons such as \"Bloom County\", \"Calvin and Hobbes\", \"The Simpsons\", and \"Pogo\". It became an irregular webcomic in early 1998. In June 1998, it became a Monday-Friday daily strip. In the same year, Simpson won a newspaper syndicate's college cartoonist award. In 2000, the strip went on hiatus and returned with a new, unique style.", "title": "Ozy and Millie" }, { "docid": "13000729", "text": "Hobbes–Wallis controversy The Hobbes–Wallis controversy was a polemic debate that continued from the mid-1650s well into the 1670s, between the philosopher Thomas Hobbes and the mathematician John Wallis. It was sparked by \"De corpore\", a philosophical work by Hobbes in the general area of physics. The book contained not only a theory of mathematics subordinating it to geometry and geometry to kinematics, but a claimed proof of the squaring of the circle by Hobbes. While Hobbes retracted this particular proof, he returned to the topic with other attempted proofs. A pamphleteering exchange continued for decades. It drew in the newly", "title": "Hobbes–Wallis controversy" }, { "docid": "6840263", "text": "Wormwood is rarely sympathetic to the trouble Calvin has in school, and comes across as a rather strict, sour character. She often calls on Calvin to answer questions, to catch him off guard, to which Calvin either replies with an excuse (\"Hard to say, Ma'am. I think my cerebellum just fused.\"), or takes solace in the world of Spaceman Spiff or another alter ego. She is quick to send Calvin to the principal's office at the first sign of trouble. Calvin apparently takes joy in being the reason why Miss Wormwood mixes different stress-related medications, \"drinks Maalox straight from the", "title": "Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75522", "text": "1992, and second from April 3 through December 31, 1994. These sabbaticals were included in the new contract Watterson managed to negotiate with Universal Features in 1990. The sabbaticals were proposed by the syndicate themselves who, fearing Watterson's complete burnout, endeavoured to get another five years of work from their star artist. Watterson remains only the third cartoonist with sufficient popularity and stature to receive a sabbatical from their syndicate, the first being Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury) in 1983 and Gary Larson (The Far Side) in 1989. Typically cartoonists are expected to produce sufficient strips to cover any period of time", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "6840255", "text": "that the strip mostly shows her impatient side.) She also usually seems sympathetic towards her son's relationship with Hobbes, and a few times has found herself speaking to Hobbes as well, though this embarrasses her. Early on in the strip, Watterson says, they were criticized by readers for being overly sarcastic and insufficiently patient, especially Calvin's father, who has several times reminded his wife that he at first wanted a dachshund instead of a son. Calvin's Uncle Max appeared in a series of strips in 1988, visiting the family. Uncle Max is Calvin's father's \"big brother\", though he is established", "title": "Secondary characters in Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "75539", "text": "I would.\" Calvin's father is overly concerned with \"character building\" activities in a number of strips, either in the things he makes Calvin do or in the austere eccentricities of his own lifestyle. Susie Derkins, who first appeared early in the strip and is the only important character with both a first and last name, lives on Calvin's street and is one of his classmates. Her last name apparently derives from the pet beagle owned by Watterson's wife's family. Susie is polite and studious, and she likes to play house or host tea parties with her stuffed animals. However, she", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" }, { "docid": "5199511", "text": "using Simpson's own name in an online unicorn name generator. The strip has been favorably compared to \"Calvin & Hobbes\" with a feminine slant; in contrast to \"Calvin & Hobbes\", where the character of Hobbes is only a stuffed tiger doll that Calvin imagines is alive, Marigold the unicorn exists as a living creature in Phoebe's world, but hides her form through a \"Shield of Boringness\" that makes her appear unremarkable to other characters in the strip. The strips have been published in the following books: Other books: Dana Simpson Dana Claire Simpson is an American cartoonist, best known as", "title": "Dana Simpson" }, { "docid": "75531", "text": "Jim Henson, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were never returned and in a 2013 interview Watterson stated that he had \"zero interest\" in an animated adaptation as there was really no upside for him in doing so. The strip borrows several elements and themes from three major influences: Walt Kelly's \"Pogo\", George Herriman's \"Krazy Kat\", and Charles M. Schulz's \"Peanuts\". Schulz and Kelly particularly influenced Watterson's outlook on comics during his formative years. Notable elements of Watterson's artistic style are his characters' diverse and often exaggerated expressions (particularly those of Calvin), elaborate and bizarre backgrounds for Calvin's flights of imagination,", "title": "Calvin and Hobbes" } ]
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What Disney Channel star, and favorite of everyone here tonight, was born on Nov 23, 1992 with the first names Destiny Hope?
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[ { "docid": "19052466", "text": "Hope, Future and Destiny Hope, Future and Destiny is an album by American jazz flautist Nicole Mitchell, which was released in 2004 on Dreamtime, the label she established with David Boykin. It was the third recording by her Black Earth Ensemble. This work was the musical score for a multi-arts community play involving a cast of over 50 people in dance, video, acting and live original music. In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states \"The music found on this disc is ambitious. Despite the work's sprawling reach, the music is deeply focused; its center is poetic, lyrical, and swinging.", "title": "Hope, Future and Destiny" }, { "docid": "19052468", "text": "by Nicole Mitchell. Hope, Future and Destiny Hope, Future and Destiny is an album by American jazz flautist Nicole Mitchell, which was released in 2004 on Dreamtime, the label she established with David Boykin. It was the third recording by her Black Earth Ensemble. This work was the musical score for a multi-arts community play involving a cast of over 50 people in dance, video, acting and live original music. In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states \"The music found on this disc is ambitious. Despite the work's sprawling reach, the music is deeply focused; its center is poetic,", "title": "Hope, Future and Destiny" }, { "docid": "9212531", "text": "Miley Cyrus Miley Ray Cyrus (born Destiny Hope Cyrus; November 23, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. After playing minor roles in the television series \"Doc\" and the film \"Big Fish\" in her childhood, she became a teen idol starring as the character Miley Stewart on the Disney Channel television series \"Hannah Montana\" in 2006. Her father Billy Ray Cyrus also starred on the series, which aired for four seasons until 2011. Cyrus has earned three number-one albums on the US \"Billboard\" 200 with \"\" (2007), \"Breakout\" (2008), and \"Bangerz\" (2013). Her releases \"The Time of Our Lives\"", "title": "Miley Cyrus" } ]
[ { "docid": "14869628", "text": "Kinect and PlayStation Move, respectively, but it was cancelled for undisclosed reasons, making it the first Disney game to feature Miis as player characters. \"Disney Channel All Star Party\" is a party video game in which stages resemble board games, with 30 games based on Disney Channel series and a Disney Channel film, limited to the 2007-2010 time period. Disney Channel All Star Party Disney Channel All Star Party is a party game based on the Disney Channel shows, exclusively for Wii. This game uses characters, games, and stages from \"Phineas and Ferb\", \"Jonas\", \"Sonny with a Chance\", \"Wizards of", "title": "Disney Channel All Star Party" }, { "docid": "19872786", "text": "\"Big City Greens\" moved their first-run episodes to Disney Channel on May 4, June 9, and June 18, 2018, respectively. On July 16, 2018, Disney Channel premiered \"\", a revival of the 1998-2001 series \"Bug Juice\", and the short series \"Disney Quizney\". On July 23, 2018, \"Stuck in the Middle\" aired its final episode after three seasons. On August 15, 2018, Disney Channel premiered a Marvel short series \"Marvel Rising: Initiation\". On October 7, 2018, Disney Channel premiered \"Star Wars Resistance\". On October 12, 2018, Disney Channel premiered \"Coop & Cami Ask the World\". On November 15, 2018, when Disney", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "20111367", "text": "are intended to be released. Star Wars Forces of Destiny Star Wars Forces of Destiny is a 2D animated web series by Lucasfilm Animation released through Disney's YouTube channel. Set across multiple eras of the \"Star Wars\" franchise, it is a collection of two to three minute shorts centering on female characters featured in previous \"Star Wars\" installments. The series premiered on July 3, 2017, beginning the daily release of a set of eight episodes; these episodes subsequently began broadcasting on Disney Channel on July 9. An additional eight episodes were released in Fall 2017, and a second season of", "title": "Star Wars Forces of Destiny" }, { "docid": "20111360", "text": "Star Wars Forces of Destiny Star Wars Forces of Destiny is a 2D animated web series by Lucasfilm Animation released through Disney's YouTube channel. Set across multiple eras of the \"Star Wars\" franchise, it is a collection of two to three minute shorts centering on female characters featured in previous \"Star Wars\" installments. The series premiered on July 3, 2017, beginning the daily release of a set of eight episodes; these episodes subsequently began broadcasting on Disney Channel on July 9. An additional eight episodes were released in Fall 2017, and a second season of eight episodes were released in", "title": "Star Wars Forces of Destiny" }, { "docid": "14869627", "text": "Disney Channel All Star Party Disney Channel All Star Party is a party game based on the Disney Channel shows, exclusively for Wii. This game uses characters, games, and stages from \"Phineas and Ferb\", \"Jonas\", \"Sonny with a Chance\", \"Wizards of Waverly Place\", \"Hannah Montana\", \"The Suite Life on Deck\", and \"\". It was released in North America on October 26, 2010, and in Europe on November 5, 2010. It is published by Disney Interactive Studios and developed by Page 44 Studios. The game would have been released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with options for support with", "title": "Disney Channel All Star Party" }, { "docid": "20111364", "text": "web shorts because it was felt to better appeal to children's watching patterns: \"The way that kids are consuming content today, they're still watching linear television, but increasingly they're consuming content digitally, online. We've created a story format here that reflects that. It's a combination of digital and linear.\" \"Forces of Destiny\" premiered on July 3, 2017, through Disney's YouTube channel, beginning the daily release of a set of eight episodes. It was initially announced that this release would culminate in the broadcast premiere of the eight episode set on Disney Channel on July 9 as a thirty-minute special, but", "title": "Star Wars Forces of Destiny" }, { "docid": "8876431", "text": "Hope Was Here Hope Was Here is a 2000 novel by Joan Bauer. It was declared a Newbery Honor Book in 2001. The audiobook read by Jenna Lamia won the AudioFile Earphones Award. Hope Yancey is a teenage waitress living with her aunt Addie in Brooklyn, where Addie works as a chef at \"The Blue Box Diner\". Hope's birth mother, Deena, deemed herself unfit for parenting and gave Hope to Addie rather than raise her on her own. Hope doesn't know who her birth father is. When \"The Blue Box Diner\" closes down because the owner stole all of the", "title": "Hope Was Here" }, { "docid": "8928766", "text": "Disney Junior) was launched in Vietnam, Palau and Thailand. It finished off with a launch of both in Cambodia, its 11th market, with Cambodia Entertainment Production Co. Ltd. as distributor. On May 1, 2015, The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia launched a high-definition simulcast feed of Disney Channel in the Philippines, available on SkyCable and Destiny Cable distributed by Asian Cable Communications, Inc. (ACCION) in that country. Just like its SD counterpart, the HD simulcast of the channel airs the same shows shown in the SD feed. With the launch of the channel in 1996, Disney Channel Asia adopted the", "title": "Disney Channel (Southeast Asia)" }, { "docid": "8876436", "text": "looking for. G.T.'s death devastates Mulhoney, but eventually Hope is able to come to terms with her loss and appreciate that she has found a stable home at \"Welcome Stairways\". Hope Was Here Hope Was Here is a 2000 novel by Joan Bauer. It was declared a Newbery Honor Book in 2001. The audiobook read by Jenna Lamia won the AudioFile Earphones Award. Hope Yancey is a teenage waitress living with her aunt Addie in Brooklyn, where Addie works as a chef at \"The Blue Box Diner\". Hope's birth mother, Deena, deemed herself unfit for parenting and gave Hope to", "title": "Hope Was Here" }, { "docid": "836104", "text": "have also aired on Disney Channel, although most of them are not presently owned by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. On May 26, 2010, Disney-ABC Television Group announced the launch of a new digital cable and satellite channel targeted at preschool-aged children called Disney Junior, which debuted on March 23, 2012. The Disney Junior channel – which like Disney Channel (though unlike Disney XD or the channel Disney Junior replaced, Soapnet), is commercial-free – competes with other preschooler-skewing cable channels such as Nick Jr., Qubo and Sprout. The channel features programs from Disney Channel's existing preschool programming library and movies", "title": "Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "17525774", "text": "Star Wars: Threads of Destiny Star Wars: Threads of Destiny is a 2014 fan film, created by fans of George Lucas' \"Star Wars\" saga. The film takes place after \"Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi\", and explores new adventures in a familiar galaxy. Compared to the average fan film, \"Threads of Destiny\" runs long with a length of 110 minutes, and was relatively inexpensive to make, with a final budget between $5,500 and $6,000. The film was released online on February 23, 2014. , Threads of Destiny had surpassed 9 million views on YouTube. Ninety-four years after the", "title": "Star Wars: Threads of Destiny" }, { "docid": "17525783", "text": "fan film again. Star Wars: Threads of Destiny Star Wars: Threads of Destiny is a 2014 fan film, created by fans of George Lucas' \"Star Wars\" saga. The film takes place after \"Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi\", and explores new adventures in a familiar galaxy. Compared to the average fan film, \"Threads of Destiny\" runs long with a length of 110 minutes, and was relatively inexpensive to make, with a final budget between $5,500 and $6,000. The film was released online on February 23, 2014. , Threads of Destiny had surpassed 9 million views on YouTube. Ninety-four", "title": "Star Wars: Threads of Destiny" }, { "docid": "10088157", "text": "Digital Content NewFronts with Maker Studios, the former Disney Online websites, StarWars.com and other digital first content units. DCPI moved to address three issues for all franchises, expanding the audience, category expansion & product development and direct-to-consumer. With Marvel and Star Wars, DCPI planned to push into the female audience. With Star Wars, DCPI partnered with Lucasfilm Animation for \"Star Wars Forces of Destiny\" which features female characters, premieres on DCPI's Disney YouTube channel and supported by apparel, books and toys including a new product type, \"adventure figures\". DCPI has worked on aging up Minnie Mouse by working with several", "title": "Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media" }, { "docid": "20111363", "text": "R2-D2, BB-8 and Chopper. \"Forces of Destiny\" was announced on April 12, 2017, and a special preview of the series presented at \"Star Wars\" Celebration Orlando on April 14. The series is the first 2D animated series produced by Lucasfilm since the 2003 \"\" series and the first 2D animation project created by Lucasfilm Animation; previous 2D animated series such as \"\", \"\", and early installments of \"Clone Wars\" were created before the formation of the studio. The series is part of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media's franchise expansion initiative. \"Forces of Destiny\" was created as a series of", "title": "Star Wars Forces of Destiny" }, { "docid": "11448407", "text": "the original album. A live version from the first Rolling Thunder Revue tour was included on \"\". \"Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You\" has appeared on Dylan compilation albums, including \"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II\" and \"\". Artists who have covered the song include Eddie Adcock, Jeff Beck, Johnny Cash, My Morning Jacket, Cher, Ben E. King, Albert Lee, Limbeck, Ricky Nelson, Orange Bicycle, Ann Peebles, Esther Phillips, Sugarland, The Black Crowes, RANA, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Zora Young and Whitney. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You \"Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You\" is a song", "title": "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" }, { "docid": "8565584", "text": "takes the form of a variety show, and airs 5:00 pm (AEST) weekdays with two hosts who act as the faces of Disney Channel. The hosts present Disney programs and news, along with celebrity interviews and other comedy segments. It is currently hosted by Ashleigh “Ash” Wells and Tim Matthews. On 1 December 2018 it was announced that sister network Disney XD would cease broadcasting on 6 January 2019, with a selection of programming moving to Disney Channel thereafter. Programs moving from Disney XD includes \"Star Wars Resistance\" and various Marvel animations. Disney Junior is a 24-hour Australian cable and", "title": "Disney Channel (Australia and New Zealand)" }, { "docid": "19872746", "text": "Walt Disney Company denied that the channel had plans to convert into an ad-supported basic service, stating that the move from premium to basic cable on some systems was part of a five-year \"hybrid\" strategy that allowed providers to offer the channel in either form. In 1991, The Disney Channel tested a two-channel multiplex service on two cable systems. HBO, Cinemax and Showtime also launched their own multiplex services that same year. However, The Disney Channel would not make its own multiplex service permanent, unlike the others. By 1992, a third of the channel's subscriber base were estimated by Nielsen", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "7855181", "text": "Disney Channel in January 2014 when it went free-to-air and later on May 23 in the U.S. The channel is mainly aimed at children, broadcasting Disney television series 24 hours daily. Disney feature films are also an important part of the channel's programming. All of the programmes are dubbed into local languages. Since autumn 2012, Disney Channel broadcast with different video streams between the countries with its audio stream, but schedule is still the same. Many syndicated programmes have been aired on Disney Channel, such as \"The Fairly OddParents\" and \"Scaredy Squirrel\". Disney XD is a male-skewed children's channel which", "title": "Disney Channel (Scandinavia)" }, { "docid": "19872758", "text": "Disney-produced feature films. In 2001, the channel debuted its first original animated series, \"The Proud Family\"; the following year, Disney Channel achieved its first major animated series hit with the premiere of \"Kim Possible\". By 2002, Disney Channel was available in 80 million cable homes nationwide. In early September of that year, Disney Channel began a gradual rebranding, beginning with the discontinuance of the \"Zoog\" brand from on-air use (though Zoog Disney would continue to exist as a separate website until 2003, when the site's content was consolidated onto Disney Channel's primary website, DisneyChannel.com). On September 9, the Vault Disney", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "836096", "text": "home video releases, decreased the amount of older films that aired on its schedule, and began catering its music programming more towards acts popular with pre-teens and teenagers (incorporating music videos and refocusing its concert specials to feature younger and up-and-coming musicians popular with that demographic). On August 23, 1997, the channel relaunched its slate of made-for-television movies]] – Disney Channel Original Movies started with \"Northern Lights\" supplanting the previous Disney Channel Premiere Films banner. Disney Channel also started to increase its original programming development, launching with the 1997 debut of the sitcom \"Flash Forward\". The channel would eventually split", "title": "Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "9948511", "text": "scoprire\", \"Live Zone - Da ridere\" and \"Una stella per te\" (A Star for You). On November 15, 1999, Disney Channel Italy adopted the new \"Circles\" logo and idents of Disney Channel UK (created by GÉDÉON) while still keeping the slogan \"Free your Imagination\". In 2002, Disney Channel Italy launched two new programs: \"Quasi Gol\" and \"L'ora della magia\". The channel has been available since the beginning on Stream and SKY Italia and even after their mergers. On May 31, 2003, Disney Channel Italy adopted the American Disney Channel's new logo (designed by CA Square), along with new graphics and", "title": "Disney Channel (Italy)" }, { "docid": "11582059", "text": "Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety for Director Art Fisher, Associate Director David Grossman and Stage Manager Bob Graner. It was also nominated for three Emmy Awards. The special was a thematic and \"behind the scenes\" based program with interspersed live performances. It also features a pioneering segment with one of the earliest broadcasts of what would come to be known as a music video with its treatment of Diamond's song \"Morningside\". I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight is the eleventh studio album by Neil Diamond, released", "title": "I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight" }, { "docid": "19872787", "text": "Channel renewed \"Bunk'd\" for a fourth season, it was announced that Peyton List, Karan Brar and Skai Jackson would not be returning. The network announced five more series, with \"Fast Layne\" premiering in late 2018, while five other series are scheduled to premiere in 2019, which are \"101 Dalmatian Street\", \"Amphibia\", \"The Owl House\", \"Gabby Duran & the Unsittables\", and \"Sydney to the Max\", and two more Disney XD series \"Milo Murphy's Law\" and \"Star vs. the Forces of Evil\", will move their first-run episodes to Disney Channel in 2019, with the former scheduled to premiere in January. Another new", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "6915997", "text": "back to the singer, Bryson's Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals trophy for \"Beauty and the Beast\" was ultimately sold to a stranger for $15,500. Both the song's film and single versions have been included on several compilation albums released by Disney, including (1992), (1995), Disney's Superstar Hits (2004), Ultimate Disney Princess (2006), The Best Disney Album in the World ...Ever! (2006), and Now That's What I Call Disney (2011). In 2005, actress and singer Julie Andrews, a Disney Legend, included Lansbury's rendition of \"Beauty and the Beast\" on her album \"Julie Andrews Selects Her Favorite", "title": "Beauty and the Beast (Disney song)" }, { "docid": "12891930", "text": "On December 23, 2010 The Walt Disney Company Latin America announced that the channel would be replaced by Disney Junior sometime in 2011, and the relaunched eventually happened, on April 1, 2011. The Walt Disney Company Latin America has its own website for the Hispanic American audience, Disneylatino.com. There is also a site for Brazil, disney.com.br. It was created with Adobe Flash. It is divided into \"Movies\", with the pages and trailers of current and upcoming Walt Disney Pictures films. It had categories for the different channels, Disney Channel, Disney XD Latin America, and Playhouse Disney Channel. There are also", "title": "Disney Channel (Latin America)" }, { "docid": "19872783", "text": "22, 2016, Disney premiered an animated series \"Elena of Avalor\" which was a spin-off of the Disney Junior series \"Sofia the First\". It featured the first Disney princess that was Latin. This was also the first long-form original animated series on Disney Channel since \"Wander Over Yonder\" in 2013, the first animated series that is CGI-animated, and the second Disney Channel series that was Hispanic. On August 5, 2016, \"Variety\" announced that a new series \"Andi Mack\", would start production in Fall 2016, for a 2017 premiere. This single-camera comedy will also be the first Disney Channel series to be", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "11582058", "text": "I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight is the eleventh studio album by Neil Diamond, released on Columbia Records in 1977. It includes a solo version of the song \"You Don't Bring Me Flowers\". Diamond would score a #1 hit with a new version recorded as a duet with Barbra Streisand the following year. \"I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight\" was the second Neil Diamond album in a row to also garner a television special, which was broadcast on November 17, 1977 over the NBC television network. The television special received a", "title": "I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight" }, { "docid": "19872743", "text": "Time), with the addition of two hours onto its late night schedule. On December 1, 1986, The Disney Channel began broadcasting 24 hours a day. By September 1983, The Disney Channel was available on cable providers in all 50 U.S. states. In October 1983, the channel debuted its first made-for-cable movie, \"Tiger Town\", which earned the channel a CableACE Award. The first \"classic\" Disney animated film to be broadcast on the channel, \"Alice in Wonderland\", premiered on the network in January 1984. By January 1985, the channel's programming reached 1.75 million subscribers, at which time the channel had reached profitability.", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "10087960", "text": "The Schwa Was Here The Schwa Was Here is a young adult novel by Neal Shusterman, published by Dutton Penguin in 2004. It is about an eighth-grader's friendship with another student named Calvin Schwa, who goes almost completely unnoticed by the people around him. The book received critical acclaim upon its release, receiving a starred review from \"School Library Journal\" and a positive review from \"Booklist\". It also received the 2005 \"Boston Globe\"/\"Horn Book Magazine\" award for fiction and poetry. The book has reportedly been optioned by The Disney Channel for a telefilm project. Shusterman, who worked with the channel", "title": "The Schwa Was Here" }, { "docid": "836107", "text": "domestic Playhouse Disney Channel in the U.S. (which would have served the same target audience as Disney Junior) in 2001, however, this planned network never launched, although dedicated Playhouse Disney Channels did launch outside of the United States. Disney XD is a digital cable and satellite television channel in the United States, which is aimed at boys and girls (originally aimed at young male audiences) aged 6–14. The channel was launched on February 13, 2009, replacing predecessor Toon Disney; it carries action and comedy programming from Disney Channel and the former Jetix block from Toon Disney, along with some first-run", "title": "Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "19872782", "text": "March 11, 2016. \"Stuck in the Middle\" is also the first single-camera Disney Channel series since \"Jonas L.A.\". On June 24, 2016, Disney Channel premiered its 100th DCOM, \"Adventures in Babysitting,\" followed by the premiere of new series, \"Bizaardvark.\" Prior to the premiere, Disney Channel aired the \"100th DCOM Celebration\" which began Friday, May 27, 2016 with a four-day marathon of the 51 most popular DCOMs followed by encore presentations of these and every other DCOM ever made through June 2016. The movies would be seen on Disney Channel, the Disney Channel app and VOD through summer 2016. On July", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "12186349", "text": "with live feeds from New York and London since their first broadcast in 1995. On November 1, 2014, Disney Channel unveiled a new logo and on-air imaging design. On March 1, 2015, WATCH Disney Channel also unveiled a new logo and on-air imaging design. Disney Channel airs movies at 8pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays; and at 10pm on Mondays to Thursdays, and at 2pm on weekends. All movies are rated G. Disney Channel (Japan) \"For the Disney Channel in other countries, see Disney Channel (international). For the original Disney Channel, see Disney Channel.\" Disney Channel (ディズニー・チャンネル) is a Japanese", "title": "Disney Channel (Japan)" }, { "docid": "7253870", "text": "Disney Channel (UK and Ireland) Disney Channel is a kids and teen's entertainment channel available in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland since 1 October 1995. A one-hour timeshift service called Disney Channel +1 is available on Sky and Virgin Media. Disney Channel currently has two sister channels; Disney Junior and Disney XD. It currently focuses on live-action programming. Disney Channel was originally planned to launch in 1989 on the newly launched Sky satellite service. It was featured in much of the promotional material surrounding the launch of Sky Television and the Astra satellite. The joint venture with Sky", "title": "Disney Channel (UK and Ireland)" }, { "docid": "19872755", "text": "the following years with shows like \"The Famous Jett Jackson\" in 1998 and \"So Weird\" in 1999, and into the early 2000s with \"Lizzie McGuire\" – whose star Hilary Duff became the first lead actor or actress in one of the channel's original series to cross over into music through a record deal with co-owned music label Hollywood Records – and \"Even Stevens\" – which helped launch the career of its star Shia LaBeouf. In 1999, Disney Channel placed a mandate to cable operators that continued to carry it as a premium service to move the channel to a basic", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "7253872", "text": "a joint venture in Germany in April 1995, before The Disney Channel finally launched in the UK on the Sky platform on 1 October 1995 as the first Disney Channel in Europe and outside the United States. Its first broadcast was the British television premiere of the animated feature \"The Jungle Book\". In 1997, Disney Channel adopted a new Mickey Mouse head shape logo. The idents mainly used red and blue colors on irregularly shaped objects that formed the logo. On 1 May 1999, another new logo was launched, with three symmetrical circles forming the iconic Mickey Mouse head shape.", "title": "Disney Channel (UK and Ireland)" }, { "docid": "7253876", "text": "the Sky Movies premium bundle; Toon Disney was replaced with Cinemagic, Toon closed at 6:00am and Cinemagic launched at 10:00am. Disney Channel's main one-hour timeshift, Disney Channel +1 closed and was replaced with Disney Cinemagic +1. However, Disney Channel +1 subsequently returned on 26 June 2006. On 27 October 2006, Disney Channel was added to Top Up TV Anytime, a service that downloads programming overnight from various channels to a Thomson DTI 6300-16. In 2007, Disney added more VoD content to Virgin Media's service. On 22 November 2007, it was announced Disney Channel would join the lineup for Picnic, BSkyB's", "title": "Disney Channel (UK and Ireland)" }, { "docid": "7253873", "text": "On 29 September 2000, Disney Channel launched two sister channels, a preschool-oriented Playhouse Disney (now known as Disney Junior) and the now-defunct 24-hour cartoon channel Toon Disney (Which eventually got replaced with Disney Cinemagic which itself became Sky Movies Disney). A one-hour timeshift of \"Disney Channel\" also launched on the same day. All 3 were only available to Sky subscribers. NTL and Telewest customers could only receive the main Disney Channel. On all platforms, the Disney Channel package was a premium offering, requiring an additional subscription fee in order to view, though Sky subscribers could receive the channels for free", "title": "Disney Channel (UK and Ireland)" }, { "docid": "7253889", "text": "overall, and non-Cinemagic subscribers can now see Disney Channel Original Movies. In October 1995, the Disney Channel in the UK's logo was a simplified Mickey Mouse head, with 'The Disney Channel' text on the bottom. Six idents for the 1995 logo were created by Lambie-Nairn. In February 1997, the channel dropped 'The' from its name, with a new splat logo, for the launch of Disney Channel France. In 1997, Disney Channel France adopted the same logo and idents. In 1999, Disney Channel refreshed its identity as it launched its new \"Circles\" logo, with symmetrical circles forming the iconic Mickey Mouse", "title": "Disney Channel (UK and Ireland)" }, { "docid": "9948509", "text": "Disney Channel (Italy) Disney Channel is an Italian pay TV channel, operated by The Walt Disney Company Europe, itself a subsidiary of Disney Media Networks. It was launched on 4 July 1998 and its programming consists on original Disney Channel series (either American, European or locally produced) and third party programming acquired by the network. The channel has two sister channels: Disney XD and Disney Junior On July 4, 1998, Disney Channel officially began broadcasting in Italian on Telepiù. The channel used the slogan \"Libera la tua Immaginazione\". Among the first programs on the channel were classic Disney cartoons, such", "title": "Disney Channel (Italy)" }, { "docid": "19872748", "text": "a 14-city nationwide bus tour starting in April 1993. By January 1995, The Disney Channel was available to 12.6 million subscribers; the period from 1994 to 1995 saw the largest yearly subscriber increase with 4.87 million households with cable television adding the channel. In March 1995, the first international Disney Channel service was launched in Taiwan. That year, the documentary \"Anne Frank Remembered\" premiered on the channel; that film would earn an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1996. In 1996, veteran cable executive Anne Sweeney was appointed to oversee The Disney Channel as its president; that September as the", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "15293185", "text": "1794. Favorite Channel Favorite Channel is a channel in Southeast Alaska, northwest of Juneau, Alaska, United States. It is long, extending northwest from Stephens Passage to Lynn Canal, separating Lincoln and Shelter islands from the mainland to the east. It was named in 1880 by U.S. Navy officers after the steamboat \"Favorite\" (built in 1874), which was chartered by the Navy for surveying work in Alaska, later being used to carry out trading and fishing for the herring plant at Killisnoo. The first European to traverse and chart the channel was Joseph Whidbey, master of during George Vancouver's 1791–95 expedition,", "title": "Favorite Channel" }, { "docid": "15293184", "text": "Favorite Channel Favorite Channel is a channel in Southeast Alaska, northwest of Juneau, Alaska, United States. It is long, extending northwest from Stephens Passage to Lynn Canal, separating Lincoln and Shelter islands from the mainland to the east. It was named in 1880 by U.S. Navy officers after the steamboat \"Favorite\" (built in 1874), which was chartered by the Navy for surveying work in Alaska, later being used to carry out trading and fishing for the herring plant at Killisnoo. The first European to traverse and chart the channel was Joseph Whidbey, master of during George Vancouver's 1791–95 expedition, in", "title": "Favorite Channel" }, { "docid": "11448404", "text": "other new songs on February 13 and 14, 1969, he needed a few more songs to fill out the album. \"Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You\" was written over two days at the Ramada Inn where Dylan was staying, and recorded over 11 takes on February 17. The song is reminiscent of the last two songs from Dylan's previous album \"John Wesley Harding\", \"Down Along the Cove\" and \"I'll Be Your Baby Tonight\", particularly the latter. The lyrics of \"Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You\" mark a change from many of Dylan's earlier love songs, which expressed a", "title": "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" }, { "docid": "7253880", "text": "1997 as \"Disney Channel UK Live\", and relaunched as \"Studio Disney\" on 23 April 2001. Some of the presenters included; Nigel Mitchell, Emma Lee, Jean Anderson, Mark Rumble, Amy Garcia, David \"Ollie\" Oliver, James McCourt, Jemma James (now Jemma Forte) and Leah Charles (now Leah Charles-King). Studio Disney ran on weekdays, usually from 16:00 to 19:00, in direct competition with similar services offered by CBBC, CITV and Nickelodeon. The show featured a team of between two and six presenters who came on air between programmes, giving viewers the opportunity to call in, interact and win prizes. Studio Disney also produced", "title": "Disney Channel (UK and Ireland)" }, { "docid": "18939274", "text": "Disney Channel (India) Disney Channel India is an Indian television channel owned by the Indian division of The Walt Disney Company, specialising in television programming for children through original series, movies and third-party programming. The channel was officially launched on 17 December 2004. Before the launch of the channel, a Disney-branded programming block used to air on Sony TV, known as \"Disney Hour\" and \"Disney Mornings\". Disney Channel is available as a pay-TV channel on most cable and satellite TV providers. The channel is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is the first kids' and teens' channel to cross 200+ GRPs", "title": "Disney Channel (India)" }, { "docid": "19872739", "text": "2 in 1979 (the service, which was HBO's first attempt at a spin-off niche service (predating Cinemax's launch in August 1980), would shut down after only a few months on the air), and was followed by the 1981 launch of the Group W-owned Home Theater Network (which was the only premium channel that strictly competed with The Disney Channel for that demographic for much of the 1980s, until the 1987 launch of Festival). The Disney Channel launched nationally as a premium channel on April 18, 1983, at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The first program ever aired on the channel was", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "17525781", "text": "2000 effect shots, with hundreds of artists over the whole world participating as volunteers. VFX artist Andreas Feix created about 800 of the effects shots. Justin R. \"Dustbin\" Durban composed an original soundtrack for \"Threads of Destiny\", which utilizes certain \"Star Wars\" themes. The soundtrack, along with CD case art, is available for download in mp3 format from the official \"Star Wars: Threads of Destiny\" site and also from the composer's site. Although the finished film was made available on YouTube and BitTorrent on February 23, 2014, a gala premiere took place the previous day in Sweden for the cast,", "title": "Star Wars: Threads of Destiny" }, { "docid": "836109", "text": "The network's main competitors were Turner Broadcasting/Time Warner's Cartoon Network and Boomerang, and Viacom/MTV Networks' Nicktoons. Toon Disney originally operated as a commercial-free service from April 1998 to September 1999, when it became advertiser-supported (unlike Disney Channel). The channel carried a mix of reruns of Walt Disney Television Animation and Disney Channel-produced animated programming, along with some third-party programs from other distributors, animated films and original programming. In 2004, the channel debuted a nighttime program block aimed at children ages 7–14 called Jetix, which featured action-oriented animated and live-action series. During Toon Disney's first year on the air, Disney Channel", "title": "Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "13672650", "text": "Fly Music on the Spanish digital terrestrial television, thus becoming the first Disney Channel available on free television. A 2-hours timeshift channel called \"Disney Channel +2\" is available on some satellite television services. It has two sister channels, Disney Junior and Disney XD. Disney Channel Spain was launched in 1998, when The Walt Disney Company and Sogecable came to an agreement to distribute a Spanish version of the American Disney Channel on the satellite platform Canal Satellite Digital. The channel began broadcasting on April 17, 1998. The channel carried local-made shows and Disney's animation library. A Spanish version of the", "title": "Disney Channel (Spain)" }, { "docid": "19872744", "text": "In August 1989, the channel launched a series of interstitial segments called \"The Disney Channel Salutes The American Teacher\"; the channel subsequently began telecasting the American Teacher Awards in November 1991. By January 1990, The Disney Channel had about five million subscribers nationwide. In May of that year, The Disney Channel won its first Daytime Emmy Awards for the original made-for-cable film \"Looking for Miracles\", the documentary \"Calgary '88: 16 Days of Glory\", and the special \"A Conversation with... George Burns\", as well as its first Peabody Award for the television film \"Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme\". On September 1,", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "7956210", "text": "Disney Channel Games Disney Channel Games are a \"Battle of the Network Stars\"-based annual television series that aired on the Disney Channel during the summer from 2006 to 2008. Phill Lewis was the co-host of the first two editions in 2006 and 2007, and Brian Stepanek hosted all three editions, with various stars from Disney Channel television series competing for charity as team-based contestants. The \"Games\" were filmed at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Orlando. \"Disney Channel Games\" were not aired after 2008, but a similar series called \"Disney's Friends for Change Games\" aired in 2011. The \"Disney Channel", "title": "Disney Channel Games" }, { "docid": "7253890", "text": "head shape. The new ident set was created in CGI animation, with various objects forming the Disney Channel logo. The new identity package was created by French graphic design company, GÉDÉON. According to GÉDÉON, the new logo is also described as an \"experimental field for animation\". More than 30 illustrators, animators, graphic designers, directors, and motion graphic studios, such as Gamma Studios, Estructura7, Velvet mediendesign, and Pedall, collaborated with the project. When the new look was first launched, nine idents air on the same day. Some of the idents were also used in its sister channel, Playhouse Disney. Disney Channel", "title": "Disney Channel (UK and Ireland)" }, { "docid": "13672653", "text": "service called Disney Replay was introduced. It airs full episodes of series. The Phineas and Ferb episode \"Knot My Problem\" first premiered on this service on June 10, 2013. In November 2013 the site was changed again as per the other European Disney Channels. Disney Channel (Spain) Disney Channel Spain is a free-to-air television channel and is an edition of The Walt Disney Company-owned Disney Channel, broadcasting in Spain. It is marketed to mostly children; however, in recent years the diversity of viewers has increased with an older audience. It is owned by \"Disney-ABC Cable Networks Group.\" which is owned", "title": "Disney Channel (Spain)" }, { "docid": "7855177", "text": "Disney Channel (Scandinavia) Disney Channel is a Scandinavian children's channel owned by The Walt Disney Company. On February 28, 2003, the Disney Channel was launched, and was then at the time exclusive to the Viasat satellite platform (Sirius 4). Later that year, it became available on digital cable networks, such as the Swedish Com Hem. Once the channel was originally launched, the only programs aired were animated, many of which were not Disney Channel Original Series (as they are called in the U.S.). The first live-action series aired on Disney Channel was \"Smart Guy\", which debuted in 2005. In 2003,", "title": "Disney Channel (Scandinavia)" }, { "docid": "7253886", "text": "from sister network Disney Channel, theatrically-released movies, and live-action and animated programs from other distributors. Disney Junior (formerly known as Playhouse Disney) is a pre-school kids channel. The channel launched on 29 September 2000 as Playhouse Disney, the same day as the now defunct sister channel, Toon Disney. Disney Channel traditionally broadcast most of its movies, including Walt Disney Studios movies and Disney Channel Original Movies, on the main channel. These were usually shown daily at 7pm under \"The Wonderful World of Disney\" (earlier \"The Magical World of Disney\") brand. On weekends, the channel would show at least three movies", "title": "Disney Channel (UK and Ireland)" }, { "docid": "15734907", "text": "Disney Channel (France) Disney Channel is the French language edition of the Disney Channel, owned by the Walt Disney Company. It was launched in March 1997, primarily on the CanalSat platform. On 2 November 2002, the portfolio of Disney-branded channels in France expanded from one to four channel with the launch of Toon Disney, Playhouse Disney (now Disney Junior), and Disney Channel +1. The movie channel Disney Cinemagic launched in September 2007. On 1 April 2011, Disney Channel was launched on IPTV platforms. On 19 April 2011, Disney and Free ISP launched a VOD service on Freebox called Disney-Tek On", "title": "Disney Channel (France)" }, { "docid": "19872776", "text": "Einsteins\". (ABC airs this mark of the bottom-left corner of the screen.) On July 14, 2012, Disney Channel announced its first television collaboration with Marvel Entertainment (which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2009), in the form of a crossover special that aired on August 16, 2013 called \"\" featuring characters from \"Phineas and Ferb\" and the Marvel Universe, a new animated series, \"Wander Over Yonder\" debuted after that. On July 18, 2013, the channel premiered \"Teen Beach Movie\" – the only Disney Channel Original Move to debut that year – along with an animated Mickey Mouse short", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "19872738", "text": "with its development – now solely under the oversight of Walt Disney Productions, and under the leadership of the channel's first president Alan Wagner, Walt Disney Productions formally announced the launch of its family-oriented cable channel in early 1983. Disney later invested US$11 million to acquiring space on two transponders of the Hughes Communications satellite Galaxy 1, and spent US$20 million on purchasing and developing programming. The concept of a premium service aimed at a family audience – which Walt Disney Productions would choose to develop The Disney Channel as – had first been attempted by HBO, which launched Take", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "836113", "text": "Demi Lovato (star of \"So Random!\" parent series \"Sonny with a Chance\", who was treated for bulimia nervosa in 2010) objected on Twitter to jokes featured in both episodes (the \"Shake It Up\" episode, in particular) that made light of eating disorders. On May 17, 2013, the channel pulled \"Quitting Cold Koala\", a second-season episode of \"Jessie\", prior to its scheduled premiere broadcast, due to parental concerns over a scene in which a character's gluten-free diet leads to his being ridiculed. In 2010, \"Disney Channel All Star Party\" was released for the Nintendo Wii. The four-player mascot party game, in", "title": "Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "12810000", "text": "Disney Channel (Poland) \"For the Disney Channel in other countries, see Disney Channel (international). For the original Disney Channel, see Disney Channel USA.\" Disney Channel Poland is an edition of The Walt Disney Company-owned Disney Channel broadcasting to Poland. In Poland, Disney XD and Disney Junior are also available. The Polish version of Disney Channel launched on December 2, 2006 at 17:00 (GMT+1) with film \"The Incredibles\". It was started with Disney shows: \"\", \"Brandy & Mr. Whiskers\", \"Kim Possible\", \"\", \"The Emperor's New School\", \"Classic Cartoons\", \"Fillmore!\", \"Goof Troop\", \"House of Mouse\", \"Lloyd in Space\", \"Recess\", \"The Buzz on", "title": "Disney Channel (Poland)" }, { "docid": "19872749", "text": "launch of Disney Channel service in Southeast Asia, the channel began offering a film in primetime each night starting at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, with the expansion of the Sunday \"Magical World of Disney\" film block to Monday through Saturday nights; the new primetime schedule launched in September with the pay cable premiere of \"The Lion King\". On April 6, 1997, The Disney Channel underwent a significant rebranding, shortening its name to just \"Disney Channel\" – though the channel was typically referred to simply as \"Disney\" in on-air promotions and network identifications until September 2002 – and introducing a new", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "7956213", "text": "entire series was viewed by over 37 million unique viewers. Disney Channel Games Disney Channel Games are a \"Battle of the Network Stars\"-based annual television series that aired on the Disney Channel during the summer from 2006 to 2008. Phill Lewis was the co-host of the first two editions in 2006 and 2007, and Brian Stepanek hosted all three editions, with various stars from Disney Channel television series competing for charity as team-based contestants. The \"Games\" were filmed at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Orlando. \"Disney Channel Games\" were not aired after 2008, but a similar series called \"Disney's", "title": "Disney Channel Games" }, { "docid": "13626786", "text": "in these countries. An exact date was not mentioned but it was expected that the change would happen by the end of 2009. The first Disney Channel promos said \"coming soon\", but on August 2, 2009 new promos stated the launch date as September 19, 2009. This was also announced to the media a few days later. On June 1, 2011 the channel changed logo. On July 21, 2014 the channel changed its logo again with the current variation, used in the US version. On August 11, 2015 Disney Channel Bulgaria changed to the 16:9 format. Disney Channel (Bulgaria) Disney", "title": "Disney Channel (Bulgaria)" }, { "docid": "12891920", "text": "logo that was first used in Germany since January 17, 2014, in the US since May 23, 2014, and all international Disney Channel feeds. Series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Disney Channel Original Series takes most of the schedule. Some non-original series are also aired, such as \"Patito Feo\", \"Casi Ángeles\",\" \"Mortified\", \"The Fairly OddParents\", \"Chiquititas\", \"A Kind of Magic\", \"The Secret Show\", \"The Next Step\", \"Floricienta\" and \"George of the Jungle\". There are also locally produced original series, such as \"As the Bell Rings\", \"Soy Luna, Violetta and 11 (O11CE) This programming block is focused on children", "title": "Disney Channel (Latin America)" }, { "docid": "13626785", "text": "programming block, and replace it with Disney XD - a new channel aimed at a different audience (boys aged from 6–14 years) with more action-oriented shows. After Disney XD successfully launched on February 13, 2009 in the US, the Disney-ABC Television Group re-branded Jetix France to Disney XD on April 1, 2009 and it was expected to be rolled out to other European territories in 2009. On May 26, 2009, however, Disney announced that the Jetix channel in certain countries (namely Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria) would be renamed to The Disney Channel, marking that channel's first introduction", "title": "Disney Channel (Bulgaria)" }, { "docid": "12810002", "text": "broadcasts every Saturday and Sunday at 10am and 7pm. Disney Channel (Poland) \"For the Disney Channel in other countries, see Disney Channel (international). For the original Disney Channel, see Disney Channel USA.\" Disney Channel Poland is an edition of The Walt Disney Company-owned Disney Channel broadcasting to Poland. In Poland, Disney XD and Disney Junior are also available. The Polish version of Disney Channel launched on December 2, 2006 at 17:00 (GMT+1) with film \"The Incredibles\". It was started with Disney shows: \"\", \"Brandy & Mr. Whiskers\", \"Kim Possible\", \"\", \"The Emperor's New School\", \"Classic Cartoons\", \"Fillmore!\", \"Goof Troop\", \"House", "title": "Disney Channel (Poland)" }, { "docid": "20111361", "text": "2018. First announced and presented in April 2017 during \"Star Wars\" Celebration Orlando, \"Forces of Destiny\" is part of a franchise expansion initiative by Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media and includes a companion toy line by Hasbro and a series of youth-aimed books. The series is the first 2D animated series produced by Lucasfilm since the 2003 \"\" series and the first 2D project by Lucasfilm Animation, which formed after the development of \"Clone Wars\". Focusing on female characters (including male characters) across multiple eras and installments of the franchise, the series explores how each character's decisions affect her", "title": "Star Wars Forces of Destiny" }, { "docid": "19872781", "text": "four seasons respectively on October 16, 2015. In December 2015, Disney Channel acquired for a January 2016 premiere. On January 10, 2016, \"Austin and Ally\" aired its last two episodes after four seasons. On February 8, 2016, several newsletters reported that Disney Channel acquired a teen music drama called \"Backstage\" that made its premiere on March 25, 2016. On February 14, 2016, during the channel's premiere of the 2013 animated film \"Frozen\", Disney Channel aired a preview of \"Stuck in the Middle,\" the first Disney Channel series which all of the main characters are Hispanic. Additional episodes began airing on", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "5456140", "text": "with the Copy Control protection system in some regions. Everyone Is Here Everyone Is Here is the second album by The Finn Brothers, a music project of New Zealand brothers Tim and Neil Finn. The album was recorded twice, once in upstate New York with famed Bowie producer Tony Visconti, then again six months later in Los Angeles with Crowded House stalwart Mitchell Froom. Some of the songs from the first recording session were kept as B sides and later appeared on a special edition of the album. \"Won't Give In\" was featured on the soundtrack to the film \"Because", "title": "Everyone Is Here" }, { "docid": "836108", "text": "original programming and off-network syndicated shows. Like its predecessor Toon Disney, but unlike parent network Disney Channel and its sister channel Disney Junior, Disney XD operates as an advertiser-supported service. The channel carries the same name as an unrelated mini-site and media player on Disney.com, which stood for Disney Xtreme Digital, though it is said that the \"XD\" in the \"channel\"s name does not have an actual meaning. Toon Disney launched on April 18, 1998 (coinciding with the 15th anniversary of parent network Disney Channel's launch), and was aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 18 years old.", "title": "Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "5456139", "text": "Everyone Is Here Everyone Is Here is the second album by The Finn Brothers, a music project of New Zealand brothers Tim and Neil Finn. The album was recorded twice, once in upstate New York with famed Bowie producer Tony Visconti, then again six months later in Los Angeles with Crowded House stalwart Mitchell Froom. Some of the songs from the first recording session were kept as B sides and later appeared on a special edition of the album. \"Won't Give In\" was featured on the soundtrack to the film \"Because of Winn-Dixie\". Bonus DVD: This album has been released", "title": "Everyone Is Here" }, { "docid": "836090", "text": "Disney Channel Disney Channel (originally called The Disney Channel from 1983 to 1997 and commonly shortened to Disney from 1997 to 2002) is an American pay television network that serves as the flagship property of owner Disney Channels Television Group, itself a unit of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. Disney Channel's programming consists of original first-run television series, theatrically released and original made-for-cable movies and select other third-party programming. Disney Channel – which formerly operated as a premium service – originally marketed its programs towards families during the 1980s, and later at younger children by", "title": "Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "13811081", "text": "on these two operators. It is currently unknown when the original English audio channel will become available on KPN. From 25 March 2015 Disney Channel HD and Disney XD HD is available at KPN, XS4All and Telfort. From 1 July 2015 Disney Channel HD, Disney XD 24 and Disney Junior become available through Caiway and Caiway Albrandswaard. However, in Albrandswaard only the SD version of Disney Channel is available. On 2 November 2015 Disney Channel is available through KPNs web IPTV service KPN Play however it was sooner available for the Play beta testers. Disney Channel (Dutch TV channel) Disney", "title": "Disney Channel (Dutch TV channel)" }, { "docid": "14828214", "text": "operated by Disney & ESPN Media Networks Latin America and the Walt Disney Company Latin America, both of the Walt Disney Company. It was launched on June 1, 2008 as Playhouse Disney. On April 1, 2011 it was rebranded as Disney Junior. Disney Channel (Brazil) Disney Channel is a cable television channel and is an edition of The Walt Disney Company-owned Disney Channel, broadcasting to Brazil. It is marketed mostly to children; however, in recent years the diversity of viewers has increased with an older audience. Disney Channel Latin America is operated by Disney & ESPN Media Networks Latin America", "title": "Disney Channel (Brazil)" }, { "docid": "8147020", "text": "using voice-over dubbing. After Disney XD successfully launched on February 13, 2009 in the US, it was expected to be rolled out to European territories in 2009. Later, however, Disney announced that the Jetix channel in certain countries (Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Bulgaria and Israel) will be renamed to Disney Channel, marking that channel's first introduction in these countries. The change took place on September 19, 2009 in the CEE region. Disney Channel Romania & Bulgaria are broadcast as a single video feed with two audio channels and there is also a Russian audio channel. On September 19,", "title": "Disney Channel (Europe)" }, { "docid": "19872752", "text": "of the rebrand. Although many providers still required subscribers to pay an additional monthly fee to view the channel at the time of its decision to incorporate them, Disney Channel also began to air break interruptions within shows, featuring promotions for the channel's programs as well as for feature film and home video releases from Disney. By March 1998, the channel was available to 35 million cable subscribers. The channel's programming would eventually be split into three distinct blocks: Playhouse Disney, Vault Disney, and Zoog Disney. Playhouse Disney debuted in May 1997, and comprised shows aimed at preschoolers. Its first", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "14176853", "text": "Disney Channel (Germany) Disney Channel is a German free-to-air television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (Germany) GmbH, a itself owned by The Walt Disney Company. The channel is based in Munich. Aimed at all ages, its programming consists of original first-run television series, theatrically-released and original made-for-cable movies and select other third-party programming. The original programming is mainly brought by the American flagship Disney Channel. The channel – which formerly operated as a premium service – was originally launched on 16 October 1999 as a subscription television channel of Sky Deutschland. As of 17 January 2014, the German", "title": "Disney Channel (Germany)" }, { "docid": "13571596", "text": "1, 2009 and it was expected to be rolled out to other European countries in 2009. In 2009, Disney announced that the Jetix channel in certain countries (namely Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria) would be renamed The Disney Channel, marking that channel's first introduction in those countries. The change occurred on September 19, 2009. The Bulgarian and Romanian versions of the Disney Channel are broadcast as a single video feed, with two different audio channels for each language. In May 2010 Disney Channel Romania was removed from Hot Bird satellite. Advertising is shown in Romanian and Bulgarian; the", "title": "Disney Channel (Romania)" }, { "docid": "15845918", "text": "Musical\" instead. Four children had to see if they could perform in front of hundreds of people. A family was vs. a family on this show. What happened was that they had to sing a song from \"Hannah Montana\" all together, on key. The winners were a family from Coventry. \"Shake It Up: Dance Dance\" is the current Disney Channel UK talent competition as of DISNEY Disney Channel UK Talent Shows Unlike the U.S. Disney Channel, the UK and Ireland Disney Channel have their own talent shows. Popular ones include \"My Camp Rock\" and \"Hannah-Oke\". \"My Camp Rock\" was a", "title": "Disney Channel UK Talent Shows" }, { "docid": "8928765", "text": "Unlike most Disney Channels around the world, the Asia channel mainly airs animated content, with live action shows only airing during late nights outside of Singapore. Disney Channel Asia was launched in January 2000 with a single video feed and two audio tracks in English and Mandarin, as well as subtitles in Mandarin too. The channel became available in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines. On 1 June 2002, the channel was launched in the South Korean market with a Korean language feed. Over the first six months of 2005, Disney Channel Asia, along with sister channel Playhouse Disney (now", "title": "Disney Channel (Southeast Asia)" }, { "docid": "12186348", "text": "Disney Channel (Japan) \"For the Disney Channel in other countries, see Disney Channel (international). For the original Disney Channel, see Disney Channel.\" Disney Channel (ディズニー・チャンネル) is a Japanese television channel owned by Walt Disney Television International Japan, a unit of Walt Disney Co., Ltd. Japan. The channel is operated as a part of Disney Channels Worldwide, Inc. a subsidiary of Disney–ABC Television Group. In November 2003, the Disney Channel was launched in Japan. Disney Channel airs American, Japanese, British, and Canadian programs. Disney Channel expanded to Asia in 1996 operating also with Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines", "title": "Disney Channel (Japan)" }, { "docid": "15734912", "text": "channel in France. Programming is also offered by Canalsat in Switzerland (Canalsat Suisse), New Caledonia (CanalSat Calédonie), the French Overseas Departments and French Guiana (CanalSat Caraïbes), and Africa (CanalSat Horizons). In Belgium, the channel is available via satellite by TéléSAT. Disney Channel (France) Disney Channel is the French language edition of the Disney Channel, owned by the Walt Disney Company. It was launched in March 1997, primarily on the CanalSat platform. On 2 November 2002, the portfolio of Disney-branded channels in France expanded from one to four channel with the launch of Toon Disney, Playhouse Disney (now Disney Junior), and", "title": "Disney Channel (France)" }, { "docid": "11448403", "text": "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You \"Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You\" is a song written by Bob Dylan from his 1969 album \"Nashville Skyline\". It was the closing song of the album. The song was the third single released from the album, after \"I Threw It All Away\" and \"Lay Lady Lay\", reaching #50 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, and reaching the top 20 in other countries. Dylan arrived at the \"Nashville Skyline\" recording sessions having written just four songs, including \"I Threw It All Away\" and \"Lay Lady Lay\". Having recorded these and three", "title": "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" }, { "docid": "19872778", "text": "channel at the time; it announced that \"Gravity Falls\" and \"Wander Over Yonder\" would move to Disney XD but will still air episodes on Disney Channel as part of \"Disney XD on Disney Channel\", and that \"Phineas and Ferb\" would go on hiatus, with its production having already been suspended. Around April 2014, Disney Channel also completely stopped airing the \"Mickey Mouse\", \"Donald Duck\", \"Goofy\", and \"Pluto\" cartoon shorts that would air as part of the commercials, due to the fact that the \"Mickey Mouse\" short series which premiered on June 28, 2013, replacing the older cartoon shorts and airing", "title": "History of Disney Channel" }, { "docid": "14819529", "text": "Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria) will be renamed to Disney Channel, marking that channel's first introduction in these countries. The channel was replaced on September 19, 2009. On May 3, 2011, Disney Channel Czech Republic started using the same and updated on-air logo as in the United States, along with several other Disney Channels across Europe, completing its transitional rebrand to the new look. The new logo has debuted on the Czech feed first, prior to appearing on the UK, German, French, Dutch and Spanish feeds. The Playhouse Disney programming block was rebranded to Disney Junior in the Czech", "title": "Disney Channel (Czech Republic)" }, { "docid": "14819561", "text": "After Disney XD was launched on February 13, 2009 in the US, the Disney-ABC Television Group has started re-branding Jetix channels in all countries. However, in certain countries (including Hungary), Jetix was replaced by Disney Channel, marking that channel's first introduction in these countries. The change happened on September 19, 2009. On June 1, 2011, Playhouse Disney was replaced by Disney Junior. Disney Channel Czech Republic and Hungary are broadcasts like a single video feed with two different audio channels for each language. At the commercial break identification it shows both Czech and Hungarian words for \"commercials\": \"reklama\", then \"reklám\",", "title": "Disney Channel (Hungary)" }, { "docid": "14191871", "text": "Disney Channel (Russia) Disney Channel is a Russian free-to-air television channel which was launched on 10 August 2010 on pay television, replacing kids channel Jetix, and was later launched as a free-to-air network, replacing Seven TV on 31 December 2011. While Disney previously planned to launch Disney Channel Russia as an over-the-air service in 2009, their deal with a Russian media company was rejected by Russian authorities. Disney Channel is available as a cable and satellite channel, and is made available via the regular operators (such as NTV Plus). A registration request was filed in 2010 with the Russian media", "title": "Disney Channel (Russia)" }, { "docid": "13595858", "text": "that a fully local Turkish version of Disney Channel would be launched as a free to air channel. It was the third Disney Channel to go FTA, after Disney Channel Spain (2008) and Disney Channel (Russia) on 31 December 2011. On 21 December 2011, Disney launched a test feed of the FTA Disney Channel that only aired promos and not any commercials or shows. On January 2012, Disney officially launched the FTA version of Disney Channel on Türksat. The Pan-European feed at Digiturk was replaced by the Turkish feed and the channel started to be carried on D-Smart and Teledünya.", "title": "Disney Channel (Turkey)" }, { "docid": "7253879", "text": "link to a Disney-branded section of BSkyB's \"Sky Games\" interactive service. The overlay games are developed by Pushbutton and French game developers Visiware. The interactive service was designed and built by Pushbutton, and went live in September 2007 and was taken off in September 2011 replacing the old service created by Tamblin. Previously, Disney Channel also had a Teletext service, consisting of about 200 pages, known as Disney Text. Disney Channel used to be translated in British Sign Language on its late evening programming. \"Studio Disney\" was a live TV show, broadcast on Disney Channel UK. It launched in September", "title": "Disney Channel (UK and Ireland)" }, { "docid": "14841495", "text": "every morning, but the block ended, as Disney Junior shows can only be seen on the localized version of Disney Junior. All programs targeted children aged 2–6 years. As of October 2012, Disney Channel Portugal has disputed the leadership of cable/satellite/IPTV ratings, in terms of daily average, with Canal Hollywood, finishing second for all but one week. However, it was the channel with most shows on the top 15 along the month, ranging from five to nine shows per week. Disney Channel is the most watched children's channel and the 4th most watched channel in Portugal. Disney Channel (Portugal) Disney", "title": "Disney Channel (Portugal)" }, { "docid": "18727014", "text": "Disney Channel (Canada) Disney Channel is a Canadian English-language discretionary service owned by Corus Entertainment. First broadcasting on September 1, 2015, it is a localised version of the American subscription network of the same name, broadcasting live-action and animated programming aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 14. The channel launched as part of a new licensing agreement between Corus Entertainment and the Disney–ABC Television Group, which succeeded a previous program supply agreement between Disney and Family Channel (owned by DHX Media). Its launch marked the first time that a Disney Channel-branded television service has operated in Canada.", "title": "Disney Channel (Canada)" }, { "docid": "8928769", "text": "local advertisements; separated from the main feed on 2 April 2004. It is broadcast in English and Cantonese. It was the first overseas feed launched by Disney Channel worldwide. It began operations in March 1995. Currently, it has its own schedule with local advertisements and broadcasts solely in Taiwanese Mandarin. Programming list not applicable for Hong Kong and Taiwan feeds, which have their own schedules. Sitcoms air Friday to Sunday night for all Disney Channel Asia feeds, and also on weekday afternoons in Singapore. Disney Channel (Southeast Asia) Disney Channel (formerly known as The Disney Channel from 1996 to 1997)", "title": "Disney Channel (Southeast Asia)" }, { "docid": "14176856", "text": "at 6 AM with the classic animated short film \"Steamboat Willie\". Disney reported that its launch weekend pushed them past Nick in to third place among kid broadcast channels. Via the airwaves, the station had an availability to 93% of German TV households plus on two online platforms: live-stream and a catch-up service. Disney Channel (Germany) Disney Channel is a German free-to-air television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (Germany) GmbH, a itself owned by The Walt Disney Company. The channel is based in Munich. Aimed at all ages, its programming consists of original first-run television series, theatrically-released and", "title": "Disney Channel (Germany)" }, { "docid": "8147021", "text": "2009, Disney Channel replaced Jetix in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and Slovakia. But the Russian feed was still broadcasting under the Jetix name until it was announced that a separate Disney Channel would launch. After the launch of Disney Channel in Romania and Bulgaria, the Jetix feed in Russia began to be independent and got localized, with Russian titlecards and banners with Russian hours On August 10, 2010, Disney Channel replaced Jetix in CIS. On October 16, 2010, Disney Channel CEE launched a Ukrainian audio for audience in Ukraine, which was deleted on 1 January 2013 for unknown", "title": "Disney Channel (Europe)" }, { "docid": "14841494", "text": "Disney Channel (Portugal) Disney Channel is a Portuguese basic cable and satellite television network. It broadcasts Disney Channel, Disney XD and Disney Junior originals and non-originals. It was launched in November 28, 2001 as a premium channel, and it was later added to basic packages across platforms. Disney Channel airs live action shows, animated series, short series, Disney XD, and films. Since July 2013, most Disney Channel and Disney XD original shows are broadcast with dual audio channels, Portuguese or English, using MPEG2 and AAC standards, respectively. \"Disney Junior in Disney Channel\" was a preschool block. It used to air", "title": "Disney Channel (Portugal)" }, { "docid": "14828213", "text": "9, 2017, the HD feed was renamed as Disney Channel + (Disney Channel Plus), as its programming is different from the original channel including Disney XD and Disney Junior series. Disney XD is a children's television channel brand owned by the Walt Disney Company broadcast in Brazil. It was previously known as Fox Kids and Jetix. The website launched on May 15, 2009, and the channel launched on July 3, 2009. Disney Junior is a cable television channel and is a version of the Walt Disney Company-owned Disney Junior, broadcasting in Brazil. It is marketed to preschoolers. Disney Junior is", "title": "Disney Channel (Brazil)" }, { "docid": "7855178", "text": "the channel also applied for a license to broadcast in the Swedish digital terrestrial television network. The Disney Channel was among the channels recommended by the Swedish Radio and TV Authority, and the government granted the Disney Channel a broadcasting license on January 29, 2004. The terrestrial transmissions could start on February 15 via the Boxer TV Access platform. Soon after that, the channel celebrated its first anniversary by dropping encryption for one weekend. On August 1, 2005, the channel became available to subscribers of the Canal Digital (Thor 2) satellite platform. Simultaneously, a sister channel called Toon Disney was", "title": "Disney Channel (Scandinavia)" } ]
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First awarded on Feb 22, 1932, what military decoration is awarded to those who have been wounded or killed while serving on or after April 5, 1917 with the U.S. military?
[ "Purple Heart", "Pruple heart", "Purple Heart, Order of the", "Purple heart", "Order of the Purple Heart", "Purple heart winners", "Purple Heart Medal", "Purple-Heart" ]
[ { "docid": "338001", "text": "Purple Heart The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the president to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the U.S. military. With its forerunner, the Badge of Military Merit, which took the form of a heart made of purple cloth, the Purple Heart is the oldest military award still given to U.S. military members – the only earlier award being the obsolete Fidelity Medallion. The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is located in New Windsor, New York. The original Purple Heart, designated as the Badge", "title": "Purple Heart" }, { "docid": "338034", "text": "of such records now fall into the \"archival records\" category of military service records. This means the records were transferred from the military to the National Archives, and in such cases, the Purple Heart may be privately purchased by the requestor (see above section of retroactive requests for further details) but is no longer provided by the military service department. Ten Purple Hearts: Nine Purple Hearts: Eight Purple Hearts: Purple Heart The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the president to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after April 5, 1917,", "title": "Purple Heart" }, { "docid": "3529926", "text": "Wounded in action Wounded in action (WIA) describes combatants who have been wounded while fighting in a combat zone during wartime, but have not been killed. Typically it implies that they are temporarily or permanently incapable of bearing arms or continuing to fight. For the U.S. military, becoming WIA in combat generally results in subsequent conferral of the Purple Heart, because the purpose of the medal itself (one of the highest awards, military or civilian, officially given by the American government) is to recognize those killed, incapacitated, or wounded in battle. A battle casualty other than \"killed in action\" who", "title": "Wounded in action" }, { "docid": "3529928", "text": "is DOW, while NATO uses DWRIA. Wounded in action Wounded in action (WIA) describes combatants who have been wounded while fighting in a combat zone during wartime, but have not been killed. Typically it implies that they are temporarily or permanently incapable of bearing arms or continuing to fight. For the U.S. military, becoming WIA in combat generally results in subsequent conferral of the Purple Heart, because the purpose of the medal itself (one of the highest awards, military or civilian, officially given by the American government) is to recognize those killed, incapacitated, or wounded in battle. A battle casualty", "title": "Wounded in action" }, { "docid": "338012", "text": "of Purple Hearts given. Above the estimates, the text reads, \"Any tally of Purple Hearts is an estimate. Awards are often given during conflict; records aren't always exact\" (page 33). The estimates are as follows: The Purple Heart is awarded in the name of the President of the United States to any member of the Armed Forces of the United States who, while serving under competent authority in any capacity with one of the U.S. Armed Services after April 5, 1917, has been wounded or killed. Specific examples of services which warrant the Purple Heart include any action against an", "title": "Purple Heart" } ]
[ { "docid": "20860033", "text": "medal is thus awarded, after 20 years of active service aboard Belgian Navy vessels. In the period 2009-2013, the Military Decoration for Exceptional Service or Acts of Courage or Devotion second class was awarded 58 times, mostly for exceptional devotion to duty (see below). During the same period, the Military Decoration for Exceptional Service or Acts of Courage or Devotion first class was not awarded. Military Decoration for gallantry or exceptional devotion The Military Decoration (, ) is a military award of the Kingdom of Belgium. It was established on December 23, 1873 and is awarded to military personnel of", "title": "Military Decoration for gallantry or exceptional devotion" }, { "docid": "20860028", "text": "Military Decoration for gallantry or exceptional devotion The Military Decoration (, ) is a military award of the Kingdom of Belgium. It was established on December 23, 1873 and is awarded to military personnel of the Belgian Armed Forces for gallantry or Exceptional devotion to duty. The medal ( ) can be awarded to any military member of the Belgian Armed Forces who distinguished himself due to exceptional service or due to the performance of an act of gallantry or devotion. It can also be awarded to personnel below the rank of Officer for 20 years of active duty aboard", "title": "Military Decoration for gallantry or exceptional devotion" }, { "docid": "19948072", "text": "Military Star The Military Star () is a military decoration awarded to those members of the Irish Defence Forces or Chaplaincy Service who were killed or mortally wounded in the line of duty as a result of hostile action by an armed enemy. Initially only awarded for service related deaths that occurred outside of Ireland, in 2012 the award criteria were changed to allow awards for those killed in Ireland. The medal is bronze and takes the shape of an eight-pointed star wide. The obverse of the medal depicts Cúchulainn in death in the centre of the medal. The reverse", "title": "Military Star" }, { "docid": "15379452", "text": "inverted gilt chevron is affixed when the first class of the medal is awarded. Military Decoration (Belgium) The Military Decoration (, ) is a military award of the Kingdom of Belgium. It was established on December 23, 1873 and is awarded to non-commissioned officers and other ranks of the Belgian Armed Forces for loyal and uninterrupted service. Early in the 20th century, 2 classes for the medal were created. The Military Decoration is awarded in two classes. Military personnel below the rank of Officer is awarded the second class after ten years of service. Five years after the award, they", "title": "Military Decoration (Belgium)" }, { "docid": "15379449", "text": "Military Decoration (Belgium) The Military Decoration (, ) is a military award of the Kingdom of Belgium. It was established on December 23, 1873 and is awarded to non-commissioned officers and other ranks of the Belgian Armed Forces for loyal and uninterrupted service. Early in the 20th century, 2 classes for the medal were created. The Military Decoration is awarded in two classes. Military personnel below the rank of Officer is awarded the second class after ten years of service. Five years after the award, they are awarded the first class of the medal (unless, by then, the service member", "title": "Military Decoration (Belgium)" }, { "docid": "4912113", "text": "Ashoka Chakra (military decoration) The Ashoka Chakra (alternative spelling: Ashok Chakra) is India's highest peacetime military decoration awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield. It is the peacetime equivalent of the Param Vir Chakra, and is awarded for the \"most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent valour or self-sacrifice\" other than in the face of the enemy. The decoration may be awarded either to military or civilian personnel. Ashok Chakra is equivalent to US Army's peacetime Medal of Honor and the British George Cross. Flt. Lt. Suhas Biswas was the first Indian Air Force officer", "title": "Ashoka Chakra (military decoration)" }, { "docid": "20860032", "text": "As it was created with the same Royal Decree and carries the same jewel (only the ribbon differs) as the military decoration for Long service, it used to be known as an 'Article 4' award. On the ribbon an inverted gilt chevron is affixed when the first class of the medal is awarded. When the medal is awarded during wartime (which hasn't happened since the end of the Korean War), a silver palm bearing a Royal Monogram was attached to the ribbon. Nowadays, the criteria for exceptional devotion to duty are considered being met, and the second class of the", "title": "Military Decoration for gallantry or exceptional devotion" }, { "docid": "9255701", "text": "as terminals. The armilla or armill continued as a type of royal regalia, probably in both the Western and Byzantine worlds, and taking variable forms. A pair were made to be worn by the monarch at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. These were thick gold bracelets; earlier examples seem to have been worn on the shoulder or upper arm. Armilla (military decoration) An armilla (plural \"armillae\") was an armband awarded as a military decoration (\"donum militarium\") to soldiers of ancient Rome for conspicuous gallantry. Legionary (citizen) soldiers and non-commissioned officers below the rank of centurion were eligible", "title": "Armilla (military decoration)" }, { "docid": "14173797", "text": "Hasta pura (military decoration) The hasta pura or hasta donatica was a decoration for merit, awarded in Ancient Rome. The Roman sources do not concur about the precise character of the decoration. Some call it a decoration for valour, others mention that it had been awarded to civilians. The \"hasta\" was a thrusting weapon that was not thrown as were the later \"pilum\", \"verutum\" and \"lancea\". A \"hasta pura\" was a spear made \"without iron\" and was in the earliest times the reward of a soldier the first time that he conquered in battle. Later it came to be awarded", "title": "Hasta pura (military decoration)" }, { "docid": "10863923", "text": "Military Officers receive the award as a Long Service awards, their names have been omitted from this list. Military Cross (Belgium) The Military Cross (, ) is a military long service decoration of Belgium. It was established by Royal Decree on 11 February 1885 and is awarded to commissioned officers in the Belgian Armed Forces for loyal and uninterrupted service or to Non-Belgian military officers for distinguished service in favor of the Military of Belgium. The Military Cross, second class is awarded to Belgian military officers after 25 years of service.<br> The Military Cross, first class is awarded to Belgian", "title": "Military Cross (Belgium)" }, { "docid": "3425595", "text": "Medal may be awarded or posthumously awarded to Allied Non-Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Men for valor while fighting the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam.\" The United States military authorized the Military Merit Medal as a foreign decoration and permitted the medal to be worn on U.S. uniforms by enlisted personnel. A high number Military Merit Medals were issued posthumously as the medal was most often awarded to United States servicemen who were killed in action. The Military Merit Medal was last issued to U.S. personnel in 1973 and was discontinued after the fall of South Vietnam in 1975. The", "title": "Military Merit Medal (Vietnam)" }, { "docid": "5373831", "text": "returned to their home nation unless retained to minister to prisoners of war. Inevitably, serving chaplains have died in action. The US Army and Marines lost 100 chaplains killed in action during World War II: the third highest casualty rate behind the infantry and the Army Air Forces. Many have been decorated for bravery in action (five have been awarded Britain's highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross, and nine have received the Medal of Honor). The Chaplain's Medal for Heroism is a special US military decoration given to military chaplains who have been killed in the line of duty,", "title": "Military chaplain" }, { "docid": "14173800", "text": "calls the decoration an \"arrow without a head\", and refers to its award to Balbilus. Hasta pura (military decoration) The hasta pura or hasta donatica was a decoration for merit, awarded in Ancient Rome. The Roman sources do not concur about the precise character of the decoration. Some call it a decoration for valour, others mention that it had been awarded to civilians. The \"hasta\" was a thrusting weapon that was not thrown as were the later \"pilum\", \"verutum\" and \"lancea\". A \"hasta pura\" was a spear made \"without iron\" and was in the earliest times the reward of a", "title": "Hasta pura (military decoration)" }, { "docid": "3425594", "text": "Military Merit Medal (Vietnam) The Military Merit Medal () was the highest military decoration bestowed to enlisted personnel by the Republic of Vietnam during the years of the Vietnam War. The medal was established on August 15, 1950. The Military Merit Medal was modeled after the French Médaille Militaire and was awarded mostly to Enlisted Men for valor in combat. The Vietnamese National Order of Vietnam was considered the equivalent decoration for military officers. \"The Military Merit Medal is awarded or awarded posthumously to Non-Commissioned Officers (including Aspirants) and Enlisted Men in the Armed Forces, who have: \"The Military Merit", "title": "Military Merit Medal (Vietnam)" }, { "docid": "8043255", "text": "the 10th Canadian Brigade attacked the hastily entrenched German troops and captured \"the Pimple\" on 12 April, bringing an end to the battle. By nightfall on 12 April 1917 the Canadian Corps was in firm control of the ridge. The corps had suffered 10,602 casualties; 3,598 killed and 7,004 wounded. The German Sixth Army suffered an unknown number of casualties with an approximate 4,000 men becoming prisoners of war. Four Victoria Crosses, the highest military decoration awarded to British and Commonwealth forces for valour, were awarded. The Germans did not attempt to recapture the ridge, even in the Spring Offensive,", "title": "Military history of Canada during World War I" }, { "docid": "9255696", "text": "Armilla (military decoration) An armilla (plural \"armillae\") was an armband awarded as a military decoration (\"donum militarium\") to soldiers of ancient Rome for conspicuous gallantry. Legionary (citizen) soldiers and non-commissioned officers below the rank of centurion were eligible for this award, but non-citizen soldiers were not. Unlike legionaries, auxiliary common soldiers did not receive individual decorations, though auxiliary officers did. However, a whole auxiliary regiment could be honoured by a title as an equivalent award, which in this case would be \"armillata\" (\"awarded bracelets\"), or be granted Roman citizenship \"en masse\" as a reward. This entitled an auxiliary regiment to", "title": "Armilla (military decoration)" }, { "docid": "3979162", "text": "Meritorious Service Decoration The Meritorious Service Decorations (), available in two forms as the Meritorious Service Cross (Fr.: \"Croix du service méritoire\") and the Meritorious Service Medal (Fr.: \"Médaille du service méritoire\"), are Canadian decorations awarded to those who have demonstrated an outstanding level of service or set an exemplary standard of achievement to benefit or honour Canada. The decoration, awarded to both Canadians and non-Canadians and available in both military and civilian divisions, is awarded by the reigning ) and presented on behalf by the Governor General. The military division recognizes individuals for bringing honour to the Canadian Forces", "title": "Meritorious Service Decoration" }, { "docid": "10863918", "text": "Military Cross (Belgium) The Military Cross (, ) is a military long service decoration of Belgium. It was established by Royal Decree on 11 February 1885 and is awarded to commissioned officers in the Belgian Armed Forces for loyal and uninterrupted service or to Non-Belgian military officers for distinguished service in favor of the Military of Belgium. The Military Cross, second class is awarded to Belgian military officers after 25 years of service.<br> The Military Cross, first class is awarded to Belgian military officers after 25 years of service as a commissioned officer. In the Belgian Military, years of actual", "title": "Military Cross (Belgium)" }, { "docid": "9255698", "text": "occasions like a general's Triumph, though they could also be worn at certain civic events like religious ceremonies and the games. Roman military honours were not awarded posthumously, but those won during a soldier's lifetime were often proudly shown on his sarcophagus or cenotaph. The \"armillae\" awarded to senior centurion Marcus Caelius of Legio XVIII, for example, are evident on his funerary monument, and three pairs of \"armillae\" can be seen on the memorial panel at Villa Vallelunga in Italy which depicts the awards granted to veteran C. Vibius Macer during his years of active service. Military \"armillae\" were modelled", "title": "Armilla (military decoration)" }, { "docid": "16439933", "text": "Wound Decoration (Poland) The Decoration of Honour for Officers and Other Ranks for Wounds and Injuries (Polish: \"Odznaka honorowa dla Oficerów i Szeregowych za Rany i Kontuzje\") – a Polish military award, established by the Council of National Defense on July 14, 1920, at the peak of the Polish–Soviet War and awarded to any military, irrespective of rank or branch of service for a wound or injury sustained in action against an enemy in defence of the country. Eligible were all Polish military wounded or injured after November 1, 1918 or before that date, provided that the wound or injury", "title": "Wound Decoration (Poland)" }, { "docid": "2704968", "text": "design: Since 1914 over 52,000 Military Crosses and 3,717 bars have been awarded. The dates below reflect the relevant \"London Gazette\" entries: In addition, approximately 375 MCs have been awarded since 1979, including awards for Northern Ireland, the Falklands and the wars in the Persian Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan. The above table includes awards to the Dominions:<br>In all, 3,727 Military Crosses have been awarded to those serving with Canadian forces, including 324 first bars and 18 second bars.<br>A total of 2,930 were awarded to Australians, in addition to 188 first bars and four second bars. Of these, 2,403 MCs, 170", "title": "Military Cross" }, { "docid": "12406477", "text": "who is awarded a United Nations Medal may wear the ribbon of the first UN medal for which they qualify. Subsequent awards of the United Nations Medal for service in a different mission is noted by adding a bronze service star to the current ribbon. No more than one UN medal or ribbon may be worn at a time. Operations in which United States military personnel were awarded the United Nations Medal and authorized by the Department of Defense to accept and wear the medal are as follows: United States military personnel may accept and wear NATO medals authorized by", "title": "International military decoration authorized by the US military" }, { "docid": "12107206", "text": "and periods spent on leave excluded, and war service was reckoned two-fold as qualifying service for the decoration. The award could also be made to any Princes or Princesses of the Blood Royal. The equivalent award for other ranks was the Efficiency Medal. Recipients serving in the Territorial Army of the United Kingdom are entitled to use the post-nominal letters TD, while recipients serving in the Auxiliary Military Forces are entitled to use the post-nominal letters ED. A recipient who had earlier been awarded any Long Service and Good Conduct Medal or the Efficiency Medal or a clasp to either", "title": "Efficiency Decoration" }, { "docid": "12406475", "text": "International military decoration authorized by the US military An international decoration is a military award which is not bestowed by a particular country, but rather by an international organization such as the United Nations or NATO. Such awards are normally issued as service medals, for participation in various international military operations, and not for specific acts of heroism or bravery. The first medal from an international organization accepted for wear by the United States Military was the United Nations Korea Medal in 1951. Subsequent acceptance of other United Nations Medals did not come until 1964 with . Acceptance of the", "title": "International military decoration authorized by the US military" }, { "docid": "17319970", "text": "Military Honor Medal The Military Honor Medal () was a two-class military decoration awarded by the Kingdom of Prussia. The medal was awarded to military personnel from the rank of sergeant and below. Established in 1814, it replaced the Gold Military Merit Medal of 1806 (Goldene Militär-Verdienstmedaille), with a medal in the shape of a cross silver cross for the 1st class while the Silver Military Medal of 1806 (Silberne Militär-Verdienstmedaille) became the 2nd class with minor changes in design. Initial award criteria meant that in order to be awarded the 1st Class cross a recipient must have been awarded", "title": "Military Honor Medal" }, { "docid": "12406476", "text": "medals of other international multilateral organizations finally came with in 1969. Acceptance of these international decorations must be approved by not only the Secretary of Defense, but also the Secretary of State. The following is a list of the most commonly recognized international military decorations that has been or is currently awarded to members of the United States military. Such awards are always worn after all United States decorations, but before all Foreign decorations. The Assistant Secretary of Defense approved a change to the policy of the wear of United Nations Medals. Effective 13 October 1995, any US military personnel", "title": "International military decoration authorized by the US military" }, { "docid": "12406479", "text": "awards the following decorations: Common Security and Defence Policy Awards and decorations of the United States military International military decoration authorized by the US military An international decoration is a military award which is not bestowed by a particular country, but rather by an international organization such as the United Nations or NATO. Such awards are normally issued as service medals, for participation in various international military operations, and not for specific acts of heroism or bravery. The first medal from an international organization accepted for wear by the United States Military was the United Nations Korea Medal in 1951.", "title": "International military decoration authorized by the US military" }, { "docid": "14313249", "text": "the recipient qualified for its award while serving in the Territorial Army or in one of the other Auxiliary Military Forces of the Empire. The subsidiary title was inscribed on the bar-brooch of the decoration, \"TERRITORIAL\" in respect of the Territorial Army or the name of the applicable country in respect of other Auxiliary Military Forces. The South African version was unique, being the only one on which the subsidiary title was bilingual. The equivalent award for other ranks was the Efficiency Medal (South Africa). The decoration could be awarded to part-time officers after twenty years of commissioned service, not", "title": "Efficiency Decoration (South Africa)" }, { "docid": "20860029", "text": "Belgian Navy Vessels. The first class of the medal can be awarded in exceptional circumstances to Officers on Non-Commissioned Officers. Enlisted personnel cannot be awarded the first class of the medal. Contrary to popular belief, the first class of the medal is not reserved for acts of gallantry causing loss of life of the awardee. The only additional requirement that is required to be eligible to the first class of the medal is that the acts performed were 'very exceptional'. In order to be eligible for an award, the award proposal must be made within 5 years after the occurrence", "title": "Military Decoration for gallantry or exceptional devotion" }, { "docid": "16207665", "text": "to the player who lost the opportunity to score due to the penalty. Said player is given a one-on-one opportunity against the offending team's goaltender to score a goal. However, if the goaltender had been pulled, most ice hockey rule books automatically award the goal, assuming that if not for the penalty, the goal would have been scored. Awarded goal In ice hockey, an awarded goal is an unusual situation in which a goal is awarded to a team rather than scored. A penalty shot is a type of penalty awarded when a team loses a clear scoring opportunity on", "title": "Awarded goal" }, { "docid": "9719773", "text": "ring, which enabled the medal to swing. Later versions were struck in one piece, with the suspender as an integral part of the medal, as depicted. Conferment of the decoration was discontinued in respect of services performed on or after 27 April 2003, when the Military Merit Medal was replaced by the iPhrothiya yeBhronzi (PB). Military Merit Medal (South Africa) The Military Merit Medal, post-nominal letters MMM, is a military decoration which was instituted in the Republic of South Africa on 9 October 1974 as the Chief of the Defence Force's Commendation Medal. It could be awarded to all ranks", "title": "Military Merit Medal (South Africa)" }, { "docid": "16856347", "text": "Military Medal for Gallantry The Military Medal For Gallantry (MMG) () is a military decoration awarded by the Government of Ireland. It is the highest award of the military awards and decorations of Ireland. Created in 1944, the Military Medal for Gallantry is awarded in three different classes. Originally referred to as 1st, 2nd and 3rd class, but since 1984 they have been respectively been referred to with Honour, with Distinction, and with Merit. Since the medal's inception it has been awarded six times with Distinction and twice with Merit. It has never been awarded with Honour. The Military Medal", "title": "Military Medal for Gallantry" }, { "docid": "6137397", "text": "General of Canada, via the Chief of the Defence Staff. Once they have been decorated with the Medal of Military Valour, recipients are granted the right to use the post-nominal letters \"MMV\". The Medal of Military Valour can be awarded posthumously, as well as multiple times; as of August 2009, the decoration has been awarded 38 times, though no bars have yet been issued. Medal of Military Valour The Medal of Military Valour () is a decoration that is, within the Canadian system of honours, the third highest award for military valour, and one of three honours for military valour", "title": "Medal of Military Valour" }, { "docid": "18493873", "text": "awarded with or without swords in three different classes: Medal of Military Merit (Uruguay) The Medal of Military Merit (), is a military decoration of Uruguay. The decoration is awarded by the President of Uruguay. This award replaces the Order of Military Merit of the Companions of Artigas which was discontinued in 1985. The Medal of Military Merit was established on 28 November 1991 by Ministry of National Defense Decree N° 199/991.<ref name=\"199/991\"></ref> The regulations of the medal were further modified on 29 January 1992 by Decree N° 511/991.<ref name=\"511/991\"></ref> The Medal of Military merit is the highest military decoration", "title": "Medal of Military Merit (Uruguay)" }, { "docid": "15469182", "text": "of Defence or the Minister of Internal Affairs. The president also has the right to revoke the award. The cross is to be awarded no later than three years after the end of combat operations, and may be awarded to any single person up to four times. The Military Cross may be awarded to soldiers, policemen, officers of the Internal Security Agency, Intelligence Agency, Military Intelligence Service, the Military Counterintelligence Service, the Central Anticorruption Bureau, the Border Guard, the Government Protection Bureau, and the State Fire Service. Military Cross (Poland) The Military Cross \"(Polish:Krzyż Wojskowy)\" is a military decoration awarded", "title": "Military Cross (Poland)" }, { "docid": "9712476", "text": "Navy. Conferment of the John Chard Decoration was discontinued in respect of services performed on or after 27 April 2003, when it was replaced by the new Medalje vir Troue Diens and Bar, 20 years. John Chard Decoration The John Chard Decoration, post-nominal letters JCD, was a military long service decoration which was instituted by the Union of South Africa on 6 April 1952. It was awarded to members of the Citizen Force of the South African Defence Force for twenty years of efficient service and good conduct. Clasps could be awarded after thirty and forty years service respectively. The", "title": "John Chard Decoration" }, { "docid": "20367895", "text": "may be authorized prior to serving the required nine months with the recommendation of the Commander, Soldiers reassigned from authorized positions within the U.S. Army Caisson Platoon prior to completion of nine months' service may be considered for permanent award on a case-by-case basis by the Commander, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard). The Military Horseman Identification Badge is only awarded for those soldiers serving in the Caisson Platoon of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment. It will not be awarded to soldiers serving in other positions with horse detachments or platoons. Military Horseman Identification Badge The Military Horseman Identification", "title": "Military Horseman Identification Badge" }, { "docid": "14881982", "text": "Michael Thornton (Medal of Honor, awarded 1884) Michael Thornton (1856–??) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. Born in 1856 in Ireland, Thornton immigrated to the United States and joined the Navy from Pennsylvania. By August 26, 1881, he was serving as a seaman on the tugboat . On that day, while \"Leyden\" was near Boston, Massachusetts, Landsman Michael Drennan jumped overboard because he was \"temporarily insane\". Thornton jumped in after him and kept him afloat until they could be rescued. For this action, he was awarded", "title": "Michael Thornton (Medal of Honor, awarded 1884)" }, { "docid": "16656819", "text": "3 central narrow red stripes. Military Merit Medal (Philippines) The Military Merit Medal is a military decoration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The medal is awarded for heroic achievement or meritorious service during, or in support of military action against an enemy. Military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines may be awarded the Military Merit Medal. Criteria for award varies as it may be awarded \"...for heroic achievement in combat or meritorious achievement for service not involving participation in combat, in connection with military operations against an enemy of the Philippines; for a single act of", "title": "Military Merit Medal (Philippines)" }, { "docid": "16656816", "text": "Military Merit Medal (Philippines) The Military Merit Medal is a military decoration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The medal is awarded for heroic achievement or meritorious service during, or in support of military action against an enemy. Military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines may be awarded the Military Merit Medal. Criteria for award varies as it may be awarded \"...for heroic achievement in combat or meritorious achievement for service not involving participation in combat, in connection with military operations against an enemy of the Philippines; for a single act of meritorious service either in a", "title": "Military Merit Medal (Philippines)" }, { "docid": "14173798", "text": "to a soldier who had struck down an enemy in a sally or skirmish. Tacitus records a \"hasta pura\" being given as a decoration, bestowed upon a soldier for saving the life of a fellow-citizen: A civil servant called Tiberius Claudius Balbilus was awarded the \"hasta pura\" and perhaps also the \"corona aurea\" by Claudius during the triumph to celebrate the conquest of Britain in AD 44. As a friend and part of the Emperor’s retinue, it seems likely that his awards, as much as his military rank, were honorary. The \"hasta pura\" was also recorded as being given to", "title": "Hasta pura (military decoration)" }, { "docid": "17282954", "text": "awarded the both versions of game four out of five stars, wrote that it is \"a satisfying update to the \"DoA\" experience, for just $40,\" but cautioned that \"casual fans content with last year's copy of \"Dead or Alive 5\" might not want to buy another game so soon.\" Angelo M. D’Argenio of Cheat Code Central opined that \"Ultimate\" is a must-have purchase only for those who are still playing \"Dead or Alive 5\", giving the PS3 version a relatively low score of 3.2/5. According to \"Hardcore Gamer\"'s Adam Beck, however, \"there’s something here for everyone;\" he rated the PS3", "title": "Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate" }, { "docid": "16656817", "text": "duty responsibility or in direct support of military operations.\" The cited achievement or service is to be accomplished with distinction. The Military Merit Medal may be awarded by the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Area Commanders, and the Commanders of the Philippine Army, Philippine Navy, or Philippine Air Force. Division and major subordinate unit commanders, holding at least the rank of Brigadier General, may also award the medal. The Military Merit Medal may be awarded posthumously to members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Under these conditions eligible personnel are those who are killed", "title": "Military Merit Medal (Philippines)" }, { "docid": "14852979", "text": "Military Health Service honour medal The Military Health Service honour medal () is a French decoration created 30 August 1962. The medal recognizes individuals who have contributed or lent their support to the French Defence Health service and were particularly marked by their services or their dedication. It is presented in four different levels: gold, vermeil, silver, and bronze. It may be awarded to members of the military as well as civilians. The Military Health Service honour medal replaces six obsolete awards: The decree of 28 June 1979 allows the award of this distinction posthumously. The four levels are awarded", "title": "Military Health Service honour medal" }, { "docid": "1852239", "text": "Military awards and decorations A military decoration is a distinctively designed award given as a mark of honor for military heroism, meritorious or outstanding service or achievement. It is often a medal consisting of a ribbon and a medallion. While the United States Government does not consider all its military awards and medals as being \"decorations\", other countries tend to refer to all their military awards and medals as \"decorations\". Civil decorations awarded to military personnel should not be considered military decorations, although some orders of chivalry have civil and military divisions. Decorations received by police and fire brigade personnel", "title": "Military awards and decorations" }, { "docid": "14918504", "text": "Medal for voluntary military service is awarded to military personnel not in the full-time regular army serving honourably part-time in information, training and improvement of reserves, recruiting, military preparedness as well as activities within special associations. It may be exceptionally awarded to military personnel of either the reserves or regular army who distinguished themselves by the exceptionally high quality of their service. For award to a member of the regular army, this service must have been carried out outside of normal working hours and for no pay. The medal may be awarded posthumously. The award is divided into three grades,", "title": "Medal for voluntary military service" }, { "docid": "19948073", "text": "is blank so that the deceased soldier's name, army number, and date and location of death may be engraved. The medal hangs from a ribbon wide. The ribbon is purple with black stripes at the edge. In the centre is a white stripe wide bisected by a stripe of orange. The white stripe is bordered by green stripes on either side. The ribbon is suspended at the top from a bronze bar bearing the word, in relief, \"REMEMBRANCE\". Military Star The Military Star () is a military decoration awarded to those members of the Irish Defence Forces or Chaplaincy Service", "title": "Military Star" }, { "docid": "5388183", "text": "was awarded the Victoria Cross, on November 11, 1921. United Kingdom decorations were awarded extensively to U.S. service members during both the First World War and World War II. The orders of chivalry were reserved mainly for senior U.S. military leaders. The remaining decorations were awarded frequently amongst the entire enlisted and officer corps of the U.S. military. The Distinguished Flying Cross was a common decoration for those Americans attached to the Eagle Squadrons; when some of those personnel transferred back to the United States Army Air Forces after America entered the war, the British DFC became a fairly common", "title": "Authorized foreign decorations of the United States military" }, { "docid": "4212539", "text": "the Military Medal for bravery under fire. In the video game \"\" , the SAS character named Mike \"Thatcher\" Baker is seen wearing the Military Medal. The reason why it has been awarded to him is not mentioned Military Medal The Military Medal (MM) was a military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army and other arms of the armed forces, and to personnel of other Commonwealth countries, below commissioned rank, for bravery in battle on land. The award was established in 1916, with retrospective application to 1914, and was awarded to other ranks for \"acts of gallantry and", "title": "Military Medal" }, { "docid": "11981837", "text": "Colombian military decorations Colombian military decorations date back as far as the founding of the country. An early decoration was the \"Cruz de Boyacá\" that was awarded to the generals who led their forces to victory in the Battle of Boyacá in 1819. This early decoration lives on today as an incarnation of the highest order presented by the Colombian state. There is one decoration higher, but it is only awarded for military conflicts in defence of Colombia. Other than military decorations, Colombia presents decorations on behalf of the National Government, decorations for the National Police, and decorations from the", "title": "Colombian military decorations" }, { "docid": "13013274", "text": "Cross for Military Valour The Cross for Military Valour () is a military decoration of France. It recognises an individual bestowed a Mention in Dispatches earned for showing valour in presence of an enemy, in theatres of operations which are not subject to the award of the Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures (Cross of War for Foreign Theatres of Operations). The Cross for Military Valour is usually awarded for security or peacekeeping operations, always outside the French territory. It was established in 1956 to reward soldiers, sailors, and airmen serving in Algeria who had committed acts of valour", "title": "Cross for Military Valour" }, { "docid": "13551878", "text": "Commemorative Medal for Foreign Operations or Missions The Commemorative Medal for Foreign Operations or Missions (, ) is a military decoration of Belgium. It was established on 13 April 1993 and is awarded to military and civilian members of the Belgian Armed Forces who participated in operations or missions outside of the territory of Belgium. The medal is circular and is struck from bronze, the obverse bears the Escutcheon-only version of the Coat of arms of Belgium under the royal crown and surrounded by the text \"Missions ou opérations à l'étranger - Buitenlandse opdrachten of operaties\". The reverse of the", "title": "Commemorative Medal for Foreign Operations or Missions" }, { "docid": "16662933", "text": "Military Civic Action Medal The Military Civic Action Medal is a military decoration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It is awarded for meritorious achievement in the conduct of humanitarian civic actions in direct support military operations. The Military Civic Action Medal is awarded to both military and civilian personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It may also be awarded to foreign nationals from allied nations. It is awarded for \"...meritorious achievement in the field of civic action in duty responsibility or in direct support to military operations\". The medal may be awarded by the Chief of", "title": "Military Civic Action Medal" }, { "docid": "16281111", "text": "for gallantry under fire. It was made obsolete on 16 May 1963 after the signing of Morocco's first constitution. Revived and expanded by King Hassan II as the \"Wisam al-Istihqaq al-Askari al-Sharifiya\" or \"Sharifian (Royal) Order of Military Merit\", on 14 December 1966. It was created to recognise eminent and meritorious military services by senior commander and officers of the armed forces, police and auxiliary services in positions of command, training or the preparation of national defence. Awarded in five classes: It was reorganized again on 12 April 1976 into a single class decoration and returned to a status broadly", "title": "Order of Military Merit (Morocco)" }, { "docid": "19320348", "text": "the bronze medal and have performed at least 30 days of additional training or other militia duty. The gold medal is awarded to those already holding the silver medal who have performed an additional 60 days of training or other militia duty. The medals are awarded only once. In the order of wear for Austrian medals the Military Service Medal is worn in order of gold, then silver, and finally bronze. They are worn before the Militia Medal and after the Military Service Award. The medal is round, , and made of bronze which is either plated in gold or", "title": "Military Service Medal" }, { "docid": "3800840", "text": "Military Order of William The Military William Order, or often named Military Order of William (Dutch: Militaire Willems-Orde, abbreviation: MWO), is the oldest and highest honour of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Order's motto is \"Voor Moed, Beleid en Trouw\" (For Bravery, Leadership and Loyalty). The chivalric order was established on 30 April 1815 by King William I and was presented for feats of excellent bravery on the battlefield and as a meritorious decoration to senior military officers. Comparable with the French Légion d’Honneur but far less often awarded, the Military William Order is a chivalry order of merit", "title": "Military Order of William" }, { "docid": "2704963", "text": "Military Cross The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and formerly awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries. The MC is granted in recognition of \"an act or acts of exemplary gallantry during active operations against the enemy on land\" to all members of the British Armed Forces of any rank. In 1979, the Queen approved a proposal that a number of awards, including the Military Cross, could be recommended posthumously. The award was created on 28 December 1914 for commissioned officers of the substantive", "title": "Military Cross" }, { "docid": "5371817", "text": "never will be. Conferment of the decoration was discontinued in respect of services performed on or after 27 April 2003. Castle of Good Hope Decoration The Castle of Good Hope Decoration was a military decoration for bravery which was instituted by the Union of South Africa on 6 April 1952, but never awarded. The decoration was intended for award to members of the South African Defence Force for a signal act of valour or most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent act of self-sacrifice or extreme devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy. The Castle of Good", "title": "Castle of Good Hope Decoration" }, { "docid": "10218203", "text": "In any event, a minimum of seven years had to have been served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in any capacity before becoming eligible for the award of the decoration. An Officer who had previously been awarded the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal for service as a rating, could subsequently be awarded the decoration and still wear the medal, provided both periods of qualifying service had been completed. Officers serving on the active list on or after 1 June 1954, became eligible for the award of a clasp to the decoration after completing ten", "title": "Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve" }, { "docid": "13518537", "text": "weapon systems have been developed and produces within Sri Lanka to suit its requirements. Most of these have been produced by the armed forces. Following are military hardware design and development in the country: The highest military decoration awarded by the tri-forces is the [[Parama Weera Vibhushanaya]], awarded to all regular and volunteer officers and service personnel who display extraordinary individual bravery in combat; thus far, all PWVs have been posthumous. A related award is the [[Uththama Pooja Pranama Padakkama]], an exclusively posthumous decoration awarded to the family or next-of-kin of service personnel confirmed to be [[killed in action|killed]]- or", "title": "Sri Lanka Armed Forces" }, { "docid": "11826663", "text": "Police course, and Officers attend the Military Police Officers Course (MPOC). There are separate Regular Force and Reserve Force courses. Members attending the Reserve Force courses are not awarded credentials (MP badge) upon course completion. It is possible in some instances for Reserve Force members to take training at the Regular Force level. 2 MP Regt does not have an internet web-site, Facebook or Twitter. Internally, 2 MP Regt maintains a SharePoint site under both 4 Cdn Div and LF MP Gp. On April 22, 2006, Corporal Matthew Dinning of 2 Military Police Platoon was killed in action, along with", "title": "2 Military Police Regiment (Canada)" }, { "docid": "20645894", "text": "the recipient received only a brevet, allowing him to purchase the medal in a military store. With the creation of this medal, the government now provides for military commemorative medals. Commemorative Medal for Missions or Operations regarding the operational defense of the territory The Commemorative Medal for Missions or Operations regarding the operational defense of the territory (, ) is a military decoration of Belgium. It was established on 28 March 2018 and is awarded to military and civilian members of the Belgian Armed Forces who participated in operations related to the defense of the Belgian territory or who provided", "title": "Commemorative Medal for Missions or Operations regarding the operational defense of the territory" }, { "docid": "1852243", "text": "include: In most NATO militaries, only the service ribbons are normally worn on everyday occasions (as opposed to the actual medals). Military awards and decorations A military decoration is a distinctively designed award given as a mark of honor for military heroism, meritorious or outstanding service or achievement. It is often a medal consisting of a ribbon and a medallion. While the United States Government does not consider all its military awards and medals as being \"decorations\", other countries tend to refer to all their military awards and medals as \"decorations\". Civil decorations awarded to military personnel should not be", "title": "Military awards and decorations" }, { "docid": "10487432", "text": "Military Merit Cross (Austria-Hungary) The Military Merit Cross (, , ) was a decoration of the Empire of Austria and, after the establishment of the Dual Monarchy in 1867, the Empire of Austria-Hungary. It was first established on October 22, 1849 and underwent several revisions to its design and award criteria over the years of its existence. It became obsolete in 1918 with the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Military Merit Cross was established on October 22, 1849 by Emperor Franz Joseph I, based on the recommendation of Field Marshal Count Radetzky. It was to be awarded to officers", "title": "Military Merit Cross (Austria-Hungary)" }, { "docid": "12406478", "text": "the Secretary General of NATO and offered to the US Representative to NATO to recognize US service members who meet the eligibility criteria specified by NATO, so long as acceptance is approved by both the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State. NATO Medals may be awarded with a clasp that designates the operation for which the medal is awarded. United States military personnel may accept, but not wear the clasp. To date the following medals are the only NATO Medals authorized for acceptance and wear by US military personnel: The System of Cooperation Among the American Air Forces", "title": "International military decoration authorized by the US military" }, { "docid": "4514605", "text": "Canadian Forces Decoration The Canadian Forces Decoration (post-nominal letters \"CD\") is a Canadian award bestowed upon members of the Canadian Armed Forces who have completed twelve years of military service, with certain conditions. By convention, it is also given to the Governor General of Canada upon his or her appointment as viceroy, which includes the title of Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada. The decoration is awarded to all ranks, who must have a good record of conduct during the final eight years of claimed service. The first Governor General to receive the CD was Viscount Alexander of Tunis in 1951.", "title": "Canadian Forces Decoration" }, { "docid": "14361365", "text": "different hospitals in the US Army, all volunteered for the mission and were the first women to join the active service of the Brazilian armed forces. After the war, as well as the rest of the FEB, the nurses, most have been awarded, they won the official patent and licensed the active military service. Joanna Herrera Cortez became the first female Colombian fighter pilot in 2004. She also became a lieutenant and put in charge of 99 men. Women in the military by country Recent history of changes in women's roles includes having women in the military in many countries.", "title": "Women in the military by country" }, { "docid": "4212535", "text": "by 1990's most, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand, were establishing their own honours systems and no longer recommended British honours. The medal and ribbon had the following features: The medal was awarded with one of six obverse designs: Between 1916 and 1993 approximately 138,517 medals and 6,167 bars were awarded. The dates below reflect the relevant London Gazette entries: The above figures include awards to the Dominions:<br>In all, 13,654 Military Medals were awarded to those serving with Canadian forces, including 848 first bars and 38 second bars.<br>11,038 were awarded to Australian Army and 14 to Air Force personnel. 478", "title": "Military Medal" }, { "docid": "13639767", "text": "1887 were granted the bronze medal, and from this date it was awarded to those whose acts of bravery did not justify the higher gold or silver levels. During the First World War a total of 368 Gold, 38,614 Silver and 60,244 Bronze medals were awarded for individual acts of heroism. In 1916 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was awarded the Medal of Military Valor in Gold, the only foreign head of state to receive this award. Royal Decree #1423 of 4 November 1932 defined new rules for granting the Valor medals, as well as the \"War Cross for Military", "title": "Medal of Military Valor" }, { "docid": "9712488", "text": "the clasp wear a silver button, 8 millimetres in diameter and inscribed \"DWD\", on the ribbon bar when medals are not worn. Conferment of the De Wet Decoration was discontinued in respect of services performed on or after 27 April 2003. De Wet Decoration The De Wet Decoration, post-nominal letters DWD, is a military long service decoration which was instituted by the Republic of South Africa in 1965. It could be awarded to members of the Commandos, the rural civil defence component of the South African Defence Force, for twenty years of efficient service and good conduct. The decoration was", "title": "De Wet Decoration" }, { "docid": "19320347", "text": "Military Service Medal The Military Service Medal is a military medal awarded to members of the Military of Austria. It is awarded in three classes: gold, silver, and bronze depending on length of recognized service. Established in 1963, the medal was originally called the Military Commemorative Service Medal (\"Wehrdiensterinnerungsmedaille\"). The name was changed to its current name in 1989. The Military Service Medal in bronze is the most common award of the medal. It is awarded to conscripts at the end of their mandatory training. The silver medal is awarded to those members of the militia who have already earned", "title": "Military Service Medal" }, { "docid": "789369", "text": "on 12 April 1917, the Canadian Corps was in firm control of the ridge. The corps suffered 10,602 casualties: 3,598 killed and 7,004 wounded. The German 6th Army suffered an unknown number of casualties with approximately 4,000 men becoming prisoners of war. Four members of the Canadian Corps received the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded to British and Commonwealth forces for valour, for their actions during the battle: At least two Orders Pour le Mérite, the Kingdom of Prussia's highest military order, were awarded to German commanders for their actions during the battle: Following the defeat, the Chief", "title": "Battle of Vimy Ridge" }, { "docid": "9255697", "text": "add the appellation \"civium Romanorum\" (Roman citizens) to its list of honours. \"Armillae\" were either gold, silver or bronze. The status of the recipient appears to have determined whether he would be granted a gold \"armilla\" or the lesser silver. Bronze \"armillae\" were given as awards for distinguished conduct to soldiers of lesser rank, but were valued no less highly for the prestige they conferred upon their owners. \"Armillae\" were usually awarded in pairs and a soldier could win more than one pair. They were not for everyday wear, but generally only worn at military parades or on dress uniform", "title": "Armilla (military decoration)" }, { "docid": "5388166", "text": "Force - Iraq Commander as \"end-of-tour\" decorations. To date the \"only\" person that has been allowed to wear any Iraqi award has been General Petraeus, Multi-National Force - Iraq Commander. The Service in Israel Medal is awarded to military attachés who serve at least two years in Israel upon the end of their assignment with the IDF. First instituted in 2007, it is still a somewhat rare decoration and there are certain restrictions regarding its display (or in some case, even its mention) for U.S. personnel stationed in other Middle Eastern Arab countries who are on unfriendly terms with Israel.", "title": "Authorized foreign decorations of the United States military" }, { "docid": "12107204", "text": "India. It superseded the Volunteer Officers' Decoration, the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration and the Territorial Decoration. The decoration bore a subsidiary title to denote whether the recipient qualified for its award while serving in the Territorial Army or in one of the other Auxiliary Military Forces of the Empire. The subsidiary title was inscribed on the bar-brooch of the decoration, \"TERRITORIAL\" in respect of the Territorial Army or the name of the applicable country in respect of other Auxiliary Military Forces. The Royal Warrant of 23 September 1930 was amended by Royal Warrants dated 1 February 1940, 4 April", "title": "Efficiency Decoration" }, { "docid": "13809517", "text": "first aerial victory on 22 April 1917, downing a Nieuport 17 from No. 1 Squadron RFC in a morning fight. Lieutenant AW Wood, the pilot, was wounded, but survived to be taken prisoner. Another 1 Squadron Nieuport followed on 7 May. On 25 May, he shot down a Royal Aircraft Factory FE.2d from No. 20 Squadron RFC piloted by eventual 11-kill ace Lt. Campbell Hoy who was injured. He was awarded Germany's highest decoration for enlisted men, the Military Merit Cross, on 28 June 1917. Hanko went on to down an Airco DH.4 from No. 57 Squadron RFC on 21", "title": "August Hanko" }, { "docid": "4212530", "text": "Military Medal The Military Medal (MM) was a military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army and other arms of the armed forces, and to personnel of other Commonwealth countries, below commissioned rank, for bravery in battle on land. The award was established in 1916, with retrospective application to 1914, and was awarded to other ranks for \"acts of gallantry and devotion to duty under fire\". The award was discontinued in 1993 when it was replaced by the Military Cross, which was extended to all ranks, while other Commonwealth nations instituted their own award systems in the post war", "title": "Military Medal" }, { "docid": "16439938", "text": "form as the original one, but the ribbon has been altered to dark blue with two horizontal crimson stripes (the colours of the Order of the Military Cross). Wound Decoration (Poland) The Decoration of Honour for Officers and Other Ranks for Wounds and Injuries (Polish: \"Odznaka honorowa dla Oficerów i Szeregowych za Rany i Kontuzje\") – a Polish military award, established by the Council of National Defense on July 14, 1920, at the peak of the Polish–Soviet War and awarded to any military, irrespective of rank or branch of service for a wound or injury sustained in action against an", "title": "Wound Decoration (Poland)" }, { "docid": "15791223", "text": "Medal For Military Service to Ukraine The Medal For Military Service to Ukraine () is an award of Ukraine. It was established by the Decree of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma on October 5, 1996 to honour servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations created in accordance with the Ukrainian legislature and other individuals for courage and valor displayed at protection of state interests and for excellent execution of service duty. The Medal For military service to Ukraine can be awarded to foreign citizens or individuals without citizenship; the medal can be awarded posthumously. The", "title": "Medal For Military Service to Ukraine" }, { "docid": "16662935", "text": "The medal is suspended from a blue ribbon, with a central stripe of green, bordered on each side by equal stripes of white and red. Military Civic Action Medal The Military Civic Action Medal is a military decoration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It is awarded for meritorious achievement in the conduct of humanitarian civic actions in direct support military operations. The Military Civic Action Medal is awarded to both military and civilian personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It may also be awarded to foreign nationals from allied nations. It is awarded for \"...meritorious achievement", "title": "Military Civic Action Medal" }, { "docid": "5371812", "text": "Castle of Good Hope Decoration The Castle of Good Hope Decoration was a military decoration for bravery which was instituted by the Union of South Africa on 6 April 1952, but never awarded. The decoration was intended for award to members of the South African Defence Force for a signal act of valour or most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent act of self-sacrifice or extreme devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy. The Castle of Good Hope Decoration was instituted by Queen Elizabeth II on 6 April 1952, during the Van Riebeeck Festival, as the most", "title": "Castle of Good Hope Decoration" }, { "docid": "5388162", "text": "d'entraînement au combat et d’aguerrissement de Djibouti). The badge is individually serialized to the service member who earned it. German decorations have been awarded to United States soldiers beginning as far back as the American Revolution. By the time of the First World War, German decorations had faded from the military memory of the United States and, during the actual conflict where Germany and America were on opposing sides, the wear of any German decoration by an American soldier would have been unthinkable. The sole authorization of a Nazi decoration to U.S. personnel was in 1938 when the Order of", "title": "Authorized foreign decorations of the United States military" }, { "docid": "4477168", "text": "CIS guidelines while another 5 fencers earned the equivalent OUA achievement. The gold thread crossed pistols are awarded as a military badge for marksmanship when markman levels are achieved for the pistol; a crown is awarded in May to the top score in the College. The gold thread crossed rifles are awarded as a military badge for marksmanship when markman levels are achieved for the rifle; a crown is awarded in May to the top score in the College. The gold thread cross swords in a laurel wreath military proficiency badge is awarded if the following conditions have been met", "title": "Royal Military College Paladins" }, { "docid": "7178873", "text": "Conspicuous Service Cross (New York) The Conspicuous Service Cross is a decoration for military service awarded by the State of New York. The general criteria for the New York State Conspicuous Service Cross require an individual to be: The Conspicuous Service Cross is also awarded to those members of the New York Organised Militia who were prisoners of war, served at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, directly participated in the Invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, or have been declared by the Department of Defense as killed or missing in action. It may also be awarded for conspicuous", "title": "Conspicuous Service Cross (New York)" }, { "docid": "16792287", "text": "Labour Decoration The Labour Decoration (, ) is a Belgian labour long service medal originally established on 7 November 1847 under the name \"Industrial and Agricultural Decoration\". Its statute and design were reformed in 1958, it has since retained its present name and design. The Labour Decoration is awarded to those who use their knowledge, talent and dedication in the pursuit of their work for a specified time. It is awarded by the Belgian Ministry of Employment and Labour. The Labour Decoration is awarded in two classes: The decoration first class may also be awarded posthumously to workers who have", "title": "Labour Decoration" }, { "docid": "16311558", "text": "civilian recipients, the Ribbon of Saint George is used for military recipients. The individuals below were awarded the Decoration \"For Impeccable Service\" with Roman numeral \"L\" for 50 years of impeccable service to the state: The individuals below were awarded the Decoration \"For Impeccable Service\" with Roman numeral \"XL\" for 40 years of impeccable service to the state: Decoration For Impeccable Service The Decoration \"For Impeccable Service\" () is a state decoration of the Russian Federation aimed at recognising impeccable civilian or military service to the state beyond the scope of normal long service medals. The Decoration \"For Impeccable Service\"", "title": "Decoration For Impeccable Service" }, { "docid": "11981855", "text": "a chest ribbon with 1 narrow blue stripe; 15 years -badge on a chest ribbon. Promulgated in Decree 4949 of 2007, the following is the order of precedence of Colombian military decorations: Colombian military decorations Colombian military decorations date back as far as the founding of the country. An early decoration was the \"Cruz de Boyacá\" that was awarded to the generals who led their forces to victory in the Battle of Boyacá in 1819. This early decoration lives on today as an incarnation of the highest order presented by the Colombian state. There is one decoration higher, but it", "title": "Colombian military decorations" }, { "docid": "10493116", "text": "on the War Ribbon. While the Bronze and Silver Military Merit Medals were essentially reserved for Austro-Hungarians only, ten of the 30 Grand Military Merit Medals were awarded to foreigners (9 German generals and 1 Ottoman general, Enver Pasha). A new series of Silver and Bronze Military Merit Medals was created on April 18, 1917, which featured the bust of Emperor Karl I, who had acceded to the Austro-Hungarian throne after the death of Franz Joseph I on November 21, 1916. The main difference, besides the bust of the new Emperor in place of the old, was the replacement of", "title": "Military Merit Medal (Austria-Hungary)" }, { "docid": "14852981", "text": "is awarded, except in exceptional cases, twice a year, on 1 January and 14 July. Applications and proposals to the central management of the health service of the Armed Forces, for transmission to the office of Minister of Defense, Office of Decorations. Military Health Service honour medal The Military Health Service honour medal () is a French decoration created 30 August 1962. The medal recognizes individuals who have contributed or lent their support to the French Defence Health service and were particularly marked by their services or their dedication. It is presented in four different levels: gold, vermeil, silver, and", "title": "Military Health Service honour medal" }, { "docid": "9712465", "text": "John Chard Decoration The John Chard Decoration, post-nominal letters JCD, was a military long service decoration which was instituted by the Union of South Africa on 6 April 1952. It was awarded to members of the Citizen Force of the South African Defence Force for twenty years of efficient service and good conduct. Clasps could be awarded after thirty and forty years service respectively. The Union Defence Forces (UDF) were established in 1912 and renamed the South African Defence Force (SADF) in 1958. On 27 April 1994, it was integrated with six other independent forces into the South African National", "title": "John Chard Decoration" }, { "docid": "15220830", "text": "Major E.W. Hayton who was wounded in early July 1942, was awarded the DSO for outstanding provost duties at the Battle of El Alamein while serving as the Assistant Provost Marshal beside Major R.R.J. Jenkin who was commanding the NZ Divisional Provost Company at the same battle. Jenkin was later promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed Deputy Provost Marshal in Italy. After the war ended, the military police were again disbanded. On 18 February 1949, the New Zealand Military Police were re-gazetted, and re-formed on 24 March 1951. On 18 July 1952, Her Majesty the Queen granted assent for the", "title": "Corps of Royal New Zealand Military Police" }, { "docid": "20860030", "text": "of the gallant act. The medal is identical to its counterpart created by the same Royal Decree, the military decoration for Long service. It is a gilt cross pattée surmounted by the royal crown of Belgium with four rays between the cross arms. The obverse bears a circular central medallion with a Belgian lion and a circular relief inscription. This inscription is the Belgian motto (Unity makes Strength) and used to be solely in France (surrounding the centered lion completely) but carries since July 8, 1952 the motto both in Dutch (eendracht maakt macht) in the upper half and in", "title": "Military Decoration for gallantry or exceptional devotion" }, { "docid": "20434371", "text": "home. Unlike black troops during World War One, black troops of the Native Military Corps were awarded medals for service during conflict in World War Two. 119 medals or commendations were awarded to the troops with one Distinguished Conduct Medal awarded for exceptional acts of bravery, sixteen Military Medals (MM) for bravery in battle and two British Empire Medals for meritorious military service. One King's Medal for Bravery, 21 Mentions in Dispatches, 6 Gazetted Commendations, 3 Commendation Cards and 69 Certificates of Good Service were also awarded. Corporal Lucas Majozi was awarded a DCM for evacuating wounded soldiers from the", "title": "Native Military Corps" }, { "docid": "3438183", "text": "Military Medal was awarded on 115 000 occasions in World War One, when 673 375 British Army soldiers were killed and 1 643 469 wounded. The award was first established in 1852 by the first President of the French Republic, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte who may have taken his inspiration from a medal established and awarded by his father, Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland. After the First World War, the Military Medal was also temporarily awarded for wounds received in combat. Like many other French awards, the \"médaille\" can be awarded for different reasons. It can be awarded to foreign nationals serving", "title": "Médaille militaire" }, { "docid": "9712483", "text": "1958. On 27 April 1994, it was integrated with six other independent forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). The De Wet Decoration, post-nominal letters DWD, was instituted by the State President in 1965. It was named after Second Boer War General Christiaan de Wet. The De Wet Decoration was one of only three South African military awards for long service which entitled the recipient to the use of post-nominal letters, the others being the John Chard Decoration (JCD), which was awarded to Citizen Force members, and the defunct Efficiency Decoration (ED). The decoration could be awarded to", "title": "De Wet Decoration" } ]
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The 2009 Major League Soccer title game, pitting Real Salt Lake against the Los Angeles Galaxy, was hosted in what US city this year?
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[ { "docid": "11517678", "text": "in a penalty shootout 4-3 after the game was tied 1-1. No extra time was played following regular time. Tim Howard, the Everton and U.S. Men's National Team goalkeeper, was named the game's MVP. 2009 Major League Soccer season The 2009 Major League Soccer season was the 14th season of Major League Soccer. The season began on March 19 and ended with Real Salt Lake winning the MLS Cup 2009, on November 22 at Qwest Field in Seattle, defeating the Los Angeles Galaxy on penalties. The following changes were made since the 2008 season: The format for the 2009 season", "title": "2009 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "11517673", "text": "2009 Major League Soccer season The 2009 Major League Soccer season was the 14th season of Major League Soccer. The season began on March 19 and ended with Real Salt Lake winning the MLS Cup 2009, on November 22 at Qwest Field in Seattle, defeating the Los Angeles Galaxy on penalties. The following changes were made since the 2008 season: The format for the 2009 season was as follows: If more than two clubs are tied, once a club advances through any step, the process reverts to Tiebreaker 1 among the remaining tied clubs recursively until all ties are resolved.", "title": "2009 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "15692989", "text": "2012 Real Salt Lake season The 2012 Real Salt Lake season is the team's eighth year of existence. The team's first game was on March 10 at the Home Depot Center against the Los Angeles Galaxy, which they won 3-1. \" Seattle Sounders won on 1 - 0 aggregate\" Real Salt Lake is in the #17 position in the MLS Allocation Ranking. The allocation ranking is the mechanism used to determine which MLS club has first priority to acquire a U.S. National Team player who signs with MLS after playing abroad, or a former MLS player who returns to the", "title": "2012 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "15692991", "text": "Sounders FC. Future picks traded: *2013 MLS SuperDraft conditional pick to Vancouver Whitecaps FC; *2014 MLS SuperDraft round 4 pick to Chicago Fire; *2014 MLS SuperDraft conditional pick to Montreal Impact. 2012 Real Salt Lake season The 2012 Real Salt Lake season is the team's eighth year of existence. The team's first game was on March 10 at the Home Depot Center against the Los Angeles Galaxy, which they won 3-1. \" Seattle Sounders won on 1 - 0 aggregate\" Real Salt Lake is in the #17 position in the MLS Allocation Ranking. The allocation ranking is the mechanism used", "title": "2012 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "12683414", "text": "3–1 and advanced to the MLS Cup final and win their first championship since 2005. Los Angeles would also win the cup in 2012 and 2014, bringing their total number of MLS Cup championships to five and surpassing the record set by D.C. United. MLS Cup 2009 MLS Cup 2009 was the 14th edition of the MLS Cup, the championship match of Major League Soccer (MLS). The match took place on November 22, 2009, at Qwest Field in Seattle, Washington, and was contested between the Los Angeles Galaxy and Real Salt Lake. Real Salt Lake won the match 5–4 in", "title": "MLS Cup 2009" }, { "docid": "3879020", "text": "the teams have regularly competed for supremacy at the top of the Western Conference, and even during Real Salt Lake's rebuilding years, have faced off in many heated exchanges. The team also maintains smaller, fan-driven rivalries with both the Los Angeles Galaxy and the Seattle Sounders. The Los Angeles Galaxy have met RSL in five separate playoff years. In their highest profile match, RSL defeated the Galaxy in the 2009 MLS Cup final. The following year RSL was the runner-up to the Galaxy for the 2010 MLS Supporters Shield. The two teams then faced-off four more times in next six", "title": "Real Salt Lake" }, { "docid": "12683390", "text": "MLS Cup 2009 MLS Cup 2009 was the 14th edition of the MLS Cup, the championship match of Major League Soccer (MLS). The match took place on November 22, 2009, at Qwest Field in Seattle, Washington, and was contested between the Los Angeles Galaxy and Real Salt Lake. Real Salt Lake won the match 5–4 in a penalty shootout following a 1–1 draw. Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando was named man of the match for making several saves in the shootout, allowing defender Robbie Russell to score the winning goal. It was the club's first championship, coming in their fifth", "title": "MLS Cup 2009" }, { "docid": "12607460", "text": "2010 Major League Soccer season The 2010 Major League Soccer season was the 98th season of FIFA-sanctioned soccer, the 32nd with a national first-division league, in the United States and Canada, and the 15th in MLS history. It began on March 25 at Seattle's Qwest Field with Seattle Sounders FC defeating the expansion Philadelphia Union, 2–0. The 2010 MLS All-Star Game was played at Reliant Stadium, hosted by the Houston Dynamo on July 28 as the MLS XI fell 5–2 to visiting Manchester United. The regular season concluded on October 24, with Los Angeles Galaxy winning the Supporters' Shield by", "title": "2010 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "15066403", "text": "2011 Los Angeles Galaxy season The 2011 Los Angeles Galaxy season was the club's 17th year of existence as well as their 16th season in Major League Soccer and their 16th consecutive year in the top-flight of American soccer. The Galaxy entered the season as the defending MLS Supporters' Shield titleholders. Most notably, the Galaxy became the third straight team to win consecutive Supporters' Shields, after D.C. United (2006–07) and Columbus Crew (2008–09). The Galaxy clinched their fourth Shield on October 8, after Seattle Sounders FC lost 0–2 at home to Philadelphia Union. They also won their third MLS Cup,", "title": "2011 Los Angeles Galaxy season" }, { "docid": "797276", "text": "in the style of other U.S. sports leagues (e.g., Columbus Crew, Los Angeles Galaxy, New England Revolution). Several club names in MLS originated with previous professional soccer clubs, such as the 1970s-era NASL team names San Jose Earthquakes, Seattle Sounders, Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps. D.C. United and Miami Fusion FC were the only two MLS teams to adopt European naming conventions during the 1990s. In recent years, European-style names have become increasingly common in MLS, with expansion teams such as Real Salt Lake, Toronto FC, New York City FC, Atlanta United FC, and Minnesota United FC, along with rebrandings", "title": "Major League Soccer" }, { "docid": "12607463", "text": "any step, the process reverts to Tiebreaker 1 among the remaining tied clubs recursively until all ties are resolved. Statistics current as of October 24, 2010 The Columbus Crew continued their CONCACAF Champions League 2009-10 campaign that began during the previous season. They were defeated by Mexican club Toluca in the quarterfinals, 5–4 on aggregate. Seattle Sounders FC became the first team to qualify for the 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League by winning the 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. The Columbus Crew qualified next by winning the 2009 MLS Supporters' Shield. The Los Angeles Galaxy and Real Salt Lake also", "title": "2010 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "13815417", "text": "are the sole determinant for teams qualifying for the playoffs. When two or more teams are tied in standings on points the following tiebreak rules apply: Prior to the start of the MLS regular season, Toronto FC defeated Los Angeles Galaxy while Mexican side Santos Laguna defeated Seattle Sounders FC in two of the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal series. Toronto FC then lost 3–7 on aggregate in the semifinal with Santos Laguna. In the 2012–13 CCL, Los Angeles Galaxy, Seattle Sounders, Houston Dynamo and Real Salt Lake earned group stage spots (the preliminary round has been eliminated). The Canadian", "title": "2012 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "13815410", "text": "2012 Major League Soccer season The 2012 Major League Soccer season was the 100th season of FIFA-sanctioned soccer in the United States and Canada, the 34th with a national first-division league, and the 17th season of Major League Soccer. The regular season began on March 10, when the Vancouver Whitecaps FC defeated the expansion team Montreal Impact 2–0 at BC Place, and concluded with the host Los Angeles Galaxy defeating the Seattle Sounders FC 1–0 on October 28 at The Home Depot Center. The season also featured the 2012 MLS All-Star Game on July 28, when MLS All-Stars defeated the", "title": "2012 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "13815414", "text": "provided that part of the compensation received in return is another club's ranking. At all times, each club is assigned one ranking. The rankings reset at the end of each MLS League season. Vancouver originally had the No. 2 ranking, but traded it to Philadelphia on June 26. ∞Toronto originally had the No. 4 ranking, but traded it to Seattle on September 14. The remaining order after FC Dallas is: Vancouver Whitecaps FC (from Philadelphia), Toronto FC (from Seattle), Sporting Kansas City, Real Salt Lake, Houston Dynamo and Los Angeles Galaxy. In the unlikely event that all clubs use an", "title": "2012 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "14391845", "text": "first leg, Steven Lenhart notched two second half goals for the Crew to draw even at 2–2. In the return leg in Toluca, the clubs traded goals, with Toluca scoring first and last for the 3–2 victory and 5–4 aggregate victory. The Columbus Crew, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles Galaxy, and Seattle Sounders FC qualified for the 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League. Los Angeles, MLS Supporters' Shield runners-up, and Seattle, 2009 U.S. Open Cup champions, entered in the Preliminary Round, the opening round of the tournament; Columbus, winners of the 2009 MLS Supporters' Shield, and Salt Lake, winners of the 2009", "title": "2010 in American soccer" }, { "docid": "15692990", "text": "league after having gone to a club abroad for a transfer fee. A ranking can be traded, provided that part of the compensation received in return is another club’s ranking. Real Salt Lake has 6 MLS International Roster Slots for use in the 2012 season. Each club in Major League Soccer is allocated 8 international roster spots and Real Salt Lake has traded away two spots permanently, one to Chivas USA in 2004 and the other to Colorado Rapids in 2005. Future picks acquired: *2013 MLS SuperDraft Round 3 pick from D.C. United; *Unspecified year conditional draft pick from Seattle", "title": "2012 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "13597017", "text": "on a twelve-month loan deal. <br> ¤¤ Chicago originally had the No. 9 ranking but traded it to Seattle on August 26, 2011. The remaining order after Sporting Kansas City is: Chicago Fire¤¤, Columbus Crew, New York Red Bulls, Real Salt Lake, San Jose Earthquakes, Los Angeles Galaxy, FC Dallas, and Colorado Rapids. In the unlikely event that all clubs use an allocation, the order begins anew with Vancouver Whitecaps FC. Some players are assigned to MLS teams via a weighted lottery process. A team can only acquire one player per year through a weighted lottery. The players made available", "title": "2011 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "11517677", "text": "Seattle and D.C. eventually emerged to play the final on September 2 at RFK stadium, which Seattle ultimately won. Canada's top three teams, MLS's Toronto FC, USL-1's Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps FC competed in the Voyageurs Cup. The tournament was played as a double round robin group from May 6 to June 18, and won by Toronto, who gained Canada's berth into the CONCACAF Champions League 2009-10. The 2009 MLS All-Star Game against Everton F.C., of the English Premier League, took place on July 29 from Rio Tinto Stadium home of Real Salt Lake. Everton defeated the MLS All-Stars", "title": "2009 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "11451663", "text": "Los Angeles Legends (W-League) Los Angeles Legends was an American women’s soccer team, founded in 2008. The team folded after the 2009 season. The team was a member of the United Soccer Leagues W-League, the second tier of women’s soccer in the United States and Canada. The team played in the Western Conference against teams from Denver, Fort Collins, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver and Ventura. The team played its home games at Cougar Stadium on the campus of Azusa Pacific University in the city of Azusa, California, 24 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The team's colors was black and", "title": "Los Angeles Legends (W-League)" }, { "docid": "14041145", "text": "over second-tier AC St. Louis, before losing to Seattle Sounders FC by the same score line. Los Angeles began their fifteenth Major League Soccer regular season at home with a 1–0 win against the New England Revolution on March 27, 2010. Edson Buddle scored the only goal for the Galaxy in the sixth minute. David Beckham, with a torn left Achilles tendon injury, was ruled out for the season on April 26. He suffered the injury in a Serie A match for AC Milan against ChievoVerona on March 13, and as a result, will also miss the entire MLS season.", "title": "2010 Los Angeles Galaxy season" } ]
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The Galaxy entered the season as the two-time defending MLS Cup champions. They were eliminated by Real Salt Lake in the Conference Semifinals of the MLS Cup Playoffs. The team reached the semifinals of the 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League, where they were knocked out by Monterrey. The Galaxy also qualified for the 2013–14 CONCACAF Champions League by virtue of winning the 2012 MLS Cup.", "title": "2013 Los Angeles Galaxy season" }, { "docid": "14041148", "text": "campaign. 2010 Los Angeles Galaxy season The 2010 Los Angeles Galaxy season was the club's fifteenth season of existence. It was also the Galaxy's fifteenth season in Major League Soccer and their fifteenth-consecutive year at the top-flight of American soccer. The club's season was highlighted by winning their third-ever Supporters' Shield. Statistically, the 2010 MLS season was the Galaxy's strongest season on record, and the club had their strongest start ever, opening their first eleven games unbeaten before losing to the eventual second-place finishers, Real Salt Lake at Rio Tinto. Some of the club's notable achievements included Edson Buddle being", "title": "2010 Los Angeles Galaxy season" }, { "docid": "14041142", "text": "2010 Los Angeles Galaxy season The 2010 Los Angeles Galaxy season was the club's fifteenth season of existence. It was also the Galaxy's fifteenth season in Major League Soccer and their fifteenth-consecutive year at the top-flight of American soccer. The club's season was highlighted by winning their third-ever Supporters' Shield. Statistically, the 2010 MLS season was the Galaxy's strongest season on record, and the club had their strongest start ever, opening their first eleven games unbeaten before losing to the eventual second-place finishers, Real Salt Lake at Rio Tinto. Some of the club's notable achievements included Edson Buddle being a", "title": "2010 Los Angeles Galaxy season" }, { "docid": "13311968", "text": "2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season The 2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season was the 14th season of the team's existence. It began on March 22, 2009 with a 2-2 home draw against D.C. United, and ended on November 22, 2009 with a loss on penalties to Real Salt Lake in the 2009 MLS Cup Final. \"As of August 29, 2009.\" The Galaxy was involved in the following off-season activity: The 2009 MLS SuperDraft took place on January 15, 2009, with draft order determined by regular and post-season record. Players marked with an asterisk after their previous club affiliation were contracted under", "title": "2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season" }, { "docid": "13311969", "text": "the Generation Adidas program. MLS Player of the Week MLS Player of the Month MLS Goal of the Week MLS Save of the Week 2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season The 2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season was the 14th season of the team's existence. It began on March 22, 2009 with a 2-2 home draw against D.C. United, and ended on November 22, 2009 with a loss on penalties to Real Salt Lake in the 2009 MLS Cup Final. \"As of August 29, 2009.\" The Galaxy was involved in the following off-season activity: The 2009 MLS SuperDraft took place on January", "title": "2009 Los Angeles Galaxy season" }, { "docid": "20508515", "text": "not have a franchise in Los Angeles, nor in California. Soccer in Los Angeles Soccer has enjoyed longstanding popularity in Los Angeles. As of 2018 there are two professional soccer clubs in the city that play in Major League Soccer: LA Galaxy and Los Angeles FC. The Los Angeles area is also home to two lower tier professional teams in the United Soccer League: Orange County SC and LA Galaxy II, the reserve side of LA Galaxy, and many semi-professional clubs and leagues including the United Premier Soccer League, SoCal Premier League and National Premier League, among others. Soccer in", "title": "Soccer in Los Angeles" }, { "docid": "20508510", "text": "Soccer in Los Angeles Soccer has enjoyed longstanding popularity in Los Angeles. As of 2018 there are two professional soccer clubs in the city that play in Major League Soccer: LA Galaxy and Los Angeles FC. The Los Angeles area is also home to two lower tier professional teams in the United Soccer League: Orange County SC and LA Galaxy II, the reserve side of LA Galaxy, and many semi-professional clubs and leagues including the United Premier Soccer League, SoCal Premier League and National Premier League, among others. Soccer in Los Angeles began in the 19th century when the Southern", "title": "Soccer in Los Angeles" }, { "docid": "15055275", "text": "North American club final, the last being Los Angeles Galaxy. Additionally, Salt Lake finished third place in both the Western Conference and overall MLS tables during the regular season, thus earning a berth into the 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League. In the 2011 MLS Cup Playoffs, Salt Lake reached the Western Conference Final, but fell to eventual MLS Cup champions, Los Angeles Galaxy. Salt Lake also reached the quarterfinals of the 2011 U.S. Open Cup before falling to eventual semifinalists, FC Dallas. Towards the end of November 2010, Major League Soccer held its Expansion Draft for the arrivals of Portland Timbers", "title": "2011 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "15693011", "text": "2012 Los Angeles Galaxy season The 2012 Los Angeles Galaxy season was the club's 18th year of existence as well as their 17th season in Major League Soccer (MLS) and their 17th consecutive year in the top-flight of American soccer. The Galaxy entered the season as both the defending MLS Cup and Supporters' Shield winners. The 2012 campaign was highlighted by the Galaxy successfully defending their MLS Cup title, defeating Houston Dynamo, 3–1, in the MLS Cup final to win their fourth ever MLS Cup championship, tying D.C. United for the most league championships in MLS history, and the second", "title": "2012 Los Angeles Galaxy season" }, { "docid": "4043786", "text": "Chris Klein (soccer) Chris Klein (born January 4, 1976, in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former American soccer player who spent thirteen seasons in Major League Soccer and earned twenty three caps with the United States men's national soccer team. Currently, he is the President of LA Galaxy, promoted on January 28, 2013, from vice president. Klein spent the entirety of his 12-year professional career playing in Major League Soccer, for the Kansas City Wizards, Real Salt Lake and Los Angeles Galaxy, winning the MLS Cup and Supporters' Shield with Kansas City in 2000, and the Supporters' Shield with Los", "title": "Chris Klein (soccer)" }, { "docid": "15693017", "text": "D.C. United. Each of these trades expire on January 1, 2013. Future picks acquired: Future picks traded: 2012 Los Angeles Galaxy season The 2012 Los Angeles Galaxy season was the club's 18th year of existence as well as their 17th season in Major League Soccer (MLS) and their 17th consecutive year in the top-flight of American soccer. The Galaxy entered the season as both the defending MLS Cup and Supporters' Shield winners. The 2012 campaign was highlighted by the Galaxy successfully defending their MLS Cup title, defeating Houston Dynamo, 3–1, in the MLS Cup final to win their fourth ever", "title": "2012 Los Angeles Galaxy season" }, { "docid": "19108064", "text": "2016 Real Salt Lake season The 2016 Real Salt Lake season was the team's 12th year of existence and their twelfth consecutive season in Major League Soccer, the top division of the American soccer pyramid. 2015 Real Salt Lake season Real Salt Lake entered the 2016 U.S. Open Cup with the rest of Major League Soccer in the fourth round. Real Salt Lake will continue the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League in the knockout stage with all remaining competitors. Having earned a 3rd-place position in the knockout stage Real Salt Lake will host the second leg of the quarter finals \"As", "title": "2016 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "19108065", "text": "of March 6, 2016.\" 2016 Real Salt Lake season The 2016 Real Salt Lake season was the team's 12th year of existence and their twelfth consecutive season in Major League Soccer, the top division of the American soccer pyramid. 2015 Real Salt Lake season Real Salt Lake entered the 2016 U.S. Open Cup with the rest of Major League Soccer in the fourth round. Real Salt Lake will continue the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League in the knockout stage with all remaining competitors. Having earned a 3rd-place position in the knockout stage Real Salt Lake will host the second leg of", "title": "2016 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "3878996", "text": "Real Salt Lake Real Salt Lake (RSL) is an American professional soccer franchise that competes as a member club of Major League Soccer (MLS) Western Conference. RSL began play in 2005 as an expansion team of the league. The club was founded in 2004 when the club's first owner and founder was awarded an expansion berth in Major League Soccer. The club plays its home games at Rio Tinto Stadium, a soccer-specific stadium located in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy, Utah, since 2008. RSL initially played home games at Rice-Eccles Stadium, located on the campus of the University", "title": "Real Salt Lake" }, { "docid": "14041171", "text": "against\" September was another spectacular run for RSL, culminating in qualifying for the MLS Playoffs and the CONCACAF Champion's League quarterfinals. \"(captain)\" Starting XI vs. Colorado on Oct. 23: 2010 Real Salt Lake season The 2010 Real Salt Lake season was the sixth year of the club's existence. It was also the sixth year for the club in Major League Soccer and the sixth-consecutive year for the club in the top-flight of American soccer. Real Salt Lake entered the 2010 MLS season as the defending MLS Cup champions, and participated additionally in the CONCACAF Champions League and played play-in propers", "title": "2010 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "3879006", "text": "regular season, RSL clinched a position in the 2009 MLS playoffs. Despite finishing with a losing record overall (11–12–7), the team was granted the last spot through a tie-breaker. Real Salt Lake went on to win the 2009 MLS Cup by defeating the Los Angeles Galaxy in the November 22 final. RSL played the L.A. Galaxy to a 1–1 tie through overtime and won the MLS Cup (5–4 on penalties). Goalkeeper Nick Rimando was named Man of the Match. The victory in the 2009 MLS Cup qualified RSL for the 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League. The 2010 season saw RSL continue", "title": "Real Salt Lake" }, { "docid": "646735", "text": "Lake of Major League Soccer was founded in 2004, initially playing at Rice-Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah before the soccer-specific Rio Tinto Stadium was completed in 2008 in neighboring Sandy. The team won their first MLS championship by defeating the Los Angeles Galaxy at the 2009 MLS Cup. RSL advanced to the finals of the CONCACAF Champions League in 2011 but lost 3–2 on aggregate, and also advanced to the 2013 MLS Cup Final. The city has also played host to several international soccer games. Utah Warriors is a professional rugby union team that is scheduled to play", "title": "Salt Lake City" }, { "docid": "19871625", "text": "2017 Real Salt Lake season The 2017 Real Salt Lake season was the team's 13th year of existence, and their 13th consecutive season in Major League Soccer, the top division of the American soccer pyramid. On March 20 the club announced that Head Coach Jeff Cassar had been dismissed from his duties only three games into the season. Daryl Shore was named interim head coach for the two games against the New York Red Bulls and Minnesota United. On March 29 it was announced that Mike Petke would take over the head coaching position following the game against Minnesota United", "title": "2017 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "18646757", "text": "as of the start of the 2015 season.\" 2015 Real Salt Lake season The 2015 Real Salt Lake season is the team's 11th year of existence and their eleventh consecutive season in Major League Soccer, the top division of the American soccer pyramid. In a largely rebuilding season, Salt Lake failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2007. Real Salt Lake will enter the 2015 U.S. Open Cup with the rest of Major League Soccer in the fourth round. Real Salt Lake will enter the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League in the initial group stage with all", "title": "2015 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "18646756", "text": "2015 Real Salt Lake season The 2015 Real Salt Lake season is the team's 11th year of existence and their eleventh consecutive season in Major League Soccer, the top division of the American soccer pyramid. In a largely rebuilding season, Salt Lake failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2007. Real Salt Lake will enter the 2015 U.S. Open Cup with the rest of Major League Soccer in the fourth round. Real Salt Lake will enter the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League in the initial group stage with all other competitors \"As of April 2015. Age calculated", "title": "2015 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "15066415", "text": "considerations to Toronto FC which may or may not include draft pick(s). Los Angeles maintains the MLS rights to Edson Buddle after the player declined a contract offer by the league and signed overseas on a free transfer. 2011 Los Angeles Galaxy season The 2011 Los Angeles Galaxy season was the club's 17th year of existence as well as their 16th season in Major League Soccer and their 16th consecutive year in the top-flight of American soccer. The Galaxy entered the season as the defending MLS Supporters' Shield titleholders. Most notably, the Galaxy became the third straight team to win", "title": "2011 Los Angeles Galaxy season" }, { "docid": "14041163", "text": "2010 Real Salt Lake season The 2010 Real Salt Lake season was the sixth year of the club's existence. It was also the sixth year for the club in Major League Soccer and the sixth-consecutive year for the club in the top-flight of American soccer. Real Salt Lake entered the 2010 MLS season as the defending MLS Cup champions, and participated additionally in the CONCACAF Champions League and played play-in propers of the U.S. Open Cup. During 2010, the club had the most success ever in its history, finishing second place in Major League Soccer, as well as becoming the", "title": "2010 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "15775745", "text": "not return to Real Salt Lake, departing to become the first head coach of the New York City FC expansion team, and long-time assistant coach Jeff Cassar would succeed Kreis as RSL's head coach. History of Real Salt Lake This article presents a detailed, year-by-year history of Real Salt Lake (2004–present). For other information about the professional soccer club based in Utah, please see the main article. On July 14, Major League Soccer officially awarded its 12th franchise to the state of Utah and ownership group SCP Worldwide, headed by Dave Checketts. Steve Pastorino was named general manager of the", "title": "History of Real Salt Lake" }, { "docid": "4043791", "text": "Christians, and Klein is active with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Klein resides in suburban Los Angeles with his family. Chris Klein (soccer) Chris Klein (born January 4, 1976, in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former American soccer player who spent thirteen seasons in Major League Soccer and earned twenty three caps with the United States men's national soccer team. Currently, he is the President of LA Galaxy, promoted on January 28, 2013, from vice president. Klein spent the entirety of his 12-year professional career playing in Major League Soccer, for the Kansas City Wizards, Real Salt Lake and Los", "title": "Chris Klein (soccer)" }, { "docid": "13000477", "text": "All-time Real Salt Lake roster Real Salt Lake is an American soccer club founded in 2005, currently playing in the Western Conference of Major League Soccer. It currently plays its home games at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. Since founding, the club won MLS Cup 2009, and finished as runner-up for the 2010 MLS Supporters Shield, the 2010-11 CONCACAF Champions League, the 2013 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, and MLS Cup 2013. As of November 5, 2016, a total of 119 players have participated in at least one league match for Real Salt", "title": "All-time Real Salt Lake roster" }, { "docid": "13000479", "text": "Real Salt Lake. \"Competitive matches only. Players in bold are currently on the team roster.\" Players listed below have not appeared in a competitive match for Real Salt Lake, but are currently under contract by the club. All-time Real Salt Lake roster Real Salt Lake is an American soccer club founded in 2005, currently playing in the Western Conference of Major League Soccer. It currently plays its home games at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. Since founding, the club won MLS Cup 2009, and finished as runner-up for the 2010 MLS Supporters Shield,", "title": "All-time Real Salt Lake roster" }, { "docid": "17844291", "text": "League saw the construction of six additional soccer-specific stadiums, largely funded by owners such as Lamar Hunt and Phil Anschutz, so that by the end of 2008, a majority of MLS teams were now in soccer-specific stadiums. It was also in this era that MLS expanded for the first time since the contraction of 2001. Real Salt Lake and Chivas USA began play in 2005, with Chivas USA becoming the second club in Los Angeles, sharing the Home Depot Center (now known as StubHub Center) with the Galaxy. Chivas USA also became the first team in MLS to be directly", "title": "History of Major League Soccer" }, { "docid": "15775711", "text": "History of Real Salt Lake This article presents a detailed, year-by-year history of Real Salt Lake (2004–present). For other information about the professional soccer club based in Utah, please see the main article. On July 14, Major League Soccer officially awarded its 12th franchise to the state of Utah and ownership group SCP Worldwide, headed by Dave Checketts. Steve Pastorino was named general manager of the new team, and John Ellinger was hired as head coach. The team was officially named \"Real Salt Lake\" in October of that year in honor to Real Madrid. The announcement was met with some", "title": "History of Real Salt Lake" }, { "docid": "20508513", "text": "1981 season. The team featured international superstars such as George Best and Johan Cruyff. The team was at its most popular in 1979 and 1980, averaging over 12,000 fans both seasons. The launch of Major League Soccer in 1996 included the newly formed Los Angeles Galaxy as one of the founding teams. LA Soccer Partners were the original owners; Anschutz Entertainment Group is the current owner. The Galaxy won the CONCACAF Champions Cup in 2000. The rivalry ended in 2014 when Chivas ceased operations. Los Angeles FC joined the league in 2018 and a crosstown rivalry, El Tráfico, was created.", "title": "Soccer in Los Angeles" }, { "docid": "6461130", "text": "2005 Major League Soccer season The 2005 Major League Soccer season was the tenth season of Major League Soccer. The season began on April 2, 2005, and concluded on November 13, 2005 with the first Supporters' Shield victory for the San Jose Earthquakes and a second MLS Cup victory for the Los Angeles Galaxy. The New England Revolution and FC Dallas began the year as the league's dominant teams, especially when Dallas acquired Carlos Ruiz in a trade after Landon Donovan returned from a disappointing stint with Bayer Leverkusen and wanted to play with his hometown Los Angeles Galaxy. Injuries", "title": "2005 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "12683396", "text": "The Galaxy and Real Salt Lake played each other twice in the regular season: a 2–2 draw hosted by Real Salt Lake in May and a 2–0 loss for hosts Los Angeles in June. The Los Angeles Galaxy were one of the original teams in MLS and appeared in five previous MLS Cup finals, winning in 2002 and 2005. The team finished joint-last in the league in 2008, replacing manager Ruud Gullit with former United States national team coach Bruce Arena midway through the season. In the 2009 SuperDraft, the Galaxy selected Omar Gonzalez and A. J. DeLaGarza, both of", "title": "MLS Cup 2009" }, { "docid": "15055274", "text": "2011 Real Salt Lake season The 2011 Real Salt Lake season was the club's seventh year of existence, as well as their seventh season in Major League Soccer, and their seventh consecutive season in the top-flight of American soccer. Salt Lake's season was highlighted by reaching the 2011 CONCACAF Champions League Finals, becoming the first American soccer club to reach the final of the newly designed CONCACAF Champions League, as well as the first non-Mexican club to reach the finals. Including the predecessor tournament, the Champions' Cup, it was the first time in 11 years an American club reached the", "title": "2011 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "15055287", "text": "MLS rights to Yura Movsisyan after the player declined a contract offer by the club and signed overseas on a free transfer. 2011 Real Salt Lake season The 2011 Real Salt Lake season was the club's seventh year of existence, as well as their seventh season in Major League Soccer, and their seventh consecutive season in the top-flight of American soccer. Salt Lake's season was highlighted by reaching the 2011 CONCACAF Champions League Finals, becoming the first American soccer club to reach the final of the newly designed CONCACAF Champions League, as well as the first non-Mexican club to reach", "title": "2011 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "20508514", "text": "Teams in \"italics\" are no longer active. In 2009, Los Angeles became home to a third top-level professional team, the Los Angeles Sol, a charter member of Women's Professional Soccer. WPS was the second attempt to establish a fully professional women's league in the U.S., after the demise of the Women's United Soccer Association (which did not have an L.A. representative). The Sol shared The Home Depot Center, now known as StubHub Center, with the Galaxy and Chivas USA, before ceasing operations in January 2010. WPS folded after the 2011 season; its effective successor, the National Women's Soccer League, does", "title": "Soccer in Los Angeles" }, { "docid": "19871626", "text": "on April 1. \"Originally scheduled for August 12th; match postponed in 29th minute due to weather conditions. The match resumed on August 13th.\" 2017 Real Salt Lake season The 2017 Real Salt Lake season was the team's 13th year of existence, and their 13th consecutive season in Major League Soccer, the top division of the American soccer pyramid. On March 20 the club announced that Head Coach Jeff Cassar had been dismissed from his duties only three games into the season. Daryl Shore was named interim head coach for the two games against the New York Red Bulls and Minnesota", "title": "2017 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "3561419", "text": "the net, earning a crucial point against fellow relegation battlers Apollon Kalamarias. Real Salt Lake signed Mathis in August 2008 after acquiring his MLS rights from Los Angeles in exchange for a conditional draft pick, which became a third-round selection in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft. After 11 years in Major League Soccer, Mathis won the MLS Cup with Real Salt Lake in 2009, defeating Los Angeles Galaxy in a 1–1 draw that was decided in overtime by penalties, with Mathis scoring the first penalty kick goal. Mathis was traded back to Los Angeles on January 14, 2010 in exchange for", "title": "Clint Mathis" }, { "docid": "3879018", "text": "House bill 1SHB38, approving $35 million towards the development of Real Salt Lake's new home. The governor signed the bill. The $110 million stadium was built in Sandy, a suburb of Salt Lake City. The stadium was named after its sponsor, Rio Tinto Group. The stadium's opening date was set for October 9, 2008. The main rival of Real Salt Lake is considered to be the Colorado Rapids, with the two teams being the closest to each other geographically, and also competing for the annual Rocky Mountain Cup. Competition first began upon Salt Lake's entry into Major League Soccer in", "title": "Real Salt Lake" }, { "docid": "797231", "text": "stadiums and into soccer-specific stadiums. From 2003 to 2008, the league oversaw the construction of six additional soccer-specific stadiums, largely funded by owners such as Lamar Hunt and Phil Anschutz, so that by the end of 2008, a majority of teams were now in soccer-specific stadiums. It was also in this era that MLS expanded for the first time since 1998. Real Salt Lake and Chivas USA began play in 2005, with Chivas USA becoming the second club in Los Angeles. By 2006 the San Jose Earthquakes owners, players and a few coaches moved to Texas to become the expansion", "title": "Major League Soccer" }, { "docid": "17833916", "text": "the Week, Month, and Year is awarded by the North American Soccer Reporters (NASR) and decided by vote. Source: mlssoccer.com 2014 Real Salt Lake season The 2014 Real Salt Lake season was the team's tenth year of existence and also the first year with new Head Coach Jeff Cassar. The team's first game was on March 8 at StubHub Center. In 2013 Real Salt Lake played in the MLS Cup final, losing in the tenth round of penalty kicks to Sporting Kansas City. Real Salt Lake also announced that LifeVantage would be a long term sponsor beginning in the 2014", "title": "2014 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "13912518", "text": "one match each, with the winner of each conference advancing to MLS Cup. In all rounds, the tie-breaking method was two 15-minute periods of extra time, followed by penalty kicks if necessary. The away goals rule was not used. \"Real Salt Lake advances 4–2 on aggregate.\" \"Chicago Fire advances 3–2 on aggregate.\" \"Los Angeles Galaxy advances 3–2 on aggregate.\" \"Houston Dynamo advances 1–0 on aggregate.\" \"Real Salt Lake advances 5–4 on penalties.\" \"Los Angeles Galaxy advances.\" 2009 MLS Cup Playoffs The 2009 MLS Cup Playoffs is the postseason to Major League Soccer's 2009 season. MLS Cup 2009 concluded the season", "title": "2009 MLS Cup Playoffs" }, { "docid": "15775733", "text": "claimed the league championship despite finishing the regular season with a losing record. Real Salt Lake was formally honored by President Barack Obama at a press conference in the White House on June 4, 2010. On September 4, 2010, Real Salt Lake tied the MLS record set by the Columbus Crew the year prior (2008–2009) of 22 straight unbeaten games at home by beating the New York Red Bulls 1–0. Real Salt Lake has not lost a league game at home since May 2009. On October 16, 2010 Real Salt Lake improved their home unbeaten streak to 25 games in", "title": "History of Real Salt Lake" }, { "docid": "19612375", "text": "place record in the West was not good enough for the Galaxy to earn a berth into the MLS Cup playoffs, making it the second-consecutive year the Galaxy did not qualify for the playoffs. Along with the Beckham's half-season arrival, the club changed its logo and released new home and away kits. Before his arrival, Galaxy used their white away kit from the previous season. 2007 Los Angeles Galaxy season The 2007 LA Galaxy season was the 12th season of the team's existence, and their 12th in Major League Soccer, the top flight of American soccer. The season was highlighted", "title": "2007 Los Angeles Galaxy season" }, { "docid": "5177381", "text": "remainder of the 2006–07 season. He scored his first Boro goal in January 2007 against Bolton Wanderers. On 14 May 2007, it was announced that Xavier was to join the LA Galaxy of Major League Soccer (MLS). He played in his first game with the Galaxy on 17 June 2007 at home against Real Salt Lake, setting up fellow new signing Edson Buddle in a 3–2 win. Xavier was waived by Los Angeles on 18 July 2008. Later, in an interview to an online football site, Xavier criticized then-Galaxy manager Ruud Gullit and MLS. In December 2009, Xavier quit professional", "title": "Abel Xavier" }, { "docid": "6461135", "text": "off Joe Cannon's back, scored the game's only goal before a sellout crowd at Pizza Hut Park. \"New England Revolution advance 3-2 on aggregate. \"Chicago Fire advance 4-0 on aggregate.\" \"Los Angeles Galaxy advance 4-2 on aggregate.\" \"Colorado Rapids advance 5-4 on penalties (2-2 on aggregate).\" \"Conference champions New England Revolution and Los Angeles Galaxy<br>earn MLS berths to CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2006. 2005 Major League Soccer season The 2005 Major League Soccer season was the tenth season of Major League Soccer. The season began on April 2, 2005, and concluded on November 13, 2005 with the first Supporters' Shield victory", "title": "2005 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "797261", "text": "soccer-specific stadium. The Los Angeles Galaxy followed four years later with the opening of The Home Depot Center, now StubHub Center, in 2003. FC Dallas opened Pizza Hut Park, now Toyota Stadium, in 2005, and the Chicago Fire began playing their home games in Toyota Park in 2006. The 2007 season brought the opening of Dick's Sporting Goods Park for the Colorado Rapids and BMO Field for Toronto FC. Near the end of the 2008 season, Rio Tinto Stadium became the home of Real Salt Lake, which meant that for the first time in MLS history a majority of MLS's", "title": "Major League Soccer" }, { "docid": "10912221", "text": "NFL teams. The region has two NHL teams — the Los Angeles Kings, which entered the league when it doubled in size in 1967, and the Anaheim Ducks, which joined in 1993 as the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. The Kings have won 2 titles, in 2012 and 2014. The Ducks have won the Stanley Cup once in 2007. The Los Angeles area hosts two teams in Major League Soccer, the top flight of the men's sport in the US—LA Galaxy, a charter member of the league, and Los Angeles FC, which began play in 2018. The Galaxy have five MLS", "title": "Sports in Los Angeles" }, { "docid": "17844276", "text": "Division 1 professional soccer league. In 1993, the USSF selected Major League Professional Soccer (the precursor to MLS) as the exclusive Division 1 professional soccer league. Major League Soccer was officially formed in February 1995 as a limited liability company. MLS had originally planned to begin play in 1995 with 12 teams. However, MLS announced in November 1994 that it would delay its launch until 1996 and began with ten teams: Columbus Crew, D.C. United, New England Revolution, NY/NJ MetroStars, Tampa Bay Mutiny, Colorado Rapids, Dallas Burn, Kansas City Wiz, Los Angeles Galaxy, and San Jose Clash. The league had", "title": "History of Major League Soccer" }, { "docid": "3878997", "text": "of Utah, from 2005–2007. The team is currently led by head coach Mike Petke. In domestic soccer, Real Salt Lake won the 2009 MLS Cup and were runners-up in the 2013 MLS Cup, the Supporters Shield in 2010, and the 2013 edition of the U.S. Open Cup. The franchise regional success to date was in the 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League, where RSL finished runners-up in the tournament becoming the first American club, since the CONCACAF Champions League format was introduced in 2008, to advance to the final stage of the tournament. The title \"Real\" () is a Spanish word that", "title": "Real Salt Lake" }, { "docid": "4216956", "text": "playoff berth \"New England Revolution advance 2-1 on aggregate. \"D.C. United advance 4-0 on aggregate.\" \"Kansas City Wizards advance 3-2 on aggregate.\" \"Los Angeles Galaxy advance 2-1 on aggregate.\" \"D.C. United advance 4-3 on penalties (3-3 after full time).\" D.C. United wins the MLS Cup<br>Kansas City Wizards and D.C. United earn MLS berths to<br>CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2005. 2004 Major League Soccer season The 2004 Major League Soccer season culminated with D.C. United winning its fourth MLS Cup championship. The biggest news in the beginning of the season was the signing of 14-year-old prodigy Freddy Adu, who made his debut as", "title": "2004 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "6461132", "text": "a routine matter for the other four Western Conference teams. Chivas USA proved a disappointment in terms of consistent attendance, but its derbies against Los Angeles added excitement and intensity to the calendar, even though the Galaxy won all five (four regular season and one U.S. Open Cup) meetings. Real Salt Lake finished second in the league in attendance. The MetroStars fired head coach Bob Bradley late in the season and qualified for the playoffs with a 2-0 win over Chivas USA on the final day of the season. Their campaign was boosted by former French international Youri Djorkaeff, who", "title": "2005 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "249085", "text": "monthly Downtown Art Walk there. The city of Los Angeles and its metropolitan area are the home of eleven top level professional sports teams. These teams include the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB), the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL), the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL), the Los Angeles Galaxy and Los Angeles Football Club of Major League Soccer (MLS), and the Los Angeles Sparks", "title": "Los Angeles" }, { "docid": "3879024", "text": "Utah stations KUTV and KMYU serve as the team's flagship stations, and telecasts are syndicated to other Sinclair-owned stations in the region, and non-Sinclair stations in Albuquerque, Phoenix and Tucson. In 2018, the team extended its television deal with Sinclair, and announced a streaming partnership with KSL-TV, under which it will offer in-market streaming of RSL's regional broadcasts, as well as Utah Royals FC and Real Monarchs matches, on digital platforms. Real Salt Lake Real Salt Lake (RSL) is an American professional soccer franchise that competes as a member club of Major League Soccer (MLS) Western Conference. RSL began play", "title": "Real Salt Lake" }, { "docid": "4227987", "text": "CONCACAF Champions' Cup Copa Merconorte CONCACAF Giants Cup 2001 Major League Soccer season The 2001 Major League Soccer season was shortened due to the September 11 attacks, with the final weeks' regular season matches canceled. The playoffs, however, were played, and the San Jose Earthquakes won their first MLS Cup. Chicago Fire advance 7–1 on points. Miami Fusion advance 6–3 on points. Los Angeles Galaxy advance 1-0 in series overtime (SDET) after 4-4 tie on points. San Jose Earthquakes advance 6–0 on points. Los Angeles Galaxy advance 7–1 on points. San Jose Earthquakes advance 6–3 on points. Played for more", "title": "2001 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "4227986", "text": "2001 Major League Soccer season The 2001 Major League Soccer season was shortened due to the September 11 attacks, with the final weeks' regular season matches canceled. The playoffs, however, were played, and the San Jose Earthquakes won their first MLS Cup. Chicago Fire advance 7–1 on points. Miami Fusion advance 6–3 on points. Los Angeles Galaxy advance 1-0 in series overtime (SDET) after 4-4 tie on points. San Jose Earthquakes advance 6–0 on points. Los Angeles Galaxy advance 7–1 on points. San Jose Earthquakes advance 6–3 on points. Played for more than one team - Most Recent Team Listed*", "title": "2001 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "15775735", "text": "made Salt Lake's first ever Designated Player, signing a four-year contract with the club on December 1, 2010. As MLS Cup champions, Real Salt Lake were placed in Group A of the 2010-11 CONCACAF Champions League with Cruz Azul of Mexico, Toronto FC of Canada and Arabe Unido of Panama. Real Salt Lake started their CONCACAF Champions League tournament on August 18 at Rio Tinto Stadium playing the Panamanian champions, Árabe Unido. Real Salt Lake won the game 2–1 with both goals scored by Alvaro Saborio. Next, Real Salt Lake went down to Mexico City to take on Cruz Azul", "title": "History of Real Salt Lake" }, { "docid": "19612374", "text": "2007 Los Angeles Galaxy season The 2007 LA Galaxy season was the 12th season of the team's existence, and their 12th in Major League Soccer, the top flight of American soccer. The season was highlighted by the first season of David Beckham's career in MLS with the Galaxy. Outside of MLS the Galaxy played in the U.S. Open Cup, where they reached the third round, and the inaugural edition of the North American SuperLiga, CONCACAF's former secondary club tournament. In the Open Cup, the Galaxy reached the third round, while in the SuperLiga, the Galaxy finished as runners-up. Their 5th", "title": "2007 Los Angeles Galaxy season" }, { "docid": "17844290", "text": "MLS to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy. Many more American players, though they factored little in the U.S. national team picture, did make an impact in MLS. In 2005, Jason Kreis of expansion club Real Salt Lake became the first player to score at least 100 career MLS goals. In 2005, the MLS Reserve Division was created, with each reserve squad playing 12 games, providing valuable playing time to develop non-starters on team rosters. Part of the League's financial stabilization plan involved moving teams out of large American football stadiums and into soccer-specific stadiums. From 2003 to 2008, the", "title": "History of Major League Soccer" }, { "docid": "8898314", "text": "in Caliente and Kelso survive today. Several smaller Mission Revival depots erected by the railroad still exist in southern California. At least two of the railroad's smaller stations, at Lund and Black Rock, Utah, were designed by the noted architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood. The Salt Lake City depot was built in the French Renaissance style and is a landmark in that city. Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad was a rail company that completed and operated a railway line between its namesake cities, via Las Vegas, Nevada. Incorporated in Utah in 1901 as", "title": "Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad" }, { "docid": "7490992", "text": "in single elimination.\" \"The Houston Dynamo win MLS Cup 4–3 on penalties.\" CONCACAF Champions' Cup<br> Los Angeles Galaxy<br>Lost Deportivo Saprissa in quarterfinals. 2006 Major League Soccer season The 2006 Major League Soccer season was the 11th season in the history of Major League Soccer. It began on April 1, 2006 and ended with MLS Cup 2006 on November 12, 2006 at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas for the second consecutive year in a row. \"D.C. United advance 2–1 on aggregate.\" \"New England Revolution advance 4–2 on penalties (2–2 aggregate after extra time).\" \"Colorado Rapids advance 5–4 on penalties (4–4", "title": "2006 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "12683413", "text": "2009, as Real Salt Lake Day. The team was later honored with a traditional champion's ceremony at the White House by President Barack Obama on June 4, 2010. Real Salt Lake qualified for the 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League, where they became the first MLS team to reach the modern tournament's finals, losing 3–2 on aggregate to C.F. Monterrey. Real Salt Lake would later return to the MLS Cup final in 2013, finishing as runners-up to Sporting Kansas City after losing a penalty shootout. The Galaxy and Real Salt Lake met in the 2011 Western Conference Final, where Los Angeles won", "title": "MLS Cup 2009" }, { "docid": "15775740", "text": "Columbus made Real Salt Lake the first ever American team to advance past the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League, although two American have previously won the CONCACAF Champions Cup(LA Galaxy and DC United). On March 15, 2011, Real Salt Lake beat Saprissa 2-0 in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League Semifinals at Rio Tinto Stadium and then lost 2-1 in Costa Rica on April 5, 2011. However, this was enough to secure advancement to the CONCACAF Champions League Final by an aggregate score of 3-2. Also, in doing so Real Salt Lake became the first MLS team", "title": "History of Real Salt Lake" }, { "docid": "19043757", "text": "Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. It will be the fifth time a US city has hosted the Summer Olympics. In 2006, Los Angeles entered the bidding to become the US applicant city for the 2016 Summer Olympics; the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) selected Chicago instead that year. In September 2011, Los Angeles was awarded the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games. In March 2013, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sent a letter to the USOC stating that the city was interested in bidding to host the 2024 Olympic Games. On September 17, 2013, the LA County Board of Supervisors unanimously", "title": "Los Angeles bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics" }, { "docid": "17844287", "text": "in league, with one owner Phil Anschutz owning six teams; and only one team had its own soccer-specific stadium. The 2002 World Cup, in which the United States unexpectedly made the quarterfinals through wins against Portugal and Mexico, coincided with a resurgence in American soccer and MLS. MLS Cup 2002, held four months after the 2002 World Cup final, set an attendance record with 61,316 spectators at Gillette Stadium witnessing the Los Angeles Galaxy win their first title. This event held the largest crowd attendance in MLS Finals and second-highest attendance in overall domestic American soccer, after the North American", "title": "History of Major League Soccer" }, { "docid": "15055279", "text": "drew Columbus 0-0. Salt Lake opened April with a semifinal fixture on the road to Saprissa. The match, played on April 5, ended in a 2–1 victory for Saprissa, although Salt Lake would win 3–2 on aggregate, secured by Jamison Olave's half volley in the 71st minute of play. The win booked Salt Lake a spot in the Champions League finals, in which they became the first American team to make the finals under the current format, as well as the first American team to make the finals of a CONCACAF club tournament since Los Angeles Galaxy in 2000. On", "title": "2011 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "3879012", "text": "to D.C. United and Sporting Kansas City, respectively. After the season, head coach Jason Kreis left Real Salt Lake to become the first head coach of expansion club New York City FC, with long-time assistant coach Jeff Cassar replacing him at the helm. Despite the departure, the club finished the 2014 season in third in the Western Conference, with a record of 15–8–11 totaling 56 points, and qualified for the 2015-16 CONCACAF Champions League. In the MLS Cup Playoffs, RSL was eliminated in the conference semifinals by eventual champions LA Galaxy 5–0 on aggregate. Despite a five-game unbeaten start to", "title": "Real Salt Lake" }, { "docid": "8318983", "text": "after the 1926 season amid league-wide overextension. Ironically, the Wildcats' last game was an exhibition in San Francisco against the Buccaneers in January 1927. The first major professional football team to actually reside in Los Angeles were the Los Angeles Bulldogs, who operated both as an independent and as a member of several other leagues from approximately 1934 to 1948, in its later years reduced to minor status. The Bulldogs played most of their tenure at Gilmore Stadium, a stadium on the site of what is now CBS Television City. The NFL had actually admitted the Bulldogs to the league", "title": "History of the National Football League in Los Angeles" }, { "docid": "10856048", "text": "in 23 matches (20 starts). In August 2007, Morales moved to the United States to play for Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer. Morales was acquired by Real Salt Lake at the same time as fellow Argentines Matias Mantilla and Fabián Espíndola. Morales made an immediate impact for RSL—he tallied an assist 40 seconds into his MLS debut (August 29 vs. the Kansas City Wizards) - the fastest first assist in MLS history. His first career goal for RSL came September 19 against the Los Angeles Galaxy. He finished the season with one goal and two assists in seven", "title": "Javier Morales" }, { "docid": "18372103", "text": "CONCACAF Champions League, as champions of North America. Los Angeles FC Los Angeles Football Club is an American professional soccer franchise based in Los Angeles, California, that competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference. LAFC play their home games at the Banc of California Stadium in the Exposition Park neighborhood. The team shares the Los Angeles area market with the LA Galaxy, and the two clubs compete in a rivalry dubbed El Tráfico. On October 30, 2014, Major League Soccer awarded a new expansion team to Los Angeles, filling the vacancy in the market", "title": "Los Angeles FC" }, { "docid": "16195989", "text": "point, there were only three owners in the entire league). Years later, league commissioner Don Garber said it was a difficult decision to shutter the Florida teams, but that it saved Major League Soccer in the long run. After the folding of Chivas USA, the new tentatively-named Los Angeles Football Club was expected begin play in 2017, pending the construction of its own stadium (Chivas USA shared a stadium with the Los Angeles Galaxy throughout its existence). Due to the site chosen for the Los Angeles stadium, it was announced that the new team would push back its first season", "title": "Major League Soccer defunct clubs" }, { "docid": "8898306", "text": "Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad was a rail company that completed and operated a railway line between its namesake cities, via Las Vegas, Nevada. Incorporated in Utah in 1901 as the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, the line was largely the brainchild of William Andrews Clark, a Montana mining baron and United States Senator. Clark enlisted the help of Utah's U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns, mining magnate and newspaper man, to ensure the success of the line through Utah. Construction of the railroad's main line was completed in 1905. Company", "title": "Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad" }, { "docid": "13597019", "text": "a strategic holdout. The results of 2011 weighted lotteries: Prior to the start of the MLS regular season, Columbus Crew and Real Salt Lake played against each other in the quarterfinals of 2010–11 edition of the CONCACAF Champions League. The first leg, contested at Crew Stadium on February 22, 2011; ended in a scoreless draw between the sides. On March 1, 2011; the second leg at Rio Tinto Stadium was played, where Real Salt Lake won the series against the Crew 4–1 in the game and on aggregate, this ending Columbus' Champions League campaign. As a result, Salt Lake became", "title": "2011 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "18615867", "text": "teams from the same league as Staples Center is home to both of the city's National Basketball Association (NBA) teams, the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers, StubHub Center for a time hosted both the LA Galaxy and now-defunct Chivas USA of Major League Soccer, and Dodger Stadium hosted the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels from 1962 to 1965. The stadium is a component of Hollywood Park, a master planned neighborhood in development on the site of the former Hollywood Park Racetrack. Hollywood Park Casino opened in October 2016, becoming the first establishment to open on the", "title": "Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park" }, { "docid": "14635060", "text": "ended on October 27. The New York Red Bulls won the Supporters' Shield and Sporting Kansas City went on to win the MLS Cup in a penalty kick shootout against Real Salt Lake. †Actual capacity is higher; seats rationed for soccer games Major League Soccer employs 12 methods to acquire players. These include: signing players on transfers/free transfers as is done in most of the world; via trades; drafting players through mechanisms such as the MLS SuperDraft, MLS Supplemental Draft, or MLS Re-Entry Draft; rarely used methods which cover extreme hardship and injury replacement; signing players as Designated Players or", "title": "2013 Major League Soccer season" }, { "docid": "18372089", "text": "Los Angeles FC Los Angeles Football Club is an American professional soccer franchise based in Los Angeles, California, that competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference. LAFC play their home games at the Banc of California Stadium in the Exposition Park neighborhood. The team shares the Los Angeles area market with the LA Galaxy, and the two clubs compete in a rivalry dubbed El Tráfico. On October 30, 2014, Major League Soccer awarded a new expansion team to Los Angeles, filling the vacancy in the market created by the dissolution of Chivas USA three", "title": "Los Angeles FC" }, { "docid": "12557349", "text": "derby game. The league also announced Real Salt Lake in 2004. The franchise received permission to use the \"Real\" name from Real Madrid as part of a business agreement between the Salt Lake owner Dave Checketts and the Spanish club. Real Salt Lake initially played its home games at Rice-Eccles Stadium on the University of Utah campus before moving to Rio Tinto Stadium in the suburb of Sandy in October 2008. In 2005, the San Jose Earthquakes were put on hiatus because of a failure to secure a soccer-specific stadium. The players and the coach were moved to an expansion", "title": "Expansion of Major League Soccer" }, { "docid": "15775719", "text": "2006, representatives from Real Salt Lake and Real Madrid signed a 10-year agreement in which the two clubs agreed to work together to promote soccer throughout both Utah and the United States. Among the provisions included in the deal were a biennial friendly match between the two teams in Salt Lake City; annual February training for the RSL squad at Real Madrid's practice facility in Spain, and the creation of a $25 million youth academy in Salt Lake City that would train up to 200 youth players ranging from ages 12 to 18. However, the deal has seemed to have", "title": "History of Real Salt Lake" }, { "docid": "13906455", "text": "Game 1 Game 2 2009–10 Major Indoor Soccer League season The 2009–10 Major Indoor Soccer League is the sophomore season for the league, and first under the revived MISL banner. 32 season of professional Division 1 indoor soccer. The members of the MISL's second season teams are the Baltimore Blast, the Milwaukee Wave, the Monterrey La Raza, the Philadelphia KiXX, and the Rockford Rampage. The season kicked off on November 13, 2009, with the NISL champion, Baltimore Blast, welcoming the Rockford Rampage. The regular season concluded on March 21, 2010, with the Rockford Rampage hosting Monterrey La Raza. This year", "title": "2009–10 Major Indoor Soccer League season" }, { "docid": "17833908", "text": "2014 Real Salt Lake season The 2014 Real Salt Lake season was the team's tenth year of existence and also the first year with new Head Coach Jeff Cassar. The team's first game was on March 8 at StubHub Center. In 2013 Real Salt Lake played in the MLS Cup final, losing in the tenth round of penalty kicks to Sporting Kansas City. Real Salt Lake also announced that LifeVantage would be a long term sponsor beginning in the 2014 Season. Additionally, long term head coach, Jason Kreis announced that he would leave the club at the end of the", "title": "2014 Real Salt Lake season" }, { "docid": "1982736", "text": "Major League Soccer All-Star Game The Major League Soccer All-Star Game is an annual soccer game held by Major League Soccer featuring select players from the league against an international club. MLS initially adopted a traditional all-star game format used by other North American sports leagues where the Eastern Conference squared off against the Western Conference. This eventually evolved into the current system where the league annually invites a club from abroad to play against a league all-star team. The MLS All-Stars hold an 9–7 record in the competition marking the season's midpoint. Players are awarded rosters spots through a", "title": "Major League Soccer All-Star Game" } ]
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Saturday is the annual football game between UW and WSU. For what do they compete?
[ "Washington–Washington State football rivalry", "Crapple Cup", "The Apple Cup", "Apple Cup" ]
[ { "docid": "8270183", "text": "Pro Football Hall of Fame, located in Canton, Ohio. As of 2010, Warren Moon (Edmonton Eskimos 1978–83) is the only player to be a member of both the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame (NFL). The Rose Bowl has inducted eight Washington coaches and players into the Rose Bowl Game Hall of Fame. In the 1975 Apple Cup, Washington State led 27–14 with three minutes left in the game. WSU attempted a 4th-and-1 conversion at the UW 14-yard line rather than try for a field goal. The resulting pass was intercepted by Al Burleson", "title": "Washington Huskies football" } ]
[ { "docid": "7657272", "text": "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do is a 1974 nonfiction book by the noted oral historian and radio broadcaster Studs Terkel. \"Working\" is a book which investigates the meaning of work for different people under different circumstances, showing it can vary in importance. The book also reflects Terkel's general idea that work can be difficult but still provides meaning for workers. It is an exploration of what makes work meaningful for people", "title": "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" }, { "docid": "17692125", "text": "game to Lambeau Field. In 2016, Lambeau Field will host the Wisconsin Badgers vs. LSU Tigers in the 2nd of a two-game series starting in 2014, where the game is in Houston at Reliant Stadium. College sports, especially college football, are popular in Jacksonville. The city hosts the Florida–Georgia game, an annual college football game between the University of Florida and the University of Georgia, and the TaxSlayer Bowl, a post-season college bowl game. Jacksonville's two universities compete in NCAA Division I: the University of North Florida Ospreys and the Jacksonville University Dolphins, both in the Atlantic Sun Conference. Arrowhead", "title": "Comparisons between the National Football League and NCAA football" }, { "docid": "17692145", "text": "home of the annual Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, a college football bowl game that is part of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). The University of Phoenix Stadium will host Super Bowl XLIX in 2015. All three football-playing schools in the Bay Area are in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the highest level of NCAA college football. The California Golden Bears and Stanford Cardinal compete in the Pac-12 Conference, and the San Jose State Spartans compete in the Mountain West Conference. The Cardinal and Golden Bears are intense rivals, with their football teams competing annually in the Big Game for the Stanford Axe.", "title": "Comparisons between the National Football League and NCAA football" }, { "docid": "14746909", "text": "Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday? Do You Know What I'm Going To Do Next Saturday? is a 1963 children's book published by Beginner Books and written by Helen Palmer Geisel, the first wife of Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss). Unlike most of the Beginner Books, \"Do You Know What I'm Going To Do Next Saturday?\" did not follow the format of text with inline drawings, being illustrated with black-and-white photographs by Lynn Fayman, featuring a boy named Rawli Davis. It is sometimes misattributed to Dr. Seuss himself. The book's cover features a photograph of a", "title": "Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday?" }, { "docid": "7657281", "text": "2002 DVD \"Pull Over\", Taylor explains that a story about a woman in a shoe manufacturing plant in Massachusetts, described in the book, inspired the song. In the television series \"The Facts of Life\", \"Working\" is one of the books parents wanted to ban in the episode \"Read No Evil\". Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do is a 1974 nonfiction book by the noted oral historian and radio broadcaster Studs Terkel. \"Working\"", "title": "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" }, { "docid": "15970990", "text": "and won by Su Yung and Blackwater. WSU King and Queen of the Ring The WSU King and Queen of the Ring is an annual professional wrestling mixed tag team tournament promoted by Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU). From 2006 to 2012, WSU co-promoted the tournament with National Wrestling Superstars (NWS), but in 2013 partnered up with Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) for the tournament. The winners of the 2006 King and Queen Tournament were Julio Dinero and Kara Slice. The winners of the 2007 King and Queen tournament were Danny Demanto and Melissa Stripes. The first round matches were three-way matches.", "title": "WSU King and Queen of the Ring" }, { "docid": "15970988", "text": "WSU King and Queen of the Ring The WSU King and Queen of the Ring is an annual professional wrestling mixed tag team tournament promoted by Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU). From 2006 to 2012, WSU co-promoted the tournament with National Wrestling Superstars (NWS), but in 2013 partnered up with Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) for the tournament. The winners of the 2006 King and Queen Tournament were Julio Dinero and Kara Slice. The winners of the 2007 King and Queen tournament were Danny Demanto and Melissa Stripes. The first round matches were three-way matches. The winners of the 2008 King and", "title": "WSU King and Queen of the Ring" }, { "docid": "7657279", "text": "for people who do commercials\") and football coach George Allen (\"You have to put a priority on everything you do each day\"). As the foreword to the book points out, \"Mr. Terkel found, work was a search, sometimes successful, sometimes not, 'for daily meaning as well as daily bread'... The oral histories in \"Working\" are wistful dispatches from a distant era...when management practices and computers were just beginning to transform the American workplace. In the last thirty years, productivity has soared but job satisfaction has plummeted. It is hard to read \"Working\" without wondering what has gone wrong.\" A bestseller", "title": "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do" }, { "docid": "7827529", "text": "in 2013, the matchup between the Georgia Bulldogs and Clemson Tigers served as the opening game with the Classic matchup between LSU and TCU being broadcast on ESPN. The Classic served as the opening game for \"Saturday Night Football\" again in 2014 (that year, involving the Florida State Seminoles and Oklahoma State Cowboys), in 2015 (Alabama Crimson Tide and Wisconsin Badgers) and in 2016 (Alabama Crimson Tide and USC Trojans). In 2017, the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game (Alabama Crimson Tide and Florida State Seminoles) served as the opening game for \"Saturday Night Football\" (first time since 2010), while the Advocare Classic", "title": "Saturday Night Football" }, { "docid": "6716383", "text": "of November. As the two main public universities in the state, WSU and UW have a geographic rivalry. Rivalries also exist between WSU and the other Pac-12 teams of the Pacific Northwest: the Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Beavers. Competition between the schools in football has been very competitive over the years, as the Cougars hold a 47-44-3 advantage in the series against OSU and trail UO by a tally of 38-42-7. WSU’s closest geographic rival is the University of Idaho, another land-grant school only eight miles (13 km) east in Moscow. The Battle of the Palouse, the annual football", "title": "Washington State Cougars" }, { "docid": "7827527", "text": "as brief pre-game and post-game shows. Other ESPN broadcast teams may also occasionally appear for regional (and some national) telecasts. \"Saturday Night Football\" premiered on September 2, 2006, with a game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. While ABC and ESPN have aired college football games on Saturday nights for decades, this program marks the first time that a collegiate sports broadcast has officially been part of any major broadcast television network's primetime schedule. Twelve weeks of regular season games were televised during the three-month college football season in 2006, 2007 and from 2009 to", "title": "Saturday Night Football" }, { "docid": "17025104", "text": "kick) 3rd quarter scoring: UW – Austin Seferian-Jenkins 18-yard pass from Keith Price (Coons kick); UW – Bishop Sankey 7-yard run (Coons kick); UW – Coons 39-yard field goal 4th quarter scoring: WSU – Dom Williams 5-yard pass from Halliday (Furney kick); UW – Price 2-yard run (Coons kick) Ken Williamson was the referee from the SEC. 1st quarter scoring: WSU – River Cracraft 25-yard pass from Connor Halliday (Andrew Furney kick); WSU – Gabe Marks 1-yard pass from Halliday (Furney kick); CSU – Charles Lovett for 63-yard pass from Garrett Grayson (Jared Roberts kick); WSU – Theron West 28-yard", "title": "2013 Washington State Cougars football team" }, { "docid": "8796314", "text": "Conference USA Football Championship Game The Conference USA Football Championship Game is an annual American football game that has determined the Conference USA's season champion since 2005. The championship game pits the C-USA East Division regular season champion against the West Division regular season champion. It is typically played on the first Saturday of December. The 2018 edition of the game, sponsored by Globe Life, was played on December 1, 2018, and televised by CBSSN. Nine of the fourteen current C-USA members have played in the Conference USA Football Championship Game. The overall series between both divisions is led by", "title": "Conference USA Football Championship Game" }, { "docid": "14746910", "text": "young boy sitting at a breakfast table with a huge pile of pancakes. Activities mentioned in the book include bowling, water skiing, marching, boxing, and shooting guns with the United States Marines, and eating more spaghetti \"than anyone else has eaten before. Helen Palmer's photograph-based children's books did not prove to be as popular as the more traditional text-and-illustrations format; however, \"Do You Know What I'm Going To Do Next Saturday\" received positive reviews and was listed by \"The New York Times\" as one of the best children's books of 1963. The book is now out of print. Do You", "title": "Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday?" }, { "docid": "7827525", "text": "Saturday Night Football ESPN Saturday Night Football (branded for sponsorship purposes as ESPN Saturday Night Football on ABC presented by Wells Fargo or Walmart) is a weekly presentation of prime time broadcasts of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football games that are produced by ESPN, and televised on ABC. Games are presented each Saturday evening starting at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time during the college football regular season, although as of 2017 some games will occasionally have a start time of 7:30 p.m. ET (some weeks until 2015 saw no game on ABC due", "title": "Saturday Night Football" }, { "docid": "14808405", "text": "quarter scoring: WSU – Andrew Furney 49-yard field goal; WSU – Rickey Galvin 14-yard pass from C. Halliday (Furney kick) 3rd quarter scoring: UW – Seferian Jenkins 18-yard pass from Keith Price (Coons kick); UW – Bishop Sankey 7-yard run (Coons kick); UW – Coons 39-yard field goal 4th quarter scoring: WSU – Dom. Williams 5-yard pass from Halliday (Furney kick); UW – Price 2-yard run (Coons kick) 1st quarter scoring: WASH – Bishop Sankey 11-yard run (Travis Coons kick) 2nd quarter scoring: BYU – Taysom Hill 1-yard run (Justin Sorensen kick); WASH – John Ross III 100-yard kick return", "title": "2013 Washington Huskies football team" }, { "docid": "15136574", "text": "What Do You Know? (TV series) What Do You Know? is a children's television program first screened on the Australian children's channel ABC3 on 27 December 2010. 'What Do You Know?' is hosted by Ben Crawley and includes a resident DJ, Dr Rhythm. Contestants are aged between 12–15 years and compete in two teams of three. The captain of the team has a passion for a topic of their choice such as history, sport and pop culture, with the remaining two team members being the 'brain trust'. The six teams with the highest scores at the end of the series", "title": "What Do You Know? (TV series)" }, { "docid": "15136575", "text": "make it into finals week. What Do You Know? (TV series) What Do You Know? is a children's television program first screened on the Australian children's channel ABC3 on 27 December 2010. 'What Do You Know?' is hosted by Ben Crawley and includes a resident DJ, Dr Rhythm. Contestants are aged between 12–15 years and compete in two teams of three. The captain of the team has a passion for a topic of their choice such as history, sport and pop culture, with the remaining two team members being the 'brain trust'. The six teams with the highest scores at", "title": "What Do You Know? (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20608311", "text": "1981. The classic Burgess, Ford, Keays and Wheatley line-up reformed in August 1987 for a \"Back to the 1960s\" special on the popular TV variety show \"Hey Hey It's Saturday\". It marked the first time all four had played together since Wheatley had left in late 1971. They undertook a reunion tour during 1988 and released an album, \"Do What You Wanna Do\", featuring new material and new versions of their earlier songs, from which they lifted the single \"Birth of the Beat\". The album's first side contains new recordings of original material and two re-recordings of \"Turn Up Your", "title": "Do What You Wanna Do (album)" }, { "docid": "16321089", "text": "30–7 in San Francisco. California has won seven straight games against the Cougars with the last WSU win coming in 2002. For the first time since 1892, the annual Big Game between the California Golden Bears and the Stanford Cardinal was not be played at the end of the season in either November or December. The new Pac-12 television deal that was signed in 2011 has been faulted for the move because it has created many scheduling issues. Also, both universities have refused to play their rivalry game on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The reasoning for not wanting the Big", "title": "2012 California Golden Bears football team" }, { "docid": "8992596", "text": "defense despite trailing by four touchdowns late in the game. \"If the coaches are giving up,\" Rowe added, \"what does that say to the players?\" Franklin responded: \"Holly, it's not giving up. It's 49-21, sweetheart.\" In response to that, Mo Davenport, senior coordinating producer for college football said, \"It was an inappropriate comment, and we've communicated that to Ron. There's never a reason to say something so mean-spirited. Ron apologized. We dealt with it internally.\" Many believe this was the cause for Franklin's demotion from the ESPN primetime game to the ESPN2 primetime game. ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime ESPN", "title": "ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime" }, { "docid": "8992592", "text": "ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime ESPN College Football Primetime is a live game presentation of NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision college football on ESPN. In the past, the presenting sponsors have been Polaroid, AT&T and Hilton. The current presenting sponsor is Hampton by Hilton. The game telecast airs every Saturday night at 7:45pm ET during the college football regular season. The game is preceded by a 45-minute-long \"College Football Scoreboard\" with Adnan Virk, Joey Galloway and Jesse Palmer, all of whom also appear on the halftime report. This game telecast is also presented in high-definition on ESPN HD. Since debuting in", "title": "ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime" }, { "docid": "13163873", "text": "is competitive and selection is based on high school grades and curriculum, standardized test scores (ACT exam or SAT Reasoning Test), required essays, and teacher recommendations. The UW Academy is not a Running Start program, and Academy students do not earn a high school diploma and therefore are considered high school dropouts. Students enter the UW Academy through the Bridge Program, which is designed to ease the transition from 10th grade to university. Bridge begins with Academy Camp, an overnight camp where students in the program have a chance to meet with one another, older Academy students, and the staff.", "title": "UW Academy for Young Scholars" }, { "docid": "6133938", "text": "Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the NFL and NFLPA. He has three children with wife Karen Saturday: Jeffrey Douglas Saturday, Savannah Faith Saturday, and Joshua Bryant Saturday. Saturday is a Christian. Saturday became a Christian after searching for what defines him as a person. Saturday has talked about his faith saying, \"My identity is in Christ and the way that I live my life hopefully glorifies Him and gives Him the credit and the glory.\" Jeff Saturday Jeffrey Bryant Saturday (born June 18, 1975) is a former American football center. He played college football for the University of North Carolina. He", "title": "Jeff Saturday" }, { "docid": "18176613", "text": "The Bell Game The Bell Game is an annual football contest between two high schools in Pueblo, Colorado, USA: Central High School and Centennial High School. They have been playing each other since 1892 in what is believed to be the oldest ongoing American football rivalry west of the Mississippi River and the largest sports event of its kind in Colorado. The rivalry is sometimes referred to as the \"One Hundred Year War\". Since 1950, the teams have played for ownership of a railroad bell mounted upon a wheeled cart, along with the right to paint the cart the winning", "title": "The Bell Game" }, { "docid": "7827538", "text": "ABC's college football telecasts – including \"Saturday Night Football\" – with the exception in both years being the Rose Bowl, during which it used the bowl game version of the network's 1998-2005 sports theme (a cut that had traditionally been used in broadcast intros). \"Saturday Night Football\" games began using the bowl version of the 1998-2005 theme as well in 2008, continuing through the 2010 BCS National Championship Game. The intro theme was updated in 2011, with the main theme music being changed to a different cut of the 1998-2005 bowl game theme (one that had usually been used during", "title": "Saturday Night Football" }, { "docid": "7827528", "text": "2011; the Dr. Pepper Big 12 Football Championship Game closing out each season until a conference realignment in which four university football programs left and two others joined the Big 12 Conference resulted in the Championship Game being discontinued after the 2010 event (the Big 12 Football Championship Game returned in 2017). With the college football season being extended by one week, ABC televised thirteen weeks of games in 2008, closing with the 2008 Big 12 Championship Game on December 6. The Advocare Classic (formerly the Cowboys Classic) became the opening game for \"Saturday Night Football\" beginning in 2011; however", "title": "Saturday Night Football" }, { "docid": "8796319", "text": "remaining procedures if those circumstances were to happen. List of NCAA Division I FBS conference championship games Conference USA Football Championship Game The Conference USA Football Championship Game is an annual American football game that has determined the Conference USA's season champion since 2005. The championship game pits the C-USA East Division regular season champion against the West Division regular season champion. It is typically played on the first Saturday of December. The 2018 edition of the game, sponsored by Globe Life, was played on December 1, 2018, and televised by CBSSN. Nine of the fourteen current C-USA members have", "title": "Conference USA Football Championship Game" }, { "docid": "20650065", "text": "2019 National Football League (Ireland) The 2019 National Football League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Allianz National Football League, is the 88th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual gaelic football tournament for Gaelic Athletic Association county teams. Thirty-one county teams from the island of Ireland, plus London, compete. Kilkenny do not participate. Eir Sport and TG4 provide live TV coverage of the league on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons respectively. The highlights programmes are RTÉ2's \"League Sunday\" on Sunday evenings and TG4's \"GAA 2019\" on Monday evenings. On 24 November 2018 the GAA Central Council approved", "title": "2019 National Football League (Ireland)" }, { "docid": "17938995", "text": "the Beau Jesters' parody questioning Lyndon Johnson. Is It True What They Say About Dixie? \"Is It True What They Say About Dixie?\" is a 1936 song written by Irving Caesar, Sammy Lerner and Gerald Marks. The lyrics begin: \"Is it true what they say about Dixie? Does the sun really shine all the time? Do the sweet magnolias blossom at everybody's door?\". The song was a #1 hit for Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra in May and June 1936 with Bob Eberly on vocal. Ozzie Nelson and Willie Bryant also charted with the song that year. The song has", "title": "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?" }, { "docid": "17938994", "text": "Is It True What They Say About Dixie? \"Is It True What They Say About Dixie?\" is a 1936 song written by Irving Caesar, Sammy Lerner and Gerald Marks. The lyrics begin: \"Is it true what they say about Dixie? Does the sun really shine all the time? Do the sweet magnolias blossom at everybody's door?\". The song was a #1 hit for Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra in May and June 1936 with Bob Eberly on vocal. Ozzie Nelson and Willie Bryant also charted with the song that year. The song has been parodied in various versions, such as", "title": "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?" }, { "docid": "7624585", "text": "Campos from Film Threat said that \"These actors and many more make \"What We Do Is Secret\" an absolute blast to watch and they do an undeniably perfect job of recreating this notorious scene.\" \"What We Do Is Secret\" was released on DVD on November 4, 2008. In addition to \"Forming\", which appears on the soundtrack album, the team of Shane West, Bijou Phillips, Lukas Haas, and Michael LeBlanc also perform the Germs songs \"Circle One\", \"Lexicon Devil\", \"Richie Dagger's Crime\", \"Shut Down (Annihilation Man)\", and \"Lion's Share\" in the film. The Bronx also performs the Black Flag song \"Police", "title": "What We Do Is Secret (film)" }, { "docid": "7827532", "text": "games against Notre Dame and games against the Southeastern Conference, as well as road games against conferences that still have broadcast rights with ABC. Besides Pac-12 and Big Ten games, ABC makes most of its game broadcast selections or options twelve days prior to the game (with some being made six days beforehand). This allows ABC to 'flex' the most compelling game it has the rights to broadcast into the \"Saturday Night Football\" slot. As a result, the Saturday night game is usually ABC's \"game of the week\". With the loss of the Sprint Cup Series to NBC and NBCSN,", "title": "Saturday Night Football" }, { "docid": "8444647", "text": "the original building. The UW-Green Bay, Manitowoc Campus Blue Devils compete in the East Division of the Wisconsin Collegiate Conference. The program offers intercollegiate athletic opportunities in co-ed golf, as well as men's and women's basketball, tennis, and volleyball. Jemale Brown, Basketball Player for Waldorf University UW-Green Bay, Manitowoc Campus The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Manitowoc Campus or UW-Green Bay, Manitowoc Campus is a two-year campus of the University of Wisconsin System located in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. It is part of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Enrollment was 525 in fall, 2014. The University of Wisconsin System has had a presence", "title": "UW-Green Bay, Manitowoc Campus" }, { "docid": "8683873", "text": "continue on the UW–Sheboygan campus. In 2004, UW–Sheboygan dedicated the new Brotz Science Building, which houses classrooms and science laboratories. In May 2006, the campus broke ground on the new Acuity Technology Center, which will house the college's library and provide additional “smart” classrooms and meeting space. UW-Sheboygan's athletic teams are nicknamed the Wombats and compete in the Wisconsin Collegiate Conference. The university competes in women's volleyball, men and women's golf, soccer, men's basketball, and men and women's tennis. UW-Sheboygan was the home of Wisconsin Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Jack Snyder. Snyder coached the men's basketball team for 24", "title": "UW-Green Bay, Sheboygan Campus" }, { "docid": "6505734", "text": "what sounds are heard at specific stadiums during events within the game, such as a touchdown, field goal, or timeout. Fans of the teams can now create an authentic experience in each stadium by using copyrighted songs that EA is not allowed to put into the game. \"NCAA Football 10\" plays Tick Tick Boom by The Hives in the introduction only. \"NCAA Football 11\" uses the music that is used in \"ESPN College Football\" coverage. NCAA Football (video game series) NCAA Football was an American football video game series developed by EA Sports in which players control and compete against", "title": "NCAA Football (video game series)" }, { "docid": "7827526", "text": "to Saturday evening Sprint Cup Series NASCAR coverage; ESPN would then carry that week's high-profile game instead, with ESPN2 carrying a secondary game usually seen on ESPN/ABC). The ESPN on ABC Saturday Night Football coverage began in 2006, as both ESPN and ABC are owned by The Walt Disney Company. It is ESPN's biggest game of the week, usually the matchup from ESPN College Gameday earlier that morning. , the primary broadcast team includes play-by-play announcer Chris Fowler and analyst Kirk Herbstreit, with Maria Taylor as sideline reporter. Kevin Negandhi and Jonathan Vilma host the studio halftime show, as well", "title": "Saturday Night Football" }, { "docid": "7827540", "text": "theme used by all ESPN college football productions since the 2014-15 New Years' Six bowl games. Weekly listings for the 2006 through 2010 college football seasons Saturday Night Football ESPN Saturday Night Football (branded for sponsorship purposes as ESPN Saturday Night Football on ABC presented by Wells Fargo or Walmart) is a weekly presentation of prime time broadcasts of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football games that are produced by ESPN, and televised on ABC. Games are presented each Saturday evening starting at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time during the college football regular season,", "title": "Saturday Night Football" }, { "docid": "12022043", "text": "The show was recorded and mixed directly to two-track tape. Rhino Records made the album available for download, after a limited release on CD. All songs written by Don Van Vliet I'm Going to Do What I Wanna Do: Live at My Father's Place 1978 I'm Going to Do What I Wanna Do is a live album from Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. In support of the US release of his album \"Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)\", Beefheart and the band undertook a promotional club tour. On Saturday 18 November 1978 they performed at My Father's Place in Roslyn,", "title": "I'm Going to Do What I Wanna Do: Live at My Father's Place 1978" }, { "docid": "12022042", "text": "I'm Going to Do What I Wanna Do: Live at My Father's Place 1978 I'm Going to Do What I Wanna Do is a live album from Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. In support of the US release of his album \"Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)\", Beefheart and the band undertook a promotional club tour. On Saturday 18 November 1978 they performed at My Father's Place in Roslyn, New York. My Father's Place was located under a motorway bridge, held about 200 people and the patrons sat at long tables and could dine whilst listening if they wished .", "title": "I'm Going to Do What I Wanna Do: Live at My Father's Place 1978" }, { "docid": "5934584", "text": "and the dmail and tmail mail delivery agents. As of 2005, UW IMAP's codebase consisted of 135,000 lines of code, of which the IMAP server itself comprised 4,000 lines and c-client comprised the rest. UW IMAP does not officially support the maildir format. However, UW IMAP can be patched to support other formats, such as maildir. Gluelogic offers a patch to support maildirs in Pine. The patched Pine instance can then be used to compile UW IMAP with nominal maildir support. However, this yields a buggy server that will not correctly distinguish between Unseen and Recent messages. A patch is", "title": "UW IMAP" }, { "docid": "14133204", "text": "Uw Oykangand The Uw Oykangand, otherwise known as the \"Kwantari,\" are an Indigenous Australian people living on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia. Their neighbours to the northwest are the Yir-Yoront, Their traditional lands are around the Alice River and the Crosbie River, and further west around the Mitchell River and into Gulf Country. The Uw Oykangand language is, together with its close dialect relative Uw Olkola, a member of the Kunjen branch of the Pama-Nyungan language family. It has a notable characteristic of maintaining a thorough distinction between the standard content forms of the", "title": "Uw Oykangand" }, { "docid": "13163872", "text": "UW Academy for Young Scholars UW Academy for Young Scholars is a prestigious early-college entrance program located at the University of Washington. Founded in 2001, after the creation of Early Entrance Program (EEP), the Robinson Center and the University of Washington Honors Program partnered to create the UW Academy for Young Scholars program. The first class of Academy students enrolled at the University in 2002. Each year, the program accepts up to 35 10th graders from around the country, who skip the last two years of high school to enroll as freshmen in the Honors program at the University. Admission", "title": "UW Academy for Young Scholars" }, { "docid": "14110765", "text": "to occur on December 23 or December 18 (56). Super Saturday typically nets approximately $15 billion in retail sales. To compete with each other, stores offer significant discounts and extend store hours in an attempt to attract customers and drive impulse buying. Super Saturday accounts for a significant portion of the holiday sales for retail stores. In 2006, a study determined that sales between December 21 and 24 accounted for 13.6 percent of holiday sales. (In 2006, Super Saturday fell on December 23.) Some businesses do as much as 60 percent of their sales on this day. In an effort", "title": "Super Saturday" }, { "docid": "17072930", "text": "The DO-IT Center The DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) Center is based at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1992, DO-IT’s mission is to increase the successful participation of people with disabilities in postsecondary education and careers, in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields and careers, and in computing fields and careers throughout the U.S. It directs the national AccessSTEM program, and co-directs the national AccessComputing Alliance focused on engaging people with disabilities in computing fields. The Center is a unit of Accessible Technology Services of UW-IT at the University of Washington, a collaboration between", "title": "The DO-IT Center" }, { "docid": "19251967", "text": "the picker picks one item to win. The rest of the lots' values are then revealed. They are not told the value of the item they have picked unless it is the top lot or the worthless lot. They are then offered the chance to swap it with the value of another lot which may be more than the top lot's value; the value of the lot they pick is what they go home with. For What It's Worth (game show) For What It's Worth is an antiques game show that aired on BBC One from 4 January to 26", "title": "For What It's Worth (game show)" }, { "docid": "11326989", "text": "residential building with 29 units, two parking garages and two surface parking lots. The current properties consist of the UW Tower itself, Buildings A, C, O, and S, the Collegiana building, two garages, and two surface lots. Although much of the building is used for administrative purposes, various schools and departments at the University of Washington, especially the medical sciences, have offices in the UW Tower. These include UW Information Technology (UW-IT), the UW Payroll Office, University Advancement and Professional and Continuing Education. UW Tower The UW Tower is a high-rise office building complex serving as head offices for University", "title": "UW Tower" }, { "docid": "12437720", "text": "And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices is the eighth album released by Michael Nyman and the fifth featuring the Michael Nyman Band. \"And Do They Do\" is a modern dance work commission by Siobhan Davies and The London Contemporary Dance Theatre, which premiered at Sadler's Wells Theatre on 25 November 1986. \"Zoo Caprices\" is a multi-stop violin solo for Alexander Balanescu based on the score for Peter Greenaway's film, \"A Zed & Two Noughts\". The album was issued on LP in 1986 by Ter Records under license from Jay Records. It was issued on compact disc", "title": "And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices" }, { "docid": "20358276", "text": "play due to WWII. PSAC Football Championship Game The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Football Championship Game or PSAC Football Championship is a yearly American football championship game between two Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference teams (East and West division) to decide the champions of the PSAC. The championship games date back to 1960 where West Chester was the first to win, however champions had been selected by sportswriters and the Saylor Point System since 1934. Champions have been decided every year since then, except for three years during World War II when PSAC did not compete. In 1943, 1944, 1945 no", "title": "PSAC Football Championship Game" }, { "docid": "20358275", "text": "PSAC Football Championship Game The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Football Championship Game or PSAC Football Championship is a yearly American football championship game between two Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference teams (East and West division) to decide the champions of the PSAC. The championship games date back to 1960 where West Chester was the first to win, however champions had been selected by sportswriters and the Saylor Point System since 1934. Champions have been decided every year since then, except for three years during World War II when PSAC did not compete. In 1943, 1944, 1945 no teams competed in PSAC", "title": "PSAC Football Championship Game" }, { "docid": "20297331", "text": "about after the 1951 NCAA convention voted 161-7 to outlaw televised games except for those licensed by the NCAA staff. The deal allowed NBC to select one game a week to broadcast on Saturday afternoons, with the assurance that no other NCAA college football broadcast would appear on a competitive network. In the first college football game to be broadcast under this new NCAA television contract, on September 20, Kansas defeated TCU 13-0. By 1953, the NCAA allowed NBC to add what it called \"panorama\" coverage of multiple regional broadcasts for certain weeks – shifting national viewers to the most", "title": "NBC College Football Game of the Week" }, { "docid": "8992595", "text": "2008, the ESPN2 team of Mark Jones and Bob Davie commentated the Illinois-Missouri game. A week later (September 6, 2008), the ABC team of Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit commentated the Miami–Florida game. Ron Franklin worked the November 22, 2008 game with Ed Cunningham as they commentated the Florida State–Maryland game. This marked the first time since 2005 that Franklin called an \"ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime\" game. On October 1, 2005, in a game that Ron Franklin was calling along with Bob Davie, sideline reporter Holly Rowe lauded Purdue defensive coordinator Brock Spack for using all three timeouts on", "title": "ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime" }, { "docid": "7137684", "text": "What We Do Is Secret (novel) What We Do Is Secret is a novel by Thorn Kief Hillsbery, published by Villard in 2005. \"What We Do Is Secret\" takes place in Los Angeles in 1981, six months after the death of Darby Crash (lead singer of the Germs). It is narrated by a gay street kid named Rockets Redglare, who knew Darby personally. All the action occurs over the course of 24 hours, on Rockets' 13th birthday. Rockets was ten years old when he first met Darby Crash, lead singer of LA punk band the Germs. He and Darby had", "title": "What We Do Is Secret (novel)" }, { "docid": "13867237", "text": "Redhill and District Saturday Football League The Redhill and District Saturday Football League is a regional English football league formed in 1897. It comprises teams from Surrey, Kent, Greater London and Sussex. It currently has four divisions, the highest of which, the Premier Division, is situated at the 14th level of the English football league system. Teams may be promoted to Intermediate Division Two of the Surrey South Eastern Combination. \"The league was reduced to four divisions for the 2004–05 season.\" \"The league was expanded to five divisions for the 2005–06 season.\" \"The league was expanded to six divisions for", "title": "Redhill and District Saturday Football League" }, { "docid": "12437723", "text": "on a single instrument through multiple stops. The order is significantly altered from the original album, and \"Vermeer's Wife\" and \"Prawn Watching\" are combined into a single section. Performed by the Michael Nyman Band And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices is the eighth album released by Michael Nyman and the fifth featuring the Michael Nyman Band. \"And Do They Do\" is a modern dance work commission by Siobhan Davies and The London Contemporary Dance Theatre, which premiered at Sadler's Wells Theatre on 25 November 1986. \"Zoo Caprices\" is a multi-stop violin solo for Alexander Balanescu based", "title": "And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices" }, { "docid": "12306939", "text": "What They Play What They Play was a video game-centric website aimed at helping parents learn about content in video games, helping them decide what games their children should play. It was the first of several websites to launch under \"What They Like, Inc.\", other sites featuring books, movies and music followed. The site was launched in 2007 by two former Ziff Davis members Ira Becker, executive vice-president of the Game Group, and ex-1UP.com writer and Senior vice-president of the Game Group John Davison. Davison announced his departure from Ziff in August 2007, with Becker's announcement soon following. The two", "title": "What They Play" }, { "docid": "12306941", "text": "a small editorial staff of seven to play and review games based on their content, but also allowed parents to leave comments and reviews under each game describing their thoughts on the game's content and/or their child's reaction to the game. Parents could also submit an age-appropriateness rating, assigned on a scale from 1-17. What They Play What They Play was a video game-centric website aimed at helping parents learn about content in video games, helping them decide what games their children should play. It was the first of several websites to launch under \"What They Like, Inc.\", other sites", "title": "What They Play" }, { "docid": "13867238", "text": "the 2006–07 season.\" \"The league was reduced back down to five divisions for the 2012–13 season.\" Redhill and District Saturday Football League The Redhill and District Saturday Football League is a regional English football league formed in 1897. It comprises teams from Surrey, Kent, Greater London and Sussex. It currently has four divisions, the highest of which, the Premier Division, is situated at the 14th level of the English football league system. Teams may be promoted to Intermediate Division Two of the Surrey South Eastern Combination. \"The league was reduced to four divisions for the 2004–05 season.\" \"The league was", "title": "Redhill and District Saturday Football League" }, { "docid": "15740552", "text": "Norwich and District Saturday Football League The Norwich and District Saturday Football League is a football competition based in England. It has a total of 1 division catering for 12 teams. The league is a feeder league to the Anglian Combination. The league is affiliated to the Norfolk County Football Association. The league is one of the oldest competitive leagues within Norfolk and can have up to 80 teams competing at any time from within a radius of 15 miles of Norwich Castle. Over the last few years, steps have been made within the league to change the look, feel", "title": "Norwich and District Saturday Football League" }, { "docid": "17692118", "text": "wall of the stadium being preserved. It was closed on Sunday, January 20, 2002, a day after the Bears lost in the playoffs. It reopened on September 27, 2003 after a complete rebuild (the second in the stadium's history). Many fans refer to the rebuilt stadium as \"New Soldier Field\". During the season, the Bears played their home games at the University of Illinois' Memorial Stadium in Champaign, where they went 3–5. Cleveland Stadium hosted the annual Notre Dame/Navy college football game 11 times: in 1932, 1934, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1976 and 1978. The games were", "title": "Comparisons between the National Football League and NCAA football" }, { "docid": "17025103", "text": "Adam Schulz (two-point pass conversion failed); WSU – Furney 52-yard field goal 3rd quarter scoring: UTAH – Phillips 34-yard field goal; WSU – Furney 28-yard field goal; UTAH – Jake Murphy 11-yard pass from Schulz (Phillips kick); WSU – Vince Mayle 8-yard pass from Halliday (Furney kick) 4th quarter scoring: UTAH – Murphy 64-yard pass from Schulz (Phillips kick); WSU – Williams 71-yard pass from Halliday (two-point pass conversion failed) 1st quarter scoring: UW – Travis Coons 48-yard field goal 2nd quarter scoring: WSU – Andrew Furney 49-yard field goal; WSU – Rickey Galvin 14-yard pass from Connor Halliday (Furney", "title": "2013 Washington State Cougars football team" }, { "docid": "17692112", "text": "Comparisons between the National Football League and NCAA football The National Football League (NFL) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) are respectively the most popular professional and amateur football organizations in the United States. The National Football League was founded in 1920 and has since become the largest and most popular sport in the United States. The NFL has the highest average attendance of any sporting league in the world, with an average attendance of 66,960 persons per game during the 2011 NFL season. The NFL championship game, the Super Bowl, is among the biggest events in club sports", "title": "Comparisons between the National Football League and NCAA football" }, { "docid": "17692135", "text": "Rockne gave his \"win one for the Gipper\" speech (with reference to All-American halfback George Gipp, who died in 1920); Notre Dame went on to defeat Army, 12–6. The 1929 game between the two teams had the highest attendance in the series at 79,408. The 1946 Army vs. Notre Dame football game at Yankee stadium is regarded as one of the 20th century college football Games of the Century. Notre Dame played 24 games at Yankee Stadium, going 15–6–3. Army played 38, compiling a 17–17–4 record (including the best-attended game, on December 1, 1928 when Army lost to Stanford 26–0", "title": "Comparisons between the National Football League and NCAA football" }, { "docid": "14192578", "text": "from the 30-minute repeat. Round 4 With 60 seconds on the clock each team member must describe to their teammate alternately someone or something that's on their card without using the words of said someone or something. For example, TARDIS, they must say it is Doctor Who's time machine and not it is TARDIS. Again the audience is made aware of what is being described due to a caption at the bottom of the screen. The rules are quite relaxed as it is a kids game show. Viewers have the chance to play the online version of What Do Kids", "title": "What Do Kids Know?" }, { "docid": "20155752", "text": "performed it on \"Sommarkrysset\" and during RIX FM Festival concerts. A music video for the song was released onto YouTube on 12 May 2017. It was filmed in Cyprus and directed by Konrad Aksinowicz. The video sees Margaret as a star of a video game. What You Do (song) \"What You Do\" is a song recorded by Polish singer Margaret for her third studio album, \"Monkey Business\" (2017). The song was written by Margaret, Arash Labaf, Robert Uhlmann, Anderz Wrethov and Thomas Karlsson, and produced by Uhlmann, Labaf and Wrethov, with co-production from Alex Papaconstantinou. \"What You Do\" was released", "title": "What You Do (song)" }, { "docid": "3749202", "text": "What the Bleep Do We Know!? What the Bleep Do We Know!? (stylized as What tнē #$*! D̄ө ωΣ (k)πow!? and What the #$*! Do We Know!?, with \"Bleep\" being a pronounceable placeholder for a grawlix) is a 2004 American film that combines documentary-style interviews, computer-animated graphics, and a narrative that posits a spiritual connection between quantum physics and consciousness. The plot follows the fictional story of a photographer as she encounters emotional and existential obstacles in her life and begins to consider the idea that individual and group consciousness can influence the material world. Her experiences are offered by", "title": "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" }, { "docid": "7827531", "text": "All BCS and Power 5 conferences have appeared on \"Saturday Night Football\", as the Southeastern Conference has had its teams featured in 13 non-conference games. Boise State, Temple, UCONN and Cincinnati are the only Group of 5 teams to be featured on \"Saturday Night Football\" to date, with the latter two teams being featured when they were members of the BCS-aligned Big East or American Athletic conference. In recent years, following the loss of some broadcast rights of the Pac-12 Conference to Fox Sports in 2012, the Pac-12's Saturday Night Football appearances have been limited to non-conference games, especially home", "title": "Saturday Night Football" }, { "docid": "7137687", "text": "is like ending up in a boy's home.\" Blitzer then gives the boy his first shave and later on shaves his head as Rockets turns from punk to skinhead for his birthday. All four of the core group of friends make money by turning tricks of one sort or another and spend it on drugs, typically poppers, tabs, and the amphetamine derivative Desoxyn. Two gay tourists hire the group to show them around LA and are therefore also involved in much of the action of the book. What We Do Is Secret (novel) What We Do Is Secret is a", "title": "What We Do Is Secret (novel)" }, { "docid": "7827530", "text": "featuring the Michigan Wolverines and Florida Gators aired in the 3:30 ET timeslot. Games from the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big 12 Conference, the old Big East Conference, the Big Ten Conference, the Pac-12 Conference the now-defunct Western Athletic Conference and the American Athletic Conference have aired on \"Saturday Night Football\", as well as non-conference games in which teams from these conferences were either playing at home or a neutral-site game to which ABC holds the television rights. Only North Carolina State and Virginia (from the ACC), and Indiana (from the Big Ten) have not appeared on \"Saturday Night Football\".", "title": "Saturday Night Football" }, { "docid": "15979700", "text": "What Do You Take Me For? \"What Do You Take Me For?\" is a song by English singer Pixie Lott from her second studio album, \"Young Foolish Happy\" (2011). The song features American rapper Pusha T and was released on 4 November 2011 as the album's second single. The track received its first play on Capital FM on 26 September 2011. Robert Copsey of \"Digital Spy\" gave the song four out of five stars, stating: \"Fortunately, the rest of the track is less spooktacular and more in-yer-face girl power. 'Don't know what you think I'm after/ What do you take", "title": "What Do You Take Me For?" }, { "docid": "18632712", "text": "book...But it is more the result of the desperately depressing world it evokes, one that seems at times to be unrelieved by competence or straightforwardness. ...What this adds up to is an indictment of the entire culture of British football...British football is greedy, incompetently administered, and mindlessly in thrall to the cult of celebrity. Those charges are all true. The harder question is whether contemporary Britain has the national game it deserves.\" Lanchester was critical of Bower's prose, and wrote that it \"veers between the ugly-functional and the quasi-literate.\" In a review for \"When Saturday Comes\", Harry Pearson wrote that", "title": "Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football" }, { "docid": "7112010", "text": "first season of Major League Baseball coverage in , they averaged a 2.7 rating for its Saturday \"Game of the Week\". That was down 23% from CBS' 3.4 in 1993 despite the latter network's infamy for its rather haphazard \"Game of the Week\" schedule. In , Fox's \"Game of the Week\" telecasts only appeared three times after August 28, due to ratings competition from college football (especially since Fox affiliates may have had syndicated college football broadcasts). One unidentified former Fox broadcaster complained by saying \"\"Fox is MIA on the pennant race, and Joe [Buck] doesn't even do [September 18's]", "title": "Major League Baseball Game of the Week" }, { "docid": "14607951", "text": "compete in the annual competition. The competition challenge changes each year, and the teams can only reuse certain components from previous years. The robots weigh at most , without batteries and bumpers. The kit issued to each team contains a base set of parts. Registration and the kit of parts together cost about US$6,000. In addition to that, teams are allowed to spend another $3,500 on their robot. The purpose of this rule is to lessen the influence of money on teams' competitiveness. Details of the game have been released on the first Saturday in January (except when that Saturday", "title": "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology" }, { "docid": "19479118", "text": "France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Slovakia. The song has reached the top 10 in all except three of the countries it has charted in. Taylor Swift performed \"This is What You Came For\" on the piano for the first time live at the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, on 22 October 2016. Swift then performed an acoustic guitar version at the DirecTV Super Saturday Night in Houston, Texas, on 4 February 2017. This Is What You Came For \"This Is What You Came For\" is a song by Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris,", "title": "This Is What You Came For" }, { "docid": "7624586", "text": "Story\". Additional songs used in the film that do not appear on the soundtrack album include: What We Do Is Secret (film) What We Do Is Secret is a 2007 American biographical film about Darby Crash, singer of the late-1970s Los Angeles punk rock band the Germs. Rodger Grossman directed the film and wrote the screenplay, based on a story he had written with Michelle Baer Ghaffari, a friend of Crash's and co-producer of the film. Shane West stars as Crash, while Rick Gonzalez, Bijou Phillips, and Noah Segan respectively portray Germs members Pat Smear, Lorna Doom, and Don Bolles.", "title": "What We Do Is Secret (film)" }, { "docid": "11357789", "text": "What I Can Do for You \"What I Can Do for You\" is a single by Sheryl Crow from the album \"Tuesday Night Music Club\" released on A&M Records. It was originally released in 1993 and the single includes a rare speedier version of LP track \"The Na-Na Song\" (i.e. \"Volvo Cowgirl 99\"). \"What I Can Do for You\" managed only number 97 when first released at the end of 1993, but was re-released after the success of \"All I Wanna Do\" and \"Strong Enough\". Two CD singles were released, with the second one being a limited edition including a", "title": "What I Can Do for You" }, { "docid": "17514848", "text": "1972 studio album \"See All Her Faces\". Yellowman covered it for \"King Yellowman\" (1984). \"Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do\" is sampled in \"Upgrade U\" by Beyoncé and Jay-Z, from Beyoncé's album \"B'Day\" (2006) and in \"No Homo Outro\", a track from \"Turtleneck & Chain\" (2011) by The Lonely Island. Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do \"Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do\" is a single by American recording artist Betty Wright from her debut studio album \"My First Time Around\" (1968). It was written by Willie Clarke and Clarence Reid, and released in 1968 by Alston Records.", "title": "Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do" }, { "docid": "19774736", "text": "represented the East Division in the American Athletic Conference Championship Game. This was their second straight conference championship appearance. They were attempting to earn their first conference title since 1967, when the Owls were in the Middle Atlantic Conference. Source: 2016 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game The 2016 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game, held on Saturday, December 3, 2016, was the second football championship game for that conference. Houston defeated Temple, 24–13, in last year's game. The Navy Midshipmen football team is a member of the American Athletic Conference in its West Division. They represented the West Division", "title": "2016 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game" }, { "docid": "14409884", "text": "What They Died For \"What They Died For\" is the 16th and penultimate episode of the American Broadcasting Company's final season of the serial drama television series \"Lost\" and 119th and penultimate episode overall. The episode aired on May 18, 2010, on ABC in the United States. The episode's flash-sideways are centered on Jack Shephard, Desmond Hume, Benjamin Linus and James \"Sawyer\" Ford. In the flash-sideways timeline, Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick) continues his attempt to gather all the passengers of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815. In 2007, The Man in Black (Terry O'Quinn) devises a new strategy. Jack Shephard (Matthew", "title": "What They Died For" }, { "docid": "14409894", "text": "of 80, saying that it was \"A set-up episode, albeit an extremely entertaining one.\" What They Died For \"What They Died For\" is the 16th and penultimate episode of the American Broadcasting Company's final season of the serial drama television series \"Lost\" and 119th and penultimate episode overall. The episode aired on May 18, 2010, on ABC in the United States. The episode's flash-sideways are centered on Jack Shephard, Desmond Hume, Benjamin Linus and James \"Sawyer\" Ford. In the flash-sideways timeline, Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick) continues his attempt to gather all the passengers of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815. In", "title": "What They Died For" }, { "docid": "17579980", "text": "to unknown circumstances. \"Do What U Want\" reached number one in Hungary while peaking within the top 10 in Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, Scotland, South Korea, Spain and the United Kingdom as well as the top 20 in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Live performances of the song were televised on the 2013 American Music Awards, \"\", \"Saturday Night Live\", America's \"The Voice\", and Britain's \"The X Factor\". Several remixes of the song were released, including ones with vocals from Christina Aguilera and Rick Ross. \"Do What U", "title": "Do What U Want" }, { "docid": "9413392", "text": "Robert between the items. This series was not made available on Five's online video site. Episodes in this group aired with 30-minute runtimes (including commercials). On hiatus as of February 2014. How Do They Do It? How Do They Do It? is a television series produced by Wag TV for Discovery Channel. Each programme explores how 2 or 3 ordinary objects are made and used. The show's slogan is \"Behind the ordinary is the extraordinary.\" The series is broadcast throughout the world on various Discovery-owned networks including: Series 1 and 2, which were co-produced with Rocket Surgery Productions, were narrated", "title": "How Do They Do It?" }, { "docid": "20316796", "text": "appeared in a video game \"Just Dance 2018\" (as part of the downloadable content for the \"Just Dance Unlimited\" series). On July 10, 2018, French singer Christine and the Queens covered the song at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. ! scope=\"row\"| Portugal (AFP) What Lovers Do \"What Lovers Do\" is a song by American pop rock band Maroon 5 featuring American R&B singer SZA. It was released on August 30, 2017, as the lead single from the band's sixth studio album \"Red Pill Blues\" (2017). The song contains an interpolation of the 2016 song \"Sexual\" by Neiked featuring Dyo,", "title": "What Lovers Do" }, { "docid": "13817205", "text": "Do\" is unmistakable, and great Sonny Rollins.\" The album won a 2001 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album. All compositions by Sonny Rollins except where noted. This Is What I Do (Sonny Rollins album) This Is What I Do is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 2000, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Stephen Scott, Bob Cranshaw, Jack DeJohnette and Perry Wilson. The Allmusic review by Alex Henderson states: \"\"This Is What I Do\" falls short of essential, but it offers some nice surprises and is a rewarding addition to Rollins'", "title": "This Is What I Do (Sonny Rollins album)" }, { "docid": "5934579", "text": "of Washington who had been involved in developing UW IMAP, Pine, and Alpine, announced that they would \"shift our effort from direct development into more of a consultation and coordination role to help integrate contributions from the community,\" in the wake of layoffs at the University of Washington's technology division. c. January - August 2009, the maintainers of Debian GNU/Linux, a major downstream distributor of UW IMAP, began to retire their UW IMAP packages. In September 2009, Mark Crispin, the principal author of UW IMAP, announced a fork called Panda IMAP. Crispin passed away in late 2012. At least one", "title": "UW IMAP" }, { "docid": "13163874", "text": "During this Bridge Week, students also attend workshops on college student survival skills. Students in the program begin Fall Quarter with two required Academy courses specially designed for Academy students: an English composition course and a linked seminar. The goal of these courses is to smooth the transition from high school to college and give students an opportunity to bond and develop college-level study skills. Apart from these two required courses, students are free to choose courses that interest them. UW Academy for Young Scholars UW Academy for Young Scholars is a prestigious early-college entrance program located at the University", "title": "UW Academy for Young Scholars" }, { "docid": "17580005", "text": "U Want\". The performance ended with the singer mirroring the pose of the album cover art—a Jeff Koons sculpture—on the stage, by sitting down and spreading her legs apart, while cupping her breasts. On November 16, 2013, Gaga performed \"Do What U Want\" at episode 751 of the 39th season of comedy show \"Saturday Night Live\". Kelly appeared as the guest vocalist, doing the similar routine with Gaga, and picking her up from the stage on his shoulder. There was also sex simulations, dry humping and they ended the performance in an embrace. According to Zach Johnson from E!, the", "title": "Do What U Want" }, { "docid": "8431048", "text": "Taunton & District Saturday Football League The Taunton & District Saturday Football League (currently sponsored by Silver Street Volkswagen) is a football competition based in Somerset, England. It has a total of five divisions, the highest of which, Division One, sits at level 14 of the English football league system. It is a feeder to the Somerset County League and is affiliated to the Somerset County FA. The league runs five divisions (Divisions One to Five) and four cup competitions. The League Knock-out Cup is contested between teams in Divisions One and Two. Teams knocked out of this competition in", "title": "Taunton & District Saturday Football League" }, { "docid": "8431050", "text": "From 2002 to 2010 the league operated with 4 Divisions. Taunton & District Saturday Football League The Taunton & District Saturday Football League (currently sponsored by Silver Street Volkswagen) is a football competition based in Somerset, England. It has a total of five divisions, the highest of which, Division One, sits at level 14 of the English football league system. It is a feeder to the Somerset County League and is affiliated to the Somerset County FA. The league runs five divisions (Divisions One to Five) and four cup competitions. The League Knock-out Cup is contested between teams in Divisions", "title": "Taunton & District Saturday Football League" }, { "docid": "11542051", "text": "but did become domestically available digitally shortly after Khan won multiple Grammys for her 2007 album \"Funk This\". In 2016, Big Break Records re-issued the album as an expanded edition with special liner notes and pictures containing three additional tracks: \"Only Once\", \"Lover's Touch\" and \"I Know You, I Live You (Remix)\". What Cha' Gonna Do for Me What Cha' Gonna Do for Me is the Gold certified third solo album by American R&B/funk singer Chaka Khan, released on the Warner Bros. Records label in 1981. Three singles were released from \"What Cha' Gonna Do\": the Beatles cover \"We Can", "title": "What Cha' Gonna Do for Me" }, { "docid": "14319269", "text": "10 on 15 September. The song spent a total of 11 weeks inside the top 75 chart. In Australia, \"What Can You Do For Me\" did not enter the ARIA top 100 singles chart until April 1993, following its re-release after the success of \"Something Good\". A new version of the song remixed by Drumsound & Bassline Smith was released on 26 February 2012. What Can You Do for Me \"What Can You Do For Me\" is the debut single by English electronic group Utah Saints. The song was released on 12 August 1991 and reached a peak position of", "title": "What Can You Do for Me" }, { "docid": "19251962", "text": "For What It's Worth (game show) For What It's Worth is an antiques game show that aired on BBC One from 4 January to 26 June 2016. It is hosted by Fern Britton, recorded from the second series, in front of an audience. The game starts with three pairs of contestants, each with a picker and a quizzer; in series one they saw an array of sixteen antiques, whereas in series two twelve are laid out, of which one is \"worthless\" (£10 or less) and one is worth £2,500. These values are worked out by the guest and an independent", "title": "For What It's Worth (game show)" }, { "docid": "19756417", "text": "Choctaws left the conference in 1996 which halted the series. The Choctaws left the conference and NCAA Division II to compete at the NCAA Division III level until 2014, when they rejoined the conference and continued the series with Delta State. The annual battle between Delta State and Mississippi College was one of the most anticipated contests in the \"Magnolia State\" from 1973 to 1995. Delta State–Mississippi College football rivalry The Delta State–Mississippi College football rivalry, commonly known as the Heritage Bell Classic, is a college football rivalry game between a public university and a private Christian college in the", "title": "Delta State–Mississippi College football rivalry" }, { "docid": "7624583", "text": "burned out so fast.\" John Hartl from the \"Seattle Times\" said that \"While \"What We Do Is Secret\" may not be remembered for much more than West's performance, it's an impersonation worth saluting.\" Phil Gallo from \"Variety\" praised both West and Grossman saying they both \"have a clear, unwavering perspective on Crash that should entice curiosity seekers and old punks.\" Pauline Pechin from \"Premiere\" thought that West played Darby Crash to a tee and kept on saying in fact, his performance was so believable that he's currently on tour with the reformed Germs as the lead singer. Ken Fink from", "title": "What We Do Is Secret (film)" }, { "docid": "15995714", "text": "What Will They Learn? What Will They Learn? is the annual rating system of American colleges and universities published by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a Washington, D.C.-based higher education non-profit. The report, which evaluates the core academic requirements at over 1,100 public and private universities, has been published annually since 2009. \"What Will They Learn?\" was first published in 2009. The report assigns a letter grade to over 1,100 universities based on how many of the following seven core subjects are required: composition, literature, foreign language, American history, economics, mathematics and science. ACTA concludes that most of", "title": "What Will They Learn?" }, { "docid": "19774734", "text": "2016 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game The 2016 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game, held on Saturday, December 3, 2016, was the second football championship game for that conference. Houston defeated Temple, 24–13, in last year's game. The Navy Midshipmen football team is a member of the American Athletic Conference in its West Division. They represented the West Division in the American Athletic Conference Championship Game. Navy hosted the title game. Since Navy and Temple both finished 7–1 in American play and did not play during the regular season, the next tiebreaker used to determine the home team was", "title": "2016 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game" }, { "docid": "11542048", "text": "What Cha' Gonna Do for Me What Cha' Gonna Do for Me is the Gold certified third solo album by American R&B/funk singer Chaka Khan, released on the Warner Bros. Records label in 1981. Three singles were released from \"What Cha' Gonna Do\": the Beatles cover \"We Can Work It Out\" (US R&B #34), the McCrarys cover \"Any Old Sunday\" (#68) and the album's title track which became a number one hit on \"Billboard\" R&B Singles chart. On Billboard's charts, the album reached #3 on Black Albums, #33 on Jazz Albums, and #17 on Pop Albums. This would be Chaka's", "title": "What Cha' Gonna Do for Me" }, { "docid": "18932496", "text": "2015 SEC Championship Game The 2015 SEC Championship Game was played on Saturday, December 5, 2015 in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, and determined the 2015 football champion of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The game was played between the East Division champion Florida Gators and West Division champion Alabama Crimson Tide. Alabama was the designated home team. CBS televised the game for the fifteenth consecutive year. The winner of the SEC Championship Game had gone on to compete for a national championship each of the last nine years. The SEC went 7–2 in the final eight BCS Championship games (in", "title": "2015 SEC Championship Game" }, { "docid": "7624562", "text": "What We Do Is Secret (film) What We Do Is Secret is a 2007 American biographical film about Darby Crash, singer of the late-1970s Los Angeles punk rock band the Germs. Rodger Grossman directed the film and wrote the screenplay, based on a story he had written with Michelle Baer Ghaffari, a friend of Crash's and co-producer of the film. Shane West stars as Crash, while Rick Gonzalez, Bijou Phillips, and Noah Segan respectively portray Germs members Pat Smear, Lorna Doom, and Don Bolles. The film follows the formation and career of the Germs, focusing on Crash's mysterious \"five-year plan\",", "title": "What We Do Is Secret (film)" } ]
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What movie, a staple of the midnight circuit, is the longest running theatrical release in film history, having first been released on September 26, 1975?
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[ { "docid": "8970941", "text": "the rules for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature mandate releases in both locations. The films are almost always released to a wider audience in January or February of the following year. One notable exception is \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\", which premiered in 1975 and is still shown only in limited fashion; it is the longest-running theatrical release in film history. A platform release is a type of limited release in which a film opens in fewer theaters (typically 599 or fewer) than a wide release. If the film receives positive word of mouth, it is gradually expanded", "title": "Limited release" }, { "docid": "469417", "text": "the blockbuster era of filmmaking, though it was eclipsed two years later by the science-fiction film \"Star Wars\" (1977). \"Saturday Night Fever\" (1977) single-handedly touched off disco mania in the U.S. \"The Godfather\" (1972) was also one of the decade's greatest successes and its first follow-up, \"The Godfather Part II\" (1974) was also successful for a sequel. \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" flopped in its 1975 debut, only to reappear as a more-popular midnight show later in the decade. Still in limited release 36 years after its premiere, it is the longest-running theatrical release in film history. \"The Exorcist\" (1973)", "title": "1970s" }, { "docid": "5361355", "text": "and fantasy\". The trade paper noted one popular midnight film by name: \"Alice's Restaurant\" (1969), a comedy with political overtones starring folk singer Arlo Guthrie. On the midnight following April Fool's Day 1976, \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\", which had flopped on initial release the year before, opened at the Waverly Theater, a leading midnight movie venue in New York's Greenwich Village. Midnight screenings of the film soon became a national sensation, amassing a cult following all over the United States. Every Friday and Saturday night, audience members would talk back to the screen, dress up as characters in the", "title": "Midnight movie" }, { "docid": "995695", "text": "pictures as late shows, with the goal of building a cult film audience, brought the midnight movie concept home to the cinema, now in a countercultural setting—something like a drive-in movie for the hip. One of the first films adopted by the new circuit in 1971 was the three-year-old \"Night of the Living Dead\". The midnight movie success of low-budget pictures made entirely outside the studio system, like John Waters' \"Pink Flamingos\" (1972), with its campy spin on exploitation, spurred the development of the independent film movement. \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" (1975), an inexpensive film from 20th Century Fox", "title": "B movie" } ]
[ { "docid": "5361359", "text": "movie circuit, the core of exhibitors that energized the movement was disappearing. By the time the fabled Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge, Massachusetts, shut its doors after a fire in 1986, the days of the theatrical midnight movie as a significant countercultural phenomenon were already past. In 1988, the midnight movie experience was institutionalized in a new manner with the introduction of the Toronto International Film Festival's nightly Midnight Madness section. In the years since, new or recent films still occasionally emerge as midnight movie \"hits\" on the circuit of theaters that continue to show them. The most successful of", "title": "Midnight movie" }, { "docid": "5804965", "text": "Pokémon: The First Movie Pokémon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back, commonly referred to as Pokémon: The First Movie, originally released as , is a 1998 Japanese anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama, the chief director of the \"Pokémon\" television series. It is the first theatrical release in the \"Pokémon\" franchise. It was first released in Japan on July 18, 1998. On July 8, 1999, a Complete Version (完全版 \"kanzenban\") of the film was aired in Japanese television. In addition to an added prologue, the updated version included new animation and CGI graphics. The English-language adaptation, produced by Nintendo and", "title": "Pokémon: The First Movie" }, { "docid": "3748340", "text": "\"Jesus Freak\". This trailer advertised a September 17, 1995 theatrical release date for the film. The release date passed, but the film was never released, and reports began to surface that the film had been abandoned. In 2002, eight years after filming, the film was finally released direct to DVD. It was released without any editing/finishing being done to the original theatrical production that was previously halted amidst production and does not have a title or credits; instead having \"Title\" where the title should be and \"Credits\" where the credits should be. Free at Last: The Movie Free at Last:", "title": "Free at Last: The Movie" }, { "docid": "4115311", "text": "The film was popular and earned $22 million in North American theatrical rentals. It had admissions in France of 200,738. The film received generally positive reviews, currently holding an 81% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. \"MAD\" satirized this movie as \"The Longest Yardbird\" in issue #176 (July '75). The film has been remade three times: The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy in 1975. Reynolds was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Albert was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor", "title": "The Longest Yard (1974 film)" }, { "docid": "16181137", "text": "credits scene, Shima stops midway through a hospital corridor and hears the Z starting up. Smiling, he walks away with the on-screen message, \"Z will be back\". The film's action scenes were shot in San Mateo, Rizal, Philippines. The film was released in Japanese theaters on September 12, 2009. Wangan Midnight: The Movie Whilst driving on Tokyo's Shuto Expressway in a Nissan 300ZX, high school student Akio Asakura challenges the \"Black Bird\", whose driver is Tatsuya Shima, to an impromptu race despite having his friend, Ma, in the passenger seat and two girls in the back, but is defeated. Determined", "title": "Wangan Midnight: The Movie" }, { "docid": "10163145", "text": "and, the theatrical trailer. On September 20, 2011, \"Flowers in the Attic\" was made available on DVD via Image Entertainment as part of their \"Midnight Madness Series\". Image Entertainment released the film for the first time on Blu-ray in the U.S. on September 9, 2014. In the United Kingdom, the film received a VHS release from Cinema Club on January 26, 2000. It was made available on DVD three times, first from Cinema Club on June 7, 2004, then, from Anchor Bay Entertainment on February 21, 2005, and finally, from budget distribution company Boulevard Entertainment. \"Flowers in the Attic\" received", "title": "Flowers in the Attic (1987 film)" }, { "docid": "5361346", "text": "1983 the \"Midnight Movie\" strand was abandoned by BBC Two, with BBC One airing a late night movie on a Friday night instead, usually a horror film. The \"Midnight Movie\" slot on BBC Two would be replaced with late night sporting coverage or different genre of films on occasions, which would not use the \"Midnight Movie\" strand. Since at least as far back as the 1930s, exploitation films had sometimes been presented at midnight screenings, usually as part of independent roadshow operations. In 1957, Hammer Films' \"The Curse of Frankenstein\" set off a spate of midnight presentations. What film qualifies", "title": "Midnight movie" }, { "docid": "20243484", "text": "The Intruder (1975 film) The Intruder is a 1975 American horror film written and directed by Chris Robinson and starring Mickey Rooney, Ted Cassidy, and Yvonne De Carlo. Its plot follows a group of people who are stalked on an island by a killer while searching for gold. The film was shelved by its distribution company in 1975, never receiving a theatrical or home video release, and was thought to be a lost film. In 2017, it was announced that a print of the film had been discovered. The film had its first release on Blu-ray by Garagehouse Pictures on", "title": "The Intruder (1975 film)" }, { "docid": "20243485", "text": "August 1, 2017. The Intruder (1975 film) The Intruder is a 1975 American horror film written and directed by Chris Robinson and starring Mickey Rooney, Ted Cassidy, and Yvonne De Carlo. Its plot follows a group of people who are stalked on an island by a killer while searching for gold. The film was shelved by its distribution company in 1975, never receiving a theatrical or home video release, and was thought to be a lost film. In 2017, it was announced that a print of the film had been discovered. The film had its first release on Blu-ray by", "title": "The Intruder (1975 film)" }, { "docid": "4360999", "text": "budget. The film premiered in France on September 25, 1962, followed by the United States on October 4 and 23 for the United Kingdom. Given Fox was suffering with the financial losses of \"Cleopatra\", the studio was intending for \"The Longest Day\" to have a wide release to reap quick profits. Zanuck forced them to do a proper Roadshow theatrical release, even threatening to sell distribution to Warner Bros. if Fox had refused to do so. \"The Longest Day\" eventually became the box office hit Fox needed, with $30 million in worldwide rentals on a $7.5 million budget. There were", "title": "The Longest Day (film)" }, { "docid": "5361348", "text": "midnight movie cult at the Elgin Theatre.\" The Elgin, in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood, would soon become famous as a midnight venue when it gave the U.S. premiere of a very unusual Mexican movie directed and written by a rather Dalí-esque Chilean. The movie generally recognized as igniting the theatrical midnight film movement is Alejandro Jodorowsky's surrealist \"El Topo\", which opened in December 1970 at the Elgin. Playing with the conventions of the spaghetti Western, the film was described by one newspaper critic as \"full of tests and riddles\" and \"more phony gore than maybe 20 years of \"The", "title": "Midnight movie" }, { "docid": "7598419", "text": "The Book of Mormon Movie The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey is a 2003 American adventure drama film directed by Gary Rogers and written by Rogers and Craig Clyde. A film adaptation of the first two books in \"The Book of Mormon\", a religious text of scripture, the film was given a limited theatrical release on September 12, 2003. The movie is based on the first two books of the Book of Mormon: First Nephi and Second Nephi. The source material contains a lot of theological discussion, and parables, some of which have been cut from the", "title": "The Book of Mormon Movie" }, { "docid": "14912930", "text": "overall. The film saw a limited theatrical release in the United States on 7 September 2012, where it grossed $36,000 making its total box office revenue $88,025,781. \"The Inbetweeners Movie\" received mostly positive reviews upon its original United Kingdom release in August 2011. Following release in the United States in September 2012, critical reaction was less favourable, with the film at first holding a 75% score on Rotten Tomatoes and having since dropped to 54%, with the site's consensus \"It arguably plays most strongly to fans of the British series, but even viewers who have never seen \"The Inbetweeners\" on", "title": "The Inbetweeners Movie" }, { "docid": "4818296", "text": "less be subsumed by it.\" \"Night Moves\" is not considered to have been a commercial success at the time of its 1975 theatrical release. \"Night Moves\" was released in 1992 in the U.S. as a LaserDisc and as a VHS-format videotape. In 2005, it was released as a DVD in the U.S. and Canada (region 1). The DVD was favorably reviewed by Walter Chaw, who writes, \"Shot through with grain and a certain, specific colour blanch I associate with the best movies from what I believe to be the best era in film history, \"Night Moves\" looks on Warner's DVD", "title": "Night Moves (1975 film)" }, { "docid": "19129187", "text": "distributed by Transmission Films. The film was released in several additional countries in 2015, to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the \"Miffy\" character. The movie was released in Poland on 1 June 2015 and in the United Kingdom on 21 June 2015. A Dutch-language DVD was released on 26 June 2013 in the Netherlands. A German disc was released on 9 March 2014 and a Region 1 DVD featuring an English audio track was released on 2 December 2014 in North America, despite the film not getting a theatrical release in Germany and the United States. Miffy the Movie Miffy", "title": "Miffy the Movie" }, { "docid": "12469272", "text": "Midnight Movie (film) Midnight Movie is a 2008 American slasher film directed by Jack Messitt, who also co-wrote the film, and produced by Kacy Andrews. Forty years after directing and starring in a slasher movie, entitled \"The Dark Beneath\", centred on a group of friends being killed by a masked killer, Ted Radford (Arthur Roberts) suffers a mental breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. In an attempt to cure Radford, his doctor (Richard Magarey) shows him the movie, despite the warnings of Dr. Wayne (Michael Swan). When Dr. Wayne arrives at the ward the following morning, he discovers", "title": "Midnight Movie (film)" }, { "docid": "12469282", "text": "it once the next carbon copy comes along.\" Midnight Movie (film) Midnight Movie is a 2008 American slasher film directed by Jack Messitt, who also co-wrote the film, and produced by Kacy Andrews. Forty years after directing and starring in a slasher movie, entitled \"The Dark Beneath\", centred on a group of friends being killed by a masked killer, Ted Radford (Arthur Roberts) suffers a mental breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. In an attempt to cure Radford, his doctor (Richard Magarey) shows him the movie, despite the warnings of Dr. Wayne (Michael Swan). When Dr. Wayne arrives", "title": "Midnight Movie (film)" }, { "docid": "5361361", "text": "on the circuit, appreciated largely in an imposed camp fashion—a midnight movie tradition that goes back to the 1972 revival of the hectoring anti-drug movie \"Reefer Madness\" (1938). (Tod Browning's 1932 horror classic \"Freaks\", the original midnight movie revival, is both too dark and too sociologically acute to readily consume as camp.) Where the irony with which \"Reefer Madness\" was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the parodoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals on the circuit currently include the crème de la crème of the John", "title": "Midnight movie" }, { "docid": "17868346", "text": "The Den (2013 film) The Den (initially released in Russia as \"смерть в сети\", \"Death Online\") is a 2013 horror slasher film by Zachary Donohue and his feature film directorial debut. The film was first released in Russia on December 23, 2013, and was given a simultaneous limited theatrical and VOD release on March 14, 2014 through IFC Midnight. It stars Melanie Papalia as a young woman who discovers a murder via webcam. The movie begins with Elizabeth logging into a webcam-based social media site known as \"The Den\", which allows users to chat with random strangers across the world,", "title": "The Den (2013 film)" }, { "docid": "17868360", "text": "online or not, responds to [the main character's troubles] with immediate hostility or disbelief.\" The Den (2013 film) The Den (initially released in Russia as \"смерть в сети\", \"Death Online\") is a 2013 horror slasher film by Zachary Donohue and his feature film directorial debut. The film was first released in Russia on December 23, 2013, and was given a simultaneous limited theatrical and VOD release on March 14, 2014 through IFC Midnight. It stars Melanie Papalia as a young woman who discovers a murder via webcam. The movie begins with Elizabeth logging into a webcam-based social media site known", "title": "The Den (2013 film)" }, { "docid": "4506823", "text": "Roadshow theatrical release A roadshow theatrical release (known also as reserved seat engagement) was a term in the motion picture industry for a practice in which a film opened in a limited number of theaters in large cities like New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and other major cities around the world for a specific period of time before the worldwide general release. Although variants of roadshow releases occasionally still exist, the practice mostly ended in the early 1970s. As far as is known, virtually all of the films given roadshow releases were subsequently distributed to regular movie theatres. This", "title": "Roadshow theatrical release" }, { "docid": "15198890", "text": "\"Ghost World\" and \"Juno\". The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2012, followed by the United States' theatrical release on September 21, 2012, by Summit Entertainment. It received positive critical response and commercial success, earning $33.4 million to a budget of $13 million. It received several accolades, including the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay for Chbosky, and the 2013 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film – Wide Release. Set in 1992, a young high school student, Charlie (Logan Lerman), who has been", "title": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower (film)" }, { "docid": "10604719", "text": "releases of the film have been made: a single-disc DVD, a two-disc, special-edition DVD, a single-disc Blu-ray, and a now-defunct single-disc HD DVD. All releases above feature a restored print with bonus material. The initial DVD, including digital restoration, was released by SBS in Australia on 2 October 2005. A theatrical re-release of the film occurred across Europe during July and August 2008 (the same period as the ABBA-themed movie musical \"Mamma Mia!\" first hit American theaters) in the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Germany, and Austria. ABBA: The Movie ABBA: The Movie is a 1977 documentary film about the", "title": "ABBA: The Movie" }, { "docid": "13507189", "text": "Eden of the East A compilation of the TV series, \"Eden of The East Compilation: Air Communication\", had a limited theatrical release on September 26, 2009. Two other theatrical films have also been released. \"Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden\" (taking place six months after the series) was released in Japan on November 28, 2009 and the second movie, \"Eden of the East the Movie II: Paradise Lost\" (taking place hours after \"The King of Eden\"), was released on March 13, 2010. The TV series and both films have been licensed for release in North America", "title": "Eden of the East" }, { "docid": "6665435", "text": "film were shot in Macau. The Hong Kong title of the film translates to \"Dark Flowers\", a slang for an underworld contract. \"The Longest Nite\" was released in Hong Kong on 1 January 1998. The film grossed a total of HK$9,562,090 on its release. \"The Longest Nite\" was not a box office success in Hong Kong, which led to Milkyway Image developing more commercial films such as \"Needing You...\" (2000). In \"Variety\", Derek Elley referred to the film as \"at the very least an attention-grabbing movie that puts a new spin on Hong Kong crimers\" and \"the movie has something", "title": "The Longest Nite" }, { "docid": "19627145", "text": "of release. Here is a table which shows the box office of this movie of all the weekends in Japan: The film was released in China on May 30, 2017, and grossed ($21.9million) after completing its theatrical run. It was released in Hong Kong on August 3, 2017, and grossed ($1.1million). In South Korea, it was released on August 11, 2017, and grossed $1million after completing its theatrical run. Doraemon the Movie 2017: Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi Doraemon the Movie 2017: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi is a Japanese animated science-fiction film. It is", "title": "Doraemon the Movie 2017: Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi" }, { "docid": "11248075", "text": "Here Is What Is Here Is What Is is the fifth studio album by Canadian songwriter and record producer Daniel Lanois. It was first released in December 2007 as a high-quality download, and later released on CD on March 18, 2008. The album is the result of the same project that led to the 2007 documentary \"Here Is What Is\" that premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival in September. The movie documents the aesthetics and creative process behind Lanois' approach to music making and recording. The album has been presented as a direct soundtrack to this film, and", "title": "Here Is What Is" }, { "docid": "10038753", "text": "center of a ring of fire. The other students watch in frozen fear. The situation suddenly changes when Derek is released and his stories begin to mesh with reality. Allison finally wakes up, ready for her first day of The Psychology of Fear. Paul Chadwick, the production designer, is the artist and originator of the graphic comic character \"Concrete.\" On September 20, 2005, MGM released \"After Midnight\" on DVD. It was later released on Blu-ray under license from Scream Factory on September 26, 2017. After Midnight (1989 film) After Midnight is an American horror anthology film released in 1989. Besides", "title": "After Midnight (1989 film)" }, { "docid": "8972948", "text": "its rating, giving the film three stars. Together with \"Tales from the Crypt\", \"The Vault of Horror\" was released on a Midnite Movies double feature DVD on 11 September 2007. The version used is the edited, US theatrical PG re-release (the original theatrical release in the US was the uncut, R-rated version), which replaces some of the gorier scenes with still images (notably the final shot of \"Midnight Mess\" showing Daniel Massey's neck being tapped for blood, and Terry Thomas dropping from a hammer blow in \"The Neat Job\") to receive an MPAA PG rating. The UK Vipco DVD release", "title": "The Vault of Horror (film)" }, { "docid": "12469281", "text": "the film in Canada. Phase 4 would later re-release the film as a part of its \"Horror 4 Pack\", which included \"The Attic\" (2007), \"Carver\", and \"Outrage Born in Terror\" on March 1, 2011. Fangoria gave the film a positive review, writing, \"here are genuine jolts to be had here, rather than simple gross-outs.\" Andrew Smith from \"Popcorn Pictures\" awarded the film a score of 5/10, writing, \"\"Midnight Movie\" is never going to win any awards for originality and, like the majority of modern day slashers, you’ll never really have a burning desire to see it again….or remember anything about", "title": "Midnight Movie (film)" }, { "docid": "7878466", "text": "ABC Movie of the Week The ABC Movie of the Week was a weekly television anthology series featuring made-for-TV movies, that aired on the ABC network in various permutations from 1969 to 1975. In the 1960s, movie studios viewed television as a second-rate medium but also as a threat to their theatrical revenue, so they charged high fees for the privilege to broadcast their films. The networks experimented with having films made specifically for TV to lower expenses. NBC created the first weekly umbrella for such films with their \"World Premiere Movie\" in 1966, running in a two-hour time slot.", "title": "ABC Movie of the Week" }, { "docid": "20841770", "text": "September 26, 2019, October 16, 2019, and January 9, 2020 respectively. In January 2018, it was announced that the teaser of the film would play theatrically in front of Aardman's other film, Early Man worldwide, revealing the film's new title and synopsis. On December 7, 2018, Aardman announced through their social media that the teaser trailer for the film along with release dates would be arriving the following week. The teaser trailer was released on December 11, 2018. Farmageddon: A Shaun the Sheep Movie Farmageddon: A Shaun the Sheep Movie is an upcoming 2019 British stop-motion animated sci-fi comedy film.", "title": "Farmageddon: A Shaun the Sheep Movie" }, { "docid": "14137552", "text": "Fred: The Movie Fred: The Movie (stylized as FЯED: THE MOVIE) is a 2010 television comedy film written by David A. Goodman, directed by Clay Weiner and produced by Brian Robbins. The film is based on the adventures of Fred Figglehorn, a character created and played by Lucas Cruikshank for Cruikshank's YouTube channel. The film casts Siobhan Fallon Hogan and John Cena as Fred's parents and pop singer and actress Pixie Lott as Fred's crush Judy. First optioned as a theatrical release in the United States, the film instead premiered on children's TV channel Nickelodeon on September 18, 2010. In", "title": "Fred: The Movie" }, { "docid": "1640288", "text": "The Lizzie McGuire Movie The Lizzie McGuire Movie is a 2003 American teen comedy film released by Walt Disney Pictures on May 2, 2003. The film serves as the finale of the Disney Channel television series of the same name, and was the first theatrical film based on a Disney Channel series. The film stars Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Robert Carradine, Hallie Todd and Jake Thomas, and tells the story of Lizzie's graduation trip to Rome. At its release, the film peaked at number two at the domestic box office behind \"X2: X-Men United\". \"The Lizzie McGuire Movie\" was released", "title": "The Lizzie McGuire Movie" }, { "docid": "4361001", "text": "used more extensively during a late 1960s re-release of the film. \"The Longest Day\" was released on DVD on November 6, 2001. The Longest Day (film) The Longest Day is a 1962 epic war film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 book \"The Longest Day\" (1959), about the D-Day landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944, during World War II. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, who paid author Ryan $175,000 for the film rights. The screenplay was by Ryan, with additional material written by Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall, and Jack Seddon. It was directed by Ken", "title": "The Longest Day (film)" }, { "docid": "20797255", "text": "he can take it. His father allows his to do so and they leave. The boy can be heard saying that he hopes it's a game. Running at 95 minutes, the film received its world premier in Canada on 30 September 2016, but was not released in most markets until 2018. It is a re-make of a 2013 film of the same name. On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a 33% \"rotten\" rating based on 6 reviews, with audiences liking it a little more. The Midnight Man (2016 horror film) The Midnight Man is a 2016 horror film directed by", "title": "The Midnight Man (2016 horror film)" }, { "docid": "16341242", "text": "after the show's ending. In the United Kingdom, it was theatrically released by Lionsgate and Icon Film Distribution jointly. In the United States, it entered a limited theatrical release from Shout! Factory and was released on DVD by Paramount Home Media Distribution on September 23, 2014. \"Postman Pat: The Movie\" was released in the United Kingdom on DVD and Blu-ray on 29 September 2014, by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The film received mixed reviews from critics. Some of which praised the film for the animation, the direction, the humor, and the voice acting, while others found it too complicated and frightening", "title": "Postman Pat: The Movie" }, { "docid": "6610836", "text": "Supporting Actor in a Theatrical Film. Burt Reynolds earned a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actor for his performance in the film. The official soundtrack, which consisted entirely of hip-hop music, was released on May 24, 2005 by Universal Records. It peaked at 11 on the \"Billboard\" 200 and 10 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The film itself contains a mixture of hip hop and rock music, featuring music by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Norman Greenbaum and AC/DC among others. The Longest Yard (2005 film) The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports prison comedy film and a remake", "title": "The Longest Yard (2005 film)" }, { "docid": "11267175", "text": "storage to hold several feature-length films. As of 2007, \"Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot\" has been released on DVD, available from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot, often called The Patriot, is an orientation film produced by Paramount Pictures and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 1957, has the distinction of being the longest-running motion picture in history, having been shown continually in the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center for over five decades. On September 20, 2002, it was seen by the 30 millionth viewer. As museum orientation films go, \"Williamsburg:", "title": "Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot" }, { "docid": "5361337", "text": "Midnight movie The term midnight movie is rooted in the practice that emerged in the 1950s of local television stations around the United States airing low-budget genre films as late-night programming, often with a host delivering ironic asides. As a cinematic phenomenon, the midnight screening of offbeat movies began in the early 1970s in a few urban centers, particularly in New York City with screenings of \"El Topo\" at the Elgin Theater, eventually spreading across the country. The screening of non-mainstream pictures at midnight was aimed at building a cult film audience, encouraging repeat viewing and social interaction in what", "title": "Midnight movie" }, { "docid": "17548035", "text": "Legion members were a part of making the film as they stood in as extras and an American Legion honor guard appears in the film. \"Approaching Midnight\" was filmed in Detroit, Farmington, and West Bloomfield, Michigan. The war sequences in the movie were filmed in Milan near Ann Arbor. In July 2013, Monterey Media bought the United States distribution rights and will release the film in the United States in Fall 2013. \"Approaching Midnight\" had its world theatrical premiere on August 27, 2013 at Emagine Royal Oak. The film was also released at the American Legion National Convention in Houston,", "title": "Approaching Midnight" }, { "docid": "20834541", "text": "to reunite to play one more time together. He also tells the story of the band, and what happened to each member after the breakup. \"40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie\" was released in a limited theatrical engagement by Paladin starting August 3 in New York. The Orchard released the film digitally on September 4, 2018. Reviews have generally been positive. \"The Victoria Advocate\" wrote an enthusiastic review saying \"Prepare to have your mind blown. To put it into perspective, imagine watching a documentary about Led Zeppelin and discovering their music at the very same time. Once", "title": "40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie" }, { "docid": "19219310", "text": "of Ultraman, titled Ultraman X: The Movie. This was the first North American theatrical release of an Ultraman feature film in its entire 50 year history. It premiered in a Double Feature along with their new English dubbed film Ultraman Ginga S the Movie on January 8, 2017. Ultraman X The Movie The main catchphrase in this movie is . The film begins with several clips from past episodes of \"Ultraman X\", ranging from the Ultra Flare to Xio's final battle with Greeza. Back at the present, Guruman narrated a story about the original Ultraman's fame in the galaxy and", "title": "Ultraman X The Movie" }, { "docid": "5361352", "text": "movement. In 1973, the Elgin Theater started midnight screenings of both \"Pink Flamingos\" and a crime drama from Jamaica with a remarkable soundtrack. In its mainstream release, \"The Harder They Come\" (1972) had been a flop, panned by critics after its U.S. distributor, Roger Corman's New World Pictures, marketed it as a blaxploitation picture. Rereleased as a midnight film, it screened around the country for six years, helping spur the popularity of reggae in the United States. While the midnight-movie potential of certain films was recognized only some time after they opened, a number during this period were distributed to", "title": "Midnight movie" }, { "docid": "17505696", "text": "told what had to happen. It is considered part of the mumblecore movement. The first official poster and teaser-trailer was released on the film's Facebook page on February 21, 2015. The extended version of the trailer was released on September 16, 2015. The score for \"Midnight Delight\" features two original songs. The film was released on July 21, 2016 through video on demand. The film opened at the Cannabis Film Festival in Humboldt county, California where the jury stated \"Watching \"Midnight Delight\" is like smoking a cinematic joint\". At its Washington State premiere at the Hempapalooza Music & Film Festival", "title": "Midnight Delight (film)" }, { "docid": "10029666", "text": "release \"Tubby\" worldwide. The film came out in select U.S. markets during the following Easter holiday. The feature-length \"Tubby\" has been generally forgotten in the annals of animation history since its original run, but on September 11, 2006, a small label called Pegasus brought out a Region 2 DVD in the United Kingdom. To date, it has only received minor VHS releases in North America, including: Tubby the Tuba (1975 film) Tubby the Tuba is a 1975 animated musical-comedy film, based on the 1945 children's story for concert orchestra and narrator of the same name by Paul Tripp and George", "title": "Tubby the Tuba (1975 film)" }, { "docid": "18215869", "text": "implications in its final few moments.\" The film had its world premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival on July 27, 2014. on May 12, 2015, the film was acquired by Candy Factory Films. The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on June 26, 2015. The Midnight Swim The Midnight Swim is a 2014 POV drama-mystery and the feature film directorial debut of Sarah Adina Smith. The film had its world premiere on July 27, 2014 at the Fantasia Film Festival and stars Lindsay Burdge, Jennifer Lafleur, and Aleksa Palladino as three half-sisters trying to", "title": "The Midnight Swim" }, { "docid": "1687054", "text": "DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp is a 1990 animated comedy adventure film based on the animated television series \"DuckTales\". It was released by Walt Disney Pictures on August 3, 1990. The events of the film take place between the third and fourth season of \"DuckTales\". It was the first Disney animated film to be produced by Disney Television Animation under the banner of Disney MovieToons and animated by Walt Disney Animation France S.A., It was paired with the 1951 Donald Duck short \"Dude Duck\" for its theatrical release. Scrooge", "title": "DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp" }, { "docid": "4506827", "text": "title music. The exit music, also recorded without a picture on film, was always played \"after\" the end of the film, while the lights were up and the curtains were closed. As the lights came on, the end title music ended, the curtains closed, and the exit music began. An early example of this was \"Gone with the Wind\" (1939). Running almost four hours in length, the film was divided into the above components, so that the film patron can experience the film as if they were seeing an actual play in a theater. The original theatrical release of Walt", "title": "Roadshow theatrical release" }, { "docid": "14137557", "text": "project performed casting and entered principal photography in November 2009, and completed filming on December 20. After filming wrapped, a yard sale was held in Silver Lake, California funding for the project himself. After filming was completed, excerpts were shown to Nickelodeon head Cyma Zarghami who began negotiations to acquire the film. Zarghami stated that airing on Nickelodeon would give the film a large audience base and allow him to target a sequel for a theatrical release. The film debuted on Nickelodeon on September 18; however, it was released in British and Irish cinemas on December 17. This movie is", "title": "Fred: The Movie" }, { "docid": "7529190", "text": "have another opportunity to catch Pokémon. In the end credits, Charizard and Lisa depart from Ash's company; Molly is seen with her own Teddiursa and reunites with her father—and later, with her long-lost mother. Like its predecessors, for the film's theatrical release, select theaters would give away exclusive Pokémon trading cards, to capitalize on the success of the trading card game. \"Pokémon 3: The Movie\" opened in theaters in Japan on July 8, 2000 with a 74 minute running time. The film grossed in Japan. The film was released in the United States on April 6, 2001, debuting at #4", "title": "Pokémon 3: The Movie" }, { "docid": "8823467", "text": "her. The Longest Night (1972 film) The Longest Night is a 1972 American made-for-television drama film written by Merwin Gerard and directed by Jack Smight. This movie was originally shown as an \"ABC Movie of the Week\" on September 12, 1972. It is based on the 1968 Barbara Mackle kidnapping by Gary Steven Krist. The plot concerns the kidnapping of Karen Chambers, daughter of wealthy Alan Chambers. The kidnapper holds her underground in a homemade coffin. He leaves her there, with a fan for air and a gallon of water, until he receives the ransom money. Her family frantically searches", "title": "The Longest Night (1972 film)" }, { "docid": "8823466", "text": "The Longest Night (1972 film) The Longest Night is a 1972 American made-for-television drama film written by Merwin Gerard and directed by Jack Smight. This movie was originally shown as an \"ABC Movie of the Week\" on September 12, 1972. It is based on the 1968 Barbara Mackle kidnapping by Gary Steven Krist. The plot concerns the kidnapping of Karen Chambers, daughter of wealthy Alan Chambers. The kidnapper holds her underground in a homemade coffin. He leaves her there, with a fan for air and a gallon of water, until he receives the ransom money. Her family frantically searches for", "title": "The Longest Night (1972 film)" }, { "docid": "18667494", "text": "the film to the owner of a film processing lab to settle his unpaid bills. Originally titled \"SuperBlack\", it was completed in 1975, but not released until 1977, under the name \"Abar, The First Black Superman\"; it would be renamed again for VHS release as \"In Your Face\". Its original release was very limited, primarily to what was known as the \"Chitlin' Circuit\" of Southern drive-ins. The film was shot in the Baldwin Hills and Watts neighborhoods of Los Angeles without permits to do so, and at one point actual motorcycle gang members who had been hired to play a", "title": "Abar, the First Black Superman" }, { "docid": "18215865", "text": "The Midnight Swim The Midnight Swim is a 2014 POV drama-mystery and the feature film directorial debut of Sarah Adina Smith. The film had its world premiere on July 27, 2014 at the Fantasia Film Festival and stars Lindsay Burdge, Jennifer Lafleur, and Aleksa Palladino as three half-sisters trying to put their missing mother's affairs in order. The film was released on June 26, 2015 in a limited release and through video on demand by Candy Factory Films. When June's (Lindsay Burdge) mother goes mysteriously missing after diving in Spirit Lake, she and her sisters travel home to put her", "title": "The Midnight Swim" }, { "docid": "5361353", "text": "take advantage of the market from the beginning—in 1973, for instance, \"Broken Goddess\", \"Dragula\", \"The White Whore and the Bit Player\", and \"Elevator Girls in Bondage\" (as well as \"Pink Flamingos\") had their New York premieres at midnight screenings. In 1974, midnight opener \"Flesh Gordon\" evidenced how the phenomenon lent itself to flirtations with pornography. Around this time, the black comedy \"Harold and Maude\" (1971) became the first major Hollywood studio movie of the era to develop a substantial cult audience of repeat viewers; though apparently it was not picked up by much of the midnight movie circuit during the", "title": "Midnight movie" }, { "docid": "16523514", "text": "much to enjoy, but those who are just starting out in the genre should have a great time\". The Midnight Game The Midnight Game is a 2013 supernatural thriller film directed by A.D. Calvo based on the creepypasta of the same name. The movie had its world release on March 2, 2013 at the Miami International Film Festival and was released to DVD on August 12, 2014. Filming took place Wallingford, Connecticut in April and May 2012, and stars Renee Olstead. Perky blonde teenager Kaitlan (Renee Olstead) has decided to invite over a few of her friends after she finds", "title": "The Midnight Game" }, { "docid": "14363566", "text": "does not go bankrupt. Under the local bishop's (Ivica Vidović) threat of relocation if the funds aren't raised, Father Stipan is torn between choosing to accept Tatjana's money to be given to the church and choosing Tatjana's love. \"What Is a Man Without a Moustache?\" was commercially released in Croatia on July 23, 2005, and was screened domestically and abroad during 2005 and 2006 at several film festivals including the Pula Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival and International Thessaloniki Film Festival. Distributed in the United States by Doors Art Foundation, the film had limited theatrical release in the US, premiering", "title": "What Is a Man Without a Moustache?" }, { "docid": "16523500", "text": "The Midnight Game The Midnight Game is a 2013 supernatural thriller film directed by A.D. Calvo based on the creepypasta of the same name. The movie had its world release on March 2, 2013 at the Miami International Film Festival and was released to DVD on August 12, 2014. Filming took place Wallingford, Connecticut in April and May 2012, and stars Renee Olstead. Perky blonde teenager Kaitlan (Renee Olstead) has decided to invite over a few of her friends after she finds that her parents are leaving her home alone for the weekend. She's planning for a small, relatively quiet", "title": "The Midnight Game" }, { "docid": "5804983", "text": "that used for the theatrical release) was packaged with the video. The Japanese version of the film was initially distributed theatrically by Toho on July 18, 1998. That following year, the English-dub of film was produced by 4Kids Entertainment and released by Warner Bros. under the Kids' WB banner in the United States on November 10, 1999. The film was theatrically re-released exclusively at Cinemark Theatres in the United States on October 29 and November 1, 2016. The re-release included the \"Pikachu's Vacation\" short film from the original release and was intended to commemorate Pokémon's 20th anniversary. For TV syndication,", "title": "Pokémon: The First Movie" }, { "docid": "19443203", "text": "9, 2017 and April 16, 2017, respectively. In 2017, Konnichiwa Festival released the movie in theaters in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Peru, for a limited time in May, while in countries like Argentina and Uruguay, the film was released by Anifest having a theatrical release in June. Pioneer Films released the movie in the Philippines on May 10, 2017 nationwide. The film had a screening at Anime Expo on July 3, 2017, and the film had a limited release in U.S. theaters in October 20, 2017. The Blu-ray home video release volume", "title": "A Silent Voice (film)" }, { "docid": "3133768", "text": "which are held by HBO, – The Movie Channel does run independent films to which that studio owns the home video rights, regardless as to whether they were released theatrically. Many lesser-known film titles (particularly those released as independent films) that have either not received a theatrical release or were released on DVD or home video are also commonly broadcast on TMC. The window between a film's initial release in theaters and its initial screening on Showtime, The Movie Channel and Flix is wider than the grace period leading to a film's initial broadcast on HBO, Cinemax or Starz. Films", "title": "The Movie Channel" }, { "docid": "9927301", "text": "Entertainment released it on Region 1 DVD on September 19, 2000. The film was previously released on VHS by Anchor Bay Entertainment on July 20, 1999. Both releases of the film are out of print and are extremely rare among collectors. Rick Sherwood of the \"San Bernardino Sun\" deemed the film a \"less-than-satisfying teenage monster movie,\" adding: \"The two-hour made-for-TV movie is billed as a humorous horror romp, but \"The Midnight Hour\" is really a campy monster bash in which revived corpses break into song and dance. Expect neither tricks nor treats, just lots of rock music, fake-looking special effects,", "title": "The Midnight Hour" }, { "docid": "6909751", "text": "hackneyed writing and uninspired direction. The more this movie tries, the worse it gets. Its sincerity ends up becoming a bulging bull's-eye for rotten-tomato throwers.\" The film was released on DVD first. According to the filmmakers, this was to build interest in the film. The first DVD, released on October 31, 2000, featured coupons for the upcoming theatrical release, allowing those going to see it to get in for the price of a matinee ticket. The film was released theatrically on February 2, 2001. The film opened 17th in the nation over the February 2–4 weekend, making $2,158,780. The film", "title": "Left Behind: The Movie" }, { "docid": "5361357", "text": "a model of shoestring surrealism, reaffirmed the midnight movie's most central traditions. Additionally, concert films, such as \"\" (1972), \"The Song Remains the Same\" (1976), \"The Grateful Dead Movie\" (1977) and \"The Last Waltz\" (1978), became popular midnight screening selections during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The commercial viability of the sort of big-city arthouses that launched outsider pictures for the midnight movie circuit began to decline in the late 1970s as broad social and economic shifts weakened their countercultural base. Leading midnight movie venues were beginning to fold as early as 1977—that year, New York's Bijou switched back", "title": "Midnight movie" }, { "docid": "17528743", "text": "theatrical release in Canada, Israel, Mexico and Costa Rica. It was the longest running and highest grossing film to date at the Movies of Delray theatre in Palm Beach County, Florida. The movie was bought by Showtime for pay cable. Warner Brothers purchased the movie for Video on Demand. \"The Little Traitor\" original motion picture soundtrack was composed by Deborah Lurie and released on CD and iTunes in 2011. Deborah Lurie is an American composer, producer and string arranger, well known for her musical work on \"\", \"Dear John\", \"9\", and the remake of \"Footloose\". As a string arranger, she", "title": "The Little Traitor" }, { "docid": "14818891", "text": "at school, all the students have downloaded the clip and laugh as Peter gets in sight. Meanwhile, Zack and Brian try to make another film with them again but their camera's battery dies. During the credits, Victor performs the song \"If Eyes Could Speak\" to Anya. There was no theatrical release for \"The First Time\" in the United States. However, it was shown in theaters elsewhere in the world. The movie was released on DVD by Echo Bridge on November 3, 2010. The DVD includes no special features, and due to its mild success there has not been an announcement", "title": "The First Time (2009 film)" }, { "docid": "5485801", "text": "following year, but was remastered and re-released again on August 24, 2011. This newly restored release of the film was timed to release with the theatrical release of the remake two days later. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 film) Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is an American made-for-television dark fantasy film directed by John Newland and starring Kim Darby and Jim Hutton. It was released by Lorimar Productions and was first telecast on ABC on Wednesday October 10, 1973 during the ABC Movie of the Week. It has since been shown many times in syndication and was", "title": "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 film)" }, { "docid": "5002017", "text": "Doctor unmask the murderer? Or is something far more sinister at work? The Chimes of Midnight The Chimes of Midnight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series \"Doctor Who\". This audio play was broadcast on digital radio station BBC 7 in four weekly parts, starting on 17 December 2005, and has been rebroadcast on the same channel beginning on 17 December 2006, and again on 26 and 27 September 2007. An Edwardian home, Christmas 1906. Or is it? The Doctor and Charley are caught in a mysterious house outside of time", "title": "The Chimes of Midnight" }, { "docid": "3925547", "text": "who would take it through one of their programs and eventually give it to the orchestrators. The film premiered theatrically in the United States (as well as Canada) on June 19, 1998, distributed by 20th Century Fox. It closed after 14 weeks, with its widest release having been 2,650 theaters. The same year as the international theatrical release, the film was released on VHS on October 13, 1998 in an Extended Cut edition that is 41 seconds longer than the theatrical release. The film made its first appearance on DVD on January 24, 2000 in Region 2 and on January", "title": "The X-Files (film)" }, { "docid": "19409966", "text": "included on the score album; other pop songs in the film are likewise not included. \"The Lego Ninjago Movie\" was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 22, 2017, in 2D and 3D. It was originally scheduled for a September 23, 2016 release. A short film, \"The Master\", that promoted the feature film was shown in front of screenings of \"Storks\", which took the original September 23 release date. On February 8, 2017, the first trailer was released. The trailer was shown in front of screenings of \"The Lego Batman Movie\". On July 22, 2017, a second trailer for the", "title": "The Lego Ninjago Movie" }, { "docid": "12338628", "text": "Anthony upon whose 1969 novel \"The Midnight Lady and the Mourning Man\" the movie was based. Featuring a fairly convoluted plot, the movie was not a major success and Lancaster did not consider it to be among his better work. Other than 1955's \"The Kentuckian\", this was Lancaster's only film as a director. Co-stars included Susan Clark and Cameron Mitchell, Eleanor Ross as Nell, as well as the future Daisy Duke, Catherine Bach, in her first screen appearance, and character actors Ed Lauter and Charles Tyner who would both be featured in 1974's \"The Longest Yard\" starring Burt Reynolds. It", "title": "The Midnight Man (1974 film)" }, { "docid": "343898", "text": "Covell in Modesto. In New Orleans, an early organised performance group was active with the release there as well as in such cities as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Chicago (at the Biograph Theater). Before long nearly every screening of the film was accompanied by a live fan cast. The film is considered to be the longest-running release in film history. It has never been pulled by 20th Century Fox from its original 1975 release, and it continues to play in cinemas. A Super 8 version of selected scenes of the film was made available. In 1983, Ode Records released \"\"The Rocky", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "docid": "5002016", "text": "The Chimes of Midnight The Chimes of Midnight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series \"Doctor Who\". This audio play was broadcast on digital radio station BBC 7 in four weekly parts, starting on 17 December 2005, and has been rebroadcast on the same channel beginning on 17 December 2006, and again on 26 and 27 September 2007. An Edwardian home, Christmas 1906. Or is it? The Doctor and Charley are caught in a mysterious house outside of time and when the grandfather clock strikes, someone will get murdered. Can the", "title": "The Chimes of Midnight" }, { "docid": "17534168", "text": "on 90 screens during its first days, and earned US$12.86 million in total. The film was released in DVD in both regular and limited releases on December 15, 2010, the latter including a bonus CD. Aniplex rereleased it in Blu-ray format on June 26, 2013. Sentai Filmworks released the film in both DVD and Blu-ray format in North America on May 29, 2012 as \"Gintama: The Motion Picture\". Although previous releases of the TV series by Sentai have only been in Japanese with English subtitles, their release of the movie is bilingual, and contained an English dub in addition to", "title": "Gintama: The Movie" }, { "docid": "18045506", "text": "2015. Shortly after, Broad Green Pictures acquired distribution rights to the film, and gave it a wide theatrical release starting September 2, 2015. \"A Walk in the Woods\" has received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 46%, based on 146 reviews, with an average rating of 5.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"Amiable yet less compelling than any road trip movie starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte should be, \"A Walk in the Woods\" is ultimately a bit too pedestrian.\" On Metacritic, the film has a score of 51 out of 100, based", "title": "A Walk in the Woods (film)" }, { "docid": "13709767", "text": "was given by Lucio Godoy. The movie was released on 9 March 2005 in Spain. It was well received by the audiences. But the critics gave average ratings to the movie. IMDB rated the movie 5.5 out of 10. The Longest Penalty Shot in the World The Longest Penalty Shot In The World, also known as El Penalti más largo del mundo, is a 2005 Spanish comedy film. Fernando is a failed football goalkeeper who is finding it even hard to find his bread and butter. During the final local league soccer game of the season, goalkeeper Roman (Benito Sagredo)", "title": "The Longest Penalty Shot in the World" }, { "docid": "6909736", "text": "Left Behind: The Movie Left Behind is a 2000 Canadian-American religious science fiction film directed by Vic Sarin and starring Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson, Gordon Currie, and Clarence Gilyard. The film was based on the best-selling Christian eschatological end-times novel of the same name written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, adapted for the screen by Alan B. McElroy. The film was released first direct-to-video, followed by a limited theatrical release. At the time of its release, the film was promoted by its creators as the \"biggest and most ambitious Christian film ever made.\" The film received generally negative", "title": "Left Behind: The Movie" }, { "docid": "5804991", "text": "the three-film Blu-ray set was re-released as a standard edition. Pokémon: The First Movie Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture is the soundtrack to the first \"Pokémon\" film in the United States, It was released on November 10, 1999, on Compact Disc and Compact Cassette. \"Don't Say You Love Me\" by M2M was released as a single from the album. Pokémon: The First Movie Pokémon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back, commonly referred to as Pokémon: The First Movie, originally released as , is a 1998 Japanese anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama, the chief director of the", "title": "Pokémon: The First Movie" }, { "docid": "20853395", "text": "originally intended to be two hours in length, but was trimmed down to 90 minutes, which created some gaps in the storytelling. The leopard used in the film was named Spot, and a jaguar named Clyde used for the running scenes. The film was released on VHS in 1986. The Runaways (1975 film) The Runaways is a 1975 American made-for-television drama film directed by Harry Harris. Starring Dorothy McGuire, Van Williams, and Josh Albee, it follows a teenage boy and an escaped leopard. It first aired on the CBS network on April 1, 1975. It was the most viewed primetime", "title": "The Runaways (1975 film)" }, { "docid": "16369459", "text": "in some countries and in key locations in North America, and had done well at the box office. Universal then opted to release the first \"Buck Rogers\" TV movie theatrically on March 30, 1979. The movie grossed over $21 million in North America and was later released internationally, which led NBC to commission a weekly series, which began on September 20, 1979 with a slightly modified version of the theatrical release. The movie was originally slated for release for September 1978. There were several start dates for filming but it was repeatedly delayed due to casting problems. The movie was", "title": "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (film)" }, { "docid": "13856735", "text": "The Wiggles Movie The Wiggles Movie is a 1997 Australian children's musical comedy movie produced by 20th Century Fox and Gladusaurus Productions. This is the first theatrical feature-length film starring The Wiggles. It was shown in cinemas in Australia on 18 December 1997. Amateur magician Wally the Great (Tony Harvey) tries to become a better magician by stealing Greg's magic wand, but is confronted by Dorothy the Dinosaur, who believes the Wiggles have forgotten her birthday, while in fact, they have been planning a surprise party. The film was released in North America as a direct-to-video film in 2003 from", "title": "The Wiggles Movie" }, { "docid": "20033651", "text": "on August 9, 2017. It was screened across South Korea in 1,058 theatres. The film placed second at the box office on the opening day and earned US$1.97 million with a total of 308,303 ticket sales. During the first five days of its release, the film attracted 1.9 million viewers and earned a total of . Within the first eight days after its release, the movie garnered 2.73 million admissions, earning a total of US$18.9 million, which exceeded the production budget of US$6.13 million. By August 20, less than two weeks after the movie was released, \"Midnight Runners\" had been", "title": "Midnight Runners" }, { "docid": "15865001", "text": "film's director has stated that the low gross was not intended as a publicity stunt, and resulted from both the film being scheduled to screen as part of the theater's monthly \"midnight screenings\", and through problems in stirring interest in the theatrical release. The film had its festival premiere at the Van Wert Independent Film Festival in Van Wert, Ohio on July 8, 2011, where director Glenn Berggoetz spoke at a breakfast symposium and hosted a midnight screening of the film. The film had its theatrical premiere on August 19, 2011, in a single cinema, the Laemmle Sunset 5 in", "title": "The Worst Movie Ever!" }, { "docid": "19794874", "text": "for the Nintendo Switch on March 26, 2019. \"Enter the Ninjago\" is a short film included on the DVD release of \"The Lego Movie\". The president of Hollywood sits down with Emmet and changes up the plot of \"The Lego Movie\" to prominently feature Ninjas for marketing purposes. \"The Master\" is a 2016 computer animated short film written and directed by Jon Saunders, co-written by Ross Evans, Carey Yost and Remington D. Donovan and produced by Ryan Halprin. The short film was released on September 23, 2016, with Warner Animation Group's \"Storks\", as well as early showings of \"The Lego", "title": "The Lego Movie (franchise)" }, { "docid": "19794873", "text": "Excalibur Batman is included in a Fun Pack. Based on \"The Lego Batman Movie\", Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released the endless-runner game coinciding with the release of the film. It was released for Android and iOS. Based on \"The Lego Ninjago Movie\", and developed by TT Fusion and TT Games, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released the game coinciding with the release of the film. Based on \"The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part\", the next videogame in the series was announced on November 27, 2018 and will be released on February 26, 2019 for the PS4 and Xbox One and", "title": "The Lego Movie (franchise)" }, { "docid": "16181128", "text": "Wangan Midnight: The Movie Whilst driving on Tokyo's Shuto Expressway in a Nissan 300ZX, high school student Akio Asakura challenges the \"Black Bird\", whose driver is Tatsuya Shima, to an impromptu race despite having his friend, Ma, in the passenger seat and two girls in the back, but is defeated. Determined to drive a faster car, he follows his mechanic friend Ko-chan to a junkyard upon hearing a newer 300ZX model is available. While at the junkyard, he sees the scrapped body of a midnight blue Nissan Fairlady Z (S30), equipped with a tuned L28 engine, bored and stroked to", "title": "Wangan Midnight: The Movie" }, { "docid": "12342564", "text": "Collection. The DVD includes a commentary discussion with producer Frank Yablans, director Charles Jarrott, and author Sidney Sheldon, led by film historian Laurent Bouzereau, a stills gallery, and the film's theatrical trailer. Jarrott and Sheldon have since died, as has Marie-France Pisier, the film's star. The film was remade in India as the Hindi film \"Oh Bewafa\" (1980). Sheldon wrote a 1990 sequel, \"Memories of Midnight\", which was adapted into a 1991 television miniseries starring Jane Seymour as Catherine Alexander. The Other Side of Midnight (film) The Other Side of Midnight is a 1977 American drama film directed by Charles", "title": "The Other Side of Midnight (film)" }, { "docid": "1822182", "text": "Corporation, making it the longest continuing theatrical animated movie serial and second longest to \"Krazy Kat\". In 1973, a feature film was released consisting of eleven redrawn colorized Mutt and Jeff silent films, with the short \"Slick Sleuths\" used as the frame, titled \"Mutt And Jeff Meet Bugoff\", which added new dialogue and soundtrack songs. Radio & Television Film Packagers were the producers of the film, which received a very limited theatrical release, primarily being shown on the 16MM circuit. In 2005, Inkwell Images released a DVD documentary entitled \"Mutt and Jeff: the Original Animated Odd Couple\"; included on the", "title": "Mutt and Jeff" }, { "docid": "7789172", "text": "in the late 1980s were cancelled in favor of a \"quickie video release\". However, the film did play in cinemas in 1984, including on the U.S. midnight movie circuit. In August 1984, MGM and RCA/ Columbia released VHS and Betamax versions of the film. Other home video formats included a 1984 RCA \"Selectavision\" disc and a 1985 Japanese laserdisc. In 1998, a DVD version was first released by Image Entertainment, which did not include any extras. A digitally remastered 30th Anniversary Edition DVD was released by EMI/Virgin in 2003, which featured remixed sound by Tony Visconti that removed some overdubs", "title": "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (film)" }, { "docid": "15801476", "text": "received a nationwide release on August 12, 2011, playing in movie theaters from August 12 to 26, with sneak previews August 10, 2011 in select theaters. The film was released in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2011, also running for a two-week engagement. \"Glee: The 3D Concert Movie\" received mixed reviews from critics; the film currently holds a score of 48 on Metacritic, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 60% of 90 professional critics gave the film a positive review and an average rating of 5.7/10, with the consensus \"The unconverted will remain just", "title": "Glee: The 3D Concert Movie" }, { "docid": "3537920", "text": "film after the release of \"The Muppets\" in 2011. The success of the film gave Jim Henson Productions an opportunity to release more Muppet productions theatrically. The film's successful theatrical release encouraged Lew Grade into furthering his own film distribution company, which later backfired with the massive box office failures of \"Can't Stop the Music\" (from EMI) and \"Raise the Titanic\" (from ITC), both released by Associated Film Distribution just a year later. \"The Muppet Movie\" received positive reviews. The film currently holds an 88% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average score of 8/10, based on 48 reviews.", "title": "The Muppet Movie" }, { "docid": "4730259", "text": "a story of American history in England. \"Revolution\" was nominated for four Golden Raspberry Awards: The film won the Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Picture. \"Revolution\" was rush-released in December 1985 for the Christmas market and for Academy Award consideration. Dissatisfied with the version of the film released to theatres, Hugh Hudson released a new cut, \"Revolution: Revisited\", on DVD in 2009. This has an added narration by Pacino (recorded for this release) and numerous scenes have been trimmed or deleted outright (running at 115 minutes, the Director's Cut is approximately 10 minutes shorter than the theatrical version). Also", "title": "Revolution (1985 film)" }, { "docid": "16528252", "text": "as show creator Matt Groening. The events of the short film take place between the twenty-third and twenty-fourth seasons of \"The Simpsons\". The film premiered on July 13, 2012, where it was attached to screenings of the 20th Century Fox release \"\". The film is the second \"Simpsons\" theatrical release. The short was re-released on February 15, 2013 and played before the film \"Life of Pi\" in selected theaters in USA. Reception has been positive, praising the storytelling and animation. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2013, losing to \"Paperman\". Marge Simpson", "title": "The Longest Daycare" }, { "docid": "17624379", "text": "Blood\" set a new all-time record for the longest theatrical run by any non-fiction feature film in Indian history (five weeks). It was also the first Indian non-fiction feature to be theatrically released in either the US or the UK. In November 2018, legendary Australian journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger included \"Fire in the Blood\" among his selection of \"26 landmark documentary films of the past seven decades\". Filmmaker Dylan Mohan Gray first came to know of the issue in 2004, after he read an article in \"The Economist\" about the battle between pharmaceutical companies and the global public", "title": "Fire in the Blood (2013 film)" }, { "docid": "16961829", "text": "was scheduled to be released for sale by the Famima convenience stores in Japan on August 24, 2013 but the date was pushed back to September 21, 2013. The book contained a cel shaded image and included a general admission movie ticket. The entire film received an advanced midnight screening on November 16, 2013 at the Shinjuku Wald 9 cinema in Shinjuku, Tokyo ahead of its November 23 release. During its release weekend, the film mostly attracted a young audience ranging from teenagers to those in their early thirties. Among this demographic, males were outnumbered by females at a ratio", "title": "Persona 3 The Movie: No. 1, Spring of Birth" } ]
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Name the year: Pixar Animation opens it's doors; Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch; Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's secret vault on TV; The Statue of Liberty is reopened; Fox Broadcasting is born;
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[ { "docid": "8235771", "text": "The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults is an infamous two-hour live American television special that was broadcast one time only in syndication on April 21, 1986. Hosted by TV personality Geraldo Rivera, the special centered on the opening of a secret vault in the Lexington Hotel once owned by noted crime lord Al Capone, which turned out to be empty except for debris. \"The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults\" is available in its entirety on Geraldo's website. Al Capone was born to Italian immigrant parents on January 17, 1899, in New York City. He", "title": "The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults" }, { "docid": "378143", "text": "Space Shuttle Challenger Space Shuttle \"Challenger\" (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was the second orbiter of NASA's space shuttle program to be put into service, after \"Columbia\". \"Challenger\" was built by Rockwell International's Space Transportation Systems Division, in Downey, California. Its maiden flight, STS-6, began on April 4, 1983. The orbiter was launched and landed nine times before breaking apart 73 seconds into its tenth mission, STS-51-L, on January 28, 1986, resulting in the death of all seven crew members, including a civilian school teacher. It was the first of two shuttles to be destroyed in flight, the other being \"Columbia\",", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger" }, { "docid": "1506420", "text": "Space Shuttle Columbia disaster On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle \"Columbia\" disintegrated upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. The disaster was the second fatal accident in the Space Shuttle program after Space Shuttle \"Challenger\", which broke apart and killed the seven-member crew 73 seconds after liftoff in 1986. During the launch of STS-107, \"Columbia\"'s 28th mission, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank and struck the left wing of the orbiter. A few previous shuttle launches had seen damage ranging from minor to nearly catastrophic from foam shedding, but some", "title": "Space Shuttle Columbia disaster" }, { "docid": "377563", "text": "gliding and landing; it was originally intended to be outfitted for orbital operations after the test program, but it was found more economical to upgrade the structural test article STA-099 into orbiter \"Challenger\" (OV-099). An additional test article, dubbed \"Pathfinder\" (OV-098), was built for form and fit tests, and is on display at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL. \"Challenger\" disintegrated 73 seconds after launch in 1986, and \"Endeavour\" was built as a replacement from structural spare components. Building \"Endeavour\" cost about US$1.7 billion. \"Columbia\" broke apart over Texas during re-entry in 2003. A Space Shuttle launch", "title": "Space Shuttle" }, { "docid": "1506487", "text": "\"Somewhere\" on their album \"The Story\" (2016); the song was dedicated to Laurel Clark (who had become a fan of the band during her Navy service in Scotland), and includes a piece of her wake up song, followed by some radio chatter, at the end. Space Shuttle Columbia disaster On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle \"Columbia\" disintegrated upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. The disaster was the second fatal accident in the Space Shuttle program after Space Shuttle \"Challenger\", which broke apart and killed the seven-member crew 73 seconds after liftoff in 1986. During the launch", "title": "Space Shuttle Columbia disaster" }, { "docid": "377624", "text": "Shuttle orbiter fleet. Sources: NASA launch manifest, NASA Space Shuttle archive On January 28, 1986, \"Challenger\" disintegrated 73 seconds after launch due to the failure of the right SRB, killing all seven astronauts on board. The disaster was caused by low-temperature impairment of an O-ring, a mission critical seal used between segments of the SRB casing. Failure of the O-ring allowed hot combustion gases to escape from between the booster sections and burn through the adjacent external tank, causing it to explode. Repeated warnings from design engineers voicing concerns about the lack of evidence of the O-rings' safety when the", "title": "Space Shuttle" }, { "docid": "2422209", "text": "cause to the accident. After the accident, NASA attempted to aim at a more realistic shuttle flight rate: it added another orbiter, \"Endeavour\", to the space shuttle fleet to replace \"Challenger\", and it worked with the Department of Defense to put more satellites in orbit using expendable launch vehicles rather than the shuttle. In August 1986, President Reagan also announced that the shuttle would no longer carry commercial satellite payloads. After a 32-month hiatus, the next shuttle mission, STS-26, was launched on September 29, 1988. Although changes were made by NASA after the \"Challenger\" accident, many commentators have argued that", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "8488281", "text": "(approximately $ per pound adjusting for inflation to 2011). It failed in the goal of achieving reliable access to space, partly due to multi-year interruptions in launches following Shuttle failures. NASA budget pressures caused by the chronically high NASA Space Shuttle program costs have eliminated NASA manned space flight beyond low earth orbit since Apollo, and severely curtailed use of unmanned probes. NASA's promotion of and reliance on the Shuttle slowed domestic commercial expendable launch vehicle (ELV) programs until after the 1986 \"Challenger\" disaster. \"Space Transportation System\" (NASA's formal name for the overall Shuttle program) was created to transport crewmembers", "title": "Criticism of the Space Shuttle program" }, { "docid": "2422124", "text": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster On January 28, 1986, the NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of (OV-99) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, which consisted of five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 EST (16:39 UTC). The disintegration of the vehicle began after a joint in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff. The failure was caused by the failure of O-ring seals used in the joint that were not designed to handle", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "2422244", "text": "can be heard in the soundtrack of Stage 2, several times. History Channel released a documentary titled \"Days That Shaped America\"; the first episode was about the disaster and it was aired on 28 January 2018. Space Shuttle Challenger disaster On January 28, 1986, the NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of (OV-99) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, which consisted of five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 EST (16:39 UTC). The disintegration of", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "2422226", "text": "recent, real-life Space Shuttle \"Challenger\" disaster. Punky and her classmates watched the live coverage of the shuttle launch in Mike Fulton's class. After the accident occurred, Punky is traumatized, and finds her dreams to become an astronaut are crushed. She writes a letter to NASA, and is visited by special guest star Buzz Aldrin. Although the episode received high ratings, NBC would, in the following weeks, decide to cancel the show. On the evening of April 5, 1986, the \"Rendez-vous Houston\" concert commemorated and celebrated the crew of the \"Challenger.\" It featured a live performance by musician Jean Michel Jarre,", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "8235778", "text": "off because there wasn't a treasure\". The program has been parodied in several films and television shows: \"Eaten Alive\", a 2014 Discovery Channel special that drew comparisons and similar criticism when host Paul Rosalie was not \"eaten alive\" by an anaconda as hinted at in promotional material. The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults is an infamous two-hour live American television special that was broadcast one time only in syndication on April 21, 1986. Hosted by TV personality Geraldo Rivera, the special centered on the opening of a secret vault in the Lexington Hotel once", "title": "The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults" }, { "docid": "2422194", "text": "buried in Rest Lawn Memorial Park in Lake City, South Carolina. Christa McAuliffe's remains are buried at Calvary Cemetery in her hometown of Concord, New Hampshire. Gregory Jarvis was cremated, and his ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean. Unidentified crew remains were buried communally at the Space Shuttle \"Challenger\" Memorial in Arlington on May 20, 1986. As a result of the disaster, several National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellites that only the shuttle could launch were grounded because of the accident. This is a dilemma NRO had feared since the 1970s when the shuttle was designated as the United States' primary", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "6667267", "text": "in space, Christa McAuliffe, is followed by a symbolic apple. STS-51-L STS-51-L was the 25th mission of the United States Space Shuttle program, as well as the final flight of the Space Shuttle \"Challenger\". Planned as the first Teacher in Space Project in addition to observing Halley's Comet for six days, a structural failure during its ascent phase 73 seconds after launch on January 28, 1986, from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 killed all seven crew members—Commander Dick Scobee, Pilot Michael J. Smith, Mission Specialists Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith A. Resnik and Ronald E. McNair, and Payload Specialists Gregory", "title": "STS-51-L" }, { "docid": "6667258", "text": "STS-51-L STS-51-L was the 25th mission of the United States Space Shuttle program, as well as the final flight of the Space Shuttle \"Challenger\". Planned as the first Teacher in Space Project in addition to observing Halley's Comet for six days, a structural failure during its ascent phase 73 seconds after launch on January 28, 1986, from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 killed all seven crew members—Commander Dick Scobee, Pilot Michael J. Smith, Mission Specialists Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith A. Resnik and Ronald E. McNair, and Payload Specialists Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe—and destroyed the orbiter. Immediately after the", "title": "STS-51-L" }, { "docid": "2422206", "text": "as to how it planned to implement those recommendations. When the disaster happened, the Air Force had performed extensive modifications of its Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6, pronounced as \"Slick Six\") at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, for launch and landing operations of classified Shuttle launches of satellites in polar orbit, and was planning its first polar flight for October 15, 1986. Originally built for the Manned Orbital Laboratory project cancelled in 1969, the modifications were proving problematic and expensive, costing over $4 billion. The \"Challenger\" loss motivated the Air Force to set in motion a chain of events", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "378220", "text": "operated as the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1930 to 1966. Space Shuttle \"Atlantis\" lifted off on its maiden voyage on 3 October 1985, on mission STS-51-J, the second dedicated Department of Defense flight. It flew one other mission, STS-61-B, the second night launch in the shuttle program, before the Space Shuttle \"Challenger\" disaster temporarily grounded the Shuttle fleet in 1986. Among the five Space Shuttles flown into space, \"Atlantis\" conducted a subsequent mission in the shortest time after the previous mission (turnaround time) when it launched in November 1985 on STS-61-B, only 50 days", "title": "Space Shuttle Atlantis" }, { "docid": "13319815", "text": "a life-altering event as previously, smoking was one of his trademarks and he was unashamed of his addiction. King was a three-pack-a-day smoker and kept a lit cigarette during his interviews, so he would not have to take time to light up during breaks. He now encourages curbing smoking to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. On January 28, 1986, CNN was the only TV network to provide live coverage of the launch of the Space Shuttle \"Challenger\" to the public. However, NASA TV provided the live coverage to schools nationwide. The Space Shuttle Challenger abruptly disintegrated just 73 seconds", "title": "History of CNN (1980–2003)" }, { "docid": "8666629", "text": "its maiden flight in 1977. An unpowered glider, it was carried by a modified Boeing 747 airliner called the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and released for a series of atmospheric test flights and landings. \"Enterprise\" was partially disassembled and retired after completion of critical testing. The remaining orbiters were fully operational spacecraft, and were launched vertically as part of the Space Shuttle stack. \"Columbia\" was the first space-worthy orbiter, and made its inaugural flight in 1981. \"Challenger\", \"Discovery\", and \"Atlantis\" followed in 1983, 1984 and 1985 respectively. In 1986, \"Challenger\" was destroyed in an accident shortly after launch. \"Endeavour\" was built", "title": "Space Shuttle orbiter" }, { "docid": "1370891", "text": "worked for ABC News at the time) had caused him to spike the story; as a result, Rivera was fired. During a Fox News interview with Megyn Kelly aired May 15, 2015, Rivera stated the official reason given for the firing was that he violated ABC policy when he donated $200 to a non-partisan mayoral race candidate. On April 21, 1986, Rivera hosted The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults. The special broadcast was billed as the unearthing of Capone's secret vaults located under the old Lexington Hotel in Chicago. Millions of people watched the 2-hour show, but all that they", "title": "Geraldo Rivera" }, { "docid": "15396540", "text": "The restored statue was reopened during Liberty Weekend, its 100-year anniversary celebration held July 3–6, 1986. The preparations for the centennial celebration of the Statue of Liberty began in 1979. Formed by the National Park Service (NPS), the custodians of the statue since 1933, to investigate possible development alternatives[incomplete sentence]. A report titled \"Analysis of Alternatives\", published in December 1980, proposed measures to remedy the certain conditions confronting visitors to the Statue of Liberty, such as the long lines and waiting time to enter the crown of the statue. The proposed measures included the instatement of systems for numbered ticketing", "title": "Conservation-restoration of the Statue of Liberty" }, { "docid": "8488283", "text": "costs through amortization. Development costs were expected to be recouped through frequent access to space. These claims were made in an effort to obtain budgetary funding from the United States Congress. Beginning in 1981, the space shuttle began to be used for space travel. However, by the mid-1980s the concept of flying that many shuttle missions proved unrealistic and scheduled launch expectations were reduced 50%. Following the \"Challenger\" accident in 1986, missions were halted pending safety review. This hiatus became lengthy and ultimately lasted almost three years as arguments over funding and the safety of the program continued. Eventually the", "title": "Criticism of the Space Shuttle program" }, { "docid": "388768", "text": "a wide opening framed by a set of monumental bronze doors with designs symbolic of the renovation. A modern elevator was installed, allowing handicapped access to the observation area of the pedestal. An emergency elevator was installed within the statue, reaching up to the level of the shoulder. July 3–6, 1986, was designated \"Liberty Weekend\", marking the centennial of the statue and its reopening. President Reagan presided over the rededication, with French President François Mitterrand in attendance. July 4 saw a reprise of Operation Sail, and the statue was reopened to the public on July 5. In Reagan's dedication speech,", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "docid": "6676105", "text": "including Arcadia High School, Phoenix, Arizona. In the late 1980s, he took a brief break from show business to attend Phoenix College. On January 28, 1986, Billingsley was present at launch pad 39B (at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida) for the doomed launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger. He and classmates of the son of America's first teacher-astronaut (Christa McAuliffe) cheered as the space shuttle Challenger lifted skyward. Their delight turned to horror as the shuttle exploded 73 seconds into flight. Billingsley was a spokesman for the young astronaut program. Billingsley's first acting role was as a two-year-old in", "title": "Peter Billingsley" }, { "docid": "220466", "text": "then was Edwards Air Force Base in California, subsequently used as a backup landing site. The SLF also provided a return-to-launch-site (RTLS) abort option, which was not utilized. The SLF is among the longest runways in the world. After 24 successful shuttle flights, \"Challenger\" was torn apart 73 seconds after the launch of STS-51-L on January 28, 1986; the first shuttle launch from Pad 39B and the first U.S. manned launch failure, killing the seven crew members. An O-ring seal in the right booster rocket failed at liftoff, leading to subsequent structural failures. Flights resumed on September 29, 1988 with", "title": "Kennedy Space Center" }, { "docid": "378182", "text": "facility beginning in January 1984, undergoing modifications that removed the Orbiter Flight Test hardware and bringing it up to similar specifications as those of its sister orbiters. At that time the shuttle fleet was expanded to include \"Discovery\" and \"Atlantis\". \"Columbia\" returned to space on January 12, 1986, with the launch of STS-61-C. The mission's crew included Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz, as well as the first sitting member of the House of Representatives to venture into space, Bill Nelson. The next shuttle mission, STS-51-L, was undertaken by \"Challenger\". It was launched on January 28, 1986, ten days after STS-61-C had landed,", "title": "Space Shuttle Columbia" } ]
[ { "docid": "12987437", "text": "English Opens Doors The English Opens Doors Programme (Spanish language: Programa Inglés Abre Puertas ) is an initiative of the Chilean Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) to apply technical expertise and improve English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching, making it more accessible to Chilean people. The English Opens Doors programme was launched in 2003 and has been constantly supported since the first government of President Michelle Bachelet. In 2014, the English Opens Doors Programme was transferred from the Curriculum and Evaluation Unit to the Division of General Education. This structural change reflects the Educational Reform of the second Bachelet government,", "title": "English Opens Doors" }, { "docid": "12987443", "text": "of collaboration, English Summer Town and English Winter Retreat (annual total immersion seminars where foreign professionals share their expertise with EFL teachers), among others. In 2005, just prior to the China-Chile free trade agreement, the Ministry of Education developed a programme that allows educators to incorporate Mandarin Chinese into the curriculum, which is also managed by the English Opens Doors Programme. Native Chinese speaking trained teachers spend up to two years at a public or semi-private Chilean school teaching Chinese as a foreign language and developing initiatives such as dialogues and immersion camps. English Opens Doors The English Opens Doors", "title": "English Opens Doors" }, { "docid": "1370882", "text": "Geraldo Rivera Geraldo Rivera (born Gerald Michael Riviera; July 4, 1943) is an American attorney, reporter, author, and talk show host. He was the host of the talk show \"Geraldo\" from 1987 to 1998. Rivera hosted the newsmagazine program \"Geraldo at Large\", hosts the occasional broadcast of \"Geraldo Rivera Reports\" (in lieu of hosting \"At Large\"), and appears regularly on Fox News programs such as \"The Five\". Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, New York, the son of Lillian (née Friedman; October 16, 1919 – June 3, 2018) and Cruz \"Allen\" Rivera (October 1,", "title": "Geraldo Rivera" }, { "docid": "378151", "text": "the first night launch and night landing of a Space Shuttle. \"Challenger\" was also the first space shuttle to be destroyed in an accident during a mission. The collected debris of the vessel is currently buried in decommissioned missile silos at Launch Complex 31, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. A section of the fuselage recovered from Space Shuttle \"Challenger\" can also be found at the \"Forever Remembered\" memorial at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. From time to time, further pieces of debris from the orbiter wash up on the Florida coast. When this happens, they are collected", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger" }, { "docid": "1370905", "text": "However, he has subsequently called Special Counselor Robert Mueller's probe into the Trump-Russia connection a \"witch hunt\". Geraldo Rivera Geraldo Rivera (born Gerald Michael Riviera; July 4, 1943) is an American attorney, reporter, author, and talk show host. He was the host of the talk show \"Geraldo\" from 1987 to 1998. Rivera hosted the newsmagazine program \"Geraldo at Large\", hosts the occasional broadcast of \"Geraldo Rivera Reports\" (in lieu of hosting \"At Large\"), and appears regularly on Fox News programs such as \"The Five\". Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, New York, the son", "title": "Geraldo Rivera" }, { "docid": "378150", "text": "1983, \"Challenger\" flew on 85% of all Space Shuttle missions. Even when the orbiters \"Discovery\" and \"Atlantis\" joined the fleet, \"Challenger\" flew three missions a year from 1983 to 1985. \"Challenger\", along with \"Discovery\", was modified at Kennedy Space Center to be able to carry the Centaur-G upper stage in its payload bay. If flight STS-51-L had been successful, \"Challenger\"'s next mission would have been the deployment of the \"Ulysses\" probe with the Centaur to study the polar regions of the Sun. \"Challenger\" flew the first American woman, African-American, Dutchman and Canadian into space; carried three Spacelab missions; and performed", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger" }, { "docid": "2422211", "text": "\"Challenger\" have not been fixed,\" saying that the same \"flawed decision making process\" that had resulted in the \"Challenger\" accident was responsible for \"Columbia\"'s destruction seventeen years later. While the presence of New Hampshire's Christa McAuliffe, a member of the Teacher in Space program, on the \"Challenger\" crew had provoked some media interest, there was little live broadcast coverage of the launch. The only live national TV coverage available publicly was provided by CNN. Los Angeles station KNBC also carried the launch with anchor Kent Shocknek describing the tragedy as it happened. Live radio coverage of the launch and explosion", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "378183", "text": "and ended in disaster 73 seconds after launch. In the aftermath NASA's shuttle timetable was disrupted, and \"Columbia\" was not flown again until 1989 (on STS-28), after which it resumed normal service as part of the shuttle fleet. STS-93, launched on July 23, 1999, was the first U.S. space mission with a female commander, Lt. Col. Eileen Collins. This mission deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory. \"Columbia\"'s final successful mission was STS-109, the fourth servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope. Its next mission, STS-107, culminated in the orbiter's loss when it disintegrated during reentry, killing all seven of its crew.", "title": "Space Shuttle Columbia" }, { "docid": "8235774", "text": "secret tunnels including one hidden behind Capone's medicine cabinet. These tunnels connected taverns and brothels to provide an elaborate potential escape route in case of a police raid. These discoveries led to further investigation of the hotel, notably by researcher Harold Rubin. Rumors said Capone had kept a very secret vault beneath the hotel to hold some of his wealth. Geraldo Rivera had been fired from ABC in 1985 after criticizing the network for canceling a report on an alleged relationship between John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. He then hosted the special \"The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults\" which", "title": "The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults" }, { "docid": "12987440", "text": "program. Total immersion English camps take place during students' summer and winter holidays. Camps are designed to give Chilean public secondary school students the chance to practise English through interactive activities including role-playing exercises, group projects, and competitive games. Each year, the English Opens Doors Programme sponsors debate competitions for high school students, public speaking competitions for students in year 7 and year 8, and spelling bee competitions for students in year 5 and year 6. Students are expected to prepare and present material entirely in English and to compete at local and regional events in order to advance to", "title": "English Opens Doors" }, { "docid": "1370899", "text": "accept it was Rivera's longtime friend Russell Simmons. He later apologized to Trayvon Martin's parents as well. In 2015, Rivera competed on the 14th season of the television series \"The Celebrity Apprentice\", where he ultimately placed second to TV personality Leeza Gibbons. However, Rivera still raised the highest amount of money out of any contestant in the season, with $726,000, $12,000 more than Gibbons. Rivera hosts the newsmagazine program \"Geraldo at Large\" and appears regularly on Fox News Channel. On November 13, 2015, Rivera revealed on Fox News that his daughter, Simone Cruickshank, was at the Stade de France when", "title": "Geraldo Rivera" }, { "docid": "2422236", "text": "Congressional Space Medals of Honor to all 14 crew members lost in the \"Challenger\" and \"Columbia\" accidents. In 2009, Allan J. McDonald, former director of the Space Shuttle Solid Motor Rocket Project for Morton-Thiokol, Inc. published his book \"Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster\". Up to that point, no one directly involved in the decision to launch \"Challenger\" had published a memoir about the experience. In June 14, 2011, Christian electronic/dance pop singer Adam Young, through his electronica project, released a song about the \"Challenger\" incident on his third studio album \"All Things Bright and Beautiful\".", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "12987442", "text": "high-quality professionals, thereby improving English-language education'. The destination country must be one in which English is either an official language or is used widely enough that the Chilean student will be experiencing total immersion. All scholarship applicants undergo a rigorous selection process that includes taking an English-language proficiency test such as the TOEFL or IELTS. The English Opens Doors Programme has developed several strategies to provide EFL teachers in public schools with more professional development opportunities, helping them to improve their English-language fluency and teaching practices. These include English language and methodology courses, local teachers' networks where peers form communities", "title": "English Opens Doors" }, { "docid": "20036431", "text": "LouFest, Austin City Limits Music Festival, Hangout Music Festival, Summerfest, Bear Creek, Rombello, Spring Fest, Bele Chere and Lollapalooza; when Space Capone played Summerfest they were direct support for Kool & the Gang. Space Capone was named by \"Spin\" in the \"Top 15 Must-See Acts\" at 2013's Hangout Fest, along with Kendrick Lamar and Ellie Goulding. Space Capone Aaron Robert Winters (born November 6, 1982) better known by his stage name Space Capone, is an American recording artist, songwriter and record producer from Carthage, Indiana. Space Capone has released three albums, two independently: \"Vol. I: Transformation\" (2008) and \"Vol II:", "title": "Space Capone" }, { "docid": "378144", "text": "in 2003. The accident led to a two-and-a-half-year grounding of the shuttle fleet; flights resumed in 1988, with STS-26 flown by \"Discovery\". \"Challenger\" was replaced by \"Endeavour\", which was built from structural spares ordered by NASA in the construction contracts for \"Discovery\" and \"Atlantis\". \"Challenger\" was named after HMS \"Challenger\", a British corvette that was the command ship for the \"Challenger\" Expedition, a pioneering global marine research expedition undertaken from 1872 through 1876. The Apollo 17 lunar module, which landed on the Moon in 1972, also was named \"Challenger\". Because of the low production volume of orbiters, the Space Shuttle", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger" }, { "docid": "378152", "text": "and transported to the silos for storage. Because of its early loss, \"Challenger\" was the only space shuttle that never wore the NASA \"meatball\" logo, and was never modified with the MEDS \"glass cockpit\". The tail was never fitted with a drag chute – it was fitted to the remaining orbiters in 1992. Also because of its early demise \"Challenger\" was also one of only two shuttles that never visited the Mir Space Station or the International Space Station – the other one being its sister ship \"Columbia\". Space Shuttle Challenger Space Shuttle \"Challenger\" (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was the", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger" }, { "docid": "2422147", "text": "launch. Rockwell's managers at the Cape voiced their concerns in a manner that led Houston-based mission manager Arnold Aldrich to go ahead with the launch. Aldrich decided to postpone the shuttle launch by an hour to give the Ice Team time to perform another inspection. After that last inspection, during which the ice appeared to be melting, \"Challenger\" was cleared to launch at 11:38 am EST. The following account of the accident is derived from real time telemetry data and photographic analysis, as well as from transcripts of air-to-ground and mission control voice communications. All times are given in seconds", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "12987438", "text": "as the Programme has been tasked with carrying out the English component of the reform and reaching 1000 schools over the course of Bachelet's term. Sponsored by the United Nations Development Program and the English Opens Doors Program (EODP) of the Ministry of Education, the National Volunteer Center seeks native and near-native English speakers to work as English teaching assistants in public schools throughout Chile. The National Volunteer Center runs a fee-free volunteer program. The full-time volunteer program began in 2004 with a pilot project consisting of 14 volunteers placed in the Antofagasta Region. The project was evaluated by the", "title": "English Opens Doors" }, { "docid": "3185405", "text": "will be displayed with Space Shuttle \"Endeavour\" at the California Science Center when the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center opens. Three other external tanks were in preparation, when the manufacturing stopped. ET-139 is at advanced stage of manufacturing; ET-140 and ET-141 are in early stages of manufacturing. Space Shuttle external tank A Space Shuttle external tank (ET) was the component of the Space Shuttle launch vehicle that contained the liquid hydrogen fuel and liquid oxygen oxidizer. During lift-off and ascent it supplied the fuel and oxidizer under pressure to the three Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) in the orbiter.", "title": "Space Shuttle external tank" }, { "docid": "9377751", "text": "The Dream Is Alive The Dream is Alive is an IMAX documentary film, released in June 1985, about NASA's Space Shuttle program. The film was narrated by Walter Cronkite, and directed by Graeme Ferguson. The documentary includes scenes from numerous shuttle missions, beginning with the dawn landing of \"Discovery\" at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility upon the conclusion of STS-51-A. A composite shot, the finished sequence is composed of footage from \"Discovery\"'s landing, radio transmissions from \"Challenger\"'s 1984 landing on STS-41-B, and runway approach footage filmed from a fixed-wing aircraft. Mission STS-41-C, the 11th for the Shuttle program and", "title": "The Dream Is Alive" }, { "docid": "4320626", "text": "ball recovered from the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Challenger to the ISS, after which it was returned to the family of Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka and put on display at Clear Lake High School in Houston. Robert S. Kimbrough Robert Shane Kimbrough (born June 4, 1967) is a retired United States Army officer, and a NASA astronaut. He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle \"Columbia\" disaster. Kimbrough is a veteran of two spaceflights, the first being a Space Shuttle flight, and the second being a 6-month mission to", "title": "Robert S. Kimbrough" }, { "docid": "2422219", "text": "on the graph according to its predicted temperature at launch. According to Tufte, the launch temperature of \"Challenger\" was so far below the coldest launch, with the worst damage seen to date, that even a casual observer could have determined that the risk of disaster was severe. Tufte has also argued that poor presentation of information may have also affected NASA decisions during the last flight of the space shuttle \"Columbia\". Boisjoly, Wade Robison, a Rochester Institute of Technology professor, and their colleagues have vigorously repudiated Tufte's conclusions about the Morton-Thiokol engineers' role in the loss of \"Challenger\". First, they", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "8276028", "text": "The Circle Opens The Circle Opens is a quartet of novels written by Tamora Pierce and set in a pseudo-medieval/renaissance era. It mainly revolves around four teenage mages, each specializing in a different kind of magic, as they find that they are forced to deal with mages whose powers are similarly unusual to their own. The \"Circle Opens\" Quartet is the sequel quartet to The Circle Of Magic Quartet, and is followed by \"Battle Magic\" and \"The Will of the Empress\". The students are now 14 years old and fully qualified mages. Briar, Tris and Daja have gone travelling with", "title": "The Circle Opens" }, { "docid": "388773", "text": "a protester against American immigration policy climbing onto the statue. On October 7, 2016, construction started on a new Statue of Liberty museum on Liberty Island. The new $70 million, museum will be able to accommodate all of the island's visitors when it opens in 2019, as opposed to the current museum, which only 20% of the island's visitors can visit.The museum, designed by FXFOWLE Architects, will integrate with the parkland around it. Von Fürstenberg heads the fundraising for the museum, and the project had garnered more than $40 million in fundraising as of groundbreaking. The statue is situated in", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "docid": "11797764", "text": "Paul LeBreux. Kemptville 73's The Kemptville 73's are a Canadian Junior \"A\" ice hockey team based in Kemptville, Ontario. They play in the Central Canada Hockey League of the Ottawa District Hockey Association. Founded in 1969. Changed name in 1973. Moved from Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League to Central Junior A Hockey League in 2007. On September 14, 2007, the Kemptville 73's played their first ever Junior \"A\" hockey game. At home, the 73's took on the Nepean Raiders but lost the game 5–2. Anthony Scarpino scored the 73's first ever Junior \"A\" goal with forty-six seconds left in the", "title": "Kemptville 73's" }, { "docid": "11797761", "text": "Kemptville 73's The Kemptville 73's are a Canadian Junior \"A\" ice hockey team based in Kemptville, Ontario. They play in the Central Canada Hockey League of the Ottawa District Hockey Association. Founded in 1969. Changed name in 1973. Moved from Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League to Central Junior A Hockey League in 2007. On September 14, 2007, the Kemptville 73's played their first ever Junior \"A\" hockey game. At home, the 73's took on the Nepean Raiders but lost the game 5–2. Anthony Scarpino scored the 73's first ever Junior \"A\" goal with forty-six seconds left in the first period.", "title": "Kemptville 73's" }, { "docid": "10334758", "text": "Geraldo (talk show) Geraldo is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Geraldo Rivera that aired in syndication from September 7, 1987 to June 12, 1998. The last two seasons aired under the title The Geraldo Rivera Show. The series was a production of Investigative News Group and distributed by Tribune Entertainment. For its first three seasons, Paramount Domestic Television served as co-distributor. For its final two seasons, King World Productions assisted Tribune as co-distributor. The title \"Geraldo\" was used on the first 9 seasons. It led to \"Newsweek\"'s characterization as \"Trash TV\". The show had many guests during", "title": "Geraldo (talk show)" }, { "docid": "18634260", "text": "Filmmaker Magazine. The Lion's Mouth Opens The Lion's Mouth Opens is a 2014 short documentary by Lucy Walker about Marianna Palka and her courage when she struggles with testing whether she has Huntington's disease. The premiere was at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. It was then 14 minutes, and was later made into 28. It was broadcast on HBO on 1 June 2015. Documentary about actress and film director Marianna Palka's struggles with Huntington's disease. The \"Los Angeles Times\" wrote \"an espresso shot to the heart\". \"The most emotionally devastating film at the Sundance Film Festival this year was a", "title": "The Lion's Mouth Opens" }, { "docid": "18634259", "text": "The Lion's Mouth Opens The Lion's Mouth Opens is a 2014 short documentary by Lucy Walker about Marianna Palka and her courage when she struggles with testing whether she has Huntington's disease. The premiere was at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. It was then 14 minutes, and was later made into 28. It was broadcast on HBO on 1 June 2015. Documentary about actress and film director Marianna Palka's struggles with Huntington's disease. The \"Los Angeles Times\" wrote \"an espresso shot to the heart\". \"The most emotionally devastating film at the Sundance Film Festival this year was a short\" –", "title": "The Lion's Mouth Opens" }, { "docid": "14402775", "text": "was the fifth time \"Doctor Who\" has won the award, and the fourth time a Steven Moffat episode has won. The Mill, \"Doctor Who\" computer-generated effects team, won a Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award for their work on the episode. The Pandorica Opens \"The Pandorica Opens\" is the twelfth episode of the fifth series of British science fiction television programme \"Doctor Who\", first broadcast on 19 June 2010 on BBC One. It is the first in a two-part finale; the second part, \"The Big Bang\", aired on 26 June. The episode was written by head writer and executive", "title": "The Pandorica Opens" }, { "docid": "14402752", "text": "The Pandorica Opens \"The Pandorica Opens\" is the twelfth episode of the fifth series of British science fiction television programme \"Doctor Who\", first broadcast on 19 June 2010 on BBC One. It is the first in a two-part finale; the second part, \"The Big Bang\", aired on 26 June. The episode was written by head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat and directed by Toby Haynes. In the episode, the time-travelling archaeologist River Song (Alex Kingston) summons alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) to Roman Britain in 102 AD, where underneath Stonehenge", "title": "The Pandorica Opens" }, { "docid": "378216", "text": "alone. \"Discovery\" flew all three \"return to flight\" missions after the \"Challenger\" and \"Columbia\" disasters: STS-26 in 1988, STS-114 in 2005, and STS-121 in 2006. \"Discovery\" flew the ante-penultimate mission of the Space Shuttle program, STS-133, having launched on February 24, 2011. \"Endeavour\" flew STS-134 and \"Atlantis\" performed STS-135, NASA's last Space Shuttle mission. On February 24, 2011, Space Shuttle \"Discovery\" launched from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39-A to begin its final orbital flight. The Flow Director was responsible for the overall preparation of the shuttle for launch and processing it after landing, and remained permanently assigned to head", "title": "Space Shuttle Discovery" }, { "docid": "1370887", "text": "Al Primo when Rivera was interviewed about the group's occupation of an East Harlem church in 1969. Primo offered Rivera a job as a reporter but was unhappy with the first name \"Gerald\" (he wanted something more identifiably Latino) so they agreed to go with the pronunciation used by the Puerto Rican side of Rivera's family: Geraldo. Due to his dearth of journalistic experience, ABC arranged for Rivera to study introductory broadcast journalism under Fred Friendly in the Ford Foundation-funded Summer Program in Journalism for Members of Minority Groups at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1970. Rivera", "title": "Geraldo Rivera" }, { "docid": "3807975", "text": "faintly make out Mary Poppins. They wave and she waves back to them. \"Mary Poppins herself had flown away, but the gifts she had brought would remain for always.\" In 2004, Julie Andrews appeared in a live-action/animated 10-minute short film produced by DisneyToon Studios for the 40th Anniversary DVD release of \"Mary Poppins\". \"The Cat That Looked at a King\" was based on \"Mary Poppins Opens the Door,\" and was the first project offered to The Answer Studio, which included former employees of Walt Disney Animation (Japan). As the film opens, two modern-day British children are looking at chalk drawings", "title": "Mary Poppins Opens the Door" }, { "docid": "2422205", "text": "its investigation, and agreed with the Rogers Commission as to the technical causes of the accident. It differed from the committee in its assessment of the accident's contributing causes: After the \"Challenger\" accident, further shuttle flights were suspended, pending the results of the Rogers Commission investigation. Whereas NASA had held an internal inquiry into the Apollo 1 fire in 1967, its actions after \"Challenger\" were more constrained by the judgment of outside bodies. The Rogers Commission offered nine recommendations on improving safety in the space shuttle program, and NASA was directed by President Reagan to report back within thirty days", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "2422224", "text": "TDRS-B, the satellite that was launched and lost on \"Challenger\". The \"Return to Flight\" launch of \"Discovery\" also represented a test of the redesigned boosters, a shift to a more conservative stance on safety (e.g., it was the first time the crew had launched in pressure suits since STS-4, the last of the four initial Shuttle test flights), and a chance to restore national pride in the American space program, especially manned space flight. The mission, STS-26, was a success (with only two minor system failures, one of a cabin cooling system and one of a Ku-band antenna), and a", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "2422223", "text": "event better than their West Coast counterparts. Regardless of where they were when it happened, the \"Challenger\" explosion was still an important event that many children easily remembered. After the accident, NASA's Space Shuttle fleet was grounded for almost three years while the investigation, hearings, engineering redesign of the SRBs, and other behind-the-scenes technical and management reviews, changes, and preparations were taking place. At 11:37 on September 29, 1988, Space Shuttle \"Discovery\" lifted off with a crew of five from Kennedy Space Center pad 39-B. It carried a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-C (named TDRS-3 after deployment), which replaced", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "8488297", "text": "case of \"Challenger\" to risk the lives of seven astronauts and nearly one-fourth of NASA's launch assets to place in orbit a communications satellite.\" There are some NASA spin-off technologies related to the Space Shuttle program which have been successfully developed into commercial products, such as using heat-resistant materials developed to protect the Shuttle on reentry, in suits for municipal and aircraft rescue firefighters. Criticism of the Space Shuttle program Criticism of the Space Shuttle program stemmed from claims that NASA's Shuttle program failed to achieve its promised cost and utility goals, as well as design, cost, management, and safety", "title": "Criticism of the Space Shuttle program" }, { "docid": "1370902", "text": "#MeToo movement. He issued a statement in November 2017 that both denied and apologized for the incident. On September 22, 2018, Geraldo and WTAM (1100 AM) in Cleveland, Ohio announced that he would join the station to host a daily one-hour talk show, \"Geraldo in Cleveland\", in addition to a weekly podcast on the parent iHeartRadio app, effective September 24. Rivera has been married five times: Rivera has admitted to having a multi-year affair until 1985 with Marian Javits, wife of New York Senator Jacob K. Javits. Rivera is a resident of Shaker Heights, Ohio. He previously resided in Middletown", "title": "Geraldo Rivera" }, { "docid": "2422143", "text": "the shuttle's prime contractor, additionally viewed the large amount of ice present on the pad as a constraint to launch. According to Ebeling, a second conference call was scheduled with only NASA & Thiokol management, excluding the engineers. For reasons that are unclear, Thiokol management disregarded its own engineers' warnings and now recommended that the launch proceed as scheduled; NASA did not ask why. Ebeling told his wife that night that \"Challenger\" would blow up. Ken Iliff, a former NASA Chief Scientist who had worked on the Space Shuttle Program since its first mission (and the X-15 program before that),", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "2422192", "text": "found at Cocoa Beach. Under it is against the law to be in possession of \"Challenger\" debris, and any newly discovered pieces must be turned over to NASA. On board \"Challenger\" was an American flag, dubbed the Challenger flag, that was sponsored by Boy Scout Troop 514 of Monument, Colorado. It was recovered intact, still sealed in its plastic container. A soccer ball from the personal effects locker of Mission Specialist Ellison Onizuka was also recovered intact from the wreckage, and was later flown to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz Expedition 49 by American astronaut Robert S. Kimbrough. It", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "8276029", "text": "their teachers, and Sandry has moved in with her great uncle, Duke Vedris, in the Duke's Citadel. They believe they're still too young to teach but the decision is not up to them. Each of the four finds someone, or some ones, with magic, and according to the rules they must become the teacher until a more suitable one can be found. Each of the four also encounters a series of crimes they feel obligated to stop, and they must balance their teaching responsibilities with aiding the law. The Circle Opens The Circle Opens is a quartet of novels written", "title": "The Circle Opens" }, { "docid": "2422162", "text": "the right-hand SRB was seen by a tracking camera, bearing the frustum and its location aids. The Thiokol engineers who had opposed the decision to launch were watching the events on television. They had believed that any O-ring failure would have occurred at liftoff, and thus were happy to see the shuttle successfully leave the launch pad. At about one minute after liftoff, a friend of Boisjoly said to him \"Oh God. We made it. We made it!\" Boisjoly recalled that when the shuttle was destroyed a few seconds later, \"we all knew exactly what happened.\" In Mission Control, there", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "6362691", "text": "Geraldo at Large Geraldo Rivera Reports, also known as Geraldo at Large, is an American television newsmagazine hosted by Fox News correspondent-at-large and former talk show host Geraldo Rivera. Debuting in national syndication on October 31, 2005 as a replacement for \"A Current Affair,\" the show had been on Fox News Channel in a slightly different format since July 6, 2002 as the program, \"At Large with Geraldo Rivera\". Rivera emphasized that the show would be about \"people.\" The program was seen by Rivera as a test for a potential evening newscast produced by the Fox News Channel. The program", "title": "Geraldo at Large" }, { "docid": "6362694", "text": "10 PM time slot. Geraldo at Large Geraldo Rivera Reports, also known as Geraldo at Large, is an American television newsmagazine hosted by Fox News correspondent-at-large and former talk show host Geraldo Rivera. Debuting in national syndication on October 31, 2005 as a replacement for \"A Current Affair,\" the show had been on Fox News Channel in a slightly different format since July 6, 2002 as the program, \"At Large with Geraldo Rivera\". Rivera emphasized that the show would be about \"people.\" The program was seen by Rivera as a test for a potential evening newscast produced by the Fox", "title": "Geraldo at Large" }, { "docid": "1370896", "text": "allegations that he pushed aside a member of a rescue team in order to be filmed \"assisting\" a woman in a wheelchair down some steps in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In the ensuing controversy, Rivera appeared on television and demanded a retraction from the \"Times\". He further threatened to sue the paper if one was not provided. In 2007, Geraldo was involved in a dispute with fellow Fox colleague Michelle Malkin. Malkin announced that she would not return to The \"O'Reilly Factor\", claiming that Fox News had mishandled a dispute over derogatory statements Rivera had made about her in", "title": "Geraldo Rivera" }, { "docid": "4600078", "text": "revamped service, which was modeled after similar Hillway shuttles on the N Judah line, runs during weekday morning rush hours. Although it nominally switches back at West Portal, service often instead uses a more reliable crossover at Taraval and 19th Avenue station. S Shuttle The S Shuttle is a light rail service on the Muni Metro system in San Francisco, California. The service began in 2001 as the S Castro Shuttle, an effort to reduce crowding at Castro station. It was briefly discontinued in 2007 when the T Third Street line was opened. Service was extended to St. Francis Circle", "title": "S Shuttle" }, { "docid": "15051815", "text": "hold typically lasted 10 minutes. This was the final built-in hold, and varied in length depending on the mission. Space Shuttle launch countdown The launch of Space Shuttle missions was governed by a countdown. Two clocks were maintained, the unofficial, but sometimes mentioned, L (launch) clock represented the time remaining before the scheduled launch in real time, and the more often referred to T (test) clock included several built-in holds where additional verifications were made. Built-in holds were extended if mission parameters allowed for additional checks or to correct issues. Launches of the Space Shuttle to the international space station", "title": "Space Shuttle launch countdown" }, { "docid": "2422148", "text": "after launch and correspond to the telemetry time-codes from the closest instrumented event to each described event. The Space Shuttle main engines (SSMEs) were ignited at T -- 6.6 seconds. The SSMEs were liquid-fueled and could be safely shut down (and the launch aborted if necessary) until the Solid Rocket Boosters ignited at T=0 (which was at 11:38:00.010 EST) and the hold-down bolts were released with explosives, freeing the vehicle from the pad. At lift off, the three SSMEs were at 100% of their original rated performance, and began throttling up to 104% under computer control. With the first vertical", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "495581", "text": "from the back of a specially modified Boeing 747, only for initial atmospheric landing tests (ALT). \"Enterprise\"'s first test flight was on February 18, 1977, only five years after the Shuttle program was formally initiated; leading to the launch of the first space-worthy shuttle \"Columbia\" on April 12, 1981 on STS-1. The Space Shuttle program finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by \"Atlantis\", in July 2011, retiring the final Shuttle in the fleet. The Space Shuttle program formally ended on August 31, 2011. Before the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, NASA began early studies of space shuttle designs.", "title": "Space Shuttle program" }, { "docid": "4600073", "text": "S Shuttle The S Shuttle is a light rail service on the Muni Metro system in San Francisco, California. The service began in 2001 as the S Castro Shuttle, an effort to reduce crowding at Castro station. It was briefly discontinued in 2007 when the T Third Street line was opened. Service was extended to St. Francis Circle station in 2013, but cut back to West Portal station in 2016. The service runs during rush hours with one-car or two-car trains depending on the availability of rolling stock. The designation of S Shuttle is also given to trains at other", "title": "S Shuttle" }, { "docid": "15051813", "text": "Space Shuttle launch countdown The launch of Space Shuttle missions was governed by a countdown. Two clocks were maintained, the unofficial, but sometimes mentioned, L (launch) clock represented the time remaining before the scheduled launch in real time, and the more often referred to T (test) clock included several built-in holds where additional verifications were made. Built-in holds were extended if mission parameters allowed for additional checks or to correct issues. Launches of the Space Shuttle to the international space station did not allow for holds to be extended due to the launch window which was limited to no more", "title": "Space Shuttle launch countdown" }, { "docid": "2872752", "text": "control, in order to limit the danger to people on the ground from crashing pieces, explosions, fire, poisonous substances, etc. The RSS was only activated once – during the Space Shuttle \"Challenger\" disaster (37 seconds after the breakup of the vehicle, when the SRBs were in uncontrolled flight). The shuttle vehicle had two RSSs, one in each SRB. Both were capable of receiving two command messages (arm and fire) transmitted from the ground station. The RSS was used only when the shuttle vehicle violates a launch trajectory red line. An RSS consists of two antenna couplers, command receivers/decoders, a dual", "title": "Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster" }, { "docid": "2422160", "text": "tank breakup was well within its structural limits). The two SRBs, which could withstand greater aerodynamic loads, separated from the ET and continued in uncontrolled powered flight. The SRB casings were made of half-inch-thick (12.7 mm) steel and were much stronger than the orbiter and ET; thus, both SRBs survived the breakup of the space shuttle stack, even though the right SRB was still suffering the effects of the joint burn-through that had set the destruction of \"Challenger\" in motion. The more robustly constructed crew cabin also survived the breakup of the launch vehicle, as it was designed to survive", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "378145", "text": "program decided to build a vehicle as a Structural Test Article, STA-099, that could later be converted to a flight vehicle. The contract for STA-099 was awarded to North American Rockwell on July 26, 1972, and construction was completed in February 1978. After STA-099's rollout, it was sent to a Lockheed test site in Palmdale, where it spent over 11 months in vibration tests designed to simulate entire shuttle flights, from launch to landing. To prevent damage during structural testing, qualification tests were performed to a safety factor of 1.2 times the design limit loads. The qualification tests were used", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger" }, { "docid": "11797968", "text": "In 1997–98 the team won the Great Lakes League Championship by defeating the Wallaceburg Lakers in the league final. Their loss to the Kincardine Bulldogs in the All-Ontario semifinals marked the 73's most successful season in a decade. In the 2001–02 season general manager Al Lemay brought aboard head coach Tony Piroski, who coached the team from 2001 to 2010. The 73's had great success under Piroski, and in his first season the 73’s won the Great Lakes League and the All-Ontario Title, defeating the Uxbridge Bruins in the finals. On September 27, 2003, 19-year-old forward Glen Ivancic was fatally", "title": "Essex 73's" }, { "docid": "2422154", "text": "the shuttle in the dense lower atmosphere, per normal operating procedure. At T+35.379, the SSMEs throttled back further to the planned 65%. Five seconds later, at about , \"Challenger\" passed through Mach 1. At T+51.860, the SSMEs began throttling back up to 104% as the vehicle passed beyond Max Q, the period of maximum aerodynamic pressure on the vehicle. Beginning at about T+37 and for 27 seconds, the shuttle experienced a series of wind shear events that were stronger than on any previous flight. At T+58.788, a tracking film camera captured the beginnings of a plume near the aft attach", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "2422229", "text": "named new schools posthumously in memory of each of the Apollo 1 astronauts and the final Space Shuttle \"Columbia\" crew.) Streets in a neighborhood established in the late-1980s in nearby Decatur are named in memory of each of the \"Challenger\" crew members (Onizuka excluded), as well as the three deceased Apollo 1 astronauts. Julian Harris Elementary School is located on McAuliffe Drive, and its mascot is the Challengers. The Squadron \"Challenger\" 17 is an Air Force unit in the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets that emphasizes athletic and academic success in honor of the \"Challenger\" crew. The unit was established", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "2422199", "text": "uncharacteristic stance for an agency that long prided itself on openness.\" The Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle \"Challenger\" Accident, also known as the Rogers Commission after its chairman, was formed to investigate the disaster. The commission members were Chairman William P. Rogers, Vice Chairman Neil Armstrong, David Acheson, Eugene Covert, Richard Feynman, Robert Hotz, Donald Kutyna, Sally Ride, Robert Rummel, Joseph Sutter, Arthur Walker, Albert Wheelon, and Chuck Yeager. The commission worked for several months and published a report of its findings. It found that the \"Challenger\" accident was caused by a failure in the O-rings sealing a joint", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "2422241", "text": "The song samples audio from NASA, a William S. Burroughs lecture, reactions of people witnessing the disaster and Ronald Reagan's national address. On June 27, 2015, the \"Forever Remembered\" exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Florida, opened and includes a display of a section of \"Challenger\"s recovered fuselage to memorialize and honor the fallen astronauts. The exhibit was opened by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden along with family members of the crew. On August 7, 2015 English singer-songwriter Frank Turner released his sixth album \"Positive Songs for Negative People\" which includes the song \"Silent Key\". The mountain range Challenger", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "19971370", "text": "Working on the Statue of Liberty Working on the Statue of Liberty, also known as Statue of Liberty, is a 1946 oil painting by American illustrator Norman Rockwell, showing workmen cleaning the torch held aloft by the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. The painting was created for the cover of an edition of \"The Saturday Evening Post\", published on 6 July 1946, from sketches that Rockwell made in March 1946. It depicts the cleaning of the amber-coloured glass of the torch, an operation undertaken annually each July. Rockwell focuses on just a small part of the Statue of", "title": "Working on the Statue of Liberty" }, { "docid": "388772", "text": "home on the island was severely damaged, stated that it would be \"optimistically ... months\" before the island was reopened to the public. The statue and Liberty Island reopened to the public on July 4, 2013. Ellis Island remained closed for repairs for several more months but reopened in late October 2013. For part of October 2013, Liberty Island was closed to the public due to the United States federal government shutdown of 2013, along with other federally funded museums, parks, monuments, construction projects and buildings. The statue and Liberty Island were briefly closed on July 4, 2018, due to", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "docid": "2422133", "text": "flaw could be fixed. After the 1984 launch of STS-41-D, flown by \"Discovery\", the first occurrence of hot gas \"blow-by\" was discovered beyond the primary O-ring. In the post-flight analysis, Thiokol engineers found that the amount of blow-by was relatively small and had not impinged upon the secondary O-ring, and concluded that for future flights, the damage was an acceptable risk. However, after the \"Challenger\" disaster, Thiokol engineer Brian Russell identified this event as the first \"big red flag\" regarding O-ring safety. By 1985, with seven of nine shuttle launches that year using boosters displaying O-ring erosion and/or hot gas", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "20036424", "text": "Space Capone Aaron Robert Winters (born November 6, 1982) better known by his stage name Space Capone, is an American recording artist, songwriter and record producer from Carthage, Indiana. Space Capone has released three albums, two independently: \"Vol. I: Transformation\" (2008) and \"Vol II: Arrival, Arousal\" (2010); and \"Space Capone\", through AVJ Records (2012). Winters grew up on a farm in Carthage, Indiana and was influenced by his father's vinyl record collection including Jim Croce, Eric Clapton, and country music and oldies. He didn't start writing songs and singing until he was 17. Winters attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio", "title": "Space Capone" }, { "docid": "1370892", "text": "uncovered was dirt. In a 2016 interview with the Chicago Tribune, Rivera commented, \"It was an amazingly high profile program — maybe the highest profile program I've ever been associated with.\" In 1987, Rivera began producing and hosting the daytime talk show \"Geraldo\", which ran for 11 years. The show featured controversial guests and theatricality, which led to the characterization of his show as \"Trash TV\" by \"Newsweek\" and two United States senators. One early show was titled \"Men in Lace Panties and the Women Who Love Them\". In 1988, he did a show about Satanism on October 24 that", "title": "Geraldo Rivera" }, { "docid": "2422231", "text": "of Palmdale, the birthplace of the entire shuttle fleet, and its neighbor City of Lancaster, California, both renamed \"10th Street East\", from Avenue M to Edwards Air Force Base, to \"Challenger Way\" in honor of the lost shuttle and its crew. This was the road that the \"Challenger\", \"Enterprise\", and \"Columbia\" all were towed along in their initial move from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 to Edwards AFB after completion since Palmdale airport had not yet installed the shuttle crane for placement of an orbiter on the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. In addition, the City of Lancaster has built Challenger", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "8488282", "text": "and payloads into low Earth orbits. It would afford the opportunity to conduct science experiments on board the shuttle to be used to study the effects of space flight on humans, animals and plants. Other experiments would study how things can be manufactured in space. The shuttle would also enable astronauts to launch satellites from the shuttle and even repair satellites already out in space. The Shuttle was also intended for research into the human response to zero-g. The Shuttle was originally billed as a space vehicle that would be able to launch once a week and give low launch", "title": "Criticism of the Space Shuttle program" }, { "docid": "14402760", "text": "explosion passes through several characters from previous episodes: the painting is created by Vincent van Gogh (Tony Curran) after his meeting with the Doctor (\"Vincent and the Doctor\"). The painting is found in 1941 by Winston Churchill (Ian McNeice) and Professor Bracewell (Bill Paterson) from \"Victory of the Daleks\", and River steals the painting from Liz 10 (Sophie Okonedo), who previously appeared in \"The Beast Below\". The recurring phrase \"silence will fall\" came to a head in the next series with the introduction of the alien species and organisation of the Silence. The read-through for \"The Pandorica Opens\" took place", "title": "The Pandorica Opens" }, { "docid": "3807977", "text": "one of the chalk drawings. Mary Poppins Opens the Door Mary Poppins Opens the Door is a British children's fantasy novel by the Australian-British writer P.L. Travers, the third book and last novel in the \"Mary Poppins\" series that features the magical English nanny Mary Poppins. It was published in 1943 by Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc and illustrated by Mary Shepard and Agnes Sims. On Guy Fawkes Night, Mary Poppins arrives in the wake of the last fireworks display by the Banks family. The Banks children Michael, Jane, the twins, and Annabel plead with her to stay. She reluctantly", "title": "Mary Poppins Opens the Door" }, { "docid": "3807971", "text": "Mary Poppins Opens the Door Mary Poppins Opens the Door is a British children's fantasy novel by the Australian-British writer P.L. Travers, the third book and last novel in the \"Mary Poppins\" series that features the magical English nanny Mary Poppins. It was published in 1943 by Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc and illustrated by Mary Shepard and Agnes Sims. On Guy Fawkes Night, Mary Poppins arrives in the wake of the last fireworks display by the Banks family. The Banks children Michael, Jane, the twins, and Annabel plead with her to stay. She reluctantly agrees to do so \"till", "title": "Mary Poppins Opens the Door" }, { "docid": "3185596", "text": "Space Shuttle external tank (ET) via the orbiter's main propulsion system (MPS), were ignited at T−6.6 seconds prior to liftoff (with each ignition staggered by 120 ms), which allowed their performance to be checked prior to ignition of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), which committed the shuttle to the launch. At launch, the engines would be operating at 100% RPL, throttling up to 104.5% immediately following liftoff. The engines would maintain this power level until around T+40 seconds, where they would be throttled back to around 70% to reduce aerodynamic loads on the shuttle stack as it passed", "title": "Space Shuttle main engine" }, { "docid": "378254", "text": "responsible for the overall preparation of the shuttle for launch and processing it after landing, and remained permanently assigned to head the spacecraft's ground crew while the astronaut flight crews changed for every mission. Each shuttle's Flow Director was supported by a Vehicle Manager for the same spacecraft. Space shuttle \"Endeavour\"'s Flow Directors were: \"Endeavour\" is currently housed in the Samuel Oschin Pavilion at the California Science Center in Exposition Park in South Los Angeles about two miles south of Downtown Los Angeles. A companion exhibit, \"\"Endeavour\": The California Story\", features images and artifacts that relate the shuttle program to", "title": "Space Shuttle Endeavour" }, { "docid": "2422191", "text": "were concluded. While some shallow-water recovery efforts continued, this was unconnected with the accident investigation; it aimed to recover debris for use in NASA's studies of the properties of materials used in spacecraft and launch vehicles. The recovery operation was able to pull of debris from the ocean; 55% of \"Challenger\", 5% of the crew cabin and 65% of the satellite cargo are still missing. Some of the missing debris continued to wash up on Florida shores for some years, such as on December 17, 1996, nearly 11 years after the incident, when two large pieces of the shuttle were", "title": "Space Shuttle Challenger disaster" }, { "docid": "14402769", "text": "both shots. The Cyberman is killed by Rory, who is unaware he is an Auton; this was meant to signify that there was something different about Rory, as he would have normally panicked in that situation. At the end of the episode Rory is overcome by the Nestene Consciousness's control and shoots Amy, which reflected Moffat's belief that all good love stories end in tragedy. \"The Pandorica Opens\" was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One and simulcast on BBC HD on 19 June 2010. For the first time in the series, the episode was not followed by", "title": "The Pandorica Opens" } ]
78559
Nov 25, 1867 saw Alfred Nobel patent what famous invention that led to the immense fortune that allowed him to endow the various prizes that bear his name?
[ "Dynamite", "Dynamited", "Dinamite" ]
[ { "docid": "4127", "text": "Alfred Nobel Alfred Bernhard Nobel (; ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. Known for inventing dynamite, Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Nobel held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. After reading a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, he bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him. His name also", "title": "Alfred Nobel" }, { "docid": "4149", "text": "prizes, suggesting they were intended to improve his reputation. Alfred Nobel Alfred Bernhard Nobel (; ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. Known for inventing dynamite, Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Nobel held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. After reading a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, he bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic", "title": "Alfred Nobel" }, { "docid": "5479643", "text": "held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. Nobel amassed a sizeable personal fortune during his lifetime, thanks mostly to this invention. In 1896 Nobel died of a stroke in his villa in San Remo, Italy where he had lived out the last years of his life. Nobel's will expressed a request, to the surprise of many, that his money be used for prizes in physics, chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine and literature. Though Nobel wrote several wills during his lifetime, the last was written a little over a year before he died, and signed at the Swedish-Norwegian Club", "title": "Nobel Foundation" }, { "docid": "284442", "text": "In 1894, Nobel purchased the Bofors iron and steel mill, which he made into a major armaments manufacturer. Nobel also invented ballistite. This invention was a precursor to many smokeless military explosives, especially the British smokeless powder cordite. As a consequence of his patent claims, Nobel was eventually involved in a patent infringement lawsuit over cordite. Nobel amassed a fortune during his lifetime, with most of his wealth coming from his 355 inventions, of which dynamite is the most famous. In 1888, Nobel was astonished to read his own obituary, titled \"The merchant of death is dead\", in a French", "title": "Nobel Prize" }, { "docid": "4133", "text": "explosives he was developing. Nobel invented dynamite in 1867, a substance easier and safer to handle than the more unstable nitroglycerin. Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally. In 1875 Nobel invented gelignite, more stable and powerful than dynamite, and in 1887 patented ballistite, a predecessor of cordite. Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University", "title": "Alfred Nobel" }, { "docid": "4140", "text": "published in Russia in another bilingual (Russian–Esperanto) edition. Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance like \"kieselguhr\" (diatomaceous earth) it became safer and more convenient to handle, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as \"dynamite\". Nobel demonstrated his explosive for the first time that year, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey, England. In order to help reestablish his name and improve the image of his business from the earlier controversies associated with the dangerous explosives, Nobel had also considered naming the highly powerful substance \"Nobel's Safety Powder\", but settled with Dynamite instead, referring to", "title": "Alfred Nobel" }, { "docid": "15397767", "text": "of industrialist and humanitarian Ludvig Nobel, the founder of Branobel and one of the world's richest men in his time. Ludvig was also the brother of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite and established five prizes in the family name. His legal last name was originally Nobel-Oleinikoff, but his father Sven Nobel-Oleinikoff would eventually change their branch's legal name to simply Nobel, his mother's name (there are no male-line descendants of either of the Nobel brothers alive today). Sven Nobel-Oleinikoff was Chairman of the Nobel Family Society for several years, as was his son. Michael Nobel has a lengthy educational background", "title": "Michael Nobel" } ]
[ { "docid": "890500", "text": "in a short sketch with the prizes referred to as the Alfred Nobel Peace Pools; in this sketch Watson was called \"Little J.D. Watson\" and \"Who'd have thought he'd ever get the Nobel Prize? Makes you think, doesn't it\". The germ of the joke was that Watson was only 25 when he helped discover DNA; much younger than the others. \"TW3\" was broadcast on Saturday night and attracted an audience of 12 million. It often under- or overran as cast and crew worked through material as they saw fit. At the beginning of the second season in the autumn of", "title": "That Was the Week That Was" }, { "docid": "5479644", "text": "in Paris on 27 November 1895. Nobel bequeathed 94% of his total assets, 31 million Swedish \"kronor\", to establish and endow the five Nobel Prizes. (As of 2008 that equates to 186 million US dollars.) The executors of his will were Ragnar Sohlman and Rudolf Lilljequist who formed the Nobel Foundation to take care of Nobel's fortune and organize the prizes. Although Nobel's will established the prizes, his plan was incomplete and, because of various other hurdles, it took five years before the Nobel Foundation could be established and the first prizes could be awarded on 10 December 1901 to,", "title": "Nobel Foundation" }, { "docid": "5658601", "text": "hand inspired German singer-songwriter Reinhard Mey to write a song of that name, appearing on his 1978 album \"Unterwegs\". The Bear That Wasn't The Bear That Wasn't is a 1946 children's book by film director and \"Looney Tunes\" alumnus Frank Tashlin. In 1947, a new audio version was issued by MGM Records: 78 RPM, 25 minutes across two sides, narrated by Keenan Wynn. In 1967, Tashlin's former Termite Terrace colleague Chuck Jones directed an animated short film based upon the book for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Incidentally, \"The Bear That Wasn't\" was the final animated short subject made by MGM and the second-to-last", "title": "The Bear That Wasn't" }, { "docid": "4136", "text": "of his wealth in trust, in order to fund the awards that would become known as the Nobel Prizes. He is buried in Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm. Through baptism and confirmation Alfred Nobel was Lutheran and during his Paris years he regularly attended the Church of Sweden Abroad, led by pastor Nathan Söderblom, who would in 1930 also be the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. However, he became an agnostic at youth and was an atheist later in life. Nobel travelled for much of his business life, maintaining companies in various countries in Europe and North America and keeping", "title": "Alfred Nobel" }, { "docid": "5658592", "text": "The Bear That Wasn't The Bear That Wasn't is a 1946 children's book by film director and \"Looney Tunes\" alumnus Frank Tashlin. In 1947, a new audio version was issued by MGM Records: 78 RPM, 25 minutes across two sides, narrated by Keenan Wynn. In 1967, Tashlin's former Termite Terrace colleague Chuck Jones directed an animated short film based upon the book for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Incidentally, \"The Bear That Wasn't\" was the final animated short subject made by MGM and the second-to-last animated project for MGM (\"The Phantom Tollbooth\" would be the last). This was also the last time that Tanner", "title": "The Bear That Wasn't" }, { "docid": "284446", "text": "testament read in Stockholm on 30 December 1896, a foundation established by Alfred Nobel would reward those who serve humanity. The Nobel Prize was funded by Alfred Nobel's personal fortune. According to the official sources, Alfred Nobel bequeathed from the shares 94% of his fortune to the Nobel Foundation that now forms the economic base of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Foundation was founded as a private organization on 29 June 1900. Its function is to manage the finances and administration of the Nobel Prizes. In accordance with Nobel's will, the primary task of the Foundation is to manage the", "title": "Nobel Prize" }, { "docid": "5658596", "text": "that he must be a \"silly man\", and works hard at the factory to the satisfaction of the foreman and the other bosses all of whom shake hands as the bear works. However, when winter comes again and he was freezing in the cold snow, he wishes that he was a bear, but in the end discards his human items and finds a cave and enters, feeling comfortable and bear-like once more. As the bear is sleeping, he reflects on the events of the year, as the narrator concludes that even though all the bosses and even the zoo bears", "title": "The Bear That Wasn't" }, { "docid": "16830034", "text": "Committee awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to Kilby \"for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit\". Noyce died in 1990 and thus could not be nominated; when asked during his life about the prospects of the Nobel Prize he replied \"They don't give Nobel Prizes for engineering or real work\". Because of the confidentiality of the Nobel nomination procedure, it is not known whether other IC inventors had been considered. Saxena argued that the contribution of Kilby was pure engineering rather than basic science, and thus his nomination violated the will of Alfred Nobel. The two-inventor version", "title": "Invention of the integrated circuit" }, { "docid": "5658595", "text": "whose face is never seen) of the factory who concludes he cannot be a bear because \"bears are only in a zoo or a circus; they're never inside a factory\". The bear is, by the president and his employees, taken to the zoo and hopes to gain support from his own species, but even the zoo bears claim that he is not a bear, because if he was \"he would be inside the cage here with us\" (in the animated version, a bear cub also repeats the exact same claim of the bear being a \"silly man\"). Eventually he concludes", "title": "The Bear That Wasn't" }, { "docid": "5658600", "text": "Tashlin's book inspired Swiss writer Jörg Steiner to create his children's book \"Der Bär, der ein Bär bleiben wollte\" (1976; German: \"The Bear Who Wanted to Stay a Bear\"), which was translated into English and published by Atheneum Books the next year as \"The Bear Who Wanted to Be a Bear\", whose cover states \"From an idea by Frank Tashlin\". A Belgian singer has also adopted the moniker \"The Bear That Wasn't\" for recording and released an album entitled \"And So It Is Morning Dew\" in 2010. The German book \"Der Bär, der ein Bär bleiben wollte\" on the other", "title": "The Bear That Wasn't" }, { "docid": "5047973", "text": "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street is Theodor Seuss Geisel's first children's book. It was published under the pen name Dr. Seuss. First published by Vanguard Press in 1937, the story follows a boy named Marco, who describes a parade of imaginary people and vehicles traveling along a road, Mulberry Street, in an elaborate fantasy story he dreams up to tell his father at the end of his walk. However, when he arrives home he decides instead to tell his father what he actually saw—a simple", "title": "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" }, { "docid": "4143", "text": "\"\" (\"The merchant of death is dead\") and went on to say, \"Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.\" Alfred (who never had a wife or children) was disappointed with what he read and concerned with how he would be remembered. On 27 November 1895, at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Nobel signed his last will and testament and set aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prizes, to be awarded annually without distinction of nationality. After taxes and bequests to individuals, Nobel's will allocated", "title": "Alfred Nobel" }, { "docid": "2567352", "text": "and classic music played in short clips. The player then has several seconds to correctly identify the tune. Prizes such as free ringtones were available, a first in the mobile industry. The game is often mentioned as a pioneer in the emerging wireless entertainment industry. Name That Tune Name That Tune is an American television game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of songs. Premiering in the United States on NBC Radio in 1952, the show was created and produced by Harry Salter and his wife Roberta. \"Name That Tune\" ran from 1953–59 on", "title": "Name That Tune" }, { "docid": "5658593", "text": "the Lion was used in a MGM logo. Despite being credited as a producer, Tashlin had no involvement in the short. Chuck Jones credited him as a producer, so if the film won the Oscar for Best Short, Tashlin would receive an Oscar (in those days, Oscars for Best Short were given to producers, not the director). Frank Tashlin was dissatisfied with this film adaptation of his own book, feeling that the film did not present its original message very well. A bear settles down for his hibernation, and while he sleeps the progress of man continues. He wakes up", "title": "The Bear That Wasn't" }, { "docid": "18022118", "text": "That Which That Orphan Saw That Which That Orphan Saw () is a novel by Iranian author Mohammad Reza Sarshar about the life of Mohammad, the prophet of Islam. Sarshar has attempted to describe the tumultuous and unique life of Mohammad in the novel. Muslims believe that Mohammad was the last prophet and the most complete human being. \"That Which That Orphan Saw\" has received numerous awards and has been reprinted many times in Iran. The idea for writing the novel came to Sarshar in 1980 because he believed that there were no valuable life stories about Mohammad available for", "title": "That Which That Orphan Saw" }, { "docid": "12997468", "text": "The Bear That Couldn't Sleep The Bear That Couldn't Sleep is a 1939 animated short film, directed by Rudolf Ising for MGM as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's \"Barney Bear\" series. Released with the movie \"6,000 Enemies\" by MGM on June 10, 1939, the short is notable for featuring the first appearance of Barney Bear. Ising created the character Barney Bear in the late 1930s for MGM at this time, basing the sleepy-eyed character partially on himself. As autumn draws to a close, and the first gentle blanket of snow covers the great brown forest, Barney Bear happily prepares for his nice", "title": "The Bear That Couldn't Sleep" }, { "docid": "14087662", "text": "his lifetime, the last was written a little over a year before he died, and signed at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris on 27 November 1895. Nobel bequeathed 94% of his total assets, 31 million Swedish \"kronor\" (US$198 million, Euro€176 million in 2016), to establish and endow the five Nobel Prizes. Due to the level of skepticism surrounding the will, it was not until April 26, 1897 that it was approved by the Storting (Norwegian Parliament). The executors of his will were Ragnar Sohlman and Rudolf Lilljequist, who formed the Nobel Foundation to take care of Nobel's fortune and organise", "title": "Nobel Prize in Chemistry" }, { "docid": "5658597", "text": "disbelieved that he was a bear, \"that did not make it so; the truth is he was not a silly man...and he was not a silly bear, either\". Though appearing as a children's book, this story takes a critical and satirical look at aspects of society. It revolves around the concept of people believing a repeated idea even though it may not be true. People have a tendency to shift their views if a concept is hammered into them over and over again, like the bear being told he is a \"silly man who needs a shave and wears a", "title": "The Bear That Wasn't" }, { "docid": "5658599", "text": "position, they revert to old habits – just like the bear hibernating. Whether something is fact or fiction, it is what it is and does not change – no matter how many people believe otherwise. The book also presents a visual satire of corporate culture. Each time the bear appears before a higher-ranking man in the corporation, the offices get progressively more elaborate (for example, progressively more phones, more waste-baskets, more secretaries, all according to rank). There are also progressively more chins and less hair on each higher-ranking person as the bear ascends all the way to the president's office.", "title": "The Bear That Wasn't" }, { "docid": "5658598", "text": "fur coat\". The bear eventually succumbs to this mistaken assumption, believing he \"is\" a man even though he had previously known otherwise, just as humans shift their views on a topic because of repetitive information, or because \"they all say it is true, therefore it must be\". Yet, in the end, the bear, who is cold in winter, reverts to what he \"really\" is – a bear – and finds shelter in a cave. This idea covers the concept of people never changing due to outside influence. Though a person may change for someone else, when placed in a difficult", "title": "The Bear That Wasn't" }, { "docid": "9328477", "text": "The Night That Made America Famous The Night That Made America Famous is a 1975 musical revue featuring the songs of Harry Chapin. The music consists of a combination of songs written for the musical and songs from Chapin's previous albums, the latter including \"What Made America Famous?\", a song about a plumber who rescues a group of hippies from a fire, which includes the lyric that gave the musical its title. Chapin appeared in the musical, alongside a cast that included a young Lynne Thigpen. Chapin's brothers Tom and Stephen, in addition to being featured performers, were also in", "title": "The Night That Made America Famous" }, { "docid": "13320935", "text": "on to say that the production incorporates \"sweet, understated fiddle and piano that interplay nicely with Strait's eloquent vocal performance.\" \"What Do You Say to That\" re-entered the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart at number 67 as an official single for the week of July 31, 1999. What Do You Say to That \"What Do You Say to That\" is a song written by Jim Lauderdale and Melba Montgomery. First recorded by David Ball on his album \"Play\", it was later recorded by George Strait on his album \"Always Never the Same\". Strait's version was released in", "title": "What Do You Say to That" }, { "docid": "18022122", "text": "acts on the recommendation of the priestess and finally kills 300 camels and Abdullah survives. Abdullah marries a woman and she gives birth to a son. He moves towards Sham and becomes sick near Yathrib and passes away in Yathrib. Consequently, Mohammad is born without a father. The promised prophet of the apocalypse is mentioned in different parts of the book. This book published to Urdo, Arabic and Turkish. Amazon website has published it. That Which That Orphan Saw That Which That Orphan Saw () is a novel by Iranian author Mohammad Reza Sarshar about the life of Mohammad, the", "title": "That Which That Orphan Saw" }, { "docid": "18022119", "text": "teenagers. The 8th reprinting was published in May 2013. The book was translated to English by James C. Klark. The first part of \"That Which That Orphan Saw\" starts with dream of Abdul-Muttalib in which he is ordered to dig the Zamzam Well. He finds the place to dig near Mecca which he about heard in his dream. The Quraysh are against digging the well and ask Abdul-Muttalib not to do this. Finally they agree to visit a priest and accept his judgement. The priest lives outside of Mecca. Some of the Quraysh head towards the place of the priest", "title": "That Which That Orphan Saw" }, { "docid": "9328478", "text": "the pit. The production was directed by Gene Frankel. It opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 26, 1975, after fourteen previews, and closed on April 5, 1975 after 47 performances. The Night That Made America Famous The Night That Made America Famous is a 1975 musical revue featuring the songs of Harry Chapin. The music consists of a combination of songs written for the musical and songs from Chapin's previous albums, the latter including \"What Made America Famous?\", a song about a plumber who rescues a group of hippies from a fire, which includes the lyric that gave", "title": "The Night That Made America Famous" }, { "docid": "5658594", "text": "to find himself in the middle of an industrial complex. He then gets mistaken by the foreman for a worker and is told to get to work. To this he responds, \"But I'm not a man, I'm a bear\". He is then taken to each of his successive bosses (general manager and the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st vice-presidents), all of whom tell him their own version of him being a \"silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat\", reaching all the way up to an elderly president (who in the animated version is depicted as a dwarf", "title": "The Bear That Wasn't" }, { "docid": "890499", "text": "who are hanging from the branches of the tree ...\") accompanied by minstrel singers in blackface (\"... we hate all the darkies and the Catholics and the Jews / Where we welcome any man / Who is strong and white and belongs to the Ku Klux Klan\"), thus parodying \"The Black and White Minstrel Show\", which was then being shown on the BBC despite accusations of racism over its use of blackface. On Saturday, 20 October 1962 the award of Nobel prizes to John Kendrew and Max Perutz, and to Francis Crick, James D. Watson, and Maurice Wilkins was satirised", "title": "That Was the Week That Was" }, { "docid": "7166866", "text": "The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name is a controversial poem by James Kirkup. It is written from the viewpoint of a Roman centurion who is graphically described having sex with Jesus after his crucifixion, and also claims that Jesus had had sex with numerous disciples, guards, and even Pontius Pilate. It was at the centre of the \"Whitehouse v. Lemon\" trial for blasphemous libel, where the editor of \"Gay News\", which first published in the poem in 1976, was convicted and given a suspended prison sentence. It was the last", "title": "The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name" }, { "docid": "7166867", "text": "successful blasphemy trial in the UK. The poem itself was considered of low artistic value, both by critics and the author himself. In 2002, a deliberate and well-publicised public repeat reading of the poem took place on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square, without any incidents. Kirkup criticized the politicizing of his poem. The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name is a controversial poem by James Kirkup. It is written from the viewpoint of a Roman centurion who is graphically described having sex with Jesus after his crucifixion,", "title": "The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name" }, { "docid": "13320934", "text": "What Do You Say to That \"What Do You Say to That\" is a song written by Jim Lauderdale and Melba Montgomery. First recorded by David Ball on his album \"Play\", it was later recorded by George Strait on his album \"Always Never the Same\". Strait's version was released in July 1999 as the third and final single from this album. It peaked at number 4 in the United States, and number 2 in Canada. Larry Flick, of \"Billboard\" magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a \"lovely little tune with a pretty melody and a positive lyric.\" He goes", "title": "What Do You Say to That" }, { "docid": "12997476", "text": "drops of water. He looks up, and discovers it is the melting snow from his roof, as the bluebird chirps us through iris out. Written by Johannes Brahms Played in the score Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy In the score for the spring sign Reprised when spring arrives Written by Henry Clay Work Played in the score Music by Jimmie Rodgers Played and sung on a record Music by Walter Donaldson<br>Lyrics by Gus Kahn Played in the score Written by Allan M. Hirsch Played on a record The Bear That Couldn't Sleep The Bear That Couldn't Sleep is a 1939 animated", "title": "The Bear That Couldn't Sleep" }, { "docid": "2567341", "text": "necklace, a grand piano, a home entertainment center, a pair of watches, a spa, a vacation, and seven days per year in perpetuity at a timeshare resort in Palm Springs. The runner up won a vacation package. For several weeks of non-tournament shows in late 1984, a \"Home Viewer Sweepstakes\" was held. The day's winner picked a name out of a drum, then randomly selected one of the above prizes. A Golden Medley win earned that prize for the home viewer. For the first two weeks of the 1984 daily \"Name That Tune\" series, fourteen $100,000 winners from the previous", "title": "Name That Tune" }, { "docid": "4147", "text": "chosen were more concerned with the former, the prizes went to scientists more often than engineers, technicians or other inventors. In 2001, Alfred Nobel's great-great-nephew, Peter Nobel (b. 1931), asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given \"in Alfred Nobel's memory\" from the five other awards. This request added to the controversy over whether the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is actually a legitimate \"Nobel Prize\". The \"Monument to Alfred Nobel\" (, ) in Saint Petersburg is located along the Bolshaya Nevka River on Petrogradskaya Embankment. It was dedicated", "title": "Alfred Nobel" }, { "docid": "12540841", "text": "that \"[the] description shall ... describe in detail at least one way of carrying out the invention claimed, using examples where appropriate and referring to the drawings, if any.\" In that respect, Disclosure of the invention under the European Patent Convention Article 83 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) relates to the disclosure of the invention under the European Patent Convention. This legal provision prescribes that a European patent application must disclose the invention (which is the subject of the European patent application) in a manner sufficiently clear and complete for it to be carried out by a person skilled", "title": "Disclosure of the invention under the European Patent Convention" }, { "docid": "516510", "text": "umbrage at the contents of the book. Sassoon's complaints mostly related to Graves's depiction of him and his family, whereas Blunden had read the memoirs of J. C. Dunn and found them at odds with Graves in some places. The two men took Blunden's copy of \"Good-Bye to All That\" and made marginal notes contradicting some of the text. That copy survives and is held by the New York Public Library. Graves's father, Alfred Perceval Graves, also incensed at some aspects of Graves's book, wrote a riposte to it titled \"To Return to All That.\" Good-Bye to All That Good-Bye", "title": "Good-Bye to All That" }, { "docid": "12540836", "text": "Disclosure of the invention under the European Patent Convention Article 83 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) relates to the disclosure of the invention under the European Patent Convention. This legal provision prescribes that a European patent application must disclose the invention (which is the subject of the European patent application) in a manner sufficiently clear and complete for it to be carried out by a person skilled in the art. In order to meet the requirements of Article 83 EPC, a European patent application must contain sufficient information to allow a person skilled in the art, using his common", "title": "Disclosure of the invention under the European Patent Convention" }, { "docid": "2567325", "text": "see both trees stripped clean. The game was featured on the syndicated series from 1975–77. Pick-a-Prize—Another game played only on the 1977 daytime series, this one had the contestants shown an assortment of prizes, then alternating between listening to tunes and trying to name them for a prize of their choice each time. The first player to name three tunes won the round and 10 points. Pick-a-Tune—Each tune would feature a list of words which included the words in the tune's title. Contestants eliminated words so that only the words in the title remained. This game was featured early in", "title": "Name That Tune" }, { "docid": "11976762", "text": "he looks miserable. Emily takes the rabbit and goes home, but before that she gives the golden teddy bear to the sad Queen and tells her to do everything with that bear, to go on adventures and sleep with him at night, until he becomes real. A while later, Emily gets a letter from the Queen that says \"Thank you\" and has a picture of the Queen holding her smiling bear. That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown is a children's picture book written by Cressida Cowell and illustrated by Neal Layton, published in 2006.", "title": "That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown" }, { "docid": "14602933", "text": "can not cast a vote unless the secretary is also a member of the Committee. Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel The Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is the prize committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and fills the same role as the Nobel Committees does for the Nobel Prizes. This means that the Committee is responsible for proposing laureates for the Prize. The Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is appointed by", "title": "Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" }, { "docid": "14602931", "text": "Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel The Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is the prize committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and fills the same role as the Nobel Committees does for the Nobel Prizes. This means that the Committee is responsible for proposing laureates for the Prize. The Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is appointed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It usually consists of Swedish professors of economics or", "title": "Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" }, { "docid": "4623023", "text": "Prize for Art and Science was Hitler's alternative to the Nobel Prize. The Ig Nobel Prize is an American parody of the Nobel Prize. Nobel Prize controversies After his death in 1896, the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prizes. Nobel's will specified that annual prizes are to be awarded for service to humanity in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. Similarly, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is awarded along with the Nobel Prizes. Since the first award in 1901, the prizes have occasionally engendered", "title": "Nobel Prize controversies" }, { "docid": "19523891", "text": "The two remaining contestants watch fragments of 16 movies. The players must name each movie in order. Failing to do this costs the player all winnings. Each player may skip one movie, handing it to the opponent to answer. Finalists are shown the freeze frames of seven movies. The players must name at least five of the seven movies. The winner may ask for \"unfreezing\" of the freeze frame, i.e. to show all the fragment, but this is only allowed once. The winner earns all winnings, earned by players during the entire game. Name That Movie Name That Movie ()", "title": "Name That Movie" }, { "docid": "14135612", "text": "drill that leaves the city deserted and undefended. They chance upon a civil defence truck and are mistaken for invading Martians, prompting an investigation by blustering but ineffectual General Snippet (MacDonald Parke). Puncturing the tyres of the general's jeep with their bows and arrows, the Fenwick troops take him and four NYPD officers hostage. Still looking for a place to surrender, Tully and Will stumble across Dr. Alfred Kokintz (David Kossoff), whose invention of the Q Bomb – capable of destroying an entire continent – has prompted the defense drills. He has built a football-sized prototype of the unstable bomb,", "title": "The Mouse That Roared (film)" }, { "docid": "4622904", "text": "Nobel Prize controversies After his death in 1896, the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prizes. Nobel's will specified that annual prizes are to be awarded for service to humanity in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. Similarly, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is awarded along with the Nobel Prizes. Since the first award in 1901, the prizes have occasionally engendered criticism and controversy. Nobel sought to reward \"those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind\". One prize, he", "title": "Nobel Prize controversies" }, { "docid": "19523889", "text": "Name That Movie Name That Movie () is a quiz show about Soviet movies where participants watch the movie and earn money for it. The grand prize is 90 000 rubles. The program premiered on April 25, 2016 on the Che. The quiz is hosted by Sergey Belogolovtsev. Three players participate. The host asks a question and they answer them by pressing the button before the other contestants. Correct answers win money. Incorrect answers do not. The amount increases in each round. At the end of three rounds the least successful player is dismissed and his money goes to the", "title": "Name That Movie" }, { "docid": "5048004", "text": "scenarios.\" \"McElligot's Pool\" also marks Marco's return as a main character in a Dr. Seuss book. When Geisel returned to Springfield in 1986 as part of a publicity tour he was greeted by dozens of children on Mulberry Street. Another group of children held up a banner that read, \"And to think that we saw him on Mulberry Street\". John Fogerty, frontman for the Creedence Clearwater Revival, has stated that the band's song \"Lookin' Out My Back Door\" was partly inspired by the book. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street And to Think That I Saw", "title": "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" }, { "docid": "18269490", "text": "possessed no fighting stuff,\" Until our fighting Yankee boys Walked in and called your bluff That Monte Cristo idea will not do If you think that the world belongs to you Well, tell that to the Marines-- Those deviling hounds who know what fighting means You are going to lick the world-- you said you will-- If you mean Uncle Sam, now listen Kaiser Bill: Tell that to the Marines The first to fight on all the fighting scenes If you think you'll sink our new boat With your damned old u-boat Tell that to the Marines That line of", "title": "Tell That to the Marines" }, { "docid": "4137", "text": "a permanent home in Paris from 1873 to 1891. He remained a solitary character, given to periods of depression. Though Nobel remained unmarried, his biographers note that he had at least three loves. Nobel's first love was in Russia with a girl named Alexandra, who rejected his proposal. In 1876 Austro-Bohemian Countess Bertha Kinsky became Alfred Nobel's secretary, but after only a brief stay she left him to marry her previous lover, Baron Arthur Gundaccar von Suttner. Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed", "title": "Alfred Nobel" }, { "docid": "13090068", "text": "of inventions, that the search may cover. The former time limit for paying the further search fees was a period the EPO specified as between two weeks and six weeks. Under new Rule 64 EPC, in force as of April 1, 2010,<ref name=\"CA/D-3/09-2.1\"> Decision of the Administrative Council of 25 March 2009 amending the Implementing Regulations to the European Patent Convention (CA/D 3/09), Article 2(1).</ref> the time limit for the further search fees is now two months. Responsibility for establishing whether or not a European patent application meets the requirements of unity of invention ultimately rests with the examining division.", "title": "Unity of invention under the European Patent Convention" }, { "docid": "11126633", "text": "art to determine if a given invention is both new (i.e. novel) and not obvious to a person of ordinary skill and creativity of the invention. Prior to the initiation of Peer To Patent, U.S. patent examiners had the sole responsibility for searching for prior art. Patent examiners have a time budget of a few hours in which to conduct such searches. Peer To Patent attempts to improve the patent process by markedly expanding the prior art search. The reasoning behind the project is that if prior art exists for an invention, particularly non-patent prior art, someone in the world", "title": "Peer-to-Patent" }, { "docid": "2567314", "text": "the Name That Tune Orchestra was supplemented by The Sound System, a rock music ensemble led by Dan Sawyer with Steve March as its featured vocalist. The dancers were done away with after one season but The Sound System, along with March, stayed on for the rest of the show's run. From 1976 onward, the show's title was \"The $100,000 Name That Tune\". This was done to reflect the addition of a six-figure bonus prize to the game, originally awarded for correctly guessing one song and later for winning a tournament of champions. \"Name That Tune\" returned to syndication as", "title": "Name That Tune" }, { "docid": "18269491", "text": "Hindenburg's would never break, you made a vow It must be made of rubber, Bill The way it's bending now The Krupp works that you bragged about You rave of them no more We'll change them to the bankrupt works when we end up this war So Kaiser Bill at warfare we are new If you think now the Yankee drive is through Well, tell that to the Marines Those deviling hounds who know what fighting means We are going to have six million men in line Kaiser Bill, if you don't think they will cross the Rhine Tell that", "title": "Tell That to the Marines" }, { "docid": "516507", "text": "reported to his family that he had died. While mourning his death, Graves's family received word from him that he was alive, and put an announcement to that effect in the newspapers. Graves later regretted omitting from the book the name of the soldier who had rescued him, Owen Roberts. The two met again fifty years later in a hospital ward to which both had been admitted for surgery and Graves signed Roberts' copy of the book, giving Roberts full credit for saving his life. The book contains a second-hand description of the killing of German prisoners of war by", "title": "Good-Bye to All That" }, { "docid": "2567342", "text": "series were brought back to compete for a second $100,000 in what was called the Super Champions tournament. The winner of that tournament was Elena Cervantes. \"Name That Video\" was a variation that aired from 2001–02 on VH1. The show was hosted by Karyn Bryant and featured contestants competing to name song titles by viewing the music video. \"Hast du Töne?\" (Do you have sound?), hosted by Matthias Opdenhövel, aired daily on VOX from 1999–2001. Gameplay was somewhat different from the U.S. version, but the final round was the same as the Golden Medley. \"Ugaday Melodiyu\" (Guess the Tune), hosted", "title": "Name That Tune" }, { "docid": "13514220", "text": "of prizes for those who confer the \"greatest benefit on mankind\" in physics, chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine, and literature. Though Nobel wrote several wills during his lifetime, the last was written a little over a year before he died, and signed at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris on 27 November 1895. Nobel bequeathed 94% of his total assets, 31 million Swedish \"kronor\" (US$198 million, €176 million in 2016), to establish and endow the five Nobel Prizes. Due to the level of scepticism surrounding the will, it was not until 26 April 1897 that the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) approved it.", "title": "Nobel Prize in Literature" }, { "docid": "3423280", "text": "the tea in England as fast as possible. A related expression in Hebrew can be found in a commentary on the Biblical commandment of the septennial sabbatical year. Leviticus 25:1 specifically states that God spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai; while this was a common location for God to speak to Moses, the text's explicit reference to it is very rare. Accordingly, Rashi's commentary begins with the question \"What is the connection between Shmita and Mount Sinai?\" (?מה עניין שמיטה אצל הר סיני) The question has since taken on a general meaning equivalent to that of the \"price of tea", "title": "What's that got to do with the...?" }, { "docid": "4135", "text": "is dead\")\". Nobel read the obituary and was appalled at the idea that he would be remembered in this way. His decision to posthumously donate the majority of his wealth to found the Nobel Prize has been credited at least in part to him wanting to leave a behind a better legacy. Accused of “high treason against France” for selling Ballistite to Italy, Nobel moved from Paris to Sanremo, Italy in 1891. On December 10, 1896, Alfred Nobel succumbed to a lingering heart ailment, suffered a stroke, and died. Unbeknownst to his family, friends or colleagues, he had left most", "title": "Alfred Nobel" }, { "docid": "13559937", "text": "Prize in Economics is not one of the Nobel Prizes, which were endowed by Alfred Nobel in his will. However, the nomination process, selection criteria, and awards presentation of the Prize in Economic Sciences are performed in a manner similar to that of the Nobel Prizes. Laureates are announced with the Nobel Prize laureates, and receive the award at the same ceremony. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the prize \"in accordance with the rules governing the award of the Nobel Prizes instituted through his [Alfred Nobel's] will,\" which stipulate that the prize be awarded annually to \"those who", "title": "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" }, { "docid": "5047977", "text": "man with a ten-foot beard. Now almost home, he snaps back to reality and rushes up the front steps, eager to tell his father his imagined story. However, when his father questions him about what he saw on his way home, his face turns red and he says, \"Nothing...but a plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street.\" Geisel was 33 and had ten years of experience in cartooning, illustrating and advertising when he began work on \"Mulberry Street\". He had an established and prosperous career in advertising, including a contract with Standard Oil for Flit bug spray. Geisel's popular campaign", "title": "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" }, { "docid": "284447", "text": "fortune Nobel left. Robert and Ludvig Nobel were involved in the oil business in Azerbaijan, and according to Swedish historian E. Bargengren, who accessed the Nobel family archives, it was this \"decision to allow withdrawal of Alfred's money from Baku that became the decisive factor that enabled the Nobel Prizes to be established\". Another important task of the Nobel Foundation is to market the prizes internationally and to oversee informal administration related to the prizes. The Foundation is not involved in the process of selecting the Nobel laureates. In many ways, the Nobel Foundation is similar to an investment company,", "title": "Nobel Prize" }, { "docid": "5711148", "text": "silent film by Pathé, with Robert Edeson and Jose Collins, a 1923 silent film by Famous Players-Lasky, and a 1939 film by Paramount, starring Ronald Colman as Heldar, with Muriel Angelus, Ida Lupino, and Walter Huston. The Light That Failed The Light That Failed is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling that was first published in \"Lippincott's Monthly Magazine\" dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes", "title": "The Light That Failed" }, { "docid": "17483976", "text": "The Barbed Wire Patent The Barbed Wire Patent Case, 143 U.S. 275 was a significant patent dispute in 1892 between plaintiff Joseph Glidden and the USPTO regarding the right of barbed wire. Lucian Smith was the original inventor in 1867 and held patent rights for it, while Glidden made changes to it in 1874 that he believed were novel enough to merit a new invention and thus new patent. Lucien B. Smith had first invented a basic form of barbed wire in 1867 and received the patent for it. Therefore, at the time he had exclusive rights to produce and", "title": "The Barbed Wire Patent" }, { "docid": "4622905", "text": "stated, should be given \"to the person who shall have made the most important 'discovery' or 'invention' within the field of physics\". Awards committees have historically rewarded discoveries over inventions: 77% of Nobel Prizes in physics have been given to discoveries, compared with only 23% to inventions. In addition, the scientific prizes typically reward contributions over an entire career rather than a single year. No Nobel Prize was established for mathematics and many other scientific and cultural fields. An early theory that jealousy led Nobel to omit a prize to mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler was refuted because of timing inaccuracies. Another", "title": "Nobel Prize controversies" }, { "docid": "18022121", "text": "years his dream comes true he decides to sacrifice one of his sons based on his covenant with God. His dearest son, Abdullah is chosen by chance to be sacrificed. When he tries to sacrifice his son they prohibit him and advise him to visit a priestess, as a neutral person, and accept her judgement. The priestess tells them to choose the sacrifice between Abdullah and certain number of camels by chance and increase the number of the camels by ten if Abdullah is chosen firstly. \"Repeat this up to the time the camels are chosen\", the priestess says. Abdul-Muttalib", "title": "That Which That Orphan Saw" }, { "docid": "6364660", "text": "just died in a plane crash in Canada. On 24 March 1944, the poem was issued by Marks to Violette Szabo, a French agent of Special Operations Executive who was eventually captured, tortured and killed by the Nazis. It was made famous by its inclusion in the 1958 movie about Szabo, \"Carve Her Name with Pride\", where the poem was said to be the creation of Violette's husband Etienne. (Marks allowed it to be used under the condition that its author not be identified.) The text of the poem: The Life That I Have The Life That I Have (sometimes", "title": "The Life That I Have" }, { "docid": "12540839", "text": "disclosure.<ref name=\"T63/06-headnote\">Decision T 63/06 of 24 June 2008, headnote.</ref> However, \"when the patent does not give any information of how a feature of the invention can be put into practice\" and if the opponent plausibly argues that \"common general knowledge would not enable the skilled person to put this feature into practice\", the burden of proof can be shifted to the patentee to show that \"common general knowledge would indeed enable the skilled person to carry out the invention.\" Depending upon the circumstances, an ambiguity in the claims (i.e. a lack of clarity under ) may very well lead to", "title": "Disclosure of the invention under the European Patent Convention" }, { "docid": "11126632", "text": "backlog of about 700,000 patent applications, which is one and a half times the highest number of applications the USPTO has processed in any given year. Peer To Patent is focused on helping patent offices perform high-quality examinations of pending patent applications by enlisting the public to help find \"and explain\" prior art. Prior art are references that predate the date of conception of at least some of the features of a given claimed invention. Prior art can include earlier patents, academic papers, magazine articles, web pages, and even physical examples. Patent examiners compare a claimed invention with the prior", "title": "Peer-to-Patent" }, { "docid": "15388724", "text": "an accident. Years after the incident, the leader of the group, Jinta Yadomi, has withdrawn from society, does not attend high school, and lives as a recluse. One summer day, the ghost of an older-looking Menma appears beside him and asks to have a wish granted, reasoning that she cannot pass on into the afterlife until it is fulfilled. At first, he only tries to help her minimally because he thinks he is hallucinating. But since Menma does not remember what her wish is, Jinta gathers his estranged friends together once again, believing that they are the key to resolving", "title": "Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day" }, { "docid": "11390729", "text": "War, Dynamit Nobel grew by acquiring smaller competitor companies to become the biggest explosive manufacturer in Europe. During the war, it employed prisoners of war in its factory (namely Russian prisoners in the factory of Dömitz). Without descendants, Alfred Nobel, decided that after his death his fortune would be used to create the Nobel foundation. This was done in 1900. Each year this foundation awards the Nobel Prize. The fortune of Nobel which was converted into shares that finance the Nobel foundation. After the end of the war, parts of the factory’s facilities were dismantled and after the enforcement of", "title": "Dynamit Nobel" }, { "docid": "15630347", "text": "buzz in and name the tune scored 10 points and answered a 10-point follow-up question. The two top scoring players at the end of this round played Bidding For Notes and the first player to score three tunes won a special prize and could win up to three more prizes. The player chose a band member, each of whom hid a prize to be won by naming a tune. The player could choose three band members. Name That Tune (UK game show) Name That Tune is a television game show that put two contestants against each other to test their", "title": "Name That Tune (UK game show)" }, { "docid": "13941742", "text": "and not obvious to a person of ordinary skill and creativity of the invention. Currently in Australia, patent examiners have the sole responsibility for searching for prior art. They have a time budget of a few hours. Peer-to-Patent attempts to improve the patent process by markedly expanding the prior art search. The reasoning behind the proposal is that if prior art exists for an invention, particularly non-patent prior art, someone in the world knows about it. This knowledgeable person may be competitors in the same field, students or professors, or owners of an earlier embodiment of the invention. Peer-to-Patent Australia", "title": "Peer-to-Patent Australia" }, { "docid": "12540838", "text": "patent application as filed, consisting in an insufficient identification of the subject-matter claimed, cannot subsequently be cured without offending against Article 123(2) EPC which provides that the subject-matter content of a European patent application as filed may not be extended. An insufficiently clear and complete disclosure of the invention is a ground of opposition, and revocation. Although the European Patent Convention does not exclude the patenting of \"revolutionary\" inventions,<ref name=\"T 1329/07\"> Decision T 1329/07 of the Technical Board of Appeal 3.4.02 of 11 November 2010, point 2.2.3</ref> The burden of proof generally lies upon an opponent to establish insufficiency of", "title": "Disclosure of the invention under the European Patent Convention" }, { "docid": "2567312", "text": "from 1970–71, which ran for 26 weeks in a small number of markets. However, the best-remembered syndicated \"Name That Tune\" aired once a week (expanded to twice a week for its final season) from 1974–81 with host Tom Kennedy. John Harlan was the show's announcer. This series was a Ralph Edwards production in association with Sandy Frank Productions, who distributed the series. The centerpiece of each \"Name That Tune\" series was an orchestra, which would play the songs for the contestants to guess. Bob Alberti was the conductor of the orchestra for the first season, with Tommy Oliver replacing him", "title": "Name That Tune" }, { "docid": "12997472", "text": "alarms blare on the soundtrack, and finally, he decides to unlock his front door, and then zips to the nearest snowhill and soothes his burnt rear in the calming snow. All better now, with the fire put out for good, Barney can only watch helplessly as the wind not only shuts his front door with him on the outside of it, but fate smacks him, too, by allowing the locks to engage themselves on its closure. Barney remembers his window, but does not remember the barricade that he built inside of it, and when he tries to dive through it,", "title": "The Bear That Couldn't Sleep" }, { "docid": "8704727", "text": "Loves the One (That Loves the Lord)\" at the start of his 1974 North American tour with Ravi Shankar. In addition to Jim Horn, the horn players on this live version were Tom Scott and Chuck Findley. Consistent with his perception of an anti-stardom message in the song, Leng writes of there being an \"immense [paradox]\" in Harrison's attitude to this highly publicised tour, since: \"here was one of the world's most famous musicians telling a leading writer from \"Rolling Stone\" that he'd 'gladly kiss it all good-bye' and purse his utterly sincere spiritual quest.\" On the first show of", "title": "The Lord Loves the One (That Loves the Lord)" }, { "docid": "13914362", "text": "to the League for £300. The book was extolled fulsomely by S.R. Thomas, of the NSW Department of Education, as follows; \"\"What Bird is That?\" is the most comprehensive and informative bird book published in the Commonwealth – if not in the world. The coloured plates are a triumph not only of the genius and imagination of the artist – our own Neville Cayley on whom has fallen so fittingly the mantle of his famous father – but also of the block-maker’s and printer’s art. The publishers have done nothing finer of its kind. The life-like portrayals of our feathered", "title": "What Bird is That?" }, { "docid": "284443", "text": "newspaper. As it was Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died, the obituary was eight years premature. The article disconcerted Nobel and made him apprehensive about how he would be remembered. This inspired him to change his will. On 10 December 1896, Alfred Nobel died in his villa in San Remo, Italy, from a cerebral haemorrhage. He was 63 years old. Nobel wrote several wills during his lifetime. He composed the last over a year before he died, signing it at the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris on 27 November 1895. To widespread astonishment, Nobel's last will specified that his fortune be", "title": "Nobel Prize" }, { "docid": "15551210", "text": "years while the drug is tested in the market, and that prize funds would not reward pharmaceuticals for producing different versions of drugs; “me-too” drugs. These variations are seen as part of the bigger problem by Senator Sanders. Prizes as an alternative to patents Some authors advocating patent reform have proposed the use of prizes as an alternative to patents. Critics of the current patent system, such as Joseph E. Stiglitz, say that patents fail to provide incentives for innovations which are not commercially marketable. Stiglitz provides the idea of prizes instead of patents to be awarded in order to", "title": "Prizes as an alternative to patents" }, { "docid": "7745571", "text": "Alfred Nobel died, in 1896, and his will was disclosed, the heirs of his eldest brother, Robert, displeased by the fact that the major part of their uncle's estate was bequeathed to the creation of the Nobel Foundation and of the Nobel Prizes, started a legal action to invalidate it. Emanuel Nobel, however, as head of the younger branch of the family, played a fundamental role in supporting the execution of his uncle's wishes, pleading even before King Oscar II, and an agreement with Robert Nobel's heirs was reached in 1898, thus allowing the creation of the Nobel Prizes. Like", "title": "Emanuel Nobel" }, { "docid": "13559934", "text": "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, is an award for outstanding contributions to the field of economics, and generally regarded as the most prestigious award for that field. The award's official name is The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (). The prize was established in 1968 by a donation from Sweden's central bank the Riksbank to the Nobel Foundation to commemorate the bank's 300th anniversary. As it is not one of the prizes that Alfred Nobel established in", "title": "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" }, { "docid": "284444", "text": "used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the \"greatest benefit on mankind\" in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. Nobel bequeathed 94% of his total assets, 31 million SEK (c. US$186 million, €150 million in 2008), to establish the five Nobel Prizes. Because of skepticism surrounding the will, it was not until 26 April 1897 that it was approved by the Storting in Norway. The executors of Nobel's will, Ragnar Sohlman and Rudolf Lilljequist, formed the Nobel Foundation to take care of Nobel's fortune and organised the award of prizes. Nobel's instructions named a", "title": "Nobel Prize" }, { "docid": "2567311", "text": "Name That Tune Name That Tune is an American television game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of songs. Premiering in the United States on NBC Radio in 1952, the show was created and produced by Harry Salter and his wife Roberta. \"Name That Tune\" ran from 1953–59 on NBC and CBS in prime time. The first hosts were Red Benson and later Bill Cullen, but George DeWitt became most identified with the show. The series finished at #30 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1956–57 season. Richard Hayes also emceed a local edition", "title": "Name That Tune" }, { "docid": "15795177", "text": "number 25 and by its fourth week, \"Cheers (Drink to That)\" rose again to number 17, giving Rihanna her twenty-second top-twenty single on the chart. In its fifth week, the song rose to number 11, where it remained in its sixth week. On its seven-week, the song charted at number 10, its current peak. \"Cheers\" (Drink To That) also debuted on the US Pop Songs chart at number 35 in the issue dated August 3, 2011. The following week, the song climbed ten positions to a new peak of 25, and became that week's \"Greatest Gainer\" on the chart and", "title": "Cheers (Drink to That)" }, { "docid": "3695368", "text": "wishes to become human, but its protagonist chooses to cross each barrier as he becomes aware of it, never learning until the very end what makes an individual human. The title references Psalm 8:4: \"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?\" The conclusion in which the two robots talk about humanity bears a similarity to the Mark Twain story \"What Is Man?\", in which two persons talk about mankind. It is unknown if this is a coincidence, but given Asimov's passion for reading, it is reasonable to assume that", "title": ". . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him" }, { "docid": "6165031", "text": "say exactly what they had seen. Those who returned saw nothing of those unlucky enough to be left behind, only empty marsh, many water lizards, and most disturbingly, the missing idol. Ever since then, Bokrug remained the chief god in the land of Mnar. The influence of Lord Dunsany on the story can be seen in the reference to a throne \"wrought of one piece of ivory, though no man lives who knows whence so vast a piece could have come\", which evokes the gate \"carved out of one solid piece\" of ivory in Dunsany's \"Idle Days on the Yann\".", "title": "The Doom that Came to Sarnath" }, { "docid": "2567332", "text": "the champion returned the next day and played until s/he had won five times or had been defeated. Any champion that made it to a fifth day won a car. Later in the run, corresponding with the change to five tunes, a champion was required to win the Golden Medley in order to return the next day. The car was awarded if the champion successfully completed the Golden Medley four times. In the Kennedy syndicated series, each tune was worth $500 in cash and/or prizes (usually, a contestant who got six won a car on the nighttime version), and any", "title": "Name That Tune" }, { "docid": "2567343", "text": "by Valdis Pelšs, aired daily on ORT from 1995–99. It was produced by the VID TV Company. The version was presented like the German version. Later, the series was presented as \"Ugadai i kompaniya\" (Guess and company) called \"Ugadaika\" (Guessing), by Pelsh also, but it was not as successful as the first version. In 2003, the program was revived and aired for two years on Channel One Russia. Gameplay remained the same and the only difference was the size of prizes. On the 2nd of January 2013 the program was again revived. \"Qual é a Música?\" (\"What Song Is It?\"", "title": "Name That Tune" }, { "docid": "2567339", "text": "prizes for a correct answer, and correctly guessing all seven won a trip. Any contestant that won the Golden Medley over the course of a month returned at the end of the month to play in the $100,000 Tournament of Champions. Each tournament episode varied in the number of contestants playing, depending on how many players qualified for the tournament. If more than two players were playing on any particular episode, a qualifying round was played in lieu of Melody Roulette, and the first two players to identify two tunes advanced to the next round. The two players then played", "title": "Name That Tune" }, { "docid": "15551201", "text": "assert that until generic versions of drugs reach the shelves, which occurs after a patent expires, the costs burden consumers due to prices not being dictated by the markets. These burdens are overwhelming in developing countries and Stiglitz suggests they be lowered by offering prizes instead of patents. Stiglitz discusses the idea of using foreign aid assistance funds to finance prizes as it would provide greater foreign aid than what funds are being used for currently. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont put forward legislation in the United States Senate in 2005 and 2007 under H.R. 417 and S.2210. Sanders has", "title": "Prizes as an alternative to patents" }, { "docid": "8499295", "text": "voice of the old beggar from the beginning of the first book, who is in fact the Creator of the Land. The Creator thanks Covenant for saving his creation and asks him what reward he might accept. Excitedly, Covenant asks the Creator to save Foamfollower, but the Creator regretfully tells Covenant \"in a tone of ineffable rue\" that even he cannot undo something that has already occurred: otherwise the Arch of Time, the fundamental structure underlying the Land's universe, will be destroyed. The Creator explains that this restriction, in fact, is what prevented him from dealing with Foul directly: he", "title": "The Power that Preserves" }, { "docid": "13941741", "text": "is the state of the art, or the technology in existence, immediately before the priority date, which is usually the date that the patent application is filed. In other words, to justify the grant of a patent, an invention must not have been seen before and must be inventive in the eyes of someone skilled in the relevant art when compared with the existing technology. Prior art can include earlier patents, academic papers, magazine articles, web pages, and even physical examples. Patent examiners compare a claimed invention with the prior art to determine if a given invention is both novel", "title": "Peer-to-Patent Australia" }, { "docid": "3695364", "text": "Research designs a new series of robots, the JG series, nicknamed \"George\", to investigate the problem. The intent is that the George machines will begin by obeying all orders and gradually learn to discriminate rationally, thus becoming able to function in Earth's society. As their creator explains to George Ten, the Three Laws refer to \"human beings\" without further elaboration, but—quoting Psalm 8:4—\"What is Man that thou art mindful of Him?\" George Ten considers the issue and informs his creator that he cannot progress further without conversing with George Nine, the robot constructed immediately before him. Together, the two Georges", "title": ". . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him" }, { "docid": "2567336", "text": "twelfth was taking a 52-day Mediterranean cruise at the time, which was one of the Golden Medley prizes). In the first two weeks, five or six players competed in an otherwise normal game, except that in \"Melody Roulette\", only the first two players to answer two tunes continued, and the \"Golden Medley\" was turned into a competitive game called \"Golden Medley Showdown\" (the clock stopped when either player buzzed in or five seconds elapsed) worth 20 points, while \"Sing a Tune\" and \"Bid a Note\" each scored 10 points. The two winners came back on the third week, playing \"Melody", "title": "Name That Tune" } ]
78561
In Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe, what does the title character name the native he befriends?
[ "Parasceve", "Prosábbaton", "Frigg's Day", "TGIFF", "Friday", "Thank Goodness It's Friday", "Frigg's day", "Prosabbaton", "Friday the 12th", "Fryeeday" ]
[ { "docid": "3282029", "text": "Friday (Robinson Crusoe) Friday is one of the main characters of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel \"Robinson Crusoe\". Robinson Crusoe names the man Friday, with whom he cannot at first communicate, because they first meet on that day. The character is the source of the expression \"Man Friday\", used to describe a male personal assistant or servant, especially one who is particularly competent or loyal. Current usage also includes \"Girl Friday\". It is possible that a Misquito pirate by the name of Will became the inspiration for the character \"Friday\". Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on an island off the coast", "title": "Friday (Robinson Crusoe)" }, { "docid": "3282034", "text": "it and may have popularised it. Friday's relationship with Robinson Crusoe has been the subject of academic analysis. Friday (Robinson Crusoe) Friday is one of the main characters of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel \"Robinson Crusoe\". Robinson Crusoe names the man Friday, with whom he cannot at first communicate, because they first meet on that day. The character is the source of the expression \"Man Friday\", used to describe a male personal assistant or servant, especially one who is particularly competent or loyal. Current usage also includes \"Girl Friday\". It is possible that a Misquito pirate by the name of Will", "title": "Friday (Robinson Crusoe)" }, { "docid": "11794137", "text": "Crusoe (TV series) Crusoe is a television adventure-Drama (with comedic elements) series, based loosely on the novel \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008–2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a man who has been shipwrecked on an island for six years and is desperate to return home to his wife and children. His lone companion is Friday, a native whom Crusoe rescued and taught English. Other characters include James Crusoe (Sean Bean), Samuel Tuffley (Mark Dexter), Nathan West (Kieran Bew), Mary Crusoe (Emma Barnett),", "title": "Crusoe (TV series)" }, { "docid": "11794142", "text": "VTC7-Today TV from April 26 to June 7, 2009. Hulu offered all 13 episodes from Season 1 until September 19, 2010. Crusoe (TV series) Crusoe is a television adventure-Drama (with comedic elements) series, based loosely on the novel \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008–2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a man who has been shipwrecked on an island for six years and is desperate to return home to his wife and children. His lone companion is Friday, a native whom Crusoe rescued and", "title": "Crusoe (TV series)" }, { "docid": "658515", "text": "whilst the captain describes him as the \"governor\" to the mutineers. At the very end of the novel the island is explicitly referred to as a \"colony\". The idealised master-servant relationship Defoe depicts between Crusoe and Friday can also be seen in terms of cultural imperialism. Crusoe represents the \"enlightened\" European whilst Friday is the \"savage\" who can only be redeemed from his barbarous way of life through assimilation into Crusoe's culture. Nonetheless Defoe also takes the opportunity to criticise the historic Spanish conquest of South America. According to J. P. Hunter, Robinson is not a hero but an everyman.", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "658534", "text": "novel itself. The libretto was by Eugène Cormon and Hector-Jonathan Crémieux. There is a 1927 silent film titled \"Robinson Crusoe\". The Soviet 3D film \"Robinson Crusoe\" was produced in 1947. Luis Buñuel directed \"Adventures of Robinson Crusoe\" starring Dan O'Herlihy, released in 1954. Walt Disney later comedicized the novel with \"Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.\", featuring Dick Van Dyke. In this version, Friday became a beautiful woman, but named 'Wednesday' instead. Peter O'Toole and Richard Roundtree co-starred in a 1975 film \"Man Friday\" which sardonically portrayed Crusoe as incapable of seeing his dark-skinned companion as anything but an inferior creature, while", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "12965343", "text": "not know whether Crusoe or Defoe represented him in the lecture. By contrast, he clearly identified himself with Barton in \"Foe\": \"the \"un\"successful author—worse, author\"ess\".\" Foe (novel) Foe is a 1986 novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. Woven around the existing plot of \"Robinson Crusoe\", \"Foe\" is written from the perspective of Susan Barton, a castaway who landed on the same island inhabited by \"Cruso\" and Friday as their adventures were already underway. Like \"Robinson Crusoe\", it is a frame story, unfolded as Barton's narrative while in England attempting to convince the writer Daniel Foe to help", "title": "Foe (novel)" }, { "docid": "15824808", "text": "In the Robinson Crusoe economy, there is only one individual – Robinson Crusoe himself. He acts both as a producer to maximise profits, as well as consumer to maximise his utility. The possibility of trade can be introduced by adding another person to the economy. This person is Crusoe's friend, Man Friday. Although in the novel he plays the role of Crusoe's servant, in the Robinson Crusoe economy he is considered as another actor with equal decision making abilities as Crusoe. Along with this, conditions of Pareto Efficiency can be analysed by bringing in the concept of the Edgeworth box.", "title": "Robinson Crusoe economy" }, { "docid": "658535", "text": "Friday is more enlightened and sympathetic. In 1988, Aidan Quinn portrayed Robinson Crusoe in the film \"Crusoe\". A 1997 movie entitled \"Robinson Crusoe\" starred Pierce Brosnan and received limited commercial success. Variations on the theme include the 1954 \"Miss Robin Crusoe\", with a female castaway, played by Amanda Blake, and a female Friday, and the 1964 film \"Robinson Crusoe on Mars\", starring Paul Mantee, with an alien Friday portrayed by Victor Lundin and an added character played by Adam West. The 2000 film \"Cast Away\", with Tom Hanks as a FedEx employee stranded on an Island for many years, also", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "6687331", "text": "Robinson Crusoé Robinson Crusoé is an opéra comique, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Eugène Cormon and Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, who took its theme from the novel \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel Defoe, though the work owes more to British pantomime than to the book itself. \"Robinson Crusoé\" was first staged at the Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart), on 23 November 1867 with Vendredi, the 'Man Friday' role, sung by Célestine Galli-Marié, later to achieve fame as the first Carmen. At the Crusoé family home in Bristol, Sunday tea is served. Robinson confides in Toby that he has booked", "title": "Robinson Crusoé" }, { "docid": "6687336", "text": "Sandra Browne (Man Friday). Notes Sources Robinson Crusoé Robinson Crusoé is an opéra comique, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Eugène Cormon and Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, who took its theme from the novel \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel Defoe, though the work owes more to British pantomime than to the book itself. \"Robinson Crusoé\" was first staged at the Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart), on 23 November 1867 with Vendredi, the 'Man Friday' role, sung by Célestine Galli-Marié, later to achieve fame as the first Carmen. At the Crusoé family home in Bristol, Sunday tea is served. Robinson confides", "title": "Robinson Crusoé" }, { "docid": "10390546", "text": "a deserted island on a bet. He intends to re-create civilization (in the form of New York) and carves a comfortable home, complete with a sign reading 52nd Street and Park Avenue out of the jungle. Drexel is joined by his dog, and befriended by a native monkey, parrot, and a wild goat that is captured in one of his traps. He attempts to cultivate a \"head-hunter\" native as his Man Friday from Robinson Crusoe, but fails as the native escapes. A woman played by actress Maria Alba runs away from a marriage she does not want on a neighboring", "title": "Mr. Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "16661536", "text": "When the show aired in the US it was the 13th highest rated show of the week. Robinson Crusoe (1974 television film) Robinson Crusoe is a 1974 television film version of the story by Daniel Dafoe starring Stanley Baker in the title role and Ram John Holder as Friday. In the UK, it was first broadcast in the BBC's \"Play of the Month\" on 27 November 1974. In the USA it was broadcast on NBC. Shooting took place on location at Tobago in the West Indies. Director James MacTaggart died of a heart attack shortly after filming and Stanley Baker", "title": "Robinson Crusoe (1974 television film)" }, { "docid": "16661535", "text": "Robinson Crusoe (1974 television film) Robinson Crusoe is a 1974 television film version of the story by Daniel Dafoe starring Stanley Baker in the title role and Ram John Holder as Friday. In the UK, it was first broadcast in the BBC's \"Play of the Month\" on 27 November 1974. In the USA it was broadcast on NBC. Shooting took place on location at Tobago in the West Indies. Director James MacTaggart died of a heart attack shortly after filming and Stanley Baker died of cancer in 1976. The budget was £300,000. \"The Sunday Times\" called it a \"superb production\".", "title": "Robinson Crusoe (1974 television film)" }, { "docid": "3924591", "text": "also published the pamphlet titled \"The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr. D––– De F____, of London, Hosier\" (1719) just after \"The Farther Adventure of Robinson Crusoe\". This hilarious pamphlet includes the dialogue between Defoe and his characters Robinson Crusoe and Friday, in which Gildon exposes narrative inconsistencies in the novel. In the ending of this pamphlet, Crusoe and Friday made Defoe swallow his own big books as a punishment for his unfair depiction of characters, saying \"if you will make such large Compositions, you must take them for your Pains\". Daniel Defoe defends himself against Gildon's attacks in", "title": "Charles Gildon" }, { "docid": "658526", "text": "episode. It has inspired a new genre, the Robinsonade, as works like Johann David Wyss' \"The Swiss Family Robinson\" (1812) adapt its premise and has provoked modern postcolonial responses, including J. M. Coetzee's \"Foe\" (1986) and Michel Tournier's \"Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique\" (in English, \"Friday, or, The Other Island\") (1967). Two sequels followed, Defoe's \"The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe\" (1719) and his \"Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world\" (1720). Jonathan Swift's \"Gulliver's Travels\" (1726) in part parodies Defoe's adventure novel. The book proved so popular", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "658512", "text": "marooned man named only as Will, of the Miskito people of Central America, who may have led to the depiction of Man Friday. Arthur Wellesley Secord in his \"Studies in the Narrative Method of Defoe\" (1963: 21–111) analyses the composition of \"Robinson Crusoe\" and gives a list of possible sources of the story, rejecting the common theory that the story of Selkirk is Defoe's only source. The book was published on 25 April 1719. Before the end of the year, this first volume had run through four editions. By the end of the nineteenth century, no book in the history", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "12196675", "text": "\"Araucanian\" whom he names as Friday. Because of the deep change that happens in Crusoe during the stay, he finally does not want to return from the island, while Friday does. Friday, or, The Other Island Friday, or, The Other Island () is a 1967 novel by French writer Michel Tournier. It retells Daniel Defoe's \"Robinson Crusoe\". The first edition of the book was published 15 March 1967. It won that year's Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. In 1971, Tournier rewrote the book, adapting it for younger readers, under the title \"Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage\". The young", "title": "Friday, or, The Other Island" }, { "docid": "6109681", "text": "Autodidactus\" inspired Robert Boyle, an acquaintance of Pococke, to write his own philosophical novel set on a deserted island, \"The Aspiring Naturalist\". Ibn al-Nafis' \"Theologus Autodidactus\" was also eventually translated into English in the early 20th century. Published in 1719, Daniel Defoe's novel \"Robinson Crusoe\" about a castaway on a desert island has spawned so many imitations in film, television and radio that its name was used to define a genre, Robinsonade. The novel features Man Friday, Crusoe's personal assistant. It is likely that Defoe took inspiration for Crusoe from a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk, who was rescued in", "title": "Desert island" }, { "docid": "658531", "text": "it over and over again, and considers a man but poorly read if he had happened not to read the book. French novelist Michel Tournier published \"Friday, or, The Other Island\" (French \"Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique\") in 1967. His novel explores themes including civilization versus nature, the psychology of solitude, as well as death and sexuality in a retelling of Defoe's \"Robinson Crusoe\" story. Tournier's Robinson chooses to remain on the island, rejecting civilization when offered the chance to escape 28 years after being shipwrecked. Likewise, in 1963, J. M. G. Le Clézio, winner of the 2008 Nobel", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "17969396", "text": "a relatively happy life. But then he discovers that he is not alone on the island: a pretty young native, whom he calls Friday, joins him, and things start to be more complicated. Mr. Robinson (film) Mr. Robinson (, also known as \"Robinson Jr.\") is a 1976 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Corbucci. It is a parody of the Daniel Defoe's novel \"Robinson Crusoe\". The Milanese fashion guru Roberto Minghelli embarks with his wife on a cruise. One morning he wakes up in a now-sunken ship but is able to escape to an island, where he finds an abandoned", "title": "Mr. Robinson (film)" }, { "docid": "658520", "text": "to illustrate the theory of production and choice in the absence of trade, money and prices. Crusoe must allocate effort between production and leisure and must choose between alternative production possibilities to meet his needs. The arrival of Friday is then used to illustrate the possibility of trade and the gains that result. Tim Severin's book \"Seeking Robinson Crusoe\" (2002) unravels a much wider range of potential sources of inspiration. Severin concludes his investigations by stating that the real Robinson Crusoe figure was Henry Pitman, a castaway who had been surgeon to the Duke of Monmouth. Pitman's short book about", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "12196674", "text": "Friday, or, The Other Island Friday, or, The Other Island () is a 1967 novel by French writer Michel Tournier. It retells Daniel Defoe's \"Robinson Crusoe\". The first edition of the book was published 15 March 1967. It won that year's Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. In 1971, Tournier rewrote the book, adapting it for younger readers, under the title \"Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage\". The young Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on a desert island that he names \"Speranza\" (Hope). Crusoe tries to civilize and control the nature of the island, but is redeemed by the appearance of", "title": "Friday, or, The Other Island" }, { "docid": "658505", "text": "has granted him much wealth. In conclusion, he transports his wealth overland to England from Portugal to avoid travelling by sea. Friday accompanies him and, \"en route\", they endure one last adventure together as they fight off famished wolves while crossing the Pyrenees. There were many stories of real-life castaways in Defoe's time, most famous, Defoe's suspected inspiration for \"Robinson Crusoe\" is thought to be from Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years on the uninhabited island of Más a Tierra (renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966) in the Juan Fernández Islands off the Chilean coast. Selkirk was rescued", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "5856544", "text": "the lit fuse and also dies in the explosion. At Skipper's funeral Crusoe gains a deeper appreciation for Friday's religion. Later Crusoe decides they must leave the island due to an impending attack by the native tribe. Friday mentions that he has heard of New Britain. He says he cannot take Crusoe to his home island because he is considered dead for being a sacrifice and he cannot go to New Britain because the Europeans enslave his people. Friday subsequently learns that \"Master\" is not Crusoe's real name, but an indicator of enslavement and once again leaves Crusoe, who subsequently", "title": "Robinson Crusoe (1997 film)" } ]
[ { "docid": "1360273", "text": "sailed into Hamburg (18 September), and Hague. He arrived at London on 10 January 1705, having been gone from England ten years and nine months. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as \"\"The Further adventures of Robinson Crusoe\"\") is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Just as in its significantly more popular predecessor, \"Robinson Crusoe\" (1719), the first edition credits the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author. It was published under the considerably longer original title: \"The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second", "title": "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "1360265", "text": "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as \"\"The Further adventures of Robinson Crusoe\"\") is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Just as in its significantly more popular predecessor, \"Robinson Crusoe\" (1719), the first edition credits the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author. It was published under the considerably longer original title: \"The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And of the Strange Surprising Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe.\" Although intended to be", "title": "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "15824830", "text": "to consume and produce independently. University Courses Articles Robinson Crusoe economy A Robinson Crusoe economy is a simple framework used to study some fundamental issues in economics. It assumes an economy with one consumer, one producer and two goods. The title \"Robinson Crusoe\" is a reference to the novel of the same name authored by Daniel Defoe in 1719. As a thought experiment in economics, many international trade economists have found this simplified and idealized version of the story important due to its ability to simplify the complexities of the real world. The implicit assumption is that the study of", "title": "Robinson Crusoe economy" }, { "docid": "15824806", "text": "Robinson Crusoe economy A Robinson Crusoe economy is a simple framework used to study some fundamental issues in economics. It assumes an economy with one consumer, one producer and two goods. The title \"Robinson Crusoe\" is a reference to the novel of the same name authored by Daniel Defoe in 1719. As a thought experiment in economics, many international trade economists have found this simplified and idealized version of the story important due to its ability to simplify the complexities of the real world. The implicit assumption is that the study of a one agent economy will provide useful insights", "title": "Robinson Crusoe economy" }, { "docid": "5856539", "text": "Robinson Crusoe (1997 film) Robinson Crusoe is a 1997 American adventure survival drama film directed by Rod Hardy and George T. Miller, and starring Pierce Brosnan in the titular role of Robinson Crusoe, based on Daniel Defoe's novel \"Robinson Crusoe\". The film opens to a fictionalized Daniel Defoe being offered to read a castaway's autobiography. He grudgingly obliges and begins to get engrossed in the narrative. Robinson Crusoe (Pierce Brosnan) is a Scottish gentleman with experience in the Royal Navy and the British army. He accidentally kills his lifelong friend Patrick (Damian Lewis) in a duel over his childhood love", "title": "Robinson Crusoe (1997 film)" }, { "docid": "100870", "text": "his memory in 1870. Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names. Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel \"Robinson Crusoe\", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts and often was in trouble", "title": "Daniel Defoe" }, { "docid": "5856547", "text": "Talk praised Brosnan's performance, but felt that the pacing was too fast and did not allow for proper immersion. Christopher Null of filmcritic.com just dismissed the film as \"laughable\". Robinson Crusoe (1997 film) Robinson Crusoe is a 1997 American adventure survival drama film directed by Rod Hardy and George T. Miller, and starring Pierce Brosnan in the titular role of Robinson Crusoe, based on Daniel Defoe's novel \"Robinson Crusoe\". The film opens to a fictionalized Daniel Defoe being offered to read a castaway's autobiography. He grudgingly obliges and begins to get engrossed in the narrative. Robinson Crusoe (Pierce Brosnan) is", "title": "Robinson Crusoe (1997 film)" }, { "docid": "658496", "text": "Robinson Crusoe The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates, commonly known as Robinson Crusoe, () is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "100832", "text": "Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel \"Robinson Crusoe\", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts and often was in trouble with the authorities, including a spell in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to", "title": "Daniel Defoe" }, { "docid": "4838583", "text": "Robinson Crusoe on Mars Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a 1964 independently made American science fiction film in Technicolor and Techniscope, produced by Aubrey Schenck, directed by Byron Haskin, that stars Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, and Adam West. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures. As the title indicates, it is a science fiction retelling of the classic novel \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel Defoe. Commander Christopher \"Kit\" Draper, USN (Paul Mantee) and Colonel Dan McReady, USAF (Adam West) reach the Red Planet in their spaceship, Mars Gravity Probe 1. They are forced to use up their remaining fuel in order", "title": "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" }, { "docid": "9473618", "text": "Robinson Crusoe (1954 film) Robinson Crusoe (; also known as Adventures of Robinson Crusoe) is a 1954 Mexican film by director Luis Buñuel, based on the novel \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel Defoe. Both English and Spanish versions were produced. Dan O'Herlihy was nominated for the 1955 Academy Award for Best Actor. Robinson Crusoe (Dan O'Herlihy), a third son with few prospects, goes to sea against his father's wishes. On a voyage from Brazil to Africa to collect slaves, a storm forces him to abandon ship. He swims alone to a deserted island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean on September 30,", "title": "Robinson Crusoe (1954 film)" }, { "docid": "17833268", "text": "name in memory of the novel by Daniel Defoe from 1719 whose hero was the son of a Bremen merchant who had settled in York. He admired the pioneering Robinson Crusoe for his Hanseatic spirit. Roselius foresaw a rather conventional Lower Saxony brick building with a stepped gable. The house stood at the Martinistraße end of the street with a straight-gabled building on the opposite corner. A curved opening supported by a column in the lower corner of each building is a special feature. The rooms in Robinson Crusoe House were devoted principally to the newly founded \"Club zu Bremen\".", "title": "Robinson Crusoe House" }, { "docid": "658518", "text": "Youth\" (1695), before dying at an early age – just eight years before Defoe wrote \"Robinson Crusoe\". Cruso would have been remembered by contemporaries and the association with guide books is clear. It has even been speculated that \"God the Guide of Youth\" inspired \"Robinson Crusoe\" because of a number of passages in that work that are closely tied to the novel. A leitmotif of the novel is the Christian notion of Providence, penitence and redemption. Crusoe comes to repent of the follies of his youth. Defoe also foregrounds this theme by arranging highly significant events in the novel to", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "4519062", "text": "in his 1719 novel about the character (although the novel is explicitly set in the Caribbean, not in the Juan Fernández Islands). This was just one of several survival stories from the period that Defoe would have been aware of. To reflect the literary lore associated with the island and attract tourists, the Chilean government renamed the place Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966. Robinson Crusoe Island has a mountainous and undulating terrain, formed by ancient lava flows which have built up from numerous volcanic episodes. The highest point on the island is above sea level at El Yunque. Intense erosion", "title": "Robinson Crusoe Island" }, { "docid": "658513", "text": "of Western literature had more editions, spin-offs and translations (even into languages such as Inuktitut, Coptic and Maltese) than \"Robinson Crusoe\", with more than 700 such alternative versions, including children's versions with pictures and no text. The term \"Robinsonade\" was coined to describe the genre of stories similar to \"Robinson Crusoe\". Defoe went on to write a lesser-known sequel, \"The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe\" (1719). It was intended to be the last part of his stories, according to the original title page of the sequel's first edition, but a third book, \"\" (1720), was written. Novelist James Joyce noted", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "19301489", "text": "scale. Robinson Crusoe (2016 film) Robinson Crusoe (released in North America as The Wild Life) is a 2016 Belgian-French 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Vincent Kesteloot and Ben Stassen and written by Lee Christopher, Domonic Paris and Graham Weldon. The film is loosely based on \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel Defoe, but from the point of view of the island's animals. All the animals inhabited a tiny isolated South Pacific Island. One of them, a Scarlet Macaw named Mak and his friends, including an echidna named Epi, a chameleon named Carmello, a Tapir named Rosie, a kingfisher named Kiki,", "title": "Robinson Crusoe (2016 film)" }, { "docid": "19301477", "text": "Robinson Crusoe (2016 film) Robinson Crusoe (released in North America as The Wild Life) is a 2016 Belgian-French 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Vincent Kesteloot and Ben Stassen and written by Lee Christopher, Domonic Paris and Graham Weldon. The film is loosely based on \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel Defoe, but from the point of view of the island's animals. All the animals inhabited a tiny isolated South Pacific Island. One of them, a Scarlet Macaw named Mak and his friends, including an echidna named Epi, a chameleon named Carmello, a Tapir named Rosie, a kingfisher named Kiki, an", "title": "Robinson Crusoe (2016 film)" }, { "docid": "4838598", "text": "recorded in 1979. A music video for Victor Lundin's song \"Robinson Crusoe on Mars\" was created in 2007 specifically for the film's DVD release. A full color booklet is also included with various facts about the film. Robinson Crusoe on Mars Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a 1964 independently made American science fiction film in Technicolor and Techniscope, produced by Aubrey Schenck, directed by Byron Haskin, that stars Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, and Adam West. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures. As the title indicates, it is a science fiction retelling of the classic novel \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel", "title": "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" }, { "docid": "11100929", "text": "for Deschanel's conception. The Robinson Crusoe story has been reimagined so that it's not a wilderness test of survival - it's a stripped down search for values.\" Crusoe (film) Crusoe is a 1988 British drama film directed by Caleb Deschanel. It is a variation on the story told in the novel \"Robinson Crusoe\", written by author Daniel Defoe. The film stars Aidan Quinn as Crusoe. Tidewater, Virginia 1808. The story begins at sea with the main protagonist, Crusoe (Aidan Quinn), en route to Africa to retrieve slaves. His ship runs into a powerful storm, and the entire crew perishes except", "title": "Crusoe (film)" }, { "docid": "11100920", "text": "Crusoe (film) Crusoe is a 1988 British drama film directed by Caleb Deschanel. It is a variation on the story told in the novel \"Robinson Crusoe\", written by author Daniel Defoe. The film stars Aidan Quinn as Crusoe. Tidewater, Virginia 1808. The story begins at sea with the main protagonist, Crusoe (Aidan Quinn), en route to Africa to retrieve slaves. His ship runs into a powerful storm, and the entire crew perishes except for Crusoe. He eventually makes his way to a tropical island, where he is alone and stranded until he discovers that a dog named Scamp and a", "title": "Crusoe (film)" }, { "docid": "17357266", "text": "Robinson Crusoe (1902 film) Robinson Crusoe () is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on Daniel Defoe's book of the same name. Robinson Crusoe, a sailor, is shipwrecked on an island. He gathers what provisions he can from the wreck, including a dog and a cat, who are the only other survivors of the catastrophe. After signaling a passing ship to no avail, Crusoe builds a hut. Elsewhere on the island, at the base of a cliff, cannibal natives have taken prisoners, and have eaten all but one of them. They are about to kill the", "title": "Robinson Crusoe (1902 film)" }, { "docid": "17357270", "text": "a new score by Maud Nelissen and with an English translation of Méliès's original narration read live by Paul McGann, premiered on 35mm film at the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone in 2012. Robinson Crusoe (1902 film) Robinson Crusoe () is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on Daniel Defoe's book of the same name. Robinson Crusoe, a sailor, is shipwrecked on an island. He gathers what provisions he can from the wreck, including a dog and a cat, who are the only other survivors of the catastrophe. After signaling a passing ship to no", "title": "Robinson Crusoe (1902 film)" }, { "docid": "658506", "text": "in 1709 by Woodes Rogers during an English expedition that led to the publication of Selkirk's adventures in both \"A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World\" and \"A Cruising Voyage Around the World\" in 1712. According to Tim Severin, \"Daniel Defoe, a secretive man, neither confirmed or denied that Selkirk was the model for the hero of his book. Apparently written in six months or less, \"Robinson Crusoe\" was a publishing phenomenon. The author of \"Crusoe's Island,\" Andrew Lambert states, \"the ideas that a single, real Crusoe is a 'false premise' because Crusoe's story is a complex", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "658516", "text": "He begins as a wanderer, aimless on a sea he does not understand, and ends as a pilgrim, crossing a final mountain to enter the promised land. The book tells the story of how Robinson becomes closer to God, not through listening to sermons in a church but through spending time alone amongst nature with only a Bible to read. Conversely, cultural critic and literary scholar Michael Gurnow views the novel from a Rousseauian perspective. In \"'The Folly of Beginning a Work Before We Count the Cost': Anarcho-Primitivism in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe\", the central character's movement from a primitive", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "658530", "text": "determine what is to be learned and accomplished. This is one of the main themes of Rousseau's educational model. In \"The Tale of Little Pig Robinson\", Beatrix Potter directs the reader to \"Robinson Crusoe\" for a detailed description of the island (the land of the Bong tree) to which her eponymous hero moves. In Wilkie Collins' most popular novel, \"The Moonstone\", one of the chief characters and narrators, Gabriel Betteredge, has faith in all that Robinson Crusoe says and uses the book for a sort of divination. He considers \"The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe\" the finest book ever written, reads", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "658517", "text": "state to a more civilized one is interpreted as Crusoe's denial of humanity's state of nature. \"Robinson Crusoe\" is filled with religious aspects. Defoe was a Puritan moralist and normally worked in the guide tradition, writing books on how to be a good Puritan Christian, such as \"The New Family Instructor\" (1727) and \"Religious Courtship\" (1722). While \"Robinson Crusoe\" is far more than a guide, it shares many of the themes and theological and moral points of view. \"Crusoe\" may have been taken from Timothy Cruso, a classmate of Defoe's who had written guide books, including \"God the Guide of", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "19090402", "text": "is attested by a very sober and understanding gentlewoman, a kinswoman of the said gentleman's, who lives in Canterbury, within a few doors of the house in which the within-named Mrs Bargrave lives\". The pamphlet has often and for many years been attributed to Daniel Defoe, though this has been challenged in a 2003 paper by George Starr. Defoe had a long-standing interest in what would now be termed the supernatural and addressed the topic several times in his works. His 1720 \"Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe\", the \"sequel\" to his much more famous 1719 novel \"Robinson Crusoe\", described \"A", "title": "The Apparition of Mrs. Veal" }, { "docid": "100868", "text": "decisions, religion seems to be far from her concerns throughout most of her story. However, like Robinson Crusoe, she finally repents. \"Moll Flanders\" is an important work in the development of the novel, as it challenged the common perception of femininity and gender roles in 18th-century British society, and it has come to be widely regarded as an example of erotica. Roxana \"Moll Flanders\" and Defoe's final novel, (1724), are examples of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional characters (yet \"drawn from life\"), not least in that they are women. \"Roxana\" narrates the moral and", "title": "Daniel Defoe" }, { "docid": "658524", "text": "place within \"Robinson Crusoe\". In Tess Lewis' review, \"The Heroes We Deserve\", of Ian Watt's article, she furthers Watt's argument with a development on Defoe's intention as an author, \"to use individualism to signify nonconformity in religion and the admirable qualities of self-reliance,\" (Lewis 678). This further supports the belief that Defoe used aspects of spiritual autobiography in order to introduce the benefits of individualism to a not entirely convinced religious community. J. Paul Hunter has written extensively on the subject of \"Robinson Crusoe\" as apparent spiritual autobiography, tracing the influence of Defoe’s Puritan ideology through Crusoe's narrative, and his", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "658529", "text": "novel seems to suggest. In \"Treasure Island\", author Robert Louis Stevenson parodies Crusoe with the character of Ben Gunn, a friendly castaway who was marooned for many years, has a wild appearance, dresses entirely in goat skin and constantly talks about providence. In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's treatise on education, \"Emile, or On Education\", the one book the protagonist is allowed to read before the age of twelve is \"Robinson Crusoe\". Rousseau wants Emile to identify himself as Crusoe so he can rely upon himself for all of his needs. In Rousseau's view, Emile needs to imitate Crusoe's experience, allowing necessity to", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "17688358", "text": "Robinson Crusoe Island (novel) Robinson Crusoe Island () is a historical adventure novel for young people by Polish author Arkady Fiedler. It was first published in 1954. The story takes place on Coche Island, 1725-1726. The protagonist Jan (John) Bober, a half-Polish half-English Virginia pioneer, flees from government pursuit in a pirate ship. However, it runs into heavy water and wrecks near the island. Jan and his two Arawak companions Arnak and Wagura (former slaves from the ship), the only survivors of the shipwreck, live on the island for over a year. Later they accept onto the island a group", "title": "Robinson Crusoe Island (novel)" }, { "docid": "17688359", "text": "of escaped slaves from Margarita Island and, combining forces, defeat Spanish slaver pursuers and seize their ship. Fearing Spanish revenge, Jan and his followers leave the island on the captured ship. Their adventures continue in the two next Arkady Fiedler's novels \"Orinoco\" (\"Orinoko\", 1957) and \"The White Jaguar\" (\"Biały Jaguar\", 1980). Robinson Crusoe Island (novel) Robinson Crusoe Island () is a historical adventure novel for young people by Polish author Arkady Fiedler. It was first published in 1954. The story takes place on Coche Island, 1725-1726. The protagonist Jan (John) Bober, a half-Polish half-English Virginia pioneer, flees from government pursuit", "title": "Robinson Crusoe Island (novel)" }, { "docid": "658497", "text": "to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called \"Más a Tierra\", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "100863", "text": "in the Juan Fernández Islands, but this experience is inconsistent with the details of the narrative. The island Selkirk lived on was named Más a Tierra (Closer to Land) at the time and was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966. It has been supposed that Defoe may have also been inspired by the Latin or English translation of a book by the Andalusian-Arab Muslim polymath Ibn Tufail, who was known as \"Abubacer\" in Europe. The Latin edition of the book was entitled \"Philosophus Autodidactus\" and it was an earlier novel that is also set on a deserted island. Defoe's next", "title": "Daniel Defoe" }, { "docid": "658532", "text": "Prize in Literature, published the novel \"Le Proces-Verbal\". The book's epigraph is a quote from \"Robinson Crusoe\", and like Crusoe, Adam Pollo suffers long periods of loneliness. \"Crusoe in England\", a 183-line poem by Elizabeth Bishop, imagines Crusoe near the end of his life, recalling his time of exile with a mixture of bemusement and regret. J. M. Coetzee's 1986 novel \"Foe\" recounts the tale of Robinson Crusoe from the perspective of a woman named Susan Barton. The story was also illustrated and published in comic book form by \"Classics Illustrated\" in 1943 and 1957. The much improved 1957 version", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "100849", "text": "so-called \"first draft\" for unification took place 100 years before the signing of the 1707 accord, which respectively preceded the commencement of \"Robinson Crusoe\" by another ten years. Defoe began his campaign in \"The Review\" and other pamphlets aimed at English opinion, claiming that it would end the threat from the north, gaining for the Treasury an \"inexhaustible treasury of men\", a valuable new market increasing the power of England. By September 1706, Harley ordered Defoe to Edinburgh as a secret agent to do everything possible to help secure acquiescence in the Treaty of Union. He was conscious of the", "title": "Daniel Defoe" }, { "docid": "4838595", "text": "perform during his science fiction convention appearances. He recorded it for his 2000 album \"Little Owl\". Despite positive critic reaction at the time, \"Robinson Crusoe on Mars\" did not do well at the box office. Film reviewer Glenn Erickson opined, \"Despite laudable efforts from all concerned, the film didn't click with audiences. Indifferent distribution was blamed, but it's also likely that the public preferred to see its astronauts on the 6 O'Clock News.\" Film historian Leonard Maltin considered \"Robinson Crusoe on Mars\", \"a surprisingly agreeable reworking of the classic Defoe story ... beautifully shot in Death Valley by Winston C.", "title": "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" }, { "docid": "1360266", "text": "the last Crusoe tale, the novel is followed by non-fiction book involving Crusoe by Defoe entitled \"\" (1720). The story is speculated to be partially based on Moscow embassy secretary Adam Brand's journal detailing the embassy's journey from Moscow to Peking from 1693 to 1695. The book starts with the statement about Crusoe's marriage in England. He bought a little farm in Bedford and had three children: two sons and one daughter. Our hero suffered a distemper and a desire to see \"his island.\" He could talk of nothing else, and one can imagine that no one took his stories", "title": "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "11379188", "text": "1982. Notes: Jean-Paul Carriere is the credit on the English/French film prints but other sources state his name as Jean-Claude Carrière.<br> It should be noted that the BBC requested the change of music before they would buy the serial, as they had done the previous year with \"The Magic Roundabout\". The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (TV series) The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe () was a French children's television drama series made by Franco London Films (a.k.a. FLF Television Paris). The show was first aired in Germany in October 1964 under the title \"Robinson Crusoe\" as four 90-minute episodes by co-producers", "title": "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (TV series)" }, { "docid": "17833267", "text": "Robinson Crusoe House Robinson Crusoe House () is a stepped-gabled house on Böttcherstraße in the old town district of Bremen, Germany. It was built by the prosperous coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius who admired the pioneering spirit of Daniel Defoe's fictional hero Robinson Crusoe. In 1931, the Robinson Crusoe House and the Atlantis House opposite completed the construction of buildings in Böttcherstraße. The coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius, who envisioned and financed the Böttcherstraße project, had himself proposed the design which was developed by Karl von Weihe. The interior was designed by the architects Eduard Scotland and Alfred Runge. Roselius chose the", "title": "Robinson Crusoe House" }, { "docid": "100869", "text": "spiritual decline of a high society courtesan. \"Roxana\" differs from other Defoe works because the main character does not exhibit a conversion experience, even though she claims to be a penitent later in her life, at the time that she's relaying her story. Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors. He often was in debtors' prison. The cause of his death was labelled as lethargy, but he probably experienced a stroke. He was interred in Bunhill Fields (today Bunhill Fields Burial and Gardens), Borough of Islington, London, where a monument was erected to", "title": "Daniel Defoe" }, { "docid": "10390545", "text": "Knight\", \"A Modern Robinson Crusoe\" and \"Robinson Crusoe of the South Seas\". The film opens with a title card that reads \"From the time Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden, man has vainly sought to find solace, comfort and earthly pleasures in an artificial world of his own creation. Down through the ages has come that eternal heritage of the urge in every man to turn his back on so-called civilization, to get back to nature and revel in the glories and freedom of a primitive paradise.\" The Fairbanks character Steve Drexel voluntarily strands himself on", "title": "Mr. Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "5437898", "text": "(1688) had come from her theatrical experience. Delarivier Manley's \"New Atlantis\" (1709) comes closest to an inheritor of Behn's, but her novel, while political and satirical, was a minor scandal. On the other hand, Daniel Defoe's \"Robinson Crusoe\" (1719) was the first major novel of the new century. Defoe had written political and religious polemics prior to \"Robinson Crusoe,\" and he worked as a journalist during and after its composition. Thus, Defoe encountered the memoirs of Alexander Selkirk, who was a rather brutish individual who had been stranded in South America on an island for some years. Defoe took the", "title": "Augustan prose" }, { "docid": "658514", "text": "that the true symbol of the British Empire is Robinson Crusoe, to whom he ascribed stereotypical and somewhat hostile English racial characteristics: \"He is the true prototype of the British colonist. ... The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.\" In a sense Crusoe attempts to replicate his society on the island. This is achieved through the use of European technology, agriculture and even a rudimentary political hierarchy. Several times in the novel Crusoe refers to himself as the \"king\" of the island,", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "4519061", "text": "Robinson Crusoe Island Robinson Crusoe Island ( ), formerly known as Más a Tierra (Closer to Land), is the second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands, situated west of San Antonio, Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is the more populous of the inhabited islands in the archipelago (the other being Alejandro Selkirk Island), with most of that in the town of San Juan Bautista at Cumberland Bay on the island's north coast. The island was home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk from 1704 to 1709, and is thought to have inspired novelist Daniel Defoe's fictional Robinson Crusoe", "title": "Robinson Crusoe Island" }, { "docid": "17833270", "text": "and \"Puma carrying the Day (1912)\". The building's Crusoe Hall (\"Crusoe Halle\") is used as an exhibition room by the Bremen Artisans Association (\"Angewandte Kunst Bremen\") in collaboration with the two Böttcherstraße museums, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum and Ludwig Roselius Museum. A new exhibition is featured each month. From October every year, the hall houses the traditional \"Weihnachtsmarkt\" or Christmas market. Robinson Crusoe House Robinson Crusoe House () is a stepped-gabled house on Böttcherstraße in the old town district of Bremen, Germany. It was built by the prosperous coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius who admired the pioneering spirit of Daniel Defoe's fictional", "title": "Robinson Crusoe House" }, { "docid": "658536", "text": "borrows much from the Robinson Crusoe story. In 1964 a French film production crew made a 13-part serial of \"The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe\". It starred Robert Hoffmann. The black and white series was dubbed into English and German. In the UK, the BBC broadcast it on numerous occasions between 1965 and 1977. In 1981 Czechoslovakian director and animator Stanislav Látal made a version of the story under the name \"Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York\" combining traditional and stop-motion animation. The movie was coproduced by regional West Germany broadcaster Südwestfunk Baden-Baden. Dean briefly mentions Crusoe in one", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "9260971", "text": "final negative cost was $111,848 (a $5,069, or 4.7%, overspend). It was filmed between August 31 and September 25, 1936 under the working title \"Robinson Crusoe\". The serial's production number was 419. This serial has very little to do with \"Robinson Crusoe\". The special effects were created by John T. Coyle and the Lydecker brothers. \"Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island\" is the only 14-chapter sound serial. Note: Many of the resolutions of these cliffhangers are \"cheats\"—when the event is repeated at the start of a new chapter, there is a crucial and sometimes obvious difference from what was shown at", "title": "Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island" }, { "docid": "100855", "text": "local Tron minister urged his congregation \"to up and anent for the City of God\". The \"Dear Green Place\" and \"City of God\" required government troops to put down the rioters tearing up copies of the Treaty at almost every mercat cross in Scotland. When Defoe visited in the mid-1720s, he claimed that the hostility towards his party was \"because they were English and because of the Union, which they were almost universally exclaimed against\". The extent and particulars are widely contested concerning Defoe's writing in the period from the Tory fall in 1714 to the publication of \"Robinson Crusoe\"", "title": "Daniel Defoe" }, { "docid": "658498", "text": "in 1966. Despite its simple narrative style, \"Robinson Crusoe\" was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. It is generally seen as a contender for the first English novel. Before the end of 1719, the book had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning so many imitations, not only in literature but also in film, television and radio, that its name is used to define a genre, the Robinsonade. Crusoe (the", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "11379173", "text": "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (TV series) The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe () was a French children's television drama series made by Franco London Films (a.k.a. FLF Television Paris). The show was first aired in Germany in October 1964 under the title \"Robinson Crusoe\" as four 90-minute episodes by co-producers ZDF television, and syndicated in the USA the same year. It was first aired in the UK in 1965 as a 13-part serial. This English dubbed version produced by Henry Deutschmeister also had a new musical soundtrack composed by Robert Mellin and P. Reverberi which gave the serial a more", "title": "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (TV series)" }, { "docid": "6713588", "text": "James Haylett. During World War II, anti-invasion defences were constructed around Winterton-on-Sea. They included a number of pillboxes. The beaches were protected with unusually extensive barriers of scaffolding and large numbers of anti-tank cubes. Daniel Defoe mentions the village in \"Robinson Crusoe\" and \"A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain\", published in 1719 and from 1724 respectively. In 1864 the novelist Wilkie Collins visited the village while preparing his novel \"Armadale\" and met Martha Rudd, who became his common-law wife. He was an admirer of Daniel Defoe, and in particular of \"Robinson Crusoe\", which is referred to many", "title": "Winterton-on-Sea" }, { "docid": "19462138", "text": "How Robinson Was Created How Robinson Was Created (, translit. ) is a 1961 short soviet film directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The film is part of the comedy anthology film series \"Absolutely Seriously\" (). Chief editor of the \"Adventure Business\" magazine decides to commission a novel from the famous writer Moldavantsev which is to be a continuation of the famous literary creation of Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. The writer initially takes on his task with great enthusiasm and soon the editor gets to read Moldavantsev's manuscript. Despite the fact that the writer tried to create a \"soviet\" Robinson, the editor", "title": "How Robinson Was Created" }, { "docid": "5308766", "text": "Robinsonade Robinsonade () is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel Defoe. The success of this novel spawned so many imitations that its name was used to define a genre, which is sometimes described simply as a \"desert island story\" or a \"castaway narrative\". The word \"robinsonade\" was coined by the German writer Johann Gottfried Schnabel in the Preface of his 1731 work \"Die Insel Felsenburg\" (\"The Island Stronghold\"). It is often viewed as a subgenre of survivalist fiction. \"Robinson Crusoe\" and \"robinsonades\" share plot elements with William Shakespeare's \"The Tempest\", but", "title": "Robinsonade" }, { "docid": "658507", "text": "compound of all the other buccaneer survival stories.\" However, \"Robinson Crusoe\" is far from a copy of Rogers' account: Becky Little argues three events that distinguish the two stories. Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked while Selkirk decided to leave his ship thus marooning himself; the island Crusoe was shipwrecked on had already been inhabited, unlike the solitary nature of Selkirk's adventures. The last and most crucial difference between the two stories is Selkirk is a pirate, looting and raiding coastal cities. Andrew Lambert states, \"The economic and dynamic thrust of the book is completely alien to what the buccaneers are doing,\"", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "2248790", "text": "old age. By 1721, Defoe had become a recognised novelist, with the success of \"Robinson Crusoe\" in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and Tory party leaders with whom he had been associated; Robert Walpole was beginning his rise, and Defoe was never fully at home with the Walpole group. Defoe's Whig views are nevertheless evident in the story of Moll, and the novel's full title gives some insight into this and the outline of the plot: It is usually assumed that the novel was written by Daniel Defoe,", "title": "Moll Flanders" }, { "docid": "100862", "text": "that when his wife died, he went off on these further adventures. Bedford is also the place where the brother of \"H. F.\" in \"A Journal of the Plague Year\" retired to avoid the danger of the plague, so that by implication, if these works were not fiction, Defoe's family met Crusoe in Bedford, from whence the information in these books was gathered. Defoe went to school in Stoke Newington, London, with a friend named Caruso. The novel has been assumed to be based in part on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded", "title": "Daniel Defoe" }, { "docid": "658525", "text": "acknowledgement of human imperfection in pursuit of meaningful spiritual engagements — the cycle of “repentance [and] deliverance.” This spiritual pattern and its episodic nature, as well as the re-discovery of earlier female novelists, have kept \"Robinson Crusoe\" from being classified as a novel, let alone the first novel written in English --despite the blurbs on some book covers. Early critics, such as Robert Louis Stevenson, admired it, saying that the footprint scene in \"Crusoe\" was one of the four greatest in English literature and most unforgettable; more prosaically, Dr. Wesley Vernon has seen the origins of forensic podiatry in this", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "658537", "text": "of his music videos. In the official music video for Instagram, there is a part when viewers hear Dean's distorted voice; \"Sometimes, I feel alone . . . I feel like I'm Robinson Crusoe . . .\" Robinson Crusoe The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "658528", "text": "novels, written by Ambrose Evans, Penelope Aubin, and others, became quite popular in Europe in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Most of these have fallen into obscurity, but some became established, including \"The Swiss Family Robinson\", which borrowed Crusoe's first name for its title. Jonathan Swift's \"Gulliver's Travels\", published seven years after \"Robinson Crusoe\", may be read as a systematic rebuttal of Defoe's optimistic account of human capability. In \"The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man\", Warren Montag argues that Swift was concerned about refuting the notion that the individual precedes society, as Defoe's", "title": "Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "11379174", "text": "strident and appealing theme tune than the music composed by Georges Van Parys for the French/German original. The production concentrated not only on events on the island but included Crusoe's other adventures, told in flashback. The series was based on the first of Daniel Defoe's \"Robinson Crusoe\" novels, but is perhaps best remembered for the haunting theme music composed for the English-language version, recreated since by bands such as The Art of Noise. According to the radio commentator Glenn Mitchell, \"The theme tune, with its rumbling introductory notes suggesting the rolling waves of the on-screen title sequence remains distinctive, as", "title": "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (TV series)" }, { "docid": "15747415", "text": "from hiding and referred to them as \"jaskiniowcy\", or \"cavemen\". The term \"Robinsons\" soon became common, a reference to the fictional castaway Robinson Crusoe in the Daniel Defoe novel. The Soviet writer and journalist Vasily Grossman, upon entering the ruined city, described finding four Jewish and six non-Jewish Poles who had just left their hideouts. The term and the analogy with the castaway has often been made by Robinsons in their own memoirs, as well as by other writers. Dawid Fogelman had been imprisoned at the Gęsiówka concentration camp. After the camp was liberated by the Polish Home Army, he", "title": "Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw" }, { "docid": "16569793", "text": "of his life as a Robinson Crusoe. Some time later, he hears a radio report that describes how things have improved in Germany during the 1930s. Later, when the new SMS \"Dresden\" passes the island, he makes his way to the ship and is taken aboard by his new respectful comrades. A German Robinson Crusoe A German Robinson Crusoe () is a 1940 German drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Herbert A.E. Böhme, Marieluise Claudius, and Claus Clausen. Written by Arnold Fanck and Rolf Meyer, the film is a modern-day Robinson Crusoe story about a man so angry", "title": "A German Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "2599273", "text": "moral lessons such as frugality, husbandry, acceptance and cooperation. Wyss presents adventures as lessons in natural history and physical science. This resembles other educational books for young ones published about the same time. These include Charlotte Turner Smith's \"Rural Walks: in Dialogues intended for the use of Young Persons\" (1795), \"Rambles Farther: A continuation of Rural Walks\" (1796), \"A Natural History of Birds, intended chiefly for young persons\" (1807). But Wyss' novel is also modeled after Daniel Defoe's \"Robinson Crusoe\", an adventure story about a shipwrecked sailor first published in 1719 and the source of the \"Robinson\" in the title", "title": "The Swiss Family Robinson" }, { "docid": "15834846", "text": "The Storm (Daniel Defoe) The Storm (1704) is a work of journalism and science reporting by British author Daniel Defoe. It has been called the first substantial work of modern journalism, the first detailed account of a hurricane in Britain. It relates the events of a week-long storm that hit London starting on 24 November and reaching its height on the night of 26/27 November 1703. Known as the Great Storm of 1703, and described by Defoe as \"The Greatest, the Longest in Duration, the widest in Extent, of all the Tempests and Storms that History gives any Account of", "title": "The Storm (Daniel Defoe)" }, { "docid": "5635229", "text": "Juan Fernández in solitude for four years and four months, before being rescued by Woodes Rogers in 1709. His experience was one of the likely sources of inspiration for the character Robinson Crusoe in the novel by Daniel Defoe. Selkirk's suspicions were soon justified, as \"Cinque Ports\" foundered near Malpelo Island from the coast of what is now Colombia, with Stradling and the surviving members of his crew being taken prisoner by the Spanish. An eyewitness account of the last voyage of \"Cinque Ports\" was published by William Funnell, an officer on board \"St George\", who went on to circumnavigate", "title": "Cinque Ports (1703 ship)" }, { "docid": "11548182", "text": "sang. According to Jolson's biographer Michael Freedland, \"Robinson Crusoe, Jr.\" was \"the nearest Jolson had yet come to a show with a real plot ... although from opening night on, it was quite plain that the story was not going to interfere with his domination on stage.\" Notes Citations Sources Robinson Crusoe, Jr. Robinson Crusoe, Jr. is a musical with a book by Edgar Smith, lyrics by Harold R. Atteridge, and music by Sigmund Romberg and James Hanley. \"Robinson Crusoe, Jr.\" was an extravaganza that opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on 17 February 1916. The original Broadway production was", "title": "Robinson Crusoe, Jr." }, { "docid": "9260970", "text": "had been routinely used in serial production before the release of this serial. The serial was edited into the film Robinson Crusoe of Mystery Island, which was released in 1966. Agent Mala, an intelligence operative, investigates sabotage on the remote \"Clipper Island\". A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which Mala is blamed. He convinces the native Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a takeover by rival High Priest and spy collaborator Porotu and discover the identity of spy ringleader \"H.K\". \"Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island\" was budgeted at $106,779 although the", "title": "Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island" }, { "docid": "15824809", "text": "The basic assumptions of the Robinson Crusoe economy are as follows: Robinson Crusoe is assumed to be shipwrecked on a deserted island. Similar to the choices that households (suppliers of labour) face, Crusoe has only two activities to participate in – earn income or pass his time in leisure. The income generating activity in this case is gathering coconuts. As usual, the more time he spends in leisure, the less food he has to eat, and conversely, the more time he spends gathering coconuts, the less time he has for leisure. This is depicted in figure 1. Crusoe's indifference curves", "title": "Robinson Crusoe economy" }, { "docid": "100833", "text": "his fresh ideas and sometimes consulted with him. Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than three hundred works—books, pamphlets, and journals—on diverse topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of business journalism and economic journalism. Daniel Foe (his original name) was probably born in Fore Street in the parish of St. Giles Cripplegate, London. Defoe later added the aristocratic-sounding \"De\" to his name, and on occasion claimed descent from the family of De Beau Faux. His birthdate and birthplace are uncertain, and sources offer dates from 1659 to 1662,", "title": "Daniel Defoe" }, { "docid": "5292617", "text": "types of novel. Daniel Defoe's \"Robinson Crusoe\" (1719) was the first major novel of the new century and was published in more editions than any other works besides \"Gulliver's Travels\" (Mullan 252). Defoe worked as a journalist during and after its composition, and therefore he encountered the memoirs of Alexander Selkirk, who had been stranded in South America on an island for some years. Defoe took aspects of the actual life and, from that, generated a fictional life, satisfying an essentially journalistic market with his fiction (Hunter 331–338). In the 1720s, Defoe interviewed famed criminals and produced accounts of their", "title": "Augustan literature" }, { "docid": "10528071", "text": "Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. Lt. Robin Crusoe USN is a 1966 comedy film released and scripted by Walt Disney, and starring Dick Van Dyke as a U.S. Navy pilot who becomes a castaway on a tropical island. Some filming took place in San Diego, while a majority of the film was shot on Kauai, Hawaii. The story was loosely based on Daniel Defoe's classic novel \"Robinson Crusoe\". It was Walt Disney's idea to make the adaptation, and this is the only film in which he received a story credit (as \"Retlaw Yensid\"). While flying a routine mission for the U.S.", "title": "Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N." }, { "docid": "15834851", "text": "story of the captain of a ship who committed suicide rather than drown, only to have his ship rescued but too late for him. The Storm (Daniel Defoe) The Storm (1704) is a work of journalism and science reporting by British author Daniel Defoe. It has been called the first substantial work of modern journalism, the first detailed account of a hurricane in Britain. It relates the events of a week-long storm that hit London starting on 24 November and reaching its height on the night of 26/27 November 1703. Known as the Great Storm of 1703, and described by", "title": "The Storm (Daniel Defoe)" }, { "docid": "16569791", "text": "A German Robinson Crusoe A German Robinson Crusoe () is a 1940 German drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Herbert A.E. Böhme, Marieluise Claudius, and Claus Clausen. Written by Arnold Fanck and Rolf Meyer, the film is a modern-day Robinson Crusoe story about a man so angry about the post-World War I conditions in Weimar Germany that he voluntarily goes to live on a desert island. The film was shot partly on location in South America. During World War I, the German cruiser SMS \"Dresden\" is attacked by British ships off the coast of Chile. The crew manages", "title": "A German Robinson Crusoe" }, { "docid": "4519072", "text": "per year. One activity gaining popularity is scuba diving, particularly on the wreck of the German light cruiser \"Dresden\", which was scuttled in Cumberland Bay during World War I. \"Apocalypse Island\", a television documentary aired by the History Channel on 3 January 2010, was filmed on Robinson Crusoe Island. It showed two rock formations that Canadian explorer Jim Turner claimed were badly degraded Mayan statues. With no other sign of any pre-Spanish human presence on the island, however, the program has been criticized as lacking in scientific credibility. Robinson Crusoe Island Robinson Crusoe Island ( ), formerly known as Más", "title": "Robinson Crusoe Island" } ]
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November 22, 1955 saw the untimely death of Shemp Howard. With what group is he more famously linked?
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[ { "docid": "3137783", "text": "Shemp Howard Samuel Horwitz (March 11, 1895 – November 22, 1955), known professionally as Shemp Howard, was an American actor and comedian. He was called \"Shemp\" because \"Sam\" came out that way in his mother's thick Litvak accent. He is best known today for his role as the third stooge in the Three Stooges, a role he first portrayed at the beginning of the act in the early 1920s (1923–1932) while the act was still associated with Ted Healy and known as \"Ted Healy and his Stooges\", and again from 1946 until his death in 1955. Between his times with", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "3137804", "text": "the 1960s by reissuing Shemp's Stooge shorts, so that Shemp Howard remained a popular star for more than a decade after he died. In a TV biopic film, \"The Three Stooges\" (2000), produced by Mel Gibson, Shemp was portrayed by 'fake Shemp' Johnny Kassir, who donned a floppy, straight-haired wig to portray the famous comic. Shemp Howard Samuel Horwitz (March 11, 1895 – November 22, 1955), known professionally as Shemp Howard, was an American actor and comedian. He was called \"Shemp\" because \"Sam\" came out that way in his mother's thick Litvak accent. He is best known today for his", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "6218418", "text": "the risk of being injured in the stunt. The same techniques are often used for both. The term references the comedy trio The Three Stooges. On November 22, 1955, Stooge Shemp Howard died suddenly of a heart attack at age 60. At the time, the Stooges still had four shorts left to deliver (\"Rumpus in the Harem\", \"Hot Stuff\", \"Scheming Schemers\", and \"Commotion on the Ocean\"), by the terms of their annual contract with Columbia Pictures. By this point in the trio's career, budget cuts at Columbia had forced them to make heavy use of stock footage from previously completed", "title": "Fake Shemp" }, { "docid": "2637815", "text": "and the project abandoned. The kinescope film is now in the public domain and widely available. The Three Stooges' series of shorts continued to be popular through the 1950s; Shemp co-starred in 73 comedies. The Stooges also co-starred in a George O'Brien Western, \"Gold Raiders\" (1951). Moe also co-produced occasional Western and musical films in the 1950s. On November 22, 1955, Shemp died of a heart attack at age 60, necessitating the need for another Stooge. Producer Jules White used old footage of Shemp to complete four more films, with Columbia regular Joe Palma filling in for Shemp (thus creating", "title": "Moe Howard" }, { "docid": "3137796", "text": "rather multi-purpose, since Shemp emitted this sound when scared, sleeping (done as a form of snoring), overtly happy or dazed. It became as much a trademark sound of Shemp as the \"nyuk nyuk\" sound had become Curly's. Because of his established solo career, he was also given opportunities within the sketches to act out comic routines on his own. It was during this period that The Three Stooges first ventured into live television appearances, beginning on Tuesday, October 19, 1948 with Milton Berle on his Texaco Star Theatre program. Shemp appeared with Moe and Larry in 73 short subjects—or 77,", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "11221330", "text": "footage used in \"For Crimin' Out Loud\" was filmed on June 30, 1955: \"Flagpole Jitters\" was filmed the next day on July 1. Shemp died on November 22, 1955, before any new films were produced. Flagpole Jitters Flagpole Jitters is the 169th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1956 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. The Stooges are three paperhangers who also look after invalid Mary, who uses a wheelchair. While working, they are taken by one", "title": "Flagpole Jitters" }, { "docid": "11314322", "text": "Hot Ice (1955 film) Hot Ice is the 165th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1955 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. The Stooges are wannabe detectives who inadvertently get their chance to crack a case in Scotland. They manage to stumble on a lead concerning the priceless Punjab diamond being stolen by a crook named Dapper (Kenneth MacDonald). With dreams of becoming genuine detectives, the trio head for Squid McGuffy's cafe asking for the whereabouts of", "title": "Hot Ice (1955 film)" }, { "docid": "10812858", "text": "Bedlam in Paradise Bedlam in Paradise is the 162nd short subject released by Columbia Pictures in 1955 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. On his deathbed, Shemp struggles between life and death as Moe and Larry attempt to nurse him back to health. He warns them to behave or he will return to haunt them. After Shemp's arrival to Heaven, his Uncle Mortimer contemplates whether Shemp will remain or go to Hell. Then the Devil (Philip Van Zandt)", "title": "Bedlam in Paradise" }, { "docid": "11314307", "text": "Gypped in the Penthouse Gypped in the Penthouse is the 161st short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1955 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. At the Woman Haters Club, Larry and Shemp exchange stories of their disastrous encounters with a gold digger, who turns out to be the same woman (Jean Willes). Jane became engaged to Larry, only to dump him when Moe shows up with a larger diamond ring. Shemp is a good samaritan, who winds", "title": "Gypped in the Penthouse" }, { "docid": "3952039", "text": "Curly Howard Jerome Lester Horwitz (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), known professionally as Curly Howard, was an American vaudevillian actor and comedian. He was best known as a member of the American farce comedy team the Three Stooges, which also featured his elder brothers Moe and Shemp Howard and actor Larry Fine. Curly Howard was generally considered the most popular and recognizable of the Stooges. He was well known for his high-pitched voice and vocal expressions (\"nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!\", \"woob-woob-woob!\", \"soitenly!\" [certainly], and barking like a dog), as well as his physical comedy (e.g., falling on the ground and pivoting", "title": "Curly Howard" }, { "docid": "6218420", "text": "a stand-in or double during Shemp's lifetime. Shemp's stand-in was usually Harold Breen, and there were others from time to time. But these four shorts required someone to double as Shemp in an actor's capacity, not a stand-in as such; hence, director Jules White utilized character actor Palma, who had appeared as a supporting character in numerous \"Three Stooges\" shorts before Shemp's death and would continue in that capacity for the trio's shorts with Joe Besser as the third stooge. Palma became the original \"Fake Shemp\", although the term was not officially in use at the time. For \"Rumpus in", "title": "Fake Shemp" }, { "docid": "11276519", "text": "for Curly before his untimely illness. I'm a Monkey's Uncle I'm a Monkey's Uncle is the 110th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1948 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. The Stooges are cavemen living in the stone age. They must tend to their daily chores, consisting of mixing milk, hunting fish, and gathering eggs. Such is life in the prehistoric times. That afternoon, Moe has a date with his girlfriend, Aggie (Virginia Hunter). Shemp and Larry", "title": "I'm a Monkey's Uncle" }, { "docid": "11400593", "text": "The Knife of the Party The Knife of the Party is a black-and-white short film starring Shemp Howard. The comedy was filmed at Van Beuren Studios and released by RKO Radio Pictures on February 16, 1934. Shemp Howard makes an odd appearance as the lead stooge of four smack-around stooges. This act was presumably either a casting decision by the filmmakers or a short-lived act put together by Shemp. Shemp had been the original second stooge with Moe as First and Kenneth Lackey as the original third stooge. Three Stooges Shemp later left the act to be replaced by his", "title": "The Knife of the Party" }, { "docid": "11239848", "text": "He Cooked His Goose He Cooked His Goose is the 140th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1952 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. Larry is a womanizer who is having an affair with Moe's wife, Belle (Mary Ainslee) while making eyes at Shemp's fiancée, Millie (Angela Stevens), as well. Moe, however, tracks down the conniving Larry at his pet shop, and gives him the works. Larry is able to think fast and convinces Moe he is", "title": "He Cooked His Goose" }, { "docid": "11276385", "text": "Wham Bam Slam Wham-Bam-Slam! is the 164th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1955 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. Shemp has been ill with a toothache for quite some time. The Stooges' friend Claude (Matt McHugh) gives Moe and Larry some specific instructions on how to cure the toothache, which, of course, they misinterpret every which way possible. After finally yanking the troublesome tooth, Claude suggests they take Shemp on a camping trip for a little", "title": "Wham Bam Slam" }, { "docid": "6732320", "text": "Emil Sitka Emil Sitka (December 22, 1914January 16, 1998) was a veteran American actor who appeared in hundreds of movies, short films, and television shows, and is best known for his numerous appearances with The Three Stooges. He is one of only two actors to have worked with all six Stooges (Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Joe Besser, Joe DeRita) on film in the various incarnations of the group (Harold Brauer, a recurring villain who appeared in three 1940s shorts, was the other). Sitka served the role of a literal \"stooge,\" or straight man, to the Three", "title": "Emil Sitka" } ]
[ { "docid": "3137800", "text": "finished posthumously by his daughter and son-in-law, and some specific details were confused as a result. The Los Angeles county coroner's death certificate states that Shemp Howard died on Tuesday, November 22, 1955, at 11:35 [PM] PST; confirming that, Shemp's obituary appeared in the November 23 afternoon editions of Los Angeles newspapers, establishing the night of November 22 as the date of death. A different account is offered by former daughter-in-law Geri Greenbaum, who says Shemp's death happened just as their cab came over the rise on Barham Boulevard (heading to his Toluca Lake home). Shemp Howard was entombed in", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "3137798", "text": "or allowing his hair to fall in disarray. He even played along with a publicity stunt that named him \"The Ugliest Man in Hollywood\". (\"I'm hideous,\" he explained to reporters.) Notoriously phobic, his fears included airplanes, automobiles, dogs and water. According to Moe's autobiography, Shemp was involved in a driving accident as a teenager and never obtained a driver's license. On November 22, 1955, Shemp went out with his friends Al Winston and Bobby Silverman to a boxing match (one of Shemp's favorite pastimes), at the old Hollywood Legion Stadium (at North El Centro Avenue & Selma Avenue), located just", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "3137799", "text": "one block above the Hollywood Palladium. While returning home in a taxicab that evening, he died of a sudden massive heart attack, at the age of 60. He was leaning back and lighting a cigar after telling a joke, when he suddenly slumped over on his friend Al Winston's lap, accidentally burning Al with the cigar. Al thought Shemp was playing a joke, since Shemp was laughing moments earlier, but realized he was actually dead. Moe's autobiography gives a death date of November 23, 1955, as do most subsequent accounts, because of Moe's book. But much of that book was", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "3137788", "text": "a contract dispute, Healy walked out on the Shuberts' revue during rehearsals. Following this, three days later, tired of what he considered Healy's domineering handling of the Stooges' career, Shemp left Healy's act to remain with \"Passing Show,\" which closed in September during roadshow performances and after pan reviews in Detroit and Cincinnati. Shemp regrouped to form his own act and played on the road for a few months. He landed at Brooklyn's Vitaphone Studios for movie appearance opportunities in May 1933. When he split from Healy, Shemp was immediately replaced by his and Moe's younger brother Jerry Howard (known", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "6218416", "text": "Fake Shemp Fake Shemp, or simply Shemp, is someone who appears in a film as a replacement for another actor or person. Their appearance is disguised using methods such as heavy make-up (or a computer-generated equivalent), filming from the back, dubbing in audio and splicing in past footage from the original actor's previous work, using a sound-alike voice actor, or using partial shots of the actor. The concept is named after Shemp Howard, whose sudden death in 1955 necessitated the use of these techniques to finish the films to which he was already committed. Once somewhat commonplace throughout the 20th", "title": "Fake Shemp" }, { "docid": "3137786", "text": "he was part of the act, usually known as \"Ted Healy and His Stooges\". His original stooges were the Howard brothers, with Larry Fine joining in March 1928. On stage, Healy sang and told jokes while his three noisy stooges got in his way. Healy retaliated with physical and verbal abuse. Shemp played a bumbling fireman in the Stooges' first film, \"Soup to Nuts\" (1930), the only film in which he plays one of Healy's gang. After a disagreement with Healy in August 1930, Moe, Larry and Shemp left to launch their own act, \"Howard, Fine & Howard,\" and joined", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "3137785", "text": "nickname. Shemp's brother, Moe Howard, started in show business as a youngster, on stage and in films. Eventually, Moe and Shemp tried their hands as minstrel-show-style \"blackface\" comedians with an act they called \"Howard and Howard—A Study In Black\". Meanwhile, they also worked for a rival vaudeville circuit at the same time, appearing without makeup. By 1922, Moe had teamed up with boyhood-friend-turned-vaudeville star Ted Healy in a \"roughhouse\" act. One day Moe spotted his brother Shemp in the audience, and yelled at him from the stage. Quick-witted Shemp yelled right back, and walked onto the stage. From then on", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "3137797", "text": "counting four that were made after Shemp's death by using stock footage. The trio also made the feature film \"Gold Raiders\" (1951). Shemp suffered a mild stroke in November 1952, although he recovered from it within weeks. The medical episode had no noticeable effect on his remaining films with the Stooges, many of which were remakes of earlier films that also used recycled footage to reduce costs. In September 1925, Shemp (at age 30) married Gertrude Frank (26), a fellow New Yorker. They had one child, Morton (1926–1972). Shemp used his somewhat homely appearance for comic effect, often mugging grotesquely", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "3137789", "text": "as Curly) in the act. Shemp Howard, like many New York-based performers, found work at the Vitaphone studio in Brooklyn. Originally playing bit roles in Vitaphone's Roscoe Arbuckle comedies, showing off his goofy appearance, he was entrusted with speaking roles and supporting parts almost immediately. He was featured with Vitaphone comics Jack Haley, Ben Blue and Gus Shy, then co-starred with Harry Gribbon, Daphne Pollard and Johnnie Berkes, and finally starred in his own two-reel comedies. A Gribbon-Howard short, \"Art Trouble\" (1934), also features then unknown James Stewart in his first film role. The independently-produced \"Convention Girl\" (1935) featured Shemp", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "3137802", "text": "shorts by reusing old footage of Shemp and filming new connecting scenes with a double (longtime Stooge supporting actor Joe Palma), who is seen mostly from the back. Palma came to be known by Stooge fans as the \"Fake Shemp\", and director Sam Raimi and his childhood friend actor Bruce Campbell referred to anyone playing a body double or stand-in in other films as \"Shemp\" or \"a Fake Shemp\" in reference to the postmortem Stooge shorts with a double portraying Shemp in some scenes. The re-edited films range from clever to blatantly patchy, and are often dismissed as second-rate. \"Rumpus", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "3137793", "text": "1944–45. He also played a few serious parts, such as his supporting role in \"Pittsburgh\" (1942), starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne. During 1938–1939 and 1944–1946, Shemp appeared in Columbia's two-reel comedies, co-starring with Columbia regulars Andy Clyde, The Glove Slingers, El Brendel and Tom Kennedy. He was given his own starring series in 1944; he was working for Columbia in this capacity when his brother Curly was felled by a debilitating stroke on May 6, 1946, although he had already suffered a series of them prior to the filming of \"If a Body Meets a Body\" (1945). Shemp replaced", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "3137791", "text": "the last two done after Shemp's departure from Vitaphone for greener pastures on the West Coast. Away from Vitaphone he attempted, unsuccessfully, to lead his own group of \"stooges\" in the Van Beuren musical comedy short \"The Knife of the Party\". But Shemp's solo career was otherwise successful. He followed his brothers' lead, moved to the West Coast in 1937 and landed supporting-actor roles at several studios, predominantly at Columbia Pictures and Universal Studios. Shemp worked exclusively at Universal from August 1940 to August 1943. He performed with such comics as W. C. Fields, playing Fields' bartender in the film", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "3137790", "text": "in a very rare straight role as a blackmailer and would-be murderer. Shemp would seldom stick to the script, and would liven up a scene with ad-libbed incidental dialogue or wisecracks. This became a trademark of his performances. In late 1935, Vitaphone was licensed to produce short comedies based on the \"Joe Palooka\" comic strip. Shemp was cast as \"Knobby Walsh,\" and though only a supporting character became the comic focus of the series, with Johnny Berkes and Lee Weber as his foils. He co-starred in the first seven shorts, released during 1936 and 1937; nine were produced altogether, with", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "3137784", "text": "the Stooges, Shemp had a successful film career as a solo comedian. Shemp was born as Shmuel Horwitz Manhattan, New York on March 11, 1895, and raised in Brooklyn. He was the third-born of the five Horwitz brothers, the sons of their Lithuanian Jewish parents: Solomon Horwitz (1872–1943) and Jennie Horwitz (1870–1939). Irving and Jack were his older brothers; Moses and Jerome were his younger brothers. His first name, Shmuel was anglicized to Samuel, and his parents and brothers usually called him Sam. His mother's Lithuanian accent caused his name to sound like \"Shem\", when she spoke it, hence his", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "6218419", "text": "shorts, so they were able to complete the films without Shemp. New footage was filmed of the other two Stooges (Moe Howard and Larry Fine) and edited together with stock footage. When continuity required that Shemp appear in the new scenes, they used Columbia supporting player Joe Palma to be a body double for him, often appearing only from behind or with an object obscuring his face. Palma is often mistakenly cited as Shemp's stand-in, but these four shorts are the only documented times he performed in this capacity. Palma was a bit character actor and was not employed as", "title": "Fake Shemp" }, { "docid": "3137792", "text": "\"The Bank Dick\" (1940); and with comedy duos Abbott and Costello and Olsen and Johnson. He lent comic relief to Charlie Chan and The Thin Man murder mysteries. Shemp appeared in several Universal B-musicals of the early 1940s, among them \"Strictly in the Groove\" (1942), \"How's About It?\" (1943), \"Moonlight and Cactus\" (1944) and \"San Antonio Rose\" (1941), in which he is paired with Lon Chaney, Jr. as a faux Abbott and Costello. Most of these projects took great advantage of his improvisational skills. He was briefly teamed with comedians Billy Gilbert and Maxie Rosenbloom for three B-comedy features in", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "11309302", "text": "of Shmow's palace, all three dressed as Santa Claus. They then manage to acquire the diamond and make a quick exit, but not before dealing with a burly guard. \"Rumpus in the Harem\" is a remake of 1949's \"Malice in the Palace\", using ample stock footage. It was the first of four shorts filmed in the wake of Shemp Howard's November 1955 death using earlier footage and a stand-in: all new footage was shot on January 10, 1956. As Shemp Howard had already died, for these last four films (\"Rumpus in the Harem\", \"Hot Stuff\", \"Scheming Schemers\" and \"Commotion on", "title": "Rumpus in the Harem" }, { "docid": "2637801", "text": "brother Shemp until their father put a stop to it, and in 1914, by joining a performing minstrel show troupe on a Mississippi River showboat for the next two summers. In 1921, he joined Ted Healy in a vaudeville routine. In 1923, Moe saw Shemp in the audience during a theater performance and yelled at him from the stage. Shemp responded by heckling Moe, and the two brothers' amusing bickering during the performance resulted in Healy immediately hiring Shemp Howard as a permanent part of the act. Moe retired in June 1925 after his marriage to Helen Schonberger and went", "title": "Moe Howard" }, { "docid": "10229521", "text": "\"Live at the Marquee\" bonus 7-inch single which featured the tracks: What Is Love? (Howard Jones song) \"What Is Love?\" is the second single by musician Howard Jones. Released in November 1983, from the album \"Human's Lib\", it reached no. 2 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the singer's highest chart placing to date. In the US, it peaked at no. 33 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart during the summer of 1984. The song was originally entitled \"Love?\" on the demo tape (listing below) which Howard Jones recorded in 1982, which itself was available at his gigs. Jones also", "title": "What Is Love? (Howard Jones song)" }, { "docid": "10229519", "text": "What Is Love? (Howard Jones song) \"What Is Love?\" is the second single by musician Howard Jones. Released in November 1983, from the album \"Human's Lib\", it reached no. 2 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the singer's highest chart placing to date. In the US, it peaked at no. 33 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart during the summer of 1984. The song was originally entitled \"Love?\" on the demo tape (listing below) which Howard Jones recorded in 1982, which itself was available at his gigs. Jones also used the question mark motif around this time on posters advertising", "title": "What Is Love? (Howard Jones song)" }, { "docid": "473272", "text": "at age 60 on November 22, 1955 during a taxi ride home with a friend after attending a boxing match. Moe was stunned and contemplated disbanding the Stooges. However, Cohn reminded him that the team owed Columbia four additional films with Shemp. Recycled footage, combined with new footage utilizing Columbia supporting player Joe Palma (see also Fake Shemp) as Shemp's double, filmed from behind, was used to complete the last four films originally planned with Shemp: \"Rumpus in the Harem\", \"Hot Stuff\", \"Scheming Schemers\" and \"Commotion on the Ocean\" (all released in 1956). After Shemp's death, Moe and Larry were", "title": "The Three Stooges" }, { "docid": "13923118", "text": "were the same.\" A review posted on \"TVFanatic\" says:\"The question is whether it worked. We're going to go with a definitive yes ... and no.\" I Saw What I Saw \"I Saw What I Saw\" is the sixth episode of the sixth season of the American television medical drama \"Grey's Anatomy\", and the show's 108th episode overall. It was written by Peter William Harper and directed by Allison Liddi-Brown. The episode was originally broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States on October 22, 2009. The episode begins \"in medias res\", depicting events following a whodunit style,", "title": "I Saw What I Saw" }, { "docid": "3137794", "text": "Curly in Columbia's popular Stooge shorts, knowing that Moe and Larry would be out of work if he refused. He rejoined the Stooges at first on only a temporary basis until Curly recovered, but as Curly's condition worsened it became apparent that Shemp's association with the Stooges would be permanent. Reportedly he was initially reluctant about rejoining the Stooges, but Shemp's income increased significantly over the next several years due to this career change. Before replacing Curly in the film series, it has also been claimed that Shemp substituted for his brother in various personal appearances in the early 1940s;", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "13472908", "text": "What the Peeper Saw What the Peeper Saw or Night Child is a 1972 horror film starring Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Krüger and Lilli Palmer. Marcus is a twelve-year-old schoolboy whose mother has recently died, leaving it up to his wealthy father Paul to look after him. He takes a sexual interest in his stepmother Elise. She notices his abnormal behaviour and investigates by visiting his school after discovering a torn-up letter from his headmaster. Elise is shocked by her findings. She becomes increasingly disturbed and wonders if Marcus is to blame for his mother's death. She enlists the", "title": "What the Peeper Saw" }, { "docid": "6218427", "text": "credits; in \"Darkman\", Bruce Campbell's quick cameo in the final scene is credited as \"Final Shemp\", and Campbell was also credited as \"Shemp Wooley\" (a pun on singer Sheb Wooley) when doing the voice of \"Jean-Claude the Carrier Parrot\" in the short-lived TV series \"Jack of All Trades\". There have been many Fake Shemps over the years. One of the earliest, in an example that predates its use to replace Shemp, was in the film \"Saratoga\", in which the illness and death of star Jean Harlow necessitated the filming of scenes with a voice and body double. Director Ed Wood", "title": "Fake Shemp" }, { "docid": "11314349", "text": "crying out loud!\" \"For Crimin' Out Loud\" is the last film released to contain new footage of Shemp Howard. However, it was not the last one filmed. \"For Crimin' Out Loud\" was filmed on June 30, 1955: the previous release, \"Flagpole Jitters\", was actually filmed the next day on July 1 but the first of the two films to be released. Shemp died of a sudden heart attack on November 22, 1955, before any new films were produced. For Crimin' Out Loud For Crimin' Out Loud is the 170th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1956 starring American slapstick", "title": "For Crimin' Out Loud" }, { "docid": "5038791", "text": "What the Butler Saw (play) What the Butler Saw is a farce written by the English playwright Joe Orton. It was premièred at the Queen's Theatre in London on 5 March 1969. It was Orton's final play and the second to be performed after his death, following \"Funeral Games\" in 1968. The play consists of two acts—though the action is continuous—and revolves around a Dr. Prentice, a psychiatrist attempting to seduce his attractive prospective secretary, Geraldine Barclay. The play opens with the doctor examining Geraldine Barclay in a job interview. As part of the interview, he persuades her to undress.", "title": "What the Butler Saw (play)" }, { "docid": "473237", "text": "Stooges\". From 1934 to 1946, Moe, Larry and Curly produced over 90 short films for Columbia. It was during this period that the three were at their peak popularity. Curly suffered a debilitating stroke in May 1946, and Shemp returned, reinstating the original lineup, until his death of a heart attack on November 22, 1955. Film actor Joe Palma was used as a stand-in to complete four Shemp-era shorts under contract (the maneuver thereafter became known as the \"fake Shemp\"). Columbia contract player Joe Besser joined as the third Stooge for two years (1956–57), departing in 1958 to nurse his", "title": "The Three Stooges" }, { "docid": "13945105", "text": "the difference between early and late bloomers to criminal profiling. \"What the Dog Saw\" was met with mainly positive reviews. It received profiles in many high-profile publications, including the \"New York Times\", \"The Guardian\", \"Time Magazine\", \"The Los Angeles Times\" and \"The Independent\". In particular, Gladwell was praised for his writing and storytelling, and reviewers looked upon the essay format positively, with \"The Guardian\" stating \"one virtue of What the Dog Saw is that the pieces are perfectly crafted: they achieve their purpose more effectively when they aren't stretched out.\" \"What The Dog Saw\" was criticized for its use of", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "13923111", "text": "I Saw What I Saw \"I Saw What I Saw\" is the sixth episode of the sixth season of the American television medical drama \"Grey's Anatomy\", and the show's 108th episode overall. It was written by Peter William Harper and directed by Allison Liddi-Brown. The episode was originally broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States on October 22, 2009. The episode begins \"in medias res\", depicting events following a whodunit style, exposing them from alternating points of view in a fast-paced way. Katherine Heigl (Dr. Izzie Stevens) was absent from the episode, due to her hiatus", "title": "I Saw What I Saw" }, { "docid": "13945106", "text": "statistics and its lack of technical grounding. \"What the Dog Saw\" debuted at #3 on the \"New York Times\" Bestseller List. It spent three weeks in the top 3 and a total of 16 weeks on the chart, appearing concurrently with Gladwell's previous book \"Outliers\". It was also an Amazon Top 25 seller for the month of November. \"What the Dog Saw\" was named to Bloomberg's top 50 business books of 2009. All of the articles in \"What the Dog Saw\" can be read for free on Gladwell's website. Part 1: \"Obsessives, Pioneers, and other varieties of Minor Genius\" Part", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "3137803", "text": "in the Harem\" borrows from \"Malice in the Palace\", \"Hot Stuff\" from \"Fuelin' Around\", and \"Commotion on the Ocean\" (all re-edits released 1956) from \"Dunked in the Deep\" (originals all 1949). The best-received (and most technically accomplished) is \"Scheming Schemers\" (again 1956), combining new footage with recycled clips from \"three\" old Stooge shorts: \"A Plumbing We Will Go\" (1940), \"Half-Wits Holiday\" (1947) and \"Vagabond Loafers\" (1949). When it was time to renew the Stooges' contract, Columbia hired comedian Joe Besser to replace Shemp. Columbia stopped filming new Stooge shorts for theaters in December 1957, but kept the series going into", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "2637813", "text": "film to contain all three Howard brothers; Moe, Curly, and Shemp), he soon suffered a second series of strokes which led to his death at age 48 on January 18, 1952. After Shemp rejoined the act, Moe, Shemp, and Larry shot a television pilot for ABC called \"Jerks of All Trades\" (1949), apparently intended to lead to a weekly sitcom series on the premise that the Stooges would try a different job or business every week, hoping that eventually one of their attempts would be successful. Anything they tried turned out to be a fiasco, which was the source of", "title": "Moe Howard" }, { "docid": "6338395", "text": "Howard Moss Howard Moss (January 22, 1922 – September 16, 1987) was an American poet, dramatist and critic. He was poetry editor of \"The New Yorker\" magazine from 1948 until his death and he won the National Book Award in 1972 for \"Selected Poems\". Moss was born in New York City. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award. He is credited with discovering a number of major American poets, including Anne Sexton and Amy Clampitt. W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman co-wrote a famously concise clerihew in his honor: <poem> </poem> According to Edmund White,", "title": "Howard Moss" }, { "docid": "2637816", "text": "the Fake Shemp phenomenon), until Columbia head Harry Cohn hired Joe Besser in 1956. According to Moe's autobiography, Howard wanted a \"two-stooge\" act, and it was Cohn's idea, not Howard's, to replace Shemp as part of the act. The Stooges replaced Shemp with Besser, already an established Columbia comedy shorts star in his own right and frequent movie supporting player. Joe, Larry, and Moe filmed 16 shorts through December 1957. Shortly before Cohn's death in February 1958, the making of short subjects came to an end. Keeping himself busy, Moe was hired by Harry Romm as associate producer. According to", "title": "Moe Howard" }, { "docid": "3137787", "text": "the RKO vaudeville circuit. The three premiered at Los Angeles' Paramount Theatre on August 28, 1930. In 1931, they added \"Three Lost Soles\" to the act's name, and took on Jack Walsh as their straight man. Moe, Larry and Shemp continued until July 1932, when Ted Healy approached them to team up again for the Shuberts' Broadway revue \"Passing Show of 1932,\" and they readily accepted the offer. In spite of any differences, Moe knew that an association with the nationally known Ted Healy provided opportunities the three comics were not achieving on their own. On August 16, 1932, in", "title": "Shemp Howard" }, { "docid": "13923115", "text": "report. The episode was written by William Harper and directed by Allison Liddi-Brown. David Greenspan edited the episode and Donald Lee Harris served as production designer. Featured music included [...]. The episode received positive reviews among television critics, and it outperformed the previous episode in terms of viewership. \"I Saw What I Saw\" was originally broadcast on October 22, 2009 in the United States on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The episode was viewed by a total of 15.40 million people, up 1.61% from the previous episode \"Invasion\", which garnered 13.79 million viewers. In terms of viewership, \"I Saw What", "title": "I Saw What I Saw" }, { "docid": "6218424", "text": "\"Heep, heep, heeps!,\" and hides behind the door. This brief scene was the largest speaking part Palma performed in his own voice while acting as Shemp. For \"Scheming Schemers\", Palma appears for the shot of \"Shemp\" honking a truck horn. Palma gathers several pipes, obstructing his face, and one line of dialogue (\"Hold yer horses, will ya?\") is dubbed in Shemp's voice from \"The Ghost Talks\". Shemp is absent from several scenes. In one scene, Larry, upon hearing that a valuable piece of art has been stolen, whispers to Moe, \"Where's Shemp? He loves pictures!\" Moe mutters, \"I think he's", "title": "Fake Shemp" }, { "docid": "14834596", "text": "Shane Howard Shane Michael Howard (born 26 January 1955) is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist, he was the mainstay of folk rock group Goanna (1977–85, 1998) which had hit singles with \"\"Solid Rock\"\" (September 1982, No. 3) and \"Let the Franklin Flow\" (May 1983, No. 12) on the Kent Music Report and their album, \"Spirit of Place\" (November 1982, No. 2). After their disbandment he pursued a solo career. Shane Michael Howard was born on 26 January 1955 and raised in the Victorian coastal town of Dennington north-west of Warrnambool. He is the middle child of seven children of an", "title": "Shane Howard" }, { "docid": "13472909", "text": "help of psychiatrist Dr Viorne to find answers. \"What the Peeper Saw\" was released in Italy on October 14 1972 and in West Germany on February 7, 1973. What the Peeper Saw What the Peeper Saw or Night Child is a 1972 horror film starring Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Krüger and Lilli Palmer. Marcus is a twelve-year-old schoolboy whose mother has recently died, leaving it up to his wealthy father Paul to look after him. He takes a sexual interest in his stepmother Elise. She notices his abnormal behaviour and investigates by visiting his school after discovering a torn-up", "title": "What the Peeper Saw" }, { "docid": "3952041", "text": "Brooklyn borough of New York City, on October 22, 1903. Of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, he was the youngest of the five sons of Jennie (Gorovitz) and Solomon Horwitz. Because he was the youngest, his brothers called him \"Babe\" to tease him. The name \"Babe\" stuck with him all his life, although when his elder brother Shemp Howard married Gertrude Frank, who was also nicknamed \"Babe\", the brothers called him \"Curly\" to avoid confusion. His full formal Hebrew name was \"Yehudah Lev ben Shlomo Natan ha Levi.\" A quiet child, Howard rarely caused problems for his parents (something in which older", "title": "Curly Howard" }, { "docid": "5038795", "text": "stage in 1995. Phyllida Lloyd directed the play. There was a further revival in 2012 at the Vaudeville Theatre, directed by Sean Foley, which ran from 16 May to 25 August. There was a 2017 production directed by Nikolai Foster at the Curve Theatre in Leicester. What the Butler Saw (play) What the Butler Saw is a farce written by the English playwright Joe Orton. It was premièred at the Queen's Theatre in London on 5 March 1969. It was Orton's final play and the second to be performed after his death, following \"Funeral Games\" in 1968. The play consists", "title": "What the Butler Saw (play)" }, { "docid": "6862346", "text": "Fascination with death Fascination with death has occurred throughout human history, characterized by obsessions with death and all things related to death and the afterlife. In past times, people would form cults around death and figures. Famously, Anubis, Osiris, Hades, and La Santa Muerte have all had large cult followings. La Santa Muerte (Saint Death), or the personification of death, is currently worshiped by many in Mexico and other countries in Central America. Day of the Dead (2 November), is a celebration for the dead. The ancient Egyptians are most famous for their fascination of death by mummifying their dead", "title": "Fascination with death" }, { "docid": "3952046", "text": "and partner Larry. Moe, however, told Shemp to pursue this opportunity. With Shemp gone, Moe suggested that Curly fill the role of the third stooge, but Healy felt that with his thick, chestnut hair and elegant waxed mustache, he did not \"look funny\" and was \"too handsome\". Howard left the room and returned minutes later with his head shaven (the mustache remained very briefly). Healy quipped, \"Boy, don't \"you\" look girlie?\" Moe misheard the joke as \"curly\", and all who witnessed the exchange realized that the nickname \"Curly\" would be a perfect fit. In one of the few interviews Howard", "title": "Curly Howard" }, { "docid": "12099215", "text": "William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Effingham William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Effingham (27 December 1577 – 28 November 1615) was an English nobleman, the eldest son of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (who as Lord Howard of Effingham famously led the English fleet against the Spanish Armada) and Catherine Carey, Lady of the chamber to Queen Elizabeth who died 25 Feb 1603 at Arundel House, Strand, Middlesex, ENG. As Sir William Howard, he was elected Member of Parliament for Surrey in 1597. However, two days before the Parliament met his father was raised to an Earldom. This", "title": "William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Effingham" }, { "docid": "6218430", "text": "background, sunglasses, rear shot, and even upside-down, to resemble Glover. Dissatisfied with these plans, Glover filed a lawsuit against the producers, including Steven Spielberg, on the grounds that they neither owned his likeness nor had permission to use it. Due to Glover's lawsuit, there are now clauses in the Screen Actors Guild collective bargaining agreements that state that producers and actors are not allowed to use such methods to reproduce the likeness of other actors. See also \"Dark Horse Comic\", AOD #2 of 3, interview with Bruce Campbell Fake Shemp Fake Shemp, or simply Shemp, is someone who appears in", "title": "Fake Shemp" }, { "docid": "9681934", "text": "Untimely Meditations Untimely Meditations (), also translated as Unfashionable Observations and Thoughts Out Of Season, consists of four works by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, started in 1873 and completed in 1876. The work comprises a collection of four (out of a projected 13) essays concerning the contemporary condition of European, especially German, culture. A fifth essay, published posthumously, had the title \"We Philologists\", and gave as a \"\"Task for philology\": disappearance\". Nietzsche here began to discuss the limitations of empirical knowledge, and presented what would appear compressed in later aphorisms. It combines the naivete of \"The Birth of Tragedy\" with", "title": "Untimely Meditations" }, { "docid": "16093726", "text": "What We Saw from the Cheap Seats What We Saw from the Cheap Seats is the sixth studio album by American alternative singer-songwriter Regina Spektor. On November 21, 2011, Spektor posted on her Facebook page that the album had been recorded with Mike Elizondo in Los Angeles during the summer of 2011. It was released on May 29, 2012. The album is a collection of new material along with the very first studio recordings of several of Spektor's older live songs. At the time of the album's release, \"Jessica\" was the only entirely new song. \"How\" and \"The Party\" had", "title": "What We Saw from the Cheap Seats" }, { "docid": "4257879", "text": "Columbia in 1932. He served there from 1932 to 1944. He also served on the faculty of the Howard University School of Divinity. Thurman traveled broadly, heading Christian missions and meeting with world figures such as Mahatma Gandhi. When Thurman asked Gandhi what message he should take back to the United States, Gandhi said he regretted not having made nonviolence more visible as a practice worldwide and famously remarked \"It may be through the Negroes that the unadulterated message of nonviolence will be delivered to the world.\". In 1944, Thurman left his tenured position at Howard to help the Fellowship", "title": "Howard Thurman" }, { "docid": "9681935", "text": "the beginnings of his more mature polemical style. It was Nietzsche's most humorous work, especially for \"David Strauss: the confessor and the writer.\" \"Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen\" has been one of the more difficult of Nietzsche's titles to be translated into English, with each subsequent translation offering a new variation. Thus: \"Untimely Meditations\" (Kaufmann, 1968), \"Thoughts Out of Season\" (Ludovici, 1909), \"Untimely Reflections\" (Ronald Hayman, 1980), \"Unmodern Observations\" (Arrowsmith, 2011) and \"Inopportune Speculations\", \"Unfashionable Observations\" or \"Essays in Sham Smashing\" (H. L. Mencken, 1908). Many different plans for the series are found in Nietzsche's notebooks, most of them showing a total of", "title": "Untimely Meditations" }, { "docid": "5812334", "text": "in 1925 with the following list of names: November Group (German) The November Group () was a group of German expressionist artists and architects. Formed on 3 December 1918, they took their name from the month of the German Revolution. The group was led by Max Pechstein and César Klein. Linked less by their styles of art than by shared socialist values, the group campaigned for radical artists to have a greater say in such issues as the organisation of art schools, and new laws around the arts. The group merged in December 1918 with Arbeitsrat für Kunst (Workers Council", "title": "November Group (German)" }, { "docid": "16968356", "text": "Gary Howard Gary William Howard (born 16 June 1955) is a British musician and actor. Formerly best known as a member of the a cappella group The Flying Pickets, in more recent years he is known for his roles in the film \"Gosford Park\" and the television sitcom \"Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps\". Gary William Howard was born in Ilford, Essex on 16 June 1955. His father John was a mechanic who was also in a folk band called the Pathfinders, for whom John played acoustic guitar. John also taught Howard how to play acoustic guitar,", "title": "Gary Howard" }, { "docid": "16968344", "text": "Gary Howard Gary William Howard (born 16 June 1955) is a British musician and actor. Formerly best known as a member of the a cappella group The Flying Pickets, in more recent years he is known for his roles in the film \"Gosford Park\" and the television sitcom \"Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps\". Gary William Howard was born in Ilford, Essex on 16 June 1955. His father John was a mechanic who was also in a folk band called the Pathfinders, for whom John played acoustic guitar. John also taught Howard how to play acoustic guitar,", "title": "Gary Howard" }, { "docid": "2637803", "text": "act in December 1928. In rehearsals in early 1929, Howard, Larry Fine, and Shemp Howard came together for the first time as a trio. When \"A Night in Venice\" closed in March 1930, Healy and the trio toured for a while as \"Ted Healy and His Racketeers\" (later changed to Ted Healy and His Stooges). Ted Healy and His Stooges were on the verge of hitting the big time and made their first movie, \"Soup to Nuts\" (1930)—featuring Healy and his four Stooges: Moe (billed as \"Harry Howard\"), Shemp, Larry, and Fred Sanborn (Sanborn had been with Healy's troupe since", "title": "Moe Howard" }, { "docid": "4461617", "text": "duo filmed \"The Abbott and Costello Show\" for television, they hired Joe Besser to play Oswald \"Stinky\" Davis, a bratty, loudmouthed child dressed in an oversized Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, shorts, and a flat top hat with overhanging brim. He appeared during the first season of \"The Abbott and Costello Show\". Besser was cast for the role of Yonkel, a chariot man in the low-budget biblical film \"Sins of Jezebel\" (1953) which starred Paulette Goddard as the titular wicked queen. After Shemp Howard died of a heart attack on November 22, 1955 at age 60, his brother Moe suggested that", "title": "Joe Besser" }, { "docid": "5812330", "text": "November Group (German) The November Group () was a group of German expressionist artists and architects. Formed on 3 December 1918, they took their name from the month of the German Revolution. The group was led by Max Pechstein and César Klein. Linked less by their styles of art than by shared socialist values, the group campaigned for radical artists to have a greater say in such issues as the organisation of art schools, and new laws around the arts. The group merged in December 1918 with Arbeitsrat für Kunst (Workers Council of the arts - or 'The Art Soviet').", "title": "November Group (German)" }, { "docid": "18155106", "text": "was a Republican. He had five children. He served as a mentor to the Young Jewish Professionals Real Estate Network. Howard Michaels Howard Lee Michaels (November 3, 1955 – September 21, 2018) was an American businessman who was the founder of the real estate investment advisory firm Carlton Group. Michaels was born to a Jewish family in Flatbush, Brooklyn in 1955 but was raised in Deer Park, New York. His father worked in a retail carpet store where Michaels also occasionally worked. In 1977, he graduated from American University in Washington, D.C. After school, he accepted a job with 3M", "title": "Howard Michaels" }, { "docid": "9549846", "text": "support for its conclusion that the assassin shot at President Kennedy from the Book Depository Building. Brennan's memoir \"Eyewitness to History: The Kennedy Assassination as Seen by Howard L. Brennan\", written with J. Edward Cherryholmes, was published posthumously in 1987 by Texian Press. () Howard Brennan Howard Leslie Brennan (March 20, 1919 – December 22, 1983) was a witness to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. According to the Warren Commission, Brennan's description of a sniper he saw was probative in reaching the conclusion that the shots came from the sixth", "title": "Howard Brennan" }, { "docid": "18155102", "text": "Howard Michaels Howard Lee Michaels (November 3, 1955 – September 21, 2018) was an American businessman who was the founder of the real estate investment advisory firm Carlton Group. Michaels was born to a Jewish family in Flatbush, Brooklyn in 1955 but was raised in Deer Park, New York. His father worked in a retail carpet store where Michaels also occasionally worked. In 1977, he graduated from American University in Washington, D.C. After school, he accepted a job with 3M selling copy machines and then accepted a position with Connecticut General Life Insurance Company (now CIGNA) before moving on to", "title": "Howard Michaels" }, { "docid": "3952062", "text": "Western Jewish Institute section of Home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles. His older brothers, Benjamin and Shemp, and parents Jennie and Solomon are all interred there, as well. Howard's offscreen personality was the antithesis of his onscreen manic persona. An introvert, he generally kept to himself, rarely socializing with people unless he had been drinking (to which he would increasingly turn as the stresses of his career grew). In addition, he came to life when in the presence of brother Shemp. Howard could not be himself around brother Moe, who treated his younger brother with a fatherly wag", "title": "Curly Howard" }, { "docid": "2971561", "text": "pleasing touch by siding with either Moe or Curly, depending on the situation, thereby enabling him to show moments of lucidity as well as lunacy.\" After Curly suffered a debilitating stroke in May 1946, Shemp replaced him in the act. The Shemp era marked a period of increased onscreen presence for Larry, who had been relegated to a background role during the Curly era. Upon Shemp's return, he was allotted equal onscreen time, even becoming the focus of several films, in particular \"Fuelin' Around\" (1949) and \"He Cooked His Goose\" (1952). On November 22, 1955, Shemp died of a heart", "title": "Larry Fine" }, { "docid": "3952045", "text": "audience. Meanwhile, Healy and company appeared in their first feature film, Rube Goldberg's \"Soup to Nuts\" (1930). Shemp Howard, however, disliked Healy's abrasiveness, bad temper, and heavy drinking. In 1932, he was offered a contract at the Vitaphone Studios in Brooklyn. (Contrary to stories told by Moe, the role of \"Knobby Walsh\" in the \"Joe Palooka\" series did not come along until late 1935, after Shemp had been at Vitaphone for three years and had already appeared in almost 30 short subjects.) Shemp was thrilled to be away from Healy, but as was his nature, worried incessantly about brother Moe", "title": "Curly Howard" }, { "docid": "11240458", "text": "microfilm of State Department documents, which Chambers had concealed in a hollowed-out pumpkin on his Maryland farm. As Shemp Howard had already died, for his last four films (\"Rumpus in the Harem\", \"Hot Stuff\", \"Scheming Schemers\" and \"Commotion on the Ocean\"), Columbia utilized supporting actor Joe Palma to be Shemp's double. Even though the last four shorts were remakes of earlier Shemp efforts, Palma's services were needed to link what few new scenes were filmed to the older stock footage.It is also the final film to feature Shemp as a stooge. He would be replaced with Joe Besser in the", "title": "Commotion on the Ocean" }, { "docid": "12794745", "text": "William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow KP (13 February 1788 – 22 March 1869) was an Anglo-Irish peer, styled Lord Clonmore from 1815 to 1818. He was the eldest son of William Howard, 3rd Earl of Wicklow and Eleanor Caulfeild. He became Earl of Wicklow in 1818 on the death of his father in 1818, and on 10 November 1821 he was elected as an Irish representative peer, thus enabling him to sit in the House of Lords as a Tory. Between 1831 and his death he served as the first Lord Lieutenant of", "title": "William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow" }, { "docid": "4030552", "text": "change his act or imitate another performer, and White eventually gave up on DeRita (DeRita's own short-subject contract was not renewed after four films, the final entry being \"Jitter Bughouse\"). DeRita returned to burlesque and recorded a risque LP in 1950 called \"Burlesque Uncensored\". When Shemp Howard died unexpectedly of a heart attack on November 22, 1955 at age 60, he was succeeded by Joe Besser. Columbia eventually shut down the short-subjects department at the end of 1957, and Besser quit the act to take care of his ailing wife. The two remaining Stooges seriously considered retirement. Then Columbia's television", "title": "Joe DeRita" }, { "docid": "2637802", "text": "into real estate with his mother. Meanwhile, Healy's act with frequent stooge Shemp Howard went on to national fame in the Shubert Brothers' \"A Night in Spain\" (Jan. 1927 – Nov. 1928), which had a successful Broadway run, as well as a national tour. During \"A Night in Spain\", and the end of a 4-month run in Chicago, Illinois, Healy recruited vaudeville violinist Larry Fine to join the troupe in March 1928. After the show ended in late November, Healy signed for the Shuberts' new revue \"A Night in Venice\" and recruited Moe Howard out of retirement to rejoin the", "title": "Moe Howard" }, { "docid": "13945103", "text": "What the Dog Saw What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures is the fourth book released by author Malcolm Gladwell, on October 20, 2009. The book is a compilation of the journalist's articles published in \"The New Yorker\". Gladwell initially covered business and science in \"The Washington Post\" before joining the staff at \"The New Yorker\" in 1997. Each of the articles first appeared in \"The New Yorker\" and was handpicked by Gladwell. The stories share a common theme, namely that Gladwell tries to show us the world through the eyes of others, even if that other happens to be", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "13945107", "text": "2: \"Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses\" Part 3: \"Personality, Character, and Intelligence\" What the Dog Saw What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures is the fourth book released by author Malcolm Gladwell, on October 20, 2009. The book is a compilation of the journalist's articles published in \"The New Yorker\". Gladwell initially covered business and science in \"The Washington Post\" before joining the staff at \"The New Yorker\" in 1997. Each of the articles first appeared in \"The New Yorker\" and was handpicked by Gladwell. The stories share a common theme, namely that Gladwell tries to show us the world through", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "15760644", "text": "What the Swedish Butler Saw What the Swedish Butler Saw is a 1975 Swedish-American erotic sex comedy film directed by Vernon P. Becker and starring Ole Søltoft, Sue Longhurst, Malou Cartwright and Diana Dors. It is known by several alternative titles including A Man with a Maid, The Groove Room and Champagnegalopp. The film is loosely based on the 1908 erotic novel \"The Way of a Man with a Maid\". During the 3-D revival of the 1980s, the film was re-released under the title Tickled Pink, but the release did keep the \"Swedish Butler\" credit sequence intact. The film was", "title": "What the Swedish Butler Saw" }, { "docid": "3952057", "text": "for further recuperation. In January 1945, Shemp had been recruited to substitute for a resting Curly during live performances in New Orleans. After Howard's stroke, Shemp agreed to replace him in the Columbia shorts, but only until his younger brother was well enough to rejoin the act. An extant copy of the Stooges' 1947 Columbia Pictures contract was signed by all four Stooges and stipulated that Shemp's joining \"in place and stead of Jerry Howard\" would be only temporary until Curly recovered sufficiently to return to work full-time. Howard, partially recovered and with his hair regrown, made a brief cameo", "title": "Curly Howard" }, { "docid": "15760645", "text": "shot in Stereoscopic 3-D at studios in Stockholm with exteriors in Denmark. Set in Victorian London, a young aristocrat, Jack Armstrong, is desperate to win the love of his beloved, the greedy Lady Alice Faversham. Jack buys an insane asylum to turn into a \"love nest\", unaware that Jack the Ripper still lives there. What the Swedish Butler Saw What the Swedish Butler Saw is a 1975 Swedish-American erotic sex comedy film directed by Vernon P. Becker and starring Ole Søltoft, Sue Longhurst, Malou Cartwright and Diana Dors. It is known by several alternative titles including A Man with a", "title": "What the Swedish Butler Saw" }, { "docid": "2637804", "text": "January 1929, as one of the stooges in \"A Night in Venice\")—for Fox Films (later 20th Century Fox). A disagreement with Healy led Moe, Larry, and Shemp to strike out on their own as \"Howard, Fine, and Howard,\" and on August 28, 1930, they premiered that act at L.A.'s Paramount Theatre. Joining the RKO vaudeville circuit, they toured for almost two years, eventually dubbing themselves as \"Three Lost Souls\" and taking on Jack Walsh as their straight man. In July 1932, Moe, Larry, and Shemp were approached by Healy to rejoin him for the new Shubert Broadway revue \"Passing Show", "title": "Moe Howard" }, { "docid": "15232135", "text": "album on their own label ILR. It received generally positive reviews, with \"The Line Of Best Fit\" describing it as \"a tender collection of songs that rely on passion rather than sentiment\". Many reviewers noted a change in musical style, with \"musicOMH\" noting the lyrics were \"now looking to the future\" compared to their previous songs focused on historical people or events. \"The Quietus\" credited the reduced size of the band's line-up for the clearer melodies, less \"swathes of reverb\", faster tempo and more forward vocals. He Who Saw The Deep He Who Saw The Deep is the second album", "title": "He Who Saw The Deep" }, { "docid": "9549836", "text": "Howard Brennan Howard Leslie Brennan (March 20, 1919 – December 22, 1983) was a witness to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. According to the Warren Commission, Brennan's description of a sniper he saw was probative in reaching the conclusion that the shots came from the sixth floor, southeast corner window of the Texas School Book Depository Building. Brennan identified himself as a 45-year-old steamfitter. In his testimony, he spoke about how he watched the presidential motorcade from a concrete retaining wall at the southwest corner of Elm and Houston streets", "title": "Howard Brennan" }, { "docid": "15232134", "text": "He Who Saw The Deep He Who Saw The Deep is the second album by Leeds band I Like Trains. It was released on 4 October 2010. Having left Beggars Banquet Records when it went bust in 2008, the group had no record label to distribute the album. Following the writing and recording of the album, the band started a Pledgemusic project in July 2010 to get fan funding in order to master the album, promote it and tour it. They offered various exclusives to backers who pledged certain amounts. They succeeded in surpassing their target funding and released the", "title": "He Who Saw The Deep" }, { "docid": "6618622", "text": "Javier Clemente said of 1998 World Cup Group D, \"This is not the group of death, as some people have said. It is the group of heart attacks\" John Harrell said of 1994 World Cup Group E, \"The characterization might be a bit harsh. Perhaps the 'Group of Surprises' is a better term.\" Sometimes the excitement of a close contest between high-quality teams has suggested the positive \"group of life\" is more appropriate than \"group of death\". Of 2002 World Cup Group F, Paul Wilson said, \"England's group is not so much the group of death as the group of", "title": "Group of death" }, { "docid": "6618602", "text": "sports. After the draw for a tournament has been made, debates often arise about which of the preliminary groups is \"the\" group of death. This happens for multiple reasons: in part, from more general debates about the relative strengths of the various competitors; but, additionally, because there is no exact definition of the term \"group of death\". Sometimes, the term simply signifies a group with only the strongest competitors, all of which are potential winners of the tournament, implying there is always precisely one such group; other definitions allow for multiple groups of death or for none at all. The", "title": "Group of death" }, { "docid": "8499620", "text": "George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe Major George Anthony Geoffrey Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe, JP (22 May 1920 – 27 November 1984) was a British politician, soldier and media man. Howard was a younger son of Geoffrey Howard and Ethel Christian Methuen, and grandson of the 9th Earl of Carlisle and the 3rd Baron Methuen. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford and fought in the Second World War with the Green Howards, being wounded in Burma. In 1952 Howard was appointed to the office of Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire He was chairman of the", "title": "George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe" }, { "docid": "13818753", "text": "14, 1980 to KJRH-TV. Howard helped found the Scripps Howard Foundation in 1962 and served as its president for its first five years. He was president of the Inter American Press Association (SIP/IAPA) in 1965–1966. After his death on March 22, 1998, he left the Scripps Howard Foundation a bequest of more than $7 million. Jack R. Howard Jack R. Howard (August 31, 1910 – March 22, 1998) was an American broadcasting executive. He was president of the E. W. Scripps Company from 1953 to 1976. Born in Manhattan, the son of Roy W. Howard, a founder of United Press", "title": "Jack R. Howard" }, { "docid": "11239849", "text": "innocent, which calms him down. Realizing he needs to cover his tracks, Larry looks for a \"fall guy\" in the form of Shemp. Larry then gets Shemp a job as an underwear salesman and the first place he goes is Moe's home. While Shemp is modeling his ware for Belle, Larry calls both Millie and Moe and lies to them about Shemp's advances on Moe's wife. Both of them go storming over to Moe's, with Moe carrying a loaded gun. Looking to avoid being killed, Shemp flees up the chimney. After he fools Moe with a Santa Claus disguise, Shemp", "title": "He Cooked His Goose" }, { "docid": "6618601", "text": "Group of death A group of death in a multi-stage tournament is a group which is unusually competitive, because the number of strong competitors in the group is greater than the number of qualifying places available for the next phase of the tournament. Thus, in the group phase, one or more strong competitors in the \"group of death\" will necessarily be eliminated, who would otherwise have been expected to progress further in the tournament. The informal term was first used for groups in the FIFA World Cup finals. It is now also used in other association football tournaments and other", "title": "Group of death" }, { "docid": "11309294", "text": "short is a remake of 1949's \"Fuelin' Around\", using ample stock footage. \"Hot Stuff\" was one of four shorts filmed in the wake of Shemp Howard's death using earlier footage and a stand-in. As Shemp Howard had already died, for his last four films (\"Rumpus in the Harem\", \"Hot Stuff\", \"Scheming Schemers\" and \"Commotion on the Ocean\"), Columbia utilized supporting actor Joe Palma to be Shemp's double. Even though the last four shorts were remakes of earlier Shemp efforts, Palma's services were needed to link what few new scenes were filmed to the older stock footage. For \"Hot Stuff\", Palma", "title": "Hot Stuff (1956 film)" }, { "docid": "16524770", "text": "Linked: The New Science of Networks Linked: The New Science of Networks is a popular science book written by the Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási and first published by the Perseus Books Group in 2002. Barabási has changed the way of thinking about real-world networks and largely contributed to making networks the revolutionary science of the 21st century. \"Linked\" is his first book that introduces the highly developed field of Network Science to a broad audience. \"Linked\" has become a bestseller with more than 70,000 copies sold after fourteen printings and it was selected as one of the Best Business Books", "title": "Linked: The New Science of Networks" }, { "docid": "6618626", "text": "champions of that competition, and for groups where all teams are reigning domestic champions. Group of death A group of death in a multi-stage tournament is a group which is unusually competitive, because the number of strong competitors in the group is greater than the number of qualifying places available for the next phase of the tournament. Thus, in the group phase, one or more strong competitors in the \"group of death\" will necessarily be eliminated, who would otherwise have been expected to progress further in the tournament. The informal term was first used for groups in the FIFA World", "title": "Group of death" } ]
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Malibu Stacy is the Barbie clone as featured on what TV series?
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[ { "docid": "5661941", "text": "out in the real world, of course: Barbie is the subject of perennial criticism along the lines of Lisa's critique of Malibu Stacy, yet remains immensely popular, and in general, we often see intellectual critiques of toys dismissed as 'out of touch' or elitist.\" Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy \"Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy\" is the fourteenth episode of \"The Simpsons\"' fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 17, 1994. In the episode, Lisa challenges the makers of the Malibu Stacy doll to create a less sexist doll. Together with the original creator of", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "docid": "5661924", "text": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy \"Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy\" is the fourteenth episode of \"The Simpsons\"' fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 17, 1994. In the episode, Lisa challenges the makers of the Malibu Stacy doll to create a less sexist doll. Together with the original creator of Malibu Stacy, Stacy Lovell, Lisa creates the doll Lisa Lionheart in an effort to positively influence young girls. The episode was written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, and directed by Jeffrey Lynch. The episode's plot was inspired by the Teen Talk Barbie talking", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "docid": "5661930", "text": "the doll is a failure, Lisa takes heart that her message was able to get through to at least one little girl. The episode was written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, and directed by Jeffrey Lynch. Before the episode aired, Malibu Stacy had already appeared many times on the show as one of Lisa's dolls. The staff were trying to come up with an idea for an episode by going through the companies in the \"Simpsons\" universe, and Oakley suggested an episode involving the Malibu Stacy company. The plot of the episode was inspired by the Teen Talk Barbie", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "docid": "5661939", "text": "Turner's spot as the real Malibu Stacy is superb.\" Janica Lockhart of \"The Easterner\" called the episode a \"classic\" and added: \"The episode takes on misogynist views, but in a humorous way, that only \"The Simpsons\" can master.\" Patrick Bromley of DVD Verdict gave the episode a grade of A, and DVD Talk's Bill Gibron gave it a score of 5 out of 5. The episode is one of Oakley and Weinstein's favorites from their time as writers on the show. One of Mirkin's favorite jokes on the show is the scene in this episode where Abe cycles down the", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" } ]
[ { "docid": "5661936", "text": "Lisa wants Lisa Lionheart to have \"the wisdom of Gertrude Stein, the wit of Cathy Guisewite, the tenacity of Nina Totenberg, the common sense of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the down-to-earth good looks of Eleanor Roosevelt.\" Stacy Lovell's list of husbands features the action figures Ken, Johnny West, G.I. Joe, Doctor Colossus, and Steve Austin. Lisa's story about the Malibu Stacy doll saying phrases that are considered demeaning to women is based on the \"Teen Talk Barbie\" line of dolls and how they caused controversy. During one scene in the episode, one girl's Malibu Stacy doll says \"My Spidey Sense", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "docid": "5661934", "text": "met many different collectors. At one convention, Oakley met the man who owned the world's largest Barbie collection. The meeting between the two inspired the part of the episode where Lisa visits Smithers and it is revealed that Smithers is the owner of the world's largest Malibu Stacy collection. Kathleen Turner guest starred in the episode as Stacy Lovell. Mirkin thought Turner was \"completely game\" when she showed up at the recording studio to record her lines as she \"nailed\" her lines really fast. He added that he enjoyed directing her and he thought she had one of the best", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "docid": "5661929", "text": "gains popularity among the fans of Malibu Stacy after being featured in Kent Brockman's news show. At the mall, as kids, and Smithers, rush out to buy Lisa Lionheart, a cart of Malibu Stacy dolls with new hats is wheeled right into the path of the group running for the Lionheart display. Lisa appeals to them that it is just the same doll with a \"stupid, cheap\" hat, but they all prefer to stick with Malibu Stacy, largely due to the encouragement of Smithers, except for one little girl, who leaves with a Lisa Lionheart doll. Despite the fact that", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "docid": "5661937", "text": "is tingling! Anyone call for a web-slinger?\", a reference to a practical joke by the Barbie Liberation Organization in the early 1990s in which the voiceboxes of talking Barbie and G.I. Joe toys were swapped. In its original broadcast, \"Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy\" finished 23rd in the ratings for the week of February 14–20, 1994, with a Nielsen rating of 11.6, equivalent to 11 million viewing households. It was the second highest-rated show on the Fox network that week, following \"Beverly Hills, 90210\". Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "docid": "5661926", "text": "the ground by fans, Grampa becomes aware of his mortality and gives the family their inheritances early. He leaves the family a box of old silver dollars that they decide to spend at the mall right away. At the mall, Lisa sees the new talking Malibu Stacy doll in a toy store. Throughout the trip home, Grampa constantly tells stories and spouts useless advice, making the family shun him. Back home, Lisa is anxious to hear what the talking Malibu Stacy has to say, but is disappointed with her sexist phrases (such as \"Don't ask me, I'm just a girl\"", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "docid": "5661927", "text": "and \"Thinking too much gives you wrinkles\"). Lisa is angry that no one else can see the ridiculousness of the doll. She and Grampa sit at the kitchen table, bemoaning how they are treated because of their age while both of them decide to change, Grampa to get a job, and Lisa to find Malibu Stacy's creator, Stacy Lovell. Lisa visits Smithers, owner of the world's largest Malibu Stacy collection, and asks for help in finding Lovell, who was ousted from the Malibu Stacy company in 1974. Lisa bikes to Lovell's house and plays one of the doll's phrases over", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "docid": "12704444", "text": "Clone (TV series) Clone is a 2008 BBC Three comedy series starring Jonathan Pryce and Mark Gatiss, centred on the creation and education of the world's first human clone. Its first series of six 30-minute episodes premiered on 17 November 2008. Intended to be a prototype super soldier who will eventually replace Britain's volunteer Army, his creator, the brilliant scientist Dr Victor Blenkinsop discovers, to both his horror and distaste, that his new super weapon is not quite the awe-inspiring creation he expected. In fact, the clone is more likely to hug someone than shoot them. This modern-day Dr Frankenstein", "title": "Clone (TV series)" }, { "docid": "12704445", "text": "and his monster go on the run hoping to find the neurological trigger that will fix the clone and unlock his superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, they must also avoid Colonel Black and his crack team of security agents, whose mission is to find them and kill them. Clone (TV series) Clone is a 2008 BBC Three comedy series starring Jonathan Pryce and Mark Gatiss, centred on the creation and education of the world's first human clone. Its first series of six 30-minute episodes premiered on 17 November 2008. Intended to be a prototype super soldier who will eventually replace Britain's volunteer", "title": "Clone (TV series)" }, { "docid": "17144727", "text": "Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse is an online web series of computer-animated shorts produced by Arc Productions, Mattel and Resnick Interactive Group. The series debuted in May 11, 2012 and is available on Barbie.com, Netflix and YouTube. Two TV specials aired on Nickelodeon on September 1, 2013. The series ended on November 27, 2015. A reboot series titled was set to be released on March 30, 2018. The series is set in a fictional version of Malibu, California, United States where all of its inhabitants are dolls. The dolls behave like people, though a number", "title": "Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse" }, { "docid": "9161524", "text": "by a \"Malibu Stacy\" doll such as \"Thinking too much gives you wrinkles.\" , the collector's price for one of the estimated 3,500 Teen Talk Barbies including the phrase \"Math class is tough\" was around $500. In 1993, to draw attention to what they regarded as outdated gender stereotypes exemplified by the dolls, a group of East Village performance artists calling themselves the Barbie Liberation Organization orchestrated an exchange of voice boxes between 300 Teen Talk Barbies and Hasbro Talking Duke G.I. Joe action figures, which were replaced on store shelves. Affected Teen Talk Barbies spoke phrases such as \"Eat", "title": "Teen Talk Barbie" }, { "docid": "8660432", "text": "and model Victoria Silvstedt. The series was one of two post-\"\" programs executively produced by Peter Engel that did not air on NBC's TNBC lineup, \"USA High\" being the other. Prior to the 2012 premiere of \"The First Family\", \"Malibu, CA\" was the last situation comedy to be broadcast for the first-run syndication market. Malibu, CA (TV series) Malibu, CA is an American teen sitcom television program produced by Peter Engel that aired from 1998 to 2000 in syndication. Co-created by Engel and Carl Kurlander, the show centred on the lives of twin brothers Scott (Trevor Merszei) and Jason Collins", "title": "Malibu, CA (TV series)" }, { "docid": "8660431", "text": "Malibu, CA (TV series) Malibu, CA is an American teen sitcom television program produced by Peter Engel that aired from 1998 to 2000 in syndication. Co-created by Engel and Carl Kurlander, the show centred on the lives of twin brothers Scott (Trevor Merszei) and Jason Collins (Jason Hayes), who move to Malibu, California from New York City to live with their father, Peter (Edward Blatchford). Guest appearances on the show included Dennis Haskins (who had previously worked with Engel for several years on \"Saved by the Bell\"), Scott Whyte and Marissa Dyan from \"City Guys\", Daniella Deutscher from \"Hang Time\",", "title": "Malibu, CA (TV series)" }, { "docid": "9951931", "text": "games listed below: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series) Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an American 3D CGI animated television series created by George Lucas and produced by Lucasfilm Animation, Lucasfilm and CGCG Inc. The series began with released on August 15, 2008, and debuted on Cartoon Network on October 3, 2008. It is set in the fictional \"Star Wars\" galaxy during the three years between the prequel films \"\" and \"\", the same time period as the previous 2D 2003 TV series \"\". Each episode has a running time of 22 minutes to fill a half-hour", "title": "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)" }, { "docid": "9951906", "text": "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series) Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an American 3D CGI animated television series created by George Lucas and produced by Lucasfilm Animation, Lucasfilm and CGCG Inc. The series began with released on August 15, 2008, and debuted on Cartoon Network on October 3, 2008. It is set in the fictional \"Star Wars\" galaxy during the three years between the prequel films \"\" and \"\", the same time period as the previous 2D 2003 TV series \"\". Each episode has a running time of 22 minutes to fill a half-hour time slot. Dave", "title": "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)" }, { "docid": "16613423", "text": "of the \"Ballerina\", \"Bath\", \"Beach\", \"Fashionistas\", \"Rainbow Hair\", \"Style\", and \"Water Play\" series. She also got a STEM outfit in 2016. Nikki appears in many Barbie movies with her first appearance being 2008 Barbie in a Christmas Carol. Nikki plays the role of Catherine and herself in the ending of the movie. She also stars in Barbie and the Three Musketeers, Barbie in a Fashion Fairytale and Barbie in A Mermaid Tale. She was also a series regular in the web series and now is a series regular in the Netflix Barbie series Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures. Nikki lives in Malibu,", "title": "Nikki (Barbie)" }, { "docid": "5661925", "text": "doll, which spoke short phrases typical of a middle-class American teenager. Kathleen Turner guest starred in the episode as Stacy Lovell, creator of Malibu Stacy. It features cultural references to action figures such as Ken and G.I. Joe. Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 11.6, and was the second highest-rated show on the Fox network the week it aired. Dr. Hibbert introduces a frail Ben Matlock to a crowd of excited seniors at the Grand Opening of the Center for Geriatric Medicine. After seeing his idol mobbed to", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "docid": "11014469", "text": "Barbie as the Island Princess Barbie as the Island Princess is a 2007 American - Canadian direct-to-video computer animated Barbie film. It is part of the Barbie film series, a series of CGI Barbie films, the second to be a musical, and the first movie of Barbie animated under the name of Rainmaker Animation though it was animated by the old Mainframe Animators only. The film features the voice of Kelly Sheridan, who has been voicing the female protagonist in all the CGI Barbie movies to date, as Rosella. The score for this film was composed by Arnie Roth. Songs", "title": "Barbie as the Island Princess" }, { "docid": "3801309", "text": "of 10 episodes, lasting 3 minutes each. Along with season 1, it was released on DVD as \"Volume One\". The third and final season consisted of 5 episodes, lasting 12 minutes each. These episodes were released on DVD as \"Volume Two\". In 2009, \"Clone Wars\" was ranked 21 on IGN's \"Top 100 Animated Series\" list. Both volumes were distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003 TV series) Star Wars: Clone Wars is an American animated television micro-series adapted, directed, produced and co-written by Genndy Tartakovsky, set in the \"Star Wars\" universe. Produced and released between", "title": "Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003 TV series)" }, { "docid": "9951907", "text": "Filoni is the supervising director of the series. Genndy Tartakovsky, director of the first \"Clone Wars\" series, was not involved with the production, but character designer Kilian Plunkett referred to the character designs from the 2D series when designing the characters for the 3D series. There is also an online comic depicting story snippets between episodes. In early 2013, Lucasfilm announced that \"The Clone Wars\" would be \"winding down\". Super RTL, a German TV network, began airing the episodes on February 15, 2014. The sixth-season episodes were made available in the U.S. for streaming on Netflix, along with the entirety", "title": "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)" }, { "docid": "8841517", "text": "What Not to Wear (U.S. TV series) What Not to Wear was an American makeover reality television series based on the British show of the same name. The show premiered on January 18, 2003, and aired on TLC in the United States. \"What Not to Wear\" was hosted by Stacy London and Clinton Kelly. On March 6, 2013, TLC announced that the tenth season of \"What Not to Wear\" would be its last. Participants were nominated by friends, co-workers, or relatives. Some episodes involved self-nominations, such as the class reunion specials or mall nominations. In the latter, \"What Not to", "title": "What Not to Wear (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "3801296", "text": "Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003 TV series) Star Wars: Clone Wars is an American animated television micro-series adapted, directed, produced and co-written by Genndy Tartakovsky, set in the \"Star Wars\" universe. Produced and released between the films \"\" and \"\", it is the first of many works to explore the conflict set between the two known as the Clone Wars, and directly leads to the events of \"Revenge of the Sith\". The show follows the actions of various characters from the \"Star Wars\" prequel trilogy, notably Jedi Knights and clone troopers, in their war against the battle droid armies of", "title": "Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003 TV series)" }, { "docid": "8841528", "text": "the way from New York to Las Vegas, they visit past contributors and reminisce on the road. The song played on the road entitled \"World Out There\" was written and performed by Andy Gruhin. Once they hit Vegas, Stacy and Clinton find one last makeover candidate wandering the hotel which results in their final makeover ever. It all leads up to a finale party, where more than 100 past contributors from the past 10 seasons bid farewell to Stacy, Clinton, Ted, and Carmindy. What Not to Wear (U.S. TV series) What Not to Wear was an American makeover reality television", "title": "What Not to Wear (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "7540807", "text": "working on. Kelly now feels better and begins painting with blue, after Barbie reminds her that creativity is the true magic in art. The film makes heavy use of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, also known as the \"New World Symphony\" - presumably a reference to Rapunzel's venture into the 'new world' of the village. The DVD and VHS was released on October 1, 2002. Barbie as Rapunzel Barbie as Rapunzel is a 2002 American - Canadian direct-to-DVD computer-animated fairytale film directed by Owen Hurley. It is the 2nd entry in the Barbie film series, and features the voice of", "title": "Barbie as Rapunzel" }, { "docid": "7540796", "text": "Barbie as Rapunzel Barbie as Rapunzel is a 2002 American - Canadian direct-to-DVD computer-animated fairytale film directed by Owen Hurley. It is the 2nd entry in the Barbie film series, and features the voice of Kelly Sheridan as Barbie. The film is adapted from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale \"Rapunzel\". This was the first Barbie direct-to-video release to be distributed by Right Entertainment in the UK. Barbie tells a story to her little sister Kelly, who doesn't have confidence in her painting abilities. Rapunzel lives as a servant to the evil witch Gothel, who resides in a manor isolated in", "title": "Barbie as Rapunzel" }, { "docid": "18518813", "text": "What Is Love (TV series) What Is Love () is a 2012 Taiwanese romantic-comedy television series. The television drama was produced by Bethel Video Productions Ltd, starring Wu Kang-jen and Jade Chou. The shooting began on April 9, 2012, and first aired on July 20, 2012 on TTV. Thirty-two-year-old Li Yi Hua (Jade Chou) is longing for a romantic relationship and wants to marry a good man. Along comes Bai Zong You (Chris Wu), who breaks women's hearts with one-night stands. Bai Zong You sets his sights on wooing Li Yi Hua next. What she doesn't know is that she", "title": "What Is Love (TV series)" }, { "docid": "5661940", "text": "street, shouting \"Look at me, I'm acting young!\" before Lisa's Malibu Stacy doll catches the front wheel of the bike, sending Abe flying into an open grave. In the book \"\", Aeon J. Skoble cited the episode as an example in his piece titled: \"Do We Admire or Laugh at Lisa?\". He wrote: \"The fact that the less intellectual doll is vastly preferred over Lisa's doll, even though Lisa's objections are reasonable, demonstrates the ways in which reasonable ideas can be made to take a back seat to having fun and going with the flow. This debate is often played", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "docid": "12049096", "text": "Barbie (film series) Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy company Mattel, Inc. who has been a computer animated virtual actress starring in direct-to-DVD animated films. Although Barbie has appeared in miniseries and short films since 1987, the series officially began in 2001 with \"Barbie in the Nutcracker\" which is tagged as \"(Barbie) Starring in Her First (Feature-length) Movie\". It is followed by a total of thirty-five films while the series is on hiatus as of 2017. Other appearances of Barbie as a character in other films including Mattel's My Scene line as well as the Toy", "title": "Barbie (film series)" }, { "docid": "14325918", "text": "Barbie in A Mermaid Tale Barbie in A Mermaid Tale is a 2010 American - Canadian direct-to-DVD computer animated film and the 17th entry in the Barbie film series. This is the first modern Barbie film. It was released on March 9, 2010. This is Sheridan's last Barbie film before being replaced by Diana Kaarina and also the last film to use \"Mattel Entertainment\" in the opening credits. This film is followed by a 2012 sequel, \"Barbie in A Mermaid Tale 2\". Merliah Summers is an avid surfer in Malibu. While participating in a surfing competition, Merliah loses concentration when", "title": "Barbie in A Mermaid Tale" }, { "docid": "12049106", "text": "Hathaway's departure from the role. Barbie (film series) Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy company Mattel, Inc. who has been a computer animated virtual actress starring in direct-to-DVD animated films. Although Barbie has appeared in miniseries and short films since 1987, the series officially began in 2001 with \"Barbie in the Nutcracker\" which is tagged as \"(Barbie) Starring in Her First (Feature-length) Movie\". It is followed by a total of thirty-five films while the series is on hiatus as of 2017. Other appearances of Barbie as a character in other films including Mattel's My Scene line", "title": "Barbie (film series)" }, { "docid": "18518818", "text": "and stayed at the same spot, with the exception of its third episode, until it reached the third spot on its last episode, with a total average of 0.54. Its drama competitors were CTV's \"Confucius\", FTV's \"Independent Heroes\", and SETTV's \"Rainy Night Flower\" and \"Father's Wish\". The viewers' survey was conducted by AGB Nielsen. What Is Love (TV series) What Is Love () is a 2012 Taiwanese romantic-comedy television series. The television drama was produced by Bethel Video Productions Ltd, starring Wu Kang-jen and Jade Chou. The shooting began on April 9, 2012, and first aired on July 20, 2012", "title": "What Is Love (TV series)" }, { "docid": "16546846", "text": "the 2012 CGI animated movie \"Barbie: The Princess and The Popstar\". It was released on iTunes on August 28, 2012 as a promotional single from the album. This is the second song that is featured in the film's credits. Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar is a 2012 American - Canadian direct-to-DVD computer-animated musical film produced by Rainmaker Entertainment and released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment. It is the 23rd entry in the Barbie film series and the 2nd \"Barbie\" film to be based on \"The Prince and the Pauper\" by Mark Twain (the", "title": "Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar" }, { "docid": "5661928", "text": "the intercom. The gate immediately opens. Lisa and Lovell decide to create a new talking doll, Lisa Lionheart, voiced by Lisa herself. The doll is quietly released, but the executives of Malibu Stacy have a meeting in which they agree that Lisa's doll is a real threat because it might hurt the sales of their doll. Meanwhile, Grampa struggles with his new job at Krusty Burger, suffering a war flashback at the drive-in and losing his false teeth making burgers. He soon becomes angry at the way seniors are treated, and quits. After a slow initial release, Lisa Lionheart suddenly", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "docid": "17046622", "text": "also been featured on the reality TV series \"Chainsaw Gang\" as the sculptor's girlfriend. Stacy Poitras Stacy Poitras is an American chainsaw carving sculptor who is featured in Country Music Television's reality television show \"Chainsaw Gang\". He is owner of a company called Deadwood Tree Sculptures in California. He principally creates large wooden sculptures using chainsaws. Poitras grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts, graduating with the Plymouth High School Class of 1985. His talent in the arts was recognized as early as second grade when, according to Poitras, he began selling drawings of dinosaurs and other things to his classmates. He", "title": "Stacy Poitras" }, { "docid": "7540765", "text": "Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper is a 2004 American - Canadian direct-to-DVD computer animated musical fantasy film, and the first musical in the Barbie film series. It is directed by William Lau and stars the voice of Kelly Sheridan as the Barbie protagonists, Anneliese and Erika. The film is loosely inspired by the Mark Twain novel \"The Prince and the Pauper\", but unrelated to the 1939 film \"The Princess and the Pauper\". Songs for the film are written by Amy Powers, Megan Cavallari and Rob Hudnut, who also executive produced the", "title": "Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "7540776", "text": "that of the movie: players must thwart Preminger's attempt to take over the kingdom by marrying Anneliese. Players control four characters: Anneliese, Erika, Serafina, and Wolfie. Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper is a 2004 American - Canadian direct-to-DVD computer animated musical fantasy film, and the first musical in the Barbie film series. It is directed by William Lau and stars the voice of Kelly Sheridan as the Barbie protagonists, Anneliese and Erika. The film is loosely inspired by the Mark Twain novel \"The Prince and the Pauper\", but unrelated to the", "title": "Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "9450380", "text": "back to the airport by her father. Realizing how noble Carlos is, Mr Hobart invests in Carlos' restaurant thereby saving it from closing. The Shrimp on the Barbie The Shrimp on the Barbie, released in Australia as The Boyfriend from Hell, is a 1990 comedy film directed by Michael Gottlieb (under the pseudonym Alan Smithee) and starring Cheech Marin. The title is derived from a line in a 1980s series of popular ads starring Paul Hogan promoting tourism to Australia: \"I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you\". Australian heiress Alexandra Hobart's (Emma Samms) father has disapproved of", "title": "The Shrimp on the Barbie" }, { "docid": "9450377", "text": "The Shrimp on the Barbie The Shrimp on the Barbie, released in Australia as The Boyfriend from Hell, is a 1990 comedy film directed by Michael Gottlieb (under the pseudonym Alan Smithee) and starring Cheech Marin. The title is derived from a line in a 1980s series of popular ads starring Paul Hogan promoting tourism to Australia: \"I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you\". Australian heiress Alexandra Hobart's (Emma Samms) father has disapproved of every boyfriend she has brought home to meet him, including her burly, life-of-the-party fiancé, Bruce (Vernon Wells). After a disastrous birthday party, Alexandra", "title": "The Shrimp on the Barbie" }, { "docid": "14258349", "text": "beach!\" In some cases, Teresa uses Mackie headmold. (Along Barbie, and Christie uses Old Nichelle's headmold for a closed mouth group girls.) Teresa lives in Malibu, California in \"Casa de Teresa\" in the fictional \"Barbie World\". She is a neighbor of both Barbie and Ryan, as \"Casa de Teresa\" is located at the left side of \"The Barbie Dreamhouse\" and the right side of \"The Ryan Mansion\". Teresa (Barbie) Teresa is a Mattel fashion doll who is marketed as one of Barbie's fictional friends. Teresa debuted in the \"California Dream Teresa\" doll in 1988 and since then, she has been", "title": "Teresa (Barbie)" }, { "docid": "9951924", "text": "storytelling and quality animation make the sixth season of \"Star Wars: The Clone Wars\" a fitting end to the series.\" On Metacritic, the first season has a weighted average score of 64 out of 100 based on 9 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". On July 11, 2008, television critics were shown a completed episode of the series. \"The Hollywood Reporter\"s Live Feed blog called the footage \"likely the most photo-realistic animated TV series ever produced.\" On August 31, 2008, a sneak peek of the new series was shown on Cartoon Network. IGN named it the 89th best animated series. They", "title": "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)" }, { "docid": "6087666", "text": "1.3 kg in the United States, second only to Japan. Shrimp on the barbie \"Shrimp on the barbie\" is an out-dated phrase that originated in a series of television advertisements by the Australian Tourism Commission starring Paul Hogan from 1984 through to 1990. It is no longer used in Australian culture. The actual quote spoken by Hogan is \"I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you\", and the actual slogan of the ad was \"Come and say G'day\". It has since been used, along with some variations, to make reference to Australia in popular culture. The advertisement pre-dated", "title": "Shrimp on the barbie" }, { "docid": "6087662", "text": "Shrimp on the barbie \"Shrimp on the barbie\" is an out-dated phrase that originated in a series of television advertisements by the Australian Tourism Commission starring Paul Hogan from 1984 through to 1990. It is no longer used in Australian culture. The actual quote spoken by Hogan is \"I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you\", and the actual slogan of the ad was \"Come and say G'day\". It has since been used, along with some variations, to make reference to Australia in popular culture. The advertisement pre-dated Hogan's popularity in the 1986 film \"Crocodile Dundee\" and thus", "title": "Shrimp on the barbie" }, { "docid": "9951921", "text": "announced that \"The Clone Wars\" would be \"winding down\" to focus on the \"Star Wars\" sequel trilogy and a new series, \"Star Wars Rebels\". On February 13, 2014, Netflix announced that starting on March 7, 2014 they would begin the US distribution of the entire TV series, including some previously unreleased director's cuts, and the previously unaired new season dubbed \"The Lost Missions\". The latter also became available for purchase on digital video stores, such as iTunes, in . In November 2016, Pablo Hidalgo from the Lucasfilm story group revealed that the \"Young Padawans\" arc from Season 5 was intended", "title": "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)" }, { "docid": "12049097", "text": "Story film series are not considered part of the franchise. Created by Mattel Creations (formerly Mattel Entertainment), the films have sold more than units worldwide, as of 2006. The Barbie films and their plot lines center on Barbie as a singular CGI actress, and often frame Barbie as a modern girl telling the story to a younger friend while simultaneously starring in the film. Scholars examining how the Barbie films differ from Disney and other princess narratives have concluded that Mattel intentionally attempted to remediate its brand based on feminist criticisms through story-telling in the films. Barbie is always placed", "title": "Barbie (film series)" }, { "docid": "8841524", "text": "new look to Stacy and Clinton—in three of her new outfits. Stacy and Clinton then commented on how her new look flatters her body and generally improves her appearance. The last segment featured a party in the participants' hometown, where she would show off her new look to friends and family, who would comment on how impressed they were and how happy she looked. With the credits rolling, the participant was shown in additional wardrobe items and commented on what the experience did for her emotionally and how it improved her confidence. Season one was co-hosted by Stacy London and", "title": "What Not to Wear (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "9951917", "text": "not focus on Anakin Skywalker's story; with episodes dedicated to clone troopers and other characters. Lucas revealed further information in a fan interview, a new character named Ahsoka Tano, over 100 episodes and a possible appearance by Boba Fett. The first trailer for the series was released on the official \"Star Wars\" website on May 8, 2007. In an interview in the September 24, 2007 issue of \"TV Guide\", Lucas confirmed that 39 episodes of the series have been completed. On April 8, 2007, \"Ain't It Cool News\" reported that musician Eric Rigler had recorded music for the series. Rigler", "title": "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)" }, { "docid": "1019417", "text": "her father Robbie Ray Stewart (portrayed by Billy Ray Cyrus) live in Malibu on the Disney Channel Original Series, \"Hannah Montana\". In the Fox TV series \"The O.C.\", both the Cohen house and the Cooper homes were actually located in Malibu. \"Malibu Shores\", a teen drama that aired on NBC, was set in Malibu. Some scenes from \"The Even Stevens Movie\" were filmed on Westward Beach in Point Dume. The small hit TV show \"Summerland\" was also filmed and set in Malibu. In 2006, Bravo television aired \"Million Dollar Listing\", a real-estate related show based on million dollar listings in", "title": "Malibu, California" }, { "docid": "11014482", "text": "set sail on a honeymoon voyage with Sagi, Azul, Tika and Tallulah in tow. Cast as per the closing credits: The songs in the film, in chronological order, are as followed: Barbie as the Island Princess is a 2007 platform video game based on the movie for PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, Wii, Nintendo DS, and Game Boy Advance. Developed by Human Soft and published by Activision, it is a collection of 28 different mini-games. Barbie as the Island Princess Barbie as the Island Princess is a 2007 American - Canadian direct-to-video computer animated Barbie film. It is part of the", "title": "Barbie as the Island Princess" }, { "docid": "5661933", "text": "time slang\". Executive producer David Mirkin thought it was difficult to make Abe funny because he is a \"boring and tedious\" character. He thinks that even though \"Abe's doing all these complaints, what makes him funny is that the things he says are actually funny in the context of the boring and tedium.\" Mirkin thought this was a \"big challenge, and Bill and Josh pulled it off very well.\" When the episode was in production, Oakley's wife Rachel Pulido was an enthusiastic Barbie collector. Oakley therefore spent a lot of time going to Barbie conventions across the United States and", "title": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" }, { "docid": "12049100", "text": "Barbie being reimagined a princess and eventually expanded into various worlds of fashion and fantasy. A primary benefit of this strategy revolved around marketing, as Mattel could sell dolls specific to each film separately from the DVDs and merchandise related to props, costumes, and sets from the films. Tim Kilpin, the senior vice-president for girls marketing at Mattel, stated that \"What you see now are several different Barbie worlds anchored by content and storytelling. A girl can understand what role Barbie is playing, what the other characters are doing, and how they interrelate. That's a much richer level of story", "title": "Barbie (film series)" }, { "docid": "5316387", "text": "and aired successfully in September 1973. Based largely on high viewership of \"movie-of-the-week\" TV broadcasts of the first few films, CBS began to focus away from other contenders for a new science-fiction series, including Gene Roddenberry's \"Genesis II\" (1973) and look solely at the prospects for an \"Apes\" TV series. Fox and CBS went on to continue Jacob's plans of a series the following year. CBS ordered 14 episodes of \"Planet of the Apes\" to be produced. The series was filmed for the most part on location at what is now Malibu Creek State Park, with a budget of about", "title": "Planet of the Apes (TV series)" }, { "docid": "4398177", "text": "new era of Spider-Man. Peter and Mary Jane would be written out of the books, and sent off to live in peace with their soon-to-be-born child. Ben would get the chance to establish himself as Spider-Man and move forward. Going into the planning stages for what would turn out to be 'Maximum Clonage', the intent was indeed to finish up the clone story line once and for all and quickly get Ben started as Spider-Man.\" Also, the Gwen Stacy clone who had started the whole Clone Saga in the 1970s was to be killed to provide a fitting end. But", "title": "Clone Saga" }, { "docid": "10121337", "text": "What Women Want (TV series) What Women Want is a Malaysian reality television programme co-produced by 8TV and phoSumpro!, sponsored by Gillette and Head & Shoulders and broadcast on 8TV from 14 December 2006 till 1 March 2007. Hosted by Hannah Tan, it featured 13 young bachelors from within and outside Malaysia vying for the \"\"What Women Want\"\" title and the frills which come with it. In each as well. Both these contestants need to face an all-female panel of four judges, i.e. three normal women and a celebrity, which will decide their fate; either one of them, both or", "title": "What Women Want (TV series)" }, { "docid": "17514521", "text": "of uncertainty about a closing sequence that packed more action into ten minutes than the previous three hours and 50 minutes.\" Ben Walsh of \"The Independent\" gave it four out of five stars and said \"David Threlfall excels as the retired detective who can't let this case go, and, up until the bonkers and gothic last 10 minutes, this is beautifully paced TV.\" \"What Remains\" was longlisted for the drama category of the National Television Awards. Acorn Media UK released the series on DVD on 7 October 2013. What Remains (TV series) What Remains is a British television drama series", "title": "What Remains (TV series)" }, { "docid": "13624561", "text": "As Seen on TV (TV series) As Seen on TV is a BBC television panel game show based around TV trivia. It is produced by Shine TV by arrangement with Unique Broadcasting; the latter is the company owned by Noel Edmonds, who presented the similarly themed show \"Telly Addicts\". It is presented by Steve Jones, with team captains Fern Britton and Jason Manford. The first episode was broadcast on Friday 17 July 2009. It was moved to a Thursday evening slot from its second episode. The teams are shown six TV programmes which are categories related to TV based questions.", "title": "As Seen on TV (TV series)" }, { "docid": "16613424", "text": "California, in the fictional \"Barbie World.\" Nikki (Barbie) Nicole \"Nikki\" O'Neil is a Mattel fashion doll, marketed as one of Barbie's core friends. Her character debuted in 1996 as part of the \"Teen Skipper\" line. Nikki was originally released as Skipper's first African American friend. Since 2005 she has replaced Christie as one of Barbie's friends. Nikki debuted as one of Barbie's best friends in the Beach Fun Line and later in Fashion Fever Line. Since then, Nikki has been featured in several Barbie doll series. In the trade paperbacks, Nikki is featured in \"A Surprise for a Friend\". With", "title": "Nikki (Barbie)" }, { "docid": "5707269", "text": "Venom suit, which was used with Richard Parker's DNA. In \"Ultimate Spider-Man\" #128, Gwen was reintroduced to the series. Carnage had recreated her body and her memories as essentially a clone. After a battle with Venom, Carnage left Gwen to join with Eddie Brock. Since this battle, Gwen has been completely rid of the Carnage symbiote and is now living with May Parker. Alternatively, in an earlier issue, Mary Jane was the one kidnapped by the Goblin and thrown off the bridge instead. Unlike Gwen, Mary Jane survives the fall. The Night Gwen Stacy Died \"The Night Gwen Stacy Died\"", "title": "The Night Gwen Stacy Died" }, { "docid": "8371314", "text": "The Barbie Diaries The Barbie Diaries is a 2006 motion capture film featuring popular Mattel character Barbie, and directed by Eric Fogel (the director of My Scene films). It is 8th entry in the \"Barbie\" film series featuring the voice of Kelly Sheridan as Barbie, and Skye Sweetnam as the singing voice of Barbie. Produced by Curious Pictures, this is the last Barbie film distributed by Lionsgate worldwide and Right Entertainment in the UK. This is the only film not to be produced by Rainmaker. It is also the only movie in the Barbie series to be theatrical. In \"The", "title": "The Barbie Diaries" }, { "docid": "13624564", "text": "is in the lead at the end of the round wins the show. As Seen on TV (TV series) As Seen on TV is a BBC television panel game show based around TV trivia. It is produced by Shine TV by arrangement with Unique Broadcasting; the latter is the company owned by Noel Edmonds, who presented the similarly themed show \"Telly Addicts\". It is presented by Steve Jones, with team captains Fern Britton and Jason Manford. The first episode was broadcast on Friday 17 July 2009. It was moved to a Thursday evening slot from its second episode. The teams", "title": "As Seen on TV (TV series)" }, { "docid": "9068353", "text": "Lancer (TV series) Lancer is an American Western series that aired Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. (EST) on CBS from September 24, 1968, to June 23, 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan as a father with two half-brother sons, played by James Stacy and Wayne Maunder, an arrangement similar to the more successful \"Bonanza\" on NBC. Duggan stars as the less than admirable Murdoch Lancer, the patriarch of the Lancer family. Stacy appears as half-Mexican gunslinger Johnny Madrid Lancer. Wayne Maunder was cast as Scott Lancer, the educated older son (though he is younger than Stacy) and a veteran of the", "title": "Lancer (TV series)" }, { "docid": "7540774", "text": "and their cats, Serafina and Wolfie, have many, many, many kittens. They ride off happily together in their wedding carriage driven by King Dominick, with Queen Erika by his side. This film is the first musical in the series of Barbie CGI films. The entire soundtrack (including popular duets and the opening orchestral theme) can be found on the \"Barbie Sings! The Princess Movie Song Collection\" CD, released by Mattel in 2004. The songs in the film are, in chronological order, as follows. DVD Verdict called it \"wholesome entertainment\" with \"sweet songs tunefully sung\" though lacking in grown-up humor. Entertainment", "title": "Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "11394363", "text": "Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World is a 1987 American animated television special created by DIC Entertainment with Saban Productions featuring popular Mattel character Barbie. The story was based on the Barbie and the Rockers line of dolls, which featured Barbie as the leader of a rock band. The special originally aired in syndication as a two-part television \"miniseries\" with each installment lasting approximately 25 minutes; part two was titled \"\". The miniseries was supposed to have been the pilot for a Monday–Friday Barbie cartoon series. However, negotiations between DIC", "title": "Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World" }, { "docid": "10121348", "text": "The next day, it was Hafiz's turn to meet Daphne and their date started with a ship ride around the island, followed by kayaking, diving, and picnic and kite-flying. Daphne seemed happier with Hafiz compared to Charles. In this season finalé, Mohd Hafiz Bin Adnan defeated Charles Brunold to grab the title of \"What Women Want\". What Women Want (TV series) What Women Want is a Malaysian reality television programme co-produced by 8TV and phoSumpro!, sponsored by Gillette and Head & Shoulders and broadcast on 8TV from 14 December 2006 till 1 March 2007. Hosted by Hannah Tan, it featured", "title": "What Women Want (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20652074", "text": "Magic Fairy Tales: Barbie as Rapunzel Magic Fairy Tales: Barbie as Rapunzel is a 1997 educational adventure game developed by Media Station and published by Mattel Media. It was the first in Mattel Media's planned series of storybooks for girls. The game was designed to teach children early reading and decision-making skills. The first Barbie CD-ROM for both Macintosh and Windows, it was executive produced by Mattel Girls' software development director Nancie Martin. The game is an interactive storybook in which the player helps Princess Barbie rescue Prince Galen. It can be played either as a read-along book which skips", "title": "Magic Fairy Tales: Barbie as Rapunzel" }, { "docid": "16613421", "text": "Barbie (Teresa is the only remaining character with Midge, Ken, and Steven) Nikki, along Summer, Raquelle, Ryan, and Blaine, is one of Barbie’s closest friends. She is featured in various Barbie movies and the web series. She also appears as \"Artsy\" in Mattel's \"Barbie: Fashionistas\" line of dolls. She is the sister of Christie O'Neil, Janet O'Neil, and Deidre O'Neil. She likes finding \"hip\" things/places, takes pictures and works on a vlog, and does acting/dancing. She dislikes fakes/phonies, cutesy viral videos and people mean to her best friends. She is a fashion blogger and she likes to find new places", "title": "Nikki (Barbie)" }, { "docid": "3801298", "text": "edited as feature-length films. Since release, the series has received critical acclaim and won multiple awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program twice for both of its volumes. The success of \"Star Wars: Clone Wars\", which \"Star Wars\" creator George Lucas referred to as the \"pilot series\", led to a second \"Clone Wars\" series — the CGI-animated \"\" — which was produced by Lucasfilm Animation and ran from 2008 to 2014 before being resurrected for the 2019 launch of Disney's streaming service. That series' canonicity eventually superseded that of the \"Clone Wars\" micro-series after The Walt Disney", "title": "Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003 TV series)" }, { "docid": "1283477", "text": "was in fact the second Gwen clone Miles Warren created and has been living in London under the name Joyce Delaney. This clone is murdered by the Gwen Stacy clone known as Abby-L. Another Gwen clone appears in \"The Amazing Spider-Man\" #399 (March 1995). This clone believes she is the real Gwen. She dies from clone degeneration in \"Spider-Man\" #56 (March 1995), the next issue of the story arc. A further Gwen clone appears in the \"Sibling Rivalry\" crossover storyline between \"Superior Spider-Man Team-Up\" and \"Scarlet Spider\". She joins the Jackal (alongside Carrion and a regular Miles Warren clone) in", "title": "Gwen Stacy" }, { "docid": "9951926", "text": "2010, at the San Diego Comic-Con, Craig Glenday, editor of the Guinness World Records, presented \"Star Wars: The Clone Wars\" supervising director Dave Filoni, CG supervisor Joel Aron, and lead designer Kilian Plunkett a certificate proclaiming the cartoon series \"the highest rated sci-fi animation currently on television\". In 2014, WatchMojo.com ranked \"Star Wars: The Clone Wars\" as the seventh-best cartoon to have gotten cancelled. \"Tech Times\" said that, \"while the \"Star Wars\" prequel films fail to make audiences care about characters like Anakin Skywalker, \"The Clone Wars\" succeeds.\" At the time of cancellation in March 2013, 65 more episodes were", "title": "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)" }, { "docid": "4398158", "text": "incinerator. Gwen Stacy's clone disappears to find a new life for herself. \"The Amazing Spider-Man\" #149, the climactic installment of the original Clone Saga, leaves it ambiguous whether it is the original Spider-Man or his clone who perishes in the bomb explosion. Conway said this ambiguity was unintentional, as at the time he took it as a given that Marvel would never replace the star of \"The Amazing Spider-Man\" with a clone. A few years later, Spider-Man encountered Carrion, who claimed to be a degenerated clone of Warren. The clone of Gwen Stacy reappeared many years later when she was", "title": "Clone Saga" }, { "docid": "4323685", "text": "loves you so very much\".\" During the \"\" storyline, Jackal used a clone of George Stacy to convince the cloned Gwen Stacy to work with him as his business partner at New U Technologies. When Doctor Octopus pulls a switch which activates the Carrion Virus in all of the clones and causes them to start rapidly decaying, including George and Gwen. George starts to deteriorate in Gwen's arms. He tells his daughter to keep Spider-Man safe while she can as the clone of George died. In \"Spider-Man: 1602\", Captain Stacey is the leader of the merchant vessel the May Flower", "title": "George Stacy" }, { "docid": "7729455", "text": "painter and scion of a Philippine political family. The couple named their firstborn Noa Stina. Her sister-in-law is Kai Honasan who does keyboards and vocals on the band Autotelic. In 2016, she was chosen to interpret Nica del Rosario's composition \"Ambon\" at the 2016 edition of Himig Handog: P-Pop Love Songs. A collaboration between Barbie Almalbis and Kitchie Nadal. The song was used for Unilever's Philippine TV Commercial of Sunsilk. The music video also featured both of them. Barbie Almalbis and Pupil were chosen by Juicy Fruit as their advertising models to reach out to the younger generation in their", "title": "Barbie Almalbis" }, { "docid": "16613420", "text": "Nikki (Barbie) Nicole \"Nikki\" O'Neil is a Mattel fashion doll, marketed as one of Barbie's core friends. Her character debuted in 1996 as part of the \"Teen Skipper\" line. Nikki was originally released as Skipper's first African American friend. Since 2005 she has replaced Christie as one of Barbie's friends. Nikki debuted as one of Barbie's best friends in the Beach Fun Line and later in Fashion Fever Line. Since then, Nikki has been featured in several Barbie doll series. In the trade paperbacks, Nikki is featured in \"A Surprise for a Friend\". With a new addition of friends for", "title": "Nikki (Barbie)" }, { "docid": "7540840", "text": "a limited release in cinemas for a week. The DVD and VHS was released on October 23, 2001. The new DVD version of the film was released on October 5, 2010. The film was edited down to one hour for its television showings. Barbie in the Nutcracker Barbie in the Nutcracker is a 2001 American - Canadian direct-to-DVD computer-animated film directed by Owen Hurley. It was the first Barbie film since the 1987 series, \".\" It is also the first in the CGI second-generation Barbie film series, all of which feature the voice of Kelly Sheridan as the Barbie protagonist.", "title": "Barbie in the Nutcracker" }, { "docid": "7540832", "text": "Barbie in the Nutcracker Barbie in the Nutcracker is a 2001 American - Canadian direct-to-DVD computer-animated film directed by Owen Hurley. It was the first Barbie film since the 1987 series, \".\" It is also the first in the CGI second-generation Barbie film series, all of which feature the voice of Kelly Sheridan as the Barbie protagonist. The film is loosely adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's \"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King\" and music based from Tchaikovsky's ballet \"The Nutcracker\". The film sold more than 3.4million units on DVD by 2002, and grossed in total sales. The frame story", "title": "Barbie in the Nutcracker" }, { "docid": "11610044", "text": "Barbie & the Diamond Castle Barbie and the Diamond Castle is a 2008 direct-to-video computer-animated friendship musical film and the 13th entry in the Barbie film series. The film features the voice of Kelly Sheridan as Barbie. It is the third musical in the series. Songs for the film were written by Amy Powers, Guy Roche, Russ DeSalvo, Gabriel Mann, Megan Cavallari and Jeannie Lurie along with executive producer Rob Hundnut. \"Connected\", the main song, was sung by Katharine McPhee. The film begins with Barbie and her best friend Teresa trying to play a song on their guitars when Barbie's", "title": "Barbie & the Diamond Castle" }, { "docid": "1019416", "text": "Cove Pier. \"Love American Style\" and \"The Mod Squad\" are among many TV series and commercials filmed in Paradise Cove. A 1978 film starring Suzanne Somers was entitled \"Zuma Beach\". In the 1990s and 2000s (decade), it was the setting for \"MTV Beach House\", \"Malibu's Most Wanted\", and Nickelodeon's \"Zoey 101\". Malibu is the setting for the television series \"Two and a Half Men\". The television series \"So Little Time\" (2001) portrayed two Malibu teens (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) who attend the fictional school West Malibu High. Fictional teen star Hannah Montana / Miley Stewart (portrayed by Miley Cyrus) and", "title": "Malibu, California" }, { "docid": "15777262", "text": "Malibu Shark Attack Malibu Shark Attack (a.k.a. \"Mega Shark of Malibu\") is a 2009 TV film, directed by David Lister and produced for the Syfy channel. It is the 19th film in the \"Maneater Series\". Heather (Peta Wilson) is the head-lifeguard on a Malibu beach, alongside her ex-boyfriend Chavez (Warren Christie), Doug (Remi Broadway) and Barb (Sonya Salomaa). Also on the beach are Jenny (Chelan Simmons), a teenage girl who is reluctantly cleaning the beach for community service after she got caught shoplifting, and Bryan (Nicholas G. Cooper), Barb's boyfriend who proposes to her. Meanwhile, a tremor unleashes a group", "title": "Malibu Shark Attack" }, { "docid": "17144728", "text": "of the show's gags rely on their doll-like nature. The series centers on the life of Barbie, her friends, siblings, her boyfriend, Ken and a number of pets. The series is stylized as a mock reality show featuring confessionals of the characters in between scenes. The show heavily relies on slapstick humor, and makes a lot of satirical and self-parody references to the Barbie doll line. Barbie: Dreamhouse Party is a party video game published by Little Orbit and developed by Torus Games based on the show. Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse is an online", "title": "Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse" }, { "docid": "8371315", "text": "Barbie Diaries,\" Barbie is portrayed as a typical American teenager who is a sophomore in high school who encounters the problems that real-life teens often encounter: making new friends, dating, gossip, and getting involved in school. She always gets beaten in everything by Raquelle, a snobby girl who used to be her best friend in fifth grade. On the first day of school, she attempts to become anchorwoman for the school TV station but Raquelle beats her to it. Instead, she becomes Raquelle's personal assistant, buying her drinks and doing her work. When Raquelle dumps Todd he and Barbie begin", "title": "The Barbie Diaries" }, { "docid": "9951922", "text": "to be aired separately from \"The Clone Wars\", as a feature-length pilot for a spin-off show that never materialized. For the 2019 revival, the remaining episodes of the series will be exclusively available on Disney+. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment distributed the videodisc releases of the first five seasons, while Walt Disney Home Entertainment handled the videodisc release of the sixth season as \"Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Lost Missions\". Apart from the season-by-season videodisc sets, there were also three special DVD releases consisting of four episodes from a particular season that reflected a certain story arc or theme:", "title": "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)" }, { "docid": "12013738", "text": "segments and jobs are related, but in many cases they are not. Also featured each week is a listing of Job and Training Opportunities available across the state. Season 1 episodes also featured a \"Ready to Work\" segment that gave viewers advice concerning employment. The show is shot completely in 720p HD TV although it is broadcast by Alabama Public Television in Standard Definition. On the Job (TV series) On The Job is a television show that shows companies and educational opportunities in Alabama, United States. It displays the jobs and careers available and the education and skills required to", "title": "On the Job (TV series)" }, { "docid": "11394365", "text": "inexplicably been changed to the Sensations—come back to Earth, they travel inadvertently back to 1959. This is a list of the songs featured in \"Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World\", in order of appearance: The miniseries was released on VHS in the 1980s. Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World is a 1987 American animated television special created by DIC Entertainment with Saban Productions featuring popular Mattel character Barbie. The story was based on the Barbie and the Rockers line of dolls, which featured Barbie as the leader of", "title": "Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World" }, { "docid": "12049102", "text": "films in the \"Barbie\" film series. In 1986, a \"St. Petersburg Times\" newspaper reported that Cannon Films planned to make a Barbie film, but nothing came to fruition. Sony Pictures and Mattel are developing a comedic live-action Barbie movie with Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald producing and Jenny Bicks writing the film. On March 4, 2015 it was announced that Diablo Cody will be doing rewrites on the script. In December 2015 it was announced that Sony would hire three different writers to write scripts, and that they would choose the best one. They are working with the draft", "title": "Barbie (film series)" }, { "docid": "9951920", "text": "2008 at 9 p.m. on Cartoon Network. \"The Clone Wars\" on Cartoon Network is shown in a 16:9 (1.77:1) aspect ratio, cropped from its original aspect ratio (OAR) of 2.35:1 (as seen in the UK Sky Premiere screenings). The show began airing on Adult Swim on March 14, 2009, making the series the first Cartoon Network series to simultaneously air on both Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. The series also aired from January 15 to March 26, 2009 on TNT. This show was the first animation aired on that channel in over a decade. On March 11, 2013, it was", "title": "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)" }, { "docid": "19453822", "text": "What Went Down (TV series) What Went Down is a 2014 comedy montage series that features collections of sports screw-ups, epic fails, and embarrassing outcomes. The series premiered on September 8, 2014 on The CW and in US broadcast syndication. What Went Down is created and produced by Bellum Entertainment Group and is distributed internationally by Sky Vision. The third season of What Went Down debuted on September 10, 2016. What Went Down has used many segment names for many episodes. The most common segments include: What's About to Go Down<br>Never Have I Ever<br>Devin Supertramp Moment<br>Would You Rather? What Went", "title": "What Went Down (TV series)" }, { "docid": "17836563", "text": "Counterpoints (TV series) Counterpoints is an Australian television series which aired in 1958 on Sydney station TCN, debuting circa 29 August of that year. The series featured Norma Martyn and Pamela Page, and featured comment and gossip on what women were doing, buying and wearing in Sydney, Australia. It represents an early example of a Sydney-produced lifestyle-themed television series. At the time most Australian series aired in a single city only, which was also the case with \"Counterpoints\". It is not known if any of the episodes exist as kinescope recordings, the method used to record live and as-live TV", "title": "Counterpoints (TV series)" }, { "docid": "18546877", "text": "peaking at #1 on the \"Billboard\" R&B singles chart in 1990. What You Need (Stacy Lattisaw album) What You Need is the tenth and final studio album by American contemporary R&B singer Stacy Lattisaw, released October 17, 1989 via Motown Records. It did not chart on the \"Billboard\" 200, but it peaked at #16 on the \"Billboard\" R&B chart. It was also Lattisaw's final album before she retired from the music industry. Four singles were released from the album: \"What You Need\", \"Where Do We Go from Here\", \"Dance for You\" and \"I Don't Have the Heart\". \"Where Do We", "title": "What You Need (Stacy Lattisaw album)" }, { "docid": "20457081", "text": "there as of June 28th. The series began airing on YTV in Canada on June 22, 2018. It will premiere on Pop in the United Kingdom on 22 October 2018. Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures (also called Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures or Dream House Adventures) is a new film series by Mattel, the owner of Barbie, to compliment the new Barbie: Dreamtopia series). The series targets 5-11 year-olds and focuses on Barbie and her sisters: Skipper, Stacie and Chelsea. According to the corporation's chief content officer, (CCO), Catherine Balsam Schwaber, the series was in response to kids wanting to know", "title": "Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures" }, { "docid": "18546876", "text": "What You Need (Stacy Lattisaw album) What You Need is the tenth and final studio album by American contemporary R&B singer Stacy Lattisaw, released October 17, 1989 via Motown Records. It did not chart on the \"Billboard\" 200, but it peaked at #16 on the \"Billboard\" R&B chart. It was also Lattisaw's final album before she retired from the music industry. Four singles were released from the album: \"What You Need\", \"Where Do We Go from Here\", \"Dance for You\" and \"I Don't Have the Heart\". \"Where Do We Go from Here\" was the most successful single from the album,", "title": "What You Need (Stacy Lattisaw album)" }, { "docid": "16546836", "text": "Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar is a 2012 American - Canadian direct-to-DVD computer-animated musical film produced by Rainmaker Entertainment and released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment. It is the 23rd entry in the Barbie film series and the 2nd \"Barbie\" film to be based on \"The Prince and the Pauper\" by Mark Twain (the first was \"Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper\"). The film features the voices of Kelly Sheridan, Jennifer Waris, Ashleigh Ball, Tiffany Giardina, Ellie King and Peter Kelamis. The film is about two teenage girls, Keira a world famous", "title": "Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar" }, { "docid": "4685295", "text": "Entertainment. It is also repeated on Really in the United Kingdom. Constantine and Woodall were also frequent guest fashion and makeover experts on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\" in America. An American version aired on TLC from 18 January 2003 to 18 October 2013 that was originally hosted by Stacy London and Wayne Scot Lukas, with Clinton Kelly replacing Lukas in series two. The British version of \"What Not to Wear\" has been broadcast around the world, with non-English speaking countries viewing the series in subtitles. The show is broadcast in: In Italy the local version of the show, called \"Ma", "title": "What Not to Wear (UK TV series)" }, { "docid": "19453823", "text": "Down is distributed to international markets by Sky Vision. The series has sold to 124 territories including Seven Network in Australia, Blue Ant Media in Canada, BBC Worldwide in Poland, Discovery Focus in Italy, Globosat in Brazil and ProSieben Maxx in Germany. What Went Down (TV series) What Went Down is a 2014 comedy montage series that features collections of sports screw-ups, epic fails, and embarrassing outcomes. The series premiered on September 8, 2014 on The CW and in US broadcast syndication. What Went Down is created and produced by Bellum Entertainment Group and is distributed internationally by Sky Vision.", "title": "What Went Down (TV series)" }, { "docid": "13515371", "text": "Barbie is Aira's current last single to be released in physical format. Barbie Barbie Barbie Barbie, stylised as BARBiE BARBiE, is the seventh single by the Japanese electronica artist Aira Mitsuki. It was released May 20, 2009. The title track, \"Barbie Barbie\", is written about the popular Barbie doll, and has been dubbed \"Robot Honey II\" by some fans for its similarity in style. \"Freedom Star\" uses a similar style, while \"Change My Will\" is heavily influenced by drum and bass. The track \"Happiness Land\" was originally the closing track to Aira's debut album, \"Copy\". The version on this single", "title": "Barbie Barbie" }, { "docid": "4221780", "text": "for wearing a stuffed cat as a purse during the Daytime Emmy Awards. The cat was a prop and not a purse. Stacy Haiduk Stacy Haiduk (born April 24, 1968) is an American actress. Her best known roles include Lana Lang on \"Superboy\", Katherine Hitchcock on \"seaQuest DSV\", Hannah Nichols on \"All My Children\", and most notably Patty Williams and Emily Peterson on \"The Young and the Restless\". Haiduk first achieved national fame when she was cast in the role of Lana Lang in the live-action \"Superboy\" TV series of 1988. After the series ended, she appeared in the direct", "title": "Stacy Haiduk" }, { "docid": "13403583", "text": "Barbie and the Three Musketeers Barbie and the Three Musketeers is a 2009 direct-to-DVD computer-animated fantasy film and the 16th entry in the Barbie film series. This is the final entry in the second-generation Barbie films. It was released on September 15, 2009. The film features the voice of Kelly Sheridan as Corrine d'Artagnan (played by Barbie), and is based on \"The Three Musketeers\" by Alexander Dumas. In her new movie set up in France, Barbie stars as Corinne, a seventeen-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a Musketeer like her father. Her kitten Miette dreams of becoming a mus\"cat\"eer But", "title": "Barbie and the Three Musketeers" }, { "docid": "13515370", "text": "Barbie Barbie Barbie Barbie, stylised as BARBiE BARBiE, is the seventh single by the Japanese electronica artist Aira Mitsuki. It was released May 20, 2009. The title track, \"Barbie Barbie\", is written about the popular Barbie doll, and has been dubbed \"Robot Honey II\" by some fans for its similarity in style. \"Freedom Star\" uses a similar style, while \"Change My Will\" is heavily influenced by drum and bass. The track \"Happiness Land\" was originally the closing track to Aira's debut album, \"Copy\". The version on this single was remixed by the Canadian artist I Am Robot and Proud. Barbie", "title": "Barbie Barbie" }, { "docid": "4850951", "text": "Stacy London Stacy London (born May 25, 1969) is an American stylist/fashion consultant, author, and magazine editor known primarily for her time as co-host on \"What Not to Wear\", a reality television program that featured wardrobe and appearance makeovers. After graduating from Vassar College, London started her career as a fashion editor at \"Vogue\" and transitioned into being a stylist for celebrities and designers. She moved into television by co-hosting \"What Not to Wear\" with Clinton Kelly, and doing fashion reporting for \"Access Hollywood\", \"The Early Show\", and the \"Today Show\". From 2009–2010, she was a celebrity spokesperson for Pantene,", "title": "Stacy London" } ]
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Paul Shaffer, Canadian and bandleader, was born on Nov 28, 1949. On which entertainers show does he provide the music?
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[ { "docid": "974020", "text": "perform with the band on \"Jimmy Kimmel Live\". Shaffer is a member of Canadian charity Artists Against Racism. Paul Shaffer Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian singer, composer, actor, author, comedian and multi-instrumentalist who served as David Letterman's musical director, band leader and sidekick on the entire run of both \"Late Night with David Letterman\" (1982–1993) and \"Late Show with David Letterman\" (1993–2015). Shaffer was born and raised in Fort William (now part of Thunder Bay), Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley and Bernard Shaffer, a lawyer. Shaffer was raised in a Jewish family.", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "973999", "text": "Paul Shaffer Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian singer, composer, actor, author, comedian and multi-instrumentalist who served as David Letterman's musical director, band leader and sidekick on the entire run of both \"Late Night with David Letterman\" (1982–1993) and \"Late Show with David Letterman\" (1993–2015). Shaffer was born and raised in Fort William (now part of Thunder Bay), Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley and Bernard Shaffer, a lawyer. Shaffer was raised in a Jewish family. As a child, Shaffer took piano lessons, and in his teenage years played the organ in a band", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "974019", "text": "on the 40th anniversary special of \"Saturday Night Live\", playing music to Bill Murray's lounge singer character, a love song from the movie \"Jaws\". In May 2015, the Ride of Fame honoured Paul Shaffer with a double decker sightseeing bus in New York City to commemorate his long run as the leader of the CBS Orchestra for the \"Late Show with David Letterman\". Shaffer was the musical director for \"A Very Murray Christmas\", a 2015 Netflix variety special starring Bill Murray in which Shaffer also appears and performs extensively. In October 2017, Shaffer returned to the late night stage to", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "974004", "text": "Brothers 2000\". Beginning in 1982, Shaffer served as musical director for David Letterman's late night talk shows: as leader of \"The World's Most Dangerous Band\" for \"Late Night with David Letterman\" (1982–1993) on NBC, for which he also composed the theme song, and as leader of the CBS Orchestra for the \"Late Show with David Letterman\" (1993–2015) on CBS. Letterman consistently maintained that the show's switch to CBS was because NBC \"fired Paul for stealing pens\" or some other facetious reason. Shaffer guest-hosted the show twice when Letterman was unavailable, including during Letterman's January 2000 medical leave for quintuple heart", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "7141359", "text": "Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band is an American musical ensemble led by Paul Shaffer. It is best known for being David Letterman's house band for 33 years. The band formed in 1982 to serve as house band for NBC's \"Late Night with David Letterman\". When Letterman moved to CBS and began hosting the \"Late Show with David Letterman\" in 1993, the band added a horn section and second guitarist, renaming itself (due to an intellectual property dispute with NBC) the CBS Orchestra, a name that lasted until Letterman left", "title": "Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band" } ]
[ { "docid": "7141366", "text": "album, \"Daylight and Darkness\". Al Chez would also leave the band in 2012 and be replaced by Frank Greene. Trumpeter Greene, like Tom Malone, is an alum of the famed One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas (formerly North Texas State University). Guest vocalists: Dion, Jenny Lewis, Bill Murray, Darius Rucker, Shaggy, and Valerie Simpson. When Paul Shaffer was unavailable, Warren Zevon was usually the substitute bandleader prior to his death in 2003. On October 13, 2005, Booker T. Jones filled in for Shaffer, and Anton Fig was bandleader. Michael Bearden infrequently substituted for Shaffer as a", "title": "Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band" }, { "docid": "974008", "text": "resuming its previous name, and recorded the self-titled album \"Paul Shaffer & the World's Most Dangerous Band\". Shaffer and the band released their album in March and then went on tour as well as making appearances on both \"Jimmy Kimmel Live\" and \"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\", for which Shaffer and the band returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater for the first time since Letterman's finale two years earlier. Shaffer wrote and performs the theme song and bridging music on Letterman's current Netflix series \"My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman\" which premiered in 2018. After it", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "20283420", "text": "Words and Music (Canadian game show) Words and Music is a Canadian television game show that aired over the CTV network during the 1966–1967 season. The show was created by bandleader Sammy Kaye and hosted by American television personality Jim Perry, who later went on to host \"Card Sharks\" and \"Sale of the Century\" in the 1970s and 1980s. The show was produced from the studios of CFCF-TV in Montreal and Perry regularly commuted from his home in New York to host the show. The object of the game was for contestants to guess a mystery subject which was the", "title": "Words and Music (Canadian game show)" }, { "docid": "20283417", "text": "Words and Music (Canadian game show) Words and Music is a Canadian television game show that aired over the CTV network during the 1966–1967 season. The show was created by bandleader Sammy Kaye and hosted by American television personality Jim Perry, who later went on to host \"Card Sharks\" and \"Sale of the Century\" in the 1970s and 1980s. The show was produced from the studios of CFCF-TV in Montreal and Perry regularly commuted from his home in New York to host the show. The object of the game was for contestants to guess a mystery subject which was the", "title": "Words and Music (Canadian game show)" }, { "docid": "7141363", "text": "Party\", under the name \"Paul Shaffer and the Party Boys of Rock 'n Roll\". When Letterman moved to CBS to host the \"Late Show\" in 1993, the band came along, renamed itself \"Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra\", and was greatly expanded. Felicia Collins was added as a second guitarist and eventually a vocalist (over the course of the show, she occasionally shared top billing with Shaffer, as \"Paul Shaffer, Felicia Collins and the CBS Orchestra\"); she had first performed with Lee in 1985 when they backed the Thompson Twins at Live Aid in Philadelphia. Two years later, she and", "title": "Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band" }, { "docid": "7141370", "text": "special) is credited on-screen simply to \"Paul Shaffer and the Band\". By 1987, the \"NBC Orchestra\" name was being used in the opening announcements, before \"The World's Most Dangerous Band\" became the official name circa 1988. The group was forced to rename itself when Letterman left NBC, and NBC claimed that the name \"The World's Most Dangerous Band\" was its intellectual property. Around this time, the group released an album credited to \"Paul Shaffer and the Party Boys of Rock 'n' Roll\". The name \"Paul Shaffer and The CBS Orchestra\" dated from the start of the show on CBS in", "title": "Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band" }, { "docid": "974009", "text": "was announced publicly that Netflix had given the series an order, Shaffer received a phone call from Letterman asking him to work on the show. Soon after, Shaffer began to receive cuts of episodes from the first season and he started to put music in afterwards where the director thought it was needed. In developing the sound of the show's music, Shaffer initially looked to Letterman for guidance. Finding none, he remembered his and Letterman's shared love for the sort of music produced at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama, describing it as \"the honesty you hear, the", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "974015", "text": "City, and accompanied Adam Sandler's Opera Man sketch and the Backstreet Boys' \"Quit Playing Games (with My Heart)\". In 2002, a street which surrounds the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium in his hometown was renamed Paul Shaffer Drive. Shaffer has also received two honorary doctorates, including one from Lakehead University. Since 2002, he has been the national spokesperson for Epilepsy Canada. On September 29, 2005, Shaffer made a major contribution to Lakehead University to dedicate the fifth floor ATAC boardroom to his father Bernard Shaffer, inaugural member of the Board of Governors. In June 2006, he received a star on Canada's", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "974017", "text": "Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga\" (co-authored by David Ritz) was published on October 6, 2009. The same day, he made an appearance as a guest on \"The Late Show\". Shaffer never returned the call from Jerry Seinfeld that offered him the role of George Costanza in \"Seinfeld\". Shaffer never auditioned for the role, Seinfeld simply called to offer him the job. In 2010, Shaffer appeared with Bachman & Turner at the Roseland Ballroom in New York. His appearance was included on the live album recorded on that date. In 2012, Shaffer appeared in \"\", where Shaffer accompanied Adam Sandler. The", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "7141364", "text": "Shaffer first performed together at a benefit concert for homeless children, hosted by Paul Simon. A contract stipulation with previous producer Johnny Carson prohibited the World's Most Dangerous Band from having a horn section, so as not to emulate the NBC Orchestra seen on \"The Tonight Show.\" With Carson's retirement and the change of network, the stipulation was no longer in effect, and Shaffer was now free to add horns. The band added trombonist Tom Malone and saxophonist Bruce Kapler. Trumpeter Al Chez was added in February 1997. Shaffer and trombonist Malone first worked together in 1975, as original members", "title": "Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band" }, { "docid": "7141360", "text": "the \"Late Show\" in 2015. After a two-year hiatus, in 2017, the band was revived by Shaffer using its original name and released an album titled \"Paul Shaffer & The World's Most Dangerous Band\", followed by a tour. The original membership of \"The World's Most Dangerous Band\" was assembled in early 1982 and consisted of Paul Shaffer (keyboards); Will Lee (bass); Hiram Bullock (guitar) and Steve Jordan (drums). Lee, Bullock and Jordan were all previously members of The 24th Street Band, a jazz/rock fusion ensemble that released three albums in the late 1970s. The fourth member of the 24th Street", "title": "Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band" }, { "docid": "974007", "text": "Hagen, Robert Plant, Peter Criss, Scandal, Brian Wilson, \"Late Show\" regular Warren Zevon, jazz trumpeter Lew Soloff, jazz saxophonist Lou Marini and bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs. In 1982, he co-wrote \"It's Raining Men,\" with Paul Jabara. It was No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts, a No. 2 hit in the UK for The Weather Girls in 1984 and a UK No. 1 remake for Geri Halliwell in 2001. Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band performed the Chuck Berry song \"Roll over Beethoven\" for the 1992 film \"Beethoven\". In 2017, Shaffer reunited with his band,", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "974018", "text": "concert raised money for the people who were affected by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. Later in 2012, Shaffer appeared in a skit of \"SNL Christmas\", which aired on Saturday, December 15, 2012. He appeared playing the piano and singing for the host Martin Short. In February 2013, he appeared in an episode of the sitcom \"How I Met Your Mother\" titled \"P.S. I Love You\", in which it is revealed that the character of Robin (Cobie Smulders) used to be obsessed with him. The letters \"P.S.\" in the episode title refer to Paul Shaffer. In February 2015 Shaffer appeared", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "7387319", "text": "Hall started his show on the radio. When he died, the local football club Frickley Athletic, who had close ties with the colliery, marked the occasion in their matchday programme with a page, dedicated to Hall, entitled \"No More Henry's\". Henry Hall (bandleader) Henry Robert Hall, CBE (2 May 1898 – 28 October 1989) was an English bandleader who performed regularly on BBC Radio during the British dance band era of the 1920s and 1930s, through to the 1960s. Henry Hall was born in Peckham, South London. He won a scholarship to Trinity College of Music where he studied trumpet,", "title": "Henry Hall (bandleader)" }, { "docid": "974014", "text": "movie \"\" in 1996 and, in 1992, in the sport comedy movie with James Woods, \"Diggstown\". Around 1998 he was on \"Hollywood Squares\". In 2001, Shaffer hosted the VH1 game show \"Cover Wars\" with DJ/model Sky Nellor. The show featured cover bands competing for the ultimate series win. Each week, Shaffer would sign off with, \"Just because you're in a cover band, it doesn't mean you're not a star.\" The show lasted 13 episodes and featured celebrity judges including Kevin Bacon, Nile Rodgers, Cyndi Lauper and Ace Frehley. Shaffer served as musical director for 2001's The Concert for New York", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "974002", "text": "band to sax player Howard Johnson. Shaffer also regularly appeared in the show's sketches, notably as the pianist for Bill Murray's Nick the Lounge Singer character, and as Don Kirshner. He also appeared as a keyboardist on the 1978 album, \"Desire Wire\", recorded by pop/rock star, musician and backing vocalist Cindy Bullens. Shaffer occasionally teamed up with the Not Ready for Prime-Time Players off the show as well, including work on Gilda Radner's highly successful Broadway show and as the musical director for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd whenever they recorded or performed as The Blues Brothers. Shaffer was to", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "974013", "text": "of the show for several years. Shaffer, at Letterman's urging, related the story on the very first episode of \"Late Night\". In 1977, Shaffer played on the Mark & Clark Band's hit record \"Worn Down Piano\". Shaffer recorded the famous synthesizer solo in the 1982 hit \"Goodbye to You\" by the band Scandal. He used his Oberheim OB-Xa to emulate a 1960s organ sound. He hosted \"Happy New Year, America\" in 1994 on CBS Network. The following year, he appeared in Blues Traveler's video for the song \"Hook\". Shaffer also appeared, with very small, comedic cameos, in the sci-fi fantasy", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "20649906", "text": "for the \"Iranian People’s Warriors Association\" said \"the execution of American officers was in reply to the execution of nine Iranian revolutionaries in prison the previous month.\" In 2005 a memorial was built by the War on Terror Foundation to honor Col. Shaffer. Paul R. Shaffer Col. Paul R. Shaffer (1930–1975) was a United States military aide to Iran who was assassinated by Marxist terrorists. The People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) was responsible for the assassination. On May 1975 terrorists stopped the car carrying Col. Shaffer and Col. Jack Turner. They ordered the Iranian driver to lay down, and then", "title": "Paul R. Shaffer" }, { "docid": "20518575", "text": "bridging music were written and recorded by Letterman's long-time bandleader, Paul Shaffer. Soon after it was announced publicly that Netflix had given the series an order, Shaffer received a phone call from Letterman asking him to work on the show. Soon after, Shaffer began to receive cuts of episodes from the first season and he started to put music in afterwards where the director thought it was needed. In developing the sound of the show's music, Shaffer initially looked to Letterman for guidance. Finding none, he remembered he and Letterman's shared love for the sort of music produced at the", "title": "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman" }, { "docid": "20649905", "text": "Paul R. Shaffer Col. Paul R. Shaffer (1930–1975) was a United States military aide to Iran who was assassinated by Marxist terrorists. The People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) was responsible for the assassination. On May 1975 terrorists stopped the car carrying Col. Shaffer and Col. Jack Turner. They ordered the Iranian driver to lay down, and then shot and killed Americans at point-blank range. The shooting happened when the two officers were on their way to work at an Iranian military base in south Tehran. The Iranian government identified the terrorists as Marxist guerrillas. An unknown woman, claiming to speak", "title": "Paul R. Shaffer" }, { "docid": "17059737", "text": "Jeanne Ellison Shaffer Jeanne Ellison Shaffer (\"née\" Butcher; May 25, 1925 – April 9, 2007) was an American composer and musician. Shaffer was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was interested in music from a young age, singing on radio beginning at age four. When she was 11 she began touring with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. She also appeared in \"Girl of the Golden West\" as Jeannette MacDonald. Shaffer studied at Samford University, Birmingham Southern College, and Vanderbilt University. Shaffer's compositions have been published by 12 companies and in at least three languages. They include three musicals, orchestral pieces, chamber music,", "title": "Jeanne Ellison Shaffer" }, { "docid": "974016", "text": "Walk of Fame. In 2005, along with Steven Van Zandt, he organized a benefit for Mike Smith (formerly of The Dave Clark Five), who had suffered a paralysing fall at his home in Spain. Shaffer cites Mike Smith as an early influence. Shaffer hosts the 60-second radio vignettes called \"Paul Shaffer's Day in Rock\". These audio shorts were first produced for Envision Radio Networks and debuted in 2007 on New York station WAXQ-FM. In 2008, Shaffer made a cameo appearance at the beginning of the \"\" season 7 episode \"\". Shaffer's memoir, \"We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "974010", "text": "southern soul feeling\". The score initially included drums but the show's producers and director thought that the music should \"feel like it's Dave's old friend Paul playing\", so it was ultimately stripped down to solely include piano and organ. Shaffer has appeared in a number of motion pictures over the years, including a small role (Artie Fufkin of Polymer Records) in Rob Reiner's \"This Is Spinal Tap,\" \"Blues Brothers 2000\", a scene with Miles Davis in the Bill Murray film \"Scrooged\", and as a passenger in John Travolta's taxicab in \"Look Who's Talking Too\". In addition, Shaffer lent his voice", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "9384401", "text": "Paul Rowe (Canadian football) Paul \"Pappy\" Rowe (January 25, 1917 – August 28, 1990) was a Canadian professional football fullback. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he played for the Calgary Bronks (1938 to 1940) and Calgary Stampeders (1945 to 1950). He was captain of the team when Calgary won the Grey Cup in 1948 and played in the finals in 1949. In 1948, he was awarded the Dave Dryburgh Memorial Trophy. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, BC Sports Hall of Fame, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, and Greater Victoria", "title": "Paul Rowe (Canadian football)" }, { "docid": "9384402", "text": "Sports Hall of Fame. Paul Rowe (Canadian football) Paul \"Pappy\" Rowe (January 25, 1917 – August 28, 1990) was a Canadian professional football fullback. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he played for the Calgary Bronks (1938 to 1940) and Calgary Stampeders (1945 to 1950). He was captain of the team when Calgary won the Grey Cup in 1948 and played in the finals in 1949. In 1948, he was awarded the Dave Dryburgh Memorial Trophy. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, BC Sports Hall of Fame, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame, Canada's Sports Hall of", "title": "Paul Rowe (Canadian football)" }, { "docid": "974012", "text": "\"SNL\". In the fall of 1979, Shaffer became the first person to say \"fuck\" on \"SNL\". That year, \"SNL\" parodied \"The Troggs Tapes\" with a medieval musical sketch featuring Shaffer, Bill Murray, Harry Shearer, and a \"special guest appearance\" by John Belushi (who had left the show the previous spring). In the middle of a long tirade which featured repeated use of the word \"flogging,\" Shaffer inadvertently uttered the forbidden word. It not only escaped the censors in the live broadcast and the West Coast taped airing, but also reappeared in the summer rerun, and even in the syndicated versions", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "7141375", "text": "USA and searching for his soul, like, for make one example, the young teenaged rock guitarist Eugene, the principal character of the teen-musical movie \"Crossroads\", who is referenced in this song in the person of the young Tom Snyder. This ballad is very characteristic because at the end of the song you can hear the sound of a train. Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band is an American musical ensemble led by Paul Shaffer. It is best known for being David Letterman's house band for 33 years. The band formed", "title": "Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band" }, { "docid": "9277118", "text": "lucky enough to get me\", Shaffer joked to about 500 students in his class at the beginning of every semester. Harry Shaffer had four children, two stepchildren (with Betty R. Rosenzweig, married in 1987), and seven grandchildren at the time of his death at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Harry G. Shaffer Harry G. Shaffer (1919–2009) was Professor Emeritus of the Economics Department at the University of Kansas. He was born on August 28, 1919, in Vienna, Austria. Fluent in German, Shaffer served in World War II, in which he acted as a translator. He was active in the Civil Rights movement", "title": "Harry G. Shaffer" }, { "docid": "13900722", "text": "a devout Christian, and does a daily Bible study with his mother, alternating between the Old and the New Testaments. Atticus Shaffer Atticus Shaffer (born June 19, 1998) is an American actor known for portraying Brick Heck on the ABC sitcom \"The Middle\", as well as for voicing Edgar in the film \"Frankenweenie\" (2012), Ono on the Disney Junior series \"The Lion Guard\", and for his brief appearance in \"Hancock\" (2008). Shaffer was born in Santa Clarita, California, the son of Ron and Debbie Shaffer. He lives in Acton, California. Shaffer has type four osteogenesis imperfecta, a condition involving a", "title": "Atticus Shaffer" }, { "docid": "17059739", "text": "with Joan Tower. Jeanne Ellison Shaffer Jeanne Ellison Shaffer (\"née\" Butcher; May 25, 1925 – April 9, 2007) was an American composer and musician. Shaffer was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was interested in music from a young age, singing on radio beginning at age four. When she was 11 she began touring with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. She also appeared in \"Girl of the Golden West\" as Jeannette MacDonald. Shaffer studied at Samford University, Birmingham Southern College, and Vanderbilt University. Shaffer's compositions have been published by 12 companies and in at least three languages. They include three musicals, orchestral", "title": "Jeanne Ellison Shaffer" }, { "docid": "7141367", "text": "keyboardist, with drummer Fig taking on the role of bandleader. However, this was before Bearden was named the bandleader on George Lopez's ill-fated TBS talk show, \"Lopez Tonight\". For the April 6, 2001, show, the band expanded to 50 players to become the CBS Giant Orchestra with 16 violins, 8 violas, 4 cellos, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, 1 bass trombone, 4 saxophones, 2 harps, 1 keyboard and 1 percussionist. Phil Collins played drums with Steve Jordan in the band when he was a guest on the Letterman show on March 26, 1985. Drummer Shawn Pelton of the \"Saturday Night Live\"", "title": "Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band" }, { "docid": "7387311", "text": "Henry Hall (bandleader) Henry Robert Hall, CBE (2 May 1898 – 28 October 1989) was an English bandleader who performed regularly on BBC Radio during the British dance band era of the 1920s and 1930s, through to the 1960s. Henry Hall was born in Peckham, South London. He won a scholarship to Trinity College of Music where he studied trumpet, piano, harmony and counterpoint. His first job was as copyist at the head office of the Salvation Army for which he wrote several marches. During World War I, Hall served with the Royal Field Artillery and played trumpet and piano", "title": "Henry Hall (bandleader)" }, { "docid": "17808522", "text": "Palapala Po'okela Book Awards. Eric Paul Shaffer Eric Paul Shaffer is an American novelist and poet, who lives and works in Hawai'i. Currently an assistant professor of English at Honolulu Community College, he formerly taught at Maui Community College and the University of the Ryukyus on Okinawa. His work has appeared in more than 400 national and international reviews, journals, and magazines, including \"Bamboo Ridge\", the \"Chaminade Literary Review\", the \"Chicago Review\", the \"Chiron Review\", \"Slate\", \"The Sun Magazine\", and the \"North American Review\", as well as in the anthologies \"100 Poets Against the War\", \"The EcoPoetry Anthology\", \"Jack London", "title": "Eric Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "17808520", "text": "Eric Paul Shaffer Eric Paul Shaffer is an American novelist and poet, who lives and works in Hawai'i. Currently an assistant professor of English at Honolulu Community College, he formerly taught at Maui Community College and the University of the Ryukyus on Okinawa. His work has appeared in more than 400 national and international reviews, journals, and magazines, including \"Bamboo Ridge\", the \"Chaminade Literary Review\", the \"Chicago Review\", the \"Chiron Review\", \"Slate\", \"The Sun Magazine\", and the \"North American Review\", as well as in the anthologies \"100 Poets Against the War\", \"The EcoPoetry Anthology\", \"Jack London Is Dead: Contemporary Euro-American", "title": "Eric Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "8931686", "text": "Kraft Music Hall The Kraft Music Hall was a popular old-time radio variety program, featuring top show business entertainers, which aired first on NBC radio from 1933 to 1949. The Kraft Program debuted June 26, 1933, as a musical-variety program featuring orchestra leader Paul Whiteman and served to supplement print advertising and in-store displays promoting Kraft products. During its first year the show went through a series of name changes, including Kraft Musical Revue, until it finally settled on Kraft Music Hall in 1934. Whiteman remained the host until December 6, 1935. Ford Bond was the announcer. Billed as \"The", "title": "Kraft Music Hall" }, { "docid": "10775310", "text": "Paul Taylor (footballer, born 1949) Paul Taylor (born 3 December 1949 in Sheffield, England) is a former football player and manager. For a number of years he held the position of Director of Football for Walsall. Taylor began his playing career with his hometown team, Sheffield Wednesday, turning professional in 1971, but only made six first-team appearances before being sold to York City in 1973. He again failed to establish himself as a regular at Bootham Crescent and was loaned out to Hereford United and Colchester United. In 1974, he was sold to Southport, where he finally established himself as", "title": "Paul Taylor (footballer, born 1949)" }, { "docid": "11674349", "text": "round is played differently: The player in the lead after three questions wins, Hill hands over a trophy, and comes back next show in the yellow chair in the middle. Champions can stay for up to five episodes. There is a special show at the end of the season in which the three highest-scoring champions play for a grand prize. The 3 players who returned for the championship show competed for these prizes: Season 1: Season 2: Game On (Canadian game show) Game On is a Canadian sports trivia television game show that was a variation on \"Jeopardy!\". It ran", "title": "Game On (Canadian game show)" }, { "docid": "9277113", "text": "Harry G. Shaffer Harry G. Shaffer (1919–2009) was Professor Emeritus of the Economics Department at the University of Kansas. He was born on August 28, 1919, in Vienna, Austria. Fluent in German, Shaffer served in World War II, in which he acted as a translator. He was active in the Civil Rights movement and the movement against the War in Vietnam. He wrote one popular book called \"American Capitalism and the Changing role of Government\" (still in print and available in hardcopy and Kindle editions) and about ten scholarly books, including \"The Soviet System in Theory and Practice: Western and", "title": "Harry G. Shaffer" }, { "docid": "19889838", "text": "The Bob Crosby Show The Bob Crosby Show can refer to either of two television programs in the United States. One was broadcast in the afternoons on CBS September 14, 1953 - August 30, 1957. The other was broadcast in prime time on NBC June 14, 1958 -September 6, 1958, as a summer replacement for Perry Como's show. Singer/bandleader Bob Crosby was the host and star of both programs. Other entertainers on the CBS version included Joan O'Brien, Cathy Crosby and The Modernaires. The announcers were Steve Dunne and Jack Narz. Crosby's Bobcats orchestra provided instrumental music. The NBC program", "title": "The Bob Crosby Show" }, { "docid": "974003", "text": "appear in the duo's 1980 film, but, as he revealed in October 2009 on \"CBS Sunday Morning\", Belushi dropped him from the project. In a memo to fellow \"SNL\" colleagues, Belushi said that he was unhappy that Shaffer was spending so much time on a studio record for Radner. Belushi said that he had tried to talk Shaffer out of working on the album in the first place in order to avoid sharing Shaffer's talents with another \"SNL\"-related project. Shaffer later reported that he was in (unrequited) love with Gilda Radner. He would go on to appear in 1998's \"Blues", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "7347166", "text": "February 28, 2011, the Bears released Shaffer. Kevin Shaffer Kevin Carl Shaffer (born March 2, 1980) is a former American football offensive tackle. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the seventh round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tulsa. Shaffer also played for the Cleveland Browns and Chicago Bears. He attended Conestoga Valley High School and as a senior he made 33 tackles at the defensive tackle position. Shaffer played college football at the University of Tulsa where he majored in finance. Shaffer was selected by the Atlanta Falcons in the seventh round (244th", "title": "Kevin Shaffer" }, { "docid": "7141362", "text": "Fig. Shaffer and drummer Fig first played together at a Joan Armatrading recording session in March 1980. From the mid-1980s through 1993, saxophone player David Sanborn was a frequent guest player, usually sitting in with the band on Thursday or Friday nights. Sanborn was originally intended to be a permanent band member. During the interregnum between the end of \"Late Night\" on NBC and the beginning of \"Late Show\" on CBS, Shaffer and unable to use the name \"The World's Most Dangerous Band\" due to an intellectual property claim by NBC, the band released an album \"The World's Most Dangerous", "title": "Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band" }, { "docid": "10775312", "text": "After leaving Priestfield Stadium, Taylor joined Walsall, where he served as coach and assistant manager and also had a very brief spell as manager. In 1994, he became Director of Football. Paul Taylor (footballer, born 1949) Paul Taylor (born 3 December 1949 in Sheffield, England) is a former football player and manager. For a number of years he held the position of Director of Football for Walsall. Taylor began his playing career with his hometown team, Sheffield Wednesday, turning professional in 1971, but only made six first-team appearances before being sold to York City in 1973. He again failed to", "title": "Paul Taylor (footballer, born 1949)" }, { "docid": "14096103", "text": "in Burbank where Carson and Leno's programs originated (O'Brien's \"Tonight Show\" taped at nearby Universal Studios). On May 13, 2013, it was announced that Fallon's former \"SNL\" castmate Seth Meyers would take over as host of \"Late Night\" once Fallon took over \"The Tonight Show\". \"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\" debuted during NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics in Russia on February 17, 2014, while \"Late Night with Seth Meyers\" debuted one week later. David Letterman retired in 2015 after his contract with CBS expired; \"Late Show\" bandleader and sidekick Paul Shaffer made public his intent to retire at", "title": "Late-night talk show" }, { "docid": "13900721", "text": "Atticus Shaffer Atticus Shaffer (born June 19, 1998) is an American actor known for portraying Brick Heck on the ABC sitcom \"The Middle\", as well as for voicing Edgar in the film \"Frankenweenie\" (2012), Ono on the Disney Junior series \"The Lion Guard\", and for his brief appearance in \"Hancock\" (2008). Shaffer was born in Santa Clarita, California, the son of Ron and Debbie Shaffer. He lives in Acton, California. Shaffer has type four osteogenesis imperfecta, a condition involving a defect in type 1 collagen, which causes fragile bones, and short stature as he is 4' 8\" tall. Shaffer is", "title": "Atticus Shaffer" }, { "docid": "14457955", "text": "Paul Pedersen (composer) Paul Richard Pedersen (born August 28, 1935) is a Canadian composer, arts administrator, and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, he is particularly known for his works of electronic music; a number of which utilize various forms of multi-media. In 2014 he was made an Honorary Member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community. Early on in his career, he wrote non-electronic compositions which exhibited a free atonal style. Born in Camrose, Alberta, Pedersen entered the University of Saskatchewan in 1953 where he earned a Bachelor of", "title": "Paul Pedersen (composer)" }, { "docid": "974001", "text": "invited him to be the musical director for the Toronto production of \"Godspell\", starring Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin. He went on to play piano for the Schwartz Broadway show \"The Magic Show\" in 1974, then became a member of the house band on NBC's popular \"Saturday Night Live\" (\"SNL\") television program from 1975 to 1980 (except for a brief departure in 1977). Though Shaffer was at the piano and appeared to be directing the band's actions, Howard Shore was credited as \"SNL\"'s musical director, eventually turning the actual conducting of the", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "15429046", "text": "broadcast on 3 January 2011. In May 2011, it was speculated that Shaffer would be leaving \"Hollyoaks\". However, this was denied and a show spokesperson told Digital Spy \"We don't want to spoil the storylines for the viewers, however we can confirm that Anna Shaffer is with \"Hollyoaks\" for the foreseeable future.\". Shaffer left Hollyoaks in 2014 but will return briefly in November 2017. During 2012, she appeared in the music video for YDEK by Warehouse Republic, then in October 2013, Shaffer said she would be leaving Hollyoaks in the new year in an interview with \"Digital Spy\" on 23", "title": "Anna Shaffer" }, { "docid": "974000", "text": "called Fabulous Fugitives with his schoolmates in Thunder Bay. Later he performed with the \"Flash Landing Band\" at different venues around Edmonton and the interior of B.C. Educated at the University of Toronto, he began playing with jazz guitarist Tisziji Muñoz, performing in bands around the bars there, where he found an interest in musicals, and completed his studies, with a B.A. degree in sociology in 1971. Shaffer appears briefly, playing an organ at an outdoor wedding, in \"North of Superior\" (1971) an early IMAX documentary shot in northern Ontario. Shaffer began his music career in 1972 when Stephen Schwartz", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "11674345", "text": "Game On (Canadian game show) Game On is a Canadian sports trivia television game show that was a variation on \"Jeopardy!\". It ran from 1998 to 2000 on Global and was shown on GameTV. The show was hosted by Tim Steeves in season 1 and David Merry in Season 2, with Jennifer Hill as the female co-host. Three male contestants compete in this game. The set was designed to resemble a sports enthusiast's wood-paneled basement recreation room decorated with posters, trophies and other sports memorabilia. The host stood behind a 1970s-style wet bar while the three contestants sat in leather", "title": "Game On (Canadian game show)" }, { "docid": "13001510", "text": "The Ted Steele Show The Ted Steele Show is the title of several television and radio programs that were hosted by bandleader Ted Steele (1917–1985). Steele's programs were broadcast on three networks in three consecutive seasons: NBC September 29, 1948 - October 29, 1948; DuMont February 27, 1949 - July 12, 1949; CBS June 6, 1949 - April 28, 1950. The NBC and CBS programs were 15 minutes long, while those on DuMont were 30 minutes. Other regular performers on the program included Helen Wood, Michael Rich, Nola Day, Marci Bryant and Charles Danford. Steele later presented local daytime TV", "title": "The Ted Steele Show" }, { "docid": "966513", "text": "on October 15, 2008. Love had a 22nd appearance, appearing as an interview guest on June 12, 2013 to talk about the documentary \"20 Feet from Stardom\". In 2000, after Letterman had quintuple bypass surgery, the \"Late Show Backstage\" was aired. This featured many celebrities reminiscing about their experiences as guests on his show. Charles Grodin (February 7), Regis Philbin (February 8 & 10), Bandleader Paul Shaffer (February 9 & 11), Drew Barrymore (February 14), David Brenner (February 15), Tom Snyder (February 16 & 17) and Tom Arnold (February 18) were among those who hosted. These interviews were interspersed with", "title": "Late Show with David Letterman" }, { "docid": "17162656", "text": "of films debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List. Released on June 28, 2016, this Ghosts from Our Past is a tie-in book to Ghostbusters (2016). Shaffer is listed as a co-author even though the other two authors, Erin Gilbert and Abby L. Yates, are the fictional characters in the Ghostbusters film. Andrew Shaffer Andrew Shaffer (born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States.) is an American author. Under the pen name \"Fanny Merkin,\" he authored the \"Fifty Shades of Grey\" parody \"Fifty Shames of Earl Grey.\" His other books include \"Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love\", and \"Literary Rogues:", "title": "Andrew Shaffer" }, { "docid": "13425213", "text": "Academy Award in 2005. In June 2008, it was announced that she and colleague Paul Cowan would lose their positions as NFB staff filmmakers, due to budget cuts. Born in Montreal in 1945, Shaffer graduated from McGill University in 1967, with a B.A. in comparative religion and philosophy. She taught high school for two years before doing a master's degree in filmmaking at Boston University. Upon graduation in 1971, she worked at WGBH-TV as a production assistant, researcher and associate producer on science and public affairs programs. Beverly Shaffer Beverly Shaffer is a filmmaker in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Shaffer spent", "title": "Beverly Shaffer" }, { "docid": "966639", "text": "than Leno. On March 1, 2010, Jay Leno returned to \"The Tonight Show\", with Wally Wingert as his announcer. On April 12, 2010, bandleader Kevin Eubanks announced his departure after 18 years (15 years as bandleader) on May 28. He was replaced as bandleader by Rickey Minor on June 7. On July 1, 2010, \"Variety\" reported that only six months into its second life, Jay Leno's \"Tonight Show\" posted its lowest ratings since 1992. By September 2010, Leno's ratings had fallen below O'Brien's when he had hosted \"The Tonight Show\", although O'Brien's ratings had spiked during the show's final days", "title": "The Tonight Show" }, { "docid": "11166271", "text": "for the remainder of the series' run. The repertory company included: The Entertainers The Entertainers was a one-hour American variety show which aired on CBS from September 25, 1964 through March 27, 1965. Produced by Joe Hamilton, the series featured three hosts; Hamilton's then-wife Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart, and Caterina Valente. In order to serve as a regular host, it was necessary for Burnett to leave her role in the Broadway musical \"Fade Out - Fade In\", and was summarily sued by the show's producers for breach of contact. Broadcast weekly from New York, where it was taped Friday evenings", "title": "The Entertainers" }, { "docid": "11166269", "text": "The Entertainers The Entertainers was a one-hour American variety show which aired on CBS from September 25, 1964 through March 27, 1965. Produced by Joe Hamilton, the series featured three hosts; Hamilton's then-wife Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart, and Caterina Valente. In order to serve as a regular host, it was necessary for Burnett to leave her role in the Broadway musical \"Fade Out - Fade In\", and was summarily sued by the show's producers for breach of contact. Broadcast weekly from New York, where it was taped Friday evenings at CBS Studio 50 (now the Ed Sullivan Theater), the variety", "title": "The Entertainers" }, { "docid": "13959681", "text": "Shaffer was born on March 22, 1971 in Denver and graduated from East High School in 1989, having served as the \"Head Boy\" and Student Body President. After graduation Shaffer attended Stanford University which he paid for with a Navy ROTC scholarship. Shaffer earned a Bachelor’s degree in political science, and also participated in the Stanford-in-Government program. While involved in the program, Shaffer worked as an intern for Colorado Governor Roy Romer as well as the Commission on National and Community Service in Washington D.C. Shaffer graduated with honors in 1993. After college Shaffer was commissioned into active duty in", "title": "Brandon Shaffer" }, { "docid": "14991972", "text": "series was broadcast Sundays at 5:00 p.m. from 1 November to 27 December 1964, then another run from 4 April to 27 June 1965. Show on Shows Show on Shows is a Canadian biographical television series which aired on CBC Television from 1964 to 1965. This series featured profiles and contributions of people involved in various artistic fields such as Ralph Allen, Rita Greer Allen (\"Encore\", \"One of a Kind\"), Paul Almond, Marie-Claire Blais (author, playwright), Barry Callaghan (writer), Sorel Etrog (sculptor), Timothy Findley (writer), LeRoi Jones (poet, writer), George Luscombe (artistic director, Toronto Workshop Productions), Marya Mannes (author, critic),", "title": "Show on Shows" }, { "docid": "13959684", "text": "Human Services and Finance committees. In 2009, Shaffer became the President of the State Senate following the resignation of then-Senate President Peter Groff. On July 4, 2011, Shaffer announced that he was running for Congress from Colorado's 4th District, challenging incumbent Cory Gardner. Shaffer won the Democratic primary, but lost to Gardner in the November 6, 2012 general election. Brandon Shaffer Brandon Shaffer (born March 22, 1971) is the former President of the Colorado State Senate. He represented Senate District 17, which encompasses the cities of Longmont, Lafayette, Erie, and Louisville. Shaffer, a lifelong Democrat, was first elected as a", "title": "Brandon Shaffer" }, { "docid": "19300184", "text": "Electronic Music Awards & Foundation Show The Electronic Music Awards & Foundation was an awards and charity event announced on January 28, 2016 by Paul Oakenfold and TV4 Entertainment, which is headed by executive producer Paul Duddridge and CEO Jon Cody. Russell Thomas served as the director of the program. The EMAF has no affiliation with The Electronic Music Awards and is not an extension of EMAF. The event, originally called the \"Electronic Music Awards & Foundation Show,\" was formed by Oakenfold, Duddridge, and Cody to give the Dance and EDM community an awards show of their own as well", "title": "Electronic Music Awards & Foundation Show" }, { "docid": "14991971", "text": "Show on Shows Show on Shows is a Canadian biographical television series which aired on CBC Television from 1964 to 1965. This series featured profiles and contributions of people involved in various artistic fields such as Ralph Allen, Rita Greer Allen (\"Encore\", \"One of a Kind\"), Paul Almond, Marie-Claire Blais (author, playwright), Barry Callaghan (writer), Sorel Etrog (sculptor), Timothy Findley (writer), LeRoi Jones (poet, writer), George Luscombe (artistic director, Toronto Workshop Productions), Marya Mannes (author, critic), Ross McLean, Merle Shain (writer), Michael Snow (mixed media artist), Raymond Souster (poet), John Updike (writer) and Joyce Wieland (mixed media artist). This half-hour", "title": "Show on Shows" }, { "docid": "17988894", "text": "on December 23. Shaffer was claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Indians on January 26, 2017, and then designated for assignment by them on January 30. Shaffer was subsequently outrighted to the minor leagues on February 2, 2017. He was released from the organization on June 6, 2018. Shaffer was signed to a minor league contract with the Milwaukee Brewers on July 20th, 2018. After being signed, he was sent to Triple A Colorado Springs Sky Sox. He became a free agent after the season. Richie Shaffer Richard Michael Shaffer (born March 15, 1991) is an American professional baseball infielder", "title": "Richie Shaffer" }, { "docid": "9238477", "text": "Geraldo (bandleader) Gerald Walcan Bright (10 August 1904 – 4 May 1974), better known as Geraldo, was an English bandleader. He adopted the name \"Geraldo\" in 1930, and became one of the most popular British dance band leaders of the 1930s with his \"sweet music\" and his \"Gaucho Tango Orchestra\". During the 1940s, he modernized his style and continued to enjoy great success. Bright was born in London, where he played piano and organ and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He started his career as a pianist playing for silent films. Geraldo became a major figure on the", "title": "Geraldo (bandleader)" }, { "docid": "9019598", "text": "has hosted since 1985. The show runs on Wednesdays from 9:00 a.m. - noon. In the late 1980s, he also began hosting a show on Sunday afternoons on WYMS in Milwaukee, which ran until the station changed its format in 2002. Paul Cebar Paul Cebar is a songwriter, singer, guitarist and bandleader from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, who likes African, Latin American and Caribbean music. He has released four albums and an EP with his band, Paul Cebar & the Milwaukeeans, which have received airplay from adult album alternative stations across the US, album with all his bands including the latest", "title": "Paul Cebar" }, { "docid": "9109889", "text": "Life, Creating a New You, an inspirational book which highlights topics including, empowerment, suicide prevention, and LGBT themes; released by Skookum Hill Publishing on January 13, 2016. Matthew Shaffer Matthew Joseph Shaffer (born May 4, 1978) is an American musical theatre, television, and film actor, director, executive producer, author , and choreographer. He was born in Florence, Colorado, USA. Shaffer began his career in Southern California. He attended Orange County High School of the Arts. He was accepted as a performing apprentice to the concert dance company Giordano Dance Chicago in 1996. He became a principal in the company the", "title": "Matthew Shaffer" }, { "docid": "13754213", "text": "Hatfield became a candidate in the new Shelburne—Yarmouth riding for the 1925 election where he won re-election. Hatfield was re-elected in 1926. He was appointed to the Senate on 7 October 1926 and remained in that role until his death on 28 January 1935. Paul Hatfield (Canadian politician) Paul Lacombe Hatfield (13 March 1873 – 28 January 1935) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Arcadia, Nova Scotia and became a broker, insurance agent and master mariner. He also served as a warden and municipal councillor for Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The", "title": "Paul Hatfield (Canadian politician)" }, { "docid": "4244873", "text": "On Modlife in October, 2009 (Korn.com), Shaffer explained that he would not be doing vocals on the Fear and the Nervous System album because he is not \"very good at singing.\" It was later announced that Steve Krolikowski of Repeater would be handling vocal duties. In 2006, Shaffer founded Emotional Syphon Records to give daring and diverse bands a chance to be heard. The first bands to be signed were Droid and Monster In The Machine, however Shaffer says he does not want to limit himself to only releasing metal acts but to create a multi-genre label. On January 15,", "title": "James Shaffer" }, { "docid": "12470941", "text": "he was officially presented at Benfica's Estádio da Luz. However, after failing to hold on to a position in the first team, Shaffer moved once again back to Argentina on a 6-month loan to Banfield in January 2010. In 2010–2011 he was loaned to Rosario Central, until the end of the season. In 2011–2012, Shaffer was loaned to União Leiria. On 27 September 2012, Shaffer terminated is contract with Benfica. In July 2013, he signed with Talleres de Córdoba. A year later, he joined Unión La Calera in Chile. José Shaffer José Alberto Shaffer (born 16 December 1985) is an", "title": "José Shaffer" }, { "docid": "14387664", "text": "he will remain as the MHA for Topsail-Paradise until at least the end of the current sitting of the House of Assembly in June. On May 13, 2018 Davis announced he would resign as Leader of the Opposition. Since Ches Crosbie does not have a seat in the House of Assembly MHA David Brazil was appointed Leader of the Opposition on May 14, 2018. On October 18, Davis announced his resignation as MHA effective November 2, 2018. Paul Davis (Canadian politician) Paul Alfred Davis (born June 17, 1961), is a Canadian politician who was the leader of the Progressive Conservative", "title": "Paul Davis (Canadian politician)" }, { "docid": "1416416", "text": "Peter Shaffer Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, CBE (; 15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016), was an English playwright and screenwriter. He wrote numerous award-winning plays, of which several were adapted into films. Shaffer was born to a Jewish family in Liverpool, the son of Reka (née Fredman) and Jack Shaffer. He was the identical twin brother of fellow playwright Anthony Shaffer. He was educated at the Hall School, Hampstead, a boys' prep school and St Paul's School, London, an independent school for boys, and subsequently he gained a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, to study history. Shaffer was a", "title": "Peter Shaffer" }, { "docid": "5205023", "text": "the March 31, 1994 edition of \"The Late Show\", it marked her first appearance on American television that year. Letterman introduced Madonna right before she entered the set in this manner: Paul Shaffer responded \"she's your \"guest\"! ... Come on, she's your \"guest\"!\" to which Letterman responded, \"everything's fine, just relax, will ya?\" Madonna then entered the stage to the sound of her 1983 hit \"Holiday\", clutching a pair of her underwear, which she asked Letterman to smell during the interview. \"Wait a minute, aren't you gonna smell them?\" she said, to which Letterman replied \"I'll take care of that", "title": "Madonna on Late Show with David Letterman in 1994" }, { "docid": "2575062", "text": "music director who chooses the \"setlist\" (the list of songs that will be played in a show), sets the tempo for each song and starts each song (often by \"counting in\"), leads the start of new sections of songs (e.g., signalling for the start of a guitar solo or drum solo) and leads the endings of each song. The bandleader is also onstage with the group, so she or he has to be a strong performer on lead vocals or an instrument. The bandleader also needs to have a good general knowledge of the different parts played by all the", "title": "Bandleader" }, { "docid": "974005", "text": "bypass surgery, and during the birth of Letterman's son Harry in November 2003. In 1984, Shaffer played keyboards for The Honeydrippers, a group formed in 1981 by former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, on their only studio album, \"\". The album included the hit single \"Sea of Love\" which reached No. 1 on \"Billboard\"'s adult contemporary chart in 1984 and No. 3 on its Hot 100 chart in 1985. Shaffer has served as musical director and producer for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony since its inception in 1986 and filled the same role for the 1996", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "9717885", "text": "recently producing and performing on the Indie Soul EP by Canadian songwriter, singer and recording artist AHI. As a bandleader and/or bassist, Isaacs has worked with Mariah Carey, Martina McBride, Natasha Bedingfield, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kid Rock, Roger Hudgson, Lionel Richie, Patti Labelle, Richard Marx, Paul Shaffer, George Clinton, Deborah Cox, Brett Michaels, Macy Gray, David Cox, Rich Little, Dennis Deyoung, Paul Anka, Tom Jones, Anne Murray, Martin Short, Burton Cummings, and William Shatner. He has received an Eva Award, The Harry Jerome Award for Professional Excellence, Urban Music Industry Special Achievement Award, The Reel Black Award for composition, a", "title": "Orin Isaacs" }, { "docid": "974011", "text": "to Disney's animated feature and television series \"Hercules,\" as the character Hermes. In 1977, Shaffer left \"SNL\" for a few months to co-star with Greg Evigan in \"A Year at the Top\", a short-lived CBS sitcom in which Shaffer and Evigan play two musicians from Idaho who relocate to Hollywood where they are regularly tempted by a famous promoter (who is actually the devil's son), played by Gabriel Dell, to sell their souls in exchange for a year of stardom. Though the series only lasted a few episodes, a soundtrack album was released. Following the series' cancellation, Shaffer returned to", "title": "Paul Shaffer" }, { "docid": "9491228", "text": "Chris Shaffer Chris Shaffer is a singer/songwriter from Indiana who is best known as the frontman of The Why Store and for singing on their biggest single, \"Lack of Water.\" Shaffer performed with The Why Store until it split in 2000 and was among the members who reunited in 2005 for a handful of reunion shows. Shaffer has remained continuously active in the Indiana music scene. After The Why Store disbanded in 2000, Shaffer continued writing and performing new music. His first project, Shaffer Street, included his then wife, Heather Marie Shaffer, who contributed vocals and songwriting. After a number", "title": "Chris Shaffer" }, { "docid": "19673731", "text": "on the Virginia World War II Memorial Commission. His eldest son William Robert Shaffer of Woodstock, Virginia represented Shenandoah County in the House of Delegates from 1942 until 1947, when fellow Republican (and poultry dealer) William C. Lambert took over for a term. His younger son John Vernon Shaffer continued the family business and civic traditions, but joined the Presbyterian church. Shenandoah County voters elected Vernon S. Shaffer their delegate to the Virginia General Assembly in November 1949, so he assumed that office in January. He was re-elected in 1951, 1953, 1955 and 1957. During his last three terms, the", "title": "Vernon S. Shaffer" }, { "docid": "4244874", "text": "2000, Shaffer married Stephanie Roush. Together, they had a daughter, Carmella Star Shaffer (born on June 23, 2001). In 2004, Shaffer and Roush got divorced. Shaffer then started to date the Albanian American actress and model, Evis Xheneti in 2005. They were married on January 2, 2012, in Paris, France. They have two sons together: D'Angelo DraXon Shaffer (born on November 7, 2012) and Rocky Rebel Shaffer (born on August 20, 2015). Shaffer predominantly uses Ibanez guitars, most often his signature model the Ibanez Apex 7-string model and Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier & Diezel guitar amplifier. Like Brian did before", "title": "James Shaffer" }, { "docid": "11112182", "text": "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji at McMaster University's library was obtained thanks to then-professor Rapoport's efforts. In addition to his work on Sorabji, he has been most associated with the music of Havergal Brian, Vagn Holmboe and Allan Pettersson as well as with various aspects of microtonal music. He has made use of microtones in his own compositions, which include a set of partsongs to poems by Erica Jong. As a critic he wrote mostly for the American magazine \"Fanfare\", but also for \"Tempo\", the \"American Record Guide\", and others. Paul Rapoport (music researcher) Paul Rapoport (born 1948) is a Canadian musicologist,", "title": "Paul Rapoport (music researcher)" }, { "docid": "1760598", "text": "Elaine Shaffer Elaine Shaffer (October 22, 1925 – February 19, 1973) was an American flutist and principal of the Houston Symphony Orchestra between 1948 and 1953. Elaine Shaffer was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania. She attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and was the prize student of William Kincaid, the 'grandfather' of the majority of flutists in the United States. That he willed his platinum flute to her makes his regard for her talent evident. Kincaid was her only formal flute teacher; prior to that, she was entirely self-taught, according to an interview with Shaffer's widowed husband, Efrem Kurtz,", "title": "Elaine Shaffer" }, { "docid": "17949165", "text": "9, 2014 the band announced it would add a 2nd Leg with an additional 28 shows beginning on January 16, 2015 in St. Paul, Minneapolis and ending March 31, 2015 in Wichita, Kansas. In November 2014 Mick Fleetwood went on BBC Radio 2 to announce that Fleetwood Mac would be touring through Britain in May and June 2015. However, due to high demand, more dates were added, which stretched the leg into July 2015. This set list is representative of the performance on October 6, 2014. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour. with: On", "title": "On with the Show (concert tour)" }, { "docid": "1760604", "text": "the flute concerti of Ibert and Nielsen. She gave the world premiere of Virgil Thomson's \"Flute Concerto\", as well as five performances with Italian orchestras of a concerto by Franco Mannino for flute, trombone obbligato, and orchestra. Elaine Shaffer Elaine Shaffer (October 22, 1925 – February 19, 1973) was an American flutist and principal of the Houston Symphony Orchestra between 1948 and 1953. Elaine Shaffer was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania. She attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and was the prize student of William Kincaid, the 'grandfather' of the majority of flutists in the United States. That he", "title": "Elaine Shaffer" }, { "docid": "5725813", "text": "Section 28 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Section 28 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a part of the Constitution of Canada. It does not contain a right so much as it provides a guide as to how to \"interpret\" rights in the Charter. Specifically, section 28 addresses concerns of sexual equality, and is analogous to (and was modelled after) the proposed Equal Rights Amendment in the United States. The section reads: Section 28 is not so much a right because it does not state that men and women are equal; this is done", "title": "Section 28 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms" }, { "docid": "8239588", "text": "Lingo (Canadian game show) Lingo is a Canadian game show that ran for 439 episodes on Radio-Canada in Quebec, from 1998 to 2001. It was hosted by longtime actor and radio/TV host Paul Houde. The object of the game is to score points by taking five guesses at a mystery five-letter word puzzle. If at any time a team makes a mistake, such as taking too long at a guess, misspelling a word, spelling a word that doesn't exist, spelling a word that is not five letters in length, repeats a word already guessed, or the word does not start", "title": "Lingo (Canadian game show)" }, { "docid": "7141373", "text": "and Buddy Guy, Macy Gray and James Taylor. The orchestra disbanded after the \"Late Show\" ended on May 20, 2015. Jazz musician Jonathan Batiste was announced by new host Stephen Colbert as the new \"Late Show\"s bandleader on June 4, 2015, with his band, Stay Human, becoming the show's new house band. The World's Most Dangerous Band reassembled in 2016 in order to record a self-titled album, released on March 17, 2017, followed by a tour. The group performed as the house band for the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony in 2018. The band has released three albums: \"Among the most", "title": "Paul Shaffer and the World's Most Dangerous Band" }, { "docid": "1416431", "text": "than any bequest in Shaffer's will (which had been changed in 1999). He co-wrote three detective novels with his playwright brother Peter Shaffer under the pseudonym \"Peter Antony\". Anthony Shaffer (writer) Anthony Joshua Shaffer (15 May 19266 November 2001) was an English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, barrister and advertising executive. Shaffer was born to a Jewish family in Liverpool, the son of Reka (née Fredman) and Jack Shaffer. He was the identical twin brother of writer and dramatist Peter Shaffer, and they had another brother, Brian. Shaffer was educated at The Hall School, Hampstead, a boys' prep school and St. Paul's", "title": "Anthony Shaffer (writer)" }, { "docid": "12470940", "text": "José Shaffer José Alberto Shaffer (born 16 December 1985) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left wingback for Unión La Calera. In 2006, Shaffer was loaned on a one-year deal from Racing Club de Avellaneda to IFK Göteborg to replace the departing Oscar Wendt, who moved to FC Copenhagen. However, he did not manage to make a first team impact, and he subsequently moved back to Argentina after his short loan spell in Europe. On 27 June 2009, it was announced that Shaffer had signed a deal with Portuguese club Benfica for €1.9 million. On 29 June,", "title": "José Shaffer" }, { "docid": "7145313", "text": "Music of Denver While Denver may not be as recognized for historical musical prominence like such cities as Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago or New York City, it still manages to have a very active popular, jazz, and classical music scene, which has nurtured many artists and genres to regional, national, and even international attention. Though nearby Boulder, Colorado has its own very distinct music scene, they are intertwined and often artists based there also play in Denver. The \"King of Jazz\", bandleader Paul Whiteman, was born in Denver, Colorado on March 28, 1890. From the 1920s-50s, Welton Street in Five", "title": "Music of Denver" }, { "docid": "11560414", "text": "his first wife having died after sixteen years of marriage. He had an adopted daughter with his second wife, the pianist and composer Peggy Cochrane. He wrote two autobiographies, \"This is Jack Payne\" (1932) and \"Signature Tune\" (1947). Jack Payne died in Tonbridge, Kent on 4 December 1969. Jack Payne (bandleader) John Wesley Vivian \"Jack\" Payne (22 August 1899 – 4 December 1969) was a British dance music bandleader who established his reputation during the British dance band era of the 1930s. Payne was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, the only son of a music publisher's warehouse manager. While serving", "title": "Jack Payne (bandleader)" }, { "docid": "6660154", "text": "Awards, becoming only the second African-American conductor in the Academy's history. He also was a music arranger on the 79th Academy Awards. Wheeler was one of two conductors (the others being fellow composers John Williams and Paul Shaffer) during the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics. Wheeler was the musical director on the ABC Network show, \"Dancing with the Stars\" for the shows first 17 seasons. In January 2014, it was announced that former \"American Idol\" bandleader Ray Chew would take over as musical director for the show's 18th season. In 2008, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from", "title": "Harold Wheeler (musician)" }, { "docid": "6844982", "text": "of the territory of Utah by President Ulysses S. Grant. He was known for his strict opposition of any hint of rebellion against the federal government, which led to concerns with the Mormon population. He died suddenly during his first year as governor. John Shaffer John Wilson Shaffer (July 5, 1827 – October 31, 1870) was an American politician and businessman. Born in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Shaffer was active in Republican politics in Illinois. In 1849, Shaffer settled in Freeport, Illinois and was involved in the mercantile business. Then, in 1856, he was elected sheriff of Stephenson County, Illinois. He was", "title": "John Shaffer" }, { "docid": "11112181", "text": "Paul Rapoport (music researcher) Paul Rapoport (born 1948) is a Canadian musicologist, music critic, composer and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Rapoport was born in 1948 in Toronto, Ontario. He received his bachelor's degree in linguistics and music at the University of Michigan in 1970 and his master's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1972 with a thesis on Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony. He went on to gain a doctorate at the same university in 1975, with a dissertation about Vagn Holmboe's four \"Symphonic Metamorphoses\". Part of the substantial collection of material related to composer", "title": "Paul Rapoport (music researcher)" }, { "docid": "15636845", "text": "guinea pigs Sam and Jackson. Neil was a fan favorite during his time at City Island. His technical ability was so fantastic that fans never knew whether he was left footed or right footed. I do not think any still knows to this day... On December 23, 2015, Shaffer signed with the NASL side, Indy Eleven On 6 May 2016, Shaffer was loaned back to Harrisburg City Islanders for their weekend series of games against FC Cincinnati and Charleston Battery on 7th and 9 May. Neil Shaffer Neil Shaffer (born February 14, 1989 in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania) is a retired American", "title": "Neil Shaffer" }, { "docid": "16020566", "text": "Paul Kling Paul Kling (28 March 19292 January 2005) was a Czech-born Canadian violinist. Kling was born in Opava on 28 March 1929. He was sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp at the age of 13, where he was chosen to perform in Viktor Ullmann's opera \"The Emperor of Atlantis, or The Disobedience of Death\". The opera was rehearsed in 1944 at Theresienstadt, but not performed there before the camp was closed. On 28 September 1944, Kling was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp, but survived. Among his projects in later life was educating others about music during the Holocaust and sharing", "title": "Paul Kling" } ]
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Father and son Baby Doc Duvalier and Papa Doc Duvalier spent 30 years as leaders of which country?
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[ { "docid": "979762", "text": "Jean-Claude Duvalier Jean-Claude Duvalier (), nicknamed “Baby Doc” () (3 July 19514 October 2014), was the President of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in 1986. He succeeded his father François \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier as the ruler of Haiti after his death in 1971. After assuming power, he introduced cosmetic changes to his father's regime and delegated much authority to his advisors. Thousands of Haitians were killed or tortured, and hundreds of thousands fled the country during his presidency. He maintained a notoriously lavish lifestyle (including a state-sponsored US$3million wedding in 1980) while poverty among", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "4951581", "text": "Simone Duvalier Simone Duvalier (; \"née\" Ovide; 19 March 1913 – 26 December 1997), also known as Mama Doc, was the wife of Haitian leader François \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier and the First Lady of Haiti. She was born Simone Ovide in about 1913 near the Haitian town of Léogâne, the daughter of a mulatto merchant and writer, Jules Faine, and Célie Ovide, one of the maids in his household. At an early age her mother gave her up, and she spent much of her childhood in an orphanage in Pétion-Ville, an exclusive suburb in the hills above Port-au-Prince. The orphans", "title": "Simone Duvalier" }, { "docid": "16665483", "text": "Anti-Duvalier protest movement The Anti-Duvalier protest movement was a series of demonstrations in Haiti from 23 May 1984 – 7 February 1986, that led to the overthrow of President Jean-Claude Duvalier and the Duvalier dynasty regime. Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier was elected to presidency in the 1957 general election, and he declared himself “President for life” following the 1964 constitutional referendum. In the aftermath of the 1958 coup d'état attempt, to keep the populace subservient, Papa Doc created a paramilitary force called the Tonton Macoutes (), notorious of its use of violence and intimidation. In 1970, the force was renamed", "title": "Anti-Duvalier protest movement" }, { "docid": "979765", "text": "of his father, François Duvalier (nicknamed \"Papa Doc\"), becoming the world's youngest president. Initially, Jean-Claude Duvalier resisted the dynastic arrangement that had made him Haiti's leader, having preferred that the presidency go to his older sister Marie-Denise Duvalier, and was content to leave substantive and administrative matters in the hands of his mother, Simone Ovide Duvalier, and a committee led by Luckner Cambronne, his father's Interior Minister, while he attended ceremonial functions and lived as a playboy. Duvalier was invested with near-absolute power by the constitution. He took some steps to reform the regime, by releasing some political prisoners and", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "20956388", "text": "VSN) — was formed as the paramilitary wing of the PUN. In 1963, other political parties in Haiti were outlawed, making the PUN the single political party of the nation. In 1964, \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier was made President for life, with absolute power and the right to name his successor. When \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier died in 1971, his son \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier succeeded him as the President of the country and the leader of the party. The party would remain in power until the fall and exile of \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier in 1986, at the height of the Anti-Duvalier protest", "title": "National Unity Party (Haiti)" }, { "docid": "172202", "text": "maintained order by terrorizing the populace and political opponents. 40,000 to 60,000 Haitians are estimated to have been killed during the reign of the Duvalier father and son. Haiti's brief tourism boom was wiped out by the rule of Papa Doc Duvalier and his unstable government. When his son Jean-Claude \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier succeeded him as \"President for Life\", tourism returned in the 1970s. \"Vive la différence\" has long been Haiti's national tourism slogan and its proximity to the United States made Haiti a hot attraction until the Duvalier regime was ousted in 1986. Papa Doc's son led the country", "title": "Haiti" }, { "docid": "16665497", "text": "Ministry said it would continue to block the release of the money. Duvalier lived in Paris with Véronique Roy, his longtime companion and chief public-relations representative, until his return to Haiti in late January 2011. Roy is the granddaughter of Paul Magloire, President of Haiti from 1950 to 1956. Anti-Duvalier protest movement The Anti-Duvalier protest movement was a series of demonstrations in Haiti from 23 May 1984 – 7 February 1986, that led to the overthrow of President Jean-Claude Duvalier and the Duvalier dynasty regime. Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier was elected to presidency in the 1957 general election, and he", "title": "Anti-Duvalier protest movement" }, { "docid": "20956387", "text": "National Unity Party (Haiti) The National Unity Party (, PUN) is a political party in Haiti. It was the \"de facto\" only political party in the country during the Duvalier dynasty (), an authoritarian family dictatorship of François \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier, which lasted from 1957 to 1986. The PUN was founded in 1957 as a political platform to support the presidential candidacy of \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier in the 1957 general election. In the aftermath of the July 1958 coup d'état attempt, the \"Tonton Macoute\" — officially named Volunteers of the National Security (,", "title": "National Unity Party (Haiti)" }, { "docid": "4951583", "text": "imperious bearing, Haitians referred to her as \"Mama Doc\". She was, like her husband, reported to be a Vodou expert. She cultivated the image of a benefactor; dispensing charity to inhabitants of \"Cite Simone\", a planned settlement named for her that is known today as Cité Soleil, one of the most miserable slums in Latin America. Simone Duvalier's influence reached its peak after the death of her husband on 21 April 1971, when her nineteen-year-old son Jean-Claude Duvalier succeeded his father as Haiti's \"President for Life\". Simone Duvalier retained the title of First Lady, and relished the power it conferred.", "title": "Simone Duvalier" }, { "docid": "979763", "text": "his people remained the most widespread of any country in the Western Hemisphere. Relations with the United States improved after Duvalier's ascension to the presidency, and later deteriorated under the Carter administration, only to again improve under Ronald Reagan due to the strong anti-communist stance of the Duvaliers. Rebellion against the Duvalier regime broke out in 1985 and Baby Doc fled to France in 1986 on a U.S. Air Force flight. Duvalier unexpectedly returned to Haiti on 16 January 2011, after two decades in self-imposed exile in France. The following day, he was arrested by Haitian police, facing possible charges", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "2708066", "text": "for the national party. The lack of funds coming to the \"Tonton Macoute\" was result of being intercepted by the Duvalier dynasty who were sometimes taking nearly eighty percent of international aid to Haiti, then turning around to only pay forty-five percent of the debts the country owed. This continued until the \"Tonton Macoute\" were left on their own when Baby Doc fled the country with an estimated $900m. The \"Tonton Macoutes\" remained active even after the presidency of \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier's son \"Baby Doc\" ended with the Anti-Duvalier protest movement 1986. Massacres led by paramilitary groups spawned from the", "title": "Tonton Macoute" }, { "docid": "833395", "text": "as \"Papa Doc\", was elected President of Haiti. In 1964, he declared himself president for life and established that his son, Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as \"Baby Doc\", would succeed him. During their regime, opposition to the government was not tolerated; thus, the Duvaliers used violence and terror to suppress the masses, killing about 30,000 Haitians. Finally, in 1986, a series of uprisings forced Baby Doc to flee Haiti for France. The Duvalier family stole millions of dollars during their administration, leaving Haiti in extreme debt today. Haiti is officially a semi-presidential republic, although it is often claimed to be authoritarian", "title": "Government of Haiti" }, { "docid": "19208422", "text": "three civilians as well as two military officials. This began a shaky period of transition to full democratic rule. Duvalier dynasty The Duvalier dynasty () was an authoritarian family dictatorship in Haiti that lasted almost twenty-nine years, from 1957 until 1986, spanning the rule of the father and son pair François Duvalier and Jean-Claude Duvalier. Direct elections, the first in Haiti's history, were held in October 1950, and Paul Magloire, an elite black Colonel in the military, was elected. Hurricane Hazel hit the island in 1954, which devastated the nation's infrastructure and economy. Hurricane relief was inadequately distributed and misspent,", "title": "Duvalier dynasty" }, { "docid": "19208412", "text": "Duvalier dynasty The Duvalier dynasty () was an authoritarian family dictatorship in Haiti that lasted almost twenty-nine years, from 1957 until 1986, spanning the rule of the father and son pair François Duvalier and Jean-Claude Duvalier. Direct elections, the first in Haiti's history, were held in October 1950, and Paul Magloire, an elite black Colonel in the military, was elected. Hurricane Hazel hit the island in 1954, which devastated the nation's infrastructure and economy. Hurricane relief was inadequately distributed and misspent, and Magloire jailed opponents and shut down newspapers. After refusing to step down after his term ended, a general", "title": "Duvalier dynasty" }, { "docid": "7442340", "text": "of human rights abuses against the Haitian people. For example, following a 1991 coup by the military that overthrew democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Haitian army was accused of killing an estimated 3,000 people in three years. Upon his return to the presidency, Aristide disbanded the army. In 1957, François Duvalier, also known as \"Papa Doc\", became president of Haiti, ushering in a period of human rights abuses from which the country is still recovering. An estimated 30,000–60,000 people were killed in the 30 years Haiti was under the rule of Duvalier and his son—and successor—Jean-Claude Duvalier, also known", "title": "Human rights in Haiti" }, { "docid": "17109669", "text": "Duvalier's son Baby Doc ended in 1986. Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier became President of Haiti at age 18 upon his father's death in 1971. According to human rights groups Duvalier used widespread violence, including rape, as a means of suppressing opposition to his regime. Duvalier's presidency lasted until a popular uprising overthrew him in 1986. After the uprising he spent 25 years in France, and when he returned to Haiti he was arrested on charges of human rights abuses including rape; however a judge ruled that the statute of limitations had expired on these crimes. The Duvalier regimes would later", "title": "Sexual violence in Haiti" }, { "docid": "13422187", "text": "of Francois \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier and his unstable government. However, when his son Jean-Claude \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier succeeded him as \"President for Life\", tourism returned in the 1970s, and again Haiti was a hot spot tourist destination drawing an average of 150,000 visitors annually. The resurgence of tourists flocking to Haiti's new seaside beach resort, included Bill and Hillary Clinton who honeymooned there in 1975. \"Vive la différence\" has long been Haiti's national tourism slogan, and its proximity to the United States made Haiti a hot attraction until the Duvalier regime was ousted in 1986. Since the second half of", "title": "Tourism in Haiti" }, { "docid": "7417564", "text": "of high tensions in Haiti. Francois Duvalier, known as Papa Doc, ran a military regime in Haiti from 1957 to 1971. His son Jean-Claude Duvalier, also known as “Baby Doc”, succeeded him from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in 1986. In 1980, the Jean-Claude Duvalier dictatorship forbade all media critiques; they began exiling journalists. In \"La Vie Ouvriére\" newspaper, she spoke about her frustration regarding this matter. The interviewer asks her how is it that she was able to sing in Haiti, when he thought that she couldn’t. “I can return, but only for one show.", "title": "Toto Bissainthe" }, { "docid": "979767", "text": "clique of hardline Duvalierist cronies, the so-called \"dinosaurs\". Foreign officials and observers also seemed tolerant toward \"Baby Doc\" in areas such as human rights monitoring and foreign countries were more generous to him with economic assistance. The Nixon administration restored the United States aid program for Haiti in 1971. On 27 May 1980, Duvalier married Michèle Bennett Pasquet in a wedding that cost US$2million. The extravagance of the couple's wedding did not lack local critics, though \"The Christian Science Monitor\" reported that \"the event... was enthusiastically received by a majority of Haitians\". Discontent among the business community and elite intensified", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "19208415", "text": "after the assassination of Kennedy, relations with Duvalier eased, partially due to Haiti's strategic location near Cuba. Duvalier died on 21 April 1971. During his rule, an estimated 30,000 citizens were killed by the government, and hundreds of thousands of Haitians emigrated to the United States, Cuba, and Canada. Duvalier was succeeded by his son, Jean-Claude, as the country's new leader. Still a teenager when he ascended to public office, Duvalier was said to be reckless and dissolute, raised in elite isolation and uninterested in politics. The first few years of his administration saw him leaving administrative duties to his", "title": "Duvalier dynasty" }, { "docid": "792734", "text": "for Haitian dissidents. Duvalier attempted to win Cuba over by recognizing Castro's government by sending medicine and pardoning several political prisoners, but to no avail; from the very start of his regime, Castro gave anti-Duvalier dissidents his full support. Duvalier enraged Castro by voting against the country in an Organization of American States () meeting and subsequently at the United Nations, where a trade embargo was imposed on Cuba. Cuba answered by breaking off diplomatic relations and Duvalier subsequently instituted a campaign to rid Haiti of communists.. This move severed Cuban-Haitian relations for 38 years until the two countries re-established", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792723", "text": "December 1956, Magloire conceded defeat. The two frontrunners in the 1957 campaign for the presidency were Duvalier and Louis Déjoie, a landowner and industrialist from the north. During their campaigning, Haiti was ruled by five temporary administrations, none lasting longer than a few months. Duvalier promised to rebuild and renew the country and rural Haiti solidly supported him as did the military. He resorted to \" populism, stoking the majority irritation at being governed by the few mulatto elite, which is how he described his opponent, Déjoie. François Duvalier was elected president on 22 September 1957. Duvalier received 679,884 votes", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792728", "text": "actions. While recovering, Duvalier left power in the hands of Clément Barbot, leader of the . Upon his return to work, Duvalier accused Barbot of trying to supplant him as president and had him imprisoned. In April 1963, Barbot was released and began plotting to remove Duvalier from office by kidnapping his children. The plot failed and Duvalier then ordered a nationwide search for Barbot and his fellow conspirators. During the search, Duvalier was told that Barbot had transformed himself into a black dog, which prompted Duvalier to order that all black dogs in Haiti be put to death. The", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792733", "text": "foreign money was to gain foreign loans, including US$4million from After the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, which Duvalier later claimed resulted from a curse that he had placed on Kennedy, the U.S. eased its pressure on Duvalier, grudgingly accepting him as a bulwark against communism. Duvalier attempted to exploit tensions between the U.S. and Cuba, emphasizing his anti-communist credentials and Haiti's strategic location as a means of winning U.S. support: After Fulgencio Batista (a friend of Duvalier) was overthrown in the Cuban Revolution, Duvalier worried that new Cuban leader Fidel Castro would provide a safe haven", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792724", "text": "to Déjoie's266,992. Even in this election, however, there are multiple first-person accounts of voter fraud and voter After being elected president in 1957, Duvalier exiled most of the major supporters of Déjoie. He had a new constitution adopted that year. Duvalier promoted and installed members of the black majority in the civil service and the army. In July 1958, three exiled Haitian army officers and five American mercenaries landed in Haiti and tried to overthrow Duvalier; all were killed. Although the army and its leaders had quashed the coup attempt, the incident deepened Duvalier's distrust of the army, an important", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "17590343", "text": "Duvalier regime of the late 1960s and the early 1970s is partly to blame for the coup d'état that occurred resulting in Aristide's removal from power the first time. Duvalier was elected president with the help of the United States and a Haitian populace that was enduring a previous coup d'état that occurred in 1950. Once in office, the Haitian President, François \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier, had the Haitian constitution rewritten so that no other President could succeed him, despite his term legally ending on May 15, 1963. Duvalier remained Haiti's President until his death on April 21, 1971, ending the", "title": "The Haitian National Truth and Justice Commission" }, { "docid": "5483916", "text": "left the country, together with most members of the Trujillo family, later that year. Following the Trujillos' departure, President Joaquín Balaguer appointed Abbes consul to Japan, but Abbes soon left the post and spent several years in Europe. He returned to the Caribbean in 1966, moving to Haiti, where he worked for then-President François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier as a security advisor. Abbes disappeared in June 1967. According to journalist Bernard Diedrich, Abbes and his wife had come under suspicion for plotting against Duvalier, but the reasons for his disappearance, and those responsible, remain unknown. Mario Vargas Llosa's historical novel about", "title": "Johnny Abbes García" }, { "docid": "792731", "text": "constitutional referendum made Duvalier \"\", a title previously held by seven Haitian presidents. This referendum was also blatantly rigged; an implausible 99.9% voted in favor, which should have come as no surprise since all the ballots were premarked \"yes\". The new document granted Duvalier—or \"\", as he was called—absolute powers as well as the right to name his successor. His relationship with the United States proved difficult. In his early years, Duvalier rebuked the United States for its friendly relations with Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo (assassinated in 1961) while ignoring Haiti. The Kennedy administration (1961–1963) was particularly disturbed by Duvalier's", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792743", "text": "to overthrow him in 1963. He believed another political enemy was able to change into a black dog at will and had the militia begin killing black dogs on sight in the capital. Duvalier died in April 1971 from heart disease and diabetes. His 19-year-old son , nicknamed \"BabyDoc\", succeeded him as president. Many books have been written about the Duvalier era in Haiti, the best known being Graham Greene's novel \"The Comedians\". Duvalier, however, dismissed the piece and referred to its author as \"a cretin, a stool pigeon, sadistic, unbalanced, perverted, a perfect , lying to his heart's content,", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "172382", "text": "\"\"Baby Doc\"\"). Under Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti's economic and political condition continued to decline, although some of the more fearsome elements of his father's regime were abolished. Foreign officials and observers also seemed more tolerant toward Baby Doc, in areas such as human-rights monitoring, and foreign countries were more generous to him with economic assistance. The United States restored its aid program in 1971. In 1974, Baby Doc expropriated the Freeport Tortuga project and this caused the venture to collapse. Content to leave administrative matters in the hands of his mother, Simone Ovid Duvalier, while living as a playboy, Jean-Claude enriched", "title": "History of Haiti" }, { "docid": "765897", "text": "Palestinian town of Beit Jala at the Cremisan Monastery. He returned to Haiti in 1982 for his ordination as a Salesian priest, and was appointed curate of a small parish in Port-au-Prince. Between 1957 and 1986, Haiti was ruled by the family dictatorships of François \"Papa Doc\" and Jean-Claude \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier. The misery endured by Haiti's poor made a deep impression on Aristide himself, and he became an outspoken critic of Duvalierism. Nor did he spare the hierarchy of the country's church, since a 1966 Vatican Concordat granted Duvalier one-time power to appoint Haiti's bishops. An exponent of liberation", "title": "Jean-Bertrand Aristide" }, { "docid": "17940857", "text": "Haiti as both a foolish and gallant figure. In 1973 his son, also named Alix Pasquet, married and had two children with Michele Bennett, who later married and had two children with Francois Duvalier's son, Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, making 'Sonson' and 'Papa Doc's grandchildren step-siblings. July 1958 Haitian coup d'état attempt On 28–29 July 1958, Alix \"Sonson\" Pasquet, accompanied by two fellow Haitian military officers and five American soldiers of fortune, attempted to overthrow Haitian President Francois Duvalier by seizing an army barracks in Port-au-Prince and rallying like-minded troops for an attack on the Presidential palace. Hoped-for support failed", "title": "July 1958 Haitian coup d'état attempt" }, { "docid": "16665495", "text": "2004, Duvalier announced his intention to return to Haiti to run for president in the 2006 elections for the National Unity Party. Duvalier still has had supporters in the country who founded the François Duvalier Foundation in 2006 to promote positive aspects of the Duvalier presidency, including the creation of most of Haiti's state institutions and improved access to education for the country's black majority. However, ultimately he did not become a presidential candidate. On 23 September 2007, an address by Duvalier to Haitians was broadcast by radio. Although he said exile had \"broken\" him, he also said that what", "title": "Anti-Duvalier protest movement" }, { "docid": "792722", "text": "and was appointed Director General of the National Public Health Service. In 1949, he served as Minister of Health and Labor, but when Duvalier opposed Paul Magloire's 1950 coupd'état, he left the government and resumed practicing medicine. His practice included taking part in campaigns to prevent yaws and other diseases. In 1954, Duvalier abandoned medicine, hiding out in Haiti's countryside from the Magloire regime. In 1956, the Magloire government was failing, and although still in hiding, Duvalier announced his candidacy to replace him as president. By December 1956, an amnesty was issued and Duvalier emerged from hiding, and on 12", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792738", "text": "shot\". Haitian communists and even suspected communists bore the brunt of the government's repression. Duvalier targeted them as a means to secure U.S. support in addition to the principle: Duvalier was exposed to communist and leftist ideas early in his life and rejected them. On 28 April 1969, Duvalier instituted a campaign to rid Haiti of all communists. A new law declared that \"Communist activities, no matter what their form, are hereby declared crimes against the security of the State.\" Those convicted of Communist activity were subject to execution, and faced having their property confiscated. Duvalier employed intimidation, repression, and", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792736", "text": "reacted with outrage, publicly threatened to invade Haiti, and ordered army units to the border. However, as Dominican military commanders expressed little support for an invasion of Haiti, Bosch refrained from the invasion and sought mediation through In 1966, Duvalier hosted the emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, in what would be Haiti's only visit by a head of state under Duvalier. During the visit, Duvalier awarded Haile Selassie the Necklace of the Order of Jean-Jacques Dessalines the Great, and the emperor, in turn, bestowed upon Duvalier the Great Necklace of the Order of the Queen of Sheba. Duvalier's government", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "13188221", "text": "the UN. Corley Smith returned to Europe in 1952 and was awarded the CMG. He spent two years in Paris and five in Madrid before being appointed British ambassador to Haiti, which was ruled by François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier. With little he could do diplomatically in Haiti where, according to Graham Greene, \"it was impossible to deepen the night\", Corley Smith was able to develop his hobby of bird-watching. Eventually, he was chosen as the spokesman for a number of foreign embassies to protest to Duvalier about the reign of terror and extortion by the Tonton Macoute, Duvalier's private mafia.", "title": "Gerard Corley Smith" }, { "docid": "979774", "text": "separated on 19 June 1990. Although he formally applied for political asylum, his request was denied by French authorities. Duvalier lost most of his wealth with his 1993 divorce from his wife. While apparently living modestly in exile, Duvalier did have supporters, who founded the François Duvalier Foundation in 2006 to highlight positive aspects of the Duvalier presidency, including the creation of most of Haiti's state institutions and improved access to education for the country's black majority. A private citizen, named Jacques Samyn, unsuccessfully sued to expel Duvalier as an illegal immigrant (the Duvaliers were never officially granted asylum in", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "979768", "text": "in response to increased corruption among the Duvaliers and the Bennett family's dealings, which included selling Haitian cadavers to foreign medical schools and trafficking in narcotics. Increased political repression added to the volatility of the situation. The marriage also estranged the old-line Duvalierists in the government from the younger technocrats whom Duvalier had appointed, including Jean-Marie Chanoine, Frantz Merceron, Frantz-Robert Estime and Theo Achille. The Duvalierists' spiritual leader, Duvalier's mother, Simone Ovide Duvalier, was eventually expelled from Haiti, reportedly at the request of Michèle Duvalier. With his wife Duvalier had two children, François Nicolas and Anya. Over time, Michèle grew", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "11632677", "text": "but some argue the United States tolerated the regime because it was staunchly anti-Communist and a counterbalance to Communist Cuba during the Cold War. [citation ] When Duvalier died, his son, Jean-Claude (\"Baby Doc\") took over and maintained many of his father's policies. The Reagan administration forced Baby Doc to leave in 1986, and when a repressive military dictatorship arose, President Reagan suspended aid. The George H.W. Bush Administration also embargoed and then blockaded Haiti, suspending all but humanitarian aid. After the fall of the Duvalier family and other military regimes, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected in 1990, but he was", "title": "Haiti–United States relations" }, { "docid": "19208421", "text": "Duvalier initially accepted an offer of asylum in Jamaica, he rescinded his offer and decided to remain in Haiti. As a result, the US State Department cut back aid to Haiti, and violence in the streets spread to Port-au-Prince. On February 5, 1986, members of the military confronted the Duvalier regime and demanded his departure. With no support from the military or the legislature left, Duvalier consented, and he and his family departed by plane from Haiti to France on February 7. He named an interim legislature, the \"Conseil National de Gouvernement\" (CNG - National Governing Council) made up of", "title": "Duvalier dynasty" }, { "docid": "979778", "text": "January 2011, during the presidential election campaign, Duvalier returned to Haiti after 25 years. Accompanied by Véronique Roy, he flew in from Paris, indicating that he wanted to help: \"I'm not here for politics. I'm here for the reconstruction of Haiti\", he said. However, many argued that Duvalier returned to Haiti to gain access to the US$4million frozen in the Swiss bank account. Haiti also claimed this money, arguing that the assets were of \"criminal origin\" and should not be returned to Duvalier. By virtue of Swiss law, however, states claiming money in Switzerland have to demonstrate that they have", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792746", "text": "granted amnesty. François Duvalier François Duvalier (; 14 April 190721 April 1971), also known as PapaDoc, was the President of Haiti from 1957 to 1971. He was elected president in 1957 on a populist and black nationalist platform. After thwarting a military coupd'état in 1958, his regime rapidly became totalitarian and despotic. An undercover government death squad, the , killed opponents indiscriminately and was thought to be so pervasive that Haitians became highly fearful of expressing dissent even in private. Duvalier further sought to solidify his rule by incorporating elements of ancient Haitian mythology into a personality cult. Prior to", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792718", "text": "François Duvalier François Duvalier (; 14 April 190721 April 1971), also known as PapaDoc, was the President of Haiti from 1957 to 1971. He was elected president in 1957 on a populist and black nationalist platform. After thwarting a military coupd'état in 1958, his regime rapidly became totalitarian and despotic. An undercover government death squad, the , killed opponents indiscriminately and was thought to be so pervasive that Haitians became highly fearful of expressing dissent even in private. Duvalier further sought to solidify his rule by incorporating elements of ancient Haitian mythology into a personality cult. Prior to his rule,", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "2615143", "text": "and for official functions, but it was subsequently abandoned upon his removal from office. Between 1964 and 1986, the family dictatorships of François \"Papa Doc\" and Jean-Claude \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier returned to Dessalines' black and red design. They included the national coat of arms, but altered the flags in its trophy to black as well. Because the coat of arms is only used for national and military flags, whereas the civil flag consists solely of the two unaugmented horizontal bands, it was discovered at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin that Haiti and Liechtenstein were using the same flag. This", "title": "Flag of Haiti" }, { "docid": "15020481", "text": "other Haitian private sector entrepreneurs to create jobs and stimulate the local economy. Over 20,000 jobs will be created within the next four years. The Hospital Centre of the Haitian Academy is located in Lafiteau. In October 2010, news reports stated there were two cholera-related deaths in Lafiteau. Victims of the Haiti presidents \"Papa Doc\" Duvaliers and \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier were buried in mass graves in Lafiteau, as were 100,000 of the 2010 Haiti earthquake victims. Lafiteau Lafiteau, also called Carrefour Lafiteau, is a small industrial port town, about nine miles north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, in the commune of", "title": "Lafiteau" }, { "docid": "19208420", "text": "have street demonstrations and raids on food-distribution warehouses. The protests spread to six other cities across the country, including Cap-Haïtien. By the end of that month, Haitians in the south had revolted. The most significant rioting there broke out in Les Cayes. Duvalier responded to riots by firing cabinet officials and cutting food prices. He also closed several independent radio stations, and deployed police units and army guards to quell the uprisings. However, these moves failed to pacify demonstrators, and in January 1986, the Reagan administration began to pressure Duvalier to renounce power and leave Haiti. Negotiations stalled, and while", "title": "Duvalier dynasty" }, { "docid": "979779", "text": "started criminal investigations against offenders holding money in the country. According to an article by Ginger Thompson in \"The New York Times\", \"if Mr. Duvalier had been able to slip into the country and then quietly leave without incident... he may have been able to argue that Haiti was no longer interested in prosecuting him—and that the money should be his.\" According to Mac McClelland of \"Mother Jones\" magazine: The former dictator was greeted at the Port-au-Prince airport with cheering and celebratory chanting ... The word from Duvalier is that he's come to help his country. According to everyone on", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792726", "text": "was twice as big as the army, never developed into a real military force but was more than just a secret police. In the early years of his rule, Duvalier was able to take advantage of the strategic weaknesses of his powerful opponents, mostly from the mulatto elite. These weaknesses included their inability to coordinate their actions against the regime, whose power had grown increasingly stronger. In the name of nationalism, Duvalier expelled almost all of Haiti's foreign-born bishops, an act that earned him excommunication from the Catholic Church. In 1966, he persuaded the Holy See to allow him permission", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "19208413", "text": "strike shut down Port-au-Prince's economy, and Magloire fled, leaving the government in a state of chaos. When elections were finally organized, François Duvalier, a rural doctor, was elected, on a platform of activism on behalf of Haiti's poor. Duvalier produced a constitution to solidify power, and replaced the bicameral legislature with a unicameral one. In 1964, Duvalier declared himself President-for-Life and changed the color of the national flag and arms from red and blue to red and black. He fired the chief of the military and established a Presidential Guard to maintain his power. He also established the \"Volontaires de", "title": "Duvalier dynasty" }, { "docid": "20956389", "text": "movement, after which the party would enter a low profile stage, including the change of its name to National Progressive Party (, PPN). After the return of \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier from exile in 2011, the party began a process of reconstitution under its original name from 2014, and started opening departmental offices. Suffering a setback with the death of \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier in 2014, the party nominated Marc-Arthur Drouillard as its candidate in the 2015 presidential election. Towards that time, the legal representative of the party was Philomène Exe. National Unity Party (Haiti) The National Unity Party (, PUN) is", "title": "National Unity Party (Haiti)" }, { "docid": "3929376", "text": "he stripped Magloire of his Haitian citizenship. In 1986, when Baby Doc Duvalier lost power, Magloire returned to Haiti from New York City. Two years later he became an unofficial army advisor. He died in 2001. He was married to Yolette Leconte until her death in 1981. Paul Magloire Paul Eugène Magloire (July 19, 1907 – July 12, 2001), nicknamed Bon Papa, was a Haitian military ruler from 1950 to 1956. Magloire was born a general's son, and joined the army himself in 1930. Quickly rising through the ranks, he became Police Chief of Port-au-Prince in 1944. In 1946 he", "title": "Paul Magloire" }, { "docid": "16987790", "text": "supermarket located in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. He later shuttered his supermarket in order to take a position with a disease eradication program operated by the United Nations. Juste's life in Haiti changed in the aftermath of the 1957 Haitian presidential election, which was won by François \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier. Duvalier would become a dictator, responsible for the deaths of thousands and the flight of many professionals from the country. Juste, who had openly supported Duvalier's main opponent, Louis Déjoie, in the election decided to leave Haiti for the United States for the safety of himself and his family. He", "title": "Viter Juste" }, { "docid": "6086796", "text": "Center for Human Rights in Santo Domingo in 1979. He was an early supporter of Leslie Manigat's efforts to oust the Duvalier regime but came to believe Manigat was too interested in acquiring power. He also joined a group based in the Dominican Republic planning guerrilla attacks against the Duvalier regime. Bajeux returned to Haiti in early 1986, becoming one of the first exiles to return days after Duvalier's son Baby Doc fled the country. On his arrival he was arrested, then released, and then briefly arrested again. He recounted to \"The New Yorker\" that he had to reclaim his", "title": "Jean-Claude Bajeux" }, { "docid": "979764", "text": "for embezzlement. On 18 January, Duvalier was charged with corruption. On 28 February 2013, Duvalier pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption and human rights abuse. He died of a heart attack on 4 October 2014, at the age of 63. Duvalier was born in Port-au-Prince and was brought up in an isolated environment. He attended Nouveau College Bird and Institution Saint-Louis de Gonzague. Later, he studied law at the University of Haiti under the direction of several professors, including Maître Gérard Gourgue. In April 1971, he assumed the presidency of Haiti at the age of 19 upon the death", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "979777", "text": "Préval rejected Duvalier's apology and, on 28 September, he said that, while Duvalier was constitutionally free to return to Haiti, he would face trial if he did so. Duvalier's radio broadcast address was given in French and not Haitian Creole, the language spoken by the majority of Haitians. In February 2010, a Swiss court agreed to release more than US$4million to Jean-Claude Duvalier, although the Swiss Foreign Ministry said it would continue to block the release of the money. Duvalier lived in Paris with Véronique Roy, his longtime companion, until his return to Haiti in late January 2011. On 16", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "17846667", "text": "Polish Legionnaries that either defected to the slaves or were taken prisoner. These Poles were naturalised according to the new Haitian Constitution. Haiti's first president Jean-Jacques Dessalines called Polish people \"\"the White Negroes of Europe\"\", which was then regarded a great honour, as it meant brotherhood between Poles and Haitians. Many years later, François Duvalier used the same concept when referring to Polish people. In the \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier era, the small town of Cazale became a communist stronghold where many young intellectuals clashed with the dictator's regime. As a result of their political indifference, March 29, 1969 became known", "title": "Polish Haitians" }, { "docid": "19936031", "text": "Jean Julme Jean Julme was a former Minister of Defense and the Interior of the Republic of Haiti from 1964 to 1967 under the regime of Francois \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier. He was also a President of the National Assembly of Haiti from 1962 to 1964. Julme first aligned himself with Duvalier during his own election in the Haitian region of Ganthier, which included the city of Croix-des-Bouquets. Julme was a large landlowner in the area. A story about Julme attempting to deliver the Duvalier-Julme ballots to election stations but having his tires slashed is recounted in the book \"Haiti: The", "title": "Jean Julme" }, { "docid": "4092367", "text": "(which made \"Whicker's World\" for some years), producing television programmes for them from 1969 until 1992. At the beginning of the ITV series, Whicker made \"Papa Doc – The Black Sheep\" (1969) on Haiti and its dictator \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier who made himself available to Whicker and his team. While presenting \"Whicker's World\", Whicker was known for his subtle brand of satire and social commentary. \"Whicker's World\" was parodied in a \"Monty Python's Flying Circus\" sketch featuring a tropical island, \"Whicker Island\", where all the inhabitants dress and act like Alan Whicker. Benny Hill, towards the end of his BBC", "title": "Alan Whicker" }, { "docid": "8028591", "text": "in the United States, maintaining the same ritual and cosmological elements as in West Africa. These and other African-diasporic religions, such as Lukumi or Regla de Ocha (also known as Santería) in Cuba, and Candomblé and Umbanda in Brazil, have evolved among descendants of transplanted Africans in the Americas. Former president of Haiti François Duvalier (also known as Papa Doc) played a role in elevating the status of Vodou into a national doctrine. Duvalier was involved in the noirisme movement and hoped to re-value cultural practices that had their origins in Africa. Duvalier manipulated Vodou to suit his purposes throughout", "title": "Haitian Vodou" }, { "docid": "19208414", "text": "la Sécurité Nationale\" (National Security Volunteers), commonly referred to as the \"Tonton Macoute\", named after a bogeyman in Haitian mythology. The Tonton Macoute became Haiti's secret police, and had pervasive influence throughout Haiti's rural countryside. Duvalier used his newly gained influence in the military to establish his own elite. Corruption was endemic, and he stole money from government agencies to reward officials loyal to him. Duvalier also exploited popular Vodou beliefs, creating a cult of personality surrounding himself. Due to his repressive and authoritarian rule, U.S. President John F. Kennedy revoked aid and recalled Marine Corps missions in 1962. However,", "title": "Duvalier dynasty" }, { "docid": "17109667", "text": "soldiers.\" In his 1920 campaign for presidency, Warren G. Harding criticized incumbent Woodrow Wilson, referring to the occupation as the \"Rape of Haiti\"; however after he won the election he continued the occupation in his own presidency. François \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier was the President of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971. Overseeing a reign of state terrorism, Duvalier would kill large numbers of political enemies, imprison them arbitrarily, and use gang rape as a means of control. Although both men and women were targeted for violence, women in particular were targeted for rape. In some cases Duvalier himself", "title": "Sexual violence in Haiti" }, { "docid": "16665485", "text": "rising food costs, while some went to an aid warehouse to demand food. Law enforcement from the capital of Port-au-Prince came and quickly stopped the protests violently. The government imposed a curfew on the city. However, the protests soon spread to other cities. The protests came after the regime had loosened some of its restrictive laws. Duvalier said that state violence in prisons would no longer be allowed, and loosened press censorship. The United States, a big source of monetary aid for Haiti, said that Duvalier should be less brutal than his father had been, and granted a large annual", "title": "Anti-Duvalier protest movement" }, { "docid": "271198", "text": "with additional offices in London. Around 1964 Fayed entered a close relationship with Haitian leader François Duvalier, known as 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, and became interested in the construction of a Fayed-Duvalier oil refinery in Haiti. He also associated with the geologist George de Mohrenschildt. Fayed terminated his stay in Haiti six months later when a sample of \"crude oil\" provided by Haitian associates proved to be low-grade molasses. It was then that Fayed moved to England where he lived in central London. In the mid 1960s, Fayed met the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum who entrusted", "title": "Mohamed Al-Fayed" }, { "docid": "6086793", "text": "he taught philosophy and served as editor-in-chief of a pro-independence magazine. Cameroon became independent in 1960. In 1961 Bajeux returned to Port-au-Prince and began teaching philosophy at Collège Saint-Martial. He also edited the journal \"Rond-Point\" and headed the Children's Library. In 1964 Haiti's dictator Papa Doc Duvalier expelled the Holy Ghost/Spiritan Fathers order from the country. Bajeux asked his fellow priests to sign a letter of protest. His bishop reported him to the government, and Duvalier expelled Bajeux. He settled in Santo Domingo, the capital city of the Dominican Republic, where he began ministering to other Haitian exiles. Later that", "title": "Jean-Claude Bajeux" }, { "docid": "792727", "text": "to nominate the Catholic hierarchy for Haiti. No longer was Haiti under the grip of the minority rich mulattoes, protected by the military and supported by the church; Duvalier now exercised more power in Haiti than ever. On 24 May 1959, Duvalier suffered a massive heart attack, possibly due to an insulin overdose; he had been a diabetic since early adulthood and also suffered from heart disease and associated circulatory problems. During the heart attack, he was comatose for His physician believed that he had suffered neurological damage during these events, harming his mental health and perhaps explaining his subsequent", "title": "François Duvalier" } ]
[ { "docid": "979781", "text": "luxury in a suburb of Port-au-Prince. By 30 January 2012, it was announced that the former president would face charges of corruption, but not of human rights abuses. After the former president failed to appear for three previously scheduled court hearings, a Haitian judge issued a warrant ordering him to appear before the court 28 February 2013. Duvalier did so and for the first time pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption and human rights abuse. On 4 October 2014, Duvalier died of a heart attack at the age of 63. Jean-Claude Duvalier Jean-Claude Duvalier (), nicknamed “Baby Doc” ()", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "11104337", "text": "the United States to escape the political and economic repression of the Duvalier presidencies under François Duvalier, \"Papa Doc,\" (1957–71) and Jean-Claude Duvalier, \"Baby Doc,\" (1971–86). This migration phenomenon known as \"the Haitian Diaspora\" has developed to describe the thousands of Haitian nationals living outside of their territory. Generally losing their Haitian citizenship, these long distance nationals have come to act like \"transborder citizens,\" members to some degree of both states. There are legal, political, and social repercussions to this \"transnationalism.\" Dual citizenship is out of the question; Haitians living in a foreign country cannot get involved lest their \"Haitianism\"", "title": "History of Haitian nationality and citizenship" }, { "docid": "16665484", "text": "the \"Milice de Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale\" (Militia of National Security Volunteers). When Duvalier died in 1971, his son, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier took over (confirmed by the 1971 constitutional referendum) and the force continued throughout his regime and maintained the same violent presence. Widespread problems of starvation and unemployment soon grew rampant. On 23 May 1984, citizens in the city of Gonaïves began protests against Duvalier’s government calling it \"Operation Déchoukaj,\" () which consequently led to police officers publicly beating a pregnant woman, who soon died. Activists’ listed grievances under Duvalier’s regime, including general brutality against civilians and", "title": "Anti-Duvalier protest movement" }, { "docid": "12027177", "text": "active in school, as well as caring for four brothers and supervising her parent's business. She attended College Bird with JN Claude Duvalier (\"Baby Doc\"), but her parents feared that she would get involved in politics and transferred her to the SDA college in Diquini. She later attended Lycee Toussaint Louverture College where she created the first drill team for her school. Jacques was chosen by the Department of Education to sing for the presidential inauguration of \"Baby Doc,\" the only girl among five chosen students. Her drill team later conducted Francois Duvalier (\"Papa Doc\") to the cemetery in 1971.", "title": "Party for the Integral Advancement of the Haitian People" }, { "docid": "1554255", "text": "Baby Doc Duvalier regime. The overprint consisted of a red circle with a slash across it with the date of the end of the Duvalier regime (7 February 1986) printed below in red. The brusque symbol obscured the images of Baby Doc and Papa Doc until they were replaced with images of figures from Haitian history. Something similar was done in Iran in 1979 when the Shah's picture was covered by an intricate design. Overprint errors are widespread. Known are double, inverted, misspelled, wrong, partly or entirely missing overprints. Overprint An overprint is an additional layer of text or graphics", "title": "Overprint" }, { "docid": "792737", "text": "was one of the most repressive in the hemisphere. Within the country he murdered and exiled his opponents; estimates of those killed are as high as 60,000. Attacks on Duvalier from within the military were treated as especially serious. When bombs were detonated near the Presidential Palace in 1967, Duvalier had nineteen officers of the Presidential Guard executed in Fort Dimanche. A few days later Duvalier had a public speech during which he read the attendance sheet with names of all 19 officers killed. After each name, he said \"absent\". After reading the whole list, Duvalier remarked that \"all were", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "4951584", "text": "According to a number of her associates, she deeply resented having to relinquish that role after Jean-Claude Duvalier married in 1980 and she was demoted to \"Guardian of the Duvalierist Revolution\". When her son was ousted from power in February 1986, Simone Duvalier joined him and his wife, Michèle Bennett, in exile in France. She was rarely seen in public. After her son's bitter divorce from his wife, Simone Duvalier lived with her son in relative poverty in the suburbs of Paris. She died on 26 December 1997. Simone Duvalier Simone Duvalier (; \"née\" Ovide; 19 March 1913 – 26", "title": "Simone Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792719", "text": "Duvalier was a physician by profession. His profession and expertise in the field acquired him the nickname \"PapaDoc\". He was unanimously \"re-elected\" in a 1961 election in which he was the only candidate. Afterwards, he consolidated his power step by step, culminating in 1964 when he declared himself as President for Life after another faulty election, and remained in power until he died in 1971. He was succeeded by his son, Jean‑Claude, who was nicknamed \"BabyDoc\". Duvalier was born in Port-au-Prince in 1907, son of Duval Duvalier, a justice of the peace, and baker His aunt, Madame Florestal, raised him.", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "16665494", "text": "said that it could not verify whether Duvalier still remained in the country due to the recently enacted Schengen Agreement which had abolished systematic border controls between the participating countries. However, Duvalier's lawyer Sauveur Vaisse said that his client was still in France and denied that the exiled leader had fallen on hard times. The 2004 Global Transparency Report listed Duvalier as one of the World's Most Corrupt Leaders. He was listed sixth, between Slobodan Milošević and Alberto Fujimori, and was said to have amassed between $300 million to $800 million. Following the ousting of president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February", "title": "Anti-Duvalier protest movement" }, { "docid": "792735", "text": "relations in 1997. Duvalier's relationship with the neighboring Dominican Republic was always tense: in his early years, Duvalier emphasized the differences between the two countries. In April 1963, relations were brought to the edge of war by the political enmity between Duvalier and Dominican president Juan Bosch. Bosch, a leftist, provided asylum and support to Haitian exiles who had plotted against the Duvalier regime. Duvalier ordered his Presidential Guard to occupy the Dominican Embassy in Pétion-Ville, with the goal of arresting a Haitian army officer believed to have been involved in Barbot's plot to kidnap Duvalier's children. The Dominican president", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "979775", "text": "France). In 1998, a Haitian-born photographer, Gérald Bloncourt, formed a committee in Paris to bring Duvalier to trial. At the time, the French Ministry of the Interior said that it could not verify whether Duvalier still remained in the country due to the recently enacted Schengen Agreement which had abolished systematic border controls between the participating countries. However, Duvalier's lawyer Sauveur Vaisse said that his client was still in France and denied that the exiled leader had fallen on hard times. The 2004 \"Global Transparency Report\" listed Duvalier as the sixth-most corrupt world leaderbetween Slobodan Milošević and Alberto Fujimorihaving amassed", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "7442341", "text": "as \"Baby Doc\". In 1959, François Duvalier formed a paramilitary force known as the Tonton Macoute, named after a mythic Haitian character who kidnapped misbehaving children, carried them off in a bag and ate them for breakfast. Duvalier authorized more than 10,000 Tonton Macoute, organized in 500 sections across the country, to maintain complete control over the population. \"The macoutes were Papa Doc's version of brownshirts and the Waffen SS, except that their usual uniform was blue jeans, T-shirts, sunglasses, and they carried clubs or pistols,\" wrote journalist and author Herbert Gold in \"Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in", "title": "Human rights in Haiti" }, { "docid": "4951582", "text": "were encouraged to acquire vocational skills and Simone Ovide was trained as a nurse's aide. While working as a nurse she met a young doctor named François Duvalier. The couple was married on 27 December 1939, and had four children: Marie Denise, Nicole, Simone “Queen”, and Jean-Claude, their only son. After their marriage, François Duvalier became minister of public health and labor in 1949 and won election to the presidency in 1957. Throughout his 14 years in office, his wife guarded access to her husband and developed and promoted her own palace favorites. Because of her acquired status and her", "title": "Simone Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792721", "text": "young Duvalier. He was also aware of the latent political power of the poor black majority and their resentment against the tiny mulatto (black and white mixed-race) elite. Duvalier supported Pan-African ideals, and became involved in the \"\" movement of Haitian author , both of which led to his advocacy of Haitian Vodou, an ethnological study of which later paid enormous political dividends for him. In 1938, Duvalier co-founded the journal \"Les Griots\". On 27 December 1939, he married , with whom he had four children: Marie‑Denise, Nicole, Simone, and Jean‑Claude. In 1946, Duvalier aligned himself with President Dumarsais Estimé", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "6595791", "text": "She liked to arm herself with an Uzi machine-gun. When Papa Doc died in 1971, and his son, Jean-Claude Duvalier succeeded him, he had Adolphe removed from her post as head of Fort Dimanche. By May 1972 she had been appointed mayor of which brought her attention to the city's sewage disposal. Prior to the end of the Duvalier dynasty in 1986, when the Duvaliers fled the capital, she said \"t seems Jean-Claude is leaving the country soon. All militia members will be in danger. Much blood will be shed.\" Vengeful Haitians killed scores, if not hundreds of former militiamen", "title": "Madame Max Adolphe" }, { "docid": "979773", "text": "for Duvalier, but offered to assist with their departure. On 30 January 1986, Duvalier had initially accepted, and President Reagan actually announced his departure based on a report from the Haitian CIA Station Chief who saw Duvalier's car head for the airport. En route, there was gunfire and Duvalier's party returned to the palace unnoticed by the U.S. intelligence team. Duvalier declared \"we are as firm as a monkey tail.\" He departed on 7 February 1986, flying to France in a U.S. Air Force aircraft. The Duvaliers settled in France. For a time they lived a luxurious life, but eventually", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792742", "text": "associated with the \"loa\". The regime's propaganda stated that \"PapaDoc was one with the \"loa\", Jesus Christ and God himself\". The most celebrated image from the time shows a standing Jesus Christ with a hand on the shoulder of a seated PapaDoc, captioned, \"I have chosen him\". Duvalier declared himself an \"immaterial being\" as well as \"the Haitian flag\" soon after his first election. In 1964, he published a catechism in which the Lord's Prayer was reworded to pay tribute to Duvalier instead of God. Duvalier also held in his closet the head of former opponent Blucher Philogenes, who tried", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "792732", "text": "repressive and authoritarian rule and allegations that he misappropriated aid money—at the time a substantial part of the Haitian budget—and a U.S. Marine Corps mission to train the . The U.S. thus halted most of its economic assistance in mid-1962, pending stricter accounting procedures, with which Duvalier refused to comply. Duvalier publicly renounced all aid from Washington on nationalist grounds, portraying himself as a \"principled and lonely opponent of domination by a Duvalier misappropriated millions of dollars of international aid, including US$15million annually from the United States. He transferred this money to personal accounts. Another of Duvalier's methods of obtaining", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "6606098", "text": "The Dew Breaker The Dew Breaker is a collection of linked stories by Edwidge Danticat, published in 2004. The title come from Haitian Creole name for a torturer during the regimes of François \"Papa Doc\" and Jean Claude \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier. The book can read either as a novel or collection of short stories. It is divided in nine portions: The Book of the Dead, Seven, Water Child, The Book of Miracles, Night Talkers, The Bridal Seamstress, Monkey Tails, The Funeral Singer, and The Dew Breaker. A Haitian sculptor and her father travel from Brooklyn to Florida, to the home", "title": "The Dew Breaker" }, { "docid": "792729", "text": "captured and killed Barbot in July 1963. In other incidents, Duvalier ordered the head of an executed rebel packed in ice and brought to him so he could commune with the dead man's spirit. Peepholes were carved into the walls of the interrogation chambers, through which Duvalier watched Haitian detainees being tortured and submerged in baths of sulfuric acid; sometimes, he was in the room during the tortures. In 1961, Duvalier began violating the provisions of the 1957 constitution. First, he replaced the bicameral legislature with a unicameral body. Then he called a new presidential election in which he was", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "6852413", "text": "During the early 1960s and the 1970s, many Haitians emigrated to the U.S. to escape the oppressive conditions during the dictatorships of François \"Papa Doc\" and his son Jean-Claude \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier. Political unrest, economic strains, and natural disasters have supplied additional reasons for people to emigrate. During the 18th century, the French colony of Saint-Domingue was the richest in the Caribbean, due to its massive production of sugar cane. This wealth was concentrated in the hands of a small minority of mostly French and European planters, who used slave labor from Sub-Saharan Africa to cultivate, harvest, and process their", "title": "Haitian Americans" }, { "docid": "792741", "text": "Duvalier also initiated the development of , now known as Toussaint Louverture International Airport. Duvalier fostered his cult of personality and claimed that he was the physical embodiment of the island nation. He also revived the traditions of \"Vodou\", later using them to consolidate his power with his claim of being a \"Vodou\" priest, himself. In an effort to make himself even more imposing, Duvalier deliberately modeled his image on that of Baron Samedi, one of the \"loa\", or spirits, of Haitian Vodou. He often donned sunglasses in order to hide his eyes and talked with the strong nasal tone", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "12271849", "text": "Vanguard Years is a definitive statement on Watson as an innovator. But it also stands as a testament to the effect a musician’s label can have on their career.\" The Vanguard Years (Doc Watson album) The Vanguard Years is the title of a recording by American folk music and country blues artist Doc Watson, released in 1995. This four-CD collection contains 64 tracks from Watson's years on the Vanguard label recorded from 1963 to 1968. There are 16 previously unreleased performances included that are live duets between Doc and his son Merle. It includes guests such as Gaither Carlton, Clarence", "title": "The Vanguard Years (Doc Watson album)" }, { "docid": "16665492", "text": "and Duvalier suspended certain civil liberties, declaring a state of siege. Stores closed and remained shut. Graffiti carrying certain popular slogans increased on walls around the capital in early February. Activists defaced a large statue of Duvalier in front of city hall. For several consecutive days in early February, Duvalier traveled around the capital as a symbol of his continuing control. Stores and businesses stayed closed, ignoring Duvalier’s demand that business should proceed as usual. On 7 February 1986, Duvalier fled to France in a U.S. supplied plane. However, before leaving, he set up the 6-member National Council of Government", "title": "Anti-Duvalier protest movement" }, { "docid": "792725", "text": "Haitian institution over which he did not have firm control. He replaced the chief-of-staff with a more reliable officer and then proceeded to create his own power base within the army by turning the Presidential Guard into an elite corps aimed at maintaining his power. After this, Duvalier dismissed the entire general staff and replaced it with officers who owed their positions, and their loyalty, to him. In 1959, Duvalier created a rural militia, the \" (, )—commonly referred to as the after a bogeyman—to extend and bolster support for the regime in the countryside. The \"Macoute\", which by 1961", "title": "François Duvalier" }, { "docid": "12271847", "text": "The Vanguard Years (Doc Watson album) The Vanguard Years is the title of a recording by American folk music and country blues artist Doc Watson, released in 1995. This four-CD collection contains 64 tracks from Watson's years on the Vanguard label recorded from 1963 to 1968. There are 16 previously unreleased performances included that are live duets between Doc and his son Merle. It includes guests such as Gaither Carlton, Clarence White and Merle Travis. Music critic Richie Unterberger praises the release in his review for Allmusic writing \"This was Doc's best period recording-wise, and certainly you couldn't hope for", "title": "The Vanguard Years (Doc Watson album)" }, { "docid": "11974356", "text": "Then and Now (Doc Watson album) Then and Now is a 1973 studio album by American country music artists, and father-and-son team, Doc Watson and Merle Watson. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording in 1974. In 1984, Sugar Hill records re-issued versions — which excluded some tracks — of both \"Then and Now\" and \"Two Days in November\". BGO Records released both, with additional tracks from \"The Elementary Doctor Watson!\", in 2002. Writing for Allmusic, music critic Lindsay Palmer called the Watsons' style an \"inimitable blend of acoustic folk and traditional country\" and", "title": "Then and Now (Doc Watson album)" }, { "docid": "16665493", "text": "(CNG), under the leadership of Army Commander Henri Namphy, to rule the country after his exile. The Duvaliers settled in France and although lived comfortably, was denied a request of political asylum by the French authorities. Jean-Claude soon lost most of his wealth in his 1993 divorce with his wife. A private citizen, Jacques Samyn, unsuccessfully sued to expel Duvalier as an illegal immigrant (the Duvaliers were never officially granted asylum in France). Then, in 1998, a Haitian-born photographer, Gérald Bloncourt, formed a committee in Paris to bring Duvalier to trial. At the time, the French Ministry of the Interior", "title": "Anti-Duvalier protest movement" }, { "docid": "6424858", "text": "were treated as guests of Haitian dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Duvalier supported the filmmakers by giving them diplomatic cars, clearance to film anywhere on the island, as many extras as they required, and even a nightly dinner with Duvalier himself. Hundreds of Haitian extras participated in the film's various depictions of the cruel treatment of slaves, as well as white actors portraying historical characters (including Harriet Beecher Stowe). The film was confiscated in Italy and re-released the following year, 1972, in a cut version bearing the different title \"Zio Tom\". In France, the film was released as \"Les negrières\", in", "title": "Goodbye Uncle Tom" }, { "docid": "11974357", "text": "wrote \"Their somewhat stylized selection of material is derived not only from the traditional genres, but also from the Watsons' native southeastern United States and its rich Piedmont blues heritage. The results are uniformly brilliant...\" Then and Now (Doc Watson album) Then and Now is a 1973 studio album by American country music artists, and father-and-son team, Doc Watson and Merle Watson. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording in 1974. In 1984, Sugar Hill records re-issued versions — which excluded some tracks — of both \"Then and Now\" and \"Two Days in November\".", "title": "Then and Now (Doc Watson album)" }, { "docid": "979766", "text": "easing press censorship. However, there were no substantive changes to the regime's basic character. Opposition was not tolerated, and the legislature remained a rubber stamp. Much of the Duvaliers' wealth came from the Régie du Tabac (Tobacco Administration). Duvalier used this \"non-fiscal account\", established decades earlier, as a tobacco monopoly, but he later expanded it to include the proceeds from other government enterprises and used it as a slush fund for which no balance sheets were ever kept. By neglecting his role in government, Duvalier squandered considerable domestic and foreign goodwill and facilitated the dominance of Haitian affairs by a", "title": "Jean-Claude Duvalier" }, { "docid": "16665488", "text": "that some news outlets closed voluntary, while the government closed the more outspoken ones down itself. In December 1985, increased state violence led the U.S. to threaten to cut off aid. On 7 January, when students of most age groups returned to school from break, there were a significant number of protests. The government responded by closing schools across the country. It also responded to protests by arresting people, and forcing businessmen, civil servants, and military officials to swear loyalty to Duvalier in the palace. Nevertheless, the army threatened to turn against the regime if Duvalier failed to resolve the", "title": "Anti-Duvalier protest movement" }, { "docid": "172378", "text": "while serving as an administrator in a U.S.-funded anti-yaws campaign, François Duvalier (known as \"\"Papa Doc\"\") soon established another dictatorship. His regime is regarded as one of the most repressive and corrupt of modern times, combining violence against political opponents with exploitation of Vodou to instill fear in the majority of the population. Duvalier's paramilitary police, officially the Volunteers for National Security (Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale – VSN) but more commonly known as the Tonton Macoutes, named for a Vodou monster, carried out political murders, beatings, and intimidation. An estimated 30,000 Haitians were killed by his government. Duvalier employed", "title": "History of Haiti" }, { "docid": "17940845", "text": "July 1958 Haitian coup d'état attempt On 28–29 July 1958, Alix \"Sonson\" Pasquet, accompanied by two fellow Haitian military officers and five American soldiers of fortune, attempted to overthrow Haitian President Francois Duvalier by seizing an army barracks in Port-au-Prince and rallying like-minded troops for an attack on the Presidential palace. Hoped-for support failed to materialize and all eight of the insurgents were killed by troops loyal to Duvalier. Contemporary newspaper articles sometimes referred to the coup attempt as 'Pasquet's Invasion' or 'the Sheriffs Invasion' (as some of the Americans involved were former sheriff's deputies). Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier was", "title": "July 1958 Haitian coup d'état attempt" } ]
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What noted statesman once expressed a preference for the turkey instead of the bald eagle as the national bird of the U.S.?
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[ { "docid": "12146502", "text": "the endangered and threatened species list. In addition, these birds have become a national symbol. The second Constitutional congress decided upon using American bald eagles as the great seal of the United States. There were many disagreements with the choice of national symbol. For example, one of the founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin quoted, \"I wish that the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country, he is a bird of bad moral character...Besides he is a rank coward...\" He thought that the national bird should have been a wild turkey, because it is \"A bird of", "title": "Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act" }, { "docid": "50466", "text": "peace, and towards the arrows in wartime. Contrary to popular legend, there is no evidence that Benjamin Franklin ever publicly supported the wild turkey (\"Meleagris gallopavo\"), rather than the bald eagle, as a symbol of the United States. However, in a letter written to his daughter in 1784 from Paris, criticizing the Society of the Cincinnati, he stated his personal distaste for the bald eagle's behavior. In the letter Franklin states: Franklin opposed the creation of the Society because he viewed it, with its hereditary membership, as a noble order unwelcome in the newly independent Republic, contrary to the ideals", "title": "Bald eagle" } ]
[ { "docid": "50452", "text": "Technical Bulletin. In 1984, the National Wildlife Federation listed hunting, power-line electrocution, and collisions in flight as the leading causes of eagle deaths. Bald eagles have also been killed by oil, lead, and mercury pollution, and by human and predator intrusion at nests. The species was first protected in the U.S. and Canada by the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty, later extended to all of North America. The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, approved by the U.S. Congress in 1940, protected the bald eagle and the golden eagle, prohibiting commercial trapping and killing of the birds. The bald eagle was", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "50464", "text": "First Amendment by affecting ability to practice their religion freely. The National Eagle Repository, a division of the FWS, exists as a means to receive, process, and store bald and golden eagles which are found dead, and to distribute the eagles, their parts and feathers, to federally recognized Native American tribes for use in religious ceremonies. The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States of America. The founders of the United States were fond of comparing their new republic with the Roman Republic, in which eagle imagery (usually involving the golden eagle) was prominent. On June 20,", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "50391", "text": "the mature bird is its black, yellow-tipped beak; the mature eagle has a fully yellow beak. The bald eagle has sometimes been considered the largest true raptor (accipitrid) in North America. The only larger species of raptor-like bird is the California condor (\"Gymnogyps californianus\"), a New World vulture which today is not generally considered a taxonomic ally of true accipitrids. However, the golden eagle, averaging and in wing chord length in its American race (\"A. c. canadensis\"), is merely lighter in mean body mass and exceeds the bald eagle in mean wing chord length by around . Additionally, the bald", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "50460", "text": "the national bird of the United States, is prominent in seals and logos, coinage, postage stamps, and other items relating to the U.S. federal government. The bald eagle is a sacred bird in some North American cultures, and its feathers, like those of the golden eagle, are central to many religious and spiritual customs among Native Americans. Eagles are considered spiritual messengers between gods and humans by some cultures. Many pow wow dancers use the eagle claw as part of their regalia as well. Eagle feathers are often used in traditional ceremonies, particularly in the construction of regalia worn and", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "50385", "text": "Bald eagle The bald eagle (\"Haliaeetus leucocephalus\", from Greek ἅλς, \"hals\" \"sea\", αἰετός \"aietos\" \"eagle\", λευκός, \"leukos\" \"white\", κεφαλή, \"kephalē\" \"head\") is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (\"Haliaeetus albicilla\"). Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico. It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting. The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder which subsists mainly on fish, which it swoops", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "50449", "text": "eagle will defend its nest fiercely from all comers and has even repelled attacks from bears, having been recorded knocking a black bear out of a tree when the latter tried to climb a tree holding nestlings. Once a common sight in much of the continent, the bald eagle was severely affected in the mid-20th century by a variety of factors, among them the thinning of egg shells attributed to use of the pesticide DDT. Bald eagles, like many birds of prey, were especially affected by DDT due to biomagnification. DDT itself was not lethal to the adult bird, but", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "50387", "text": "plumage of the immature is brown. The bald eagle is both the national bird and national animal of the United States of America. The bald eagle appears on its seal. In the late 20th century it was on the brink of extirpation in the contiguous United States. Populations have since recovered and the species was removed from the U.S. government's list of endangered species on July 12, 1995 and transferred to the list of threatened species. It was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in the Lower 48 States on June 28, 2007. The plumage of an", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "50467", "text": "of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, for whom the Society was named; his reference to the two kinds of birds is interpreted as a satirical comparison between the Society of the Cincinnati and Cincinnatus. Bald eagle The bald eagle (\"Haliaeetus leucocephalus\", from Greek ἅλς, \"hals\" \"sea\", αἰετός \"aietos\" \"eagle\", λευκός, \"leukos\" \"white\", κεφαλή, \"kephalē\" \"head\") is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (\"Haliaeetus albicilla\"). Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico. It is", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "50426", "text": "load carrying ever verified for a flying bird. It has been estimated that the gripping power (pounds by square inch) of the bald eagle is ten times greater than that of a human. Bald eagles can fly with fish at least equal to their own weight, but if the fish is too heavy to lift, the eagle may be dragged into the water. It may swim to safety, in some cases pulling the catch along to the shore as it swims, but some eagles drown or succumb to hypothermia. Many sources claim that bald eagles, like all large eagles, cannot", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "9212713", "text": "Bald Eagle Mountain Bald Eagle Mountain – once known locally as Muncy Mountain – is a stratigraphic ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians of central Pennsylvania, USA, running east of the Allegheny Front and northwest of Mount Nittany. It lies along the southeast side of Bald Eagle Creek, and south of the West Branch Susquehanna River, and is the westernmost ridge in its section of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians. The ridge line separates the West Branch Susquehanna Valley from the Nippenose and White Deer Hole Valleys, and Bald Eagle Valley from Nittany Valley. Bald Eagle Mountain lies in the central portion of", "title": "Bald Eagle Mountain" }, { "docid": "14068997", "text": "gave his name directly or indirectly to Bald Eagle Mountain, two Bald Eagle Creeks, the Bald Eagle Creek Path, Bald Eagle State Park, the Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad, and Bald Eagle Township. In 1949, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission put up a historical marker on Pennsylvania Route 150 near the borough of Howard commemorating the path, which it called the \"Warriors Path\". Wallace's book \"Indian Paths of Pennsylvania\", originally published in 1964 and since updated, noted that many north-south paths were called Warriors Path, and called this Bald Eagle Creek Path. While the path no longer exists, several", "title": "Bald Eagle Creek Path" }, { "docid": "50450", "text": "it interfered with the bird's calcium metabolism, making the bird either sterile or unable to lay healthy eggs. Female eagles laid eggs that were too brittle to withstand the weight of a brooding adult, making it nearly impossible for the eggs to hatch. It is estimated that in the early 18th century, the bald eagle population was 300,000–500,000, but by the 1950s there were only 412 nesting pairs in the 48 contiguous states of the US. Other factors in bald eagle population reductions were a widespread loss of suitable habitat, as well as both legal and illegal shooting. In 1930", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "14068993", "text": "Creek and soon crossed into what is now Centre County, where it passed through what is now Bald Eagle State Park. Opposite the Lenape (or Delaware) village of Bald Eagle's Nest (modern Milesburg), the path crossed the creek and went through the water gap in Bald Eagle Mountain made by Spring Creek. The path turned south again at the site of modern Bellefonte, and followed Buffalo Run along the eastern side of Bald Eagle Mountain as far as the modern village of Waddle. Continuing on a southwest course along the edge of Bald Eagle Mountain, the path left Centre County", "title": "Bald Eagle Creek Path" }, { "docid": "12146501", "text": "lifestyle, including shelter, breeding, feeding, or 3.) Nest abandonment. The eagle feathers have been collected and incorporated into clothing, art, jewelry, etc. In addition, having the possession, exchange, or sale of bald eagle feathers violates the act if no permit is obtained. The basic structure of the act resembles the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The bald eagle has inspired millions of Americans across the nation since June 20, 1782. The American Eagle Day was celebrated ideally for the recovery and restoration of this exclusive bird. On June 28, 2007, the Department of the Interior has taken the bald eagle off", "title": "Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act" }, { "docid": "12146503", "text": "courage\". In contrast, John F. Kennedy stated, \"The Founding Fathers made an appropriate choice when they selected the bald eagle as the emblem of the nation. The fierce beauty and proud independence of this great bird aptly symbolizes the strength and freedom of America.\" The golden eagle is used as a national symbol in Mexico and in many countries; it symbolizes many cultures and traditions in a various societies. It also symbolizes other countries such as Albania, Germany, Austria, and Kazakhstan. The Hopi tribe removes nestlings, raise them, and sacrifice them once they are mature. In 1986, the U.S. Fish", "title": "Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act" }, { "docid": "50390", "text": "other very large, non-vulturine raptorial bird in North America, in that the former has a larger, more protruding head with a larger beak, straighter edged wings which are held flat (not slightly raised) and with a stiffer wing beat and feathers which do not completely cover the legs. When seen well, the golden eagle is distinctive in plumage with a more solid warm brown color than an immature bald eagle, with a reddish-golden patch to its nape and (in immature birds) a highly contrasting set of white squares on the wing. Another distinguishing feature of the immature bald eagle over", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "50400", "text": "rivers, wherein fish are readily available for hunting or scavenging, are observed in the northern United States. It has occurred as a vagrant twice in Ireland; a juvenile was shot illegally in Fermanagh on January 11, 1973 (misidentified at first as a white-tailed eagle), and an exhausted juvenile was captured in Kerry on November 15, 1987. The bald eagle occurs during its breeding season in virtually any kind of American wetland habitat such as seacoasts, rivers, large lakes or marshes or other large bodies of open water with an abundance of fish. Studies have shown a preference for bodies of", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "9211636", "text": "supercontinent of Pangaea were folded, forming a huge mountain range. The Nittany Arch was an ancient Himalayan-scale mountain that once towered above what is now the adjacent Nittany Valley. The oldest rock layers from deep within the eroded mountain are now exposed on the east side of the Bald Eagle ridge. Younger rocks from the outer layers of the arch are exposed in the Bald Eagle Valley, with the youngest at the foot of the Allegheny Front. The rock layers in the valley were folded from horizontal to almost vertical, and now read like pages in a geologic history book", "title": "Bald Eagle Valley" }, { "docid": "50392", "text": "eagle's close cousins, the relatively longer-winged but shorter-tailed white-tailed eagle and the overall larger Steller's sea eagle (\"H. pelagicus\"), may, rarely, wander to coastal Alaska from Asia. The bald eagle has a body length of . Typical wingspan is between and mass is normally between . Females are about 25% larger than males, averaging as much as , and against the males' average weight of . The size of the bird varies by location and generally corresponds with Bergmann's rule, since the species increases in size further away from the Equator and the tropics. For example, eagles from South Carolina", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "50419", "text": "(possibly due to overfishing) and otters (cause unknown) have had precipitous population declines, causing concern for seabird conservation. Because of this more extensive predation, some biologist have expressed concern that murres are heading for a \"conservation collision\" due to heavy eagle predation. Eagles have been confirmed to attack nocturnally active, burrow-nesting seabird species such as storm petrels and shearwaters by digging out their burrows and feeding on all animals they find inside. If a bald eagle flies close by, waterbirds will often fly away en masse, though in other cases they may seemingly ignore a perched eagle. If the said", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "50420", "text": "birds are on a colony, this exposed their unprotected eggs and nestlings to scavengers such as gulls. Bird prey may occasionally be attacked in flight, with prey up to the size of Canada geese attacked and killed in mid-air. Unprecedented photographs of a bald eagle unsuccessfully attempting to prey on a much larger adult trumpeter swan (\"Cygnus buccinator\") in mid-flight were taken recently. While adults often actively prey on waterbirds, congregated wintering waterfowl are frequently exploited for carcasses to scavenge by immature eagles in harsh winter weather. Bald eagles have been recorded as killing other raptors on occasion. In some", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "12146516", "text": "eagle finds and consumes food contaminated with lead shot, the lead accumulates in the bird and can cause toxicity and even mortality. Lastly, majority of farmers and ranchers often will shoot bald and golden eagles that they consider a threat to their livestock. Unfortunately, many assumptions are made about the bald and golden eagles, thinking they are a harmful. The two eagles seek for dead animals that are killed from other factors. The measures that were taken to protect bald and golden eagles such as the 1940 Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, banning of DDT in 1972, the Bald", "title": "Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act" }, { "docid": "16618640", "text": "unshielded can be dangerous. D12's remains were turned over to the Fish and Wildlife Service, in accordance with the Eagle feather law. Because the bald eagle is a sacred bird in some North American cultures, D12's feathers are being distributed to qualified Native Americans for use in religious ceremonies through the National Eagle Repository. From Raptor Resource Project: We are sorry to announce that Four, the single remaining bird from the 2014 Decorah alumni to remain in the wild, was electrocuted on Tuesday, March 2, 2015. This is the fourth eaglet from Decorah that we know of to die from", "title": "Decorah Bald Eagles" }, { "docid": "14068996", "text": "Bald Eagle's Nest or \"Wapalanewachschiechey\". The identity of Bald Eagle is unclear though. One chief with that name, who was \"friendly and respected\" was murdered on the Monongahela River in 1773. Another Bald Eagle, for whom the historic record is less clear, is traditionally supposed to have been the leader of raiding parties against white settlers on the West Branch Susquehanna River during the American Revolutionary War. He killed a brother of Samuel Brady near Williamsport in 1778 and Brady killed him on the Allegheny River in what is now Clarion County the next year. In any case, Bald Eagle", "title": "Bald Eagle Creek Path" }, { "docid": "19296870", "text": "thirteenth and final episode of the season. Gotham, originally scheduled for 16 episodes, still has 10 more to go though, and it’s unclear how the show is going to be able to sustain the (very) slight momentum this episode built.\" What the Little Bird Told Him \"What the Little Bird Told Him\" is the twelfth episode of the television series \"Gotham\". It premiered on FOX on January 19, 2015 and was written by Ben Edlund, and directed by Eagle Egilsson. In this episode, Gordon (Ben McKenzie) looks to capture a prisoner who escaped from Arkham Asylum to get his job", "title": "What the Little Bird Told Him" }, { "docid": "50428", "text": "becomes unavailable. Occasionally, bald eagles may hunt cooperatively when confronting prey, especially relatively large prey such as jackrabbits or herons, with one bird distracting potential prey, while the other comes behind it in order to ambush it. While hunting waterfowl, bald eagles repeatedly fly at a target and cause it to dive repeatedly, hoping to exhaust the victim so it can be caught (white-tailed eagles have been recorded hunting waterfowl in the same way). When hunting concentrated prey, a successful catch which often results in the hunting eagle being pursued by other eagles and needing to find an isolated perch", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "19645344", "text": "had a long life but it just seems like yesterday”. David William Bald Eagle / Wounded in Winter Beautiful Bald Eagle born 8 April 1919, died 22 July 2016. Survived by his wife Josee, and his many children, grand children, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. Dave Bald Eagle David William \"Dave\" Bald Eagle (April 8, 1919 – July 22, 2016), also known as Chief David Beautiful Bald Eagle, was a Lakota actor, soldier, stuntman, and musician. Dave Bald Eagle was born in a tipi on the west banks of Cherry Creek, on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South", "title": "Dave Bald Eagle" }, { "docid": "50459", "text": "allow for using such eagles to perform in birds of prey flight shows. As a rule, the bald eagle is not the ideal choice for public shows, being timid, prone to becoming highly stressed, and unpredictable in nature. Native American tribes can obtain a \"Native American Religious Use\" permit to keep non-releasable eagles as well. They use their naturally molted feathers for religious and cultural ceremonies. The bald eagle can be long-lived in captivity if well cared for, but does not breed well even under the best conditions. The bald eagle is important in various Native American cultures and, as", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "12146499", "text": "Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 668-668d) is a United States federal statute that protects two species of eagle. The bald eagle was chosen as a national emblem of the United States by the Continental Congress of 1782 and was given legal protection by the Bald Eagle Protection Act of 1940. This act was expanded to include the golden eagle in 1962. Since the original Act, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act has been amended several times. It currently prohibits anyone, without a permit issued by the Secretary of the", "title": "Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act" }, { "docid": "10034039", "text": "Bald Eagle Formation The Ordovician Bald Eagle Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in central Pennsylvania, USA. It is a ridge-forming unit in the Appalachian Mountains. The Bald Eagle is defined as a gray to olive-gray and grayish-red, fine to coarse-grained crossbedded sandstone or greywacke. A conglomeratic member, called the Lost Run Member, exists in some locations. The depositional environment of the Bald Eagle has always been interpreted as mostly terrestrial or shallow marine deposits resulting in a molasse sequence produced by the Taconic orogeny. Very few fossils exist in the Bald Eagle Formation, and most of them are trace", "title": "Bald Eagle Formation" }, { "docid": "19296862", "text": "What the Little Bird Told Him \"What the Little Bird Told Him\" is the twelfth episode of the television series \"Gotham\". It premiered on FOX on January 19, 2015 and was written by Ben Edlund, and directed by Eagle Egilsson. In this episode, Gordon (Ben McKenzie) looks to capture a prisoner who escaped from Arkham Asylum to get his job back. Meanwhile, Falcone (John Doman) struggles to hold his empire when someone beloved to him takes an unexpected turn. The episode was watched by 6.50 million viewers and received mixed-to-positive reviews. Critics praised Gordon's storyline but criticized the anti-climax. Jack", "title": "What the Little Bird Told Him" }, { "docid": "19645335", "text": "Dave Bald Eagle David William \"Dave\" Bald Eagle (April 8, 1919 – July 22, 2016), also known as Chief David Beautiful Bald Eagle, was a Lakota actor, soldier, stuntman, and musician. Dave Bald Eagle was born in a tipi on the west banks of Cherry Creek, on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota. Bald Eagle first enlisted in the Fourth Cavalry of the United States Army and served out his enlistment. During World War II, he re-enlisted in the 82nd Airborne Division (\"All American Division\") where he fought in the Battle of Anzio, being awarded a Silver", "title": "Dave Bald Eagle" }, { "docid": "4954707", "text": "was issued to moravian states, but not accepted by them and never confirmed by Bohemian king George of Poděbrady. Also the letter is valid, but remained ineffective. An eagle is present on the official emblem of the Royal Air Force. Since 20 June 1782, the United States has used its national bird, the bald eagle, on its Great Seal; the choice was intended to at once recall the Roman Republic and be uniquely American (the bald eagle being indigenous to North America). The American Eagle has been a popular emblem throughout the life of the republic, with an eagle appearing", "title": "Eagle (heraldry)" }, { "docid": "19493959", "text": "Reproduction and life cycle of the golden eagle Golden eagles usually mate for life. A breeding pair is formed in a courtship display. This courtship includes undulating displays by both in the pair, with the male bird picking up a piece of rock and dropping it only to enter into a steep dive and catch it in mid-air, repeating the maneuver 3 or more times. The female takes a clump of earth and drops and catches it in the same fashion. Small sticks may also be used in this display. Compared to the bald eagle, golden eagles do not repeat", "title": "Reproduction and life cycle of the golden eagle" }, { "docid": "20165792", "text": "choosing (intended as gifts to heads of state for his upcoming NATO tour), he expressed fatigue toward doves and hawks. Helen suggested finding a new bird to be an updated symbol of peace, one with less political baggage than say the dove, to which Nixon said \"That's a fine idea.\" Helen subsequently wrote to ornithologists around the world, seeking suggestions for what that new peace bird ought to be. Among the responses, and her own research, both gathered over several months, the mute swan was most mentioned, frequently having been cited for its tranquility, even over the traditional dove. Helen", "title": "The Bird of Peace" }, { "docid": "10829283", "text": "USNS Bald Eagle (T-AF-50) USNS \"Bald Eagle\" (T-AF-50) was an acquired by the U.S. Navy. Her task was to carry stores, refrigerated items, and equipment to ships in the fleet, and to remote stations and staging areas. \"Bald Eagle\" was laid down (date unknown), as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-B1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 186) at Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland, California. She was launched (date unknown) and delivered to the War Shipping Administration, 28 May 1943. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1950. \"Bald Eagle\" was assigned by the Navy to the Military Sea", "title": "USNS Bald Eagle (T-AF-50)" }, { "docid": "9211630", "text": "Eagle Area School District and Bald Eagle Township. The Bald Eagle State Park is also in the valley. The park includes the Joseph Foster Sayers Reservoir, around the town of Howard, a prominent topographic feature formed by damming Bald Eagle Creek. From Southwest to Northeast, down stream along the Bald Eagle Creek: In the upper valley, the Bald Eagle Creek runs at the foot of the ridge in a narrow floodplain. Long narrow farm fields lie along the river, and along the perpendicular side vallies of the creek's tributaries. Smaller irregular sloped fields also lie on the small hills near", "title": "Bald Eagle Valley" }, { "docid": "1576769", "text": "use in time for U.P.'s Centennial Celebration in 2008. The bald eagle in the official seal holds a shield that carries a lamp, a cogwheel and; a volcano and tree (sometimes rendered erroneously as a star and the planet Saturn). These symbols represent science and medicine, engineering, and agriculture respectively. Until today, the University takes pride in these three areas of knowledge as these degree programs in U.P. are acknowledged as Centers of Excellence in the Philippines by the Commission on Higher Education. A myth persists that the bird in the seal is in fact, a parrot, as stated in", "title": "University of the Philippines" }, { "docid": "12146513", "text": "eats rabbits, hares, ground squirrels, and other common prey which has allowed them to escape the harms of DDT and other related chemicals. Unlike the bald eagle eggshells, the golden eagles shells retained their thickness and are not subject to rupturing. DDT was banned in the United States in 1972. Other factors played a role in the declining of bald and golden eagles in the 50's, 60's, and 70's. For instance, one source of golden and bald eagle mortality is the bioaccumulation of toxins in their reproduction system and blood stream. Dieldrin and polychlorinated biphenyl are pollutants in the environment", "title": "Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act" }, { "docid": "17721310", "text": "comprising 10% among a sample size of 49 at 4 nests. North America has fewer native pheasants species but introduced species such as grey partridge, ring-necked pheasant and, especially, chukar are readily hunted (native quail seem to be largely or entirely ignored as prey by golden eagle, perhaps because of their small size or dense thicket-dwelling habits). The chukar is the most significant bird species in the diet in Nevada (at 5.4%) and the second most significant bird species in Washington state (at 11.8%). One native North American “pheasant” known to be occasionally hunted is the wild turkey (\"Meleagris gallopavo\"),", "title": "Dietary biology of the golden eagle" }, { "docid": "9211629", "text": "Bald Eagle Valley The Bald Eagle Valley of central Pennsylvania, United States is the low-lying area draining into the Bald Eagle Creek between the Allegheny Front and the Bald Eagle Mountain ridge, south of the West Branch Susquehanna River, in the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians. It is southwest of the West Branch Susquehanna Valley that includes Williamsport and Northwest of the Nittany Valley that includes State College. The Bald Eagle Valley lies in the central portion of Centre County and the southern portion of Clinton County. It runs from Port Matilda down to Lock Haven PA, It includes most of the Bald", "title": "Bald Eagle Valley" }, { "docid": "50389", "text": "a yellow cere. The adult bald eagle is unmistakable in its native range. The closely related African fish eagle (\"H. vocifer\") (from far outside the bald eagle's range) also has a brown body (albeit of somewhat more rufous hue), white head and tail, but differs from the bald in having a white chest and black tip to the bill. The plumage of the immature is a dark brown overlaid with messy white streaking until the fifth (rarely fourth, very rarely third) year, when it reaches sexual maturity. Immature bald eagles are distinguishable from the golden eagle (\"Aquila chrysaetos\"), the only", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "9211638", "text": "from uplifted Mississippian Sandstone. Bald Eagle Valley The Bald Eagle Valley of central Pennsylvania, United States is the low-lying area draining into the Bald Eagle Creek between the Allegheny Front and the Bald Eagle Mountain ridge, south of the West Branch Susquehanna River, in the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians. It is southwest of the West Branch Susquehanna Valley that includes Williamsport and Northwest of the Nittany Valley that includes State College. The Bald Eagle Valley lies in the central portion of Centre County and the southern portion of Clinton County. It runs from Port Matilda down to Lock Haven PA, It includes", "title": "Bald Eagle Valley" }, { "docid": "50396", "text": "its common and specific scientific names from the distinctive appearance of the adult's head. \"Bald\" in the English name is derived from the word \"piebald\", and refers to the white head and tail feathers and their contrast with the darker body. The genus name is New Latin: \"Haliaeetus\" (from the ), and the specific name, \"leucocephalus\", is Latinized () and (). The bald eagle was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th century work \"Systema Naturae\", under the name \"Falco leucocephalus\". There are two recognized subspecies of bald eagle: The bald eagle forms a species", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "50432", "text": "However, the two species are roughly equal in size, aggressiveness and physical strength and so competitions can go either way. Neither species is known to be dominant, and the outcome depends on the size and disposition of the individual eagles involved. Wintering bald and golden eagles in Utah both sometimes won conflicts, though in one recorded instance a single bald eagle successfully displaced two consecutive golden eagles from a kill. The bald eagle is thought to be much more numerous in North America than the golden eagle, with the bald species estimated to number at least 150,000 individuals, about twice", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "17721383", "text": "wolverine. In Yellowstone National Park, one prey item amongst 473 recorded for cougars (\"Puma concolor\") was a golden eagle, although no details of the attack or of the age of the bird were reported. grizzly bear (\"Ursus arctos horribilis\") have also reportedly killed and eaten golden eagle nestlings in Denali National Park. The grizzly is reportedly one of the few mammals to trigger a strong aggressive reaction from the parent eagles when spotted close to the nest, as eagles have been observed to strike the bruins about the head and neck with their talons. Dietary biology of the golden eagle", "title": "Dietary biology of the golden eagle" }, { "docid": "50433", "text": "as many golden eagles there are estimated to live in North America. Due to this, bald eagles often outnumber golden eagles at attractive food sources. Despite the potential for contention between these animals, in New Jersey during winter, a golden eagle and numerous bald eagles were observed to hunt snow geese alongside each other without conflict. Similarly, both eagle species have been recorded, via video-monitoring, to feed on gut pills and carcasses of white-tailed deer (\"Odocoileus virginianus\") in remote forest clearings in the eastern Appalachian Mountains without apparent conflict. Bald eagles as frequently mobbed by smaller raptors, due to their", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "50405", "text": "bald eagle is usually quite sensitive to human activity while nesting, and is found most commonly in areas with minimal human disturbance. It chooses sites more than from low-density human disturbance and more than from medium- to high-density human disturbance. However, bald eagles will occasionally nest in large estuaries or secluded groves within major cities, such as Hardtack Island on the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon or John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which are surrounded by a great quantity of human activity. Even more contrary to the usual sensitivity to disturbance, a family of bald", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "9349400", "text": "Bald Eagle (horse) Bald Eagle (1955–1977) was an American-bred Thoroughbred Eclipse Award-winning racehorse who competed successfully in both the United Kingdom and the United States. He won the Washington, D.C. International Stakes twice, in 1959 and 1960. He was the son of the champion sire Nasrullah; his grandsire was Nearco. His dam was a Group One (G1) winner – Siama, sired by Tiger. Siama also produced a G1-winning brother to Bald Eagle in One-Eyed King, foaled in 1954 (a year before Bald Eagle's birth). Racing at age two and three in England, Bald Eagle won several conditions races including the", "title": "Bald Eagle (horse)" }, { "docid": "14842653", "text": "and finches The coniferous and deciduous forests of North America have long been the home of bald eagles. Bald eagle populations are now recovering after years of hunting, habitat destruction, and pesticide-induced deaths. In the early 1970s, Colorado had just one breeding pair of bald eagles but by 1993 biologists counted 19 breeding pairs. In Wyoming nesting attempts increased from 20 in 1978 to 42 in 1988. The bald eagle is not yet fully recovered, however; pesticide residues continue to inhibit bald eagle reproduction, and habitat loss and lead poisoning remain serious threats. Peregrine falcons are cliff-dwelling raptors that once", "title": "Ecology of the Rocky Mountains" }, { "docid": "12146533", "text": "by a banding permit. The act regulations require that the eagle items may be transported from and to United States of America on a temporary basis. The item may not change ownership and the same items must be returned to the sender at the conclusion of the project.To export any other species listed under CITES or Migratory Bird Treaty Act, in addition to bald and golden eagle parts, can be included in the application form. Applications can take up to 90 days to process. This permit allows Native American tribes to possess lawfully obtained live bald or golden eagles for", "title": "Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act" }, { "docid": "9212717", "text": "the underlying and overlying layers into the Nittany Arch. The arch was a Himalayan scale mountain that towered above what is now Nittany Valley, where the oldest rock layers from deep within the eroded mountain are now exposed. Younger rocks from the outer layers of the arch are exposed on the West side of the ridge in the Bald Eagle Valley, with the youngest across the valley at the foot of the Allegheny Front. These sedimentary rock layers were tipped almost vertical on the side of the ancient mountain where Bald Eagle Mountain now lies. The Tuscarora Quartzite is more", "title": "Bald Eagle Mountain" }, { "docid": "9041932", "text": "down the West Branch Susquehanna River to the sawmills at Williamsport. The once abundant stands of pine, oak, hickory, chestnut and hemlock were stripped from the hills and valleys. The land in the valley was converted to farmland and is still farmed today. The forests on Bald Eagle Mountain have since regrown forming an extensive second growth forest. Foster Joseph Sayers Reservoir is a reservoir that was built in 1971 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of a flood control project on the Susquehanna River basin. The lake was created by damming Bald Eagle Creek. It stretches", "title": "Bald Eagle State Park" }, { "docid": "10034040", "text": "fossils. However, at the base of the formation is the \"Orthorynchula\" biostratigraphic marker bed, which contains abundant \"Orthorynchula\" brachiopods. Relative age dating of the Bald Eagle places it in the Upper Ordovician period, being deposited between 488.3 and 443.7 (±10) million years ago. It rests conformably atop the Reedsville Formation and conformably below the Juniata Formation. The Bald Eagle is a good source of road material, riprap and building stone. However, iron pyrite inclusions may lead to acidic rainwater runoff. Bald Eagle Formation The Ordovician Bald Eagle Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in central Pennsylvania, USA. It is a", "title": "Bald Eagle Formation" }, { "docid": "50465", "text": "1782, the Continental Congress adopted the design for the Great Seal of the United States depicting a bald eagle grasping 13 arrows and an olive branch with its talons. The bald eagle appears on most official seals of the U.S. government, including the presidential seal, the presidential flag, and in the logos of many U.S. federal agencies. Between 1916 and 1945, the presidential flag (but not the seal) showed an eagle facing to its left (the viewer's right), which gave rise to the urban legend that the flag is changed to have the eagle face towards the olive branch in", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "9212716", "text": "ridge between Julian and Unionville. A mature oak and hickory forest covers the Bald Eagle Mountain. It is one of the best sites in the eastern United States for viewing the migration of the golden eagle. Bald Eagle Mountain is in the western part of the Ridge and Valley province of the Appalachian Mountains. Brush Mountain, and neighboring Nittany Mountain and Tussey Mountain ridges, are part of the same Paleozoic anticline rock formation consisting of older Ordovicial Bald Eagle Formation sandstone and Juniata Formation Shale, and younger Silurian Tuscarora Formation Quartzite. During the Appalachian orogeny, these layers folded up with", "title": "Bald Eagle Mountain" }, { "docid": "14068990", "text": "Bald Eagle Creek Path The Bald Eagle Creek Path (also one of several known as the Warriors Path) was a major Native American trail in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania that ran from the Great Island (near modern-day Lock Haven) on the West Branch Susquehanna River southwest to what is now the village of Frankstown on the Frankstown Branch Juniata River. The path ran from Clinton County southwest through Centre County and a small part of Blair County to its southern end in Blair County. It was part of a \"Warriors Path\", an important connector between paths leading to New", "title": "Bald Eagle Creek Path" }, { "docid": "9212720", "text": "and Onondaga Formation calcareous shale. The Bald Eagle sandstone is also laced with pyrite veins, and when exposed to air and water, these minerals produce sulfuric acid, contaminating both surface runoff and groundwater. Construction of Interstate 99 where it crosses Bald Eagle Mountain has been delayed since 2004 by complaints from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection about acidic runoff from pyritic rock excavated from this formation. The planned I-99/I-80 interchange further north in the Nittany Valley at the foot of the ridge was redesigned to avoid excavating contaminated rock from the same formation. Bald Eagle Mountain Bald Eagle Mountain", "title": "Bald Eagle Mountain" }, { "docid": "13264133", "text": "The Cu Bird The Cu bird (Spanish: \"pájaro cu\" or \"cú\") is a bird from a Mexican folktale that is unhappy with its looks. According to the legend, the other birds agreed to the barn owl's proposal to give the Cu bird one feather each and in return asked it to become the messenger of the bird council. But the bird soon started neglecting its task because instead it spent time admiring its plumage. One day the eagle, the head of the council, sent the Cu bird to call other birds to a meeting, but it was so entranced by", "title": "The Cu Bird" }, { "docid": "17721376", "text": "fiercely attacking golden eagles in apparent territorial bouts, in one instance pulling the golden down into shallow coastal waters to drown. White-tailed eagles are able to survive on a great breadth of food and have longer guts so can live on less food for a longer time than golden eagles. Thus, the white-tailed may locally outcompete the golden eagle in terms of populating a given area. In North America, few such contentious relations have been reported between bald and golden eagles but golden eagles were reported to avoid the vicinity of active bald eagle nests. Even in areas where conflicts", "title": "Dietary biology of the golden eagle" }, { "docid": "9041929", "text": "The park is named for the Lenape chief, Woapalanne, meaning bald eagle. Chief Woapalanne lived in the area for a brief period of time during the mid-18th century in a village that was on Bald Eagle Creek Path, part of the much more extensive Great Indian Warpath that stretched from New York into the Carolinas. This path was used by the Iroquois to conduct raids on the Cherokee in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. Pennsylvania Route 150 follows this path in some areas near Bald Eagle State Park. Bald Eagle Creek is one of the few navigable tributaries", "title": "Bald Eagle State Park" }, { "docid": "9041928", "text": "Bald Eagle State Park Bald Eagle State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Howard, Liberty, and Marion townships in Centre County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park includes the Foster Joseph Sayers Reservoir, formed by damming Bald Eagle Creek and other smaller streams and covering . Bald Eagle State Park is at the meeting point of two distinct geologic features. The Allegheny Plateau is to the north and the Ridge and Valley area of Pennsylvania is to the south. The park is in the Bald Eagle Valley off Pennsylvania Route 150 in Howard, between Milesburg and Lock Haven.", "title": "Bald Eagle State Park" }, { "docid": "12146540", "text": "to involuntary demeanor. The defendant, Moon Lake, argues that each Act is directed towards a \"physical\" taking of migratory birds and eagles through hunting and poaching. In conclusion, the court dismissed the case concluded this did not interpret the BGEPA and the MBTA. Subsequently, Moon Lake pleaded guilty to multiple misdemeanors and charged with $100,000 fine. In addition, it entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The purpose of the MOU is to protect and prevent future bird deaths. The bald eagle is also protected under the: Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act The", "title": "Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act" }, { "docid": "50401", "text": "water with a circumference greater than , and lakes with an area greater than are optimal for breeding bald eagles. The bald eagle typically requires old-growth and mature stands of coniferous or hardwood trees for perching, roosting, and nesting. Tree species reportedly is less important to the eagle pair than the tree's height, composition and location. Perhaps of paramount importance for this species is an abundance of comparatively large trees surrounding the body of water. Selected trees must have good visibility, be over tall, an open structure, and proximity to prey. If nesting trees are in standing water such as", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "15453142", "text": "Isin-Larsa period (20th-18th centuries BCE). Nevertheless, a few fragmentary bilingual copies (Sumerian and Akkadian) from Nineveh suggest that the texts were still known during the first millennium. This story starts with Lugalbanda alone in the highlands of Lullubi. He finds the chick of the giant Anzu (or Anzud) bird, which is described as a lion-headed eagle, and decides to feed the chick. When the Anzu bird returns, it is first startled by the chick not responding to its call, but once it finds out what happened, it is very pleased with Lugalbanda and in appreciation grants him the ability to", "title": "Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird" }, { "docid": "9041937", "text": "showers, an amphitheater, a sanitary dump station and two volleyball courts. There is a paved parking area at each campsite as well as a picnic table and fire ring. All campsites have an electrical hook-up. The primitive camping area 35 walk-in sites and 35 sites for small campers. Outhouses are available as well as sinks with running water. The following state parks are within of Bald Eagle State Park: Bald Eagle State Park Bald Eagle State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Howard, Liberty, and Marion townships in Centre County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park includes the", "title": "Bald Eagle State Park" }, { "docid": "9349403", "text": "Lives, Times, and Past Performances of America's Greatest Thoroughbreds\", The Daily Racing Form Bald Eagle (horse) Bald Eagle (1955–1977) was an American-bred Thoroughbred Eclipse Award-winning racehorse who competed successfully in both the United Kingdom and the United States. He won the Washington, D.C. International Stakes twice, in 1959 and 1960. He was the son of the champion sire Nasrullah; his grandsire was Nearco. His dam was a Group One (G1) winner – Siama, sired by Tiger. Siama also produced a G1-winning brother to Bald Eagle in One-Eyed King, foaled in 1954 (a year before Bald Eagle's birth). Racing at age", "title": "Bald Eagle (horse)" }, { "docid": "11494250", "text": "Bald Eagle-Nittany High School Bald Eagle-Nittany High School was a public high school in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania. The building has since been renovated and is now Central Mountain Middle School. Bald Eagle-Nittany High School first opened for the 1955-56 school year. Its name originates from the area where its students lived; from both valleys of Mount Nittany and Bald Eagle Mountain. The student body came from Mill Hall, Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, Lamar Township, Pennsylvania, Porter Township, Pennsylvania, and Bald Eagle Township, Pennsylvania. In 1999, after already being joined by the majority of the Sugar Valley High School students two years", "title": "Bald Eagle-Nittany High School" }, { "docid": "13434297", "text": "The Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives Sunshine Review gave the Bald Eagle Area School Board and district administration a \"C-\" for transparency based on a review of \"What information can people find on their school district's website\". It examined the school district's website for information regarding; taxes, the current budget, meetings, school board members names and terms, contracts, audits, public records information and more. In October 2015, Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale reported that Bald Eagle Area School District's Wingate Elementary School was among the 561 academically challenged schools that have been overlooked by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.", "title": "Bald Eagle Area School District" }, { "docid": "10829284", "text": "Transportation Service (MSTS) and placed in service as USNS \"Bald Eagle\" (T-AF-50). \"Bald Eagle\" transported frozen foods from Virginia to Bremerhaven, Germany, on a regular basis during the early 1950s. She was placed out of service (date unknown) and struck from the Naval Vessel Register (date unknown). Final disposition: scrapped in 1973. \"Bald Eagle's \" crew was eligible for the following medals: USNS Bald Eagle (T-AF-50) USNS \"Bald Eagle\" (T-AF-50) was an acquired by the U.S. Navy. Her task was to carry stores, refrigerated items, and equipment to ships in the fleet, and to remote stations and staging areas. \"Bald", "title": "USNS Bald Eagle (T-AF-50)" }, { "docid": "10481246", "text": "of the branch. The BN&L was also merged into the Bald Eagle Valley on August 1, 1889. Several spurs were built off the Snow-Shoe Branch in 1890 and 1903 by the Bald Eagle Valley before it was merged into the PRR on March 31, 1908. Bald Eagle Valley Railroad The Bald Eagle Valley Railroad was a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad which owned several rail lines in central Pennsylvania. It had its genesis in the Tyrone and Lock Haven Railroad, a financially troubled railroad chartered in 1857, which was unable to complete more than a small portion of its line", "title": "Bald Eagle Valley Railroad" }, { "docid": "14068991", "text": "York and the Six Nations of the Iroquois and the Ohio River country in the north and west, and paths leading to what are now Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas in the south. The Bald Eagle Creek Path started at the Great Island (today in the modern city of Lock Haven), which is in the West Branch Susquehanna River at the mouth of Bald Eagle Creek. The Great Island and surrounding area were home to several Native American villages, and were also at the intersection of multiple Native American paths. The Great Island Path went east to the village of", "title": "Bald Eagle Creek Path" }, { "docid": "4264289", "text": "over Linden Lane. By the time Margo died in 1966, eagles had become endangered species and the university then opted to go to a costumed mascot. In 2000, with the unveiling of the current athletics logos, the Boston College Eagle mascot received a visual makeover as well and has appeared that way since. Also, the mascot officially got the name \"Baldwin\"—a combination of the words \"Bald\" (as in bald eagle) and \"win.\" There is also a 9.5 foot inflatable mascot named \"Baldwin, Jr.\" which appears at games. Like many modern costumed mascots, Baldwin wears replica team uniforms at events. Baldwin", "title": "Baldwin the Eagle" }, { "docid": "19520604", "text": "The reintroduced golden eagles at the park produced a pair of fledglings for the first time in 2011. The golden eagle is classified as bird of “High Conservation Concern” in Ireland. Fewer estimates are known from Asia and North Africa. A stronghold population is in mountainous Turkey, where the large population included an estimated 2,000–3,000 breeding pairs persist. In Japan, there is an estimated 175–260 breeding pairs, with a total population of approximately 500 individuals. One study stated that food shortages and decreases in suitable foraging habitat are assumed to be responsible for an observed decline in population size and", "title": "Status and conservation of the golden eagle" }, { "docid": "9349402", "text": "with lifetime earnings of US $676,442. Retired to stud at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky, Bald Eagle met with only modest success; he sired a dozen graded stakes race winners. His daughter San San was purchased by Countess Margit Batthyany, owner of Haras du Bois-Roussel in Alençon, France; San San won the 1972 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and Group One Prix Vermeille races. Bald Eagle was the maternal grandsire of Capote, the 1986 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner and American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. In 1971, Bald Eagle was sent to new breeders in France. He died there in 1977. \"Champions: the", "title": "Bald Eagle (horse)" }, { "docid": "10855206", "text": "the bald eagle as a national symbol, and its relationship to veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States of America. The new Center also relays Native American history and the culture of the region as it relates to the bald eagle. An engaging children's area with kid-proof binoculars provides interest to all ages. The average visit at the National Eagle Center is over 80 minutes. Updated by NEC 8-14-17. National Eagle Center The National Eagle Center is a nonprofit organization in Wabasha, Minnesota, United States, that focuses on conservation, research and educational efforts relating to eagles. Established in", "title": "National Eagle Center" }, { "docid": "4264286", "text": "Baldwin the Eagle Baldwin the Eagle, an anthropomorphized bald eagle, is the mascot of the Boston College Eagles. The nickname \"Eagles\" goes back to 1920 when Rev. Edward McLaughlin, unhappy at seeing a newspaper cartoon which represented Boston College as a cat after a track victory, wrote to the college newspaper \"The Heights\": The \"Eagles\" nickname stuck. Soon a pair of golden eagles from Texas and New Mexico were given to the college as gifts. Sadly, one escaped and the other broke its beak trying. For the next four years, the official \"mascot\" was a stuffed golden eagle located in", "title": "Baldwin the Eagle" }, { "docid": "9041931", "text": "to Bald Eagle Valley. The Eagle Ironworks was built in 1810 by Roland Curtin, an immigrant from Ireland. The ironworks produced iron along Bald Eagle Creek until it was closed in 1922. At first charcoal was used to fire the furnaces. This charcoal was produced locally by colliers who harvested timber from the mountainsides and slowly burned the logs to produce charcoal. Later the furnaces were adapted to use coal, another of Pennsylvania's plentiful natural resources. The demand for lumber products reached the Bald Eagle area in the mid-to-late 19th century. Vast stands of old-growth forest were harvested and sent", "title": "Bald Eagle State Park" }, { "docid": "50403", "text": "been found within of open water. The greatest distance from open water recorded for a bald eagle nest was over , in Florida. Bald eagle nests are often very large in order to compensate for size of the birds. The largest recorded nest was found in Florida in 1963, and was measured at nearly 10 feet wide and 20 feet deep. In Florida, nesting habitats often consist of mangrove swamps, the shorelines of lakes and rivers, pinelands, seasonally flooded flatwoods, hardwood swamps, and open prairies and pastureland with scattered tall trees. Favored nesting trees in Florida are slash pines (\"Pinus", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "12146525", "text": "plan is to distinguish a 25 percent change in occupied bald eagle nests on a national scale over a period of 5-year interval with an 80 percent chance of detecting a 25 percent chance or higher difference between 5-year intervals. A minimum of 200 plots are required to survey across the nation with habitats that include a medium to high density of bald eagle nests. The weather, habit change, population cycles, contaminants, and productivity will be taken into consideration if the bald eagle population is declining. In addition, under the Endangered Species act, further research, extension of monitoring, and resumption", "title": "Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act" }, { "docid": "17824891", "text": "ash), chestnut oaks, red oaks, red maples, tulips, yellow birches, and hemlocks. There are no riparian buffers in the lower reaches of the stream; there are often lawns instead. Wallace Run is an approved trout stream (Class A Wild Trout Waters) by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. Both brook trout and brown trout live in the stream. Opportunities for recreation on Wallace Run include canoeing, kayaking, birdwatching, and fishing. Wallace Run (Bald Eagle Creek tributary) Wallace Run is a tributary of Bald Eagle Creek in Centre County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is long and is a low-alkalinity", "title": "Wallace Run (Bald Eagle Creek tributary)" }, { "docid": "50409", "text": "are subject to post-breeding dispersal, mainly in juveniles; Florida eagles, for example, will disperse northwards in the summer. The bald eagle selects migration routes which take advantage of thermals, updrafts, and food resources. During migration, it may ascend in a thermal and then glide down, or may ascend in updrafts created by the wind against a cliff or other terrain. Migration generally takes place during the daytime, usually between the local hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., when thermals are produced by the sun. The bald eagle is an opportunistic carnivore with the capacity to consume a great variety", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "13024367", "text": "National Eagle Repository The National Eagle Repository is operated and managed under the Office of Law Enforcement of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service located at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge outside of Denver, Colorado. It serves as central location for the receipt, storage, and distribution of bald and golden eagles that have been found dead. Eagles and eagle parts are available only to Native Americans enrolled in federally recognized tribes for use in religious and cultural ceremonies. Distribution is authorized by the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and Regulations in 50 CFR 22. Passed in", "title": "National Eagle Repository" }, { "docid": "7049889", "text": "Bald Eagle State Forest Bald Eagle State Forest is a Pennsylvania state forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #7. The main office is located in Laurelton in Union County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The forest is found in Centre, Clinton, Mifflin, Snyder, and Union Counties. Bald Eagle shares a common border on its western extent with Rothrock State Forest and on its northern extent with Tiadaghton State Forest. Five Pennsylvania State Parks are contained within the forest: Poe Valley, Poe Paddy, R. B. Winter, Reeds Gap, and Sand Bridge, as well as two former state parks: Snyder-Middleswarth Natural", "title": "Bald Eagle State Forest" }, { "docid": "50407", "text": "not be accessible. Upland wintering habitats often consist of open habitats with concentrations of medium-sized mammals, such as prairies, meadows or tundra, or open forests with regular carrion access. The bald eagle is a powerful flier, and soars on thermal convection currents. It reaches speeds of when gliding and flapping, and about while carrying fish. Its dive speed is between , though it seldom dives vertically. Regarding their flying abilities, despite being morphologically less well adapted to faster flight than golden eagles (especially during dives), the bald eagle is considered surprisingly maneuverable in flight, bounty hunters shooting from helicopters opined", "title": "Bald eagle" }, { "docid": "12146536", "text": "eagle. Accurate records on a calendar-year basis should be maintained reflecting the acquisition, veterinary care, and disposition of eagle. These records and the maintenance of the cage can be inspected at any reasonable hour by an authorized agent. In addition, an annual report of activities must be sent to the Regional Migratory Bird Permit Office by January 31 of each year . This permit authorizes one to obtain bald and golden eagles, their parts, eggs, and nests for educational purposes. Museums, scientific societies, and zoological parks that is open to general public and who are established and operated as a", "title": "Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act" }, { "docid": "17721372", "text": "from the Verreaux's eagles and, as in its relationship with the Bonelli's, the two species appear to maintain exclusive territories. Several chases involving the golden chasing Verreaux's were witnessed but only one where a Verreaux's chased off the golden. Despite several reported antagonistic interactions, no other raptors were found as prey in the Bale Mountains nests of golden eagles. Perhaps the most formidable raptorial birds that the golden eagle co-exist with are the large northern \"Haliaeetus\" sea or fish eagles. Two species, the white-tailed eagle and the bald eagle, overlap in distribution frequently with golden eagles. Both are marginally heavier", "title": "Dietary biology of the golden eagle" }, { "docid": "7049892", "text": "forerunner of today's Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a piece of legislation in 1897 that authorized the purchase of \"unseated lands for forest reservations.\" This was the beginning of the State Forest system. Various events are held in Bald Eagle each year including the Wilderness 101, a mountain bike race. Bald Eagle State Forest Bald Eagle State Forest is a Pennsylvania state forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #7. The main office is located in Laurelton in Union County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The forest is found in Centre, Clinton, Mifflin,", "title": "Bald Eagle State Forest" }, { "docid": "10481240", "text": "Bald Eagle Valley Railroad The Bald Eagle Valley Railroad was a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad which owned several rail lines in central Pennsylvania. It had its genesis in the Tyrone and Lock Haven Railroad, a financially troubled railroad chartered in 1857, which was unable to complete more than a small portion of its line before it was reorganized as the Bald Eagle Valley and funded by the PRR in 1861. Completed from Tyrone to Lock Haven in 1865 (a branch to Bellefonte had been built before 1861), it was completely controlled by the PRR and did not operate independently.", "title": "Bald Eagle Valley Railroad" }, { "docid": "4059194", "text": "The Statesman (India) The Statesman is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper founded in 1875 and published simultaneously in Kolkata, New Delhi, Siliguri and Bhubaneswar. It incorporates and is directly descended from The Friend of India, founded in 1818. It is owned by The Statesman Ltd and headquartered at Statesman House, Chowringhee Square, Kolkata, with its national editorial office at Statesman House, Connaught Place, New Delhi. It is a member of the Asia News Network. \"The Statesman\" has an average weekday circulation of approximately 180,000, and the \"Sunday Statesman\" has a circulation of 230,000. This ranks it as one of", "title": "The Statesman (India)" }, { "docid": "12146537", "text": "governmental service or a privately owned but not for profit are eligible for this permit. \"United States District Court for the District of Missouri \" On March 27, 1972, Richard L. Hetzel, the defendant, was charged with violating the Bald Eagle Act. He removed the legs and talons from a dead bald eagle he had found on a beaver dam in the Squaw National Wildlife Refuge. He obtained and kept the eagle parts to bring to a Boy Scout Organization. The court established that there was no presented evidence that the defendant had willfully violated the Act and therefore he", "title": "Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act" }, { "docid": "2341877", "text": "the same metal as their cross. Order of the Cross of the Eagle The Order of the Cross of the Eagle (; ) was instituted in 1928 by the Estonian Defence League to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Estonian independence. It was adopted as a state order in 1936. The Order of the Cross of the Eagle is bestowed to give recognition for military services and services in the field of national defence. It is awarded in civil and military divisions. The awards made to members of the military are denoted by the addition of crossed swords to the decoration.", "title": "Order of the Cross of the Eagle" }, { "docid": "4684475", "text": "Union. However, the chant was popularized in the context of ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics. During the U.S.' 7–3 win over Czechoslovakia in the second game, the crowd began chanting \"U-S-A! U-S-A!\" in support of the U.S. hockey team as the U.S. scored a decisive win over one of the best teams in the world. The chant became a fixture of the team's remaining games and gained national attention after the U.S. defeated the Soviet Union in what became known as the \"Miracle on Ice\", later moving on to beat Finland for the gold medal. In professional wrestling,", "title": "U-S-A!" }, { "docid": "17721381", "text": "above bald eagles. In one instance, a healthy adult male coyote was attacked and killed by a golden eagle. This coyote weighed after the eagle had consumed some of its internal organs. Conflicts between golden eagles and Scottish wildcats have been reported on rare occasions. In one instance, a golden eagle trying to hunt some wildcat kittens was intercepted by the mother wildcat. In the ensuing violent battle, the wildcat mother and the eagle both died. In Northern California, golden eagles have pirated lambs killed by bobcats, a species which has itself occasionally turned up in the eagle's diet. Per", "title": "Dietary biology of the golden eagle" }, { "docid": "7610835", "text": "Bald Eagle Creek (Little Juniata River tributary) Bald Eagle Creek is a tributary of the Little Juniata River in Blair County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It runs southwest through the Bald Eagle Valley at the foot of the Bald Eagle Mountain ridge to Tyrone. The longer Bald Eagle Creek (West Branch Susquehanna River) runs north in the valley from the same headlands near the Blair County/Centre County line, terminating in the West Branch Susquehanna River near Lock Haven. The main line of the Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad short line runs along the full length of both Bald Eagle", "title": "Bald Eagle Creek (Little Juniata River tributary)" }, { "docid": "11494255", "text": "division of the Camptown races as a junior, placed 3rd in Districts (and broke the District record) in the 880 as a junior, and won the West Branch conference 880 as a senior, breaking the Conference record. In his senior year, Stephens lost one track race and was awarded an honorary letter. Bald Eagle-Nittany High School Bald Eagle-Nittany High School was a public high school in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania. The building has since been renovated and is now Central Mountain Middle School. Bald Eagle-Nittany High School first opened for the 1955-56 school year. Its name originates from the area where", "title": "Bald Eagle-Nittany High School" }, { "docid": "2341875", "text": "Order of the Cross of the Eagle The Order of the Cross of the Eagle (; ) was instituted in 1928 by the Estonian Defence League to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Estonian independence. It was adopted as a state order in 1936. The Order of the Cross of the Eagle is bestowed to give recognition for military services and services in the field of national defence. It is awarded in civil and military divisions. The awards made to members of the military are denoted by the addition of crossed swords to the decoration. The Order of the Cross of", "title": "Order of the Cross of the Eagle" }, { "docid": "17721379", "text": "The Steller's, being more aggressive in disposition than its bald and white-tailed cousins, appears dominant over golden eagles here and has been photographed repeatedly displacing them from fish. On the other hand, the Japanese golden eagle is no less aggressive than other golden eagles and, in at least one case, was videotaped dominating the bigger sea eagle in a fight over fish. The smaller Pallas's sea eagle (\"Haliaeetus leucoryphus\") also overlaps in range with golden eagles but there is no published information on their relationship. Mammalian carnivores are potential competitors with golden eagles for food. Foxes may prey on the", "title": "Dietary biology of the golden eagle" } ]
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First published on November 24, 1859, what book had the alternate title the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life?
[ "On Origin of Species", "Origin of species", "On the origin of the species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life", "Origin Of Species", "On the origin of the species", "Means of Natural Selection", "The Origin of Species", "The Origin of the Species", "Preface of Origin", "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life", "Origin of Species", "On the Origin of Species", "The Origin of Species/Preface", "On the origin of species", "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 12", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 11", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 10", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 14", "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life", "The Origin of Species/Introduction", "On The Origin Of Species", "Origin of the species", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 13", "The Origin Of Species", "Qrigin of Species", "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 7", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 6", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 5", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 4", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 3", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 2", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 1", "The Origin of Species/Glossary", "On The Origin of Species", "Origin of the Species", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 9", "The Origin of Species/Chapter 8", "TOoS", "The Origin of The Species", "The origin of species" ]
[ { "docid": "408821", "text": "On the Origin of Species On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life), published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408700", "text": "On the Origin of Species On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life), published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408733", "text": "only the last chapter still to write. In September the main title still included \"\"An essay on the origin of species and varieties\"\", but Darwin now proposed dropping \"varieties\". With Murray's persuasion, the title was eventually agreed as \"On the Origin of Species\", with the title page adding \"by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life\". In this extended title (and elsewhere in the book) Darwin used the biological term \"\"races\"\" interchangeably with \"\"varieties\"\", meaning varieties within a species. He used the term broadly, and as well as discussions of \"the several", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "408734", "text": "races, for instance, of the cabbage\" and \"the hereditary varieties or races of our domestic animals and plants\", there are three instances in the book where the phrase \"races of man\" is used, referring to races of humans. \"On the Origin of Species\" was first published on Thursday 24 November 1859, priced at fifteen shillings with a first printing of 1250 copies. The book had been offered to booksellers at Murray's autumn sale on Tuesday 22 November, and all available copies had been taken up immediately. In total, 1,250 copies were printed but after deducting presentation and review copies, and", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "15229844", "text": "mechanism of inheritance remained a mystery. In the early 20th century, the rediscovery of Mendel's work led to the rapid development of genetics by Thomas Hunt Morgan and his students, and by the 1930s the combination of population genetics and natural selection in the \"neo-Darwinian synthesis\". The 1859 publication of Darwin's theory in \"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life\" is often considered the central event in the history of modern zoology. Darwin's established credibility as a naturalist, the sober tone of the work, and most", "title": "History of zoology since 1859" }, { "docid": "3059672", "text": "fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.\" Darwin responded positively to Alfred Russel Wallace's suggestion of using Spencer's new phrase \"survival of the fittest\" as an alternative to \"natural selection\", and adopted the phrase in \"The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication\" published in 1868. In \"On the Origin of Species\", he introduced the phrase in the fifth edition published in 1869, intending it to mean \"better designed for an immediate, local environment\". Herbert Spencer", "title": "Survival of the fittest" }, { "docid": "280145", "text": "common in a population. Over time, this process can result in populations that specialise for particular ecological niches (microevolution) and may eventually result in speciation (the emergence of new species, macroevolution). In other words, natural selection is a key process in the evolution of a population. Natural selection is a cornerstone of modern biology. The concept, published by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in a joint presentation of papers in 1858, was elaborated in Darwin's influential 1859 book \"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life\". He", "title": "Natural selection" }, { "docid": "4745923", "text": "his book \"An Abstract of an Essay on the Origin of Species and Varieties through Natural Selection\", but with Murray's persuasion it was eventually reduced to the snappier \"On the Origin of Species through Natural Selection\". The full title reads \"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life\", with races referring to varieties of domestic and wild organisms and not to human groups. By the end of May, Darwin's health had failed again, but after a week's hydrotherapy he was able to start correcting the proofs. He", "title": "Publication of Darwin's theory" }, { "docid": "17956246", "text": "\"struggle for existence\" in a broader sense, and chose the term as the title to the third chapter of \"On the Origin of Species\" published in 1859. Using Malthus’s idea of the struggle for existence, Darwin was able to develop his view of adaptation, which was highly influential in the formulation of the theory of natural selection. In addition, Alfred Wallace independently used the concept of the struggle for existence to help come to the same theory of evolution. Later, T.H. Huxley further developed the idea of the struggle for existence. Huxley did not fully agree with Darwin on natural", "title": "Struggle for existence" }, { "docid": "14021574", "text": "Natural Selection (manuscript) Natural Selection is a manuscript written by Charles Darwin, in which he presented his theory of natural selection and its role in biological evolution. He did not publish the work while he was alive, but wrote an abstract, titled \"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life\", which he published in 1859. Darwin regarded \"Natural Selection\" as his main work, while \"On the Origin of Species\" was written for a wider audience. He always intended to finish \"Natural Selection\", but because of frail health,", "title": "Natural Selection (manuscript)" } ]
[ { "docid": "408730", "text": "as \"1859\". Murray's response was favourable, and a very pleased Darwin told Lyell on 30 March that he would \"send shortly a large bundle of M.S. but unfortunately I cannot for a week, as the three first chapters are in three copyists’ hands\". He bowed to Murray's objection to \"abstract\" in the title, though he felt it excused the lack of references, but wanted to keep \"natural selection\" which was \"constantly used in all works on Breeding\", and hoped \"to retain it with Explanation, somewhat as thus\",— \"Through Natural Selection or the preservation of favoured races\". On 31 March Darwin", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "17680902", "text": "\"The Struggle for Mastery\" appeared on it. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918 The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918 is a scholarly history book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor. It was part of \"The Oxford History of Modern Europe\" published by the Clarendon Press in Oxford in October 1954. In an article for \"Time and Tide\" in November 1942, Taylor wrote that \"though innumerable books have been written on isolated episodes, the story of the Struggle for the Mastery of Europe has never been attempted\". He added that \"German historians cannot do it, because to", "title": "The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918" }, { "docid": "17680892", "text": "The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918 The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918 is a scholarly history book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor. It was part of \"The Oxford History of Modern Europe\" published by the Clarendon Press in Oxford in October 1954. In an article for \"Time and Tide\" in November 1942, Taylor wrote that \"though innumerable books have been written on isolated episodes, the story of the Struggle for the Mastery of Europe has never been attempted\". He added that \"German historians cannot do it, because to them the struggle (that is the resistance", "title": "The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918" }, { "docid": "19252819", "text": "both World Wars, with drastic results for the rest of the world. If the South Had Won the Civil War If the South Had Won the Civil War is a 1961 alternate history book by MacKinlay Kantor, a writer who also wrote several novels about the American Civil War as it actually happened. It was originally published in the November 22, 1960, issue of \"Look\" magazine. It generated such a response that it was published in 1961 as a book. The book is written in the manner of a history text published in the alternate reality of 1961 and describing", "title": "If the South Had Won the Civil War" }, { "docid": "20875735", "text": "and others on Earth, and in which the 'Anglo-Saxon race' had 'long ago absorbed the whole globe'. The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236 The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236 written by Robert William Cole and first published in 1900 is a science fiction novel known as one of the first space operas. It is often credited with being the first novel to introduce the concept of galactic empires, interstellar travel with spacecraft traveling at many millions of miles per hour and fleets of starships in the thousands locked in combat. The book", "title": "The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236" }, { "docid": "10765665", "text": "over a thousand public libraries in the United States alone. Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth is a non-fiction book written by British paleontologist Richard A. Fortey. It was originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers, under the title Life: An Unauthorised Biography. Fortey used this book to explain how life has evolved over the last four billion years. He discusses evolution, biology, the origin of life, and paleontology. Under its various titles Fortey's book", "title": "Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth" }, { "docid": "10765664", "text": "Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth is a non-fiction book written by British paleontologist Richard A. Fortey. It was originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers, under the title Life: An Unauthorised Biography. Fortey used this book to explain how life has evolved over the last four billion years. He discusses evolution, biology, the origin of life, and paleontology. Under its various titles Fortey's book has become a best-seller; according to WorldCat, it is in", "title": "Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth" }, { "docid": "17680894", "text": "he had written 100,000 words; by September 1952 he had finished 180,000 words; by early 1953 he had nearly completed the book. The book was published in October 1954. Its central theme is the struggle between the Great Powers for the domination of the Continent between the revolutions of 1848 and the end of the Great War. As Taylor wrote: In the state of nature which Hobbes imagined, violence was the only law, and life was 'nasty, brutish and short'. Though individuals never lived in this state of nature, the Great Powers of Europe have always done so...However, Europe has", "title": "The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918" }, { "docid": "19252806", "text": "If the South Had Won the Civil War If the South Had Won the Civil War is a 1961 alternate history book by MacKinlay Kantor, a writer who also wrote several novels about the American Civil War as it actually happened. It was originally published in the November 22, 1960, issue of \"Look\" magazine. It generated such a response that it was published in 1961 as a book. The book is written in the manner of a history text published in the alternate reality of 1961 and describing the developments of the past century, in which the Confederate States of", "title": "If the South Had Won the Civil War" }, { "docid": "20875734", "text": "The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236 The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236 written by Robert William Cole and first published in 1900 is a science fiction novel known as one of the first space operas. It is often credited with being the first novel to introduce the concept of galactic empires, interstellar travel with spacecraft traveling at many millions of miles per hour and fleets of starships in the thousands locked in combat. The book has the British Empire conquering other star systems as it had colonized the nation's of Africa, Asia", "title": "The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236" }, { "docid": "19313027", "text": "The Art of Struggle The Art of Struggle () is a 1996 poetry collection by the French writer Michel Houellebecq. The poems are in both verse and prose and cover subjects related to everyday life in contemporary Paris. An English translation by Delphine Grass and Timothy Mathews was published in 2010. The book was awarded the 1996 Prix de Flore. John Montague reviewed the book for \"The Times Literary Supplement\" in 2011: Baudelaire is Houellebecq's dark master in the lyrics and prose poems of \"The Art of Struggle\"; he pays an obvious homage in \"Fin de Soirée\", which, with its", "title": "The Art of Struggle" }, { "docid": "7533838", "text": "domination \"by North America's settler-states,\" the book concludes with a discussion paper offering a scenario for an alternate future. It was first published with the subtitle \"Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Expropriation in Contemporary North America\" by Common Courage Press in 1993 (hardcover: , paperback: ). In 1999, it was resubtitled and released in a revised and expanded edition by Arbeiter Ring Publishing (Winnipeg, ). City Lights Publishers (San Francisco) published it in 2002 as a 460-page hardcover () and paperback (). As its foreword, the book features a poem by Jimmie Durham. The preface is by Winona LaDuke", "title": "Struggle for the Land" }, { "docid": "4940681", "text": "The Book of the Damned The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work by American author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Concerning various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and inorganic materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the possible existence of creatures generally believed to be mythological, disappearances of people, and many other phenomena, the book is considered to be the first of the specific topic of anomalistics. The title of the book referred to what he termed the \"damned\" data - data which had been damned, or excluded, by modern", "title": "The Book of the Damned" }, { "docid": "20408532", "text": "of Troy\" in 1927, written by Gerald Duffy and directed by Alexander Korda. The film, and Duffy, were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Title Writing in 1929 (the first year the awards were held). The Private Life of Helen of Troy (book) The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine was published in 1925 by Bobbs Merrill and became a bestseller the following year. The book was adapted from the Greek legend of Helen of Troy and follows the famous woman's life after the burning of Troy. In the beginning, Menelaus - Helen's husband - leaves", "title": "The Private Life of Helen of Troy (book)" }, { "docid": "20270609", "text": "Boys in the Trees (book) Boys in the Trees: A Memoir is a memoir by Carly Simon. \"Boys in the Trees\" was published on November 24, 2015 by Flatiron Books. The book is titled after her 1978 album, \"Boys in the Trees\". A two-disc greatest-hits album, \"Songs From The Trees (A Musical Memoir Collection)\", was released on November 20, 2015 to accompany the memoir. Reviewing \"Boys in the Trees\", Fiona Sturges describes the book as \"primarily about [Simon's] family, her interior life and her stormy relationships with men, and her candour is frequently startling.\" Simon describes her early life as", "title": "Boys in the Trees (book)" }, { "docid": "9526987", "text": "observed that he felt suicidal on what should have been the happiest day of his life when he won an Academy Award for his screenplay for \"The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer\". He sought psychiatric help and was diagnosed as manic depressive (bipolar). The Other Side of Me (book) The Other Side Of Me is the autobiographical memoirs of American writer Sidney Sheldon published in 2005. It was also his final book. Growing up in 1930s America, the young Sidney knew what it was to struggle. Millions were out of work and the Sheldon family was forced to journey around America", "title": "The Other Side of Me (book)" }, { "docid": "18857084", "text": "Book of the 24 Philosophers The Book of the 24 Philosophers (in Latin \"Liber XXIV philosophorum\") is a philosophical and theological medieval text of uncertain authorship. The book consists of twenty-four “sentences”, “aphorisms” or “definitions” of “God”, attributed to as many philosophers attending a fictional gathering, each an attempt to answer their only remaining question, “what is God?” (\"quid Deus?\"). The first textual witness is from a 12th-century French manuscript currently at Laon. The definitions were often accompanied by a scholastic commentary in either of two redactions, the “shorter” and the “longer” commentary. Both definitions and commentary echo and weave", "title": "Book of the 24 Philosophers" }, { "docid": "408740", "text": "their own arrangements with a local publisher. He welcomed the distinguished elderly naturalist and geologist Heinrich Georg Bronn, but the German translation published in 1860 imposed Bronn's own ideas, adding controversial themes that Darwin had deliberately omitted. Bronn translated \"favoured races\" as \"perfected races\", and added essays on issues including the origin of life, as well as a final chapter on religious implications partly inspired by Bronn's adherence to \"Naturphilosophie\". In 1862, Bronn produced a second edition based on the third English edition and Darwin's suggested additions, but then died of a heart attack. Darwin corresponded closely with Julius Victor", "title": "On the Origin of Species" }, { "docid": "9317923", "text": "Races of the Dragon Races of the Dragon is an optional supplemental source book for the 3.5 edition of the \"Dungeons & Dragons\" fantasy role-playing game. This book contains info on two new races. This book offers a new race that works well with the \"Dungeons & Dragons\" sorcerers, a class that uses magical power derived from having dragon blood. The book also contains new prestige classes, feats, and spells. \"Races of the Dragon\" was written by Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, and Kolja Raven Liquette, and was published in January 2006. Cover art was by Steve Prescott, with", "title": "Races of the Dragon" }, { "docid": "5325442", "text": "It was one of Emerson's most successful publications and has been identified as a source of influence for a number of writers, including Friedrich Nietzsche. Three years after publishing his \"English Traits\", Boston's Ticknor & Fields announced on 27 December 1859, an \"early appearance\" of a new book by Emerson titled \"The Conduct of Life.\" Confirmed as \"completed\" on 10 November 1860, Emerson’s seventh major work came out on 12 December of the same year—simultaneously in the US and in Great Britain (published there by Smith, Elder & Co.). It was advertised as \"matured philosophy of the transatlantic sage\" and", "title": "The Conduct of Life" }, { "docid": "19313030", "text": "to convey the meaning of the original as accurately as possible, rather than recreate musical effects such as rhyme. This is a legitimate position; but the absence of rhyme is felt sharply because it is so integral a part of Houellebecq's message. The Art of Struggle The Art of Struggle () is a 1996 poetry collection by the French writer Michel Houellebecq. The poems are in both verse and prose and cover subjects related to everyday life in contemporary Paris. An English translation by Delphine Grass and Timothy Mathews was published in 2010. The book was awarded the 1996 Prix", "title": "The Art of Struggle" }, { "docid": "7776300", "text": "The next morning finds their entangled corpses on a piece of planking from the sunken ship. The novel is considered one of the first examples of Tasmanian Gothic literature. Eventually, the novel became known as \"For the Term of His Natural Life\" but, originally, Clarke wanted the shorter title to suggest that this story was about the universal human struggle and the future Australian race. He wanted to celebrate the survival of the human spirit in the direst circumstances. With its cruelty and systemic violence, this book, more than any other, has come to define the Australian convict past. \"For", "title": "For the Term of His Natural Life" }, { "docid": "10409420", "text": "Book preservation in developing countries Book preservation in developing countries is a growing concern among preservation and conservation librarians. Without proper resources and training, many countries around the world struggle to maintain books and manuscripts as part of their cultural history. Environmental conditions pose perhaps the greatest threat to these materials. Political instability also endangers library and museum collections. Recent contributions are helping to address specific needs and promote the development of preservation programs. All library collections experience damage from use and decay from the aging process. Due to a variety of economic, historic, environmental and political factors, libraries and", "title": "Book preservation in developing countries" }, { "docid": "7632880", "text": "Life on the Screen Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet is a book by clinical psychologist and professor Sherry Turkle. It addresses how people interact with computers, and consequences of that interaction. It was first published in November 1995. Turkle explains how peoples' opinion of computers have evolved through time and some of the implications for new users. In the section titled \"Of Dreams and Beasts\", Turkle focuses on how the boundary between humans and machines has evolved to become extremely vague. She pays great attention to the development of artificial intelligence and artificial life,", "title": "Life on the Screen" }, { "docid": "17749180", "text": "The Indian Struggle The great Indian Struggle, 1920–1942 is a two-part book by the Indian nationalist leader Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose that covers the 1920–1942 history of the Indian independence movement to end British imperial rule over India. Banned in India by the British colonial government, \"The Indian Struggle\" was published in the country only in 1948 after India became independent. The book analyses a period of the Indian independence struggle from the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movements of the early 1920s to the Quit India and Azad Hind movements of the early 1940s. The first part of \"The Indian Struggle\"", "title": "The Indian Struggle" }, { "docid": "17125938", "text": "been translated into several languages: The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property is a 1983 book by Lewis Hyde in which he examines the importance of gifts, their flow and movement and the impact that the modern market place has had on the circulation of gifts. Part of part I, \"A Theory of Gifts\", was originally published as \"The Gift Must Always Move\" in \"Co-Evolution Quarterly\" No. 35 in fall 1982. The book has been re-published with alternate subtitles: The twenty-fifth anniversary 2007 edition has a new preface and", "title": "The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property" }, { "docid": "17125937", "text": "The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property is a 1983 book by Lewis Hyde in which he examines the importance of gifts, their flow and movement and the impact that the modern market place has had on the circulation of gifts. Part of part I, \"A Theory of Gifts\", was originally published as \"The Gift Must Always Move\" in \"Co-Evolution Quarterly\" No. 35 in fall 1982. The book has been re-published with alternate subtitles: The twenty-fifth anniversary 2007 edition has a new preface and a new afterword. It has", "title": "The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property" }, { "docid": "18965701", "text": "in the \"Guardian\", concludes that Shakespeare's investigation shows \"the struggle for survival is rarely as noble as comfortable peacetime generations might wish it to be\". Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France is a book by Nicholas Shakespeare first published in 2013. The book tells the story of the author's enigmatic aunt, variously known as Vicomtesse Priscilla Doynel de la Sausserie, Priscilla Mais, and Simone Vernier, who had spent time in France during the Second World War. Shakespeare had believed that Priscilla was a hero of the", "title": "Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France" }, { "docid": "14145791", "text": "service in those circumstances. Reviews compared the situation to a real life Fawlty Towers. The first edition was published in 1998 by Summersdale as 'Running a Hotel on the Roof of the World' with the sub-title of 'Five Years in Tibet'. In 2001 the title was shortened to 'The Hotel on the Roof of the World' and an extra chapter and epilogue were added. The book has been reprinted several times, lately to include a quote by Michael Palin. The book was published in the US in 2003 by RDR Books with a new sub-title: 'From Miss Tibet to Shangri-La'.", "title": "The Hotel on the Roof of the World" }, { "docid": "13213214", "text": "24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (1968 film) 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman () is a 1968 French drama film directed by Dominique Delouche, based on the novella \"Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman\" by Stefan Zweig. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. The book on which the film is based had previously been adapted as \"24 Hours of a Woman's Life\" in 1952, and was later adapted as \"24 Hours in the Life", "title": "24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (1968 film)" }, { "docid": "9476393", "text": "had been published in Glasgow, Scotland in 1837. Brown had based his text on the previous work of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Linnaeus, noting on the title page that his book was \"embracing the arrangements of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Linnaeus\". Poe had penciled in as the last sentence to the preface of his personal copy of the first edition an acknowledgment to Brown: \"Also to Mr. T. Brown upon whose excelent [sic] book he has very largely drawn\". However, this acknowledgement was not incorporated into the second edition. The American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote that Poe made significant contributions to", "title": "The Conchologist's First Book" }, { "docid": "17366847", "text": "hieroglyphic excerpts and copied illustrations from the text. Egyptologist Horst Beinlich published a full and illustrated edition of the hieroglyphic versions of \"Book of the Faiyum\" in 1991, thus paving the road for further scholarly investigation of the text. This publication is entitled \"Das Buch vom Fayum: zum religiösen Eigenverständnis einer ägyptischen Landschaft.\" The Boulaq/Hood/Amherst papyrus is named for the three modern collectors who once held its pieces after its division in 1859. This is the best-known version of the text, as it is renowned for its exquisite illustrations and fine state of preservation. The complete text measures 7 m", "title": "Book of the Faiyum" }, { "docid": "13892830", "text": "The QI Book of the Dead The QI Book of the Dead (sold as \"The Book of the Dead\" in the United States) is the fourth title in a series of books based on the intellectual British panel game \"QI\", written by series-creator John Lloyd and head-researcher John Mitchinson. It is a book of \"quite interesting\" obituaries. \"The QI Book of the Dead\" was first published by Faber and Faber in hardback on 5 November 2009. The idea of the book originated before the television series \"QI\" was broadcast. Mitchinson wrote in an article for the \"Daily Telegraph\" newspaper that,", "title": "The QI Book of the Dead" }, { "docid": "10409426", "text": "those collections stored in the main building which has thick stone walls and a naturally occurring stable environment. These countries are coping with the transition from being under Soviet rule to self-governing states. Book preservation in developing countries Book preservation in developing countries is a growing concern among preservation and conservation librarians. Without proper resources and training, many countries around the world struggle to maintain books and manuscripts as part of their cultural history. Environmental conditions pose perhaps the greatest threat to these materials. Political instability also endangers library and museum collections. Recent contributions are helping to address specific needs", "title": "Book preservation in developing countries" }, { "docid": "13424704", "text": "Put the Book Back on the Shelf Put the Book Back on the Shelf: A Belle & Sebastian Anthology is an anthology comic book published by Image Comics. The book features 24 comics by various writers and artists based on songs by the Scottish indie pop band Belle & Sebastian. It was released on 8 March 2006. The title of the book comes from a track on the EP \"3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light\". Writer: Rick Spears Artist: Rob G. Writer: Christopher Butcher Artist: Kalman Andrasofszky Colorist: Ramon Perez Writer and artist: Andi Watson Writer: Mark Andrew Smith Artist:", "title": "Put the Book Back on the Shelf" }, { "docid": "7632884", "text": "calls \"soft mastery\" and \"bricolage\" (as opposed to the \"hard mastery\" of linear, abstract thinking and computer programming). Life on the Screen Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet is a book by clinical psychologist and professor Sherry Turkle. It addresses how people interact with computers, and consequences of that interaction. It was first published in November 1995. Turkle explains how peoples' opinion of computers have evolved through time and some of the implications for new users. In the section titled \"Of Dreams and Beasts\", Turkle focuses on how the boundary between humans and machines has", "title": "Life on the Screen" }, { "docid": "13424706", "text": "Scott Ricketts Artist: Leanne Buckley Writer and artist: David Lasky Writer: Ande J. Parks Artist: Chris Samnee Letterer: Thomas F. Zahler Writer and artist: Nicholas Bannister Colorist: Corentin Jaffré Writer and artist: Steven Griffin Put the Book Back on the Shelf Put the Book Back on the Shelf: A Belle & Sebastian Anthology is an anthology comic book published by Image Comics. The book features 24 comics by various writers and artists based on songs by the Scottish indie pop band Belle & Sebastian. It was released on 8 March 2006. The title of the book comes from a track", "title": "Put the Book Back on the Shelf" }, { "docid": "20408531", "text": "a common feminist reading of the book because of Helen's attitude toward marriage and sexuality. Because the book was published only five years after the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, it can be argued that a cultural focus on feminism and women's suffrage influenced why this book was so well received. Helen, in the book, represented a new kind of woman, who did what she wanted rather than what she was told, and defied male authority, which can be argued perpetuated the book's success. The book was adapted into a silent film \"The Private Life of Helen", "title": "The Private Life of Helen of Troy (book)" }, { "docid": "10409421", "text": "archival repositories in developing countries face exceptional challenges in book and manuscript preservation. Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East have been identified as areas with materials having critical need for preservation. Local librarians and archivists struggle to provide access for patrons while protecting the structural integrity of materials against damage from over-use, neglect, and extreme climate conditions. This is especially difficult as print materials in developing countries are often created using fragile, non-lasting paper product and ink. Providing information and education about preservation practices and principles is becoming an increasing focus for professionals working in countries with established practices.", "title": "Book preservation in developing countries" }, { "docid": "13213215", "text": "of a Woman\" in 2002. 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (1968 film) 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman () is a 1968 French drama film directed by Dominique Delouche, based on the novella \"Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman\" by Stefan Zweig. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. The book on which the film is based had previously been adapted as \"24 Hours of a Woman's Life\" in 1952, and was later adapted as", "title": "24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (1968 film)" }, { "docid": "12028527", "text": "The Focus of Life The Focus of Life, The Mutterings of AOS is a comprehensive treatise written and illustrated by Austin Osman Spare on key occult concepts he introduced in his previous writings. The book first published in 1921 by the Morland Press and edited by Fredrick Carter with an introduction by Francis Marsden. The book contains 11 full page illustrations. The first edition was quarter vellum with buckram sides, lettered in gold on the spine \"The Focus of Life\". Released in 50 copies, numbered and signed on the half-title. The book contains three \"Aphorisms\" along with various accounts of", "title": "The Focus of Life" }, { "docid": "7533839", "text": "and poems from John Trudell's \"Living in Reality\" appear as preludes to each section. Russell Means' 1982 platform for president of the Oglala people is included as an appendix. Maps of Indian land claims/treaty areas are included. The book is dedicated \"for my mother.\" The collected essays, mostly previously published, provide a history of Native American struggle for decolonization provided through the examples of the Haudenosaunee in upstate New York, the Lakotas on the northern Plains, the Lubicon Cree in northern Alberta, and the Navajo and Newe (Western Shoshone) in the upper Sonoran. The case is made that uranium mining,", "title": "Struggle for the Land" }, { "docid": "15856124", "text": "the United States. Beginning in 1969, the LDS Church began publishing the historical part of \"What of the Mormons?\" under the title \"Truth Restored\". Hinckley went on to become an apostle in the church and was the President of the Church from 1995 until his death in 2008. What of the Mormons? What of the Mormons?: A Brief Study of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a 1947 book by Gordon B. Hinckley that was published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Portions of the book continue to be published by the", "title": "What of the Mormons?" }, { "docid": "2424917", "text": "DVD (BBCDVD1106, released 16 September 2002) and as part of \"The Life Collection\". There are no extra features. The accompanying book, \"Life in the Freezer: A Natural History of the Antarctic\" by Alastair Fothergill with a foreword by David Attenborough ( ), was published by BBC Books on 4 November 1993. It is currently out of print. Life in the Freezer Life in the Freezer is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 18 November 1993. A study of the seasonal cycle of Antarctica, it was the first of", "title": "Life in the Freezer" }, { "docid": "18673980", "text": "Thakins and the Struggle for National Independence (1930–1948) Thakins and the Struggle for National Independence (1930–1948) () is a book by Tekkatho Sein Tin, first published in 2009. This book includes biographies of several key leaders of \"Dobama Asiayone\", a 1930s Burmese nationalist organization dedicated to overturn the British rule in Burma. According to the author, he wrote book at the urging Thakin Khin Nyunt, founder of Sarpay Lawka Book Center. A few surviving members of \"Dobama Asiayone\" including Thakin San Hlaing, Thakin Chit Maung (Widura), Thakin Khin Aung, Thakin Chit (Daydaye), Thakin Thein Pe (Wakema). The book contains biographies", "title": "Thakins and the Struggle for National Independence (1930–1948)" }, { "docid": "18980498", "text": "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Gardner Dozois, the thirty-first volume in an ongoing series. It was first published in hardcover, trade paperback and ebook by St. Martin's Griffin in July 2014, with a book club edition co-issued with the Science Fiction Book Club issued in the same month. The first British edition was published in trade paperback by Robinson in November 2014, under the alternate title The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 27. The book collects thirty-two novellas,", "title": "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection" }, { "docid": "7533840", "text": "coal stripping, hydropower generation, and water diversion are ecocidal as well as genocidal, and that the ecological damage poses a threat to all North Americans. Churchill also discusses the Native North American diaspora caused by their displacement. The book won the Gustavus Myers Award for Literature on Human Rights. Foreword \"by Jimmie Durham Preface \"by Winona LaDuke Introduction \"by Ward Churchill Struggle for the Land Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization is a book by Ward Churchill. It is a collection of essays on the efforts of Native Americans in the United States", "title": "Struggle for the Land" }, { "docid": "9311324", "text": "itself on the principles of the Prague Manifesto, which made it seem relatively left wing in comparison to White émigré organizations, and tried to support the cause of non-Russian ethnic groups of Russia. In addition to political activism, the SBONR published information on the history of the Russian Liberation Army. Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia The Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (In Russian: \"Soyuz' Bor'bi za Osvobozhdeniye Narodov Rossii\", Союз Борьбы за Освобождение Народов России, abbreviated as \"SBONR\", СБОНР) was an organization of anti-communist Russians, regardless", "title": "Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia" }, { "docid": "13017874", "text": "passed by the convention, the New York-based Old Guard faction returned home to work for the defeat of the Declaration in the forthcoming referendum vote. A first pamphlet was published called \"Detroit and the Party,\" written by former New York State Assemblyman Charles Solomon. The name of the committee was at this time designated as the \"Committee for the Preservation of Socialist Policies,\" changed shortly thereafter to the more familiar \"Committee for the Preservation of the Socialist Party.\" In this pamphlet, Solomon decried the Detroit Declaration of Principles as \"reckless,\" observing pointedly that \"furious phrases cannot take the place of", "title": "Committee for the Preservation of the Socialist Party" }, { "docid": "18673981", "text": "of the following: Thakins and the Struggle for National Independence (1930–1948) Thakins and the Struggle for National Independence (1930–1948) () is a book by Tekkatho Sein Tin, first published in 2009. This book includes biographies of several key leaders of \"Dobama Asiayone\", a 1930s Burmese nationalist organization dedicated to overturn the British rule in Burma. According to the author, he wrote book at the urging Thakin Khin Nyunt, founder of Sarpay Lawka Book Center. A few surviving members of \"Dobama Asiayone\" including Thakin San Hlaing, Thakin Chit Maung (Widura), Thakin Khin Aung, Thakin Chit (Daydaye), Thakin Thein Pe (Wakema). The", "title": "Thakins and the Struggle for National Independence (1930–1948)" }, { "docid": "9317956", "text": "Races of the Wild Races of the Wild is an optional supplemental source book for the 3.5 edition of the \"Dungeons & Dragons\" roleplaying game. \"Races of the Wild\" contains background information on the elves and halflings, introduces a race of winged humanoids called \"raptorans,\" as well as giving rules for playing wilderness based creatures such as fey and centaurs as player characters. \"Races of the Wild\" was written by Skip Williams and published in February 2005. Cover art was by Adam Rex, with interior art by Tom Baxa, Steve Belledin, Dennis Crabapple McClain, Wayne England, Matt Faulkner, Emily Fiegenschuh,", "title": "Races of the Wild" }, { "docid": "12789343", "text": "the film also won for Best Music Score and for Best Director. The film's dialogue is in English, Afrikaans, Oshiwambo, Otjiherero, and German. Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia. The film was written and directed by Charles Burnett, the African American filmmaker, and stars Carl Lumbly and Danny Glover. The production was financed by the government", "title": "Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation" }, { "docid": "12789342", "text": "Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia. The film was written and directed by Charles Burnett, the African American filmmaker, and stars Carl Lumbly and Danny Glover. The production was financed by the government of Namibia. Music composed by Stephen James Taylor won the award for Best African Film at the Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival where", "title": "Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation" }, { "docid": "14470842", "text": "The Races of Europe (Coon) The Races of Europe is a popular work of physical anthropology by Carleton S. Coon. It was first published in 1939 by Macmillan. In 1933, the Harvard anthropologist Carleton S. Coon was invited to write a new edition of William Z. Ripley's 1899 \"The Races of Europe\", which Coon dedicated to Ripley. Coon's entirely rewritten version of the book was published in 1939. At the time, he explicitly avoided the discussion of either blood groups or race and intelligence, the latter of which he claimed to know \"next to nothing about\" at the time. The", "title": "The Races of Europe (Coon)" }, { "docid": "15856122", "text": "What of the Mormons? What of the Mormons?: A Brief Study of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a 1947 book by Gordon B. Hinckley that was published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Portions of the book continue to be published by the LDS Church under the title Truth Restored: A Short History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hinckley wrote \"What of the Mormons?\" while he was employed as the Executive Secretary to the Church Radio, Publicity, and Mission Literature Committee. As part of the celebration of", "title": "What of the Mormons?" }, { "docid": "17956268", "text": "Nature\"\" had as an alternative title \"\"War of Nature\"\". At a later date he changed the chapter heading to \"The Struggle For Existence As Bearing On Natural Selection\" and made the section title \"\"The Struggle for existence\"\", making this his main theme to allow a broader interpretation than one of war between organisms: he used the phrase \"in a very large sense\" to include mutual dependency and the physical environmental as when \"a plant on the edge of a desert is often said to struggle for existence\" due to its need for moisture. In his \"Abstract\" of his book, quickly", "title": "Struggle for existence" }, { "docid": "11726793", "text": "The Normal Christian Life The Normal Christian Life is a book by Watchman Nee first delivered as a series of addresses to Christian workers who were gathered in Denmark for special meetings in 1938 and 1939. The messages were first published chapter by chapter in the magazine \"A Witness and A Testimony\" published by Theodore Austin-Sparks. The first chapter was published in the November–December 1940 issue. This first publication of the book can be viewed in the original magazines on Austin-Sparks.Net. The messages were later compiled into a book by Angus Kinnear in 1957 in Bombay, India. In \"The Normal", "title": "The Normal Christian Life" }, { "docid": "20898125", "text": "history of Marxist struggle in Pakistan, and various books covering history of Bolshevik revolution. Some of the books are: Partition – Can it be undone?, Pakistan's Other Story – The Revolution of 1968–69, and Kashmir, A revolutionary way out. Books in Urdu language include , whereas translated publications from other language into Urdu include . On centenary of Russian revolution; a 1,200-page translation of Leon Trotsky’s classic work, History of the Russian Revolution has been published into Urdu language by The Struggle group . It is the first time that the book has been translated to any South Asian language.", "title": "The Struggle Pakistan" }, { "docid": "19187172", "text": "New York Times\", \"The Washington Post\", the \"Chicago Tribune\", the \"Huffington Post\", \"Slate\", \"Kirkus Reviews\", and \"Publishers Weekly\". In a review for the Lambda Literary Foundation, Victoria A. Brownworth wrote, \"It is, unquestionably, a landmark book and will likely be the template by which subsequent scholarship on our collective lesbian and gay history will be judged.\" It received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2016. The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle is a 2015 book by Lillian Faderman chronicling the struggle for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights from the 1950s", "title": "The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle" }, { "docid": "15122650", "text": "Life on the Lagoons Life on the Lagoons, which deals with the history and topography of the watery area around the city of Venice, is the first book by the Scottish historian Horatio Brown. The first edition was published in London in 1884, a revised second edition appeared ten years later in 1894, and there were further editions in 1900, 1904, and 1909. The book was republished as a paperback in 2008. Brown begins by setting out the natural topography of the lagoons, then their history from the year 452. He goes on to describe the human and animal life", "title": "Life on the Lagoons" }, { "docid": "13772911", "text": "the Arminian viewpoint. The work was a major influence on the domestic and foreign missionary movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and has been the most frequently reprinted book by Edwards. The Life of David Brainerd The Life of David Brainerd, also called The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, is a biography of David Brainerd by evangelical theologian Jonathan Edwards, first published in 1749 under the title \"\"An Account of the Life of the Late Rev. David Brainerd\"\". David Brainerd was an early 18th Century American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among", "title": "The Life of David Brainerd" }, { "docid": "10272312", "text": "The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World from the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests is a 1981 book by the British classical historian G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, a fellow of New College, Oxford. The book became a classic of Marxist historiography. De Ste. Croix, a fellow of New College, Oxford, makes a wide-ranging attempt to establish the validity of historical materialist analysis of the ancient world, among other historical periods. De Ste. Croix begins with the attempt to define exactly what terms such as \"class\", \"exploitation\", \"surplus\" and", "title": "The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World" }, { "docid": "9962756", "text": "love. I have tried to express what love means to me. You will discover your own meaning. SPS\" \"Love is the source of security/Love is the source of life\" Schutz, S.P. 1986. \"To My Daughter With Love on the Important Things in Life\", Blue Mountains Press, Boulder, Colorado. To My Daughter with Love on the Important Things in Life To My Daughter With Love on the Important Things in Life is a book of poetry written by the American poet of love Susan Polis Schutz, dedicated to her daughter, Jordanna Polis Schutz. The first edition of the book was published", "title": "To My Daughter with Love on the Important Things in Life" }, { "docid": "7533837", "text": "Struggle for the Land Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization is a book by Ward Churchill. It is a collection of essays on the efforts of Native Americans in the United States and in Canada to maintain their land tenure claims against government and corporate infringement. Equating colonization with genocide and ecocide, the author provides examples of resistance. Beginning with an overview of the impact of legal doctrines established by the United States and Canada on Native peoples, and moving on to explore a series of case studies indicative of the effects of", "title": "Struggle for the Land" }, { "docid": "2390380", "text": "1963, starred Jason Robards Jr. in the title role and was broadcast on November 8, 1963. A 1970 film adaptation based on the novella starred British actor Tom Courtenay in the title role. Finland banned the film from public view, fearing that it could hurt external relations with its eastern neighbor. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ( \"Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha\" ) is a novel by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine \"Novy Mir\" (\"New World\"). The story is set in", "title": "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" }, { "docid": "19425763", "text": "The Bee on the Comb The Bee on the Comb is an armchair treasure hunt book, written and illustrated by Kit Williams and published in May 1984. It is a follow-up to Williams' previous treasure hunt book \"Masquerade\", although not a direct sequel. The book was initially published without a visible title, with the result that it is also known as \"Untitled\", and \"the bee book\" and other variations. Discovering the book's true title was the basis of a competition for readers. The book tells the story of a day in the life of a beekeeper named Ambrose, and how", "title": "The Bee on the Comb" }, { "docid": "15634852", "text": "Ameen Rihani's \"The Book of Khalid\", with the book being believed to have had an influence on Na'ima's writings. Na'ima has described the work as the \"pinnacle of his thought and a summary of his view of life\". The Book of Mirdad The Book of Mirdad is an allegorical book of philosophy by Lebanese author Mikha'il Na'ima. The book was first published in Lebanon in 1948 and was initially written in English, with Na'ima later translating it into Arabic. Na'ima initially sought to have the book published in London, where it was rejected for \"[advancing] a religion with 'a new", "title": "The Book of Mirdad" }, { "docid": "14470839", "text": "on race is usually remembered today, though little of Grant's ideology is present in Ripley's original work. In 1933, the Harvard anthropologist Carleton S. Coon was invited to write a new edition of Ripley's 1899 book, which Coon dedicated to Ripley. Coon's entirely rewritten version of the book was published in 1939. The Races of Europe (Ripley) William Z. Ripley published in 1899 The Races of Europe: A Sociological Study, which grew out of a series of lectures he gave at the Lowell Institute at Columbia in 1896. Ripley believed that race was critical to understanding human history, though his", "title": "The Races of Europe (Ripley)" }, { "docid": "17167149", "text": "The Races of Mankind The Races of Mankind is a series of 104 sculptures created for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago by sculptor Malvina Hoffman, representing the various races of humankind, and unveiled in 1933. Most of the sculptures are life-sized. The works were initially housed in Hall 3, the Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall (\"The Hall of the Races of Mankind\"). Hoffman wrote about her travels around the world to draw and model the various different types of people in her book, \"Heads and Tales\". After a period of controversy as to whether or not the exhibit", "title": "The Races of Mankind" }, { "docid": "10352353", "text": "The Last Book of Wonder The Last Book of Wonder, originally published as Tales of Wonder, is the tenth book and sixth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. The first edition, in hardcover, was published in London by Elkin Mathews in October 1916 as \"Tales of Wonder\", followed by a Boston hardcover publication in November 1916, by John W. Luce & Co.. The title of the American edition, \"The Last Book of Wonder\", was Dunsany's", "title": "The Last Book of Wonder" }, { "docid": "7226329", "text": "306). Chapter Eight of \"Raymond Williams: Hope and Defeat in the Struggle for Socialism\" \"A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.\" The Country and the City The Country and the City is a book of cultural analysis by Raymond Williams which was first published in 1973. Coming from the Welsh border, a village in the Black Mountains, Raymond Williams found that the images of rural life taught at the University of Cambridge did not match what he had seen. As an academic at Cambridge, he studied and examined the contradiction, along", "title": "The Country and the City" }, { "docid": "10310105", "text": "First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong is the official biography of Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who became the first man to walk on the Moon, on July 20, 1969. The book was written by James R. Hansen, and was first published in 2005, by Simon & Schuster. The book describes Armstrong's involvement in the United States space program (culminating with the historic Apollo 11 mission), and details his personal life and upbringing. The book has received a warm reception from several individuals associated with astronomy and the promotion of spaceflight.", "title": "First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong" }, { "docid": "4730805", "text": "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting The Book of Laughter and Forgetting () is a novel by Milan Kundera, published in France in 1979. It is composed of seven separate narratives united by some common themes. The book considers the nature of \"forgetting\" as it occurs in history, politics and life in general. The stories also contain elements found in the genre of magic realism. The original title is: \"\". It was finished in 1978 and was then published in France under the title: \"Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli\" in 1979. The English translation was first published in", "title": "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" }, { "docid": "3739063", "text": "Eternal Struggle\" named \"Vampire: The Eternal Struggle Online\" was available. It was developed and maintained by CCG Workshop. Players could create decks and compete online for a monthly fee. White Wolf Publishing had allowed CCG Workshop to release the \"Camarilla\", \"Anarchs\", \"Final Nights\", \"Legacies of Blood\", \"Black Hand\" and \"Kindred Most Wanted\" sets for online play. Vampire: The Eternal Struggle Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (published as Jyhad in the first or \"Limited\" edition and often abbreviated as V:tES) is a multiplayer collectible card game published by White Wolf Publishing. It was set in the World of Darkness. The game was", "title": "Vampire: The Eternal Struggle" }, { "docid": "15068664", "text": "The Great Game (Peter Hopkirk book) The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia (published as The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia in the USA) is a book on the history of the region by Peter Hopkirk. In this work, the author relates the story of a time best described by Captain Arthur Connolly, of the East India Company before he was beheaded in Bokhara for spying in 1842, as \"The Great Game\". The Great Game was played between the Russian Empire and Victorian Britain for supremacy in Central Asia. At stake was the preservation", "title": "The Great Game (Peter Hopkirk book)" }, { "docid": "12260411", "text": "The Book of Disquiet The Book of Disquiet (Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa) is a work by the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935). Published posthumously, \"The Book of Disquiet\" is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a \"factless autobiography.\" The publication was credited to Bernardo Soares, one of the author's alternate writing names, which he called semi-heteronyms, and had a preface attributed to Fernando Pessoa, another alternate writing name or orthonym. Much studied by \"Pessoan\" critics, who have different interpretations regarding the book's proper", "title": "The Book of Disquiet" }, { "docid": "9476388", "text": "The Conchologist's First Book The Conchologist's First Book (sometimes subtitled with \"Or, A System of Testaceous Malacology\") is an illustrated textbook on conchology issued in 1839, 1840, and 1845. The book was originally printed under Edgar Allan Poe's name. The text was based on \"Manual of Conchology\" by Thomas Wyatt, an English author and lecturer. Wyatt's original book, \"Manual of Conchology\", had been published by Harper & Brothers. Wyatt's book contained multiple illustrations of shells and carried the cover price of $8, a price too high for both beginners and advanced students of conchology. Wyatt intended a cheaper, concise edition", "title": "The Conchologist's First Book" }, { "docid": "19644385", "text": "by Benford. Alternate Empires Alternate Empires is an anthology of alternate history science fiction short stories edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg as the first volume in their What Might Have Been series. It was first published in paperback by Bantam Books in August 1989, and in trade paperback by BP Books in March 2004. It was also gathered together with \"Alternate Heroes\" into the omnibus anthology \"What Might Have Been: Volumes 1 & 2: Alternate Empires / Alternate Heroes\" (Bantam Spectra/SFBC, July 1990). The book collects twelve novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with", "title": "Alternate Empires" }, { "docid": "19644384", "text": "Alternate Empires Alternate Empires is an anthology of alternate history science fiction short stories edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg as the first volume in their What Might Have Been series. It was first published in paperback by Bantam Books in August 1989, and in trade paperback by BP Books in March 2004. It was also gathered together with \"Alternate Heroes\" into the omnibus anthology \"What Might Have Been: Volumes 1 & 2: Alternate Empires / Alternate Heroes\" (Bantam Spectra/SFBC, July 1990). The book collects twelve novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction", "title": "Alternate Empires" }, { "docid": "11956225", "text": "The Game of Life (book) The Game of Life and How to Play It, published in 1925, teaches the philosophies of its author, Florence Scovel Shinn. The book holds that ignorance of, or carelessness with the application of various 'Laws of Metaphysics' (see below) can bring about undesirable life events. Some of the Spiritual ideas Shinn explains in the book: Scovel Shinn's writing shares some common beliefs with Mary Baker Eddy, and there is some shared terminology. e.g. 'Infinite Spirit', 'Mortal Mind', 'Treatment', 'Demonstration' and 'Native Nothingness'. However her writing style is more familiar and less verbose than that of", "title": "The Game of Life (book)" }, { "docid": "20898120", "text": "with the concept for a progressive organisation they dubbed the Struggle Group which would keep the flame of protest alive, even in exile. In November 1980, the Struggle group decided to start a monthly Urdu magazine called Jidd-o-jehed or The Struggle۔ The Struggle magazine soon developed a cult status among the Pakistani diaspora, and poets like Habib Jalib, Ahmad Faraz and Faiz Ahmed Faiz started contributing to the magazine by writing revolutionary and anti-dictatorship Urdu poems for the magazine. In December 1984, the magazine published a poem Main Baaghi Hoon, written by Khalid Javaid Jan. The poem became a staple", "title": "The Struggle Pakistan" }, { "docid": "7989930", "text": "the lead protagonist, longs to work in television, and is at last given his chance towards the end of the book. However, fate seems determined to thwart him. \"Towards\" was Frayn's third book after \"The Tin Men\" and \"The Russian Interpreter\", and is probably based on his experiences at \"The Observer\" from 1962 to 1968. A central theme of the book is Dyson's struggle against what he sees as encroaching entropy – indeed, the book was published in the United States under the title Against Entropy. Towards the End of the Morning Towards The End Of The Morning is a", "title": "Towards the End of the Morning" }, { "docid": "17647824", "text": "of Americans' grief and groping for comprehension.\" Reflections on the Life, Assassination, and Legacy of John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963: Reflections on the Life, Assassination and Legacy of John F. Kennedy is a book of approximately 90 reflections on John F. Kennedy by journalists, White House staff members, family and close friends, civil rights leaders, celebrities, and individuals who had encounters with him. It was compiled by journalist and author Dean R. Owen and published in September 2013 by Skyhorse Publishing. Owen interviewed approximately 100 people for the book. He did not ask anyone questions on Kennedy’s sex life", "title": "Reflections on the Life, Assassination, and Legacy of John F. Kennedy" }, { "docid": "15122653", "text": "edition — Charles Dudley Warner, in \"A Library of the World's Best Literature\" (1896) says - Life on the Lagoons Life on the Lagoons, which deals with the history and topography of the watery area around the city of Venice, is the first book by the Scottish historian Horatio Brown. The first edition was published in London in 1884, a revised second edition appeared ten years later in 1894, and there were further editions in 1900, 1904, and 1909. The book was republished as a paperback in 2008. Brown begins by setting out the natural topography of the lagoons, then", "title": "Life on the Lagoons" }, { "docid": "17749185", "text": "in India. While a proponent of military discipline in political life and an advocate of a government by a strong party, Bose was also opposed to totalitarianism rejecting the model of the Nazi party and calling for democracy both within and among political parties. Bose's ideological leaning, which he outlines in the book, has been described as 'fascistic' but it was shaped by his increasing frustration with the failure to realise Indian independence and not by a sense of megalomania. The Indian Struggle The great Indian Struggle, 1920–1942 is a two-part book by the Indian nationalist leader Netaji Subhash Chandra", "title": "The Indian Struggle" }, { "docid": "13078236", "text": "Horse Book of Horror\". The Dark Horse Book of... The Dark Horse Book of... was the banner title given to a series of four Dark Horse Comics one-shot hardcover comic book horror anthologies edited by Scott Allie and featuring the work of Mike Mignola and others. This first volume was published on August 27, 2003 and featured Mike Mignola's only new \"Hellboy\" story for that year as well as a new \"Devil's Footprints\" story, a Victorian ghost story illustrated by Gary Gianni, and an interview with real-life séance medium L.L. Dreller. In his introduction editor Scott Allie states that he", "title": "The Dark Horse Book of..." }, { "docid": "6815247", "text": "The Book of Ahania The Book of Ahania is one of the English poet William Blake's prophetic books. It was published in 1795, illustrated by Blake's own plates. The poem of the book consists of six chapters. The content concerns Fuzon, a son of Urizen, a \"Zoa\" or major aspect in Blake's mythology. Ahania of the title is Urizen's female counterpart. During autumn 1790, Blake moved to Lambeth, Surrey. He had a studio at the new house that he used while writing his what were later called his \"Lambeth Books\", which included \"The Book of Ahania\" in 1795. Like the", "title": "The Book of Ahania" }, { "docid": "6815256", "text": "Christianity is used by many radicals. The Book of Ahania The Book of Ahania is one of the English poet William Blake's prophetic books. It was published in 1795, illustrated by Blake's own plates. The poem of the book consists of six chapters. The content concerns Fuzon, a son of Urizen, a \"Zoa\" or major aspect in Blake's mythology. Ahania of the title is Urizen's female counterpart. During autumn 1790, Blake moved to Lambeth, Surrey. He had a studio at the new house that he used while writing his what were later called his \"Lambeth Books\", which included \"The Book", "title": "The Book of Ahania" }, { "docid": "17647820", "text": "Reflections on the Life, Assassination, and Legacy of John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963: Reflections on the Life, Assassination and Legacy of John F. Kennedy is a book of approximately 90 reflections on John F. Kennedy by journalists, White House staff members, family and close friends, civil rights leaders, celebrities, and individuals who had encounters with him. It was compiled by journalist and author Dean R. Owen and published in September 2013 by Skyhorse Publishing. Owen interviewed approximately 100 people for the book. He did not ask anyone questions on Kennedy’s sex life or conspiracy theories related to the president’s", "title": "Reflections on the Life, Assassination, and Legacy of John F. Kennedy" }, { "docid": "14443802", "text": "draws parallels between the characters in her life and the strategies of the game... The author, frustrated at his inability to find a publisher, set up his own publishing house CB Editions to get it in to print, using the proceeds of an uncle's will to fund it. After receiving positive reviews the book then gained the backing of Bloomsbury Publishing who published it with a quote on the cover from Mick Jagger saying that he 'loved it'. It was published under the title The Rules of Play in the US by Soho Press in 2010. 24 for 3 24", "title": "24 for 3" } ]
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Bill Bixby starred as the human Dr. Bruce Banner in the 1970's TV series The Incredible Hulk. Which former Mr. Universe portrayed the Hulk in that very same series?
[ "Lou Ferrigno", "Shanna Ferrigno", "Lou Ferrigno, Jr.", "Lou Farigno", "Ferrigno", "Lou Ferrigno Jr.", "Little Gurly Man", "Lou Ferringo", "Lou Ferrrigno", "Lou Ferigno" ]
[ { "docid": "4043415", "text": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series) The Incredible Hulk is an American television series based on the Marvel Comics character The Hulk. The series aired on the CBS television network and starred Bill Bixby as Dr. David Bruce Banner, Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk, and Jack Colvin as Jack McGee. In the TV series, Dr. David Banner, a widowed physician and scientist, who is presumed dead, travels across America under assumed names, and finds himself in positions where he helps others in need despite his terrible secret: in times of extreme anger or stress, he transforms into a huge, incredibly", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "9023807", "text": "The Death of the Incredible Hulk The Death of the Incredible Hulk is a 1990 American made-for-television superhero film, the last of three revival films based on the 1978–1982 television series \"The Incredible Hulk\". Bill Bixby reprises his role as Dr. David Bruce Banner and Lou Ferrigno returns to play the Hulk. It was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Prior to Bill Bixby's death in 1993, there was talk of a movie \"The Rebirth of the Incredible Hulk\" television movie which would resurrect the character. David Banner (Bill Bixby) masquerades as David Bellamy, a mentally challenged janitor, to gain", "title": "The Death of the Incredible Hulk" }, { "docid": "9023817", "text": "was released again, 13 years later on DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on June 3, 2003. The Death of the Incredible Hulk The Death of the Incredible Hulk is a 1990 American made-for-television superhero film, the last of three revival films based on the 1978–1982 television series \"The Incredible Hulk\". Bill Bixby reprises his role as Dr. David Bruce Banner and Lou Ferrigno returns to play the Hulk. It was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Prior to Bill Bixby's death in 1993, there was talk of a movie \"The Rebirth of the Incredible Hulk\" television movie which", "title": "The Death of the Incredible Hulk" }, { "docid": "4043435", "text": "later re-edited into one-hour length (two-parters) for syndication. They were produced as pilots before the series officially began in 1978: After the cancellation of the television series in 1982, three television movies were produced with Bixby and Ferrigno reprising their roles. All of these aired on NBC: Despite the apparent death of the Hulk in the 1990 film, another Hulk television movie was planned, \"Revenge of the Incredible Hulk\". It was rumored that in this film the Hulk would be able to talk after being revived with Banner's mind, and that it was abandoned due to Bill Bixby's death of", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "10250973", "text": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series) The Incredible Hulk is an American animated television series starring the Marvel Comics character the Hulk. It ran two seasons, for 21 episodes, on the television network UPN from 1996 to 1997. Lou Ferrigno, who portrayed Universal's version of the Hulk on the live-action TV series from 1978 to 1982, provided the Hulk's voice. The show often featured cameo appearances by characters from other Marvel cartoons of the period. In the second season, the show's format, after UPN decided that season one was too dark, was changed, and to give \"female viewers a chance\",", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "10250993", "text": "Sweden, and Germany, \"20th Century Fox Home Entertainment\" and \"Clear Vision Ltd.\" has released all six seasons on DVD as of November 24, 2008 and September 6, 2010. Other releases The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series) The Incredible Hulk is an American animated television series starring the Marvel Comics character the Hulk. It ran two seasons, for 21 episodes, on the television network UPN from 1996 to 1997. Lou Ferrigno, who portrayed Universal's version of the Hulk on the live-action TV series from 1978 to 1982, provided the Hulk's voice. The show often featured cameo appearances by characters from other", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "4043425", "text": "Hulk himself. Johnson also omitted the comic book's supporting characters, instead using original character Jack McGee. Johnson changed the name of the Hulk's comic book alter ego, Dr. Bruce Banner, to Dr. David Banner for the TV series. This change was made, according to Johnson, because he did not want the series to be perceived as a comic book series, so he wanted to change what he felt was a staple of comic books, and Stan Lee's comics in particular, that major characters frequently had alliterative names. According to both Stan Lee and Lou Ferrigno, it was also changed because", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "11045227", "text": "and its subsequent television films. Created by Universal Studios, it starred Bill Bixby as Dr. David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk. It does not follow the comic book-fantasy format, omits the typical villains or supporting characters, and Hulk does not speak, but only growls and roars. In this series, David Banner becomes the Hulk, is assumed dead, and goes on the run while being pursued by tabloid investigative reporter Jack McGee (Jack Colvin), who is bent on proving that the creature exists. The two-hour pilot movie, which established the Hulk's origins, aired on November 4, 1977. The series", "title": "Hulk in other media" }, { "docid": "4043432", "text": "writer and artist team who created the Hulk for Marvel Comics, both made cameo appearances in the series. Kirby's cameo was in the season two episode \"No Escape\", while Lee appeared as a juror in \"Trial of the Incredible Hulk\" (the 1989 post-series TV movie). Initially the Hulk's facial make-up was quite monstrous, but after both pilots, the first two weekly episodes and New York location shooting for the fourth, the design was toned down. The makeup process used to transform Ferrigno into the Hulk took three hours. The hard contact lenses Ferrigno wore to simulate the Hulk's electric-green eyes", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "12379875", "text": "\"The Incredible Hulk\" TV series, starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno, both of whom were prominently featured and interviewed over the course of the magazine's run, as was executive producer Kenneth Johnson. The series had a second run of six issues from August 1998 to January 1999. \"The Rampaging Hulk\" ran for nine issues from January 1977 to June 1978. With issue #10 (Aug. 1978), the bi-monthly magazine changed its title to \"The Hulk!\" and became a full-color book utilizing \"Marvelcolor\". The magazine featured fully painted covers by such artists as Ken Barr, Earl Norem, and Joe Jusko. Norem's work", "title": "The Rampaging Hulk" }, { "docid": "4923224", "text": "Studios co-produce the project. Bill Bixby was going to direct the TV-movie, in addition to reprising the role of David Banner. However, Universal eventually cancelled the project. Hammond said he was told that Lou Ferrigno was unavailable to reprise his role as the Hulk, because he was in Italy filming Hercules. However, in his 2003 autobiography My Incredible Life as the Hulk, Ferrigno stated that he was never contacted about the project, adding that he had recently finished filming Hercules II and that his availability was not an issue. The Amazing Spider-Man (TV series) The Amazing Spider-Man is the first", "title": "The Amazing Spider-Man (TV series)" }, { "docid": "427616", "text": "culture memes. One of the most iconic characters in popular culture, the character has appeared on a variety of merchandise, such as clothing and collectable items, inspired real-world structures (such as theme park attractions), and been referenced in a number of media. Banner and the Hulk have been adapted in live-action, animated, and video game incarnations. The most notable of these were the 1970s \"The Incredible Hulk\" television series, in which the character was portrayed by Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. The character was first played in a live-action feature film by Eric Bana, with Edward Norton and Mark Ruffalo", "title": "Hulk (comics)" }, { "docid": "4043429", "text": "rejected due to his inadequate height, according to Johnson in his commentary on \"The Incredible Hulk – Original Television Premiere\" DVD release. Actor Richard Kiel was hired for the role. During filming, however, Kenneth Johnson's own son pointed out that Kiel's tall-but-underdeveloped physique did not resemble the Hulk's at all. Soon, Kiel was replaced with professional bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno, although a very brief shot of Kiel (as the Hulk) remains in the pilot. According to an interview with Kiel, who saw properly out of only one eye, he reacted badly to the contact lenses used for the role, and also", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" } ]
[ { "docid": "4043417", "text": "who also wrote or directed some episodes. The series ends with David Banner continuing to search for a cure. In 1988, the filming rights were purchased from CBS by rival NBC. They produced three television films: \"The Incredible Hulk Returns\" (directed by Nicholas J. Corea), \"The Trial of the Incredible Hulk\", and \"The Death of the Incredible Hulk\" (both directed by Bill Bixby). Since its debut, \"The Incredible Hulk\" series has garnered a worldwide fan base. David Bruce Banner, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician and scientist employed at the Culver Institute who is traumatized by the car accident that killed", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "9106725", "text": "Banner. Banner is forced to end his relationship with Shaw and once again leaves to find a cure. Unlike the preceding series which was produced by MCA/Universal, this film and the following two sequels were produced by New World Television (New World was Marvel's owner at the time) and Bill Bixby's production outfit, which, in association with NBC, took over the \"Hulk\" television franchise from former broadcaster CBS. Bill Bixby recruited Nicholas Corea, who wrote and/or directed many episodes of the \"Incredible Hulk\" TV series, to write and direct \"The Incredible Hulk Returns\". Stan Lee was a consultant on the", "title": "The Incredible Hulk Returns" }, { "docid": "9491025", "text": "one of the layout artists for \"The Incredible Hulk\". The character design for both Bruce Banner and the Hulk were based on the artwork of Sal Buscema, who penciled the Incredible Hulk comic during the 1970s and 1980s. There is also the more frequently remembered quirk that whenever the Hulk transformed back to Bruce Banner, his clothes would miraculously return to normal (instead of being with only what is left of his pants, as happens in the comics and subsequent media). Also, the series would frequently reuse the same stock sequences when Banner transformed into the Hulk. Bruce Banner was", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1982 TV series)" }, { "docid": "9106720", "text": "The Incredible Hulk Returns The Incredible Hulk Returns is a 1988 American made-for-television superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk which serves as a continuation of the 1978–1982 television series \"The Incredible Hulk\". In \"The Incredible Hulk Returns\", Dr. David Banner, a scientist who transforms into a green-skinned superhuman monster when enraged, believes that he has found a potential cure for his condition, but he is sabotaged by the inexplicable arrival of the arrogant warrior-god Thor, who has been banished from Valhalla. The two then team-up to battle a rising criminal organisation. Bill Bixby returns as Banner", "title": "The Incredible Hulk Returns" }, { "docid": "9491024", "text": "of fantastical elements. This was the second Hulk animated series: in 1966, the Hulk appeared in 13 seven-minute segments as part of TV's \"The Marvel Super Heroes\". The series focuses on Dr. Bruce Banner attempting to cure himself of his transformations into the Hulk, and the Hulk defeating various monsters and villains whilst fending off the army's attempts to subdue and capture him. The 1982 \"Incredible Hulk\" series featured accompanying narration by Hulk co-creator Stan Lee. Some of the same background music tracks were used for \"Dungeons & Dragons\". Boyd Kirkland, who became a writer/director for \"\" and \"\", was", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1982 TV series)" }, { "docid": "14231161", "text": "\"Indestructible Hulk\", by writer Mark Waid and artist Leinil Yu. \"Hulk\" vol. 2 became \"Red She-Hulk\" with issue #58 (Dec. 2012). In 2017, \"The Incredible Hulk\" was relaunched with issue #709 with the series using \"legacy numbering\". However, the main character will be Amadeus Cho instead of Bruce Banner, since Cho succeeded Banner as the Hulk as shown in the \"Totally Awesome Hulk\" series The Incredible Hulk (comic book) The Incredible Hulk is an ongoing comic book series featuring the Marvel Comics superhero the Hulk and his alter ego Dr. Bruce Banner. First published in May 1962, the series ran", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (comic book)" }, { "docid": "10250974", "text": "the network ordered that She-Hulk be made a regular co-star. As a result, the series was officially renamed \"The Incredible Hulk and She-Hulk\". The second season also featured the Grey Hulk, who previously made two cameo appearances in the first season. The first season begins with Dr. Robert Bruce Banner already established as the Hulk and on the run, captured by the military after another attempt at ridding himself of the beast within goes awry. He eventually escapes, and falls into the hands of the Leader who is served by Gargoyle and Abomination. The intervention of mutated cave dwelling gamma", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "4043439", "text": "Incredible Hulk- The Complete Series\" on DVD in the UK on September 30, 2008. They subsequently released the complete series (not including the three post-series TV movies) on Blu-ray on December 12, 2016. The TV series led to a syndicated newspaper strip that ran from 1978 to 1982. It used the same background and origin story as the TV series but narrated stories outside the TV series. In 1979, a Hulk \"video novel\" in paperback form was released, with pictures and dialog from the pilot. The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series) The Incredible Hulk is an American television series based", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "9491023", "text": "The Incredible Hulk (1982 TV series) The Incredible Hulk is an animated television series based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The series ran for 13 episodes on NBC in 1982, part of a combined hour with \"Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends\" (as The Incredible Hulk and the Amazing Spider-Man). Compared to the live-action \"The Incredible Hulk\" television series from Universal, this series followed the Hulk comic books much more closely, particularly with regard to the Hulk's origin, the supporting cast (though Rio and his daughter Rita do not appear in the comics), and the heavy use", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1982 TV series)" }, { "docid": "14231147", "text": "The Incredible Hulk (comic book) The Incredible Hulk is an ongoing comic book series featuring the Marvel Comics superhero the Hulk and his alter ego Dr. Bruce Banner. First published in May 1962, the series ran for six issues before it was cancelled in March 1963, and the Hulk character began appearing in \"Tales to Astonish\". With issue #102, \"Tales to Astonish\" was renamed to \"The Incredible Hulk\" in April 1968, becoming its second volume. The series continued to run until issue #474 in March 1999 when it was replaced with the series \"Hulk\" which ran until February 2000 and", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (comic book)" }, { "docid": "9161555", "text": "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk The Trial of the Incredible Hulk is a 1989 American made-for-television superhero film based on the 1978–1982 television series \"The Incredible Hulk\" featuring both the Hulk and fellow Marvel Comics character Daredevil, who team up to defeat Wilson Fisk. As was the case with \"The Incredible Hulk Returns\", this television movie also acted as a backdoor television pilot for a series, in this case, for Daredevil (which was not produced). It was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. \"The Trial of the Incredible Hulk\" was directed by and starring Bill Bixby. Also starring are", "title": "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk" }, { "docid": "4043437", "text": "5.4/10, while the first season has a rating of 75% based on eight reviews, for an average rating of 6.0/10. A retrospective on the TV series reported that the episodes fans of the show most often cite as the best of the series are \"The Incredible Hulk\", \"Married\", \"Mystery Man\", \"Homecoming\", \"The Snare\", \"Prometheus\", \"The First\" and \"Bring Me the Head of the Hulk\". All three of the NBC TV movies (\"The Incredible Hulk Returns\", \"The Trial of the Incredible Hulk\" and \"The Death of the Incredible Hulk\") have been available on DVD since 2003; the first two were released", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "10250988", "text": "battle Doctor Doom once more, or participate in a fight during Jennifer's high school reunion party (where She-Hulk temporarily changed back to Jennifer). The episode \"Mind Over Anti-Matter\" features Doctor Strange and She-Hulk journeying into the mind of Bruce Banner when Banner is possessed by an evil demon alien. Banner in the process turns into a monstrous Dark Hulk. She-Hulk provides levity at the sorcerer's expense by referring to him as Doctor Peculiar and other variations of his name. The Grey Hulk's mob persona of \"Mr. Fixit\" surfaced for a brief appearance. The series concluded on a heavily rushed and", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "14231158", "text": "2000) the series was restarted as \"The Incredible Hulk\" vol. 3 New series writer Paul Jenkins developed the Hulk's multiple personalities, and his run was followed by Bruce Jones. Jones' storyline featuring Banner being pursued by a secret conspiracy and aided by the mysterious Mr. Blue. Jones appended his 43-issues of \"Incredible Hulk\" with the limited series \"Hulk/Thing: Hard Knocks\" #1–4 (Nov. 2004 – Feb. 2005), which Marvel published after putting the ongoing series on hiatus. Peter David, who had initially signed a contract for the six-issue \"Tempest Fugit\" limited series, returned as writer when it was decided to make", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (comic book)" }, { "docid": "12379879", "text": "and from Bruce Banner based on his emotions, and wearing tattered purple trousers; whereas in the claimed time frame he spoke fluent if gangsterish English, transformed via a gamma ray machine, and wore neat purple trunks. With its retitling to \"The Hulk!\", the series turned to using stories set contemporaneously with the majority of Marvel publications (including its sister title \"The Incredible Hulk\"). It also adopted the same formula of the popular \"Incredible Hulk\" TV series: human interest driven, with no supporting cast, no supervillains, and no guest stars. Although \"Rampaging Hulk\" / \"The Hulk!\" was intended to feature stand-alone", "title": "The Rampaging Hulk" }, { "docid": "7993778", "text": "The Incredible Hulk (film) The Incredible Hulk is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Louis Leterrier, with a screenplay by Zak Penn. It stars Edward Norton as Bruce Banner, alongside Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell, and William Hurt. In \"The Incredible Hulk\", Bruce Banner becomes the Hulk as an unwitting pawn in a military scheme to reinvigorate the “Super-Soldier” program through gamma radiation. On", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (film)" }, { "docid": "4043420", "text": "from the local authorities or McGee. Prior to the beginning of the series, a different version was used for the second pilot movie, \"The Return of the Incredible Hulk\" (later re-titled \"Death in the Family\"): Main Recurring Often Banner's inner struggle is paralleled by the dilemmas of the people he encounters, who find in Dr. Banner a sympathetic helper. Producer Kenneth Johnson stated, \"What we were constantly doing was looking for thematic ways to touch the various ways that the Hulk sort of manifested itself in everyone. In Dr. David Banner, it happened to be anger. In someone else, it", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "7224720", "text": "The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga is a video game that was developed by Attention to Detail and published by Eidos Interactive for the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and MS-DOS in 1996. The single player, side-scrolling action game is loosely based on storylines from the early 1990s issues of the \"Incredible Hulk\" comic book series. In the 1990s, the \"Incredible Hulk\" comic book series featured the Hulk (now with the Bruce Banner and Hulk personalities merged into a functional whole) being kidnapped by the Pantheon superhero team/family, and eventually agrees to lead the team to", "title": "The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga" }, { "docid": "4043428", "text": "adult show that kids could enjoy. He took a comic book character and made him somewhat plausible. Women liked it and men liked it and teenagers liked it... It was beautifully done. He changed it quite a bit from the comic book, but every change he made, made sense.\" For the role of Dr. David Banner, Kenneth Johnson cast Bill Bixby—his first choice for the role. Jack Colvin was cast as \"Jack McGee\", the cynical tabloid newspaper reporter—modeled after the character of Javert in \"Les Misérables\"—who pursues the Hulk. Arnold Schwarzenegger auditioned for the role of the Hulk but was", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "5912073", "text": "enemies. The game includes the voice talent of Ron Perlman, Richard Moll, and Neal McDonough, who reprises his role of Bruce Banner which he first began in the 1996 Incredible Hulk animated series. Players are able to unlock different versions of the hulk including Joe Fixit, Grey Hulk, The Abomination, and a version where Bruce doesn't evolve into the Hulk but still contains it's rage and powers. Players can also unlock different coloured shorts as well. The game's prologue reveals that Bruce Banner has exiled himself in a cabin in the American badlands as he attempts to create a machine", "title": "The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction" }, { "docid": "9491027", "text": "a release schedule of Marvel animated series. However, due to unforeseen circumstances the release day was pushed back to October, and then again to November 3. Liberation Entertainment then closed its UK division, making 12 staff redundant. This brought many delays to the releases. Lace International bought the rights to distribute the series on DVD. Amazon.co.uk was the first store to receive stocks of the resulting two disc DVD set, which includes a short restoration featurette. Clear Vision re-released the series on DVD in the UK on the June 7, 2010. The Incredible Hulk (1982 TV series) The Incredible Hulk", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1982 TV series)" }, { "docid": "4043438", "text": "by Anchor Bay Entertainment, while \"The Death of the Incredible Hulk\" was released by 20th Century Fox Video. A double-sided DVD entitled \"The Incredible Hulk – Original Television Premiere\", which contained the original pilot and the \"Married\" episodes, was released by Universal Studios DVD in 2003 to promote Ang Lee's \"Hulk\" motion picture. A 6-disc set entitled \"The Incredible Hulk – The Television Series Ultimate Collection\" was released by Universal DVD later in 2003. Universal released all 5 seasons on DVD in Region 1 between 2006-2008. Additionally, a complete series DVD Set was released as well. Fabulous Films released \"The", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "4043433", "text": "had to be removed every 15 minutes because he found wearing them physically painful, and the green fright wig he wore as the Hulk was made of dyed yak hair. Joe Harnell, one of Kenneth Johnson's favorite composers, composed the music for \"The Incredible Hulk\". He was brought into the production due to his involvement with the series \"The Bionic Woman\", which Johnson had also created and produced. Some of the series' music was collected into an album titled \"\". The show's main theme, \"The Lonely Man\"—a sad, solo piano tune—is always heard during the closing credits—which usually shows Banner", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "10250986", "text": "to sabotage the re-merge experiment. He is interrupted by Rick, whom he hurls into the vat containing Banner and the Hulk. The experiment malfunctions, and the vat erupts; from it emerges a gamma-powered, hulk-like Jones, who escapes into the night, as the distraught but healthy Banner suddenly transforms into the Grey Hulk. \"The Incredible Hulk and She-Hulk\" begins where the first season concluded, with the Grey Hulk in the mountains, solely pursued by the still insane Ross. An altercation between the two results in an avalanche that puts Ross in a coma, and knocks out Banner. When Banner comes to,", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "9491026", "text": "played by voice actor Michael Bell, while the Hulk himself was voiced by Bob Holt, whose stock library of roars created for this series would be used in various other Marvel Productions series and movies. Scenes from \"Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends\" and \"The Incredible Hulk\" were re-cut, edited, and re-dubbed into comical shorts as part of Disney XD's Marvel Mash-Up shorts for their \"Marvel Universe on Disney XD\" block of programming that includes \"Ultimate Spider-Man\" and \"\". The series was planned for release on Region 2 DVD in the UK in August 2008 by Liberation Entertainment as part of", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1982 TV series)" }, { "docid": "4043436", "text": "cancer in November 1993, but Gerald Di Pego (writer/executive producer of \"The Trial of the Incredible Hulk\", \"The Death of the Incredible Hulk\", and \"Revenge of the Incredible Hulk\") revealed that the film was cancelled before Bixby's health began to decline, due to disappointing ratings for \"Death of\", and that Banner was to have been revived without the ability to change into the Hulk at all, only reverting to (still non-speaking) Hulk form in the film's final act. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the two-hour pilot has a score of 57% based on seven reviews, for an average rating of", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "9106728", "text": "Hulk would next appear on-screen together in 2012's \"The Avengers\", played by Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo respectively. \"The Incredible Hulk Returns\" was a major ratings success, outdoing even the high expectations directed to it as a reunion of the \"Incredible Hulk\" TV series. This television film was released by Anchor Bay Entertainment on May 13, 2008 along with \"The Trial of the Incredible Hulk\" as a DVD double feature. They were re-released by Image Entertainment on October 11, 2011. The Incredible Hulk Returns The Incredible Hulk Returns is a 1988 American made-for-television superhero film based on the Marvel Comics", "title": "The Incredible Hulk Returns" }, { "docid": "10250978", "text": "blood transfusion that transforms her into the She-Hulk. Jennifer takes immediate delight in her transformed body (in the model of Sensational She-Hulk) and chooses to remain in her She-Hulk form full-time. Dorian Harewood reprised his role of War Machine from the solo \"Iron Man\" animated series in the episode \"Helping Hand, Iron Fist\". He originally stops Rick Jones from seeing Tony Stark (voiced by Robert Hays, who was also reprising his \"Iron Man\" role) at Stark Enterprises, but takes him to Stark after Jones explained that he needed Stark's help to find Bruce Banner. He later alerts Stark of the", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "10250976", "text": "is a 3-star general who sends Army forces and Hulkbusters (Dr. Craig Saunders, Jr. and Dr. Samuel J. La Roquette (later Rock and Redeemer) were also mentioned as members) to capture or destroy the Hulk. He also fights the Hulk personally, using a laser gun Bruce Banner created against the creature in \"Return of the Beast, part 1 and 2\", and again in \"Darkness and Light part 3\". Glenn Talbot was shown acting as the right-hand man of General Ross. He is also shown to have a romantic interest in Betty Ross, but she constantly rejects him because he never", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "14231148", "text": "was retitled to \"The Incredible Hulk\"s third volume, running until March 2007 when it became \"The Incredible Hercules\" with a new title character. \"The Incredible Hulk\" returned in September 2009 beginning at issue #600, which became \"The Incredible Hulks\" in November 2010 and focused on the Hulk and the modern incarnation of his expanded family. The series returned to \"The Incredible Hulk\" in December 2011 and ran until January 2013, when it was replaced with \"The Indestructible Hulk\" as part of Marvel's Marvel NOW! relaunch. The original series was canceled with issue #6 (March 1963). Lee had written each story,", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (comic book)" }, { "docid": "10250991", "text": "by Clear Vision, who re-released the set on July 5, 2010, Season 2 (Incredible Hulk and She-Hulk) was released in the UK on September 6, 2010. It is currently owned and distributed by The Walt Disney Company, which acquired all Fox Kids-related properties from News Corporation and Saban International in 2001. All 21 episodes are currently available for streaming on Marvel.com and Netflix. Toys based on the show were produced. Following the success of the live-action Marvel films featuring The Hulk, The Walt Disney Company began airing the series in syndication. The entire series is available on iTunes, Amazon Prime", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "10250983", "text": "so that Bruce Banner can help cure a gamma-based outbreak unintentionally caused by Gargoyle (in his search to cure his disfigurement). Over the course of the season running sub-plots gradually unfold, centering mostly on several of the supporting cast, the season slowly covers the following: These plot threads converge in the three-part season finale \"Darkness and Light\", where Betty's gamble pays off and the Hulk and Banner are separated. The Hulk emerges virtually mindless and unrestrained. Banner feels responsible and confronts the creature in an armored battle suit. The Leader finally gains the power of the Hulk, but the strength", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "10701084", "text": "in an attempt to trap his creation a female clone of Spider-Man). She, under the alias \"Dr. Julia Carpenter'\" is caught and nearly experimented upon, but rescued by Spider-Man. Meanwhile, Sterns injects himself with a serum, thus changing into a Hulk/Leader hybrid. Sterns is later defeated by both Spider-Woman and Spider-Man. In the film universe, Bruce Banner / Hulk is initially played by actor Edward Norton in \"The Incredible Hulk\" but is replaced by Mark Ruffalo from \"The Avengers\" onwards. In his first appearance in \"The Incredible Hulk\" Banner is part of a program that attempts to recreate the Super-Soldier", "title": "Alternative versions of the Hulk" }, { "docid": "11045226", "text": "Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and Sub-Mariner also from that series. They were all based on the early stories from \"The Incredible Hulk\" and \"Tales to Astonish\" comic book series from Marvel. The series shows Bruce Banner's origin of becoming the Hulk and struggling to keep his dual identity a secret from everyone, as well as trying to maintain his romance with Betty Ross, friendship with Rick Jones—the only one knowing that Banner and the Hulk are the same, and first battling super-villains such as the Leader. The Hulk appeared in the 1978–1982 live action television series, \"The Incredible Hulk\",", "title": "Hulk in other media" }, { "docid": "10250984", "text": "drives him mad, forcing him to abandon the power and restore it to the creature. At the beginning of season two the Leader turned back in Samuel Sterns and is degraded by Gargoyle in the same way as before. With the help of Grey Hulk, the Leader went back to his old form. Also in the season finale of the first season, Rick Jones falls into the radiation-saturated Nutrient Bath, (which had been used to separate Hulk and Bruce Banner, and was at that moment being used to fuse them back together), Rick soaks up enough of the gamma radiation", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "7993839", "text": "character to play a more prominent role in \"\", \"\", and \"\" , stating, \"We’ve worked a really interesting arc into \"Thor[: Ragnarok]\", \"Avengers[: Infinity War]\", and [\"Avengers: Endgame\"] for Banner that I think will – when it’s all added up – will feel like a Hulk movie, a standalone movie.\" The Incredible Hulk (film) The Incredible Hulk is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Louis Leterrier, with", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (film)" }, { "docid": "9161563", "text": "along with \"The Incredible Hulk Returns\" as a DVD double feature. They were re-released by Image Entertainment on October 11, 2011. The Trial of the Incredible Hulk The Trial of the Incredible Hulk is a 1989 American made-for-television superhero film based on the 1978–1982 television series \"The Incredible Hulk\" featuring both the Hulk and fellow Marvel Comics character Daredevil, who team up to defeat Wilson Fisk. As was the case with \"The Incredible Hulk Returns\", this television movie also acted as a backdoor television pilot for a series, in this case, for Daredevil (which was not produced). It was filmed", "title": "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk" }, { "docid": "59716", "text": "her guest appearance. Future star Loni Anderson also guest starred with Bixby during the first season. Bixby directed one episode of the series, \"Bring Me the Head of the Hulk\" in 1980 (original airdate: January 9, 1981). The series was canceled after the following season, but leftover episodes aired as late as the next June. Bixby later executive-produced and reprised the role in three television movies – \"The Incredible Hulk Returns\", \"The Trial of the Incredible Hulk\", and \"The Death of the Incredible Hulk\" – the last two of which he also directed, and the first of which he has", "title": "Bill Bixby" }, { "docid": "4043416", "text": "strong green creature, who has been named \"The Hulk\". In his travels, Banner earns money by working temporary jobs while searching for a way to either control or cure his condition. All the while, he is obsessively pursued by a tabloid newspaper reporter, Jack McGee, who is convinced that the Hulk is a deadly menace whose exposure would enhance his career. The series' two-hour pilot movie, which established the Hulk's origins, aired on November 4, 1977. The series' 82 episodes was originally broadcast by CBS over five seasons from 1978 to 1982. It was developed and produced by Kenneth Johnson,", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "4043419", "text": "disappears, a reporter publishes a story blaming the \"Incredible Hulk\" for both his and his colleague's apparent deaths. Banner endlessly drifts from place to place, assuming different identities and odd jobs to support himself and sometimes to enable his research. He finds himself feeling obliged to help the people he meets out of whatever troubles have befallen them. Meanwhile, McGee continues to pursue the mysterious monster, whom he believes got away with a double murder. Towards the end of each episode, Dr. Banner almost always flees the town, scared that publicity over the Hulk's rampages will eventually bring unwanted scrutiny", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "9023815", "text": "the Incredible Hulk\", again with Gerald Di Pego as writer. As of July 10, 1990, a script was being written. It has been reported that the fourth film would have featured the Hulk with Banner's mind, and that the project was canceled because of Bill Bixby's struggle with cancer, but Di Pego has refuted both these claims as fan rumors, pointing out that Bixby's health had not yet begun to decline at the time the film was canceled. Di Pego said that the plot for \"The Revenge of the Incredible Hulk\" began with Banner being revived, but no longer able", "title": "The Death of the Incredible Hulk" }, { "docid": "10250977", "text": "does a very good job of hiding his disdain for either Bruce Banner or the Hulk. Traveling across the nation and beyond, even venturing into the coldest depths of Canada, Banner meets kindred spirits also battling similar problems, fights beings of pure energy, and must endure an alliance with the Gargoyle to provide the antidote to a viral epidemic that nearly takes Betty's life and countless others. Not even his family is safe from the terror his hidden powers bring, as his best friend and cousin Jennifer Walters is critically injured by Doctor Doom, forcing Banner to give her a", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "10250975", "text": "creatures, Banner's loyal friend Rick Jones, and the love of his life Betty Ross (like in many comic book incarnations, Betty along with Doc Samson is seen here trying to find a cure for Bruce Banner, who becomes the Hulk whenever enraged), is enough to liberate the Hulk and he becomes a fugitive again, with a more aggressive General Ross, Betty's father, continuing his pursuit. However, in \"And the Wind Cries... Wendigo!\", Hulk and General Ross had to work together to save Betty after the Wendigo (a curse placed upon an Indian) captured her. As in the comics, Thunderbolt Ross", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "10250979", "text": "arrival of General Ross, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Gabriel Jones, and a squad of Hulkbusters. War Machine fights some of the Hulkbusters alongside Jones and Iron Man. Sasquatch appeared in episode \"Man to Man, Beast to Beast\" voiced by Peter Strauss (Walter Langkowski) and Clancy Brown (Sasquatch). In that episode, Bruce Banner comes to Canada hoping to find his old friend, Dr. Walter Langkowski (Sasquatch) to get a cure for himself and get rid of Hulk forever, only to find that Walter has developed a bestial alter ego while using himself as a test subject to make a breakthrough in gamma radiation.", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "10250980", "text": "After battling the Hulk, Walter/Sasquatch exiles himself to the wilderness when his actions put Hulk's friend, a small boy, in danger. Simon Templeman reprised his role of Doctor Doom (who as previously mentioned, critically injured Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk) for guest appearances in two episodes, in which Doom held Washington, D.C. captive, only to be defeated by She-Hulk, whom he later attempted to claim revenge upon. With his appearance on this show, it can be assumed that Doom survived the fate he met on the \"Fantastic Four\" series, if both shows are to be considered within the same continuity. Following Doctor Doom's", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "14231160", "text": "2, Marvel also relaunched the second 1960s Hulk series with \"The Incredible Hulk\" vol. 2 #600 (Sept. 2009). With the arrival of the Red Hulk—a transformed General \"Thunderbolt\" Ross, the Hulk's longtime nemesis—and the Red She-Hulk—the revived Betty Ross—this series was retitled \"Incredible Hulks\" with issue #612 (Nov. 2010). This lasted through issue #635 (Oct. 2011). Yet another Hulk series, \"The Incredible Hulk\" vol. 4, written by Jason Aaron and drawn by Marc Silvestri, began with a new #1 and lasted 15 issues (Dec. 2011 – Dec. 2012). In November 2012, Marvel announced it would publish a new Hulk title,", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (comic book)" }, { "docid": "14231153", "text": "people as warmonger shape-changers. Following Roger Stern, Bill Mantlo took over the writing with issue #245 (March 1980). Among the adversaries Mantlo created for the series were the U-Foes and the Soviet Super-Soldiers. Mantlo's \"Crossroads of Eternity\" stories, which ran through issues #300–313 (Oct. 1984 – Nov.1985), explored the idea that Banner had suffered child abuse. Later \"The Incredible Hulk\" writers Peter David and Greg Pak called these stories an influence on their approaches to the series. After five years, Mantlo left the title to write \"Alpha Flight\", while \"Alpha Flight\" writer John Byrne took over the series and left", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (comic book)" }, { "docid": "59713", "text": "nominations, one for Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in Drama or Comedy for \"The Streets of San Francisco\" and the other for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Comedy or Drama Series for \"Rich Man, Poor Man\". Bixby hosted \"Once Upon a Classic\" on PBS from 1976 to 1980. Bixby starred in the role of Dr. David Banner in the pilot movie, \"The Incredible Hulk\", based on the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Marvel characters. Kenneth Johnson, the creator, director and writer, said that Bixby was his only choice to play the part. Although, reportedly, when", "title": "Bill Bixby" }, { "docid": "9161562", "text": "appearance from famed creator Stan Lee, as the jury foreman in Banner's imagined trial. Though it did not succeed in giving birth to a Daredevil television series, \"The Trial of the Incredible Hulk\" garnered very high ratings. Viewers were less enthusiastic about it than \"The Incredible Hulk Returns\". The most common criticisms were the absence of the Hulk himself from the final act and the misleading title (the \"trial\" only takes place in a dream sequence). This television film was released on VHS by Starmaker Videos in December 1992. It was released by Anchor Bay Entertainment on May 13, 2008", "title": "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk" }, { "docid": "9106727", "text": "depicted as being a servant of Blake and they are two separate entities, though he is still depicted as having been banished on Earth by Odin for being an arrogant and irresponsible warrior. His status as the \"god of thunder\" is ambiguous (though he does once claim to be the \"son of Odin\"), his powers are heavily limited and his hammer is not restricted by the \"worthiness enchantment\". This film is the first time another character from the Marvel Universe or any genuinely supernatural or otherworldly elements appeared in the universe of the \"Incredible Hulk\" TV series. Thor and the", "title": "The Incredible Hulk Returns" }, { "docid": "9023816", "text": "to change into the Hulk. Banner then begins to work for the government in order to prevent accidents like the one that turned him into the Hulk, but is captured by villains and coerced into turning their agents into Hulk-like beings. According to Di Pego, at the film's climax Banner would be forced to recreate the accident that transformed him into the Hulk in order to stop the villains' plans. The sequel was canceled because of the disappointing ratings for \"The Death of the Incredible Hulk\". This telefilm was originally released on VHS by New World Video in 1990. It", "title": "The Death of the Incredible Hulk" }, { "docid": "427625", "text": "was retitled \"The Hulk!\" and printed in color. In 1977, two Hulk television films were aired to strong ratings, leading to an \"Incredible Hulk\" TV series which aired from 1978 to 1982. A huge ratings success, the series introduced the popular Hulk catchphrase, \"Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry\", and broadened the character's popularity from a niche comic book readership into the mainstream consciousness. Bill Mantlo became the series' writer for five years beginning with issue #245 (March 1980). Mantlo's \"Crossroads of Eternity\" stories (#300–313, Oct. 1984 – Nov. 1985) explored the idea that Banner", "title": "Hulk (comics)" }, { "docid": "16840158", "text": "Hulk: Gray Hulk: Gray is a comic book limited series written by Jeph Loeb and illustrated by Tim Sale. The series ran for a total of six issues which followed the early years of Bruce Banner and his problems as the Hulk. Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale also collaborated on other limited series such as: \"\", \"\", and \"\". Each series, like \"Hulk: Gray\", followed the early years of the different Marvel Comics heroes. Bruce Banner's life was torn apart by the explosion of the Gamma Bomb. From that moment on, he unleashed the strongest creature on Earth, The Incredible", "title": "Hulk: Gray" }, { "docid": "10124764", "text": "to a camera left by a robot Vidbot – a floating camera hovering at a constant distance of ten feet away from him – belonging to a Recorder that discovered Bruce when analysing Earth, leaving the Vidbot to record the final fate of the last human to confirm that humanity was gone from the universe. While Banner is forced to drown in sorrow as the last human alive on Earth, wandering for years across the ruins of the old cities and remembering what he can of the world before, the Hulk (in his Rampaging Hulk form) is angry at Banner,", "title": "Hulk: The End" }, { "docid": "14231150", "text": "(February 1966), his first Marvel Comics work; Bill Everett inking Kirby in #78–84 (Feb–Oct. 1966); and John Buscema penciling Kirby's layouts in #85–87. The \"Tales to Astonish\" run introduced the supervillains the Leader, who would become the Hulk's nemesis, and the Abomination, another gamma-irradiated being. Comics artist Marie Severin finished out the Hulk's run in \"Tales to Astonish\". Beginning with issue #102 (April 1968) the book was retitled \"The Incredible Hulk\" vol. 2, and ran until 1999, when Marvel canceled the series and restarted the title with the shorter-titled \"Hulk\" #1. \"The Incredible Hulk\" vol. 2 was published through the", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (comic book)" }, { "docid": "12090610", "text": "The Incredible Hulk (soundtrack) The Incredible Hulk: Original Motion Picture Score is the soundtrack for \"The Incredible Hulk\", composed by Craig Armstrong. Craig Armstrong was the arranger for Massive Attack, a band director Louis Leterrier was fond of and had collaborated with on the 2005 film \"Unleashed\". Armstrong was his first choice, which surprised Marvel, not knowing if he had scored an action film (he did compose 2001's \"Kiss of the Dragon\"). Even the temp track consisted of Armstrong's work and similar music by others. The Hulk, alongside the Green Lantern, was one of Armstrong's favorite comics as a child,", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (soundtrack)" }, { "docid": "7993796", "text": "generally audiences would have expected another forty-minute origin story. There were previous discussions to set the first act in Thailand. Leterrier felt audiences were left restless waiting for the character to arrive in Ang Lee's film. Feige commented, \"we didn't want to tell the origin story again, because we thought people were so familiar with it, which is why we didn't tell that... One reason we made \"Incredible Hulk\" was to get Hulk into the <nowiki>[</nowiki>Marvel Cinematic Universe<nowiki>]</nowiki> canon.\" Shortly after the release of \"The Incredible Hulk\", Gale Anne Hurd commented on the uncertainty of its relationship with Ang Lee's", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (film)" }, { "docid": "59714", "text": "Bixby was offered the role, he declined it – until he read the script and discussed it with Johnson. The success of the pilot (coupled with some theatrical releases of the film in Europe) convinced CBS to turn it into a weekly series, which began airing in the spring of 1978. The pilot also starred Susan Sullivan as Dr. Elaina Marks, who tries to help the conflicted and widowed Dr. Banner overcome his \"problem\", and falls in love with him in the process. In a retrospective on \"The Incredible Hulk\", Glenn Greenberg declared Bixby's performance to be the series's \"foremost\"", "title": "Bill Bixby" }, { "docid": "7993794", "text": "Ross\". Zak Penn, who wrote a draft of the first film in 1996, said the film would follow up \"Hulk\", but stressed it would be more tonally similar to the TV show and Bruce Jones' run on the comic. He compared his script to \"Aliens\", which was a very different film from \"Alien\", but still in the same continuity. He included two scenes from his 1996 script: Banner jumping from a helicopter to trigger a transformation, and realizing he is unable to have sex with Betty. After the studio rejected a treatment by another screenwriter in 2006, Penn wrote three", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (film)" }, { "docid": "9229142", "text": "satellites that open fire on the Hulk, leaving him unconscious in his Bruce Banner form. S.H.I.E.L.D. later imprisons Banner in a facility three miles underground, with the other Warbound members having been taken into U.S. military custody. Namor was spared from the Hulk's wrath, as Hulk discovered early on that Namor was the sole Illuminati member who voiced his opposition to banishing the Hulk from the outset and predicting Hulk's eventual return and quest for vengeance. With the conclusion of the \"World War Hulk\" storyline, the series \"The Incredible Hulk\" was replaced with \"The Incredible Hercules\", which officially replaced the", "title": "World War Hulk" }, { "docid": "10319275", "text": "Edward Norton, Tim Roth, Liv Tyler, William Hurt, and Tim Blake Nelson reprise their roles from the film. Tony Stark is mentioned in this game. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) was a scientist turned fugitive when he was affected by doses of gamma radiation and transformed into the beast within him---The Incredible Hulk. (Fred Tatasciore) Somewhere in a town in South America, Bruce is chased by soldiers led by Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth), who were sent by General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt). Cornered inside a factory, Banner transforms into the Hulk, defeats the soldiers, and flees the country. After arriving in", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (2008 video game)" }, { "docid": "10250981", "text": "first appearance (he would appear again in the second-season episode \"Hollywood Rocks\"), came the episode \"Fantastic Fortitude\" featuring his nemesis, the Fantastic Four. The episode seems to place this show in the same continuity with the \"Fantastic Four\" cartoon of the same decade as this episode plays off the Hulk's appearance in the other show. More to the point, Beau Weaver (Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic) and Chuck McCann (Ben Grimm/The Thing) reprised their roles from the \"Fantastic Four\" series. In the episode, Mister Fantastic and the other Fantastic Four take their vacation prior to Hulk, She-Hulk, and Thing fighting Leader's Gamma", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "12090415", "text": "The Incredible Hulk: Original Soundtrack Recording The Incredible Hulk: Original Soundtrack Recording is the licensed promotional soundtrack from the 1970s/1980s television series adaptation of \"The Incredible Hulk\". This contains compositions by the series composer Joe Harnell which includes suites and compositions from the pilot film and from episodes \"Married\", \"Homecoming\", \"Prometheus\", and \"Ricky\", with some music that also appeared in the \"Cliffhangers\" segments \"Stop Susan Williams\" and \"The Secret Empire\". The soundtrack received mixed reviews from critics in the music community. Christopher Coleman of \"TrackSounds\" gave it a 5 out of 10, citing the opening theme, \"Homecoming: Suite\", and \"The", "title": "The Incredible Hulk: Original Soundtrack Recording" }, { "docid": "427628", "text": "Paul Jenkins developed the Hulk's multiple personalities, and his run was followed by Bruce Jones with his run featuring Banner being pursued by a secret conspiracy and aided by the mysterious Mr. Blue. Jones appended his 43-issue \"Incredible Hulk\" run with the limited series \"Hulk/Thing: Hard Knocks\" #1–4 (Nov. 2004 – Feb. 2005), which Marvel published after putting the ongoing series on hiatus. Peter David, who had initially signed a contract for the six-issue \"Tempest Fugit\" limited series, returned as writer when it was decided to make that story the first five parts of the revived volume three. After a", "title": "Hulk (comics)" }, { "docid": "14231157", "text": "the Savage Hulk. David disagreed, leading to his parting ways with Marvel. His last issue of \"The Incredible Hulk\" was #467 (Aug. 1998), his 137th. Also in 1998, Marvel relaunched \"The Rampaging Hulk\" as a standard comic book rather than as a comics magazine. Following David's departure, Joe Casey took over as writer until this series ended with \"The Incredible Hulk\" vol. 2, #474 (March 1999). The first volume of the shorter-titled \"Hulk\" began immediately the following month, scripted by Byrne and penciled by Ron Garney. Erik Larsen and Jerry Ordway briefly took over scripting and with issue #12 (March", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (comic book)" }, { "docid": "10701094", "text": "site for a Gamma bomb and absorbs a large dose of gamma radiation, becoming the Hulk. In a further twist, later in the series, in an attempt to find a cure for Peter, Dr. Bruce Banner examines specimens taken from the test site and is bitten by a radioactive spider, becoming Spider-Man. Parker is killed by Galactus and Banner is killed by an Inheritor during the \"Spider-Verse\" event. In \"\", there is a green troll version of Hulk that lives on Eurth called Greenskyn Smashtroll. He is depicted as former member of the Champions of the Realm who has fallen", "title": "Alternative versions of the Hulk" }, { "docid": "7993791", "text": "Marvel wanted the Abomination because he would be an actual threat to the Hulk, unlike General Ross. During the filming of \"Hulk\", producer Avi Arad had a target May 2005 theatrical release date. On January 18, 2006 Arad confirmed Marvel Studios would be providing the money for \"The Incredible Hulk\"s production budget, with Universal distributing, because Universal did not meet the deadline for filming a sequel. Marvel felt it would be better to deviate from Ang Lee's style to continue the franchise, arguing his film was like a parallel universe one-shot comic book, and their next film needed to be,", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (film)" }, { "docid": "10250985", "text": "to become his own teenaged version of the Hulk. Rick is later cured after The Leader absorbed his power in order to restore his own with the help of the Gargoyle. Meanwhile, General Ross, betrayed by Agent Jones during the finale, breaks down. Though hospitalized and in critical condition, Ross interrupts Banner's wedding ceremony and threatens to kill Banner, who suffers a cardiac arrest, the separation from the Hulk finally taking its toll. This leads Banner's friends into concluding that he and the Hulk must be merged again, or both will die. Ross flees, but later returns in an attempt", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "7993785", "text": "with Betty. After the Hulk reverts to Banner, he and Betty go on the run, and Banner contacts Mr. Blue, who urges them to meet him in New York City. Mr. Blue is actually cellular biologist Dr. Samuel Sterns, who tells Banner he has developed a possible antidote to Banner's condition. After a successful test, he warns Banner that the antidote may only reverse each individual transformation. Sterns reveals he has synthesized Banner's blood samples, which Banner sent from Brazil, into a large supply, with the intention of applying its \"limitless potential\" to medicine. Fearful of the Hulk's power falling", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (film)" }, { "docid": "10701082", "text": "him, and Cap takes Perun's hammer and beheads the vampiric Hulk clone. In \"\" another different Hulk appears, and is established to be the original Hulk, created before Bruce Banner. Dr. Leonard Williams was working on the super-soldier formula in England with Dr. Bruce Banner as a human test subject, and somehow became the first incarnation of the creature. He was believed to have died in the unexplained destruction of his lab, but in fact, Williams escaped to South America, where he became a drug lord under the alias of Tyrone Cash. S.H.I.E.L.D. located and blackmailed him into joining them,", "title": "Alternative versions of the Hulk" }, { "docid": "4043424", "text": "television show.\" The Hulk's strength is far more limited than in the comic book, which Johnson felt was necessary for the show to be taken seriously by viewers. The Hulk still retained a healing factor, however. For instance, in \"The Harder They Fall\", Banner is in a serious accident that severs his spinal cord, leaving him paraplegic, but after his next transformation into the Hulk he is able to walk within minutes while in that form, and Banner's spine is completely restored by the end of the episode. In the majority of episodes, the only science fiction element was the", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "20091960", "text": "The Incredible Hulk (comic strip) The Incredible Hulk is a syndicated newspaper strip, which debuted on October 30, 1978 and ran until September 5, 1982 by King Features Syndicate. Initially written by Stan Lee and drawn by Larry Lieber, this strip modeled its version of the character after the television series airing at the time, with Banner's first name being given as \"David\", the McGee character, and a \"wandering man\" format. Although the depiction of the Hulk matched the comic books in terms of visual design, he did not speak dialog which is akin to the television version of the", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (comic strip)" }, { "docid": "10701096", "text": "the DC-Marvel Crossover \"Batman vs the Incredible Hulk\", Banner infiltrated a Wayne tech project as a lowly technician to get close to an experimental gamma-ray gun. The Joker attempted to steal the gun but was nearly thwarted when Banner transformed into the Hulk, although he bought time by tricking Hulk into fighting Batman, who only just managed to defeat the Hulk by tricking him into inhaling knockout gas. When the Hulk reverted to Banner, Bruce Wayne surprised him by offering Banner full access to the project. The Joker's real reason for stealing the gun was to fulfill a bargain with", "title": "Alternative versions of the Hulk" }, { "docid": "9106723", "text": "Journalist Jack McGee hears of sighting of the Hulk and attempts to track him down. Thor laments of his banishment from Valhalla and bonds with Blake at a bar, briefly entertaining the possibility of Thor using his powers to fight crime. A criminal organisation within the Joshua-Lambert Institute seek to kidnap Banner and the Transponder, but the Hulk effortlessly dispatches them. The mob leader LeBeau targets Dr. Shaw instead of Banner. Mob members disguised as police officers ambush Banner and Shaw and kidnap Shaw despite the combined efforts of the Hulk and Thor. LeBeau blackmails Banner into handing over the", "title": "The Incredible Hulk Returns" }, { "docid": "9106724", "text": "Transponder in return for Shaw's life. Banner sabotages the Transponder so it cannot be used as a weapon, removing his chance of a cure. Hulk, Blake and Thor ambush the gang's hideout and fight off a legion of gunmen to rescue Shaw. McGee is once again the subject of ridicule for his obsession with the Hulk and Thor. Blake and Banner both agree that Shaw has likely figured out that Banner and the Hulk are one and the same and that Banner should leave to protect her. Thor and Blake, now at peace with each other, say their goodbyes to", "title": "The Incredible Hulk Returns" }, { "docid": "6585432", "text": "a Linear Synchronous Motors (LSM) launch system that was designed by B&M. Riders entered the science laboratory of Dr. Bruce Banner with many televisions showing the story of the Hulk. Bruce tries to find a way to reverse the effects, which the guests are about to take part in. While walking through the lab they encountered items including the generator, the gamma core and the towers of power. Riders were also able to watch the roller coaster through large holes in the walls as well as listen to the ride as it does a number of passes. As part of", "title": "The Incredible Hulk Coaster" }, { "docid": "10701068", "text": "Hulk, his whole body opened up from the gigantic tumors that appeared inside it, pushing most of his organs and skull outside his body, and giving Rick Jones cancer. He didn't die, and was put in an underground vault by the CIA, codenamed \"the Hulk\". In the Ultimate Marvel universe, the Hulk first appears in \"Ultimate Marvel Team-Up\" #2 (2001), written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Phil Hester. In the \"Ultimates\" series, Bruce Banner works for S.H.I.E.L.D., attempting to re-create the super-soldier formula that created Captain America. He injects himself with an experimental version of the formula, turning", "title": "Alternative versions of the Hulk" }, { "docid": "11045225", "text": "Hulk in other media The Marvel Comics character called the Hulk has appeared in many types of media other than comics, such as animated and live action TV series, films, books, video games, comic strips, and stage shows. The Hulk debuted in television in 1966 as part of \"The Marvel Super Heroes\" animated series. Produced by Grantray-Lawrence Animation, headed by Grant Simmons, Ray Patterson and Robert Lawrence, the series is in stop-motion comic book form, with radio personalities Max Ferguson voicing the Hulk and Paul Soles voicing Bruce Banner. The 39 seven-minute segment episodes were shown, along with those featuring", "title": "Hulk in other media" }, { "docid": "654396", "text": "an amateur magician in 1974 who aspires to appear on Bill Bixby's \"The Magician\"; however, owing to his partial amnesia, Dr. Beckett, at first, can only recall Bixby's connection with \"The Incredible Hulk,\" which had not been made at that time. \"The Incredible Hulk\" series featured an episode that paid homage to both \"The Magician\" and Bixby's earlier series, \"My Favorite Martian\". In \"The Incredible Hulk's\" \"My Favorite Magician\" episode, Bixby's character became the temporary apprentice to a stage magician played by Bixby's \"Martian\" co-star, Ray Walston. Mark Wilson was on hand again as the episode's \"magic consultant\" as well.", "title": "The Magician (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "10124763", "text": "Hulk: The End Hulk: The End is a one-shot comic book published by Marvel Comics. Written by Peter David, pencilled by Dale Keown and inked by Joe Weems, the story depicts a possible future for the Hulk like all of the other The End stories. It is an adaptation of a prose story of the same name by Peter David from \"The Ultimate Hulk\" short story collection (). The story follows the narrative of Bruce Banner and the Hulk following a war which ended in a violent nuclear holocaust that only he could have survived. Banner begins the story, talking", "title": "Hulk: The End" }, { "docid": "4043422", "text": "the Hulk comic into a TV show. Johnson made several changes from the comic book, in part to translate it into a live-action show that was more believable and acceptable to a wide audience, and in part because he disliked comics and thus felt it best that the show was as different from the source material as possible. In the character's origin story, rather than being exposed to gamma rays during a botched atomic testing explosion, Banner is gamma-irradiated in a more low-key laboratory mishap during a test on himself. Another change was Banner's occupation, from physicist to medical researcher/physician.", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "10250987", "text": "he is arrested and placed on trial, while Rick Jones, almost an afterthought, continues his own reign of terror. Banner's cousin Jennifer, the She-Hulk, tries to help him out in court. After defending the entire court house from an attack by the Leader and successfully locating and restoring Rick to normal, both Banner and Jennifer travel together, lying low. Aside from a small continuation of the premiere episode, the season featured very little ongoing arcs, the only ones of note were the following: The remainder of the season saw Banner and Jennifer either team-up with characters such as Doctor Strange,", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV series)" }, { "docid": "7993779", "text": "the run, he attempts to cure himself of the Hulk before he is captured by General Thaddeus Ross, but his worst fears are realized when power-hungry soldier Emil Blonsky becomes a similar, but more bestial creature. After the mixed reception to the 2003 film \"Hulk\", Marvel Studios reacquired the rights to the character. Leterrier, who had expressed interest in directing \"Iron Man\", was brought onboard and Penn began work on a loose sequel that would be much closer to the comics and the 1978 television series of the same name. In April 2007, Norton was hired to portray Banner and", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (film)" }, { "docid": "12090613", "text": "of Joe Harnell's \"The Lonely Man\" theme from the television series. Armstrong played the piano for one scene featuring that piece. Blonsky has a dark theme, which becomes aggressive when he transforms. Armstrong inter played the Hulk and the Abomination's themes during their battle, and found scoring the action sequences similar to a dance. There is also a suspenseful theme, and a love theme. The \"Chicago Tribune\" described the soundtrack as \"\"the dullest musical score of the year\"\" in their review of the film, while Dan Goldwasser of Soundtrack.net described it as \"bombastic, thematic and energy-filled\". The Incredible Hulk (soundtrack)", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (soundtrack)" }, { "docid": "7993783", "text": "\"Mr. Blue\", and to whom he is \"Mr. Green\". He is learning Yoga techniques to help keep control, and has not transformed in five months. After Banner cuts his finger, a drop of his blood falls into a bottle, and is eventually ingested by an elderly consumer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, giving him gamma sickness. Using the bottle to track down Banner, Ross sends a special forces team, led by Russian-born British Royal Marine Emil Blonsky, to capture him. Banner transforms into the Hulk and defeats Blonsky's team. After Ross explains how Banner became the Hulk, Blonsky agrees to be injected", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (film)" }, { "docid": "11254120", "text": "and is killed by absorbing gamma radiation from the Hulk. Brian Banner Brian Banner is a fictional character from the Marvel Comics Universe. He first appeared in print in early 1982. Brian Banner is the father of Bruce Banner, the Incredible Hulk. The abuse that Bruce suffers at Brian's hands as a child is a major contributing factor of his eventual transformation into the Hulk. Brian Banner first appeared in \"The Incredible Hulk\" #267 and was created by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema. Brian regarded his father as a monster and believed that he had inherited a \"monster gene\" from", "title": "Brian Banner" }, { "docid": "14231159", "text": "that story the first five parts of the revived volume three. After a four-part tie-in to the \"House of M\" crossover and a one-issue epilogue, David left the series once more, citing the need to do non-Hulk work for the sake of his career. In 2006, writer Greg Pak took over the series, With issue #113 (Feb. 2008), it was retitled \"The Incredible Hercules\", still written by Pak but starring the mythological demigod Hercules and teenage genius Amadeus Cho. Concurrently, Marvel launched \"Hulk\" vol. 2, written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by Ed McGuinness. While continuing to publish \"Hulk\" vol.", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (comic book)" } ]
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November 27, 1701 saw the birth of a Swedish astronomer, who proposed what temperature scale where in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees?
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[ { "docid": "14985156", "text": "the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who developed a similar temperature scale two years before his death. The degree Celsius (°C) can refer to a specific temperature on the Celsius scale as well as a unit to indicate a temperature \"interval \"(a difference between two temperatures or an uncertainty). From 1744 until 1954, 0 °C was defined as the freezing point of water and 100 °C was defined as the boiling point of water, both at a pressure of one standard atmosphere. Although these defining correlations are commonly taught in schools today, by international agreement the unit \"degree Celsius\" and", "title": "Scale of temperature" }, { "docid": "12785302", "text": "the International System of Units, it has subsequently been redefined in terms of the equivalent fixing points on the Kelvin scale, and so that a temperature increment of one degree Celsius is the same as an increment of one kelvin, though they differ by an additive offset of 273.15. The United States commonly uses the Fahrenheit scale, on which water freezes at and boils at at sea-level atmospheric pressure. Many scientific measurements use the Kelvin temperature scale (unit symbol: K), named in honor of the Scots-Irish physicist who first defined it. It is a thermodynamic or absolute temperature scale. Its", "title": "Temperature" }, { "docid": "12551612", "text": "(1701–1744) created a temperature scale that was the reverse of the scale now known as \"Celsius\": 0 represented the boiling point of water, while 100 represented the freezing point of water. In his paper \"Observations of two persistent degrees on a thermometer\", he recounted his experiments showing that the melting point of ice is essentially unaffected by pressure. He also determined with remarkable precision how the boiling point of water varied as a function of atmospheric pressure. He proposed that the zero point of his temperature scale, being the boiling point, would be calibrated at the mean barometric pressure at", "title": "Celsius" }, { "docid": "12785301", "text": "as Temperature scales differ in two ways: the point chosen as zero degrees, and the magnitudes of incremental units or degrees on the scale. The Celsius scale (°C) is used for common temperature measurements in most of the world. It is an empirical scale that was developed by a historical progress, which led to its zero point being defined by the freezing point of water, and additional degrees defined so that was the boiling point of water, both at sea-level atmospheric pressure. Because of the 100-degree interval, it was called a centigrade scale. Since the standardization of the kelvin in", "title": "Temperature" }, { "docid": "11698005", "text": "40 and 10 are not only fundamental to the Earth, the Moon and the Sun, but also to the human body and water. In the water-based Celsius temperature measurement system, which is directly linked to base-10 numeration, the average human body temperature is 36.6 degrees (according to Russian medicine), whereas the maximal density of water, Tristan says, is 4.0 degrees (whereas it is in fact 3.98 degrees ). More recently Butler and Knight claimed that, on a scale where the absolute zero is defined as being minus 1,000 degrees, water boils at the temperature of 366 degrees, an \"utterly remarkable\"", "title": "Pseudoscientific metrology" }, { "docid": "14985158", "text": "precisely 1 part in 273.16 parts, the difference between absolute zero and the triple point of water. Thus, it sets the magnitude of one degree Celsius and that of one kelvin as exactly the same. Additionally, it establishes the difference between the two scales' null points as being precisely 273.15 degrees Celsius (−273.15 °C = 0 K and 0 °C = 273.15 K). Thermodynamic scale differs from empirical scales in that it is absolute. It is based on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics or statistical mechanics instead of some arbitrary chosen working material. Besides it covers full range of temperature", "title": "Scale of temperature" }, { "docid": "3223498", "text": "had been invited by Peter the Great to St. Petersburg to found an observatory in 1725. In 1738, Josias Weitbrecht recalibrated the Delisle thermometer with two fixed points, keeping 0 degrees as the boiling point and adding 150 degrees as the freezing point of water. He then sent this calibrated thermometer to various scholars, including Anders Celsius. The Celsius scale, like the Delisle scale, originally ran from zero for boiling water down to 100 for freezing water. This was reversed to its modern order after his death, in part at the instigation of Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus and the manufacturer", "title": "Delisle scale" }, { "docid": "1470210", "text": "Planck temperature Planck temperature, denoted by \"T\", is the unit of temperature in the system of natural units known as Planck units. It serves as the defining unit of the Planck temperature scale. In this scale the magnitude of the Planck temperature is equal to 1, while that of absolute zero is 0. Other temperatures can be converted to Planck temperature units. For example, = = . In SI units, the Planck temperature is about kelvin (equivalently, degrees Celsius, since the difference is trivially small at this scale), or degrees Fahrenheit or Rankine. What today is known as the Planck", "title": "Planck temperature" }, { "docid": "26301", "text": "Anders Celsius Anders Celsius (27 November 170125 April 1744) was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France. He founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742 proposed the Celsius temperature scale which bears his name. Anders Celsius was born in Uppsala, Sweden on 27 November 1701. His family originated from Ovanåker in the province of Hälsingland. Their family estate was at \"Doma\", also known as \"Höjen\" or \"Högen\" (locally as \"Högen 2\"). The", "title": "Anders Celsius" }, { "docid": "419024", "text": "high coefficient of expansion) for the first time and the quality of his production could provide a finer scale and greater reproducibility, leading to its general adoption. In 1742, Anders Celsius (1701–1744) proposed a scale with zero at the boiling point and 100 degrees at the freezing point of water, though the scale which now bears his name has them the other way around. French entomologist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur invented an alcohol thermometer and temperature scale in 1730 that ultimately proved to be less reliable than Fahrenheit's mercury thermometer. The first physician that put thermometer measurements to clinical", "title": "Thermometer" }, { "docid": "500261", "text": "(Δ\"H\" > 0) and the difference grows with increased distance from the melting point. Like all liquids, water boils when its vapor pressure reaches its surrounding pressure. In nature, the atmospheric pressure is lower at higher elevations and water boils at a lower temperature. The boiling temperature of water for atmospheric pressures can be approximated by the Antoine equation: or transformed into this temperature-explicit form: where the temperature formula_32 is the boiling point in degrees Celsius and the pressure formula_33 is in Torr. Dühring's rule states that a linear relationship exists between the temperatures at which two solutions exert the", "title": "Vapor pressure" }, { "docid": "14985157", "text": "the Celsius scale are currently defined by two different points: absolute zero, and the triple point of VSMOW (specially prepared water). This definition also precisely relates the Celsius scale to the Kelvin scale, which defines the SI base unit of thermodynamic temperature (symbol: K). Absolute zero, the hypothetical but unattainable temperature at which matter exhibits zero entropy, is defined as being precisely 0 K \"and\" −273.15 °C. The temperature value of the triple point of water is defined as being precisely 273.16 K \"and\" 0.01 °C. This definition fixes the magnitude of both the degree Celsius and the kelvin as", "title": "Scale of temperature" }, { "docid": "12551610", "text": "called \"centigrade\", from the Latin \"centum\", which means 100, and \"gradus\", which means steps. From 1743 to 1954, the Celsius scale was based on 0 °C for the freezing point of water and 100 °C for the boiling point of water at 1 atm pressure. Prior to 1743, the scale was also based on the boiling and melting points of water, but the values were reversed (i.e. the boiling point was at 0 degrees and the melting point was at 100 degrees). The 1743 scale reversal was proposed by Jean-Pierre Christin. By international agreement, since 1954 the unit and the", "title": "Celsius" }, { "docid": "16627379", "text": "the thermometer of Lyon. One of these thermometers was kept at the Science Museum in London. Jean-Pierre Christin Jean-Pierre Christin (May 31, 1683 – January 19, 1755) was a French physicist, mathematician, astronomer and musician. His proposal in 1743 to reverse the Celsius thermometer scale (from water boiling at 0 degrees and ice melting at 100 degrees, to where zero represented the freezing point of water and 100 represented the boiling point of water) was widely accepted and is still in use today. Christin was born in Lyon. He was a founding member of the \"\" and served as its", "title": "Jean-Pierre Christin" }, { "docid": "16627378", "text": "Jean-Pierre Christin Jean-Pierre Christin (May 31, 1683 – January 19, 1755) was a French physicist, mathematician, astronomer and musician. His proposal in 1743 to reverse the Celsius thermometer scale (from water boiling at 0 degrees and ice melting at 100 degrees, to where zero represented the freezing point of water and 100 represented the boiling point of water) was widely accepted and is still in use today. Christin was born in Lyon. He was a founding member of the \"\" and served as its Permanent Secretary from 1713 until 1755. His thermometer was known in France before the Revolution as", "title": "Jean-Pierre Christin" }, { "docid": "3779265", "text": "to be true. Oxygen under a standard atmosphere boils at a temperature in the 90.15 to 90.18 K range. For hydrogen, it depends on the molecular variety. The boiling point is 20.390 K for \"normal\" hydrogen (made up of 75% orthohydrogen and 25% parahydrogen) and 20.268 K for pure parahydrogen. Under the purported definition, absolute zero would lie at -20.15 °L. Leiden scale The Leiden scale (°L) was used to calibrate low-temperature indirect measurements in the early twentieth century, by providing conventional values (in kelvins, then termed \"degrees Kelvin\") of helium vapour pressure. It was used below -183°C, the starting", "title": "Leiden scale" }, { "docid": "11763078", "text": "Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (358 pages), is a 2007 (2008 in USA) non-fiction book by author Mark Lynas about global warming. The book looks and attempts to summarize results from scientific papers on climate change. The first chapter describes the expected effects of climate change with one degree (°C) increase in average global temperature since pre-industrial times. The second chapter describes the effects of two degrees average temperature and so forth until Chapter 6 which shows the expected effects of six degrees(°) average global temperature. The effects are", "title": "Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet" }, { "docid": "2500646", "text": "water flows out through a nozzle that is sufficiently long and thin, as given by the Hagen–Poiseuille equation. Approximately, the flow rate is for such design inversely proportional to the viscosity, which depends on the temperature. Liquids generally become less viscous as the temperature increases. In the case of water, the viscosity varies by a factor of about seven between zero and 100 degrees Celsius. Thus, a water clock with such a nozzle would run about seven times faster at 100 °C than at 0 °C. Water is about 25 percent more viscous at 20 °C than at 30 °C,", "title": "Water clock" }, { "docid": "520995", "text": "temperature using the Rankine scale. By international agreement, the unit \"kelvin\" and its scale are defined by two points: absolute zero, and the triple point of Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water (water with a specified blend of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes). Absolute zero, the lowest possible temperature, is defined as being precisely 0 K \"and\" −273.15 °C. The triple point of water is defined as being precisely 273.16 K \"and\" 0.01 °C. This definition does three things: Temperatures expressed in kelvins (\"T\") are converted to degrees Rankine (\"T\") simply by multiplying by 1.8 (\"T\" = 1.8 × \"T\"). Temperatures expressed", "title": "Thermodynamic temperature" }, { "docid": "4516338", "text": "literature at the time. It is helpful to consider the same problem as it appears in the construction of scales of measurement in the natural sciences. In the case of temperature there are two \"degrees of freedom\" for its measurement - the choice of unit and the zero. Different temperature scales map its intensity in different ways. In the celsius scale the zero is chosen to be the point where water freezes, and likewise, in cardinal utility theory one would be tempted to think that the choice of zero would correspond to a good or service that brings exactly 0", "title": "Cardinal utility" }, { "docid": "20481118", "text": "can convert it to 192.8 cµy\"T\". These units are somewhat comparable to that of that of the Kelvin scale. When using cµy\"T\", 0 is absolute zero, and 1 × 10 is the Planck temperature. 1 × 10 cµy\"T\" is a perfect base ten number as opposed to 1.417 × 10 K, 1.417 × 10 °C, or 2.550 × 10 °F. Each centimicroyocto plank temperature is equal to one 100 nonillionth of the Planck temperature. Planck temperature scale The Planck temperature scale is an absolute temperature scale using natural units. On this scale, 0 is absolute zero, and 1 is the", "title": "Planck temperature scale" }, { "docid": "9651548", "text": "Olof Celsius was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1739. Olof Celsius Olof Celsius (the elder) (19 July 1670 – 24 June 1756) was a Swedish botanist, philologist and clergyman, He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, \"Hierobotanicon\", in 1745-47. Olof Celsius's nephew Anders Celsius was an astronomer who invented a temperature scale where 100 represented the freezing point of water and 0 represented the boiling point. Jean-Pierre Christin, in 1744 reversed the scale", "title": "Olof Celsius" }, { "docid": "10133118", "text": "Frost (temperature) Frost or freezing occurs when the temperature of air falls below the freezing point of water (0 °C, 32 °F, 273.15 K). This is usually measured at the height of 1.2 m above the ground surface. There is a rather subjective scale to show several degrees of frost severity: Frost is not necessary to get ground frost or hoar frost; they can form even if air temperature is above freezing point if the surfaces have been chilled by heat emission during a cold night. In the English language, these terms are sometimes used in a confusing way. For", "title": "Frost (temperature)" }, { "docid": "7308451", "text": "Bahamas, Belize, and the Cayman Islands. Prominent Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist Christiaan Huygens created a clinical thermometer in 1665, to which he added an early form of the centigrade scale by setting the scale to the freezing and boiling points of water. By 1742 Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius created the Celsius temperature scale that was the reverse of the modern scale, in that \"0\" was the boiling point of water, while \"100\" was freezing. It would later be reversed by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778) in 1744. Working independently of Celsius, the Lyonnais physicist Jean-Pierre Christin, permanent secretary of", "title": "Medical thermometer" }, { "docid": "9651547", "text": "Olof Celsius Olof Celsius (the elder) (19 July 1670 – 24 June 1756) was a Swedish botanist, philologist and clergyman, He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, \"Hierobotanicon\", in 1745-47. Olof Celsius's nephew Anders Celsius was an astronomer who invented a temperature scale where 100 represented the freezing point of water and 0 represented the boiling point. Jean-Pierre Christin, in 1744 reversed the scale to create the centigrade scale, renamed in 1948 to the Celsius scale in use today.", "title": "Olof Celsius" }, { "docid": "15597367", "text": "and redefined the ohm in terms of other base units. The definitions for absolute electrical system based on the ampere was formalised in 1948. The draft proposal units with these names are very close, but not identical to the International units. In the Celsius scale from the 18th century, temperature was expressed in degrees Celsius with the definition that ice melted at 0 °C and at standard atmospheric pressure, water boiled at 100 °C. A series of lookup tables defined temperature in terms of inter-related empirical measurements made using various devices. In 1948, definitions relating to temperature had to be", "title": "History of the metric system" }, { "docid": "2436460", "text": "for which \"n\" is prime). One hundred is the atomic number of fermium, an actinide and the first of the heavy metals that cannot be created through neutron bombardment. On the Celsius scale, 100 degrees is the boiling temperature of pure water at sea level. The Kármán line lies at an altitude of 100 kilometres above the Earth's sea level and is commonly used to define the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space. The United States Senate has 100 Senators. Most of the world's currencies are divided into 100 subunits; for example, one euro is one hundred cents and", "title": "100 (number)" }, { "docid": "3223499", "text": "of Linnaeus thermometers, Daniel Ekström. The Delisle thermometer remained in use for almost 100 years in Russia. One of its users was Mikhail Lomonosov, who reversed it, as Jean-Pierre Christin did with Celsius' scale, making the freezing point of water 0 °D and the boiling point 150 °D. Delisle scale The Delisle scale (°D) is a temperature scale invented in 1732 by the French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768). Delisle was the author of \"Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire et aux progrès de l'Astronomie, de la Géographie et de la Physique\" (1738). In 1732, Delisle built a thermometer that used mercury", "title": "Delisle scale" }, { "docid": "147498", "text": "a degree on the Fahrenheit scale is of the interval between the freezing point and the boiling point. On the Celsius scale, the freezing and boiling points of water are 100 degrees apart. A temperature interval of 1 °F is equal to an interval of degrees Celsius. The Fahrenheit and Celsius scales intersect at −40° (i.e., −40 °F = −40 °C). Absolute zero is −273.15 °C or −459.67 °F. The \"Rankine\" temperature scale uses degree intervals of the same size as those of the Fahrenheit scale, except that absolute zero is 0 °R — the same way that the \"Kelvin\"", "title": "Fahrenheit" }, { "docid": "4127483", "text": "Degree (temperature) The term degree is used in several scales of temperature. The symbol ° is usually used, followed by the initial letter of the unit, for example “°C” for degree(s) Celsius. A degree can be defined as a set change in temperature measured against a given scale, for example, one degree Celsius is one hundredth of the temperature change between the point at which water starts to change state from solid to liquid state and the point at which it starts to change from its gaseous state to liquid. Common scales of temperature measured in degrees: Other scales of", "title": "Degree (temperature)" }, { "docid": "4835619", "text": "International Temperature Scale of 1990 The International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS–90) published by the Consultative Committee for Thermometry (CCT) of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) is an equipment calibration standard for making measurements on the Kelvin and Celsius temperature scales. ITS–90 is an approximation of the thermodynamic temperature scale that facilitates the comparability and compatibility of temperature measurements internationally. It specifies fourteen calibration points ranging from 0.65±0 K to ±0 K (−272.50±0 °C to ±0 °C) and is subdivided into multiple temperature ranges which overlap in some instances. ITS–90 is the latest (as of 2014) of", "title": "International Temperature Scale of 1990" } ]
[ { "docid": "3222129", "text": "Rømer scale The Rømer scale (; notated as °Rø), also known as Romer or Roemer, is a temperature scale named after the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Rømer, who proposed it in 1701. It is based on the freezing point of pure water being 7.5 degrees and the boiling point of water as 60 degrees. In this scale, the zero was initially set using freezing brine. The boiling point of water was defined as 60 degrees. Rømer then saw that the freezing point of pure water was roughly one eighth of the way (about 7.5 degrees) between these two points, so", "title": "Rømer scale" }, { "docid": "1829313", "text": "Réaumur scale The Réaumur scale (; °Ré, °Re, °r), also known as the \"octogesimal division\", is a temperature scale for which the freezing and boiling points of water are defined as 0 and 80 degrees respectively. The scale is named for René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, who first proposed a similar scale in 1730. Réaumur’s thermometer contained diluted alcohol (ethanol) and was constructed on the principle of using 0° for the freezing temperature of water, and graduating the tube into degrees, each of which was one-thousandth of the volume contained by the bulb and tube up to the zero mark.", "title": "Réaumur scale" }, { "docid": "147502", "text": "obtain the eutectic equilibrium exactly (i.e. he might have had a mixture of salts, or it had not fully dissolved). In any case, the definition of the Fahrenheit scale has changed since. According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend Herman Boerhaave, his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier. In Rømer's scale, brine freezes at zero, water freezes and melts at 7.5 degrees, body temperature is 22.5, and water boils at 60 degrees. Fahrenheit multiplied each value by four in order to eliminate fractions and increase the granularity of the scale.", "title": "Fahrenheit" }, { "docid": "19159536", "text": "100 Degrees \"100 Degrees\" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue, with her sister Dannii Minogue. The track was the second single from Kylie's album \"Kylie Christmas\". It was released on 13 November 2015 by Parlophone and Warner Bros. Records. An alternate version of the song was released on 1 April 2016, \"100 Degrees (Still Disco to Me)\", without the word \"Christmas\". Kylie announced that the song would serve as the second single during \"The X Factor Australia\" on 16 November. She also confirmed that she would perform the track, alongside Dannii, on the season 7 grand final on", "title": "100 Degrees" }, { "docid": "19159539", "text": "having fun in the studio, surrounded by tinsel, with Dannii donning 'Disco Christmas' T-shirt & Kylie donning a 'Kylie Kissmass' T-shirt. Mike Wass from Idolator said that \"100 Degrees\" was the album's highlight. Wass said \"The siblings inject a whole lot of fabulous into the festive season with disco-tinged anthem\" adding, \"the duet is every bit as camp as you would expect.\" 100 Degrees \"100 Degrees\" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue, with her sister Dannii Minogue. The track was the second single from Kylie's album \"Kylie Christmas\". It was released on 13 November 2015 by Parlophone and", "title": "100 Degrees" }, { "docid": "3222133", "text": "from this visit, but increased the number of divisions. Newton published his scale in the same year as Rømer. Newton's system was calibrated between the freezing point of water (0 degrees) and human body temperature (12 degrees); it was a coarser scale, but unlike Rømer's it was not intended for everyday use, as Newton's interest was in determining the boiling points of metals, which are not readily accessible with Rømer's system based on liquid thermometers. Rømer scale The Rømer scale (; notated as °Rø), also known as Romer or Roemer, is a temperature scale named after the Danish astronomer Ole", "title": "Rømer scale" }, { "docid": "19159538", "text": "not enough party Christmas songs, everyone has Christmas parties, but what music do you put on? This song is perfect for dancing to. And our X Factor performance is going to be all guns blazing. And by guns, I mean glitter guns. It's going to be a very sparkly, very Minogue Christmas.\" The song was used by Target Australia for their Christmas commercials. The adverts starred Dannii Minogue, who has a fashion line with Target Australia. \"100 Degrees\" finished 2016 as the UK's seventeenth biggest selling vinyl of the year. The music video sees the pair recording the song and", "title": "100 Degrees" }, { "docid": "419023", "text": "1665 Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) suggested using the melting and boiling points of water as standards, and in 1694 Carlo Renaldini (1615–1698) proposed using them as fixed points on a universal scale. In 1701, Isaac Newton (1642–1726/27) proposed a scale of 12 degrees between the melting point of ice and body temperature. In 1714 Dutch scientist and inventor Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first reliable thermometer, using mercury instead of alcohol and water mixtures. In 1724 he proposed a temperature scale which now (slightly adjusted) bears his name. He could do this because he manufactured thermometers, using mercury (which has a", "title": "Thermometer" }, { "docid": "6104590", "text": "function of the temperature. Different versions of the scale may use different reference temperatures. Different conversions formulae can therefore be found in various handbooks. As an example, a recent handbook states the conversions between specific gravity and degrees Baumé at a temperature of : An older handbook gives the following formulae (no reference temperature being mentioned): Baumé degrees (heavy) originally represented the percent by mass of sodium chloride in water at . Baumé degrees (light) was calibrated with 0°Bé (light) being the density of 10% NaCl in water by mass and 10°Bé (light) set to the density of water. Because", "title": "Baumé scale" }, { "docid": "10760063", "text": "The Three Degrees at The Royal Albert Hall The Three Degrees at The Royal Albert Hall was a 1979 television special produced by the BBC. It was a live concert performance by the American female vocal trio The Three Degrees, who were backed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra at London's prestigious Royal Albert Hall on 8 October 1979. This was The Three Degrees' second television special. The show was based around the promotion of the group's latest album \"3D\", which had been released by European record label Ariola just prior to the engagement. Six songs from the concert went on", "title": "The Three Degrees at The Royal Albert Hall" }, { "docid": "3331523", "text": "Newton scale The Newton scale is a temperature scale devised by Isaac Newton in 1701. He called his device a \"thermometer\", but he did not use the term \"temperature\", speaking of \"degrees of heat\" (\"gradus caloris\") instead. Newton's publication represents the first attempt to introduce an objective way of measuring (what would come to be called) temperature (alongside the Rømer scale published at nearly the same time). Newton likely developed his scale for practical use rather than for a theoretical interest in thermodynamics; he had been appointed Warden of the Mint in 1695, and Master of the Mint in 1699,", "title": "Newton scale" }, { "docid": "3331527", "text": "labels by two systems, one in arithmetic progression and the other in geometric progression, as follows: Newton scale The Newton scale is a temperature scale devised by Isaac Newton in 1701. He called his device a \"thermometer\", but he did not use the term \"temperature\", speaking of \"degrees of heat\" (\"gradus caloris\") instead. Newton's publication represents the first attempt to introduce an objective way of measuring (what would come to be called) temperature (alongside the Rømer scale published at nearly the same time). Newton likely developed his scale for practical use rather than for a theoretical interest in thermodynamics; he", "title": "Newton scale" }, { "docid": "147503", "text": "He then re-calibrated his scale using the melting point of ice and normal human body temperature (which were at 30 and 90 degrees); he adjusted the scale so that the melting point of ice would be 32 degrees and body temperature 96 degrees, so that 64 intervals would separate the two, allowing him to mark degree lines on his instruments by simply bisecting the interval six times (since 64 is 2 to the sixth power). Fahrenheit observed that water boils at about 212 degrees using this scale. The use of the freezing and boiling points of water as thermometer fixed", "title": "Fahrenheit" }, { "docid": "20362155", "text": "concentrates all probability at zero. All of this leaves open the question of what happens with zero degrees of freedom when the noncentrality parameter is not zero. The noncentral chi-squared distribution with zero degrees of freedom and with noncentrality parameter \"μ\" is the distribution of This concentrates probability \"e\" at zero; thus it is a mixture of discrete and continuous distributions Zero degrees of freedom In statistics, the non-central chi-squared distribution with zero degrees of freedom can be used in testing the null hypothesis that a sample is from a uniform distribution on the interval (0, 1). This distribution was", "title": "Zero degrees of freedom" }, { "docid": "19159537", "text": "24 November. In a statement, Kylie said: \"I'll be bringing a little Christmas cheer to The X Factor stage, I can't wait to come home and perform on the show with Dannii\". The performance was their first performance together since their live performance of \"Kids\" on her in 2006, and the first televised performance together since they performed \"Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves\" on Young Talent Time in 1986. Kylie wrote \"100 Degrees\" about adapting to a winter Christmas in the UK after being raised in Australia and was inspired by Donna Summer's vintage disco classics. Dannii said; \"There's", "title": "100 Degrees" }, { "docid": "14483560", "text": "capacity. This is because these degrees of freedom are \"frozen\" because the spacing between the energy eigenvalues exceeds the energy corresponding to ambient temperatures (). In the following table such degrees of freedom are disregarded because of their low effect on total energy. Then only the translational and rotational degrees of freedom contribute, in equal amounts, to the heat capacity ratio. This is why = for monatomic gases and = for diatomic gases at room temperature. However, at very high temperatures, on the order of the vibrational temperature (Θ), vibrational motion cannot be neglected. Vibrational temperatures are between 10 K", "title": "Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry)" }, { "docid": "10763495", "text": "The Three Degrees Live The Three Degrees Live is a 1976 live album by Philadelphia-based female vocal trio The Three Degrees who scored major international success with 'When Will I See You Again?'. The album charted at #34 in the US R&B Album chart and at #199 in the Billboard Top 200. During a UK tour in 1975, The Three Degrees performed at Bailey's in Leicester, England, and the evening's concert was recorded and subsequently released by Philadelphia International Records as \"The Three Degrees Live\". The setlist for the concert was typical of what the group was doing at that", "title": "The Three Degrees Live" }, { "docid": "19946195", "text": "30 Degrees in February 30 Degrees in February () is a Swedish drama series produced for television, airing originally on the SVT network and distributed internationally on Netflix. The series was created by Anders Weidemann and produced by Håkan Hammarén at Fundament Film. The first season debuted on February 6, 2012 and the second season premiered on February 1, 2016 and was produced by Anagram in co-production with SVT and Film i Vast. The series depicts the lives of various Swedish citizens who move to Thailand. The series was filmed on location in and around Phuket, with additional scenes filmed", "title": "30 Degrees in February" }, { "docid": "7242118", "text": "\"hit the R&B charts in a big way with the addictive, sly \"Lowdown\" [...] and expressed his love of smooth soul music almost as well on the appealing \"What Can I Say.\"\" However, Henderson stated that \"Scaggs was essentially a pop/rocker, and in that area he has a considerable amount of fun.\" He concluded: \"Though not remarkable, the ballads have more heart than most of the bland material dominating that format.\" On February 27, 2007, \"Silk Degrees\" was reissued by Legacy Records with three bonus tracks recorded live at the Greek Theatre on August 15, 1976. Silk Degrees Silk Degrees", "title": "Silk Degrees" }, { "docid": "1829316", "text": "was used commonly in some parts of Europe until at least the mid-19th century, and in parts of Russia until the early 20th. Its main modern uses are in some Italian and Swiss factories for measuring milk temperature during cheese production, and in the Netherlands for measuring temperature when cooking sugar syrup for desserts and sweets. Réaumur scale The Réaumur scale (; °Ré, °Re, °r), also known as the \"octogesimal division\", is a temperature scale for which the freezing and boiling points of water are defined as 0 and 80 degrees respectively. The scale is named for René Antoine Ferchault", "title": "Réaumur scale" }, { "docid": "353945", "text": "Rankine scale The Rankine scale () is an absolute scale of thermodynamic temperature named after the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed it in 1859. (The Kelvin scale was first proposed in 1848.) It may be used in engineering systems where heat computations are done using degrees Fahrenheit. The symbol for degrees Rankine is °R (or °Ra if necessary to distinguish it from the Rømer and Réaumur scales). By analogy with kelvin, some authors term the unit \"rankine\", omitting the degree symbol. Zero on both the Kelvin and Rankine scales is absolute zero, but a", "title": "Rankine scale" }, { "docid": "9202186", "text": "98 Degrees and Rising 98 Degrees and Rising is the second album released by American boy band 98 Degrees. It was recorded at Blue Wave Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and released by Motown on October 20, 1998. The album features the singles \"Because of You\" and \"The Hardest Thing\", which peaked at No. 3 and No. 5 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 respectively. The album also features two covers, Mark Wills' \"I Do (Cherish You)\" and \"She's Out of My Life\", made famous by Michael Jackson. It also features a duet with label mate Stevie Wonder, \"True to", "title": "98 Degrees and Rising" }, { "docid": "14985149", "text": "of matter. Temperature is a universal attribute of matter, yet empirical scales map a narrow range onto a scale that is known to have a useful functional form for a particular application. Thus, their range is limited. The working material only exists in a form under certain circumstances, beyond which it no longer can serve as a scale. For example, mercury freezes below 234.32 K, so temperature lower than that cannot be measured in a scale based on mercury. Even ITS-90, which interpolates among different ranges of temperature, has only a range of 0.65 K to approximately 1358 K (−272.5", "title": "Scale of temperature" }, { "docid": "20362154", "text": "Zero degrees of freedom In statistics, the non-central chi-squared distribution with zero degrees of freedom can be used in testing the null hypothesis that a sample is from a uniform distribution on the interval (0, 1). This distribution was introduced by Andrew F. Siegel in 1979. The chi-squared distribution with \"n\" degrees of freedom is the probability distribution of the sum where However, if and formula_4 are independent, then the sum of squares above has a non-central chi-squared distribution with \"n\" degrees of freedom and \"noncentrality parameter\" It is trivial that a \"central\" chi-square distribution with zero degrees of freedom", "title": "Zero degrees of freedom" }, { "docid": "14081869", "text": "multi-issue movement. It aims to empower UK citizens by providing easy ways for them to take action on the issues they care about, e.g., climate change, human rights and poverty. It claims \"it’s 38 Degrees members who set priorities and we decide on what we campaign on together\". They publish the results of their membership polls on their website. While 38 Degrees refers to 'members', there is no formal membership and these are simply people on its email mailing list. Each week 50,000 members, chosen at random, are asked to vote for their top priorities; only ones where there is", "title": "38 Degrees" }, { "docid": "9420327", "text": "a performance \"The average body temperature is 37 degrees. This is a song called 36 Degrees\", further adding to the speculation. However, the term \"36 degrees\" also means two people who are not getting on in urban slang; therefore the idea of the song being written for a break-up could well be true. The other numbers mentioned have been said to just be random, as \"they just seemed to fit\" according to Molko. The music video, directed by Chris Cunningham, was shot primarily in a scuba diving pool and shows band members performing the song underwater. Some scenes were shot", "title": "36 Degrees" }, { "docid": "109466", "text": "water when ice was just forming on the surface. This was assigned as 32 °F. The third calibration point, taken as 96 °F, was selected as the thermometer's reading when the instrument was placed under the arm or in the mouth. Fahrenheit came up with the idea that Mercury boils around 300 degrees on this temperature scale. Work by others showed that water boils about 180 degrees above its freezing point. The Fahrenheit scale later was redefined to make the freezing-to-boiling interval exactly 180 degrees, a convenient value as 180 is a highly composite number, meaning that it is evenly", "title": "Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit" }, { "docid": "11482834", "text": "with the presiding officer being denominated 'Sovereign Master.\" The Councils are given wide discretion as to choose how frequently they meet and what programs to pursue. Generally speaking, Councils study or discuss Freemasonry in some way at each meeting. The Grand Council has created some internal honors, the most notable being \"Knight Grand Cross\". The degrees conferred in the United States are: In Canada, the degrees conferred are: Optional degrees are: Royal Order of the Red Branch of Eri: \"Fun\" degrees: (given at the Annual Assembly) Allied Masonic Degrees The Allied Masonic Degrees (AMD) are a series of Masonic degrees", "title": "Allied Masonic Degrees" }, { "docid": "5659961", "text": "other distributions that arise in associated statistical testing problems. While introductory textbooks may introduce degrees of freedom as distribution parameters or through hypothesis testing, it is the underlying geometry that defines degrees of freedom, and is critical to a proper understanding of the concept. Although the basic concept of degrees of freedom was recognized as early as 1821 in the work of astronomer and mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, its modern definition and usage was first elaborated by English statistician William Sealy Gosset in his 1908 \"Biometrika\" article \"The Probable Error of a Mean\", published under the pen name \"Student\". While", "title": "Degrees of freedom (statistics)" }, { "docid": "20481117", "text": "Planck temperature scale The Planck temperature scale is an absolute temperature scale using natural units. On this scale, 0 is absolute zero, and 1 is the Planck temperature. Quantum Theory states that the Planck temperature is the hottest possible temperature. The symbol used for this scale is \"T\". The freezing/melting point of water on this scale would be written 1.928 × 10\"T\". A way of expressing temperatures in more familiar sized units is to use centimicroyocto plank temperatures (cµy\"T\"). The freezing point of water is 1.928 × 10\"T\". By simply moving the decimal point 32 places to the right, you", "title": "Planck temperature scale" }, { "docid": "9957204", "text": "and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications, modified by Council Directive 2006/100/EC. Procedure: The Norwegian governmental authority for accreditation of foreign education of Norwegian citizens and foreigners, NOKUT, has sole power in these matters. The total validation of foreign university studies and degrees in the Spanish system consists of a complete recognition of said studies and degrees in that system. The Spanish Ministry of Education and Science is in charge of the procedure. The academic degrees, diplomas or certificates on pharmaceutical or medical specialities which were obtained in a foreign country and which", "title": "Validation of foreign studies and degrees" }, { "docid": "16272862", "text": "degrees (Christakis and Fowler), then people can, in some sense, reach \"halfway\" to anyone in the world. Three degrees of influence Three Degrees of Influence is a theory in the realm of social networks, proposed by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler in 2007. It has since been explored by scientists in numerous disciplines using diverse statistical, psychological, sociological, and biological approaches. Christakis and Fowler found that social networks have great influence on individuals' behavior. But social influence does not end with the people to whom a person is directly tied. We influence our friends, who in their turn", "title": "Three degrees of influence" }, { "docid": "19946198", "text": "year old blue collar worker who dreams of having a wife and children. After repeatedly being rejected by women in Sweden, he decides to search for a new wife in Thailand. His search is complicated when he meets the transgender masseuse Oh (Duangjai Phiao Hiransri). Joy and Wilda's father travels from Sweden to search for them with the intention of bringing them back home. Majlis is on the run from the authorities, and Glenn and Oh struggle with whether they can have a future together. 30 Degrees in February 30 Degrees in February () is a Swedish drama series produced", "title": "30 Degrees in February" }, { "docid": "15760645", "text": "shot in Stereoscopic 3-D at studios in Stockholm with exteriors in Denmark. Set in Victorian London, a young aristocrat, Jack Armstrong, is desperate to win the love of his beloved, the greedy Lady Alice Faversham. Jack buys an insane asylum to turn into a \"love nest\", unaware that Jack the Ripper still lives there. What the Swedish Butler Saw What the Swedish Butler Saw is a 1975 Swedish-American erotic sex comedy film directed by Vernon P. Becker and starring Ole Søltoft, Sue Longhurst, Malou Cartwright and Diana Dors. It is known by several alternative titles including A Man with a", "title": "What the Swedish Butler Saw" }, { "docid": "10763497", "text": "England. This credit has been corrected on the digital re-issue. The Three Degrees Live The Three Degrees Live is a 1976 live album by Philadelphia-based female vocal trio The Three Degrees who scored major international success with 'When Will I See You Again?'. The album charted at #34 in the US R&B Album chart and at #199 in the Billboard Top 200. During a UK tour in 1975, The Three Degrees performed at Bailey's in Leicester, England, and the evening's concert was recorded and subsequently released by Philadelphia International Records as \"The Three Degrees Live\". The setlist for the concert", "title": "The Three Degrees Live" }, { "docid": "7242115", "text": "Silk Degrees Silk Degrees is the seventh album by Boz Scaggs, released on Columbia Records in 1976. The album peaked at No. 2 and spent 115 weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200. It has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA and remains Scaggs's best selling album. \"Silk Degrees\" spawned four singles. \"It's Over\", \"Lowdown\", and \"Lido Shuffle\" made the Top 40, while \"What Can I Say\" peaked at No. 42. The album was recorded at Davlen Sound Studios and Hollywood Sound Studios in Los Angeles. Among the accompanying musicians, David Paich, Jeff Porcaro, and David Hungate became members of", "title": "Silk Degrees" }, { "docid": "2301139", "text": "divinity (BD), which is a postgraduate degree. The BEd was formerly awarded to students residing at Westminster College, Culham College of Education, the Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education, and Milton Keynes College of Education (formerly the North Buckinghamshire College of Education) who read concurrently at the university. In the 1990s the following degrees were introduced to increase public recognition of the four-year undergraduate science programmes in these subjects: The holders of these degrees have the academic precedence and standing of BAs until the twenty-first term from matriculation, when they rank as MAs. From 2014 graduates with these degrees wear", "title": "Degrees of the University of Oxford" }, { "docid": "2959761", "text": "following year they released a new single \"Holding Back\". In January 2011, Freddie Pool replaced Cynthia Garrison, who was suffering from Piriformis syndrome, as the Degrees had touring commitments to fulfill. In 2016 The Three degrees released their first full-length studio album with member Freddie Pool entitled \"Strategy: Our Tribute To Philadelphia\", through Cherry Red Records. The Holiday/Scott/Garrison version of The Three Degrees was the longest running formation of the group (1989–2010). The Three Degrees The Three Degrees is an American female vocal group, which was originally formed in 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although a total of 15 women have", "title": "The Three Degrees" }, { "docid": "10656305", "text": "Because of You (98 Degrees song) \"Because of You\" is a 1998 song by 98 Degrees, released as the second single from their album \"98 Degrees and Rising\". It peaked at number three on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and was certified platinum in December 1998. The video directed by Wayne Isham takes place in San Francisco, where it follows a girl holding a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge, while looking around the city by bus, taxi and trolley. The boys are seen on billboards. They are also seen on the beach, in a garden of flowers, and on the", "title": "Because of You (98 Degrees song)" }, { "docid": "10656306", "text": "Golden Gate Bridge. The video utilized a special visual effect that combined quick zooming and morphing, an effect Isham had used in a previous video for Will Smith and would use in later music videos for Bon Jovi, Ricky Martin, NSYNC, and Metallica. Because of You (98 Degrees song) \"Because of You\" is a 1998 song by 98 Degrees, released as the second single from their album \"98 Degrees and Rising\". It peaked at number three on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and was certified platinum in December 1998. The video directed by Wayne Isham takes place in San Francisco, where", "title": "Because of You (98 Degrees song)" }, { "docid": "7460576", "text": "vision, all humans will be resurrected and at the Final Judgment will be assigned to one of three degrees of glory, called the celestial kingdom, the terrestrial kingdom, and the telestial kingdom. A small number of individuals who commit the unpardonable sin will not receive a kingdom of glory, but will be banished to outer darkness with Satan where they will be \"sons of Perdition\". The three degrees of glory are most clearly described in of the Doctrine and Covenants. In the preface to section 76, the following explanatory text is given: A vision given to the Prophet Joseph Smith", "title": "Degrees of glory" }, { "docid": "16272859", "text": "perception, and documented inflection at approximately three degrees. Another set of experiments documented the impact of information distortion, noting that \"despite strong social influence within pairs of individuals, the reach of judgment propagation across a chain rarely exceeded a social distance of three to four degrees of separation... We show that information distortion and the overweighting of other people’s errors are two individual-level mechanisms hindering judgment propagation at the scale of the chain.\" And experiments with fMRI scans in a sociocentrically mapped network of graduate students, published in 2018, showed that neural responses to conceptual stimuli were similar between friends,", "title": "Three degrees of influence" }, { "docid": "9420330", "text": "strings\". 36 Degrees \"36 Degrees\" is a song by British alternative rock band Placebo, released as the third single from their eponymous debut album. It reached number 80 in the UK Singles Chart. There are various suggestions as to the meaning of the song, such as it relates to sexual preferences or it is to do with dying. Some state \"36 Degrees\" refers to the average human body temperature being generally accepted as , and that the narrator is dying, or losing the will to live after being dumped by a partner. Singer Brian Molko is stated to have said", "title": "36 Degrees" }, { "docid": "9420326", "text": "36 Degrees \"36 Degrees\" is a song by British alternative rock band Placebo, released as the third single from their eponymous debut album. It reached number 80 in the UK Singles Chart. There are various suggestions as to the meaning of the song, such as it relates to sexual preferences or it is to do with dying. Some state \"36 Degrees\" refers to the average human body temperature being generally accepted as , and that the narrator is dying, or losing the will to live after being dumped by a partner. Singer Brian Molko is stated to have said before", "title": "36 Degrees" }, { "docid": "5659925", "text": "rotation, which means that it has six degrees of freedom. The exact constraint mechanical design method manages the degrees of freedom to neither underconstrain nor overconstrain a device. The position of an \"n\"-dimensional rigid body is defined by the rigid transformation, [\"T\"] = [\"A\", \"d\"], where \"d\" is an \"n\"-dimensional translation and \"A\" is an \"n\" × \"n\" rotation matrix, which has \"n\" translational degrees of freedom and \"n\"(\"n\" − 1)/2 rotational degrees of freedom. The number of rotational degrees of freedom comes from the dimension of the rotation group SO(n). A non-rigid or deformable body may be thought of", "title": "Degrees of freedom (mechanics)" }, { "docid": "7460578", "text": "one. Accordingly, ... while translating St. John's Gospel, myself and Elder Rigdon saw the following vision.\" At the time this vision was given, the Prophet [Smith] was translating John 5:29. Assignment to a particular kingdom in the resurrection is contingent upon the desires and actions exhibited during mortal and post-mortal life. The LDS Church teaches that these different kingdoms are what Jesus was referring to when he said \"[i]n my Father's house are many mansions\" (John 14:2). Additionally, the LDS Church teaches that 1 Corinthians 15:40–41 speaks of these three degrees of glory, comparing them with the glory of the", "title": "Degrees of glory" }, { "docid": "17558860", "text": "forcing a peace treaty with Denmark and annihilating the Russian army at Narva, Karl XII's plan was to beat the Saxon army; a necessity for the Swedish army to march for Pskov and Moscow and bring Russia the final blow. The two forces collided on the ninth of July (Swedish calendar) of 1701 near the Swedish city of Riga. The Saxons had entrenched themselves with heavy artillery support south of the river Düna, but when the Swedes attacked their casualties were limited to 100 men dead, due to the poor accuracy of the enemy artillery and the water that negated", "title": "Swedish invasion of Poland (1701–1706)" }, { "docid": "10760064", "text": "to form side two of the group's \"Gold\" album released the following year. When the concert was televised it had been edited down and several songs that were on the album were not televised. Likewise, several songs from the television airing did not make it onto the album. The album, released by Ariola in 1980 featured seven songs from the group's two previous album releases with that record label on side one, and six live tracks from the concert on side two. Listed below are the live tracks only: The Three Degrees at The Royal Albert Hall The Three Degrees", "title": "The Three Degrees at The Royal Albert Hall" }, { "docid": "12785303", "text": "zero point, , is defined to coincide with the coldest physically-possible temperature (called absolute zero). Its degrees are defined through thermodynamics. The temperature of absolute zero occurs at = (or ), and the freezing point of water at sea-level atmospheric pressure occurs at = . The International System of Units (SI) defines a scale and unit for the kelvin or thermodynamic temperature by using the reliably reproducible temperature of the triple point of water as a second reference point (the first reference point being at absolute zero). The triple point is a singular state with its own unique and invariant", "title": "Temperature" }, { "docid": "14081864", "text": "38 Degrees 38 Degrees is a British not-for-profit political-activism organisation. It describes itself as \"progressive\" and claims to \"campaign for fairness, defend rights, promote peace, preserve the planet and deepen democracy in the UK\". In October 2013, it was reported to claim 1.9 million UK members. 38 Degrees takes its name from \"the angle at which snowflakes come together to form an avalanche\". The organisation launched on 26 May 2009. The 38 Degrees website states: \"38 Degrees was founded by a group of activists and funders concerned about the state of our democracy and determined to try something different. Founders", "title": "38 Degrees" }, { "docid": "16907803", "text": "Six Degrees of Separation (song) \"Six Degrees Of Separation\" is a song by Irish pop rock band The Script, taken from their third studio album, \"#3\" (2012). The song was released as the album's second single on 25 November 2012. The track was written by Danny O'Donoghue, Mark Sheehan, Steve Kipner and Andrew Frampton. The music video for \"Six Degrees Of Separation\" was uploaded to YouTube on 5 November 2012 at a total length of three minutes and fifty-seven seconds. The band performed the song live during Children in Need on 16 November 2012. The band also performed the track", "title": "Six Degrees of Separation (song)" }, { "docid": "15760644", "text": "What the Swedish Butler Saw What the Swedish Butler Saw is a 1975 Swedish-American erotic sex comedy film directed by Vernon P. Becker and starring Ole Søltoft, Sue Longhurst, Malou Cartwright and Diana Dors. It is known by several alternative titles including A Man with a Maid, The Groove Room and Champagnegalopp. The film is loosely based on the 1908 erotic novel \"The Way of a Man with a Maid\". During the 3-D revival of the 1980s, the film was re-released under the title Tickled Pink, but the release did keep the \"Swedish Butler\" credit sequence intact. The film was", "title": "What the Swedish Butler Saw" }, { "docid": "16272851", "text": "Three degrees of influence Three Degrees of Influence is a theory in the realm of social networks, proposed by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler in 2007. It has since been explored by scientists in numerous disciplines using diverse statistical, psychological, sociological, and biological approaches. Christakis and Fowler found that social networks have great influence on individuals' behavior. But social influence does not end with the people to whom a person is directly tied. We influence our friends, who in their turn influence their friends, and so our actions can influence people we have never met, to whom we", "title": "Three degrees of influence" }, { "docid": "5334134", "text": "Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (2004 in paperback, and 2003 in hardcover, ) is a popular science book by Duncan J. Watts covering the application of network theory to sociology. The book covers Watts' own work on small-world networks, and continues on to cover scale-free networks, network searching, epidemics and network failures, social decision making, thresholds in networks, and innovation in large organizations and its lack. In addition to covering the theoretical models and empirical case studies, the book also includes several stories about the character of the researchers", "title": "Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age" }, { "docid": "14483562", "text": "system is the sum of the average energies associated with each of the degrees of freedom: A degree of freedom is quadratic if the energy terms associated with this degree of freedom can be written as where is a linear combination of other quadratic degrees of freedom. example: if and are two degrees of freedom, and is the associated energy: For example, in Newtonian mechanics, the dynamics of a system of quadratic degrees of freedom are controlled by a set of homogeneous linear differential equations with constant coefficients. are quadratic and independent degrees of freedom if the energy associated with", "title": "Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry)" }, { "docid": "14483559", "text": "to only one. As defined above one can also count degrees of freedom using the minimum number of coordinates required to specify a position. This is done as follows: Let's say one particle in this body has coordinate and the other has coordinate with unknown. Application of the formula for distance between two coordinates results in one equation with one unknown, in which we can solve for . One of , , , , , or can be unknown. Contrary to the classical equipartition theorem, at room temperature, the vibrational motion of molecules typically makes negligible contributions to the heat", "title": "Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry)" }, { "docid": "10655481", "text": "Six Degrees of Martina McBride Six Degrees of Martina McBride was a two-hour TV special/pilot that aired on July 30, 2007 on ABC where six aspiring country singers from America's smallest towns tried to connect themselves to Martina McBride in six or fewer points of human connection. The program tested the \"six degrees of separation phenomenon.\" Those who made it from \"Nowhere to Nashville to New York,\" got both a studio session with McBride and a shot at a record deal with Sony BMG. ABC-TV did not pick up the pilot as a series. The show also told Martina McBride's", "title": "Six Degrees of Martina McBride" }, { "docid": "2301136", "text": "Degrees of the University of Oxford The system of academic degrees at the University of Oxford can be confusing to those not familiar with it. This is not merely because many degree titles date from the Middle Ages, but also because many changes have been haphazardly introduced in recent years. For example, the (medieval) BD, BM, BCL, etc. are postgraduate degrees, while the (modern) MPhys, MEng, etc. are undergraduate degrees. In postnominals, \"University of Oxford\" is normally abbreviated \"\"Oxon.\"\", which is short for \"(Academia) Oxoniensis\": e.g., MA (Oxon.), although within the university itself the abbreviation \"Oxf\" can be used. The", "title": "Degrees of the University of Oxford" }, { "docid": "7460989", "text": "the configuration of the manipulator defined by its forward and inverse kinematics. Robot arms are described by their degrees of freedom. This number typically refers to the number of single-axis rotational joints in the arm, where higher number indicates an increased flexibility in positioning a tool. This is a practical metric, in contrast to the abstract definition of degrees of freedom which measures the aggregate positioning capability of a system. In 2007, Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, unveiled a prototype robotic arm with 14 degrees of freedom for DARPA. Humanoid robots typically have 30 or more degrees of freedom,", "title": "Six degrees of freedom" }, { "docid": "16907804", "text": "live on \"The Voice of Holland\" on 7 December 2012, as well as performing \"Hall of Fame\" with the remaining contestants. Six Degrees of Separation (song) \"Six Degrees Of Separation\" is a song by Irish pop rock band The Script, taken from their third studio album, \"#3\" (2012). The song was released as the album's second single on 25 November 2012. The track was written by Danny O'Donoghue, Mark Sheehan, Steve Kipner and Andrew Frampton. The music video for \"Six Degrees Of Separation\" was uploaded to YouTube on 5 November 2012 at a total length of three minutes and fifty-seven", "title": "Six Degrees of Separation (song)" }, { "docid": "7460592", "text": "moon and stars.\" While some historians believe Smith was familiar with Swedenborg's theology at least by 1839, others have argued that he did not have access to the writings of Swedenborg. One of Smith's preeminent biographers has argued it is more likely that Smith and Swedenborg developed their ideas independently based on 1 Corinthians chapter 15. Degrees of glory In Latter-day Saint theology and cosmology, there are three degrees of glory (alternatively, kingdoms of glory) which are the ultimate, eternal dwelling place for nearly all who lived on earth after they are resurrected from the spirit world. Members of The", "title": "Degrees of glory" }, { "docid": "2058811", "text": "Cincinnati, had attended SCPA with Lachey and they had performed together before in various outfits such as a barbershop quartet at the amusement park Kings Island and a cover band. The final member to join the band was Lachey's younger brother, Drew, who was working in New York City as an emergency medical technician. After rejecting a series of names (including Just Us and Next Issue), the group decided on \"98 Degrees\" describing body temperature and their music. Taking a series of jobs including landscaping, working as club security officers and delivering take-out food, the band refined its harmonies and", "title": "98 Degrees" }, { "docid": "16272857", "text": "three-degrees-of-influence property. And additional analytic approaches to observational data have also been supportive, including matched sample estimation, and reshuffling techniques (validating the edge directionality test proposed by Christakis and Fowler in their 2007 paper as an identification strategy). The three degrees of influence property has also been noted, by other groups, using observational data regarding criminal networks. Christakis and Fowler reviewed critical and supportive findings regarding the three degrees of influence phenomenon and the analytic approaches used to discern it in 2013. In addition, subsequent studies (by many research groups, including Christakis and Fowler) have found strong causal evidence of", "title": "Three degrees of influence" }, { "docid": "5659962", "text": "Gosset did not actually use the term 'degrees of freedom', he explained the concept in the course of developing what became known as Student's t-distribution. The term itself was popularized by English statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher, beginning with his 1922 work on chi squares. In equations, the typical symbol for degrees of freedom is \"ν\" (lowercase Greek letter nu). In text and tables, the abbreviation \"d.f.\" is commonly used. R. A. Fisher used \"n\" to symbolize degrees of freedom but modern usage typically reserves \"n\" for sample size. Geometrically, the degrees of freedom can be interpreted as the dimension", "title": "Degrees of freedom (statistics)" }, { "docid": "7460575", "text": "Degrees of glory In Latter-day Saint theology and cosmology, there are three degrees of glory (alternatively, kingdoms of glory) which are the ultimate, eternal dwelling place for nearly all who lived on earth after they are resurrected from the spirit world. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that Paul the Apostle briefly described these degrees of glory in 1 Corinthians 15:40-42, and in 2 Corinthians 12:2. Joseph Smith elaborated on Paul's descriptions based primarily upon a vision he received with Sidney Rigdon in 1832 and recorded in Doctrine and Covenants section 76. According to this", "title": "Degrees of glory" }, { "docid": "16272858", "text": "behavioral contagion processes (including those that spread beyond dyads -- out to two, three, or four degrees) using randomized controlled experiments. including one experiment involving 61,000,000 people that showed spread of voting behavior out to two degrees of separation. A 2014 paper also confirmed the spread of emotions beyond dyads, as proposed in 2008 by Christakis and Fowler, using another massive online experiment. Diverse lines of work have also explored the specific biopsychosocial mechanisms for the boundedness of contagion effects, some of which had been theorized by Christakis and Fowler. Experiments by Moussaid et al evaluated the spread of risk", "title": "Three degrees of influence" }, { "docid": "4507920", "text": "Temperature gradient A temperature gradient is a physical quantity that describes in which direction and at what rate the temperature changes the most rapidly around a particular location. The temperature gradient is a dimensional quantity expressed in units of degrees (on a particular temperature scale) per unit length. The SI unit is kelvin per meter (K/m). It can be found in the formula for dQ/dt, the rate of heat transfer per second. Temperature gradients in the atmosphere are important in the atmospheric sciences (meteorology, climatology and related fields). Assuming that the temperature \"T\" is an intensive quantity, i.e., a single-valued,", "title": "Temperature gradient" }, { "docid": "5659965", "text": "complement of this subspace, and has \"n\" − 1 degrees of freedom. In statistical testing applications, often one isn't directly interested in the component vectors, but rather in their squared lengths. In the example above, the residual sum-of-squares is If the data points formula_8 are normally distributed with mean 0 and variance formula_9, then the residual sum of squares has a scaled chi-squared distribution (scaled by the factor formula_9), with \"n\" − 1 degrees of freedom. The degrees-of-freedom, here a parameter of the distribution, can still be interpreted as the dimension of an underlying vector subspace. Likewise, the one-sample \"t\"-test", "title": "Degrees of freedom (statistics)" }, { "docid": "5659974", "text": "the individual samples, and formula_27 is the mean of all 3\"n\" observations. In vector notation this decomposition can be written as The observation vector, on the left-hand side, has 3\"n\" degrees of freedom. On the right-hand side, the first vector has one degree of freedom (or dimension) for the overall mean. The second vector depends on three random variables, formula_29, formula_30 and formula_31. However, these must sum to 0 and so are constrained; the vector therefore must lie in a 2-dimensional subspace, and has 2 degrees of freedom. The remaining 3\"n\" − 3 degrees of freedom are in the residual", "title": "Degrees of freedom (statistics)" } ]
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[ { "docid": "7590890", "text": "Northwest Division (NBA) The Northwest Division is one of the three divisions in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The division consists of five teams: the Denver Nuggets, the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Portland Trail Blazers and the Utah Jazz. The division was created at the start of the 2004–05 season, when the league expanded from 29 to 30 teams with the addition of the Charlotte Bobcats. The league realigned itself into three divisions in each conference. The Northwest Division began with five inaugural members: the Nuggets, the Timberwolves, the Trail Blazers, the Seattle", "title": "Northwest Division (NBA)" }, { "docid": "7590892", "text": "in the 2017–2018 NBA season. Notes Northwest Division (NBA) The Northwest Division is one of the three divisions in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The division consists of five teams: the Denver Nuggets, the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Portland Trail Blazers and the Utah Jazz. The division was created at the start of the 2004–05 season, when the league expanded from 29 to 30 teams with the addition of the Charlotte Bobcats. The league realigned itself into three divisions in each conference. The Northwest Division began with five inaugural members: the Nuggets, the", "title": "Northwest Division (NBA)" }, { "docid": "803831", "text": "defeated Utah in a series, winning NBA Championships in 1988, 2009, and 2010. Portland advanced to the NBA Finals in 1992 after defeating Utah, while the Seattle SuperSonics (now known as the Oklahoma City Thunder) advanced to the NBA Finals in 1996 after defeating Utah as well. San Antonio won an NBA Championship in 2007 after defeating Utah in a series, while Utah advanced to the NBA Finals in 1998 after defeating San Antonio in a series. The Jazz also have a regional rivalry with the Denver Nuggets. Both clubs are geographically situated in the Rocky Mountains, and have been", "title": "Utah Jazz" } ]
[ { "docid": "15622434", "text": "they signed Joe Kleine. On October 12, the Rockets waived Augmon, and the Blazers signed him on October 18. The Blazers owned no picks in the 1999 NBA draft. (3) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (6) Minnesota Timberwolves Last Playoff Meeting: Not available (first playoff series) (2) Utah Jazz vs. (3) Portland Trail Blazers Last Playoff Meeting: 1999 Western Conference Semifinals (Portland won 4-2) (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (3) Portland Trail Blazers Last Playoff Meeting: 1998 Western Conference First Round (Los Angeles won 3-1) 1999–2000 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1999–2000 NBA season was the 30th season for the Portland", "title": "1999–2000 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15621700", "text": "20 years. Rookie Arvydas Sabonis was selected to the All-Rookie First Team. In the playoffs, the Blazers were knocked out in the first round again losing to the Utah Jazz in five games, suffering a 38-point margin in a 102–64 loss in Game 5. Following the season, Rod Strickland demanded a trade no longer wanting to play for the Blazers. He was traded along with Harvey Grant to the Washington Bullets, while Buck Williams signed as a free agent with the New York Knicks, and James Robinson was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves. (3) Utah Jazz vs. (6) Portland Trail", "title": "1995–96 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "14791971", "text": "Utah Jazz vs. (6) Seattle SuperSonics: \"Jazz win series 4-1\" Last Playoff Meeting: Not available (first playoff series) (1) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (2) Utah Jazz: \"Blazers win series 4-2\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1991 Western Conference Semifinals (Portland won 4-1) 1991–92 Utah Jazz season The 1991–92 NBA season was the Jazz's 18th season in the National Basketball Association, and 13th season in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was also their first season playing at the Delta Center. The Jazz got off to a 7–6 start as they traded Thurl Bailey to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Tyrone Corbin early into the", "title": "1991–92 Utah Jazz season" }, { "docid": "15618314", "text": "in their first-round, best-of-five playoff series, three games to one. Note: This is not a complete list; only the first two rounds are covered, as well as notable post-second round picks. (3) Denver Nuggets vs. (6) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Nuggets win series 3–1\" 1985–86 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1985–86 season was the 16th season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Blazers finished 40–42, sixth in the Western Conference, qualifying for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive year. Despite their losing record, the Blazers were the only team to defeat the eventual NBA champion", "title": "1985–86 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "16541035", "text": "Nuggets. 1985–86 Denver Nuggets season The 1985–86 NBA season was the Nuggets' 10th season in the NBA and 19th season as a franchise. In the playoffs, the Nuggets defeated the Portland Trail Blazers in four games in the First Round before losing to the eventual Western Conference Champion Houston Rockets in six games in the Semifinals. (3) Denver Nuggets vs. (6) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Nuggets win series 3–1\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1977 Western Conference Semifinals (Portland won 4–2) (2) Houston Rockets vs. (3) Denver Nuggets: \"Rockets win series 4–2\" Last Playoff Meeting: This is the first meeting between the Rockets", "title": "1985–86 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "14766281", "text": "NBA All-Star Game. (1) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (8) Seattle SuperSonics: \"Blazers win series 3-2\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1983 Western Conference First Round (Portland won 2-0) (1) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (5) Utah Jazz: \"Blazers win series 4-1\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1988 Western Conference First Round (Utah won 3-1) (1) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (3) Los Angeles Lakers: \"Lakers win series 4-2\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1989 Western Conference First Round (Los Angeles won 3-0) 1990–91 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1990–91 NBA season was the 21st season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. During the offseason,", "title": "1990–91 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "16541034", "text": "1985–86 Denver Nuggets season The 1985–86 NBA season was the Nuggets' 10th season in the NBA and 19th season as a franchise. In the playoffs, the Nuggets defeated the Portland Trail Blazers in four games in the First Round before losing to the eventual Western Conference Champion Houston Rockets in six games in the Semifinals. (3) Denver Nuggets vs. (6) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Nuggets win series 3–1\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1977 Western Conference Semifinals (Portland won 4–2) (2) Houston Rockets vs. (3) Denver Nuggets: \"Rockets win series 4–2\" Last Playoff Meeting: This is the first meeting between the Rockets and", "title": "1985–86 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "15618791", "text": "Detroit Pistons, Terry Porter signed as a free agent with the Minnesota Timberwolves, and Jerome Kersey left in the 1995 NBA Expansion Draft. (2) Phoenix Suns vs. (7) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Suns win series 3-0\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1992 Western Conference Semifinals (Portland won 4-1) 1994–95 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1994–95 NBA season was the 25th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. The Blazers 25th season was marked by change as they played their final season at the Memorial Coliseum with new head coach P.J. Carlesimo. The Blazers started their season defeating the Los", "title": "1994–95 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15621799", "text": "were traded to the Houston Rockets. The Blazers owned no picks in the 1998 NBA draft. (2) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (7) Phoenix Suns: \"Blazers win series 3-0\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1995 Western Conference First Round (Phoenix won 3-0) (2) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (3) Utah Jazz: \"Blazers win series 4-2\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1996 Western Conference First Round (Utah won 3-2) (1) San Antonio Spurs vs. (2) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Spurs win series 4-0\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1993 Western Conference First Round (San Antonio won 3-1) 1998–99 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1998–99 NBA season was the 29th season", "title": "1998–99 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "11873267", "text": "ABA and was a starter in Ramsay's system. Another key contributor was Lionel Hollins, a second-year player out of Arizona State who averaged nearly 15 points per game. C – NBA Champions Portland Trail Blazers defeated Chicago Bulls (2–1) Portland Trail Blazers defeated Denver Nuggets (4–2) Portland Trail Blazers swept Los Angeles Lakers (4–0) The Western Conference final was ballyhooed as a matchup of two outstanding centers from UCLA: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton. Walton, finally healthy after being hampered by foot injuries during his first two NBA seasons, had led the league in rebounds and blocked shots. The match-up", "title": "1976–77 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15618313", "text": "1985–86 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1985–86 season was the 16th season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Blazers finished 40–42, sixth in the Western Conference, qualifying for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive year. Despite their losing record, the Blazers were the only team to defeat the eventual NBA champion Boston Celtics at the Boston Garden during the regular season; the Celtics went 40–1 at home, a record that was repeated by the San Antonio Spurs in the 2015-16 season. In the 1986 NBA Playoffs, the Blazers were defeated by the Denver Nuggets", "title": "1985–86 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15621729", "text": "1996–97 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1996–97 NBA season was the 27th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. During the offseason, the Blazers signed free agent Kenny Anderson while acquiring Isaiah Rider from the Minnesota Timberwolves, and second-year forward Rasheed Wallace from the Washington Bullets. The Blazers would hover around .500 for most of the first half of the season as they traded Aaron McKie to the Detroit Pistons for Stacey Augmon at midseason. However, they posted a 13–2 record in March including an 11-game winning streak. The Blazers finished the season third in the", "title": "1996–97 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15621727", "text": "1996–97 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1996–97 NBA season was the 27th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. During the offseason, the Blazers signed free agent Kenny Anderson while acquiring Isaiah Rider from the Minnesota Timberwolves, and second-year forward Rasheed Wallace from the Washington Bullets. The Blazers would hover around .500 for most of the first half of the season as they traded Aaron McKie to the Detroit Pistons for Stacey Augmon at midseason. However, they posted a 13–2 record in March including an 11-game winning streak. The Blazers finished the season third in the", "title": "1996–97 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "8157293", "text": "and the Jazz. (4) Dallas Mavericks vs. (5) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Trail Blazers win series 3-1\" This was the first playoff meeting between the Mavericks and the Trail Blazers. Conference Semifinals (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (5) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Lakers win series 4-1\" This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series apiece. (2) Denver Nuggets vs. (6) Utah Jazz: \"Nuggets win series 4-1\" This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Jazz winning the first meeting. Conference Finals (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (2) Denver Nuggets: \"Lakers", "title": "1985 NBA Playoffs" }, { "docid": "15618401", "text": "The Year, while Clyde Drexler was selected for the 1988 NBA All-Star Game. Steve Johnson was also selected, but did not play due to injury. (4) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (5) Utah Jazz:\"Jazz win series 3-1\" Last Playoff Meeting: Not available (first playoff series) 1987–88 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1987–88 season was the 18th season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Blazers finished 53–29, fourth in the Western Conference, qualifying for the playoffs for the sixth consecutive year. It was a four-game improvement over the previous season. In the 1988 NBA Playoffs, the", "title": "1987–88 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "803420", "text": "Hickson, who was previously with the Portland Trail Blazers and 5' 9\" guard Nate Robinson, who played for the Bulls during the 2012–2013 season. They also acquired Darrell Arthur from the Memphis Grizzlies and 55th pick Joffrey Lauvergne in return for Kosta Koufos. In a tough 2013–14 season which saw numerous injuries to key players missing a significant amount of the season, the Nuggets finished with 36 wins, their worst in 11 years, and missed the playoffs. During the 2014 offseason, the Nuggets brought back Arron Afflalo who they traded Evan Fournier for. Denver also traded their first lottery pick", "title": "Denver Nuggets" }, { "docid": "804255", "text": "made a three-team trade with the Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks. The trade sent Blazers guards Andre Miller to Denver and Rudy Fernández to Dallas along with international player Petteri Koponen, who had yet to make an appearance for Portland; Denver then sent guard Raymond Felton to Portland and Denver also received rookie forward Jordan Hamilton from Dallas as well as a future second-round pick from Portland. The 2011 lockout put transactions on hold until early December, and the Blazers were hit with three downfalls once the date came: Brandon Roy announced his retirement due to chronic knee problems, Greg", "title": "Portland Trail Blazers" }, { "docid": "15622429", "text": "1999–2000 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1999–2000 NBA season was the 30th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. During the offseason, the Blazers acquired All-Star forward Scottie Pippen from the Houston Rockets, Steve Smith from the Atlanta Hawks, and signed free agent Detlef Schrempf. Portland went 59–23, which tied them for the second-highest win percentage in franchise history. Finishing second in the Pacific Division, they earned the #3 seed in the Western Conference on the basis that the 55–27 Utah Jazz won the Midwest Division title. (However, the Blazers enjoyed homecourt advantage over Utah in", "title": "1999–2000 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "16544217", "text": "third on the team in scoring with 11.6 points per game, and made the All-Rookie First Team. However, in the first round of the playoffs, they lost in four games to the Portland Trail Blazers. Following the season, tragedy struck as Malik Sealy died in an automobile accident on May 20, 2000. Also following the season, Bobby Jackson signed as a free agent with the Sacramento Kings. (3) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (6) Minnesota Timberwolves Last Playoff Meeting: Not available (first playoff series) 1999–2000 Minnesota Timberwolves season The 1999–2000 NBA season was the Timberwolves' 11th season in the National Basketball", "title": "1999–2000 Minnesota Timberwolves season" }, { "docid": "19874821", "text": "Portland Trail Blazers, Cleveland Cavaliers, New Orleans Jazz (now Utah Jazz), San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, New Jersey Nets (now Brooklyn Nets), Indiana Pacers, and Dallas Mavericks were introduced. During this time period seven new NBA franchises were formed, Charlotte Hornets, Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Minnesota Timberwolves, Toronto Raptors, Vancouver Grizzlies (now Memphis Grizzlies), and New Orleans Pelicans. The league saw a rise of five teams in 15 years making a total of 30 teams. See Timeline for the history of teams who participated in the NBA. Seattle previously hosted the Seattle SuperSonics from 1967 to 2008, prior to the", "title": "Expansion of the National Basketball Association" }, { "docid": "11918762", "text": "to go for two years without any vote regarding the distribution of NBA gate receipts or the realignment of NBA divisions. The Nuggets moved from the ABA to the NBA's Midwest Division. As part of the terms of the ABA-NBA merger the Nuggets were prohibited from participating in both the 1976 NBA draft of college players and in the dispersal draft of ABA players from teams that did not enter the NBA. The Nuggets had a first round bye. (2) Denver Nuggets vs. (3) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Blazers win series 4-2\" 1976–77 Denver Nuggets season The 1976–77 season was the", "title": "1976–77 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "803408", "text": "the Iverson trade was used to allow the deal to go through) and Walter Sharpe. Afflalo replaced starting guard Dahntay Jones, who signed with the Indiana Pacers. However, on August 10, the Nuggets lost forward Linas Kleiza, who signed with Olympiacos Piraeus of the Greek League. The 2009–10 season saw Anthony average 28.2 points per game and Billups average a career-high 19.6 points per game. In the opening two games of the season, Anthony totaled 71 points, scoring 30 points in the home opener and 41 the next night, in wins against division rivals Utah Jazz and Portland Trail Blazers,", "title": "Denver Nuggets" }, { "docid": "20169075", "text": "the Northwest Division. In the playoffs, the Trail Blazers faced the 6th seeded New Orleans Pelicans in the First Round, and were swept in 4 games. <noinclude> 2017–18 Portland Trail Blazers season The 2017–18 Portland Trail Blazers season was the franchise's 48th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). This season is most notable for having a 13-game winning streak in their franchise history (tied), starting with a win over the Utah Jazz on February 23, but was ended with a 111–115 loss to the Houston Rockets on March 20. Despite that, the team still managed to clinch their 5th", "title": "2017–18 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15618400", "text": "1987–88 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1987–88 season was the 18th season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Blazers finished 53–29, fourth in the Western Conference, qualifying for the playoffs for the sixth consecutive year. It was a four-game improvement over the previous season. In the 1988 NBA Playoffs, the Blazers were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs for the third straight year, this time falling to the Utah Jazz three games to one in the best-of-five series. Kevin Duckworth averaged 15.8 points per game and was named Most Improved Player of", "title": "1987–88 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "804222", "text": "(after Walton). In the next year's draft, the Trail Blazers landed the No. 2 pick in the NBA draft. After the Houston Rockets selected Drexler's college teammate Akeem Olajuwon at No. 1, the Trail Blazers selected Kentucky center Sam Bowie. Drafting third, the Chicago Bulls selected Michael Jordan. The selection of the injury-plagued Bowie over Jordan has been criticized as one of the worst draft picks in the history of American professional sports. That summer, the Blazers also made a controversial trade, sending Lever, Cooper, and Natt to the Denver Nuggets for high-scoring forward Kiki Vandeweghe. In the 1985 draft,", "title": "Portland Trail Blazers" }, { "docid": "9116467", "text": "51st selection. On the same day, the Blazers front office had made a three-team trade with the Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks. The trade sent Blazers guards Andre Miller to Denver and Rudy Fernández to Dallas along with international player Petteri Koponen, who had yet to make an appearance for Portland; Denver then sent guard Raymond Felton to Portland and Denver also received rookie forward Jordan Hamilton from Dallas as well as a future second-round pick from Portland. Due to the 2011 NBA lockout, team transactions were on hold until early December and a shortened 66-game schedule was created. On", "title": "History of the Portland Trail Blazers" }, { "docid": "11918778", "text": "light blue to their color scheme. (1) Minnesota Timberwolves vs. (8) Denver Nuggets: \"Timberwolves win series 4–1\" Last Playoff Meeting: This is the first meeting between the Timberwolves and Nuggets. 2003–04 Denver Nuggets season The 2003–04 NBA season was the 28th season for the Denver Nuggets in the National Basketball Association, and their 37th season as a franchise. The season saw the team draft future All-Star Carmelo Anthony with the third overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft. During the offseason, the team signed free agent Andre Miller, and re-signed former Nuggets guard Voshon Lenard. Coming off with the worst", "title": "2003–04 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "20169074", "text": "2017–18 Portland Trail Blazers season The 2017–18 Portland Trail Blazers season was the franchise's 48th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). This season is most notable for having a 13-game winning streak in their franchise history (tied), starting with a win over the Utah Jazz on February 23, but was ended with a 111–115 loss to the Houston Rockets on March 20. Despite that, the team still managed to clinch their 5th straight playoff berth on April 1, with a win over the Memphis Grizzlies. They finished the regular season with 49–33, which secured the 3rd seed and clinched", "title": "2017–18 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15229952", "text": "Spencer was traded to the Orlando Magic, and James Donaldson retired after missing the entire season with a strained hamstring. (3) Utah Jazz vs. (6) Portland Trail Blazers Last Playoff Meeting: 1992 Western Conference Finals (Portland won 4-2) <nowiki>*</nowiki>Required overtime (2) San Antonio Spurs vs. (3) Utah Jazz Last Playoff Meeting: 1994 Western Conference First Round (Utah won 3-1) (1) Seattle SuperSonics vs. (3) Utah Jazz Last Playoff Meeting: 1993 Western Conference First Round (Seattle won 3-2) <nowiki>*</nowiki>Required overtime 1995–96 Utah Jazz season The 1995–96 NBA season was the Jazz's 22nd season in the National Basketball Association, and 17th season", "title": "1995–96 Utah Jazz season" }, { "docid": "803396", "text": "selection in the draft, in which they selected Jarrett Jack, but sent him to the Portland Trail Blazers for rights to Portland's 27th overall pick, Linas Kleiza. In 2005–06, for the first time in 18 years, the club won the Northwest division title. This placed the team in the third seed of the Western Conference playoffs. Denver played the Los Angeles Clippers who, despite their 6th seeding, had a better regular-season record. As a result, the Clippers received home court advantage. They defeated the Nuggets in 5 games. Shortly after, the Nuggets announced that General Manager Kiki Vandeweghe's contract would", "title": "Denver Nuggets" }, { "docid": "11918760", "text": "1976–77 Denver Nuggets season The 1976–77 season was the Denver Nuggets' first season in the NBA, after nine seasons in the ABA. In their NBA playoffs debut, the Nuggets lost to the eventual NBA champion Portland Trail Blazers in six games in the First Round. With the conclusion of the 1975–76 season, the American Basketball Association came to an end with the ABA-NBA merger. Four ABA teams entered the NBA: the Nuggets, the Indiana Pacers, the New York Nets and the San Antonio Spurs. The other ABA teams were folded prior to the merger except for the Kentucky Colonels and", "title": "1976–77 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "13261689", "text": "winning their second NBA title, however, was stifled by the Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen-led Bulls, who defeated the Blazers 4–2 and won their second straight NBA title. Following the season, Danny Ainge signed as a free agent with the Phoenix Suns. For the season, the Blazers changed their logo and uniforms. Both would last until 2002. (1) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (8) Los Angeles Lakers: \"Blazers win series 3–1\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1991 Western Conference Finals (Los Angeles won 4–2) (1) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (4) Phoenix Suns: \"Blazers win series 4–1\" (1) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (2) Utah", "title": "1991–92 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "13261690", "text": "Jazz: \"Blazers win series 4–2\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1991 Western Conference Semifinals (Portland won 4–1) (1) Chicago Bulls vs. (1) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Bulls win series 4–2\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1977 Western Conference First Round (Portland won 2–1) 1991–92 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1991–92 NBA season was the 22nd season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. After losing three of their first four games, the Blazers would quickly recover as they continued to lead the way in the West posting a 57–25 record, earning their second straight Pacific Division championship and 10th consecutive trip to", "title": "1991–92 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "7590891", "text": "SuperSonics and the Jazz. The Trail Blazers and SuperSonics joined from the Pacific Division, while the Nuggets, the Timberwolves and Jazz joined from the now-defunct Midwest Division. The SuperSonics-Thunder franchise has won the most Northwest Division titles, with six, while the Jazz have won three, the Nuggets have won three, the Trail Blazers have won two, and the Timberwolves have never won the Northwest Division title. In the 2009–10 season, all four teams that qualified for the playoffs each had more than 50 wins. The most recent division champion is the Portland Trail Blazers, having won its second division championship", "title": "Northwest Division (NBA)" }, { "docid": "16544198", "text": "to their color scheme. Their logo and uniforms would both last until 2008. (3) Houston Rockets vs. (6) Minnesota Timberwolves Last Playoff Meeting: Not available (first playoff series) 1996–97 Minnesota Timberwolves season The 1996–97 NBA season was the Timberwolves' 8th season in the National Basketball Association. In the 1996 NBA draft, the Timberwolves selected Connecticut shooting guard Ray Allen with the fifth pick, but soon traded him to the Milwaukee Bucks for rookie point guard Stephon Marbury out of Georgia Tech. Offseason acquisitions included acquiring James Robinson from the Portland Trail Blazers, and Cherokee Parks from the Dallas Mavericks, while", "title": "1996–97 Minnesota Timberwolves season" }, { "docid": "12015323", "text": "also the final season the Nuggets wore their Tetris-inspired uniforms. 1992–93 Denver Nuggets season The 1992–93 NBA season was the Nuggets' 17th season in the National Basketball Association, and 26th season as a franchise. During the offseason, the Nuggets acquired second-year guard Robert Pack from the Portland Trail Blazers, and brought back Dan Issel as their new head coach. Issel starred for the Nuggets for ten seasons as a player. Under Issel, the Nuggets got off to a 7–7 start, but then suffered a 14-game losing streak from December 5 to January 5. As the season progressed, the team signed", "title": "1992–93 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "16510354", "text": "his career. The Timberwolves would not make the playoffs again until 2018. With the exceptions of Ndudi Ebi, Troy Hudson, Darrick Martin, Oliver Miller, and Michael Olowokandi, the team's season roster is featured in NBA 2K18. (1) Minnesota Timberwolves vs. (8) Denver Nuggets: \"Timberwolves win series 4–1\" Last Playoff Meeting: This is the first meeting between the Timberwolves and Nuggets. (1) Minnesota Timberwolves vs. (4) Sacramento Kings \"Timberwolves win series 4–3\" Last Playoff Meeting: This is the first meeting between the Timberwolves and Kings. (1) Minnesota Timberwolves vs. (2) Los Angeles Lakers: \"Lakers win series 4–2\" Last Playoff Meeting: 2003", "title": "2003–04 Minnesota Timberwolves season" }, { "docid": "12015321", "text": "1992–93 Denver Nuggets season The 1992–93 NBA season was the Nuggets' 17th season in the National Basketball Association, and 26th season as a franchise. During the offseason, the Nuggets acquired second-year guard Robert Pack from the Portland Trail Blazers, and brought back Dan Issel as their new head coach. Issel starred for the Nuggets for ten seasons as a player. Under Issel, the Nuggets got off to a 7–7 start, but then suffered a 14-game losing streak from December 5 to January 5. As the season progressed, the team signed free agent Tom Hammonds midway through the season. Despite the", "title": "1992–93 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "15238383", "text": "1987–88 Utah Jazz season The 1987–88 Utah Jazz season was the team's 14th in the NBA. The Jazz finished third in the Midwest Division with a record of 47–35, and qualified for the playoffs for the fifth straight season. In the first round of the playoffs, they defeated the Portland Trail Blazers in four games, but then lost in seven games to the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers in the semifinals. Karl Malone was selected for the 1988 NBA All-Star Game. (4) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (5) Utah Jazz:\"Jazz win series 3–1\" Last Playoff Meeting: Not available (first playoff series)", "title": "1987–88 Utah Jazz season" }, { "docid": "803417", "text": "Denver Nuggets and I know my best basketball is ahead of me!\" Despite losing their first three games, the 2012–2013 Nuggets finished with a franchise best 57–25 record, and a 38–3 record in Pepsi Center (the Washington Wizards, Miami Heat, and Minnesota Timberwolves were the only 3 visitors to defeat Denver on their home during the regular season). Denver also clinched the 3rd seed in the Western Conference, with a first round matchup with the Golden State Warriors. The Nuggets won Game 1 97–95 on their home court on a last second Andre Miller game winner, but the Warriors won", "title": "Denver Nuggets" }, { "docid": "804298", "text": "sides were criticized somewhat, but did not make any revelations which were unexpected. Additional coverage is offered by various blogs, including Blazers Edge (part of SB Nation) and the Portland Roundball Society (part of ESPN's TrueHoop Network). Portland Trail Blazers The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. The Trail Blazers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Northwest Division. The team played its home games in the Memorial Coliseum before moving to Moda Center in 1995 (called the Rose Garden", "title": "Portland Trail Blazers" }, { "docid": "11918765", "text": "1984–85 Denver Nuggets season The 1984-85 Denver Nuggets season was their 18th season, and their ninth in the NBA. In the playoffs, the Nuggets defeated the San Antonio Spurs in five games in the First Round, then defeated the Utah Jazz in five games in the Semifinals, before losing to the eventual NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers in five games in the Conference Finals. Notes (2) Denver Nuggets vs. (7) San Antonio Spurs: \"Nuggets win series 3-2\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1983 Western Conference Semifinals (San Antonio won 4-1) (2) Denver Nuggets vs. (6) Utah Jazz: \"Nuggets win series 4-1\" Last", "title": "1984–85 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "15046495", "text": "the Seattle SuperSonics three games to two in the Western Conference Quarterfinals, but would lose in five games to the Portland Trail Blazers in the semifinals for the second consecutive year. Following the season, Jeff Hornacek retired after playing fourteen years in the NBA, Gilliam also retired while Howard Eisley was traded to the Dallas Mavericks, and Adam Keefe was dealt to the Golden State Warriors. (2) Utah Jazz vs. (7) Seattle SuperSonics Last Playoff Meeting: 1996 Western Conference Finals (Seattle won 4-3) (2) Utah Jazz vs. (3) Portland Trail Blazers Last Playoff Meeting: 1999 Western Conference Semifinals (Portland won", "title": "1999–2000 Utah Jazz season" }, { "docid": "804211", "text": "Portland Trail Blazers The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. The Trail Blazers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Northwest Division. The team played its home games in the Memorial Coliseum before moving to Moda Center in 1995 (called the Rose Garden until 2013). The franchise entered the league as an expansion team in 1970, and has enjoyed a strong following: from 1977 through 1995, the team sold out 814 consecutive home games, the longest such streak in American", "title": "Portland Trail Blazers" }, { "docid": "9364534", "text": "\"Lakers win series 3-0\" This was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning the first three meetings. (2) Denver Nuggets vs. (7) Seattle SuperSonics: \"Nuggets win series 3-2\" This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the SuperSonics winning the first meeting. (3) Dallas Mavericks vs. (6) Houston Rockets: \"Mavericks win series 3-1\" This was the first playoff meeting between the Mavericks and the Rockets. (4) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (5) Utah Jazz:\"Jazz win series 3-1\" This was the first playoff meeting between the Trail Blazers and the Jazz. Conference Semifinals (1)", "title": "1988 NBA Playoffs" }, { "docid": "17488600", "text": "2014 second-round pick was traded to Denver (June 24, 2011). 2015 second-round draft pick to Cleveland Portland's 2015 second-round pick to Cleveland [June 27, 2013] 2016 second-round draft pick to Cleveland Portland's 2016 second-round pick to Cleveland [June 27, 2013] 2017 second-round draft pick to Houston Portland's 2017 second-round pick to Houston [July 10, 2013] 2013–14 Portland Trail Blazers season The 2013–14 Portland Trail Blazers season was the franchise's 44th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Prior to this season, the Rose Garden was renamed as the Moda Center. The season saw the Blazers improve on their mediocre 2012–13", "title": "2013–14 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "20175954", "text": "finale. <noinclude> Statistics with the Denver Nuggets 2017–18 Denver Nuggets season The 2017–18 Denver Nuggets season was the 42nd season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). On June 15, 2017, the Nuggets officially promoted both Artūras Karnišovas and Tim Connelly to become the team's newest general manager and president of basketball operations respectively. On December 2, 2017, the Nuggets would retire Fat Lever's number during their 115–100 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Despite compiling their first winning season since 2013, they missed the playoffs for the fifth straight season after losing to the Minnesota Timberwolves in", "title": "2017–18 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "16544196", "text": "1996–97 Minnesota Timberwolves season The 1996–97 NBA season was the Timberwolves' 8th season in the National Basketball Association. In the 1996 NBA draft, the Timberwolves selected Connecticut shooting guard Ray Allen with the fifth pick, but soon traded him to the Milwaukee Bucks for rookie point guard Stephon Marbury out of Georgia Tech. Offseason acquisitions included acquiring James Robinson from the Portland Trail Blazers, and Cherokee Parks from the Dallas Mavericks, while signing free agents Dean Garrett and Chris Carr. The addition of Marbury made a positive effect on the entire team, as second-year star Kevin Garnett and Tom Gugliotta", "title": "1996–97 Minnesota Timberwolves season" }, { "docid": "804247", "text": "and Sergio Rodríguez was traded to the Kings. The Blazers attempted to sign free agent small forward Hedo Türkoğlu, who led the Orlando Magic to the 2009 NBA Finals, but after a verbal agreement he decided to sign with the Toronto Raptors. The Blazers then attempted to sign restricted free agent Paul Millsap; however, their offer was matched by the Utah Jazz. On July 24, 2009, the Trail Blazers signed point guard Andre Miller. Despite a winning record, injuries hobbled the team for the 2009–2010 season. Reserves Batum and Fernández started the season on the inactive list and forward Travis", "title": "Portland Trail Blazers" }, { "docid": "15220234", "text": "2004. (3) Utah Jazz vs. (6) Sacramento Kings: \"Jazz win series 3-2\" Last Playoff Meeting: This is the first meeting between the Jazz and Kings. (2) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (3) Utah Jazz: \"Blazers win series 4-2\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1996 Western Conference First Round (Utah won 3-2) 1998–99 Utah Jazz season The 1998–99 NBA season was the Jazz's 25th season in the National Basketball Association, and 20th season in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Jazz entered the season once again as runner-ups in the NBA Finals, having lost back-to-back NBA Finals to the Chicago Bulls, both in six games.", "title": "1998–99 Utah Jazz season" }, { "docid": "803407", "text": "game to tie the series. Anthony became the first Denver player to score at least 30 points in five consecutive playoff games since the Nuggets joined the NBA in 1976. They lost the series 4–2, ending Denver's longest playoff run in team history. In the 2009 NBA draft, the Nuggets traded a first-round draft pick acquired from the Charlotte Bobcats to the Minnesota Timberwolves for the rights to rookie Ty Lawson, who was drafted 18th overall. On July 13, 2009, the Nuggets traded a second-round draft pick to the Detroit Pistons for Arron Afflalo (part of the trade exception from", "title": "Denver Nuggets" }, { "docid": "8157641", "text": "first two meetings. (2) Houston Rockets vs. (7) Sacramento Kings:\"Rockets win series 3–0\" This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Rockets winning the first meeting. (3) Denver Nuggets vs. (6) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Nuggets win series 3–1\" This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Trail Blazers winning the first meeting. (4) Dallas Mavericks vs. (5) Utah Jazz: \"Mavericks win series 3–1\" This was the first playoff meeting between the Mavericks and the Jazz. (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (4) Dallas Mavericks: \"Lakers win series 4–2\" This was the second playoff", "title": "1986 NBA Playoffs" }, { "docid": "11918755", "text": "years. (1) Seattle SuperSonics vs. (8) Denver Nuggets: \"Nuggets win series 3-2\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1988 Western Conference First Round (Denver won 3-2) (5) Utah Jazz vs. (8) Denver Nuggets: \"Jazz win series 4-3\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1985 Western Conference Semifinals (Denver won 4-1) 1993–94 Denver Nuggets season The 1993–94 NBA season was the Nuggets' 18th season in the National Basketball Association, and 27th season as a franchise. During the offseason, the Nuggets acquired Brian Williams from the Orlando Magic. The team also acquired All-Star guard Alvin Robertson from the Detroit Pistons in exchange for Mark Macon and Marcus Liberty", "title": "1993–94 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "4287081", "text": "NBA start since December 9, 2013. After playing more than 15 minutes just one time since November 29, 2015, Miller had 13 points and five assists in 25 minutes in the Spurs' 116–91 win over his former team, the Minnesota Timberwolves. Andre Miller Andre Lloyd Miller (born March 19, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player. Miller has played professional basketball for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Clippers, Philadelphia 76ers, Portland Trail Blazers, Denver Nuggets, Washington Wizards, Sacramento Kings, Minnesota Timberwolves and San Antonio Spurs. Currently, he ranks tenth all-time in NBA career assists and has only missed three", "title": "Andre Miller" }, { "docid": "16551079", "text": "playoffs, the Spurs would easily defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves in four games. In the semifinals, they beat the 5th-seeded Dallas Mavericks in five games to advance to the Western Conference Finals, where they were swept by the second-seeded defending champion Los Angeles Lakers. Following the season, Anderson was traded along with Steve Kerr to the Portland Trail Blazers for Steve Smith, Avery Johnson signed as a free agent with the Denver Nuggets, Samaki Walker signed with the Los Angeles Lakers, and Sean Elliott retired. (1) San Antonio Spurs vs. (8) Minnesota Timberwolves Last Playoff Meeting: 1999 Western Conference First Round", "title": "2000–01 San Antonio Spurs season" }, { "docid": "14756093", "text": "3-2) (1) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (5) Utah Jazz: \"Blazers win series 4-1\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1988 Western Conference First Round (Utah won 3-1) 1990–91 Utah Jazz season The 1990–91 NBA season was the Jazz's 17th season in the National Basketball Association, and 12th season in Salt Lake City, Utah. Early into the season, the Jazz traveled to Japan to play their first two games against the Phoenix Suns at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. With the offseason acquisition of Jeff Malone from the Washington Bullets, the Jazz continued to play sweet music in the regular season with a 26–12 start.", "title": "1990–91 Utah Jazz season" }, { "docid": "15622430", "text": "their second-round playoff series). The Blazers made the playoffs for the 18th consecutive year. Rasheed Wallace was selected to play in the 2000 NBA All-Star Game. In the playoffs, the Blazers defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves 3–1 in the first-round, and the Jazz 4–1 in the second round. In the Western Conference finals against the Los Angeles Lakers, they came back from a 3–1 series deficit to force Game 7. Up by 15 points with ten minutes remaining in Game 7, the Blazers suffered a 15–0 run by Los Angeles that tied the score, and the Lakers pulled out an 89–84", "title": "1999–2000 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "16559221", "text": "less than two picks in some drafts, although they must have at least one first-round pick every other year. The first pick in the Trail Blazers' history was Geoff Petrie, a guard from Princeton University. Portland Trail Blazers draft history The Portland Trail Blazers are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The franchise was founded in the 1970–71 NBA season. The Trail Blazers first participated in the NBA Draft on March 23, 1970, before their inaugural NBA season. Before each draft,", "title": "Portland Trail Blazers draft history" }, { "docid": "15618685", "text": "Bullets, and Elie was dealt to the Houston Rockets. (4) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (5) San Antonio Spurs: \"Spurs win series 3-1\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1990 Western Conference Semifinals (Portland won 4-3) 1992–93 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1992–93 NBA season was the 23rd season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. The Trail Blazers entered the season as runner-ups in the 1992 NBA Finals, where they lost to the Chicago Bulls in six games. In the offseason, the Blazers signed free agents Rod Strickland and Mario Elie. The Blazers got off to a fast start winning", "title": "1992–93 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "20175953", "text": "2017–18 Denver Nuggets season The 2017–18 Denver Nuggets season was the 42nd season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). On June 15, 2017, the Nuggets officially promoted both Artūras Karnišovas and Tim Connelly to become the team's newest general manager and president of basketball operations respectively. On December 2, 2017, the Nuggets would retire Fat Lever's number during their 115–100 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Despite compiling their first winning season since 2013, they missed the playoffs for the fifth straight season after losing to the Minnesota Timberwolves in a win-or-go-home situation in the regular season", "title": "2017–18 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "14654104", "text": "as a starter for the Western Conference. The All-Star game would end up being the last time 'Melo represented the Nuggets as he was traded the next day to the New York Knicks. 2010–11 Denver Nuggets season The 2010–11 Denver Nuggets season was the 44th season of the franchise, its 35th in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After half a season of rumors and speculation, the Nuggets granted Carmelo Anthony his wish by trading him to the New York Knicks on February 21 as part of a three-team trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves. The blockbuster trade also sent Chauncey Billups,", "title": "2010–11 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "11046527", "text": "Despite posting an 8–8 record in March, the Timberwolves finished fifth in the Midwest Division with a 26–56 record, missing the playoffs for the seventh consecutive season. Following the season, Isaiah Rider, who dealt with off-the-court troubles was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers, Lang signed as a free agent with the Milwaukee Bucks and Webb was released. In Garnett's rookie season, the Timberwolves were in the midst of a transition phase; they replaced Bill Blair with Flip Saunders as head coach early in the season and made several trades. Garnett initially came off the bench in his rookie year,", "title": "1995–96 Minnesota Timberwolves season" }, { "docid": "7805417", "text": "series turned out to be the final postseason appearance in Charles Barkley’s Hall of Fame career. Champion: San Antonio Spurs 1st Round (1) San Antonio Spurs vs. (8) Minnesota Timberwolves: \"Spurs win series 3-1\" This was the first playoff meeting between the Timberwolves and the Spurs. (2) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (7) Phoenix Suns: \"Blazers win series 3-0\" This was the sixth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Suns winning three of the first five meetings. (3) Utah Jazz vs. (6) Sacramento Kings: \"Jazz win series 3-2\" This was the first playoff meeting between the Kings and the", "title": "1999 NBA Playoffs" }, { "docid": "804251", "text": "trades. On July 21, Wesley Matthews signed a five-year deal with the Blazers after his former team, the Utah Jazz, declined to match Portland's offer. Similar to the previous season, Portland was overcome with injuries from the start of the 2010–11 season. Jeff Pendergraph and rookie guard Elliot Williams both suffered knee injuries that sidelined them for the season; Portland later waived Pendergraph. In November, they announced that Oden would have microfracture surgery on his left knee, ending his 2010–2011 season. This injury marked Oden's third NBA season cut short due to a knee injury. Three-time All-Star Brandon Roy underwent", "title": "Portland Trail Blazers" }, { "docid": "15617617", "text": "NBA game. (3) Phoenix Suns vs. (6) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Suns win series 2-1\" 1978–79 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1978–79 Portland Trail Blazers season was the ninth season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). During the offseason, MVP Bill Walton demanded to be traded, citing unethical and incompetent treatment of his and other players' injuries by the Blazers' front office. He did not get his wish and sat out the 1978–79 season in protest, signing with the San Diego Clippers when he became a free agent in 1979. Before the draft, Larry Bird had", "title": "1978–79 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "14654102", "text": "2010–11 Denver Nuggets season The 2010–11 Denver Nuggets season was the 44th season of the franchise, its 35th in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After half a season of rumors and speculation, the Nuggets granted Carmelo Anthony his wish by trading him to the New York Knicks on February 21 as part of a three-team trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves. The blockbuster trade also sent Chauncey Billups, Anthony Carter, Renaldo Balkman, Shelden Williams and Corey Brewer to the Knicks for Wilson Chandler, Danilo Gallinari, Raymond Felton, Timofey Mozgov, Kosta Koufos, New York's first round pick in the 2014 draft and", "title": "2010–11 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "11918766", "text": "Playoff Meeting: 1984 Western Conference First Round (Utah won 3-2) (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (2) Denver Nuggets: \"Lakers win series 4-1\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1979 Western Conference First Round (Los Angeles won 2-1) 1984–85 Denver Nuggets season The 1984-85 Denver Nuggets season was their 18th season, and their ninth in the NBA. In the playoffs, the Nuggets defeated the San Antonio Spurs in five games in the First Round, then defeated the Utah Jazz in five games in the Semifinals, before losing to the eventual NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers in five games in the Conference Finals. Notes (2)", "title": "1984–85 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "16396691", "text": "Sidney Wicks, Brandon Roy, Damian Lillard) have won the NBA Rookie of the Year award. Two Hall of Fame coaches, Lenny Wilkens and Jack Ramsay, have patrolled the sidelines for the Blazers, and two others, Mike Schuler and Mike Dunleavy, have won the NBA Coach of the Year award with the team. The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared in at least one game for the Portland Trail Blazers NBA franchise. Portland Trail Blazers all-time roster The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland,", "title": "Portland Trail Blazers all-time roster" }, { "docid": "8579841", "text": "Brandon Rush Brandon Leray Rush (born July 7, 1985) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted in the first round of the 2008 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers, before being traded to the Indiana Pacers on draft day, after playing for Kansas for three seasons, including the 2008 championship season. He was selected as a Wooden Award All-American in both 2007 and 2008 as a Jayhawk. Rush has also played for the Golden State Warriors, Utah Jazz, and Minnesota Timberwolves, winning an", "title": "Brandon Rush" }, { "docid": "5821391", "text": "reserve behind rising all-star Rasheed Wallace, who would go on to have a career year during the season as the Trail Blazers won 59 games and the second seed in the Western Conference. Portland opened the playoffs with a 3-1 first-round win over the Minnesota Timberwolves, with Grant and Wallace both being used as defensive options against Kevin Garnett. Grant was used in a similar fashion against Karl Malone and the Utah Jazz in the second round, with Portland advancing in five games. In the Western Conference Finals, the Trail Blazers faced the Los Angeles Lakers led by Pippen's former", "title": "Brian Grant" }, { "docid": "15714498", "text": "of 30.0 points per game. He then played for Qatar in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. He played in all 8 games, averaging 19.6 points per game as Qatar finished in 5th place. On June 23, 2011, he was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks with the 57th pick in the second round of the 2011 NBA Draft. His draft rights were immediately traded to the Portland Trail Blazers as part of a three-team trade with the Denver Nuggets. The Blazers then traded his rights to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for a future second-round pick. His rights were", "title": "Tanguy Ngombo" }, { "docid": "16396688", "text": "Portland Trail Blazers all-time roster The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Trail Blazers originally played their home games in the Memorial Coliseum, before moving to the Rose Garden (renamed the Moda Center in 2013) in 1995. The franchise entered the league in 1970, and Portland has been its only home city. The franchise has enjoyed a strong following; from 1977 through 1995, the team sold out 814 consecutive home games,", "title": "Portland Trail Blazers all-time roster" }, { "docid": "12038061", "text": "Portland Trail Blazers accomplishments and records The Portland Trail Blazers are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. The Trail Blazers play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The franchise entered the NBA in 1970, and is one of two major league franchise in Oregon. The Trail Blazers sold out 814 consecutive home games from 1977 through 1995, the second longest such streak for American professional sports teams which was broken July 9, 2011 by the Dayton Dragons. The team has played their home games at the Moda Center (formerly", "title": "Portland Trail Blazers accomplishments and records" }, { "docid": "16559220", "text": "Portland Trail Blazers draft history The Portland Trail Blazers are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The franchise was founded in the 1970–71 NBA season. The Trail Blazers first participated in the NBA Draft on March 23, 1970, before their inaugural NBA season. Before each draft, an NBA draft lottery determines the first round selection order for the teams that missed the playoffs during the prior season. Teams can also trade their picks, which means that teams may have more or", "title": "Portland Trail Blazers draft history" }, { "docid": "9058347", "text": "first two meetings. (2) San Antonio Spurs vs. (7) Denver Nuggets: \"Spurs win series 3–0\" This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series apiece. (3) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (6) Dallas Mavericks: \"Blazers win series 3–0\" This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Trail Blazers winning the first meeting. (4) Utah Jazz vs. (5) Phoenix Suns: \"Suns win series 3–2\" This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Suns winning the first meeting. (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (5) Phoenix Suns: \"Suns win", "title": "1990 NBA Playoffs" }, { "docid": "16510351", "text": "2003–04 Minnesota Timberwolves season The 2003–04 NBA season was the 15th season for the Minnesota Timberwolves in the National Basketball Association. During the offseason, the Timberwolves signed free agents Michael Olowakandi and Trenton Hassell. With a Western Conference-best 58–24 finish, the Wolves set the franchise record for wins, and won its first and only division championship. Power forward Kevin Garnett averaged 24.2 points, a league-high 13.9 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 1.5 steals and 2.2 blocks per game, winning the regular season Most Valuable Player Award. In the first round of the playoffs, the Timberwolves defeated the Denver Nuggets in five games,", "title": "2003–04 Minnesota Timberwolves season" }, { "docid": "15627477", "text": "in which they failed to win even 30 games. Following the season, Scottie Pippen re-signed as a free agent with the Chicago Bulls, and Sabonis retired for the second time. For the season, the Blazers changed their logo which only lasted for just one season, and added red road alternate uniforms. (3) Dallas Mavericks vs. (6) Portland Trail Blazers Last Playoff Meeting: 1990 Western Conference First Round (Portland won 3-0) 2002–03 Portland Trail Blazers season The 2002–03 NBA season was the 33rd season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. During the offseason, Arvydas Sabonis came out", "title": "2002–03 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15618148", "text": "four games to one, on the Lakers' way to the 1983 NBA Finals. Note: This is not a complete list; only the first two rounds are covered, as well as any other picks by the franchise who played at least one NBA game. (4) Seattle SuperSonics vs. (5) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Blazers win series 2–0\" Last playoff meeting: 1980 Western Conference First round (Seattle won 2-1) (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (5) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Lakers win series 4–1\" Last playoff meeting: 1977 Western Conference Finals (Portland won 4-0) 1982–83 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1982–83 season was the 13th", "title": "1982–83 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15617594", "text": "would be Walton's last season with the club, as he sat out the 1979 season and then was signed by the San Diego Clippers. The Blazers eventually eclipsed their franchise-record win total from this season with a 59–23 showing in 1989–90. Note: This is not a complete list; only the first two rounds are covered, as well as any other picks by the franchise who played at least one NBA game. The Trail Blazers had a first round bye. (1) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (4) Seattle SuperSonics: \"Sonics win series 4-2\" 1977–78 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1977–78 Portland Trail", "title": "1977–78 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15618709", "text": "Houston Rockets vs. (7) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Rockets win series 3–1\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1987 Western Conference First Round (Houston won 3–1) 1993–94 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1993–94 NBA season was the 24th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. In the offseason, the Blazers acquired Harvey Grant from the Washington Bullets and signed unrestricted free agent Chris Dudley. However, an ankle injury limited Dudley to just six games. The Blazers finished the season with a 47–35 record, fourth in the Pacific Division and seventh in the Western Conference. It was their 12th straight trip", "title": "1993–94 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15618079", "text": "NBA game. (4) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (5) Kansas City Kings: \"Kings win series 2-1\" 1980–81 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1980–81 season was the 11th season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Blazers won seven more games than the previous season, ending with a record of 45–37 and making the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season. The Blazers were eliminated from the 1980 NBA Playoffs after losing their best-of-three first-round series to the Kansas City Kings, two games to one. Note: This is not a complete list; only the first two rounds are", "title": "1980–81 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15618075", "text": "picks by the franchise who played at least one NBA game. (3) Seattle SuperSonics vs. (6) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Sonics win series 2-1\" Last playoff meeting: 1978 Western Conference Semifinals (Seattle won 4-2) 1979–80 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1979–80 season was the 10th season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Blazers lost seven more games than the previous season, ending with a record of 38–44, their first losing record since the 1975–76 season; despite that, they qualified for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. The Blazers were ousted from the 1980 NBA", "title": "1979–80 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "16541518", "text": "as a free agent with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Smith retired and Motta was fired as coach. 1996–97 Denver Nuggets season The 1996–97 NBA season was the Nuggets' 21st season in the National Basketball Association, and 30th season as a franchise. In the offseason, the Nuggets acquired Mark Jackson and Ricky Pierce from the Indiana Pacers, and signed free agent Ervin Johnson. However, after a 4–9 start to the season, Bernie Bickerstaff was forced out as head coach and replaced with Dick Motta, where the Nuggets then lost ten straight games along the way. Midway through the season, Jackson was traded", "title": "1996–97 Denver Nuggets season" }, { "docid": "8100976", "text": "assistant coach by the Minnesota Timberwolves to work under Rick Adelman. T. R. Dunn Theodore Roosevelt \"T. R.\" Dunn (born February 1, 1955) is an American former professional basketball player who used to be an assistant coach for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A star at the University of Alabama, the 6'4\" Dunn was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the second round of the 1977 National Basketball Association draft. He went on to have a productive 14-year career with three teams: the Blazers (1977–1980), the Denver Nuggets (1980–1988;1989–1991), and the Phoenix Suns (1988–1989). Dunn", "title": "T. R. Dunn" }, { "docid": "15622473", "text": "was released and later signed as a free agent with the Orlando Magic, and Kerr was traded back to the San Antonio Spurs. (3) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (6) Portland Trail Blazers Last Playoff Meeting: 2001 Western Conference First Round (Los Angeles won 3-0) 2001–02 Portland Trail Blazers season The 2001–02 NBA season was the 32nd season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. During the offseason, head coach Mike Dunleavy was fired after four years and two trips to the Western Conference finals, and was replaced with Maurice Cheeks, as the Blazers acquired Derek Anderson and", "title": "2001–02 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15617614", "text": "1978–79 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1978–79 Portland Trail Blazers season was the ninth season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). During the offseason, MVP Bill Walton demanded to be traded, citing unethical and incompetent treatment of his and other players' injuries by the Blazers' front office. He did not get his wish and sat out the 1978–79 season in protest, signing with the San Diego Clippers when he became a free agent in 1979. Before the draft, Larry Bird had just finished his junior year at Indiana State. However, he was eligible to be", "title": "1978–79 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "20177072", "text": "2017–18 Minnesota Timberwolves season The 2017–18 Minnesota Timberwolves season was the 29th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They clinched their first winning season since 2005 with a win over the New York Knicks on March 23, 2018. On April 11, 2018, the Timberwolves clinched a playoff berth for the first time since 2004 with a win over the Denver Nuggets, ending what was the longest post-season drought in the NBA at the time, at 13 seasons to pass the Sacramento Kings to currently make the longest postseason NBA drought. The last time the Wolves made", "title": "2017–18 Minnesota Timberwolves season" }, { "docid": "11873262", "text": "1976–77 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1976–77 season was the Portland Trail Blazers' 7th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The revamped Blazers would end up getting off to a terrific start winning 22 of their first 31 games. The Blazers won their last 5 games to post a record of 49–33. The Blazers made the playoffs for the first time in franchise history and proceeded to stampede through the postseason. By the time the Blazers had made it to the 1977 NBA Finals, the city of Portland was truly in the grips of \"Blazermania\". After losing the first", "title": "1976–77 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15618683", "text": "1992–93 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1992–93 NBA season was the 23rd season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. The Trail Blazers entered the season as runner-ups in the 1992 NBA Finals, where they lost to the Chicago Bulls in six games. In the offseason, the Blazers signed free agents Rod Strickland and Mario Elie. The Blazers got off to a fast start winning their first eight games of the season. However, Clyde Drexler played just 49 games due to knee and hamstring injuries, as he led the team with 19.9 points per game. The Blazers", "title": "1992–93 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "19515050", "text": "Layman out of Maryland. 2016–17 Portland Trail Blazers season The 2016–17 Portland Trail Blazers season was the franchise's 47th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Blazers would finish the regular season with a 41–41 record, securing the 8th seed. In the playoffs, they faced against the 1st seeded and eventual NBA champion Golden State Warriors in the First Round, in which they were swept in four games. The Trail Blazers received the 47th pick of the 2016 NBA draft from the Orlando Magic in exchange for $1.2 million and a 2019 second-round pick. The Trail Blazers used this", "title": "2016–17 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "19515049", "text": "2016–17 Portland Trail Blazers season The 2016–17 Portland Trail Blazers season was the franchise's 47th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Blazers would finish the regular season with a 41–41 record, securing the 8th seed. In the playoffs, they faced against the 1st seeded and eventual NBA champion Golden State Warriors in the First Round, in which they were swept in four games. The Trail Blazers received the 47th pick of the 2016 NBA draft from the Orlando Magic in exchange for $1.2 million and a 2019 second-round pick. The Trail Blazers used this pick to draft Jake", "title": "2016–17 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "803621", "text": "Brandon Roy with the 6th overall pick, Craig Smith with the 36th pick, forward Bobby Jones with the 37th pick and center Loukas Mavrokefalidis with the 57th pick. The Timberwolves traded Roy to the Portland Trail Blazers for Randy Foye and cash considerations. The Timberwolves then traded Bobby Jones to the Philadelphia 76ers for a 2007 second-round pick and cash. On January 23, McHale fired head coach Casey and replaced him with Randy Wittman. McHale explained in a news conference that it was inconsistency by Casey that led to the firing. Casey had compiled an overall record of 53–69. They", "title": "Minnesota Timberwolves" }, { "docid": "15622451", "text": "Charlotte Hornets, and Arvydas Sabonis and Detlef Schrempf both retired. However, Sabonis would return for the 2002–03 season. (2) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (7) Portland Trail Blazers Last Playoff Meeting: 2000 Western Conference Finals (Los Angeles won 4-3) 2000–01 Portland Trail Blazers season The 2000–01 NBA season was the 31st season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. In the offseason, the Blazers acquired Dale Davis from the Indiana Pacers, and All-Star forward Shawn Kemp from the Cleveland Cavaliers in a three-team trade. At midseason, the team re-signed free agent Rod Strickland, who was released by the", "title": "2000–01 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15621776", "text": "Pacer win by the embarrassing score of 124–59, the only time in NBA history where a team has had their score doubled. (3) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (6) Portland Trail Blazers Last Playoff Meeting: 1997 Western Conference First Round (Los Angeles won 3-1) 1997–98 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1997–98 NBA season was the 28th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. During the offseason, the Blazers signed free agent Brian Grant and fired head coach P.J. Carlesimo, who was replaced with Mike Dunleavy; Carlesimo was hired by the Golden State Warriors. Midway through the season,", "title": "1997–98 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15618406", "text": "in the first round of the playoffs for the fourth straight year, losing three straight to the eventual Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers. Clyde Drexler and Kevin Duckworth were both selected to the 1989 NBA All-Star Game. (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (8) Portland Trail Blazers: \"Lakers win series 3-0\" Last Playoff Meeting: 1985 Western Conference Semifinals (Los Angeles won 4-1) 1988–89 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1988–89 season was the 19th season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Blazers finished 39–43, eighth in the Western Conference, qualifying for the playoffs for the", "title": "1988–89 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "15617593", "text": "1977–78 Portland Trail Blazers season The 1977–78 Portland Trail Blazers season was the eighth season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Fresh off their first NBA Championship win the previous season, the Blazers led the league with a franchise-best 58–24 record, earning a first-round bye in the 1978 NBA Playoffs. However, they were defeated by the eventual Western Conference champion Seattle SuperSonics four games to two. The team started with 50 wins in their first 60 games, but due to Bill Walton's foot injury they managed to go 8–14 the rest of the way. This", "title": "1977–78 Portland Trail Blazers season" }, { "docid": "11874161", "text": "1970–71 Portland Trail Blazers season The Portland Trail Blazers were one of three new teams to join the NBA. They played their first game in Portland, beating their expansion brethren, the Cleveland Cavaliers, 115-112 on October 16. The Blazers would finish last in the Pacific Division with a record of 29–53. Of the three expansion teams, their record was the best. The Blazers won seven more games than the Buffalo Braves and 14 more than the Cavaliers. The leading scorer for the Blazers was Geoff Petrie. He averaged 24.8 points per game while sharing Rookie of the Year honors with", "title": "1970–71 Portland Trail Blazers season" } ]
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In response to the crappy reputation High Fructose Corn Syrup has these days, the Corn Refiners Association has applied for permission to rename it to what?
[ "Corn sugar (disambiguation)", "Corn Sugar", "Corn sugar" ]
[ { "docid": "15683633", "text": "counter to his efforts. The article includes links to Ivan's Facebook page and a study on HFCS. On September 14, 2010, the Corn Refiners Association applied for permission to use the name \"corn sugar\" in place of \"high-fructose corn syrup\" on food labels for products sold in the United States. According to a press release, \"Consumers need to know what is in their foods and where their foods come from and we want to be clear with them,\" said CRA president Audrae Erickson. \"The term 'corn sugar' succinctly and accurately describes what this natural ingredient is and where it comes", "title": "Public relations of high fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "12910245", "text": "when it actually contains synthetic and genetically modified ingredients. The claim that HFCS is safe in moderation has also been criticized, as HFCS is used in tens of thousands of products in America, including soda, bread, pasta sauce, barbecue sauce, ketchup, salad dressing, fruit juice, cereal, meat products, chips, as well as \"health products\" such as protein bars, the average American does not eat HFCS in moderation. On September 14, 2010, The Corn Refiners Association applied for permission to use the name \"corn sugar\" in place of high fructose corn syrup on food labels for products sold in the United", "title": "Corn Refiners Association" }, { "docid": "15683627", "text": "Association website. 2010 Corn Refiners Association ads feature parents walking through a corn field, talking about children's nutrition concerns and being confused by recent HFCS information. So they consulted \"medical and nutrition experts\" and discovered that \"Whether it's corn sugar or cane sugar, your body can't tell the difference.\" Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, called the advertisements \"deceptive\", stating: \"High-fructose corn syrup starts out as cornstarch, which is chemically or enzymatically degraded to glucose and some short polymers of glucose. Another enzyme is then used to convert varying fractions of glucose into", "title": "Public relations of high fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "15683636", "text": "the public health concerns cited were those individuals with hereditary fructose intolerance or fructose malabsorption, who have been advised to avoid ingredients that contain fructose. While individuals with fructose allergies have associated \"corn sugar\" (dextrose) to be an acceptable ingredient to their health when \"high fructose corn syrup\" is not, changing the name of HFCS to \"corn sugar\" could put these individuals at risk. Public relations of high fructose corn syrup Critics and competitors of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), notably the sugar industry, have for many years used various public relations campaigns to claim the sweetener causes certain health", "title": "Public relations of high fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "15683634", "text": "from – corn.\" The association, however, did not provide clarification as to a change in what the FDA already considers corn sugar, i.e., dextrose or any of the other corn-derived sugars such as corn syrup and maltodextrin. \"TIME\" stated that the CRA's decision to change the name of HFCS was because HFCS had such a bad reputation. In response to the proposed name change, \"The New York Times\" ran an article asking nutrition experts what they would suggest as appropriate names for HFCS. Three of the five experts recommended alternate names, including Michael Pollan who suggested \"enzymatically altered corn glucose\".", "title": "Public relations of high fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699292", "text": "be a deficiency in the diet for developing genes associated with protein metabolism and physiological benefits affecting bee health. There are various public relations concerns with HFCS, including how HFCS products are advertised and labeled as \"natural.\" As a consequence, several companies reverted to manufacturing with sucrose (table sugar) from products that had previously been made with HFCS. In 2010, the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) applied to allow HFCS to be renamed \"corn sugar\", but that petition was rejected by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 2012. In August 2016 in a move to please consumers with health", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699278", "text": "of refined cane and beet sugar. This decrease in domestic consumption of HFCS resulted in a push in exporting of the product. In 2014, exports of HFCS were valued at $436 million, a decrease of 21% in one year, with Mexico receiving about 75% of the export volume. In 2010, the Corn Refiners Association petitioned the FDA to call HFCS \"corn sugar\", but the petition was denied. In the European Union (EU), HFCS, known as isoglucose in sugar regime, is subject to a production quota. In 2005, this quota was set at 303,000 tonnes; in comparison, the EU produced an", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "12910246", "text": "States. According to a press release, \"Consumers need to know what is in their foods and where their foods come from and we want to be clear with them,\" said CRA president Audrae Erickson. \"The term 'corn sugar' succinctly and accurately describes what this natural ingredient is and where it comes from – corn.\" \"TIME\" stated that the CRA's decision to change the name of HFCS was because HFCS had such a bad reputation. In response to the proposed name change, \"The New York Times\" ran an article asking nutrition experts what they would suggest as appropriate names for HFCS.", "title": "Corn Refiners Association" }, { "docid": "15683635", "text": "Dr. Andrew Weil recommended not changing from HFCS, calling the term corn sugar \"too vague\" and the CRA's attempt to change HFCS's name \"Orwellian\". However Dr. Barry Popkin felt that \"corn sugar\" was an appropriate term. On May 31, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration ultimately rejected the petition. In its decision, the FDA defined sugar as a \"solid, dried and crystallized food\" while syrup was \"an aqueous solution or liquid food.\" In addition, the term \"corn sugar\" had already been approved as another name for dextrose, which has been commonly used as a food ingredient since the 1970s. Among", "title": "Public relations of high fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "12910247", "text": "Three of the five experts recommended alternate names, including Michael Pollan who suggested \"enzymatically altered corn glucose\". Dr Andrew Weil recommended not changing from HFCS, calling the term Corn sugar \"too vague\" and the CRA's attempt to change HFCS's name \"Orwellian\". However Dr Barry Popkin felt that \"corn sugar\" was an appropriate term. On May 31, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration ultimately rejected the name change. The CRA attracted controversy in 2010 for approaching bloggers who run mom blogs, through the organization MomCentral.com, a website that has drawn criticism as an advocacy vehicle of large chemical and pharmaceutical corporations.", "title": "Corn Refiners Association" } ]
[ { "docid": "12910242", "text": "Corn Refiners Association The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) is a trade association based in Washington, D.C. and representing the corn refining industry in the United States. Corn refining encompasses the production of corn starch, corn oil, and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Members of the CRA include Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, Ingredion, Roquette America, Inc. and Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas. The CRA launched a public relations campaign in 2008 called “Changing the Conversation about High Fructose Corn Syrup” (HFCS). Initial commercials stated that HFCS was \"natural\". In more recent commercials characters state HFCS is 'made from corn, has no", "title": "Corn Refiners Association" }, { "docid": "12910248", "text": "Bloggers were extended offers of $50 Wal-Mart gift certificates in exchange for writing about a CRA sponsored seminar that made the claims that high fructose corn syrup and table sugar were nutritionally equivalent and affect the body in the same way. This practice backfired, with several prominent bloggers writing scathing criticisms of the CRA's methods as well as of bloggers who passed on the information presented in the seminar without conducting their own independent research. Corn Refiners Association The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) is a trade association based in Washington, D.C. and representing the corn refining industry in the United", "title": "Corn Refiners Association" }, { "docid": "5699268", "text": "High-fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), also known as glucose-fructose, isoglucose and glucose-fructose syrup, is a sweetener made from corn starch. As in the production of conventional corn syrup, the starch is broken down into glucose by enzymes. To make HFCS, the corn syrup is further processed by glucose isomerase to convert some of its glucose into fructose. HFCS was first marketed in the early 1970s by the Clinton Corn Processing Company, together with the Japanese Agency of Industrial Science and Technology where the enzyme was discovered in 1965. As a sweetener, HFCS is often compared to granulated sugar,", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699294", "text": "in lieu of HFCS, although they still sell HFCS-sweetened products. High-fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), also known as glucose-fructose, isoglucose and glucose-fructose syrup, is a sweetener made from corn starch. As in the production of conventional corn syrup, the starch is broken down into glucose by enzymes. To make HFCS, the corn syrup is further processed by glucose isomerase to convert some of its glucose into fructose. HFCS was first marketed in the early 1970s by the Clinton Corn Processing Company, together with the Japanese Agency of Industrial Science and Technology where the enzyme was discovered in 1965.", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "12910243", "text": "artificial ingredients, has the same calories as sugar and is okay to eat in moderation.' The CRA received heavy criticism for calling HFCS \"natural\". In direct response to the commercials, Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest stated: \"High-fructose corn syrup starts out as cornstarch, which is chemically or enzymatically degraded to glucose and some short polymers of glucose. Another enzyme is then used to convert varying fractions of glucose into fructose...High-fructose corn syrup just doesn't exist in nature.\" In April 2008, an employee of the United States Food and Drug Administration declared HFCS", "title": "Corn Refiners Association" }, { "docid": "15683624", "text": "Public relations of high fructose corn syrup Critics and competitors of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), notably the sugar industry, have for many years used various public relations campaigns to claim the sweetener causes certain health conditions, despite the lack of scientific evidence that HFCS differs nutritionally from sugar. The HFCS industry has tried to respond to these campaigns with their own efforts. In May 2006, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) threatened to file a lawsuit against Cadbury Schweppes for labeling 7 Up as \"All Natural\" or \"100% Natural\", despite the presence of high-fructose corn syrup.", "title": "Public relations of high fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "15683628", "text": "fructose...High-fructose corn syrup just doesn't exist in nature.\" However, Jacobson also stated out: \"The special harmfulness of high-fructose corn syrup has become one of those urban myths that sounds right, but is basically wrong. Nutritionally, high-fructose corn syrup and sucrose may be identical.\" Since HFCS is present in a \"staggering\" amount of food in the US, and in most foods marketed to children, there are doubts as to whether it can be consumed in moderation: A March 21, 2009 \"The New York Times\" article said that some food companies and restaurants were using sugar in their product as a selling", "title": "Public relations of high fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "15683632", "text": "the United States that high-fructose corn syrup has harmful health effects continues to result in increasing reformulation of popular processed foods and reduced sales of HFCS by 9% in 2009 as compared with 2007. Known health risks include weight gain/obesity, type-2 diabetes, elevated LDL (\"bad\") cholesterol levels, long-term liver damage and mercury exposure. Ivan Royster of South Carolina, now residing in Raleigh, North Carolina began a Facebook page which has grown to over 190,000 fans, lobbying for the ban of HFCS in the U.S. An article recently published by \"Organic Connections\" magazine covered Ivan's protest and the Corn Refiners Association's", "title": "Public relations of high fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "15835398", "text": "the concern about the health effects of high fructose corn syrup. High-maltose syrups produced from corn are gluten-free, but certain syrups produced from wheat or barley may contain small amounts of gluten. It is unclear whether this can have significant effects in celiac disease. High-maltose corn syrup High-maltose corn syrup is a food additive used as a sweetener and preservative. The majority sugar is maltose. It is less sweet than high-fructose corn syrup and contains little to no fructose. It is sweet enough to be useful as a sweetener in commercial food production, however. To be given the label \"high\",", "title": "High-maltose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "15683629", "text": "point in order to attract customers who prefer not to consume high-fructose corn syrup. As one example, the article cited Jason's Deli, a chain of delis with 200 restaurants in 27 states. The chain had replaced high-fructose corn syrup with sugar in everything except a few soft drinks. Daniel Helfman, a spokesman for the deli chain, was quoted as saying, \"Part of this is a huge rebellion against HFCS... but part of it is taste.\" PepsiCo recently put forth a \"throwback\" version of Mountain Dew and Pepsi-Cola, designed to taste the same as these drinks did in the 1960s and", "title": "Public relations of high fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699273", "text": "HFCS 42 to form HFCS 55. The enzymes used in the process are made by microbial fermentation. HFCS is 24% water, the rest being mainly fructose and glucose with 0–5% unprocessed glucose oligomers. The most common forms of HFCS used for food and beverage manufacturing contain fructose in either 42% (\"HFCS 42\") or 55% (\"HFCS 55\") amounts, as described in the US Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR 184.1866). Commercial production of corn syrup began in 1864. In the late 1950s, scientists at Clinton Corn Processing Company of Clinton, Iowa, tried to turn glucose from corn starch into fructose, but", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "738217", "text": "Corn syrup Corn syrup is a food syrup which is made from the starch of corn (called maize in some countries) and contains varying amounts of maltose and higher oligosaccharides, depending on the grade. Corn syrup, also known as glucose syrup to confectioners, is used in foods to soften texture, add volume, prevent crystallization of sugar, and enhance flavor. Corn syrup is distinct from high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is manufactured from corn syrup by converting a large proportion of its glucose into fructose using the enzyme D-xylose isomerase, thus producing a sweeter compound due to higher levels of fructose.", "title": "Corn syrup" }, { "docid": "15683631", "text": "addition, the Coca-Cola bottling plant in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, and most Coca-Cola bottling plants in Europe also uses sucrose. Sucrose-based Mexican imports of Coca-Cola and other soft drinks are getting increasing penetration into US markets. In May 2010, Hunt's removed high-fructose corn syrup from its ketchup due to buyer preference as a result of health concerns, but has since put High Fructose Corn Syrup back in their ketchup. Heinz now offers a ketchup made with sugar instead of HFCS called \"Simply Heinz.\" Popular campaigns by nutritional experts and belief by a rapidly increasing faction of the consuming public in", "title": "Public relations of high fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "15835395", "text": "High-maltose corn syrup High-maltose corn syrup is a food additive used as a sweetener and preservative. The majority sugar is maltose. It is less sweet than high-fructose corn syrup and contains little to no fructose. It is sweet enough to be useful as a sweetener in commercial food production, however. To be given the label \"high\", the syrup must contain at least 50% maltose. Typically, it contains 40–50% maltose, though some have as high as 70%. By using β-amylase or fungal α-amylase, glucose syrups containing over 50% maltose, or even over 70% maltose (extra-high-maltose syrup) can be produced. This is", "title": "High-maltose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "738222", "text": "maintains a food's freshness. Corn syrup (or HFCS) is the primary ingredient in most brands of commercial \"pancake syrup\", as a less expensive substitute for maple syrup. In the United States, cane sugar quotas raise the price of sugar; hence, domestically produced corn syrup and high-fructose corn syrup are less costly alternatives that are often used in American-made processed and mass-produced foods, candies, soft drinks, and fruit drinks. Glucose syrup was the primary corn sweetener in the United States prior to the expanded use of high fructose corn syrup production. HFCS is a variant in which other enzymes are used", "title": "Corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699293", "text": "concerns, McDonald's announced they would be replacing all HFCS in their buns with sucrose (table sugar) and would cut out preservatives and other artificial additives from their menu items. Marion Gross, senior vice president of McDonald's stated, \"We know that they [consumers] don't feel good about high-fructose corn syrup so we're giving them what they're looking for instead.\" Over the early 21st century, other companies such as Yoplait, Gatorade, and Hershey's also phased out HFCS, replacing it with conventional sugar because consumers perceived sugar to be healthier. Companies such as PepsiCo and Heinz have also released products that use sugar", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699271", "text": "expensive substitute for maple syrup. Because of its similar sugar profile and lower price, HFCS has been used illegally to \"stretch\" honey. Assays to detect adulteration with HFCS use differential scanning calorimetry and other advanced testing methods. In the contemporary process, corn is milled to extract corn starch and an \"acid-enzyme\" process is used, in which the corn-starch solution is acidified to begin breaking up the existing carbohydrates. It is necessary to carry out the extraction process in the presence of mercuric chloride (0.01 M) in order to inhibit endogenous starch-degrading enzymes. High-temperature enzymes are added to further metabolize the", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "738223", "text": "to convert some of the glucose into fructose. The resulting syrup is sweeter and more soluble. Corn syrup is also available as a retail product. If mixed with sugar, water, and cream of tartar, corn syrup can be used to make sugar glass. Corn syrup Corn syrup is a food syrup which is made from the starch of corn (called maize in some countries) and contains varying amounts of maltose and higher oligosaccharides, depending on the grade. Corn syrup, also known as glucose syrup to confectioners, is used in foods to soften texture, add volume, prevent crystallization of sugar, and", "title": "Corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699277", "text": "solution. Unlike sucrose, HFCS cannot be hydrolyzed, but the free fructose in HFCS may produce hydroxymethylfurfural when stored at high temperatures; these differences are most prominent in acidic beverages. Soft drink makers such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi continue to use sugar in other nations but transitioned to HFCS for U.S. markets in 1980 before completely switching over in 1984. Large corporations, such as Archer Daniels Midland, lobby for the continuation of government corn subsidies. Consumption of HFCS in the U.S. has declined since it peaked at per person in 1999. The average American consumed approximately of HFCS in 2012, versus", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699288", "text": "cornstarch and convert the resulting sugars to their constituents of fructose and glucose. Analyses published in 2014 showed that HFCS content of fructose was consistent across samples from 80 randomly selected carbonated beverages sweetened with HFCS. One prior concern in manufacturing was whether HFCS contains reactive carbonyl compounds or advanced glycation end-products evolved during processing. This concern was dismissed, however, with evidence that HFCS poses no dietary risk from these compounds. Through the early 21st Century, some factories manufacturing HFCS had used a chlor-alkali corn processing method which, in cases of applying mercury cell technology for digesting corn raw material,", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699270", "text": "grown steadily during the early 21st century. In the U.S., HFCS is among the sweeteners that mostly replaced sucrose (table sugar) in the food industry. Factors in the rise of HFCS use include production quotas of domestic sugar, import tariff on foreign sugar, and subsidies of U.S. corn, raising the price of sucrose and lowering that of HFCS, making it cheapest for many sweetener applications. The relative sweetness of HFCS 55, used most commonly in soft drinks, is comparable to sucrose. HFCS (and/or standard corn syrup) is the primary ingredient in most brands of commercial \"pancake syrup\", as a less", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "15683625", "text": "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has no general definition of \"natural\"; however, FDA regulations define \"natural flavoring\" to include products of vegetables. Current FDA policy is that it does not object to labeling HFCS as \"natural.\" The CSPI also state that HFCS is not a \"natural\" ingredient due to the high level of processing and the use of at least one genetically modified (GMO) enzyme required to produce it. On January 12, 2007, Cadbury Schweppes agreed to stop calling 7 Up \"all natural\". They now label it \"100% Natural Flavors\". In September 2008, the Corn Refiners Association launched", "title": "Public relations of high fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699289", "text": "left trace residues of mercury in some batches of HFCS. In a 2009 release, The Corn Refiners Association stated that all factories in the American industry for manufacturing HFCS had used mercury-free processing over several previous years, making the prior report outdated. As of 2017, the USDA, FDA and US Centers for Disease Control list HFCS as a safe food ingredient, and do not mention mercury as a safety concern in HFCS products. Most countries, including Mexico, use sucrose, or table sugar, in soft drinks. In the U.S., soft drinks, including Coca-Cola, are typically made with HFCS. Some Americans seek", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699276", "text": "and epidemiological studies that suggested a link between consuming large amounts of fructose and changes to various proxy health measures, including elevated blood triglycerides, size and type of low-density lipoproteins, uric acid levels, and weight, raised concerns about health effects of HFCS itself. In the U.S., sugar tariffs and quotas keep imported sugar at up to twice the global price since 1797, while subsidies to corn growers cheapen the primary ingredient in HFCS, corn. Industrial users looking for cheaper replacements rapidly adopted HFCS in the 1970s. HFCS is easier to handle than granulated sucrose, although some sucrose is transported as", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "15683626", "text": "a series of United States television advertisements that stated that HFCS \"is made from corn\", \"is natural\" (changed from previously stated \"doesn't have artificial ingredients\"), \"has the same calories as sugar or honey\", \"is nutritionally the same as sugar\", and \"is fine in moderation\", in the hopes of keeping consumers from avoiding HFCS products. The ads feature actors portraying roles in upbeat domestic situations with sugary foods, with one actor disparaging a food's HFCS content but being unable to explain why, and another actor questioning the comments with these claims. Finally, the ads each make reference to the Corn Refiners", "title": "Public relations of high fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "15835396", "text": "possible because these enzymes remove two glucose units, that is, one maltose molecule at a time from the end of the starch molecule. High-maltose corn syrup is used as a substitute for normal glucose syrup in the production of hard candy: at a given moisture level and temperature, a maltose solution has a lower viscosity than a glucose solution, but will still set to a hard product. Maltose is also less humectant than glucose, so that candy produced with high-maltose syrup will not become sticky as easily as candy produced with a standard glucose syrup. Since maltose has a low", "title": "High-maltose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "738221", "text": "tonne of glucose syrup, or 60 bushels (1524 kg) of corn to produce one short ton. The viscosity and sweetness of the syrup depends on the extent to which the hydrolysis reaction has been carried out. To distinguish different grades of syrup, they are rated according to their dextrose equivalent (DE). Most commercially available corn syrups are approximately 1/3 glucose by weight. Two common commercial corn syrup products are light and dark corn syrup. Corn syrup's major uses in commercially prepared foods are as a thickener, a sweetener, and as a humectant – an ingredient that retains moisture and thus", "title": "Corn syrup" }, { "docid": "11057022", "text": "fructose corn syrup, an ingredient found in many cheap food products, including fast food. A study conducted at Princeton University found that the same amount of high fructose corn syrup consumed caused more of a weight gain in rats than regular table sugar. They identify that there is a correlation between the increasing obesity rate and the increasing production of corn syrup. With the new advancement and demand for corn, the traditional farming industry is being replaced by larger corporate farms. By creating the film, the two college friends hope to increase awareness about the consequences of excessive corn production.", "title": "King Corn (film)" }, { "docid": "5699274", "text": "the process was not scalable. In 1965–1970 Yoshiyuki Takasaki, at the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) developed a heat-stable xylose isomerase enzyme from yeast. In 1967, the Clinton Corn Processing Company obtained an exclusive license to a manufacture glucose isomerase derived from \"Streptomyces\" bacteria and began shipping an early version of HFCS in February 1967. In 1983, the FDA approved HFCS as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS), and that decision was reaffirmed in 1996 Prior to the development of the worldwide sugar industry, dietary fructose was limited to only a few items. Milk, meats, and", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "738220", "text": "column that is loaded with the enzyme D-xylose isomerase, an enzyme that is isolated from the growth medium of any of several bacteria. Corn syrup is produced from number 2 yellow dent corn. When wet milled, about 2.3 litres of corn are required to yield an average of 947g of starch, to produce 1 kg of glucose or dextrose syrup. A bushel (25 kg) of corn will yield an average of 31.5 pounds (14.3 kg) of starch, which in turn will yield about 33.3 pounds (15.1 kg) of syrup. Thus, it takes about 2,300 litres of corn to produce a", "title": "Corn syrup" }, { "docid": "738218", "text": "The more general term glucose syrup is often used synonymously with corn syrup, since glucose syrup in the United States is most commonly made from corn starch. Technically, glucose syrup is any liquid starch hydrolysate of mono-, di-, and higher-saccharides and can be made from any source of starch; wheat, tapioca and potatoes are the most common other sources. Historically, corn syrup was produced by combining corn starch with dilute hydrochloric acid, and then heating the mixture under pressure. The process was invented by the German chemist Gottlieb Kirchhoff in 1812. Currently, corn syrup is obtained through a multi-step bioprocess.", "title": "Corn syrup" }, { "docid": "19487913", "text": "of starch is separated. A very high purity of starch (>99.5% db) can be recovered by wet-milling. Purity is important when the end product is high fructose corn syrup or when we need to modify starch (using chemicals or enzymes) but it is not important during ethanol production. After centrifugation and washing, the starch is dried. Co-products account for 34% of wet-milled yield. In fact, 23% of corn that is processed has very low or no value. The fiber, concentrated steepwater and germ meal are mixed to produce corn gluten feed. As mentioned before, corn gluten meal is also used", "title": "Corn wet-milling" }, { "docid": "5699284", "text": "A 2014 systematic review found little evidence for an association between HFCS consumption and liver diseases, enzyme levels or fat content. A 2012 review found that fructose did not appear to cause weight gain when it replaced other carbohydrates in diets with similar calories. One study investigating HFCS as a possible contributor to diabetes and obesity states that, \"As many of the metabolic consequences of a diet high in fructose-containing sugars in humans can also be observed with high-fat or high-glucose feeding, it is possible that excess calories may be the main culprit in the development of the metabolic syndrome.\"", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "6608554", "text": "including food, biofuel, and bioplastics. Corn is a popular food throughout the world in many forms. It is used in breakfast cereals in the Western world (as corn flakes) and it is a grain that can be eaten raw off the cob, although it is usually preferred cooked. It may be fed to animals or humans. In the United States, for economic reasons such as government subsidies, corn is the basis of many products, in the form of high fructose corn syrup, in favor of cane sugar. A genetic variant that accumulates more sugar and less starch in the ear", "title": "Corn kernel" }, { "docid": "5699283", "text": "restricting use of HFCS or other fructose-containing sweeteners in foods. The review did report that while some studies found direct associations between high intakes of fructose and other sugars and adverse health outcomes, including obesity and the metabolic syndrome, there was insufficient evidence to ban or restrict use of HFCS in the food supply or to require warning labels on products containing HFCS. Epidemiological research has suggested that the increase in metabolic disorders like obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is linked to increased consumption of sugars and/or calories in general and not due to any special effect of HFCS.", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "3280751", "text": "fructose corn syrup, however, one may find the production of special breads with a high inulin content, where inulin is a replacement in the baking process for the following: high fructose corn syrup, flour and fat. Because of the caloric reduction, lower fat content, dramatic fiber increase and prebiotic tendencies of the replacement inulin, these breads are considered a healthier alternative to traditionally prepared leavening breads. Though the touted health benefits may exist, sufferers of fructose malabsorption will likely find no difference between these new breads and traditionally prepared breads in alleviating their symptoms because inulin is a fructan, and,", "title": "Fructose malabsorption" }, { "docid": "5699285", "text": "Another study compared similar intakes of honey, white cane sugar, and HFCS, showing similar rises in both blood sugar level and triglycerides. High fructose consumption has been linked to high levels of uric acid in the blood, though this is only thought to be a concern for patients with gout. Numerous agencies in the United States recommend reducing the consumption of all sugars, including HFCS, without singling it out as presenting extra concerns. The Mayo Clinic cites the American Heart Association's recommendation that women limit the added sugar in their diet to 100 calories a day (~6 teaspoons) and that", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699287", "text": "8.5 million tons from some 500 million bushels of corn. One consumer concern about HFCS is that processing of corn is more complex than used for “simpler” or “more natural” sugars, such as fruit juice concentrates or agave nectar, but all sweetener products derived from raw materials involve similar processing steps of pulping, hydrolysis, enzyme treatment, and filtration, among other common steps of sweetener manufacturing from natural sources. In the contemporary process to make HFCS, an \"acid-enzyme\" step is used in which the cornstarch solution is acidified to digest the existing carbohydrates, then enzymes are added to further metabolize the", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5748234", "text": "Glucose syrup is used in foods to sweeten, soften texture and add volume. By converting some of the glucose in corn syrup into fructose (using an enzymatic process), a sweeter product, high fructose corn syrup can be produced. It was first made in 1811 in Russia. Depending on the method used to hydrolyse the starch and on the extent to which the hydrolysis reaction has been allowed to proceed, different grades of glucose syrup are produced, which have different characteristics and uses. The syrups are broadly categorised according to their dextrose equivalent (DE). The further the hydrolysis process proceeds, the", "title": "Glucose syrup" }, { "docid": "5748242", "text": "thus maintains a food's freshness). Glucose syrup is also widely used in the manufacture of a variety of candy products. In the United States, domestically produced corn syrup and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) are often used in American-made processed and mass-produced foods, candies, soft drinks and fruit drinks to increase profit margins. Glucose syrup was the primary corn sweetener in the United States prior to the expanded use of HFCS production. HFCS is a variant in which other enzymes are used to convert some of the glucose into fructose. The resulting syrup is sweeter and more soluble. Corn syrup is", "title": "Glucose syrup" }, { "docid": "3280750", "text": "made from rye and corn flour. However, these may contain wheat unless marked \"wheat-free\" (or \"gluten-free\") (Note: Rye bread is \"not\" gluten-free.) Although often assumed to be an acceptable alternative to wheat, spelt flour is not suitable for sufferers of fructose malabsorption, just as it is not appropriate for those with wheat allergies or celiac disease. However, some fructose malabsorbers do not have difficulty with fructans from wheat products while they may have problems with foods that contain excess free fructose. There are many breads on the market that boast having no high fructose corn syrup. In lieu of high", "title": "Fructose malabsorption" }, { "docid": "5699279", "text": "average of 18.6 million tonnes of sugar annually between 1999 and 2001. In Japan, HFCS is manufactured mostly from imported U.S. corn, and the output is regulated by the government. For the period from 2007 to 2012, HFCS had a 27–30% share of the Japanese sweetener market. Health concerns have been raised about a relationship between HFCS and metabolic disorders, and with regard to manufacturing contaminants. In general, however, the United States Food and Drug Administration has declared HFCS as a safe ingredient in food manufacturing, and there is no evidence that retail HFCS products contain harmful compounds or cause", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699281", "text": "liver does differ from glucose initially, the majority of the fructose molecules are converted to glucose or metabolized into byproducts identical to those produced by glucose metabolism. Consumption of moderate amounts of fructose has also been linked to positive outcomes, including reducing appetite if consumed before a meal, lower blood sugar increases compared to glucose, and (again compared to glucose) delaying exhaustion if consumed during exercise. In 2007, an expert panel assembled by the University of Maryland's Center for Food, Nutrition and Agriculture Policy reviewed the links between HFCS and obesity and concluded there was no ecological validity in the", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "13255801", "text": "of flint corn and floury corn. Most of today's hybrid corn varieties and cultivars are derived from it. This variety won a prize at the 1893 World's Fair. Most of the corn grown in the United States today is yellow dent corn or a closely related variety derived from it. Dent corn is the variety used in food manufacturing as the base ingredient for cornmeal flour (used in the baking of cornbread), corn chips, tortillas and taco shells. Starch derived from this high-starch content variety is turned into plastics, as well as fructose which is used as a sweetener (high-fructose", "title": "Dent corn" }, { "docid": "607418", "text": "removing impurities; and concentrated by removing excess water. The end-product is 99.9%-pure sucrose. Sucrose-containing sugars include common table white granulated sugar and powdered sugar, as well as brown sugar. All data with a unit of g (gram) are based on 100 g of a food item. The fructose/glucose ratio is calculated by dividing the sum of free fructose plus half sucrose by the sum of free glucose plus half sucrose. Fructose is also found in the manufactured sweetener, high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is produced by treating corn syrup with enzymes, converting glucose into fructose. The common designations for fructose", "title": "Fructose" }, { "docid": "607415", "text": "containing table sugar (sucrose), high-fructose corn syrup, agave nectar, honey, molasses, maple syrup, fruit and fruit juices, as these have the highest percentages of fructose (including fructose in sucrose) per serving compared to other common foods and ingredients. Fructose exists in foods either as a free monosaccharide or bound to glucose as sucrose, a disaccharide. Fructose, glucose, and sucrose may all be present in a food; however, different foods will have varying levels of each of these three sugars. The sugar contents of common fruits and vegetables are presented in Table 1. In general, in foods that contain free fructose,", "title": "Fructose" }, { "docid": "5699282", "text": "association between rising body mass indexes (a measure of obesity) and the consumption of HFCS. The panel stated that since the ratio of fructose to glucose had not changed substantially in the United States since the 1960s when HFCS was introduced, the changes in obesity rates were probably not due to HFCS specifically, but rather a greater consumption of calories overall. In 2009 the American Medical Association published a review article on HFCS and concluded it was unlikely that HFCS contributed more to obesity or other health conditions than sucrose, and there was insufficient evidence to suggest warning about or", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "11057026", "text": "high fructose corn syrup, it still demonstrates a profound respect for those peoples who live and work in America’s Corn Belt. According to the Boston Globe, the film distinguishes itself from other documentaries for its informal eloquence and “unusual amount of warmth.” Even though the co-producers of the film offer a somewhat comedic and informal narrative throughout the movie, most reviews insist that Cheney and Ellis are still able to convey their critical message. The Washington Post said that the documentary ought to be a “required viewing by anyone planning to visit a supermarket, fast-food joint, or their own refrigerator.”", "title": "King Corn (film)" }, { "docid": "20076244", "text": "corn refiners in their manufacturing process to lengthen the shelf life of corn syrups. Dufault enlisted the help of several colleagues inside and outside government to test whether high fructose corn syrup or products containing high fructose corn syrup contained trace amounts of mercury. While her research team initially tested only 20 samples, 45% of the samples contained trace amounts of mercury. Dufault then sent additional virgin samples of HFCS to two different laboratories, in order to independently confirm her results. Acting as third parties, the federal and academic laboratories tested and independently verified the presence of low levels of", "title": "Renee Dufault" }, { "docid": "5699269", "text": "but manufacturing advantages of HFCS over sugar include that it is easier to handle and more cost-effective. The United States Food and Drug Administration has determined that HFCS is a safe ingredient for food and beverage manufacturing, where \"HFCS 42\" refers to 42% and \"HFCS 55\" to 55% fructose composition in manufacturing, respectively. HFCS 42 is mainly used for processed foods and breakfast cereals, whereas HFCS 55 is used mostly for production of soft drinks. There is debate over whether HFCS presents greater health risks than other sweeteners. The number of uses and exports of HFCS from American producers have", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699286", "text": "men limit it to 150 calories a day (~9 teaspoons), noting that there is not enough evidence to support HFCS having more adverse health effects than excess consumption of any other type of sugar. The United States departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services recommendations for a healthy diet state that consumption of all types of added sugars be reduced. People with fructose malabsorption should avoid foods containing HFCS. Since 2014, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared HFCS to be safe as a food ingredient. In 2015, production of HFCS in the United States was", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "11851758", "text": "American consumed approximately of high-fructose corn syrup in 2008, versus of sucrose. In recent years it has been hypothesized that the increase of high-fructose corn syrup usage in processed foods may be linked to various health conditions, including metabolic syndrome, hypertension, dyslipidemia, hepatic steatosis, insulin resistance, and obesity. However, there is to date little evidence that high-fructose corn syrup is any unhealthier, calorie for calorie, than sucrose or other simple sugars. The fructose content and fructose:glucose ratio of high-fructose corn syrup do not differ markedly from clarified apple juice. Some researchers hypothesize that fructose may trigger the process by which", "title": "History of sugar" }, { "docid": "19487902", "text": "Corn wet-milling The corn wet-milling is a process of breaking corn kernels into their component parts: corn oil, protein, corn starch, and fiber. It uses water and a series of steps to separate the parts to be used for various products. The corn wet-milling industry has been a primary component of American manufacturing for more than 150 years. Corn refiners established the process of separating corn kernels into their component parts to produce a variety of value-added products. The four main component such as oil, protein, starch, and fiber are the primary product from the corn wet-milling process. The Associated", "title": "Corn wet-milling" }, { "docid": "5699275", "text": "most vegetables, the staples of many early diets, have no fructose, and only 5–10% fructose by weight is found in fruits such as grapes, apples, and blueberries. Most traditional dried fruits, however, contain about 50% fructose. From 1970 to 2000, there was a 25% increase in \"added sugars\" in the U.S. After being classified as generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1976, HFCS began to replace sucrose as the main sweetener of soft drinks in the United States. At the same time, rates of obesity rose. That correlation, in combination with laboratory research", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "15835397", "text": "freezing point, HMCS is useful in frozen desserts. It is also used in brewing, because it has a balanced fermentability, can be added at high concentrations to the wort kettle, increasing throughput, and reduces haze caused by varying malt quality. Another of HMCS's uses is to preserve food. According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, HMCS preserves food by inhibiting fermentation and bacterial growth. In recent years, HMCS has seen an increase in use as a food additive due to the negative reputation of HFCS, as well as the absence of fructose, which is the source of", "title": "High-maltose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "7765784", "text": "merged with Kraft in 1990, and Kraft General Foods sold the Log Cabin brand to Aurora Foods in 1997. Under Aurora's ownership, Log Cabin partnered with the National Park Service to restore some historic log cabins. But after Aurora Foods went bankrupt, Pinnacle Foods acquired it in March 2004. In the 1970s the product was endorsed on television commercials by singer Eddy Arnold. The newest version of Log Cabin Syrup has eliminated high-fructose corn syrup, believed by some to increase the risk of obesity. It is the first American brand to eliminate the ingredient, though it does still contain corn", "title": "Log Cabin Syrup" }, { "docid": "6172986", "text": "is used to make paper, wallboard, silage, syrup, and rayon (artificial silk).\" Corn has long been used in manufacturing. There were a number innovations in the United States in the early 1900s. For example, Henry Ford's conceptual Model U car featured tires with corn-based filler and a corn-based fabric roof. The Corn Palace, a building in Mitchell, South Dakota, is decorated with murals and designs made from corn and other grains. The outer husk of corn can be used to make corn husk dolls, txalaparta musical instruments, and other crafts. Husks are used as the wrapper for tamales. It is", "title": "Corn construction" }, { "docid": "5699272", "text": "starch and convert the resulting sugars to fructose. The first enzyme added is alpha-amylase, which breaks the long chains down into shorter sugar chains – oligosaccharides. Glucoamylase is mixed in and converts them to glucose; the resulting solution is filtered to remove protein, then using activated carbon, and then demineralized using ion-exchange resins. The purified solution is then run over immobilized xylose isomerase, which turns the sugars to ~50–52% glucose with some unconverted oligosaccharides and 42% fructose (HFCS 42), and again demineralized and again purified using activated carbon. Some is processed into HFCS 90 by liquid chromatography, then mixed with", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "1742351", "text": "other previous assertions that Fuze products may help consumers avoid cancer, heart disease, colds, flu, and infections of the lungs and kidneys. Some consumers may choose Fuze products over other drinks because they wish to avoid high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which has been tentatively linked to obesity and diabetes; the alternative sweetener used in Fuze is crystalline fructose, which is chemically distinct from HFCS, although it is produced by allowing the fructose to crystallize \"from a fructose-enriched corn syrup\". Since crystalline fructose is about 5.0% sweeter than high-fructose corn syrup, it adds fewer calories to a sweetened food or drink", "title": "Fuze Beverage" }, { "docid": "2661942", "text": "Corn starch Corn starch or maize starch is the starch derived from the corn (maize) grain. The starch is obtained from the endosperm of the kernel. Corn starch is a common food ingredient, used in thickening sauces or soups, and in making corn syrup and other sugars. It is versatile, easily modified, and finds many uses in industry as adhesives, in paper products, as an anti-sticking agent, and textile manufacturing. It has medical uses, such as to supply glucose for people with glycogen storage disease. Like many products in dust form, it can be hazardous in large quantities due to", "title": "Corn starch" }, { "docid": "607406", "text": "berries, and most root vegetables. Commercially, fructose is derived from sugar cane, sugar beets, and maize. Crystalline fructose is the monosaccharide, dried, ground, and of high purity. High-fructose corn syrup is a mixture of glucose and fructose as monosaccharides. Sucrose is a compound with one molecule of glucose covalently linked to one molecule of fructose. All forms of fructose, including fruits and juices, are commonly added to foods and drinks for palatability and taste enhancement, and for browning of some foods, such as baked goods. About 240,000 tonnes of crystalline fructose are produced annually. Excessive consumption of fructose may contribute", "title": "Fructose" }, { "docid": "738219", "text": "First, the enzyme α-amylase is added to a mixture of corn starch and water. α-amylase is secreted by various species of the bacterium genus \"Bacillus\" and the enzyme is isolated from the liquid in which the bacteria were grown. The enzyme breaks down the starch into oligosaccharides, which are then broken into glucose molecules by adding the enzyme glucoamylase, known also as \"γ-amylase\". Glucoamylase is secreted by various species of the fungus \"Aspergillus\"; the enzyme is isolated from the liquid in which the fungus is grown. The glucose can then be transformed into fructose by passing the glucose through a", "title": "Corn syrup" }, { "docid": "5699280", "text": "diseases. HFCS is composed of 76% carbohydrates and 24% water, containing no fat, no protein, and no essential nutrients in significant amounts (table). In a 100 gram serving, it supplies 281 calories, while in one tablespoon of 19 grams, it supplies 53 calories (table link). In the 1980s and 1990s there were publications cautioning consumption of sucrose and of HFCS. In subsequent interviews, two of the study's authors stated the article was distorted to place emphasis solely on HFCS when the actual issue was the overconsumption of any type of sugar. While fructose absorption and modification by the intestines and", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "4568666", "text": "syrup business to American Sugar Refining. Originally, golden syrup was a product made at the white sugar refinery from the recovered mother liquor (recovered molasses) \"washed\" off the raw sugar crystals in the process of creating white sugar. This liquor is generally known as \"refiners return syrup\". Today most golden syrups are produced by a specialist manufacturer by inverting half the refiners return syrup to fructose and glucose and blending it back again; this ensures the product remains liquid and will never re-crystallize. Refiners syrup begins as a high-Brix, pale sucrose syrup made from white sugar and water designed to", "title": "Golden syrup" }, { "docid": "18029109", "text": "years these ingredients have become a major component of everyday food products. In 1998 over 11,000 food products were introduced to Americans. Out of these products about 75 percent of them were candies, condiments, cereals, and beverages-all foods high in added high fructose corn syrup. Over the past thirty years, U.S. consumption of high fructose corn syrup increased over 1,000 percent. Unhealthy foods tend to be inexpensive when compared to their healthy counterparts. Because fruits and vegetables are not subsidized, the real cost of such crops have risen nearly 40 percent. On the other hand, the prices for soda, sweets,", "title": "Obesity and the environment" }, { "docid": "5699291", "text": "showed that, overall, the panel enjoyed the yogurt with sucrose (table sugar) added more than those that contained HFCS or honey. In apiculture in the United States, HFCS is a honey substitute for some managed honey bee colonies during times when nectar is in low supply. However, when HFCS is heated to about , hydroxymethylfurfural, which is toxic to bees, can form from the breakdown of fructose. Although some researchers cite honey substitution with HFCS as one factor among many for colony collapse disorder, there is no evidence that HFCS is the only cause. Compared to hive honey, HFCS may", "title": "High-fructose corn syrup" }, { "docid": "3280749", "text": "listed foods have higher fructose levels. Producers of processed food in most or all countries, including the USA, are not currently required by law to mark foods containing \"fructose in excess of glucose\". This can cause some surprises and pitfalls for fructose malabsorbers. Foods (such as bread) marked \"gluten-free\" are usually suitable for fructose malabsorbers, though sufferers need to be careful of gluten-free foods that contain dried fruit or high fructose corn syrup or fructose itself in sugar form. However, fructose malabsorbers do \"not\" need to avoid gluten, as those with celiac disease must. Many fructose malabsorbers can eat breads", "title": "Fructose malabsorption" }, { "docid": "17340607", "text": "production level in American farms is a significant 20% higher per acre than in the rest of the world. As the growth of corn has spread to extensive production in 14 states (though it is grown to a lesser extent in all the other US states), the Corn Farmers Coalition was formed. This is a union of the National Corn Growers Association and 14 state corn associations. The total production of corn in the US for the year 2013-2014 is reported to be 13.016 billion bushels, of which the major use is for manufacture of ethanol and its co-product (Distillers'", "title": "Corn production in the United States" }, { "docid": "268707", "text": "more of natural maple syrup. \"Maple-flavoured\" syrups include maple syrup, but may contain additional ingredients. \"Pancake syrup\", \"waffle syrup\", \"table syrup\", and similarly named syrups are substitutes which are less expensive than maple syrup. In these syrups, the primary ingredient is most often high-fructose corn syrup flavoured with sotolon; they have little genuine maple content, and are usually thickened above the viscosity of maple syrup. Imitation syrups are generally cheaper than maple syrup, with less natural flavour. In the United States, consumers generally prefer imitation syrups, likely because of the significantly lower cost and sweeter flavour; they typically cost about", "title": "Maple syrup" }, { "docid": "18600456", "text": "National Corn Growers Association The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is an association that represents and advocates for the interests of corn growers in the United States. It is distinct from the American Corn Growers Association, a competing organization set up in 1987. NCGA plays a dual role of providing standards and guidelines for corn growers and processors, as well as advocating for their interests to a wider audience including regulators, lawmakers, and the general public. NCGA provides standards and guidelines for the efficacious use of biotechnology in corn production (with particular attention to the use of genetically modifiedversions of", "title": "National Corn Growers Association" }, { "docid": "18600458", "text": "fossil fuels towards ethanol. The NCGA has cultivated close relationships with political candidates including United States President Barack Obama, back when he was a Presidential Candidate for the 2008 Presidential election. NCGA actively defends the interests of corn growers in government farm policy, including advocating for subsidies for crop insurance in annual farm bills. In addition, it also publishes material and conducts webinars to better educate farmers about the options available to them for crop insurance. NCGA also educates farmers and advocates for their interests in the following areas: National Corn Growers Association The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is", "title": "National Corn Growers Association" }, { "docid": "12773725", "text": "not. Some researchers have attributed the syndrome to the practice of feeding high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to supplement winter stores. The variability of HFCS may be relevant to the apparent inconsistencies of results. One European writer has suggested a possible connection with HFCS produced from genetically modified corn. Other researchers state that colony collapse disorder is mainly a problem of feeding the bees a monoculture diet when they should receive food from a variety of sources/plants. In winter, these bees are given a single food source such as corn syrup (high-fructose or other), sugar and pollen substitute. In summer, they", "title": "Colony collapse disorder" }, { "docid": "11851759", "text": "fats are formed, to a greater extent than other simple sugars. However, most commonly used blends of high-fructose corn syrup contain a nearly one-to-one ratio of fructose and glucose, just like common sucrose, and should therefore be metabolically identical after the first steps of sucrose metabolism, in which the sucrose is split into fructose and glucose components. At the very least, the increasing prevalence of high-fructose corn syrup has certainly led to an increase in added sugar calories in food, which may reasonably increase the incidence of these and other diseases. History of sugar Sugar was first produced from sugarcane", "title": "History of sugar" }, { "docid": "1703903", "text": "used to fatten livestock. Half of farmland is devoted to corn and soy, the rest is wheat. Soy and corn can be found in sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup. Over $19 billion during the prior 18 years to 2013 was spent to incent farmers to grow these crops, raising the price of fruits and vegetables by about 40% and lowering the price of dairy and other animal products. Little land is used for fruit and vegetable farming. Corn, a pillar of American agriculture for years, is now mainly used for ethanol, high fructose corn syrup and bio-based plastics. About", "title": "Food security" }, { "docid": "5662157", "text": "grocery stores, at cinemas, and convenience stores, pre-bagged caramel corn made locally may also be sold. The Maryland-based Fisher's Popcorn and Chicago-based Nuts on Clark are examples of specialty caramel corn and popcorn companies. Candy-coated popcorn is defined in US law as a food of minimal nutritional value. Caramel corn Caramel corn or caramel popcorn is a confection made of popcorn coated with a sugar or molasses based caramel candy shell. Typically a sugar solution or syrup is made and heated until it browns and becomes thick, producing a caramelized candy syrup. This hot candy is then mixed with popped", "title": "Caramel corn" }, { "docid": "1531816", "text": "of different recipes for dishes involving corn flakes and crushed corn flakes can even be a substitute for bread crumbs. \"Honey joys\" are a popular party snack in Australia. They are made by mixing corn flakes with honey, butter and sugar and baking in patty cases or muffin cups. A variant popular in the UK is \"chocolate corn flake cakes\", made with corn flakes, dark chocolate, golden syrup and butter. In New Zealand, corn flakes are a core ingredient in Afghan biscuits, a chocolate cookie made with corn flakes and topped with chocolate icing. Corn flakes Corn flakes, or cornflakes,", "title": "Corn flakes" }, { "docid": "7671358", "text": "as its primary sugar, agave syrup (56% fructose) is similar in fructose content to high-fructose corn syrup (55% fructose content), the most common sweetener used in US manufactured beverages. In a tablespoon amount (about 25 ml or grams), agave syrup supplies 78 calories, an amount similar to the value per tablespoon for high-fructose corn syrup (70 calories). Agave nectar Agave nectar (more accurately, agave syrup) is a sweetener commercially produced from several species of agave, including \"Agave tequilana\" (blue agave) and \"Agave salmiana\". Agave syrup contains fructose as a carbohydrate providing sweetening properties. To produce agave syrup from the \"Agave", "title": "Agave nectar" }, { "docid": "1920634", "text": "but the operation was moved to Hialeah, Florida, United States, to be produced under license by Mott's LLP of Rye Brook, New York. Production of Orangina has since moved back to Canada, as Mott's is now part of Dr Pepper Snapple (now Keurig Dr Pepper). Orangina for the market in the United States is sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup, instead of regular sugar like original Orangina, while the product for the Canadian market is labeled as being sweetened with glucose fructose syrup, which is merely another name for high-fructose corn syrup. In Canada, Orangina is also imported by Canada Dry", "title": "Orangina" }, { "docid": "11851757", "text": "United States significantly increased the cost of imported sugar and U.S. producers sought cheaper sources. High-fructose corn syrup, derived from corn, is more economical because the domestic U.S. price of sugar is twice the global price and the price of corn is kept low through government subsidies paid to growers. High-fructose corn syrup became an attractive substitute, and is preferred over cane sugar among the vast majority of American food and beverage manufacturers. Soft drink makers such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi use sugar in other nations, but switched to high-fructose corn syrup in the United States in 1984. The average", "title": "History of sugar" }, { "docid": "19009493", "text": "effects of high fructose corn syrup and published reports \"disputing any special health consequences associated with the corn-based sweeter\"; he also received a $41,000-a-month fee from the group which the \"Times\" said was for him \"to serve as an outside expert whom it repeatedly asked to send commentary pieces to local newspapers and dispute any claims that consuming high-fructose corn syrup in foods was any more risky than sugar.\" Rippe is the editor-in-chief of the \"American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine\", as well as the co-editor-in-chief of the \"Journal of Intensive Care Medicine\". Dr. Rippe has published over 50 books, including", "title": "James Rippe" }, { "docid": "13255802", "text": "corn syrup) in many processed foods and soft drinks. The six major types of corn are dent corn, flint corn, pod corn, popcorn, flour corn, and sweet corn. Dent corn (\"Zea mays\" var. \"indentata\") is a fast-growing, vertically erect, short-lived annual plant and similar to many other varieties of \"Zea mays\". More commonly grown to a height of 2–3 meters (6–9 feet), \"Zea mays\" typically grows with a single, hollow main stem often called a stalk (or culm) which exhibits internodes that are cylindrical in the upper part, and alternately grooved on the lower part with a bud in the", "title": "Dent corn" }, { "docid": "11851756", "text": "corn syrup has replaced sugar in some uses, particularly in soft drinks and processed foods. The process by which high-fructose corn syrup is produced was first developed by Richard O. Marshall and Earl R. Kooi in 1957. The industrial production process was refined by Dr. Y. Takasaki at Agency of Industrial Science and Technology of Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan in 1965–1970. High-fructose corn syrup was rapidly introduced to many processed foods and soft drinks in the United States from around 1975 to 1985. A system of sugar tariffs and sugar quotas imposed in 1977 in the", "title": "History of sugar" }, { "docid": "5563261", "text": "Corn oil Corn oil (maize oil) is oil extracted from the germ of corn (maize). Its main use is in cooking, where its high smoke point makes refined corn oil a valuable frying oil. It is also a key ingredient in some margarines. Corn oil is generally less expensive than most other types of vegetable oils. One bushel of corn contains 1.55 pounds of corn oil (2.8% by weight). Corn agronomists have developed high-oil varieties; however, these varieties tend to show lower field yields, so they are not universally accepted by growers. Corn oil is also a feedstock used for", "title": "Corn oil" }, { "docid": "5662155", "text": "Caramel corn Caramel corn or caramel popcorn is a confection made of popcorn coated with a sugar or molasses based caramel candy shell. Typically a sugar solution or syrup is made and heated until it browns and becomes thick, producing a caramelized candy syrup. This hot candy is then mixed with popped popcorn, and allowed to cool. Sometimes a candy thermometer is used, as making caramel is time-consuming and requires skill to make well without burning the sugar. The process creates a sweet flavored, crunchy snack food or treat. Some varieties, after coating with the candy syrup, are baked in", "title": "Caramel corn" }, { "docid": "11924991", "text": "corn cultivars that have large proportions of kernels with hues outside the yellow range are primarily used ornamentally, notably as part of Thanksgiving decorations in the United States. They are often called either \"ornamental corn\" or \"Indian corn\", although each of those names has other meanings as well. These varieties can be popped and eaten as popcorn. Flint corn Flint corn (\"Zea mays\" var. \"indurata\"; also known as Indian corn or sometimes calico corn) is a variant of maize, the same species as common corn. Because each kernel has a hard outer layer to protect the soft endosperm, it is", "title": "Flint corn" }, { "docid": "11203083", "text": "cream. They may also be made with creamed corn, baked, and served with maple syrup. Corn fritters can be made to have a similar appearance to, and thus be mistaken for, johnnycake. Indonesian corn fritters are not sweet but savoury. They have a more granulated texture, as the corn kernels are not finely ground and blended into the dough, so they retain their kernel shapes. The fritter is made from fresh corn kernels, wheat flour, rice flour, celery, scallion, eggs, shallots, garlic, salt and pepper, and deep fried in coconut oil. They are a popular snack and are often served", "title": "Corn fritter" }, { "docid": "630088", "text": "citrus-flavored soda drinks in the US, is banned in foods throughout Europe and in Japan. In response to negative publicity around high-fructose corn syrup, PepsiCo in 2009 released a limited-run production of Mountain Dew Throwback, a variation consisting of sugar in place of high-fructose corn syrup. Mountain Dew Throwback subsequently was re-released for brief periods (generally 8–12 weeks at a time), including a second wave from December 2009 to February 2010 and a third wave in the summer and fall of 2010. A fourth 8-week production run began in March 2011, before it became a permanent addition to the Mountain", "title": "Mountain Dew" }, { "docid": "1477214", "text": "led to market distortions, such as food processors using high fructose corn syrup as a replacement for sugar. High fructose corn syrup may be an unhealthy food additive, and, were sugar prices not inflated by government fiat, sugar might be preferred over high fructose corn syrup in the marketplace. The farmer population is approximately five percent of the total population in the E.U. and 1.7% in the U.S. The total value of agricultural production in the E.U. amounted to 128 billion euros (1998). About forty-nine percent of this amount was accounted for by political measures: 37 billion euros due to", "title": "Agricultural policy" }, { "docid": "12500215", "text": "it was finally determined to move to a new site, and in 1952 the council relocated to what is now City Hall on College Green. This building, it may be noted, has a moat. There were once three churches in Corn Street: St Leonard's, which stood over St Leonard's Gate (or \"Westgate\") at the end of Corn Street; St Werburgh's, on the corner of Small Street; and All Saints', near the corner of High Street. Of these, only All Saints' survives in its original location. In 1770, two years after the completion of the new Bristol Bridge, St Leonard's Church", "title": "Corn Street, Bristol" }, { "docid": "9758753", "text": "remaining water can be fermented into ethanol through a similar process as dry milling, dried and sold as modified corn starch, or made into corn syrup. The gluten protein and steeping liquor are dried to make a corn gluten meal that is sold to the livestock industry. The heavy steep water is also sold as a feed ingredient and used as an alternative to salt in the winter months. Corn oil is also extracted and sold. Corn ethanol results in lower greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline and is fully biodegradable, unlike some fuel additives such as MTBE. However, because energy", "title": "Corn ethanol" } ]
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According to the pangram, the quick what jumps over the lazy dog?
[ "brown fox" ]
[ { "docid": "13370316", "text": "\"Quick Brown Fox\" pangram and its inventor. It depicts a fictional country off the South Carolina coast that idealizes the pangram, chronicling the effects on literature and social structure as various letters are banned from daily use by government dictum. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\" is an English-language pangram—a sentence that contains all of the letters of the alphabet. It is commonly used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards, displaying examples of fonts, and other applications involving text where the use of all letters in", "title": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" }, { "docid": "13370311", "text": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\" is an English-language pangram—a sentence that contains all of the letters of the alphabet. It is commonly used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards, displaying examples of fonts, and other applications involving text where the use of all letters in the alphabet is desired. Owing to its brevity and coherence, it has become widely known. The earliest known appearance of the phrase is from \"The Boston Journal\". In an article titled \"Current Notes\" in the February 10, 1885, morning edition,", "title": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" }, { "docid": "13370314", "text": "letters of the alphabet\". Robert Baden-Powell's book \"Scouting for Boys\" (1908) uses the phrase as a practice sentence for signaling. The first message sent on the Moscow–Washington hotline on August 30, 1963, was the test phrase \"THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890\". Later, during testing, the Russian translators sent a message asking their American counterparts, \"What does it mean when your people say 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog?'\" During the 20th century, technicians tested typewriters and teleprinters by typing the sentence. In the age of computers, this pangram is commonly used", "title": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" }, { "docid": "654000", "text": "fox jumps over the lazy dog.\" (or equivalently \"The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.\") which has 33 letters (the more common but longer variant \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\" has 35 letters), and which use standard written English without abbreviations or proper nouns: A perfect pangram contains every letter of the alphabet only once and can be considered an anagram of the alphabet. No perfect pangram is known that does not use abbreviations, such as \"Mr Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx\", or words so obscure that the phrase is hard to", "title": "Pangram" }, { "docid": "13370312", "text": "the phrase is mentioned as a good practice sentence for writing students: \"A favorite copy set by writing teachers for their pupils is the following, because it contains every letter of the alphabet: 'A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.'\" Dozens of other newspapers published the phrase over the next few months, all using the version of the sentence starting with \"A\" rather than \"The\". The earliest known use of the phrase in its modern form (starting with \"The\") is from the 1888 book \"Illustrative Shorthand\" by Linda Bronson. The modern form (starting with \"The\") became more common", "title": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" }, { "docid": "654004", "text": "using a made-to-order hardware description language as a stepping stone and then applied the Tseytin transformation to the resulting chip. The pangram \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\", and the search for a shorter pangram, are the cornerstone of the plot of the novel \"Ella Minnow Pea\" by Mark Dunn. The search successfully comes to an end when the phrase \"Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs\" is discovered. Pangram A pangram (, \"pan gramma\", \"every letter\") or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been", "title": "Pangram" }, { "docid": "653998", "text": "Pangram A pangram (, \"pan gramma\", \"every letter\") or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and keyboarding. The best-known English pangram is \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\". It has been used since at least the late 19th century, was utilized by Western Union to test Telex / TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability, and is now used by a number of computer programs (most notably the font viewer built into", "title": "Pangram" }, { "docid": "12454145", "text": "Road Runner, a famed Looney Tunes character. Quick Brown Fox, another pantomime character, is a fox who wants to eat the fast-running rabbit, but consistently fails to catch him despite using a variety of traps and devices. The fox's name is derived from the popular pangram, \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\" He is inspired by Wile E. Coyote, another Looney Tunes character. \"Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!\" is a 1969 theatrically-released cartoon, one of the last few cartoons of the \"Looney Tunes\" series (which, at that time, was owned by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts). It was a", "title": "Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit" }, { "docid": "644870", "text": "quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog\" omits the letter \"S\", which the usual pangram includes by using the word \"jumps\". The word \"lipogram\" is not always included in dictionaries. This may be due to the authors of lipograms often being dismissed by academia. \"Literary history seems deliberately to ignore writing as practice, as work, as play\". Lasus of Hermione, who lived during the second half of the sixth century BCE, is the most ancient author of a lipogram. This makes the lipogram, according to Quintus Curtius Rufus, \"the most ancient systematic artifice of Western literature\". Lasus did not", "title": "Lipogram" }, { "docid": "4877971", "text": "does he propose a challenge to find the sentence, he himself participates and searches for the sentence that will free the citizens of Nollop. He is the idolized creator of the phrase \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\" The island country is named after him. A cenotaph in the center of town is dedicated to Nollop and the immortal pangram he is said to have penned. When lettered tiles begin to fall from the memorial the High Island Council believes it is Nollop from beyond the grave demanding each fallen letter be stricken from society. Dr. Mannheim", "title": "Ella Minnow Pea" }, { "docid": "4877962", "text": "fictitious island of Nollop, off the coast of South Carolina, which is home to Nevin Nollop, the supposed creator of the well-known pangram, \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\" This sentence is preserved on a memorial statue to its creator on the island and is taken very seriously by the government of the island. Throughout the book, tiles containing the letters fall from the inscription beneath the statue, and as each one does, the island's government bans the contained letter's use from written or spoken communication. A penalty system is enforced for using the forbidden characters, with", "title": "Ella Minnow Pea" }, { "docid": "738345", "text": "screen or printed through inkjet printing, laser printing, offset lithography, electrophotographic printing or other processes that do not show the ink spread of letterpress. Ink traps have remained common on designs intended to be printed on low-quality, absorbent paper, especially newsprint and telephone directories. A sentence that uses all of the alphabet (a pangram), such as \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\", is often used as a design aesthetic tool to demonstrate the personality of a typeface's characters in a setting (because it displays all the letters of the alphabet). For extended settings of typefaces graphic designers", "title": "Typeface" }, { "docid": "8446846", "text": "Li Europan lingues Li Europan lingues is a quotation in Occidental, an international auxiliary language devised by Edgar von Wahl in 1922. It is used in some HTML templates as a fill-in or placeholder text. One of the most common placeholder texts is lorem ipsum. A similar text of this type is the pangram \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\", which is often used in fill-in text and to demonstrate and compare typefaces because it contains all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet. When used as placeholder text, \"Li Europan lingues\" is usually one or two paragraphs", "title": "Li Europan lingues" }, { "docid": "8218646", "text": "FILe Generator and Editor An acronym for FILe Generator and Editor, FILGE was a command-oriented text editor created by CompuServe in the early 1970s. Its many commands were preceded by a slash (/) character. For example, if a text file contained the line: \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\" The word 'fox' could be replaced with 'wolf' using this command: \"/c/fox/wolf\" To see the result of the edit, the user could type: \"/p\" and in this case, would see \"The quick brown wolf jumps over the lazy dog\" There were many other commands, which later including a", "title": "FILe Generator and Editor" }, { "docid": "1700514", "text": "and other words which are generally capitalised by a more specific rule. \"The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog.\" or \"The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.\" Also known as headline style and capital case. All words capitalized, except for certain subsets defined by rules that are not universally standardized, often minor words such as \"the\" (as above), \"of\", or \"and\". The standardization is only at the level of house styles and individual style manuals. (See Headings and publication titles.) A simplified variant is start case, where all words, including articles, prepositions, and conjunctions, start with", "title": "Capitalization" }, { "docid": "62487", "text": "Kanji (Japanese) characters to supplement their language. ex \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\" becomes \"The quick brown 狐 jumps 过 the lazy 狗\". Ciphers, on the other hand, work at a lower level: the level of individual letters, small groups of letters, or, in modern schemes, individual bits and blocks of bits. Some systems used both codes and ciphers in one system, using superencipherment to increase the security. In some cases the terms codes and ciphers are also used synonymously to substitution and transposition. Historically, cryptography was split into a dichotomy of codes and ciphers; and", "title": "Cipher" }, { "docid": "740990", "text": "Sun along with him, and just as the dog is about to release itself, he takes its picture, trapping it once more in the \"Polaroid world\". In the epilogue, Kevin gets a computer for his following birthday. In order to test its word processor function, he types \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\" Rather than a printout of this text, the page reads, \"The dog is loose again. It is not sleeping. It is not lazy. It's coming for you, Kevin. It's very hungry. And it's \"very\" angry.\" Josh Rubins in \"Entertainment Weekly\" graded the anthology a", "title": "Four past Midnight" }, { "docid": "4379307", "text": "are the following: ◌ᷛ ◌ᷞ ◌ᷟ ◌ᷡ ◌ᷢ. Note that since these glyphs come from different ranges, they may not be of the same size and style, because few typefaces supply all of them. So \"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\" is \"ᴛʜᴇ ꞯᴜɪᴄᴋ ʙʀᴏᴡɴ ꜰᴏx ᴊᴜᴍᴘs ᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀᴢʏ ᴅᴏɢ\". F is sometimes substituted as \"ғ\", and Q as \"ǫ\". This is because not many fonts support \"ꜰ\" and \"ꞯ\". These \"small capital\" characters should not be confused with the Unicode Standard's typographical convention of using small caps for formal Unicode character names in running text.", "title": "Small caps" }, { "docid": "1346320", "text": "choose two phrases, turn one into an acronym, and include it in the second, making the final passphrase. For instance, using two English language typing exercises, we have the following. \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\", becomes \"tqbfjotld\". Including it in, \"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country\", might produce, \"Now is the time for all good tqbfjotld to come to the aid of their country\" as the passphrase. There are several points to note here, all relating to why this example passphrase is not a good one.", "title": "Passphrase" }, { "docid": "8218647", "text": "repeating capability, which allow significant file manipulations to be performed without the need to write special programs. FILGE was replaced by screen-oriented WYSIWYG editors. FILe Generator and Editor An acronym for FILe Generator and Editor, FILGE was a command-oriented text editor created by CompuServe in the early 1970s. Its many commands were preceded by a slash (/) character. For example, if a text file contained the line: \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\" The word 'fox' could be replaced with 'wolf' using this command: \"/c/fox/wolf\" To see the result of the edit, the user could type: \"/p\"", "title": "FILe Generator and Editor" }, { "docid": "1700513", "text": "major words in titles of books and articles within the body of the paper. Conjunctions, articles, and short prepositions are not considered major words; however, capitalize all words of four letters or more.\" In other languages, such as the Romance languages, only the first word and proper names are capitalized. The following names are given to systems of capitalization: \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\" The standard case used in English prose. Generally equivalent to the baseline universal standard of formal English orthography mentioned above; that is, only the first word is capitalised, except for proper nouns", "title": "Capitalization" }, { "docid": "644887", "text": "in place of an \"F\", \"G\" in place of \"C\"), which some might argue is cheating. At the beginning of each chapter, the alphabet appears along with a sentence, \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\". As the letters are removed from the story, the alphabet and sentence changes. \"Cipher and Poverty (The Book of Nothing)\", a book by Mike Schertzer (1998), is presented as the writings of \"a prisoner whose world had been impoverished to a single utterance... \"who can find me here in this silence\"\". The poems that follow use only the four vowels \"A\", \"E\",", "title": "Lipogram" }, { "docid": "366705", "text": "of plastic or even very thin metal material in order to be reused many times. The most common test signal is a series of \"RYRYRY\" characters, as these form an alternating tone pattern exercising all bits and are easily recognized. Pangrams are also transmitted on RTTY circuits as test messages, the most common one being \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\", and in French circuits, \"Voyez le brick géant que j'examine près du wharf\" The original (or \"Baudot\") radioteletype system is based almost invariably on the Baudot code or ITA-2 5 bit alphabet. The link is based", "title": "Radioteletype" }, { "docid": "587084", "text": "encrypt the string \"The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog\" in ROT13: and the same string for ROT47: In Emacs, one can ROT13 the buffer or a selection with the following commands: and in the Vim text editor, one can ROT13 a selection with the command: ROT13 ROT13 (\"rotate by 13 places\", sometimes hyphenated ROT-13) is a simple letter substitution cipher that replaces a letter with the 13th letter after it, in the alphabet. ROT13 is a special case of the Caesar cipher which was developed in ancient Rome. Because there are 26 letters (2×13) in the basic", "title": "ROT13" }, { "docid": "3524778", "text": "me a complete sentence,\" by which they mean an explicit one. As with all language expressions, sentences might contain function and content words and contain properties such as characteristic intonation and timing patterns. Sentences are generally characterized in most languages by the inclusion of a finite verb, e.g. \"The quick brown fox \"jumps\" over the lazy dog.\" In non-functional linguistics, a simple complete sentence consists of a single clause. In functional linguistics, a sentence is typically associated with a clause and a clause can be either a clause simplex or a clause complex. A clause is a clause simplex if", "title": "Sentence (linguistics)" }, { "docid": "6753701", "text": "between the two. For example, in the sentence \"the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog,\" there are two third-person referents, the fox and the dog. Thus, one of them has to be proximate and the other one has to be obviative, depending on which one the speaker considers more central to the story. If the fox is the more important one, the sentence might look something like \"the quick brown fox-PROX jumped-PROX>OBV the lazy dog-OBV,\" where PROX>OBV is verbal inflection indicating a proximate subject acting on an obviative object. In that case, a subsequent sentence \"and then PROX", "title": "Obviative" } ]
[ { "docid": "13370315", "text": "to display font samples and for testing computer keyboards. In cryptography, it is commonly used as a test vector for hash and encryption algorithms to verify their implementation, as well as to ensure alphabetic character set compatibility. Microsoft Word has a command to auto-type the sentence, in versions up to Word 2003, using the command \"=rand()\", and in Microsoft Office Word 2007 and later using the command \"=rand.old()\". Numerous references to the phrase have occurred in movies, television, books, video games, advertising, websites, and graphic arts. The lipogrammatic novel \"Ella Minnow Pea\" by Mark Dunn is built entirely around the", "title": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" }, { "docid": "13370313", "text": "despite the fact that it is slightly longer than the original (starting with \"A\"). As the use of typewriters grew in the late 19th century, the phrase began appearing in typing lesson books as a practice sentence. Early examples include \"How to Become Expert in Typewriting: A Complete Instructor Designed Especially for the Remington Typewriter\" (1890), and \"Typewriting Instructor and Stenographer's Hand-book\" (1892). By the turn of the 20th century, the phrase had become widely known. In the January 10, 1903, issue of \"Pitman's Phonetic Journal\", it is referred to as \"the well known memorized typing line embracing all the", "title": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" }, { "docid": "19188861", "text": "Over-the-Jumps Carousel The Over-the-Jumps Carousel, also known as the Herschell-Spillman Carousel is a historic carousel at the Little Rock Zoo in Little Rock, Arkansas. Built in the 1920s and first exhibited at the 1924 Arkansas State Fair, it is believed to be the last operating \"over-the-jumps\" carousel in the world, with an original undulating wooden platform mounted on a 1960s-vintage caterpillar drive. The horses were carved by the Allan Herschell Company. After many years of private ownership, the carousel was acquired by a local nonprofit group and donated to the zoo in 2007. The carousel was listed on the National", "title": "Over-the-Jumps Carousel" }, { "docid": "19188862", "text": "Register of Historic Places in 1989. Over-the-Jumps Carousel The Over-the-Jumps Carousel, also known as the Herschell-Spillman Carousel is a historic carousel at the Little Rock Zoo in Little Rock, Arkansas. Built in the 1920s and first exhibited at the 1924 Arkansas State Fair, it is believed to be the last operating \"over-the-jumps\" carousel in the world, with an original undulating wooden platform mounted on a 1960s-vintage caterpillar drive. The horses were carved by the Allan Herschell Company. After many years of private ownership, the carousel was acquired by a local nonprofit group and donated to the zoo in 2007. The", "title": "Over-the-Jumps Carousel" }, { "docid": "10051279", "text": "penetrate of sand—twice as much as a .45 caliber slug fired point blank. The Shape 2 projectile was sent to the Far East Air Force for combat use by mid-1952. FEAF immediately ordered 16,000 Lazy Dog weapon systems. An Air Force Lieutenant Colonel named Haile attached to the Armament Laboratory spent 90 days in Japan to set up local manufacture of the Lazy Dog weapons and train crew members in their use. Project Lazy Dog continued throughout 1952 to determine the optimum characteristics for stable dispersion containers and the feasibility of substituting a Lazy Dog warhead for the explosive nose", "title": "Lazy Dog (bomb)" }, { "docid": "5118012", "text": "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall in 2005. The dish includes shark's fin, Japanese flower mushroom, sea cucumber, dried scallops, chicken, Hunan ham, pork, and ginseng. Buddha Jumps Over the Wall Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, also known as Buddha's Temptation (), is a variety of shark fin soup in Fujian cuisine. It was created by Zheng Chunfa, celebrated chef and proprietor of the Ju Chun Yuan Restaurant in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Zheng was private chef of a senior local official in his early years. Since its creation during the Qing dynasty (1644–1912), the dish has been regarded as a Chinese", "title": "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" }, { "docid": "13292317", "text": "Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar is an casual dining, multi-unit restaurant concept headquartered in Southern California that serves hand crafted American food and drink highlighting seasonally-inspired ingredients. The company was founded in 2003 by Chris Simms, Gabe Caliendo, Steve Price, and Roshan Mendis, with the group opening the first Lazy Dog restaurant in Huntington Beach, California. As of April 30, 2018, Lazy Dog operated 26 restaurants across four states: California, Nevada, Texas, and Colorado. Lazy Dog is known for its small mountain town vibe and Wyoming-inspired ambiance. The concept is the brain child of CEO", "title": "Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar" }, { "docid": "13292318", "text": "Chris Simms, who drew inspiration from time spent on his parents’ ranch near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Simms wanted Lazy Dog to be a place where people, both young and old, could connect and experience the spirit of the mountains while dining in a contemporary rustic environment. Lazy Dog is also known for its dog friendly policies and dog menu, available on restaurant patios. Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar is an casual dining, multi-unit restaurant concept headquartered in Southern California that serves hand crafted American food and drink highlighting seasonally-inspired ingredients. The company was founded in", "title": "Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar" }, { "docid": "10051275", "text": "Lazy Dog (bomb) A Lazy Dog (sometimes called a Red Dot Bomb or Yellow Dog Bomb) is a small, unguided kinetic projectile typically about in length, in diameter, and weighing about . The weapons were designed to be dropped from an aircraft. They contained no explosive charge but as they fell they would develop significant kinetic energy making them lethal and able to easily penetrate soft cover such as jungle canopy, several inches of sand or light armor. \"Lazy Dog\" munitions were simple and cheap; they could be dropped in huge numbers in a single pass. Like many other weapons,", "title": "Lazy Dog (bomb)" }, { "docid": "10051281", "text": "packed in, loaded weight varied between 560 and 625 pounds, with the theoretical maximum number of projectiles listed as 17,500. Regardless of how they were released into the air, each \"Lazy Dog\" projectile would develop an enormous amount of kinetic energy as it fell, penetrating nearly any material upon hitting the ground. Some reports say that their speeds often exceeded 200 mph before impact. A variant version of the \"Lazy Dog\" projectile was developed for the recoilless rifle. However, development was suspended because another kind of flechette solution was used for the recoilless rifle instead. Lazy Dog (bomb) A Lazy", "title": "Lazy Dog (bomb)" }, { "docid": "10051276", "text": "however, their effects were often gruesome and indiscriminate, however they did not leave unexploded ordinance (UXO) that could be active years after a conflict ended. Lazy Dog projectiles were used primarily during the Korean and the Vietnam Wars. Lazy Dog munitions had precursors in air-dropped flechettes dating from World War I. Lazy Dogs in their familiar form were descended from projectiles of almost identical design and appearance that were originally developed early in World War II (as early as 1941). The Korean War–era and Vietnam War–era \"Lazy Dog\" was further developed, tested and deployed into the 1950s and 1960s. Originally", "title": "Lazy Dog (bomb)" }, { "docid": "5118007", "text": "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, also known as Buddha's Temptation (), is a variety of shark fin soup in Fujian cuisine. It was created by Zheng Chunfa, celebrated chef and proprietor of the Ju Chun Yuan Restaurant in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Zheng was private chef of a senior local official in his early years. Since its creation during the Qing dynasty (1644–1912), the dish has been regarded as a Chinese delicacy known for its rich taste, and special manner of cooking. The dish's name is an allusion to the dish's ability to entice the vegetarian", "title": "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" }, { "docid": "10051278", "text": "for stowage and release from high performance aircraft. Experimental Lazy Dog projectiles of various shapes and sizes were tested at Air Proving Ground, Eglin AFB, Florida, in late 1951 and early 1952. An F-84 flying at 400 knots and above the ground served as the test bed while a jeep and a B-24 were the targets. The result was eight hits per square yard. Tests revealed Shapes 2 and 5 to be the most effective. Shape 5, an improved basic Lazy Dog slug, had the force of a .50 caliber bullet and could penetrate of packed sand. Shape 2 could", "title": "Lazy Dog (bomb)" }, { "docid": "10051280", "text": "of the Matador missile. The Lazy Dog program was still ongoing in the late 1950s. Lazy Dog projectiles could be dropped from almost any kind of flying vehicle. They could be hurled from buckets, dropped by hand, thrown in their small shipping bags made of paper, or placed in a Mark 44 cluster adaptor—a simple hinged casing with bins built in to hold the projectiles, opened by a mechanical time delay fuze. The adaptors themselves were 69.9 inches long and 14.18 inches in diameter. They would be shipped empty, then filled by hand. Depending on how many projectiles could be", "title": "Lazy Dog (bomb)" }, { "docid": "10051277", "text": "an Armament Laboratory program codenamed Lazy Dog, the weapon's development involved Delco Products Corporation, F&F Mold and Die Works, Inc., Haines Designed Products, and Master Vibrator Company of Dayton. The project objective was to design and test free-fall missiles and their dispensing units for use in bombers and fighters. Lazy Dog anti-personnel missiles were designed to spray enemy troops with small projectiles with three times the force of standard air-burst bombs. The Armament Laboratory worked with the Flight Test Laboratory to conduct wind tunnel tests of a number of bomb shapes which design studies indicated to be the most efficient", "title": "Lazy Dog (bomb)" }, { "docid": "653999", "text": "Microsoft Windows) to display computer fonts. Pangrams exist in practically every alphabet-based language. An example from German is \"\", which contains all letters, including every umlaut (\"ä\", \"ö\", \"ü\") plus the ß. It has been used since before 1800. In a sense, the pangram is the opposite of the lipogram, in which the aim is to omit one or more letters. Short pangrams in English are more difficult to come up with and tend to use uncommon words. Longer pangrams may afford more opportunity for humor, cleverness, or thoughtfulness. Here are some pangrams that are shorter than \"A quick brown", "title": "Pangram" }, { "docid": "654003", "text": "a sentence that inventories its own letters, each of which occurs at least once. The first example was produced by Rudy Kousbroek, a Dutch journalist and essayist, who publicly challenged Lee Sallows, a British recreational mathematician resident in the Netherlands, to produce an English translation of his Dutch pangram. In the sequel, Sallows built an electronic \"pangram machine\", that performed a systematic search among millions of candidate solutions. The machine was successful in identifying the following 'magic' translation: Chris Patuzzo was able to reduce the problem of finding a self-enumerating pangram to the boolean satisfiability problem. He did this by", "title": "Pangram" }, { "docid": "13945105", "text": "the difference between early and late bloomers to criminal profiling. \"What the Dog Saw\" was met with mainly positive reviews. It received profiles in many high-profile publications, including the \"New York Times\", \"The Guardian\", \"Time Magazine\", \"The Los Angeles Times\" and \"The Independent\". In particular, Gladwell was praised for his writing and storytelling, and reviewers looked upon the essay format positively, with \"The Guardian\" stating \"one virtue of What the Dog Saw is that the pieces are perfectly crafted: they achieve their purpose more effectively when they aren't stretched out.\" \"What The Dog Saw\" was criticized for its use of", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "13945106", "text": "statistics and its lack of technical grounding. \"What the Dog Saw\" debuted at #3 on the \"New York Times\" Bestseller List. It spent three weeks in the top 3 and a total of 16 weeks on the chart, appearing concurrently with Gladwell's previous book \"Outliers\". It was also an Amazon Top 25 seller for the month of November. \"What the Dog Saw\" was named to Bloomberg's top 50 business books of 2009. All of the articles in \"What the Dog Saw\" can be read for free on Gladwell's website. Part 1: \"Obsessives, Pioneers, and other varieties of Minor Genius\" Part", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "11145577", "text": "weeks during which he experienced great pain in his right arm. He would write tirelessly in bursts of prose which included the first sentence of the published text, \"I am a lazy man\". Golas later indicated that he never considered another title for this book, besides The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment. He quickly distributed photocopies of his text hoping to receive feedback, and offering for others to \"do with it what they will,\" but his decision to self-publish resulted from the advice and encouragements of such authors as Alan Watts and Ram Dass. The book was originally intended as", "title": "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment" }, { "docid": "13945103", "text": "What the Dog Saw What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures is the fourth book released by author Malcolm Gladwell, on October 20, 2009. The book is a compilation of the journalist's articles published in \"The New Yorker\". Gladwell initially covered business and science in \"The Washington Post\" before joining the staff at \"The New Yorker\" in 1997. Each of the articles first appeared in \"The New Yorker\" and was handpicked by Gladwell. The stories share a common theme, namely that Gladwell tries to show us the world through the eyes of others, even if that other happens to be", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "13945107", "text": "2: \"Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses\" Part 3: \"Personality, Character, and Intelligence\" What the Dog Saw What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures is the fourth book released by author Malcolm Gladwell, on October 20, 2009. The book is a compilation of the journalist's articles published in \"The New Yorker\". Gladwell initially covered business and science in \"The Washington Post\" before joining the staff at \"The New Yorker\" in 1997. Each of the articles first appeared in \"The New Yorker\" and was handpicked by Gladwell. The stories share a common theme, namely that Gladwell tries to show us the world through", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "13945104", "text": "a dog, hence the title. \"What the Dog Saw\" is a compilation of 19 articles by Malcolm Gladwell that were originally published in \"The New Yorker\" which are categorized into three parts. The first part, \"Obsessives, Pioneers, and other varieties of Minor Genius\", describes people who are very good at what they do, but are not necessarily well-known. Part two, \"Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses\", describes the problems of prediction. This section covers problems such as intelligence failure, and the fall of Enron. The third section, \"Personality, Character, and Intelligence\", discusses a wide variety of psychological and sociological topics ranging from", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "11814523", "text": "scene (line 255) and is said by Ophelia's brother, Laertes, as he laments her death. He first asks the gravedigger to hold off throwing the \"earth\" onto Ophelia's body and jumps into her grave. From the grave, Laertes says, \"Now pile your dust upon the quick and the dead . . . \" He implies wanting to be buried with Ophelia as a sign of his deep grief. This burial of the quick \"and\" the dead is symbolic for how emotionally bereft and dead the living feel as they bury a loved one. In the Nicene Creed the phrase appears", "title": "The quick and the dead (idiom)" }, { "docid": "11145574", "text": "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment The Lazy Man’s Guide To Enlightenment is a 1971 philosophical essay by American author Thaddeus Golas. Originally started as a letter for friends, the book itself began as a mimeographed pamphlet which Golas handed out on the streets of San Francisco in 1971. It was first published as a book in 1971 by Joe E. Casey, but was then taken over by the Palo Alto, California based Seed Center in 1972. The book was an underground bestseller, and in 1979, was published by Bantam Books. In 1995, Gibbs Smith, Publisher, of Utah, issued a", "title": "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment" }, { "docid": "14898364", "text": "commented that the song is a \"summery ditty more head-boppable than a Churchill nodding dog, which, given his current state of mind, is probably about all he could muster\", giving it three stars out of five. and from Blues & Soul magazine who called it \"reggae tinged\" and found it to be \"somewhat of a filler but for the likes of Peter Andre\" is great. \"Entertainment Weekly\"s Leah Greenblatt considered that \"other modes suit him less well; \"The Lazy Song\" is perhaps better left to Jason Mraz\". Alexis Petridis of \"The Guardian\", gave the song a negative review, writing that", "title": "The Lazy Song" }, { "docid": "18354128", "text": "Imitating the dog imitating the dog is a British touring theatre company founded in 1998. Its artistic directors are Andrew Quick, Pete Brooks and Simon Wainwright. The company works as an ensemble and key collaborators include designer Laura Hopkins, composer Jeremy Peyton-Jones and Morven Macbeth, Laura Atherton, Anna Wilson and Matt Prendergast as performers. Their productions have included \"Hotel Methuselah\" (written and directed by Quick and Brooks) in 2006; \"Kellerman\" (written and directed by Quick and Brooks) in 2008; \"6 Degrees Below the Horizon\" (written and directed by Quick and Brooks) in 2011; \"The Zero Hour\" (written and directed by", "title": "Imitating the dog" }, { "docid": "11145579", "text": "copies would eventually sell-out in a matter of days. The second printing, at 10,000 copies, sold out in two months. The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment became a rare publishing sensation in the Bay Area. The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment The Lazy Man’s Guide To Enlightenment is a 1971 philosophical essay by American author Thaddeus Golas. Originally started as a letter for friends, the book itself began as a mimeographed pamphlet which Golas handed out on the streets of San Francisco in 1971. It was first published as a book in 1971 by Joe E. Casey, but was then", "title": "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment" }, { "docid": "18354129", "text": "Quick and Brooks) in 2012; Ernest Hemingway's \"A Farewell to Arms\" (adapted and directed by Quick and Brooks) in 2014. The company has also collaborated on other projects including \"The Hound of the Baskervilles\" with Oldham Coliseum in 2012; \"Sea Breeze\", staged at The Winter Gardens in Morecambe with Raison and Willow; \"The Life and Times of Mitchell and Kenyon\" (concerning Lancashire cinema pioneers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon) in 2014 at The Dukes, Lancaster and Oldham Coliseum. Imitating the dog imitating the dog is a British touring theatre company founded in 1998. Its artistic directors are Andrew Quick, Pete", "title": "Imitating the dog" }, { "docid": "2087956", "text": "omit punctuation and spaces, cryptographic frequency analysis of such messages includes trigrams that straddle word boundaries. This causes trigrams such as \"edt\" to occur frequently, even though it may never occur in any one word of those messages. The sentence \"the quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog\" has the following word level trigrams: And the word-level trigram \"the quick red\" has the following character-level trigrams (where an underscore \"_\" marks a space): Trigram Trigrams are a special case of the \"n\"-gram, where \"n\" is 3. They are often used in natural language processing for performing statistical analysis", "title": "Trigram" }, { "docid": "8628236", "text": "The Lazy Spinner \"The Lazy Spinner\" or \"The Lazy Spinning Woman\" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 128. It is Aarne-Thompson type 1405. A lazy woman did not like to spin and when she did, did not wind onto a reel, but left it on the bobbin. Her husband complained, and she said she needed a reel to do that, but when he went to cut one, she sneaked after and called out that whoever cut a reel would die. This put him off cutting it, but he still complained. She then made some", "title": "The Lazy Spinner" }, { "docid": "11145576", "text": "in touch with others who shared his interest in enlightenment. The immediate result was that Golas was invited by an enthusiastic Stephen Gaskin to join his famous \"Monday Night Class\" meetings. Thaddeus Golas had gathered his ideas in the form of dense manuscripts, over a twenty-year period, but by 1970, he resolved to use his background as a copy editor for women's magazines to pitch his language on a level that casual readers could easily understand. The writing of his final manuscript of The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment was swift, and took place over a few chaotic and sleepless", "title": "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment" }, { "docid": "8628237", "text": "yarn and said it must be boiled. Then she put some tow in the pot instead and set her husband to watch. After some time, he opened the pot, saw the tow, and thought he had ruined the yarn. From then on, the husband didn't dare complain. The Lazy Spinner \"The Lazy Spinner\" or \"The Lazy Spinning Woman\" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 128. It is Aarne-Thompson type 1405. A lazy woman did not like to spin and when she did, did not wind onto a reel, but left it on the bobbin.", "title": "The Lazy Spinner" }, { "docid": "14898354", "text": "The Lazy Song \"The Lazy Song\" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars for his debut studio album \"Doo-Wops & Hooligans\" (2010). It was serviced to contemporary hit radios in the United States on February 15, 2011 as the album's third single by Atlantic and Elektra. Development of \"The Lazy Song\" began while Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine were hanging around the studio and didn’t feel like working. Mars wrote the song in collaboration with singer-songwriter K'naan and his production team The Smeezingtons, who also produced the track. Musically, \"The Lazy Song\" has been described as", "title": "The Lazy Song" }, { "docid": "14898376", "text": "tour, The Moonshine Jungle Tour (2013). \"The Lazy Song\" was featured on the debut season of \"Love Bites\" (2011), episode three. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Doo-Wops & Hooligans\", Elektra Records !scope=\"col\" colspan=\"3\"| Streaming The Lazy Song \"The Lazy Song\" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars for his debut studio album \"Doo-Wops & Hooligans\" (2010). It was serviced to contemporary hit radios in the United States on February 15, 2011 as the album's third single by Atlantic and Elektra. Development of \"The Lazy Song\" began while Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine were hanging", "title": "The Lazy Song" }, { "docid": "10624508", "text": "Buckingham Palace. Now with a hairstyle similar to Phil Oakey, Michael jumps on the balcony and starts dancing with The Queen and one of her corgis. Prince Charles tries to do the same, but moves completely out of rhythm. Then the Queen's crown falls of her head and lands on Charles'. He is excited, but then is bitten in the behind by the dog. Meanwhile, Michael jumps at two large groups of soldiers. He sticks flowers in their guns (a reference to the famous picture of hippie protesters by Bernie Boston) and then strips to his underwear, before jumping onto", "title": "Shoot the Dog" }, { "docid": "4046679", "text": "The Quick Draw McGraw Show The Quick Draw McGraw Show is the third cartoon television production created by Hanna-Barbera, starring an anthropomorphic cartoon horse named \"Quick Draw McGraw\" following their success with \"The Ruff and Reddy Show\" and \"The Huckleberry Hound Show\". The show debuted in syndication in the fall of 1959, sponsored by Kellogg's. Voice actor Daws Butler performed the lead character, Quick Draw. The series featured 3 cartoons per episode, one each by Quick Draw McGraw & Baba Looey, father and son dog duo Augie Doggie & Doggie Daddy and cat and mouse detectives Snooper & Blabber. Michael", "title": "The Quick Draw McGraw Show" }, { "docid": "4046681", "text": "danger. The exchange would always go as follows: Baba Looey would see a fatal flaw in Quick Draw's plan, and begin voicing a warning such as \"I don' thin' we should be doing...\", to which Quick Draw would angrily interrupt with his frequent catchphrase, \"I'll do the 'thin'in' around here, Baba Looey!\" His plans would then go disastrously wrong, and Quick Draw would be forced to realize he should have listened to Baba Looey. Quick Draw was assisted in some cartoons by his bloodhound Snuffles (voiced by Butler), who refused to work until he was given a dog biscuit, after", "title": "The Quick Draw McGraw Show" }, { "docid": "17041652", "text": "was probably like 500 pounds. And the first thing at hand is to find something for him to sit on.\" The building security found Israel a large steel chair. \"Then I put up some microphones, do a quick sound check, roll tape, and the first thing he does is 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.' He played and sang, one take, and it was over.\" At the time, copies of the recording were only made for Kamakawiwoʻole himself and Bertosa. The song was re-recorded as an \"upbeat Jawaiian version\" for Kamakawiwoʻole's debut album \"Ka ʻAnoʻi\", listed as \"Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful", "title": "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" }, { "docid": "3303857", "text": "on Raimi's previous work, she believed that the director still had yet to showcase his talents, feeling that \"The Quick and the Dead\" would be a perfect opportunity to \"stretch the limits of his technical and creative ability.\" Moore was also enthusiastic over Raimi's hiring, based on his previous work with the \"Evil Dead\" film series. When Sony began fast tracking development \"The Quick and the Dead,\" the studio commissioned a series of rewrites from Moore. The writer was eventually dismissed and replaced with John Sayles, who, according to Moore, took Sony's orders of \"making more of an American Old", "title": "The Quick and the Dead (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "509748", "text": "non-listed jumps or hops. Sequences are worth 80% of what the same jumps executed in combination would be worth. Jumps may be rotated in clockwise or counter-clockwise direction. Most skaters are counter-clockwise jumpers. Each jump has a base value, which is adjusted if the jump is under-rotated (<), if the jump has wrong edge (e),and a grade of execution (GoE) from +5 to −5, weighted according to the base value. The current scale of values is: Jumps may be performed with either clockwise or counter-clockwise rotation. The vast majority of skaters rotate all their jumps and spins in the same", "title": "Figure skating jumps" }, { "docid": "14898358", "text": "like when you realise that a drum track is good, you can add other things in after that.\" Mars affirmed that they were trying to be \"magical and historic\" thus creating a track \"that was better than the Beatles\". Due to the frustration of not being able to do so, Mars said \"Today I don't feel like doing anything at all\", which according to him was an eye-opener. \"The Lazy Song\" was written by Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine and K'naan, while production was handled by the former three production-team, The Smeezingtons. Levine and Mars played all the instruments", "title": "The Lazy Song" }, { "docid": "14898368", "text": "five times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). In New Zealand, it debuted at number eighteen on the New Zealand Singles Chart on February 28, 2011, and peaked at number three. In the United Kingdom, \"The Lazy Song\" peaked at the top of the UK Singles Chart, becoming Mars's third solo chart topper, and fourth in total, in Britain, as well as his third chart-topping song there in under a year following \"Just the Way You Are\" and \"Grenade\". According to the Official Charts Company, the song has sold 747,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of October", "title": "The Lazy Song" }, { "docid": "14898366", "text": "and Most Performed Song, having won the latter. It also was nominated for the 2011 Billboard Music Awards, it the category of Top Streaming Song (Video). At the RTHK International Pop Poll Awards the song won \"Top 10 Gold International Gold Songs\" The song, according to Spotify and 300.000 users, was considered a \"Hangover Cure\". \"The Lazy Song\" spent a total of 27 weeks on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart and peaked at number 4. It also peaked at number 3 on \"Billboard\"'s Pop Songs chart and at number 2 on the Adult Top 40 chart. The single sold", "title": "The Lazy Song" }, { "docid": "14898359", "text": "on the track and recorded them. The former was also responsible for engineering the song at Levcon Studios in California. Jash Negandhi (DJ Dizzy) was responsible for the scratching on the track. The single was mixed at Larrabee Sound Studios in Hollywood by Manny Marroquin, while Christian Plata and Erik Madrid served as the assistants for mix. It was mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Marcussen Mastering. \"The Lazy Song\" was described as borrowing \"heavily from roots reggae\" and having a moderate reggae groove. According to the digital sheet music published by Alfred Music Publishing , the song was written in", "title": "The Lazy Song" }, { "docid": "6380116", "text": "spirits were (and are) created and to what purpose. Explains why the tale of the creation found in the Book of Genesis is contradicted by science. The second part explains what a miracle is and discusses under which conditions it should happen. After describing what a miracle should be (both according to the popular conception and the theology of Christianity, Kardec argues (with the Spirits on his side) that such a thing does not and cannot exist: Regarding miraculous cures, Kardec wisely states that these, if frequent enough, would have been a hindrance to the development of mankind. If people", "title": "The Genesis According to Spiritism" }, { "docid": "6730688", "text": "The Chronic—what!—cles of Narnia.\" On May 19, 2012, Samberg and Parnell collaborated on \"Lazy Sunday 2\", which starts off similarly to the first one, with more modern references such as Siri, and seeing \"Sister Act\" on Broadway instead of \"Narnia\". In the break between verses, the song is dubstep instead of the regular instrumental like in the original. However, in the middle of a song, Samberg and Parnell transform the song into a darker dubstep mafioso rap song. Samberg used Lazy Sunday 2 to bring a close to his time on SNL, with the final lines referencing how the first", "title": "Lazy Sunday (The Lonely Island song)" }, { "docid": "17547953", "text": "and do horrible things to him like she has done to some poodles. Pudsey, because he is specially trained, opens the door and runs away, and jumps into a white van. The poodles escape too. The white van turns out to be the van that is moving the siblings' things, so Pudsey is moved to Chuffington with the family. Pudsey gets to speak. In January 2013, it was announced that Simon Cowell would produce \"Pudsey The Dog: The Movie\". The film, which was released on 18 July 2014, follows Pudsey and his siblings Molly, George, and Tommy as they move", "title": "Pudsey the Dog: The Movie" }, { "docid": "15409712", "text": "lives in the nearby fishing settlement of Copper City. He struggles to get the dog home and begs his parents to let him ask the local doctor to take a look at Kavik. Dr Walker does, initially reluctantly, have a look and does his best to deal with Kavik's multiple injuries. The dog slowly recovers and starts to bond with Andy. However, due to its near death experience Kavik is terrified of other dogs and is quick to run away when confronted. But Hunter arrives on a regular trip and claims back the dog, taking him to a kennel in", "title": "The Courage of Kavik the Wolf Dog" }, { "docid": "654002", "text": "Japanese, although typical orthography uses kanji (logograms), pangrams are required to contain every kana (syllabic character) when written out in kana alone: the Iroha is a classic example. In addition, it is possible to create pangrams that demonstrate certain aspects of logographic characters. In Chinese, the Thousand Character Classic is a 1000-character poem in which each character is used exactly once; however, it does not include all Chinese characters. The single character (permanence) incorporates every basic stroke used to write Chinese characters exactly once, as described in the Eight Principles of Yong. A self-enumerating pangram is a pangrammatic autogram, or", "title": "Pangram" }, { "docid": "14898356", "text": "by the and by Music Canada (MC), respectively. Worldwide, it was one of the best selling digital singles of 2011 with sales of 6.5 million copies. Mars sung \"The Lazy Song\" on television shows such as American Idol and the French version of X-Factor. The single was performed on The Doo-Wops & Hooligans Tour (2010–12), and occasionally on the Moonshine Jungle Tour (2013–14). \"The Lazy Song\" is one of the eleven songs composed and produced by The Smeezingtons for Mars' debut studio album \"Doo-Wops & Hooligans\". In an interview with Sound on Sound, fellow Smeezington Ari Levine explained how they", "title": "The Lazy Song" }, { "docid": "14898373", "text": "The video features Leonard Nimoy, who \"enjoys the lazy life\". During the music video Nimoy, who wears a robe and slippers all day, is seen \"wandering around the neighborhood and scaring the local Ginger kids, he's at home smoking weed and chilling out\". Besides this, one or two other famous Trek stars make a brief appearance, like William Shatner. Mars and Lawrence make a cameo in the video, walking out of the grocery store as Nimoy walks in. \"The Lazy Song\" official video was nominated at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Choreography. It was also nominated at", "title": "The Lazy Song" }, { "docid": "14898374", "text": "the Myx Music Awards for Favorite International Video. The UK Music Video Awards also recognized the video in the category of \"Best Pop Video-UK\" with a nomination. As of November 2018, the music video has received over 1.5 billion views on YouTube. Mars sung \"The Lazy Song\" enomerous times. It was first performed live on Kidd Kraddick, on October 19, 2010. On October 22, 2010, a \"soulful\" arrangement of the song was sung for a \"Billboard\" Tastemakers video session. On April 28, 2011 he performed the song on the tenth season of American Idol. Mars also performed it at the", "title": "The Lazy Song" }, { "docid": "17041653", "text": "World.\" In 1993, five years after the original recording, Bertosa played the song for producer Jon de Mello while the two were completing work on \"Facing Future\", and de Mello decided to include it in the album as \"Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World\". \"Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World\" reached #12 on \"Billboard\"'s Hot Digital Tracks chart the week of January 31, 2004 (for the survey week ending January 18, 2004). According to the Israel Kamakawiwoʻole website, Universal Studios first became interested in using the song in the movie and on the soundtrack for \"Meet Joe Black\"", "title": "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" }, { "docid": "3303848", "text": "a gun store and hopes to impress Herod. Believing Herod to be his father, The Kid hopes to earn his respect by entering and winning the tournament. In the first round of duels, The Kid defeats a Swedish quick-draw champion while Herod kills a braggart named Ace Hanlon, who had taken credit for some of Herod's own accomplishments. The Lady defeats Dog Kelly, an enemy she had previously left shackled to a wagon. Since Cort has no money, Herod buys him a cheap, rusty gun and declares that he can only have one bullet at a time so that he", "title": "The Quick and the Dead (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "6730691", "text": "effects used in the \"Lazy Sunday\" video. In the feature film \"Epic Movie\", the character Captain Jack Swallows (a reference to Jack Sparrow from the \"Pirates of the Caribbean\" film franchise) breaks out in a rap called \"Lazy Pirate Day\"; the song is reminiscent of \"Lazy Sunday\" both visually and musically. Swallows is played by Darrell Hammond, a long-time performer on \"Saturday Night Live\". Lazy Sunday (The Lonely Island song) \"Lazy Sunday\" is a single and short video by American comedy troupe The Lonely Island. It was released on December 17, 2005 when it was broadcast on \"Saturday Night Live\"", "title": "Lazy Sunday (The Lonely Island song)" }, { "docid": "7129776", "text": "The World According to John Coltrane The World According to John Coltrane is a documentary about jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. \"The World According to John Coltrane\" moves chronologically. It shows interviews with musicians who worked with Coltrane, such as Rashied Ali, Jimmy Heath, Roscoe Mitchell, and Wayne Shorter, and film clips of live performances. One brief clip shows Coltrane playing \"So What\" with Miles Davis in 1959. Shown, too, is a performance by the classic quartet of Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, and McCoy Tyner at a jazz festival, and the quartet playing with Eric Dolphy. Coltrane's live performance of", "title": "The World According to John Coltrane" }, { "docid": "7129777", "text": "\"Alabama\" is shown in full. The documentary omits commentary by scholars in favor of a narrated chonology of his life, interviews with his contemporaries, and live film clips. The World According to John Coltrane The World According to John Coltrane is a documentary about jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. \"The World According to John Coltrane\" moves chronologically. It shows interviews with musicians who worked with Coltrane, such as Rashied Ali, Jimmy Heath, Roscoe Mitchell, and Wayne Shorter, and film clips of live performances. One brief clip shows Coltrane playing \"So What\" with Miles Davis in 1959. Shown, too, is a performance", "title": "The World According to John Coltrane" }, { "docid": "16985360", "text": "The Dog and the Sparrow \"The Dog and the Sparrow\" is a story by the Brothers Grimm, told in their book \"Kinder- und Hausmärchen\" as KHM58. The original name is \"Der Hund und der Sperling\". A dog owner lets his shepherd dog starve from hunger, causing the dog to leave home. The dog meets a sparrow and accompanies him to the city. The bird captures meat and bread for the dog as a sign of gratitude. When they leave town night falls and they decide to go to sleep. During the night the dog is run over by a man", "title": "The Dog and the Sparrow" }, { "docid": "5266199", "text": "noted alternative musician Beck Hansen. Benair's girlfriend during much of his tenure in The Quick was Lisa Fancher, who wrote liner notes for The Runaways' debut album, then went on to found the influential independent record label Frontier Records. The Quick (U.S. band) The Quick were a mid-1970s power pop band based in Los Angeles. The Quick were influenced by 1960s British Invasion bands and 1970s British glam bands, as well as by fellow Angelenos Sparks (formerly Halfnelson). Over the course of its three-year existence, the band rapidly evolved a sound of its own and towards the last year became", "title": "The Quick (U.S. band)" }, { "docid": "6615033", "text": "is a condensed version of the CD. The International LP features the same tracks as the US LP, with the exception of the original John Potoker mix of \"11 Miles An Hour\" appearing instead and \"Earth to Doris\" not appearing at all. What Up, Dog? What Up, Dog? is a 1988 album by Was (Not Was). It became the US group's breakthrough album worldwide and was ranked #99 on \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's list of the 100 Best Albums of the 1980s. The cover illustration was credited to Christoph Simon and Karen Kelly. Success of \"What Up, Dog?\" was propelled by", "title": "What Up, Dog?" }, { "docid": "8086661", "text": "for the title track using footage of the Cannondale Pro Cycling Team synchronised to the music. The US release included \"I Was Just Dreaming\" and \"Between Sleeping and Waking\". Striving for the Lazy Perfection Striving for the Lazy Perfection is an album by The Orchids, released in 1994. It was the last release by the group before they split up the following year. \"Striving for The Lazy Perfection\" was the group's third album (excluding the compilation \"Epicurean\") and its mixture of musical styles was heavily at odds with the usual perception of Sarah Records as a twee pop label. With", "title": "Striving for the Lazy Perfection" }, { "docid": "6615027", "text": "What Up, Dog? What Up, Dog? is a 1988 album by Was (Not Was). It became the US group's breakthrough album worldwide and was ranked #99 on \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's list of the 100 Best Albums of the 1980s. The cover illustration was credited to Christoph Simon and Karen Kelly. Success of \"What Up, Dog?\" was propelled by the group's two biggest hits: \"Walk the Dinosaur\" and \"Spy in the House of Love\" and four other singles. The former was promoted by a popular music video in which the band performed while a group of girls in campy cave girl", "title": "What Up, Dog?" }, { "docid": "15814061", "text": "he's been asleep for several years. He finds the Smurfs, who have disguised to look old, save for Papa Smurf, who just tells that changes aren't so noticeable after a certain age, and another Smurf who pretends to be a grown Baby Smurf. Since everybody is old, Lazy Smurf must do all the chores. After some hard work, Lazy Smurf overhears a conversation that reveals the charade. Then, during dinner, Lazy Smurf reveals that, reading Papa Smurf's book, he found a formula to rejuvenate a hundred years and added it to the food. Lazy Smurf secretly tells Papa Smurf it", "title": "The Strange Awakening of Lazy Smurf" }, { "docid": "12555287", "text": "The Lost Dog The Lost Dog is a 2007 novel by Australian writer Michelle de Kretser. Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote bush shack trying to finish his book on Henry James when his beloved dog goes missing. What follows is a triumph of storytelling, as The Lost Dog loops back and forth in time to take the reader on a spellbinding journey into worlds far removed from the present tragedy. Reviewing the novel for \"The New Statesman\", Jane Shilling noted: \"Reading \"The Lost Dog\", one is torn between contradictory urges - to race ahead, in order to", "title": "The Lost Dog" }, { "docid": "5266193", "text": "The Quick (U.S. band) The Quick were a mid-1970s power pop band based in Los Angeles. The Quick were influenced by 1960s British Invasion bands and 1970s British glam bands, as well as by fellow Angelenos Sparks (formerly Halfnelson). Over the course of its three-year existence, the band rapidly evolved a sound of its own and towards the last year became noteworthy for cleverly arranged vocal harmonies and blistering guitar solos frequently inspired by 1950s American rock & roll bands. During the band's three-year career, The Quick helped shape the face of punk rock in California. In Los Angeles, between", "title": "The Quick (U.S. band)" }, { "docid": "15814060", "text": "The Strange Awakening of Lazy Smurf The Strange Awakening of Lazy Smurf (original French title: L'Étrange Réveil du Schtroumpf Paresseux) is the fourteenth album of the original French-language Smurfs comic series created by Belgian artist Peyo. Apart from the titular one, it contains other four stories: \"The Smurfs' Little Train\", \"The Smurf and his Dragon\", \"The Firemen Smurfs\" and \"A Mole among the Smurfs\". After Lazy Smurf falls asleep painting his own house, the Smurfs decide to play a joke on him; they add fake webs, dust and cracks to the whole village, so when Lazy Smurf awakens, he believes", "title": "The Strange Awakening of Lazy Smurf" }, { "docid": "12896425", "text": "common title: A Dog, Head of a Dog, The Buried Dog, The Half-Drowned Dog, The Half-Submerged Dog; more colloquially as \"Goya's Dog\"; or by the Spanish names ' or '. The painting is divided into two unequal sections: an upper, dirty ochre \"sky\" and a smaller sloping curved dark brown section which fades to black as it slopes up to the right. Over the top of this lower section the dog's head can be seen, its snout lifted, its ears pulled back and its eyes looking up and towards the right. A faint dark shape looms over the dog; this", "title": "The Dog (Goya)" }, { "docid": "8086659", "text": "Striving for the Lazy Perfection Striving for the Lazy Perfection is an album by The Orchids, released in 1994. It was the last release by the group before they split up the following year. \"Striving for The Lazy Perfection\" was the group's third album (excluding the compilation \"Epicurean\") and its mixture of musical styles was heavily at odds with the usual perception of Sarah Records as a twee pop label. With the assistance of long-serving producer Ian Carmichael (also a member of the dance music group One Dove), the group recorded an album which took in styles ranging from their", "title": "Striving for the Lazy Perfection" }, { "docid": "6851741", "text": "in 1968. This sequel was reissued in 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers. Summary: About 25 years after the publication of this book, Short became a Presbyterian minister. The Gospel According to Peanuts \"The Gospel According to\" Peanuts is a 1965 book written by Robert L. Short about Charles M. Schulz's comic strip, \"Peanuts\". The book is based on Short's use of the \"Peanuts\" characters to illustrate his lectures about the Christian Gospel. The book was a best seller and sold over 10 million copies. Summary: A 35th anniversary edition of 130 pages was released by Westminster John Knox Press in 2000,", "title": "The Gospel According to Peanuts" }, { "docid": "6851740", "text": "The Gospel According to Peanuts \"The Gospel According to\" Peanuts is a 1965 book written by Robert L. Short about Charles M. Schulz's comic strip, \"Peanuts\". The book is based on Short's use of the \"Peanuts\" characters to illustrate his lectures about the Christian Gospel. The book was a best seller and sold over 10 million copies. Summary: A 35th anniversary edition of 130 pages was released by Westminster John Knox Press in 2000, with a \"new cover, a new interior design, and a new foreword by Martin E. Marty.\" A sequel, \"The Parables of\" Peanuts, was written by Short", "title": "The Gospel According to Peanuts" }, { "docid": "7353238", "text": "A live performance of the song, recorded in November 2003 during the A Reality Tour, is included on the \"A Reality Tour\" album, released in 2010. Fall Dog Bombs the Moon \"Fall Dog Bombs the Moon\" is a song written by David Bowie in 2003 for his album \"Reality\". According to Bowie himself at the time of the album release, \"It came from reading an article about Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, the company that Dick Cheney used to run. Basically, Kellogg Brown & Root got the job of cleaning up Iraq. What tends to happen is", "title": "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" }, { "docid": "7353235", "text": "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon \"Fall Dog Bombs the Moon\" is a song written by David Bowie in 2003 for his album \"Reality\". According to Bowie himself at the time of the album release, \"It came from reading an article about Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, the company that Dick Cheney used to run. Basically, Kellogg Brown & Root got the job of cleaning up Iraq. What tends to happen is that a thing like an issue or a policy manifests itself as a guide. It becomes a character of some kind, like the one in Fall", "title": "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" }, { "docid": "20052207", "text": "the scarcity of food in the native forests. The diet and environment of the islands resulted in a dog with small stature and a docile disposition, and European explorers described them as lazy. They were said to rarely bark, but would howl occasionally. The distinct breeds of the Polynesian Dog became extinct during the 19th and early 20th century due to interbreeding with introduced European dog breeds; declining consumption of dog meat was another contributing factor. Dogs were an important part of Polynesian narrative. They are often associated with the legendary exploits of the demigod Māui. According to Māori narrative,", "title": "Polynesian Dog" } ]
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“4 out of 5 dentists surveyed would recommend sugarless gum to their patients who chew gum.” was used to advertise what company’s product?
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[ { "docid": "4844169", "text": "health through chewing gum. For years, Trident was promoted with the slogan, “Four out of five dentists surveyed \"recommend\" sugarless gum for their patients who \"chew\" gum.” This slogan is believed to have been based on the results of a survey of practicing dentists with either D.D.S. or D.M.D. degrees, apparently conducted in the early 1960s, whose patients included frequent users of chewing gums; the percentage of respondents to the survey whose responses indicated they would make such references to their patients is believed to have been approximately 80%, rounded off to the nearest full percentage point, of the total", "title": "Trident (gum)" }, { "docid": "4327271", "text": "Orbit (gum) Orbit is a brand of sugarless chewing gum from the Wrigley Company. In the United States, where it was re-launched in 2001, it is sold in cardboard boxes with 14 individually wrapped pieces per package. In the UK, where it was launched in 1899 it was originally sold as a traditional long-stick gum, later replaced by the same format as the US. Orbit White, packaged in blister packs of 20 pieces, was released to compete with Cadbury Adams' Trident White gum in 2001. Orbit was launched in 1944 in the United States as a replacement brand by Wrigley", "title": "Orbit (gum)" }, { "docid": "4327274", "text": "commercial with Sarah Silverman to kick off its new campaign: \"Eat. Drink. Chew Orbit.\" to emphasize the benefits of chewing gum after eating and drinking. In the UK and Ireland the Orbit name was replaced by Extra in 2015, with the same 14-piece package. Orbit White was launched in 2002 as a sugar-free pellet gum and sub brand of Orbit gum. Packaged in blister packs of 12 pieces, it was released to compete with Cadbury Adams' Trident White gum in 2001. Excel Mist in Canada had \"micro-bursts\" which are small polka dot chips filled with a flavor contrast to the", "title": "Orbit (gum)" }, { "docid": "12533554", "text": "month. The growing gum market for Stride and other Cadbury-Adams brand Trident in the United States contributed to unexpectedly strong sales for the company in 2007. Stride was heavily product placed on the television series, Smallville, particularly during season 7 - episode 13, \"Hero\", which features Kryptonite - laced Stride bestowing Elastic Man powers on the character Pete Ross. The use of a decommissioned Stride factory for concerts is also central to that particular episode. Stride (gum) Stride is a brand of sugar-free chewing gum created by Cadbury (owned by Mondelēz International, sold in packs of 14 pieces. It was", "title": "Stride (gum)" } ]
[ { "docid": "5895092", "text": "Chew from Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 2010 and is to begin production of the product in November of that year. Ford Gum Ford Gum is a brand of bubble gum and chewing gum often found in gum machines. It is produced by Ford Gum & Machine Co. The history of the company goes back to 1913, when Ford Mason leased 102 machines and placed them in stores and shops in New York City. The gumballs, while they are covered with different flavors, all have the same flavor under the surface. Ford Gum is also available in a square \"chiclet\"", "title": "Ford Gum" }, { "docid": "11445045", "text": "Gum lift A gum lift is a cosmetic dental procedure that raises and sculpts the gum line. This procedure involves reshaping the tissue and/or underlying bones to create the appearance of longer or symmetrical teeth, thereby making the smile more aesthetically pleasing. This procedure is typically done to reduce excessively gummy smiles or to balance out an asymmetrical gum line. The procedure, also known as crown-lengthening, has historically been used to treat gum disease. It is only within the past three to five years that dentists have commonly used this procedure for aesthetic purposes. The practice of cosmetic gum lifts", "title": "Gum lift" }, { "docid": "9903741", "text": "5 (gum) 5 is a brand of sugar-free chewing gum that is manufactured by the Wrigley Company. The name \"5\" hints at the five human senses (with the ad slogan \"Stimulate Your Senses\" and \"Everybody Experiences it Differently\") and that it has 5 calories. 5 gum was introduced to United States markets in March 2007, in Canada in January 2008, in Russia, Europe and Australia in 2009, in China, India, Italy, Israel, Thailand, and Malaysia in 2010. The brand features 24 flavours of chewing gum, all of which are available in the United States with the exception of Cirrus, Zephyr", "title": "5 (gum)" }, { "docid": "5065686", "text": "Belgium, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, New Zealand, and parts of Sweden; the gum sold in Germany, Norway and Poland is not red but white. It is meant to be hot in flavor. Despite it not being a sugarless gum, in 2003 in the United States, Wrigley's replaced some of the sugar with aspartame and Ace K, both artificial sweeteners. Like its sister product, Juicy Fruit, Big Red had its own commercial jingle, which was used from 1977 to 1998. The song was composed by Peter Cofield from Sunday Productions in New York City and sung by Ryan Devereaux. Many of", "title": "Big Red (gum)" }, { "docid": "9903745", "text": "in fall 2009 containing the flavors Rain, Cobalt, Solstice and Zing, and another with three packs of Cobalt, Rain, Solstice, and Elixir. The pack has a Tidy Man logo, which is a human figure in the shape of the 5 logo. In Serbia and Montenegro, 5 gum is sold in packets of 5 sticks. These packs are the same size as 10-packs of Orbit and Airwaves gum. 5 (gum) 5 is a brand of sugar-free chewing gum that is manufactured by the Wrigley Company. The name \"5\" hints at the five human senses (with the ad slogan \"Stimulate Your Senses\"", "title": "5 (gum)" }, { "docid": "4327275", "text": "rest of the stick. The \"micro-bursts\" were meant to create \"a hydrating sensation\", as claimed on the box. Orbit discontinued the Orbit Mist subline in 2013. Orbit (gum) Orbit is a brand of sugarless chewing gum from the Wrigley Company. In the United States, where it was re-launched in 2001, it is sold in cardboard boxes with 14 individually wrapped pieces per package. In the UK, where it was launched in 1899 it was originally sold as a traditional long-stick gum, later replaced by the same format as the US. Orbit White, packaged in blister packs of 20 pieces, was", "title": "Orbit (gum)" }, { "docid": "1989949", "text": "trains and general cleanliness. However, in 2004 the government allowed sugarless gum to be sold in pharmacies if a doctor or dentist prescribed it due to the Singapore–United States Free Trade Agreement. In 2018, the BBC published a news article on British designer Anna Bullus, who created a method of collecting and recycling chewing gum into plastic, noting that litter from chewing gum is the second most common form of litter, second only to cigarette litter. She uses a Worcester recycling plant to make old chewing gum into plastic. She then uses that plastic at a plastic moulding specialist, Amber", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "4564338", "text": "Excel (gum) Wrigley's Excel is a line of chewing gum and mints available in Canada since 1991. Eclipse is the American version of Excel. For many years, Excel used the slogan \"Excel-erate your breath\", which has recently been replaced by \"Eat, drink, chew, Excel\". The advertisements are using food creatures since 2010, the same characters that Extra gum is using. In January 2006, a sub-brand named \"Excel Extreme\", with flavors \"Fuse\", \"Voltage\", \"Charge\" and \"Shock\", was released, replacing the Excel cherry and lemon flavours. A year later, an American version called Wrigley's 5 was created, but the gum was sold", "title": "Excel (gum)" }, { "docid": "12123964", "text": "Think Gum Think Gum is a brand of functional chewing gum made by Palo Alto, California-based company Think Gum LLC. Its packaging claims to \"enhance concentration and improve memory\". It works on the principle of context-dependent memory and because it contains caffeine, Ginkgo biloba, Bacopa, Vinpocetine, Guarana, Peppermint and Rosemary. The chewing gum is sugar free and contains 10 mg of caffeine per piece. The brand was introduced in late 2007. Think Gum was created by a Stanford University medical student who developed the product to get more out of his studying. It is sold at retailers such as Marbles", "title": "Think Gum" }, { "docid": "4564339", "text": "in sticks instead of pellets. The Excel Extreme brand was replaced by Wrigley's 5 in 2008. In June 2008, Wrigley replaced Freedent Total with Excel White. It is currently available in three flavours : Spearmint, Bubblemint and Winterfresh. A Canadian version of Orbit Mist introduced in 2010. Here is a list of the flavors: Excel Gum: Excel Mints: Excel Extreme Gum (discontinued): Excel Cool Blast Mints (discontinued): Excel White Gum: Excel Fuse Gum (discontinued): Excel Mist Gum (discontinued): Excel Naturally Sweetened Gum: Excel Soft Chew Gum: Excel Chewy Mints: During the duration of the Winter Olympics of 2010, each piece", "title": "Excel (gum)" }, { "docid": "7916670", "text": "Philadelphia Gum The Philadelphia Chewing Gum Corporation was a Pennsylvania corporation formed on August 12, 1947, to manufacture candy, chewing gum, and specialty confectionery products. The company was established by Edward P. Fenimore, Sr., a former professor of engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and vice president of Bowman Gum Company. The company built its plant in 1948 in Havertown, Pennsylvania. The initial product was the twist-wrapped \"Swell\" brand pink bubble gum, sold for a penny. The Company then came out with the brown colored \"El Bubble\" candy cigar that sold for a nickel. In 1954 the Magic Color chewing", "title": "Philadelphia Gum" }, { "docid": "1989919", "text": "to packaging. Chewing gum can come in a variety of formats ranging from 1.4 to 6.9 grams per piece, and products can be differentiated by the consumers’ intent to form bubbles or the sugar/sugarless dichotomy. Chewing gum typically comes in three formats: tablets, coated pellets, and sticks/ slabs. Bubble gum typically come in three formats as well: tablets, hollow balls, and cubes or chunks. Stick, slab, and tab gums typically come in packs of about five to 17 sticks or more, and their medium size allows for softer texture. Pellet gums, or \"dragée\" gums, are pillow shaped pieces that are", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "9903744", "text": "outside of the box (except for the European versions), instead they are printed on the outer plastic wrap, to keep the box itself simple. The flavor description is printed on the inside of the front flap of the box. The foil that the gum is wrapped in is glossy and covered with 5 logos. The wrappers all match the color of the gum inside (except for the American Prism flavor, which has a lime green wrapper with red-orange gum). The original 5 gum variety pack contained three packs of Rain, Cobalt, Lush and Elixir. A new variety pack was introduced", "title": "5 (gum)" }, { "docid": "9903743", "text": "called \"Mutant\" was released in Australia as a promotion for \"\" in May 2011. It was discontinued and later re-released as Cirrus. There are five calories in a piece of 5 gum. The gum contains aspartame (with phenylalanine), acesulfame-potassium, soy lecithin, sorbitol, mannitol and other sweeteners. A package of 5 gum contains 15 sticks of gum in the United States and Canada, and 12 in Europe and Australia. It is a slim packet with three rows of five in North America, or three rows of four in other countries. Ingredients, nutrition facts, and description of the flavor aren't on the", "title": "5 (gum)" }, { "docid": "17285185", "text": "caffeinated-food products, especially the possible effects of caffeinated gum on children and adolescents. Alert (gum) Alert is an energy caffeine gum produced by the Wrigley's company that entered the U.S. market in April 2013. Sales are aimed at adults 25 and older who want a portable energy product. An eight-piece pack of Alert retails for $2.99 (U.S.). The gum is remarkable for a bitter, medicinal taste. According to the company, one piece of gum contains the same amount of caffeine as half a cup of coffee, which is about 40 milligrams. Wrigley temporarily halted production and sales of its \"Alert\"", "title": "Alert (gum)" }, { "docid": "17285184", "text": "Alert (gum) Alert is an energy caffeine gum produced by the Wrigley's company that entered the U.S. market in April 2013. Sales are aimed at adults 25 and older who want a portable energy product. An eight-piece pack of Alert retails for $2.99 (U.S.). The gum is remarkable for a bitter, medicinal taste. According to the company, one piece of gum contains the same amount of caffeine as half a cup of coffee, which is about 40 milligrams. Wrigley temporarily halted production and sales of its \"Alert\" energy gum as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigates the safety of", "title": "Alert (gum)" }, { "docid": "18128579", "text": "what the brand’s consumers were looking for once again, 2015 brought the launch of five flavours of PUR Mints, and two more flavours of chewing gum, completing the colourful assortment that now makes up the PUR roster. This was the turning point at which PUR Gum became The PUR Company, a lifestyle brand that was developing into a household name. PUR is proud that what began with a single pack of aspartame-free gum has grown into expanding product lines at a global scale, without losing sight of its roots. PUR still is, and always will be, naturally sweet and made", "title": "PÜR Gum" }, { "docid": "18128577", "text": "PÜR Gum PUR Gum is a brand of aspartame-free gum produced by The PUR Company Inc. and founded in 2010 by Jay Klein in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. PUR gum and mints are manufactured in Switzerland, distributed in Canada, and sold in over 50 countries worldwide. The PUR Company Inc. uses slogans such as \"Kick Aspartame\" and \"Live PUR\" to promote their wellness lifestyle brand. When Founder and CEO Jay Klein was just a little boy, he loved putting smiles on people’s faces by selling them candy out of his backpack, sparking an early entrepreneurial spirit that would later blossom into", "title": "PÜR Gum" }, { "docid": "1989929", "text": "because the molecules that they are encapsulated in are more easily held within the gum matrix. Finally, during the last phase of the chew, softeners such as corn syrup and glycerin and other textural modifiers are dissolved, resulting in a firming up of the gum and the end of the chew. Studies have shown that gum flavor is perceived better in the presence of sweetener. Companies have started to create chemical systems in gum so that the sweetener and flavor release together in a controlled manner during chewing. A cooling sensation is achieved through the chemical phenomenon of the negative", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "4822213", "text": "with the appropriate content and dosage depending on the smoking habits of the user. Popular brands include Nicotex, Nicorette, Nicogum, Nicotinell and Zonnic. Alternative nicotine replacement products include the nicotine patch, nicotine pastilles/lozenges and the nicotine inhaler. Gum should not be used less than 15 minutes after eating or drinking as doing so will reduce absorption. Users are directed to chew the gum until it softens and produces a tingling sensation or \"peppery\" taste. The gum is then \"parked,\" or tucked, in between the cheek and gums. When the tingling ends the gum is chewed again until it returns, and", "title": "Nicotine gum" }, { "docid": "2789793", "text": "a \"softer version of their gum was used to make armor-piercing bullets.\" A fictional advertisement for the gum, starring Stacy Keach, encouraged viewers to chew Bazooka Joe gum \"because life is hard,\" and \"it's like chewing a mountain that someone shot a freeze ray into.\" In a November 2013 episode of \"How I Met Your Mother\", it was referenced by Marshall when he made a joke that was not submitted to be part of the Bazooka jokes. In the January 23, 2018 episode of \"The Flash\" titled \"The Elongated Knight Rises\", it was referenced synonymously by Cisco as his favorite", "title": "Bazooka (chewing gum)" }, { "docid": "7833086", "text": "later comments that Elaine really needs to find a boyfriend. The Gum \"The Gum\" is the 120th episode of NBC sitcom \"Seinfeld\". This was the tenth episode for the seventh season. It aired on December 14, 1995. Kramer is active in the re-opening of the Alex movie theater. George's nemesis Lloyd Braun, who had a nervous breakdown after messing up David Dinkins' reelection campaign in \"The Non-Fat Yogurt\", has a pack of Chinese chewing gum that Kramer insists everyone try. George begs off, stating that he doesn't chew gum. At the theater, Elaine doesn't want to sit near Braun, so", "title": "The Gum" }, { "docid": "7833080", "text": "The Gum \"The Gum\" is the 120th episode of NBC sitcom \"Seinfeld\". This was the tenth episode for the seventh season. It aired on December 14, 1995. Kramer is active in the re-opening of the Alex movie theater. George's nemesis Lloyd Braun, who had a nervous breakdown after messing up David Dinkins' reelection campaign in \"The Non-Fat Yogurt\", has a pack of Chinese chewing gum that Kramer insists everyone try. George begs off, stating that he doesn't chew gum. At the theater, Elaine doesn't want to sit near Braun, so she invents the story that she has to sit with", "title": "The Gum" }, { "docid": "1989928", "text": "highest solubility and, therefore, are chewed out first. As these components dissolve in the consumers’ saliva and slide down the esophagus, they are no longer retained in the gum base or perceived by the chewer. During the next phase of the chew in the four to six minute range, intense sweeteners and some acids are dissolved and chewed out. These components last slightly longer than the bulking agents because they have a slightly lower solubility. Next, encapsulated flavors are released during either 10-15 minute into the chew or after 30–45 minutes. Encapsulated flavors remain incorporated in the gum base longer", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "7916675", "text": "the property was then leased to the YMCA to be developed as the Haverford Area YMCA, a 75,000 square foot state of the art recreation facility that opened in 2013. Philadelphia Gum The Philadelphia Chewing Gum Corporation was a Pennsylvania corporation formed on August 12, 1947, to manufacture candy, chewing gum, and specialty confectionery products. The company was established by Edward P. Fenimore, Sr., a former professor of engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and vice president of Bowman Gum Company. The company built its plant in 1948 in Havertown, Pennsylvania. The initial product was the twist-wrapped \"Swell\" brand pink", "title": "Philadelphia Gum" }, { "docid": "532292", "text": "It shows good stability during freeze-thaw cycles. It is therefore used in egg free ice cream. Guar gum has synergistic effects with locust bean gum and sodium alginate. May be synergistic with xanthan: together with xanthan gum, it produces a thicker product (0.5% guar gum / 0.35% xanthan gum), which is used in applications such as soups, which do not require clear results. Guar gum is a hydrocolloid, which is particularly useful for making thick pastes without forming a gel, and for keeping water bound in a sauce or emulsion. Guar gum can be used for thickening cold and hot", "title": "Guar gum" }, { "docid": "1572637", "text": "cases, stamp catalogs recommend to remove the gum to avoid further damage to the stamps. Postage stamp gum In philately, gum is the substance applied to the back of a stamp to enable it to adhere to a letter or other mailed item. The term is generic, and applies both to traditional types such as gum arabic and to synthetic modern formulations. Gum is a matter of high importance in philately. Before postage stamps existed, people receiving letters would have to pay for them. The payment was based on how many papers were in the envelope and how far the", "title": "Postage stamp gum" }, { "docid": "2982576", "text": "solid particles, such as spices. Xanthan gum helps create the desired texture in many ice creams. Toothpaste often contains xanthan gum as a binder to keep the product uniform. Xanthan gum also helps thicken commercial egg substitutes made from egg whites, to replace the fat and emulsifiers found in yolks. It is also a preferred method of thickening liquids for those with swallowing disorders, since it does not change the color or flavor of foods or beverages at typical use levels. In gluten-free baking, xanthan gum is used to give the dough or batter the stickiness that would otherwise be", "title": "Xanthan gum" }, { "docid": "5577051", "text": "Chewing gum bug A chewing gum bug is a practical joke gag used to play tricks on people, usually adults. The appearance is of a 5-pack of chewing gum, with one stick of gum remaining. The trick works when the prankster tricks the victim into pulling out the last stick of gum. A small rubber bug, (folded back to fit in the pack), springs out and smacks the victim on the finger he or she used to hold the fake stick of chewing gum. It does not hurt or injure the victim, though it can potentially annoy the victim. Some", "title": "Chewing gum bug" }, { "docid": "11445046", "text": "was first developed in the late 1980s, but there were few oral surgeons and dental practitioners available to perform the procedures. Gum lifts can also include bone shaping to reduce the prominence of the upper jaw and even out the tooth and gum ratio. This method provides permanent results, while simple gum contouring may result in relapse or regrowth of the gingiva. USA Today, \"Patients Smile At Getting Long In The Tooth\" American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry Gum lift A gum lift is a cosmetic dental procedure that raises and sculpts the gum line. This procedure involves reshaping the tissue", "title": "Gum lift" }, { "docid": "12123965", "text": "the Brain Store and Powell's Sweete Shoppes and also at various online retailers such as MoodandMind.com and Think Geek. The brand is also sold in the United Kingdom at CandyHero.com. Think Gum was featured at the 2008 Cool Product Expo as well as on the San Francisco Bay Area Evening News. Think Gum LLC has sponsored events such as the Butt-Numb-A-Thon, Stanford's Entrepreneurship Week and the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Think Gum Think Gum is a brand of functional chewing gum made by Palo Alto, California-based company Think Gum LLC. Its packaging claims to \"enhance concentration", "title": "Think Gum" }, { "docid": "532293", "text": "liquids, to make hot gels, light foams and as an emulsion stabilizer. Guar gum can be used for cottage cheeses, curds, yogurt, sauces, soups and frozen desserts. Guar gum is also a good source of fiber with 80% soluble dietary fiber on a dry weight basis. Guar gum is analysed for Guar gum powder standards are: Depending upon the requirement of end product, various processing techniques are used. The commercial production of guar gum normally uses roasting, differential attrition, sieving, and polishing. Food-grade guar gum is manufactured in stages. Guar split selection is important in this process. The split is", "title": "Guar gum" }, { "docid": "1989107", "text": "attracts water, ensuring that the oil based ink does not stick to those areas. Gum is also essential to what is sometimes called paper lithography, printing from an image created by a laser printer or photocopier. Gum arabic is also used as a water-soluble binder in fireworks composition. Arabinogalactan is a biopolymer consisting of arabinose and galactose monosaccharides. It is a major component of many plant gums, including gum arabic. 8-5' non cyclic diferulic acid has been identified as covalently linked to carbohydrate moieties of the arabinogalactan-protein fraction. While gum arabic has been harvested in Arabia, Sudan, and West Asia", "title": "Gum arabic" }, { "docid": "5577052", "text": "variants deliver a mild electric shock, or set off a cap. After a person touches the chewing gum bug, he also may report a \"tingly feeling\" similar to pins and needles. Chewing gum bug A chewing gum bug is a practical joke gag used to play tricks on people, usually adults. The appearance is of a 5-pack of chewing gum, with one stick of gum remaining. The trick works when the prankster tricks the victim into pulling out the last stick of gum. A small rubber bug, (folded back to fit in the pack), springs out and smacks the victim", "title": "Chewing gum bug" }, { "docid": "8370364", "text": "retrieve the chips became common. The process was later mechanised. Gumdiggers generally sold their gum to local gumbuyers, who transported it to Auckland (generally by sea) for sale to merchants and exporters. There were six major export firms in Auckland who dealt in gum, employing several hundred workers who graded and rescraped the gum for export, packing them in cases made from kauri timber. As early as the 1830s and 1840s, merchants, including Gilbert Mair and Logan Campbell, were buying gum from local Māori for £5 ($8.25) a ton, or trading it for goods. The majority of the gum was", "title": "Kauri gum" }, { "docid": "8370362", "text": "public roads and private farms, and leading to local council management of the problem. Most gum was dug from the ground using gum-spears (pointed rods to probe for gum) and \"skeltons\", defined as blade-edged spades for cutting through old wood and roots as well as soil. Once the gum was retrieved it would need to be scraped and cleaned. Digging in swamps was more complicated; a longer spear (up to 8m) was often used, often fitted with a hooked end to scoop out the lumps. Scrub was often cleared first with fire; some got out of control and swamp fires", "title": "Kauri gum" }, { "docid": "1989927", "text": "the mastication process by timed release of different flavor components due to the physical-chemical properties of many of chewing gum’s ingredients. Entropy is a key player in the process of flavor delivery; because some gum components are more soluble in saliva than gum base and because over time flavor components desire to increase their entropy by becoming dispersed in the less ordered system of the mouth than in the more ordered system of the gum bolus, flavor delivery occurs. During the first three to four minutes of the chew, bulking agents such as sugar or sorbitol and maltitol have the", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "8370359", "text": "and women who dug for kauri gum, a fossilised resin, in the old kauri fields of New Zealand at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The gum was used mainly for varnish. The term may be a source for the nickname \"Digger\" given to New Zealand soldiers in World War I. In 1898, a gum-digger described \"the life of a gum-digger\" as \"wretched, and one of the last [occupations] a man would take to.\" Gum-diggers worked in the old kauri fields, most of which were then covered by swamp or scrub, digging for the gum. Much of", "title": "Kauri gum" }, { "docid": "1989912", "text": "made from paraffin wax, which is a petroleum product, was developed and soon exceeded the spruce gum in popularity. To sweeten these early gums, the chewer would often make use of a plate of powdered sugar, which they would repeatedly dip the gum into to maintain sweetness. William Semple filed an early patent on chewing gum, patent number 98,304, on December 28, 1869. The first flavored chewing gum was created in the 1860s by John Colgan, a Louisville, Kentucky pharmacist. Colgan mixed with powdered sugar the aromatic flavoring tolu, a powder obtained from an extract of the balsam tree (\"Myroxylon\"),", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "4407306", "text": "'dangerous'. Extra (gum) Extra is a brand of sugarfree chewing gum produced by the Wrigley Company in North America, Europe, and some parts of Africa and Australasia. Extra was launched in 1984 as the Wrigley Company's first ever sugarfree product, and became one of the most popular brands of chewing gum in the United States within a few years. It was also the first sugarfree gum not to use saccharin, instead using the NutraSweet brand, a sweetener developed by G.D. Searle & Co. that had less bitterness and was believed to be safer in humans and laboratory animals; it was", "title": "Extra (gum)" }, { "docid": "4407303", "text": "Extra (gum) Extra is a brand of sugarfree chewing gum produced by the Wrigley Company in North America, Europe, and some parts of Africa and Australasia. Extra was launched in 1984 as the Wrigley Company's first ever sugarfree product, and became one of the most popular brands of chewing gum in the United States within a few years. It was also the first sugarfree gum not to use saccharin, instead using the NutraSweet brand, a sweetener developed by G.D. Searle & Co. that had less bitterness and was believed to be safer in humans and laboratory animals; it was later", "title": "Extra (gum)" }, { "docid": "1729871", "text": "Bubble gum Bubble gum is a type of chewing gum, designed to be inflated out of the mouth as a bubble. In 1928, Walter Diemer, an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia, was experimenting with new gum recipes. One recipe was found to be less sticky than regular chewing gum, and stretched more easily. This gum became highly successful and was eventually named by the president of Fleer as Dubble Bubble because of its stretchy texture. The original bubble gum was pink in color because that was the dye that Diemer had most on hand at the", "title": "Bubble gum" }, { "docid": "9179135", "text": "always applied to gum with some additional function. Medical uses for 'functional chewing gum' include a reported reduction in the duration of post-operative ileus following abdominal and specifically gastrointestinal surgery. Functional chewing gum Functional chewing gum is the name given to types of chewing gum which impart some practical function instead of, or in addition to, the usual enjoyment provided by a traditional chewing gum as a confectionery product. Examples of this include nicotine gum which is used to aid smoking cessation & so-called Think Gum which designers say they believe may enhance mental functioning. It could be argued that", "title": "Functional chewing gum" }, { "docid": "1989924", "text": "shoe. To make matters worse, unsticking the gum is a challenge because the long polymers of the gum base stretch, rather than break. The sticky characteristic of gum may be problematic during processing if the gum sticks to any machinery or packaging materials during processing, impeding the flow of product. Aside from ensuring that the machinery is free from lipid-based residues, this issue can be combatted by the conditioning and coating of gum toward the end of the process. By adding either a powder or a coating to the exterior of the gum product, the hydrophobic gum base binds to", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "4120327", "text": "Island, New York to buy it. Adams, a photographer and inventor, intended to vulcanize the chicle for use as a rubber substitute. Adams' efforts at vulcanization failed, but he noticed that Santa Anna liked to chew the chicle, which the ancient Mayans had done. Disappointed with the rubber experiments, Adams boiled a small batch of chicle in his kitchen to create a chewing gum. He gave some to a local store to see if people would buy it; they did and he began production. In 1871, Adams received a patent on a gum-making machine and began mass-producing chicle-based gum. His", "title": "Black Jack (gum)" }, { "docid": "1729873", "text": "in diameter. Chad Fell holds the record for \"Largest Hands-free Bubblegum Bubble\" at , achieved on 24 April 2004. Bubble gum Bubble gum is a type of chewing gum, designed to be inflated out of the mouth as a bubble. In 1928, Walter Diemer, an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia, was experimenting with new gum recipes. One recipe was found to be less sticky than regular chewing gum, and stretched more easily. This gum became highly successful and was eventually named by the president of Fleer as Dubble Bubble because of its stretchy texture. The original", "title": "Bubble gum" }, { "docid": "9179134", "text": "Functional chewing gum Functional chewing gum is the name given to types of chewing gum which impart some practical function instead of, or in addition to, the usual enjoyment provided by a traditional chewing gum as a confectionery product. Examples of this include nicotine gum which is used to aid smoking cessation & so-called Think Gum which designers say they believe may enhance mental functioning. It could be argued that most gum (at least the mint varieties) provides some function in that they can improve bad breath, but such an effect is so widespread that the term 'functional' is almost", "title": "Functional chewing gum" }, { "docid": "2982584", "text": "gum as a laxative. As described above, xanthan gum binds water very efficiently, which significantly aids passing stools. Some people react to much smaller amounts of xanthan gum with symptoms of intestinal bloating and diarrhea. There are many substitutes for xanthan gum when used for baking such as guar gum and locust bean gum. Xanthan gum is produced by the fermentation of glucose, sucrose, or lactose. The polysaccharide is prepared by the bacteria being inoculated into a sterile aqueous solution of carbohydrate(s), a source of nitrogen, dipotassium phosphate, and some trace elements. The medium is well-aerated and stirred, and the", "title": "Xanthan gum" }, { "docid": "1989950", "text": "Valley, in Leicester to make plastic objects. Known objects made are collection containers for more chewing gum, shoe soles, rubber boots, and plastic cups. Her company advertises itself as the \"first company in the world to recycle and process chewing gum into a range of new compounds that can be used in the rubber and plastics industry\". The company is called Gum-tec, and the collection containers are dubbed \"gumdrops\". Advertised products on the website are pencils, coffee mugs, guitar picks, a \"bicycle spoke\", rulers, sports cones, frisbees, boomerangs, door stops, \"meal mates\", lunch-boxes, and combs. Chewing gum Chewing gum is", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "5755235", "text": "various microorganisms Its initial commercial product with the trademark as \"GELRITE\" gellan gum, was subsequently identified as a suitable agar substitute as gelling agent in various clinical bacteriological media. The repeating unit of the polymer is a tetrasaccharide, which consists of two residues of D-glucose and one of each residues of L-rhamnose and D-glucuronic acid. The tetrasaccharide repeat has the following structure:<br>[D-Glc(β1→4)D-GlcA(β1→4)D-Glc(β1→4)L-Rha(α1→3)] Gellan gum, also branded by few suppliers as GELRITE, Nanogel-TC,\"Gelrich\" Grovgel, AppliedGel or Phytagel, is initially used as a gelling agent, alternative to agar, in microbiological culture. It is able to withstand 120 °C heat. It was identified", "title": "Gellan gum" }, { "docid": "2982581", "text": "2011, the FDA issued a press release about SimplyThick, a food-thickening additive containing xanthan gum as the active ingredient, warning parents, caregivers and health care providers not to feed SimplyThick, a thickening product, to premature infants The concern is that the product may cause premature infants to suffer necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). The nutrients used in the production of xanthan gum may be derived from a variety of crop sources, some of which are known allergens, such as wheat, or soy. In fermentation processes, such as in the production of xanthan gum, nutrients are needed as a food source by the", "title": "Xanthan gum" }, { "docid": "10597925", "text": "Gum Gum Punch In this children's manga, Punch and his sister Pinko are approached by a strange man calling himself the God of Gum. Looking like a kind of eccentric scientist, he explains that the gum he has is special as it will allow the gum chewer to create whatever they want with the bubbles they blow. However, since Punch and Pinko are still young, they have not mastered the ability to blow bubbles. Seeing as this might be a problem, and to prevent the children from potentially misusing the gum, the God of Gum assigns his disciple, Gum Gum,", "title": "Gum Gum Punch" }, { "docid": "17136336", "text": "Islander and also helicopter types such as Agusta-Bell 204B & Bell 206B Jet Ranger II Gum Air today owns a fleet of 9 aircraft plus a helicopter, consisting of four types of aircraft varying from 5 seats to 19 seats. Gum Air Gum Air is a Surinamese airline based at Zorg en Hoop Airport in Paramaribo, Suriname. Gum Air cooperates with Trans Guyana Airways to provide daily flights between Zorg en Hoop Airport (ORG) in Paramaribo, Suriname and Ogle Airport (OGL) in Georgetown, Guyana). Gum Air was founded in 1971 by six brothers of the Gummels family. The company they", "title": "Gum Air" }, { "docid": "4693844", "text": "Gum karaya Gum karaya or gum sterculia, also known as Indian gum tragacanth, is a vegetable gum produced as an exudate by trees of the genus \"Sterculia\". Chemically, gum karaya is an acid polysaccharide composed of the sugars galactose, rhamnose and galacturonic acid. It is used as a thickener and emulsifier in foods, as a laxative, and as a denture adhesive. It is also used to adulterate Gum tragacanth due to their similar physical characteristics. As a food additive it has E number E416. Gum karaya can be obtained from the tree \"Sterculia urens\". It is a valuable substance and", "title": "Gum karaya" }, { "docid": "10597926", "text": "to stay with the children. Together, the three explore the many possible uses of the magical chewing gum and get into mischief. The character Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) ate a devil's fruit called the Gomu Gomu No Mi (lit. Gum Gum fruit). This may have been influenced by Osamu Tezuka's manga, Gum Gum Punch. Gum Gum Punch In this children's manga, Punch and his sister Pinko are approached by a strange man calling himself the God of Gum. Looking like a kind of eccentric scientist, he explains that the gum he has is special as it will allow the", "title": "Gum Gum Punch" }, { "docid": "9179579", "text": "Gum base Gum base is the non-nutritive, non-digestible, water-insoluble masticatory delivery system used to carry sweeteners, flavors, and any other substances in chewing gum and bubble gum. It provides all the basic textural and masticatory properties of gum. The actual composition of gum base is usually a trade secret. The FDA allows 46 different chemicals under the umbrella of \"gum base.\" The chemicals are posted on their website. These chemicals are grouped into the following categories. Gum bases for chewing gum are different from those for bubble gum. A bubble gum base is formulated with the ability to blow bubbles;", "title": "Gum base" }, { "docid": "9179576", "text": "Gum base Gum base is the non-nutritive, non-digestible, water-insoluble masticatory delivery system used to carry sweeteners, flavors, and any other substances in chewing gum and bubble gum. It provides all the basic textural and masticatory properties of gum. The actual composition of gum base is usually a trade secret. The FDA allows 46 different chemicals under the umbrella of \"gum base.\" The chemicals are posted on their website. These chemicals are grouped into the following categories. Gum bases for chewing gum are different from those for bubble gum. A bubble gum base is formulated with the ability to blow bubbles;", "title": "Gum base" }, { "docid": "1989915", "text": "who were supplied chewing gum as a ration and traded it with locals. Synthetic gums were first introduced to the U.S. after chicle no longer satisfied the needs of making good chewing gum. By the 1960s, US manufacturers had switched to butadiene-based synthetic rubber, as it was cheaper to manufacture. Gum base composition is considered proprietary information known by select individuals within each gum-manufacturing company. Information about the other components of chewing gum are more accessible to the public and they are listed in Table 2. Table 2: Common Ingredients in the Formulation of Modern Chewing Gum Gum base is", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "2982578", "text": "for good control of drilled solids has led to its expanded use. It has also been added to concrete poured underwater, to increase its viscosity and prevent washout. In cosmetics, xanthan gum is used to prepare water gels. It is also used in oil-in-water emulsions to enhance droplet coalescence. Xanthan gum is under preliminary research for its potential uses in tissue engineering to construct hydrogels and scaffolds supporting three-dimensional tissue formation. The viscosity of xanthan gum solutions decreases with higher shear rates; this is called shear thinning or pseudoplasticity. This means that a product subjected to shear, whether from mixing,", "title": "Xanthan gum" }, { "docid": "1989945", "text": "and build up, causing intestinal blockage. As long as the mass of gum is small enough to pass out of the stomach, it will likely pass out of the body easily, but it is recommended that gum not be swallowed or given to young children who do not understand not to swallow it. Adults have choked to death on chewing gum in rare cases. A 2012 report describes a 42-year-old woman who fell on the stairs while chewing gum. Due to the impact, the gum fell into the pharynx and was inhaled into the larynx, causing complete blockage and resulting", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "17733805", "text": "kabbadi. Vedant becomes angry and tries to hit them. Disgruntled with their treatment, they complain their father. His father goes downstairs an \"Bubble Gum\" achieved critical acclaim among the Indian critics. Mayank Shekhar of Hindustan Times awarded the film 3 out of 5 stars, saying that \"the pic is a sweet, rare, candid personal piece\". Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama states that \"\"Bubble Gum\" has its heart in the right place. A film that arrives with zilch expectations, but succeeds in taking you back in time when life was simpler and sweet. Recommended!\". Bubble Gum (film) Bubble Gum is a", "title": "Bubble Gum (film)" }, { "docid": "6636950", "text": "Airwaves (gum) Airwaves is a brand of sugarfree chewing gum produced by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company and sold primarily in Europe and East Asia. The brand is marketed for its intense flavor similar to the effect one would get from the consumption of cough drops (which are also sold by Wrigley's). This intensity of flavor is obtained by including Eucalyptus and Menthol in the candy coating of the tablets of gum. This menthol and eucalyptus combination is widely used in medicated sweets to clear the head and nasal passages and to reduce the symptoms of nasal congestions and colds.", "title": "Airwaves (gum)" }, { "docid": "7833082", "text": "that he doodled on. He pursues her and has to buy a pack of gum to look inside the register, much to the surprise of Lloyd, who thought George didn't chew gum. While he is confronting the cashier in her car on the street, George's \"Jon Voight car\" catches fire due to the damage caused by Pop, and the fire can't be extinguished by the hose because the florist had to disconnect it. Jerry must wear glasses while around Lloyd to keep with Elaine's excuse. He exchanges glasses when the ones he got from the lost and found were discovered", "title": "The Gum" }, { "docid": "6183659", "text": "Bowman Gum The Bowman Gum Company was a Philadelphia-based manufacturer of bubble gum and trading cards in the period surrounding World War II founded by Jacob Warren Bowman in 1927. Nowadays, a line of baseball cards under the \"Bowman\" name are manufactured and commercialised by Topps. Jacob Warren Bowman, an American chewing gum salesman, started his own company, Gum, Inc., in Philadelphia in 1927. Gum, Inc. started producing Blony bubble gum which immediately became the top selling penny bubble gum in the United States in 1929. The Blony trademark was registered by Bowman on January 13, 1931 (filed June 30,", "title": "Bowman Gum" }, { "docid": "532308", "text": "also known to cause small sores or lesions as well as chronic diarrhea (IBS). Manufacturers and suppliers will sometimes substitute guar Gum, xanthan gum and cellulose gum in formulations, without changing product labels. Often, blends of all these ingredients are sold as cellulose gum. If allergic to guar gum, the most common foods to suspect contamination from are frozen dairy/ice treats, soft cheeses (cream cheese, ricotta), salad dressing and baked goods. In July 2007, the European Commission issued a health warning to its member states after high levels of dioxins were detected in a food additive - guar gum -", "title": "Guar gum" }, { "docid": "1989923", "text": "gum base itself. This allows for gum to be chewed for a long period of time without breaking down in the mouth like conventional foods. Chewing gum can be classified as a product containing a liquid phase and a crystalline phase, providing gum with its characteristic balance of plastic and elastic properties. While hydrophobic polymers beneficially repel water and contribute to chewiness, they also detrimentally attract oil. The stickiness of gum results from this hydrophobic nature, as gum can form bonds and stick when it makes contact with oily surfaces such as sidewalks, skin, hair, or the sole of one’s", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "6183661", "text": "A 1938 example was a series on battles of the ongoing Second Sino-Japanese War. The motto \"To know the HORRORS OF WAR is to want PEACE\" appeared on each card, but children nicknamed the series \"War Gum\". Franklin V. Canning became a partner with Bowman in 1930. Canning, a New York druggist who supplied the pink bubble gum base material to Gum, Inc., supplied working capital in return for 250 shares, half of the company stock. A subsidiary of the Wrigley Company developed a better gum base in 1932, which sold for less than Canning's base. President Bowman demanded that", "title": "Bowman Gum" }, { "docid": "1989108", "text": "since antiquity, sub-Saharan acacia gum has a long history as a prized export. The gum exported came from the band of acacia trees that once covered much of the Sahel region: the southern littoral of the Sahara Desert that runs from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. Today, the main populations of gum-producing \"Acacia\" species are harvested in Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania. \"Acacia senegal\" is tapped for gum by cutting holes in the bark, from which a product called \"kordofan\" or Senegal gum is exuded. \"Seyal\" gum, from", "title": "Gum arabic" }, { "docid": "12533552", "text": "after three years of product development, Cadbury claimed that through the use of proprietary sweetener mannitol it had produced a gum with longer-lasting flavor. Cadbury marketed the gum as \"The Ridiculously Long Lasting Gum\". Following competitive campaigning, New York based advertisers JWT were selected to handle the $50 million launch advertising, creating a series of work-place related ads that proved popular with consumers, according to polls by \"USA Today\". These ads include the CEO of Stride gum begging customers to buy more gum as was popular at first but lasted too long and nobody came back for more. (October 29,", "title": "Stride (gum)" }, { "docid": "1989911", "text": "have chewed gum-like substances made from plants, grasses, and resins. Although chewing gum can be traced back to civilizations around the world, the modernization and commercialization of this product mainly took place in the United States. The American Indians chewed resin made from the sap of spruce trees. The New England settlers picked up this practice, and in 1848, John B. Curtis developed and sold the first commercial chewing gum called The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum. In this way, the industrializing West, having forgotten about tree gums, rediscovered chewing gum through the First Americans. Around 1850 a gum", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "8986269", "text": "Gum (footballer) Welington Pereira Rodrigues (born 4 January 1986), commonly known as Gum, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Fluminense as a central defender. Born in São Paulo, Gum was a Marília youth graduate. He made his first team debut in 2005, with the side in Série B, and also had an unassuming loan spell at Osvaldo Cruz back in 2004. On 13 September 2006 Gum was loaned to Série A club Internacional, until July. After making no league appearances, he rescinded his contract and returned to \"MAC\". On 26 June 2008 Gum signed a five-year deal with fellow", "title": "Gum (footballer)" }, { "docid": "5065605", "text": "Chewing gum ban in Singapore The Singapore chewing gum ban has been in place since 1992. Since 2004, an exception has existed for therapeutic, dental, or nicotine chewing gum, which can be bought from a doctor or registered pharmacist. It is currently not illegal to chew gum in Singapore, merely to import it and sell it, apart from the aforementioned exceptions. Tourists visiting Singapore are allowed to bring in up to two packs of chewing gum per person. In his memoirs, Lee Kuan Yew said that in 1983, when he was Prime Minister of Singapore, a proposal for the ban", "title": "Chewing gum ban in Singapore" }, { "docid": "2982583", "text": "as allergy or sensitization, could result. Instances of this occurring are, however, extremely rare and xanthan gum is not listed as a known allergen or sensitizer for the general public. In fact, xanthan gum is notably used to replace grains or other sensitizers in products intended for individuals with sensitivities or allergies to grains. Xanthan gum is a \"highly efficient laxative,\" according to a study that fed 15 g/day for 10 days to 18 normal volunteers. This is not a dosage that would be encountered in normal consumption of foodstuffs. This study set out to examine the use of xanthan", "title": "Xanthan gum" }, { "docid": "4120328", "text": "first product (\"Snapping and Stretching\") was pure chicle with no flavoring, but sold well enough to encourage Adams in his plans. He began to experiment with flavorings, beginning with sarsaparilla. In 1884, he began adding licorice flavoring and called his invention Adams' Black Jack, the first flavored gum in the U.S. It was also the first gum to be offered in sticks. Black Jack Gum was sold well into the 1970s, when production ceased due to slow sales. It was re-introduced in October of 1986. American Chicle was purchased by the Warner-Lambert Company in 1962, which became part of Pfizer", "title": "Black Jack (gum)" }, { "docid": "9179577", "text": "it contains higher levels of elastomers or higher molecular weight polymers for this purpose. Gum bases for non-acid flavored gum use calcium carbonate as a filler, while gum bases for acid flavored gum use talc as a filler, since acids can react with calcium carbonate to produce Carbon Dioxide gas, which is undesirable. Bubble gum usually contains 15-20% gum base, while chewing gum contains 20-25% gum base and sugar-free chewing gum contains 25-30% gum base. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company are studying the possibility of making gum base with biodegradable zein", "title": "Gum base" }, { "docid": "6636953", "text": "Touring Car Championship team Motorbase Performance, running under the name Airwaves BMW. They are also the title sponsors of the Airwaves Plymouth Raiders, a professional basketball team, located in the company's base city of Plymouth, who compete in the British Basketball League. Late in 2008, Airwaves became the official chewing gum of the FIA World Rally Championship. Airwaves (gum) Airwaves is a brand of sugarfree chewing gum produced by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company and sold primarily in Europe and East Asia. The brand is marketed for its intense flavor similar to the effect one would get from the consumption", "title": "Airwaves (gum)" }, { "docid": "1989922", "text": "the end of the product’s shelf life, causing the exterior hard candy shell to soften and the interior gum center to harden. The physical and chemical properties of chewing gum impact all aspects of this product, from manufacturing to sensory perception during mastication. The polymers that make up the main component of chewing gum base are hydrophobic. This property is essential because it allows for retention of physical properties throughout the mastication process. Because the polymers of gum repel water, the water-based saliva system in a consumer’s mouth will dissolve the sugars and flavorings in chewing gum, but not the", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "5895091", "text": "manufacture gumballs and confectionery products in Canada. Ford Gum owns the trademark on \"Carousel\" and manufactures and distributes a complete line of bulk gumball products and toy gumball machines under Carousel brand. Ford is the first and only company to manufacture and distribute sugar free gumballs. Carousel gumballs come in a wide range of flavors, sizes and colors. Ford Gum also makes private label gum and mints. As of 2015, most of their gum products are certified Kosher by the BVK, the Buffalo Vaad HaKashrus under the direction of Rabbi Moshe Taub. Ford Gum acquired the rights to Big League", "title": "Ford Gum" }, { "docid": "11053982", "text": "Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (LBG, also known as carob gum, carob bean gum, carobin, E410) is a thickening agent and gelling agent used in food technology. Locust bean gum is a galactomannan vegetable gum extracted from the seeds of the carob tree, which is native to the Mediterranean region and nearly 75% were produced by Portugal, Italy, Spain and Morocco in 2016. The long pods that grow on the tree are used to make this gum. The pods are kibbled to separate the seed from the pulp. The seeds have their skins removed by an acid treatment. The", "title": "Locust bean gum" }, { "docid": "5065613", "text": "or long-term sense,\" said Christopher Perille, Wrigley's senior director of corporate communications. Chewing gum ban in Singapore The Singapore chewing gum ban has been in place since 1992. Since 2004, an exception has existed for therapeutic, dental, or nicotine chewing gum, which can be bought from a doctor or registered pharmacist. It is currently not illegal to chew gum in Singapore, merely to import it and sell it, apart from the aforementioned exceptions. Tourists visiting Singapore are allowed to bring in up to two packs of chewing gum per person. In his memoirs, Lee Kuan Yew said that in 1983,", "title": "Chewing gum ban in Singapore" }, { "docid": "7171999", "text": "Colin Stanley Gum Colin Stanley Gum (4 June 1924 – 29 April 1960) was an Australian astronomer who catalogued emission nebulae in the southern sky at the Mount Stromlo Observatory using wide field photography. Gum published his findings in 1955 in a study entitled \"A study of diffuse southern H-alpha nebulae\" which presented a catalog, now known as the Gum catalog, of 85 nebulae or nebular complexes. Gum 12, a huge area of nebulosity in the direction of the constellations Puppis and Vela, was later named the Gum Nebula in his honour. Gum was part of the team, whose number", "title": "Colin Stanley Gum" }, { "docid": "8370361", "text": "which reserved gum-grounds for British subjects, and requiring all other diggers to be licensed. By 1910, only British subjects could hold gum-digging licences. Gum-digging was the major source of income for settlers in Northland, and farmers often worked the gumfields in the winter months to subsidise the poor income from their unbroken land. By the 1890s, 20,000 people were engaged in gum-digging, of which 7000 worked full-time. Gum-digging was not restricted to settlers or workers in the rural areas; Auckland families would cross the Waitematā Harbour by ferry at weekends to dig in the fields around Birkenhead, causing damage to", "title": "Kauri gum" }, { "docid": "6183660", "text": "1930). In 1937, Blony had 60 percent of the sales of bubble gum sold in the U.S., largely due to the fact that, weighing 210 grains, it was the largest piece of bubble gum sold for a penny. With the advertisement \"Three Big BITES for a penny\", Blony made Gum, Inc. \"the biggest firm in the U. S. catering exclusively to the penny gum trade\" according to a 1937 Time magazine article. By then, Gum, Inc. occupied five floors and the basement of a building on Woodland Avenue in Philadelphia. Blony gum came with color trading cards on various topics.", "title": "Bowman Gum" }, { "docid": "5895090", "text": "Reagan's family. In meeting Reagan he asked him to do a Public Service Announcement for Ford Gum, which Reagan voluntarily did on Conner's portable tape recorder. In 1985, Ford Gum was acquired by Leaf. Leaf's American operations were acquired by Hershey in 1996, and Ford Gum was subject to a management buyout the next year. Today, Ford Gum and Machine Co. is headquartered in Akron, NY and has a sales office in Buffalo Grove, IL. The company is the only large scale manufacturer of gumballs in the US. Their primary competitors, Tootsie Roll's Dubble Bubble and SweetWorks' Oak Leaf Confections,", "title": "Ford Gum" }, { "docid": "8370353", "text": "covered with soil and forest litter, eventually fossilising. Other lumps formed as branches forked or trees were damaged, which released the resin. The Māori had many uses for the gum, which they called \"kapia\". Fresh gum was used as a type of chewing gum (older gum was softened by soaking and mixing with juice of the puha thistle). Highly flammable, the gum was also used as a fire-starter, or bound in flax to act as a torch. Burnt and mixed with animal fat, it made a dark pigment for \"moko\" tattooing. Kauri gum was also crafted into jewellery, keepsakes, and", "title": "Kauri gum" }, { "docid": "8986272", "text": "the season, he scored the first in a 3–1 home win against Avaí; it was also his 300th appearance for the club. Gum (footballer) Welington Pereira Rodrigues (born 4 January 1986), commonly known as Gum, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Fluminense as a central defender. Born in São Paulo, Gum was a Marília youth graduate. He made his first team debut in 2005, with the side in Série B, and also had an unassuming loan spell at Osvaldo Cruz back in 2004. On 13 September 2006 Gum was loaned to Série A club Internacional, until July. After making", "title": "Gum (footballer)" }, { "docid": "5895089", "text": "Ford Gum Ford Gum is a brand of bubble gum and chewing gum often found in gum machines. It is produced by Ford Gum & Machine Co. The history of the company goes back to 1913, when Ford Mason leased 102 machines and placed them in stores and shops in New York City. The gumballs, while they are covered with different flavors, all have the same flavor under the surface. Ford Gum is also available in a square \"chiclet\" shape, with the same colors/flavors as the gumballs. In 1962, Thomas E. Conner, a Ford Gum manager, became acquainted with Nancy", "title": "Ford Gum" }, { "docid": "8986271", "text": "Gum was also an important unit during the club's 2009 Copa Sudamericana run, scoring a goal against Cerro Porteño which secured qualification to the final; he also scored the final goal in a 3–0 home win against LDU Quito in the second leg, as his side finished runners up (5-4 on aggregate). Gum was a first-choice during \"Flu's\" 2010 \"Brasileirão\" winning campaign, partnering Leandro Euzébio to form the best defence in the league. He was also an undisputed starter in 2012, winning another title. In January 2015 Gum signed a new four-year deal with Fluminense. In his last game of", "title": "Gum (footballer)" }, { "docid": "4407304", "text": "reformulated with aspartame in 1997. The brand identity of Extra gum varies considerably in different markets, often having completely different flavours, logos and slogans for each country. Extra is currently the sponsor of Mexico national team. In 2007, Extra became the first chewing gum to receive the American Dental Association and the British Dental Health Foundation's Seal of Acceptance. In 2011, Extra Oral Healthcare Program partnered with the Chinese Ministry of Health to launch a three-year community oral care education pilot program, which establishes community dental clinics, trains local dentists and establishes oral care records for 7,000 families across 14", "title": "Extra (gum)" }, { "docid": "1989917", "text": "the United States, demonstrating some examples of key gum base components. Table 3: Gum Base Ingredients Approved for Use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2016) First, gum base is previously prepared through a melting and straining or filtering process. The formulation for gum base is proprietary information known to few individuals within each gum-producing company. Next, other ingredients such as nutritive and non-nutritive sweeteners and flavors are added to the gum base until the warm mixture thickens like dough. The gum base mixture is heated during this mixing process in order to increase the entropy of the polymers", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "6374054", "text": "This, combined with the ear-pressure equalizing characteristics of chewing any type of gum, made Beemans a common sight in cockpits. The sporadic availability has led some aviators to buy it by the carton whenever possible. Beemans Chewing Gum no longer contains any pepsin. Beemans gum Beemans gum (originally Beeman's Gum, see image at right) is a chewing gum invented by Ohio physician Dr. Edward E. Beeman in the late 19th century. Beeman originally marketed the gum, which is made of pepsin powder and chicle, as an aid to digestion. It became a part of the American Chicle Company in 1898,", "title": "Beemans gum" }, { "docid": "1989913", "text": "creating small sticks of flavored chewing gum he named \"Taffy Tolu\". Colgan also lead the way in the manufacturing and packaging of chicle-based chewing gum, derived from \"Manilkara chicle\", a tropical evergreen tree. He licensed a patent for automatically cutting chips of chewing gum from larger sticks: US 966,160 \"Chewing Gum Chip Forming Machine\" August 2, 1910 and a patent for automatically cutting wrappers for sticks of chewing gum: US 913,352 \"Web-cutting attachment for wrapping-machines\" February 23, 1909 from Louisville, Kentucky inventor James Henry Brady, an employee of the Colgan Gum Company. Modern chewing gum was first developed in the", "title": "Chewing gum" }, { "docid": "8370354", "text": "small decorative items. Like amber, kauri gum sometimes includes insects and plant material. Kauri gum was used commercially in varnish, and can be considered a type of copal (the name given to resin used in such a way). Kauri gum was found to be particularly good for this, and from the mid-1840s was exported to London and America. Tentative exports had begun a few years earlier, however, for use in marine glue and as fire-kindlers; gum had even made up part of an export cargo to Australia in 1814. Since the kauri gum was found to mix more easily with", "title": "Kauri gum" }, { "docid": "16018151", "text": "Rev7 Gum Rev7 Gum is a chewing gum, which after chewing is to some extent removable and biodegradable. The idea behind the gum's composition was developed by Professor Terence Cosgrove at the University of Bristol and it was developed by the British company Revolymer. Rev7 is designed to be a low adhesive gum that, unlike conventional gum, can be easily removed from a variety of surfaces, and which degrades and disperses over a short time-scale when in contact with water. Conventional chewing gums use poly(styrene-co-butadiene) or poly(ethylene-co-vinylacetate). In contrast, Rev7 Gum contains an amphiphilic material, containing both hydrophobic (water repellent)", "title": "Rev7 Gum" }, { "docid": "8370358", "text": "the site of the original kauri forests. Initially, the gum was readily accessible, commonly found lying on the ground. Captain Cook reported the presence of resinous lumps on the beach at Mercury Bay, Coromandel, in 1769, although he suspected it came from the mangroves, and missionary Samuel Marsden spoke of their presence in Northland in 1819. By 1850, most of the surface-lying gum had been picked up, and people began digging for it. The hillsides yielded shallow-buried gum (about 1 m), but in the swamps and beaches, it was buried much further down (4 m or below). Gum-diggers were men", "title": "Kauri gum" }, { "docid": "16480084", "text": "\"Willingness to recommend\" is a key metric relating to customer satisfaction. Willingness to recommend is calculated as the percentage of surveyed customers who indicate that they would recommend a brand to friends, or as the average strength of their willingness if the survey allows for a range of degrees of willingness. The usual measures of willingness to recommend involve a survey with a set of statements using a Likert Technique or scale. The customer is asked to indicate how willing they are to make a recommendation (of a brand, service, etc.) to others. Their willingness is generally measured on a", "title": "Willingness to recommend" } ]
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Broadcast on live TV, what Dallas nightclub owner shot and killed total asshat Lee Harvey Oswald?
[ "Tom Howard (attorney)", "Jack Rubenstein", "Jack Ruby", "Jack Ruby and the Mafia", "Jack Leon Ruby", "Karen Bennett Carlin", "Jacob Leon Rubenstein", "Jacob Rubenstein", "Jack Leon Rubenstein" ]
[ { "docid": "232748", "text": "President traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. About 45 minutes after Oswald assassinated Kennedy, he shot and killed Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit on a local street. Oswald then slipped into a movie theater, where he was arrested for Tippit's murder. Oswald was eventually charged with the murder of Kennedy; he denied the accusations and stated that he was a \"patsy\". Two days later, Oswald was fatally shot by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters. In September 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone when", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "17184299", "text": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964 film) The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is a 1964 American film directed by Larry Buchanan. It is the first speculative trial drama to be produced about Lee Harvey Oswald only a few months after the assassination of John F. Kennedy along with the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald himself. The film was made in Dallas, and served as an idea of what the trial would have been like had it occurred, if Oswald hadn't been killed by Jack Ruby. In the film, the prosecution asserts Oswald committed the crime for political reasons", "title": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964 film)" }, { "docid": "4866437", "text": "remote unit that was loaned to WBAP-TV by KTVT management and set up at the Dallas Police Department's downtown headquarters, awaiting the transfer of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald (who shot both men from an upper-floor window at the Texas School Book Depository overlooking Elm Street) to the Dallas County Jail, fed live images of the accused Presidential assassin being gunned down by nightclub owner Jack Ruby to the NBC network; it marked the first time that a murder had been witnessed live on U.S. network television. The station's coverage of the Kennedy assassination and his visit to Texas during which", "title": "KXAS-TV" }, { "docid": "14387585", "text": "local underworld when the President was assassinated on November 22. Suspicions increased two days later when accused Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, then in the custody of the Dallas Police, was shot and mortally wounded in front of TV cameras by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Informant Bobby Gene Moore told the FBI what he knew about Ruby's many visits with Joseph Civello. During the Warren Commission probe into the Kennedy Assassination, further evidence surfaced of contacts between Ruby and Tampa Mob figures in Havana, Cuba. Ruby visited gambler Lewis J. McWillie in Havana in 1959, and one account suggested", "title": "Dallas crime family" }, { "docid": "17108884", "text": "Ruby and Oswald Ruby and Oswald is a 1978 American made-for-television drama film about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. It stars Michael Lerner and Frederic Forrest. Jack Ruby (Michael Lerner) is a warm-hearted and patriotic nightclub owner, who loves President Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald (Frederic Forrest), a troubled loner with a speckled past is looking to merely acquire fame. On November 22, Oswald kills the president. On the 24th, Ruby kills Oswald, being motivated exclusively by his love for the president. Journalist Jeremiah O'Leary witnessed Ruby's shooting of Oswald in the basement of Dallas Police headquarters on", "title": "Ruby and Oswald" }, { "docid": "232810", "text": "the weekend. Oswald also declined his brother Robert's offer on Saturday to obtain a local attorney. During an interrogation with Captain Fritz, when asked, \"Are you a communist?\", he replied, \"No, I am not a communist. I am a Marxist.\" On Sunday, November 24, detectives were escorting Oswald through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters toward an armored car that was to take him from the city jail (located on the fourth floor of police headquarters) to the nearby county jail. At 11:21 a.m. CST, Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby approached Oswald from the side of the crowd and shot", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "12174637", "text": "as a piece of entertainment\" and called it a \"sorry charade\". The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 film) The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is an American two-part television film shown on ABC in September 1977. The film stars Ben Gazzara, Lorne Greene and John Pleshette in the title role. It is an example of alternative history. The hypothesis is what might have happened if Lee Harvey Oswald had not been killed by Jack Ruby and had stood trial for the murder of President John F. Kennedy. The film opens sometime in 1964 and Oswald is in a maximum", "title": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 film)" }, { "docid": "12174630", "text": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 film) The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is an American two-part television film shown on ABC in September 1977. The film stars Ben Gazzara, Lorne Greene and John Pleshette in the title role. It is an example of alternative history. The hypothesis is what might have happened if Lee Harvey Oswald had not been killed by Jack Ruby and had stood trial for the murder of President John F. Kennedy. The film opens sometime in 1964 and Oswald is in a maximum security cage as a radio announcer tells how he has been", "title": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 film)" }, { "docid": "232813", "text": "1964, Robert H. Jackson of the \"Dallas Times Herald\" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his image of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. Ruby later said he had been distraught over Kennedy's death and that his motive for killing Oswald was \"saving Mrs. Kennedy the discomfiture of coming back to trial.\" Others have hypothesized that Ruby was part of a conspiracy. G. Robert Blakey, chief counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations from 1977 to 1979, said: \"The most plausible explanation for the murder of Oswald by Jack Ruby was that Ruby had", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "2323173", "text": "Oswald continued to maintain his innocence in connection with both murders. In the late morning of November 24, while being transported from the Dallas City Jail to the Dallas County Jail, Oswald was fatally shot in the abdomen by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. The shooting was broadcast throughout the United States and Canada on live television. As Oswald was killed before he was tried for either crime, President Lyndon B. Johnson commissioned a committee of U.S. Senators, Congressmen and elder statesmen to investigate the events surrounding the deaths of President Kennedy, Officer Tippit and Oswald in an effort to", "title": "J. D. Tippit" }, { "docid": "216766", "text": "Jack Ruby was on the boat.\" Blaney Mack Johnson, an FBI informant, said Ruby was \"active in arranging illegal flights of weapons from Miami\" to pro-Castro forces in Cuba in the early 1950s. Articles of clothing that Ruby wore when he killed Oswald — including his suit, hat and shoes — are on display at the Historic Auto Attractions museum in Roscoe, Illinois. Jack Ruby Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein; April 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967) was the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, while Oswald was in police", "title": "Jack Ruby" }, { "docid": "4132881", "text": "murder charge, reportedly on orders from someone in the White House.) On November 24, 1963, at 11:21 a.m. CST, before live television cameras, Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and mortally wounded in the basement of Dallas Police headquarters by a local nightclub owner with alleged mafia ties, Jack Ruby. Unconscious, Oswald was put into an ambulance and rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital where doctors tried to save the life of John F. Kennedy two days earlier. Oswald died at 1:07 pm. The state funeral took place in Washington, DC during the three days that followed the assassination.", "title": "Timeline of the John F. Kennedy assassination" }, { "docid": "17108885", "text": "November 24, 1963. In a review for \"The Washington Times\", O'Leary wrote: \"The actors and the director succeeded only in making a bore of a weekend that was as exciting as it was horrible.\" Ruby and Oswald Ruby and Oswald is a 1978 American made-for-television drama film about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. It stars Michael Lerner and Frederic Forrest. Jack Ruby (Michael Lerner) is a warm-hearted and patriotic nightclub owner, who loves President Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald (Frederic Forrest), a troubled loner with a speckled past is looking to merely acquire fame. On November 22, Oswald", "title": "Ruby and Oswald" }, { "docid": "216717", "text": "Jack Ruby Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein; April 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967) was the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, while Oswald was in police custody after being charged with assassinating U.S. President John F. Kennedy and the murder of Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit about an hour later. A Dallas jury found him guilty of murdering Oswald, and he was sentenced to death. Ruby's conviction was later appealed, and he was granted a new trial. However, on January 3, 1967, as the date for his new trial", "title": "Jack Ruby" }, { "docid": "6819461", "text": "Ruby (1992 film) Ruby is a feature film, released in the United States on March 27, 1992, about Jack Ruby, the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement garage of a Dallas city police station in 1963. The film was directed by John Mackenzie and stars Danny Aiello (as Ruby), Sherilyn Fenn (as Sheryl Ann DuJean a.k.a. Candy Cane), and Arliss Howard. It is based on a play written by British screenwriter Stephen Davis. \"Ruby\" was released three months after Oliver Stone's movie \"JFK\". The film begins with Jack Ruby saying, \"Lookin' back", "title": "Ruby (1992 film)" }, { "docid": "6819483", "text": "and ability to create a tortured and well-meaning character, but criticizing an overall lack of historical accuracy, which he felt affected the pace of the film. Vincent Canby of \"The New York Times\" wrote \"As crazy as it is, though, \"Ruby\" is almost rudely entertaining.\" Ruby (1992 film) Ruby is a feature film, released in the United States on March 27, 1992, about Jack Ruby, the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement garage of a Dallas city police station in 1963. The film was directed by John Mackenzie and stars Danny Aiello", "title": "Ruby (1992 film)" }, { "docid": "10561578", "text": "affairs correspondent until 1989, when he began a three-year stint in NBC's London office. He continued working as a correspondent until 1995, the year of his death. After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Pettit was dispatched to Dallas where he served, in effect, as a police reporter. In the famous footage of Lee Harvey Oswald being killed by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Pettit, standing six feet away, is heard exclaiming, \"He's been shot. He's been shot. Lee Harvey Oswald has been shot.\" NBC was the only network airing Oswald's transfer live. Pettit died after complications from surgery,", "title": "Tom Pettit" }, { "docid": "1981544", "text": "and forcibly restrained by the police. He was charged with the murders of President Kennedy and Officer Tippit later that night. Oswald denied shooting anyone and claimed he was a patsy who was arrested because he had lived in the Soviet Union. Oswald's case never came to trial. Two days after the assassination, as he was being escorted to a car in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters for the transfer from the city jail to the county jail, Oswald was fatally shot by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. The incident was broadcast live on American television at 11:21 a.m.", "title": "Assassination of John F. Kennedy" }, { "docid": "7489710", "text": "attorney for the National Labor Relations Board in 1951. He also worked at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's fingerprint department. As a lawyer in Austin, Texas from 1959 to 1979, Clinton was general counsel to the Texas AFL-CIO and the Texas Civil Liberties Union. He was able to get the guilty verdict against Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald on national television, reversed on appeal, based on procedural errors. A change of venue was asked for and granted and a new trial was set for February 1967, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Ruby, meanwhile, had died", "title": "Sam Houston Clinton" }, { "docid": "11224346", "text": "program. The school opened in 2003 and was started by Rabbis Eliyahu Kaufman and Shlomo Pacht. Later Rabbi Daniel Ringelheim joined the school. All three Rabbis are the Rosh Hayeshiva who obtained their ordination from the Rabbinical Seminary of America. Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, operated a nightclub in Dallas, but was a native of Chicago. History of the Jews in Dallas Dallas is one of the largest cities in Texas and has one of the largest Jewish communities in the state. German Jews arrived in Dallas as part of the mid-nineteenth century immigration to Texas from the", "title": "History of the Jews in Dallas" }, { "docid": "11229195", "text": "Don Yarborough and conservative John Connally. Traveling in a presidential motorcade through downtown Dallas with Jackie Kennedy, Connally, and Connally's wife, Nelly, Kennedy was shot in the head and neck. He was taken to Parkland Hospital for emergency medical treatment, but was pronounced dead at 1:00 pm. Hours after the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, an order filler at the Texas School Book Depository, was arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit, and was subsequently charged with Kennedy's assassination. Oswald denied the charges, but was killed by strip-club owner Jack Ruby on November 24. Ruby claimed to have", "title": "Presidency of John F. Kennedy" }, { "docid": "18117336", "text": "on November 22, 1963. On November 23 at the Texas School Book Depository where Lee Harvey Oswald had worked, Wise encountered Jack Ruby who expressed concern that Jackie Kennedy might be required to return to Dallas if Oswald were tried for Kennedy's murder. Wise was present in the Dallas Municipal Building when Oswald was shot dead. Wise testified as a witness for both the defense and the prosecution at Jack Ruby's trial for the murder of Oswald. Wise is a co-author of the 2004 memoir \"When the News Went Live: Dallas 1963\". Of Dallas during Kennedy's visit, Wise has said,", "title": "Wes Wise" }, { "docid": "8038364", "text": "shooting President John F. Kennedy and Dallas patrolman J. D. Tippit that day, Lee Harvey Oswald sneaked into this theater without paying. After box office cashier Julie Postal received a tip on Oswald from nearby shoe store employee John Brewer, she called Dallas Police. Despite attempting to shoot the arresting officer, Oswald was arrested before the movie ended. (Coincidentally, lead actor Baynes Barron was born on May 29, 1917—the same day as the fallen president.) Oswald was fatally shot two days later by club owner Jack Ruby while being transferred to another jail. War Is Hell (film) War is Hell", "title": "War Is Hell (film)" }, { "docid": "2753471", "text": "the Dallas County Courthouse. Wade lost the opportunity to try Lee Harvey Oswald for Kennedy's murder when a Dallas nightclub operator, Jack Ruby, shot the suspect just two days later, but he became known nationally for prosecuting Ruby for Oswald's murder. Wade closely supervised the Ruby trial, but he appointed his assistant, William Alexander, to conduct the courtroom proceedings. Wade and Alexander confronted Ruby's lawyers, famed trial lawyer Melvin Belli and Texas counsellor Joe Tonahill, in a lengthy trial that concluded on March 14, 1964, with a verdict for Ruby of \"guilty of murder with malice.\" The jury had deliberated", "title": "Henry Wade" }, { "docid": "4890632", "text": "from an official at Parkland Hospital; Barker's scoop appeared live simultaneously on CBS and ABC as a result of a local press pool arrangement. Many local and national news organizations such as Dallas station WFAA-TV and CBS News provided continuous coverage of the events and aftermath for five days. The November 24, 1963 assassination of Kennedy's accused killer Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby was fed to NBC by a remote unit on loan to its Dallas affiliate WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV) from competitor KTVT, and was the first murder to have been witnessed live on U.S. network television. The coverage", "title": "News broadcasting" }, { "docid": "1981508", "text": "shooting; Connally recovered from his injuries. Oswald was arrested by the Dallas Police Department 70 minutes after the initial shooting. Oswald was charged under Texas state law with the murder of Kennedy as well as that of Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit, who had been fatally shot a short time after the assassination. At 11:21 a.m. Sunday, November 24, 1963, as live television cameras covered his transfer to the Dallas County Jail, Oswald was fatally shot in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby. Oswald was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital where he soon died.", "title": "Assassination of John F. Kennedy" }, { "docid": "9736214", "text": "Tom Reavley in the Democratic primary. He was reelected in 1964, as all statewide Republican candidates in Texas were again defeated in the Johnson-Humphrey landslide. As attorney general, he was involved in the prosecutions of swindler Billie Sol Estes of Pecos, and Jack Ruby, or Jack Rubenstein, the Dallas nightclub owner who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. On the morning of November 22, 1963, Carr and his wife, the former Ernestine Story (born April 22, 1920, in Wylie), were among the dignitaries who ate breakfast with President and Mrs. Kennedy in Fort Worth.", "title": "Waggoner Carr" }, { "docid": "18104523", "text": "with the American Civil Liberties Union. Nichols asked Oswald if he wanted him or a Dallas lawyer to represent him. Oswald stated \"No, not right now.\" Nichols then left Oswald to be alone in his cell and departed from the Dallas Police station. Nichols' visit with Oswald lasted approximately two minutes. Oswald was killed the next day by Jack Ruby. H. Louis Nichols H. Louis Nichols (November 7, 1916 – April 25, 2010) was an attorney who resided in Dallas, Texas. He is the only known attorney who visited Lee Harvey Oswald, while Oswald was in custody by the Dallas", "title": "H. Louis Nichols" }, { "docid": "3475839", "text": "he encounters numerous groups and persons that could have led or been part of the conspiracy. One is Lola Camonte, a hostess, lobbyist and fixer. She recounts the story of President Kegan asking her about appointing a member of organized crime to the Court of St. James. The character \"Joe Diamond\" is the fictional representation of the killer of Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, the Mob-connected Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Condon's book describes numerous intertwined threads, variously implicating (or proffered as diversions to put the protagonist off the trail) the Jewish/Italian-American Mob, figures related to Cuba, even possible", "title": "Winter Kills" }, { "docid": "7210239", "text": "praise ended two days later when Oswald was shot by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while he was being transferred from the basement of the Dallas Police station to the county jail. Curry had allowed journalists and camera men into the area to witness the transfer in an effort to quell rumors that Oswald was being mistreated while in police custody. Curry was later criticized and sometimes blamed for compromising Oswald's safety and allowing him to be killed \"in the basement of his [Curry's] own building.\" After President Kennedy's assassination, Curry and his family received death and kidnapping threats. Curry was", "title": "Jesse Curry" } ]
[ { "docid": "232747", "text": "Lee Harvey Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was an American Marxist and former U.S. Marine who assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Oswald was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps and defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959. He lived in the Belarusian city of Minsk until June 1962, when he returned to the United States with his Russian wife, Marina, and eventually settled in Dallas. Five government investigations concluded that Oswald shot and killed Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository as the", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "19205302", "text": "to four minutes and left on foot. Shortly thereafter, Oswald was confronted by Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit near the intersection of 10th and Patton. After exchanging a few words, Oswald fatally shot Officer Tippit and was later arrested a short time later at the Texas Theater. Lee Harvey Oswald Rooming House The house at 1026 N. Beckley in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, TX, was the temporary residence of Lee Harvey Oswald at the time of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Oswald rented a room here for $8 a week, beginning October 14, 1963, under the name O.H.", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald Rooming House" }, { "docid": "232827", "text": "trial of Clay Shaw began in January 1969 in Orleans Parish Criminal Court. The jury acquitted Shaw. Several films have fictionalized a trial of Oswald, depicting what may have happened had Ruby not killed Oswald. \"The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald\" (1964); \"The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald\" (1977); and \"On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald\" (1986) have imagined such a trial. In 1988, a 21-hour unscripted mock trial was held on television, argued by lawyers before a judge, with unscripted testimony from surviving witnesses to the events surrounding the assassination; the jury returned a verdict of guilty. In 1992 the", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232811", "text": "him once in the abdomen at close range. As the shot rang out, a police detective suddenly recognized Ruby and exclaimed: \"Jack, you son of a bitch!\" An unconscious Oswald was taken by ambulance to Parkland Memorial Hospital—the same hospital where Kennedy was pronounced dead two days earlier. Oswald died at 1:07 p.m; Dallas police chief Jesse Curry announced his death on a TV news broadcast. At 2:45 p.m. the same day, an autopsy was performed on Oswald in the Office of the County Medical Examiner. Dallas County medical examiner Earl Rose announced the results of the gross autopsy: \"The", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "19205300", "text": "Lee Harvey Oswald Rooming House The house at 1026 N. Beckley in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, TX, was the temporary residence of Lee Harvey Oswald at the time of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Oswald rented a room here for $8 a week, beginning October 14, 1963, under the name O.H. Lee The building is approximately 2 miles from the Texas School Book Depository where Oswald began working on October 16. Built in 1935, the three-bedroom home was bought by Mrs. Gladys Johnson in 1943. It is currently owned by Mrs. Johnson's granddaughter, Patricia Hall, who has opened", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald Rooming House" }, { "docid": "17184300", "text": "due to his Marxist beliefs, while Oswald's attorney presents an insanity defense, claiming he suffered from untreated paranoid schizophrenia since adolescence. Since the viewer acts as a juror, no verdict is given. Dallas criminal defense attorney Charles W. Tessmer appears after the film to summarize its contents and encourages viewers to debate among themselves. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964 film) The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is a 1964 American film directed by Larry Buchanan. It is the first speculative trial drama to be produced about Lee Harvey Oswald only a few months after the assassination of John", "title": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964 film)" }, { "docid": "232828", "text": "American Bar Association conducted two mock Oswald trials. The first trial ended in a hung jury. In the second trial the jury acquitted Oswald. Lee Harvey Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was an American Marxist and former U.S. Marine who assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Oswald was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps and defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959. He lived in the Belarusian city of Minsk until June 1962, when he returned to the United States with his Russian wife, Marina, and eventually settled", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232788", "text": "a warning. I will blow up the FBI and the Dallas Police Department if you don't stop bothering my wife\" [signed] \"Lee Harvey Oswald.\" The note allegedly contained some sort of threat, but accounts vary as to whether Oswald threatened to \"blow up the FBI\" or merely \"report this to higher authorities\". According to Hosty, the note said, \"If you have anything you want to learn about me, come talk to me directly. If you don't cease bothering my wife, I will take the appropriate action and report this to the proper authorities.\" Agent Hosty said that he destroyed Oswald's", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232774", "text": "in a mental institution on orders from President Kennedy's brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, but a grand jury refused to indict him. Marina Oswald testified that her husband told her that he traveled by bus to General Walker's house and shot at Walker with his rifle. She said that Oswald considered Walker to be the leader of a \"fascist organization.\" A note Oswald left for Marina on the night of the attempt, telling her what to do if he did not return, was not found until ten days after the Kennedy assassination. Before the Kennedy assassination, Dallas police had no", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "12006822", "text": "Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald is a 1993 television film directed by Robert Dornhelm and starring Helena Bonham Carter and Frank Whaley. David L. Wolper was the film's executive producer and it was co-produced by the screenwriter Steve Bello. The story focuses on Marina Oswald (Helena Bonham Carter), the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald. Barely able to speak English, she is thrust into questioning by David Lifton (Robert Picardo). It portrays deep sadness, and explores the story of a woman ending up alone in a foreign country, subjected to considerable shunning, even after", "title": "Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "12006823", "text": "her remarriage. The story is based on the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President Kennedy. Via flashbacks, the story traces the woman's life from her days in the Soviet Union, the turmoil following the assassination, raising her family, and coming to grips with the fact that, she too, may have been a pawn in a grand conspiracy. Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald is a 1993 television film directed by Robert Dornhelm and starring Helena Bonham Carter and Frank Whaley. David L. Wolper was the film's executive producer and it", "title": "Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232750", "text": "Robert E. Lee and served in the Marines during World War I. Robert died of a heart attack two months before Lee was born. Lee's elder brother Robert, Jr. (1934–2017) was also a former Marine. Through Marguerite's first marriage to Edward John Pic, Jr., Lee and Robert Jr. were the half-brothers of Air Force veteran John Edward Pic (1932–2000). In 1944, Marguerite moved the family from New Orleans to Dallas, Texas. Oswald entered the first grade in 1945 and over the next half-dozen years attended several different schools in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas through the sixth grade. Oswald", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232769", "text": "they married less than six weeks later in April. The Oswalds' first child, June, was born on February 15, 1962. On May 24, 1962, Oswald and Marina applied at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow for documents that enabled her to immigrate to the U.S. On June 1, the U.S. Embassy gave Oswald a repatriation loan of $435.71. Oswald, Marina, and their infant daughter left for the United States, where they received less attention from the press than Oswald expected, much to his disappointment. The Oswalds soon settled in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, where Lee's mother and brother lived. Lee began", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "19587998", "text": "find a permanent home.\" Oswald moved twenty times by the time he was 17 years old. The longest he lived anywhere was four years in Fort Worth, Texas. The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union is a 2013 book by Peter Savodnik, published by Basic Books. The book focuses on the nearly three years Lee Harvey Oswald spent in the Soviet Union. Savodnik attempts to figure out the motives behind Oswald killing John F. Kennedy. Savodnik calls Oswald an interloper, someone who flees \"from his old life and [inserts]", "title": "The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union" }, { "docid": "19587997", "text": "The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union is a 2013 book by Peter Savodnik, published by Basic Books. The book focuses on the nearly three years Lee Harvey Oswald spent in the Soviet Union. Savodnik attempts to figure out the motives behind Oswald killing John F. Kennedy. Savodnik calls Oswald an interloper, someone who flees \"from his old life and [inserts] himself into a new one adorned with new people and a new landscape and a new language or accent - with the hope that this time he might", "title": "The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union" }, { "docid": "232786", "text": "that her neighbor told her, on October 14, that there was a job opening at the Texas School Book Depository, where her neighbor's brother, Wesley Frazier, worked. Mrs. Paine informed Oswald, who was interviewed at the depository and was hired there on October 16 as a $1.25 an hour minimum wage order filler. Oswald's supervisor, Roy S. Truly (1907–1985), said that Oswald \"did a good day's work\" and was an above-average employee. During the week, Oswald stayed in a Dallas rooming house under the name \"O.H. Lee\", but he spent his weekends with Marina at the Paine home in Irving.", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232749", "text": "he assassinated Kennedy by firing three shots from the Texas School Book Depository. This conclusion, though controversial, was supported by previous investigations from the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Dallas Police Department. Despite forensic, ballistic, and eyewitness evidence that supports the official findings, public opinion polls have shown that most Americans do not believe the official version of the events. The assassination has spawned numerous conspiracy theories. Oswald was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1939, to Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. (1896–1939) and Marguerite Frances Claverie (1907–1981). Robert Oswald was a distant cousin of Confederate general", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232798", "text": "he had entered earlier. As Oswald left, Roberts looked out of the window of her house and last saw him standing at the northbound Beckley Avenue bus stop in front of her house. The Warren Commission concluded that at approximately 1:15 p.m., Dallas Patrolman J. D. Tippit drove up in his patrol car alongside Oswald—presumably because Oswald resembled the police broadcast description of the man seen by witness Howard Brennan who fired shots at the presidential motorcade. He encountered Oswald near the corner of East 10th Street and North Patton Avenue. This location is about nine-tenths of a mile (1.4", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "12174635", "text": "weapon and a money order buying the Mannlicher-Carcano which killed Kennedy. Oswald merely says the evidence is faked. The prosecutor applies an unusual method of cross examination by mentioning an argument Oswald and Marina had the night before the assassination when Marina wanted to watch JFK on TV and Lee kept turning the set off over and over. Roberts demands \"Isn't that why you decided to kill President John F. Kennedy, because Marina wanted to watch him on TV?\" In his only display of emotion during the trial Oswald screams a denial. When Roberts points this out, Oswald responds that", "title": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 film)" }, { "docid": "19205301", "text": "the home to the public and offers tours. Beginning October 14, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald rented a small room in the Johnson house for $8 a week. He slept there on weeknights, and went back on weekends to suburban Irving, Texas, to be with his wife. On the date of the assassination, November 22, Oswald returned to his room immediately after shooting President John F. Kennedy from a sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. According to housekeeper Earlene Roberts, Oswald entered the home in a \"hurry\", grabbed a light jacket and remained in the home only three", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald Rooming House" }, { "docid": "232799", "text": "km) southeast of Oswald's rooming house—a distance that the Warren Commission concluded \"Oswald could have easily walked.\" Tippit pulled alongside Oswald and \"apparently exchanged words with [him] through the right front or vent window.\" \"Shortly after 1:15 p.m.\", Tippit exited his car. Oswald immediately fired his pistol and killed the policeman with four shots. Numerous witnesses heard the shots and saw Oswald flee the scene holding a revolver; nine positively identified him as the man who shot Tippit and fled. Four cartridge cases found at the scene were identified by expert witnesses before the Warren Commission and the House Select", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232787", "text": "Oswald did not drive a car, but he commuted to and from Dallas on Mondays and Fridays with his co-worker Wesley Frazier. On October 20 (a month before the assassination), the Oswalds' second daughter, Audrey, was born. FBI agents twice visited the Paine home in early November, when Oswald was not present, and spoke to Mrs. Paine. Oswald visited the Dallas FBI office about 2 to 3 weeks before the assassination, asking to see Special Agent James P. Hosty. When he was told that Hosty was unavailable, Oswald left a note that, according to the receptionist, read: \"Let this be", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "4660978", "text": "Market Center, the largest wholesale trade complex in the world. The same year, the Dallas Memorial Auditorium (now the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center) opened near Canton and Akard Streets in what is now the Convention Center District of downtown. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Elm Street while his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. The upper two floors of the building from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy, the Texas School Book Depository, have been converted into a historical museum covering the former president's life and accomplishments. In the late 1970s", "title": "History of Dallas" }, { "docid": "232804", "text": "yet been arraigned in Kennedy's death—answered, \"No, I have not been charged with that. In fact, nobody has said that to me yet. The first thing I heard about it was when the newspaper reporters in the hall asked me that question.\" As he was led from the room the question was called out, \"What did you do in Russia?\" and, \"How did you hurt your eye?\"; Oswald answered, \"A policeman hit me.\" Oswald was interrogated several times during his two days at Dallas Police Headquarters. He admitted that he went to his rooming house after leaving the book depository.", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "9549841", "text": "I believe that I could identify this man if I ever saw him again.\" A description of the suspect was broadcast to all Dallas police at 12:45 p.m., 12:48 p.m., and 12:55 p.m. At about 1:10 p.m., Patrolman J. D. Tippit was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald after Tippit spotted him walking along a sidewalk and stopped to speak to him. After the Tippit shooting, a description of Oswald came out, and it was noticed that the description of the man who shot the police officer was very similar to the description given after the president was shot.", "title": "Howard Brennan" }, { "docid": "10388667", "text": "\"Officer of the Year\". In May 2003, Officer Stone's contributions to the history of the department were chosen to be included in a series of bronze plaques, created by New York artist Greg Lefevre, that were installed at the entrance to the newly constructed Dallas Police Headquarters building. According to The Officer Down Memorial Page, between 1892 and 2016, 84 members of the Dallas Police Department died in the line of duty. The best-known instance was the murder of Officer J. D. Tippit allegedly by Lee Harvey Oswald, approximately 40 minutes after Oswald allegedly shot President John F. Kennedy on", "title": "Dallas Police Department" }, { "docid": "646765", "text": "Dallas by factors including the American Dream, better living conditions, and the Mexican Revolution. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Elm Street while his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Downtown Dallas. The upper two floors of the building from which alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy, the Texas School Book Depository, have been converted into a historical museum covering the former president's life and accomplishments. On July 7, 2016, multiple shots were fired at a peaceful protest in Downtown Dallas, held against the police killings of two black men from other states. The", "title": "Dallas" }, { "docid": "10061086", "text": "the first shot in Dallas, and becomes obsessed with defeating a young man who has resolved to become a new assassin on the same level as Lee Harvey Oswald or John Wilkes Booth. The 1993 TV movie \"\" is a biopic about Marina Oswald Porter, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald. The \"X-Files\" episode \"Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man\" (1996) places a young cigarette smoking man as the assassin, shooting from a sewer drain located near the grassy knoll after setting up Oswald as his patsy. He also assassinates Martin Luther King Jr. while framing James Earl Ray in", "title": "Assassination of John F. Kennedy in popular culture" }, { "docid": "232785", "text": "Cuban and Soviet consulates, questions regarding whether someone posing as Oswald had appeared at the embassies were serious enough to be investigated by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Later, the Committee agreed with the Warren Commission that Oswald had visited Mexico City and concluded that \"the majority of evidence tends to indicate\" that Oswald in fact visited the consulates, but the Committee could not rule out the possibility that someone else had used his name in visiting the consulates. On October 2, 1963, Oswald left Mexico City by bus and arrived in Dallas the next day. Ruth Paine said", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232772", "text": "Oswald reading a Russian-language publication. Oswald was fired almost 6 months later, on the first week of April 1963. In March 1963, Oswald used the alias \"A. Hidell\" to make a mail-order purchase of a secondhand 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle for $29.95. He also purchased a .38 Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver by the same method. On April 10, 1963, Oswald attempted to kill retired U.S. Major General Edwin Walker. He fired the Carcano rifle at Walker through a window from less than away as Walker sat at a desk in his Dallas home. The bullet struck the", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232809", "text": "went downstairs where he encountered Dallas motorcycle policeman Marrion L. Baker. Oswald asked for legal representation several times while being interrogated, and he also asked for assistance during encounters with reporters. When H. Louis Nichols, President of the Dallas Bar Association, met with him in his cell on Saturday, he declined their services, saying he wanted to be represented by John Abt, chief counsel to the Communist Party USA, or by lawyers associated with the American Civil Liberties Union. Both Oswald and Ruth Paine tried to reach Abt by telephone several times Saturday and Sunday, but Abt was away for", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232794", "text": "a shot come from above and looked up to see a man with a rifle fire another shot from the southeast corner window on the sixth floor. He said he had seen the same man minutes earlier looking through the window. Brennan gave a description of the shooter, and Dallas police subsequently broadcast descriptions between 12:45 p.m., 12:48 p.m., and 12:55 p.m. After the second shot was fired, Brennan recalled, \"This man I saw previous[ly] was aiming for his last shot ... and maybe paused for another second as though to assure himself that he had hit his mark.\" According", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232789", "text": "note on orders from his superior, Gordon Shanklin, after Oswald was named the suspect in the Kennedy assassination. In the days before Kennedy's arrival, several local newspapers published the route of the presidential motorcade, which passed the Texas School Book Depository. On November 21 (a Thursday), Oswald asked Frazier for an unusual mid-week lift back to Irving, saying he had to pick up some curtain rods. The next morning (the day of the assassination), he returned to Dallas with Frazier. He left behind $170 and his wedding ring, but took a large paper bag with him. Frazier reported that Oswald", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232777", "text": "wife Jeanne was asked about Oswald's reaction, she said, \"I didn't notice anything\"; she continued, \"we started laughing our heads off, big joke, big George's joke.\" Jeanne de Mohrenschildt testified that this was the last time she or her husband ever saw the Oswalds. Oswald returned to New Orleans on April 24, 1963. Marina's friend Ruth Paine drove her by car from Dallas to join Oswald in New Orleans the following month. On May 10, Oswald was hired by the Reily Coffee Company as a machinery greaser. He was fired in July \"because his work was not satisfactory and because", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232806", "text": "shown a forged Selective Service System card bearing his photograph and the alias, \"Alek James Hidell\" that he had in his possession at the time of his arrest. Oswald refused to answer any questions concerning the card, saying \"you have the card yourself and you know as much about it as I do.\" FBI Special Agent James P. Hosty and Dallas Police Captain Will Fritz (chief of homicide) conducted the first interrogation of Oswald on Friday, November 22. When Oswald was asked to account for himself at the time of the assassination, he replied that he was eating his lunch", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232779", "text": "from the very beginning.\" On May 29, Oswald ordered the following items from a local printer: 500 application forms, 300 membership cards, and 1,000 leaflets with the heading, \"Hands Off Cuba\". According to Lee Oswald's wife Marina, Lee told her to sign the name \"A.J. Hidell\" as chapter president on his membership card. According to anti-Castro militant Carlos Bringuier, Oswald visited him on August 5 and 6 at a store he owned in New Orleans. Bringuier was the New Orleans delegate for the anti-Castro organization Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil (DRE). Bringuier would later tell the Warren Commission that he believed Oswald's", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "10529457", "text": "Harvey Emerson Oswald Harvey Emerson Oswald, born in Columbus, Ohio, September 11, 1918, enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve in April 1938. Discharged from the reserve at his own request August 3, 1939, he enlisted in the U. S. Navy the same day. Assigned the following December to USS William B. Preston (DD-344) as a Machinist Mate, Second Class, he was killed when that ship came under Japanese aerial attack at Darwin, Australia, February 19, 1942. For his prompt and courageous manning of a .50 caliber PBY airplane machine gun, he was posthumously awarded the Silver Star. USS Oswald (DE-767)", "title": "Harvey Emerson Oswald" }, { "docid": "12174636", "text": "any person would react that way if someone pries into their personal lives. The film then ends as it began with the prisoner being led back into the courtroom. Dallas Police Detective Jim Leavelle made a brief cameo appearance playing himself in this scene. Oswald is then shot and killed by Ruby in an eerie return to reality. It flashes on the screen that the makers of the film cannot provide the role of a jury and the final verdict is ours alone. In a critical review for \"The Washington Post\", Tom Shales wrote that the film \"is beyond reprehensible", "title": "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 film)" }, { "docid": "232796", "text": "breath.\" Truly said that Oswald look \"startled\" when Baker pointed his gun directly at him. Mrs. Robert Reid—a clerical supervisor at the depository who returned to her office within two minutes after the shooting—said that she saw Oswald \"was very calm\" on the second floor with a coke in his hands. As they walked past each other, Mrs. Reid said to Oswald, \"The President has been shot\" to which he mumbled something in response, but Reid did not understand him. Oswald was believed to have left the depository through the front entrance just before police sealed it off. Truly later", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232781", "text": "Hidell. In fact, Oswald was the branch's only member and it had never been chartered by the national organization. A week later, on August 16, Oswald again passed out Fair Play for Cuba leaflets with two hired helpers, this time in front of the International Trade Mart. The incident was filmed by WDSU, a local TV station. The next day, Oswald was interviewed by WDSU radio commentator William Stuckey, who probed Oswald's background. A few days later, Oswald accepted Stuckey's invitation to take part in a radio debate with Carlos Bringuier and Bringuier's associate Edward Scannell Butler, head of the", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232824", "text": "back. Also in English were added in script: \"To my friend George, Lee Oswald, 5/IV/63 [April 5, 1963].\" Handwriting experts for the HSCA concluded the English inscription and signature were by Oswald. After two original photos, one negative and one first-generation copy had been found, the Senate Intelligence Committee located (in 1976) a third backyard photo (CE 133-C) showing Oswald with newspapers held away from his body in his right hand. These photos, widely recognized as some of the most significant evidence against Oswald, have been subjected to rigorous analysis. Photographic experts consulted by the HSCA concluded they were genuine,", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "938717", "text": "with the responsibility for providing acute medical care for citizens who otherwise would not receive adequate medical services. The Parkland Health & Hospital System (Dallas County Hospital District) operates the Parkland Memorial Hospital and various health centers. The Commissioners Court meets the first and third Tuesday at the Commissioners Courtroom located in the Dallas County Administration Building at 411 Elm St., corner of Elm and Houston streets. The building was the headquarters of the Texas School Book Depository Company until 1970. Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy from a window located on the sixth floor which today", "title": "Dallas County, Texas" }, { "docid": "16631822", "text": "Dallas (1978 TV series) (season 10) The tenth season of the television series \"Dallas\" aired on CBS during the 1986–87 TV season. In alphabetical order: Longtime major guest star William Smithers (Jeremy Wendell) continues to appear, and Derek McGrath (Oswald Valentine) and Jonathan Goldsmith (Bruce Harvey) both join the cast. Additionally, Hunter von Leer (B.D. Calhoun), J.A. Preston (Leo Daltry), Jim McMullan (Andrew Dowling), Josef Rainer (Mr. Barton), Karen Carlson (Nancy Scotfield) and Frederick Coffin (Alfred Simpson) all join the series for major story arcs, although they won't return for later seasons. For the second year in a row, \"Dallas\"'", "title": "Dallas (1978 TV series) (season 10)" }, { "docid": "232776", "text": "that on April 14, 1963, just before Easter Sunday, they were visiting the Oswalds at their new apartment and had brought them a toy Easter bunny to give to their child. As Oswald's wife Marina was showing Jeanne around the apartment, they discovered Oswald's rifle standing upright, leaning against the wall inside a closet. Jeanne told George that Oswald had a rifle, and George joked to Oswald, \"Were you the one who took a pot-shot at General Walker?\" When asked about Oswald's reaction to this question, George de Mohrenschildt told the Warren Commission that Oswald \"smiled at that.\" When George's", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232771", "text": "to tell the Warren Commission that Oswald had a \"remarkable fluency in Russian.\" Marina, meanwhile, befriended Ruth Paine, a Quaker who was trying to learn Russian, and her husband Michael Paine, who worked for Bell Helicopter. In July 1962, Oswald was hired by the Leslie Welding Company in Dallas; he disliked the work and quit after three months. On October 12, he started working for the graphic-arts firm of Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall as a photoprint trainee. A fellow employee at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall testified that Oswald's rudeness at his new job was such that fights threatened to break out, and that he once saw", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232782", "text": "right-wing Information Council of the Americas (INCA). Marina's friend Ruth Paine transported Marina and her child by car from New Orleans to the Paine home in Irving, Texas, near Dallas, on September 23, 1963. Oswald stayed in New Orleans at least two more days to collect a $33 unemployment check. It is uncertain when he left New Orleans; he is next known to have boarded a bus in Houston on September 26—bound for the Mexican border, rather than Dallas—and to have told other bus passengers that he planned to travel to Cuba via Mexico. He arrived in Mexico City on", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232752", "text": "Oswald attended seventh grade in the Bronx, New York, but was often truant, which led to a psychiatric assessment at a juvenile reformatory. The reformatory psychiatrist, Dr. Renatus Hartogs, described Oswald as immersed in a \"vivid fantasy life, turning around the topics of omnipotence and power, through which [Oswald] tries to compensate for his present shortcomings and frustrations.\" Dr. Hartogs detected a \"personality pattern disturbance with schizoid features and passive-aggressive tendencies\" and recommended continued treatment. In January 1954, Marguerite returned to New Orleans and took Lee with her. At the time, there was a question pending before a New York", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "8193045", "text": "eight spent rounds in his pocket, as well as 70 unspent blank rounds for the gun. The names \"Lee Harvey\" and \"Osvaldo\" (Osvaldo is the Spanish equivalent to \"Oswald\") drew comparisons to Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated President John F. Kennedy. This led conspiracy theorists to claim that the incident was set up to scare Carter into submission. Although originally dismissed as \"a tale spun by an intoxicated man,\" police investigating the claims found a room in the Alan Hotel rented under the name \"Umberto Camacho,\" the name of an alleged conspirator given by Ortiz, containing a shotgun case and", "title": "Raymond Lee Harvey" }, { "docid": "232764", "text": "his diary because he wished to kill himself in a way that would shock her. Delaying Oswald's departure because of his self-inflicted injury, the Soviets kept him in a Moscow hospital under psychiatric observation until October 28, 1959. According to Oswald, he met with four more Soviet officials that same day, who asked if he wanted to return to the United States. Oswald replied by insisting that he wanted to live in the Soviet Union as a Soviet national. When pressed for identification papers, he provided his Marine Corps discharge papers. On October 31, Oswald appeared at the United States", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232826", "text": "Gallup Poll taken in mid-November 2013, showed 61% believed that Kennedy was killed as a result of conspiracy, and only 30% thought Oswald acted alone. Oswald was never prosecuted because he was murdered two days after the assassination. In March 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison arrested and charged New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw with conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy, with the help of Oswald, David Ferrie, and others. Garrison believed that the men were part of an arms smuggling ring supplying weapons to the anti-Castro Cubans in a conspiracy with elements of the CIA to kill Kennedy. The", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "232758", "text": "the military occupational specialty of Aviation Electronics Operator. On July 9, he reported to the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro then departed for Japan the following month, where he was assigned to Marine Air Control Squadron 1 at Naval Air Facility Atsugi near Tokyo. Like all marines, Oswald was trained and tested in shooting. In December 1956, he scored 212, which was slightly above the requirements for the designation of \"sharpshooter\". In May 1959 he scored 191, which reduced his rating to \"marksman\". Oswald was court-martialed after he accidentally shot himself in the elbow with an unauthorized .22 caliber", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "3421833", "text": "Ilya Prusakov, a colonel in the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, and to study pharmacy. Marina met Lee Harvey Oswald (a former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union) at a dance on March 17, 1961. They married six weeks later and had a daughter, June Lee, born the following year. In June 1962, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Dallas, Texas. At a party in February 1963, George de Mohrenschildt introduced the couple to Ruth Paine, a Quaker and Russian language student. In January 1963, Oswald ordered a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver", "title": "Marina Oswald Porter" }, { "docid": "4598343", "text": "call sign, effective May 15, 1978. The station was the starting point of John Peel's radio career. Peel, who later became a British disc jockey, notably covered the arraignment hearing of Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before Oswald was shot and killed. WRR (FM) WRR (101.1 MHz, \"Classical 101\") is a municipally-owned FM radio station in Dallas, Texas. It airs a classical music radio format. The station's studios are located in the Fair Park complex in South Dallas. The transmitter site is on West Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill. WRR operates with a maximum effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000", "title": "WRR (FM)" }, { "docid": "10529458", "text": "was named in his honor. The ship was laid down April 1, 1943 at the Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, Florida; launched April 25, 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Zola F. Oswald, mother of \"Harvey E. Oswald\", MM2/c; and commissioned June 12, 1944. Harvey Emerson Oswald Harvey Emerson Oswald, born in Columbus, Ohio, September 11, 1918, enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve in April 1938. Discharged from the reserve at his own request August 3, 1939, he enlisted in the U. S. Navy the same day. Assigned the following December to USS William B. Preston (DD-344) as a Machinist Mate, Second Class,", "title": "Harvey Emerson Oswald" }, { "docid": "963405", "text": "wife's life together with that of J.R. and Sue Ellen. The show's \"Who shot J.R.?\" storyline has been used to great effect in other drama series, most notably the BBC's \"EastEnders\" with the \"Who Shot Phil?\" Mitchell storyline, and more recently with the \"Who Killed Lucy Beale?\" storyline. In 1995, the animated series \"The Simpsons\" also had a \"Who Shot Mr. Burns?\" storyline. In 2013, \"TV Guide\" ranked \"Dallas\" at #47 on its list of the 60 Best Series of all time. Dallas (1978 TV series) Dallas is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from", "title": "Dallas (1978 TV series)" }, { "docid": "3464742", "text": "Texas School Book Depository The Texas School Book Depository, now known as the Dallas County Administration Building, is a seven-floor building facing Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, United States. The building is most notable as the vantage point of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. An employee, Lee Harvey Oswald, shot and killed Kennedy from a sixth floor window on the building's southeastern corner. The structure is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. It is located at 411 Elm Street on the northwest corner of Elm and North Houston Streets, at the western end of downtown Dallas.", "title": "Texas School Book Depository" }, { "docid": "646816", "text": "as well as non-Spanish highlights like sculptures by Rodin and Moore, have been so successful of a collaboration that the Prado and Meadows have agreed upon an extension of the partnership. The former Texas School Book Depository, from which, according to the Warren Commission Report, Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963, has served since the 1980s as a county government office building, except for its sixth and seventh floors, which house the Sixth Floor Museum. The American Museum of the Miniature Arts is at the Hall of State in Fair Park. The Arts District", "title": "Dallas" }, { "docid": "13184353", "text": "Archduke Ferdinand was shot dead by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip. On 31 October 1984 in New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister I. Gandhi was shot dead by her Sikh bodyguards. Almost 7 years later, her son R. Gandhi was killed by a Tamil suicide bomber. On 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas, US President Kennedy was shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald. Infamous Assassinations Infamous Assassinations was a 2007 British documentary television series about high-profile murders and attempted murders of public figures. The series was narrated by actor Robert Powell. It is currently being shown on Yesterday. On 1 July 1934", "title": "Infamous Assassinations" }, { "docid": "232807", "text": "in the first-floor lounge (known as the \"domino room\"). He said that he then went to the second-floor lunchroom to buy a Coca-Cola from the soda machine there and was drinking it when he encountered Dallas motorcycle policeman Marrion L. Baker, who had entered the building with his gun drawn. Oswald said that while he was in the domino room, he saw two \"Negro employees\" walking by, one he recognized as \"Junior\" and a shorter man whose name he could not recall. Junior Jarman and Harold Norman confirmed to the Warren Commission that they had \"walked through\" the domino room", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "15866829", "text": "in the Warren Commission report. Nonetheless, a majority of Americans polled indicated a belief in some sort of conspiracy. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by gunshot while traveling in a motorcade in an open-top limousine in Dallas, Texas at 12:30 pm CST on Friday, November 22, 1963; Texas Governor John Connally was wounded, but survived. Within two hours, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for killing Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit and arraigned that evening. Shortly after 1:30 am on Saturday, November 23, Oswald was arraigned for murdering President Kennedy as well. On Sunday, November 24, at 11:21 a.m., nightclub", "title": "John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories" }, { "docid": "232780", "text": "visits were an attempt by Oswald to infiltrate his group. On August 9, Oswald turned up in downtown New Orleans handing out pro-Castro leaflets. Bringuier confronted Oswald, claiming he was tipped off about Oswald's leafleting by a friend. A scuffle ensued and Oswald, Bringuier, and two of Bringuier's friends were arrested for disturbing the peace. Prior to leaving the police station, Oswald requested to speak with an FBI agent. Oswald stated that he was a member of the New Orleans branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee which he claimed had 35 members and was led by A. J.", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "11481797", "text": "Gus Russo Gus G. Russo (born 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American author and researcher of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Russo was part of a team of researchers that worked on the 1993 \"Frontline\" Lee Harvey Oswald documentary, \"Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?,\" for PBS. He is the author of \"Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK\", a book which states that Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed the president in retribution for Kennedy's policies toward Fidel Castro and Cuba. Russo has also written books about the Chicago Outfit and mob", "title": "Gus Russo" }, { "docid": "17852541", "text": "for Alt-J, WKBL flew straight to Berlin to record their full-length album. At Riverside Studios with acclaimed producer Victor Van Vugt (Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue...) the band produced their 11-track record \"Distant Rendezvous\" and kicked off their 100-concert 2016 album tour in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Their gig at the Crossroads Rock Festival in October 2016 was filmed by WDR Rockpalast in full length and broadcast on German national TV ARD in January 2017. Who Killed Bruce Lee Who Killed Bruce Lee is an alternative Lebanese Rock band currently based in Germany. The band was formed in Lebanon", "title": "Who Killed Bruce Lee" }, { "docid": "5251881", "text": "Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is located on the sixth floor of the Dallas County Administration Building (formerly the Texas School Book Depository) in downtown Dallas, Texas, overlooking Dealey Plaza at the intersection of Elm and Houston Streets. The museum examines the life, times, death, and legacy of President John F. Kennedy and is located at the very spot from which Lee Harvey Oswald, according to four government investigations, shot and killed the President on November 22, 1963. The museum's exhibition area uses historic films, photographs, artifacts, and interpretive displays to document", "title": "Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza" }, { "docid": "3421832", "text": "Marina Oswald Porter Marina Nikolayevna Oswald Porter (née Prusakova; ; born July 17, 1941) is the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. She married Oswald during his temporary defection to the Soviet Union and emigrated to the United States with him. She was not implicated in the assassination and remarried two years after Oswald's murder. Porter was born Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova in city of Molotovsk (now Severodvinsk), in Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russian SFSR. She lived there with her mother and stepfather until 1957, when she moved to Minsk to live with her uncle", "title": "Marina Oswald Porter" }, { "docid": "232791", "text": "and that he later saw Oswald reading a newspaper in the first floor domino room at 11:50 a.m. William Shelley, a foreman at the depository, also testified that he saw Oswald making a phone call on the first floor between 11:45 and 11:50 a.m. Janitor Eddie Piper also testified that he spoke to Oswald on the first floor at 12:00 p.m. Another co-worker, Bonnie Ray Williams, was eating his lunch on the sixth floor of the depository and was there until at least 12:10 p.m. He said that during that time, he did not see Oswald, or anyone else, on", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" }, { "docid": "2323160", "text": "J. D. Tippit J. D. Tippit (September 18, 1924 – November 22, 1963) was an American police officer who was an 11-year veteran with the Dallas Police Department. About 45 minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Tippit was shot dead in a residential neighborhood in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was initially arrested for the murder of Tippit and was subsequently arrested for the killing of President Kennedy. Oswald was charged with both crimes shortly after his arrest. However, Oswald denied involvement in either of the cases. Because Oswald", "title": "J. D. Tippit" }, { "docid": "6912685", "text": "HSCA tests proved conclusively that the claim was not accurate. In 1972 the Kennedy family chose John K. Lattimer, MD as the first nongovernmental expert to examine evidence taken at Kennedy's autopsy. Lattimer performed ballistic tests and other research to prove that Lee Harvey Oswald was likely the sniper who shot and killed President John F. Kennedy from the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. Dr. Lattimer frequently performed a demonstration of Oswald's shooting, firing three well-aimed shots within 8.3 seconds with Carcano M91/38 and under the same firing conditions. By doing so Dr. Lattimer intended to prove that Oswald", "title": "John F. Kennedy assassination rifle" }, { "docid": "8418448", "text": "bouncer at some of his Dallas night clubs. Turman was interviewed by the FBI soon after Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald in November 1963. Turman shared his opinions of Ruby and what he knew of Ruby's acquaintances in the Dallas Police Department. Turman had married and had a son in Dallas in the late fifties, and Turman began to seek work in films and television to support the family. First, he made a cameo appearance on an episode of \"Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse\" (1958) with Lucille Ball and Aldo Ray, and a few years later he appeared as a regular guest", "title": "Buddy Turman" }, { "docid": "232751", "text": "took an IQ test in the fourth grade and scored 103; \"on achievement tests in [grades 4 to 6], he twice did best in reading and twice did worst in spelling.\" As a child, Oswald was described as withdrawn and temperamental by several people who knew him. When Oswald was 12 in August 1952, his mother took him to New York City where they lived for a short time with Oswald's half-brother, John. Oswald and his mother were later asked to leave after an argument in which Oswald allegedly struck his mother and threatened John's wife with a pocket knife.", "title": "Lee Harvey Oswald" } ]
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George W. and George H. W. Bush were not the first father/son pair of presidents. Which two US presidents actually hold that honor?
[ "John Adams and John Quincy Adams" ]
[ { "docid": "10378793", "text": "as the country's 43rd president from 2001 to 2009. The Bushes were the second father and son pair to serve as president, following John Adams and John Quincy Adams. By December 2008, 60% of Americans gave George H. W. Bush's presidency a positive rating. In the 2010s, Bush was fondly remembered for his willingness to compromise, which contrasted with the intensely partisan era that followed his presidency. Polls of historians and political scientists have generally ranked Bush as an average president. A 2018 poll of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section ranked Bush as the 17th", "title": "Presidency of George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "150886", "text": "taxes. He lost the 1992 presidential election to Democrat Bill Clinton following an economic recession and the decreased importance of foreign policy in a post–Cold War political climate. After leaving office in 1993, Bush was active in humanitarian activities, often alongside Clinton, his former opponent. With George W. Bush's victory in the 2000 presidential election, Bush and his son became the second father–son pair to serve as President, following John Adams and John Quincy Adams. George Herbert Walker Bush was born at 173 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924 to Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy (Walker) Bush.", "title": "George H. W. Bush" } ]
[ { "docid": "151006", "text": "of Trump's policies and speaking style, while Trump frequently criticized George W. Bush's presidency. George H. W. Bush later said that he voted for the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, in the general election. After Trump won the election, Bush sent him a congratulatory message. On February 5, 2017, George and Barbara Bush participated in the coin toss for Super Bowl LI. On August 16, 2017, Bush and his son George W. released a joint statement in which they condemned the violence at the Unite the Right rally. On September 7, 2017, Bush partnered with former presidents Carter, Clinton, George W.", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "150947", "text": "Forum on Service hosted by former President George H. W. Bush and Points of Light at the George Bush Presidential Library Center on the campus of Texas A&M University. The event celebrated the contributions of more than 4,500 Daily Point of Light award winners and honored President Bush's legacy of service and civic engagement. In 2011, Points of Light paid tribute to President George H. W. Bush and volunteer service at Washington, D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. President Bush was joined by presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush to highlight the role volunteer", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "9370096", "text": "a ceremony which featured all living former U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and the incumbent U.S. President, Barack Obama. The library and museum are privately administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, while the university holds representation on the institute board. The project raised over $500 million for the construction and endowment of the George W. Bush presidential center. The previous time that George W. Bush (then the outgoing President), Obama (then the President-elect), former President Bill Clinton, former President George H. W. Bush and former President Jimmy Carter all met", "title": "George W. Bush Presidential Center" }, { "docid": "150987", "text": "proportionate response at the place where this plot\" to assassinate Bush \"was hatched and implemented\". In September 1993, Bush and other living former presidents were invited back to the White House for an Arab-Israeli peace accord. They also made the case to Clinton for a repeal of NAFTA. In April 1994, Bush attended the funeral of Richard Nixon. In the 1994 gubernatorial elections, his sons George W. and Jeb concurrently ran for Governor of Texas and Governor of Florida. The elder Bush frequently telephoned their respective campaign headquarters for updates on the races. George W. won his race against Ann", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "14536934", "text": "the museum, which had its opening dedication on April 11, 2006. George W. Bush Childhood Home George W. Bush Childhood Home is a historic house that was home to former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush from 1951 to 1955. It is located at 1412 W. Ohio Ave. in Midland, Texas. The home was built in 1940 and was purchased by the Bush family in 1951 for $9,000 (). They lived in the home until late 1955. It was also the earliest childhood home of Governor Jeb Bush. The house was added to the National Register of", "title": "George W. Bush Childhood Home" }, { "docid": "150995", "text": "the United States on January 20, 2001, and re-elected in 2004. Through previous administrations, the elder Bush had ubiquitously been known as \"George Bush\" or \"President Bush\", but following his son's election the need to distinguish between them has made retronymic forms such as \"George H. W. Bush\" and \"George Bush senior\" and colloquialisms such as \"Bush 41\" and \"Bush the Elder\" much more common. H.W. Bush was traveling to Minnesota for a speaking engagement on the day of the September 11 attacks. George W. made multiple calls to get in contact with his father before the two men reconnected", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "151014", "text": "condolences were offered by former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and incumbent President Donald Trump. On December 3, 2018, Bush became the 12th U.S. President to lie in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Bush's remains were lain in repose at St. Martin's Episcopal Church from the evening of December 5 until 11:15 a.m. Central Standard Time on December 6. Following the funeral for Bush at St. Martin's on December 6, his coffin was brought by train to the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas where he was buried next", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "151001", "text": "and experience a wave of enthusiasm. On January 10, 2009, George H. W. and George W. Bush were both present at the commissioning of (CVN-77), the tenth and last supercarrier of the United States Navy. Bush paid a visit to the carrier again on May 26, 2009. In October 2009, Bush joined President Barack Obama onstage at Texas A&M University for a promotion of volunteering. On February 15, 2011, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian honor in the United States—by President Barack Obama. Later that year, Bush, an avid golfer, was inducted in the World Golf", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "14536933", "text": "George W. Bush Childhood Home George W. Bush Childhood Home is a historic house that was home to former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush from 1951 to 1955. It is located at 1412 W. Ohio Ave. in Midland, Texas. The home was built in 1940 and was purchased by the Bush family in 1951 for $9,000 (). They lived in the home until late 1955. It was also the earliest childhood home of Governor Jeb Bush. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It was purchased for $100,000 to become", "title": "George W. Bush Childhood Home" }, { "docid": "10378796", "text": "foreign affairs but a disappointment in domestic affairs. In the minds of voters, his achievements in foreign policy were not enough to overshadow the economic recession, and in 1992, the American public voted for change. Presidency of George H. W. Bush The presidency of George H. W. Bush began at noon EST on January 20, 1989, when George H. W. Bush was inaugurated as the 41st President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 1993. Bush, a Republican, took office after a landslide victory over Democrat Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election. Following his defeat, he was", "title": "Presidency of George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "10080668", "text": "Governorship of George W. Bush George W. Bush served as the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 until 2000, when he resigned as governor following his election as the 43rd President of the United States. As governor, Bush successfully sponsored legislation for tort reform, increased education funding, set higher standards for schools, and reformed the criminal justice system. Bush also pioneered faith-based welfare programs and helped make Texas the leading producer of wind powered electricity in the US. With his father George H. W. Bush's election to the United States Presidency in 1988, speculation had arisen among Republicans that George", "title": "Governorship of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "20990419", "text": "President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, along with their respective wives, former first ladies Rosalynn Carter, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama, attended the funeral services. Also attending were Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence, former vice presidents Dan Quayle, Al Gore, Dick Cheney, and Joe Biden, along with former second ladies Marilyn Quayle, Lynne Cheney, and Jill Biden. Presidential children in attendance included Lynda Bird Johnson Robb with Chuck Robb, Luci Baines Johnson with Ian Turpin, Tricia Nixon Cox with Edward", "title": "Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "18563048", "text": "in 1998, Bush ran again, defeating Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay (incumbent Governor Lawton Chiles would die in early December 1998, so although defeating McKay, Bush succeeded McKay, who ascended upon Chiles' death). He was reelected in 2002 by a sizeable margin. The second-born son of George H. W. Bush and younger brother of George W. Bush, the 41st and 43rd Presidents of the United States, respectively, Jeb Bush would have been, had he been elected, the first brother of a President, and his father, George H. W. Bush, would have been the first President to have two sons hold the", "title": "Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign" }, { "docid": "150882", "text": "George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924November 30, 2018) was an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. As a member of the Republican Party, he had previously been a congressman, ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. During his career in public service, he was known simply as George Bush, but after his son George W. Bush became the 43rd president in 2001, he was referred to", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "10378723", "text": "Presidency of George H. W. Bush The presidency of George H. W. Bush began at noon EST on January 20, 1989, when George H. W. Bush was inaugurated as the 41st President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 1993. Bush, a Republican, took office after a landslide victory over Democrat Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election. Following his defeat, he was succeeded by Democrat Bill Clinton, who won the 1992 presidential election. International affairs drove the Bush presidency. Bush helped the country navigate the end of the Cold War and a new era of U.S.–Soviet relations.", "title": "Presidency of George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "10480675", "text": "Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower is a 2007 book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Carter's National Security advisor and a scholar of American foreign policy as a professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. The book discusses the 15 years of American foreign policy where the U.S., emerging as the \"victor\" in the Cold War, has been the lone \"superpower.\" Brzezinski writes about how United States presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush have demonstrated", "title": "Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower" }, { "docid": "12942076", "text": "Inauguration of George H. W. Bush The Inauguration of George H. W. Bush as the 41st President of the United States was held on Friday, January 20, 1989. The inauguration marked the commencement of the four-year term of George H. W. Bush as President and Dan Quayle as Vice President. Chief Justice William Rehnquist administered the presidential oath of office to Bush and Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor administered the vice presidential oath of office to Quayle. The event helped Metrorail set a single-day record of 604,089 trips, breaking the record of 565,000 set the spring before by the Washington", "title": "Inauguration of George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "12942077", "text": "for Jesus '88 rally. The record would stand until the day of the National Victory Celebration in 1991. Inauguration of George H. W. Bush The Inauguration of George H. W. Bush as the 41st President of the United States was held on Friday, January 20, 1989. The inauguration marked the commencement of the four-year term of George H. W. Bush as President and Dan Quayle as Vice President. Chief Justice William Rehnquist administered the presidential oath of office to Bush and Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor administered the vice presidential oath of office to Quayle. The event helped Metrorail set", "title": "Inauguration of George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "1549454", "text": "Presidency of George W. Bush The presidency of George W. Bush began at noon EST on January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush was inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2009. Bush, a Republican, took office following a very close victory over Democratic incumbent Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. Four years later, in the 2004 election, he defeated Democrat John Kerry to win re-election. Bush, the 43rd President, is the eldest son of the 41st President, George H. W. Bush. He was succeeded by Democrat Barack Obama, who", "title": "Presidency of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "20717994", "text": "with validating American efforts against their usage and called the Act a \"measured but important step\" in achieving a cessation of threat from proliferation of biological weapons. Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration The foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration was the foreign policy of the United States from 1989 to 1993 while George H. W. Bush was president. Bush's main foreign policy advisors were Secretaries of State James Baker and Lawrence Eagleburger, and National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. Substantial geopolitical developments that occurred during Bush's presidency include: On September 13, 1988, Bush announced", "title": "Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration" }, { "docid": "20717884", "text": "Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration The foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration was the foreign policy of the United States from 1989 to 1993 while George H. W. Bush was president. Bush's main foreign policy advisors were Secretaries of State James Baker and Lawrence Eagleburger, and National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. Substantial geopolitical developments that occurred during Bush's presidency include: On September 13, 1988, Bush announced the appointment of a national security task force, noted for including former Jimmy Carter administration National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who compared Bush's foreign policy views to", "title": "Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration" }, { "docid": "4002231", "text": "continue in this format until one team reaches the required point total to win the Presidents Cup. Remaining singles matches were only to be played to the regulation 18 holes and could be halved. Although this rule was in force for five Presidents Cup contests, no matches actually went beyond 18 holes. The event was created and is organized by the PGA Tour. Each contest has an Honorary Chairman. These have been 1994: Gerald Ford, 38th United States President, 1996: George H. W. Bush, 41st United States President, 1998: John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, 2000: Bill Clinton, 42nd United", "title": "Presidents Cup" }, { "docid": "9144106", "text": "governor of Texas, Bush was satirized on \"The Simpsons\" episode \"Two Bad Neighbors\" when his parents George and Barbara move in across the street from the Simpsons and Homer and Bart Simpson trick the elder Bush into answering the door with two cardboard cutouts of George W. and Jeb Bush. According to the show's creators, they were unaware that George and Barbara Bush's eldest son was actually named George and said that the term \"George Bush, Jr.\" was intended to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plans. In a reference to the same episode, Homer has", "title": "Fictionalized portrayals of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "13991030", "text": "Presidents Park Presidents Park was a ten-acre sculpture park and associated indoor museum formerly located in Williamsburg, Virginia in the United States. It contained 18 to 20 foot high busts of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to George W. Bush. The statues were sculpted by Houston artist David Adickes, who was inspired as he drove past Mount Rushmore when returning from a trip to Canada. The park was opened in March 2004 by local visitor attraction entrepreneur Everette H.\"Haley\" Newman III, who had been slowly taking delivery of the busts since 2000. The park had financial", "title": "Presidents Park" }, { "docid": "13740449", "text": "us talking and laughing or cringing over the past quarter-century.\" George H. W. Bush vomiting incident On January 8, 1992, Bush was attending a state event for 135 diplomats held at the home of the Japanese Prime Minister, near the end of the President's 12-day trade-oriented trip through Asia. Earlier that day Bush had played a doubles tennis match in which the Emperor of Japan Akihito and his son the Crown Prince Naruhito beat Bush and his partner, a former U.S. ambassador to Japan. The incident was widely reported, coming just weeks before the New Hampshire Primary, and quickly became", "title": "George H. W. Bush vomiting incident" }, { "docid": "10387313", "text": "University of Arkansas. He worked with attorney and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall on the landmark case \"Brown v. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education\" case challenging the \"separate but equal\" in the prior case of Plessy v. Ferguson. Haley was elected to the Kansas State Senate in 1964 as a Republican and served one term. Haley served in national administrations since 1969 under Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush. His government posts included chief counsel of the Federal Transit Administration from 1969 to 1973 and general counsel and congressional liaison of", "title": "George W. Haley" }, { "docid": "151018", "text": "the Presidential Libraries Act of 1955. The Bush School of Government and Public Service is a graduate public policy school at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, which was established in 1995. The graduate school is part of the presidential library complex, and offers four programs — two master's degree programs (Public Service and Administration, and International Affairs) and three certificate programs (Advanced International Affairs, Nonprofit Management, and Homeland Security). George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924November 30, 2018) was an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "20990396", "text": "Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush On November 30, 2018, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, died at his home in Houston, Texas, seven months after the death of his wife of 73 years, Barbara Bush. Bush was the first former president to die since Gerald Ford in 2006; at the age of 94 years and 171 days, Bush was the longest-lived U.S. president in history. His death resulted in Jimmy Carter becoming the oldest living former President of the United States; Carter is also 94, having been born four months after", "title": "Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "10530831", "text": "\"X-Men\". Their wives are also members of a similar group, \"The X-First Ladies\", with more flamboyant powers. In the episode \"Nixon,\" Richard Nixon and his dog Checkers are resurrected to aid the group. As of 2018, Ford, Reagan and Bush have become \"Ex-X-Presidents\" since their deaths, leaving Carter as the only remaining member of the original team. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama attempted to join the group after leaving office but were hindered by their lack of superpowers. The cartoons end with the X-Presidents singing a song that recounts the episode's message. \"The Ambiguously Gay Duo\",", "title": "The X-Presidents" }, { "docid": "14651695", "text": "this tradition, being the first U.S. definitive issue on which no presidential portrait appeared; and presidents played only a minor role in the subsequent Great Americans series. Every U.S. president who was deceased has appeared on at least one U.S. postage stamp, and all but Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford have appeared on at least two. George H. W. Bush, who died November 30, 2018, is the only decesased president to not yet be featured on a U.S. postage stamp. The portrayals of various American presidents made their first appearances on U.S. postage at different times for very different reasons.", "title": "Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps" }, { "docid": "150883", "text": "as \"George H. W. Bush\", \"Bush 41\", or \"George Bush Sr.\" Bush postponed his university studies after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, enlisted in the Navy on his 18th birthday, and became one of its youngest aviators. He served until September 1945, and then attended Yale University, graduating in 1948. He moved his family to West Texas where he entered the oil business and became a millionaire by the age of 40 in 1964. After founding his own oil company, Bush was defeated in his first run for the United States Senate in 1964, but won", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "6666733", "text": "Among the public, his reputation has improved somewhat since his presidency ended in 2009. In February 2012, Gallup reported that \"Americans still rate George W. Bush among the worst presidents, though their views have become more positive in the three years since he left office.\" Gallup had earlier noted that Bush's favorability ratings in public opinion surveys had begun to rise a year after he had left office, from 40 percent in January 2009 and 35 percent in March 2009, to 45 percent in July 2010, a period during which he had remained largely out of the news. Other pollsters", "title": "George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "12730596", "text": "George H. W. Bush Supreme Court candidates Speculation abounded over potential nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States by George H. W. Bush even before his presidency officially began, given the advanced ages of several justices. On July 20, 1990, this speculation became newsworthy, due to the announcement of the immediate retirement (and assumption of senior status) of Associate Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. President George H. W. Bush announced David Souter as Brennan's replacement just four days later, and Souter was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 2, 1990, in a 90–9 vote. On June", "title": "George H. W. Bush Supreme Court candidates" }, { "docid": "12942054", "text": "First inauguration of George W. Bush The first inauguration of George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States took place on Saturday, January 20, 2001. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of George W. Bush as President and Dick Cheney as Vice President. Chief Justice William Rehnquist administered the oath of office at 12:01 p.m. An estimated 300,000 people attended the swearing-in ceremony. On the eve of the inauguration, there was a celebration for U.S. authors hosted by Laura Bush at DAR Constitution Hall. Wayne Newton, Brooks & Dunn, and Ricky Martin performed", "title": "First inauguration of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "20660061", "text": "there would be a perception that this stuff can't be so bad.\" Cannabis policy of the George H. W. Bush administration During the administration of American President George H. W. Bush (1989–1993), the United States largely followed the precedents set by the cannabis policy of the Reagan administration, including prosecution of the War on Drugs. In 1989, Bush appointed William Bennett director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Bennet once stated: \"why in God's name foster the use of a drug that makes you stupid?\" In 1989, the Bush administration began Operation Green Merchant, a nationwide investigation and", "title": "Cannabis policy of the George H. W. Bush administration" }, { "docid": "20660058", "text": "Cannabis policy of the George H. W. Bush administration During the administration of American President George H. W. Bush (1989–1993), the United States largely followed the precedents set by the cannabis policy of the Reagan administration, including prosecution of the War on Drugs. In 1989, Bush appointed William Bennett director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Bennet once stated: \"why in God's name foster the use of a drug that makes you stupid?\" In 1989, the Bush administration began Operation Green Merchant, a nationwide investigation and operation targeting businesses advertising specialized horticultural equipment that was supposedly used to", "title": "Cannabis policy of the George H. W. Bush administration" }, { "docid": "9196471", "text": "the six business owners from Minnesota, came forward and told Fox News that one of the reasons why they did it was they thought it was a hilarious message, and the image they used was found online. Journalists from several media sources opined that the publication of Bush's memoir \"Decision Points\" in November 2010 was intended to or would have the effect of improving his post presidential image. After he left office, George W. Bush has been ranked between 31st (by USPC ) and 39th (by Siena Research Institute) out of 44 presidents in the history of the US. However,", "title": "Public image of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "2308761", "text": "Blair's resignation as Prime Minister, pundits and speculators commented on a potential anti-American shift in Gordon Brown's cabinet as a \"\"Love Actually\" moment\", referring to the scene in which Hugh Grant's character stands up to the US President. In 2009, during President Barack Obama's first visit to the UK, Chris Matthews referred to the president in \"Love Actually\" as an example of George W. Bush and other former presidents' bullying of European allies. In commenting on Matthews' view, Mediaite's Jon Bershad described the U.S. president character as a \"sleazy Bill Clinton/George W. Bush hybrid\". In the scene in question, the", "title": "Love Actually" }, { "docid": "19381536", "text": "George H. W. Bush 1988 presidential campaign The 1988 presidential campaign of George H. W. Bush began on October 13, 1987, when Bush, then the sitting Vice President of the United States, announced he was running for the Republican Party's nomination in the 1988 U.S. presidential election. Bush won the 1988 election against Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis on November 8, 1988. He was subsequently inaugurated as president on January 20, 1989. Bush's three main opponents in the 1988 Republican primaries were Senator Bob Dole (R-KS), Pat Robertson, an evangelist; and Representative Jack Kemp (R-NY). Bush was long held back by", "title": "George H. W. Bush 1988 presidential campaign" }, { "docid": "9144104", "text": "Bush as the current president, Lil' Bush is shown as the son of President George H. W. Bush, portrayed as the current president. Lil' Bush and his friends (Lil' Cheney, Lil' Condi, etc.) all attend an elementary school with other current political figures. George W. Bush was portrayed on the \"Star Wars\" special of the stop-motion animation show \"Robot Chicken\" aired on Cartoon Network. In the short sketch, an action figure version of the president was shown as dreaming that he had Jedi powers, as well as fighting former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln with a lightsaber and chopping off his", "title": "Fictionalized portrayals of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "12615291", "text": "W. Bush. None of the nominees were nominated after July 1, 1992, the traditional start date of the unofficial Thurmond Rule during a presidential election year. Senator Orrin Hatch, the Republican leader of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the 106th Congress mentioned the controversy over President George H.W. Bush's court of appeals nominees during the following controversy involving the confirmation of any more Democratic court of appeals nominees during the last two years of President Bill Clinton's second term. George H. W. Bush judicial appointment controversies During George H.W. Bush's term in office as the President of the United States", "title": "George H. W. Bush judicial appointment controversies" }, { "docid": "20990424", "text": "to serve as an honorary pallbearer as the vessel was making final preparations for deployment. Honorary pallbearers serving during the movement of the casket at points during Stage 3 included Charles F. Hermann (Scowcroft Chair in International Policy Studies at the Bush School of Government and Public Service), Amy Sharp (president of the Texas A&M University Student Government Association), and former Texas A&M football coach R.C. Slocum. Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush On November 30, 2018, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, died at his home in Houston, Texas, seven months", "title": "Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "20990397", "text": "Bush in 1924. Shortly after news broke of Bush's death, President Donald Trump declared a National Day of Mourning and ordered all flags \"throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions\" lowered to half staff for 30 days after his death. The state funeral of George H. W. Bush was the official funerary rites conducted by the Government of the United States. They occurred over a period of three days from December 3–6, 2018. Former President George H. W. Bush had struggled with health issues for several years leading up to his death. In 2012, he was diagnosed with", "title": "Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "19381544", "text": "points at the time, warning him that \"You can get so far behind that even a good campaign won’t win it for you.\" George H. W. Bush 1988 presidential campaign The 1988 presidential campaign of George H. W. Bush began on October 13, 1987, when Bush, then the sitting Vice President of the United States, announced he was running for the Republican Party's nomination in the 1988 U.S. presidential election. Bush won the 1988 election against Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis on November 8, 1988. He was subsequently inaugurated as president on January 20, 1989. Bush's three main opponents in the", "title": "George H. W. Bush 1988 presidential campaign" }, { "docid": "150988", "text": "Richards while Jeb lost to Lawton Chiles. After the results came in, the elder Bush told ABC, \"I have very mixed emotions. Proud father, is the way I would sum it all up.\" Jeb would again run for governor of Florida in 1998 and win at the same time that his brother George W. won re-election in Texas. It marked the second time in United States history that a pair of brothers served simultaneously as governors. From 1993 to 1999, he served as the chairman of the board of trustees for Eisenhower Fellowships, and from 2007 to 2009 was chairman", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "10976603", "text": "Ernie Els, who was the second ranked player in the International team, did not play because of a knee injury. All matches played were foursomes. All matches played were four-ball. Each entry refers to the Win–Loss–Half record of the player. 2005 Presidents Cup The 6th Presidents Cup was held between September 22 and 25, 2005. It was played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, United States. The United States team won the competition by a margin of 18½–15½. The honorary chairmen was former President of the United States George H. W. Bush. Both teams had 12", "title": "2005 Presidents Cup" }, { "docid": "14770329", "text": "and subsequently again on April 17, 2012 with an updated version. The documentary ended up as a finalist in two categories (Biography/Profiles and Writing) at the New York Festivals. The Presidents (TV series) The Presidents is a 2005 American documentary television series about the history of each President of the United States of America, narrated by Edward Herrmann. The show documents each of the Presidents in the union, starting with George Washington, following a chronological order to George W. Bush. Each President's segment begins with the narrator giving a brief dossier about each one, from their political affiliation, family, and", "title": "The Presidents (TV series)" }, { "docid": "9370101", "text": "from Highland Capital Management, in support of the Institute's programs. George W. Bush Presidential Center The George W. Bush Presidential Center, which opened on April 25, 2013, is a complex that includes the 43rd President George W. Bush's presidential library and museum, the George W. Bush Policy Institute, and the offices of the George W. Bush Foundation. It is located on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in University Park, Texas, near Dallas. It will be the future resting place of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States (2001–2009), and his wife Laura Bush. Before Bush", "title": "George W. Bush Presidential Center" }, { "docid": "9370080", "text": "George W. Bush Presidential Center The George W. Bush Presidential Center, which opened on April 25, 2013, is a complex that includes the 43rd President George W. Bush's presidential library and museum, the George W. Bush Policy Institute, and the offices of the George W. Bush Foundation. It is located on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in University Park, Texas, near Dallas. It will be the future resting place of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States (2001–2009), and his wife Laura Bush. Before Bush became President, officials at Baylor University in Waco, Texas started", "title": "George W. Bush Presidential Center" }, { "docid": "9196467", "text": "gone well for him in the past few years. These are the experts that teach college students today and will write the history of this era tomorrow.\" In 2008, the History News Network conducted an unscientific poll among 109 professional historians. That poll found that, among those professional historians, 98% believe that the George W. Bush presidency is a failure, and that 61% believe it to be the worst in history. Another poll done in 2009 by C-SPAN among 65 professional historians ranks Bush 36 of 42 former presidents. A 2010 Siena College poll of 238 Presidential scholars found that", "title": "Public image of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "14770328", "text": "The Presidents (TV series) The Presidents is a 2005 American documentary television series about the history of each President of the United States of America, narrated by Edward Herrmann. The show documents each of the Presidents in the union, starting with George Washington, following a chronological order to George W. Bush. Each President's segment begins with the narrator giving a brief dossier about each one, from their political affiliation, family, and notable traits. The show then highlights the history behind each presidency, linking each one to the following. It has been released onto DVD twice. First on May 31, 2005", "title": "The Presidents (TV series)" }, { "docid": "13740446", "text": "George H. W. Bush vomiting incident On January 8, 1992, Bush was attending a state event for 135 diplomats held at the home of the Japanese Prime Minister, near the end of the President's 12-day trade-oriented trip through Asia. Earlier that day Bush had played a doubles tennis match in which the Emperor of Japan Akihito and his son the Crown Prince Naruhito beat Bush and his partner, a former U.S. ambassador to Japan. The incident was widely reported, coming just weeks before the New Hampshire Primary, and quickly became fodder for the nation's comedians. Footage of the President vomiting", "title": "George H. W. Bush vomiting incident" }, { "docid": "11707041", "text": "predecessor George W. Bush, himself, and all subsequent presidents. Richard Nixon relinquished his Secret Service protection in 1985, the only president to do so. Former presidents are entitled to a Diplomatic Passport. This includes personal travel with this passport. Former Presidents Act The Former Presidents Act (known also as FPA; 3 U.S.C. § 102) is a 1958 U.S. federal law that provides several lifetime benefits to former presidents of the United States who have not been . Before 1958, the U.S. federal government provided no pension or other retirement benefits to former United States presidents. Andrew Carnegie offered to endow", "title": "Former Presidents Act" }, { "docid": "12942055", "text": "as the pre-inaugural entertainment. Thousands of demonstrators attended the inaugural ceremonies in Washington, D.C., to protest the outcome and controversial circumstances of the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. Four protesters were arrested and Bush's limousine was hit by a tennis ball and an egg thrown from the crowd during the inaugural parade. Details of the parade were famously derided in the opening chapter of the 2001 #1 bestseller \"Stupid White Men\", pages 14-15. First inauguration of George W. Bush The first inauguration of George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States took place on Saturday, January 20, 2001.", "title": "First inauguration of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "150996", "text": "after the elder Bush had gone to a Brookfield, Wisconsin motel. Bush told biographer Jon Meacham that his son's vice president, Dick Cheney, underwent a change following the September 11 attacks: \"His seeming knuckling under to the real hard-charging guys who want to fight about everything, use force to get our way in the Middle East.\" In December 2002, George W. sought counsel from the elder Bush regarding Iraq and informed him of \"my efforts to rally the Saudis, Jordanians, Turks, and others in the Middle East\". Following the fall of Baghdad, Bush praised George W. in an April 2003", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "13002222", "text": "due to lingering complications from an automobile accident. The leadership of the George W. Auch Company passed to his son Fred, who held it until the 1960s. Subsequent presidents included Hank Auch, George W. (Bill) Auch III, Fred J. Auch Jr, David Hamilton and Vincent DeLeonardis. The company has grown significantly over the years, averaging over $150 million in annual revenue between 1998 and 2008. As of 2016, the George W. Auch Company, now called Auch Construction, is still in business as a leading contracting firm in Southeastern Michigan. George W Auch George W. Auch (1868-1937) was a builder, educator,", "title": "George W Auch" }, { "docid": "151016", "text": "1 treaty on nuclear weaponry. Picht wrote that his decision to arrest and depose Panama Dictator Manuel Noriega was popular at the time, but will be less fondly remembered. According to presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove, Bush \"cemented\" the tradition of presidents leaving behind letters of support for their successors on the Resolute Desk. While Reagan had been the first modern president to do so in 1989, Bush's move was significant in that his gesture of goodwill was made towards Clinton, the man to whom Bush had just lost the election. The George Bush Presidential Library is the nation's tenth", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "150975", "text": "Walsh noted that in issuing the pardons Bush may have been preempting being implicated himself in the crimes of Iran-Contra by evidence that was to come to light during the Weinberger trial, and noted that there was a pattern of \"deception and obstruction\" by Bush, Weinberger and other senior Reagan administration officials. George H. W. Bush received honorary degrees from several American and International Universities, including: In 1990, \"Time \"magazine named him the Man of the Year. In 1991, the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation awarded Bush its Lone Sailor award for his naval service and his subsequent government service. In", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "18725263", "text": "presidents George W. Bush (Jeb's brother) and George H. W. Bush (Jeb's father). Ramesh Ponnuru of the conservative \"National Review\", writes that \"Despite his reputation for moderation, on issue after issue Jeb has taken positions that are significantly to the right of his brother's — and of every other president in recent memory.\" Before winning two terms as governor, Bush lost his first run for governor of Florida in 1994 to the incumbent Democratic Governor, Lawton Chiles. In his 1994 race, Bush \"called himself a 'head-banging conservative.'\" Andrew Prokop of \"Vox\" writes that after his loss in the 1994 election,", "title": "Political positions of Jeb Bush" }, { "docid": "151005", "text": "incident prior to the jump, saying \"It's a wonderful day in Maine — in fact, nice enough for a parachute jump.\" On December 7, 2016, Bush and former Senator Bob Dole commemorated the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor by appearing at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Bush supported his younger son Jeb's 2016 presidential bid. Jeb Bush's campaign struggled however, and he withdrew from the race during the primaries. Neither George H.W. nor George W. Bush endorsed the eventual Republican nominee, Donald Trump; all three Bushes emerged as frequent critics", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "4002232", "text": "States President, 2003: Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa, 2005: George W. Bush, 43rd United States President, 2007: Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, 2009: Barack Obama, 44th United States President, 2011: Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia, 2013: Barack Obama, 44th United States President, 2015: Park Geun-hye, President of South Korea, 2017: Donald Trump, 45th United States President. There is no prize money awarded at the Presidents Cup. The net proceeds are distributed to charities nominated by the players, captains, and captains' assistants. The first ten Presidents Cups raised over US$32 million for charities around the world. Of the", "title": "Presidents Cup" }, { "docid": "6811459", "text": "action may ultimately result\". Critics allege that this decision was strongly influenced by the makeup of the SEC at the time, which heavily favored Bush. The chairman at the time was Richard Breeden, a good friend of the Bush family's who had been nominated to the SEC by President George H. W. Bush and who had been a lawyer in James Baker's firm, Baker Botts. The SEC's general counsel at the time was James Doty, who had been appointed by President H.W. Bush and as a lawyer in James Baker's firm, Baker Botts had represented George W. Bush when arrangements", "title": "Professional life of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "8825194", "text": "the Skull and Bones secret society; Bush's father George H. W. Bush (1948) and grandfather Prescott S. Bush (1917) were also members of Skull and Bones. Bush was also in the Yale First XV rugby union team in 1968. He was a C student, scoring 77% (with no As and one D, in astronomy) with a grade point average of 2.35 out of a possible 4.00. Bush joked that he was known more for his social life than for his grades. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1968. The entire entry from his yearbook read: Bush's", "title": "Early life of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "150895", "text": "1948 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. After graduating from Yale, Bush moved his young family to West Texas. His father's business connections proved useful as he ventured into the oil business, starting as an oil field equipment salesman for Dresser Industries, a subsidiary of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., where Prescott Bush had served on the board of directors for 22 years. While working for Dresser, Bush lived in various places with his family: Odessa, Texas; Ventura, Bakersfield and Compton, California; and Midland, Texas. According to eldest son George W. Bush, then age two, the family lived", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "9456070", "text": "Living presidents of the United States This article shows the variation in the number of living presidents of the United States from the inauguration of the first president of the United States in 1789 until the present. The following table includes all persons who have taken the presidential oath of office. (Persons who served as Acting President of the United States or as President of the Continental Congress are not included.) Currently, in addition to the incumbent, Donald Trump, there are four living former presidents: Jimmy Carter (1977–1981), Bill Clinton (1993–2001), George W. Bush (2001–2009), and Barack Obama (2009–2017). Number", "title": "Living presidents of the United States" }, { "docid": "9196421", "text": "Public image of George W. Bush George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has elicited a variety of public perceptions regarding his policies, personality, and performance as a head of state. In the U.S. and elsewhere, journalists, polling organizations, and others have documented the expression of an evolving array of opinions of President Bush. \"Time\" magazine named George W. Bush as its Person of the Year for 2000 and 2004, citing him as the most influential person during these two years. The approval ratings of George W. Bush ranged from a record high to a record low.", "title": "Public image of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "6666597", "text": "before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election. Bush was elected President of the United States in 2000 when he defeated Democratic incumbent Vice President Al Gore after a close and controversial win that involved a stopped recount in Florida. He became the fourth person to be elected president while receiving fewer popular votes than his opponent. Bush is a member of a prominent political family and is the eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States. He is only the second president to assume the nation's highest office after", "title": "George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "20717905", "text": "to prepare the way for an upcoming invasion. On December 18, Bush admitted he believed the current Panama situation was very concerning and that it had been \"an enormous frustration to me\" but declined stating what intent the US had toward it during an Oval Office interview with wire service reporters. R. W. Apple Jr. of \"The New York Times\" observed the invasion as placing Bush among other post-World War II American presidents that had \"felt a need to demonstrate their willingness to shed blood to protect or advance what they construe as the national interest.\" In early January 1990,", "title": "Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration" }, { "docid": "12615290", "text": "George H. W. Bush judicial appointment controversies During George H.W. Bush's term in office as the President of the United States of America, he nominated 11 individuals for 10 different federal appellate judgeships who were not processed by the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee. The Republicans claim that Senate Democrats of the 102nd Congress on purpose tried to keep open particular judgeships as a political maneuver to allow a future Democratic president to fill them. All 10 of the judgeships were eventually filled with Clinton nominees, although one nominee, Roger Gregory, was nominated by Clinton and then renominated by President George", "title": "George H. W. Bush judicial appointment controversies" }, { "docid": "150893", "text": "17, 2018, George H. W. had been married to Barbara for 73 years; theirs was the longest presidential marriage in American history. They had become the longest-married presidential couple in 2000 when their marriage surpassed the 54-year (1764–1818) marriage of John and Abigail Adams. After Bush received his military discharge, he enrolled at Yale University. He earned an undergraduate degree in economics on an accelerated program that enabled him to graduate in two and a half years, rather than the usual four. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and was elected its president. He also captained", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "20990400", "text": "was able to sit up from his bed and converse with others. According to Baker, Bush's last meal consisted of three soft-boiled eggs, a cup of yogurt, and two fruit drinks. By night on November 30, his health again worsened and death was imminent. Irish tenor Ronan Tynan came and sang two songs for Bush, as his family and friends gathered at the household to say their goodbyes. Bush's last words were \"I love you too\", spoken to his son, former President George W. Bush, over a speaker phone. Shortly after that conversation, at 10:10 p.m. Central Standard Time, Bush", "title": "Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "12730604", "text": "District of Columbia Circuit. Ultimately, on July 2, 1991, Bush chose Thomas as Marshall's replacement. And after a contentious confirmation process that involved allegations of sexual harassment by Thomas, the United States Senate confirmed Thomas in a 52–48 vote on October 15, 1991. Following is a list of individuals who were mentioned in various news accounts and books as having been considered by Bush or being the most likely potential nominees for a Supreme Court appointment under Bush: George H. W. Bush Supreme Court candidates Speculation abounded over potential nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States by George", "title": "George H. W. Bush Supreme Court candidates" }, { "docid": "15579463", "text": "directed US efforts to urge governors and dozens of members of the House of Representatives to block California's first-in-the-nation limits on greenhouse gases from cars and trucks, according to e-mails obtained by Congress. Climate change policy of the George W. Bush administration This article is about the climate change policy of the United States under the George W. Bush administration. In March 2001, the Bush Administration announced that it would not implement the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty signed in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan that would require nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, claiming that ratifying the treaty would", "title": "Climate change policy of the George W. Bush administration" }, { "docid": "15429249", "text": "of the House of Representatives on 26 March 1942, and addressed members of Parliament from outside the chamber later that day. The first address by an invited guest to the Parliament in a formally convened joint sitting of which there was an official record was on 2 January 1992, by the US President, George H. W. Bush. Later addresses to joint sittings were from US presidents Bill Clinton (1996) and George W. Bush (2003); and President of China Hu Jintao (2003). (George W. Bush's and Hu Jintao's addresses occurred on consecutive days in October 2003.) Subsequently, the Senate Standing Committee", "title": "Joint meetings of the Australian Parliament" }, { "docid": "10976601", "text": "2005 Presidents Cup The 6th Presidents Cup was held between September 22 and 25, 2005. It was played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, United States. The United States team won the competition by a margin of 18½–15½. The honorary chairmen was former President of the United States George H. W. Bush. Both teams had 12 players plus a non-playing captain. The competition was four days long with 34 total matches worth a single point each. Although the number and type of matches played was the same as in previous events, the schedule was slightly altered.", "title": "2005 Presidents Cup" }, { "docid": "150998", "text": "Beverly Hills, California, by former First Lady Nancy Reagan. Despite Bush's political differences with Bill Clinton, reports acknowledged that the two former presidents had become friends. He and Clinton appeared together in television ads in 2005, encouraging aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. In October 2004, Bush endorsed Pete Sessions and Ted Poe in Texas congressional races. In February 2006, Bush delivered a eulogy at the funeral of Coretta Scott King. On March 2, 2006, President Bush announced that his father would lead the American delegation to the inauguration of the President-elect", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "9144120", "text": "the episode \"Mr. Deity and the Intel\" of \"Mr. Deity\" George W. Bush is portrayed by Louie Sadd, where Mr. Deity (God) is discussing the 2003 War On Terror with Bush, but Deity doesn't understand him that well and does not really know what would happen with the war. Often, when a story involving George W. Bush is shown on \"The Daily Show\", host Jon Stewart hunches his shoulders, squints his eyes, talks in a voice similar to Bush's, and uses strange hand gestures, occasionally accompanied by \"Beavis and Butt-head\"-style laughing. In the political comic \"Doonesbury\", President George W. Bush", "title": "Fictionalized portrayals of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "9196460", "text": "has to be noted that this was in nominal terms. In real terms, he actually lowered the percent of G.D.P given as aid to foreign countries. American pundit and psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer, noting the reaction of liberals to George W. Bush and his policies, in a 2003 column coined the term Bush Derangement Syndrome to describe \"the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency—nay—the very existence of George W. Bush\". While Krauthammer's column was somewhat tongue-in-cheek (e.g., \"What is worrying epidemiologists about the Dean incident, however, is that heretofore no case had", "title": "Public image of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "9144111", "text": "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, cut the scene because they considered Bush a \"dead man walking\". In the episode, although the White House and even the Oval Office are seen, Bush is missing and never referred to. Bush made an appearance in an episode of the 2001-2003 animated series \"Time Squad\", trying to make the biggest ball of twine in the world to \"bring America together\". Bush's father George H. W. Bush made an appearance as well. In the Canadian animated series \"Sons of Butcher\", in the episode \"Payin' The Bills\", Bush is seen playing video games with two other", "title": "Fictionalized portrayals of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "5071741", "text": "in 1982, 1990, 1994, 2002 and 2010. The 1994 survey placed only two presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, above 80 points and two presidents, Andrew Johnson and Warren G. Harding, below 50 points. The 2010 Siena survey had George W. Bush plummet from the initial 2002 ranking of 23rd down to 39th. The 1996 column shows the results from a poll conducted from 1988 to 1996 by William J. Ridings Jr. and Stuart B. McIver and published in \"Rating The Presidents: A Ranking of U.S. Leaders, from the Great and Honorable to the Dishonest and Incompetent\". More than", "title": "Historical rankings of presidents of the United States" }, { "docid": "150994", "text": "Senators in an address warning against the collapse of political decorum and invasions into the privacy of individuals. In February 1999, Bush was part of the American delegation to the funeral of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman. In April 1999, Bush called for the release of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet when Spain had him arrested and sought to try him for human rights violations. In May 1999, Bush and his wife Barbara honored six senior citizens during the annual Ageless Heroes honors in Chicago, Illinois. His eldest son, George W. Bush, was inaugurated as the 43rd president of", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "9144107", "text": "a photo album, stating \"Here's me beating up former President Bush, here's me beating up current President Bush, and here's me showing a sack of apples who's boss.\" In The Father, The Son, and the Holy Guest Star, while Bush isn't directly referenced by name, Homer makes a passing reference to a \"Commander Cuckoo Bananas\" causing a lot of American military quagmires, which serves as a thinly veiled metaphore for Bush. \"South Park\" displayed the character of George W. Bush in multiple episodes. He is first seen briefly in the episode \"Super Best Friends\" standing alongside animated portrayals of the", "title": "Fictionalized portrayals of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "9144097", "text": "thus save the world, Bush (played by Steve Bridges) pays them a visit at their garage in Fredrikstad, Norway. \"Dasavathaaram\" (2008) is an Indian film which stars popular Indian actor Kamal Haasan. He dons ten different roles in this film and one of those is the portrayal of George W. Bush. George W. Bush appears briefly in a still animated frame of the anime version of \"Megumi.\" Connor Trinneer plays a young George Bush in the 2017 film \"American Made\". \"2DTV\" (a UK satire cartoon) regularly portrayed George W. Bush as a childish simpleton who would often make hazardous decisions", "title": "Fictionalized portrayals of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "12702358", "text": "in the famous Wead tapes that he would not \"kick gays\" and worried his refusal to do so might upset his evangelical supporters, and that \"I think it is bad for Republicans to be kicking gays.\" Bush supported \"voluntary, student-led prayer\" but not \"teacher-led prayers.\" Bush opposes federal funding for research relating to newly derived embryonic stem cell lines. He supports federal funding for research on pre-existing embryonic stem cell lines. Political positions of George W. Bush George W. Bush's political positions have been expressed in public statements, and through his actions as President of the United States. George Bush", "title": "Political positions of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "11981764", "text": "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder is a 2008 book by former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi. It argues that George W. Bush took the United States into the invasion of Iraq under false pretenses and should be tried for murder for the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. The book sold over 130,000 copies within its first three months of release. The book was made into a documentary titled \"The Prosecution of an American President\" and was released on DVD on October 7, 2014. Bugliosi argues that Bush intentionally misled Congress", "title": "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" }, { "docid": "150964", "text": "following the end of the Gulf War; this resulted in the Madrid Conference, later in 1991. Several Iraqi families living in Belgium who lost loved ones in the Gulf War launched a lawsuit against George H. W. Bush for committing what they claim are war crimes in the 1991 Amiriyah shelter bombing in Baghdad, which killed more than 400 civilians. The suit was brought under Belgium's universal jurisdiction guarantees in March 2003. According to the Human Rights Watch, the Amiriyah shelter bombing was \"a serious violation of the laws of war.\" Faced with a humanitarian disaster in Somalia which was", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "6666729", "text": "H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama to work with One America Appeal to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma in the Gulf Coast and Texas communities. After serving as president, Bush began painting as a hobby after reading Winston Churchill's essay \"Painting as a Pastime\". Subjects have included people, dogs, and still life. He has also painted self-portraits and portraits of world leaders, including Vladimir Putin and Tony Blair. In February 2017, Bush released a book of portraits of veterans, \"Portraits of Courage\". The net proceeds from his book are donated to the George W.", "title": "George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "150990", "text": "returned to the White House for the unveiling of his official portrait in an East Room ceremony attended by former members of his administration. In September 1995, Bush met with President of Vietnam Lê Đức Anh and party secretary Đỗ Mười in Vietnam. On September 2, Bush and his son George W. participated in a parade commemorating World War II in Fredericksburg, Texas, where the elder Bush reasoned the United States had become united in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor and stressed America would have to stay involved in world affairs to continue its unity. On July", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "6666721", "text": "State Department, and the George W. Bush Institute hosted a daylong forum on education and health with the spouses of the African leaders attending the summit. Bush urged African leaders to avoid discriminatory laws that make the treatment of HIV/AIDS more difficult. Bush has spoken in favor of increased global participation of women in politics and societal matters in foreign countries. On November 2, 2014, Bush spoke at an event to 200 business and civic leaders at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum to raise awareness for the upcoming Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. Bush published", "title": "George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "1549548", "text": "by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. President Bush's place in U.S. history will be debated and reconsidered for many years to come. Academic Reflections on the Bush presidency Primary sources Presidency of George W. Bush The presidency of George W. Bush began at noon EST on January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush was inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2009. Bush, a Republican, took office following a very close victory over Democratic incumbent Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. Four years later, in the 2004 election, he", "title": "Presidency of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "8825190", "text": "Early life of George W. Bush George W. Bush, (1946-) was the oldest child in a family of six children was born in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, grew up in the Texan cities of Midland and Houston. He studied at Yale University and the Harvard Business School before serving in the Texas Air National Guard. Bush would later be part owner and managing partner of the Texas Rangers baseball franchise, become governor of Texas and eventually become the 43rd President of the United States. His father died on November 30, 2018 due to a yet unknown cause. George", "title": "Early life of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "11981769", "text": "agencies to find proof that Saddam helped al-Qaeda plan the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder is a 2008 book by former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi. It argues that George W. Bush took the United States into the invasion of Iraq under false pretenses and should be tried for murder for the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. The book sold over 130,000 copies within its first three months of release. The book was made into a documentary titled \"The Prosecution of an American President\" and was", "title": "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" }, { "docid": "17860060", "text": "In 2012, the Government Printing Office and the Office of the Federal Register released a mobile web application (http://m.gpo.gov/dcpd) that catalogues the daily public activities of the President of the United States and enhances features of the online \"Daily Compilation\" with user-friendly search capability, allowing users to access Presidential content by date, category, subject, or location. Volumes covering the administrations of Presidents Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama are also included", "title": "Public Papers of the Presidents" }, { "docid": "13991032", "text": "himself, until it too closed after financial difficulties. Some of the South Dakota busts could still be seen in 2015 at various RV parks and hotels around the Dakotas. The busts of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush are located near Mount Rushmore at the Southern Hills RV Park and Campground in Hermosa, South Dakota. President Abraham Lincoln's bust graces the Lincoln RV Park on U.S. 85 south of Williston, North Dakota. Others, such as president Theodore Roosevelt's bust is stationed at the Roosevelt Inn in Watford City, North Dakota. Presidents Park Presidents Park was a", "title": "Presidents Park" }, { "docid": "2766216", "text": "including Bush. Both George W. Bush and his father have stated that they did not ask Adger to intercede and were unaware of any action he may have taken. Walter Staudt, the colonel in command of Bush's squadron, has stated that he accepted Bush's application without receiving any outside pressure to do so. In applying for pilot training, Bush took a standardized test on which he had a low score, in the 25th percentile. In addition, Bush had two arrests for college pranks and four traffic offenses before applying for pilot training. In 2004, former and current military pilots said", "title": "George W. Bush military service controversy" }, { "docid": "1549509", "text": "by the bill. Bush's policies suffered a major rebuke from the Supreme Court in the 2006 case of \"Hamdan v. Rumsfeld\", in which the court rejected Bush's use of military commissions without congressional approval and held that all detainees were protected by the Geneva Conventions. Following the ruling, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which effectively overturned \"Hamdan\". The Supreme Court overturned a portion of that act in the 2008 case of \"Boumediene v. Bush\", but the Guantanamo detention camp remained open at the end of Bush's presidency. During the Presidency of George H. W. Bush, the United", "title": "Presidency of George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "19960756", "text": "Assassination attempts against George W. Bush George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, was the target of two assassination attempts since he was first elected for President in the 2000 United States presidential elections. February 7, 2001: While President George W. Bush was in the White House, Robert Pickett, standing outside the perimeter fence, discharged a number of shots from a weapon in the direction of the White House. He was sentenced to three years in prison. May 10, 2005: While President Bush was giving a speech in the Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Georgia, Vladimir Arutyunian threw", "title": "Assassination attempts against George W. Bush" }, { "docid": "2276965", "text": "for his client base. As deputy secretary of the Interior, Griles was charged with overseeing and revamping environmental regulations that affect the profits of his former clients and NES’s current clients. George W. Bush 2000 presidential campaign The 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush, the 46th Governor of Texas, was formally launched on June 14, 1999 as Governor Bush, the eldest son of former President George H.W. Bush announced his intention to seek the Republican Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 2000 presidential election. Bush was the main challenger to Senator John McCain, who", "title": "George W. Bush 2000 presidential campaign" } ]
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On November 22, 1986, which boxer became the youngest WBC Heavyweight champion, at age 20 years, 4 months, when he scored a TKO over Trevor Berbick in the second round?
[ "Iron Mike Tyson", "Mike Tyson", "Malik Abdul Azeez", "Exodus Tyson", "Malik Abdul Aziz", "Mike tyson", "Michael Tyson", "Mike G. Tyson", "Michael Gerard Tyson", "Desiree Washington" ]
[ { "docid": "2721514", "text": "and Floyd Patterson emerged as the youngest heavyweight champion in history (coincidentally, he beat Moore for the title left vacant by Marciano). Patterson remained the youngest heavyweight champion in history until November 22, 1986, when a 20-year-old Mike Tyson defeated the 31-year-old WBC Heavyweight Champion Trevor Berbick by TKO in round 2. The dark side of boxing once again emerged: Jake LaMotta alleged at a hearing that he had thrown a fight with Billy Fox in exchange for a try at the world Middleweight title, and Jim Norris, an important promoter of the time, was associated with Blinky Palermo and", "title": "Boxing in the 1950s" }, { "docid": "2547144", "text": "Trevor Berbick Trevor Berbick (August 1, 1954 – October 28, 2006) was a Jamaican Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 2000. He won the WBC heavyweight title in 1986 by defeating Pinklon Thomas, but lost it in his first defense later that year to Mike Tyson, who was then undefeated at 20 years old. Berbick was also the last boxer to fight Muhammad Ali, defeating him in 1981. As an amateur, Berbick won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 1975 Pan American Games. In both his early and late professional career he held the Canadian", "title": "Trevor Berbick" }, { "docid": "17251639", "text": "tournament, Trevor Berbick met then-WBC champion Pinklon Thomas for the WBC portion of the heavyweight title. In a closely contested fight, Berbick was able to narrowly earn the victory by unanimous decision to capture his first major heavyweight title. However, his first defense of that title would come against the 20-year-old undefeated sensation Mike Tyson, who was 27–0 with 25 of his victories coming by way of knockout. Tyson had gone 12–0 in the year of 1986 alone and officially qualified for the unification series with a second-round knockout victory over Alfonso Ratliff in September. Though the 32–year old Berbick", "title": "Trevor Berbick vs. Mike Tyson" }, { "docid": "17251644", "text": "Trevor Berbick disappear. Trevor Berbick vs. Mike Tyson Trevor Berbick vs. Mike Tyson, billed as \"Judgment Day\", was a professional boxing match contested on November 22, 1986 for the WBC Heavyweight Championship. In 1986, the three major boxing organizations, the World Boxing Council, the World Boxing Association and the International Boxing Federation teamed with HBO to create a heavyweight championship tournament in an effort to crown the first Undisputed Heavyweight Champion since Leon Spinks in 1978. All three of the organizations' heavyweight champions, as well as several of the sport's top contenders, were entered into the tournament. In the first", "title": "Trevor Berbick vs. Mike Tyson" }, { "docid": "506700", "text": "Mike Tyson Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title at 20 years, four months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional fights by knockout or stoppage, 12 of them in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after stopping Trevor Berbick in the second round, and added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker in 1987.", "title": "Mike Tyson" }, { "docid": "17251638", "text": "Trevor Berbick vs. Mike Tyson Trevor Berbick vs. Mike Tyson, billed as \"Judgment Day\", was a professional boxing match contested on November 22, 1986 for the WBC Heavyweight Championship. In 1986, the three major boxing organizations, the World Boxing Council, the World Boxing Association and the International Boxing Federation teamed with HBO to create a heavyweight championship tournament in an effort to crown the first Undisputed Heavyweight Champion since Leon Spinks in 1978. All three of the organizations' heavyweight champions, as well as several of the sport's top contenders, were entered into the tournament. In the first leg of the", "title": "Trevor Berbick vs. Mike Tyson" }, { "docid": "2547148", "text": "on Mike Tyson, who was looking to break Floyd Patterson's record and become, at the age of twenty, the youngest ever heavyweight champion. In the second round, Tyson dropped Berbick with a quick knockdown. Berbick was quickly overwhelmed by his opponent and late in the round, he went down again. The champion rose to his feet, but immediately stumbled backward and fell back to the canvas. Berbick tried twice more to make it to his feet but fell both times, and referee Mills Lane stopped counting and waved the fight off to end Berbick's reign as champion. Along with Larry", "title": "Trevor Berbick" }, { "docid": "17251643", "text": "heavyweight titles, a match Tyson would win via unanimous decision to become the Undisputed Heavyweight champion. This fight was mentioned in the animated TV series Mike Tyson Mysteries episode \"Ultimate Judgement Day\" from 2014. In the episode Mike Tyson says Trevor Berbick wanted to call their 1986 fight 'Ultimate Judgement Day', but then ghost of Berbick appears to correct Tyson, saying that it was actual Tyson was the boxer that wanted to call it 'Ultimate Judgement Day.' Tyson thanks Berbick for the correction, and then says, \"Rest in Peace, Trevor Berbick!\" while waving his hand to make the ghost of", "title": "Trevor Berbick vs. Mike Tyson" }, { "docid": "17261284", "text": "Mike Tyson vs. James Smith Mike Tyson vs. James Smith, billed as \"Super Fight\", was a professional boxing match contested on March 7, 1987 for the WBA and WBC Heavyweight championships, as part of the heavyweight unification series. Mike Tyson was coming off a dominating victory over Trevor Berbick in which he captured the WBC Heavyweight championship after knocking out Berbick in the second round. Tyson's next opponent would be the WBA Heavyweight champion James \"Bonecrusher\" Smith, who had knocked out Tim Witherspoon in the first round to capture the title four months earlier. The stakes for the fight were", "title": "Mike Tyson vs. James Smith" }, { "docid": "2641082", "text": "Vegas, Nevada. Thomas won the WBC Heavyweight Championship with a hard fought 12-round battle over \"Terrible\" Tim Witherspoon on August 31, 1984. Ten months later, he defended his title against ex-champion Mike Weaver, stopping Weaver with a single punch in the eighth round. Thomas lost the WBC title to Trevor Berbick in March 1986 by a decision. Thomas came back and reeled off three ko wins before setting up a May 1987 challenge to WBC and WBA Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. Although Thomas allegedly took the fight with a serious shoulder injury, he enjoyed success outjabbing Tyson. After a long", "title": "Pinklon Thomas" }, { "docid": "17305034", "text": "Mike Tyson vs. Pinklon Thomas Mike Tyson vs. Pinklon Thomas, billed as \"Hard Road to Glory\", was a professional boxing match contested on May 30, 1987, for the WBA and WBC heavyweight championships. In 1986, the three major boxing organizations, the WBA, WBC and IBF, teamed with HBO to develop the heavyweight unification series, a tournament that would ultimately unify all three Heavyweight titles and determine the next Undisputed Champion. The first fight in the series pitted WBC Heavyweight champion Pinklon Thomas against Trevor Berbick on March 22, 1986. Berbick captured the WBC Heavyweight title after defeating Thomas by unanimous", "title": "Mike Tyson vs. Pinklon Thomas" }, { "docid": "10929245", "text": "September 1986, Ratliff was stopped in the second round by Mike Tyson, who went on to become the youngest ever world heavyweight champion in his next fight. Ratliff retired in 1989 after a TKO loss to Lee Roy Murphy. Alfonso Ratliff Alfonso Ratliff (born February 18, 1956) is an American former professional boxer in the cruiserweight division who held the Lineal and WBC cruiserweight titles. He was later coaching at the Harvey Boxing Club in Harvey IL. As an amateur, Ratliff won the Chicago Golden Gloves title in 1980, and won a decision against Mitch Green in intercity competition. Ratliff", "title": "Alfonso Ratliff" }, { "docid": "17271372", "text": "Mike Tyson vs. Carl Williams Mike Tyson vs. Carl Williams was a professional boxing match contested on July 21, 1989, for WBA, WBC, IBF and \"Lineal\" Heavyweight championships. After Tyson's dominating victory over Frank Bruno five months prior, negotiations for a potential bout with Carl Williams began, and on June 15, 1989, the fight was made official. Four years earlier, Williams had challenged then-IBF Heavyweight champion Larry Holmes for the title, only to narrowly lose by unanimous decision. Prior to his fight with Tyson, Williams had won his previous five fights, including a victory over former champion Trevor Berbick which", "title": "Mike Tyson vs. Carl Williams" }, { "docid": "2316164", "text": "Tompkins came into much greater national prominence alongside Larry Merchant and Sugar Ray Leonard as a member of the \"HBO Boxing\" show's team. He called fights at HBO for many years and some of his commentaries became famous, such as his call when Alexis Argüello was hurt by Aaron Pryor in round fourteen of their Battle of the Champions (\"Arguello...oh! Arguello is hurt!!\"), when Héctor Camacho was buckled by Edwin Rosario in round five of their fight (\"Camacho had never been hurt before!\") and when Mike Tyson won the WBC world Heavyweight title with a second-round knockout of Trevor Berbick", "title": "Barry Tompkins" }, { "docid": "2547149", "text": "Holmes, Berbick is one of only two men in professional boxing history to have fought both Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. In 1991, he traveled to the UWFi promotion in Japan to fight Nobuhiko Takada in a \"boxer vs. wrestler\" bout. Berbick claimed that he had been double-crossed and that he had expected the fight to be like American kickboxing, but it turned out that the rules allowed Takada to kick Berbick below the belt. Berbick refused to mount any offense, instead repeatedly complaining to the referee as Takada kicked him repeatedly in the legs. Takada claimed victory by default", "title": "Trevor Berbick" }, { "docid": "15916003", "text": "came in July 2011, when he faced off with Kevin McBride, who ended Mike Tyson’s career as a boxer. Wach was quicker and sharper, and with one right cross, knocked McBride out cold in the fourth round winning the WBC International heavyweight title. Wach returned to the Mohegan Sun Arena just four months later with another statement-making performance, this time knocking out Jason Gavern in six rounds at the \"November Reign\" event. On 24 March Wach showed that he is a force to be reckoned with after scoring a six-round TKO over another giant, Tye Fields (49–5, 44 KOS). The", "title": "Mariusz Wach" }, { "docid": "735273", "text": "21 during an elimination bout following Rocky Marciano's retirement. Mike Tyson broke both records in 1986 when he defeated Trevor Berbick to win the heavyweight title at age 20. Soon after the Liston fight, Clay changed his name to Cassius X, and then later to Muhammad Ali upon converting to Islam and affiliating with the Nation of Islam. Ali then faced a rematch with Liston scheduled for May 1965 in Lewiston, Maine. It had been scheduled for Boston the previous November, but was postponed for six months due to Ali's emergency surgery for a hernia three days before. The fight", "title": "Muhammad Ali" }, { "docid": "17263273", "text": "Mike Tyson vs. Tony Tucker Mike Tyson vs. Tony Tucker, billed as \"The Ultimate\", was a professional boxing match contested on August 1, 1987 for the WBA, WBC and IBF Heavyweight championships. HBO had organized the heavyweight unification series, a tournament intended to find the next Undisputed Champion. Mike Tyson was able to defeat Trevor Berbick and James Smith to capture the WBC and WBA Heavyweight titles during the series. Meanwhile, Tucker was scheduled to challenge Michael Spinks for the IBF title with the winner to meet Tyson for right to become the Undisputed Champion. Spinks, however, withdrew from his", "title": "Mike Tyson vs. Tony Tucker" } ]
[ { "docid": "506714", "text": "broadcast. Tyson won easily, charging at Frazier at the opening bell and hitting him with an uppercut that knocked Frazier unconscious thirty seconds into the fight. On November 22, 1986, Tyson was given his first title fight against Trevor Berbick for the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight championship. Tyson won the title by TKO in the second round, and at the age of 20 years and 4 months became the youngest heavyweight champion in history. Tyson's dominant performance brought many accolades. Donald Saunders wrote: \"The noble and manly art of boxing can at least cease worrying about its immediate future,", "title": "Mike Tyson" }, { "docid": "2547154", "text": "Berbick was convicted for the murder of his uncle. His alleged accomplice, Kenton Gordon, was convicted of manslaughter and both men were sentenced on January 11, 2008. Harold Berbick was sentenced to life in prison; Kenton Gordon was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. Trevor Berbick was buried at the Berbick Family Plot Norwich Portland, Jamaica. Trevor Berbick Trevor Berbick (August 1, 1954 – October 28, 2006) was a Jamaican Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 2000. He won the WBC heavyweight title in 1986 by defeating Pinklon Thomas, but lost it in his first defense later that", "title": "Trevor Berbick" }, { "docid": "2547147", "text": "a 15-round unanimous decision. In his second fight after the loss, he beat 39-year-old Muhammad Ali in the final fight of Ali's career. In 1982 he beat undefeated prospect Greg Page, and in 1984 he moved to Miramar, Florida and signed with promoter Don King. Wins over undefeated Mitch \"Blood\" Green and David Bey scored him another title fight, and he won the WBC world heavyweight title by upsetting Pinklon Thomas with an easy unanimous decision on March 22, 1986. However, his reign as champion would be brief. On November 22, in his first defense of the title, Berbick took", "title": "Trevor Berbick" }, { "docid": "17251640", "text": "entered the fight as the champion, he was installed as a 3–1 underdog to Tyson, who, at 20 years old, was 12 years younger than Berbick and trying to surpass Floyd Patterson as the youngest man to win a major Heavyweight title in the history of the sport. Tyson dominated Berbick, easily picking up the victory by way of second-round technical knockout. From the opening bell, Tyson was the aggressor, hammering Berbick with several powerful punches. Towards the end of the round, Tyson hit Berbick with a four-punch combination that sent Berbick across the ring. Berbick managed to stay on", "title": "Trevor Berbick vs. Mike Tyson" }, { "docid": "2547145", "text": "heavyweight title twice, from 1979 to 1986 and 1999 to 2001. At 21, Berbick represented his native Jamaica in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as a heavyweight boxer, despite having had only 11 prior amateur bouts. His lack of experience was evident as he lost to the eventual silver medalist, Mircea Şimon of Romania. However, he still displayed a lot of promise as a young heavyweight boxer. The previous year, Berbick lost a decision to future heavyweight champion Michael Dokes in the Pan American Games semifinals, winning a bronze medal. Berbick left Jamaica after the Olympics. He", "title": "Trevor Berbick" }, { "docid": "15939303", "text": "In November 1986 Tyson knocked out Trevor Berbick to win the WBC heavyweight title; at 20 years old, Tyson was the youngest heavyweight champion in history. In his very next fight Tyson faced James \"Bonecrusher\" Smith, who had won the WBA title in an upset over Tim Witherspoon earlier in 1986, and defeated him by unanimous decision. Tyson then took a tune-up fight against former world champion Pinklon Thomas and knocked him out in six rounds, then waited for the result of a fight between Tucker and James 'Buster' Douglas for the vacant IBF title that had been stripped from", "title": "Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks" }, { "docid": "4831337", "text": "Bernardo Mercado Bernardo Mercado was a heavyweight boxer briefly ranked as the top contender for the title of champion in 1980 by the WBC. Born in Montería, Colombia on January 16, 1952, Mercado was once a sparring partner for Argentine heavyweight Oscar Bonavena, before turning professional on November 15, 1975. Of his first 20 bouts, the 6'6 ft power puncher won 17 by knockout, nine in the first round. Mercado's first loss as a pro came in 1978, at the hands of future champion \"Big\" John Tate. He went on to fight other future champions Mike Weaver and Trevor Berbick,", "title": "Bernardo Mercado" }, { "docid": "2090132", "text": "entered his body. He took up boxing at age 20 and had just 10 amateur bouts before making his pro debut on December 3, 1994, at age 22. Despite his inexperience, Rahman had obvious natural boxing skills that propelled him to 11 knockout wins in his first 12 fights. Then he took a step up in class in March 1996 with a 10-round decision win over veteran Ross Puritty and seven months later, he repeated the feat against former world champion Trevor Berbick. In July 1997, he won the regional USBA heavyweight title, and four months later, he added another", "title": "Hasim Rahman" }, { "docid": "19094361", "text": "against American boxer Lamar Davis (4-1, 1 KO) in a scheduled 4 round bout at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Ortiz won the fight via TKO after just under 80 seconds of round 1. Ortiz fought again at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino for his 2nd professional fight on June 15 against 39 year old Charles Davis. Ortiz won via TKO in round 4. In his 3rd pro fight, Ortiz claimed the vacant WBC FECARBOX heavyweight title against 28 year old Kendrick Releford (22-13-2, (10 KOs) on August 24, 2010. Releford was knocked", "title": "Luis Ortiz (Cuban boxer)" }, { "docid": "8611376", "text": "fighter during his era. Duane Thomas had just made a comeback after 11 years out of the ring, when he was murdered in Detroit over a drug dispute, in 2000. Duane Thomas (boxer) Duane Thomas (February 1, 1961 – June 2000), was an American professional boxer in the super welterweight (154 lb) division. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. Thomas turned pro in 1979 and won the Vacant WBC Light Middleweight Title with a 3rd-round TKO over John Mugabi in 1986 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Thomas would lose the title eight months later, in Merignac, France, in his", "title": "Duane Thomas (boxer)" }, { "docid": "2547146", "text": "opted to settle in Montreal and fight professionally out of Halifax. He won his first 11 fights (10 by knockout) before suffering his first pro loss to another rising contender, Bernardo Mercado, on April 3, 1979. As an amateur, Berbick had soundly beaten Mercado. However, with 10 seconds remaining in the first round of their only professional meeting, Berbick walked into a punch and was knocked out cold. Nevertheless, he remained in contention for the heavyweight title. A 1980 upset of ex-champ John Tate (9th-round KO) secured a title shot against Larry Holmes on April 11, 1981, but Berbick lost", "title": "Trevor Berbick" }, { "docid": "8634518", "text": "Rodolfo González (boxer) Rodolfo González (born 16 December 1945 in Guadalajara, Jalisco) was a Mexican boxer and former WBC Lightweight Champion also known as El Gato. González started his career very young at the age of 14, and won his first 37 bouts. In 10/11/1972 he took on Chango Carmona for the WBC Lightweight Title and won via a Corner retirement in the 13th round. González defended the title two times before losing the belt to Guts Ishimatsu in 11/4/1974 via KO in the 8 round. Later in the year he rematched Ishimatsu, but lost via TKO and retired from", "title": "Rodolfo González (boxer)" }, { "docid": "8810407", "text": "11th round TKO victory in Tokyo on 9 September 1992. With the victory, East became the youngest ever Filipino to hold a world championship in boxing at the age of 19 years and 31 days old. He is also the second youngest boxer to win a world title at 140 lbs., second to Puerto Rico's Wilfred Benitez won the WBC jr. welterweight title when he was 17 years old. The victory over Hiranaka was named Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year for 1989. Morris lost the title in his first defense against Juan Martin Coggi. East would retire after winning", "title": "Morris East" }, { "docid": "13949247", "text": "Septuple champion In different sports when a sportsman wins seven crowns, titles, medals, belts or another distinctions is called a Septuple Champion. In boxing, a septuple champion is a boxer who has won world titles in seven different weight classes. Manny Pacquiao is the first boxer to win world titles in seven different weight divisions. Pacquiao clinched the feat when he defeated Miguel Cotto via TKO in 12th round and won the WBO Welterweight (147 lbs) title on November 14, 2009 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Five of his world championships came from the \"Big Four\" (WBA, WBC, IBF,", "title": "Septuple champion" }, { "docid": "19188009", "text": "Soliman before relinquished his Australian titles to fight in USA, beating Billy Lewis for the IBF Inter-Continental light heavyweight title in 2000. Kelly then moved to be trained by former world champion, Jeff Fenech. His biggest fight was against Roy Jones, Jr. for the WBC, WBA, IBF, IBO, WBF and IBA light heavyweight World titles in 2002. Kelly was outclassed by Jones, being knocked out in the seventh round. His final fight was against David Haye in 2005 which he lost by TKO in the 2nd round. His brother is also a professional boxer Kevin Kelly Glen Kelly (boxer) Glen", "title": "Glen Kelly (boxer)" }, { "docid": "3422853", "text": "astonished with the athlete's \"power and skill\", he was inspired to use the athlete's name and likeness in the upcoming port of the \"Punch-Out!!\" series to help the game sell well. Tyson was rumored to have been paid $50,000 for a three-year period for his likeness. This was something of a risk for Nintendo, as it occurred before Tyson won the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight championship from Trevor Berbick on November 22, 1986. \"Punch-Out!!\" features a boxer known as Little Mac, fighting his way up through ranks of the World Video Boxing Association. After facing a series of colorful", "title": "Punch-Out!! (NES)" }, { "docid": "8212875", "text": "He lost the fight via TKO in the second round. Trevor and his wife have a son. Trevor Prangley Trevor Prangley (born 24 August 1972) is a South African mixed martial artist. He has fought in the UFC, Strikeforce, Bellator, Dream, King of the Cage, MFC, the SFL, Shark Fights, and Bodog Fight. He competed in the Middleweight and Light Heavyweight divisions. He was the former King of the Cage Light Heavyweight Champion, the former Shark Fights Light Heavyweight Champion, and the former MFC Light Heavyweight Champion. Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1972, Prangley grew up on a", "title": "Trevor Prangley" }, { "docid": "16098341", "text": "by a straight right hand to the head and was saved by the bell to end the round. The ringside doctor put an end to the bout citing an injury. Monaghan was credited with a first round TKO. Monaghan scored a fifth round TKO over Anthony Pietrantonio in the Garden’s WaMu Theatre on October 22, 2011. On June 14 in front of a capacity crowd at NY's Roseland Ballroom, Monaghan became the new WBC Continental Americas Light Heavyweight Champion with an 8th round TKO over Romaro Johnson Monaghan has been working on sharpening his technique with greater emphasis on speed,", "title": "Sean Monaghan" }, { "docid": "8611375", "text": "Duane Thomas (boxer) Duane Thomas (February 1, 1961 – June 2000), was an American professional boxer in the super welterweight (154 lb) division. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. Thomas turned pro in 1979 and won the Vacant WBC Light Middleweight Title with a 3rd-round TKO over John Mugabi in 1986 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Thomas would lose the title eight months later, in Merignac, France, in his first defense to Lupe Aquino by decision. In 1988 he challenged WBC Light Middleweight Title holder Gianfranco Rosi, but was dominated and TKO'd in the 7th. He was an elite", "title": "Duane Thomas (boxer)" }, { "docid": "17251641", "text": "his feet, but Tyson continued to attack, hitting Berbick several more times until the bell sounded. Tyson picked up right where he left off in round 2, almost immediately hitting Berbick with a combination that dropped the champion. Berbick was able to answer the referee's count and the fight continued. Berbick, however, was unable to mount any offense going and was rocked continuously by Tyson. Tyson finally ended the fight at the 2:35 mark, hitting Berbick with a right to the body followed by a left hook to the head that dropped the older man for the second time. Berbick", "title": "Trevor Berbick vs. Mike Tyson" }, { "docid": "10218747", "text": "Leroy Jones (boxer) Leroy Jones (February 10, 1950 – July 11, 2010) was a heavyweight boxer who won the NABF heavyweight championship and challenged Larry Holmes for the WBC heavyweight title in 1980. Jones' professional career began with a third round knockout of John Scroggins on July 30, 1973. He put together 24 wins with 12 knockouts, including a 12 round points win over future world heavyweight champion Mike Weaver. The Weaver fight won Jones the NABF heavyweight championship, essentially the American title. During his professional career it became apparent that Jones had a problem with conditioning, as he fought", "title": "Leroy Jones (boxer)" }, { "docid": "17231072", "text": "the first round. He went 13 - 0 (13 KO's) his first year in the ring. Gardner defeated Johnny Williams (boxer) after 12 rounds in the Fight of the Year in July 1950, becoming a contender. On 14 November 1950 Jack Gardner defeated Bruce Woodcock (boxer) for the Heavyweight Championship of Great Britain and the British Empire by TKO after 11 rounds. Afterwards, he defeated Jo Weidin for the European Heavyweight Championship by decision in March 1951 after 15 rounds. As the British and European Heavyweight Champion, Jack Gardner, had a record of 22 - 2 (19 KO's). However, he", "title": "Jack Gardner (boxer)" }, { "docid": "2547150", "text": "when Berbick exited the ring. Afterwards, his career deteriorated further. He eventually fought his last bout in 2000 against Canadian journeyman Shane Sutcliffe, winning a 12-round unanimous decision. Afterwards, a CAT scan revealed a blood clot in his brain and his boxing license was revoked. His final professional record was 49 wins (33 by knockout), 11 losses, and 1 draw. Berbick was a preacher at the Moments of Miracles Pentecostal church in Las Vegas. Berbick was arrested on a number of occasions throughout his life and was sentenced in Florida to 5 years in prison for raping his children's 16-year-old", "title": "Trevor Berbick" }, { "docid": "2547153", "text": "by an assailant wielding a steel pipe. Berbick suffered multiple blows to the head and died at the scene. Police arrested two men, one of whom was Berbick's 20-year-old nephew Harold Berbick, in connection with the murder. They were interrogated at the Port Antonio police station in Portland early on the morning of October 29. Local residents indicated that the suspect was involved in a land dispute with Berbick. On November 3 it was reported that Berbick's nephew, 20-year-old Harold Berbick, and an unidentified 18-year-old man had been charged with his murder by Jamaican police. On December 20, 2007, Harold", "title": "Trevor Berbick" }, { "docid": "11605208", "text": "to Russia to challenge for the WBA (regular) heavyweight title held by Alexander Povetkin, and in doing so suffered his first professional loss by third round TKO. In 2014, Wawrzyk scored two notable wins over former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Danny Williams by first round TKO, and former IBF world heavyweight champion Francois Botha by fifth round TKO. In September 2016, he defeated former world heavyweight title challenger Albert Sosnowski by sixth round TKO. His next professional contest was scheduled for February 2017 against reigning and undefeated WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder in Birmingham, Alabama. But Wilder was forced", "title": "Andrzej Wawrzyk" }, { "docid": "8512984", "text": "David Díaz (boxer) David Díaz (born June 7, 1976) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2011, and held the WBC lightweight title from 2007 to 2008. Diaz accumulated an undefeated record of 26-0 before losing to Kendall Holt by TKO in the 8th round. He defeated José Armando Santa Cruz for the interim title on August 12, 2006. On February 20, 2007, Diaz was awarded the title when Joel Casamayor, the champion at the time, was stripped of the title for signing to fight a rematch against WBO champion Acelino Freitas rather than defend against", "title": "David Díaz (boxer)" }, { "docid": "7184511", "text": "Melio Bettina Melio Bettina (November 18, 1916 – December 20, 1996 in Beacon, New York) was a professional boxer. Bettina won the 1935 Intercity Golden Gloves at light-heavyweight (2nd Div.) by decision over Tony Zale. According to local legend Melio changed to a southpaw stance after he couldn't find any amateur challengers. Bettina was recognized as World Light Heavyweight champion by the New York State Athletic Commission in 1939. Bettina won the title on February 3, 1939, when he scored a 9th-round TKO over favorite Tiger Jack Fox at Madison Square Garden in New York. Bettina would lose the title", "title": "Melio Bettina" }, { "docid": "8534451", "text": "ring on a stretcher. Johnson defended the title twice before losing by a wide decision to Roy Jones Jr. in a unification bout for the WBA and WBC titles in 1999. In 2001, Johnson returned to boxing and won the NABF and USBA light heavyweight titles, which he then lost in 2002 following a close decision to Antonio Tarver in an IBF world title eliminator. At age 35, Johnson then retired. He returned in 2005 for one fight, then in 2008 Johnson scored a split decision win over former light heavyweight world champion Julio César González. Reggie Johnson (boxer) Reggie", "title": "Reggie Johnson (boxer)" }, { "docid": "8903943", "text": "in 1989 won the WBC Light Heavyweight Title with a 12th-round TKO over Dennis Andries in only his 15th professional fight with Johnny Lewis in his corner. He defended the title twice before losing the belt via KO in 1990 in a rematch with Andries. In 1991 he recaptured the WBC Light Heavyweight Title by taking a majority decision over Andries in their third match. He defended the belt twice before losing the title in 1994 to Mike McCallum by unanimous decision. Harding retired after the bout. Jeff Harding (boxer) Jeff Harding (born 5 February 1965 in Sydney) is a", "title": "Jeff Harding (boxer)" }, { "docid": "4089817", "text": "from the loss on June 20, 1980 against up and coming Trevor Berbick. This was on the undercard of the legendary fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Durán. The former champion started well, but tired throughout the bruising battle and was defeated by Berbick early in the 9th round—being knocked out by a punch that caught him on the back of the head and left him unconscious. Tate was in the frame to challenge Larry Holmes for the heavyweight title in 1984, but the fight fell apart due to injury. Tate boxed on and off for the remainder of", "title": "John Tate (boxer)" }, { "docid": "10237164", "text": "heavyweight bout against future titlist Trevor Berbick before losing his cruiserweight title in 1983 in a rematch with De Leon. He retired after the loss but had a brief comeback in 1987 but was knocked out in the first round by Dwain Bonds. S. T. Gordon ST Gordon (born April 18, 1959 in Pasco, WA) is an American former professional boxer who was the World Boxing Council and Lineal cruiserweight champion of the world in 1982-1983. Gordon became a professional boxer in 1977. He faced undefeated heavyweight prospect Gerry Cooney in 1978 but lost via a fourth-round disqualification. In 1981", "title": "S. T. Gordon" }, { "docid": "17630271", "text": "Charles Martin (boxer) Charles Lee Martin (born April 24, 1986) is an American professional boxer who held the IBF heavyweight title from January to April 2016. His 85-day reign as champion is the second-shortest in heavyweight boxing history, after Tony Tucker's 64 days in 1987 (also as IBF champion). During Martin's short reign as IBF champion, he reached a peak active heavyweight ranking of ninth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. Martin had 63 fights as an amateur, having started boxing at the age of 22. In 2012 he won the National PAL Championships. Martin turned professional on October 27,", "title": "Charles Martin (boxer)" }, { "docid": "20924681", "text": "his WBC title later that year because he opted not to fight against a mandatory challenger; the heavyweight championship had been fragmented ever since. This fragmentation and the resulting proliferation of title fights was seen by many as a discredit to the sport, and resulted in declining public interest in boxing. The idea of the series originated in October 1985, when Don King visited HBO Sports president Seth Abraham to propose a WBC title fight between Pinklon Thomas and Trevor Berbick. Abraham had little interest in the fight, but, inspired by the World Series that was being televised at the", "title": "Heavyweight unification series" }, { "docid": "19293868", "text": "Bluff, Arkansas. He died on February 20, 1986 in Little Rock, Arkansas at 82, an advanced age for a lifelong boxer. Tommy Freeman (boxer) Tommy Freeman (January 22, 1904 – February 20, 1986) was an American professional boxer who became a World Welterweight Boxing Champion on September 5, 1930 when he defeated reigning champion Young Jack Thompson. He lost the title to Thompson the following year, on April 14, 1931. Remarkably, the majority of his recorded wins were by knockout, and his losses were few, at under ten percent of his total fights. He was rated by \"The Ring\" magazine", "title": "Tommy Freeman (boxer)" }, { "docid": "1521906", "text": "the devastating hitter. Despite Young's inability to earn a victory over Shavers, it was still enough to earn him a title fight with the Heavyweight Champion of the World, Muhammad Ali. Young achieved widespread public recognition when he fought Muhammad Ali in Landover, Maryland in April 1976 for the world heavyweight title, although boxing circles had already noted his ability. Ali weighed in at 230 pounds, the highest for any of his fights up to that point (he would weigh 236.25 pounds in his fight against Trevor Berbick), and was consequently slow and immobile throughout the bout. Seven years younger", "title": "Jimmy Young (boxer)" }, { "docid": "15317248", "text": "a second defence of his IBF title at the Staples Center in Los Angeles against Mexican boxer Victor Zaleta (20-2-1, 10 KOs) on a double header featuring WBC super bantamweight champion Abner Mares vs. Anselmo Moreno on November 10. The card was to be shown live on Showtime. Santa Cruz dropped Zaleta three times en route to a TKO victory in round 9 to retain his IBF title. Santa Cruz started the fight the better boxer and began working the body immediately. Zaleta was dropped following a body shot in round 4, again in round 7 following a combination of", "title": "Léo Santa Cruz" }, { "docid": "4831338", "text": "knocking Berbick out in the first round of their meeting on April 3, 1979. In 1980, he earned a seventh round technical knockout over dangerous contender and multiple-time world title challenger Earnie Shavers and was ranked as the number one contender to Larry Holmes' WBC belt. He was defeated in an elimination bout with former champion Leon Spinks by 9 round technical knockout. He would go on to fight such name fighters as Randall \"Tex\" Cobb and Jimmy Thunder (with whom he fought in his last bout on December 8, 1989). Bernardo Mercado Bernardo Mercado was a heavyweight boxer briefly", "title": "Bernardo Mercado" }, { "docid": "17640425", "text": "after 4 rounds. He then scored his first stoppage Victory on 21 May 2010 defeating Dougie Curran by TKO in the second round. Galahad raked up a record of 10–0 before defeating Jason Booth by Unanimous Decision on 18 February 2012 to earn his first title the WBC International Super-Bantamweight Championship Galahad defended his championship once against Josh Wale by TKO afterwards he vacated the title. Galahad scored two more wins, defeating Ivan Ruiz Morote and Isaac Nettey both by TKO to earn a shot at the BBBofC British title which he won by defeating James Dickens by TKO, he", "title": "Kid Galahad (boxer)" }, { "docid": "11261409", "text": "Medina on the undercard of the Carl Froch v George Groves at Manchester's Phones 4u arena on 23 November 2013, Smith won the fight via KO in Round 8 and won the vacant WBC International Silver super featherweight title. Stephen Smith is the younger brother of the boxer; Paul Smith, and the older brother of the boxers; Liam Smith, and Callum Smith. Stephen Smith (boxer) Stephen Francis Smith (born 22 July 1985 is a British professional boxer. He is the current WBC Silver super featherweight champion and a former British featherweight and British super featherweight champion, he is also a", "title": "Stephen Smith (boxer)" }, { "docid": "13424990", "text": "by 12th round tko. Later on, he was beaten by Jeff Fenech and Dingaan Thobela. Martínez retired at the age of 31. Mario Martínez (boxer) Mario Martínez, also known as Azabache (born 15 August 1965 in Guadalajara, Jalisco) is a retired professional boxer from Mexico best known for losing to Julio César Chávez for the then-vacant WBC Super Featherweight title on 13 September 1984. It is said that such bout catapulted Chavez's career. Mario Martínez became a professional boxer at the age of 16 in his native Guadalajara, Jalisco. He lost one of his early fights against fellow Mexican Rosendo", "title": "Mario Martínez (boxer)" }, { "docid": "883349", "text": "quality of the majority of his challengers, as well as his unimposing physique and small dimensions. These factors makes it difficult for boxing historians to imagine him competing with later heavyweight champions, who would have held significant physical advantages. His one-sided loss to Johnson in his most famous fight demonstrates this fact, and perhaps contributes to Burns' poor historical standing. His best win as champion was a 20-rounds points decision over Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, who two years previously had stopped Bob Fitzsimmons to claim the World light-Heavyweight championship. Although Trevor Berbick and Bermane Stiverne have also won a version of", "title": "Tommy Burns (boxer)" }, { "docid": "8735056", "text": "Lonnie Smith (boxer) Harlan Alonso Smith, known as Lonnie Smith (born November 5, 1962 in Denver, Colorado), is an American boxer at Welterweight. Known as \"Lightning\" Lonnie, Smith turned pro in 1980 and was undefeated in his first 23 fights, including a win over undefeated Billy Costello to capture the WBC Light Welterweight Title in 1985. He lost the title in his first defense to Rene Arredondo via 5th round TKO. In 1991 he took on WBC Light Welterweight Title holder Julio César Chávez, but lost a one-sided decision. Before their bout, the two had a confrontation at McCarran International", "title": "Lonnie Smith (boxer)" }, { "docid": "11857801", "text": "on August 2, 1986. Sekorski won the vacant Minnesota State Heavyweight title with a 3rd-round TKO against Percell Davis in August 1988, then lost a fight for the WBC Continental Americas heavyweight title to former WBA world Heavyweight champion Michael Dokes in December of the same year. Thereafter Sekorski would lose more than he won, concluding his career with a loss to Jimmy Lee Smith on November 22, 1993. Overall, Sekorski compiled a professional record of 23-11 with 13 wins by knockout during a twelve-year professional career. By the time he hung up the gloves for good Sekorski had faced", "title": "Rocky Sekorski" }, { "docid": "14095678", "text": "for the WBA light welterweight title, losing by TKO at 0:37 of round 3. He retired after the bout. Kim Sang-hyun (boxer) Kim Sang-hyun (Hangul: 김상현, Hanja: 金相賢; born January 18, 1955 in Busan, South Korea) is a former boxer from South Korea. Kim won the Orient and Pacific Boxing Federation light welterweight title in 1978 and became the WBC light welterweight champion with a technical KO win over Saensak Muangsurin, who set a world record by winning the world title in only his 3rd professional fight. He defended the belt twice before losing it to Saoul Mamby in 1980.", "title": "Kim Sang-hyun (boxer)" }, { "docid": "15075759", "text": "the thirteenth. Llewellyn's record after becoming Welshheavyweight champion is poor, with only one win recorded up to 1925. He faced Tom Norris again in 1924, but lost on points. In 1925 he is recorded as losing three fights; Charlie Smith in Cardiff, Northern Area heavyweight champion Con O'Kelly in Hull and future Welsh heavyweight champion Dick Power. Trevor Llewellyn Trevor Llewellyn was a Welsh professional heavyweight boxer. Born in Newport in Monmouthshire, Llewellyn became the Welsh heavyweight champion in 1922. A police officer by profession, he often fought under the name PC Trevor Llewellyn. Llewellyn was born in 1898 in", "title": "Trevor Llewellyn" }, { "docid": "5165944", "text": "a unanimous decision, Page was matched with former WBO Heavyweight Champion Francesco Damiani in September 1992. In a close contest, he lost two points for repeatedly losing his mouthpiece. The point deductions cost Page a draw: All three judges had Damiani winning by two points. In August 1993 Page boxed future WBA Heavyweight Champion Bruce Seldon and was stopped in the ninth round. He retired after the fight. After retiring, Page started training boxers. He worked with Oliver McCall and was in McCall's corner when he stunningly scored a second-round knockout of Lennox Lewis to win the WBC World Heavyweight", "title": "Greg Page (boxer)" }, { "docid": "12961878", "text": "WBA heavyweight champion Greg Page (W12) to capture the United States Boxing Association heavyweight championship. In March 1985 Bey was given a title shot by long-reigning IBF heavyweight champion Larry Holmes. After a strong start Bey was knocked down twice and stopped by Holmes in the 10th round. Bey never regained his confidence, losing his USBA title by 11th-round TKO to Trevor Berbick in his comeback fight, then being relegated to 'opponent' status for the remainder of his career, matched against the likes of James \"Bonecrusher\" Smith, Joe Bugner in Australia, Tyrell Biggs, Johnny DuPlooy in South Africa, Bruce Seldon,", "title": "David Bey" }, { "docid": "11524665", "text": "Michel Rosales Michel Rosales (born February 24, 1983 in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer. He competes in the Welterweight division. Rosales became the WBC Continental Americas Light Welterweight champion with a second-round TKO over Colombian Dario Esalas. On April 11, 2009 he lost against top Welterweight contender, Mexican Canelo Álvarez. In November 2009, Michel had his best win as a pro, beating Mark Jason Melligen over ten rounds. On March 19, 2011 he will face David Lopez in a WBA light middleweight title eliminator. May 14, 2014 Loss Charly de la cruz TKO", "title": "Michel Rosales" }, { "docid": "11524664", "text": "Michel Rosales Michel Rosales (born February 24, 1983 in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer. He competes in the Welterweight division. Rosales became the WBC Continental Americas Light Welterweight champion with a second-round TKO over Colombian Dario Esalas. On April 11, 2009 he lost against top Welterweight contender, Mexican Canelo Álvarez. In November 2009, Michel had his best win as a pro, beating Mark Jason Melligen over ten rounds. On March 19, 2011 he will face David Lopez in a WBA light middleweight title eliminator. May 14, 2014 Loss Charly de la cruz TKO", "title": "Michel Rosales" }, { "docid": "2547152", "text": "being kicked and punched by Larry Holmes when Holmes climbed atop a parked car and launched himself at Berbick. Holmes was furious with Berbick badmouthing his family. The footage ends as the two are separated by police and others. Berbick retired in Florida to be with his wife and four children (he had three children with his first wife in Montreal) and started to train boxers at Kenny Barrett's Gym in Tamarac, Florida. Berbick's problems escalated. He was again deported from the U.S. on December 2, 2002. On October 28, 2006, Berbick was murdered at a church in Norwich, Jamaica", "title": "Trevor Berbick" }, { "docid": "1576853", "text": "then defeated Bryant Brannon in a round two TKO. In November 1996 at Ice Palace, Tampa, Florida, Jones defeated 40-year-old former three-weight world champion Mike McCallum via a shutout decision (120-107, 3 times) before a crowd of 12,000, to win the vacant Interim WBC Light Heavyweight title. Jones scored a knockdown just before the bell at the end of round 10. Jones landed 254 of 535 punches (47%) throughout the 12 rounds and McCallum connected on 209 of 651 (32%) Jones was soon upgraded to full champion by the WBC when former titlist Fabrice Tiozzo moved up to cruiserweight. Jones", "title": "Roy Jones Jr." }, { "docid": "18774900", "text": "2014 in Moscow he knocked out former world champion WBC junior heavy, Cuban Juan Carlos Gomez (55-3, 40 KOs) at the 22 second duel and April 10, 2015 at the Moscow gala Puerto Rican Francisco Palacios (23-3, 14 KOs) in the first round. Dmitry Kudryashov (boxer) Dmitry Alexandrovich Kudryashov (; born 26 October 1985) is a Russian professional boxer who has challenged once for the WBA (Regular) cruiserweight title in 2017. At the age of eight he began to practice karate, and at the age of thirteen engaged in the practice of boxing under the guidance of coach Nikolai Timofeev.", "title": "Dmitry Kudryashov (boxer)" }, { "docid": "16930562", "text": "the second round. The TKO loss was the fourth KO loss of Clark’s career and gave Jones the USBA welterweight title. To date, Jones has successfully defended his title twice. Carson Jones Carson Jones (born August 19, 1986 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American professional boxer at welterweight and the former USBA welterweight champion (May 5, 2011). He is also the former NABA light-middle weight champion (April 22, 2010), the former WBC Continental Americas light-middle weight champion (May 7, 2009), and the former NABA USA light middleweight champion (April 18, 2008). Nicknamed 'Mr. Jones', he achieved his highest ranking", "title": "Carson Jones" }, { "docid": "9342858", "text": "the 1st. This was Johnson's first stoppage loss. Johnson announced his retirement from boxing after the loss to Joshua. He returned in 2017 with a points win over journeyman Jamal Woods and later challenged Kubrat Pulev for the WBA Inter-Continental title. Despite being outboxed from the start, he managed to take Pulev 12 rounds. Johnson lost a unanimous decision 120–108, 120–108, and 119–109. On October 14, 2017, Johnson beat Francesco Pianeta via TKO in round 7. Kevin Johnson (boxer) Kevin Blue Johnson (born September 7, 1979) is an American professional boxer who has challenged once for the WBC heavyweight title", "title": "Kevin Johnson (boxer)" }, { "docid": "4227567", "text": "Tim Witherspoon Tim Witherspoon (born December 27, 1957) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1979 to 2003. He is a two-time world heavyweight champion, having held the WBC title in 1984, and the WBA title in 1986. Witherspoon also worked as a regular sparring partner for Muhammad Ali. Witherspoon had six amateur bouts, losing the last to Marvis Frazier on decision after getting knocked down. Making his professional debut with a first-round TKO over Joe Adams on October 30, 1979, Witherspoon quickly rose through the ranks. In 1981, he participated in his first high-profile fight, knocking out", "title": "Tim Witherspoon" }, { "docid": "10691277", "text": "His career ended with a 37–2 record. Rodriguez held the Texas Heavyweight title, New Mexico Heavyweight title, NABU Heavyweight title, NABA Heavyweight title as well as two WBC belts. The FECOM and Latin title. Rodriguez is now an anti-bullying key note speaker and best selling author of the book \"When The Lights Go Out\". After 16 months of retirement Nino finally returned November 21, 2015, with a 42-second 1st round win KO over Miguel Domingues of Brazil 23–4 with 21 knockouts. Rodriguez has not since stepped back into the ring. Rodriguez has been seen occasionally on national television commentating Boxing", "title": "David Rodriguez (boxer)" }, { "docid": "19580368", "text": "against Eddie Caminero. Over the next five years, Smith racked up a record of 20 wins with 16 coming inside the distance and 1 loss. This included wins against the likes of Otis Griffin, Cory Cummings and a decision win against Will Rosinsky. In April 2016, Smith defeated Brazilian boxer Fabiano Pena (16-4-1 12 KOs) via a 2nd-round TKO winning 15 straight fights and continuing to rise up the ranks. It was announced that Smith would be fighting the #2 WBC contender, former world title challenger Andrzej Fonfara (28-3, 16 KOs) for the WBC international light heavyweight title at the", "title": "Joe Smith Jr." }, { "docid": "9731923", "text": "Mauro Galvano Mauro Galvano (born 30 March 1964 in Fiumicino, Roma) was a professional boxer and former WBC Super Middleweight Champion. As an amateur, Galvano was the 1984 Italian Middleweight Champion and the 1985 Italian Light-Heavyweight Champion. Galvano turned pro in 1986 and won the Vacant WBC Super Middleweight Title with a decision win over Dario Walter Matteoni in 1990. He defended the belt twice before losing it to Nigel Benn via TKO in 1992. In the rematch with Benn in 1993, Galvano again came up short in a decision loss. He retired in 1997. Career Record: Won 30 (KOs", "title": "Mauro Galvano" }, { "docid": "9731924", "text": "7) Lost 8 Drawn 2 Total 40 Mauro Galvano Mauro Galvano (born 30 March 1964 in Fiumicino, Roma) was a professional boxer and former WBC Super Middleweight Champion. As an amateur, Galvano was the 1984 Italian Middleweight Champion and the 1985 Italian Light-Heavyweight Champion. Galvano turned pro in 1986 and won the Vacant WBC Super Middleweight Title with a decision win over Dario Walter Matteoni in 1990. He defended the belt twice before losing it to Nigel Benn via TKO in 1992. In the rematch with Benn in 1993, Galvano again came up short in a decision loss. He retired", "title": "Mauro Galvano" }, { "docid": "14849154", "text": "Baltic title at light heavyweight. Maxim Vlasov (boxer) Maxim Sergeyevich Vlasov (; born September 11, 1986) is a Russian professional boxer in the cruiserweight division. As of February 2018 he is ranked #3 in the world in the cruiserweight division by the WBA, WBC and WBO. On June 18, 2010 Vlasov beat veteran Jerson Ravelo by third round T.K.O. On February 25, 2011 Vlasov suffered his first loss against Isaac Chilemba. He knocked the Malawian down twice in the 8th round. Despite this Chilemba was able to win the fight on points. Vlasov has been ranked #10 by the WBC", "title": "Maxim Vlasov (boxer)" }, { "docid": "14557843", "text": "was to undefeated Lightweight Prospect José Emilio Perea. On February 27, 2010 Daniel beat veteran Angel Alirio Rivero by 10th round T.K.O. in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Daniel Estrada (boxer) Pedro Daniel Estrada Espitia (born May 4, 1985 in Iztapalapa, Distrito Federal, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer in the Lightweight division. Pedro is the former WBC Silver lightweight Champion, WBC Youth World lightweight Champion, WBC FECARBOX lightweight Champion, WBC Continental Americas lightweight Champion and also the WBC Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) lightweight Champion. He has lost to famous boxers such as the current WBC Lightweight Champion Omar Figueroa and WBO", "title": "Daniel Estrada (boxer)" }, { "docid": "2547151", "text": "babysitter in 1992. He served 15 months. In 1997, he violated his parole and was deported from the United States to Canada. Due to his legal issues, he also had problems staying in Canada, losing his landed immigrant status and being ordered back to Jamaica in 1999. Later in 1999 he won the right to remain in Canada. Berbick had a well-publicized feud with Larry Holmes, whom he fought in the ring in 1981. Their feud culminated in a public confrontation and brawl in 1991, which was caught on tape. After a verbal altercation indoors, Berbick was outside complaining about", "title": "Trevor Berbick" }, { "docid": "4227576", "text": "published his book with the help of British entrepreneur Kevin Baker and ghost writer Ryan Danes. Tim Witherspoon Tim Witherspoon (born December 27, 1957) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1979 to 2003. He is a two-time world heavyweight champion, having held the WBC title in 1984, and the WBA title in 1986. Witherspoon also worked as a regular sparring partner for Muhammad Ali. Witherspoon had six amateur bouts, losing the last to Marvis Frazier on decision after getting knocked down. Making his professional debut with a first-round TKO over Joe Adams on October 30, 1979, Witherspoon", "title": "Tim Witherspoon" }, { "docid": "8774177", "text": "Tracy Harris Patterson Tracy Harris Patterson, (born on December 26, 1964), is a former boxer who became a two weight world champion. Born Tracy Harris in Grady, Alabama, he is the adopted son of former Golden Gloves and world heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, turned Golden Gloves success into a solid pro career. He won the WBC super bantamweight title with a two-round TKO of Thierry Jacob and defended the title for two years before losing the belt to Hector Acero-Sanchez in 1994. He later won the IBF super featherweight title against Eddie Hopson in 1995. Patterson retired in 2001 with", "title": "Tracy Harris Patterson" }, { "docid": "19848879", "text": "Juan Alejo Juan Alejo is a Mexican professional boxer. He won Mexico's Light Flyweight title with an 11th-round TKO of Jose Guadalupe Martinez on August 20, 2014. He won a ten-round split decision victory over Jose Rivas on May 27, 2015. Alejo is the current WBC FECOMBOX light flyweight Champion. On October 10, 2015 he fought the WBO Light Flyweight Champion Donnie Nietes for the title being the contender, Alejo is the WBO #2 Light Flyweight fighter. In the main event at StubHub Center in Carson, California, WBO junior flyweight champion Donnie Nietes, (37-1-4, 21 KOs) beat Alejo, (21-3, 13", "title": "Juan Alejo" }, { "docid": "17543143", "text": "York prisons, Sing Sing, Attica, and Dannemora. He was involved in numerous prison fights, and his face and body bore the scars of 17 years behind bars. Halpern was released from prison in 1975 at age 42. He hadn't fought in 17 years, yet he was determined to fight again. He earned the nickname, \"The Hebrew Hammer\" in his first comeback fight on November 10, 1976, after he knocked out 260 pound Terry Lee Kidd with one punch. However, 14 days later, Halpern was knocked out in two rounds by future World Heavyweight Champion Trevor Berbick. Berbick would be the", "title": "Bobby Halpern" }, { "docid": "16473163", "text": "he defeated Eddie Caminero with a third round TKO and becoming the WBC Continental Americas light heavyweight champion. On April 27, 2012, Grachev took on then-reigning NABF light heavyweight champion Ismayl Sillakh. At the time, Sillakh was a consensus top-10 ranked light heavyweight and was going into the bout as a heavy 11 to 1 odds favorite over Grachev. After being knocked down in the third round by Sillakh, as well as losing most rounds on the judges' scorecards, Grachev rallied an upset of the year TKO victory in the 8th round; also becoming the new NABF light heavyweight champion", "title": "Denis Grachev (fighter)" }, { "docid": "11979331", "text": "European champion Alexander Gurov in Gurov's Ukrainian hometown, with Gurov winning a controversial twelve-round decision. George then moved down to light-heavyweight and beat former light-heavyweight title challenger Richard Hall by unanimous decision. When former two-time heavyweight champion Chris Byrd dropped down two weightclasses to compete at light-heavyweight he chose George as his first fight. George scored a knockdown in the first round and then followed up with two more in the ninth round to score a TKO in the 9th. This all but retired Byrd and is certainly the signature win for George in the pro ranks. He added a", "title": "Shaun George (boxer)" }, { "docid": "18302784", "text": "Currie then fought Derek Williams in December 1989 for both the Commonwealth title and the vacant EBU European title; Williams won by a first-round TKO. That proved to be Currie's final fight and he retired from boxing. Hughroy Currie Trevor \"Hughroy Currie\" Curry (born 9 February 1959) is a Jamaican-born British former heavyweight boxer who was British champion between 1985 and 1986. Based in London, Currie had his first professional fight in February 1981, a win over Mick Chmilowskyi. After an undistinguished start to his professional career in which he won only three of his first eight fights, a run", "title": "Hughroy Currie" }, { "docid": "5165938", "text": "the USBA belt with a unanimous decision over Jimmy Young on May 2, 1982. The following month, on the undercard of the Larry Holmes/Gerry Cooney fight, Page fought Trevor Berbick. Fighting with a broken right thumb from the second round, Page lost for the first time as a professional, dropping a ten-round unanimous decision to Berbick. Page returned to defend the USBA belt against contender James \"Quick\" Tillis in November 1982. After suffering the first knockdown of his career in the second round, Page came back to KO Tillis in the eighth round. According to a New York Times article,", "title": "Greg Page (boxer)" }, { "docid": "20215230", "text": "John Tate and Gerrie Coetzee for the vacant WBA title. \"We knew Muhammad Ali was going to retire,\" Arum said, \"but as long as he delayed, I couldn't make definite plans.\" However, in October 1980 Ali returned to face WBC Champion Larry Holmes but was stopped by TKO in the 10th round. He then retired for good after a lackluster loss to Trevor Berbick in December 1981, thus making this fight the final win in Ali's career. Leon Spinks vs. Muhammad Ali II Leon Spinks vs. Muhammad Ali II, was a professional boxing match contested on September 15, 1978 in", "title": "Leon Spinks vs. Muhammad Ali II" }, { "docid": "15774946", "text": "inducted into the armed forces. He was stripped of WBC and WBA titles but remained The Ring and lineal boxing champion, despite not having a boxing match until October 1970. In 2005, Ukrainian boxer Vitali Klitschko retired as WBC Champion. Following his retirement, the WBC conferred \"champion emeritus\" status on Klitschko, and assured him he would become the mandatory challenger if and when he decided to return. On August 3, 2008 the WBC awarded Klitschko a chance to regain his WBC Heavyweight title against then-champion Samuel Peter. Vitali regained the title after Peter asked the bout be stopped after the", "title": "Heavyweight boxing championship records and statistics" }, { "docid": "8393837", "text": "won the Japanese featherweight title, which he defended 6 times before returning. In January, 2001, he challenged Freddie Norwood for the WBA featherweight title, but lost by 9th-round TKO. This was his first professional loss. Later that year, he won the OPBF featherweight title, which he defended 7 times before returning. Koshimoto got his second world title shot on January 29, 2006, fighting WBC featherweight champion Injin Chi. He won by 12-round decision, becoming the oldest Japanese boxer to win a world title, at 35 years of age. Koshimoto was paid almost nothing for the fight, since his gym had", "title": "Takashi Koshimoto" }, { "docid": "12197935", "text": "Williams' head in round one that floored him with approximately 30 seconds left, however Williams beat the referees count. Undefeated Colombian boxer Eleider Álvarez (22-0, 11 KOs) became mandatory challenger following his win over Isaac Chilemba in November 2015. He then knocked out former super-middleweight world champion Lucian Bute in February 2017 in a final eliminator to become mandatory challenger once again for the WBC light heavyweight title. On February 27, 2017 the WBC ordered negotiations to begin between Stevenson and Álvarez, who are both managed by Al Haymon and promoted by Yvon Michel of GYM for a deal to", "title": "Adonis Stevenson" }, { "docid": "10769716", "text": "Diosbelys Hurtado Diosbelys Hurtado (born September 4, 1973 in Santiago, Cuba) is a Cuban-Spanish boxer and former NBA, IBA and WBA Light Welterweight Champion. Amateur Record: 221-20 Hurtado, known as \"The Oriental Kid\", began his professional career in 1994. He won the NBA title by beating Dezi Ford by 10th-round TKO. In 1997, he challenged WBC Welterweight title holder Pernell Whitaker but was TKO'd in the 11th round by Whitaker with Hurtado leading on all three judges' cards. In 1998, he fought Kostya Tszyu for the interim WBC Light Welterweight title. The fight featured a dramatic 1st round, in which", "title": "Diosbelys Hurtado" }, { "docid": "20053969", "text": "Alrie Meleisea Alrie Meleisea (born 22 November 1992, Auckland, New Zealand) is a Professional Boxer and a MMA Fighter. Meleisea is currently undefeated in both forms of competing combat. She is a former New Zealand National (NZPBA Version) Heavyweight Champion and UBF Asia Pacific Heavyweight Champion. She currently holds two victories over world ranked boxer Nailini Helu and Hamilton boxer Kirsty Lupeamanu. Meleisea has peaked in rankings like 3rd on Boxrec, 3th WBFed, 2nd WIBA, 2rd UBF, top 3 in WBA Oceania, top 5 in WBC OPBF & WBC ABCO and top 10 in WBC World Rankings. Meleisea highest World", "title": "Alrie Meleisea" }, { "docid": "2090130", "text": "Hasim Rahman Hasim Sharif Rahman (born November 7, 1972) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1994 to 2014. He is a two-time world heavyweight champion, having held the unified WBC, IBF, IBO, and lineal titles in 2001; and the WBC title again from 2005 to 2006. Rahman first became known on the world stage in 2001 when he scored an upset knockout victory against Lennox Lewis to win the unified heavyweight championship. Lewis avenged the loss and regained his championship by knocking out Rahman in a rematch later that year. Rahman won the WBC title (initially the", "title": "Hasim Rahman" }, { "docid": "10885926", "text": "Sibson later moved up to Light heavyweight and lost to Dennis Andries in a bout for the WBC title in 1986. Two years later he challenged Frank Tate for the IBF Middleweight title, this time losing by a 10th-round TKO. Since retiring from boxing, Sibson has led a low-key life working within the building trade living in Weymouth. Tony Sibson Tony Sibson (born 9 April 1958, in Leicester, England) is a former professional boxer. Tony Sibson was Commonwealth and European champion and a 3-time world title challenger. His speed coupled with rugged power enabled him to be ranked as one", "title": "Tony Sibson" }, { "docid": "10384966", "text": "is also a professional boxer, and currently fights in the cruiserweight division. Deontay Wilder Deontay Leshun Wilder (born October 22, 1985) is an American professional boxer. He has held the WBC heavyweight title since 2015, and in doing so became the first American world heavyweight champion in nine years, which was the longest period of time in boxing history without an American heavyweight champion. As an amateur he won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 2008 Olympics. This led to his nickname of \"The Bronze Bomber\", which Wilder coined after Joe Louis, who was known by the", "title": "Deontay Wilder" }, { "docid": "8554013", "text": "Brian Minto Brian Matthew Minto (born January 27, 1975) is an American professional boxer. Minto turned pro in 2002 and won his first 8 bouts, gaining the West Virginia heavyweight boxing title. In 2004, Minto had a bout with former champion Tony Tubbs. The inactive Tubbs won in a mild upset, giving Minto his first professional loss. Minto has been featured on ESPN fight cards, where he scored two TKOs over Vincent Maddalone. In November 2006, Minto scored an upset win (TKO in the sixth round) over Axel Schulz, foiling the German's comeback attempt. Minto's second defeat came from one-time", "title": "Brian Minto" }, { "docid": "13891505", "text": "Tyson takes part in the match against Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas at the World Boxing Council heavyweight championship. At twenty years of age, Tyson wins, and becomes the youngest champion ever. In 1987, the match against Tony Tucker takes place, which Tyson wins, and he retains his title. Tyson marries his pregnant girlfriend, actress Robin Givens. However, the happy event is followed by the sad news of Jacobs' death due to leukemia. Cayton takes on the job of managing Tyson. Don King approaches Tyson with an offer to manage his career. Tyson declines, but King is brought on as", "title": "Tyson (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "4139135", "text": "his first defence against McAlindon just two months later. However, this time it was Dunn that won with a knockout after McAlinden went down three times in the second round. After winning the European Heavyweight title with a third-round TKO of Bernd August in April 1976, he was given the chance of fighting for the WBC and WBA titles against Ali in Munich, Germany, for which he received £52,000 (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £658,500 in 2017). Dunn is also notable as the only Yorkshireman ever to fight Ali, who knocked him out 2:05 minutes", "title": "Richard Dunn (boxer)" } ]
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Released on Nov 22, 1995, what Oscar nominated movie was the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery?
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[ { "docid": "16022", "text": "feature film that was done with this technique, apart from the movie The Vanities Fair (1935), by Rouben Mamoulian, was \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\", also by Walt Disney. In 1958, Hanna-Barbera released \"The Huckleberry Hound Show\", the first half hour television program to feature only in animation. Terrytoons released \"Tom Terrific\" that same year. Television significantly decreased public attention to the animated shorts being shown in theaters. Computer animation has become popular since \"Toy Story\" (1995), the first feature-length animated film completely made using this technique. In 2008, the animation market was worth US$68.4 billion. Animation as an", "title": "Animation" }, { "docid": "12825593", "text": "Story 4\", is in production and set for release on June 21, 2019. \"Toy Story\" was the first feature-length film to be made entirely using computer-generated imagery. The films were produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The first and second films got a perfect 100%, and the third a 98% rating, on Rotten Tomatoes. The third film in the series is the third highest-grossing animated film and the 18th highest-grossing film of all time. It also became the third animated film in history to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, following \"Beauty", "title": "Toy Story (franchise)" }, { "docid": "16208643", "text": "it was renamed Pixar. Pixar produced the world's first computer-animated feature film, \"Toy Story\", in 1995, and has since become the world's dominant animation studio, producing a string of immensely commercially and critically successful films. Catmull has won four Academy Awards for his technical feats and helped create some of the key computer-generated imagery software animators rely on today. The film has been labeled a landmark, being called revolutionary in both the art of animation and film. Craig Caldwell, senior research professor at the University of Utah, stated in 2011 that the film is groundbreaking because \"it showed the potential", "title": "A Computer Animated Hand" }, { "docid": "84752", "text": "of special effects) skyrocketed during the modern era of U.S. animation. The first completely computer-animated movie was \"Toy Story\" (1995), but \"VeggieTales\" is the first American fully 3D computer animated series sold directly (made in 1993); its success inspired other animation series, such as \"ReBoot\" in 1994. Some notable producers of computer-animated feature films include: The popularity of websites that allow members to upload their own movies for others to view has created a growing community of amateur computer animators. With utilities and programs often included free with modern operating systems, many users can make their own animated movies and", "title": "Computer animation" }, { "docid": "15313203", "text": "Jr.\" (1986), \"Red's Dream\" (1987), and \"Tin Toy\" (1988), which was also the first computer-generated animated short film to win an Academy Award. Then, after some long negotiations between Disney and Pixar, a partnership deal was agreed in 1991 with the aim of producing a full feature movie, and \"Toy Story\" was the result. The following years saw a greatly increased uptake of digital animation techniques, with many new studios going into production, and existing companies making a transition from traditional techniques to CGI. Between 1995 and 2005 in the USA, the average effects budget for a wide-release feature film", "title": "History of computer animation" }, { "docid": "15313202", "text": "\"SeaQuest DSV\". Also the same year, the French company produced the first full-length completely computer animated TV series, \"Insektors\" (26×13'), though they also produced an even earlier all 3D short series, \"Geometric Fables\" (50 x 5') in 1991. A little later, in 1994, the Canadian TV CGI series \"ReBoot\" (48×23') was aired, produced by Mainframe Entertainment. In 1995, there came the first fully computer-animation feature film, Disney-Pixar's \"Toy Story\", which was a huge commercial success. This film was directed by John Lasseter, a co-founder of Pixar, and former Disney animator, who started at Pixar with short movies such as \"Luxo", "title": "History of computer animation" }, { "docid": "20613315", "text": "of the computer-generated imagery (CGI) industry's expanstion into television and feature films, as lighting director making commercials and TV programs for Pacific Data Images (later PDI/DreamWorks), until she joined Pixar in 1994, first as a lighting supervisor on \"Toy Story\" (1995). The first time Pixar used the title \"Director of Photography\" (DP) on a film was on Calahan's next project, \"A Bug's Life\", representing a recognition that the processes and thinking behind computer generated film production had more in common with live action film than with cel animation. At Pixar it became an established goal to make films that looked", "title": "Sharon Calahan" }, { "docid": "84738", "text": "led to the art form Machinima. The very first full length computer animated television series was \"ReBoot\", which debuted in September 1994; the series followed the adventures of characters who lived inside a computer. The first feature-length computer animated film was \"Toy Story\" (1995), which was made by Pixar. It followed an adventure centered around toys and their owners. This groundbreaking film was also the first of many fully computer-animated movies. In most 3D computer animation systems, an animator creates a simplified representation of a character's anatomy, which is analogous to a skeleton or stick figure. The position of each", "title": "Computer animation" }, { "docid": "144110", "text": "regained their popularity, with Disney's \"Beauty and the Beast\" (1991), \"Aladdin\" (1992), and \"The Lion King\" (1994). During 1995, the first feature length computer-animated feature, \"Toy Story\", was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Disney. After the success of Toy Story, computer animation would grow to become the dominant technique for feature length animation, which would allow competing film companies such as DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox to effectively compete with Disney with successful films of their own. During the late 1990s, another cinematic transition began, from physical film stock to digital cinema technology. Meanwhile, DVDs became", "title": "History of film" } ]
[ { "docid": "15564685", "text": "not used or the CGI is hand drawn using a tablet and mouse. The term 'CGI animation' refers to dynamic CGI rendered as a movie. The term virtual world refers to agent-based, interactive environments. Computer graphics software is used to make computer-generated imagery for films, etc. Availability of CGI software and increased computer speeds have allowed individual artists and small companies to produce professional-grade films, games, and fine art from their home computers. This has brought about an Internet subculture with its own set of global celebrities, clichés, and technical vocabulary. The evolution of CGI led to the emergence of", "title": "Computer-generated imagery" }, { "docid": "15564699", "text": "all, virtual worlds allow for multiple users. Computer-generated imagery has been used in courtrooms, primarily since the early 2000s. However, some experts have argued that it is prejudicial. They are used to help judges or the jury to better visualize the sequence of events, evidence or hypothesis. However, a 1997 study showed that people are poor intuitive physicists and easily influenced by computer generated images. Thus it is important that jurors and other legal decision-makers be made aware that such exhibits are merely a representation of one potential sequence of events. Computer-generated imagery Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of", "title": "Computer-generated imagery" }, { "docid": "15564684", "text": "Computer-generated imagery Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, films, television programs, shorts, commercials, videos, and simulators. The visual scenes may be dynamic or static and may be two-dimensional (2D), though the term \"CGI\" is most commonly used to refer to 3D computer graphics used for creating scenes or special effects in films and television. Additionally, the use of 2D CGI is often mistakenly referred to as \"traditional animation\", most often in the case when dedicated animation software such as Adobe Flash or Toon Boom is", "title": "Computer-generated imagery" }, { "docid": "15564686", "text": "virtual cinematography in the 1990s where runs of the simulated camera are not constrained by the laws of physics. Not only do animated images form part of computer-generated imagery, natural looking landscapes (such as fractal landscapes) are also generated via computer algorithms. A simple way to generate fractal surfaces is to use an extension of the triangular mesh method, relying on the construction of some special case of a de Rham curve, e.g. midpoint displacement. For instance, the algorithm may start with a large triangle, then recursively zoom in by dividing it into four smaller Sierpinski triangles, then interpolate the", "title": "Computer-generated imagery" }, { "docid": "15564696", "text": "real-time computational efficiency a key consideration in such applications. While computer generated images of landscapes may be static, the term computer animation only applies to dynamic images that resemble a movie. However, in general, the term computer animation refers to dynamic images that do not allow user interaction, and the term virtual world is used for the interactive animated environments. Computer animation is essentially a digital successor to the art of stop motion animation of 3D models and frame-by-frame animation of 2D illustrations. Computer generated animations are more controllable than other more physically based processes, such as constructing miniatures for", "title": "Computer-generated imagery" }, { "docid": "15564690", "text": "used to \"reverse engineer\" historical buildings. For instance, a computer-generated reconstruction of the monastery at Georgenthal in Germany was derived from the ruins of the monastery, yet provides the viewer with a \"look and feel\" of what the building would have looked like in its day. Computer generated models used in skeletal animation are not always anatomically correct. However, organizations such as the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute have developed anatomically correct computer-based models. Computer generated anatomical models can be used both for instructional and operational purposes. To date, a large body of artist produced medical images continue to be", "title": "Computer-generated imagery" }, { "docid": "15564687", "text": "height of each point from its nearest neighbors. The creation of a Brownian surface may be achieved not only by adding noise as new nodes are created but by adding additional noise at multiple levels of the mesh. Thus a topographical map with varying levels of height can be created using relatively straightforward fractal algorithms. Some typical, easy-to-program fractals used in CGI are the \"plasma fractal\" and the more dramatic \"fault fractal\". A large number of specific techniques have been researched and developed to produce highly focused computer-generated effects — e.g. the use of specific models to represent the chemical", "title": "Computer-generated imagery" }, { "docid": "9751162", "text": "the whole process chain of synthetically preparing holographic light wavefronts suitable for observation. Computer-generated holograms have the advantage that the objects which one wants to show do not have to possess any physical reality at all (completely synthetic hologram generation). On the other hand, if holographic data of existing objects is generated optically, but digitally recorded and processed, and brought to display subsequently, this is termed CGH as well. Ultimately, computer-generated holography might serve all the roles of current computer-generated imagery: holographic computer displays for a wide range of applications from CAD to gaming, holographic video and TV programs, automotive", "title": "Computer-generated holography" }, { "docid": "2859813", "text": "as a 3D computer animated feature. Schure enthusiastically agreed and green-lit the project as he too dreamt of a computer animated movie and had this in mind when he created the facility. This movie project became the center of attention at NYIT CGL. For many of the individuals involved, it became a primary and personal goal to create the first computer generated feature. While creating a one-of-a-kind film in a method that had never been done before was the motivation, the practical reason for the project was to continue to develop patentable tools while demonstrating what computer animation could accomplish", "title": "The Works (film)" }, { "docid": "3417073", "text": "most or all of the film was done using the xerographic process which had been in place at Disney since the late 1950s. Spencer would win a technical Academy Award for this process, but the computer would soon render the APT process obsolete. \"The Black Cauldron\" is notable for being Disney's first animated feature film to incorporate computer-generated imagery in its animation for bubbles, a boat, a floating orb of light, and the cauldron itself. Despite \"The Black Cauldron\" being released a year before \"The Great Mouse Detective\", both films were in production simultaneously for some time and the computer", "title": "The Black Cauldron (film)" }, { "docid": "15564691", "text": "used by medical students, such as images by Frank H. Netter, e.g. Cardiac images. However, a number of online anatomical models are becoming available. A single patient X-ray is not a computer generated image, even if digitized. However, in applications which involve CT scans a three-dimensional model is automatically produced from a large number of single slice x-rays, producing \"computer generated image\". Applications involving magnetic resonance imaging also bring together a number of \"snapshots\" (in this case via magnetic pulses) to produce a composite, internal image. In modern medical applications, patient-specific models are constructed in 'computer assisted surgery'. For instance,", "title": "Computer-generated imagery" }, { "docid": "15564693", "text": "of cloth generally fall into three groups: To date, making the clothing of a digital character automatically fold in a natural way remains a challenge for many animators. In addition to their use in film, advertising and other modes of public display, computer generated images of clothing are now routinely used by top fashion design firms. The challenge in rendering human skin images involves three levels of realism: The finest visible features such as fine wrinkles and skin pores are the size of about 100 µm or 0.1 millimetres. Skin can be modeled as a 7-dimensional bidirectional texture function (BTF)", "title": "Computer-generated imagery" }, { "docid": "12924508", "text": "Casper (film) Casper is a 1995 American live-action/computer-animated fantasy comedy film directed by Brad Silberling, based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost created by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo. The film stars Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle, and Amy Brenneman, and also features the voices of Malachi Pearson in the title role as well as Joe Nipote, Joe Alaskey, and Brad Garrett. The film makes extensive use of computer-generated imagery to create the ghosts, and it is the first feature film to have a fully CGI character in the lead role. It goes", "title": "Casper (film)" }, { "docid": "20368725", "text": "was created using a combination of computer-generated imagery (by the British company Framestore) and animatronics. The creator of the Paddington character, Michael Bond, also appeared in a cameo in the first film, playing the role of the Kindly Gentleman. Paddington (film series) Paddington is a series of comedy films based on the character of the same name created by Michael Bond. The first film was released in 2014, featuring Ben Whishaw as the voice of the titular character, and an ensemble cast consisting mainly of British actors. The second film was released in 2017. This is the first and only", "title": "Paddington (film series)" }, { "docid": "1302106", "text": "commercially on their own, such as \"Jericho: The Promise Fulfilled\", a 30-minute-long film made by Shatter Point Entertainment, which was awarded Best Animation by the Cape Fear Independent Film Festival 2009. In 2007, the brickfilm \"\" was accepted to over 80 film festivals, including Sundance. In 2014, The Lego Group, Warner Bros. Animation, and Animal Logic released LEGO's first official feature-length film, \"The Lego Movie\". While the film was created using primarily computer generated animation, it was styled in such a way as to emulate the look of stop-motion brickfilms, even being influenced by some popular brickfilms such as \"The", "title": "Brickfilm" }, { "docid": "7803748", "text": "of the film. Lima tried to \"cram every single piece of Disney iconic imagery\" that he could into the first ten minutes, which were done in traditional cel animation (in contrast to computer-generated 3-D animation) as a tribute to past Disney fairy tale films such as \"Sleeping Beauty\", \"Cinderella\", and \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\". It was the first Disney film theatrically released in America to feature traditional cel animation since \"Pooh's Heffalump Movie\" (2005). This film, although quite different in terms of plot from any previous Disney film, also contained obvious homages to other Disney films of the", "title": "Enchanted (film)" }, { "docid": "10571394", "text": "Berlin; its construction took ten weeks. Having filmed in the real museum interior and on the sound stage in Germany, the film crew had to track the lights and camera angles carefully throughout to ensure continuity. The scene includes a sequence in which the protagonist sends a huge art-chandelier hanging from the ceiling crashing to the ground; the entire stunt was created using computer generated imagery. Clive Owen, discussing the film's relevance, said it \"ultimately does ask questions about whether banks use people's money appropriately, and if they're completely sound institutions.\" More baldly put, Philip French, reviewing the film in", "title": "The International (2009 film)" }, { "docid": "373437", "text": "artist Terry Frazee to \"think big, blow everything up\". Most of the effects sequences were planned using low-resolution computer-generated animatics. These rough animated storyboards established length, action and composition, allowing the producers and director to ascertain how the sequences would play out before they were shot. \"First Contact\" was the last film to feature a physical model of the \"Enterprise\". For the ship's dramatic introduction, the effects team combined motion control shots of the \"Enterprise\" model with a computer-generated background. Sequence supervisor Dennis Turner, who had created \"Generations\" energy ribbon and specialized in creating natural phenomena, was charged with creating", "title": "Star Trek: First Contact" }, { "docid": "15564688", "text": "weathering of stones to model erosion and produce an \"aged appearance\" for a given stone-based surface. Modern architects use services from computer graphic firms to create 3-dimensional models for both customers and builders. These computer generated models can be more accurate than traditional drawings. Architectural animation (which provides animated movies of buildings, rather than interactive images) can also be used to see the possible relationship a building will have in relation to the environment and its surrounding buildings. The rendering of architectural spaces without the use of paper and pencil tools is now a widely accepted practice with a number", "title": "Computer-generated imagery" }, { "docid": "16649648", "text": "John Sullivan, hired Arc Productions to create just under 500 shots with computer generated imagery, between a quarter and a third of what a blockbuster film would feature. The Covenant that appear are all completely computer generated, as is the academy's space elevator, weapons' muzzle flashes and a few shots of Master Chief. Hendler felt that the visual effects were the area that needed particular focus and spent a much larger percentage of the budget on the Master Chief costume and computer generated imagery than is normal for a production. One scene involves a Covenant Elite stalking the cadets in", "title": "Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn" }, { "docid": "15564689", "text": "of computer-assisted architectural design systems. Architectural modeling tools allow an architect to visualize a space and perform \"walk-throughs\" in an interactive manner, thus providing \"interactive environments\" both at the urban and building levels. Specific applications in architecture not only include the specification of building structures (such as walls and windows) and walk-throughs but the effects of light and how sunlight will affect a specific design at different times of the day. Architectural modeling tools have now become increasingly internet-based. However, the quality of internet-based systems still lags behind those of sophisticated in-house modeling systems. In some applications, computer-generated images are", "title": "Computer-generated imagery" }, { "docid": "10192176", "text": "by the car as the group drives away. Principal photography and filming mostly took place in Utah between May and July 1999, in the cities of Genola, Magna, American Fork, and Park City, despite the film's plot being set in Texas. The bats in the film were a combination of computer-generated imagery (CGI), Animatronics, and actual bats which were brought from Indonesia. The film received its theatrical premiere in the United States on October 22, 1999. The film was released direct-to-video in Norway, Japan and Hungary and as a TV movie in Finland. The film was released on VHS and", "title": "Bats (film)" }, { "docid": "7037746", "text": "Feature length In motion picture terminology, feature length is the length of a feature film. According to the rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a feature-length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes to be eligible for an Academy Award. Television movies and direct-to-video may also be feature length. An episode of a TV series that has been extended may also be feature length. Such feature-length episodes are usually series pilots, holiday specials, or season finales. The earliest known feature-length narrative film in the world was the Australian production \"The Story", "title": "Feature length" }, { "docid": "8879714", "text": "Strawberry Shortcake: The Sweet Dreams Movie Strawberry Shortcake: The Sweet Dreams Movie is a 2006 American computer-animated family fantasy adventure film produced by DIC Entertainment and released theatrically in select cities on October 7, 2006 by Kidtoon Films. It was the first feature-length film to feature the eponymous American Greetings property, and stars the voices of Sarah Heinke, Rachel Ware, Nils Haaland, and Bridget Robbins. The film also includes the first appearance of the villain, the Peculiar Pie Man, since Nelvana's Strawberry Shortcake specials from more than twenty years earlier. After arranging a sleepover with her friends, Strawberry and the", "title": "Strawberry Shortcake: The Sweet Dreams Movie" }, { "docid": "7037747", "text": "of the Kelly Gang\" (1906), which was 60 minutes in length. Five-reel features became common practice in the industry in 1915. During the silent era a one-reel short ran for an average of 10 minutes, and a two-reeler (usually a comedy) for 20 minutes, thus a feature was around 50 minutes or more. Possibly due to competition from television, the average length of feature film increased from around 90 minutes in 1931 to almost 120 minutes in 1960. Feature length In motion picture terminology, feature length is the length of a feature film. According to the rules of the Academy", "title": "Feature length" }, { "docid": "7940088", "text": "label in Germany, entitled \"Gumby und seine Freunde\". In April 2007, a director's cut version of the movie was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. In this version, the film's run time was cut from 90 minutes to 76 minutes. This version of the film was released on DVD by Genius Products, LLC on April 22, 2008. NCircle Entertainment released the film in its original 90-minute length in a Blu-ray + DVD Combo on July 18, 2017. Gumby: The Movie Gumby: The Movie (also referred to as its on-screen title Gumby 1) is a 1995 American stop-motion surrealist claymation adventure", "title": "Gumby: The Movie" }, { "docid": "16955351", "text": "the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and was released on DVD on September 10, 2013, followed by a TV premiere in October. It was directed by Stephan Franck, and it features the voices of Alan Cumming, Fred Armisen, Anton Yelchin and Hank Azaria. Like the first special, \"The Legend of Smurfy Hollow\" combines computer-generated animation and traditionally hand-drawn animation, with the latter provided by Duck Studios. The Smurfs in film The Smurfs have appeared in three feature-length films and two short films loosely based on \"The Smurfs\" comic book series created by the Belgian comics artist Peyo and the 1980s", "title": "The Smurfs in film" }, { "docid": "19087798", "text": "them to have a live-action feature, mix with computer animation produced by Amblin Entertainment entitled \"Casper\" (1995) with executive producer Steven Spielberg hiring Brad Silberling to direct the film in his first directing debut. The film became a commercial success but was met with mixed reviews from critics. In the late 1990s, The Harvey Entertainment Company and Saban Entertainment brought the \"Casper\" movie rights and produced two direct-to-video films released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment with \"\" (1997) and its sequel, \"Casper Meets Wendy\" (1998). Both films are highly regarded as prequels to the 1995 film, but completely contradicted", "title": "Casper the Friendly Ghost in film" }, { "docid": "2634866", "text": "Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Steve Martin, and Martin Short. Jeffrey Katzenberg had frequently suggested an animated adaptation of the 1956 film \"The Ten Commandments\" while working for The Walt Disney Company, and he decided to put the idea into production after founding DreamWorks in 1995. To make this inaugural project, DreamWorks employed artists who had worked for Walt Disney Feature Animation and the recently disbanded Amblimation, totaling a crew of 350 people from 34 different nations. The film has a blend of traditional animation and computer-generated imagery, created using software from Toon Boom", "title": "The Prince of Egypt" }, { "docid": "7993780", "text": "to rewrite Penn's screenplay in order to distance itself from the 2003 film and establish its own identity as a reboot, although he would go uncredited for his writing. Filming mostly took place in Toronto, Ontario, from July to November 2007. Over 700 visual effects shots were created in post-production using a combination of motion capture and computer-generated imagery to complete the film. \"The Incredible Hulk\" premiered on June 8, 2008 at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California and was released in the United States on June 13, 2008. It received praise for its improved visuals, action sequences, and", "title": "The Incredible Hulk (film)" }, { "docid": "8413370", "text": "and musical score both stand out and give the film its worth. Helen McCarthy in \"500 Essential Anime Movies\" noted the use of shading and motion capture in the film, stating that \"as good as the technology is, the script doesn't match the 1988 version\". Director Shinji Aramaki also directed the sequel to the 2004 movie, titled \"Appleseed Ex Machina\", which was released in October 19, 2007, in Japan. The movie once again featured animated computer-generated imagery, although the cel shaded style was abandoned. In 2014, an indirect prequel titled \"Appleseed Alpha\" was announced for a July 22, 2014, release", "title": "Appleseed (2004 film)" }, { "docid": "6554183", "text": "TMNT (film) TMNT (also known as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) is a 2007 American computer-animated martial arts superhero comedy film written and directed by Kevin Munroe. Based on the \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\" comic book series, the film stars the voices of James Arnold Taylor, Nolan North, Mitchell Whitfield, Mikey Kelley, Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mako, Kevin Smith, Patrick Stewart and Zhang Ziyi and is narrated by Laurence Fishburne. It is the first \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\" film made with computer-generated imagery (CGI) created by Imagi Animation Studios as well as the first feature film in the franchise in", "title": "TMNT (film)" }, { "docid": "2834231", "text": "six sound stages, spread over three studio lots. Principal photography began on November 8, 2004 and wrapped on March 7, 2005. Industrial Light & Magic was the main special effects company for the movie. While Spielberg had used computers to help visualize sequences in pre-production before, Spielberg said, \"This is the first film I really tackled using the computer to animate all the storyboards.\" He decided to employ the technique extensively after a visit to his friend George Lucas. In order to keep the realism, the usage of computer-generated imagery shots and bluescreen was limited, with most of the digital", "title": "War of the Worlds (2005 film)" }, { "docid": "18746758", "text": "secret attempt by a patrol to search the Ritter family’s house for a vital missing computer disk that the former tenants squirreled away before they were sent over a cliff by Teague. [...] Tech credits are good. Main trouble with \"The Colony\" is that, as a suspenser, it isn’t much fun. Plays like a summer throwaway. \"The Colony\" was released on September 13, 1995, on the USA Network. The film was released on VHS on March 12, 1996, by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The Colony (1995 film) The Colony is a 1995 made-for-TV movie starring John Ritter, Mary Page Keller,", "title": "The Colony (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "10210567", "text": "The Feature The Feature is a collaboration between filmmakers Michel Auder and Andrew Neel. Using a collection of videos that Auder had created over the previous 40 years, in combination with original present-day footage of Auder shot by Neel, the two filmmakers made a feature-length film loosely based on the story of Auder’s life. Auder created a form of video diary, starting with his first Sony Portapak camera in 1969, documenting the people, places, and events in his life, which included marriages to Viva Superstar and Cindy Sherman, and a loose affiliation with the Warhol Factory. The film is shot", "title": "The Feature" }, { "docid": "12242007", "text": "Computer graphics Computer graphics are pictures and films created using computers. Usually, the term refers to computer-generated image data created with the help of specialized graphical hardware and software. It is a vast and recently developed area of computer science. The phrase was coined in 1960, by computer graphics researchers Verne Hudson and William Fetter of Boeing. It is often abbreviated as CG, though sometimes erroneously referred to as computer-generated imagery (CGI). Some topics in computer graphics include user interface design, sprite graphics, vector graphics, 3D modeling, shaders, GPU design, implicit surface visualization with ray tracing, and computer vision, among", "title": "Computer graphics" }, { "docid": "10291206", "text": "a promotional force for the film. The film features an impressive cast and crew, including several real Academy Award winners: eight-time costume design winner Edith Head (who would also be nominated, but not win, for \"The Oscar\"); Best Actor winners Borgnine and Crawford; Best Supporting Actor winners Begley, Brennan (three wins), Sinatra, and James Dunn, and cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg. Also in the cast were Oberon and Parker, who had been nominated for Oscars but did not win. As movie star Frankie Fane (Boyd) is about to hear if he won a best acting Oscar, his friend Hymie Kelly (Bennett) reminisces", "title": "The Oscar (film)" }, { "docid": "12846358", "text": "destroy her. \"The Fox with Nine Tails\" was the first Korean film to use computer-generated imagery, and it foreshadowed other changes in the Korean film industry by pioneering the fantasy genre and using chaebol funds from the Byuksan Group to cover the budget. The opening scenes of the film depicting hell used approximately 200 extras, with the set costing in the region of (). \"The Fox with Nine Tails\" was released on 24 July 1994. The Fox with Nine Tails The Fox with Nine Tails () is a 1994 South Korean film, and was the feature debut of director Park", "title": "The Fox with Nine Tails" }, { "docid": "3417055", "text": "Hurt. It was the first Disney animated film to receive a PG rating as well as the first Disney animated film to feature computer-generated imagery. The film was distributed theatrically through Buena Vista Distribution on July 24, 1985. With the budget of $44 million, it was the most expensive animated film ever made at the time. Earning $21.3 million domestically, it led to a loss for the studio, putting Walt Disney Feature Animation near bankruptcy. Due to its commercial failure, Disney did not release the film on home video until 1998. In the land of Prydain, Taran is an \"assistant", "title": "The Black Cauldron (film)" }, { "docid": "16955092", "text": "the film's main characters. The first film produced by the Warner Animation Group, \"The Lego Movie\" was released on February 7, 2014 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It became a critical and commercial success, grossing $469 million worldwide against a $60 million budget and receiving praise for its visual style, humor, voice acting and heartwarming message. The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature and the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film; it was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and received an Academy", "title": "The Lego Movie" }, { "docid": "17559000", "text": "Dick Figures: The Movie Dick Figures: The Movie is a 2013 American independent adult animated science fantasy action comedy film, written, directed by and starring Ed Skudder and Zack Keller and distributed by Mondo Media. It is based on Skudder and Keller's animated web series \"Dick Figures\". It is Mondo Media's first feature-length film and independent company 6 Point Harness' first original feature film. The film was released for rent and purchase on September 17, 2013 on digital download and streaming services including iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play, PlayStation Network, Xbox Video, Vudu, Netflix, Hulu and Yekra, an all-new movie", "title": "Dick Figures: The Movie" }, { "docid": "929979", "text": "Oscar nominated film, \"Bedknobs and Broomsticks\" which was released in 1971. Originally slated for video or television release, the score was so well received (in demonstration form) by then Disney CEO, Michael Eisner, that the project's priority level moved up to feature theatrical release. The score of the film is composed and conducted by Harry Gregson-Williams. This was due in great part to the perceived caliber of the song score throughout the studio. All the songs were created new for the film except for \"The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers\" which was originally written in 1968 for the featurette, \"Winnie the", "title": "The Tigger Movie" }, { "docid": "7529195", "text": "performed by girl-group Innosense. Tracks 13 to 15 were karaoke versions. The album also features two \"Pokémon\" videos, the Pokérap and a scene from the film, which are accessible upon insertion of the disc into a computer. Pokémon 3: The Movie Pokémon 3: The Movie: Entei – Spell of the Unown, commonly referred to as Pokémon 3: The Movie, originally released in Japan as , is a 2000 Japanese anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama as the third feature-length Pokémon film. The film stars the voices of Rica Matsumoto, Ikue Ōtani, Mayumi Iizuka, Yūji Ueda, Ikue Ōtani, Koichi Yamadera, Megumi", "title": "Pokémon 3: The Movie" }, { "docid": "2811500", "text": "director for feature film development. After joining LAIKA, Selick directed his first computer-generated animation film, the award-winning short film \"Moongirl\", the inspiration for Candlewick Press's children's book of the same name. Selick's first feature with LAIKA was \"Coraline\", based on the novel \"Coraline\" by acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, and released in 2009. It was the first stereoscopic stop-motion animated movie. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. \"Coraline\" was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA, and a Golden Globe, all for Best Animated Feature. Selick left Laika in 2009. In 2010, Selick joined with Pixar and The Walt", "title": "Henry Selick" }, { "docid": "2753844", "text": "segment was produced by combining traditional animation with computer-generated imagery. \"Fantasia 2000\" premiered on December 17, 1999, at Carnegie Hall in New York City as part of a concert tour that also visited London, Paris, Tokyo, and Pasadena, California. The film was released in 75 IMAX theaters worldwide from January 1 to April 30, 2000, marking the first animated feature-length film to be released in the format. Its general release in traditional theaters followed on June 16, 2000. Some critics praised the film while others singled out its uneven quality. Budgeted at about $80–$85 million, the film has earned $90.8", "title": "Fantasia 2000" }, { "docid": "15564697", "text": "effects shots or hiring extras for crowd scenes, and because it allows the creation of images that would not be feasible using any other technology. It can also allow a single graphic artist to produce such content without the use of actors, expensive set pieces, or props. To create the illusion of movement, an image is displayed on the computer screen and repeatedly replaced by a new image which is similar to the previous image, but advanced slightly in the time domain (usually at a rate of 24 or 30 frames/second). This technique is identical to how the illusion of", "title": "Computer-generated imagery" }, { "docid": "17287484", "text": "The Peanuts Movie The Peanuts Movie (known in some countries as Snoopy and Charlie Brown: A Peanuts Movie) is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated comedy film based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip \"Peanuts\", produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the fifth full-length \"Peanuts\" film, and the first feature film in 35 years. The film is directed by Steve Martino from a screenplay by Craig and Bryan Schulz (Schulz's son and grandson, respectively), and Cornelius Uliano, and stars the voices of Noah Schnapp as Charlie Brown and, via archival recordings, Bill Melendez as", "title": "The Peanuts Movie" }, { "docid": "84747", "text": "use digital movie cameras, motion/performance capture, bluescreens, film editing software, props, and other tools used for movie animation. The realistic modeling of human facial features is both one of the most challenging and sought after elements in computer-generated imagery. Computer facial animation is a highly complex field where models typically include a very large number of animation variables. Historically speaking, the first SIGGRAPH tutorials on \"State of the art in Facial Animation\" in 1989 and 1990 proved to be a turning point in the field by bringing together and consolidating multiple research elements and sparked interest among a number of", "title": "Computer animation" }, { "docid": "7399158", "text": "Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie is a 2002 American computer-animated comedy adventure musical film, based on \"VeggieTales\", produced by Big Idea Productions and released by Artisan Entertainment through its F.H.E. Pictures label. It was directed and written by Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki, it is Big Idea's final independently-produced motion picture before its purchase by Artisan in October 2002. The film premiered on October 4, 2002. It is the first feature-length film in the \"VeggieTales\" series. The film also came out on VHS and DVD on March 4, 2003 as a worldwide home video release in both", "title": "Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie" }, { "docid": "12734643", "text": "Revenant\", respectively. The Directors Guild of America Award for Feature Film has traditionally been a near perfect barometer for both Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards. Only seven times since the DGA Award's inception has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award; in 1968 (Carol Reed won the Oscar for directing \"Oliver!\"); 1972 (Bob Fosse won the Oscar for directing \"Cabaret\"); 1985 (Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for directing \"Out of Africa\", as Steven Spielberg was not nominated for directing \"The Color Purple\"); 1995 (Mel Gibson won for directing \"Braveheart\", as Ron Howard was not nominated for", "title": "Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film" }, { "docid": "9751161", "text": "Computer-generated holography Computer-generated holography (CGH) is the method of digitally generating holographic interference patterns. A holographic image can be generated e.g. by digitally computing a holographic interference pattern and printing it onto a mask or film for subsequent illumination by suitable coherent light source. Alternatively, the holographic image can be brought to life by a holographic 3D display (a display which operates on the basis of interference of coherent light), bypassing the need of having to fabricate a \"hardcopy\" of the holographic interference pattern each time. Consequently, in recent times the term \"computer-generated holography\" is increasingly being used to denote", "title": "Computer-generated holography" }, { "docid": "84730", "text": "Computer animation Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images. The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation \"only\" refers to the moving images. Modern computer animation usually uses 3D computer graphics, although 2D computer graphics are still used for stylistic, low bandwidth, and faster real-time renderings. Sometimes, the target of the animation is the computer itself, but sometimes film as well. Computer animation is essentially a digital successor to the stop motion techniques using 3D models, and traditional animation techniques using frame-by-frame animation of 2D illustrations. Computer-generated animations", "title": "Computer animation" }, { "docid": "12589503", "text": "feudal Japan, where they become embroiled in a conflict between a daimyō and a group of rebellious villagers. A 2007 feature film, titled simply \"TMNT\" and written and directed by Kevin Munroe, was released March 23, 2007. Unlike the previous films, it used 100% computer-generated imagery, produced by Imagi Animation Studios and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Weinstein Company. It was the final Ninja Turtle movie to be distributed by Time Warner due to the franchise being purchased by Viacom. This film opens with the Turtles scattered as Leonardo is training in Central America, Donatello and Michelangelo have", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film series)" }, { "docid": "8196751", "text": "Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken is a direct-to-video animated film from The Walt Disney Company. The film is actually the five-episode pilot (\"Awakening\") of the animated television series \"Gargoyles\" edited into one long feature film, approximately 100 minutes in length. As a result, numerous scenes from the original broadcast episodes were cut due to time constraints. In addition, a number of scenes were also moved around and some dialogue was changed. The episodes were produced and aired in 1994, and the film was released to laserdisc and VHS in February 1995 and featured", "title": "Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken" }, { "docid": "19409966", "text": "included on the score album; other pop songs in the film are likewise not included. \"The Lego Ninjago Movie\" was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 22, 2017, in 2D and 3D. It was originally scheduled for a September 23, 2016 release. A short film, \"The Master\", that promoted the feature film was shown in front of screenings of \"Storks\", which took the original September 23 release date. On February 8, 2017, the first trailer was released. The trailer was shown in front of screenings of \"The Lego Batman Movie\". On July 22, 2017, a second trailer for the", "title": "The Lego Ninjago Movie" }, { "docid": "16081331", "text": "Radical 3D was responsible for the authentic computer-generated imagery (CGI) film effects. The company's involvement with Lucasfilm, Fox Television, IMAX, Warner Brothers and Disney was in feature work, including the similar productions, George Lucas’s \"Red Tails\" (2012) and the Tom Hanks production of \"Beyond All Boundaries\" (2009) (for which effects have been nominated for a VES award). Radical 3D was also involved in television projects for Discovery Channel, History Channel and National Geographic Channel including \"24\" and \"Dogfights\" (premiered in 2006), the highest rated series on the History Channel during its first season. For \"Fortress\", a full-scale interior mock-up was", "title": "Fortress (2012 film)" }, { "docid": "3628670", "text": "Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, but it lost to \"Happy Feet\". \"Cars\" was also selected as the Favorite Family Movie at the 33rd People's Choice Awards. The most prestigious award that \"Cars\" received was the inaugural Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. \"Cars\" also won the highest award for animation in 2006, the Best Animated Feature Annie Award. In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated this film for its Top 10 Animation Films list. Marcus Aurelius Canônico of \"Folha de S.Paulo\" described \"The Little Cars\" series (\"Os Carrinhos\" in Portuguese), a Brazilian computer graphics film series, as", "title": "Cars (film)" }, { "docid": "9751174", "text": "profile. The computer generated holograms are designed by the interference of a target wave with a reference wave, which could be, e.g. a plane-like wave slightly tilted in one direction. The holographic diffractive optical elements used are usually constructed out of thin membranes of materials such as silicon nitride. Computer-generated holography Computer-generated holography (CGH) is the method of digitally generating holographic interference patterns. A holographic image can be generated e.g. by digitally computing a holographic interference pattern and printing it onto a mask or film for subsequent illumination by suitable coherent light source. Alternatively, the holographic image can be brought", "title": "Computer-generated holography" }, { "docid": "16968166", "text": "to miss an opportunity applies to both sides.\" The film consists of seven segments: Though the film follows a loose chronological order, each of these segments also delves into topics such as the controversy surrounding collateral damage, the efficacy of torture, and the morality of targeted assassination. The events described in the film are illustrated with archival footage and computer-generated imagery that brings historic photographs to life. An example of this is the computer-generated reenactment of the Bus 300 incident, based on photographs and eyewitness accounts. The film's computer animations were created by the French company Mac Guff. The director", "title": "The Gatekeepers (film)" }, { "docid": "4670372", "text": "stage. The rasterizer stage applies color and turns the graphic elements into pixels or picture elements. Computer animation has been around since the 1940s and 1950s, but it was not until the 1970s and 1980s that 3D techniques were implemented. The first step towards 3D graphics was taken in 1972 by Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke. Their implementation featured a computer-generated hand and face that was created using wire-frame imagery. Up until 1975, wire-frame imagery was the only digital technology used to create 3D images. 3D graphics have reached the point where animated humans look almost entirely realistic. Eventually, humans", "title": "Real-time computer graphics" }, { "docid": "15313161", "text": "was in the sequel to \"Westworld\", \"Futureworld\" (1976), directed by Richard T. Heffron. This featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke which had initially appeared in their 1972 experimental short \"A Computer Animated Hand.\" The Oscar-winning 1975 short animated film \"Great\", about the life of the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, contains a brief sequence of a rotating wireframe model of Brunel's final project, the iron steam ship SS Great Eastern.The third movie to use this technology was \"Star Wars\" (1977), written and directed by George Lucas, with", "title": "History of computer animation" }, { "docid": "8225387", "text": "On with the Show! (1929 film) On with the Show! is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical film released by Warner Bros. Filmed in Two-strip Technicolor, the film is noted as the first all-talking, all-color feature length movie, and the second color movie released by Warner Bros.; the first was a partly color, black-and-white musical, \"The Desert Song\" (1929). With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show \"Phantom Sweetheart\" seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. The cast includes William Bakewell as the head usher eager to get his", "title": "On with the Show! (1929 film)" }, { "docid": "1773301", "text": "post-production time. Digital film making was given a big boost in 2005 when the Digital Cinema Initiative created a guide for manufacturers to create a universal standard, to make the technologies more compatible with each other and more user friendly. shooting movies on digital also lead to new technologies for distributing films. \"Titan A.E.\", released in 2000, was the first feature film to be released for viewing over the internet. Digital distribution changed the ways people received and watched media. It also gave viewers access to huge amounts of online content on demand. Feature film A feature film or theatrical", "title": "Feature film" }, { "docid": "2076677", "text": "together on \"Veronica Guerin\". Ramin Karimloo also briefly appears as the portrait of Gustave Daaé, Christine's father. Karimloo later played the Phantom as well as the role of Raoul on London's West End. Principal photography lasted from 15 September 2003 to 15 January 2004. The film was shot entirely using eight sound stages at Pinewood Studios, where, on the Pinewood backlot, the bottom half exterior of the Palais Garnier was constructed. The top half was implemented using a combination of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and a scale model created by Cinesite. The surrounding Paris skyline for \"All I Ask of You\"", "title": "The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film)" }, { "docid": "1773290", "text": "Feature film A feature film or theatrical film is a film (also called a motion picture or movie) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole film to fill a program. The term feature film originally referred to the main, full-length film in a cinema program that also included a short film and often a newsreel. The notion of how long a feature film should be has varied according to time and place. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute, a feature film", "title": "Feature film" }, { "docid": "1659125", "text": "two days and five further weeks to edit. The credits were hand-etched onto black scratchboard and manipulated by the camera, rather than using digital effects. The final sequence used a remix of \"Closer\" created by the band Coil. \"Seven\" was released on September 22, 1995, in 2,441 theaters where it grossed US$13.9 million on its opening weekend. It went on to gross $100.1 million in North America and $227.1 million in the rest of the world for a total of $327.3 million, making \"Seven\" the seventh-highest-grossing film in 1995. The film also spent 4 consecutive weeks in the top spot", "title": "Seven (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "6273082", "text": "blockbuster \"Jurassic Park\" using his go motion technique made famous in the film \"Dragonslayer\". However, Dennis Muren and his CGI team at Industrial Light & Magic created animated test footage of a T-Rex that Spielberg loved. When Tippett was told that \"Jurassic Park\" dinosaurs would be computer-generated, he was shocked, exclaiming \"I've just become extinct\" (a line Spielberg borrows and uses in the movie). Far from being extinct, Tippett evolved as stop-motion animation gave way to Computer-generated imagery or CGI, and because of Tippett's background and understanding of animal movement and behavior, Spielberg kept Tippett on to supervise the animation", "title": "Phil Tippett" }, { "docid": "7869423", "text": "a major box-office hit. \"Hercules\" was released in Italy on 20 February 1958. It premiered in England on May 18, 1959; in the U.S. on July 22, 1959; in Spain on Nov. 23, 1959. Warners advanced him $300,000 for the privilege of distributing the film in the US. In America, the film generated a Dell comic book adaptation with illustrations by John Buscema and a 33 RPM long-playing RCA Victor recording of the film's soundtrack. The \"Mystery Science Theater 3000\" presentation of the movie, episode #502, was first aired on December 18, 1993, on Comedy Central. The \"MST3K\" presentation edited", "title": "Hercules (1958 film)" }, { "docid": "8225393", "text": "original color print lasting about 20 seconds surfaced in 2005; other original color fragments have also been discovered in 2014. A copy of the b/w version has long been held by the Library of Congress. In December 2009, \"On with the Show!\" (in Black-and-White) was made available on manufactured-on-demand DVD by the Warner Archive Collection. On with the Show! (1929 film) On with the Show! is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical film released by Warner Bros. Filmed in Two-strip Technicolor, the film is noted as the first all-talking, all-color feature length movie, and the second color movie released by Warner", "title": "On with the Show! (1929 film)" }, { "docid": "16268475", "text": "Iris the Movie Iris the Movie () is a 2010 South Korean spy action film. As part of the first Korean production that shot a television drama and feature-length film simultaneously (Kim Kyu-tae was in charge of the TV segments, and Yang Yun-ho in charge of the film segments), the TV series \"IRIS\" was a hit when it aired on KBS2 in 2009, with ratings of 30%. \"IRIS: The Movie\" is a feature-length edit of the 20 episodes, along with additional footage shot specifically for the theatrical version and a different ending. \"IRIS: The Movie\" premiered at the 34th Hong", "title": "Iris the Movie" }, { "docid": "5091831", "text": "Mind's Eye (film series) The Mind's Eye series consists of several art films rendered using computer-generated imagery of varying levels of sophistication. The series began in 1990. It was produced by Steven Churchill of Odyssey Productions and Miramar Productions. The first three products in the series were released on VHS (by BMG) and LaserDisc (by Image Entertainment) and also released on DVD (by Simitar Entertainment). The fourth program in the series was released and distributed by Sony Music on VHS and DVD. The typical entry in the \"Mind's Eye\" series is a short package film, usually 50 to 60 minutes", "title": "Mind's Eye (film series)" }, { "docid": "11319124", "text": "with cancers such as Ewing’s sarcoma, melanoma, and breast cancer. In chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), NOV is downregulated as a consequence of the kinase activity of BCR-ABL, a chimeric protein generated through the chromosomal translocation between chromosome 9 and 22. Forced expression of NOV inhibits proliferation and restores growth control in CML cells, suggesting that NOV may be an alternate target for novel therapeutics against CML. NOV (gene) NOV (nephroblastoma overexpressed) also known as CCN3 is a matricellular protein that in humans is encoded by the \"NOV\" gene. NOV is a member of the CCN family of secreted, extracellular matrix", "title": "NOV (gene)" }, { "docid": "8631724", "text": "the film the \"Psyk's Popcorn Prize\", reserved for the film he considers to be the \"top movie on the PPJ\", taking it from its previous recipient, \"A Warrior's Life\". The Seal of Nehahra The Seal of Nehahra is an American film made in 2000, created by Mindcrime Productions as part of the Nehahra Project. Made using a modified version of id Software's 1996 first-person shooter computer game \"Quake\" and released over the Internet as a non-interactive game demo package, the film was the longest released \"Quake\" movie — as \"Quake\"-based machinima was known at the time. At a total length", "title": "The Seal of Nehahra" }, { "docid": "13856735", "text": "The Wiggles Movie The Wiggles Movie is a 1997 Australian children's musical comedy movie produced by 20th Century Fox and Gladusaurus Productions. This is the first theatrical feature-length film starring The Wiggles. It was shown in cinemas in Australia on 18 December 1997. Amateur magician Wally the Great (Tony Harvey) tries to become a better magician by stealing Greg's magic wand, but is confronted by Dorothy the Dinosaur, who believes the Wiggles have forgotten her birthday, while in fact, they have been planning a surprise party. The film was released in North America as a direct-to-video film in 2003 from", "title": "The Wiggles Movie" }, { "docid": "12242059", "text": "be displayed. Also can be used in non-graphical computer simulations and calculations. Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Increasingly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics, though 2D computer graphics are still widely used for stylistic, low bandwidth, and faster real-time rendering needs. Sometimes the target of the animation is the computer itself, but sometimes the target is another medium, such as film. It is also referred to as CGI (Computer-generated imagery or computer-generated imaging), especially when used in films. Virtual", "title": "Computer graphics" }, { "docid": "10743349", "text": "is the first feature length narrative 3D movie be completed in a completely digital workflow. The production workflow was designed by NHK and DitlevFilms. Using a 3D camera rig engineered by NTS in Japan (built around two digital high definition Sony cameras) the all-digital workflow was supported by an on-site digital lab. The lab facilitated an HD offline version of the footage so editing could begin while filming. The lab also generated dailies and full resolution plates for VFX. The editing process of \"Scar\" was done entirely in HD (720p) and was using an editing method that allowed both stereoscopic", "title": "Scar (film)" }, { "docid": "14521482", "text": "for investors to produce Xero Error for TV & film. Xero Error Xero Error also known as Levity - Xero Error Minus1 is a computer generated science fiction film created and directed by Ashraf Ghori. It was produced by Xpanse CGI. It is notable for being UAE's first CGI science fiction film. It won recognition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. Production on Xero Error commenced on November 2009 and completed by March 2010 . Xero Error is UAE's first film produced using computer-generated imagery. It is also the first film for production company Xpanse CGI, which has worked previously", "title": "Xero Error" }, { "docid": "635405", "text": "exposure, mattes or the Schüfftan process or in post-production using an optical printer. An optical effect might be used to place actors or sets against a different background. Since the 1990s, computer-generated imagery (CGI) has come to the forefront of special effects technologies. It gives filmmakers greater control, and allows many effects to be accomplished more safely and convincingly and—as technology improves—at lower costs. As a result, many optical and mechanical effects techniques have been superseded by CGI. In 1857, Oscar Rejlander created the world's first \"special effects\" movie by combining different sections of 32 negatives into a single image,", "title": "Special effect" }, { "docid": "1652169", "text": "Micheaux embodied \"the best of what we all are as Americans\" and that the filmmaker was \"an inspiration.\" Oscar Micheaux Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (; January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an African-American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race film, and has been described as \"the most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century\". He produced both", "title": "Oscar Micheaux" }, { "docid": "16955120", "text": "\"it falls apart a bit near the end.\" Alonso Duralde of \"The Wrap\" said the film \"will doubtless tickle young fans of the toys. It's just too bad that a movie that encourages you to think for yourself doesn't follow its own advice.\" Television personality, author, filmmaker, radio host and conservative political commentator Glenn Beck praised the film for avoiding \"the double meanings and adult humor I just hate.\" Oscar host Neil Patrick Harris referenced \"The Lego Movie\" not being nominated Best Animated Feature, which many critics considered a major snub, saying prior to the award's presentation \"If you’re at", "title": "The Lego Movie" }, { "docid": "13891508", "text": "deviant conduct, and sentenced to six years in the Indiana Youth Center. Rooney files a suit against Tyson for civil damages. Upon release in 1995, Tyson announces he will attempt a comeback. King remains his promoter, but is scheduled to strand trial for insurance fraud. \"Tyson\" was nominated for the 1996 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special. The award went to another HBO film, \"The Tuskegee Airmen. \"Tyson\" was released on VHS on January 13, 1998. A DVD release followed years later, on June 16, 2008. Tyson (1995 film) Tyson is a 1995 American television", "title": "Tyson (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "5513966", "text": "first crime films of its type. Darryl Zanuck ran that picture again and again, and used it for the basis of many pictures at Fox. In other words, I had created a style.\" Philip Yordan was nominated for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, earning Monogram Pictures its first Oscar nomination for a feature-length film release. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Dillinger (1945 film) Dillinger is a 1945 gangster film telling the story of John Dillinger. The film was directed by Max Nosseck. \"Dillinger\" was the first major film to star Lawrence Tierney.", "title": "Dillinger (1945 film)" }, { "docid": "14521480", "text": "Xero Error Xero Error also known as Levity - Xero Error Minus1 is a computer generated science fiction film created and directed by Ashraf Ghori. It was produced by Xpanse CGI. It is notable for being UAE's first CGI science fiction film. It won recognition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. Production on Xero Error commenced on November 2009 and completed by March 2010 . Xero Error is UAE's first film produced using computer-generated imagery. It is also the first film for production company Xpanse CGI, which has worked previously in commercial advertising. In December 2008, Xpanse officials were in", "title": "Xero Error" }, { "docid": "15313204", "text": "leapt from $5 million to $40 million. According to Hutch Parker, President of Production at 20th Century Fox, , \"50 percent of feature films have significant effects. They're a character in the movie.\" However, CGI has made up for the expenditures by grossing over 20% more than their real-life counterparts, and by the early 2000s, computer-generated imagery had become the dominant form of special effects. Motion capture, or \"Mocap\", records the movement of external objects or people, and has applications for medicine, sports, robotics, and the military, as well as for animation in film, TV and games. The earliest example", "title": "History of computer animation" }, { "docid": "5804991", "text": "the three-film Blu-ray set was re-released as a standard edition. 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As part of the first Korean production that shot a television drama and feature-length film simultaneously (Kim Kyu-tae was in charge of the TV segments, and Yang Yun-ho in charge of the film segments), the TV series \"IRIS\" was a hit when it aired on KBS2 in 2009, with ratings of 30%. \"IRIS: The Movie\" is a feature-length edit of the 20 episodes, along", "title": "Iris the Movie" }, { "docid": "17559016", "text": "contains the epilogue and the end credits. \"Dick Figures: The Movie\" was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States by Cinedigm on December 3, 2013. The film never got a home media release outside of the United States. Dick Figures: The Movie Dick Figures: The Movie is a 2013 American independent adult animated science fantasy action comedy film, written, directed by and starring Ed Skudder and Zack Keller and distributed by Mondo Media. It is based on Skudder and Keller's animated web series \"Dick Figures\". It is Mondo Media's first feature-length film and independent company 6 Point Harness'", "title": "Dick Figures: The Movie" }, { "docid": "10053774", "text": "on minimal budgets. Screenings can feature full-length films, documentaries, and shorts. Various genres are included, and selected films are usually reviewed for possible distribution. The festival defines a B-movie as \"a production whose entertainment and artistic value exceeds the limitations of its budget.\" The festival's \"Killer B\" or \"Tor\" awards are sought after and prominently displayed by the winners. One film maker described being nominated for a B-Movie Film Festival award \"like heaven to the world of independent filmmaking\". It averages a B in reviews. \"Killer B\" awards are given out in Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director,", "title": "B-Movie Film Festival" }, { "docid": "14263520", "text": "The Final Cut (1995 film) The Final Cut is a 1995 American action/drama/thriller feature film directed by Roger Christian for Cine Cut Films with a screenplay by Raul Inglis based on a story by Crash Leyland. A maniac bomber is ruthlessly targeting Seattle, claiming civilians and bomb disposal teams alike as apartment blocks and office complexes collapse under the impact of his ingenious, complex devices. Calling in ex-bomb squad operator John Pierce (Sam Elliott) to help them, and using computer assisted disposal techniques and virtual reality simulations, the squad come to a horrifying realization - the bombs are constructed with", "title": "The Final Cut (1995 film)" }, { "docid": "6915989", "text": "Geek pegged the scene as a Disney landmark because its accomplishments were \"visually impressive in a way we hadn't experienced in a Disney movie before\". Huw Evans of Bournemouth University hailed the scene as \"quite possibly the best piece of animation done on any feature film.\" On the sequence's pioneering use of computer-generated imagery, Annie Ellingson of \"Paste\" wrote that the ballroom was \"innovative at the time for compositing hand-drawn characters on a computer-generated backdrop to enable dramatic sweeping camera moves.\" Similarly, \"Empire\"s Helen O'Hara believes that the scene \"paved the way for the new digital style of animation.\" Mike", "title": "Beauty and the Beast (Disney song)" }, { "docid": "1869914", "text": "time I was walking around the set looking like a Christmas tree.\" Make-Up Effects Supervisor Nick Dudman produced the physical creature effects in the film, including three-dimensional make-up and prosthetics. He also designed all of the animatronic effects. While the film made extensive use of computer generated imagery, many scenes, including ones where Rachel Weisz's character is covered with rats and locusts, were real, using live animals. The Mummy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith, with orchestrations provided by Alexander Courage. The soundtrack was released by Decca Records on May 4, 1999. Like many Goldsmith", "title": "The Mummy (1999 film)" } ]
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Mario Batali, Cat Cora, Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto and Micael Symon compete on what show?
[ "Iron Chef America: The Series", "Iron Chef: America", "Iron chef America", "Iron Chef America" ]
[ { "docid": "4582552", "text": "\"Iron Chef America\" teamed – took on and won – against fellow Iron Chefs Mario Batali and Hiroyuki Sakai in the \"Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters\" \"Tag Team\" battle. On a special of \"Iron Chef America\" originally airing on November 12, 2006, Flay and Giada De Laurentiis faced off against, and were defeated by, Batali and Rachael Ray. This was the highest rated show ever broadcast on Food Network. Flay and Michael Symon defeated the team of Iron Chefs Cat Cora and Masaharu Morimoto in a special titled \"Thanksgiving Showdown,\" which originally aired on November 16, 2008. On", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4893873", "text": "quickly be able to raise funds and provide resources for important emergency and humanitarian aid, nutritional education, and hunger-related initiatives throughout the world.\" She has participated in charity wine auctions held by Auction Napa Valley.<br> Cora also made television history in 2005 as the first and only female Iron Chef on Food Network's \"Iron Chef America\", alongside names such as Bobby Flay, Mario Batali and Masaharu Morimoto, spending 10 seasons on the show. In 2006 she was hired as a paid spokesperson for InSinkErator Evolution series garbage disposals. She is Executive Chef for \"Bon Appétit\" magazine and a UNICEF spokesperson.", "title": "Cat Cora" }, { "docid": "11065924", "text": "and \"FoodNation with Bobby Flay\". In 2005, he appeared on \"Iron Chef America\", where he lost to Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto in Battle Asparagus. On August 27, 2007, Symon appeared in the \"Cleveland, OH\" episode of the television series \"\". While competing in the reality competition TV series \"The Next Iron Chef\", he reported on his experiences for \"Fortune\", posted on CNN Money. On November 11, 2007, after a head-to-head match against John Besh, Symon was declared the winner of the entire competition. On November 18, 2007, Symon won his first battle on \"Iron Chef America\". On April 21, 2008,", "title": "Michael Symon" }, { "docid": "4436382", "text": "of fast-paced and intense culinary challenges\" and includes the voice acting and likeness of The Chairman (Mark Dacascos), commentator Alton Brown and Iron Chefs Mario Batali, Masaharu Morimoto and Cat Cora, who players can either play or compete against. The Wii version of the game has received mediocre to slightly unfavorable reviews, with an average score of 42% determined by critical score aggregator Metacritic. The DS version of the game has received overall better scores, with median review score of 62%. Iron Chef America Iron Chef America is an American cooking show based on Fuji Television's \"Iron Chef\", and is", "title": "Iron Chef America" }, { "docid": "470655", "text": "say what they were doing, and the cameras rarely showed the food preparation. In 2004, Food Network announced that they would show an Iron Chef special, called \"Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters\", featuring Sakai and Morimoto dueling with American Iron Chefs Bobby Flay, Mario Batali, and Wolfgang Puck, all Food Network personalities and renowned American celebrity chefs. (Morimoto and Flay battled in two previous Iron Chef specials that were made after the original series aired.) The specials featured Alton Brown as the announcer and Mark Dacascos playing the role of The Chairman (in the storyline, this Chairman is", "title": "Iron Chef" }, { "docid": "3157862", "text": "Mario Batali Mario Francesco Batali (born September 19, 1960) is an American chef, writer, restaurateur, and media personality. Batali co-owns restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Boston, Singapore, Westport, Connecticut, and New Haven, Connecticut. Batali is also known for his appearances on the Food Network, on shows such as \"Molto Mario\" and \"Iron Chef America,\" on which he was one of the featured \"Iron Chefs.\" In 2017, the restaurant review site Eater revealed multiple accusations of sexual assault against Batali. Batali was born in Seattle, Washington on September 19, 1960, to Marilyn LaFramboise and Armandino Batali. Batali", "title": "Mario Batali" }, { "docid": "12093274", "text": "an episode of Hulu's A Day in the Life TV series. The episode followed Stephanie for an entire day while she worked at her restaurant. About halfway through the episode there is a planning meeting to discuss the development of Stephanie's new restaurant Little Goat. Izard also made an appearance of Food Network's \"Iron Chef America\" where she competed against, and ultimately lost to, Iron Chef Michael Symon in a head to head bread competition. In 2017 in the first season of \"Iron Chef Gauntlet\", she won through the final round and defeated Iron Chefs Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto and", "title": "Stephanie Izard" }, { "docid": "2813763", "text": "August 2013, and that October opened the restaurant \"Bisutoro\", with his interpretations of classic bistro fare, in the same space. \"Bisutoro\" suffered the same fate as its predecessor and closed in January 2014. Morimoto also owns \"Morimoto XEX\" in Tokyo, a spin on his Morimoto concept with separate Teppanyaki and sushi floors. Morimoto XEX received a Michelin star in the 2008 Tokyo Michelin Guide. Morimoto appeared as an Iron Chef in \"Iron Chef America\", a spinoff from the original Japanese \"Iron Chef\" series, and in its spinoffs \"The Next Iron Chef\" and \"Iron Chef Gauntlet\". Chef Morimoto has also developed", "title": "Masaharu Morimoto" }, { "docid": "4893877", "text": "donor, and each woman was impregnated with two of the other's fertilized ova. In November 2015, it was announced they were divorcing after 17 years together and 2 years of marriage. In 2017, Cora began dating producer Nicole Ehrlich. They married on April 21, 2018 in Santa Barbara, California. Cat Cora Catherine Ann \"Cat\" Cora (born April 3, 1967) is an American professional chef best known for her featured role as an \"Iron Chef\" on the Food Network television show \"Iron Chef America\" and as co-host of \"Around the World in 80 Plates\" on Bravo. Cora was born in Jackson,", "title": "Cat Cora" }, { "docid": "4893870", "text": "Cat Cora Catherine Ann \"Cat\" Cora (born April 3, 1967) is an American professional chef best known for her featured role as an \"Iron Chef\" on the Food Network television show \"Iron Chef America\" and as co-host of \"Around the World in 80 Plates\" on Bravo. Cora was born in Jackson, Mississippi, the daughter of Virginia Lee (née Brothers) and Spiro Pete Cora. Her father was of Greek descent (her paternal grandparents were from Skopelos, Greece). Her grandfather and father were both restaurateurs. When she was 15 years old, she brought a business plan to her father and grandfather, knowing", "title": "Cat Cora" }, { "docid": "3901826", "text": "with Anthony Anderson\" was a summer show in 2014, having him go to different towns in America which host \"food festivals\" highlighting a specific type of food. He also is a regular judge on \"Iron Chef America\". Anderson is one of the few judges to taste dishes from all the Iron Chefs on the show. In the \"Ultimate Bar Food\" battle, he served as bartender/sous-chef for Iron Chef Bobby Flay opposite Masaharu Morimoto and fellow judge Simon Majumdar. In 2013, Anderson signed on to host the celebrity-driven, family game show called \"Wall of Fame\" produced by Endemol USA for NBC", "title": "Anthony Anderson" }, { "docid": "11709987", "text": "On an episode that aired March 16, 2008, he lost to Bobby Flay in a spinach battle. It was stated that he studied under Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. In addition to Food Network's \"Iron Chef America,\" Chef Back has been featured on NBC's \"The Today Show\", Food Network's \"The Best Thing I Ever Ate\", The Cooking Channel's \"United Tastes of America\", and KBS's \"Success Mentor\" in Korea. In the Fall of 2017, the 2018 Seoul Michelin Guide awarded Chef Back’s famed restaurant DOSA one Michelin Star for its excellence in innovative cuisine and service. Back was awarded the title of", "title": "Akira Back" }, { "docid": "17530569", "text": "traditional Mexican cooking and that her Mexican culinary style can be done with \"fresh flavor that fits all.\" Valladolid has also appeared in other Food Network shows. On \"Throwdown! with Bobby Flay\" she was a judge for a fish taco-themed competition. She and Flay teamed up to defeat Masaharu Morimoto and teammate Andrew Zimmern on a New Year's edition of \"Iron Chef America\" in 2012. Also in 2012, she competed in a celebrity version of \"Chopped\" in which she advanced to the final round and finished second (out of four competitors). In 2013, she served as a judge on \"Guy's", "title": "Marcela Valladolid" }, { "docid": "4436347", "text": "feedback, SBS ended broadcast of \"Iron Chef America\" three weeks early and resumed showing the original \"Iron Chef\" on February 3, 2007. Starting in Season 8, Mario Batali was dropped from the show's opening sequence, though he continues to appear in on-air promos for the show. Despite his appearance during the special battle in which he was teamed up with Emeril Lagasse against Flay and White House Chef Cristeta Comerford, it is not clear whether or not he will return to compete in \"Iron Chef America\" on a regular basis. In a July 2010 interview with Slashfood's Allen Salkin, Batali", "title": "Iron Chef America" }, { "docid": "10038436", "text": "Emeril's Restaurant was the featured location and the episode's winning dish was featured on the menu at the restaurant. Lagasse teamed with fellow Food Network personality Mario Batali in a tag battle against Bobby Flay and White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford on an episode of \"Iron Chef America\" which aired on January 2, 2010. Lagasse served as the \"Menu Master\" of the TNT cooking competition show \"On the Menu\", which ran for one season in 2014. The show was hosted by Ty Pennington. In 1996, Lagasse was a guest on the animated show \"Space Ghost Coast to Coast\", where", "title": "Emeril Lagasse" }, { "docid": "4789167", "text": "The program examines the catering process behind big event extravaganzas such as the Grammy Awards. In January 2007, a third De Laurentiis-hosted show, \"Giada's Weekend Getaways\", debuted on Food Network. On this show, De Laurentiis travels to a featured locale (including Seattle, South Beach, San Francisco, Napa, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming) and visits her favorite local culinary destinations. On a November 2006 episode of \"Iron Chef America\", De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay competed against, and were defeated by, Rachael Ray and Mario Batali. In 2007, De Laurentiis appeared as a presenter at the inaugural \"Food Network Awards.\" In June 2007,", "title": "Giada De Laurentiis" }, { "docid": "9321100", "text": "on the Battle Holiday Gingerbread episode of \"Iron Chef America\" representing Food Network against a team of Cooking Channel stars including Michael Symon, Nadia Giosia and Ben Sargent. In the episode, Irvine removed his chef's coat, stating that he does not wear chef's coats very often. Iron Chef Michael Symon commented on this by saying that he had a bet that Irvine would remove his chef's coat after 25 minutes of the competition and that he lost because he removed it much earlier. Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto also stated that Irvine removed his chef's coat to show off his muscles.", "title": "Robert Irvine" }, { "docid": "4582550", "text": "a family that used cast iron skillets, Wilson was nonetheless forced to use a deep fryer because her restaurant was too small for a cast iron skillet. Towards the end of the anecdote, she explained, \"Can I tell you? When he pulled out the skillet, it was a rough day. Girlfriend started sweating bullets. But at the end of the day, we threw down – I don't know, I think it was the eggnog – and I won.\" Flay is an Iron Chef on the show \"Iron Chef America\". In 2000, when the original \"Iron Chef\" show traveled to New", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "5307007", "text": "season's finale. Bobby Flay would host subsequent season finales. During the season, the contestants lived in a shared house in New York City. The contestants' challenges included cooking concession food for an NBA game (with guest Darryl Dawkins) to a mini version of Food Network's \"Iron Chef America\" (with guest judges Bobby Flay and Cat Cora). The Selection Committee consisted of Food Network executives Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson along with one guest. Guest judges included Alton Brown, Giada De Laurentiis, Duff Goldman, season two winner Guy Fieri, and Robert Irvine. Paula Deen and Rachael Ray participated in contestant challenges,", "title": "Food Network Star" }, { "docid": "15117923", "text": "ULive, a digital platform set up by Scripps Networks Interactive that launched in 2013. The show aimed to teach people how to create less-vanilla kitchen spaces, according to Giosia. On July 12, 2011, she appeared on the American Travel Channel series \"Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern\" episode \"Montreal\". On December 2, 2012, she appeared alongside Michael Symon and Benjamin Sargent on the Battle Holiday Gingerbread episode of \"Iron Chef America\" representing the Cooking Channel against a team of Food Network stars including Masaharu Morimoto, Robert Irvine and Ted Allen. On April 7, 2013, she appeared on \"Chopped All-Stars\", Season 3", "title": "Nadia G" }, { "docid": "1354046", "text": "in December of the same year. An American edition of the book \"Nigella Christmas\" with a different cover photograph was released in November 2009 with an accompanying book tour of several US cities and a special on the USA's Food Network. Lawson was featured as one of the three judges on a special battle of \"Iron Chef America\", titled \"The Super Chef Battle\", which pitted White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford and Iron Chef Bobby Flay against chef Emeril Lagasse and Iron Chef Mario Batali. This episode was originally broadcast on 3 January 2010. Lawson's cookbook \"Kitchen: Recipes from the", "title": "Nigella Lawson" }, { "docid": "2818269", "text": "He also appeared on \"Iron Chef America : Battle of the Masters,\" where he lost a trout battle to Bobby Flay (during which he created a trout-flavored ice cream) and teamed up with Mario Batali in a seafood battle. In 2009, Sakai was named a recipient of the Gendai no Meiko (Contemporary Master Craftsmen) awards, honoring Japan's foremost artisans in various fields. In 2010, Sakai was a guest judge for the \"MasterChef Australia\" season 2 finals week. In 2013, Sakai was a Guest of Iron Chef for the \"Iron Chef Thailand\". In the March 25, 2017, episode of National Public", "title": "Hiroyuki Sakai" }, { "docid": "4436361", "text": "first of these was held on November 12, 2006. A special 90-minute episode of \"Iron Chef America\" pitted two guest Food Network personalities, Giada De Laurentiis and Rachael Ray, the latter of whom does not consider herself a chef due to lack of formal training, against each other after they each received tips and training from Iron Chefs Bobby Flay and Mario Batali, respectively. While the early part of the episode made it appear as though it would be a head-to-head battle, the Chairman announced just prior to the secret ingredient reveal that it would in fact be a tag-team", "title": "Iron Chef America" }, { "docid": "4436378", "text": "racks and ribs (pork, buffalo, and beef) as the secret ingredient, and was judged by the panel along with Iron Chefs Flay, Morimoto, and Symon. Chef Jose Garces was declared the winner of the competition, and joined \"Iron Chef America\" as its newest Iron Chef. Garces made his debut as an Iron Chef on January 17, 2010 against Seattle chefs Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi in Battle Hawaiian Moi, with Iron Chef Garces emerging victorious. Jose Garces went on to receive the first perfect score ever in Season 9 (see List of Episodes). Food Network launched its third season of", "title": "Iron Chef America" } ]
[ { "docid": "4436365", "text": "that the American Iron Chefs competed against each other, with the team of Bobby Flay and Michael Symon battling against Cat Cora and Masaharu Morimoto. There were two floor reporters for this special: regular floor reporter Kevin Brauch covered Flay and Symon while ICA judge Ted Allen covered Cora and Morimoto. In addition, Mark Ecko appeared early in the episode to present the new Iron Chef jackets and describe the design process. Iron Chefs Flay and Symon defeated Iron Chefs Cora and Morimoto by one point. First Lady Michelle Obama's White House Kitchen Garden was featured in a new special", "title": "Iron Chef America" }, { "docid": "4582551", "text": "York for a special battle, he challenged Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto to battle rock crab. After the hour battle ended, Flay stood on top of his cutting board and raised his arms in what one journalist wrote was \"in premature victory\". As Morimoto felt that real chefs consider cutting boards and knives as sacred, and being offended by Flay's flamboyant gesture, he criticized his professionalism, saying that Flay was \"not a chef\". Flay went on to lose the battle. Flay challenged Morimoto to a rematch in Morimoto's native Japan. This time, Flay won. Flay and Morimoto, both Iron Chefs on", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4436337", "text": "(Symon/Flay v. Cora/Morimoto) and Battle White House Produce (Batali/Lagasse v. Flay/Comerford). Per the introduction fiction from the \"Battle of the Masters\" miniseries (and ignoring story elements from the 2002 \"Iron Chef\" Japan Cup Special), Chairman Kaga (the character) has ordered his nephew to continue the tradition of Kitchen Stadium, initially in Los Angeles, where the \"Battle of the Master\"s took place, before establishing a permanent Kitchen Stadium in New York's Chelsea Market. For the \"Battle of the Masters\", the elder Chairman dispatched two Iron Chefs: Hiroyuki Sakai and Masaharu Morimoto. In Season 11, the show's fiction expanded to include international", "title": "Iron Chef America" }, { "docid": "11065928", "text": "\"Michael Symon's Live to Cook: Recipes and Techniques to Rock Your Kitchen\" (). The foreword is written by fellow Iron Chef Bobby Flay. It was published by Clarkson Potter and was released on November 3, 2009. On September 25, 2012, another cookbook was released named \"The Chew: Food. Life. Fun.\" (), co-authored by Symon along with fellow Iron Chef Mario Batali, long-time Food Network producer Gordon Elliott, Carla Hall, Clinton Kelly, and Daphne Oz. Three weeks later, Symon and Cleveland food writer Douglas Trattner collaborated to release his second offering, \"Michael Symon's Carnivore: 120 Recipes for Meat Lovers\" (). Beginning", "title": "Michael Symon" }, { "docid": "15075276", "text": "cooking show Randy watches (and pleasures himself to) is Guy's Big Bite, starring Guy Fieri. Cartman impersonates Gordon Ramsay, which prompts other TV chefs to appear as well – Jamie Oliver, Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto, Alton Brown, Giada De Laurentiis, and Paula Deen. The virally popular \"Shake Weight\" commercial is largely referenced. Jamie Oliver's outcry is a reference to both the Channel 4 series broadcast \"Jamie's School Dinners\" and the American Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. The theme song to Randy's cooking show is a parody of the \"Trololo\" song performed by Eduard Khil. The scene where Sharon \"elopes\"", "title": "Crème Fraîche (South Park)" }, { "docid": "4582553", "text": "November 29, 2009, Iron Chefs Morimoto and Flay faced off one-on-one again in Battle Egg Nog. The battle, which featured ice-carvers, was won by Morimoto by a single point. In an episode recorded in July 2010 and broadcast in March 2011, Montreal cooking show host Chuck Hughes beat Flay to become the youngest Canadian champ. In an interview afterward, Hughes recalled, \"When I met him I said, 'Hi Bobby,' and my voice cracked a bit and I gave him an official [Montreal] Canadiens jersey, to which he replied, 'Thank you so much — but it's not going to help.'\" The", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4582555", "text": "in which in the end he picks one restaurant team with whom to open a restaurant. The reality show was canceled after the first season due to low ratings. Flay had a cameo appearance in the Disney Channel original movie \"Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off\" as the host of the cook-off. He appeared on the television game show \"Pyramid\" with fellow Iron Chef Mario Batali as the guest celebrities in an episode originally airing on November 18, 2003. He appeared as a judge on the CBS television show \"Wickedly Perfect\" during the 2004–05 season. He also appeared in the \"\" episode", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4436342", "text": "Chef\". With the exception of Symon and Garces (whose long sleeves were shortened for his second season on ICA), the jackets have long, turn-back sleeves. Colors differ by chef: charcoal grey (Flay), black (Symon), light blue (Cora), silver with a red undershirt (Morimoto), white with light brown trim (Batali), white with green trim (Lagasse, for Battle White House produce), brown with wide red edging (Garces), grey with white trim (Forgione), grey with black trim (Zakarian), and black with white trim (Guarnaschelli). \"Iron Chef\" with the chef's last name underneath is embroidered in the font from the show's logo on the", "title": "Iron Chef America" }, { "docid": "11684241", "text": "and six dishes within a time limit, which are then judged by taste, visual appeal, and originality. The game features a chef school for the player to practice their skills in preparing dishes, a career mode in which players progress through a number of challengers before taking on the Iron Chefs, and an instant action quick play mode. The DS version features wireless multiplayer and a single-console \"Pass Play\" turn-based multiplayer mode. The game features the voice acting and likeness of Chairman Mark Dacascos, commentator Alton Brown and Iron Chefs Mario Batali, Masaharu Morimoto and Cat Cora, whom players can", "title": "Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine" }, { "docid": "8515340", "text": "Throwdown! with Bobby Flay Throwdown! with Bobby Flay is a Food Network television program in which celebrity chef Bobby Flay challenges cooks renowned for a specific dish or type of cooking to a cook-off of their signature dish. At the beginning of each show, Flay receives – via bicycle messenger – a package detailing the chef he is to compete against as well as the dish. Examples of opponents include a skilled chili maker or a famous wedding cake designer. After practicing and preparing the item in question, Flay shows up for a surprise competition (or \"Throwdown\"). During the competition,", "title": "Throwdown! with Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "3157864", "text": "one of the birthplaces of the institution of the celebrity chef. Batali appeared in the Food Network show \"Molto Mario\" which aired from 1996 to 2004 and made Batali a household name and popularized the Food Network. In 1998, Batali, Joe Bastianich and Lidia Bastianich formed the B&B Hospitality Group, also known as Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group. The flagship restaurant for B&B is Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca in New York City which has a Michelin star. Batali was a co-host of the ABC daytime talk show \"The Chew\" when it premiered in 2011 till 2017. In 2012, a lawsuit", "title": "Mario Batali" }, { "docid": "15592369", "text": "and Flay to cook in the second round which lasts for 45 minutes. The winner of the second round is determined by three judges in a blind taste test. Through 221 competitions Bobby Flay's win-loss record is 144 and 77 (). Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay is an American cooking competition show on the Food Network. It features various chefs competing against Iron Chef Bobby Flay. This show is taped in front of a live audience. In the first round, two guests, often a celebrity chef and a friend of Flay, introduce two contestants who cook for 20 minutes", "title": "Beat Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "15592368", "text": "Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay is an American cooking competition show on the Food Network. It features various chefs competing against Iron Chef Bobby Flay. This show is taped in front of a live audience. In the first round, two guests, often a celebrity chef and a friend of Flay, introduce two contestants who cook for 20 minutes against each other using an ingredient chosen by Flay. The guests then determine who cooked the better dish and will face Flay in the second round. The contestant who won the first round then chooses a dish for both the contestant", "title": "Beat Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "20123431", "text": "the Gauntlet were Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto, and Michael Symon. The second season of \"Iron Chef Gauntlet\" began airing April 4, 2018 and is scheduled for six episodes. The Gauntlet Iron Chefs for the second season will be Alex Guarnaschelli, \"Gauntlet\" season one winner Stephanie Izard, and Michael Symon. Each regular episode consists of two challenges. The first is the Chairman's Challenge, with Brown announcing a theme in which all chefs must cook a dish for him to judge. The loser of this round is entered into the second round; the winner is safe from elimination for the week and", "title": "Iron Chef Gauntlet" }, { "docid": "2813760", "text": "Masaharu Morimoto Morimoto received practical training in sushi and traditional Kaiseki cuisine in Hiroshima, and opened his own restaurant in that city in 1980. Influenced by Western cooking styles, he decided to sell his restaurant in 1985 to travel around the United States. His travels further influenced his fusion style of cuisine. He established himself in New York City and worked in some of Manhattan's prestigious restaurants, including the dining area for Sony Corporation's executive staff and visiting VIPs, the Sony Club, where he was executive chef, and at the exclusive Japanese restaurant \"Nobu\", where he was head chef. While", "title": "Masaharu Morimoto" }, { "docid": "2813764", "text": "a line of specialty beers in collaboration with Rogue Ales of Newport, Oregon, consisting of the Imperial Pilsner, Soba Ale, and Black Obi Soba Ale. In 2005 he partnered with businessmen Paul Ardaji, a credited Film Producer (ALI) starring Will Smith, and Paul Ardaji, jr., through Ardaji Restaurant Ventures, LLC in an aborted Asian bistro venture which was to be called PauliMotos Asian Bistro. The relationship between the Ardajis and the Iron Chef broke down when the Ardajis could not raise the $20.0 million necessary capital to open 11 locations throughout the United States.<ref> Masaharu Morimoto Morimoto received practical training", "title": "Masaharu Morimoto" }, { "docid": "3157868", "text": "misconduct. By the following day, four more women had come forward. Batali took a leave of absence from his position at the management company Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group. Producers of ABC's \"The Chew\" asked him to step aside temporarily, while his fellow co-hosts publicly addressed the allegations on air, and he was fired from the show on December 14, 2017. Food Network halted plans to release episodes of his television show \"Molto Mario\" after the allegations. Target announced it pulled Batali's pasta sauces and cookbooks out of sales. In May 2018, more accusations of sexual misconduct against Batali were", "title": "Mario Batali" }, { "docid": "3157869", "text": "aired on an episode of \"60 Minutes\", and the New York Police Department confirmed it was investigating Batali for his past behavior including an alleged assault that took place at The Spotted Pig, a restaurant where Batali was an investor. Batali denied an allegation of sexual assault, but said \"My past behavior has been deeply inappropriate and I am sincerely remorseful for my actions.\" Days later, Batali's company B&B Hospitality Group announced it would be closing its three Las Vegas Strip restaurants after the Las Vegas Sands Corp. terminated the companies' relationship. Mario Batali Mario Francesco Batali (born September 19,", "title": "Mario Batali" }, { "docid": "12093267", "text": "of appearances on \"Top Chef\" since her win, both as a guest judge on subsequent seasons and as a participant in \"Top Chef Duels\". In 2017, Izard competed in the Food Network series \"Iron Chef Gauntlet\", where she overall defeated chefs Bobby Flay, Michael Symon, and Masaharu Morimoto to obtain the title of Iron Chef. Stephanie Izard was born in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois and grew up in Stamford, Connecticut, where she developed an interest in food from her parents. She earned a degree in sociology from the University of Michigan in 1998 before attending the Le Cordon", "title": "Stephanie Izard" }, { "docid": "4582554", "text": "half-hour series pits select chefs against host Flay to see if they can create dishes that are better than his. As Flay's most successful series on Food Network the prior season, episode 5 of season 17, featuring Debbie Gibson and Katie Lee, was chosen as the 2018 lead-out show for season 14 of \"Food Network Star\". In 1996, Flay hosted \"The Main Ingredient with Bobby Flay\" on Lifetime Television. Twice a month, he hosts a cooking segment on CBS' \"The Early Show\". He hosted the reality television show \"America's Next Great Restaurant\" on NBC from March 2011 to May 2011", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4582540", "text": "Bobby Flay Robert William Flay (born December 10, 1964) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and reality television personality. He is the owner and executive chef of several restaurants: Mesa Grill in Las Vegas and the Bahamas; Bar Americain in New York and at Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, Connecticut; Bobby Flay Steak in Atlantic City; Gato in New York, and Bobby's Burger Palace in 19 locations across 11 states. Flay has hosted several Food Network television programs, appeared as a guest and hosted a number of specials on the network. Flay is also featured on the \"Great Chefs\" television series. Flay", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "3157867", "text": "sexual misconduct allegations, he would step down from his role with this organization. In 2008, Batali and his wife Susi Cahn founded the Mario Batali Foundation, funding various children's educational programs and pediatric disease research. He supports the practice of Transcendental Meditation through the David Lynch Foundation. In a 2012 interview, Batali said that good Italian cooking was characterized by simplicity, an insight he attributed to his time working at a restaurant in Borgo Capanne, Italy. On December 11, 2017, \"Eater\", the restaurant news website, made public the accusations of four women who accused Batali of sexual harassment and sexual", "title": "Mario Batali" }, { "docid": "4582559", "text": "Flay married Debra Ponzek, also a chef, on May 11, 1991. Flay and Ponzek divorced in 1993, and Flay married his second wife, Kate Connelly, in 1995. They have a daughter named Sophie. Flay and Connelly separated in 1998, and later divorced. Flay married actress Stephanie March, on February 20, 2005. According to media reports, March and Flay separated in March 2015 and their divorce was finalized on July 17, 2015. Flay has been dating Heléne Yorke since February 2016. Bobby Flay Robert William Flay (born December 10, 1964) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and reality television personality. He", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "2813761", "text": "at Nobu he got his start on the \"Iron Chef\" television show. Several months after the weekly run of \"Iron Chef\" ended in 1999, he left Nobu to collaborate with Starr Restaurants and opening his own \"Morimoto\" restaurant in Philadelphia in 2001. His first expansion was a Morimoto restaurant in Chelsea in New York City. Architecturally, this New York City restaurant has exposed concrete, a signature element of architect Tadao Ando, who designed the restaurant in collaboration with Goto Design Group and structural engineers Leslie E. Robertson Associates. Mr. Morimoto has restaurants in Mumbai and New Delhi called \"Wasabi\" and", "title": "Masaharu Morimoto" }, { "docid": "4436344", "text": "Masters\" involved Sakai and Flay, with the theme of trout. There, Sakai had made two dishes of note: one was gift-wrapped to commemorate the opening of Kitchen Stadium America, while the other was trout ice cream, a dish that would be repeatedly recalled and referred to later on when anyone used the ice cream maker. Other battles in \"Battle of the Masters\" were Morimoto taking on Batali, Morimoto taking on Wolfgang Puck, and a tag team battle where Morimoto and Flay teamed up against Sakai and Batali. \"Battle of the Masters\" was largely successful and a regular series was commissioned.", "title": "Iron Chef America" }, { "docid": "4582546", "text": "currently teaching classes, he occasionally visits when his schedule permits. Flay established the Bobby Flay Scholarship in 2003. This full scholarship to the French Culinary Institute is awarded annually to a student in the Long Island City Culinary Arts Program. Flay personally helps select the awardee each year. Flay opened Bobby's Burger Palace (BBP) in Lake Grove, Long Island on July 15, 2008. The restaurant is located at the Smith Haven Mall. A second location opened on December 5, 2008 at the Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, New Jersey, and a third location opened March 31, 2009 in The Outlets at", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "8515342", "text": "Bobby Flay. Upon Flay's arrival, he reveals the true nature of the show, and the \"Throwdown\" is initiated. In the Food Network's test kitchen, Flay and his two sous-chefs (Stephanie Banyas and Miriam Garron) experiment and prepare the particular dish, often opting for a variant of the dish. When Flay makes his appearance at a rival's event, he is usually greeted with surprise and confusion, although there has been one occasion where the challenged chef figured out that Flay would be appearing for a throwdown and ended up challenging him. Flay's comment was that he \"had been set up.\" However,", "title": "Throwdown! with Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4582556", "text": "\"Design\", which originally aired on September 22, 2005. He had a small role as himself in the 2006 film \"East Broadway\", in which his wife, Stephanie March, had a larger role. \"Jeopardy!\" featured a special \"Throwdown with Bobby Flay\" category during the March 12, 2008, episode, in which each of the clues featured Flay. He participated in the 2008 Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game played at Yankee Stadium after the 2008 MLB All Star Game; Flay played for the National League. Flay is also mentioned in the movie Step Brothers in the \"derek comes for dinner\" scene.", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "2813762", "text": "has opened multiple locations of \"Morimoto\" around the world. In July 2010, he opened a Napa Valley location of his flagship \"Morimoto\" restaurant, followed in October 2010 by a Waikiki, Hawaii location, and a Maui location in October 2013. Morimoto Waikiki closed in December 2016. In 2018 the chef announced two new ventures for the neighborhood, branches of his \"Morimoto Asia\" and \"Momosan\" chains. In November 2012, Morimoto opened \"Tribeca Canvas\" in New York's Tribeca neighborhood, featuring Asian-inflected takes on American comfort food. After a string of bad reviews and flagging business, he closed the restaurant for a revamp in", "title": "Masaharu Morimoto" }, { "docid": "4582544", "text": "of executive chef at Mesa Grill, which opened on January 15, 1991. Shortly after, he became a partner. In November 1993, Flay partnered with Laurence Kretchmer to open Bolo Bar & Restaurant in the Flatiron District, just a few blocks away from Mesa Grill. Flay opened a second Mesa Grill at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in 2004, and in 2005 he opened Bar Americain, an American Brasserie, in Midtown Manhattan. He continued to expand his restaurants by opening Bobby Flay Steak in the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This was followed by a third", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4582557", "text": "In 2010, Flay was impersonated in the \"South Park\" cartoon episode Crème Fraiche. In 2011, Flay had recurring appearances in the final season of \"Entourage\" as the boyfriend of Ari Gold's wife. In 2012, Flay appeared on \"Portlandia\", in a director's cut of the episode . He showed director Jonathan Krisel how to make the perfect marionberry pancakes. Flay guest stars as himself on season two of the TV series \"Younger\", which initially aired in 2016. In 2018, he appeared as Fred Jones' uncle in the animated film \"Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost\". Flay hosted a weekly call-in show on", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4436367", "text": "on video, and presented a supplemental range of sustainable foods to be used in the battle, it fell to announcer Alton Brown to start the battle with the traditional \"\"Allez cuisine!\"\" This battle was also the first that carried a prize: $25,000 was donated to City Meals, a New York charity similar to Meals on Wheels in the names of the winning team. Iron Chef Flay and Chef Comerford defeated Iron Chefs Batali and Lagasse. On January 2, 2011, \"Battle Deep Freeze\" aired. The show featured Iron Chef Michael Symon and Chef Anne Burrell facing off against Iron Chef Cat", "title": "Iron Chef America" }, { "docid": "4582549", "text": "judge on \"Wickedly Perfect\", \"The Next Food Network Star\", and \"The Next Iron Chef\". He has cooked on \"Emeril Live\" and \"Paula's Party\". On \"Throwdown! with Bobby Flay\", the chef challenges cooks renowned for a specific dish or type of cooking to a cook-off of their signature dish. On Episode 5 of Season 4, Harlem chef Melba Wilson and Bobby squared off over who had the best chicken and eggnog waffles. While being interviewed on \"Conversations with Allan Wolper\" on WGBO 88.3FM, Wilson confessed that she had been nervous because Bobby brought a cast iron skillet. Having grown up in", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "8515345", "text": "During season 3 of the Nickelodeon sitcom \"iCarly\", a show called \"Food Fight\" on the fictional \"Food TV\" channel parodied \"Throwdown!\" with faux celebrity chef/host Ricky Flame (a play on Bobby Flay's name) challenging Carly, Sam, and Freddie to a cook-off over his spaghetti tacos. Following the format of \"Throwdown!\", Carly and her friends were led to believe they were being featured on a \"Food TV\" program when Ricky Flame surprised them with the throwdown. During season 27 episode 2 of the Simpsons, Scotty Boom from the Chew Network challenges Homer to an \"Eatdown. \" Throwdown! with Bobby Flay Throwdown!", "title": "Throwdown! with Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "3030153", "text": "personalities for a themed cooking event. Food Network airs infomercials on Sundays from 4:00 to 9:30 a.m. ET, Monday through Thursdays from 5:00 to 9:30 a.m. ET, and on Fridays and Saturdays from 4:00 to 7:00 a.m. ET. The UK channel has a teleshopping window from 03.00 to 06.00 (UK time GMT/BST as applicable) daily. Mario Batali and Bobby Flay joined the network in 1995. In 1996, Erica Gruen, the network's CEO, and Joe Langhan, an executive producer at the Food Network, created \"Emeril Live!\", which became the channel's signature series. Although Batali has moved on to other endeavours, Flay", "title": "Food Network" }, { "docid": "4893875", "text": "and lounge style restaurant, opened at Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in April 2011. Later in 2011, a Cat Cora's Kitchen was opened in Terminal E of the Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH). Cora also operated Kouzzina by Cat Cora at Disney's Boardwalk Resort at The Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Kouzzina closed on September 30, 2014. On July 12th 2015 Cora was inducted into the American Academy of Chefs® (AAC®) Hall of Fame by The American Culinary Federation, becoming the first female chef ever to receive this recognition. Cora opened The Ocean Restaurant at the", "title": "Cat Cora" }, { "docid": "3157865", "text": "was settled by Batali (and B&B) with 117 members of the restaurant staff, who alleged that the Batali organization had skimmed a percentage of the tip pools in his restaurants over a period of years. Batali is a critic of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, a method of natural gas extraction. He has signed onto the cause of Chefs for the Marcellus, whose mission is to \"protect [New York's] regional foodshed from the dangers of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas (fracking).\" In May 2013, Batali co-wrote an opinion article with chef Bill Telepan for the New York \"Daily News\",", "title": "Mario Batali" }, { "docid": "4893874", "text": "In March 2006, Cora was the Grand Marshal for Hal and Mal's St. Paddy's Parade in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. In the September 2006 issue of \"FHM\", Cora was featured in the cooking section, where she demonstrated various recipes using items purchased from a convenience store. Cat Cora also belongs to Macy's Culinary Councils, along with Tyler Florence, Rick Bayless, and others. She has worked as an entertainer for The Olivia Companies, a travel company catering to the lesbian market. In 2008, she had a voice role for the video game \"\". The eponymous Cat Cora, a new bar", "title": "Cat Cora" }, { "docid": "3157866", "text": "in which the two wrote that \"Fracking ... could do serious damage to [New York's] agricultural industry and hurt businesses, like ours, that rely on safe, healthy, locally sourced foods.\"Batali was the subject of a 2007 book titled \"Heat\" by Bill Buford which detailed his philosophy to various aspects of social activism as well as cooking and life. Batali served as an ambassador and on the board of directors for The Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit organization which provides a daily meal to students of township schools in Soweto, South Africa. As of December 2017, Batali released in response to the", "title": "Mario Batali" }, { "docid": "470656", "text": "the nephew of Takeshi Kaga). The show received high ratings and rave reviews and in October 2004, Food Network began taping weekly episodes that premiered starting in January 2005. Some changes were made to the show, most notably replacing Puck with Morimoto as an Iron Chef (a fourth, Cat Cora, was added later), and the location was moved from Los Angeles to New York City. The fifth Iron Chef, Michael Symon, was added for his win in \"The Next Iron Chef\". In 2009, Chef Jose Garces became the sixth Iron Chef following his victory in the second season of \"The", "title": "Iron Chef" }, { "docid": "4893872", "text": "Kitchen; a number of airports across the country including George Bush International Airport in Houston and Salt Lake City International Airport, where in 2011 and 2012, Cat Cora's Kitchen and Cat Cora's Gourmet markets were opened. She has also appeared on \"Simplify Your Life\", was a co-host of the Food Network show \"Kitchen Accomplished\", and in 2011 she launched her own line of cookware in conjunction with Starfrit, Canada's leading purveyor of food preparation products. In January 2005 Cora co-founded Chefs For Humanity, which describes itself as \"a grassroots coalition of chefs and culinary professionals guided by a mission to", "title": "Cat Cora" }, { "docid": "7565847", "text": "and the taping of Fuji Television Network's \"Iron Chef\" \"New York Special\" between Bobby Flay and Masaharu Morimoto. The venue offers five different rooms. As real estate development pressure grew exponentially in the East Village during the 2000s, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation saw the need to protect the scale and character of many of the East Village’s unique historic structures. In the summer of 2007, GVSHP supplied the Landmarks Preservation Commission with extensive research on the history of Webster Hall, and urged the LPC to landmark the site. Shortly thereafter the LPC commissioners voted to consider the", "title": "Webster Hall" }, { "docid": "4436376", "text": "people who participated in the featured moments. In 2007, a competition was held to determine who among eight chefs would become the next Iron Chef. The show ran for six episodes, and followed the contestants through a series of eight culinary challenges taking place in the United States, France, and Germany. Contestants were eliminated by a panel of judges at the end of each episode, until the final two chefs returned to the United States to compete in Kitchen Stadium. The final battle featured swordfish as the secret ingredient, and was judged by Iron Chefs Flay, Cora, and Morimoto. Chef", "title": "Iron Chef America" }, { "docid": "14589494", "text": "\"Food Network Magazine\" include Alton Brown, Guy Fieri, Bobby Flay, Ina Garten, Michael Symon, Melissa d'Arabian, Rachael Ray, Tyler Florence, Ellie Krieger, Ted Allen, Morimoto, Aida Mollenkamp, Anne Burrell, Aarón Sanchez, Jose Garces, Pat Neely, Sunny Anderson and Nigella Lawson. Accolades earned by the magazine include being named \"Launch of the Year\" by \"Folio\", \"Advertising Age\" and \"Min\". In April 2010, \"Food Network Magazine\" was listed as #1 on Adweek's Hot List \"10 under 60\" for their first eligible year. Food Network Magazine Food Network Magazine is a monthly food entertainment magazine founded by Hearst Corporation and Scripps Networks Interactive", "title": "Food Network Magazine" }, { "docid": "4582548", "text": "the tenth and largest Bobby's Burger Palace site at Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover, Maryland, on June 7, 2012. Bobby's Burger Palace also has an 11th location, in College Park, Maryland. In total, BBP has nineteen locations in eleven states and the District of Columbia. The original Mesa Grill in New York closed in September 2013 following a proposed rent increase by the landlord. Flay has been featured in several episodes of Great Chefs television including: Flay has hosted fourteen cooking shows and specials on Food Network and Cooking Channel, of which eight continue to run: Flay served as a", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4582541", "text": "was born in New York to Bill and Dorothy Flay. He was raised on the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan. He is a fourth generation Irish American and was raised Catholic, attending denominational schools. At age 8, Flay asked for an Easy-Bake Oven for Christmas, despite his father's objections; his father thought that a G.I. Joe would be more gender-appropriate. He received both toys. Flay dropped out of high school at age 17. He has said his first jobs in the restaurant industry were at a pizza parlor and Baskin-Robbins. He then took a position making salads at Joe", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4582542", "text": "Allen Restaurant in Manhattan's Theater District, where his father was a partner. The proprietor, Joe Allen, was impressed by Flay's natural ability and agreed to pay his partner's son's tuition at the French Culinary Institute. Flay received a degree in culinary arts and was a member of the first graduating class of the French Culinary Institute in 1984. After culinary school, he started working as a sous-chef, quickly learning the culinary arts. At the Brighton Grill on Third Avenue, Flay was handed the executive chef's position after a week when the executive chef was fired. Flay quit when he realized", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "3157863", "text": "attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey while working as a cook at the pub/restaurant Stuff Yer Face. In 1994, he married Susi Cahn. He is son-in-law to Miles and Lillian Cahn, founders of Coach Inc. At 29, Batali was a sous chef at the Four Seasons Biltmore after previously working as a sous chef for the then Four Seasons Clift Hotel San Francisco, (since 1995, known as \"The Clift\", under changed ownership). Early in his career, Batali worked with chef, Jeremiah Tower at his San Francisco restaurant, \"Stars.\" \"Stars\" was open from 1984 until 1999 and is considered", "title": "Mario Batali" }, { "docid": "4582547", "text": "Bergen Town Center in Paramus, New Jersey. His fourth shop opened at the Mohegan Sun Casino in southeast Connecticut on July 1, 2009, which is also the location of his second Bar Americain, which opened on November 18, 2009. His fifth location of the burger chain opened in Philadelphia's University City on April 6, 2010. The sixth location of Bobby's Burger Palace opened in Washington, D.C., at 2121 K Street in Northwest on August 16, 2011. On December 5, 2011, Flay opened the ninth location of Bobby's Burger Palace in Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, New York. Flay opened", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4582545", "text": "Mesa Grill in the Bahamas, located in The Cove at Atlantis Paradise Island, which opened on March 28, 2007. The Las Vegas Mesa Grill earned Flay his only Michelin Star in 2008, which was taken away in the 2009 edition. Michelin did not publish a 2010 or 2011 Las Vegas edition, so the star could not be re-earned. Bolo Bar & Restaurant closed its doors on December 31, 2007, to make way for a condominium. Aside from his restaurants and television shows, Flay has been a master instructor and visiting chef at the French Culinary Institute. Although he is not", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4582558", "text": "Sirius XM Satellite Radio. He offered advice to men on \"everything from sports to current issues\", although food was the focus. Flay has authored several cookbooks, including: Flay has a personal interest in Thoroughbred horse racing. He is the owner of more than one graded stakes race winner, including More Than Real, who won the prestigious 2010 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and part owner of Creator, who won the third jewel of the triple crown the Belmont stakes. He serves on the Breeders' Cup board of directors. He was a candidate for chairman in 2014, but was not elected.", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4582543", "text": "he was not ready to run a kitchen. He took a position as a chef working for restaurateur Jonathan Waxman at Bud and Jams. Waxman introduced Flay to southwestern and Cajun cuisine, which came to define his culinary career. After working for a short time on the floor at the American Stock Exchange, Flay returned to the kitchen as the executive chef at Miracle Grill in the East Village, where he worked from 1988 to 1990. He caught the attention of restaurateur Jerome Kretchmer, who was looking for a southwestern-style chef. Impressed by Flay's food, Kretchmer offered him the position", "title": "Bobby Flay" }, { "docid": "4893876", "text": "S.E.A. Aquarium at Resorts World Sentosa off Singapore in February 2013. The 63 seat restaurant is inside the world's largest oceanarium and has stunning views of deep-sea wildlife from every table. Cora is currently the co-host of \"Around the World in 80 Plates\", an American reality competition show that premiered on May 9, 2012 on the Bravo cable TV network. Cora co-hosted the 2017 FOX reality cooking series \"My Kitchen Rules\". Cora married her longtime partner Jennifer in June 2013, and the couple have four sons together via in vitro fertilization. All four embryos were fertilized by the same sperm", "title": "Cat Cora" }, { "docid": "23720", "text": "Cora, Michael Symon, Bobby Flay, Ina Garten, Todd English, Anthony Bourdain, Guy Fieri, Colonel Sanders and Paula Deen. Regional chefs are emerging as localized celebrity chefs with growing broader appeal, such as Peter Merriman (Hawaii Regional Cuisine), Jerry Traunfeld, Alan Wong (Pacific Rim cuisine), Norman Van Aken (New World Cuisine – fusion Latin, Caribbean, Asian, African and American), and Mark Miller (American Southwest cuisine). American cuisine American cuisine reflects the history of the United States, blending the culinary contributions of various groups of people from around the world, including indigenous American Indians, African Americans, Asians, Europeans, Pacific Islanders, and South", "title": "American cuisine" }, { "docid": "5806543", "text": "on January 2, 2010. She was teamed up with Bobby Flay and competed against a team of Emeril Lagasse and Mario Batali. As chef to a head of state, Comerford is a member of Le Club des Chefs des Chefs. She lives in Columbia, Maryland, with her husband, John, and their daughter Danielle. Cristeta Comerford Cristeta Pasia Comerford (born October 27, 1962) is a Filipino-American chef who has been the White House Executive Chef since 2005. She is the first woman and first person of Asian descent to hold the post. Cristeta Comerford was born as Cristeta Gomez Pasia in", "title": "Cristeta Comerford" }, { "docid": "4436366", "text": "episode on January 3, 2010. The episode, called \"The Super Chef Battle\", featured Iron Chef Mario Batali and Super Chef Emeril Lagasse against Iron Chef Bobby Flay and White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford in a battle that required the chefs to create an American meal, with the produce from the White House garden as the secret ingredient. First Lady Michelle Obama made a special appearance, welcoming the chefs to the White House, and announcing the secret ingredient. This battle was also notable as the first for which the Chairman was not present in Kitchen Stadium. Although the Chairman appeared", "title": "Iron Chef America" }, { "docid": "2706177", "text": "as a sous chef to Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto and chef Robert Irvine in a special \"Holiday Battle\", pitting the Food Network stars against reps of the sister network Cooking Channel, Ben Sergeant, Nadia G, and Michael Symon. Morimoto's team won. In May 2012, Allen received a James Beard Foundation Award for his work as the host of \"Chopped\", and the show itself also won for best in-studio television program. In 2004, he won an Emmy Award along with the other cast members and producers of \"Queer Eye\" for \"Outstanding Reality Program\" from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.", "title": "Ted Allen" }, { "docid": "3819959", "text": "with the number of cats that the cat has \"beaten\" in the ring. Cat show A cat show is a judged event where the owners of cats compete to win titles in various cat registering organizations by entering their cats to be judged after a breed standard. Both pedigreed and companion (or moggy) cats are admissible, although the rules differ from organization to organization. Cats are compared to a breed standard, and the owners of those judged to be closest to it are awarded a prize. Moggy's are judged based on their temperament. Often, at the end of the year,", "title": "Cat show" }, { "docid": "3819954", "text": "Cat show A cat show is a judged event where the owners of cats compete to win titles in various cat registering organizations by entering their cats to be judged after a breed standard. Both pedigreed and companion (or moggy) cats are admissible, although the rules differ from organization to organization. Cats are compared to a breed standard, and the owners of those judged to be closest to it are awarded a prize. Moggy's are judged based on their temperament. Often, at the end of the year, all of the points accrued at various shows are added up and more", "title": "Cat show" }, { "docid": "5359090", "text": "building hosts a variety of health and safety-related exhibitions. The Art & Home Center is home to a recently renovated demonstration kitchen, which has been the host of several celebrity cooking demonstrations by such notable chefs as Adam Richman, Bobby Flay, and Mario Batali. The Art & Home Center is the hub of all culinary, art, and craft exhibitions with New York's artists displaying their work in fine arts, photography, woodworking, quilting, and needle work. Each year, the Art & Home Center hosts its annual Women's Day Luncheon. In 2009, the building celebrated its 75th anniversary by celebrating the life", "title": "Great New York State Fair" }, { "docid": "11065926", "text": "Chef\", a Cooking Channel show starring Symon, debuted in July 2010. He described it as \"a show for the people who've watched Food Network forever and are ready to learn something more advanced or more creative.\" The show \"Food Feuds\", which featured Symon, premiered October 10, 2010. He travels to various locales and performs a direct comparison competition between local food rivals. On February 14, 2011, Symon appeared in a skit on the late-night talk show \"Conan\", in which a young couple had won a \"romantic\" Valentine's Day dinner date on the set. Conan O'Brien announced that Symon would be", "title": "Michael Symon" }, { "docid": "13224945", "text": "Tel Aviv F.C. for the remainder of the campaign. He scored his first goal for the side on 18 March 2017, in a 3–0 home win over Bnei Sakhnin FC. On 29 March 2011, Micael made his debut for Portugal, starting and scoring twice in a 2–0 friendly win with Finland in Aveiro. Porto Braga Rúben Micael Rúben Micael Freitas da Ressureição (born 19 August 1986), known as Micael, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Vitória F.C. as a midfielder. He totalled 150 Primeira Liga games and 18 goals during eight seasons, representing Nacional, Porto, Braga and Paços", "title": "Rúben Micael" }, { "docid": "12498207", "text": "What Will Fat Cat Sit On? What Will Fat Cat Sit On? is a 2007 children's picture book by Jan Thomas. Fat Cat wonders what to sit on. The animals are relieved that the cat will not sit on them, but they wonder about what the cat will have for lunch. The animals run off in terror. A \"Publishers Weekly\" review says, \"Eschewing anything that smacks of a setting (except for the comfy chair to which Fat Cat is directed) she renders her barnyard characters in super-saturated colors and thick, bold outlines. Mood swings generally have a bad name these", "title": "What Will Fat Cat Sit On?" }, { "docid": "13224939", "text": "Rúben Micael Rúben Micael Freitas da Ressureição (born 19 August 1986), known as Micael, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Vitória F.C. as a midfielder. He totalled 150 Primeira Liga games and 18 goals during eight seasons, representing Nacional, Porto, Braga and Paços de Ferreira, winning seven major honours with the second team and a further one with the third. A full Portuguese international since 2011, Micael was part of the squad at Euro 2012. Born in Câmara de Lobos, Madeira, Micael started his career with local C.F. União, making his professional debut at the age of 17.", "title": "Rúben Micael" }, { "docid": "11598186", "text": "Ryutaro Morimoto is a Japanese singer and a member of the idol group Zero. Early on in his career, Morimoto was a trainee under Johnny & Associates and debuted in 2007. He was part of the group Hey! Say! JUMP, but he was suspended from the group in June 2011 following an underage smoking scandal and departed in 2012. In 2016, he returned to the entertainment industry as the singer and producer of the five-member group Zero. Morimoto auditioned for Johnny & Associates and his audition tape was aired on the variety show \"Ya-Ya-yah\" on August 12, 2004, along with", "title": "Ryutaro Morimoto" }, { "docid": "3375570", "text": "often referred to the relationship between Michiba and Morimoto as that between master and student, especially after an episode when Michiba flew to New York to visit Morimoto's restaurant, Nobu. So supportive of Morimoto was Michiba that, before his infamous New York battle with chef Bobby Flay, Michiba gave Morimoto a large box of katsuobushi flakes with a hand-calligraphed message: \"respect the old, but seek out the new.\" Michiba made appearances throughout the 2012 revival of \"Iron Chef\" through interviews on former assistant Kenichi Miyanaga, a seat on the tasting panel and as a competitor against new Iron Chef Jun", "title": "Rokusaburo Michiba" }, { "docid": "11856382", "text": "a number of expert committees and advisory councils held by the Japanese government. He was instrumental in implementing the Three Principles (Transfer of Defence Equipment) policies in 2014, and the launch of Japan's only international defence trade show and conference, MAST Asia www.mastconfex.com Satoshi Morimoto Morimoto was born in Tokyo on 15 March 1941. He graduated from National Defense Academy of Japan in 1965. He received a master's degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in 1980. After graduation, Morimoto served with Japan Air Self-Defense Force until 1979 when he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.In 1992, he left", "title": "Satoshi Morimoto" }, { "docid": "14322698", "text": "title as the pedigree cats but these are for \"Master Cat\" titles as opposed to \"Champion\" and \"Premier\" ones. They then go on to compete to win the title of Supreme Non-Pedigree or Supreme Pedigree Pet Cat. Classes are also included for kittens, with both non pedigree and pedigree pet kittens competing for the title of Supreme Household Pet Kitten. Prior to 1992, there was no individual overall Best in Show Supreme Exhibit. Numerous activities take place alongside the competition judging. There are children's activities, such as judging of soft toys, and a large range of stalls selling cat related", "title": "Supreme Cat Show" }, { "docid": "14322696", "text": "UK & Imperial Grand Premiers compete for a UK Grand Premier Certificate. In these classes several breeds may compete together. UK Grand Certificates are only awarded at the Supreme Show; two such Certificates from different judges give the cat the title of UK Grand Champion/Premier or UK & Imperial Grand Champion/Premier if it has additionally gained that title. There is no Reserve UK Grand Challenge/Premier Certificate. Best of Breed winners at the Supreme Show do not get certificates but compete against the other BOB winners in their section for Best of Variety. The seven Best of Variety Adults (Persian, Semi-Longhair,", "title": "Supreme Cat Show" }, { "docid": "11065923", "text": "The University of Texas. This was his first venture outside of the Midwest. On April 11, 2016 Symon opened Mabel's BBQ on East 4th Street adjacent to Lola. On May 1, 2017 Bar Symon opened in Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Concourse C. Symon often appears on behalf of Food Network. During the summer of 2009, he promoted the Food Network's video game \"Cook Or Be Cooked\" for Wii, which was released on November 3, 2009. Symon was one of the rotating hosts of Food Network's show \"Melting Pot\". He appeared on \"Sara's Secrets\" with Sara Moulton, \"Ready, Set, Cook\",", "title": "Michael Symon" }, { "docid": "18999252", "text": "Micael Bindefeld Micael Bindefeld (born 20 September 1959 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish planner of professional events parties in Stockholm. Bindefeld grew up in a Jewish middle-class family in Gothenburg. His father was an engineer and his mother was a dental nurse. Bindefeld educated himself to be a hairdresser; he became popular and started doing hair for celebrities in Stockholm. He organized his first event in 1987. He hosted \"Sommar i P1\", which was broadcast on Sveriges Radio in 2010. In 2014 he started the Micael Bindefeld foundation for the memory of the Holocaust. Bindefeld himself is Jewish and had", "title": "Micael Bindefeld" }, { "docid": "18999253", "text": "relatives who were killed in the Holocaust. Micael Bindefeld Micael Bindefeld (born 20 September 1959 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish planner of professional events parties in Stockholm. Bindefeld grew up in a Jewish middle-class family in Gothenburg. His father was an engineer and his mother was a dental nurse. Bindefeld educated himself to be a hairdresser; he became popular and started doing hair for celebrities in Stockholm. He organized his first event in 1987. He hosted \"Sommar i P1\", which was broadcast on Sveriges Radio in 2010. In 2014 he started the Micael Bindefeld foundation for the memory of the", "title": "Micael Bindefeld" }, { "docid": "11065927", "text": "presenting them with their dinner—which he did, in the form of a Taco Party Pack from Taco Bell. In September 2011, Symon began co-hosting The Chew on ABC networks, a daily talk show that is centered on food-related and lifestyle topics. Symon has been the host of the television series \"Burgers, Brew and 'Que\" since 2015. Symon was featured in fellow Clevelander Michael Ruhlman's 2001 book, \"The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection\". The second part of the three-part book focuses on Symon's quest for culinary perfection. In 2009, Symon collaborated with Ruhlman to write his first cookbook,", "title": "Michael Symon" }, { "docid": "12498208", "text": "days, but Thomas makes them a hoot\". Elizabeth Bird, of \"School Library Journal\" reviewed the book saying, \"Arguably the best of the overweight kitty genre, this is a crowd pleaser and bound to be a children's librarian's new best friend. Funny furry stuff\". Tasha Saecker, of Mensha Library, reviewed the book saying, \"One of the best and easiest readers out there. Pick this up for your preschooler or kindergartener who is starting to read\". What Will Fat Cat Sit On? What Will Fat Cat Sit On? is a 2007 children's picture book by Jan Thomas. Fat Cat wonders what to", "title": "What Will Fat Cat Sit On?" }, { "docid": "3607828", "text": "most importantly, anti-social behavior (\"No. 1 Bad Boy,\" \"Look What the Cat Dragged In,\" \"Let Me Go to the Show,\" and \"Play Dirty\"). \"Talk Dirty to Me\" was written by guitarist C. C. DeVille prior to his joining the band. DeVille played it to Michaels, Rikki Rockett and Bobby Dall during his audition for the role as the band's guitarist. \"Talk Dirty to Me\" has been covered by several bands, including Children of Bodom and Reel Big Fish. It is also included as a playable cover track in \"\", with Michaels re-recording the vocals. In 2005, Madacy Entertainment reissued the", "title": "Look What the Cat Dragged In" }, { "docid": "20428018", "text": "Chefs Bobby Flay, Jose Garces, Alex Guarnaschelli, and Michael Symon return for this series; they are joined by the newest Iron Chef, \"Iron Chef Gauntlet\" winner Stephanie Izard. During taping of the first season, Bobby Flay removed his chef's coat to reveal a T-shirt which read \"This is my last Iron Chef battle ever\"; he later confirmed that he has officially quit the \"Iron Chef\" franchise. Two challengers enter Kitchen Stadium and battle one another in a Chairman's Challenge based upon a secret ingredient. Alton Brown is the sole judge of this challenge and decides which of the two challengers", "title": "Iron Chef Showdown" } ]
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Nov 27, 1942 saw the birth of what legendary musician, who Rolling Stoned named their top guitarist on their 100 greatest of all time list?
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[ { "docid": "2458882", "text": "the song appears at number 47 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and in 2000, British magazine \"Total Guitar\" named it top of the list of the greatest cover versions of all time. Hendrix's guitar solo is included at number five on \"Guitar World\"'s list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. The earliest recording of the song, other than by Dylan, was by British pop group the Nashville Teens, who had previously had a hit in 1964 with the song \"Tobacco Road\". Their recording of \"All Along the Watchtower\", produced by Vic Smith, was released as a", "title": "All Along the Watchtower" }, { "docid": "213746", "text": "Pop Musician of the Year. In 1968, \"Rolling Stone\" declared him the Performer of the Year. Also in 1968, the City of Seattle gave him the Keys to the City. \"Disc & Music Echo\" newspaper honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970 \"Guitar Player\" magazine named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. \"Rolling Stone\" ranked his three non-posthumous studio albums, \"Are You Experienced\" (1967), \"Axis: Bold as Love\" (1967), and \"Electric Ladyland\" (1968) among the \"500 Greatest Albums of All Time\". They ranked Hendrix number one on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists", "title": "Jimi Hendrix" }, { "docid": "20255607", "text": "are The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Little Richard, Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. In 2011, \"Rolling Stone\" published a revised edition of the list, with changes from 27th position onwards. The updated list features artists not present in the original (including Queen, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, R.E.M., Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Jay-Z), removing a number of other artists (including Etta James, Miles Davis, Roxy Music, N.W.A., and Martha & The Vandellas). The list consists primarily of American or British artists, with following exceptions: AC/DC (Australia), The Band (Canada/US), Bob Marley (Jamaica), Joni Mitchell", "title": "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" } ]
[ { "docid": "20255605", "text": "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time \"The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time\" is a special issue published by the American magazine \"Rolling Stone\" in two parts in 2004 and 2005, and updated in 2011. The list presented was compiled based on input from musicians, writers, and industry figures, and is focused on the rock & roll era. It predominantly features American and British musicians. The publication also features comments written by musicians about their favorite colleagues (e.g., Elvis Costello on The Beatles, Janet Jackson on Tina Turner, etc.). Since its publication, the list has been frequently cited", "title": "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" }, { "docid": "20255608", "text": "(Canada), Lee \"Scratch\" Perry (Jamaica; only in the 2005 list), Carlos Santana (Mexico/US), U2 (Ireland), and Neil Young (Canada). Tina Turner, who relinquished her American citizenship after obtaining Swiss citizenship in 2013, was still an American citizen when included in the list. Most artists on the list were active in the 1960s and 1970s. Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time \"The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time\" is a special issue published by the American magazine \"Rolling Stone\" in two parts in 2004 and 2005, and updated in 2011. The list presented was compiled based on input from", "title": "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" }, { "docid": "20284832", "text": "complimented the inclusion of female songwriters Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, Stevie Nicks, Madonna, Chrissie Hynde, Loretta Lynn, Lucinda Williams, and Björk, as well as Taylor Swift who is the youngest person on the list. Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time \"The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time\" is a feature published by the American magazine \"Rolling Stone\" in August 2015. The list presented was compiled based on the magazine's music critics. It predominantly features American and English songwriters of the rock era. The list received mixed response from fellow publications. Writing for \"Flavorwire\", Judy Berman criticized", "title": "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time" }, { "docid": "20284829", "text": "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time \"The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time\" is a feature published by the American magazine \"Rolling Stone\" in August 2015. The list presented was compiled based on the magazine's music critics. It predominantly features American and English songwriters of the rock era. The list received mixed response from fellow publications. Writing for \"Flavorwire\", Judy Berman criticized the selection of the songwriters, saying \"Predictably, it's over 70% white and features only nine solo female songwriters (five other women are included as part of mixed-gender writing teams). Classic rock is overrepresented; every other genre", "title": "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time" }, { "docid": "8815658", "text": "which contained four issues. The top five issues were each reprinted in their own volumes (volumes six through ten). 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time The 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time was a series of trade paperbacks published in 2001 by Marvel Comics. Earlier in the year, the publisher had held a poll asking readers to vote on their favorite issues of Marvel comic book series. The top 25 issues were then reprinted in trade paperback form, with a list in the back of each volume listing the results of the poll from the 100th issue to the last", "title": "100 Greatest Marvels of All Time" }, { "docid": "8815657", "text": "100 Greatest Marvels of All Time The 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time was a series of trade paperbacks published in 2001 by Marvel Comics. Earlier in the year, the publisher had held a poll asking readers to vote on their favorite issues of Marvel comic book series. The top 25 issues were then reprinted in trade paperback form, with a list in the back of each volume listing the results of the poll from the 100th issue to the last issue contained in that particular volume. Numbers 25 to 6 were published in volumes one through five, each of", "title": "100 Greatest Marvels of All Time" }, { "docid": "7214372", "text": "is the Crystals; their \"Da Doo Ron Ron\" (previously number 114) was the highest-ranked song to have been dropped. Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time \"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time\" was the cover story of a special issue of \"Rolling Stone\", issue number 963, published in December 2004, a year after the magazine published its list of \"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time\". In May 2010, \"Rolling Stone\" compiled an update, published in a special issue and in digital form for the iPod and iPad. The list differs from the 2004 version, with 26 songs", "title": "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" }, { "docid": "7179270", "text": "Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics\" () in 2004. This featured a number of generally younger critics arguing against the high evaluation of various \"great\" albums, some of which had been included in the list, including DeRogatis taking on \"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band\", which had been \"Rolling Stone\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s top choice. Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time \"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time\" is a 2003 special issue of American biweekly magazine \"Rolling Stone\", and a related book published in 2005. The lists presented were compiled based on votes from selected rock musicians, critics, and industry figures.", "title": "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" }, { "docid": "16392175", "text": "Johnson complained that it was premature to claim that any episode of \"ER\" had established sufficient cultural significance to rank third on the original list. Jaime Weinman of \"Maclean's\" complained that the 2009 list was composed of the most well-known episode of famous series, claiming that they were largely unexceptional episodes. He preferred the 1997 list, which he said was produced when \"TV Guide\" was a higher caliber publication. TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time (1997) and Top 100 Episodes of All Time (2009) are lists of the 100 best television show episodes in", "title": "TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time" }, { "docid": "16392170", "text": "TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time (1997) and Top 100 Episodes of All Time (2009) are lists of the 100 best television show episodes in U.S. television history. \"TV Guide\" published both lists: the first, published in June 28, 1997, was produced in collaboration with Nick at Nite's TV Land. A revised list was published in June 15, 2009. The lists excluded game shows and variety shows, but included situation comedies and drama series. About 25 shows from the original list were featured during a special week on Nick at Night on Nickelodeon and", "title": "TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time" }, { "docid": "7214370", "text": "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time \"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time\" was the cover story of a special issue of \"Rolling Stone\", issue number 963, published in December 2004, a year after the magazine published its list of \"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time\". In May 2010, \"Rolling Stone\" compiled an update, published in a special issue and in digital form for the iPod and iPad. The list differs from the 2004 version, with 26 songs added, all of which are songs from the 2000s except \"Juicy\" by The Notorious B.I.G., released in 1994. The", "title": "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" }, { "docid": "16388295", "text": "100 Greatest of All Time 100 Greatest of All Time was a television series of five one-hour episodes, produced and first aired by Tennis Channel in March 2012. It presented a list of the \"100 greatest tennis players of all time\", both men and women. The series was hosted by Jack Nicklaus, Jerry Rice, Wayne Gretzky, Lisa Leslie and Carl Lewis. Many retired tennis luminaries provided commentary, including Rod Laver, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Björn Borg, John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova, Pete Sampras, and Andre Agassi. An \"international panel of tennis experts\" determined this ranking of 62 men and 38", "title": "100 Greatest of All Time" }, { "docid": "4009279", "text": "Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones song) \"Brown Sugar\" is a song by the Rolling Stones. It is the opening track and lead single from their album \"Sticky Fingers\" (1971). \"Rolling Stone\" magazine ranked it number 495 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and at number five on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. Though credited, like most of their compositions, to the singer/guitarist pair of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the song was primarily the work of Jagger, who wrote it sometime during the filming of \"Ned Kelly\" in 1969.", "title": "Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones song)" }, { "docid": "16388296", "text": "women. The United States was credited with the most great players (38), followed by Australia (17), France (7), Great Britain (6) and Czechoslovakia (5). Forty-three players made the list from the Americas, 39 from Europe and 18 from Oceania. Note: Bolded players are still active today. Slams figures reflect number of wins in Singles draws and are up-to-date, meaning that they may now be higher than the numbers used to determine the March 2012 list. 100 Greatest of All Time 100 Greatest of All Time was a television series of five one-hour episodes, produced and first aired by Tennis Channel", "title": "100 Greatest of All Time" }, { "docid": "16005262", "text": "The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time is a list of the best album releases issued by Slovak recording artists. As the first such list presented in Slovakia, it was published by \"Nový čas\" daily on 22 September 2007. The list is entirely composed of Slovak, or else of formerly Czechoslovak artists, featuring all albums published in the country of origin from the 1960s onwards. Some of nominated full-length records could have been performed also in a different language (occasionally in English but partially). Ranking itself was based on votes received", "title": "The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time" }, { "docid": "16005264", "text": "Collegium Musicum at number No. 89. The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time is a list of the best album releases issued by Slovak recording artists. As the first such list presented in Slovakia, it was published by \"Nový čas\" daily on 22 September 2007. The list is entirely composed of Slovak, or else of formerly Czechoslovak artists, featuring all albums published in the country of origin from the 1960s onwards. Some of nominated full-length records could have been performed also in a different language (occasionally in English but partially). Ranking", "title": "The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time" }, { "docid": "15091506", "text": "a group of 10 players from the list, with each nominee player presented and advocated for by a separate noteworthy individual in the world of sports and entertainment. It started with the players ranked 100 through 91, and moving up the list each week. The final episode, premiering on November 4, 2010, introduced the top 10 players of all time according to the panel. Jerry Rice was chosen as the top player of all time, with Jim Brown as the second choice. The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players was a ten-part television series that", "title": "The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players" }, { "docid": "15091505", "text": "The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players was a ten-part television series that set out to determine the top 100 greatest NFL players of all time. It was presented by the NFL Network in 2010. The series was based on a list of the top 100 National Football League players of all time, as compiled by a \"blue-ribbon\" panel assembled by the NFL Network. The members of the panel were current and former NFL coaches, players, executives, and members of the media. Each episode, broadcast each Thursday from September 3 to November 4, 2010, introduced", "title": "The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players" }, { "docid": "7179266", "text": "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time \"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time\" is a 2003 special issue of American biweekly magazine \"Rolling Stone\", and a related book published in 2005. The lists presented were compiled based on votes from selected rock musicians, critics, and industry figures. The lists predominantly feature American and British music from the 1960s and the 1970s, topped by The Beatles’ 1967 album \"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band\", with a top 10 that featured four entries from The Beatles (#1, 3, 5 and 10), two from Bob Dylan (#4 and 9), and one", "title": "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" }, { "docid": "20487080", "text": "religious preachers, one scientist and one economist got place in the final list. Begum Rokeya was the only woman and Amartya Sen only living personality to be voted in top 20. Greatest Bengali of all time Soon after the completion of \"100 Greatest Britons\" poll in 2002, BBC organized a similar opinion poll to find out who is the greatest Bengali personality in Bengali nation's history of thousand years. In 2004, BBC's Bengali Service conducted the opinion poll with the title 'Greatest Bengali of all time' started from February 11 continued onto March 22. The poll was participated by Bengalis", "title": "Greatest Bengali of all time" }, { "docid": "16703306", "text": "top spot in the last five decennial critics' polls. The Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time The following are the \"Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time\" according to the worldwide opinion polls conducted by \"Sight & Sound\" and published in the journal's September 2012 issue. They published the critics' list, based on 846 critics, programmers, academics, and distributors, and the directors' list, based on 358 directors and filmmakers. \"Sight & Sound\", published by the British Film Institute, has conducted a poll of the greatest films every 10 years since 1952. In the 2012 critics' poll,", "title": "The Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time" }, { "docid": "20284830", "text": "and subgenre of popular music is underrepresented.\" Geeta Dayal from \"The Guardian\" accused \"corporate sponsorship\" in determining the list's content. Tom Moon from NPR wrote that \"This list represents another trip through the hagiographic, hermetically sealed rock hall of fame, with the same stars you've been reading about in Rolling Stone since the dinosaur age.\" \"The Daily Telegraph\" editor Martin Chilton responded with a list of 100 best songwriters missed out by \"Rolling Stone\", including Cole Porter, Townes Van Zandt, Ewan MacColl, Kate Bush, and Ray Charles. Jacqueline Cutler from \"New York Daily News\" agreed with the magazine for ranking", "title": "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time" }, { "docid": "16703305", "text": "The Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time The following are the \"Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time\" according to the worldwide opinion polls conducted by \"Sight & Sound\" and published in the journal's September 2012 issue. They published the critics' list, based on 846 critics, programmers, academics, and distributors, and the directors' list, based on 358 directors and filmmakers. \"Sight & Sound\", published by the British Film Institute, has conducted a poll of the greatest films every 10 years since 1952. In the 2012 critics' poll, \"Vertigo\" ranked first, replacing \"Citizen Kane\", which held the", "title": "The Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time" }, { "docid": "18790872", "text": "see Greatest Britons spin-offs The Greatest of All - Our 50 Top Australians The Greatest of All - Our 50 Top Australians was a newspaper article published in \"The Australian\" on 27 June 2013, coinciding with that year's Australia Day. Compiled by News Limited journalist Billy Rule, the article listed what he considered were the top 50 individuals (including one horse) who \"have helped define who we are as a people and how Australia is perceived as a country\", including 'trailblazers', those who left a legacy for others to admire or benefit from, and those that engendered inspiration. Other countries", "title": "The Greatest of All - Our 50 Top Australians" }, { "docid": "18198573", "text": "NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time \"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time\" is a 2013 special issue of British magazine \"NME\", available digitally or in newsstands on October 23. The list presented was compiled based on votes from current and past \"NME\" journalists. The list and writer's choices voting several times for the same act, were criticized by several papers including \"The Guardian\". The number one album was \"The Queen Is Dead\" by The Smiths. Made in a similar fashion to the \"Rolling Stone\"s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the list was voted for by \"NME\"", "title": "NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" }, { "docid": "1627036", "text": "greatest Britons, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Winston Churchill as main characters, played by Kenneth Branagh and Timothy Spall, each of them reading a monologue from William Shakespeare's \"The Tempest\". The ceremony also included a personal appearance by Tim Berners-Lee, who was placed 99th on the list. There were no black Britons on the list, prompting a separate three-month survey to find the 100 greatest black Britons. Although the BBC's original ranked list has been removed from their web server and what remains is only an alphabetical list of the Top 100, several other sources have preserved the original ranked list.", "title": "100 Greatest Britons" }, { "docid": "18790871", "text": "The Greatest of All - Our 50 Top Australians The Greatest of All - Our 50 Top Australians was a newspaper article published in \"The Australian\" on 27 June 2013, coinciding with that year's Australia Day. Compiled by News Limited journalist Billy Rule, the article listed what he considered were the top 50 individuals (including one horse) who \"have helped define who we are as a people and how Australia is perceived as a country\", including 'trailblazers', those who left a legacy for others to admire or benefit from, and those that engendered inspiration. Other countries have produced similar shows;", "title": "The Greatest of All - Our 50 Top Australians" }, { "docid": "11969645", "text": "Stoned (The Rolling Stones song) \"Stoned\" was released in the United Kingdom by the Rolling Stones on the Decca label on 1 November 1963, as the B-side to their version of \"I Wanna Be Your Man\". Recorded in early October 1963, it was the first song released to be credited to \"Nanker Phelge\", and the band's first original composition, derivative of \"Green Onions\" by Booker T. & the M.G.s. This bluesy quasi-instrumental features Jones on harmonica and Stewart on tack piano, with occasional vocals from Jagger who huskily recites \"Stoned ... outa mah mind ... where am I at?\" The", "title": "Stoned (The Rolling Stones song)" }, { "docid": "1598281", "text": "\"Exile on Main St\" the 42nd greatest album of all time, while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 3 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 1987 it was ranked third on \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's list of the best 100 albums of the period 1967–1987. In 1993, \"Entertainment Weekly\" named it No. 1 on their list of \"100 Greatest CDs\". In 2003, Pitchfork Media ranked it number 11 on their Top 100 Albums of the 1970s. In 2001, the TV network VH1 placed it at number 22 on their best albums survey. In", "title": "Exile on Main St." }, { "docid": "20255606", "text": "by many specialized and generalist publications. The list, published in two issues in 2004 and 2005 and updated in 2011, was based on the choices of a panel of 55 musicians, writers, and industry figures. As the editors explain, the artists were selected by \"their peers\", and the list aims to be \"a broad survey of rock history\", spanning from rock and roll, blues, indie rock, rap music and contemporary pop music. In both versions of the list, the top three positions are held by The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley; rounding out the top ten (in descending order)", "title": "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" }, { "docid": "19701486", "text": "BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century The 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century is a list compiled in August 2016 by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), chosen by a voting poll of 177 film critics from around the world. It was compiled by collating the top ten films submitted by the critics who were asked to list the best films released since the year 2000. BBC Culture requested 177 film critics from around the world to submit their responses for ten films which according to them are the greatest. The time period was limited from January 2000", "title": "BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century" }, { "docid": "15545950", "text": "collection, \"Their 16 Greatest Hits\" contained many of the hit songs from the group's first two greatest hits albums, \"Golden Grass\" and \"More Golden Grass\". This included 6 songs from the former and 9 songs from the latter. The one song not on either previous album was \"Sooner or Later,\" which had become the band's first Billboard top 10 entry since \"Midnight Confessions\" in 1968 and would be their last. The songs on this release include three songs that reached the top 10 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, eleven that reached the top 40, and a total of fifteen songs", "title": "Their 16 Greatest Hits" }, { "docid": "18198574", "text": "journalists past and present, each of whom submitted a weighted list of 50 albums. This \"NME\" listing was criticized by the media. \"The Guardian\" noted that \"NME\"'s Features Editor in 2013, Laura Snapes, rated in her top four spots four albums by the same band, the National. Snapes included a fifth National's album at number 7 in her top ten greatest albums of all time. Similarly another \"NME\" journalist, Kevin EG Perry, also selected four albums by the same band in his top four spots, this time The Rolling Stones. Ben Kaye of \"Consequence of Sound\" wrote that \"if Laura", "title": "NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" }, { "docid": "16797950", "text": "Political songs on the list include commentary on the 1981 Springbok tour riots in Blam Blam Blam's \"There Is No Depression in New Zealand\", and nuclear testing in the French Pacific through Herbs' \"French Letter\" and DLT's \"Chains\". The list of the top 100 is below. APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time The APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time is a selection of New Zealand songs as voted in 2001 by members of the Australasian Performing Right Association. The top 30 of this selection was used to create the Nature's Best CD and the", "title": "APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time" }, { "docid": "4161902", "text": "of All Time poll\" by \"Mojo\" in 2000, which included two Dylan singles, but not \"Like a Rolling Stone\". Five years later, the magazine named it his number one song. \"Rolling Stone\" picked \"Like a Rolling Stone\" as the number two single of the past 25 years in 1989, and then in 2004 placed the song at number one on its list of \"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time\". In 2010, \"Rolling Stone\" again placed \"Like a Rolling Stone\" at the top of their list of \"500 Greatest Songs Of All Time\". In 2006, Pitchfork Media placed it at", "title": "Like a Rolling Stone" }, { "docid": "20284831", "text": "Bob Dylan as the top songwriter. Jon Bream from \"Star Tribune\" praised the inclusion of songwriters from Minnesota and said that Dylan as a number-one songwriter is not surprising at all. Baby A. Gil from \"The Philippine Star\" reacted positively to the list, saying that \"it is the best list of its type that I have come across and I like the fact that it arouses interest in sounds one may not have heard before or in a long time.\" Lori Melton from AXS said that the list \"reads like an iconic student body in a songwriting master class\" and", "title": "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time" }, { "docid": "16797948", "text": "APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time The APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time is a selection of New Zealand songs as voted in 2001 by members of the Australasian Performing Right Association. The top 30 of this selection was used to create the Nature's Best CD and the rest of the list for follow up compilations. A similar list was made in Australia of the top 30 Australian songs. The list was created to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in New Zealand in 2001. 900 candidate songs were", "title": "APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time" }, { "docid": "16049296", "text": "in each edition of the book. In 1987, radio presenter Paul Gambaccini asked approximately 80 critics and disc jockeys from the United Kingdom and United States to list their ten greatest albums of all-time. From these lists, he compiled the \"Top 100 Albums\" which was subsequently published by Pavilion Books in 1987. In 1993, Colin Larkin was approached by the now defunct Today newspaper to update this list, which was published in the newspaper. As a consequence Larkin suggested the idea of a Top 1000 albums book to his publisher. Unlike the Gambaccini list, Larkin wanted to compile a list", "title": "All Time Top 1000 Albums" }, { "docid": "15921624", "text": "All-Time Top 100 TV Themes All-Time Top 100 TV Themes is the ninth volume of the \"Television's Greatest Hits\" series of compilation albums by TVT Records. TVT Records released the two-disc collection in 2005. It included 100 themes featuring tracks from the first seven discs of the series and newer themes from television series since the last disc was released in 1996. The album catalog was later acquired by The Bicycle Music Company. In September 2011, Oglio Records which headquarters is located at Los Angeles announced they were re-leasing the \"Television's Greatest Hits\" song catalog after entering into an arrangement", "title": "All-Time Top 100 TV Themes" }, { "docid": "957195", "text": "(2012), \"World on Fire\" (2014) and \"Living the Dream\" (2018) recorded with his band, Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. He returned to Guns N' Roses in 2016. Slash has received critical acclaim and is considered one of the greatest guitarists in rock history. \"Time\" magazine named him runner-up on their list of \"The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players\" in 2009, while \"Rolling Stone\" placed him at number 65 on their list of \"The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time\" in 2011. \"Guitar World\" ranked his guitar solo in \"November Rain\" number 6 on their list of \"The 100 Greatest Guitar", "title": "Slash (musician)" }, { "docid": "17262932", "text": "question of whether Canadian cinema was becoming more creative, or if critics were biased to more popular films. Moreault objected to what he saw as too few Quebeckers participating in the vote, saying \"Incendies\" (2010) or \"Mommy\" (2014) could be included. Peter Knegt of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called the 2015 list \"worthy\" compared the alternative list produced by data journalism website The 10 and 3, weighing votes from the Internet Movie Database. That list named \"Room\" (2015) as the best Canadian film, followed by \"Incendies\" and \"A Christmas Story\" (1983). Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time The Top", "title": "Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time" }, { "docid": "18198577", "text": "crazy. Speaking of the Boss, \"Nebraska\" (148) isn’t quite as good as Frank Ocean’s \"Channel Orange\" (147), but slightly better than Elliott Smith’s \"Either/Or\" (149) and The Streets \"Original Pirate Material\" (150). Also, apparently Arctic Monkeys’ one-month-old \"AM\" (449) is already better than Big Star’s \"Third\" (451). He also pointed out the differences between the list and the Top 100 British Albums Ever, released by \"NME\" in 2006. Michael Nelson of Stereogum thought the top three albums were a good choice, but said the rest was \"a waking nightmare.\" NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time \"The 500 Greatest", "title": "NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" }, { "docid": "17851379", "text": "Rolling Stoned Rolling Stoned is the debut studio album by American rapper Smoke DZA. The album was released on August 30, 2011, by iH2D and iHipHop Distribution. The album features guest appearances from Bun B, Big K.R.I.T., Kendrick Lamar, ASAP Rocky, Fiend, Den10, Dom Kennedy, Trademark da Skydiver, Schoolboy Q, Big Sant and Currensy. In an August 2011, interview with Raw Roots, Smoke DZA spoke about what to expect from the album, saying: \"You can expect the same thing. You can expect stellar production. A lot of anthems. In this particular album, I got a lot of features. Usually, I", "title": "Rolling Stoned" }, { "docid": "9039217", "text": "Adam Jones (musician) Adam Thomas Jones (born January 15, 1965) is a three-time Grammy Award-winning American musician and visual artist, best known for his position as the guitarist for Tool. Jones has been rated the 75th Greatest Guitarist of all time by the \"Rolling Stone\" and placed ninth in \"Guitar World\"s Top 100 Greatest metal Guitarists. Jones is also the director of the majority of Tool's music videos. Jones was born in Park Ridge, Illinois, raised in Libertyville, Illinois. He was accepted into the Suzuki program, and continued to play violin through his freshman year in high school. It was", "title": "Adam Jones (musician)" }, { "docid": "15394136", "text": "20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction The 20th Century’s Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a popular \"best of\" list compiled by Larry McCaffery largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century fiction. McCaffery wrote that he saw his list \"as a means of sharing with readers my own views about what books are going to be read 100 or 1000 years from now\". The list includes many books not included in the Modern Library list, including five of his top ten, Thomas", "title": "20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction" }, { "docid": "470520", "text": "Band\", and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Seven of the group's albums appeared on \"Rolling Stone\"s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, more than any act except the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen. The Who The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964. Their classic line-up consisted of lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist and singer Pete Townshend, bass guitarist John Entwistle, and drummer Keith Moon. They are considered one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide and holding a reputation", "title": "The Who" }, { "docid": "18198575", "text": "Snapes had her wish, the top four would all be The National albums\". Kaye criticised the list for the lack of women and black artists in the top ten, and thought it was predictable that the majority of artists in the top ten were British. He wrote: The Smiths’ \"The Queen Is Dead\" is the greatest album of all time. It’s better than anything the Beatles ever did (though \"Revolver\" came close). Meanwhile, the band Queen is nowhere on the list at all, whereas Queens of the Stone Age shows up thrice (they also show up Thrice, who don’t appear).", "title": "NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" }, { "docid": "7179267", "text": "each from The Beach Boys (#2), Marvin Gaye (#6), The Rolling Stones (#7) and The Clash (#8). In 2012, \"Rolling Stone\" published a revised edition of the list drawing on the original and a later survey of albums up until the early 2000s. It was made available in \"bookazine\" format on newsstands in the US from April 27 to July 25. The new list contained 38 albums not present in the previous one, 16 of them released after 2003. The first version of the list, published as a magazine in November 2003, was based on the votes of 273 rock", "title": "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" }, { "docid": "15545951", "text": "that appeared on the chart. The original release of \"Their 16 Greatest Hits\" on Dunhill ABC had a black label pressing with the Dunhill ABC Records logo on the top-center. The front and back cover photographs were taken by Tom Gundelfinger and the package was designed by Philip Schwartz. The same artwork and design was used on the versions of the album released by MCA Records in 1980, with only the label differing. All songs produced by Steve Barri, except produced by Steve Barri & P. F. Sloan. The following people contributed to \"Their 16 Greatest Hits\": Their 16 Greatest", "title": "Their 16 Greatest Hits" }, { "docid": "13945106", "text": "statistics and its lack of technical grounding. \"What the Dog Saw\" debuted at #3 on the \"New York Times\" Bestseller List. It spent three weeks in the top 3 and a total of 16 weeks on the chart, appearing concurrently with Gladwell's previous book \"Outliers\". It was also an Amazon Top 25 seller for the month of November. \"What the Dog Saw\" was named to Bloomberg's top 50 business books of 2009. All of the articles in \"What the Dog Saw\" can be read for free on Gladwell's website. Part 1: \"Obsessives, Pioneers, and other varieties of Minor Genius\" Part", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "3271181", "text": "\"After the Gold Rush\" has appeared on a number of greatest albums lists. In 1998 \"Q\" magazine readers voted \"After the Gold Rush\" the 89th greatest album of all time. It was ranked 92nd in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. In 2003, \"Rolling Stone\" named the album the 71st greatest album of all time, his highest ranking on this list. Pitchfork listed it 99th on their 2004 list of the \"Top 100 Albums of the 1970s\". In 2006, \"Time Magazine\" listed it as one of the 'All-TIME", "title": "After the Gold Rush" }, { "docid": "2259144", "text": "Smoke on the Water \"Smoke on the Water\" is a song by the English rock band Deep Purple. It was first released on their 1972 album \"Machine Head\". In 2004, the song was ranked number 434 on \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, ranked number 4 in \"Total Guitar\" magazine's Greatest Guitar Riffs Ever, and in March 2005, \"Q\" magazine placed \"Smoke on the Water\" at number 12 in its list of the 100 greatest guitar tracks. \"Smoke on the Water\" is known for and recognizable by its central theme, developed by guitarist Ritchie", "title": "Smoke on the Water" }, { "docid": "11969646", "text": "single was briefly released in the United States on the London Records label early in 1964, but was quickly withdrawn on \"moral grounds\" until its inclusion on \"\" in 1989. It also appeared on the 1973 UK-only compilation \"No Stone Unturned\", and on \"Singles 1963-1965\" (2004). Stoned (The Rolling Stones song) \"Stoned\" was released in the United Kingdom by the Rolling Stones on the Decca label on 1 November 1963, as the B-side to their version of \"I Wanna Be Your Man\". Recorded in early October 1963, it was the first song released to be credited to \"Nanker Phelge\", and", "title": "Stoned (The Rolling Stones song)" }, { "docid": "1699597", "text": "as an icon, \"Billboard\" placed him at number 14 on their \"Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Artists\" list, number 6 on their \"Top 60 Male Artists of All-Time\" list, and 31 on their \"35 Greatest R&B Artists of All Time\" list. \"Confessions\" is placed at number 16 on their \"Greatest of All Time 200 Albums\" list, and 10 on \"Vibe\" magazine's \"Greatest 50 Albums since '93\". \"Yeah!\" is placed at number 14 in their \"Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Songs\" list, and 15 on VH1's \"Greatest Songs of the 2000s\". \"Los Angeles Times\" critic Randall Roberts marks dance", "title": "Usher (musician)" }, { "docid": "15921625", "text": "The Bicycle Music Company. A series of 9 initial \"6-packs\" including some of the songs from the album have been announced for 2011. All-Time Top 100 TV Themes All-Time Top 100 TV Themes is the ninth volume of the \"Television's Greatest Hits\" series of compilation albums by TVT Records. TVT Records released the two-disc collection in 2005. It included 100 themes featuring tracks from the first seven discs of the series and newer themes from television series since the last disc was released in 1996. The album catalog was later acquired by The Bicycle Music Company. In September 2011, Oglio", "title": "All-Time Top 100 TV Themes" }, { "docid": "7772000", "text": "on their list of \"The 10 Best Rock Bands Ever\". \"Rolling Stone\" ranked them number 51 on their list of \"The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time\". \"Q\" named Pink Floyd as the biggest band of all time. VH1 ranked them number 18 in the list of the \"100 Greatest Artists of All Time\". Colin Larkin ranked Pink Floyd number 3 in his list of the 'Top 50 Artists of All Time', a ranking based on the cumulative votes for each artist's albums included in his \"All Time Top 1000 Albums\". Pink Floyd have won several awards. In 1981 audio", "title": "Pink Floyd" }, { "docid": "2390471", "text": "of the \"Riff Lords\", praising his \"highly distinctive style of fretsmanship that's economical yet crushingly effective\". In 2007, \"Classic Rock\" magazine ranked him number 6 on their list of the \"100 Wildest Guitar Heroes\". In 2011, \"Rolling Stone\" magazine ranked him number 25 in their list of the \"100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time\". Joel McIver ranked him the 6th greatest metal guitarist of all time. In 2012, readers of \"Guitar World\" ranked Iommi the 7th-greatest rock guitarist of all time. Editors of the same magazine ranked him the greatest heavy metal guitarist of all time. Ian Anderson of Jethro", "title": "Tony Iommi" }, { "docid": "15803034", "text": "\"featured artist\" on Rihanna's \"Umbrella\" and Beyoncé's \"Crazy in Love, bringing his total to five. The list had an albums-related companion, the \"Rolling Stone\" 100 Best Albums of the Decade. \"Rolling Stone\" 100 Best Albums of the Decade. ! width=\"5%\" | # ! width=\"45%\" | Album ! width=\"5%\" | Genre ! width=\"45%\" | Musician Rolling Stone 100 Best Songs of the Decade \"Rolling Stone\"s 100 Best Songs of the Decade was a feature in US music magazine \"Rolling Stone\", charting the 100 best songs from the 2000s (2000–2009) according to a panel of 100 music writers, critics, artists and industry", "title": "Rolling Stone 100 Best Songs of the Decade" }, { "docid": "17851382", "text": "Cinematic spitter’s delivery reminds of the flamboyant slick type of flow that has defined Harlem rappers, and over the laidback buoyant production, it’s a unique sound. But with the subject matter so limited, George Kush sometimes sells himself short. But \"Rolling Stoned\" results in a fun listen, however predictable it may be. While there’s room for growth, Smoke DZA has put together another solid project that’s sure to keep his growing group of Dziples asking for more. Rrrright.\" Rolling Stoned Rolling Stoned is the debut studio album by American rapper Smoke DZA. The album was released on August 30, 2011,", "title": "Rolling Stoned" }, { "docid": "5954961", "text": "20 All-Time Greatest Hits! 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! is a compilation album by James Brown containing 20 of his most famous recordings. Released by Polydor in 1991 as a single-disc alternative to the \"Star Time\" box set, it features songs from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. 16 of the songs from the album had previously topped the US R&B charts. The album itself peaked at number 99 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart after its release. In 2003, it was ranked number 414 on \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Credits for \"20 All-Time Greatest", "title": "20 All-Time Greatest Hits!" }, { "docid": "2886018", "text": "up\" in excluding both McCready and Pearl Jam rhythm guitarist Stone Gossard from the publication's 2003 feature \"The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time\". In 2007, McCready's guitar solos from \"Alive\" and \"Yellow Ledbetter\" were featured on \"Guitar World\"'s \"100 Greatest Guitar Solos\" list. In February 2007, McCready and Gossard were included together by \"Rolling Stone\" in its list of \"The Top 20 New Guitar Gods\" under the title of \"four-armed monster.\" He was placed at #6 on a list of \"The Twenty-Five Most Underrated Guitarists\" by \"Rolling Stone\". He was also named the highest-paid guitarist in the world, earning", "title": "Mike McCready" }, { "docid": "15932484", "text": "had been a big hit for the group there. Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits! Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits! is a compilation album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in July 1976. It includes all of their biggest hits with the label recorded between 1972 and 1975, such as \"If You Don't Know Me by Now\", \"The Love I Lost\", Bad Luck\", and \"Wake Up Everybody\". Many of the songs were in extended versions. The album, produced by Gamble & Huff, sold over a million in the USA. The UK", "title": "Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!" }, { "docid": "15932483", "text": "Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits! Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits! is a compilation album released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on the Philadelphia International record label in July 1976. It includes all of their biggest hits with the label recorded between 1972 and 1975, such as \"If You Don't Know Me by Now\", \"The Love I Lost\", Bad Luck\", and \"Wake Up Everybody\". Many of the songs were in extended versions. The album, produced by Gamble & Huff, sold over a million in the USA. The UK album release also included the track, \"Satisfaction Guaranteed\" which", "title": "Collectors' Item: All Their Greatest Hits!" }, { "docid": "223075", "text": "his death. Cobain has been remembered as one of the most iconic rock musicians in the history of alternative music. In 2003, David Fricke of \"Rolling Stone\" ranked him the 12th greatest guitarist of all time. He was later ranked the 73rd greatest guitarist and 45th greatest singer of all time by the same magazine, and by MTV as seventh in the \"22 Greatest Voices in Music\". In 2006, he was placed at number twenty by \"Hit Parader\" on their list of the \"100 Greatest Metal Singers of All Time\". Cobain is one of the significant members of the 27", "title": "Kurt Cobain" }, { "docid": "1312115", "text": "Time\" and number 82 on their list of the \"100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time\". \"Q\" magazine ranked Gaye sixth on their list of the \"100 Greatest Singers\". Three of Gaye's albums – \"What's Going On\" (1971), \"Let's Get It On\" (1973), and \"Here, My Dear\" (1978) – were ranked by \"Rolling Stone\" on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. \"What's Going On\" remains his largest-ranked album, reaching No. 6 on the \"Rolling Stone\" list and topped the NME list of the \"Top 100 Albums of All Time\" in 1985 and was later chosen in 2003", "title": "Marvin Gaye" }, { "docid": "2752453", "text": "Rock and Roll Albums of All Time\" countdown. \"Rolling Stone\" ranked it the second-best album of the 1980s and 76th on their list of the \"500 Greatest Albums of All Time\". In 2007, the editors of \"Vanity Fair\" labeled it the best soundtrack of all time, and \"Tempo\" magazine named it the greatest album of the 1980s. In 2008, \"Entertainment Weekly\" listed \"Purple Rain\" at number one on their list of the top 100 best albums of the previous 25 years. In 2013, the magazine also listed the album at number two on their list of the 100 Greatest Albums", "title": "Purple Rain (album)" }, { "docid": "1597590", "text": "was ranked eighth in \"Spin\" magazine's \"90 Greatest Albums of the '90s\", and in 2005, it was ranked at number thirty-five in their list of the \"100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005\". \"Rolling Stone\" ranked \"The Chronic\" at number 138 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2005, MTV Networks listed \"The Chronic\" as the third greatest hip hop album in history. The following year, \"Time\" magazine named it as one of \"The All-\"Time\" 100 Albums\". In a retrospective issue, \"XXL\" magazine awarded \"The Chronic\" a perfect \"XXL\" rating. \"The Source\", who originally gave the album a", "title": "The Chronic" }, { "docid": "3892097", "text": "certification by the Recording Industry Association of America. In 2017, it was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or artistically significant.\" \"Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)\" comprises nine singles released between 1972 and 1975, plus the album track \"Desperado.\" All of these singles except \"Tequila Sunrise\" charted in the top 40, with five in the top ten, and \"One of These Nights\" and \"Best of My Love\" both topping the singles chart. The manager of Eagles, Irving Azoff, said: \"We decided it was time to put out the first greatest-hits", "title": "Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)" }, { "docid": "5954962", "text": "Hits!\" adapted from Allmusic. 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! is a compilation album by James Brown containing 20 of his most famous recordings. Released by Polydor in 1991 as a single-disc alternative to the \"Star Time\" box set, it features songs from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. 16 of the songs from the album had previously topped the US R&B charts. The album itself peaked at number 99 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart after its release. In 2003, it was ranked number 414 on \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Credits", "title": "20 All-Time Greatest Hits!" }, { "docid": "12689054", "text": "not featured on this release but rather their second full length, Vee Vee. Vs the Greatest of All Time Archers of Loaf vs. The Greatest of All Time (often shortened to \"Greatest of all Time\" or simply GOAT) is the first EP by North Carolina indie rock band, Archers of Loaf. The EP was recorded shortly after their first album \"Icky Mettle\", and the styles are very similar. The cover art for the EP includes a photograph of former Toronto Maple Leafs star King Clancy. Robert Christgau gave the EP an A- grade, writing that the Archers of Loaf \"...sound", "title": "Vs the Greatest of All Time" }, { "docid": "423080", "text": "poll in 2004 rated Shakur \"the greatest rapper of all time\" as voted by fans. Editors of About.com ranked him No. 5 on their list of the \"Top 50 MCs of Our Time (1987–2007)\". In 2012, \"The Source\" ranked him No. 5 on their list of the top 50 hip-hop lyricists of all time. In a 2005 \"Rolling Stone\" magazine vote, Shakur was named No. 86 of the \"100 Immortal Artists of All Time\" behind Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and John Lennon. MTV ranked him at No. 2 on their list of \"The Greatest MCs of All Time\". Shakur was", "title": "Tupac Shakur" }, { "docid": "20487078", "text": "top 20 names from 26 March declaring one name each day starting from 20th position. On the final day of 14 April, which was also the Pahela Baishakh (Bengali New Year day), BBC announced Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh as the 'Greatest Bengali of all time' voted by Bengalis worldwide. Describing the process of voting, BBC's Bengali Service stated that to avoid any flaw or controversy, they followed the most modern method of opinion polling. Participants were asked to nominate their five choices of greatest Bengali on the order of preference instead of one. The top nominee", "title": "Greatest Bengali of all time" }, { "docid": "5590348", "text": "of the song as a play-out at rallies to be \"odd,\" given that it is a \"sort of doomy ballad about drugs in Chelsea.\" The Rolling Stones Additional personnel You Can't Always Get What You Want \"You Can't Always Get What You Want\" is a song by the Rolling Stones on their 1969 album \"Let It Bleed\". Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was named as the 100th greatest song of all time by \"Rolling Stone\" magazine in its 2004 list of the \"500 Greatest Songs of All Time\". Jagger commented on the song's beginnings: \"You Can't Always", "title": "You Can't Always Get What You Want" }, { "docid": "10418831", "text": "54 on \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In a retrospective article for the magazine, Robert Christgau wrote that, despite \"caveats\" such as material repeated on more \"economic\" releases, \"The Birth of Soul\" is \"the rockingest Charles long-form you can buy\" and remarked on the legacy of its recordings: Christgau recommended Rhino Entertainment's 1994 compilation album \"The Best of Ray Charles: The Atlantic Years\" as a cheaper alternative to the box set. The Birth of Soul The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings is a 3-CD box set compilation by", "title": "The Birth of Soul" }, { "docid": "17774522", "text": "copies. The album has sold over 1.8 million copies. \"Kyunghyang Shinmun\" ranked the album number 24 on its 2007 list of the Top 100 Pop Albums. \"Spin\" named \"Nan Arayo\" number 4 on their 2012 list of the 21 Greatest K-Pop Songs of All Time. \"Mnet\" chose \"Nan Arayo\" as the number 1 song on their 2014 countdown \"Legend 100 Songs\", a list of the most influential songs in Korean pop music history. In 2015, \"Rolling Stone\" named the same song number 36 on its list of the 50 Greatest Boy Band Songs of All Time. The album was released", "title": "Seo Taiji and Boys (album)" }, { "docid": "522901", "text": "recordings have contributed to the band's popularity in certain countries where Western music is censored, such as Iran. In a project called \"Queen: The Top 100 Bootlegs\", many of these have been made officially available to download for a nominal fee from Queen's website, with profits going to the Mercury Phoenix Trust. \"Rolling Stone\" ranked Queen at number 52 on its list of the \"100 Greatest Artists of All Time\", while ranking Mercury the 18th greatest singer, and May the twenty-sixth greatest guitarist. \"Rolling Stone\" readers voted Mercury the second greatest frontman. Queen were named 13th on VH1's 100 Greatest", "title": "Queen (band)" }, { "docid": "705069", "text": "an avatar for millions of people, always remaining true to herself\" in 2017. \"Rolling Stone\" named \"Songs in a Minor\" as one of the \"100 Greatest Albums\", and its single \"Fallin'\" in their \"100 greatest songs\" of the 2000s decade. VH1 have listed Keys in their \"100 Greatest Artists of All Time\", 14 on \"100 Greatest Women\", and 33 on \"50 Greatest Women of the Video Era\" lists. Considered a music icon, Keys was placed at number 27 on \"Billboard\"s \"35 Greatest R&B Artists of All Time\" list in 2015. The BET Honors honored Keys for her contributions to music", "title": "Alicia Keys" }, { "docid": "5981505", "text": "\"Mojo\" magazine ranked it number 6 on its list of 100 Records That Changed the World (2007). King of the Delta Blues Singers King of the Delta Blues Singers is a compilation album by American blues musician Robert Johnson, released in 1961 on Columbia Records. It is considered one of the greatest and most influential blues releases ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 27 on \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album compiles sixteen mono recordings, thirteen of which were previously available as 78s on the Vocalion label, originally recorded during", "title": "King of the Delta Blues Singers" }, { "docid": "1461874", "text": "At Home with Their Greatest Hits At Home with Their Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by The Partridge Family released in September 1972, peaking at #21 on the US Billboard 200 album chart. It remained on the charts for 23 weeks. The album contains all previously-recorded hits and album tracks save for a cover of Neil Sedaka's \"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do\" which was released as a single, peaking at #28 on Billboard's Hot 100 and staying on the charts for 10 weeks. All tracks from the album were featured on the TV show (Seasons 1-3) The", "title": "At Home with Their Greatest Hits" }, { "docid": "5590340", "text": "You Can't Always Get What You Want \"You Can't Always Get What You Want\" is a song by the Rolling Stones on their 1969 album \"Let It Bleed\". Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was named as the 100th greatest song of all time by \"Rolling Stone\" magazine in its 2004 list of the \"500 Greatest Songs of All Time\". Jagger commented on the song's beginnings: \"You Can't Always Get What You Want\" was the first song recorded for the album. It exists in two versions, a 5:00 single mix and a 7:28 album mix. \"You Can't Always", "title": "You Can't Always Get What You Want" }, { "docid": "3382918", "text": "2006 self-titled album, \"Rolling Stone\" editor David Fricke mentioned that both Gossard and Pearl Jam lead guitarist Mike McCready were erroneously excluded from the publication's 2003 feature \"The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time\". In February 2007, Gossard and McCready were included together by \"Rolling Stone\" in its list of \"The Top 20 New Guitar Gods\" under the title of \"four-armed monster.\" Stone Gossard Stone Carpenter Gossard (born July 20, 1966) is an American musician who serves as the rhythm and additional lead guitarist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. Along with Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder,", "title": "Stone Gossard" }, { "docid": "16675196", "text": "being examples. Although the book mostly keeps to alternative rock acts of the present day, as well as classic bands such as The Beatles while the most recent singles in the book take up most of the list, many artists who appeared expressed their achievement as a highlight of their career, with a small number writing on the \"Xfm\" official site and also in the book itself. The Xfm Top 1000 Songs of All Time The Xfm Top 1000 Songs of All Time is a musical reference book edited by various DJ's, of the now defunct radio station \"Xfm\", which", "title": "The Xfm Top 1000 Songs of All Time" }, { "docid": "16557610", "text": "3 on the \"Cash Box\" Top 100 R&B and number 4 on the \"Record World\" R&B Singles. In other charts, the single was between positions number 22 and number 29 in the U.S., number 27 in the UK, and number 25 and 42 in Canada. \"The Greatest Love of All\" is one of George Benson's most successful hits, and for this reason, two of his numerous collections were intutated as \"The Greatest Hits of All\", and \"\", both released in 2003. The original version of \"The Greatest Love of All\" recorded in 1977 by George Benson reached the following positions:", "title": "The Greatest Love of All" }, { "docid": "4110309", "text": "the adequate production and guitar quality on the album, but cautioned listeners of Mitchell's drumming, the music's \"spaced-out lightness\", and the short tracks: \"half the songs are forgettable as songs if fine as recordings.\" In 2005, \"Rolling Stone\" ranked \"Axis: Bold as Love\" number 82 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and the top spot on their list of the 40 greatest stoner albums in 2013. \"Guitarist\" magazine named the album number 7 on their list of \"the most influential guitar albums of all time\". In 2015, \"Consequence of Sound\" described the album as \"a", "title": "Axis: Bold as Love" }, { "docid": "228298", "text": "Kirk Hammett Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18, 1962) is an American musician who has been lead guitarist and a contributing songwriter for the heavy metal band Metallica since 1983. Before joining Metallica he formed and named the band Exodus. In 2003, Hammett was ranked 11th on \"Rolling Stone\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. In 2009, Hammett was ranked number 15 in Joel McIver's book \"The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists\". Hammett was born on November 18, 1962 in San Francisco, and raised in the town of El Sobrante, California. He is the son of Teofila \"Chefela\"", "title": "Kirk Hammett" }, { "docid": "9263283", "text": "Fine Day\" was ranked #460 on \"Rolling Stone Magazine\"s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The Chiffons' placing two \"fine\" songs in the Top Ten motivated The Tokens to especially prep the group's next single \"A Love So Fine\" which only managed a #40 peak. \"Billboard\" named the song #27 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time. The Chiffons' version has made numerous soundtrack appearances including: \"Fingers\" (1978), \"The Hollywood Knights\" (1980), \"The Flamingo Kid\" (1984), \"Desperately Seeking Susan\" (the track's classic piano riff opens the film) (1985), \"A Night in the", "title": "One Fine Day (song)" }, { "docid": "15803032", "text": "Rolling Stone 100 Best Songs of the Decade \"Rolling Stone\"s 100 Best Songs of the Decade was a feature in US music magazine \"Rolling Stone\", charting the 100 best songs from the 2000s (2000–2009) according to a panel of 100 music writers, critics, artists and industry insiders. The list was compiled and published in June 2009. Two years later, on 17 June 2011, the list was published online in full for the first time, with new write-ups. The list itself, however, remained the same. According to \"Rolling Stone\", the list \"reflects the eclectic spirit of the decade with tracks from", "title": "Rolling Stone 100 Best Songs of the Decade" }, { "docid": "1935967", "text": "In 2009, Hetfield was ranked at no. 8 in Joel McIver's book \"The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists\", and ranked at no. 24 by \"Hit Parader\" on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. In \"Guitar World's\" poll, Hetfield was placed as the 19th greatest guitarist of all time, as well as being placed second (along with Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett) in \"The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists\" poll of the same magazine. \"Rolling Stone\" placed Hetfield as the 87th greatest guitarist of all time. Hetfield was born on August 3, 1963 in Downey, California, the son", "title": "James Hetfield" }, { "docid": "12689052", "text": "Vs the Greatest of All Time Archers of Loaf vs. The Greatest of All Time (often shortened to \"Greatest of all Time\" or simply GOAT) is the first EP by North Carolina indie rock band, Archers of Loaf. The EP was recorded shortly after their first album \"Icky Mettle\", and the styles are very similar. The cover art for the EP includes a photograph of former Toronto Maple Leafs star King Clancy. Robert Christgau gave the EP an A- grade, writing that the Archers of Loaf \"...sound like a live band ready to service a living audience, their gleeful anger", "title": "Vs the Greatest of All Time" }, { "docid": "4000350", "text": "their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s, and it was placed 44 on a similar list by \"Uncut\". \"NME\" placed the album tenth in a list of the greatest British albums ever, as well as calling it the second greatest album of the decade. NME also placed the album number 70 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. \"Rolling Stone\" placed the album number 61 on its list of the 100 Greatest Debut Albums of All Time and number 94 on its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 2000s. In April 2008,", "title": "Up the Bracket" }, { "docid": "8541426", "text": "the \"Cashbox\" R&B chart. It also hit number fourteen on the UK Singles Chart, and became more successful in the UK when reissued on several occasions in the 1970s. As noted above, Billy Joel, an unknown working as a session musician at the time, played piano on the original demo recording of the song and has playfully claimed that Morton failed to pay him his $67 union scale fee for the performance. The Shangri-Las' recording placed #395 on \"Rolling Stone\"s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list in 2004. \"Billboard\" named the song #26 on their list of 100 Greatest", "title": "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" }, { "docid": "2240100", "text": "Steve Jones (musician) Stephen Philip Jones (born 3 September 1955) is an English rock guitarist, singer and actor, best known as a guitarist with the Sex Pistols. Following the split of the Sex Pistols, he formed The Professionals with former bandmate Paul Cook. He has also released two solo albums, and worked with the likes of Johnny Thunders, Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan and Thin Lizzy. In 1995, he formed the short lived supergroup Neurotic Outsiders with members of Guns N' Roses and Duran Duran. Jones was ranked in \"Rolling Stone\"s list of the \"100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time\". Jones", "title": "Steve Jones (musician)" }, { "docid": "20487077", "text": "Greatest Bengali of all time Soon after the completion of \"100 Greatest Britons\" poll in 2002, BBC organized a similar opinion poll to find out who is the greatest Bengali personality in Bengali nation's history of thousand years. In 2004, BBC's Bengali Service conducted the opinion poll with the title 'Greatest Bengali of all time' started from February 11 continued onto March 22. The poll was participated by Bengalis around the world including from Bangladesh, India (states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam) and overseas Bengali communities. Total 140 nominations had been produced from the poll. BBC started to announce the", "title": "Greatest Bengali of all time" }, { "docid": "1392371", "text": "than a collection of minor-key riffs, Iron Maiden pull this feat off with considerable élan.\" \"Q\" magazine placed the album at No. 100 in its list of the \"100 Greatest British Albums Ever\" in 2000; in 2001 named it one of the \"50 Heaviest Albums of All Time\"; and in 2006 placed it at No. 40 in its \"40 Best Albums of the '80s\" list. IGN and Metal Rules placed it third and second, respectively, in their lists of the Top Heavy Metal Albums, and \"Guitar World\" ranked it at No. 17 on their list of \"100 Greatest Guitar Albums", "title": "The Number of the Beast (album)" }, { "docid": "1627032", "text": "100 Greatest Britons The 100 Greatest Britons was a television series broadcast by the BBC in 2002. It was based on a television poll conducted to determine who the British people at that time considered the greatest Britons in history. The series included individual programmes featuring the top ten, with viewers having further opportunity to vote after each programme. It concluded with a debate and final determination of the ranking of the top ten. Although many living people were included among the top 100, all of the top ten were deceased. The poll resulted in nominees including Guy Fawkes, who", "title": "100 Greatest Britons" }, { "docid": "13576554", "text": "Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, 1998 The Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time was a music poll conducted in August 1998 amongst listeners of Australian youth radio network Triple J. Nirvana's \"Smells Like Teen Spirit\" collected the highest number of votes to claim the top position. Voters could submit a list of up to ten different songs as well as nominating one of these as their \"all-time\" favourite song. It was the fourth such poll organised by Triple J, following similar polls in 1989, 1990 and 1991. Initially, all songs were eligible for the annual Triple J", "title": "Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, 1998" }, { "docid": "162199", "text": "may also employ various methods for selecting notes and chords, including fingering, thumbing, the barre (a finger lying across many or all strings at a particular fret), and 'bottleneck' or steel-guitar slides, usually made of glass or metal. These left- and right-hand techniques may be intermixed in performance. Several magazines and websites have compiled what they intend as lists of the greatest guitarists—for example \"The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time\" by \"Rolling Stone\" magazine, or \"100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time\" by \"Guitar World\" magazine. There are many classical guitarists listed as \"notable\" in their respective epochs. In recent", "title": "Guitarist" } ]
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What is the name of the pawn shop featured in the hit History Channel show Pawn Stars?
[ "I got a buddy", "World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop", "Pawnstars", "Gold & Silver Pawn Shop", "Pawn Stars", "Pawn Star$", "Pawn Star" ]
[ { "docid": "16173271", "text": "a trivia question is asked in relation to the shop or item, as with \"Pawn Stars\". While the show is named \"\"Cajun\" Pawn Stars\", Alexandria, where the pawn shop is located, is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, which is not considered part of Acadiana, the hub of Cajun culture. Cajun Pawn Stars Cajun Pawn Stars is an American reality television series on the History channel that debuted January 8, 2012, at 10 pm ET. The show was the second spin-off of \"Pawn Stars\", but unlike fellow spin-offs \"American Restoration\" and \"Counting Cars\", it is entirely unrelated to the", "title": "Cajun Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "16173269", "text": "Cajun Pawn Stars Cajun Pawn Stars is an American reality television series on the History channel that debuted January 8, 2012, at 10 pm ET. The show was the second spin-off of \"Pawn Stars\", but unlike fellow spin-offs \"American Restoration\" and \"Counting Cars\", it is entirely unrelated to the venue and staff of \"Pawn Stars\". Following its fourth and final season in 2012, the show went on hiatus, before effectively being canceled as the contract option date passed without renewal. \"Cajun Pawn Stars\" revolves around another family-owned pawn shop, the Silver Dollar Pawn & Jewelry Center in Alexandria, Louisiana, which", "title": "Cajun Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "17557821", "text": "Pawn Stars UK Pawn Stars UK is a British reality television series which debuted on 26 August 2013 on the British version of the History channel. The series is filmed in Sealand, Flintshire in Wales, and chronicles the day-to-day activities of pawn shop Regal Pawn, collaboratively run by Mark Andrew Manning, Mark Lever Holland, Marco Peter Holland, Simon Penworth, and Vicki Manning. A spin-off of the prominent American reality television series \"Pawn Stars\" (2009–present), the show's format is similar to the latter show, as it features an array of collectible, antique and unusual items that people sell or pawn. Following", "title": "Pawn Stars UK" }, { "docid": "17557818", "text": "Pawn Stars UK Pawn Stars UK is a British reality television series which debuted on 26 August 2013 on the British version of the History channel. The series is filmed in Sealand, Flintshire in Wales, and chronicles the day-to-day activities of pawn shop Regal Pawn, collaboratively run by Mark Andrew Manning, Mark Lever Holland, Marco Peter Holland, Simon Penworth, and Vicki Manning. A spin-off of the prominent American reality television series \"Pawn Stars\" (2009–present), the show's format is similar to the latter show, as it features an array of collectible, antique and unusual items that people sell or pawn. Following", "title": "Pawn Stars UK" }, { "docid": "13647539", "text": "their life and experiences at the pawn shop. In October 2011, the Redwood Hills Financial Group issued the \"Modern Cash Prepaid MasterCard Limited Edition: Gold & Silver Pawn Shop\" prepaid debit card, in a special tie-in with the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop. On September 5, 2012, it was announced that Bally Technologies would unveil a new slot machine featuring the cast of \"Pawn Stars\" the following month at the 2012 Global Gaming Expo. which took place October 2 to 4, 2012 in Las Vegas. Pawn Stars Pawn Stars is an American reality television series, shown on History, and produced", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "13647517", "text": "Pawn Stars Pawn Stars is an American reality television series, shown on History, and produced by Leftfield Pictures. The series is filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it chronicles the daily activities at the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, a 24-hour family business opened in 1989 and originally operated by patriarch Richard \"Old Man\" Harrison, his son Rick Harrison, Rick's son Corey \"Big Hoss\" Harrison, and Corey's childhood friend, Austin \"Chumlee\" Russell. The series, which became the network's highest rated show and the No. 2 reality show behind \"Jersey Shore\", debuted on July 26, 2009. The series depicts", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "13647533", "text": "how reality series like \"Pawn Stars\" and \"Swamp People\" have replaced some of the network's previous history-oriented programming. The series has also attracted some criticism from other pawnbrokers, who while conceding its entertainment value, claim that the series' focus on the extravagant vintage items brought into the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop are not typical of the average pawn shop, whose business is predicated on individuals on fixed income who bring in conventional objects in order to pay their bills, such as electronics, tools and jewelry. Corey Grigson and Charles Brown, who own a shop called Pawn Stars, estimate that", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "17557820", "text": "format in the style of \"Pawn Stars\". It follows the daily operations of Regal Pawn, where the show is shot on location. Customers are mostly shown selling or pawning \"amazing historically significant items\". Deals and other interactions with customers in the show are handled by the main shop staff. At times when the cast are uncertain about a certain item's authenticity or value, on-screen experts are called on to appraise the item. As of September 2013, two experts have been featured on the show – Robert \"The Robster\" Fiddaman, a music enthusiast, and Stewart Knight \"Midge\" Myzylowskyj, a gun expert.", "title": "Pawn Stars UK" }, { "docid": "13647522", "text": "be more pleasing and easily remembered. The staffer adjusted its story-line in order to bring it in line with the network's brand, which included the on-camera experts appraising the items brought into the Gold & Silver, though she did not discourage the interpersonal conflicts among the show's stars. The series is filmed on location at the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although jewellery is the most commonly pawned item at the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, most of the customers featured in episodes bring in a variety of vintage or antique items to the", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "13647535", "text": "TV.com and has received 7.4/10 ratings on IMDb. In 2010, Rick Harrison and the staff of the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop were awarded the Pawnbroker of the Year Award by the National Pawnbrokers Association for bringing the industry greater recognition and a better image with the TV show. On July 17, 2012, the Clark County Commission declared that day to be \"Pawn Stars/Gold & Silver Pawn Day\". At the Commission meeting, Richard \"The Old Man\" Harrison donated $1,000 to the Clark County Heritage Museum, and lent the U.S. Senate floor chair used by Senator Patrick McCarran (sold to the", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "17557819", "text": "the success of \"Pawn Stars\", Leftfield Pictures decided to produce a few spin-offs of it. \"Pawn Stars UK\" is the fourth spin-off of \"Pawn Stars\". The development of \"Pawn Stars UK\" was announced in October 2012, after A&E Networks and A&E Networks UK jointly agreed on a British edition of \"Pawn Stars\". Executive producer Brent Montgomery opined that it would be \"a natural extension of the [\"Pawn Stars\"] brand\". Casting was completed in the same month, and production commenced in the final quarter of 2012. \"Pawn Stars UK\" debuted in the UK on 26 August 2013. The show has a", "title": "Pawn Stars UK" }, { "docid": "14832076", "text": "her and Seth is a common element of many episodes. The show averaged 2.6 million viewers during its sixth season. The show has been largely compared to similar reality program \"Pawn Stars\" on History, but in the vein of similar programs also on truTV (\"Operation Repo\" and \"Lizard Lick Towing\" for example), where it differs however is the focus being mainly on the human aspects of drama and interaction, rather than the actual significance of the items being brought into the shop. Due to similarities to \"Pawn Stars\", \"Hardcore Pawn\" has been described as simply being a knock-off and a", "title": "Hardcore Pawn" }, { "docid": "13647526", "text": "In addition to spawning imitators, such as the truTV series \"Hardcore Pawn\", the success of \"Pawn Stars\" has been a boon to the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, which has become a Las Vegas tourist site, and has expanded its business accordingly. Originally averaging between 70 and 100 customers per day, the shop's traffic increased to more than 1,000 by October 2010. To handle the increased business, the shop hired nearly 30 new employees, and underwent a $400,000 expansion of their showroom by two thirds, to 15,000 square feet, the shop's tenth expansion since it opened. Rick Harrison also mentioned", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "18898321", "text": "Pawn Stars Australia Pawn Stars Australia is the Australian adaption of the American series of the same name. It premiered on 21 July 2015 on A&E. The Australian version is the third international spin-off after Pawn Stars UK and Pawn Stars South Africa. The series stars brothers Aaron and Ben Senes along with their childhood mate Shanon Folden, who own the well-known chain of pawn stores called \"Happy Hockers\" in Sydney. The series is directed by Martin Baker and produced by Leftfield Pictures, the same company that produces the American original. The complete first season DVD was scheduled to be", "title": "Pawn Stars Australia" }, { "docid": "13647538", "text": "of \"Pawn Stars\": In addition, Leftfield created five similar series that follow the same format as \"Pawn Stars\": In 2011, History launched \"Pawn Stars: The Game\" for play on Facebook. In June 2011, Rick Harrison's autobiography, \"License to Pawn: Deals, Steals, and My Life at the Gold & Silver\", was published by Hyperion Books. Harrison's autobiography details his childhood, some of the troubles he faced before he got into the pawning business, as well as anecdotes from his time at the Gold & Silver. Also, The Old Man, Corey, and Chumlee have their own chapters in the book, reflecting on", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "18898324", "text": "of their business but people also bring in highly unusual items. Through the years they have seen everything from monkey testicles, to gold teeth fillings to rare collectibles such as a vintage red telephone box. Although \"Happy Hockers\" operates 5 stores across Sydney, the series is filmed almost entirely at their Bondi Beach store. Pawn Stars Australia Pawn Stars Australia is the Australian adaption of the American series of the same name. It premiered on 21 July 2015 on A&E. The Australian version is the third international spin-off after Pawn Stars UK and Pawn Stars South Africa. The series stars", "title": "Pawn Stars Australia" }, { "docid": "14832077", "text": "capitalization on the breakout success of \"Pawn Stars\". Les Gold defends the show with claims that his show is a true representation of what a pawn shop does, focusing on the human element and showing that people are suffering tough times and need money for basic necessities like food and rent. According to Marc Juris of truTV, any similarities between the shows are coincidental. He also noted that \"Hardcore Pawn\" was in development for more than a year and two test episodes aired in December 2009. Regarding the initial identical time slot of Monday nights at 10 pm ET, opposite", "title": "Hardcore Pawn" }, { "docid": "13647520", "text": "shops in Las Vegas during a 2008 weekend visit to the city. Thinking such shops might contain unique characters, they searched for a family-run shop on which to center a TV series, until they found the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop less than two miles from the Las Vegas Strip. It had been the subject of a 2001 PBS documentary, and the manager and part-owner, Rick Harrison, had been trying unsuccessfully to pitch a show based on his shop for four years. The shop, and Rick, had previously been featured in the Las Vegas episode of \"Insomniac with Dave Attell\"", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "16173270", "text": "is owned by Jimmie \"Big Daddy\" DeRamus, who runs the store along with his wife Peggy, his brother Johnnie, and daughter Tammie. The shop claims to have over 100,000 items within its 20,000 square foot showroom. The show's format is similar to the original \"Pawn Stars\", as it features an array of collectible, antique and unusual items that people sell or pawn, complemented with \"pop-up\" facts related to the item. Also, as with the original series, the shop sometimes consults an expert to give an appraisal/opinion on the item being sold or pawned. In addition, at the second commercial break,", "title": "Cajun Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "13647530", "text": "Stephanopoulos, Matt Kenseth, Steve Carell, Kip Winger, Roger Daltrey, Katie Couric, Vic Flick and Butch Harmon. By January 2011, \"Pawn Stars\" was History's highest-rated series. An original episode broadcast on January 24, 2011 was watched by seven million viewers, the most-watched telecast ever on History, according to the network and Nielsen Media Research. In 2011 it was the second highest-rated reality series on TV behind \" Jersey Shore\", attracting 7.6 million viewers. In 2016, a \"New York Times\" study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that \"Pawn Stars\" was most popular in rural Kentucky. Christopher", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "13647537", "text": "and he was ultimately fired and left without his promised share of fees and merchandising royalties from the series. Jefferies states that this occurred after a January 2012 leaked story on TMZ that indicated that the \"Pawn Stars\" cast was taken aback by History's launch of the spinoff \"Cajun Pawn Stars\", of which the cast had been unaware. In March 2016, \"Chumlee\" Russell pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the discovery of an arsenal of weapons, marijuana, and other drugs by police at his home in Las Vegas. Following the success of \"Pawn Stars\", Leftfield Pictures created the following spinoffs", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "13647536", "text": "Gold and Silver in the \"Pawn Stars\" episode \"Take a Seat\") to the museum as part of a display on Senator McCarran. In October 2012, A+E Networks and History, as well as cast members from the show, were sued in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas for interference with business practices by Wayne Jefferies, a Las Vegas promoter and the Harrisons' manager, who represented them and Austin Lee \"Chumlee\" Russell in their television business dealings. Jefferies, who was instrumental in helping to launch the series, states that after the show premiered, his influence in the show was increasingly reduced,", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "13647521", "text": "in 2003. The series was originally pitched to HBO, though the network preferred the series to have been a \"Taxicab Confessions\"-style series taking place at the Gold & Silver's night window. The format eventually evolved into the now-familiar family-oriented motif used on the series. History president Nancy Dubuc, who had been charged with creating programming with a more populist appeal to balance out the network's in-depth military programming, picked up the series, which was initially titled \"Pawning History\", before a staffer at Leftfield suggested that \"Pawn Stars\" would fit better with the locale. The network concurred, believing that name to", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "13647519", "text": "also regularly appear to appraise the items being sold or pawned, two of whom have gone on to their own spin-off programs. Antique restorer/metal artist Rick Dale is the star of the series' first spin-off, \"American Restoration\", which premiered in October 2010, and mechanic/auto restoration expert Danny \"The Count\" Koker stars in the second spin-off, \"Counting Cars\", which debuted August 13, 2012. The shows 14th season will premiere January 21, 2019 in a new hour-long format. \"Pawn Stars\" began with Brent Montgomery and Colby Gaines of Leftfield Pictures, who were struck by the array of eclectic and somewhat seedy pawn", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "18898322", "text": "released on 5 October 2016. In April 2014 it was reported that a local adaption of \"Pawn Stars\" was in the works, with filming starting at Sydney's \"Happy Hockers\" which would last 9 weeks. It was believed an official announcement of a late 2014 premiere on A&E would come in the following days. However, it wasn't until August 2014 that the series had officially been commissioned, and that Leftfield Pictures (the company behind \"Pawn Stars U.S.\") were officially confirmed as the producers of the local adaption. It was also stated that the series would air in 2015, rather than in", "title": "Pawn Stars Australia" }, { "docid": "17119861", "text": "Chumlee Austin Lee Russell (born September 8, 1982), better known by his stage name Chumlee, is an American actor, businessman and reality television personality, known as a cast member on the History Channel television show \"Pawn Stars\", which depicts the daily business at the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas where Russell works as an employee. Chumlee came to work at the pawn shop five years before filming of the first season, having been a childhood friend of Corey Harrison, whose father, Rick Harrison, and grandfather, Richard Benjamin Harrison, opened the shop in 1989. On the show, he", "title": "Chumlee" }, { "docid": "6258809", "text": "TV series resulted. Robosaurus featured in three episodes of the 2010 Travel Channel reality show, \"America's Worst Driver\", including the series finale. It also appeared in \"Robosaurus\", a 2011 fourth-season episode of the History Channel reality series \"Pawn Stars\", wherein its owner brought it to the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop and after demonstrating what it can do tried to sell it to the Harrisons at an offer of $1,000,000, which they refused. It eventually was put up for auction by Barrett-Jackson and sold for $575,000. Robosaurus was piloted by Michael A. Ryder, seated in the head of the robot,", "title": "Robosaurus" }, { "docid": "19775672", "text": "sold its first series, \"The Principal’s Office,\" in 2008. Montgomery developed the concept for Leftfield Pictures’ flagship series \"Pawn Stars\" while in Las Vegas for a bachelor party. Struck by the number of pawn shops in the city, Montgomery set out to locate a shop with the right setting and staff around which to build a television series. Ultimately, Montgomery negotiated a deal with Gold & Silver Pawn Shop co-owner Rick Harrison, and pitched the show to the History Channel. In 2009, \"Pawn Stars\" premiered on History as a top rated series for the network, highlighting the “hidden treasures” genre", "title": "Brent Montgomery" }, { "docid": "14832078", "text": "\"Pawn Stars\" at the time, Juris claimed the choice was made because \"Hardcore Pawn\" fit well with \"Operation Repo\". The second season debuted in December 2010, in the Tuesday at 9 pm ET timeslot. The first season put an emphasis on the sad stories of people pawning their possessions and on the Golds' need to arm and otherwise protect themselves in dangerous Detroit. But this was too dark for television, and from the second season all mention of danger was dropped and pawn stories downplayed in favor of people selling unusual things and Les bargaining them down in price. Owner", "title": "Hardcore Pawn" } ]
[ { "docid": "9001797", "text": "and The Duhks, and many others. In 2006 Rose's Pawn Shop was awarded the 2006 Best Band in the West title in the Billboard Magazine/Disc Makers Independent Music World Series. They were also selected as Amoeba Records homegrown artist of the month for June 2006. Following these awards Rose's Pawn Shop embarked on a three-month cross-country tour. Rolling Stone premiered “What Were You Waiting For” music video in Sept 2014: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/roses-pawn-shop-what-were-you-waiting-for-video-20140918 American Songwriter premiered “What Were You Waiting For” in July 2014: http://www.americansongwriter.com/2014/07/song-premiere-roses-pawn-shop-waiting/ Rose's Pawn Shop Rose's Pawn Shop is an Americana, rock, folk and bluegrass band from Los Angeles,", "title": "Rose's Pawn Shop" }, { "docid": "17299628", "text": "Pawn Shop Chronicles Pawn Shop Chronicles, also known as Hustlers, is a 2013 crime comedy film directed by Wayne Kramer and written by Adam Minarovich. The film stars an ensemble cast, led by Paul Walker, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser, Vincent D'Onofrio, Norman Reedus, and Chi McBride. Centering on the events in and around a pawn shop, \"Pawn Shop Chronicles\" tells three overlapping stories involving items found within said pawn shop. This was the final film featuring Walker to be released in his lifetime, as he died four months after its release. The film received a limited theatrical release in July", "title": "Pawn Shop Chronicles" }, { "docid": "18764014", "text": "good customer service and good vibes\". Arrowhead Pawn Shop Arrowhead Pawn Shop is a pawn shop and part of the Iron Pipeline. It was founded in 1991 and is located in Jonesboro, Georgia. The store was described as the most significant source outside of New York State of guns recovered by the New York Police Department in 2009. After a gun from the shop was used in the murders of two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers, the \"New York Times\" reported that Arrowhead ranked fifth on the U.S.-wide list of legal sources of guns used in crimes. The", "title": "Arrowhead Pawn Shop" }, { "docid": "18764012", "text": "Arrowhead Pawn Shop Arrowhead Pawn Shop is a pawn shop and part of the Iron Pipeline. It was founded in 1991 and is located in Jonesboro, Georgia. The store was described as the most significant source outside of New York State of guns recovered by the New York Police Department in 2009. After a gun from the shop was used in the murders of two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers, the \"New York Times\" reported that Arrowhead ranked fifth on the U.S.-wide list of legal sources of guns used in crimes. The newspaper quoted an anonymous federal official", "title": "Arrowhead Pawn Shop" }, { "docid": "17299630", "text": "Chronicles,\" a hillbilly grindhouse yawp of a movie that belches in your face and leaves a sour stink.\" The film was reviewed favorably by JoBlo.com. For the site, reviewer JimmyO wrote, \"\"Pawn Shop Chronicles\" is a wildly bizarre and politically incorrect mix of b-movie genres wrapped into one. Kramer – with the script by Minarovich – amps up the action and violence without pushing it too far – well at least for my personally warped taste.\" Pawn Shop Chronicles Pawn Shop Chronicles, also known as Hustlers, is a 2013 crime comedy film directed by Wayne Kramer and written by Adam", "title": "Pawn Shop Chronicles" }, { "docid": "9001787", "text": "Rose's Pawn Shop Rose's Pawn Shop is an Americana, rock, folk and bluegrass band from Los Angeles, California. Their debut album The Arsonist was released in May 2006. The band tours several times each year throughout the United States but has recently put a hold on touring to record a new album coming 2013. On their new album \"Gravity Well\", the fiercely independent young quintet known as Rose's Pawn Shop deliver a rousing, honest set that demonstrates exactly why this multi-talented, multi-instrumental L.A.-based fivesome has quickly risen from humble D.I.Y. origins to national notoriety, winning a fiercely loyal fan base", "title": "Rose's Pawn Shop" }, { "docid": "14832081", "text": "has since left the show and became host of another television series for the National Geographic Channel, \"Meltdown\", a series focusing on the recycling of precious metals. That series debuted on National Geographic on October 31, 2013. Hardcore Pawn Hardcore Pawn is an American reality television series produced by RDF USA (later Zodiak USA) and Richard Dominick Productions for truTV about the day-to-day operations of American Jewelry and Loan, a family-owned and operated pawn shop and broker in Detroit, Michigan's 8 Mile Road corridor. The series premiered on August 16, 2010, delivering two million viewers, setting a record as truTV's", "title": "Hardcore Pawn" }, { "docid": "14081239", "text": "Albums album, and No. 17 on the \"Billboard\" 200, selling 21,000 copies in its first week. It sold a further 6,100 copies in its second week. The album was certified Gold on November 16, 2017. It has sold 218,600 copies in the US as of September 2018. From \"Pawn Shop\" liner notes. Pawn Shop (album) Both members of the duo (John and T.J. Osborne) co-wrote nearly every song on the album, except \"Heart Shaped Locket\", on which only TJ was a co-writer. Jay Joyce produced the album except for \"Rum\" and \"Heart Shaped Locket\", which the duo produced with Brad", "title": "Pawn Shop (album)" }, { "docid": "16840364", "text": "Hardcore Pawn: Chicago Hardcore Pawn: Chicago was an American reality television series on truTV. A spin-off of \"Hardcore Pawn\", the series follows the day-to-day operations of the Royal Pawn Shop located in Chicago, Illinois, at 428 S. Clark Street across from the Metropolitan Correctional Center near Chicago's Financial District. On August 15, 2012, truTV ordered 18 half-hour episodes for the first season which first premiered on January 1, 2013. In January 2014, truTV announced that the show had been canceled. In 2014, the location was used on the television show, \"Chicago PD\", with actor \"Elias Koteas\" entering the shop to", "title": "Hardcore Pawn: Chicago" }, { "docid": "13746057", "text": "Nielsen SoundScan. When the Pawn... When the Pawn... is the shortened title of the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple. Its entire title is When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might so When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know", "title": "When the Pawn..." }, { "docid": "13746051", "text": "When the Pawn... When the Pawn... is the shortened title of the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple. Its entire title is When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might so When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to", "title": "When the Pawn..." }, { "docid": "15684225", "text": "worthy of their own show,\" and called the series \"not-so-dramatic\" and \"G-rated pawning, which makes you hungry for Vegas.\" The premiere episode which aired in November 18, 2010 achieved 1.2 million viewers, prompting the TLC network to give the show its own series, which first aired May 5, 2011. The show had more than one million viewers each week. Pawn Queens Pawn Queens is a reality TV series about female pawn shop operators, airing on TLC, which premiered in 2010, following its pilot episode in 2010. Located in the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Illinois, businesswomen Minda Grabiec and Nikki Ruehl", "title": "Pawn Queens" }, { "docid": "15684222", "text": "Pawn Queens Pawn Queens is a reality TV series about female pawn shop operators, airing on TLC, which premiered in 2010, following its pilot episode in 2010. Located in the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Illinois, businesswomen Minda Grabiec and Nikki Ruehl run a pawn shop that caters to women. The family-friendly boutique specializes in merchandise appealing to women, including jewelry, vintage Barbie dolls, and one-of-a-kind antiques. With their two business partners, Greg Holloway and Tom Brunzelle, they pawn, purchase, and sell just about anything to keep their fledgling company afloat. Each episode focuses on how pawn businesses operate, and features", "title": "Pawn Queens" }, { "docid": "13647531", "text": "Long, reviewing the first season DVD for DVD Town, praised the series for its cast and the educational value of the items examined, calling it \"addictive\" and \"a big-time winner\", and opined that it is the best show on History and perhaps cable. In one issue of \"TV Guide\", writer Rob Moynihan included the show in a list of \"guilty pleasures.\" April McIntyre of Monsters and Critics, whose negative view of pawn shops influenced her view of the series' setting, reviewed one episode of the series, which she labeled a \"cool \"Antiques Roadshow\"\". Though she found aspects of it interesting,", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "9001796", "text": "learned to pick our moments to shine and deliver the songs in the most clear, concise and passionate way possible.\" Formed in August 2005, Rose's Pawn Shop is a five-piece band consisting of: Former Members: They have also recorded and performed with: \"Soda\"- banjo, guitars and vocals, Jimmy Stelling of The Hackensaw Boys, Wayne Hancock, Junior Brown, Flogging Molly, Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, The Scotch Greens, Jack White and The Raconteurs, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Ghostland Observatory, Blues Traveler, DeVotchka, Old Crow Medicine Show, Levon Helm, Blue Rodeo, Conor Oberst and the Mystic River Band, Railroad Earth, The Sadies,", "title": "Rose's Pawn Shop" }, { "docid": "20637364", "text": "of his prior cases. The projected release date is late 2018. The Poisoned Pawn refers to the original title that was given to Overseer, before a name change was decided internally prior to its 1998 release. The development team for The Poisoned Pawn (under the name \"Chaotic Fusion\") is made up of only 4 individuals. The game is being developed in the Unity engine, and features significantly updated graphics compared to its predecessor . In addition to updates to the real-time 3D engine, the developers have announced the game will feature 4K resolution Full Motion Video sequences, and full Oculus", "title": "The Poisoned Pawn" }, { "docid": "15684224", "text": "store dealt in high-end items. An assistant had coincidentally found the shop while researching unusual pawn shops. This led to the shooting of the pilot episode, through August 2010. \"Media Life Magazine\" described the interaction among the partners in the 2010 pilot episode as \"pleasant enough,\" but referred to the show as having \"no pay off\", since no merchandise is seen being pawned, only purchased by the shop, and no ultimate sales of merchandise is seen. \"The Hollywood Reporter\" gave a mixed-to-negative review of the 2011 series premiere, stating, \"\"Pawn Queens\" makes you wonder whether some professions are simply not", "title": "Pawn Queens" }, { "docid": "13647527", "text": "in the fourth season episode \"Over the Top\" that he was building a gym above the Pawn Shop for the staff's use. The shop also now sells its own brand merchandise, whose designs originate from fans entering design competitions on Facebook, which saves the Harrisons the cost of hiring professional designers. The staff's presence on Facebook and Twitter also ensures audiences during local nightclub appearances, for which Corey Harrison and Chumlee Russell are paid $1,000 a night. As a result of filming at the shop, however, the four main cast members no longer work the counter, due to laws that", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "9001788", "text": "in the process. The 12 new tunes that comprise Gravity Well—produced by Ted Hutt, renowned for his work with the likes of the Dropkick Murphys, Gaslight Anthem and the Old Crow Medicine Show—make it clear why Rose's Pawn Shop has earned such a fervent following. The band's catchy, anthemic songcraft channels the raw emotional power of America's folk, country and bluegrass traditions and puts them through a modern filter, creating timelessly resonant music. Frontman Paul Givant's heartfelt, engaging songwriting surveys such time-honored subjects as heartache, loss, regret and redemption, echoing centuries of musical tradition while still sounding wholly contemporary. Despite", "title": "Rose's Pawn Shop" }, { "docid": "16840365", "text": "ask a pawnbroker about a case. A total of 18 episodes have been broadcast. Hardcore Pawn: Chicago Hardcore Pawn: Chicago was an American reality television series on truTV. A spin-off of \"Hardcore Pawn\", the series follows the day-to-day operations of the Royal Pawn Shop located in Chicago, Illinois, at 428 S. Clark Street across from the Metropolitan Correctional Center near Chicago's Financial District. On August 15, 2012, truTV ordered 18 half-hour episodes for the first season which first premiered on January 1, 2013. In January 2014, truTV announced that the show had been canceled. In 2014, the location was used", "title": "Hardcore Pawn: Chicago" }, { "docid": "20527686", "text": "Side Pawn Capture, Pawn*23 Side Pawn Capture Pawn*23 (横歩取り☖2三歩 \"yokofudori ni-san fu\") or Side Pawn Capture B*25 (横歩取り☖2五角 \"yokofudori ni-go kaku\") is variation stemming from the Side Pawn Capture opening, in which White drops a pawn on the second file before trading off pawns on the eighth file leading Black to capture White's Side Pawn. After this, White initiates a rapid attack against Black's rook starting from a bishop drop on the second file. This is an older variation of the Side Pawn opening that has become disfavored since White's rapid attack is considered ineffective. 6...P*23. White drops their pawn", "title": "Side Pawn Capture, Pawn*23" }, { "docid": "20527687", "text": "in hand on the 23 square attacking Black's rook – a striking pawn tactic. 7. Rx34. Fleeing from attack, Black can now take White's side pawn. White's primary response to Black's capturing of the side pawn has been to immediately trade bishops and attack Black's vulnerable rook. Side Pawn Capture, Pawn*23 Side Pawn Capture Pawn*23 (横歩取り☖2三歩 \"yokofudori ni-san fu\") or Side Pawn Capture B*25 (横歩取り☖2五角 \"yokofudori ni-go kaku\") is variation stemming from the Side Pawn Capture opening, in which White drops a pawn on the second file before trading off pawns on the eighth file leading Black to capture White's", "title": "Side Pawn Capture, Pawn*23" }, { "docid": "18764013", "text": "as stating that \"[Arrowhead] were like a Crazy Eddie of gun dealers. They had a lot of volume and they did a lot of business.\" The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence describes Arrowhead as a \"notorious 'bad apple' gun dealer\", having sold over 1720 guns that were subsequently used in crimes. Arrowhead Pawn Shop was rebuilt in 2007 following a fire; retail space quadrupled from 2,000 square feet to 8,000 square feet in the new premises. As of 2014, the store's chief executive is Arthur Banks. The shop describes itself as \"a family owned business dedicated to good prices,", "title": "Arrowhead Pawn Shop" }, { "docid": "4968606", "text": "The Pawn The Pawn is a text-based interactive fiction game by Magnetic Scrolls, first published for the Sinclair QL by Sinclair Research in . It was then released for other platforms in by Rainbird. It is remembered for its excellent graphics (on some versions) and the opening music available in some game versions. Also the game itself—story and parser—got mostly positive reviews. The story takes place in the fairy land of Kerovnia, from which the player must escape. The game is written in 68000 assembler. Later versions use a cut-down 68000 virtual machine even on less powerful machines like the", "title": "The Pawn" }, { "docid": "4968602", "text": "The Pawn The Pawn is a text-based interactive fiction game by Magnetic Scrolls, first published for the Sinclair QL by Sinclair Research in . It was then released for other platforms in by Rainbird. It is remembered for its excellent graphics (on some versions) and the opening music available in some game versions. Also the game itself—story and parser—got mostly positive reviews. The story takes place in the fairy land of Kerovnia, from which the player must escape. The game is written in 68000 assembler. Later versions use a cut-down 68000 virtual machine even on less powerful machines like the", "title": "The Pawn" }, { "docid": "13647529", "text": "ET. The program also received a new opening and theme song, \"Winning isn't Everything\", performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd. The opening was replaced again with different theme music from an uncredited artist on June 12, 2014. Professional specialists are sometimes called in by the pawn shop to determine the authenticity and value of the items brought in and, in some cases, to restore them. The following is a list of recurring experts who have appeared in two or more episodes. Cameo appearances have been made by Phil Collen, Joe Elliott, Bob Dylan, Jeremy McKinnon, Meredith Vieira, the Oak Ridge Boys, George", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "4789599", "text": "is immune to attack by a pawn (often providing an excellent outpost for a knight), and the enemy piece located in this square cannot be attacked by rooks because the isolated pawn blocks the file it is on. Thus an isolated pawn provides a typical example of what Wilhelm Steinitz called \"weak squares\". An isolated queen pawn (IQP), called an \"isolani\", is often a special case. An isolated queen pawn is one on the queen's (d-file). The weakness of such a pawn's isolation arises from two factors associated with the absence of both neighboring pawns: The presence of open or", "title": "Isolated pawn" }, { "docid": "17319428", "text": "after Fischer failed to show up for the second game. Pawn Sacrifice Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical drama film. It is based on the true story of Bobby Fischer's challenge against top Soviet chess grandmasters during the Cold War and culminating in the 1972 World Chess Championship match versus Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, Iceland. It was directed by Edward Zwick and written by Steven Knight. The film stars Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer, Liev Schreiber as Boris Spassky, Lily Rabe as Joan Fischer, and Peter Sarsgaard as William Lombardy. It was released in the United States on September", "title": "Pawn Sacrifice" }, { "docid": "4968603", "text": "Z80-based Sinclair Spectrum. The Amiga version uses digitized instrument samples in its title music early in that computer's lifecycle. The peaceful title music was composed by John Molloy and it features guitar and flute sounds . \"The Pawn\" was Firebird's second best-selling Commodore game as of late 1987. The game won the award for best adventure game of the year in Crash magazine. It was also voted Best Adventure Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards. \"Compute!\" described \"The Pawn\" as \"parod[ying] the entire genre of interactive fiction, showing us that much of it—even the serious stuff—has its", "title": "The Pawn" }, { "docid": "14832073", "text": "Hardcore Pawn Hardcore Pawn is an American reality television series produced by RDF USA (later Zodiak USA) and Richard Dominick Productions for truTV about the day-to-day operations of American Jewelry and Loan, a family-owned and operated pawn shop and broker in Detroit, Michigan's 8 Mile Road corridor. The series premiered on August 16, 2010, delivering two million viewers, setting a record as truTV's most-watched series premiere ever. Production was halted in 2014. American Jewelry and Loan is owned by Les Gold, a third generation pawnbroker and businessman, and the grandson of a pawnbroker who once owned Sam's Loans, a now-defunct", "title": "Hardcore Pawn" }, { "docid": "4968604", "text": "shortcomings\", giving as example a character campaigning to eliminate mazes in text adventures. It stated that some of the Atari ST version's graphics were \"superb\" but wished that the pictures contributed to solving the game instead of being optional. The magazine concluded that \"Firebird has given us a good adventure, one that bodes well for the company and for all of us adventurers\". \"Computer Gaming World\" stated that \"The Pawn\" \"shows how well something can be done for the Amiga when one KNOWS the machine\". \"Info\" gave the Amiga version four-plus stars out of five, praising the \"excellent graphics\" and", "title": "The Pawn" }, { "docid": "13647518", "text": "the staff's interactions with customers, who bring in a variety of artifacts to sell or pawn, and who are shown haggling over the price and discussing its historical background, with narration provided by either the Harrisons or Chumlee. The series also follows the interpersonal conflicts among the cast. One reviewer referencing these conflicts described the show as a version of \"Antiques Roadshow\" \"hijacked by \"American Chopper\"s Teutul family\". \"TV Guide\" has offered a similar description, calling the show \"one part \"Antiques Roadshow\", a pinch of \"LA Ink\" and a dash of \"COPS\"\". Numerous local experts in a variety of fields", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "14832080", "text": "sale, and usually some argument between Ashley and Seth. During season 9 truTV decided not to order more episodes because of the network's new direction. truTV was concentrating on comedy programming and it was decided that \"Hardcore Pawn\" did not relate properly to other programs in the network's schedule. No other television networks showed interest in the series, and production was halted in 2014. Repeats of \"Hardcore Pawn\" are also seen on occasion on TNT. \"Hardcore Pawn\" has generated two spinoffs: In addition, Rich Pyle, one of the American Jewelry clerks who was featured in many episodes of \"Hardcore Pawn\",", "title": "Hardcore Pawn" }, { "docid": "17299629", "text": "2013. The movie was filmed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in June 2012. The film's carnival scene was filmed at William and Lee Park in Port Allen, Louisiana. The film received negative reviews from critics. Based on 16 reviews, it currently holds a 13% approval rating on film review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. The film also holds a rating of 26/100 on Metacritic based on 10 reviews indicating \"generally unfavorable reviews\". Writing for \"The New York Times\", film critic Stephen Holden said of the film, \"\"Hee Haw\" meets \"Pulp Fiction\" at the meth lab: That describes the style of \"Pawn Shop", "title": "Pawn Shop Chronicles" }, { "docid": "580221", "text": "a cowrie shell or a coin of little value. In Turkish pawn is called \"piyon\", borrowed from the French word in the 19th century. \"Pawn\" is often taken to mean \"one who is easily manipulated\" or \"one who is sacrificed for a larger purpose\". Because the pawn is the weakest piece, it is often used metaphorically to indicate unimportance or outright disposability; for example, \"She's only a pawn in their game.\" Unicode defines two codepoints for pawn: ♙ U+2659 White Chess Pawn (HTML ♙) ♟ U+265F Black Chess Pawn (HTML ♟) Bibliography Pawn (chess) The pawn (♙,♟) is the most", "title": "Pawn (chess)" }, { "docid": "9001794", "text": "while receiving extensive national and international airplay on college, AAA, country and alternative radio formats. Meanwhile, the band's diligent roadwork—which has taken them across North America several times, along with visits to the U.K. and Ireland—has allowed Rose's Pawn Shop to continue winning fans and friends across the nation and around the world. \"Our travels have had a big influence on our evolution,\" Givant states. \"Meeting other bands and meeting people from all over the world at our shows has had a big influence on our songwriting, and opened us up to new musical traditions. Seeing the world in general", "title": "Rose's Pawn Shop" }, { "docid": "13647523", "text": "store, which has 12,000 items in its inventory as of July 2011 (5,000 of which are typically held on pawn). Each episode consists of segments devoted to approximately five or six of these items, in which one of the staff members, usually Rick Harrison, his son Corey, or Harrison's father Richard (known as the \"Old Man\"), explains the history behind the object. When the buyer is unable to evaluate an object, they consult with a knowledgeable expert who can evaluate it to determine its authenticity and potential value, and in the case of items needing repair, the cost of restoration", "title": "Pawn Stars" }, { "docid": "14081236", "text": "Pawn Shop (album) Both members of the duo (John and T.J. Osborne) co-wrote nearly every song on the album, except \"Heart Shaped Locket\", on which only TJ was a co-writer. Jay Joyce produced the album except for \"Rum\" and \"Heart Shaped Locket\", which the duo produced with Brad Hill. Both \"Rum\" and \"Stay a Little Longer\" previously appeared on their self-titled EP, although the latter was re-recorded. \"Rum\" was originally issued as a single off the EP in 2014, followed by the re-recording of \"Stay a Little Longer\". \"21 Summer\" and \"It Ain't My Fault\" were the third and fourth", "title": "Pawn Shop (album)" }, { "docid": "580207", "text": "\"en passant\" capture. It can occur after a pawn advances two squares using its initial two-step move option, and the square passed over is attacked by an enemy pawn. The enemy pawn is entitled to capture the moved pawn \"in passing\" – as if it had advanced only one square. The capturing pawn moves to the square over which the moved pawn passed (see diagram), and the moved pawn is removed from the board. The option to capture \"en passant\" must be exercised on the move immediately following the double-step pawn advance, or it is lost for the remainder of", "title": "Pawn (chess)" }, { "docid": "13746055", "text": "lose.\" \"Entertainment Weekly\"s David Browne awarded the album an A grade, praising Jon Brion's production as well as Apple's songwriting: \"Apple hasn’t gained much in psychic confidence following the success of \"Tidal\". On \"When the Pawn...\", Apple presents herself as a mental shambles, and she’s more than happy to tell us about it.\" \"Pitchfork\" rated the album eight out of ten stars, with reviewer Chip Chanko praising Apple's lyrics, writing: \"[Apple] seems older. Her voice is full of a heartfelt soul that seems almost timeless. While Billie Holiday would never have considered the possibility of lines like, 'It won't be", "title": "When the Pawn..." }, { "docid": "580214", "text": "the endgame. In the middlegame, however, Black has slightly more freedom of movement than White, and may be able to trade off the isolated pawn before an endgame ensues. A pawn which cannot be blocked or captured by enemy pawns in its advance to promotion is a \"passed pawn\". In the diagram, White has a \"protected\" passed pawn on c5 and Black has an \"outside\" passed pawn on h5. Because endgames are often won by the player who can promote a pawn first, having a passed pawn in an endgame can be decisive – especially a protected passed pawn (a", "title": "Pawn (chess)" }, { "docid": "4789625", "text": "Backward pawn In chess, a backward pawn is a pawn that is behind all pawns of the same color on the adjacent files and cannot be safely advanced. In the diagram, the black pawn on the c6-square is backward. Backward pawns are usually a positional disadvantage since they are difficult to defend. Also, the opponent can place a piece, usually a knight, on the hole in front of the pawn without any risk of a pawn driving it away. The backward pawn also prevents its owner's rooks and queen on the same file from attacking the piece placed on the", "title": "Backward pawn" }, { "docid": "4789628", "text": "on. Bibliography Backward pawn In chess, a backward pawn is a pawn that is behind all pawns of the same color on the adjacent files and cannot be safely advanced. In the diagram, the black pawn on the c6-square is backward. Backward pawns are usually a positional disadvantage since they are difficult to defend. Also, the opponent can place a piece, usually a knight, on the hole in front of the pawn without any risk of a pawn driving it away. The backward pawn also prevents its owner's rooks and queen on the same file from attacking the piece placed", "title": "Backward pawn" }, { "docid": "4775587", "text": "Passed pawn In chess, a passed pawn is a pawn with no opposing pawns to prevent it from advancing to the eighth ; i.e. there are no opposing pawns in front of it on either the same or adjacent files. A passed pawn is sometimes colloquially called a \"passer\". Passed pawns can be an advantage because only the opponent's pieces can stop them from promoting. In the diagram, the white pawns on b5, c4, and e5 are passed pawns, and Black's pawn on d4 is a passed pawn. If Black plays ...fxg4, then the black pawn on g4 will be", "title": "Passed pawn" }, { "docid": "20637360", "text": "The Poisoned Pawn The Poisoned Pawn will be the seventh game in the \"Tex Murphy\" series of detective adventure games, developed by Chaotic Fusion. In the same style as the rest of the titles in the series, it will tell much of its story through live-action full-motion video sequences, coupled with fully explorable 3D first-person environments during gameplay. \"The Poisoned Pawn's\" gameplay will be very similar to that of \"\", where the player will assume the role of \"Tex Murphy\", exploring rich 3D environments from a first-person perspective, hunting for clues and solving various environmental puzzles. In addition to the", "title": "The Poisoned Pawn" }, { "docid": "6782465", "text": "along the long diagonal, and usually prepares the f2-f4-f5 break. Openings: Primary: Closed Sicilian, Closed English (colors reversed). Character: Closed, complicated position. Themes for White: kingside pawn storm, c2-c3 and d3-d4 break. Themes for Black: queenside pawn storm, a1-h8 diagonal Pawn structure In chess, the pawn structure (sometimes known as the pawn skeleton) is the configuration of pawns on the chessboard. Since pawns are the least mobile of the chess pieces, the pawn structure is relatively static and thus largely determines the strategic nature of the position. Weaknesses in the pawn structure, such as isolated, doubled or backward pawns and", "title": "Pawn structure" }, { "docid": "20637365", "text": "Rift support. While no official announcements about other VR platforms have been made yet (like the HTC Vive), the developers are confident that it could make it to those platforms provided there sufficient time and access to those development kits. While there have been no hard dates set, the development team estimates late 2018 for the release of the title. While the title will be released for the desktop platform, \"The Poisoned Pawn\" will mark the first solid attempt to bring Tex Murphy to the latest generation consoles (Xbox One, PlayStation 4, etc.), and Virtual Reality. The Poisoned Pawn The", "title": "The Poisoned Pawn" }, { "docid": "4789595", "text": "Isolated pawn In chess, an isolated pawn is a pawn that has no friendly pawn on an adjacent . Isolated pawns are usually a weakness because they cannot be protected by other pawns. The square in front of the pawn may become a good outpost or otherwise a good square for the opponent to anchor pieces. Isolated pawns most often become weaker in the endgame, as there are fewer pieces available to protect the pawn. Isolated pawns can, however, provide improved development and associated opportunities for that offset or even outweigh their weaknesses. The files adjacent to the isolated pawn", "title": "Isolated pawn" }, { "docid": "19183236", "text": "produced many hit reality television shows, such as: Cake Boss, Fixer Upper, Tough Love and others. Jim Berger and Scott Feely were the executive producers for the series. Game of Pawns (game show) Game of Pawns is a television game show based in Branson, Missouri, about the goings on in a local pawn shop. The show stars; Justin Tranchita , Scott Velvet and Brian Roman. The plot of the show is a mix of a game show and reality television series as Scott and Brian buy unusual items at Branson Pawn using a trivia game to give patrons the chance", "title": "Game of Pawns (game show)" }, { "docid": "6782443", "text": "Pawn structure In chess, the pawn structure (sometimes known as the pawn skeleton) is the configuration of pawns on the chessboard. Since pawns are the least mobile of the chess pieces, the pawn structure is relatively static and thus largely determines the strategic nature of the position. Weaknesses in the pawn structure, such as isolated, doubled or backward pawns and , once created, are usually permanent. Care must therefore be taken to avoid them (but there are exceptions — for instance see \"Boleslavsky hole\" below). In the absence of these structural weaknesses, it is not possible to classify a pawn", "title": "Pawn structure" }, { "docid": "9011956", "text": "Pawn storm A pawn storm is a chess strategy in which several pawns are moved in rapid succession toward the opponent's defenses. A pawn storm usually involves adjacent pawns on one side of the board, the (a-, b-, and c-) or the (f-, g-, and h-files). A pawn storm will often be directed toward the opponent's king after it has castled toward one side (e.g. Fischer–Larsen, 1958). Successive advances of the pawns on that side might rapidly cramp and overwhelm the opponent's position. A pawn storm might also be directed at queening a passed pawn; the diagram is taken from", "title": "Pawn storm" }, { "docid": "19177714", "text": "the post office name. One of them, Monroe Poole, was the first postmaster. Mail reached Pawn by horse or wagon, sometimes transferred from a boat further downstream. Before roads connected Pawn to Florence, the community had its own school for children in grades 1 through 8. Older children boarded in Florence, where they went to high school. A 21st-century forest trail in the same general vicinity is named after the community. Pawn Trail, managed by the United States Forest Service, forms a loop through an old-growth forest. The trail, open all year, is about from Florence, mostly via forest roads.", "title": "Pawn, Oregon" }, { "docid": "580213", "text": "immediate ...c5 and perhaps a later ...f6. Pawns on adjacent files can support each other in attack and defense. A pawn which has no friendly pawns in adjacent files is an \"isolated pawn\". The square in front of an isolated pawn may become an enduring weakness. Any piece placed directly in front not only blocks the advance of that pawn, but cannot be driven away by other pawns. In the diagram, Black has an isolated pawn on d5. If all the pieces except the kings and pawns were removed, the weakness of that pawn might prove fatal to Black in", "title": "Pawn (chess)" }, { "docid": "580206", "text": "time a pawn moves, it has the option of advancing two squares. Pawns may not use the initial two-square advance to jump over an occupied square, or to capture. Any piece immediately in front of a pawn, friend or foe, blocks its advance. In the diagram, the pawn on c4 can move to c5, while the pawn on e2 can move to either e3 or e4. Unlike other pieces, the pawn does not capture in the same direction as it moves. A pawn captures diagonally forward one square to the left or right (see diagram). Another unusual rule is the", "title": "Pawn (chess)" }, { "docid": "4789596", "text": "are either open or half-open, providing two lanes of attack for the rooks and the queen. The absence of pawns adjacent to the isolated pawn may also mobilize the player's knights and bishops. An isolated pawn on the d-file is called an isolated queen pawn or simply an isolani. In addition to the open or half-open c- and e-files, the isolated queen pawn can provide a good outpost on the c- and e-file squares diagonally forward of the pawn, which are especially favorable for the player's knights. The isolated queen pawn position favors a attack, freeing both the light and", "title": "Isolated pawn" }, { "docid": "4789626", "text": "hole. If the backward pawn is on a half-open file, as in this case, the disadvantage is even greater, as the pawn can be attacked more easily by an opponent's rook or queen on the c-file. Pieces can become weak when they are devoted to protecting a backward pawn, since their obligation to defend the pawn keeps them from being deployed for other uses. Modern opening theory features several openings in which one of the players deliberately incurs a backward pawn in exchange for some other advantage such as the initiative or better development. An excellent example is the of", "title": "Backward pawn" }, { "docid": "19880114", "text": "drops their pawn in hand on the 23 square attacking Black's rook – a striking pawn tactic. Next, Black will capture White's side pawn. 6... P-86, 7. Px86 Rx86. White trades their rook pawn on the eighth file. This is the most common move to transition to a Side Pawn Capture opening. After this, both players have two pawns in the hand and their rooks are fully activated. 8. Rx34. Black captures White's pawn on the third file ending up with three pawns in hand. This is the defining characteristic of Side Pawn Capture openings. Following Black's side pawn capture,", "title": "Side Pawn Capture" }, { "docid": "19882865", "text": "the establishment of an \"Assistance House\". Wesling's pawn shop was located in a building at the corner of Nyhavn and Kvæsthusgade. He died in November 1698. His widow, Maren Iversdatter, received permission to continue the operations on 31 January 1698 but died just a few months later. The license was then passed on to Diderik Frandsen Klevenow who moved the pawn shop to a property in Frederiksborggade. In 1699, it was decided that part of the profits should be allocated to Børnehuset and the city's poorhouses. When Klenenows died on 1 June 1711, the license was taken over by the", "title": "Royal Pawn (Denmark)" }, { "docid": "580215", "text": "passed pawn that is protected by a pawn). In this vein, a pawn \"majority\", a greater number of pawns belonging to one player on one side of the chessboard, is strategically important because it can often be converted into a passed pawn. The diagrammed position might appear roughly equal, because each side has a king and three pawns, and the positions of the kings are about equal. In truth, White wins this endgame on the strength of the protected passed pawn, regardless which player moves first. The black king cannot be on both sides of the board at once –", "title": "Pawn (chess)" }, { "docid": "13416737", "text": "realism. \"We the Living\", finally published in 1936, shares some basic plotlines with \"Red Pawn\". Both feature a love triangle set against the background of the early Soviet Union, with the woman protagonist having an anti-Communist lover and a Communist one, and with the Communist finally compromising or renouncing his ideological allegiance for love of her. Red Pawn Red Pawn is a screenplay written by Ayn Rand. It was the first screenplay that Rand sold. Universal Pictures purchased it in 1932. \"Red Pawn\" features the theme of the evil of dictatorship, specifically of Soviet Russia. \"Red Pawn\" is a spy", "title": "Red Pawn" }, { "docid": "19882866", "text": "German nobleman Johan Otto Raben and his wife Emerentzia von Levetzau, who had been his partners and wanted to secure their investment. They moved the pawn shop to Amagertorv 49 (now Amagertorv 25/Læderstræde 28) where it was managed by Jacob Lindemann. Raben died in 1719 and his widow then operated the pawn shop alone until the license was passed on to their son Christian Frederik Raben and his wife Birthe von Plessen in 1731. In 1737, Iver Jentoft took over the license only to pass it on to two Jewish brothers from Altona, Salomon and Meyer Joseph Unna, who moved", "title": "Royal Pawn (Denmark)" }, { "docid": "4775594", "text": "on the sixth rank are superior to Black's rook. Even if on move, Black cannot stop one of White's pawns from queening. Similarly, in the upper-right quadrant, Black's bishop cannot hold back both of White's pawns. White queens a pawn after 1. f7 (1.h7 also works) Bxf7 2. h7 followed by 3. h8=Q. In the lower-left quadrant, White's queen cannot stop Black's pawn from queening without stalemating Black. The lower-right quadrant highlights how awkward a knight is in dealing with a passed pawn, especially a rook pawn. White's knight is actually worse than useless in trying to stop Black's pawn.", "title": "Passed pawn" }, { "docid": "17319416", "text": "Pawn Sacrifice Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical drama film. It is based on the true story of Bobby Fischer's challenge against top Soviet chess grandmasters during the Cold War and culminating in the 1972 World Chess Championship match versus Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, Iceland. It was directed by Edward Zwick and written by Steven Knight. The film stars Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer, Liev Schreiber as Boris Spassky, Lily Rabe as Joan Fischer, and Peter Sarsgaard as William Lombardy. It was released in the United States on September 16, 2015. The film starts in 1972, as an adult", "title": "Pawn Sacrifice" }, { "docid": "580216", "text": "to defend the isolated h-pawn and to stop White's c-pawn from advancing to promotion. Thus White can capture the h-pawn and then win the game . After a capture with a pawn, a player may end up with two pawns on the same , called \"doubled pawns\". Doubled pawns are substantially weaker than pawns which are side by side, because they cannot defend each other, they usually cannot both be defended by adjacent pawns, and the front pawn blocks the advance of the back one. In the diagram, Black is playing at a strategic disadvantage due to the doubled c-pawns.", "title": "Pawn (chess)" }, { "docid": "19880111", "text": "is also possible. 5. P-24. Black initiates a pawn trade on the second file by attacking White's pawn. 5... Px24, 6. Rx24. Pawn trade clearing off the pawns on the second file and giving each player a pawn in hand. Black's rook is positioned on 24 square. From this position, Black may capture White's side pawn on 34 in subsequent moves leading directly into the Side Pawn Capture opening. The Side Pawn opening position above can be reached by several different move sequences, some of which are shown below. The first transposition recalls the Double Wing Attack opening while the", "title": "Side Pawn Capture" }, { "docid": "580205", "text": "b-pawn\". Alternatively, they can be referred to by the piece which stood on that file at the beginning of the game, e.g. \"White's king bishop's pawn\" or \"Black's queen knight's pawn\". It is also common to refer to a ', meaning any pawn on the a- or h-files, a ' (on the b- or g-files), a ' (on the c- or f-files), a ' (on the d-file), a ' (on the e-file), and a ' (on the d- or e-files). Unlike the other pieces, pawns cannot move backwards. Normally a pawn moves by advancing a single square, but the first", "title": "Pawn (chess)" }, { "docid": "19914182", "text": "pawn. Rook on Pawn Climbing Silver (タテ歩棒銀 \"tatefu bōgin\" or 飛尻出棒銀 \"hijiride bōgin\") combines the Rook on Pawn technique with a Climbing Silver strategy. Rook on Pawn Rook on Pawn or Vertical Pawn Picker (タテ歩取り or 縦歩取り \"tatefudori\") is a subclass of Double Wing Attack Floating Rook (Static Rook) openings in which the Floating Rook player moves their rook to the third file aiming to capture their opponent's pawn used to open their bishop diagonal at the 34 square. This rook attack can occur preemptively by moving their rook before their opponent's pawn push and, thus, preventing (at least initially)", "title": "Rook on Pawn" }, { "docid": "19880121", "text": "opening. This is typically done by Black pushing an edge pawn instead of capturing White's side pawn. After the edge pawn push, White may decide to take Black's side pawn leading to a Side Pawn Capture position with Black and White's sides reversed (with the extra edge pawn push by Black). This may be done if Black prefers the lines usually played by White or if Black plans to exploit the ramifications of playing White with an extra edge pawn push or merely for psychological effect. In professional games, these positions are uncommon and often lead to Double Wing Attack", "title": "Side Pawn Capture" }, { "docid": "9001792", "text": "like: gritty, high-energy and passionate, with a lot of instrumental virtuosity. But over time, we've evolved to be more song-focused. I think we've retained that original energy, but now we're more focused on crafting our arrangements so the song can shine though.\" The nascent combo got its name after Rose, Givant's ex-girlfriend and former bandmate, stole the band's equipment from their rehearsal space and scattered their gear amongst various pawn shops throughout North Hollywood. Fortunately, the musicians were able to recover their gear, and soon forged a formidable musical chemistry that manifested itself in their highly charged live shows, and", "title": "Rose's Pawn Shop" }, { "docid": "12224403", "text": "Wrong rook pawn In chess endgames with a bishop, a pawn that is a may be the wrong rook pawn. With a single bishop, the result of a position may depend on whether or not the bishop controls the square on the chessboard on which the pawn would promote. Since a side's rook pawns promote on opposite-colored squares, one of them may be the \"wrong rook pawn\" . This situation is also known as having the \"wrong-colored bishop\" or \"wrong bishop\", i.e. the bishop is on the wrong colored squares in relation to the rook pawn . In many cases,", "title": "Wrong rook pawn" }, { "docid": "4789598", "text": "flexibility than those defending them. In other words, the attacking pieces enjoy greater freedom to make other threats (win pieces, checkmate, etc.), while the defending pieces are restricted to the defense of the pawn. This is because a piece that is attacking a pawn can give up the attack to do something else, whereas the defending piece must stay rooted to the spot until the attacking piece has moved. The defending piece is thus said to be \"tied down\" to the pawn. The second reason is that the square immediately in front of the isolated pawn is weak, since it", "title": "Isolated pawn" } ]
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Known as the Beehive State, what was the 45th state to join the Union on January 4, 1896?
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[ { "docid": "11010491", "text": "played in 1896 (when Brigham Young University was known as Brigham Young Academy). BYU on the other hand claims that the rivalry dates back to 1922, the first year BYU began playing football. For historical purposes, 1922 is the date most used when referring to the start of the Holy War. The Utes lead the all-time series 60–34–4. The Cougars are 26–20 since the Beehive Boot was created in 1971. BYU and Utah State have met for the Old Wagon Wheel 87 times, dating back to 1922, with BYU holding a 48–36–3 lead. BYU had beaten Utah State ten straight", "title": "Beehive Boot" }, { "docid": "7363301", "text": "and Second West streets), the Salt Lake City Hall (First South near State Street), and the present Salt Lake City and County Building (Fourth South and State streets). After, being admitted to the Union as a State on January 4, 1896 by an act signed into law by President Grover Cleveland, the first official act of statehood was the swearing in of State officials at the Salt Lake Tabernacle on January 6, 1896 as Utah did not have an official State Capitol. Acting upon the recommendation of Governor John C. Cutler the Utah Legislature finally approved a plan to build", "title": "Utah State Legislature" } ]
[ { "docid": "20520667", "text": "2018 State of the Union Address The 2018 State of the Union Address was given by the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, on Tuesday, January 30, 2018, at 9 p.m. EST in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. It was addressed to the 115th United States Congress. It was Trump's first State of the Union Address and his second speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy III and Virginia Delegate Elizabeth Guzmán gave the Democratic Party's response in English and Spanish respectively. The Address was watched by", "title": "2018 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "20520700", "text": "lowest net positive rating since CNN first began asking the question in 1998. 2018 State of the Union Address The 2018 State of the Union Address was given by the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, on Tuesday, January 30, 2018, at 9 p.m. EST in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. It was addressed to the 115th United States Congress. It was Trump's first State of the Union Address and his second speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy III and Virginia Delegate Elizabeth Guzmán gave the", "title": "2018 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "21010081", "text": "30, 2002 and adjourned \"sine die\" August 1; the sixth and final special session convened and adjourned on November 25, 2002. The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. 45th Arizona State Legislature The 45th Arizona State Legislature, consisting of the Arizona State Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives, was constituted in Phoenix from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2002, during the final two years of Jane Dee Hull's first", "title": "45th Arizona State Legislature" }, { "docid": "476433", "text": "report. Since Franklin Roosevelt, the State of the Union is given typically each January before a joint session of the United States Congress and is held in the House of Representatives chamber of the United States Capitol. Newly inaugurated presidents generally deliver an address to Congress in February of the first year of their term, but this speech is not officially considered to be a \"State of the Union\". What began as a communication between president and Congress has become in effect a communication between the president and the people of the United States. Since the advent of radio, and", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "18164802", "text": "the country lately embroiled in civil war are fully enjoyed.\" He gave this address right after troops were withdrawn from the South. The Reconstruction Era ended in March 1877, and the Southern United States were freed from Republican control. 1877 State of the Union Address The 1877 State of the Union Address was written by the 19th President, Rutherford B. Hayes. It was given on Monday, December 3, to both houses of the 45th United States Congress. In it, he said, \"There has been a general reestablishment of order and of the orderly administration of justice. Instances of remaining lawlessness", "title": "1877 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18164801", "text": "1877 State of the Union Address The 1877 State of the Union Address was written by the 19th President, Rutherford B. Hayes. It was given on Monday, December 3, to both houses of the 45th United States Congress. In it, he said, \"There has been a general reestablishment of order and of the orderly administration of justice. Instances of remaining lawlessness have become of rare occurrence; political turmoil and turbulence have disappeared; useful industries have been resumed; public credit in the Southern States has been greatly strengthened, and the encouraging benefits of a revival of commerce between the sections of", "title": "1877 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14164730", "text": "often conflated. What happened is that President Clinton simply referenced the September 1993 incident. 1994 State of the Union Address The 1994 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 103rd United States Congress on Tuesday, January 25, 1994. The speech was Clinton's first official State of the Union address, although he had similarly addressed a joint session of Congress a year prior shortly after taking office. The president discussed the federal budget deficit, taxes, defense spending, crime, foreign affairs, education, the economy, free trade, the role of government, campaign finance", "title": "1994 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18177322", "text": "1939 State of the Union Address The 1939 State of the Union Address was given to the 76th United States Congress, on Wednesday, January 4, 1939, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd United States President. Foreseeing World War II, he said, \"In Reporting on the state of the nation, I have felt it necessary on previous occasions to advise the Congress of disturbance abroad and of the need of putting our own house in order in the face of storm signals from across the seas. As this Seventy-sixth Congress opens there is need for further warning. A war which threatened", "title": "1939 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "476432", "text": "of this \"State of the Union Clause\" of the Constitution is not specific, since the 1930s, the President makes this report annually in late January or early February. Between 1934 and 2013 the date has been as early as January 3, and as late as February 12. While not required to deliver a speech, every president since Woodrow Wilson, with the notable exception of Herbert Hoover, has made at least one State of the Union report as a speech delivered before a joint session of Congress. Before that time, most presidents delivered the State of the Union as a written", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "14909391", "text": "State of the Union (European Union) The State of the Union address, also known as the State of the European Union, or SOTEU is the annual speech addressed by the President of the European Commission to the European Parliament plenary session in September. The State of the Union address of the European Union has been instituted by the Lisbon Treaty (with the 2010 Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission - Annex IV(5)), in order to make political life of the Union more democratic and transparent than it hitherto was. The Framework Agreement thus also", "title": "State of the Union (European Union)" }, { "docid": "16031120", "text": "more of the abovementioned counties. The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature. 45th New York State Legislature The 45th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 2 to April 17, 1822, during the fifth year of DeWitt Clinton's governorship, in Albany. Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1777, amended by the Constitutional Convention of 1801, 32 Senators were elected on general tickets in the four senatorial districts for four-year terms. They were divided into four", "title": "45th New York State Legislature" }, { "docid": "18177323", "text": "to envelop the world in flames has been averted; but it has become increasingly clear that world peace is not assured.\" In September 1939, the War in Europe began. 1939 State of the Union Address The 1939 State of the Union Address was given to the 76th United States Congress, on Wednesday, January 4, 1939, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd United States President. Foreseeing World War II, he said, \"In Reporting on the state of the nation, I have felt it necessary on previous occasions to advise the Congress of disturbance abroad and of the need of putting our", "title": "1939 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "21010079", "text": "45th Arizona State Legislature The 45th Arizona State Legislature, consisting of the Arizona State Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives, was constituted in Phoenix from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2002, during the final two years of Jane Dee Hull's first full term in office. Both the Senate and the House membership remained constant at 30 and 60, respectively. The Republicans lost a seat in the Senate, creating a 15-15 balance with the Democrats. The Republicans lost five seats in the House, maintaining their majority in the lower chamber, 35–25. The Legislature met for two regular sessions at", "title": "45th Arizona State Legislature" }, { "docid": "14909394", "text": "2014. He also acknowledged the need for \"a serious discussion between the citizens of Europe about the way forward,\" calling in particular on all pro-European forces to be mobilised against the anti-European agenda of \"the populists and the nationalists.\" 9 September 2015 marked the first address held by Jean-Claude Juncker. It was titled \"Time for honesty, unity and solidarity\" and opened with the \"imperative to act as a union\" in order to address the refugee crisis. State of the Union (European Union) The State of the Union address, also known as the State of the European Union, or SOTEU is", "title": "State of the Union (European Union)" }, { "docid": "16031113", "text": "45th New York State Legislature The 45th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 2 to April 17, 1822, during the fifth year of DeWitt Clinton's governorship, in Albany. Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1777, amended by the Constitutional Convention of 1801, 32 Senators were elected on general tickets in the four senatorial districts for four-year terms. They were divided into four classes, and every year eight Senate seats came up for election. Assemblymen were elected countywide on general tickets to a one-year", "title": "45th New York State Legislature" }, { "docid": "18202765", "text": "1970 State of the Union Address The 1970 State of the Union Address was given by Richard Nixon, the 37th United States President, on January 22, 1970, to both houses of the 91st United States Congress. He said, \"I say this not only because 1970 marks the beginning of a new decade in which America will celebrate its 200th birthday. The seventies will be a time of new beginnings, a time of exploring both on the earth and in the heavens, a time of discovery. But the time has also come for emphasis on developing better ways of managing what", "title": "1970 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14257127", "text": "Union addresses, there have been five official responses to non–State of the Union speeches which were delivered soon after presidential inaugurations. Response to the State of the Union address The response to the State of the Union address is a rebuttal speech, often brief, delivered by a representative (or representatives) of the opposition party following a presidential State of the Union address. When the president is a Democrat, the rebuttal is given by a Republican, and vice versa. The practice began in 1966 when Republican U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois) and U.S. Representative Gerald Ford (Michigan) appeared on TV to", "title": "Response to the State of the Union address" }, { "docid": "18157677", "text": "ends through aggression.\" He is referring to what seemed to be the high likelihood of nuclear warfare of the time. He ended with, \"And so, I know with all my heart--and I deeply believe that all Americans know--that, despite the anxieties of this divided world, our faith, and the cause in which we all believe, will surely prevail.\" This address was given in his first term (1953-1957), in Washington, D.C. 1955 State of the Union Address The 1955 State of the Union Address was given by the 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, on Thursday, January 6,", "title": "1955 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "19081569", "text": "2016 State of the Union Address The 2016 State of the Union Address was given by the 44th United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 12, 2016, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. It was addressed to the 114th United States Congress. It was the first State of the Union address with Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House of Representatives. It was the last State of the Union Address of Obama's presidency; no U.S. president since Gerald Ford has given a final State of the Union address at the end of his term. Obama's", "title": "2016 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "13094031", "text": "of high school students sponsored by the Close Up Foundation. Dan Glickman, the Secretary of Agriculture, served as the designated survivor. The speech was broadcast live on television and radio and lasted 1:04:21 and consisted of 6,774 words. This was the first State of the Union Address carried live on the Internet. 1997 State of the Union Address The 1997 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 105th United States Congress on Tuesday, February 4, 1997. The speech was the first State of the Union address of President Clinton's second", "title": "1997 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18152981", "text": "1950 State of the Union Address The 1950 State of the Union Address was given by Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, on Wednesday, January 4, 1950. He spoke to the 81st United States Congress, to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. It was a joint session, and the 160th address given. He said, \"Our aim for a peaceful, democratic world of free peoples will be achieved in the long run, not by force of arms, but by an appeal to the minds and hearts of men.\" He also said, \"Our", "title": "1950 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18152982", "text": "Social Security System should be developed into the main reliance of our people for basic protection against the economic hazards of old-age, unemployment, and illness.\" 1950 State of the Union Address The 1950 State of the Union Address was given by Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, on Wednesday, January 4, 1950. He spoke to the 81st United States Congress, to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. It was a joint session, and the 160th address given. He said, \"Our aim for a peaceful, democratic world of free peoples will be", "title": "1950 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14169012", "text": "1999 State of the Union Address The 1999 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 106th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 19, 1999. The speech was the third State of the Union address of President Clinton's second term. This was the first State of the Union address with Dennis Hastert as Speaker of the House of Representatives. President Clinton discussed the economy, the federal budget, taxes and focused on the budget surplus, then at $70 billion. The president also discussed the future of Social Security, education, foreign relations and", "title": "1999 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "16809744", "text": "1980 State of the Union Address The 1980 State of the Union address was given by President Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, to a joint session of the 96th United States Congress on Monday, January 21, 1980. He addressed the Iran Hostage Crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: \"At this time in Iran, 50 Americans are still held captive, innocent victims of terrorism and anarchy. Also at this moment, massive Soviet troops are attempting to subjugate the fiercely independent and deeply religious people of Afghanistan.\" The speech lasted 32 minutes and 4 seconds. and contained", "title": "1980 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "20520693", "text": "address. On January 25, 2018, the Green Party issued a press release stating that it would stream an online response to the State of the Union Address, featuring Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka, the 2016 presidential and vice presidential nominees respectively. It was announced on January 26, 2018, that Maxine Waters would be on the BET program, \"Angela Rye's State of the Union\", after the State of the Union Address to address the country. On January 29, the office of Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent, announced that he would be giving his own response to the address. Alt-right figures supported", "title": "2018 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "7050636", "text": "Democratic response to 2006 State of the Union address The response to the 2006 State of the Union Address was delivered by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine on January 31, 2006, after United States President George W. Bush delivered his 2006 State of the Union address. The theme of Kaine's speech, \"\"A Better Way\",\" advocates the Democratic Party's policies and states' rights. Kaine delivered the speech from Virginia's historic Executive Mansion in Richmond and the speech was televised nationwide. Kaine begins his speech by recalling his work as a Catholic missionary in Honduras where he learned the value of measuring one's", "title": "Democratic response to 2006 State of the Union address" }, { "docid": "11430334", "text": "response in Spanish. Libertarian Party Chair William Redpath issued a written response to the State of the Union on behalf of the national Libertarian Party. Steve Kubby, a candidate for the Libertarian Party's 2008 presidential nomination, delivered his own \"State of the Union address\" via Internet video on January 25, 2008, three days before President Bush's speech. Framed as a preemption rather than merely a response, Kubby's speech attempted to predict the themes President Bush would strike and offered Kubby's own proposals in their stead. 2008 State of the Union Address The 2008 State of the Union address was a", "title": "2008 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "476439", "text": "their coverage of a State of the Union address. Delivered by Lyndon B. Johnson, this address was followed by extensive televised commentary by, among others, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Milton Friedman. Ronald Reagan's 1986 State of the Union Address is the only one to have been postponed. He had planned to deliver it on January 28, 1986 but postponed it for a week after learning of the Space Shuttle \"Challenger\" disaster and instead addressed the nation on the day's events. Bill Clinton's 1997 address was the first broadcast available live on the World Wide Web. A formal invitation is made", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "11517788", "text": "Clinton discussed many topics in the address, including education, health care, crime, the global economy, technology, and the environment. It was Clinton's last State of the Union address. He left office on January 20, 2001. It was also the longest State of the Union address in recorded history at 1:29. This State of the Union address is notable for being the first since Reagan's 1986 State of the Union Address that all 9 members of the Supreme Court were absent. It is speculated that their absence was due to Clinton's recent impeachment. 2000 State of the Union Address The 2000", "title": "2000 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18155990", "text": "1790 State of the Union Address This State of the Union Address was given on Friday, January 8, 1790, during the term of George Washington. It was the first annual address given by a president. It was given in New York City. The first President felt, “great satisfaction from a cooperation with you in the pleasing though arduous task of insuring to our fellow citizens the blessings which they have a right to expect from a free, efficient, and equal government.” [1] This State of the Union Address was given on Friday, January 8, 1790, by President George Washington. It", "title": "1790 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "12909533", "text": "the program's newest host. State of the Union (TV program) State of the Union, branded as State of the Union with Jake Tapper, is an American Sunday talk show and political discussion television program hosted by Jake Tapper on CNN and broadcast around the world by CNN International. It has been broadcast since its debut in January 2009. The program is broadcast from 9:00am to 10:00am ET, with a replay at noon to 1:00pm ET from CNN's studios in Washington D.C. The program premiered on January 18, 2009, originally with John King as host, and aired from 9:00am to 1:00pm", "title": "State of the Union (TV program)" }, { "docid": "12909530", "text": "State of the Union (TV program) State of the Union, branded as State of the Union with Jake Tapper, is an American Sunday talk show and political discussion television program hosted by Jake Tapper on CNN and broadcast around the world by CNN International. It has been broadcast since its debut in January 2009. The program is broadcast from 9:00am to 10:00am ET, with a replay at noon to 1:00pm ET from CNN's studios in Washington D.C. The program premiered on January 18, 2009, originally with John King as host, and aired from 9:00am to 1:00pm ET (though only the", "title": "State of the Union (TV program)" }, { "docid": "13757532", "text": "2010 State of the Union Address The 2010 State of the Union Address was given by United States President Barack Obama on January 27, 2010, to a joint session of Congress. It was aired on all the major networks starting at 9 pm ET. It was Obama's first State of the Union Address, though the president did give a non-State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress a month after taking office in 2009. The speech was delivered in the United States House of Representatives in the United States Capitol. The presiding officers of the Senate and", "title": "2010 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14995976", "text": "State Council of the Soviet Union Following the August 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, the State Council of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (), but also known as the State Soviet, was formed on 5 September 1991 and was designed to be one of the most important government offices in Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union. The members of the council consisted of the President of the Soviet Union, and highest officials (which typically was presidents of their republics) from the Soviet Union Republics. During the period of transition it was the highest organ of state power, having the power", "title": "State Council of the Soviet Union" }, { "docid": "14257125", "text": "Response to the State of the Union address The response to the State of the Union address is a rebuttal speech, often brief, delivered by a representative (or representatives) of the opposition party following a presidential State of the Union address. When the president is a Democrat, the rebuttal is given by a Republican, and vice versa. The practice began in 1966 when Republican U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois) and U.S. Representative Gerald Ford (Michigan) appeared on TV to offer a response to the address by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson. The opposition party's response has varied in format, ranging from", "title": "Response to the State of the Union address" }, { "docid": "16543626", "text": "of Agriculture, served as the designated survivor. 1987 State of the Union Address The 1987 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 100th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 27, 1987. The speech was the third State of the Union address of President Reagan's second term, starting out with congratulations to the historic 100th Congress. Progressing to the Afghanistan situation, he says: \"The Soviet Union says it wants a peaceful settlement in Afghanistan, yet it continues a brutal war and props up a regime whose days are clearly numbered. We", "title": "1987 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14164951", "text": "1975 State of the Union Address The 1975 State of the Union address was given by President Gerald Ford to a joint session of the 94th United States Congress on January 15, 1975. The speech was the first State of the Union address of President Ford's tenure as president. The president discussed the national debt, taxes, the federal budget and the energy crisis. The speech lasted 41:00 and consisted of 4,126 words. The address was broadcast live on radio and television. The Democratic Party response was delivered by Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and the Speaker of the House Carl", "title": "1975 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14164952", "text": "Albert of Oklahoma. 1975 State of the Union Address The 1975 State of the Union address was given by President Gerald Ford to a joint session of the 94th United States Congress on January 15, 1975. The speech was the first State of the Union address of President Ford's tenure as president. The president discussed the national debt, taxes, the federal budget and the energy crisis. The speech lasted 41:00 and consisted of 4,126 words. The address was broadcast live on radio and television. The Democratic Party response was delivered by Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and the Speaker of", "title": "1975 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14169027", "text": "and consisted of 7,303 words. The Republican Party response was delivered by Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi. William Daley, the Secretary of Commerce, served as the designated survivor. 1998 State of the Union Address The 1998 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 105th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 27, 1998. The speech was the second State of the Union address of President Clinton's second term. President Clinton discussed the federal budget, taxes and focused on the budget deficit, then at $10 billion. The president also discussed education, foreign", "title": "1998 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "7050646", "text": "the response to the 2008 State of the Union address. Webb's election over incumbent Senator George Allen in the 2006 Virginia Senate election tipped control of the United States Senate to the Democratic Party for the first time in four years and, with the election of a Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives, resulted in the first Democratic-controlled Congress in twelve years. Democratic response to 2006 State of the Union address The response to the 2006 State of the Union Address was delivered by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine on January 31, 2006, after United States President George W.", "title": "Democratic response to 2006 State of the Union address" }, { "docid": "18175793", "text": "of our thought and the fruits of our character,-this is what will hold our attention and our enthusiasm steadily, now and in the years to come, as we strive to show in our life as a nation what liberty and the inspirations of an emancipated spirit may do for men and for societies, for individuals, for states, and for mankind.\" 1914 State of the Union Address The 1914 State of the Union Address was given by the 28th United States President, Woodrow Wilson, on Tuesday, December 8, 1914, to both houses of 63rd United States Congress. He concluded it with,", "title": "1914 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14995981", "text": "from his post as IEC Chairman. and the Soviet Union was formally dissolved by the Council of Republics. State Council of the Soviet Union Following the August 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, the State Council of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (), but also known as the State Soviet, was formed on 5 September 1991 and was designed to be one of the most important government offices in Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union. The members of the council consisted of the President of the Soviet Union, and highest officials (which typically was presidents of their republics) from the Soviet", "title": "State Council of the Soviet Union" }, { "docid": "14257126", "text": "a prerecorded 45-minute TV program in 1970 to a call-in show in 1972 where a panel of congressmen answered unrehearsed questions from callers. Since the late 1980s, it usually has been a televised speech given soon after the State of the Union address. Three people have given both a response and a State of the Union address: Democrat Bill Clinton and Republicans Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. First organized, televised response to a presidential State of the Union message<br>Denotes prerecorded program<br>Randomly selected Democratic voters participated in this televised discussion In addition to responses to official State of the", "title": "Response to the State of the Union address" }, { "docid": "14169050", "text": "deeds are a contradiction. President Clinton claims to embrace the future while clinging to the policies of the past.\" Donna Shalala, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, served as the designated survivor. 1996 State of the Union Address The 1996 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 104th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 23, 1996. The speech was the last State of the Union address of President Clinton's first term. This speech occurred shortly after the federal government shutdown of 1995 and 1996 which had resulted from disagreements", "title": "1996 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "3524458", "text": "to be stalled, as President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus stated: \"The Russian leadership is demanding that we join the Russian Federation—that's what is in the heads of the Russian leadership. I don't want to bury the sovereignty and independence of [Belarus].\" He added: \"From all the consultations and discussions, I have understood that we have different approaches and understandings of the building of a union state\", and opposed \"the possibility of the incorporation into Russia [of Belarus]\". However, on 19 October 2007, Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov announced that the budget of the Union State \"will grow by no less", "title": "Union State" }, { "docid": "14175317", "text": "radio and television. The Democratic Party response was delivered by Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Speaker of the House Jim Wright of Texas. 1988 State of the Union Address The 1988 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 100th United States Congress on Monday, January 25, 1988. The speech was the last State of the Union address of President Reagan's second term. Donald Hodel, the Secretary of the Interior, served as the designated survivor. President Reagan began by announcing that his speech would not be a litany of", "title": "1988 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14175315", "text": "1988 State of the Union Address The 1988 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 100th United States Congress on Monday, January 25, 1988. The speech was the last State of the Union address of President Reagan's second term. Donald Hodel, the Secretary of the Interior, served as the designated survivor. President Reagan began by announcing that his speech would not be a litany of achievements over the past seven years of his administration, but that he would continue to propose policy initiatives. He outlined the following objectives: Reagan discussed", "title": "1988 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "16541428", "text": "Pell (RI), Senator Walter Huddleston (KY), Rep. Dante B. Fascell (FL), Rep. Tom Harkin (IA), Rep. William Gray (PA), House Speaker Thomas O’Neill (MA), and Rep. Barbara Boxer (CA). Samuel Pierce, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, served as the designated survivor. 1984 State of the Union Address The 1984 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 98th United States Congress on January 25, 1984. The speech was the third State of the Union address of President Reagan's first term. The speech lasted 43 minutes and 2 seconds and", "title": "1984 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "20806328", "text": "State of the Union (2019 TV series) State of the Union is an upcoming American comedy television series set to premiere on SundanceTV. \"State of the Union\" follows \"Louise and Tom who meet in a pub immediately before their weekly marital therapy session. Each episode pieces together how their lives were, what drew them together and what has started to pull them apart.\" On July 13, 2018, it was announced that SundanceTV had given the production a series order consisting of ten episodes running around ten minutes each. The series is expected to be written by Nick Hornby and directed", "title": "State of the Union (2019 TV series)" }, { "docid": "18202850", "text": "and good land, and we are a great and good land because we are a strong, free, creative people and because America is the single greatest force for peace anywhere in the world. Today, as always in our history, we can base our confidence in what the American people will achieve in the future on the record of what the American people have achieved in the past.\" It was given in the same year America withdrew all assistance from South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. 1974 State of the Union Address The 1974 State of the Union Address was given", "title": "1974 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "476436", "text": "generally accepted name since 1947. Prior to 1934, the annual message was delivered at the end of the calendar year, in December. The ratification of the 20th Amendment on January 23, 1933, changed the opening of Congress from early March to early January, affecting the delivery of the annual message. Since 1934, the message or address has been delivered to Congress in January or February. The Twentieth Amendment also established January 20 as the beginning of the presidential term. In years when a new president is inaugurated, the outgoing president may deliver a final State of the Union message, but", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "18376760", "text": "2015 State of the Union Address The 2015 State of the Union Address was given by the 44th United States President, Barack Obama, on Tuesday, January 20, 2015, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. Following recent tradition, Speaker of the House John Boehner sent a letter on December 19, 2014, formally inviting President Obama to speak (despite a proposal from some conservatives that House Republicans withhold the invitation in retaliation for Obama's executive actions on immigration reform). It was addressed to the 114th United States Congress. The State of the Union Address was broadcast on various", "title": "2015 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "16543624", "text": "1987 State of the Union Address The 1987 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 100th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 27, 1987. The speech was the third State of the Union address of President Reagan's second term, starting out with congratulations to the historic 100th Congress. Progressing to the Afghanistan situation, he says: \"The Soviet Union says it wants a peaceful settlement in Afghanistan, yet it continues a brutal war and props up a regime whose days are clearly numbered. We are ready to support a political solution", "title": "1987 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "13094030", "text": "1997 State of the Union Address The 1997 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 105th United States Congress on Tuesday, February 4, 1997. The speech was the first State of the Union address of President Clinton's second term. President Clinton discussed numerous topics in the address, including the environment, the International Space Station, welfare, crime and relations with NATO and China. The president also focused on a \"detailed plan to balance the budget by 2002\". The Republican Party response was delivered by Oklahoma congressman J. C. Watts in front", "title": "1997 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18182914", "text": "By the end of 1918, America had won the peace, and World War I was over. He said, \"And throughout it all how fine the spirit of the nation was: what unity of purpose, what untiring zeal!\" He ended with, \"I shall make my absence as brief as possible and shall hope to return with the happy assurance that it has been possible to translate into action the great ideals for which America has striven.\" 1918 State of the Union Address The 1918 State of the Union Address was given by the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson,", "title": "1918 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "16552154", "text": "1982 State of the Union Address The 1982 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 97th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 26, 1982. The speech was the first State of the Union address of President Reagan's first term. The speech lasted 40 minutes and 14 seconds and contained 5154 words. The address was broadcast live on radio and television. The speech was the first to acknowledge a special guest, Lenny Skutnik. Taking the place of Supreme Court Justice Byron White was retired Justice Potter Stewart. The Democratic Party response", "title": "1982 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14164807", "text": "1992 State of the Union Address The 1992 State of the Union address was a speech given by President George H. W. Bush to a joint session of the 102nd United States Congress on Tuesday, January 28, 1992. This was the last State of the Union address by President Bush, who lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in the 1992 election. The president discussed the collapse of the Soviet Union, Operation Desert Storm, military spending cuts, nuclear disarmament, economic recovery (high unemployment remained from the early 1990s recession), several types of tax cuts and credits, and controlling government spending.", "title": "1992 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14164805", "text": "1992 State of the Union Address The 1992 State of the Union address was a speech given by President George H. W. Bush to a joint session of the 102nd United States Congress on Tuesday, January 28, 1992. This was the last State of the Union address by President Bush, who lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in the 1992 election. The president discussed the collapse of the Soviet Union, Operation Desert Storm, military spending cuts, nuclear disarmament, economic recovery (high unemployment remained from the early 1990s recession), several types of tax cuts and credits, and controlling government spending.", "title": "1992 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "20520668", "text": "45.6 million viewers. There were also 21 million interactions regarding the Address on social media. of the United States Constitution states that the president \"shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.\" On November 30, 2017, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan sent an invitation to the President to deliver a \"State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on January 30, 2018, in the House Chamber.\" The speech was Trump's first State of the", "title": "2018 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "16553243", "text": "Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill III (MA), Rep. George Miller (CA), Rep. Les AuCoin (OR), Rep. Paul Simon (IL), Rep. Timothy Wirth (CO), and Rep. Bill Hefner (NC). 1983 State of the Union Address The 1983 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 98th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 25, 1983. The speech was the second State of the Union address of President Reagan's first term. The speech lasted approximately 46 minutes and contained 5554 words. The address was broadcast live on radio and television. The Democratic Party response was", "title": "1983 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "16553242", "text": "1983 State of the Union Address The 1983 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 98th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 25, 1983. The speech was the second State of the Union address of President Reagan's first term. The speech lasted approximately 46 minutes and contained 5554 words. The address was broadcast live on radio and television. The Democratic Party response was delivered by Senator Robert Byrd (WV), Senator Paul Tsongas (MA), Senator Bill Bradley (NJ), Senator Joe Biden (DE), Rep. Tom Daschle (SD), Rep. Barbara Kennelly (CT), House", "title": "1983 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "16541427", "text": "1984 State of the Union Address The 1984 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 98th United States Congress on January 25, 1984. The speech was the third State of the Union address of President Reagan's first term. The speech lasted 43 minutes and 2 seconds and contained 4931 words. The address was broadcast live on radio and television. The Democratic Party response was delivered by Senator Joe Biden (DE), Sen. David Boren (OK), Senator Carl M. Levin (MI), Senator Max S. Baucus (MT), Senator Robert Byrd (WV), Senator Claiborne", "title": "1984 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "20520684", "text": "of Kayla Cuevas, who was murdered on Long Island in 2016 by MS-13 gang members, said the White House invited her to attend the State of the Union Address. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders named several people on January 29 who would attend the address. Among those who were named was a police officer who adopted a baby born to a homeless woman addicted to heroin. Ji Seong-ho, a North Korean defector was invited to the address. On January 17, U.S. Representative Sean Duffy invited U.S. Army veteran Ricky Taylor, better known by his Twitter username as \"Deplorable", "title": "2018 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14169048", "text": "1996 State of the Union Address The 1996 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 104th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 23, 1996. The speech was the last State of the Union address of President Clinton's first term. This speech occurred shortly after the federal government shutdown of 1995 and 1996 which had resulted from disagreements on the 1996 United States federal budget. President Clinton discussed the economy and declared that \"the era of big government is over,\" and continued, \"but we cannot go back to the time when", "title": "1996 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "9847671", "text": "2002 State of the Union Address George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States of America, delivered the 2002 State of the Union Address at the United States Capitol building on January 29, 2002. In front of members of the 107th United States Congress, along with special civilian and military guests, Bush addressed the U.S. as he delivered his first State of the Union address. The speech covered the effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year and Bush's plans to prevent future terrorist attacks upon the United States. Bush gave a progress report on the", "title": "2002 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14169026", "text": "1998 State of the Union Address The 1998 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 105th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 27, 1998. The speech was the second State of the Union address of President Clinton's second term. President Clinton discussed the federal budget, taxes and focused on the budget deficit, then at $10 billion. The president also discussed education, foreign relations, science funding, development, space travel and the Internet. In the speech, the president acknowledged the deaths of Representatives Walter Capps and Sonny Bono. The speech lasted 1:16:43", "title": "1998 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "9472534", "text": "policies on the economy, education, and foreign policy, which he referred to as \"foreign military adventurism.\" \"The Wall Street Journal\" reported in an article the following Thursday that conservatives were upset and felt abandoned by Bush's shifts on immigration and health care, and quoted a high-ranking official with the American Conservative Union saying that \"the president left a lot of conservatives shaking their heads\". 2007 State of the Union Address The 2007 State of the Union address was a speech given by United States President George W. Bush on Tuesday, January 23, 2007, at 9:13 P.M. EST. The speech was", "title": "2007 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18203330", "text": "1945 State of the Union Address The 1945 State of the Union Address was given to the 79th United States Congress on Saturday, January 6, 1945, by the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was given in the year he died. It was given during the final year of World War II. He stated, \"In considering the State of the Union, the war and the peace that is to follow are naturally uppermost in the minds of all of us. This war must be waged--it is being waged--with the greatest and most persistent intensity. Everything we", "title": "1945 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "16520113", "text": "1986 State of the Union Address The 1986 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 99th United States Congress in the House Chamber of the Capitol at 8:04 p.m. on Tuesday, February 4, 1986. The speech was the second State of the Union address of President Reagan's second term. Economic growth, increased job opportunities, and falling inflation rates were among some of the key issues discussed in this address. Reagan advocated for both an increase in national defense and a reevaluation of the federal budget, arguing the importance of national", "title": "1986 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18203314", "text": "It is the purpose of the Government of the United States to proceed as rapidly as is practicable toward the restoration of the sovereignty of Korea and the establishment of a democratic government by the free choice of the people of Korea.\" The Cold War was just beginning. 1946 State of the Union Address The 1946 State of the Union Address was given by the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, on Monday, January 21, 1946, to the 79th United States Congress. He stated, \"At Moscow the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Great", "title": "1946 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "11430332", "text": "2008 State of the Union Address The 2008 State of the Union address was a speech given by United States President George W. Bush on Monday, January 28, 2008, at 9:00 p.m. EST to a joint session of Congress. It was the last State of the Union Address of Bush's presidency. The speech was delivered in the United States House of Representatives in the United States Capitol. Sitting behind the president were the presiding officers of the United States Senate, Vice President Dick Cheney, and the United States House of Representatives, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The White House indicated beforehand", "title": "2008 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "16552155", "text": "was delivered by Senator Donald Riegle (MI), Senator James Sasser (TN), Rep. Albert Gore Jr. (TN), Senator Robert Byrd (W.Va), Senator Edward Kennedy (MA), House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill III (MA), Senator Gary Hart (CO), Senator Paul Sarbanes (MD), Senator J. Bennett Johnston (LA), and Senator Alan Cranston (CA). 1982 State of the Union Address The 1982 State of the Union address was given by President Ronald Reagan to a joint session of the 97th United States Congress on Tuesday, January 26, 1982. The speech was the first State of the Union address of President Reagan's first term. The speech", "title": "1982 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "14164726", "text": "1994 State of the Union Address The 1994 State of the Union address was given by President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 103rd United States Congress on Tuesday, January 25, 1994. The speech was Clinton's first official State of the Union address, although he had similarly addressed a joint session of Congress a year prior shortly after taking office. The president discussed the federal budget deficit, taxes, defense spending, crime, foreign affairs, education, the economy, free trade, the role of government, campaign finance reform, welfare reform, and promoting the Clinton health care plan. President Clinton threatened to", "title": "1994 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "10124919", "text": "to join as if it were a new country applying from scratch. However, other studies claim internal enlargement is legally viable if, in case of a member state dissolution or secession, the resulting states are \"all\" considered successor states. There is also a European Citizens' Initiative that aims at guaranteeing the continuity of rights and obligations of the European citizens belonging to a new state arising from the democratic secession of a European Union member state. There is no provision to expel a member state, but provides for the suspension of certain rights. Introduced in the Treaty of Amsterdam, Article", "title": "Member state of the European Union" }, { "docid": "20520692", "text": "the most famous names in American politics. Joe Kennedy III is the second member of his family to give the Democratic response after his great uncle Ted Kennedy gave one to the 1982 State of the Union Address. It was announced on January 29 that Kennedy would be giving the Democratic response from Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School in Fall River, Massachusetts. Nicholas Sarwark, the chairman of the Libertarian National Committee, gave the Libertarian Party response to the State of the Union Address. Additionally, Libertarian 2020 presidential candidate Adam Kokesh gave a response to the State of the Union", "title": "2018 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "20520681", "text": "on January 28 that he would be boycotting, saying, \"I cannot give this man, who does not respect me, the respect to be in that audience.\" The spokesperson for Representative Albio Sires said, \"The congressman is not attending the State of the Union because many of his constituents are offended by the president's rhetoric and behavior.\" On January 29, Representatives Bobby Rush and Danny Davis announced they were boycotting the address. Actor Mark Ruffalo, other stars, and members of \"the resistance movement\" hosted a \"People's State of the Union\" on January 29, saying, \"In essence, it's a better reflection of", "title": "2018 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "476454", "text": "Mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County in Nashville, Tennessee gives a speech similar called the State of Metro Address. Some university presidents give a State of the University address at the beginning of every academic term. Private companies usually have a \"State of the Corporation\" or \"State of the Company\" address given by the respective CEO. The State of the Union model has also been adopted by the European Union, and in France since the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. Television ratings for recent State of the Union Addresses were: State of the Union The State of", "title": "State of the Union" }, { "docid": "18203122", "text": "he brought the civil war substantially to a close; that his loss was deplored in all parts of the Union, and that foreign nations have rendered justice to his memory.\" The American Civil War had ended, and now it was time for the Reconstruction era to begin. 1865 State of the Union Address The 1865 State of the Union Address was written by the 17th President of the United States, Andrew Johnson. It was presented to the United States Congress on Monday, December 4, 1865. He stated, \"Our thoughts next revert to the death of the late President by an", "title": "1865 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "2007476", "text": "State Anthem of the Soviet Union The \"State Anthem of the Soviet Union\" (), also unofficially known as \"Slav'sya, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoye\" () was the official national anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the state anthem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1944 to 1991, replacing \"The Internationale\". The lyrics were written by Sergey Mikhalkov (1913–2009) in collaboration with Gabriel El-Registan (1899–1945) and the music was composed by Alexander Alexandrov (1883–1946). Although the USSR was dissolved in 1991, the melody of its national anthem continues to be used in the national anthem of the", "title": "State Anthem of the Soviet Union" }, { "docid": "2547783", "text": "2003 State of the Union Address The 2003 State of the Union Address was a speech delivered by U.S. President George W. Bush, the 43rd United States President, on Tuesday, January 28, 2003. It outlined justifications for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It began his discussion of the \"war on terror\" by asserting, as he had before September 11, 2001, that \"the gravest danger facing America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.\" Saddam Hussein was the worst, and \"a brutal dictator, with a history of reckless aggression, with ties to terrorism,", "title": "2003 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "17360140", "text": "State Emblem of the Soviet Union The State Emblem of the Soviet Union () was adopted in 1923 and was used until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Although it technically is an emblem rather than a coat of arms, since it does not follow traditional heraldic rules, in Russian it is called (), the word used for a traditional coat of arms. It was the first state insignia created in the style known as socialist heraldry, a style also seen in emblems of other socialist countries such as the emblem of the People's Republic of China. In", "title": "State Emblem of the Soviet Union" }, { "docid": "9472522", "text": "2007 State of the Union Address The 2007 State of the Union address was a speech given by United States President George W. Bush on Tuesday, January 23, 2007, at 9:13 P.M. EST. The speech was given in front of a joint session of Congress, presided over by Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Dick Cheney in his capacity as President of the Senate. It was the first address to a Democratic-controlled Congress since 1994. Furthermore, the speech marked the second time that a Democrat sat behind President Bush during a joint session of Congress", "title": "2007 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "9847687", "text": "Marine Michael Spann, was present and her story mentioned in the president's speech. Flight attendants Hermis Moutardier and Christina Jones were present and commended by the president. There were twenty other citizens invited to the speech on the First Lady's guest list. 2002 State of the Union Address George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States of America, delivered the 2002 State of the Union Address at the United States Capitol building on January 29, 2002. In front of members of the 107th United States Congress, along with special civilian and military guests, Bush addressed the U.S. as", "title": "2002 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "9580383", "text": "harbors across the country to increase civil liberties, something which President Bush opposed. The tax cuts that the President had made were heavily opposed by Democrats, as well. They also said that the President did not hold up his end of the deal in the No Child Left Behind Act. 2004 State of the Union Address The 2004 State of the Union Address was a speech given by President of the United States George W. Bush on Tuesday, January 20, 2004, to a joint session of the United States Congress. This address was the last of President Bush's first term.", "title": "2004 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18154295", "text": "have no choice except to build up our defenses.\" 1952 State of the Union Address The 1952 State of the Union Address was given by Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, on Wednesday, January 9, 1952. It was given to both houses of the 82nd United States Congress at the same time. In it, he said these words: \"If the Soviet leaders were to accept this proposal, it would lighten the burden of armaments, and permit the resources of the earth to be devoted to the good of mankind. But until the Soviet Union accepts a", "title": "1952 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18154294", "text": "1952 State of the Union Address The 1952 State of the Union Address was given by Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, on Wednesday, January 9, 1952. It was given to both houses of the 82nd United States Congress at the same time. In it, he said these words: \"If the Soviet leaders were to accept this proposal, it would lighten the burden of armaments, and permit the resources of the earth to be devoted to the good of mankind. But until the Soviet Union accepts a sound disarmament proposal, and joins in peaceful settlements, we", "title": "1952 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18171991", "text": "day achieve the unity in freedom to which all men have aspired from the dawn of time. 1960 State of the Union Address The 1960 State of the Union Address was given on Thursday, January 7, 1960, by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, to a joint session of the 86th United States Congress. He said, \"We must strive to break the calamitous cycle of frustrations and crises which, if unchecked, could spiral into nuclear disaster; the ultimate insanity.\" It was the height of the Cold War, and both the Soviet Union and the United States", "title": "1960 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18171990", "text": "1960 State of the Union Address The 1960 State of the Union Address was given on Thursday, January 7, 1960, by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, to a joint session of the 86th United States Congress. He said, \"We must strive to break the calamitous cycle of frustrations and crises which, if unchecked, could spiral into nuclear disaster; the ultimate insanity.\" It was the height of the Cold War, and both the Soviet Union and the United States had a responsibility to the world. So dedicated, and with faith in the Almighty, humanity shall one", "title": "1960 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "11517787", "text": "2000 State of the Union Address The 2000 State of the Union address was given by U.S. President Bill Clinton to a joint session of the 106th United States Congress on January 27, 2000. Clinton began the speech by saying, \"We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history. Never before has our nation enjoyed, at once, so much prosperity and social progress with so little internal crisis or so few external threats. Never before have we had such a blessed opportunity and, therefore, such a profound obligation to build the more perfect union of our founders' dreams.\"", "title": "2000 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18202849", "text": "1974 State of the Union Address The 1974 State of the Union Address was given to the 93rd United States Congress, on Wednesday, January 30, 1974, by Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States. He said, \"We meet here tonight at a time of great challenge and great opportunities for America. We meet at a time when we face great problems at home and abroad that will test the strength of our fiber as a nation. But we also meet at a time when that fiber has been tested, and it has proved strong. \"America is a great", "title": "1974 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18203313", "text": "1946 State of the Union Address The 1946 State of the Union Address was given by the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, on Monday, January 21, 1946, to the 79th United States Congress. He stated, \"At Moscow the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Great Britain agreed to further this development by supporting the efforts of the national government and nongovernmental Chinese political elements in bringing about cessation of civil strife and in broadening the basis of representation in the Government. That is the policy which General Marshall is so ably executing today.", "title": "1946 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18182619", "text": "ended with, \"Limited to a general superintending power to maintain peace at home and abroad, and to prescribe laws on a few subjects of general interest not calculated to restrict human liberty, but to enforce human rights, this Government will find its strength and its glory in the faithful discharge of these plain and simple duties.\" 1832 State of the Union Address The 1832 State of the Union Address was written by Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States. It was delivered to the 22nd United States Congress by a clerk on Tuesday, December 4, 1832. He said,", "title": "1832 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18203121", "text": "1865 State of the Union Address The 1865 State of the Union Address was written by the 17th President of the United States, Andrew Johnson. It was presented to the United States Congress on Monday, December 4, 1865. He stated, \"Our thoughts next revert to the death of the late President by an act of parricidal treason. The grief of the nation is still fresh. It finds some solace in the consideration that he lived to enjoy the highest proof of its confidence by entering on the renewed term of the Chief Magistracy to which he had been elected; that", "title": "1865 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "17732473", "text": "divisions. 2014 State of the Union Address The 2014 State of the Union Address was given by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 28, 2014, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. It was addressed to the 113th United States Congress, and the Senate was present. According to tradition, House Speaker John Boehner invited the president on December 13 to address a joint session of Congress. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed the president's attendance later that day. Obama promised to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 for federal contractors and to work with states, local", "title": "2014 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "17732470", "text": "2014 State of the Union Address The 2014 State of the Union Address was given by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 28, 2014, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. It was addressed to the 113th United States Congress, and the Senate was present. According to tradition, House Speaker John Boehner invited the president on December 13 to address a joint session of Congress. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed the president's attendance later that day. Obama promised to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 for federal contractors and to work with states, local governments,", "title": "2014 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "9847674", "text": "1790, State of the Union addresses have been given once a year. They were given originally as written reports, but are now given as verbal orations before a formal audience, with the U.S. president addressing joint sessions of the U.S. Congress at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., with the U.S. Vice President and U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives sitting on a podium behind the president. As the U.S. president, Bush gave the 2002 State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002. He addressed a joint session of the 107th U.S. Congress and special guests, as", "title": "2002 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18180731", "text": "Indian Removal Act, \"With a full understanding of the subject, the Choctaw and the Chickasaw tribes have with great unanimity determined to avail themselves of the liberal offers presented by the act of Congress, and have agreed to remove beyond the Mississippi River.\" 1830 State of the Union Address The 1830 State of the Union Address was given by the seventh United States president, Andrew Jackson on Tuesday, December 6, 1830, to both houses of the United States Congress. He said, \"What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our", "title": "1830 State of the Union Address" }, { "docid": "18170873", "text": "1920 State of the Union Address The 1920 State of the Union Address was written by the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, on Tuesday, December 7, 1920. It was his last address to both houses of the 66th United States Congress. Warren Harding would become president on Friday, March 4, 1921. He said, \"By this faith, and by this faith alone, can the world be lifted out of its present confusion and despair. It was this faith which prevailed over the wicked force of Germany. You will remember that the beginning of the end of the war", "title": "1920 State of the Union Address" } ]
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Sparking a 1970s TV show, which military branch conducted the Project Blue Book UFO study?
[ "Airforce", "Air force", "Air-force", "Air Force", "Air combat units", "Air Forces", "Air forces" ]
[ { "docid": "2798008", "text": "Project Blue Book Project Blue Book was one of a series of systematic studies of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) conducted by the United States Air Force. It started in 1952, and it was the third study of its kind (the first two were projects Sign (1947) and Grudge (1949)). A termination order was given for the study in December 1969, and all activity under its auspices ceased in January 1970. Project Blue Book had two goals: Thousands of UFO reports were collected, analyzed and filed. As the result of the \"Condon Report\" (1968), which concluded there was nothing anomalous about", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "20410241", "text": "Channel and A&E Studios. Project Blue Book (TV series) Project Blue Book is an upcoming American science fiction drama television series, scheduled to premiere on History January 8, 2019. The main role of Josef Allen Hynek is played by Aidan Gillen, and the series will consist of ten episodes. The series is based on the real-life Project Blue Book. The series revolves around secret U.S. Air Force investigations into supposed UFO encounters and unexplained phenomenon, undertaken by astrophysicist, and eventual ufologist, Josef Allen Hynek in the 1950s and 1960s. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was", "title": "Project Blue Book (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20410240", "text": "Project Blue Book (TV series) Project Blue Book is an upcoming American science fiction drama television series, scheduled to premiere on History January 8, 2019. The main role of Josef Allen Hynek is played by Aidan Gillen, and the series will consist of ten episodes. The series is based on the real-life Project Blue Book. The series revolves around secret U.S. Air Force investigations into supposed UFO encounters and unexplained phenomenon, undertaken by astrophysicist, and eventual ufologist, Josef Allen Hynek in the 1950s and 1960s. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was co-produced by the History", "title": "Project Blue Book (TV series)" }, { "docid": "2798033", "text": "Development Center, nor the Office of Information for the Secretary of the Air Force was interested. In 1960, there were U.S. Congressional hearings regarding UFOs. Civilian UFO research group NICAP had publicly charged Blue Book with covering up UFO evidence, and had also acquired a few allies in the U.S. Congress. Blue Book was investigated by the Congress and the CIA, with critics—most notably the civilian UFO group NICAP asserting that Blue Book was lacking as a scientific study. In response, ATIC added personnel (increasing the total personnel to three military personnel, plus civilian secretaries) and increased Blue Book's budget.", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798016", "text": "data, Battelle then conducted a massive scientific and statistical study of all Air Force UFO cases, completed in 1954 and known as \"Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14\" (see summary below). Knowing that factionalism had harmed the progress of Project Sign, Ruppelt did his best to avoid the kinds of open-ended speculation that had led to Sign's personnel being split among advocates and critics of the extraterrestrial hypothesis. As Michael Hall writes, \"Ruppelt not only took the job seriously but expected his staff to do so as well. If anyone under him either became too skeptical or too convinced", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798028", "text": "varied) to just two subordinates and himself. His temporary replacement was a noncommissioned officer. Most who succeeded him as Blue Book director exhibited either apathy or outright hostility to the subject of UFOs, or were hampered by a lack of funding and official support. UFO investigators often regard Ruppelt's brief tenure at Blue Book as the high-water mark of public Air Force investigations of UFOs, when UFO investigations were treated seriously and had support at high levels. Thereafter, Project Blue Book descended into a new \"Dark Ages\" from which many UFO investigators argue it never emerged. However, Ruppelt later came", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798029", "text": "to embrace the Blue Book perspective that there was nothing extraordinary about UFOs; he even labeled the subject a \"Space Age Myth.\" In March 1954, Captain Charles Hardin was appointed the head of Blue Book; however, the 4602nd conducted most UFO investigations, and Hardin did not object. Ruppelt wrote that Hardin \"thinks that anyone who is even interested [in UFOs] is crazy. They bore him.\" In 1955, the Air Force decided that the goal of Blue Book should not be to investigate UFO reports, but to minimize the number of unidentified UFO reports. By late 1956, the number of unidentified", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798009", "text": "UFOs, Project Blue Book was ordered shut down in December 1969 and the Air Force continues to provide the following summary of its investigations: By the time Project Blue Book ended, it had collected 12,618 UFO reports, and concluded that most of them were misidentifications of natural phenomena (clouds, stars, etc.) or conventional aircraft. According to the National Reconnaissance Office a number of the reports could be explained by flights of the formerly secret reconnaissance planes U-2 and A-12. A small percentage of UFO reports were classified as unexplained, even after stringent analysis. The UFO reports were archived and are", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798017", "text": "of one particular theory, they soon found themselves off the project.\" In his book, Ruppelt reported that he fired three personnel very early in the project because they were either \"too pro\" or \"too con\" one hypothesis or another. Ruppelt sought the advice of many scientists and experts, and issued regular press releases (along with classified monthly reports for military intelligence). Each U.S. Air Force Base had a Blue Book officer to collect UFO reports and forward them to Ruppelt. During most of Ruppelt's tenure, he and his team were authorized to interview any and all military personnel who witnessed", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798049", "text": "research from the May, 1970 issue of NICAP's \"UFO Investigator\", reports that the last day of Blue Book activity was actually January 30, 1970. According to Sparks, Air Force officials wanted to keep the Air Force's reaction to the UFO problem from overlapping into a fourth decade, and thus altered the date of Blue Book's closure in official files. Blue Book's files were sent to the Air Force Archives at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. Major David Shea was to later claim that Maxwell was chosen because it was \"accessible yet not too inviting.\" Ultimately, Project Blue Book stated", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798051", "text": "General C.H. Bolander states that even after Blue Book was dissolved, that \"reports of UFOs\" would still \"continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedure designed for this purpose.\" Furthermore, wrote Bolander, \"Reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security … are not part of the Blue Book system.\" To date, these other investigation channels, agencies or groups are unknown. Additionally, Blum reports that Freedom of Information Act requests show that the U.S. Air Force has continued to catalog and track UFO sightings, particularly a series of dozens of UFO encounters from the late 1960s to", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798059", "text": "involved with US Government UFO studies from the beginning to the end, he could offer a unique perspective on Projects Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book. After what he described as a promising beginning with a potential for scientific research, Hynek grew increasingly disenchanted with Blue Book during his tenure with the project, leveling accusations of indifference, incompetence, and of shoddy research on the part of Air Force personnel. Hynek notes that during its existence, critics dubbed Blue Book \"The Society for the Explanation of the Uninvestigated.\" Blue Book was headed by Ruppelt, then Captain Hardin, Captain Gregory, Major Friend, and", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798012", "text": "was criticized as having a debunking mandate. Ruppelt referred to the era of Project Grudge as the \"dark ages\" of early USAF UFO investigation. Grudge concluded that all UFOs were natural phenomena or other misinterpretations, although it also stated that 23 percent of the reports could not be explained. According to Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, by the end of 1951, several high-ranking, very influential USAF generals were so dissatisfied with the state of Air Force UFO investigations that they dismantled Project Grudge and replaced it with Project Blue Book in March 1952. One of these men was Gen. Charles P.", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798042", "text": "on how Blue Book could improve its scientific methods. Hynek was to later declare that Sleeper's letter was \"the first time in my 20 year association with the air force as scientific consultant that I had been officially asked for criticism and advice [regarding] … the UFO problem.\" Hynek wrote a detailed response, dated October 7, 1968, suggesting several areas where Blue Book could improve. In part, he wrote: Despite Sleeper's request for criticism, none of Hynek's commentary resulted in any substantial changes in Blue Book. Quintanilla's own perspective on the project is documented in his manuscript, \"UFOs, An Air", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798025", "text": "the Air Defense Command. The 4602nd AISS was assigned the task of investigating only the most important UFO cases with intelligence or national security implications. These cases were deliberately siphoned away from Blue Book, leaving Blue Book to deal with the more trivial reports. General Nathan Twining, who started Project Sign in 1947, was now Air Force Chief of Staff. In August 1954, he was to further codify the responsibilities of the 4602nd AISS by issuing an updated Air Force Regulation 200-2. In addition, UFOs (called \"UFOBs\") were defined as \"any airborne object which by performance, aerodynamic characteristics, or unusual", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798052", "text": "the mid-1970s that occurred at U.S. military facilities with nuclear weapons. Blum writes that some of these official documents depart drastically from the normally dry and bureaucratic wording of government paperwork, making obvious the sense of \"terror\" that these UFO incidents inspired in many U.S.A.F. personnel. In late December 1951, Ruppelt met with members of the Battelle Memorial Institute, a think tank based in Columbus, Ohio. Ruppelt wanted their experts to assist them in making the Air Force UFO study more scientific. It was the Battelle Institute that devised the standardized reporting form. Starting in late March 1952, the Institute", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798032", "text": "Book had taken since 1954. Clark writes that \"Friend's efforts to upgrade the files and catalog sightings according to various observed statistics were frustrated by a lack of funding and assistance.\" Heartened by Friend's efforts, Hynek organized the first of several meetings between Blue Book staffers and ATIC personnel in 1959. Hynek suggested that some older UFO reports should be reevaluated, with the ostensible aim of moving them from the \"unknown\" to the \"identified\" category. Hynek's plans came to naught. During Friend's tenure, ATIC contemplated passing oversight Blue Book to another Air Force agency, but neither the Air Research and", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798061", "text": "other Blue Book heads.\" He held Quintanilla in especially low regard: \"Quintanilla's method was simple: disregard any evidence that was counter to his hypothesis.\" Hynek wrote that during Air Force Major Hector Quintanilla's tenure as Blue Book's director, “the flag of the utter nonsense school was flying at its highest on the mast.” Hynek reported that Sergeant David Moody, one of Quintanilla's subordinates, “epitomized the conviction-before-trial method. Anything that he didn't understand or didn't like was immediately put into the psychological category, which meant ‘crackpot'.” Hynek reported bitter exchanges with Moody when the latter refused to research UFO sightings thoroughly,", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "5480070", "text": "from around the world. Center for UFO Studies The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) is a privately funded UFO research group. The group was founded in 1973 by J. Allen Hynek, who at the time was Chair of the Department of Astronomy at Northwestern University in Illinois. Hynek was a scientific consultant for Project Blue Book, the United States Air Force official study of the UFO phenomenon from 1948 to 1969. Although Hynek started out as a skeptic and helped the Air Force to debunk most UFO reports, he gradually became convinced that a small number of UFO cases were", "title": "Center for UFO Studies" }, { "docid": "5480066", "text": "Center for UFO Studies The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) is a privately funded UFO research group. The group was founded in 1973 by J. Allen Hynek, who at the time was Chair of the Department of Astronomy at Northwestern University in Illinois. Hynek was a scientific consultant for Project Blue Book, the United States Air Force official study of the UFO phenomenon from 1948 to 1969. Although Hynek started out as a skeptic and helped the Air Force to debunk most UFO reports, he gradually became convinced that a small number of UFO cases were not hoaxes or explainable", "title": "Center for UFO Studies" }, { "docid": "2798023", "text": "was recommending controlling public opinion through a program of official propaganda and spying. They also believe these recommendations helped shape Air Force policy regarding UFO study not only immediately afterward, but also into the present day. There is evidence that the Panel's recommendations were being carried out at least two decades after its conclusions were issued (see the main article for details and citations). In December 1953, Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Regulation number 146 made it a crime for military personnel to discuss classified UFO reports with unauthorized persons. Violators faced up to two years in prison and/or fines of up", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798064", "text": "and that the two men apparently uncovered evidence of the Lodge during the course of their work. Every episode of the original \"Battlestar Galactica\" spin-off series \"Galactica 1980\" ended with a short statement about the U.S. Air Force's 1969 Project Blue Book findings that UFOs are not proven to exist and \"are not a threat to national security\". An upcoming drama series slated to air on the History Channel late 2018, Project Blue Book is based on the true, top-secret investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects. Project Blue Book Project Blue Book was one of a series of systematic studies of", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798040", "text": "The UFO chase made national news, and the police submitted detailed reports to Blue Book. Five days later, following brief interviews with only one of the police officers (but none of the other ground witnesses), Blue Book's director, Major Hector Quintanilla, announced their conclusions: The police (one of them an Air Force gunner during the Korean War) had first chased a communications satellite, then the planet Venus. This conclusion was widely derided, and police officers strenuously rejected it. In his dissenting conclusion, Hynek described Blue Book's conclusions as absurd: in their reports, several of the police had unknowingly described the", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "9885704", "text": "the UFO cases it examined as not representing anything unusual or threatening to national security. In the panel's controversial estimate, the Air Force and Project Blue Book needed to spend less time analyzing and studying UFO reports and more time publicly debunking them. The panel recommended that the Air Force and Project Blue Book should take steps to \"strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired.\" Following the panel's recommendation, Project Blue Book would rarely publicize any UFO case that it had not labeled as \"solved\";", "title": "1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident" }, { "docid": "5480067", "text": "as misidentifications of natural phenomena, and that these cases might represent something extraordinary — even alien visitation from other planets. When the Air Force shut down Project Blue Book in 1969, Hynek, in 1973, founded the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) to continue to collect and study UFO reports. Ufologist James W. Moseley wrote that CUFOS was \"... the first real attempt to set up a private research group genuinely dedicated to scientific investigations and study of UFOs.\" Moseley observed that CUFOS \"wasn't a saucer club and, for a while, wasn't open to general membership. Participation was restricted to scientists", "title": "Center for UFO Studies" }, { "docid": "2798024", "text": "to $10,000. In his book (see external links) Ruppelt described the demoralization of the Blue Book staff and the stripping of their investigative duties following the Robertson Panel jurisdiction. As an immediate consequence of the Robertson Panel recommendations, in February 1953, the Air Force issued Regulation 200-2, ordering air base officers to publicly discuss UFO incidents only if they were judged to have been solved, and to classify all the unsolved cases to keep them out of the public eye. The same month, investigative duties started to be taken on by the newly formed 4602nd Air Intelligence Squadron (AISS) of", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798014", "text": "Ruppelt was the first head of the project. He was an experienced airman, having been decorated for his efforts with the Army Air Corps during World War II, and having afterward earned an aeronautics degree. He officially coined the term \"Unidentified Flying Object\", to replace the many terms (\"flying saucer\" \"flying disk\" and so on) the military had previously used; Ruppelt thought that \"unidentified flying object\" was a more neutral and accurate term. Ruppelt resigned from the Air Force some years later, and wrote the book \"The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\", which described the study of UFOs by United", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798041", "text": "moon, Venus \"and\" the UFO, though they unknowingly described Venus as a bright \"star\" very near the moon. Ohio Congressman William Stanton said that \"The Air Force has suffered a great loss of prestige in this community … Once people entrusted with the public welfare no longer think the people can handle the truth, then the people, in return, will no longer trust the government.\" In September 1968, Hynek received a letter from Colonel Raymond Sleeper of the Foreign Technology Division. Sleeper noted that Hynek had publicly accused Blue Book of shoddy science, and further asked Hynek to offer advice", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798010", "text": "available under the Freedom of Information Act, but names and other personal information of all witnesses have been redacted. Public USAF UFO studies were first initiated under Project Sign at the end of 1947, following many widely publicized UFO reports (see Kenneth Arnold). Project Sign was initiated specifically at the request of General Nathan Twining, chief of the Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Wright-Patterson was also to be the home of Project Sign and all subsequent official USAF public investigations. Sign was officially inconclusive regarding the cause of the sightings. However, according to US Air Force", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798015", "text": "States Air Force from 1947 to 1955. American scientist Michael D. Swords wrote that \"Ruppelt would lead the last genuine effort to analyze UFOs\". Ruppelt implemented a number of changes: He streamlined the manner in which UFOs were reported to (and by) military officials, partly in hopes of alleviating the stigma and ridicule associated with UFO witnesses. Ruppelt also ordered the development of a standard questionnaire for UFO witnesses, hoping to uncover data which could be subject to statistical analysis. He commissioned the Battelle Memorial Institute to create the questionnaire and computerize the data. Using case reports and the computerized", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798050", "text": "that UFOs sightings were generated as a result of: In April 2003, the USAF publicly indicated that there were no immediate plans to re-establish any official government UFO study programs. However, in December 2017 it was disclosed that a new secret UFO study titled the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was funded at over 20 million dollars a year from 2007 to 2012. Below is the United States Air Force's official statement regarding UFOs, as noted in USAF Fact Sheet 95-03: An Air Force memorandum (released via the Freedom of Information Act) dated October 20, 1969 and signed by Brigadier", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2885680", "text": "Mantell UFO incident On January 7, 1948, 25-year-old Captain Thomas F. Mantell, a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, died in the crash of his F-51 Mustang fighter, after being sent in pursuit of an unidentified flying object (UFO). The event was among the most publicized early UFO incidents. Later investigation by the United States Air Force's Project Blue Book indicated that Mantell may have died chasing a Skyhook balloon, which in 1948 was a top-secret project that Mantell would not have known about. Mantell pursued the object in a steep climb, and disregarded suggestions to level his altitude. At high", "title": "Mantell UFO incident" }, { "docid": "2885700", "text": "public interest in UFOs and speculation that UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin. Mantell UFO incident On January 7, 1948, 25-year-old Captain Thomas F. Mantell, a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, died in the crash of his F-51 Mustang fighter, after being sent in pursuit of an unidentified flying object (UFO). The event was among the most publicized early UFO incidents. Later investigation by the United States Air Force's Project Blue Book indicated that Mantell may have died chasing a Skyhook balloon, which in 1948 was a top-secret project that Mantell would not have known about. Mantell pursued the object in", "title": "Mantell UFO incident" }, { "docid": "1461565", "text": "UFOlogists reject Bluebook's conclusion because of its initial suggestion that Mantell was chasing \"Venus or a comet\". The U.S. Air Force may have planted the seeds of UFO conspiracy theories with Project Sign (established 1947) (which became Project Grudge and Project Blue Book). Edward J. Ruppelt, the first director of Blue Book, characterized the Air Force's public behavior regarding UFOs as \"schizophrenic\": alternately open and transparent, then secretive and dismissive. Ruppelt also revealed that in mid-1948, Project Sign issued a top secret Estimate of the Situation concluding that the flying saucers were not only real but probably extraterrestrial in origin.", "title": "UFO conspiracy theory" }, { "docid": "9014461", "text": "Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter The Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter occurred on July 24, 1948 in the skies near Montgomery, Alabama. Two commercial pilots, Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted, claimed that at approximately 2:45 AM on July 24 they observed a \"glowing object\" pass by their plane before it appeared to pull up into a cloud and travel out of sight. According to Air Force officer and Project Blue Book supervisor Edward J. Ruppelt, the Chiles-Whitted sighting was one of three \"classic\" UFO incidents in 1948 that convinced the personnel of Project Sign, Blue Book's predecessor, \"that UFOs were real.\" However,", "title": "Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter" }, { "docid": "18353903", "text": "on his groin. They are both tormented by mysterious nightmares that Betty begins to document. They report the incident to the US Air Force (the US Air Force actually had a project relating to UFO sightings called Blue Book). Doctor Simon places Barney under hypnosis and he begins to relive the experience. Barney describes his and Betty’s seeing a strange object in the sky that begins to follow and then to terrify them. Barney begins screaming in horror during the session as he describes his and Betty’s being abducted by the aliens from the UFO. Betty also reacts with horror", "title": "The UFO Incident" }, { "docid": "1461564", "text": "1990s, the US military published two reports disclosing the true nature of the crashed aircraft: a surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. Nevertheless, the Roswell incident continues to be of interest in popular media, and conspiracy theories surrounding the event persist. Roswell has been described as \"the world's most famous, most exhaustively investigated and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim\". In 1948, Air Force pilot Thomas Mantell was killed in a crash while pursuing what he described as \"a metallic object...of tremendous size\". Project Blue Book concluded that Mantell had lost control of his aircraft while chasing a then-classified Skyhook balloon. Some", "title": "UFO conspiracy theory" }, { "docid": "8900345", "text": "the official recognition, the object in Almiro Baraúna's pictures remains unexplained. In 2010, a document containing a testimonial by Baraúna was unveiled: Other investigators of the case have questioned the authenticity of the photos. Project Blue Book (the controversial U.S. Air Force investigation into the UFO phenomenon) concluded that the photographs were hoaxed. The credibility of Barauna himself has been questioned. He had produced hoaxed photographs in the past (not only of UFOs) and in the past had written an article showing how a well-known UFO photograph taken some years earlier could have been hoaxed. Also, Barauna had the negatives", "title": "The Trindade Island's UFO" }, { "docid": "2798045", "text": "a letter to Major Quintanilla stating that they felt their reputations were destroyed by the Air Force. \"It was impossible to mistake what we saw for any kind of military operation, regardless of altitude,\" the irritated officers wrote, adding that there was no way it could have been a balloon or helicopter. According to Secretary Harold Brown of the Air Force, Blue Book consisted of three steps: investigation, analysis, and the distribution of information gathered to interested parties. After Brown gave permission, the press were invited into the hearing. By the time of the hearing, Blue Book had identified and", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "14603200", "text": "Military branch Military branch (also service branch or armed service) is according to common standard the subdivision of the national armed forces of a sovereign nation or state. In classical NATO terminology, the three basic environmental commands military branches are the Army, Air Force, and Navy. Countries which do not have access to any of the brown water, green water, blue water or any oceans generally do not have a national navy. In some countries there might be other military branches. In addition to the above-mentioned military branches, examples are: The military branches came into being in line with military", "title": "Military branch" }, { "docid": "7708012", "text": "Clem, who saw a brilliant red object moving across the sky at 1:30 am. At 1:45 am Levelland's Fire Chief, Ray Jones, also saw an object and his vehicle's lights and engine sputtered. The reports apparently ended soon after. During the night of November 2–3, the Levelland police department received a total of 15 UFO-related reports, and Officer Fowler noted that \"everybody who called was very excited.\" The Levelland sightings received national publicity, and were soon investigated by Project Blue Book. Started in 1947 as Project Sign, Project Blue Book was the official US Air Force research group assigned to", "title": "Levelland UFO case" }, { "docid": "9885673", "text": "1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident, also known as the Washington flap, the Washington National Airport Sightings, or the Invasion of Washington, was a series of unidentified flying object reports from July 12 to July 29, 1952, over Washington, D.C. The most publicized sightings took place on consecutive weekends, July 19–20 and July 26–27. UFO historian Curtis Peebles called the incident \"the climax of the 1952 (UFO) flap\" - \"Never before or after did Project Blue Book and the Air Force undergo such a tidal wave of (UFO) reports.\" At 11:40 p.m. on Saturday, July", "title": "1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident" }, { "docid": "5480394", "text": "the secrecy behind the MJ-12 papers and the US Air Force's Project Blue Book. Fund for UFO Research The Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR) was a UFO research group based in Alexandria, Virginia. Founded in 1979, FUFOR stated its goal was to further the scholarly research of UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), and to secure the release of alleged classified U.S. government documents pertaining to these. Since 2011, the Fund for UFO Research has not had any active presence on the internet or in print. According to its own promotional material, from its founding in 1979 through 2006, FUFOR", "title": "Fund for UFO Research" }, { "docid": "14603202", "text": "of combined forces or parts of a service, below the level of service, military serviced or armed service. Military branch Military branch (also service branch or armed service) is according to common standard the subdivision of the national armed forces of a sovereign nation or state. In classical NATO terminology, the three basic environmental commands military branches are the Army, Air Force, and Navy. Countries which do not have access to any of the brown water, green water, blue water or any oceans generally do not have a national navy. In some countries there might be other military branches. In", "title": "Military branch" }, { "docid": "7259452", "text": "to be the reflections from two F-94 jet fighters that were known to be flying over Great Falls at the time of Mariana's sighting. Lt. Col. Ray W. Taylor returned the film to Mariana with a cover letter stating that \"our photoanalysts were unable to find anything identifiable of an unusual nature\". However, according to Air Force officer Edward J. Ruppelt, who would become the supervisor of the Air Force's Project Blue Book investigation into the UFO mystery in 1951, \"in 1950 there was no interest [by the Air Force] in the UFO, so after a quick viewing, Project Grudge", "title": "Mariana UFO incident" }, { "docid": "4692042", "text": "by OSI to assemble a group of prominent scientists to review the Air Force's UFO files. In preparation for this, Robertson first personally reviewed Air Force files and procedures. The Air Force had recently commissioned the Battelle Memorial Institute to scientifically study all of the UFO reports collected by Project Sign, Project Grudge and Project Blue Book. Robertson hoped to draw on their statistical results, but Battelle insisted that they needed much more time to conduct a proper study. Other panel members were respected scientists who had worked on other classified military projects or studies. All were then skeptical of", "title": "Robertson Panel" }, { "docid": "2798063", "text": "Peaks\". Major Garland Briggs, an Air Force officer who worked on the program, approaches protagonist Dale Cooper and reveals that Cooper's name turned up in an otherwise nonsensical radio transmission intercepted by the Air Force, which inexplicably originated from the woods surrounding the town of Twin Peaks. As the season progresses, it is revealed that the source of the transmission is the transdimensional realm of the Black Lodge, inhabited by beings which feed on the human emotions of pain and suffering; it eventually comes out that Briggs worked with Cooper's rival, corrupt FBI agent Windom Earle, on Project Blue Book,", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "9885705", "text": "unsolved cases were rarely mentioned by the Air Force. 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident, also known as the Washington flap, the Washington National Airport Sightings, or the Invasion of Washington, was a series of unidentified flying object reports from July 12 to July 29, 1952, over Washington, D.C. The most publicized sightings took place on consecutive weekends, July 19–20 and July 26–27. UFO historian Curtis Peebles called the incident \"the climax of the 1952 (UFO) flap\" - \"Never before or after did Project Blue Book and the Air Force undergo such a tidal wave", "title": "1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident" }, { "docid": "85763", "text": "of study.\" In 1966 Sagan was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force's UFO investigation project. The committee concluded Blue Book had been lacking as a scientific study, and recommended a university-based project to give the UFO phenomenon closer scientific scrutiny. The result was the Condon Committee (1966–68), led by physicist Edward Condon, and in their final report they formally concluded that UFOs, regardless of what any of them actually were, did not behave in a manner consistent with a threat to national security. Sociologist Ron Westrum writes that \"The high", "title": "Carl Sagan" }, { "docid": "7259456", "text": "the Montana Movie, it was an unknown\". In January 1953 the Air Force and CIA convened a committee of prominent scientists to examine the \"best\" cases collected by Project Blue Book. Called the Robertson Panel, after its chairman, physicist H.P. Robertson, it viewed Mariana's UFO film. The scientists judged that the objects in the film were \"reflections of aircraft known to have been in the area\". In 1954 Greene-Rouse productions decided to film adocumentary-movie about the UFO phenomenon. They asked Nick Mariana for the rights to use his film in the documentary, and Mariana agreed. To analyze the film, they", "title": "Mariana UFO incident" }, { "docid": "2327244", "text": "book was criticized for extensive errors by scientists from the Federation of American Scientists. Books, articles Web resources Roswell UFO incident In mid-1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Following wide initial interest in the crashed \"flying disc\", the US military stated that it was merely a conventional weather balloon. Interest subsequently waned until the late 1970s, when ufologists began promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed and that the extraterrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, which then engaged", "title": "Roswell UFO incident" }, { "docid": "5823051", "text": "Report\". Beginning in 1947 with Project Sign, which then became Project Grudge and finally Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force conducted formal studies of UFOs, a subject of considerable public and some governmental interest. Blue Book had come under increasing criticism in the 1960s. Growing numbers of critics—including U.S. politicians, newspaper writers, UFO researchers, scientists and some of the general public—were suggesting that Blue Book was conducting shoddy, unsupported research or perpetrating a cover up. The Air Force did not want to continue its studies but did not want a cessation of studies to provoke additional charges of a", "title": "Condon Committee" }, { "docid": "12642541", "text": "Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting The Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting was an unidentified flying object sighting that occurred on July 14, 1952, when two commercial pilots (William B. Nash and William H. Fortenberry) claimed to have seen eight UFOs flying in a tight echelon formation over Chesapeake Bay in the state of Virginia. UFOlogists say the pilots observation allowed for relatively precise measurements of the objects' motion and size when compared to known landmarks, and that the encounter was corroborated by several groups of independent ground witnesses. The case was listed in the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book as an \"unknown.\" Donald", "title": "Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting" }, { "docid": "86056", "text": "and that Mars was coincidentally quite close at the time, the implication apparently being that the atomic test would have been visible from Mars. In June 1952, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer acting as a scientific consultant to the Air Force's Project Blue Book UFO study, secretly conducted a survey of fellow astronomers on UFO sightings and attitudes while attending an astronomy convention. Tombaugh and four other astronomers, including Dr. Lincoln LaPaz of the University of New Mexico, told Hynek about their sightings. Tombaugh also told Hynek that his telescopes were at the Air Force's disposal for taking photos", "title": "Clyde Tombaugh" }, { "docid": "14231215", "text": "urged a formal investigation by multiple government agencies. This in turn resulted in the formation of Project Sign at the end of 1947, the first publicly acknowledged USAF UFO investigation. Project Sign eventually evolved into Project Grudge, and then the better known Project Blue Book. The personnel of the U.S. Air Force's Project Sign (1947–1949) also later studied Arnold's story. According to Major Edward J. Ruppelt, Steuart Campbell has said that the objects Arnold reported could have been mirages of several snow-capped peaks in Cascade Range. Campbell's calculation of the objects' speed determined that they were travelling at roughly the", "title": "Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting" }, { "docid": "2676085", "text": "Staff School. He was promoted to major general in 1950 and held a brief appointment as commandant of the Air War College before being appointed director of intelligence of the U.S. Air Force. It was during Samford's tenure as director of Air Force intelligence that Project Blue Book, which investigated unidentified flying objects (UFOs) was started. On July 29, 1952 General Stamford conducted a press conference at the Pentagon related to UFOs. In December 1954, General Samford went to Russia. General Samford was mentioned at the beginning of the 1956 film \"UFO\" which examined the phenomena of unidentified flying objects.", "title": "John A. Samford" }, { "docid": "1461569", "text": "in True Magazine, January 1950, and was a national sensation. His first book, \"Flying Saucers Are Real\" also came out in 1950, about the same time as Frank Scully's book, and was a bestseller. In 1956, Keyhoe helped establish NICAP, a powerful civilian UFO investigating group with many inside sources. Keyhoe became its director and continued his attacks on the Air Force. Other contemporary critics also charged that the United States Air Force was perpetrating a cover-up with its Project Blue Book. Canadian radio engineer Wilbert B. Smith, who worked for the Canadian Department of Transport, was interested in flying", "title": "UFO conspiracy theory" }, { "docid": "2886531", "text": "to the formation the U.S. Air Force's Project Sign at the end of 1947, the first official U.S. military UFO study. In 1948, Project Sign wrote their Estimate of the Situation, which concluded that the remaining unidentified sightings were best explained by the ETH. The report ultimately was rejected by the USAF Chief of Staff, General Hoyt Vandenberg, citing a lack of physical evidence, and its existence was not publicly disclosed until 1956 by later Project Blue Book director Edward J. Ruppelt. Ruppelt also indicated that Vandenberg dismantled Project Sign after they wrote their ETH conclusion. With this official policy", "title": "Extraterrestrial hypothesis" } ]
[ { "docid": "2798013", "text": "Cabell. Another important change came when General William Garland joined Cabell's staff; Garland thought the UFO question deserved serious scrutiny because he had witnessed a UFO. The new name, Project Blue Book, was selected to refer to the blue booklets used for testing at some colleges and universities. The name was inspired, said Ruppelt, by the close attention that high-ranking officers were giving the new project; it felt as if the study of UFOs was as important as a college final exam. Blue Book was also upgraded in status from Project Grudge, with the creation of the Aerial Phenomenon Branch.", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798062", "text": "describing Moody as “the master of the possible: possible balloon, possible aircraft, possible birds, which then became, by his own hand (and I argued with him violently at times) the probable.” Project Blue Book was the inspiration for the 1978–1979 TV show \"Project U.F.O.\" (which was known as \"Project Blue Book\" in some countries), which was supposedly based on Project Blue Book cases. However, the show frequently went against the actual project conclusions, suggesting on many occasions that some sightings were real extraterrestrials. Project Blue Book played a major role in the second season of the 1990–1991 TV series \"Twin", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798018", "text": "UFOs, and were not required to follow the chain of command. This unprecedented authority underlined the seriousness of Blue Book's investigation. Under Ruppelt's direction, Blue Book investigated a number of well-known UFO cases, including the so-called Lubbock Lights, and a widely publicized 1952 radar/visual case over Washington D.C.. According to Jacques Vallee, Ruppelt started the trend, largely followed by later Blue Book investigations, of not giving serious consideration to numerous reports of UFO landings and/or interaction with purported UFO occupants. Astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek was the scientific consultant of the project, as he had been with Projects Sign and", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798035", "text": "as to write that, by this time, Blue Book had \"lost all credibility.\" Physicist and UFO researcher Dr. James E. McDonald once flatly declared that Quintanilla was \"not competent\" from either a scientific or an investigative perspective, although he also stressed that Quintanilla \"shouldn't be held accountable for it,\" as he was chosen for his position by a superior officer, and was following orders in directing Blue Book. Blue Book's explanations of UFO reports were not universally accepted, however, and critics — including some scientists — suggested that Project Blue Book performed questionable research or, worse, was perpetrating cover up.", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798030", "text": "sightings had dropped from the 20-25% of the Ruppelt era, to less than 1%. Captain George T. Gregory took over as Blue Book's director in 1956. Clark writes that Gregory led Blue Book \"in an even firmer anti-UFO direction than the apathetic Hardin.\" The 4602nd was dissolved, and the 1066th Air Intelligence Service Squadron was charged with UFO investigations. In fact, there was actually little or no investigation of UFO reports; a revised AFR 200-2 issued during Gregory's tenure emphasized that unexplained UFO reports must be reduced to a minimum. One way that Gregory reduced the number of unexplained UFOs", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798019", "text": "Grudge. He worked for the project up to its termination and initially created the categorization which has been extended and is known today as Close encounters. He was a pronounced skeptic when he started, but said that his feelings changed to a more wavering skepticism during the research, after encountering a minority of UFO reports he thought were unexplainable. Ruppelt left Blue Book in February 1953 for a temporary reassignment. He returned a few months later to find his staff reduced from more than ten, to two subordinates. Frustrated, Ruppelt suggested that an Air Defense Command unit (the 4602nd Air", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798034", "text": "This seemed to mollify some of Blue Book's critics, that but it was only temporary. A few years later (see below), the criticism would be even louder. By the time he was transferred from Blue Book in 1963, Friend thought that Blue Book was effectively useless and ought to be dissolved, even if it caused an outcry amongst the public. Major Hector Quintanilla took over as Blue Book's leader in August 1963. He largely continued the debunking efforts, and it was under his direction that Blue Book received some of its sharpest criticism. UFO researcher Jerome Clark goes so far", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798021", "text": "engineers, and one astronomer (Hynek). The Robertson Panel first met on January 14, 1953 in order to formulate a response to the overwhelming public interest in UFOs. Ruppelt, Hynek, and others presented the best evidence, including movie footage, that had been collected by Blue Book. After spending 12 hours reviewing 6 years of data, the Robertson Panel concluded that most UFO reports had prosaic explanations, and that all could be explained with further investigation, which they deemed not worth the effort. In their final report, they stressed that low-grade, unverifiable UFO reports were overloading intelligence channels, with the risk of", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798026", "text": "features, does not conform to any presently known aircraft or missile type, or which cannot be positively identified as a familiar object.\" Investigation of UFOs was stated to be for the purposes of national security and to ascertain \"technical aspects.\" AFR 200-2 again stated that Blue Book could discuss UFO cases with the media only if they were regarded as having a conventional explanation. If they were unidentified, the media was to be told only that the situation was being analyzed. Blue Book was also ordered to reduce the number of unidentified to a minimum. All this work was done", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798053", "text": "started analyzing existing sighting reports and encoding about 30 report characteristics onto IBM punched cards for computer analysis. Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 was their massive statistical analysis of Blue Book cases to date, some 3200 by the time the report was completed in 1954, after Ruppelt had left Blue Book. Even today, it represents the largest such study ever undertaken. Battelle employed four scientific analysts, who sought to divide cases into \"knowns\", \"unknowns\", and a third category of \"insufficient information.\" They also broke down knowns and unknowns into four categories of quality, from excellent to poor. E.g.,", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "1461567", "text": "UFO Project has its roots in a study commissioned in 1950 by the MOD’s then Chief Scientific Adviser, the great radar scientist Sir Henry Tizard. As a result of his insistence that UFO sightings should not be dismissed without some form of proper scientific study, the Department set up the Flying Saucer Working Party (or FSWP). In August 1950, Montanan baseball manager Nicholas Mariana filmed several UFOs with his color 16mm camera. Project Blue Book was called in and, after inspecting the film, Mariana claimed it was returned to him with critical footage removed, clearly showing the objects as disc-shaped.", "title": "UFO conspiracy theory" }, { "docid": "1461598", "text": "unknown individuals, impersonating USAF officers and other military personnel, had been harassing civilian UFO witnesses, warning them not to talk, and also confiscating film, referring specifically to the Heflin incident. AFOSI was to be notified if any personnel were to become aware of any other incidents. (Document in Fawcett & Greenwood, 236.) John Callahan, former Division Chief of the Accidents and Investigations Branch of the FAA, Washington D.C., also a Disclosure Project witness, said that following the Japan Air Lines flight 1628 incident that involved a giant UFO over Alaska, recorded by air and ground radar, the FAA conducted an", "title": "UFO conspiracy theory" }, { "docid": "2798046", "text": "explained 95% of the reported UFO sightings. None of these were extraterrestrial or a threat to national security. Brown himself proclaimed, \"I know of no one of scientific standing or executive standing with a detailed knowledge of this, in our organization who believes that they came from extraterrestrial sources.\" Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a science consultant to Blue Book, suggested in an unedited statement that a \"civilian panel of physical and social scientists\" be formed \"for the express purpose of determining whether a major problem really exist\" in regards to UFOs. Hynek remarked that he has \"not seen any evidence", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2798047", "text": "to confirm\" extraterrestrials, \"nor do I know any competent scientist who has, or who believes that any kind of extraterrestrial intelligence is involved.\" Criticism of Blue Book continued to grow through the mid-1960s. NICAP's membership ballooned to about 15,000, and the group charged the U.S. Government with a cover-up of UFO evidence. Following U.S. Congressional hearings, the Condon Committee was established in 1966, ostensibly as a neutral scientific research body. However, the Committee became mired in controversy, with some members charging director Edward U. Condon with bias, and critics would question the validity and the scientific rigor of the Condon", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "436813", "text": "they regard approximately 2% as lacking explanation. The USAF's Project Blue Book files indicate that approximately 1% of all unknown reports came from amateur and professional astronomers or other users of telescopes (such as missile trackers or surveyors). In 1952, astronomer J. Allen Hynek, then a consultant to Blue Book, conducted a small survey of 45 fellow professional astronomers. Five reported UFO sightings (about 11%). In the 1970s, astrophysicist Peter A. Sturrock conducted two large surveys of the AIAA and American Astronomical Society (AAS). About 5% of the members polled indicated that they had had UFO sightings. Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh,", "title": "Unidentified flying object" }, { "docid": "2798037", "text": "John Shockley, a meteorologist from Wichita, Kansas, reported that, using the state Weather Bureau radar, he tracked a number of odd aerial objects flying at altitudes between about 6000 and 9000 feet. These and other reports received wide publicity. Project Blue Book officially determined the witnesses had mistaken Jupiter or bright stars (such as Rigel or Betelgeuse) for something else. Blue Book's explanation was widely criticized as inaccurate. Robert Riser, director of the Oklahoma Science and Art Foundation Planetarium offered a strongly worded rebuke of Project Blue Book that was widely circulated: “That is as far from the truth as", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "17309255", "text": "spokesman for Project Blue Book. The documentary analyzes two famous pieces of UFO footage: the Mariana UFO Incident of 1950, in which the manager of the Great Falls, Montana minor-league baseball team claimed to have filmed two UFOs flying over the local baseball stadium, and the 1952 UFO film taken near the Great Salt Lake in Utah by a US Navy photographer, Delbert Newhouse. The documentary concludes with the famous 1952 Washington DC UFO incident, in which Albert Chop played a central role. The documentary recreates Chop's experiences during the incident, and at the end of the documentary Chop states", "title": "UFO (1956 film)" }, { "docid": "2657509", "text": "in the Gerry Anderson \"UFO\" series have appeared in various media: UFO (TV series) UFO is a 1970 British science fiction television series about an alien invasion of Earth. It was created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade's Century 21 Productions for Grade's ITC Entertainment company. A single season of 26 episodes (including the pilot) was filmed over the course of more than a year; a five-month production break was caused by the closure of MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood, where the show was initially made. \"UFO\" was first broadcast", "title": "UFO (TV series)" }, { "docid": "3235109", "text": "the incident to Air Defense Command headquarters, who told them that no civilian or military aircraft had been anywhere near Carson Sink at the time they were passing over the area. The closest known delta wing aircraft were on the West Coast at the time. On top of this, the Navy aircraft were painted to be dark blue. Air Defense Command reported the incident to Project Blue Book, but it remained unexplained. In his subsequent book, \"The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\", Edward Ruppelt characterized it as a \"good UFO report with an unknown conclusion\". Both pilots continued to dismiss", "title": "Carson Sink UFO incident" }, { "docid": "2798011", "text": "Captain Edward J. Ruppelt (the first director of Project Blue Book), Sign's initial intelligence estimate (the so-called Estimate of the Situation) written in the late summer of 1948, concluded that the flying saucers were real craft, were not made by either the Soviet Union or United States, and were likely extraterrestrial in origin. (See also extraterrestrial hypothesis.) This estimate was forwarded to the Pentagon, but subsequently ordered destroyed by Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, USAF Chief of Staff, citing a lack of physical proof. Vandenberg subsequently dismantled Project Sign. Project Sign was succeeded at the end of 1948 by Project Grudge, which", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2657506", "text": "\"UFO\" to one of Australia's major TV production companies in 1995/6. Also in 1996, Ed Bishop briefly corresponded with independent Australian film maker/\"UFO\" fan Adrian Sherlock about an unofficial revival called \"Damon Dark: Shadofall\". Funding for the project fell through, but the script has been made into a fan-made audio production and uploaded to YouTube, and it continues as an independent series. In May 2009, it was announced that producer Robert Evans and ITV Global would be teaming up to produce a big-screen adaptation of the series. Ryan Gaudet and Joseph Kanarek were writing the script, which would be set", "title": "UFO (TV series)" }, { "docid": "2657456", "text": "UFO (TV series) UFO is a 1970 British science fiction television series about an alien invasion of Earth. It was created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade's Century 21 Productions for Grade's ITC Entertainment company. A single season of 26 episodes (including the pilot) was filmed over the course of more than a year; a five-month production break was caused by the closure of MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood, where the show was initially made. \"UFO\" was first broadcast in the UK and Canada in 1970, and in US syndication", "title": "UFO (TV series)" }, { "docid": "1461575", "text": "the censored script to \"reveal something that has never been disclosed before\", CBS cut the sound, later stating Keyhoe was about to violate \"predetermined security standards\" and about to say something he wasn't \"authorized to release\". What Keyhoe was about to reveal were four publicly unknown military studies concluding UFOs were interplanetary including the 1948 Project Sign Estimate of the Situation and a 1952 Project Blue Book engineering analysis of UFO motion presented at the Robertson Panel. [Timothy Good, 286-287; Richard Dolan 293-295] Astronaut Gordon Cooper reported suppression of a flying saucer movie filmed in high clarity by two Edwards", "title": "UFO conspiracy theory" }, { "docid": "2798039", "text": "planets and stars.\" Another case that Blue Book's critics seized upon was the so-called Portage County UFO Chase, which began at about 5.00am, near Ravenna, Ohio on April 17, 1966. Police officers Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff spotted what they described as a disc-shaped, silvery object with a bright light emanating from its underside, at about 1000 feet in altitude. They began following the object (which they reported sometimes descended as low as 50 feet), and police from several other jurisdictions were involved in the pursuit. The chase ended about 30 minutes later near Freedom, Pennsylvania, some 85 miles away.", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "1461571", "text": "superiors in the Canadian government, leading to the establishment of Project Magnet, a small Canadian government UFO research effort. Canadian documents and Smith's private papers were uncovered in the late 1970s, and by 1984, other alleged documents emerged claiming the existence of a highly secret UFO oversight committee of scientists and military people called Majestic 12, again naming Vannevar Bush. Sarbacher was also interviewed in the 1980s and corroborated the information in Smith's memos and correspondence. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Smith granted public interviews, and among other things stated that he had been lent crashed UFO material for", "title": "UFO conspiracy theory" }, { "docid": "2798057", "text": "claimed that the residual 3% would probably disappear if more complete data were available. Critics counter that this ignored the fact that the analysts had already thrown such cases into the category of \"insufficient information\", whereas both \"knowns\" and \"unknowns\" were deemed to have sufficient information to make a determination. Also the \"unknowns\" tended to represent the higher quality cases, q.e. reports that already had better information and witnesses. The result of the monumental BMI study were echoed by a 1979 French GEPAN report which stated that about a quarter of over 1,600 closely studied UFO cases defied explanation, stating,", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "6797335", "text": "\"Proud To Be A Banker\", and the encore \"Jesus' Brother Bob\". Semi-Conducted Semi-Conducted is a live album by the Canadian comedy music group The Arrogant Worms, recorded on January 22, 2002, and backed by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. It was released the following year. Actual footage of the show was recorded and aired on a (heavily cut-down) TV special called \"Three Worms and an Orchestra\", which was later released on DVD (containing the original show without TV edits, plus two music videos). The CD itself contains most of the songs from the show, but omits most of the banter in", "title": "Semi-Conducted" }, { "docid": "6797334", "text": "Semi-Conducted Semi-Conducted is a live album by the Canadian comedy music group The Arrogant Worms, recorded on January 22, 2002, and backed by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. It was released the following year. Actual footage of the show was recorded and aired on a (heavily cut-down) TV special called \"Three Worms and an Orchestra\", which was later released on DVD (containing the original show without TV edits, plus two music videos). The CD itself contains most of the songs from the show, but omits most of the banter in between songs, as well as performances of \"Mounted Animal Nature Trail\",", "title": "Semi-Conducted" }, { "docid": "6261337", "text": "aired 14 years later, but without the latter show's romantic subtext or its anti-government (or, for that matter, its anti-alien) paranoia. As with Blue Book, many of the UFO sightings on \"Project UFO\" turned out to have conventional explanations. Some, however, were left unexplained, and suggestive of alien contact. By the second season, the investigators had themselves experienced a UFO sighting. In an odd reversal of the \"Scooby-Doo\" dynamic, the series eventually settled into a pattern in which the investigators would spend most of the hour uncovering some conventional explanation for a UFO sighting, only for the last five minutes", "title": "Project U.F.O." }, { "docid": "10783112", "text": "Out of the Blue (2002 film) Out of the Blue is a 2003 feature-length documentary film on the UFO phenomenon which premiered on television on the Sci Fi Channel on June 24, 2003. It was produced by American filmmaker James Fox. The film is narrated by Peter Coyote and attempts to show, through interviews with members of the scientific community, eyewitnesses and high-ranking military and government personnel; that some unidentified flying objects could be of extraterrestrial origin and that secrecy and ridicule are used to shroud the UFO issue. There is a follow-up sequel released as a History Channel special", "title": "Out of the Blue (2002 film)" }, { "docid": "3588828", "text": "\"Book TV\" weekly lineup is coverage of author lectures, book signings, and seminars. Several weekends each year, \"Book TV\" features live coverage of major regional book fairs and festivals. There are also several regularly scheduled series: \"After Words\", an interview show conducted by guest hosts familiar with the author's subject; and \"Booknotes\" programs from 1989 to 2004, under the title \"Encore Booknotes\". A monthly series on \"Book TV\" is \"In Depth\", a three-hour one-on-one interview covering an author's entire body of work. \"In Depth\" is televised live with viewer calls on the first Sunday of each month at 12 p.m.", "title": "Book TV" }, { "docid": "2798060", "text": "finally Major Hector Quintanilla. Hynek had kind words only for Ruppelt and Friend. Of Ruppelt, he wrote \"In my contacts with him I found him to be honest and seriously puzzled about the whole phenomenon.\" Of Friend, he wrote \"Of all the officers I worked with in Blue Book, Colonel Friend earned my respect. Whatever private views he may have held, he was a total and practical realist, and sitting where he could see the scoreboard, he recognized the limitations of his office but conducted himself with dignity and a total lack of the bombast that characterized several of the", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "2657468", "text": "Organisation), which was to become the secret SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation). Many of the props and actors that had appeared in the Anderson-produced 1969 movie \"Doppelgänger\" were utilised in the series. The creators looked ten years ahead and placed the series in a kitsch 1980 future. Sylvia Anderson also designed the costumes for the show, including the Moonbase uniforms and purple wigs that female staff wore; the wigs were to become a major reference point for the series. \"UFO\" featured key motifs and plot elements that shared a conceptual continuity with nearly all of Anderson's previous TV work.", "title": "UFO (TV series)" }, { "docid": "16038002", "text": "The Blue Knight (TV series) The Blue Knight is an American CBS crime TV series, running in 1975 and 1976, starring George Kennedy as Officer Bumper Morgan. The show was based on the novel by Joseph Wambaugh (\"The Blue Knight\") and produced by Lorimar Productions. It was also inspired by the 1973 TV film \"The Blue Knight\", starring William Holden, which ran before the TV show premiered. Bumper Morgan is a veteran police officer in Los Angeles, who continues to patrol the streets in uniform. The series dealt with Morgan's daily dealings with dangerous criminals and drug dealers. Guest stars", "title": "The Blue Knight (TV series)" }, { "docid": "16038003", "text": "included Jim Davis, Robert Hays, Vivi Janiss, Harry Lauter, Gerald McRaney, Bruce Glover, Robert Hoy, and Lee Weaver. After a run of twenty-six episodes the series was cancelled by CBS. The Blue Knight (TV series) The Blue Knight is an American CBS crime TV series, running in 1975 and 1976, starring George Kennedy as Officer Bumper Morgan. The show was based on the novel by Joseph Wambaugh (\"The Blue Knight\") and produced by Lorimar Productions. It was also inspired by the 1973 TV film \"The Blue Knight\", starring William Holden, which ran before the TV show premiered. Bumper Morgan is", "title": "The Blue Knight (TV series)" }, { "docid": "2798020", "text": "Intelligence Service Squadron) be charged with UFO investigations. In July 1952, after a build-up of hundreds of sightings over the previous few months, a series of radar detections coincident with visual sightings were observed near the National Airport in Washington, D.C. (see 1952 Washington D.C. UFO incident). Future Arizona Senator and 2008 presidential nominee John McCain is alleged to be one of these witnesses. After much publicity, these sightings led the Central Intelligence Agency to establish a panel of scientists headed by Dr. H. P. Robertson, a physicist of the California Institute of Technology, which included various physicists, meteorologists, and", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "3213489", "text": "Varginha UFO incident Varginha UFO incident is the name given to a series of events involving the alleged sighting and capture by the military of an extraterrestrial being in Varginha, Brazil, in 1996. Such reports were first broadcast on the Sunday TV show \"Fantástico\" of Rede Globo, and gathered media coverage worldwide, including an article in \"The Wall Street Journal\". It has since become a well-known case in modern Brazilian ufology. The Brazilian government has officially denied any claims of being involved in the capture of extraterrestrial biological entities (EBEs), but some theorists claim otherwise, accusing the government of a", "title": "Varginha UFO incident" }, { "docid": "7824117", "text": "The Nationwide Project The \"Nationwide\" Project was an influential media audience research project conducted by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, England, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Its principal researchers were David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon. The Media Group at the CCCS selected the BBC television current affairs programme \"Nationwide\" to study the encoding/decoding model, a part of reception theory, developed by Stuart Hall. This study was concerned with \"the programme's distinctive ideological themes and with the particular ways in which \"Nationwide\" addressed the viewer\". This first part of the study was published", "title": "The Nationwide Project" }, { "docid": "2798031", "text": "was by simple reclassification. \"Possible cases\" became \"probable\", and \"probable\" cases were upgraded to certainties. By this logic, a \"possible\" comet became a \"probable\" comet, while a probable comet was flatly declared to have been a misidentified comet. Similarly, if a witness reported an observation of an unusual balloon-\"like\" object, Blue Book usually classified it as a balloon, with no research and qualification. These procedures became standard for most of Blue Book's later investigations; see Hynek's comments below. Major Robert J. Friend was appointed the head of Blue Book in 1958. Friend made some attempts to reverse the direction Blue", "title": "Project Blue Book" }, { "docid": "9233808", "text": "did not shed any new light on UFOs or the UFO phenomenon, but did show that the DIS had been conducting a far larger investigation of the topic than it had previously revealed. Project Condign Project Condign (not to be confused with the Condon Committee) was a secret UFO study undertaken by the British Government's Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) between 1997 and 2000. The results of Project Condign were compiled into a 400-page document titled \"Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region\" that drew on approximately 10,000 sightings and reports that had been gathered by the DI55, a", "title": "Project Condign" }, { "docid": "2885692", "text": "and Project Blue Book. Hynek had supplied Project Sign with the Venus explanation in 1948, mainly because Venus had been in the same place in the sky that Mantell's UFO was observed. However, by 1952 Dr. Hynek had concluded that the Venus explanation was incorrect, because \"Venus wasn't bright enough to be seen\" by Mantell and the other witnesses, and because a considerable haze was present that would have further obscured the planet in the sky. Ruppelt also noted Dr. Hynek's statement that Venus, even if visible, would have been a \"pinpoint of light\", but that eyewitness \"descriptions plainly indicated", "title": "Mantell UFO incident" }, { "docid": "4566314", "text": "throughout the news industry including advertisers, editors, readers, and reporters. The commission interviewed FCC commissioner and head of the Blue Book study, Clifford Durr and FCC chairman, Lawrence Fly and studied the Blue Book closely to draw its conclusions. In March 1947, the commission released its report and like the Blue Book outlined the need for the press to service programming for the community to clarify societal goals and values. Blue Book (FCC) Public Service Responsibility of Broadcast Licensees was a report published in 1946 by the (U.S.) Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which sought to require radio broadcasters in the", "title": "Blue Book (FCC)" } ]
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What bow-tie wearing TV host and comedian, who got his start on Almost Live!, is known as the Science Guy?
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[ { "docid": "4902192", "text": "Joel McHale, Bob Nelson, Bill Nye, Bill Stainton, Andrea Stein, Lauren Weedman, Steve Wilson, Ed Wyatt and, Darrell Suto as Billy Quan. Writers included Scott Schaefer, who later went on to win three National Emmy Awards for writing on \"Bill Nye the Science Guy\", and original Head Writer Jim Sharp, who is now Senior Vice President of Original Programming and Development for Comedy Central in Los Angeles. Later seasons occasionally featured Seattle-area comedian and voice actor David Scully who joined the core cast during the final season. \"Almost Live!\" was canceled by KING-TV in 1999 because it was not making", "title": "Almost Live!" }, { "docid": "3255550", "text": "explanations and extensions of scientific ideas than non-viewers. While performing in a sketch comedy television show in Seattle called \"Almost Live!\" during the 1980s, Nye cultivated a science-explaining TV persona. One famous incident on the show led to his stage name. He corrected another host, John Keister, on his pronunciation of the word \"gigawatt\", and the nickname was born when Keister responded, \"Who do you think you are—Bill Nye the Science Guy?\" In 1993, he developed a \"Bill Nye the Science Guy\" pilot for PBS member station KCTS-TV in Seattle. Nye collaborated with James McKenna, Erren Gottlieb and Elizabeth Brock", "title": "Bill Nye the Science Guy" }, { "docid": "3255551", "text": "to plan and create the show for KCTS. The group pitched the show as \"Mr. Wizard\" meets \"Pee-wee's Playhouse\". He successfully obtained underwriting from the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy. Nye's program became part of a package of syndicated series that local stations could schedule to fulfill Children's Television Act requirements. Because of this, \"Bill Nye the Science Guy\" became the first program to run concurrently on both public and commercial stations. Nye plays a hyperkinetic tall and slender scientist wearing a blue lab coat and a bow-tie. He combines the serious science of everyday things", "title": "Bill Nye the Science Guy" }, { "docid": "3255568", "text": "as well as video cut scenes featuring Nye and other Nye Labs scientists. However, the characters and cast members from the TV series, sans Nye and a few others, do not appear in this game, instead being replaced by game-exclusive Nye Labs team members and new actors. Reruns of \"Bill Nye the Science Guy\" aired on Noggin (now Nick Jr.) from 2000 to 2002. Since 2016, reruns of the program have been aired on MeTV on Sunday mornings. Bill Nye the Science Guy Bill Nye the Science Guy is an American half-hour live action science program that originally was syndicated", "title": "Bill Nye the Science Guy" }, { "docid": "3255549", "text": "Bill Nye the Science Guy Bill Nye the Science Guy is an American half-hour live action science program that originally was syndicated by Walt Disney Television to local stations from September 10, 1993 to June 20, 1998 and also aired on PBS from 1994 to 1999. It was hosted by Bill Nye. The show aired for 100 half-hour episodes spanning five seasons. Known for its quirky humor and rapid-fire MTV-style pacing, the show won critical acclaim and was nominated for 23 Emmy Awards, winning nineteen. Studies also found that people that viewed \"Bill Nye\" regularly were better able to generate", "title": "Bill Nye the Science Guy" }, { "docid": "3255563", "text": "were in my studio one day to record a song. I was working on the Nye theme as they walked in and I told them, 'Hey, do me a favor and go in the booth and chant ‘Bill, Bill, Bill’ over and over again.' They had no idea what it was for, but they’re cool, so they did. It sounded great, so that's the version we kept. The show didn't air until a year later, so it wasn't until then that they understood what this was really for.\" In conjunction with the production of \"Bill Nye the Science Guy\", KCTS-TV", "title": "Bill Nye the Science Guy" } ]
[ { "docid": "2538610", "text": "incorporate a bow tie. Shown below on the right is one style of ready-tied bow tie; there is also a clip-on that does not go around the neck but clips to the collar points. Wearing a ready-tied bow tie at formal occasions requiring a black or white tie dress code is usually considered a faux pas, though at occasions such as Schools Leavers' Proms or ones at which the participants are unlikely to have had much experience wearing bow ties it may be commonplace. If choosing a self-tie/tie-it-yourself/freestyle bow tie, there are usually two shapes available: the \"bat wing,\" which", "title": "Bow tie" }, { "docid": "2538604", "text": "point of view. The bow tie hints at intellectualism, real or feigned, and sometimes suggests technical acumen, perhaps because it is so hard to tie. Bow ties are worn by magicians, country doctors, lawyers and professors and by people hoping to look like the above. But perhaps most of all, wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think. <br>- Warren St John in \"The New York Times\" Popular perception tends to associate bow tie wearers with particular professions, such as architects, finance receipt collectors, attorneys, university professors, teachers, waiters,", "title": "Bow tie" }, { "docid": "2538609", "text": "town. Bow ties are often worn with suits by those trying to convey a more dressed-up, formal image, whether in business or social venues. Bow ties are still generally popular with men of all ages in the American South, having never gone out of fashion there. Traditional opinion remains that it is inappropriate to wear anything other than a bow tie with a dinner jacket. Bow ties are also sometimes worn as an alternative to ascot ties and four-in-hand neckties when wearing morning dress. The dress code of \"black tie\" requires a black bow tie. Most military mess dress uniforms", "title": "Bow tie" }, { "docid": "16944573", "text": "In September 2015, he released a charity single entitled \"The Pigeon Song\", featuring Christchurch rapper Scribe. It peaked at the number two position in the New Zealand singles chart. He left The Edge in December 2016. In 2017, he recorded and released his first half hour stand-up special \"In an election year\" live at Q Theatre in Auckland. Guy Williams (comedian) Guy Malachi Jones Williams (born 19 September 1987) is a New Zealand comedian and television personality. Williams was a co-host on satirical news and entertainment television programme \"Jono and Ben\", until the show's end in 2018. Williams was born", "title": "Guy Williams (comedian)" }, { "docid": "2538601", "text": "dispense with the band altogether, instead clipping straight to the collar. The traditional bow tie, consisting of a strip of cloth which the wearer has to tie by hand, is also known as a \"self-tie,\" \"tie-it-yourself,\" or \"freestyle\" bow tie. Bow ties may be made of any fabric material, but most are made from silk, polyester, cotton, or a mixture of fabrics. Some fabrics (e.g., wool or velvet) are much less common for bow ties than for ordinary four-in-hand neckties. The bow tie originated among Croatian mercenaries during the Thirty Years' War of the 17th century: the Croat mercenaries used", "title": "Bow tie" }, { "docid": "17367987", "text": "and cutters. The concept of using the bow tie stems from Billie King Jr.'s favorite accessory. Billie King Jr. said, \"I injected my personality into as many aspects of my business as possible. This is evident from the cigar bands to the website design, to the all-inclusive packaging concept, and my moniker. Bow Tie Cigars is me, and I am Bow Tie Cigars.\" The use of the bow tie as a central theme is also seen in the company's slogan, \"\"What color is your bow tie?\"\". Bow Tie Cigar Company purchases all materials from growers located in Santiago, Dominican Republic.", "title": "Bow Tie Cigar Company" }, { "docid": "2538605", "text": "and politicians. Pediatricians frequently wear bow ties since infants cannot grab them the way they could grab a four-in-hand necktie. Bow ties do not readily droop into places where they would get soiled or where they could, whether accidentally or deliberately, strangle the wearer. Clowns sometimes use an oversize bow tie for its comic effect. Classical musicians traditionally perform in white tie or black tie ensembles, of which both designs are bow ties. Bow ties are also associated with weddings, mainly because of their almost universal inclusion in traditional formal attire. Bow ties, or slight variations thereof, have also made", "title": "Bow tie" }, { "docid": "18201947", "text": "where Broadway and 7th meet in Manhattan, known as the \"Bow Tie\" of Times Square. Bow Tie operates many different types of theaters, from a twin art house (Red Bank, NJ) to a 21-screen complex in Richmond, VA. The company's premium large format auditoriums are known as \"BTX - Bow Tie X-Treme(R)\". Bow Tie has continued to grow and innovate. In 2017 the company debuted its new \"Ultimate\" locations in Norwalk, CT, featuring luxury electric recliner seating with in-theater restaurant and a full bar. Bow Tie Ultimate(TM) locations feature fresh baked artisan pizzas, and an array of dining options. Ultimate", "title": "Bow Tie Cinemas" }, { "docid": "2538612", "text": "front of the thinner one. Some notable designers of bow ties are Charvet, who invented some novel styles such as a cross between a batwing and a butterfly for the Duke of Windsor in the 1950s, Duchamp or Paul Smith. Bow tie The bow tie is a type of necktie. A modern bow tie is tied using a common shoelace knot, which is also called the bow knot for that reason. It consists of a ribbon of fabric tied around the collar of a shirt in a symmetrical manner so that the two opposite ends form loops. There are generally", "title": "Bow tie" }, { "docid": "2538607", "text": "wearers. He observed that bow ties were experiencing a potential comeback among men, though \"the class conscious man recoils at the idea\" of pre-tied bow ties and \"[l]eft-wingers\" ... \"recoil at what they perceive to be a symbol of political conservatism.\" He argues that, however, that anachronism is the point, and that bow tie wearers are making a public statement that they disdain changing fashion. Such people may not be economic conservatives, he argues, but they \"are\" social conservatives. In Smith's view, the bow tie is \"the embodiment of propriety,\" an indicator of fastidiousness, and \"an instant sign of nerddom", "title": "Bow tie" }, { "docid": "2538600", "text": "Bow tie The bow tie is a type of necktie. A modern bow tie is tied using a common shoelace knot, which is also called the bow knot for that reason. It consists of a ribbon of fabric tied around the collar of a shirt in a symmetrical manner so that the two opposite ends form loops. There are generally three types of bow ties: the pre-tied, the clip on, and the self tie. Pre-tied bow ties are ties in which the distinctive bow is sewn onto a band that goes around the neck and clips to secure. Some \"clip-ons\"", "title": "Bow tie" }, { "docid": "18201949", "text": "the theater until it was closed as a theater in 2016. CO CT MD NJ NY VA NJ Bow Tie Cinemas Bow Tie Cinemas is an American movie theater chain, with 38 locations in Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia. As of 2013, it is the eighth-largest movie theater chain in the United States and is the oldest, having been founded in 1900. Bow Tie Cinemas is family-owned and has been for four generations. Bow Tie Cinemas was founded over 100 years ago by B.S. Moss, originally as a venue for nickelodeons. Soon, Moss transferred his business", "title": "Bow Tie Cinemas" }, { "docid": "18201945", "text": "Bow Tie Cinemas Bow Tie Cinemas is an American movie theater chain, with 38 locations in Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia. As of 2013, it is the eighth-largest movie theater chain in the United States and is the oldest, having been founded in 1900. Bow Tie Cinemas is family-owned and has been for four generations. Bow Tie Cinemas was founded over 100 years ago by B.S. Moss, originally as a venue for nickelodeons. Soon, Moss transferred his business to the Vaudeville circuit. Moss continued to operate Vaudeville theaters like Manhattan's Colony Theater, notable for being the", "title": "Bow Tie Cinemas" }, { "docid": "2538603", "text": "vary between approximately 14 and 19 inches as with a comparable shirt collar. Fixed-length bow ties are preferred when worn with the most formal wing-collar shirts, so as not to expose the buckle or clasp of an adjustable bow tie. Adjustable bow ties are the standard when the tie is to be worn with a less formal, lie-down collar shirts which obscure the neckband of the tie. \"One-size-fits-all\" adjustable bow ties are a later invention that help to moderate production costs. To its devotees, the bow tie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian", "title": "Bow tie" }, { "docid": "8728486", "text": "that he was happy that he was able to help get \"The 206\" up and running, \"but everyone is working for almost nothing.\" He said at the time that he was putting together a one-man show called \"The Keister Monologues\". In September 2017 Keister gave what he called his last stand-up performances in Seattle at Benaroya Hall. The show was entitled \"Living and Dying in Seattle\". John Keister (comedian) John Keister (born February 15, 1956) is a Seattle-based comedian, writer, commentator and motivational speaker, best known as the host of the local comedy program \"Almost Live!\" from 1988 to 1999.", "title": "John Keister (comedian)" }, { "docid": "17367986", "text": "ten upcoming entrepreneurs. They have also been featured in Cigar Inspector, Cigar Geeks, and other tobacco related publications. Bow Tie Cigar Company's branding focuses on the bow tie as a central theme. The banding on all their products is created in the shape of a bow tie. Different blends are created in different colors, with the current cigar line focusing on metallic bands. The company uses the image of a bow tie to create a memorable label that can be recognized by the image and color of the bow tie alone. The bow tie also appears on cigar boxes, packaging,", "title": "Bow Tie Cigar Company" }, { "docid": "2538606", "text": "their way into women's wear, especially business attire. The 1980s saw professional women, especially in law, banking, and the corporate world, donning very conservative tailored suits, with a rise of almost 6 million units in sales. These were often worn with buttoned-up blouses, some with pleats up the front like tuxedo shirts, and accessorized with bow ties that were slightly fuller than the standard bow ties worn by their male counterparts, but typically consisting of the same fabrics, colors, and patterns as men's ties. Russell Smith, style columnist for Toronto's \"The Globe and Mail,\" records mixed opinions of bow tie", "title": "Bow tie" }, { "docid": "20509593", "text": "Omar Hamdi (comedian) Omar Hamdi (born 1990) is a British comedian and television host. His parents are originally from Egypt, having moved to the UK in the 1970s. He is best-known for TV hosting on BBC One, including The One Show, and the BAFTA-winning show X-Ray. His appearances on the show have received national press attention, including being reported on by The Guardian and The Daily Mirror. Hamdi is a native of Cardiff, Wales. He initially got into comedy through his ex girlfriend who suggested that he use comedy as an outlet for his energy. He is a headlining comic,", "title": "Omar Hamdi (comedian)" }, { "docid": "8728482", "text": "John Keister (comedian) John Keister (born February 15, 1956) is a Seattle-based comedian, writer, commentator and motivational speaker, best known as the host of the local comedy program \"Almost Live!\" from 1988 to 1999. A native of Seattle, he grew up in the Seward Park neighborhood and graduated from Franklin High School in 1974. He was an editor for \"The Daily\" as a student at the University of Washington, graduating with a degree in communications in 1979. He wrote for \"The Rocket\" and initially joined KING-TV as a music reviewer on a program called \"REV\" in 1984. Shortly thereafter, he", "title": "John Keister (comedian)" }, { "docid": "2538608", "text": "in Hollywood movies,\" but \"not the mark of a ladies' man\" and \"not exactly sexy.\" To this image he attributes the association of the bow tie with newspaper editors (because of their fastidiousness with words), high-school principals, and bachelor English teachers. Most men, he observes, only wear bow ties with formal dress. The four-in-hand necktie is still more prominent in contemporary Western society, it being seen the most at business meetings, formal functions, schools, and sometimes even at home. However, the bow tie is making a comeback at fun-formal events such as dinners, cocktail parties, and nights out on the", "title": "Bow tie" }, { "docid": "16944569", "text": "Guy Williams (comedian) Guy Malachi Jones Williams (born 19 September 1987) is a New Zealand comedian and television personality. Williams was a co-host on satirical news and entertainment television programme \"Jono and Ben\", until the show's end in 2018. Williams was born in Christchurch to Gary and Roseanne Williams, and moved to Nelson when he was twelve months old. He attended primary school at St Joseph's School, and was educated at Nelson College from 2001 to 2005; in 2005 he travelled to Gallipoli with Prime Minister Helen Clark after winning a student essay competition. He was a member of the", "title": "Guy Williams (comedian)" }, { "docid": "20509598", "text": "Thought\". He claims to rarely watch stand-up on television, or any television at all. Omar Hamdi (comedian) Omar Hamdi (born 1990) is a British comedian and television host. His parents are originally from Egypt, having moved to the UK in the 1970s. He is best-known for TV hosting on BBC One, including The One Show, and the BAFTA-winning show X-Ray. His appearances on the show have received national press attention, including being reported on by The Guardian and The Daily Mirror. Hamdi is a native of Cardiff, Wales. He initially got into comedy through his ex girlfriend who suggested that", "title": "Omar Hamdi (comedian)" }, { "docid": "13007557", "text": "the streets. Then we see images of the band and lots of people dancing around, while consuming copious amounts of alcohol. Hütz said in an interview, \"It's one of the very few songs I wrote for a girl. I just moved in with my girlfriend in New York. We had a neighbour: an old woman who was always dressed in purple head to toe. She was clearly bonkers. So whenever my girlfriend and I had an argument and she would start screaming at me, I would say: you might as well start wearing purple now\". Start Wearing Purple \"Start Wearing", "title": "Start Wearing Purple" }, { "docid": "17367985", "text": "Bow Tie Cigar Company The Bow Tie Cigar Company is a premium cigar brand owned by Billie “Mr. Bow Tie” King Jr. The Bow Tie Cigar Company was founded in 2006 in Belleville, Illinois. By 2008, the company launched a total of four cigar blends ranging from mild to medium. In 2013, the company transitioned to producing the Metallic Series, beginning with the already released Copper Label. Bow Tie Cigar has been featured in one of the largest cigar magazines in the world, Smoke Magazine. Entrepreneur (magazine) also listed the company as a strong branding example in a list of", "title": "Bow Tie Cigar Company" }, { "docid": "4902196", "text": "TV series \"Haywire\", in 1990. Almost Live! Almost Live! was a local sketch comedy television show in Seattle, Washington, USA, produced and broadcast by NBC affiliate KING-TV from 1984 to 1999. A re-packaged version of the show also aired on Comedy Central from 1992 to 1993, and episodes aired on WGRZ TV and other Gannett-owned stations in the late 1990s. The show was broadcast on Saturday nights at 11:30, pushing \"Saturday Night Live\" back to midnight. (On the other Gannett stations, it aired after \"Saturday Night Live\".) \"Almost Live!\" began as a weekly half-hour talk and comedy sketch show created", "title": "Almost Live!" }, { "docid": "17367988", "text": "Production of the cigars also occurs in Santiago. Currently, their cigar line uses a mix of Brazilian, Dominican, Columbian, Nicaraguan, and Peruvian tobaccos. Bow Tie Cigar Company primarily sells and distributes online. The company also began selling in retail locations in 2013. They are currently distributing the Copper Label. Currently the Gold Label and the Platinum Label are being developed. Bow Tie Cigar Company The Bow Tie Cigar Company is a premium cigar brand owned by Billie “Mr. Bow Tie” King Jr. The Bow Tie Cigar Company was founded in 2006 in Belleville, Illinois. By 2008, the company launched a", "title": "Bow Tie Cigar Company" }, { "docid": "18201946", "text": "venue of several high-profile Disney premieres, like those of Fantasia and Steamboat Willie, the first Disney cartoon to feature Mickey Mouse. In the 1930s, Moss decided to focus more on the movie business and phased out his vaudeville program. In 1936, he opened his Criterion Theater in Times Square, which lasted as a successful movie theater until 2000. Since then, Bow Tie Cinemas has concentrated on the presentation of films. The company changed its name to Bow Tie Cinemas in 2004, upon opening its Criterion Cinemas complex in Downtown New Haven, CT. The name honors the company's flagship property, located", "title": "Bow Tie Cinemas" }, { "docid": "13311551", "text": "Bow tie (biology) In the biological sciences, the term bow tie (so called for its shape) is a recent concept that tries to grasp the essence of some operational and functional structures observed in biological organisms and other kinds of complex and self-organizing systems. In general, bow tie architectures refer to ordered and recurrent structures that often underlie complex technological or biological systems, and that are capable of conferring them a balance among efficiency, robustness and evolvability. In other words, bow ties are able to take into account a great diversity of inputs (fanning in to the knot), showing a", "title": "Bow tie (biology)" }, { "docid": "13007556", "text": "Start Wearing Purple \"Start Wearing Purple\" is a song by gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, written by frontman Eugene Hütz. The song was packaged as a double single along with \"Sally\", and released as the band's second single in February 2006. It appears on their third album \"\". This version is a re-recording of the initial one which was featured in the band's first album, 1999's \"Voi-La Intruder\". It also appears in the soundtrack for the 2005 film \"Everything Is Illuminated\", in which Hütz stars as Alex. The video starts with Hütz wearing ladies shoes, and singing and dancing in", "title": "Start Wearing Purple" }, { "docid": "2538602", "text": "a scarf around the neck to hold together the opening of their shirts. This was soon adopted (under the name \"cravat,\" derived from the French for \"Croat\") by the upper classes in France, then a leader in fashion, and flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is uncertain whether the cravat then evolved into the bow tie and four-in-hand necktie, or whether the cravat gave rise to the bow tie, which in turn led to the four-in-hand necktie. The most traditional bow ties are usually of a fixed length and are made for a specific size neck. Sizes can", "title": "Bow tie" }, { "docid": "13311554", "text": "to mediate trade-offs among robustness and efficiency, at the same time assuring to the system the capability to evolve. Conversely, the same efficient architecture may be prone and vulnerable to fragilities due to specific changes, perturbations, and focused attacks directed against the core set of modules and protocols. The bow tie architecture is one of several different structures and functioning principles that living matter employs to achieve self-organization and efficient exploitation of available resources. Bow tie (biology) In the biological sciences, the term bow tie (so called for its shape) is a recent concept that tries to grasp the essence", "title": "Bow tie (biology)" }, { "docid": "10837536", "text": "Ralph Harris (comedian) Ralph Louis Harris is an American comedian, actor, and writer. Harris is best known for his role as Josh Jerrico in the TGIF sitcom \"On Our Own\", and his stand up routines. He is currently the host of \"My Momma Throws Down\" on TV One. Harris comes from a large family which is the inspiration for most of his stand up act. He began in stand-up comedy in 1985, after seeing Eddie Murphy on \"Saturday Night Live\". In addition to his stand up appearances, Harris has appeared on \"Seinfeld\", \"Living Single\", and \"The Parent 'Hood\". He also", "title": "Ralph Harris (comedian)" }, { "docid": "13249765", "text": "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On \"Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On\" is a song written by Philip White and Michael Mobley, and recorded by American country music artist Neal McCoy. It was released in March 2005 as the lead-off single to his album That's Life. It was McCoy's first release from his vanity label 903 Music. The song reached number 10 on Hot Country Songs in 2005. \"Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On\" describes a man who, after his girlfriend leaves him, becomes so intoxicated that he is said to be wearing beer goggles, a term used to indicate", "title": "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On" }, { "docid": "6813585", "text": "he was part of the writing team for \"That Was The Week That Was\", ABC's short-lived attempt to revive the 1963 BBC satire series as a segment of \"Primetime Live\". Since May, 2005, Mitchell has worked as a producer/reporter for CUNY-TV, the public affairs cable channel of the City University of New York, available in the five boroughs of New York City on Channel 75 and online at cuny.tv. Barry Mitchell (comedian) Barry Mitchell (born March 6, 1952) is a Brooklyn-born comedian, musician and TV producer. Mitchell is also known as \"Accordion Guy\" to viewers of ABC-TV's quirky, overnight broadcast,", "title": "Barry Mitchell (comedian)" }, { "docid": "4902187", "text": "Almost Live! Almost Live! was a local sketch comedy television show in Seattle, Washington, USA, produced and broadcast by NBC affiliate KING-TV from 1984 to 1999. A re-packaged version of the show also aired on Comedy Central from 1992 to 1993, and episodes aired on WGRZ TV and other Gannett-owned stations in the late 1990s. The show was broadcast on Saturday nights at 11:30, pushing \"Saturday Night Live\" back to midnight. (On the other Gannett stations, it aired after \"Saturday Night Live\".) \"Almost Live!\" began as a weekly half-hour talk and comedy sketch show created by then VP of Programming", "title": "Almost Live!" }, { "docid": "15708867", "text": "Almost Heroes (TV series) Almost Heroes was a Canadian comedy television series that premiered on June 2, 2011 on Showcase, and ran for one season (eight episodes) before being discontinued by Showcase at the beginning of the 2011 fall season. The series is centered on the lives of two brothers, Pete and Terry, played by Ryan Belleville and Paul Campbell, running their late father's comic book store, \"The Silver Salmon\". The series was created by brothers Jason Belleville and Ryan Belleville. The series also stars well-known Canadian comedian Colin Mochrie. Canadian comedian Fraser Young is one of the writers and", "title": "Almost Heroes (TV series)" }, { "docid": "13311553", "text": "optimally organize fluxes of mass, energy, signals in an overall structure that forcedly deals with a highly fluctuating and \"sloppy\" environment. In a biological perspective, a bow tie manages a large \"fan in\" of stimuli (input), it accounts for a \"compressed\" \"core\", and it expresses again a large \"fan out\" of possible phenotypes, metabolite products, or –more generally – reusable modules. Bow tie architectures have been observed in the structural organization at different scales of living and evolving organisms (e.g. bacterial metabolism network) as well as in technological and dynamical systems (e.g. the Internet). Bow ties seem to be able", "title": "Bow tie (biology)" }, { "docid": "5933987", "text": "gay. In 2006 he also appeared as Dylan in the gay-science-fiction-fan-club short comedy film \"Outland\". Brennan is also an active voice over artist, appearing in commercials for Hungry Jack's and Coles Supermarkets. From July 2009, he appeared in the Australian soap opera \"Neighbours\" as Josh Burns, a local newspaper paper editor. Scott Brennan (comedian) Scott Brennan is an Australian actor and comedian. He is best known for his work on the Australian television program \"skitHOUSE\". He has previously performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and on Channel 31 shows such as RMITV's \"The Loft Live\" (as co-host and occasional", "title": "Scott Brennan (comedian)" }, { "docid": "17476804", "text": "Lloyd teamed up with RiAus in association with BBC Worldwide Australia/New Zealand to host The Science of Doctor Who which toured nationally during April, May and June. Rob Lloyd (comedian) Robert \"Rob\" Lloyd (born 3 April 1978) is an Australian actor/comedian who was the host of the RMITV flagship program \"Live on Bowen\" for the first two seasons. He was the host, co-writer and producer of \"The Mutant Way\", which won several 2010 Antenna Awards. Rob also has a \"Doctor Who\" themed stage show called \"Who, Me\" that has had sell-out seasons at the 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival, the 2011", "title": "Rob Lloyd (comedian)" }, { "docid": "17333801", "text": "David Feldman (comedian) David Feldman is an American comedy writer, standup comedian and podcaster/radio host. He writes for Comedy Central's \"The Burn\" and Joy Behar's Say Anything on Current TV. In 2009, Feldman launched the listener-supported \"David Feldman Show\" (formerly known as the \"David Feldman Comedy Podcast\"), which includes a diverse mixture of live and prerecorded content which can be downloaded from the iTunes Store for free. In November 2013, he released a special digital download compilation album called \"The Very Best of the David Feldman Show, Vol. 1\". He has also written on ABC's Roseanne, HBO's Dennis Miller Live,", "title": "David Feldman (comedian)" }, { "docid": "9073609", "text": "wearing cravats with a consequently lower quality of materials and designs used in both the neckwear and in the stickpins used to keep it in place. By the 1870s, Americans had embraced stickpins and designs were mass-produced which included animal heads, horse shoes, knife and fork motifs, crossed pipes, wishbones, bugs, flowers, shields and a host of other figural motifs. By the 1890s, stickpins had crossed gender lines as women began wearing them with sporting outfits worn for bicycling, boating, horseback riding, tennis and golf. The Ascot, Four in Hand, Sailor scarf, cravat bow tie and wrapped scarf all became", "title": "Tie pin" }, { "docid": "7997255", "text": "Assistant Senate Republican Leader and on the Judiciary Committee. Woodcock made a bid for the Governorship of Maine in 2006 but was defeated by incumbent John Baldacci. Woodcock ran as a publicly financed Clean Elections candidate. In January, 2009, he became the executive director of the Maine Harness Horsemen's Association. He is also the co-host (with State Representative Tom Saviello of Wilton of a Public-access television talk show on Mount Blue Community Access TV called \"Talkin Maine With the Bow Tie Boys\"; both Woodcock and Saviello are known locally for wearing bow ties. Woodcock is married to his wife Charlotte", "title": "Chandler Woodcock" }, { "docid": "13249766", "text": "the lack of sexual inhibition when one is drunk. Everything (the girls, barfights, etc.) looks good to him. The music video was directed by Buddy Swell. It features actor and comedian Rob Schneider and zookeeper Jack Hanna. \"Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On\" debuted at number 60 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of April 16, 2005. Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On \"Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On\" is a song written by Philip White and Michael Mobley, and recorded by American country music artist Neal McCoy. It was released in March 2005", "title": "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On" }, { "docid": "4902195", "text": "hinted strongly that the show would be a successor to \"Almost Live!\". Subsequently, \"The Seattle Times\" published a blog article about the sequel which included behind-the-scenes glimpses at one of the sketches being filmed for the new show. Additionally, the new show has a presence on social networking Web sites such as Facebook. The show premiered on Sunday, January 6, 2013 on KING-TV after \"Saturday Night Live\". The show would be revamped as Up Late NW (pronounced Up Late Northwest) in September 2015. Some of the recurring segments featured on \"Almost Live!\" included: Some sketches were borrowed for the Fox", "title": "Almost Live!" }, { "docid": "5616996", "text": "descending riff [of \"What Is and What Should Never Be\"] is amazing: It's like a bow is being drawn back, and then it releases. The rhythm of the vocals is almost like a rap. It's insane — one of their most psychedelic songs.\" This was also one of the first songs recorded by the band for which Robert Plant received writing credit. According to rock journalist Stephen Davis, the author of the Led Zeppelin biography \"Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga\", the lyrics for this song reflect a romance Plant had with his wife's younger sister. \"What Is", "title": "What Is and What Should Never Be" }, { "docid": "14314010", "text": "Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (TV series) Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot was an American animated TV series based on the comic book of the same name by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow. The series ran for 26 episodes on Fox Kids and featured, amongst others, the voice of Pamela Adlon (credited as Pamela Segall) as the voice of Rusty, R. Lee Ermey and M. Emmet Walsh. A line of toys based on the show was produced by Bandai, along with ephemera surrounding a brief promotional tie-in with Burger King. On July 12, 2016 Amazon released", "title": "Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (TV series)" }, { "docid": "11875072", "text": "for 22 weeks. The song is used as the theme tune for \"The Kevin Bishop Show\". Wearing My Rolex \"Wearing My Rolex\" is a 2008 single from British grime artist Wiley, who is a founding member of the Roll Deep crew. Described as \"grime-meets-electro\" on BBC Radio 1Xtra, the song samples DSK's song \"What Would We Do\" and its lyrics \"usually, bubble.\" and was released on 5 May 2008 by Asylum/Atlantic Records. The track was produced by Bow producer Bless Beats. \"Wearing My Rolex\" peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. An a cappella gangsta-rap version of \"Wearing", "title": "Wearing My Rolex" }, { "docid": "17333804", "text": "has written jokes pro bono for candidates he supports. Feldman is a graduate of Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, New Jersey. and Columbia University in New York City. David Feldman (comedian) David Feldman is an American comedy writer, standup comedian and podcaster/radio host. He writes for Comedy Central's \"The Burn\" and Joy Behar's Say Anything on Current TV. In 2009, Feldman launched the listener-supported \"David Feldman Show\" (formerly known as the \"David Feldman Comedy Podcast\"), which includes a diverse mixture of live and prerecorded content which can be downloaded from the iTunes Store for free. In November 2013, he", "title": "David Feldman (comedian)" }, { "docid": "18201948", "text": "locations are now open in Norwalk, CT (Ultimate Royale 6 and Ultimate Regent 8); Trumbull, CT (Ultimate Marquis 16 & BTX); and Annapolis, MD (Ultimate Annapolis Mall 11 & BTX and Ultimate Harbour 9). Future Ultimate locations are planned for Stamford, CT and Reston, VA. Clearview Cinemas was a movie theater chain within the New York metropolitan area founded in 1994. From 1998 to 2013, Clearview was a subsidiary of Cablevision. In 2013, Bow Tie Cinemas acquired forty-one Clearview theatres. The forty-second location, the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City, was retained by Cablevision, but Bow Tie continued to operate", "title": "Bow Tie Cinemas" }, { "docid": "11875070", "text": "Wearing My Rolex \"Wearing My Rolex\" is a 2008 single from British grime artist Wiley, who is a founding member of the Roll Deep crew. Described as \"grime-meets-electro\" on BBC Radio 1Xtra, the song samples DSK's song \"What Would We Do\" and its lyrics \"usually, bubble.\" and was released on 5 May 2008 by Asylum/Atlantic Records. The track was produced by Bow producer Bless Beats. \"Wearing My Rolex\" peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. An a cappella gangsta-rap version of \"Wearing My Rolex\", performed by the main cast, featured in the original Royal Court Theatre production of", "title": "Wearing My Rolex" }, { "docid": "9650306", "text": "that millions of people live\", though Milton Bates reasonably interprets it as a fable of his own career up to 1921. Interpreters diverge on whether to emphasize its comedic qualities, with Bates, or its serious intent, with Vendler; to regard the journey as quixotic or partially successful. If the poem placed first in \"Harmonium\", \"Earthy Anecdote\", signals Stevens's attempt to transcend \"locality\", \"Comedian\" is a statement about what Stevens has learned from the attempt at the completion of the collection. Can Crispin (the artist, the poet, Stevens) hope to be something more than \"the intelligence of his soil\"? Can the", "title": "The Comedian as the Letter C" }, { "docid": "18907660", "text": "South Korea. His sister, Kim Mi-jin, is a TV show host He graduated from Chungnam High School and was majoring in acting at Dankook University before dropping. Kim is greatly influenced by the famous comedian, Charlie Chaplin. For this reason he chose his English name as \"Charlie Kim\". On March 2, 2006, Kim married musical actress Kim Eun-young. The couple lived separately since 2007 after Kim Eun-young moved to the Philippines alone to start a business. On January 22, 2018, the comedian announced his divorce with his wife after 12 years of marriage. Kim originally debuted under SBS's 4th class", "title": "Kim Jun-ho (comedian)" }, { "docid": "20668445", "text": "he stepped down from his TV commitments in the aftermath of a traffic accident on 18 March 2018 that he was involved in. While McPartlin still appeared during audition episodes on both \"Britain's Got Talent\" and \"Britain's Got More Talent\", as these had already been filmed prior to the start of the series' broadcast, his colleague Declan Donnelly chose to present the live episodes in the wake of his decision. Outside of filming, Stephen Mulhern, host of \"Britain's Got More Talent\", was forced to miss four days of auditions due to illness, though this did not impact the sister show", "title": "Britain's Got Talent (series 12)" }, { "docid": "4902189", "text": "Keister became the permanent replacement after Shafer left the program. Keister hosted for one season (1988) in the one hour, 6 p.m. Sunday slot (and in the talk show format), but, following the lead of a \"Greatest Hits\" special that aired at 11:30 Saturday, the show moved into that slot. Until he became host, Keister was a regular supporting performer. Many of the initial award-winning elements of \"Almost Live!\" were his efforts, so the program quickly changed formats to feature more of his abilities, as well as other cast members, in video sketches. The guest interviews and live band segments", "title": "Almost Live!" }, { "docid": "10244701", "text": "Brad Williams (comedian) Brad Williams (born January 13, 1984) is an American stand-up comedian and actor who has appeared in numerous films and television shows. He was born with achondroplasia. Williams was born with achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism. His condition plays a large part in the bits in both his stand-up comedy and television roles. He was a student at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California and after graduation, he attended the University of Southern California but dropped out to pursue his acting and comedy career. Williams got his start by attending a Carlos Mencia live comedy show.", "title": "Brad Williams (comedian)" }, { "docid": "10244697", "text": "Brad Williams (comedian) Brad Williams (born January 13, 1984) is an American stand-up comedian and actor who has appeared in numerous films and television shows. He was born with achondroplasia. Williams was born with achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism. His condition plays a large part in the bits in both his stand-up comedy and television roles. He was a student at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California and after graduation, he attended the University of Southern California but dropped out to pursue his acting and comedy career. Williams got his start by attending a Carlos Mencia live comedy show.", "title": "Brad Williams (comedian)" }, { "docid": "19012019", "text": "Guy Hutchinson (comedian) Guy Anthony Hutchinson (born November 22, 1974) is an American author, broadcaster, theme park historian and comedian. Hutchinson (with Chris Mercaldo) wrote the book \"Sesame Place\" which was published by Arcadia Publishing. The book was made with the cooperation of Sesame Place and Sesame Workshop and tells the 35-year history of the Pennsylvania theme park in photos and text. Hutchinson had begun researching the history of Sesame Place by \"watching other people’s home movies on YouTube, sifting through Flickr photos, eBay auctions, and digging through old newspapers on Google,\" when he was contacted by Mercaldo about pitching", "title": "Guy Hutchinson (comedian)" }, { "docid": "7707998", "text": "Petite (comedian) Vincent Aycocho, or better known as Petite is a Filipino actor, comedian, singer and TV show host, He is known for as a Filipino comedian in Comedy Bar, Paunch line and clowns, together with their other celebrities; Boobay, Iyah, Donita Nose, Ate Gay, Allan K. and Wally Bayola. Petite have a lot more project in GMA Network, hosting of CelebriTV paired by Joey de Leon's, Lolit's partner After in comedy bar Petite has a numerous shows in GMA Network; Petite signed a contract in GMA Network on 2014 as an actor and comedian, Petite guesting in CelebriTV, and", "title": "Petite (comedian)" }, { "docid": "7708000", "text": "Yaya-in, Yaya Glo and Yaya Pak. After in Kalyeserye, Petite appearing extendend cast by his role in Vampire Ang Daddy Ko, with Iyah. Petite (comedian) Vincent Aycocho, or better known as Petite is a Filipino actor, comedian, singer and TV show host, He is known for as a Filipino comedian in Comedy Bar, Paunch line and clowns, together with their other celebrities; Boobay, Iyah, Donita Nose, Ate Gay, Allan K. and Wally Bayola. Petite have a lot more project in GMA Network, hosting of CelebriTV paired by Joey de Leon's, Lolit's partner After in comedy bar Petite has a numerous", "title": "Petite (comedian)" }, { "docid": "14590765", "text": "Don Jamieson (comedian) Don Jamieson (born September 27, 1966) is a stand-up comedian, television host, and musician. He known for co-hosting \"That Metal Show\" on VH1 Classic and playing with acoustic death metal band Gunfire-N-Sodomy. Jamieson co-hosted the VH1 Classic series \"That Metal Show\" from 2008 to 2015. \"Rolling Stone\" included \"That Metal Show\" on its list of the 50 Best Reasons To Watch TV. Jamieson’s stand-up comedy album \"Live & Hilarious\", released by Metal Blade Records, reached the Top 20 on iTunes and Top 10 on the Billboard comedy charts. He performed at the Metallica Orion Music + More", "title": "Don Jamieson (comedian)" }, { "docid": "5933986", "text": "Scott Brennan (comedian) Scott Brennan is an Australian actor and comedian. He is best known for his work on the Australian television program \"skitHOUSE\". He has previously performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and on Channel 31 shows such as RMITV's \"The Loft Live\" (as co-host and occasional substitute host). In 2006, he joined the cast of the popular late night sketch comedy show \"Comedy Inc - The Late Shift\", airing in Australia on the Nine Network. He also appeared on Foxtel's comedy show \"Stand Up Australia\", where he performed a comedy routine on the fact that he is", "title": "Scott Brennan (comedian)" }, { "docid": "19012021", "text": "the station in 1997 and began working as a disc jockey at WMGQ where he worked for three years. Hutchinson attended Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville NJ, graduating in 1993. Hutchinson currently resides in New Jersey. Guy Hutchinson (comedian) Guy Anthony Hutchinson (born November 22, 1974) is an American author, broadcaster, theme park historian and comedian. Hutchinson (with Chris Mercaldo) wrote the book \"Sesame Place\" which was published by Arcadia Publishing. The book was made with the cooperation of Sesame Place and Sesame Workshop and tells the 35-year history of the Pennsylvania theme park in photos and text. Hutchinson", "title": "Guy Hutchinson (comedian)" }, { "docid": "4137058", "text": "Radio. Larry the Cable Guy Daniel Lawrence Whitney (born February 17, 1963), known professionally by his stage name Larry the Cable Guy, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, country music artist and former radio personality. He was one of the members of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, a comedy troupe which included Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Jeff Foxworthy (with whom he has starred on \"Blue Collar TV\"). Larry the Cable Guy has released seven comedy albums, of which three have been certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of 500,000 copies and in addition has starred in three", "title": "Larry the Cable Guy" }, { "docid": "4137047", "text": "Larry the Cable Guy Daniel Lawrence Whitney (born February 17, 1963), known professionally by his stage name Larry the Cable Guy, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, country music artist and former radio personality. He was one of the members of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, a comedy troupe which included Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Jeff Foxworthy (with whom he has starred on \"Blue Collar TV\"). Larry the Cable Guy has released seven comedy albums, of which three have been certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of 500,000 copies and in addition has starred in three Blue", "title": "Larry the Cable Guy" }, { "docid": "16973148", "text": "Me Down.\" Joe DeRosa (comedian) Joe Derosa (born August 6, 1977) is an American stand-up comedian, author, musician, actor, producer, director, editor, television writer, and podcast host. DeRosa got his start in comedy performing as part of a comedic musical duo called Deep at the New Road Brewhouse in his hometown of Collegeville, Pennsylvania. After a short time, Deep split up and DeRosa began performing stand-up comedy regularly at the Laff House in Philadelphia. DeRosa moved to New York City, where he became a regular performer in many of the city's comedy clubs. Beginning in 2006, DeRosa began co-hosting the", "title": "Joe DeRosa (comedian)" }, { "docid": "16973133", "text": "Joe DeRosa (comedian) Joe Derosa (born August 6, 1977) is an American stand-up comedian, author, musician, actor, producer, director, editor, television writer, and podcast host. DeRosa got his start in comedy performing as part of a comedic musical duo called Deep at the New Road Brewhouse in his hometown of Collegeville, Pennsylvania. After a short time, Deep split up and DeRosa began performing stand-up comedy regularly at the Laff House in Philadelphia. DeRosa moved to New York City, where he became a regular performer in many of the city's comedy clubs. Beginning in 2006, DeRosa began co-hosting the \"Uninformed\" radio", "title": "Joe DeRosa (comedian)" }, { "docid": "18883902", "text": "his best friend from school, who refreshingly treats him as an equal but is not the influence Matt's concerned parents are looking for. In June 2018, Ridley won the 12th series of \"Britain's Got Talent\" after successfully making it through the audition stages, and winning the show by the public vote. Lee Ridley (comedian) Lee Ridley (born 31 December 1980) is an English stand-up comedian. Disabled since early life, and unable to speak, he is the first standup comedian in Britain to use a communication aid in his routines, performing them under the stage name of Lost Voice Guy. He", "title": "Lee Ridley (comedian)" }, { "docid": "19500757", "text": "Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show\", in which voice actors Alex Borstein and MacFarlane performed songs from the show, as well as a parody of Lady Gaga's song \"Poker Face\" in the voice of Marlee Matlin, who appeared on stage as a guest during the performance. Some new animated gags also appeared in the show. On July 22, 2007, in an interview with \"The Hollywood Reporter\", MacFarlane announced that he may start working on a feature film, although \"nothing's official.\" In \"TV Week\" on July 18, 2008, MacFarlane confirmed plans to produce a theatrically released \"Family Guy\" feature film sometime \"within", "title": "Family Guy (franchise)" }, { "docid": "14363761", "text": "to end it in 1996. \"What a Guy!\" was created when Bill and Bunny were visiting with Bunny's daughter and her family. Bunny's grandson was an early \"latchkey\" child. Bill and Bunny were amazed at his very \"grown-up\" comments and used him as the prototype for Guy Wellington Frothmore, who became the focus of a comic strip. \"What a Guy!\" cartoons featured a young boy who \"questions life's complexities\" and repeats adult concepts overheard from his yuppie parents. The strip was launched into print syndication across the United States and Canada by King Features on March 29, 1987. The strip,", "title": "What a Guy!" }, { "docid": "5491540", "text": "Tom Davis (comedian) Thomas James \"Tom\" Davis (August 13, 1952 – July 19, 2012) was an American writer, comedian, and author. He is best known for his comedy partnership with Al Franken, as half of the comedy duo \"Franken & Davis\" on the \"Saturday Night Live\" television show on NBC. Davis was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended The Blake School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he began his friendship and professional partnership with Al Franken. In 1975, Davis got his big break as one of the original writers for \"Saturday Night Live\", where he and Franken also performed together.", "title": "Tom Davis (comedian)" }, { "docid": "9845272", "text": "Bennett's Film \"The Nugget\". Since then Moon has been developing film and television projects and making occasional appearances in shows such as \"20 to 1\" and \"Let Loose Live\". He recently wrote, produced and appeared in The Comedy Channel's sitcom \"Whatever Happened To That Guy?\", which is loosely based on his post-fame life. He is also the Treasurer of the Australian Writers Guild. He has three children. In 2010, Moon joined the cast of \"Neighbours\" on a recurring basis as theatre producer Terry Kearney. Peter Moon (comedian) Peter Moon (born 18 January 1953) is an Australian comedian, best known for", "title": "Peter Moon (comedian)" }, { "docid": "7641152", "text": "actors, theatre restoration and production. Mike Walsh (TV host) Michael Hayden Walsh (born 5 March 1938 in Corowa, New South Wales), is a retired Australian radio and television presenter and media personality and theatre owner. His later career included theatre production in London and Australia. Walsh completed his education at Xavier College in Melbourne, before studying Pharmacy and Arts at Melbourne University where he was heavily involved in student theatre revues. Prior to starring on television Walsh was a disc jockey, a \"Good Guy\" on radio station 2SM. He was the host of \"The Mike Walsh Show\" from 1973 until", "title": "Mike Walsh (TV host)" }, { "docid": "7641148", "text": "Mike Walsh (TV host) Michael Hayden Walsh (born 5 March 1938 in Corowa, New South Wales), is a retired Australian radio and television presenter and media personality and theatre owner. His later career included theatre production in London and Australia. Walsh completed his education at Xavier College in Melbourne, before studying Pharmacy and Arts at Melbourne University where he was heavily involved in student theatre revues. Prior to starring on television Walsh was a disc jockey, a \"Good Guy\" on radio station 2SM. He was the host of \"The Mike Walsh Show\" from 1973 until 1985. The enormously popular program", "title": "Mike Walsh (TV host)" }, { "docid": "20394109", "text": "women — Alex, Zoe and Darcy, who formed an unlikely friendship after discovering that in different times in their lives, they were romantically linked with the same guy, Liam. According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of \"The One That Got Away\" earned a 7.7% rating. The series got its highest rating on May 9, 2018 with an 10.2% rating. The One That Got Away (TV series) The One That Got Away is a 2018 Philippine television drama romance comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark Sicat Dela", "title": "The One That Got Away (TV series)" }, { "docid": "16142910", "text": "imposed in 1972, stopping almost all TV broadcasts in the country. After the show ended, the stocky actor continued appearing on movies or as guest on several TV shows usually appearing in supporting roles as the father figure, househelp, the neighbor, or an avid cockfighter with a kerchief wrapped around his signature crew cut. Balot was married to comedian Matimtiman Cruz. He died in 1996 due to complications from diabetes; he was 70 years old. An incomplete list of movies made by Balot: Balot (comedian) Jaime Llave (March 22, 1926 – November 27, 1996) better known by his screen name", "title": "Balot (comedian)" }, { "docid": "8458702", "text": "Faxon is Gardner's cousin. Track listing Josh Gardner (comedian) Josh Gardner (born 1971 in New York City) an American comedian and writer, Gardner is best known for his role as Saul Malone, a \"Gee-al-agist\", on Adult Swim's cult-classic \"Saul of the Mole Men\". Gardner first appeared on TV under the name Gerhard Reinke, the German host of the Comedy Central travel show, Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust, in 2003 (his real name was not listed in the credits as an actor, only as an Originator and Producer). Gardner also wrote for Comedy Central's The Man Show, and the Fox series \"A Minute", "title": "Josh Gardner (comedian)" }, { "docid": "8744386", "text": "the 85 knots to 13 aesthetic ones. The basic idea is that tie knots can be described as a sequence of five different possible moves, although not all moves can follow each other. These are summarized as follows. All diagrams are as the tie would appear were you wearing it and looking in a mirror. With this shorthand, traditional and new knots can be compactly expressed, as below. Note that any knot that begins with an o move must start with the tie turned inside out around the neck. Of the 85 knots possible with a typical necktie, Fink and", "title": "The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie" }, { "docid": "8728483", "text": "joined the cast of KING's local comedy program Almost Live! with his best friend Pat Cashman. Following the departure of original host Ross Shafer, Keister became the show's host and its format was reworked to emphasize the opening monologue, sketches, and parody news segments. He won a total of twelve local Emmy Awards for his work on the show. \"Almost Live!\" was canceled by KING in 1999. In 2000, Keister created a new sketch comedy show for competing station KIRO-TV, titled \"The John Report with Bob\". Its format was similar to the news report segment he had done on \"Almost", "title": "John Keister (comedian)" }, { "docid": "6162334", "text": "Bob Levy (comedian) \"The Reverend\" Bob Levy (born August 12, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian, radio personality, and, for a brief period, a professional wrestler who is best known as being a regular personality on \"The Howard Stern Show\" as well as being the co-host of the \"Miserable Men\" show on Howard 101. He has often been the host of comedy roasts, was a frequent guest on the \"Opie and Anthony Show\" and was a stand-up comedy performer on the Killers of Comedy tour. Before his career as a comedian, Levy worked as a landscaper, a painter and a", "title": "Bob Levy (comedian)" }, { "docid": "4902194", "text": "on September 12, 2005, featuring the cast of the final ten years. KING-TV also aired \"\"Almost Live! Back At Ya\"\", a series of \"best of\" shows, on Sundays starting September 10, 2006 at 9 p.m. The \"best of\" shows currently air Saturday nights at 2 a.m. on KING-TV's sister station, KONG-TV. Reruns of normal shows are broadcast on KING-TV in Seattle at 1:35 a.m., following \"Up Late NW\". In July 2012, clips surfaced on YouTube that appeared to promote a sketch comedy show called The (206), referring to Seattle's area code. These clips featured John Keister and Pat Cashman and", "title": "Almost Live!" }, { "docid": "8458700", "text": "Josh Gardner (comedian) Josh Gardner (born 1971 in New York City) an American comedian and writer, Gardner is best known for his role as Saul Malone, a \"Gee-al-agist\", on Adult Swim's cult-classic \"Saul of the Mole Men\". Gardner first appeared on TV under the name Gerhard Reinke, the German host of the Comedy Central travel show, Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust, in 2003 (his real name was not listed in the credits as an actor, only as an Originator and Producer). Gardner also wrote for Comedy Central's The Man Show, and the Fox series \"A Minute With Stan Hooper\". Aside from comedy,", "title": "Josh Gardner (comedian)" }, { "docid": "6599789", "text": "by plucking while varying the pitch with a metal or glass slide held in the other hand. A glass bottle is usually used as the bridge, which helps amplify the sound. The diddley bow was traditionally considered an \"entry-level\" instrument, normally played by adolescent boys, who then graduate to a \"normal\" guitar if they show promise on the diddley bow. However currently, the diddley bow is also played by professional players as a solo as well as an accompaniment instrument. The diddley bow is significant to blues music in that many blues guitarists got their start playing it as children,", "title": "Diddley bow" }, { "docid": "5770174", "text": "the new E! entertainment series \"Sexiest...\", was the live voice of '1 vs. 100' via Xbox Live Primetime in the UK and Ireland during Season 1. In his early career James worked for BBC Radio Sheffield and was lead singer of his own pop band - he still occasionally writes songs for musical theatre shows. His younger brother is the television and radio presenter Richard McCourt, of Dick and Dom fame. James McCourt (TV host) James McCourt is a British television presenter/host, celebrity interviewer, correspondent, certified life coach and royal expert. James is a host, celebrity interviewer, correspondent, a certified", "title": "James McCourt (TV host)" }, { "docid": "4394318", "text": "Guy A. Lepage Guy A. Lepage (; born Guy Antoine Lepage, August 30, 1960) is a Canadian (Québécois) comedian, actor, talk-show host, and producer. Lepage was one of the five founding members of the Quebec comedy group \"Rock et Belles Oreilles\" (which also included Yves Pelletier, Bruno Landry and André Ducharme), and remained with the group from 1981 to 1995. Lepage became a popular media mogul and TV series director in Quebec in the early 2000s. He created and starred alongside Sylvie Léonard in the popular sitcom \"Un gars, une fille\" (\"A guy, a girl\"). He then followed up with", "title": "Guy A. Lepage" }, { "docid": "11950933", "text": "young sons. Chris Baker (talk radio host) Chris Baker is an American comedian and radio talk show host. As a comedian, Baker has toured with comics like Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, Jerry Seinfeld, among others. His first talk show on WIOD-AM in Miami, Florida lead to positions with stations in Omaha and Kansas City (KCMO-AM), he was host of \"The Chris Baker Show\", a radio talk show based in Houston, Texas, followed by a stint in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 100.3 KTLK-FM. He returned to Houston in mid-February 2011, where he has a weekday afternoon radio show on 740", "title": "Chris Baker (talk radio host)" }, { "docid": "11950931", "text": "Chris Baker (talk radio host) Chris Baker is an American comedian and radio talk show host. As a comedian, Baker has toured with comics like Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, Jerry Seinfeld, among others. His first talk show on WIOD-AM in Miami, Florida lead to positions with stations in Omaha and Kansas City (KCMO-AM), he was host of \"The Chris Baker Show\", a radio talk show based in Houston, Texas, followed by a stint in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 100.3 KTLK-FM. He returned to Houston in mid-February 2011, where he has a weekday afternoon radio show on 740 AM, co-hosting", "title": "Chris Baker (talk radio host)" }, { "docid": "19289543", "text": "people. The winner of Got What It Takes 2018, Rio, performed at Radio 1's Big Weekend also. The winner of Got What It Takes 2018, Lauren, performed at Radio 1's Big Weekend also. Eight amateur youth singers take part in the singing talent competition. Three contestants are chosen to compete in \"the Sing-Off\" whilst the mums vote for who they want to win. The show is based on a Romanian TV programme called \"Mom Made Me a Star\". Audition applications for the first series were released in early 2015 under the working title \"Untitled CBBC talent show\". The second series", "title": "Got What It Takes?" }, { "docid": "12308698", "text": "Facundo (TV host) Facundo Gómez Bruera (born April 29, 1978), best known as by his stage name Facundo, is a Mexican TV host among Mexican teenagers. Facundo started his career at the Mexican TV network TeleHit together with his good friend Diego, hosting a show called Depasónico, where, besides presenting videos, the two conducted interviews and visited nightclubs. In April 2002 Gómez launched a new show called Toma Libre, where Changoleon becomes famous. Facundo also took part in Mexico's Big Brother VIP where he finished in second place. His fans called him \"the uncrowned king\". In 2004 he hosted a", "title": "Facundo (TV host)" }, { "docid": "9369611", "text": "Jason Byrne (comedian) Jason Byrne (born 25 February 1972) is an Irish comedian and radio host. He is well known for improvisation and his typically unscripted live shows, which often involve audience participation. In August 2008, he made his twelfth Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Byrne previously presented a mid-morning radio show on Phantom FM as well as a comedy chat show \"The Jason Byrne Show\" featuring P. J. Gallagher, and a comedy panel show called \"The Byrne Ultimatum\" on RTÉ Two. He created and starred in a radio show also called \"The Jason Byrne Show\" from 2010 to 2012 on BBC", "title": "Jason Byrne (comedian)" }, { "docid": "12308699", "text": "new show Incógnito which had a similar format to that of Toma Libre. It was transmitted by Televisa's Canal 5. Facundo (TV host) Facundo Gómez Bruera (born April 29, 1978), best known as by his stage name Facundo, is a Mexican TV host among Mexican teenagers. Facundo started his career at the Mexican TV network TeleHit together with his good friend Diego, hosting a show called Depasónico, where, besides presenting videos, the two conducted interviews and visited nightclubs. In April 2002 Gómez launched a new show called Toma Libre, where Changoleon becomes famous. Facundo also took part in Mexico's Big", "title": "Facundo (TV host)" }, { "docid": "13868956", "text": "Austin Knight (comedian) Austin Knight (born July 5, 1959) is a comedian and actor from Manchester. Austin was born in Gorton, Manchester. Gorton is known today for being the filming location of the Channel 4 comedy-drama Shameless. He got his first break in the 1970s at the \"Search for a Star\" competition at Blighty's, a cabaret club in Farnworth. Austin Knight began his comedy career in the early 70s as a club circuit impressionist; in the early 80s he became a traditional standup comedian. He has written comedy scripts for TV and radio, writing material for Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson", "title": "Austin Knight (comedian)" }, { "docid": "14363763", "text": "up to two years' material in various stages of completion in his files.\" Reiner, who had already taken over drawing duties, would continue to draw \"What A Guy!\" and the five other Hoest comics then in production. (The other five were the syndicated \"The Lockhorns\" and \"Agatha Crumm\"; \"Laugh Parade\" and \"Howard Huge\" for \"Parade\" magazine; plus \"Bumper Snickers\" for \"The National Enquirer\".) This arrangement lasted until the strip ended in 1996. \"What a Guy!\" was one of the comics featured on Morning Funnies cereal boxes in 1988 and 1989, and the strips were collected in \"What a Guy! What's", "title": "What a Guy!" }, { "docid": "4902193", "text": "enough profit for Dallas-based Belo Corporation, which acquired the station's owner King Broadcasting Company two years earlier. As of June 2015, KING-TV (now owned by Tegna) has aired reruns of the show in the time slot following \"Up Late nw\". In fall 2000, Keister created a new sketch comedy show for competing station KIRO-TV, titled \"The John Report with Bob\", essentially a carry-over of the news report segment he had done on \"Almost Live!\" with Bob Nelson in tow. The new show was canceled after two seasons, again because it was not making a profit. KING aired a reunion show", "title": "Almost Live!" }, { "docid": "13236975", "text": "own TV-station from a disused watertower in his backyard, until he got elected in 1994. Haugaard is also a well-known single performer, mixing comedy, singing and music, playing his home made guitar and wearing gaudy suits. He has recorded many music records and CDs since 1977. Jacob Haugaard Daniel Jacob Haugaard (born 12 May 1952) is a Danish-Faroese comedian, actor, musician, composer, writer, TV host and politician. Jacob Haugaard was a frontman of the SABAE association for many years. SABAE is an abrieviation of \"Sammenslutningen Af Bevidst Arbejdssky Elementer\", translating as \"Union of Deliberate Work-avoiding Elements\" and included several academics", "title": "Jacob Haugaard" } ]
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Nov 30, 1835 saw the birth of what famed American humorist and novelist, known for works such as The Prince and the Pauper and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, along with some other famous works?
[ "Mark Twain", "Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass", "Sam Clemens", "Samuel Clements", "Twainesque", "Samuel Langhorn Clemens", "Mark twain", "Twain, Mark", "Sergeant Fathom", "Samuel Longhorn Clemens", "Samuel L. Clemens", "Samuel Langhorne Clemens", "Sam Langhorne Clemens", "Samuel Clemens", "SL Clemens", "Twainian", "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated", "Soleather", "W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab", "Samuel Longhorne Clemens", "Marc Twain", "Samual Clemens" ]
[ { "docid": "2436518", "text": "series.) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthur's knights, Hank realizes that he", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" }, { "docid": "2436480", "text": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthur's knights, Hank realizes that he is", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" }, { "docid": "1631961", "text": "The Prince and the Pauper The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1537, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. Tom Canty, youngest son of a poor family living in Offal Court located in London,", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "12712897", "text": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921 film) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a 1921 American silent film adaptation of Mark Twain's 1889 novel \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\". The film was produced by the Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century Fox) and directed by Emmett J. Flynn based on a screenplay by Bernard McConville. It is notable as the first film adaptation of Twain's novel and as the first film about time travel to the past. The film stars Harry Myers as the titular Yankee Martin Cavendish. After reading Twain's novel, Cavendish dreams", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921 film)" }, { "docid": "11377701", "text": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a 1949 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and William Bendix. Based on the novel \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" (1889) by Mark Twain, the film is about a mechanic in 1912 who bumps his head and finds himself in Arthurian Britain in AD 528, where he is befriended by a knight and gains power by judicious use of technology. When he falls in love with the King's niece,", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film)" }, { "docid": "11377709", "text": "Film Institute nominated this film for its Top 10 Fantasy Films list. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a 1949 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and William Bendix. Based on the novel \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" (1889) by Mark Twain, the film is about a mechanic in 1912 who bumps his head and finds himself in Arthurian Britain in AD 528, where he is befriended by a knight and gains power by judicious", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film)" }, { "docid": "12712899", "text": "of Katharine Hepburn, to commit suicide in 1921. The film is incomplete in the Library of Congress, and only reels 2, 4 and 7 survive. The film was the seventh-biggest hit of 1922 in the US and Canada. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921 film) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a 1921 American silent film adaptation of Mark Twain's 1889 novel \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\". The film was produced by the Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century Fox) and directed by Emmett J. Flynn based on a screenplay by Bernard McConville. It", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921 film)" }, { "docid": "1631984", "text": "and released in 2006 as \"Beggar Prince\" by independent game publisher Super Fighter Team. This was one of the first new games for the discontinued Sega platform since 1998 and is perhaps the first video game adaptation of the book. The Prince and the Pauper The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1537, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "9457643", "text": "A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper, also known as The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie or simply The Prince and the Pauper, is a 2007 film directed by James Quattrochi and starring Dylan and Cole Sprouse, based on the novel by Mark Twain. The film had a 'sneak peek' showing in Temecula, California, before being released globally on DVD. It has also screened on television worldwide, mostly on the Disney Channel, because of the Sprouse Twins' association with the network (the two played the lead roles on", "title": "A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "10665722", "text": "Pluto recognizes the beggar. The real Prince is crowned King of England, and with Mickey and Goofy at his side, rules for many years with justice and compassion for all. The Prince and the Pauper (1990 film) The Prince and the Pauper is an animated featurette produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and directed by George Scribner. Featuring the voice of Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse, it is inspired by the Mark Twain story of the same name. It was Disney's final use of the traditional ink-and-paint and camera process, before the CAPS digital-ink-and-paint process rendered the traditional techniques and", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper (1990 film)" }, { "docid": "7540765", "text": "Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper is a 2004 American - Canadian direct-to-DVD computer animated musical fantasy film, and the first musical in the Barbie film series. It is directed by William Lau and stars the voice of Kelly Sheridan as the Barbie protagonists, Anneliese and Erika. The film is loosely inspired by the Mark Twain novel \"The Prince and the Pauper\", but unrelated to the 1939 film \"The Princess and the Pauper\". Songs for the film are written by Amy Powers, Megan Cavallari and Rob Hudnut, who also executive produced the", "title": "Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "11264791", "text": "The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film) The Prince and the Pauper is a 1937 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mark Twain. It starred Errol Flynn, twins Billy and Bobby Mauch in the title roles, and Claude Rains. The film was originally intended to coincide with the planned coronation of Edward VIII in 1936. However, its release was delayed until the following year. The film was released on May 8, 1937, four days before the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The second theme of the final movement of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's violin", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film)" }, { "docid": "7540776", "text": "that of the movie: players must thwart Preminger's attempt to take over the kingdom by marrying Anneliese. Players control four characters: Anneliese, Erika, Serafina, and Wolfie. Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper is a 2004 American - Canadian direct-to-DVD computer animated musical fantasy film, and the first musical in the Barbie film series. It is directed by William Lau and stars the voice of Kelly Sheridan as the Barbie protagonists, Anneliese and Erika. The film is loosely inspired by the Mark Twain novel \"The Prince and the Pauper\", but unrelated to the", "title": "Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "11264797", "text": "could enter the film earlier. John Mosher of \"The New Yorker\" praised the film as \"a fine spectacle\". \"Harrison's Reports\" called it \"An excellent costume picture\" with \"outstanding\" performances. \"The Prince and the Pauper\" is a novel by Mark Twain with Edward VI of England as the central character. This fictional narrative has been adapted to film a number of times: The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film) The Prince and the Pauper is a 1937 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mark Twain. It starred Errol Flynn, twins Billy and Bobby Mauch in the title", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film)" }, { "docid": "225066", "text": "King Arthur\" (1880) reaching wide audiences and providing inspiration for Mark Twain's satiric \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" (1889). Although the 'Arthur of romance' was sometimes central to these new Arthurian works (as he was in Burne-Jones's \"The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon\", 1881-1898), on other occasions he reverted to his medieval status and is either marginalized or even missing entirely, with Wagner's Arthurian operas providing a notable instance of the latter. Furthermore, the revival of interest in Arthur and the Arthurian tales did not continue unabated. By the end of the 19th century, it was confined mainly", "title": "King Arthur" }, { "docid": "16504984", "text": "The Prince and the Pauper (1920 film) The Prince and the Pauper (German: Prinz und Bettelknabe) is a 1920 Austrian silent adventure film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Tibor Lubinszky, Albert Schreiber, and Adolf Weisse. It is based on Mark Twain's 1881 novel \"The Prince and the Pauper\" about a poor boy who switches places with Edward, Prince of Wales in Tudor England. The film's producer Alexander Kolowrat wanted to emulate the spectacle of Italian costume epics, and was particularly inspired by two recent German films, \"Madame Dubarry\" (1919) and \"Anna Boleyn\" (1920) by Ernst Lubitsch. It was Korda's", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper (1920 film)" }, { "docid": "10213047", "text": "The Prince and the Pauper (1977 film) The Prince and the Pauper (US title: Crossed Swords) is a 1977 action adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer, based on \"The Prince and the Pauper\" by Mark Twain. It stars Oliver Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Raquel Welch, George C. Scott, Charlton Heston, Sir Rex Harrison, and Mark Lester, playing the dual role of Edward VI of England and Tom Canty. In 16th Century London, a pauper called Tom Canty reads to a group a children but is attacked by his cruel father John Canty and threatened that he will be beaten if he", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper (1977 film)" }, { "docid": "12138399", "text": "A Connecticut Yankee (film) A Connecticut Yankee is a 1931 American Pre-Code film adaptation of Mark Twain's 1889 novel, \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\". It was directed by David Butler to a script by William M. Conselman, Owen Davis, and Jack Moffitt. It was produced by Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century Fox), who had earlier produced the 1921 silent adaptation of the novel, \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\". \"A Connecticut Yankee\" is the first sound film adaptation of Twain's novel. As in \"The Wizard of Oz\", many of the actors in the film play more", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee (film)" }, { "docid": "9457661", "text": "mom hinting to each other about getting back together. All remain friends with Tom and he is taken on by Jerry to have his own acting career, starting with a production of Mark Twain's Prince and the Pauper with Eddie. \"We were going to use twins, but I think Tom and Eddie would be great\" said Jerry. \"They sure fooled all of us\". Pop asks Tom if that is definitely what he would like to do and after hearing the excited reply finally gives his approval and blessing to Tom. Milles tells Eddie that he is a lot younger than", "title": "A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "20094039", "text": "four-legged friends can manipulate human behavior will enjoy this mongrel diversion that combines moral lessons with frisky comedy.\" The Pooch and the Pauper The Pooch and the Pauper is a 2000 American television film, starring Richard Karn, Fred Willard, Vincent Schiavelli, Peter MacNicol and Daryl Mitchell. It was directed by Alex Zamm. Adaptation of the Mark Twain classic story, The Prince and the Pauper. But now the story is set in the present time and have dogs as the protagonists. Liberty, \"The First Dog\" and Moocher, a street dog, have their lives turned upside down when they change places by", "title": "The Pooch and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "10665715", "text": "The Prince and the Pauper (1990 film) The Prince and the Pauper is an animated featurette produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and directed by George Scribner. Featuring the voice of Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse, it is inspired by the Mark Twain story of the same name. It was Disney's final use of the traditional ink-and-paint and camera process, before the CAPS digital-ink-and-paint process rendered the traditional techniques and equipment obsolete. The film was released on November 16, 1990 before \"The Rescuers Down Under\". It was also released in theaters in the UK with \"Brother Bear\" in 2003. The", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper (1990 film)" }, { "docid": "20094038", "text": "The Pooch and the Pauper The Pooch and the Pauper is a 2000 American television film, starring Richard Karn, Fred Willard, Vincent Schiavelli, Peter MacNicol and Daryl Mitchell. It was directed by Alex Zamm. Adaptation of the Mark Twain classic story, The Prince and the Pauper. But now the story is set in the present time and have dogs as the protagonists. Liberty, \"The First Dog\" and Moocher, a street dog, have their lives turned upside down when they change places by mistake. Robert Pardi from TV Guide gave the film two out of four, concluding: \"Anyone who believes our", "title": "The Pooch and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "11377705", "text": "Decca Records in December 1947 and these were issued as a 78rpm album set. Crosby's songs were also included in the Bing's Hollywood series. Contemporary reviews praised Crosby's performance but had mixed assessments about other aspects of the film. Bosley Crowther of \"The New York Times\" was positive, writing: \"The solid, reliable humors of Mark Twain’s 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,' which have already done yeoman service in two films and a Broadway musical show, have been given another going over—with eminently satisfactory results—in Paramount’s new film of the same title, which came to the Music Hall yesterday.", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film)" }, { "docid": "5511837", "text": "A Connecticut Yankee (musical) A Connecticut Yankee is a musical based on the novel \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" by American writer Mark Twain. Like most adaptations of the Twain novel, it focuses on the lighter aspects of the story. The music was written by Richard Rodgers, the lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and the book by Herbert Fields. It was produced by Lew Fields and Lyle D. Andrews. It enjoyed an original run on Broadway in 1927 of 421 performances and a number of revivals. The 1931 film of the same name starring Will Rogers was not adapted", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee (musical)" }, { "docid": "9646143", "text": "Dudley Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and other reformers and activists. The area became known as Nook Farm, taking its name from the bend‚ or “nook‚” in the Park River‚ which bordered the area. Some houses of this colony still survive. Most notably, the home of Samuel Clemens who wrote under the pseudonym Mark Twain. He created some of his most notable works, including \"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer\" and \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\", while living in Hartford. These houses, along with the Katherine Day House, are preserved as museums open to the public. By the", "title": "Neighborhoods of Hartford, Connecticut" }, { "docid": "16604159", "text": "Mark Twain House The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. It was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and built in the American High Gothic style. Clemens biographer Justin Kaplan has called it \"part steamboat, part medieval fortress and part cuckoo clock.\" Clemens wrote many of his best-known works while living there, including \"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer\", \"The Prince and the Pauper\", \"Life on the Mississippi\", \"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\", \"A Tramp Abroad\", and \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.\" Poor", "title": "Mark Twain House" }, { "docid": "11620807", "text": "song, \"Placentero nos es trabajar\". During the American Civil War, veterans sang a song devoted to \"The Army Bean\" which used a tune derivative of \"The Sweet By-and-By\". Mark Twain made fun of the song's ubiquitous popularity, along with the demographic groups in which it became popular, in chapter 17 (\"A Banquet\") of his 1889 satirical novel \"A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court\". The protagonist, Hank Morgan, a visitor from the future, attends a lavish court dinner given by Morgan Le Fay, King Arthur's sister, during which guests are regaled with music: In a gallery a band with cymbals,", "title": "In the Sweet By-and-By" }, { "docid": "15627549", "text": "the film is \"worth a pound.\" AllRovi.com reviewer Mark Deming gave the film two (of five) stars. The Prince and the Surfer The Prince and the Surfer is a 1999 comedy direct-to-video film about a prince who switches places with a Southern California surfer and skateboarder. It was directed by Arye Gross and Gregory Gieras, and stars Sean Kellman, Robert Englund, and Vincent Schiavelli. The film is an updated adaptation of the 1881 novel \"The Prince and the Pauper\" by Mark Twain set in Southern California beach culture, featuring a prince and, instead of a pauper, the skateboarding surfer Cash,", "title": "The Prince and the Surfer" }, { "docid": "15627544", "text": "The Prince and the Surfer The Prince and the Surfer is a 1999 comedy direct-to-video film about a prince who switches places with a Southern California surfer and skateboarder. It was directed by Arye Gross and Gregory Gieras, and stars Sean Kellman, Robert Englund, and Vincent Schiavelli. The film is an updated adaptation of the 1881 novel \"The Prince and the Pauper\" by Mark Twain set in Southern California beach culture, featuring a prince and, instead of a pauper, the skateboarding surfer Cash, who wants to be rich and escape his boring life. The Queen of Gelfland brings her son,", "title": "The Prince and the Surfer" }, { "docid": "14462762", "text": "printed by Harper & Brothers, the exclusive publishers of Mark Twain's works, as an accommodation to purchasers of earlier volumes with a view to making their sets uniform\". It was up to the former buyers of the American Publishing uniform editions to continue adding volumes to their sets. However, a number of buyers stopped collecting the books. Any set found now that contains more than twenty-two volumes from American Publishing Company is considered rare. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) is a collection of thirty comic short stories by the iconic American humorist", "title": "The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories" }, { "docid": "505939", "text": "that the famous Yankee \"twang\" survives mainly in the hill towns of interior New England, though it is disappearing even there. Mark Twain's novel \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" popularized the word as a nickname for residents of Connecticut, and Connecticut Air National Guard unit 103d Airlift Wing is nicknamed \"The Flying Yankees.\" The shortened form \"Yank\" is used as a derogatory, pejorative, playful, or colloquial term for Americans in Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Ireland, and New Zealand. Depending on the country, \"Yankee\" may be considered mildly derogatory. In Cockney rhyming slang, an American is a \"Septic\"", "title": "Yankee" } ]
[ { "docid": "2436505", "text": "the idea behind \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" in December 1884 and worked on it between 1885 and 1889. The principal part of the writing was done at Twain's summer home at Elmira, New York and was completed at Hartford, Connecticut. It was first published in England by Chatto & Windus under the title \"A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur\" in December 1889. Writer and critic William Dean Howells called it Twain's best work and \"an object-lesson in democracy\". The work was met with some indignation in Great Britain as it was perceived as \"a direct", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" }, { "docid": "2436514", "text": "has also inspired many variations and parodies, such as the 1979 Bugs Bunny special \"A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court\". \"A Knight for a Day\" is a 1946 Disney short film starring Goofy loosely is loosely inspired by the novel \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\". In 1995, Walt Disney Studios adapted the book into the feature film \"A Kid in King Arthur's Court\". \"Army of Darkness\" drew many inspirations from the novel. A 1992 cartoon series, \"King Arthur & the Knights of Justice\", could also be seen as deriving inspiration from the novel. In 1998 Disney made", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" }, { "docid": "19001486", "text": "Radio City Music Hall, New York. Decca included all the Crosby songs on Decca DL 4261 in 1962 for the LP set Bing’s Hollywood. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (album) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby and other stars of the Paramount movie \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" featuring songs from the film. All of the songs were written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke. Billboard liked it saying: The album reached the No. 5 position in Billboard's album charts. These newly issued songs", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (album)" }, { "docid": "9457663", "text": "with Miles barbecuing in a garden and everyone looks happy as Milles plays football with Tom, and his lookalike that he's known for much less time but who is really his son, Eddie, proud that the boys are following in his footsteps as actors and knows that they will not make the mistakes that he did after everything that they learned in their fun adventure: A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper. A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper, also known as The Prince and the Pauper:", "title": "A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "1631972", "text": "comics form by Arnold L. Hicks in \"Classics Illustrated\" (\"\"Classic Comics\"\") #29, published by Gilberton. In 1962, Dell Comics published \"Walt Disney's the Prince and the Pauper\", illustrated by Dan Spiegle, based on the three-part television adaptation produced by \"Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color\". In 1990, Disney Comics published \"Disney's The Prince and the Pauper\", by Scott Saavedra and Sergio Asteriti, based on the animated featurette starring Mickey Mouse. The novel has also been the basis of several films. In some versions, Prince Edward carries identification when he assumes Tom's role. While animations such as the Mickey Mouse version", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "19001485", "text": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (album) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby and other stars of the Paramount movie \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" featuring songs from the film. All of the songs were written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke. Billboard liked it saying: The album reached the No. 5 position in Billboard's album charts. These newly issued songs were featured in a 3-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album A-699. <nowiki>*</nowiki>This song was cut from the film after its world premiere at", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (album)" }, { "docid": "2436513", "text": "In 1978 an episode of Once Upon a Classic, \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\", was an adaptation, as was the Disney movie \"Unidentified Flying Oddball\", also known as \"A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court\". The TV series \"The Transformers\" had a second-season episode, \"A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court\", that had a group of Autobots and Decepticons sent back to medieval times. In 1988, the Soviet variation called \"New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" appeared. More recently it was adapted into a 1989 TV movie by Paul Zindel which starred Keshia Knight Pulliam. It", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" }, { "docid": "1631964", "text": "Meanwhile, news reaches them that King Henry VIII has died and Edward is now the King. Tom, dressed as Edward, tries to cope with court customs and manners. His fellow nobles and palace staff think the prince has an illness, which has caused memory loss and fear he will go mad. They repeatedly ask him about the missing Great Seal of England, but he knows nothing about it. However, when Tom is asked to sit in on judgments, his common-sense observations reassure them his mind is sound. As Edward experiences the brutal life of a London pauper firsthand, he becomes", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "10213054", "text": "other that they were not good at each other's position. Archbishop Cranmer and other witnesses are stunned until Edward presents the Prince's Seal and takes his position as the rightful King. After the ceremony, Edward makes Tom Head Governor and his mother sets up shelters for the homeless. Miles is restored to his honour as a Knight and marries Edith. George MacDonald Fraser was hired to rewrite the script. Shooting took place in France. The Prince and the Pauper (1977 film) The Prince and the Pauper (US title: Crossed Swords) is a 1977 action adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer,", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper (1977 film)" }, { "docid": "1631969", "text": "set in Victorian England before Twain decided to set it further back in time. He wrote \"The Prince and the Pauper\" having already started \"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\". The \"whipping-boy story,\" originally meant as a chapter to be part of \"The Prince and the Pauper\" was published in the Hartford \"Bazar Budget\" of July 4, 1880, before Twain deleted it from the novel at the suggestion of William Dean Howells. Ultimately, \"The Prince and the Pauper\" was published by subscription by James R. Osgoode of Boston, with illustrations by F.T. Merrill. The book bears a dedication to Twain's daughters, Susie", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "1631980", "text": "BBC TV comedy series \"Blackadder the Third\" has an episode, \"Duel and Duality,\" where the Prince Regent believes that the Duke of Wellington is after him. The prince swaps clothes with Blackadder (who is his butler) and says, \"This reminds of that story 'The Prince and the Porpoise'.\" Blackadder corrects him: \"Pauper. The Prince and the Pauper.\" Since \"Blackadder the Third\" is set during the early 1800s, this is an anachronism. In 1996, PBS aired a \"Wishbone\" adaptation titled \"The Pooch and the Pauper\" with Wishbone playing both Tom Canty and Edward VI. The BBC produced a six-part dramatization of", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "11377702", "text": "her fiancé Sir Lancelot takes exception, and when he meddles in the politics of the kingdom, trouble ensues. Filmed from October to December 1947, \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" was released on April 22, 1949 and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was a popular success and became one of the highlight films of 1949. Hank Martin (Bing Crosby), an American mechanic, is knocked out and wakes up in the land of King Arthur. Here he finds romance with Alisande la Carteloise (Rhonda Fleming) and friendship with Sir Sagramore (William Bendix). Unfortunately, the heroic Hank also incurs the", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film)" }, { "docid": "2436508", "text": "of medieval slavery. It is possible to see the book as an important transitional work for Twain, in that earlier, sunnier passages recall the frontier humor of his tall tales such as \"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\", while the corrosive view of human behavior in the apocalyptic latter chapters is more akin to darker, later Twain works such as \"The Mysterious Stranger\" and \"Letters from the Earth\". George Hardy notes, \"The final scenes of 'Connecticut Yankee' depict a mass horse attempting to storm a position defended by wire and machine guns—and getting massacred, none reaching their objective. Deduct", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" }, { "docid": "2436515", "text": "another adaption with Whoopi Goldberg in \"A Knight in Camelot\". The 2001 film \"Black Knight\" similarly transports a modern-day American to Medieval England while adding racial element to the time-traveler plotline. In the Carl Sagan novel \"Contact\", the protagonist, Eleanor Arroway, is reading \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\", specifically the scene where Hank first approaches Camelot, when she finds out about her father's death. The quotation Bridgeport?' Said I. 'Camelot,' Said he\" is also used later in the book, and the story is used as a metaphor for contact between civilizations at very different levels of technological and", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" }, { "docid": "1631970", "text": "and Clara Clemens and is subtitled \"A Tale For Young People of All Ages\". \"The Prince and the Pauper\" was adapted for the stage during Twain's lifetime, an adaptation which involved Twain in litigation with the playwright. In November 1920, a stage adaption by Amélie Rives opened on Broadway under the direction of William Faversham, with Faversham as Miles Hendon and Ruth Findlay playing both Tom Canty and Prince Edward. An Off-Broadway musical with music by Neil Berg opened at Lamb's Theatre on June 16, 2002. The original cast included Dennis Michael Hall as Prince Edward, Gerard Canonico as Tom", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "1631978", "text": "Indian television in 1954, is a Telugu-version adaptation of the novel starring N. T. Rama Rao and directed by B. A. Subba Rao. In 1957, CBS' \"DuPont Show of the Month\" offered an adaptation of \"The Prince and the Pauper\", with Johnny Washbrook of \"My Friend Flicka\" as Tom Canty and Rex Thompson as Prince Edward. A 1962 three-part \"Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color\" television adaptation featured Guy Williams as Miles Hendon. Both Prince Edward and Tom Canty were played by Sean Scully, using the split-screen technique which the Disney studios had used in \"The Parent Trap\" (1961) with", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "1631975", "text": "1977 film version of the story, starring Oliver Reed as Miles Hendon, co-starring Rex Harrison (as the Duke of Norfolk), Mark Lester and Raquel Welch and directed by Richard Fleischer, was released in the UK as \"The Prince and the Pauper\" and in the US as \"Crossed Swords.\" Walt Disney Feature Animation made a 1990 animated 24-minute short film, inspired by the novel and starring Mickey Mouse. In this version, Mickey trades places with himself and is supported by other Disney characters. \"It Takes Two\", starring twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, is a loose translation of this story in which", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "10908525", "text": "The Cat and the King The Cat and the King (1981) is a work of historical fiction about the court of French King Louis XIV (1638–1715) by novelist Louis Auchincloss. The novel's narrator—Louis de Rouvroy, the second Duc de Saint-Simon—was a real-life French noble who observed life at the court and recorded in his memoirs all that he saw and felt about the reign of the Sun King. Saint-Simon (1675–1755) is mentioned in many of Auchincloss’ works and in \"The Cat and the King\" he fantasizes that the Duc kept on writing after his real-life memoirs were published. Mixing fact", "title": "The Cat and the King" }, { "docid": "1631981", "text": "the story in 1996, adapted by Julian Fellowes, starring James Purefoy, with Keith Michell reprising his role of Henry VIII. A 2011 episode of \"Phineas and Ferb\" (\"Make Play\", season 2, episode 64) follows a similar storyline, with Candace switching places with Princess Baldegunde of Duselstein and discovering that royal life is dull. Starting with the episode \"The Shepherd\" (premiered on December 4, 2011) , the Abc's \"Once Upon a Time (TV series)\" introduced a version of the story where the shepherd named Prince Charming is the Pauper and Prince James is the Prince. The 2017 Japanese anime series \"Princess", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "10086758", "text": "and Minor Keys Except for the Really Hard Ones, S. easy as 3.14159265 (P.D.Q. Bach) 14. Introduction (3:16)<br> \"Little Pickle Book\" for theater organ and dill piccolos, S. 6 (P.D.Q. Bach) 19. Introduction (1:16)<br> \"Sonata Da Circo (Circus Sonata)\" for steam calliope, S. 3 ring (P.D.Q. Bach) 25. Introduction (1:07)<br> \"Three Chorale-Based Piecelets\" for Organ, S. III (P.D.Q. Bach) 29. Epilogue (1:24) The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard was released in 1995 by Telarc Records. The album contains works by Peter Schickele, sometimes under his pseudonym of P.", "title": "The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard" }, { "docid": "11264795", "text": "Angel\" and \"The Charge of the Light Brigade\". They announced \"The Prince and the Pauper\" as part of their line up in June 1936. (They bought the rights to the story from Twain's estate for $75,000.) Patrick Knowles was cast for the role of Miles in October. However Jack L. Warner then decided he wanted someone with a bigger name and asked Errol Flynn to do it. According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $1,026,000 domestically and $665,000 foreign making it the studio's most popular film of the year. Frank S. Nugent of \"The New York Times\" wrote, \"Bobby", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film)" }, { "docid": "1631968", "text": "the Pauper\" is both a critique of social inequality and a criticism of judging others by their appearance. Twain wrote of the book, \"My idea is to afford a realizing sense of the exceeding severity of the laws of that day by inflicting some of their penalties upon the King himself and allowing him a chance to see the rest of them applied to others...\" Having returned from a second European tour — which formed the basis of \"A Tramp Abroad\" (1880) — Twain read extensively about English and French history. Initially intended as a play, the book was originally", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "1631976", "text": "two girls (one wealthy and the other an orphan, who resemble each other) switch places in order to experience each other's lives. The 1996 Bollywood film \"Tere Mere Sapne\" is loosely based upon this story, in which two boys born on exactly the same date switch places to experience the other's life, whilst learning valuable lessons along the way. A 2000 film directed by Giles Foster starred Aidan Quinn (as Miles Hendon), Alan Bates, Jonathan Hyde, and identical twins Jonathan and Robert Timmins. In 2004, it was adapted into an 85-minute CGI-animated musical, \"Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper\",", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "11264793", "text": "each other. As a prank, they exchange clothes, but the Captain of the Guard (Alan Hale, Sr.) mistakes the prince for the pauper and throws him out of the palace grounds. Tom is unable to convince anybody except for the Earl of Hertford (Claude Rains) of his identity. Everyone else is convinced that he is mentally ill. When Henry VIII dies, Hertford threatens to expose Tom unless he does as he is told. Hertford also blackmails the Captain into searching for the real prince to eliminate the dangerous loose end. Meanwhile, Edward finds an amused, if disbelieving protector in Miles", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film)" }, { "docid": "10086757", "text": "The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard was released in 1995 by Telarc Records. The album contains works by Peter Schickele, sometimes under his pseudonym of P. D. Q. Bach, including \"works for various types of keyboards, including theatre organ, calliope, the ever popular piano, and the organ of the King Congregational Church of Fayray, North Dakota.\" The title is a parody of Johann Sebastian Bach's \"Well-Tempered Clavier\". As indicated on the album covers: 1. Opening & Introduction (4:50)<br> \"The Short-Tempered Clavier\", Preludes and Fugues in all the Major", "title": "The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard" }, { "docid": "15639337", "text": "the composer and discovering more about the man and his works. In the film, he travels to significant places in Parry's life; Highnam Court, Shulbrede Priory and hears performances of his lesser-known works such as a rare performance of his \"Fifth Symphony\" at the BBC Proms. The Prince and the Composer The Prince and the Composer: A Film about Hubert Parry by HRH The Prince of Wales is a 2011 documentary film presented by Charles, Prince of Wales about the music and life of the composer Sir Hubert Parry. The documentary was directed by John Bridcut and was first broadcast", "title": "The Prince and the Composer" }, { "docid": "18715937", "text": "The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur is a 1910 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. The book tells of Sir Geraint and his wife Enid, Sir Galahad and how he achieved the Holy Grail, and the death of King Arthur. It is the last of Pyle's Arthurian series. In the story, Sir Geraint, along with Queen Guinevere and her court, woke up late on a day in which King Arthur is supposed to go hunting. They go to catch up with the", "title": "The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur" }, { "docid": "10908526", "text": "and fiction, the Duc de Saint-Simon recounts three episodes in which he and his wife involve themselves in the notorious schemings of King Louis XIV's Versailles. Throughout, the famous courtier's attitudes toward the King and court shift. In the first story, the young Duc, appalled at the King's calculating matches of his illegitimate offspring with prominent aristocrats, works to subvert the wedding of one of Louis' nephews, but is thwarted when his adversaries threaten to expose the homosexuality of both the King's brother and the narrator's patron, the Prince de Conti. In the second, Saint-Simon is maneuvered into acting as", "title": "The Cat and the King" }, { "docid": "16504986", "text": "which was also planning a film version of the novel. Once it was eventually released it proved to be a great success. The film's financial success in America inspired Korda towards his later ambitions to make \"international films\" which would have global market appeal, a strategy he put into place when working later in Britain which led to the worldwide success of his 1933 film \"The Private Life of Henry VIII\". The Prince and the Pauper (1920 film) The Prince and the Pauper (German: Prinz und Bettelknabe) is a 1920 Austrian silent adventure film directed by Alexander Korda and starring", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper (1920 film)" }, { "docid": "7540766", "text": "film. In an unnamed kingdom long ago, a blonde princess and a brunette pauper are born simultaneously. The princess, Anneliese, craves freedom from her royal duties, especially because she wants to marry her tutor and true love, Julian. Despite this, she is informed by her widowed mother, Queen Genevieve, that she must marry King Dominick, the wealthy king of a nearby kingdom because their royal treasury is nearly bankrupt. The pauper, Erika, craves a different sort of freedom as she is an indentured servant at Madame Carp's Dress Emporium to work off her parents' debt, but dreams of becoming a", "title": "Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "1631971", "text": "Canty, Rob Evan as Miles Hendon, Stephen Zinnato as Hugh Hendon, Rita Harvey as Lady Edith, Michael McCormick as John Canty, Robert Anthony Jones as the Hermit/Dresser, Sally Wilfert as Mary Canty, Allison Fischer as Lady Jane and Aloysius Gigl as Father Andrew. The musical closed August 31, 2003. English playwright Jemma Kennedy adapted the story into a musical drama which was performed at the Unicorn Theatre in London 2012–2013, directed by Selina Cartmell and starring twins Danielle Bird and Nichole Bird as the Prince and Pauper and Jake Harders as Miles Hendon. In 1946, the story was adapted into", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "18715946", "text": "of Limours, and he rides away with his wife. Their friend meets them, and lets him come to his castle. The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur is a 1910 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. The book tells of Sir Geraint and his wife Enid, Sir Galahad and how he achieved the Holy Grail, and the death of King Arthur. It is the last of Pyle's Arthurian series. In the story, Sir Geraint, along with Queen Guinevere and her court, woke up", "title": "The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur" }, { "docid": "8815783", "text": "The Princess and the Pauper The Princess and the Pauper is a 1939 Technicolor cartoon sponsored film by Chevrolet. It features Nicky Nome, who also appeared in the previous Chevrolet films \"A Coach for Cinderella\" and \"A Ride for Cinderella\". \"The Princess and the Pauper\" is in the public domain and runs for approximately ten minutes. The depiction of several of the characters may be viewed as racist in its exaggeration. A king offers his daughter's hand in marriage to the wealthiest suitor in the kingdom. She is wooed by the despicable wizard Ali Kazam, but falls for a pauper", "title": "The Princess and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "12712898", "text": "that he, like Twain's protagonist Henry Morgan, is transported back to the time of King Arthur (Charles Clary), where he must use modern know-how to outwit the king's foes Morgan le Fay (Rosemary Theby) and Merlin (William V. Mong). The screenplay modernizes the novel with many contemporary references, including mentions of Ford Model Ts, the Volstead Act, and the Battle of the Argonne Forest. The film was popular, and its success likely encouraged Fox to produce the later sound film adaptation of the novel, \"A Connecticut Yankee\". According to author Barbara Leaming, the film's hanging scene inspired Tom Hepburn, brother", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921 film)" }, { "docid": "5027122", "text": "\"The Last Battle\", the finale to \"King Arthur\". Wakeman kept track of what he had written after he organised for someone to sneak in a cassette tape recorder into his hospital room and recorded his arrangements by humming them into the microphone. Before \"King Arthur\" was recorded, Wakeman underwent a concert tour of North America, his first full-scale tour as a solo artist, in September and October 1974. The tour featured his band, an orchestra and choir; the cost of such a production ultimately cost him around £125,000. Upon his return to England from his North American tour, Wakeman and", "title": "The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table" }, { "docid": "10331060", "text": "the character's name in \"The Greene Knight\". \"King Arthur and King Cornwall\" occurs in a damaged section of the Percy Folio; about half of each page was ripped out to start fires. As such, the ballad is missing about half of its content, though some of the missing material can be deduced from context. Apparently after bragging about the excellence of his famed Round Table, King Arthur is told by Guinevere that another king has an even better one. Arthur and his company leave their kingdom (here Brittany rather than Great Britain) in disguise searching for this king, and eventually", "title": "King Arthur and King Cornwall" }, { "docid": "10331059", "text": "King Arthur and King Cornwall \"King Arthur and King Cornwall\" is an English ballad surviving in fragmentary form in the 17th-century Percy Folio manuscript. An Arthurian story, it was collected by Francis James Child as Child Ballad 30. Unlike other Child Ballads, but like the Arthurian \"The Boy and the Mantle\" and \"The Marriage of Sir Gawain\", it is not a folk ballad but a professional minstrel's song. It is notable for containing the Green Knight, a character known from the medieval poems \"The Greene Knight\" and the more famous \"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\"; he appears as \"Bredbeddle\",", "title": "King Arthur and King Cornwall" }, { "docid": "2436512", "text": "into the musical \"A Connecticut Yankee\" by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. A 1931 film, also called \"A Connecticut Yankee\", starred Will Rogers. The story was adapted as an hour-long radio play on the October 5, 1947, broadcast of the Ford Theatre, starring Karl Swenson. A 1949 musical film featured Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming, with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and Victor Young. In 1960, Tennessee Ernie Ford starred in a television adaptation. In 1970, the book was adapted into a 74-minute animated TV special directed by Zoran Janjic with Orson Bean as the voice of the title character.", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" }, { "docid": "10331065", "text": "womanizing portrayal in certain Old French works. The magician-king of Cornwall does not appear in other Arthurian romance. In other stories, Cornwall is ruled by either Arthur's cousin Cador, or by King Mark, the uncle of Tristan and husband of Iseult. Equally unique is Cornwall's daughter, whom he had fathered on Guinevere behind Arthur's back. Several Arthurian staple characters do make appearances, such as Guinevere, Gawain, and Tristan. King Arthur and King Cornwall \"King Arthur and King Cornwall\" is an English ballad surviving in fragmentary form in the 17th-century Percy Folio manuscript. An Arthurian story, it was collected by Francis", "title": "King Arthur and King Cornwall" }, { "docid": "2436510", "text": "completion of \"Yankee.\" The last chapters of the book are full of Hank's pronouncements of love, culminating in his final delirium, where \"an abyss of thirteen centuries yawning between me and you!\" is worse than death. While \"Connecticut Yankee\" is sometimes credited as the foundational work in the time travel subgenre of science fiction, Twain's novel had several important immediate predecessors. Among them are H.G. Wells's story \"The Chronic Argonauts\" (1888), which was a precursor to \"The Time Machine\" (1895). Also published the year before \"Connecticut Yankee\" was Edward Bellamy's wildly popular \"Looking Backward\" (1888), in which the protagonist is", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" }, { "docid": "12138401", "text": "was re-released in 1936. It is unrelated to the 1927 musical also titled \"A Connecticut Yankee\". The hero's name was changed from Hank Morgan to Hank Martin, possibly because the original name sounded too similar to that of actor Frank Morgan. A trailer for the film exists at the Library of Congress. Radio salesmen Hank Martin (Will Rogers), travels back in time to Camelot where he is welcomed by King Arthur (William Farnum) and must use his modern knowledge to stop Morgana Le Fay (Myrna Loy) and Merlin (Brandon Hurst) from taking over. A Connecticut Yankee (film) A Connecticut Yankee", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee (film)" }, { "docid": "1359751", "text": "house, Charles L. Webster & Company, which he co-owned with Charles L. Webster, his nephew by marriage. At this time he also wrote \"The Private History of a Campaign That Failed\" for \"The Century Magazine\". This piece detailed his two-week stint in a Confederate militia during the Civil War. He next focused on \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\", written with the same historical fiction style as \"The Prince and the Pauper\". \"A Connecticut Yankee\" showed the absurdities of political and social norms by setting them in the court of King Arthur. The book was started in December 1885,", "title": "Mark Twain" }, { "docid": "18993278", "text": "it eventually became one of the city's main economic drivers, along with coal and the railroad. While coal and clay both declined in Colchester in the twentieth century, the brickworks survived as a producer of buff brick, ultimately becoming the last surviving brickwors in the city. It closed in the 1960s when buff brick declined in favor of colored brick, which could be more easily obtained from other sources. The brickworks was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 8, 2001. Moses King Brick and Tile Works The Moses King Brick and Tile Works is a historic", "title": "Moses King Brick and Tile Works" }, { "docid": "11180417", "text": "cup. The chalice may be the mysterious and much-sought-after Holy Grail. Prince Alexander is diverted in his quest by the enchantments of Morgan Le Fay, the seductive but evil sorceress. She persuades him to attempt a theft of the cup so that she can gain power over King Arthur and his court. Alexander's search for the mysterious cup leads him to Alice. Together the prince and the pilgrim find what they've really been seeking: love. The tale is a self-contained novel taking place during Arthur's reign (possibly during the events in The Last Enchantment), and does not continue the story", "title": "The Prince and the Pilgrim" }, { "docid": "5511842", "text": "Among the best remembered songs are the up-tempo duet, \"Thou Swell\", the ballad \"My Heart Stood Still\", \"On a Desert Island with Thee\", and \"I Feel at Home with You\". For the 1943 revival, Rodgers and Hart added several additional songs, including \"Can't You Do a Friend a Favor?\" and \"To Keep My Love Alive\", Hart's last song and a hit for star Vivienne Segal. A recording of the 1943 revival was released on June 29, 1944, by Decca. A Connecticut Yankee (musical) A Connecticut Yankee is a musical based on the novel \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\"", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee (musical)" }, { "docid": "5511838", "text": "from this musical, nor was the 1949 musical film \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\", which starred Bing Crosby. The Rodgers and Hart \"Connecticut Yankee\", like many of the team's earlier musicals, has never been filmed for the big screen though a scene was staged for the 1948 biographical movie of the lives of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Words and Music. \"A Connecticut Yankee\" opened on Broadway at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 3, 1927, and closed on October 27, 1928, running for 421 performances. Directed by Alexander Leftwich, with dances by Busby Berkeley, it starred William Gaxton", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee (musical)" }, { "docid": "9457662", "text": "he was when he first started acting and says that the most important thing he learned was to be gracious and treat people with respect. He asks if Eddie can do that, to which he replies, \"I will now!\" and he does, just insulting Elizabeth jokingly at the filming of Prince and the Pauper, which she does back. They film with Tom, whilst Milles is now trying his hand at directing, with Eddie's mom producing and Jerry (Sally Kellerman) and Pop looking on. The end credits then begin, whilst the final shot shows of Eddie and Tom chilling together and", "title": "A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "17942104", "text": "in 1977, so all of his books will enter the public domain in 2048. In the meantime, other Russian authors are continuing Volkov's Oz series, much as American authors posthumously continued Baum's series. Volkov's works received faithful and legitimate English translations by Peter Blystone in 1991, 1993, and 2007. March Laumer infringed on both American and Russian Oz writers, though he never saw any repercussions because his works were not considered significant enough to fight. He published Oz books between 1978 and 1999, but incorporated elements from all the preceding Oz writers, most of whose works were still copyrighted. He", "title": "Copyright status of The Wizard of Oz and related works in the United States" }, { "docid": "2436497", "text": "goes on to debunk another magician who claims to be able to tell what any person in the world is doing, including King Arthur. However, Hank knows that the King is riding out to see the restored fountain, and not \"resting from the chase\" as the \"false prophet\" had foretold to the people. Hank correctly states that the King will arrive in the valley. Hank has an idea to travel amongst the poor disguised as a peasant to find out how they truly live. King Arthur joins him, but has extreme difficulty in acting like a peasant convincingly. Although Arthur", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" }, { "docid": "8853322", "text": "last weeks of his life about what he called his \"final journey\". In excruciating pain when the cancer became much more aggressive, Black chose to die with medical assistance at Lady Minto Hospital on Salt Spring Island on 21 February 2018. Arthur Black (humorist) Arthur Raymond Black (30 August 1943 – 21 February 2018) was a Canadian humorist and radio personality best known as the longtime host, from 1983 to 2002, of \"Basic Black\" on CBC Radio One which had a weekly audience of more than 600,000 listeners. He also wrote a series of 19 humorous books and for 40", "title": "Arthur Black (humorist)" }, { "docid": "1631983", "text": "each other's roles. In \"The Princess Switch\" (a Netflix romantic Christmas film released in November 2018 starring Vanessa Hudgens) Margaret, the Duchess of Montenaro, changes place with baker Stacy who she accidentally meets. That plot results in 2 new love stories. In 1996, C&E, a Taiwanese software company, released an RPG video game for Sega Genesis entitled \"Xin Qigai Wangzi\" (\"New Beggar Prince\"). Its story was inspired by the book, with the addition of fantastic elements such as magic, monsters, and other RPG themes. The game was ported to PC in 1998. It was eventually licensed in an English translation", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "1631977", "text": "with Barbie playing the blond Princess Anneliese and the brunette pauper Erika. In 2012, a second CGI musical adaptation was released, entitled \"\". In it, Barbie plays a princess blonde named Victoria (Tori) and a brunette popstar named Keira. Both crave the life of another, one day they meet and magically change places. In 2006, Garfield's second live-action film entitled \"\", was another adaptation of the classic story. A 2007 film, \"\" starred identical twins Dylan and Cole Sprouse. \"Monte Carlo\" was another loose adaptation released in 2011 by 20th Century Fox and starred Selena Gomez. \"Raju Peda\", produced for", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "11383147", "text": "of confiscating property from the clergy. The ballad is classified as Aarne-Thompson folktale type \"AT 922\" of the shepherd substituting for the priest to answer the king's questions (For analogues, see Parallels below). Analogues are widespread, some of them being literary works dating to medieval times. King John in the opening lines is described as a man did much wrong and did little to uphold what was right. Enraged that the bishop (variant B, the abbot) of Canterbury maintained a household with many servants and riches paid by comfortable income, the king summons him to court, accuses him of treason,", "title": "King John and the Bishop" }, { "docid": "13176948", "text": "with glee, Cedric soaks in the crowd adoration, while a serf nonchalantly pushes Sir Cumference from the field in a scoop shovel. This film is included on the VHS releases of \"Here's Goofy\" and \"The Sword in the Stone\" and the DVD releases of \"Volume 3: The Prince & The Pauper\" and \"The Sword in the Stone\". A Knight for a Day A Knight for a Day is a 1946 Disney short film starring Goofy and which is loosely based on the novel \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\". Directed by Jack Hannah, this 7-minute animated comedy short was", "title": "A Knight for a Day" }, { "docid": "10665720", "text": "become the real king so the prince won't make it back. The beggar, dressed as the prince, is called to see his \"father\", who is now dying. Mickey enters the room of the dying king and the king tells him he must take his royal birthright and become king. Mickey decides to find the true prince as quickly as possible, but Pete arrives and blackmails Mickey to be crowned king, or else he will kill Pluto. Meanwhile, the true prince hears the bells announcing the death of his father and realizes that he must return immediately to the palace. Pete", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper (1990 film)" }, { "docid": "13876750", "text": "signed and numbered by the author, was issued in 1922, with 750 being offered for sale, while the remaining 30 were for presentation. Dandies and Dandies A Good Prince 1880 King George the Fourth The Pervasion of Rouge Poor Romeo! Diminuendo Bibliography The Works of Max Beerbohm The Works of Max Beerbohm was the first book published by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm. It was published in 1896 when Beerbohm was aged 24. A collection of Beerbohm's essays from the 1890s written while he was still a student at Oxford and which had originally been printed in \"The", "title": "The Works of Max Beerbohm" }, { "docid": "12138400", "text": "than one role, a character in the real world and one in the dream world. The film stars Will Rogers as Hank Martin, an American accidental time traveler who finds himself in Camelot back in the days of King Arthur (William Farnum, a Fox star for many years). Myrna Loy and Brandon Hurst play the evil Morgan le Fay and Merlin, who must be overcome by Hank's modern technical knowledge, while Maureen O'Sullivan plays Alisande. Fox was likely inspired to produce \"A Connecticut Yankee\" based on the success of the 1921 silent film. The 1931 version was likewise successful, and", "title": "A Connecticut Yankee (film)" }, { "docid": "13530081", "text": "their second album, \"Lost Art of Heaping Coal\". Wrench in the Works Wrench in the Works was an American Christian Mathcore/Metalcore band originating from Hartford, Connecticut. In addition to recording music and touring, Wrench in the Works had been featured on TVU and TVU's metalcore show, Battery for the video to their hit song, \"Dust Over Time Test.\" On September 28, 2010, Facedown Records announced that Wrench in the Works had disbanded. In 2005, while under the label Redscroll Records, Wrench in the Works released their debut album, \"Prodigal Transmission\". By 2008, Wrench in the Works had left Redscroll Records", "title": "Wrench in the Works" }, { "docid": "13530080", "text": "Wrench in the Works Wrench in the Works was an American Christian Mathcore/Metalcore band originating from Hartford, Connecticut. In addition to recording music and touring, Wrench in the Works had been featured on TVU and TVU's metalcore show, Battery for the video to their hit song, \"Dust Over Time Test.\" On September 28, 2010, Facedown Records announced that Wrench in the Works had disbanded. In 2005, while under the label Redscroll Records, Wrench in the Works released their debut album, \"Prodigal Transmission\". By 2008, Wrench in the Works had left Redscroll Records and signed onto Facedown Records where they released", "title": "Wrench in the Works" }, { "docid": "8668236", "text": "set the standards for American sawmakers, both in terms of producing high-quality saws and developing innovative manufacturing techniques. Disston also started making files in 1865. In September 1872, Henry Disston and two other men dug part of the foundation for what was to become the largest saw manufacturing facility in the world: Disston Saw Works. This was in the Tacony section of Philadelphia. Having previously moved his expanding business from near Second and Market Streets to Front and Laurel Streets, Disston sought to establish his business away from this cramped area. It took over 25 years to move the entire", "title": "Disston Saw Works" }, { "docid": "5027130", "text": "but booking the venue caused a problem as the Ice Follies were scheduled to perform afterwards and the arena had already become an ice rink. Goldsmith and Wakeman's management instead suggested a scaled down show at the Royal Albert Hall, but Wakeman insisted on Wembley, and subsequently told a \"Melody Maker\" reporter that he would be presenting \"King Arthur\" as an ice show, \"so there was no going back\". \"King Arthur\" was performed for three sell out nights from 30–31 May and 1 June that were attended by 27,000 people in total. Wakeman funded the production with his own money", "title": "The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table" }, { "docid": "7540772", "text": "takes his keys so she can escape. As she does, she bumps into King Dominick. He tells her that he doesn't believe what Preminger said about her. In the mines, Anneliese and Julian find out how to restore the kingdom's resources from some rocks that have geodes in them. They confess their love and escape from the mines with an idea they get from Erika's barking cat Wolfie. Preminger convinces the Queen that Anneliese is dead and says that they must marry to save the kingdom, and since she has no other options, she agrees. Before they can be married,", "title": "Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "11180418", "text": "of \"The Wicked Day\". The Prince and the Pilgrim The Prince and the Pilgrim is a 1995 fantasy novel by Mary Stewart. It is a stand-alone novel, has an oblique reference to King Arthur, and is not a part of the Merlin Trilogy. The Prince, the protagonist, is named Alexander. His father, Prince Baudouin, is murdered by the King of Cornwall, King March. When Alexander comes of age, he sets out to Camelot to seek justice from King Arthur and to avenge his father's death. The pilgrim is named Alice. She rescues a young French nobleman who has in his", "title": "The Prince and the Pilgrim" }, { "docid": "11180416", "text": "The Prince and the Pilgrim The Prince and the Pilgrim is a 1995 fantasy novel by Mary Stewart. It is a stand-alone novel, has an oblique reference to King Arthur, and is not a part of the Merlin Trilogy. The Prince, the protagonist, is named Alexander. His father, Prince Baudouin, is murdered by the King of Cornwall, King March. When Alexander comes of age, he sets out to Camelot to seek justice from King Arthur and to avenge his father's death. The pilgrim is named Alice. She rescues a young French nobleman who has in his possession an enchanted silver", "title": "The Prince and the Pilgrim" }, { "docid": "5632441", "text": "Works and Secretary for the Environment and Food Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works The Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works (), who heads the Environment, Transport and Works Bureau of the Hong Kong Government, is responsible for public works projects, transport related issues and environmental protection. The position was created in 2002 together with the Principal Officials Accountability System by merging the previous positions of Secretary for Transport, Secretary for Works, and the environment portfolio of the Secretary for the Environment and Food. The position was abolished in 2007 when the Environment, Transport and Works Bureau was", "title": "Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works" }, { "docid": "5632440", "text": "Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works The Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works (), who heads the Environment, Transport and Works Bureau of the Hong Kong Government, is responsible for public works projects, transport related issues and environmental protection. The position was created in 2002 together with the Principal Officials Accountability System by merging the previous positions of Secretary for Transport, Secretary for Works, and the environment portfolio of the Secretary for the Environment and Food. The position was abolished in 2007 when the Environment, Transport and Works Bureau was abolished. |width=25% align=center|Preceded by:<br>Secretary for Transport, Secretary for", "title": "Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works" }, { "docid": "19749221", "text": "show is the two going back and forth on which products the workers no longer like. At the end, Mr. Fibbs asks what the workers would rather make, and Wills answers, \"Brandy balls\" (Pinter 239). \"Trouble in the Works\" was one of Harold Pinter's earlier works, written in 1959. This is one of a series of short sketch comedy, Sean Foley said, \"These are classic comedy sketches, some of them written for revues and cabaret nights, and there's this strain of surrealism...he got there 12 years before Monty Python,\" (Merritt). \"Trouble in the Works\" was written with five other sketches,", "title": "Trouble In The Works" }, { "docid": "1631979", "text": "Hayley Mills. The 21st episode of \"The Monkees\", aired on February 6, 1967, was entitled \"The Prince and the Paupers\". A 1975 BBC television adaptation starred Nicholas Lyndhurst. In a 1976 ABC Afterschool Special, Lance Kerwin played the dual role in a modern American-based adaptation of the story entitled \"P.J. and the President's Son.\" The BBC produced a television adaptation by writer Richard Harris, consisting of six thirty-minute episodes, in 1976. Nicholas Lyndhurst played both Prince Edward and Tom Canty. \"Ringo\", a 1978 TV special starring Ringo Starr, involves the former Beatles drummer trading places with a talentless look-alike. The", "title": "The Prince and the Pauper" }, { "docid": "20673278", "text": "in Shakespeare’s works, such as the tragic romance in \"Romeo and Juliet\", and includes tempest imagery similar to that in both \"The Tempest\" and \"King Lear\". The Dream, and Other Poems The Dream, and Other Poems (1833) is a book of poems by Mrs George Lenox-Conyngham, also known as Elizabeth Emmet Lenox-Conyngham. It is her first known publication. Born Elizabeth Emmet, she was the only child of Robert Holmes (barrister) and Mary Anne Emmet. \"The Dream, and Other Poems\" by Mrs. George Lenox-Conyngham is a poetry collection published in 1833 in London by Edward Moxon, with 166 pages, containing 24", "title": "The Dream, and Other Poems" } ]
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Arboreal describes a creature which commonly lives in what?
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[ { "docid": "10755783", "text": "large perches in uncluttered environments. Many species of animals are arboreal, far too many to list individually. This list is of prominently or predominantly arboreal species and higher taxa. Arboreal locomotion Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally, but others are exclusively arboreal. The habitats pose numerous mechanical challenges to animals moving through them and lead to a variety of anatomical, behavioral and ecological consequences as well as variations throughout different species. Furthermore, many of these same", "title": "Arboreal locomotion" }, { "docid": "6585241", "text": "and feet that were capable of grasping. This was also a result of arboreal life, which required a great deal of crawling along branches, and reaching out for fruit and other food. These early primates were likely to have eaten foods found in trees, such as flowers, fruits, berries, gums, leaves, and insects. They are thought to have shifted their diets towards insects in the early Cenozoic era, when insects became more numerous. Arboreal theory This theory is proposed by Grafton Elliott-Smith (1912) who was a neuroanatomist who was chiefly concerned with the emergence of the primate brain. The arboreal", "title": "Arboreal theory" }, { "docid": "10755769", "text": "a synapsid of the late Permian, about 260 million years ago. Some animals are exclusively arboreal in habitat, such as the tree snail. Arboreal habitats pose numerous mechanical challenges to animals moving in them, which have been solved in diverse ways. These challenges include moving on narrow branches, moving up and down inclines, balancing, crossing gaps, and dealing with obstructions. Moving along a narrow surface poses special difficulties to animals. During locomotion on the ground, the location of the center of mass may swing from side to side, but during arboreal locomotion, this would result in the center of mass", "title": "Arboreal locomotion" }, { "docid": "10755768", "text": "Arboreal locomotion Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally, but others are exclusively arboreal. The habitats pose numerous mechanical challenges to animals moving through them and lead to a variety of anatomical, behavioral and ecological consequences as well as variations throughout different species. Furthermore, many of these same principles may be applied to climbing without trees, such as on rock piles or mountains. The earliest known tetrapod with specializations that adapted it for climbing trees was \"Suminia\",", "title": "Arboreal locomotion" }, { "docid": "6585240", "text": "Arboreal theory This theory is proposed by Grafton Elliott-Smith (1912) who was a neuroanatomist who was chiefly concerned with the emergence of the primate brain. The arboreal theory claims that primates evolved from their ancestors by adapting to arboreal life. Primates are thought to have developed several of their traits and habits initially while living in trees. One key component to this argument is that primates relied on sight over smell. They were able to develop a keen sense of depth perception, perhaps because of the constant leaping that was necessary to move about the trees. Primates also developed hands", "title": "Arboreal theory" }, { "docid": "10755782", "text": "a method known as parachuting, such as \"Rhacophorus\" (a \"flying frog\" species) that has adapted toe membranes allowing it to fall more slowly after leaping from trees. Many species of snake are highly arboreal, and some have evolved specialized musculature for this habitat. While moving in arboreal habitats, snakes move slowly along bare branches using a specialized form of concertina locomotion, but when secondary branches emerge from the branch being moved on, snakes use lateral undulation, a much faster mode. As a result, snakes perform best on small perches in cluttered environments, while limbed organisms seem to do best on", "title": "Arboreal locomotion" }, { "docid": "10755772", "text": "becomes the most likely failure. In this case, large-diameter branches pose a greater challenge since the animal cannot place its forelimbs closer to the center of the branch than its hindlimbs. Branches are not continuous, and any arboreal animal must be able to move between gaps in the branches, or even between trees. This can be accomplished by reaching across gaps, by leaping across them or gliding between them. Arboreal habitats often contain many obstructions, both in the form of branches emerging from the one being moved on and other branches impinging on the space the animal needs to move", "title": "Arboreal locomotion" }, { "docid": "18223987", "text": "is not currently under protection for conservation or restoration efforts. Cope's arboreal alligator lizard Cope's arboreal alligator lizard (\"Abronia aurita\") is a species of lizard found in two isolated locations in Guatemala, one in the Alta Verapaz Department and one in the Jalapa Department. These lizard are found only in high altitudes of 2,000 to 2,600 feet above sea level, on the west and south sides of the mountain ranges. This lizard is one of 28 species of alligator lizards, most being arboreal, meaning they live in trees. These omnivores are considered endangered because of their small population size and", "title": "Cope's arboreal alligator lizard" }, { "docid": "18223977", "text": "Cope's arboreal alligator lizard Cope's arboreal alligator lizard (\"Abronia aurita\") is a species of lizard found in two isolated locations in Guatemala, one in the Alta Verapaz Department and one in the Jalapa Department. These lizard are found only in high altitudes of 2,000 to 2,600 feet above sea level, on the west and south sides of the mountain ranges. This lizard is one of 28 species of alligator lizards, most being arboreal, meaning they live in trees. These omnivores are considered endangered because of their small population size and they face extinction due to habitat degradation and from pressures", "title": "Cope's arboreal alligator lizard" }, { "docid": "10755775", "text": "small branches, as they may wrap too far around and prick the animal's own paw. Adhesion is an alternative to claws, which works best on smooth surfaces. Wet adhesion is common in tree frogs and arboreal salamanders, and functions either by suction or by capillary adhesion. Dry adhesion is best typified by the specialized toes of geckos, which use van der Waals forces to adhere to many substrates, even glass. Frictional gripping is used by primates, relying upon hairless fingertips. Squeezing the branch between the fingertips generates a frictional force that holds the animal's hand to the branch. However, this", "title": "Arboreal locomotion" }, { "docid": "17488277", "text": "Agta (mythical creature) An agta is a tall mythical creature with skin as black as charcoal, found in Philippine mythology. These creatures reside in different trees, most commonly Santo or Balete trees. They are known to climb down from their perches and roam around the land warning fishermen to stay on land instead of fishing. Then, the agta will push trees down so that the timbers will prevent the fishermen from going to the sea to fish. The agta is just like the kapre, who likes staying in its tree while smoking a rolled cigar. They are usually depicted as", "title": "Agta (mythical creature)" }, { "docid": "17488278", "text": "naked. The agta is romantic and lures women away with flowers. Agta (mythical creature) An agta is a tall mythical creature with skin as black as charcoal, found in Philippine mythology. These creatures reside in different trees, most commonly Santo or Balete trees. They are known to climb down from their perches and roam around the land warning fishermen to stay on land instead of fishing. Then, the agta will push trees down so that the timbers will prevent the fishermen from going to the sea to fish. The agta is just like the kapre, who likes staying in its", "title": "Agta (mythical creature)" }, { "docid": "18123690", "text": "Agua, inhabiting cloud forests on the mountain. \"A. anzuetoi\" is a diurnal tree-dwelling lizard. Dominant males exhibit territorial behaviour. Anzuetoi arboreal alligator lizard Anzueto's arboreal alligator lizard (Abronia anzuetoi ) is a species of lizards in the family Anguidae. The species is endemic to Volcán de Agua in Guatemala. The specific name, \"anzuetoi\" is in honor of Guatemalan naturalist Roderico Anzueto, who collected the holotype. The extent of occurrence of \"A. anzuetoi\" is approximately 24 km (9.3 mi), and thus the species is considered Vulnerable by the IUCN. Anthropogenic impact is minimized by the fact that its native habitat has", "title": "Anzuetoi arboreal alligator lizard" }, { "docid": "18223978", "text": "of the pet trade. Cope's arboreal alligator lizard, also known as \"Abronia aurita\", is a species of alligator lizard found only in roughly 400 square kilometers of Guatemala. Specifically, the only suitable habitat for this species is between 2,000 and 2,600 feet above sea level on the west and south sides of Sierra de Xucaneb in the Department of Alta Verapaz. These species are considered arboreal, meaning they live in trees. They prefer to make their homes in the trunks of decaying, large trees, found in Oak or Pine forests. High tree density is considered optimal for these creatures as", "title": "Cope's arboreal alligator lizard" }, { "docid": "6693035", "text": "distinguished by its broad triangular head, with the front teeth of the jaw extending beyond the bottom lip. This species is an excellent climber and difficult to capture. It is nocturnal, spending daylight hours and dry periods in the cavities of oak trees, often with many other individuals of its species. A large adult can inflict a painful bite. Arboreal Salamanders hatch from eggs laid and guarded in subterranean burrows. Hatchling size is 24 mm SVL, age at maturity is 2.69 yr, and average adult age is 8–11 yr. Annual survival probability increases with age from 0.363 in age 0", "title": "Arboreal salamander" } ]
[ { "docid": "6052070", "text": "\"D&D\" game, no matter what level your characters are ... if you've ever felt constrained by the limited range of \"D&D\" monsters, then this book is for you.\" Creature Catalogue Creature Catalogue is a supplement for Basic \"Dungeons & Dragons\" first released in 1986, and updated in 1993. The \"Creature Catalogue\" is a supplement which describes over 200 monsters, most of which had been collected from \"D&D\" rules and modules, as well as 80 new monsters which had never been printed before; each monster is illustrated and indexed by habitat. In \"Creature Catalogue\" is collected all the creatures first presented", "title": "Creature Catalogue" }, { "docid": "6052065", "text": "Creature Catalogue Creature Catalogue is a supplement for Basic \"Dungeons & Dragons\" first released in 1986, and updated in 1993. The \"Creature Catalogue\" is a supplement which describes over 200 monsters, most of which had been collected from \"D&D\" rules and modules, as well as 80 new monsters which had never been printed before; each monster is illustrated and indexed by habitat. In \"Creature Catalogue\" is collected all the creatures first presented in the official \"D&D\" adventure modules to that time, plus many new creatures and some converted from \"AD&D\". Also included is a comprehensive index of all \"D&D\" monsters", "title": "Creature Catalogue" }, { "docid": "20101559", "text": "A Gentle Creature (film) A Gentle Creature is a 2017 drama film directed by Sergei Loznitsa. The film was created as an international co-production between France, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Latvia, Ukraine and Lithuania. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The film is inspired by the short story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. A woman lives alone on the outskirts of a village in Russia. One day she receives a parcel she had sent to her incarcerated husband, marked 'return to sender'. Shocked and", "title": "A Gentle Creature (film)" }, { "docid": "7510584", "text": "languages and elven magic. The player begins the adventure as the \"creature of havoc\" of the title, an unidentified, violent beast with no concept of who or where they are. The creature gradually recovers the ability to reason and communicate, and must learn what has happened and why. Because the creature cannot make its own decisions, it is governed by instinct. Once it finds the Vapour of Reason, it is able to make choices. The creature proceeds through the dungeon, killing a number of adventurers before finding the Vapour of Languages, which allows the creature to understand what others are", "title": "Creature of Havoc" }, { "docid": "10755778", "text": "passive stability by hanging beneath the branch. Both pitching and tipping become irrelevant, as the only method of failure would be losing their grip. Arboreal species have behaviors specialized for moving in their habitats, most prominently in terms of posture and gait. Specifically, arboreal mammals take longer steps, extend their limbs further forwards and backwards during a step, adopt a more 'crouched' posture to lower their center of mass, and use a diagonal sequence gait. Arboreal locomotion allows animals access to different resources, depending upon their abilities. Larger species may be restricted to larger-diameter branches that can support their weight,", "title": "Arboreal locomotion" }, { "docid": "10755773", "text": "through. These obstructions may impede locomotion, or may be used as additional contact points to enhance it. While obstructions tend to impede limbed animals, they benefit snakes by providing anchor points. Arboreal organisms display many specializations for dealing with the mechanical challenges of moving through their habitats. Arboreal animals frequently have elongated limbs that help them cross gaps, reach fruit or other resources, test the firmness of support ahead, and in some cases, to brachiate. However, some species of lizard have reduced limb size that helps them avoid limb movement being obstructed by impinging branches. Many arboreal species, such as", "title": "Arboreal locomotion" }, { "docid": "13544958", "text": "Long-tongued arboreal mouse The long-tongued arboreal mouse (\"Rhagomys longilingua\") is a South American rodent species of the family Cricetidae. It is found in a variety of habitats, including dense forest, in Bolivia and Peru at elevations from on the eastern side of the Andes. The species is at least partly arboreal. It is distinguished from the Brazilian arboreal mouse (\"R. rufescens\"), the only other known member of \"Rhagomys\", by spiny fur and certain skull features such as the presence of beading in the interorbital region. The adult long-tongued arboreal mouse weighs in the range and has a tail that is", "title": "Long-tongued arboreal mouse" }, { "docid": "11464820", "text": "of the \"Toronto Star\" thought that the \"main\" creature was disappointing, while he considered the \"mutant spider crabs\" that came from it as \"way scarier\". Lawrence Person of \"Locus Online\" describes it as \"like a cross between a truly giant mantis and Johnny the Skeletal Torso.\" Todd McCarthy of \"Variety\" found that the creature was more reassuring as it appeared more in the film, explaining, \"Its very nature as a walking, stalking being suggests it can somehow be killed by conventional means\". Chris Vognar of \"The Dallas Morning News\" applauded the creature's appearance as cinematic: Clover (creature) Clover is the", "title": "Clover (creature)" }, { "docid": "798827", "text": "of the Creature\" wherein the Gill-man killed a guard in this fashion). \"Creature from the Black Lagoon\" spawned two sequels: \"Revenge of the Creature\" (1955), which was also filmed and released in 3D in hopes of reviving the format, and \"The Creature Walks Among Us\" (1956), filmed in 2D. A comedic appearance with Abbott and Costello on an episode of \"The Colgate Comedy Hour\" aired prior to the film's release. The appearance is commonly known as \"Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature from the Black Lagoon\". In 1982, John Landis wanted Jack Arnold to direct a remake of the film,", "title": "Creature from the Black Lagoon" }, { "docid": "798813", "text": "Colgate Comedy Hour\" aired prior to the film's release. The appearance is commonly known as \"Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature from the Black Lagoon\". Ben Chapman reprised his role as the Gill-Man for the program. \"Creature from the Black Lagoon\" generated two sequels: \"Revenge of the Creature\" (1955), which was also filmed and released in 3D in hopes of reviving the format, and \"The Creature Walks Among Us\" (1956), filmed in 2D. The creature, also known as the Gill-man, is usually counted among the classic Universal Monsters. A geology expedition in the Amazon uncovers fossilized evidence (a skeletal hand", "title": "Creature from the Black Lagoon" }, { "docid": "8706953", "text": "found in four other localities in Brazil, near Ubatuba in São Paulo State, including in Pincinguaba State Park, and near Viçosa in Minas Gerais State. It typically lives in Atlantic forest, often among bamboos, and also in modified forest habitats. Little is known about this species and its natural history. Several specimens were caught in pitfall traps sunk in the ground, but it is thought that it is an arboreal rodent, or one that scrambles among the undergrowth, because of the morphology of its feet. Examination of the stomach contents of one individual that was caught showed that it had", "title": "Brazilian arboreal mouse" }, { "docid": "13544962", "text": "because of its tolerance of several types of habitats, and because in the absence of any particular threats, it seems unlikely that it is declining at a sufficient rate to qualify for being included in a more threatened category. Long-tongued arboreal mouse The long-tongued arboreal mouse (\"Rhagomys longilingua\") is a South American rodent species of the family Cricetidae. It is found in a variety of habitats, including dense forest, in Bolivia and Peru at elevations from on the eastern side of the Andes. The species is at least partly arboreal. It is distinguished from the Brazilian arboreal mouse (\"R. rufescens\"),", "title": "Long-tongued arboreal mouse" }, { "docid": "2828052", "text": "Yale (mythical creature) The yale or centicore (Latin: \"eale\") is a mythical beast found in European mythology and heraldry. Most descriptions make it an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with the tusks of a boar and large horns that it can swivel in any direction. The name might be derived from Hebrew יָעֵל (\"yael\"), meaning \"Ibex\". The yale was first written about by Pliny the Elder in Book VIII of his \"Natural History\": he describes the \"eale\" as a creature found in Aethiopia \"the size of a hippopotamus, with an elephant's tail, of a black or tawny colour, with the", "title": "Yale (mythical creature)" }, { "docid": "14578823", "text": "and special hats were giving out to all fans attending. Coffey continued to fill the Bleacher Creature role until the mascot was retired at the close of the 1981 Braves season. Dennis Coffey's notable quote when asked about being the Bleacher Creature was most commonly, \"It's fun if you like being green!\" Coffey obviously enjoyed being green as he was mentioned in many newspaper articles and press releases during his career with the Braves as being humorous, fun-loving and great with fans and kids alike. Braves Bleacher Creature The Atlanta Braves Bleacher Creature was a mascot for the Atlanta Braves", "title": "Braves Bleacher Creature" }, { "docid": "14553818", "text": "Creature in the Teacher Creature in the Teacher is the 13th book in the Spooksville series. In the UK it is named \"Alien Invasion!\" Adam, Sally, Watch and the gang can't wait for the first day of school. Though, their new science teacher, Mr. Snakol, is \"very\" weird. Later in the day, everyone starts to think that he's an alien. Soon Sally goes missing and their suspicious grow. When the gang goes deeper into school grounds, they find out Mr. Snakol \"is\" an alien! Now the kids MUST find a way to stop him. What can a few kids do", "title": "Creature in the Teacher" }, { "docid": "10755780", "text": "and chamois. Their adaptations may include a soft rubbery pad between their hooves for grip, hooves with sharp keratin rims for lodging in small footholds, and prominent dew claws. The snow leopard, being a predator of such mountain caprids, also has spectacular balance and leaping abilities; being able to leap up to ≈17m (~50 ft). Other balancers and leapers include the mountain zebra, mountain tapir, and hyraxes. Brachiation is a specialized form of arboreal locomotion, used by primates to move very rapidly while hanging beneath branches. Arguably the epitome of arboreal locomotion, it involves swinging with the arms from one", "title": "Arboreal locomotion" }, { "docid": "10755771", "text": "its descent and prevent falling. Descent can be particularly problematic for many animals, and highly arboreal species often have specialized methods for controlling their descent. Due to the height of many branches and the potentially disastrous consequences of a fall, balance is of primary importance to arboreal animals. On horizontal and gently sloped branches, the primary problem is tipping to the side due to the narrow base of support. The narrower the branch, the greater the difficulty in balancing a given animal faces. On steep and vertical branches, tipping becomes less of an issue, and pitching backwards or slipping downwards", "title": "Arboreal locomotion" }, { "docid": "6693036", "text": "to 0.783 in ages >4 yr. These subspecies have been proposed in the past due to genetic and morphological differences, but they are not currently recognized. Arboreal salamander The arboreal salamander (\"Aneides lugubris\") is a species of climbing salamander. An insectivore, it is native to California and Baja California, where it is primarily associated with oak and sycamore woodlands, and thick chaparral. \"Aneides lugubris\" is SVL (snout-vent length), with plain purplish-brown coloring, usually spotted dorsally with gold or yellow, although it may also be unspotted. The tail is prehensile. The juvenile is dark overall, clouded with greyish color and fine", "title": "Arboreal salamander" }, { "docid": "7626632", "text": "by a one-footed man, and Thorvald dies from an arrow-wound: Umberto Eco in his novel \"Baudolino\" describes a sciapod named Gavagai. The name of the creature \"Gavagai\" is a reference to Quine's example of indeterminacy of translation. Monopod (creature) Monopods (also sciapods, skiapods, skiapodes) are mythological dwarf-like creatures with a single, large foot extending from a leg centered in the middle of their bodies. The names \"monopod\" and \"skiapod\" (σκιάποδες) are both Greek, respectively meaning \"one-foot\" and \"shadow-foot\". Monopods appear in Aristophanes' play \"The Birds\", first performed in 414 BC. They are described by Pliny the Elder in his \"Natural", "title": "Monopod (creature)" }, { "docid": "6693034", "text": "Arboreal salamander The arboreal salamander (\"Aneides lugubris\") is a species of climbing salamander. An insectivore, it is native to California and Baja California, where it is primarily associated with oak and sycamore woodlands, and thick chaparral. \"Aneides lugubris\" is SVL (snout-vent length), with plain purplish-brown coloring, usually spotted dorsally with gold or yellow, although it may also be unspotted. The tail is prehensile. The juvenile is dark overall, clouded with greyish color and fine yellow speckling on the back. It has rusty markings on the snout, tail, and on sides above the forelimbs. The male of this species can be", "title": "Arboreal salamander" }, { "docid": "10755777", "text": "gravity. Many arboreal species lower their center of mass to reduce pitching and toppling movement when climbing. This may be accomplished by postural changes, altered body proportions, or smaller size. Small size provides many advantages to arboreal species: such as increasing the relative size of branches to the animal, lower center of mass, increased stability, lower mass (allowing movement on smaller branches), and the ability to move through more cluttered habitat. Size relating to weight affects gliding animals such as the reduced weight per snout-vent length for 'flying' frogs. Some species of primate, bat, and all species of sloth achieve", "title": "Arboreal locomotion" }, { "docid": "16721780", "text": "their studying experiences. Handley resurrected the concept in 2010 with the help of a team of undergraduate students, and launched \"What Degree? Which University?\" as a website in August 2011. Six months after its launch, \"What Degree? Which University?\" had attracted more than 22,000 visitors and expanded to provide information about universities across Australia. Today, the website covers 23 Australian universities and is staffed by 17 undergraduate and postgraduate students Australia-wide, who manage and produce the content for the site. \"What Degree? Which University?\" claims to have had 77,500 visits to the website (55,000 of which being unique visitors) and", "title": "What Degree? Which University?" }, { "docid": "18839538", "text": "The Death of \"Superman Lives\": What Happened? The Death of \"Superman Lives\": What Happened? is a 2015 American documentary film written and directed by Jon Schnepp and produced by his fiancee, Holly Payne. It chronicles the behind-the-scenes events surrounding the cancelled Tim Burton film \"Superman Lives\". Funding for the documentary was partially raised through a successful Kickstarter campaign and premiered on May 1, 2015 and was released through VOD on July 9, 2015. The documentary is a behind-the-scenes look at the 1996-97 pre-production of \"Superman Lives\", an intended reboot of the \"Superman\" film series based on the 1992 DC comic", "title": "The Death of \"Superman Lives\": What Happened?" }, { "docid": "2828056", "text": "to Yale's Davenport College and the pediment of Timothy Dwight College. The student-run campus radio station, WYBCX Yale Radio, uses the yale as its logo. Yale (mythical creature) The yale or centicore (Latin: \"eale\") is a mythical beast found in European mythology and heraldry. Most descriptions make it an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with the tusks of a boar and large horns that it can swivel in any direction. The name might be derived from Hebrew יָעֵל (\"yael\"), meaning \"Ibex\". The yale was first written about by Pliny the Elder in Book VIII of his \"Natural History\": he describes", "title": "Yale (mythical creature)" }, { "docid": "19369752", "text": "is Jim Henson's Creature Shop, or by individual special effects artists. Different body shapes of suits are made using foam padding covered by painted liquid latex (to simulate bare skin) or fake fur. Foam latex can also be used to create suits, and masks may sometimes be made out of fiberglass. More expensive suits have hairs hand-knitted into the foam to give a more realistic, movie-quality appearance, as well as animatronic parts. Sometimes, such suits are made by cosplayers, who make replicas of famous movie monsters. Some of the most commonly seen creature suits in cosplays are the Alien and", "title": "Creature suit" }, { "docid": "16721781", "text": "450,000 page visits. What Degree? Which University? What Degree? Which University? is a free university student-run website that profiles the major Australian tertiary education institutions and their degree programs, as well as providing advice on the university experience. Its aim is to assist prospective and current Australian undergraduate students to make informed university decisions. The \"What Degree?\" and \"Which Uni?\" sections of the website provide information on Australian universities and their degree programs, along with profiles of current and former students who are currently or have formerly been enrolled in degree programs at particular institutions. The website also provides articles", "title": "What Degree? Which University?" }, { "docid": "16721778", "text": "What Degree? Which University? What Degree? Which University? is a free university student-run website that profiles the major Australian tertiary education institutions and their degree programs, as well as providing advice on the university experience. Its aim is to assist prospective and current Australian undergraduate students to make informed university decisions. The \"What Degree?\" and \"Which Uni?\" sections of the website provide information on Australian universities and their degree programs, along with profiles of current and former students who are currently or have formerly been enrolled in degree programs at particular institutions. The website also provides articles and information on", "title": "What Degree? Which University?" }, { "docid": "7179565", "text": "Cannes in 2005 it was announced that 20th Century Fox had purchased the North American theatrical rights, plus other key territories in what was the largest deal between a major American studio and a New Zealand film. \"Perfect Creature\" is the sixth most expensive New Zealand film ever made after \"The Lord of the Rings\" films, \"The Frighteners\" and \"The World's Fastest Indian\" respectively. The film was shot primarily around Dunedin and Oamaru in New Zealand's South Island. Perfect Creature Perfect Creature is a New Zealand made horror/thriller film from 2007, written and directed by Glenn Standring and starring Saffron", "title": "Perfect Creature" }, { "docid": "11886157", "text": "year: What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch! \"What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch!\" (; sometimes separated by exclamation mark instead of comma) is a catchphrase and winged word from Alexander Pushkin's correspondence with one of his friends, poet Pyotr Vyazemsky. The phrase commonly expresses a joy after finishing one's work and appears particularly in several Russian literary works. In a letter dated circa November 7 or beginning of October, 1825 Pushkin, celebrating his finished drama \"Boris Godunov\" wrote to Vyazemsky: That was preceded by what Pushkin wrote to Vyazemsky on July 13 of the", "title": "What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch!" }, { "docid": "11886156", "text": "What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch! \"What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch!\" (; sometimes separated by exclamation mark instead of comma) is a catchphrase and winged word from Alexander Pushkin's correspondence with one of his friends, poet Pyotr Vyazemsky. The phrase commonly expresses a joy after finishing one's work and appears particularly in several Russian literary works. In a letter dated circa November 7 or beginning of October, 1825 Pushkin, celebrating his finished drama \"Boris Godunov\" wrote to Vyazemsky: That was preceded by what Pushkin wrote to Vyazemsky on July 13 of the same", "title": "What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch!" }, { "docid": "16721779", "text": "student life, student housing, and graduate opportunities for university leavers through the \"Lifestyle\", \"Student Housing\", \"Survival Guide\" and \"After Uni\" sections. The creator of \"What Degree? Which University?\" is David Handley, who is also the founding director of international sculpture exhibition, \"Sculpture by the Sea\". Handley first conceptualised \"What Degree? Which University?\" whilst studying his final year of Law at the University of Sydney. In 1988, \"What Degree? Which University?\" initially took form through university seminars held at the University of Sydney, allowing prospective students to compare degree options by hearing current and former students of undergraduate degree programs discuss", "title": "What Degree? Which University?" }, { "docid": "8706954", "text": "eaten several species of ant. Brazilian arboreal mouse The Brazilian arboreal mouse (\"Rhagomys rufescens\") is a South American rodent species of the family Cricetidae. It is found in the Atlantic Forest of southeast Brazil, often close to bamboo thickets. It can be distinguished from \"Rhagomys longilingua\", the only other species in its genus, by the absence of spines among the hair. Formerly believed to be extinct after no sightings were recorded for over 100 years, the species has since been found in four localities. However, it is nowhere common, and all of these are forest fragments, and ongoing deforestation threatens", "title": "Brazilian arboreal mouse" }, { "docid": "8706950", "text": "Brazilian arboreal mouse The Brazilian arboreal mouse (\"Rhagomys rufescens\") is a South American rodent species of the family Cricetidae. It is found in the Atlantic Forest of southeast Brazil, often close to bamboo thickets. It can be distinguished from \"Rhagomys longilingua\", the only other species in its genus, by the absence of spines among the hair. Formerly believed to be extinct after no sightings were recorded for over 100 years, the species has since been found in four localities. However, it is nowhere common, and all of these are forest fragments, and ongoing deforestation threatens the species' survival. For these", "title": "Brazilian arboreal mouse" }, { "docid": "10161726", "text": "disappearing. Some scientists estimate that the cloud forests will disappear in the near future. These cloud forests are a major place of biodiversity. \"A. montecristoi\" is just one of a vast number of species that call these forests home. Conservation efforts are currently being made by the Tropical Montane Cloud Forest Initiative which is made up of three conservations program consisting of the United Nations Environment Program, the World Conservation Union, and the World Wide Fund for Nature. Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard The Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard (\"Abronia montecristoi\" ) is an endangered species of lizard. This species", "title": "Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard" }, { "docid": "15656513", "text": "the film, concluding, \"\"Creature\" is so laughably pathetic that it's worth a few chuckles, but the really amazing thing is that huckster Sid Sheinberg put up the cash to dump this slime-covered turd into more than 1,500 theaters nationwide, proving that hope, like evil swamp monsters, is eternal\". Mark Olsen of the \"Los Angeles Times\" called it a \"delightfully dopey\" film that \"has no illusions about what it is: a down-and-dirty, breasts-and-blood, creature-horror exploitation picture\". Creature (2011 film) Creature is a 2011 American monster horror film directed by Fred M. Andrews, based on a screenplay written by Andrews and Tracy", "title": "Creature (2011 film)" }, { "docid": "18839540", "text": "and \"The Hollywood Reporter\" commented that \"Fanboys will relish this overstuffed doc about the Superman movie that never hit the screen\". IGN awarded it a score of 8 out of 10, saying, \"But even if you come out of the documentary thankful the plug was pulled, the personalities involved and the story’s [sic] they tell are worthwhile and offer some great insight into just what a struggle it can be when so many people try to work together to pull off a film of this scope.\" The Death of \"Superman Lives\": What Happened? The Death of \"Superman Lives\": What Happened?", "title": "The Death of \"Superman Lives\": What Happened?" }, { "docid": "8805310", "text": "A Gentle Creature \"A Gentle Creature\" (), sometimes also translated as \"The Meek One\", is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1876. The piece comes with the subtitle of \"A Fantastic Story\", and it chronicles the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that frequents his shop. The story was inspired by a news report that Dostoyevsky read in April 1876 about the suicide of a seamstress. Dostoyevsky referred to it as a \"meek suicide\" that \"keeps haunting you for a long time.\" The story opens with the narrator in a frenzy about an apparent tragedy that has just", "title": "A Gentle Creature" }, { "docid": "8805318", "text": "film: \"Dịu Dàng - Gentle\". Another 2015 adaption was the Russian film \"Клетка\" (\"The Cage\"). A Gentle Creature \"A Gentle Creature\" (), sometimes also translated as \"The Meek One\", is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1876. The piece comes with the subtitle of \"A Fantastic Story\", and it chronicles the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that frequents his shop. The story was inspired by a news report that Dostoyevsky read in April 1876 about the suicide of a seamstress. Dostoyevsky referred to it as a \"meek suicide\" that \"keeps haunting you for a long time.\" The", "title": "A Gentle Creature" }, { "docid": "16810378", "text": "earlier, in 1989, the pioneering digital animation studio Industrial Light & Magic created a water creature for the James Cameron film \"The Abyss\". Again, not knowing how a water creature might move, considerable effort was required by the animators to imagine how such a creature might perform and behave. Creature animation Creature animation is a specialised part of the animation process which involves bringing realistic animals and creatures to life. It is often distinguished from character animation, which involves breathing life into animated characters and creating the illusion of thought, feeling and emotion. Creature animators create highly realistic motion in", "title": "Creature animation" }, { "docid": "14299287", "text": "Creature worship In contrast with worship of a Creator deity, the theological term creature worship refers unflatteringly to veneration of that which is created. In the biblical worldview, creature worship is seen as analogous to a reversal of the relationship between God and creature or the reversal of mindedness, which places power in the handiwork. Creature worship may include: Animal worship, Animism,Cult of personality,Household deity, Idolatry, Nature worship, and/or Pantheism. In some Christian denominations and even in the early development of the Christian church, the veneration of saints is considered creature worship. It is based on the view that Christians", "title": "Creature worship" }, { "docid": "6046093", "text": "It will ask for food, attention, and playtime. The player can put Tyke into a daycare, relieving the creature of his fatherly duties. But if it is kept in there for too long, the advisers will complain, and Tyke will get angry. During the trial in which the player raises Tyke, they are encouraged to teach it. The advisers will tell the player when they are ignoring Tyke. Tyke can learn miracles also, which adds more impressiveness. It will also learn and try to mimic what the creature does. It will try to have a similar personality, too. After beating", "title": "Black & White: Creature Isle" }, { "docid": "6917014", "text": "creature are pantera, pantere, and love cervere. Usually depicted as a type of cat, the panther was at times depicted in other forms. It was depicted as a donkey, as a composite creature with a horned head, long neck and a horse's body, and as a host of other forms. (The word \"panther\", in Greek, could be interpreted as \"every wild beast\", supporting the idea of a composite creature.) This was mostly because those involved did not know what a panther should look like; but, in some instances, this was due to cultural influences. In Germany in particular, the panther", "title": "Panther (legendary creature)" }, { "docid": "10755776", "text": "type of grip depends upon the angle of the frictional force, thus upon the diameter of the branch, with larger branches resulting in reduced gripping ability. Animals other than primates that use gripping in climbing include the chameleon, which has mitten-like grasping feet, and many birds that grip branches in perching or moving about. To control descent, especially down large diameter branches, some arboreal animals such as squirrels have evolved highly mobile ankle joints that permit rotating the foot into a 'reversed' posture. This allows the claws to hook into the rough surface of the bark, opposing the force of", "title": "Arboreal locomotion" }, { "docid": "20194706", "text": "people like you.\" The second season is anticipated for release in 2017. Creating Our Own Lives Creating Our Own Lives is a public radio podcast, from Krista Tippett Public Productions (KTPP), hosted by Lily Percy. The first season was released in 2016 on the theme of running, though the subject of the podcast is much broader. It describes itself as: \"We’re called to create a better world, but what about the more immediate task of creating our own lives? Inspired by a quote of Thomas Merton and hosted by Lily Percy, a podcast exploring questions about running as spiritual practice,", "title": "Creating Our Own Lives" }, { "docid": "10755770", "text": "moving beyond the edge of the branch, resulting in a tendency to topple over. Additionally, foot placement is constrained by the need to make contact with the narrow branch. This narrowness severely restricts the range of movements and postures an animal can use to move. Branches are frequently oriented at an angle to gravity in arboreal habitats, including being vertical, which poses special problems. As an animal moves up an inclined branch, they must fight the force of gravity to raise their body, making the movement more difficult. Conversely, as the animal descends, it must also fight gravity to control", "title": "Arboreal locomotion" }, { "docid": "20194705", "text": "Creating Our Own Lives Creating Our Own Lives is a public radio podcast, from Krista Tippett Public Productions (KTPP), hosted by Lily Percy. The first season was released in 2016 on the theme of running, though the subject of the podcast is much broader. It describes itself as: \"We’re called to create a better world, but what about the more immediate task of creating our own lives? Inspired by a quote of Thomas Merton and hosted by Lily Percy, a podcast exploring questions about running as spiritual practice, humor as a tool for survival, and movies as church — featuring", "title": "Creating Our Own Lives" }, { "docid": "798818", "text": "claim the lives of Lucas's crew members, before the creature is captured and locked in a cage aboard the \"Rita\". It escapes during the night, attacking Edwin, who was guarding it. Kay smashes the creature with a lantern, driving it off, but Edwin is severely injured. Following this incident, David decides they should return to civilization. Mark, obsessed with capturing (or killing) the creature, objects. As the \"Rita\" tries to leave, they find the lagoon's entrance blocked by fallen logs, courtesy of the Gill-man. While the others attempt to remove the logs, Mark is mauled to death while trying to", "title": "Creature from the Black Lagoon" }, { "docid": "14299289", "text": "goal to achieve \"nirvana\", the soul experiences rebirth in the form of different creatures. It is, thus, accepted to worship nature in all of its elements because it signifies respect for the environment as well as the worship for one's ancestors. Creature worship In contrast with worship of a Creator deity, the theological term creature worship refers unflatteringly to veneration of that which is created. In the biblical worldview, creature worship is seen as analogous to a reversal of the relationship between God and creature or the reversal of mindedness, which places power in the handiwork. Creature worship may include:", "title": "Creature worship" }, { "docid": "11856925", "text": "What Hetty Did What Hetty Did is the seventh novel by J.L. Carr, published in 1988 when he was 76 years old. The novel describes the experiences of an 18-year-old girl. Hetty Birtwisle has been brought up by adoptive parents in the Fens; after a beating by her father, discovering that she was adopted, she flees to Birmingham where she has learnt she was born and alters her surname to Beauchamp. Hetty Beauchamp comes across several characters from Carr's other novels in the boarding house in which she lives, including Emma Foxberrow, a teacher in \"The Harpole Report\" and Edward", "title": "What Hetty Did" }, { "docid": "7854671", "text": "and lips, large claws, and a line of white fur running down its head. It is in length, with a tail of . It weighs . Ashaninka arboreal chinchilla rats live in dwarf forest and are hunted by long-tailed weasels. When described, it was placed in the family Abrocomidae, but was considered different enough from existing species for the creation of the genus \"Cuscomys\". Since then, the Machu Picchu arboreal chinchilla rat (\"Cuscomys oblativus\"), a species of chinchilla rats originally placed in the genus \"Abrocoma\", has been shown to be a member of \"Cuscomys\". Although it was considered extinct by", "title": "Asháninka arboreal chinchilla rat" }, { "docid": "7854672", "text": "the IUCN at the time, photos of a rodent showing some similarities to \"C. ashaninka\" taken at Machu Picchu in late 2009 may show \"C. oblativus\". Asháninka arboreal chinchilla rat The Asháninka arboreal chinchilla rat (\"Cuscomys ashaninka\") is a large species of chinchilla rats from the Andes of far northern Cusco in Peru. It was first scientifically described in 1999. The first specimen of this species was discovered by Dr. Louise Emmons, a researcher of the Smithsonian Institution from Washington, D.C., who found it by chance while climbing in the Vilcabamba Mountains near Machu Picchu. Emmons named the genus after", "title": "Asháninka arboreal chinchilla rat" }, { "docid": "7854670", "text": "Asháninka arboreal chinchilla rat The Asháninka arboreal chinchilla rat (\"Cuscomys ashaninka\") is a large species of chinchilla rats from the Andes of far northern Cusco in Peru. It was first scientifically described in 1999. The first specimen of this species was discovered by Dr. Louise Emmons, a researcher of the Smithsonian Institution from Washington, D.C., who found it by chance while climbing in the Vilcabamba Mountains near Machu Picchu. Emmons named the genus after the city of Cusco, and she named the species for the Asháninka people who live in Peru. The animal has grey fur, with a white nose", "title": "Asháninka arboreal chinchilla rat" }, { "docid": "18123689", "text": "Anzuetoi arboreal alligator lizard Anzueto's arboreal alligator lizard (Abronia anzuetoi ) is a species of lizards in the family Anguidae. The species is endemic to Volcán de Agua in Guatemala. The specific name, \"anzuetoi\" is in honor of Guatemalan naturalist Roderico Anzueto, who collected the holotype. The extent of occurrence of \"A. anzuetoi\" is approximately 24 km (9.3 mi), and thus the species is considered Vulnerable by the IUCN. Anthropogenic impact is minimized by the fact that its native habitat has many landmines, and surrounding coffee plantations have been abandoned. \"A. anzuetoi\" is found at elevations from on Volcán de", "title": "Anzuetoi arboreal alligator lizard" }, { "docid": "3022261", "text": "the creature in its original form; it has a single large eye under its natural silicon/keratin forehead which can give the creature 180-degree vision. The Aliens' inner set of jaws are powerful enough to smash through bone and metal. How the creatures see is uncertain; in \"Alien 3\", a spherical lens was used to illustrate the Alien's point of view, so, when the film was projected anamorphically, the image exhibited severe distortion. In the novelization of the movie \"Alien\", the creature is held mesmerized by a spinning green light for several minutes. In \"Aliens\", the adult creatures have a more", "title": "Alien (creature in Alien franchise)" }, { "docid": "18123700", "text": "in protected areas such as Mario Dary Rivera Protected Biotope and Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve. Brilliant arboreal alligator lizard The brilliant arboreal alligator lizard (Abronia gaiophantasma) is a species of lizard endemic to the mountains of east-central Guatemala, from the Sierra de las Minas east to the Chilascó region. It occurs at elevations of 1,600–2,650 m, and can be found in pine–oak and cloud forests of lower montane wet forests. Its extent of occurrence is estimated at only 750 km, and has been declared endangered. Threats to this species include habitat loss from agriculture, and the exportation of", "title": "Brilliant arboreal alligator lizard" }, { "docid": "18123699", "text": "Brilliant arboreal alligator lizard The brilliant arboreal alligator lizard (Abronia gaiophantasma) is a species of lizard endemic to the mountains of east-central Guatemala, from the Sierra de las Minas east to the Chilascó region. It occurs at elevations of 1,600–2,650 m, and can be found in pine–oak and cloud forests of lower montane wet forests. Its extent of occurrence is estimated at only 750 km, and has been declared endangered. Threats to this species include habitat loss from agriculture, and the exportation of ornamental \"Chamaedaphne calyculata\" plants, conversion of habitats to pine plantations, and intentional fires. It can be found", "title": "Brilliant arboreal alligator lizard" }, { "docid": "15886843", "text": "(from zero, as not having an influence on fitness, to one, or having maximum influence) to determine the fitness goal. What generations the fitness function applies to can also be set. The environment, or “Terrain”, is then determined. This includes a flat plain, bumpy terrain (in which a hill is generated around creature that constantly inclines as distance is traveled from the creature’s spawning point), water (a low gravity simulator, non-functional), and “spheres” (spheres are generated above creature to catch). Everything in the simulation is viewed from a first person viewpoint. After settings are determined, the first generation is generated", "title": "3D Virtual Creature Evolution" }, { "docid": "1662645", "text": "things to come in British television advertising. Many commentators believe that there was a fundamental shift in television advertising from the unbridled consumerism and egoism of the 1980s to what is sometimes termed a more \"caring\" approach in the 1990s. The \"Creature Comforts\" advertisements are cited as an early example of this phenomenon. The format of the \"Creature Comforts\" advertisements was so successful that it was replicated in other campaigns in the following decades. In later years, however, members of the public became increasingly conscious of the potential uses of their \"vox pop\" interviews. This made it difficult to recapture", "title": "Creature Comforts" }, { "docid": "8198076", "text": "Creature Commandos The Creature Commandos are a fictional DC Comics team of military superhumans originally set in World War II. The original team was introduced in \"Weird War Tales\" #93 (November 1980). The modern team first appeared in their own mini-series \"Creature Commandos\" #1 May 2000; this version was written by Tim Truman and drawn by Scot Eaton. Asked how the Creature Commandos came about, writer J. M. DeMatteis recalled, Project M is a secret government organization which began during World War II and specializes in experimental biotechnology and necromancy. Known creations of the Project beside the Creature Commandos include", "title": "Creature Commandos" }, { "docid": "8706951", "text": "reasons, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being \"near-threatened\". The Brazilian arboreal mouse is a small mouse with small rounded ears and vibrissae (whiskers) long enough to reach the ears. The dorsal fur is reddish-brown which gradually fades to reddish-grey on the ventral surface. The hair is soft, and this distinguishes \"Rhagomys rufescens\" from the only other species in the genus, \"Rhagomys longilingua\", which has spines mixed in with the hairs. They also differ in certain skull characteristics, and their ranges do not overlap. The head-and-body length slightly exceeds the tail length. The", "title": "Brazilian arboreal mouse" }, { "docid": "6917015", "text": "is often depicted in heraldry as a creature with four horns, cow's ears and a fiery red tongue. An example of the former is the flag and coat of arms of the city of Cres, Croatia. In heraldry the panther is commonly used in a form known as the Panther Incensed. In this form, the panther is depicted with flames coming from its mouth and ears, representing the panther's sweet odour. The heraldic panther is usually shown with coloured spots (semée of roundels), which are frequently blue and red. The arms of the Worshipful Company of Dyers, however, have as", "title": "Panther (legendary creature)" }, { "docid": "6052067", "text": "of the player characters, originally printed in the Master Set, is reproduced in the introduction. Each creature is listed with appropriate \"D&D\" statistics and a short description of the creature, its abilities and tactics. A variety of authors and artists combined to the listings including Zeb Cook and Gary Gygax. AC9 \"Creature Catalogue\" was compiled by Graeme Morris, Phil Gallagher, and Jim Bambra, and was published by TSR in 1986. The \"Creature Catalogue\" is in the format of a 96-page perfect-bound book, which TSR had been adopting more frequently at the time. Cover art is by Keith Parkinson. An updated", "title": "Creature Catalogue" }, { "docid": "8368590", "text": "Edition game's Dungeon Master's Guide, which features tables to aid in the \"random generation of creatures from the lower planes\". Subsequent other First Edition handbooks, notably the Monster Manual II, as well as Dragon Magazine, featured additional early monster generation templates. Creature template In the \"Dungeons & Dragons\" game, a template can be applied to a creature to enhance its abilities or to even create a new type of creature. Templates can be either acquired or inherited. An acquired template can be applied to a creature at any point (assuming it meets the prerequisites for the template), while an inherited", "title": "Creature template" }, { "docid": "8198088", "text": "took control of the Creature Commandos to attack the old JLI embassy. During the battle Max reveals himself while posing as one of the Creature Commandos, in which he captures the Blue Beetle and escapes. Shortly thereafter the Creature Commandos were broken free from Max's influence, realizing they do not know why they are so far from their Project M base. In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, a new version of the Creature Commandos were introduced and featured in the pages of \"Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E.\". This incarnation of the team works as", "title": "Creature Commandos" }, { "docid": "10161723", "text": "Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard The Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard (\"Abronia montecristoi\" ) is an endangered species of lizard. This species is distributed in the cloud forests of El Salvador as well as Honduras. This species is classified as Endangered by the IUCN Red List The specific name, \"montecristoi\", refers to the type locality, \"\"Hacienda Montecristo\" \". While there is not much known about \"A. montecristoi\", and described the color of the back as antique brown, with pale, cinnamon-colored crossbands, with the color buff-yellow on the sides. The head is also colored cinnamon. The scales on the top of", "title": "Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard" }, { "docid": "15908447", "text": "tension. Fred Olen Ray said \"Whenever the original Spanish cast members are called upon to speak, we are treated to a constant stream of voice-over narration, supplied by the grandson, who conveniently explains what they are saying...Bruno Ve Sota, receiving one of cinema's longest arm massages, rattles on incessantly...It is maddening.\" Creature of the Walking Dead Creature of the Walking Dead is a 1965 horror film adapted by Jerry Warren from a 1961 Mexican horror film \"La Marca del Muerto\", which translates as \"Mark of the Dead Man\". The original Mexican film was directed by Fernando Cortés, written by Alfredo", "title": "Creature of the Walking Dead" }, { "docid": "20751132", "text": "the balls to do just that.\" Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Creature Songs\". Creature Songs Creature Songs is the second extended play (EP) by English alternative rock band Wolf Alice. It was released on 26 May 2014 through Dirty Hit. The EP was produced by Catherine Marks. The EP was preceded by the release of \"Moaning Lisa Smile\", which was uploaded to the band's SoundCloud page. Barnabas Abraham of \"The 405\" said \"\"Creature Songs\" features a more aggressive edge that marks itself on the EP's opening two tracks, and overall the EP is another refreshing sample of a", "title": "Creature Songs" }, { "docid": "9484481", "text": "likely to stay home on those nights. These are the major metropolitan areas of the United States in which \"Creature Features\" was seen: North Carolina channel 6 every Friday night at midnight \"Creature Features\" can be said to be one of the most popular horror shows in the United States. In all \"Creature Features\" was televised in almost 100 cities nationwide, throughout the 1960s to the 1990s, with more than 6,000 broadcasts aired, and more than 4,500 movies shown. This makes the program the most prolific horror show in U.S. television history. \"Creature Features\" was broadcast in the New York", "title": "Creature Features" }, { "docid": "16810377", "text": "Creature animation Creature animation is a specialised part of the animation process which involves bringing realistic animals and creatures to life. It is often distinguished from character animation, which involves breathing life into animated characters and creating the illusion of thought, feeling and emotion. Creature animators create highly realistic motion in animals or creatures; examples include the dinosaurs animated in the 1993 Steven Spielberg film \"Jurassic Park\". Since dinosaurs cannot be filmed or observed in motion, the animators studied other living creatures such as birds and lizards in order to re-create how a dinosaur might move and behave. Fours year", "title": "Creature animation" }, { "docid": "12707779", "text": "which our money is wasted by what he calls the military industrial technological entertainment academic media corporate matrix, or 'The Complex' for short\". The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives is a book about the United States military, written by journalist Nick Turse. It was published in 2008 in hardcover format by Metropolitan Books. The book describes the vast changes in the industrial complex of the U.S. military from the days of President Dwight D. Eisenhower to 2008, its effect on American society, and how the military and private", "title": "The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives" }, { "docid": "18839539", "text": "\"The Death of Superman\", that was cancelled only three weeks before filming was set to begin in April 1998. In the film, Schnepp interviews several people involved with the development of the project and features numerous conceptual artwork and designs intended for the visual look of \"Superman Lives\". Director Jon Schnepp interviews the following subjects in the film: Critical reception for \"The Death of \"Superman Lives\": What Happened?\" has been predominantly positive. The film currently holds an 85% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 13 reviews, with an average of 7.2/10. \"Forbes\" and \"The Hollywood Reporter\" both wrote positive reviews,", "title": "The Death of \"Superman Lives\": What Happened?" }, { "docid": "9548575", "text": "(the area now known as Newlyn Cliff). The Tale of the Sea Bucca describes the Bucca inhabiting Lamorna Cove with the dark brown skin of a conger eel and a tangle of seaweed for hair and given to swimming in the waves, lying in the sea caverns or sitting among the rocks with the birds. He was a very lonely creature who had once been a human prince cursed by a witch, but was very fond of children. He assisted the Lamorna fishermen by driving fish into their nets and crabs into their pots, yet was capable of terrible vengeance", "title": "Bucca (mythological creature)" }, { "docid": "7918021", "text": "Creature type (Dungeons & Dragons) In the \"Dungeons & Dragons\" fantasy role-playing game, creature types are rough categories of creatures which determine the way game mechanics affect the creature. In the 3rd edition and related games, there are between thirteen and seventeen creature types. Creature type is determined by the designer of a monster, based upon its nature or physical attributes. The choice of type is important, as all creatures which have a given type will share certain characteristics (with some exceptions). In 3rd and 3.5 editions, type determines features such as hit dice, base attack bonus, saving throws, and", "title": "Creature type (Dungeons & Dragons)" }, { "docid": "3022298", "text": "an aquatic face-hugger and a four-legged version of the adult Alien. Giger said in an interview \"I had special ideas to make it more interesting. I designed a new creature, which was much more elegant and beastly, compared to my original. It was a four-legged Alien, more like a lethal feline—a panther or something. It had a kind of skin that was built up from other creatures—much like a symbiosis.\" However, when Tom Woodruff and Alec Gillis of Amalgamated Dynamics told Giger that they had their own design, Giger expressed himself as \"very upset\" and that the creature he had", "title": "Alien (creature in Alien franchise)" }, { "docid": "14758276", "text": "creature. The creature quickly gains the upper hand and almost kills Chase. Max uses Peniston's sound device to distract the creature. It attacks him, but he uses a zipline to escape. Peniston takes the sound device and lures the creature into the pressure chamber. Dr. Chase urges Peniston not to stay in the pressure chamber with the creature, but Peniston refuses to leave saying he can't let the creature die alone. Dr. Chase locks them in and activates it, building greater and greater pressure. The creature kills Peniston. Chase allows the pressure to build up very high then smashes the", "title": "Creature (miniseries)" }, { "docid": "6052069", "text": "recommend it. Brinsley felt that organizing the book in sections by type of creature rather than just alphabetically like \"AD&D\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s \"Monster Manual\"s \"should certainly make life easier for those DMs who design their own adventures, and know what sort of monster they want, rather than by name\". He also felt that the comprehensive references to all the monsters appearing in the \"D&D\" boxed sets would solve the problem of having to remember in which set a particular monster appears. He concluded the review by stating, \"basically, this book contains all you could ever wish to know about monsters in the", "title": "Creature Catalogue" }, { "docid": "9717344", "text": "What a Waste \"What a Waste\" is a song and single by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, originally released in 1978 on the Stiff Records single BUY 27 \"What a Waste\" / \"Wake Up and Make Love with Me\". The song has remained in The Blockheads' set following Dury's death. Essentially a song about being in a job that makes you happy, Dury claimed in a 1984 interview with \"Penthouse\" that while not condemning 9-to-5 jobs, he had written the song to make people question their lives, echoing the sentiments of his earlier single \"Sex and Drugs and Rock and", "title": "What a Waste" }, { "docid": "15701691", "text": "the year in the iTunes rewind 2011. Both \"Mojo\" and \"Uncut\" placed the album at number 11 on their lists of \"Top 50 albums of 2011\". All songs were written by Laura Marling. (\"Flicker and Fail\" came from a song by Marling's father.) A Creature I Don't Know A Creature I Don't Know is the third studio album by British singer-songwriter Laura Marling, released on 9 September 2011. The album was announced in June 2011, along with a preview of a new song, featured in a video posted on Laura Marling's official YouTube channel. The first track from the album", "title": "A Creature I Don't Know" }, { "docid": "15701679", "text": "A Creature I Don't Know A Creature I Don't Know is the third studio album by British singer-songwriter Laura Marling, released on 9 September 2011. The album was announced in June 2011, along with a preview of a new song, featured in a video posted on Laura Marling's official YouTube channel. The first track from the album to receive radio airplay was \"Sophia\", on 25 July 2011 on BBC Radio 1. The \"When The Bell Tolls\" tour of America, Canada and England was announced on 25 July, and took place in September and October 2011 to support the album. On", "title": "A Creature I Don't Know" }, { "docid": "14758275", "text": "the creature. Peniston replies that it was because they used his blood to help create it and that the creature is a part of him. They use Robin with a camera attached to her back to locate the creature. It locates the beast's lair, but before they can retrieve her, the creature attacks and the camera goes blank. Tall Man and Peniston enter the tunnel shortly after. They see the creature eating Robin. Tall Man shoots at the creature but Peniston interferes. The creature injures Tall Man. Dr. Chase arrives and helps Tall Man escape, but are pursued by the", "title": "Creature (miniseries)" }, { "docid": "19999860", "text": "Creature Crunch Creature Crunch is a 1996 animated point-and-click adventure game released for personal computers, developed by TechToons and Class6 Interactive. In the game, the player controls Wesley, a boy who is transformed into a human-monster hybrid by a mad scientist. Wesley has to escape the scientist's mansion, exploring its rooms and eating items which will help him defeat each room's guardians. Creature Crunch features the voices of comedians Martin Short and Eugene Levy. The boy Wesley (voiced by Short) is riding his bike during a storm. He stops in front of a mansion looking for shelter. Wesley is captured", "title": "Creature Crunch" }, { "docid": "12028731", "text": "Creature (band) Creature is a Canadian pop rock band formed in 2004 in Montreal. The band formed in 2004 and names themselves \"Pawel Czuraj\" and released a debut album \"No Sleep At All\" on March 3, 2008. The following year, No Sleep At All became a nominee in the \"Pop Album of The Year\" category at the Juno Awards of 2009. The band's sound incorporates elements of hip hop, dance-punk and new wave music. All the band's members contribute vocals to the music, which adds to the constant boy-girl dialogue in the songs. In 2005, Creature opened for Our Lady", "title": "Creature (band)" }, { "docid": "9484503", "text": "another ghoul, dressed in undertaker's attire, running outside and inside the Studios to a fast-paced instrumental tune. \"Creature Features\" which aired on ATN-7 Channel 7 was hosted by \"Vampira\" – played by Jill Forster. During Halloween 2001, Cinemax broadcast a series of five television movies they called \"Creature Features\": Each reused the title of a low-budget movie produced by American International Pictures during the 1950s. Some of the new movies were remakes of the earlier films, and some only had the title in common. In 1975, Research Games Inc. released a board game based on \"Creature Features.\" The gameplay greatly", "title": "Creature Features" }, { "docid": "19369757", "text": "movements slowly and deliberately to emulate a slow moving creature. Creature suit Creature suits are realistic costumes used to disguise a performer as an animal, monster, or other being. They are used in film, television, or as costumed characters in live events. Unlike mascots, they are often made with a high degree of realism. In contrast with prosthetic makeup, which is applied to an actor's skin, the wearer is not normally visible outside their movements controlling the costume, although in some cases, part of the wearer's body is still visible (such as in the case of mermaids or other half-human", "title": "Creature suit" }, { "docid": "19999862", "text": "enjoyable\". The game artwork reminded him of John Kricfalusi style. Creature Crunch Creature Crunch is a 1996 animated point-and-click adventure game released for personal computers, developed by TechToons and Class6 Interactive. In the game, the player controls Wesley, a boy who is transformed into a human-monster hybrid by a mad scientist. Wesley has to escape the scientist's mansion, exploring its rooms and eating items which will help him defeat each room's guardians. Creature Crunch features the voices of comedians Martin Short and Eugene Levy. The boy Wesley (voiced by Short) is riding his bike during a storm. He stops in", "title": "Creature Crunch" } ]
78594
Popularized in a speech by Winston Churchill, what was the popular name for the ideological and physical boundary between Western and Eastern Europe during the Cold War?
[ "The Iron Curtain", "Iron Curtain", "Jernteppe", "Iron curtain", "Iron curtain nuclear battle", "Eiserner Vorhang", "Teló d'acer", "Sinews of Peace", "Iron Curtain speech" ]
[ { "docid": "461492", "text": "stages of World War II, the future of Europe was decided between the Allies in the 1945 Yalta Conference, between the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, the U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Premier of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin. Post-war Europe would be divided into two major spheres: the Western Bloc, influenced by the United States, and the Eastern Bloc, influenced by the Soviet Union. With the onset of the Cold War, Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain. This term had been used during World War II by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and later Count Lutz", "title": "Western Europe" }, { "docid": "11430800", "text": "which would be used for the remainder of the Cold War. The iron curtain is what Churchill referred to the Soviet Union's growing influence in Eastern Europe. At the time that Churchill made the speech both the United States and his own government publicly disagreed with him. His speech would later be hailed as having great prophetic value. Later it would be shown that President Truman and the Prime Minister both shared Churchill's feelings, but felt they could not disclose this publicly. Churchill would coin another famous term, this time relating to the relationship between the United States and Britain.", "title": "Later life of Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "10781670", "text": "Protection of Czechoslovak borders during the Cold War The protection of borders between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) and Capitalist countries of Western Europe, namely with West Germany and Austria, in the Cold War era and especially after 1951, was provided by special troops of the Pohraniční Stráž () and system of engineer equipment which created the real \"Iron Curtain\". The purpose was to prevent citizens of the Eastern Bloc escaping to the West, although official reports stated it was to keep the enemy's spies and saboteurs out of Czechoslovakia. The border system of Czechoslovakia was not as elaborate and", "title": "Protection of Czechoslovak borders during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "10781676", "text": "Czechoslovak fortifications on the West German border were dismantled. The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, and Austria are now all part of the Schengen Agreement, which allows border crossing without identity checks. Protection of Czechoslovak borders during the Cold War The protection of borders between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) and Capitalist countries of Western Europe, namely with West Germany and Austria, in the Cold War era and especially after 1951, was provided by special troops of the Pohraniční Stráž () and system of engineer equipment which created the real \"Iron Curtain\". The purpose was to prevent citizens of the Eastern", "title": "Protection of Czechoslovak borders during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "11430786", "text": "Later life of Winston Churchill After the end of the World War II, Winston Churchill's Conservative Party lost the 1945 election, forcing him to step down as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. For six years he served as the Leader of the Opposition. During these years Churchill continued to influence world affairs,in 1946 he gave his Iron Curtain speech which spoke of the expansionist policies of the USSR and the creation of the Eastern Bloc; Churchill also argued strongly for British independence from the European Coal and Steel Community; he saw this as a Franco-German project and Britain still", "title": "Later life of Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "461493", "text": "Schwerin von Krosigk in the last days of the war; however, its use was hugely popularised by Winston Churchill, who used it in his famous \"Sinews of Peace\" address on 5 March 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri: Although some countries were officially neutral, they were classified according to the nature of their political and economic systems. This division largely defines the popular perception and understanding of Western Europe and its borders with Eastern Europe. The world changed dramatically with the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. West Germany peacefully absorbed East Germany, in the German reunification. Comecon", "title": "Western Europe" }, { "docid": "111443", "text": "the communist Eastern bloc, separated by what was later called by Winston Churchill an \"Iron Curtain\". The United States and Western Europe established the NATO alliance and later the Soviet Union and Central Europe established the Warsaw Pact. The two new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, became locked in a fifty-year-long Cold War, centred on nuclear proliferation. At the same time decolonisation, which had already started after World War I, gradually resulted in the independence of most of the European colonies in Asia and Africa. In the 1980s the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Solidarity movement", "title": "Europe" }, { "docid": "2488530", "text": "of Soviet Conduct\" in \"Foreign Affairs\" (July 1947), Kennan drafted the classic argument for adopting a policy of \"containment\" toward the Soviet Union. On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill, while at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, gave his speech \"The Sinews of Peace,\" declaring that an \"iron curtain\" had descended across Europe. From the standpoint of the Soviets, the speech was an incitement for the West to begin a war with the USSR, as it called for an Anglo-American alliance against the Soviets \" Having lost 20 million people in the war, suffered German invasion twice in 30 years, and", "title": "Origins of the Cold War" }, { "docid": "18674790", "text": "flew to Leningrad in June, 1956. As a result of a cooperation of Sabin and Chumakov in Leningrad, Sabin was able to test his attenuated vaccine when funding in America was declined. While Sabin was working behind the Iron Curtain, the Sabin-Chumakov vaccine was determined to be safe and effective. Cold War tensions caused Western scientists to refuse the reports from the Russians about the effectiveness of the Sabin vaccine. However, mass vaccinations of Sabin's vaccine spread throughout Eastern Europe from 1960–1963. Just as some Soviet virologists did not trust the Western Salk vaccine, Americans had similar reservations about the", "title": "Cold War tensions and the polio vaccine" }, { "docid": "482223", "text": "was mostly behind the Western European countries in economic rebuilding and progress. Winston Churchill, in his famous \"Sinews of Peace\" address of March 5, 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, stressed the geopolitical impact of the \"iron curtain\": Eastern Europe after 1945 usually meant all the European countries liberated and then occupied by the Soviet army. It included the German Democratic Republic (also known as East Germany), formed by the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. All the countries in Eastern Europe adopted communist modes of control. These countries were officially independent from the Soviet Union, but the practical extent", "title": "Eastern Europe" }, { "docid": "11990196", "text": "National Churchill Museum The National Churchill Museum (formerly the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library), located on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, Missouri, United States, commemorates the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill. In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous in the Westminster Historic Gymnasium. In it was the line: \"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.\" This sentence caused the oration to become known as the \"Iron Curtain\" speech. \"Sinews of Peace\" heralded the beginning of the Cold War. The National Churchill Museum comprises three distinct but", "title": "National Churchill Museum" }, { "docid": "18312006", "text": "Czechoslovak military. Czechoslovak border fortifications during the Cold War The Czechoslovak border fortifications were built in the period 1946-1964 along the south and south-western frontier, on the common border with the capitalist countries of West Germany and Austria. Unlike the Czechoslovak section of the Iron Curtain, whose main function was to prevent citizens of the Eastern Bloc escaping to the West, the purpose of these border fortifications was defence against possible German revanchist aggression and later also against possible attack by NATO forces. At the outset, the defence system was based on the installations of the pre-war permanent fortifications, repaired", "title": "Czechoslovak border fortifications during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "12367011", "text": "memory of the division is being kept alive in many other places along the \"Grenze\". Throughout the Cold War the term \"curtain\" would become a common euphemism for boundaries – physical or ideological – between communist and capitalist states. Post Cold War: Geography: Iron Curtain The Iron Curtain was the name for the physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the", "title": "Iron Curtain" }, { "docid": "3476952", "text": "of high metal fences and walls, barbed wire, alarms, anti-vehicle ditches, watchtowers, automatic booby traps, and minefields. It was patrolled by 50,000 armed East German guards who faced tens of thousands of West German, British, and US guards and soldiers. In the hinterlands behind the border were more than a million North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and Warsaw Pact troops. The border was a physical manifestation of Sir Winston Churchill's metaphorical Iron Curtain that separated the Soviet and Western blocs during the Cold War. It marked the boundary between two ideological systems—democratic capitalism and single-party communism. Built by East Germany", "title": "Inner German border" }, { "docid": "18312003", "text": "Czechoslovak border fortifications during the Cold War The Czechoslovak border fortifications were built in the period 1946-1964 along the south and south-western frontier, on the common border with the capitalist countries of West Germany and Austria. Unlike the Czechoslovak section of the Iron Curtain, whose main function was to prevent citizens of the Eastern Bloc escaping to the West, the purpose of these border fortifications was defence against possible German revanchist aggression and later also against possible attack by NATO forces. At the outset, the defence system was based on the installations of the pre-war permanent fortifications, repaired and re-equipped", "title": "Czechoslovak border fortifications during the Cold War" } ]
[ { "docid": "3068597", "text": "of which is not part of the range. This range includes the following mountains and peaks: Winston Churchill Range The Winston Churchill Range is a mountain range in the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies located in Jasper National Park. The range was named after Sir Winston Churchill, former British prime minister. The eastern boundary of the range begins on the western side of Sunwapta River from the Jasper and Banff boundary and extends north to Sunwapta Falls. The western boundary of the range is defined by the Athabasca River valley to the east of Warwick Mountain. The valley narrows", "title": "Winston Churchill Range" }, { "docid": "3068596", "text": "Winston Churchill Range The Winston Churchill Range is a mountain range in the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies located in Jasper National Park. The range was named after Sir Winston Churchill, former British prime minister. The eastern boundary of the range begins on the western side of Sunwapta River from the Jasper and Banff boundary and extends north to Sunwapta Falls. The western boundary of the range is defined by the Athabasca River valley to the east of Warwick Mountain. The valley narrows as it approaches the Continental Divide, and separates Mt. Columbia from Mt. King Edward, the latter", "title": "Winston Churchill Range" }, { "docid": "2488555", "text": "to describe the postwar tensions between the U.S.- and Soviet-led blocs was popularized by Bernard Baruch, a U.S. financier and an adviser to Harry Truman, who used the term during a speech before the South Carolina state legislature on April 16, 1947. Since the term \"Cold War\" was popularized in 1947, there has been extensive disagreement in many political and scholarly discourses on what exactly were the sources of postwar tensions. In the American historiography, there has been disagreement as to who was responsible for the quick unraveling of the wartime alliance between 1945 and 1947, and on whether the", "title": "Origins of the Cold War" }, { "docid": "11880989", "text": "Winston Churchill Boulevard Winston Churchill Boulevard is a long north-south roadway that predominately forms the western boundary of Peel Region with the eastern boundaries of Halton Region and Wellington County, in Ontario, Canada. The road begins at Lakeshore Road in the south at the boundaries of the City of Mississauga the Town of Oakville, and ends in Caledon at East Garafraxa-Caledon Townline. The road is named in honour of British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill. The road is designated as Peel Regional Road 19 in the two segments where it forms Peel's boundary with the aforementioned divisions: Halton Region shares", "title": "Winston Churchill Boulevard" }, { "docid": "12835218", "text": "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, is a book by Patrick J. Buchanan, published in May 2008. Buchanan argues that both world wars were unnecessary and that the British Empire's decision to fight in them was disastrous for the world. One of Buchanan's express purposes is to undermine what he describes as a \"Churchill cult\" in America's élite and so he focuses particularly on how Winston Churchill helped Britain get into wars with Germany in 1914 and again in 1939. Buchanan cites many", "title": "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" }, { "docid": "11880992", "text": "19 along Adamson St. Within Terra Cotta, Winston Churchill deviates eastward to be situated entirely within the Town of Caledon. It is concurrent with Peel Regional Road 9 (King Street) for approximately 550 metres. Winston Churchill Boulevard Winston Churchill Boulevard is a long north-south roadway that predominately forms the western boundary of Peel Region with the eastern boundaries of Halton Region and Wellington County, in Ontario, Canada. The road begins at Lakeshore Road in the south at the boundaries of the City of Mississauga the Town of Oakville, and ends in Caledon at East Garafraxa-Caledon Townline. The road is named", "title": "Winston Churchill Boulevard" }, { "docid": "11991187", "text": "shout.\" Hardy's performance as Churchill won a BAFTA nomination in 1982. Eric Porter as Neville Chamberlain also received praise. The series was nominated for a total of 8 BAFTA awards, namely: Hardy also portrayed Churchill in \"The Sittaford Mystery\", \"Bomber Harris\" and \"War and Remembrance\". At the 50th anniversary celebrations of the end of World War II in 1995, he quoted a number of Churchill's wartime speeches in character. Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an eight-part 1981 drama serial based on Winston Churchill's years in during the 1920s and 1930s. It was made by", "title": "Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years" }, { "docid": "11430795", "text": "Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere. According to a memorandum from the FBI's archives, in 1947 Winston Churchill urged the US to conduct a preemptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union in order to win the Cold War, before it's too late. Churchill reportedly spoke to right-wing Republican senator Styles Bridges, asking him to persuade then-President Harry Truman to launch a nuclear strike", "title": "Later life of Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "20127249", "text": "Soviet Middle Eastern foreign policy during the Cold War The Soviet Union used its relationship with Europe to gain economic cooperation with the Arab world during the Cold War and its influence in the Middle East by inciting proxy conflicts between the Arab states and their Jewish neighbors. The superpowers interacted with proxy combatants, which factored into the Soviet Union's omission from the Camp David Accords. The policy exposed Soviet dualism; while aiming to reduce their military budget and improve their image on the world stage, they pursued an anti-Israel policy in the Arabian Peninsula. The Middle East went from", "title": "Soviet Middle Eastern foreign policy during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "7929643", "text": "The Winston Churchill School, Woking The Winston Churchill School is a comprehensive, secondary school in Woking, England. The school was established in 1967. It is near Knaphill, Bisley, West End, Brookwood and Pirbright. The school holds Specialist Sports College status. The Winston Churchill School received a score of \"good\" (OFSTED January 2015) with GCSE results above the national average. \"The curriculum is a strength of the school...teaching is good with aspects that are outstanding...students behaviour both in and out of classrooms is good\" and \"students feel safe & secure\". Teaching occurs during one-hour lessons with Physical Education (P.E.) lessons twice", "title": "The Winston Churchill School, Woking" }, { "docid": "8480254", "text": "cities in Italy, more than 250,000 people protested in Bonn, 250,000 demonstrated in London, and 100,000 marched in Brussels. The largest anti-nuclear protest was held on June 12, 1982, when one million people demonstrated in New York City against nuclear weapons. In October 1983, nearly 3 million people across western Europe protested nuclear missile deployments and demanded an end to the arms race; the largest crowd of almost one million people assembled in the Hague in the Netherlands. In Britain, 400,000 people participated in what was probably the largest demonstration in British history. Culture during the Cold War The Cold", "title": "Culture during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "2985897", "text": "tank battles once feared would rage across Western Europe. It is with Canada's late-Cold War and early-Peacekeeping Era military that Canada would embark on its deployment to Afghanistan, currently Canada's longest-running war. Canada in the Cold War During the Cold War, Canada was one of the western powers playing a central role in the major alliances. It was an ally of the United States, but there were several foreign policy differences between the two countries over the course of the Cold War. Canada was a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949, the North American Aerospace", "title": "Canada in the Cold War" }, { "docid": "15288815", "text": "Second World War?\")' Timothy West won the John Logie Baird performance award (1980). He reprised the role of Churchill in \"The Last Bastion\" (1984) and \"Hiroshima\" (1995). Churchill and the Generals Churchill and the Generals is a 1979 BBC television drama concerning the relationship between Winston Churchill and generals of the Allied forces, set in the Cabinet Office and War Rooms between 1940 and 1945. It was written by Ian Curteis (with Peter Young as military advisor). It was first broadcast on BBC 2 on 23 September 1979, and repeated on BBC 1 on 22 August 1981. It screened on", "title": "Churchill and the Generals" }, { "docid": "18741793", "text": "Winston Churchill's 5th October Speech to the House of Commons Winston Churchill's 5th October 1938, Speech to the House of Commons Titled \"Policy of His Majesty's Government\", Winston Churchill foreshadows the fate of Europe after the signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938. Churchill, a Conservative in the House of Commons, was strongly against Prime Minister's Neville Chamberlain's policy of Appeasement. The Munich Agreement ceded the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia to avoid an armed conflict with Hitler's Germany. The speech took place on 5 October 1938 in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Following", "title": "Winston Churchill's 5th October Speech to the House of Commons" }, { "docid": "12835247", "text": "of the Germans from Eastern Europe, in which 2 million died, a crime against humanity \"of historic dimensions\" and contrasts the British prosecution of German leaders at the Nuremberg Trials for crimes against humanity while Churchill and other British leaders were approving the expulsion of the Germans from Eastern Europe. Buchanan also writes that the United States should have stayed out of the events of World War II. However, because the United States insisted for the United Kingdom to sever the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1921, Japan ultimately aligned itself with the Axis and later attacked Pearl Harbor. Buchanan blames Churchill", "title": "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" }, { "docid": "15288814", "text": "Churchill and the Generals Churchill and the Generals is a 1979 BBC television drama concerning the relationship between Winston Churchill and generals of the Allied forces, set in the Cabinet Office and War Rooms between 1940 and 1945. It was written by Ian Curteis (with Peter Young as military advisor). It was first broadcast on BBC 2 on 23 September 1979, and repeated on BBC 1 on 22 August 1981. It screened on 5 March 1981 in the United States. \"The Times\" television critic Michael Ratcliffe wrote: \"'Churchill\", though trivial, was intermittently moving and fun (alternative title: \"Punch in the", "title": "Churchill and the Generals" }, { "docid": "12835251", "text": "fulfil its promises. Buchanan expresses the view that just as Chamberlain's \"guarantee\" of Poland in March 1939 caused an \"unnecessary war\" with Germany in September, the current guarantees of Eastern European nations by the United States are equally unwise and require a declaration of war with Russia if a hostile regime ascended to power in the latter country and attacked Eastern Europe. However, the United States has no vital interests in Eastern Europe. Finally, Buchanan highlights the symbolism of Bush placing a bust of Churchill in the Oval Office as evidence that Bush's neoconservative foreign policy was influenced and inspired", "title": "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" }, { "docid": "12835246", "text": "bombing\" as a method of war against Gernany.; Buchanan quotes LeMay himself \"We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo that night of March 9–10 than went up in the vapour of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.\" Buchanan concludes, \"We and the British fought for moral ends. We did not always use moral means by any Christian definition.\" Endorsing the concept of Western betrayal, Buchanan accuses Churchill and Roosevelt of turning over Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union at the Tehran Conference and the Yalta Conference. Citing the Cuban-American lawyer Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, Buchanan calls the expulsion", "title": "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" }, { "docid": "11991183", "text": "Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an eight-part 1981 drama serial based on Winston Churchill's years in during the 1920s and 1930s. It was made by Southern Television on a budget of £3¼ million and originally broadcast on ITV on Sunday nights at 10 pm. It was written and directed by Ferdinand Fairfax, with historian Martin Gilbert as co-writer. Churchill was played by Robert Hardy, who earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor and went on to play him in several other productions. The series focuses on the decade from 1929 to 1939 during which", "title": "Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years" }, { "docid": "14208223", "text": "the United Kingdom during the Second World War. It was published on November 6, 2012, 24 years after the publication of the previous volume. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill is a trilogy of biographies covering the life of Winston Churchill. The first two were published in the 1980s by author and historian William Manchester, who died while working on the last volume. However, before his death, Manchester had selected Paul Reid to complete it, and the final volume was published in November 2012. The 973-page volume was published in 1983. In 2011, the", "title": "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill" }, { "docid": "12835238", "text": "a \"quid pro quo\" for Germany staying out of Western Europe would have been better than World War II. Buchanan argues that it was a great blunder on the part of Chamberlain to declare war on Germany in 1939 and that it was an even greater blunder on the part of Churchill to refuse Hitler's peace offer of 1940, thus making World War II in Buchanan's opinion the \"unnecessary war\" of the title. The title of course was borrowed from Churchill, who stated in his memoirs, \"One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about", "title": "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" }, { "docid": "11244145", "text": "Winston Churchill as writer Winston Churchill, in addition to his careers of soldier and politician, was a prolific writer under the pen name \"Winston S. Churchill\". After being commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1895, Churchill gained permission to observe the Cuban War of Independence, and sent war reports to \"The Daily Graphic\". He continued his war journalism in British India, at the Siege of Malakand, then in the Sudan during the Mahdist War and in southern Africa during the Second Boer War. Churchill's fictional output included one novel and a short story, but his main output comprised", "title": "Winston Churchill as writer" }, { "docid": "10263093", "text": "Historiography of the Cold War As soon as the term \"Cold War\" was popularized to refer to postwar tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, interpreting the course and origins of the conflict became a source of heated controversy among historians, political scientists and journalists. In particular, historians have sharply disagreed as to who was responsible for the breakdown of Soviet Union–United States relations after the World War II and whether the conflict between the two superpowers was inevitable, or could have been avoided. Historians have also disagreed on what exactly the Cold War was, what the sources", "title": "Historiography of the Cold War" }, { "docid": "20127259", "text": "Vietnamese peace negotiations. Moscow was limited in the peace talks because it did not recognize Israel diplomatically, which enabled the United States to talk to both sides. The U.S. responded to Soviet influence in the Middle East after the Camp David Accords by using economic sanctions to influence the Arab world. Geopolitics transitioned from post-Cold War polarization to 21st-century regional conflicts. The lack of two superpowers destabilized the Middle East as pressure-relieving, limited proxy conflicts grew into greater conflicts which spawned genocide. Soviet Middle Eastern foreign policy during the Cold War The Soviet Union used its relationship with Europe to", "title": "Soviet Middle Eastern foreign policy during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "2488499", "text": "and the Cold War was largely in place in Europe. Outside Europe, the starting points vary in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Events preceding World War II and even the Russian Revolution of 1917, underlay older tensions between the Soviet Union, European countries and the United States. A series of events during and after World War II exacerbated tensions, including the Soviet–German pact in 1939, the Anglo-Americans repeated postponement of an amphibious invasion of German-occupied Europe, the Western allies' support of the Atlantic Charter, Soviet rejection of decisions about Eastern European democracy made in wartime conferences and the Kremlin's", "title": "Origins of the Cold War" }, { "docid": "12835240", "text": "argued, but a genuine German offer to avoid the war. Likewise, Buchanan argues by citing F.H. Hinsley, John Lukacs, and Alan Clark that Hitler's peace offers to Britain in the summer of 1940 were real and so Churchill was wrong to refuse them. Buchanan calls the Morgenthau Plan of 1944 a genocidal plan for the destruction of Germany that was promoted by the vengeful Henry Morgenthau and his deputy, Soviet agent Harry Dexter White, a way of ensuring Soviet domination of Europe, with Churchill being amoral for accepting it. Buchanan even claims a moral equivalence between Churchill and Hitler. Buchanan", "title": "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" }, { "docid": "461490", "text": "and United Kingdom. Eastern Europe, meanwhile is formed by countries with dominant Eastern Orthodox churches, including Greece, Belarus, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine for instance. The schism is the break of communion and theology between what are now the Eastern (Orthodox) and Western (Roman Catholic from the 11th century, as well as from the 16th century also Protestant) churches. This division dominated Europe for centuries, in opposition to the rather short-lived Cold War division of 4 decades. Since the Great Schism of 1054, Europe has been divided between Roman Catholic and Protestant churches in the West and the Eastern", "title": "Western Europe" }, { "docid": "461491", "text": "Orthodox Christian (many times incorrectly labeled \"Greek Orthodox\") churches in the east. Due to this religious cleavage, Eastern Orthodox countries are often associated with Eastern Europe. A cleavage of this sort is, however, often problematic; for example, Greece is overwhelmingly Orthodox, but is very rarely included in \"Eastern Europe\", for a variety of reasons. During the four decades of the Cold War, the definition of East and West was rather simplified by the existence of the Eastern Bloc. Historians and social scientists generally view the Cold War definition of Western and Eastern Europe as outdated or relegating. During the final", "title": "Western Europe" }, { "docid": "8519060", "text": "in January 1954. While the school was named after the British Prime Minister during the Second World War, Sir Winston Churchill, the school's name does not have a \"Sir\"; it is simply Winston Churchill C.I. The school building was designed by an architectural firm, Carter, Coleman & Rankin and the building completed during the eight-month span. Churchill opened to its first 690 students on September 7, 1954 as the third high school in Scarborough under the founding principal, A. B. Alison. Initially, the facilities began with 20 classrooms, library, cafeteria, main office, and the gymnatorium. Today, Churchill now has a", "title": "Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute" }, { "docid": "10251035", "text": "suggests that trade was the only way of communication between Western Europe and the Mughal empire. The trade was carried out by the same countries, only there were variations of the proportion of import for those countries, depending on what was going on at that time in Europe and on the alliances the countries tight themselves into. The pattern of Globalization and World entanglement was traced in 17th century through trade. This way the European countries found their place in the Mughal empire, gradually gaining more power over the trade and, consequently, over the empire until the British colonized the", "title": "Trade between Western Europe and the Mughal Empire in the 17th century" }, { "docid": "19307457", "text": "been secured. for the general history see Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II. After the Conservative Party lost the 1945 election, Churchill became Leader of the Opposition to the Labour Government. He would go on to be re-elected as Prime Minister in 1951. Timeline of the first premiership of Winston Churchill The following is a timeline of the first premiership of Winston Churchill, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the bulk", "title": "Timeline of the first premiership of Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "12835245", "text": "the British \"area bombing\" of German cities in World War II a policy of \"barbarism\" and quotes Churchill stating that its purpose was \"simply for the sake of terror.\" In particular, Buchanan argues that the bombing of Dresden in 1945 was barbaric and that Churchill personally ordered it by quoting Churchill himself and Air Marshall Arthur Harris as evidence. Buchanan believes that Churchill was largely responsible for \"Western man's reversion to barbarism\" in World War II and notes that generals like Curtis LeMay, when they bombed Japan, had followed the example set by British Air Marshal Harris in using \"terror", "title": "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" }, { "docid": "6378342", "text": "Winston Churchill High School (Potomac, Maryland) Winston Churchill High School, often referred to as WCHS, Churchill High School, CHS or Churchill, is a high school in Potomac, Maryland, an unincorporated section of Montgomery County, Maryland. The school is named after Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II. Founded in 1964 as Potomac High School, the school's name was changed to \"Winston Churchill High School\" a year later. Churchill is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools system. The majority of the students come from Herbert Hoover Middle School", "title": "Winston Churchill High School (Potomac, Maryland)" }, { "docid": "482208", "text": "Belarus, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine for instance. The schism is the break of communion and theology between what are now the Eastern (Orthodox) and Western (Roman Catholic from the 11th century, as well as from the 16th century also Protestant) churches. This division dominated Europe for centuries, in opposition to the rather short-lived Cold War division of 4 decades. Since the Great Schism of 1054, Europe has been divided between Roman Catholic and Protestant churches in the West, and the Eastern Orthodox Christian (many times incorrectly labeled \"Greek Orthodox\") churches in the", "title": "Eastern Europe" }, { "docid": "453147", "text": "long war. Coining the general term for the upcoming battle, Churchill stated in his \"finest hour\" speech to the House of Commons on 18 June, \"I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin.\" By refusing an armistice with Germany, Churchill kept resistance alive in the British Empire and created the basis for the later Allied counter-attacks of 1942–45, with Britain serving as a platform for the supply of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Western Europe. In response to previous criticisms that there had been no clear single minister in charge of the prosecution of the", "title": "Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "2985894", "text": "array deployed on the edge of the Continental Shelf. The Cold War in Canada came to an end during the period 1990–1995 as the traditional mission to contain Soviet expansion faded into the new realities of warfare. The Cold War required permanent foreign deployments to Western Europe, something which was no longer necessary, and as such bases closed down. Less equipment was needed, and so much was sold off, soon to be replaced by newer equipment designed for future conflicts. At home, bases were closed and operations consolidated and streamlined for maximum efficiency, as by the early 1990s many Canadians", "title": "Canada in the Cold War" }, { "docid": "11244155", "text": "Boston the following year. There are around 135 published booklets of Churchill's individual speeches, including \"Mr Winston Churchill on the Education Bill\" (1902), \"The Fiscal Puzzle: Both Sides Explained by Leading Men'\" (1903), \"Why I am a Free Trader\" (1905) and \"Prisons and Prisoners\" (1910); the following are speeches published in a collected form. Winston Churchill as writer Winston Churchill, in addition to his careers of soldier and politician, was a prolific writer under the pen name \"Winston S. Churchill\". After being commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1895, Churchill gained permission to observe the Cuban War of", "title": "Winston Churchill as writer" }, { "docid": "3512252", "text": "Léon Blum and Georges Pompidou. Winston Churchill lauded the movement's work for a unified Europe prior to the war in his famous Zurich speech in 1946. In 1947, the group formed around Duncan Sandys, Winston Churchill, Edvard Beneš and others split into newly formed European Movement in opposition of Union's strong Christian right. Grounded in liberal values, the Paneuropean Union was considered staunchly anti-communist from its inception and especially during the Cold War. For this reason, the organisation was much reviled by the communist regimes of the Eastern Bloc. The organisation became renowned for its role in organising the Pan-European", "title": "Paneuropean Union" }, { "docid": "7198808", "text": "M1 Abrams, the Challenger and by any other contemporary Western main battle tank during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Tanks in the Cold War During the Cold War (1945–1990), the two opposing forces in Europe were the Warsaw Pact countries on the one side, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries on the other side. The Warsaw Pact was seen by the West as having an aggressive force outnumbering the NATO forces. Soviet domination of the Warsaw Pact led to effective standardization on a few tank designs. In comparison, NATO adopted a defensive posture. The major contributing nations, France,", "title": "Tanks in the Cold War" }, { "docid": "2622442", "text": "race\", as ordered by Adolf Hitler in his speech to military commanders on 22 August 1939. This could be seen as an attempt to destroy the entire nation. The invading Germans believed that the Poles were racially inferior to them. From the very beginning of war against Poland, German forces carried out massacres and executions of civilians. Many of these atrocities were not properly researched after the war due to the political divide between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War, wrote Böhler. Polish eyewitness accounts do not identify the German units involved; that information is traceable only through", "title": "War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II" }, { "docid": "12835249", "text": "their trust betrayed and their soldiers wasted.\" Likewise, Buchanan blames British statesmen for bringing Britain into the war against Germany, which caused the economic ruin of Britain but also brought Communists to power in Eastern Europe and China in 1949, all of which would have been avoided if Britain had not \"guaranteed\" Poland in 1939. Buchanan claims that for the most part, American leaders in the Cold War followed the wise advice of Kennan, who understood that a strong Germany was needed as an American ally to keep the Soviet Union out of Central Europe. The United states did not", "title": "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" }, { "docid": "453170", "text": "to prevent it at the conferences. During October 1944, he and Eden were in Moscow to meet with the Russian leadership. At this point, Russian forces were beginning to advance into various eastern European countries. Churchill held the view that until everything was formally and properly worked out at the Yalta conference, there had to be a temporary, war-time, working agreement with regard to who would run what. The most significant of these meetings was held on 9 October 1944 in the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin. During the meeting, Poland and the Balkan problems were discussed. Churchill told Stalin:", "title": "Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "2478614", "text": "Winston Churchill (1940–2010) Winston Spencer-Churchill (10 October 1940 – 2 March 2010), generally known as Winston Churchill, was a British Conservative politician and a grandson of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. During the period of his prominence as a public figure, he was normally referred to as Winston Churchill , in order to distinguish him from his grandfather. His father Randolph Churchill was also an MP. Churchill was born at Chequers just after his grandfather became Prime Minister, a year into World War II, and was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford. His famous grandfather died", "title": "Winston Churchill (1940–2010)" }, { "docid": "8480227", "text": "Culture during the Cold War The Cold War was reflected in culture through music, movies, books, television and other media, as well as sports and social beliefs and behavior. One major element of the Cold War was the threat of a nuclear war; another was espionage. Many works use the Cold War as a backdrop, or directly take part in fictional conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The period 1953–62 saw Cold War themes first enter the mainstream culture as a public preoccupation. For the historical context in America see United States in the 1950s. Cloak and", "title": "Culture during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "2488501", "text": "the war by freeing up a million German soldiers for the Western Front and by \"relinquishing much of Russia's food supply, industrial base, fuel supplies, and communications with Western Europe.\" According to historian Spencer Tucker, the Allies felt, \"The treaty was the ultimate betrayal of the Allied cause and sowed the seeds for the Cold War. With Brest-Litovsk the spectre of German domination in Eastern Europe threatened to become reality, and the Allies now began to think seriously about military intervention,\" and proceeded to step up their \"economic warfare\" against the Bolsheviks. Some Bolsheviks saw Russia as only the first", "title": "Origins of the Cold War" }, { "docid": "19307456", "text": "Timeline of the first premiership of Winston Churchill The following is a timeline of the first premiership of Winston Churchill, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the bulk of World War II. His speeches and radio broadcasts helped inspire British resistance, especially during the difficult days of 1940–41 when the British Commonwealth and Empire stood almost alone in its active opposition to Nazi Germany. He led Britain as Prime Minister until victory over Nazi Germany had", "title": "Timeline of the first premiership of Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "453036", "text": "Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, statesman, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory in the Second World War. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and British imperialist, he began and ended his parliamentary career as a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but for twenty years from 1904 he was a", "title": "Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "11880991", "text": "Townline is under joint jurisdiction between the Town of Caledon, Town of Erin and Township of East Garafraxa where Winston Churchill forms the boundary between any two of these municipalities. The segment between Highway 407 and Dundas Street is entirely within Peel Region (the region line is shifted west to Highway 407 and 9th Line), and is under the jurisdiction of the City of Mississauga. Within Norval, Winston Churchill Boulevard deviates westward to be situated entirely within the Town of Halton Hills, and is known as Adamson Street. Despite being in Halton Region, it is still signed Peel Regional Road", "title": "Winston Churchill Boulevard" }, { "docid": "20127257", "text": "fledgling Communist regimes while attacking an Islamic nation. Shuttle diplomacy was instrumental in brokering a Middle Eastern peace. U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger spent considerable time at Middle Eastern peace talks as a neutral party. He explained the reasons behind the need to pull out of Vietnam, which complicated the Middle Eastern talks and the nascent nuclear-nonproliferation-treaty talks. President Richard Nixon used the Sino-Soviet split to begin ending the Cold War by breaking down political and economic barriers between the U.S. and China, further isolated the Soviets. Kissinger spoke about his roles in brokering peace between the Arabs and", "title": "Soviet Middle Eastern foreign policy during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "10263114", "text": "and intelligence during the Cold War. Scholars are reviewing how its origins, its course, and its outcome were shaped by the intelligence activities of the United States, the Soviet Union, and other key countries. Special attention is paid to how complex images of one's adversaries were shaped by secret intelligence that is now publicly known. Historiography of the Cold War As soon as the term \"Cold War\" was popularized to refer to postwar tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, interpreting the course and origins of the conflict became a source of heated controversy among historians, political scientists", "title": "Historiography of the Cold War" }, { "docid": "8480252", "text": "Japan) was part of the Cold War. Steigerwald reviews the debate by looking at the book \"Trams or Tailfins? Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States\" (2012) by Jan L. Logemann: Cold war tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were the backdrop of sports competitions, especially in hockey and in the Olympics of 1980 and 1984. Playground equipment constructed during the Cold War was intended to foster children's curiosity and excitement about the Space Race. It was installed in both Communist and non-Communist countries throughout the Cold War. Anti-nuclear protests first emerged in the", "title": "Culture during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "14060444", "text": "with the responsibility of preserving and fostering the best cultural traditions of western civilization, as many European artists sought refuge in the United States before, during, and after World War II (Wilford 101). Europe and European Universities turned out to be in the epicenter of the Cultural Cold War. In 1950, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) surreptitiously created the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) to counter the Cominform’s “peace offensive”. The Congress had “offices in thirty-five countries, employed dozens of personnel, published over twenty prestige magazines, held art exhibitions, owned a news and features service, organized high-profile international conferences, and", "title": "CIA and the Cultural Cold War" }, { "docid": "7929644", "text": "a week (more frequently for P.E. GCSE students). After school clubs provide extra sports and P.E., and other extra-curricular activities. The Winston Churchill School, Woking The Winston Churchill School is a comprehensive, secondary school in Woking, England. The school was established in 1967. It is near Knaphill, Bisley, West End, Brookwood and Pirbright. The school holds Specialist Sports College status. The Winston Churchill School received a score of \"good\" (OFSTED January 2015) with GCSE results above the national average. \"The curriculum is a strength of the school...teaching is good with aspects that are outstanding...students behaviour both in and out of", "title": "The Winston Churchill School, Woking" }, { "docid": "453194", "text": "speech at Zurich on 19 September 1946 in which he called for \"a kind of United States of Europe\" centred around a Franco-German partnership, with Britain and the Commonwealth, and perhaps the US, as \"friends and sponsors of the new Europe\". \"The Times\" wrote of him \"startling the world\" with \"outrageous propositions\" and warned that there was as yet little appetite for such unity, and that he appeared to be assuming a permanent division between Eastern and Western Europe, and urged \"more humdrum\" economic agreements. Churchill's speech was praised by Leo Amery and by Count Coudenhove-Kalergi who wrote that it", "title": "Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "17905253", "text": "the Cold War, the Cold War gave U.S. interventionism a new ideological tinge. But by the mid-20th century, much of the region passed through a higher state of economic development, which bolstered the power and ranks of the lower classes. This left calls for social change and political inclusion more pronounced, thus posing a challenge to the strong U.S. influence over the region's economies. In Cuba, the July 26 Movement seized power in January 1959, toppling President Fulgencio Batista, whose unpopular regime had been denied arms by the Eisenhower administration. Diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States continued for", "title": "Sovereignty of Puerto Rico during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "2985872", "text": "Canada in the Cold War During the Cold War, Canada was one of the western powers playing a central role in the major alliances. It was an ally of the United States, but there were several foreign policy differences between the two countries over the course of the Cold War. Canada was a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949, the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) in 1958 and played a leading role in United Nations peacekeeping operations – from the Korean War to the creation of a permanent UN peacekeeping force during the Suez", "title": "Canada in the Cold War" }, { "docid": "12835231", "text": "war inevitable. Buchanan calls Hitler's foreign policy programme more moderate than the war aims sought by German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg's \"Septemberprogramm\" in World War I. Buchanan contends that Hitler was interested in expanding into only Eastern Europe and did not seek territory in Western Europe and Africa. Moreover, Buchanan argues that once Hitler came to power in 1933, his foreign policy was not governed strictly by Nazi ideology but was modified \"ad hoc\" by pragmatism. Buchanan writes that Benito Mussolini was committed to the Stresa Front of 1935 and that it was an act of folly on the part", "title": "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" }, { "docid": "14561683", "text": "44 RM Commando, No. 42 RM Commando, and No.1 Army Commando, took part in the coastal landings during the Allied Southern Front offensive of 1944/1945. The campaign culminated in the battle of Hill 170 at Kangaw. For his actions there, Lieutenant George Knowland of 4 Troop No 1 Army Commando was awarded the Victoria Cross. British Commando operations during the Second World War The Commandos formed during the Second World War, following an order from the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in June 1940 for a force that could carry out raids against German occupied Europe. Churchill stated in a", "title": "British Commando operations during the Second World War" }, { "docid": "18106848", "text": "socialist rule and its replacement by multi-party, liberal democracies with capitalist economic systems. Less than seven months after Bush’s speech, popular protests had forced out the communist governments of Eastern Europe, and Bush and Gorbachev had held a summit meeting in Malta (on 2–3 December) that some observers regarded as marking the end of the Cold War. In the decades following the Cold War’s end and the collapse (in 1991) of the Soviet Union, European nations and the United States pursued efforts to end Europe’s Cold War divisions. As former communist East European countries held free elections and chose non-communist", "title": "Europe whole and free" }, { "docid": "8480228", "text": "dagger stories became part of the popular culture of the Cold War in both East and West, with innumerable novels and movies that showed how polarized and dangerous the world was. Soviet audiences thrilled at spy stories showing how their KGB agents protected the motherland by foiling dirty work by America's nefarious CIA, Britain's devious MI-6, and Israel's devilish Mossad. After 1963, Hollywood increasingly depicted the CIA as clowns (as in the comedy TV series \"Get Smart\") or villains (as in Oliver Stone's \"JFK\" (1992). During the Cold War, films functioned as a means to influence and control public opinion", "title": "Culture during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "453262", "text": "I have been recently for a documentary I’m making. Two serious historians have told me in recent weeks that when they began researching less popular episodes in Churchill's life, they were warned that doing so would either finish their careers, preclude them from promotion, or make them outcasts in academia.\" Winston Churchill has been regularly portrayed in film, television, radio and other media. The depictions range from minor character to the biographical centerpiece, exceeding 30 films, more than two dozen television shows, several stage productions, and countless books. Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was", "title": "Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "8480238", "text": "of historical materialism to the future, scorning Western nihilistic writings and predicting a peaceful transition to universal communism. Scientocratic visions of the future nevertheless implicitly critiqued the bureaucratically developed socialism of the present. Dissident science fiction writers emerged, such as the Strugatski brothers, Boris and Arkadi, with their \"social fantasies,\" problematizing the role of intervention in the historical process, or Stanislaw Lem's tongue-in-cheek exposures of man's cognitive limitations. In addition to fears of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, during the Cold War, there were also fears of a direct, large scale conventional conflict between", "title": "Culture during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "5552725", "text": "Sir Winston Churchill High School Sir Winston Churchill High School is a senior high school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It derives its name from Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II and the early 1950s. The high school is built in the Northwest community of Brentwood, and currently accommodates 2 150 students as of September 2016. The school offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme, various second languages, and numerous clubs and teams. It is consistently ranked one of the best public high schools in Alberta, and has a reputation of being a school of", "title": "Sir Winston Churchill High School" }, { "docid": "5552745", "text": "VEX World Robotics Championship in April in Louisville, Kentucky. Sir Winston Churchill High School Sir Winston Churchill High School is a senior high school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It derives its name from Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II and the early 1950s. The high school is built in the Northwest community of Brentwood, and currently accommodates 2 150 students as of September 2016. The school offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme, various second languages, and numerous clubs and teams. It is consistently ranked one of the best public high schools in Alberta,", "title": "Sir Winston Churchill High School" }, { "docid": "1406323", "text": "suspicion of Leamas' escape. She falls and as Smiley calls out to Leamas from the other side of the wall, he hesitates. Then he climbs back down the Eastern side of the wall, to be shot and killed too. At its publication during the Cold War (1945–91), the moral presentation of \"The Spy Who Came in from the Cold\" (1963) rendered it a revolutionary espionage novel by showing the intelligence services of both the Eastern and Western nations as engaging in the same expedient amorality in the name of national security. John le Carré also presented his western spy as", "title": "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" }, { "docid": "16186448", "text": "The Internet during the Cold War The development of ways to interconnect computers in the United States was heavily affected by needs and demands arising from the Cold War. The system of networked computers known as ARPANET, in service from the late 1960s to 1990, was under military control. ARPANET laid the technical foundations for the present-day Internet. During the Cold War there was constant fear of nuclear attack from the Soviet Union and desire to be \"better\" than the United States at everything. Once the USSR launched Sputnik in 1957 the United States felt that technologically they were falling", "title": "The Internet during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "18312004", "text": "in the years 1946–1953. After 1950, due to the increased tension between the Eastern and Western Blocs, a more sophisticated system of pillboxes and shelters was built. While the pre-war blockhouses and pillboxes were designed as monoliths of reinforced concrete, the new cold-war bunkers followed the Soviet paradigm and were more like reinforced field fortifications, built from stone and prefabricated concrete elements. Many of the installations from the period 1953–1964, especially those built at the time of Berlin and Cuban crises, were designed for conditions of nuclear war, and many older installations were given enhanced protection against weapons of mass", "title": "Czechoslovak border fortifications during the Cold War" }, { "docid": "20048478", "text": "Winston Churchill Avenue, Dominican Republic The Avenue Winston Churchill is the most important avenue of the central polygon of the National District in the Dominican Republic. This avenue contains the main shopping centres and businesses of Santo Domingo, in addition to attractions and cultural zones, between them in the east is \"The Boulevard of the stars\", inspired by the Walk of the Fame of Hollywood. Hands beside stars of important artists like Juan Luis War, Ángela Carrasco, Freddy Beras Goico, Julio Churches, Óscar of the Income among others. The avenue carries the name of the ex-English prime minister Sir Winston", "title": "Winston Churchill Avenue, Dominican Republic" }, { "docid": "14561654", "text": "British Commando operations during the Second World War The Commandos formed during the Second World War, following an order from the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in June 1940 for a force that could carry out raids against German occupied Europe. Churchill stated in a minute to General Ismay on 6 June 1940: \"Enterprises must be prepared, with specially-trained troops of the hunter class, who can develop a reign of terror down these coasts, first of all on the \"butcher and bolt\" policy...\" Commandos were all volunteers for special service and originally came from the British Army but volunteers would", "title": "British Commando operations during the Second World War" }, { "docid": "12835230", "text": "Eastern Europe and a Nazi foreign policy for which that was only the first step towards a larger programme of seeking \"Lebensraum\" by war and genocide in Eastern Europe. Since Buchanan argues that there was a moral equivalence between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, he maintains that Britain should have just allowed Germany and the Soviet Union to destroy each other and that Britain should have meanwhile awaited the course of events and rearmed fast enough to be able to fight if necessary. Buchanan argues that the \"guarantee\" of Poland in 1939 was impossible to fulfill but made the", "title": "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War" }, { "docid": "18973656", "text": "and the landscapes and buildings of Marrakesh or other various Landscapes that he had the chance to view during his war trips. Winston Churchill as painter Winston Churchill was making landscape drawings inspired by places that saw all over the world but became more of an enthusiastic painter after resigning from the government in 1955. Even though; he started painting earlier while resting between battles while sailing to Cuba, India, and Sudan at 1895–1899; he almost gave up painting and donated locally most of his paintings by that time due to unmerciful treatment of wounded enemy against the army of", "title": "Winston Churchill as painter" }, { "docid": "453225", "text": "a prolific writer, often under the pen name \"Winston S. Churchill\", with the American novelist of the same name to avoid confusion between their works. His output included a novel, two biographies, three volumes of memoirs, and several histories. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 \"for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values\". Two of his most famous works, published after his first premiership brought his international fame to new heights, were his six-volume memoir \"The Second World War\" and \"A History of the English-Speaking", "title": "Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "2141600", "text": "Cold War The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states (the Eastern Bloc), and the United States with its allies (the Western Bloc) after World War II. A common historiography of the conflict begins with 1946, the year U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan's \"Long Telegram\" from Moscow cemented a U.S. foreign policy of containment of Soviet expansionism threatening strategically vital regions, and ending between the Revolutions of 1989 and the 1991 collapse of the USSR, which ended communism in Eastern Europe. The term \"cold\" is used because there was no large-scale", "title": "Cold War" }, { "docid": "14208220", "text": "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill is a trilogy of biographies covering the life of Winston Churchill. The first two were published in the 1980s by author and historian William Manchester, who died while working on the last volume. However, before his death, Manchester had selected Paul Reid to complete it, and the final volume was published in November 2012. The 973-page volume was published in 1983. In 2011, the book was placed on \"Time\" magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. The 756-page volume was published in 1988. The 1232-page", "title": "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill" }, { "docid": "2141629", "text": "crush anti-communist resistance. When the slightest stirrings of independence emerged in the Bloc, Stalin's strategy matched that of dealing with domestic pre-war rivals: they were removed from power, put on trial, imprisoned, and in several instances, executed. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was concerned that, given the enormous size of Soviet forces deployed in Europe at the end of the war, and the perception that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was unreliable, there existed a Soviet threat to Western Europe. After World War II, US officials guided Western European leaders in establishing their own secret security force to prevent subversion in", "title": "Cold War" }, { "docid": "10251027", "text": "Trade between Western Europe and the Mughal Empire in the 17th century Contact between Western Europe and the Mughal empire was put into practice in the very beginning of the 17th century. The Portuguese, English, and later on, the Dutch were the ones to trade with the Mughal empire. As the first Islamic power on the Indian subcontinent, the Mughal empire was more interested in assimilating the land, studying the history, customs and religion of the people occupying this area, and communicating with the other two Islamic empires – the Saffavid and the Ottoman Empires. The Mughal empire was blessed", "title": "Trade between Western Europe and the Mughal Empire in the 17th century" }, { "docid": "10251033", "text": "occasions but also as a regular act of just revering the emperor. Jahangir was the emperor who was the most associated to alcohol but all the rest of the Great Mughals appreciated it too, with the exception of Aurangzeb (who loathed it). Wine and alcohol in general was as well used for negotiations and, was therefore a very important part of the trading process. The trade in India was implemented mainly on the coast. During the 17th century there were two big countries. Two and a half centuries of trade between India and Western Europe led to the downfall of", "title": "Trade between Western Europe and the Mughal Empire in the 17th century" }, { "docid": "15460829", "text": "Free speech in the media during the 2011 Libyan Civil War Free speech in the media during the Libyan civil war describes the ability of domestic and international media to report news inside Libya free from interference and censorship during the civil war. This synopsis from Al Jazeera gives a sense of what the media war was like as of 12 March: When protests first began in Libya the media presence there was scarce so the story filtered out via social media thanks to courageous citizen journalists. Then, when the fighting intensified, global media numbers increased exponentially. Now there are", "title": "Free speech in the media during the 2011 Libyan Civil War" }, { "docid": "12938817", "text": "the East–West Schism of 1054. This schism was caused by historical and linguistic developments, and the ensuing theological differences between the Western and Eastern churches. The Roman Empire was divided into a predominantly Greek speaking Eastern half and a Latin speaking Western half, resulting in a separation into two empires: The Western Empire and the Eastern Empire (also known as the Byzantine Empire or Byzantium) with the passing of Theodosius I in AD 395. With the fall of the Western Empire in 476 AD, the whole of what had been the western part of the empire was ruled by Germanic", "title": "Theological differences between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church" }, { "docid": "11430791", "text": "and made his voice heard on proposals which he strongly opposed. The first major issue where Churchill made his view known was whether or not to release India from British control. In a speech to the House of Commons in early March 1947, Churchill warned against handing power over to India too soon. Churchill felt that the political parties in India did not truly represent the people, and that in a few years no trace of the new government would remain. Winston Churchill was an early supporter of pan-Europeanism. In his speech at the University of Zurich in 1946, Winston", "title": "Later life of Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "453153", "text": "years younger than before the war began ... His uplifted spirit is transmitted to the people\". Churchill's physical health became more fragile during the war; he suffered a mild heart attack in December 1941 at the White House, and in December 1943 contracted pneumonia. Despite this, Churchill travelled over throughout the war to meet other national leaders. For security, he usually travelled using the alias Colonel Warden. Since the appearance in 1966 of Lord Moran's memoir of his years as Churchill's doctor, with its claim that \"Black Dog\" was the name Churchill gave to \"the prolonged fits of depression from", "title": "Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "10042936", "text": "during a refit at Esbjerg in April 1996, and she was subsequently repaired and sold to Empress Cruise Lines, becoming the \"Mayan Empress\". She was eventually sold for scrap in India in 2004. MS Winston Churchill The MS \"Winston Churchill\" was built in 1967 by Cantieri Navali del Tirreno e Riuniti S.P.A. Riva Trigoso, Genoa, Italy. The \"Winston Churchill\" was built as a car ferry for the Scandinavian Seaways DFDS service from Esbjerg to Harwich, and proved a very successful vessel on the route. As demand for vehicle-carrying services grew, larger vessels were required for the route and the \"Winston", "title": "MS Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "453172", "text": "\"the last secret\" of the Second World War. The operation decided the fate of up to two million post-war refugees fleeing eastern Europe. There has been debate over Churchill's culpability in the deaths of millions of Indians during the Bengal famine of 1943. Some commentators point to the disruption of the traditional marketing system and maladministration at the provincial level as a cause, with Churchill saying that the famine was the Indians' own fault for \"breeding like rabbits\". Adam Jones, editor of the \"Journal of Genocide Research\", calls Churchill \"a genuine genocidaire\", noting that the British leader called Indians a", "title": "Winston Churchill" }, { "docid": "8519066", "text": "Frisbee, Rugby, Cricket, Volleyball, Badminton, and many others. After many years a football program has been reintroduced, with Churchill teaming up with Bendale BTI. The school colours were originally scarlet and silver, as an ode to the coat of arms of Winston Churchill, they have since been changed to black, white, grey and purple after a deal with the Western Ontario Mustangs team. The Churchill mascot is the Winston Churchill Bull Dog. The school has a big painting of a bull dog in the schools upper gym . Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute (Winston Churchill CI, WCCI,", "title": "Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute" }, { "docid": "15939912", "text": "Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, London, is a bronze sculpture of the former British prime minister Winston Churchill, created by Ivor Roberts-Jones. It is located on a spot referred to in the 1950s by Churchill as \"where my statue will go\". It was unveiled by his widow Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill in 1973, at a ceremony attended by the serving Prime Minister and four former Prime Ministers, while Queen Elizabeth II gave a speech. The statue is one of twelve on or around Parliament Square, most of well-known statesmen. The statue is", "title": "Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square" } ]
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What school does Harry Potter attend?
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[ { "docid": "5725184", "text": "the series is Harry Potter, a boy who lives in Surrey with his aunt, uncle, and cousin – the Dursleys – and discovers, at the age of eleven, that he is a wizard, though he lives in the ordinary world of non-magical people known as Muggles. The wizarding world exists parallel to the Muggle world, albeit hidden and in secrecy. His magical ability is inborn, and children with such abilities are invited to attend exclusive magic schools that teach the necessary skills to succeed in the wizarding world. Harry becomes a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "18868132", "text": "Parker, Alex Price, and Paul Thornley. The story begins nineteen years after the events of \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\" and follows Harry Potter, now a Ministry of Magic employee, and his younger son Albus Severus Potter, who is about to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. At the 2017 Laurence Olivier Awards, the London production received a record-breaking eleven nominations and an again record-breaking nine awards, including Best New Play, Best Actor, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Director. At the 2018 Tony Awards, the Broadway production won six", "title": "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" }, { "docid": "5725289", "text": "attraction is located at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, where all eight of the \"Harry Potter\" films were made. Warner Bros. constructed two new sound stages to house and showcase the famous sets from each of the British-made productions, following a £100 million investment. It opened to the public in March 2012. Harry Potter Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725179", "text": "Harry Potter Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's struggle against Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard who intends to become immortal, overthrow the wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic, and subjugate all wizards and Muggles (non-magical people). Since the release of the first novel, \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\", on 26", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "3276405", "text": "Harry Potter (character) Harry James Potter is the titular protagonist of J. K. Rowling's \"Harry Potter\" series. The majority of the books' plot covers seven years in the life of the orphan Potter, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard. Thus, he attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to practice magic under the guidance of the kindly headmaster Albus Dumbledore and other school professors along with his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry also discovers that he is already famous throughout the novel's magical community, and that his fate is tied with that of", "title": "Harry Potter (character)" }, { "docid": "5725286", "text": "and Warner Brothers announced they would create \"The Wizarding World of Harry Potter\", a new \"Harry Potter\"-themed expansion to the Islands of Adventure theme park at Universal Orlando Resort in Florida. The land officially opened to the public on 18 June 2010. It includes a re-creation of Hogsmeade and several rides. The flagship attraction is \"Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey\", which exists within a re-creation of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Other rides include \"Dragon Challenge\", a pair of inverted roller coasters, and \"Flight of the Hippogriff\", a family roller coaster. Four years later, on 8 July 2014,", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "3276464", "text": "On his homepage, Gerber describes Trotter as an unpleasant character who \"drinks too much, eats like a pig, sleeps until noon, and owes everybody money.\" The author stated \"[s]ince I really liked Rowling's books […] I felt obligated to try to write a spoof worthy of the originals\". Harry Potter (character) Harry James Potter is the titular protagonist of J. K. Rowling's \"Harry Potter\" series. The majority of the books' plot covers seven years in the life of the orphan Potter, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard. Thus, he attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry", "title": "Harry Potter (character)" }, { "docid": "20737651", "text": "other artefacts from the creation of the Harry Potter film series. Among the items on display are Harry Potter's wand and eyeglasses. Also featured are film sets, such the Great Hall and Gryffindor Common Room from the fictional school Hogwarts, which is a major setting in the Wizarding World. Beginning in 2016, some artefacts from the \"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them\" film series have also been included. Harry Potter: The Exhibition Harry Potter: The Exhibition is a traveling exhibition of props, costumes, and other artefacts from the creation of the Harry Potter film series. The exhibition originally opened", "title": "Harry Potter: The Exhibition" }, { "docid": "591531", "text": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling. The first novel in the \"Harry Potter\" series and Rowling's debut novel, it follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday, when he receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry makes close friends and a few enemies during his first year at the school, and with the help of his friends, Harry faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed", "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" }, { "docid": "3381370", "text": "Sirius Black, and James Potter (respectively nicknamed \"Moony\", \"Wormtail\", \"Padfoot\", and \"Prongs\") while they were students at Hogwarts. During this time, they gained extensive knowledge about the school grounds, such as its various hidden passages, from their frequent night-time adventures together. In \"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\", Fred and George Weasley give the map to Harry so he can travel to the village of Hogsmeade through a hidden passageway. The twins had previously stolen the map from a drawer in Filch's office that contained dangerous confiscated objects; it is revealed by Lupin that Filch probably knew what it", "title": "Magical objects in Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725196", "text": "diary into Hogwarts. The third novel, \"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\", follows Harry in his third year of magical education. It is the only book in the series which does not feature Lord Voldemort in any form. Instead, Harry must deal with the knowledge that he has been targeted by Sirius Black, his father's best friend, and, according to the Wizarding World, an escaped mass murderer who assisted in the murder of Harry's parents. As Harry struggles with his reaction to the dementors – dark creatures with the power to devour a human soul and feed on despair", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "4810035", "text": "Hagrid, a mysterious giant, leaves an orphaned Harry Potter, whose parents were murdered by the evil Lord Voldemort, on the front door step of his bullying relatives, The Dursleys. For ten years, Harry has lived with the Dursleys, not knowing that he is a wizard, and famous in the wizarding world for being the only one to survive the attacks of Voldemort, whose name no one dares to say. Harry receives a letter inviting him to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and is told who he really is. After buying his school supplies, at Diagon Alley, he boards", "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)" }, { "docid": "3161073", "text": "hiding place of James and Lily Potter before being murdered by Lord Voldemort. It was at this place that their baby son, Harry, was left with his lightning bolt-shaped scar. Godric's Hollow was the home of James Potter's family, and the home of long-dead Hogwarts founder Godric Gryffindor (after whom the village was named). After expressing his interest in returning to Godric's Hollow to visit his parents' graves, Harry does so in the company of Hermione Granger. Once there, it is revealed in \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\" that the church graveyard of Godric's Hollow is the resting place", "title": "Places in Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725210", "text": "31 July 2016. The story is set nineteen years after the ending of \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\" and follows Harry Potter, now a Ministry of Magic employee, and his youngest son Albus Severus Potter. The play's official synopsis was released on 23 October 2015: Rowling has expanded the Harry Potter universe with several short books produced for various charities. In 2001, she released \"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them\" (a purported Hogwarts textbook) and \"Quidditch Through the Ages\" (a book Harry reads for fun). Proceeds from the sale of these two books benefited the charity Comic Relief.", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "3276435", "text": "very end, Harry decides to leave the Elder Wand in Dumbledore's tomb and the Resurrection Stone hidden in the forest, but he keeps the Invisibility Cloak because it had belonged to his father. In the epilogue of \"Deathly Hallows,\" which is set 19 years after Voldemort's death, Harry and Ginny are a couple and have three children: James Sirius Potter, who has already been at Hogwarts for at least one year, Albus Severus Potter, who is starting his first year there, and Lily Luna Potter, who is two years away from her first year at the school. According to Rowling,", "title": "Harry Potter (character)" }, { "docid": "5725198", "text": "new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, none of whom lasts more than one school year. During Harry's fourth year of school (detailed in \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\"), Harry is unwillingly entered as a participant in the Triwizard Tournament, a dangerous yet exciting contest where three \"champions\", one from each participating school, must compete with each other in three tasks in order to win the Triwizard Cup. This year, Harry must compete against a witch and a wizard \"champion\" from overseas visiting schools Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, as well as another Hogwarts student, causing Harry's friends to distance", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "13003926", "text": "when he changes into a werewolf. It causes a werewolf in wolf form to act subdued and tired. Potions in Harry Potter This is a list of potions used in the \"Harry Potter\" series. Many are mentioned in potions class at Hogwarts, which is taught by Severus Snape in books one to five and Horace Slughorn in books six and seven. Amortentia is a love potion that does not create actual love, but gives the drinker a powerful obsession and infatuation with the giver of the potion. It is usually either forced upon someone or covertly given. As a rule", "title": "Potions in Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "13003916", "text": "and one of the first that Snape instructs his first-years to brew in \"The Philosopher's Stone\". The potion, referred to by name, stops excessive hiccoughing in a matter of seconds. A Pepperup Potion is designed to improve health, relieve coughs and colds, though it does have one major side effect: it causes steam to dribble from the patient's ears for several hours afterward. It is also used to quickly elevate body temperature, as shown after the second task in \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\" and mentioned in \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\". The Polyjuice Potion allows", "title": "Potions in Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "13003908", "text": "Potions in Harry Potter This is a list of potions used in the \"Harry Potter\" series. Many are mentioned in potions class at Hogwarts, which is taught by Severus Snape in books one to five and Horace Slughorn in books six and seven. Amortentia is a love potion that does not create actual love, but gives the drinker a powerful obsession and infatuation with the giver of the potion. It is usually either forced upon someone or covertly given. As a rule of thumb the longer a love potion awaits consumption, the stronger the effects will be, as seen in", "title": "Potions in Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725221", "text": "them away from the places where they really belong, Hogwarts and Camelot respectively. Both Percival and Potter are however outsiders in the places that they belong, unfamiliar with the rules of knighthood and magic, but both show extraordinary natural abilities with Percival proving himself an exceptional fighter while Potter is an excellent player of Quidditch. And finally, both Percival and Potter found love and acceptance from surrogate families, in the form of the Knights of the Round Table and the Weasley family respectively. Each of the seven books is set over the course of one school year. Harry struggles with", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "20540004", "text": "Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is a role-playing video game inspired by J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World. The game was developed by Jam City and published by Portkey Games, and released on 25 April 2018 for Android and iOS devices. The game is set in Hogwarts before the events of the \"Harry Potter\" novels, featuring a customisable protagonist. The game received mixed reviews from critics; it was praised for its use of the \"Harry Potter\" licence, but widely criticised for its aggressive microtransaction technique. \"Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery\" is a role-playing video game set in the \"Harry", "title": "Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery" }, { "docid": "3160356", "text": "Years of Film Scores. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released in the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is based on J. K. Rowling's 1997 novel of the same name. The film is the first instalment in the long-running \"Harry Potter\" film series and was written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman. Its story follows Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as he discovers that he", "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)" }, { "docid": "3160313", "text": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released in the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is based on J. K. Rowling's 1997 novel of the same name. The film is the first instalment in the long-running \"Harry Potter\" film series and was written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman. Its story follows Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as he discovers that he is a famous wizard", "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)" }, { "docid": "1871088", "text": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the third in the \"Harry Potter\" series. The book follows Harry Potter, a young wizard, in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Along with friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry investigates Sirius Black, an escaped prisoner from Azkaban who they believe is one of Lord Voldemort's old allies. The book was published in the United Kingdom on 8 July 1999 by Bloomsbury and in the United States on 8", "title": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" }, { "docid": "7747571", "text": "the cinema release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. However, the Trolley, The Lab and the Mini Hogwarts Express were all promotional sets that were released in different countries at different times, which were either being given away with newspaper offers, the purchase of Diagon Alley from the Lego Shop and also with the pre-order of the game, Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7. Lego has produced a \"Harry Potter\"-themed \"Lego Dimensions\" \"team pack\" with a scheduled release date of 27 September 2016 in the United States. This add-on pack includes Harry Potter and Voldemort minifigs that", "title": "Lego Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "3276463", "text": "edit some more mature elements from the videos. The musical, re-titled \"A Very Potter Musical\", was reposted on 5 July 2009, starring Darren Criss as Harry Potter. A sequel was premiered at the 2010 HPEF Harry Potter Conference Infinitus, and released on YouTube on 22 July at 8 pm EST. The sequel was called \"A Very Potter Sequel\" and featured the Death Eaters using the Time-Turner to go back in time to Harry's first year in Hogwarts. Harry Potter is spoofed in the \"Barry Trotter\" series by American writer Michael Gerber, where a \"Barry Trotter\" appears as the eponymous antihero.", "title": "Harry Potter (character)" }, { "docid": "5725275", "text": "film's release, production for \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\", also directed by Columbus, began. Filming was completed in summer 2002, with the film being released on 15 November 2002. Daniel Radcliffe portrayed Harry Potter, doing so for all succeeding films in the franchise. Columbus declined to direct \"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\", only acting as producer. Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón took over the job, and after shooting in 2003, the film was released on 4 June 2004. Due to the fourth film beginning its production before the third's release, Mike Newell was chosen as the director", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725231", "text": "by Scholastic – the American publisher of the books – as \"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone\", after Rowling had received US$105,000 for the American rights – a record amount for a children's book by an unknown author. Fearing that American readers would not associate the word \"philosopher\" with magic (although the Philosopher's Stone is an ancient tradition in alchemy), Scholastic insisted that the book be given the title \"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone\" for the American market. The second book, \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\", was originally published in the UK on 2 July 1998 and", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "1884315", "text": "in time in a misguided effort to change history and save Cedric Diggory - which only leads to them damaging events in the present and worsening the situation. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a fantasy book written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fourth novel in the \"Harry Potter\" series. It follows Harry Potter, a wizard in his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the mystery surrounding the entry of Harry's name into the Triwizard Tournament, in which he is forced to compete. The", "title": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" }, { "docid": "1884284", "text": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a fantasy book written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fourth novel in the \"Harry Potter\" series. It follows Harry Potter, a wizard in his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the mystery surrounding the entry of Harry's name into the Triwizard Tournament, in which he is forced to compete. The book was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury and in the United States by Scholastic; in both countries the release date was 8 July 2000, the first", "title": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" }, { "docid": "1413957", "text": "seven books had been published, Graeme Davis regarded \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\" as the weakest of the series, and agreed that the plot structure is much the same as in \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\". He described Fawkes's appearance to arm Harry and then to heal him as a \"deus ex machina\": he said that the book does not explain how Fawkes knew where to find Harry; and Fawkes's timing had to be very precise, as arriving earlier would probably have prevented the battle with the basilisk, while arriving later would have been fatal to Harry", "title": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" }, { "docid": "3535441", "text": "seems formidable. Along with the ability to Apparate anywhere at any time, Dobby, Winky, Hokey, and Kreacher all demonstrate that they can overpower wizards when necessary: In \"Chamber of Secrets\", Dobby forcefully repels Lucius Malfoy while protecting Harry Potter; whereas in \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\", when the younger Barty Crouch is unmasked and confesses to what happened on the night of the Quiddich World Championship, he says: \"Winky used her own brand of magic to bind me to her\", and in \"Deathly Hallows\", Kreacher is ordered by Harry to capture Mundungus Fletcher and bring him to 12", "title": "Magical creatures in Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "13425701", "text": "Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4 Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4 is a Lego-themed action-adventure video game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Warner Bros. The game is based on the Lego Harry Potter line and its storyline covers the first four films in the \"Harry Potter\" series: \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\", \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\", \"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\", and \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\". The game is available on the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Microsoft Windows, OS X, iOS and Android. The OS", "title": "Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4" }, { "docid": "1413933", "text": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the second novel in the \"Harry Potter\" series. The plot follows Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during which a series of messages on the walls of the school's corridors warn that the \"Chamber of Secrets\" has been opened and that the \"heir of Slytherin\" would kill all pupils who do not come from all-magical families. These threats are found after attacks which leave residents of the school petrified. Throughout", "title": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" }, { "docid": "3160357", "text": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a 2002 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is based on J. K. Rowling's 1998 novel of the same name. The film is a sequel to the 2001 film \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\" and the second instalment in the \"Harry Potter\" film series. It was written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman. Its story follows Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as the Heir of Salazar Slytherin opens", "title": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)" } ]
[ { "docid": "15813163", "text": "their iReporter site, the Harry Potter Alliance asked members to upload submissions showing their love for Harry Potter while holding signs that said, \"Save Darfur.\" Then, in 2008, the HPA asked members to withhold support for sponsors of the 2008 Summer Olympics who were \"implicitly funding the genocide in Darfur through overseas investments.\" In conjunction with the release of the \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\" film in 2009, the organisation launched a \"What Would Dumbledore Do\" campaign, asking fans to tweet about the lessons they learned from Harry Potter's headmaster Albus Dumbledore using #dumbledore, attend the film release wearing", "title": "Harry Potter Alliance" }, { "docid": "5725262", "text": "during the rise in the popularity of the Harry Potter books. The research also found that children who read Harry Potter books were not more likely to go on to read outside the fantasy and mystery genres. NEA chairman Dana Gioia said the series, \"got millions of kids to read a long and reasonably complex series of books. The trouble is that one Harry Potter novel every few years is not enough to reverse the decline in reading.\" Jennifer Conn used Snape's and Quidditch coach Madam Hooch's teaching methods as examples of what to avoid and what to emulate in", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725258", "text": "she did not like!\" He does however predict that Harry Potter \"will indeed stand time's test and wind up on a shelf where only the best are kept; I think Harry will take his place with Alice, Huck, Frodo, and Dorothy and this is one series not just for the decade, but for the ages\". Sameer Rahim of \"The Daily Telegraph\" disagreed, saying \"It depresses me to see 16 and 17 year-olds reading the series when they could be reading the great novels of childhood such as \"Oliver Twist\" or \"A House for Mr Biswas\". What that says about the", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "14759163", "text": "Potter\" by 2014. Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey was also confirmed as one of the attractions. Below is a list of all of the attractions at Harry Potter themed areas around the world. The dates shown in the columns refer to the opening and closing dates for the ride under that name. It does not mean that the ride was closed and/or removed. Harry Potter in amusement parks This article details the appearance of Harry Potter theming in amusement parks. In the late 1990s, Universal Parks and Resorts began discussing the possibility of purchasing the license for Harry Potter", "title": "Harry Potter in amusement parks" }, { "docid": "2049970", "text": "The Harry Potter Lexicon The Harry Potter Lexicon is a fan-created online encyclopedia of the \"Harry Potter\" series. The site was created by school librarian Steve Vander Ark. It contains detailed information for all seven published \"Harry Potter\" books. The Lexicon lists characters, places, creatures, spells, potions and magical devices, as well as analyzing magical theory and other details of the series. The Lexicon is credited as creating one of the first timelines of all events occurring in the \"Harry Potter\" universe. A similar timeline of events was adopted by Warner Bros. for inclusion with their \"Harry Potter\" film DVDs,", "title": "The Harry Potter Lexicon" }, { "docid": "12080327", "text": "might purchase it will really understand the benefits to people out there, what it can do,\" he said. \"If it's destroyed, or if it's lost, it's a great loss.\" Harry Potter prequel An 800-word, untitled short story, unofficially known as the Harry Potter prequel, was written by J. K. Rowling in 2008 as part of a charity auction event, for which it fetched £25,000. The story recounts an encounter with Muggle police experienced by Sirius Black and James Potter, taking place before the events of the \"Harry Potter\" series. The manuscript was stolen in 2017. Two Muggle policemen chase a", "title": "Harry Potter prequel" }, { "docid": "5725267", "text": "values native gifts above all else\". In a 12 August 2007, review of \"Deathly Hallows\" in \"The New York Times\", however, Christopher Hitchens praised Rowling for \"unmooring\" her \"English school story\" from literary precedents \"bound up with dreams of wealth and class and snobbery\", arguing that she had instead created \"a world of youthful democracy and diversity\". In 2010, coinciding with the release of the film \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,\" a series of articles were written about Private Harry Potter of the British army. This real-life Harry Potter was killed in the Arab Revolt near Hebron", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725182", "text": "third highest-grossing film series of all time . In 2016, the total value of the \"Harry Potter\" franchise was estimated at $25 billion, making \"Harry Potter\" one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. A series of many genres, including fantasy, drama, coming of age, and the British school story (which includes elements of mystery, thriller, adventure, horror, and romance), the world of \"Harry Potter\" explores numerous themes and includes many cultural meanings and references. According to Rowling, the main theme is death. Other major themes in the series include prejudice, corruption, and madness. The success of the books", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "2049974", "text": "appropriates too much of Rowling's creative work for its purposes as a reference guide.\" In December, 2008, a modified (and shorter) version of Vander Ark's Lexicon was approved for publication and was released January 16, 2009 as \"The Lexicon: An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction\". The Harry Potter Lexicon The Harry Potter Lexicon is a fan-created online encyclopedia of the \"Harry Potter\" series. The site was created by school librarian Steve Vander Ark. It contains detailed information for all seven published \"Harry Potter\" books. The Lexicon lists characters, places, creatures, spells, potions and magical devices, as well as analyzing", "title": "The Harry Potter Lexicon" }, { "docid": "3604624", "text": "also noteworthy for its detailed criticism and discussion of the Harry Potter books. Speculation intensified with the July 2005 publication of \"Half-Blood Prince\" and the detailed post-publication interview given by Rowling to Mugglenet and The Leaky Cauldron. Notably, DumbledoreIsNotDead.com sought to understand the events of the sixth book in a different way. (Rowling later confirmed, however – on 2 August 2006 – that Dumbledore was, in fact, dead, humorously apologising to the website as she did so.) A collection of essays, \"Who Killed Albus Dumbledore?: What Really Happened in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? Six Expert Harry Potter Detectives", "title": "Harry Potter fandom" }, { "docid": "3161160", "text": "Warner Bros. to film the fictional locations in the \"Harry Potter\" film series. Places in Harry Potter J. K. Rowling's \"Harry Potter\" universe contains numerous settings for the events in her fantasy novels. These locations are categorised as a dwelling, school, shopping district, or government-affiliated locale. The Weasleys' home, known as the Burrow, is located outside the village of Ottery St Catchpole, also near the home of the Lovegoods, the Diggorys and the Fawcetts. The Burrow was used as the Order of the Phoenix's headquarters, due to the compromised Fidelius Charm placed on 12 Grimmauld Place, in \"Harry Potter and", "title": "Places in Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725288", "text": "of Harry Potter\" opened at the Universal Studios Japan theme park in Osaka, Japan. It includes the village of Hogsmeade, \"Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey\" ride, and \"Flight of the Hippogriff\" roller coaster. On 7 April 2016, \"The Wizarding World of Harry Potter\" opened at the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park near Los Angeles, California. In March 2011, Warner Bros. announced plans to build a tourist attraction in the United Kingdom to showcase the \"Harry Potter\" film series. \"The Making of Harry Potter\" is a behind-the-scenes walking tour featuring authentic sets, costumes and props from the film series. The", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725281", "text": "screenwriting. A number of other non-interactive media games and board games have been released such as \"Cluedo Harry Potter Edition\", \"Scene It? Harry Potter\" and \"Lego Harry Potter\" models, which are influenced by the themes of both the novels and films. There are thirteen \"Harry Potter\" video games, eight corresponding with the films and books and five spin-offs. The film/book-based games are produced by Electronic Arts, as was \"\", with the game version of the first entry in the series, \"Philosopher's Stone\", being released in November 2001. \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\" went on to become one of the", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725243", "text": "a cause-and-effect relationship, there is a clear correlation, and it seems that Harry Potter's cultural impact may be stronger than just a fandom bond. Many fan fiction and fan art works about \"Harry Potter\" have been made. In March 2007, \"Harry Potter\" was the most commonly searched fan fiction subject on the internet. At the University of Michigan in 2009, StarKid Productions performed an original musical parodying the \"Harry Potter\" series called \"A Very Potter Musical\". The musical was awarded \"Entertainment Weekly\"'s 10 Best Viral Videos of 2009. The sport Quidditch, played by characters in the \"Harry Potter\" series, was", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725241", "text": "11 million units in the first twenty-four hours of release. The series has also gathered adult fans, leading to the release of two editions of each \"Harry Potter\" book, identical in text but with one edition's cover artwork aimed at children and the other aimed at adults. Besides meeting online through blogs, podcasts, and fansites, \"Harry Potter\" super-fans can also meet at \"Harry Potter\" symposia. The word \"Muggle\" has spread beyond its \"Harry Potter\" origins, becoming one of few pop culture words to land in the Oxford English Dictionary. The Harry Potter fandom has embraced podcasts as a regular, often", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725254", "text": "\"a pedestrian, ungrammatical prose style\". Ursula K. Le Guin said, \"I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the 'incredible originality' of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy crossed with a \"school novel\", good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.\" By contrast, author Fay Weldon, while admitting that the series is \"not what the poets hoped for\", nevertheless goes on to say, \"but this", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725284", "text": "and Harry, Voldemort, and Hermione as playable characters. In 2017, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment opened its own Harry Potter themed game design studio, by the name of Portkey Games; before releasing in 2018, developed by Jam City. All seven \"Harry Potter\" books have been released in unabridged audiobook versions, with Stephen Fry reading the UK editions and Jim Dale voicing the series for the American editions. \"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts I and II\" is a play which serves as a sequel to the books, beginning nineteen years after the events of \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\".", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "7747574", "text": "on October 21, 2016, as part of the \"Lego Harry Potter Collection\", and was also released for the Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on October 30, 2018. Lego Harry Potter Lego \"Harry Potter\" is a Lego theme based on the films of the \"Harry Potter\" series. Lego models of important scenes, vehicles and characters were made for the first six films and all the books released. The first sets appeared in 2001, to coincide with the release of the first film \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\" (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States). Subsequent sets were", "title": "Lego Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "7747565", "text": "Lego Harry Potter Lego \"Harry Potter\" is a Lego theme based on the films of the \"Harry Potter\" series. Lego models of important scenes, vehicles and characters were made for the first six films and all the books released. The first sets appeared in 2001, to coincide with the release of the first film \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\" (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States). Subsequent sets were released alongside the new films, until Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The line then went dormant for three years, with sets being released in", "title": "Lego Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "14074169", "text": "approval from Rowling, and has since received positive reviews from critics. An updated version of \"The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter\" was published in 2004 by Berkley Books. \"The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter\" explores the references to history, legends, and literature in J.K. Rowling's \"Harry Potter\" novels. David Colbert, the author of the book, told the \"St. Louis Post-Dispatch\" that the \"Harry Potter\" novels \"are [...] literary treasure hunts for [Rowling's] readers. What seem like funny-sounding names and places and excursions into fantasy all have a basis in either history, myth or legend.\" He added, however, that he thinks", "title": "The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725245", "text": "of which have been highly successful in their own right. The films have in turn spawned eight video games and have led to the licensing of more than 400 additional \"Harry Potter\" products. The \"Harry Potter\" brand has been estimated to be worth as much as $25 billion. The great demand for Harry Potter books motivated \"The New York Times\" to create a separate best-seller list for children's literature in 2000, just before the release of \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\". By 24 June 2000, Rowling's novels had been on the list for 79 straight weeks; the first", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725232", "text": "in the US on 2 June 1999. \"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\" was published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 September 1999. \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\" was published on 8 July 2000 at the same time by Bloomsbury and Scholastic. \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\" is the longest book in the series, at 766 pages in the UK version and 870 pages in the US version. It was published worldwide in English on 21 June 2003. \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\"", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725250", "text": "in its \"Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children\". Three of the books placed among the \"Top 100 Chapter Books\" of all time, or children's novels, in a 2012 survey published by \"School Library Journal\": \"Sorcerer's Stone\" ranked number three, \"Prisoner of Azkaban\" 12th, and \"Goblet of Fire\" 98th. In 2012, the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London featured a 100-foot tall rendition of Lord Voldemort in a segment designed to show off the UK's cultural icons. Early in its history, \"Harry Potter\" received positive reviews. On publication, the first book, \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\", attracted", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "14050387", "text": "transfer to their institutions. Under state rules, other students that reside in the district, who attend a private school, a charter school or are homeschooled are eligible to participate in this program. In 2010, Governor Edward Rendell eliminated the grants to students, from the Commonwealth, due to a state budget crisis. Northern Potter School District does not offer Advanced Placement (AP) courses, which permit students to earn low cost college credits, while enrolled in high school. In 2014, 16 Northern Potter School District students took the SAT exams. The District's Verbal Average Score was 493. The Math average score was", "title": "Northern Potter School District" }, { "docid": "3161070", "text": "Places in Harry Potter J. K. Rowling's \"Harry Potter\" universe contains numerous settings for the events in her fantasy novels. These locations are categorised as a dwelling, school, shopping district, or government-affiliated locale. The Weasleys' home, known as the Burrow, is located outside the village of Ottery St Catchpole, also near the home of the Lovegoods, the Diggorys and the Fawcetts. The Burrow was used as the Order of the Phoenix's headquarters, due to the compromised Fidelius Charm placed on 12 Grimmauld Place, in \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\" until it lost its given protection. The Weasley house has", "title": "Places in Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "3604632", "text": "and explore the park by themselves. The event included talks given by creators of the park, free food and butterbeer, and live wizard rock shows inside the park. In addition to conventions, Harry Potter fandom has further expanded to town festivals, including the Chestertown Harry Potter Festival, the Chestnut Hill Harry Potter Festival, Edgerton's Harry Potter Festival, and the Spellbound Festival, among others. The Harry Potter fandom has also led to the development of at least one religion. The religion of 'Snapeism' was active from 2005-2011. The Snapists (popularly known as the Snapewives) worshipped the Severus Snape character. The Snapists", "title": "Harry Potter fandom" }, { "docid": "3604602", "text": "Harry Potter fandom \"Harry Potter\" fandom refers to the community of fans of the \"Harry Potter\" books and movies who participate in entertainment activities that revolve around the series, such as reading and writing fan fiction, creating and soliciting fan art, engaging in role-playing games, socializing on \"Harry Potter\"-based forums, and more. The fandom interacts online as well as offline through activities such as fan conventions, tours of iconic landmarks relevant to the books and production of the films, and parties held for the midnight release of each book and film. By the fourth \"Harry Potter\" book, the legions of", "title": "Harry Potter fandom" }, { "docid": "9017530", "text": "in the \"Harry Potter\" franchise — \"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\", \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\", \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\", \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\" and \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\", Parts 1 & 2 — have to date grossed around $216 million in IMAX theaters worldwide. The \"Harry Potter\" films and their success have been retrospectively considered to have had a significant impact on the film industry. They are cited as having helped redefine the Hollywood blockbuster in the 21st century by initiating a shift toward established media franchises", "title": "Harry Potter (film series)" }, { "docid": "12048301", "text": "from an open letter written by the site. Harry Potter Fan Zone Harry Potter Fan Zone is an Australian \"Harry Potter\" fansite created in 2003 by Australian teenager Andy McCray. \"Harry Potter\" author J. K. Rowling awarded the website a \"Fan Site Award,\" stating that \"[it] is a great Australian site with an impressively young staff who have produced some really insightful editorials.\" Harry Potter Fan Zone's main focus is the coverage of \"Harry Potter\" news and \"Harry Potter\" related discussion and contents. The site has covered events in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, including book releases, movie", "title": "Harry Potter Fan Zone" }, { "docid": "12048299", "text": "Harry Potter Fan Zone Harry Potter Fan Zone is an Australian \"Harry Potter\" fansite created in 2003 by Australian teenager Andy McCray. \"Harry Potter\" author J. K. Rowling awarded the website a \"Fan Site Award,\" stating that \"[it] is a great Australian site with an impressively young staff who have produced some really insightful editorials.\" Harry Potter Fan Zone's main focus is the coverage of \"Harry Potter\" news and \"Harry Potter\" related discussion and contents. The site has covered events in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, including book releases, movie releases, premieres and fan gatherings. At the invitation", "title": "Harry Potter Fan Zone" }, { "docid": "10758879", "text": "that \"Harry Potter\" is a parable on immigration rights, noting that US \"immigration, citizenship and naturalization laws are based explicitly on discrimination on the basis of national origin. Where you were born, and what passport you carry, determine whether you have the right to come here, to visit, to work, or to live here.\" On the \"Harry Potter\" series, Rowling said on her United States book tour in October 2007, \"I very consciously wanted to show what is one of the great evils of war, which is that totally innocent people are slaughtered... Another great evil of war is that", "title": "Politics of Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "14993860", "text": "Harry Davis (potter) Harry Clemens Davis (20 November 1910 – 7 July 1986) was a Welsh-born New Zealand potter, and husband of May Davis. Davis was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1910, the only child of a Swiss mother and English father. He was educated in Switzerland and England, and was fluent in German. After school he was sent to the Bournemouth School of Art where the pottery class was oversubscribed. Undaunted, he worked in the pottery room after hours, turning out large numbers of enormous pots which drew the attention of the headmaster. He was sent to Broadstone Potters,", "title": "Harry Davis (potter)" }, { "docid": "5725240", "text": "world began holding events to coincide with the midnight release of the books, beginning with the 2000 publication of \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\". The events, commonly featuring mock sorting, games, face painting, and other live entertainment have achieved popularity with Potter fans and have been highly successful in attracting fans and selling books with nearly nine million of the 10.8 million initial print copies of \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\" sold in the first 24 hours. The final book in the series, \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\" became the fastest selling book in history, moving", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "7747568", "text": "Potter board game that was made available in August. In 2013, The LEGO Group officially discontinued Lego Harry Potter sets. However, a Lego Dimensions add-on pack featuring Harry Potter and Voldemort was scheduled to be released on 27 September 2016. In 2018 it was announced that more sets based on the Harry Potter Universe would be released, starting with a set based on the Great Hall. The first film (titled \"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone\" in the United States) saw the largest number of sets, with fourteen being made in total. Initially, only eleven were produced, however three more", "title": "Lego Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725224", "text": "magic. I so understand why Voldemort wants to conquer death. We're all frightened of it.\" Rowling stated that \"\"Harry Potter\" books have always, in fact, dealt explicitly with religious themes and questions\" and that she did not reveal its Christian parallels in the beginning because doing so would have \"give[n] too much away to fans who might then see the parallels.\" In the final book of the series \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\", Rowling makes the book's Christian imagery more explicit, quoting both and when Harry visits his parents' graves. Hermione Granger teaches Harry Potter that the meaning of", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "3276461", "text": "was their favourite \"Harry Potter\" character, calling him a \"sympathetic figure\" and saying in response to his fights against Voldemort that \"everybody loves an underdog story of good vs. evil\". Despite being the main character, Watchmojo.com ranked him #2 on their \"Top 10 Harry Potter Characters\" list in 2014 (Severus Snape was ranked #1 on the list). According to halloweenonline.com, \"Harry Potter\" sets were the fifth-best selling Halloween costume of 2005. In addition, wizard rock bands like Harry and the Potters and others regularly dress up in the style of Harry Potter, sporting painted forehead scars, black wigs, and round", "title": "Harry Potter (character)" }, { "docid": "1793250", "text": "pass off as the translation of the real book by Rowling. There have been several such books, the most famous of which is probably \"Harry Potter and Bao Zoulong\" which was written and published in China in 2002, before the release of the fifth book in Rowling's series, \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\". Other fake Harry Potter books written in Chinese include \"Harry Potter and the Porcelain Doll\" (哈利・波特与瓷娃娃 or Hālì Bōtè yǔ Cíwáwa), \"Harry Potter and the Golden Turtle\", and \"Harry Potter and the Crystal Vase\". In August 2007, \"The New York Times\" noted that the", "title": "Harry Potter in translation" }, { "docid": "10758863", "text": "Politics of Harry Potter There are many published theories about the politics of the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling, which range from them containing criticism of racism to anti-government sentiments. According to \"Inside Higher Ed\", doctoral theses have been devoted to the Harry Potter books. There are also several university courses centred on analysis of the Potter series, including an upper division political science course. \"Time\" magazine noted the political and social aspects of Harry Potter in their 2007 Person of the Year issue where Rowling placed third behind politicians Vladimir Putin and Al Gore. \"Harry Potter\"s potential", "title": "Politics of Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "3604656", "text": "His prescription of taking reading breaks was rejected by two of the patients on which he discovered this headache. Researchers in Oxford found that the admission rate of children with traumatic injuries to the city's ERs plummeted on the publication weekends of both \"Order of the Phoenix\" and \"Half-Blood Prince\". Waters, G. Mithrandir, A. (2003). \"Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter (analysis of Books 1-4)\". Niles, IL: Wizarding World Press. Harry Potter fandom \"Harry Potter\" fandom refers to the community of fans of the \"Harry Potter\" books and movies who participate in entertainment activities that revolve around", "title": "Harry Potter fandom" }, { "docid": "15813160", "text": "Harry Potter Alliance The Harry Potter Alliance (also known as the HPA) is a nonprofit organization run primarily by \"Harry Potter\" fans. It was founded by Andrew Slack in 2005 to draw attention to human rights violations in Sudan. Since then, the organisation's campaigns have focused on topics such as literacy, United States immigration reform, economic justice, gay rights, sexism, labor rights, mental health, body image, and climate change. They have received recognition from many popular figures in the \"Harry Potter\" community and have been the subject of multiple academic studies on fan activism and civic engagement among youth. The", "title": "Harry Potter Alliance" }, { "docid": "8251147", "text": "Potter\" involve an average eleven-year-old, better at sport than academic study, who is sent to boarding school. Upon arrival, the boy gains a best friend (in Tom's case, East, in Harry's case, Ron Weasley) who helps him adjust to the new environment. They are set upon by an arrogant bully – in Tom Brown's case, Harry Flashman, in Harry's case Draco Malfoy. Stephen Fry, who both narrates the British audio adaptations of the \"Harry Potter\" novels and has starred in a screen adaptation of \"Tom Brown\", has commented many times about the similarities between the two books. \"Harry Potter –", "title": "Harry Potter influences and analogues" }, { "docid": "3535459", "text": "Granger's pet cat. Crookshanks was purchased by Hermione in a shop called Magical Menagerie in the third Harry Potter book; Harry Potter and The Prisoner Of Azkaban. Crookshanks resembles a Persian Cat, and Rowling has described him as half-Kneazle, an intelligent cat-like creature sensitive to dishonesty, explaining his identification of the rat 'Scabbers' as Peter Pettigrew, and of Sirius Black in his dog form. Crookshanks is seen in Prisoner of Azkaban talking to Padfoot in the school grounds. Crookshanks was portrayed by a cat called Crackerjack. Dobby is a \"house-elf\" in the Harry Potter series. He was once owned by", "title": "Magical creatures in Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "18089461", "text": "Harry Potter (journalist) Harry Potter (20 July 1941 – 8 May 2014) was an Australian journalist, television reporter and presenter. A veteran police and crime reporter whose career spanned more than fifty years, Potter first joined \"Ten Eyewitness News\", a nightly news show on Network Ten, in 1978. In 2013, Harry Potter became the first recipient of the Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award. Potter was diagnosed with cancer in the early 2000s. He died from cancer on 8 May 2014, at the age of 72. He was survived by his wife, journalist Katrina Lee, and four children – Tim, Nick, Elisa", "title": "Harry Potter (journalist)" }, { "docid": "12080324", "text": "Harry Potter prequel An 800-word, untitled short story, unofficially known as the Harry Potter prequel, was written by J. K. Rowling in 2008 as part of a charity auction event, for which it fetched £25,000. The story recounts an encounter with Muggle police experienced by Sirius Black and James Potter, taking place before the events of the \"Harry Potter\" series. The manuscript was stolen in 2017. Two Muggle policemen chase a speeding motorbike into a dead-end alley, cornering its riders: Sirius Black and James Potter. As the policemen confront the pair, three men fly down the alley on broomsticks. James", "title": "Harry Potter prequel" }, { "docid": "5725276", "text": "for \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\", released on 18 November 2005. Newell became the first British director of the series, with television director David Yates following suit after he was chosen to helm \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\". Production began in January 2006 and the film was released the following year in July 2007. After executives were \"really delighted\" with his work on the film, Yates was selected to direct \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\", which was released on 15 July 2009. In March 2008, Warner Bros. President and COO Alan F. Horn announced", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725271", "text": "the first time on the shortlist for the main award, and one judge threatened to resign if \"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\" was declared the overall winner; it finished second, very close behind the winner of the poetry prize, Seamus Heaney's translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic \"Beowulf\". In 2000, shortly before the publication of \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\", the previous three \"Harry Potter\" books topped \"The New York Times\" fiction best-seller list and a third of the entries were children's books. The newspaper created a new children's section covering children's books, including both fiction and", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "5725236", "text": "audience. In December 2005, Rowling stated on her web site, \"2006 will be the year when I write the final book in the \"Harry Potter\" series.\" Updates then followed in her online diary chronicling the progress of \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\", with the release date of 21 July 2007. The book itself was finished on 11 January 2007 in the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh, where she scrawled a message on the back of a bust of Hermes. It read: \"J. K. Rowling finished writing \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\" in this room (552) on 11 January 2007.\" Rowling", "title": "Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "10758911", "text": "up terrorism by destroying bridges, murdering innocents, and forcing children to kill their elders. She also notes the parallels in the community's response saying Fred and George Weasley's shop makes a mint selling Shield Cloaks and the new Minister for Magic jails an innocent man, hoping to stave off panic and create the impression that he's taking action. Rowling said \"I've never thought, 'It's time for a post-9/11 Harry Potter book,' no. But what Voldemort does, in many senses, is terrorism, and that was quite clear in my mind before 9/11 happened... but there are parallels, obviously. I think one", "title": "Politics of Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "9017466", "text": "Harry Potter (film series) Harry Potter is a British-American film series based on the \"Harry Potter\" novels by author J. K. Rowling. The series is distributed by Warner Bros. and consists of eight fantasy films, beginning with \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\" (2001) and culminating with \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2\" (2011). A spin-off prequel series that will consist of five films started with \"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them\" (2016), marking the beginning of the Wizarding World shared media franchise. The series was mainly produced by David Heyman, and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert", "title": "Harry Potter (film series)" }, { "docid": "1793280", "text": "other languages. The Vietnamese translation, which was originally published in instalments, originally interpreted \"Order\" as a directive and translated it as \"Harry Potter và Mệnh lệnh Phượng hoàng\"; when it became clear that \"Order\" referred to a group of people, the title was changed to \"Harry Potter và Hội Phượng hoàng\". Rowling released an alternative title for \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\" for use by translators finding difficulty translating its meaning. The alternative title (in English) is \"Harry Potter and the Relics of Death\". In Italy the title has been translated as \"Harry Potter e i doni della morte\"", "title": "Harry Potter in translation" }, { "docid": "10758921", "text": "epidemic. In a parody of \"Harry Potter\", Campaign for America's Future cast Seinfeld alumnus, Jason Alexander as \"Lord Rovemort\", a Karl Rove figure that coordinates Republican \"obstruction\" in Congress. Library of Congress: Rowling, J. K. Criticism and interpretation Carrie-Ann Biondi ed., \"Imagining Better: Philosophical Issues in Harry Potter,\" collection of essays on philosophy and politics of \"Harry Potter\" in \"Reason Papers: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies\", vol. 34, no. 2 (June 2012). Politics of Harry Potter There are many published theories about the politics of the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling, which range from them containing criticism", "title": "Politics of Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "3276444", "text": "even Voldemort possesses: the acceptance of the inevitability of death. Throughout the series, Harry Potter is described as a gifted wizard apprentice. He has a particular talent for flying, which manifests itself in \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\" the first time he tries it, and gets him a place on a Quidditch team one year before the normal minimum joining age. He captains it in his sixth year. In his fourth year (\"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\"), Harry is able to confront a dragon on his broomstick. Harry is also gifted in Defence Against the Dark Arts,", "title": "Harry Potter (character)" }, { "docid": "3276441", "text": "Harry grows taller, and by the seventh book is said to be 'almost' the height of his father, and 'tall' by other characters. Rowling explained that Harry's image came to her when she first thought up Harry Potter, seeing him as a \"scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy\". She also mentioned that she thinks Harry's glasses are the clue to his vulnerability. According to Rowling, Harry is strongly guided by his own conscience, and has a keen feeling of what is right and wrong. Having \"very limited access to truly caring adults\", Rowling said, Harry \"is forced to make his own decisions", "title": "Harry Potter (character)" }, { "docid": "3276427", "text": "fighting. And he's after revenge [against Voldemort and Snape].\" This book also focuses on the mysterious activities of Harry's rival Draco Malfoy. Voldemort has coerced a frightened Malfoy into attempting to kill Dumbledore. During a duel in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, Harry uses the Half-Blood Prince's spell, \"Sectumsempra,\" on Malfoy, who suffers near-fatal injuries as a result. Harry is horrified by what he has done and also comes to feel sympathy for Draco, after learning he was forced to do Voldemort's bidding under the threat of his and his parents' deaths. In \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\", Harry, Ron, and", "title": "Harry Potter (character)" }, { "docid": "9017507", "text": "gave much of what would normally be given to Californian vendors to UK ones. They came up trumps.\" Tim Burke, the visual effects supervisor, said many studios \"are bringing their work to UK effects companies. Every facility is fully booked, and that wasn't the case before \"Harry Potter\". That's really significant.\" On 12 June 2010, filming of the \"Deathly Hallows – Part 1\" and \"Deathly Hallows – Part 2\" was completed with actor Warwick Davis stating on his Twitter account, \"The end of an Era – today is officially the last day of principal photography on 'Harry Potter' – ever.", "title": "Harry Potter (film series)" }, { "docid": "9017502", "text": "second unit, and the visual effects unit. You have to know what is being captured – colours, contrast, et cetera – with mathematical precision.\" He noted that with Stuart Craig's \"amazing sets and the story\", the filmmakers could not \"stray too far from the look of the previous \"Harry Potter\" films.\" Along with continuous changes in cinematographers, there have been five film editors to work in post-production on the series: Richard Francis-Bruce edited the first instalment, Peter Honess the second, Steven Weisberg the third, Mick Audsley the fourth, and Mark Day films five through eight. The \"Harry Potter\" series has", "title": "Harry Potter (film series)" }, { "docid": "9017468", "text": "was released in November 2010, and \"Part 2\" was released in July 2011. Five of the series' eight films are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, with \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2\" the highest-grossing film in the series and one of 36 films to gross over $1 billion, ranking at number ten. Without inflation adjustment, it is the third highest-grossing film series with $7.7 billion in worldwide receipts. Late in 1997, film producer David Heyman's London offices received a copy of the first book in what would become Rowling's series of seven \"Harry Potter\"", "title": "Harry Potter (film series)" }, { "docid": "2083270", "text": "books present the idea that the Muggle interpretation of these stories is a distorted version of what goes on in the wizarding world. The magic of \"Harry Potter\" became the subject of a 2017 British Library exhibition and accompanying documentary. The exhibition, entitled \"Harry Potter: A History of Magic\", is the first at the British Library to be inspired by a single series by a living author. Witches and wizards need training to learn how to control their magic. With young and untrained children, magic will manifest itself subconsciously in moments of strong apprehension, fear, anger and sadness. For example,", "title": "Magic in Harry Potter" }, { "docid": "3604609", "text": "on all things Harry Potter.\" On another occasion, Rowling has called the Leaky Cauldron her \"favourite fan site.\" In 2006, the Brazilian website Potterish was the only site honoured, in recognition of its \"style, [its] Potter-expertise and [its] responsible reporting.\" In May 2007, Harry Potter Fan Zone received the award. Rowling recognized the insightful editorials as well as praised the site for its young and dedicated staff. In December 2007, the award went to The Harry Potter Alliance, a campaign that seeks to end discrimination, genocide, poverty, AIDS, global warming, and other \"real-world Dark Arts\", relating these problems to the", "title": "Harry Potter fandom" }, { "docid": "3276457", "text": "down Ignotus' Invisibility Cloak through the generations. Two of Harry Potter's ancestors have sat on the Wizengamot: Ralston Potter and Henry Potter. Ralston was a member from 1612-1652, and an ardent supporter of the Statute of Secrecy. Henry Potter, known as \"Harry\" to his closest loved ones, was a direct descendant of Hardwin and Iolanthe, and a paternal great-grandfather of Harry Potter. Henry served on the Wizengamot from 1913 - 1921, and caused a minor controversy when he publicly condemned then Minister for Magic, Archer Evermonde, for prohibiting the magical community from helping Muggles waging the First World War. Henry's", "title": "Harry Potter (character)" }, { "docid": "15619138", "text": "Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7 Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7 is a Lego-themed action-adventure video game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Released on 11 November 2011 in North America and 18 November in Europe, the game is based on the Lego Harry Potter line and is based on the final three books and four films in the \"Harry Potter\" series: \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\", \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\", \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1\", and \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2\". The", "title": "Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7" }, { "docid": "8251163", "text": "followers/apprentices. Both stories also have a prophesied \"Chosen One\" who will destroy evil. In the \"Harry Potter series\", it is Harry Potter who is the chosen one who would defeat the Dark Lord Voldemort. In \"Star Wars\", it is presumed and appears to be Luke Skywalker, but actually revealed to be Anakin Skywalker as proclaimed in the Jedi prophecy who would destroy the Sith and bring balance to the Force. He does this after being redeemed by his son, Luke Skywalker. More recent theories contrast this and argue that Luke is indeed the chosen one who will bring balance to", "title": "Harry Potter influences and analogues" }, { "docid": "8251120", "text": "deals with those analogues which Rowling has not cited either as influences or as favourites but which others have claimed bear comparison with \"Harry Potter\". Rowling has never openly credited any single author with inspiration, saying, \"I haven't got the faintest idea where my ideas come from, or how my imagination works. I'm just grateful that it does, because it gives me more entertainment than it gives anyone else.\" However, she has mentioned a number of favourite authors as probable influences in her creation of \"Harry Potter\". The works are listed roughly in order of publication. Rowling has said, \"I've", "title": "Harry Potter influences and analogues" }, { "docid": "15813161", "text": "Harry Potter Alliance was founded in 2005 by comedian Andrew Slack and the wizard rock band Harry and the Potters, initially collecting donations for Amnesty International at their shows. In 2006, the organisation partnered with Walmart Watch to create a series of YouTube videos about the \"Dark Lord Waldemart\" in order to educate fans about Walmart's labour practices. The three videos have been viewed nearly three and a half million times total. In 2007, the Harry Potter Alliance broadcast a special edition of PotterCast, a popular fandom podcast, called \"Becoming Dumbledore's Army: Harry Potter Fans for Darfur,\" to educate fans", "title": "Harry Potter Alliance" }, { "docid": "1884302", "text": "was symbolic, as Harry's horizons widened both literally and metaphorically as he grew up. She also wanted to explore more of the magical world. Until the official title's announcement on 27 June 2000, the book was called by its working title, 'Harry Potter IV.' Previously, in April, the publisher had listed it as \"Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament\". However, J. K. Rowling expressed her indecision about the title in an \"Entertainment Weekly\" interview. \"I changed my mind twice on what [the title] was. The working title had got out — \"Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament\". Then I changed", "title": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" } ]
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How many players per team are there in a game of beach volleyball?
[ "2", "two" ]
[ { "docid": "1738733", "text": "lower back, and especially shoulder is common as well, but is less prevalent than in indoor volleyball due to the soft landing surface. Acute lost-time injuries are also relatively rare in beach volleyball compared to other team sports. Many players use kinesiology tape. Interest in this tape has surged after American beach volleyball player and three-time Olympic gold medalist Kerri Walsh wore it at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net. As in indoor volleyball, the objective of the game", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738682", "text": "area for public enjoyment, planting the seed for beach volleyball development in that region. The first permanent nets began to appear, and people soon began playing recreational games on public parts of the beach and in private beach clubs. Eleven such beach clubs appeared in the Santa Monica area, beginning in late 1922. The first inter-club competitions were staged in 1924. Most of these early beach volleyball matches were played with teams of at least six players per side, much like indoor volleyball. The concept of the modern two-man beach volleyball game is credited to Paul \"Pablo\" Johnson of the", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "6810523", "text": "Summer Heat Beach Volleyball Summer Heat Beach Volleyball is a beach volleyball video game released by Acclaim in 2003 for the PlayStation 2 gaming console. \"Summer Heat\" follows the basic rules of the sport of beach volleyball. Two teams of two players each face off in a sectioned-off area of sand that serves as the playing area. One player serves the ball, and play begins. The objective is to land the ball on the ground within the play area of the other team's side. Players alternate hitting (\"volleying\") the ball, up to three volleys per turn, and the ball must", "title": "Summer Heat Beach Volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738679", "text": "Beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net. As in indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent. A team is allowed up to three touches to return the ball across the net. The ball is put in play with a serve—a hit by the server from behind the rear court boundary over the net to the opponents. The rally continues", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738684", "text": "with more players, the most widely played version of the game, and the only one contested at an elite level, has only two players per team. Beach volleyball grew in popularity in the United States during the Great Depression in the 1930s as it was an inexpensive activity. The sport also began to appear in Europe during this time. By the 1940s, doubles tournaments were being played on the beaches of Santa Monica for trophies. In 1948 the first tournament to offer a prize was held in Los Angeles, California. It awarded the best teams with a case of Pepsi.", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "6810526", "text": "the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, but there is no word on the status of such a game. \"Summer Heat Volleyball\" is expected to keep its identity and will not be dissolved or merged. Summer Heat Beach Volleyball Summer Heat Beach Volleyball is a beach volleyball video game released by Acclaim in 2003 for the PlayStation 2 gaming console. \"Summer Heat\" follows the basic rules of the sport of beach volleyball. Two teams of two players each face off in a sectioned-off area of sand that serves as the playing area. One player serves the ball, and play begins. The", "title": "Summer Heat Beach Volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738680", "text": "until the ball is grounded on the playing court, goes \"out\", or is not returned properly. The team winning a rally scores a point and serves to start the following rally. The four players serve in the same sequence throughout the match, changing server each time a rally is won by the receiving team. Beach volleyball most likely originated in 1915 on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii, while the modern two-player game originated in Santa Monica, California. It has been an Olympic sport since the 1996 Summer Olympics. The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) is the international governing body for the", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "20408522", "text": "Beach volleyball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Beach Volleyball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on the Gold Coast, Australia from April 6 to 12. The beach volleyball competition was held at Coolangatta Beachfront. This was the first time that Beach Volleyball was held at the Commonwealth Games. A total of twelve men's and twelve women's teams are scheduled to compete (48 athletes, at 2 per team) in each respective tournament. The following is the competition schedule for the Beach Volleyball competitions: A total of 12 men's teams and women's team qualified to compete at the games. There are", "title": "Beach volleyball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games" }, { "docid": "8975621", "text": "volleyball adapted for play in the shallow water of a beach. Manball is a recent version of volleyball played with only 2 to 4 people per team, and using a 10 lb. rubber medicine ball. It is played much like beach volleyball but instead of hitting the ball, players catch and throw the ball in one fluid motion. Manball combines a cardiovascular workout with a weight lifting workout into a game that does not feel like either. (For full game rules see manball.info) Short court is usually played as a warm up to a volleyball practice or game. It is", "title": "Volleyball variations" }, { "docid": "445962", "text": "Asia, as well as in the United States. Beach volleyball, a variation of the game played on sand and with only two players per team, became a FIVB-endorsed variation in 1987 and was added to the Olympic program at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Volleyball is also a sport at the Paralympics managed by the World Organization Volleyball for Disabled. Nudists were early adopters of the game with regular organized play in clubs as early as the late 1920s. By the 1960s, a volleyball court had become standard in almost all nudist/naturist clubs. Volleyball has been part of the Summer Olympics", "title": "Volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738683", "text": "Santa Monica Athletic Club. In the summer of 1930, while waiting for players to show up for a six-man game at the Santa Monica Athletic Club, Johnson decided to try playing with only the four people present, forming two two-man teams for the first recorded beach volleyball doubles game. The players realized that with fewer players on the court, a taller player's height advantage could be neutralized by a shorter player's speed and ball control. The popularity of the two-man game spread to other nearby beach clubs and eventually to the public courts. Though recreational games continue to be played", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "11858748", "text": "It really breaks hard and fast now. It wasn't like that. It was a fun beach break”. Since the early 1950s, two-man volleyball has been played at Moonlight Beach. Several of the players from the Pro Tour practice their game at Moonlight. Originally there was only one court in the middle of the beach, but currently there are three courts at the north end of the beach. Every year since 1964 in the month of October, a Mixed Doubles Volleyball Tournament is held here; many of the top beach players in the world participate. Because of the presence of harmful", "title": "Moonlight Beach" }, { "docid": "8975589", "text": "Volleyball variations Originated and popular in Kerala,India. A variation of the game rivaling the original sport of volleyball in popularity, beach volleyball evolved from the recreational games of volleyball played on many beaches around the world. It became an official Olympic sport in 1996. This version, rather than being played on indoor hard courts, is played on sand courts which may either be formed naturally or built specifically for the purpose. Instead of a team of six, each team consists of only two players, but otherwise the rules are almost identical with some exceptions including: This is a newer variation", "title": "Volleyball variations" }, { "docid": "1738689", "text": "the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) was founded. At the professional level, the sport remained fairly obscure until the 1980s when beach volleyball experienced a surge in popularity with high-profile players such as Sinjin Smith, Randy Stoklos, and Karch Kiraly. Kiraly won an Olympic gold medal in beach volleyball in its first Olympic appearance in 1996, adding that to the two Olympic golds he won as part of the USA men's indoor team, and has won 142 titles. In the 1980s, the sport gained popularity on the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1986, the", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "446012", "text": "the basic rules of volleyball. By far the most popular of these is beach volleyball, which is played on sand with two people per team, and rivals the main sport in popularity. Some games related to volleyball include: Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since 1964. The complete rules are extensive, but simply, play proceeds as", "title": "Volleyball" }, { "docid": "20408523", "text": "16 participating nations in beach volleyball with a total of 48 athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country. Beach volleyball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Beach Volleyball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on the Gold Coast, Australia from April 6 to 12. The beach volleyball competition was held at Coolangatta Beachfront. This was the first time that Beach Volleyball was held at the Commonwealth Games. A total of twelve men's and twelve women's teams are scheduled to compete (48 athletes, at 2 per team) in each respective tournament.", "title": "Beach volleyball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games" }, { "docid": "19400880", "text": "Nestea Beach Volleyball The Nestea Beach Volleyball is a beach volleyball tournament held during the Summer season in the Philippines. Held in the Boracay Beach Chalets, Station 2 in Boracay Island in Aklan, the Nestea Beach Volleyball is the longest-running beach volleyball tournament in the country and the main attraction of the Nestea Love the Beach event in Boracay usually held on April until May or the Labor Day Weekend. It consists into two parts: the Intercollegiate Beach Volleyball tournament featuring collegiate teams from different parts of the country and the Fantasy Match where semi-pro players (consists of two teams", "title": "Nestea Beach Volleyball" }, { "docid": "8975590", "text": "of beach volleyball. As beach volleyball took volleyball outdoors, indoor sand volleyball takes beach volleyball indoors. In the United States, a growing number of colleges are now considering switching from hard court indoor volleyball to sand court indoor volleyball. The biggest reason for the possible change is the reduced rate of injury of players. Secondary reasons are: 1) bad weather doesn't cancel play, something that commonly happens with beach volleyball; 2) it is thought to make the game more appealing to spectators since sand courts do not require players to wear knee pads or shoes. Indoor sand volleyball teams vary", "title": "Volleyball variations" }, { "docid": "19400883", "text": "beach volleyball tourney. Members of last year's fantasy match champions Team Light Blue, Rachel Anne Daquis, Cha Cruz, and Michele Gumabao will return in the sand for the second straight appearance. Gumabao and Cruz will play for Team Chillax, while Daquis will play for Team Plunge. Nestea Beach Volleyball The Nestea Beach Volleyball is a beach volleyball tournament held during the Summer season in the Philippines. Held in the Boracay Beach Chalets, Station 2 in Boracay Island in Aklan, the Nestea Beach Volleyball is the longest-running beach volleyball tournament in the country and the main attraction of the Nestea Love", "title": "Nestea Beach Volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738721", "text": "with 5-star tournaments offering the most prize money. The 2018 World Tour has 47 international tournaments with a total prize purse of over US$7 million. Competing in the World Tour as well as other FIVB-recognized tournaments such as the Summer Olympics allows players to earn FIVB Ranking Points, with higher-star events being worth more points. The World Tour concludes with the World Tour Finals at the end of each season. The FIVB also organizes the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships every two years, held since 1997. The World Championships have a 48-team main draw and prize purse of US$500,000 per", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738700", "text": "are several differences between the two games that affect players' strategies, gameplay and techniques. The main differences in the rules of beach and indoor volleyball for international competitions governed by the FIVB include: The teams start on opposite sides of the net. One team is designated the \"serving\" team and opposing team is the \"receiving\" team. A coin toss is conducted by the referee before the warm-ups to determine which team serves first and which sides of the court the teams start on for the first two sets. If a third deciding set is needed, another coin toss will be", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "12268470", "text": "set long-term goals based on their long-term results in comparison to other professional beach volleyball players. \"Volleyball Magazine\" calls the website \"a reliable source for entries and results.\" The site also collaborates with the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) to provide tournament notes to the FIVB website. The Beach Volleyball Database was launched online by Dennis Wagner on June 2, 1999. Wagner (nicknamed \"Dr. Ono\") operates the website on his own, for free. He has spent thousands of hours on the database, from a computer terminal in his home. Beach Volleyball Database The Beach Volleyball Database is an online website", "title": "Beach Volleyball Database" }, { "docid": "1738686", "text": "a match. In 1974, there was an indoor tournament: \"The $1500.00 World Indoor Two-Man Volleyball Championship\" played in front of 4,000 volleyball enthusiast at the San Diego Sports Arena. Fred Zuelich teamed with Dennis Hare to defeat Ron Von Hagen and Matt Gage in the championship match, Winston Cigarettes was the sponsor. Dennis Hare went on to write the first book on the subject of beach volleyball: \"The Art of Beach Volleyball\". The first professional beach volleyball tournament was the Olympia World Championship of Beach Volleyball, staged on Labor Day weekend, 1976, at Will Rogers State Beach in Pacific Palisades,", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738728", "text": "According to current FIVB rules, female beach volleyball players have the option of playing in shorts or a one-piece swimsuit. Most players, however, prefer the two-piece bikini. Competitors such as Natalie Cook and Holly McPeak have confirmed the FIVB's claims that the uniforms are practical for a sport played on sand during the heat of summer, but British Olympian Denise Johns claimed that the regulation uniform is intended to be \"sexy\" and to draw attention. Other players have argued that the bikini is tied to the sport's \"beach culture\". During the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, a study was conducted on", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "12940750", "text": "Beach Volley Beach Volley is a simplified computer game version of volleyball from the French developer team Ocean France for various 16-Bit and 8-Bit personal computers, released by Ocean Software Ltd in 1989. A stranger interrupts a beach volleyball game and offering the player to join the \"Ocean Beach Volley\" worldwide tournament, to play against the best from eight other countries. The winner of this competition will receive $250,000 dollars. Follows the base ruleset of volleyball. Two teams of two players each trying to score by making the ball land inside the opponents half of the court. First team reaching", "title": "Beach Volley" }, { "docid": "3408644", "text": "Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball The game is set immediately after the tournament in \"Dead or Alive 3\" ended. Gameplay revolves around the women of the \"DOA\" series playing various mini-games in the many locations of Zack Island, a reclusive private resort on an island owned by Zack, the only male character from the series to appear anywhere in the game. This installment features no fighting engine, instead being much like a simulation game that encourages the player to establish relationships with the AI of characters, and eventually make a two-person team to compete in volleyball competitions. Currency earned", "title": "Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball" }, { "docid": "17772730", "text": "be restricted to single team of 14 players in each event. Each event will accept 32 entered teams. Qualification for beach volleyball will be based on the CEV Beach Volleyball Ranking on 1 January 2015. The top 30 teams in the rankings will be invited to enter, subject to a maximum entry of two teams per nation, while two team places will be reserved in each event for hosts Azerbaijan. FIVB has awarded Beach Volleyball the same ranking points as the continental tour masters which will be used for Rio 2016 Olympic Qualification purposes. First version of the competition schedule.", "title": "Volleyball at the 2015 European Games" }, { "docid": "18990852", "text": "Volleyball injuries Volleyball is a game played between two opposing sides, with six players on each team, where the players use mainly their hands to hit the ball over a net and try to make the ball land on the opposing team's side of the court. Volleyball is played by over 800 million people world wide, making it one of the most popular sports in the world. Volleyball has some risks involved with it because there are some injuries which occur to players that are quite common; these include ankle injuries, shoulder injuries, foot injuries and knee injuries. The majority", "title": "Volleyball injuries" }, { "docid": "19277270", "text": "Hawai'i Rainbow Wahine beach volleyball The Hawai'i Rainbow Wahine beach volleyball team, more commonly known as the Hawaii SandBows, is the beach volleyball team representing the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in the NCAA Division I women's league. The university has a rich volleyball tradition. They have had two head coaches since the team's inception in 2012. In 2014 under head coach Scott Wong, they appeared in the NCAA Division I Final Four. During the 2015 season, they ranked first in attendance among all Division 1 volleyball beach programs. The \"Sand Bows\" averaged over 330 fans, each, for six home", "title": "Hawai'i Rainbow Wahine beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "20635305", "text": "Beach volleyball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's tournament The women's beach volleyball tournament at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on the Gold Coast, Australia from April 6 to 12. The beach volleyball competition was held at Coolangatta Beachfront. This was the first time that beach volleyball was held at the Commonwealth Games. A total of twelve women's teams competed (24 athletes, at 2 per team). The following is the competition schedule for the women's tournament: A total of 12 men's teams qualified to compete at the games. The 12 teams would be split into three groups of", "title": "Beach volleyball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's tournament" }, { "docid": "20632978", "text": "Beach volleyball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's tournament The men's beach volleyball tournament at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was be held on the Gold Coast, Australia from April 6 to 12. The beach volleyball competition was held at Coolangatta Beachfront. This was the first time that beach volleyball was held at the Commonwealth Games. A total of twelve men's teams competed (24 athletes, at 2 per team). The following is the competition schedule for the men's tournament: A total of 12 men's teams qualified to compete at the games. The 12 teams would be split into three groups", "title": "Beach volleyball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's tournament" }, { "docid": "15189264", "text": "Cayman Islands in December 2011. The competition was held in Mal Pais, Costa Rica, in February 2012. Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics 2010–12 Continental Beach Volleyball Cup – North America The North American zone see the zones divided into two Caribbean, Central and Central American zones. The two Caribbean zones will meet and then go up against the Central American zone in the inter-zonal tournaments. Both Caribbean zones will have an elimination bracket where two teams per country competing in a two-game series, if there is a tie a fifth game will be played by both countries. In the", "title": "2010–12 Continental Beach Volleyball Cup – North America" }, { "docid": "11407638", "text": "players are required to be barefoot. Beach soccer goals are smaller than normal regulation soccer goals. They are 2.2 meters tall and 5.5 meters wide. There are four referees involved in a beach soccer game. Two of the referees are on the field during the game, the third referee patrols and manages the bench and the fourth and final referee keeps time with a stopwatch on the sidelines. United States national beach soccer team The United States national beach soccer team represents the United States in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the USSF, the governing body for", "title": "United States national beach soccer team" }, { "docid": "5949417", "text": "competing on the tour. International players are allowed to play on the AVP tour as well if they have dual citizenship or permanent residency in the United States. Notable international players on the tour include Brazil's Ricardo Santos and Canada's Sarah Pavan. Since the 2017 season, there are two main differences between the AVP rules and standard beach volleyball rules. The first difference is that AVP matches have a \"point freeze\" at match point, wherein the scoring system changes from rally scoring (either team can score a point on every serve) to side-out scoring (only serving team can score a", "title": "Association of Volleyball Professionals" }, { "docid": "14111498", "text": "Water volleyball Water volleyball (also called pool and acqua volleyball) is a competitive middle-court oriented water game.It can be played between two teams, each team consisting of 1 to 4 players, depending on the area of water in which the game is being played. Water volleyball has emerged from recreational pool activities, sports, aquatic clubs, water parks, through the practice of unification of the beach and water tournaments. In the 1990s, Disney water parks had pool volleyball entertainment. DLRG- Ortsgruppe Havixbeck, has organized first water volley tournament in 1985, creating by-so water volleyball club. US has on its own developed", "title": "Water volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738695", "text": "the ball is allowed to cross. Two side lines and two end lines, measuring wide, delineate the playing court. FIVB regulations state that the ball must be spherical and made of flexible and water resistant material, such that it is appropriate for outdoor conditions. A beach volleyball ball has a circumference of 66–68 cm, a weight of 260–280 g and an inside pressure of 0.175–0.225 kg/cm. A team is composed exclusively of two players, who must always be in play and who cannot be subjected to any substitutions or replacement. At the moment the ball is hit by the server,", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "11407629", "text": "United States national beach soccer team The United States national beach soccer team represents the United States in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the USSF, the governing body for soccer in the United States. A Beach Soccer game is divided into 3, 12-minute periods. There are 2, 3-minute breaks, that split up the periods. Beach soccer is played with two teams, each with 4 field players and one goalie. The play clock will stop whenever a goal is scored, when there is an infraction, and if a team is suspected to be wasting time. A Beach Soccer", "title": "United States national beach soccer team" }, { "docid": "14111502", "text": "eleven points. However, if the score gets to 10 apiece, then the team to score either two points ahead of the other team, or else first to fifteen points, wins the game. There are usually 5 games in a match. The first team to reach 11 points wins. If the score reaches 10 apiece, then it is first team to by 2 points or first to 15 points. Water volleyball Water volleyball (also called pool and acqua volleyball) is a competitive middle-court oriented water game.It can be played between two teams, each team consisting of 1 to 4 players, depending", "title": "Water volleyball" }, { "docid": "18880732", "text": "least six members — the minimum number for a conference to qualify for an automatic bid to other NCAA championship tournaments. (All five conferences were represented in the inaugural tournament, but only four were in 2017:) Turner Sports held broadcast rights to the tournament for the first two years (2016 and 2017), with early-round coverage airing on TruTV, and the championship game broadcast on TBS. In December 2017, ESPN signed a multiyear agreement to broadcast the NCAA Women's Beach Volleyball Championship through 2022. NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship The NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship is an NCAA-sanctioned tournament to determine the national", "title": "NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship" } ]
[ { "docid": "17716889", "text": "representing Sweden in the Olympic Games of Rio 2016. Nina Grawender was born on October 15, 1987 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Beach volleyball team Karin and Nina Karin Lundqvist and Nina Grawender are professional beach volleyball players from Sweden. They started playing together in February 2013 and by achieving good results on the European Tour and World Tour they were selected as Sweden's national team in September 2013. Karin and Nina are coached by Wesley Pinheiro, from Brazil. Karin Lundqvist and Nina Grawender's best results in 2013 are 9th place at the European Championships in Klagenfurt, Austria, and first place at", "title": "Beach volleyball team Karin and Nina" }, { "docid": "17716887", "text": "Beach volleyball team Karin and Nina Karin Lundqvist and Nina Grawender are professional beach volleyball players from Sweden. They started playing together in February 2013 and by achieving good results on the European Tour and World Tour they were selected as Sweden's national team in September 2013. Karin and Nina are coached by Wesley Pinheiro, from Brazil. Karin Lundqvist and Nina Grawender's best results in 2013 are 9th place at the European Championships in Klagenfurt, Austria, and first place at the Nevza tournaments in Oslo and Gothenburg. Karin Lundqvist was born on October 5, 1981 in Stockholm, Sweden. She started", "title": "Beach volleyball team Karin and Nina" }, { "docid": "1738681", "text": "sport, and organizes the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships and the international professional beach volleyball circuit known as the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. Beach volleyball is a variant of indoor volleyball, which was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan. Beach volleyball most likely originated in 1915 on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii, at the Outrigger Canoe Club. According to a 1978 interview of an Outrigger Canoe Club member, George David \"Dad\" Center put a net up there, and the first recorded game of beach volleyball took place. In 1920, new jetties in Santa Monica, California created a large sandy", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "19400882", "text": "the tourney will have a conflict with the UAAP women's volleyball finals, the teams will send a Team B composed of those who not make it in the line-up of the UAAP team. The teams are composed of the champion teams in their respective collegiate beach volleyball leagues. In 2015, Fantasy Match, a side event of the competition was added in the line-up of the activities in the Nestea Beach tourney. For the 2016 edition, top volleyball players in the country will be played in the Fantasy Match on April 29–30, coinciding with the semifinals and finals of the intercollegiate", "title": "Nestea Beach Volleyball" }, { "docid": "8975631", "text": "if the both balls simultaneously touch the hands of the players or land on their side of the court, the opposing team scores a point. The rest of the rules are similar to the basic version of pioneerball. There is also a variation of pioneerball for blind children. Volleyball variations Originated and popular in Kerala,India. A variation of the game rivaling the original sport of volleyball in popularity, beach volleyball evolved from the recreational games of volleyball played on many beaches around the world. It became an official Olympic sport in 1996. This version, rather than being played on indoor", "title": "Volleyball variations" }, { "docid": "1738699", "text": "began testing rule changes to the court size and scoring system. The beach volleyball court dimension was reduced from the indoor court size of to , and the scoring system was changed from sideout scoring, wherein only the serving team can score a point, to rally scoring, wherein a point is scored on every serve. The Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) adopted the FIVB's rule changes that same year, which upset many of the sport's purists at the time. The new rules were officially adopted by the FIVB in 2002. Beach volleyball is fundamentally similar to indoor volleyball. However, there", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738731", "text": "California, beach volleyball is strongly associated with a casual, beach-centric lifestyle. As it developed nearly in parallel with modern surfing, beach volleyball culture shares some similarities with surf culture. The beach bum archetype is one such example. Professional beach volleyball matches often have a \"party atmosphere\", with loud music, announcers and dancers in between points and during time-outs. Fashion often extends from the clothing worn during play, like the bikini or boardshorts. And much like surfers, beach volleyball players are at the mercy of the weather; patterns of play often develop based on weather conditions like sun and wind. Nudists", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "12268469", "text": "Beach Volleyball Database The Beach Volleyball Database is an online website that holds extensive information about international beach volleyball players, tournaments and history. News are frequently updated, and the site has results for continental and international tournaments. It is the only website of its kind in the sport of beach volleyball. The press operations officer for the AVP, Tim Simmons, has said that the Beach Volleyball Database has had a major impact on the sport. Information that is now easily accessible through the website, used to take time consuming research through different sources. Now professional athletes have a chance to", "title": "Beach Volleyball Database" }, { "docid": "19218570", "text": "Beach Volleyball Republic Beach Volleyball Republic, Inc. (BVR) is an organization aimed for the development and growth of beach volleyball in the Philippines formed in June 2015. Co-founded by former Ateneo Lady Eagles volleybelles and current professional players Charo Soriano, Gretchen Ho, Fille Cainglet-Cayetano, Dzi Gervacio, Bea Tan and former Petron Blaze Spikers player Alexa Micek, BVR organized beach volleyball tournaments in different beaches and public places in the Philippines, grassroots development program for the young and aspiring players and the professional circuit tours thru the Beach Royals program under Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) beach volleyball consultant Eric Lecain including", "title": "Beach Volleyball Republic" }, { "docid": "6810525", "text": "were experiencing a period of renewed popularity for the first time in many years, although it received considerably less hype and critical praise than its contemporaries \"Beach Spikers\", \"Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball\", and \"Outlaw Volleyball\". It currently has a score of 68.09% on GameRankings and 65 out of 100 on Metacritic. The game was one of several poor-selling titles that would lead to Acclaim's bankruptcy in 2004. In 2006, Canadian game publisher Throwback Entertainment acquired the property rights for \"Summer Heat Beach Volleyball\" from Acclaim. Throwback had planned on developing another \"Summer Heat\" volleyball game for release on", "title": "Summer Heat Beach Volleyball" }, { "docid": "19218579", "text": "Division The Cebu leg is BVR's seventh this year and its the final stop before the 2017 BVR National Championships happening later in July. Participating teams Women's Men's Final standings (Women's) Final standings (Men's) The winners in Cagayan will be part of the Philippines national team pool for the ASEAN games. Participating teams Women's Men's Final round Women's Men's Beach Volleyball Republic Beach Volleyball Republic, Inc. (BVR) is an organization aimed for the development and growth of beach volleyball in the Philippines formed in June 2015. Co-founded by former Ateneo Lady Eagles volleybelles and current professional players Charo Soriano, Gretchen", "title": "Beach Volleyball Republic" }, { "docid": "1738709", "text": "(overhand passes which accidentally cross over the net are an exception). These differences between the rules of indoor volleyball and beach volleyball strongly affect tactics and techniques. Beach volleyball players use hand signals to indicate to their partners the type of block they either intend to make (if they are the designated blocker) or that they want their partner to make (if they are the designated defender). Block signals are important so that both the blocker and defender know which area of the court is their responsibility to cover. Block signals are made behind the back to hide them from", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "6810524", "text": "travel over the net no later than the third hit. The game supports up to four players, though the use of a multitap accessory is required for three and four player games. \"Summer Heat\" is styled similarly to other arcade-style volleyball games of the era, where there is an emphasis on the sex appeal of the bikini-clad female characters as well as having the overall tone and atmosphere of a summer beach party. \"Summer Heat's\" soundtrack features music from Pink, Sum 41, Kylie Minogue, Sprung Monkey, Freshmaka, and Suburban. The game was released during a period where volleyball video games", "title": "Summer Heat Beach Volleyball" }, { "docid": "19575766", "text": "Beach Volleyball Major Series The Beach Volleyball Major Series (or Beach Major Series and formerly the Swatch Beach Volleyball Major Series) is an international series of beach volleyball tournaments which began in 2015. The tournaments consist of Tour Stops and form part of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. The series concludes with the FIVB World Tour Finals. Each tournament in the series has a prize pool of USD$300,000 per gender, except for the World Tour Finals which has a prize pool of USD$400,000 per gender. The Beach Volleyball Major Series arose out of a joint-venture between Austrian companies Red", "title": "Beach Volleyball Major Series" }, { "docid": "19575772", "text": "his debut courtside on the FIVB Tour at the Hamburg Major. Beach Volleyball Major Series The Beach Volleyball Major Series (or Beach Major Series and formerly the Swatch Beach Volleyball Major Series) is an international series of beach volleyball tournaments which began in 2015. The tournaments consist of Tour Stops and form part of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. The series concludes with the FIVB World Tour Finals. Each tournament in the series has a prize pool of USD$300,000 per gender, except for the World Tour Finals which has a prize pool of USD$400,000 per gender. The Beach Volleyball", "title": "Beach Volleyball Major Series" }, { "docid": "1738693", "text": "popularity has spread to the rest of the world as well. The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) is the international governing body for the sport. The FIVB publishes the Official Beach Volleyball Rules every four years, as approved by the FIVB congress, which provides the framework for how beach volleyball is played internationally. Beach volleyball is played on a rectangular sand court. The court is long and wide, surrounded by a clear space, which is at least wide on all sides. The minimum height clearance for beach volleyball courts is . The sand should be as leveled as possible and", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "10738145", "text": "Volleyball (video game) \"Volleyball\" is a sports video game that follows the rules of volleyball. The player controls a team of six players, three at the net and three in back. The player serves the ball into play by pressing the same button twice. The game is a six player-a-side volleyball simulation. Players can select teams to compete in either a men's or women's competition from the following countries: United States, Japan, People's Republic of China, South Korea, Brazil, Soviet Union, Belgium, Cuba, Tunisia. \"Volleyball\" is based on an arcade game. \"Volleyball\" was developed by Pax Soft Nica and Nintendo", "title": "Volleyball (video game)" }, { "docid": "19409993", "text": "2016 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team The 2016 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball represented Georgia State University during the college beach volleyball season of 2016. The team's head coach was Beth Van Fleet in her third season at GSU. The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Beach Volleyball Complex and competed in the Division I Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. The 2015 season was the first as an official NCAA sport, the designation being coordinated with a name change from sand volleyball to beach volleyball. The season was also the Panthers first in the CCSA, finishing in second", "title": "2016 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team" }, { "docid": "20057269", "text": "LSU Tigers women's beach volleyball The LSU Tigers women's beach volleyball team represents Louisiana State University in the sport of beach volleyball. The Tigers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA), and play their home matches at the new on-campus LSU Beach Volleyball Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They are currently led by head coach Russell Brock. The LSU Tigers beach volleyball team, originally known as the \"LSU Tigers sand volleyball team\", played its first season in 2014. The first coach of the Tigers was Fran Flory (2014–2016) who", "title": "LSU Tigers women's beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738730", "text": "competition, amid concerns the uniform was inappropriate. In early 2012, the FIVB announced it would allow shorts (maximum length above the knee) and sleeved tops at the London 2012 Olympics. The federation spokesman said that \"many of these countries have religious and cultural requirements so the uniform needed to be more flexible\". And in fact, the weather was so cold for the evening games at London 2012 that the players sometimes had to wear shirts and leggings. Beach volleyball culture includes the people, language, fashion, and life surrounding the sport of modern beach volleyball. With its origins in Hawaii and", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738732", "text": "were early adopters of the game. Records of regular games in clubs can be found as early as the 1920s. Given the outdoor nature of nudism/naturism, a beach version of volleyball was naturally adopted. By the 1960s, a volleyball court could be found in almost all nudist/naturist clubs. A large (over 70 teams) nude volleyball tournament has been held each fall since 1971 at White Thorn Lodge in western Pennsylvania, and several smaller tournaments occur each year throughout North America. The most common injuries in beach volleyball are knee, ankle and finger injuries. Pain due to overuse of the knee,", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "19400881", "text": "by 4 players) duel in a beach volleyball exhibition game. The tournament is organized by Volleyworks and sanctioned by the Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF), thru Executive Director Otie Camangian which served as the tournament director. In the 19th edition of the tourney, 10 teams will be competed in the men's divisions including the finals contenders University of Southern Philippines Foundation Panthers and the CSB Blazers, while in the distaff side, 12 teams will be participating in the three-day event, among them are the 2015 champions UST Golden Tigresses and first runner-up DLSU Lady Spikers. Tournament director Camangian stated that if", "title": "Nestea Beach Volleyball" }, { "docid": "10738147", "text": "Thomas of \"IGN\" said that \"Volleyball\" could be Nintendo's worst sports game, worse than even \"NES Soccer\". He said the controls were automatically frustrating. Volleyball (video game) \"Volleyball\" is a sports video game that follows the rules of volleyball. The player controls a team of six players, three at the net and three in back. The player serves the ball into play by pressing the same button twice. The game is a six player-a-side volleyball simulation. Players can select teams to compete in either a men's or women's competition from the following countries: United States, Japan, People's Republic of China,", "title": "Volleyball (video game)" }, { "docid": "1738723", "text": "the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) is the main domestic professional tour, organizing tournaments annually such as the Manhattan Beach Open. The AVP tour is not FIVB-approved and has had conflicts with the FIVB in the 1980s and 1990s over regulations and sponsorship, leading to an initial boycott of FIVB events by the top American players. In Germany, the Techniker Beach Tour, previously known as the Smart Beach Tour, is the top domestic tour and is FIVB-approved. It is the organized by the German Volleyball Association and each season ends with the German Beach Volleyball Championships. In Brazil, the FIVB-approved", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "20651387", "text": "2008 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour The 2008 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour was a domestic professional beach volleyball circuit organized in the United States by the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) for the 2008 beach volleyball season. The 2008 AVP calendar comprises the Hot Winter Nights Tour, an indoor beach volleyball circuit, and the main AVP Crocs Tour. This is the complete schedule of events on the 2008 Hot Winter Nights calendar, with the players' final standings. Each event consisted of four invited men and women players competing in a one-night round-robin tournament in an indoor beach volleyball arena.", "title": "2008 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour" }, { "docid": "1738720", "text": "beach volleyball. The primary international governing body for beach volleyball is the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). The regional governing bodies are: In the United States, USA Volleyball is the governing body for beach volleyball, as well as indoor and sitting volleyball. The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour is the international professional tour for both men and women organized by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). The inaugural tour was held in 1997, replacing the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Series that began in 1989 for men and 1992 for women. World Tour tournaments are ranked from 1 to 5 stars,", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "20023653", "text": "earning a spot as the 7th seed in the NCAA Tournament. 2017 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team The 2017 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball represented Georgia State University during the college beach volleyball season of 2017. The team's head coach was Beth Van Fleet in her fourth season at GSU. The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Beach Volleyball Complex and competed in the Division I Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. The 2016 season was the second as an official NCAA sport, and the first that the Panthers played in the CCSA, finishing in second place. The Panthers", "title": "2017 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team" }, { "docid": "20616521", "text": "2018 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team The 2018 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball represented Georgia State University during the college beach volleyball season of 2018. The team's head coach was Beth Van Fleet in her fifth season at GSU. The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Beach Volleyball Complex and compete in the Division I Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. The 2017 season was the third as an official NCAA sport, and the second that the Panthers played in the CCSA. The Panthers finished with a 24-12 record, ranked 11th in the official NCAA sanctioned AVCA coaches poll.", "title": "2018 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team" }, { "docid": "20616520", "text": "2018 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team The 2018 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball represented Georgia State University during the college beach volleyball season of 2018. The team's head coach was Beth Van Fleet in her fifth season at GSU. The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Beach Volleyball Complex and compete in the Division I Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. The 2017 season was the third as an official NCAA sport, and the second that the Panthers played in the CCSA. The Panthers finished with a 24-12 record, ranked 11th in the official NCAA sanctioned AVCA coaches poll.", "title": "2018 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team" }, { "docid": "19409994", "text": "place. The Panthers were ranked in the official top 10 during the entire season, earning a spot as the 7th seed in the NCAA Tournament. 2016 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team The 2016 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball represented Georgia State University during the college beach volleyball season of 2016. The team's head coach was Beth Van Fleet in her third season at GSU. The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Beach Volleyball Complex and competed in the Division I Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. The 2015 season was the first as an official NCAA sport, the designation", "title": "2016 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team" }, { "docid": "20023652", "text": "2017 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team The 2017 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball represented Georgia State University during the college beach volleyball season of 2017. The team's head coach was Beth Van Fleet in her fourth season at GSU. The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Beach Volleyball Complex and competed in the Division I Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. The 2016 season was the second as an official NCAA sport, and the first that the Panthers played in the CCSA, finishing in second place. The Panthers were ranked in the official top 10 during the entire season,", "title": "2017 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team" }, { "docid": "20057270", "text": "compiled a record of 40–28 () at LSU. In 2017, Russell Brock became head beach volleyball coach at LSU. <small> Mango's Beach Volleyball Club is the home court and practice facility for the beach volleyball team. Mango's is a privately owned beach volleyball facility open to the public, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The facility has 13 sand courts. LSU Tigers women's beach volleyball The LSU Tigers women's beach volleyball team represents Louisiana State University in the sport of beach volleyball. The Tigers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association", "title": "LSU Tigers women's beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "12160564", "text": "Finals are the season-ending championships of the FIVB World Tour and features the top 10 teams per gender during the regular season. The tournament was first held in 2015. FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour (known between 2003 and 2012 as the \"FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour\" for sponsorship reasons) is the worldwide professional beach volleyball tour for both men and women organized by the \"\" (FIVB). The World Tour was introduced for men in 1989 while the women first competed in 1992. Winning the World Tour is considered to be one of the", "title": "FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour" }, { "docid": "1738698", "text": "referee judges that a team has made a playing action that violates the rules. When a team commits a fault, the opposing team receives a point and gains the right to serve. If both teams commit a fault simultaneously, the point is replayed. Common faults include: In the 1990s, the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball reduced the standard internal pressure for a beach volleyball ball from the indoor standard of 0.30–0.325 kgf/cm to 0.175–0.225 kgf/cm, and increased the standard circumference of the beach volleyball ball from the indoor standard of 65–67 cm to 66–68 cm. In the 2001 season, the FIVB", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "14357392", "text": "Alan Knipe, Brent Hilliard (NCAA Final Four MVP), Brett Winslow, Jason Stimpfig and Ray Ratelle (Asics/VB Mag. & AVCA C.O.Y.). No other 'BEACH' Men's VB Team has ever won as many games as this singular team; they were a combined 89% in their win-lost ratio. With co-MVP's Josh Tunaniga, JR-Setter AND TJ DeFalco, JR-Outside Hitter, eight thousand in the stands were treated to a thrilling five-setter match (in overtime) favoring the men of south L.A. county. Long Beach State 49ers men's volleyball The Long Beach State 49ers men's volleyball team is the NCAA Division I men's volleyball team for the", "title": "Long Beach State 49ers men's volleyball" }, { "docid": "18910495", "text": "they became the League's Runner-Up they have lost to their archrival DLSU. In the Awarding Ceremony, Alyssa Valdez claims her 3rd straight MVP Award, 4th straight Best Scorer award, and 3rd straight Best Server award. The Lady Eagles will try to reclaim their title on UAAP Season 79 many players will make a comeback like Michelle Morente, Maddie Madayag, Ana Gopico and Kat Tolentino as well. Coaching Staff Team Staff Medical Staff University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) UAAP Beach Volleyball National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Shakey's V-League International Ateneo Lady Eagles Volleyball Team The Ateneo Lady Blue Eagles", "title": "Ateneo Lady Eagles Volleyball Team" }, { "docid": "1738726", "text": "volleyball\" in favor of the more usual \"beach volleyball.\" Beach volleyball is a men's and women's championship sport in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). In the NCAA, it is contested at both the high school and college level. The European Universities Beach Volleyball Championships are held annually as part of the European Universities Championships. The FIVB organizes the annual U19 and U21 World Championships. World Championships for the U17 and U23 age-groups were previously held as well. Teams are awarded FIVB ranking points at these Championships, but not prize money.", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "10372219", "text": "that players were paired with different partners from other schools for every match, until the semi-final winners were determined. That year there was also a men's competition in the same format. In 2010 the NCAA categorized women's beach volleyball as an \"emerging sport.\" Beginning in the spring of 2012 the AVCA began sponsoring a national championship tournament for women's collegiate beach volleyball. The AVCA has separate brackets for teams and for individual pairs. The champions of the team tournaments are: The NCAA granted full sponsorship to beach volleyball in all three NCAA divisions, with the first NCAA championship being held", "title": "American Volleyball Coaches Association" }, { "docid": "446011", "text": "and it consists of almost 100 professional players. IBVPA claims its goal is to help athletes and provide them with the means to enjoy playing volleyball by improving the way the sport is run. Another controversy within the sport is the issue of the inclusion of transgender players. With transgender athletes such as Tifanny Abreu joining professional volleyball teams alongside other non-transgender teammates, many professionals, sports analysts, and fans of volleyball are either expressing concerns about the legitimacy and fairness of having transgender players on a team or expressing support for the transgender people's efforts. There are many variations on", "title": "Volleyball" }, { "docid": "12199247", "text": "Together with her partner Xue Chen, Zhang Xi in 2012 reached fourth place at the London Olympics. Zhang Xi (beach volleyball) Zhang Xi (born 19 April 1985 in Jiangsu) is a Chinese female beach volleyball player, measuring in height. She won the gold medal in the women's team competition at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, partnering with comparator Xue Chen. Zhang Xi in 2002 and 2003 she played each game she was scheduled to play. In 2004, she moved on to start playing full-time in the Swatch FIVB World Tour. In 2006, she began to partner Xue Chen in", "title": "Zhang Xi (beach volleyball)" }, { "docid": "12199245", "text": "Zhang Xi (beach volleyball) Zhang Xi (born 19 April 1985 in Jiangsu) is a Chinese female beach volleyball player, measuring in height. She won the gold medal in the women's team competition at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, partnering with comparator Xue Chen. Zhang Xi in 2002 and 2003 she played each game she was scheduled to play. In 2004, she moved on to start playing full-time in the Swatch FIVB World Tour. In 2006, she began to partner Xue Chen in the SWATCH tournament season. After finishing the tournament she went back to study at the Physical Education", "title": "Zhang Xi (beach volleyball)" }, { "docid": "1738711", "text": "partner is showing the closed fist the blocker should block \"ball\" and open hand means that the blocker should \"pull-off\" the net. There are several basic skills competitive players need to master: serving, passing, setting, attacking, blocking, and digging. Serving is the act of putting the ball into play by striking it with the hand or arm from behind the rear court boundary. Serving can take the form of an underhand serve or an overhand serve, and examples include: float serve, jump-float serve, top-spin serve, jump serve, sky ball serve and reverse sky ball serve. As beach volleyball is usually", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "8975619", "text": "absorb initial impact on the arms. Ideally this type of volleyball is used to introduce the game to first time players and adolescents, with a focus on control, fundamentals of the game and just having fun. The Soft Volleyball is commonly used in Japanese Elementary and Junior Highschools for the very purpose mentioned above. A usual game of Soft Volleyball has 4 people per side rather than 6. Biribol was the first aquatic variant of volleyball. It was invented in the 60's in Birigui, Brazil, and has moderate popularity in the country. Aquatic volleyball is a team sport similar to", "title": "Volleyball variations" }, { "docid": "8975599", "text": "the fundamentals of volleyball, Newcomb (occasionally referred to as \"Nuke 'em\") is generally taught to school-aged children but is also popular among adults of limited athletic ability. Its main differences from regular volleyball are that the ball can be caught before passing on to a team-mate or over the net, and each pass or serve is a throw rather than a hit. While most other volleyball rules apply, variations on the numbers of players per team and the numbers of 'catches' per side are common, and players holding the ball are sometimes allowed a limited number of steps. Newcomb (or", "title": "Volleyball variations" }, { "docid": "1738729", "text": "the camera angles during the beach volleyball games. Twenty percent of the camera angles were focused on the chest area and seventeen percent of the angles were focused on the buttock area. The study concludes that this implies the look of the players is having a greater impact on fans than their actual athleticism. Some conservative cultures have expressed moral objections to the swimsuit as a uniform. At the 2007 South Pacific Games, rules were adjusted to require less revealing shorts and cropped sports tops. At the 2006 Asian Games, only one Muslim country fielded a team in the woman's", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "14357390", "text": "Long Beach State 49ers men's volleyball The Long Beach State 49ers men's volleyball team is the NCAA Division I men's volleyball team for the Long Beach State University. Alan Knipe is the current Head Coach of 14 years, though he's been with the program since 2001. <small> The volleyball team played in the Goldmine gymnasium at CSULB until 1994. Since November 30, 1994, the team has played at the Walter Pyramid. The 18-story tall complex has played host twice to the NCAA Men's Volleyball Championships (2001, 2003). Its infrastructure utilizes 18,000 steel tubes and connection modules. It cost approximately $22", "title": "Long Beach State 49ers men's volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738688", "text": "an expansion the next year to three events. The California Pro Beach Tour debuted with events in Laguna Beach, Santa Barbara and the World Championship in Redondo. In following years the tour expanded nationally and was renamed the Pro Beach Volleyball Tour. It consisted of five events in California and tournaments in Florida, Colorado, and Chicago. By 1984, the Pro Beach consisted of 16 events around the country and had a total prize purse of US$300,000. At the end of the year, however, Event Concepts was forced out of the sport by a players' strike at the World Championship and", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "1738715", "text": "the third hit. Similar to a pass, the ball can be set with either a forearm pass technique, known as a bump set, or an overhand pass technique, known as a hand set. Due to the stricter standards for ball rotation when hand setting in beach volleyball than in indoor volleyball, as well as the environmental factors that make it harder to hand set a ball \"cleanly\", the bump set is more common in the beach game. When hand setting, the player's hands must contact the ball simultaneously. If a referee determines that a double-hit has occurred, the point will", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "19018396", "text": "Georgia State Panthers women's beach volleyball The Georgia State Panthers women's beach volleyball team represents Georgia State University in the sport of beach volleyball. The Panthers compete in NCAA Division I as a member of the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA). The Panthers play their home matches at the GSU Sand Volleyball Complex on the university's Atlanta campus, and are currently led by head coach Beth Van Fleet. With the emergence of football at Georgia State University, due to Title IX scholarship restrictions, it was necessary for GSU to increase the amount of women's scholarships available in their athletic program", "title": "Georgia State Panthers women's beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "14918024", "text": "provides various activities for the players and their families free of cost. The event has live entertainment, vendors, and food. The event is highly publicized which helps to spread knowledge of the tournament as well. H.O.P.E Beach Volleyball Charity The H.O.P.E Beach Volleyball Charity Tournament is a philanthropic volleyball tournament that aims at earning money and gaining awareness on behalf of various charitable organizations. The first tournament took place in the summer of 1989. The tournament is completely nonprofit and is put together by unpaid volunteers. The program normally reaches out to smaller, local charitable organizations. The tournament is held", "title": "H.O.P.E Beach Volleyball Charity" }, { "docid": "19498344", "text": "the first round of a double-elimination style tournament to be played across a three-day span. Matches were won by the first team to win three-of-five sets. 2016 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship The 2016 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship was the first annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA women's collegiate beach volleyball in the United States. The tournament was played on the beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama, hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, from May 6–8, 2016. The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) had previously sponsored a beach volleyball championship prior to the NCAA's sanctioning of the", "title": "2016 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship" }, { "docid": "20651388", "text": "This is the complete schedule of events on the 2008 AVP Crocs Tour calendar, with team progression documented from the semifinals stage. All tournaments, with the exception of the Glendale Best of the Beach Invitational, consisted of single-elimination qualifying rounds followed by a double-elimination main draw. The Glendale Best of the Beach Invitational was a round-robin tournament. 2008 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour The 2008 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour was a domestic professional beach volleyball circuit organized in the United States by the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) for the 2008 beach volleyball season. The 2008 AVP calendar comprises", "title": "2008 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour" }, { "docid": "15185932", "text": "2010–12 Continental Beach Volleyball Cup The 2010–12 Continental Beach Volleyball Cup (CBVC) is the qualification tournament for the beach volleyball tournament (for men and women) at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The CBVC will take place between 1 June 2010 and 24 June 2012, with a direct elimination competition format where the winning NOC/NF(s) moves on to the next phase. The competition will consist of three phases: Sub zone, Zone and Continental Final. The five winning NOCs/NFs (one per Continental Confederation territory (Asia/Oceania, North America, South America, Europe and Africa)) per gender will qualify. At the CBVC Final, NOCs/NFs which have", "title": "2010–12 Continental Beach Volleyball Cup" }, { "docid": "5949419", "text": "prize purse of US$175,000$225,000. AVPNext was started in 2014 as a development competition series, serving as a pipeline for future AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour players. AVPNext tournaments enable players to earn AVP national ranking points which are required for qualification and seeding in the Pro Beach Volleyball Tour events. The highest-ranked AVPNext teams from each region at the end of the season also receive direct entry into the Manhattan Beach Open. AVPFirst was launched in 2015 as a non-profit youth development program aimed at increasing youth participation in the sport through beach volleyball clinics and events. The inaugural AVPFirst", "title": "Association of Volleyball Professionals" }, { "docid": "19037594", "text": "Light Women’s Beach Volleyball Challenge 3rd Leg) March 1, 2015 (Tanduay Light Women’s Beach Volleyball Challenge 4th Leg) July 19, 2015 (Tanduay PVF Beach Volleyball Invitational 1st Leg/Inauguration of the Indoor Beach Volleyball Sand Court) Men's Women's September 19, 2015 (PVF Beach Volleyball Invitational 2nd Leg) Men's Women's October 24, 2015 (PVF-Tanduay Beach Volleyball Invitational 3rd Leg) Men's Women's December 5, 2015 (Tanduay-Summit Invitational Beach Volleyball 4th Leg) Men's Women's PVF Beach Volleyball tournament The PVF-Cantada Beach Volleyball tournaments is a once-a-month-only beach volleyball (with no registration fees) invitational tournament for men's and women's organized by the Philippine Volleyball Federation", "title": "PVF Beach Volleyball tournament" }, { "docid": "19018398", "text": "to sponsor it and provide a championship, as well as the addition of beach volleyball as an official CCSA sport (which led to that conference changing its name from the original Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association). This also coincided with the NCAA changing the name of the sport from \"sand\" to \"beach\" volleyball. Georgia State Panthers women's beach volleyball The Georgia State Panthers women's beach volleyball team represents Georgia State University in the sport of beach volleyball. The Panthers compete in NCAA Division I as a member of the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA). The Panthers play their home matches at", "title": "Georgia State Panthers women's beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "20649269", "text": "earned during the year. 2015 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour The 2015 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour was a domestic professional beach volleyball circuit organized in the United States by the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) for the 2015 beach volleyball season. This is the complete schedule of events on the 2015 calendar, with team progression documented from the semifinals stage. All tournaments consisted of single-elimination qualifying rounds followed by a double-elimination main draw. The 2015 AVP Awards Banquet was held on October 28 in Newport Beach, California. The season's top performers were chosen based on statistics, player votes and", "title": "2015 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour" }, { "docid": "20649268", "text": "2015 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour The 2015 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour was a domestic professional beach volleyball circuit organized in the United States by the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) for the 2015 beach volleyball season. This is the complete schedule of events on the 2015 calendar, with team progression documented from the semifinals stage. All tournaments consisted of single-elimination qualifying rounds followed by a double-elimination main draw. The 2015 AVP Awards Banquet was held on October 28 in Newport Beach, California. The season's top performers were chosen based on statistics, player votes and AVP national ranking points", "title": "2015 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour" }, { "docid": "18032964", "text": "to the round of 16, then quarterfinals, semifinals and the final game, however, never has a stop has had 24 teams entered. After a stop, each federation is given a score based on its best team's final ranking. After all stops have ended, the federation with the most points is declared the champion. South American Beach Volleyball Circuit The South American Beach Volleyball Circuit is a unisex sport competition for national teams in the sport of beach volleyball. The championship is held annually by the CSV (the South American volleyball federation) since 2005. The circuit has used the same format", "title": "South American Beach Volleyball Circuit" }, { "docid": "1738685", "text": "In the 1960s, an attempt to start a professional volleyball league was made in Santa Monica. It failed, but a professional tournament was held in France for 30,000 French francs. In the 1950s, the first Brazilian beach volleyball tournament was held, sponsored by a newspaper publishing company. The first Manhattan Beach Open was held in 1960, a tournament which grew in prestige to become, in the eyes of some, the \"Wimbledon of Beach Volleyball\". In the meantime, beach volleyball gained popularity: in the 1960s The Beatles tried playing in Los Angeles and US president John F. Kennedy was seen attending", "title": "Beach volleyball" }, { "docid": "8975606", "text": "play a style which is considered \"closed hand/fist\" play. The game can be played with up to nine participants per side (similar to Asian nine-man volleyball, but with variations to the game), or as little as five. There is no rotation in traditional volleyball, however, in certain East Indian and Southeast Asian communities, they do allow rotating as the rules tend to vary from team to team. The court can vary from 30' to 30' to as large as '35 by '35. In North America, some of the best traditional volleyball teams are centered in Eastern Canada. This includes Toronto", "title": "Volleyball variations" } ]
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By assets and market capitalization, what is the largest bank in the US?
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[ { "docid": "11755641", "text": "Wells Fargo Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with central offices throughout the United States. It is the world's second-largest bank by market capitalization and the fourth largest bank in the US by total assets. Wells Fargo is ranked #26 on the 2018 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest US corporations by total revenue. In July 2015, Wells Fargo became the world's largest bank by market capitalization, edging past ICBC, before slipping behind JPMorgan Chase in September 2016, in the wake of a scandal involving the creation of over 2", "title": "Wells Fargo" }, { "docid": "4032496", "text": "$1.4 trillion in Prime money funds, $907 billion in Treasury money funds, $257 billion in Tax-exempt. Total Institutional assets outweigh Retail by roughly 2:1. The largest institutional money fund is the JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund, with over US$100 billion in assets. Among the largest companies offering institutional money funds are BlackRock, Western Asset, Federated Investors, Bank of America, Dreyfus, AIM and Evergreen (Wachovia). The largest money market mutual fund is Vanguard Prime Money Market Fund (Nasdaq:VMMXX), with assets exceeding US$120 billion. The largest retail money fund providers include: Fidelity, Vanguard (Nasdaq:VMMXX), and Schwab (Nasdaq:SWVXX). Banks in the United States", "title": "Money market fund" }, { "docid": "1767498", "text": "JPMorgan Chase J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City. JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States, and the second largest bank in the world by total assets, with the amount of $2.534 trillion. It is the world's most valuable bank by market capitalization. As a \"Bulge Bracket\" bank, it is a major provider of various investment banking and financial services. It is one of America's Big Four banks, along with Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo. JPMorgan Chase is considered to be a", "title": "JPMorgan Chase" } ]
[ { "docid": "4292826", "text": "Public Bank Berhad Public Bank Berhad () is a bank based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia offering financial services in Malaysia as well as the Asia-Pacific region. The bank was founded in 1966 by Teh Hong Piow, the then general manager of Malayan Banking. The bank was listed on the Malaysian Stock Exchange in 1967. Public Bank is currently one of the largest banks in Southeast Asia, with over RM 363.76 billion (US$91.26 billion) of assets and RM71.90 billion (US$18.04 billion) in market capitalization in 2015. Public Bank is the largest bank in Malaysia by shareholders' funds, second largest by market", "title": "Public Bank Berhad" }, { "docid": "694840", "text": "US$40 trillion in September 2008. In 2014 and 2015, global market capitalization was US$68 trillion and US$67 trillion, respectively. Market cap is given by the formula formula_1, where \"MC\" is the market capitalization, \"N\" is the number of shares outstanding, and \"P\" is the closing price per share. For example, if some company has 4 million shares outstanding and the closing price per share is $20, its market cap is then $80 million. If the closing price per share rises to $21, the market cap becomes $84 million. If it drops to $19 per share, the market cap falls to", "title": "Market capitalization" }, { "docid": "694838", "text": "Market capitalization Market capitalization (market cap) is the market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares. Market capitalization is equal to the share price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding. As outstanding stock is bought and sold in public markets, capitalization could be used as an indicator of public opinion of a company's net worth and is a determining factor in some forms of stock valuation. Market capitalization is used by the investment community in ranking the size of companies, as opposed to sales or total asset figures. It is also used in ranking the relative size of", "title": "Market capitalization" }, { "docid": "694843", "text": "value (EV) has been used. Market capitalization Market capitalization (market cap) is the market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares. Market capitalization is equal to the share price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding. As outstanding stock is bought and sold in public markets, capitalization could be used as an indicator of public opinion of a company's net worth and is a determining factor in some forms of stock valuation. Market capitalization is used by the investment community in ranking the size of companies, as opposed to sales or total asset figures. It is also used in", "title": "Market capitalization" }, { "docid": "694839", "text": "stock exchanges, being a measure of the sum of the market capitalizations of all companies listed on each stock exchange. (See List of stock exchanges.) In performing such rankings, the market capitalizations are calculated at some significant date, such as June 30 or December 31. The total capitalization of stock markets or economic regions may be compared with other economic indicators. The total market capitalization of all publicly traded companies in the world was US$51.2 trillion in January 2007 and rose as high as US$57.5 trillion in May 2008 before dropping below US$50 trillion in August 2008 and slightly above", "title": "Market capitalization" }, { "docid": "5855948", "text": "Michigan. The investment banking arm was purchased by the third largest bank in Canada by deposits and market capitalization. LaSalle sponsored a number of events in its Chicago home. Many of these events will now be re-branded with Bank of America's name. LaSalle Bank LaSalle Bank Corporation was the holding company for LaSalle Bank N.A. and LaSalle Bank Midwest N.A. (formerly Standard Federal Bank). With US$116 billion in assets, it was headquartered at 135 South LaSalle Street in Chicago, Illinois. LaSalle Bank Corporation was formerly an indirect subsidiary of Netherlands-based ABN AMRO Bank N.V., one of the world's largest banks,", "title": "LaSalle Bank" }, { "docid": "5336344", "text": "Bank of the Philippine Islands Bank of the Philippine Islands (, , commonly known as BPI; ) is a universal bank in the Philippines. It is the first bank in both the Philippines and Southeast Asia. It is the third largest bank in terms of assets, the second largest bank in terms of market capitalization, and one of the most profitable banks in the Philippines. The bank has a network of over 900 branches in the Philippines, Hong Kong and Europe, and more than 3,000 ATMs and CDMs (cash deposit machines). BPI was founded during the Spanish Colonial Era of", "title": "Bank of the Philippine Islands" }, { "docid": "3022868", "text": "Bank and the focus is on middle market clients. In 2011, RBC was the largest Canadian company by revenue and market capitalization. and was ranked at No. 50 in the 2013 Forbes Global 2000 listing. The company has operations in Canada, and 40 other countries and had US$673.2 billion of assets under management in 2014. In 1864, the Merchants Bank of Halifax was founded in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as a commercial bank that financed the fishing and timber industries and the European and Caribbean import/export businesses. By 1869 the Merchants' Bank was officially incorporated and received its federal charter in", "title": "Royal Bank of Canada" }, { "docid": "10003383", "text": "Bank Negara Indonesia PT Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) Tbk or Bank Negara Indonesia (literally means Indonesian State Bank), is an Indonesian state-owned bank. It has branches primarily in Indonesia, but it can also found in Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, London and New York. It had 1000 branches and over 9 million customers in 2006. It is listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange as \"BBNI\". Its market capitalization as of 12 March 2007 was 23.8 trillion rupiah (approximately US$2.6 billion). It is the fourth-largest bank of Indonesia in terms of assets Bank Negara Indonesia was established on 5 July 1946.", "title": "Bank Negara Indonesia" }, { "docid": "2138902", "text": "Toronto–Dominion Bank The Toronto–Dominion Bank () is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Commonly known as TD and operating as TD Bank Group (), the bank was created on February 1, 1955 through the merger of the Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank, which were founded in 1855 and 1869, respectively. In 2017 according to Standard & Poor's, TD Bank Group was the largest bank in Canada by total assets, second largest by market capitalization, a top-10 bank in North America, and was the 26th largest bank in the world. The bank and", "title": "Toronto–Dominion Bank" }, { "docid": "4407062", "text": "billion), and assets billion ( billion) with 56,725 employees. The IATA reports numbers for individual air operator's certificates and groups of multiple airlines can report larger numbers. \"Airline holding groups\" \"Individual airlines\" World's largest airlines The world's largest airlines can be defined in several ways. American Airlines Group is the largest by its fleet size, revenue, profit, passengers carried and revenue passenger mile. Delta Air Lines is the largest by assets value and market capitalization. Lufthansa Group is the largest by number of employees, FedEx Express by freight tonne-kilometers, Turkish Airlines by number of countries served and UPS Airlines by", "title": "World's largest airlines" }, { "docid": "8629431", "text": "share of HDFC Bank. HDFC Bank HDFC Bank Limited is an Indian banking and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It has 88,253 permanent employees as on 31 March 2018 and has a presence in Bahrain, Hong Kong and Dubai. HDFC Bank is India’s largest private sector lender by assets. It is the largest bank in India by market capitalization as of February 2016. It was ranked 69th in 2016 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands. In 1994 HDFC Bank was incorporated, with its registered office in Mumbai, India. Its first corporate office and a full service branch", "title": "HDFC Bank" }, { "docid": "9700645", "text": "Intesa Sanpaolo Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. is an Italian banking group resulting from the merger of Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI based in Torre Intesa Sanpaolo, Turin, Italy. In 2014 it was the largest banking group in Italy by market capitalization, and second by total assets. The bank has also experienced growth in the international market, focused in Central-Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. When it was formed in 2007 it overtook Unicredit Group as the largest bank in Italy with 13 million customers and US$690 billion worth of assets. By 2010 its assets had grown to US$877.66 billion,", "title": "Intesa Sanpaolo" }, { "docid": "8629428", "text": "HDFC Bank HDFC Bank Limited is an Indian banking and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It has 88,253 permanent employees as on 31 March 2018 and has a presence in Bahrain, Hong Kong and Dubai. HDFC Bank is India’s largest private sector lender by assets. It is the largest bank in India by market capitalization as of February 2016. It was ranked 69th in 2016 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands. In 1994 HDFC Bank was incorporated, with its registered office in Mumbai, India. Its first corporate office and a full service branch at Sandoz House, Worli", "title": "HDFC Bank" }, { "docid": "2762292", "text": "Alpha Bank Alpha Bank is the second largest Greek bank by total assets, and the largest by market capitalization of €2.13 billion (as of December 4, 2018). It has a subsidiary and branch in London England, and branches and subsidiaries throughout Southeastern Europe. Founded in 1879, it has been controlled by the Costopoulos family since its inception. Currently Ioannis Costopoulos, grandson of original founder John F. Costopoulos, and nephew of Stavros Costopoulos, foreign minister in the government of Georgios Papandreou, is the honorary chairman. On January 16, 2015, Alpha Bank requested Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) from the Bank of Greece.", "title": "Alpha Bank" }, { "docid": "3258739", "text": "Piraeus Bank Piraeus Bank A.E. (), is a Greek multinational financial services company with its headquarters in Athens, Greece. , it is the leading bank in Greece, by assets with a 30% market share in net loans (44.7 Billion Euro) and second in liabilities, 29% in deposits (42.9 Billion Euro). Piraeus Bank's stocks are listed on the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) since January 1918. Its market capitalization on October 2017 is 410 million Euro making it the fourth largest by that measure. In March 2017, Piraeus Bank announced that has appointed Mr. Christos Megalou as the new Chief Executive Officer", "title": "Piraeus Bank" }, { "docid": "2762302", "text": "the number of securities listed is 12769059858 (around 12.7 billion). The stock is one of the 25 stocks in the FTSE/Athex Large Cap index (August 11, 2015). Alpha Bank Alpha Bank is the second largest Greek bank by total assets, and the largest by market capitalization of €2.13 billion (as of December 4, 2018). It has a subsidiary and branch in London England, and branches and subsidiaries throughout Southeastern Europe. Founded in 1879, it has been controlled by the Costopoulos family since its inception. Currently Ioannis Costopoulos, grandson of original founder John F. Costopoulos, and nephew of Stavros Costopoulos, foreign", "title": "Alpha Bank" }, { "docid": "2129440", "text": "Bank of Montreal The Bank of Montreal, doing business as BMO Financial Group, is a Canadian multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Montreal, Canada. One of the Big Five banks in Canada, it is the fourth-largest bank in Canada by market capitalization and assets, as well as one of the ten largest banks in North America. It is commonly known by its acronym BMO (pronounced ), which is also its stock symbol on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. On June 23, 1817, John Richardson and eight merchants signed the Articles of", "title": "Bank of Montreal" }, { "docid": "2183746", "text": "China Construction Bank China Construction Bank Corporation (CCB) is one of the \"big four\" banks in the People's Republic of China. In 2015 CCB was the 2nd largest bank in the world by market capitalization and 6th largest company in the world. The bank has approximately 13,629 domestic branches. In addition, it maintains overseas branches in Barcelona, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, New York City, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney and Auckland, and a wholly owned subsidiary in London. Its total assets reached CN¥ 8.7 trillion in 2009. Its headquarters is in Xicheng District, Beijing. CCB was founded", "title": "China Construction Bank" }, { "docid": "3297193", "text": "Luxembourg, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was seventh largest bank in the Nordic countries in terms of market capitalization. The bank had employed over 3,300 people with 36 retail branches in Iceland. As of 31 December 2007, the bank had a total assets of €58.3 billion. In 2006, it ranked number 1,006 on Forbes Global 2000 The same year, it ranked number 177 (up by 34 places from 2005) on the list of the world's largest banks composed annually by the international finance magazine \"The Banker\". That year Kaupthing Bank had net earnings of €812 million,", "title": "Kaupthing Bank" }, { "docid": "20448986", "text": "AU Small Finance Bank AU Small Finance Bank is an Indian commercial bank that was founded as vehicle finance company Au Financiers (India) Ltd in 1996 and converted to a small finance bank on 19 April 2017. It ranked 469 in the Fortune India 500 (2017) companies, with annual revenue of ₹2,041.82 crores (US$ million) and assets of ₹9,186.28 crores (US$ billion). Its full market capitalization at FY18 was ₹17,655 crores (US$ billion). The company was founded by Sanjay Agarwal (managing director and CEO of AU Small Finance Bank) as a private limited company, and publicly listed in an IPO", "title": "AU Small Finance Bank" }, { "docid": "7581472", "text": "is unique in its foresight in building on-the-ground business in the US and China. Far East National Bank, a wholly owned California chartered bank was acquired in 1997; SinoFirst, located in Shanghai, China, was acquired in late 1990s. SinoPac's total assets stood at about US$40 billion. Its stock is traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Bank SinoPac is a subsidiary of SinoPac Financial Holdings which has a market capitalization of around $3.4 billion USD. Bank SinoPac Bank SinoPac, or SinoPac Financial Holdings Company Ltd ()(), is a Taiwan-based banking holding company which operates through 18 divisions and 129 branches in", "title": "Bank SinoPac" }, { "docid": "4407061", "text": "World's largest airlines The world's largest airlines can be defined in several ways. American Airlines Group is the largest by its fleet size, revenue, profit, passengers carried and revenue passenger mile. Delta Air Lines is the largest by assets value and market capitalization. Lufthansa Group is the largest by number of employees, FedEx Express by freight tonne-kilometers, Turkish Airlines by number of countries served and UPS Airlines by number of destinations served. Note that Emirates is a government-owned company and is thus not included in this list of public companies. Its 2014-2015 revenue was billion ( billion), profit billion (", "title": "World's largest airlines" }, { "docid": "6205614", "text": "agreed to be acquired by Bowling Green, Virginia based Union Bankshares in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $105.4 million. The merger was complete on February 1, 2010, and on March 22, the branches reopened as Union First Market Bank. The new company became the largest community bank in Virginia, and moved its headquarters to Richmond. This transaction paralleled the sale of the assets of Ukrop’s Super Markets to Giant Food Stores of Carlisle, PA on February 8, 2010. First Market Bank First Market Bank was a federal savings bank founded and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. It offered a full", "title": "First Market Bank" }, { "docid": "4225212", "text": "Asia Controlled by Overseas Chinese in 1994\" chart released by Singaporean Geographer Dr. Henry Yeung of the National University of Singapore, 39 companies were concentrated in Thailand with a market capitalization of US$35 billion and total assets of US$94 billion. In Thailand, ethnic Chinese control the nations four largest private banks (Bangkok Bank, Thai Farmers Bank, Bank of Ahudya, and Bangkok Commercial Bank), of which Bangkok Bank is the largest and most profitable private bank in addition to the Thai royal household being dependent on Chinese private equity capital and business expertise from these banks to fund and create more", "title": "Thai Chinese" }, { "docid": "3222727", "text": "Bank Mandiri PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk or Bank Mandiri, headquartered in Jakarta, is the largest bank in Indonesia in terms of assets, loans and deposits. Total assets as of Q3 2012 were IDR 588.4 trillion (around US$59.8 billion). It also had a Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) of 16.08% (including market risk), Return on Asset (RoA) of 3.45%, and Return on Equity (RoE) of 22.18%. As of September 2012, Bank Mandiri was the largest bank in Indonesia by total assets. As of September 2012, the bank had 1,733 branches spread across three different time zones in Indonesia and six branches", "title": "Bank Mandiri" }, { "docid": "7815534", "text": "billion in assets (2015) and a market capitalization of over $3 billion. Its network includes over 177 branches and 316 ATMs located in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Westchester County, New York. Webster Bank Webster Bank is a US commercial bank based in Waterbury, Connecticut. It has 177 branches and 316 ATMs located in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Westchester County, New York. Webster was founded in 1935 by Harold Webster Smith as the \"First Federal Savings of Waterbury\" in Connecticut. Only 24 years old, Smith borrowed from family and friends to found the lending institution providing home loans to", "title": "Webster Bank" }, { "docid": "6147158", "text": "was completed in 2002 and the new bank was officially named . UFJ was headquartered in Nagoya, the historical headquarters of Tokai Bank. During its short life, it was plagued by bad debt problems and by infighting between the employees of its predecessor companies. The holding companies of BTM and UFJ agreed to merge in 2005, forming Japan's largest bank by assets and market capitalization. This led to litigation between BTM and Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., which had previously agreed to an alliance with UFJ under which it would take over UFJ's trust banking operations. BTM and UFJ settled", "title": "MUFG Bank" }, { "docid": "11755685", "text": "also the head of the Wells Fargo wealth management division, due to his sexist statements regarding female employees. The female workers claimed that he called them \"girls\" and said that they \"should be at home taking care of their children.\" Wells Fargo Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with central offices throughout the United States. It is the world's second-largest bank by market capitalization and the fourth largest bank in the US by total assets. Wells Fargo is ranked #26 on the 2018 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest US", "title": "Wells Fargo" }, { "docid": "5975999", "text": "index. In May 2016, Santander was ranked as 37th in the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's biggest public companies. Santander is Spain’s largest bank. In September 2018 it was announced that incumbent chief executive José Antonio Alvarez would be succeeded by Andrea Orcel in early 2019. As of 2017, Santander is the 5th largest bank in Europe with approximately US$1.4 trillion in total assets-under-management (AUM). Traded on the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index, the bank has a total market capitalization of $69.9 billion. Banco Santander was founded in 1857. In 1999 it merged with Banco Central Hispano,", "title": "Banco Santander" }, { "docid": "10070677", "text": "is worth on the stock market. The Unweighted Index calculates an index value based on the price alone. Both the weighted and unweighted indices use the same list of stocks. The constituents of the ASE indices are evaluated each year. The 70 stocks listed here are the 2007 version of the index. They are categorized by sector: banking sector, insurance sector, service sector and industrial sector. The lists are alphabetized by stock symbol. ASE Market Capitalization Weighted Index The ASE Market Capitalization Weighted Index is a stock index of the Amman Stock Exchange in Jordan. The ASE Weighted Index is", "title": "ASE Market Capitalization Weighted Index" }, { "docid": "14908756", "text": "the operational headquarters. NCBC chairman and chief executive officer Thomas M. Garrott would become chairman, while CCB chairman and CEO Ernest L. Roessler would become CEO of the new company. The combination would give NCBC \"market capitalization of about $4.2 billion, combined assets of $15 billion, deposits of $11.3 billion and 370 branches in eight states\". NCBC had $7.3 billion in assets and 162 National Bank of Commerce (NBC) branches in Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia, West Virginia, Arkansas and North Carolina. The company was also buying Hillsborough Savings Bank, with 3 branches and $150 million in assets. Many of the", "title": "Central Carolina Bank and Trust" }, { "docid": "5763571", "text": "billion. Marshall & Ilsley and Harris Bankcorp were both rebranded as BMO Harris. The company restructured as BMO Bankcorp July 5, 2011. In December 2015, the company completed its acquisition of General Electric Capital Corp.'s transportation finance business. BMO Harris Bank N.A. is the 16th largest (by total assets) commercial bank in the US (not including total assets from parent company). BMO Harris Bank is one of the largest banks in the Midwest with over 600 branches and approximately 1,300 ATMs in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Arizona and Florida. It is the second-largest Chicago-area bank based on market", "title": "BMO Harris Bank" }, { "docid": "3258751", "text": "2018, Piraeus Bank completed the sale of Piraeus Bank Romania to J.C. Flowers & Co. following the receipt of the necessary regulatory approvals by the National Bank of Romania. Piraeus Bank Piraeus Bank A.E. (), is a Greek multinational financial services company with its headquarters in Athens, Greece. , it is the leading bank in Greece, by assets with a 30% market share in net loans (44.7 Billion Euro) and second in liabilities, 29% in deposits (42.9 Billion Euro). Piraeus Bank's stocks are listed on the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) since January 1918. Its market capitalization on October 2017 is", "title": "Piraeus Bank" }, { "docid": "13789119", "text": "value and total reserves and resources for each company as well as the price of gold into consideration. The figures for each company can be used to determine the value the stock market gives to each company's reserves on an ounce to ounce basis. If the calculation is to exclude financial assets the enterprise value is used instead of market capitalization. EVO = Enterprise Value/Ounce (gold equivalent) = Enterprise Value divided by resources. The enterprise value is the difference between a company's market capitalization (product of the number of company shares and listed stock price) and its cash, investments less", "title": "Largest gold companies" }, { "docid": "10070676", "text": "ASE Market Capitalization Weighted Index The ASE Market Capitalization Weighted Index is a stock index of the Amman Stock Exchange in Jordan. The ASE Weighted Index is one of two principal stock indices on the exchange, the other being the ASE Unweighted Price Index. The ASE Unweighted Index was created in 1980 and was very successful. The ASE went on to create a weighted index in 1992. The weighted index, whose constituents are listed below, attaches a value to each stock price based on the total market capitalisation of each stock; that is, the total amount of money the stock", "title": "ASE Market Capitalization Weighted Index" }, { "docid": "6759796", "text": "(as of 31 March 2017). In 2018, it is the second largest private bank in India by market capitalization after HDFC Bank. In 1985 Uday Kotak established what became an Indian financial services conglomerate. In February 2003, Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd. (KMFL), the Group's flagship company, received a banking licence from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). With this, KMFL became the first non-banking finance company in India to be converted into a bank – Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (Kmb)ltd. In a study by Brand Finance Banking 500, published in February 2014 by \"Banker\" magazine (from \"The Financial Times\" stable),", "title": "Kotak Mahindra Bank" }, { "docid": "8902341", "text": "A. McCormick was President and Chief Operation Officer of the Bank. Total assets were $301.4 million, net income was $2.9 million and market capitalization was $17 million. Trustco acquired Home & City Savings Bank and a three-story expansion of the Erie Boulevard Trust Operations Building in 1991. In May 1992, Trustco Bank sponsored and hosted a Block party on Erie Boulevard to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the Bank and its $2.1 billion in assets by the end of 1995. The nineties also saw new Branch openings in Glens Falls, Queensbury, Wilton Mall and Clifton Park—which along with the former", "title": "TrustCo Bank" }, { "docid": "6222769", "text": "by algebraic manipulation of the formula below: For example, in valuing the projected sale price of an apartment building that produces a net operating income of $10,000, if we set a projected capitalization rate at 7%, then the asset value (or price we would pay to own it) is $142,857 (142,857 = 10,000 / .07). This is often referred to as direct capitalization, and is commonly used for valuing income generating property in a real estate appraisal. One advantage of capitalization rate valuation is that it is separate from a \"market-comparables\" approach to an appraisal (which compares 3 valuations: what", "title": "Capitalization rate" }, { "docid": "13518953", "text": "investors believe that they can get a better result because other investors are not very good. The capital asset pricing model says that \"all\" investors are highly intelligent, and it is impossible to do better than the market portfolio, the capitalization-weighted portfolio of all assets. However, empirical tests conclude that market indices are not efficient. This can be explained by the fact that these indices do not include all assets or by the fact that the theory does not hold. The practical conclusion is that using capitalization-weighted portfolios is not necessarily the optimal method. As a consequence, capitalization-weighting has been", "title": "Stock market index" }, { "docid": "4294448", "text": "Itaú Unibanco Itaú Unibanco is a Brazilian publicly quoted bank with headquarters in São Paulo, Brazil. The bank is the result of the merger of Banco Itaú and Unibanco, which occurred on November 4, 2008 to form Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A, the largest financial conglomerate in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the 10th largest bank in the world by market value. The bank its listed at the B3 in São Paulo and in NYSE in New York. It currently is the biggest Latin American bank by assets and market capitalization. Itaú Unibanco owns Rede, the second largest Brazilian card payment", "title": "Itaú Unibanco" }, { "docid": "11188244", "text": "Philtrust Bank Philtrust Bank, formally known as the Philippine Trust Company is one of the oldest private universal banks in the Philippines. Founded on October 16, 1916, its history parallels the growth of the Philippine banking system. It is the third bank to be established in the Philippines, after Bank of the Philippine Islands and Philippine National Bank. The bank is one of the businesses owned by Chinese-Filipino businessman, Emilio Yap. As of December 16, 2010, Philtrust Bank has a total market capitalization of P40.6 billion and share price of P70.00. As of March 31, 2012, it has Total Assets", "title": "Philtrust Bank" }, { "docid": "2240039", "text": "Bridge seek to allow traders to trade with transparency and the ability to verify that each trade makes it to the market. (The company uses the bridge to connect traders to the world's largest ECN, Dukascopy Bank SA, by using MetaTrader 4 platform.) Forex markets are now also a target for new blockchain innovations, which would allow trading outside of centralized exchanges or change the way these exchanges operate. Transparency (market) In economics, a market is transparent if much is known by many about: What products and services or capital assets are available, market depth (quantity available), what price, and", "title": "Transparency (market)" }, { "docid": "13789118", "text": "Largest gold companies There are different methods by which are ranked. One is by their annual production. Another is by their cash cost per ounce, that is, how much money it costs them to mine the gold. Since gold prices are the same everywhere, companies with lower costs per ounce make more profit. The most common method lists by market capitalization which considers the total value of capital holdings by that company. Also considered when comparing companies is their market capitalization per ounce of gold equivalent (sometimes abbreviated MV-GEO, EVO if the enterprise value is used) which takes the market", "title": "Largest gold companies" }, { "docid": "15829338", "text": "required some the sale of some branches. Unity Bank and Trust, started in 1989, bought eleven branches, giving the bank a total of twelve, and assets of $133 million. In 1990, Centura had $178 million in market capitalization. This increased to $1.1 billion by 1997 when Mauldin retired. The bank had $6.3 billion in assets. Futrell remained on the board of directors, and Mauldin became Centura chairman in 1993. Cecil Sewell Jr., Peoples Bancorp president starting in 1989 and later Centura's president, succeeded Mauldin as chairman in 1997. Centura used the former Planters headquarters, while the Poyner & Spruill law", "title": "Centura Bank" }, { "docid": "14917475", "text": "Roessler would become CEO of the new company. The combination would give NCBC \"market capitalization of about $4.2 billion, combined assets of $15 billion, deposits of $11.3 billion and 370 branches in eight states\". Wachovia Securities vice president John B. Moore pointed out that NCBC \"is the first major out-of-state bank to come into North Carolina, which is a highly competitive, very concentrated market.\" Unlike CCB, which grew by buying other banks, NBC added new markets, with a strategy of one free-standing branch for every three in-store locations. NCBC had $7.3 billion in assets and 162 National Bank of Commerce", "title": "National Bank of Commerce (Memphis)" }, { "docid": "3781251", "text": "Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (abb. ICBC) is a Chinese multinational banking company. It is the largest bank in China, and the largest bank in the world by total assets, deposits, loans, number of customers and number of employees. It is one of China's \"Big Four\" state-owned commercial banks (the other three being the Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, and China Construction Bank). It was founded as a limited company on January 1, 1984. As of December 2017, it had assets worth US$4.009 trillion. Generally considered the largest financial institution", "title": "Industrial and Commercial Bank of China" }, { "docid": "4294452", "text": "was activated on April 4, 2018. Itaú Unibanco Itaú Unibanco is a Brazilian publicly quoted bank with headquarters in São Paulo, Brazil. The bank is the result of the merger of Banco Itaú and Unibanco, which occurred on November 4, 2008 to form Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A, the largest financial conglomerate in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the 10th largest bank in the world by market value. The bank its listed at the B3 in São Paulo and in NYSE in New York. It currently is the biggest Latin American bank by assets and market capitalization. Itaú Unibanco owns Rede,", "title": "Itaú Unibanco" }, { "docid": "13553093", "text": "driven by the goals—or whims—of the corresponding donors. Currently impact investing is still only a small market when compared to the global equity market, estimated at US$61 trillion (market capitalization of domestic listed companies) by the World Bank in 2015. Impact investors managed USD 114 billion in impact investing assets, a figure that serves as a best-available 'floor' for the size of the impact investing market, according to GIIN's 2017 \"Annual Impact Investor Survey\". The largest sectors by asset allocation were microfinance, energy, housing, and financial services. Many development finance institutions, such as the British Commonwealth Development Corporation or Norwegian", "title": "Impact investing" }, { "docid": "13840046", "text": "bank was renamed Liberty Bank. In 2017, Liberty Bank announced a change of control, whereby European Financial Group B.V. , a company established and organised under the laws of the Kingdom of Netherlands, purchased 74.64% of equity interest in the Bank. The ultimate beneficial owners of the Bank are Irakli Rukhadze (US Citizen), Ben Marson (UK citizen) and Igor Alexeev (US Citizen). Liberty Bank (Georgia) The Liberty Bank (, \"libert'i banki\"), formerly the People's Bank of Georgia (, \"sak'art'velos sakhalkho banki\") is private bank in Georgia, the seventh largest in the country by total assets with 3.4% market share. It", "title": "Liberty Bank (Georgia)" }, { "docid": "4323190", "text": "USD-denominated emerging markets sovereign bonds and uses a traditional, market capitalization weighted method for country allocation. As of March end 2016, the EMBI Global's market capitalization was $692.3bn. For country inclusion, a country’s GNI per capita must be below the Index Income Ceiling (IIC) for three consecutive years to be eligible for inclusion to the EMBI Global. J.P. Morgan defines the Index Income Ceiling (IIC) as the GNI per capita level that is adjusted every year by the growth rate of the World GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$), provided by the World Bank annually. An existing country may", "title": "Emerging market" }, { "docid": "13789129", "text": "fiscal year period. Source: May 6, 2015: The Global 2000 Largest gold companies There are different methods by which are ranked. One is by their annual production. Another is by their cash cost per ounce, that is, how much money it costs them to mine the gold. Since gold prices are the same everywhere, companies with lower costs per ounce make more profit. The most common method lists by market capitalization which considers the total value of capital holdings by that company. Also considered when comparing companies is their market capitalization per ounce of gold equivalent (sometimes abbreviated MV-GEO, EVO", "title": "Largest gold companies" }, { "docid": "13432917", "text": "investors co-invested with Gilinski. Later, the family sold control of the bank to Banco Industrial Colombiano, and its controlling stakeholder Sindicato Antioqueño, in a deal valued at $800 million, among Colombia's largest deals. Gilinski received $418 million for its stake and retained a minority position in the new bank as part of the deal. As of 2018, Bancolombia was the largest in Colombia with a market capitalization of $11 billion on the NYSE. In 2003, Gilinski acquired and subsequently merged Banco Sudameris and Banco Tequendema. This merger created GNB Sudameris, a bank with assets of over US $10 billion that", "title": "Jaime Gilinski Bacal" }, { "docid": "5374585", "text": "Banco de Oro Banco de Oro (BDO), legally known as BDO Unibank, Inc., is a Philippine banking company based in Makati. In terms of total assets, the firm is the largest bank in the Philippines, fifteenth largest in Southeast Asia, 116th largest in Asia, and the 234th largest bank globally as of March 31, 2016. BDO Unibank is also a member of SM Group owned by Henry Sy. It is also the largest bank in the country by market capitalization. The firm is a full-service universal bank. It provides products and services to the retail and corporate markets including lending", "title": "Banco de Oro" }, { "docid": "7898887", "text": "State Bank of Mauritius State Bank of Mauritius (SBM), is a bank in Mauritius. It is licensed as a commercial bank by the Bank of Mauritius, the national banking regulator. SBM is the second-largest bank in Mauritius with a market share of about 25% of domestic banking assets. , its total asset valuation was approximately US$3.34 billion (MUR:95.7 billion), with shareholders' equity of about US$557.1 million (MUR:16 billion). SBM, together with its subsidiary businesses in Kenya, Mauritius, Madagascar and India, is known as \"SBM Group\". The stock of the group is listed on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius and is", "title": "State Bank of Mauritius" }, { "docid": "2228763", "text": "to numerous lawsuits and investigations regarding both mortgages and financial disclosures dating back to the 2008 financial crisis. Its corporate practices of servicing the middle class and wider banking community has yielded a substantial market share since the early 20th century. , Bank of America has a $313.5 billion market capitalization, making it the 13th largest company in the world. As the sixth largest American public company, it garnered $102.98 billion in sales . Bank of America was ranked #24 on the 2018 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. Bank of America was named", "title": "Bank of America" }, { "docid": "11480769", "text": "Société Générale Société Générale S.A. (), often nicknamed \"SocGen\" (), is a French multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Paris, France. The company is a universal bank and has divisions supporting French Networks, Global Transaction Banking, International Retail Banking, Financial Services, Corporate and Investment Banking, Private Banking, Asset Management and Securities Services. Société Générale is France's third largest bank by total assets, sixth largest in Europe or seventeenth by market capitalization. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. It is known as one of the \"Trois Vieilles\" (\"Old Three\") of French", "title": "Société Générale" }, { "docid": "13033023", "text": "the 1980s, after the last dictatorship's economic policies saddled the economy with a lasting foreign debt crisis and malaise. Two of its former directors, Aldo Ferrer and Martín Lousteau, have also served as the nation's Ministers of the Economy. The bank today operates 342 branches and is Argentina's second-largest by deposits (holding US$10 billion, or, 8% of the total) and total assets, and the sixth-largest in lending with a US$5 billion loan portfolio (a 6% share). Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires The Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires () is a publicly owned Argentine bank and the", "title": "Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires" }, { "docid": "3258741", "text": "people, while the entire branch network numbers 564 units, with a presence in Greece. Piraeus Bank is in 2018 the leading Bank in Greece, in terms of assets, with 30% market share in terms of loans and second in liabilities with a 29% in terms of deposits. In terms of total assets, it is the largest bank but in term of market capitalisation it is the third largest after Alpha Bank and National Bank of Greece. Along with its organic growth during the decades of 1990 and 2000, Piraeus Bank made a series of strategic moves aiming to establish a", "title": "Piraeus Bank" }, { "docid": "8902342", "text": "Home & City offices brought the total Branch locations to 53 throughout the Capital Region by the end of the decade. At the end of 1992, Robert A. McCormick was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank, total assets were $1.9 billion, net income was $17.5 million and market capitalization was $222 million. In July 2000 Trustco acquired a Savings Bank Charter and subsequently acquired Landmark Financial Corp. and its subsidiary, Landmark Community Bank, which was completed on July 28, 2000. Further expansion was made possible by an accompanying federal thrift charter. The Trustco Bank corporate headquarters relocated to", "title": "TrustCo Bank" }, { "docid": "20883572", "text": "shareholders' equity. In late August 2018, the Government of Zimbabwe increased the shareholding and capitalization of the bank by US$150 million, increasing the bank's total assets to over US$330 million and shareholding to over US$200 million. As of September 2018, IDBZ's board of directors consisted of: As of September 2018, IDBZ's management team was: Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe The Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) is a government-owned development bank in Zimbabwe, mandated to fund long and medium term funding for key infrastructure projects, including in the areas of transportation, housing, energy, ICT, water and sanitation. The headquarters of", "title": "Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe" }, { "docid": "7836826", "text": "The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here is the eighth full-length album by metalcore band Zao. It was released on June 13, 2006 on Ferret Records in the US and on June 12, 2006 in Europe. The album showcases the addition of drummer Jeff Gretz and bassist Martin Lunn. In interviews Gretz jokingly claimed it would be titled \"The George Lucas Neckfat\". The album was released in two versions. The limited edition deluxe edition contains expanded artwork and a bonus \"making the album\" DVD. Both versions contain the same music. Some pre-ordered copies", "title": "The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here" }, { "docid": "7836829", "text": "melodic elements that were introduced on the album \"The Funeral of God\", it takes a somewhat raw, black metal-influenced sound. The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here is the eighth full-length album by metalcore band Zao. It was released on June 13, 2006 on Ferret Records in the US and on June 12, 2006 in Europe. The album showcases the addition of drummer Jeff Gretz and bassist Martin Lunn. In interviews Gretz jokingly claimed it would be titled \"The George Lucas Neckfat\". The album was released in two versions. The limited edition deluxe", "title": "The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here" }, { "docid": "6205613", "text": "retailer shared in the ownership of a co-located bank. In 2006, SunTrust Banks, Inc., the successor of National Commerce Bancorporation, sold its interest in First Market to the Markel Corporation, a Richmond, VA based specialty property and casualty insurer. This move also brought the bank's headquarters to Richmond. By 2009, First Market operated 39 full-service branches, with 25 inside Ukrop’s Supermarkets. The bank had a geographic footprint including Richmond, Fredericksburg, Roanoke, and Williamsburg, VA. Assets totaled $1.4 billion, net loans totaled $1.0 billion, deposits totaled $1.2 billion, and shareholders’ equity totaled $125.1 million. On March 30, 2009, First Market Bank", "title": "First Market Bank" }, { "docid": "14081649", "text": "Norinchukin Bank The Norinchukin Bank (also known as \"Nochu Bank\") is a Japanese cooperative bank serving over 5,612 agricultural, fishing and forestry cooperatives from its headquarters in Tokyo. The bank is one of Japan’s largest institutional investors with an investment portfolio of more than US$400 billion and assets exceeding US$840 billion. Through overseas branches located in New York City, London, and Singapore, the bank invests in bond, securitization product, stock, private equity, and real estate. Since huge assets as much as US$840 billion are managed by only around 3,200 employees, the bank is mainly engaged in asset management and large", "title": "Norinchukin Bank" }, { "docid": "2055670", "text": "\"Big Four\" banks of the period: the Farmers Bank of China, Bank of Communications and Central Bank of the Republic of China. Its headquarters are in Xicheng District, Beijing. As of 31 December 2009, it was the second largest lender in China overall, and the 5th largest bank in the world by market capitalization value. The Bank of China's history began in 1905, when the Qing government established \"Daqing Hubu\" Bank () in Beijing, which was in 1908 renamed to \"Daqing\" Bank (). When the Republic of China was established in 1912, it was further renamed as Bank of China", "title": "Bank of China" }, { "docid": "2862245", "text": "National Australia Bank National Australia Bank (abbreviated NAB, branded nab) is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia in terms of market capitalisation, earnings and customers. NAB was ranked 21st largest bank in the world measured by market capitalisation and 41st largest bank in the world as measured by total assets in 2014, falling to 49th largest in March 2016. NAB operated 1,590 branches and service centres; and 4,412 ATMs across Australia, New Zealand and Asia serving 12.7 million customers. NAB has a \"AA-\" long term issuer rating by Standard & Poor's. National Australia Bank was formed as", "title": "National Australia Bank" }, { "docid": "16904986", "text": "with significant growth occurring after the 2008 financial crisis. Although this financing method has become particularly popular with small-cap life sciences issuers, large-capitalization companies such as Bank of America, Boston Properties and Ford Motor Company have recently employed ATM offerings as well. At-the-market offering An at-the-market (ATM) offering is a type of follow-on offering of stock utilized by publicly traded companies in order to raise capital over time. In an ATM offering, exchange-listed companies incrementally sell newly issued shares into the secondary trading market through a designated broker-dealer at prevailing market prices. The broker-dealer sells the issuing company's shares in", "title": "At-the-market offering" }, { "docid": "7525330", "text": "Capitalization-weighted index A capitalization-weighted (or \"cap-weighted\") index, also called a market-value-weighted index is a stock market index whose components are weighted according to the total market value of their outstanding shares. Every day an individual stock's price changes and thereby changes a stock index's value. The impact that individual stock's price change has on the index is proportional to the company's overall market value (the share price multiplied by the number of outstanding shares), in a capitalization-weighted index. In other types of indices, different ratios are used. For example, the AMEX Composite Index (XAX) had more than 800 component stocks.", "title": "Capitalization-weighted index" }, { "docid": "5855896", "text": "Standard Federal Bank Standard Federal Bank was a Troy, Michigan-based bank serving Michigan and Northern Indiana in the United States which was acquired by Bank of America on 5 May 2008. In 2005, Standard Federal was the largest bank in Michigan based on number of retail branches (265), ATMs (more than 1,000) and deposits (US 23.3B, 15.06% market share); it ranked second in assets. After ABN AMRO acquired it, the bank was renamed \"LaSalle Bank Midwest\" in 2005. Bank of America purchased the bank and its parent LaSalle Bank Corporation on October 1, 2007 and all branches were rebranded Bank", "title": "Standard Federal Bank" }, { "docid": "5855907", "text": "under the Bank of America brand on May 5, 2008. Standard Federal Bank Standard Federal Bank was a Troy, Michigan-based bank serving Michigan and Northern Indiana in the United States which was acquired by Bank of America on 5 May 2008. In 2005, Standard Federal was the largest bank in Michigan based on number of retail branches (265), ATMs (more than 1,000) and deposits (US 23.3B, 15.06% market share); it ranked second in assets. After ABN AMRO acquired it, the bank was renamed \"LaSalle Bank Midwest\" in 2005. Bank of America purchased the bank and its parent LaSalle Bank Corporation", "title": "Standard Federal Bank" }, { "docid": "627415", "text": "in various ways. One way is by the country where the company is domiciled. For example, Nestlé and Novartis are domiciled in Switzerland, so they may be considered as part of the Swiss stock market, although their stock may also be traded on exchanges in other countries, for example, as American depository receipts (ADRs) on U.S. stock markets. As of mid 2017, the size of the world stock market (total market capitalization) was about US$76.3 trillion. By country, the largest market was the United States (about 34%), followed by Japan (about 6%) and the United Kingdom (about 6%). These numbers", "title": "Stock market" }, { "docid": "13347692", "text": "Trade and Development Bank The Trade and Development Bank (TDB), formerly the PTA Bank, is a trade and development financial institution in Africa. The TDB is the financial arm of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), although membership is open to non-COMESA states and other institutional shareholders. As of December 2017, the TDB was a large financial institution with assets exceeding US$5.264 billion. The bank had 20 shareholders, with shareholders' equity in excess of US$1.021 billion. The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank, also known as the TDB, was established on 6 November 1985 under", "title": "Trade and Development Bank" }, { "docid": "10712844", "text": "up by Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici in 1397. The earliest known state deposit bank, Banco di San Giorgio (Bank of St. George), was founded in 1407 at Genoa, Italy, while Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, founded in 1472, is the oldest surviving bank in the world. Unicredit is one of the largest bank in Europe by capitalization and Assicurazioni Generali is the seventh in the world by total assets Banking in Italy Banking in Italy has, as of 11 October 2008, an average leverage ratio (assets/liabilities) of 12 to 1, while the banks's short-term liabilities are equal to", "title": "Banking in Italy" }, { "docid": "9842114", "text": "Spire Bank Spire Bank, formerly known as Equatorial Commercial Bank (ECB), is a commercial bank in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community. It is licensed by the Central Bank of Kenya, the central bank and national banking regulator. The bank is a medium-sized financial institution in Kenya, serving corporate clients, small and medium enterprises and individuals. , the bank's total assets were valued at about US$180 million (KES:15.562 billion), with shareholders' equity valued at about US$16 million (KES:1.371 billion). At that time, the bank was ranked number 27, by assets, out of 43 banks licensed in Kenya.", "title": "Spire Bank" }, { "docid": "4292827", "text": "capitalization, just behind Maybank and third largest by total assets, behind Maybank and CIMB. Public Bank currently offers a comprehensive range of financial products and services which include personal banking, commercial banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, share broking, trustee services, nominee services, sale and management of unit trust funds, bancassurance and general insurance products. Public Bank's strategy is centered on growth in the retail banking business particularly on the retail consumers and small and medium enterprises (\"SMEs\"). The Public Bank Group is well known for its strong financial performance and consistent prudent management. It is consistently accorded with strong credit", "title": "Public Bank Berhad" }, { "docid": "14783948", "text": "First Financial Bank (Ohio) First Financial Bancorp () is a regional bank headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, with its operations center in the northern Cincinnati, Tri-County area. Founded in 1863, First Financial has the sixth oldest national bank charter and has 110 locations in Ohio, Kentucky, and throughout Indiana. First Financial acquired Irwin Financial Corp and its subsidiaries through a government assisted transaction on September 18, 2009. As of April 2018, the company had $13 billion in assets and market capitalization of $2.6 billion. The Company's subsidiary, First Financial Bank, N.A., founded in 1863, provides banking and financial services products through", "title": "First Financial Bank (Ohio)" }, { "docid": "15095200", "text": "First Community Bank First Community Bank (FCB), is a commercial bank in Kenya, the largest economy in the East African Community. It is licensed by the Central Bank of Kenya, the central bank and national banking regulator. , the bank's total assets were valued at about US$130.85 million (KES:11.305 billion), with shareholders' equity of about US$14 million (KES:1.21 billion), and customer deposits of US$115 million (KES:9.932 billion). At that time, the bank was ranked number 33, by assets, out of 43 licensed banks in Kenya then. First Community Bank was established in 2007 according to Sharia law by private Muslim", "title": "First Community Bank" }, { "docid": "11480808", "text": "agreed to pay $50 million to settle a claim by the American government of fraudulent concealment of residential mortgage-backed securities quality. Société Générale Société Générale S.A. (), often nicknamed \"SocGen\" (), is a French multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Paris, France. The company is a universal bank and has divisions supporting French Networks, Global Transaction Banking, International Retail Banking, Financial Services, Corporate and Investment Banking, Private Banking, Asset Management and Securities Services. Société Générale is France's third largest bank by total assets, sixth largest in Europe or seventeenth by market capitalization. The company is a component", "title": "Société Générale" }, { "docid": "18276636", "text": "Commercial Bank of Dubai Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD) is a UAE banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Deira, Dubai. With more than $10 billion in assets, Gulf Business listed CBD as the 35th largest bank in the Persian Gulf region. It also figures in the Dubai Financial Market index. CBD was founded in 1969, by an Amiri Decree issued by the late Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum. What started out as a joint venture of Commerzbank, Chase Manhattan Bank and Commercial Bank of Kuwait, evolved into a National Public shareholding company by 1982. 80% of its shares are", "title": "Commercial Bank of Dubai" }, { "docid": "2895836", "text": "Bank of the West in the western United States and First Hawaiian Bank in Hawaii. BNP Paribas's Europe Mediterranean group also runs large retail banks in Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, and northern Africa. BNP Paribas is the largest bank in the Eurozone by total assets and second largest by market capitalization according to \"The Banker\" magazine, just behind Banco Santander. It employs over 189,000 people, according to the bank as of 31 December 2015, of which 147,000 work in Europe, and maintains a presence in 75 countries. In the United States, BNP Paribas owns BancWest, which in turn operates retail banking", "title": "BNP Paribas" }, { "docid": "10671327", "text": "on the London Stock Exchange. The Bonds issued by the Bank under the MTN programme are listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. Axis Bank Axis Bank is the third largest of the private-sector banks in India offering a comprehensive suite of financial products. The bank has its head office in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It has 3,703 branches, 13,814 ATMs, and nine international offices. The bank employs over 55,000 people and had a market capitalization of (as on March 31, 2018). It sells financial services to large and mid-size corporates, SME, and retail businesses. As of 30 Jun. 2016, 30.81% shares are", "title": "Axis Bank" }, { "docid": "4520696", "text": "Development Bank of the Philippines The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) is a state-owned development bank headquartered in Makati City, the Philippines. It is the seventh-largest bank in the Philippines in terms of assets with assets of more than P483 billion as of 2016. It is the second-largest state-owned bank, next only to Landbank. It is also one of the largest government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) in the Philippines. It has 114 branches and 15 regional marketing centers across the country. Under its charter, DBP is classified as a development bank. It is primarily tasked to provide banking services", "title": "Development Bank of the Philippines" }, { "docid": "13083677", "text": "billion), with shareholders' equity of TZS:733.5 billion (US$323.1 million). At that time, CRDB owned an estimated 19.5 percent of the TZS:29.97 trillion total banking assets in the country at that time, making it the largest bank in Tanzania, based on total assets. In September 2013, CRDB Bank was the second-largest commercial bank in Tanzania, by assets, behind FBME Bank. It was also the second-best capitalized commercial bank, behind National Microfinance Bank. The shares of stock of CRDB Bank are listed on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, where they trade under the symbol \"CRDB\". CRDB Bank was formed when the", "title": "CRDB Bank" }, { "docid": "10204067", "text": "Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank () (), commonly called ADCB, is a bank in the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) was formed in 1985 as a public shareholding company with limited liability, upon merger of Emirates Commercial Bank and Federal Commercial Bank with Khaleej Commercial Bank, which was established in 1975. The Government of Abu Dhabi through the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) holds 65% of ADCB shares; the remainder is held by other institutions and individuals. ADCB is one of the largest in the UAE in terms of shareholder funds and market capitalization.", "title": "Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank" }, { "docid": "14092008", "text": "Bank of Kigali Bank of Kigali (BK) is a commercial bank in Rwanda. It is licensed by the National Bank of Rwanda, the country's central bank and national banking regulator. The headquarters and main branch of the bank are located at 6112 KN4 Avenue, in Nyarugenge District, in the city of Kigali, the capital and largest city in Rwanda. The geographical coordinates of the bank's headquarters are: 01°56'54.0\"S, 30°03'35.0\"E (Latitude:-1.948333; Longitude:30.059722). Bank of Kigali is the largest commercial bank in Rwanda, by total assets. As of 31 December 2017, the bank's total assets were valued at RWF: 727.2 billion (US$851.5", "title": "Bank of Kigali" }, { "docid": "17876850", "text": "rules given by their style manuals. Reverential capitalization is not to be used, for example, according to the style guidelines set by the Chicago Manual of Style or the Associated Press Stylebook. It is prescribed, for example, by the US Government Printing Office Style Manual (2008). This capitalization rule is also customarily applied in Tagalog and other languages of the Philippines, despite being considered nonstandard and inconsistent by purists who contend that this rule is applied only in English. Reverential capitalization Reverential capitalization is the practice of capitalizing words, particularly pronouns, that refer to a deity or divine being, in", "title": "Reverential capitalization" }, { "docid": "8915963", "text": "banking sector. The shares of the bank are listed on the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE). The Bank is the largest listed company on the CSE in terms of market capitalization. Since October 8, 2007 the Bank of Cyprus has been part of the Cyprus 10 Index, which comprises the 10 largest companies in Cyprus. The Bank of Cyprus was also listed on the Athens Exchange since 2000 and had been part of the FTSE/Athex Large Cap index from 9 October 2006 until March 2013. However, in late 2016 it has announced plans to de-list from Athens on 9 January 2017", "title": "Bank of Cyprus" }, { "docid": "10671311", "text": "Axis Bank Axis Bank is the third largest of the private-sector banks in India offering a comprehensive suite of financial products. The bank has its head office in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It has 3,703 branches, 13,814 ATMs, and nine international offices. The bank employs over 55,000 people and had a market capitalization of (as on March 31, 2018). It sells financial services to large and mid-size corporates, SME, and retail businesses. As of 30 Jun. 2016, 30.81% shares are owned by promoters and promoter group (United India Insurance Company Limited, Oriental Insurance Company Limited, National Insurance Company Limited, New India Assurance", "title": "Axis Bank" }, { "docid": "3022866", "text": "Royal Bank of Canada The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is a Canadian multinational financial services company and the largest bank in Canada by market capitalization. The bank serves over 16 million clients and has 80,000 employees worldwide. The bank was founded in 1864 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, while its corporate headquarters are located in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario. RBC's Institution Number (or bank number) is 003. In November 2017, RBC was added to the Financial Stability Board's list of global systemically important banks. In Canada, the bank's personal and commercial banking operations are branded as \"RBC Royal Bank\"", "title": "Royal Bank of Canada" }, { "docid": "14449428", "text": "of April 2010, the bank maintains branches in the following locations: Access Bank Rwanda Access Bank Rwanda is a commercial bank in Rwanda. It is one of the commercial banks licensed by the National Bank of Rwanda, the national banking regulator. The bank is a medium-sized financial institution in Rwanda. According to its web site, it is the fourth-largest commercial bank in the country, based on assets. , the bank's total assets were US$83.4 million (RWF:55.8 billion, with shareholders equity of about US$9.72 million (RWF:6.65 billion). The bank was first established in Rwanda in 1995, as Bancor SA, by a", "title": "Access Bank Rwanda" }, { "docid": "15616140", "text": "National Bank of Abu Dhabi National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) () is a bank operating in the United Arab Emirates. NBAD is the largest lender bank in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and in the United Arab Emirates. NBAD has the largest market capitalization among UAE banks. NBAD’s headquarters is 1 NBAD Tower in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Bank will build a new headquarters in Abu Dhabi’s Al Maryah Island, which will house the future Abu Dhabi Financial District. NBAD’s line of businesses include a whole range of retail banking, corporate, wholesale and investment banking, wealth management and private", "title": "National Bank of Abu Dhabi" }, { "docid": "14449426", "text": "Access Bank Rwanda Access Bank Rwanda is a commercial bank in Rwanda. It is one of the commercial banks licensed by the National Bank of Rwanda, the national banking regulator. The bank is a medium-sized financial institution in Rwanda. According to its web site, it is the fourth-largest commercial bank in the country, based on assets. , the bank's total assets were US$83.4 million (RWF:55.8 billion, with shareholders equity of about US$9.72 million (RWF:6.65 billion). The bank was first established in Rwanda in 1995, as Bancor SA, by a Ugandan investor. In 2000, after fourteen years of continuous successful banking", "title": "Access Bank Rwanda" }, { "docid": "6789960", "text": "Dubai Islamic Bank The Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) is an Islamic bank in Dubai, established in 1975. It is the first Islamic bank to have incorporated the principles of Islam in all its practices and is the largest Islamic bank in the UAE. Established in 1975, Dubai Islamic Bank is the largest Islamic bank in the UAE by assets and a public joint stock company listed on the Dubai Financial Market. Spearheading the evolution of the global Islamic finance industry, DIB is also the world’s first full service Islamic bank and the third largest Islamic bank in the world. The", "title": "Dubai Islamic Bank" }, { "docid": "15078313", "text": "Trust Merchant Bank Trust Merchant Bank or TMB, is an independent commercial bank based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with its headquarters located in Lubumbashi. The bank began operations in 2004. TMB operates in all sectors of the local banking market, including in retail banking, SME banking, corporate banking, and mobile banking. The bank is regulated by the Central Bank of Congo and is a member of the Association Congolaise des Banques. Trust Merchant Bank is one of the DRC's largest banks as measured by regulatory equity, total assets and turnover. As of 31 December 2016, total assets", "title": "Trust Merchant Bank" }, { "docid": "4531810", "text": "Chiba Bank Chiba Bank is the third-largest of Japan’s 64 regional banking groups in terms of total assets. As of March 2008, it had total assets of ¥9.8 trillion and a loan portfolio topping ¥6.6 trillion, which also made it one of the world's 200 largest banks. It employs a full-time staff of 3,675. The bank is headquartered in Chiba Prefecture, which lies adjacent to Japan’s capital Tokyo on Tokyo Bay and has one of the most important industrial concentrations anywhere in Japan. Chiba Bank has a 36.6% market share of lending and a 23.0% share of all deposits in", "title": "Chiba Bank" }, { "docid": "4531812", "text": "lending. Chiba Bank Chiba Bank is the third-largest of Japan’s 64 regional banking groups in terms of total assets. As of March 2008, it had total assets of ¥9.8 trillion and a loan portfolio topping ¥6.6 trillion, which also made it one of the world's 200 largest banks. It employs a full-time staff of 3,675. The bank is headquartered in Chiba Prefecture, which lies adjacent to Japan’s capital Tokyo on Tokyo Bay and has one of the most important industrial concentrations anywhere in Japan. Chiba Bank has a 36.6% market share of lending and a 23.0% share of all deposits", "title": "Chiba Bank" } ]
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Not counting hybrid clubs, a standard golf club bag includes Woods, wedges, chippers, putters, and what?
[ "Irons", "Irons (disambiguation)", "Irons (surname)" ]
[ { "docid": "3480541", "text": "Golf club A golf club is a club used to hit a golf ball in a game of golf. Each club is composed of a shaft with a grip and a club head. Woods are mainly used for long-distance fairway or tee shots; irons, the most versatile class, are used for a variety of shots; hybrids that combine design elements of woods and irons are becoming increasingly popular; putters are used mainly on the green to roll the ball into the hole. A standard set consists of 14 golf clubs, and while there are traditional combinations sold at retail as", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "3480583", "text": "over 25, and over 50 in both sexes, and four-ball, along with international team championships), will need new conforming wedges by 2014. In addition, this regulation includes IGF and USGA-sanctioned regional amateur events as well, as a \"condition of competition\". Wedges that conform to the new standard are often marketed as \"CC\" or \"Condition of Competition\" wedges; this moniker is likely to fall into disuse as players upgrade clubs and the use of non-conforming irons diminishes. Notes Bibliography Golf club A golf club is a club used to hit a golf ball in a game of golf. Each club is", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "6541725", "text": "The three major club types; \"woods\", \"irons\", and \"putters\" are used to varying degrees depending on the urban golf format. Australian Urban Golfers prefer to use a mixed bag which includes a nice high club around the S PW or 9 area a driving club which would be no lower than a 5 or 7 Iron and also a left-handed club for getting out of tight situations where you have been turned around or up against an object. Similar rules apply at Cooper's Lake in the United States. Players may carry up to four clubs. A 6-iron is usually the", "title": "Urban golf" }, { "docid": "3480573", "text": "even the 7-wood, or may replace the long irons with equivalently-numbered hybrid clubs. If hybrids are used, higher-lofted woods are often omitted as redundant, but ladies' and seniors' sets commonly feature both hybrids and high-lofted woods, omitting the long irons entirely in favor of the lofted woods, and replacing the mid-irons (5–7) with hybrids. The combination allows for higher launch angles on the long-distance clubs, which gives better distance with slower swing speeds. Where a club is omitted and not replaced with a club of similar function, players may add additional clubs of a different function such as additional wedges.", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "10644221", "text": "\"feel\" and greater stopping potential. Golf balls are separated into three groups depending on their construction: two-, three-, or four-piece covers. Generally four-piece golf balls tend to be the most expensive, though price is no assurance of quality. A player usually carries several clubs during the game (but no more than fourteen, the limit defined by the rules). There are three major types of clubs, known as \"woods\", \"irons\", and \"putters\". Woods are played for long shots from the tee or fairway, and occasionally rough, while irons are for precision shots from fairways as well as from the rough. \"Wedges\"", "title": "Golf equipment" }, { "docid": "10644222", "text": "are irons used to play shorter shots. A new type of club called a hybrid combines the straight-hitting characteristics of irons with the easy-to-hit characteristics of higher-lofted woods. A hybrid is often used for long shots from difficult rough. Hybrids are also used by players who have a difficult time getting the ball airborne with long irons. Wedges are played from difficult ground such as sand or the rough and for approach shots to the green. Putters are mostly played on the green, but can also be useful when playing from bunkers or for some approach shots. Putters have minimal", "title": "Golf equipment" }, { "docid": "10644235", "text": "an array of brushes for various types of clubs as well as balls and shoes. Clubhead covers protect the clubs from striking each other and from weather and incidental damage while in the bag, make clubs more identifiable at a glance, and provide a personal touch to a player's clubs. The most common clubhead covers are for a player's driver and fairway woods, as modern designs have large hollow heads and long shafts that make them prone to damage, but covers for hybrids, putters, and even irons/wedges are also marketed. A ball mark repair tool (also known as a pitchfork", "title": "Golf equipment" }, { "docid": "5380180", "text": "vintage Rolex, one he had worn since he first signed with the watchmaker. Drivers Fairway Woods Hybrids & Utility Irons Wedges Balls Putters On December 8, 2005, Callaway Golf received the 2005 Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics, from the San Diego Better Business Bureau. Callaway Golf Company Callaway Golf Company is an American global sporting goods company that designs, manufactures, markets and sells golf equipment, golf accessories and golf lifestyle-related products in more than 70 countries worldwide. The American company, based in Carlsbad, California, is the world’s largest manufacturer of golf clubs. Callaway Golf sells its products through golf retailers", "title": "Callaway Golf Company" }, { "docid": "6541726", "text": "longest club allowed and players are free to select the combination of short irons and wedges. Putters are allowed but most players opt to “belly” or “pop” the ball with their wedge once they have reached the green. There is no set combination of clubs but the general guideline is a 6-iron (driver), 8-iron (mid-range) and one or two wedges. Some Urban Golfers prefer to use other items aside from real golf clubs with which to play the game, as playing on asphalt and other urban terrains can ruin an otherwise perfectly good set of clubs. Organizers of less competitive", "title": "Urban golf" }, { "docid": "3480575", "text": "On courses where bags must be carried by the player, the player may take only the odd-numbered irons; without the 4, 6 or 8 irons (the 3 is sometimes removed instead of the 4) the bag's weight is considerably reduced. Carrying only a driver, 3-wood, 4-hybrid, 5-7-9 irons, pitching and sand wedges, and a putter reduces the number of clubs in the bag to 9; this is a common load-out for a \"Sunday bag\" taken to the driving range or to an informal game. A skilled player can usually overcome the lesser selection of club lofts by reducing their swing", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "15340572", "text": "Club sets differ from each other in term of stats provided, available upgrade slots, level requirement, and appearance. Just like in real golf, PangYa club sets contain 4 basic type of clubs: woods, irons, wedges, and putters. The currency of \"PangYa\" is Pang. Pang is normally earned by finishing a hole at par or better, pulling off powerful shots, and making difficult chip-ins. Pang can be used at the Shop to buy equipment or items. Pang can also be used to upgrade equipment such as golf clubs, or the characters themselves, boosting their stats. A cookie system has also been", "title": "PangYa" }, { "docid": "3480552", "text": "for high impulse on impact and faster swing speeds. The head is usually smaller than true woods, however, not extending as far back from the face, and the lie and shaft length are similar to an iron giving similar swing mechanics. These clubs generally replace low-numbered irons in a men's set (between 2 and 5, most commonly 3–4), which are typically the hardest clubs in a player's bag to hit well. By doing so they also generally make higher-lofted woods redundant as well. However, some manufacturers produce \"iron replacement\" sets that use hybrid designs to replace an entire set of", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "11057409", "text": "Hybrid (golf) A hybrid is a type of club used in the sport of golf with a design borrowing from both irons and woods while differing from both. The name \"hybrid\" comes from genetics to denote a mixture of two different species with desirable characteristics of both, and the term here has been generalized, combining the familiar swing mechanics of an iron with the more forgiving nature and better distance of a wood. For many players, long irons (numbers 1-4) are difficult to hit well even with modern clubfaces, due to the low trajectory and very small face of the", "title": "Hybrid (golf)" }, { "docid": "11057422", "text": "many carrying more than one in their bags. Hybrid (golf) A hybrid is a type of club used in the sport of golf with a design borrowing from both irons and woods while differing from both. The name \"hybrid\" comes from genetics to denote a mixture of two different species with desirable characteristics of both, and the term here has been generalized, combining the familiar swing mechanics of an iron with the more forgiving nature and better distance of a wood. For many players, long irons (numbers 1-4) are difficult to hit well even with modern clubfaces, due to the", "title": "Hybrid (golf)" }, { "docid": "20215334", "text": "PGA Tour that year. Currently, the company offers a full line of equipment including drivers, woods, hybrids, wedges, irons, and putters. As of December 2016, the company had grown to seventy employees. PXG has sponsorship deals with seventeen professional golfers who play on the PGA and LPGA tours. The company has agreements with Zach Johnson, Billy Horschel, and Charl Schwartzel, as well as Lydia Ko, who left Callaway Golf in January 2017. Parsons is a United States Marine who served in Vietnam War. PXG’s club numbering convention (0311, 0317, 0341, and 0811) is inspired by the United States military occupational", "title": "Parsons Xtreme Golf" }, { "docid": "12473914", "text": "Pinnacle Golf. Cobra was acquired by Puma SE. Cobra had a successful relationship with former world number one Greg Norman. In February 2014, Cobra Golf signed a multi-year partnership with the PGA Tour's Honda Classic, making it one of the lead sponsors of the event. PGA and European Tours LPGA Tour Cobra markets a full range of golf clubs. Drivers Fairways Utilities Irons Wedges Putters Cobra Golf Cobra Golf, based in Carlsbad, California, is an American manufacturer of golf equipment. The company is currently a subsidiary of the German athleticwear and sports lifestyle company Puma, which in turn is part", "title": "Cobra Golf" }, { "docid": "3480553", "text": "traditional irons, from 3 to pitching wedge. Ladies' and seniors' sets commonly feature a combination of high-lofted woods (up to 7-wood) and hybrids to replace the 5, 6 and 7-irons, allowing these players to get greater carry distances with slower swings. \"Putters\" are a special class of clubs with a loft not exceeding ten degrees, designed primarily to roll the ball along the grass, generally from a point on the putting green toward the hole. Contrary to popular belief, putters do have a loft (often 5° from truly perpendicular at impact) that helps to lift the ball from any indentation", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "9411564", "text": "at the PGA Merchandise Show but did not gain widespread use until the mid-1990s and is now used on almost all woods and some iron sets, as the carbon-fiber composite of graphite shafts boasts increased flex for greater clubhead speed at the cost of slightly reduced accuracy due to greater torque. Steel, which generally has lower torque but less flex than graphite, is still widely preferred by many for irons, wedges and putters as these clubs stress accuracy over distance. \"Graphite\" shafts began to emerge in the late twentieth century. The graphite shaft was invented by Frank Thomas in 1969", "title": "Shaft (golf)" }, { "docid": "8543619", "text": "the clubhead to be bent to the required specification without the danger of breaking the clubhead as was the problem for previous models. <br> Drivers Fairways Rescues/Hybrids Irons Wedges \"'Putters\" Women's Ping (golf) PING is an American manufacturer of golf equipment, based in Phoenix, Arizona. Ping was founded by Karsten Solheim, following a career as an engineer at the General Electric company. In 1959, he started making putters in his garage in Redwood City, California. In 1967, he resigned from his job at General Electric to develop the PING company. Solheim began PING golf as a garage business. His frustration", "title": "Ping (golf)" }, { "docid": "11057419", "text": "bag completely), though 5-iron equivalents are also seen in ladies' and seniors' sets. Hybrids generally replace rather than supplement long irons, but as a player is free to carry any set of 14 clubs that they wish, it is not unheard of for a player to carry both a 3-hybrid and a 3-iron, with the hybrid instead replacing the fairway wood; the higher-mass iron clubhead would be preferable to the hybrid for use in tall grass or soft lies. Shots from deep within trees and in very high grass can still be difficult with a \"wood-faced\" hybrid, however, as the", "title": "Hybrid (golf)" }, { "docid": "4706535", "text": "high-end golf club manufacturing company. The same month, professional golfer Ryan Moore used prototype PXG irons and wedges when he played in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, a PGA Tour event. PXG is expected to launch a full line of golf equipment including drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, irons, wedges, and putters. Since 2012, YAM Properties has purchased more than 675,000 square feet of commercial real estate in Arizona's Valley of the Sun region. YAM properties include: In 2012, Bob and Renee Parsons established the Bob and Renee Parsons Foundation. Since then, the Foundation has awarded to more than 96 charities", "title": "Bob Parsons" }, { "docid": "10180594", "text": "the B-Series Tour Ball (B330, B330-S, B330-RX, B330-RXS), the e-Series (e5, e6, e7) and the Lady Precept. Other models include the Treosoft, X-Fixx and Extra-Soft. Bridgestone also manufactures golf clubs, the current range being the J15 series. This includes 5 models of Irons (J15MB, J15CB, J15DF, J15DPF and J15Cast), the J15 Forged Wedges (Satin or Black Oxide finishes), the J715 Driver, Fairway Woods and Hybrids, as well as the Limited Edition J815 Driver. Bridgestone Golf has deals with many professional golfers who use and endorse their products, including 1992 Masters champion Fred Couples and Matt Kuchar. In April 2016 Bryson", "title": "Bridgestone Golf" }, { "docid": "11062821", "text": "of pitching wedges (and all other irons) in the newest iron sets, it is almost unheard of anymore for a player to have only a pitching wedge and sand wedge. Gap wedges are ubiquitous in the modern club set, and sets of four total wedges are becoming more and more common. This usually comes at the cost of having to remove other clubs, often the long irons, from the bag in order to meet the 14-club limit; with a driver and two fairway irons or hybrids, for a player to have four wedges, they must start their numbered irons at", "title": "Iron (golf)" }, { "docid": "11062786", "text": "are the most common type of club; a standard set of 14 golf clubs will usually contain between 7 and 11 irons, including wedges. Irons are customarily differentiated by a number from 1 to 10 (most commonly 3 to 9) that indicates the relative angle of loft on the clubface, although a set of irons will also vary in clubhead size, shaft length, and hence lie angle as the loft (and number) increase. Irons with higher loft than the numbered irons are called wedges, which are typically marked with a letter indicating their name, and are used for a variety", "title": "Iron (golf)" }, { "docid": "3480556", "text": "actually classed as irons. To be legal for sanctioned play, a chipper cannot have any feature that is defined in the rules as allowable only on putters, e.g. two striking faces or a flat-topped \"putter grip\". This disqualifies many chipper designs, but there are some USGA-conforming chippers, and non-conforming designs can still be used in non-sanctioned \"informal\" play. The shaft is a tapered tube made of metal (usually steel) or carbon fiber composite (referred to as graphite). The shaft is roughly in diameter near the grip and from in length. Shafts weigh from , depending on the material and length.", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "18064974", "text": "Links Magazine, Rollinson noted that the rules of golf make it easier to support design innovation for putters than for other golf clubs. He noted, \"The rules of what you can do in designing a putter are so much more open than with woods and irons. There’s much more freedom in terms of the shape. It’s all over the map.” Rollinson also described in the interview that he designs putters to fit how golfers perceive contrasts. He stated, “The eye uses contrast to pick out edges of objects. ... The eye has a really good ability to pick out lines", "title": "Austie Rollinson" }, { "docid": "11057421", "text": "player's typical putting stance and grip, a ball can be \"bumped\" in the air over the taller rough onto the green, where it will then \"run\" (roll) like a putt. Other clubs, especially mid- and high-lofted irons, can make a similar stroke and are more commonly used. In 2007 the Darrell Survey Company reported that over 30% of consumer golfers were using at least one hybrid club, up from a little over 7% in 2004. They also found 65% of professional golfers on the PGA Tour, and 80% on the Champions Tour now use at least one hybrid club, with", "title": "Hybrid (golf)" }, { "docid": "11057412", "text": "at launch. The hybrid's lie, length and weight is comparable to an iron. Being a new class of club, there is no generally accepted principle governing design. So while a \"true\" hybrid is as described above, many manufacturers cut production costs by marketing irons as hybrids by adding one or more features to make it look like a hybrid. Some have a club face that looks very similar to an iron, but instead of the cavity-back or muscle-back design these clubs have a slightly bulging back to appear more wood-like in shape. These \"iron replacements\" swing and perform almost exactly", "title": "Hybrid (golf)" }, { "docid": "8623833", "text": "Lawrence Icely provided the financial backing for Patty Berg and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to form the Women’s PGA, predecessor of today's LPGA. In 1954 Wilson began producing the Wilson Staff ball which was seen as revolutionary due to its ability to launch up to 40 percent faster than the golf club's head speed. In 2005 Wilson Staff claims to be the first golf company to utilize nanotechnology in golf equipment. Wilson Staff currently markets the following equipment. Drivers Fairway Woods & Hybrids Irons Wedges Putters Balls Miscellaneous items and Accessories Wilson Staff claims that its line of irons has \"more", "title": "Wilson Staff" }, { "docid": "11062790", "text": "such as \"cut-muscle\", or \"split-cavity\" to describe these designs. There are also many hybrid clubs, so-called because they combine some of the characteristics of irons and woods, that closely resemble standard irons. Indeed, many sets of clubs, especially those marketed for beginners, now include hybrids to replace the more traditional 3 and 4 irons. A muscle back is the more traditional design and consists of a solid metal head, typically made of forged iron. The design of the club typically distributes the metal more evenly around the clubhead (though most designs still place more weight along the sole of the", "title": "Iron (golf)" }, { "docid": "11060468", "text": "Putter A putter is a club used in the sport of golf to make relatively short and low-speed strokes with the intention of rolling the ball into the hole from a short distance away. It is differentiated from the other clubs (typically, irons and woods) by a clubhead with a very flat, low-profile, low-loft striking face, and by other features which are only allowed on putters, such as bent shafts, non-circular grips, and positional guides. Putters are generally used from very close distances to the cup, generally on the putting green, though certain courses have fringes and roughs near the", "title": "Putter" }, { "docid": "11060482", "text": "only in practice environments. Putter A putter is a club used in the sport of golf to make relatively short and low-speed strokes with the intention of rolling the ball into the hole from a short distance away. It is differentiated from the other clubs (typically, irons and woods) by a clubhead with a very flat, low-profile, low-loft striking face, and by other features which are only allowed on putters, such as bent shafts, non-circular grips, and positional guides. Putters are generally used from very close distances to the cup, generally on the putting green, though certain courses have fringes", "title": "Putter" }, { "docid": "12471504", "text": "golf brands, particularly for Dunlop Slazenger including the high-end \"Maxfli Tour Balata HT\" ball, Srixon now market their own range of balls: Srixon manufactures a full range of golf clubs and accessories. Drivers Fairways and utilities Irons and wedges Putters Srixon has sponsorship deals with many professional golfers around the world playing on all the major tours. PGA Tour European Tour Champions Tour LPGA Tour Web.com Tour ATP Tour WTA Tour Srixon Srixon is a brand owned by SRI Sports Limited, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd., specializing in golf and tennis. Srixon is most well known globally for", "title": "Srixon" }, { "docid": "5201508", "text": "Wedge (golf) In the sport of golf, a wedge is a subset of the iron family of golf clubs designed for special use situations. As a class, wedges have the highest lofts, the shortest shafts, and the heaviest clubheads of the irons. These features generally aid the player in making accurate short-distance \"lob\" shots, to get the ball onto the green or out of a hazard or other tricky spot. In addition, wedges are designed with modified soles that aid the player in moving the clubhead through soft lies, such as sand, mud, and thick grass, to extract a ball", "title": "Wedge (golf)" }, { "docid": "539171", "text": "2017 M1 fairway woods, with irons to be custom made at a later date. He also added his Scotty Cameron Newport 2 GSS, a club he used to win 13 of his 14 majors. Also, in late 2016, he would add Monster Energy as his primary bag sponsor, replacing MusclePharm. According to \"Golf Digest\", Woods made $769,440,709 from 1996 to 2007, and the magazine predicted that Woods would pass one billion dollars in earnings by 2010. In 2009, \"Forbes\" confirmed that Woods was indeed the world's first athlete to earn over a billion dollars in his career, after accounting for", "title": "Tiger Woods" }, { "docid": "8543614", "text": "also milled a cavity into the steel back of the irons for added forgiveness. The first PGA Tour victory while using a PING club came in 1962 at the Cajun Classic Open Invitational by John Barnum. Sales of the PING putters rose as the popularity steadily increased. The Golf World Cup of 1965 brought even greater sales of the garage-made PING putters as many of the top players used the PING putters during the televised event in Japan. In 1966, Solheim had an idea for a new putter flash in his mind. As he was unable to find a piece", "title": "Ping (golf)" }, { "docid": "11057411", "text": "to replace the 1-4 irons with hybrids. A hybrid generally features a head very similar to a fairway wood; hollow steel or titanium with a shallow, slightly convex face. A hybrid head is usually marginally shallower and does not extend backwards from the face as far as a comparable fairway wood. The head must have an iron-like lie angle, and therefore also has a flatter sole than a fairway wood. The face incorporates the \"trampoline\" effect common to most modern woods, in which the clubface deforms slightly, then returns to its previous shape, increasing the impulse applied to the ball", "title": "Hybrid (golf)" } ]
[ { "docid": "3480568", "text": "better distance. Each head has one face which contacts the ball during the stroke. Putters may have two striking faces, as long as they are identical and symmetrical. Some chippers (a club similar in appearance to a double-sided putter but having a loft of 35–45 degrees) have two faces, but are not legal. Page 135 of the 2009 USGA rules of golf states: The club head must have only one striking face, except that a putter may have two such faces if their characteristics are the same, and they are opposite each other. Page 127 of the USGA rules of", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "11057418", "text": "is often used for long shots from difficult rough and for nearly any shot where the golfer would normally use a long iron but feels uncomfortable doing so. They also are direct replacements for fairway woods in most situations, but a fairway wood will have greater club speed and more roll for better distance. Because hybrids can assist in getting the player out of tricky situations such as tight lies, TaylorMade Golf chose to market their hybrid clubs as \"Rescue\" clubs. The most common hybrid lofts are 3-iron and 4-iron equivalents (the 1- and 2-iron are usually omitted from the", "title": "Hybrid (golf)" }, { "docid": "14130907", "text": "more traditional layout. World Woods also sports a 22-acre, four-sided driving range, a 2.2-acre putting course, a nine-hole \"short\" executive course and a three-hole practice course. World Woods is a true golf course, with a minimalist clubhouse and snack bar with no on-site accommodations. World Woods is owned by Interfive Florida Corporation based in Nagoya, Japan. Interfive also owns two neighboring courses, Southern Woods Golf Club and Sugarmill Woods Golf Club, both located in Homosassa, Florida. World Woods Golf Club World Woods Golf Club is a golf destination facility located in Brooksville, Florida, in the United States. World Woods Golf", "title": "World Woods Golf Club" }, { "docid": "3480571", "text": "slows play considerably when both players need the same club. The most common set of men's clubs is: The above set is only 12 clubs; these (or equivalent hybrid substitutes) are found in virtually every golf bag. To this, players typically add two of the following: Women's club sets are similar in overall makeup, but typically have higher lofts and shorter, more flexible shafts in retail sets to accommodate the average female player's height and swing speed. Variations on this basic set abound; several club options usually exist for almost any shot depending on the player's skill level and playing", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "3480551", "text": "onto the green (chipping). There are five types of wedges, with lofts ranging from 45° to 64°: pitching wedge (PW, 48–50°), gap wedge (GW, also \"approach\", \"attack\", \"utility\", or \"dual\" wedge, typically 52–54°), sand wedge (SW, 55–56°), lob wedge (LW, 58°–60°), and ultra lob wedge (sometimes called the \"flop wedge\" or FW, 64°–68°). \"Hybrids\" are a cross between a wood and an iron, giving these clubs the wood's long distance and higher launch, with the iron's familiar swing. The club head of a hybrid has a wood-inspired, slightly convex face, and is typically hollow like modern metal woods to allow", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "3480570", "text": "the center of mass of the overall club head, but for these minute adjustments, screw-in weighted inserts at specific points on the club head are usually used instead. The rules of golf limit each player to a maximum of 14 clubs in their bag. Strict rules prohibit sharing of clubs between players that each have their own set (if two players share clubs, they may not have more than 14 clubs combined), and while occasional lending of a club to a player is generally overlooked, habitual borrowing of other players' clubs or the sharing of a single bag of clubs", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "14130906", "text": "World Woods Golf Club World Woods Golf Club is a golf destination facility located in Brooksville, Florida, in the United States. World Woods Golf Club comprises two Tom Fazio designed championship courses that opened for play in 1991. The two golf courses, the Pine Barrens and the Rolling Oaks, are distinctively different from each other. The Pine Barrens features rolling terrain with wide open fairways surrounded by vast sand waste bunkers. Pine Barrens is reminiscent of Pine Valley Golf Club located in New Jersey. The Rolling Oaks course, adjacent to Pine Barrens, is dotted with mature oak trees and a", "title": "World Woods Golf Club" }, { "docid": "3480555", "text": "the rough and fringe and drop it on the green, where it will then roll like a putt. This club replaces the use of a high-lofted iron to make the same shot, and allows the player to make the shot from a stance and with a motion nearly identical to a putt, which is more difficult with a lofted iron due to a difference in lie angle. Most chippers have a loft greater than 10 degrees, which is the maximum loft permitted by the Rules of Golf for a club to be classed as a putter, so these clubs are", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "18956240", "text": "Bettinardi Golf Bettinardi Golf is an American Golf Club company that was founded in 1998 by Robert J. Bettinardi. Bettinardi Golf is primarily known for making high-end, precision milled putters that are made in the United States of America. Additionally, Bettinardi Golf sells wedges, belt buckles, and other milled accessories. Robert Bettinardi started his work in the putting industry in December 1991 when he walked into a golf shop and saw an advertisement from Callaway for a putter that was milled on a Bridgeport milling machine. At the time, Bettinardi owned his own manufacturing facility with CNC (computer numerical control)", "title": "Bettinardi Golf" }, { "docid": "9874943", "text": "Cleveland Golf Cleveland Golf is a brand owned by SRI Sports Limited, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd., specializing in golf equipment. Based in Huntington Beach, California, Cleveland Golf began as a company known for producing replicas of classic golf clubs. Roger Cleveland founded the company, which was first called Cleveland Classics, in 1979. Persimmon woods like the TC15 became very popular on Tour, as did many Cleveland wedges. The most played wedge was the brand’s fifth design released in 1988 – the 588. To this day, the 588 wedge is one of the best selling golf clubs of", "title": "Cleveland Golf" }, { "docid": "3480546", "text": "allowing faster club-head speeds. Woods are the longest clubs and the most powerful of all the golf clubs. There are typically three to four woods in a set which are used from the tee box and, if on a long hole, possibly for the second or even third shot. The biggest wood, known as the \"driver\" or \"one wood\", is often made of hollowed out titanium with feather-light shafts. The length of the woods has been increasing in recent decades, and a typical driver with a graphite shaft is now long. The woods may also have very large heads, up", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "10715149", "text": "Obsolete golf clubs Early golf clubs were all made of wood. They were hand-crafted, often by the players themselves, and had no standard shape or form. As the sport of golf developed, a standard set of clubs began to take shape, with different clubs being fashioned to perform different tasks and hit various types of shot. Later, as more malleable iron became widely used for shorter-range clubs, an even wider variety of clubs became available. Many of the clubs manufactured between 1901 and 1935 came from Scotland, but more and more started coming from larger US manufacturers. These early clubs", "title": "Obsolete golf clubs" }, { "docid": "10715153", "text": "reversed and a few strokes were played. Obsolete golf clubs Early golf clubs were all made of wood. They were hand-crafted, often by the players themselves, and had no standard shape or form. As the sport of golf developed, a standard set of clubs began to take shape, with different clubs being fashioned to perform different tasks and hit various types of shot. Later, as more malleable iron became widely used for shorter-range clubs, an even wider variety of clubs became available. Many of the clubs manufactured between 1901 and 1935 came from Scotland, but more and more started coming", "title": "Obsolete golf clubs" }, { "docid": "3480544", "text": "swing. The club heads were often made from woods including apple, pear, dogwood, and beech in the early times until persimmon became the main material. Golf clubs have been improved and the shafts are now made of steel, titanium, other types of metals or carbon fiber. The shaft is a tapered steel tube or a series of stepped steel tubes in telescopic fashion. This has improved the accuracy of golfers. The grips of the clubs are made from leather or rubber. \"Woods\" are long-distance clubs, meant to drive the ball a great distance down the fairway towards the hole. They", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "9485765", "text": "Professional Putters Association The Professional Putters Association (PPA) was started in 1959 by Don Clayton, the founder of Putt-Putt Golf, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Originally begun as the Professional Putt-Putt Golfers Association in 1959, the name was changed in 1960 to the Professional Putters Association. The organization was formed to provide tournaments and competition for those who viewed putting as a sport. Since 1959, the PPA has held a National Championship Tournament. The PPA has awarded over $8,000,000 in prize money over the past 52 years. The Putt-Putt Golf Courses Championship TV series has become the longest running syndicated sports", "title": "Professional Putters Association" }, { "docid": "10644229", "text": "for rigidity and to separate clubs of various types for easier selection. More expensive bags have sleeves or pockets within the main compartment for each individual club, allowing for the desired club to be more easily removed from the bag and then returned without interference from the grips of the other clubs or internal hardware of the bag. Golf carts are vehicles used to transport golf bags and golfers along the golf course during a round of golf. Hand carts are designed to hold only the bag, and are used by players while walking along the course to relieve them", "title": "Golf equipment" }, { "docid": "9874946", "text": "HiBore, in 2006. Cleveland has endorsement deals with many professional golfers playing on all the major tours. PGA Tour European Tour Web.com Tour Champions Tour LPGA Tour Cleveland Golf Cleveland Golf is a brand owned by SRI Sports Limited, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd., specializing in golf equipment. Based in Huntington Beach, California, Cleveland Golf began as a company known for producing replicas of classic golf clubs. Roger Cleveland founded the company, which was first called Cleveland Classics, in 1979. Persimmon woods like the TC15 became very popular on Tour, as did many Cleveland wedges. The most played", "title": "Cleveland Golf" }, { "docid": "3480576", "text": "speed on a lower-loft iron and/or placing the ball further forward in their stance to get the same carry distance and/or launch angle as the next higher loft number. The ruling authorities of golf, The R&A (an offshoot of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews) and the United States Golf Association (USGA), reserve the right to define what shapes and physical characteristics of clubs are permissible in tournament play. The current rules for club design, including the results of various rulings on clubs introduced for play, are defined in Appendix II of the Rules of Golf. The", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "3132449", "text": "Lee Elder participated in the 1975 Tournament. Tiger Woods would become the first person of color to win the tournament in 1997. He and Vijay Singh are the only people of color to win the tournament. In 2018, Augusta National Golf Club was voted the number one Platinum Club of the World, Golf & Country Clubs by the election conducted by Club Leaders Forum. On April 4, 2018, Fred Ridley, in his first major appearance as chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, announced that the Augusta National Women's Amateur Championship would start in 2019. The tournament will take place a", "title": "Augusta National Golf Club" }, { "docid": "8003994", "text": "bush walking and fishing. The clubhouse is air-conditioned and has wheelchair access and some outside smoking areas, and is open seven days a week from 10am. The fully licensed clubhouse includes a bar, bistro, coffee shop and a pro shop. Pro Shop is operated by Head Professional Andrew McCormack. Lessons, Apparel, Golf Clubs and accessories Available. Golf Carts and Golf Clubs for hire. Hawks Nest Golf Club Hawks Nest Golf Club is a championship rated 18-hole golf course with an Australian Curse Rating of 71 in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the home of the", "title": "Hawks Nest Golf Club" }, { "docid": "11062700", "text": "lowering the center of gravity. Wood (golf) A wood is a type of club used in the sport of golf. Woods have longer shafts and larger, rounder heads than other club types, and are used to hit the ball longer distances than other types. Woods are so called because, traditionally, they had a club head that was made from hardwood, generally persimmon, but modern clubs have heads made from metal, for example titanium, or composite materials, such as carbon fiber. Some golf enthusiasts refer to these as \"metals\" or \"metal woods\" but this change in terminology is not strictly necessary,", "title": "Wood (golf)" }, { "docid": "11062669", "text": "Wood (golf) A wood is a type of club used in the sport of golf. Woods have longer shafts and larger, rounder heads than other club types, and are used to hit the ball longer distances than other types. Woods are so called because, traditionally, they had a club head that was made from hardwood, generally persimmon, but modern clubs have heads made from metal, for example titanium, or composite materials, such as carbon fiber. Some golf enthusiasts refer to these as \"metals\" or \"metal woods\" but this change in terminology is not strictly necessary, because while the material has", "title": "Wood (golf)" }, { "docid": "11887661", "text": "the last players to win an international event using a persimmon driver. In 1991, Erickson was a Sony World ranked professional player. In November 2008, Erickson made a return to professional competition and the winner's circle taking home a 7 stroke victory in the Las Vegas Classic Club Open played at Las Vegas National Golf Club which hosted the Las Vegas Invitational on the PGA Tour throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The event was unique in that it required players to use equipment no later than 1979. No metal woods, long putters, or wedges over 56 degrees were allowed. The", "title": "John Erickson (golfer)" }, { "docid": "9485769", "text": "2005 - Greg Ward surpasses Alan Quinnelly as the sport's all-time leading money winner. Professional Putters Association The Professional Putters Association (PPA) was started in 1959 by Don Clayton, the founder of Putt-Putt Golf, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Originally begun as the Professional Putt-Putt Golfers Association in 1959, the name was changed in 1960 to the Professional Putters Association. The organization was formed to provide tournaments and competition for those who viewed putting as a sport. Since 1959, the PPA has held a National Championship Tournament. The PPA has awarded over $8,000,000 in prize money over the past 52 years.", "title": "Professional Putters Association" }, { "docid": "12598638", "text": "a discriminating club under Section 8 of the ESA. Women are only able to play at the north Dublin course, but are not granted the ability to become a full member. Pormarnock Golf Club is one of only two top golf clubs in Ireland that still prohibits women from becoming members. The 2019 Amateur Championship will be staged at Portmarnock, having been allocated the tournament before a review by the Royal & Ancient of their policy around assigning events to clubs which only admit men as members. Portmarnock Golf Club Portmarnock Golf Club is a links golf club in Portmarnock,", "title": "Portmarnock Golf Club" }, { "docid": "18876778", "text": "Trump National Golf Club (Washington, D.C.) Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C. is an private golf club in the eastern United States, at Lowes Island in Potomac Falls, Virginia, northwest of Washington, D.C. It is part of the Trump chain of golf clubs that includes clubs in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Bedminster. The club contains two 18-hole golf courses, both par 72. The Championship Course was designed by Tom Fazio, and the Riverview course was added in 1999, when the club was still known as the Lowes Island Club. The Riverview Course abuts the Potomac River and was originally designed", "title": "Trump National Golf Club (Washington, D.C.)" }, { "docid": "4665205", "text": "margin in this event. In doing this she scored a 64 in her second round to set a new ladies' course record and a score that was the lowest seen at Royal Liverpool in a major championship event. The previous record had been held by Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Sergio Garcia and Chris DiMarco, who all scored 65s during the 2006 Open Championship. The twelve winners of The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club: Royal Liverpool Golf Club The Royal Liverpool Golf Club is a golf club in Wirral in England. It was founded in 1869 on what was", "title": "Royal Liverpool Golf Club" }, { "docid": "18381761", "text": "Toowoomba Golf Club Middle Ridge The Toowoomba Golf Club Middle Ridge is one of two golf clubs in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia; the other being City Golf Club Toowoomba. Toowoomba Golf Club is situated in the suburb of Middle Ridge, and its address is 235-323 Rowbotham Street. Toowoomba Golf Club, Middle Ridge, is a sports club with an 18-hole championship golf course and its clubhouse includes areas for functions, one being a private room and the other a deck with views across the course. The clubhouse hosts \"Ridges\" – a 150-seat restaurant. The clubhouse bar and deck overlook the kikuyu fairways", "title": "Toowoomba Golf Club Middle Ridge" }, { "docid": "3480582", "text": "older clubs were \"grandfathered in\" and allowed to remain in play as part of the settlement. However, the USGA has begun phasing in a ban on square grooves in golf. Manufacturers were required to discontinue noncompliant clubs by January 1, 2011. According to the USGA, as January 1, 2010, professional golfers on one of the top tours, or those attempting to qualify for one of the three Open Championships (since then four) will need to use new conforming wedges (those without square grooves). Moreover, those who plan to qualify for any other USGA championship (Amateur championships -- under 18, Amateur,", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "18381765", "text": "in September 2011. The women's course record was set in June 2014 when 14-year-old Darcy Habgood scored a one-under round of 72. Toowoomba Golf Club Middle Ridge The Toowoomba Golf Club Middle Ridge is one of two golf clubs in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia; the other being City Golf Club Toowoomba. Toowoomba Golf Club is situated in the suburb of Middle Ridge, and its address is 235-323 Rowbotham Street. Toowoomba Golf Club, Middle Ridge, is a sports club with an 18-hole championship golf course and its clubhouse includes areas for functions, one being a private room and the other a deck", "title": "Toowoomba Golf Club Middle Ridge" }, { "docid": "7197317", "text": "issued to prevent playing Kolf in the streets of Albany due to too many windows being broken. Evidence of early golf in what is now the United States includes a 1739 record for a shipment of golf equipment to a William Wallace in Charleston, South Carolina, an advertisement published in the \"Royal Gazette\" of New York City in 1779 for golf clubs and balls, and the establishment of the South Carolina Golf Club in 1787 in Charleston. However, as in England, it was not until the late 19th century that golf started to become firmly established. Several clubs established in", "title": "History of golf" }, { "docid": "5558807", "text": "U.S. Open) was threatened by the development of a freeway. After that club rejected plans for a new course, Heffelfinger met with Robert Trent Jones to design the golf course. The course was originally named \"The Executive Golf Club\" and was initially intended to be part of a series of Executive Golf Clubs around the country. However, the name was not favorable and the other clubs did not materialize. The founders decided to call the new course Hazeltine National Golf club in honor of the adjoining Lake Hazeltine. The course opened for play to club members in 1962. Heffelfinger's ultimate", "title": "Hazeltine National Golf Club" }, { "docid": "3480563", "text": "be fitted with dozens of different shafts, each with slight variation in behavior, creating the potential for a much better fit for the average golfer. The grip of the club is attached to the opposite end of the shaft from the club head, and is the part of the club the player holds on to while swinging. Originally, the grip was composed of one or more leather strips wrapped around the shaft. The leather outer wrap on a grip is still seen on some clubs, most commonly putters, but most modern grips are a one-piece \"sleeve\" made of rubber, synthetic", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "18956244", "text": "his own again. In 2009, Robert Bettinardi set out on his own again to craft Bettinardi putters branded as such. Since the partnership ended, Bettinardi Golf has earned 10 victories on the PGA Tour, and 3 on the Champions Tour. Most notably and presently, Matt Kuchar, Fred Couples, Jim Herman, Brian Gay, Edoardo Molinari, and Steven Bowditch use their putters. PGA Tour Wins: U.S. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS TOUR SUNSHINE TOUR EUROPEAN TOUR U.S. LPGA TOUR Bettinardi Golf Bettinardi Golf is an American Golf Club company that was founded in 1998 by Robert J. Bettinardi. Bettinardi Golf is primarily known for", "title": "Bettinardi Golf" }, { "docid": "11682212", "text": "Canada. Other clubs in Toronto: Rosedale Golf Club Rosedale Golf Club is a private golf club in Toronto. Founded in 1893 in Moore Park as a 9 hole course and moved to Rosedale, Toronto in 1895-1896 on what is now Rosedale Field. It was a 15 acres eighteen hole course that ran along Highland Avenue from just west of the Rosedale Field to as far as Glen Road and just north of Summerhill Avenue. This location was short lived as the land was owned by The Scottish Ontario and Manitoba Land Company and the area was being acquired to become", "title": "Rosedale Golf Club" }, { "docid": "16851953", "text": "Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club The Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club is a private golf club and golf course comprising two 18-hole courses located in Old Deer Park in Richmond, south west London. The course lies in an arc of Crown Estate land on the east bank of the River Thames which includes Kew Gardens to the north and other parts of Old Deer Park to the south. The Old Deer Park sports ground, used by London Welsh RFC and other clubs, borders the east of the course. Within the boundaries of the golf course lies the Grade I listed Kew Observatory,", "title": "Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club" }, { "docid": "3480545", "text": "generally have a large head and a long shaft for maximum club speed. Historically woods were made from persimmon wood although some manufacturers—notably Ping—developed laminated woods. In 1979, TaylorMade Golf introduced the first metal wood made of steel. Even more recently manufacturers have started using materials such as carbon fiber, titanium, or scandium. Even though most \"woods\" are made from different metals, they are still called \"woods\" to denote the general shape and their intended use on the golf course. Most woods made today have a graphite shaft and a mostly-hollow titanium, composite, or steel head, of relatively light weight", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "16095420", "text": "to Royal St Georges in Sandwich. In 1881 a split within the club between military and civilian members led to the creation by the civilians of what is now Royal Wimbledon Golf Club. The two clubs shared the course until 1907, when Royal Wimbledon members built their own new course just off the common. The following year Wimbledon Common Golf Club was founded, and began to share the old course on the common with London Scottish. That arrangement has continued to the present day. Although the clubs are entirely separate, with their own clubhouses and different starting points, they work", "title": "London Scottish Golf Club" }, { "docid": "16104053", "text": "land. Today, the five buildings that form the headquarters of AT&T Mobility form a circle overlooking what was once the club's golf course and its lake. In the 1980s, the club moved to its present location in Johns Creek. Standard Club The Standard Club is a private country club, founded as the Concordia Association in 1867. Originally located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, the club is now located in the northern suburb of Johns Creek. The club started as the Concordia Association in 1867 in Downtown Atlanta. Their premises, the 1892 Concordia Hall, are still standing in the Hotel Row", "title": "Standard Club" }, { "docid": "7197318", "text": "the 1880s can make claim to be the oldest extant in the country, but what is not disputed is that as a result of two competing \"National Amateur Championships\" being played in 1894, delegates from the Newport Country Club, Saint Andrew's Golf Club, Yonkers, New York, The Country Club, Chicago Golf Club, and Shinnecock Hills Golf Club met in New York City to form what was to become the United States Golf Association (USGA). By 1910 there were 267 clubs. During the Roaring Twenties the game expanded greatly in popularity and by 1932 there were over 1,100 golf clubs affiliated", "title": "History of golf" }, { "docid": "16061124", "text": "to feel it, to realize how special it is, how beautiful it is, and what you can do with it. As soon as I got on site, I was in.\" When describing the vision of the course design to \"Forbes\", Tucker remarked \"When you have a site surrounded on three sides by ocean and a golf architect (Tiger Woods) that completely integrates it by designing 17 tees or greens on/adjacent to the ocean… you have the opportunity to create something special–a true golf club.\" Punta Brava Golf Course will be a 6,835-yard par-70 course. The club will also have lodging", "title": "Punta Brava Golf Club" }, { "docid": "13480393", "text": "its outstanding course and club. The course was featured in EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014. Sheshan Golf Club Sheshan Golf Club () is the first premier private golf club in Shanghai, China. Founded in 2004, the 18 hole golf course plays to a par of 72 and is designed by Nelson and Haworth Design, and spans over 7,266 yards (6,531 meters). Every year, the club plays host to the WGC-HSBC Champions, and is currently the only club to host the Championship. Sheshan Golf Club was awarded the Best Golf Course in China by", "title": "Sheshan Golf Club" }, { "docid": "8614890", "text": "Blue Wedges Blue Wedges is a conservation organisation in conflict with Australia's Victorian government policy to deepen shipping channels in Port Phillip and the large scale development of Ramsar listed Westernport. The Blue Wedges is a coalition of over 65 environmental and bay user groups opposed to development in the Melbourne Bays that they deem to be unsustainable, such as the Port of Melbourne Corporation's Channel Deepening Project. The Blue Wedges Coalition includes angling groups and peak bodies, professional fishing associations, diving and charter operators along with the more traditional coastal protection groups and bayside industry sectors. The Blue Wedges", "title": "Blue Wedges" }, { "docid": "12061096", "text": "Royal Musselburgh Golf Club The Royal Musselburgh Golf Club is a golf club at Prestongrange House, Prestongrange near Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland, on the B1361. Between 1774 and 1926, the club was based at Levenhall Links, Musselburgh. The first golf clubs were founded in the 18th century. The first was the Royal Blackheath Golf Club, instituted in 1706, followed by the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers in 1744, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 1754, and the Royal Musselburgh Golf Club in 1774. These clubs gradually accepted some responsibility for the links on which they played.", "title": "Royal Musselburgh Golf Club" }, { "docid": "11062819", "text": "loft angle in degrees, their bounce angle either in degrees or in a \"low-medium-high\" marking system, and an indication of the \"sole grind\", variations of which make the club more suitable for different types of shots. This system allows more flexibility in club selection and use, as one player might consider a club of a particular angle for a different basic job than the majority of players would. For instance, a player might regard both a 50° and a 54° wedge in their bag as gap wedges, and so choose clubs with lower bounce angles, then add a 58° wedge", "title": "Iron (golf)" }, { "docid": "18646989", "text": "San Francisco Golf Club The San Francisco Golf Club is an athletic club and private social club in San Francisco, California, with a portion of the course extending into neighboring Daly City. It is one of the most exclusive private membership clubs in the United States. In Golfdigest's 2015-2016 ranking of America's best golf courses, San Francisco Golf Club secured the 35th best course. The San Francisco Golf Club was one of seven golf clubs West of the Allegheny Mountains when it was founded in 1885. It had its beginning at the Presidio of San Francisco as a nine-hole course.", "title": "San Francisco Golf Club" }, { "docid": "14469098", "text": "Mount Bruno Golf Club Mount Bruno Golf Club is a private club located in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec, Canada. It is reputed to be one of the most exclusive golf clubs in Canada, and it has hosted the Canadian Open twice: The course was originally designed by Willie Park, Jr., later renovated by Stanley Thompson and Tom McBroom. It has members from all over the world. Its mountain terrain is difficult because the ball often breaks in the opposite direction from what golfers are expecting. The signature hole is the 13th, a 435-yard, par 4, which is located at the highest point", "title": "Mount Bruno Golf Club" }, { "docid": "19629677", "text": "Reykjavik Golf Club The Reykjavik Golf Club is a golf club located 10 km east of Reykjavik, Iceland. The club was established in 1934 and is the oldest and largest golf club in Iceland. It has hosted many European and Scandinavian tournaments including major events such as the European Youth and European Seniors Tour Championships. It was originally named Golf Club Iceland since it was the only golf club in Iceland at the time. However, as other clubs opened such as Akureyri Golf Club in 1935 and Westman Islands Golf Club in 1938, the name was changed to Reykjavik Golf", "title": "Reykjavik Golf Club" }, { "docid": "9219321", "text": "it had the highest winning score of all three qualifiers having a 36 hole score of -5, as opposed to around -9 or -10 at the other 2 courses. Panmure Golf Club Panmure Golf Club is a golf club close to the village of Barry, Angus, Scotland. It is one of the clubs that originally helped purchase the Amateur Championship trophy, and is one of the oldest golf clubs in the world, dating back to 1845. It is a private club that plays over the Barry Links, and is sometimes referred to as \"Barry\" or \"Panmure Barry\". Due to its", "title": "Panmure Golf Club" }, { "docid": "9219317", "text": "Panmure Golf Club Panmure Golf Club is a golf club close to the village of Barry, Angus, Scotland. It is one of the clubs that originally helped purchase the Amateur Championship trophy, and is one of the oldest golf clubs in the world, dating back to 1845. It is a private club that plays over the Barry Links, and is sometimes referred to as \"Barry\" or \"Panmure Barry\". Due to its location next to Carnoustie it is often overlooked by visitors, and with the number of members limited to 500 it is one of the most underplayed courses in Scotland.", "title": "Panmure Golf Club" }, { "docid": "18142681", "text": "Elie Golf Club Elie Golf Club, also known as Earlsferry Links Golf Course, is a coastal links golf club in Elie and Earlsferry, Fife, Scotland. Only about ten miles from the \"spiritual home of golf\" at The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, golf has been played here since at least 1589, when a royal charter was passed granting villagers permission to use the links. The formal club, the Elie and Earlsferry Golf Club, dates to 1832 and is one of the oldest golf clubs in the United Kingdom. The current course, a par 70 6251-yard course, was", "title": "Elie Golf Club" }, { "docid": "12500164", "text": "between Edinburgh at the Scottish Borders. The new course opened in 1995 measuring 6150 yards. The current course has a standard scratch of 70 with a competition standard scratch of 69. Broomieknowe Golf Club Broomieknowe Golf Club is a parkland golf club in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, Scotland. The golf club was formed in 1905 with the golf course opening in April 1906. The original course was designed by North Berwick professional golfer Ben Sayers, consisting of 18 holes and measuring 4740 yards. In 1933, golf course architect and professional James Braid redesigned the course to take advantage of new land, and", "title": "Broomieknowe Golf Club" }, { "docid": "14707161", "text": "Detroit Golf Club The Detroit Golf Club (abbreviated to DGC) is a private golf club located in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan in the middle of a neighborhood area on north side of the city near the University of Detroit Mercy and Palmer Woods Historic District. Bert Way designed the original 6-hole course, then it gradually improved to 9 holes, and finally Donald Ross built the current 36-hole course. The club grounds crew maintains two courses. The North and the South Course. The head pro is Jon Gates. Detroit Golf Club will host the Rocket Mortgage Classic, a new annual PGA", "title": "Detroit Golf Club" }, { "docid": "17872421", "text": "sequel was announced, The Golf Club 2, which is set to release in Spring 2017. The Golf Club was conceived in Q1/Q2 2013 after the cancellation of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 15 on which HB Studios were due to work. The team's philosophy is focused on delivering an accessible, high quality, social and customizable golf experience with minimal to zero loading times. In early February 2014, HB Studios announced that The Golf Club would be appearing on Steam and they used that platform when The Golf Club entered Closed BETA later in the month. On August 12, HB Studios announced", "title": "The Golf Club" }, { "docid": "13480389", "text": "Sheshan Golf Club Sheshan Golf Club () is the first premier private golf club in Shanghai, China. Founded in 2004, the 18 hole golf course plays to a par of 72 and is designed by Nelson and Haworth Design, and spans over 7,266 yards (6,531 meters). Every year, the club plays host to the WGC-HSBC Champions, and is currently the only club to host the Championship. Sheshan Golf Club was awarded the Best Golf Course in China by \"Golf Digest\" in 2013 and currently tops of the list of Top Clubs in China by \"Golf Magazine\". Sheshan has played host", "title": "Sheshan Golf Club" }, { "docid": "3480554", "text": "it has made. Newer putters also include grooves on the face to promote roll rather than a skid off the impact. This increases rolling distance and reduces bouncing over the turf. Putters are the only class of club allowed to have certain features, such as two striking faces, non-circular grip cross-sections, bent shafts or hosels, and appendages designed primarily to aid players' aim. Present in some golfers' bags is the \"chipper\", a club designed to feel like a putter but with a more lofted face, used with a putting motion to lift the ball out of the higher grass of", "title": "Golf club" }, { "docid": "12616911", "text": "Minneapolis Golf Club Minneapolis Golf Club is a golf club located in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Designed by Willie Park, Jr. and Donald Ross, the Minneapolis golf course opened in 1916. The club hosted the U.S. Amateur in 1950 as well as the PGA Championship in 1959, which Bob Rosburg won. In 1916, there were only two golf clubs in Minneapolis, Minikahda Country Club and Interlachen Country Club In early 1916, five members of the Minneapolis Athletic Club set plans to establish another golf club to meet the growing popularity of the game. By July,", "title": "Minneapolis Golf Club" }, { "docid": "11276940", "text": "Jimmy\" took on the Elie and Earlsferry Golf Club, which had also been founded in 1858. In 1884 a team from King James VI took part in the first inter-club golf match played in Ireland, against the Royal Belfast Club. King James members later set up some holes on a barren stretch of coastline near the village of Portrush, and were the first to play on what is now a world-famous links course. King James VI shared the 10-hole North Inch course with various other local golf clubs until 1897, when it migrated to its current setting on Moncreiffe Island.", "title": "King James VI Golf Club" }, { "docid": "17525157", "text": "Royal Sydney Golf Club The Royal Sydney Golf Club is golf club in Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia, a suburb of Sydney. Founded in 1893, Royal Sydney is one of Australia’s premier sporting and social clubs. It features an 18 hole Championship Course, a 9 hole Centenary Course, two golf practice areas, a golf teaching studio, 18 tennis courts, two bowling greens, two croquet lawns, a squash court, a Fitness Centre as well as an elegant Clubhouse. It has hosted the Australian Open on 15 occasions between 1906 and 2016. Royal Sydney was one of the earliest golf clubs", "title": "Royal Sydney Golf Club" }, { "docid": "10715150", "text": "had hickory shafts and wrapped leather grips. To secure the joins between the shaft and the head of the club, and between the grip and the shaft, whipping of black, waxed linen thread was used. Pre-1900 clubs (smooth-faced gutty era) used 7-ply thread. Clubs from the era 1900 to 1935 required 4-ply thread. From 1924 golf clubs started to be manufactured with shafts of steel, pyratone, aluminum, and fiberglass or resin; many of them were given a wood-look coating. Wooden clubs generally had a metal base-plate and were made heavier with a lead insert into the back of the head;", "title": "Obsolete golf clubs" }, { "docid": "8678201", "text": "outskirts of the Melbourne metropolitan area. It is situated in the heart of the Yarra Valley region, renowned for its extensive range of vineyards and wineries. The Heritage Golf and Country Club is located in the suburb of Chirnside Park, and adjacent to suburbs of Wonga Park and Christmas Hills. The \"Henley\" Golf Course is located in Christmas Hills, across the Yarra River. \"The Yarra Valley Lodge\" is operated by Austpac Hotels & Resorts. It opened in 2002 and the three-storey complex includes 96 standard rooms, six deluxe suites, the \"Bella Restaurant\", and numerous function rooms, including Marmion Ballroom, which", "title": "The Heritage Golf and Country Club" }, { "docid": "6965121", "text": "on the highway is available 100 metres to the west, just before a new sign \"Perth Hills'. It is listed on the Places Database of the Heritage Council of Western Australia, but is not afforded legislative protection. There are plaques at other sites from the same year placed by the Western Australian Historical Society, one can be found at the Round House in Fremantle There are similar granite outcrops in this area of the Darling Scarp in John Forrest National Park to the north, and to the south Darlington, and Boya, Western Australia Chippers Leap Chippers Leap, formerly known as", "title": "Chippers Leap" }, { "docid": "5626452", "text": "Golf Club: Chicago Golf Club Chicago Golf Club is a private golf club in the central United States, located in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago. The oldest 18-hole course in North America, it was one of the five founding clubs of the United States Golf Association (USGA) in 1894. The club has hosted several prominent events, including multiple U.S. Opens and Walker Cups, and was founded by renowned course designer and World Golf Hall of Fame member Charles B. Macdonald. In July 2018, the club hosted the inaugural U.S. Senior Women's Open, the newly created 14th USGA national", "title": "Chicago Golf Club" } ]
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Used to carry oxygen throughout your body, you create billions of new red blood cells every day. Where in your body are those red blood cells created?
[ "Bone marrow barrier", "Medulla ossium rubra", "Bone marrow stromal cells", "Hematopoietic microenvironment", "Stroma of bone marrow", "Red bone marrow", "Bone Marrow", "Bone marrow stroma", "Myeloic tissue", "Medulla ossea", "Bone marrow cells", "Red marrow", "Bone marrow", "Bone marrow donation", "Myeloid to erythroid ratio", "Bone marrow fat cell", "Yellow bone marrow", "Yellow marrow", "Bone marrow diseases", "Medulla ossium flava", "Myeloid/erythroid ratio" ]
[ { "docid": "766106", "text": "second in human adults. The cells develop in the bone marrow and circulate for about 100–120 days in the body before their components are recycled by macrophages. Each circulation takes about 60 seconds (one minute). Approximately a quarter of the cells in the human body are red blood cells. Nearly half of the blood's volume (40% to 45%) is red blood cells. Packed red blood cells (pRBC) are red blood cells that have been donated, processed, and stored in a blood bank for blood transfusion. Almost all vertebrates, including all mammals and humans, have red blood cells. Red blood cells", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766129", "text": "blood circulation for about 100 to 120 days (and 80 to 90 days in a full term infant). At the end of their lifespan, they are removed from circulation. In many chronic diseases, the lifespan of the red blood cells is reduced. Erythropoiesis is the process by which new red blood cells are produced; it lasts about 7 days. Through this process red blood cells are continuously produced in the red bone marrow of large bones. (In the embryo, the liver is the main site of red blood cell production.) The production can be stimulated by the hormone erythropoietin (EPO),", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "14015699", "text": "White blood cell White blood cells (also called leukocytes or leucocytes and abbreviated as WBCs) are the cells of the immune system that are involved in protecting the body against both infectious disease and foreign invaders. All white blood cells are produced and derived from multipotent cells in the bone marrow known as hematopoietic stem cells. Leukocytes are found throughout the body, including the blood and lymphatic system. All white blood cells have nuclei, which distinguishes them from the other blood cells, the anucleated red blood cells (RBCs) and platelets. Types of white blood cells can be classified in standard", "title": "White blood cell" }, { "docid": "766144", "text": "in the human body in that they lack a nucleus (although erythroblasts do have a nucleus). The condition of having too few red blood cells is known as anemia, while having too many is polycythemia. White blood cells or \"leukocytes\", are cells of the immune system involved in defending the body against both infectious disease and foreign materials. They are produced and derived from multipotent cells in the bone marrow known as a hematopoietic stem cells. Leukocytes are found throughout the body, including the blood and lymphatic system. There are a variety of types of white bloods cells that serve", "title": "Blood cell" }, { "docid": "766130", "text": "synthesised by the kidney. Just before and after leaving the bone marrow, the developing cells are known as reticulocytes; these constitute about 1% of circulating red blood cells. The functional lifetime of a red blood cell is about 100–120 days, during which time the red blood cells are continually moved by the blood flow push (in arteries), pull (in veins) and a combination of the two as they squeeze through microvessels such as capillaries. They are also recycled in the bone marrow. The aging red blood cell undergoes changes in its plasma membrane, making it susceptible to selective recognition by", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766135", "text": "loss, such as prior to an operation. Before blood is given, a small sample of the recipient's blood is tested with the transfusion in a process known as cross-matching. In addition to the transmission of infection, certain types of transfusion reaction. In 2008 it was reported that human embryonic stem cells had been successfully coaxed into becoming red blood cells in the lab. The difficult step was to induce the cells to eject their nucleus; this was achieved by growing the cells on stromal cells from the bone marrow. It is hoped that these artificial red blood cells can eventually", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "16027948", "text": "around the mouth and cramping in the hands are common symptoms during the donation process. After the donation, the amount of time for recovery varies for every donor, “But most stem cell donors are able to return to their usual activities within a few days to a week after donation”. Bone marrow failure Bone marrow failure occurs in individuals who produce an insufficient amount of red blood cells, white blood cells or platelets. Red blood cells transport oxygen to be distributed throughout the body’s tissue. White blood cells fight off infections that enter the body. Bone marrow also contains platelets,", "title": "Bone marrow failure" }, { "docid": "13889482", "text": "Lutzner cells can form cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, which is a form of skin cancer. Lymphocytes are white blood cells that form from a blood stem cell, hemocytoblast, in bone marrow and travel to other parts of the body, normally specific lymphoid tissues, to mature. After being produced, the stem cell differentiates into lymphoid stem cells. Then, T-lymphocytes further mature and differentiate into lymphoblasts when the hormone thymosin is secreted from the thymus. Finally, specialized immune cells, B cells and T cells, and nonspecialized immune cells, nature killer cells, are created from the lymphoblasts. This process is referred to as Leukopoiesis.", "title": "Lutzner cells" }, { "docid": "2964007", "text": "and small cells, causing the RDW to be elevated. An elevated RDW (red blood cells of unequal sizes) is known as anisocytosis. An elevation in the RDW is not characteristic of all anemias. Anemia of chronic disease, hereditary spherocytosis, acute blood loss, aplastic anemia (anemia resulting from an inability of the bone marrow to produce red blood cells), and certain hereditary hemoglobinopathies (including some cases of thalassemia minor) may all present with a normal RDW. The \"width\" in RDW-CV is sometimes thought to be \"misleading,\" since it in fact is a measure of deviation of the \"volume\" of RBCs, and", "title": "Red blood cell distribution width" }, { "docid": "19205477", "text": "Genetically engineered blood Genetically engineered blood is blood that has been modified for therapeutic or other purposes. Genetically modifying red blood stem cells allows them to produce specific therapeutic proteins on the surface or inside the cell. The stem cells are taken from mammalian bone marrow and are modified in culture. Before they become mature, mammalian red blood cells eject their genetic material. Culturing cells that produce a new protein of interest requires only a few weeks. Using the sortagging protein labeling technique, the researchers used the bacterial enzyme sortase A to establish a strong chemical bond between the surface", "title": "Genetically engineered blood" }, { "docid": "47131", "text": "bone marrow in a process called hematopoiesis, which includes erythropoiesis, the production of red blood cells; and myelopoiesis, the production of white blood cells and platelets. During childhood, almost every human bone produces red blood cells; as adults, red blood cell production is limited to the larger bones: the bodies of the vertebrae, the breastbone (sternum), the ribcage, the pelvic bones, and the bones of the upper arms and legs. In addition, during childhood, the thymus gland, found in the mediastinum, is an important source of T lymphocytes. The proteinaceous component of blood (including clotting proteins) is produced predominantly by", "title": "Blood" } ]
[ { "docid": "766107", "text": "are cells present in blood in order to transport oxygen. The only known vertebrates without red blood cells are the crocodile icefish (family Channichthyidae); they live in very oxygen-rich cold water and transport oxygen freely dissolved in their blood. While they no longer use hemoglobin, remnants of hemoglobin genes can be found in their genome. Vertebrate red blood cells consist mainly of hemoglobin, a complex metalloprotein containing heme groups whose iron atoms temporarily bind to oxygen molecules (O) in the lungs or gills and release them throughout the body. Oxygen can easily diffuse through the red blood cell's cell membrane.", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "10002674", "text": "United States. Without capitalization, it is simply generic without specifying whether or not the cells comprise a blood product, patient blood, etc. (with other generic terms for it being \"erythrocyte\" and \"red cell\"). Packed red blood cells Packed red blood cells, also known as packed cells, are red blood cells that have been separated for blood transfusion. They are typically used in anemia that is either causing symptoms or when the hemoglobin is less than usually 70–80 g/L (7–8 g/dL). In adults, one unit brings up hemoglobin levels by about 10 g/L (1 g/dL). Repeated transfusions may be required in", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "10002657", "text": "Packed red blood cells Packed red blood cells, also known as packed cells, are red blood cells that have been separated for blood transfusion. They are typically used in anemia that is either causing symptoms or when the hemoglobin is less than usually 70–80 g/L (7–8 g/dL). In adults, one unit brings up hemoglobin levels by about 10 g/L (1 g/dL). Repeated transfusions may be required in people receiving cancer chemotherapy or who have hemoglobin disorders. Cross matching is typically required before the blood is given. It is given by injection into a vein. Side effects include allergic reactions such", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "10002669", "text": "are kept with a minimal amount of fluid. Generally, an additive solution of citrate, dextrose, and adenine is mixed with the cells to keep them alive during storage. This process is sometimes done as automated apheresis, where the centrifuging and mixing take place at the donation site. Red blood cells are sometimes modified to address specific patient needs. The most common modification is leukoreduction, where the donor blood is filtered to remove white cells, although this is becoming increasingly universal throughout the blood supply (over 80% in the US, 100% in Europe). The blood may also be irradiated, which destroys", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "588396", "text": "addition to carrying oxygen, blood also carries hormones, waste products and nutrients for cells of the body. Blood vessels do not actively engage in the transport of blood (they have no appreciable peristalsis). Blood is propelled through arteries and arterioles through pressure generated by the heartbeat. Blood vessels also transport red blood cells which contain the oxygen necessary for daily activities. The amount of red blood cells present in your vessels has an effect on your health. Hematocrit tests can be performed to calculate the proportion of red blood cells in your blood. Higher proportions result in conditions such as", "title": "Blood vessel" }, { "docid": "10002668", "text": "are used in these situations, since they are unlikely to cause a reaction. A potentially fatal reaction is possible if the recipient has pre-existing antibodies, and uncrossmatched blood is only used in dire circumstances. Since O negative blood is not common, other blood types may be used if the situation is desperate. Most frequently, whole blood is collected from a blood donation and is spun in a centrifuge. The red blood cells are denser and settle to the bottom, and the majority of the liquid blood plasma remains on the top. The plasma is separated and the red blood cells", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "766110", "text": "being dissolved in body fluid) was an important step in the evolution of vertebrates as it allows for less viscous blood, higher concentrations of oxygen, and better diffusion of oxygen from the blood to the tissues. The size of red blood cells varies widely among vertebrate species; red blood cell width is on average about 25% larger than capillary diameter, and it has been hypothesized that this improves the oxygen transfer from red blood cells to tissues. The red blood cells of mammals are typically shaped as biconcave disks: flattened and depressed in the center, with a dumbbell-shaped cross section,", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766141", "text": "3255 BCE. These cells were discovered in May 2012. Red blood cell Red blood cells, also known as RBCs, red cells, red blood corpuscles, haematids, erythroid cells or erythrocytes (from Greek \"erythros\" for \"red\" and \"kytos\" for \"hollow vessel\", with \"-cyte\" translated as \"cell\" in modern usage), are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate's principal means of delivering oxygen (O) to the body tissues—via blood flow through the circulatory system. RBCs take up oxygen in the lungs, or gills of fish, and release it into tissues while squeezing through the body's capillaries. The cytoplasm of erythrocytes", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766104", "text": "Red blood cell Red blood cells, also known as RBCs, red cells, red blood corpuscles, haematids, erythroid cells or erythrocytes (from Greek \"erythros\" for \"red\" and \"kytos\" for \"hollow vessel\", with \"-cyte\" translated as \"cell\" in modern usage), are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate's principal means of delivering oxygen (O) to the body tissues—via blood flow through the circulatory system. RBCs take up oxygen in the lungs, or gills of fish, and release it into tissues while squeezing through the body's capillaries. The cytoplasm of erythrocytes is rich in hemoglobin, an iron-containing biomolecule that can", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766116", "text": "(the remaining oxygen is carried dissolved in the blood plasma). The red blood cells of an average adult human male store collectively about 2.5 grams of iron, representing about 65% of the total iron contained in the body. Red blood cells in mammals \"anucleate\" when mature, meaning that they lack a cell nucleus. In comparison, the red blood cells of other vertebrates have nuclei; the only known exceptions are salamanders of the genus \"Batrachoseps\" and fish of the genus \"Maurolicus\". The elimination of the nucleus in vertebrate red blood cells has been offered as an explanation for the subsequent accumulation", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "10002660", "text": "Whereas in high-income countries, most blood transfusions are given to people over 65 years of age (up to 76%). In these countries transfusion are most commonly used for supportive care in heart surgery, transplant surgery, massive trauma, and therapy for solid and blood cancers. Due to changes in surgical practices, medical use of blood is now the major use of red blood cells in high-income countries. Blood transfusion is typically recommended when hemoglobin levels reach 70 g/L (7 g/dL) in those who have stable vital signs. For those with heart disease it is recommended at 80g/L (8 g/dL). RBCs are", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "10002658", "text": "as anaphylaxis, red blood cell breakdown, infection, volume overload, and lung injury. With current preparation methods in the developed world the risk of viral infections such as hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS are less than one in a million. However, the risks of infection are higher in low income countries. Packed red blood cells are produced from whole blood or by apheresis. They typically last for three to six weeks. The widespread use of packed red blood cells began in the 1960s. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most effective and safe medicines needed in", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "10002659", "text": "a health system. In the United Kingdom they cost about 120 pounds per unit. A number of other versions also exist including whole blood, leukocyte reduced red blood cells, and washed red blood cells. More than 100 million units of blood are collected each year around the world, and about 50% of these are given to people in high income countries. In low-income countries, the majority of blood transfusions (up to 65%) are given to children under 5 years of age to treat severe childhood anemia. Another major use of blood in low income countries is to treat pregnancy-related complications.", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "766125", "text": "Much of this potential appears to be contributed by the exposed sialic acid residues in the membrane: their removal results in zeta potential of −6.06 mV. When red blood cells undergo shear stress in constricted vessels, they release ATP, which causes the vessel walls to relax and dilate so as to promote normal blood flow. When their hemoglobin molecules are deoxygenated, red blood cells release S-nitrosothiols, which also act to dilate blood vessels, thus directing more blood to areas of the body depleted of oxygen. Red blood cells can also synthesize nitric oxide enzymatically, using L-arginine as substrate, as do", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "5364168", "text": "or storage is another issue. Contamination was seen in 1 in every 500,000 transfusions of red blood cells in 2002. Blood contamination can lead to septicemia or an infection that affects the whole body. Certain medications used to increase red blood cells can reduce liver function and lead to liver failure, pituitary problems, and increases in cholesterol levels. Blood doping Blood doping is the practice of boosting the number of red blood cells in the bloodstream in order to enhance athletic performance. Because such blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the muscles, a higher concentration in the blood", "title": "Blood doping" }, { "docid": "10002663", "text": "Rh type, specifically the phenotype, and the \"screen\" refers to testing for atypical antibodies that might cause transfusion problems. The typing and screening are also performed on donor blood. The blood groups represent antigens on the surface of the red blood cells which might react with antibodies in the recipient. The ABO blood group system has four basic phenotypes: O, A, B, and AB. In the former Soviet Union these were called I, II, III, and IV, respectively. There are two important antigens in the system: A and B. Red cells without A or B are called type O, and", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "10002673", "text": "they can be frozen for up to 10 years. The cells are separated from the fluid portion of the blood after it is collected from a donor, or during the collection process in the case of apheresis. The product is then sometimes modified after collection to meet specific patient requirements. The product is typically abbreviated RBC, pRBC, PRBC, and sometimes StRBC or even LRBC (the latter being to indicate those that have been leukoreduced, which is now true for the vast majority of RBC units). The name \"Red Blood Cells\" with initial capitals indicates a standardized blood product in the", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "10002664", "text": "red cells with both are called AB. Except in unusual cases like infants or seriously immunocompromised individuals, all people will have antibodies to any ABO blood type that isn't present on their own red blood cells, and will have an immediate hemolytic reaction to a unit that is not compatible with their ABO type. In addition to the A and B antigens, there are rare variations which can further complicate transfusions, such as the Bombay phenotype. The Rh blood group system consists of nearly around 50 different antigens, but the one of the greatest clinical interest is the \"D\" antigen,", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "766115", "text": "thus much more common than the other blood particles: there are about 4,000–11,000 white blood cells and about 150,000–400,000 platelets per microliter. Human red blood cells take on average 60 seconds to complete one cycle of circulation. The blood's red color is due to the spectral properties of the hemic iron ions in hemoglobin. Each human red blood cell contains approximately 270 million of these hemoglobin molecules. Each hemoglobin molecule carries four heme groups; hemoglobin constitutes about a third of the total cell volume. Hemoglobin is responsible for the transport of more than 98% of the oxygen in the body", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766112", "text": "evolved a mode of red blood cell development substantially different from the mammalian norm. Overall, mammalian red blood cells are remarkably flexible and deformable so as to squeeze through tiny capillaries, as well as to maximize their apposing surface by assuming a cigar shape, where they efficiently release their oxygen load. Red blood cells in mammals are unique amongst vertebrates as they do not have nuclei when mature. Red blood cells of mammals cells have nuclei during early phases of erythropoiesis, but extrude them during development as they mature; this provides more space for hemoglobin. The red blood cells without", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "10002672", "text": "the red blood cells using special equipment, such as the IBM 2991 cell processor in a similar manner to washing RBCs. The processing (often termed \"manufacture\", since the end result is deemed a biologic biopharmaceutical product) and the storage can occur at a collection center and/or a blood bank. RBCs are mixed with an anticoagulant and storage solution which provides nutrients and aims to preserve viability and functionality of the cells (limiting their so-called \"storage lesion\"), which are stored at refrigerated temperatures for up to 42 days (in the US), except for the rather unusual long-term storage in which case", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "766136", "text": "be used for blood transfusions. Several blood tests involve red blood cells. These include a \"RBC count\" (the number of red blood cells per volume of blood), calculation of the hematocrit (percentage of blood volume occupied by red blood cells), and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate. The blood type needs to be determined to prepare for a blood transfusion or an organ transplantation. Many diseases involving red blood cells are diagnosed with a blood film (or peripheral blood smear), where a thin layer of blood is smeared on a microscope slide. This may reveal abnormalities of red blood cell shape and", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "898443", "text": "Blood transfusion Blood transfusion is generally the process of receiving blood or blood products into one's circulation intravenously. Transfusions are used for various medical conditions to replace lost components of the blood. Early transfusions used whole blood, but modern medical practice commonly uses only components of the blood, such as red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, clotting factors, and platelets. Red blood cells contain hemoglobin and increase iron levels by improving the amount of oxygen found in the body. White blood cells, are not commonly used during transfusion but are related to the immune system and to fight infections.", "title": "Blood transfusion" }, { "docid": "588397", "text": "dehydration or heart disease while lower proportions could lead to anemia and long-term blood loss. Blood vessels also transport red blood cells which contain the oxygen necessary for daily activities. The amount of red blood cells present in your vessels has an effect on your health. Hematocrit tests can be performed to calculate the proportion of red blood cells in your blood. Higher proportions result in conditions such as dehydration or heart disease while lower proportions could lead to anemia and long-term blood loss. Permeability of the endothelium is pivotal in the release of nutrients to the tissue. It is", "title": "Blood vessel" }, { "docid": "766108", "text": "Hemoglobin in the red blood cells also carries some of the waste product carbon dioxide back from the tissues; most waste carbon dioxide, however, is transported back to the pulmonary capillaries of the lungs as bicarbonate (HCO) dissolved in the blood plasma. Myoglobin, a compound related to hemoglobin, acts to store oxygen in muscle cells. The color of red blood cells is due to the heme group of hemoglobin. The blood plasma alone is straw-colored, but the red blood cells change color depending on the state of the hemoglobin: when combined with oxygen the resulting oxyhemoglobin is scarlet, and when", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "10002661", "text": "used to restore oxygen-carrying capacity in people with anemia due to trauma or other medical problems, and are by far the most common blood component used in transfusion medicine. Historically they were transfused as part of whole blood, but are now typically used separately as RBCs and plasma components. The process of identifying a compatible blood product for transfusion is complicated. Side effects can include allergic reactions including anaphylaxis, red blood cell breakdown, fluid overload, infection, and lung injury. Giving incompatible RBCs to a person can be fatal. With current testing methods in high-income countries the risk of infection is", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "766114", "text": "the centre of 0.8–1 µm, being much smaller than most other human cells. These cells have an average volume of about 90 fL with a surface of about 136 μm, and can swell up to a sphere shape containing 150 fL, without membrane distension. Adult humans have roughly 20–30 trillion red blood cells at any given time, constituting approximately 70% of all cells by number. Women have about 4–5 million red blood cells per microliter (cubic millimeter) of blood and men about 5–6 million; people living at high altitudes with low oxygen tension will have more. Red blood cells are", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766137", "text": "form. When red blood cells sometimes occur as a stack, flat side next to flat side. This is known as \"rouleaux formation\", and it occurs more often if the levels of certain serum proteins are elevated, as for instance during inflammation. Red blood cells can be obtained from whole blood by centrifugation, which separates the cells from the blood plasma in a process known as blood fractionation. Packed red blood cells, which are made in this way from whole blood with the plasma removed, are used in transfusion medicine. During plasma donation, the red blood cells are pumped back into", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766127", "text": "wall and membrane, killing it. As a result of not containing mitochondria, red blood cells use none of the oxygen they transport; instead they produce the energy carrier ATP by the glycolysis of glucose and lactic acid fermentation on the resulting pyruvate. Furthermore, the pentose phosphate pathway plays an important role in red blood cells; see glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency for more. As red blood cells contain no nucleus, protein biosynthesis is currently assumed to be absent in these cells. Because of the lack of nuclei and organelles, mature red blood cells do not contain DNA and cannot synthesize any RNA,", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766128", "text": "and consequently cannot divide and have limited repair capabilities. The inability to carry out protein synthesis means that no virus can evolve to target mammalian red blood cells. However, infection with parvoviruses (such as human parvovirus B19) can affect erythroid precursors, as recognized by the presence of giant pronormoblasts with viral particles and inclusion bodies, thus temporarily depleting the blood of reticulocytes and causing anemia. Human red blood cells are produced through a process named erythropoiesis, developing from committed stem cells to mature red blood cells in about 7 days. When matured, in a healthy individual these cells live in", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "19205478", "text": "protein and a substance of choice, such as a small-molecule therapeutic agent or an antibody. The modifications leave the cells and their surfaces otherwise intact. One application is to engineer red blood cells into drug-delivery vehicles. Mature red cells carry no genetic material, potentially presenting fewer safety risks than other gene and cell therapies. Human red blood cells circulate for as long as four months, meaning they could potentially form the basis of long-term therapies. The cells move throughout body via the bloodstream and are unnoticed by the immune system. Genetically engineered blood Genetically engineered blood is blood that has", "title": "Genetically engineered blood" }, { "docid": "766138", "text": "the body right away and only the plasma is collected. Some athletes have tried to improve their performance by blood doping: first about 1 litre of their blood is extracted, then the red blood cells are isolated, frozen and stored, to be reinjected shortly before the competition. (Red blood cells can be conserved for 5 weeks at , or over 10 years using cryoprotectants) This practice is hard to detect but may endanger the human cardiovascular system which is not equipped to deal with blood of the resulting higher viscosity. Another method of blood doping involves injection with erythropoietin in", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "3954633", "text": "immediate cause of death is usually respiratory failure. Blood agents work at the cellular level by preventing the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and the body's cells. This causes the cells to suffocate from lack of oxygen. Cyanide-based agents do so by interrupting the electron transport chain in the inner membranes of mitochondria. Arsine damages the red blood cells which deliver oxygen throughout the body. Chemical detection methods, in the form of kits or testing strips, exist for hydrogen cyanide. Ordinary clothing provides some protection, but proper protective clothing and masks are recommended. Mask filters containing", "title": "Blood agent" }, { "docid": "766113", "text": "nuclei, called reticulocytes, subsequently lose all other cellular organelles such as their mitochondria, Golgi apparatus and endoplasmic reticulum. The spleen acts as a reservoir of red blood cells, but this effect is somewhat limited in humans. In some other mammals such as dogs and horses, the spleen sequesters large numbers of red blood cells which are dumped into the blood during times of exertion stress, yielding a higher oxygen transport capacity. A typical human red blood cell has a disk diameter of approximately 6.2–8.2 µm and a thickness at the thickest point of 2–2.5 µm and a minimum thickness in", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766122", "text": "malarial parasites into normal red cells. The proteins of the membrane skeleton are responsible for the deformability, flexibility and durability of the red blood cell, enabling it to squeeze through capillaries less than half the diameter of the red blood cell (7–8 μm) and recovering the discoid shape as soon as these cells stop receiving compressive forces, in a similar fashion to an object made of rubber. There are currently more than 50 known membrane proteins, which can exist in a few hundred up to a million copies per red blood cell. Approximately 25 of these membrane proteins carry the", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "588395", "text": "vessels function to transport blood. In general, arteries and arterioles transport oxygenated blood from the lungs to the body and its organs, and veins and venules transport deoxygenated blood from the body to the lungs. Blood vessels also circulate blood throughout the circulatory system Oxygen (bound to hemoglobin in red blood cells) is the most critical nutrient carried by the blood. In all arteries apart from the pulmonary artery, hemoglobin is highly saturated (95–100%) with oxygen. In all veins apart from the pulmonary vein, the saturation of hemoglobin is about 75%. (The values are reversed in the pulmonary circulation.) In", "title": "Blood vessel" }, { "docid": "766140", "text": "(which he later renamed to O). Landsteiner described the regular patterns in which reactions occurred when serum was mixed with red blood cells, thus identifying compatible and conflicting combinations between these blood groups. A year later Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli, two colleagues of Landsteiner, identified a fourth blood group—AB. In 1959, by use of X-ray crystallography, Dr. Max Perutz was able to unravel the structure of hemoglobin, the red blood cell protein that carries oxygen. The oldest intact red blood cells ever discovered were found in Ötzi the Iceman, a natural mummy of a man who died around", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766105", "text": "bind oxygen and is responsible for the red color of the cells and the blood. The cell membrane is composed of proteins and lipids, and this structure provides properties essential for physiological cell function such as deformability and stability while traversing the circulatory system and specifically the capillary network. In humans, mature red blood cells are flexible and oval biconcave disks. They lack a cell nucleus and most organelles, in order to accommodate maximum space for hemoglobin; they can be viewed as sacks of hemoglobin, with a plasma membrane as the sack. Approximately 2.4 million new erythrocytes are produced per", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766139", "text": "order to stimulate production of red blood cells. Both practices are banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The first person to describe red blood cells was the young Dutch biologist Jan Swammerdam, who had used an early microscope in 1658 to study the blood of a frog. Unaware of this work, Anton van Leeuwenhoek provided another microscopic description in 1674, this time providing a more precise description of red blood cells, even approximating their size, \"25,000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand\". In 1901, Karl Landsteiner published his discovery of the three main blood groups—A, B, and C", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766117", "text": "of non-coding DNA in the genome. The argument runs as follows: Efficient gas transport requires red blood cells to pass through very narrow capillaries, and this constrains their size. In the absence of nuclear elimination, the accumulation of repeat sequences is constrained by the volume occupied by the nucleus, which increases with genome size. Nucleated red blood cells in mammals consist of two forms: normoblasts, which are normal erythropoietic precursors to mature red blood cells, and megaloblasts, which are abnormally large precursors that occur in megaloblastic anemias. Red blood cells are deformable, flexible, are able to adhere to other cells,", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "10002665", "text": "though it has other names and is commonly just called \"negative\" or \"positive.\" Unlike the ABO antigens, a recipient will not usually react to the first incompatible transfusion because the adaptive immune system does not immediately recognize it. After an incompatible transfusion the recipient may develop an antibody to the antigen and will react to any further incompatible transfusions. This antibody is important because it is the most frequent cause of hemolytic disease of the newborn. Incompatible red blood cells are sometimes given to recipients who will never become pregnant, such as males or postmenopausal women, as long as they", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "766126", "text": "endothelial cells. Exposure of red blood cells to physiological levels of shear stress activates nitric oxide synthase and export of nitric oxide, which may contribute to the regulation of vascular tonus. Red blood cells can also produce hydrogen sulfide, a signalling gas that acts to relax vessel walls. It is believed that the cardioprotective effects of garlic are due to red blood cells converting its sulfur compounds into hydrogen sulfide. Red blood cells also play a part in the body's immune response: when lysed by pathogens such as bacteria, their hemoglobin releases free radicals, which break down the pathogen's cell", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766133", "text": "transferrin. Almost all red blood cells are removed in this manner from the circulation before they are old enough to hemolyze. Hemolyzed hemoglobin is bound to a protein in plasma called haptoglobin, which is not excreted by the kidney. Blood diseases involving the red blood cells include: Red blood cells may be given as part of a blood transfusion. Blood may be donated from another person, or stored by the recipient at an earlier date. Donated blood usually requires screening to ensure that donors do not contain risk factors for the presence of blood-borne diseases, or will not suffer themselves", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766142", "text": "Blood cell A blood cell, also called a hematopoietic cell, hemocyte, or hematocyte, is a cell produced through hematopoiesis and found mainly in the blood. Major types of blood cells include; Together, these three kinds of blood cells add up to a total 45% of the blood tissue by volume, with the remaining 55% of the volume composed of plasma, the liquid component of blood. Red blood cells or \"erythrocytes\", primarily carry oxygen and collect carbon dioxide through the use of haemoglobin. Haemoglobin is an iron-containing protein that gives red blood cells their color and facilitates transportation of oxygen from", "title": "Blood cell" }, { "docid": "7735154", "text": "cells attempting to squeeze through the narrow intercellular spaces become badly damaged, and are subsequently devoured by macrophages in the red pulp. In addition to clearing aged red blood cells, the sinusoids also filter out cellular debris, particles that could clutter up the bloodstream. Red pulp consists of a dense network of fine reticular fiber, continuous with those of the splenic trabeculae, to which are applied flat, branching cells. The meshes of the reticulum are filled with blood: Macrophages are highly diverse mononuclear phagocytes that are present throughout the body, including the spleen. Those located in the red pulp are", "title": "Red pulp" }, { "docid": "47125", "text": "the presence of potential molecular fibers in the form of fibrinogen. Blood performs many important functions within the body, including: Blood accounts for 7% of the human body weight, with an average density around 1060 kg/m, very close to pure water's density of 1000 kg/m. The average adult has a blood volume of roughly , which is composed of plasma and several kinds of cells. These blood cells (which are also called corpuscles or \"formed elements\") consist of erythrocytes (red blood cells, RBCs), leukocytes (white blood cells), and thrombocytes (platelets). By volume, the red blood cells constitute about 45% of", "title": "Blood" }, { "docid": "10002670", "text": "the DNA in the white cells and prevents graft versus host disease, which may happen if the blood donor and recipient are closely related, and is also important for immunocompromized patients. Other modifications, such as washing the RBCs to remove any remaining plasma, are much less common. With additive solutions, RBCs are typically kept at refrigerated temperatures for up to 45 days. In some patients, use of RBCs that are much fresher is important; for example, US guidelines call for blood less than seven days old to be used for neonatals, to \"ensure optimal cell function\". However, the phenomenon of", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "766109", "text": "oxygen has been released the resulting deoxyhemoglobin is of a dark red burgundy color. However, blood can appear bluish when seen through the vessel wall and skin. Pulse oximetry takes advantage of the hemoglobin color change to directly measure the arterial blood oxygen saturation using colorimetric techniques. Hemoglobin also has a very high affinity for carbon monoxide, forming carboxyhemoglobin which is a very bright red in color. Flushed, confused patients with a saturation reading of 100% on pulse oximetry are sometimes found to be suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. Having oxygen-carrying proteins inside specialized cells (as opposed to oxygen carriers", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766123", "text": "various blood group antigens, such as the A, B and Rh antigens, among many others. These membrane proteins can perform a wide diversity of functions, such as transporting ions and molecules across the red cell membrane, adhesion and interaction with other cells such as endothelial cells, as signaling receptors, as well as other currently unknown functions. The blood types of humans are due to variations in surface glycoproteins of red blood cells. Disorders of the proteins in these membranes are associated with many disorders, such as hereditary spherocytosis, hereditary elliptocytosis, hereditary stomatocytosis, and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. The red blood cell", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "47164", "text": "is cut in a way to ensure that the spine is not severed, hence the brain may send commands to the heart to pump blood to it for oxygen. In this way, blood is removed from the body, and the meat is generally now safe to cook and eat. In modern times, blood transfusions are generally not considered against the rules. Based on their interpretation of scriptures such as Acts 15:28, 29 (\"Keep abstaining...from blood.\"), many Jehovah's Witnesses neither consume blood nor accept transfusions of whole blood or its major components: red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets (thrombocytes), and", "title": "Blood" }, { "docid": "4029153", "text": "private banks, partly because most treatable conditions can't use one's own cord blood. Cord blood contains hematopoietic stem cells (which can differentiate only into blood cells), and should not be confused with embryonic stem cells or pluripotent stem cells, which can differentiate into any cell in the body. Cord blood stem cells are blood cell progenitors which can form red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. This is why cord blood cells are currently used to treat blood and immune system related genetic diseases, cancers, and blood disorders. On the possibility that cord blood stem cells could be used", "title": "Cord blood bank" }, { "docid": "18605502", "text": "Nucleated red blood cell All vertebrate organisms have hemoglobin-containing cells in their blood and with the exception of mammals, all of these red blood cells contain a nucleus. Mammals represent ~5,500 named species out of ~66,000 vertebrate species, and within this ~8% subgroup, red blood cells are known as erythrocytes or RBCs and lack a cell nucleus in mature organisms. In contrast, a nucleated red blood cell (NRBC), also known by several other names, is a mammalian RBC that contains a cell nucleus. NRBCs occur in normal development as progenitor cells in the erythropoietic lineage and in pathological states. Normally,", "title": "Nucleated red blood cell" }, { "docid": "766134", "text": "by giving blood. Blood is usually collected and tested for common or serious Blood-borne diseases including Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV. The blood type (A, B, AB, or O) or the blood product is identified. This relates to the presence of antigens on the cell's surface. After this process, the blood is stored, and within a short duration is used. Blood can be given as a whole product or the red blood cells separated as packed red blood cells. Blood is often transfused when there is known anaemia, active bleeding, or when there is an expectation of serious blood", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "2964005", "text": "Red blood cell distribution width Red blood cell distribution width (RDW or RDW-CV or RCDW and RDW-SD) is a measure of the range of variation of red blood cell (RBC) volume that is reported as part of a standard complete blood count. Usually red blood cells are a standard size of about 6-8 μm in diameter. Certain disorders, however, cause a significant variation in cell size. Higher RDW values indicate greater variation in size. Normal reference range of RDW-CV in human red blood cells is 11.5-14.5%. If anemia is observed, RDW test results are often used together with mean corpuscular", "title": "Red blood cell distribution width" }, { "docid": "47122", "text": "cells are mainly red blood cells (also called RBCs or erythrocytes), white blood cells (also called WBCs or leukocytes) and platelets (also called thrombocytes). The most abundant cells in vertebrate blood are red blood cells. These contain hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein, which facilitates oxygen transport by reversibly binding to this respiratory gas and greatly increasing its solubility in blood. In contrast, carbon dioxide is mostly transported extracellularly as bicarbonate ion transported in plasma. Vertebrate blood is bright red when its hemoglobin is oxygenated and dark red when it is deoxygenated. Some animals, such as crustaceans and mollusks, use hemocyanin to", "title": "Blood" }, { "docid": "18605506", "text": "also be caused by the bites of certain urban spiders, resulting in a condition known as \"Spider Man Syndrome\". Nucleated red blood cell All vertebrate organisms have hemoglobin-containing cells in their blood and with the exception of mammals, all of these red blood cells contain a nucleus. Mammals represent ~5,500 named species out of ~66,000 vertebrate species, and within this ~8% subgroup, red blood cells are known as erythrocytes or RBCs and lack a cell nucleus in mature organisms. In contrast, a nucleated red blood cell (NRBC), also known by several other names, is a mammalian RBC that contains a", "title": "Nucleated red blood cell" }, { "docid": "11517493", "text": "is the average concentration of hemoglobin per unit volume of red blood cells and is calculated by dividing the hemoglobin by the hematocrit. Red blood cell indices Red blood cell indices are blood tests that provide information about the hemoglobin content and size of red blood cells. Abnormal values indicate the presence of anemia and which type of anemia it is. Mean corpuscular volume (MCV) is the average volume of a red blood cell and is calculated by dividing the hematocrit (Hct) by the concentration of red blood cell count. Mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) is the average amount of hemoglobin", "title": "Red blood cell indices" }, { "docid": "20189986", "text": "Cells at Work! The story takes place inside the human body, where trillions of anthropomorphic cells each do their job to keep the body healthy. The series largely focuses on two such cells; a rookie red blood cell, AE3803, who often gets lost during deliveries, and a relentless white blood cell, U-1146, who fights against any germs that invade the body. The manga was launched in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine \"Monthly Shōnen Sirius\" in March 2015. Kodansha has collected the manga into five \"tankōbon\" volumes . The manga received a spinoff in the May 2017 issue of \"Nakayoshi\" called \"Hataraku", "title": "Cells at Work!" }, { "docid": "648880", "text": "then used to create proteins which form the basis for cells, their activity, and their products. Proteins dictate cell function and gene expression, a cell is able to self-regulate by the amount of proteins produced. However, not all cells have DNA – some cells such as mature red blood cells lose their nucleus as they mature. The body consists of many different types of tissue, defined as cells that act with a specialised function. The study of tissues is called histology and often occurs with a microscope. The body consists of four main types of tissues – lining cells (epithelia),", "title": "Human body" }, { "docid": "10002666", "text": "do not have an antibody, since the greatest risk of Rh incompatible blood is to current or future pregnancies. For RBCs, type O negative blood is considered a \"universal donor\" as recipients with types A, B, or AB can almost always receive O negative blood safely. Type AB positive is considered a \"universal recipient\" because they can receive the other ABO/Rh types safely. These are not truly universal, as other red cell antigens can further complicate transfusions. There are many other human blood group systems and most of them are only rarely associated with transfusion problems. A screening test is", "title": "Packed red blood cells" }, { "docid": "20354144", "text": "wound, and it does not change color upon exposure to air. The color \"blood red\", therefore, covers both these states: the darker deoxygenated color and the brighter oxygenated one. Also, dried blood often has a darker, rust-colored quality: all dried blood has been oxygenated and then desiccated, causing the cells within it to die. This blood is often darker than either shade of red that can be seen in fresh blood. In the RGB color spectrum blood red often consists only of the color red, with no green or blue component; in the CYMK color model blood red has no", "title": "Blood red" }, { "docid": "47121", "text": "Blood Blood is a body fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. In vertebrates, it is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid, is mostly water (92% by volume), and contains proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, carbon dioxide (plasma being the main medium for excretory product transportation), and blood cells themselves. Albumin is the main protein in plasma, and it functions to regulate the colloidal osmotic pressure of blood. The blood", "title": "Blood" }, { "docid": "11590094", "text": "Since the anemia results from the premature breakdown of red blood cells (hemolysis), it is known as hemolytic anemia. A shortage of red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body leads to extreme tiredness (fatigue), pale skin (pallor), and shortness of breath. When the red cells are broken down, iron and a molecule called bilirubin are released; individuals with triosephosphate isomerase deficiency have an excess of these substances circulating in the blood. Excess bilirubin in the blood causes jaundice, which is a yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes. Movement problems typically become apparent by age", "title": "TPI1" }, { "docid": "1684540", "text": "developing world and military. It is used to make a number of blood products including packed red blood cells, platelet concentrate, cryoprecipitate, and fresh frozen plasma. Whole blood has similar risks to a transfusion of red blood cells and must be cross-matched to avoid hemolytic transfusion reactions. Most of the indications for use are identical to those for RBCs, and whole blood is not used because the extra plasma can contribute to transfusion associated circulatory overload (TACO), a potentially dangerous complication. Whole blood is sometimes \"recreated\" from stored red blood cells and fresh frozen plasma (FFP) for neonatal transfusions. This", "title": "Whole blood" }, { "docid": "11517492", "text": "Red blood cell indices Red blood cell indices are blood tests that provide information about the hemoglobin content and size of red blood cells. Abnormal values indicate the presence of anemia and which type of anemia it is. Mean corpuscular volume (MCV) is the average volume of a red blood cell and is calculated by dividing the hematocrit (Hct) by the concentration of red blood cell count. Mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) is the average amount of hemoglobin (Hb) per red blood cell and is calculated by dividing the hemoglobin by the red blood cell count. Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC)", "title": "Red blood cell indices" }, { "docid": "5364157", "text": "Forces commanders at Fort Bragg started experimenting with blood doping, also known as blood loading. Special Forces operators would provide two units of whole blood, from which red blood cells would be extracted, concentrated, and stored under cold temperatures. 24 hours before a mission or battle, a small amount of red blood cells would be infused back into the soldier. Military scientists believe that the procedure increases the soldiers’s endurance and alertness because of the increase in the blood's capability to carry oxygen. In 1998, the Australian Defence Forces approved this technique for the Special Air Service Regiment. Senior nutritionist", "title": "Blood doping" }, { "docid": "5364134", "text": "Blood doping Blood doping is the practice of boosting the number of red blood cells in the bloodstream in order to enhance athletic performance. Because such blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the muscles, a higher concentration in the blood can improve an athlete’s aerobic capacity (VO max) and endurance. Many methods of blood doping are illegal, particularly in professional sports. Blood doping is defined as the use of illicit products (e.g. erythropoietin (EPO), darbepoetin-alfa, hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) stabilizers) and methods (e.g. increase aerobic capacity by maximizing the uptake of O) in order to enhance the O transport", "title": "Blood doping" }, { "docid": "47142", "text": "many invertebrates, these oxygen-carrying proteins are freely soluble in the blood; in vertebrates they are contained in specialized red blood cells, allowing for a higher concentration of respiratory pigments without increasing viscosity or damaging blood filtering organs like the kidneys. Giant tube worms have unusual hemoglobins that allow them to live in extraordinary environments. These hemoglobins also carry sulfides normally fatal in other animals. The coloring matter of blood (hemochrome) is largely due to the protein in the blood responsible for oxygen transport. Different groups of organisms use different proteins. Hemoglobin is the principal determinant of the color of blood", "title": "Blood" }, { "docid": "19125659", "text": "characteristic red color and transport oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. Mature red blood cells are round and biconcave because they lack a nucleus and unlike other cells, red cells require a small amount of oxygen for its metabolism and most oxygen is freed into the tissues. The absence of nucleus, ribosomes, and mitochondria partly contributes to the red blood cell’s disc-like structure which leaves room for hundreds of millions of hemoglobin molecules found within the cells. Hemoglobin is a red and iron-rich protein that merges with oxygen to carry oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues. Both", "title": "Biconcave disc" }, { "docid": "2188425", "text": "Blood tests are also used in drug tests to detect drug abuse. In some of the United States, a blood test is required before marriage. Venipuncture is useful as it is a minimally invasive way to obtain cells and extracellular fluid (plasma) from the body for analysis. Blood flows throughout the body, acting as a medium which provides oxygen and nutrients to tissues and carries waste products back to the excretory systems for disposal. Consequently, the state of the bloodstream affects, or is affected by, many medical conditions. For these reasons, blood tests are the most commonly performed medical tests.", "title": "Blood test" }, { "docid": "766118", "text": "and are able to interface with immune cells. Their membrane plays many roles in this. These functions are highly dependent on the membrane composition. The red blood cell membrane is composed of 3 layers: the glycocalyx on the exterior, which is rich in carbohydrates; the lipid bilayer which contains many transmembrane proteins, besides its lipidic main constituents; and the membrane skeleton, a structural network of proteins located on the inner surface of the lipid bilayer. Half of the membrane mass in human and most mammalian red blood cells are proteins. The other half are lipids, namely phospholipids and cholesterol. The", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "20189992", "text": "in the molecular neuro-oncology department of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, praised the series' depiction of cancer cells during the series' seventh episode. Biology teachers at a high school affiliated with China's Southwest University were so impressed with the accuracy of the series they assigned it as homework for their students. Cells at Work! The story takes place inside the human body, where trillions of anthropomorphic cells each do their job to keep the body healthy. The series largely focuses on two such cells; a rookie red blood cell, AE3803, who often gets lost during deliveries, and", "title": "Cells at Work!" }, { "docid": "2964009", "text": "and high MCV. Mixed-deficiency (iron + B12 or folate) anemia usually presents with high RDW and variable MCV. Recent hemorrhages typically present with high RDW and normal MCV. A false high RDW reading can occur if EDTA anticoagulated blood is used instead of citrated blood. See Pseudothrombocytopenia. 7. http://rdwbloodtest.com Red Blood Cell Distribution Width Red blood cell distribution width Red blood cell distribution width (RDW or RDW-CV or RCDW and RDW-SD) is a measure of the range of variation of red blood cell (RBC) volume that is reported as part of a standard complete blood count. Usually red blood cells", "title": "Red blood cell distribution width" }, { "docid": "5890313", "text": "Blood volume Blood volume is the volume of blood (both red blood cells and plasma) in the circulatory system of any individual. A typical adult has a blood volume of approximately 5 liters, with females and males having approximately the same blood volume. Blood volume is regulated by the kidneys. Blood volume (BV) can be calculated given the hematocrit (HC; the fraction of blood that is red blood cells) and plasma volume (PV), with the hematocrit being regulated via the blood oxygen content regulator: Blood volume measurement may be used in people with congestive heart failure, chronic hypertension, renal failure", "title": "Blood volume" }, { "docid": "2463147", "text": "many of the vital functions of natural blood. PFC particles are about th the size of the diameter of a red blood cell (RBC). This small size can enable PFC particles to traverse capillaries through which no RBCs are flowing. In theory this can benefit damaged, blood-starved tissue, which conventional red cells cannot reach. PFC solutions can carry oxygen so well that mammals, including humans, can survive breathing liquid PFC solution, called liquid breathing. Perfluorocarbon-based blood substitutes are completely man-made; this provides advantages over blood substitutes that rely on modified haemoglobin, such as unlimited manufacturing capabilities, ability to be heat-sterilized,", "title": "Blood substitute" }, { "docid": "766132", "text": "wide variety of endogenous mediators and xenobiotics. Excessive eryptosis is observed in red blood cells lacking the cGMP-dependent protein kinase type I or the AMP-activated protein kinase AMPK. Inhibitors of eryptosis include erythropoietin, nitric oxide, catecholamines and high concentrations of urea. Much of the resulting breakdown products are recirculated in the body. The heme constituent of hemoglobin are broken down into iron (Fe) and biliverdin. The biliverdin is reduced to bilirubin, which is released into the plasma and recirculated to the liver bound to albumin. The iron is released into the plasma to be recirculated by a carrier protein called", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "47136", "text": "hemoglobin with a much higher affinity for oxygen (hemoglobin F) to function under these conditions. CO is carried in blood in three different ways. (The exact percentages vary depending whether it is arterial or venous blood). Most of it (about 70%) is converted to bicarbonate ions by the enzyme carbonic anhydrase in the red blood cells by the reaction CO + HO → HCO → H + ; about 7% is dissolved in the plasma; and about 23% is bound to hemoglobin as carbamino compounds. Hemoglobin, the main oxygen-carrying molecule in red blood cells, carries both oxygen and carbon dioxide.", "title": "Blood" }, { "docid": "1684542", "text": "be pooled from multiple donors to get enough for a therapeutic dose. The collected blood is generally separated into components by one of three methods. A centrifuge can be used in a \"hard spin\" which separates whole blood into plasma and red cells or for a \"soft spin\" which separates it into plasma, buffy coat (used to make platelets), and red blood cells. The third method is sedimentation: the blood simply sits overnight and the red cells and plasma are separated by gravitational interactions. Whole blood is typically stored under the same conditions as red blood cells and can be", "title": "Whole blood" }, { "docid": "20354143", "text": "dark red state, but quickly oxygenates upon exposure to air, turning a brighter shade of red. This happens more quickly with smaller volumes of blood such as a pinprick and less quickly from cuts or punctures that cause greater blood flows such as a puncture in the basilic vein: all blood collected during a phlebotomy procedure is deoxygenated blood, and it does not usually have a chance to become oxygenated upon leaving the body. Arterial blood, which is already oxygenated, is also already a brighter shade of red— this is the blood see from a pulsating neck, arm, or leg", "title": "Blood red" }, { "docid": "2815442", "text": "Carotid body The carotid body (\"carotid glomus\" or \"glomus caroticum\") is a small cluster of chemoreceptors and supporting cells located near the fork (bifurcation) of the carotid artery (which runs along both sides of the throat). The carotid body detects changes in the composition of arterial blood flowing through it, mainly the partial pressure of arterial oxygen, but also of carbon dioxide. Furthermore, it is also sensitive to changes in pH and temperature. The carotid body is made up of two types of cells, called glomus cells: glomus type I cells are peripheral chemoreceptors, and glomus type II cells are", "title": "Carotid body" }, { "docid": "2013361", "text": "Loretta Lynn, creating a friendship between Lynn and both Jack and Meg White. In 2004, Jack White would produce Lynn's comeback hit album \"Van Lear Rose\". Redd Kross bassist Steven Shane McDonald created an online-only art project, titled \"Redd Blood Cells\", in which he added a bass track to the otherwise bass-less album. The White Stripes arranged with Steven to take the files down after more than 60,000 downloads. \"Rolling Stone\" named \"White Blood Cells\" the nineteenth best album of the decade, and \"Fell in Love with a Girl\" the fifty-eighth best song of the decade. \"Q\" listed \"White Blood", "title": "White Blood Cells (album)" }, { "docid": "19910624", "text": "As eruptions from his secret past begin to emerge, Adam struggles to break free from an exile that must now end before it swallows him for good. The film was released through Picturehouse cinemas on 30 June 2015 \"Blood Cells\" received critical acclaim. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 100% rating, an average score of 7.3/10. Kevin Maher at The Times give the film 4/5 stars and stated 'is a ridiculously accomplished film…it signals the arrival of future film-making heavyweights' Blood Cells (film) Blood Cells is a 2015 British drama film directed by Luke Seomore &", "title": "Blood Cells (film)" }, { "docid": "766111", "text": "and a torus-shaped rim on the edge of the disk. This shape allows for a high surface-area-to-volume (SA/V) ratio to facilitate diffusion of gases. However, there are some exceptions concerning shape in the artiodactyl order (even-toed ungulates including cattle, deer, and their relatives), which displays a wide variety of bizarre red blood cell morphologies: small and highly ovaloid cells in llamas and camels (family Camelidae), tiny spherical cells in mouse deer (family Tragulidae), and cells which assume fusiform, lanceolate, crescentic, and irregularly polygonal and other angular forms in red deer and wapiti (family Cervidae). Members of this order have clearly", "title": "Red blood cell" }, { "docid": "68426", "text": "humans become unconscious or die. Exposure to moderate and high levels of carbon monoxide over long periods of time are positively correlation with risk of heart disease. People who survive severe CO poisoning may suffer long-term health problems. Carbon monoxide from air is absorbed in the lungs which then binds with hemoglobin in human's red blood cells. This would reduce the capacity of red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body. Smouldering is the slow, low-temperature, flameless form of combustion, sustained by the heat evolved when oxygen directly attacks the surface of a condensed-phase fuel. It is a typically", "title": "Combustion" }, { "docid": "2013365", "text": "book \"1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die\". Some editions were released with a bonus DVD. White Blood Cells (album) White Blood Cells is the third studio album by American garage rock duo The White Stripes, released on July 3, 2001. Recorded in less than one week at Easley-McCain Recording in Memphis, Tennessee, and produced by frontman and guitarist Jack White, it was the band's final record released independently on Sympathy for the Record Industry. Bolstered by the hit single \"Fell in Love with a Girl\", the record propelled The White Stripes into early commercial popularity and critical success.", "title": "White Blood Cells (album)" }, { "docid": "4433119", "text": "Aortic body The aortic body is one of several small clusters of peripheral chemoreceptors known as glomus cells, baroreceptors, and supporting cells located along the aortic arch. Some sources equate the \"aortic bodies\" and \"paraaortic bodies\", while other sources explicitly distinguish between the two. When a distinction is made, the \"aortic bodies\" are chemoreceptors which regulate the circulatory system, while the \"paraaortic bodies\" are the chromaffin cells which manufacture catecholamines. A chemoreceptor present on the aortic arch. It measures changes in blood pressure and the composition of arterial blood flowing past it, including the partial pressures of oxygen and carbon", "title": "Aortic body" }, { "docid": "3197933", "text": "of life, the most basic sense of being. The most fundamental movement, lungs and also oxygen in blood flow and saturation of cells (cellular breathing), moves through a rhythm of expanding and condensing. When breath is integrated throughout the body, then all parts of the body will move at least slightly in coordination with the in / out breath rhythm. Use the breath pattern to recuperate and get in touch with one’s own \"internal state\", with one’s body self, \"proprioceptive self\", \"where you are in the moment\", to find your entire body connected through your internal core. \"Naval radiation to", "title": "Bartenieff Fundamentals" }, { "docid": "47123", "text": "carry oxygen, instead of hemoglobin. Insects and some mollusks use a fluid called hemolymph instead of blood, the difference being that hemolymph is not contained in a closed circulatory system. In most insects, this \"blood\" does not contain oxygen-carrying molecules such as hemoglobin because their bodies are small enough for their tracheal system to suffice for supplying oxygen. Jawed vertebrates have an adaptive immune system, based largely on white blood cells. White blood cells help to resist infections and parasites. Platelets are important in the clotting of blood. Arthropods, using hemolymph, have hemocytes as part of their immune system. Blood", "title": "Blood" }, { "docid": "2013359", "text": "guitar, drums and piano.\" The duo intended to break away from the \"bringing-back-the-blues label,\" instead containing piano-driven tracks that, to that point, remained unrecorded. Influences are present from a variety of genres, including childlike love songs (\"We're Going to Be Friends\"). \"White Blood Cells\" was rushed onto the shelves by Sympathy, although the record label wasn't prepared to handle the hype that would surround the record. \"White Blood Cells\" was released to nearly universal acclaim. On Metacritic, the album received a weighted mean score of 86/100, which translates to \"universal acclaim.\" Considered the band's commercial breakthrough, \"White Blood Cells\" peaked", "title": "White Blood Cells (album)" } ]
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From the Latin ferrum, what element, with an atomic number 26, uses the symbol Fe?
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[ { "docid": "69077", "text": "of metals. Cu comes from Cuprum, Fe comes from Ferrum, Ag from Argentum. The symbols were not followed by a period (full stop) as with abbreviations. Later chemical elements were also assigned unique chemical symbols, based on the name of the element, but not necessarily in English. For example, sodium has the chemical symbol 'Na' after the Latin \"natrium\". The same applies to \"W\" (wolfram) for tungsten, \"Fe\" (ferrum) for iron, \"Hg\" (hydrargyrum) for mercury, \"Sn\" (stannum) for tin, \"K\" (kalium) for potassium, \"Au\" (aurum) for gold, \"Ag\" (argentum) for silver, \"Pb\" (plumbum) for lead, \"Cu\" (cuprum) for copper, and", "title": "Chemical element" }, { "docid": "193627", "text": "with acetic anhydride yields acetylferrocene just as acylation of benzene yields acetophenone under similar conditions. Iron-centered organometallic species are used as catalysts. The Knölker complex, for example, is a transfer hydrogenation catalyst for ketones. As iron has been in use for such a long time, it has many different names in different languages. The source of its chemical symbol \"Fe\" is the Latin word \"ferrum\", and its descendants are the names of the element in the Romance languages (for example, French \"fer\", Spanish \"hierro\", and Italian and Portuguese \"ferro\"). The word \"ferrum\" itself possibly comes from the Semitic languages, via", "title": "Iron" }, { "docid": "193583", "text": "Iron Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ) and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is by mass the most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust. Its abundance in rocky planets like Earth is due to its abundant production by fusion in high-mass stars, where it is the last element to be produced with release of energy before the violent collapse of a supernova, which scatters the iron into space. Like the other", "title": "Iron" }, { "docid": "6141577", "text": "electrons further away are screened from the nucleus by other electrons in between, and feel less electrostatic interaction as a result. The 1s electron of Iron (the closest one to the nucleus) sees an effective atomic number (number of protons) of 25. The reason why it is not 26 is because some of the electrons in the atom end up repelling the others, giving a net lower electrostatic interaction with the nucleus. One way of envisioning this effect is to imagine the 1s electron sitting on one side of the 26 protons in the nucleus, with another electron sitting on", "title": "Effective atomic number" }, { "docid": "6141578", "text": "the other side; each electron will feel less than the attractive force of 26 protons because the other electron contributes a repelling force. The 4s electrons in Iron, which are furthest from the nucleus, feel an effective atomic number of only 5.43 because of the 25 electrons in between it and the nucleus screening the charge. Effective atomic numbers are useful not only in understanding why electrons further from the nucleus are so much more weakly bound than those closer to the nucleus, but also because they can tell us when to use simplified methods of calculating other properties and", "title": "Effective atomic number" }, { "docid": "6141576", "text": "an atom as being 'stacked' by energy outside the nucleus; the lowest energy electrons (such as the 1s and 2s electrons) occupy the space closest to the nucleus, and electrons of higher energy are located further from the nucleus. The binding energy of an electron, or the energy needed to remove the electron from the atom, is a function of the electrostatic interaction between the negatively charged electrons and the positively charged nucleus. In Iron, atomic number 26, for instance, the nucleus contains 26 protons. The electrons that are closest to the nucleus will 'see' nearly all of them. However,", "title": "Effective atomic number" }, { "docid": "1533330", "text": "a massive extraterrestrial object caused the extinction of dinosaurs and many other species 66 million years ago. It is thought that the total amount of iridium in the planet Earth is much higher than that observed in crustal rocks, but as with other platinum group metals, the high density and tendency of iridium to bond with iron caused most iridium to descend below the crust when the planet was young and still molten. Platinum is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pt and an atomic number of 78. Its name is derived from the Spanish term \"platina\", which is", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "18334539", "text": "FeMoco FeMoco ( cofactor) is the primary cofactor of nitrogenase. Nitrogenase is the enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen molecules N into ammonia (NH) through the process known as nitrogen fixation. Containing iron and molybdenum, the cofactor is called FeMoco. Its stoichiometry is FeMoSC. The FeMo cofactor is a cluster with composition FeMoSC. Fe is the chemical symbol for the element iron (ferrum), and Mo is the symbol for molybdenum. This large cluster can be viewed as two subunits composed of one FeS (iron(III) sulfide) cluster and one MoFeS cluster. The two clusters are linked by three sulfide", "title": "FeMoco" }, { "docid": "69034", "text": "Chemical element A chemical element is a species of atoms having the same number of protons in their atomic nuclei (that is, the same atomic number, or \"Z\"). For example, the atomic number of oxygen is 8, so the element oxygen consists of all atoms which have exactly 8 protons. 118 elements have been identified, of which the first 94 occur naturally on Earth with the remaining 24 being synthetic elements. There are 80 elements that have at least one stable isotope and 38 that have exclusively radionuclides, which decay over time into other elements. Iron is the most abundant", "title": "Chemical element" }, { "docid": "922368", "text": "principle: Ferric Ferric refers to iron-containing materials or compounds. In chemistry the term is reserved for iron with an oxidation number of +3, also denoted iron(III) or Fe. On the other hand, ferrous refers to iron with oxidation number of +2, denoted iron(II) or Fe. Iron(III) is usually the most stable form of iron in air, as illustrated by the pervasiveness of rust, an insoluble iron(III)-containing material. The word ferric is derived from the Latin word \"ferrum\" for iron. Many proteins contain ferric ions. Examples include iron-sulfur clusters, oxyhemoglobin, ferritin, and the cytochromes. The bioavailability of iron is of great", "title": "Ferric" }, { "docid": "922362", "text": "Ferric Ferric refers to iron-containing materials or compounds. In chemistry the term is reserved for iron with an oxidation number of +3, also denoted iron(III) or Fe. On the other hand, ferrous refers to iron with oxidation number of +2, denoted iron(II) or Fe. Iron(III) is usually the most stable form of iron in air, as illustrated by the pervasiveness of rust, an insoluble iron(III)-containing material. The word ferric is derived from the Latin word \"ferrum\" for iron. Many proteins contain ferric ions. Examples include iron-sulfur clusters, oxyhemoglobin, ferritin, and the cytochromes. The bioavailability of iron is of great interest", "title": "Ferric" } ]
[ { "docid": "9432", "text": "atomic numbers 1 to 118 have been observed. Synthesis of new elements is accomplished by bombarding target atoms of heavy elements with ions, such that the sum of the atomic numbers of the target and ion elements equals the atomic number of the element being created. In general, the half-life becomes shorter as atomic number increases, though an \"island of stability\" may exist for undiscovered isotopes with certain numbers of protons and neutrons. Atomic number The atomic number or proton number (symbol \"Z\") of a chemical element is the number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom. It", "title": "Atomic number" }, { "docid": "9417", "text": "Atomic number The atomic number or proton number (symbol \"Z\") of a chemical element is the number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom. It is identical to the charge number of the nucleus. The atomic number uniquely identifies a chemical element. In an uncharged atom, the atomic number is also equal to the number of electrons. The sum of the atomic number \"Z\" and the number of neutrons, \"N\", gives the mass number \"A\" of an atom. Since protons and neutrons have approximately the same mass (and the mass of the electrons is negligible for many purposes)", "title": "Atomic number" }, { "docid": "9430", "text": "was seen as containing 118 neutrons rather than 118 nuclear electrons, and its positive charge now was realized to come entirely from a content of 79 protons. After 1932, therefore, an element's atomic number \"Z\" was also realized to be identical to the proton number of its nuclei. The conventional symbol \"Z\" possibly comes from the German word (atomic number). However, prior to 1915, the word \"Zahl\" (simply \"number\") was used for an element's assigned number in the periodic table. Each element has a specific set of chemical properties as a consequence of the number of electrons present in the", "title": "Atomic number" }, { "docid": "9431", "text": "neutral atom, which is \"Z\" (the atomic number). The configuration of these electrons follows from the principles of quantum mechanics. The number of electrons in each element's electron shells, particularly the outermost valence shell, is the primary factor in determining its chemical bonding behavior. Hence, it is the atomic number alone that determines the chemical properties of an element; and it is for this reason that an element can be defined as consisting of \"any\" mixture of atoms with a given atomic number. The quest for new elements is usually described using atomic numbers. As of 2010, all elements with", "title": "Atomic number" }, { "docid": "9419", "text": "in a defined environment on Earth, determines the element's standard atomic weight. Historically, it was these atomic weights of elements (in comparison to hydrogen) that were the quantities measurable by chemists in the 19th century. The conventional symbol \"Z\" comes from the German word meaning \"number\", which, before the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table, whose order is approximately, but not completely, consistent with the order of the elements by atomic weights. Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this \"Z\" number was also the nuclear", "title": "Atomic number" }, { "docid": "3143515", "text": "number of protons in a nucleus, and thus uniquely identifies an element. Hence, the difference between the mass number and the atomic number gives the number of neutrons (\"N\") in a given nucleus: . The mass number is written either after the element name or as a superscript to the left of an element's symbol. For example, the most common isotope of carbon is carbon-12, or , which has 6 protons and 6 neutrons. The full isotope symbol would also have the atomic number (\"Z\") as a subscript to the left of the element symbol directly below the mass number:", "title": "Mass number" }, { "docid": "1402639", "text": "be colored by anodization are particular advantages. Molybdenum is a Group 6 chemical element with the symbol Mo and atomic number 42. The name is from Neo-Latin \"Molybdaenum\", from Ancient Greek , meaning \"lead\", itself proposed as a loanword from Anatolian Luvian and Lydian languages, since its ores were confused with lead ores. The free element, which is a silvery metal, has the sixth-highest melting point of any element. It readily forms hard, stable carbides, and for this reason it is often used in high-strength steel alloys. Molybdenum does not occur as a free metal on Earth, but rather in", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "9418", "text": "and the mass defect of nucleon binding is always small compared to the nucleon mass, the atomic mass of any atom, when expressed in unified atomic mass units (making a quantity called the \"relative isotopic mass\"), is within 1% of the whole number \"A\". Atoms with the same atomic number \"Z\" but different neutron numbers \"N\", and hence different atomic masses, are known as isotopes. A little more than three-quarters of naturally occurring elements exist as a mixture of isotopes (see monoisotopic elements), and the average isotopic mass of an isotopic mixture for an element (called the relative atomic mass)", "title": "Atomic number" }, { "docid": "6141580", "text": "is one quite different from that described above. The atomic number of a material exhibits a strong and fundamental relationship with the nature of radiation interactions within that medium. There are numerous mathematical descriptions of different interaction processes that are dependent on the atomic number, Z. When dealing with composite media (i.e. a bulk material composed of more than one element), one therefore encounters the difficulty of defining Z. An effective atomic number in this context is equivalent to the atomic number but is used for compounds (e.g. water) and mixtures of different materials (such as tissue and bone). This", "title": "Effective atomic number" }, { "docid": "9423", "text": "), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess). Nevertheless, in spite of Rutherford's estimation that gold had a central charge of about 100 (but was element on the periodic table), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, Antonius van den Broek first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons in an atom was \"exactly\" equal to its place in the periodic table (also known as element number, atomic number, and symbolized \"Z\"). This proved eventually to be the case. The experimental position improved dramatically after research by Henry Moseley in 1913. Moseley, after discussions with Bohr", "title": "Atomic number" }, { "docid": "69051", "text": "isotopes: specifically the elements without any stable isotopes are technetium (atomic number 43), promethium (atomic number 61), and all observed elements with atomic numbers greater than 82. Of the 80 elements with at least one stable isotope, 26 have only one single stable isotope. The mean number of stable isotopes for the 80 stable elements is 3.1 stable isotopes per element. The largest number of stable isotopes that occur for a single element is 10 (for tin, element 50). The mass number of an element, \"A\", is the number of nucleons (protons and neutrons) in the atomic nucleus. Different isotopes", "title": "Chemical element" }, { "docid": "9425", "text": "tube. The square root of the frequency of these photons increased from one target to the next in an arithmetic progression. This led to the conclusion (Moseley's law) that the atomic number does closely correspond (with an offset of one unit for K-lines, in Moseley's work) to the calculated electric charge of the nucleus, i.e. the element number \"Z\". Among other things, Moseley demonstrated that the lanthanide series (from lanthanum to lutetium inclusive) must have 15 members—no fewer and no more—which was far from obvious from the chemistry at that time. After Moseley's death in 1915, the atomic numbers of", "title": "Atomic number" }, { "docid": "6141575", "text": "Effective atomic number Effective atomic number has two different meanings: one that is the effective nuclear charge of an atom, and one that calculates the average atomic number for a compound or mixture of materials. Both are abbreviated Z. The effective atomic number Z, (sometimes referred to as the effective nuclear charge) of an atom is the number of protons that an electron in the element effectively 'sees' due to screening by inner-shell electrons. It is a measure of the electrostatic interaction between the negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons in the atom. One can view the electrons in", "title": "Effective atomic number" }, { "docid": "1533347", "text": "element with the symbol Po and atomic number 84, discovered in 1898 by Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie. A rare and highly radioactive element, polonium is chemically similar to bismuth and tellurium, and it occurs in uraniumores. Polonium has been studied for possible use in heating spacecraft. As it is unstable, all isotopes of polonium are radioactive. There is disagreement as to whether polonium is a post-transition metal or metalloid. Astatine is a radioactive chemical element with the symbol At and atomic number 85. It occurs on the Earth only as the result of decay of heavier elements, and decays", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "69048", "text": "hydrogen and deuterium). Thus, all carbon isotopes have nearly identical chemical properties because they all have six protons and six electrons, even though carbon atoms may, for example, have 6 or 8 neutrons. That is why the atomic number, rather than mass number or atomic weight, is considered the identifying characteristic of a chemical element. The symbol for atomic number is \"Z\". Isotopes are atoms of the same element (that is, with the same number of protons in their atomic nucleus), but having \"different\" numbers of neutrons. Thus, for example, there are three main isotopes of carbon. All carbon atoms", "title": "Chemical element" }, { "docid": "3143514", "text": "Mass number The mass number (symbol \"A\", from the German word \"Atomgewicht\" (atomic weight), also called atomic mass number or nucleon number, is the total number of protons and neutrons (together known as nucleons) in an atomic nucleus. It determines the atomic mass of atoms. Because protons and neutrons both are baryons, the mass number A is identical with the baryon number B as of the nucleus as of the whole atom or ion. The mass number is different for each different isotope of a chemical element. This is not the same as the atomic number (\"Z\") which denotes the", "title": "Mass number" }, { "docid": "728898", "text": "the material was known in ancient times, while for others, the name is a more recent invention. For example, \"He\" is the symbol for helium (New Latin name, not known in ancient Roman times), \"Pb\" for lead (\"plumbum\" in Latin), and \"Hg\" for mercury (\"hydrargyrum\" in Greek). Some symbols come from other sources, like \"W\" for tungsten (\"Wolfram\" in German, not known in Roman times). Temporary symbols assigned to newly or not-yet synthesized elements use 3-letter symbols based on their atomic numbers. For example, \"Uno\" was the temporary symbol for hassium (element 108) which had the temporary name of \"unniloctium\".", "title": "Symbol (chemistry)" }, { "docid": "69099", "text": "remaining naturally occurring chemical elements were identified and characterized by 1900, including: Elements isolated or produced since 1900 include: The first transuranium element (element with atomic number greater than 92) discovered was neptunium in 1940. Since 1999 claims for the discovery of new elements have been considered by the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party. As of January 2016, all 118 elements have been confirmed as discovered by IUPAC. The discovery of element 112 was acknowledged in 2009, and the name \"copernicium\" and the atomic symbol \"Cn\" were suggested for it. The name and symbol were officially endorsed by IUPAC on 19", "title": "Chemical element" }, { "docid": "9972702", "text": "publishes \"abridged\" values (up to five digits per number only), and for the twelve interval values, \"conventional\" values (single number values). Symbol \"A\" is a relative atomic mass, for example from a specific sample. To be specific, the standard atomic weight can be noted as , where (E) is the element symbol. The abridged atomic weight, also published by CIAAW, is derived from the standard atomic weight reducing the numbers to five digits (five significant figures). The name does not say 'rounded'. Interval borders are rounded \"downwards\" for the first (lowmost) border, and \"upwards\" for the \"upward\" (upmost) border. This", "title": "Standard atomic weight" }, { "docid": "1402663", "text": "Like the other halogens, free iodine occurs mainly as a diatomic molecule I, and then only momentarily after being oxidized from iodide by an oxidant like free oxygen. In the universe and on Earth, iodine's high atomic number makes it a relatively rare element. However, its presence in ocean water has given it a role in biology (see below). Xenon is a chemical element with the symbol Xe and atomic number 54. A colorless, heavy, odorless noble gas, xenon occurs in the Earth's atmospherein trace amounts. Although generally unreactive, xenon can undergo a few chemical reactions such as the formation", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "1402643", "text": "years old, helped bolster the theory that stars can produce heavier elements. Ruthenium is a chemical element with symbol Ru and atomic number 44. It is a rare transition metal belonging to the platinum group of the periodic table. Like the other metals of the platinum group, ruthenium is inert to most chemicals. The Russian scientist Karl Ernst Claus discovered the element in 1844 and named it after Ruthenia, the Latin word for Rus'. Ruthenium usually occurs as a minor component of platinum ores and its annual production is only about 12 tonnes worldwide. Most ruthenium is used for wear-resistant", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "1402661", "text": "Klaproth named the new element in 1798 after the Latin word for \"earth\", \"tellus\". Gold telluride minerals (responsible for the name of Telluride, Colorado) are the most notable natural gold compounds. However, they are not a commercially significant source of tellurium itself, which is normally extracted as by-product of copper and lead production. Tellurium is commercially primarily used in alloys, foremost in steel and copper to improve machinability. Applications in solar panels and as a semiconductor material also consume a considerable fraction of tellurium production. Iodine is a chemical element with the symbol I and atomic number 53. The name", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "728900", "text": "(see Chemical elements in East Asian languages). However, Latin symbols are also used, especially in formulas. A list of current, dated, as well as proposed and historical signs and symbols is included here with its signification. Also given is each element's atomic number, atomic weight or the atomic mass of the most stable isotope, group and period numbers on the periodic table, and etymology of the symbol. Hazard pictographs are another type of symbols used in chemistry. Antimatter atoms are denoted by a bar above the symbol for their matter counterpart, so e.g. H is the symbol for antihydrogen. The", "title": "Symbol (chemistry)" }, { "docid": "9422", "text": "obvious, led to inconsistency and uncertainty in the periodic numbering of elements at least from lutetium (element 71) onward (hafnium was not known at this time). In 1911, Ernest Rutherford gave a model of the atom in which a central core held most of the atom's mass and a positive charge which, in units of the electron's charge, was to be approximately equal to half of the atom's atomic weight, expressed in numbers of hydrogen atoms. This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight (though it was almost 25% different from the atomic number of gold ,", "title": "Atomic number" }, { "docid": "69053", "text": "\"nuclide\") of the element, expressed in atomic mass units (symbol: u). In general, the mass number of a given nuclide differs in value slightly from its atomic mass, since the mass of each proton and neutron is not exactly 1 u; since the electrons contribute a lesser share to the atomic mass as neutron number exceeds proton number; and (finally) because of the nuclear binding energy. For example, the atomic mass of chlorine-35 to five significant digits is 34.969 u and that of chlorine-37 is 36.966 u. However, the atomic mass in u of each isotope is quite close to", "title": "Chemical element" }, { "docid": "69052", "text": "of a given element are distinguished by their mass numbers, which are conventionally written as a superscript on the left hand side of the atomic symbol (e.g. U). The mass number is always a whole number and has units of \"nucleons\". For example, magnesium-24 (24 is the mass number) is an atom with 24 nucleons (12 protons and 12 neutrons). Whereas the mass number simply counts the total number of neutrons and protons and is thus a natural (or whole) number, the atomic mass of a single atom is a real number giving the mass of a particular isotope (or", "title": "Chemical element" }, { "docid": "12502214", "text": "Atomic emission spectroscopy Atomic emission spectroscopy (AES) is a method of chemical analysis that uses the intensity of light emitted from a flame, plasma, arc, or spark at a particular wavelength to determine the quantity of an element in a sample. The wavelength of the atomic spectral line gives the identity of the element while the intensity of the emitted light is proportional to the number of atoms of the element A sample of a material (analyte) is brought into the flame as a gas, sprayed solution, or directly inserted into the flame by use of a small loop of", "title": "Atomic emission spectroscopy" }, { "docid": "12510656", "text": "Neutron number The neutron number, symbol N, is the number of neutrons in a nuclide. Atomic number (proton number) plus neutron number equals mass number: Z+N=A. The difference between the neutron number and the atomic number is known as the neutron excess: D = N - Z = A - 2Z. Neutron number is rarely written explicitly in nuclide symbol notation, but appears as a subscript to the right of the element symbol. In order of increasing explicitness and decreasing frequency of usage: Nuclides that have the same neutron number but a different proton number are called isotones. This word", "title": "Neutron number" }, { "docid": "728897", "text": "Symbol (chemistry) In relation to the chemical elements, a symbol is a code for a chemical element. Many functional groups have their own chemical symbol, e.g. Ph for the phenyl group, and Me for the methyl group. Chemical symbols for elements normally consist of one or two letters from the Latin alphabet, but can contain three when the element has a systematic temporary name (as of March 2017, no discovered elements have such a name), and are written with the first letter capitalized. Earlier chemical element symbols stem from classical Latin and Greek vocabulary. For some elements, this is because", "title": "Symbol (chemistry)" }, { "docid": "1621258", "text": "elements of the 7th period. Francium is a chemical element with symbol Fr and atomic number 87. It was formerly known as eka-caesium and actinium K. It is one of the two least electronegative elements, the other being caesium. Francium is a highly radioactive metal that decays into astatine, radium, and radon. As an alkali metal, it has one valence electron. Francium was discovered by Marguerite Perey in France (from which the element takes its name) in 1939. It was the last element discovered in nature, rather than by synthesis. Outside the laboratory, francium is extremely rare, with trace amounts", "title": "Period 7 element" }, { "docid": "1402634", "text": "Anders Gustaf Ekeberg named the new oxide \"yttria\". Elemental yttrium was first isolated in 1828 by Friedrich Wöhler. The most important use of yttrium is in making phosphors, such as the red ones used in television set cathode ray tube (CRT) displays and in LEDs. Other uses include the production of electrodes, electrolytes, electronic filters, lasers and superconductors; various medical applications; and as traces in various materials to enhance their properties. Yttrium has no known biological role, and exposure to yttrium compounds can cause lung disease in humans. Zirconium is a chemical element with the symbol Zr and atomic number", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "1402651", "text": "other silver compounds are used as disinfectants and microbiocides. While many medical antimicrobial uses of silver have been supplanted by antibiotics, further research into clinical potential continues. Cadmium is a chemical element with the symbol Cd and atomic number 48. This soft, bluish-white metal is chemically similar to the two other stable metals in group 12, zinc and mercury. Like zinc, it prefers oxidation state +2 in most of its compounds and like mercury it shows a low melting point compared to transition metals. Cadmium and its congeners are not always considered transition metals, in that they do not have", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "12510661", "text": "71, 89, 115, 123, 147, 161, ... are stable to beta decay (see Beta-decay stable isobars). Only two stable nuclides have fewer neutrons than protons: hydrogen-1 and helium-3. Neutron number The neutron number, symbol N, is the number of neutrons in a nuclide. Atomic number (proton number) plus neutron number equals mass number: Z+N=A. The difference between the neutron number and the atomic number is known as the neutron excess: D = N - Z = A - 2Z. Neutron number is rarely written explicitly in nuclide symbol notation, but appears as a subscript to the right of the element", "title": "Neutron number" }, { "docid": "69080", "text": "or an electrophile; similarly \"Nu\" denotes a nucleophile. \"L\" is used to represent a general ligand in inorganic and organometallic chemistry. \"M\" is also often used in place of a general metal. At least two additional, two-letter generic chemical symbols are also in informal usage, \"Ln\" for any lanthanide element and \"An\" for any actinide element. \"Rg\" was formerly used for any rare gas element, but the group of rare gases has now been renamed noble gases and the symbol \"Rg\" has now been assigned to the element roentgenium. Isotopes are distinguished by the atomic mass number (total protons and", "title": "Chemical element" }, { "docid": "1243109", "text": "Ferrum, Virginia Ferrum is a census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,043 at the 2010 census, an increase of over fifty percent from the 1,313 reported in 2000. Ferrum is home to Ferrum College and its Blue Ridge Folklife Festival. It is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area. Ferrum is located at (36.926381, −80.011181). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 9.2 square miles (24.0 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,313 people, 285 households, and 169 families residing", "title": "Ferrum, Virginia" }, { "docid": "69046", "text": "by symbol, as well as ionization energies of the elements. The nuclides of stable and radioactive elements are also available as a list of nuclides, sorted by length of half-life for those that are unstable. One of the most convenient, and certainly the most traditional presentation of the elements, is in the form of the periodic table, which groups together elements with similar chemical properties (and usually also similar electronic structures). The atomic number of an element is equal to the number of protons in each atom, and defines the element. For example, all carbon atoms contain 6 protons in", "title": "Chemical element" }, { "docid": "1692583", "text": "Relative atomic mass Relative atomic mass (symbol: \"A\") or atomic weight is a dimensionless physical quantity defined as the ratio of the average mass of atoms of a chemical element in a given sample to one unified atomic mass unit. The unified atomic mass unit (symbol: \"u\" or \"Da\") is defined as being of the atomic mass of a carbon-12 atom. Since both values in the ratio are expressed in the same unit (\"u\"), the resulting value is dimensionless; hence the value is said to be \"relative\". For a single given sample, the relative atomic mass of a given element", "title": "Relative atomic mass" }, { "docid": "1621232", "text": "fats, and aromatic esters, carotenoids and terpenes. With nitrogen it forms alkaloids, and with the addition of sulfur also it forms antibiotics, amino acids, and rubber products. With the addition of phosphorus to these other elements, it forms DNA and RNA, the chemical-code carriers of life, and adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the most important energy-transfer molecule in all living cells. Nitrogen is the chemical element with atomic number 7, the symbol N and atomic mass 14.00674 u. Elemental nitrogen is a colorless, odorless, tasteless and mostly inert diatomic gas at standard conditions, constituting 78.08% by volume of Earth's atmosphere. The element", "title": "Period 2 element" }, { "docid": "12257674", "text": "fillings in permanent (adult) teeth. Mercury (element) Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is commonly known as quicksilver and was formerly named hydrargyrum ( ). A heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is the only metallic element that is liquid at standard conditions for temperature and pressure; the only other element that is liquid under these conditions is bromine, though metals such as caesium, gallium, and rubidium melt just above room temperature. Mercury occurs in deposits throughout the world mostly as cinnabar (mercuric sulfide). The red pigment vermilion is obtained by grinding natural cinnabar", "title": "Mercury (element)" }, { "docid": "12257618", "text": "Mercury (element) Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is commonly known as quicksilver and was formerly named hydrargyrum ( ). A heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is the only metallic element that is liquid at standard conditions for temperature and pressure; the only other element that is liquid under these conditions is bromine, though metals such as caesium, gallium, and rubidium melt just above room temperature. Mercury occurs in deposits throughout the world mostly as cinnabar (mercuric sulfide). The red pigment vermilion is obtained by grinding natural cinnabar or synthetic mercuric sulfide. Mercury", "title": "Mercury (element)" }, { "docid": "1402656", "text": "blood cells in the body. Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (for ) and atomic number 50. It is a main group metal in group 14 of the periodic table. Tin shows chemical similarity to both neighboring group 14 elements, germanium and lead and has two possible oxidation states, +2 and the slightly more stable +4. Tin is the 49th most abundant element and has, with 10 stable isotopes, the largest number of stable isotopes in the periodic table. Tin is obtained chiefly from the mineral cassiterite, where it occurs as tin dioxide, SnO. This silvery, malleable", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "1533324", "text": "living organism. Tungsten interferes with molybdenum and copper metabolism, and is somewhat toxic to animal life. Rhenium is a chemical element with the symbol Re and atomic number 75. It is a silvery-white, heavy, third-row transition metal in group 7 of the periodic table. With an \"estimated\" average concentration of 1 part per billion (ppb), rhenium is one of the rarest elements in the Earth's crust. The free element has the third-highest melting point and highest boiling point of any element. Rhenium resembles manganese chemically and is obtained as a by-product of molybdenum and copper ore's extraction and refinement. Rhenium", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "1533318", "text": "for studio lights and projectors, ignition elements in lighters and torches, electron cathodes, scintillators, GTAW electrodes, and other things. Lanthanum carbonate is used as a phosphate binder in cases of renal failure. It is also an element in the 6th period and in the 4th group. Hafnium is a chemical element with the symbol Hf and atomic number 72. A lustrous, silvery gray, tetravalent transition metal, hafnium chemically resembles zirconium and is found in zirconium minerals. Its existence was predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. Hafnium was the penultimate stable isotope element to be discovered (rhenium was identified two years", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "12690", "text": "therefore, any atom with an atomic number greater than 137 would require its 1s electrons to be traveling faster than the speed of light. Even in the Dirac equation, which accounts for relativistic effects, the wave function of the electron for atoms with is oscillatory and unbounded. The significance of element 137, also known as untriseptium, was first pointed out by the physicist Richard Feynman. Element 137 is sometimes informally called feynmanium (symbol Fy). However, Feynman's approximation fails to predict the exact critical value of due to the non-point-charge nature of the nucleus and very small orbital radius of inner", "title": "Atomic orbital" }, { "docid": "5596899", "text": "with Emory & Henry and Roanoke. Ferrum College Ferrum College is a private college in Ferrum, Virginia. Ferrum College has the second-oldest environmental science program in the nation and was ranked 41st by \"U.S. News & World Report\" in Comprehensive Colleges–Bachelor's (South) for 2006. The college itself is on the Virginia Historic Register. Roberts Hall and Beckham Hall are part of the Ferrum College Historic District and listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. Ferrum was founded in 1913. It is a liberal arts institution founded on Christian principles and related to the United", "title": "Ferrum College" }, { "docid": "1402636", "text": "Niobium, or columbium, is a chemical element with the symbol Nb and atomic number 41. It is a soft, grey, ductile transition metal, which is often found in the pyrochlore mineral, the main commercial source for niobium, and columbite. The name comes from Greek mythology: \"Niobe\", daughter of \"Tantalus\". Niobium has physical and chemical properties similar to those of the element tantalum, and the two are therefore difficult to distinguish. The English chemistCharles Hatchett reported a new element similar to tantalum in 1801, and named it columbium. In 1809, the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston wrongly concluded that tantalum and", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "69096", "text": "element cannot be transformed into other chemical elements by chemical processes. Elements during this time were generally distinguished by their atomic weights, a property measurable with fair accuracy by available analytical techniques. The 1913 discovery by English physicist Henry Moseley that the nuclear charge is the physical basis for an atom's atomic number, further refined when the nature of protons and neutrons became appreciated, eventually led to the current definition of an element based on atomic number (number of protons per atomic nucleus). The use of atomic numbers, rather than atomic weights, to distinguish elements has greater predictive value (since", "title": "Chemical element" }, { "docid": "1533338", "text": "deposited later by meteorites which contained the element. This supposedly explains why, in prehistory, gold appeared as nuggets on the earth's surface. Mercury is a chemical element with the symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is also known as quicksilver or hydrargyrum ( < Greek \"\" \"water\" and \"\" \"silver\"). A heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is the only metal that is liquid at standard conditions for temperature and pressure; the only other element that is liquid under these conditions is bromine, though metals such as caesium, francium, gallium, and rubidium melt just above room temperature. With a freezing", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "6141579", "text": "interactions. For instance, lithium, atomic number 3, has two electrons in the 1s shell and one in the 2s shell. Because the two 1s electrons screen the protons to give an effective atomic number for the 2s electron close to 1, we can treat this 2s valence electron with a hydrogenic model. Mathematically, the effective atomic number Z can be calculated using methods known as \"self-consistent field\" calculations, but in simplified situations is just taken as the atomic number minus the number of electrons between the nucleus and the electron being considered. An alternative definition of the effective atomic number", "title": "Effective atomic number" }, { "docid": "1533350", "text": "University of California, Berkeley in 1940. Three years later, it was found in nature; however, with an estimated amount of less than 28 grams (1 oz) at given time, astatine is the least abundant element in Earth's crust among non-transuranium elements. Among astatine isotopes, six (with mass numbers 214 to 219) are present in nature as the result of decay of heavier elements; however, the most stable astatine-210 and the industrially used astatine-211 are not. Radon is a chemical element with symbol Rn and atomic number 86. It is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, occurring naturally as the", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "1533344", "text": "heavy metal, lead is a neurotoxin that accumulates both in soft tissues and the bones. Lead poisoning has been documented from ancient Rome, ancient Greece, and ancient China. Bismuth is a chemical element with symbol Bi and atomic number 83. Bismuth, a trivalent other metal, chemically resembles arsenic and antimony. Elemental bismuth may occur naturally uncombined, although its sulfide and oxide form important commercial ores. The free element is 86% as dense as lead. It is a brittle metal with a silvery white color when newly made, but often seen in air with a pink tinge owing to the surface", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "1402649", "text": "in South Africa, the Stillwater Complex in Montana, United States, the Thunder Bay District of Ontario, Canada, and the Norilsk Complex in Russia. Recycling is also a source of palladium, mostly from scrapped catalytic converters. The numerous applications and limited supply sources of palladium result in the metal attracting considerable investment interest. Silver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag (, from the Indo-European root \"*arg-\" for \"grey\" or \"shining\") and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal.", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "1533321", "text": "niobium, occurs in the minerals tantalite, columbite and coltan (a mix of columbite and tantalite). Tungsten, also known as wolfram, is a chemical element with the chemical symbol W and atomic number 74. The word \"tungsten\" comes from the Swedish language \"tung sten\" directly translatable to \"heavy stone\", though the name is \"volfram\" in Swedish to distinguish it from Scheelite, in Swedish alternatively named \"tungsten\". A hard, rare metal under standard conditions when uncombined, tungsten is found naturally on Earth only in chemical compounds. It was identified as a new element in 1781, and first isolated as a metal in", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "1533310", "text": "years and is used in medical applications, industrial gauges, and hydrology. Although the element is only mildly toxic, it is a hazardous material as a metal and its radioisotopes present a high health risk in case of radioactivity releases. Barium is a chemical element with the symbol Ba and atomic number 56. It is the fifth element in Group 2, a soft silvery metallic alkaline earth metal. Barium is never found in nature in its pure form due to its reactivity with air. Its oxide is historically known as baryta but it reacts with water and carbon dioxide and is", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "5596893", "text": "Ferrum College Ferrum College is a private college in Ferrum, Virginia. Ferrum College has the second-oldest environmental science program in the nation and was ranked 41st by \"U.S. News & World Report\" in Comprehensive Colleges–Bachelor's (South) for 2006. The college itself is on the Virginia Historic Register. Roberts Hall and Beckham Hall are part of the Ferrum College Historic District and listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. Ferrum was founded in 1913. It is a liberal arts institution founded on Christian principles and related to the United Methodist Church. Ferrum's official mission is", "title": "Ferrum College" }, { "docid": "1533326", "text": "price of approximately US$4,575 per kilogram (US$142.30 per troy ounce) as of August 2011; it is also of critical strategic military importance, for its use in high performance military jet and rocket engines. Osmium is a chemical element with the symbol Os and atomic number 76. It is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family and is the densest naturally occurring element, with a density of (slightly greater than that of iridium and twice that of lead). It is found in nature as an alloy, mostly in platinum ores; its alloys with platinum, iridium, and", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "1402633", "text": "Yttrium is a chemical element with symbol Y and atomic number 39. It is a silvery-metallic transition metal chemically similar to the lanthanides and it has often been classified as a \"rare earth element\". Yttrium is almost always found combined with the lanthanides in rare earth minerals and is never found in nature as a free element. Its only stable isotope, Y, is also its only naturally occurring isotope. In 1787, Carl Axel Arrhenius found a new mineral near Ytterby in Sweden and named it \"ytterbite\", after the village. Johan Gadolin discovered yttrium's oxide in Arrhenius' sample in 1789, and", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "14099147", "text": "Atomic clock An atomic clock is a clock device that uses an electron transition frequency in the microwave, optical, or ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum of atoms as a frequency standard for its timekeeping element. Atomic clocks are the most accurate time and frequency standards known, and are used as primary standards for international time distribution services, to control the wave frequency of television broadcasts, and in global navigation satellite systems such as GPS. The principle of operation of an atomic clock is based on atomic physics; it uses the microwave signal that electrons in atoms emit when they", "title": "Atomic clock" }, { "docid": "69055", "text": "whole number. For example, the relative atomic mass of chlorine is 35.453 u, which differs greatly from a whole number as it is an average of about 76% chlorine-35 and 24% chlorine-37. Whenever a relative atomic mass value differs by more than 1% from a whole number, it is due to this averaging effect, as significant amounts of more than one isotope are naturally present in a sample of that element. Chemists and nuclear scientists have different definitions of a \"pure element\". In chemistry, a pure element means a substance whose atoms all (or in practice almost all) have the", "title": "Chemical element" }, { "docid": "1402659", "text": "with most production coming from the Xikuangshan Mine in Hunan. Antimony compounds are prominent additives for chlorine and bromine containing fire retardants found in many commercial and domestic products. The largest application for metallic antimony is as alloying material for lead and tin. It improves the properties of the alloys which are used as in solders, bullets and ball bearings. An emerging application is the use of antimony in microelectronics. Tellurium is a chemical element that has the symbol Te and atomic number 52. A brittle, mildly toxic, rare, silver-white metalloid which looks similar to tin, tellurium is chemically related", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "69047", "text": "their atomic nucleus; so the atomic number of carbon is 6. Carbon atoms may have different numbers of neutrons; atoms of the same element having different numbers of neutrons are known as isotopes of the element. The number of protons in the atomic nucleus also determines its electric charge, which in turn determines the number of electrons of the atom in its non-ionized state. The electrons are placed into atomic orbitals that determine the atom's various chemical properties. The number of neutrons in a nucleus usually has very little effect on an element's chemical properties (except in the case of", "title": "Chemical element" }, { "docid": "1533315", "text": "between barium and hafnium, and radium and rutherfordium, respectively. This convention is entirely a matter of aesthetics and formatting practicality; a rarely used wide-formatted periodic table inserts the lanthanide and actinide series in their proper places, as parts of the table's sixth and seventh rows (periods). Lanthanum is a chemical element with the symbol La and atomic number 57. It is the first element in the lanthanide series. It is a soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes rapidly when exposed to air and is soft enough to be cut with a knife. It is the eponym of the lanthanide series,", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "1533307", "text": "period 6 other metals are incredibly toxic, such as thallium. Period 6 contains the last stable element, lead. All subsequent elements in the periodic table are radioactive. After bismuth, which has a half-life or more than 10 years, polonium, astatine, and radon are some of the shortest-lived and rarest elements known; less than a gram of astatine is estimated to exist on earth at any given time. Caesium or cesium is the chemical element with the symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It is a soft, silvery-gold alkali metal with a melting point of 28 °C (82 °F), which makes", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "1402641", "text": "and symbol Tc. It is the lowest atomic number element without any stable isotopes; every form of it is radioactive. Nearly all technetium is produced synthetically and only minute amounts are found in nature. Naturally occurring technetium occurs as a spontaneous fission product in uranium ore or by neutron capture in molybdenum ores. The chemical properties of this silvery gray, crystalline transition metal are intermediate between rhenium and manganese. Many of technetium's properties were predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev before the element was discovered. Mendeleev noted a gap in his periodic table and gave the undiscovered element the provisional name \"ekamanganese\"", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "728904", "text": "(namely those in the actinium decay family, the radium decay family, and the thorium decay family) bear placeholder names using the early naming system devised by Ernest Rutherford. General: From organic chemistry: Exotic atoms: Symbol (chemistry) In relation to the chemical elements, a symbol is a code for a chemical element. Many functional groups have their own chemical symbol, e.g. Ph for the phenyl group, and Me for the methyl group. Chemical symbols for elements normally consist of one or two letters from the Latin alphabet, but can contain three when the element has a systematic temporary name (as of", "title": "Symbol (chemistry)" }, { "docid": "1533327", "text": "other platinum group metals are employed in fountain pen tips, electrical contacts, and other applications where extreme durability and hardness are needed. Iridium is the chemical element with atomic number 77, and is represented by the symbol Ir. A very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum family, iridium is the second-densest element (after osmium) and is the most corrosion-resistant metal, even at temperatures as high as 2000 °C. Although only certain molten salts and halogens are corrosive to solid iridium, finely divided iridium dust is much more reactive and can be flammable. Iridium was discovered in 1803 among", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "233873", "text": "Lead Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin \"plumbum\") and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cut, lead is silvery with a hint of blue; it tarnishes to a dull gray color when exposed to air. Lead has the highest atomic number of any stable element and three of its isotopes each conclude a major decay chain of heavier elements. Lead is a relatively unreactive post-transition metal. Its weak metallic character is", "title": "Lead" }, { "docid": "5541730", "text": "Transactinide element In chemistry, transactinide elements (also, transactinides, or super-heavy elements) are the chemical elements with atomic numbers from 104 to 120. Their atomic numbers are immediately greater than those of the actinides, the heaviest of which is lawrencium (atomic number 103). Glenn T. Seaborg first proposed the actinide concept, which led to the acceptance of the actinide series. He also proposed the transactinide series ranging from element 104 to 121 and the superactinide series approximately spanning elements 122 to 153. The transactinide seaborgium was named in his honor. By definition, transactinide elements are also transuranic elements, i.e. have an", "title": "Transactinide element" }, { "docid": "1243112", "text": "there were 131.0 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $35,208, and the median income for a family was $46,818. Males had a median income of $27,938 versus $22,917 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $12,276. About 4.0% of families and 9.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under the age of eighteen or sixty-five or over. Ferrum is home to Ferrum College, a small college of approximately 1,500 students. Ferrum, Virginia Ferrum is a census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin County, Virginia, United States. The population", "title": "Ferrum, Virginia" }, { "docid": "14521495", "text": "Monoisotopic element A monoisotopic element is one of 26 chemical elements which have only a single stable isotope (nuclide). A list is given in a following section. Stability is experimentally defined for chemical elements, as there are a number of stable nuclides with atomic numbers over ~ 40 which are theoretically unstable, but apparently have half-lives so long that they have not been observed directly or indirectly (from measurement of products) to decay. Monoisotopic elements are characterized, except in a single case, by odd numbers of protons (odd \"Z\"), and even numbers of neutrons. Because of the energy gain from", "title": "Monoisotopic element" }, { "docid": "3143519", "text": "The difference between mass number of an atom and its isotopic mass is known as the mass excess. Mass excess should not be confused with mass defect which is the difference between the mass of an atom and its constituent particles (namely protons, neutrons and electrons). There are two reasons for mass defect/excess: The mass number should also not be confused with the standard atomic weight (also called atomic weight) of an element, which is the ratio of the average atomic mass of the different isotopes of that element (weighted by abundance) to the unified atomic mass unit. The atomic", "title": "Mass number" }, { "docid": "18476356", "text": "in \"All Beautiful & Splendid Things: 12+1 Piano Songs on Texts by Women\" and in \"Rendezvous with Midnight: 12+1 Nocturnes for Teens\"by Barbara Arens.(reviewed by Andrew Eales: https://pianodao.com/2016/07/21/rendezvous-with-midnight/) Editions Musica Ferrum wants to publish: \"“Music that is beautiful, engraved in handsome scores that are worth owning.”\" Editions Musica Ferrum Editions Musica Ferrum is a music publishing company. Focussing on contemporary music, it has published over 80 scores, ranging from concert hall music for full orchestra to educational music for piano solo. Several award winning composers have their music published by EMF. A possibly unique characteristic feature is the fact that", "title": "Editions Musica Ferrum" }, { "docid": "763860", "text": "Systematic element name A systematic element name is the temporary name assigned to a newly synthesized or not yet synthesized chemical element. A systematic symbol is also derived from this name. In chemistry, a transuranic element receives a permanent name and symbol only after its synthesis has been confirmed. In some cases, such as Transfermium Wars, such controversies have been protracted and highly political. In order to discuss such elements without ambiguity, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) uses a set of rules to assign a temporary systematic name and symbol to each such element. This approach", "title": "Systematic element name" }, { "docid": "1402646", "text": "and because of its rarity, rhodium is usually alloyed with platinum or palladium and applied in high-temperature and corrosion-resistive coatings. White gold is often plated with a thin rhodium layer to improve its optical impression while sterling silver is often rhodium plated for tarnish resistance. Rhodium detectors are used in nuclear reactors to measure the neutron flux level. Palladium is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pd and an atomic number of 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "12532359", "text": "or standard atomic weight, by several mass units. Atomic masses expressed in unified atomic mass units (i.e. relative isotopic masses) are always close to whole-number values, but never (except in the case of carbon-12) exactly a whole number, for two reasons: The ratio of atomic mass to mass number (number of nucleons) varies from about 0.99884 for Fe to 1.00782505 for H. Any mass defect due to nuclear binding energy is experimentally a small fraction (less than 1%) of the mass of equal number of free nucleons. When compared to the average mass per nucleon in carbon-12, which is moderately", "title": "Atomic mass" }, { "docid": "3143521", "text": "can be near-integer, but at the same time not corresponding to the mass of any natural isotope. For example, bromine has only two stable isotopes, Br and Br, naturally present in approximately equal fractions, which leads to the standard atomic mass of bromine close to 80 (79.904 g/mol), even though the isotope Br with such mass is unstable. Mass number The mass number (symbol \"A\", from the German word \"Atomgewicht\" (atomic weight), also called atomic mass number or nucleon number, is the total number of protons and neutrons (together known as nucleons) in an atomic nucleus. It determines the atomic", "title": "Mass number" }, { "docid": "2073035", "text": "1950s called the element 71 cassiopeium. Urbain chose the names \"neoytterbium\" (Latin for \"new ytterbium\") for ytterbium and \"lutecium\" (from Latin Lutetia, for Paris) for the new element. The dispute on the priority of the discovery is documented in two articles in which Urbain and von Welsbach accuse each other of publishing results influenced by the published research of the other. The Commission on Atomic Mass, which was responsible for the attribution of the names for the new elements, settled the dispute in 1909 by granting priority to Urbain and adopting his names as official ones. An obvious problem with", "title": "Group 3 element" }, { "docid": "6141585", "text": "possible to obtain a much more accurate single-valued Z by weighting against the spectrum of the source. The effective atomic number for electron interactions may be calculated with a similar approach; see for instance Taylor \"et al.\" 2009 and Taylor 2011. The cross-section based approach for determining Z is obviously much more complicated than the simple power-law approach described above, and this is why freely-available software has been developed for such calculations (Taylor \"et al.\" 2012). Effective atomic number Effective atomic number has two different meanings: one that is the effective nuclear charge of an atom, and one that calculates", "title": "Effective atomic number" }, { "docid": "1402658", "text": "corrosion-resistant tin plating of steel. Because of its low toxicity, tin-plated metal is also used for food packaging, giving the name to tin cans, which are made mostly of steel. Antimony () is a toxic chemical element with the symbol Sb and an atomic number of 51. A lustrous grey metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (SbS). Antimony compounds have been known since ancient times and were used for cosmetics, metallic antimony was also known but mostly identified as lead. For some time China has been the largest producer of antimony and its compounds,", "title": "Period 5 element" }, { "docid": "9420", "text": "charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word (and its English equivalent \"atomic number\") come into common use in this context. Loosely speaking, the existence or construction of a periodic table of elements creates an ordering of the elements, and so they can be numbered in order. Dmitri Mendeleev claimed that he arranged his first periodic tables (first published on March 6th, 1869) in order of atomic weight (\"Atomgewicht\"). However, in consideration of the elements' observed chemical properties, he changed the order slightly and placed tellurium (atomic weight 127.6) ahead of iodine (atomic weight 126.9). This placement is", "title": "Atomic number" }, { "docid": "1621259", "text": "found in uranium and thorium ores, where the isotope francium-223 continually forms and decays. As little as 20–30 g (one ounce) exists at any given time throughout the Earth's crust; the other isotopes are entirely synthetic. The largest amount produced in the laboratory was a cluster of more than 300,000 atoms. Radium is a chemical element with atomic number 88, represented by the symbol Ra. Radium is an almost pure-white alkaline earth metal, but it readily oxidizes on exposure to air, becoming black in color. All isotopes of radium are highly radioactive, with the most stable isotope being radium-226, which", "title": "Period 7 element" }, { "docid": "1533342", "text": "\"The Poisoner's Poison\" and \"Inheritance Powder\" (alongside arsenic). Lead is a main-group element in the carbon group with the symbol Pb (from ) and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable other metal. It is also counted as one of the heavy metals. Metallic lead has a bluish-white color after being freshly cut, but it soon tarnishes to a dull grayish color when exposed to air. Lead has a shiny chrome-silver luster when it is melted into a liquid. Lead is used in building construction, lead-acid batteries, bullets and shots, weights, as part of solders, pewters, fusible alloys and", "title": "Period 6 element" }, { "docid": "4217195", "text": "122\" with the symbol of (\"122\"), or sometimes even \"E122\" or \"122\". The stability of nuclei decreases greatly with the increase in atomic number after plutonium, the heaviest primordial element, so that all isotopes with an atomic number above 101 decay radioactively with a half-life under a day, with an exception of dubnium-268. No elements with atomic numbers above 82 (after lead) have stable isotopes. Nevertheless, because of reasons not very well understood yet, there is a slight increased nuclear stability around atomic numbers 110–114, which leads to the appearance of what is known in nuclear physics as the \"island", "title": "Unbibium" }, { "docid": "11062901", "text": "approximate atomic number of 177. Though this explains why the jacks failed — the weight of the meteorite is somewhere in the area of 25,000 tons, more than double what was expected — it is also staggering scientific discovery: no known element has an atomic number anywhere near 177. McFarlane speculates that this element is part of the undiscovered elemental \"island of stability\", and further states that the meteorite could only have come from outside the solar system. During this time, McFarlane also becomes romantically involved with Amira. Now properly accounting for its weight, Glinn's crew is able to load", "title": "The Ice Limit" }, { "docid": "1288687", "text": "by X-ray crystallography) by Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley made it possible to assign atomic numbers to the elements. Moseley found that the exact number of lanthanides had to be 15, and that element 61 had yet to be discovered. Using these facts about atomic numbers from X-ray crystallography, Moseley also showed that hafnium (element 72) would not be a rare-earth element. Moseley was killed in World War I in 1915, years before hafnium was discovered. Hence, the claim of Georges Urbain that he had discovered element 72 was untrue. Hafnium is an element that lies in the periodic table immediately", "title": "Rare-earth element" }, { "docid": "12532352", "text": "the averaged quantity atomic weight (see above), that is an average of values for many atoms in a given sample of a chemical element. Relative isotopic mass is similar to atomic mass and has exactly the same numerical value as atomic mass, whenever atomic mass is expressed in unified atomic mass units. The only difference in that case, is that relative isotopic mass is a pure number with no units. This loss of units results from the use of a scaling ratio with respect to a carbon-12 standard, and the word \"relative\" in the term \"relative isotopic mass\" refers to", "title": "Atomic mass" }, { "docid": "5596895", "text": "1960s and 1970s and began offering bachelor's degrees in a selection of human service fields in 1977. The college was awarded accreditation as a four-year college by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in 1976. The last associate degrees were awarded in 1991. Today, Ferrum College offers bachelor's degrees in twenty-eight major degree programs. The college continues to operate under the auspices of the Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women of the Virginia Annual Conference. The Ferrum campus is located on near the town of Ferrum, Virginia. The nearest large cities are", "title": "Ferrum College" }, { "docid": "5541741", "text": "mix characteristics of the elements of group 10, 12, and 18. Transactinide element In chemistry, transactinide elements (also, transactinides, or super-heavy elements) are the chemical elements with atomic numbers from 104 to 120. Their atomic numbers are immediately greater than those of the actinides, the heaviest of which is lawrencium (atomic number 103). Glenn T. Seaborg first proposed the actinide concept, which led to the acceptance of the actinide series. He also proposed the transactinide series ranging from element 104 to 121 and the superactinide series approximately spanning elements 122 to 153. The transactinide seaborgium was named in his honor.", "title": "Transactinide element" }, { "docid": "326399", "text": "Periodic table (detailed cells) The periodic table is a tabular method of displaying the chemical elements. It can show much information, after name, symbol and atomic number. Also, for each element mean atomic mass value for the natural isotopic composition of each element can be noted. The two layout forms originate from two graphic forms of presentation of the same periodic table. Historically, when the f-block was identified it was drawn below the existing table, with markings for its in-table location (this page uses dots or asterisks). Also, a common presentation is to put all 15 lanthanide and actinide columns", "title": "Periodic table (detailed cells)" } ]
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Consisting of 20 quires of 25 sheets, the ream is a common retail unit of what product?
[ "Loose paper", "Sheets of paper", "Granite paper", "Homemade paper", "Printer paper", "Paper sheet", "Paper", "PAPER", "Paper stock", "Sheet of paper", "Scratch paper", "Papper" ]
[ { "docid": "10115575", "text": "size and type of paper being sold. Reams of 500 sheets (20 quires of 25 sheets) were known in England in c1594; in 1706 a ream was defined as 20 quires, either 24 or 25 sheets to the quire. In 18th- and 19th-century Europe, the size of the ream varied widely. In Lombardy a ream of music paper was 450 or 480 sheets; in Britain, Holland and Germany a ream of 480 sheets was common; in the Veneto it was more frequently 500. Some paper manufacturers counted 546 sheets (21 quires of 26 sheets). J.S. Bach's manuscript paper at Weimar", "title": "Units of paper quantity" }, { "docid": "10115573", "text": "of 480 sheets, now known as a 'short' ream. Reams of 472 and 516 sheets are still current, but in retail outlets paper is typically sold in reams of 500. As an old UK and US unit, a perfect ream was equal to 516 sheets. Certain types of specialist papers such as tissue paper, greaseproof paper, handmade paper, and blotting paper are still sold (especially in the UK) in 'short' reams of 480 sheets (20 quires of 24 sheets). However, the commercial use of the word 'ream' for quantities of paper other than 500 is now deprecated by such standards", "title": "Units of paper quantity" }, { "docid": "10115576", "text": "was ordered by the ream of 480 sheets. In 1840, a ream in Lisbon was 17 quires and 3 sheets = 428 sheets, and a double ream was 18 quires and 2 sheets = 434 sheets; and in Bremen, blotting or packing paper was sold in reams of 300 (20 quires of 15 sheets). A mid-19th century Milanese-Italian dictionary has an example for a \"risma\" (ream) as being either 450 or 480 sheets. In the UK in 1914, paper was sold using the following reams: Reams of 500 sheets were mostly used only for newsprint. Since the late 20th century,", "title": "Units of paper quantity" }, { "docid": "10115568", "text": "Units of paper quantity Various measures of paper quantity have been and are in use. Although there are no S.I. units such as quires and bales, there are ISO and DIN standards for the ream. Expressions used here include U.S. Customary units. A quire of paper is a measure of paper quantity. The usual meaning is 25 sheets of the same size and quality: of a ream of 500 sheets. Quires of 25 sheets are often used for machine-made paper, while quires of 24 sheets are often used for handmade or specialised paper of 480-sheet reams. (As an old UK", "title": "Units of paper quantity" }, { "docid": "10115572", "text": "Simon Winchester, in \"The Surgeon of Crowthorne\", cites a specific number, defining quire as \"a booklet eight pages thick.\" Several European words for quire keep the meaning of \"book of paper\": Ger. \"Buch von Papier\", Dan. \"bog papir\", Du. \"bock papier\". In blankbook binding, \"quire\" is a term indicating 80 pages. A ream of paper is a quantity of sheets of the same size and quality. International standards organizations define the ream as 500 identical sheets. This ream of 500 sheets (20 quires of 25 sheets) is also known as a 'long' ream, and is gradually replacing the old value", "title": "Units of paper quantity" }, { "docid": "10115578", "text": "× 17\" and smaller is packaged and sold as bundles of 25 pounds. A paper bale is a quantity of sheets of paper, currently standardized as 5,000 sheets. A bale consists of 5 bundles, 10 reams or 200 quires. As an old UK and US measure, it was previously equal to 4800 sheets. Units of paper quantity Various measures of paper quantity have been and are in use. Although there are no S.I. units such as quires and bales, there are ISO and DIN standards for the ream. Expressions used here include U.S. Customary units. A quire of paper is", "title": "Units of paper quantity" }, { "docid": "10115577", "text": "the 500-sheet ream has become the de facto international standard. A paper bundle is a quantity of sheets of paper, currently standardized as 1,000 sheets. A bundle consists of 2 reams or 40 quires. As an old UK and US measure, it was previously equal to 960 sheets. When referring to chipboard, there are two standards in the US. In general, a package of approximately 50 pounds of chipboard is called a bundle. Thus, a bundle of 22 point chipboard (0.022\" thick) 24\" × 38\", with each sheet weighing 0.556 pounds, contains 90 sheets. However, chipboard sold in size 11\"", "title": "Units of paper quantity" }, { "docid": "10115571", "text": "the good quires (\"insides\"). These outside quires were known as \"cassie quires\" (from Fr. \"cassée\", \"broken\"), or \"cording quires\" and had only 20 sheets to the quire. The printer William Caslon in a book published in 1770 mentions both 24- and 25-sheet quires; he also details printer's wastage, and the sorting and recycling of damaged \"cassie\" quires. An 1826 French manual on typography complained that cording quires (usually containing some salvageable paper) from the Netherlands barely contained a single good sheet. It also became the name for any booklet small enough to be made from a single quire of paper.", "title": "Units of paper quantity" }, { "docid": "10115570", "text": "sheets of vellum or parchment, i.e. 8 leaves, 16 sides. The term \"quaternion\" (or sometimes \"quaternum\") designates such a quire. A quire made of a single folded sheet (i.e. 2 leaves, 4 sides) is a \"bifolium\" (plural \"bifolia\"); a \"binion\" is a quire of two sheets (i.e. 4 leaves, 8 sides); and a \"quinion\" is five sheets (10 leaves, 20 sides). This last meaning is preserved in the modern Italian term for quire, \"quinterno di carta\". Formerly, when paper was packed at the paper mill, the top and bottom quires were made up of slightly damaged sheets (\"outsides\") to protect", "title": "Units of paper quantity" }, { "docid": "10115569", "text": "and US measure, in some sources, a quire was originally 24 sheets.) Quires of 15, 18 or 20 sheets have also been used, depending on the type of paper. The current word \"quire\" derives from OE \"quair\" or \"guaer\", from OF \"quayer\", \"cayer\", (cf. modern Fr. \"cahier\"), from L. \"quaternum\", \"by fours\", \"fourfold\". Later, when bookmaking switched to using paper and it became possible to easily stitch 5 to 7 sheets at a time, the association of \"quaire\" with \"four\" was quickly lost. In the Middle Ages, a quire (also called a \"gathering\") was most often formed of 4 folded", "title": "Units of paper quantity" }, { "docid": "4907107", "text": "\"official\" \"Government Letter\" size, , was used in government, while paper was standard in most other offices. In the U.S., paper density is usually measured in \"pounds per ream\" (of 500 sheets). Typical Letter paper has a basis weight of paper of – the weight of 500 sheets (a ream) of paper at and at 50% humidity. One ream of 20-pound Letter-sized paper weighs , and a single Letter-sized sheet of 20-pound paper weighs , which is equivalent to 75.19 g/m. Some metric information is typically included on American ream packaging. For example, 20-pound paper is also labeled as 75", "title": "Letter (paper size)" }, { "docid": "10115574", "text": "as ISO 4046. In Europe, the DIN 6730 standard for Paper and Board includes a definition of 1 ream of A4 80gsm (80 g/m) paper equals 500 sheets. The word 'ream' derives from Old French \"reyme\", from Spanish \"resma\", from Arabic \"rizmah\" \"bundle\" (of paper), from \"rasama\", \"collect into a bundle\". (The Moors brought manufacture of cotton paper to Spain.) Early variant rym (late 15c.) suggests a Dutch influence. (cf. Du. \"riem\"), probably during the time of Spanish Habsburg control of the Netherlands. The number of sheets in a ream has varied locally over the centuries, often according to the", "title": "Units of paper quantity" }, { "docid": "9132264", "text": "are the same weight paper having different cut size. However, a sheet of common copy paper that has a basis weight of does not have the same mass as the same size sheet of coarse paper (newsprint). In the former case, the standard ream is 500 sheets of paper, and in the latter, 500 sheets of paper. Here are some basic ream sizes for various types of paper. Units are inches except where noted. Sheets can be cut into four sheets, a standard for business stationery known conventionally as \"letter sized paper\". So, the ream became commonly used. The book-paper", "title": "Grammage" }, { "docid": "9132266", "text": "greater strength. Paper weight is sometimes stated using the \"#\" symbol. For example, \"20#\" means \"20 pounds per basis ream of 500 sheets\". When the density of a ream of paper is given in pounds, it is often accompanied by its \"M weight\". The M weight is the weight (in pounds) of 1000 cut sheets. Paper suppliers will often charge by M weight, since it is always consistent within a specific paper size, and because it allows a simple weight calculation for shipping charges. For example, a 500-sheet ream of 20# copy paper may be specified \"10 M\". 1000 cut", "title": "Grammage" } ]
[ { "docid": "6204382", "text": "Vinnie Ream Lavinia Ellen \"Vinnie\" Ream Hoxie (September 25, 1847 – November 20, 1914) was an American sculptor. Her most famous work is the statue of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. Ream was born September 25, 1847, in a log cabin in Madison, Wisconsin, as Lavinia Ellen Ream. She was the youngest daughter of Robert Ream and Lavinia McDonald Ream. Robert was a surveyor for the Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory and a Wisconsin Territory civil servant. Her mother was a McDonald of Scottish ancestry. The Reams also operated a stage coach stop, one of", "title": "Vinnie Ream" }, { "docid": "6204391", "text": "issued in honor of Vinnie Ream and her work on the statue of Sequoyah, the Native American inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. George Caleb Bingham painted her portrait twice. The town of Vinita, Oklahoma, was named in honor of Vinnie Ream. Vinnie Ream Lavinia Ellen \"Vinnie\" Ream Hoxie (September 25, 1847 – November 20, 1914) was an American sculptor. Her most famous work is the statue of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. Ream was born September 25, 1847, in a log cabin in Madison, Wisconsin, as Lavinia Ellen Ream. She was the youngest daughter of Robert", "title": "Vinnie Ream" }, { "docid": "3754594", "text": "Sheets of sound Sheets of sound was a term coined in 1958 by \"Down Beat\" magazine jazz critic Ira Gitler to describe the new, unique improvisational style of John Coltrane. Gitler first used the term on the liner notes for \"Soultrane\" (1958). Coltrane employed extremely dense improvisational yet patterned lines consisting of high speed arpeggios and scale patterns played in rapid succession: hundreds of notes running from the lowest to highest registers. The lines are often faster than sixteenth notes, consisting of quintuplets, septuplets, etc., and can sound like glissandos. The saxophonist invented this style while playing with Thelonious Monk", "title": "Sheets of sound" }, { "docid": "3754598", "text": "a thing of beauty, and the only way it would be justified is if it becomes that. If I can't work it through, I will drop it.\" Coltrane began using the style intermittently in 1959, preferring to incorporate it into his solos in a less abrupt manner. Sheets of sound Sheets of sound was a term coined in 1958 by \"Down Beat\" magazine jazz critic Ira Gitler to describe the new, unique improvisational style of John Coltrane. Gitler first used the term on the liner notes for \"Soultrane\" (1958). Coltrane employed extremely dense improvisational yet patterned lines consisting of high", "title": "Sheets of sound" }, { "docid": "11269054", "text": "in 1954. Dwight Ream Dwight Thoburn Ream (March 23, 1892 – November 20, 1954) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He was the 16th head football coach at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, serving for two seasons, from 1920 to 1921, and compiling a record of 8–7–4. In the 1920 game against Kansas Normal under coach Homer Woodson Hargiss, Kansas Normal fullback Jack Reeves sustained a neck injury that resulted in his death. Ream was also the head basketball coach at Washburn in 1921–22, tallying a mark of 8–9. Ream died after a long illness", "title": "Dwight Ream" }, { "docid": "11269053", "text": "Dwight Ream Dwight Thoburn Ream (March 23, 1892 – November 20, 1954) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He was the 16th head football coach at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, serving for two seasons, from 1920 to 1921, and compiling a record of 8–7–4. In the 1920 game against Kansas Normal under coach Homer Woodson Hargiss, Kansas Normal fullback Jack Reeves sustained a neck injury that resulted in his death. Ream was also the head basketball coach at Washburn in 1921–22, tallying a mark of 8–9. Ream died after a long illness (heart ailment)", "title": "Dwight Ream" }, { "docid": "14577591", "text": "a member of the advisory boards of America’s Future Foundation and Talent Market. Ream was born to Rev. Norman S. Ream and Muriel Ream on November 12, 1954, in Neenah, Wisconsin. He grew up just outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the suburb of Wauwatosa. He and his wife Mary Kay have three daughters. Roger Ream Roger R. Ream (born November 12, 1954 in Neenah, Wisconsin, United States) is the President of The Fund for American Studies (TFAS). The mission of TFAS is \"to change the world by developing leaders for a free society.\" Ream received his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University", "title": "Roger Ream" }, { "docid": "13573124", "text": "History of UNIT UNIT (UNified Intelligence Taskforce, formerly United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) is a fictional military organisation from the British science fiction television series \"Doctor Who\". Operating under the auspices of the United Nations, its purpose is to investigate and combat paranormal and extraterrestrial threats to the Earth. As is common in long-running series whose backstories are not mapped out in advance, and which are also the product of many different writers over the course of years, the fictional history of UNIT has seen retroactive changes which have caused some continuity problems. Following the canon of the television show only,", "title": "History of UNIT" }, { "docid": "13289645", "text": "McGurk, VP of Radio & Retail Promotion at Poindexter, who later became the first Marketing Director of Redeye Distribution and Yep Roc Records of Haw River, NC. What Is a Rumpletilskin? What Is a Rumpletilskin? is the first and only album by hip hop group Rumpletilskinz, released on July 13, 1993, on RCA Records and produced by the group's producer, R.P.M. The album failed to make it to any of the \"Billboard\" charts, but two singles did, \"Attitudes\" and \"Is It All Right?\" Both made it to #24 on the Hot Rap Singles. This release received extensive national independent retail", "title": "What Is a Rumpletilskin?" }, { "docid": "1377745", "text": "sewn together to form gatherings called quires. On occasion, a folio is not part of a bifolio but is instead a single sheet inserted within a quire. The extant folios are gathered into 38 quires. There are between four and twelve folios (two to six bifolios) per quire; the folios are commonly, but not invariably, bound in groups of ten. Some folios are single sheets, as is frequently the case with the important decorated pages. The folios had lines drawn for the text, sometimes on both sides, after the bifolios were folded. Prick marks and guide lines can still be", "title": "Book of Kells" }, { "docid": "14194915", "text": "childhood sweetheart Kristen Sapienza, who is also a soccer player. 24 hours after getting married Ream canceled his honeymoon planned in Tahiti to undergo a move to Bolton Wanderers. Ream later stated in The Bolton News interview that he still made a right choice on canceling his honeymoon. While growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, Ream said he wanted to become a professional soccer player once he graduated from college. Fulham Individual Tim Ream Timothy Michael Ream (born October 5, 1987) is an American soccer player who plays for Premier League club Fulham and the United States national", "title": "Tim Ream" }, { "docid": "10682893", "text": "Ream National Park Ream National Park ( - \"Outtyeancheat Ream\"), its official name is Preah Sihanouk Ream National Park ( - \"Outtyeancheat Preah Sihanouk Ream\"), is a national park of Cambodia located from Sihanoukville city in the Prey Nob district of the Sihanoukville Province in south-eastern Cambodia. It was established in 1993, as the Cambodian government began to take action for the protection of the country's threatened natural resources. The national park's biological value is defined by its combination of rivers, forests, mangroves, estuaries, beaches, coral reefs, wildlife, and marine life. Ream National Park constitutes the south-east of Prey Nob", "title": "Ream National Park" }, { "docid": "10682898", "text": "community area located in Ream commune, Prey Nub district of Preah Sihanouk province. Any issuance of land title certificate in this community area shall be required to obtain a prior approval from the Ministry of Environment in compliance with the Land Law.\" Ream National Park Ream National Park ( - \"Outtyeancheat Ream\"), its official name is Preah Sihanouk Ream National Park ( - \"Outtyeancheat Preah Sihanouk Ream\"), is a national park of Cambodia located from Sihanoukville city in the Prey Nob district of the Sihanoukville Province in south-eastern Cambodia. It was established in 1993, as the Cambodian government began to", "title": "Ream National Park" }, { "docid": "17278364", "text": "Polyptych of Irminon The Polyptych of Irminon, also known as the Polyptych (or Polyptyque) of St Germain-des-Pres, is an inventory of properties compiled around 823 by Irminon, the abbot of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. It describes the possessions of the monastery, located primarily in the Paris region, between the rivers Seine and Eure. The polyptych is renowned for its level of detail, in particular listing the names of thousands of tenants and their children. The text is preserved in a ninth-century manuscript, containing 20 quires, in which are described 25 villages. At least four other quires have been lost, together", "title": "Polyptych of Irminon" }, { "docid": "7198577", "text": "confused with the unit of observation, which is the unit described by one's data (neighborhoods using the U.S. Census, individuals using surveys, etc.). For example, a study may have a unit of observation at the individual level but may have the unit of analysis at the neighborhood level, drawing conclusions on neighborhood characteristics from data collected from individuals. Unit of analysis The unit of analysis is the major entity that is being analyzed in a study. It is the 'what' or 'who' that is being studied. In social science research, typical units of analysis include individuals (most common), groups, social", "title": "Unit of analysis" }, { "docid": "14194910", "text": "course of the season, he made a total of 44 appearances, missing two matches, one as an unused substitute against Derby County on September 27, 2014 and one through injury. For the second season in a row, he was named as Bolton's player of the year. Ahead of the 2015–16 season, Ream was linked with a move to Championship rivals Queens Park Rangers, who made a bid for him. However, the bid was rejected. On August 20, 2015, Ream was sold to Fulham, with whom he signed a four-year deal. The move was undisclosed fee and has an option to", "title": "Tim Ream" }, { "docid": "14577588", "text": "Roger Ream Roger R. Ream (born November 12, 1954 in Neenah, Wisconsin, United States) is the President of The Fund for American Studies (TFAS). The mission of TFAS is \"to change the world by developing leaders for a free society.\" Ream received his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University in 1977. He also did graduate work in economics at George Mason University. While at Vanderbilt, Ream received a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship to attend The Fund for American Studies Institute on Political and Economic Systems at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 1976. He was named John and", "title": "Roger Ream" }, { "docid": "13045274", "text": "begin the MP is zero. The general rule is that a firm maximizes profit by producing that quantity of output where marginal revenue equals marginal costs. The profit maximization issue can also be approached from the input side. That is, what is the profit maximizing usage of the variable input? To maximize profits the firm should increase usage \"up to the point where the input’s marginal revenue product equals its marginal costs\". So, mathematically the profit maximizing rule is MRP = MC. The marginal profit per unit of labor equals the marginal revenue product of labor minus the marginal cost", "title": "Marginal product of labor" }, { "docid": "6204390", "text": "she followed his wishes. Finally, the Hoxies lived at 1632 K Street near Farragut Square, and had a summer home at 310 South Lucas Street, Iowa City, Iowa. Vinnie played the harp for entertainment. Her marbles, \"America\", \"The West\", and \"Miriam\", were exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Ream designed the first free-standing statue of a Native American, \"Sequoyah\", to be placed in Statuary Hall at the Capitol. She died on November 20, 1914. Vinnie Ream Hoxie and her husband are buried in section three of Arlington National Cemetery, marked by her statue \"Sappho\". A first-day cover stamp was", "title": "Vinnie Ream" }, { "docid": "8373792", "text": "overlap with the Phantom II. This meant the acquisition brought with it the Bentley brand, debt and engineers & manufacturing employees with no product to produce. They quickly decided to create a new Bentley using the 20/25 engine with some adaptions and a chassis developed for a 2 ¾ litre Roll-Royce that was to be an economy version of the 20/25 but had been cancelled. This formed the basis of the first Derby Bentley – the 3 ½ litre Bentley. The \"Silent Sports Car\" as they become known were highly successful and were another major contribution of the 20/25 to", "title": "Rolls-Royce 20/25" }, { "docid": "13045265", "text": "Marginal product of labor In economics, the marginal product of labor (MP) is the change in output that results from employing an added unit of labor. The marginal product of a factor of production is generally defined as the change in output associated with a change in that factor, holding other inputs into production constant. The marginal product of labor is then the change in output (\"Y\") per unit change in labor (\"L\"). In discrete terms the marginal product of labor is: In continuous terms, the \"MP\" is the first derivative of the production function: Graphically, the \"MP\" is the", "title": "Marginal product of labor" }, { "docid": "6204383", "text": "the first hotels in Madison, from their home. Guests slept on the floor. Her brother Robert Ream enlisted in the Confederate army, in Arkansas, serving in Woodruff's battery. Vinnie Ream attended Christian College in Columbia, Missouri, now known as Columbia College. A portrait of Martha Washington by Ream hangs in St. Clair Hall. In 1861, her family moved to Washington, D.C. After her father's health began to fail, she began working outside the home to support her family. Vinnie Ream was one of the first women to be employed by the federal government, as a clerk in the dead letter", "title": "Vinnie Ream" }, { "docid": "14194903", "text": "Athletic Association Player of the Year honors following senior season. He helped lead St. Dominic to the 2004 Missouri Class 2 state title. Ream also played with academy club St. Louis Scott Gallagher SC, winning national championships in 2003 and 2004. Ream attended Saint Louis University where he was a regular figure as a defender for the Saint Louis Billikens, earning NSCAA first-team All-Region and second-team All-Conference honors. During his college years Ream also played for Chicago Fire Premier in the USL Premier Development League. Ream was drafted in the second round (18th overall) of the 2010 MLS SuperDraft by", "title": "Tim Ream" }, { "docid": "18992537", "text": "Norman B. Ream Norman B. Ream (1844-1915) was an American businessman. A Civil War veteran, Ream became a millionaire by investing in steel, railroads, insurance, and banking. Norman B. Ream was born on November 5, 1844 in Harnedsville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. He was educated in public schools. During the American Civil War of 1861-1865, he served in the 85th Pennsylvania Infantry of the Union Army. He became the youngest man to be promoted from private to First-Lieutenant in the Union Army. However, he was \"incapacitated\" by war wounds. Shortly after the war, in 1866, Ream moved to Princeton, Illinois, where", "title": "Norman B. Ream" }, { "docid": "13289644", "text": "What Is a Rumpletilskin? What Is a Rumpletilskin? is the first and only album by hip hop group Rumpletilskinz, released on July 13, 1993, on RCA Records and produced by the group's producer, R.P.M. The album failed to make it to any of the \"Billboard\" charts, but two singles did, \"Attitudes\" and \"Is It All Right?\" Both made it to #24 on the Hot Rap Singles. This release received extensive national independent retail promotion through Poindexter International Marketing & Promotions, which was employed by RCA Records. It was also one of the first projects managed by James \"DJ Ras J\"", "title": "What Is a Rumpletilskin?" }, { "docid": "5530441", "text": "also refer to the amount of shelf space a particular product is given. A lot of facing generally increases sales of a particular product, therefore manufacturers often pay more money to get more facings for their products. This can lead to situations in which the largest manufacturers end up with the most shelf space because they have the greatest ability to pay. Facing (retail) Facing (also known as blocking, zoning, fronting, straightening, rumbling, or conditioning) is a common tool in the retail industry to create the look of a perfectly stocked store (even when it is not) by pulling all", "title": "Facing (retail)" }, { "docid": "13045275", "text": "of labor or Mπ = MRP − MCA firm maximizes profits where Mπ = 0. The marginal revenue product is the change in total revenue per unit change in the variable input assume labor. That is, MRP = ∆TR/∆L. MRP is the product of marginal revenue and the marginal product of labor or MRP = MR × MP. • formula_4 • Output price is $40 per unit. In the aftermath of the marginal revolution in economics, a number of economists including John Bates Clark and Thomas Nixon Carver sought to derive an ethical theory of income distribution based on the", "title": "Marginal product of labor" }, { "docid": "8652909", "text": "200, at number 28 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and at number 2 on the Heatseekers Albums in the United States. \"Return of the Product\" spawned a hit single \"Here It Comes\"/\"Back to the Grill\", which reached number 1 on the Hot Rap Singles chart. The title of \"Back to the Grill\" is a reference to the 3rd Bass track \"Kick 'Em in the Grill\". Return of the Product Return of the Product is the only solo studio album by former 3rd Bass member MC Serch. It was released August 25, 1992 on Def Jam Recordings/Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment. Recording", "title": "Return of the Product" }, { "docid": "7198576", "text": "Unit of analysis The unit of analysis is the major entity that is being analyzed in a study. It is the 'what' or 'who' that is being studied. In social science research, typical units of analysis include individuals (most common), groups, social organizations and social artifacts. The literature of international relations provides a good example of units of analysis. In \"Man, the State and War\", Kenneth N. Waltz creates a tripartite analysis with three different units of analysis: the man (individual), the state (a group), and the international system (the system in which groups interact). This is not to be", "title": "Unit of analysis" }, { "docid": "18674652", "text": "alternate name for the Between the Sheets, and as a different drink using gin instead of rum and cognac, and adding orange juice to the lemon juice. Between the Sheets (cocktail) The Between the Sheets is a cocktail consisting of white rum, cognac, triple sec, and lemon juice. The origin of the cocktail is usually credited to Harry MacElhone at Harry's New York Bar in Paris in the 1930s as a derivative of the sidecar. However, competing theories exist that claim the cocktail was created at The Berkeley in approximately 1921, or in French brothels as an apéritif for consumption", "title": "Between the Sheets (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "14194902", "text": "Tim Ream Timothy Michael Ream (born October 5, 1987) is an American soccer player who plays for Premier League club Fulham and the United States national team. A left-footed player traditionally used as a central defender, he also plays left back. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, Ream was a 2005 NSCAA All-Midwest Region selection with his high school, St. Dominic, and after finishing his career with 15 goals and a school-record 39 assists, was tabbed All-State, All-Conference and Class 2 Defensive Player of the Year in both 2004 and 2005, was a St. Louis Post-Dispatch All-Metro selection and garnered Archdiocesan", "title": "Tim Ream" }, { "docid": "3754597", "text": "patterns of diminished-scales. The \"sheets of sound\" approach can be heard as early as the 1957 collaboration with Monk in solos like the one on \"Trinkle, Tinkle\" from the album \"Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane\". Coltrane's live performance of \"If I Were a Bell\" with the Miles Davis sextet on September 9, 1958, well exemplifies his use of the \"sheets of sound\" during this stage of his career. In \"Trane on the Track\", an article published on October 16, 1958 in \"Down Beat\" magazine, Coltrane spoke to Ira Gitler about the sheets of sound, telling him, \"Now it is not", "title": "Sheets of sound" }, { "docid": "7210894", "text": "for Week 17. He rushed for 148 yards with 25 carries and one touchdown in the 35-14 win over the BC Lions. This game was the ninth 100-yard rushing game by Sheets that season, tying him with George Reed for the Saskatchewan franchise record. Kory Sheets finished the season with 1,598 rushing yards, 215 yards behind Jon Cornish who led the league with 1813 rushing yards. On November 24, 2013, in the 101st Grey Cup, Sheets established a CFL record for most yards rushing in a Grey Cup game, carrying 20 times for a total of 197 yards and two", "title": "Kory Sheets" }, { "docid": "18992542", "text": "Trust Company, also eloped, marrying Eleanor Pendleton, a stage actress. When they divorced in 1918, she received an alimony of US$210,000. Meanwhile, Edwin King Ream, eloped and married Nellie Speed Armstrong, the granddaughter of James Speed, who served as the 27th United States Attorney General, in 1911. Yet another son, Norman P. Ream, married Mary Green, the daughter of Adolphus W. Green, the founder of the National Biscuit Company on whose board Ream had served, in 1916. A daughter, Frances Matt, married John L. Kemmerer. Another daughter, Marion Buckingham Ream, first married Redmond B. Stevens, and later Anastasy Vonsyatsky, a", "title": "Norman B. Ream" }, { "docid": "18992538", "text": "he opened a store. Later, Ream moved to Iowa, where he purchased cattle and grains on credit and sold them to farmers on credit. He ran up debt as a result of a crop failure, but managed to pay it off, and moved to Chicago in 1877. Shortly after, Ream joined the Chicago Board of Trade. Ream would rise early to talk to the people at the Union Stock Yards before the Board of Trade opened at 10AM. Over the year, Ream became an investment advisor to business magnates like J. P. Morgan, Marshall Field, George Pullman. Later, with Robert", "title": "Norman B. Ream" }, { "docid": "20408330", "text": "Samuel J. Kirkwood (Ream) Samuel Kirkwood is a bronze statue created by Vinnie Ream and placed in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., one of the two statues there from Iowa. It was dedicated in 1913. Ream, who had achieved some degree of fame as a teenager for her 1866 statue of Lincoln that stands in the Capitol, learned that the State of Iowa had decided to commission a statue of Kirkwood. Despite the fact that Kirkwood had been one of the Congressmen who had voted against awarding the Lincoln statue to Ream, she", "title": "Samuel J. Kirkwood (Ream)" }, { "docid": "17040262", "text": "its updates) flawlessly as the processor's HD4000 is fully supported by macOS X. Sound is not provided by the basic chassis, but may be provided by a generic USB dongle, C-Media, for example. mDP to SVGA or HDMI to SVGA adapters with \"integral\" audio output jack can be made to work for audio output with the appropriate updates to the DSDT. This UCFF motherboard (DN2820FYB) and system kit (DN2820FYKH) model were codenamed \"Forest Canyon\". The DN2820FYKH product itself is mis-marked DN2820FYK, but the retail package, all retail documentation, and Intel's web site correctly identify this product as DN2820FYKH. The \"H\"", "title": "Next Unit of Computing" }, { "docid": "14194908", "text": "number 5 shirt, previously worn by Gary Cahill. He was given his first start of the 2012–13 season in a 2–0 loss against Burnley. However, he was sidelined from the first team, due to losing his starting place and was relegated to the substitutes bench. Despite this, Ream went on to make fifteen appearances. Ahead of the 2013–14 season, Ream was linked with a move to Middlesbrough, a move that was denied by the club and Ream. After appearing the first three matches as an unused substitute, he started as defensive midfielder for four matches in September. In early February", "title": "Tim Ream" }, { "docid": "18992539", "text": "Todd Lincoln, Ream was the executor of Pullman's will. Ream served on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Steel. Additionally, Ream was involved in the railroad business, serving on the Board of Directors of the Pullman Company, as well as the Boards of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Chicago and Erie Railroad, the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway, the Erie Railroad, the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway, the Pere Marquette Railway, and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Ream was also active in the insurance business, serving on the Boards of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the", "title": "Norman B. Ream" }, { "docid": "6204387", "text": "powerful New York sculptors prevented it. Once the U.S. government had approved the plaster model, Ream traveled to Paris, Munich, Florence, then Rome, to produce a finished marble figure. She studied with Léon Bonnat in Paris, also producing busts of Gustave Doré, Père Hyacynthe, Franz Liszt, and Giacomo Antonelli. Her studio in Rome was at 45 Via de San Basile. She met Georg Brandes at that time. While in Rome, she faced controversial rumors that claimed that it was the Italian workmen and not Ream who were responsible for her successful sculpture of Lincoln. When the statue was complete, Ream", "title": "Vinnie Ream" }, { "docid": "6311772", "text": "free sheaves on \"M\". The exterior bundle on \"M\" is the subbundle of the tensor bundle consisting of all antisymmetric covariant tensors. Sections of the exterior bundle are differential forms on \"M\". One important case when one forms a tensor product over a sheaf of non-commutative rings appears in theory of \"D\"-modules; that is, tensor products over the sheaf of differential operators. Tensor product of modules In mathematics, the tensor product of modules is a construction that allows arguments about bilinear maps (e.g. multiplication) to be carried out in terms of linear maps. The module construction is analogous to the", "title": "Tensor product of modules" }, { "docid": "14577589", "text": "Virginia Engalitcheff Outstanding Young American at the program. During the summer he interned for Congressman Philip M. Crane (R-Ill). Upon graduation from college, Ream returned to Washington to work for the American Conservative Union, then opening up the campaign operations for the Phil Crane for President committee in 1978. He left there to join the senior staff and serve as director of seminars at the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, N.Y. Returning to Washington in 1982, Ream joined the staff of Rep. Ron Paul (Tex), handling tax and budget policy issues. In 1984, Ream helped found and served as", "title": "Roger Ream" }, { "docid": "17128865", "text": "marketing does outbound tasks such as trade show product demonstrations, marketing collateral (hot-sheets, beat-sheets, cheat sheets, data sheets and white papers). This requires skilled in competitor analysis, market research, technical writing and in financial matters (ROI and NPV analyses) and product positioning. Product marketers are chartered with developing the content for sales, marketing communications, customers and reviewers. Several product marketing-specific conferences have emerged: The typical education qualification for this area of business is a marketing or business degree, e.g. an BBA, MBA, M.A./M.S. in Marketing, M.A./M.S. in I/O Psychology, along with work experience. A key skill is to be able", "title": "Product marketing" }, { "docid": "2314167", "text": "= Spec(\"C\") for some commutative rings \"A\",\"B\",\"C\", the fiber product scheme is the affine scheme corresponding to the tensor product of algebras: More generally, the fiber product of schemes is defined by gluing together affine fiber products of this form. Tensor product of algebras In mathematics, the tensor product of two algebras over a commutative ring \"R\" is also an \"R\"-algebra. This gives the tensor product of algebras. When the ring is a field, the most common application of such products is to describe the product of algebra representations. Let \"R\" be a commutative ring and let \"A\" and \"B\"", "title": "Tensor product of algebras" }, { "docid": "7069142", "text": "As shoppers spend time in stores, it becomes difficult for them to avoid in-store advertising and this can have real benefits for advertisers, who not only can ensure their campaigns are seen, but that they can also be acted upon, especially if the advertised product is available in the store. Retail media networks now offer considerable levels of accountability in providing audience measurement techniques in the same way as traditional broadcast or print media. Retail media Retail media is marketing to consumers at or near their point of purchase, or point of choice between competing brands or products. Common techniques", "title": "Retail media" }, { "docid": "11008678", "text": "rate of capital. Marginal product of capital The marginal product of capital (MP) is the additional output resulting, ceteris paribus , from the use of an additional unit of physical capital. It equals the reciprocal of the incremental capital-output ratio. Mathematically, it is the partial derivative of the production function with respect to capital. If production output formula_1, then One of the key assumptions in economics is diminishing returns, that is the marginal product of capital is positive but decreasing in the level of capital stock, or mathematically In a perfectly competitive market, the marginal product of capital is equal", "title": "Marginal product of capital" }, { "docid": "11008677", "text": "Marginal product of capital The marginal product of capital (MP) is the additional output resulting, ceteris paribus , from the use of an additional unit of physical capital. It equals the reciprocal of the incremental capital-output ratio. Mathematically, it is the partial derivative of the production function with respect to capital. If production output formula_1, then One of the key assumptions in economics is diminishing returns, that is the marginal product of capital is positive but decreasing in the level of capital stock, or mathematically In a perfectly competitive market, the marginal product of capital is equal to the rental", "title": "Marginal product of capital" }, { "docid": "18674651", "text": "Between the Sheets (cocktail) The Between the Sheets is a cocktail consisting of white rum, cognac, triple sec, and lemon juice. The origin of the cocktail is usually credited to Harry MacElhone at Harry's New York Bar in Paris in the 1930s as a derivative of the sidecar. However, competing theories exist that claim the cocktail was created at The Berkeley in approximately 1921, or in French brothels as an apéritif for consumption by the prostitutes. The drink is similar to the sidecar, differing only by using less cognac and adding rum. The Maiden's Prayer is variously known as an", "title": "Between the Sheets (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "6074700", "text": "formula_27, then the system consisting of both particles is described by the tensor product of formula_26 and formula_27. For example, the state space of a quantum harmonic oscillator is formula_66, so the state space of two oscillators is formula_67, which is isomorphic to formula_68. Therefore, the two-particle system is described by wave functions of the form formula_69. A more intricate example is provided by the Fock spaces, which describe a variable number of particles. Tensor product of Hilbert spaces In mathematics, and in particular functional analysis, the tensor product of Hilbert spaces is a way to extend the tensor product", "title": "Tensor product of Hilbert spaces" }, { "docid": "2314164", "text": "Tensor product of algebras In mathematics, the tensor product of two algebras over a commutative ring \"R\" is also an \"R\"-algebra. This gives the tensor product of algebras. When the ring is a field, the most common application of such products is to describe the product of algebra representations. Let \"R\" be a commutative ring and let \"A\" and \"B\" be \"R\"-algebras. Since \"A\" and \"B\" may both be regarded as \"R\"-modules, their tensor product is also an \"R\"-module. The tensor product can be given the structure of a ring by defining the product on elements of the form by", "title": "Tensor product of algebras" }, { "docid": "8728895", "text": "the floating point unit was not working properly, but the CPU was fine. If this was the case it can't be said to be product sabotage.) Various information extracted from: Product sabotage In marketing and retail, product sabotage is a practice used to encourage the customer to purchase a more profitable product or service as opposed to cheaper alternatives. It is also the practice where a company attempts to aim different prices at different types of customer. There are several methods used in achieving this: This method is commonly used in supermarkets, where the cheapest products are packaged in cheap", "title": "Product sabotage" }, { "docid": "8652908", "text": "Return of the Product Return of the Product is the only solo studio album by former 3rd Bass member MC Serch. It was released August 25, 1992 on Def Jam Recordings/Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment. Recording sessions took place at Chung King Studios in New York City, at Chapel Studios and Red Chamber Studios in Los Angeles. Production was handled by T-Ray, Skeff Anselm, Epic Mazur and Richard Wolf, with MC Serch serving as executive and co-producer. It features guest appearances from Chubb Rock, Joe Fatal, Nas and Red Hot Lover Tone. The album peaked at number 103 on the Billboard", "title": "Return of the Product" }, { "docid": "2206312", "text": "that not only does he not think there are good reasons for believing that all material objects were created by God, but neither does common sense give reasons to think that God exists at all or that there is an afterlife. The fourth section considers how common sense propositions like \"Here is my hand\" are to be analysed. Moore considers three possibilities that occur to him for how what we know in these cases is related to what we know about our sense-data, i.e. what he sees when looking at his hand. Moore concludes that we are absolutely certain about", "title": "A Defence of Common Sense" }, { "docid": "13045269", "text": "if the marginal product of labor is rising then marginal costs will be falling and if the marginal product of labor is falling marginal costs will be rising (assuming a constant wage rate). The average product of labor is the total product of labor divided by the number of units of labor employed, or \"Q/L\". The average product of labor is a common measure of labor productivity. The AP curve is shaped like an inverted “u”. At low production levels the AP tends to increase as additional labor is added. The primary reason for the increase is specialization and division", "title": "Marginal product of labor" }, { "docid": "11750496", "text": "Vergo Retail Vergo Retail Ltd was a department store business based in Liverpool, England, founded in 2007. Vergo Retail ran 20 shops, consisting of nine department stores, including Lewis's of Liverpool, Robbs of Hexham, Joplings of Sunderland and Derrys of Plymouth and four others in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk; four Homemaker stores in Devon, four home and fashion stores in Essex and Suffolk; two home stores in Essex; and a jewellery store in Colchester. The company entered administration in 2010. Vergo Retail was formed in May 2007 in order to acquire Lewis's, Robbs and Joplings from Owen Owen Ltd which", "title": "Vergo Retail" }, { "docid": "7802599", "text": "band's first two albums, \"A Product of...\" and \"Set\", were released as a double CD. This version included their earliest singles, non-album tracks, and extended remixes. All tracks composed by Thompson Twins; except where indicated A Product Of... (Participation) A Product of... (sometimes known as A Product of... Participation) is the first studio album by the English pop group, the Thompson Twins. It was released in June 1981 on the T Records imprint, a label created by the band and distributed through the Fame/EMI label. At the time of its release, the band were a six-piece group that did not", "title": "A Product Of... (Participation)" }, { "docid": "13045276", "text": "idea that workers were morally entitled to receive a wage exactly equal to their marginal product. In the 20th century, marginal productivity ethics found few supporters among economists, being criticised not only by egalitarians but by economists associated with the Chicago school such as Frank Knight (in \"The Ethics of Competition\") and the Austrian School, such as Leland Yeager. However, marginal productivity ethics were defended by George Stigler. Marginal product of labor In economics, the marginal product of labor (MP) is the change in output that results from employing an added unit of labor. The marginal product of a factor", "title": "Marginal product of labor" }, { "docid": "20408333", "text": "exterior place on the campus. Samuel J. Kirkwood (Ream) Samuel Kirkwood is a bronze statue created by Vinnie Ream and placed in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., one of the two statues there from Iowa. It was dedicated in 1913. Ream, who had achieved some degree of fame as a teenager for her 1866 statue of Lincoln that stands in the Capitol, learned that the State of Iowa had decided to commission a statue of Kirkwood. Despite the fact that Kirkwood had been one of the Congressmen who had voted against awarding the", "title": "Samuel J. Kirkwood (Ream)" }, { "docid": "18992540", "text": "United States and the Reliance Company, as well as banking, serving on the Boards of the First Financial Bank of Chicago and the New York Trust Company (later merged with Chemical Bank, now known as JPMorgan Chase). Ream also served on the Board of Directors of the National Biscuit Company, later known as Nabisco, now a subsidiary of Mondelēz International. Additionally, Ream served on the Boards of the Central Safety Deposit Company, the Metropolitan Trust Company, the Fidelity-Phoenix Fire Assurance Company, the Securities Company, the Cumberland Corporation, the Sussex Realty Company, the Franco-American Financial Association, etc. Ream helped Chicago recover", "title": "Norman B. Ream" }, { "docid": "10973184", "text": "applied to the common subgraph problem. Modular product of graphs In graph theory, the modular product of graphs \"G\" and \"H\" is a graph formed by combining \"G\" and \"H\" that has applications to subgraph isomorphism. It is one of several different kinds of graph products that have been studied, generally using the same vertex set (the Cartesian product of the sets of vertices of the two graphs \"G\" and \"H\") but with different rules for determining which edges to include. The vertex set of the modular product of \"G\" and \"H\" is the cartesian product \"V\"(\"G\") × \"V\"(\"H\"). Any", "title": "Modular product of graphs" }, { "docid": "13045273", "text": "the production function exhibits increasing, decreasing or constant returns to scale. The key factor is that the variable input is being changed while all other factors of production are being held constant. Under such circumstances diminishing marginal returns are inevitable at some level of production. Diminishing marginal returns differs from diminishing returns. Diminishing marginal returns means that the marginal product of the variable input is falling. Diminishing returns occur when the marginal product of the variable input is negative. That is when a unit increase in the variable input causes total product to fall. At the point that diminishing returns", "title": "Marginal product of labor" }, { "docid": "12981665", "text": "is just mathematically the same thing, multiply \"Z\" by unity, the product is still \"Z\": For example, you have an expression for a physical value \"Z\" involving the unit \"feet per second\" (formula_9) and you want it in terms of the unit \"miles per hour\" (formula_10): Or as an example using the metric system, you have a value of fuel economy in the unit \"litres per 100 kilometres\" and you want it in terms of the unit \"microlitres per metre\": One example of the importance of agreed units is the failure of the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter, which was accidentally", "title": "Unit of measurement" }, { "docid": "20316295", "text": "(usually limited to 25 - 30 of the most common diagnoses) than are offered in traditional primary care offices. This limited scope of services is seen in both nurse practitioner and physician-staffed retail clinics, and is an integral part of the retail clinic model. Retail clinics in the United States are usually staffed by Nurse Practitioners (NPs) or other advanced practice nurses. Some retail clinics are staffed by Physician Assistants (PAs). Nurse Practitioners are registered nurses with advanced education and training who provide a broad scope of health care services. NPs engage in health promotion, patient evaluation, treatment, diagnosis, education,", "title": "Retail clinics in the United States" }, { "docid": "13325654", "text": "illustrates that love is never easy, consisting of good times, bad times, heartbreak, jubilation, breakups and makeups ...\"That's What Love is Made Of\". While Tarplin plays and Robinson sings the lyrics, the other Miracles (Bobby Rogers, Ronnie White, Pete Moore and Claudette Robinson, answer in classic call-and-response style. The Miracles performed this song before a live audience at the \"Santa Monica Civic Auditorium\" on the 1964 American International Pictures film, \"The T.A.M.I. Show\". Present on stage were Robinson, Tarplin, Rogers, White and Moore. Although present on the original recording, Claudette Robinson, who was married to Smokey Robinson, was not present", "title": "That's What Love Is Made Of" }, { "docid": "3083460", "text": "of bounds. Human coronaviruses, which are responsible for about 10% of common colds, were first isolated from volunteers at the unit in 1965. The CCU continually recruited volunteers for research into the common cold until its closure in 1989. The CCU was sometimes confused with the Microbiological Research Establishment at nearby Porton Down, with which it occasionally collaborated but was not officially connected. Common Cold Unit Thirty volunteers were required every fortnight during trial periods. The unit advertised in newspapers and magazines for volunteers, who were paid a small amount. A stay at the unit was presented in these advertisements", "title": "Common Cold Unit" }, { "docid": "7802597", "text": "A Product Of... (Participation) A Product of... (sometimes known as A Product of... Participation) is the first studio album by the English pop group, the Thompson Twins. It was released in June 1981 on the T Records imprint, a label created by the band and distributed through the Fame/EMI label. At the time of its release, the band were a six-piece group that did not include later member Alannah Currie (although she is thanked in the credits for \"playing and singing\" on the record). In comparison to the glamour of their later years, the group had a somewhat 'scruffy' image", "title": "A Product Of... (Participation)" }, { "docid": "12981662", "text": "same phenomenon. Any value of a physical quantity is expressed as a comparison to a unit of that quantity. For example, the value of a physical quantity \"Z\" is expressed as the product of a unit [Z] and a numerical factor: The multiplication sign is usually left out, just as it is left out between variables in scientific notation of formulas. The conventions used to express quantities is referred to as quantity calculus. In formulas the unit [Z] can be treated as if it were a specific magnitude of a kind of physical dimension: see dimensional analysis for more on", "title": "Unit of measurement" }, { "docid": "14687499", "text": "\"of Miss Vinnie Ream is the only likeness in the lot.\" General William Tecumseh Sherman, who was reportedly infatuated with Ream, also became a strong advocate for her model. He wrote to the committee that \"the plaster model of Vinnie Ream struck me decidedly as the best likeness, and recalled the memory of the Admiral's face and figure more perfectly than any other model there on exhibition.\" The decision by the committee ultimately ended in a three-way tie between Ream, Stone, and MacDonald. The project stalled until the next Congress convened in 1874. A commission to select the winning model", "title": "Admiral David G. Farragut (Ream statue)" }, { "docid": "10973183", "text": "\", \"v' \") are adjacent in the modular product of \"G\" and \"H\" if and only if either Cliques in the modular product graph correspond to isomorphisms of induced subgraphs of \"G\" and \"H\". Therefore, the modular product graph can be used to reduce problems of induced subgraph isomorphism to problems of finding cliques in graphs. Specifically, the maximum common induced subgraph of both \"G\" and \"H\" corresponds to the maximum clique in their modular product. Although the problems of finding largest common induced subgraphs and of finding maximum cliques are both NP-complete, this reduction allows clique-finding algorithms to be", "title": "Modular product of graphs" }, { "docid": "18992543", "text": "Polish-born fascist leader. Ream died on February 9, 1915 at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. His funeral took place at the St. George's Episcopal Church. His pallbearers included Adolphus W. Green and Elbert Henry Gary. He was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City. At the time of his death, he was worth between US$50 million and US$75 million. He was one of the twenty-five richest men in the United States. After his death, his widow resided at 903 Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Norman B. Ream Norman B. Ream", "title": "Norman B. Ream" }, { "docid": "12735237", "text": "site. Grangemoor Park was created opposite the retail park on the 20 metre hill landscaped on the old refuse site. Maples was a homeware store that closed in around 2000. Over the years, the unit has been split into 3 smaller units. Furnitureland and Powerhouse both closed their units in 2007. BHS then refurbished both to create one large unit until they ceased trading in 2016. JJB closed their unit here once they moved to the Capital Retail Park in Leckwith, which also included a gym. The Dunleavy Drive section of the Cardiff Bay Retail Park was built in 2008.", "title": "Cardiff Bay Retail Park" }, { "docid": "974278", "text": "volume, arranged in quires of five sheets or ten leaves each, similar to the Codex Marchalianus or Codex Rossanensis; but unlike the Codex Sinaiticus which has an arrangement of four or three sheets. The number of the quires is often found in the margin. Originally it must have been composed of 830 parchment leaves, but it appears that 71 leaves have been lost. Currently, the Old Testament consists of 617 sheets and the New Testament of 142 sheets. The parchment is fine and thin. The actual size of the pages is ; although the original was bigger. The codex is", "title": "Codex Vaticanus" }, { "docid": "2628534", "text": "of which everyone knows the approximate width. Common examples are: Horse racing and other equestrian activities keep alive: Unit of length A unit of length refers to any discrete, pre-established length or distance having a constant magnitude which is used as a reference or convention to express linear dimension. The most common units in modern use are U.S. customary units in the United States and metric units elsewhere. British Imperial units are still used for some purposes in the United Kingdom and some other countries. The metric system is sub-divided into SI and non-SI units. The base unit in the", "title": "Unit of length" }, { "docid": "11056670", "text": "value in identifying market movements. In a survey of nearly 200 senior marketing managers, 51 percent responded that they found the \"average price per unit\" metric very useful in managing and monitoring their businesses, while only 16% found \"price per statistical unit\" very useful. In retail, unit price is the price for a single unit of measure of a product sold in more or less than the single unit. The \"unit price\" tells you the cost per pound, quart, or other unit of weight or volume of a food package. It is usually posted on the shelf below the food.", "title": "Unit price" }, { "docid": "6204388", "text": "returned to Washington. On January 25, 1871, her white marble statue of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was unveiled in the United States Capitol rotunda, when Ream was only 23 years old. She later opened a studio at 704 Broadway, New York City. In 1871, she exhibited at the American Institution Fair. She returned to Washington and opened a studio and salon at 235 Pennsylvania Avenue. She was unsuccessful in her entry in the Thomas statue competition. In 1875, George Armstrong Custer sat for a portrait bust. In 1876, she exhibited at the Centennial Exposition. In November 1877, she produced a", "title": "Vinnie Ream" }, { "docid": "13432766", "text": "Carleton H. Sheets Carleton H. Sheets (born August 25, 1939) is a prominent real estate investor and author who was notable for television infomercials which marketed real estate business learning materials. Sheets has appeared on numerous radio and television talk shows. His No Down Payment television program won numerous awards and is credited as being the longest running program of its kind- spanning 25 years. Sheets was born in Illinois and moved to Delaware, Ohio, where his father worked for Procter & Gamble. One of his early jobs was marketing soft-drink bottle caps and later became director of marketing for", "title": "Carleton H. Sheets" }, { "docid": "11958748", "text": "be balanced by a more straightforwardly descriptive view. The term is used in many fields including biology and management. The purpose of a system is what it does The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer. Stafford Beer coined the term POSIWID and used it many times in public addresses. In his address to the University of Valladolid, Spain, in October 2001, he said \"According to the cybernetician, the purpose of a system is what it does. This is a basic dictum. It stands for bald fact, which makes", "title": "The purpose of a system is what it does" }, { "docid": "8065564", "text": "arithmetic, the partial product when expanded out gives a sum consisting of those terms \"n\" where \"n\" is a product of primes less than or equal to \"q\". The inequality results from the fact that therefore only integers larger than \"q\" can fail to appear in this expanded out partial product. Since the difference between the partial product and ζ(\"s\") goes to zero when σ > 1, we have convergence in this region. Proof of the Euler product formula for the Riemann zeta function Leonhard Euler proved the Euler product formula for the Riemann zeta function in his thesis \"Variae", "title": "Proof of the Euler product formula for the Riemann zeta function" }, { "docid": "11958746", "text": "The purpose of a system is what it does The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer. Stafford Beer coined the term POSIWID and used it many times in public addresses. In his address to the University of Valladolid, Spain, in October 2001, he said \"According to the cybernetician, the purpose of a system is what it does. This is a basic dictum. It stands for bald fact, which makes a better starting point in seeking understanding than the familiar attributions of good intention, prejudices about expectations, moral judgment,", "title": "The purpose of a system is what it does" }, { "docid": "5983597", "text": "to use them \"could be hard work\". He lamented that the brown tone used on the sheets would mean that some parts would come out black when photocopied. Although he felt that 16 character sheets was not a lot for the money, he predicted that \"this product will sell well among AD&D players who like using Official character sheets, and not so well among those who don't\". Player Character Record Sheets Player Character Record Sheets is an accessory designed for the tabletop fantasy role-playing game \"Dungeons & Dragons\". TSR published its first set of \"Character Record Sheets\" for the basic", "title": "Player Character Record Sheets" }, { "docid": "20096681", "text": "this market segment. The final factor in poor brick-and-mortar sales performance is a combination of poor retail management coupled with an overcritical eye towards quarterly dividends: a lack of accurate inventory control creates both underperforming and out-of-stock merchandise, causing a poor shopping experience for customers in order to optimize short-term balance sheets, the latter of which also influences the desire to understaff retail stores in order to keep claimed profits high. Furthermore several private-equity forms have bought many retailers and loaded them with extraordinary amounts of debt, which hinders the profitable operation of retail chains. Retail apocalypse The retail apocalypse", "title": "Retail apocalypse" }, { "docid": "9799041", "text": "What a piece of work is a man \"What a piece of work is man!\" is a phrase within a soliloquy by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the human condition. The soliloquy, spoken in the play by Prince Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act II, Scene 2, follows in its entirety. Rather than appearing in blank verse, the typical mode of composition of Shakespeare's plays, the speech appears in straight prose: Hamlet is saying that although humans may appear to think and act \"nobly\"", "title": "What a piece of work is a man" }, { "docid": "8525481", "text": "of the high velocity smokeless rounds produced later. The high velocity loadings developed 1,732 ft/s. It was easy and economical to reload and was once a favorite with farmers, ranchers, pot hunters, and trappers. Though the .25-20 has been used on deer and even claimed the James Jordan Buck, a whitetail deer of long standing record in 1914, it is now rarely used on large-bodied game due to its sedate ballistics and light bullet construction, which make humane one-shot kills unlikely. The .25-20 Winchester is sometimes confused with the similarly named .25-20 Single Shot; the two cartridges are markedly different", "title": ".25-20 Winchester" }, { "docid": "9799044", "text": "lines written by Montaigne: However, rather than being a direct influence on Shakespeare, Montaigne may have merely been reacting to the same general atmosphere of the time, making the source of these lines one of context rather than direct influence. What a piece of work is a man \"What a piece of work is man!\" is a phrase within a soliloquy by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the human condition. The soliloquy, spoken in the play by Prince Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act", "title": "What a piece of work is a man" }, { "docid": "19008226", "text": "Dancing in the Sheets \"Dancing in the Sheets\" is a song written by Bill Wolfer and Dean Pitchford and recorded by American R&B group Shalamar. It was featured on the chart-topping soundtrack album of the 1984 motion picture \"Footloose\" and was also the first single from their album \"Heartbreak\", featuring the new line-up of Howard Hewett, Delisa Davis and Micki Free. The synth melody on the song is similar in structure to Prince's \"1999\". A music video was made featuring the new line-up and did not feature any footage from the film. \"Dancing in the Sheets\" was a top 20", "title": "Dancing in the Sheets" }, { "docid": "17693737", "text": "in 1979 and the eventual establishment of the current constitutional monarchy, the government in cooperation with its allies has made the facility a relatively modernized naval base currently commanded by Rear Admiral Ouk Seyha, the deputy commander of the Royal Cambodian Navy. Ream Naval Base Ream Naval Base is a facility operated by the Royal Cambodian Navy on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand in the province of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. The base is located on a peninsula just southeast of the provincial capital, Krong Preah Sihanouk. Since 2010 the base has been the site of annual joint Cambodian-United States", "title": "Ream Naval Base" } ]
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What can be a plot, a projectile propellant, and a type of green tea?
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[ { "docid": "4906584", "text": "as a variety of tea, gunpowder tea has several varieties: Several types of green teas are commonly rolled into \"gunpowder\" form, including Chunmee, Tieguanyin, Huang Guanyin, and Dong Ding, as well as many other oolong and higher-end jasmine teas. In Chinese, gunpowder tea is called \"zhū chá\" (珠茶; literally \"pearl tea\" or \"bead tea\"; not to be confused with boba tea). The origin of the English term may come from the tea's similarity in appearance to actual gunpowder: grayish, dark pellets of irregular shape used as explosive propellant for early guns. The name may also have arisen from the fact", "title": "Gunpowder tea" } ]
[ { "docid": "9337151", "text": "Rewriting the original solution for θ, we get: Multiplying with the equation for (tan ψ)^2 gives: Because of the trigonometric identity this means that θ + ψ must be 90 degrees. In addition to air resistance, which slows a projectile and reduces its range, many other factors also have to be accounted for when actual projectile motion is considered. Generally speaking, a projectile with greater volume faces greater air resistance, reducing the range of the projectile. (And see Trajectory of a projectile.) Air resistance drag can be modified by the projectile shape: a tall and wide, but short projectile will", "title": "Range of a projectile" }, { "docid": "9337146", "text": "Range of a projectile In physics, assuming a flat Earth with a uniform gravity field, and no air resistance, a projectile launched with specific initial conditions will have a predictable range. The following applies for ranges which are small compared to the size of the Earth. For longer ranges see sub-orbital spaceflight. The maximum horizontal distance traveled by the projectile, neglecting air resistance, can be calculated as follows: where If y is taken to be zero, meaning that the object is being launched on flat ground, the range of the projectile will simplify to: Ideal projectile motion states that there", "title": "Range of a projectile" }, { "docid": "9337153", "text": "projectile will have more kinetic energy, and will thus be less affected by air resistance. The distribution of mass within the projectile can also be important, as an unevenly weighted projectile may spin undesirably, causing irregularities in its trajectory due to the magnus effect. If a projectile is given rotation along its axes of travel, irregularities in the projectile's shape and weight distribution tend to be cancelled out. See rifling for a greater explanation. For projectiles that are launched by firearms and artillery, the nature of the gun's barrel is also important. Longer barrels allow more of the propellant's energy", "title": "Range of a projectile" }, { "docid": "2191883", "text": "issue is the inability to vary propellant charges to achieve different velocities and ranges. Lastly, there's the issue of resource usage since a fixed round uses a case, which can be an issue in a prolonged war if there are metal shortages. With this style of ammunition there are three main components: The fuzed projectile, the casing to hold the propellants and primer, and the bagged propellant charges. With a separate loading cased charge round the casing, bagged propellant charges and projectile are usually separated into two or more parts. In British ordnance terms, this type of ammunition is called", "title": "Shell (projectile)" }, { "docid": "9337155", "text": "Such cannons are distinguished from rockets, or ballistic missiles, which have their own rocket engines, which continue to accelerate the missile for a period after they have been launched. Range of a projectile In physics, assuming a flat Earth with a uniform gravity field, and no air resistance, a projectile launched with specific initial conditions will have a predictable range. The following applies for ranges which are small compared to the size of the Earth. For longer ranges see sub-orbital spaceflight. The maximum horizontal distance traveled by the projectile, neglecting air resistance, can be calculated as follows: where If y", "title": "Range of a projectile" }, { "docid": "9337147", "text": "is no air resistance and no change in gravitational acceleration. This assumption simplifies the mathematics greatly, and is a close approximation of actual projectile motion in cases where the distances travelled are small. Ideal projectile motion is also a good introduction to the topic before adding the complications of air resistance. A launch angle of 45 degrees displaces the projectile the farthest horizontally. This is due to the nature of right triangles. Additionally, from the equation for the range : We can see that the range will be maximum when the value of formula_4 is the highest (i.e. when it", "title": "Range of a projectile" }, { "docid": "9337152", "text": "face greater air resistance than a low and narrow, but long, projectile of the same volume. The surface of the projectile also must be considered: a smooth projectile will face less air resistance than a rough-surfaced one, and irregularities on the surface of a projectile may change its trajectory if they create more drag on one side of the projectile than on the other. However, certain irregularities such as dimples on a golf ball may actually increase its range by reducing the amount of turbulence caused behind the projectile as it travels. Mass also becomes important, as a more massive", "title": "Range of a projectile" }, { "docid": "1911684", "text": "tea in the world (443,000 tonnes). Green tea is processed and grown in a variety of ways, depending on the type of green tea desired. As a result of these methods, maximum amounts of polyphenols and volatile organic compounds are retained, affecting aroma and taste. The growing conditions can be broken down into two basic types − those grown in the sun and those grown under the shade. The green tea plants are grown in rows that are pruned to produce shoots in a regular manner, and in general are harvested three times per year. The first flush takes place", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "9337148", "text": "is equal to 1). Clearly, formula_5 has to be 90 degrees. That is to say, formula_6 is 45 degrees. First we examine the case where (y) is zero. The horizontal position of the projectile is In the vertical direction We are interested in the time when the projectile returns to the same height it originated. Let t be any time when the height of the projectile is equal to its initial value. By factoring: or but t = T = time of flight The first solution corresponds to when the projectile is first launched. The second solution is the useful", "title": "Range of a projectile" }, { "docid": "8058680", "text": "for inclusion on the \"Clerks X\" DVD were scrapped for similar reasons. It has since been screened at several of Smith's \"Vulgarthon\" film festivals. According to an early 2009 Q&A session with Smith in Vancouver, the full film would be included on a future Blu-ray release of \"Clerks\", ultimately being available on the November 2009 release. Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party is a 2004 American documentary film about the making of \"Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back\" (2001), released and produced by Kevin Smith's View Askew Productions. Co-directed by Malcolm Ingram, it marks", "title": "Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party" }, { "docid": "8058679", "text": "Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party is a 2004 American documentary film about the making of \"Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back\" (2001), released and produced by Kevin Smith's View Askew Productions. Co-directed by Malcolm Ingram, it marks the directorial debut of Jennifer Schwalbach Smith (credited as Jennifer Schwalbach), Kevin Smith's wife. Initially over three hours, the film was made available in an 87-minute cut. It was originally intended to be a bonus feature on the \"Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back\" DVD, but due to its length, it became a standalone feature. Plans", "title": "Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party" }, { "docid": "9337150", "text": "for the time. After several steps of algebraic manipulation The square root must be a positive number, and since the velocity and the sine of the launch angle can also be assumed to be positive, the solution with the greater time will occur when the positive of the plus or minus sign is used. Thus, the solution is Solving for the range once again or, equivalently To maximize the range at any height Checking the limit as formula_26 approaches 0 The angle ψ at which the projectile lands is given by: For maximum range, this results in the following equation:", "title": "Range of a projectile" }, { "docid": "3433567", "text": "water that is still boiling, and his preference for very strong tea. He also considers what he calls \"one of the most controversial points of all\" – whether to put tea in the cup first and add the milk after, or the other way around, acknowledging, \"indeed in every family in Britain there are probably two schools of thought on the subject\". Orwell says tea should be poured first because \"one can exactly regulate the amount of milk whereas one is liable to put in too much milk if one does it the other way round\". \"I maintain that my", "title": "A Nice Cup of Tea" }, { "docid": "9337154", "text": "to be given to the projectile, yielding greater range. Rifling, while it may not increase the average (arithmetic mean) range of many shots from the same gun, will increase the accuracy and precision of the gun. Some cannons or howitzers have been created with a very large range. During World War I the Germans created an exceptionally large cannon, the Paris Gun, which could fire a shell more than 80 miles (130 km). North Korea has developed a gun known in the West as Koksan, with a range of 60 km using rocket-assisted projectiles. (And see Trajectory of a projectile.)", "title": "Range of a projectile" }, { "docid": "1919053", "text": "Propellant A propellant or propellent is a chemical substance used in the production of energy or pressurized gas that is subsequently used to create movement of a fluid or to generate propulsion of a vehicle, projectile, or other object. Common propellants are energetic materials and consist of a fuel like gasoline, jet fuel, rocket fuel, and an oxidizer. Propellants are burned or otherwise decomposed to produce the propellant gas. Other propellants are simply liquids that can readily be vaporized. In rockets and aircraft, propellants are used to produce a gas that can be directed through a nozzle, thereby producing thrust.", "title": "Propellant" }, { "docid": "9337149", "text": "one for determining the range of the projectile. Plugging this value for (t) into the horizontal equation yields Applying the trigonometric identity If x and y are same, allows us to simplify the solution to Note that when (θ) is 45°, the solution becomes Now we will allow (y) to be nonzero. Our equations of motion are now and Once again we solve for (t) in the case where the (y) position of the projectile is at zero (since this is how we defined our starting height to begin with) Again by applying the quadratic formula we find two solutions", "title": "Range of a projectile" }, { "docid": "1911672", "text": "Green tea Green tea is a type of tea that is made from \"Camellia sinensis\" leaves that have not undergone the same withering and oxidation process used to make oolong teas and black teas. Green tea originated in China, but its production and manufacture has spread to many other countries in Asia. Several varieties of green tea exist, which differ substantially based on the variety of \"C. sinensis\" used, growing conditions, horticultural methods, production processing, and time of harvest. Although there has been considerable research on the possible health effects of consuming green tea regularly, there is little evidence that", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "2191885", "text": "then reassembled and fired. Advantages include easier handling for large rounds, while range and velocity can be varied by using more or fewer propellant charges. Disadvantages include more complexity, slower loading, less safety, less moisture resistance and the metal cases can still be a resource issue. With this style of ammunition there are three main components the fuzed projectile, the bagged charges and the primer. Like separate loading cased charge ammunition, the number of propellant charges can be varied. However, this style of ammunition does not use a cartridge case and it achieves obturation through a screw breech instead of", "title": "Shell (projectile)" }, { "docid": "1911697", "text": "20% as much tea as Taiwan and 3.5% as much as Japan. Green tea is not as popular as coffee or other types of Korean teas in modern South Korea. The annual consumption per capita of green tea in South Korea in 2016 was , compared to coffee. Recently however, as the coffee market reached saturation point, South Korean tea production doubled during 2010‒2014, as did tea imports during 2009-2015, despite very high tariff rate (513.6% for green tea, compared to 40% for black tea, 8% for processed/roasted coffee, and 2% for raw coffee beans). Korean green tea can be", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "1911699", "text": "Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). It is one of the foods for which a standard of identity is specified according to the Food and Drug Regulations. It should contain not less than 33% water-soluble extractive (determined by official method FO-37 which is the determination of water-soluble extractive in tea) and the total ash should between 4% to 7%. Green tea Green tea is a type of tea that is made from \"Camellia sinensis\" leaves that have not undergone the same withering and oxidation process used to make oolong teas and black teas. Green tea originated in China, but its production", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "17887962", "text": "is part of NASA's Technology Demonstration Mission Program within the Space Technology Mission Directorate. The Green Propellant Infusion Mission is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in 2019, on a test mission called Space Test Program 2 (STP-2). The cost of the program is projected to be approximately $45 million. The propellant for this mission is hydroxylammonium nitrate (NHOHNO) fuel/oxidizer blend, also known as AF-M315E. Preliminary data indicates that it offers nearly 50% higher performance for a given propellant tank volume compared to a conventional monopropellant hydrazine system. The Green Propellant Infusion Mission seeks to improve overall", "title": "Green Propellant Infusion Mission" }, { "docid": "17779688", "text": "Two Leaves and a Bud (Tea Company) Two Leaves and a Bud, formerly Two Leaves Tea Company, manufactures and distributes organic tea. Based in Basalt, Colorado, two leaves and a bud produces organic whole leaf tea that is packaged in pyramid-shaped sachets. Richard Rosenfeld founded Two Leaves and a Bud in the mid 2000s. The company sources black, green, white, and herbal teas from tea growers in China, India, Sri Lanka, and Japan. Two leaves and a Bud produces whole leaf tea sachets and loose leaf teas that are certified USDA organic. During the 2012 North American Tea Championships, Two", "title": "Two Leaves and a Bud (Tea Company)" }, { "docid": "17779689", "text": "leaves and a Bud's Jasmine Petal tea took first place, and in the 2013 Championships, their Paisley Brand Organic Chai took second place. Two Leaves and a Bud (Tea Company) Two Leaves and a Bud, formerly Two Leaves Tea Company, manufactures and distributes organic tea. Based in Basalt, Colorado, two leaves and a bud produces organic whole leaf tea that is packaged in pyramid-shaped sachets. Richard Rosenfeld founded Two Leaves and a Bud in the mid 2000s. The company sources black, green, white, and herbal teas from tea growers in China, India, Sri Lanka, and Japan. Two leaves and a", "title": "Two Leaves and a Bud (Tea Company)" }, { "docid": "17887965", "text": "thrusters to NASA and the commercial spaceflight industry as \"a viable, effective solution for future green propellant-based mission applications.\" According to NASA, the new propellant will be an enabling technology for commercial spaceports operating across the U.S. \"permitting safer, faster and much less costly launch vehicle and spacecraft fuel loading operations.\" The combined benefits of low toxicity and easy open-container handling will shorten ground processing time from weeks to days, simplifying the launching of satellites. The new AF-M315E fuel is 45% denser than hydrazine, meaning more of it can be stored in containers of the same volume. It also has", "title": "Green Propellant Infusion Mission" }, { "docid": "6216441", "text": "Tea Society of a Witch Tea Society of a Witch is an interactive AnimePlay DVD version of the Japanese bishōjo game by Front Wing. The English-language version is an all-ages DVD game based on the Japanese Dreamcast version. There is also a Japanese version with adult content for PC. The main character is a young high school boy who meets a couple of witches. Depending on the choices made throughout the game, different endings can be achieved. An example of such a choice is the character who the player chooses to talk to each morning. The three girls who can", "title": "Tea Society of a Witch" }, { "docid": "11263507", "text": "in San Francisco. The birth of their child, Kuo Ming, and a new environment allow them to grow closer and mend previous wrongs. Ben Loy visits another Chinese herb specialist and decides to take the doctor's advice and \"eat a bowl of tea\" to treat his impotence. Whether it is the herbs or the increase in Ben Loy's independence, his masculinity is finally restored in all senses of the word. In order of prevalence and importance: The novel takes place in the 1940s, and the majority of the plot takes place in New York's Chinatown. Segments of the plot occur", "title": "Eat a Bowl of Tea" }, { "docid": "17887963", "text": "propellant efficiency while reducing the toxic handling concerns associated with the highly toxic propellant hydrazine. The new propellant is an energetic ionic liquid. Ionic liquids are salt compounds in a liquid form whose molecules have either a positive or negative charge, which bonds them together more tightly and makes the liquid more stable. This new propellant is also expected to be significantly less harmful to the environment. It is called a \"green\" fuel because when combusted, AF-M315E transforms into nontoxic gasses. The AF-M315E propellant, nozzles and valves are being developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Aerojet Rocketdyne, and", "title": "Green Propellant Infusion Mission" }, { "docid": "2787384", "text": "it particularly desirable as a rocket engine ignitor. May be used in conjunction with Triethylborane to create triethylaluminum-triethylborane, better known as TEA-TEB. Liquid-propellant rocket A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket is a rocket engine that uses liquid propellants. Liquids are desirable because their reasonably high density allows the volume of the propellant tanks to be relatively low, and it is possible to use lightweight centrifugal turbopumps to pump the propellant from the tanks into the combustion chamber, which means that the propellants can be kept under low pressure. This permits the use of low-mass propellant tanks, resulting in a high", "title": "Liquid-propellant rocket" }, { "docid": "13785527", "text": "A-type proanthocyanidin A type proanthocyanidins are a specific type of proanthocyanidins, which are a class of flavanoid. Proanthocyanidins fall under a wide range of names in the nutritional and scientific vernacular, including oligomeric proanthocyanidins, flavanoids, polyphenols, condensed tannins, and OPCs. Proanthocyanidins were first popularized by French scientist Jacques Masquelier. A-type linkage is a less common feature in proanthocyanidins with both 4β→8 (B-type) and 2β→O→7 interflavanoid bonds. A-type proanthocyanidin glycosides can be isolated from cocoa liquor. Other A-type proanthocyanidins can be found in cranberries, cinnamon, peanut skins and \"Geranium niveum\". B-type procyanidins (catechin dimers) can be converted to A-type procyanidins by", "title": "A-type proanthocyanidin" }, { "docid": "1911698", "text": "classified into various types based on several different factors. The most common is the flush, or the time of the year when the leaves are plucked (and thus also by leaf size). The mode of preparation also differs: Leaf teas are processed either by roasting or steaming. Southern, warmer regions such as Boseong in South Jeolla Province, Hadong in South Gyeongsang Province, and Jeju Island are famous for producing high quality tea leaves. Green tea can be blended with other ingredients. In Canada, green tea is defined as a dry-based mixture and the sale of it is regulated by the", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "2481350", "text": "the \"ripe\" Shou Chá. All types of pu'er tea are created from \"máochá\" (毛茶), a mostly unoxidized green tea processed from \"Camellia sinensis\" var. \"assamica\", which is the large leaf type of Chinese tea found in the mountains of southern and western Yunnan (in contrast to the small leaf type of tea used for typical green, oolong, black, and yellow teas found in the other parts of China). Maocha can be sold directly to market as loose leaf tea, compressed to produce \"raw\" \"shēngchá\", naturally aged and matured for several years before being compressed to also produce \"raw\" \"shēngchá\" or", "title": "Pu'er tea" }, { "docid": "4871680", "text": "that Type A individuals are in general associated with higher performance and productivity (Barling & Charbonneau, 1992; Bermudez, Perez-Garcia, & Sanchez-Elvira, 1990; Glass, 1977). Moreover, Type A students tend to earn higher grades than Type B students (Waldron et al., 1980), and Type A faculty members were shown to be more productive than their Type B behavior counterparts (Taylor, Locke, Lee, & Gist, 1984). In his 1996 book dealing with extreme Type A behavior, \"Type A Behavior: Its Diagnosis and Treatment\", Friedman suggests that dangerous Type A behavior is expressed through three major symptoms: (1) free-floating hostility, which can be", "title": "Type A and Type B personality theory" }, { "docid": "1911679", "text": "non-melanoma skin cancers is unclear due to inconsistent or inadequate evidence. Green tea interferes with the chemotherapy drug bortezomib (Velcade) and other boronic acid-based proteasome inhibitors, and should be avoided by people taking these medications. Observational studies found a minor correlation between daily consumption of green tea and a 5% lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease. In a 2015 meta-analysis of such observational studies, an increase in one cup of green tea per day was correlated with slightly lower risk of death from cardiovascular causes. Green tea consumption may be correlated with a reduced risk of stroke. Meta-analyses of", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "17887966", "text": "a lower freezing point, requiring less spacecraft power to maintain its temperature. In addition to its use on lighter satellites and rockets, the fuel's exceptional volumetric storage properties is also being assessed for military uses such as missile launches. Green Propellant Infusion Mission The Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) is a planned NASA technology demonstrator project that will test a less toxic and higher performance/efficiency chemical propellant for next-generation launch vehicles and spacecraft. When compared to the present high-thrust and high-performance industry standard for orbital maneuvering systems, which for decades, have exclusively been reliant upon toxic hydrazine based propellant formulations,", "title": "Green Propellant Infusion Mission" }, { "docid": "17887961", "text": "Green Propellant Infusion Mission The Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) is a planned NASA technology demonstrator project that will test a less toxic and higher performance/efficiency chemical propellant for next-generation launch vehicles and spacecraft. When compared to the present high-thrust and high-performance industry standard for orbital maneuvering systems, which for decades, have exclusively been reliant upon toxic hydrazine based propellant formulations, the \"greener\" hydroxylammonium nitrate(HAN) monopropellant may offer many advantages for future satellites, including longer mission durations, additional maneuverability, increased payload space and simplified launch processing. The GPIM is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and", "title": "Green Propellant Infusion Mission" }, { "docid": "4871684", "text": "competition, they may focus less on winning or losing than their Type A counterparts, and more on enjoying the game regardless of winning or losing. Unlike the Type A personality's rhythm of multi-tasked careers, Type B individuals are sometimes attracted to careers of creativity: writer, counselor, therapist, actor or actress. However, network and computer systems managers, professors, and judges are more likely to be Type B individuals as well. Their personal character may enjoy exploring ideas and concepts. Type B personality types are more tolerant than individuals in the Type A category. This can be evident through their relationship style", "title": "Type A and Type B personality theory" }, { "docid": "6155851", "text": "containers have lids with an opaque underside. Some green tea ice cream is artificially colored, and others have natural green coloring from the catechin present in green tea. Green tea ice cream has been available in the United States, the country with the largest ice cream consumption, since the late 1970s, primarily in Japanese restaurants and markets. It is currently becoming mainstream and can also be made at home. The U.S. saw rapid growth in Japanese cuisine and sushi popularity in the mid 1990s, which resulted in a big expansion of the Japanese restaurant business in the U.S. This development", "title": "Green tea ice cream" }, { "docid": "1919060", "text": "and hydrogen, cryogenic oxygen and a hydrocarbon, and storable propellants. Propellant combinations used for liquid propellant rockets include: Common monopropellant used for liquid rocket engines include: Propellant A propellant or propellent is a chemical substance used in the production of energy or pressurized gas that is subsequently used to create movement of a fluid or to generate propulsion of a vehicle, projectile, or other object. Common propellants are energetic materials and consist of a fuel like gasoline, jet fuel, rocket fuel, and an oxidizer. Propellants are burned or otherwise decomposed to produce the propellant gas. Other propellants are simply liquids", "title": "Propellant" }, { "docid": "1911676", "text": "other food and drink items that are traditionally considered to promote health, flavonoids and catechins have no proven biological effect in humans. Consumption of green tea extract is linked to hepatotoxicity and liver failure. Green tea leaves are initially processed by soaking in an alcohol solution, which may be further concentrated to various levels; byproducts of the process are also packaged and used. Extracts may be sold in liquid, powder, capsule, or tablet form. Decaffeinated versions are also available. Green tea extract supplements are accessible over the counter in various forms. Regular green tea is 99.9% water, provides 1 Calorie", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "3433566", "text": "A Nice Cup of Tea \"A Nice Cup of Tea\" is an essay by English author George Orwell, first published in the \"London Evening Standard\" on 12 January 1946. It is a discussion of the craft of making a cup of tea, including the line: \"Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden.\" Orwell wrote that \"tea is one of the mainstays of civilisation in this country and causes violent disputes over how it should be made\", and his rules cover such matters as the best shape for a teacup, the advisability of using", "title": "A Nice Cup of Tea" }, { "docid": "3433568", "text": "own argument is unanswerable\", he writes. A Nice Cup of Tea \"A Nice Cup of Tea\" is an essay by English author George Orwell, first published in the \"London Evening Standard\" on 12 January 1946. It is a discussion of the craft of making a cup of tea, including the line: \"Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden.\" Orwell wrote that \"tea is one of the mainstays of civilisation in this country and causes violent disputes over how it should be made\", and his rules cover such matters as the best shape for", "title": "A Nice Cup of Tea" }, { "docid": "1919058", "text": "used for propelling projectiles from guns and other firearms. Solid propellants are usually made from low-explosive materials, but may include high-explosive chemical ingredients that are diluted and burned in a controlled way (deflagration) rather than detonation. The controlled burning of the propellant composition usually produces thrust by gas pressure and can accelerate a projectile, rocket, or other vehicle. In this sense, common or well-known propellants include, for firearms, artillery, and solid-propellant rockets: Propellants that explode in operation are of little practical use currently, although there have been experiments with Pulse Detonation Engines. Also the newly synthesized bishomocubane based compounds are", "title": "Propellant" }, { "docid": "19550134", "text": "also been demonstrated that Grant's domination is intended to be indicative of his monologic disposition. This conscious device on the part of the author dismisses any suggestion that the difficulties of the text: its repetitiveness, tediousness and odiousness, are representative of the author's style. While one voice may dominate, it is not the author's, a fact which underscores the author's distance and the goal of objectivity in the portrayal of Grant.\" A Little Tea, a Little Chat A Little Tea, a Little Chat (1948) is a novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. Middle-aged Robert Grant lives in New York in", "title": "A Little Tea, a Little Chat" }, { "docid": "1911689", "text": "on Japanese products deemed to be contaminated by radionuclides, indicating that tea from the Ibaraki prefecture had been removed from the list by the Government of Japan in 2015. Loose leaf green tea has been the most popular form of tea in China since at least the Southern Song dynasty. While Chinese green tea was originally steamed, as it still is in Japan, after the early Ming dynasty it has typically been processed by being pan-fired in a dry wok. Other processes employed in China today include oven-firing, basket-firing, tumble-drying and sun-drying. Green tea is the most widely produced form", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "4871679", "text": "hypothesis describes Type A individuals as outgoing, ambitious, rigidly organized, highly status-conscious, sensitive, impatient, anxious, proactive, and concerned with time management. People with Type A personalities are often high-achieving \"workaholics\". They push themselves with deadlines, and hate both delays and ambivalence. People with Type A personalities experience more job-related stress and less job satisfaction. Interestingly, those with Type A personalities do not always outperform those with Type B personalities. Depending on the task and the individual's sense of time urgency and control, it can lead to poor results when there are complex decisions to be made. However, research has shown", "title": "Type A and Type B personality theory" }, { "docid": "3421238", "text": "studies and the few clinical trials of tea for the prevention of cancer, the results have been inconclusive. The institute \"does not recommend for or against the use of tea to reduce the risk of any type of cancer.\" ... \"Inconsistencies in study findings regarding tea and cancer risk may be due to variability in tea preparation, tea consumption, the bioavailability of tea compounds (the amounts that can be absorbed by the body), lifestyle differences, and individual genetic differences.\" Though there is some positive evidence for risk reduction of breast, prostate, ovarian, and endometrial cancers with green tea, it is", "title": "Health effects of tea" }, { "docid": "3943466", "text": "September 2006, the British Library proposed that Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down should be archived along with other socially significant websites. As a spinoff from the website, the couple produced a book on the subject. It has the following sections: Starts with \"My worst cup of tea ever\" and reviews the different sorts of tea and methods of making them, including discussion of teabags, teapots, kettles and mugs. The main part of the book, includes the technical definitions of all sorts of biscuits from the simple Rich Tea to the complex such as the Penguin, with advice", "title": "Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down" }, { "docid": "1911682", "text": "of death from any cause; an increase of one cup of green tea per day was linked with a 4% lower risk of death from any cause. A separate analysis found that an increase of three cups of tea or green tea per day was associated with a small lower risk of total mortality in Asians and women. There is no conclusive evidence that green tea aids in weight loss. Moderate, regular, and habitual consumption of green tea is safe; however, there are reports of liver toxicity in humans after consuming high doses (10–29 mg/kg/day) of green tea extract dietary", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "2191884", "text": "separate quick firing. Often guns which use separate loading cased charge ammunition use sliding-block or sliding-wedge breeches and during World War I and World War II Germany predominantly used fixed or separate loading cased charges and sliding block breeches even for their largest guns. A variant of separate loading cased charge ammunition is semi-fixed ammunition. With semi-fixed ammunition the round comes as a complete package but the projectile and its case can be separated. The case holds a set number of bagged charges and the gun crew can add or subtract propellant to change range and velocity. The round is", "title": "Shell (projectile)" }, { "docid": "11561642", "text": "Vietnamese lotus tea Vietnamese lotus tea (, , or ) is a type of green tea produced in Vietnam that has been flavored with the scent of \"Nelumbo nucifera\". It is a specialty product of the Vietnamese tea industry and is consumed as part of celebratory events or festivals. The tea is made by allowing the green tea to absorb the flower's natural scent. This is done through several methods, either by: These steps can be repeated multiple times to increase the floral scent in the tea leaves. In the case of higher quality teas, one thousand lotus flowers per", "title": "Vietnamese lotus tea" }, { "docid": "409249", "text": "may be Lepidopteran leaf feeders and various tea diseases. Caffeine constitutes about 3% of tea's dry weight, translating to between 30 mg and 90 mg per 8-oz (250-ml) cup depending on the type, brand, and brewing method. A study found that the caffeine content of 1 g of black tea ranged from 22 to 28 mg, while the caffeine content of 1 g of green tea ranged from 11 to 20 mg, reflecting a significant difference. The astringency in tea can be attributed to the presence of polyphenols. These are the most abundant compounds in tea leaves, making up 30-40%", "title": "Tea" }, { "docid": "19550131", "text": "A Little Tea, a Little Chat A Little Tea, a Little Chat (1948) is a novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. Middle-aged Robert Grant lives in New York in 1941. He lives by his own rules and is always on the lookout for a new female conquest, whom he attempts to seduce with \"a little tea, a little chat\". His life continues in this manner until he meets Barbara, a thirty-two-year-old good-looking woman who is very much his match. A reviewer in \"Kirkus Review\" found little of interest in the book: \"Only the most fanatical followers of this author will", "title": "A Little Tea, a Little Chat" }, { "docid": "11886157", "text": "year: What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch! \"What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch!\" (; sometimes separated by exclamation mark instead of comma) is a catchphrase and winged word from Alexander Pushkin's correspondence with one of his friends, poet Pyotr Vyazemsky. The phrase commonly expresses a joy after finishing one's work and appears particularly in several Russian literary works. In a letter dated circa November 7 or beginning of October, 1825 Pushkin, celebrating his finished drama \"Boris Godunov\" wrote to Vyazemsky: That was preceded by what Pushkin wrote to Vyazemsky on July 13 of the", "title": "What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch!" }, { "docid": "11886156", "text": "What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch! \"What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch!\" (; sometimes separated by exclamation mark instead of comma) is a catchphrase and winged word from Alexander Pushkin's correspondence with one of his friends, poet Pyotr Vyazemsky. The phrase commonly expresses a joy after finishing one's work and appears particularly in several Russian literary works. In a letter dated circa November 7 or beginning of October, 1825 Pushkin, celebrating his finished drama \"Boris Godunov\" wrote to Vyazemsky: That was preceded by what Pushkin wrote to Vyazemsky on July 13 of the same", "title": "What a Pushkin, what a son of a bitch!" }, { "docid": "1911673", "text": "drinking green tea has any effects on health. Tea consumption has its legendary origins in China during the reign of Emperor Shennong. A book written by Lu Yu in 600-900 AD (Tang Dynasty), \"Tea Classic\" (), is considered important in green tea history. The \"Kissa Yojoki\" (喫茶養生記 \"Book of Tea\"), written by Zen priest Eisai in 1211, describes how drinking green tea may affect five vital organs, the shapes of tea plants, flowers and leaves, and how to grow and process tea leaves. Steeping, or brewing, is the process of making tea from leaves and hot water, generally using of", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "6692053", "text": "which commenced broadcast on 1 January 1982, Link Licensing & Bevanfield Films. A third version, this time American, was made in 1995 by DIC Entertainment and aired on ABC in the United States. It aired on YTV from 1995 to 1999 in Canada. All three versions were narrated by Frank Muir. Two out of the three animated series aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia. \"My tea time with Frank\" What-a-Mess What-a-Mess is a series of children's books written by British comedy writer Frank Muir and illustrated by Joseph Wright. The title character is a dishevelled (hence his nickname),", "title": "What-a-Mess" }, { "docid": "1911678", "text": "evidence that regular consumption of green tea affects the risk of cancer or cardiovascular diseases, and there is no evidence that it benefits weight loss. There is no conclusive evidence that green tea helps to prevent or treat cancer in people. A review of existing studies concluded that while suggestive evidence existed, it did not amount to a clear indication of benefit. Daily consumption of black tea (but not green tea) has been associated with a significant reduction in death from all cancers. The link between green tea consumption and the risk of certain cancers such as stomach cancer and", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "9458212", "text": "Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by Irish author J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It was released in 1945 and was the author's first book to be published in the United States. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 2,026 copies. A much less extensive collection of Le Fanu stories was published under the same title by Dover Books in 1993. \"Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories\" contains the following tales: \"New York Times\" reviewer D. C. Russell wrote that although Le Fanu's", "title": "Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories" }, { "docid": "4871685", "text": "that members of upper management prefer. Type B individuals can \"...see things from a global perspective, encourage teamwork, and exercise patience in decision making...\" Type A individuals' proclivity for competition and aggression is illustrated in their interactions with other Type As and with Type Bs. When playing a modified Prisoner's Dilemma game, Type A individuals elicited more competitiveness and angry feelings from both Type A and Type B opponents than did the Type B individuals. Type A individuals punished their Type A counterparts more than their Type B counterparts, and more than Type Bs punished other Type Bs. Rivalry between", "title": "Type A and Type B personality theory" }, { "docid": "17338019", "text": "Darjeeling Hills. There are 30,000 such small tea growers in North Bengal and total production is around 91 million kg, which is almost 32.5% of North Bengal's tea production of 280 million kg. Bought-leaf factories are units that buy these tea leaves and convert them into the processed tea. Generally, 6000 tea bushes can be planted in an acre of plot. These 6,000 bushes can produce 10,000 kg of green leaf. The cost of production varies between Rs 8.50 - Rs 10.50 per kg. Siliguri Tea Auction Centre was established in the year 1976 for the better marketing facility of", "title": "North Bengal Tea Industry" }, { "docid": "2787365", "text": "been built as monopropellant rockets using a single type of propellant, bipropellant rockets using two types of propellant, or more exotic tripropellant rockets using three types of propellant. Bipropellant liquid rockets generally use a liquid fuel, such as liquid hydrogen or a hydrocarbon fuel such as RP-1, and a liquid oxidizer, such as liquid oxygen. The engine may be a cryogenic rocket engine, where the fuel and oxidizer, such as hydrogen and oxygen, are gases which have been liquefied at very low temperatures. Liquid-propellant rockets can be throttled (thrust varied) in realtime, and have control of mixture ratio (ratio at", "title": "Liquid-propellant rocket" }, { "docid": "1911680", "text": "randomized controlled trials found that green tea consumption for 3–6 months may produce small reductions (about 2–3 mm Hg each) in systolic and diastolic blood pressures. A separate systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials found that consumption of 5-6 cups of green tea per day was associated with a small reduction in systolic blood pressure (2 mmHg), but did not lead to a significant difference in diastolic blood pressure. Green tea consumption lowers fasting blood sugar but in clinical studies the beverage's effect on hemoglobin A1c and fasting insulin levels was inconsistent. Drinking green tea or taking green", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "6155853", "text": "texture. The second method had artificial green tea coloring and flavoring because most of those local ice cream manufacturers could not import authentic matcha powder from Japan; therefore they usually replaced it with an artificial flavor that was accompanied with a strong chemical smell that was often covered by the heavy use of sugar. Green tea ice cream could easily be integrated into various decorations and arrangements with other ice cream flavors. It could be served with other Japanese sweets such as , , and . Green tea ice cream There is a clear indication that Mount Fuji-shaped green tea", "title": "Green tea ice cream" }, { "docid": "16659006", "text": "City Star gave a positive rating. The English Journal praised the book, recommending it to educators as a summer reading book for their students. The School Library Journal cited the free verse as a highlight of the book, naming \"A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl\" its \"Book of the Week\" in January 2006. A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl is the first novel by Tanya Lee Stone and written in a poetry-format. It follows the story of three girls who fall for the same bad", "title": "A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl" }, { "docid": "1911683", "text": "supplements, and high doses may act as a pro-oxidant to damage DNA. In 2013, global production of green tea was approximately 1.7 million tonnes, with a forecast to double in volume by 2023. As of 2015, China provided 80% of the world's green tea market, leading to its green tea exports rising by 9% annually, while exporting 325,000 tonnes in 2015. In 2015, the US was the largest importer of Chinese green tea (6,800 tonnes), an increase of 10% over 2014, and Britain imported 1,900 tonnes, 15% more than in 2014. In 2015, Kenya was the largest exporter of black", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "9958450", "text": "Shore\". Have a Cuppa Tea \"Have a Cuppa Tea\" is a song written by Ray Davies and performed by the Kinks on their 1971 album \"Muswell Hillbillies\". Like many Kinks songs, it is stylistically influenced by the British Music Hall. It also has a slight country influence—with the mesh of these two styles being a hallmark of the album. It is believed to be about Ray and Dave's grandmother. The lyrics humorously celebrate the British custom of drinking tea, and the civility that comes with it. Some absurd claims are made of the drink in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, such as", "title": "Have a Cuppa Tea" }, { "docid": "9958448", "text": "Have a Cuppa Tea \"Have a Cuppa Tea\" is a song written by Ray Davies and performed by the Kinks on their 1971 album \"Muswell Hillbillies\". Like many Kinks songs, it is stylistically influenced by the British Music Hall. It also has a slight country influence—with the mesh of these two styles being a hallmark of the album. It is believed to be about Ray and Dave's grandmother. The lyrics humorously celebrate the British custom of drinking tea, and the civility that comes with it. Some absurd claims are made of the drink in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, such as \"It's", "title": "Have a Cuppa Tea" }, { "docid": "19970707", "text": "Brown rice green tea Brown rice green tea is green tea blended with roasted brown rice. In Korea, it is called hyeonmi-nokcha (, literally \"brown rice green tea\") and is considered a blend of \"nokcha\" (green tea) and \"hyeonmi-cha\" (brown rice tea). In Japan, green tea blended with puffed brown rice is called \"genmaicha\" (literally, \"brown rice tea\"). In Korea, \"hyeonmi-nokcha\" is made by blending \"jeungje-cha\" (green tea that were steamed, not roasted, before being dried) leaves and roasted brown rice. Popular in both the loose and tea bag forms, brown rice green tea varieties are produced by Hankook Tea", "title": "Brown rice green tea" }, { "docid": "6216442", "text": "be talked to each day in the English version are Nee, Drill, and Manamu. The DVD is interactive and plays similarly to a video game. Continuing the story requires a password that the player is given at the end of each chapter. Additionally, the English version is heavily edited. All the explicit adult scenes were removed and the character paths/endings for Ponica and Megumi are not available in that release. The Akiwo ending that was added for the Dreamcast version is also not available in the English DVD release. Tea Society of a Witch Tea Society of a Witch is", "title": "Tea Society of a Witch" }, { "docid": "19970708", "text": "and Sulloc Tea. of brown rice green tea provides , carbohydrate, protein, fat, and sodium. Brown rice green tea Brown rice green tea is green tea blended with roasted brown rice. In Korea, it is called hyeonmi-nokcha (, literally \"brown rice green tea\") and is considered a blend of \"nokcha\" (green tea) and \"hyeonmi-cha\" (brown rice tea). In Japan, green tea blended with puffed brown rice is called \"genmaicha\" (literally, \"brown rice tea\"). In Korea, \"hyeonmi-nokcha\" is made by blending \"jeungje-cha\" (green tea that were steamed, not roasted, before being dried) leaves and roasted brown rice. Popular in both the", "title": "Brown rice green tea" }, { "docid": "9669622", "text": "Xinyang Maojian ranked second in the brand value list with 5.991 billion yuan. Xinyang Maojian (信阳毛尖) is one type of green tea that originally was produced in . The name can be divided into two parts that are associated with two aspects: \"Xinyang\" (信阳) is for Xinyang city in Henan, China that produces this type of tea; \"mao jian\" (毛尖) are the words to depict the shape of the tea — \"mao\" (毛) means tiny fuzz in cup when brewed and \"jian\" (尖) refers to shape the leaves: sharp, full young leaves. Xinyang has a tea history dating back to", "title": "Xinyang Maojian tea" }, { "docid": "11263497", "text": "the beneficial effect of the tea or a change in Ben Loy himself, Ben Loy regains his manhood at the conclusion of the novel. \"Eating\" this tea represents Ben Loy breaking the rules and regulations of Chinese customs – rather than drink the tea, he \"eats\" it. Additionally, it represents Ben Loy's decision to release himself from the pressure and control of his father and independently create a life for himself and his family. By doing so, Ben Loy regains his masculinity both literally and figuratively. \"Eat a Bowl of Tea\" begins by describing newlyweds Ben Loy and Mei Oi", "title": "Eat a Bowl of Tea" }, { "docid": "14699714", "text": "Kagoshima green tea Kagoshima Green Tea is grown in Kagoshima Prefecture, the second largest producer of unprocessed tea after Shizuoka Prefecture. A lot of Kagoshima Green Tea is known as blended tea for other places of production, but it is getting famous as its own brand with more rigorous standards these days. The name, Kagoshima Green Tea, has been used since about 1992. The largest cultivation area of tea which is around the Nansatsu plateau ranging from Minami-Kyushu City to Makurazaki account for 40% of the total cultivation area of tea in Kagoshima. Other important areas are around Kagoshima, from", "title": "Kagoshima green tea" }, { "docid": "1911695", "text": "in Korea, Bulgapsa (founded in 384, in Yeonggwang), Bulhoesa (founded in 384, in Naju) and Hwaeomsa (founded in Gurye, in 544) claim to be the birthplace of Korean tea culture. Green tea was commonly offered to Buddha, as well as to the spirits of deceased ancestors. Tea culture continued to prosper during the Goryeo Dynasty, with the tea offering being a part of the biggest national ceremonies and tea towns were formed around temples. Seon-Buddhist manners of ceremony prevailed. During the Joseon Dynasty, however, Korean tea culture underwent secularization, along with the Korean culture itself. Korean ancestral rite \"jesa\", also", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "10321817", "text": "A Cup of Tea \"A Cup of Tea\" is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the \"Story-Teller\" in May 1922. It later appeared in \"The Doves' Nest and Other Stories\" (1923). Her short stories first appeared in Melbourne in 1907,but literary fame came to her in London after the publication of a collection of short stories called \"In a German Pension.\" Rosemary Fell, a wealthy young married woman, goes to Curzon Street to shop at a florist's and in an antique shop (in which she admires, but does not buy, a beautifully painted small", "title": "A Cup of Tea" }, { "docid": "14699717", "text": "Products & Processed Food of Kagoshima http://www3.pref.kagoshima.jp/foreign/english/profile/gaiyou/3c2.html#5 Kagoshima green tea Kagoshima Green Tea is grown in Kagoshima Prefecture, the second largest producer of unprocessed tea after Shizuoka Prefecture. A lot of Kagoshima Green Tea is known as blended tea for other places of production, but it is getting famous as its own brand with more rigorous standards these days. The name, Kagoshima Green Tea, has been used since about 1992. The largest cultivation area of tea which is around the Nansatsu plateau ranging from Minami-Kyushu City to Makurazaki account for 40% of the total cultivation area of tea in Kagoshima.", "title": "Kagoshima green tea" }, { "docid": "10321820", "text": "text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative. It was adapted into the television series \"Katha Sagar\" (1986), directed by Shyam Benegal. A Cup of Tea \"A Cup of Tea\" is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the \"Story-Teller\" in May 1922. It later appeared in \"The Doves' Nest and Other Stories\" (1923). Her short stories first appeared in Melbourne in 1907,but literary fame came to her in London after the publication of a collection of short stories called \"In a German Pension.\" Rosemary", "title": "A Cup of Tea" }, { "docid": "19036619", "text": "platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over a million units. Credits adapted from the album's liner notes and Tidal. Notes Credits adapted from album's liner notes and Tidal. Musicians Technical What a Time to Be Alive What a Time to Be Alive is a collaborative commercial mixtape by Canadian rapper Drake and American rapper Future. It was released on September 20, 2015, by Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records, Republic Records, OVO Sound, Epic Records, A1 Records and Freebandz. \"What a Time to Be Alive\" was supported by Drake and", "title": "What a Time to Be Alive" }, { "docid": "1911681", "text": "tea supplements decreases the blood concentration of total cholesterol (about 3–7 mg/dL), LDL cholesterol (about 2 mg/dL), and does not affect the concentration of HDL cholesterol or triglycerides. A 2013 Cochrane meta-analysis of longer-term randomized controlled trials (>3 months duration) concluded that green tea consumption lowers total and LDL cholesterol concentrations in the blood. A 2015 systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 randomized controlled trials found that green tea consumption was not significantly associated with lower plasma levels of C-reactive protein levels (a marker of inflammation). In one study, daily consumption of green tea was correlated with a lower risk", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "19895738", "text": "magnesium. There are lower levels of calcium and strontium. By using Ga/Al ratio, fractionated felsic I or S-type granites can overlap in apparent composition. Enriched alkalis include sodium, potassium, rubidium and caesium. Other depleted elements include barium, phosphorus, titanium and europium. Subtypes include A, anorogenic, derived from ocean island basalt; and A post-orogenic, derived by crustal melting or crust and mantle mixing. The source could be dry granulite left over from the loss of wet magma during orogenies. A-type granite A-type granites are a class of granite. They are characterised by low water and a lack of tectonic fabric. A", "title": "A-type granite" }, { "docid": "13199280", "text": "Propellant depot An orbital propellant depot is a cache of propellant that is placed in orbit around Earth or another body to allow spacecraft or the transfer stage of the spacecraft to be fueled in space. It is one of the types of space resource depot that have been proposed for enabling infrastructure-based space exploration. Many different depot concepts exist depending on the type of fuel to be supplied, location, or type of depot which may also include a propellant tanker that delivers a single load to a spacecraft at a specified orbital location and then departs. In-space fuel depots", "title": "Propellant depot" }, { "docid": "19036612", "text": "What a Time to Be Alive What a Time to Be Alive is a collaborative commercial mixtape by Canadian rapper Drake and American rapper Future. It was released on September 20, 2015, by Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records, Republic Records, OVO Sound, Epic Records, A1 Records and Freebandz. \"What a Time to Be Alive\" was supported by Drake and Future's previous collaboration on the single \"Where Ya At\". As friends, they originally planned to record a mixtape together earlier in the year; the project never fully materialized. However, during recording sessions for \"Where Ya At\", the duo began working", "title": "What a Time to Be Alive" }, { "docid": "2787360", "text": "in simpler small engines to force the propellants into the combustion chamber. These engines may have a lower mass ratio, but are usually more reliable, and are therefore used widely in satellites for orbit maintenance. Liquid rockets can be monopropellant rockets using a single type of propellant, bipropellant rockets using two types of propellant, or more exotic tripropellant rockets using three types of propellant. Some designs are throttleable for variable thrust operation and some may be restarted after a previous in-space shutdown. Liquid propellants are also used in hybrid rockets, in which a liquid oxidizer is generally combined with a", "title": "Liquid-propellant rocket" }, { "docid": "12144388", "text": "the remainder of the film, the plot revolves around Krolikov and his two other identical Multiple birth brothers. Krolikov is pursued by Kozulskiy's mafia and two Militsiya officers - Jean-Paul Piskunov (Igor Ugolnikov) and an unnamed lieutenant (Sergey Batalov). At the end of the film Vasiliy discovers that there is a fourth brother, making all characters played by Garkalin at least quadruplets. What a Mess! What a Mess! () is a 1995 farce comedy film of late post-Perestroyka era directed by Vladimir Menshov. While digging in the mine \"Unpromising\" in Yakutia an unprecedentedly large diamond was found. It is christened", "title": "What a Mess!" }, { "docid": "10321818", "text": "ceramic box). Before going to the car, Rosemary is approached by Miss Smith, a poor girl who asks for enough money to buy tea. Instead, Rosemary drives the girl to her plush house, determined to show her \"that dreams do come true\" and \"that rich people did have hearts.\" At the Fells' home, Miss Smith eats her fill of food and tea. She then begins to tell Rosemary of her life until Rosemary's husband, Philip, comes in. Although initially surprised, Philip recovers and asks to speak to Rosemary alone. In the library, Philip conveys his disapproval. When Rosemary resists dismissing", "title": "A Cup of Tea" }, { "docid": "16659003", "text": "A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl is the first novel by Tanya Lee Stone and written in a poetry-format. It follows the story of three girls who fall for the same bad boy intent on seducing every girl in school. Josie is thrilled when TL notices her across the dance floor because of her \"couldn't care less\" act. Although refusing to at first, she begins ignoring her best friends, Kim and Caroline, but never gives them the cold shoulder. She's a freshman and, despite some close encounters, refuses", "title": "A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl" }, { "docid": "9329534", "text": "the four main varieties, is generally stronger in flavor and contains more caffeine than the less oxidized varieties. It is the traditional tea of the western world where it is known simply as \"tea\". \"Oolong\" () is a traditional Chinese type of tea somewhere between green and black in oxidation. Although it has a taste more akin to green tea than to black tea, it does not have the stridently grassy vegetal notes that typify green tea. The best Oolong has a nuanced flavor profile. It is commonly brewed to be strong and bitter, yet leaving a faintly sweet aftertaste.", "title": "Canned tea" }, { "docid": "19550133", "text": "out an often unself-conscious hypocrisy. Stead's interest in \"man alive\" leads her to stunningly original subject matter; her account of the black market in New York during World War II in \"A Little Tea, a Little Chat\" (1948), for example, has no historical parallel.\" In an essay discussing Stead's \"egotistical monsters\", Maria Sloggett concludes \"...the characterisation of Grant is a result of Stead's polyphonic project: she allows his voice to express itself freely and without any censorship. The author is in no way close to the character in the sense that they might be mistaken for each other. It has", "title": "A Little Tea, a Little Chat" }, { "docid": "3595174", "text": "Slug (projectile) A slug is a term used for a bulky solid ballistic projectile. It is \"solid\" in the sense of being composed of one piece; the shape can vary widely, including partially hollowed shapes. The term is occasionally applied to bullets (just the projectile, never the cartridge as a whole), but is most commonly applied to one-piece shotgun projectiles, to differentiate them from shotshells containing shots. Slugs are commonly fired from choked smoothbore barrels, but some specially-designed slug barrels have riflings that can impart gyroscopic spin required for in-flight stability. An airgun slug is a new type of pellet", "title": "Slug (projectile)" }, { "docid": "6379774", "text": "that scene never go beyond the boundaries of her own state...Dullness, bitterness, self-pity, baseness of all kinds can be most interesting material for a story provided these are not also the main elements in the mind of the author. There is nothing in the least vulgar or frustrated in Miss Welty's mind. She has simply an eye and an ear sharp, shrewd, and true as a tuning fork. A Curtain of Green A Curtain of Green was the first collection of short stories written by Eudora Welty. In these stories, Welty looks at the state of Mississippi through the eyes", "title": "A Curtain of Green" }, { "docid": "5078432", "text": "Green Tea (film) Green Tea () is a 2002 Chinese film. It was adapted from the novel \"Adiliya by the River\" by Jin Renshun. Shot in the summer of 2002, \"Green Tea\" was one of three films directed by Zhang Yuan that year (including the earlier \"I Love You\" and the subsequent \"Jiang Jie\"). The film was photographed by established Hong Kong-cinematographer Christopher Doyle, whose work gives \"Green Tea\" a more polished look than many of Zhang's earlier independent features. A conservative Beijing graduate student name Wu Fang (Zhao Wei) goes on a series of blind dates. Sensitive to slights", "title": "Green Tea (film)" }, { "docid": "4871683", "text": "with three main categories: Speed and Impatience, Job Involvement, and Hard-Driving Competitiveness. Type B is a behavior pattern that is lacking in Type A behaviors. A-B personality is a continuum where one either leans to be more Type A or Non Type A (Type B). The hypothesis describes Type B individuals as a contrast to those of Type A. Type B personality, by definition, are noted to live at lower stress levels. They typically work steadily, and may enjoy achievement, although they have a greater tendency to disregard physical or mental stress when they do not achieve. When faced with", "title": "Type A and Type B personality theory" }, { "docid": "1911677", "text": "per 100 mL serving, is devoid of significant nutrient content (table) and contains phytochemicals, such as polyphenols and caffeine. Although numerous claims have been made for the health benefits of green tea, human clinical research has not provided conclusive evidence of any effects. In 2011, a panel of scientists published a report on the claims for health effects at the request of the European Commission: in general they found that the claims made for green tea were not supported by sufficient scientific evidence. Although green tea may enhance mental alertness due to its caffeine content, there is only weak, inconclusive", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "11656192", "text": "What a queer bird \"What a queer bird\" is a poem of unclear origin. It first can be found in print in 1922, rapidly disseminating across dozens of publications in the United States that year. \"What a queer bird\" is a poem, folk song, or essay that may be sung as a round. It first can be found in print in 1922, rapidly disseminating across dozens of publications in the United States that year, but its precise origin is unclear. The words are as follows: In 1922, multiple United States publications attributed the poem or essay to \"a young Norwegian", "title": "What a queer bird" }, { "docid": "9458213", "text": "storytelling skills were impressive, \"the end of every story left me with a feeling of disappointment\". Russell concluded that while Le Fanu \"may write with the skill of an adult, the thought is without subtlety\". Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by Irish author J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It was released in 1945 and was the author's first book to be published in the United States. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 2,026 copies. A much less extensive collection of Le", "title": "Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories" }, { "docid": "3943468", "text": "vending machines, and the Christmas season is discussed. Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down is a website which mainly discusses tea and biscuits, with content including news and reviews of biscuit brands. It is owned and maintained by Stuart Payne and his wife Jenny Payne, who live in Cambridge, England, and spawned a spin-off book of the same name. The site has been inactive since 2008 but is still accessible. The website's creators, Stuart and Jenny Payne, are best known under their pseudonyms \"Nicey\" and \"Wifey\". As the website increased", "title": "Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down" }, { "docid": "3943464", "text": "Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down is a website which mainly discusses tea and biscuits, with content including news and reviews of biscuit brands. It is owned and maintained by Stuart Payne and his wife Jenny Payne, who live in Cambridge, England, and spawned a spin-off book of the same name. The site has been inactive since 2008 but is still accessible. The website's creators, Stuart and Jenny Payne, are best known under their pseudonyms \"Nicey\" and \"Wifey\". As the website increased in popularity, Stuart Payne was interviewed in the", "title": "Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down" }, { "docid": "1911675", "text": "by the steeping technique; two important ones are to warm the steeping container beforehand to prevent the tea from immediately cooling down, and to leave the tea leaf in the pot and gradually add more hot water during consumption. Polyphenols found in green tea include epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), epicatechin gallate, epicatechins and flavanols, which are under laboratory research for their potential effects in vivo. Other components include three kinds of flavonoids, known as kaempferol, quercetin, and myricetin. Although the mean content of flavonoids and catechins in a cup of green tea is higher than that in the same volume of", "title": "Green tea" }, { "docid": "6746747", "text": "Tea Leaf Green has often used the pseudonym Coffee Bean Brown. During these performances, the band has utilized an assortment of instruments, including acoustic guitars, piano, banjo, cello, and mandolin. Tea Leaf Green Tea Leaf Green (TLG) is a four-piece jam band from the San Francisco Bay Area, composed of Josh Clark (guitar and vocals), Trevor Garrod (keyboards, vocals, guitar, and harmonica), Scott Rager (drums), and Eric DiBerardino (bass). Tea Leaf Green began in the fall of 1996, when Scott Rager met Ben Chambers on the campus of San Francisco State University (SFSU). Chambers was the group's original bass player", "title": "Tea Leaf Green" } ]
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In what US city did seamstress Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, thereby getting arrested and starting a year long bus boycott?
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[ { "docid": "20125820", "text": "opened on the anniversary of the day she refused to give up her seat: December 1 Rosa Parks Museum The Rosa Parks Museum is located at Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama. It has information, exhibits, and some artifacts from 1955 when the Montgomery bus boycott happened. This museum got its name from civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who is known for refusing to give up her seat for a white person on a city bus. Inside the museum, there are interactive activities and even a reenactment of what happened on the bus as if you were outside the bus watching.", "title": "Rosa Parks Museum" }, { "docid": "20125818", "text": "Rosa Parks Museum The Rosa Parks Museum is located at Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama. It has information, exhibits, and some artifacts from 1955 when the Montgomery bus boycott happened. This museum got its name from civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who is known for refusing to give up her seat for a white person on a city bus. Inside the museum, there are interactive activities and even a reenactment of what happened on the bus as if you were outside the bus watching. There are artifacts in the museum from the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This museum is significant to", "title": "Rosa Parks Museum" }, { "docid": "6595001", "text": "believes that the organization has been ineffective in its battle against legalized racism. She worked as a seamstress in a department store. On December 1, 1955, after a tiring day at work, Rosa Parks took a seat in the designated \"colored\" section of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. When the \"white\" section at the front filled up, the driver, James Blake, ordered Parks to relinquish her seat, as was the practice. She refused, and was arrested and jailed. Civil rights activists organized a one-day bus boycott the day of her trial (she was fined). With its success, they founded", "title": "The Rosa Parks Story" }, { "docid": "20125819", "text": "Montgomery because it exhibits events that had occurred during the civil rights era in Alabama. one of the reasons to build the museum was due to the bus boycott that occurred in Montgomery. It was built in Rosa Parks's honor to educate and tell people of her story. Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama wanted to dedicate their new library and museum to Rosa Parks, \"The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement\". The library carries her name and it commemorates her refusal to give up her seat on the Montgomery City Bus to a white man. The museum and library were", "title": "Rosa Parks Museum" }, { "docid": "1337675", "text": "Alabama on April 26, 2018. Montgomery bus boycott The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955 — the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person — to December 20, 1956, when the federal ruling \"Browder v. Gayle\" took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337642", "text": "Montgomery bus boycott The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955 — the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person — to December 20, 1956, when the federal ruling \"Browder v. Gayle\" took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws that segregated buses were", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "368047", "text": "interviews Others Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The United States Congress has called her \"the first lady of civil rights\" and \"the mother of the freedom movement\". On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to relinquish her seat in the \"colored section\" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the", "title": "Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "367994", "text": "Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The United States Congress has called her \"the first lady of civil rights\" and \"the mother of the freedom movement\". On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to relinquish her seat in the \"colored section\" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the National Association", "title": "Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "16247560", "text": "cost of $4\"\", but she appealed. Rosa Park's action gained notoriety leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, and was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955—when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, \"Browder v. Gayle\", took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and", "title": "Rosa Parks Day" }, { "docid": "1307164", "text": "Mary Louise Smith (civil rights activist) Mary Louise Smith (later Mary Louise Smith Ware) (born 1937) is an African-American civil rights activist. She is notable for having been arrested in October 1955 at the age of 18 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on the segregated bus system. She is one of several women who were arrested for this offense prior to Rosa Parks that year. Parks was the figure around whom the Montgomery Bus Boycott was organized, starting December 5, 1955. On February 1, 1956, Smith was one of five women named as plaintiffs in", "title": "Mary Louise Smith (civil rights activist)" }, { "docid": "15581264", "text": "in partnerships are also six times more likely to live in poverty than gay white male couples. Major figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks were involved in the fight against the race-based discrimination of the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955 sparked the Montgomery bus boycott—a large movement in Montgomery, Alabama that was an integral period at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. The Bus Boycott lasted a total of 381 days before the Supreme Court deemed that segregated seating is unconstitutional. Dr. Martin Luther", "title": "Discrimination in the United States" }, { "docid": "594133", "text": "the RCNL, Howard led campaigns to expose brutality by the Mississippi state highway patrol and to encourage blacks to make deposits in the black-owned Tri-State Bank of Nashville which, in turn, gave loans to civil rights activists who were victims of a \"credit squeeze\" by the White Citizens' Councils. After Claudette Colvin was arrested for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in March 1955, a bus boycott was considered and rejected. But when Rosa Parks was arrested in December, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson of the Montgomery Women's Political Council put the bus boycott protest in motion.", "title": "Civil rights movement" }, { "docid": "1553704", "text": "when that act was prohibited by a British statute, in order to create moral pressure for law reform. Rosa Parks similarly acted on conscience in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama refusing a legal order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger; her action (and the similar earlier act of 15-year-old Claudette Colvin) leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rachel Corrie was a US citizen allegedly killed by a bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) while involved in direct action (based on the non-violent principles of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi) to prevent demolition", "title": "Conscience" }, { "docid": "6595000", "text": "she was arrested. Her example and treatment prompted a bus boycott as a major civil rights demonstration in Montgomery, Alabama; it lasted 381 days from 1955 to 1956. The film shows her background and indicates the issues in the segregated society of Alabama and the Deep South. As a child, Rosa was educated at a private school run by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where she was encouraged to overcome the limits of segregation. In her late-adolescence, she married Raymond Parks, a barber and advocate of equal rights. She joins the local branch of the NAACP, although her husband", "title": "The Rosa Parks Story" }, { "docid": "594148", "text": "had been reburied in a different casket after being exhumed in 2005. Till's family decided to donate the original casket to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American Culture and History, where it is now on display. Decades after his murder in 2017, Bryant disclosed that she had fabricated her story in 1955. On December 1, 1955, nine months after a 15-year-old high school student, Claudette Colvin, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and was arrested, Rosa Parks did the same thing. Parks soon became the symbol of the", "title": "Civil rights movement" }, { "docid": "19150801", "text": "Holt Street Baptist Church The Holt Street Baptist Church is an abandoned Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The church served as a meeting place for Montgomery's black community during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In 1998, the church closed and relocated to a new location in Montgomery. The Holt Street Baptist Church was established in 1909. The church building, located at the corner of Holt Street and Bullock Street, was completed in 1913. The first reverend was I.S. Fountain. On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus", "title": "Holt Street Baptist Church" }, { "docid": "12506878", "text": "Ian F. Lopez believe that in the 2000s, the Supreme Court has become more protective of the status quo. In 1971, the Supreme Court, in \"Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education\", upheld desegregation busing of students to achieve integration. In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. This was not the first time this happened — for example Parks was inspired by 15 year old Claudette Colvin doing the same thing nine months earlier — but the Parks act of civil disobedience was chosen, symbolically, as an", "title": "Jim Crow laws" } ]
[ { "docid": "1337648", "text": "build a case to challenge state bus segregation laws around the arrest of a 15-year-old girl, Claudette Colvin, a student at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery. On March 2, 1955, Colvin was handcuffed, arrested and forcibly removed from a public bus when she refused to give up her seat to a white man. At the time, Colvin was an active member in the NAACP Youth Council; Rosa Parks was an advisor. Colvin's legal case formed the core of \"Browder v. Gayle\", which ended the Montgomery bus boycott when the Supreme Court ruled on it in December 1956. In", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "13210815", "text": "refusal of Rosa Parks to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama and the ensuing Montgomery Bus Boycott in the United States in 1955, the activists decided on a bus boycott in Bristol. Their action was announced at a press conference on 29 April 1963. The following day, they claimed that none of the city's West Indians were using the buses and that many White people supported them. In an editorial, the \"Bristol Evening Post\" pointed out that the TGWU opposed the apartheid system in South Africa and asked what trade union leaders were doing to counteract racism", "title": "Bristol Bus Boycott" }, { "docid": "1337654", "text": "white man boarded the bus, the bus driver told everyone in her row to move back. At that moment, Parks realized that she was again on a bus driven by Blake. While all of the other black people in her row complied, Parks refused, and she was arrested for failing to obey the driver's seat assignments, as city ordinances did not explicitly mandate segregation but did give the bus driver authority to assign seats. Found guilty on December 5, Parks was fined $10 plus a court cost of $4\"\", and she appealed. Some action against segregation had been in the", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337652", "text": "were able to reboard. National City Lines owned the Montgomery Bus Line at the time of the Montgomery bus boycott. Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove off without her. Parks vowed never again to ride a bus driven by Blake. As a member of the NAACP, Parks was an", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "808829", "text": "characters. The second part of the novel deals with what book reviewer Harding LeMay termed \"the spirit-corroding shame of the civilized white Southerner in the treatment of the Negro\". In the years following its release, many reviewers considered \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" a novel primarily concerned with race relations. Claudia Durst Johnson considers it \"reasonable to believe\" that the novel was shaped by two events involving racial issues in Alabama: Rosa Parks' refusal to yield her seat on a city bus to a white person, which sparked the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the 1956 riots at the University of", "title": "To Kill a Mockingbird" }, { "docid": "1337651", "text": "bus, then everyone in the black row nearest the front had to get up and stand, so that a new row for white people could be created; it was illegal for whites and blacks to sit next to each other. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white person, she was sitting in the first row of the middle section. Often when boarding the buses, black people were required to pay at the front, get off, and reenter the bus through a separate door at the back. Occasionally, bus drivers would drive away before black passengers", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "6594999", "text": "The Rosa Parks Story The Rosa Parks Story is a 2002 American television movie written by Paris Qualles and directed by Julie Dash. Angela Bassett portrays Rosa Parks, and Cicely Tyson a supporting role as her mother. It was broadcast by CBS on February 24, 2002. It received awards from the NAACP and the Black Reel Awards. This is an account of the life of Mrs. Rosa L. Parks and her actions in the civil rights movement. After she refused to give up her seat for a white man on a racially segregated bus after a long day at work,", "title": "The Rosa Parks Story" }, { "docid": "16247559", "text": "December 1, 1955, Parks was sitting in the frontmost row for black people. When a Caucasian man boarded the bus, the bus driver told everyone in her row to move back. At that moment, Parks realized that she was again on a bus driven by Blake. While all of the other black people in her row complied, Parks refused, and was arrested for failing to obey the driver's seat assignments, as city ordinances did not explicitly mandate segregation but did give the bus driver authority to assign seats. Found guilty on December 5, Parks was fined $10 plus a court", "title": "Rosa Parks Day" }, { "docid": "12535852", "text": "1920s, monocoque body construction in 1931, automatic transmission in 1936, diesel engines in 1936, 50+ passengers in 1948, and air suspension in 1953. The arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955 for not giving up her seat to a white man on a public bus is considered one of the catalysts of the Civil Rights Movement within the United States. The names of different types of bus services vary according to local tradition or marketing, although services can be classified into basic types based on route length, frequency, the purpose of use and type of bus used. Long-distance coach services (US:", "title": "Public transport bus service" }, { "docid": "682922", "text": "in politics, to freely use public places, to end segregation. According to the historian David Beito of the University of Alabama, African Americans in Montgomery \"nurtured the modern civil rights movement.\" African Americans comprised most of the customers on the city buses, but were forced to give up seats and even stand in order to make room for whites. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Martin Luther King Jr., then the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and E.D. Nixon, a", "title": "Montgomery, Alabama" }, { "docid": "4255380", "text": "as they did in white areas. After \"Brown vs. Board of Education\" (1954), Robinson had informed the mayor of the city that a boycott would come, and then after Rosa Parks' arrest, they seized the moment to plan the Montgomery bus boycott. On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move from her seat in the black area of the bus she was traveling on to make way for a white passenger who was standing. Mrs. Parks, a civil rights organizer, had intended to instigate a reaction from white citizens and authorities. That night, with Mrs.", "title": "Jo Ann Robinson" }, { "docid": "3158679", "text": "(NAACP) as a secretary. Rosa Parks had become an activists by an event that triggered other events to occur. On December 1, 1955 Parks had taken the bus home from work, when all of a sudden she was being forced to give up her seat for a white male. Rosa Parks had been frustrated of the way black individuals were treated; thus, she refused and was arrested and fined $14. Parks' refusal and arrest had caused a dilemma for white individuals, especially for the ones that owned the bus business. The Montgomery bus boycott had started to desegregate public transportation.", "title": "Racial equality" }, { "docid": "2650466", "text": "on a bus to a white man, as required by law at the time; shortly after this a bus boycott began, inspired by her actions, advocating for an end to all segregated busing. The night of Rosa Parks' arrest, with her permission, Mrs. Jo Ann Robinson stayed up mimeographing 35,000 handbills calling for a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. Prior to Rosa Parks' action, Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith had refused to give up their seats on buses to white women, but their cases were eventually rejected by civil rights lawyers as they were not considered sympathetic enough.", "title": "History of women in the United States" }, { "docid": "16247561", "text": "Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional. Many important figures in the Civil Rights Movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy. The 381-day boycott almost bankrupted the bus company and effectively made segregation in buses unconstitutional and illegal. Rosa Parks Day Rosa Parks Day is an American holiday in honor of the civil rights leader Rosa Parks. In the U.S. states of California and Missouri it is celebrated on her birthday, February 4. In Ohio and Oregon it is celebrated on the day she was arrested, December 1. Rosa Parks Day", "title": "Rosa Parks Day" }, { "docid": "9499003", "text": "the first time in her life. In December 1955, Virginia and Clifford, along with E.D. Nixon, bailed Rosa Parks out of jail after she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white person. Afterwards, the Durrs, along with the NAACP aided Rosa Parks in bringing her case to the Supreme Court. Parks' actions sparked what we know of now as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which Virginia and Clifford supported by all means. Virginia and her husband also had associations with Martin Luther King Jr., as he and his wife sent the Durrs a postcard from their", "title": "Virginia Foster Durr" }, { "docid": "17896905", "text": "writing did come at a price as many members of the white community began to shun her publicly. She was even fired from a bookstore job she had after she had just graduated from college because of a letter she had published in the newspaper. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat and move to the back of a Montgomery city bus. Eleven days later, on December 12, 1955, Morgan wrote another letter to the editor of the \"Montgomery Advertiser\" in support of Ms. Parks and the boycott that followed. She stated", "title": "Juliette Hampton Morgan" }, { "docid": "1337644", "text": "paying their fares. A number of reasons have been given for why bus drivers acted in this manner, including racism, frustrations over labor disputes and labor conditions, and increased animosity towards blacks in reaction to the 1954 \"Brown v. Board of Education\" decision, with many of the drivers joining the White Citizens Councils as a result of the decision. The boycott also took place within a larger statewide and national movement for civil rights, including court cases such as \"Morgan v. Virginia\", the earlier Baton Rouge bus boycott, and the arrest of Claudette Colvin for refusing to give up her", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "9782412", "text": "Odessa. In the film's final scene, Miriam and her daughter Mary Catherine (Lexi Randall), who is the narrator of the story in flashback, join Odessa and the other protesters in standing against oppression. One of the three GM \"old-look\" transit buses used in this film was the Montgomery Bus Lines bus #2857, which Rosa Parks had been riding when she refused to give up her seat and was arrested. (Her arrest was the catalyst for the black community's calling the boycott.) By the time of the film, the bus was in poor condition. The filmmakers had it given a partial", "title": "The Long Walk Home" }, { "docid": "18414418", "text": "I Am Rosa Parks I Am Rosa Parks is a children's picture book written by Brad Meltzer in the Ordinary People Change the World series. It follows the adventures of a young Rosa Parks learning important lessons. The book features a young Rosa Parks, before she inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott. As a child, young Rosa Parks was shoved by a white boy, even though she was just minding her own business. She shoved the boy back. She knew fighting was wrong, but she didn’t want the boy picking on her again. The boy’s mother yelled at her, but Rosa", "title": "I Am Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "1337674", "text": "but all of the defendants were acquitted. About the same time, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled against Martin Luther King's appeal of his \"illegal boycott\" conviction. Rosa Parks left Montgomery due to death threats and employment blacklisting. According to Charles Silberman, \"by 1963, most Negroes in Montgomery had returned to the old custom of riding in the back of the bus.\" The National Memorial for Peace and Justice contains, among other things, a sculpture \"dedicated to the women who sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott\", by Dana King, to help illustrate the civil rights period. The memorial opened in downtown Montgomery,", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "16247557", "text": "system (COTA) with a special tribute to the late civil rights leader. As of 2014, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon proclaimed Rosa Parks Day official in the state. In 2014, Oregon governor Kitzhaber declared that Oregon will celebrate its first Rosa Parks Day. Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove off", "title": "Rosa Parks Day" }, { "docid": "2523043", "text": "King Jr. Soon after, she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white passenger. The incident sparked a year-long well-organized grassroots boycott of the public bus system. The boycott was designed to force the city to change its segregation policies. Parks later said when she did not get up and move to the rear of the bus, \"I thought of Emmett Till and I just couldn't go back.\" According to author Clayborne Carson, Till's death and the widespread coverage of the students integrating Little Rock Central High School in 1957 were especially profound for younger", "title": "Emmett Till" }, { "docid": "3158677", "text": "became a key speaker at the March on Washington, and was one of the youngest individuals to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but he also handled his opinion in a peaceful manner. King kept his anger toward the idea of segregation of race to himself; however, he did show his passion of equality in his speeches and peaceful protest. King displayed his very first civil rights movement by voluntarily taking a stance in the Montgomery bus boycott. The bus boycott had started by Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat for a white male after a long and tiring", "title": "Racial equality" }, { "docid": "13794729", "text": "On March 19, 1910, Montgomery became the winter home of the Wright brothers' Wright Flying School. The men frequented Montgomery and founded several airfields, one of which developed into Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base after the Wrights began working with the government to produce planes for military use. According to University of Alabama historian David Beito, Montgomery \"nurtured the modern civil rights movement.\" In December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Montgomery Improvement Association was created by Martin Luther King, Jr., then the pastor", "title": "History of Montgomery, Alabama" }, { "docid": "368015", "text": "complied. Parks said, \"The driver wanted us to stand up, the four of us. We didn't move at the beginning, but he says, 'Let me have these seats.' And the other three people moved, but I didn't.\" The black man sitting next to her gave up his seat. Parks moved, but toward the window seat; she did not get up to move to the redesignated colored section. Parks later said about being asked to move to the rear of the bus, \"I thought of Emmett Till and I just couldn't go back.\" Blake said, \"Why don't you stand up?\" Parks", "title": "Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "19907964", "text": "Tallahassee bus boycott The Tallahassee Bus Boycott was a citywide boycott in Tallahassee, Florida that sought to end racial segregation in the employment and seating arrangements of city buses. On May 26, 1956, Wilhemina Jakes and Carrie Patterson, two Florida A&M University students, were arrested by the Tallahassee Police Department for behavior that would \"incite a riot\". Robert Saunders, representing the NAACP, and Rev. C. K. Steele began talks with city authorities while the local African-American community started boycotting the city's buses. The Inter-Civic Council ended the boycott on December 22, 1956. On January 7, 1957, the City Commission repealed", "title": "Tallahassee bus boycott" }, { "docid": "271051", "text": "the incident involved a minor. Nine months later on December 1, 1955, a similar incident occurred when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus. The two incidents led to the Montgomery bus boycott, which was urged and planned by Nixon and led by King. The boycott lasted for 385 days, and the situation became so tense that King's house was bombed. King was arrested during this campaign, which concluded with a United States District Court ruling in \"Browder v. Gayle\" that ended racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses. King's role in", "title": "Martin Luther King Jr." }, { "docid": "1337663", "text": "refusing to provide restrooms for blacks. The organizer of that campaign, T. R. M. Howard of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, had spoken on the lynching of Emmett Till as King's guest at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church only four days before Parks's arrest. Parks was in the audience and later said that Emmett Till was on her mind when she refused to give up her seat. The MIA's demand for a fixed dividing line was to be supplemented by a requirement that all bus passengers receive courteous treatment by bus operators, be seated on a first-come, first-served basis,", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "18414421", "text": "serviceable introduction with far more child appeal than substance.\" while \"Publishers Weekly\" finds that \"Moments of humor help balance out the harsh racial prejudice on display.\" I Am Rosa Parks I Am Rosa Parks is a children's picture book written by Brad Meltzer in the Ordinary People Change the World series. It follows the adventures of a young Rosa Parks learning important lessons. The book features a young Rosa Parks, before she inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott. As a child, young Rosa Parks was shoved by a white boy, even though she was just minding her own business. She shoved", "title": "I Am Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "1337662", "text": "Such a line would have meant that if the white section of the bus was oversubscribed, whites would have to stand; blacks would not be forced to give up their seats to whites. This demand was a compromise for the leaders of the boycott, who believed that the city of Montgomery would be more likely to accept it rather than a demand for a full integration of the buses. In this respect, the MIA leaders followed the pattern of 1950s boycott campaigns in the Deep South, including the successful boycott a few years earlier of service stations in Mississippi for", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "19168143", "text": "Rosa Parks (Helzer) Rosa Parks is an outdoor 2009 bronze sculpture depicting the African-American Civil Rights activist of the same name by Pete Helzer, installed outside the bus station in Eugene, Oregon, in the United States. Pete Helzer's statue depicting Rosa Parks sitting in a bus seat was unveiled on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 2009, the same day Lane Transit District's Eugene Station Plaza was renamed Rosa Parks Plaza, making Eugene the first U.S. city to dedicate a bus station in Parks' honor. The sculpture cost $44,000; the first $10,000 was contributed by Lane Transit District and the", "title": "Rosa Parks (Helzer)" }, { "docid": "6341143", "text": "court had jurisdiction over the case. About two months after the bus boycott began, civil rights activists reconsidered the case of Claudette Colvin. She was a 15-year-old girl who had been the first person arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, nine months before Rosa Parks' action. Fred Gray, E.D. Nixon, president of the NAACP and secretary of the new Montgomery Improvement Association; and Clifford Durr (a white lawyer who, with his wife, Virginia Durr, was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement) searched for the ideal case law to challenge the constitutional", "title": "Browder v. Gayle" }, { "docid": "6973346", "text": "late 20th century. The Democratic-dominated legislature passed Jim Crow laws creating legal segregation and second-class status for African Americans. The 1901 Constitution changed the name of the General Assembly to the Alabama Legislature. (Amendment 427 to the Alabama Constitution designated the State House as the official site of the legislature.) Following World War II, the state capital was a site of important Civil Rights Movement activities. In December 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on a segregated city bus. She and other African-American residents conducted the more than year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott to", "title": "Alabama Legislature" }, { "docid": "1337659", "text": "jail because she refused to get up out of her seat on the bus for a white person to sit down. It is the second time since the Claudette Colvin case that a Negro woman has been arrested for the same thing. This has to be stopped. Negroes have rights too, for if Negroes did not ride the buses, they could not operate. Three-fourths of the riders are Negro, yet we are arrested, or have to stand over empty seats. If we do not do something to stop these arrests, they will continue. The next time it may be you,", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "6595003", "text": "and on a nationwide basis across the United States. The Rosa Parks Story The Rosa Parks Story is a 2002 American television movie written by Paris Qualles and directed by Julie Dash. Angela Bassett portrays Rosa Parks, and Cicely Tyson a supporting role as her mother. It was broadcast by CBS on February 24, 2002. It received awards from the NAACP and the Black Reel Awards. This is an account of the life of Mrs. Rosa L. Parks and her actions in the civil rights movement. After she refused to give up her seat for a white man on a", "title": "The Rosa Parks Story" }, { "docid": "1337643", "text": "unconstitutional. Many important figures in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy. Prior to the bus boycott, Jim Crow laws mandated the racial segregation of the Montgomery Bus Line. As a result of this segregation African Americans were not hired as drivers, were forced to ride in the back of the bus, and were frequently ordered to surrender their seats to white people even though black passengers made up 75% of the bus system's riders. African-American passengers were also attacked by bus drivers and shortchanged and left stranded after", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "13210826", "text": "was completely unacceptable. I can well accept the sense of injustice and pain that has been felt because [of] what happened in Bristol all those years ago.\" In 2009, Stephenson was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), for his part in organising the bus boycott. Bailey and Hackett were also awarded OBEs. Bristol Bus Boycott The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 arose from the refusal of the Bristol Omnibus Company to employ Black or Asian bus crews in the city of Bristol, England, UK. In common with other British cities at the time, there was", "title": "Bristol Bus Boycott" }, { "docid": "5710486", "text": "bathrooms, restaurants, and waiting rooms. They later have dinner with Martin's family and while he goes to do shut in rounds with his father (James Earl Jones), the boys travel forward 11 years and meet Martin (LeVar Burton), who by now is in his 20s and works as a minister at the church. He is holding a meeting about the Montgomery Bus Boycott, set off after Rosa Parks, a black seamstress refused to give up her seat on a bus and was put in prison for it. As a result, no black adults or children will ride the buses. Just", "title": "Our Friend, Martin" }, { "docid": "19117208", "text": "Baton Rouge bus boycott The Baton Rouge bus boycott was a boycott of city buses launched on June 19, 1953 by African-American residents of Baton Rouge, Louisiana who were seeking integration of the system. They made up about 80% of the ridership of the city buses in the early 1950s but, under Jim Crow rules, black people were forced to sit in the back of the bus, even when the front of the bus was empty. State laws prohibited black citizens from owning private buses outside the city systems. Activists proposed to the city that black riders would be allowed", "title": "Baton Rouge bus boycott" }, { "docid": "11207673", "text": "A Bus for a Bus on the Bus \"A Bus for a Bus on the Bus\" is the only 7-inch single by Cardiac Arrest, who later became Cardiacs. Until the release of \"The Special Garage Concerts Vol II\", none of the tracks on the 7-inch single had been reproduced anywhere else. The single was supposed to contain four tracks and not three, but the limited space on the 7-inch format prevented it. The fourth track was to be \"Keep Your Dead Mice with You\", which was later re-recorded as \"Dead Mouse\" on the \"Toy World\" album. The single is one", "title": "A Bus for a Bus on the Bus" }, { "docid": "11207675", "text": "mixed at the end of the session and 1000 copies were pressed. A Bus for a Bus on the Bus \"A Bus for a Bus on the Bus\" is the only 7-inch single by Cardiac Arrest, who later became Cardiacs. Until the release of \"The Special Garage Concerts Vol II\", none of the tracks on the 7-inch single had been reproduced anywhere else. The single was supposed to contain four tracks and not three, but the limited space on the 7-inch format prevented it. The fourth track was to be \"Keep Your Dead Mice with You\", which was later re-recorded", "title": "A Bus for a Bus on the Bus" }, { "docid": "9047090", "text": "A Slow Bus to Chingford \"A Slow Bus to Chingford\" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, \"Only Fools and Horses\". It was the fifth episode of series 1, and was first broadcast on 6 October 1981. In the episode, Del acquires an old double decker bus and decides to give tours around London. As Rodney invites his girlfriend to the flat, Del Boy gives him a job as a nocturnal security officer (an NSO) within new security company \"Trotter Watch\" (TW). As Rodney is sent to guard a bus depot, Del frightens him by whistling along with him from", "title": "A Slow Bus to Chingford" }, { "docid": "19907970", "text": "normative structure emerged in the Tallahassee Bus Boycott. The boycott presents an overlooked departure from the circumstances of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was planned and precipitated by active individuals and organizations; in addition, the Tallahassee boycott, at least in its initial stages, was separate from and did not model the latter. Killian finds the formation of the ICC and the spontaneous and irregular nature of the boycott's initiation commensurate with traditional collective behavior theory, which includes such superficially irrational elements as spontaneity. Tallahassee bus boycott The Tallahassee Bus Boycott was a citywide boycott in Tallahassee, Florida that sought to", "title": "Tallahassee bus boycott" }, { "docid": "19117211", "text": "were declared off-limits to black riders, and only black riders could occupy the wide rear seat that spanned the back of the bus. The boycott had an economic impact on the city's transportation system and on the broader Civil Rights Movement. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. became aware of the bus boycott and spoke with Rev. Jemison about the fight for social justice in Baton Rouge. He especially wanted to discuss the free car ride system, which was a key part of enforcing the Baton Rouge bus boycott. The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus boycott served as a model for", "title": "Baton Rouge bus boycott" }, { "docid": "3589491", "text": "representing black riders who had been treated unjustly on the city buses.) See below.) The final choice was Rosa Parks, the elected secretary of the Montgomery NAACP. Nixon had been her boss, although he said, \"Women don't need to be nowhere but in the kitchen.\" When she asked, \"Well, what about me?\", he replied, \"I need a secretary and you are a good one.\" On December 1, 1955, Parks entered a Montgomery bus, refused to give up her seat for a white passenger, and was arrested. After being called about Parks' arrest, Nixon went to bail her out of jail.", "title": "E. D. Nixon" }, { "docid": "1337647", "text": "city bus drivers. The drivers later went on strike after city authorities refused to arrest Rev. T.J. Jemison for sitting in a front row. Four days after the strike began, Louisiana Attorney General and former Baton Rouge mayor Fred S. LeBlanc declared the ordinance unconstitutional under Louisiana state law. This led Rev. Jemison to organize what historians believe to be the first bus boycott of the civil rights movement. The boycott ended after eight days when an agreement was reached to only retain the first two front and back rows as racially reserved seating areas. Black activists had begun to", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "19907965", "text": "the bus-franchise segregation clause because of the United State Supreme Court ruling \"Browder v. Gayle\" (1956). Jakes and Patterson boarded a city bus and sat in the only open seats, which were next to a white woman. The driver declared that the two women could not sit where they were sitting, and Jakes agreed to get off the bus if she received her bus fare in return. The driver would not return Jakes' bus fare and drove to a service station, where he then called the police, who subsequently arrested the women. Later that day, the students were bailed out", "title": "Tallahassee bus boycott" }, { "docid": "14754776", "text": "In spite of the violence of the actions, juries often refused to convict the defendants. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, James Bevel, Rosa Parks, and other activists in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s used civil disobedience techniques. Among the most notable civil disobedience events in the U.S. occurred when Rosa Parks refused to move on the bus when a white man tried to take her seat. Although 15-year-old Claudette Colvin had done the same thing nine months earlier, Parks' action led directly to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. A more common act of civil disobedience (in", "title": "Examples of civil disobedience" }, { "docid": "1337664", "text": "and that blacks be employed as bus drivers. The proposal was passed, and the boycott was to commence the following Monday. To publicize the impending boycott it was advertised at black churches throughout Montgomery the following Sunday. On Saturday, December 3, it was evident that the black community would support the boycott, and very few blacks rode the buses that day. On December 5, a mass meeting was held at the Holt Street Baptist Church to determine if the protest would continue. Given twenty minutes notice, King gave a speech asking for a bus boycott and attendees enthusiastically agreed. Starting", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "19692868", "text": "church once where the pews were not stationary. After a couple of selections some of the members got happy and began to shout. When the service was over someone mentioned that the church looked as if a hurricane had been through it. The subtitle has stuck since then.\" In 1956, Hairston wrote and recorded \"The Alabama Bus\" for Detroit record store owner Joe Von Battle's J.V.B. label. With Washboard Willie on percussion, the song describes and chronicles the Montgomery bus boycott that followed Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white man. Hairston's recording, described as \"emotional\"", "title": "Brother Will Hairston" }, { "docid": "19155287", "text": "been demolished, one entire block of them in the 1960s to make way for a Pizitz department store, which opened in 1972. Across from the fountain on Court Square is the Winter Building, whence the telegram giving the order to fire on Fort Sumter was given. Also across from the fountain, is the bus stop that Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat thus starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a crucial part in the early Civil Right Movement. Section 486 of the Montgomery City Ordinance (1888 version) forbids the interfering with fish and fowl in the basin of", "title": "Court Square Fountain" }, { "docid": "368012", "text": "She then moved to her seat but driver James F. Blake told her to follow city rules and enter the bus again from the back door. When Parks exited the vehicle, Blake drove off without her. Parks waited for the next bus, determined never to ride with Blake again. After working all day, Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus, a General Motors Old Look bus belonging to the Montgomery City Lines, around 6 p.m., Thursday, December 1, 1955, in downtown Montgomery. She paid her fare and sat in an empty seat in the first row of back seats reserved for", "title": "Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "367995", "text": "for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws. Parks' prominence in the community and her willingness to become a controversial figure inspired the black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year, the first major direct action campaign of the post-war civil rights movement. Her case became bogged down in the state courts, but the federal Montgomery bus lawsuit \"Browder v. Gayle\" succeeded in November 1956. Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott", "title": "Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "8398132", "text": "Tribute to a Bus Tribute To A Bus is the second album by the German/Danish noise rock band 18th Dye, released in March 28, 1995 on Matador Records. The album track \"Play W/You\" was released on 11 April 1995 as the leading single. It was recorded and engineered by Steve Albini, and has been compared as similar in sound to his work with Nirvana and The Wedding Present. Although critically acclaimed, neither album nor single were commercially successful, and 18th Dye disbanded the following year. The band's earlier releases, \"Done\" and the six-song \"Crayon\" EP had been produced by Iain", "title": "Tribute to a Bus" }, { "docid": "368019", "text": "Bradford in 1951, Sarah Louise Keys in 1952, and the members of the ultimately successful \"Browder v. Gayle\" 1956 lawsuit (Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith) who were arrested in Montgomery for not giving up their bus seats months before Parks. Nixon conferred with Jo Ann Robinson, an Alabama State College professor and member of the Women's Political Council (WPC), about the Parks case. Robinson believed it important to seize the opportunity and stayed up all night mimeographing over 35,000 handbills announcing a bus boycott. The Women's Political Council was the first group to officially endorse", "title": "Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "16247556", "text": "Rosa Parks Day Rosa Parks Day is an American holiday in honor of the civil rights leader Rosa Parks. In the U.S. states of California and Missouri it is celebrated on her birthday, February 4. In Ohio and Oregon it is celebrated on the day she was arrested, December 1. Rosa Parks Day was created by the California State Legislature and first celebrated in 2000. The holiday was first designated in the U.S. state of Ohio championed by Joyce Beatty, advocate who helped Ohio's legislation pass to honor the late leader. It is also celebrated by the Columbus Ohio bus", "title": "Rosa Parks Day" }, { "docid": "368017", "text": "her arrest, Parks said she had decided, \"I would have to know for once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.\" In her autobiography, \"My Story\", she said: When Parks refused to give up her seat, a police officer arrested her. As the officer took her away, she recalled that she asked, \"Why do you push us around?\" She remembered him saying, \"I don't know, but the law's the law, and you're under arrest.\" She later said, \"I only knew that, as I was being arrested, that it was the very last time", "title": "Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "13210809", "text": "Bristol Bus Boycott The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 arose from the refusal of the Bristol Omnibus Company to employ Black or Asian bus crews in the city of Bristol, England, UK. In common with other British cities at the time, there was widespread racial discrimination in housing and employment at that time against \"Coloureds\". Led by youth worker Paul Stephenson and the West Indian Development Council, the boycott of the company's buses by Bristolians lasted for four months until the company backed down and overturned their discriminative colour bar policy. The boycott drew national attention to racial discrimination in", "title": "Bristol Bus Boycott" }, { "docid": "1337658", "text": "the collection plates so these ministers could live well, and when those congregations needed the clergy to stand up for them, those comfortable ministers refused to do so. Nixon threatened to reveal the ministers' cowardice to the black community, and King spoke up, denying he was afraid to support the boycott. King agreed to lead the MIA, and Nixon was elected its treasurer. On the night of Rosa Parks' arrest, the Women's Political Council, led by Jo Ann Robinson, printed and circulated a flyer throughout Montgomery's black community that read as follows: Another woman has been arrested and thrown in", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "9047092", "text": "the tourists to the house where Sherlock Holmes was born, and to North London where Jack the Ripper was \"buried\". After a while, Del stands on the top floor of the bus and explains to Rodney and Grandad his dream to become a millionaire. He claims to have had a vision in which he sees himself standing on the balcony of a tower block, with the initials of his company in giant flashing lights. As soon as Rodney points out that Trotters Independent Traders spells out \"TIT\", Del decides to just give up and go home. As the Trotters get", "title": "A Slow Bus to Chingford" }, { "docid": "16109505", "text": "buses and even confronted white men in the community if they mistreated her or her family. Gilmore also worked at the National Lunch Company in Montgomery as a cook until the beginning of the bus boycott in late 1955. After Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to leave her seat on December 1, 1955, the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) declared a boycott of the bus system beginning on December 5. Gilmore, who had already refused to use the buses in Montgomery, heard of the arrest on the news and quickly joined the new Montgomery Improvement Association; this is when the", "title": "Georgia Gilmore" }, { "docid": "368037", "text": "Advocates of Planned Parenthood. Though her health declined as she entered her seventies, Parks continued to make many appearances and devoted considerable energy to these causes. In 1992, Parks published \"Rosa Parks: My Story\", an autobiography aimed at younger readers, which recounts her life leading to her decision to keep her seat on the bus. A few years later, she published \"Quiet Strength\" (1995), her memoir, which focuses on her faith. At age 81 Parks was robbed and assaulted in her home in central Detroit on August 30, 1994. The assailant, Joseph Skipper, broke down the door but claimed he", "title": "Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "19117209", "text": "to ride in the front of the bus, but voluntarily refrain from sitting next to whites. The City Council initially approved this concept and passed Ordinance 222. But the cadre of all-white bus drivers refused to enforce the ordinance, and they went on strike. The ordinance was overturned after the strike went on four days. The drivers returned to work after the Louisiana Attorney General overturned the ordinance and declared victory. Rev. T. J. Jemison helped organize the United Defense League and a bus boycott after the integration ordinance was overturned. Black residents met in four mass meetings and raised", "title": "Baton Rouge bus boycott" }, { "docid": "368018", "text": "that I would ever ride in humiliation of this kind...\" Parks was charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11 segregation law of the Montgomery City code, although technically she had not taken a white-only seat; she had been in a colored section. Edgar Nixon, president of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and leader of the Pullman Porters Union, and her friend Clifford Durr bailed Parks out of jail that evening. Parks did not originate the idea of protesting segregation with a bus sit-in. Those preceding her included Bayard Rustin in 1942, Irene Morgan in 1946, Lillie Mae", "title": "Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "10032580", "text": "bus boycotts during the Civil Rights Movement in America, it started because black people were forced to ride in the back of the bus, and when two students refused to give up their seat to a white woman, they were arrested. An organization was formed to protest and boycott against the city bus system. The organization was called Inter-civic Council and Steele was elected president. Steele and other protesters boycotted the system by starting car pools and the bus system had stopped for the first time in 17 years on July 1. Steele was arrested many times during this period.", "title": "Charles Kenzie Steele" }, { "docid": "13210816", "text": "in their own ranks. When reporters questioned the bus company about the boycott, the general manager, Ian Patey, said: The advent of coloured crews would mean a gradual falling off of white staff. It is true that London Transport employ a large coloured staff. They even have recruiting offices in Jamaica and they subsidise the fares to Britain of their new coloured employees. As a result of this, the amount of white labour dwindles steadily on the London Underground. You won't get a white man in London to admit it, but which of them will join a service where they", "title": "Bristol Bus Boycott" }, { "docid": "20321098", "text": "to what is now known as the Egerton railway station bus boycott massacre, the Mdantsane bus boycott massacre, the Egerton massacre, and similar terms. The Egerton massacre occurred in the then Ciskei township of Mdantsane 20 kilometres outside East London. An attitude survey run by the white apartheid South African government conducted in Mdantsane in July 1981 found that 70% of all the working class respondents identified transport as their most serious problem. 80% of Mdantsane's workers used buses to go to work while 15% used the trains and 5% went to work by car. The bus company, which catered", "title": "Egerton railway station bus boycott massacre" }, { "docid": "11864040", "text": "settle the matter using various intermediaries. Although several provisional settlements were discussed, including a complicated system that would reimburse bus passengers their extra penny every day, the boycotters stood firm. With the radical groups implicitly threatening to mobilise a strike (\"a rainy Monday\") the Chamber of Commerce finally agreed to a public subsidy that would return the old fare on a long term basis. 1957 Alexandra bus boycott The 1957 Alexandra bus boycott was a protest undertaken against the Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) by the people of Alexandra in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is generally recognised as being one", "title": "1957 Alexandra bus boycott" }, { "docid": "9047091", "text": "afar. The next morning at Nelson Mandela House, as Grandad tells Del that he used to be a security officer during the war, Rodney is woken up just to hear Del's latest get-rich-quick scheme: Trotters Ethnic Tours. Rodney will drive the bus, Del will be the tour guide, and Grandad will send the leaflets to every part of London. The next day, while the tour bus is ready to go, nobody has turned up at the moment, but Del bets Grandad £50 that the tourists \"will\" show up. Throughout the day, Del tells Rodney and Grandad that he will take", "title": "A Slow Bus to Chingford" }, { "docid": "8398136", "text": "The cover art features a photograph of the band members against a deep green background, with the band name in large rounded lower case type. The song titles are listed, also in lower case, along the left hand side of the front cover. The inner sleeves contain the song lyrics. Tribute to a Bus Tribute To A Bus is the second album by the German/Danish noise rock band 18th Dye, released in March 28, 1995 on Matador Records. The album track \"Play W/You\" was released on 11 April 1995 as the leading single. It was recorded and engineered by Steve", "title": "Tribute to a Bus" }, { "docid": "19117212", "text": "the internationally known 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus boycott also inspired residents to mobilize around other issues, such as securing the right to vote. In recognition of the importance of the 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott in African-American history and world history, the Toni Morrison Society's \"Bench by the Road\" project selected Baton Rouge as a site to memorialize. The project places benches at sites with historical significance for people of African ancestry. The permanent site of the bench commemorating the bus boycott is the McKinley High School Alumni Center. Baton Rouge bus boycott The Baton", "title": "Baton Rouge bus boycott" }, { "docid": "15265897", "text": "scene by the busdriver, instead of explaining the law to the offending man, asked Rosenblit to move to the back. The incident made headlines both in Israeli and international media, and Rosenblit was hailed as \"Israeli Rosa Parks\".<ref name=\"CNN2011/12/19\"> </ref> According to an Egged spokesperson, who condemned the incident, the number of such incidents is increasing. On December 28, 2011, on city bus line 49A in Jerusalem's Ramat Eshkol neighborhood, a Haredi man allegedly asked Doron Matalon, a female IDF soldier at the time, to move to the back of the bus. When she refused, he allegedly called her a", "title": "Mehadrin bus lines" }, { "docid": "368013", "text": "blacks in the \"colored\" section. Near the middle of the bus, her row was directly behind the ten seats reserved for white passengers. Initially, she did not notice that the bus driver was the same man, James F. Blake, who had left her in the rain in 1943. As the bus traveled along its regular route, all of the white-only seats in the bus filled up. The bus reached the third stop in front of the Empire Theater, and several white passengers boarded. Blake noted that two or three white passengers were standing, as the front of the bus had", "title": "Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "9643090", "text": "no warning to passengers. A&C Bus Corporation The A&C Bus Corporation, also known as the Montgomery & Westside Independent Bus Owners Association, is a bus company in Jersey City, New Jersey. All buses operated by A&C are known for their solid red line on the side of the bus and the phrase \"use the bus card on this bus\" on the front of the bus. Like many other private bus lines in the state, its fleet is made up of buses leased from New Jersey Transit. Prior to A&C Bus Corporation's operation of the Bergen Avenue route, the route was", "title": "A&C Bus Corporation" }, { "docid": "9643088", "text": "A&C Bus Corporation The A&C Bus Corporation, also known as the Montgomery & Westside Independent Bus Owners Association, is a bus company in Jersey City, New Jersey. All buses operated by A&C are known for their solid red line on the side of the bus and the phrase \"use the bus card on this bus\" on the front of the bus. Like many other private bus lines in the state, its fleet is made up of buses leased from New Jersey Transit. Prior to A&C Bus Corporation's operation of the Bergen Avenue route, the route was operated by Bergen Avenue", "title": "A&C Bus Corporation" }, { "docid": "19021222", "text": "(Season 11) and Tamar Davis (Season 10) performed the song on The Voice. \"Rise Up\" was used by Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign. It served as a theme song, often played at her campaign events and rallies. \"Rise Up\" was featured in advertising for the ABC docudrama miniseries \"When We Rise\". The program chronicled the LGBT rights movement in America. On 21 October 2018, \"Rise Up\" was used in the episode \"Rosa\" of the science-fiction television series \"Doctor Who\", heard throughout the final scene where Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus, and continuing", "title": "Cheers to the Fall" }, { "docid": "1337670", "text": "heard in federal district court and, on June 4, 1956, the court ruled in \"Browder v. Gayle\" (1956) that Alabama's racial segregation laws for buses were unconstitutional. As the state appealed the decision, the boycott continued. The case moved on to the United States Supreme Court. On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court upheld the district court's ruling, ruling that segregation on public buses and transportation was against the law. The boycott officially ended December 20, 1956, after 381 days. The city passed an ordinance authorizing black bus passengers to sit virtually anywhere they chose on buses. The Montgomery bus", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337653", "text": "investigator assigned to cases of sexual assault. In 1945, she was sent to Abbeville, Alabama, to investigate the gang rape of Recy Taylor. The protest that arose around the Taylor case was the first instance of a nationwide civil rights protest, and it laid the groundwork for the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1955, Parks completed a course in \"Race Relations\" at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, where nonviolent civil disobedience had been discussed as a tactic. On December 1, 1955, Parks was sitting in the foremost row in which black people could sit (in the middle section). When a", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "368002", "text": "took white students to their new school and black students had to walk to theirs: I'd see the bus pass every day... But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world. Although Parks' autobiography recounts early memories of the kindness of white strangers, she could not ignore the racism of her society. When the Ku Klux Klan marched down the street in front of their house, Parks recalls her grandfather guarding", "title": "Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "368025", "text": "of the finest citizens of Montgomery.\" Parks' court case was being slowed down in appeals through the Alabama courts on their way to a Federal appeal and the process could have taken years. Holding together a boycott for that length of time would have been a great strain. In the end, black residents of Montgomery continued the boycott for 381 days. Dozens of public buses stood idle for months, severely damaging the bus transit company's finances, until the city repealed its law requiring segregation on public buses following the US Supreme Court ruling in \"Browder v. Gayle\" that it was", "title": "Rosa Parks" }, { "docid": "16286332", "text": "and on-deadline images from Mississippi, published nationwide in \"Life\" magazine, provided the visualization that helped spur Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on the bus in December, 1955, which then led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and to the involvement of a young and relatively unknown black minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., along with one of the other boycott leaders, Ralph Abernathy. McMahon was at Martin Luther King's, Jr.'s \"I have a dream\" speech during the 1963 March on Washington, on the National Mall. He also covered the two 1964 mistrials of the murderer of civil rights", "title": "Franklin McMahon" }, { "docid": "7004037", "text": "Rosa Parks Transit Station Rosa Parks Transit Station is an intermodal transit station in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida. It is operated by the Jacksonville Transportation Authority and serves as Jacksonville's main city bus station as well as a station for the Jacksonville Skyway elevated people mover and the First Coast Flyer bus rapid transit system. It is located on Hogan Street between State Street and Union Street, and is the Skyway's northern terminus. It is across the street from the Downtown campus of Florida State College at Jacksonville. The station was built in 1997 to serve as both a new bus", "title": "Rosa Parks Transit Station" }, { "docid": "11864035", "text": "1957 Alexandra bus boycott The 1957 Alexandra bus boycott was a protest undertaken against the Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) by the people of Alexandra in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is generally recognised as being one of the few successful political campaigns of the Apartheid era, by noted writers and activists including Anthony Sampson and Chief Albert Luthuli. Ruth First, former wife of South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo, said of the Boycott, \"not since the days of the Defiance Campaign had Africans held so strategic a position.\" The bus boycott of Alexandra was launched on 7 January 1957;", "title": "1957 Alexandra bus boycott" } ]
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According to the song, who left Kenny Rogers with four hungry children and crops in the field?
[ "Lucille", "Lucille (disambiguation)", "Lucille (song)" ]
[ { "docid": "8629950", "text": "Rogers' two number one singles there. The song, told by the narrator (Rogers), tells the story of a man in a bar in Toledo, Ohio, who acquaints himself with a downhearted married woman named Lucille. An inebriated Lucille admits her unhappiness in life and a longing for adventure. Her husband arrives and approaches her and the intimidated narrator. The brokenhearted husband, starting to shake, scorns her for her inconvenient timing in abandoning him \"with four hungry children and a crop in the field,\" leaving him with a \"hurtin'\" that refuses to heal. After the husband leaves, Lucille and the narrator", "title": "Lucille (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "8629951", "text": "make their way to a hotel room. The beautiful woman comes to the narrator, but is blindsided by his odd, sudden change of heart. In his mind, he recalls the recurring haunting words of her husband and feels unable to respond to her advances. Lucille (Kenny Rogers song) \"Lucille\" is a song written by Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in January 1977 as the second and final single from the album \"Kenny Rogers\". It became Rogers' first major hit as a solo artist after leaving the successful country/rock", "title": "Lucille (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "8629949", "text": "Lucille (Kenny Rogers song) \"Lucille\" is a song written by Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in January 1977 as the second and final single from the album \"Kenny Rogers\". It became Rogers' first major hit as a solo artist after leaving the successful country/rock group The First Edition the previous year. An international hit, it reached number 1 on the Billboard Country Singles chart and number 5 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Overseas, \"Lucille\" reached the top of the UK Singles Chart in June 1977, the first of", "title": "Lucille (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "1918951", "text": "and the MacShayne series as well as his appearance on \"The Muppet Show\". He is also a co-founder of the restaurant chain Kenny Rogers Roasters. Rogers was born the fourth of eight children on August 21, 1938, in Houston, Texas. His parents were Lucille Lois (née Hester; 1910–1991), a nurse's assistant, and Edward Floyd Rogers (1904–1975), a carpenter. Rogers is of Irish and Native American ancestry. Rogers attended Wharton Elementary School. He has five children from four of his five marriages. At his estate in Colbert, Georgia, Rogers keeps a pet goat named Smitty, having originally acquired the animal from", "title": "Kenny Rogers" }, { "docid": "12651325", "text": "Kenny Rogers (album) Kenny Rogers is the second studio album by Kenny Rogers from United Artists Records, released worldwide in 1977. The album marked his first major solo success following the minor success of \"Love Lifted Me\" in 1976. The album produced two singles. The first single, 1976's \"Laura (What He's Got That I Ain't Got?)\", peaked at #19. This song was originally a #1 country hit for Leon Ashley in 1967. In 1977, Kenny gained stardom with the single \"Lucille\", which climbed to the top of the country charts (both in the U.S. and Canada) and placing him squarely", "title": "Kenny Rogers (album)" }, { "docid": "5197789", "text": "he himself had a No. 9 country hit with it in the fall of 1977. Though unrecorded, \"Sweet Music Man\" marked the end of the First Edition as a creative entity. Considering the band's then low profile, Kenny Rogers had an uncertain future when he signed a solo deal to United Artists in 1975. Searching for a new image, he soon developed a more middle-of-the-road, gravel-voiced style. For the rest of the decade and beyond he had hit after hit. \"Lucille\" was the first of no less than a combined 25 number 1 country and pop singles after he left", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "15251319", "text": "20 Greatest Hits (Kenny Rogers album) 20 Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Kenny Rogers released by Liberty Records in 1983. \"20 Greatest Hits\" marks Rogers' third compilation album as a solo artist. This compilation covers the entire span of Rogers' glorious chart run through the late 1970s and early 1980s. Among the 20 tracks on the album is Rogers' early smash hit \"Lucille\", which made Rogers a world-famous solo superstar. \"The Gambler\" – Rogers' chart-topping story song – also makes an appearance. The single that first appeared on Rogers' first solo Greatest Hits collection in 1980, \"Lady\" also", "title": "20 Greatest Hits (Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "1918956", "text": "whose first single, \"Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)\", was another solo hit. The single \"Lucille\" (1977) was a major hit, reaching number one on the pop charts in 12 countries, selling over five million copies, and firmly establishing Rogers' post-First Edition career. On the strength of \"Lucille\", the album \"Kenny Rogers\" reached No. 1 in the Billboard Country Album Chart. More success was to follow, including the multi-platinum selling album \"The Gambler\" and another international Number 1 single, \"Coward of the County\", taken from the equally successful album, \"Kenny\". In 1980, the Rogers/Butler partnership came to an", "title": "Kenny Rogers" } ]
[ { "docid": "9001495", "text": "special Rogers performed a version of the song with his two friends Lionel Richie and Dolly Parton which also included archive footage of him working with both on various projects through the years. The song looks back at a relationship \"Through The Years\" and mentions the ups and downs, but the singer proclaims to his loved one: \"I'm so glad I stayed right here with you / Through the years\". Through the Years (Kenny Rogers song) \"Through the Years\" is a song written by Steve Dorff and Marty Panzer, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was", "title": "Through the Years (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "14330996", "text": "Kenny Rogers as The Gambler Kenny Rogers as The Gambler (also known as The Gambler) is a 1980 American made-for-television western film directed by Dick Lowry. The film premiered on CBS on April 8, 1980. It was loosely based on the Grammy-winning Kenny Rogers song of the same name, and stars the singer as Brady Hawks, a gambler trying to reunite with a son he never knew, played by Ronnie Scribner. It was a critical and commercial success, receiving an Eddie Award and two Emmy nominations, and resulting in four sequels. Gambler Brady Hawkes (Kenny Rogers) receives a letter from", "title": "Kenny Rogers as The Gambler" }, { "docid": "9001493", "text": "Through the Years (Kenny Rogers song) \"Through the Years\" is a song written by Steve Dorff and Marty Panzer, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in December 1981 as the fourth single from the album \"Share Your Love\". \"Through the Years\" reached number 13 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in early 1982, remaining in the Top 40 for eleven weeks and went to number one on the adult contemporary chart, becoming Rogers' fifth single to top this chart. The song peaked at number five on the country chart. Rogers credited \"Through the Years\"", "title": "Through the Years (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "17731693", "text": "You and I (Kenny Rogers song) \"You and I\" is a song written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb and was recorded and performed by Kenny Rogers from his 1983 album \"Eyes That See in the Dark\". Despite not being released as a single, it has been played on the radio, becoming one of Rogers' most popular songs. Barry Gibb sings background vocals on the intro, chorus, interlude (between the first chorus and second verse). The performer of the song sometimes credited to 'Kenny Rogers and the Bee Gees' because Barry used his falsetto. \"You and I\" was recorded around", "title": "You and I (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "5197763", "text": "the same time as the \"But You Know I Love You\" soundalike \"Once Again She's All Alone\", the group renamed themselves \"Kenny Rogers and The First Edition\". When \"Ruby\" became the hit, the name stuck. Terry later claimed this made him feel like one of Gladys Knight's Pips. \"Ruby\" made them stars, and during the next two years, Kenny Rogers and The First Edition had nearly half a dozen hits. A man Rogers at first took to be a rude fan first pitched \"Reuben James\" to Rogers at a golf match. The man, who turned out to be a song", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "17731695", "text": "the second chorus. Gibb's version was released on \"The Eyes That See in the Dark Demos\". You and I (Kenny Rogers song) \"You and I\" is a song written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb and was recorded and performed by Kenny Rogers from his 1983 album \"Eyes That See in the Dark\". Despite not being released as a single, it has been played on the radio, becoming one of Rogers' most popular songs. Barry Gibb sings background vocals on the intro, chorus, interlude (between the first chorus and second verse). The performer of the song sometimes credited to 'Kenny", "title": "You and I (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "10477635", "text": "Lady (Kenny Rogers song) \"Lady\" is a song written by Lionel Richie and first recorded by American country artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in September 1980 on the album \"Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits.\" It is listed at #60 on \"Billboard's All Time Top 100.\" The song was written and produced by Lionel Richie, recorded in 1980, and ranks among Kenny Rogers's biggest hits. Rogers once told an interviewer, \"The idea was that Lionel would come from R&B and I'd come from country, and we'd meet somewhere in pop.\" The success of \"Lady\" also boosted Richie's career. The production work", "title": "Lady (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "10477639", "text": "that saw him collect 20 No. 1 songs between 1977 and 2000. On the Hot 100, it was his only solo chart-topping song, although Rogers would have a duet No. 1 three years later (1983's \"Islands in the Stream\" with Dolly Parton). On the Adult Contemporary Singles chart, \"Lady\" was Rogers' second (of eight) songs that reached the chart's summit. \"Billboard\" ranked it at the No. 3 song for 1981. Lady (Kenny Rogers song) \"Lady\" is a song written by Lionel Richie and first recorded by American country artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in September 1980 on the album", "title": "Lady (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "6865172", "text": "remained one of the top selling country collections for over four years, out-selling all his previous albums, and was the biggest selling country album of 1985 in the UK. In 1989, it still ranked #2 on the UK chart. In what seems a tradition with Rogers' UK releases, where artwork is oft-duplicated, this album matches the 1985 album \"Love Is What We Make It\". The Kenny Rogers Story The Kenny Rogers Story is a compilation album by country singer Kenny Rogers. As one of the many collections issued by Rogers, \"The Kenny Rogers Story: 20 Golden Hits\" was issued in", "title": "The Kenny Rogers Story" }, { "docid": "5197788", "text": "to Kenny who hadn't yet formed his solo band. Kenny later said that writing the song \"Sweet Music Man\" made him cut his hair and let it go gray, plus get rid of the earring. The song may have played a part in his future middle of the road image, but the change did not happen until almost a year after it was written. Mary Arnold often sang \"Sweet Music Man\" on the First Edition's post Terry Williams gigs and Kenny also tried the lead out a few times. This was to become one of Rogers' most covered compositions, and", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "6865171", "text": "Parton, \"Islands in the Stream\", is \"missing\" on this collection. However, this track was recorded with RCA Nashville after Kenny left Liberty. In addition to being issued on the popular formats of vinyl, cassette and compact disc, \"The Kenny Rogers Story\" was also issued on the short lived Digital Compact Cassette. The album was eventually deleted in the mid-1990s following the release of the similar themed collection \"Daytime Friends - The Very Best of Kenny Rogers\". The Kenny Rogers Story was a huge success reaching #1 in the UK country albums chart and #4 on the pop chart . It", "title": "The Kenny Rogers Story" }, { "docid": "5197800", "text": "the Billboard charts. On April 10, 2010, Kenny, Mike, Mickey, Terry, Mary, and Gene reunited as part of the \"Kenny Rogers: The First 50 Years\" TV special. This was filmed at the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. They were joined by Wynonna Judd on a rendition of \"Just Dropped In\". Airing in 2011, a reunion with or without Kenny now seems likely. The First Edition semi-reunited with Rogers several times in 2014-2015 when he was elected to the Country Music Hall Of Fame. These were brief press conferences and performances only. No full reunion actually happened according to witnesses. Note: all", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "12235741", "text": "What About Me? (Kenny Rogers song) \"What About Me?\" is a song first recorded in 1984 as a trio by singers Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes and James Ingram. The song was written by Rogers, noted producer David Foster, and singer-songwriter Richard Marx, who would later achieve superstar status as a musician (\"Right Here Waiting\", \"Now and Forever\"). It was the lead single from Rogers' Platinum-plus 1984 album of the same name. Rogers has described \"What About Me?\" as \"like a three-way love song...Everybody involved said 'Hey, what about me?' I think it's a beautiful record.\" Originally the male and female", "title": "What About Me? (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "16919510", "text": "Barry Gibb's original version of \"Evening Star\" was released on \"The Eyes That See in the Dark Demos\" in 2006. This song is a country singalong, with harmony vocals and Maurice Gibb contributing both a slap bass and a snappy lead guitar break. But on Kenny Rogers' version, the vocals would again be done by the Gatlin Brothers for release, and the break was eliminated. Evening Star (Kenny Rogers song) \"Evening Star\" is a song written by Barry and Maurice Gibb, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in June 1984 as the third single", "title": "Evening Star (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "12235744", "text": "feat of charting on both the R&B (#57) and country (#70) charts. This was Rogers' second single to reach the R&B chart, following his 1980 hit \"Lady\". That song, written by Richie, had reached number 42 on the R&B chart as well as going to number one on the pop, country and AC charts. What About Me? (Kenny Rogers song) \"What About Me?\" is a song first recorded in 1984 as a trio by singers Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes and James Ingram. The song was written by Rogers, noted producer David Foster, and singer-songwriter Richard Marx, who would later achieve", "title": "What About Me? (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "15757839", "text": "Blaze of Glory (Kenny Rogers song) \"Blaze of Glory\" is a song written by Danny Morrison, Johnny Slate, and Larry Keith, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in November 1981 as the third single (following I Don't Need You and Share Your Love With Me) from the album \"Share Your Love\". The song reached number 66 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in early 1982. The song peaked at number nine on the country chart. Razzy Bailey originally cut the song to be a single, and right up until the last minute, Kenny Rogers'", "title": "Blaze of Glory (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "5197792", "text": "Fame. Kin Vassy died of lung cancer on June 23, 1994. He scored two top 40 hit singles as a country singer, but his solo career never really took off. He often worked with Kenny in the eighties and his trademark scream enlivens hits like \"Blaze Of Glory\". In 1980 he released the single \"Makes Me Wonder (If I Ever Said Goodbye)\"; Kenny Rogers sang the backing vocals. The song was not a hit, but the following year Kenny recorded his own version of the song for his popular \"Share Your Love\" album, produced by Lionel Richie; Vassy sang the", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "14331001", "text": "crediting Rogers's charisma and Lowry's direction. Casey Broadwater for Blu-ray.com called it a film \"you tend to like in spite of itself.\" Kenny Rogers as The Gambler Kenny Rogers as The Gambler (also known as The Gambler) is a 1980 American made-for-television western film directed by Dick Lowry. The film premiered on CBS on April 8, 1980. It was loosely based on the Grammy-winning Kenny Rogers song of the same name, and stars the singer as Brady Hawks, a gambler trying to reunite with a son he never knew, played by Ronnie Scribner. It was a critical and commercial success,", "title": "Kenny Rogers as The Gambler" }, { "docid": "6759769", "text": "The Kenny Rogers Singles Album The Kenny Rogers Singles Album is the seventh studio album by Kenny Rogers. This album was issued in the UK by United Artists Records in 1979 and was the second Kenny Rogers album to reach the pop UK Albums Chart Top 20 . It featured every one of his singles to make the UK Pop Top 75 to that point. It is fairly similar to 1977's \"Ten Years Of Gold\" album issued in the United States, but it featured four more songs that were hits in 1978, such as \"The Gambler\" and \"She Believes In", "title": "The Kenny Rogers Singles Album" }, { "docid": "16919509", "text": "Evening Star (Kenny Rogers song) \"Evening Star\" is a song written by Barry and Maurice Gibb, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in June 1984 as the third single from the album \"Eyes That See in the Dark\". The song reached #11 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. This track, along with \"Buried Treasure\" have backing vocals by the Gatlin Brothers. No bass guitar is credited, but it appears to be the work of Maurice Gibb, judging by the match to the demos and the slap bass sound on this song.", "title": "Evening Star (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "8735906", "text": "Real Love (Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers song) \"Real Love\" is a song written by David Malloy, Richard \"Spady\" Brannon and Randy McCormick, and recorded as a duet by American entertainers Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers that topped the U.S. country singles charts in August 1985. It was released in May 1985 the second single and title track from Parton's \"Real Love\" album. Released after the top-ten success of \"Don't Call It Love\", the song became Parton and Rogers' second country chart-topper as a duet act. However, \"Real Love\" did not fare as well on the pop singles charts as", "title": "Real Love (Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "5197761", "text": "the end of the decade Rogers had long brown hair, an earring, and pink sunglasses. Known affectionately in retrospect as \"Hippie Kenny\", Rogers had a notably smoother vocal style at the time. During the summer of 1969 the band scored another Top Ten hit with Mel Tillis' \"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town.\" \"Ruby\" was the global smash that firmly established the First Edition's longevity in the business. Mickey's drumming was part of the hook. At Rogers' current shows, the song is often clapped along to, or joked around with, but it was meant very seriously at the time.", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "15757840", "text": "organization said there were no plans to release his version first. Apparently someone heard Razzy's cut on the song and rushed back to the Liberty Records to tell them it might be a hit. So Rogers' version hit the charts first and Bailey's remained an album cut from \"Feelin' Right\". Blaze of Glory (Kenny Rogers song) \"Blaze of Glory\" is a song written by Danny Morrison, Johnny Slate, and Larry Keith, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in November 1981 as the third single (following I Don't Need You and Share Your Love With", "title": "Blaze of Glory (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "17731694", "text": "May 1983, the Boneroo Horns was heard on the song's outro. Barry Gibb's original version of \"You and I\" was the second song intended for Kenny Rogers' new album. Gibb's version was recorded in January 1983 in Miami Beach, Florida with \"This Woman\" and \"Midsummer Nights\". This version was released officially in 2006, 23 years after Gibb finished this song. This song followed the style of Gibb's own version of \"Eyes That See in the Dark\". Like he does on Rogers' version, he sings background vocals on the intro, first chorus interlude (between the first chorus and second verse) and", "title": "You and I (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "5197756", "text": "the mid 1970s, frontman Kenny Rogers would embark on a solo music career, becoming one of the top-selling country artists of all time. Kenny Rogers and The First Edition were mostly made up of former New Christy Minstrels who felt creatively stifled. The exception was Mickey Jones, who had been part of Bob Dylan's backing group on his first electric world tour. In 1967, with the help of Terry Williams' mother, who worked for producer/executive Jimmy Bowen, they signed with Reprise and recorded their first single together, \"I Found a Reason\", which picked up minor sales. Like much of the", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "10477636", "text": "on the song was his first outside the Commodores and foreshadowed his success as a solo act during the 1980s. Rogers was also a featured vocalist on \"We Are the World\", co-written by Richie. Richie performed the song himself on his 1998 album, \"Time\", and he and Rogers performed the song as a duet on Richie's 2012 release \"Tuskegee\". Lionel Richie had originally pitched this song to the Commodores and they turned it down. Then later, it was given to Kenny Rogers to record and it became the biggest selling hit single for him as a solo artist. Since his", "title": "Lady (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "1918955", "text": "featured in top-selling movie soundtracks, such as \"Convoy\", \"Urban Cowboy\", and \"The Big Lebowski\". After leaving the First Edition in 1976, after almost a decade with the group, Rogers signed a solo deal with United Artists. Producer Larry Butler and Rogers began a partnership that would last four years. Rogers first outing for his new label was \"Love Lifted Me\". The album charted and two singles, \"Love Lifted Me\" and \"While the Feeling's Good\", were minor hits. The song \"Runaway Girl\" was featured in the motion picture \"Trackdown\". Later in 1976, Rogers issued his second album, the self-titled \"Kenny Rogers\",", "title": "Kenny Rogers" }, { "docid": "5197754", "text": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, sometimes billed as The First Edition, was an eclectic pop band whose styles ranged from rock and roll to R&B, folk, and country. Its core members were Kenny Rogers (lead vocals and bass guitar), Mickey Jones (drums and percussion) and Terry Williams (guitar and vocals). The band formed in 1967, with folk musician Mike Settle (guitar and backing vocals) and the operatically-trained Thelma Camacho (lead vocals) completing the lineup. As the 1960s counterculture was heating up, The First Edition signed with Reprise Records in the summer of 1967", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "17096979", "text": "This Woman (Kenny Rogers song) \"This Woman\" is a song written by Barry Gibb and Albhy Galuten and was performed by American country recording artist Kenny Rogers. It reached #2 in the US Adult Contemporary Chart and #23 in the US Pop Chart. It was published by Gibb Brothers Music and Unichappell Music. RCA pushed \"This Woman\" to pop radio, but the country stations flipped to the song's B-side \"Buried Treasure\". In Germany, \"This Woman\"'s B-side was \"Hold Me\", another track from the album. This song was recorded in May 1983 released in late 1983 in the US, and early", "title": "This Woman (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "5197801", "text": "View Video releases were originally issued on VHS in the early nineties. Numerous releases with miscellaneous Rollin' footage have come out in Europe and Australia. They are of dubious legality and were all were quickly pulled from the market. Kenny Rogers and The First Edition Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, sometimes billed as The First Edition, was an eclectic pop band whose styles ranged from rock and roll to R&B, folk, and country. Its core members were Kenny Rogers (lead vocals and bass guitar), Mickey Jones (drums and percussion) and Terry Williams (guitar and vocals). The band formed in", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "6865169", "text": "The Kenny Rogers Story The Kenny Rogers Story is a compilation album by country singer Kenny Rogers. As one of the many collections issued by Rogers, \"The Kenny Rogers Story: 20 Golden Hits\" was issued in the UK in 1985. It was never released in the US, and collects most of his UK Top 40 pop hits as well as various other singles that, while they never made it to high positions in the mainstream charts there, were popular among fans of both country and easy listening/middle of the road genres. It is similar to the 1983 issued \"20 Greatest", "title": "The Kenny Rogers Story" }, { "docid": "6759770", "text": "Me\". In Australia, the album was issued with the same track listing and album art and was known as \"The Best of Kenny Rogers\". The Kenny Rogers Singles Album The Kenny Rogers Singles Album is the seventh studio album by Kenny Rogers. This album was issued in the UK by United Artists Records in 1979 and was the second Kenny Rogers album to reach the pop UK Albums Chart Top 20 . It featured every one of his singles to make the UK Pop Top 75 to that point. It is fairly similar to 1977's \"Ten Years Of Gold\" album", "title": "The Kenny Rogers Singles Album" }, { "docid": "12706494", "text": "The Gift (Kenny Rogers album) The Gift is the twenty-seventh studio album and a holiday album by country music singer Kenny Rogers. It was released in 1996 via Magnatone Records. The album features a rendition of \"Mary, Did You Know?\" featuring Wynonna Judd. This version of the song charted at No. 55 on Hot Country Songs in 1997. Giving it 2.5 out of 5 stars, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote that \"it does suffer from uneven material and the occasional indifferent performance. There are enough good moments here to make it worthwhile for hardcore Kenny fans, but not enough", "title": "The Gift (Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "8735908", "text": "a music video for the \"Real Love\" single was produced using footage from the HBO special. Parton also recorded a solo version in November 1984, which was later included on the 1995 album \"I Will Always Love You: The Essential Dolly Parton One\". Real Love (Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers song) \"Real Love\" is a song written by David Malloy, Richard \"Spady\" Brannon and Randy McCormick, and recorded as a duet by American entertainers Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers that topped the U.S. country singles charts in August 1985. It was released in May 1985 the second single and title", "title": "Real Love (Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "5197798", "text": "(the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour) and many national commercials. He now lives in Arizona and continues to compose for symphony orchestras. In 1980, a compilation of some of the First Edition's greatest hits and album cuts, titled \"Shine On\", was issued in the United Kingdom; it sold fairly well but was overshadowed by The Kenny Rogers Singles Album, a Kenny Rogers solo greatest hits collection that, in addition to his solo hits, featured reworkings of the group's best known songs. Currently there are many compilations of their work in print on various labels, some miscredited to Kenny alone with picture", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "5890968", "text": "with Newman quoting the tagline: \"It's the wood that makes it good\". In the Beastie Boys song \"Long Burn The Fire\" from the album \"Hot Sauce Committee Part 2\", Adrock raps \"I'll make you sick like a Kenny Rogers Roaster.\" In season 5, episode 9 of \"Archer\", Kenny Loggins is playing the song \"Danger Zone\" at Lana Kane’s surprise baby shower. However, Lana has no idea who Kenny Loggins is and when told his name she asks if he is \"from Kenny Loggins Roasters?\". In the 2010s television sitcom, \"Fresh Off the Boat\", which is set in the 1990s, the", "title": "Kenny Rogers Roasters" }, { "docid": "5197768", "text": "sing (e.g., his solo Coward Of The County) that had elements of sadism under a gentle surface. The line about mimicking a crippled man would not have flown had it not been sung with so much reverence. Released a month or so after the Kent State shootings, the song drew a standing ovation the night it debuted live. They also played an encore, where the audience yelled play \"I'm Gonna Sing You A Sad Song Susie\" again! In addition to the band's continuing frequent appearances on television, songs by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition were featured in two 1970", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "5890969", "text": "chain is referenced several times. One multi-episode story arc includes a feud between Kenny Rogers and Michael Bolton in which Kenny Roger's Roasters chain ends up buying out one of Michael Bolton's steakhouse restaurants to \"win\" the feud. Later in the series, in conversations with Rogers, we find out the chain is going out of business and the restaurant in dispute returns to its original owner (Louis, the head of the family in the series who had previously partnered with Michael Bolton). Kenny Rogers Roasters Kenny Rogers Roasters is a chain of chicken-based restaurants. It was founded in 1991 by", "title": "Kenny Rogers Roasters" }, { "docid": "12715058", "text": "with West and which first appeared on \"Classics\", reached #19 on the US country chart and #29 in Canada. The album was eventually certified platinum and gold in the US and Canada, respectively. It reached #43 on the US country charts and #85 on the pop charts in 1984. It was one of three Kenny Rogers albums to chart that year, the others being new releases on RCA. All tracks with Dottie West, unless otherwise indicated. Duets (Kenny Rogers album) Duets was a special 1984 album released by Liberty Records from Kenny Rogers. It was issued after Rogers left the", "title": "Duets (Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "5890958", "text": "Kenny Rogers Roasters Kenny Rogers Roasters is a chain of chicken-based restaurants. It was founded in 1991 by country musician Kenny Rogers and former KFC CEO John Y. Brown, Jr., who is a former governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky. John Y. Brown Jr. had also been an investor in Kentucky Fried Chicken from 1964 to 1971. In addition to his successful music career, Kenny Rogers had also appeared in a number of commercials for the Dole Food Company before this restaurant chain was founded. The menu of Kenny Rogers Roasters was originally centered on wood-fired rotisserie chicken. After", "title": "Kenny Rogers Roasters" }, { "docid": "9193412", "text": "sales charts upon re-entry in 2005. Daytime Friends – The Very Best of Kenny Rogers Daytime Friends - The Very Best of Kenny Rogers is a 1993 compilation album by country superstar Kenny Rogers. The album was released in the UK. In Australia, a similar collection was issued with the same album art under the title \"The Most of Kenny Rogers\". This album has remained in print longer than Rogers other collections \"The Kenny Rogers Singles Album\" and \"The Kenny Rogers Story\", the latter of which has the same quantity of tracks, but differs somewhat in track listing. The album", "title": "Daytime Friends – The Very Best of Kenny Rogers" }, { "docid": "9193411", "text": "Daytime Friends – The Very Best of Kenny Rogers Daytime Friends - The Very Best of Kenny Rogers is a 1993 compilation album by country superstar Kenny Rogers. The album was released in the UK. In Australia, a similar collection was issued with the same album art under the title \"The Most of Kenny Rogers\". This album has remained in print longer than Rogers other collections \"The Kenny Rogers Singles Album\" and \"The Kenny Rogers Story\", the latter of which has the same quantity of tracks, but differs somewhat in track listing. The album peaked at #5 on the UK", "title": "Daytime Friends – The Very Best of Kenny Rogers" }, { "docid": "1918975", "text": "leader of The First Edition; the song remains in recurrent airplay on some radio stations today. \"I Can't Unlove You\" was followed up with the second single from the album, \"The Last Ten Years (Superman)\", in September 2006. The third single, \"Calling Me\", which features Don Henley, became popular in early 2007, and was nominated for a Grammy Award at the 2007 Grammy Awards. Also in 2007, the 1977 \"Kenny Rogers\" album was re-issued as a double CD, also featuring the 1979 \"Kenny\" album and this once again put Rogers' name into the sales charts worldwide. The following year, another", "title": "Kenny Rogers" }, { "docid": "1918977", "text": "Rogers sent video messages of support to the team in light of them choosing his song. He offered to come to England and party with the team if they won the World Cup. In 2008 Rogers toured with his Christmas Show. He split the show up, making the first half his \"best of\" and the second half his Christmas songs. In 2009 he toured the United Kingdom. In 2009, Rogers embarked on his 50th Anniversary Tour. The tour went around the United States, Britain and Ireland. On April 10, 2010, a TV special was taped, \"Kenny Rogers: The First 50", "title": "Kenny Rogers" }, { "docid": "17096980", "text": "1984 outside the US. The original Barry Gibb demo version was released in late 2006 in iTunes on \"The Eyes That See in the Dark Demos\" The song has a choppy verse, and this song's style like Miami than Nashville. and Gibb sings lead and harmony on the chorus. Gibb's version of the song was recorded around January 1983, along with two songs, \"You and I\" and \"Midsummer Nights\". Just the song starts, Barry's guitar was heard. The drums was probably played in drumsticks or programmed in. This Woman (Kenny Rogers song) \"This Woman\" is a song written by Barry", "title": "This Woman (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "5890959", "text": "closing all of its U.S. operations and a series of ownership changes, Kenny Rogers Roasters now operates principally in Asia and is now part of Malaysian conglomerate Berjaya Corporation Berhad. The Kenny Rogers Roasters brand comes under a worldwide franchise owned by Kenny Rogers Roasters International Corporation, a subsidiary of Roasters Asia Pacific (Cayman) Limited which itself is owned by Berjaya Corporation Berhad. In 1991, country singer/songwriter Kenny Rogers ventured into the fast-food business and co-founded Kenny Rogers Roasters with former Kentucky governor John Y. Brown, Jr. Kenny Rogers Roasters opened its first restaurant in Coral Springs, Florida in August", "title": "Kenny Rogers Roasters" }, { "docid": "5197764", "text": "pitcher for American songwriter Alex Harvey followed him around the greens singing the song until Kenny listened. Rogers loved the song's look at a black man raising a white boy and agreed to record it. \"Reuben James\" turned out to be another daring record; though not as big a hit as \"Ruby\", it made a big impact on the First Edition's now sizable fan base. \"Reuben James\" came out at the end of 1969, by which time Mike Settle had been gone for several months, in an effort to save his ultimately doomed marriage. During his absence he was replaced", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "1918963", "text": "in an R&B style, only later to change it for the Kenny Rogers album. The partnership with Gibb only lasted one album, which was not surprising considering that Rogers' original intention was to work with Gibb on only one song. Gibb insisted on doing the entire album together. \"Islands in the Stream\", Rogers' duet with Dolly Parton, was the first single to be released from \"Eyes That See in the Dark\" in the United States, and it quickly went to No. 1 in the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 (it would prove to be the last country single to reach No. 1", "title": "Kenny Rogers" }, { "docid": "2986450", "text": "having an extra infielder\". On June 18, 2006 Rogers won his 200th game (against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field), during which Detroit set a club record with eight home runs. Rogers is second all-time in pickoffs with 93 in his career. On May 9, 2008 against the New York Yankees, Rogers picked off Wilson Betemit in the second inning for his 92nd pick-off, passing Mark Langston. Kenny Rogers (baseball) Kenneth Scott Rogers (born November 10, 1964) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. During a 20-year baseball career, he pitched from 1989 to 2008 for six different", "title": "Kenny Rogers (baseball)" }, { "docid": "12715056", "text": "Duets (Kenny Rogers album) Duets was a special 1984 album released by Liberty Records from Kenny Rogers. It was issued after Rogers left the label and signed to RCA Records. \"Duets\" opens with \"We've Got Tonight\", a hit 1983 single with Sheena Easton. Side two begins with another classic duet, \"Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer\" with Kim Carnes from the 1980 album \"Gideon\". All of the remaining eight songs on the album are with Dottie West and come from his two collaboration albums with West, including the 1978 hit \"Every Time Two Fools Collide\" from the 1978 album", "title": "Duets (Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "5890963", "text": "Malaysia. The last Kenny Rogers Roasters operating in North America was located in the Ontario Mills mall in Ontario, California; it closed on December 31, 2011. The 2008 purchase agreement allowed for Nathan's Famous and Miami Subs to continue selling Kenny Rogers Roasters items in their restaurants. Nathan's continues to serve Kenny Rogers Roasters items in select locations, such as its flagship location on Coney Island. Miami Subs (since sold off by Nathan's) no longer has a \"Kenny Rogers\" section on their menu. Despite the chain's end in the United States, Kenny Rogers Roasters continues to flourish in Asia under", "title": "Kenny Rogers Roasters" }, { "docid": "5197780", "text": "group increasingly played on the county fair circuit. This made the First Edition a lot of money, but they knew they were no longer current. Although he made up for it by wilder dress and hair, Kenny was showing signs of middle age with weight gain and patches of gray in his beard. It was decided that a new image far away from their TV persona was required. \"Monumental\" tried to give them just this. Combining a wide variety of styles, it ranged from a Rogers-written rocker about prostitute \"Morgana Jones\" (later rerecorded by Rogers for his album \"The Gambler\"", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "14436992", "text": "new and while some understood and appreciated the attempt, when first exhibited the painting was not regarded as successful. According to Hilton Kramer (1985), \"...The Fairman Rogers For-In-Hand is a surpassingly dull painting... The painting lacks what for Eakins was always the essential element in art: moral imperative. Representational accuracy, \"scientific\" or otherwise, was a necessary co-efficient of this moral imperative in art, but it was not itself a sufficient basis for it.\" The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (originally titled A May Morning in the Park) is an 1879-80 painting by Thomas Eakins. It shows Fairman Rogers", "title": "The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand" }, { "docid": "5890965", "text": "for the establishment, operation and expansion of Kenny Rogers Roasters restaurants in Malaysia. This includes the development of the Kenny Rogers Roasters brand, management of menu items and acting as central procurement agent for Kenny Rogers Roasters restaurants across Malaysia. As a brand, Kenny Rogers Roasters advocates healthy eating as reflected in its brand tag line \"less fat...less salt...less calories\". In its 2012 Annual Report, Berjaya Corporation Berhad reported that as of April 30, 2012, Kenny Rogers Roasters restaurants numbered 74 in Malaysia and eight in Indonesia. It was also mentioned that the countries in which Roasters Asia Pacific (Hong", "title": "Kenny Rogers Roasters" }, { "docid": "12682338", "text": "Marie\", came from the \"Short Stories\" album (also released after Rogers signed to RCA) and charted. The final single from this album followed; \"Tomb of the Unknown Love\" was a #1 hit in the country charts. The Heart of the Matter (Kenny Rogers album) The Heart of the Matter is the seventeenth studio album by Kenny Rogers, released by RCA Nashville. It was Kenny's eleventh disc to hit #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Country albums chart. This album is to date Rogers' final to reach #1 on the country charts, and peaked at #51 on the \"Billboard\" 200. It was produced by", "title": "The Heart of the Matter (Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "1918953", "text": "1965, and a 1966 jazzy rock single Rogers recorded for Mercury Records, called \"Here's That Rainy Day\", failed. Rogers also worked as a producer, writer and session musician for other performers, including country artists Mickey Gilley and Eddy Arnold. In 1966 he joined the New Christy Minstrels as a singer and double bass player. Feeling that the Minstrels were not offering the success they wanted, Rogers and fellow members Mike Settle, Terry Williams, and Thelma Camacho left the group. They formed The First Edition in 1967 (later renamed \"Kenny Rogers and The First Edition\"). They were later joined by Kin", "title": "Kenny Rogers" }, { "docid": "8821314", "text": "The song \"The Night Goes On\" was used as a love theme for the Eden Capwell and Cruz Castillo characters on the \"Santa Barbara\" TV series. What About Me? (Kenny Rogers album) What About Me? is the sixteenth studio album by Kenny Rogers, released by RCA Nashville (see 1984 in music). The album's title track, \"What About Me?\", is sung in trio with R&B singer James Ingram and Rogers' former New Christy Minstrels bandmate turned solo star Kim Carnes, which is a love song that reached number one on the AC charts and was also a pop and country hit.,", "title": "What About Me? (Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "11930210", "text": "FH also helped families in Kateba learn about health and nutrition through songs and flipcharts. Villages that FH was able to work in are now free of malnutrition. FH also helped to build a seed multiplication station in Emilingombre so farmers would have more direct access to seeds and seedlings. In 2012, when Hurricane Isaac (2012) hit Haiti and the Dominican Republic, FH staff helped families who lost homes, animals and crops. Among several other countries, Food for the Hungry offers child sponsorships to children in Ethiopia. Sponsoring children in Ethiopia provides children with food, medical care, and education. By", "title": "Food for the Hungry" }, { "docid": "1918973", "text": "World Is Over\" with Whitney Duncan and \"We Are the Same\". \"My World Is Over\" was released as a single and was a minor hit. In 2005 \"The Very Best of Kenny Rogers\", a double album, sold well in Europe. It was the first new solo Kenny Rogers hits album to reach the United Kingdom for over a decade, despite many compilations there that were not true hits packages. Rogers also signed with Capitol Records and had more success with the TV advertised release \"21 Number Ones\" in January 2006. Although this CD did contain 21 chart-toppers as the title", "title": "Kenny Rogers" }, { "docid": "12706495", "text": "to make it of interest to less dedicated listeners.\" Compiled from \"The Gift\" liner notes. Choir on \"A Soldier's King\", \"What a Wonderful Beginning\", \"It's the Messiah\", and \"The Chosen One Montage\": Lisa Cochran, Michael Eldred, James Ferguson, Stephanie Hall, Mark Ivey, Marabeth Jordan, Jana King, Ellen Musik, Louis Nunley, Guy Penrod, Lisa Silver, Dennis Wilson The Gift (Kenny Rogers album) The Gift is the twenty-seventh studio album and a holiday album by country music singer Kenny Rogers. It was released in 1996 via Magnatone Records. The album features a rendition of \"Mary, Did You Know?\" featuring Wynonna Judd. This", "title": "The Gift (Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "5079814", "text": "Islands in the Stream (song) \"Islands in the Stream\" is a song written by the Bee Gees and sung by American country music artists Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. Named after the Ernest Hemingway novel, it was originally written for Marvin Gaye in an R&B style, only later to be changed for the Kenny Rogers album. It was released in August 1983 as the first single from Rogers' album \"Eyes That See in the Dark\". The song reached number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States, giving both Rogers and Parton their second pop number-one hit", "title": "Islands in the Stream (song)" }, { "docid": "12682337", "text": "The Heart of the Matter (Kenny Rogers album) The Heart of the Matter is the seventeenth studio album by Kenny Rogers, released by RCA Nashville. It was Kenny's eleventh disc to hit #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Country albums chart. This album is to date Rogers' final to reach #1 on the country charts, and peaked at #51 on the \"Billboard\" 200. It was produced by George Martin. Two singles came from this album. \"Morning Desire\" reached the top of the country charts, as well as #8 on the adult contemporary chart and #79 on the pop charts. His next single, \"Goodbye", "title": "The Heart of the Matter (Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "7742297", "text": "in the Soundscan era (which started collating sales figures in 1991). In 1997, the album was released on the BMG Special Products label with a slightly altered track listing. The song order had been slightly rearranged and two songs had been omitted (\"The Christmas Song\" and \"Silent Night\"). However, Parton's 1982 recording \"Hard Candy Christmas\" was added, making a total of nine tracks. Once Upon a Christmas (Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton album) Once Upon a Christmas is a collaborative studio album by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. It was released on October 29, 1984, by RCA Records. The album", "title": "Once Upon a Christmas (Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton album)" }, { "docid": "1918983", "text": "\"Your Friends and Mine\" (1987). As an entrepreneur, he collaborated with former Kentucky Fried Chicken CEO John Y. Brown, Jr. in 1991 to start up the restaurant chain Kenny Rogers Roasters. The chicken and ribs chain, which is similar to Boston Market, was famously featured in an episode of the NBC sitcom \"Seinfeld\" called \"The Chicken Roaster\". On the November 27, 1997, broadcast of \"Late Night with Conan O'Brien\", Rogers could not pick his chicken out in a taste test, claiming he preferred \"greasy burgers\". Season four of the TV series \"Fresh Off the Boat\" depicts the chain as owning", "title": "Kenny Rogers" }, { "docid": "12651326", "text": "on the U.S. Hot 100 in the #5 position. It also blew open his solo career in the UK, reaching #1 there. Another track from the album is \"I Wasn't Man Enough\" which makes appearances on some of Rogers' greatest hits compilations in years to come. The album reached #1 on the Country charts and ranked as high as #30 overall, and was certified Platinum in the U.S. (only reaching Gold in Canada). Kenny Rogers (album) Kenny Rogers is the second studio album by Kenny Rogers from United Artists Records, released worldwide in 1977. The album marked his first major", "title": "Kenny Rogers (album)" }, { "docid": "5890966", "text": "Kong). Limited have operations include the United States, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Philippines and Bangladesh. In addition, Roasters Asia Pacific had also been undergoing expansion in other international territories which include India and the Middle East. In 2013, Kenny Rogers Roasters opened its first outlet in Brunei on January 2013. The second outlet for Brunei was opened at Tanjung Bunut in June 2015. Kenny Rogers Roasters started operations in Bangladesh in December 2012 with a restaurant in Gulshan, Dhaka. In June 2014, Kenny Rogers opened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in the Aeon Mall. This is the chain's first location in", "title": "Kenny Rogers Roasters" }, { "docid": "8821312", "text": "What About Me? (Kenny Rogers album) What About Me? is the sixteenth studio album by Kenny Rogers, released by RCA Nashville (see 1984 in music). The album's title track, \"What About Me?\", is sung in trio with R&B singer James Ingram and Rogers' former New Christy Minstrels bandmate turned solo star Kim Carnes, which is a love song that reached number one on the AC charts and was also a pop and country hit., giving co-writer Richard Marx his first number one hit as a writer. Elsewhere on the album is \"Two Hearts, One Love\" by Byron Hill, \"The Stranger\"", "title": "What About Me? (Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "5197755", "text": "and had its first big hit in early 1968 with the pop-psychedelic single \"Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)\" (US No. 5). After only one more chart hit, \"But You Know I Love You\" (US No. 19), the group, newly billed as \"Kenny Rogers and the First Edition\", once again hit the top ten, this time in the summer of 1969 with the topical \"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town\" (US No. 6, UK No.2). For the next six years, First Edition bounced between country rock, pop and psychedelic rock, enjoying worldwide success. By", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "12718170", "text": "and peaked at number 68. Live by Request (Kenny Rogers album) Live by Request is a live CD released in 2001 by Kenny Rogers. It documents an installment of A&E Network's \"Live by Request\" series. Ray Waddell of \"Billboard\" gave the album a positive review, saying that it was \"a fitting overview of a sturdy artist and still vibrant career.\" A review by Michael D. Clark of the \"Houston Chronicle\" was less positive, praising the song choices but criticizing the \"decision not to omit most of the between-song TV chatter\", ultimately rating the album a \"C-\". The album entered the", "title": "Live by Request (Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "12718169", "text": "Live by Request (Kenny Rogers album) Live by Request is a live CD released in 2001 by Kenny Rogers. It documents an installment of A&E Network's \"Live by Request\" series. Ray Waddell of \"Billboard\" gave the album a positive review, saying that it was \"a fitting overview of a sturdy artist and still vibrant career.\" A review by Michael D. Clark of the \"Houston Chronicle\" was less positive, praising the song choices but criticizing the \"decision not to omit most of the between-song TV chatter\", ultimately rating the album a \"C-\". The album entered the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart", "title": "Live by Request (Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "5197786", "text": "songs, the exposure didn't halt their decline. Kenny had become short on money by 1974, and was in debt when he decided to hawk guitar lesson records on a commercial. The \"Quick Pickin' Fun Strummin'\" method may have worked, but it did Kenny and the others no good, image-wise. Wanting to give a solo career a shot, Terry left in the late spring of 1975. Kenny was upset but agreed to it, succeeding in getting Kin to come back so they could fill their pending engagements. Though he was hired to stay permanently, the reunion with Vassy did not go", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "10477637", "text": "breakup with the First Edition, Rogers had tasted considerable success as a solo act, with nine No. 1 entries on the \"Billboard magazine\" Hot Country Singles chart (prior to the release of \"Lady\"), plus several Top 10 hits on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary Singles charts. \"Lady,\" according to music historian Fred Bronson, would prove to be an important record for both Richie and Rogers. It became the first record of the 1980s to chart on all four of \"Billboard magazine's\" singles charts - country, Hot 100, adult contemporary and Top Black Singles. It reached No. 1 on", "title": "Lady (Kenny Rogers song)" }, { "docid": "2986444", "text": "career postseason win. A week later on October 13, Rogers retired nine batters in a row, in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series against the Oakland Athletics, allowing only two hits and two walks in 7 scoreless innings, while striking out six and pacing the Tigers to a 3–0 victory, leaving the Tigers one win away from their first World Series appearance since 1984. Rogers started Game 2 of the 2006 World Series on October 22, 2006. \"We wanted Kenny to pitch two games at home\", Leyland said. He left the game with the Tigers in the lead", "title": "Kenny Rogers (baseball)" }, { "docid": "5197797", "text": "films and television shows over the years, including films such as \"Sling Blade\" and \"The Fighting Temptations\". He also had a role in Tim Allen's \"Home Improvement\" for two seasons. He died on February 7, 2018. John Hobbs stayed in touch with the group and worked with Kenny, Terry, and Kin on Rogers' early eighties solo work as well as other projects at Lion Share. He has remained a very active session musician and arranger. The groups' long time arranger Larry Cansler had a successful career in the studios in LA scoring many movies (including The Gambler series), variety shows,", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "5197790", "text": "the group. During his time with UA (later taken over by Liberty) he topped the country and pop album charts for a grand total of 90 weeks and sold more records than anyone in country music. In 1983 his status as one of the world's top stars (of any musical genre) was confirmed when RCA signed him for an advance sum of US$20 million, for six albums. Kenny Rogers continued to tour, including classic material by the First Edition in his performances, before retiring in 2017. In April 2013, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Thelma", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "14436983", "text": "The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (originally titled A May Morning in the Park) is an 1879-80 painting by Thomas Eakins. It shows Fairman Rogers driving a coaching party in his four-in-hand carriage through Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. It is thought to be the first painting to examine precisely, through systematic photographic analysis, how horses move. \"The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand\" is in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Eakins taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where Rogers was a Board member and chairman of the Committee on Instruction. Rogers recruited Eakins back to", "title": "The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand" }, { "docid": "2986434", "text": "nicknamed \"The Gambler\", after a song made famous by a singer who shares his name. Rogers was born in Savannah, Georgia, and grew up on a farm in Dover, Florida. Rogers and his wife, Rebecca Lewis, reside in Westlake, Texas, with their two children. He enjoys golf, fishing, and building houses for Habitat for Humanity. Rogers was assigned to the Texas Rangers farm team after being drafted in the 39th round for $1,000 when he was 17 years old. He graduated from Plant City High School in Florida in 1982, where he played baseball only during his senior season, hitting", "title": "Kenny Rogers (baseball)" }, { "docid": "10190157", "text": "country hit singles, one went to number one, called \"All I Ever Need Is You\" (a big hit for Sonny and Cher), and another went to number three, called \"'Til I Can Make It on My Own\" (a hit for Tammy Wynette). The album was certified by the RIAA as Platinum. It has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Album – Billboard (North America) Singles – Billboard (North America) Classics (Kenny Rogers and Dottie West album) Classics is a duet album by Kenny Rogers and Dottie West, released in 1979. This album was Kenny Rogers' and Dottie West's second album", "title": "Classics (Kenny Rogers and Dottie West album)" }, { "docid": "5079822", "text": "The video was filmed in Barry Island, Las Vegas and the Nevada desert, with both Gibb and Jones appearing in the video alongside Jones and Brydon. Nigel Lythgoe also makes a cameo appearance as a talent competition judge. Islands in the Stream (song) \"Islands in the Stream\" is a song written by the Bee Gees and sung by American country music artists Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. Named after the Ernest Hemingway novel, it was originally written for Marvin Gaye in an R&B style, only later to be changed for the Kenny Rogers album. It was released in August 1983", "title": "Islands in the Stream (song)" }, { "docid": "1918987", "text": "\"The Journey\" (a 2006 documentary about his career) Rogers said he did not understand singers that changed their touring band every year, and that he sticks with Bloodline as they already \"know the songs\". The following is a list of record labels to which Rogers signed: Kenny Rogers Kenneth Ray Rogers (born August 21, 1938) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Though he has been most successful with country audiences, Rogers has charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres, topped the country", "title": "Kenny Rogers" }, { "docid": "14330998", "text": "along the way (some of these include: trying to find a way to cheat or do some smooth talking), Hawkes makes sure that he stays on good behavior during the train ride. The duo help Jennie Reed (Lee Purcell), a former prostitute who has trouble with a train baron (Harold Gould). At the end, they confront Bennett in a gunfight. Dick Lowry served as the director—\"The Gambler\" was one of his early works. The film was produced by Kragen & Company, one of their earliest ventures. The company had earlier produced two TV specials with Rogers. It was Kenny Rogers's", "title": "Kenny Rogers as The Gambler" }, { "docid": "14330999", "text": "first starring role. Despite being destined for television, the film was shot on 35 mm. One of the shooting locations was the ranch headquarters area overlooking the Valle Grande valley, part of Valles Caldera in northern New Mexico. \"Kenny Rogers as The Gambler\" was first aired on CBS on April 8, 1980. The film was a big ratings success and received the Eddie Award for Best Edited Television Special, as well as two Emmy nominations: Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Special and Outstanding Film Editing for a Limited Series or a Special. The film spawned a franchise, four", "title": "Kenny Rogers as The Gambler" }, { "docid": "10190156", "text": "Classics (Kenny Rogers and Dottie West album) Classics is a duet album by Kenny Rogers and Dottie West, released in 1979. This album was Kenny Rogers' and Dottie West's second album together. Their previous album, \"Every Time Two Fools Collide\", was a major seller, and made them one of the biggest duet acts country music has ever seen. This album was no different. The album sold very well, and peaked at number three on the Top Country Albums chart in 1979, and No.82 on the \"Billboard\" 200. This album featured cover versions of classic hits by other artists, including two", "title": "Classics (Kenny Rogers and Dottie West album)" }, { "docid": "5197772", "text": "them. After the success of a pilot shot in late 1970, the fall of 1971 saw Kenny Rogers and the First Edition become hosts of their own television series \"Rollin' On the River\". Later to be shortened to \"Rollin\", this was a variety show that was taped in Canada (taking advantage of recently imposed Canadian content requirements) which geared itself toward rock, blues, and folk performers and groups. Unlike the more Las Vegas-styled \"The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour\", \"Rollin\" was focused on harder-edged guests like Ike and Tina Turner, veterans like Bo Diddley, veteran Canadian based artists such as", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "8738401", "text": "Greatest Hits (1980 Kenny Rogers album) Greatest Hits (sometimes referred to as Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits) is the second compilation album by country music superstar Kenny Rogers. It was released in September 1980 and issued by Liberty Records. The album marks Rogers' first release after United Artists Group merged with Liberty. The album has achieved diamond certification. The album reached #1 on both the Pop and Country charts in the US and featured three singles that were not included on any of Rogers' studio albums - these being \"Lady\" (written and produced specifically for Rogers by Lionel Richie, which was", "title": "Greatest Hits (1980 Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "8738405", "text": "Hits\" package on special picture discs. The track listing remained identical to the 1980 US release. Greatest Hits (1980 Kenny Rogers album) Greatest Hits (sometimes referred to as Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits) is the second compilation album by country music superstar Kenny Rogers. It was released in September 1980 and issued by Liberty Records. The album marks Rogers' first release after United Artists Group merged with Liberty. The album has achieved diamond certification. The album reached #1 on both the Pop and Country charts in the US and featured three singles that were not included on any of Rogers' studio", "title": "Greatest Hits (1980 Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "1918948", "text": "Kenny Rogers Kenneth Ray Rogers (born August 21, 1938) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Though he has been most successful with country audiences, Rogers has charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres, topped the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone, and has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. On September 25, 2015, Rogers announced on NBC's \"Today Show\" that he", "title": "Kenny Rogers" }, { "docid": "11004174", "text": "both his albums \"The Gambler\" and \"Kenny\" each topped the country charts for no less than 20 weeks, while his \"Greatest Hits\" album was the only album by a solo country performer to top the Billboard 200 for the entire 1980s, reaching the summit in late 1980. Kenny Rogers discography The discography of Kenny Rogers, an American country music singer, consists of 39 studio albums and 80 singles. Among his singles, twenty-one have reached Number One on the country music charts. His longest-lasting number ones on that chart are \"The Gambler\" and \"Coward of the County\", at three weeks each.", "title": "Kenny Rogers discography" }, { "docid": "5197778", "text": "his own publishing company as a solo artist) and the group left Reprise. Lorenzo has noted that a live LP that he considered terrific was scrapped during the changeover. It captured the group playing at the prestigious Las Vegas Hilton lounge, something they did many times, usually when Elvis Presley was appearing in the showroom. The \"Live Vegas '72\" 2015 LP is NOT this album according to Lorenzo. Their first Jolly Rogers release was a late 1972 country LP called \"Backroads.\" The third single from the album, a version of Merle Haggard's \"Today I Started Loving You Again\" reached the", "title": "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition" }, { "docid": "14928245", "text": "-- the smallest Roman coin, implied to be her entire net worth -- to the offering and that the giving was in true sacrifice. The Gospel According to Luke (song) \"The Gospel According to Luke\" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Skip Ewing. It was released in February 1989 as the fourth single from the album \"The Coast of Colorado\". The song reached number 10 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was by Ewing and Don Sampson. The song is about a young man who meets a homeless man named", "title": "The Gospel According to Luke (song)" }, { "docid": "12690951", "text": "Greatest Hits (1988 Kenny Rogers album) Greatest Hits is a 1988 compilation album by Kenny Rogers. All of the tracks on the album were selected from his various recordings on the RCA Records label between 1983-87. There is one track that was not originally a single called \"She's Ready for Someone to Love Her\", which makes fully half of this greatest hits track list identical to the most recent 1987 album \"I Prefer the Moonlight\". One single that is notably missing is \"Tomb of the Unknown Love\" from 1985's \"The Heart of the Matter\". The song was a #1 single", "title": "Greatest Hits (1988 Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "docid": "12235742", "text": "parts not sung by Rogers were to be performed by Lionel Richie and Barbra Streisand, but after Richie backed out of the project, Streisand did as well. The second proposed trio of singers was Rogers, Olivia Newton-John and Jeffrey Osborne, but Newton-John began working on a duet with Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and decided not to do both projects simultaneously. Osborne had a conflicting schedule as well, so the line-up of Rogers, Carnes and Ingram was ultimately the one that recorded the song. \"What About Me?\" charted on four \"Billboard\" singles charts in the United States at the", "title": "What About Me? (Kenny Rogers song)" } ]
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Who's missing: Carrie Bradshaw, Samantha Jones, Charlotte York
[ "Miranda Hobbes" ]
[ { "docid": "20289956", "text": "seasons, season five features the same principal cast and characters. Sarah Jessica Parker portrays Carrie Bradshaw, a fashionable middle aged woman who writes about sex and life in New York City in her column, \"Sex and the City\", with the fictional \"New York Star\". Kim Cattrall played the promiscuous public relations agent Samantha Jones. Kristin Davis portrayed Charlotte York MacDougal, an optimistic, straight laced former art curator navigating being newly single while moving on from her failed marriage. Cynthia Nixon acted as the acerbic and sarcastic lawyer Miranda Hobbes, who faces struggles as a working mother. The fifth season featured", "title": "Sex and the City (season 5)" }, { "docid": "13119009", "text": "one featured four actors receiving star billing. Sarah Jessica Parker played the lead character Carrie Bradshaw, a writer of a sex column, \"Sex and the City\", for fictional magazine and the narrator of the series. Kim Cattrall portrayed Samantha Jones, a sexually confident public relations agent who follows the same relationship rules that men do. Kristin Davis played Charlotte York, an optimistic art museum curator who holds traditional views on relationships. Cynthia Nixon portrayed Miranda Hobbes, an acerbic lawyer with a pessimistic outlook on relationship and a distrust of men. The season featured a number of recurring guest appearances. Chris", "title": "Sex and the City (season 1)" }, { "docid": "15694798", "text": "TV3 Slovenia. Other appearances In 2003 Senk appeared among Naomi Campbell in a music video of Jay-Z ˝Change clothes˝. In October 2007 she was chosen by a well known New York casting director Drew Linehan to appear in one of the most highly expected movie Sex and the city starring: Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie Bradshaw), Kim Cattrall (Samantha Jones), Kristin Davis (Charlotte York), and Cynthia Nixon (Miranda Hobbes). Nuša is seen in the movie on the catwalk wearing Vivienne Westwood purple dress and blue gloves. Awards In 2000 Senk was named by Tear Sheet's special issue to be one of", "title": "Nuša Šenk" }, { "docid": "10890099", "text": "Sex and the City (film) Sex and the City (advertised as Sex and the City: The Movie) is a 2008 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Michael Patrick King in his feature film directorial debut, and a sequel to the 1998-2004 HBO comedy series of the same name (itself based on the 1997 book of the same name by Candace Bushnell) about four female friends: Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte York Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis), and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), dealing with their lives as single women in New York City. The series often", "title": "Sex and the City (film)" }, { "docid": "15916604", "text": "her along the way, she meets Samantha Jones, a true Manhattan fashionista who's determined on the path of fame and fortune, and the opinionated feminist Miranda Hobbes who is a freshman at New York University. Summer and the City Summer and the City is a young-adult novel written by Candace Bushnell. The sequel to \"The Carrie Diaries\" and the prequel to \"Sex and the City\", it was first released as a hardcover on April 26, 2011. Picking up where \"The Carrie Diaries\" left off, seventeen-year-old Carrie Bradshaw has left her hometown and treks to New York City. Set during the", "title": "Summer and the City" }, { "docid": "867409", "text": "ever-changing sex lives, remain inseparable and confide in each other. Starring Sarah Jessica Parker (as Carrie Bradshaw), Kim Cattrall (as Samantha Jones), Kristin Davis (as Charlotte York), and Cynthia Nixon (as Miranda Hobbes), the quirky series had multiple continuing storylines that tackled relevant and modern social issues such as sexuality, safe sex, promiscuity, and femininity, while exploring the difference between friendships and romantic relationships. The deliberate omission of the better part of the early lives of the four women was the writers' way of exploring social life—from sex to relationships—through each of their four very different, individual perspectives. \"Sex and", "title": "Sex and the City" }, { "docid": "5539604", "text": "2000 MTV Movie Awards The 2000 MTV Movie Awards were hosted by Sarah Jessica Parker. In conjunction with the success of \"Sex and the City\", the awards show presented a parody of \"Sex and the City\" and \"The Matrix\" during the program's opening. It featured the SATC cast (Samantha Jones, Miranda Hobbes, and Charlotte York) as they listened intently as Carrie Bradshaw (Parker's character on the series) describes getting caught in the Matrix, which is shown in flashbacks and in the narration style heard usually on the TV series. Laurence Fishburne appeared in the spoof in a creative superimposition from", "title": "2000 MTV Movie Awards" }, { "docid": "20289952", "text": "Sex and the City (season 5) The fifth season of the American television romantic sitcom \"Sex and the City\" aired in the United States on HBO. The show was created by Darren Star while Star, Michael Patrick King, John P. Melfi, series lead actress Sarah Jessica Parker, Cindy Chupack, and Jenny Bicks served as executive producers. The series was produced by Darren Star Productions, HBO Original Programming, and Warner Bros. Television. Parker portrays the lead character Carrie Bradshaw, while Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon played her best friends Samantha Jones, Charlotte York, and Miranda Hobbes. In season five,", "title": "Sex and the City (season 5)" }, { "docid": "20289881", "text": "Sex and the City (season 4) The fourth season of the American television romantic sitcom \"Sex and the City\" aired in the United States on HBO. The show was created by Darren Star while Star, Michael Patrick King, John P. Melfi, series lead actress Sarah Jessica Parker, Cindy Chupack, and Jenny Bicks served as executive producers. The series was produced by Darren Star Productions, HBO Original Programming, and Warner Bros. Television. Sarah Jessica Parker portrays the lead character Carrie Bradshaw, while Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon played her best friends Samantha Jones, Charlotte York, and Miranda Hobbes. Season", "title": "Sex and the City (season 4)" }, { "docid": "20286655", "text": "Bradshaw, a writer of a sex column, \"Sex and the City\" , for fictional magazine and the narrator of the series. Kim Cattrall portrayed Samantha Jones, a sexually confident public relations agent who follows the same relationship rules that men do. Kristin Davis played Charlotte York, an optimistic art museum curator who holds traditional views on relationships. Cynthia Nixon portrayed Miranda Hobbes, an acerbic lawyer with a pessimistic outlook on relationship and a distrust of men. The season featured a number of recurring guest appearances. Chris Noth appeared as the slick, elusive business man and Carrie's love interest known as", "title": "Sex and the City (season 2)" } ]
[ { "docid": "4894384", "text": "Carrie Bradshaw Caroline Marie “Carrie” Bradshaw (born October 10, 1968) is the protagonist of the HBO franchise \"Sex and the City\", portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker. She is a semi-autobiographical character created by Candace Bushnell, whose book \"Sex and the City\" was adapted into the franchise. Carrie is a New York City columnist and fashionista; her weekly column, \"Sex in the City,\" (reference: S01:E01:24m32s) provides the narration for each episode. In the CW prequel series \"The Carrie Diaries\", Carrie was portrayed by AnnaSophia Robb. When the series premiered, the character was praised by critics as a positive example of an", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894408", "text": "when Big picks her up for dinner, and feels the romance re-enter their marriage. Big then suggests to Carrie they spend two days a week apart, to enjoy their own time, which he feels is what is giving their marriage new life. Carrie, somewhat hurt and resistant, reluctantly agrees, and then travels to Abu Dhabi with Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda. While in Abu Dhabi, Carrie learns how important a marriage can be when her butler tells her how he is separated from his wife for months at a time, but when they see each other, nothing else matters. Carrie also", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894429", "text": "named Bradshaw as an icon of the decade, stating that \"Carrie Bradshaw did as much to shift the culture around certain women's issues as real-life female groundbreakers.\" In 2010, Carrie Bradshaw was listed as the 2nd in TV Guide's list \"25 Greatest TV Characters of All-Time\". AOL ranked her the 41st Most Memorable Female TV Character. TV Guide named her the most fashionable TV character. Her relationship with Mr. Big was included in \"TV Guide\"s list of the best TV couples of all time. Parker received two Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards for", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "20304501", "text": "and the City\"s sixth season aired twelve episodes during the summer of 2003 and eight episodes from January to February 2004. Like the previous seasons, season six features the same principal cast and characters. Sarah Jessica Parker portrays Carrie Bradshaw, a fashionable middle aged woman who writes about sex and life in New York City in her column, \"Sex and the City\", with the fictional \"New York Star\". Kim Cattrall played the promiscuous public relations agent Samantha Jones. Kristin Davis portrayed Charlotte York Goldenblatt, an optimistic, straight laced former art curator who remains the most traditional amongst her friends in", "title": "Sex and the City (season 6)" }, { "docid": "8552250", "text": "While she remains faithful to Smith, she finds herself questioning whether or not her strained relationship with him should be continued as she simultaneously uses food as an outlet for her sexual desires for Dante, flagrantly gaining weight in the later stages of the movie. Samantha claims 'I eat, so I won't cheat'. Samantha, realizing her true unhappiness, breaks up with Smith. Samantha seemingly returns to reside New York City. Our last view of Samantha is her celebrating her 50th birthday in Manhattan and toasting to the next fifty with Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte. Samantha is approached by an Arab", "title": "Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)" }, { "docid": "4894428", "text": "of the book, it was said that he's the person with whom Carrie lost her virginity. He appears briefly in Pilot of the TV series adaption, played by Jeffrey Nordling. In \"Summer and the City\", Bernard Singer is a famous writer who Carrie has a brief relationship with, only to realise that Bernard doesn't love Carrie and that she loves Capote Duncan. Books: Critical reception to Carrie tended to be positive during the show's run and in the years immediately thereafter. In 2004, Carrie Bradshaw was listed as number 11 on Bravo's \"100 Greatest TV Characters\". In 2009 \"The Guardian\"", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894394", "text": "characters as teenagers. This novel reveals that Carrie attended the prestigious Ivy League University, Brown, in the 1980s. It also reveals that she took summer classes at the New School. \"TV Guide\" described the young version of Carrie Bradshaw as \"Even when she's trying to play adult in the city with her fashion-forward style and 'grown-up' conversations, she still exudes an aura that manages to be innocent, cute and self-confident at the same time.\" Carrie has been described as someone who lives for fashion, and has confessed to buying \"Vogue\" instead of dinner. A known shoe lover with a penchant", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "8552243", "text": "Samantha Jones (Sex and the City) Samantha Jones is a fictional character on the HBO-produced television series \"Sex and the City\" and its CW-produced prequel series \"The Carrie Diaries\". She is portrayed by actresses Kim Cattrall and Lindsey Gort. Cattrall received a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal. Samantha Jones is one of four single friends portrayed in the series, a public relations worker who is a proud, confident, highly sexual woman. Most of her story lines revolve around the frequent sex and brief affairs she has. She is outspoken and a self-proclaimed \"try-sexual\"", "title": "Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)" }, { "docid": "4894431", "text": "as evidence that she was beyond personal growth or redemption. \"The New Yorker\", looking back on the show a decade after it went off the air, felt that while the character began as a \"happy, curious explorer, out companionably smoking with modellizers,\" from the second season on she \"spun out, becoming anxious, obsessive, and, despite her charm, wildly self-centered.\" Carrie Bradshaw Caroline Marie “Carrie” Bradshaw (born October 10, 1968) is the protagonist of the HBO franchise \"Sex and the City\", portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker. She is a semi-autobiographical character created by Candace Bushnell, whose book \"Sex and the City\"", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "8552269", "text": "As seen in the \"Sex and the City 2\" movie, the two remain friends, with Smith even inviting her to be his date to the premiere of his summer blockbuster, and introduces him to the film's Arab financier, who invites Samantha to visit his resort in Abu Dhabi so she can plan an advertising campaign for him. Samantha Jones (Sex and the City) Samantha Jones is a fictional character on the HBO-produced television series \"Sex and the City\" and its CW-produced prequel series \"The Carrie Diaries\". She is portrayed by actresses Kim Cattrall and Lindsey Gort. Cattrall received a Screen", "title": "Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)" }, { "docid": "10143487", "text": "possible it is merely a prop error- the rest of the newspaper has paragraphs taken from Big and Natasha's wedding announcement in Season 3. Charlotte is viewed by some to be the most naive of the four characters, often showing signs of belief in the old-fashioned, \"love conquers all\" notion. This has earned her the nickname \"Park Avenue Pollyanna,\" coined by Carrie Bradshaw in narrations. Yet, her friends are sometimes envious and even in awe of her overall optimism on love and life, leading Carrie to dedicate her book to Charlotte. Charlotte is fiercely optimistic, although often anxious to make", "title": "Charlotte York Goldenblatt" }, { "docid": "4894409", "text": "reunites with her old flame, Aidan Shaw, whom she meets in a chance encounter at an Abu Dhabi market. Carrie feels distressed due to a bad review of her new book in the \"New Yorker\", and meets Aidan for dinner. The two of them reconnect, and briefly kiss. Carrie immediately regrets it and asks her friends for advice on whether to tell Big. Samantha and Miranda both advise Carrie not to tell Big because it was a minor incident, but Carrie feels too guilty to let it slide and tells Big immediately. Big is hurt, and Carrie worries that Big", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "10143498", "text": "her deep love for him and agreeing finally to accept him as he is, rather than molding him to suit her. She says that she does not care if he ever marries her, as long as she can be with him. Harry is touched and proposes to Charlotte on the spot. The movie begins with Charlotte's life with her daughter Lily and husband Harry and they are perfectly happy living in New York. When Carrie's wedding to Big ends in a mess, Charlotte goes with Carrie (along with Samantha and Miranda) to where she was to have her honeymoon with", "title": "Charlotte York Goldenblatt" }, { "docid": "4894392", "text": "when she was 22. She tells Charlotte that she lost her virginity in Seth Bateman's smelly rec room on the ping pong table in eleventh grade. In Season 6 (\"Boy Interrupted\"), Carrie meets up with another boyfriend from high school named Jeremy (David Duchovny). Carrie states that she never had sex with him because they were young and wanted to wait. A TV series was made after the production of \"Sex and the City\", called \"The Carrie Diaries\" which featured Carrie's life as a teenager prior to her life in \"Sex and the City\". It focused mainly on Carrie who", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894430", "text": "her performance. In retrospective analysis of the show, critics have generally reassessed Carrie Bradshaw as an unsympathetic protagonist, despite the show's portrayal of her as a positive figure. In 2013, \"Glamour\" magazine called Carrie \"the worst\" character on the show, saying that \"her brattiness and self-absorption eclipsed her redeeming qualities and even her awesome shoes.\" In a 2010 retrospective about the previous two decades in pop culture, ABC News named Carrie one of the ten worst characters of the past twenty years, calling her a \"snippy, self-righteous Manhattan snob\" and citing the character's actions in \"Sex and the City 2\"", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "14210926", "text": "Carrie Jones Carrie Jones is an American author, known for her work in young adult fiction. She has written both fantasy and non-fantasy novels, including the paranormal series \"Need\". Jones has received multiple awards and appeared on the \"New York Times\" Best Seller list. Carrie Jones was raised in Bedford, New Hampshire. She moved to Lewiston, Maine to attend Bates College. Initially considering a career as a lawyer, she later became an award-winning reporter and editor for newspapers, which led to her winning numerous Maine Press Awards and eventually a Maine Literary Award for nonfiction and another for children's writing.", "title": "Carrie Jones" }, { "docid": "4894412", "text": "him through her friend Stanford Blatch when the two of them visited Aidan's furniture store. They share an uncomplicated, loving relationship, which initially confuses Carrie, as she had become used to the stresses of dating Mr. Big. She begins to feel trapped and cannot shake off Mr. Big's presence in her life. Carrie and Aidan first break up when Carrie confesses, on Charlotte and Trey's wedding day, that she had an affair with Mr. Big. Later in the series, Carrie and Aidan get back together, move in together, and become engaged. However, the engagement is broken when Carrie discovers she", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "20304497", "text": "Sex and the City (season 6) The sixth and final season of the American television romantic sitcom \"Sex and the City\" aired in the United States on HBO. The show was created by Darren Star while Star, Michael Patrick King, John P. Melfi, series lead actress Sarah Jessica Parker, Cindy Chupack, and Jenny Bicks served as executive producers. The series was produced by Darren Star Productions, HBO Original Programming, and Warner Bros. Television. Sarah Jessica Parker portrays the lead character Carrie Bradshaw, while Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon played her best friends Samantha Jones, Charlotte York, and Miranda", "title": "Sex and the City (season 6)" }, { "docid": "14554959", "text": "The Carrie Diaries The Carrie Diaries is a young adult novel, the first in a series of the same name by American author Candace Bushnell. The series is a prequel to Bushnell's 1997 collection \"Sex and the City\", and follows the character of Carrie Bradshaw during her senior year of high school during the early 1980s and part of her life in New York City working as a writer. The \"Los Angeles Times\" described it as \"[a]n addictive, ingenious origin story.\" \"The Carrie Diaries\" focuses on Carrie Bradshaw, a high-school student who lives in Castleberry, Connecticut. Carrie is followed through", "title": "The Carrie Diaries" }, { "docid": "8552247", "text": "affair with her married ex-boyfriend \"Mr. Big,\" and is cheating on her boyfriend, Aidan, Samantha tells her that judging is not her style and offers her support. Although she fights with Charlotte a few times, they always manage to get past their differences and make up. Despite having trouble adjusting to Miranda having a child, she willingly gives up a coveted hair appointment with a distinguished hairdresser and sends Miranda in her place, staying behind to babysit and give her friend a much-needed break. Although Miranda is usually considered Carrie's best friend, Samantha is shown to be closer with Carrie", "title": "Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)" }, { "docid": "4894385", "text": "independent woman in the vein of Mary Tyler Moore. However, retrospective analysis tends to place more emphasis on the character's repeated and often unrepentant infidelities, with many critics instead viewing her as narcissistic. Carrie writes a weekly column called \"Sex and the City\" for fictional newspaper, \"The New York Star\". The column focuses on Carrie's sexual escapades and those of her close friends, as well as musings about the relationships between men and women, dating, and New York. It provides Carrie with a certain amount of recognition in the city. People who read her column occasionally describe her as their", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "12498907", "text": "Aaronson but her grandfather Henry Ronson changed it to Ronson. She has two siblings, twin sister Samantha Ronson, who is a DJ, and older brother Mark Ronson, who is a music producer, singer/songwriter, and DJ as well. Ann Dexter-Jones and Laurence Ronson divorced. Ronson's mother remarried, to Mick Jones of Foreigner, and the family relocated to New York. Ronson has five half-siblings by her parents' remarriages. She and husband, Fun. frontman Nate Ruess, welcomed their first child, son Levon Ronson-Ruess, in February 2017. Charlotte Ronson Charlotte Julia Ronson (born 7 August 1977) is an English fashion designer, currently based in", "title": "Charlotte Ronson" }, { "docid": "4894423", "text": "York City. Carrie shares her first kiss with Sebastian Kydd, a rich kid from town, at her swim club when she was 15. He later becomes her boyfriend, and they share an on-and-off relationship throughout the first season of \"The Carrie Diaries\". They broke up due to being incompatible. During the second season of \"The Carrie Diaries\", the two reignite their love for each other. Sebastian leaves to California with his father, but he and Carrie maintain a long distance relationship. When Sebastian returns to Manhattan, moving into Larissa's old apartment, Carrie realizes his interests have changed. Sebastian remains busy", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894399", "text": "after the Staten Island ferry and ends up missing it after slipping out of her shoe, yelling, \"Wait, I lost my Choo!\". In \"A Woman's Right To Shoes\" she unashamedly asks for reimbursement from a friend after a pair of Manolos are stolen at that friend's party due to her friend's insistence upon no shoes inside the house. Carrie notes the hypocrisy in the fact that the friend, who 'shoe shames' her (\"it was your choice to buy shoes that expensive\") is rewarded over the years with thousands of dollars' worth of gifts for her life choices (baby showers, engagement", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "8552246", "text": "She has her own public-relations company. In the book's prequel series, it is revealed that Carrie met Samantha first. In the early part of the series, she lives on the Upper East Side, but ends up moving to an expensive apartment in the Meatpacking District. The move is provoked after one of her late-night visitors lets in a mugger who attacks one of her older female neighbors and Samantha incurs the wrath of a tribelike commune of her elderly neighbors. One of Samantha's best qualities is her loyalty to her friends. When Carrie confesses to her that she's having an", "title": "Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)" }, { "docid": "4894410", "text": "will go from wanting two days off, to seven days off. Upon Carrie's arrival back in New York, she is upset that Big doesn't pick her up at the airport as originally planned, isn't home and hasn't called. That night, he gets home and Carrie and Big talk about their marriage. Big tells Carrie to stop worrying that they will become a tired, boring old married couple, and they take new wedding vows for each other. Big forgives Carrie and gives her a black diamond ring (to make up for his unromantic marriage proposal - without a ring - 3", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "14210934", "text": "Musicians have also appeared more than once in her stories, with the characters Belle and Liliana (the protagonist of \"Girl, Hero\") both having an interest in music. Jones has stated that she plays piano in private, and that she participated in a song-and-dance company, along with comedian Sarah Silverman, while in junior high school. During a 2009 interview, Jones was asked about the appeal of the young-adult genre, and how the lines between fantasy and the real world blurred in her writing. Her response was as follows: Carrie Jones Carrie Jones is an American author, known for her work in", "title": "Carrie Jones" }, { "docid": "4894403", "text": "split again when Big announces that he is moving to Paris because of work. When he returns to the United States, he and Carrie bump into each other unexpectedly in the Hamptons. Upon his return, Carrie discovers that he is engaged to a young woman named Natasha, who was working for Ralph Lauren in Paris. Unsurprisingly, Carrie struggles to come to terms with Big's decision and moves on, beginning a relationship with Aidan Shaw. However, Carrie cannot put Big behind her and they have an affair, which she confesses to Aidan moments before Charlotte's wedding. Carrie and Big continue a", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "8547711", "text": "act and performed on cruise ships including the Queen Elizabeth 2. All the while, Samantha Jones sang on numerous BBC radio shows. In 1982, the Dutch label Dureco released the album \"Goin' Places\". She stopped singing in 1986 and became a producer placing numerous musical production shows on cruise lines until she sold her interest in the mid-1990s. In 1986 she became close to showbiz accountant Jose Goumal (who had been her professional adviser since 1970), they moved in together and married 1998. Today, Jean Owen lives with her husband in London and Henley-on-Thames. Samantha Jones (singer) Jean Owen (born", "title": "Samantha Jones (singer)" }, { "docid": "8552265", "text": "location. Smith returns from his film and shows her true affection, which Samantha finds unsettling. (As she explains to Carrie, he tried to do something purely perverse to her in public: \"He tried to hold my hand.\") Samantha struggles with Smith's status as a teen icon and their age difference. She ends up deliberately humiliating him by hooking up with her ex-flame Richard at a party she went to with Smith. After a quick bout of clearly meaningless sex with Richard, during which he talks about himself, Samantha seeks out Smith, who has been waiting for her to realize she", "title": "Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)" }, { "docid": "14554960", "text": "high-school starting her junior year, continuing through the summer, and ending at senior year graduation. Carrie, her friends, and family are shown going through many different trials during this time. Carrie handles these well, including having a few boyfriends along the way. She and her dad have disagreements but do not come to blows until the end of the book. Carrie's final decision to not attend Brown University contributes to her living with her eventual lifelong friend Samantha Jones. This sets up Carrie as the precedent of a main character in \"Sex and the City\". \"The Carrie Diaries\" received generally", "title": "The Carrie Diaries" }, { "docid": "9911916", "text": "are the number of viewers, in millions, watching at the time. \"Rank\"; how well the show did compared to other TV shows aired that week. Unless otherwise cited, the overnight rating, share, 18-49 and viewing information come from \"Your Entertainment Now\". The weekly ranks come from \"ABC Medianet\". Without a strong lead-in (provided by \"Dancing with the Stars\" in its first season) and paired with another failing ABC comedy \"In the Motherhood\", \"Samantha Who?\"'s ratings dropped to lows of around 4 million in its second season. Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of \"Samantha Who?\" on ABC:", "title": "Samantha Who?" }, { "docid": "4894420", "text": "commit to her emotionally, as he is a very self-involved artist, and even at one point he claims that Carrie is \"not his friend\", but his lover. He asks Carrie to leave her job and life in New York and move with him to Paris, where he has a museum show. After some degree of convincing, she accepts, giving up her job, her apartment, and her friends. But she finds herself to be lonely, disappointed, and confused upon her arrival, waiting for hours to meet with him, while he forgets his dates with her. She doesn't speak French well, and", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894391", "text": "is mentioned at other points in the series. She says in the movie that she's lived in Manhattan for 20 years (although she states at age 35 that she had been living there for a decade). In season four, Carrie tells a photographer that she was so poor when she first moved to New York that she would purchase \"Vogue\" instead of dinner. It is mentioned that her father left her and her mother when she was five; no siblings are mentioned. It is also revealed that Carrie had an abortion in 1988 after a one-night stand with a waiter", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894389", "text": "expresses doubts that she is the type to get married and raise a family. Carrie is a resident of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. She lives in a brownstone on the Upper East Side at the fictional house number of 245, on East 73rd Street, between Park and Madison. She lives in this apartment throughout the series, having bought it from Aidan in the fourth season, after Aidan had bought it and the apartment next-door for himself and Carrie during their engagement. In the initial episodes of the first season, Carrie's apartment is seen to be above", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "16858614", "text": "Otis Jones bequeathed this residence to nieces Elizabeth and Belle Jones of Beckett, Massachusetts. Access to the \"Los Angeles Times\" links may require the use of a library card. <br> John H. Jones and Carrie Otis Jones John H. Jones (ca. 1834–1902) and Carolyn or Carrie Otis Jones (died 1909) were a pioneer husband and wife in Los Angeles, California, whose real estate holdings became worth millions of dollars by the beginning of the 20th century. John H. Jones was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of the city. John H. Jones was born about", "title": "John H. Jones and Carrie Otis Jones" }, { "docid": "8547709", "text": "producer Mark Wirtz. The performance of one of the tracks, the chugging \"Today (Without You)\" brought Samantha Jones the Grand Prix of the Radio-Télé Luxembourg in October 1969 and charted in Belgium and the Netherlands. A year later, Jones won the music festival held in Knokke-Heist with a version of \"My Way\", which subsequently reached No. 4 on the Dutch charts. In 1988, the track was included in the compilation album \"World Stars – 28 Greatest Artists of the World\". On 15 July 1970, Samantha Jones made a guest appearance on \"The Morecambe & Wise Show\", performing \"You've Got Your", "title": "Samantha Jones (singer)" }, { "docid": "4894411", "text": "years earlier) to really show the world she's off the market. As their marriage grows out of the \"terrible twos\" Big and Carrie seem very happy and relaxed with each other. Now that they are both making an effort, and due to the ring Big gave her, they have their \"sparkle\" back. Manhattan furniture designer Aidan Shaw (John Corbett) is Carrie's next serious boyfriend after the painful break-up with Mr. Big. Aidan is the opposite of Mr. Big, as he is a laid-back, low-key nature lover who is patient, straightforward, and somewhat traditional in his relationship with Carrie. Carrie met", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894401", "text": "Carrie and Big make continuous appearances in each other's lives, which is the source of both joy and stress for Carrie. \"Big\" is introduced as a wealthy man who runs into Carrie on the street, helping her pick up a large number of condoms that fell out of her purse after it had been knocked from her hand. He later spots her at a party, and after waving to her at the beginning of the evening, he later gives her a ride home in his limo. Their relationship runs the length of the series. At the start, she is intimidated", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "16858604", "text": "John H. Jones and Carrie Otis Jones John H. Jones (ca. 1834–1902) and Carolyn or Carrie Otis Jones (died 1909) were a pioneer husband and wife in Los Angeles, California, whose real estate holdings became worth millions of dollars by the beginning of the 20th century. John H. Jones was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of the city. John H. Jones was born about 1834 in Chester, Massachusetts. He had a sister, later Mrs. F.J. Hall. In 1852 or 1854 he married Carolyn Otis. In that same year he took ship around Cape Horn", "title": "John H. Jones and Carrie Otis Jones" }, { "docid": "20378475", "text": "John Bradshaw (died 1567) John Bradshaw (by 1489 – 1567), of Ludlow, Shropshire and Presteigne, Radnorshire, was an English-Welsh politician and merchant. Bradshaw was the son of Robert Bradshaw, and his mother's name is Harvey Bradshaw (Mr. Robert Bradshaw's brother). Bradshaw was married by 1510, to Margaret née Chapman, a daughter of Richard Chapman. They had at least one daughter, Carrie Bradshaw, who went on to marry John Baker, MP for Radnorshire. They also one son, John, who was an MP for Radnorshire. By May 1538, he had married Alice née Fowler, daughter of Roger Fowler of Norfolk. Together they", "title": "John Bradshaw (died 1567)" }, { "docid": "16858611", "text": "Angeles property holdings, and he also owned a ranch in Vernon, California. Probate of John's will in 1904 determined that the estate was valued at $1,071,342.41 as community property with Carrie. Bequests were made to three nieces, Lizzie M. and Belle Jones and Laura Prentice and to a nephew, John L. Howes. The Jones real estate holdings at Fifth and Spring streets were in a \"practically unimproved condition\" until after 1905, when it was announced that a syndicate composed of A.C. Bilicke, R.A. Rowan, J.S. Torrance, the Adams-Phillips Company, Maurice S. Hellman, J.S. Satori and others, had leased the \"magnificent", "title": "John H. Jones and Carrie Otis Jones" }, { "docid": "4894426", "text": "interview with Weaver for \"Interview\" Magazine. Carrie attends a role play of Weaver's piece. When she laughs during the funeral scene she is frowned at by her friend Bennet, but Adam Weaver later finds her after the show and is charmed by her understanding of the scene. Carrie and Weaver become close as Carrie tries to pry information out of him for Interview. She later drops the assignment and they start to date. In The Carrie diaries she loses her virginity to him. Carrie and Weaver start to have problems when Weaver begins critiquing her work. They get in a", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "8547708", "text": "the Beatles\" while a member of the Vernons Girls. She released several unsuccessful 45s (amongst them \"Surrounded by a Ray of Sunshine,\" later a staple on the Northern soul circuit). Two of Jones' songs were covered by Françoise Hardy and released on the LP known as \"L'Amitié\". In 1967, two of Samantha Jones's performances were included in the soundtrack of the film \"The Vengeance of Fu Manchu\". Her first album \"Call It Samantha\" was released in US only in 1968. Jones switched to UK label Penny Farthing in 1969 and recorded her second album \"A Girl Named Sam\" with the", "title": "Samantha Jones (singer)" }, { "docid": "8547706", "text": "Samantha Jones (singer) Jean Owen (born 17 November 1943), known as Samantha Jones is a former English singer whose career spanned the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. She won three international pop music contests and charted records in the Benelux countries. Her recordings later experienced a revival on the Northern soul scene. Jean Owen started her career in 1961 as part of popular English vocal group The Vernons Girls. During her time with the group, the line-up went from sixteen members to just three girls. The Vernons Girls enjoyed a couple of top 40 hits, including \"Lover Please\", \"Only You", "title": "Samantha Jones (singer)" }, { "docid": "20378476", "text": "had at least two daughters. Alice's uncle was Bishop Rowland Lee and her brother was MP for Staffordshire, Brian Fowler. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Ludlow in 1545. John Bradshaw (died 1567) John Bradshaw (by 1489 – 1567), of Ludlow, Shropshire and Presteigne, Radnorshire, was an English-Welsh politician and merchant. Bradshaw was the son of Robert Bradshaw, and his mother's name is Harvey Bradshaw (Mr. Robert Bradshaw's brother). Bradshaw was married by 1510, to Margaret née Chapman, a daughter of Richard Chapman. They had at least one daughter, Carrie Bradshaw, who went on to", "title": "John Bradshaw (died 1567)" }, { "docid": "10143494", "text": "ring they have.\" They decide not to have sex until they are married, but on the day before their wedding, Charlotte gets drunk and visits Trey's apartment to seduce him. Trey is unable to perform, possibly meaning he is impotent. Charlotte addresses her concern to Carrie before she walks down the aisle, but Carrie attempts to comfort her and the marriage takes place. After they are married, Trey continues to be unable to perform in the bedroom. It is implied that his problem is not impotency, as Charlotte catches him masturbating in the bathroom to pornographic magazines. Because of their", "title": "Charlotte York Goldenblatt" }, { "docid": "4821655", "text": "Samantha Ronson Samantha Judith Ronson (born 7 August 1977) is an English DJ and singer-songwriter who lives in Santa Monica, California. Ronson was born in Camden, London, to writer/socialite Ann Dexter-Jones and one-time music executive and real estate entrepreneur Laurence Ronson. When she was six years old her parents divorced and she moved with her siblings, mother and her mother's new boyfriend, Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones, to New York City, where her mother later married Jones. Her parents are of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, with ancestors from Austria, Russia, and Lithuania, and Ronson was brought up in Masorti Judaism. Ronson's family", "title": "Samantha Ronson" }, { "docid": "18534256", "text": "1838 and Jones died in 1847 in London. Charlotte Jones (painter) Charlotte Jones (1768 – 21 September 1847) was a British Miniature portrait painter. She was appointed 'Miniature Painter to the Princess Charlotte of Wales' from 1808 to the premature death of her patron. Princess Charlotte of Wales died shortly after failing to deliver a Royal heir. Jones' most memorable creation was a triptych that recorded the Princess's life. Jones family lived in Norfolk where her father, William, was a merchant in the small village of Cley next the Sea. Near the turn of the 19th century Jones moved to", "title": "Charlotte Jones (painter)" }, { "docid": "18534252", "text": "Charlotte Jones (painter) Charlotte Jones (1768 – 21 September 1847) was a British Miniature portrait painter. She was appointed 'Miniature Painter to the Princess Charlotte of Wales' from 1808 to the premature death of her patron. Princess Charlotte of Wales died shortly after failing to deliver a Royal heir. Jones' most memorable creation was a triptych that recorded the Princess's life. Jones family lived in Norfolk where her father, William, was a merchant in the small village of Cley next the Sea. Near the turn of the 19th century Jones moved to London after the death of William Jones. There", "title": "Charlotte Jones (painter)" }, { "docid": "4894427", "text": "fight that ends their relationship, and Weaver accuses her for having feelings for Sebastian. After they break up over Carrie still being in love with Sebastian, Adam writes an article about Carrie as 'Mystery Girl', in which rude and untrue things are said, although nobody knows that the 'Mystery Girl' is Carrie. At the end of Season 2, he goes to her senior prom, apologizing for his behavior. According to Candace Bushnell's book, \"Summer and the City\", Capote Duncan was Carrie's classmate in The New School. At the beginning, Carrie hated him because of his arrogance but at the end", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894418", "text": "a \"break\" in their relationship. Berger returns, professing his love for Carrie, and stating that he wishes to try again. However, he ends up leaving later, in the middle of the night, breaking up with Carrie via a Post-it note which reads, \"I'm sorry, I can't. Don't hate me.\" After this hasty departure, Berger is referenced in only one more episode—after Carrie runs into his friends at a bar, she regrets leaving Berger an angry message (through his friends), stating that his break-up method was rude and pathetic. Next, Carrie meets and begins a relationship with Aleksandr Petrovsky (rus. Александр", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894415", "text": "to Big. After taking his time coming to terms with this revelation and understanding Carrie's mistake was because of her domestic crisis of faith, he forgives her. Following the end of her relationship with Aidan, Carrie begins to date Jack Berger (Ron Livingston), a novelist with a mixed degree of success. She meets him while discussing her upcoming book at her publisher's (Amy Sedaris) office. That day, Carrie and Berger go for a walk, during which Carrie gets a strawberry milkshake from McDonald's. Berger states to her, \"How can anyone order strawberry after the age of eleven?\", and Carrie obviously", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894413", "text": "is not ready to marry him, and he is not willing to wait for her. Further hurt is caused when Carrie realizes Aidan only wants to marry her because he still doesn't trust her. Aidan hoped that by marrying Carrie, it would show the world she was his. During the sixth-season premiere, Carrie runs into Aidan on the street. She discovers that he has married a fellow furniture designer, Cathy, and has a son named Tate (played by Sarah Jessica Parker's son). The two agree to meet for coffee; Carrie states in voiceover that \"there are some dates you cannot", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894407", "text": "marry at City Hall - the way Big had originally envisioned - with Carrie wearing the simple \"label-less\" vintage suit she had initially chosen, along with the blue Manolo Blahniks that had played a big part in the two of them reuniting. During the second movie, Carrie and Big's passion has waned. Carrie begins to feel that their marriage has lost its \"sparkle\" as Big enjoys spending nights eating in and watching TV. Carrie feels the urge to escape to her old apartment for two days to meet a writing deadline and enjoy some time to herself, and is surprised", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894406", "text": "is, he states \"I can't do this\" and Carrie leaves devastated. He immediately realizes his mistake and tells the limo driver to turn around but the damage is already done. Carrie, hurt and betrayed, blocks all communication, unknowingly ignoring his love letters and apologetic emails. Over the course of the next 7 or 8 months, Carrie reflects on what happened and realizes that she is partially to blame for the wedding fiasco, because she let the wedding \"get bigger than Big.\" Finally, Carrie and Big unintentionally meet, come to terms with each other, reaffirm their feelings and love, and privately", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894405", "text": "Carrie as a \"40 year old bride,\" the wedding plans balloon into something much more elaborate and now with 200 guests. Leading up to their wedding day, Big becomes overwhelmed by the media attention and the number of guests, telling Carrie that he would have been happy with eloping to City Hall, that all he wanted was Carrie and that he's embarrassed by the attention because it's his third marriage. On the day of the ceremony, Big has a \"freakout\" and leaves the wedding venue without even getting out of his limousine. When Carrie calls him and asks where he", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894404", "text": "close, sometimes sexual, always flirtatious yet tempestuous friendship until the final episode. Here we witness a romantic display of love and affection when Big whispers the sorely awaited words to Carrie—\"you're the one.\" At the start of the movie \"Sex and the City\" Carrie and Big, in a businesslike fashion, decide to marry. The wedding starts out somewhat simply with 75 guests and with Carrie choosing to wear a simple white skirt suit that she found in a vintage shop. However, after Vivenne Westwood gifts an expensive and exquisite wedding dress that Carrie wore in a Vogue modeling shoot featuring", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894422", "text": "but they have left and mangled her book in the wake of her standing them up. In the series finale, after an argument and Alex impulsively slaps her, Carrie leaves him after facing his emotional shortcomings and his inability to give her an appropriate amount of attention. While in the lobby of the hotel trying to secure a room of her own, she runs into Mr. Big, who runs to defend her against Aleksandr. He finally understands that she is \"the one\" and pursued her to Paris with the encouragement of her friends. Carrie returns with Mr. Big to New", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "20288580", "text": "Sex and the City (season 3) The third season of \"Sex and the City\", an American television romantic sitcom, aired in the United States on HBO from June 4 to October 15, 2000. Based on the eponymous book written by Candace Bushnell, the series was created by Darren Star and produced by Darren Star Productions, HBO Original Programming, and Warner Bros. Television. Star, Barry Josen and Michael Patrick King served as the series' executive producers. The show follows the relationships and sexual escapades of Carrie Bradshaw, a sex columnist for the fictional \"New York Star\", and her friends Samantha Jones,", "title": "Sex and the City (season 3)" }, { "docid": "20288572", "text": "Sex and the City (season 3) The third season of \"Sex and the City\", an American television romantic sitcom, aired in the United States on HBO from June 4 to October 15, 2000. Based on the eponymous book written by Candace Bushnell, the series was created by Darren Star and produced by Darren Star Productions, HBO Original Programming, and Warner Bros. Television. Star, Barry Josen and Michael Patrick King served as the series' executive producers. The show follows the relationships and sexual escapades of Carrie Bradshaw, a sex columnist for the fictional \"New York Star\", and her friends Samantha Jones,", "title": "Sex and the City (season 3)" }, { "docid": "20286652", "text": "Sex and the City (season 2) The second season of \"Sex and the City\", an American television romantic sitcom, aired in the United States on HBO from June 6 to October 3, 1999. Based on the eponymous book written by Candace Bushnell, the series was created by Darren Star and produced by Darren Star Productions, HBO Original Programming, and Warner Bros. Television. Star, Barry Josen and Michael Patrick King served as the series' executive producers. The show follows the relationships and sexual escapades of Carrie Bradshaw, a sex columnist for the fictional \"New York Star\", and her friends Samantha Jones,", "title": "Sex and the City (season 2)" }, { "docid": "13119006", "text": "Sex and the City (season 1) The first season of \"Sex and the City\", an American television romantic sitcom, aired in the United States on HBO from June 6 to August 23, 1998. Based on the eponymous book written by Candace Bushnell, the series was created by Darren Star and produced by Darren Star Productions, HBO Original Programming, and Warner Bros. Television. Star, Barry Josen and Michael Patrick King served as the series' executive producers. The show follows the relationships and sexual escapades of Carrie Bradshaw, a sex columnist for the fictional \"New York Star\", and her friends Samantha Jones,", "title": "Sex and the City (season 1)" }, { "docid": "10890109", "text": "in place of a ring. They later marry alone, in a simple wedding in New York City Hall, with Carrie wearing the simple suit that she had intended to wear before being enticed away by the Vivienne Westwood dress that she had modelled in the bridal issue of Vogue. Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte turn up to surprise Carrie, having been called by Big. The film ends with the four women sipping cosmopolitans, celebrating Samantha's fiftieth birthday, with Carrie making a toast to the next fifty. At the end of \"Sex and the City\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s run in February 2004, there were indications", "title": "Sex and the City (film)" }, { "docid": "8416597", "text": "Future Past\" story as a courier for food and supplies for mutants. She is allied with Jubilee, Synch and Leech. It is hinted that her son was killed when the Sentinels took over. She is captured by Citizen V and has no choice but to betray her allies. Charlotte Jones (comics) Charlotte Jones is a fictional character, a latent mutant appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Her first appearance was in \"X-Factor\" vol. 1 #51. Jones was once a trauma nurse at a Brooklyn hospital. Her husband was a police officer who was killed when he was", "title": "Charlotte Jones (comics)" }, { "docid": "8416588", "text": "Charlotte Jones (comics) Charlotte Jones is a fictional character, a latent mutant appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Her first appearance was in \"X-Factor\" vol. 1 #51. Jones was once a trauma nurse at a Brooklyn hospital. Her husband was a police officer who was killed when he was walking home from a parents' night with their son, Timmy, at his school. They were caught in the middle of a drug war. One of the bullets nearly severed Timmy's spine, resulting in years of physical therapy to learn to walk again. As a result of that night,", "title": "Charlotte Jones (comics)" }, { "docid": "13434576", "text": "is depicted arriving in New York City in 1986, meeting Charlotte in 1987, Miranda in 1989, and meeting Samantha, when she was a bartender at the music club CBGB. In the present, Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda are married but Samantha, aged 52, is desperately trying to keep her libido alive with the help of \"Suzanne Somers and her team of doctors\" to keep her menopause at bay. The four of them attend Anthony and Stanford's wedding, where Carrie serves as \"best man\". Miranda quits her job after her firm's misogynistic new managing partner disrespects her once too often. Charlotte's two", "title": "Sex and the City 2" }, { "docid": "4894425", "text": "will work on his clothing business. Carrie agrees to move until she later realizes she belongs in Manhattan. The two say their final goodbyes at Larrisa's wedding. Carrie's second boyfriend. She starts dating George after meeting him at her internship at a law firm. She ends their relationship after he tries to force her to have sex in the back of a car. Throughout the relationship she still has feelings for Sebastian, using George to incite feelings of jealousy in Sebastian. Carrie's third boyfriend, appearing in Season 2 of \"The Carrie Diaries\". Larissa, Carrie's boss, wanted Carrie to get an", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894424", "text": "with interests in starting a clothing line and it causes problems in the relationship. Sebastian wanted to move to California to pursue his dreams, but Carrie wanted to stay in Manhattan to work for Interview Magazine. Carrie decides to say yes to a full-time job offer at Interview but loses her chances at going to NYU. She is later fired because of a dispute between Larissa, and Andy. Carrie tries to attend NYU, but she is told it is too late. After hearing about Carrie's situation, Sebastian decides to invite her to go live with him in Malibu where he", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894414", "text": "wait to keep, and there are some you both know you will never keep.\" In the film \"Sex and the City 2\", a chance encounter between Aidan and Carrie in Abu Dhabi is a major plot point. While shopping at a local market with Miranda in Abu Dhabi, Carrie and Aidan encounter each other, they make a plan to catch up over dinner, where Aidan reveals he and Cathy are still married and have two more sons, Wyatt and Homer and in a moment of passion, share a brief kiss. Carrie becomes emotionally distraught over this and confesses the kiss", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "9911910", "text": "Samantha Who? Samantha Who? is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from October 15, 2007 to July 23, 2009. The series was created by Cecelia Ahern and Don Todd, who also served as producers. Although highly rated during its first season, the sitcom lost momentum and viewers throughout its second season, and ABC canceled the show in May 2009. The series was produced by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Touchstone Television partnered with ABC Studios and executive produced by Christina Applegate, Donald Todd, Peter Traugott, Bob Kushell, Alex Reid, and Marco Pennette. The show centered on Samantha Newly", "title": "Samantha Who?" }, { "docid": "703832", "text": "and two touchdowns in a 31–19 win over the Los Angeles Rams. Early in the 4th quarter, with Pittsburgh down 19–17, Bradshaw again turned to the long pass to help engineer a victory: a 73-yard touchdown to John Stallworth. Bradshaw shared \"Sports Illustrated\"'s Sportsman of the Year award that season with fellow Pittsburgh star Willie Stargell, whose Pirates won the 1979 World Series. After two seasons of missing the playoffs, Bradshaw played through pain—he needed a cortisone shot before every game because of an elbow injury sustained during training camp—in a strike-shortened 1982 NFL season. He still managed to tie", "title": "Terry Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "9911917", "text": "\"Samantha Who?\" first aired against fellow freshmen show \"K-Ville\" on FOX. It also aired against \"Rules of Engagement\" on CBS, \"Heroes\" on NBC and \"The Game\" on The CW—each in their second season. This was for the first six episodes \"Samantha Who?\" aired at 9:30pm. On November 26, 2007, \"Samantha Who?\" shifted to the 9pm timeslot. Its competition shifted from \"The Game\" to \"Girlfriends\" on The CW and from \"Rules of Engagement\" to \"Two and a Half Men\" on CBS. Sophomore sitcom \"Notes from the Underbelly\" assumed the 9:30pm position. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released the entire series on", "title": "Samantha Who?" }, { "docid": "9911913", "text": "stated title (with a question mark shown instead) was attributed in promotions to Applegate's character not remembering the name of the series. The series premiered on October 15, 2007 at 9:30PM Eastern/8:30PM Central and moved to 9:00PM Eastern/8:00PM Central on Mondays on November 26, 2007. On October 25, 2007, ABC ordered six additional scripts for \"Samantha Who?\". On October 30, 2007, ABC ordered a full season of 22 episodes for \"Samantha Who?\". However, due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, only 15 episodes were produced for season one. On February 11, 2008, ABC picked up \"Samantha Who?\" for", "title": "Samantha Who?" }, { "docid": "4894417", "text": "begins to mount, and particularly after Berger's second novel is not picked up for publication, the relationship deteriorates. Berger feels insecure about Carrie's newfound success as a writer after her book goes international and she begins receiving high-sum royalties. This is made worse by Carrie's thoughtless reaction to his first novel; her initial reaction – that she loves the book – is overshadowed by her simultaneous criticism of a minor detail about a lead character's hair accessory (i.e., that a modern-day New York woman would not wear a \"scrunchie\" while out and about). Carrie and Berger fight frequently, culminating in", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "8552248", "text": "on several occasions; such as when Carrie hates an engagement ring that Miranda picks out for Aidan to give to Carrie, but loves the replacement ring selected with Samantha's help. In the show's last season, Samantha is diagnosed with breast cancer. She faces the challenge head-on, playing with her look by wearing outrageous wigs, hats, and headscarves after she loses her hair to chemotherapy. In one of the final episodes, she gives a speech for a cancer benefit dinner, and receives a standing ovation for removing her wig onstage and admitting that she was suffering with hot flashes. The audience", "title": "Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)" }, { "docid": "8547710", "text": "Troubles\". Later that year, she released her third LP \"The Other Jones\". Samantha Jones appeared on the edition of 5 June 1971 of \"Disco\" aired in West Germany on the ZDF network. Her success in continental Europe continued with winning the 1st prize in the Sopot International Song Festival held in 26–29 August 1971 in Poland. In 1973, she recorded the song \"Man Is a Hunter\" for the film \"Commuter Husbands\". After that, she switched labels again, this time to EMI, and released two albums with the veteran producer Walter J. Ridley. By then, Jones had become a known cabaret", "title": "Samantha Jones (singer)" }, { "docid": "16444770", "text": "first time from July 1 to August 5, 2015 on bTV Lady. The Carrie Diaries (TV series) The Carrie Diaries is an American teen comedy-drama television series that aired for two seasons on The CW from January 14, 2013, to January 31, 2014. It is a prequel to the HBO television series \"Sex and the City\" and based on the 2010 book of the same name by Candace Bushnell. The first season focuses on Carrie Bradshaw (AnnaSophia Robb) during her junior year of high school in 1984 as she explores life in New York City while interning at a law", "title": "The Carrie Diaries (TV series)" }, { "docid": "16444761", "text": "The Carrie Diaries (TV series) The Carrie Diaries is an American teen comedy-drama television series that aired for two seasons on The CW from January 14, 2013, to January 31, 2014. It is a prequel to the HBO television series \"Sex and the City\" and based on the 2010 book of the same name by Candace Bushnell. The first season focuses on Carrie Bradshaw (AnnaSophia Robb) during her junior year of high school in 1984 as she explores life in New York City while interning at a law firm office, and also secretly working at a magazine company, while the", "title": "The Carrie Diaries (TV series)" }, { "docid": "14174623", "text": "1990. Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts <https://www.amazon.com/Ports-Entry-William-Burroughs-Arts/dp/0500974357/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245152428&sr=1-1> by Robert A. Sobieszek and William S. Burroughs 192 pages, (Paperback - Oct 1996). Taken by Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere, 304 pages, 2003. The Judson Dance Theater: Performative Traces by Ramsay Burt, 204 pages, 2007. The Artists Bluebook, Edited by Lonnie Pierson Dunbier, 2005. David Bradshaw David Bradshaw (born September 28, 1944) is an American artist based out of Cecilia, LA and E. Charleston, Vermont. He is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Born in New York City, David Bradshaw was raised", "title": "David Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "10143500", "text": "always believed Carrie and Big would end up together, and when she sees Big in the street she tells him, \"I curse the day you were born.\" It is then that Charlotte goes into labour, and Big takes her to the hospital and waits until the baby is born. Charlotte and Harry are overjoyed when she gives birth to a baby girl they name Rose. The final scenes of the movie show Harry and Charlotte with their two daughters. Charlotte is a wealthy museum docent with two children and live-in, full-time help. However, she becomes stressed with motherhood and feels", "title": "Charlotte York Goldenblatt" }, { "docid": "8547707", "text": "Can Do It,\" (also released by Françoise Hardy) and recorded one of the first Beatles tribute songs, \"We Love The Beatles\". They also opened for The Beatles several times and appeared with them in a 1964 TV special, \"Around The Beatles\". In 1964, with the help of producer Charles Blackwell, Owen embarked on a solo career and signed with the international record label United Artists, who gave her the stage name Samantha Jones. Her first TV performance as a solo performer was a duet with Long John Baldry on 20 November 1964, with whom she had also duetted in \"Around", "title": "Samantha Jones (singer)" }, { "docid": "4894421", "text": "Petrovsky often leaves her alone in order to tend to his own career. His ex-wife warns Carrie that the relationship will be all about him. Meanwhile, Carrie has no friends there, but things start to look up when she meets some fans of her book, and she agrees to meet them at a cafe. However, a very anxious and panicking Alex begs her to accompany him to his museum show preview, and she agrees. But once there, he deserts her and seems to forget about her, and she realizes he doesn't need her. She rushes to meet with the fans,", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894419", "text": "Пeтpoвcкий; Mikhail Baryshnikov), in the sixth season. He is a rich, successful, and older Russian artist. Carrie enjoys the relationship, but problems arise when she discovers that he already has a daughter in her twenties, and he doesn't want any more children. To ensure this, he has had a vasectomy. Carrie feels forced to choose between a long-term relationship with Petrovsky and the possibility of having children. She wonders if his love will be enough to compensate for the lack of children. She decides to stay in the relationship, despite mounting evidence that he will never be able to fully", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894402", "text": "and awed by him, and immediately gives him the nickname \"Mr. Big\". However, eventually Carrie and Big share a friendly and often passionate intimacy, yet he remains (in producer Michael Patrick King's words), \"always slightly out of reach.\" Mr. Big's name is never mentioned until the last episode of the final season, where it is revealed to be John via Carrie's cell phone caller ID. His full name is finally uncovered in the first movie as John James Preston. They break up for the first time due to Mr. Big's inability to be emotionally intimate with Carrie. They reunite but", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894395", "text": "for expensive designer shoes (notably Manolo Blahniks, but also Christian Louboutins and Jimmy Choos), Miranda once estimated that Carrie has spent over $40,000 on shoes. Her shoes seem to average at least $400 a pair (according to Miranda), and it is implied that she has at least 100 unique pairs. She frequently mixes kitschy vintage finds with high-end labels. It is mentioned that Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale's, and Saks Fifth Avenue are among her favorite places to shop. Carrie once agreed to model for a charity fashion show (featuring both \"real people\" and models), on the condition that she could", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894388", "text": "being the running theme). Carrie is an on-off smoker and when she smokes, she is mostly seen with Marlboro Lights. She tries to quit in seasons 3 and 4 using the Nicotine patch while dating Aidan. She enjoys cocktails (particularly cosmopolitans—her character's fondness for them helped to popularize the drink). While Carrie is a realist about the difficulties of relationships, having experienced many bad ones throughout the course of the series, she is a romantic on an endless search for true love, and refuses to settle for, as she puts it, \"anything less than butterflies.\" Because of this, she repeatedly", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "4894386", "text": "icon. In the third season, her column is optioned for a film produced by Matthew McConaughey. In the fifth season, some of her columns are compiled into a book. At the end of season four, Carrie begins to write freelance articles for \"Vogue\". Although she initially has trouble dealing with Enid (Candice Bergen), her abrasive, demanding editor at \"Vogue\", she does find her feet and ends up befriending her. Carrie is notoriously led by her emotions. She seeks acceptance (a door key, bathroom cabinet space) from Mr. Big and others (she obsesses over the review her book received from book", "title": "Carrie Bradshaw" }, { "docid": "9911919", "text": "ran on TV 2, and in Australia the series aired on Seven Network and 7Two. The series later reran on Pop (TV channel) and currently reruns in Logo TV. Samantha Who? Samantha Who? is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from October 15, 2007 to July 23, 2009. The series was created by Cecelia Ahern and Don Todd, who also served as producers. Although highly rated during its first season, the sitcom lost momentum and viewers throughout its second season, and ABC canceled the show in May 2009. The series was produced by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and", "title": "Samantha Who?" }, { "docid": "8552249", "text": "appreciated her candor and honesty, and many of the women in the audience stood up and removed their own wigs. Four years later, Samantha has moved to Los Angeles with Smith to further his acting career; he's now playing a doctor on a popular daytime drama. Samantha, who visits New York City as much as possible, finds herself attracted to a hunky exhibitionist neighbor, Dante, whom she regularly sees nude when he takes a shower or has sex with various women. Dante's escapades reminds Samantha of her sexually free past and he could be considered the male version of Samantha.", "title": "Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)" } ]
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What is the most populous city in the great state of Alaska?
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[ { "docid": "8758001", "text": "Anchorage, Alaska Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage; Dena'ina: ) is a unified home rule municipality in the U.S. state of Alaska. With an estimated 298,192 residents in 2016, it is Alaska's most populous city and contains more than 40 percent of the state's total population; among the 50 states, only New York has a higher percentage of residents who live in its most populous city. All together, the Anchorage metropolitan area, which combines Anchorage with the neighboring Matanuska-Susitna Borough, had a population of 401,635 in 2016, which accounts for more than half of the state's population. At 1,706", "title": "Anchorage, Alaska" }, { "docid": "996071", "text": "Fairbanks, Alaska Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska. 2016 estimates put the population of the city proper at 32,751, and the population of the Fairbanks North Star Borough at 100,605, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Alaska (after Anchorage). The Metropolitan Statistical Area encompasses all of the Fairbanks North Star Borough and is the northernmost Metropolitan Statistical Area in the United States, located 196 driving miles (or 140 air miles)", "title": "Fairbanks, Alaska" }, { "docid": "10164875", "text": "More than half of the state's population lives in Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks, with two-fifths in Anchorage alone. With a population of 710,231, according to the 2010 U.S. census, Alaska is the 48th most populous and least densely populated state. For purposes of the federal census, the state is divided into artificial divisions defined geographically by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. The center of population of Alaska is located approximately east of Anchorage at 61.399882 N. latitude, -148.873973 W. longitude. In 2006, Alaska had a larger percentage of tobacco smokers than the national average, with 24%", "title": "Demographics of Alaska" }, { "docid": "8402", "text": "largest state in the United States by total area at , over twice the size of Texas, the next largest state. Alaska is larger than all but 18 sovereign countries. Counting territorial waters, Alaska is larger than the combined area of the next three largest states: Texas, California, and Montana. It is also larger than the combined area of the 22 smallest U.S. states. There are no officially defined borders demarcating the various regions of Alaska, but there are six widely accepted regions: The most populous region of Alaska, containing Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley and the Kenai Peninsula. Rural, mostly", "title": "Alaska" }, { "docid": "8481", "text": "form the Municipality of Anchorage, containing the city proper and the communities of Eagle River, Chugiak, Peters Creek, Girdwood, Bird, and Indian. Fairbanks has a separate borough (the Fairbanks North Star Borough) and municipality (the City of Fairbanks). The state's most populous city is Anchorage, home to 278,700 people in 2006, 225,744 of whom live in the urbanized area. The richest location in Alaska by per capita income is Halibut Cove ($89,895). Yakutat City, Sitka, Juneau, and Anchorage are the four largest cities in the U.S. by area. As reflected in the 2010 United States Census, Alaska has a total", "title": "Alaska" }, { "docid": "888718", "text": "Juneau Borough to form the current municipality, which is larger by area than both Rhode Island and Delaware. Downtown Juneau () is nestled at the base of Mount Juneau and across the channel from Douglas Island. As of the 2010 census, the City and Borough had a population of 31,276. In 2014, the population estimate from the United States Census Bureau was 32,406, making it the second most populous city in Alaska after Anchorage. Fairbanks, however, is the state's second most populous metropolitan area, with roughly 100,000 residents. Juneau's daily population can increase by roughly 6,000 people from visiting cruise", "title": "Juneau, Alaska" }, { "docid": "993217", "text": "Borough. Anderson is north of Healy, south of Nenana and southwest of Fairbanks. The Anderson townsite lies in between the Alaska Railroad mainline and the Nenana River, along the northern edge of city limits. The George Parks Highway ( east of the townsite) and Clear Air Force Station ( south of the townsite) are also within city limits. Clear Air Force Station is home to the 213th Space Warning Squadron. Anderson lies north of Anchorage, the most populous city of Alaska, and southwest of Fairbanks. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of ,", "title": "Anderson, Alaska" }, { "docid": "5990098", "text": "Alaska Law Enforcement Museum is a small museum located at 245 W. 5th Avenue, Suite 113 across from the 5th Avenue Mall in downtown Anchorage, operated by the Fraternal Order of Alaska State Troopers. The museum commemorates the Alaska State Troopers and features a variety of historical memorabilia, including a restored 1952 Hudson Hornet patrol car. Clint Walker starred as the title character in \"Kodiak\", a short-lived TV series that ran on ABC in 1974. Walker played \"Kodiak\" McKay, an officer in what was called, in this series, the \"Alaska State Patrol.\" The National Geographic hit television reality series \"Alaska", "title": "Alaska State Troopers" }, { "docid": "6977238", "text": "runners-up and tournament most valuable players (MVPs). The following table indicates the winners, runners up and tournament MVPs. Tournament was played in a round robin format.<br> The tournament was moved to earlier in the season beginning in the 1994-95 season; hence the first 1994 tournament corresponds to the 1993-94 season and the second tournament to the 1994-95 season. Great Alaska Shootout The GCI Great Alaska Shootout (originally known as the Sea Wolf Classic) was an annual college basketball tournament in Anchorage, Alaska that features colleges from all over the United States. The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) hosted the tournament", "title": "Great Alaska Shootout" }, { "docid": "17502136", "text": "the relatively populous boroughs of Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna, Fairbanks North Star, Ketchikan Gateway and Kodiak Island have never voted for a Democratic candidate since – although Matanuska-Susitna was the most populous amongst fifteen county-equivalents who gave a plurality to Ross Perot in 1992. The Aleutians East and Aleutians West have also not voted Democratic since. Alaska was one of the three states that voted with a certain party for the first time in this election, the other two being Georgia and Vermont. 1964 United States presidential election in Alaska The 1964 United States presidential election in Alaska took place on November", "title": "1964 United States presidential election in Alaska" }, { "docid": "18028590", "text": "Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing The Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ASSDHH) is a public school located in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. In 1972, the Alaska Department of Education, in collaboration with the Anchorage School District, established and funded the Alaska State Program for the Deaf (ASPD). In 1975, elementary school classes for ASSDHH began. In 1987, the school's name was changed to Alaska State School for the Deaf. Middle school and high school locations were added in 1992. An infant learning program also operated by ASSDHH between 1980 and", "title": "Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing" }, { "docid": "6977234", "text": "Great Alaska Shootout The GCI Great Alaska Shootout (originally known as the Sea Wolf Classic) was an annual college basketball tournament in Anchorage, Alaska that features colleges from all over the United States. The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) hosted the tournament every Thanksgiving. Tournament games were played at the Alaska Airlines Center, a new arena on the UAA campus. Prior to the opening of the Alaska Airlines Center in September 2014, games were played at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage. Prior to the Sullivan Arena opening in 1983, games were played at Buckner Fieldhouse. The men's tournament, held annually", "title": "Great Alaska Shootout" }, { "docid": "400176", "text": "Southcentral Alaska Southcentral Alaska is the portion of the U.S. state of Alaska consisting of the shorelines and uplands of the central Gulf of Alaska. Most of the population of the state lives in this region, concentrated in and around the city of Anchorage. The area includes Cook Inlet, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, the Kenai Peninsula, Prince William Sound, and the Copper River Valley. Tourism, fisheries, and petroleum production are important economic activities. The major city is Anchorage. Other towns include Palmer, Wasilla, Kenai, Soldotna, Homer, Seward, Valdez, and Cordova. The climate of Southcentral Alaska is subarctic. Temperatures range from an", "title": "Southcentral Alaska" }, { "docid": "18028591", "text": "2002. In 1995, the school's current name was given, recognizing its inclusion of students beyond deafness. ASSDHH has an enrollment of 35 to 50 students, ranging from pre-kindergarten to high school ages. Its facilities have been in multiple locations in the Anchorage School District, and are now educating its students at Russian Jack Elementary School, Clark Middle School, and East High School. Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing The Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ASSDHH) is a public school located in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. In 1972, the Alaska Department of", "title": "Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing" }, { "docid": "5990062", "text": "troopers are the most geographically extended peace officers aside from federal officers in the USA. They have little, if any local backup; within the entire State of Alaska, only about 1,300 full-time sworn law enforcement officers patrol a state 1/5th the size of the entire lower-48 and other than troopers and state park rangers, the local officers remain in their communities except in extreme emergencies. This includes the only metropolitan police agency in Alaska, the Anchorage Police Department with almost 500 officers. The remaining officers are the over 300 Alaska troopers and smaller municipal agencies which have around 50 in", "title": "Alaska State Troopers" }, { "docid": "18713983", "text": "Capital City Fire/Rescue Capital City Fire/Rescue (CCFR) provides fire suppression and emergency medical services to the city of Juneau, Alaska, United States. With service to Juneau, CCFR provides emergency services to the second most populous city in Alaska after Anchorage, and the fourth largest metropolitan area behind Anchorage, the Fairbanks North Star Borough, and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Areas served by CCFR include Douglas Island, Lemon Creek, the Mendenhall Valley, Juneau International Airport, Thane, University of Alaska Southeast and local areas of the Tongass National Forest. The first fire agency in the Juneau area was founded in 1899 as the Juneau", "title": "Capital City Fire/Rescue" }, { "docid": "996105", "text": "as a Libertarian in 1980. In the 1982 elections, Randolph ran unsuccessfully as the LP's nominee for Governor of Alaska, while Fanning lost re-election to the House following redistricting. Fairbanks is a regional center for most departments of the State of Alaska, though the vast majority of state jobs are based in either Anchorage or Juneau. Fairbanks, unlike other larger cities in Alaska, still has separate borough and city governments. The City of Fairbanks was incorporated on November 10, 1903. The city council held a special meeting at the Carlson Center on November 10, 2003 for the express purpose of", "title": "Fairbanks, Alaska" }, { "docid": "7644110", "text": "Palin, rose through political ranks to become Governor of Alaska and the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee. Courtney Schuman of Anchorage was crowned Miss Alaska 2018 at Wendy Williams Theater on the UAA campus in Anchorage, Alaska. She will compete for the title of Miss America 2019 on September 9, 2018 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The year in brackets indicates the year of the Miss America competition the award/placement was garnered. Miss Alaska The Miss Alaska competition is a scholarship pageant that selects the representative for the state of Alaska in the Miss America pageant. Unlike most state-level pageants in", "title": "Miss Alaska" }, { "docid": "10398760", "text": "is typical, but what snow falls during the winter tends to stay throughout the season. Thunderstorms are fairly rare in most of Alaska, but do occur in the interior in the summer with some frequency and may cause wildfires. Anchorage gets a thunderstorm every few years. There has even been the rare thunderstorm in Utqiagvik on the Arctic coast. While weak tornadoes and waterspouts, while extremely rare, do sometimes occur, Alaska is considered the least tornado-prone state in the United States. La Niña events lead to drier than normal conditions, while El Niño events do not have a correlation towards", "title": "Climate of Alaska" }, { "docid": "20834145", "text": "Jewish doctor moving from New York to a fictionalized small town in Alaska. Professor Bernard Reisman of Brandeis University conducted a demographic study of Jewish Alaskans 1994–1999. It found that contrary to popular assumption, the Alaska Jewish community was more, not less, affiliated on average than other Jewish Americans in the \"Lower 48\". In 2005, Congregation Sukkat Shalom in Juneau opened its first synagogue after years of meeting in members' homes. Currently, there are an estimated 6,000 Jews living in Alaska, most of whom reside in Anchorage, followed by Fairbanks, Juneau, and several smaller communities such as Sitka and Ketchikan.", "title": "History of the Jews in Alaska" }, { "docid": "14953322", "text": "Alaska State Fair The Alaska State Fair is an annual state fair held in Palmer, Alaska, United States. The fairgrounds are located approximately one hour north of Anchorage and draw visitors from the entire Municipality of Anchorage and beyond for the popular 1 and ½ week event beginning at the end of August. The fair is famous for its record setting giant vegetables and picturesque location at the foot of the Chugach Mountains in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. The event features amusement rides, food concessions, competitive exhibits, carnival games, live performances and more. The first Alaska State Fair was held September", "title": "Alaska State Fair" }, { "docid": "18713999", "text": "the Anchorage Fire Department, who was visiting Juneau at the time, was also pressed into service. Despite the size of the fire, no injuries were reported. Capital City Fire/Rescue Capital City Fire/Rescue (CCFR) provides fire suppression and emergency medical services to the city of Juneau, Alaska, United States. With service to Juneau, CCFR provides emergency services to the second most populous city in Alaska after Anchorage, and the fourth largest metropolitan area behind Anchorage, the Fairbanks North Star Borough, and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Areas served by CCFR include Douglas Island, Lemon Creek, the Mendenhall Valley, Juneau International Airport, Thane, University", "title": "Capital City Fire/Rescue" }, { "docid": "13492208", "text": "Alaska Department of Corrections The Department of Corrections of the state of Alaska is an agency of the state government responsible for corrections. The Department manages institutions, parole and probation. The current commissioner is Dean Williams. The agency has its headquarters in the Douglas area of Juneau and offices in Anchorage. The State of Alaska assumed jurisdiction over its corrections on January 3, 1959. Prior to statehood, the Federal Bureau of Prisons had correctional jurisdiction over Alaska. As of 2005 Alaska kept more than 30% of its prisoners in private facilities out of state, most of them at the Florence", "title": "Alaska Department of Corrections" } ]
[ { "docid": "996476", "text": "Ketchikan, Alaska Ketchikan ( ; ) is a city in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, United States, the southeasternmost city in Alaska. With a population at the 2010 census of 8,050, it is the fifth-most populous city in the state, and tenth-most populous community when census-designated places are included. The surrounding borough, encompassing suburbs both north and south of the city along the Tongass Highway (most of which are commonly regarded as a part of Ketchikan, albeit not a part of the city itself), plus small rural settlements accessible mostly by water, registered a population of 13,477 in that same", "title": "Ketchikan, Alaska" }, { "docid": "996500", "text": "of students to Ketchikan during the spring, and students from Ketchikan travel to Kanayama the following summer. Ketchikan students travel across Japan, with the majority of their time spent in Kanayama with home-stay families, attending classes and touring the town. Ketchikan, Alaska Ketchikan ( ; ) is a city in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, United States, the southeasternmost city in Alaska. With a population at the 2010 census of 8,050, it is the fifth-most populous city in the state, and tenth-most populous community when census-designated places are included. The surrounding borough, encompassing suburbs both north and south of the", "title": "Ketchikan, Alaska" }, { "docid": "996949", "text": "Nome, Alaska Nome (; ) is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. In 2016 the population was estimated at 3,797, a rise from the 3,598 recorded in the 2010 Census, up from 3,505 in 2000. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901, and was once the most-populous city in Alaska. Nome lies within the region of the Bering Straits Native Corporation, which is headquartered in Nome. The city of Nome claims to", "title": "Nome, Alaska" }, { "docid": "996982", "text": "J. Sims, M.D. (Pegasus 2018). Nome, Alaska Nome (; ) is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. In 2016 the population was estimated at 3,797, a rise from the 3,598 recorded in the 2010 Census, up from 3,505 in 2000. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901, and was once the most-populous city in Alaska. Nome lies within the region of the Bering Straits Native Corporation, which is headquartered in Nome. The", "title": "Nome, Alaska" }, { "docid": "6166107", "text": "Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods is a 1991 strategy video game in the \"Populous\" series for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS-based computers, developed by Bullfrog Productions. \"Populous II\" was remade and remastered for the Nintendo DS in 2008. \"Populous II\" is a direct sequel to Bullfrog's earlier game \"Populous\" and is one of the company's most notable games. Like its predecessor, \"Populous II\" is a god game, where the player is guiding his people in battle against the followers of an enemy god. Whereas \"Populous\" only generally alluded to undefined", "title": "Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods" }, { "docid": "2593909", "text": "States. The \"Second Organic Act\" of 1912, renamed the District of Alaska as the Territory of Alaska. By 1916, its population was about 58,000. James Wickersham, a Delegate to Congress, introduced Alaska's first statehood bill, but it failed due to lack of interest from Alaskans. Even President Warren G. Harding's unprecedented visit in 1923 (just days before his death) could not create widespread interest in statehood. Under the conditions of the Second Organic Act, Alaska had been split into four divisions. The most populous of the divisions, whose capital was Juneau, wondered if it could become a separate state from", "title": "Territory of Alaska" }, { "docid": "7725025", "text": "Aristocrat-dominated Georgian Dublin was the second-most populous city at the time of the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 (it was also the fifth-most populous in Europe), and was often described as the second city of the UK. Though it lost that position towards the end of the 19th century as the empire's Victorian cities grew through more rapid industrialisation. Dublin, and the rest of the Republic of Ireland, became independent of the UK in the 1920s. Later, the title Second City of Empire or Second City of the British Empire was claimed by", "title": "Second city of the United Kingdom" }, { "docid": "4125426", "text": "the Shaman ascends to godhood, and further helps her people conquer the Matak, Chumara and Dakini in one final conflict. \"Populous: The Beginning\" was the first in the series developed with entirely 3D graphics. The game was published more than four years after \"\" with developers stating the delay was due to waiting for the hardware specifications to come along enough that they would allow them to do something very different and new. Producer Stuart Whyte said of the work, \"We're really proud of what we've done in software because it does look really nice.\" The \"Populous\" series inspired the", "title": "Populous: The Beginning" }, { "docid": "888833", "text": "Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska Lake and Peninsula Borough is a borough in the state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,631. The borough seat of King Salmon is located in neighboring Bristol Bay Borough, although is not the seat of that borough. The most populous community in the borough is the city of Newhalen. With an average of 0.0296 inhabitants/km² (0.0767/sq mi), the Lake and Peninsula Borough is the second least densely populated organized county-equivalent in the United States; only the unorganized Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area has a lower density. The borough has an area of", "title": "Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska" }, { "docid": "4125432", "text": "decided the game failed to live up to the previous games in the series. More charitably, \"GamePro\"s Peter Olafson wrote: \"\"Populous: The Beginning\" is not a bad game, in fact a good one; but it's a different game—one without a quintessential quality that defined \"Populous\".\" Populous: The Beginning Populous: The Beginning is a real-time strategy video game and is the third entry in the \"Populous\" video game series, developed by Bullfrog Productions. The game was released in 1998 on Microsoft Windows, and in 1999 for the PlayStation. Unlike earlier games in the series, which cast the player in the role", "title": "Populous: The Beginning" }, { "docid": "6166109", "text": "II\" is considerably more versatile and has a great deal more \"divine intervention\" effects than the original game. \"Populous\" would only bestow eight powers on the player but the sequel, \"Populous II\" has twenty-nine (30 in PC version). These are sub-divided into six categories of effect: earth, water, wind, fire, plants and people. The six categories have an individual \"manna meter\" which needs to be filled to a certain level to enable specific powers for usage. Manna is generated by population existing over time - the larger the population, the more manna is generated. Use of a power will deplete", "title": "Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods" }, { "docid": "16939378", "text": "Precambrian, Alaska was covered by a shallow sea. This sea was home to bacteria and stromatolites that would later fossilize. Most of the state continued to be submerged by the sea. By this time Alaska was home to brachiopods and trilobites. During the ensuing Ordovician and Silurian a chain of volcanic islands occupied what is now the eastern part of the state. These islands originated as a result of contemporary local tectonism. Coral reefs formed in the seas around these islands. The northern third of Alaska was still covered by seawater from the Devonian to the Permian. Local marine life", "title": "Paleontology in Alaska" }, { "docid": "5480152", "text": "Alaska State Capitol The Alaska State Capitol is the building that hosts the Alaska Legislature, Governor of Alaska and Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. Located in the state's capital, Juneau, the building was opened on February 14, 1931 as a federal building. After Alaska gained statehood, the building served as the home for the Alaska Legislature. Upon the purchase of Russian America, Sitka, Alaska became the Territory Capitol in 1867. After the capitol was moved to Juneau, the Legislature met in rented rooms around the city. Construction for a capitol building was partly funded by the United States Congress, but they", "title": "Alaska State Capitol" }, { "docid": "6396046", "text": "Assembly of the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska The Assembly of the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska is the governing body and legislative branch of the City and Borough of Juneau, the local government of Juneau, Alaska, United States. As Juneau is a unified municipality, its corporate limits encompass the historic town of Juneau (or present-day downtown), suburbs both urban and rural, as well as thousands of square miles of wilderness. The Assembly is headed by the mayor of Juneau. The assembly consists of nine members, which includes the mayor, elected in rotating tranches to three-year terms. Elections", "title": "Assembly of the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska" }, { "docid": "5990068", "text": "most associative with state police in lower-48 states. The trooper division is divided into five lettered detachments, corresponding to geographic regions of the state, for general policing. The division also contains several bureaus: Alaska Bureau of Investigation (ABI), Alaska State Fire Marshal Office, Alaska Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Enforcement (ABADE), Alaska Bureau of Highway Patrol, and Alaska Bureau of Judicial Services. The detachments are charged with division responsibilities within their geographic areas. The bureaus are responsible for the statewide discharge of their specific duties and overall responsibilities. Both detachments and bureaus are responsible for ensuring efforts are made towards", "title": "Alaska State Troopers" }, { "docid": "4125415", "text": "Populous: The Beginning Populous: The Beginning is a real-time strategy video game and is the third entry in the \"Populous\" video game series, developed by Bullfrog Productions. The game was released in 1998 on Microsoft Windows, and in 1999 for the PlayStation. Unlike earlier games in the series, which cast the player in the role of a god influencing loyal followers, \"The Beginning\" took a radical departure and placed the player in the role of a shaman, who directly leads her tribe against opponents. Throughout the twenty-five missions of the campaign, the player leads their tribe across a solar system,", "title": "Populous: The Beginning" }, { "docid": "6166113", "text": "Gaming World\" in 1992 stated that \"\"Populous II\" is an elaborate program that is instantly absorbing and addictive\", and later named it one of the year's best strategy games. In a 1993 survey of pre 20th-century strategy games the magazine gave the game three-plus stars out of five Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods is a 1991 strategy video game in the \"Populous\" series for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS-based computers, developed by Bullfrog Productions. \"Populous II\" was remade and remastered for the Nintendo DS in 2008. \"Populous II\" is a", "title": "Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods" }, { "docid": "4125417", "text": "prior to the beta release. \"Populous: The Beginning\" plays very differently from earlier titles and received mixed reviews. Critics noted the excellent graphics, while complaints were directed at the artificial intelligence and the indecision in game design between being a real time strategy title and a god game. \"GamePro\"s Peter Olafson wrote that \"Populous: The Beginning\" was a good game but was \"without a quintessential quality that defined \"Populous\".\" In \"Populous: The Beginning\", the player controls a female shaman and the tribe which follows her. Unlike the previous games in the series, \"The Beginning\" allows the player to directly control", "title": "Populous: The Beginning" }, { "docid": "6230245", "text": "In 1996, \"Next Generation\" listed the series as number 16 on their \"Top 100 Games of All Time\", commenting that \"aside from single-handedly creating a new genre overnight, Bullfrog's \"Populous\" is a great marriage of war-game strategy, resource management, and pure originality.\" Populous (series) Populous is a series of video games developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts. The first game in the series, \"Populous\", was released in 1989. At the time, it was hailed as revolutionary, and it coined the term \"god game\". The games involved the player taking on the role of a deity and leading", "title": "Populous (series)" }, { "docid": "5990060", "text": "Alaska State Troopers The Alaska State Troopers, officially the Division of Alaska State Troopers (AST), is the state police agency of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is a division of the Alaska Department of Public Safety (DPS). The Alaska State Troopers is a full-service law enforcement agency which handles both traffic and criminal law enforcement. The Alaska State Troopers is also involved in apprehending fugitives as part of the Alaska Fugitive Task Force, an inter-agency collaborative of Alaska police departments that cooperates with police agencies throughout the United States and less commonly with Interpol in apprehending wanted men and", "title": "Alaska State Troopers" }, { "docid": "5878704", "text": "on which Natives depended. When Congress passed the \"Second Organic Act\" in 1912, Alaska was reorganized, and renamed the Territory of Alaska. By 1916, its population was about 58,000. James Wickersham, a Delegate to Congress, introduced Alaska's first statehood bill, but it failed due to the small population and lack of interest from Alaskans. Even President Warren G. Harding's visit in 1923 could not create widespread interest in statehood. Under the conditions of the Second Organic Act, Alaska had been split into four divisions. The most populous of the divisions, whose capital was Juneau, wondered if it could become a", "title": "History of Alaska" }, { "docid": "13660847", "text": "effect. The new state's constitution called for the creation of borough governments to help manage the new state. Fairbanks and other areas were reluctant to impose an additional layer of government on themselves, and balked. In 1963, the Alaska Legislature passed the Mandatory Borough Act, which required the eight most populous areas of the state to form organized boroughs by 1964. Students from Fairbanks schools chose \"North Star\" as the Fairbanks' borough's name, and the Fairbanks North Star Borough came into existence on January 1, 1964. The years after statehood saw the military boom continue to boost the Fairbanks economy", "title": "History of Fairbanks, Alaska" }, { "docid": "20200232", "text": "Treadwell. 39 men were killed, 17 of whom were Serbian. During the First World War, many Serbian Americans volunteered to fight overseas, with thousands coming from Alaska. In 1930s and 40s Fairbanks, Yugoslav immigrants, mainly Serbs and Montenegrins, owned a great amount of businesses and bars in the city. In between the world wars, many Serbian Alaskan men returned to Yugoslavia to find brides and bring them back to Alaska to start families. Today there is a vibrant Serbian community, particularly in Juneau, but Serbs can be found across the state. There is even a Serbian restaurant in remote Healy.", "title": "Serbs in Alaska" }, { "docid": "13568165", "text": "Tin City, Alaska Tin City is an abandoned town except for a nearby minimally manned radar station, located at in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is situated at mouth of Cape Creek, on the Bering Sea coast, southeast of Cape Prince of Wales on the Seward Peninsula. They also have the nearby Tin City LRRS (Long Range Radar Site) Airport. Tin ore was discovered on Cape Mountain in July 1902. A mining camp was established at the base of the mountain in 1903 and the Tin City post office was opened in 1904. By", "title": "Tin City, Alaska" }, { "docid": "18392195", "text": "as a contributing property to Creek Street Historic District in 2014. The Star (Ketchikan, Alaska) The Star is a historic commercial building at 5 Creek Street in Ketchikan, Alaska, United States. It is the only one of a once-numerous collection of brothels that famously lined Creek Street to retain its historical integrity, and was one of the largest in the city. The Star's origins (like those of other brothels on Creek Street) lay in a 1903 city ordinance banning brothels from the city center, after which those businesses began building up what is now Creek Street on stilts over the", "title": "The Star (Ketchikan, Alaska)" }, { "docid": "18392193", "text": "The Star (Ketchikan, Alaska) The Star is a historic commercial building at 5 Creek Street in Ketchikan, Alaska, United States. It is the only one of a once-numerous collection of brothels that famously lined Creek Street to retain its historical integrity, and was one of the largest in the city. The Star's origins (like those of other brothels on Creek Street) lay in a 1903 city ordinance banning brothels from the city center, after which those businesses began building up what is now Creek Street on stilts over the north bank of Ketchikan Creek. The Star was probably built as", "title": "The Star (Ketchikan, Alaska)" }, { "docid": "5990100", "text": "in Alaska. Alaska State Troopers appear prominently and regularly on other TV reality shows such as \"Ice Road Truckers\", \"Tougher in Alaska\" and \"Deadliest Catch\". They were also featured occasionally on the show \"Northern Exposure\" as the Alaska State Police. Alaska State Troopers were highly visible during the 2008 Presidential campaign, providing security detail supplemental personnel to the US Secret Service while protecting former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Alaska State Troopers The Alaska State Troopers, officially the Division of Alaska State Troopers (AST), is the state police agency of the U.S. state of Alaska. It", "title": "Alaska State Troopers" }, { "docid": "6151580", "text": "Transportation in Alaska This article discusses transportation in the U.S. state of Alaska. Alaska is arguably the least-connected state in terms of road transportation. The state's road system covers a relatively small area of the state, linking the central population centers and the Alaska Highway, the principal route out of the state through Canada. The state capital, Juneau, is not accessible by road, which has spurred several debates over the decades about moving the capital to a city on the road system. One unique feature of the road system is the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, which links the Seward Highway", "title": "Transportation in Alaska" }, { "docid": "13568166", "text": "1907 it had a few widely scattered houses and two companies operating out of the village. The post office closed in 1909. Tin City, Alaska Tin City is an abandoned town except for a nearby minimally manned radar station, located at in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is situated at mouth of Cape Creek, on the Bering Sea coast, southeast of Cape Prince of Wales on the Seward Peninsula. They also have the nearby Tin City LRRS (Long Range Radar Site) Airport. Tin ore was discovered on Cape Mountain in July 1902. A mining", "title": "Tin City, Alaska" }, { "docid": "6008287", "text": "What Hurts the Most \"What Hurts the Most\" is a song written by American songwriter Jeffrey Steele and English songwriter Steve Robson. Initially recorded by country music artist Mark Wills in 2003 on his album \"And the Crowd Goes Wild\", it was covered by Bellefire a year later. The first version to be released as a single was by pop singer Jo O'Meara in 2005, from the album \"Relentless\". Later that year, country band Rascal Flatts covered the song as well, releasing it as the first single from the 2006 album \"Me and My Gang\", topping the U.S country and", "title": "What Hurts the Most" }, { "docid": "6008306", "text": "Credits taken from \"Perfect Day\" liner notes. What Hurts the Most \"What Hurts the Most\" is a song written by American songwriter Jeffrey Steele and English songwriter Steve Robson. Initially recorded by country music artist Mark Wills in 2003 on his album \"And the Crowd Goes Wild\", it was covered by Bellefire a year later. The first version to be released as a single was by pop singer Jo O'Meara in 2005, from the album \"Relentless\". Later that year, country band Rascal Flatts covered the song as well, releasing it as the first single from the 2006 album \"Me and", "title": "What Hurts the Most" }, { "docid": "4125428", "text": "the developers were forced to remove features due to technical constraints; for example, the \"Plague\" spell from previous \"Populous\" titles was dropped because in practice the spell was too frustrating. Originally, the game was known as \"Populous: The Third Coming\", but the name was changed by the time the game was shown in a fully playable beta form in late 1998. The game was the first in the series to be made without \"Populous\" creator Peter Molyneux, who had left Bullfrog to create Lionhead Studios. The music was composed by Mark Knight, who had joined Bullfrog's team in 1997. Bullfrog", "title": "Populous: The Beginning" }, { "docid": "6166108", "text": "deities, \"Populous II\" is specifically set under the backdrop of Greek mythology. The player is a demigod, one of Zeus's countless children with mortal women, and has to battle one Greek deity at a time until finally facing his father. Zeus has promised to let the player into the Pantheon on Olympus if he can survive all the battles. A data disk was also released for \"Populous II\", titled Populous II: The Challenge Games. This was set in Japanese mythology instead of Greek, and had each level as its individual challenge, slightly in the style of a puzzle game. \"Populous", "title": "Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods" }, { "docid": "6396048", "text": "that the 31st District includes the Juneau Airport precinct. The 1st Assembly District is mostly identical to the 32nd Election District represented by Sam Kito III, except for the aforementioned inclusion of Juneau Airport, in addition to the inclusion of communities outside of the CBJ: Gustavus, Kupreanof, Petersburg, Skagway and Tenakee Springs. Excepting these communities, the areawide \"district\" (or CBJ boundaries as a whole) are identical to Senate District P represented by Dennis Egan. Assembly of the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska The Assembly of the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska is the governing body and legislative branch", "title": "Assembly of the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska" }, { "docid": "4125424", "text": "cutscenes; all the followers recruited in the game are male. In addition to the organized tribes are 'wildmen', neutral characters who cluster in groups around trees and water. Though they cannot attack or be attacked, players can use the Shaman's Convert spell to bring wildmen under her tribe's control. \"Populous: The Beginning\" takes place before the first two games in the series. The player controls the Blue tribe, pitted against the three enemy tribes which control most of the solar system. The player's destiny as Shaman is to become a deity; only by defeating all the enemies in the system", "title": "Populous: The Beginning" }, { "docid": "912365", "text": "Washington County, Vermont Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Vermont. Named after George Washington, its county seat is the municipality of Montpelier, the least populous state capital in the United States, and the most populous municipality is Barre. As of the 2010 census, the population was 59,534, making it the third-most populous county in Vermont, but the third-least populous capital county in the United States after Hughes County, South Dakota and Franklin County, Kentucky. If Carson City, Nevada and Juneau, Alaska was treated as counties, Washington County would be the fifth-least populous capital county. Washington", "title": "Washington County, Vermont" }, { "docid": "11900131", "text": "Alaska State Defense Force The Alaska State Defense Force (ASDF) is the state defense force of Alaska. It is one of 23 such forces in the U.S. states. The Alaska State Defense Force is administered under the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, but is headed by a commander who reports directly to the governor of Alaska, who acts as commander-in-chief of the state defense force. The Alaska State Defense Force is the successor of the Alaska Territorial Guard founded during World War II. After the war ended and Alaska became a state in 1959, the Territorial Guard was", "title": "Alaska State Defense Force" }, { "docid": "4125422", "text": "multiplayer, either by modem connection (limited to two players), IPX, or over the Internet through an external matchmaking service. \"Populous: The Beginning\" allows for a maximum game size of four players playing against each other. \"Populous: The Beginning\" does not take place on Earth. Rather, the game takes place in a planetary system of twenty-five unnamed planets before the events of the previous titles; however, the universe within the game is seemingly unconnected with reality. While many of the planets are predominantly grasslands dotted with trees, other worlds feature wildly different terrains, such as a volcanic world and a planet", "title": "Populous: The Beginning" }, { "docid": "15411317", "text": "as a senator from a district which stretched as far north as Bettles and as far south as the Alaska Peninsula. In the 1966 election, Hammond defeated Democratic incumbent Grant Pearson, who lived in Nenana, from Naknek. Under population-based apportionment, many future legislative districts in rural Alaska would also cover vast amounts of the state. 5th Alaska State Legislature The Fifth Alaska State Legislature served from January 23, 1967, to January 26, 1969. The Alaska Legislature had largely been controlled by the Democratic Party since statehood took effect in 1959, as was the case with most territorial legislatures stretching as", "title": "5th Alaska State Legislature" }, { "docid": "10398638", "text": "Geography of Alaska Alaska is one of two U.S. states not bordered by another state; Hawaii the other. Alaska has more ocean coastline than all of the other U.S. states combined. About of Canadian territory separate Alaska from Washington State. Alaska is thus an exclave of the United States that is part of the continental U.S. but is not part of the contiguous U.S. Alaska is also the only state, other than Hawaii, whose capital city is accessible only via ship or air, because no roads connect Juneau to the rest of the continent. The state is bordered by Yukon", "title": "Geography of Alaska" }, { "docid": "6008294", "text": "memorial on the side of the road, to kneel down and say that she saw him, answering his question asked earlier in the video \"What do you see?\" when they were talking about the future. The music video was directed by Shaun Silva in early 2006. Rascal Flatts' version of the song is set in the key of F minor, with a vocal range of E♭3-C 5. The main chord pattern is Fm-D♭-A♭-E♭. From \"Me and My Gang\" liner notes. In 2007, German Eurodance trio Cascada recorded a cover of \"What Hurts the Most\" for their second studio album, \"Perfect", "title": "What Hurts the Most" }, { "docid": "8400", "text": "the action of the sea is directed\". Alaska is the northernmost and westernmost state in the United States and has the most easterly longitude in the United States because the Aleutian Islands extend into the Eastern Hemisphere. Alaska is the only non-contiguous U.S. state on continental North America; about of British Columbia (Canada) separates Alaska from Washington. It is technically part of the continental U.S., but is sometimes not included in colloquial use; Alaska is not part of the contiguous U.S., often called \"the Lower 48\". The capital city, Juneau, is situated on the mainland of the North American continent", "title": "Alaska" }, { "docid": "31804", "text": "larger, commercial airplanes, include Bethel, Dillingham, King Salmon, Nome, Utqiagvik, Kodiak Island, Kotzebue, and Unalaska-Dutch Harbor. Most parts of Alaska that are off the road or ferry system can be reached by small bush airplanes. Travel between smaller communities or to and from hub communities is typically accomplished by snow machines, boats, or ATVs. The Bush (Alaska) In Alaska, the bush typically refers to any region of the state not connected to the North American road network or ready access to the state's ferry system. A large proportion of Alaska's native populations live in the bush, often substantially depending on", "title": "The Bush (Alaska)" }, { "docid": "3057165", "text": "financial centre of the country, and also grew to become the most populous city in the state and the country. Lagos is the most populous city in the state and in Nigeria as a whole. The conurbation is one of the most populous in the world. As of 2015, the population of Lagos city was approximately 16 million. Lagos is a port which originated on islands separated by creeks, such as Lagos Island, fringing the southwest mouth of Lagos Lagoon while protected from the Atlantic Ocean by barrier islands and long sand spits such as Bar Beach, which stretch up", "title": "Lagos State" }, { "docid": "8062591", "text": "Government of Alaska The government of Alaska in common with state and federal governments of the United States, has three branches of government: the executive, consisting of the Governor of Alaska and the state agencies; the state legislature consisting of two chambers, the House of Representatives and the Senate; and the judiciary consisting of the Supreme court and lower courts. Alaska has 246 federally recognized tribal governments and one federal Indian (Native American) reservation. The Governor of Alaska is the senior-most official of the Alaska executive branch. The main Alaska state agencies are the: Other agencies are the: Alaska has", "title": "Government of Alaska" }, { "docid": "4647082", "text": "unlike any other state, not all of Alaska is subdivided into county-equivalent boroughs. Owing to the state's low population density, most of the land is contained in what the state terms the Unorganized Borough which, as the name implies, has no intermediate borough government of its own, but is administered directly by the state government. Many of Alaska's boroughs are consolidated city-borough governments; other cities exist both within organized boroughs and the Unorganized Borough. California has several different and overlapping forms of local government. Cities, counties, and the one consolidated city-county can make ordinances (local laws), including the establishment and", "title": "Local government in the United States" }, { "docid": "8062593", "text": "appellate courts. The Chief Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court is the administrative head of the Alaska Court System. Alaska is divided into 16 boroughs (including unified municipalities), as opposed to \"counties.\" The function is the same, but whereas some states use a three-tiered system of decentralization — state/county/township — most of Alaska only uses two tiers — state/borough. Owing to the state's low population density, most of the land is located in the Unorganized Borough which, as the name implies, has no intermediate borough government of its own, but is administered directly by the state government. Currently (2000 census)", "title": "Government of Alaska" }, { "docid": "5480157", "text": "been restored to their original 1930s appearance, especially on the second and fifth floors—the latter originally had federal courtrooms. In 2012, the State of Alaska undertook a 4-year, $33 million project to provide seismic upgrades to the building as well as further restore the building to its original appearance. Alaska State Capitol The Alaska State Capitol is the building that hosts the Alaska Legislature, Governor of Alaska and Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. Located in the state's capital, Juneau, the building was opened on February 14, 1931 as a federal building. After Alaska gained statehood, the building served as the home", "title": "Alaska State Capitol" }, { "docid": "11900142", "text": "are required by law to grant an unpaid leave of absence to any employee who is a member of the Alaska State Defense Force, and who is activated to perform active state service. The employer must also guarantee the employee's right to return to their employment position upon that employee's return from deployment. Alaska State Defense Force The Alaska State Defense Force (ASDF) is the state defense force of Alaska. It is one of 23 such forces in the U.S. states. The Alaska State Defense Force is administered under the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, but is headed", "title": "Alaska State Defense Force" }, { "docid": "20055359", "text": "of the World Emperor\" sold over 20,000 units. Ron Pehr reviewed \"The City State of the World Emperor\" in \"The Space Gamer\" No. 34. Pehr commented that \"What we have here is a big-time, industrial-grade playing aid... It does an excellent job. Unless you play all day every day, it will be a long time before your players can fully explore every facet of the \"City State of the World Emperor\" (CSWE). The city map itself is larger than that of their previous \"City State of the Invincible Overlord\", and my players haven't exhausted it in 4 years. The CSWE's", "title": "City State of the World Emperor" }, { "docid": "12894824", "text": "of the Administration Address\" given by the City Manager who serves as the City's Chief Executive Officer rather than the Mayor. The current City Manager is Mark L Ryckman. His most recent Status of the Administration Address\" can be found at www.cityofcorning.com The timing, venue and purpose of a State of the City Address can vary significantly depending on local history and practice. Most State of the City Addresses are held early in the calendar year, but some mayors deliver their address as late as December of each year. In many American and Canadian cities, by law or tradition, the", "title": "State of the City address" }, { "docid": "8056357", "text": "Alaska State Library The Alaska State Library and Historical Collections and Talking Book Center are located on the second floor of the Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building in Juneau, Alaska. The Alaska State Library: The State Library coordinates library services throughout the state and serves as the information resource for the state government and the Legislature. It includes the Historical Section, which collects Alaskana and preserves private papers and materials of historical value to the state. The State Library also collects, catalogs and makes available state agency publications. This is done through the Documents Depository, which distributes the publications to depository", "title": "Alaska State Library" }, { "docid": "4125427", "text": "term \"god game\", with players assuming the role of an omniscient being who lead his people to new territories or into battle. Alan Wright, the game's project leader, stressed both the departure \"Populous: The Beginning\" took from previous titles in the series, as well as distinguishing itself from similar games like \"Command & Conquer\". The elements of smart villagers and terrain-reforming, he said, \"adds a whole level of gameplay not found in those titles.\" Bullfrog representative Brian Allen asserted that these departures distinguished \"Populous: The Beginning\" from other real-time strategy games on the market at the time. In some aspects,", "title": "Populous: The Beginning" }, { "docid": "4125429", "text": "released the \"Populous: The Beginning — Undiscovered Worlds\" in 1999. The expansion was only made available in the UK and US. The add-on offered twelve new single-player and twelve multiplayer levels, with a continuation of the storyline begun in the previous game, where the player takes on the role of a new shaman who must restore peace to the solar system. \"Populous: The Beginning\" received generally favorable reviews on release with some strong criticisms to follow. IGN's Ward Trent was especially smitten with the immersive 3D graphics. \"Edge\" stated, \"previous Bullfrog games have always placed gameplay above graphical finesse, but", "title": "Populous: The Beginning" }, { "docid": "4125416", "text": "dominating enemy tribes and tapping new sources of magic, with the ultimate goal of the shaman attaining godhood herself. \"Populous: The Beginning\" was the first entry in the series to use 3D computer graphics; Bullfrog waited four years after \"\" so that the graphics technology could catch up to their vision for a new and different game in the series. The developers considered the addition of terrain deformation and manipulation, combined with \"smart\" villagers who automatically attended to tasks, to add an entirely new dimension to the series. The game's original title was \"Populous: The Third Coming\" before being changed", "title": "Populous: The Beginning" }, { "docid": "9406947", "text": "That Happens Will Happen Today\". Tom Tykwer plans to adapt the novel into a film. In 2009, the novel received the Prix Médicis étranger in France. What Is the What What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a 2006 novel written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. As a boy, Achak is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when", "title": "What Is the What" }, { "docid": "5990086", "text": "(CAP), in providing protection from threats to national security as it assists the US Coast Guard, US Air Force and US Army air operations as requested. The Alaska State Trooper DPS Academy is located in the Sawmill Creek area of Sitka, Alaska. With recent television exposure on the National Geographic reality television series \"Alaska State Troopers\", the DPS Academy is known worldwide as a premier police training institution, as it trains recruits of the Alaska State Troopers, State fire marshals, Village Public Safety Officers (VPSO's) as well as other law enforcement personnel, including Alaska's several state universities campus police departments,", "title": "Alaska State Troopers" }, { "docid": "9173964", "text": "Alaska State Trooper Academy The Alaska State Trooper Academy is located in Sitka, Alaska, and trains Alaska State Troopers as well as other types of law enforcement personnel. It is technically known as the Alaska Department of Public Safety Training Academy and also the DPS Academy. In addition to state troopers, it trains municipal police officers, state park rangers, fire marshals, and Village public safety officers (VPSOs). The DPS Academy is typically commanded by a state trooper lieutenant, with a state trooper sergeant serving as the deputy commander. There are generally four to six state trooper corporals who serve as", "title": "Alaska State Trooper Academy" }, { "docid": "9406939", "text": "What Is the What What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a 2006 novel written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. As a boy, Achak is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when the Arab militia, referred to as \"murahaleen\" (which is Arabic for the deported), wipes out his Dinka village, Marial Bai. During the assault, he loses sight", "title": "What Is the What" }, { "docid": "1003355", "text": "Fort Yukon, Alaska Fort Yukon ( Gwich'yaa Zhee, translation: \"House on the Flats\") is a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population, predominately Gwich'in Alaska Natives, was 583 at the 2010 census, down from 595 in 2000. Fort Yukon is the hometown of Alaska Congressman Don Young. Served by Fort Yukon Airport, it is also known for having the record highest temperature in Alaska. This area north of the Arctic Circle was occupied for thousands of years by cultures of indigenous people and in historic times by the Gwich’in people. What became the", "title": "Fort Yukon, Alaska" }, { "docid": "1003364", "text": "Yukon. Fort Yukon, Alaska Fort Yukon ( Gwich'yaa Zhee, translation: \"House on the Flats\") is a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population, predominately Gwich'in Alaska Natives, was 583 at the 2010 census, down from 595 in 2000. Fort Yukon is the hometown of Alaska Congressman Don Young. Served by Fort Yukon Airport, it is also known for having the record highest temperature in Alaska. This area north of the Arctic Circle was occupied for thousands of years by cultures of indigenous people and in historic times by the Gwich’in people. What became", "title": "Fort Yukon, Alaska" }, { "docid": "15411315", "text": "5th Alaska State Legislature The Fifth Alaska State Legislature served from January 23, 1967, to January 26, 1969. The Alaska Legislature had largely been controlled by the Democratic Party since statehood took effect in 1959, as was the case with most territorial legislatures stretching as far back as the early 1930s. In the 1966 elections, Alaska followed the rest of the nation and voted Republican: incumbent governor William A. Egan and incumbent U.S. Representative Ralph J. Rivers both lost reelection to Republican challengers (Walter J. Hickel and Howard W. Pollock, respectively). Republicans also wound up with control of both houses", "title": "5th Alaska State Legislature" }, { "docid": "8056359", "text": "available audio and braille books and magazines via Braille & Audio Reading Download (BARD) service. In September 2013, the BARD mobile application for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch became available as a free download in the iTunes App Store. The Android mobile application is also available as a free download. Alaska State Library The Alaska State Library and Historical Collections and Talking Book Center are located on the second floor of the Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building in Juneau, Alaska. The Alaska State Library: The State Library coordinates library services throughout the state and serves as the information resource for the", "title": "Alaska State Library" }, { "docid": "4552968", "text": "Truman Sports Complex which was one of the first modern large single purpose sports stadiums (previously, stadiums were designed for multipurpose use). Other firms with sports design presence in Kansas City that trace their roots to Kivett include Ellerbe Becket Inc. and HNTB Corp.. 360 Architecture is also based in Kansas City. Populous is credited for spearheading a new era of baseball park design in the 1990s, beginning with Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore. At Camden Yards, and in other stadiums built by Populous soon thereafter, such as Coors Field in Denver and Progressive Field in Cleveland, the", "title": "Populous (company)" }, { "docid": "10398644", "text": "under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Various private interests own the remaining land, totaling less than 1%. Alaska is administratively divided into \"boroughs,\" as opposed to \"counties.\" The function is the same, but whereas some states use a three-tiered system of decentralization — state/county/township — most of Alaska only uses two tiers — state/borough. Owing to the state's low population density, most of the land is located in the Unorganized Borough which, as the name implies, has no intermediate borough government of its own, but is administered directly by the state government. Currently (2000 census) 57.71 percent of Alaska's", "title": "Geography of Alaska" }, { "docid": "9686494", "text": "owner. She called out which was the rightful owner, and the king said she had meddled and must go home. She asked him to eat one last meal with her, and then she drugged it. When he was asleep, she put him in the carriage and went home. When the king woke, she told him she was entitled to him, because she valued him most of everything in the castle. The king took her back to the castle and gave her the right to judge all his affairs. What Is the Fastest Thing in the World? What Is the Fastest", "title": "What Is the Fastest Thing in the World?" }, { "docid": "6008298", "text": "hip-swiveling chorus after a flurry of robotic drum beats is certainly a good giggle.\" Kurt Kirton of About.com named it one of the album's standout tracks. Chuck Taylor of \"Billboard\" gave \"What Hurts the Most\" a positive review, writing that \"this track is remixed into a frothy uptempo anthem, complete with requisite percussive thump and an exulted vocal (with 12 mixes in all) that leaves the lyric's potential heartbreak in the dust.\" Taylor ended his review, asking \"Wouldn't it be wondrous if American programmers renewed their vow in 2008 to put variety on the airwaves—or do we really need a", "title": "What Hurts the Most" }, { "docid": "15771402", "text": "Alaska State Museum The Alaska State Museum is a museum in Juneau, Alaska, United States. After a $139m renovation, it re-opened after a two-year and three-month closure. The museum closed temporarily on February 28, 2014 for the creation of a new facility that joined the State Libraries, Archives and Museum (SLAM) together in a comprehensive research facility. The old structure, designed by Linn A. Forrest, was demolished in August 2014, and a new facility opened on the same footprint (but larger), on June 6, 2016. The new building was named after the first curator for the Alaska State Museum, the", "title": "Alaska State Museum" }, { "docid": "9686492", "text": "of which was good and some bad. The king set riddles to them: whoever guessed the riddles would get good land. The first riddle was what was the fastest thing in the world. The stupid brother's daughter told him what to say; his brother guessed a bird or a horse, and the stupid brother said the mind. The second riddle was what was the heaviest thing in the world; the clever brother guessed stone or iron, and the stupid brother repeated his daughter's answer: fire because no one could lift it. The third was what was the most important thing", "title": "What Is the Fastest Thing in the World?" }, { "docid": "996119", "text": "draw visitors from within Alaska, mostly from the community's trading area throughout Interior Alaska and the North Slope. Alaska State Parks operates the Chena River State Recreation Site, a park in the middle of Fairbanks with a campground, trails, and a boat launch. (There is a similarly named Chena River State Recreation Area, a much larger park, about outside Fairbanks) Fairbanks is twinned with: Fairbanks, Alaska Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska. 2016", "title": "Fairbanks, Alaska" }, { "docid": "9238013", "text": "New York (state) New York is a state in the Northeastern United States. New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States. With an estimated 19.85 million residents in 2017, it is the fourth most populous state. To distinguish the state from the city in the state with the same name, it is sometimes called New York State. The state's most populous city, New York City, makes up over 40% of the state's population. Two-thirds of the state's population lives in the New York metropolitan area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. The state", "title": "New York (state)" }, { "docid": "4552973", "text": "blame Populous\" for trends in their new stadiums—as it is ultimately team owners that plan what they want in future stadiums—but they \"certainly enabled\" such changes. In early 2018 Populous, together with Madison Square Garden Company, announced plans to construct two grandiose entertainment arenas: Sphere Las Vegas and Sphere London. According to plans, both vast venues will be futuristically designed and equipped with advanced acoustic and visual technologies. While some, including Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, support the development of the London Venue, others are concerned about the feasibility of the plans. Chris Kyriakakis, audio signal processing professor at the", "title": "Populous (company)" }, { "docid": "4552967", "text": "developed as an urban renewal project through tax incentives from the city's Planned Industrial Expansion Authority. It was the first major company to relocate to the neighborhood in several decades. In March 2009, HOK Sport Venue Event changed its name to Populous after a managers’ buyout by HOK Group. In October 2015, Populous relocated to its new headquarters at the newly renovated Board of Trade building at 4800 Main street near the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City. The company is one of several Kansas City-based sports design firms that trace their roots to Kivett and Myers which designed the", "title": "Populous (company)" }, { "docid": "6008296", "text": "Hurts the Most\" was solicited to mainstream radio stations on December 11, 2007 in the United States, following its digital and physical release within the two weeks before. In Germany, the cover was released as a CD and digital single on January 4, 2008, through Zeitgeist. In contrast to the original version, Cascada's cover of \"What Hurts the Most\" deviates from the country sound and replaces it with Europop electronic beats and elements typical of DJ Manian and Yanou productions. However, the song opens with an acoustic guitar playing and Horler's vocals being reverbed by electropop synths. Sharon Mawer of", "title": "What Hurts the Most" }, { "docid": "16713981", "text": "Robert Clift and Adam Schwemley, two Alaska Libertarian party members, were appointed to the Alaska Public Office Commission by Governor Bill Walker. The commission positions are five year appointments. Libertarian Party of Alaska The Libertarian Party of Alaska is the state affiliate of the Libertarian Party in Alaska. It has the highest percentage of registered Libertarians of any U.S. state. Elected Libertarians in Alaska include Richard Robb, Bethel City Council. Former elected officials include state representatives Dick Randolph, Who was the first person in the United States to be elected to partisan office under the banner of the Libertarian Party", "title": "Libertarian Party of Alaska" }, { "docid": "16713979", "text": "Libertarian Party of Alaska The Libertarian Party of Alaska is the state affiliate of the Libertarian Party in Alaska. It has the highest percentage of registered Libertarians of any U.S. state. Elected Libertarians in Alaska include Richard Robb, Bethel City Council. Former elected officials include state representatives Dick Randolph, Who was the first person in the United States to be elected to partisan office under the banner of the Libertarian Party with his election to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1978, as well as Ken Fanning, who became the second person elected to a U.S. state legislature under the", "title": "Libertarian Party of Alaska" }, { "docid": "5990083", "text": "and Soldotna. SERT is an added, voluntary assignment for specially-qualified Troopers in addition to their other duties. SERT Troopers train regularly and remain on call after hours for emergencies. Alaska State Troopers organize Search and Rescue resources from multiple agencies and provide assets when needed. The Alaska State Troopers' six core missions in meeting these responsibilities are: The Alaska State Troopers trace special duties back to the onset of World War II, when Territorial Highway Patrolmen watched for Japanese invaders and saboteurs by guarding and patrolling Alaska seaports, railroad tracks, airports, military posts and other important facilities. This was especially", "title": "Alaska State Troopers" } ]
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What is the name of the whaling ship that is the focus of the classic Moby Dick?
[ "Pequod (disambiguation)", "Pequod" ]
[ { "docid": "268213", "text": "Moby-Dick Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship \"Pequod\", for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, the work's genre classifications range from late Romantic to early Symbolist. \"Moby-Dick\" was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "5144360", "text": "the ship's affairs to these two.\" Peleg served as first mate under Ahab on \"Pequod\" before obtaining his own command, and is responsible for all her whalebone embellishments. The depiction of life aboard the ship was based on Melville's own experiences in whaling (specifically aboard the \"Acushnet\" in the 1840s) and thus can be taken in many ways as representative of mid-19th-century Nantucket whaling. Pequod (Moby-Dick) Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel \"Moby-Dick\" by American author Herman Melville. \"Pequod\" and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, are central to the story, which,", "title": "Pequod (Moby-Dick)" }, { "docid": "5144356", "text": "Pequod (Moby-Dick) Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel \"Moby-Dick\" by American author Herman Melville. \"Pequod\" and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, are central to the story, which, after the initial chapters, takes place almost entirely aboard the ship during a three-year whaling expedition in the Atlantic, Indian and South Pacific oceans. Most of the characters in the novel are part of \"Pequod\"s crew, including the narrator Ishmael. Ishmael encounters the ship after he arrives in Nantucket and learns of three ships that are about to leave on three-year cruises. Tasked by", "title": "Pequod (Moby-Dick)" }, { "docid": "16099781", "text": "Moby Dick (1998 miniseries) Moby Dick is a 1998 American television miniseries based on Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name. It was filmed in Australia in 1997 and first released in the United States in 1998. The miniseries consisted of two episodes, each running two hours with commercials on March 15 and 16 of 1998 on the USA Network. Ishmael is a young sailor who joins the crew of the whaling ship \"Pequod\"; Captain Ahab is in charge of \"Pequod\". Queequeg meets Ishmael at a motel and joins Ishmael in his whaling journey. Ahab rejects the repeated pleas", "title": "Moby Dick (1998 miniseries)" }, { "docid": "5412329", "text": "Moby Dick (1956 film) Moby Dick is a 1956 film adaptation of Herman Melville's novel \"Moby-Dick\". It was directed by John Huston with a screenplay by Huston and Ray Bradbury. The film starred Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, and Leo Genn. The music score was written by Philip Sainton. Set in 19th-century New England, the story follows the whaling ship \"Pequod\" and its crew. Leading them is Captain Ahab, who was almost killed in an encounter with the \"great white whale\", Moby Dick, which bit off much of his left leg. Now he is out for revenge. With the crew that", "title": "Moby Dick (1956 film)" }, { "docid": "1730603", "text": "morning Ishmael and Queequeg head for Nantucket. Ishmael signs up for a voyage on the whaler \"Pequod\", under Captain Ahab. Ahab is obsessed by the white whale, Moby Dick, who on a previous voyage has severed his leg. In his quest for revenge Ahab has lost all sense of responsibility, and when the whale sinks the ship, all crewmembers drown, with the exception of Ishmael: “And I only am escaped alone to tell thee” (Job) says the epigraph. Ishmael keeps himself afloat on a coffin until he is picked up by another whaling ship, the \"Rachel\". The name Ishmael is", "title": "Ishmael (Moby-Dick)" }, { "docid": "13998617", "text": "for the opera), who is a loner and newcomer to whaling. Dawn breaks and the call is made for \"All Hands!\" The crew raises the ship's sails. Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask talk about Ahab, whom no one has seen since the Pequod left Nantucket. After the crew sings of whales, wealth and home, Captain Ahab suddenly appears. He tells them of Moby Dick, the white whale that took off one of his legs. He then nails a gold doubloon to the mast and promises it to the man who first sights Moby Dick. Ahab explains that the real reason for", "title": "Moby-Dick (opera)" }, { "docid": "268238", "text": "boats. Fedallah's corpse, still entangled in the fouled lines, is lashed to the whale's back, so Moby Dick turns out to be the hearse Fedallah prophesied. \"Possessed by all the fallen angels\", Ahab plants his harpoon in the whale's flank. Moby Dick smites the whaleboat, tossing its men into the sea. Only Ishmael is unable to return to the boat. He is left behind in the sea, and so is the only crewman of the \"Pequod\" to survive the final encounter. The whale now fatally attacks the \"Pequod\". Ahab then realizes that the destroyed ship is the hearse made of", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "268234", "text": "way to fix its location. The \"Pequod\" is now heading southeast toward Moby Dick. A man falls overboard from the mast. The life buoy is thrown, but both sink. Now Queequeg proposes that his superfluous coffin be used as a new life buoy. Starbuck orders the carpenter take care it is lidded and caulked. Next morning, the ship meets in another truncated gam with the \"Rachel\", commanded by Captain Gardiner from Nantucket. The \"Rachel\" is seeking survivors from one of her whaleboats which had gone after Moby Dick. Among the missing is Gardiner's young son. Ahab refuses to join the", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "13998623", "text": "wants to sight Moby Dick first. Below deck, Queequeg tells Greenhorn that he is dying and asks that a coffin be built for him. Pip begins to sing a lament, in which Greenhorn joins in. The storm now surrounds the \"Pequod\". Ahab sings defiantly, whilst lightning bolts engulf the ship and the masts glow with St. Elmo's fire. Ahab demands that the men hold their posts, stating that the white flame is a sign from heaven to guide them to Moby Dick. This freshy inspires the crew, to Starbuck's dismay. \"Scenes 4-7. Day Four: The next morning\" The \"Pequod\" has", "title": "Moby-Dick (opera)" }, { "docid": "1730599", "text": "Ishmael (Moby-Dick) Ishmael is a fictional character in Herman Melville's \"Moby-Dick\" (1851). Ishmael, the only surviving crewmember of the \"Pequod\", is the narrator of the book. His importance relies on his role as narrator; as a character, he is only a minor participant in the action and the main protagonist is Captain Ahab. The Biblical name has come to symbolize orphans, exiles, and social outcasts. Because he was the first person narrator, most of the criticism of \"Moby-Dick\" either confused Ishmael with the author himself or overlooked him. From the mid-twentieth century onward, critics distinguished Ishmael from Melville, establishing the", "title": "Ishmael (Moby-Dick)" }, { "docid": "18512049", "text": "splinters or drive them back to their ship. What seemed the White Whale's “infernal aforethought of ferocity” that every dismembering or death that he caused was not wholly regarded as that of an \" unintelligent agent.\" He bit off Ahab's leg, leaving Ahab to swear “wild vindictiveness” on him. Ishmael, however, is haunted by a \"nameless horror\" so \"mystical and well nigh ineffable\" that he could hardly express: It was \"the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me.\" At the end of the novel, Moby Dick destroys the \"Pequod\". Ahab and the crew are drowned, with the", "title": "Moby Dick (whale)" }, { "docid": "9932026", "text": "fleet of warships, of a sailor's corpse at sea on the North Atlantic \"off Madaket\" (which is a harbor on Nantucket Island) and its reburial with military honours, ending with the gun salute. It also makes the first reference to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, specifically to the fictional character Captain Ahab. Throughout the poem, Lowell uses the fate of the fictional Pequod, the whaling ship in Moby Dick, as a metaphor for the fate of Warren Winslow and his fellow Navy crewmen of the \"Turner\" during World War II. Section II introduces the Quaker graveyard in Nantucket and Lowell's cousin, and", "title": "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" }, { "docid": "14825950", "text": "revolving around the \"Pequod\". He is assigned to investigate, and thanks to a survivor from a recent attack by the White Whale, he comes to the conclusion that Ahab is on the hunt for Moby Dick. Meanwhile, the USS \"Essex\" is searching for the \"Pequod\" off Hawaii. When they go to active sonar, it attracts the attention of the wandering Moby Dick. The \"Essex\" engages what appears to be the sub they were searching for, but realizes too late that their adversary is biological just before the sub is destroyed by a torpedo it shot. Later the \"Pequod\" comes to", "title": "Moby Dick (2010 film)" }, { "docid": "268237", "text": "chase, Ahab leaves Starbuck in charge of the \"Pequod\". Moby Dick smashes the three boats that seek him into splinters and tangles their lines. Ahab is rescued, but his ivory leg and Fedallah are lost. Starbuck begs Ahab to desist, but Ahab vows to slay the white whale, even if he would have to dive through the globe itself to get his revenge. On the third day of the chase, Ahab sights Moby Dick at noon, and sharks appear, as well. Ahab lowers his boat for a final time, leaving Starbuck again on board. Moby Dick breaches and destroys two", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "11723000", "text": "Moby Dick Coin Known in the numismatic world as a \"Moby Dick Coin\", the Ecuadorian 8 Escudos doubloon, minted in Quito, Ecuador, between 1838 and 1843, is the one ounce of gold \"sixteen dollar piece\" Captain Ahab nails to the mast of the \"Pequod\", promising it to the first man who \"raises\" Moby-Dick. The coin is first mentioned in Herman Melville's novel \"Moby-Dick\", in Chapter 36 \"The Quarter Deck\" and later at length in Chapter 99 \"The Doubloon\". It is often confused as a Spanish doubloon, but this coin was not struck by the Spanish crown or endorsed by the", "title": "Moby Dick Coin" }, { "docid": "11723001", "text": "Spanish government. The Moby Dick coin was minted in the Republic of Ecuador, at the Quito mint, many years after its independence from Spain, reason the term \"Spanish\" must be taken as erroneous when referred to the origin of this rare specimen. Moby Dick Coin Known in the numismatic world as a \"Moby Dick Coin\", the Ecuadorian 8 Escudos doubloon, minted in Quito, Ecuador, between 1838 and 1843, is the one ounce of gold \"sixteen dollar piece\" Captain Ahab nails to the mast of the \"Pequod\", promising it to the first man who \"raises\" Moby-Dick. The coin is first mentioned", "title": "Moby Dick Coin" }, { "docid": "268224", "text": "him a rare whale steak. Fleece delivers a sermon to the sharks that fight each other to feast on the whale's carcass, tied to the ship, saying that their nature is to be voracious, but they must overcome it. The whale is prepared, beheaded, and barrels of oil are tried out. Standing at the head of the whale, Ahab begs it to speak of the depths of the sea. The \"Pequod\" next encounters the \"Jeroboam\", which not only lost its chief mate to Moby Dick, but also is now plagued by an epidemic. The whale carcass still lies in the", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "13998626", "text": "to Ahab. During the chase, Moby Dick destroys two whale boats in succession, drowning their crews. The whale then rams the \"Pequod\", which sinks. The whale next attacks Ahab's whale boat. All but Ahab jump or fall off. Finally alone with the white whale, Ahab cries out and stabs at Moby Dick, before he is dragged down into the sea. \"Epilogue: Many days later\" Greenhorn floats on Queequeg's coffin, barely alive, singing Queequeg's prayer. Gardiner calls out, thinking that he has found his missing son. Instead, he realises that Ahab and all but one of the crew of the \"Pequod\"", "title": "Moby-Dick (opera)" }, { "docid": "11522429", "text": "political correctness. Ignorant generations of the glory of the Western culture, of Homer, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Voltaire, Molière, Jean Racine, Michelangelo, Benvenuto Cellini, were formed in these twenty years without knowledge of these people. Another book banned is Moby Dick by American writer Herman Melville, which is one of the extraordinary experiences in literature. Do you know what are the politically incorrect demonstrations of Moby Dick? In the whaling ship, the Pequod, there are only men, no woman who harpooned the whales. And Moby Dick tells about a whale hunt, hunt them is a crime against the environment. Being", "title": "Paulo Francis" } ]
[ { "docid": "7482652", "text": "Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick In space, the only source of income to space pirates, are hunting \"whales\", which are giant robotic spaceships drifting in space that are rich in resources when successfully captured. Ahab, a pirate captain was obsessed on a particular white whale, Moby Dick. But things change when Lucky joined his motley crew of pirates and refugees. Ahab has a deep hatred for Moby Dick because it took his left eye and left leg from him, following an attack Ahab led on an unregistered ship (which turned out to be carrying civilians). Lucy Voiced by Monica", "title": "Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick" }, { "docid": "268290", "text": "mention of the composition of what became \"Moby-Dick\" is the final paragraph of the letter Melville wrote to Richard Henry Dana, Jr. on May 1, 1850: Some scholars have concluded that Melville composed \"Moby-Dick\" in two or even three stages. Reasoning from a series of inconsistencies and structural developments in the final version, they hypothesize that the work he mentioned to Dana was, in the words of Lawrence Buell, a \"relatively straightforward\" whaling adventure, but that reading Shakespeare and his encounters with Hawthorne inspired him to rewrite it as \"an epic of cosmic encyclopedic proportions\". Bezanson objects that the letter", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "7482653", "text": "Rail. Lucy is the loyal bird of Captain Ahab, she delivers messages to the crew and is usually seen around Lucky and Atre. Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick In space, the only source of income to space pirates, are hunting \"whales\", which are giant robotic spaceships drifting in space that are rich in resources when successfully captured. Ahab, a pirate captain was obsessed on a particular white whale, Moby Dick. But things change when Lucky joined his motley crew of pirates and refugees. Ahab has a deep hatred for Moby Dick because it took his left eye and left", "title": "Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick" }, { "docid": "16099782", "text": "of Starbuck to stop chasing Moby Dick because the ship is operating at a loss and the quest for the sperm whale could end in everyone's death. Queequeg engages in passive resistance by completing refusing to do any work on the ship and throws down his harpoon. At the end, Ahab dies in his attempt to kill Moby Dick. The whaling ship sinks. Patrick Stewart took the lead role shortly after making a striking reference to the book, and quoting from it, in \"\". Gregory Peck appeared as Father Mapple more than 40 years after he played Ahab in the", "title": "Moby Dick (1998 miniseries)" }, { "docid": "13998618", "text": "the voyage is to find and destroy this one whale, and calls \"Death to Moby Dick!\". The crew are excited at this call, except for the first mate, Starbuck. Starbuck confronts Ahab about what this mission, viewing it as futile and blasphemous. Starbuck teaches Greenhorn about the dangers of whaling. Starbuck ponders that he'll never again seeing his wife and son. Subsequently, overcome with emotion, he orders Queequeg to complete the lesson. Stubb sights a pod of whales, but Ahab forbids the crew to hunt them, since Moby Dick has not yet been sighted. Starbuck orders the crew to sail", "title": "Moby-Dick (opera)" }, { "docid": "5131195", "text": "Cetology of Moby-Dick The cetology of Moby-Dick is Ishmael's zoological classification of whales. Although a work of fiction, Melville included sequences of chapters concerned largely with a pseudo-objective discussion of the properties of whales. The observations, based on a list of sources in addition to Melville's own experiences in whaling in the 1840s, include observations of various species from the order of \"Cetacea\". These chapters are the most likely to be omitted in abridged versions of the novel. Ishmael's observations are not a complete scientific study, even by standards of the day. Nevertheless, because of the general lack of knowledge", "title": "Cetology of Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "18512053", "text": "evil, the ocean, and the very universe itself. Yet the symbolism of the White Whale is deliberately enigmatic, and its inscrutability is a deliberate challenge to the reader. Ishmael describes the whale’s forehead as having wrinkles and scars on it that look like hieroglyphics. He muses on the difficulty of understanding what he saw: Moby Dick (whale) Moby Dick is a fictional sperm whale who is the main antagonist in Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name. Melville based the fictional whale partially on a real albino whale of that period called Mocha Dick. Ishmael describes Moby Dick as", "title": "Moby Dick (whale)" }, { "docid": "268243", "text": "in \"The Grand Armada\". A typhoon near Japan sets the stage for Ahab's confrontation with Moby Dick. The third pattern is the cetological documentation, so lavish that it can be divided into two subpatterns. These chapters start with the ancient history of whaling and a bibliographical classification of whales, getting closer with second-hand stories of the evil of whales in general and of Moby Dick in particular, a chronologically ordered commentary on pictures of whales. The climax to this section is chapter 57, \"Of whales in paint etc.\", which begins with the humble (a beggar in London) and ends with", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "17294947", "text": "In the Heart of the Sea (film) In the Heart of the Sea is a 2015 adventure-drama film directed and produced by Ron Howard and written by Charles Leavitt. It is based on Nathaniel Philbrick's non-fiction book of the same name, about the sinking of the American whaling ship \"Essex\" in 1820, an event that inspired the novel \"Moby-Dick\". An international co-production between the United States and Spain, the film stars Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson. The film premiered in New York City on December 7, 2015, and was released in cinemas", "title": "In the Heart of the Sea (film)" }, { "docid": "6919417", "text": "The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling (also known as The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Moby Dick) is the second book in \"The Pirates!\" series by Gideon Defoe, published in 2005 by The Orion Publishing Group. After \"The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists\", the pirates felt that their ship was in need of some repair. So they go to see Cutlass Liz, the beautiful yet ferocious pirate boat yard owner, where, after much showing off, the Pirate Captain buys the most expensive boat,", "title": "The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling" }, { "docid": "6919418", "text": "\"The Lovely Emma\". Not having much gold the Pirates are unable to pay for the boat, so they go on an adventure to find 6,000 dubloons. They go to Las Vegas, and get mixed up with Ahab, who is hunting Moby-Dick, the pirate Captain goes mad, and the Prize ham plays a major part in the whole adventure. The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling (also known as The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Moby Dick) is the second book in \"The Pirates!\" series by", "title": "The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling" }, { "docid": "268285", "text": "life. \"Moby-Dick\" contains large sections—most of them narrated by Ishmael—that seemingly have nothing to do with the plot, but describe aspects of the whaling business. Although a successful earlier novel about Nantucket whalers had been written, \"Miriam Coffin or The Whale-Fisherman\" (1835) by Joseph C. Hart, which is credited with influencing elements of Melville's work, most accounts of whaling tended to be sensational tales of bloody mutiny, and Melville believed that no book up to that time had portrayed the whaling industry in as fascinating or immediate a way as he had experienced it. Melville found the bulk of his", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "268288", "text": "contains passages embarrassingly similar to passages in \"Moby-Dick\". The fourth book, Reverend Henry T. Cheever's \"The Whale and His Captors\" (1850), was used for two episodes in \"Moby-Dick\" but probably appeared too late in the writing of the novel to be of much more use. Melville did plunder a fifth book, William Scoresby, Jr., \"An Account of the Arctic Regions with a History and Description of the Northern Whale Fishery\" (1820), though—unlike the other four books—its subject is the Greenland whale rather than the sperm whale. Although the book became the standard whaling reference soon after publication, Melville satirized and", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "268286", "text": "data on whales and whaling in five books, the most important of which was by the English ship's surgeon Thomas Beale, \"Natural History of the Sperm Whale\" (1839), a book of reputed authority which Melville bought on July 10, 1850. \"In scale and complexity,\" scholar Steven Olsen-Smith writes, \"the significance of [this source] to the composition of \"Moby-Dick\" surpasses that of any other source book from which Melville is known to have drawn.\" According to scholar Howard P. Vincent, the general influence of this source is to supply the arrangement of whaling data in chapter groupings. Melville followed Beale's grouping", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "14932428", "text": "\"Nisshin Maru\", killing one worker and ending the whaling season early due to damage to the ship. \"The Globe and Mail\" reviewer Fiona Morrow called it, \"an epic tale of hunter and hunted: a Moby-Dick for the environmental age.\" At the Edge of the World (2008 film) At the Edge of the World is a 2008 documentary which chronicles the efforts of animal rights activist Paul Watson and 45 other volunteers, who set out in two Sea Shepherd ships to hinder the Japanese whaling fleet in the waters around Antarctica. The film won Best Environmental Film at the Vancouver International", "title": "At the Edge of the World (2008 film)" }, { "docid": "18512047", "text": "Moby Dick (whale) Moby Dick is a fictional sperm whale who is the main antagonist in Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name. Melville based the fictional whale partially on a real albino whale of that period called Mocha Dick. Ishmael describes Moby Dick as having two prominent white areas around “a peculiar snow-white wrinkled forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump,” the rest of his body being of stripes and patches between white and gray. The animal's exact dimensions are never given, but the novel claims that the largest sperm whales can reach a length of ninety feet", "title": "Moby Dick (whale)" }, { "docid": "5131200", "text": "which Melville generically calls porpoises. Melville also lists \"a rabble of uncertain, fugitive half-fabulous whales\" of which he knew only by name and not experience. These were the Bottlenose Whale, Junk Whale, Pudding-Headed Whale, Cape Whale, Leading Whale, Cannon Whale, Scragg Whale, Coppered Whale, Elephant Whale, Iceberg Whale, Quog Whale, and Blue Whale. Their lack of description makes it difficult to know exactly which taxonomically correct whales these names might refer, if any. He notes that should any of them be caught and classified they could be easily incorporated into his system. Cetology of Moby-Dick The cetology of Moby-Dick is", "title": "Cetology of Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "3584235", "text": "strangulation due to the Revolution and Boston/Newport entities that controlled the market for the whale oil once harvested. This relocation would begin New Bedford's ascension to American whaling dominance. Larger cultural influence is evidenced by former whaler Herman Melville's novel \"Moby-Dick\", which is often cited as the Great American Novel. Currently, the town of New Bedford is experiencing a revival since the 1996 establishment of the New Bedford Whaling National Historic Site. This site, along with the Whaling Museum, capitalizes on the rich culture of whaling and the immigrant and free black populations that made up the \"City that Lit", "title": "History of whaling" }, { "docid": "268338", "text": "with the narrator introducing himself (\"I am an invisible man\"). The oration by Ellison's blind preacher Barbee resembles Father Mapple's sermon in that both prepare the reader for what is to come. American songwriter Bob Dylan elaborated on the book in his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech of 2017, citing the book as one of the three books that influenced him most. Dylan's description of the book ends with an acknowledgment: \"That theme, and all that it implies, would work its way into more than a few of my songs.\" Moby-Dick Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "13559501", "text": "has recently released her first solo album. It is still unclear whether she will record on future Moby Dick albums. Moby Dick (band) Moby Dick is a notable Serbian pop-dance band. It is named for the well-known novel \"Moby-Dick\" by Herman Melville. Moby Dick was formed in 1992, initially as a six-member band. They released their first album \"Kreni\" in 1993. In 1994, Ana Stanić joined the band as female vocal. The band was transformed to a duet as the other members from the initial lineup left. The second album, \"Moby Dick\" was released that year and was a great", "title": "Moby Dick (band)" }, { "docid": "13998627", "text": "have drowned. Gardiner asks Greenhorn his name. Greenhorn replies: \"Call me Ishmael.\" Moby-Dick (opera) Moby-Dick is an American opera in two acts, with music by Jake Heggie and libretto by Gene Scheer, adapted from Herman Melville's novel \"Moby-Dick\". The opera received its premiere at Dallas Opera in Dallas, Texas, on 30 April 2010. Heggie dedicated the opera to Stephen Sondheim. In 2005, Dallas Opera commissioned an opera from Heggie, intended for the company's inaugural season in the Winspear Opera House in 2010. In consultation with Terrence McNally, Heggie suggested \"Moby-Dick\" as the subject. Subsequently, Dallas Opera shared this commission jointly", "title": "Moby-Dick (opera)" }, { "docid": "268333", "text": "and his works, or at least those that could still be fairly easily obtained or remembered. Other works, especially the poetry, went largely forgotten. In 1917, American author Carl Van Doren became the first of this period to proselytize about Melville's value. His 1921 study, \"The American Novel\", called \"Moby-Dick\" a pinnacle of American Romanticism. In his 1923 idiosyncratic but influential \"Studies in Classic American Literature\", novelist, poet, and short story writer D. H. Lawrence celebrated the originality and value of American authors, among them Melville. Perhaps surprisingly, Lawrence saw \"Moby-Dick\" as a work of the first order despite his", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "15499597", "text": "the whaleship \"Essex\"—which set sail from Nantucket in the summer of 1819—is interwoven with the story of a young Herman Melville, whose own imaginative voyage into the deep would give rise to one of the greatest works of American literature, \"Moby Dick\". Other voices heard in the film include Robert Sean Leonard as Herman Melville, Josh Hamilton as Owen Chase & Peleg Folger and Vincent Kartheiser as Thomas Nickerson. The documentary's original soundtrack, composed by Brian Keane, was released by Valley Entertainment on CD and in digital formats. Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World Into the Deep: America,", "title": "Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World" }, { "docid": "12122004", "text": "capital to buy and be captain of his own ship; but no one wants to crew with him because of his passion for destroying Moby Dick. Nonetheless, he directs his first mate to shanghai a crew—and unknowingly takes his brother on board. Although the crew mutinies, Moby Dick is sighted, and Ahab heads the harpoon boats out to spear him; driven with a bloodlust, he harpoons Moby Dick and kills him. The crew boils him down for whale oil, and they return to New Bedford, where Ahab and Faith are reunited. One foreign language version of the 1930 film of", "title": "Moby Dick (1930 film)" }, { "docid": "13559499", "text": "Moby Dick (band) Moby Dick is a notable Serbian pop-dance band. It is named for the well-known novel \"Moby-Dick\" by Herman Melville. Moby Dick was formed in 1992, initially as a six-member band. They released their first album \"Kreni\" in 1993. In 1994, Ana Stanić joined the band as female vocal. The band was transformed to a duet as the other members from the initial lineup left. The second album, \"Moby Dick\" was released that year and was a great success, selling more than 200.000 copies. It included hits like \"Nema nas vise\", \"Brate prijatelju\", \"Zar nije te stid\", \"Bacila", "title": "Moby Dick (band)" }, { "docid": "268246", "text": "is structured around the two consciousnesses of Ahab and Ishmael, with Ahab as a force of linearity and Ishmael a force of digression. While both have an angry sense of being orphaned, they try to come to terms with this hole in their beings in different ways: Ahab with violence, Ishmael with meditation. And while the plot in \"Moby-Dick\" may be driven by Ahab's anger, Ishmael's desire to get a hold of the \"ungraspable\" accounts for the novel's lyricism. Buell sees a double quest in the book: Ahab's is to hunt Moby Dick, Ishmael's is \"to understand what to make", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "9357016", "text": "Moby Dick (musical) Moby Dick is a musical with a book by Robert Longden, and music and lyrics by Longden and Hereward Kaye. It received its first performances in 1990. A mixture of high camp, music hall-style smut, and wild anachronism overflowing with double entendres, the show focuses on the anarchic and nubile girls of St. Godley’s Academy for Young Ladies who, determined to save the institution from bankruptcy, decide to stage Herman Melville's classic novel in the school's swimming pool. Having become involved with the restoration of Oxford's Old Fire Station Theatre, producer Cameron Mackintosh sought a new musical", "title": "Moby Dick (musical)" }, { "docid": "8504917", "text": "18:42, for the last time after reaching the open ocean at Hoek van Holland. There is a suggestion that the appearance of Moby Dick in the Rhine had actually been the beginning of the environmental movement in Germany. In fact, around 1966 the first effective environmental protection laws in Germany were adopted. The Rhine, for example, through which \"Moby Dick\" swam at the time, was justifiably characterized as a sewer, since waste water from cities and chemical plants was for the most part poured in unfiltered. Moby Dick (Rhine) Moby Dick was a beluga, or white whale, that caused a", "title": "Moby Dick (Rhine)" }, { "docid": "11224957", "text": "and added a clay oven in 1989. The name references one of the biggest kabob joints in Tehran, which was right near the American Embassy during the Shah's time. It was called Moby Dick, apparently because the owner really liked the book. The newest location opened in City of Fairfax, VA in 2016. On June 7, 2000, two jewelry salesmen were shot by a robber that had followed them into the Georgetown restaurant location. The shooting victims survived and the perpetrator, Zachary J. Wages Sr., was arrested and convicted of assault and robbery. Moby Dick (restaurant) Moby Dick House of", "title": "Moby Dick (restaurant)" }, { "docid": "15888735", "text": "ProFe D-8 Moby Dick The ProFe D-8 Moby Dick is a family of Czech pusher configuration, parasol wing, strut-braced, V-tailed, motor gliders that was designed and produced by ProFe. The aircraft is named for the great white whale of Herman Melville's novel of the same name and was supplied as a kit for amateur construction. The first glider in the series was the single seat Mini Straton D-7, which was designed in 1988 and first shown in the United States at AirVenture in 1992. This was followed by the improved single seat Straton D-8 and the D-8 Moby Dick two", "title": "ProFe D-8 Moby Dick" }, { "docid": "15888733", "text": "ProFe D-8 Moby Dick The ProFe D-8 Moby Dick is a family of Czech pusher configuration, parasol wing, strut-braced, V-tailed, motor gliders that was designed and produced by ProFe. The aircraft is named for the great white whale of Herman Melville's novel of the same name and was supplied as a kit for amateur construction. The first glider in the series was the single seat Mini Straton D-7, which was designed in 1988 and first shown in the United States at AirVenture in 1992. This was followed by the improved single seat Straton D-8 and the D-8 Moby Dick two", "title": "ProFe D-8 Moby Dick" }, { "docid": "18963066", "text": "under the sea, as well as on the earth. In the United States, the speech is widely taught in history and English classes in high school and college. American studies professor Andrew S. Bibby argues that because many of the editions produced for educational use are abridged, they often misrepresent Douglass's original through omission or editorial focus. The speech has been notably performed or read by important figures, including the following actors: What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? \"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?\" is the title now given to a speech by Frederick", "title": "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" }, { "docid": "15800217", "text": "Moby Dick (2011 miniseries) Moby Dick is a Canadian-German television miniseries based on Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name, produced by Tele München Gruppe, with Gate Film, In association with RTH/ORF. Starring William Hurt as Captain Ahab, it was directed by Mike Barker with a screenplay by Nigel Williams. The cast also includes Ethan Hawke as Starbuck, Charlie Cox as Ishmael, Eddie Marsan as Stubb, Gillian Anderson as Ahab's wife, Elizabeth and Donald Sutherland as Father Mapple. A \"reimagined\" version of Melville's book, \"Moby Dick\" was shot primarily in Lunenburg and Shelburne, Nova Scotia respectively as well as", "title": "Moby Dick (2011 miniseries)" }, { "docid": "11077633", "text": "\"Classic Drummer\", the crowd at the concert included: Ellen DeGeneres (Vance's sister), Portia de Rossi, David Steinberg, Hanson, and music producer Matthew Wilder (No Doubt, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson). Mark Bryan, the guitarist for Hootie and The Blowfish, makes an on stage appearance, joining the band on the song \"I Can Tell\". The Name of the Band Is Cowboy Mouth The Name of the Band Is Cowboy Mouth is a live concert by the band Cowboy Mouth released on DVD on November 20, 2007. It is the first DVD, and second video of the band, the first being 1996's 'Alive'", "title": "The Name of the Band Is Cowboy Mouth" }, { "docid": "16067323", "text": "Moby Dick (unfinished film) Moby Dick is an unfinished film by Orson Welles, filmed in 1971. It is not to be confused with the incomplete (and now lost) 1955 film Welles made of his meta-play \"Moby Dick—Rehearsed\", or with Moby Dick (1956 film), in which Welles played a supporting role. The film consists of readings by Welles from the book Moby Dick, shot against a blue background with various optical illusions to give the impression of being at sea. It was made during a break in the filming of \"The Other Side of the Wind\". There is some ambiguity about", "title": "Moby Dick (unfinished film)" }, { "docid": "14825954", "text": "to the surface just as a rescue helicopter arrives. Moby Dick (2010 film) Moby Dick (alternatively titled 2010: Moby Dick or Moby Dick: 2010) is a 2010 film adaptation of Herman Melville's novel \"Moby-Dick\". The film is an Asylum production, and stars Barry Bostwick as Captain Ahab. It also stars Renee O'Connor, Michael B. Teh, and Adam Grimes and is directed by Trey Stokes. On November 20, 1969, 50 miles off Soviet waters, the USS \"Acushnet\" dives under the ice. A young Ahab listens to sonar for enemy submarines when suddenly he detects an unknown target. When the captain listens,", "title": "Moby Dick (2010 film)" }, { "docid": "14825947", "text": "Moby Dick (2010 film) Moby Dick (alternatively titled 2010: Moby Dick or Moby Dick: 2010) is a 2010 film adaptation of Herman Melville's novel \"Moby-Dick\". The film is an Asylum production, and stars Barry Bostwick as Captain Ahab. It also stars Renee O'Connor, Michael B. Teh, and Adam Grimes and is directed by Trey Stokes. On November 20, 1969, 50 miles off Soviet waters, the USS \"Acushnet\" dives under the ice. A young Ahab listens to sonar for enemy submarines when suddenly he detects an unknown target. When the captain listens, he hears nothing, but Ahab insists in the presence", "title": "Moby Dick (2010 film)" }, { "docid": "16545129", "text": "The Supper of the Lamb The Supper of the Lamb is a food book by Robert Farrar Capon. It was first published in 1969, and has been republished several times. It has been included in the Modern Library Food series. Capon was an Episcopal priest, and Lauren Winner describes this book as \"part cookbook, part theological meditation – something like M. F. K. Fisher meets the desert fathers.\" Frederick Buechner described it as transcending category: \"To call \"The Supper of the Lamb\" a cookbook would be like calling \"Moby Dick\" a whaling manual.\" The title is an allusion to the", "title": "The Supper of the Lamb" }, { "docid": "7264765", "text": "films, is in possession of the reels of the unfinished film; but by the time they had been donated in the 1990s, the reels had deteriorated beyond recovery; nonetheless, the museum is preserving these reels in case future technologies may be able to recover them. The \"Moby Dick—Rehearsed\" film is not to be confused with a later unfinished film project in 1971, wherein Welles filmed 22 minutes of various scenes from the play, playing all the parts himself. The footage of that film was acquired by the Munich Film Museum in 1995 and restored in 1999. Moby Dick—Rehearsed Moby Dick—Rehearsed", "title": "Moby Dick—Rehearsed" }, { "docid": "16067325", "text": "clips can be seen in Vassili Slovic's 1995 documentary \"Orson Welles: the One Man Band\". Moby Dick (unfinished film) Moby Dick is an unfinished film by Orson Welles, filmed in 1971. It is not to be confused with the incomplete (and now lost) 1955 film Welles made of his meta-play \"Moby Dick—Rehearsed\", or with Moby Dick (1956 film), in which Welles played a supporting role. The film consists of readings by Welles from the book Moby Dick, shot against a blue background with various optical illusions to give the impression of being at sea. It was made during a break", "title": "Moby Dick (unfinished film)" }, { "docid": "11224956", "text": "Moby Dick (restaurant) Moby Dick House of Kabob (Persian: موبی دیک: خانه کباب) is a Persian kabob restaurant chain in the Washington metropolitan area. It is named after a restaurant in Tehran which was right near the American Embassy during the Pahlavi's time; that restaurant was permanently closed after the Iranian revolution in 1979. The first Moby Dick restaurant opened in Bethesda, Maryland in 1989. Founder Mike Daryoush emigrated to the United States from Iran in 1975. He opened a small sandwich shop in 1987 in Bethesda, Maryland, serving a few Middle Eastern dishes. He changed to a Persian menu", "title": "Moby Dick (restaurant)" }, { "docid": "5412346", "text": "which is the superstructure of Melville's book are all admirably done. Where Huston has failed is in suggesting the mysticism of the book and the ominous influence of Moby Dick himself. The great white whale is no 'portentous and mysterious monster ... the gliding great demon of the seas of life'; he is often, only too clearly made of plastic and electronically controlled. Without this presence and motivation much of the story loses its significance.\" Moby Dick (1956 film) Moby Dick is a 1956 film adaptation of Herman Melville's novel \"Moby-Dick\". It was directed by John Huston with a screenplay", "title": "Moby Dick (1956 film)" }, { "docid": "13998613", "text": "Moby-Dick (opera) Moby-Dick is an American opera in two acts, with music by Jake Heggie and libretto by Gene Scheer, adapted from Herman Melville's novel \"Moby-Dick\". The opera received its premiere at Dallas Opera in Dallas, Texas, on 30 April 2010. Heggie dedicated the opera to Stephen Sondheim. In 2005, Dallas Opera commissioned an opera from Heggie, intended for the company's inaugural season in the Winspear Opera House in 2010. In consultation with Terrence McNally, Heggie suggested \"Moby-Dick\" as the subject. Subsequently, Dallas Opera shared this commission jointly with San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, State Opera of South Australia", "title": "Moby-Dick (opera)" }, { "docid": "268236", "text": "himself a fool for spending 40 years on whaling, and claims he can see his own child in Starbuck's eye. Starbuck tries to persuade Ahab to return to Nantucket to meet both their families, but Ahab simply crosses the deck and stands near Fedallah. On the first day of the chase, Ahab smells the whale, climbs the mast, and sights Moby Dick. He claims the doubloon for himself, and orders all boats to lower except for Starbuck's. The whale bites Ahab's boat in two, tosses the captain out of it, and scatters the crew. On the second day of the", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "268254", "text": "(Ch. 133) of the whale when he is staring into the deep. In fact, Moby Dick is then swimming up at him. In the British edition, Melville changed the word \"discover\" to \"perceive\", and with good reason, for \"discovery\" means finding what is already there, but \"perceiving\", or better still, perception, is \"a matter of shaping what exists by the way in which we see it\". The point is not that Ahab would discover the whale as an object, but that he would perceive it as a symbol of his making. Yet Melville does not offer easy solutions. Ishmael and", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "13998625", "text": "look over the horizon. Ahab describes his forty years at sea and all that he has left behind, and asks to what purpose, which he cannot answer. He sees in Starbuck's eyes human decency, which touches him. Seizing the moment, Starbuck attempts to persuade Ahab that the ship should return to Nantucket, and the crew return to their families. Ahab seems about to relent, but then he sights Moby Dick on the horizon. In the ensuing excitement, the whale boats are lowered. Ahab looks again in Starbuck's eyes and orders him to remain on board. The crew affirms its loyalty", "title": "Moby-Dick (opera)" }, { "docid": "15027846", "text": "Transfer, a popular disco nightclub at the time. Moby Dick Records folded in 1984 after seven of its ten core employees died of AIDS. Moby Dick Records Moby Dick Records was a small disco record label founded by Bill Motley (DJ Bill Motley) and Victor Swedosh in 1980. Its headquarters were located at 573 Castro Street, San Francisco, California, United States. Swedosh also owned the Moby Dick Bar (opened in 1977) located in the Castro district. The label was known for \"The Moby Dick Sound\" and contributing to \"Frisco Disco\". Its famous acts included Boys Town Gang, Yvonne Elliman and", "title": "Moby Dick Records" }, { "docid": "15027845", "text": "Moby Dick Records Moby Dick Records was a small disco record label founded by Bill Motley (DJ Bill Motley) and Victor Swedosh in 1980. Its headquarters were located at 573 Castro Street, San Francisco, California, United States. Swedosh also owned the Moby Dick Bar (opened in 1977) located in the Castro district. The label was known for \"The Moby Dick Sound\" and contributing to \"Frisco Disco\". Its famous acts included Boys Town Gang, Yvonne Elliman and Patrick Cowley. Moby Dick also distributed C & M Records. The label was known for associating with the late night partiers from the Trocadero", "title": "Moby Dick Records" }, { "docid": "15800221", "text": "script, and added, \"Some shortcuts and substitutions are useful. Too often, however, the improvisations fall back on clichés that don’t visually distill Melville’s words as much as they forcibly remind viewers of other books and movies.\" The miniseries was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in October 2011. Moby Dick (2011 miniseries) Moby Dick is a Canadian-German television miniseries based on Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name, produced by Tele München Gruppe, with Gate Film, In association with RTH/ORF. Starring William Hurt as Captain Ahab, it was directed by Mike Barker with a screenplay by Nigel Williams. The", "title": "Moby Dick (2011 miniseries)" }, { "docid": "5412334", "text": "were shot at the sea in front of Caniçal, a traditional whaling parish in Madeira Islands, Portugal, with real action of whaling, done by whalers of Madeira Island. It was also filmed in Las Canteras beach, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Captain Alan Villiers commanded the ship for the film. Many exterior scenes set in New Bedford were shot on location in Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland. The town has a public house, originally called Linehan's and at that time owned by Paddy Linehan, whose exterior appears in the movie. It was renamed Moby Dick's shortly after filming", "title": "Moby Dick (1956 film)" }, { "docid": "6202414", "text": "Ship\" as \"a more conventional mystery-thriller involving a number of deaths on board a ship, but was produced with Lewton's customary attention to atmosphere.\" The script has come in for significant praise, with Captain Stone being compared to Captain Queeg in \"The Caine Mutiny\", Captain Ahab in \"Moby-Dick\", and Captain Wolf Larsen in \"The Sea-Wolf\". Other critics have pointed out that Stone and Merriam seem to have a father-son relationship, but that the perverseness of the script is that the father-figure becomes so enraged at his \"son's\" failings that he seeks to murder him. Modern film critics have also praised", "title": "The Ghost Ship" }, { "docid": "268298", "text": "conception of the book\". A second type of objection is based upon Melville's intellectual development. Bezanson is not convinced that before he met Hawthorne, \"Melville was \"not\" ready for the kind of book \"Moby-Dick\" became\", because in his letters from the time Melville denounces his last two \"straight narratives, \"Redburn\" and \"White-Jacket\", as two books written just for the money, and he firmly stood by \"Mardi\" as the kind of book he believed in. His language is already \"richly steeped in 17th-century mannerisms\", characteristics of \"Moby-Dick\". A third type calls upon the literary nature of passages used as evidence. According", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "9406947", "text": "That Happens Will Happen Today\". Tom Tykwer plans to adapt the novel into a film. In 2009, the novel received the Prix Médicis étranger in France. What Is the What What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a 2006 novel written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. As a boy, Achak is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when", "title": "What Is the What" }, { "docid": "12657713", "text": "Sperm whaling Sperm whaling is the hunting of these marine mammals for the oil, meat and bone that can be extracted from their bodies. Sperm whales, a large and deep-diving species, produce a waxy substance that was especially useful during the Industrial Revolution, and so they were targeted in 19th century whaling, as exemplified in \"Moby Dick\". Sperm oil is no longer needed, but another unusual product, ambergris, is still valued as a perfume fixative. Although the animal is classified as a vulnerable species, aboriginal whaling in limited numbers is still permitted, notably from two villages in Indonesia, for subsistence.", "title": "Sperm whaling" }, { "docid": "18670591", "text": "Moby Dick (cantata) Moby Dick is a dramatic cantata for two tenors, two basses, male chorus, and orchestra by the American composer Bernard Herrmann with a libretto by Clark Harrington based on Herman Melville's eponymous novel. The work was composed between February 1937 and August 1938 while Herrmann was music director at CBS and it was premiered in 1940 at Carnegie Hall in New York City by the New York Philharmonic under the conductor John Barbirolli. The piece is dedicated to Herrmann's friend and fellow composer Charles Ives. Hermann originally conceived \"Moby Dick\" as an opera, but found the novel", "title": "Moby Dick (cantata)" }, { "docid": "268233", "text": "to the deck. That evening, an impressive typhoon attacks the ship. Lightning strikes the mast, setting the doubloon and Ahab's harpoon aglow. Ahab delivers a speech on the spirit of fire, seeing the lightning as a portent of Moby Dick. Starbuck sees the lightning as a warning, and feels tempted to shoot the sleeping Ahab with a musket. Next morning, when he finds that the lightning disoriented the compass, Ahab makes a new one out of a lance, a maul, and a sailmaker's needle. He orders the log be heaved, but the weathered line snaps, leaving the ship with no", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "13914364", "text": "according to their usual habitat. The accompanying text included brief notes on distribution, breeding and behaviour. While initial sales were poor, history tells us that Cayley had accurately discerned a market need and successfully responded to it. During WWII sales accelerated and Cayley’s first collection, reprinted time and time again, eventually became a household name among birdwatchers and the book was recognised as an Australian classic. The original sponsorship of \"What Bird is That?\" proved a great investment for the Gould League, who benefited from the sale of its numerous reprints and revised editions. By 1960, it was rated the", "title": "What Bird is That?" }, { "docid": "16099783", "text": "1956 film adaptation directed by John Huston. Gregory Peck won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. The series also won awards for its music and was nominated for several Emmy Awards. Moby Dick (1998 miniseries) Moby Dick is a 1998 American television miniseries based on Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name. It was filmed in Australia in 1997 and first released in the United States in 1998. The miniseries consisted of two episodes, each running two hours with commercials on March 15 and 16 of 1998 on the USA Network. Ishmael is a young sailor who", "title": "Moby Dick (1998 miniseries)" }, { "docid": "4590404", "text": "and recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in 1970. Moby Dick (instrumental) \"Moby Dick\" is an instrumental tune and drum solo by English rock band Led Zeppelin, featured on their 1969 album \"Led Zeppelin II\". Named after the whale in the novel \"Moby-Dick\" by Herman Melville, it was also known by the alternate titles \"Pat's Delight\" (early 1968–1969 version with completely different guitar riff) and \"Over the Top\" (with \"Out on the Tiles\" intro section and original closing reprise) during various points of the band's career. The tune emerged after Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page would often catch", "title": "Moby Dick (instrumental)" }, { "docid": "4590398", "text": "Moby Dick (instrumental) \"Moby Dick\" is an instrumental tune and drum solo by English rock band Led Zeppelin, featured on their 1969 album \"Led Zeppelin II\". Named after the whale in the novel \"Moby-Dick\" by Herman Melville, it was also known by the alternate titles \"Pat's Delight\" (early 1968–1969 version with completely different guitar riff) and \"Over the Top\" (with \"Out on the Tiles\" intro section and original closing reprise) during various points of the band's career. The tune emerged after Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page would often catch drummer John Bonham jamming in the studio, recorded parts", "title": "Moby Dick (instrumental)" }, { "docid": "8117518", "text": "included Project Skyhook, Project Mogul, Project Grandson, and Project Genetrix. The previously conducted \"Project Moby Dick\" used much smaller balloons launched from what was called a \"Covered Wagon\". Their payloads were then tracked across the continental United States to map and study high altitude wind trajectories. Project Flying Cloud, Weapons System 124A, was a derived concept to use balloons to deliver weapons of mass destruction. Project Moby Dick Project 119L was a Cold War reconnaissance operation by the U.S. Air Force in which large balloons floated cameras over the Soviet Union. The spy balloons would photograph sensitive Soviet sites and", "title": "Project Moby Dick" }, { "docid": "17690519", "text": "The Whale (2013 film) The Whale is a British television film that was first broadcast on BBC One on 22 December 2013. Terry Cafolla wrote the film about the \"Essex\" incident in 1820, which also formed the basis of Herman Melville's \"Moby-Dick\". \"The Whale\" was also broadcast on Animal Planet in the United States during the summer of 2014. Thomas Nickerson (Martin Sheen) recalls his past as a cabin boy on the \"Essex \" whaling ship. \"The Whale\" used underwater shots and specialist equipment to create storm scenes for \"Essex\", the whaleship the film is based on. The television film", "title": "The Whale (2013 film)" }, { "docid": "6822535", "text": "erroneously billed \"Fame is the Name of the Game\" as television's first \"world premiere\" of a \"major motion picture\". The film garnered phenomenal ratings leading to the spin-off series. \"Chicago Deadline\" (1949) Fame Is the Name of the Game Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) is an American TV-movie that aired on NBC and served as the pilot episode of the subsequent series \"The Name of the Game\". It was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It was produced by Ranald MacDougall, who also wrote the teleplay, from the novel \"One Woman\" by Tiffany Thayer. The film stars Anthony Franciosa", "title": "Fame Is the Name of the Game" }, { "docid": "12122002", "text": "Moby Dick (1930 film) Moby Dick is a 1930 American pre-Code film from Warner Bros., directed by Lloyd Bacon, and starring John Barrymore, Joan Bennett and Walter Lang. The film is a sound remake of the 1926 silent movie, \"The Sea Beast\", which also starred Barrymore. It is the first adaption film of \"Moby Dick\" which includes a soundtrack. The film tells of a sea captain's maniacal quest for revenge on a great white whale who has bitten off his leg. Ahab meets and falls in love with Faith, the daughter of the local minister, after disembarking in New Bedford.", "title": "Moby Dick (1930 film)" }, { "docid": "8504915", "text": "Moby Dick (Rhine) Moby Dick was a beluga, or white whale, that caused a sensation in 1966 along the Lower Rhine and then in all of Germany and the Netherlands. It was named after the whale in the novel \"Moby-Dick\" by Herman Melville. On May 18, 1965, a few Rhine skippers near Duisburg reported a white whale in the Rhine to the water police. They reacted by first making the mariners take a blood alcohol test, which came up negative: there really was a white whale swimming in the Rhine 300 kilometers from the ocean and thousands of kilometers from", "title": "Moby Dick (Rhine)" }, { "docid": "268271", "text": "give No reason for the torrid life they feel! Most importantly, through Shakespeare, Melville infused \"Moby-Dick\" with a power of expression he had not previously possessed. Reading Shakespeare, Matthiessen observes, had been \"a catalytic agent\" for Melville, one that transformed his writing \"from limited reporting to the expression of profound natural forces\". The extent to which Melville was in full possession of his powers is demonstrated by Matthiessen through the description of Ahab, which ends in language \"that suggests Shakespeare's but is not an imitation of it: 'Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "12657729", "text": "age and pain from disease) was later discovered floating on the surface, mortally injured and \"full of wooden splinters\" from the attack. American writer Herman Melville was inspired by the account of the \"Essex\", and used some facts from the story, as well as his own eighteen-month experience as a sailor aboard a commercial whaler, to write his epic 1851 novel on the oil whaling industry, Moby Dick. The sections in \"Moby Dick\" on the biology of the sperm whale were largely based on books by Thomas Beale (1839) and Frederick Bennett (1840). Whaling activity declined from the 1880s until", "title": "Sperm whaling" }, { "docid": "12657733", "text": "particularly in the South Pacific, where the toll on males of a breeding age was severe. Sperm whaling Sperm whaling is the hunting of these marine mammals for the oil, meat and bone that can be extracted from their bodies. Sperm whales, a large and deep-diving species, produce a waxy substance that was especially useful during the Industrial Revolution, and so they were targeted in 19th century whaling, as exemplified in \"Moby Dick\". Sperm oil is no longer needed, but another unusual product, ambergris, is still valued as a perfume fixative. Although the animal is classified as a vulnerable species,", "title": "Sperm whaling" }, { "docid": "6822532", "text": "Fame Is the Name of the Game Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) is an American TV-movie that aired on NBC and served as the pilot episode of the subsequent series \"The Name of the Game\". It was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It was produced by Ranald MacDougall, who also wrote the teleplay, from the novel \"One Woman\" by Tiffany Thayer. The film stars Anthony Franciosa as investigative journalist Jeff Dillon. It also presents the screen debut of 20-year-old Susan Saint James as Peggy Chan, Dillon's new editorial assistant. (In the series, St. James's character is renamed Peggy", "title": "Fame Is the Name of the Game" }, { "docid": "268312", "text": "determined upon a new title & dedication—Enclosed you have proof of both—It is thought here that the new title will be a better \"selling\" title\". After expressing his hope that Bentley would receive this change in time, Allan said that \"Moby-Dick is a legitimate title for the book, being the name given to a particular whale who if I may so express myself is the hero of the volume\". Biographer Hershel Parker suggests that the reason for the change was that Harper's had two years earlier published a book with a similar title, \"The Whale and His Captors\". Changing the", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "9406939", "text": "What Is the What What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a 2006 novel written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. As a boy, Achak is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when the Arab militia, referred to as \"murahaleen\" (which is Arabic for the deported), wipes out his Dinka village, Marial Bai. During the assault, he loses sight", "title": "What Is the What" }, { "docid": "7973129", "text": "to listen. By then, Drucker had helped the Japanese, who embraced his intentions and the hybrid organization form, leap in front of many American companies. Concept of the Corporation Concept of the Corporation (1946) is a book by management professor and sociologist Peter Drucker. It is widely held to be the first book of its kind. The book is an examination of General Motors' operations, delving into how large corporations impact society on a broad level. Drucker's biographer Jack Beatty referred to it as \"a book about business, the way \"Moby Dick\" is a book about whaling\". In writing and", "title": "Concept of the Corporation" }, { "docid": "7973125", "text": "Concept of the Corporation Concept of the Corporation (1946) is a book by management professor and sociologist Peter Drucker. It is widely held to be the first book of its kind. The book is an examination of General Motors' operations, delving into how large corporations impact society on a broad level. Drucker's biographer Jack Beatty referred to it as \"a book about business, the way \"Moby Dick\" is a book about whaling\". In writing and researching the book, Drucker was given access to General Motors resources, paid a full salary, accompanied CEO Alfred P. Sloan to meetings, and was given", "title": "Concept of the Corporation" }, { "docid": "268274", "text": "to have \"what seems a half-wilful \"over-ruling morbidness\" at the bottom of his nature\", and \"all men tragically great\", Melville added, \"are made so through a certain \"morbidness\"; \"all mortal greatness is but \"disease\"\". In addition to this, in Howard's view, the self-references of Ishmael as a \"tragic dramatist\", and his defense of his choice of a hero who lacked \"all outward majestical trappings\" is evidence that Melville \"consciously thought of his protagonist as a tragic hero of the sort found in \"Hamlet\" and \"King Lear\"\". \"Moby-Dick\" is based on Melville's experience on the whaler \"Acushnet\", however even the book's", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "3411198", "text": "discovers the original's club and is transformed into a new Mightor, with the boy's pet cat becoming a powerful saber-toothed cat. This Mightor is mentored in his new heroic role by Birdman. Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor is a science fiction animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which ran on CBS from September 9, 1967 to January 6, 1968, airing in reruns intil September 6, 1969. Despite Moby's name coming first, he had only one short per half-hour episode, sandwiched between two with Mightor. The same structure was used the previous season for \"Frankenstein Jr.", "title": "Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor" }, { "docid": "268280", "text": "of a series of sermons on Jonah. In addition to his own experience on the whaling ship \"Acushnet\", two actual events served as the genesis for Melville's tale. One was the sinking of the Nantucket ship \"Essex\" in 1820, after a sperm whale rammed her 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from the western coast of South America. First mate Owen Chase, one of eight survivors, recorded the events in his 1821 \"Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex\". The other event was the alleged killing in the late 1830s of the albino sperm whale Mocha Dick,", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "268229", "text": "right arm to Moby Dick. Nevertheless, he carries no ill will toward the whale, which he regards not as malicious, but as awkward. Ahab puts an end to the gam by rushing back to his ship. The narrator now discusses the subjects of (1) whalers supply; (2) a glen in Tranque in the Arsacides islands full of carved whale bones, fossil whales, whale skeleton measurements; (3) the chance that the magnitude of the whale will diminish and that the leviathan might perish. Leaving the \"Samuel Enderby\", Ahab wrenches his ivory leg and orders the carpenter to fashion him another. Starbuck", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "268217", "text": "title in a single-volume edition in New York in November. There are hundreds of differences between the two editions, most slight but some important and illuminating. The London publisher, Richard Bentley, censored or changed sensitive passages; Melville made revisions as well, including a last-minute change to the title for the New York edition. The whale, however, appears in the text of both editions as \"Moby Dick\", without the hyphen. One factor that led British reviewers to scorn the book was that it seemed to be told by a narrator who perished with the ship: the British edition lacked the Epilogue,", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "docid": "9406942", "text": "writes: \"Over the course of many years, Dave and I have collaborated to tell my story... I told [him] what I knew and what I could remember, and from that material he created this work of art.\" The book is typical of Eggers' style: blending non-fictional and fictional elements into a non-fiction novel or memoir. By classifying the book a novel, Eggers says, he freed himself to re-create conversations, streamline complex relationships, add relevant detail and manipulate time and space in helpful ways—all while maintaining the essential truthfulness of the storytelling. However, not all critics were impressed. Lee Siegel sees", "title": "What Is the What" }, { "docid": "268222", "text": "sea-encounters, or \"gams\", with other ships: Ahab hails the \"Goney\" (Albatross) to ask whether they have seen the White Whale, but the trumpet through which her captain tries to speak falls into the sea before he can answer. Ishmael explains that because of Ahab's absorption with Moby Dick, he sails on without the customary \"gam\", which defines as a \"social meeting of two (or more) Whale-ships\", in which the two captains remain on one ship and the chief mates on the other. In the second gam off the Cape of Good Hope, with the \"Town-Ho\", a Nantucket whaler, the concealed", "title": "Moby-Dick" } ]
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What nursery rhyme concludes with Violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you?
[ "Roses are red, Violets are blue", "Roses are Red", "Roses are red", "Sugar is sweet", "Roses are red, violets are blue", "Roses Are Red", "Roses are Red, Violets are Blue", "Roses are red (disambiguation)", "Roses Are Red (song)" ]
[ { "docid": "4106760", "text": "Roses Are Red \"Roses Are Red\" can refer to a specific poem, or a class of poems inspired by that poem. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19798. It is most commonly used as a love poem. Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you. The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic \"The Faerie Queene\" (Book Three, Canto 6, Stanza 6): A nursery rhyme significantly closer to the modern cliché Valentine's", "title": "Roses Are Red" }, { "docid": "10945492", "text": "Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue (album) Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue is the first album by the alternative rock band Trocadero, released in 2004. It contains \"songs from and inspired by \"Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles\"\". The album was independently released, with manufacturing and distribution by Rooster Teeth Productions. Several distinct musical techniques were implemented on the album. Most songs use polyphonic lead vocals, usually between Nico Audy-Rowland and Wendy Mittelstadt. Many of the electric instruments have a recognizable reverberation effect. The album contains genre elements influenced by the blues, disco, spirituals, western narrative and types", "title": "Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue (album)" }, { "docid": "10945493", "text": "of rock. Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue (album) Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue is the first album by the alternative rock band Trocadero, released in 2004. It contains \"songs from and inspired by \"Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles\"\". The album was independently released, with manufacturing and distribution by Rooster Teeth Productions. Several distinct musical techniques were implemented on the album. Most songs use polyphonic lead vocals, usually between Nico Audy-Rowland and Wendy Mittelstadt. Many of the electric instruments have a recognizable reverberation effect. The album contains genre elements influenced by the blues, disco, spirituals, western narrative", "title": "Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue (album)" }, { "docid": "4106762", "text": "the poem in a verse of his 1964 hit \"Dang Me\": The Marx Brothers' film \"Horse Feathers\" has Chico Marx describing the symptoms of cirrhosis thus: Benny Hill version: Roses Are Red \"Roses Are Red\" can refer to a specific poem, or a class of poems inspired by that poem. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19798. It is most commonly used as a love poem. Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you. The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines", "title": "Roses Are Red" } ]
[ { "docid": "4096876", "text": "reached # 3 on the Billboard magazine charts. It has also been recorded by Mitch Miller and the Gang, Jane Turzy, and Judy Lynn. The song (in all its versions, combined) reached #1 on the Cash Box magazine best-seller chart. Numerous folk versions exist in which the implied lyrics are more risque. Copyright 1951 by Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc. by Cy Coben and Charles Grean Sweet Violets \"Sweet Violets\" is a classic example of a \"censored rhyme\", where the expected rhyme of each couplet is replaced with an unexpected word which segues into the next couplet or chorus.", "title": "Sweet Violets" }, { "docid": "4096874", "text": "Sweet Violets \"Sweet Violets\" is a classic example of a \"censored rhyme\", where the expected rhyme of each couplet is replaced with an unexpected word which segues into the next couplet or chorus. For example, the first couplets go: There once was a farmer who took a young miss In back of the barn where he gave her a... Lecture on horses and chickens and eggs And told her that she had such beautiful... Manners that suited a girl \"[etc.]\" The chorus is taken nearly verbatim from the song \"Sweet Violets\" by Joseph Emmet, from his 1882 play \"Fritz Among", "title": "Sweet Violets" }, { "docid": "9283421", "text": "Alex rushes to her home. Kyle is sent to prison, Alex officially starts dating Jamilla Hughes, and things start to calm down for the first time in years for the Cross family. Violets Are Blue (novel) Violets Are Blue is the seventh novel by James Patterson to feature the Washington, D.C. homicide detective and forensic psychiatrist Alex Cross. Alex is in his room when his cellphone rings. Alex answers and the Mastermind is on the line. He tells Alex that he killed Cavalierre to toy with Alex. Kyle Craig calls Alex about a similarity between two murders in San Francisco", "title": "Violets Are Blue (novel)" }, { "docid": "9283417", "text": "Violets Are Blue (novel) Violets Are Blue is the seventh novel by James Patterson to feature the Washington, D.C. homicide detective and forensic psychiatrist Alex Cross. Alex is in his room when his cellphone rings. Alex answers and the Mastermind is on the line. He tells Alex that he killed Cavalierre to toy with Alex. Kyle Craig calls Alex about a similarity between two murders in San Francisco and a murder in Washington DC that they’d worked on a few months before. The case involved a runaway girl that was found hung from a light fixture in a hotel room.", "title": "Violets Are Blue (novel)" }, { "docid": "11652589", "text": "an awkward and tension-filled romance ensues. Violets Are Blue (film) Violets Are Blue is a 1986 American romantic drama film from Columbia Pictures, starring Sissy Spacek and Kevin Kline and directed by Spacek's husband Jack Fisk, who had previously worked with her on the 1981 film \"Raggedy Man\". After fifteen years of traveling around the world, a famous photographer named Gussie (Spacek) returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up. She meets her high school sweetheart Henry (Kline), now married to a woman he met when he was away at college and running the local newspaper he has", "title": "Violets Are Blue (film)" }, { "docid": "11652588", "text": "Violets Are Blue (film) Violets Are Blue is a 1986 American romantic drama film from Columbia Pictures, starring Sissy Spacek and Kevin Kline and directed by Spacek's husband Jack Fisk, who had previously worked with her on the 1981 film \"Raggedy Man\". After fifteen years of traveling around the world, a famous photographer named Gussie (Spacek) returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up. She meets her high school sweetheart Henry (Kline), now married to a woman he met when he was away at college and running the local newspaper he has inherited from his father. Soon after,", "title": "Violets Are Blue (film)" }, { "docid": "10191553", "text": "all time. The album was re-issued by Mushroom Records on 23 March 2003 and included a bonus disc with 14 additional tracks. In 2007 the album was certified gold (with sales of over 35,000 units). <nowiki>*</nowiki>Live at the Old Melbourne Hotel (Perth, Western Australia), 18 April 1986. At First Sight, Violets Are Blue At First Sight, Violets Are Blue is the debut album by Australian alternative rock group, The Stems, released in August 1987 through Mushroom Records' White Label on vinyl, the album only saw limited CD release at that time. The title track \"At First Sight\" gained mainstream airplay", "title": "At First Sight, Violets Are Blue" }, { "docid": "16097866", "text": "A behind-the-scenes video was also released. In October and November, the band supported Pierce the Veil on their Collide with the Sky Tour in the US. The \"Let It Land\" EP is the accompanying disc to \"What Are You So Scared Of?\", available on CD. \"What Are You So Scared Of?\" features 10 pre-gap hidden acoustic tracks in addition to the 14-track album; the additional acoustic tracks that were unable to fit on the album make up the majority of \"Let It Land\". Also included on the EP is a new song, \"Welcome\". What Are You So Scared Of? What", "title": "What Are You So Scared Of?" }, { "docid": "16097863", "text": "What Are You So Scared Of? What Are You So Scared Of? is the debut studio album by Australian rock band Tonight Alive, released on 14 October 2011 through Sony Music Australia. The standard CD version of \"What Are You So Scared Of?\" contains 10 pre-gap hidden acoustic takes of the album. \"Let It Land\" EP was released to accompany it; it shares the track \"Let It Land\", and also contains a new song and the three acoustic versions which were unable to fit on the album. Tonight Alive traveled to Los Angeles to record the album with producer Mark", "title": "What Are You So Scared Of?" }, { "docid": "10191552", "text": "At First Sight, Violets Are Blue At First Sight, Violets Are Blue is the debut album by Australian alternative rock group, The Stems, released in August 1987 through Mushroom Records' White Label on vinyl, the album only saw limited CD release at that time. The title track \"At First Sight\" gained mainstream airplay and a position on the \"Young Einstein\" sound track. \"At First Sight\" became the band's signature track and the album is still rated as one of the best Australian guitar pop releases. In the early nineties \"Rolling Stone\" included it in the top 100 Australian releases of", "title": "At First Sight, Violets Are Blue" }, { "docid": "6313397", "text": "Iona and Peter Opie, this first appears in a manuscript by the English poet Robert Southey (1774–1843), who added the stanzas other than the two below. Though it is not mentioned elsewhere in his works or papers, it is generally agreed to be by him. The relevant section in the version attributed to Southey was: <poem> What are little boys made of What are little boys made of Snips & snails & puppy dogs tails And such are little boys made of. What are little girls made of Sugar & spice & all things nice</poem> Extracts from the nursery rhyme", "title": "What Are Little Boys Made Of?" }, { "docid": "6313395", "text": "What Are Little Boys Made Of? \"What Are Little Boys Made Of?\" is a popular nursery rhyme dating from the early 19th century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 821. The author of the rhyme is uncertain, but may be English poet Robert Southey (1774–1843). Here is a representative modern version of the lyrics: <poem> What are little boys made of? What are little boys made of? That's what little boys are made of What are little girls made of? What are little girls made of? That's what little girls are made of</poem> The rhyme appears in", "title": "What Are Little Boys Made Of?" }, { "docid": "16777573", "text": "\"Zoot Allures,\" \"Lonesome Cowboy Burt\" from \"\"200 Motels\"\"', and the song \"Harder Than Your Husband\", which is the 2nd song on the album with the lyric \"Where's my waitress?\" Another reference is \"Robbie, take me to Greek Town\", more prominent in \"Jumbo Go Away\", and \"I'm goin' down 'n work the wall 'n work the floor\" from \"Mudd Club.\" The a cappella group The Persuasions covered \"You Are What You Is\" on their album Frankly a Cappella. 7\" 12\" You Are What You Is (song) \"You Are What You Is\" is a single which Frank Zappa released from his 1981", "title": "You Are What You Is (song)" }, { "docid": "12945390", "text": "You Are What You Is You Are What You Is is a double album by American musician Frank Zappa. It was originally released as a double album in 1981 and later by Rykodisc as a 20-song CD. After the release of \"Joe's Garage\", Frank Zappa set up his home studio, the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, and planned to release a triple LP live album called \"Warts and All\". As \"Warts and All\" reached completion, Zappa found the project to be \"unwieldy\" due to its length, and scrapped it, later conceiving \"Crush All Boxes\". \"Crush All Boxes\" would have been a", "title": "You Are What You Is" }, { "docid": "12945396", "text": "from side three of the LP, as well as the reprise from the beginning of side four. Album - \"Billboard\" (United States) You Are What You Is You Are What You Is is a double album by American musician Frank Zappa. It was originally released as a double album in 1981 and later by Rykodisc as a 20-song CD. After the release of \"Joe's Garage\", Frank Zappa set up his home studio, the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, and planned to release a triple LP live album called \"Warts and All\". As \"Warts and All\" reached completion, Zappa found the project", "title": "You Are What You Is" }, { "docid": "13325653", "text": "several famous nursery rhymes in this song; in fact, the song's title itself is a variation of the rhyme \"What Are Little Girls/Little Boys Made Of?\" and parts of this famous rhyme were incorporated into the lyrics of this song, which, like many Miracles songs, starts with the guitar licks of Miracles member Marv Tarplin. Robinson, as the lead singer, serves as the song's narrator: \"\"You take Sugar and Spice...Everything Nice... and you've got a little girl, yeah, yeah...You take Snakes and Snails...Puppy Dog's tails...and you've got a little boy, yeah, yeah...That's what Love Is Made Of...\" \" The song", "title": "That's What Love Is Made Of" }, { "docid": "17997769", "text": "third and final track focuses on Krile and her pet, Azrael. A second drama CD, titled \"Nursery Rhyme Drama CD \"Life is sweet\"\", was released by Rio on June 30, 2006. According to a national ranking of how well bishōjo games sold nationally in Japan, \"Nursery Rhyme\" was the No. 2 best-selling bishōjo game at the time of its release. \"\", released on the same day, took the No. 1 spot. \"Nursery Rhyme\" was the 18th most widely sold game of 2005 on Getchu.com. The opening theme, \"true my heart\", has become an internet meme. This is due to the", "title": "Nursery Rhyme (visual novel)" }, { "docid": "6313401", "text": "by Roud number What Are Little Boys Made Of? \"What Are Little Boys Made Of?\" is a popular nursery rhyme dating from the early 19th century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 821. The author of the rhyme is uncertain, but may be English poet Robert Southey (1774–1843). Here is a representative modern version of the lyrics: <poem> What are little boys made of? What are little boys made of? That's what little boys are made of What are little girls made of? What are little girls made of? That's what little girls are made of</poem> The", "title": "What Are Little Boys Made Of?" }, { "docid": "12945392", "text": "You Is\", \"Tinsel Town Rebellion\" and two series of live albums, \"Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar\" and \"You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore\". Zappa had performed most of the material from \"You Are What You Is\" on a tour running from March to July 1980 with a band including Ike Willis and Ray White on guitar and vocals, Tommy Mars on keyboards, Arthur Barrow on bass and keyboards and David Logeman on drums. This band recorded the basic tracks of the album in the summer of 1980 after finishing the tour, with guitarist Steve Vai and vocalist Bob", "title": "You Are What You Is" }, { "docid": "16777568", "text": "You Are What You Is (song) \"You Are What You Is\" is a single which Frank Zappa released from his 1981 album of the same title. The song is known for going out of its way to use improper English, basically mocking the rest of its context. It was the B-side for 1982 single \"Valley Girl\". This song was also remixed for the 1984 album \"Thing-Fish\". The lyrics, which essentially tell the listener to be themselves and embrace their culture, tell the stories of two young men, both of whom Zappa describes as \"foolish\". The first man is from a", "title": "You Are What You Is (song)" }, { "docid": "16777572", "text": "it from being featured on \"Canoe\", a 1993 episode of the American television show \"Beavis and Butt-Head\", also aired on MTV (though the show abruptly switches to \"The Animal Song\" by The Europeans early on, then returns to Zappa for the tail end of \"You Are What You Is\", to which Butt-Head replies, \"This is still on? That pisses me off!\"). \"You Are What You Is\" contains references to other songs throughout his career and on the album itself, commonly referred as Zappa's \"Conceptual Continuity\". References include \"Gimme a five dollar bill and an overcoat too\" from \"Wonderful Wino\" on", "title": "You Are What You Is (song)" }, { "docid": "286984", "text": "private nursery, as an exercise for the children. It has been argued that nursery rhymes set to music aid in a child's development. Research also supports the assertion that music and rhyme increase a child's ability in spatial reasoning, which aid mathematics skills. Citations Nursery rhyme A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. From the mid-16th century nursery rhymes begin to be recorded in English plays, and", "title": "Nursery rhyme" }, { "docid": "12945393", "text": "Harris adding overdubs and joining the group for Zappa's fall 1980 tour. However, \"You Are What You Is\" was not released until after \"Tinseltown Rebellion\" and \"Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar\" although the latter two albums included material from the fall tour. The album also included guest appearances from former band members, including Jimmy Carl Black and Motorhead Sherwood from the 60's Mothers of Invention, as well as the first appearances on record of Zappa's children Moon Unit and Ahmet. Like many of Zappa's albums, some of the tracks are bound together, and the album lacks an overall storyline.", "title": "You Are What You Is" }, { "docid": "16097864", "text": "Trombino (blink-182, Jimmy Eat World, Midtown). As the follow-up to 2010's \"Consider This\" EP, \"What Are You So Scared Of?\" debuted on the Australian albums chart at No. 15. The record's first single, \"Starlight\", was released 1 July. Its second, \"Let It Land\", was released 19 September. On 11 October, \"Thank You and Goodnight\" was made available for streaming. On 4 November the group announced they had signed a North American deal with independent label Fearless Records and were planning on releasing their album in that territory in early 2012. In November and December, the group supported Blessthefall on the", "title": "What Are You So Scared Of?" }, { "docid": "17997766", "text": "and , a shy and clumsy elf who is aiming to become a teacher. \"Nursery Rhyme\" is the first title developed by Lump of Sugar. The visual novel's scenario was written by Seimei Shibusawa, Daisangen, Eiji Takashima and Fuminori Aki. The character designs and illustrations for the visual novel were drawn by Fumitake Moekibara. The game's music was composed and arranged by a.k.a.dRESS (ave;new). The opening movie was animated by Radiant Impression Prelude. Self-described as a , \"Nursery Rhyme\" was released on November 25, 2005 as a DVD-ROM for Windows PCs. A version playable on FOMA mobile phones was released", "title": "Nursery Rhyme (visual novel)" }, { "docid": "12945394", "text": "The title track \"You Are What You Is\" is an up-tempo pop rock style song that was released as a music video in 1984. The album was first issued on LP by Barking Pumpkin Records (distributed by CBS) in 1981. In 1981, it also received a very brief (and now very rare) issue on 8-track tape, catalog number WAX-37537 (Barking Pumpkin label, distributed by CBS). It received a worldwide release on both Ryko and Zappa Records CD in 1990, and was standardized under the Ryko banner in 1995. The digital master prepared for both the original Ryko/Zappa Records release and", "title": "You Are What You Is" }, { "docid": "16097865", "text": "Fearless Friends Tour in the US. \"What Are You So Scared Of?\" was released in the US on 14 February 2012. Deluxe edition included three tracks: \"You Know Me\", \"Welcome\" and \"Take Me Down\". Upon its US release, it debuted at No. 7 on the US Heatseekers Albums chart, No. 48 on US Rock Albums and No. 10 on Independent Albums. While the group was planning to support Go Radio on their headlining spring tour in the US, they had to drop of due to McDougall having an eczema outbreak. On 12 October a music video was released for \"Listening\".", "title": "What Are You So Scared Of?" }, { "docid": "286972", "text": "Nursery rhyme A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. From the mid-16th century nursery rhymes begin to be recorded in English plays, and most popular rhymes date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The first English collections, \"Tommy Thumb's Song Book\" and a sequel, \"Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book\", were published before 1744. Publisher John Newbery's stepson, Thomas Carnan, was the first to use the term Mother", "title": "Nursery rhyme" }, { "docid": "2529445", "text": "theories. Complicated metaphors are often said to exist within the lyrics, as is common with nursery rhyme exegesis. Most explanations post-date the first publication of the rhyme and have no corroborating evidence. These include the suggestion by S. Baring-Gould in the 19th century that the rhyme is related to a narrative in the 13th-century \"Prose Edda\" section \"Gylfaginning\" composed by Icelander Snorri Sturluson. In \"Gylfaginning\", Hjúki and Bil, brother and sister respectively in Norse mythology, were taken up from the earth by the moon (personified as the god Máni) as they were fetching water from the well called Byrgir, bearing", "title": "Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme)" }, { "docid": "2529439", "text": "Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) \"Jack and Jill\" (sometimes \"Jack and Gill\", particularly in earlier versions) is a traditional English nursery rhyme. The Roud Folk Song Index classifies this tune and its variations as number 10266. The rhyme dates back at least to the 18th century and exists with different numbers of verses each with a number of variations. Only a few more verses have been added to the rhyme, including a version with a total of 15 stanzas in a chapbook of the 19th century. The dab verse, probably added as part of these extensions, has become a standard", "title": "Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme)" }, { "docid": "16608008", "text": "Machines\". All tracks written and performed by BT. If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I If the Stars are Eternal So are You and I is the seventh studio album by composer and electronica artist BT, and was released on June 19, 2012, in tandem with \"Morceau Subrosa\", BT's eighth studio album. First announced in March 2012, BT described \"If The Stars Are Eternal So Are You And I\" as a \"follow-up\" to his critically acclaimed fifth studio album, \"This Binary Universe\". While \"If The Stars Are Eternal So Are You And I\" was supposed to be", "title": "If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I" }, { "docid": "16608006", "text": "If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I If the Stars are Eternal So are You and I is the seventh studio album by composer and electronica artist BT, and was released on June 19, 2012, in tandem with \"Morceau Subrosa\", BT's eighth studio album. First announced in March 2012, BT described \"If The Stars Are Eternal So Are You And I\" as a \"follow-up\" to his critically acclaimed fifth studio album, \"This Binary Universe\". While \"If The Stars Are Eternal So Are You And I\" was supposed to be released in mid-May 2012 after \"Morceau Subrosa\" (which", "title": "If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I" }, { "docid": "7187563", "text": "the American Association of Nutritional Consultants, a controversial organisation which seeks to enhance the reputation of Nutritional and Dietary Consultants by consolidating them into a professional organisation. It offers examination and certification, or association membership which does not require an examination but requires the payment of the $60 membership fee. \"You Are What You Eat\" was also the title of an American film from 1968. The phrase \"You are what you eat\" was first expressed by Ludwig Feuerbach in 1863 (German: \"Der Mensch ist, was er iszt.\"). You Are What You Eat You Are What You Eat is a dieting", "title": "You Are What You Eat" }, { "docid": "12945391", "text": "single LP containing the studio recordings \"Doreen\", \"Fine Girl\", \"Easy Meat\" (a live recording with studio overdubs) and \"Goblin Girl\" on the first side, with the second side being occupied by a suite consisting of the songs \"Society Pages\", \"I'm A Beautiful Guy\", \"Beauty Knows No Pain\", \"Charlie's Enormous Mouth\", \"Any Downers?\" and \"Conehead\". During the production of \"Crush All Boxes\", Zappa decided to scrap the album and conceive a set of releases drawing from both \"Warts and All\" and \"Crush All Boxes\", which would emphasize different aspects of his multiple talents, formatting the two albums into \"You Are What", "title": "You Are What You Is" }, { "docid": "5721003", "text": "official website. We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You is the first DVD by the Scissor Sisters, released on November 29, 2004. It contains a full live concert filmed at Brighton Dome in August 2004, featuring backstage footage and extras. It includes the documentary \"Return To Oz\" (directed by Julien Temple) which tells the story of the Scissor Sisters. There is also a separate 10-minute skit directed by Andy Soup which has the band dressed up as characters from \"The Wizard of Oz\", which also includes \"terribly bad acting\" as mentioned", "title": "We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You" }, { "docid": "5721002", "text": "We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You is the first DVD by the Scissor Sisters, released on November 29, 2004. It contains a full live concert filmed at Brighton Dome in August 2004, featuring backstage footage and extras. It includes the documentary \"Return To Oz\" (directed by Julien Temple) which tells the story of the Scissor Sisters. There is also a separate 10-minute skit directed by Andy Soup which has the band dressed up as characters from \"The Wizard of Oz\", which also includes \"terribly bad acting\" as mentioned on their", "title": "We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You" }, { "docid": "7187558", "text": "You Are What You Eat You Are What You Eat is a dieting programme aired in various forms between 2004 and 2007 on British broadcasting company Channel 4, and presented by Gillian McKeith. The fourth series was called \"You Are What You Eat: Gillian Moves In\". The show often uses shock tactics to get the participants to lose weight. In each episode, all food eaten in one week by the person(s) taking part is placed on a table to highlight problem areas of their diet. Another technique is the analysis of the participant's faeces by McKeith to detect certain problems", "title": "You Are What You Eat" }, { "docid": "17997761", "text": "Nursery Rhyme (visual novel) The gameplay in \"Nursery Rhyme\" follows a branching plot line which offers pre-determined scenarios with courses of interaction, and focuses on the appeal of the five female main characters by the player character. The game ranked at No. 2 in the national top 50 for best-selling PC games sold in Japan. \"Nursery Rhyme\" has made transitions into other media, such as a light novel and audio dramas. \"Nursery Rhyme\" is a romance visual novel in which the player assumes the role of Shizuma Hasekura. Much of its gameplay is spent reading the text that appears on", "title": "Nursery Rhyme (visual novel)" }, { "docid": "3882904", "text": "What Are Little Girls Made Of? \"What Are Little Girls Made Of?\" is the seventh episode of the of the American science fiction television series, \"\". Written by Robert Bloch and directed by James Goldstone, it first aired on October 20, 1966. The first episode of the series to be repeated on NBC, the title of the episode is taken from the fourth line of the 19th-century nursery rhyme, \"What Are Little Boys Made Of?.\" In the episode, Nurse Chapel searches for her long lost fiancé, and uncovers his secret plan for galactic conquest. On stardate 2712.4, the Federation starship", "title": "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" }, { "docid": "286979", "text": "antiquities (historical), fireside stories, game-rhymes, alphabet-rhymes, riddles, nature-rhymes, places and families, proverbs, superstitions, customs, and nursery songs (lullabies). By the time of Sabine Baring-Gould's \"A Book of Nursery Songs\" (1895), folklore was an academic study, full of comments and footnotes. A professional anthropologist, Andrew Lang (1844–1912) produced \"The Nursery Rhyme Book\" in 1897. The early years of the 20th century are notable for the illustrations to children's books including Caldecott's \"Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book\" (1909) and Arthur Rackham's \"Mother Goose\" (1913). The definitive study of English rhymes remains the work of Iona and Peter Opie. Many nursery rhymes have", "title": "Nursery rhyme" }, { "docid": "2529440", "text": "part of the nursery rhyme. Early versions took the form: By the early 20th century this had been modified in some collections, such as L. E. Walter's, \"Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes\" (London, 1919) to: A third verse, sometimes added to the rhyme, was first recorded in a 19th-century chapbook and took Twentieth-century versions of this verse include: As presented above and as presented in the accompanying published images, the rhyme is made up of six-line stanzas with a rhyming scheme of \"aabccb\" and a trochaic rhythm (with the stress falling on the first of a pair of syllables). Alternatively, if", "title": "Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme)" }, { "docid": "2529441", "text": "these stanzas were viewed as quatrains with internal rhymes, this would be an example of ballad form, a common form for nursery rhymes. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his \"National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs\" (1870). The Roud Folk Song Index, which catalogues folk songs and their variations by number, classifies the song as 10266. The phrase \"Jack and Jill\" was in use in England as early as the 16th century to indicate a boy and a girl. A comedy with the title \"Jack", "title": "Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme)" }, { "docid": "4050392", "text": "Become What You Are Become What You Are is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band the Juliana Hatfield Three, released on August 3, 1993, by Mammoth Records. The album includes the hit singles \"My Sister\" and \"Spin the Bottle\". The singer and guitarist, Juliana Hatfield, recorded \"Become What You Are\" with drummer Todd Philips, formerly of Moving Targets and Bullet LaVolta, and bassist Dean Fisher, who she met during high school in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Unlike her previous album \"Hey Babe\", which deals with personal topics, Hatfield decided to write songs about other things and make them", "title": "Become What You Are" }, { "docid": "17997770", "text": "misheard lyric , which spawned a series of remix parodies on Nico Nico Douga. \"true my heart\"'s melody has also appeared in the Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga videos, as has \"kiss my lips\". Some of the \"Nursery Rhyme\" characters feature in \"Megami Engage!\". Nursery Rhyme (visual novel) The gameplay in \"Nursery Rhyme\" follows a branching plot line which offers pre-determined scenarios with courses of interaction, and focuses on the appeal of the five female main characters by the player character. The game ranked at No. 2 in the national top 50 for best-selling PC games sold in Japan. \"Nursery Rhyme\"", "title": "Nursery Rhyme (visual novel)" }, { "docid": "5411208", "text": "album \"Running with Scissors\". In August 2011, Taylor Swift covered \"Ghetto Supastar\" during the North American leg of her Speak Now World Tour. In each city, she chose to pay tribute to a homegrown artist. In Washington, D.C., she performed an acoustic version of \"Ghetto Supastar\", given that Mýa is from Washington, D.C. Swift referred to the song as her \"seventh grade anthem\". In 2017, singer/actress Vanessa Hudgens posted a video of herself singing \"Ghetto Supastar\" a capella on Instagram. Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are) \"Ghetto Superstar (That Is What You Are)\" is a song by American rapper", "title": "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" }, { "docid": "4050394", "text": "\"My Sister,\" and \"Spin the Bottle\", stating that \"her talents are strong enough to carry the album over the weak spots.\" The album was ranked No. 9 in \"NME\"s Albums of the Year list for 1993. Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Album Singles Become What You Are Become What You Are is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band the Juliana Hatfield Three, released on August 3, 1993, by Mammoth Records. The album includes the hit singles \"My Sister\" and \"Spin the Bottle\". The singer and guitarist, Juliana Hatfield, recorded \"Become What You Are\"", "title": "Become What You Are" }, { "docid": "2529444", "text": "and brown paper were a home cure used as a method to draw out bruises on the body. Jack is the most common name used in English-language nursery rhymes and represented an archetypal Everyman hero by the 18th century, while Jill or Gill had come to mean a young girl or a sweetheart by the end of the Middle Ages. However, the woodcut that accompanied the first recorded version of the rhyme showed two boys (not a boy and a girl) and used the spelling Gill not Jill. The true origin of the rhyme is unknown, but there are several", "title": "Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme)" }, { "docid": "7126106", "text": "& the Bunnymen left London Records in early 2000. McCulloch said, \"What they said is, 'We'll keep you on if you don't take as much money as in the contract,' and we had no intention of staying anyway, so it was kind of 'were we pushed or did we fall?'\" There was also a change in the band's management with Toogood departing to start his own record label. With the session musicians who recorded \"What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?\" moving on, McCulloch and Sergeant recruited a new band, with whom they would go on to record", "title": "What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?" }, { "docid": "5411203", "text": "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are) \"Ghetto Superstar (That Is What You Are)\" is a song by American rapper Pras, featuring rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard and R&B singer Mýa. It was released on June 6, 1998. The track samples Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's 1983 single \"Islands in the Stream\" and was produced by Wyclef Jean and Jerry 'Wonda\" Duplessis for Pras' debut solo studio album, \"Ghetto Superstar\". It was also featured on the soundtrack for the 1998 film \"Bulworth\". The song's writers are Prakazrel Michel, Wyclef Jean, Russell Jones, Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb. The song", "title": "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" }, { "docid": "286975", "text": "poem, similar to \"Thirty days hath September\", numbering the days of the month, was recorded in the 13th century. From the later Middle Ages there are records of short children's rhyming songs, often as marginalia. From the mid-16th century they begin to be recorded in English plays. \"Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man\" is one of the oldest surviving English nursery rhymes. The earliest recorded version of the rhyme appears in Thomas d'Urfey's play \"The Campaigners\" from 1698. Most nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century, when the publishing of children's books began to move from polemic and education", "title": "Nursery rhyme" }, { "docid": "18971753", "text": "The King Is Gone (So Are You) \"The King Is Gone (So Are You)\" is a novelty song written by Roger D. Ferris and recorded by American country singer George Jones. The song is about a man who uses the occasion of a breakup to open a bottle of Jim Beam which is shaped like Elvis Presley, the head of the deceased singer forming the bottle top. He further prepares for an evening of drinking by soaking the label off a Welch's Flintstones jelly jar in order to better use it as a glass. The jar has the fictional cartoon", "title": "The King Is Gone (So Are You)" }, { "docid": "4096875", "text": "the Gypsies\": Sweet violets, sweeter than the roses Covered all over from head to toe Covered all over with sweet violets. The song was recorded by Dinah Shore with Henri René's Orchestra & Chorus in Hollywood on May 20, 1951. The song was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-4174A (78 rpm record), 47-4174A (single) (in USA), by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number B 10115 in the UK, and EA 3997 in Australia, also on the His Master's Voice label. The Dinah Shore version was arranged by Cy Coben and Charles Grean. It", "title": "Sweet Violets" }, { "docid": "7920037", "text": "critics, currently holding a 42% score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 77 reviews, with an average rating of 5/10. The site's consensus states: \"Though \"What Planet Are You From?\" has some laughs, it's too inconsistent and bland for critics to give it their recommendations.\" Metacritic reports a 41 out of 100 rating based on 32 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". What Planet Are You From? What Planet Are You From? is a 2000 American science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Michael Leeson, Garry Shandling, Ed Solomon, and Peter Tolan based on a story by", "title": "What Planet Are You From?" }, { "docid": "6452770", "text": "appear in the film \"\" (1985). A live version was released on the group's album \"\" in 2002. Cocker performed the song along with Ray Charles in a 1983 television tribute to Charles, \"A Man and his Soul\". You Are So Beautiful \"You Are So Beautiful\" is a song written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher that was first released in 1974 on Preston's ninth studio album, \"The Kids & Me\". It was also the B-side of his single \"Struttin'\". Later that same year, English singer Joe Cocker released a slower version of the song on his album \"I Can", "title": "You Are So Beautiful" }, { "docid": "6452767", "text": "sources credit Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys with contributing to the song's genesis. Wilson performed the song live with the Beach Boys from the late 1970s onwards. Kenny Rankin, Ray Stevens, Kenny Rogers, Bonnie Tyler and Brian Kennedy are also among the artists who have covered \"You Are So Beautiful\". Billy Preston wrote \"You Are So Beautiful\" with one of his regular collaborators, Bruce Fisher.<ref name=\"Tobler/BGO\"></ref> Preston's inspiration was his mother, who worked as a stage actress. According to his friend Sam Moore (who had assumed it was a standard love song), Preston was appalled to learn that Moore", "title": "You Are So Beautiful" }, { "docid": "8246679", "text": "blown figures. It's called \"糖人(sugar people)\". Japan has the similar tradition, which is called \"Amezaiku(飴細工)\". The sugar people's candy in China are brownish-yellow, while the ones in Japan are white because they use \"sarashi-ame (whitish candy)\", which is made by pulling and stretching out the sugar many times until white. A Mother Goose nursery rhyme refers to sugar sculpture:Wasn't it funny? hear it all people! <br> Little Tom Thumb has swallowed a steeple! <br> How did he do it? <br> I'll tell you, my son: <br> 'Twas made of white sugar—and easily done! Sugar sculpture Sugar sculpture is the art", "title": "Sugar sculpture" }, { "docid": "18225947", "text": "on September 9, 2014 as the album's fourth single. The song is also used on EA Sports game, \"FIFA 15\". Are You What You Want to Be? \"Are You What You Want to Be?\" is a song by American indie pop band Foster the People. It serves as the opening track on their second studio album, \"Supermodel\", and was released as the album's fourth single on September 8, 2014. An audio stream of \"Are You What You Want to Be?\" was uploaded by the band's Vevo account to YouTube on August 5, 2014 accompanied by its single cover. The song", "title": "Are You What You Want to Be?" }, { "docid": "6313398", "text": "appear in several popular songs, including \"Nothing Can Change This Love\" by Sam Cooke from 1962 and \"Sugar and Spice\" by The Searchers, from 1963. \"Sugar and spice, and all things nice\" is also a verse in the Stone Roses early single \"Sally Cinnamon\". Van Halen in 1991 released the song \"Poundcake,\" which contains part of the lyrics in the beginning of the music video. Alternative rock band Garbage incorporate the words of the rhyme in their song, \"What Girls Are Made of,\" on the Deluxe edition of their 2012 studio album \"Not your Kind of People\". In October, 1966,", "title": "What Are Little Boys Made Of?" }, { "docid": "286982", "text": "the early and mid-20th centuries this was a form of bowdlerisation, concerned with some of the more violent elements of nursery rhymes and led to the formation of organisations like the British 'Society for Nursery Rhyme Reform'. Psychoanalysts such as Bruno Bettelheim strongly criticized this revisionism, on the grounds that it weakened their usefulness to both children and adults as ways of symbolically resolving issues and it has been argued that revised versions may not perform the functions of catharsis for children, or allow them to imaginatively deal with violence and danger. In the late 20th century revisionism of nursery", "title": "Nursery rhyme" }, { "docid": "12454009", "text": "One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) \"One for Sorrow\" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition, the number of magpies one sees determines if one will have bad luck. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20096. There is considerable variation in the lyrics used. A common modern version follows: The rhyme has its origins in superstitions connected with magpies, considered a bird of ill omen in some cultures, and in Britain, at least as far back as the early sixteenth century. The rhyme was first recorded around 1780 in a note in", "title": "One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme)" }, { "docid": "13988593", "text": "11. John Simon - Beach Music 12. Peter Yarrow / John Simon - The Wabe 13. Peter Yarrow - Don't Remind Me Now Of Time 14. John Simon - Painting For Freakout 15. John Simon / The Electric Flag - Freakout You Are What You Eat (film) You Are What You Eat is a 1968 American counterculture semi-documentary movie that attempts to capture the essence of the 1960s flower power hippie era and the Haight-Ashbury scene. The film features locally known personalities, including well known and somewhat mythical pot dealer Super Spade and musicians of the day including Tiny Tim,", "title": "You Are What You Eat (film)" }, { "docid": "18225946", "text": "Are You What You Want to Be? \"Are You What You Want to Be?\" is a song by American indie pop band Foster the People. It serves as the opening track on their second studio album, \"Supermodel\", and was released as the album's fourth single on September 8, 2014. An audio stream of \"Are You What You Want to Be?\" was uploaded by the band's Vevo account to YouTube on August 5, 2014 accompanied by its single cover. The song impacted contemporary hit radio in the United Kingdom on September 8, 2014 and modern rock radio in the United States", "title": "Are You What You Want to Be?" }, { "docid": "6452769", "text": "the opinion of Craig Hlavaty, writing for \"Houston Press\", while Wilson never sought to claim a share of the song's authorship, \"If you check out Wilson's solo work, you can hear where Wilson's mind took over 'Beautiful.'\" In a 2004 interview, when asked whether his brother Dennis was \"one of the uncredited writers\" of \"You Are So Beautiful\", Brian Wilson said: \"He did not write that song.\" Dennis sang \"You Are So Beautiful\" as an encore at Beach Boys shows intermittently from 1975 until his death in 1983. A live rendition, circa 1978, and an edited 1983 live rendition both", "title": "You Are So Beautiful" }, { "docid": "10691152", "text": "Sugar Is Not Sweet Sugar Is Not Sweet ( or \"Namtarn mai warn\") is a 1965 Thai romantic comedy film written and directed by Rattana Pestonji. It was the director's final feature film. The film was featured in a retrospective program to the director at the 2005 Pusan International Film Festival. Chaokun Charoenkesa, the owner of a shop that sells hair-loss treatments, wants to pay back his debt of kindness to a friend, whose formula is responsible for the Chaokun’s prosperity. So he arranges for his good-for-nothing son, Manas, to marry Sugar, the daughter of his dear friend. Rattana Pestonji", "title": "Sugar Is Not Sweet" }, { "docid": "13988591", "text": "You Are What You Eat (film) You Are What You Eat is a 1968 American counterculture semi-documentary movie that attempts to capture the essence of the 1960s flower power hippie era and the Haight-Ashbury scene. The film features locally known personalities, including well known and somewhat mythical pot dealer Super Spade and musicians of the day including Tiny Tim, David Crosby and Peter Yarrow etc. and radio disc jockey, Rosko. The film soundtrack features music by John Simon and by artists as diverse as Paul Butterfield, The Electric Flag, Eleanor Barooshian, Peter Yarrow, John Herald and Harpers Bizarre, accompanied by", "title": "You Are What You Eat (film)" }, { "docid": "5119311", "text": "Your Funeral\" at number seven of their 10 Best Emo Music Videos list. Tim Landers of Transit and Brandon McMaster of The Crimson Armada featured the album on their Five Albums That Changed My Life lists. Saves the Day played the album in full at FYF Fest in August 2016. All songs written by Bryan Newman, Chris Conley, David Soloway, Eben D'Amico and Ted Alexander. Personnel per sleeve. Saves the Day Additional musician Production Citations Sources Stay What You Are Stay What You Are is the third studio album from American rock band Saves the Day, released in 2001. While", "title": "Stay What You Are" }, { "docid": "5119310", "text": "By March 2002, the album had sold over 120,000 copies, becoming one of Vagrant's best-selling releases. \"Stay What You Are\" reached number 100 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart. In the years since its release, \"Stay What You Are\" is widely regarded as a classic and a highly influential piece of music for the emo and pop punk genres. \"NME\" listed the album as one of \"20 Emo Albums That Have Resolutely Stood The Test Of Time\". Similarly, \"Houston Press\" included the listed the album as one of the best emo albums of 2001–2005. \"Paste\" included the video for \"At", "title": "Stay What You Are" }, { "docid": "5119304", "text": "Stay What You Are Stay What You Are is the third studio album from American rock band Saves the Day, released in 2001. While on tour, in March 2000, the band got into a van accident that almost ended the band's career. The van accident was somewhat of an inspiration for the band's song writing. By this point, vocalist Chris Conley \"really felt confident\" and subsequently had \"a lot more fun\" while writing. Conley had a personal recording studio set-up where he would \"spend the entire day\" in \"building songs in my own little world.\" In April, it was announced", "title": "Stay What You Are" }, { "docid": "4050393", "text": "more universal. The title of the album was inspired by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, whom Hatfield admired. The album was recorded at Hollywood Sound, mixed at Oceanway Studios and mastered at Precision Mastering in Los Angeles. It was released on August 3, 1993, by Mammoth Records. The song \"Spin the Bottle\" is featured on the soundtrack of the 1994 film \"Reality Bites\". As of February 2010, \"Become What You Are\" had sold 267,000 copies in the US according to Nielsen SoundScan. \"Become What You Are\" received generally favorable reviews. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic praised Hatfield's honest vocals on \"Supermodel,\"", "title": "Become What You Are" }, { "docid": "14676480", "text": "raise lots of<br> Sweet violets<br> Sweeter than the roses<br> Covered all over from head to toe<br> Covered all over with sweet violets<br> The girl told the farmer that he'd better stop<br> And she call her father and he called a<br> Taxi and got there before very long<br> 'Cause some one was doin' his little girl<br> Right for a change and so that's why he said<br> If you marry her son, you're better off single<br> 'Cause it's always been my belief<br> Marriage will bring a man nothing but<br> Sweet Violets<br> Sweeter than the roses<br> Covered all over from head to toe<br>", "title": "Mind rhyme" }, { "docid": "6452766", "text": "You Are So Beautiful \"You Are So Beautiful\" is a song written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher that was first released in 1974 on Preston's ninth studio album, \"The Kids & Me\". It was also the B-side of his single \"Struttin'\". Later that same year, English singer Joe Cocker released a slower version of the song on his album \"I Can Stand a Little Rain\". Produced by Jim Price, Cocker's version was also issued as a single in January 1975 and became one of his biggest chart hits, peaking at number 5 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Some", "title": "You Are So Beautiful" }, { "docid": "13443132", "text": "Right You Are (if you think so) Right You Are (If You Think So) ( ), also translated as \"It Is So (If You Think So)\", is an Italian drama by Luigi Pirandello. The play is based on Pirandello's novel \"La signora Frola e il signor Ponza, suo genero\". It premiered 18 June 1917 in Milan. The theme is conflicting versions of the truth told by the main characters, each of whom claims the other is insane. Lady Frola claims that her son-in-law Mr. Ponza went insane when her daughter, his wife, died four years ago, then remarried. Lady Frola", "title": "Right You Are (if you think so)" }, { "docid": "14962369", "text": "What You See Is What You Get (book) What You See Is What You Get is the autobiography of British businessman and TV personality Lord Alan Sugar. The 640-page book, which was published in May 2011, tells the story of Alan Sugar's birth and childhood in a deprived part of London, how he founded the company Amstrad aged just 21 years old, and how he eventually became a successful multi-millionaire tycoon, received a knighthood, and was appointed to the House of Lords. Sir Alan also reveals his main method of business and entrepreneurial activity: (a) observing what market leaders are", "title": "What You See Is What You Get (book)" }, { "docid": "8966219", "text": "were not re-recorded for \"This Is What You Want...This Is What You Get\" (although a remixed version of \"Blue Water\" was included as the B-side on the \"This Is Not a Love Song\" 12\" single). Songs on \"This Is What You Want...This Is What You Get\" which did not appear in any form on \"Commercial Zone\" are \"Tie Me to the Length of That\", \"The Pardon\" and \"1981\", and are the only songs on the album which do not credit Keith Levene as a co-writer. PiL was supposed to score the soundtrack for the 1983 suspense film \"Copkiller\", starring Harvey", "title": "This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get" }, { "docid": "7105789", "text": "You Are So Beautiful (album) You Are So Beautiful was the eighth album released by Tanya Tucker, and the fourth and final one with her first label, Columbia Records and with producer Billy Sherrill. It consisted of songs Tucker had recorded several years prior while still recording for Columbia. The highest charting single was \"Spring,\" which rose to #18 on the \"Billboard\" C&W chart in 1975, two years before the album's release, that single having been released by Columbia to compete with Tucker's debut MCA single, the #1 C&W hit \"Lizzie and the Rainman\". At the time the \"You Are", "title": "You Are So Beautiful (album)" }, { "docid": "12454017", "text": "characters. The title of a spooky young adult book by Mary Downing Hahn is \"One for sorrow\". One For Sorrow, Written By Mary Downing Hahn One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) \"One for Sorrow\" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition, the number of magpies one sees determines if one will have bad luck. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20096. There is considerable variation in the lyrics used. A common modern version follows: The rhyme has its origins in superstitions connected with magpies, considered a bird of ill omen in some", "title": "One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme)" }, { "docid": "15675637", "text": "rain under one umbrella. FINAL NOMINATION for spot titled “Are you man enough?” where a young woman questions what it really is to be a man. What Kind of Man Are You? What Kind of Man Are You? is a mass-media campaign in India asking men to use condoms to protect their wives from HIV/AIDS. The campaign was launched in 2005 by an organization named Breakthrough. This campaign heightened awareness for the over 2 million married women with HIV/AIDS in India who were infected by their husbands. The campaign encouraged an open, national dialogue about a woman's right to negotiate", "title": "What Kind of Man Are You?" }, { "docid": "7126107", "text": "the 2000 EP, \"Avalanche\", which was only available to buy over the internet. All tracks written by Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant. with: What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Echo & the Bunnymen. The album saw the departure of bassist Les Pattinson from the group, partly due to disagreements with vocalist Ian McCulloch; McCulloch and the remaining band member, guitarist Will Sergeant, subsequently recorded the record with session musicians. The London Metropolitan Orchestra provided backing music and the", "title": "What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?" }, { "docid": "15746932", "text": "I'm Nobody! Who are you? \"I'm Nobody! Who are you?\" is a short lyric poem by Emily Dickinson first published in 1891 in \"Poems, Series 2\". It is one of Dickinson’s most popular poems. The poem is composed of two quatrains, and, with an exception of the first line, the rhythm alternates between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. The poem employs alliteration, anaphora, simile, satire, and internal rhyme but no regular end rhyme scheme. However, lines 1 and 2 and lines 6 and 8 end with masculine rhymes. The poet incorporates the pronouns \"you, we, us, your\" into the poem,", "title": "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" }, { "docid": "7126096", "text": "What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Echo & the Bunnymen. The album saw the departure of bassist Les Pattinson from the group, partly due to disagreements with vocalist Ian McCulloch; McCulloch and the remaining band member, guitarist Will Sergeant, subsequently recorded the record with session musicians. The London Metropolitan Orchestra provided backing music and the American alternative hip hop band Fun Lovin' Criminals appeared as guest musicians on two tracks. The album was produced by Alan Douglas and", "title": "What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?" }, { "docid": "4480224", "text": "Aberback of NorthJersey.com noted that the album placed the band on the \"indie-rock map and continues to resonate heavily with fans 10 years later\". Jorgensen later called the album a \"diary entry. Without that, I think a lot of people when [their] lives go on they forget what they went through at a certain point in time so for me that’s the biggest markers for me to remember where I was at the point in my life.\" Personnel per booklet. Armor for Sleep Production Citations Sources What to Do When You Are Dead What to Do When You Are Dead", "title": "What to Do When You Are Dead" }, { "docid": "17997764", "text": "set in a fictional Japan where the existence of magic has been recognized by society, and thus has been the subject of much research. Magic is also applied to everyday life; for example, stuffed toys are able to talk. Users of magic must wear a special ring which controls their powers, and are urged to blend in with society. Despite \"Nursery Rhyme\" being set in the future, Japan's culture is depicted as unchanged for the most part. Many of the characters attend , a prestigious all-girls school which provides its students with magic classes, as well as academic courses. Shōsei", "title": "Nursery Rhyme (visual novel)" }, { "docid": "10691153", "text": "has a cameo appearance in this film as the doctor who treats Chaokun in his moment of death. Sugar Is Not Sweet Sugar Is Not Sweet ( or \"Namtarn mai warn\") is a 1965 Thai romantic comedy film written and directed by Rattana Pestonji. It was the director's final feature film. The film was featured in a retrospective program to the director at the 2005 Pusan International Film Festival. Chaokun Charoenkesa, the owner of a shop that sells hair-loss treatments, wants to pay back his debt of kindness to a friend, whose formula is responsible for the Chaokun’s prosperity. So", "title": "Sugar Is Not Sweet" }, { "docid": "286980", "text": "been argued to have hidden meanings and origins. John Bellenden Ker (1765?–1842), for example, wrote four volumes arguing that English nursery rhymes were actually written in 'Low Saxon', a hypothetical early form of Dutch. He then 'translated' them back into English, revealing in particular a strong tendency to anti-clericalism. Many of the ideas about the links between rhymes and historical persons, or events, can be traced back to Katherine Elwes's book \"The Real Personages of Mother Goose\" (1930), in which she linked famous nursery-rhyme characters with real people, on little or no evidence. She assumed that children's songs were a", "title": "Nursery rhyme" }, { "docid": "7105790", "text": "So Beautiful\" album was released, Tucker's rendition of the title track was issued as a single reaching #40 C&W; the album was Tucker's lowest ranking up to that point at #44 on the C&W Albums chart. You Are So Beautiful (album) You Are So Beautiful was the eighth album released by Tanya Tucker, and the fourth and final one with her first label, Columbia Records and with producer Billy Sherrill. It consisted of songs Tucker had recorded several years prior while still recording for Columbia. The highest charting single was \"Spring,\" which rose to #18 on the \"Billboard\" C&W chart", "title": "You Are So Beautiful (album)" }, { "docid": "6271151", "text": "Parma Violets Parma Violets are a British violet-flavoured tablet confectionery manufactured by the Derbyshire company Swizzels Matlow. The sweets are hard, biconcave disc-shaped sweets, similar to the Fizzers product from the same company but without their fizziness. Swizzels Matlow have also released a line of Giant Parma Violets. Ingredients include sugar, stearic acid, modified starch, glucose syrup, and anthocyanin. The petals of violets have long been used in herbalism for their medicinal properties, even mentioned by Dioscorides. \"Violet tables\", a sugary lozenge flavoured with violets, was made before 1620. During the 18th century, crushed violet petals, rosewater and sugar were", "title": "Parma Violets" }, { "docid": "286983", "text": "rhymes became associated with the idea of political correctness. Most attempts to reform nursery rhymes on this basis appear to be either very small scale, light-hearted updating, like Felix Dennis's \"When Jack Sued Jill – Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times\" (2006), or satires written as if from the point of view of political correctness in order to condemn reform. The controversy in Britain in 1986 over changing the language of \"Baa Baa Black Sheep\" because, it was alleged in the popular press, it was seen as racially dubious, was apparently based only on a rewriting of the rhyme in one", "title": "Nursery rhyme" }, { "docid": "5956092", "text": "and Shaggy Rogers—and the title character, a semi-anthropomorphic Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. The group travels in a blue and green van with two orange flowers named the Mystery Machine, solving mysteries involving several local legends; in doing so, they discover that the perpetrator is almost invariably a disguised person who seeks to exploit the legend for their personal gain. \"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!\" is the first incarnation of what would eventually become a long-running media franchise, which primarily consists of subsequent animated series, several films, and related merchandise. \"Scooby Doo, Where Are You!\" was the result of CBS and Hanna-Barbera's", "title": "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" }, { "docid": "8201693", "text": "recorded by Count Basie, Johnny Mercer, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Berl Olswanger and his Orchestra. <poem style=\"margin-left: 2em;\">I got those sugar blues, Everybody's singing those sugar blues, The whole town is ringing; My lovin' mama, sweet as she can be, But the doggone gal turned sour on me! I'm so unhappy, I feel so bad, I could lay me down and die; You can say what you choose, But I'm all confused; I've got those sweet, sweet sugar blues, More sugar, I got those sweet, sweet sugar blues!</poem> Sugar Blues (song) \"Sugar Blues\" is a song written in 1919", "title": "Sugar Blues (song)" }, { "docid": "7187560", "text": "homes for inspection. Localized versions of You Are What You Eat were produced by Viasat and aired in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Viasat was the first company in the world to adapt the format locally. MTV3 also produced a local version of the show in Finland. The show was a success and it was the frequently most viewed show in Finland when it was Weight loss by participants was often significant, with some examples as follows: Based on the results of 34 participants in the series the subjects all recorded significant weight loss with an average", "title": "You Are What You Eat" }, { "docid": "7920030", "text": "What Planet Are You From? What Planet Are You From? is a 2000 American science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Michael Leeson, Garry Shandling, Ed Solomon, and Peter Tolan based on a story by Leeson and Shandling. The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Shandling, Annette Bening, Greg Kinnear, Ben Kingsley, Linda Fiorentino, and John Goodman. A denizen (Garry Shandling) of a faraway planet occupied only by highly evolved males is ordered by his superior, Graydon (Ben Kingsley), to find a female human, impregnate her and bring the baby back to the planet. The visitor", "title": "What Planet Are You From?" }, { "docid": "14526110", "text": "How I Wonder What You Are How I Wonder What You Are is a 2010 drama film directed by Udaya Dharmawardhana and Chinthana Dharmadasa. The film is a low budget production and is claimed to be from the first independent cinema in Sri Lanka. The plot is a story of two youths who are engaged on a soul searching mission. D (played by Prasanna Mahaganage) is a youth of 29 who is frustrated with life not having a reason to live. He yearns for some form of connection, when Kathy (played by Purnima Mohandiram) visits him. She comes to D", "title": "How I Wonder What You Are" }, { "docid": "8966218", "text": "songs by John Lydon, Keith Levene, and Martin Atkins except * by John Lydon and Martin Atkins Five songs on \"This Is What You Want...This Is What You Get\" are re-recordings of tracks which originally appeared on \"Commercial Zone\": \"Bad Life\" (originally titled \"Mad Max\"), \"This Is Not a Love Song\" (originally titled \"Love Song\"), \"Solitaire\" (entitled \"Young Brits\" on the second pressing of \"Commercial Zone\"), \"The Order of Death\" (originally titled \"The Slab\"), and \"Where Are You?\" (originally titled \"Lou Reed Part 2\"). Four songs from \"Commercial Zone\", \"Bad Night\", \"Lou Reed Part 1\", \"Blue Water\" and \"Miller Hi-Life\",", "title": "This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get" }, { "docid": "19286485", "text": "found at Pritzker Military Museum & Library. The song urges Americans (specifically immigrants) to use this war to prove their loyalty to the United States; whether that may be by fighting or by simply standing behind the US's actions. For those who show no support, this question is posed: \"What are you doing over here?\" It upholds the \"us-against-them\" mentality; the \"them\" in this case is Germany. The chorus is as follows: What Kind of an American are You? What Kind of an American are you?, also known as What Kind of American are you?, is a World War I", "title": "What Kind of an American are You?" }, { "docid": "6993057", "text": "Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? is the debut album by rock band The Like, released by Geffen in 2005 in the United States and 2006 in selected international markets including the United Kingdom. It features the singles \"What I Say and What I Mean\" and \"June Gloom\". In some markets the music video for \"What I Say and What I Mean\" is included on the album, and in others a cover of Split Enz's \"One Step Ahead\" (1981) is included as a bonus track. All tracks written by Z Berg unless otherwise noted.", "title": "Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?" }, { "docid": "6993056", "text": "Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? is the debut album by rock band The Like, released by Geffen in 2005 in the United States and 2006 in selected international markets including the United Kingdom. It features the singles \"What I Say and What I Mean\" and \"June Gloom\". In some markets the music video for \"What I Say and What I Mean\" is included on the album, and in others a cover of Split Enz's \"One Step Ahead\" (1981) is included as a bonus track. All tracks written by Z Berg unless otherwise noted.", "title": "Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?" } ]
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The 4th largest fast food chain, and second largest hamburger chain (by store numbers), what company opened its first store in Miami, Fla on December 4, 1954?
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[ { "docid": "18946243", "text": "amid allegations of accounting irregularities and stock price manipulation, and was forced to sell off its assets, including Royal Castle. By the 1970s the Royal Castle chain began to lose ground to other fast-food hamburger chains, including McDonald’s as well as Burger King, which also was founded in Miami in 1954. In 1975, the remaining shareholders of Royal Castle voted to liquidate the company at $2 a share, down from the $12 per share when the company was acquired by Performance Systems. Royal Castle (restaurant chain) Royal Castle was a Miami, Florida-based hamburger restaurant chain known for its miniature hamburgers", "title": "Royal Castle (restaurant chain)" }, { "docid": "656320", "text": "from the McDonald brothers, pioneered concepts which emphasized standardization. He introduced uniform products, identical in all respects at each outlet, to increase sales. Kroc also insisted on cutting food costs as much as possible, eventually using the McDonald's Corporation's size to force suppliers to conform to this ethos. Other prominent international fast food companies include Burger King, the number two hamburger chain in the world, known for promoting its customized menu offerings (\"Have it Your Way\"). Another international fast food chain is KFC, which sells Chicken-related products and is the number 1 Fast Food company in the People's Republic of", "title": "Fast food restaurant" }, { "docid": "656310", "text": "franchise of the predecessor to what is now the international fast food restaurant chain Burger King. McLamore had visited the original McDonald's hamburger stand belonging to the McDonald brothers; sensing potential in their innovative assembly line-based production system, he decided he wanted to open a similar operation of his own. The two partners eventually decided to invest their money in Jacksonville, Florida-based Insta-Burger King. Originally opened in 1953, the founders and owners of the chain, Kieth J. Kramer and his wife's uncle Matthew Burns, opened their first stores around a piece of equipment known as the Insta-Broiler. The Insta-Broiler oven", "title": "Fast food restaurant" } ]
[ { "docid": "2584207", "text": "Chain store A chain store or retail chain is a retail outlet in which several locations share a brand, central management, and standardized business practices. They have come to dominate the retail and dining markets, and many service categories, in many parts of the world. A franchise retail establishment is one form of chain store. In 2004, the world's largest retail chain, Walmart, became the world's largest corporation based on gross sales. In 1792, Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna established W.H. Smith as a news vending business in London that would become a national concern in the mid-19th", "title": "Chain store" }, { "docid": "2584216", "text": "formula restaurants and formula retail allege the restrictions are used to protect independent businesses from competition. Notes Further reading Chain store A chain store or retail chain is a retail outlet in which several locations share a brand, central management, and standardized business practices. They have come to dominate the retail and dining markets, and many service categories, in many parts of the world. A franchise retail establishment is one form of chain store. In 2004, the world's largest retail chain, Walmart, became the world's largest corporation based on gross sales. In 1792, Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna", "title": "Chain store" }, { "docid": "20001301", "text": "seasonal ingredients, advertising that their food is freshly made every day in the kitchen at each store. Most orders are delivered by bicycle. Pure (fast food chain) Pure is a fast food chain based in London, United Kingdom. It serves sandwiches, drinks and breakfast items. The company was founded by Spencer Craig & Edward Bentley, with the first Pure store opening in Beak Street, Soho, in 2009. In 2015, Pure was included in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 as one of the fastest growing and profitable companies of 2015 with a 65% annual sales rise over 3 years. In", "title": "Pure (fast food chain)" }, { "docid": "20001299", "text": "Pure (fast food chain) Pure is a fast food chain based in London, United Kingdom. It serves sandwiches, drinks and breakfast items. The company was founded by Spencer Craig & Edward Bentley, with the first Pure store opening in Beak Street, Soho, in 2009. In 2015, Pure was included in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 as one of the fastest growing and profitable companies of 2015 with a 65% annual sales rise over 3 years. In 2016 Whitbread, the FTSE 100 leisure group behind Premier Inn and Costa Coffee, bought a 49 per cent stake in the company, acquired", "title": "Pure (fast food chain)" }, { "docid": "7207441", "text": "Emporium (department store chain) Emporium, more formally known as Troutman's Emporium, was a chain of department stores founded in 1955 by Dallas Troutman in North Bend, Oregon. After 1977, Emporium's headquarters was located in Eugene, Oregon. At its peak, Emporium operated at least 34 stores, in Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California and Washington. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2002 and liquidated. The last stores closed in 2003. Emporium was founded in 1955, when Dallas Troutman opened the first Emporium store, in North Bend, Oregon, a store in a building previously used as a grocery store. In 1963,", "title": "Emporium (department store chain)" }, { "docid": "14322213", "text": "opened the first restaurant abroad in Lisbon, Portugal in the upscale neighborhood of Chiado. In December 2011, this store closed its doors. Koni Store Koni Store is a Brazilian chain of Japanese food headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its restaurants sell popular Japanese cuisine-based dishes, such as temakis and sushi, but operates with a fast food logistic and layout. Currently, Koni has 32 stores located in four Brazilian states and the Federal District. Being easy to find in major cities within those states, Koni has become a very popular chain in Brazil, and was cited in a \"New York", "title": "Koni Store" }, { "docid": "18265030", "text": "Daily\" ranked Pala as No. 6 of the \" Top 10 fast-food chains in China\". Pala Hamburger Pala Catering Management Co Ltd, doing business as Pala Hamburger (), is a Chinese fast food chain headquartered in the Wuhan CBD (). The first store opened in Wuhan in 1999. Ke Zhaoyan, the marketing manager, stated that Pala opened in smaller cities and towns because its food is cheaper compared to that of Western-owned companies. In 2012 the company had about 1,000 franchised stores and about 400 direct sale stores. That year Pala planned to open an additional 460 stores. The number", "title": "Pala Hamburger" }, { "docid": "2584211", "text": "along with legal countermeasures by chain-store groups. A chain store is characterised by the ownership or franchise relationship between the local business or outlet and a controlling business. While chains are typically \"formula retail\", a chain refers to ownership or franchise, whereas \"formula retail\" refers to the characteristics of the business. There is considerable overlap because key characteristic of a formula retail business is that it is controlled as a part of a business relationship, and is generally part of a chain. Nevertheless, most codified municipal regulation relies on definitions of formula retail (e.g., formula restaurants), in part because a", "title": "Chain store" }, { "docid": "1407490", "text": "electronics, toys and other consumer products in their stores. Topeka has now opened a few supermarkets and \"Hipermercados\" (a combination food and clothing store)under their trademark name in Puerto Rico. Topeka (store) Tiendas Topeka (or Topeka Stores) is a large Puerto Rican retail department store chain. \"Topeka\" as a store chain began in the late 1950s, competing with such other stores as \"Woolworth's\", \"Pitusa\" (which opened in 1977) and \"La New York Department Stores\". \"Topeka\" eventually grew into one of the largest retail store chains on the island by opening locations in almost every town and city of Puerto Rico.", "title": "Topeka (store)" }, { "docid": "1407489", "text": "Topeka (store) Tiendas Topeka (or Topeka Stores) is a large Puerto Rican retail department store chain. \"Topeka\" as a store chain began in the late 1950s, competing with such other stores as \"Woolworth's\", \"Pitusa\" (which opened in 1977) and \"La New York Department Stores\". \"Topeka\" eventually grew into one of the largest retail store chains on the island by opening locations in almost every town and city of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's shopping mall boom of the 1980s provided Topeka with further opportunity to open in more locations. Originally a clothing store, Topeka gradually grew to include food, school items,", "title": "Topeka (store)" }, { "docid": "18265029", "text": "Pala Hamburger Pala Catering Management Co Ltd, doing business as Pala Hamburger (), is a Chinese fast food chain headquartered in the Wuhan CBD (). The first store opened in Wuhan in 1999. Ke Zhaoyan, the marketing manager, stated that Pala opened in smaller cities and towns because its food is cheaper compared to that of Western-owned companies. In 2012 the company had about 1,000 franchised stores and about 400 direct sale stores. That year Pala planned to open an additional 460 stores. The number of stores grew to 1,700 in 2012, and in 2013 to 1,850. In 2014 \"China", "title": "Pala Hamburger" }, { "docid": "482249", "text": "in 2008. Now KFC is the third largest fast food chain restaurant with 137 stores as of 2017. KFC is the largest restaurant chain in China, with 5,003 outlets as of 2015. They are operated by the Yum! China division. KFC became the first Western fast food company in China after its first outlet opened in Qianmen, Beijing, in November 1987. Local food items include rice congee and tree fungus salad, with an average of 50 different menu items per store. In December 2012, the chain faced allegations that some of its suppliers injected antiviral drugs and growth hormones into", "title": "KFC" }, { "docid": "1848258", "text": "de Precios Unicos) department store chain, which was one of Spain's oldest, the market is now dominated by El Corte Inglés, founded in 1934 as a drapery store. El Corte Inglés stores tend to be vast buildings, selling a very broad range of product. The group also controls a number of other retail formats, including the supermarket chain Supercor and hypermarket chain Hipercor. It currently employs 91,000 people and is the largest department store in Europe, with department stores all over mainland Spain, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands and Portugal. Its first store opened in Madrid, where it currently", "title": "Department store" }, { "docid": "17429556", "text": "Burgs (fast-food chain) Burgs is an Indian fast food chain that mainly serves gourmet burgers including chicken, lamb, fish, prawn, beef and pork, as well as veggie burgers. It also serves ice cream shakes, iced tea, Orangina, B'lue and soft drinks. It is owned by Mumbai-based Sanjay Kilachand. The first Burgs outlet opened on Waterfield Road, Bandra, Mumbai on 22 March 2012. The decor in Burgs's outlets features plastic chairs, tables, bright lighting and colours. The restaurant's signature burgers are The Burg and The Big Burg. The Big Burg is made of two buffalo tenderloin patties, with béarnaise sauce and", "title": "Burgs (fast-food chain)" }, { "docid": "7207443", "text": "the headquarters was relocated to Eugene, where Emporium also opened a new distribution center. The next several years were a period of major expansion, and by 1983, Emporium was a 13-store chain. The company's gross sales in 1984 exceeded $50 million, and as of 1985 the company had about 1,000 employees. Founder Dallas Troutman was still company president. Around 325,000 customers held Emporium charge accounts at that time. By this time, at least, the stores were all identified simply as Emporium, and the company name was alternatively given as Emporium Inc. or Troutman's Emporium. The average store size was 30,000–40,000", "title": "Emporium (department store chain)" }, { "docid": "20866402", "text": "Perekrestok (supermarket chain) Perekrestok () is Russia’s largest supermarket chain managed by X5 Retail Group. In July 2018, the chain opened its 700th store. The chain was founded in 1995, when the first supermarket opened in Moscow. In 2002, Perekrestok started expanding into other Russian regions. In 2006, Perekrestok and Pyaterochka merged, creating X5 Retail Group while keeping the Perekrestok brand unchanged. In 2014, the chain adopted a new store concept, with state-of-the-art retail equipment, better use of selling space, and improved interior and exterior design. As at 30 June 2018, more than 77% of Perekrestok supermarkets operated under the", "title": "Perekrestok (supermarket chain)" }, { "docid": "3496678", "text": "in 1994, the big-box store concept has changed how new hardware stores are built. In 2004, Mitre 10 built its first supercentre Mitre 10 \"MEGA\" with an average store size of 13,500 m. These were later either closed or turned into large-concept Mitre 10 stores. In 2011 Masters Home Improvement entered the market and has since opened more than 49 stores, with an average footprint of 13,500 m. Masters Home Improvement, which was the second-largest hardware chain in Australia, closed in December 2016. Hardware store Hardware stores (in a number of countries, \"shops\"), sometimes known as DIY stores, sell household", "title": "Hardware store" }, { "docid": "2584212", "text": "restriction directed to \"chains\" may be deemed an impermissible restriction on interstate commerce (in the US), or as exceeding municipal zoning authority (i.e., regulating \"who owns it\" rather than the characteristics of the business). Non-codified restrictions will sometimes target \"chains\". Brick-and-mortar chain stores have been in decline as retail has shifted to online shopping, leading to historically high retail vacancy rates. The hundred year old Radio Shack chain went from 7,400 stores in 2001 to 400 stores in 2018. FYE (retailer) is the last remaining music chain store in the United States and has shrunk from over 1000 at its", "title": "Chain store" }, { "docid": "20866406", "text": "to open a modern distribution centre in Paveltsevo, near the Sheremetyevo Airport. As at 31 December 2017, 12 out of 39 distribution centres of X5 Retail Group serve the large formats of Perekrestok and Karusel. Perekrestok (supermarket chain) Perekrestok () is Russia’s largest supermarket chain managed by X5 Retail Group. In July 2018, the chain opened its 700th store. The chain was founded in 1995, when the first supermarket opened in Moscow. In 2002, Perekrestok started expanding into other Russian regions. In 2006, Perekrestok and Pyaterochka merged, creating X5 Retail Group while keeping the Perekrestok brand unchanged. In 2014, the", "title": "Perekrestok (supermarket chain)" }, { "docid": "3940798", "text": "Disney Store location opened next to the El Capitan Theatre in its building in 1998. Duplicating the Disneyland attraction and merchandise location but operated by Disney Store, the first Walt Disney Gallery opened outside of the park next to the Disney Store at Main Place Santa Ana mall in California on November 4, 1994 and was operated by Disney Store. Doug Murphy was appointed vice president of the Walt Disney Gallery for Disney Store in December 1994. On September 16, 1997, Disney Stores opened its first ESPN—The Store at the Glendale Galleria. In September 1999, the three store chain was", "title": "Disney Store" }, { "docid": "1848259", "text": "has its headquarters. As of 2016, there were 95 El Corte Inglés department stores. Other competitors such as Simago and Galerías Preciados closed in the 1990s. However, El Corte Inglés faces major competition from French discount operators such as Carrefour and Auchan. In Sri Lanka there are few department stores. Most are based on Colombo, the country's capital. Notable department stores are Odel, the Food City chain by Cargills (Ceylon) PLC and the Arpico chain operated by David Pieris & Co. The largest department store chain in Sweden is Åhléns, which operates stores throughout the country. Its flagship Stockholm store,", "title": "Department store" }, { "docid": "1848242", "text": "is currently the largest chain of department stores, with several stores all over the country. The first department store in the Netherlands was the , opened in Utrecht by in 1839. It continued to exist until 1912. The most well known in the Netherlands are the local high-end department stores De Bijenkorf and the variety stores chain HEMA. A former well-known chain in the Netherlands was V&D. At 130 years of age, it was declared bankrupt in 2016. After the bankruptcy, the Canadian Hudson's Bay Company exported its Hudson's Bay and Saks OFF 5th chains to the Netherlands and entered", "title": "Department store" }, { "docid": "7207446", "text": "2003. The company's remaining assets were liquidated, and it completed the remainder of its bankruptcy proceedings in 2004. When the closure was announced, the company had been operating 34 stores across five western U.S. states employing 1,600 people. Emporium (department store chain) Emporium, more formally known as Troutman's Emporium, was a chain of department stores founded in 1955 by Dallas Troutman in North Bend, Oregon. After 1977, Emporium's headquarters was located in Eugene, Oregon. At its peak, Emporium operated at least 34 stores, in Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California and Washington. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2002", "title": "Emporium (department store chain)" }, { "docid": "8715145", "text": "Manor (department store) Manor AG is a Swiss department store chain with its headquarters in Basel. It is owned by Maus Frères of Geneva, and is Switzerland’s largest department-store chain. It generated total sales of CHF 3 billion in 2013. Brothers Ernest and Henri Maus together with Léon Nordmann opened their first department store in Lucerne in 1902, under the “Léon Nordmann” name. The more familiar “Manor” – a combination of the founders’ Maus and Nordmann surnames – did not appear until a new corporate identity was adopted in about 1965. All the company’s department stores in German-speaking Switzerland have", "title": "Manor (department store)" }, { "docid": "6722374", "text": "Falabella (retail store) Falabella is a multinational chain of department stores owned by Chilean multinational company S.A.C.I. Falabella, is the largest South American department store. The company was founded by Salvatore Falabella, an Italian Chilean immigrant, in 1889. In its original form, it was a tailor shop but today has become the largest retail in South America, the expansion of the company began in the 1960s, inaugurating the first store outside of Santiago, located at Concepción, in 1980 Falabella created CMR, a credit card with 5.5 million customers. In the 1990s began its process of internationalization, expanding its operations in", "title": "Falabella (retail store)" }, { "docid": "17205556", "text": "759 Store 759 Store is a Hong Kong chain store selling groceries and snacks. The name 759 is the Hong Kong Stock Exchange code for its parent company, CEC International Holdings Limited. Its Chinese name originated from the Japanese drama \"Oshin\". 759 stores mainly import Japanese, Korean and other foreign food items and sells them more cheaply than other supermarkets in Hong Kong. The first 759 store opened in Kwai Chung Plaza on 7 July 2010. Following this, 11 branches in Hong Kong and 90 branches in total were opened by July 2012. Between one-third and two-thirds of 759 Store's", "title": "759 Store" }, { "docid": "9583063", "text": "Elizabeth, New Jersey. Howland also continued to run as a stand-alone chain, while the Goerke's stores became part of the Steinbach chain, and in turn were rebranded Steinbach. In the 1970s, the chain opened three full line branches at shopping mall locations along the growing Jersey shore, including the chain's largest, a unit at the Shore Mall near Atlantic City. In 1976, a fourth mall location was opened at the Seaview Square Mall, near its downtown Asbury Park store. The Seaview Square location was opened as the chain's most upscale store, and a number of departments were originally not part", "title": "Steinbach (store)" }, { "docid": "581604", "text": "convenience shop and corner shop scale spaces, including Sainsbury's Local and Tesco Express. In-store convenience store sales grew 2.4%, reaching a record $195.0 billion (2011 data). Combined with $486.9 billion in motor fuels sales, total convenience store sales in 2011 were $681.9 billion, or one out of every 22 dollars of the overall $15.04 trillion U.S. gross domestic product. In New York City, \"bodega\" has come to mean any convenience store or deli. The first chain convenience store in the United States was opened in Dallas, Texas, in 1927 by the Southland Ice Company, which eventually became 7-Eleven, the largest", "title": "Convenience store" }, { "docid": "581591", "text": "are located on almost every street, corners, residential areas, and other public places. Aside from the local convenience stores, other popular international convenience stores are present on almost every street especially in urban areas. 7-Eleven is the largest convenience store chain in the country. It is run by the Philippine Seven Corporation (PSC). Its first store, located in Quezon City, opened in 1984. Its branches are now approximately 1400. Branches of Ministop, operated by the Robinsons Convenience Stores, Inc.; FamilyMart, operated and franchised by the joint partnership of Ayala Corporation and Rustans which are one of the largest shopping mall", "title": "Convenience store" }, { "docid": "3559025", "text": "monopoly. Company stores existed elsewhere than the United States, in particular in the early 1900s in Mexico, where textile workers at the largest cotton mill were paid in scrip. In a 1907 labor strike, workers attacked and looted the Río Blanco, Veracruz textile company's store. The workers were gunned down by the Mexican military, but in the aftermath of the violence, more retail outlets were opened in Rio Blanco. Company store A company store is a retail store selling a limited range of food, clothing and daily necessities to employees of a company. It is typical of a company town", "title": "Company store" }, { "docid": "6722375", "text": "Argentina, Peru and Colombia, in the 2000s some of the celebrities who have appeared in ads are Cecilia Bolocco, Valeria Mazza, Juanes, Kate Moss, Gisele Bündchen and Ricky Martin Falabella (retail store) Falabella is a multinational chain of department stores owned by Chilean multinational company S.A.C.I. Falabella, is the largest South American department store. The company was founded by Salvatore Falabella, an Italian Chilean immigrant, in 1889. In its original form, it was a tailor shop but today has become the largest retail in South America, the expansion of the company began in the 1960s, inaugurating the first store outside", "title": "Falabella (retail store)" }, { "docid": "10957278", "text": "Clover (store) Clover was a discount chain of 26 stores operated by Strawbridge & Clothier in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Clover stores averaged , but the first five stores it opened, ran about to . The first Clover store opened in 1971 in Cherry Hill, NJ. The management of Strawbridge & Clothier based their Clover store format on Dayton Hudson's store chain and Federated’s Gold Circle Discount store. The name was taken from S&C's periodic sale days, \"Clover Days\". The similarities to Target were evident throughout the life of Clover. The earliest locations included a food store (Clovermarket) adjacent", "title": "Clover (store)" }, { "docid": "15971208", "text": "O'Neill's (pub chain) O'Neill's is an Irish-themed pub chain with 49 outlets in the United Kingdom. The chain is operated by Mitchells & Butlers, one of the largest pub companies in the UK. Pubs are located across the whole of the UK, except for Northern Ireland, where there are none. The chain's focus is on Irish music, an Irish inspired food menu and Irish drinks such as Guinness, Jameson and Baileys. The first O'Neill's was opened in Aberdeen in 1994 by Bass, the largest pub company in the UK at the time. A second O'Neill's opened at Covent Garden in", "title": "O'Neill's (pub chain)" }, { "docid": "8673552", "text": "father, and John Mullen, who were founding directors, officers and shareholders of the company. In 1999, the company bought one of its main suppliers, Elfa International, a Swedish corporation that specialized in shelving and storage units. The first store location outside Texas opened in Atlanta, Georgia in April 1991. By December 1998, the chain had grown to 18 stores in operation. In October 2000, its first New York metropolitan area store opened. As of November 2004, it had 33 locations, and reached 38 with the opening of the first Los Angeles area location in October 2006. Following the deal with", "title": "The Container Store" }, { "docid": "14586992", "text": "Zen (department store) ZEN Department Store (Thai: เซน ดีพาร์ทเมนท์ สโตร์; Simplified Chinese: 先; Pinyin: Xiān) is an upmarket Thai department store chain with branches in Thailand and China, which is owned by Central Group. The upmarket department store chain ZEN was established in 1990 with its first branch as one of the anchors of the World Trade Center in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok. Now named CentralWorld, the shopping center underwent major renovations in 2006, was destroyed in a fire on May 19, 2010, and was due to reopen on December 25, 2011. A second branch has opened in Shenyang, China", "title": "Zen (department store)" }, { "docid": "8307479", "text": "the largest shopping mall in Thailand at that time. On 20 December 2005, King Bhumibol Adulyadej conferred on the company a Royal Warrant for its services, meaning they could display the royal Garuda emblem. By 2010 Central operated 15 stores in Thailand and planned to open more. Central Department Store Central Department Store (Thai: สรรพสินค้าเซ็นทรัล; Simplified Chinese: 尚泰; Pinyin: Shàngtài) is a Thai department store chain, owned by Central Group. It has branches in Thailand and Indonesia. In 1927, 22-year-old Tiang Chirathivat, an immigrant from mainland China, started a store in Bangkok named \"Keng Seng Lee\" or \"baskets for sale\",", "title": "Central Department Store" }, { "docid": "18020400", "text": "Deen. They opened their first store in 1993 in Enkhuizen and started expanding by founding new stores that same year. In 2002, they had 94 stores; in 2005, the first store was opened in Belgium, in Rijkevorsel; and, in 2009, they opened their first store in Germany. In 2012, the company had 300 stores and opened its first store in France. In 2014, Action opened its 500th store. It continued growing exponentially. In November 2017, there were already more than 1,000 stores across Europe. Action (store) Action is an, originally Dutch, international discount store-chain, owned by the British private-equity fund", "title": "Action (store)" }, { "docid": "10752089", "text": "new competition as many regional and national chains started to open units in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont communities where Porteous previously had carved out its niche in the mid-market department store business. The chain started to shut down in the mid-1990s, closing its Newington NH, and South Portland ME stores, and was completely shuttered by 2003 when its last store in Presque Isle closed. Porteous (store) Porteous, Mitchell & Braun Co., or simply Porteous, was a mid-market department store based in Portland, Maine. At the time the store was opened in 1904 it was the largest department store based", "title": "Porteous (store)" }, { "docid": "14322212", "text": "Koni Store Koni Store is a Brazilian chain of Japanese food headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its restaurants sell popular Japanese cuisine-based dishes, such as temakis and sushi, but operates with a fast food logistic and layout. Currently, Koni has 32 stores located in four Brazilian states and the Federal District. Being easy to find in major cities within those states, Koni has become a very popular chain in Brazil, and was cited in a \"New York Times\" article, which said university students \"have elevated it to a post-clubbing snack on a par with pizza.\" In 2010, Koni Store", "title": "Koni Store" }, { "docid": "2735654", "text": "Ames (store) Ames Department Stores Inc. was an American chain of discount stores based in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States. The company was founded in 1958 with a store in Southbridge, Massachusetts, and at its peak operated 700 stores in 20 states, including the Northeast, Upper South, Midwest, and the District of Columbia, making it the fourth largest discount retailer in the United States. Despite some success in its later years, Ames was plagued by debt and a slow decline in sales. This resulted in two bankruptcy filings that ultimately put an end to the chain. The company, despite expanding", "title": "Ames (store)" }, { "docid": "2584209", "text": "In 1900, it operated almost 200 stores. Isidore, Benjamin and Modeste Dewachter originated the idea of the chain department store in Belgium when they incorporated \"Dewachter frères\" (Dewachter Brothers) on January 1, 1875, three years before A&P began offering more than coffee and tea. The brothers offered ready-to-wear clothing for men and children and specialty clothing such as riding apparel and beachwear. Isidore owned 51% of the company, while his brothers split the remaining 49%. They started with four locations: the tiny crossroads village of Leuze, La Louvière and two at Mons. Under Isidore's (and later his son Louis') leadership,", "title": "Chain store" }, { "docid": "7207444", "text": "square feet (2,800–3,700 m) at that time, following early 1980s remodeling of some stores. In 1986, Emporium acquired the then-40-year-old, eight-store Quisenberry's chain, which had five stores in Eastern Oregon and three in Idaho. Over the next two years Troutman's Emporium opened 5 stores, including a store in Chico, California. In 1988, Emporium acquired a J.C. Penney store in Nampa, Idaho, at the Karcher Mall. In 1999, Emporium was in merger talks with Lamonts, but it fell through. In 2000, Ron Schiff was hired as the new president and CEO of Troutman's Emporium. Ron Schiff added six new stores in", "title": "Emporium (department store chain)" }, { "docid": "3305686", "text": "HEMA (store) HEMA (; originally an acronym for \"Hollandsche Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam\", \"Hollandic Standard Prices Company Amsterdam\") is originally a Dutch discount retail chain that started life as a dimestore, owned by the British investment firm Lion Capital LLP from 2007 to 2018, when it was sold to Dutch billionaire Marcel Boekhoorn. The chain is characterized by relatively low pricing of generic housewares, which are mostly made by and for the chain itself, often with original design. The first HEMA opened in Amsterdam on 4 November 1926, set up by the owners of the luxury department store De Bijenkorf. Originally,", "title": "HEMA (store)" }, { "docid": "9041755", "text": "Jysk (store) Jysk A/S (corporately styled JYSK) (, franchises in other countries operate under various names) is a Danish retail chain, selling household goods such as mattresses, furniture and interior décor. Jysk is the largest Danish retailer operating internationally. In total, the companies have 2,586 stores in 50 countries and over 22,000 employees. The turnover in the financial year 16/17 was 3.36 billion euro. Jysk was founded by Lars Larsen, who opened the first store on Silkeborgvej in the Danish city Aarhus in 1979. The retail chain is still owned by Larsen, who is one of Denmark's richest people, although", "title": "Jysk (store)" }, { "docid": "9041756", "text": "in some countries the chain operates on a franchise basis. The logo displays a goose. A chronological history of Jysk: Jysk (store) Jysk A/S (corporately styled JYSK) (, franchises in other countries operate under various names) is a Danish retail chain, selling household goods such as mattresses, furniture and interior décor. Jysk is the largest Danish retailer operating internationally. In total, the companies have 2,586 stores in 50 countries and over 22,000 employees. The turnover in the financial year 16/17 was 3.36 billion euro. Jysk was founded by Lars Larsen, who opened the first store on Silkeborgvej in the Danish", "title": "Jysk (store)" }, { "docid": "656305", "text": "competitors and emulators. What is certain, however, is that White Castle made the first significant effort to standardize the food production in, look of, and operation of fast-food hamburger restaurants. William Ingram's and Walter Anderson's White Castle System created the first fast food supply chain to provide meat, buns, paper goods, and other supplies to their restaurants, pioneered the concept of the multi-state hamburger restaurant chain, standardized the look and construction of the restaurants themselves, and even developed a construction division that manufactured and built the chain's prefabricated restaurant buildings. The McDonald's Speedee Service System and, much later, Ray Kroc's", "title": "Fast food restaurant" }, { "docid": "20001300", "text": "for £6.8m and having the option to buy the remainder of the company within the next five years. Pure was included again in 2016 in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100, consolidating the company as one of the most prominent options in the food chain market. As of January 2018, Pure has 14 shops opened in London, mainly based in the City and around Soho. Pure employs more than 243 people among team members, assistant managers, and General Managers. Pure’s menu includes breakfast items, salads, wraps, sandwiches, juices and smoothies, hot drinks, pots and snacks. The company uses organic and", "title": "Pure (fast food chain)" }, { "docid": "2584213", "text": "height to 270 locations in 2018. A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants in many different locations that are either under shared corporate ownership (e.g., McDonald's in the U.S.) or franchising agreements. Typically, the restaurants within a chain are built to a standard format through architectural prototype development and offer a standard menu and/or services. Fast food restaurants are the most common, but sit-down restaurant chains (such as Timber Lodge Steakhouse, Buffalo Wild Wings, Outback Steakhouse, T.G.I. Friday's, Legal Sea Foods, Ruby Tuesday and Olive Garden) also exist. Restaurant chains are often found near highways, shopping malls and", "title": "Chain store" }, { "docid": "6795373", "text": "first retail chain shop of GIORDANO in Bangladesh was launched at Dhaka, Dhanmondi, Anam Rangs Plaza on 11 December 2016. The second store opened at Gulshan-1, Police Plaza Concord on 28 June 2017 followed by the 3rd store at Panthapath, Bashundhara City Shopping Mall on 9th November 2018. Giordano (store) Giordano International Limited is a Hong Kong-based international retailer of men’s, women’s and children’s apparel and accessories. Established in 1981, Giordano now employs over 8,000 staff with over 3000 shops operating in more than 40 countries and regions worldwide. Giordano was founded in 1981 by Jimmy Lai. The company now", "title": "Giordano (store)" }, { "docid": "17429558", "text": "was Burgs first outlet in a Mumbai mall. The company plans to have 200 stores in India by 2023. Burgs' slogan is \"Gourmet Goodness\". Following the opening of their fifth outlet in July 2013, Gozoop, a cross-functional digital agency, was assigned the company's social media business. Gozoop's task is to amplify Burgs' social presence and brand awareness. Gozoop had previously organized a five-day-long campaign for the opening of the fifth outlet. As of July 2013, Burgs has a total of 5 outlets in India, four in Mumbai and one in Pune. Burgs (fast-food chain) Burgs is an Indian fast food", "title": "Burgs (fast-food chain)" }, { "docid": "10957282", "text": "in America today. When Clover closed many of its stores were purchased by Kohl's, with its first major expansion to the east coast. Clover (store) Clover was a discount chain of 26 stores operated by Strawbridge & Clothier in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Clover stores averaged , but the first five stores it opened, ran about to . The first Clover store opened in 1971 in Cherry Hill, NJ. The management of Strawbridge & Clothier based their Clover store format on Dayton Hudson's store chain and Federated’s Gold Circle Discount store. The name was taken from S&C's periodic sale", "title": "Clover (store)" }, { "docid": "3186792", "text": "has a Victorian-themed store. In Wildwood, there is a 1950s-themed store. Wawa opened its largest location in the Farragut Square area of Washington, D.C. on December 14, 2017. Wawa (company) Wawa, Inc. () is an American chain of convenience stores and gas stations located along the East Coast of the United States, operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Florida. The company's corporate headquarters is located in the Wawa area of Chester Heights, Pennsylvania in Greater Philadelphia. , Wawa was the largest convenience store chain in Greater Philadelphia, and it is also the third-largest retailer of", "title": "Wawa (company)" }, { "docid": "9250041", "text": "Dia (supermarket chain) Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentación, S.A. (DIA) is a Spanish international hard-discount supermarket chain founded in 1979 which as of 2012 operates 6,914 stores internationally, making it Europe's third largest food sector franchiser. It has also owned Schlecker in Spain and Portugal since 2013. The company is headed by the Venezuelan-born Ana María Llopis. Dia is a discount supermarket chain which follows a policy of reduction of prices by means of minimizing operational costs. The furniture and decoration of the store are minimal. Costs are also reduced by limiting the choice of products to a narrow selection of", "title": "Dia (supermarket chain)" }, { "docid": "3940830", "text": "chain operated from April 1990 to March 1992 with at peak and close two restaurants. In April 1990, the 50th Disney Store was opened in the Montclair Plaza, Montclair, California, along with the first Mickey's Kitchen fast food restaurant with 25,000 opening day visitors with out any promotions. This location was opened as an experiment with 190 seats taking up 6,000 square feet out of a total 12,000 square feet for the paired location. The second Mickey's Kitchen opened on May 31, 1991 in Woodfield Mall, Schaumburg, Illinois. In March 1992, Disney Stores closed the two Mickey's Kitchen as the", "title": "Disney Store" }, { "docid": "3305689", "text": "by country: Since 2009 HEMA has opened small versions of their stores in railway stations, at Schiphol Airport and in small villages in the Netherlands, as well as their first mini market. HEMA employed in excess of 10,000 workers at over 500 stores by March 2011. HEMA opened its 700th store on 14 December 2015 at Central Station in Utrecht. It is also the tenth store of the retail chain on a Dutch railway station. On 4 January 2014, HEMA's CEO Ronald van Zetten announced that it would branch out to Spain and the UK opening the first stores within", "title": "HEMA (store)" }, { "docid": "7207442", "text": "Troutman's Emporium moved to a space in Pony Village Shopping Center, an enclosed shopping mall. Troutman's Emporium started growing when the company opened a second store at the Willamette Plaza in Eugene, Oregon, in 1968. A third store was built in 1972 in Mount Vernon, Washington. In 1973, Troutman's Emporium acquired two Alexander's stores in Springfield and Florence, Oregon. Years earlier, Dallas Troutman had worked at the Springfield Alexander's store while in high school, working stock and sweeping floors. The company's headquarters was moved to the Springfield store after its acquisition, but when it was damaged by fire in 1977,", "title": "Emporium (department store chain)" }, { "docid": "16184818", "text": "were run by the chain into the 1950s. In 1951, Doug and Wilma Finlayson and A.L. Blackberg bought the Sutherland chain following the death of Angus Sutherland. In 1954, the Old Town store closed; in 1956, the current downtown store was built and the original store brought up from Old Town years previous was rented to commercial tenants. Sutherland's Drug Store continues to operate today in its expanded storefront and successfully competes with larger department stores in Yellowknife. The second Old Town store built in 1947 still exists today and was used for various commercial purposes after 1954 including: the", "title": "Sutherland's Drug Store" }, { "docid": "1848234", "text": "Department Store, Surya, Suzuya Department Store, JM Department Store, Java/Lotus (PT. Mitra Adiperkasa's low-end dept store brand, now closed), the Grand Palace, Yogya, Lima Cahaya, Chandra Department Store, Galeri Keris, Pasaraya and Indonesia's oldest department store Sarinah, which opened in 1963. Iran's largest department store chain is Shahrvand with 31 stores, all located in Tehran. The other department store that has been established lately is Hyperstar that invested by Carrefour's license holder, Majid Al Futtaim Group, in Tehran, Shiraz and Isfahan. Ireland developed a strong middle class, especially in the major cities, by the mid-nineteenth century. They were active patrons", "title": "Department store" }, { "docid": "5065138", "text": "stores, and opened five more by 1941. The company officially registered as a corporation on September 1, 1936 Shakarian moved into the mail order business during WWII. He said that customers sent him a check and asked him to mail their product as they could not drive to his store due to the gas rationing which happened during WWII. During the health food craze of the 1960s, Shakarian expanded his chain outside Pittsburgh for the first time, and in the process changed its name to General Nutrition Center. He continued to run the chain until his death in 1984. Shakarian", "title": "GNC (store)" }, { "docid": "1848237", "text": "suburbs saw the arrival of two more British stores, House of Fraser and Harvey Nichols. The Woolworth chain store had major presence from the early twentieth century until 1984, when its stores throughout the Republic of Ireland closed their doors for the last time. The oldest and largest department store chain in Israel is Hamashbir Lazarchan. Italy's most famous department stores are Coin, established in Mirano, Venice in 1926, and La Rinascente, founded in Milan in 1865 by Luigi and Ferdinando Bocconi. Some of the largest department stores in Japan are Daimaru (J. Front Retailing), Hankyu (H2O Retailing), Hanshin (H2O", "title": "Department store" }, { "docid": "7650049", "text": "Scott's Food & Pharmacy Scott's Food & Pharmacy was a supermarket chain in the Fort Wayne, Indiana market. The company was once a wholly owned subsidiary of SuperValu, but was acquired by The Kroger Co. in 2007. At the time of its purchase by Kroger, the chain had 18 locations. By late 2014, that number had dwindled to one location as a result of stores being closed or rebranded under the Kroger banner. However, the company shut down in 2016, due to the final store rebranding to Kroger. Donald G. Scott opened his first store in 1954. In 1963, with", "title": "Scott's Food & Pharmacy" }, { "docid": "14787931", "text": "The Popular (department store) The Popular Dry Goods Company (known as The Popular and by its large Spanish-speaking clientele as La Popular) was a local chain of department stores in El Paso, Texas. It carried national brands of clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, and housewares. At the time of its closing in 1995, there were four locations in El Paso at Downtown, Bassett Center, Northpark Mall and Sunland Park Mall. For much of its existence, The Popular was El Paso's largest locally owned department store. The Popular Dry Goods Company was founded in 1902 by Adolf Schwartz,", "title": "The Popular (department store)" }, { "docid": "9583065", "text": "the former Howland stores to the Steinbach nameplate, and closed the former Ohrbach's flagship location in New York. By the late 1980s, Amcena opted to sell the chain, Value City purchased some of the stores, and Detroit based Crowley Milner and Company purchased some others. The chain was liquidated with the rest of Crowley Milner in 1999. Steinbach had been a fixture in Asbury Park since the late 19th century, and by the turn of the 20th century, a new flagship store was planned and built on Cookman Avenue, billed as \"The world's largest resort department store.\" This building initially", "title": "Steinbach (store)" }, { "docid": "656324", "text": "the number three burger chain in the USA; Dunkin' Donuts, a New England-based chain; automobile oriented Sonic Drive-In's from Oklahoma City; Starbucks, Seattle-born coffee-based fast food beverage corporation; KFC and Taco Bell, which are both part of the largest restaurant conglomerate in the world, Yum! Brands; and Domino's Pizza, a pizza chain known for popularizing home delivery of fast food. Subway is known for their sub sandwiches and are the largest restaurant chain to serve such food items. Quiznos a Denver-based sub shop is another fast-growing sub chain, yet with over 6,000 locations it is still far behind Subway's 34,000", "title": "Fast food restaurant" }, { "docid": "581573", "text": "Viva Energy, Freedom Fuels and Puma Energy. Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., which operates Couche-Tard, Provi-Soir, Dépanneur 7, Mac's Convenience Stores and Beckers Milk, is the largest convenience store chain in Canada and receives its products through Core-Mark International, a North American distribution company specializing in fresh convenience. Another large chain is Quickie Mart (whose name predates the fictitious \"Kwik-E-Mart\" featured on \"The Simpsons\"). The world's largest convenience retailer, 7-Eleven, has about 500 Canadian locations from British Columbia to Ontario. Worldwide, the highest number of the chain's Slurpee beverages are sold in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the city has been given the title", "title": "Convenience store" }, { "docid": "1423126", "text": "devastated by the Great Kantō earthquake, Yoshinoya moved to the new Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo in 1926. The chain opened its first 24-hour store in 1952. On December 27, 1958, the chain's business model was changed from self-employed restaurants to a stock company, as an attempt to gain more profit. In 1965, the chain earned a million dollars in sales, which led to the idea of expanding the chain's operations in Japan. The chain's first franchised store was opened in Shinsaibashi, in 1968. In 1975, the first American store of the fast-food chain was opened in Colorado. In the", "title": "Yoshinoya" }, { "docid": "3305690", "text": "six months as well further expanding in France. The first Spanish store opened on 3 April on Calle Fuencarral in Madrid, and the first British store will be open in the Victoria Place shopping centre, next Victoria station in London on 12 June. HEMA (store) HEMA (; originally an acronym for \"Hollandsche Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam\", \"Hollandic Standard Prices Company Amsterdam\") is originally a Dutch discount retail chain that started life as a dimestore, owned by the British investment firm Lion Capital LLP from 2007 to 2018, when it was sold to Dutch billionaire Marcel Boekhoorn. The chain is characterized by", "title": "HEMA (store)" }, { "docid": "3940794", "text": "Disney Store The Disney Store is an international chain of specialty stores selling only Disney related items, many of them exclusive, under its own name and Disney Outlet. Disney Store is a business unit of Walt Disney Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products. Disney Store was the first \"retail-tainment\", or entertainment store. The company had operated a number of store chains beyond its flagship Disney Store chain, ESPN-The Store, Mickey's Kitchen restaurant. Currently, the company operates the stand-alone stores, Disney Baby, Walt Disney Gallery and Disney's Soda Fountain and Studio Store. Disney Store was a partner for Disney at Harrods, which", "title": "Disney Store" }, { "docid": "1848235", "text": "of department stores. Delany's New Mart was opened in 1853 in Dublin, Ireland. Unlike others, Delany's had not evolved gradually from a smaller shop on site. Thus it could claim to be the first purpose-built department store in the world. The term \"department store\" had not been invented at that time, so it was called the \"Monster House\". The store was completely destroyed in the 1916 Easter Rising, but reopened in 1922. Arnotts is one of the largest stores in Ireland. However, several large retailers now own chains of department stores, such as: The most upmarket chain is undoubtedly Brown", "title": "Department store" }, { "docid": "7315184", "text": "8), Statesville (Store No. 9) and elsewhere. When the chain incorporated in 1927, there were around 30 stores. Further expansion into Tennessee (Newport, No. 44, 1929) and Georgia (Dawson, No. 74, 1935) completed what would be the core of Roses' market area, which persists through to today. Most stores were in small towns, but in 1938 the company began opening outlets in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area, which would become its dominant urban market. Store 105 opened in 1938 on Colley Avenue in Norfolk, around the corner from where, three years later, the company would open a large department store,", "title": "Roses (store)" }, { "docid": "2584208", "text": "century under the management of their grandson William Henry Smith. The firm took advantage of the by opening news-stands at railway stations beginning in 1848. The firm, now called WHSmith, had more than 1,400 locations as of 2017. In the U.S., chain stores began with the founding of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) in 1859. Initially the small chain sold tea and coffee in stores located in New York City and operated a national mail order business. The firm grew to 70 stores by 1878 when George Huntington Hartford turned A&P into the country's first grocery chain.", "title": "Chain store" }, { "docid": "3940838", "text": "the former Downtown Disney Pleasure Island shop. Additional products would be announced in September. Disney Store The Disney Store is an international chain of specialty stores selling only Disney related items, many of them exclusive, under its own name and Disney Outlet. Disney Store is a business unit of Walt Disney Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products. Disney Store was the first \"retail-tainment\", or entertainment store. The company had operated a number of store chains beyond its flagship Disney Store chain, ESPN-The Store, Mickey's Kitchen restaurant. Currently, the company operates the stand-alone stores, Disney Baby, Walt Disney Gallery and Disney's Soda", "title": "Disney Store" }, { "docid": "4384412", "text": "revised to normal Nettos or Føtex Food convenience concept stores. As of November 2014, Netto had stores in the following countries: The first Netto store opened in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1981. At first, the items sat in boxes and on pallets, but the chain quickly expanded, and the service level increased as well. Today, there are 442 stores. In September 1990, Netto started an internationalisation process, and Germany was the second country to gain Netto stores. The first store was opened in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, back then still part of East Germany, not long after the Fall of the Wall. Netto has", "title": "Netto (store)" }, { "docid": "7102230", "text": "Stewart's (department store) Stewart's Department Store in Baltimore, Maryland, was a department store which took its name in 1901 when Louis Stewart acquired the building of Posner's Department Store on the northeast corner of Howard and Lexington Streets. The chain was a founding member of Associated Dry Goods or ADG. It opened its first suburban store in 1953. The downtown store was closed in 1978 and suburban stores were converted to ADG's Caldor discount chain in 1983. The flagship store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The store on York Road was located at the", "title": "Stewart's (department store)" }, { "docid": "16321900", "text": "brand and replace the stores with the Praxis formula. Formido (store) Formido bouwmarkten B.V. is a Dutch Hardware store-chain. Formido opened its first store on 22 November 1976 in Waddinxveen. It is part of the franchise-organisation Maxeda, which headquarters is located in Amsterdam. As of 2011 Formido has 80 stores, all of which are located in the Netherlands. Of these stores, 15 are managed by Formido and 65 are franchised. Maxeda also owns the Hardware store-chain Praxis and Brico. In the first half year of 2008 Fomido, Praxis and Brico had a combined revenue of 755 million euro. In September", "title": "Formido (store)" }, { "docid": "16321899", "text": "Formido (store) Formido bouwmarkten B.V. is a Dutch Hardware store-chain. Formido opened its first store on 22 November 1976 in Waddinxveen. It is part of the franchise-organisation Maxeda, which headquarters is located in Amsterdam. As of 2011 Formido has 80 stores, all of which are located in the Netherlands. Of these stores, 15 are managed by Formido and 65 are franchised. Maxeda also owns the Hardware store-chain Praxis and Brico. In the first half year of 2008 Fomido, Praxis and Brico had a combined revenue of 755 million euro. In September 2017 Maxeda announced that they would deprecate the Formido", "title": "Formido (store)" }, { "docid": "10955476", "text": "purchased the Marukai Japanese chain stores in the United States in 2013, splitting it into Marukai and Tokyo Central Markets chains. Don Quijote (store) Don Quijote opened its first store in Suginami, Tokyo in September 1980 under its original name, Just Co. Originally a retail store, Just Co. quickly switched to wholesale in 1982. The company opened its first \"Don Quijote\" named store in Fuchu, Tokyo in March 1989. With the name change, the store also changed its primary business from wholesale to retail. It was not until 1995, six years later, that Just Co. followed suit and it changed", "title": "Don Quijote (store)" }, { "docid": "5390256", "text": "Smith's Food and Drug Smith's Food & Drug Centers, Inc. was founded in 1911 in Brigham City, Utah, United States by Lorenzo J. Smith. Now a subsidiary of The Kroger Company, it is a prominent regional supermarket chain operating in the Southwest and Northwest. After completing a merger with Portland-based Fred Meyer in 1997, Fred Meyer was in turn acquired by Cincinnati-based Kroger in 1999, making Kroger the largest supermarket chain in the United States. Smith's headquarters are in Salt Lake City. Smith's began in 1911 when Lorenzo J. \"Ren\" Smith opened a small dry goods store in Brigham City,", "title": "Smith's Food and Drug" }, { "docid": "11466451", "text": "Lion Store The Lion Store is a defunct retailer and department store chain in the city of Toledo, Ohio, United States. The stores were bought by Mercantile Stores and were eventually sold to Dillard's. In the mid 19th century, New Englander Frederick Eaton opened up a dry goods store in Toledo. The store made $15,000 in its first year of business, prompting the store, then known as Frederick Eaton & Company to move to a larger location in downtown Toledo. Between 1859 and 1865, Eaton purchased two life-size cast-iron lions and placed them outside the doors of his store. The", "title": "Lion Store" }, { "docid": "11600100", "text": "Red Owl (retail chain) Red Owl was a grocery store chain in the United States, headquartered in Hopkins, Minnesota. Founded in 1922, it was initially owned and operated by a private investment firm affiliated with General Mills, and purchased in 1968 by Gamble-Skogmo. Red Owl started as a coal company in the 1920s. It opened its first store in Rochester, Minnesota. There were eventually stores throughout the upper Midwest, with one opening in Bismarck, North Dakota in 1927. The chain briefly expanded into the Chicago area starting in late 1959, but in 1963 sold its Chicago area operations to National", "title": "Red Owl (retail chain)" }, { "docid": "12748113", "text": "suburban Nashville store at 4724 Lebanon Road in Hermitage. Prior to the opening, the chain of stores was sold to Virginia-based Peebles in 1988. Harveys (department store) Harveys was a department store chain best known for its original store in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The original Harveys department store was opened by Fred Harvey in 1942 at the corner of 6th Avenue North and Church Street. The site was the former home of a post-Reconstruction Nashville retailer, Lebeck Brothers/Denton & Company, which rose to prominence in the 1870s. When the Lebeck Brothers property became available due to the store's closing, Fred", "title": "Harveys (department store)" }, { "docid": "10752088", "text": "Grant store in Cooks Corner Shopping Center in Brunswick ME had been taken over by JC Penney, but was subsequently closed when the JC Penney store opened at the expanded Maine Mall in South Portland in 1983. Porteous not only opened in The Maine Mall at this time but also took over the Cooks Corner location. The downtown Portland flagship store closed not long after the Maine Mall store opened. Owned by the Dunlaps Store chain based in Texas in its last years (starting around 1993), and operated as \"PMB, Inc.--a Division of Dunlaps\", the chain found itself flustered with", "title": "Porteous (store)" }, { "docid": "12738139", "text": "the next day in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Steinberg's (electronics store) Steinberg's Inc. ( ) was a chain of stores in the Eastern United States that specialized in consumer electronics and home appliances. The Reading, Ohio–based company was founded by Ely Steinberg in 1921, and the Steinberg family continued to own the chain until its bankruptcy and liquidation in 1997. Ely Steinberg opened his first store in 1921. The first two stores were located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and focused on musical instruments and electronic audio equipment, such as The Victrola, an early record", "title": "Steinberg's (electronics store)" }, { "docid": "12738137", "text": "Steinberg's (electronics store) Steinberg's Inc. ( ) was a chain of stores in the Eastern United States that specialized in consumer electronics and home appliances. The Reading, Ohio–based company was founded by Ely Steinberg in 1921, and the Steinberg family continued to own the chain until its bankruptcy and liquidation in 1997. Ely Steinberg opened his first store in 1921. The first two stores were located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and focused on musical instruments and electronic audio equipment, such as The Victrola, an early record player, and crystal radio receivers. Notable customers included Powel Crosley Jr., whose WLW-AM later became", "title": "Steinberg's (electronics store)" }, { "docid": "11466454", "text": "Park Dillard's location where one can see the lion statues, who preside in the store's main atrium. Lion Store The Lion Store is a defunct retailer and department store chain in the city of Toledo, Ohio, United States. The stores were bought by Mercantile Stores and were eventually sold to Dillard's. In the mid 19th century, New Englander Frederick Eaton opened up a dry goods store in Toledo. The store made $15,000 in its first year of business, prompting the store, then known as Frederick Eaton & Company to move to a larger location in downtown Toledo. Between 1859 and", "title": "Lion Store" }, { "docid": "7102232", "text": "to a 1958 Mall) in 1969, and the store's final branch at Golden Ring Mall in Rosedale, Maryland, in 1974. Stewart's (department store) Stewart's Department Store in Baltimore, Maryland, was a department store which took its name in 1901 when Louis Stewart acquired the building of Posner's Department Store on the northeast corner of Howard and Lexington Streets. The chain was a founding member of Associated Dry Goods or ADG. It opened its first suburban store in 1953. The downtown store was closed in 1978 and suburban stores were converted to ADG's Caldor discount chain in 1983. The flagship store", "title": "Stewart's (department store)" }, { "docid": "20692319", "text": "Fazio's Shopping Bag Fazio's Shopping Bag —also known as Shopping Bag Food Stores— was a supermarket chain present in Southern California. Shopping Bag Food Stores started in 1930 as a single grocery store on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. In 1933 it opened their first supermarket, and in 1954 the company went public. On January 1960, Shopping Bag —with 38 stores at that time— and Vons —with 28 stores— announced their merger, making it the second largest supermarket chain on the West Coast. The merger was challenged by the Federal Trade Commission, and after two lower court victories for Vons, in", "title": "Fazio's Shopping Bag" }, { "docid": "9764610", "text": "Peoples (store) Peoples is a defunct chain of department stores located in the Puget Sound area of Washington. The company was founded in 1888 in downtown Tacoma. The flagship store opened in 1895 at the corner of Pacific and 11th Street, which was the main intersection of downtown at the time. The store was expanded to the south in 1957. Peoples first expanded in the early 1940s by operating a chain of appliance stores called \"Electric City\" in many Puget Sound cities. Many of these stores would later be expanded to include apparel and would be rebranded under the Peoples", "title": "Peoples (store)" }, { "docid": "1848214", "text": "he formed the Myer retail group with his brother, Elcon Myer. In 1900, they opened the first Myer department store, in Bendigo, Victoria. Since then, the Myer retail group has grown to be Australia's largest retailer. Both Myer and David Jones are up-market chains, offering a wide variety of products from mid-range names to luxury brands while the Adelaide-based Harris Scarfe is pitched towards brand led value, with hi-lo pricing. 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The Coin Group owns OVS (midmarket apparel department stores) and, since January 2010, UPIM, a midmarket apparel, home and beauty department stores chain", "title": "Coin (department store)" }, { "docid": "3940831", "text": "restaurants were only breaking even while well received by the customers as the company wanted to focus on overseas expansions. The seating area was divided into four subareas with different motifs, Alice`s Tea PartyDumbo`s Circus, Fantasia and Pinocchio. The menu, while having the regular fast food items, departed by adding lower-fat, lower-calorie items, like fresh-fruit frosties, meatless burger and turkey franks. The french fries were shaped as Disney characters. ESPN—The Store was a chain of sports retail stores run by Disney Stores. The store were designed to look like a broadcast center and have interactive kiosks for video games and", "title": "Disney Store" }, { "docid": "6202722", "text": "Senator William Proxmire was married to Ellen Hodges Sawall. The New Westminster store operated by Health Food Research, opened in 1954 on the outskirts of Vancouver, British Columbia. It was founded by Ella Birzneck, and modeled partly upon Russian \"doctors' shops\", which carried medicines, herbs, and special foods. One of the first independent health food shops in Great Britain was opened by the Aetherius Society at 767 Fulham Road, London, in 1966. Its stock included honey, nuts and seeds and fruit juices and cider vinegar. Health food stores became much more common in the 1960s in connection to the newly", "title": "Health food store" }, { "docid": "482248", "text": "the first KFC outlet was opened at Gulshan in 2006. As of June 2016, the country is home to 19 KFC outlets. In Cambodia, KFC first opened on Monivong Boulevard in Phnom Penh in 2008. In Myanmar, the first KFC outlet was officially opened on Bogyoke Aung San Road in Yangon in 2015. In Taiwan, KFC entered the market in 1984 and opened its first store in 1985 in Taipei City. 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The Art Deco building was constructed in 1929, predating the Art Deco hotels on Ocean Drive. Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store (Miami, Florida) The Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store in Miami, Florida was an Art Deco building built in 1929 for Sears, Roebuck and Company. The building was the first", "title": "Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store (Miami, Florida)" }, { "docid": "7507064", "text": "Hyundai Department Store Group Hyundai Department Store Group (Hangul: 현대백화점그룹) operates the Hyundai Department Store chain of department stores in South Korea. In addition, the group operates a range of service industry businesses. Subsidiary businesses include Hyundai Home Shopping and Hotel Hyundai. Its major competitors are Lotte Department Store, Shinsegae, Hanhwa Galleria, AK Plaza (Hangul: AK플라자, formerly Aekyung Department Store), and Debec, a department store in Daegu. The company began as KeumKang Development Industrial Co., Ltd., established in 1971. 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Given its own glass, what drink consists of 4 parts whisky, 1 sugar cube, 2 dashes Angostura bitters, and a splash of soda water?
[ "Oldfashioned", "Old-fashioned", "Old-fashioned (disambiguation)", "Old-fashionedness", "An Old Fashioned", "Old fashioned" ]
[ { "docid": "5159249", "text": "also used in many other alcoholic cocktails such as long vodka, consisting of vodka, Angostura bitters, and lemonade. In the United States, it is best known for its use in whiskey cocktails: the Old Fashioned, made with whiskey, bitters, sugar, and water, and the Manhattan, made usually with rye whiskey and sweet vermouth. In a Pisco Sour a few drops are sprinkled on top of the foam, both for aroma and decoration. In a Champagne Cocktail a few drops of bitters are added to a sugar cube. In Hong Kong, Angostura bitters are included in the local Gunner cocktail. Though", "title": "Angostura bitters" }, { "docid": "20747796", "text": "Scotch and soda (cocktail) Scotch and soda is a mixed drink consisting of Scotch whisky and soda water or other sparkling water. There is no fixed ratio of the ingredients: the amount of water can vary according to taste from a splash to several times that of the whisky. The drink can be variously served with or without ice, and sometimes also with a simple garnish such as a citrus twist. The glassware used can be any of the tumbler type, most commonly either Old Fashioned or highball glass. The former, being larger, is used especially when adding ice and/or", "title": "Scotch and soda (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "304690", "text": "the Old Fashioned cocktail recipes from the cocktail recipes of the late 19th Century are mainly preparation method, the use of sugar and water in lieu of simple or gomme syrup, and the absence of additional liqueurs. These Old Fashioned cocktail recipes are literally for cocktails done the old-fashioned way. A book by David Embury published in 1948 provides a slight variation, specifying 12 parts American whiskey, 1 part simple syrup, 1-3 dashes Angostura bitters, a twist of lemon peel over the top, and serve garnished with the lemon peel. Two additional recipes from the 1900s vary in the precise", "title": "Old Fashioned" }, { "docid": "20345241", "text": "or coupe glass, and served with an orange slice or twist. It may also be served with ice in an old fashioned glass. It has a rich flavour with a mild bitterness. Toronto (cocktail) The Toronto is a dry, rich, and mildly bitter cocktail consisting of Canadian whisky, Fernet-Branca, angostura bitters, and either sugar or simple syrup. An article in Gizmodo by Brent Rose describes it as the \"most popular legit cocktail that uses fernet\". It is named after the Canadian city of Toronto. It was first recorded as the \"Fernet Cocktail\" in Robert Vermeire's 1922 edition of \"Cocktails: How", "title": "Toronto (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "8667124", "text": "at the time. The recipe for the Old Fashioned in use at the Pendennis Club includes the basic cocktail components including sugar & water (in the form of simple syrup) and bitters–but with the Angostura brand required. In addition, fine Bourbon whisky is required and so also are one or more fruits: the recipe used at the Club since at least the 1930s calls for the use of an orange slice, cherry, and a lemon twist with the former two muddled in the simple syrup. One or more bartenders at the Pendennis Club have undisputedly created several other libations. The", "title": "Pendennis Club" }, { "docid": "11139663", "text": "it is used by every whisky company in Scotland and Ireland. Old Fashioned tumblers, snifters, and nosing copitas are other types of glasses that are commonly used for drinking whisky. The traditional style of whisky glass is a cut crystal Old Fashioned whisky tumbler, an iconic design that remains the most commonly used type of whisky glass. However, a tumbler does not hold and focus the aromas as much for the experience of the drinker as the other styles, which curve inwards towards the top of the glass. While not all drinkers may find the strong aroma produced by such", "title": "Glencairn whisky glass" } ]
[ { "docid": "5159248", "text": "Austria in profile. The exact formula is a closely guarded secret, with only one person knowing the whole recipe, passed hereditarily. Angostura bitters are extremely concentrated and may be an acquired taste; though 44.7% alcohol by volume, bitters are not normally ingested undiluted, but instead are used in small amounts as flavouring. Angostura bitters are a key ingredient in many cocktails. Originally used to help with upset stomachs of the soldiers in Simón Bolívar's army, it later became popular in soda water and was usually served with gin. The mix stuck in the form of a pink gin, and is", "title": "Angostura bitters" }, { "docid": "5159250", "text": "not in the classic recipe, bartenders sometimes add more flavour to the Mojito cocktail by sprinkling a few drops of Angostura bitters on top. Bitters can also be used in \"soft\" drinks; a common drink served in Australian and New Zealand pubs is lemon lime and bitters. In Malawi, bitters are added to a mix of crushed ice, ginger ale and Sprite to make a 'rock shandy'. \"Angostura Bitters Drink Guide\", a promotional booklet of 1908, was reprinted in 2008 with a new introduction by Ross Bolton. Among certain bartending communities (especially in Malaysia) shots of Angostura are taken as", "title": "Angostura bitters" }, { "docid": "11397551", "text": "Lemon, lime and bitters Lemon, lime and bitters (LLB) is a mixed drink made with (clear) lemonade, lime cordial, and Angostura bitters. The lemonade is sometimes substituted with soda water or lemon squash. It was served as a non-alcoholic alternative to \"Pink Gin\" (gin mixed with Angostura bitters). It is often considered to be a non-alcoholic cocktail (or mocktail) due to its exceedingly low alcohol content, though some establishments consider it to be alcoholic and will not serve it without identification or proof of age. Lemon, Lime and Bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand where it became", "title": "Lemon, lime and bitters" }, { "docid": "11397552", "text": "customary for golf players to have a drink of LLB after a match of golf. It is made to order in most bars but a pre-mixed version is made by a number of soft drink companies and this version is widely available in supermarkets. An ABC News article published in 2018 described lemon, lime and bitters as \"Australia's national drink\". Lemon, lime and bitters Lemon, lime and bitters (LLB) is a mixed drink made with (clear) lemonade, lime cordial, and Angostura bitters. The lemonade is sometimes substituted with soda water or lemon squash. It was served as a non-alcoholic alternative", "title": "Lemon, lime and bitters" }, { "docid": "5159246", "text": "Angostura bitters Angostura bitters () is a concentrated bitters (herbal alcoholic preparation) based on gentian, herbs and spices, by House of Angostura in Trinidad and Tobago. It is typically used for flavouring beverages or, less often, food. The bitters were first produced in the town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela), hence the name, but do not contain angostura bark. The bottle is easily recognisable by its distinctive oversized label. 'Angostura' is Spanish for 'narrowing', the town of Angostura having been located at the first narrowing of the Orinoco River. The recipe was developed as a tonic by a German,", "title": "Angostura bitters" }, { "docid": "5159253", "text": "orange bitters. There was a shortage of Angostura bitters in 2009; the company reported that this was caused primarily by a problem in their supply of bottles. There were incorrect rumours of a product recall, or that production of the bitters had stopped at the plant in Trinidad. The shortage was the subject of many news articles and blogs, particularly in the cocktail industry. Angostura bitters Angostura bitters () is a concentrated bitters (herbal alcoholic preparation) based on gentian, herbs and spices, by House of Angostura in Trinidad and Tobago. It is typically used for flavouring beverages or, less often,", "title": "Angostura bitters" }, { "docid": "5159252", "text": "and sells upwards of 10,000 shots per year. Angostura bitters are alleged to have restorative properties. It was reported to be a remedy for hiccups, and is thought to be a cure for an upset stomach. Angostura bitters is often incorrectly believed to have poisonous qualities because it is associated with angostura bark (although it does not actually contain any), which, although not toxic, during its use as a medicine was often adulterated by unscrupulous sellers, who padded out the sacks of bark with cheaper, poisonous \"Strychnos nux-vomica\" or copalchi bark. Since 2007, Angostura has also produced Angostura Orange, an", "title": "Angostura bitters" }, { "docid": "8783734", "text": "Prince of Wales (cocktail) Prince of Wales is a cocktail composed by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later to be King Edward VII. There are several variations of the cocktail, but what they usually have in common is champagne, angostura bitters on sugar, either rye whiskey or cognac, and a liqueur. Anonymous biography of King Edward, \"The Private Life of King Edward VII\", credits the drink to Prince himself. The cocktail consisted of \"a little rye whisky, crushed ice, a small square of pineapple, a dash of Angostura bitters, a piece of lemon peel, a few drops of Maraschino, a", "title": "Prince of Wales (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "2374222", "text": "up with iced water, rarely without water. A bartender may ask customers whether they want it \"in or out\", upon which the bartender swirls the angostura bitters around the glass before either leaving it in, or pouring it out (leaving only a residue), and then adding the gin. It is also common for pink gin to be served as 'pink gin and tonic', typically consisting of 4 dashes of angostura bitters and 2 shots of gin, which is then topped up with tonic water. This is served in a highball glass over ice, and then can be garnished with lemon.", "title": "Pink Gin" }, { "docid": "4333192", "text": "iii). The Raffles Long Bar in Singapore listed Gin Pahit on the cocktail board as late as 1985 but other references to Pink Gins are correct - a traditional Royal Navy drink (\"..one had no ice, d'you see?\") of Gin and bitters where the bitters were added to the glass first and barman would then ask \"In or Out, Sir?\" Also mentioned by Captain Biggar in \"The Return of Jeeves\" by P.G. Wodehouse. David A. Embury states that this drink is made with yellow gin and 3 dashes of Angostura bitters to 2 dashes of absinthe, in The Fine Art", "title": "Gin pahit" }, { "docid": "5159251", "text": "the 'bartender's handshake' either during or after the shift is done. The largest purveyor of Angostura bitters in the world is Nelsen's Hall Bitters Pub on Washington Island off the northeast tip of Door Peninsula in Door County, Wisconsin. The pub began selling shots of bitters as a \"stomach tonic for medicinal purposes\" under a pharmaceutical license during Prohibition in the United States. The practice, which helped the pub to become the oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin, remained a tradition after the repeal of Prohibition. As of 2018, the pub hosts a Bitters Club, incorporates bitters into food menu items,", "title": "Angostura bitters" }, { "docid": "2000257", "text": "are claimed to be traceable back to Renaissance era pharmacopeia and traditions. By the 19th century, the British practice of adding herbal bitters (used as preventive medicines) to Canary wine had become immensely popular in the former American colonies. By 1806, American publications referenced the popularity of a new preparation termed \"cocktail\", which was described as a combination of “a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters.” Of the commercial aromatic bitters that would emerge from this period, perhaps the most well known is Angostura bitters. In spite of its name, the preparation contains no", "title": "Bitters" }, { "docid": "4593078", "text": "younger brother and son, who subsequently moved it to Port of Spain, Trinidad six years later in 1876. Over the course of time, Angostura bitters and Dr. Siegert's company alone became purveyor to the King of Prussia, Spain, and King George V. Today, angostura bitters are also produced by various other vendors, some of which add the bark of the angostura tree (\"Angostura trifoliata\"). Angostura bitters are a key ingredient in many cocktails, for example in pink gin and the Manhattan. Angostura brand bitters do not contain any angostura bark. There are several other companies that make bitters containing this", "title": "House of Angostura" }, { "docid": "9644821", "text": "Sazerac Company, whose CEO, Mark Brown, had worked with Regan to create a modern version of these bitters. Since 2006 The Bitter Truth in Germany has produced all natural orange bitters and there are now a number of different brands on the market, including Angostura Orange Bitters. Orange bitters Orange bitters is a form of bitters, a cocktail flavoring made from the peels of Seville oranges, cardamom, caraway seed, coriander and burnt sugar in an alcohol base. Orange bitters, which are not to be confused with standard Angostura bitters, are currently enjoying a resurgence among cocktail enthusiasts. For many years,", "title": "Orange bitters" }, { "docid": "1809259", "text": "soda water is added; a 'splash', and 'Scotch and a splash' was a common bar order. Whisky and soda was commonly drunk without ice in the UK. Social drinking changed with the counter-culture movement of the 1970s and the arrival of new bottled and canned beverages in the 1980s, and soda water has declined in popularity. Soda siphons are still bought by the more traditional bar trade and are available at the bar in many upmarket establishments, but in the UK there are now only two wholesalers of soda-water in traditional glass siphons, and an estimated market of around 120,000", "title": "Carbonated water" }, { "docid": "2558493", "text": "with a dash or two of Angostura bitters and nutmeg. The recipe of Planter's Punch varies, containing some combination of rum, lemon juice, pineapple juice, lime juice, orange juice, grenadine, soda water, curaçao, Angostura bitters, and cayenne pepper. Planter's Punch was invented at the bar of the Planters' House hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The first known print reference to Planter's Punch was in the August 8, 1908 edition of \"The New York Times\": PLANTER'S PUNCH This recipe I give to thee, Dear brother in the heat. Take two of sour (lime let it be) To one and a half", "title": "Punch (drink)" }, { "docid": "20643847", "text": "lemon, replacing the lemon with lime, or creating a frozen version. Horsefeather (cocktail) A Horsefeather is a whiskey cocktail. It was invented in Lawrence, Kansas in the 1990s. It remains a regional drink in the Kansas City region. The drink is an iteration of the classic cocktail Horse's Neck and is similar to a Moscow Mule. A horsefeather is traditionally rye whiskey or blended whiskey, ginger beer, three dashes of Angostura bitters, and a little lemon juice. A highball glass is filled 3/4 with ice. The ingredients are then poured into the glass and stirred. There are many variations such", "title": "Horsefeather (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "20643846", "text": "Horsefeather (cocktail) A Horsefeather is a whiskey cocktail. It was invented in Lawrence, Kansas in the 1990s. It remains a regional drink in the Kansas City region. The drink is an iteration of the classic cocktail Horse's Neck and is similar to a Moscow Mule. A horsefeather is traditionally rye whiskey or blended whiskey, ginger beer, three dashes of Angostura bitters, and a little lemon juice. A highball glass is filled 3/4 with ice. The ingredients are then poured into the glass and stirred. There are many variations such as substituting ginger beer with ginger ale, adding cherries, muddling the", "title": "Horsefeather (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "98007", "text": "water, and bitters. The term is now often used for almost any mixed drink that contains alcohol, including mixers, mixed shots, etc. A cocktail today usually contains one or more kinds of spirit and one or more mixers, such as soda or fruit juice. Additional ingredients may be sugar, honey, milk, cream, and various herbs. A non-alcoholic drink is one that contains little or no alcohol. This category includes low-alcohol beer, non-alcoholic wine, and apple cider if they contain less than 0.5% alcohol by volume. The term \"soft drink\" specifies the absence of alcohol in contrast to \"hard drink\" and", "title": "Drink" }, { "docid": "11139661", "text": "Glencairn whisky glass The Glencairn whisky glass is a style of glass developed by Glencairn Crystal Ltd, Scotland for drinking whisky. Originally designed by Raymond Davidson, managing director of the company, the shape of the glass is derived from the traditional \"nosing copitas\" used in whisky labs around Scotland. The glass design was concluded with the aid of master blenders from five of the largest whisky companies in Scotland. The glass first came into production in 2001. The glass is approximately in height and has been available in three variations: 24% lead crystal, lead-free crystal, and soda-lime glass. The vast", "title": "Glencairn whisky glass" }, { "docid": "9644820", "text": "Orange bitters Orange bitters is a form of bitters, a cocktail flavoring made from the peels of Seville oranges, cardamom, caraway seed, coriander and burnt sugar in an alcohol base. Orange bitters, which are not to be confused with standard Angostura bitters, are currently enjoying a resurgence among cocktail enthusiasts. For many years, it was difficult to find orange bitters in the United States and elsewhere. Because of this, some cocktail recipes which traditionally contained orange bitters may now exclude that ingredient. Renowned mixologist Gary Regan created Regan's Orange Bitters in the 1990s. Regan's are bottled and sold by the", "title": "Orange bitters" }, { "docid": "16750166", "text": "at the old house one by one. Meanwhile, Hormoz, the husband of Pasandideh's sister, has recently been released from prison. With the aid of Hamid, the husband of another sister of Pasandideh, he tries to find treasure. They believe it is buried somewhere in Pasandideh's house and sneak around while the marriage ceremony is occurring. Acclaimed film producer Abbas Kiarostami designed one of the posters that was used to promote \"A Cube of Sugar\". A Cube of Sugar A Cube of Sugar (, or ) is a 2011 Iranian drama film directed by Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi. It had its world", "title": "A Cube of Sugar" }, { "docid": "8669933", "text": "ailments, and to aid digestion. These claims are presented with little in the way of scientific evidence to support them, though empirical evidence provides for a very large database of positive results. The alcoholic \"Swedish bitters\" is purported to have a similar flavor to \"Angostura bitters\", though perhaps drier. Nowadays, it is more common to prepare Swedish bitters from a dry herbs mixture The following herbs are added to alcohol to make Swedish Bitters: There are variations on this recipe and herbal shops supply alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions of the drink. Maria Treben's book contains 9 pages on this bitter,", "title": "Swedish bitters" }, { "docid": "4593076", "text": "House of Angostura The House of Angostura (), also known as Angostura Limited, is a Trinidad and Tobago company famous for the production of Angostura bitters, invented by the company's founder. The company is also a distiller and is the major producer of rum in Trinidad and Tobago. The company also has been used as a vehicle for international expansion by its parent company, CL Financial. As a result of these acquisitions, the company owns distillers in the United States, Canada, The Bahamas and Suriname. The company was founded around 1830 in the Venezuelan town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar)", "title": "House of Angostura" }, { "docid": "11139662", "text": "majority of glasses in circulation are of the lead-free crystal variety. The soda-lime variation was discontinued in 2008. The capacity of a typical Glencairn whisky glass is approximately , and it is intended to hold approximately of liquid. In 2006 the glass won the Queen's Award for innovation. The Glencairn glass is not the only glass on the market that is designed specifically for drinking whisky. (For example, Riedel and Norlan Glass also manufacture such glassware.) While there are numerous styles of such glasses available, the Glencairn is the first style to be endorsed by the Scotch Whisky Association, and", "title": "Glencairn whisky glass" }, { "docid": "2000258", "text": "medicinal bark from the angostura tree; instead it is named after the town of Angostura, today's Ciudad Bolívar, in Venezuela. In 1824, German physician Dr. Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert compounded a cure for sea sickness and stomach maladies, among other medicinal uses. Dr. Siegert subsequently formed the House of Angostura to sell the bitters to sailors. Another renowned aromatic bitters with 19th-century roots is Peychaud's Bitters, which were originally developed by apothecary Antoine Amédée Peychaud in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is most commonly associated with the Sazerac cocktail. A broadly popular style of bitters that emerged from the period is", "title": "Bitters" }, { "docid": "12169567", "text": "least, so they say in Jamaica.</poem> Planter's Punch Planter's Punch is an IBA Official Cocktail made of dark rum, several juices, grenadine syrup, sugar syrup, and Angostura bitters. The cocktail has been said to have originated at the Planters Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina. The September 1878 issue of the London magazine \"Fun\" listed the recipe as follows: <poem>A wine-glass with lemon juice fill, Of sugar the same glass fill twice Then rub them together until The mixture looks smooth, soft, and nice. Of rum then three wine glasses add, And four of cold water please take. A Drink then", "title": "Planter's Punch" }, { "docid": "12169566", "text": "Planter's Punch Planter's Punch is an IBA Official Cocktail made of dark rum, several juices, grenadine syrup, sugar syrup, and Angostura bitters. The cocktail has been said to have originated at the Planters Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina. The September 1878 issue of the London magazine \"Fun\" listed the recipe as follows: <poem>A wine-glass with lemon juice fill, Of sugar the same glass fill twice Then rub them together until The mixture looks smooth, soft, and nice. Of rum then three wine glasses add, And four of cold water please take. A Drink then you'll have that's not bad— At", "title": "Planter's Punch" }, { "docid": "10383980", "text": "Gunner (cocktail) A gunner is a cocktail served in more prominent clubs, bars, golf clubs, especially those popular with expats, in Hong Kong and other parts of the Far East and India formerly under British colonial rule. It consists of equal parts ginger beer (or lemonade) and ginger ale with a dash of Angostura bitters and sometimes a measure of lime cordial or lemon juice. It is regarded as a non-alcoholic drink, although Angostura bitters is 44.7% alcohol by volume. It is noted for its refreshing qualities, especially in warm weather. The gunner has been described as \"the only real", "title": "Gunner (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "10483324", "text": "trademark law. In summary, Meinhard was selling his brand of bitters under the name \"Angostura Bitters by Teodoro Meinhard\", and was able to legally trademark the name \"Angostura\" in Great Britain. Siegert sued Meinhard's distributor Findlater, who was indemnified from fault in the case by Meinhard's representatives, claiming that although the name \"Angostura\" was not copyrighted by Siegert in Great Britain, it was in fact the name by which Siegert's brand of bitters was popularly known in that country. The court upheld Siegert's claim to the un-copyrighted name \"Angostura\", creating an often cited precedent in British law. After losing the", "title": "Meinhard's Bitters" }, { "docid": "288566", "text": "the cocktail can be found in William Schmidt's \"The Flowing Bowl\", published in 1891. In it, he details a drink containing 2 dashes of gum (gomme syrup), 2 dashes of bitters, 1 dash of absinthe, portion of whiskey and portion of vermouth. The same cocktail appears listed as a \"Tennessee Cocktail\" in \"Shake 'em Up!\" by V. Elliott and P. Strong, copyright 1930 (p. 39): \"Two parts of whiskey, one part of Italian Vermouth and a dash of bitters poured over ice and stirred vigorously.\" On the small North Frisian island of Föhr, the Manhattan cocktail is a standard drink", "title": "Manhattan (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "2529395", "text": "Boy Brand Cream Soda Flavoured Syrup, a green colored, rose/floral flavored cordial. This is mixed 1 part to 4 parts water/soda water to get a cream soda drink, very similar to the South African Creme Soda, or is used as a flavoring in their shaved-ice deserts. This syrup is sold worldwide in some Asian food stores. Additionally, PepsiCo's division in Thailand produces a green, cream-flavored soda under their brand name Mirinda. In some Arabian countries, Canada Dry offers a cream soda flavor. In South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe, cream soda is sold under the label Sparletta Creme Soda, a product", "title": "Cream soda" }, { "docid": "16750164", "text": "A Cube of Sugar A Cube of Sugar (, or ) is a 2011 Iranian drama film directed by Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi. It had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival on 8 October 2011. On 24 September 2012, the film was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards. However, on the same day, the head of Iran's government-controlled cinema agency called for a boycott of the Oscars due to a video on YouTube titled \"Innocence of Muslims\" that originated in the United States. Reuters reported that Iran's Culture", "title": "A Cube of Sugar" }, { "docid": "10483325", "text": "case, it is unknown exactly what name Meinhard used for his products in Great Britain. During the Centennial Exhibition of Australia, the product was identified as \"Dr. Theodor Meinhard's Amargo de Bolivar\" in 1888. However, later publications continued to refer to the product as \"Angostura Bitters by Teodoro Meinhard\". Meinhard's Bitters Meinhard's Bitters was created and manufactured by Dr. Teodoro Meinhard, a German-born resident of Venezuela, and the founder of Meinhard & Company. The full and exact name of Meinhard's Bitters is subject to some historical and legal question, and certainly changed over time. This brand of bitters came into", "title": "Meinhard's Bitters" }, { "docid": "10383981", "text": "Hong Kong cocktail\". Related drinks (or possibly alternative names): Also known in Hong Kong as a \"Gunners\". Malawi shandy, rock shandy, Windermere, Lemon, Lime and Bitters. Gunner (cocktail) A gunner is a cocktail served in more prominent clubs, bars, golf clubs, especially those popular with expats, in Hong Kong and other parts of the Far East and India formerly under British colonial rule. It consists of equal parts ginger beer (or lemonade) and ginger ale with a dash of Angostura bitters and sometimes a measure of lime cordial or lemon juice. It is regarded as a non-alcoholic drink, although Angostura", "title": "Gunner (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "2529387", "text": "Cream soda Cream soda (also known as creme soda) is a sweet carbonated soft drink. Traditionally flavored with vanilla and raspberry and based on the taste of a classic soda, a wide range of variations can be found worldwide. A recipe for cream soda—written by E. M. Sheldon and published in \"Michigan Farmer\" in 1852—called for water, cream of tartar (tartaric acid), Epsom salts, sugar, egg, and milk, to be mixed, then heated, and when cool mixed with water and a quarter teaspoonful of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) to make an effervescent drink. It was suggested as a temperance drink", "title": "Cream soda" }, { "docid": "10483323", "text": "read \"Doctor Teodoro Meinhard's Succr\" to reflect the fact the product was now manufactured by the successors of the late Dr. Meinhard. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the history of Meinhard's Bitters is the legal battles surrounding the use of the name \"Angostura Bitters\". Meinhard and his distributors were involved at least three legal actions with the founder of rival bitters manufacturer Angostura bitters, Dr. Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert. The Findlater case is of legal interest. The case was published in legal journals worldwide, and is still cited in modern court cases as one of the foundations of English", "title": "Meinhard's Bitters" }, { "docid": "16668462", "text": "Hint Water Hint Water is an American beverage company based in San Francisco, California, as an alternative to soda and sugar beverages. It was started by former AOL employee Kara Goldin. Hint Water was developed in 2005 when its founder, Kara Goldin, was unhappy with the sugar and preservatives in her children's juices. Goldin created the drink in her own home and sold it from her garage. She was diagnosed with gestational diabetes when pregnant, which also led her to develop a sugar-free alternative drink. Goldin left her job with AOL to become the CEO of Hint Water and later", "title": "Hint Water" }, { "docid": "7746688", "text": "thermal shock, being able to survive immersion in water while red hot, its high melting temperature (1723 °C) and viscosity make it difficult to work with. Other substances are therefore added to simplify processing. One is the \"soda\", or sodium carbonate (NaCO), which lowers the glass-transition temperature. However, the soda makes the glass water-soluble, which is usually undesirable. To provide for better chemical durability, the \"lime\" is also added. This is calcium oxide (CaO), generally obtained from limestone. In addition, magnesium oxide (MgO) and alumina, which is aluminium oxide (AlO), contribute to the durability. The resulting glass contains about 70", "title": "Soda–lime glass" }, { "docid": "288567", "text": "at almost every cafe, restaurant, and \"get together\" of locals. The story goes, that many of the people of Föhr emigrated to Manhattan during deep sea fishing trips, took a liking to the drink, and brought it back to Föhr with them. The drink is usually mixed 1 part vermouth to 2 parts whiskey, with a dash of bitters, served ice cold, in an ice cold glass, or with ice and a cherry garnish. Traditional views insist that a Manhattan be made with American rye whiskey. However it can also be made with bourbon or Canadian whisky. The Manhattan is", "title": "Manhattan (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "13509467", "text": "Lime & Bitters, Soda Water, Diet Tonic Water, Bitter Lemon Agrum Collection: Blood Orange, Citrus Blend, Sugar Free Citrus Blend, White Grape & Passionfruit Mineral Waters: Lemon, Orange & Lime, Orange & Mango, Sparking Mineral Water, Apple & Pink Grapefruit, Lemon & Lime, Orange & Passionfruit, Natural Mineral Water Traditional Soft Drinks: Red Cream Soda, Brown Cream Soda, Raspberry, Sarsaparilla, Pink Lemonade, Lime, Ginger Beer, Fruit Tingler, and Fairy Floss Cordials: Raspberry Cordial, Lemon Cordial, Lime Cordial Also produced by Schweppes Australia is Passiona, a passion-fruit flavoured soft drink, and Solo, a lemon flavoured \"pub squash\" style soft drink. Schweppes", "title": "Schweppes Australia" }, { "docid": "3809519", "text": "Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, sodium benzoate (preservative), natural and artificial flavors, caramel color, citric acid, yucca extract, flavored with vanilla extract. Serving size: 8 fl. oz. (240 mL) <br>Amount per serving: INGREDIENTS: Carbonated water, sodium benzoate (preservative), aspartame, caramel color, citric acid, yucca extract, natural and artificial flavors. A&W Cream Soda A&W Cream Soda is a cream soda carbonated soft drink introduced by A&W Root Beer in 1986. A&W Root Beer was first sold at a Veterans Day parade in Lodi, California in 1919 and the company established in 1922 by Frank Wright and Roy Allen.", "title": "A&W Cream Soda" }, { "docid": "13463079", "text": "being passed-through to higher soda prices. In August 2016, a UC Berkeley study showed a 21% drop in the drinking of soda and sugary beverages in low-income neighborhoods in its city. A study from 2016 compared the changing intake of sugar sweetened beverages and water in Berkeley versus San Francisco and Oakland (which did not have a sugary drink tax passed) before and after Berkeley passed its sugary drink tax. This analysis showed a 26% decrease of soda consumption in Berkeley and 10% increase in San Francisco and Oakland while water intake increased by 63% in Berkeley and 19% in", "title": "Sugary drink tax" }, { "docid": "16668465", "text": "EY's Entrepreneurial Winning Women Award in 2012 Hint Water Hint Water is an American beverage company based in San Francisco, California, as an alternative to soda and sugar beverages. It was started by former AOL employee Kara Goldin. Hint Water was developed in 2005 when its founder, Kara Goldin, was unhappy with the sugar and preservatives in her children's juices. Goldin created the drink in her own home and sold it from her garage. She was diagnosed with gestational diabetes when pregnant, which also led her to develop a sugar-free alternative drink. Goldin left her job with AOL to become", "title": "Hint Water" }, { "docid": "1809258", "text": "gives them a specific flavor and differentiates them from carbonated water. It is popularly used for mixed drinks such as whisky and soda and Campari soda. The arrival of carbonated water onto the cocktail scene changed the way people drank. Instead of drinking liquor straight/neat (without a mixer), soda water and carbonated soft drinks helped dilute alcohol, and made having a drink more socially acceptable. Whisky and sodas can be seen in many British TV series and films from the 1960s and earlier and the soda siphon is ubiquitous in many movies made before 1970. Only a small amount of", "title": "Carbonated water" }, { "docid": "426174", "text": "1 large wine-glass of gin. 2 or 3 lumps of ice; Shake up well and strain into a large bar-glass. Fill up the glass with plain soda water and drink while it is lively.</poem> This was distinguished from the Gin Fizz cocktail in that the 3 dashes of lemon juice in the Gin Fizz was \"fizzed\" with carbonated water to essentially form a \"Gin and Sodawater\" whereas the considerably more \"juice of a small lemon\" in the Tom Collins essentially formed a \"Gin and Sparkling Lemonade\" when sweetened with the gum syrup. The type of gin used by Thomas was", "title": "Tom Collins" }, { "docid": "10483319", "text": "Meinhard's Bitters Meinhard's Bitters was created and manufactured by Dr. Teodoro Meinhard, a German-born resident of Venezuela, and the founder of Meinhard & Company. The full and exact name of Meinhard's Bitters is subject to some historical and legal question, and certainly changed over time. This brand of bitters came into existence in 1866 in Upata, Venezuela and manufacture moved in 1870 to Ciudad Bolívar (then called Angostura) Venezuela. The recipe was also licensed to Von Glahn Bros. and distributed as Caroni bitters in North America by 1893. Meinhard's bitters are documented to have been exported to both Germany and", "title": "Meinhard's Bitters" }, { "docid": "8783736", "text": "Maraschino and pineapple playing off each other and the bubbly tying it all together.\" According to André Dominé, Prince of Wales has bitter, sweet, and sour in perfect harmony. Prince of Wales (cocktail) Prince of Wales is a cocktail composed by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later to be King Edward VII. There are several variations of the cocktail, but what they usually have in common is champagne, angostura bitters on sugar, either rye whiskey or cognac, and a liqueur. Anonymous biography of King Edward, \"The Private Life of King Edward VII\", credits the drink to Prince himself. The cocktail", "title": "Prince of Wales (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "13463077", "text": "drink has seen a decline in soda consumption by more than 20 percent. Philadelphia's tax of 1.5 cents/oz took effect on January 1, 2017. The Measure D soda tax was approved by 76% of Berkeley voters on 4 November 2014, and took effect on 1 January 2015 as the first such tax in the United States. The measure imposes a tax of one cent per ounce on the distributors of specified sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda, sports drinks, energy drinks, and sweetened ice teas but excluding milk-based beverages, meal replacement drink, diet sodas, fruit juice, and alcohol. The revenue generated", "title": "Sugary drink tax" }, { "docid": "2374223", "text": "Cedric Charles Dickens (great-grandson of Charles Dickens) records in \"Drinking With Dickens\" that a 'Burnt Pink Gin' consists of 1 tsp Angostura burnt by heating over a flame and then poured into \"a large tot dry gin\". Pink Gin Pink Gin or Pink Plymouth is a cocktail made fashionable in England in the mid-19th century, consisting of Plymouth gin and a dash of Angostura bitters, a dark red bitters that makes the whole drink pinkish. Lemon rind is also commonly used as a garnish, with the citrus oils subtly complementing the flavour. Pink gin is widely thought to have been", "title": "Pink Gin" }, { "docid": "20949998", "text": "Chapman (drink) A Chapman is a non-alcoholic drink of Nigerian origin, sometimes referred to is as a non-alcoholic punch. The red coloured drink is traditionally made with a mix of Fanta, Sprite, Cucumber, Lemon, Grenadine and Angostura bitters and is traditionally served in a large mug with ice and a few slices of cucumber. It is often described as Nigeria's favourite drink and though predominantly served without alcohol, it can also be served with a hint of vodka or rum. It is believed that the cocktail originated in Ikoyi Club, Lagos, Nigeria. The drink was created by a bartender at", "title": "Chapman (drink)" }, { "docid": "7978851", "text": "of the New England Independent bottlers, such as Root Beer, Birch Beer, Cream Soda, Sarsaparilla and Lime Rickey. Other sodas include unique offerings such as Peach, Strawberry and Cranberry, Cocoa Cream and (cane sugar) Ginger Beer. Hosmer uses two sizes of reusable glass bottles (28 & 12 oz.) to package their products, which are then returned by customers, cleaned and refilled, in keeping with the company's long standing green mission. Hosmer Mountain has charged a deposit since before the CT State Bottle Bill required it of soft drink manufacturers. Hosmer Mountain Soda Hosmer Mountain Soda is a small soft drink", "title": "Hosmer Mountain Soda" }, { "docid": "2000260", "text": "a meal in many European and South American countries. Many, including popular Italian-style amaros and German-style Kräuter liquors, are often used in cocktails as well. Some notable examples of digestive bitters available today include: Cocktail bitters are typically used for flavoring cocktails in drops or dashes. In the United States, many cocktail bitters are classified as alcoholic non-beverage products ('non-beverage' meaning not consumed like a typical beverage). As alcoholic non-beverage products, they are often available from retailers who do not sell liquor, such as supermarkets in many US states. Some notable examples of cocktail bitters include: Bitters A bitters is", "title": "Bitters" }, { "docid": "5159247", "text": "(1796–1870), surgeon general in Simón Bolívar's army in Venezuela. Siegert began to sell it in 1824 and established a distillery for the purpose in 1830. Siegert was based in the town of Angostura and used locally available ingredients, perhaps aided by botanical knowledge of the local Amerindians. The product was sold abroad from 1853, and in 1875 the plant was moved from Ciudad Bolivar to Port of Spain, Trinidad, where it remains. Angostura won a medal at the Weltausstellung 1873 Wien. The medal is still depicted on the oversized label, along with reverse which shows Emperor Franz Joseph I of", "title": "Angostura bitters" }, { "docid": "7746689", "text": "to 74% silica by weight. The manufacturing process for soda–lime glass consists in melting the raw materials, which are the silica, soda, lime (in the form of (Ca(OH)), dolomite (CaMg(CO), which provides the magnesium oxide), and aluminium oxide; along with small quantities of fining agents (e.g., sodium sulfate (NaSO), sodium chloride (NaCl), etc.) in a glass furnace at temperatures locally up to 1675 °C. The temperature is only limited by the quality of the furnace structure material and by the glass composition. Relatively inexpensive minerals such as trona, sand, and feldspar are usually used instead of pure chemicals. Green and", "title": "Soda–lime glass" }, { "docid": "11139664", "text": "glasses desirable, inward-curved glasses are often preferred by connoisseurs who consider the aroma especially important to the experience of a whisky. Glencairn whisky glass The Glencairn whisky glass is a style of glass developed by Glencairn Crystal Ltd, Scotland for drinking whisky. Originally designed by Raymond Davidson, managing director of the company, the shape of the glass is derived from the traditional \"nosing copitas\" used in whisky labs around Scotland. The glass design was concluded with the aid of master blenders from five of the largest whisky companies in Scotland. The glass first came into production in 2001. The glass", "title": "Glencairn whisky glass" }, { "docid": "7746690", "text": "brown bottles are obtained from raw materials containing iron oxide. The mix of raw materials is termed batch. Soda–lime glass is divided technically into glass used for windows, called flat glass, and glass for containers, called container glass. The two types differ in the application, production method (float process for windows, blowing and pressing for containers), and chemical composition. Flat glass has a higher magnesium oxide and sodium oxide content than container glass, and a lower silica, calcium oxide, and aluminium oxide content. From the lower content of highly water-soluble ions (sodium and magnesium) in container glass comes its slightly", "title": "Soda–lime glass" }, { "docid": "13463104", "text": "an additional import duty of 75 pence per litre on sugar-sweetened carbonated drinks with more than 15 grams of sugar per litre. The measure was introduced in May 2014 as part of a number of measures to tackle obesity on the island and the resulting high incidence of type 2 diabetes. Tonga has a soda tax. Sugary drink tax A sugary drink tax or soda tax is a tax or surcharge designed to reduce consumption of drinks with added sugar. Drinks covered under a soda tax often include carbonated soft drinks, sports drinks and energy drinks. The tax is a", "title": "Sugary drink tax" }, { "docid": "7746691", "text": "higher chemical durability against water, which is required especially for storage of beverages and food. Soda–lime glass undergoes a steady increase in viscosity with decreasing temperature, permitting operations of steadily increasing precision. The glass is readily formable into objects when it has a viscosity of 10 poises, typically reached at a temperature around 900 °C. The glass is softened and undergoes steady deformation when viscosity is less than 10 poises, near 700 °C. Though apparently hardened, soda–lime glass can nonetheless be annealed to remove internal stresses with about 15 minutes at 10 poises, near 500 °C. The relationship between viscosity", "title": "Soda–lime glass" }, { "docid": "5862307", "text": "Italian soda An Italian soda is a soft drink made from carbonated water and simple syrup, usually flavored. Flavors can be fruit (e.g. cherry, blueberry) or modeled after the flavors of desserts, spices, or other beverages (e.g. amaretto, chai, chocolate). Some vendors add cream to the drink as well. Despite its name, Italian soda originated in the United States. One claimant to the introduction and increased popularity of Italian sodas is Torani: Rinaldo and Ezilda Torre brought recipes for flavored syrups from Lucca, Italy and in 1925 introduced what become known as an Italian soda to the North Beach neighborhood", "title": "Italian soda" }, { "docid": "20747797", "text": "a relatively larger quantity of water. Scotch and soda is not strictly a cocktail by its most exclusive definition, as it only has two ingredients, although it can be considered a cocktail (of the highball type) in the loosest sense of the term. In Japan, Whisky and Soda, typically made of Suntory, is synonymous with highball. Similar 'whisk(e)y and soda' drinks can also be made with other than Scottish whiskies, and will have largely similar characteristics. They are, however, technically not 'Scotch and soda' if they do not contain Scotch. Scotch and soda (cocktail) Scotch and soda is a mixed", "title": "Scotch and soda (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "7167538", "text": "Sugar glass Sugar glass (also called candy glass, edible glass, and breakaway glass) is a brittle transparent form of sugar that looks like glass. It can be formed into a sheet that looks like flat glass or an object, such as a bottle or drinking glass. Sugar glass is made by dissolving sugar in water and heating it to at least the \"hard crack\" stage (approx. 150 °C / 300 °F) in the candy making process. Glucose or corn syrup is used to prevent the sugar from recrystallizing, by getting in the way of the sugar molecules forming crystals. Cream", "title": "Sugar glass" }, { "docid": "7746687", "text": "Soda–lime glass Soda–lime glass, also called soda–lime–silica glass, is the most prevalent type of glass, used for windowpanes and glass containers (bottles and jars) for beverages, food, and some commodity items. Glass bakeware is often made of borosilicate glass. Soda–lime glass accounts for about 90% of manufactured glass. Soda–lime glass is relatively inexpensive, chemically stable, reasonably hard, and extremely workable. Because it can be resoftened and remelted numerous times, it is ideal for glass recycling. It is used in preference to chemically-pure silica, which is silicon dioxide (SiO), otherwise known as fused quartz. Whereas pure silica has excellent resistance to", "title": "Soda–lime glass" }, { "docid": "2529390", "text": "in cafes, cream soda consists of soda water, vanilla syrup, and cream or half and half. Popular brands include: Another variety is referred to as Italian cream soda. Despite the name, this drink originated in the US, not in Italy. The name is due to it being a form of Italian soda. Italian cream soda is usually a mixture of carbonated water, vanilla syrup, and added half and half or cream. Ratios vary widely, but the taste is usually that of sweetened, flavored milk. In Canada, cream soda is mostly pink (except in Quebec and Newfoundland, where it is sold", "title": "Cream soda" }, { "docid": "4210955", "text": "Shasta (soft drink) Shasta Beverages is an American soft drink manufacturer which markets a value priced soft drink line with a wide variety of soda flavors under the brand name Shasta Soda. The company name is derived from Mount Shasta and an associated spring. Shasta began as The Shasta Mineral Springs Company at the base of Mt. Shasta, California, in 1889. In 1928, the name was changed to The Shasta Water Company. It produced bottled mineral water from Shasta Springs in Northern California. The water was poured into glass-lined railroad cars and shipped off for local bottling. In 1931, Shasta", "title": "Shasta (soft drink)" }, { "docid": "7746692", "text": "and temperature is largely logarithmic, with an Arrhenius equation strongly dependent on the composition of the glass, but the activation energy increases at higher temperatures. The following table lists some physical properties of soda–lime glasses. Unless otherwise stated, the glass compositions and many experimentally determined properties are taken from one large study. Those values marked in \"italic\" font have been interpolated from similar glass compositions (see calculation of glass properties) due to the lack of experimental data. Soda–lime glass Soda–lime glass, also called soda–lime–silica glass, is the most prevalent type of glass, used for windowpanes and glass containers (bottles and", "title": "Soda–lime glass" }, { "docid": "2529389", "text": "on December 8, 1885, and a Canadian patent on July 5, 1886, for \"ice-cream soda\". Black's ice-cream soda, which contained whipped egg whites, sugar, lime juice, lemons, citric acid, flavoring, and bicarbonate of soda, was a concentrated syrup that could be reconstituted into an effervescent beverage by adding ordinary ice water. In the United States, cream soda is often vanilla-flavored and is either clear or colored a light golden brown in appearance; but red, pink, orange, and blue are also relatively common color variants. In addition, in some places in the U.S. where the drink is made on location, especially", "title": "Cream soda" }, { "docid": "9159305", "text": "after mishearing the name in several instances, resulting in its being alternatively named 'Vespa'. Since Gordon's Gin was reformulated in 1992 and Kina Lillet was reformulated in 1986, substitutes can be made that attempt to recapture the original flavour of the drink: \"Esquire\" printed the following update of the recipe in 2006: Shake (if you must) with plenty of cracked ice. 3 oz Tanqueray gin, 1 oz 100-proof [50%] Stolichnaya vodka, oz Lillet Blanc, teaspoon (or less) quinine powder or, in desperation, 2 dashes of bitters. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and twist a large swatch of thin-cut lemon", "title": "Vesper (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "15765367", "text": "sugar cube and several dashes of bitters be added to the glass prior to the main ingredients. The cocktail is milky in appearance on account of the spontaneous emulsification of the absinthe (or substitute), and bubbly, which it takes from the Champagne. After the first sip, however, it becomes significantly less bubbly. Harold McGee, dining and wine writer for \"The New York Times\", said that it \"seemed a waste of effervescence\" (though substituting Pernod for the absinthe). Death in the Afternoon (cocktail) Death in the Afternoon, also called the Hemingway or the Hemingway Champagne, is a cocktail made up of", "title": "Death in the Afternoon (cocktail)" }, { "docid": "6883915", "text": "Alligation Total (see John King's Arithmetic Book 1795 which includes worked examples.) The technique is not used in schools although it is used still in pharmacies for quick calculation of quantities. Suppose you make a cocktail drink combination out of 1/2 Coke, 1/4 Sprite, and 1/4 orange soda. The Coke has 120 grams of sugar per liter, the Sprite has 100 grams of sugar per liter, and the orange soda has 150 grams of sugar per liter. How much sugar does the drink have? This is an example of alligation medial because you want to find the amount of sugar", "title": "Alligation" }, { "docid": "4060920", "text": "Congress of Angostura The Congress of Angostura was summoned by Simón Bolívar and took place in Angostura (today Ciudad Bolívar) during the wars of Independence of Colombia and Venezuela, culminating in the proclamation of Gran Colombia. It met from February 15, 1819, to July 31, 1821, when the Congress of Cúcuta began its sessions. It consisted of twenty-six delegates, representing Venezuela and New Granada (today Colombia). Important parts of the countries were still under Spanish rule, so elections only took place in the areas of southern Venezuela and Margarita Island controlled by the patriot forces. The delegates from New Granada", "title": "Congress of Angostura" }, { "docid": "7978850", "text": "Hosmer Mountain Soda Hosmer Mountain Soda is a small soft drink producer based in eastern Connecticut. Hosmer Mountain Bottling Company was founded in 1912 as a spring water delivery service in the hamlet of Willimantic. and purchased in 1958 by Arthur J. Potvin; who made his soda flavors all by trial and error. Hosmer Mountain Soda has two locations in Connecticut, at 217 Mountain St. in Willimantic and one at 15 Spencer Street in Manchester. Hosmer makes about 35 Flavors including Diets, Seltzers and a line of \"Antique Sodas\" made with cane sugar. They feature all of the classic flavors", "title": "Hosmer Mountain Soda" }, { "docid": "2374220", "text": "Pink Gin Pink Gin or Pink Plymouth is a cocktail made fashionable in England in the mid-19th century, consisting of Plymouth gin and a dash of Angostura bitters, a dark red bitters that makes the whole drink pinkish. Lemon rind is also commonly used as a garnish, with the citrus oils subtly complementing the flavour. Pink gin is widely thought to have been created by members of the Royal Navy. Plymouth gin is a 'sweet' gin, as opposed to London gin which is 'dry', and was added to Angostura bitters to make the consumption of Angostura bitters more enjoyable as", "title": "Pink Gin" }, { "docid": "14141624", "text": "Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda is an American commercial soft drink containing kava, a plant root from the South Pacific that has sedative effects. The drink belongs to a group of so-called \"chill-out\" or \"anti-energy\" drinks that offer an alternative to caffeinated energy drinks. Kava has long been used in the South Pacific for its relaxing effects. Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda includes sugar to cover up the \"awful taste\" of kava. The drink was introduced by a Denver-based company but is sold primarily in southern California, which accounted for 70 percent of its market as of late", "title": "Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda" }, { "docid": "7253702", "text": "water , particularly in winter, or cold water , particularly in summer, as is done with shōchū. Whisky is also commonly drunk with food, particularly in mixed drinks, especially highballs. The prevalence of mixing whisky with soda or water is particularly attributed to the hot, muggy Japanese summer, hence the popularity of long drinks. Japanese whisky Japanese whisky is a style of whisky developed and produced in Japan. Whisky production in Japan began around 1870, but the first commercial production was in 1924 upon the opening of the country's first distillery, Yamazaki. Broadly speaking the style of Japanese whisky is", "title": "Japanese whisky" }, { "docid": "14141625", "text": "2009. The name \"Mary Jane\" is a reference to marijuana, although the relaxing constituents of kava are not chemically related to cannabis. The drink is manufactured in Riverside, CA. Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda is an American commercial soft drink containing kava, a plant root from the South Pacific that has sedative effects. The drink belongs to a group of so-called \"chill-out\" or \"anti-energy\" drinks that offer an alternative to caffeinated energy drinks. Kava has long been used in the South Pacific for its relaxing effects. Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda includes sugar to cover up the \"awful", "title": "Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda" }, { "docid": "9366130", "text": "Type use as modifying agents bitters or aromatic wines or spirits. Cocktails of the Sour Type use as modifying agents a fruit juice (typically, lemon or lime) and sugar. For these a ratio of 1 part sweet to 2 parts sour to 8 parts base is generally recommended. However, Embury makes it very clear that he thinks the idea that a drink \"must\" be made according to one exact recipe preposterous, and that the final arbiter is always \"your\" taste. He suggests trying different ratios, finding the one that is most pleasing to you, and sticking with it. Once one", "title": "The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks" }, { "docid": "2941803", "text": "sports drinks, and carbonated water. Diet soda is defined in US law as a food of minimal nutritional value. Diet drink Diet (alternatively marketed as sugar-free, zero-calorie or low-calorie) drinks are sugar-free, artificially sweetened versions of fizzy beverages with virtually no calories. They are generally marketed toward health-conscious people, diabetics, athletes, and other people who want to lose weight, improve physical fitness, or reduce their sugar intake. However, studies show that the marketed effectiveness of diet soft drinks is questionable. The beginning of the diet drink or refreshment era was in 1952, when Kirsch Bottling in Brooklyn, New York launched", "title": "Diet drink" }, { "docid": "2356481", "text": "is used for \"mixers\" such as tonic or soda water. It has a smaller diameter than the other cans. In September 2018 a 300 ml can was introduced as an alternative to the 330 ml can in a continued effort to reduce the amount of sugar consumed in soft drinks. Middle East In the Middle East standard cans are 330 ml. Most metal drink cans manufactured in the United States are made of aluminium, whereas in some parts of Europe and Asia approximately 55 percent are made of steel and 45 percent are aluminium alloy. Steel cans often have a", "title": "Drink can" }, { "docid": "9411206", "text": "it is not burned too badly. Absinthe is traditionally prepared following the French ritual, in which cubed sugar is slowly dissolved into the absinthe by pouring or dripping ice cold water over the sugar. While this traditional method of preparation involves no flame, absinthe is a highly flammable liquor and thus suitable for use in flaming cocktails. An alternative, Bohemian (Czech) ritual involves fire, but does not (directly) ignite the actual drink itself. Instead of slowly dissolving the sugar with cold water, the sugar cube is doused in absinthe and lit on fire. This results in caramelized sugar dripping into", "title": "Flaming drink" }, { "docid": "9366129", "text": "to soften the raw alcohol taste of the base while enhancing its natural flavor. Typical modifying agents are aromatic wines (such as vermouth) and spirits (such as Fernet Branca or Amer Picon), bitters, fruit juices and \"smoothing agents\" such as sugar, eggs, and cream. Special flavoring and coloring agents include liqueurs (such as Grand Marnier or Chartreuse), Cordials, Bitters like Angostura Bitters, etc. and non-alcoholic flavored syrups (such as Grenadine or Orgeat syrup). These are typically used in place of simple syrup, and are to be used sparingly. Embury breaks all cocktails down into two categories: Cocktails of the Aromatic", "title": "The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks" }, { "docid": "2361645", "text": "for the drink than the software it was supposed to promote. Laird Brown, the company's senior strategist, attributes its success to a widespread mistrust of big corporations and the \"proprietary nature of almost everything.\" The flavouring formula for OpenCola is: After mixing up the concentrate to the prescribed recipe (including all recommended safety precautions), the syrup is diluted 5:1 with (\"preferably sodium-free\") soda water to make the finished drink; at this dilution, the above combination of ingredients will yield approximately 24 litres of OpenCola. The full recipe also includes instructions for home-made soda water produced from basic ingredients such as", "title": "OpenCola (drink)" }, { "docid": "14033588", "text": "by fermenting fruit juice and sugar, after distillation it is commonly cut 2–3 parts water : 1 part 'Sid'. American soldiers, in the American military bases, and South Korean workers in Saudi Arabia create improvised moonshines from water, fruits (lemons and oranges), and yeast. Illicitly produced whisky from Scotland is called peatreek. The term refers to the smoke (or \"reek\") infused in the drink by drying the malted barley over a peat fire. \"Peat Reek\" is also the brand name of a legal, commercially available whisky. Production of spirits in Scotland requires the relevant excise licences, as in the rest", "title": "Moonshine by country" }, { "docid": "16199373", "text": "Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (other titles include International title Glass, Hungarian title Glass - Philip portréja 12 felvonásban) is a 2007 documentary on the life of American composer Philip Glass directed by Scott Hicks. The film was nominated for Emmy Awards and AFI Award All the persons below play their own life roles. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics community. It currently holds four star rating out of five on Rotten Tomatoes, a movie grading website, and a rating score of 55 out of 100", "title": "Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts" }, { "docid": "16199374", "text": "on Metacritic. Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (other titles include International title Glass, Hungarian title Glass - Philip portréja 12 felvonásban) is a 2007 documentary on the life of American composer Philip Glass directed by Scott Hicks. The film was nominated for Emmy Awards and AFI Award All the persons below play their own life roles. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics community. It currently holds four star rating out of five on Rotten Tomatoes, a movie grading website, and a rating score of 55 out", "title": "Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts" }, { "docid": "9777468", "text": "1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + ⋯ In mathematics, 1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + ··· is the infinite series whose terms are the successive positive integers, given alternating signs. Using sigma summation notation the sum of the first \"m\" terms of the series can be expressed as The infinite series diverges, meaning that its sequence of partial sums, , does not tend towards any finite limit. Nonetheless, in the mid-18th century, Leonhard Euler wrote what he admitted to be a paradoxical equation: A rigorous explanation of this equation would not arrive until much later. Starting", "title": "1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + ⋯" }, { "docid": "16816836", "text": "per second. Four top-seal radial gates supply water to the Albuquerque Main Canal. The MRGCD is responsible for operations and maintenance. Citations Sources Angostura Diversion Dam The Angostura Diversion Dam is a diversion dam on the Rio Grande in Sandoval County. New Mexico, near to Algodones and to the north of Bernalillo. The dam diverts water into the main irrigation canal serving the Albuquerque Division. The Angostura Diversion Dam consists of a concrete weir section high and long. The dam was built in 1934 by the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD), and in 1958 was rehabilitated by the United", "title": "Angostura Diversion Dam" }, { "docid": "12673270", "text": "Lagidze water Lagidze water () is a popular Georgian soft drink based on soda and a variety of natural syrups. It has been traditionally mixed in a glass from a soda fountain, but it is also available as a bottled soft drink in a range of flavors. Some American food writers liken it to egg cream, but the authentic Georgian drink includes neither milk nor chocolate syrup. Lagidze water is named after Mitrofan Lagidze, a pharmacist’s apprentice in Kutaisi, Georgia, who in 1887 explored the idea of using natural syrups instead of imported flavored essences in making lemonades. In 1900,", "title": "Lagidze water" }, { "docid": "3087109", "text": "Fallout series went on sale November 10 at participating Target locations in North America alongside the release of Bethesda's game Fallout 4. Christmas themed soda returned in 2016 with Candy Cane, Sugar Plum, Pear Tree, and Gingerbread flavors. Jones Soda continually changes the photographs on its Soda and Naturals labels. Except for certain Root Beer, Vanilla Cola, and Fufu Berry bottles, the photos are all black and white. Its website features a database of over one million submitted pictures, as well as an archived collection of internal company notes, detailing which pictures appeared when, on what flavors (for collectors of", "title": "Jones Soda" }, { "docid": "16716705", "text": "only large lakes in western South Dakota. With of shoreline and of water, the reservoir is stocked with several species of fish, including walleye, smallmouth bass and crappie. The Angostura Recreation Area operated by the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks surrounds the lake. Angostura Dam (U.S.) Angostura Dam is an embankment dam across the Cheyenne River in Fall River County in southwestern South Dakota in the United States, about south of Rapid City. The dam consists of an earth-fill embankment with a concrete spillway section, high and long; it withholds the Angostura Reservoir. The dam was conceived", "title": "Angostura Dam (U.S.)" }, { "docid": "16789023", "text": "Drink mix A drink mix, or powdered drink mix is a processed-food product, a powder designed to mix usually with water to produce a beverage resembling fruit juice or soda in flavor. Another type of drink mix is represented by products that must be mixed into milk. While some are made with sugar, or sold unsweetened, the products are often made with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose, cyclamates or saccharin, and often include artificial flavors and colors. Some of the product include vitamins or other nutrients. The products are variously marketed to children, athletes, bodybuilders, dieters, or as a", "title": "Drink mix" }, { "docid": "357818", "text": "fizzy drink, fizzy juice, lolly water, pop, seltzer, soda, coke, soda pop, tonic, and mineral. Due to the high sugar content in typical soft drinks, they may also be called sugary drinks. In the United States, the 2003 Harvard Dialect Survey tracked the usage of the nine most common names. Over half of the survey respondents preferred the term \"soda\", which was dominant in the Northeastern United States, California, and the areas surrounding Milwaukee and St. Louis. The term \"pop\", which was preferred by 25% of the respondents, was most popular in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest, while the genericized", "title": "Soft drink" }, { "docid": "3452074", "text": "West Los Angeles, they serve soda fountain classics made with a 1954 Bastian-Blessing Soda Fountain. In the Eastern Bloc countries, self-service soda fountains, located in shopping centers, farmers markets, or simply on the sidewalk in busy areas, became popular by the mid-20th century. In the USSR, a glass of carbonated water would sell for 1 kopeck, while for 3 kopecks one could buy a glass of fruit-flavored soda. Most of these vending machines have disappeared since 1990; a few remain, usually provided with an operator. Soda fountain A soda fountain is a device that dispenses carbonated soft drinks, called fountain", "title": "Soda fountain" }, { "docid": "6934459", "text": "versions of the drink include the addition of grass jelly, sparkling water, carbonated sodas such as ice cream soda, and even milo powder. Bandung (drink) Bandung, sirap bandung, or air bandung is a drink popular in India, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. It consists of evaporated milk or condensed milk flavoured with rose cordial syrup, giving it a pink colour. The drink is an adaptation of rose milk served in India. In the Malay language, the term \"bandung\" means \"pairs\", while \"sirap\" means \"syrup\" - referring to the rose-flavoured base - and \"air\" means \"water\". More broadly, \"bandung\" refers to anything", "title": "Bandung (drink)" } ]
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Commonly used as a derogatory term, what name is sometimes given to children born in the US to illegal immigrants who, given their citizenship, are thought to be used as a means of obtaining citizenship for the parents?
[ "Anchor child", "Jackpot baby", "Drop and leave", "Anchor baby", "Anchor babies", "Passport baby", "Anchor Baby", "Baby touristing" ]
[ { "docid": "8985117", "text": "of granting automatic citizenship on a \"jus soli\" basis. Fears grew in some circles that the existing law encouraged parents-to-be to come to the United States to have children (sometimes called birth tourism) in order to improve the parents' chances of attaining legal residency themselves. Some media correspondents and public leaders, including former congressman Virgil Goode, have controversially dubbed this the \"anchor baby\" situation, and politicians have proposed legislation on this basis that might alter how birthright citizenship is awarded. A Pew Hispanic Center analysis of Census Bureau data determined that about 8 percent of children born in the United", "title": "Birthright citizenship in the United States" }, { "docid": "16090196", "text": "Consensual citizenship Consensual citizenship is based on the mutual acceptance of the community by individual citizens. The idea is largely attributed to John Locke. It is an alternative to birthright citizenship. Peter H. Schuck and Rogers Smith addressed the idea in a 1985 book, \"Citizenship without Consent\". Debate over citizenship rules in the United States restarted in the mid-1990s, when the idea of anchor babies emerged. The term expressed the idea that US law allowed non-citizen immigrants to use the existence of offspring born in the US to justify immigration for other relatives. This led to proposed legislation to define", "title": "Consensual citizenship" }, { "docid": "7754969", "text": "to visiting foreign nationals are eligible for automatic US Citizenship. These children are sometimes referred to as anchor babies because of the belief that the mother gave birth in the United States as a way to anchor their family in the US. Over the period 2011-2016, U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 178,825 unaccompanied minors from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. The provisions of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, which specifies safe repatriation of unaccompanied children (other than those trafficked for sex or forced labor) from countries which do not have a common border with the United", "title": "Illegal immigration to the United States" } ]
[ { "docid": "15361114", "text": "policy of unconditional birthright citizenship to become more attractive for immigrants. Despite wide acceptance of dual citizenship, industrialized countries now try to protect themselves from birth tourism and uncontrollable immigration waves, so only Canada and the United States still grant unconditional birthright citizenship (even for children of illegal immigrants). In both countries, there have been calls to change the laws, but, so far, they have not been successful. Brazil has similar policies; the only people born in Brazil who do not automatically acquire Brazilian citizenship are those whose parents are residing in Brazil while serving their own countries (as diplomats,", "title": "Multiple citizenship" }, { "docid": "8985115", "text": "government did not have full jurisdiction over Native American tribes, which govern themselves and make treaties with the United States. Edward Erler argued that since the \"Wong Kim Ark\" case dealt with someone whose parents were in the United States legally, there is no valid basis under the 14th Amendment for the practice of granting citizenship to U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants: \"Even if the logic is that Wong Kim Ark became a citizen by birth with the permission of the United States when it admitted his parents to the country, no such permission has been given to those who", "title": "Birthright citizenship in the United States" }, { "docid": "13860395", "text": "Liable to become a Public Charge Liable to become a Public Charge is the term used in the United States to classify prospective immigrants who are denied entry due to their lack of sustainable living means. The term was first implemented in the Immigration Act of 1882. The Immigration Act of 1882 found immigrants who were unable to take care of themselves without becoming a public charge unsuitable for American citizenship and therefore denied their entry. In addition to LPC the act initiated a fifty cent head tax which would be used for bureaucratic processes. The act also denies entry", "title": "Liable to become a Public Charge" }, { "docid": "14011601", "text": "there were mass protests numbering hundreds of thousands of people throughout the US demanding U.S. citizenship for illegal immigrants. Many carried banners which read \"We Have A Dream Too\". One estimate is that there are 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. in 2006. There are many American high school students with citizenship issues. In 2008, it was estimated that there were 65,000 illegal immigrant students. The number was less clear for post-secondary education. A 1982 Supreme Court decision entitled illegal immigrants to free education from kindergarten through high school. Undocumented immigrants who get arrested face difficulties in the courtroom", "title": "Citizenship of the United States" }, { "docid": "15871565", "text": "such as carefully planned tax increases. In general, they write that Americans must \"invest in education, infrastructure, and research and development, as well as open our society more widely to talented immigrants and fix the regulations that govern our economy\" given that \"[i]mmigration, education, and sensible regulation are traditional ingredients of the American formula for greatness.\" The authors state that America needs to implement changes and the only way that this is going to have a long-term impact is with a major wake-up call that gets people's attention: \"Our big challenges today require the kind of national responses that wars", "title": "That Used to Be Us" }, { "docid": "1845868", "text": "is commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries to acknowledge the families of both parents. Today the order can also be changed legally in Spain and Uruguay using \"given name – mother's family name – father's family name\". In many Western cultures, people often have more than one given name. One of those which is not the first in succession might be used exclusively as the name which that person goes by, such as in the cases of John Edgar Hoover and Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland. A child's given name or names are usually chosen by the parents soon after birth. If", "title": "Given name" }, { "docid": "19860682", "text": "I Used to Be a Fish I Used to be a Fish is a book written by Tom Sullivan for ages 4–8. A boy imagines his pet fish tells him the story of evolution. The 48-page book is drawn in 3 colors: red, blue and white. It was described as similar in style to Dr Seuss by some reviewers due to the simple drawing style and absurdity of the tale. It includes a timeline and author's note at the end for older children or parents who want material for further discussion. Author-illustrator Tom Sullivan was a freelance graphic designer. This", "title": "I Used to Be a Fish" }, { "docid": "17085635", "text": "the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the [United States], government programs prepared immigrants to take citizenship exams or qualify for citizenship. Many corporations, most prominently Ford, offered similar programs to their employees and families of their employees. In addition, various charities also provided this service. In the United Kingdom in 2002, David Blunkett introduced a series of proposals where immigrants would take a written \"test\" and participate in a ceremony before they could be granted British nationality. Before being given a passport, applicants read Life in the United Kingdom (a book providing information about the UK), prepare for", "title": "Citizenship education (immigrants)" }, { "docid": "15871563", "text": "That Used to Be Us That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back is a non-fiction book written by Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning \"New York Times\" columnist and author, with Michael Mandelbaum, a writer and foreign policy professor at Johns Hopkins University. They published the book on September 5, 2011 in the United States. It addresses what the authors see as the four major problems America faces today and possible solutions. These problems are defined as: globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and", "title": "That Used to Be Us" }, { "docid": "1845865", "text": "by the parents at birth. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used—unless a distinction needs to be made between people with the same surname. The idioms \"on a first-name basis\" and \"being on first-name terms\" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or \"gentile\" name), which is normally inherited, is typically shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names and religious or monastic", "title": "Given name" }, { "docid": "7755006", "text": "to due process. Under the Patriot Act, an illegal immigrant is not granted the opportunity for a hearing before given certification. Complications in deportation efforts ensue when parents are illegal immigrants but their children are birthright citizens. Federal appellate courts have upheld the refusal by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to stay the deportation of illegal immigrants merely on the grounds that they have U.S.-citizen, minor children. As of 2005, there were some 3.1 million United States citizen children living in families in which the head of the family or a spouse was unauthorized; at least 13,000 children had one", "title": "Illegal immigration to the United States" }, { "docid": "7754960", "text": "have no statistically meaningful impact on crime or reduce the crime rate. Research suggests that immigration enforcement has no impact on crime rates. The categories of foreign-born people in the United States are: Non-citizens residing in the United States are further subdivided into immigrants and non-immigrants. Immigrants are foreign-born non-citizens that are able to apply for citizenship. Non-immigrants are foreign-born non-citizens who are not able to apply for citizenship, which includes diplomatic staff, temporary workers, students, tourists, etc. Non-citizen residence can become illegal in one of four ways: by unauthorized entry, by failure of the employer to pay worker documentation", "title": "Illegal immigration to the United States" }, { "docid": "16090051", "text": "of a child's parents. Any child born to two North Korean nationals becomes a North Korean citizen. However, if a child is born abroad to one North Korean national and one parent of a different nationality, the citizenship is to be determined by the parents. \"Jus soli\", or the \"right of the soil,\" is better known as birthright citizenship. This type of citizenship or nationality is awarded to citizens who are born within the jurisdiction of a given state. In North Korea, birth within the country's borders does not automatically grant a child citizenship, with the exception of a child", "title": "Citizenship in North Korea" }, { "docid": "19585614", "text": "72% of President Donald Trump's supporters. Path to citizenship In the United States, a Path To Citizenship is a proposed process whereby immigrants in the United States can become citizens. The idea of creating such a process is generally supported by Democrats and opposed by Republicans. During his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, whereby such immigrants, if they were in good standing, could pay a fine in return for gaining the opportunity to become citizens. In 2013, Obama called on Congress to include a path to citizenship in any immigration", "title": "Path to citizenship" }, { "docid": "19585612", "text": "Path to citizenship In the United States, a Path To Citizenship is a proposed process whereby immigrants in the United States can become citizens. The idea of creating such a process is generally supported by Democrats and opposed by Republicans. During his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, whereby such immigrants, if they were in good standing, could pay a fine in return for gaining the opportunity to become citizens. In 2013, Obama called on Congress to include a path to citizenship in any immigration reform bill it passed. The Border", "title": "Path to citizenship" }, { "docid": "1845887", "text": "and until marriage for women. Some possible changes concern middle names, diminutive forms, and changes relating to parental status (due to one's parents' divorce, or adoption by different parents). Matters are very different in some cultures in which a birth name is for childhood only, rather than for life. The term \"dead name\" is sometimes used by transgender people who change their names to match their gender identity as part of their transitioning. The French and English-adopted terms née and né (; ; ) have been used to indicate maiden or married names. The term \"née\", having feminine grammatical gender,", "title": "Given name" }, { "docid": "17073519", "text": "band Fabryka to record the album \"Echo\". Studio albums I Used To Be A Sparrow I Used To Be A Sparrow is an alternative rock band based in Västerås, Sweden. The act mainly consists of Andrea Caccese and Dick Pettersson, and has so far released two studio albums, the second of which is entitled \"You Are An Empty Artist. Pettersson, who had worked in the band \"In These Woods\", and Caccese, who was performing under the name \"Songs for the Sleepwalkers\", met at a local concert venue in late 2011. The pair began working together, producing and distributing their debut", "title": "I Used To Be A Sparrow" }, { "docid": "17073516", "text": "I Used To Be A Sparrow I Used To Be A Sparrow is an alternative rock band based in Västerås, Sweden. The act mainly consists of Andrea Caccese and Dick Pettersson, and has so far released two studio albums, the second of which is entitled \"You Are An Empty Artist. Pettersson, who had worked in the band \"In These Woods\", and Caccese, who was performing under the name \"Songs for the Sleepwalkers\", met at a local concert venue in late 2011. The pair began working together, producing and distributing their debut album \"Luke\" under Caccese's imprint, Paper Wings Music. \"Luke\"", "title": "I Used To Be A Sparrow" }, { "docid": "12068249", "text": "the 959th most popular name for boys born between 1960 and 1969 in the United States, but has not appeared among the top 1,000 names for boys there since the 1960s. Tammy (given name) Tammy is a feminine given name. It can be a short form of the names Tamsin, Thomasina, or Tamar, Tamara or Tabitha. Tamsin and Thomasina are feminine versions of the name Thomas, a Greek form of the Aramaic name \"Te'oma\", meaning \"twin.\" Tamara is a Russian form of the Hebrew name Tamar, which means \"palm tree.\" In Israel \"Tammy\" (תמי) is commonly used as an abbreviation", "title": "Tammy (given name)" }, { "docid": "9447221", "text": "implicitly recognizes the right to renounce citizenship. Renunciation of citizenship is particularly relevant in cases of multiple citizenship, given that additional citizenships may be acquired automatically and may be undesirable. Many countries have pragmatic policies that recognize the often arbitrary nature of citizenship claims of other countries and negative consequences, such as loss of security clearance, can mostly be expected only for actively exercising foreign citizenship, for instance by obtaining a foreign passport. People from some countries renounce their citizenship to avoid compulsory military service. However, some people may wish to be free even of the purely theoretical obligations and", "title": "Renunciation of citizenship" }, { "docid": "15871569", "text": "provide a thoughtful and balanced corrective to critics on the left who believe that our present economic troubles demonstrate the fundamental failure of the liberal democratic capitalist ideas on which American society is built, and the critics on the right who believe that only a return to 19th-century small government policies can save us.\" That Used to Be Us That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back is a non-fiction book written by Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning \"New York Times\" columnist and author, with Michael Mandelbaum, a", "title": "That Used to Be Us" }, { "docid": "84846", "text": "Citizenship Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation. A person may have multiple citizenships. A person who does not have citizenship of any state is said to be stateless, while one who lives on state borders whose territorial status is uncertain is a border-lander. Nationality is often used as a synonym for citizenship in English – notably in international law – although the term is sometimes understood as denoting a person's membership of a nation (a large ethnic group). In", "title": "Citizenship" }, { "docid": "8985085", "text": "all births in the U.S. (about 300,000 births per year) are to unauthorized immigrants. The Pew Hispanic Center also estimates that there are 4.5 million children who were born to unauthorized immigrants that received citizenship via birth in the United States; while the Migration Policy Institute estimates that there are 4.1 million children. Both estimates exclude anyone eighteen and older who might have benefited. Citizenship in the United States is a matter of federal law, governed by the United States Constitution. Since the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on July 9, 1868, the citizenship of", "title": "Birthright citizenship in the United States" }, { "docid": "13772107", "text": "Parisa (given name) Parisā () (pronounced pə-REE-sa) is a Persian given name for girls that means 'like a fairy'. The ancient Persian name \"Parysatis\" () is related to this name. Two notable women with the name \"Parysatis\" are: Parysatis, who was the wife of Darius II (), (\"Dārayavahuš\"), king of the Persian Empire and Parysatis II, the youngest daughter of Artaxerxes III of Persia, who was the wife of Alexander the Great. \"Pari\" can be used as a diminutive of Parisa. Pari () (pronounced pər-REE) means \"fairy\" and is used as a name of its own right as well. Pari", "title": "Parisa (given name)" }, { "docid": "13497331", "text": "who constituted 69.4% of the population, would take steps to remove them from the country. Shortly after independence on 4 February 1948 the new Sinhalese dominated government of Ceylon introduced the \"Ceylon Citizenship Bill\" before Parliament. The outward purpose of the Bill was to provide means of obtaining citizenship, but its real purpose was to discriminate against the Indian Tamils by denying them citizenship. The Bill stipulated that anyone wishing to obtain citizenship had to prove that their father was born in Ceylon i.e. that they were at least third generation immigrants. This was an impossible task for most Indian", "title": "Ceylon Citizenship Act" }, { "docid": "1421327", "text": "of traditional Japanese names, such as Lafcadio Hearn (who was half Anglo-Irish and half Greek), who used the name \"Koizumi Yakumo\" (). At the time, to gain Japanese citizenship, it was necessary to be adopted by a Japanese family (in Hearn's case, it was his wife's family) and take their name. Individuals born overseas with Western given names and Japanese surnames are usually given a katakana name in Western order when referred to in Japanese. Eric Shinseki, for instance, is referred to as (Erikku Shinseki). However, sometimes Japanese parents decide to use Japanese order when mentioning the child's name in", "title": "Japanese name" }, { "docid": "7114965", "text": "There was a call to strengthen the programme by monitoring management companies appointed as intermediaries between employers and illegal foreign workers. Malaysian authorities have frequently cracked down on illegal immigrants (sometimes without notice), with more frequent enforcement since 2014. Illegal immigrants are imprisoned, caned and deported. In early 2017, a former employee of the Malaysian Registration Department (JPN) was sentenced to 156 years in prison for giving illegal citizenship to Filipino immigrants in Sabah. A joint border commission has been formed with the Philippines to patrol from the southern Philippines to East Malaysia, and Thailand has agreed to lengthen its", "title": "Illegal immigration to Malaysia" }, { "docid": "19585613", "text": "Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, passed by the United States Senate on June 27, 2013, would create a 13-year path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, a path that would require them to pass several security checks before they can get a green card. Multiple polls conducted during Obama's presidency have found that the majority of Americans support a path to citizenship, and that this support is stronger among Democrats than among Republicans. A poll conducted in February 2017 found that 87% of Democrats and 69% of Republicans supported a path to citizenship, as did", "title": "Path to citizenship" }, { "docid": "12440301", "text": "mainly by Arabs of the Persian Gulf (Eastern Arabia), due to their traditional pearl diving professions wherein they gave different type of pearls names. It is used in the Arab world as a female name. In Hebrew, the name Dana means \"arbiter\" or \"God is my judge\". In Sanskrit and Pali, the word means \"generosity\". In Romanian and Czech, it is a feminine name, derived from the name Daniela; the masculine form being Dan/Daniel. Dana (given name) Dana is a given name used for both genders. It was among the 100 most popular names given to girls born in the", "title": "Dana (given name)" }, { "docid": "10049352", "text": "There Used to Be a Ballpark \"There Used to Be a Ballpark\" is a song written by Joe Raposo and recorded by Frank Sinatra for Sinatra's 1973 album, \"Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back\". The song expresses sadness at the loss of a baseball team and its ballpark, which once gave its fans and players joy, along with other childhood delights such as \"rock candy and a great big Fourth of July\". A key phrase in the song is \"Now the children try to find it / And they can't believe their eyes / For the old team just isn't playing", "title": "There Used to Be a Ballpark" }, { "docid": "13772108", "text": "does not mean angel. \"Fereshteh\" () is a feminine given name which actually happens to mean angel. The Pari (or Peri) in Persian mythology are described to be a race of beautiful and benevolent supernatural fairy beings, earlier regarded as malevolent. Risa (given name) can be used as a nickname also. Notable people with the name Parisa include: Parisa (given name) Parisā () (pronounced pə-REE-sa) is a Persian given name for girls that means 'like a fairy'. The ancient Persian name \"Parysatis\" () is related to this name. Two notable women with the name \"Parysatis\" are: Parysatis, who was the", "title": "Parisa (given name)" }, { "docid": "13892421", "text": "eyes), and is commonly used by South Indian Hindus. Nasrani Christians from Kerala and Parsees might use this name due to their ancient Persian heritage (Mina is a commonly used female name in Iran). See Meena (disambiguation) Mina is a Japanese feminine given name. It may be written various ways in kanji, including , , and . Mina, Meena, and Minah are various Roman alphabet spellings of two homophonous Korean feminine given names with different hangul spellings. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. For the name Min-a (민아), there are 27", "title": "Mina (given name)" }, { "docid": "7570560", "text": "only picks up the child, using a power of attorney granted by the other spouse—the child will be issued an IR-4 visa. Children who enter the U.S. on IH-3 or IR-3 visas automatically receive citizenship once admitted to the U.S. as immigrants. Those who enter on IH-4 or IR-4 visas do not receive citizenship \"until their adoption is finalized in their parents' home jurisdiction\". The effective date of the Child Citizenship Act is February 27, 2001. Children who meet the requirements of the Act on that date automatically became U.S. citizens. Children who were 18 years of age or older", "title": "Child Citizenship Act of 2000" }, { "docid": "11784773", "text": "Harry (derogatory term) Harry is a Norwegian derogatory term used in slang, derived from the English name Harry. The best English translation may be \"cheesy\" or \"tacky\". \"Norsk ordbok\" defines \"harry\" as \"tasteless, vulgar\". The term \"harry\" was first used by upper class youth in Oslo in the beginning of the 20th century, and was used to describe people who belonged to the working class. People in the lower social classes at the time often gave their children English first names such as Harry. The middle and upper classes mostly preferred Scandinavian or German (and occasionally French) names. English names", "title": "Harry (derogatory term)" }, { "docid": "1145952", "text": "However, that nuance is not to be exaggerated, as it is perfectly possible that the term \"español\" or even, jocularly, \"cristiano\" ('Christian') could be used instead. Moreover, the term \"castellano\" is also commonly and correctly used to refer to dialects of Spanish, which deviate dramatically from the standard. Both names are commonly used in parts of the world colonized by Spanish speakers, such as Latin America and the Canary Islands. As in Spain, the implications are complex. The most common term used in Latin America is \"español\", generally considered to be a neutral term simply reflecting the country that the", "title": "Names given to the Spanish language" }, { "docid": "8985089", "text": "may acquire U.S. citizenship from their parents. The Naturalization Act of 1790 provided for birthright citizenship for children born out of U.S. jurisdiction to two citizen parents. In 1855, this was extended to children with citizen fathers and noncitizen mothers, and, in 1934, to children with citizen mothers and noncitizen fathers. From 1940 until 1978, a child born abroad who acquired U.S. citizenship at birth but had only one U.S. citizen parent had to fulfill a \"retention requirement\" of residing, or being physically present, in the United States or its outlying possessions for a certain number of years before reaching", "title": "Birthright citizenship in the United States" }, { "docid": "14585704", "text": "\"-o\", \"-onis\". The given name is thought to have been used in honour of Major-General Charles George Gordon (1833–85), who was killed at Khartoum. The masculine given name can be represented in Scottish Gaelic as Gòrdan. The diminutive Gord may also be used as a nickname. Gordon (given name) Gordon is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Scottish surname \"Gordon\". It is uncertain if this surname originated from a place name in Scotland or in France. The Gordon in Berwickshire, where the family who bore the surname held lands in the 12th", "title": "Gordon (given name)" }, { "docid": "3364928", "text": "known as \"James Soong\". In Hong Kong, it is common to list the names all together, beginning with the English given name, moving on to the Chinese surname, and then ending with the Chinese given namefor example, Alex Fong Chung-Sun. Among American-born and other overseas Chinese it is common practice to be referred to primarily by one's non-Chinese name, with the Chinese one relegated to alternate or middle name status. Recent immigrants, however, often use their Chinese name as their legal name and adopt a non-Chinese name for casual use only. Proper use of pinyin romanization means treating a Chinese", "title": "Chinese given name" }, { "docid": "20215184", "text": "suffix \"-e\" (), was derived from the same root to be selected by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature as the Persian word for \"computer\". Rayan (Persian given name) Rayan ( ), also spelled Ryan, is an Iranian given name of Persian origin. It is primarily a male given name that means \"smart\", \"wise\" or \"thinker\". Because of its similarity to the English given name Ryan, Rayan is popular in the Iranian diaspora, especially among Iranian Americans. As of 2016, the name Rayan ranks 3,315th among the most used names. In Persian, the term \"rāyān\" () means \"wise\". It", "title": "Rayan (Persian given name)" }, { "docid": "12080276", "text": "Daisy (given name) Daisy is a feminine given name, commonly thought to be derived from the name of the flower. The flower name comes from the Old English word \"dægeseage\", meaning \"day's eye\". The name Daisy is therefore ultimately derived from this source. Daisy is also a nickname for Margaret, used because \"Marguerite\", the French version of that name, is also a French name for the oxeye daisy. It came into popular use in the late Victorian era along with other flower names. Authors Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran wrote in their 2007 book \"Baby Name Bible\" that Daisy", "title": "Daisy (given name)" }, { "docid": "7754968", "text": "to an analysis of Census Bureau data about 8 percent of children born in the United States in 2008—about 340,000—were offspring of illegal immigrants. (The report classifies a child as offspring of illegal immigrants if \"either\" parent is unauthorized.) In total, 4 million U.S.-born children of illegal immigrant parents resided in this country in 2009 (alongside 1.1 million foreign-born children of illegal immigrant parents). These infants are, according to the longstanding administrative interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, American citizens from birth. Congress has never legislated, nor the Supreme Court specifically ruled on whether babies born", "title": "Illegal immigration to the United States" }, { "docid": "1845866", "text": "names are special given names bestowed upon someone receiving a crown or entering a religious order. Such a person then typically becomes known chiefly by that name. The order \"given name – family name\", commonly known as the \"Western order\", is used throughout most European countries and in countries that have cultures predominantly influenced by European culture, including North and South America; North, East, Central and West India; Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. The order \"family name – given name\", commonly known as the \"Eastern order\", is primarily used in East Asia (for example in China, Japan, Korea, Malaysian", "title": "Given name" }, { "docid": "12068247", "text": "Tammy (given name) Tammy is a feminine given name. It can be a short form of the names Tamsin, Thomasina, or Tamar, Tamara or Tabitha. Tamsin and Thomasina are feminine versions of the name Thomas, a Greek form of the Aramaic name \"Te'oma\", meaning \"twin.\" Tamara is a Russian form of the Hebrew name Tamar, which means \"palm tree.\" In Israel \"Tammy\" (תמי) is commonly used as an abbreviation of the original Hebrew name. The name was popularized by a film series from the 1950s and 1960s about a lovable backwoods girl named Tammy Tyree. Tammy was most popular as", "title": "Tammy (given name)" }, { "docid": "12078112", "text": "two elements: the first, \"ceann\", meaning \"a head\"; the second, \"éide\", meaning \"Armour\"; hence the name can be thought to mean \"helmet-headed\". As a masculine given name, \"Kennedy\" can be rendered into Irish as \"Cinnéididh\" and \"Cinnéidigh\", and into Latin as \"Kinnedius\". The masculine \"Kennedy\" can be rendered into Scottish Gaelic as \"Uarraig\". This name is etymologically unrelated to the English \"Kennedy\" and Irish \"Cinnéidigh\". \"Uarraig\" is composed of two Gaelic elements: the first, \"uall\", means \"pride\"; and the second, \"garg\", means \"fierce\". This Scottish Gaelic name is Anglicised \"Kennedy\" possibly because it was commonly borne by various families who", "title": "Kennedy (given name)" }, { "docid": "10675285", "text": "Christian (given name) Christian originated as a Baptismal name used by persons of the Christian religion. It is now a given name born by males, and by females as Christiana and other feminized variants. An historically commonly used abbreviation, used for example on English 17th century church monuments and pedigrees, is \"Xpian\", using the Greek Chi Rho Christogram \"Χρ\", short for \"Χριστός\", Christ. The Greek form of the baptismal name is \"Χριστιανός\", a Christian. The name denotes a follower of Christ, thus a Christian. It has been used as a given name since the Middle Ages, at first as a", "title": "Christian (given name)" }, { "docid": "11856985", "text": "permit, or being registered as a permanent resident of Russia as of July 1, 2002 and meeting the naturalization requirements of p. 2 and p. 4. Citizenship of children (persons under 18 years of age) generally follows the citizenship of their parents. If one or both parents obtain Russian citizenship, their children become Russian citizens as well. If one or both parents lose Russian citizenship, their children lose it too. A child can acquire or relinquish Russian citizenship by the application of his parents, but at least one parent must be a Russian citizen in this case. Visa requirements for", "title": "Citizenship of Russia" }, { "docid": "16276749", "text": "persons at the margins of society, such as the outcasts, illegal immigrants and others. In this sense, citizenship was not only about getting rights and entitlements but it was a struggle to \"reject claims of entitlement by those initially residing outside the core, and subsequently, of migrant and immigrant labour.\" But one thinker described democratic citizenship as inclusive, generally, and wrote that democratic citizenship: \"Citizenship\" in the modern sense is often seen as having two widely divergent strains marked by tension between them. The \"liberal-individualist\" conception of citizenship, or sometimes merely the \"liberal\" conception, has a concern that the individual's", "title": "History of citizenship" }, { "docid": "16409700", "text": "opinions regarding immigrants within Canada. A 2007 poll conducted for Citizenship and Immigration Canada of 1,200 telephone interviews of adult Canadians gathered feedback on positive and negative opinions regarding immigrants settled in Canada. Being a developed country, residents believe strongly that only individuals who migrate legally should be allowed to remain. A national poll revealed that two-thirds of Canadians believe that any resident of Canada who is illegal should be deported. Considering factors such as Quebec was the only province that reached a level of 70% where individuals stated that \"reasonable accommodations\" should be made for illegal immigrants rather than", "title": "Illegal immigration to Canada" }, { "docid": "5903321", "text": "of the word is linked to the name being used as a by-name for a man. Jack (given name) Jack is a male given name. In recent decades, Jack has become one of the most common names for boys in many English-speaking countries. While Jack is now a proper name in its own right, in English; it was traditionally used as a diminutive form of John. It can also be used as a diminutive for: Jacob, Jason, Jonathan, Johann, Johannes, Joachim and sometimes for James, from its French form Jacques. It is also used as a female given name (often", "title": "Jack (given name)" }, { "docid": "84863", "text": "exercising their full rights as citizens, such as the right to vote. In 1962, New Mexico became the last state to enfranchise Native Americans. It was not until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 that the racial and gender restrictions for naturalization were explicitly abolished. However, the act still contained restrictions regarding who was eligible for US citizenship, and retained a national quota system which limited the number of visas given to immigrants based on their national origin, to be fixed \"at a rate of one-sixth of one percent of each nationality's population in the United", "title": "Citizenship" }, { "docid": "14131866", "text": "rice fields. Uma in Japanese means horse. Uma in Swahili means bite. Uma (given name) Uma is a given name in various cultures. In India, it is the name of the Hindu goddess, who is more commonly known as Parvati. In Sanskrit the word \"\" can further mean \"tranquillity\", \"splendour\", \"fame\" and \"night\". In Hebrew and Aramaic its meaning is \"nation\". It is also used by the Tiv people of Cameroon and Nigeria where the meaning in the Tiv language is \"life\". The name Uma is also popular in the Otukpo subgroup of the Idoma people of Nigeria and the", "title": "Uma (given name)" }, { "docid": "8985111", "text": "children, born decades later. In some cases, births in American hospital (sometimes called \"border babies\") have resulted in persons who lived for much of their lives in Canada, but not knowing that they had never had official Canadian citizenship. This group of people is sometimes called Lost Canadians. Another problem arises where a Canadian child, born to Canadian parents in a U.S. border hospital, is treated as a dual citizen and added to the United States tax base on this basis despite having never lived, worked nor studied in that nation. While Canadian income tax is only payable by those", "title": "Birthright citizenship in the United States" }, { "docid": "9787622", "text": "Cowan of Pennsylvania, disagreed, arguing that this was only true for the children of European immigrants. Senator John Conness of California expressed support for the Amendment for giving a constitutional basis for birthright citizenship to all children born in the United States to any parentage (including Chinese noncitizen residents who do not intend to reside permanently in the United States), even though he (and others) thought it had already been guaranteed by the Act, whereas Cowan opposed the Amendment (and Act), arguing that it would have the undesirable outcome of extending citizenship to the children of Chinese and Romani immigrants.", "title": "Citizenship Clause" }, { "docid": "13530811", "text": "derive the denomination of the name Shannon, known by the Irish as Sionnain, from the phrase \"sean-amhan\" or \"old river.\" An alternate spelling for Shana is Shanna. Beyond its Irish roots, Shana is also often used as a nickname for Shoshana, an ancient form of Susannah, and means \"lily\" or \"rose\" in Hebrew. The name Shaina, sometimes spelled Shayna or Shana, is of Yiddish origin, and implies \"beautiful.\" The name is not favoured in Brazil, as it is homophonic with a slang term for the female genitalia. Notable people with the name include: Shana (given name) Shana is a feminine", "title": "Shana (given name)" }, { "docid": "14830638", "text": "that the African-born population has grown from 596 in 1960 to 4,149 in 1970, to 10,025 in 1980, 27,343 in 1990, 55,138 in 2000 and 103,077 in 2009. Swedish national statistics collect data on country of birth, citizenship and parents' citizenship, but not on ethnicity or parents' country of birth. According to Statistics Sweden, as of 2016, there are 110,758 citizens of African nations residing in Sweden. Of these immigrants, the largest groups were born in Somalia (63,853), Eritrea (35,142), Ethiopia (17,944), Morocco (9,945), Egypt (6,807), Gambia (5,055), and Nigeria (5,027). Of these individuals, the largest groups were those holding", "title": "African immigrants to Sweden" }, { "docid": "16358439", "text": "territory to noncitizen parents may acquire citizenship if the parents are stateless, if the parents are unknown and there is no proof of foreign citizenship, or if the child does not choose to adopt the parents' nationality. When one parent is a citizen and the other is not, the child is considered a Slovak citizen even if the citizen parent is later determined not to be the child's actual parent. Citizenship is given to a child upon adoption if at least one parent is a citizen. There are several eligibility requirements for a person to be granted citizenship. For example:", "title": "Citizenship Act (Slovakia)" }, { "docid": "8985090", "text": "a specified age. Otherwise the child would not retain the U.S. citizenship (hence the name \"retention requirement\"). The retention requirement was changed several times, eliminated in 1978, and subsequently eliminated with retroactive effect in 1994. The following conditions affect children born outside the U.S. and its outlying possessions to married parents (special conditions affect children born out of wedlock: see below): There is an asymmetry in the way citizenship status of children born overseas to unmarried parents, only one of whom is a U.S. citizen, is handled. Title paragraph (c) provides that children born abroad after December 24, 1952 to", "title": "Birthright citizenship in the United States" }, { "docid": "14011594", "text": "United States. The U.S. passport issued to noncitizen nationals of the United States contains the endorsement code 9 which states: \"The bearer is a United States national and not a United States citizen\" on the annotations page. The issue of citizenship naturalization is a highly contentious matter in US politics, particularly regarding illegal immigrants. Candidates in the 2008 presidential election, such as Rudolph Giuliani, tried to \"carve out a middle ground\" on the issue of illegal immigration, but rivals such as John McCain advocated legislation requiring illegal immigrants to first leave the country before being eligible to apply as citizens.", "title": "Citizenship of the United States" }, { "docid": "15361121", "text": "a government's interests, and this may lead to difficulties in acquiring government employment where security clearance may be required. In the United States, dual citizenship is associated with two categories of security concerns: foreign influence and foreign preference. Contrary to common misconceptions, dual citizenship in itself is not the major problem in obtaining or retaining security clearance in the United States. As a matter of fact, if a security clearance applicant's dual citizenship is \"based solely on parents' citizenship or birth in a foreign country\", that can be a mitigating condition. However, taking advantage of the entitlements of a non-US", "title": "Multiple citizenship" }, { "docid": "5763959", "text": "Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship The Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship is an honorary medal produced by the Canadian province of Ontario. It was established by the Government of Ontario in 1973 to recognize people who, through exceptional long-term efforts, have made outstanding contributions to the well being of their communities and whose assistance is given without expectation of remuneration or reward. Typically, eleven to thirteen medals are awarded each year. Medal recipients are selected by an independent Advisory Council which has the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario as its honorary chair. Nominations for the medal may be made by any", "title": "Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship" }, { "docid": "14011585", "text": "meaningful for many immigrants. Many new citizens are sworn in during Independence Day ceremonies. Most citizenship ceremonies take place at offices of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. However, one swearing-in ceremony was held at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia in 2008. The judge who chose this venue explained: \"I did it to honor our country's warriors and to give the new citizens a sense for what makes this country great.\" According to federal law, citizenship applicants who are also changing their names must appear before a federal judge. The title of \"Honorary Citizen of the United States\" has been", "title": "Citizenship of the United States" }, { "docid": "4137110", "text": "Citizenship in a Republic Citizenship in a Republic is the title of a speech given by the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, at the Sorbonne in Paris, France on April 23, 1910. One notable passage on page seven of the 35-page speech is referred to as \"The Man in the Arena\": It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by", "title": "Citizenship in a Republic" }, { "docid": "17085633", "text": "Citizenship education (immigrants) Citizenship education for new citizens is education intended to prepare noncitizens to become legally and socially accepted as citizens, and is carried out by a variety of governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGO). An integration programme is organised in the Flemish Region of Belgium. The programma is obliged in many cases and consists of an \"integration course\" (citizenship education) a basic level Dutch course, and career orientation. It is also possible to enroll in the programme in Brussels, without any obligation. In order to obtain German citizenship it is compulsory for a citizen to pass an \"Integrationkurs\" -", "title": "Citizenship education (immigrants)" }, { "docid": "16276754", "text": "is relatively more concerned that government will interfere with popular places to practice citizenship in the public sphere, rather than take away or lessen particular citizenship rights. This sense of citizenship has been described as \"active and public citizenship\", and has sometimes been called a \"revolutionary idea\". According to one view, most people today live as citizens according to the liberal-individualist conception but wished they lived more according to the civic-republican ideal. The subject of citizenship, including political discussions about what exactly the term describes, can be a battleground for ideological debates. In Canada, \"citizenship\" and related issues such as", "title": "History of citizenship" }, { "docid": "5903313", "text": "Jack (given name) Jack is a male given name. In recent decades, Jack has become one of the most common names for boys in many English-speaking countries. While Jack is now a proper name in its own right, in English; it was traditionally used as a diminutive form of John. It can also be used as a diminutive for: Jacob, Jason, Jonathan, Johann, Johannes, Joachim and sometimes for James, from its French form Jacques. It is also used as a female given name (often a shortened version of Jacqueline or Jackie) and as a surname to a lesser extent. The", "title": "Jack (given name)" }, { "docid": "14131865", "text": "Uma (given name) Uma is a given name in various cultures. In India, it is the name of the Hindu goddess, who is more commonly known as Parvati. In Sanskrit the word \"\" can further mean \"tranquillity\", \"splendour\", \"fame\" and \"night\". In Hebrew and Aramaic its meaning is \"nation\". It is also used by the Tiv people of Cameroon and Nigeria where the meaning in the Tiv language is \"life\". The name Uma is also popular in the Otukpo subgroup of the Idoma people of Nigeria and the meaning in the Idoma language is \"to shine\". Uma in Balinese means", "title": "Uma (given name)" }, { "docid": "8133188", "text": "Sarah (given name) Sarah is a Hebrew feminine given name found in many different areas of the world. Sarah is a consistently popular given name across Europe and North America, as well as in the Middle East—being commonly used as a female first name by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, and remaining popular also among non-religious members of cultures influenced by these religions. Frequently, the name refers to Sarah, the wife of Abraham in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Old Testament, and the Islamic Quran. In Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian, it means \"woman of high rank\", often simply translated as", "title": "Sarah (given name)" }, { "docid": "10675287", "text": "the nicknames or shortened forms \"Cris\", \"Crissy\", \"Tina\", or \"Xian\". Christian (given name) Christian originated as a Baptismal name used by persons of the Christian religion. It is now a given name born by males, and by females as Christiana and other feminized variants. An historically commonly used abbreviation, used for example on English 17th century church monuments and pedigrees, is \"Xpian\", using the Greek Chi Rho Christogram \"Χρ\", short for \"Χριστός\", Christ. The Greek form of the baptismal name is \"Χριστιανός\", a Christian. The name denotes a follower of Christ, thus a Christian. It has been used as a", "title": "Christian (given name)" }, { "docid": "8985110", "text": "\"jurisdiction,\" and concluded: Since the majority of Canadians live in the relatively thin strip of land close to the long border with the United States, Canadians in need of urgent medical care are occasionally transferred to nearby American medical centers. In some circumstances, Canadian mothers facing high-risk births have given birth in American hospitals. Such children are American citizens by birthright. In these circumstances, Canadian laws are similar to those of the United States. Babies born in Canada of American parents are also Canadian citizens by birthright. In both of these situations, the birthright citizenship is passed on to their", "title": "Birthright citizenship in the United States" }, { "docid": "5138758", "text": "The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table is a small Surrealist oil painting by Salvador Dalí. Its full title is The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (Phenomenologic Theory of Furniture-Nutrition). It makes reference to \"The Art of Painting\" by Johannes Vermeer, a famous seventeenth-century work in which a painter, thought to be a self-portrait of Vermeer, is depicted with his back to us, in distinctive costume. It is one of a number of paintings", "title": "The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table" }, { "docid": "19788465", "text": "Najranites used the term Ḥanīf to designate the Yemenis, it would have been easier for the Meccans to adopt it in the sense of monotheism. Notable people with the given name Hanif include: Hanif (given name) Hanif (Arabic: حنيف) is an Arabic masculine given name, which means a righteous person or a true believer. The origin of the word is uncertain, although it is generally agreed that it is derived from the Syriac word \"hanpe\", which means 'heathen'. It is generally agreed that the word Ḥanīf (plural: ḥunafā') is derived from the Syriac word \"hanpe\", which means 'heathen'. However, there", "title": "Hanif (given name)" }, { "docid": "17085636", "text": "and sit a 45-minute test on British society, history and culture. Citizenship education (immigrants) Citizenship education for new citizens is education intended to prepare noncitizens to become legally and socially accepted as citizens, and is carried out by a variety of governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGO). An integration programme is organised in the Flemish Region of Belgium. The programma is obliged in many cases and consists of an \"integration course\" (citizenship education) a basic level Dutch course, and career orientation. It is also possible to enroll in the programme in Brussels, without any obligation. In order to obtain German citizenship", "title": "Citizenship education (immigrants)" }, { "docid": "20215183", "text": "Rayan (Persian given name) Rayan ( ), also spelled Ryan, is an Iranian given name of Persian origin. It is primarily a male given name that means \"smart\", \"wise\" or \"thinker\". Because of its similarity to the English given name Ryan, Rayan is popular in the Iranian diaspora, especially among Iranian Americans. As of 2016, the name Rayan ranks 3,315th among the most used names. In Persian, the term \"rāyān\" () means \"wise\". It derives from the root \"rāy\" (), meaning \"wisdom\", which comes from Middle Persian \"raynitan\" and occurs in Avestan as \"raonat\". The word \"rāyāne\" (), receiving the", "title": "Rayan (Persian given name)" }, { "docid": "14378294", "text": "Latin origin, appears in various European languages, and has different meanings in each. These varieties do not generally stray from the notion of the wise, nurturing mother, however. In the Hebrew Bible, Almah means maiden - a young girl or a young woman. In the Septuagint, the word is often rendered as parthenos ('virgin'), most famously in Isaiah 7:14, which is quoted in Matthew 1:23 as a prophecy about Jesus being born of the Virgin Mary. Alma (given name) Alma ( ) is an English feminine given name, but has historically been used in the masculine form as well, sometimes", "title": "Alma (given name)" }, { "docid": "19855315", "text": "Greca (given name) Greca is a female given name in Italian, also known in its feminine variant of \"Grecia\" and its male variant of \"Greco\". All three words derive from the Latin 'Graeca' or 'Graecus', which operated as an ethonym for someone born in Greece. During the medieval era this was expanded to citizens of the Byzantine Empire. Semantically it is similar to the given name Elladio. In the modern era it is most commonly used in Sardinia and more specifically in the Sardinian province of Cagliari due to its cult of saint Greca. It is also used in Tuscany", "title": "Greca (given name)" }, { "docid": "19855316", "text": "and Emilia-Romagna. Greca (given name) Greca is a female given name in Italian, also known in its feminine variant of \"Grecia\" and its male variant of \"Greco\". All three words derive from the Latin 'Graeca' or 'Graecus', which operated as an ethonym for someone born in Greece. During the medieval era this was expanded to citizens of the Byzantine Empire. Semantically it is similar to the given name Elladio. In the modern era it is most commonly used in Sardinia and more specifically in the Sardinian province of Cagliari due to its cult of saint Greca. It is also used", "title": "Greca (given name)" }, { "docid": "84858", "text": "sense of having rights and duties. The modern idea of citizenship still respects the idea of political participation, but it is usually done through \"elaborate systems of political representation at a distance\" such as representative democracy. Modern citizenship is much more passive; action is delegated to others; citizenship is often a constraint on acting, not an impetus to act. Nevertheless, citizens are usually aware of their obligations to authorities, and are aware that these bonds often limit what they can do. From 1790 until the mid-twentieth century, United States law used racial criteria to establish citizenship rights and regulate who", "title": "Citizenship" }, { "docid": "15443230", "text": "Texas State Comptroller reported in 2006 that the 1.4 million illegal immigrants in Texas added almost $18 billion to the gross state product, and contributed $1.6 billion in state revenue, while costing the state about $1.2 billion in services used. The Social Security and Medicare contributions of illegal immigrants directly support older Americans, as illegal immigrants are not eligible to receive these services, although their children born in the United States are eligible for such benefits. Illegal immigrants pay social security payroll taxes but are not eligible for benefits. During 2006, Standard & Poor's analysts wrote: \"Each year, for example,", "title": "Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States" }, { "docid": "3559387", "text": "child in order to gain citizenship for the parents is \"an extremely long-term, and uncertain, process.\" Approximately 88,000 legal-resident parents of US citizen children were deported in the 2000s, most for minor criminal convictions. Some critics of illegal immigration claim the United States' \"birthright citizenship\" is an incentive for illegal immigration, and that immigrants come to the country to give birth specifically so that their child will be an American citizen. The majority of children of illegal immigrants in the United States are citizens, and the number has risen. According to a Pew Hispanic Center report, an estimated 73% of", "title": "Anchor baby" }, { "docid": "18961887", "text": "have lost his/her German citizenship according to Sec. 25 of the German Citizenship Act: they relinquished their citizenship and claimed a different one. However, given the adoption of Basic Law in 1949, if they emigrated because of Nazi policies and acquired a new citizenship (for example, in the US) individuals may be eligible nevertheless to re-obtain former German citizenship. This also applies to the descendants of deceased refugees. The avenue to reclaim citizenship has been available since 1949. Under Article 116 (paragraph 2) of Germany's Basic Law, any citizen during the Nazi regime, or their descendants, who lost their citizenship", "title": "German Citizenship Project" }, { "docid": "19860683", "text": "is the author's first book. The idea of the book came to him on a different project, “I was thinking about mammals and reptiles and eggs, when I got to frogs. I started to wonder how a frog who used to be a tadpole would describe that experience, and a title for a different story just popped into my head.” I Used to Be a Fish I Used to be a Fish is a book written by Tom Sullivan for ages 4–8. A boy imagines his pet fish tells him the story of evolution. The 48-page book is drawn in", "title": "I Used to Be a Fish" }, { "docid": "7755066", "text": "those who have lived and worked in the U.S. for at least two years. The Manhattan Institute reported that 78% of likely Republican voters favor a proposal combining increased border security, tougher penalties for employers who hire illegal workers, and allowing illegal immigrants to register for a temporary worker program that includes a path to citizenship. Respondents favored the program over a deportation and enforcement-only plan 58% to 33%. Following the passage of Arizona's Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act in April 2010, which authorizes police officials to question persons on their immigration status if there is reasonable", "title": "Illegal immigration to the United States" }, { "docid": "14806337", "text": "Good citizenship 'Good citizenship' is when one properly fulfills their role as a citizen. There are many opinions as to what constitutes a good citizen. Theodore Roosevelt said, \"The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.\" Education is sometimes viewed as a prerequisite to good citizenship, in that it helps citizens make good decisions and deal with demagogues who would delude them. Roger Soder writes that in a democracy, where the demands of good citizenship are placed upon all, \"only the common schools can", "title": "Good citizenship" }, { "docid": "12072177", "text": "for boys and girls in the United States with multiple spelling variants, is also sometimes seen as a variant of Jade. Jade has become increasingly popular in France since 1990. It was the 7th most given name for girls there in 2005. Jade (given name) Jade is a given name derived from the ornamental stone jade, which is used in artwork and in jewellery making. The name is derived from the Spanish \"piedra de la ijada\", which means \"stone of the colic.\" There was a belief that when jade was placed on the stomach, it could cure colic in babies.", "title": "Jade (given name)" }, { "docid": "12080278", "text": "popularity between 1960 and 1980, but has been climbing in popularity since the 1980s. It was the 294th most common name for all females during the 1990 United States census. Daisy was the 17th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2010 and the 44th most popular name for girls born in Scotland in 2010. It was among the top five names given to girls born in Guernsey in 2010. Daisy (given name) Daisy is a feminine given name, commonly thought to be derived from the name of the flower. The flower name comes from the", "title": "Daisy (given name)" }, { "docid": "11246385", "text": "means \"royal fortress\"; the second element is \"lēah\", which means \"woodland\" or \"clearing\". The place name roughly means: the \"woodland clearing of the royal fortress.\" This place name was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as \"Chineburlai\". Kimberly is a given name with many variants. \"Kimberley\" is used for males and females, while \"Kimberlee\", \"Kimberleigh\", and \"Kimberli\" are common feminine variant forms. The common Korean surname Kim is not related to Kimberley. Kimberly (given name) Kimberly is a male and female given name of Old English origin. John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, a place in Norfolk, England, popularised", "title": "Kimberly (given name)" }, { "docid": "1845864", "text": "Given name A given name (also known as a first name, forename or Christian name) is a part of a person's personal name. It identifies a specific person, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term \"given name\" refers to the fact that the name usually is bestowed upon a person, normally to a child by his or her parents at or close to the time of birth. A Christian name, a first name which historically was given at baptism, is now also typically given", "title": "Given name" }, { "docid": "10411827", "text": "The name remains popular in some other countries, e.g. Latvia where its name day is 30 May. The name is sometimes used as a term to indicate a sexually precocious girl, due to its association with the title character of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel \"Lolita\" and its film adaptations in 1962 and 1997. A UK retail chain was criticised in January 2008 for branding as \"Lolita\" a bed aimed at young girls. Lolita (given name) Lolita (, , or ) is a female given name of Spanish origin. It is the diminutive form of Lola, a hypocorism of Dolores, which", "title": "Lolita (given name)" }, { "docid": "5763961", "text": "use the postnominal letters O.M.C. Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship The Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship is an honorary medal produced by the Canadian province of Ontario. It was established by the Government of Ontario in 1973 to recognize people who, through exceptional long-term efforts, have made outstanding contributions to the well being of their communities and whose assistance is given without expectation of remuneration or reward. Typically, eleven to thirteen medals are awarded each year. Medal recipients are selected by an independent Advisory Council which has the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario as its honorary chair. Nominations for the medal", "title": "Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship" }, { "docid": "16276671", "text": "privileges. While a general definition of citizenship is membership in a political society or group, citizenship as a concept is difficult to define. Thinkers as far back as Aristotle realized that there was no agreed-upon definition of citizenship. And modern thinkers, as well, agree that the history of citizenship is complex with no single definition predominating. It is hard to isolate what citizenship means without reference to other terms such as nationalism, civil society, and democracy. According to one view, citizenship as a subject of study is undergoing transformation, with increased interest while the meaning of the term continues to", "title": "History of citizenship" }, { "docid": "12495710", "text": "Used to Be \"Used to Be\" is a song by American dream pop band Beach House from their third studio album, \"Teen Dream\". It was written by lead vocalist and keyboardist Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scally and produced by them along with Chris Coady. The song was released on October 21, 2008 as the album's lead single and features a B-side of a different version of \"Apple Orchard\", a song which featured on their self-titled debut album. The single version released in 2008 is included on the band's \"B-Sides and Rarities\" compilation album, released on June 30, 2017. \"Used", "title": "Used to Be" }, { "docid": "3148631", "text": "in Los Angeles, Korean children who were put up for adoption for the purpose of receiving US education and US citizenship frequently felt betrayed by their biological parents. The article said that getting US citizenship this way required the adopted child to be adopted before their sixteenth birthday and stay with their adoptive family for at least two years. In a 1999 study of 167 adult Korean adoptees by The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, the majority of the adult Korean adoptees struggled with the thought of how their birth mother could have given them up for adoption. A 2012", "title": "International adoption of South Korean children" }, { "docid": "12049849", "text": "female name since it is the name of a country and it had been used as a feminine given name for more than hundred years in England and the U.S. Although India is a feminine given name in the world, it is not a popular given name in India. Girls who are given this name are usually called with a nickname \"Indy\", or \"Indie\" which are also given names for girls in English speaking countries. It was the 217th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2007. It has been in use in the United States", "title": "India (given name)" }, { "docid": "1145948", "text": "language is most often referred to as Castilian, particularly in the regional languages themselves (for example, \"espanyol\" is virtually never used to refer to the language in Catalan: \"castellà\" is used instead; in Basque, the name of the language is \"gaztelania\" or \"gaztelera\", never \"espainiera\"; and in Galician, the most commonly used term is \"castelán\" rather than \"español\"). That is often mirrored by educated English-speakers to refer to the linguistic situation in Spain. For some, this use of the term \"castellano\" is a political or cultural statement that Spanish is only the language of Castile, perhaps also of some areas", "title": "Names given to the Spanish language" }, { "docid": "13892420", "text": "Mina (given name) Mina is a given name with a variety of origins, used as a feminine name in some cultures and a masculine name in others. Mina (; ), also transcribed Mena or Meena, is a male given name for Egyptian Christians. Meena (Arabic: mīnā' مِينَاء) is the irregular feminine noun for port. See Mina (disambiguation) Meena or Mina is an Indian tribe. Meena, or Mina, is a name given to females in India. It is commonly used by Christians, Hindus and Parsees. The name is a shortened form of Meenakshi (beautiful fish-shaped eyes; Meen = fish; akshi =", "title": "Mina (given name)" }, { "docid": "2306091", "text": "Marilyn is not used as a male name. A variation of Marylin is Merrelyn, sometimes spelled as \"Merrilyn\". Notable people with the name include: Marilyn (given name) Marilyn is a feminine given name. Marilyn is a blend of the English given names Mary and Lynn. It began to be used in the 1920s, and it reached its peak of popularity in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Variants of the name includes: Maralyn, Marilynn, Marlyn, Marylyn, Marrilyn, Merilyn, Merrelyn and Merrilyn. The American musician and artist Brian Hugh Warner goes by the stage name Marilyn Manson. His stage name was formed", "title": "Marilyn (given name)" }, { "docid": "8985107", "text": "State in 1776. The Supreme Court resolved complicated questions of how citizenship had been derived during the Revolutionary War. The court found that the jus soli is so consistent in American Law as to automatically grant American citizenship to children born in New York City between the Declaration of Independence and the Landing at Kip's Bay in 1776, but not to children born in New York during the British occupation that followed. Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children even of aliens born in a country while the parents are resident there under", "title": "Birthright citizenship in the United States" } ]
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The International Court of Justice, otherwise known as the World Court, is located in what country?
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[ { "docid": "196236", "text": "International Court of Justice The International Court of Justice (abbreviated ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It settles legal disputes between member states and gives advisory opinions to authorized UN organs and specialized agencies. It comprises a panel of 15 judges elected by the General Assembly and Security Council for nine-year terms. It is seated in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. Established in 1945 by the UN Charter, the court began work in 1946 as the successor to the Permanent Court of International Justice. The Statute of the International Court of Justice, similar", "title": "International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "196269", "text": "or their rulings. Major criticisms include the following: International Court of Justice The International Court of Justice (abbreviated ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It settles legal disputes between member states and gives advisory opinions to authorized UN organs and specialized agencies. It comprises a panel of 15 judges elected by the General Assembly and Security Council for nine-year terms. It is seated in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. Established in 1945 by the UN Charter, the court began work in 1946 as the successor to the Permanent Court of International Justice. The", "title": "International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "2536620", "text": "International court International courts are formed by treaties between nations or under the authority of an international organization such as the United Nations and include \"ad hoc\" tribunals and permanent institutions but exclude any courts arising purely under national authority. Early examples of international courts include the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals established in the aftermath of World War II. Three such courts are presently located at The Hague in the Netherlands: the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the International Criminal Court (ICC). Further international courts exist elsewhere, usually with their", "title": "International court" }, { "docid": "2536622", "text": "courts may be afforded diplomatic immunity if their governing authority allows. International court International courts are formed by treaties between nations or under the authority of an international organization such as the United Nations and include \"ad hoc\" tribunals and permanent institutions but exclude any courts arising purely under national authority. Early examples of international courts include the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals established in the aftermath of World War II. Three such courts are presently located at The Hague in the Netherlands: the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the International", "title": "International court" }, { "docid": "336382", "text": "Netherlands, the Court was unable to meet although the Registrar and President were afforded full diplomatic immunity. Informed that the situation would not be tolerated after diplomatic missions from other nations left The Hague on 16 July, the President and Registrar left the Netherlands and moved to Switzerland, accompanied by their staff. The Court was unable to meet between 1941 and 1944, but the framework remained intact, and it soon became apparent that the Court would be dissolved. In 1943, an international panel met to consider \"the question of the Permanent Court of International Justice\", meeting from 20 March to", "title": "Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "14743835", "text": "19 June 1998 nine questions to the Benelux Court of Justice, and in order to answer three of those, it made a request to the European Court of Justice. The 3 questions were answered by European Court of Justice on 12 February 2004, and the Benelux Court of Justice answered the 9 questions on 1 December 2004. The Supreme Court of the Netherlands in turn gave its ruling, based on those answers on 27 January 2006. The court upheld the rejection of the registration of the trade mark. Benelux Court of Justice The Benelux Court of Justice (, ) is", "title": "Benelux Court of Justice" } ]
[ { "docid": "196263", "text": "to make an equitable decision based on what is fair under the circumstances. That provision has not been used in the court's history. So far, the International Court of Justice has dealt with about 130 cases. The ICJ is vested with the power to make its own rules. Court procedure is set out in the \"Rules of Court of the International Court of Justice 1978\" (as amended on 29 September 2005). Cases before the ICJ will follow a standard pattern. The case is lodged by the applicant, which files a written memorial setting out the basis of the court's jurisdiction", "title": "International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "196254", "text": "from the fact that it is the official pronouncement of the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. Advisory opinions have often been controversial because the questions asked are controversial or the case was pursued as an indirect way of bringing what is really a contentious case before the court. Examples of advisory opinions can be found in the section advisory opinions in the List of International Court of Justice cases article. One such well-known advisory opinion is the \"Nuclear Weapons Case\". Article 94 establishes the duty of all UN members to comply with decisions of the court involving them.", "title": "International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "14682757", "text": "Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice The Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice was an international treaty concluded in Geneva on 13 December 1920 by representatives of 46 states, most of which came from the Allied Powers of the First World War. It was registered in \"League of Nations Treaty Series\" on October 8, 1921. It brought the Permanent Court of International Justice into existence. The statute consisted of 64 articles. Article 1 stated that the Court is established in conformity with article 14 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, and its function shall", "title": "Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "11001498", "text": "Statute of the International Court of Justice The Statute of the International Court of Justice is an integral part of the United Nations Charter, as specified by Chapter XIV of the United Nations Charter, which established the International Court of Justice. The Statute is divided into 5 chapters and consists of 70 articles. The Statute begins with Article 1 proclaiming: The 69 Articles are grouped in 5 Chapters: Under Article 38.2, the court is allowed to decide a case ex aequo et bono if the parties agree thereto. All UN member states are parties to the Statute by virtue of", "title": "Statute of the International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "18394805", "text": "2014 International Court of Justice judges election The 2014 International Court of Justice election began on 6 November 2011 at United Nations Headquarters in New York City.<ref name=\"GA/11579\"></ref><ref name=\"SC/11633\"></ref> In the set of triennial elections, the General Assembly and the Security Council concurrently elect five judges to the Court for nine-year terms, in this case beginning on 6 February 2015. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in The Hague, is one of the principal organs of the United Nations. Also known as the World Court, it adjudicates legal disputes between states, and provides advisory opinions on legal questions submitted", "title": "2014 International Court of Justice judges election" }, { "docid": "9891401", "text": "from the Western Europe and Others group. All Judges ad hoc: http://www.icj-cij.org/court/index.php?p1=1&p2=5&p3=2&lang=en Judges of the International Court of Justice The first and second lists are of all the permanent judges of the International Court of Justice, the main judicial organ of the United Nations, first chronologically and then by seat. The third list is a list of judges appointed \"ad hoc\" by a party to a proceeding before the Court pursuant to Article 31 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice. The Court comprises 15 seats. When the original fifteen judges were elected in 1946, they drew lots", "title": "Judges of the International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "9891398", "text": "Judges of the International Court of Justice The first and second lists are of all the permanent judges of the International Court of Justice, the main judicial organ of the United Nations, first chronologically and then by seat. The third list is a list of judges appointed \"ad hoc\" by a party to a proceeding before the Court pursuant to Article 31 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice. The Court comprises 15 seats. When the original fifteen judges were elected in 1946, they drew lots to determine which five would have 3-year initial terms, which five would", "title": "Judges of the International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "336364", "text": "Permanent Court of International Justice The Permanent Court of International Justice, often called the World Court, existed from 1922 to 1946. It was an international court attached to the League of Nations. Created in 1920 (although the idea of an international court was several centuries old), the Court was initially well-received from states and academics alike, with many cases submitted to it for its first decade of operation. With the heightened international tension of the 1930s, the Court became less used. By a resolution from the League of Nations on 18 April 1946, the Court and the League both ceased", "title": "Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "6699729", "text": "be used as evidence of the Court's failure to take on politically controversial cases; as the Court has no means to enforce its rulings, its survival is dependent on its political legitimacy. That would be endangered if it constantly came with rulings which states have no interest of taking into consideration. This is one of the Court's major shortcomings: its rulings must be considered in a political context. Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice The International Court of Justice has jurisdiction in two types of cases: contentious cases between states in which the court produces binding rulings between states", "title": "Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "6699715", "text": "Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice The International Court of Justice has jurisdiction in two types of cases: contentious cases between states in which the court produces binding rulings between states that agree, or have previously agreed, to submit to the ruling of the court; and advisory opinions, which provide reasoned, but non-binding, rulings on properly submitted questions of international law, usually at the request of the United Nations General Assembly. Advisory opinions do not have to concern particular controversies between states, though they often do. The key principle is that the Court only has jurisdiction on the basis", "title": "Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "6699721", "text": "ICJ jurisdiction, directly. However, Brazil has accepted the compulsory jurisdiction by becoming a Party to the Pact of Bogota. It was, moreover, to a Brazilian delegate, Raul Fernandes, that the concept of the optional compulsory jurisdiction mechanism was owed. First adopted in 1922 for the Permanent Court of International Justice (the predecessor of the International Court of Justice under the League of Nations), this system was readopted in 1945 for the International Court of Justice. \"The 'Fernandes clause' has thus had the merit, not only of having represented a historic step forward for international law, but also of constituting today,", "title": "Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "336365", "text": "to exist and were replaced by the International Court of Justice and the United Nations. The Court's mandatory jurisdiction came from three sources: the Optional Clause of the League of Nations, general international conventions and special bipartite international treaties. Cases could also be submitted directly by states, but they were not bound to submit material unless it fell into those three categories. The Court could issue either judgments or advisory opinions. Judgments were directly binding while advisory opinions were not. In practice, member states of the League of Nations followed advisory opinions anyway, as they feared that otherwise, they could", "title": "Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "18519318", "text": "support confirmation of receipt by the Tribunal.\" \"In this case, the claimant shall within three days to submit by the original mailing application and its attachments. Otherwise, the application shall be deemed not filed. In the event that the application does not appear personally before the court, and when the applicant is a natural or legal person, the signatures of the party or its legal representative and attorney, shall be duly acknowledged before a notary or judge the member country concerned.\" Court of Justice of the Andean Community The Court of Justice of the Andean Community was founded in 1979", "title": "Court of Justice of the Andean Community" }, { "docid": "14227933", "text": "hearings, with no allowance provided if the court sat for longer. The deputy judges received no salary, but when called up for service were provided with travel expenses, 50 florins a day for living expenses and 150 florins a day as a duty allowance. General References Specific References Judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice The Permanent Court of International Justice was an international court attached to the League of Nations. The Court initially consisted of 11 judges and 4 deputy judges, recommended by member states of the League of Nations to the Secretary General of the League of", "title": "Judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "5377413", "text": "but its sovereignty has not been recognized by the UN or any country in the world. At the same time, 82 governments have recognized the Sahrawi Republic as the legitimate government of Western Sahara . International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara One of the main functions of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is to provide Advisory Opinions - non-binding legal interpretations admitted by United Nations organs. In the summer of 1975, the court considered two questions regarding the disputed territory of Western Sahara (then Spanish Sahara). In 1969, Spain returned the region of Ifni to Morocco.", "title": "International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara" }, { "docid": "14227929", "text": "Judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice The Permanent Court of International Justice was an international court attached to the League of Nations. The Court initially consisted of 11 judges and 4 deputy judges, recommended by member states of the League of Nations to the Secretary General of the League of Nations, who would put them before the Council and Assembly for election. The Council and Assembly were to bear in mind that the elected panel of judges was to represent every major legal tradition in the League, along with \"every major civilization\". Each member state was allowed to", "title": "Judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "14682758", "text": "not contradict the operation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration or any other special arbitration tribunals. Article 2 stipulated that the Court shall consist of independent judges, elected regardless of nationality. Article 3 fixed the number of judges at 11, plus 4 deputy-judges. Article 4 provided for election of judges by the League Assembly and Council from lists of candidates delivered by the candidates' national governments. Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice The Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice was an international treaty concluded in Geneva on 13 December 1920 by representatives of 46 states, most", "title": "Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "336366", "text": "undermine the moral and legal authority of the Court and League. On occasion, the Court was accused of extending its jurisdiction. Strictly speaking, it was allowed to intervene only in matters of international law, but became involved in municipal law during the Loans Cases. An international court had long been proposed; Pierre Dubois suggested it in 1305 and Émeric Crucé in 1623. An idea of an international court of justice arose in the political world at the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899, where it was declared that arbitration between states was the easiest solution to disputes, providing a temporary", "title": "Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "336383", "text": "10 February 1944. The panel agreed that the name and functioning of the Court should be preserved but for some future court rather than a continuation of the current one. Between 21 August and 7 October 1944, the Dumbarton Oaks Conference was held, which, among other things, created an international court attached to the United Nations, to succeed the Permanent Court of International Justice. As a result of these conferences and others, the judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice officially resigned in October 1945 and, via a resolution by the League of Nations on 18 April 1946, the", "title": "Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "7478803", "text": "vocal advocate of the establishment of an international rule of law and of an International Criminal Court. In his first book, published in 1975 and entitled \"Defining International Aggression-The Search for World Peace\", he argued for the establishment of an international court. United States and the International Criminal Court The United States is not a State Party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute), which founded the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002 as a permanent international criminal court to \"bring to justice the perpetrators of the worst crimes known to humankind – war crimes, crimes", "title": "United States and the International Criminal Court" }, { "docid": "14051981", "text": "1958 the Court of Justice of the European Communities (CJEC)). The General Court was created in 1988 (known as the \"Court of First Instance\") and the Civil Service Tribunal was created in 2004. With the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009, the court system obtained its current name (Court of Justice of the European Union), while the original court itself (the former CJEC) was renamed \"Court of Justice\". The working language of the Court of Justice of the European Union is French. Court of Justice of the European Union The Court of Justice of the European", "title": "Court of Justice of the European Union" }, { "docid": "6486348", "text": "Supreme Court of Georgia (country) The Supreme Court of Georgia represents the court of the highest and final administration of justice in the country. It was established in 2005 as the cassation instance court. It is located in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. The Supreme Court oversees the administration of justice at common courts. Its activities are to be guided by the principles of legality, collective nature, publicity, equality of parties and competitiveness, as well as the irremovability, immunity and independence of judges. The Supreme Court of Georgia considers claims on judgments made by the Courts of Appeal. It supports", "title": "Supreme Court of Georgia (country)" }, { "docid": "6486357", "text": "public. The Supreme Court organizes workshops for journalists regarding the New Criminal Procedure Code of Georgia and prepares the \"Court Guidebook\" to inform journalists on procedural matters. Supreme Court of Georgia (country) The Supreme Court of Georgia represents the court of the highest and final administration of justice in the country. It was established in 2005 as the cassation instance court. It is located in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. The Supreme Court oversees the administration of justice at common courts. Its activities are to be guided by the principles of legality, collective nature, publicity, equality of parties and competitiveness,", "title": "Supreme Court of Georgia (country)" }, { "docid": "886807", "text": "the General Court may be heard by the Court of Justice \"only if\" the appeal is on a point of law. If the appeal is admissible and well founded, the Court of Justice sets aside the judgment of the General Court. Where the state of the proceedings so permits, the Court may itself decide the case. Otherwise, the Court must refer the case back to the General Court, which is bound by the decision given on appeal. References for a preliminary ruling are specific to Union law. Whilst the Court of Justice is, by its very nature, the supreme guardian", "title": "European Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "6699724", "text": "the Statute of the Court. Examples of advisory opinions can be found in the section advisory opinions in the List of International Court of Justice cases article. The relationship between the ICJ and the Security Council, and the separation of their powers, was considered by the Court in 1992, in the \"Pan Am\" case. The Court had to consider an application from Libya for the order of provisional measures to protect its rights, which, it alleged, were being infringed by the threat of economic sanctions by the UK and United States. The problem was that these sanctions had been authorised", "title": "Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "336368", "text": "the Covenant of the League of Nations, created after the Treaty of Versailles, allowed the League to investigate setting up an international court. In June 1920, an Advisory Committee of jurists appointed by the League of Nations finally established a working guideline for the appointment of judges, and the Committee was then authorised to draft a constitution for a permanent court not of arbitration but of justice. The Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice was accepted in Geneva on December 13, 1920. The Court first sat on 30 January 1922, at the Peace Palace, The Hague, covering preliminary", "title": "Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "6699727", "text": "security council deems such actions necessary. In practice, the Court's powers have been limited by the unwillingness of the losing party to abide by the Court's ruling, and by the Security Council's unwillingness to enforce consequences. However, in theory, \"so far as the parties to the case are concerned, a judgment of the Court is binding, final and without appeal,\" and \"by signing the Charter, a State Member of the United Nations undertakes to comply with any decision of the International Court of Justice in a case to which it is a party\". For example, in Nicaragua v. United States", "title": "Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "9261910", "text": "Coalition for the International Criminal Court The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) with a membership of over 2,500 organizations worldwide advocating for a fair, effective and independent International Criminal Court (ICC). Coalition NGO members work in partnership to strengthen international cooperation with the ICC; ensure that the court is fair, effective and independent; make justice both visible and universal, and advance stronger national laws that deliver justice to victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. The CICC is a project of the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP) and", "title": "Coalition for the International Criminal Court" }, { "docid": "336370", "text": "its first year of business, the Court issued three advisory opinions, all related to the International Labour Organization created by the Treaty of Versailles. The initial reaction to the Court was good, from politicians, practising lawyers and academics alike. Ernest Pollock, the former Attorney General for England and Wales said, \"May we not as lawyers regard the establishment of an International Court of Justice as an advance in the science that we pursue?\" John Henry Wigmore said that the creation of the Court \"should have given every lawyer a thrill of cosmic vibration\", and James Brown Scott wrote that \"the", "title": "Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "16031473", "text": "2011 International Court of Justice judges election The 2011 International Court of Justice election began on 10 November 2011 at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. In the set of triennial elections, the General Assembly and the Security Council concurrently elect five judges to the Court for nine-year terms, in this case beginning on 6 February 2012. From the eight candidates, the five winners were Giorgio Gaja (Italy), Hisashi Owada (Japan), Peter Tomka (Slovakia), Xue Hanqin (China) and Julia Sebutinde (Uganda). The International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in The Hague, is one of the principal organs of the", "title": "2011 International Court of Justice judges election" }, { "docid": "4958109", "text": "Justice, the Andean Court of Justice and the International Court of Justice. In contrast to many general international tribunals or courts, the original jurisdiction of the CCJ is compulsory, requiring no pre-existing agreement. As a municipal court of last resort, it exercises an appellate jurisdiction, as a final court of appeal for CARICOM member states, replacing the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) for Anglophone member states. In the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction, the CCJ hears appeals from common law courts within the jurisdictions of parties to the Agreement Establishing the CCJ, and is the highest municipal court", "title": "Caribbean Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "4530583", "text": "Superior Court, and child protection and adoption cases must be commenced solely in the Ontario Court of Justice. Each of these two courts has jurisdiction over child and spousal support, as well as custody and access claims. In those places where the Family Court branch of the Superior Court of Justice has been established, there is no divided jurisdiction in family law matters. The Family Court succeeds what was known as the Unified Family Court, which began as a pilot project in Hamilton, in 1977. It has complete jurisdiction over all family law matters in its area, including those matters", "title": "Ontario Superior Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "6699719", "text": "request of any one of the States Parties to the dispute, to the International Court of Justice for decision\". Cases founded on compromissory clauses have not been as effective as cases founded on special agreement, since a state may have no interest in having the matter examined by the Court and may refuse to comply with a judgment. Since the 1970s the use of such compromissory clauses has declined. Many modern treaties set out their own dispute-resolution regime, often based on forms of arbitration. In 1987, upon the initiative of Mikhail Gorbachev, all of the permanent members of the Security", "title": "Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "13733326", "text": "in the same way as any other criminal court. Justices acting personally can have a role in signing duties, for example in granting search warrants and emergency child protection orders. The individuals who sit in a justice of the peace court are known as justices of the peace, justices or JPs. Generally they are not legally qualified. A legally qualified person can become a justice of the peace, but cannot act in any proceedings in a justice of the peace court within their own sheriffdom. Justices are appointed for a five-year renewable term by the justices of the peace advisory", "title": "Justice of the peace court" }, { "docid": "195332", "text": "confirmed; both are awaiting their trials. Currently, the Office of the Prosecutor has Notes Unlike the International Court of Justice, the ICC is legally independent from the United Nations. However, the Rome Statute grants certain powers to the United Nations Security Council, which limits its functional independence. Article 13 allows the Security Council to refer to the Court situations that would not otherwise fall under the Court's jurisdiction (as it did in relation to the situations in Darfur and Libya, which the Court could not otherwise have prosecuted as neither Sudan nor Libya are state parties). Article 16 allows the", "title": "International Criminal Court" }, { "docid": "18394815", "text": "elected to the Court at the end of the first day of voting. Prior to the third day of voting the Argentine delegation withdrew the candidacy of Susana Ruiz Cerutti. 2014 International Court of Justice judges election The 2014 International Court of Justice election began on 6 November 2011 at United Nations Headquarters in New York City.<ref name=\"GA/11579\"></ref><ref name=\"SC/11633\"></ref> In the set of triennial elections, the General Assembly and the Security Council concurrently elect five judges to the Court for nine-year terms, in this case beginning on 6 February 2015. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in The Hague,", "title": "2014 International Court of Justice judges election" }, { "docid": "336407", "text": "itself by saying that the Covenant of the League of Nations allowed it to have jurisdiction in cases over \"the existence of any fact which, if established, would constitute a breach of international obligations\" and argued that since the fact \"may be of any kind\", it had jurisdiction if the dispute is one of municipal law. It had been long established that municipal law may be considered as a side point to a dispute over international law, but the Loan Cases discussed municipal law without the application of any international points. Permanent Court of International Justice The Permanent Court of", "title": "Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "8480361", "text": "Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal The Chief Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal () is the head of the Judiciary of Hong Kong and the chief judge of the Court of Final Appeal. The Chief Justice is one of four permanent members of the Court. During British rule between 1843 and 1997, the office was known as the Chief Justice of Hong Kong. The Chief Justice acts as the chief administrative officer for the courts system, and in that capacity serves as the spokesperson for the judicial branch; he is assisted by the Chief", "title": "Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal" }, { "docid": "5820978", "text": "Revolución was opened in 2002. The following persons were once Presidents of the Supreme Court under the 1917 Constitution: Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation The National Supreme Court of Justice ( (SCJN) is the Mexican institution serving as the country's federal high court and the spearhead organisation for the judiciary of the Mexican Federal Government. It consists of eleven magistrates, known as \"ministers of the court\", one of whom is designated the court's \"president\". Judges of the SCJN are appointed for 15 years. They are ratified through affirmation by the Senate from a list proposed by the President", "title": "Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation" }, { "docid": "5820974", "text": "Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation The National Supreme Court of Justice ( (SCJN) is the Mexican institution serving as the country's federal high court and the spearhead organisation for the judiciary of the Mexican Federal Government. It consists of eleven magistrates, known as \"ministers of the court\", one of whom is designated the court's \"president\". Judges of the SCJN are appointed for 15 years. They are ratified through affirmation by the Senate from a list proposed by the President of the Republic. The ministers chosen will select from among themselves who shall be the President of the Court", "title": "Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation" }, { "docid": "2889678", "text": "In all civil cases heard by the Federal Court of Justice, the parties need to be represented by an attorney who has been specifically admitted to the bar at the Federal Court of Justice \"(Rechtsanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof)\". This admission is the only 'special' admission within the German court system, in that an attorney at the Federal Court of Justice for civil cases cannot appear in any other court in the country. Admission at the \"Bundesgerichtshof\" is highly selective; as of May 2015 there are only 46 attorneys so admitted. Candidates for admission are nominated by an electoral committee and are", "title": "Federal Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "2889674", "text": "of Germany, the Federal Labor Court of Germany and the Federal Social Court of Germany, the Federal Court of Justice is one of the highest courts of Germany today, located in Karlsruhe and Leipzig. The Federal Court of Justice of Germany is subdivided in twenty-five senates: Twelve are civil panels (\"Zivilsenate\"), five are the criminal panels (\"Strafsenate\") and eight are special panels. The Federal Court of Justice is to protect the unity of the jurisdiction and to develop the law. It usually just reconsiders the legal assessment of a case as a court of last resort. To that effect, it", "title": "Federal Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "6699720", "text": "Council began negotiations for expanding the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ. The content of these negotiations is to date unknown, and no agreements were reached. See Richard B. Bilder, \"Judicial Procedures Relating to the Use of Force,\" ch. 28 in Lori Damrosch & David Scheffer, Law and Force in the New International Order (1991). Thirdly, Article 36(2) allows states to make declarations accepting the Court's jurisdiction as compulsory (\"optional clause declarations\"). Not all countries accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, ICJ. For example, Australia accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction \"with reservations\" whereas Brazil has not accepted compulsory", "title": "Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "4958108", "text": "courts are more familiar with Caribbean matters. The CCJ is intended to be a hybrid institution: a municipal court of last resort and an international court vested with original, compulsory and exclusive jurisdiction in respect of the interpretation and application of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas. In the exercise of this original jurisdiction, the CCJ discharges the functions of an international tribunal, applying rules of international law in respect of the interpretation and application of the treaty. The CCJ thus performs similarly to the European Court of Justice, EFTA Court, East African Court of Justice, the ECOWAS Community Court of", "title": "Caribbean Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "18519316", "text": "by national judges, 119 infringement actions against Member Countries, 54 actions for nullity, 17 business processes and 6 for failure to inactivity Community bodies, ranking as the third most active international court in the world after the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. Judges are selected thorough a process involving the four member states where \"each member state presents a list of three candidates and the judges are selected from those lists by unanimous decision of the member states\". Qualified \"candidates must possess a good moral reputation and be competent to exercise the highest judicial", "title": "Court of Justice of the Andean Community" }, { "docid": "196260", "text": "parties to the case are concerned, a judgment of the Court is binding, final and without appeal\", and \"by signing the Charter, a State Member of the United Nations undertakes to comply with any decision of the International Court of Justice in a case to which it is a party.\" For example, the United States had previously accepted the court's compulsory jurisdiction upon its creation in 1946 but in 1984, after \"Nicaragua v. United States\", withdrew its acceptance following the court's judgment that called on the US to \"cease and to refrain\" from the \"unlawful use of force\" against the", "title": "International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "13733327", "text": "committees for each sheriffdom, acting on the basis of standards set by the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland. There is no precedence between justices; all are equal. However, a minority of JP courts operate with a bench of three justices, as opposed to a sole justice, in which circumstances a chair is appointed by those sitting on that day. They are collectively represented by the Scottish Justices Association. Justice of the peace court A justice of the peace court is the least authoritative type of criminal court in Scotland. The court operates under summary procedure and deals primarily with less", "title": "Justice of the peace court" }, { "docid": "9534053", "text": "is assigned to write the majority opinion for the Court. Even as these decisions speak in behalf of the Court, the writer of the opinion (known as the \"ponente\") is strongly identified with the decision, and the body of opinions of each Justice enhances his/her reputation. Many important opinions are analyzed in law schools and are well-remembered long after the Justice had left the Court. For example, several of the opinions of Associate Justice Jose P. Laurel were crucial in the development of Philippine jurisprudence and are widely read and quoted nearly 70 years after they had been written. Any", "title": "Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines" }, { "docid": "16155203", "text": "Pleas retained his rank until 1887 when the incumbent became Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Christopher Palles, the last Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer remained in office until 1916, acting as a judge both of the King's Bench Division and of the Court of Appeal. The Government of Ireland Act 1920 abolished the Supreme Court of Judicature created by the 1877 Act. It split the High Court into separate Courts for Northern and Southern Ireland; judges of the former court became judges in Southern Ireland unless they chose otherwise. The Court of Appeal was also split into separate Courts", "title": "High Court of Justice in Ireland" }, { "docid": "9534047", "text": "Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines is one of 15 members of the Philippine Supreme Court, the highest court in the Philippines. The Chief Justice presides over the High Court, but carries only 1 of the 15 votes in the court. Traditionally, the Chief Justice is deemed as \"primus inter pares\" (\"first among equals\") among the Justices. Until 1973, only men were appointed as Associate Justices to the Court. Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, an appointee of President Ferdinand Marcos, was the first woman to sit on the Court. Since", "title": "Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines" }, { "docid": "7478755", "text": "United States and the International Criminal Court The United States is not a State Party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute), which founded the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002 as a permanent international criminal court to \"bring to justice the perpetrators of the worst crimes known to humankind – war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide\", when national courts are unable or unwilling to do so. As of November 2016, 124 states are members of the Court. Other states that have not become parties to the Rome Statute include India, Indonesia, and China. On", "title": "United States and the International Criminal Court" }, { "docid": "6056427", "text": "of Ontario. The other division of the Court of Ontario is the Superior Court of Justice. Until 1999, the Ontario Court of Justice was known as the Ontario Court (Provincial Division). Family law cases deal with matters of custody, access and support, child protection so long as these are not incidental of or were not previously a part of a divorce application. Cases are heard by a judge only. Appeals from these cases are heard by the Superior Court of Justice. The Court deals with approximately 95% of criminal charges laid within the province and has responsibility for other matters", "title": "Ontario Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "2767310", "text": "International Court of Justice advisory opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons [1996] ICJ 2 is a landmark international law case, where the International Court of Justice gave an advisory opinion stating that there is no source of law, customary or treaty, that explicitly prohibits the possession or even use of nuclear weapons. The only requirement being that their use must be in conformity with the law on self-defence. The World Health Organization requested the opinion on 3 September 1993, but it was initially refused because", "title": "International Court of Justice advisory opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons" }, { "docid": "19515188", "text": "Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia The Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia () is the head of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia. First chief justice. The first chief justice was Prof. Dr Jimly Asshiddiqie. He was well known as law professor of the University of Indonesia, and actively involved in the process of Indonesian constitutional reform and the political transformation to democracy. During the crisis in the transitional era under the presidency of Habibie (1998–1999), he chaired the Reformation Committee for law reform. As scholar, he often makes media appearances and offers comments on a", "title": "Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia" }, { "docid": "13733321", "text": "Justice of the peace court A justice of the peace court is the least authoritative type of criminal court in Scotland. The court operates under summary procedure and deals primarily with less serious criminal offences. The commission of the peace was originally instituted in Scotland in the 16th century. Initially, justices were given the task of administering the county within which they resided until this work passed to the county councils with their establishment in 1888. Justices of the peace were then left with jurisdiction in the licensing board and minor criminal cases. District courts were introduced in 1975 as", "title": "Justice of the peace court" }, { "docid": "19141305", "text": "African Court of Justice and Human Rights The African Court of Justice and Human Rights is an international and regional court in Africa. It was founded in 2004 by a merger of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Court of Justice of the African Union. It is the primary judicial agency of the African Union. The court is based in the city of Arusha, Tanzania, as is the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and as was its predecessor the Court of Justice of the African Union. The court has two chambers, one for general legal matters", "title": "African Court of Justice and Human Rights" }, { "docid": "200616", "text": "the Permanent Court of International Justice and the subsequent International Court of Justice. International Prize Court The International Prize Court was an international court proposed at the beginning of the 20th century, to hear prize cases. An international agreement to create it, the \"Convention Relative to the Creation of an International Prize Court\", was made at the Second Hague Conference in 1907 but never came into force. The capturing of prizes (enemy equipment, vehicles, and especially ships) during wartime is a tradition that goes back as far as organized warfare itself. The International Prize Court was to hear appeals from", "title": "International Prize Court" }, { "docid": "5713024", "text": "by the court. He or she carries only 1 vote out of 15 in the court, and is generally regarded, vis-a-vis the other justices, as the \"primus inter pares\" rather than as the administrative superior of the other members of the court. Still, the influence a chief justice may bear within the court and judiciary, and on the national government cannot be underestimated. In the public eye, any particular Supreme Court is widely identified with the identity of the incumbent chief justice, hence appellations such as \"The Fernando Court\" or \"The Puno Court\". Moreover, the chief justice usually retains high", "title": "Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines" }, { "docid": "4958169", "text": "country in its jurisdiction, it pays the cost for travelling, accommodation and other expenses and only requires the host state to provide a location for the Court to sit and to provide security and ground transportation to and from the venue of the sitting. Up to May 2015, the CCJ has sat in Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago. The Court itself views itinerant sittings as important to ensuring that the accessibility of itself and justice in general to the people it serves of the Caribbean Community. Caribbean Court of Justice The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ; ;", "title": "Caribbean Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "336367", "text": "panel of judges to arbitrate in such cases, the Permanent Court of Arbitration. At the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907, a draft convention for a permanent Court of Arbitral Justice was written although disputes and other pressing business at the Conference meant that such a body was never established, owing to difficulties agreeing on a procedure to select the judges. The outbreak of the First World War, and, in particular, its conclusion made it clear to many academics that some kind of world court was needed, and it was widely expected that one would be established. Article 14 of", "title": "Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "14384238", "text": "traditional periods in the year, known as \"sittings\": The \"Justices of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice\" are informally known as \"High Court judges\", and in judicial matters are formally styled \"The Honourable Mr(s) Justice (Forename) Surname\", abbreviated in writing to \"Surname J\". In Court, they are properly addressed as \"My Lord\". Since by convention they are knighted upon appointment, socially they are addressed as \"Sir Forename\" or \"Dame Forename\", without the prefix, \"The Hon.\", which is given only to their office. High Court Judges are sometimes referred to as \"red judges\" after the colour of their formal robes, in", "title": "High Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "10068682", "text": "High Court of Justice (Isle of Man) The High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man is governed by the High Court Act 1991. There are four permanent judges of the High Court: The First Deemster is President of the High Court and has responsibility for the distribution of the work of the High Court. The Judge of Appeal, a part-time appointment, can only sit in the Appeal Division. Unless the parties otherwise consent, the quorum of the Appeal Division is at least two judges of the High Court. A deemster may not sit on an appeal from his", "title": "High Court of Justice (Isle of Man)" }, { "docid": "336384", "text": "Court and the League both ceased to exist, being replaced by the International Court of Justice and the United Nations. The Court initially consisted of 11 judges and 4 deputy judges, recommended by member states of the League of Nations to the Secretary General of the League of Nations, who would put them before the Council and Assembly for election. The Council and Assembly were to bear in mind that the elected panel of judges was to represent every major legal tradition in the League, along with \"every major civilization\". Each member state was allowed to recommend 4 potential judges,", "title": "Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "19141310", "text": "expected to uphold high morality, they are granted full immunity from international laws, throughout and after office. African Court of Justice and Human Rights The African Court of Justice and Human Rights is an international and regional court in Africa. It was founded in 2004 by a merger of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Court of Justice of the African Union. It is the primary judicial agency of the African Union. The court is based in the city of Arusha, Tanzania, as is the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and as was its predecessor the", "title": "African Court of Justice and Human Rights" }, { "docid": "9972409", "text": "The Superior Court of Justice had its competence slightly altered by Amendment 45/2004, which transferred to the Court cases like the homologation of foreign court orders. http://www.stj.jus.br/ Superior Court of Justice (Brazil) The Superior Court of Justice (, also known as \"STJ\", ) is the highest appellate court in Brazil for non-constitutional questions of federal law. The STJ also has original jurisdiction over some cases. Its competence is described in Article 105 of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. A Special Appeal (in Portuguese, \"Recurso Especial\") can be made to this court when a judgement of a court of second instance", "title": "Superior Court of Justice (Brazil)" }, { "docid": "16031486", "text": "clock to ensure a Sebutinde victory. Balloting resumed in New York City the afternoon of 13 December 2011, and Sebutinde was declared elected after receiving an absolute majority of votes in both the Security Council and the General Assembly. 2011 International Court of Justice judges election The 2011 International Court of Justice election began on 10 November 2011 at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. In the set of triennial elections, the General Assembly and the Security Council concurrently elect five judges to the Court for nine-year terms, in this case beginning on 6 February 2012. From the eight", "title": "2011 International Court of Justice judges election" }, { "docid": "196244", "text": "contentious case (if it otherwise does not have one of that party's nationals sitting on the court) to select one additional person to sit as a judge on that case only. It is thus possible that as many as seventeen judges may sit on one case. The system may seem strange when compared with domestic court processes, but its purpose is to encourage states to submit cases. For example, if a state knows that it will have a judicial officer who can participate in deliberation and offer other judges local knowledge and an understanding of the state's perspective, it may", "title": "International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "19515114", "text": "Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia () is the head of the Supreme Court of Indonesia. The chief justice and his or her deputy is elected by the Supreme Court justices from among the members of the court. Sometimes the process is controversial and attracts public criticism. For example, in early 2012 rumours about vote buying were reported in the Jakarta press as speculation mounted about the arrangements underway for the selection of new chief justice to replace Harifin Tumpa, who retired as chief justice in March 2012. It", "title": "Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia" }, { "docid": "32604", "text": "effectively grants life tenure to associate justices, and all other federal judges, which ends only when a justice dies, retires, resigns, or is removed from office by impeachment. Each Supreme Court justice has a single vote in deciding the cases argued before it; the chief justice's vote counts no more than that of any other justice. However, the Chief Justice—when in the majority—decides who writes the court's opinion. Otherwise, the senior justice in the majority assigns the writing of a decision. Furthermore, the chief justice leads the discussion of the case among the justices. The chief justice has certain administrative", "title": "Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "886789", "text": "the ECJ's official name was changed from the \"Court of Justice of the European Communities\" to the \"Court of Justice\" although in English it is still most common to refer to the Court as the European Court of Justice. The Court of First Instance was renamed as the \"General Court\", and the term \"Court of Justice of the European Union\" will officially designate the two courts, as along with its specialised tribunals, taken together. The ECJ is the highest court of the European Union in matters of Union law, but not national law. It is not possible to appeal the", "title": "European Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "336380", "text": "other international institutions could be linked to the start of the Second World War. 1933 was a busy year for the court, which cleared its 20th case (and \"greatest triumph\"); the Eastern Greenland Case. This period was marked by growing international tension, however, with Japan and Germany announcing their withdrawal from the League of Nations, to come into effect in 1935. That did not directly affect the Court, since the protocol accepting Court jurisdiction was separately ratified, but it influenced whether a nation would be willing to bring a case before it, as evidenced by Germany's withdrawal from two pending", "title": "Permanent Court of International Justice" }, { "docid": "11001499", "text": "their ratification of the UN Charter. Under Article 93(2) of the UN Charter, states which are not a member of the UN may become a party to the Statute, subject to the recommendation of the UNSC and approval of the UNGA. As of 2015, neither of the UN observer states, Palestine and the Vatican City, nor any other state are parties to the statute under these provisions. Switzerland (1948-2002), Liechtenstein (1950-1990), San Marino (1954-1992), Japan (1954-1956), and Nauru (1988-1999) were all parties to the Statute prior to becoming UN member states. Statute of the International Court of Justice The Statute", "title": "Statute of the International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "196247", "text": "than full Court judgments or diminish the proper interpretation of universal international law informed by a variety of cultural and legal perspectives. On the other hand, the use of chambers might encourage greater recourse to the court and thus enhance international dispute resolution. , the composition of the court is as follows: As stated in Article 93 of the UN Charter, all UN members are automatically parties to the court's statute. Non-UN members may also become parties to the court's statute under the Article 93(2) procedure. For example, before becoming a UN member state, Switzerland used this procedure in 1948", "title": "International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "9924141", "text": "of the court. In addition, the Chief Magistrate of the Northern Territory may appoint magistrates as youth magistrates. In either case, both magistrates have jurisdiction to make orders in the court. Unlike other states and territories of Australia, there is no senior or children's magistrate. The court exercises criminal jurisdiction under the Youth Justice Act (NT). Youth Justice Court of the Northern Territory The Youth Justice Court of the Northern Territory is an Australian court which hears and determines cases concerning crimes committed by children under the age of 18 years in the Northern Territory. The treatment of juvenile offenders", "title": "Youth Justice Court of the Northern Territory" }, { "docid": "18519312", "text": "Court of Justice of the Andean Community The Court of Justice of the Andean Community was founded in 1979 by the Cartagena Agreement and began operating in January 1984 in Quito, Ecuador; it was originally known as the Andean Pact. The Andean Community is a sub-regional economic and social integration bloc comprising four member states: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, along with Chile and the Mercosur states as associate members. The Mercosur States are Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Since 1969, the area underwent numerous changes, including the formation of a free trade area.In 1996, the members decided to reform", "title": "Court of Justice of the Andean Community" }, { "docid": "19515190", "text": "judge for the Constitutional Court. His comments and media appearances were sometimes controversial. Following his re-election, \"The Jakarta Post\" noted that \"He is down to earth and his courage is well known\" but also suggested that \"As chief judge of the Constitutional Court, he should rather talk less and in contexts of the Constitution.\" His name is sometimes mentioned in the media as a possible presidential candidate in the 2014 elections. His term as chief justice ended on 1 April 2013. Third chief justice. On 3 April 2013, Akil Mochtar was elected the third chief justice. Akil was supported with", "title": "Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia" }, { "docid": "14051979", "text": "Court of Justice of the European Union The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) () is the institution of the European Union (EU) that encompasses the whole judiciary. Seated in the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, it consists of two separate courts: the Court of Justice and the General Court. From 2005 to 2016 it also consisted of the Civil Service Tribunal. It has a \"sui generis\" court system, meaning \"of its own kind\", and is a supranational institution. CJEU is the chief judicial authority of the European Union and oversees the uniform application and interpretation of", "title": "Court of Justice of the European Union" }, { "docid": "886786", "text": "European Court of Justice The European Court of Justice (ECJ), officially just the Court of Justice (), is the supreme court of the European Union in matters of European Union law. As a part of the Court of Justice of the European Union it is tasked with interpreting EU law and ensuring its equal application across all EU member states. The Court was established in 1952 and is based in Luxembourg. It is composed of one judge per member state – currently 28 – although it normally hears cases in panels of three, five or 15 judges. The court has", "title": "European Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "5586923", "text": "Court of Justice of the African Union The Court of Justice of the African Union was originally intended to be the \"principal judicial organ\" of the African Union (Protocol of the Court of Justice of the African Union, Article 2.2) with authority to rule on disputes over interpretation of AU treaties. The Court has, however, never come into existence because the African Union has decided that it should be merged with the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights to form a new court: the African Court of Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR). Underlying this decision was the concern at", "title": "Court of Justice of the African Union" }, { "docid": "8480362", "text": "Judge of the High Court, who is responsible for the administration of the High Court and is accountable to the Chief Justice. The office of Chief Justice is second only to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong in the Hong Kong order of precedence. In the case of an impeachment of a Chief Executive of Hong Kong, the Chief Justice presides over the trial as provided by the Hong Kong Basic Law. The first Chief Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal was Andrew Li. The second and incumbent Chief Justice is Geoffrey Ma. The Court of Final", "title": "Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal" }, { "docid": "196262", "text": "of the various nations\") and previous judicial decisions to help interpret the law although the court is not formally bound by its previous decisions under the doctrine of stare decisis. makes clear that the common law notion of precedent or \"stare decisis\" does not apply to the decisions of the ICJ. The court's decision binds only the parties to that particular controversy. Under 38(1)(d), however, the court may consider its own previous decisions. If the parties agree, they may also grant the court the liberty to decide \"ex aequo et bono\" (\"in justice and fairness\"), granting the ICJ the freedom", "title": "International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "196261", "text": "government of Nicaragua. The court ruled (with only the American judge dissenting) that the United States was \"in breach of its obligation under the Treaty of Friendship with Nicaragua not to use force against Nicaragua\" and ordered the United States to pay war reparations. When deciding cases, the court applies international law as summarized in of the ICJ Statute, which provides that in arriving at its decisions the court shall apply international conventions, international custom and the \"general principles of law recognized by civilized nations.\" It may also refer to academic writing (\"the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists", "title": "International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "4349766", "text": "Court of the Philippines was officially established on June 11, 1901 through the passage of Act No. 136, otherwise known as the Judiciary Law of the Second Philippine Commission. By virtue of that law, judicial power in the Philippine Islands was vested in the Supreme Court, Courts of First Instance and Justice of the Peace courts. Other courts were subsequently established. The judicial structure introduced by Act No. 136 was reaffirmed by the US Congress with the passage of the Philippine Bill of 1902. The Administrative Code of 1917 ordained the Supreme Court as the highest tribunal of the Philippines", "title": "Supreme Court of the Philippines" }, { "docid": "11357402", "text": "Northwest Territories and the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories. Besides court proceedings in Iqaluit the judges travel as a circuit court to communities throughout the territory to conduct cases. Nunavut Court of Justice The Nunavut Court of Justice (short: \"NUCJ\"; , \"Nunavuumi Iqkaqtuijikkut\"; Inuinnaqtun: \"Nunavunmi Maligaliuqtiit\") is the superior court and territorial court of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is administered from the Nunavut Justice Centre (Building #510) in Iqaluit. It was established on April 1, 1999 as Canada's only \"unified\" or single-level court with the consent of Canada, the Office of the Interim Commissioner of Nunavut and", "title": "Nunavut Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "14384243", "text": "to make the administration of justice more even. The tradition continues of judges travelling around the country in set 'circuits', where they hear cases in the 'district registries' of the High Court. The 'main' High Court (in the City of Westminster, London) is not itself a High Court district registry. The Senior Courts Costs Office, which quantifies legal costs pursuant to orders for costs, serves all divisions. Such Costs Office is part of the High Court. Because the Costs Office is part of the High Court, generally all detailed assessment proceedings commenced in the Costs Office are subject to provisional", "title": "High Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "11357401", "text": "Nunavut Court of Justice The Nunavut Court of Justice (short: \"NUCJ\"; , \"Nunavuumi Iqkaqtuijikkut\"; Inuinnaqtun: \"Nunavunmi Maligaliuqtiit\") is the superior court and territorial court of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is administered from the Nunavut Justice Centre (Building #510) in Iqaluit. It was established on April 1, 1999 as Canada's only \"unified\" or single-level court with the consent of Canada, the Office of the Interim Commissioner of Nunavut and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. the Inuit Land Claims representative organization. Prior to the establishment of Nunavut as a separate territory justice was administered through two courts, the Territorial Court of the", "title": "Nunavut Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "6699716", "text": "of consent. The court has no true compulsory jurisdiction. Jurisdiction is often a key question for the Court, because it is challenged by the respondent. At the Preliminary Objections phase, a respondent may challenge (i) jurisdiction and/or (ii) admissibility of the case. Article 36 outlines four bases on which the Court's jurisdiction may be founded. Only states may be parties in contentious cases before the ICJ. Individuals, corporations, parts of a federal state, NGOs, UN organs and self-determination groups are excluded from direct participation in cases, although the Court may receive information from public international organisations. This does not preclude", "title": "Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice" }, { "docid": "20474000", "text": "a Justice of the Supreme Court if they have held office as a Judge of the Court of Appeal or a judge of a court with similar jurisdiction in a common law country, for not less than five years. Alternatively, if they have practiced as a lawyer before a court having unlimited jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters in a common law country for not less than 12 years. A person may be appointed as Chief Justice if they are qualified to be appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court or have been a judge of a superior court", "title": "Supreme Court of the Gambia" }, { "docid": "12347026", "text": "Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica The Supreme Court of Costa Rica (es: \"Corte Suprema de Justicia de Costa Rica\") is the court of greater hierarchy of Law and Justice in Costa Rica. Established on January 25, 1825, the current Chief Justice (\"Magistrado Presidente\") is Justice Carlos Chinchilla Sandí since May 22, 2017. All of the courts in the country are dependent on the Supreme Court of Justice. Its organizational structure is based on three factors: the matter of the subjects to solve, the territory where they take place and the quantity (amount of money that is involved in", "title": "Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica" }, { "docid": "5713027", "text": "be removed thru \"quo warranto\" after it was determined that she had been unlawfully holding office \"ab initio\"). The Chief Justice also names the three justices each from the Supreme Court in the memberships of the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal and the Senate Electoral Tribunal. The chief justice is the chief executive officer of the Philippine judiciary system and together with the whole Supreme Court, exercises administrative supervision over all courts and personnel. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines The Chief Justice of the Philippines () presides over the Supreme Court of the Philippines and is", "title": "Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines" }, { "docid": "12347039", "text": "constitution. Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica The Supreme Court of Costa Rica (es: \"Corte Suprema de Justicia de Costa Rica\") is the court of greater hierarchy of Law and Justice in Costa Rica. Established on January 25, 1825, the current Chief Justice (\"Magistrado Presidente\") is Justice Carlos Chinchilla Sandí since May 22, 2017. All of the courts in the country are dependent on the Supreme Court of Justice. Its organizational structure is based on three factors: the matter of the subjects to solve, the territory where they take place and the quantity (amount of money that is involved", "title": "Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica" }, { "docid": "8358363", "text": "States parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court The states parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court are those sovereign states that have ratified, or have otherwise become party to, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The Rome Statute is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court, an international court that has jurisdiction over certain international crimes, including genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes that are committed by nationals of states parties or within the territory of states parties. States parties are legally obligated to co-operate with the Court when", "title": "States parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court" }, { "docid": "18394806", "text": "by other UN organs or agencies. The court consists of 15 judges, with five judges elected every three years. (In the case of death or other vacancy, a judge is elected for the remainder of the term.) Judges are required to be independent and impartial; they may not exercise any political or administrative function, and do not act as a representative of their home state. Elections of members of the Court are governed by articles 2 through 15 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice. The five judges whose terms expire in February 2015, with their nationality, are:", "title": "2014 International Court of Justice judges election" }, { "docid": "5586924", "text": "the growing number of AU institutions, which the AU could not afford to support. A protocol to set up the Court of Justice was adopted in 2003, and entered into force in 2009. It was, however, superseded by a protocol creating the African Court of Justice and Human Rights. The merger protocol was adopted during the 11th African Union Summit in July 2008. The united court will be based in Arusha, Tanzania. Court of Justice of the African Union The Court of Justice of the African Union was originally intended to be the \"principal judicial organ\" of the African Union", "title": "Court of Justice of the African Union" } ]
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November 30, 2004 saw what Jeopardy! champion, who holds the record for the most consecutive wins on the show, lose to Nancy Zerg on his 75th appearance?
[ "Ken William Jennings III", "Ken Jennings", "Ken Jennings game summaries", "Kenneth William Jennings III", "Ken Jennings/Game summaries", "Ken jennings", "Ken Jennings III", "Kenneth Wayne Jennings III", "Nancy Zerg" ]
[ { "docid": "14661236", "text": "2 through November 30, 2004, winning 74 matches before being defeated by Nancy Zerg in his 75th appearance. He amassed $2,520,700 over his 74 wins and a $2,000 second-place prize in his 75th appearance. At the time, he held the record as the highest money-winner ever on American game shows, and his winning streak increased the show's ratings and popularity to the point where it became TV's highest-rated syndicated program. Jennings later won the $500,000 second-place prize in the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions, the $300,000 second-place prize in the IBM Challenge, and the $100,000 second-place prize in the Battle", "title": "Jeopardy!" }, { "docid": "9850879", "text": "gone on to win sixteen Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show, achieving this honor most recently in 2017, and today it holds the record as the most honored program in this Emmy award category. The show was the subject of great interest and increased ratings (often out-performing \"Wheel\" and even prime time programs) in the early portions of the 2004–05 season as contestant Ken Jennings, taking advantage of newly relaxed appearance rules, won 74 matches before being defeated by Nancy Zerg in his 75th appearance. He amassed $2,520,700 over the course of his winning streak as well as", "title": "Jeopardy! broadcast information" }, { "docid": "3329512", "text": "Wednesday to Saturday) and the College Championship (aired from November 10, 2004 through November 23, 2004). He did not participate in the Tournament of Champions, as invitations are only extended to champions who have already been defeated (with the exception of the winner(s) of the College Championship), which Jennings had not yet been. On November 30, 2004, Jennings' reign as \"Jeopardy!\" champion ended when he lost his 75th game to challenger Nancy Zerg. Jennings responded incorrectly to both Double Jeopardy! Daily Doubles, causing him to lose a combined $10,200 ($5,400 and $4,800, respectively) and leaving him with $14,400 at the", "title": "Ken Jennings" }, { "docid": "3727937", "text": "audition at a hotel in Devon. He works for the Highways Agency. Ian Lygo Ian Lygo (born ), a civil servant, from Hemel Hempstead, made 75 appearances on the UK game show \"100%\" in late 1998, with the 75th appearance occurring on 14 December of that year. On November 30, 2004, this record was tied by Ken Jennings on \"Jeopardy!\". However, because Jennings lost on his 75th appearance, Lygo is the sole holder of the record for \"most consecutive wins\" on a game show. Since he won £100 for each game, his total winnings were £7,500. Unlike Jennings, however, who", "title": "Ian Lygo" }, { "docid": "3727934", "text": "Ian Lygo Ian Lygo (born ), a civil servant, from Hemel Hempstead, made 75 appearances on the UK game show \"100%\" in late 1998, with the 75th appearance occurring on 14 December of that year. On November 30, 2004, this record was tied by Ken Jennings on \"Jeopardy!\". However, because Jennings lost on his 75th appearance, Lygo is the sole holder of the record for \"most consecutive wins\" on a game show. Since he won £100 for each game, his total winnings were £7,500. Unlike Jennings, however, who was defeated and became a national folkhero and wanted spokesperson, Lygo would", "title": "Ian Lygo" }, { "docid": "18063358", "text": "Julia Collins (Jeopardy! contestant) Julia Collins (born November 10, 1982) is a former champion on the quiz show \"Jeopardy!\" who had the show's second-longest winning streak after Ken Jennings's 74-game record. Between April 21 and June 2, 2014, she won $428,100 for her 20 wins and $1,000 for finishing third in her 21st game, won by Brian Loughnane. She surpassed David Madden's formerly second-longest streak by one game, but with winnings of $428,100, she did not top his $430,400. In the 2014 \"Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions\" she finished second in her quarterfinal game against Joshua Brakhage and 2013 College Champion", "title": "Julia Collins (Jeopardy! contestant)" }, { "docid": "18063360", "text": "2010. Julia Collins (Jeopardy! contestant) Julia Collins (born November 10, 1982) is a former champion on the quiz show \"Jeopardy!\" who had the show's second-longest winning streak after Ken Jennings's 74-game record. Between April 21 and June 2, 2014, she won $428,100 for her 20 wins and $1,000 for finishing third in her 21st game, won by Brian Loughnane. She surpassed David Madden's formerly second-longest streak by one game, but with winnings of $428,100, she did not top his $430,400. In the 2014 \"Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions\" she finished second in her quarterfinal game against Joshua Brakhage and 2013 College", "title": "Julia Collins (Jeopardy! contestant)" }, { "docid": "3544798", "text": "days records were broken by \"100%\" contestant Ian Lygo in 1998, while the winnings record was broken by Michael Shutterly during the original 15-night run of \"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire\" in 1999, where he won $500,000. McKee still holds the American record for most consecutive games played (88 games, 43 wins), due to the nature of \"Tic Tac Dough\" making ties possible (and frequent). However, \"Jeopardy!\" contestant Ken Jennings (who himself set a new cash winnings record), beat the wins record with 74, and most consecutive days with 75 in 2004–05. McKee was a subject on the Robin", "title": "Thom McKee" }, { "docid": "14968484", "text": "Roger Craig (Jeopardy! contestant) Roger Alan Craig (born 1977) is an American game show contestant who held the record for highest single-day winnings on the quiz show \"Jeopardy!\", set on September 14, 2010. In 2011, he returned to win the \"Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions\". In 2014, he competed in the Battle of the Decades tournament, finishing third overall behind Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. Craig, who was 33 years old at the time of his initial \"Jeopardy!\" appearance in 2010, is a native of Ferndale, Pennsylvania. He grew up there and later in Virginia, where he graduated from Annandale High", "title": "Roger Craig (Jeopardy! contestant)" }, { "docid": "15261743", "text": "long as they remained victorious, leading the way for Ken Jennings, at the time a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah, to win on 74 consecutive \"Jeopardy!\" programs (losing on his 75th) and amass a record total of $2,520,700, breaking almost every game show record in the history of American television. The quiz show's viewership increased by 30 percent during the streak, and it often out-performed even prime-time programs to become one of the most talked-about shows in the United States. In 2005, in response to Jennings' tremendous success on the show, Friedman also produced the Ultimate Tournament of", "title": "Harry Friedman" }, { "docid": "4360487", "text": "Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions The \"Jeopardy!\" Ultimate Tournament of Champions was a special 15-week single-elimination tournament that aired during the 21st season of the syndicated game show \"Jeopardy!\" that began airing on February 9, 2005 and concluded on May 25, 2005, covering 76 shows in total. The tournament involved 145 contestants, all of whom were winners of past tournaments or past five-time champions, and was designed to produce two contestants who would face off in a three-game, cumulative-score final against legendary \"Jeopardy!\" champion Ken Jennings, who had won the most money in \"Jeopardy!\" regular play history and who (entering", "title": "Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions" } ]
[ { "docid": "9850880", "text": "a $2,000 second-place prize in his 75th appearance, thus earning the record as the highest money-winner ever on American game shows, and his winning streak led the show to become TV's highest-rated syndicated program. On September 11, 2006, with the start of Season 23, \"Jeopardy!\" began broadcasting in high definition. King World and production company Sony Pictures Television indicated that as of August 10, 2006, some 49 of the 210 stations that carried the show at that time were prepared for the transition. Sony uses the 1080i HD format to record the show, but since \"Jeopardy!\" is syndicated, stations using", "title": "Jeopardy! broadcast information" }, { "docid": "11248692", "text": "7 games; they also held the record for the most answers given on a single list, with 40 (for Chemical Elements), until series 7 episode 5 where Hayley and Ranjit managed to name a 52 word list (the words in Bohemian Rhapsody). Episode viewing figures sourced from BARB. Who Dares Wins (UK game show) Who Dares Wins is a BBC game show broadcast on BBC One which began on 17 November 2007. The programme is hosted by Nick Knowles. It was a BBC National Lottery game show until 21 January 2017. Two teams of strangers are paired up. Both teams", "title": "Who Dares Wins (UK game show)" }, { "docid": "13872661", "text": "champion. Champions since 1907: United States Champion Thoroughbred Trainer by wins There is recognition for the United States Champion Thoroughbred Trainer by wins but no formal award is given to the trainer in Thoroughbred flat racing whose horses won the most races in North American Thoroughbred racing. Dale Baird holds the record for the most national titles with fifteen. Second is Hirsch Jacobs who won more races during a year than any other American trainer on eleven occasions. Tied for third all-time are Jack Van Berg and Steve Asmussen with nine. H. Guy Bedwell, trainer of Triple Crown winner Sir", "title": "United States Champion Thoroughbred Trainer by wins" }, { "docid": "18458006", "text": "won £500; five consecutive wins earned £3,000 with the undefeated champion retiring. During the Steve Jones series, the top three champions of each series played \"Master Jeopardy!\" for the grand prize of a holiday. For the 1993 series, players scored pounds. During the original ITV versions, the set was blue for the Jeopardy! Round and red for the Double Jeopardy! round, as in the American version. Unlike America's version, however, the set turned yellow for Final Jeopardy!; this was dropped for the program's third series. The Derek Hobson/Channel 4 run of \"Jeopardy!\" aired before the U.S. version with Alex Trebek", "title": "Jeopardy! (UK game show)" }, { "docid": "13872660", "text": "United States Champion Thoroughbred Trainer by wins There is recognition for the United States Champion Thoroughbred Trainer by wins but no formal award is given to the trainer in Thoroughbred flat racing whose horses won the most races in North American Thoroughbred racing. Dale Baird holds the record for the most national titles with fifteen. Second is Hirsch Jacobs who won more races during a year than any other American trainer on eleven occasions. Tied for third all-time are Jack Van Berg and Steve Asmussen with nine. H. Guy Bedwell, trainer of Triple Crown winner Sir Barton, was a seven-time", "title": "United States Champion Thoroughbred Trainer by wins" }, { "docid": "4237813", "text": "this do not feature sitting champions (including \"Jeopardy!\"), Newman interrupted his reign as champion to compete in the tournament. The final concluded on November 16, 1990 with Newman emerging victorious. He won over $40,000, including the $25,000 bonus for his triumph, which along with the aforementioned $31,000 Ultimate Challenge victory helped Newman set an all-time \"Challengers\" record of $112,480 in winnings over six matches (two tournament wins plus four wins in regular play). Nine teachers competed, using the same format as the Tournament of Champions; $10,000 was awarded to the winner. \"The Challengers\" invited nine more champions back for a", "title": "The Challengers (game show)" }, { "docid": "12819938", "text": "The Nancy Walker Show The Nancy Walker Show is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 30, 1976 to December 23, 1976. The series, produced by Norman Lear, was a starring vehicle for Nancy Walker after she gained a new-found television following as both the McMillans' housekeeper Mildred on \"McMillan & Wife\" and as Rhoda Morgenstern's mother Ida Morgenstern on \"Rhoda\". Walker portrayed Nancy Kitteridge, owner of the Nancy Kitteridge Talent Agency in Los Angeles, who led a life that many would find enviable. Nancy operated her agency from her fancy apartment suite, which housed a stream of", "title": "The Nancy Walker Show" }, { "docid": "11248688", "text": "Who Dares Wins (UK game show) Who Dares Wins is a BBC game show broadcast on BBC One which began on 17 November 2007. The programme is hosted by Nick Knowles. It was a BBC National Lottery game show until 21 January 2017. Two teams of strangers are paired up. Both teams sit in soundproof pods. When the pods are blue they can hear what is happening. When the pod is red they cannot hear what is happening. The list subject is read out and then the host turns one pod red. The other team then make a bid on", "title": "Who Dares Wins (UK game show)" }, { "docid": "14661237", "text": "of the Decades. The highest-earning all-time \"Jeopardy!\" contestant is Brad Rutter, who has won a cumulative total of $4,355,102. He became an undefeated champion in 2000 and later won an unprecedented four \"Jeopardy!\" tournaments: the 2001 Tournament of Champions, the 2002 Million Dollar Masters Tournament, the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions, and the 2014 Battle of the Decades. Rutter broke Jennings's record for all-time game show winnings when he defeated Jennings and Jerome Vered in the Ultimate Tournament of Champions finals. Jennings regained the record through appearances on various other game shows, culminating in an appearance on \"Are You Smarter", "title": "Jeopardy!" }, { "docid": "17879377", "text": "Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades The \"Jeopardy!\" Battle of the Decades was a special 5-week tournament airing throughout the 30th season of the television game show \"Jeopardy!\" to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the daily syndicated version of the show, hosted by Alex Trebek. The tournament involved 45 previously successful \"Jeopardy!\" contestants split into three groups based on the time period of their initial appearance on the program. Though the groups roughly represented 1984-1993, 1994–2003, and 2004–2013, they were referred to as the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, respectively. The tournament's 1980s round began airing on February 3, 2014 with the", "title": "Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades" }, { "docid": "6126841", "text": "or Edwin Newman at 12:55 p.m. (before a 30-minute affiliate break), \"The Who, What, or Where Game\" only ran 25 minutes each day, instead of the customary 30. Similar to \"Jeopardy!\", which preceded it at 12 Noon/11 a.m. Central, \"The Who, What, or Where Game\" proved to be an effective stablemate to its lead-in. \"The Who, What, or Where Game\" succeeded a short-lived show called \"Name Droppers\", hosted by Los Angeles-area disc jockeys Al Lohman and Roger Barkley; it was succeeded in turn by \"Jackpot.\" Coincidentally, \"The Who, What, or Where Game\" announcer Darrow would later host a Canadian-produced revival", "title": "The Who, What, or Where Game" }, { "docid": "3288519", "text": "that features his musicianship. He passed away on April 29th 2018 after a long battle with heart disease. The Saw Doctors The Saw Doctors are an Irish rock band. Formed in 1986 in Tuam, County Galway, they have achieved eighteen Top 30 singles in the Republic of Ireland including three number ones. Their first number one, \"I Useta Lover,\" topped the Irish charts for nine consecutive weeks in 1990 and still holds the record for the country's all-time biggest-selling single. Renowned for their live performances, the band has a cult following, especially in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United", "title": "The Saw Doctors" }, { "docid": "5215373", "text": "AU$50.00 and dubbed a 'Whitney Warrior'. A board game called \"Who Dares Wins: The Board Game\" was made and released by Milton Bradley featuring the Seven Network logo and a picture of Mike Whitney on the cover of the box. At the 39th Annual TV Week Logie Awards held in 1997, Tania Zaetta was nominated for the Logie for \"Most Popular New Talent\" for her work on \"Who Dares Wins\". The series itself was also nominated for \"Most Popular Light Entertainment Program\". Who Dares Wins (game show) Who Dares Wins was an Australian adventure game show that aired on the", "title": "Who Dares Wins (game show)" }, { "docid": "12819947", "text": "in Lear's controversial soap opera parody \"Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman\" soon after the cancellation of \"The Nancy Walker Show\". Mary Hartman mentions the show in episode 178, saying she wishes it was still on the air when she learned about her gay neighbors. Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, \"The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows The Nancy Walker Show The Nancy Walker Show is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 30, 1976 to December 23, 1976. The series, produced by Norman Lear, was a starring vehicle for Nancy Walker after she gained a", "title": "The Nancy Walker Show" }, { "docid": "15021683", "text": "the group's 2004 official concerts were released as \"The Who Encore Series 2004\". Only the band's promotional appearance for CBS at Carnegie Hall in New York was omitted from the series. with The March London shows saw the group open with \"Who Are You\" for the first time, though they would eventually return to the traditional show-opener, \"I Can't Explain\". These shows also saw the first performances of \"Real Good Looking Boy\" and further renditions of \"Old Red Wine\", which again appeared in abbreviated form after \"My Generation\" as in 2002. The group also resurrected \"Long Live Rock\" and \"Love", "title": "The Who Tour 2004" }, { "docid": "12819944", "text": "contract with ABC permitted her to quickly join another existing project before the 1976-77 season ended if \"The Nancy Walker Show\" was cancelled after a very short run. ABC did, indeed, drop the series after 10 episodes, and Walker was quickly hired by Garry Marshall to star in his upcoming sitcom \"Blansky's Beauties\", a spin-off from his top-rated \"Happy Days\". Production on the new series started so soon that \"Blansky's Beauties\" premiered on February 12, 1977, less than two months after the cancellation and last broadcast of \"The Nancy Walker Show\". Walker also had time to film a guest appearance", "title": "The Nancy Walker Show" }, { "docid": "3288497", "text": "The Saw Doctors The Saw Doctors are an Irish rock band. Formed in 1986 in Tuam, County Galway, they have achieved eighteen Top 30 singles in the Republic of Ireland including three number ones. Their first number one, \"I Useta Lover,\" topped the Irish charts for nine consecutive weeks in 1990 and still holds the record for the country's all-time biggest-selling single. Renowned for their live performances, the band has a cult following, especially in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. On 15 February 2008, they received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards. The", "title": "The Saw Doctors" }, { "docid": "7597904", "text": "more experienced couple of recording artists, while newcomers Ashley Brown and Andrew Samonsky were cast in the roles of the newer musicians. Richard Easton received the role of the Sound Engineer, a part that was ultimately cut from the show. Kaitlin Hopkins, as the only actor to regularly replace one of the original four leads, took over Skinner's role as Diane on January 15, 2005. In its 36-week tour, \"On the Record\" was performed for over 350,000 people, opening on November 19, 2004 at Cleveland, Ohio's Palace Theater and closing July 31, 2005 at Denver, Colorado's Denver Center for the", "title": "On the Record (musical)" }, { "docid": "14661224", "text": "\"Jeopardy!\" episodes aired between 1989 and 2004 have been collected by the UCLA Archive, and the premiere and various other episodes are included in the Paley Center's collection. By 1994 the press called \"Jeopardy!\" \"an American icon\". It has won a record 33 Daytime Emmy Awards since 1984. The show holds the record for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show, with fifteen awards won in that category. Another five awards have been won by Trebek for Outstanding Game Show Host. Twelve other awards were won by the show's directors and writers in the respective categories of Outstanding", "title": "Jeopardy!" }, { "docid": "5215372", "text": "Try This At Home\" and then renamed \"Challenge of a Lifetime\". In the United States the Game Show Network aired \"Who Dares Wins\" on several occasions, with the tagline that \"Who Dares Wins\" was \"Australian for Game Show\" as a parody of Foster's Lager's American advertising campaign of the time. At the height of the show's popularity, Mike Whitney introduced the 'Maxibon challenge', a minor segment challenge to eat a Nestlé Maxibon ice-cream in 30 seconds. Every week Whitney would test the mettle of the Australian public. If a contestant managed to complete the challenge they would then be awarded", "title": "Who Dares Wins (game show)" }, { "docid": "8520332", "text": "The Uncle Al Show The Uncle Al Show was a children's television program originating in Cincinnati. The show was hosted by Cleveland native Al Lewis (1924–2009) (not to be confused with the actor who played Grandpa on \"The Munsters\"), and later was co-hosted by his wife, Wanda. The show enjoyed a remarkable 35-year run (1950–1985) on WCPO-TV, making it one of the longest-running local children's shows in American TV history. (\"Sesame Street\" holds the national record, as it is now approaching its 50th consecutive year on the air.) \"Uncle Al\" holds the unofficial record for the longest-running regularly-scheduled series with", "title": "The Uncle Al Show" }, { "docid": "10231898", "text": "I Lost on Jeopardy \"I Lost on Jeopardy\" is a song by \"Weird Al\" Yankovic from his second album, \"\"Weird Al\" Yankovic in 3-D\". The song is a parody of \"Jeopardy\" by The Greg Kihn Band, and its refrain \"Our love's in jeopardy\". The parody's lyrics center on the then-former game show \"Jeopardy!\", hosted by Art Fleming; a syndicated revival, with Alex Trebek, began three months after the single's release. The song has been referenced several times on the game show itself, including once as a category on the current Alex Trebek-hosted version, and later when Yankovic appeared on \"Rock", "title": "I Lost on Jeopardy" }, { "docid": "10231904", "text": "back seat of an Alfa Romeo Spider convertible driven by Greg Kihn himself, with the license plate reading \"LOSER\". I Lost on Jeopardy \"I Lost on Jeopardy\" is a song by \"Weird Al\" Yankovic from his second album, \"\"Weird Al\" Yankovic in 3-D\". The song is a parody of \"Jeopardy\" by The Greg Kihn Band, and its refrain \"Our love's in jeopardy\". The parody's lyrics center on the then-former game show \"Jeopardy!\", hosted by Art Fleming; a syndicated revival, with Alex Trebek, began three months after the single's release. The song has been referenced several times on the game show", "title": "I Lost on Jeopardy" }, { "docid": "14433307", "text": "what this band's about, [...] and it gives you a look at where our sound can go.\" On the album there is a special message recorded by Jacoby Shaddix. It is heard at the last 0:39 of \"Last Resort (Live)\". The message encourages fans to help fight homelessness and hunger. He asks fans to take out their phones and to text a number to WhyHunger to donate $5 to them. UK Edition UK Edition DVD Time for Annihilation: On the Record & On the Road Time for Annihilation: On the Record & On the Road is the first live album", "title": "Time for Annihilation: On the Record & On the Road" }, { "docid": "1592145", "text": "presented: Since the 55th Grammy Awards in 2013, mastering engineers are considered nominees and award recipients in this category. Record of the Year is related to but is conceptually different from Song of the Year or Album of the Year: The honorees through its history have been: Tom Coyne holds the record for most wins in this category as a mastering engineer at four times (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018). Coyne is the only person to win the award four consecutive years (2015–2018). Paul Simon has won three times, more than any other artist (\"Mrs. Robinson\" in 1969, \"Bridge over", "title": "Grammy Award for Record of the Year" }, { "docid": "13945106", "text": "statistics and its lack of technical grounding. \"What the Dog Saw\" debuted at #3 on the \"New York Times\" Bestseller List. It spent three weeks in the top 3 and a total of 16 weeks on the chart, appearing concurrently with Gladwell's previous book \"Outliers\". It was also an Amazon Top 25 seller for the month of November. \"What the Dog Saw\" was named to Bloomberg's top 50 business books of 2009. All of the articles in \"What the Dog Saw\" can be read for free on Gladwell's website. Part 1: \"Obsessives, Pioneers, and other varieties of Minor Genius\" Part", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "9062159", "text": "in syndication), eliminating the longstanding rule limiting consecutive appearances for a champion to five. With no limit to his appearances, Jennings began to break many game show records. As his streak continued deeper into the 21st season, Jennings was inching closer and closer to Olmstead's record. Jennings topped Olmstead's \"Millionaire\" winnings with his 65th consecutive win, finishing the day with $45,099 and a new cumulative total of $2,197,000. Jennings won nine more games before his streak came to an end on November 30, 2004. He had extended his record total to $2,520,700 at the time of his defeat, after which", "title": "American game show winnings records" }, { "docid": "12656508", "text": "The Cafe (2004 talk show) The Cafe is a talk show aimed at young people in Ireland. The show debuted in 2004. It was broadcast on RTÉ Two each Friday evening at 19:00, having switched from its previous location in the Thursday scheduling from 7 November 2008. It was presented by Aidan Power, although Laura Woods and Liam McCormack were his previous co-presenters. The waitress was Avril Kelly, who served drinks to the audience and guests and acts as the announcer of what would occur following the commercial break.opening . Chats were conducted with two or three guests, there were", "title": "The Cafe (2004 talk show)" }, { "docid": "17856650", "text": "has also been known as Best Local Show (1970), Most Popular Show (1971, 1973–1985), Most Popular Series (1993–1997) and Most Popular Australian Program (2003–2004). \"State Affair\" holds the record for the most wins, with fifteen, followed by \"Adelaide Tonight\", \"The Mike Walsh Show\" and \"Neighbours\" with nine wins each. Logie Award for Most Popular Australian Program The Silver Logie for Most Popular Australian Program was an award presented at the Australian TV Week Logie Awards. The award was given to recognise the popularity of Australian programs, originally state based awards and then awarded nationally. It was first awarded at the", "title": "Logie Award for Most Popular Australian Program" }, { "docid": "18296503", "text": "same format followed by \"Jeopardy!\", in which they could compete indefinitely unless beaten; a tie between two or three players with at least 1 point would result in a sudden-death answer playoff, in a pre-determined category. This was to allow the show to be seen as more easily binge-watched. Under the returning champions format, four contestants won 5 consecutive games, including 15 day champion Vinny Varadarajan, 8 day champion Earl Holland, 6 day champion Eric Park, and 5 day champion Roy Hollis, with no tournament or final announced on-air for top winning contestants as of the most recent episodes. In", "title": "Sports Jeopardy!" }, { "docid": "7597905", "text": "Performing Arts. While the production was originally planned to run through September 4, after playing to disappointing, small audiences, the production ultimately decided on an earlier closing date after only two months on the road. There are currently no plans for either Equity or non-Equity licensing of the production. In April 2009, the show saw new life in the form of Children's Musical Theatre of San Jose's production of \"When You Wish\", a separate revue based on \"On the Record\". Adapted by the theater's artistic director, Kevin Hauge, \"When You Wish\", much unlike its basis, tells the story of three", "title": "On the Record (musical)" }, { "docid": "17879378", "text": "tournament's final episode airing that year on May 16, covering 25 shows in total. The tournament's grand prize was US$1,000,000. Brad Rutter won the $1,000,000 cash prize, once again giving Rutter the highest game-show winnings in history. The Battle of the Decades was conceived by \"Jeopardy!\" executive producer Harry Friedman. Knowing that the Trebek version was nearing its 30th anniversary, he and other producers of the program contacted every still-living \"Jeopardy!\" contestant who had ever participated in a Tournament of Champions to see if they would be interested in making another appearance on the program. The many people who expressed", "title": "Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades" }, { "docid": "15218675", "text": "The Drums of Jeopardy (1931 film) The Drums of Jeopardy is a 1931 American Pre-Code horror film directed by George B. Seitz. It is the second film adaption of Harold McGrath's novel of the same name, and stars Warner Oland as Dr. Boris Karlov. A mad scientist seeks revenge against those he holds responsible for his daughter's death. The film made its first and only debut on DVD on August 31, 2004. On his website \"Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings\", Dave Sindelar called it, \"a very interesting variation on the typical horror revenge plot\". Dennis Schwartz from Ozus' World Movie", "title": "The Drums of Jeopardy (1931 film)" }, { "docid": "11674349", "text": "round is played differently: The player in the lead after three questions wins, Hill hands over a trophy, and comes back next show in the yellow chair in the middle. Champions can stay for up to five episodes. There is a special show at the end of the season in which the three highest-scoring champions play for a grand prize. The 3 players who returned for the championship show competed for these prizes: Season 1: Season 2: Game On (Canadian game show) Game On is a Canadian sports trivia television game show that was a variation on \"Jeopardy!\". It ran", "title": "Game On (Canadian game show)" }, { "docid": "5215368", "text": "Who Dares Wins (game show) Who Dares Wins was an Australian adventure game show that aired on the Seven Network between 1996 and 1998, with re-runs airing in 2005 and 2007. Hosted by former test cricketer Mike Whitney and co-hosted by Tania Zaetta, the show has been screened in over 50 countries around the world. As an adventure game show in which contestants are expected to complete undesirable tasks in order to win prizes, \"Who Dares Wins\" could be considered a precursor to contemporary reality TV series such as \"Fear Factor\". It was created by David Mason and Adrian Brant.", "title": "Who Dares Wins (game show)" }, { "docid": "18458005", "text": "response had to be grammatically correct \"in addition to\" the usual requirement of phrasing in the form of a question. For example, a response that began \"Who is...\" when a \"What is...\" prefix was grammatically correct would be disallowed, and the contestant would be charged a penalty. By the time Paul Ross took over the show, the points had increased to the current 100 to 500 (Jeopardy! round) and 200 to 1000 for Double Jeopardy! The Daily Double amount was reduced to the standard one for the Jeopardy! Round and 2 for Double Jeopardy! The player leading after Final Jeopardy!", "title": "Jeopardy! (UK game show)" }, { "docid": "17282670", "text": "music programme appearances, the group collected eight first place wins for \"This Love\", including the Triple Crown, i.e. first place for three consecutive weeks, on \"M! Countdown\"; the first since \"Brand New\" in 2004. This also surpasses the previous record of seven number one wins, held by \"Yo!\" from their second album, \"T.O.P\" in 1999. Other wins include two each from \"Show Champion\", and \"Music Core\"; and one from \"Music Bank\". The Classic (Shinhwa album) The Classic is the eleventh studio album of South Korean boy band Shinhwa, in commemoration of their 15th anniversary. It was released on 16 May", "title": "The Classic (Shinhwa album)" }, { "docid": "14433305", "text": "and \"No Matter What\". That month, the band also released the teaser for the live album, confirming the release date to be in the summer of 2010. In June, on Nikki Sixx's radio show, \"Sixx Sense\", Jacoby confirmed that one of the new songs was called \"One Track Mind\". The song was previously titled \"Nemesis\" but was changed to \"One Track Mind\" after Jacoby changed the chorus of the song. On June 29, the band's former label, Geffen Records, released a greatest hits compilation of the band's biggest hits, titled \"\". The band, however, told fans not to buy it.", "title": "Time for Annihilation: On the Record & On the Road" }, { "docid": "6126840", "text": "a block of daytime games on NBC during the early 1970s, which began with \"Concentration\" at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time and continued to \"Three on a Match\" at 1:30 p.m. Most of these games were known for emphasizing game play over prizes, which were intentionally small due to memories of the quiz show scandals of the 1950s. \"The Who, What, or Where Game\" ran at 12:30 p.m./11:30 a.m. Central, opposite \"Search for Tomorrow\" on CBS, and sitcom reruns, soap operas, and the games \"Password\" and \"Split Second\" on ABC. Because NBC ran a five-minute newscast anchored by either Floyd Kalber", "title": "The Who, What, or Where Game" }, { "docid": "18458004", "text": "responses (or lack of) to questions selected, a concession made because of severe restrictions on game show prizes in the UK at the time. The original point values were 5 to 25 in the Jeopardy! Round and 10 to 50 in Double Jeopardy! There were three Daily Doubles in each round. In the Hobson, Donat, and Jones runs, the contestants only saw their own scores, although, at the end of each round, they were told their relative positions, i.e., who was in first place, who was in second, and who was in third. Also under Hobson, Donat, and Jones, the", "title": "Jeopardy! (UK game show)" }, { "docid": "13472909", "text": "help of psychiatrist Dr Viorne to find answers. \"What the Peeper Saw\" was released in Italy on October 14 1972 and in West Germany on February 7, 1973. What the Peeper Saw What the Peeper Saw or Night Child is a 1972 horror film starring Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Krüger and Lilli Palmer. Marcus is a twelve-year-old schoolboy whose mother has recently died, leaving it up to his wealthy father Paul to look after him. He takes a sexual interest in his stepmother Elise. She notices his abnormal behaviour and investigates by visiting his school after discovering a torn-up", "title": "What the Peeper Saw" }, { "docid": "13945103", "text": "What the Dog Saw What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures is the fourth book released by author Malcolm Gladwell, on October 20, 2009. The book is a compilation of the journalist's articles published in \"The New Yorker\". Gladwell initially covered business and science in \"The Washington Post\" before joining the staff at \"The New Yorker\" in 1997. Each of the articles first appeared in \"The New Yorker\" and was handpicked by Gladwell. The stories share a common theme, namely that Gladwell tries to show us the world through the eyes of others, even if that other happens to be", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "13945107", "text": "2: \"Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses\" Part 3: \"Personality, Character, and Intelligence\" What the Dog Saw What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures is the fourth book released by author Malcolm Gladwell, on October 20, 2009. The book is a compilation of the journalist's articles published in \"The New Yorker\". Gladwell initially covered business and science in \"The Washington Post\" before joining the staff at \"The New Yorker\" in 1997. Each of the articles first appeared in \"The New Yorker\" and was handpicked by Gladwell. The stories share a common theme, namely that Gladwell tries to show us the world through", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "7057523", "text": "On September 6, 2016, Greta Van Susteren announced that she would be leaving Fox News. Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume was named as the interim host of the show for the rest of the 2016 election cycle. The program aired its final episode, with Hume as host, on Election Eve, November 7, 2016. On Thursday and Friday to finish out the week, \"On the Record\" was hosted by two final guest hosts, Martha MacCallum and Ed Henry, with Friday, November 11, 2016 being the last On the Record. The vacated 7pm time slot was replaced on November 14,", "title": "On the Record (U.S. TV program)" }, { "docid": "6163447", "text": "had 1,359 yards rushing in 14 games and set a new NFL record with 26 total TDs, a record that would soon be broken by Priest Holmes, then by Shaun Alexander, and later LaDainian Tomlinson in 2006 (Faulk missed 2 games in 2000). Faulk had 18 scores on the ground, setting a new franchise record, and 8 through the air. He also averaged 5+ yards per carry again, this time with 5.4. From 1999 to 2001 Marshall Faulk had what may have been the best consecutive seasons in league history. In that span, he scored 59 total TD's, rang up", "title": "The Greatest Show on Turf" }, { "docid": "19650059", "text": "Since its inception, the award has been given to eight game shows. In 1980, \"The $20,000 Pyramid\" and \"Hollywood Squares\" tied for the award, which was the first tie in this category. In 2006, \"Jeopardy!\" became the series with the most wins in the category when it won a tenth time, surpassing \"Pyramid\"s previous record of nine; \"Jeopardy!\" went on to win in six additional years, ultimately receiving sixteen wins. All eight wins for \"The Price Is Right\" have taken place since 1988. \"Jeopardy!\" also has been nominated on 36 occasions, more than any other series. As of the 2018", "title": "Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show" }, { "docid": "9879099", "text": "On the Record (book) On the Record: Over 150 of the most talented people in music share the secrets of their success (2004), by Guy Oseary, presents a collection of interviews with the top stars and important players in the music industry. Artist, label heads, song-writers, A&R executives, producers, and others recall their mentors, describe their first jobs in the business, and discuss the lessons they have learned over the course of their careers. The list of music's elite include: Artists: James Brown Elton John Bono Madonna Ozzy Osbourne Keith Richards Brian Wilson Alicia Keys Fiona Apple John Frusciante Producers/Songwriters:", "title": "On the Record (book)" }, { "docid": "9879100", "text": "Rick Rubin Sir George Martin Jermaine Dupri Giorgio Moroder David Foster Daniel Lanois A&R Wizards and Executives: Lyor Cohen Tom Whalley Guy Oseary Ron Handler Bruce Lundvall John Kalodner Legends: Quincy Jones Russell Simmons Dick Clark Seymour Stein Chris Blackwell Ahmet Ertegün Berry Gordy Attorneys: John Branca Fred Davis Eric Greenspan Don Passman Managers: Irving Azoff Paul McGuinness Benny Medina Television and Film: Judy McGrath Tom Freston John Sykes McG On the Record (book) On the Record: Over 150 of the most talented people in music share the secrets of their success (2004), by Guy Oseary, presents a collection of", "title": "On the Record (book)" }, { "docid": "13455332", "text": "For the Love of Nancy For the Love of Nancy is a 1994 television film directed by Paul Schneider. The film, based on a true story, deals with anorexia nervosa. Lead actress Tracey Gold was actually recovering from the disease while making the movie and used her own life experience for the portrayal of Nancy. Nancy Walsh is a high school graduate who is apprehensive about the future. After losing weight after having her wisdom teeth removed, Nancy notices changes in her body and becomes obsessed with her physical appearance. When she begins college, she becomes withdrawn and remains conscious", "title": "For the Love of Nancy" }, { "docid": "15017029", "text": "The Show Goes On (song) \"The Show Goes On\" is a song by American recording artist Lupe Fiasco, released on October 26, 2010 as the lead single from his third studio album \"Lasers\". Prominently built on the bassline of Pachelbel's Canon, the song was produced by Kane Beatz, and the melody of the song was based on the 2004 song \"Float On\" by Modest Mouse. Unlike \"Canon\", which is traditionally in the key of D, the song transposes it to the G key. The song features backing vocals from JR Get Money. It was released to iTunes on November 9,", "title": "The Show Goes On (song)" }, { "docid": "18458003", "text": "Jeopardy! (UK game show) Jeopardy! was a game show based on the US version of the same name. It was originally aired on Channel 4 from 12 January 1983 to 2 July 1984, hosted by Derek Hobson, then was revived by ITV from 3 September 1990 to 9 April 1993, first hosted by Chris Donat in 1990 and then hosted by Steve Jones from 1991 to 1993 and then finally on Sky One from 24 July 1995 to 30 December 1996, hosted by Paul Ross. Unlike in the U.S. version, contestants have points (instead of money) added or subtracted for", "title": "Jeopardy! (UK game show)" }, { "docid": "12907569", "text": "back at the work he had published, he felt that he had never comprehensively addressed the evidence of common descent. Dawkins believed that opposition to evolution was as strong as ever, despite the overwhelming, and growing, body of evidence for the theory. He started writing \"The Greatest Show on Earth\" during his final months as Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science (Marcus du Sautoy now holds the position) and finished it in retirement. He thought that 2009, the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and 150th anniversary of his book \"On the Origin of Species\", was the perfect time", "title": "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" }, { "docid": "14661214", "text": "It was significantly remodeled when season 30 premiered in September 2013. Since the debut of \"Jeopardy!\" in 1964, several different songs and arrangements have served as the theme music for the show, most of which were composed by Griffin. The main theme for the original \"Jeopardy!\" series was \"Take Ten\", composed by Griffin's wife Julann. \"The All-New Jeopardy!\" opened with \"January, February, March\" and closed with \"Frisco Disco\", both of which were composed by Griffin himself. The best-known theme song on \"Jeopardy!\" is \"Think!\", originally composed by Griffin under the title \"A Time for Tony\", as a lullaby for his", "title": "Jeopardy!" }, { "docid": "11399289", "text": "to his songs. He’s a singer that you can tell really does what he does for the love of it, inspired by real emotion and a desire to let it all out.\" Later on the review he wrote \" There’s not a single song on this album that I wouldn’t call enjoyable. However, the album as a whole really doesn’t show much diversity. While there’s a plethora of mentionable riffs and vocal hooks, there is a lack of musical maturity throughout Champion. They’re not tied to any style, timeline, and they don’t have much of a reputation to lose with", "title": "Champion (The Audition album)" }, { "docid": "18547174", "text": "Artists with the most number-ones on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart This is a list of artists with the most number-ones on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Dance Club Songs chart. Madonna currently holds the record for the most number-one songs in the 41-year history of the chart, with 46 and is the artist with the most number-ones of any \"Billboard\" chart. The only other artists to have achieved more than 20 chart toppers are Rihanna (30) and Beyoncé (22). Janet Jackson has accumulated 20 number-ones during her career, followed by Katy Perry with 18. Mariah Carey and Kristine W are", "title": "Artists with the most number-ones on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart" }, { "docid": "15017032", "text": "play it on the radio... So every time you hear it, you're going to hear me talking about your ass.\" On February 28, 2011, what the \"Complex\" magazine published an interview with Lupe that detailed the background behind the single. In an interview with \"The Adelaide Tribune\", Lupe expanded further on his feelings toward the record. The song was released on Lupe Fiasco's website on October 26 for download. This marked the first officially planned released single from \"Lasers\" (\"Shining Down\" and \"I'm Beamin\" were leaks re-released as street singles). \"The Show Goes On\" appeared on the iTunes Music Store", "title": "The Show Goes On (song)" }, { "docid": "6126835", "text": "The Who, What, or Where Game The Who, What, or Where Game was an American television game show that was broadcast weekdays on NBC from December 29, 1969 to January 4, 1974. The host was Art James, and the announcer was Mike Darrow; Ron Greenberg packaged the show, which was recorded in NBC studios 6A and 8H in Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Three contestants, one usually a returning champion, competed. Each player was spotted $125 at the start of the game and used that money to wager on their knowledge of the questions presented. Each category (which dealt", "title": "The Who, What, or Where Game" }, { "docid": "12907567", "text": "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution is a 2009 book by British biologist Richard Dawkins, which was released on 3 September 2009 in the UK and on 22 September 2009 in the US. It sets out the evidence for biological evolution, and is Dawkins's 10th book, following his best-selling critique of religion \"The God Delusion\" (2006) and \"The Ancestor's Tale\" (2004), which traced human ancestry back to the dawn of life. The book is published in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth nations by Transworld, and in the United", "title": "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" }, { "docid": "19903980", "text": "herself, Rosalee discovers that Max is the most affected with the Umkippen, deducing he is the killer. Before the show, Max confronts Hedig, who woges into a Löwen and reveals himself to be the killer of the people who saw him woged. Having discovered new evidence, Nick and Hank interrupt the show to arrest Hedig. Max breaks out of his cage and begins an attack while Hedig escapes to a mirror maze to find the Wesen. The performers are tired of his treatment and a Dämonfeuer kills him. The episode ends as Monroe and Rosalee are preparing for bed when", "title": "The Show Must Go On (Grimm)" }, { "docid": "6163452", "text": "yards in 2000 and 2003, that year the Rams went 12–4 (missing out on homefield advantage due to an upset loss to the Detroit Lions), and lost in double overtime against the eventual NFC Champion Carolina Panthers. Wide receiver, St. Louis Rams (1998 to 2001), Detroit Lions (2002 to 2004), New Orleans Saints (2005), Detroit Lions (2006), San Diego Chargers (2006) Hakim was another player instrumental to the success of “The Greatest Show on Turf”. He was with the Rams for four seasons (1998 to 2001) before being signed as a free agent to the Detroit Lions. During the 1999", "title": "The Greatest Show on Turf" }, { "docid": "6008294", "text": "memorial on the side of the road, to kneel down and say that she saw him, answering his question asked earlier in the video \"What do you see?\" when they were talking about the future. The music video was directed by Shaun Silva in early 2006. Rascal Flatts' version of the song is set in the key of F minor, with a vocal range of E♭3-C 5. The main chord pattern is Fm-D♭-A♭-E♭. From \"Me and My Gang\" liner notes. In 2007, German Eurodance trio Cascada recorded a cover of \"What Hurts the Most\" for their second studio album, \"Perfect", "title": "What Hurts the Most" }, { "docid": "14433303", "text": "Time for Annihilation: On the Record & On the Road Time for Annihilation: On the Record & On the Road is the first live album by California rock band Papa Roach. It was released on August 31, 2010. Jerry Horton said in a blog on the band's official website that they recorded it on the last run of the tour with Shinedown. Later, Jacoby Shaddix reported on the site that five entirely new tracks had been written and would be studio recorded and released with the \"Time for Annihilation\" album. The first single, \"Kick in the Teeth\", was released on", "title": "Time for Annihilation: On the Record & On the Road" }, { "docid": "7597900", "text": "On the Record (musical) On the Record (sometimes referred to as Disney's On the Record) is a jukebox musical revue featuring many classic songs from a variety of live action and animated films and television series produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Broadway musical plays produced by Walt Disney Theatrical, and even Disneyland attractions. This theatrical celebration of 75 years of Disney music tells the story of four singers recording a greatest hits album in a magical recording studio. After opening in Cleveland in 2004, the production toured for nine months, visiting 24 cities in the United States before closing in", "title": "On the Record (musical)" }, { "docid": "10231900", "text": "in which the contestant receiving the clue—which consisted of a part of the lyrics—succeeded to identify the singer. The song was played over the closing credits on the second episode of \"Rock & Roll Jeopardy!\" on which Yankovic appeared. The song has appeared on several compilation albums, including \"Greatest Hits\" (1988), \"Wacky Favorites\" (1993), and \"\" (1994). The video was directed by Francis Delia and filmed on May 24 and 25, 1984. The video takes place on a re-creation of the original set from the 1964-75 version of the quiz show \"Jeopardy!\" (for some reason, the exclamation point used in", "title": "I Lost on Jeopardy" }, { "docid": "18547204", "text": "Picchiotti, \"Birthday\" became her fourteenth consecutive hit in June. As a result, Perry broke out of her tie with Gaga and Houston and entered into a different tie with Lopez, this time for eighth most number-ones overall. \"This Is How We Do\" became Perry's record-holding fifteenth consecutive and most recent number-one song that November, tying her with Donna Summer. Additionally, it became her fourth song to reach number-one in 2014, the most among all acts that year. As a result, Perry became one of only four acts to have achieved four number-one songs in a calendar year in the history", "title": "Artists with the most number-ones on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart" }, { "docid": "18458007", "text": "had debuted or been finalised and was thus based upon the original Art Fleming-hosted version of the game. Jeopardy! (UK game show) Jeopardy! was a game show based on the US version of the same name. It was originally aired on Channel 4 from 12 January 1983 to 2 July 1984, hosted by Derek Hobson, then was revived by ITV from 3 September 1990 to 9 April 1993, first hosted by Chris Donat in 1990 and then hosted by Steve Jones from 1991 to 1993 and then finally on Sky One from 24 July 1995 to 30 December 1996, hosted", "title": "Jeopardy! (UK game show)" }, { "docid": "12557510", "text": "to bring up to three friends. MTV posted a two-minute trailer on November 24, 2008. \"Britney: For the Record\" premiered on November 30, 2008 via MTV, two days before the birthday of Spears and the release of \"Circus\". The network's official website posted a sneak preview on October 8. The official MTV will air the documentary in Spanish language countries such has Spainon November 30 two hours after the U.S premier. MTV Tr3s will air a special edition of the documentary subtitled into Spanish for the American public. \"Britney: For The Record\" premiered with 3.7 Million Viewers on MTV. The", "title": "Britney: For the Record" }, { "docid": "12819942", "text": "Nancy that she close down the talent agency so that they could have enough time to spend together. Lorraine and Glen often dropped by to help them sort their disagreements out. Also seen were hot-shot network TV executive Teddy Futterman (William Schallert), who met with Nancy whenever one of her clients had a shot at further stardom, and Futterman's precocious young son, Michael (Sparky Marcus). \"The Nancy Walker Show\" was one of TV's earliest portrayals of homosexuality, with the character of Terry Folson. The public was not surprised that innovative producer Norman Lear would for once provide the viewing landscape", "title": "The Nancy Walker Show" }, { "docid": "10369629", "text": "What Men Deserve to Lose What Men Deserve To Lose is the fifth album by Scottish Celtic fusion group Peatbog Faeries, recorded at Skye Recording in Roag on the band's native Isle of Skye in 2007, and was commercially released on 16 July 2007 on the band's own label Peatbog Records, though the album had been sold at festivals, and from the band's website, since 22 June 2007. It is the band's first album to feature Graeme Stafford, who brings what the band described as a \"dancey\" feel to the album. Following the band's previous album \"Croftwork\" (2005) and its", "title": "What Men Deserve to Lose" }, { "docid": "10369616", "text": "What Men Deserve to Lose What Men Deserve To Lose is the fifth album by Scottish Celtic fusion group Peatbog Faeries, recorded at Skye Recording in Roag on the band's native Isle of Skye in 2007, and was commercially released on 16 July 2007 on the band's own label Peatbog Records, though the album had been sold at festivals, and from the band's website, since 22 June 2007. It is the band's first album to feature Graeme Stafford, who brings what the band described as a \"dancey\" feel to the album. Following the band's previous album \"Croftwork\" (2005) and its", "title": "What Men Deserve to Lose" }, { "docid": "18547203", "text": "most consecutive number-one singles, who also had an active streak of 11. Perry broke out of this tie with Lopez when the second single from \"Prism\", \"Unconditionally\", topped the chart in January 2014, becoming her twelfth. Perry has subsequently continued to extend her own record of consecutive number-songs with each song that she has released since; her thirteenth, \"Dark Horse\" featuring Juicy J, topped the chart just one month later in February. At the time, Perry tied with Lady Gaga and Whitney Houston for the ninth most number-ones on the chart overall. Assisted by remixes from Cash Cash and Mark", "title": "Artists with the most number-ones on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart" }, { "docid": "6126839", "text": "with one final category. Once again, the category and question odds would be displayed for the contestants. However, players could wager any or all of their scores. Whoever was ahead at the end of the game was declared champion and returned the next show, with each player leaving with the money he or she had earned. A champion could return for a maximum of five days. Later in its run, \"The Who, What, or Where Game\" instituted a monthly car giveaway contest in which the champion with the highest winnings also received a new car. The show was part of", "title": "The Who, What, or Where Game" }, { "docid": "10231899", "text": "& Roll Jeopardy!\". It was the subject of an Audio Daily Double on the daytime episode that originally aired on October 23, 1984, when the contestant who got the clue was asked to identify the artist of the song from an audio sample of the song but failed to do so, the subject of a Daily Double on the April 27, 2012 episode of the show, with the contestant receiving the clue—which consisted of the release year and some lyrics—failed to identify the song, and the subject of a Daily Double on the March 15, 2018 episode of the show,", "title": "I Lost on Jeopardy" }, { "docid": "13945105", "text": "the difference between early and late bloomers to criminal profiling. \"What the Dog Saw\" was met with mainly positive reviews. It received profiles in many high-profile publications, including the \"New York Times\", \"The Guardian\", \"Time Magazine\", \"The Los Angeles Times\" and \"The Independent\". In particular, Gladwell was praised for his writing and storytelling, and reviewers looked upon the essay format positively, with \"The Guardian\" stating \"one virtue of What the Dog Saw is that the pieces are perfectly crafted: they achieve their purpose more effectively when they aren't stretched out.\" \"What The Dog Saw\" was criticized for its use of", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "8110540", "text": "the 1987 season. Bryant Gumbel hosted the \"NFL on NBC\" pregame show through the 1981 season, when he left NBC Sports to become co-anchor of NBC's morning program \"Today\". In his final two seasons on \"The NFL on NBC\", Gumbel served as the sole host for the pre-game show. Gumbel was subsequently replaced by Len Berman, who was joined by Adamle, Pete Axthelm (who left following the 1985 season) and Ahmad Rashād. For Berman's second season (and what turned out to be his final full season) as host, Bill Macatee (who left following the 1984 season) and Dave Marash (who", "title": "The NFL on NBC pregame show" }, { "docid": "12819943", "text": "with a gay character, regularly, in a TV series (since it was still rare and uncharted at the time), considering that Lear had been the first to introduce virginal topics such as racism, class structure, menopause, abortion, and the like within a traditional sitcom format. However, at least one American TV series had preceded \"The Nancy Walker Show\" with a regular character who was gay; the 1972-73 ABC sitcom \"The Corner Bar\" was the first in TV history to have one, with Vincent Schiavelli's bar patron Peter Panama. When Nancy Walker signed on to star in this series, her new", "title": "The Nancy Walker Show" }, { "docid": "14661187", "text": "at the end of the round is that day's winner. If there is a tie for second place, consolation prizes are awarded based on the scores going into the Final Jeopardy! round. If all three contestants finish with $0, no one returns as champion for the next show, and based on scores going into the Final Jeopardy! round, the two contestants who were first and second will receive the second-place prize, and the contestant in third will receive the third-place prize. The strategy for wagering in Final Jeopardy! has been studied. If the leader's score is more than twice the", "title": "Jeopardy!" }, { "docid": "12650319", "text": "What the Butler Saw (The Avengers) \"What the Butler Saw\" is the twenty-second episode of the fourth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series \"The Avengers\", starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. It originally aired on ABC on 25 February 1966. The episode was directed by Bill Bain and written by Philip Levene. A butler asks for a pay rise and another butler, Benson, is hailed and hands a gun on a plate to a hidden man in a chair to kill the butler, whose body is then dropped in a lake. Steed visits a barber for a", "title": "What the Butler Saw (The Avengers)" }, { "docid": "14968487", "text": "scrimmage matches against his friends with quiz bowl experience. Craig believes his attendance at the two universities helped the most in his success:Let's face it, for Jeopardy!, the name of the game is breadth not depth. I think the main reason both universities helped so much is that they cover just about all spheres of learning in extraordinary depth. Craig set his record of US$77,000 on the second day of the 2010–2011 \"Jeopardy!\" season on the episode airing September 14, 2010. In his record-setting appearance, he had a score of $47,000 after the game's first two rounds, then wagered and", "title": "Roger Craig (Jeopardy! contestant)" }, { "docid": "6758325", "text": "the motif of the stolen soul is dealt with elsewhere in mythology, such as the Soul Cage in Cornwall folklore, or Pakistani stories in which caged birds represent souls. This episode was criticized for being a \"throwaway\" episode, serving mostly as a plot device to get Lorne and Cordelia back into the series, and for its \"thinly veiled\" and heavy-handed allegory using magic to show how people can lose their dreams and ambitions by throwing money away in the casinos. The House Always Wins \"The House Always Wins\" is episode 3 of season 4 in the television show \"Angel\". Written", "title": "The House Always Wins" }, { "docid": "16741552", "text": "mining stock. Later, Gene hears the edited conversation broadcast on the radio and is furious—especially when he learns that the ranchers have followed his \"advice\" and purchased the stock. When Gene and his sidekick Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) go after Nancy, they encounter three armed thugs who just robbed Nancy and Pearson of the payroll. When Nancy and Pearson arrive, Nancy offers to show Gene the mine to prove that it is a good investment. Pearson offers to take the thugs to jail. Unknown to Gene and the others, Pearson owns the Atlas Mining Equipment Company and wants the mine", "title": "Stardust on the Sage" }, { "docid": "13368504", "text": "Harvey winning the Michael Tuck Medal for the player judged best on ground during the final. The 2004 Premiership season saw the club win a club record ten consecutive matches between round 1 and round 10, before they were defeated by Sydney in Round 11. A consistent and very competitive season saw St Kilda finish third at the end of the home and away rounds and qualify for the finals series with 16 wins and 6 losses. Full-forward Fraser Gehrig won the Coleman Medal for the most goals kicked in the 2004 home and away season (90). In the 2004", "title": "History of the St Kilda Football Club" }, { "docid": "13472908", "text": "What the Peeper Saw What the Peeper Saw or Night Child is a 1972 horror film starring Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Krüger and Lilli Palmer. Marcus is a twelve-year-old schoolboy whose mother has recently died, leaving it up to his wealthy father Paul to look after him. He takes a sexual interest in his stepmother Elise. She notices his abnormal behaviour and investigates by visiting his school after discovering a torn-up letter from his headmaster. Elise is shocked by her findings. She becomes increasingly disturbed and wonders if Marcus is to blame for his mother's death. She enlists the", "title": "What the Peeper Saw" }, { "docid": "18026264", "text": "the Cartier Champion Two-year-old Colt of 2010 after winning the Royal Lodge Stakes and the Dewhurst Stakes, Frankel had taken his unbeaten run to seven with wins in the Greenham Stakes, 2000 Guineas (by six lengths) and St James's Palace Stakes. He was opposed by Canford Cliffs, a four-year-old trained by Richard Hannon, Sr. in Wiltshire and ridden by Richard Hughes who started at odds of 7/4. After finishing third in the 2010 running of the 2000 Guineas, he had won five consecutive Group One races: the Irish 2000 Guineas, St James's Palace Stakes, Sussex Stakes, Lockinge Stakes and Queen", "title": "Duel on the Downs" }, { "docid": "17310831", "text": "their past tournament games, and was published in 1992. In 2000, the show's writers released 4 volumes of quiz books titled \"Jeopardy!: What is Quiz Book 1-4?\", each featuring more than 300 pages worth of Jeopardy! boards from Seasons 14-17. In 2004, Barnes & Noble published \"This is Jeopardy!: Celebrating America's Favorite Quiz Show\". Written by Ray Richmond, it featured selected Final Jeopardy! answers and questions from each of the show's first twenty seasons, plus trivia and other notable facts about the show. A number of unauthorized books have been published about \"Jeopardy!\", written by people with ties to the", "title": "Jeopardy! (franchise)" }, { "docid": "15115164", "text": "Child Awards and National Best Books Award sponsored by USA Book News in 2008. In 2012, \"The Elf on the Shelf\" made its first appearance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade alongside fellow parade newcomers Hello Kitty and Papa Smurf. In 2013, \"The Elf on the Shelf\" hit the No. 1 spot on the USA Today Bestsellers List. On 26 November 2011, the book aired on CBS as a 30-minute animated TV show, \"An Elf's Story: The Elf on the Shelf\", directed by Chad Eikhoff. \"The Washington Post\" criticized the quality of the animation and dismissed it as \"just a", "title": "The Elf on the Shelf" }, { "docid": "7597906", "text": "children who stumble upon a fantasy world in which they meet many beloved Disney characters. While \"When You Wish\" abandons the recording studio setting, it incorporates \"On the Record\"'s same catalog of 71 years of Disney music. Later in 2014 White Plains Performing Arts Center presented the regional premiere of the production in its original form with a few new additions to the production. \"On the Record\", like most revues, involves characters that express their personalities and emotions with the use of song, rather than speech. In this case, the characters tell the show's simple, almost non-existent plot through selections", "title": "On the Record (musical)" }, { "docid": "18547205", "text": "of the chart, along with Rihanna, Beyoncé and Gaga. In October 2016, \"Rise\" became Perry's record extending sixteenth consecutive number-one song. It became her longest span between number-ones, having previously topped the chart in November 2014 with \"This Is How We Do\", and broke her streak of having achieved at least one chart topper every year between 2009 and 2014. Perry broke out of her tie with Summer, and into another with Kristine W and Lopez for the sixth most leaders. \"Chained to the Rhythm\" featuring Skip Marley became her seventeenth consecutive number-one in the chart issue dated April 22,", "title": "Artists with the most number-ones on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart" }, { "docid": "6237962", "text": "version of 'Lose My Breath.'\" On October 25, 2004, the group performed \"Lose My Breath\" during the Radio Music Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada starting with an a cappella jazz harmony. Destiny's Child appeared on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\" in November 2004 where they closed their performance with a rendition of the song. On November 8, 2004, the trio appeared on \"Total Request Live\" (\"TRL\") and performed the song along with \"Say My Name\". They went to the German entertainment TV show \"Wetten, dass..?\" on November 13, 2004 performing \"Lose My Breath\". The group \"Soldier\" and \"Lose My Breath\" at", "title": "Lose My Breath" } ]
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On December 1, 1955, who was famously arrested on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to obey bus driver James Blake's order to move to the back of the bus, sparking a year long boycott of the bus service?
[ "Rosa McCauley", "Rosa Louise Parks", "Rosa Parks", "Rosa L. Parks", "Death of Rosa Parks", "Rose Parks", "Rosa Louise McCauley", "Rosa Parkes", "Rosa Lee Parks", "Parks, Rosa Lee", "Rosa parks", "Joseph Skipper", "Rosa Park" ]
[ { "docid": "1337675", "text": "Alabama on April 26, 2018. Montgomery bus boycott The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955 — the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person — to December 20, 1956, when the federal ruling \"Browder v. Gayle\" took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337642", "text": "Montgomery bus boycott The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955 — the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person — to December 20, 1956, when the federal ruling \"Browder v. Gayle\" took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws that segregated buses were", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337652", "text": "were able to reboard. National City Lines owned the Montgomery Bus Line at the time of the Montgomery bus boycott. Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove off without her. Parks vowed never again to ride a bus driven by Blake. As a member of the NAACP, Parks was an", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337648", "text": "build a case to challenge state bus segregation laws around the arrest of a 15-year-old girl, Claudette Colvin, a student at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery. On March 2, 1955, Colvin was handcuffed, arrested and forcibly removed from a public bus when she refused to give up her seat to a white man. At the time, Colvin was an active member in the NAACP Youth Council; Rosa Parks was an advisor. Colvin's legal case formed the core of \"Browder v. Gayle\", which ended the Montgomery bus boycott when the Supreme Court ruled on it in December 1956. In", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337674", "text": "but all of the defendants were acquitted. About the same time, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled against Martin Luther King's appeal of his \"illegal boycott\" conviction. Rosa Parks left Montgomery due to death threats and employment blacklisting. According to Charles Silberman, \"by 1963, most Negroes in Montgomery had returned to the old custom of riding in the back of the bus.\" The National Memorial for Peace and Justice contains, among other things, a sculpture \"dedicated to the women who sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott\", by Dana King, to help illustrate the civil rights period. The memorial opened in downtown Montgomery,", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "6314487", "text": "James F. Blake James Fred Blake (April 14, 1912 – March 21, 2002) was the bus driver whom Rosa Parks defied in 1955, prompting the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Blake was drafted into the Army on December 23, 1943. He was enlisted and sworn in at Ft. McClellan, Alabama. His enlistment record states he was married and had attended 1 year of high school. Blake also had previous experience in chauffeuring, truck, and tractor driving. He served for five years in active duty in the European theatre during and after World War II. He worked as a bus driver for Montgomery", "title": "James F. Blake" }, { "docid": "682922", "text": "in politics, to freely use public places, to end segregation. According to the historian David Beito of the University of Alabama, African Americans in Montgomery \"nurtured the modern civil rights movement.\" African Americans comprised most of the customers on the city buses, but were forced to give up seats and even stand in order to make room for whites. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Martin Luther King Jr., then the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and E.D. Nixon, a", "title": "Montgomery, Alabama" }, { "docid": "13794729", "text": "On March 19, 1910, Montgomery became the winter home of the Wright brothers' Wright Flying School. The men frequented Montgomery and founded several airfields, one of which developed into Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base after the Wrights began working with the government to produce planes for military use. According to University of Alabama historian David Beito, Montgomery \"nurtured the modern civil rights movement.\" In December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Montgomery Improvement Association was created by Martin Luther King, Jr., then the pastor", "title": "History of Montgomery, Alabama" }, { "docid": "13210815", "text": "refusal of Rosa Parks to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama and the ensuing Montgomery Bus Boycott in the United States in 1955, the activists decided on a bus boycott in Bristol. Their action was announced at a press conference on 29 April 1963. The following day, they claimed that none of the city's West Indians were using the buses and that many White people supported them. In an editorial, the \"Bristol Evening Post\" pointed out that the TGWU opposed the apartheid system in South Africa and asked what trade union leaders were doing to counteract racism", "title": "Bristol Bus Boycott" }, { "docid": "6595001", "text": "believes that the organization has been ineffective in its battle against legalized racism. She worked as a seamstress in a department store. On December 1, 1955, after a tiring day at work, Rosa Parks took a seat in the designated \"colored\" section of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. When the \"white\" section at the front filled up, the driver, James Blake, ordered Parks to relinquish her seat, as was the practice. She refused, and was arrested and jailed. Civil rights activists organized a one-day bus boycott the day of her trial (she was fined). With its success, they founded", "title": "The Rosa Parks Story" }, { "docid": "2370376", "text": "indicates that NCL is understood to have had significant control but not ownership: Additional information: In Los Angeles the Los Angeles Railway (Yellow Cars) was controlled by NCL but not Pacific Electric Railway (Red Cars) Montgomery City Lines was the National City Lines subsidiary that operated the municipal transit system for Montgomery, Alabama. On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a Montgomery City Lines bus. This led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Montgomery City Lines was placed in the middle of a dispute between Montgomery's black citizenry and Montgomery city laws.", "title": "National City Lines" }, { "docid": "1337651", "text": "bus, then everyone in the black row nearest the front had to get up and stand, so that a new row for white people could be created; it was illegal for whites and blacks to sit next to each other. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white person, she was sitting in the first row of the middle section. Often when boarding the buses, black people were required to pay at the front, get off, and reenter the bus through a separate door at the back. Occasionally, bus drivers would drive away before black passengers", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "6314490", "text": "enter the bus again from the back door, a rule imposed by some drivers that was sometimes followed by the bus leaving before they could get back on. She got off and waited for the next bus, swearing to herself she would never ride with Blake again (though she forgot to check who was driving 12 years later). Twelve years later, they encountered each other again on December 1, 1955, when Blake ordered Rosa Parks and three other black people to move from the middle to the back of his Cleveland Avenue bus (number 2857) in order to make room", "title": "James F. Blake" }, { "docid": "1307164", "text": "Mary Louise Smith (civil rights activist) Mary Louise Smith (later Mary Louise Smith Ware) (born 1937) is an African-American civil rights activist. She is notable for having been arrested in October 1955 at the age of 18 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on the segregated bus system. She is one of several women who were arrested for this offense prior to Rosa Parks that year. Parks was the figure around whom the Montgomery Bus Boycott was organized, starting December 5, 1955. On February 1, 1956, Smith was one of five women named as plaintiffs in", "title": "Mary Louise Smith (civil rights activist)" }, { "docid": "7974733", "text": "to segregated seating, it could be forbidden for stores or restaurants to serve different races under the same roof. Public segregation was challenged by individual citizens on rare occasions but had minimal impact on civil rights issues, until December, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to be moved to the back of a bus for a white passenger. Parks' civil disobedience had the effect of sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks' act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. Segregation was also pervasive", "title": "Racial segregation in the United States" } ]
[ { "docid": "1337654", "text": "white man boarded the bus, the bus driver told everyone in her row to move back. At that moment, Parks realized that she was again on a bus driven by Blake. While all of the other black people in her row complied, Parks refused, and she was arrested for failing to obey the driver's seat assignments, as city ordinances did not explicitly mandate segregation but did give the bus driver authority to assign seats. Found guilty on December 5, Parks was fined $10 plus a court cost of $4\"\", and she appealed. Some action against segregation had been in the", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "11207673", "text": "A Bus for a Bus on the Bus \"A Bus for a Bus on the Bus\" is the only 7-inch single by Cardiac Arrest, who later became Cardiacs. Until the release of \"The Special Garage Concerts Vol II\", none of the tracks on the 7-inch single had been reproduced anywhere else. The single was supposed to contain four tracks and not three, but the limited space on the 7-inch format prevented it. The fourth track was to be \"Keep Your Dead Mice with You\", which was later re-recorded as \"Dead Mouse\" on the \"Toy World\" album. The single is one", "title": "A Bus for a Bus on the Bus" }, { "docid": "11207675", "text": "mixed at the end of the session and 1000 copies were pressed. A Bus for a Bus on the Bus \"A Bus for a Bus on the Bus\" is the only 7-inch single by Cardiac Arrest, who later became Cardiacs. Until the release of \"The Special Garage Concerts Vol II\", none of the tracks on the 7-inch single had been reproduced anywhere else. The single was supposed to contain four tracks and not three, but the limited space on the 7-inch format prevented it. The fourth track was to be \"Keep Your Dead Mice with You\", which was later re-recorded", "title": "A Bus for a Bus on the Bus" }, { "docid": "1337653", "text": "investigator assigned to cases of sexual assault. In 1945, she was sent to Abbeville, Alabama, to investigate the gang rape of Recy Taylor. The protest that arose around the Taylor case was the first instance of a nationwide civil rights protest, and it laid the groundwork for the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1955, Parks completed a course in \"Race Relations\" at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, where nonviolent civil disobedience had been discussed as a tactic. On December 1, 1955, Parks was sitting in the foremost row in which black people could sit (in the middle section). When a", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337643", "text": "unconstitutional. Many important figures in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy. Prior to the bus boycott, Jim Crow laws mandated the racial segregation of the Montgomery Bus Line. As a result of this segregation African Americans were not hired as drivers, were forced to ride in the back of the bus, and were frequently ordered to surrender their seats to white people even though black passengers made up 75% of the bus system's riders. African-American passengers were also attacked by bus drivers and shortchanged and left stranded after", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337664", "text": "and that blacks be employed as bus drivers. The proposal was passed, and the boycott was to commence the following Monday. To publicize the impending boycott it was advertised at black churches throughout Montgomery the following Sunday. On Saturday, December 3, it was evident that the black community would support the boycott, and very few blacks rode the buses that day. On December 5, a mass meeting was held at the Holt Street Baptist Church to determine if the protest would continue. Given twenty minutes notice, King gave a speech asking for a bus boycott and attendees enthusiastically agreed. Starting", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337670", "text": "heard in federal district court and, on June 4, 1956, the court ruled in \"Browder v. Gayle\" (1956) that Alabama's racial segregation laws for buses were unconstitutional. As the state appealed the decision, the boycott continued. The case moved on to the United States Supreme Court. On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court upheld the district court's ruling, ruling that segregation on public buses and transportation was against the law. The boycott officially ended December 20, 1956, after 381 days. The city passed an ordinance authorizing black bus passengers to sit virtually anywhere they chose on buses. The Montgomery bus", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "19117212", "text": "the internationally known 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus boycott also inspired residents to mobilize around other issues, such as securing the right to vote. In recognition of the importance of the 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott in African-American history and world history, the Toni Morrison Society's \"Bench by the Road\" project selected Baton Rouge as a site to memorialize. The project places benches at sites with historical significance for people of African ancestry. The permanent site of the bench commemorating the bus boycott is the McKinley High School Alumni Center. Baton Rouge bus boycott The Baton", "title": "Baton Rouge bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337647", "text": "city bus drivers. The drivers later went on strike after city authorities refused to arrest Rev. T.J. Jemison for sitting in a front row. Four days after the strike began, Louisiana Attorney General and former Baton Rouge mayor Fred S. LeBlanc declared the ordinance unconstitutional under Louisiana state law. This led Rev. Jemison to organize what historians believe to be the first bus boycott of the civil rights movement. The boycott ended after eight days when an agreement was reached to only retain the first two front and back rows as racially reserved seating areas. Black activists had begun to", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337662", "text": "Such a line would have meant that if the white section of the bus was oversubscribed, whites would have to stand; blacks would not be forced to give up their seats to whites. This demand was a compromise for the leaders of the boycott, who believed that the city of Montgomery would be more likely to accept it rather than a demand for a full integration of the buses. In this respect, the MIA leaders followed the pattern of 1950s boycott campaigns in the Deep South, including the successful boycott a few years earlier of service stations in Mississippi for", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337644", "text": "paying their fares. A number of reasons have been given for why bus drivers acted in this manner, including racism, frustrations over labor disputes and labor conditions, and increased animosity towards blacks in reaction to the 1954 \"Brown v. Board of Education\" decision, with many of the drivers joining the White Citizens Councils as a result of the decision. The boycott also took place within a larger statewide and national movement for civil rights, including court cases such as \"Morgan v. Virginia\", the earlier Baton Rouge bus boycott, and the arrest of Claudette Colvin for refusing to give up her", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337650", "text": "travel within the individual states. Under the system of segregation used on Montgomery buses, the ten front seats were reserved for whites at all times. The ten back seats were supposed to be reserved for blacks at all times. The middle section of the bus consisted of sixteen unreserved seats for whites and blacks on a segregated basis. Whites filled the middle seats from the front to back, and blacks filled seats from the back to front until the bus was full. If other black people boarded the bus, they were required to stand. If another white person boarded the", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "7181621", "text": "Bus driver A bus driver, bus operator, autobus driver or omnibus driver is a person who drives buses for a living. In many jurisdictions, bus drivers must have a special license above and beyond a regular driver's licence. Bus drivers typically drive their vehicles between bus stations or stops. Bus drivers often drop off and pick up passengers on a predetermined route schedule. In British English a different term, coach driver (or coach captain), is used for drivers on privately booked long-distance routes, tours and school trips. There are various types of bus drivers, including transit drivers, school bus drivers", "title": "Bus driver" }, { "docid": "19907970", "text": "normative structure emerged in the Tallahassee Bus Boycott. The boycott presents an overlooked departure from the circumstances of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was planned and precipitated by active individuals and organizations; in addition, the Tallahassee boycott, at least in its initial stages, was separate from and did not model the latter. Killian finds the formation of the ICC and the spontaneous and irregular nature of the boycott's initiation commensurate with traditional collective behavior theory, which includes such superficially irrational elements as spontaneity. Tallahassee bus boycott The Tallahassee Bus Boycott was a citywide boycott in Tallahassee, Florida that sought to", "title": "Tallahassee bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337666", "text": "at Lloyd's of London. Black taxi drivers charged ten cents per ride, a fare equal to the cost to ride the bus, in support of the boycott. When word of this reached city officials on December 8, the order went out to fine any cab driver who charged a rider less than 45 cents. In addition to using private motor vehicles, some people used non-motorized means to get around, such as cycling, walking, or even riding mules or driving horse-drawn buggies. Some people also hitchhiked. During rush hours, sidewalks were often crowded. As the buses received few, if any, passengers,", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337645", "text": "seat on a Montgomery bus. The NAACP had accepted and litigated other cases, including that of Irene Morgan in 1946, which resulted in a victory in the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that segregated interstate bus lines violated the Commerce Clause. That victory, however, overturned state segregation laws only insofar as they applied to travel in interstate commerce, such as interstate bus travel, and Southern bus companies immediately circumvented the Morgan ruling by instituting their own Jim Crow regulations. Further incidents continued to take place in Montgomery, including the arrest for disorderly conduct in May 1951 of Lillie Mae", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "19907965", "text": "the bus-franchise segregation clause because of the United State Supreme Court ruling \"Browder v. Gayle\" (1956). Jakes and Patterson boarded a city bus and sat in the only open seats, which were next to a white woman. The driver declared that the two women could not sit where they were sitting, and Jakes agreed to get off the bus if she received her bus fare in return. The driver would not return Jakes' bus fare and drove to a service station, where he then called the police, who subsequently arrested the women. Later that day, the students were bailed out", "title": "Tallahassee bus boycott" }, { "docid": "15265885", "text": "more than fifty. In July 2004, American-Israeli novelist Naomi Ragen unintentionally boarded a \"mehadrin\" bus toward her home in Ramot and was physically threatened for refusing to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus. In 2006, \"mehadrin\" buses were heavily criticized in the media worldwide after an American Jewish woman, Miriam Shear, reported being attacked and beaten by a group of ultra-Orthodox men after refusing to move to the back of the bus on a non-segregated line. Shear and another male passenger accused the bus driver of \"doing nothing\" during the attack, while the bus", "title": "Mehadrin bus lines" }, { "docid": "13924306", "text": "Greyhound Bus Station (Montgomery, Alabama) The Greyhound Bus Station at 210 South Court Street in Montgomery, Alabama, was the site of a violent attack on participants in the 1961 Freedom Ride during the Civil Rights Movement. The May 1961 assaults, carried out by a mob of white protesters who confronted the civil rights activists, \"shocked the nation and led the Kennedy Administration to side with civil rights protesters for the first time.\" The property is no longer used as a bus station, but the building was saved from demolition and its facade has been restored. The site was leased by", "title": "Greyhound Bus Station (Montgomery, Alabama)" }, { "docid": "19907964", "text": "Tallahassee bus boycott The Tallahassee Bus Boycott was a citywide boycott in Tallahassee, Florida that sought to end racial segregation in the employment and seating arrangements of city buses. On May 26, 1956, Wilhemina Jakes and Carrie Patterson, two Florida A&M University students, were arrested by the Tallahassee Police Department for behavior that would \"incite a riot\". Robert Saunders, representing the NAACP, and Rev. C. K. Steele began talks with city authorities while the local African-American community started boycotting the city's buses. The Inter-Civic Council ended the boycott on December 22, 1956. On January 7, 1957, the City Commission repealed", "title": "Tallahassee bus boycott" }, { "docid": "12152285", "text": "Select Bus Service Select Bus Service (SBS; stylized on the buses as +selectbusservice) is a brand used by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Regional Bus Operations for bus rapid transit service in New York City. SBS began service in 2008 in order to improve speed and reliability on long, busy corridors. SBS routes use vehicle-segregated, camera-enforced bus lanes; sidewalk extensions for bus stops; relatively large distances between stops; vehicular turn restrictions along corridors; and next-bus travel information screens. The first route was the Bx12 along Fordham Road and the Pelham Parkway; , eighteen SBS routes run along sixteen corridors. Five", "title": "Select Bus Service" }, { "docid": "7605691", "text": "Get on the Bus Get on the Bus is a 1996 drama film about a group of African-American men who are taking a cross-country bus trip in order to participate in the Million Man March. The film was directed by Spike Lee and premiered on the one-year anniversary of the march. For Spike Lee, this was the first time that he did not act in one of his own films. Fifteen disparate African American men board a bus in Los Angeles bound for Washington, D.C., where they plan on attending the Million Man March. Other than their race, destination, and", "title": "Get on the Bus" }, { "docid": "1337672", "text": "pregnant woman was shot in both legs. On January 10, 1957, bombs destroyed five black churches and the home of Reverend Robert S. Graetz, one of the few white Montgomerians who had publicly sided with the MIA. The City suspended bus service for several weeks on account of the violence. According to legal historian Randall Kennedy, \"When the violence subsided and service was restored, many black Montgomerians enjoyed their newly recognized right only abstractly... In practically every other setting, Montgomery remained overwhelmingly segregated…\" On January 23, a group of Klansmen (who would later be charged for the bombings) lynched a", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "13924318", "text": "of Cohen Carnaggio Reynolds, architects out of Birmingham, AL, were retained by the Alabama Historical Commission to rehabilitate and refurbish the interior of the bus station into The Freedom Rides Museum. In May 2011, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the riot at the bus station, a museum was opened in the presence of Jim Zwerg. The building was also listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 16, 2011. The Freedom Rides Museum focuses on the history of the protest and riot, and is open on Fridays and Saturdays. Greyhound Bus Station (Montgomery, Alabama) The Greyhound Bus Station", "title": "Greyhound Bus Station (Montgomery, Alabama)" }, { "docid": "9873754", "text": "design. The new Flatbush Depot opened for bus service on January 15, 1950, along with Ulmer Park Depot. An adjacent parking lot was added in 1965, and the depot was rehabilitated in 1991. In 2009, the depot became the first to dispatch buses equipped with Plexiglas partitions to protect drivers, after the December 1, 2008 murder of Edwin Thomas, a bus driver who was operating a bus on the B46 Limited route when this incident occurred. This depot houses the buses used on the following routes: The Fresh Pond Depot is located at 66-99 Fresh Pond Road, on the east", "title": "Bus depots of MTA Regional Bus Operations" }, { "docid": "19117208", "text": "Baton Rouge bus boycott The Baton Rouge bus boycott was a boycott of city buses launched on June 19, 1953 by African-American residents of Baton Rouge, Louisiana who were seeking integration of the system. They made up about 80% of the ridership of the city buses in the early 1950s but, under Jim Crow rules, black people were forced to sit in the back of the bus, even when the front of the bus was empty. State laws prohibited black citizens from owning private buses outside the city systems. Activists proposed to the city that black riders would be allowed", "title": "Baton Rouge bus boycott" }, { "docid": "1337669", "text": "\"I was proud of my crime. It was the crime of joining my people in a nonviolent protest against injustice.\" Also important during the bus boycott were grass-roots activist groups that helped to catalyze both fund-raising and morale. Groups such as the Club from Nowhere helped to sustain the boycott by finding new ways of raising money and offering support to boycott participants. Many members of these organizations were women and their contributions to the effort have been described by some as essential to the success of the bus boycott. Pressure increased across the country. The related civil suit was", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "19117211", "text": "were declared off-limits to black riders, and only black riders could occupy the wide rear seat that spanned the back of the bus. The boycott had an economic impact on the city's transportation system and on the broader Civil Rights Movement. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. became aware of the bus boycott and spoke with Rev. Jemison about the fight for social justice in Baton Rouge. He especially wanted to discuss the free car ride system, which was a key part of enforcing the Baton Rouge bus boycott. The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus boycott served as a model for", "title": "Baton Rouge bus boycott" }, { "docid": "13210826", "text": "was completely unacceptable. I can well accept the sense of injustice and pain that has been felt because [of] what happened in Bristol all those years ago.\" In 2009, Stephenson was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), for his part in organising the bus boycott. Bailey and Hackett were also awarded OBEs. Bristol Bus Boycott The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 arose from the refusal of the Bristol Omnibus Company to employ Black or Asian bus crews in the city of Bristol, England, UK. In common with other British cities at the time, there was", "title": "Bristol Bus Boycott" }, { "docid": "7181628", "text": "the same companies that run other bus services in the area, so school bus driver is not a separate position. In the United States, finding a position as a bus driver usually requires that the individual possess a commercial driver's license (CDL) and specialized training for the vehicle. Various other educational and vocational training may be required, but this varies from place to place. Bus driver A bus driver, bus operator, autobus driver or omnibus driver is a person who drives buses for a living. In many jurisdictions, bus drivers must have a special license above and beyond a regular", "title": "Bus driver" }, { "docid": "7605694", "text": "the bus breaks down and the men are forced to board another bus, driven by an ethnically Jewish white man named Rick. A couple of the passengers harass Rick as a white man, and Rick ultimately refuses to drive any further, citing the group's prejudice and his opposition to antisemitic remarks made by the leader of the march, Louis Farrakhan. George, himself a bus driver, accuses Rick of cultural racism, but begrudgingly agrees to cover for Rick who leaves. George takes over driving for the remainder of the trip, with help from Evan Sr. As the bus passes through the", "title": "Get on the Bus" }, { "docid": "7181626", "text": "exceed 30 miles radius, but are governed by less stringent UK Drivers' Hours Regulations. For example, a service bus driver may drive for 5.5 hours without a break in the UK. People with certain medical conditions are excluded from becoming bus drivers. Some of these conditions include Migraine (if it affects vision), Alcoholism and Epilepsy. Traditionally, before the introduction of one-man buses on many city routes, the bus driver had no contact with the passengers, the tickets being sold by a bus conductor. Now, drivers have the additional responsibility of selling tickets, keeping to the timetable and providing customer service.", "title": "Bus driver" }, { "docid": "18405813", "text": "a journalist to the jury in \"Bus & Coach of the Year\". (List as of November 2014.) Bus & Coach of the Year The title Bus of the Year and Coach of the Year, also known as International Bus of the Year and International Coach of the Year, is on alternate years awarded to bus and coach models on the European market. The competition has been organized by several European bus-related publications since 1989. In early summer, three to six bus or coach models that have been submitted by their manufacturers undergo the \"Bus Euro Test\" or the \"Coach Euro", "title": "Bus & Coach of the Year" }, { "docid": "9047090", "text": "A Slow Bus to Chingford \"A Slow Bus to Chingford\" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, \"Only Fools and Horses\". It was the fifth episode of series 1, and was first broadcast on 6 October 1981. In the episode, Del acquires an old double decker bus and decides to give tours around London. As Rodney invites his girlfriend to the flat, Del Boy gives him a job as a nocturnal security officer (an NSO) within new security company \"Trotter Watch\" (TW). As Rodney is sent to guard a bus depot, Del frightens him by whistling along with him from", "title": "A Slow Bus to Chingford" }, { "docid": "2496771", "text": "Long Win Bus Long Win Bus () is a bus company operating franchised services in Hong Kong. It was established on 1 June 1997 to provide bus service between Hong Kong International Airport, North Lantau New Town and the New Territories. It is a subsidiary of Transport International. Long Win Bus was established on 1 June 1997 to operate peak-hour services after the opening of the Tsing Ma Bridge. The first route operated by Long Win Bus was route E31 (Tung Chung to Tsuen Wan Pier when newly introduced), served by Volvo Olympians. But later on, Volvo Olympians have been", "title": "Long Win Bus" }, { "docid": "1337663", "text": "refusing to provide restrooms for blacks. The organizer of that campaign, T. R. M. Howard of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, had spoken on the lynching of Emmett Till as King's guest at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church only four days before Parks's arrest. Parks was in the audience and later said that Emmett Till was on her mind when she refused to give up her seat. The MIA's demand for a fixed dividing line was to be supplemented by a requirement that all bus passengers receive courteous treatment by bus operators, be seated on a first-come, first-served basis,", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "18405811", "text": "Bus & Coach of the Year The title Bus of the Year and Coach of the Year, also known as International Bus of the Year and International Coach of the Year, is on alternate years awarded to bus and coach models on the European market. The competition has been organized by several European bus-related publications since 1989. In early summer, three to six bus or coach models that have been submitted by their manufacturers undergo the \"Bus Euro Test\" or the \"Coach Euro Test\". The jury consists of around 20 (currently 19) journalists from bus and coach related publications from", "title": "Bus & Coach of the Year" }, { "docid": "2496772", "text": "retired from the bus fleet, and were transferred to its parent company, Kowloon Motor Bus. The company's franchise was extended from June 2003 to May 2013. It has been extended again until May 2023. As of December 2017, Long Win Bus operated 30 routes covers the Airport, Tung Chung, Hong Kong Disneyland, the Ngong Ping 360 cable car and AsiaWorld-Expo. As of December 2017, Long Win Bus operated a fleet of 245 predominately double-decker buses. Long Win Bus Long Win Bus () is a bus company operating franchised services in Hong Kong. It was established on 1 June 1997 to", "title": "Long Win Bus" }, { "docid": "18826401", "text": "Deanes Coaches and Southtrans. On 1 June 2011, the Wisely's Bus & Coach Service of Wingham was purchased. In October 2011, a service to Sydney commenced after Busways ceased operating a similar service. It ceased on 30 March 2013. In October 2015, the business was sold to the Buslines Group. As at December 2014, the fleet comprised 42 buses. Forster Bus Service Forster Bus Service was an Australian bus company operating route bus services on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. On 20 April 1979, GL & J Nixon purchased Forster Bus Service from Charlie Brown with six buses.", "title": "Forster Bus Service" }, { "docid": "13924307", "text": "the Alabama Historical Commission and a historical marker was located in front of the building. In 2011, a museum was opened inside the building, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum won a national preservation award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2012. In 1950, Greyhound Lines retained architect W.S. Arrasmith to build a new bus station in Montgomery, Alabama, to replace an earlier station on North Court Street. Incorporating a streamlined style and vertical \"Greyhound\" name in neon, it is an unassuming example of Greyhound bus stations in that time, derived", "title": "Greyhound Bus Station (Montgomery, Alabama)" }, { "docid": "16831066", "text": "attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Campbell's memoir, entitled \"A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community\", was published in April 2014. Nuns on the Bus Nuns on the Bus is a Catholic advocacy group in the United States. Their name comes from the fact that they tour the country on a bus. Led by Sister Simone Campbell, they place emphasis on the church's long-standing commitment to social justice. In different years, the nuns have tackled different themes. In 2012, the nuns aimed to draw attention to nuns' work with the poor", "title": "Nuns on the Bus" }, { "docid": "13924312", "text": "Public Safety, the bus left Birmingham for Montgomery on May 20. The riders, who had been left unescorted by the highway police as they reached Montgomery city limits, arrived at the bus station at 10:23 AM and were met by a crowd of violent white protesters, including women and children. Several were injured in the attack, including Robert Kennedy's assistant John Seigenthaler, who had followed the bus in his car: attempting to rescue two white female riders, he was hit over the head with a metal pipe and \"lay unconscious on the ground for half an hour.\" Floyd Mann, a", "title": "Greyhound Bus Station (Montgomery, Alabama)" }, { "docid": "7605700", "text": "go into its episodes\". Todd McCarth at \"Variety\" praised the film calling it \"A vital regeneration of a filmmaker's talent as well as a bracing and often very funny dramatization of urgent sociopolitical themes\" and he called the film \"Spike Lee's most satisfying work since \"Do the Right Thing.\"\" The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention. Get on the Bus Get on the Bus is a 1996 drama film about a group of African-American men who are taking a cross-country bus trip in order to participate in the Million Man", "title": "Get on the Bus" }, { "docid": "1337646", "text": "Bradford, who refused to leave the white passengers' section until the bus driver corrected an incorrect charge on her transfer ticket. On February 25, 1953, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana city-parish council passed Ordinance 222, after the city saw protesting from African-Americans when the council raised the city's bus fares. The ordinance abolished race-based reserved seating requirements and allowed the admission of African-Americans in the front sections of city buses if there were no white passengers present, but still required African-Americans to enter from the rear, rather than the front of the buses. However, the ordinance was largely unenforced by the", "title": "Montgomery bus boycott" }, { "docid": "8398132", "text": "Tribute to a Bus Tribute To A Bus is the second album by the German/Danish noise rock band 18th Dye, released in March 28, 1995 on Matador Records. The album track \"Play W/You\" was released on 11 April 1995 as the leading single. It was recorded and engineered by Steve Albini, and has been compared as similar in sound to his work with Nirvana and The Wedding Present. Although critically acclaimed, neither album nor single were commercially successful, and 18th Dye disbanded the following year. The band's earlier releases, \"Done\" and the six-song \"Crayon\" EP had been produced by Iain", "title": "Tribute to a Bus" }, { "docid": "4153435", "text": "The \"Bus World\" article also contained extensive photos and details about the building of the bus. The article states that the rear half of the bus was a separate vehicle with a driver. The two halves of the bus would arrive separately at the filming location where they were joined together for shooting. The rear driver was unable to see and had to be directed by radio. In the scene in which the bus departs the terminal on its voyage, the front wheels on the rear portion of the bus are seen turning independently as the bus makes a very", "title": "The Big Bus" }, { "docid": "7618953", "text": "on Saturdays between 8:30 AM and 4:00 PM; at all other times, a reduced fare of $1.00 is charged. Ride On offers a $0.50 discount for bus fares that transfer from the Washington Metro. As with all other transit providers in the Washington Metropolitan Area, as of January 4, 2009, Ride On stopped the issue or acceptance of paper transfers. Riders wanting transfer credit must use a SmarTrip card to get the rail-to-bus or bus-to-rail discount or to transfer free from bus to bus. Ride On offers 81 routes throughout Montgomery County. All routes run through Peak Rush Hour Period", "title": "Ride On (bus)" }, { "docid": "7181622", "text": "and tour bus drivers. Bus drivers may work for a city, public (state and national/federal) governments, school boards, and private enterprises, such as charter companies which run tour buses. Coach captains in Australia are frequently freelance sub-contractors who work for various bus and coach companies. Bus drivers also need to possess social skills for interacting with their passengers, which is a daily occurrence. In Australia, bus and coach drivers need a \"Drivers Licence\" (issued in an Australian state or territory) for the class of vehicle they drive. Additionally, they are required to possess a driver authorisation to drive a bus", "title": "Bus driver" }, { "docid": "14760943", "text": "involving intercity bus drivers being assaulted by passengers. One such event occurred on October 3, 2001, when Damir Igric slit a Greyhound driver's throat, resulting in seven deaths (including Igric himself) as the bus crashed. Intercity bus driver An intercity bus driver is a bus driver whose duties involve driving a bus between cities. It is one of four common positions available to those capable of driving buses (the others being school, transit, or tour bus driving). Intercity bus drivers may be employed for public or private companies. It varies by country which is more common. But many countries have", "title": "Intercity bus driver" }, { "docid": "7618949", "text": "diesel and \"H\" for hybrid). Ride On extRa, a new bus service that started on October 2, 2017, is a new Limited Stop route via 355. It has 12 bus stops between Lakeforest Transit Center and Medical Center Metro Station. This bus route has free WiFi, USB charging ports, and more padding in the seats. As of November 1, 2017, the fare ($2) is the same as a regular Ride On bus. There is also no on-board fare addition to allow for faster service. As of September 17, 2018, Ride On extRa serves a new timepoint at Templeton Place in", "title": "Ride On (bus)" }, { "docid": "9643090", "text": "no warning to passengers. A&C Bus Corporation The A&C Bus Corporation, also known as the Montgomery & Westside Independent Bus Owners Association, is a bus company in Jersey City, New Jersey. All buses operated by A&C are known for their solid red line on the side of the bus and the phrase \"use the bus card on this bus\" on the front of the bus. Like many other private bus lines in the state, its fleet is made up of buses leased from New Jersey Transit. Prior to A&C Bus Corporation's operation of the Bergen Avenue route, the route was", "title": "A&C Bus Corporation" }, { "docid": "13001223", "text": "Loony on the Bus Loony on the Bus is the fifteenth studio album by Roy Harper, released in 1988. The album is mostly a collection of tracks originally intended for release in 1977 under the title \"Commercial Breaks\". The original 1977 release was held back because of disputes between Harper and EMI over funding and content and resultantly, it was not until the release of \"Loony on the Bus\" in 1988 that most of the tracks became publicly available. Seven songs are taken from the original track listing for \"Commercial Breaks\" (tracks: 1,2,3,6,9,10,& 11), two songs still remain exclusive to", "title": "Loony on the Bus" }, { "docid": "9221820", "text": "Royal bus driver, and the Royal bus driver said a soda bottle was thrown at him by the MARTA driver. Royal buses have also been targeted for vandalism. Three of its buses were burned shortly after the company had provided free bus service to a pro-immigrant rally. Royal Bus Lines Royal Bus Lines is a private bus service in Atlanta, Georgia which operates on Buford Highway and Roswell Road, servicing Perimeter Mall and other surrounding areas. The bus stops primarily at existing MARTA bus stops. The company provides 100,000 rides monthly, with gross revenues of over $1 million annually. It", "title": "Royal Bus Lines" }, { "docid": "9643088", "text": "A&C Bus Corporation The A&C Bus Corporation, also known as the Montgomery & Westside Independent Bus Owners Association, is a bus company in Jersey City, New Jersey. All buses operated by A&C are known for their solid red line on the side of the bus and the phrase \"use the bus card on this bus\" on the front of the bus. Like many other private bus lines in the state, its fleet is made up of buses leased from New Jersey Transit. Prior to A&C Bus Corporation's operation of the Bergen Avenue route, the route was operated by Bergen Avenue", "title": "A&C Bus Corporation" }, { "docid": "14760936", "text": "Intercity bus driver An intercity bus driver is a bus driver whose duties involve driving a bus between cities. It is one of four common positions available to those capable of driving buses (the others being school, transit, or tour bus driving). Intercity bus drivers may be employed for public or private companies. It varies by country which is more common. But many countries have regulations on the training and certification requirements and the hours of intercity drivers. In the United States, intercity bus driving is one of the fastest growing jobs, with attractive wages and good benefits. Besides the", "title": "Intercity bus driver" }, { "docid": "16831057", "text": "disenfranchised. The nuns undertook several tours in 2012, an election year in the United States, educating followers on issues of social justice. The first bus carried only 12 nuns to make room for a sound system, signs and a podium, and many would-be riders had to be turned away for lack of space. It was decided that the group on board would be rotated to include Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Daughters of Charity and the Sisters of Social Service. The bus tour began on June 18, 2012 in Iowa and ended on July 2 in", "title": "Nuns on the Bus" }, { "docid": "5303042", "text": "increasing frequencies on existing long-distance and ultra-long-distance buses routes. This turned back the tide of shortening bus routes and puts Greyhound back in the position of competing with long-distance road trips, airlines, and trains. Long distance buses were to have Wi-Fi, power outlets, and extra legroom, sometimes extra recline, and were to be cleaned, refueled, and driver-changed at major stations along the way, coinciding with Greyhound's eradication of overbooking. It also represented Greyhound's traditional bus expansion over the expansion of curbside bus lines. On August 4, 1952, Greyhound Lines had its deadliest accident when two Greyhound buses collided head-on along", "title": "Intercity bus service" }, { "docid": "11864040", "text": "settle the matter using various intermediaries. Although several provisional settlements were discussed, including a complicated system that would reimburse bus passengers their extra penny every day, the boycotters stood firm. With the radical groups implicitly threatening to mobilise a strike (\"a rainy Monday\") the Chamber of Commerce finally agreed to a public subsidy that would return the old fare on a long term basis. 1957 Alexandra bus boycott The 1957 Alexandra bus boycott was a protest undertaken against the Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) by the people of Alexandra in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is generally recognised as being one", "title": "1957 Alexandra bus boycott" }, { "docid": "13210809", "text": "Bristol Bus Boycott The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 arose from the refusal of the Bristol Omnibus Company to employ Black or Asian bus crews in the city of Bristol, England, UK. In common with other British cities at the time, there was widespread racial discrimination in housing and employment at that time against \"Coloureds\". Led by youth worker Paul Stephenson and the West Indian Development Council, the boycott of the company's buses by Bristolians lasted for four months until the company backed down and overturned their discriminative colour bar policy. The boycott drew national attention to racial discrimination in", "title": "Bristol Bus Boycott" }, { "docid": "16831054", "text": "Nuns on the Bus Nuns on the Bus is a Catholic advocacy group in the United States. Their name comes from the fact that they tour the country on a bus. Led by Sister Simone Campbell, they place emphasis on the church's long-standing commitment to social justice. In different years, the nuns have tackled different themes. In 2012, the nuns aimed to draw attention to nuns' work with the poor and to protest planned aid cuts. In 2013, the theme was immigration reform. The nuns' journeys are sponsored by NETWORK. The group was at one time criticized by the Vatican", "title": "Nuns on the Bus" }, { "docid": "7618954", "text": "between 6AM and 9AM and 3PM to 7PM on weekdays. Many routes offer services for off-peak hours and weekends as well. Additionally, Ride On operates two weekend routes that are served by WMATA Metrobus on weekdays. Ride On operates a fleet consisting of Diesel, CNG, and Diesel-electric hybrid buses produced by Orion Bus Industries, Gillig Corporation and New Flyer Industries. The bus fleet, owned and operated by Ride On, is distributed among three garages in Kensington, Silver Spring and Gaithersburg. Ride On (bus) Ride On is the primary public transportation system in Montgomery County, Maryland. Ride On serves Montgomery County", "title": "Ride On (bus)" }, { "docid": "12152334", "text": "the front destination sign is blue text on an unlit black background. Starting with the Q44 in November 2015, the blue background is kept when the front signage transitions to show the terminal of the route and the main streets traveled. As of July 2017, the SBS fleet on all routes have had their front destination signs overhauled, and new routes that launched after December 2015 came with the new destination signs. Select Bus Service Select Bus Service (SBS; stylized on the buses as +selectbusservice) is a brand used by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Regional Bus Operations for bus", "title": "Select Bus Service" }, { "docid": "18367429", "text": "Dion's Bus Service Dion's Bus Service is an Australian bus company operating services in Wollongong. Dion's Bus Service was founded in 1923 when Thomas Dion commenced operating a service from Wollongong to Balgownie followed by a service to Bellambi. It is currently the oldest operating bus operator in the Illawarra. From December 1927 until 1931 a coach service was operated to Sydney. In January 1928 it commenced operating route 1 services from Wollongong to Austinmer, along with five other operators. In August 1929, Barney Dion commenced operating a service from Wollongong to Kiama. In the late 1940s, the Balgownie and", "title": "Dion's Bus Service" }, { "docid": "7869310", "text": "a \"Bus Uncle Rave Party\". Chan was quickly rejected and expelled by Ho, who expressed outrage towards the journalists who arranged the meeting and threatened legal action against the press. \"Ming Pao\" opined that the use of profanity by the \"Bus Uncle\" and threatening behaviour theoretically contravened the general code of conduct of bus passengers, and that he had violated two public order laws – Section 46(1)(a), (n)(ii) and 57(1) of the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, and Section 17B(2) of the Public Order Ordinance – which potentially carried financial penalties and imprisonment. \"Next Magazine\" journalists interviewed Chan at", "title": "The Bus Uncle" }, { "docid": "10141720", "text": "Bus Driver (video game) Bus Driver is a bus driving simulator game developed by SCS Software. The game was released digitally, for Microsoft Windows on 22 March 2007, and for OS X on 8 June 2011. A port to iOS, entitled Bus Driver - Pocket Edition, was released to the App Store by Meridian4 on 27 February 2014. The player selects a route from tiers (described below), and then after a short loading time, the player sees the selected bus either at a bus depot or terminal. After halting at the first stop, the bus must be driven along the", "title": "Bus Driver (video game)" }, { "docid": "11690066", "text": "without giving the appearance of being in service, or blocking the stop from use by other buses that are in service. Bus stands also allow short-term parking for driver changes or driver breaks. In the simplest case, a bus turnout type of bus stop is extended, and buses can lay over away from the stop if necessary. In locations where buses cannot remain stationary for long, nearby but separate bus stands may be provided where other bus parking is not conveniently located. Due to their public transport use, bus stands will often be specifically covered by local legislation. Parking of", "title": "Bus stand" }, { "docid": "18785733", "text": "Parramatta-Ryde Bus Service Parramatta-Ryde Bus Service was an Australian bus company operating route bus services and charter coaches in Sydney. The origins of Parramatta-Ryde Bus Service can be traced back to 1896 when Alf Wigzell commenced a horse bus service along Victoria Road between Ryde station and Ermington. In 1915, the route was sold to Mr Howell and the first motor bus introduced. Howell sold out to William Henry, who in turn sold out to RB Staunton. In 1925 the route was allocated number 173. On 27 April 1927, the business was purchased by Bill Phillips. By this stage route", "title": "Parramatta-Ryde Bus Service" }, { "docid": "9873763", "text": "1988, the depot was renamed after Jackie Gleason, who grew up in Brooklyn and played bus driver Ralph Kramden in \"The Honeymooners\"; this renaming occurred one year after Gleason's death. The depot later housed a bus built in 1949 similar to that used on the show, part of the New York Transit Museum fleet. The depot facilitated the first testing of compressed natural gas (CNG) buses in 1992, when a dual-fueled CNG/Diesel bus was housed in the facility. The bus was fueled at the Brooklyn Union Gas Company facility in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. In November 1995, the NYCTA installed a fueling", "title": "Bus depots of MTA Regional Bus Operations" }, { "docid": "5303017", "text": "architecturally designed terminals that included shopping and other businesses. Intercity bus transport increased in speed, efficiency and popularity until the 1950s and 1960s, when as the popularity of the private automobile has increased, the use of intercity bus service has declined. For example, in Canada in the 1950s, 120 million passengers boarded intercity bus service each year; in the 1960s, this number declined to 50 million. During the 1990s, it was down to 10 million. Intercity buses, as they hold passengers for significant periods of time on long journeys, are designed for comfort. A sleeper bus is an example of", "title": "Intercity bus service" }, { "docid": "8398136", "text": "The cover art features a photograph of the band members against a deep green background, with the band name in large rounded lower case type. The song titles are listed, also in lower case, along the left hand side of the front cover. The inner sleeves contain the song lyrics. Tribute to a Bus Tribute To A Bus is the second album by the German/Danish noise rock band 18th Dye, released in March 28, 1995 on Matador Records. The album track \"Play W/You\" was released on 11 April 1995 as the leading single. It was recorded and engineered by Steve", "title": "Tribute to a Bus" }, { "docid": "12152320", "text": "LaGuardia Depot. They are also the 3rd and 4th Queens bus lines to be converted into Select Bus Service (the 2nd and 3rd bus lines of MTA Bus). <section begin=q52-table/> <section end=q52-table/> The B82 Limited was converted to Select Bus Service on October 1, 2018. The B82 SBS however did not replace limited service between Bay 37th St and Coney Island. The B82 is the 3rd Brooklyn bus line (the MTA's 18th) to have Select Bus Service, and the only SBS line to run on weekdays only. Service on late nights and weekends will be provided by the B82 local.", "title": "Select Bus Service" }, { "docid": "16247559", "text": "December 1, 1955, Parks was sitting in the frontmost row for black people. When a Caucasian man boarded the bus, the bus driver told everyone in her row to move back. At that moment, Parks realized that she was again on a bus driven by Blake. While all of the other black people in her row complied, Parks refused, and was arrested for failing to obey the driver's seat assignments, as city ordinances did not explicitly mandate segregation but did give the bus driver authority to assign seats. Found guilty on December 5, Parks was fined $10 plus a court", "title": "Rosa Parks Day" }, { "docid": "10141727", "text": "is because the game was not designed to be an exact simulator. Bus Driver (video game) Bus Driver is a bus driving simulator game developed by SCS Software. The game was released digitally, for Microsoft Windows on 22 March 2007, and for OS X on 8 June 2011. A port to iOS, entitled Bus Driver - Pocket Edition, was released to the App Store by Meridian4 on 27 February 2014. The player selects a route from tiers (described below), and then after a short loading time, the player sees the selected bus either at a bus depot or terminal. After", "title": "Bus Driver (video game)" }, { "docid": "14302016", "text": "Long Beach Bus Long Beach Bus is a public transportation system serving Greater Long Beach on the south shore of Long Island, New York. The service operates twenty-four hours a day, with five different routes connecting to one another and to Nassau Inter-County Express and Long Island Rail Road at Long Beach Station in the city center. Although Long Beach Bus is designed to complement county bus and commuter rail service, it is run independently by Long Beach DOT. The service operates 24-hours a day, except early Monday mornings. The service operates five routes, with two regular services within the", "title": "Long Beach Bus" }, { "docid": "12245483", "text": "sometimes sung to the tune of \"Buffalo Gals\", as in the version done by Raffi. The song is now very popular for children in several other languages. <score vorbis=\"1\">{ \\key g \\major \\time 4/4 \\partial 8 d'8 | g'8 g'16 g' g'8 b' d\" b' g'4 | a'8 a' a'4 fis'8 e' d'8. d'16 | g'8 g'16 g' g'8 b' d\" b' g'4 | a' d' g'4. | \\bar \"|.\" } \\addlyrics { The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. The wheels on the bus go round and round, All day long.", "title": "The Wheels on the Bus" }, { "docid": "5303044", "text": "and injuring sixteen passengers. The bus was not carrying insurance, and had also been operating illegally because the company had applied for authority to operate an interstate bus service, but had failed to respond to requests for additional information. Though generally rare, various incidents have occurred over time involving both drivers and passengers on intercity buses. Security became a concern following the September 11 attacks. Less than a month later, on October 3, 2001, Damir Igric, a passenger on a Greyhound bus, slit the throat of the driver, killing Igric, and six other passengers as the bus crashed. It was", "title": "Intercity bus service" }, { "docid": "18367432", "text": "2010, the Transport for NSW white and blue livery was adopted. In the 1950s and 1960s, Dion's built their own bodies on second-hand Leyland Comet truck chassis. In 1989, Dion's purchased two Hinos, these were the first new buses in over 40 years. Dion's Bus Service Dion's Bus Service is an Australian bus company operating services in Wollongong. Dion's Bus Service was founded in 1923 when Thomas Dion commenced operating a service from Wollongong to Balgownie followed by a service to Bellambi. It is currently the oldest operating bus operator in the Illawarra. From December 1927 until 1931 a coach", "title": "Dion's Bus Service" }, { "docid": "16935381", "text": "Maritime Bus Maritime Bus is a Canadian coach operator based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The company began operations on December 1, 2012, after Acadian Lines discontinued service on November 30. Maritime Bus began operations in December 2012, serving 15,500 passengers in its first month. This increased to 16,700 in the month of March and averaged about 15,000 per month for its first year of operation. Its busiest single day of operation was on October 13, 2014 (Thanksgiving Monday) when ridership totalled 1,757 passengers. The bus service also provides daily same-day parcel delivery to all its terminals in the Maritimes", "title": "Maritime Bus" }, { "docid": "7605696", "text": "over by a pair of racist state troopers, who accuse the men of using the bus to smuggle drugs. The bus and its passengers are checked by a drug-sniffing police dog, turning up no evidence of drugs; the troopers then condescendingly allow the bus to resume its journey. As the bus nears Washington, Jeremiah passes out and is rushed to a hospital. The doctors there discover that Jeremiah is suffering from advanced coronary artery disease, which made the stress of the trip potentially deadly for him. Evan Sr. and Jr., Gary, Jamal, and Xavier opt to stay with Jeremiah at", "title": "Get on the Bus" }, { "docid": "5303006", "text": "Intercity bus service An intercity bus service (North American English) or intercity coach service (British English and Commonwealth English), also called a long-distance, express, over-the-road, commercial, long-haul, or highway bus or coach service, is a public transport service using coaches to carry passengers significant distances between different cities, towns, or other populated areas. Unlike a transit bus service, which has frequent stops throughout a city or town, an intercity bus service generally has a single stop at one location in or near a city, and travels long distances without stopping at all. Intercity bus services may be operated by government", "title": "Intercity bus service" }, { "docid": "11864035", "text": "1957 Alexandra bus boycott The 1957 Alexandra bus boycott was a protest undertaken against the Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) by the people of Alexandra in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is generally recognised as being one of the few successful political campaigns of the Apartheid era, by noted writers and activists including Anthony Sampson and Chief Albert Luthuli. Ruth First, former wife of South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo, said of the Boycott, \"not since the days of the Defiance Campaign had Africans held so strategic a position.\" The bus boycott of Alexandra was launched on 7 January 1957;", "title": "1957 Alexandra bus boycott" }, { "docid": "14302018", "text": "is owned and operated independently by the City of Long Beach, and not by Nassau County, Long Beach Bus was unaffected by the recent privatization of Long Island Bus. Most service information is provided bilingually in both English and American Spanish. Long Beach Bus operates five bus routes within the City and to Lido Beach and Point Lookout, all originating from the Long Beach Station. The fare for all routes is $2.25, except for the Point Lookout service, which has a $2.75 base fare. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, paratransit service is offered to those unable to", "title": "Long Beach Bus" }, { "docid": "12245484", "text": "}</score> Normally followed by \"The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish\" (with action), \"the horn on the bus goes beep beep beep\" and \"the people on the bus go up and down\" (with action). Some versions substitute \"bounce up and down\" for \"go up and down\", and some modern commercial recordings of the song in children's toys simplify the tune by copying notes 7 through 9 onto notes 13 through 15. In 2002, American Madonna impersonator \"Mad Donna\" (Michelle Chappel) had a hit with the wheels on the bus song, featuring a version of Madonna's \"Ray of Light\"", "title": "The Wheels on the Bus" }, { "docid": "12174174", "text": "Martyrs Bus Service Martyrs Bus Service is a bus and coach operator in Melbourne, Australia. As a Melbourne bus company, it operates one bus route under contract to the Government of Victoria and is a brand of the Dineen Group. Martyrs Bus Service was formed in July 1927 by Harry Martyr who commenced a bus service from Warburton to Melbourne City Centre. Hornibrook Bus Lines proprietor Geoff Mountjoy purchased the business in 1979. In September 1990, the Chirnside Park Shopping Centre to Melbourne City Centre portion of route 683 ceased. In November 2011, the Dineen Group purchased Martyrs Bus Service.", "title": "Martyrs Bus Service" }, { "docid": "20321105", "text": "Mdantsane were closed in protest against the massacre. On 24 September 2013,former South African deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe unveiled the upgraded Egerton Bus Boycott Massacre Memorial Site. The boycott lasted until 15 March 1985, when it was called off at a mass meeting held by the Committee of Ten. Egerton railway station bus boycott massacre On 18 July 1983, Mdantsane and East London communities embarked on a bus boycott to protest an unannounced five cent increase in bus fares. The residents abandoned the partly Ciskei government-owned Ciskei Transport Corporation (CTC) buses for taxis and trains. On 4 August 1983, the", "title": "Egerton railway station bus boycott massacre" } ]
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November 30 is a time to celebrate the birthday of what TV personality, known as The World’s Oldest Teenager, who hosted American Bandstand and still does the New Year’s Rockin’ Eve broadcast every December 31st?
[ "Richard Clark (entertainer)", "For now, Dick Clark. So long!", "Richard W. Clark", "Dick Clark", "Dick Clark (entertainer)", "Richard Wagstaff Clark", "Richard %22dick%22 clark" ]
[ { "docid": "5302191", "text": "Rockin' Eve\"s only major competitor on network television for 2018 was Fox's Steve Harvey-hosted special, as NBC's \"New Year's Eve with Carson Daly\" was placed on hiatus due to a provisional, but cancelled plan to still air \"Sunday Night Football\" that night. On November 13, 2018, it was announced that YouTube Music will be a presenting sponsor of the 2019 edition. The service is also presenting sponsor of the DCP-produced American Music Awards. Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve (NYRE) is an annual New Year's Eve television special broadcast by ABC. The special broadcasts", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "19214592", "text": "Orlando's Walt Disney World, and appearances by Martin Lawrence, Elton John, Bobcat Goldthwait from the Mayfair Theatre, and an escape act by Penn and Teller. For 2000, Fox broadcast special coverage from Times Square hosted by Fox News Channel anchors Brit Hume and Paula Zahn. In 2005, \"New Year's Eve Live\" was revived with \"American Idol\"s Ryan Seacrest as host. The 2006 edition was hosted by Regis Philbin, who had guest-hosted ABC's \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" the previous year due to Dick Clark's stroke (Seacrest became the new main host of \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" the same year). Various personalities,", "title": "Fox New Year's Eve specials" }, { "docid": "5302149", "text": "\"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" has consistently remained the highest-rated New Year's Eve special broadcast by the United States' major television networks; its 2012 edition peaked at 22.6 million home viewers—not including viewers watching from public locations, which were historically not measured by Nielsen. Dick Clark hosted \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" annually from 1973 through 2004, and joined Peter Jennings for ABC News's \"ABC 2000 Today\" broadcast for 2000. In December 2004, Clark suffered from a stroke, which resulted in Regis Philbin serving as guest host. Due to lingering speech impediments, Clark ceded hosting duties to Ryan Seacrest the following year,", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5302155", "text": "following midnight ET), and on CBS Television from 1956 to 1976 (which also featured coverage of the ball drop in Times Square). Lombardo was also well known for his band's performance of the song \"Auld Lang Syne\" at midnight, which helped make the standard synonymous with the New Year's holiday in North America. At the time, Dick Clark was well known to viewers as the host of \"American Bandstand\", a music series produced from the studios of Philadelphia television station WFIL-TV (now WPVI-TV) and broadcast by ABC (which itself aired a New Year's Eve special on December 31, 1959). In", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "2255958", "text": "Dick Clark Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting \"American Bandstand\" from 1957 to 1988. He also hosted the game show \"Pyramid\" and \"Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve\", which transmitted Times Square's New Year's Eve celebrations. Clark was well known for his trademark sign-off, \"For now, Dick Clark — so long!\", accompanied by a facsimile of a military salute. As host of \"American Bandstand\", Clark introduced rock & roll to many Americans.", "title": "Dick Clark" }, { "docid": "5302172", "text": "feeling \"surprisingly nervous\" in his role at host, and felt that \"rowdy crowds\" (which Philbin chose to avoid by staying in the studio) and the success of Rod Stewart's career (which Philbin pounced on to promote his new album, \"When You're Smiling\") were bothering him. In August 2005, ABC announced that Dick Clark would return to \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" for its 2006 edition, marking his first television appearance since the stroke. For that broadcast, it was also announced Clark would be joined by a new co-host, media personality and \"American Idol\" host Ryan Seacrest. Seacrest had previously hosted Fox's", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5302147", "text": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve (NYRE) is an annual New Year's Eve television special broadcast by ABC. The special broadcasts primarily from New York City's Times Square, and prominently features coverage of its annual ball drop event, along with live and pre-recorded musical performances by popular musicians from Times Square and Hollywood, respectively, in addition to live performances and coverage of festivities from New Orleans. Its creator and namesake was the entertainer Dick Clark, who conceived \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" as a younger-skewing competitor to Guy Lombardo's popular and long-running New Year's Eve", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5302173", "text": "competing \"New Year's Eve Live\"—which, ironically, would be hosted by Philbin that year. Speaking to \"USA Today\", Seacrest reminisced on having watched \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" in his childhood, stating that \"I knew when I was on other shows, I knew we weren't going to beat Dick Clark. He is New Year's Eve.\" As a part of a long-term deal with Dick Clark Productions, Seacrest also became an executive producer for the special. In an interview with \"People Magazine\" in December 2005, Seacrest revealed that while Clark had not completely recovered from the stroke, and that his speech was not", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5302176", "text": "co-host of \"Rockin' Eve\" to being like a \"traffic cop\", \"tossing to bands and correspondents and to Mr. Clark for the countdown.\" Following the 2006 edition, Dick Clark Productions announced that Seacrest had agreed to remain a host for future editions of \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\". As he was still afflicted with speech impediments that resulted from dysarthria, a lingering effect of his stroke, Clark's role in the special was reduced; he continued to make limited on-air appearances from Times Square Studios as co-host near midnight, and still conducted his traditional countdown, but Seacrest hosted the majority of the program", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "2255960", "text": "\"America's oldest teenager\" or \"the world's oldest teenager\". In his off-stage roles, Clark served as Chief Executive Officer of Dick Clark Productions (a financial interest in which he sold off in his later years). He also founded the American Bandstand Diner, a restaurant chain modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe. In 1973, he created and produced the annual American Music Awards show, similar to the Grammy Awards. Clark suffered a stroke in December 2004. With speech ability impaired, Clark returned to his \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" show a year later on December 31, 2005. Subsequently, he appeared at the 58th", "title": "Dick Clark" }, { "docid": "5302152", "text": "Square Studios approaching midnight, but still participated in the countdown and his tradition of kissing his wife, Kari Wigton, at midnight. Since 2000–01's edition, coverage has begun with a segment airing in primetime: initially airing at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, beginning with the 2012-13 edition, the show was extended to 8:00 p.m. ET/PT to accommodate musical retrospective specials that aired from the 2011-12 to 2013-14 editions. These specials primarily featured countdowns of archived music performances from the Dick Clark Productions library, including the top \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" performances, and the \"30 Greatest Women in Music\". On the 2014-15 edition, the", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5302150", "text": "but continued to make limited appearances as a co-host until his death in 2012. Hosting solo since the 2012–13 edition, Seacrest has most recently been joined by Jenny McCarthy as a correspondent from Times Square, with Ciara serving as the presenter of the Hollywood concert segments. Through its deal with Dick Clark Productions, \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" will remain on ABC through at least 2024. \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" is primarily broadcast from Times Square in New York City, providing coverage of the New Year's Eve festivities held there, culminating with the long-running ball drop leading to midnight and the", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5302175", "text": "helped \"Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 2006\" draw in over 20 million viewers throughout the night, and score a 7.1 audience share among the key demographic of 18- to 49-year-olds. Reaction to Clark's appearance was mixed. While some TV critics (including Tom Shales of \"The Washington Post\", in an interview with the CBS Radio Network) felt he was not in good enough shape to do the broadcast, stroke survivors and many of Clark's fans praised the emcee for being a role model for people dealing with post-stroke recovery. \"The New York Times\"' Brian Stelter compared Seacrest's new role as", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "15215405", "text": "from the album. The song was premiered on 31 December 2010 on \"Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve\" during a pre-taped segment along with a performance of \"Girlfriend\". Lavigne described \"What the Hell\" as \"a really fun, upbeat party song, so it worked out really well to play it for the first time on \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\".\" The following day, \"What the Hell\" was available as a free download for 48 hours from Lavigne's official Facebook page. \"What the Hell\" has been described as \"bubblegum pop-punk\" and synthpop song. The song has been compared to previous Lavigne's single, \"Girlfriend\"", "title": "What the Hell" }, { "docid": "2255998", "text": "a visionary and a major force in changing pop culture and ultimately influencing integration,\" Gordy said. \"He presented Motown and the Supremes on tour with the \"Caravan of Stars\" and on \"American Bandstand\", where I got my start,\" Ross said. Clark received the following awards: Dick Clark Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting \"American Bandstand\" from 1957 to 1988. He also hosted the game show \"Pyramid\" and \"Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin'", "title": "Dick Clark" }, { "docid": "1568548", "text": "Saturday-night time slot for \"The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show\", which originated from the Little Theatre in Manhattan, beginning on February 15, 1958. The Saturday show would run until 1960. The program was broadcast live, weekday afternoons and, by 1959, the show had a national audience of 20 million. In the fall of 1961, ABC truncated \"American Bandstand\"'s airtime from 90 to 60 minutes (4:00–5:00 pm ET), then even further as a daily half-hour (4:00–4:30 pm ET) program in September 1962; beginning in early 1963, all five shows for the upcoming week were videotaped the preceding Saturday. The use", "title": "American Bandstand" }, { "docid": "5302148", "text": "big band broadcasts on CBS. The first two editions, which were hosted by Three Dog Night and George Carlin, respectively, and featured Dick Clark assuming the role of Times Square reporter, were broadcast by NBC for 1973 and 1974, respectively. In 1974–75, the program moved to its current home of ABC, and Clark assumed the role of host. Following the death of Guy Lombardo and the decline of CBS's specials, \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" grew in popularity, and became ingrained in pop culture—even prompting Clark himself to make appearances on other programs in parody of his role. To this day,", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "1568547", "text": "tape-delay the game show for later broadcast in another time slot, and to continue on with \"Bandstand\", though only for the local audience. A half-hour evening version of \"American Bandstand\" aired on Monday nights from 7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (ET), beginning on October 7, 1957. It preceded \"The Guy Mitchell Show.\" Both were ratings disasters. Dick Clark later stated that he \"knew\" the prime-time edition would fail because its core audience – teenagers and housewives – was occupied with other interests in the evenings. The Monday-night version aired its last program in December 1957, but ABC gave Clark a", "title": "American Bandstand" }, { "docid": "14480868", "text": "the ballroom of The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, both of which were also covered during the Lombardo years. However, the show also featured pre-taped segments from Billy Bob's Texas and Walt Disney World. (Billy Bob's was a location made popular as a result of CBS's hit TV series \"Dallas\".) The show had a different host year after year, unlike its competitor \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" (which was annually hosted by Dick Clark). Andy Williams was the most frequent guest host of the show. Other hosts include Paul Anka, who did the first one, Donny Osmond, Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight (1986–87; 1988–89) and", "title": "Happy New Year, America" }, { "docid": "1568536", "text": "and inspired similar long-running music programs, such as \"Soul Train\" and \"Top of the Pops\". Clark eventually assumed ownership of the program through his Dick Clark Productions company. \"American Bandstand\" premiered locally in late March 1950 as Bandstand on Philadelphia television station WFIL-TV Channel 6 (now WPVI-TV), as a replacement for a weekday movie that had shown predominantly British films. Hosted by Bob Horn as a television adjunct to his radio show of the same name on WFIL radio, \"Bandstand\" mainly featured short musical films produced by Snader Telescriptions and Official Films, with occasional studio guests. This incarnation was an", "title": "American Bandstand" }, { "docid": "5302169", "text": "of the September 11 attacks, was the most \"nerve-racking\" New Year's Eve he had ever experienced. On December 6, 2004, it was reported that Clark had been hospitalized after suffering from a minor stroke. Despite Clark indicating his participation in \"New Year's Rockin' Eve 2005\" in a prepared statement, reports soon surfaced that the stroke may have been serious enough to prevent him from hosting at all. It was officially announced on December 14 that Dick Clark would not be hosting, and that Regis Philbin would fill in for Clark. In a statement, Clark said that he was thankful that", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" } ]
[ { "docid": "5302185", "text": "Shapiro credited Seacrest's involvement in \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" for its \"extended and expanded\" success. That year, the special was aired in simulcast in Canada for first time by City, replacing its coverage of concert festivities at Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square (City continued to sponsor the event, however). While viewership was down by 5%, \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" was still the highest-rated among the New Year's specials. On February 7, 2014, ABC announced that it had renewed both \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" and the American Music Awards through 2024 and 2023 respectively. The 2016 edition featured One Direction's final U.S.", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5302165", "text": "Geller attend a taping of \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" as audience members, trying to draw attention to themselves so they can get on-camera. On December 31, 1999, in lieu of \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\", ABC News presented \"ABC 2000 Today\", a day-long telecast hosted by Peter Jennings which, as part of a consortium of broadcasters, presented coverage of international and U.S. festivities celebrating the arrival of the year 2000. Clark joined Jennings and ABC News reporter Jack Ford as correspondents for coverage from Times Square. They were among a total of more than 1,000 members of the ABC News division", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5302154", "text": "continues into \"Part 2\", which features the remainder of the Hollywood concert segments. Part 2 runs into the early morning hours, and has run as late as 3:00 a.m. ET/PT in the past. Prior to the premiere of \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\", the most well-known New Year's Eve program was the annual big band remote of bandleader Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, broadcast from the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Guy Lombardo hosted 48 straight New Year's Eve broadcasts on CBS until his death in 1977, beginning on radio in 1928 (and for a period, splitting with NBC Radio", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5302160", "text": "of the Waldorf and 35 years of tradition, but we finally got it wrested.\" Clark's hopes soon became reality, as \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" had displaced Guy Lombardo as the most popular and most-watched New Year's Eve special on American television in the years following. The 1980 edition was co-hosted by Erin Moran and John Schneider of \"Happy Days\" and \"The Dukes of Hazzard\" respectively, and continued with Clark's goal to showcase acts that represented the previous year by featuring Barry Manilow, Blondie, Chic, The Oak Ridge Boys, and the Village People as performers. The 1988 edition was co-hosted by", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5302157", "text": "Year's Rockin' Eve 1973, was aired by NBC on December 31, 1972 and was hosted by the members of the rock band Three Dog Night. The special featured pre-recorded musical performances from the ballroom of the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California by Blood, Sweat & Tears, Helen Reddy, Al Green, and Three Dog Night. Clark served as a reporter from Times Square for live coverage of the ball drop and arrival of 1973. The second special, New Year's Rockin' Eve 1974, also on NBC, was hosted by comedian George Carlin and featured pre-recorded musical performances by The Pointer Sisters,", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "16499601", "text": "watching television at the time of the broadcast. This made it the lowest-rated episode in \"30 Rock\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s history. and a decrease from the previous episode \"The Return of Avery Jessup\" (2.92 million) What Will Happen to the Gang Next Year? \"What Will Happen to the Gang Next Year?\" is the twenty-second and final episode of the sixth season of the American television comedy series \"30 Rock\", and the 125th overall episode of the series. It was directed by Michael Engler, and written by Matt Hubbard. The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) network in the United States", "title": "What Will Happen to the Gang Next Year?" }, { "docid": "11142126", "text": "The 1940's Radio Hour The 1940's Radio Hour is a Play with Music by Walton Jones. Full of 1940s music, dancing and old-time sound effects, the play portrays the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade on the New York radio station WOV in December 1942. Fabled WOV, a little New York City radio station, takes to the air on December 21, 1942 (about a year into the U.S. involvement in World War II), this time to record a broadcast for the troops overseas. The narrative concerns the harassed producer, the leading singer who is often drunk, the", "title": "The 1940's Radio Hour" }, { "docid": "20480855", "text": "Rockin' 50's Rock'n'Roll Rockin' 50's Rock'n'Roll is a rock and roll album by the Crickets. It was The Crickets' first release in the 1970s, and marked the band's embrace of their legacy as Buddy Holly's backing band. The album is a concept album of nostalgia for the 1950s, consisting mostly of songs written by Holly and framed by the new retrospectively-minded title track. Originally released as an LP record in December 1970, the album was re-released on CD by in 2000. With the departure of bassist Joe B. Mauldin, and singer Jerry Naylor, who embarking on a career as a", "title": "Rockin' 50's Rock'n'Roll" }, { "docid": "5302186", "text": "television appearance before their planned hiatus. That year, \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" was once again the highest rated of the New Year's Eve specials across the major networks; for the late-night portion, while overall household viewership was down by 7%, ratings in the 18-49 demographic were up by 3%. The 2017 edition expanded to feature coverage of New Year's Eve festivities in New Orleans hosted by Lucy Hale, with performances by Jason Derulo and Panic! at the Disco from the Sugar Bowl's Allstate Fan Fest concert, and Jackson Square's fleur-de-lis drop at midnight in the Central Time Zone. While household", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "17357524", "text": "The TV2's 2003 The TV2's 2003 is a New Zealand television special documenting a short film competition for aspiring young film makers. Over 1,500 entries were received for the competition, and 100 candidates were chosen to present their idea to industry professionals and other hopeful candidates. The judges then selected 30 participants, who were mentored by New Zealand directors and producers. Ten finalists were selected, and each was given $NZ 2,000 to produce their short film for broadcast on TV2 in December 2003. The competition had a panel of eight judges: Convenor of Judges – Robert Boyd-Bell, TV presenter; Stacey", "title": "The TV2's 2003" }, { "docid": "5302153", "text": "retrospective specials were dropped; its two-hour block is now referred to as \"Part 1\" of the \"Primetime\" portion of the program, with the 10:00 p.m. hour considered \"Part 2\". Following late local programming, the main \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" broadcast begins at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT; some stations may tape delay this segment in order to correspond to the local time zone. Since the 2016-17 edition, the live coverage from Times Square has been followed by live coverage of festivities in the Central Time Zone from New Orleans, including Jackson Square's fleur-de-lis drop. After the conclusion of live coverage, the special", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "12903351", "text": "half-hour special programmes, entitled \"Simply The Best – Sports Personality\", were broadcast. Hosted by Gary Lineker, the episodes were shown on BBC One for five consecutive nights from 8 to 2003 and each covered one decade of Sports Personality. To celebrate the golden anniversary of the show, a special award was voted for by the public to recognise an all-time Golden Sports Personality from the previous winners of the last 49 years. A shortlist of five was planned to contain one winner from each decade of the award; however, the actual shortlist contained two winners from the most recent decade—rower", "title": "BBC Sports Personality of the Year" }, { "docid": "20480860", "text": "found throughout, both in the singing and the playing.\" Rockin' 50's Rock'n'Roll Rockin' 50's Rock'n'Roll is a rock and roll album by the Crickets. It was The Crickets' first release in the 1970s, and marked the band's embrace of their legacy as Buddy Holly's backing band. The album is a concept album of nostalgia for the 1950s, consisting mostly of songs written by Holly and framed by the new retrospectively-minded title track. Originally released as an LP record in December 1970, the album was re-released on CD by in 2000. With the departure of bassist Joe B. Mauldin, and singer", "title": "Rockin' 50's Rock'n'Roll" }, { "docid": "8265602", "text": "from WGRZ in July 2018 in a dispute over O'Connell's legal work (weather anchors and meteorologists routinely provide testimony in court, which is forbidden under Tegna, Inc.'s policy without express permission) and his endorsement of a local attorney. O'Connell will be afforded an on-air sendoff. Kevin O'Connell (U.S. TV personality) Kevin O'Connell (born October 1948) is an American broadcast personality. O'Connell was chief weather anchor for WGRZ-TV, the NBC affiliate in Buffalo, New York, from the mid-1990s until 2018. O'Connell also sub-hosted on \"The David Letterman Show\" on NBC, hosted the game show \"Go\" on NBC from October 1983 to", "title": "Kevin O'Connell (U.S. TV personality)" }, { "docid": "14038071", "text": "Know\" by Gotye featuring Kimbra, \"Blurred Lines\" by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams and \"All of Me\" by John Legend Every year, towards the end of December, VH1 presents their annual Top 40 Videos of the Year. The list is based on several videos that appeared on VH1's weekly Top 20 Countdown over the course of the past year. In 2003, the Top 40 Videos of the Year were hosted by VH1's own Rachel Perry & Aamer Haleem. In 2004, the host was actress & musician Juliette Lewis. From 2005 onward, there were no hosts but commentaries from", "title": "VH1's Top 40 Videos of the Year" }, { "docid": "12903338", "text": "broadcast. Hosted by Gary Lineker, the episodes were shown on BBC One for five consecutive nights from 8–12 December 2003; each covered one decade of Sports Personality history. At the end of each programme, viewers voted for their favourite Sports Personality winner from the decade covered; the five winners then went onto a shortlist for one of two special 50th Anniversary awards. From this shortlist, rower Steve Redgrave was voted Golden Sports Personality of the Year by the public. The England World Cup-winning team of 1966 won a Team of the Decades award, voted for by representatives from all previous", "title": "BBC Sports Personality of the Year" }, { "docid": "5302167", "text": "felt positive about the program's expansion into primetime – believing that viewers, no matter where they were, wanted to know what was going on in Times Square on New Year's Eve. Clark was joined by \"Fox & Friends\" anchor Steve Doocy, and Michelle Madison as reporters in Times Square. Comedian Wayne Brady hosted concert segments in Hollywood, which included performances by 98 Degrees, Baha Men, Boyz II Men, Lonestar, and Third Eye Blind among others. The 2002 edition of \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\", its 30th edition, featured pre-recorded concert performances from tours by Aerosmith, Destiny's Child, and Elton John during", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "19980606", "text": "What Does the K Stand For? What Does the K Stand For? is a BBC Radio Four sitcom series based on the experiences of comedian Stephen K. Amos growing up as a teenager in south London in the 1980s. The broadcast of the first series began in November 2013; the third series commenced in January 2017. Reviewing Series 1, Episode 1 for \"Radio Times\", Tristram Fane Saunders found the show suited Amos \"down to the ground; there's a touch of \"Seinfeld\" about \"What Does the K Stand for?\" in the way it flows from stand up into a deliciously awkward", "title": "What Does the K Stand For?" }, { "docid": "5302182", "text": "show's 40-year history. \"New Year's Rockin' Eve 2012\" brought ABC's highest ratings on New Year's Eve since \"ABC 2000 Today\"; an average 8.4 million viewers watched the 40th anniversary retrospective, the primetime hour brought in 12.9 million viewers, and the first hour of the main broadcast peaked at 22.6 million viewers. These numbers excluded viewership from locations such as bars and New Year's Eve parties, as Nielsen ratings do not account for out-of-home viewership (however, the company announced on October 24, 2016 that it would begin to offer out-of-home ratings data to broadcasters in April 2017). On April 18, 2012,", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "9427537", "text": "NBC's New Year's Eve NBC's New Year's Eve (formerly New Year's Eve with Carson Daly) is a television special which airs on New Year's Eve annually on NBC. The special is broadcast from Times Square in New York City, and prominently features coverage of its annual ball drop event, along with live and pre-recorded musical performances by popular musicians from Rockefeller Center and Los Angeles. Premiering for New Year's Eve 2004-05, the special competes against similar specials that also cover the ball drop, such as ABC's \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\". The special is hosted and produced by Carson Daly—better known", "title": "NBC's New Year's Eve" }, { "docid": "12715772", "text": "in 1996. The biography has been extensively reviewed: the reviewers include Paul Theroux, who wrote an earlier book about Naipaul. The biography was selected by the editors of the \"New York Times Book Review\" as one of the \"Times\"' \"10 Best Books of 2008\". It won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, and the British literary award the Hawthornden Prize. The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in", "title": "The World Is What It Is" }, { "docid": "4355997", "text": "edition was broadcast in December 2004. There has been another at the end of each year, as well as a special edition in November 2007 for Channel 4's 25th anniversary celebrations and three themed special editions in September 2012, to celebrate Channel 4's three decades. A second set of \"decades\" editions screened in September 2013 as well as a 10th anniversary special in January 2015 and a \"Big Fat Quiz of Everything\" in January 2016, followed by a series of three episodes in August 2016. Repeats can usually be found days later on Channel 4's sister-channel E4 and/or 4seven. Stand-up", "title": "The Big Fat Quiz of the Year" }, { "docid": "16966750", "text": "schedule games on New Year's Eve, such as in 2002 and 2005, Team Canada will play on December 30 instead. Team Canada New Year's Eve Game The World Junior Hockey Championship is played every year from December 26 to January 5, and is a major event on the sporting calendar for many Canadians. Every year Team Canada plays their final Round Robin game on New Year's Eve. In years when the tournament is played in Canada, large crowds attend the game. It is also broadcast annually by TSN (English) and RDS (French), attracting large audiences. In years that Canada and", "title": "Team Canada New Year's Eve Game" }, { "docid": "20977489", "text": "to his name. 2018 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award The BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2018 took place on 16 December 2018 at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham. It was the 65th presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. The event, broadcast live on BBC One, was hosted by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan. Des Clarke and Jazmin Sawyers provided the pre-show entertainment. George Ezra, Paloma Faith and Freya Ridings performed during the show. The Lightning Seeds along with David Baddiel and Frank Skinner performed \"Three Lions\" whilst a montage of", "title": "2018 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award" }, { "docid": "20977483", "text": "2018 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award The BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2018 took place on 16 December 2018 at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham. It was the 65th presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. The event, broadcast live on BBC One, was hosted by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan. Des Clarke and Jazmin Sawyers provided the pre-show entertainment. George Ezra, Paloma Faith and Freya Ridings performed during the show. The Lightning Seeds along with David Baddiel and Frank Skinner performed \"Three Lions\" whilst a montage of England's run to", "title": "2018 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award" }, { "docid": "1568549", "text": "of videotape allowed Clark to produce and host a series of concert tours around the success of \"American Bandstand\" and to pursue other broadcast interests. On September 7, 1963, the program was moved from its weekday slot and began airing weekly every Saturday afternoon, restored to an hour, until 1989. Production of the show moved from Philadelphia to the ABC Television Center in Los Angeles (now known as The Prospect Studios) on February 8, 1964, which coincidentally was the same weekend that WFIL-TV moved from 46th and Market to their then-new facility on City Line Avenue as well as the", "title": "American Bandstand" }, { "docid": "5302170", "text": "Philbin was able to quickly step in on short notice to host the show, and hoped that he would do a good job. Philbin was optimistic about his role, considering it the \"best temp job ever.\" Various personalities paid tribute to Clark throughout the night on New Year's Eve; the \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" broadcast featured special celebrity messages for Clark, and revelers in Times Square were seen with signs saluting Clark. During CNN's coverage, revelers in Times Square told CNN's Jason Carroll that Philbin was \"all right\" filling in for Clark (but still had Anderson Cooper and Carroll too).", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5302163", "text": "year 2000. Ultimately, Clark hosted the program nearly uninterrupted through 2004. The popularity of \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" also resulted in Clark making appearances on other television series to reference his role. During a Y2K-themed short in \"The Simpsons\"' 1999 Halloween special \"Treehouse of Horror X\", Clark made a cameo appearance hosting a New Year's Eve event in Springfield. The Y2K bug caused the emcee to melt, exposing him as a robot. In an interview following the episode's airing with its writer, Ron Hauge, Clark said that the episode gave the \"biggest response\" he had ever gotten from anything he", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "8117903", "text": "Louise Glenn as Gladys, who appear in thirty-three and thirty episodes, respectively. In its first year, \"The Roaring 20's\" faced competition from the Top 20 programs, \"Perry Mason\" on CBS and \"Bonanza\" on NBC. In the 1961-1962 season, however, \"Bonanza\" was shifted to Sunday, and the western series, \"Tales of Wells Fargo,\" moved into the time slot opposite \"The Roaring 20's\". In 1960 Warner Bros. Records issued the mono soundtrack album \"The Roaring 20's\" to accompany the series. Musical direction was by Sandy Courage. The Roaring 20's (TV series) The Roaring 20's is an American drama television series that aired", "title": "The Roaring 20's (TV series)" }, { "docid": "5302181", "text": "returned for her second year corresponding from Times Square. Musical guests in Times Square included Lady Gaga (who also joined Mayor Michael Bloomberg in activating the ball drop), Justin Bieber, Pitbull and Hot Chelle Rae. Performers in the Hollywood segments included Taio Cruz, Nicki Minaj, Blink-182, Florence + the Machine, LMFAO, Gym Class Heroes, OneRepublic (at Disneyland), The Band Perry, will.i.am, Christina Perri, and Robin Thicke. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first edition of \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\", the primetime portion of the show was preceded by a two-hour retrospective special focusing on memorable music performances from the", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "12715771", "text": "The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book \"A Bend in the River\". \"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.\" French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage", "title": "The World Is What It Is" }, { "docid": "6468256", "text": "The World Is Yours (TV series) The World Is Yours was the world's first color television series, making its debut on June 26, 1951, on several stations of the CBS television network in the eastern United States. This half-hour daytime program (4:30-5:30 p.m., EDT) was hosted from New York by naturalist and author Ivan T. Sanderson, and was broadcast Monday through Friday. Mr. Sanderson's assistant was \"Patty Painter\" (Patricia Stinnette) a model and CBS employee who had posed for on-camera tests of CBS's color television system since 1946. The producer-director for the show was Frances Buss. The first episode of", "title": "The World Is Yours (TV series)" }, { "docid": "6468258", "text": "sets were made. The World Is Yours (TV series) The World Is Yours was the world's first color television series, making its debut on June 26, 1951, on several stations of the CBS television network in the eastern United States. This half-hour daytime program (4:30-5:30 p.m., EDT) was hosted from New York by naturalist and author Ivan T. Sanderson, and was broadcast Monday through Friday. Mr. Sanderson's assistant was \"Patty Painter\" (Patricia Stinnette) a model and CBS employee who had posed for on-camera tests of CBS's color television system since 1946. The producer-director for the show was Frances Buss. The", "title": "The World Is Yours (TV series)" }, { "docid": "7605580", "text": "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (TV show) Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is an American half-hour children's television game show based on the Carmen Sandiego computer game series created by Brøderbund Software. The show was hosted by Greg Lee, who was joined by Lynne Thigpen, and the a capella vocal group Rockapella, who served as the show's house band and comedy troupe. The series was videotaped in New York City and co-produced by WQED and WGBH-TV, and aired on PBS stations from September 30, 1991 to December 22, 1995, with reruns airing until October 4, 1996.", "title": "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (TV show)" }, { "docid": "15859421", "text": "and BBC Northern Ireland co-operated on several events during the broadcast. The first midnight celebrations in the South Pacific and reports from Jerusalem and Nazareth featured. The \"Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000\" schedule reached 75 per cent of the people of Ireland, the equivalent of 2.6 million viewers. At midnight 74 per cent of the available audience were watching RTÉ One. Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000 Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000 was RTÉ's coverage of the turn of the millennium from 31 December 1999 into 1 January 2000. Part of the \"2000 Today\" programming in Ireland, a series of well-known broadcasters presented various", "title": "Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000" }, { "docid": "5965383", "text": "Studio S Studio S was a Swedish TV show broadcast on SVT during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Hosted by Göran Elwin, It dealt with various social issues, featuring both experts and regular people. Despite covering many issues, the show is now mainly known (and infamous) for an episode broadcast on December 2, 1980 entitled \"\"Vem behöver videon (who needs video)\"?\". The episode raised concerns over violent movies on video and the notion that they were being viewed by children. Reporters interviewed children who claimed that they had seen movies such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and showed", "title": "Studio S" }, { "docid": "1568540", "text": "for programming suggestions to fill their 3:30 p.m. (ET) time slot (WFIL had been pre-empting the ABC programming with \"Bandstand\"). Clark decided to pitch the show to ABC president Thomas W. Moore, and after some badgering the show was picked up nationally, becoming \"American Bandstand\" on August 5, 1957. One show from this first season (December 18, 1957, indicated as the \"Second National Telecast\") is now in the archives of Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications. \"Studio 'B'\" measured 80' x 42' x 24', but appeared smaller due to the number of props, television cameras, and risers that were used for", "title": "American Bandstand" }, { "docid": "5302159", "text": "broadcasts from the Waldorf-Astoria for 1977–78. However, the effects of Lombardo's absence led to a decline in viewership, allowing \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" to overtake the Royal Canadians in viewership in only its fifth year on-air. The threat of the new special also prompted CBS to drop the Royal Canadians entirely in 1979 in favor of a new special, \"Happy New Year, America\", which premiered for New Year's Eve 1979–80. With its recent success, Clark began hoping that \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" would become a television tradition of its own, lamenting that \"Lombardo would always win [in New York] because", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5302164", "text": "had ever done. Clark made a further appearance during the pilot episode of fellow Matt Groening series \"Futurama\", \"Space Pilot 3000\", where Clark's head (as preserved in a jar) hosts \"New Year's Rockin' Eve 3000\". In the 1994 film \"Forrest Gump\", footage of Clark from the first edition of \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" is seen on a television at a bar during a scene of the film taking place on New Year's Eve in 1972. \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" was also the subject of an episode of the sitcom \"Friends\", \"The One with the Routine\", in which Ross and Monica", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5302168", "text": "the primetime hour, followed by studio segments (again hosted by Wayne Brady) featuring performances by Blink-182, Bush, Busta Rhymes, Jessica Simpson, LFO, The O'Jays, and Pink. The primetime hour of \"New Year's Rockin' Eve 2002\" was also preceded by \"ABC 2002\", a follow-up to the \"ABC 2000\" special, hosted by Peter Jennings from the Rose Center for Earth and Space. The two-hour special featured a \"meaningful and reflective\" view on New Year's celebrations from around the world, and also included performances by Arlo Guthrie, Sting, and U2. Clark personally felt that 2002, since it was the first in the wake", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "5965387", "text": "wrote an angry open letter where he denounced the feature as bad journalism, denying that the children were forced and that the harsh criticism of violent movies was valid. A representative of SVT denied the accusation. Studio S Studio S was a Swedish TV show broadcast on SVT during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Hosted by Göran Elwin, It dealt with various social issues, featuring both experts and regular people. Despite covering many issues, the show is now mainly known (and infamous) for an episode broadcast on December 2, 1980 entitled \"\"Vem behöver videon (who needs video)\"?\". The episode", "title": "Studio S" }, { "docid": "12903331", "text": "Year, two special anniversary awards were created to recognise the best team and Sports Personality from the previous fifty years. Rower Steve Redgrave was voted BBC Golden Sports Personality of the Year and England's 1966 World Cup-winning football team was chosen as Team of the Decades. The BBC's Sports Personality of the Year was created by Paul Fox, who came up with the idea while he was editor of the magazine show \"Sportsview\". The first award ceremony took place in 1954 as part of \"Sportsview\", and was presented by Peter Dimmock. Held at the Savoy Hotel on 30 December 1954,", "title": "BBC Sports Personality of the Year" }, { "docid": "1568553", "text": "Summer became the only music artist in \"Bandstand\"s history to co-host the program. As \"Bandstand\" moved towards the 1980s, the ratings began to decline. Many factors were involved in this, particularly the launch and rise of MTV and other music programs on television, and along with that, the number of ABC affiliates opting to pre-empt or delay the program. The increase in competition hurt \"Bandstand\" and the variety of options for music on TV decreased its relevance. The other reason was that \"American Bandstand\" was pre-empted on many occasions by televised college football games (which expanded greatly in number in", "title": "American Bandstand" }, { "docid": "15859419", "text": "Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000 Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000 was RTÉ's coverage of the turn of the millennium from 31 December 1999 into 1 January 2000. Part of the \"2000 Today\" programming in Ireland, a series of well-known broadcasters presented various stages of the nineteen-hour broadcast. \"2000 Today\" was conceived as part of the Millennium celebrations, given the numerical significance of the change from 1999 to 2000. The programme was produced and televised by an international consortium of 60 broadcasters, including RTÉ and headed by the BBC in Britain and WGBH in the United States. The BBC provided the production hub", "title": "Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000" }, { "docid": "12759910", "text": "multiplex is both unconnected to Boxer and their four channels are broadcast free-to-air from one single transmitter in the north-west of Copenhagen. Yet, in the flat landscape receiving is possible up to a range of 30 to 40 km (possibly even longer) depending of the antenna and local surroundings. The four channels are Boxer TV A/S Boxer TV A/S is a company that is broadcasting pay television channels on the digital terrestrial television network in Denmark since February 1, 2009. It is a subsidiary of Boxer TV Access, a Swedish company which is owned by Com Hem. Boxer won the", "title": "Boxer TV A/S" }, { "docid": "14038072", "text": "artists, comedians, & TV personalities were seen throughout each video. In 2012 and 2014, the special changed to the Top 20 Videos of the Year and only aired one day instead of five. In 2013, the special changed back to the top 40 videos of the year. In 2012 and 2014, the special was hosted by Jim Shearer. VH1's Top 40 Videos of the Year On VH1's Top 40 Videos of the Year, the best videos of the year are counted down. Since 2002, twelve videos have been named Video of the Year: \"Soak Up the Sun\" by Sheryl Crow,", "title": "VH1's Top 40 Videos of the Year" }, { "docid": "1434473", "text": "behind only \"Goldfinger.\" The song also appeared in two \"best of 1999\" polls: #87 in 89X's \"Top 89 Songs of 1999\" and No. 100 in Q101's \"Top 101 of 1999\". \"The World Is Not Enough\" premiered on 19 November 1999 in the United States and on 26 November 1999 in the United Kingdom. Its world premiere was 8 November 1999 at the Fox Bruin Theater, Los Angeles, USA. At that time MGM signed a marketing partnership with MTV, primarily for American youths, who were assumed to have considered Bond as \"an old-fashioned secret service agent\". As a result, MTV broadcast", "title": "The World Is Not Enough" }, { "docid": "5302166", "text": "that were part of the broadcast. They were all under the direction of ABC's Roger Goodman. The \"ABC 2000 Today\" telecast overall also received a Peabody Award. Reflecting on the event, Clark was enthusiastic about his participation, feeling that New Year's Eve 2000 was one of the biggest nights he had ever spent in Times Square. \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" returned to ABC the following New Year's Eve for the arrival of 2001. The 2000–01 edition also introduced a new primetime hour at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, which featured additional segments and music performances to lead into the main program. Clark", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "12759900", "text": "Boxer TV A/S Boxer TV A/S is a company that is broadcasting pay television channels on the digital terrestrial television network in Denmark since February 1, 2009. It is a subsidiary of Boxer TV Access, a Swedish company which is owned by Com Hem. Boxer won the right to build four multiplex networks to broadcast digital television in 2008. They were competing against \"Danmarks Digital TV A/S\" (owned by Telenor) and \"Danmarks TV A/S\" (owned by Modern Times Group, MTG). The procurement was organized by the government agency \"Mediesekretariatet\" and in March 2008 Radio- og TV-nævnet chose Swedish Boxer as", "title": "Boxer TV A/S" }, { "docid": "20355238", "text": "The Interview (M*A*S*H) \"The Interview\" was episode 25 in the fourth season of the TV series \"M*A*S*H\". The 97th episode overall, it first aired in the United States on February 24, 1976. A news correspondent (Clete Roberts) visits the 4077th to get their feelings about the war. The episode was broadcast in black and white and was the final episode for series developer Larry Gelbart. Loretta Swit does not appear. Recently a full color version of this episode has appeared on Hulu. The opening comment \"The following is in black and white\", remains intact, however. In 1997, \"TV Guide\" ranked", "title": "The Interview (M*A*S*H)" }, { "docid": "12856385", "text": "other nationally broadcast New Year's Eve programs, most of which focus solely on the celebrations in New York and/or go off the air shortly after midnight eastern, \"New Year's Eve Live\" features various CNN correspondents in the United States and abroad reporting on the celebrations marking the New Year, including continuing coverage of New Year celebrations past midnight Central Time. (In 2017, \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\" expanded to include a Central Time countdown.) The Pacific Time Zone is covered only by tape-delaying the East Coast event coverage, and there is no coverage or countdown for the Mountain Time Zone. The", "title": "New Year's Eve Live" }, { "docid": "9427544", "text": "impugned by a glamorous, charming comedian in a fur hat.\" She also called on those offended by the remarks to donate to Disabled American Veterans. The 2013–14 edition marked ratings gains for the special; while it was still beaten overall by \"New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest\", the primetime segment (which had an NBC News special, \"A Toast to 2013\" as a lead-in) brought 50% higher ratings than the previous year, and the midnight coverage was up by 6%. For 2015–16, \"New Year's Eve with Carson Daly\" was co-hosted by Andy Cohen, and shortened to only consist of the", "title": "NBC's New Year's Eve" }, { "docid": "1612487", "text": "Rockin' the Suburbs Rockin' the Suburbs is the debut studio album by American alternative rock singer-songwriter Ben Folds. His first solo album after leaving his band Ben Folds Five, \"Rockin' the Suburbs\" was recorded in Adelaide, Australia, where Folds was living at the time. \"Rockin' the Suburbs\" is Folds' only single to make \"Billboard\"'s Modern Rock Tracks chart, peaking there at number 28. The album peaked at number 42 on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart, and at number 11 on the Top Internet Albums chart. A remake of the title track featuring William Shatner appeared in the soundtrack for the 2006", "title": "Rockin' the Suburbs" }, { "docid": "5302174", "text": "exactly like how it was beforehand, Clark had made great progress since the original diagnosis. Alongside pre-recorded performances from Hollywood hosted by actress and pop singer Hilary Duff, the 2006 edition also featured a live performance by Mariah Carey directly inside Times Square – the first such performance in the show's history. Live performances from Times Square became a regular feature during future editions of \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\". During the program, Clark made limited on-air appearances, but still conducted his traditional countdown, and also recollected on his recent experiences: Public curiosity over Clark's condition and his return to television", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "7168444", "text": "school year. D. B.'s Delight D.B.'s Delight is a locally produced St. Louis, Missouri children's television quiz show produced by CBS-owned affiliate KMOX-TV (later KMOV), Channel 4. The show ran 30 minutes on Saturdays and Sundays and aired in St. Louis from 1977 to 1988. \"D.B.'s Delight\" featured two regular co-hosts including a live performer and a puppeteer. The live performer was radio personality Bobby Day who hosted the program from 1977 to 1984 and later, Guy Phillips from 1984-1988. The puppet character called \"D.B. Doorbell\" (performed, at various times, by puppeteers Tom Brooks, Dale Thompson, Doug Kincaid, and Bobby", "title": "D. B.'s Delight" }, { "docid": "18298953", "text": "Golden Ticket Awards for best new ride or any for the coaster to be a part of the top fifty steel roller coasters in the world of that year. Batman: The Ride (S&S Free Spin) Batman: The Ride is a 4D Free Spin roller coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas amusement park in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Manufactured by S&S - Sansei Technologies (S&S), the roller coaster is the first 4D Free Spin coaster in the world. It opened on May 23, 2015. On August 30, 2018 it was announced that a new version of this ride is under", "title": "Batman: The Ride (S&S Free Spin)" }, { "docid": "1612489", "text": "of \"The Sing-Off\" and performed \"Not the Same\" with the Dartmouth Aires on the finale of Season 3. Rockin' the Suburbs Rockin' the Suburbs is the debut studio album by American alternative rock singer-songwriter Ben Folds. His first solo album after leaving his band Ben Folds Five, \"Rockin' the Suburbs\" was recorded in Adelaide, Australia, where Folds was living at the time. \"Rockin' the Suburbs\" is Folds' only single to make \"Billboard\"'s Modern Rock Tracks chart, peaking there at number 28. The album peaked at number 42 on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart, and at number 11 on the Top Internet", "title": "Rockin' the Suburbs" }, { "docid": "4723252", "text": "Teenager of the Year Teenager of the Year is Frank Black’s second solo album, released in 1994 and produced by former Pere Ubu member Eric Drew Feldman, who also played keyboards. This album is often cited as the high-point of Francis' post-Pixies catalogue, even being named to Pitchfork's \"Top 100 Albums of the 90s\". Long considered a testament to Frank Black's songwriting skills as well as his virtue as a performer, \"Teenager\" also features work by several backing musicians, including Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago and guitarist Lyle Workman. Although not originally well-received, the record is now widely praised by both", "title": "Teenager of the Year" }, { "docid": "20459417", "text": "2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award The 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award took place on 17 December 2017 at the Echo Arena in Liverpool. It was the 64th presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. Awarded annually by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the main award honours an individual's British sporting achievement over the past year, with the winner selected by public vote from a twelve-person shortlist. The event, broadcast live on BBC One, was hosted by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds opened the ceremony", "title": "2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award" }, { "docid": "19752724", "text": "was hosted by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan. The nominees were revealed on 28 November 2016, during BBC One's \"The One Show\". To reflect the vast success of the past year, a record 16 sportspeople were named on the shortlist. In addition to the main award as \"Sports Personality of the Year\", several other awards were also announced: 2016 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award The 2016 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award took place on 18 December 2016 at the Genting Arena in Birmingham. It was the 63rd presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of", "title": "2016 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award" }, { "docid": "3991616", "text": "Island, where she was decommissioned on 9 October. Fifteen days later, her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register, and, in December 1946, she was sold and delivered to the Salco Iron and Metal Company, San Francisco, for scrapping. \"S-30\" was awarded two battle stars for her World War II service. USS S-30 (SS-135) USS \"S-30\" (SS-135) was an \"S\"-class submarine of the United States Navy during World War II. \"S-30\" was laid down on 1 April 1918 by the Union Iron Works at San Francisco, California. She was launched on 21 November 1918 sponsored by Mrs. Edward S.", "title": "USS S-30 (SS-135)" }, { "docid": "11142127", "text": "second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mic, and the young trumpet player who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller. The 1940's Radio Hour The 1940's Radio Hour is a Play with Music by Walton Jones. Full of 1940s music, dancing and old-time sound effects, the play portrays the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade on the New York radio station WOV in December 1942. Fabled WOV, a little New York City radio station, takes to the air on December 21, 1942 (about a", "title": "The 1940's Radio Hour" }, { "docid": "19648339", "text": "Hulbert, Walton Anderson, Eric Robinson, Eunice Crowther, and the George Mitchell Choir had previously worked together for BBC Television on a production of \"Cinderella\" first broadcast on 27 December 1947, and most of them came together for a new \"Cinderella\" in 1950 which like \"The Golden Year\" starred Sally Ann Howes. The Golden Year (BBC TV play) The Golden Year is a musical play by Jack Hulbert and Barry Baker written for BBC Television, starring Hulbert with Sally Ann Howes and Peter Graves, with original music by Harry S. Pepper. It was first broadcast on 23 June and 2 July", "title": "The Golden Year (BBC TV play)" }, { "docid": "11026307", "text": "Rockin' Around the World Rockin' Around the World was the sixth album of rock and roll music by Bill Haley and His Comets. Released in March 1958 on the Decca Records label, Decca 8692, the album was produced by Milt Gabler, who produced all of Haley's recordings for Decca. It was the second of three \"themed\" albums that Haley produced for the label. This album featured versions of well-known folk songs from around the world, rearranged in rock and roll style, including new lyrics, by Haley and his songwriting partners, Milt Gabler, Rusty Keefer, and Catherine Cafra. It is not", "title": "Rockin' Around the World" }, { "docid": "18233916", "text": "Celebrate: The Greatest Hits Celebrate: The Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released on March 25, 2013. There were three different formats released: a two-disc version, a three-disc version, and a single-disc version for the North American market. The album spans all of their studio albums from 1979's \"Life in a Day\" to 2009's \"Graffiti Soul\", which at the time was the latest album Simple Minds released, plus the live version \"Promised You a Miracle\" from 1987's \"Live in the City of Light\", and new tracks recorded for this compilation: \"Stagefright\", \"Blood Diamonds\", and", "title": "Celebrate: The Greatest Hits" }, { "docid": "20355239", "text": "this episode #80 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes. The Interview (M*A*S*H) \"The Interview\" was episode 25 in the fourth season of the TV series \"M*A*S*H\". The 97th episode overall, it first aired in the United States on February 24, 1976. A news correspondent (Clete Roberts) visits the 4077th to get their feelings about the war. The episode was broadcast in black and white and was the final episode for series developer Larry Gelbart. Loretta Swit does not appear. Recently a full color version of this episode has appeared on Hulu. The opening comment \"The following is in", "title": "The Interview (M*A*S*H)" }, { "docid": "9680020", "text": "in November 1958 by TCN-9 television executive Bruce Gyngell in consultation with Mayfield B. Anthony, who based it on the American program of a similar name, \"American Bandstand\". The host for virtually the entire run was Brian Henderson, who was also a local newsreader from January 1957. From 1960 it developed a national profile as the Nine Network expanded into other Australian cities. TCN-9 broadcast pop music television program, \"TV Disc Jockey\", from June 1957 to February 1958. Its host was John Godson, with each episode filmed in front of about 40 teenagers, who \"listen to the records, rock-'n-roll, drink", "title": "Bandstand (TV program)" }, { "docid": "4723253", "text": "critics and fans. The album reached number 2 on Billboard's Heat Seekers list and 131 on The Billboard 200 list in 1994. The single \"Headache\" reached number 10 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks that year. The album is out of print in LP or CD format. Teenager of the Year Teenager of the Year is Frank Black’s second solo album, released in 1994 and produced by former Pere Ubu member Eric Drew Feldman, who also played keyboards. This album is often cited as the high-point of Francis' post-Pixies catalogue, even being named to Pitchfork's \"Top 100 Albums of the 90s\".", "title": "Teenager of the Year" }, { "docid": "2944902", "text": "BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year The BBC World Sport Star of the Year (formerly known as the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year) is an award presented at the annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year award ceremony. The award is presented to a non-British sportsperson considered to have made the most substantial contribution to a sport in that year. The award was decided by a panel of over 30 sporting journalists. Each panellist voted for their top two choices; their first preference was awarded two points, and their second preference was awarded one point. The winning", "title": "BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year" }, { "docid": "7209832", "text": "Broadcast to the World Broadcast to the World is the sixth studio album released by American punk rock band Zebrahead. The album was influenced by Lit's \"A Place in the Sun\" (1999). It is their first album with new co-vocalist/rhythm guitarist Matty Lewis, who replaced former member Justin Mauriello after he left the group in late 2004. Shawn Harris of The Matches created the artwork for the album, and for the band's follow-up album, \"Phoenix\". On October 17, 2006, \"Broadcast to the World\" was made available for streaming via \"Alternative Press\". It was released in the U.S. on October 24", "title": "Broadcast to the World" }, { "docid": "6991352", "text": "S. S. Still Summerfield Saunders Still (1851–1931) was an osteopath and founder of a school of osteopathy. Still and his wife Ella Daugherty married in 1891 and had two children, Persus (Percy) who became a surgeon, and Christina. Still was the son of James Still, a medical doctor trained in Chicago, Illinois, and Rahab Saunders Still. The Still family moved to Kansas, where S. S. Still was educated in Blue Mound, Eudora, and at Baker University at Baldwin. At the age of 15 Summerfield Still enrolled at Baker University, a Methodist college in Baldwin, Kansas where he was studying from", "title": "S. S. Still" }, { "docid": "19214591", "text": "this time hosted by Steve Harvey, under the title Fox's New Year's Eve with Steve Harvey. From December 1991 to 1992, and from December 2004 to 2013, Fox had aired New Year's Eve specials under the blanket title \"New Year's Eve Live\", with rotating hosts and formats, and coverage of the Times Square ball drop. \"Fox New Year's Eve Live\" was first broadcast on December 31, 1991; it was hosted by Penn and Teller and featured performances by Guns N' Roses, Sam Kinison, and Southside Johnny. A second edition was broadcast in 1992, featuring coverage from New York, Chicago, and", "title": "Fox New Year's Eve specials" }, { "docid": "10021084", "text": "Swingin' Time Swingin' Time was a music variety show, similar to American Bandstand, hosted by WKNR (Keener 13, Detroit) personality Robin Seymour and also, for a time, CKLW radio's Tom Shannon. This show was broadcast on CKLW-TV Channel 9 (now CBET-DT) out of Windsor, Ontario Canada, from 1965 to 1968, and also seen in a few other markets in syndication. The show featured recording acts, both nationally and locally popular, lip-synching to their latest releases while teenagers showcased the latest dances on the show's dance floor. In its brief run, the show featured well-known acts Motown like Smokey Robinson &", "title": "Swingin' Time" }, { "docid": "6991357", "text": "day for burial at Woodland Cemetery. On October 3, 1877, Summerfield married Ella Daugherty in Lawrence, Kansas. They raised two children: George and Delia. S. S. Still Summerfield Saunders Still (1851–1931) was an osteopath and founder of a school of osteopathy. Still and his wife Ella Daugherty married in 1891 and had two children, Persus (Percy) who became a surgeon, and Christina. Still was the son of James Still, a medical doctor trained in Chicago, Illinois, and Rahab Saunders Still. The Still family moved to Kansas, where S. S. Still was educated in Blue Mound, Eudora, and at Baker University", "title": "S. S. Still" }, { "docid": "11248555", "text": "\"The Red Clock\" and \"The Hair Shirt,\" the former sung by Rowland S. Howard, were originally included on the Hee Haw EP, released in 1979 when the Birthday Party were still known as Boys Next Door. The Birthday Party (The Birthday Party album) The Birthday Party is a 1980 album by Australian rock band The Boys Next Door (later reissued under the band name The Birthday Party). The album was produced by The Boys Next Door, Tony Cohen, and Keith Glass; it was recorded with Cohen engineering at Richmond Recorders Studios in Melbourne from July 1979 to February 1980. The", "title": "The Birthday Party (The Birthday Party album)" }, { "docid": "2204762", "text": "\"\"Cosmic Calendar\"\", an analogy where every 1 billion years corresponds to about twenty-four days in the calendar. Sagan used the same analogy in the more-widely known television series \"\". It is disconcerting to find that in such a cosmic year the Earth does not condense out of interstellar matter until early September, dinosaurs emerge on Christmas Eve; flowers arise on December 28; and men and women originate at 10:30 on New Year's Eve. All of recorded history occupies the last 10 seconds of December 31; and the time from the waning of the Middle Ages to the present occupies little", "title": "The Dragons of Eden" }, { "docid": "5302156", "text": "the 1970s, Clark felt that Guy Lombardo's New Year's specials were outdated and did not appeal well to younger viewers; he believed that only older viewers would be interested in big band music accompanied by \"people dancing cheek-to-jowl in their tuxedos and funny hats.\" In response, he decided to produce a more youthful New Year's Eve special of his own to compete. Clark's new program would be known as \"New Year's Rockin' Eve\", a name chosen to signify the major contrast between his special and the more formal atmosphere of Guy Lombardo's special. The first edition, Three Dog Night's New", "title": "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" }, { "docid": "15255201", "text": "to the Rescue held an event to celebrate its Second Annual Public Service Award Ceremony to honors lawyers, judges, law students and other members of the community who have demonstrated an enormous passion for public service.. The event was held at the Camillus House in Downtown Miami and was hosted by television personality Tara Gilani. The honorees include Eugenio Hernandez, Esquire \"Lifetime Achievement Award\", Matthew Dietz, Esquire as \"Lawyer of the Year Award\", Norman Braman for the \"Humanitarian of the Year Award\", Hon. Gill S. Freeman, a Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge as \"Jurist of the Year Award\", Luda Kogan,", "title": "Lawyers to the Rescue" }, { "docid": "20260252", "text": "enemy, and a Martian girl find a lost city known only to the oldest legends of the Martians, unlock its secrets, and either remain as its rulers or escape to begin a new life.\" The Valley Where Time Stood Still The Valley Where Time Stood Still is a science fantasy novel by American writer Lin Carter, the second in his Edgar Rice Burroughs- and Leigh Brackett-inspired series The Mysteries of Mars. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in December 1974 and in paperback by Popular Library in February 1976. It was reissued by Wildside Press in April 2008.", "title": "The Valley Where Time Stood Still" } ]
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Dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic, today is World AIDS day. What color ribbon is worn to mark the day?
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[ { "docid": "4233471", "text": "as \"The year of the Ribbon\". Today the red ribbon is an internationally recognized symbol of AIDS awareness and a design icon. It has led the way for many other color ribbons and awareness projects. The Unicode character standard has a \"reminder ribbon\" character (🎗️) at code point U+1F397. No color is specified for it, and platforms vary in its presentation; it can appear yellow, blue, or red depending on the device or software in which it is viewed. Ribbons can be used simply to raise awareness of a disease or signify that an individual has been personally affected by", "title": "Awareness ribbon" }, { "docid": "8092136", "text": "at Northern Secondary School in Toronto. Students sold candy-grams of cinnamon hearts with red ribbons to each other near Valentine's Day. Approximately $560 was raised through this awareness initiative. Now called Heart-o-grams, these packages include gum, a red ribbon, HIV/AIDS awareness pamphlets, and optional condoms. In 2011, the Have a Heart campaign was run in over 1,600 schools across Canada with more than 1 million students participating. Each year CANFAR gives out The Heart Award which is presented annually to the high school that demonstrates outstanding dedication and community spirit while raising research funds and HIV/AIDS awareness among their peers.", "title": "Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research" }, { "docid": "7932515", "text": "Red Ribbon Express Red Ribbon Express is an AIDS/HIV awareness campaign train by the Indian Railways. The motto of the Red Ribbon Express is “Embarking on the journey of life”. The Red Ribbon Express was launched in India on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2007. The seven coach train was flagged off by United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. The Red Ribbon Express became the first time information and awareness about HIV/AIDS was disseminated through a train service, Indian Railways. Initial talk of the HIV/AIDS awareness train began over two years before its launch. The idea of the Red Ribbon", "title": "Red Ribbon Express" }, { "docid": "4607563", "text": "among the audience by Red Ribbon International, with performers such as George Michael wearing one. The Red Ribbon continues to be a powerful force in the fight to increase public awareness of HIV/AIDS and in the lobbying efforts to increase funding for AIDS services and research. To symbolize the United States' commitment to combat the world AIDS epidemic through its landmark PEPFAR program, Steven M. Levine, a communications aid in President George W. Bush's administration, proposed that the administration display a AIDS ribbon on the White House's iconic North Portico on World AIDS Day 2007. The display, now an annual", "title": "Red ribbon" }, { "docid": "19402175", "text": "Day of the Dead (2016 album) Day of the Dead is the twenty-fifth compilation release benefiting the Red Hot Organization, an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. Featuring fifty-nine exclusive recordings of covers of Grateful Dead songs by a number of independent artists as a tribute to the band, the compilation was released on May 20, 2016 as five CDs, a limited edition vinyl LP box set, and as a digital download. John Carlin, the founder of the Red Hot Organization, was the executive producer for the album. It is the second compilation album", "title": "Day of the Dead (2016 album)" }, { "docid": "4233470", "text": "color red was chosen for its \"connection to blood and the idea of passion\"—both anger and love. During the 1991 Tony Awards, actor Jeremy Irons wore the bright red ribbon pinned on his chest. Though the symbolism of the ribbon was not allowed to be discussed on air, the media and public noticed the eye catching ribbon, and its popularity grew overnight. The red ribbon was purposefully not copyrighted in the United States, to allow it to be worn and used widely as a symbol in the fight against AIDS. The year 1992 was declared by \"The New York Times\"", "title": "Awareness ribbon" }, { "docid": "19348231", "text": "the 1982 song \"That's What Friends Are For\" and released it as a charity single, with some portion of the proceeds going for AIDS research and prevention. In 1986, the song won a Grammy Award. Between 1986 and 1988, Diamanda Galas released her trilogy about AIDS called \"Masque of the Red Death\". Ron Athey's performance art often reflects AIDS-related themes, particularly a performance at the Walker Art Center in Minnesota which caused controversy, and his 1993 performance \"Four Scenes in a Harsh Life\". Art of the AIDS Crisis The AIDS pandemic began in the early 1980s and brought with it", "title": "Art of the AIDS Crisis" }, { "docid": "15133965", "text": "volunteers can answer queries pertaining to testing, safer sex, treatment and transmission of HIV. The HPCM program uses acomprehensive approach to health which positions HIV prevention within a broad and inclusive health framework.This program offers clients the opportunity to connect with a professional that can help them address the barriers that can impact their health and well-being. AIDS Vancouver participates in the Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life, the We Care Red Ribbon Campaign and World AIDS Day. On September 27, AIDS Vancouver held the popular Celebrity Dim Sum fund-raiser. The seventh annual event garnered an unprecedented $21,670, surpassing its 2013", "title": "AIDS Vancouver" }, { "docid": "4607562", "text": "AIDS Artists Caucus wished to create a visual symbol to demonstrate compassion for people living with AIDS and their caregivers. Inspired by the yellow ribbons honoring American soldiers serving in the Gulf war, the color red was chosen for its, \"connection to blood and the idea of passion—not only anger, but love, like a valentine.\" First worn publicly by Jeremy Irons at the 1991 Tony Awards, the ribbon soon became renowned as an international symbol of AIDS awareness. At the \"Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert\" held at Wembley Stadium, London on Easter Sunday 1992, more than 100,000 red ribbons were distributed", "title": "Red ribbon" }, { "docid": "4233474", "text": "a red ribbon. Apple produced an iPhone in March 2017 that was red to promote awareness for AIDS. Portions of the proceeds from this iPhone went towards research for AIDS. Although a minuscule gesture, ribbons are small and can be placed in common locations that are heavily traveled. Individuals who see these ribbons may begin to conduct their own research to decipher the meaning behind the ribbon and why it was placed so strategically. Ribbons can be made from any and all material, making them readily available to all populations. People can purchase car magnets in the shape of a", "title": "Awareness ribbon" } ]
[ { "docid": "1352675", "text": "like the Student Stop AIDS Campaign in the UK. Source: World AIDS Day World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease. Government and health officials, non-governmental organizations, and individuals around the world observe the day, often with education on AIDS prevention and control. World AIDS Day is one of the eight official global public health campaigns marked by the World Health Organization (WHO), along with World Health Day, World", "title": "World AIDS Day" }, { "docid": "1352667", "text": "World AIDS Day World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease. Government and health officials, non-governmental organizations, and individuals around the world observe the day, often with education on AIDS prevention and control. World AIDS Day is one of the eight official global public health campaigns marked by the World Health Organization (WHO), along with World Health Day, World Blood Donor Day, World Immunization Week, World Tuberculosis Day, World", "title": "World AIDS Day" }, { "docid": "11901966", "text": "Vaccine Day to raise awareness for AIDS vaccines, educate communities about HIV prevention and research for an AIDS vaccine and bring attention to the ways in which ordinary people can be a part of the international effort to stem the pandemic. World AIDS Vaccine Day World AIDS Vaccine Day, also known as HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, is observed annually on May 18. HIV vaccine advocates mark the day by promoting the continued urgent need for a vaccine to prevent HIV infection and AIDS. They acknowledge and thank the thousands of volunteers, community members, health professionals, supporters and scientists who are", "title": "World AIDS Vaccine Day" }, { "docid": "11901964", "text": "World AIDS Vaccine Day World AIDS Vaccine Day, also known as HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, is observed annually on May 18. HIV vaccine advocates mark the day by promoting the continued urgent need for a vaccine to prevent HIV infection and AIDS. They acknowledge and thank the thousands of volunteers, community members, health professionals, supporters and scientists who are working together to find a safe and effective AIDS vaccine and urge the international community to recognize the importance of investing in new technologies as a critical element of a comprehensive response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The concept of World AIDS", "title": "World AIDS Vaccine Day" }, { "docid": "15824876", "text": "general health awareness context. National Latino AIDS Awareness Day National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) (Spanish : \"El Dia Nacional de Concientizacion Latina del SIDA\") takes place in the United States of America and its territories on October 15, the last day of National Hispanic Heritage Month, and aims to increase awareness of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the Hispanic/Latino population living in the United States including Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. It is a national community mobilizing and social marketing campaign co-ordinated by the Latino Commission on AIDS and the Hispanic Federation in partnership with", "title": "National Latino AIDS Awareness Day" }, { "docid": "1352674", "text": "to encourage political leaders to keep their commitment to achieve universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support by the year 2010. As of 2012, the multi-year theme for World AIDS Day is \"Getting to Zero: Zero new HIV infections. Zero deaths from AIDS-related illness. Zero discrimination.\" The US Federal theme for the year 2014 is \"\"Focus, Partner, Achieve: An AIDS-Free Generation\"\". The themes are not limited to a single day but are used year-round in international efforts to highlight HIV/AIDS awareness within the context of other major global events including the G8 Summit, as well as local campaigns", "title": "World AIDS Day" }, { "docid": "1352672", "text": "treatments like PrEP. In the US, the White House began marking World AIDS Day with the iconic display of a AIDS Ribbon on the building's North Portico in 2007. White House aid Steven M. Levine, then serving in President George W. Bush's administration, proposed the display to symbolize the United States' commitment to combat the world AIDS epidemic through its landmark PEPFAR program. The White House display, now an annual tradition across four presidential administrations, quickly garnered attention, as it was the . Since 1993, the President of the United States has made an official proclamation for World AIDS Day", "title": "World AIDS Day" }, { "docid": "15824868", "text": "National Latino AIDS Awareness Day National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) (Spanish : \"El Dia Nacional de Concientizacion Latina del SIDA\") takes place in the United States of America and its territories on October 15, the last day of National Hispanic Heritage Month, and aims to increase awareness of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the Hispanic/Latino population living in the United States including Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. It is a national community mobilizing and social marketing campaign co-ordinated by the Latino Commission on AIDS and the Hispanic Federation in partnership with commercial sponsors, community and", "title": "National Latino AIDS Awareness Day" }, { "docid": "1352673", "text": "(see section #US Presidential Proclamations for World AIDS Day for copies of those proclamations). On 30 November 2017, President Donald Trump proclaimed \"World AIDS Day\" for 1 December. All the World AIDS Day campaigns focus on a specific theme, chosen following consultations with UNAIDS, WHO and a large number of grassroots, national and international agencies involved in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. As of 2008, each year's theme is chosen by the Global Steering Committee of the World AIDS Campaign (WAC). For each World AIDS Day from 2005 through 2010, the theme was \"Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise\", designed", "title": "World AIDS Day" }, { "docid": "1352671", "text": "day, UNAIDS created the World AIDS Campaign in 1997 to focus on year-round communications, prevention and education. In 2004, the World AIDS Campaign became an independent organization. Each year, Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have released a greeting message for patients and doctors on World AIDS Day. In 2016, a collection of HIV and AIDS related NGOs (including Panagea Global AIDS and The AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa) started a campaign to rename World AIDS Day to World HIV Day. They claim the change will put the emphasis on social justice issues, and the advancement of", "title": "World AIDS Day" }, { "docid": "11901965", "text": "Vaccine Day is rooted in a May 18, 1997 commencement speech at Morgan State University made by then-President Bill Clinton. Clinton challenged the world to set new goals in the emerging age of science and technology and develop an AIDS vaccine within the next decade stating, “Only a truly effective, preventive HIV vaccine can limit and eventually eliminate the threat of AIDS.” The first World AIDS Vaccine Day was observed on May 18, 1998 to commemorate the anniversary of Clinton’s speech, and the tradition continues today. Each year communities around the globe hold a variety of activities on World AIDS", "title": "World AIDS Vaccine Day" }, { "docid": "19758799", "text": "the years. UNAIDS believes solutions need to be long-term, rather than short-term responses. Therefore, the goal is to look at prevention of HIV as well and World AIDS Day is a time to emphasize this and support people with AIDS, even though people are living with AIDS year-round. It is also a time to honor the people who lost their lives due to AIDS. Aids Awareness Month has been declared in various countries. Also World Aids Day is an international UN sponsored observance. The US government, in the form of aids.gov, presents an all-year-round diversity AIDS Awareness Calendar, for example", "title": "AIDS Awareness Week" }, { "docid": "19758800", "text": "for 2016: http://www.mytrendblog.com/aids-awareness-week-in-canada-why/ AIDS Awareness Week AIDS Awareness Week is a week, the last in November, when extra effort is made to raise AIDS awareness. The 2016 date is November 21 – December 1. It ends with World AIDS Day, which takes place on December 1. In 1984 Dianne Feinstein, then mayor of San Francisco, declared the first AIDS Awareness Week. The first AIDS Awareness Week took place in San Francisco with a goal of educating staff and students from San Francisco Community College about AIDS. This goal involves informing people about causes, effects, symptoms of AIDS, as well as", "title": "AIDS Awareness Week" }, { "docid": "19758795", "text": "AIDS Awareness Week AIDS Awareness Week is a week, the last in November, when extra effort is made to raise AIDS awareness. The 2016 date is November 21 – December 1. It ends with World AIDS Day, which takes place on December 1. In 1984 Dianne Feinstein, then mayor of San Francisco, declared the first AIDS Awareness Week. The first AIDS Awareness Week took place in San Francisco with a goal of educating staff and students from San Francisco Community College about AIDS. This goal involves informing people about causes, effects, symptoms of AIDS, as well as prevention methods. In", "title": "AIDS Awareness Week" }, { "docid": "19758797", "text": "to further help spread awareness to others. In 1991 the US President declared, in , that June 10–16 was to be Pediatric AIDS Awareness Week. At this time over 157, 525 people had AIDS in the United States. About 2,734 of these people were children 13 years old and younger. Nation Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week has been extant in Canada from at least 2014. It began in Vancouver, but now it takes place all throughout Canada. Aboriginal AIDS Awareness week begins on World AIDS Day, December 1, and last until December 5th. [World] AIDS Awareness Week is held in Perth,", "title": "AIDS Awareness Week" }, { "docid": "19758798", "text": "Australia. Latterly some organizations have used the name \"HIV/AIDS Awareness Week\". The goal of Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week is getting to zero. Despite different methods used by aboriginal communities to try to decrease the prevalence of AIDS, populations like the First Nation tribes in Saskatchewan in Canada, have about 3.5 times more cases of AIDS than other areas in Canada, as well as higher than most third world countries. World AIDS Day was developed to bring awareness to the issue of AIDS in countries all around the globe and recognize the success and the steady decrease in AIDS diagnoses throughout", "title": "AIDS Awareness Week" }, { "docid": "1352668", "text": "No Tobacco Day, World Malaria Day and World Hepatitis Day. , AIDS has killed between 28.9 million and 41.5 million people worldwide, and an estimated 36.7 million people are living with HIV, making it one of the most important global public health issues in recorded history. Thanks to recent improved access to antiretroviral treatment in many regions of the world, the death rate from AIDS epidemic has decreased since its peak in 2005 (1 million in 2016, compared to 1.9 million in 2005). World AIDS Day was first conceived in August 1987 by James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, two", "title": "World AIDS Day" }, { "docid": "1352669", "text": "public information officers for the Global Programme on AIDS at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Bunn and Netter took their idea to Dr. Jonathan Mann, Director of the Global Programme on AIDS (now known as UNAIDS). Dr. Mann liked the concept, approved it, and agreed with the recommendation that the first observance of World AIDS Day should be on 1 December 1988. Bunn, a former television broadcast journalist from San Francisco, had recommended the date of 1 December that believing it would maximize coverage of World AIDS Day by western news media, sufficiently long following the US elections", "title": "World AIDS Day" }, { "docid": "1352670", "text": "but before the Christmas holidays. In its first two years, the theme of World AIDS Day focused on children and young people. While the choice of this theme was criticized at the time by some for ignoring the fact that people of all ages may become infected with HIV, the theme helped alleviate some of the stigma surrounding the disease and boost recognition of the problem as a family disease. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) became operational in 1996, and it took over the planning and promotion of World AIDS Day. Rather than focus on a single", "title": "World AIDS Day" }, { "docid": "14186294", "text": "Day Live\". Adapted from the \"Today Is the Day\" liner notes. Today Is the Day Today Is the Day (Today Is the Day album) Today Is the Day is the third studio album by American noise rock band Today Is the Day. It was released on March 26, 1996 by Amphetamine Reptile Records. It was the band's only album to feature keyboardist Scott Wexton. In 2008, a remastered version of the album containing two bonus tracks that originated from the Amphetamine Reptile \"Clusterfuck '94\" compilation was released through Steve Austin's SuperNova Records. A live performance DVD was released a year", "title": "Today Is the Day (Today Is the Day album)" }, { "docid": "4233473", "text": "Animal Legal Defense Fund fights for the rights of all animals alike while displaying and orange ribbon. Animal abuse awareness is also well known for its use of the purple ribbon. Awareness ribbons have the potential to bring a community of people together. October is breast cancer awareness month and is symbolized by the pink ribbon. Sports teams, business places, and even schools take advantage of the well known pink ribbon and use this month as a time for raising funds to go towards research in the area of the disease. This is also common for AIDS awareness, symbolized by", "title": "Awareness ribbon" }, { "docid": "12454872", "text": "free the world of lymphomas. Our Mission is to: World Lymphoma Awareness Day World Lymphoma Awareness Day (WLAD) is held on September 15 every year and is a day dedicated to raising awareness of lymphoma, an increasingly common form of cancer. It is a global initiative hosted by the Lymphoma Coalition (LC), a non-profit network organisation of 63 lymphoma patient groups from 44 countries around the world. WLAD was initiated in 2004 to raise public awareness of both Hodgkin and non- Hodgkin lymphoma in terms of symptom recognition, early diagnosis and treatment. Lymphoma is increasing in incidence and is a", "title": "World Lymphoma Awareness Day" }, { "docid": "14186293", "text": "Today Is the Day (Today Is the Day album) Today Is the Day is the third studio album by American noise rock band Today Is the Day. It was released on March 26, 1996 by Amphetamine Reptile Records. It was the band's only album to feature keyboardist Scott Wexton. In 2008, a remastered version of the album containing two bonus tracks that originated from the Amphetamine Reptile \"Clusterfuck '94\" compilation was released through Steve Austin's SuperNova Records. A live performance DVD was released a year earlier. It was filmed during the tour for the self-titled album, titled \"Today Is the", "title": "Today Is the Day (Today Is the Day album)" }, { "docid": "12454866", "text": "World Lymphoma Awareness Day World Lymphoma Awareness Day (WLAD) is held on September 15 every year and is a day dedicated to raising awareness of lymphoma, an increasingly common form of cancer. It is a global initiative hosted by the Lymphoma Coalition (LC), a non-profit network organisation of 63 lymphoma patient groups from 44 countries around the world. WLAD was initiated in 2004 to raise public awareness of both Hodgkin and non- Hodgkin lymphoma in terms of symptom recognition, early diagnosis and treatment. Lymphoma is increasing in incidence and is a potentially life-threatening disease. One million people worldwide live with", "title": "World Lymphoma Awareness Day" }, { "docid": "15824870", "text": "Latino Commission on AIDS under the leadership of Dennis deLeon joined by the Hispanic Federation and attracted support from various community groups. In a media release announcing the event, deLeon was quoted: \"AIDS has disproportionately affected Latinos whom represent 14% of the United States population (including Puerto Rico), but as a percentage of the national number of People Living with AIDS, Latinos represent a staggering 20%. ... There is no reason why Latinos should be disproportionately affected except for neglect by community leaders and government funders\". The day was observed in more than 100 cities around the United States including", "title": "National Latino AIDS Awareness Day" }, { "docid": "15824875", "text": "Prevent AIDS\" - Unidos Podemos Detener el VIH y Prevenir el SIDA\" placing an emphasis on community unity. NLAAD reported 420 partners and 350 events in 35 states in 2009. \"Save a Life, It May be your Own. Get Tested for HIV\" was chosen as the theme for the eighth NLAAD in 2010. In the lead-up to the day, there was an official launch of a new NLAAD bi-lingual website. 131 registered events were listed at the website. The theme for the ninth NLAAD was \"Latinos stand together! Let's stay healthy! Get Tested for HIV\" placing HIV awareness in a", "title": "National Latino AIDS Awareness Day" }, { "docid": "8044826", "text": "by a variety of events in more than 100 countries, involving government officials, humanitarian aid workers, celebrities, civilians and the forcibly displaced themselves. Each year, UNHCR announces a theme for its World Refugee Day campaign. Recent themes include: Individuals and community groups are encouraged to mark the day by attending a local World Refugee Day event, watching and sharing World Refugee Day videos, and raising awareness for refugees on social media. World Refugee Day World Refugee Day, international observance observed June 20 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees throughout the world. On 4 December", "title": "World Refugee Day" }, { "docid": "897308", "text": "48,000 individual memorial panels (over 94,000 people) and weighing an estimated 54 tons. The goal of the Quilt is to bring awareness to how massive the AIDS pandemic really is, and to bring support and healing to those affected by it. Another goal is to raise funds for community based AIDS service organizations, to increase their funding for AIDS prevention and education. As of 1996, more than $1.7 million had already been raised, and the effort continues to this day. Typically very personalized, individual quilt panels are created by the loved ones of someone who has died of AIDS-related causes.", "title": "NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt" }, { "docid": "19758796", "text": "the same year, in Toronto, ACT held an AIDS Awareness Week, following on form New York's Aid AIDS Week Spreading awareness about AIDS also began to take place in other locations. Across Canada AIDS Awareness Week is the last week in November. In 2002, the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) led a bilingual campaign for their awareness week from November 24-December 1, 2002. This campaign was centered on ending the stigma and discrimination against people who have HIV/AIDS. They also worked to inform people about preventative care against HIV. In addition, they provided the community with free resources and items", "title": "AIDS Awareness Week" }, { "docid": "12091301", "text": "AIDS/LifeCycle AIDS/LifeCycle (ALC) is a seven-day cycling tour through California starting in San Francisco and ending in Los Angeles. The tour includes up to 2,500 bicyclists and more than 500 support crew participants who cycle or crew to raise funds for HIV/AIDS services and raise awareness of HIV/AIDS. The first AIDS/LifeCycle was in 2002 and they continue to be held annually in late May or early June. AIDS/LifeCycle is co-produced by its beneficiaries, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles LGBT Center. AIDS/LifeCycle is a charity event to raise money for HIV/AIDS services and raise HIV/AIDS awareness. Participants", "title": "AIDS/LifeCycle" }, { "docid": "900992", "text": "have access to HIV prevention programs with information and services that are specific to them. In the present day, some activist groups and AIDS organizations that were established during the height of the epidemic are still present and working to assist people living with AIDS. They may offer any combination of the following: health education, counseling and support, or advocacy for law and policy. AIDS organizations also continue to call for public awareness and support through participation in events like pride parades, World AIDS Day, or AIDS walks. The CDC estimates that 1,122,900 U.S. residents aged 13 years and older", "title": "HIV/AIDS in the United States" }, { "docid": "13818381", "text": "is the annual hosting of the World AIDS Day website. NAT develops resources each year to enable other HIV organisations to maximise the impact of World AIDS Day in the UK, which is 1 December. NAT is an independent charity with a Board of Trustees, who are responsible for the governance and direction which the charity takes. The chair of the Board is currently Professor Jane Anderson CBE. Trustees The trustees of the National AIDS Trust are: National AIDS Trust The National AIDS Trust (NAT) is a United Kingdom charity dedicated to transforming society's response to HIV. The charity's key", "title": "National AIDS Trust" }, { "docid": "13234665", "text": "Women's Health Week. The Southern AIDS Living Quilt is a separate initiative from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. The South has the highest number of adults and adolescents living with AIDS in the U.S. HIV/AIDS has a disproportionate impact on African Americans compared with members of other races and ethnicities in the U.S. Southern AIDS Living Quilt Launched in October 2008, the Southern AIDS Living Quilt is a website dedicated to promoting awareness of the growing impact of HIV/AIDS on women in the southern United States, particularly women of color. The site is a project of the Southern AIDS", "title": "Southern AIDS Living Quilt" }, { "docid": "14430906", "text": "particularly by CAS's national partner, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. From 1991-2001 CAS ran an annual AIDS Awareness Week campaign with support from various governmental, corporate, and charitable organizations including Health and Welfare Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Hemophilia Society, Levi Strauss & Co., and others. AIDS Awareness Week took place in October, but after this project came to an end when the Public Health Agency of Canada stopped funding for it, CAS's awareness campaigns largely revolved around World AIDS Day of each year. Each year's AIDS Awareness Week campaign, was organized around a theme. Ads", "title": "Canadian AIDS Society" }, { "docid": "4233468", "text": "Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree\" was released, and based on this song, a wife of a hostage in Iran, Penney Laingen, was the first who used the ribbon as an awareness symbol. She tied yellow ribbons around trees, to illustrate desire for her husband coming home. Her friends and family members followed the trend. As many individuals were able to see this message, the \"ribbon became a medium\". In May 1986, the AIDS Faith Alliance, later to be known as Christian Action on AIDS, held an open conference on AIDS at Notting Hill Gate in London, supported by", "title": "Awareness ribbon" }, { "docid": "12346750", "text": "Day, World Malaria Day and World AIDS Day. Hepatitis groups, patients and advocates worldwide take part in events on 28 July. Notably in 2012, a Guinness World Record was created when 12,588 people from 20 countries did the Three Wise Monkeys actions on World Hepatitis Day to signify the willful ignorance of the disease. The inaugural International Hepatitis C Awareness day, coordinated by various European and Middle Eastern Patient Groups and Baby Muriel, took place on October 1, 2004, However many patient groups continued to mark 'hepatitis day' on disparate dates. For this reason in 2008, the World Hepatitis Alliance", "title": "World Hepatitis Day" }, { "docid": "15824869", "text": "public health organisations. A National Planning Committee coordinates NLAAD, retains a national convenor and supplies participating organisations with materials such as campaign kits and with advice. Each local participating organisation organises its own activities tailored to their particular community. All aim to promote or sponsor prevention activities, including counselling and testing. Some also undertake to educate community leaders and public officials in reducing new infections and caring for Latinos living with HIV/AIDS. Some organise cultural events and celebrations. Each local group is largely responsible for raising funds for their organized activities. The first NLAAD was in 2003, initiated by the", "title": "National Latino AIDS Awareness Day" }, { "docid": "14542121", "text": "Mark Harrington (HIV/AIDS activist) Mark Harrington (Born in , in San Francisco) is an HIV/AIDS researcher, a staunch activist for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis awareness, and the co-founder and policy director of the Treatment Action Group (TAG). After graduating from Harvard University in 1983, Harrington spent time exploring and did not commit to one specific career. When the AIDS epidemic became personal for Harrington, and close friends were being infected with HIV (he himself was infected in 1990), he decided to take action and joined the group, AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power or ACT UP. As part of the Treatment and", "title": "Mark Harrington (HIV/AIDS activist)" }, { "docid": "16438726", "text": "founder of the Vitiligo Friends network, and then developed and finalized by Ogo Maduewesi, a Nigerian vitiligo patient who is the founder and Executive Director of the Vitiligo Support and Awareness Foundation (VITSAF). In her words, “World Vitiligo Day is a day to create extensive awareness on vitiligo and a day dedicated to all living with vitiligo globally”. The first World Vitiligo Day (also defined as “Vitiligo Awareness Day” or “Vitiligo Purple Fun day”, from the color chosen as Vitiligo Awareness Color) was observed on June 25, 2011. The choice of June 25 as World Vitiligo Day is a memorial", "title": "World Vitiligo Day" }, { "docid": "14410829", "text": "appearance of physical problems that may occur from medicine and treatment for HIV/AIDS. On World AIDS Day in November 2002, a showing of the film \"Pandemic: Facing AIDS\" by Rory Kennedy (sponsored in part by MAC cosmetics) took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. In 2009, Fergie appeared on several magazine spreads for VIVA Glam. She also became the fund's spokesperson for the global youth prevention initiative. The 2012 VIVA Glam spokespeople were Nicki Minaj and Ricky Martin, who is the first Latin American man to be asked to be a part of VIVA Glam. They both", "title": "Mac AIDS Fund" }, { "docid": "12091310", "text": "clinic in the nation. AIDS/LifeCycle AIDS/LifeCycle (ALC) is a seven-day cycling tour through California starting in San Francisco and ending in Los Angeles. The tour includes up to 2,500 bicyclists and more than 500 support crew participants who cycle or crew to raise funds for HIV/AIDS services and raise awareness of HIV/AIDS. The first AIDS/LifeCycle was in 2002 and they continue to be held annually in late May or early June. AIDS/LifeCycle is co-produced by its beneficiaries, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles LGBT Center. AIDS/LifeCycle is a charity event to raise money for HIV/AIDS services and", "title": "AIDS/LifeCycle" }, { "docid": "13234663", "text": "Southern AIDS Living Quilt Launched in October 2008, the Southern AIDS Living Quilt is a website dedicated to promoting awareness of the growing impact of HIV/AIDS on women in the southern United States, particularly women of color. The site is a project of the Southern AIDS Coalition, a non-profit membership organization of government representatives, corporations, and community advocates. Using video testimonials, the Living Quilt compiles stories of women living with HIV/AIDS, as well as healthcare providers and patient advocates in the South. More than 80 women are represented on the Living Quilt from 13 southern states including Alabama, Florida, Georgia,", "title": "Southern AIDS Living Quilt" }, { "docid": "6960969", "text": "Records announced that they were welcoming Today Is The Day to its roster. Black Market Activities released Today Is The Day's ninth studio album, \"Pain Is a Warning,\" in 2011. This album saw the debut of Curran Reynolds on drums and Ryan Jones on bass, and was produced by Kurt Ballou of Converge. In November 2013 Austin announced on the band's Facebook page that work had commenced on their 10th studio album with a new lineup featuring Sean Conkling on Bass (Burn Your Halo, Sidra). In June 2014, Austin announced that Today Is The Day has joined Southern Lord Records,", "title": "Today Is the Day" }, { "docid": "6960962", "text": "series with Brainiac and Steel Pole Bath Tub. Today Is the Day's self-titled album was released in March 1996. This album was the first of the band's releases recorded at Austin's own studio, Austin Enterprise, in Nashville. For this release, Steve Austin shifted the band's sound slightly and opted to replace bassist Mike Herrell with keyboardist Scott Wexton. \"Today Is the Day\" was the band's final recording for AmRep. In 1997, Today Is the Day left AmRep and signed with Philadelphia-based metal label Relapse Records and released \"Temple of the Morning Star\" in September 1997. For this release, the band's", "title": "Today Is the Day" }, { "docid": "6960966", "text": "Day also released their second live album, entitled \"Blue Blood\", in 2002. Today Is the Day returned in June 2004 with a new album entitled \"Kiss the Pig\", which featured the debut of new drummer Mike Rosswog, previously of Circle of Dead Children. Rosswog replaced Anal Cunt's John Gillis, who performed live with the band in 2003. \"Kiss the Pig\" was the last album released by Today Is the Day on Relapse Records. In December 2006 it was announced that former Hate Eternal drummer Derek Roddy had joined the band and would appear on their next studio album, \"Axis of", "title": "Today Is the Day" }, { "docid": "14542134", "text": "not gotten the same attention as the indiscriminate HIV virus did. Most recently Harrington worked with New York State Ending the Epidemic Task Force who's goal was to end AIDS in New York by 2020. He writes papers for journals such as \"Lancet\", \"PLoS Magazine\", and \"Science\". Mark Harrington (HIV/AIDS activist) Mark Harrington (Born in , in San Francisco) is an HIV/AIDS researcher, a staunch activist for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis awareness, and the co-founder and policy director of the Treatment Action Group (TAG). After graduating from Harvard University in 1983, Harrington spent time exploring and did not commit to one", "title": "Mark Harrington (HIV/AIDS activist)" }, { "docid": "14693386", "text": "by organizing events and outreach. Through this support, the message of safer sex practices and well-being can reach a larger audience while raising awareness for the Q and its mission. The Project is dedicated to strengthening women through programs and activities that provide education, connection, support, advocacy and peer leadership opportunities. The Project was founded in 1995. AIDS Walk Austin began as From All Walks of Life in 1988 and is ASA's oldest continuous fundraiser. The AIDS Walk is a 5k walk through downtown Austin, TX and includes speeches, music and remembrance. In recent years, it has also featured panels", "title": "AIDS Services of Austin" }, { "docid": "6744007", "text": "AIDS Memorial Grove The National AIDS Memorial Grove, or \"The Grove,\" is located at the de Laveaga Dell in eastern Golden Gate Park, in San Francisco, California. The Grove is a dedicated space and place in the national landscape where the millions of Americans touched directly or indirectly by AIDS can gather to heal, hope, and remember. The mission of the AIDS Memorial Grove is to provide a healing sanctuary and to promote learning and understanding of the human tragedy of the AIDS pandemic. Congress and the President of the United States approved the “National AIDS Memorial Grove Act” in", "title": "AIDS Memorial Grove" }, { "docid": "4787283", "text": "World Tuberculosis Day World Tuberculosis Day, observed on 24 March each year, is designed to build public awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and efforts to eliminate the disease. In 2012, 8.6 million people fell ill with TB, and 1.3 million died from the disease, mostly in the Third World. World TB Day is one of eight official global public health campaigns marked by the World Health Organization (WHO), along with World Health Day, World Blood Donor Day, World Immunization Week, World Malaria Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Hepatitis Day and World AIDS Day. 24 March commemorates", "title": "World Tuberculosis Day" }, { "docid": "5926642", "text": "churches and the Pride Center, once they had enough funding they choose the location on 26th Street. On Nov 07, 2013, Magic Johnson visited the World AIDS Museum and dedicated the space, 22 years to the day he announced his HIV status. Doors officially opened to the public in May 2014. The World AIDS Museum and Educational Center has a main gallery featuring the historical timeline of the AIDS epidemic, 2 art galleries, and a research library. They also do traveling exhibits and educational programs in the schools. The current CEO is Hugh Beswick and the Operations Manager is Ed", "title": "World AIDS Museum and Educational Center" }, { "docid": "6960960", "text": "Today Is the Day Today Is the Day is an American avant-garde metal band from Nashville, Tennessee. The band's diverse sound combines influences from areas such as noise music, heavy metal, hardcore punk, and psychedelia. Many of the band's recordings make extensive use of dissonance and sampling and lyrical themes such as violence, altered states of consciousness, and mental disorders. The band was founded by Steve Austin and Brad Elrod in Nashville, Tennessee in the early 1990s. The band released its debut EP, entitled \"How to Win Friends and Influence People\", in 1992. This self-financed release garnered the attention of", "title": "Today Is the Day" }, { "docid": "6960980", "text": "onto Black Market Activities in 2010. Current Guest appearances Former Timeline Today Is the Day Today Is the Day is an American avant-garde metal band from Nashville, Tennessee. The band's diverse sound combines influences from areas such as noise music, heavy metal, hardcore punk, and psychedelia. Many of the band's recordings make extensive use of dissonance and sampling and lyrical themes such as violence, altered states of consciousness, and mental disorders. The band was founded by Steve Austin and Brad Elrod in Nashville, Tennessee in the early 1990s. The band released its debut EP, entitled \"How to Win Friends and", "title": "Today Is the Day" }, { "docid": "6960964", "text": "Lethargy and current members of Atlanta, Georgia's Mastodon. This new lineup first appeared live at the Milwaukee Metalfest and the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival. Having moved to Massachusetts in 1998, this was the first Today Is the Day album to be recorded at Austin Enterprise's new location in Clinton, Massachusetts. The years 2000 and 2001 were relatively quiet for Today Is the Day in terms of releasing new material. \"Live Till You Die\" was released in August 2000, and included live tracks recorded during the tours in support of \"Temple of the Morning Star\" and \"In the Eyes", "title": "Today Is the Day" }, { "docid": "15824872", "text": "and discrimination associated with AIDS\" and attracted sponsors including American Airlines, Verizon Foundation, Abbott Laboratories, Boehringer Ingelheim, Terra, PR Newswire, Viacom, Univision and NBC/Telemundo. By the third NLAAD in 2005, the number of community partner organisations had reached 1000 and the day was marked in more than 350 cities in 46 states and in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands around the message \"Abre los ojos: Ama Tu Vida, Protegete, Hazte La Prueba - Open Your Eyes: Love Your Life, Protect Yourself, Get Tested\". Activities included prevention education, free testing, press conferences, public service announcements on major television networks and", "title": "National Latino AIDS Awareness Day" }, { "docid": "6960979", "text": "for the awards for Best Director and Best New Filmmaker. In 2006 Steve Austin launched his own record label, SuperNova Records, which was founded in order to properly release material by Today Is the Day, among others. As of April 2007, SuperNova has released DVDs of live Today Is the Day shows from 1995 and 1996, as well as reissuing a remastered version of their \"Willpower\" record, previously released on Amphetamine Reptile Records. The label also released a film Axis of Eden based on the album of the same name. The label has been inactive ever since the band signed", "title": "Today Is the Day" }, { "docid": "6960961", "text": "Amphetamine Reptile Records (AmRep) who signed the band (at this time consisting of Austin on vocals and guitar, Brad Elrod on drums, and Mike Herrell on bass guitar) in February 1993. The full-length \"Supernova\" was released later that year. In September 1994, Today Is the Day saw its popularity in the metal underground increase with the release of their second album, entitled \"Willpower\". That same year, \"Willpower\" was followed by the \"Clusterfuck '94\" split EP with labelmates Chokebore and Guzzard. Today Is the Day also contributed to the tenth volume of AmRep's \"Dope Guns and Fucking in the Streets\" 7\"", "title": "Today Is the Day" }, { "docid": "10103551", "text": "initiatives and helps to coordinate the care and treatment of citizens with HIV/AIDS. ONAP also coordinates with the National Security Council and the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, and works with international bodies to ensure that America's response to the global pandemic is fully integrated with other prevention, care, and treatment efforts around the world. Through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative, the U.S. has taken steps in responding to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, working with countries heavily impacted by HIV/AIDS to help expand access to treatment, care, and prevention. In July 2010, President Obama", "title": "Office of National AIDS Policy" }, { "docid": "11734450", "text": "to be mailed to every person in the United States. The agency incorporated in 1987, and later launched the groundbreaking social marketing campaign, “Live Long Sugar,” with Patti LaBelle, which alerted people of color living with HIV/AIDS about the dangers of the common HIV co-infection, Pneumocystis carnii pneumonia (PNP). In 1989, NMAC partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help build the capacity of small faith- and community-based organizations (F/CBOs) delivering HIV/AIDS services in communities of color. This changed the mission of the agency from raising awareness of the impact of HIV/AIDS among minorities, to building", "title": "National Minority AIDS Council" }, { "docid": "15721980", "text": "Lifelong AIDS Alliance Lifelong AIDS Alliance (LLAA) is a non-profit organization in Capitol Hill in Seattle which provides care services to local people living with HIV or AIDS and which does advocacy for HIV-related legal issues in the state government. In 2003 government funding cuts left less money for HIV prevention services at a time when HIV infection rates were rising in King County. LLAA participated in the statewide debate about what should be done in response to raising rates of HIV infection and less available funding. At this time LLAA started an online advertising campaign to raise awareness of", "title": "Lifelong AIDS Alliance" }, { "docid": "8994095", "text": "foundation's help hotline, promote the education of aids, as well as organise fund raising activities. Their most recent task is to prepare for the World Aids Day, which is held annually on 1 December. Volunteers can participate in – The Hong Kong AIDS Foundation is a registered charitable institution which depends on funding and donations. According to the annual reports of year 2002–2005, the foundation received funding mainly from the AIDS Trust Fund, donations and income from the seed fund. The greatest contribution in terms of monetary value comes from the seed fund, in which the capital donation came from", "title": "Hong Kong AIDS Foundation" }, { "docid": "15613443", "text": "the International Osteoporosis Foundation. In 1998 and 1999, the World Health Organization acted as co-sponsor of World Osteoporosis Day. The day also marks the launch of a year-long campaign to raise awareness of osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. Since 1999 these campaigns have featured a specific theme. World Osteoporosis Day World Osteoporosis Day is observed annually on October 20th, and launches a year-long campaign dedicated to raising global awareness of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. Organized by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), the World Osteoporosis Day campaign is accompanied by community events and local", "title": "World Osteoporosis Day" }, { "docid": "12999341", "text": "World Blood Donor Day Every year on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day (WBDD). The event, established in 2004, serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products, and to thank blood donors for their voluntary, life-saving gifts of blood. World Blood Donor Day is one of eight official global public health campaigns marked by the World Health Organization (WHO), along with World Health Day, World Tuberculosis Day, World Immunization Week, World Malaria Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Hepatitis Day, and World AIDS Day. Transfusion of blood and blood products", "title": "World Blood Donor Day" }, { "docid": "15613442", "text": "World Osteoporosis Day World Osteoporosis Day is observed annually on October 20th, and launches a year-long campaign dedicated to raising global awareness of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. Organized by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), the World Osteoporosis Day campaign is accompanied by community events and local campaigns by national osteoporosis patient societies from around the world with activities in over 90 countries. World Osteoporosis Day was launched on October 20th 1996 by the United Kingdom’s National Osteoporosis Society and supported by the European Commission. Since 1997, the awareness day has been organised by", "title": "World Osteoporosis Day" }, { "docid": "897306", "text": "AIDS Conference, 2012. The Quilt is a memorial to and celebration of the lives of people lost to the AIDS pandemic. Each panel is by , approximately the size of the average grave; this connects the ideas of AIDS and death more closely, even though only about 20% of the people lost to AIDS related causes are represented. The Quilt is still maintained and displayed by The NAMES Project Foundation. In observance of National HIV-Testing Day in June 2004 the 1,000 newest blocks were displayed by the Foundation on The Ellipse in Washington, D.C. The largest display of The Quilt", "title": "NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt" }, { "docid": "6960965", "text": "of God\", covers of songs by The Beatles, Bad Company, and Chris Isaak, and various songs compiled from studio sessions held at Austin Enterprise during the late-1990s. In 2001, new Today Is the Day songs were released on splits with Metatron and 16, the first new material since 1999. The new songs put out on the split releases later appeared on Today Is the Day's double album \"Sadness Will Prevail\", released in 2002. This album kept with Steve Austin's habit of rotating band personnel, and Kelliher and Dailor were replaced by Chris Debari and Marshall Kilpatric, respectively. Today Is the", "title": "Today Is the Day" }, { "docid": "13130831", "text": "Cycling Atlanta, through its Action Cycling 200 and AIDS Vaccine 200 rides has donated a total of $2,781,090 for AIDS vaccine research and AIDS-related services. Fundraising Results by Year AIDS Vaccine 200 AIDS Vaccine 200 (AV 200) is a charity bike ride through the scenic Georgia countryside. The ride raises awareness and vital funds for HIV/AIDS vaccine research having donated to date over $2.4 million to the Emory Vaccine Center, one of the world's leading vaccine research centers working to find an HIV vaccine. The 2-day ride takes place in May each year. More than 150 cyclists and an army", "title": "AIDS Vaccine 200" }, { "docid": "14062858", "text": "have ever been on planet Earth\" and even suggested that the album played a key role in the development of heavy metal music, citing that artists such as The Dillinger Escape Plan and Botch were influenced by the sound of Today Is the Day. Deadguy drummer Dave Rosenberg described \"Supernova\" as one of his favorite albums of all time. Adapted from the \"Supernova\" liner notes. Today Is the Day Production Supernova (Today Is the Day album) Supernova is the debut studio album by American band Today Is the Day, released on April 1993 by Amphetamine Reptile Records. In 2008, a", "title": "Supernova (Today Is the Day album)" }, { "docid": "12721365", "text": "unlike male-to-male contact, they are mostly acquired outside New Zealand. The first recorded death in New Zealand due to AIDS was in New Plymouth in 1983. In 1985 Eve van Grafhorst was ostracised in Australia since she had contracted HIV/AIDS caused by a transfusion of infected blood. The family moved to New Zealand where she died at the age of 11. By the time of her death, her plight had significantly raised the level of AIDS awareness in New Zealand. World AIDS Day is observed in New Zealand. The Ministry of Health is the government department which deals with health", "title": "HIV/AIDS in New Zealand" }, { "docid": "6960963", "text": "lineup changed significantly, adding bassist and keyboardist Christopher Reeser and drummer Mike Hyde to the band. In addition to \"Temple of the Morning Star\", Today Is the Day also contributed to the \"In These Black Days\" 7\" series, released by Hydra Head Records, with their rendition of \"Sabbath Bloody Sabbath\", which can also be found as a secret track at the end of \"Temple of the Morning Star\". For Today Is the Day's July 1999 release, entitled \"In the Eyes of God\", Reeser and Hyde were replaced with bassist Bill Kelliher and drummer Brann Dailor, formerly of Rochester, New York's", "title": "Today Is the Day" }, { "docid": "19348206", "text": "Art of the AIDS Crisis The AIDS pandemic began in the early 1980s and brought with it a surge of emotions from the public, they were afraid, angry, fearful, and defiant. The arrival of AIDS also brought with it a condemnation of the LGBT community. These emotions, along with the view on the LGBT community, paved the way for a new generation of artists. Artists involved in AIDS activist organizations had the ideology that while art could never save lives as science could, it may be able to deliver a message. Art of the AIDS crisis typically sought to: make", "title": "Art of the AIDS Crisis" }, { "docid": "14063143", "text": "recorded during the tour to promote \"Willpower\" was released as a DVD via SuperNova, under the title of \"Willpower Live\" in 2007. Patrick Kennedy of AllMusic awarded the album 4 and a half out of 5 stars, saying, \"Though its time signatures are still tricky in a mathematical way, Willpower's greatest strength is its appeal to the human heart through whatever means necessary.\" Adapted from the \"Willpower\" liner notes. Today Is the Day Production Willpower (Today Is the Day album) Willpower is the second studio album by the American band Today Is the Day, released on September 1994 by Amphetamine", "title": "Willpower (Today Is the Day album)" }, { "docid": "15426895", "text": "of his on a TV music program. Ryo felt using strings in \"Hoshi ga Matataku Konna Yoru ni\" was an essential part of the song; Crusher Kimura provides the strings for three songs on the album. Haruko Ohinata is credited for the chorus of the song \"Utakata Hanabi\". \"Today Is A Beautiful Day\" was mixed by Takeshi Hara, Yasuhisa Kataoka, Keiji Kondo, Masashi Kudo, Eiji Makino, Koji Morimoto, Okuda Supa, and Shuji Yamaguchi. Yuji Chinone provided the mastering. The limited edition of \"Today Is A Beautiful Day\" came bundled with a 36-page full-color illustration booklet titled \"Supercell Works 2: 2009", "title": "Today Is a Beautiful Day" }, { "docid": "12091309", "text": "Foundation is one of the oldest and largest community-based AIDS service organizations in the United States. The mission of the agency is to end the pandemic and the human suffering caused by HIV. The Los Angeles LGBT Center has been a leader in battling AIDS and caring for those who are HIV-infected since the earliest days of the pandemic. In 1982 the Center founded the Southern California AIDS Hotline, which would later become AIDS Project Los Angeles. In 1985, the Center opened California's first HIV testing site. By 1986, the Center's Ed D. Edelman Health Clinic was the largest HIV", "title": "AIDS/LifeCycle" }, { "docid": "8011354", "text": "AIDS has been classified as being pandemic. There is a growing number of organizations exclusively dedicated to AIDS education and prevention, as well as organized training of medical staff and any individuals that may be interested. Main goals of these organizations are: AIDS education and training centers AIDS, caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has become a global health issue, and various ways are being explored in order to combat the spread of the disease. One such way to somewhat limit the spread of AIDS is through education. Societies with significant number of HIV positive individuals and people that", "title": "AIDS education and training centers" }, { "docid": "10444709", "text": "among policy makers, especially in countries where rabies is still neglected. Events held to mark World Rabies Day range from symposia on current rabies control methods and public events for raising awareness about good prevention practice, to sponsored walks, runs or bike rides, to free or externally subsidized vaccination clinics for dogs. In the first ten years, over 1,700 events were registered from different countries, with increases over the years in Africa and Asia, where rabies is still a huge issue. World Rabies Day World Rabies Day is an international awareness campaign coordinated by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control,", "title": "World Rabies Day" }, { "docid": "14542132", "text": "paper which highlighted poor standards in clinical trials conducted by the US Department of Defense, ACTG, and other organizations. The other two papers were significant during the development of protease inhibitors. Harrington has been involved in numerous boards, councils, and committees for the NIH, FDA, and World Health Organization (WHO). Namely he was on the FDA Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee and the NIH AIDS Research Program Evaluation Working Group. This group helped restructure the NIH yet again to better allocate resources for HIV/AIDS research. Harrington has begun to focus his efforts on the global AIDS pandemic. After receiving the grant", "title": "Mark Harrington (HIV/AIDS activist)" }, { "docid": "19940603", "text": "New York City AIDS Memorial The New York City AIDS Memorial is a public memorial built \"to honor New York City's 100,000+ men, women and children who have died from AIDS, and to commemorate and celebrate the efforts of the caregivers and activists.\" It is the first major space that is dedicated to the epidemic in New York City. The memorial was opened on World AIDS Day on December 1, 2016. The design was developed by the efforts of nearly 500 architects who came up with the idea of an 18-foot steel canopy as the gateway to the new St.", "title": "New York City AIDS Memorial" }, { "docid": "4474064", "text": "by The Funk Brothers, only slightly more than four minutes was used for the Temptations' version of the song. The full backing track can be heard on the 1971 LP \"The Undisputed Truth\". Randy Shilts named his award-winning journalistic account of the AIDS epidemic, \"And the Band Played On\", quoting the lyrics of \"Ball of Confusion\". The repeated use of the phrase \"and the band played on\" (in the song) signaled that no one was paying proper attention to world problems, the same way the AIDS epidemic was initially ignored. The song \"Ball of Confusion\" plays an important part in", "title": "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" }, { "docid": "5926644", "text": "in claiming that Fort Lauderdale is now the largest gay community in the country. This museum certainly beats anything in San Francisco or New York. Spread the word that this place exists! In the background of the foundation of the World AIDS Museum is a failed project to create an AIDS Museum in Newark, New Jersey. It was founded in December 2004. Plans were developed in 2006 in connection with the 25th anniversary of the AIDS pandemic. One of the museum's goals was to showcase art by HIV-positive artists. Among the museum's (traveling) exhibits have been: The Museum never had", "title": "World AIDS Museum and Educational Center" }, { "docid": "13602900", "text": "Religion and HIV/AIDS The relationship between religion and HIV/AIDS is complicated, and often controversial. Controversies have mainly revolved around LGBT people and condom use. The question of Islam and AIDS has arisen in recent years as the HIV/AIDS epidemic has grown stronger, with awareness and efforts to prevent the spread of the disease. Many Muslims view the AIDS epidemic through what is called the “prism of sin”, and as the consequence of sinful behavior, such as prostitution, sex with multiple partners or promiscuity. Awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is growing among the Muslim community and efforts are being initiated to", "title": "Religion and HIV/AIDS" }, { "docid": "15679199", "text": "To her, \"Today Is Your Day\" became the theme song for the series, expressing the purpose behind it via music. Despite feeling apprehensive, Twain decided to record the track, which induced her to create her forthcoming fifth studio album. The track is a midtempo ballad in the country pop genre. Lyrically, \"Today Is Your Day\" regards personal upliftment. \"Today Is Your Day\" is Twain's first piece of music to have had no involvement with now ex-husband Robert John \"Mutt\" Lange in 16 years and only her second self-penned song, the first one being \"Leaving Is The Only Way Out\" on", "title": "Today Is Your Day" }, { "docid": "12570922", "text": "that \"Today Is the Day\" was neither bad nor boring, but felt it was \"on par with the average modern worship song.\" Russmeier compared the familiarity of \"Today Is the Day\" with the more experimental songs later in the eponymous album, praising Brewster's ability to experiment over his first few songs. Breimeier noted the similarities in style between Brewster's \"The Arms of My Savior\" and John Mayer's \"Gravity\", and between \"This Love\" and Mayer's \"Waiting on the World to Change\". He also related the \"bluesy gospel-rock\" song \"Give Him Praise\" to Robert Randolph and the Family Band, praising it for", "title": "Today Is the Day (Lincoln Brewster album)" }, { "docid": "6960970", "text": "for the release of its tenth studio album, \"Animal Mother\", which was released on October 21 of that year. By late 2015, Steve Austin, along with Chris Spencer from Unsane, formed a new project called UXO, which also featured bassist Aarne Victorine and drummer Patrick Kennedy. Their debut self-titled album was released on January 29, 2016 through Reptilian Records. On September 26, 2016, it was announced that Today Is The Day joined The End Records for the release of their eleventh studio album, which is expected to be released in 2017. The group also announced via their Facebook page that", "title": "Today Is the Day" }, { "docid": "15679214", "text": "He concluded, \"If 'Today Is Your Day' is a sign of things to come, you might want to hold your breath on that comeback.\" Jenna Hally Rubenstein of MTV was disappointed with \"Today Is Your Day\", but said she would \"take it\" following the singer's long absence from music. Rubenstein commented that the song was undoubtedly saccharine, yet Twain's lush and rich voice prevailed. On the week ending July 2, 2011, \"Today Is Your Day\" debuted at number 14 on the Canadian Hot 100. The following week, it descended to number 45. Since, the song has spent six weeks on", "title": "Today Is Your Day" }, { "docid": "6960972", "text": "in February 2017. The band has announced a tour to celebrate the album's re-release and anniversary. A European leg of the anniversary tour was announced, as well as a deluxe reissue of \"In the Eyes of God\", which was released in September 22, 2017. Today Is the Day has been associated by critics with noise rock as well as multiple subgenres of heavy metal music including avant-garde metal, math metal, doom metal, post-metal, extreme metal, and grindcore. Post-hardcore and space rock has also been used to describe their sound in the past. The band is often credited as being one", "title": "Today Is the Day" }, { "docid": "13114732", "text": "communities. The Federation plays an active role in promoting and implementing Public Health activities and our work is greatly aided by our collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). The Federation currently holds six focuses, divided into Health Awareness, Medicine Awareness, and Humanitarian categories. In 1987, the World Health Organization (WHO) dedicated December 1 to raising awareness of HIV and the AIDS pandemic. As a partner of WHO, IPSF organisations across the globe organise each year the HIV/AIDS campaign aimed at spreading awareness about HIV, its transmission as well as the ways of prevention. Along with its partner, the WHO,", "title": "International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation" }, { "docid": "2305960", "text": "Misconceptions about HIV/AIDS The spread of HIV/AIDS has affected millions of people worldwide; AIDS is considered a pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that in 2016 there were 36.7 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS, with 1.8 million new HIV infections per year and 1 million deaths due to AIDS. In 2016, UNAIDS estimated: 2.1 million children (<15 years) worldwide were living with HIV/ AIDS and 17.8 million women (15+ years) worldwide were living with HIV/ AIDS. In 2011, UNAIDS estimated: 1.8 million new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa compared to 2.4 million new infections in 2001 a 25%", "title": "Misconceptions about HIV/AIDS" }, { "docid": "8092139", "text": "born at Dalhousie University in 2004. In their first year, Dalhousie generated funds for CANFAR through small fundraising and awareness initiatives and a gala event. In 2005, following the example set by McGill and Dalhousie, three new CANFAR Clubs were formally established at the University of Toronto Mississauga, University of Guelph and The University of Western Ontario. Together, the schools raised a combined total of more than $15,000 for HIV/AIDS research in 2005 and held AIDS awareness symposiums on campus, with the goal of initiating a frank discussion about the AIDS pandemic among their peers. In 2008, nineteen campuses were", "title": "Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research" }, { "docid": "13943959", "text": "World Autism Awareness Day World Autism Awareness Day is an internationally recognized day on 2 April every year, encouraging Member States of the United Nations to take measures to raise awareness about people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) throughout the world. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution \"62/139. World Autism Awareness Day\", passed in council on 1 November 2007, and adopted on 18 December 2007. It was proposed by the United Nations representative from Qatar, Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, Consort of His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the Emir of the State", "title": "World Autism Awareness Day" }, { "docid": "13943962", "text": "on a pre-existing condition such as autism. He also pointed out the recent Autism CARES Act of 2014, which provides higher level training for those who are serving citizens on the autism spectrum. World Autism Awareness Day World Autism Awareness Day is an internationally recognized day on 2 April every year, encouraging Member States of the United Nations to take measures to raise awareness about people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) throughout the world. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution \"62/139. World Autism Awareness Day\", passed in council on 1 November 2007, and adopted on 18", "title": "World Autism Awareness Day" } ]
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By what name, shared by a Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman movie, do the sports teams from The University of Alabama play?
[ "Crimson Tide", "The Crimson Tide", "Crimson Tide (disambiguation)" ]
[ { "docid": "17149640", "text": "Denzel Devall Denzel Devall (born 1994) is a former American football linebacker who played for the University of Alabama from 2012–2015. In July 2016, he started serving as a personnel assistant on the Alabama Crimson Tide football coaching staff. In January and February 2017, he was promoted first to assistant strength and conditioning coach and then promoted again to director of player development. A native of Bastrop, Louisiana, Devall attended Bastrop High School, where he played on the football team and was coached by Thomas Bachman. He finished his junior season with 108 tackles, five sacks, three fumbles caused, two", "title": "Denzel Devall" }, { "docid": "3694277", "text": "geographic location, e.g., the Dallas Cowboys are named after Dallas, Texas, US. Some teams can also be named after an institution, such as the Alabama Crimson Tide, which are supported by and named after the University of Alabama, or the Yomiuri Giants, who are named after the Yomiuri Group, a Japanese media conglomerate. Sports team A sports team is a group of individuals who play sports, usually team sports, on the same team. Historically, sports teams and the people who play sports have been amateurs. However, by the 20th century, some sports teams and their associated leagues became extremely valuable", "title": "Sports team" }, { "docid": "17367798", "text": "A-Day (University of Alabama) A-Day is an annual college football exhibition game set at the conclusion of spring practice by the University of Alabama Crimson Tide. Played on-campus at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the game features teams composed of offensive starters against defensive starters of the Crimson Tide. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules allow for member schools to conduct a series of fifteen practice sessions during the spring months. As part of these practices the NCAA allows three 11-on-11 scrimmages, one of which may be conducted as a spring game. Prior to the game, the captains from the", "title": "A-Day (University of Alabama)" }, { "docid": "18851168", "text": "Football. In a partnership with CTSN, SiriusXM simulcasts all Alabama football games and various other sports on their regional play-by-play channels: 190, 191 and 192. Crimson Tide Sports Network The Crimson Tide Sports Network (sometimes stylized as the CTSN) is the radio and television network of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide men’s and women’s sports teams. It consists of four television stations, two regional cable networks, and several radio stations throughout the state of Alabama, some of which serves small parts of surrounding states. This organization’s headquarters are located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It is operated through a joint venture", "title": "Crimson Tide Sports Network" }, { "docid": "161503", "text": "Supporting Actor. The film won Best Picture. In 1993 he appeared in \"\" as Brigadier General George Crook. He co-starred with Tom Cruise as a corrupt lawyer in \"The Firm\" (1993) and appeared in a second John Grisham story in 1996, playing a convict on death row in \"The Chamber\". In 1995 he played an inept Hollywood producer-director named Harry Zimm in \"Get Shorty\" and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in \"The Quick and the Dead\" opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film \"Crimson Tide\" with Denzel Washington.", "title": "Gene Hackman" }, { "docid": "17367801", "text": "Spring Training Football Game and was played on Alumni Day. Alumni Day was a day devoted to alumni and typically consisted of coffees, luncheons, tours, the football game, and an alumni dinner. Recently, there has been an alumni flag football game inside the Bryant-Denny Stadium preceding the A-Day game. A-Day (University of Alabama) A-Day is an annual college football exhibition game set at the conclusion of spring practice by the University of Alabama Crimson Tide. Played on-campus at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the game features teams composed of offensive starters against defensive starters of the Crimson Tide. National Collegiate", "title": "A-Day (University of Alabama)" }, { "docid": "2155548", "text": "Mark of Excellence Award again in 2011 and a Gold Crown Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for its spring 2011 issues. The Crimson White was also inducted into the College Media Hall of Fame for its coverage of the April 2011 tornado that caused massive damage in Tuscaloosa. The University of Alabama's intercollegiate athletic teams are known as the \"Alabama Crimson Tide\" (this name can be shortened to \"Alabama\", the \"Crimson Tide\", or even the \"Tide\"). The nickname \"Crimson Tide\" originates from a 1907 football game versus Auburn University in Birmingham where, after a hard-fought game in torrential", "title": "University of Alabama" } ]
[ { "docid": "18451387", "text": "into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1974. Hackman wore number 15. He coached the Roanoke College Maroons in basketball and baseball starting in 1936 and continuing to do so for nearly 35 years. Buddy Hackman Joseph Sandy \"Buddy\" Hackman (February 6, 1906 – June 25, 1987) was a college football player and college basketball and baseball coach. Hackman was a running back for the Tennessee Volunteers of the University of Tennessee from 1928 to 1930. He was part of Robert Neyland's first great backfield along with future All-Americans Gene McEver and Bobby Dodd. Hackman stood 5'11\" and weighed", "title": "Buddy Hackman" }, { "docid": "161509", "text": "the 24 Hours of Daytona Endurance Race. He also won the Long Beach Grand Prix Celebrity Race. Hackman is an avid fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars and regularly attended Jaguars games as a guest of then-head coach Jack Del Rio. He is friends with Del Rio from Del Rio's playing days at the University of Southern California. In January 2012 the then 81-year-old actor was riding a bicycle in the Florida Keys when he was struck by a car. Although it was at first reported that he had suffered head trauma, he sustained only minor injuries. Gene Hackman Eugene Allen", "title": "Gene Hackman" }, { "docid": "11017770", "text": "Haka performed by non-New Zealand sports teams Although the haka is a traditional dance form of the Māori of New Zealand, the use of a haka by the All Blacks rugby team before matches has made it familiar worldwide, and various haka have been adopted by sports teams outside New Zealand, particularly American football teams in the United States. Though some teams do contain Maori players, frequently the haka has been performed by teams with players from other Polynesian groups, indicating that it has become part of a pan-Polynesian sports culture. The use of the haka outside of New Zealand", "title": "Haka performed by non-New Zealand sports teams" }, { "docid": "17232764", "text": "Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for playing Troy Maxson in \"Fences\". For his portrayal of an alcoholic airline pilot in \"Flight\" (2012), he garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 2014, Washington appeared in the action thriller \"The Equalizer\", and the play \"A Raisin in the Sun\". Denzel Washington on screen and stage Denzel Washington is an American actor who made his feature film debut in \"Carbon Copy\" (1981). In 1982, Washington made his first appearance in the medical drama \"St. Elsewhere\" as Dr. Philip Chandler. The role proved to be the breakthrough in his", "title": "Denzel Washington on screen and stage" }, { "docid": "17232760", "text": "Denzel Washington on screen and stage Denzel Washington is an American actor who made his feature film debut in \"Carbon Copy\" (1981). In 1982, Washington made his first appearance in the medical drama \"St. Elsewhere\" as Dr. Philip Chandler. The role proved to be the breakthrough in his career. He starred as Private First Class Melvin Peterson in the drama \"A Soldier's Story\" (1984). The film was an adaptation of the Off-Broadway play \"A Soldier's Play\" (1981–1983) in which Washington had earlier portrayed the same character. In 1987, he played Steve Biko, an anti-apartheid activist in the Richard Attenborough-directed drama", "title": "Denzel Washington on screen and stage" }, { "docid": "19599631", "text": "with David Alan Grier about \"A Soldier's Play\", a review of \"Mo' Better Blues\" with guest Ava DuVernay, a two-part interview with Spike Lee, and a discussion of an article on \"The Black Film Canon\" with \"Slate\" writers Aisha Harris and Dan Kois. Bell and Avery were highlighted in a list of innovative podcasters by \"Fast Company\" in February 2015. Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period, sometimes abbreviated to DWITGAOATP, is a weekly podcast co-hosted by W. Kamau Bell and Kevin Avery. Designed to highlight and", "title": "Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period" }, { "docid": "161491", "text": "Gene Hackman Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist. In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Hackman was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning Best Actor in \"The French Connection\" and Best Supporting Actor in \"Unforgiven\". He won four Golden Globes, one SAG Award and two BAFTAs. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in \"Bonnie and Clyde\", when he received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His major subsequent films include: \"I Never Sang for My Father\" (1970), when he received his", "title": "Gene Hackman" }, { "docid": "19599623", "text": "Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period, sometimes abbreviated to DWITGAOATP, is a weekly podcast co-hosted by W. Kamau Bell and Kevin Avery. Designed to highlight and canonize the career and cultural significance of actor Denzel Washington, the show reviews each of his films, discusses \"Denzel news,\" and interviews filmmakers associated with and inspired by his work. As the show has evolved, it has also expanded to include discussions on the state of black film and diversity in media. The show is produced by Earwolf. Co-hosts Avery", "title": "Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period" }, { "docid": "970118", "text": "Morehouse); Katia (b. November 27, 1986) who graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in 2010; and twins Olivia and Malcolm (b. April 10, 1991). Malcolm graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in film studies, and Olivia played a role in Lee Daniels's film \"The Butler\". In 1995, Denzel and Pauletta renewed their wedding vows in South Africa with Archbishop Desmond Tutu officiating. Washington is a devout Christian, and has considered becoming a preacher. He stated in 1999, \"A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've", "title": "Denzel Washington" }, { "docid": "17994310", "text": "The Sports Gene The Sports Gene is a book written by David Epstein, at the time a senior writer for \"Sports Illustrated\", on the effects of genetics and sports training on human athleticism. Through investigative journalism, Epstein takes the reader through his experiences regarding what makes the difference between an amateur and a pro-athlete. The book was published in August 2013 by Penguin Books. This book explores the question of nature versus nurture as it pertains to training for athletes in sports using anecdotes which favor both sides of the argument. These anecdotes are combined with the results of statistical", "title": "The Sports Gene" }, { "docid": "17994312", "text": "Goodreads, with average ratings of 4.6/5 (341 ratings), and 4.15/5 (2827 ratings). The official website lists a number of other positive reviews published in venues such as The New York Times, Science, and The Guardian. The Sports Gene The Sports Gene is a book written by David Epstein, at the time a senior writer for \"Sports Illustrated\", on the effects of genetics and sports training on human athleticism. Through investigative journalism, Epstein takes the reader through his experiences regarding what makes the difference between an amateur and a pro-athlete. The book was published in August 2013 by Penguin Books. This", "title": "The Sports Gene" }, { "docid": "161508", "text": "appeared on the Fox Sports Radio show \"The Loose Cannons\", where he discussed his career and novels with Pat O'Brien, Steve Hartman, and Vic \"The Brick\" Jacobs. Hackman's first marriage was to Faye Maltese. They had three children: Christopher Allen, Elizabeth Jean, and Leslie Anne Hackman. The couple divorced in 1986 after three decades of marriage. In 1991 he married Betsy Arakawa. They have a home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hackman competed in Sports Car Club of America races driving an open wheeled Formula Ford in the late seventies. In 1983 he drove a Dan Gurney Team Toyota in", "title": "Gene Hackman" }, { "docid": "11017771", "text": "is controversial, as it can be considered culturally insensitive or offensive. Some non-New Zealand sports teams such as those from the University of Hawaii have developed their own dance inspired by the haka. In this instance, the \"Ha'a\" used has lyrics and movements which are entirely Hawaiian, in a dance which was created specifically for this purpose. The Ha'a has since been adopted by other sports teams from the Hawaiian islands. Kahuku High School \"Red Raiders\" football team may have been the first American sports team to regularly perform a haka, doing so since 2001. The town of Kahuku is", "title": "Haka performed by non-New Zealand sports teams" }, { "docid": "16433579", "text": "Alabama A&M Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs The Alabama A&M Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs are the athletic teams that represent Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University. The program features 15 varsity sports teams. They participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Russell Athletic is the current sponsor of the Alabama A&M University Athletic Department. The Alabama A&M Bulldogs are the college football team representing the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University. The Bulldogs play in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The Alabama A&M Fighting Bulldogs Men's Basketball team is the basketball", "title": "Alabama A&M Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs" }, { "docid": "1690206", "text": "The Replacements (film) The Replacements is a 2000 American sports comedy film directed by Howard Deutch. It stars Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Brooke Langton, Jon Favreau and Jack Warden in what would be his last film appearance. A fictional pro football league finds themselves hit with a players' strike with the season still needing to be finished. Washington Sentinels owner Edward O'Neil calls a former coach of his, Jimmy McGinty, telling McGinty that he and the rest of the teams are going to finish the final four games of the season with replacement players. O'Neil asks McGinty to coach the", "title": "The Replacements (film)" }, { "docid": "1690221", "text": "strokes, two coats thick.\" The Replacements (film) The Replacements is a 2000 American sports comedy film directed by Howard Deutch. It stars Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Brooke Langton, Jon Favreau and Jack Warden in what would be his last film appearance. A fictional pro football league finds themselves hit with a players' strike with the season still needing to be finished. Washington Sentinels owner Edward O'Neil calls a former coach of his, Jimmy McGinty, telling McGinty that he and the rest of the teams are going to finish the final four games of the season with replacement players. O'Neil asks", "title": "The Replacements (film)" }, { "docid": "19067309", "text": "Sports teams named Redskins Sports teams named \"Redskins\" are part of the larger Native American mascot controversy regarding the use of Native American names, images and symbols by non-native sports teams. Teams of this name have received particular public attention due to the fact that the term \"redskin\" is now generally regarded as disparaging and offensive. The most prominent team of this name is the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL), which has been at the center of an ongoing controversy and campaigns to change the name. Various high school and youth teams have also used the name,", "title": "Sports teams named Redskins" }, { "docid": "18451386", "text": "Buddy Hackman Joseph Sandy \"Buddy\" Hackman (February 6, 1906 – June 25, 1987) was a college football player and college basketball and baseball coach. Hackman was a running back for the Tennessee Volunteers of the University of Tennessee from 1928 to 1930. He was part of Robert Neyland's first great backfield along with future All-Americans Gene McEver and Bobby Dodd. Hackman stood 5'11\" and weighed 175 pounds. Hackman and McEver were sometimes called \"Hack and Mack.\" McEver missed the entire 1930 season with torn ligaments in his knee. Hackman filled his role and made the All-Southern team. He was inducted", "title": "Buddy Hackman" }, { "docid": "970123", "text": "of the Messianic Jews' congregation in Haifa. In April 2014, Washington presented at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition with Bryan Cranston, Idina Menzel and Fran Drescher, after raising donations at his Broadway show \"A Raisin in the Sun\". Denzel Washington Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, director, and producer. He has received three Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film \"Glory\" (1989) and Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller \"Training Day\" (2001). Washington", "title": "Denzel Washington" }, { "docid": "970096", "text": "Denzel Washington Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, director, and producer. He has received three Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film \"Glory\" (1989) and Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller \"Training Day\" (2001). Washington has received much critical acclaim for his film work since the 1980s, including his portrayals of real-life figures, such as South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in \"Cry Freedom\" (1987), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in \"Malcolm", "title": "Denzel Washington" }, { "docid": "11368766", "text": "Whitaker was born in Torrance, California, the son of Younalanda and Dale Whitaker. He was named after actor Denzel Washington. He disputed this fact on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\" while promoting the movie \"The Great Debaters,\" only to learn later from his father that, in fact, Washington was his namesake. Denzel Whitaker Denzel Dominique Whitaker (born June 15, 1990) is an American actor. His notable film appearances include \"The Great Debaters\" and \"Training Day\", as well as TV shows \"ER\", \"Brothers & Sisters\" and \"The War At Home\". He was a cast member during the tenth and final season of", "title": "Denzel Whitaker" }, { "docid": "161497", "text": "then on, Hackman was determined to become the finest actor he possibly could. The three former roommates have since earned 19 Academy Award nominations for acting, with five wins. Hackman got various bit roles, for example on the TV series \"Route 66\" in 1963, and began performing in several Off-Broadway plays. In 1964 he had an offer to co-star in the play \"Any Wednesday\" with actress Sandy Dennis. This opened the door to film work. His first role was in \"Lilith\", with Warren Beatty in the leading role. In 1967 he appeared in an episode of the television series \"The", "title": "Gene Hackman" }, { "docid": "161501", "text": "also appeared in \"Night Moves\", receiving a BAFTA nomination for lead actor. He appeared in the star-studded war film \"A Bridge Too Far\" (1977), as Polish General Stanisław Sosabowski. Hackman showed a talent for both comedy and the \"slow burn\" as criminal mastermind Lex Luthor in \"Superman: The Movie\" (1978), as he would in its 1980 and 1987 sequels. By the end of the 1980s, he alternated between leading and supporting roles, earning another Best Actor nomination for \"Mississippi Burning\". He had a memorable part as a Secretary of Defense trying to cover up a homicide in 1987's \"No Way", "title": "Gene Hackman" }, { "docid": "19272756", "text": "Sports in Birmingham, Alabama Sports in Birmingham, Alabama include several minor league professional teams and college sports. The city of Birmingham and the Birmingham metro area have no major professional sport franchises. The Birmingham area is home to the Birmingham Barons, the AA minor league affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, which plays at Regions Field in the Southside adjacent to Railroad Park. The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB Blazers) has a popular basketball program, and Samford University, located in Homewood, has basketball and football teams. The Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in the suburb of Hoover is home to the", "title": "Sports in Birmingham, Alabama" }, { "docid": "20651064", "text": "Gene A. Smith Gene A. Smith is an American historian. He is a professor of History and the director of the Center for Texas Studies at Texas Christian University. He is the author of several books. Smith was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, and grew up in Albertville, Alabama. Playing sports as a teen, he attended Auburn University to become a veternarian. A course in chemisty put him on the course to become a historian. He earned a bachelor's degree at Auburn Universityin 1984, followed by a master's degree in 1987 and a PhD in 1991. Smith began his career", "title": "Gene A. Smith" }, { "docid": "19599628", "text": "of Denzel Washington characters are described in the podcast as components of \"Denzelishness.\" These include: the Denzel walk (\"sideways stroll with the confidence of a man who just had a shot of tequila\"), Denzel humor, the Denzel lip, unaffected badassery, and the Glory tear (referring to an iconic scene where Washington's character cries a single tear in that film). In the show, Avery and Bell periodize Washington's films into four distinct phases: the \"Glory\" Era, the \"He Got Game\" Era, the \"Man on Fire\" Era, and the Old Man Action Era. The latter is the current era of his filmography,", "title": "Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period" }, { "docid": "161495", "text": "worked in several jobs. His mother died in 1962 as a result of a fire she accidentally set while smoking. In 1956 he began pursuing an acting career; he joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California. It was there that he forged a friendship with another aspiring actor, Dustin Hoffman. Already seen as outsiders by their classmates, they were later voted \"The Least Likely To Succeed.\". Furthermore, Hackman got the all time lowest score at the Pasadena Playhouse at the time. Determined to prove them wrong, Hackman moved to New York City. A 2004 article in \"Vanity Fair\" described how Hackman,", "title": "Gene Hackman" }, { "docid": "5765895", "text": "West Alabama features 12 sports teams (13 beginning in 2011–2012 with the addition of women's soccer). Both the male and female athletic teams are called the West Alabama Tigers. Ten of the twelve teams participate in the NCAA's Division II as a member of the Gulf South Conference East Division. Men's and women's rodeo compete in the Ozark Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association. The NCAA's Division II sports at the University of West Alabama include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, outdoor track, soccer, and tennis for men; basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, outdoor track, and", "title": "University of West Alabama" }, { "docid": "19599624", "text": "and Bell first met as stand-up comics in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Avery would later serve as the head writer for \"Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell\". They had frequently connected over their shared fandom of Denzel Washington films, which led to the concept of the podcast being created when both comedians were searching for new projects after the cancelation of \"Totally Biased\". Bell explained the motivation for creating the podcast as follows: The first episode of the show was released on November 2, 2014, and new episodes are generally released on Thursdays. The initial goal was to", "title": "Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period" }, { "docid": "161506", "text": "Award for his \"outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.\" On July 7, 2004, Hackman gave a rare interview to Larry King, where he announced that he had no future film projects lined up and believed his acting career was over. In 2008, while promoting his third novel, he confirmed that he had retired from acting. When asked during a \"GQ\" interview in 2011 if he would ever come out of retirement to do one more film, he said he might consider it \"if I could do it in my own house, maybe, without them disturbing anything and just one or", "title": "Gene Hackman" }, { "docid": "11194273", "text": "Sports teams in Virginia Sports teams in Virginia include several professional teams, but no professional major-league teams. Virginia is by far the most populous U.S. state without a major professional sports league franchise playing within its borders, although two of the major-league teams representing Washington, D.C.—the NFL's Washington Redskins and NHL's Washington Capitals—have their practice facilities and operational headquarters in Northern Virginia. There have been proposals to locate stadiums for Washington teams in Northern Virginia or to locate teams in the Hampton Roads metro area surrounding Norfolk, but none have come to fruition. When Jack Kent Cooke decided to build", "title": "Sports teams in Virginia" }, { "docid": "19272765", "text": "American city has hosted the event since the inaugural games were held in Santa Clara, CA in 1981. Sports in Birmingham, Alabama Sports in Birmingham, Alabama include several minor league professional teams and college sports. The city of Birmingham and the Birmingham metro area have no major professional sport franchises. The Birmingham area is home to the Birmingham Barons, the AA minor league affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, which plays at Regions Field in the Southside adjacent to Railroad Park. The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB Blazers) has a popular basketball program, and Samford University, located in Homewood,", "title": "Sports in Birmingham, Alabama" }, { "docid": "16932509", "text": "been operational since April 2000. Family Tree DNA originally partnered with the University of Arizona for testing. However, Greenspan and Blankfeld started their own testing laboratory, the Houston-based Genomics Research Center (GRC), under the Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd. parent company in 2007. , the GRC processed more than five million discrete DNA tests for over 700,000 individuals and organizations. All public participation kits from the Genographic Project are currently processed at the GRC laboratory. In April 2013, Gene by Gene announced it had signed an agreement with the MD Anderson Cancer Center to provide instruction, training and supervision to the", "title": "Gene by Gene" }, { "docid": "9153085", "text": "South Alabama Jaguars The South Alabama Jaguars represent the University of South Alabama in NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletics. USA competes in the Sun Belt Conference; it is the conference's only remaining charter member from its inception. USA's athletics teams are nicknamed the 'Jaguars'. Popular sports are baseball and men's basketball. USA sponsors 8 men's sports teams and 9 women's sports teams. The board of trustees recently voted to start a football program that began play in the fall of 2009. South Alabama has Sun Belt rivalries with all of the East Division schools (Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia State,", "title": "South Alabama Jaguars" }, { "docid": "970102", "text": "to begin a professional acting career. Washington spent the summer of 1976 in St. Mary's City, Maryland, in summer stock theater performing \"Wings of the Morning\", the Maryland State play, which was written for him by incorporating an African-American character/narrator based loosely on the historical figure from early colonial Maryland, Mathias Da Sousa. Shortly after graduating from Fordham, Washington made his screen acting debut in the 1977 made-for-television film \"Wilma\", and his first Hollywood appearance in the 1981 film \"Carbon Copy\". He shared a 1982 Distinguished Ensemble Performance Obie Award for playing Private First Class Melvin Peterson in the Off-Broadway", "title": "Denzel Washington" }, { "docid": "161494", "text": "Hackman decided that he wanted to become an actor when he was ten years old. Hackman lived briefly in Storm Lake, Iowa and spent his sophomore year at Storm Lake High School. He left home at age 16 and lied about his age to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. He served four and a half years as a field radio operator. He was stationed in China (Qingdao and later in Shanghai). When the Communist Revolution conquered the mainland in 1949, Hackman was assigned to Hawaii and Japan. Following his discharge in 1951, he moved to New York and", "title": "Gene Hackman" }, { "docid": "5765869", "text": "and spring theatrical productions, fall and spring commencement exercises, and intercollegiate athletic events. Its athletics teams, known as the West Alabama Tigers, are members of the Gulf South Conference and compete in the NCAA's Division II in all sports except two. The men's and women's rodeo teams compete in the Ozark Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association. The University of West Alabama began as Livingston Female Academy in 1835. As a church-related female academy, it admitted its first students in 1839. The school was established by ethnic Scots-Irish Presbyterians, who controlled the majority of seats on the first board", "title": "University of West Alabama" }, { "docid": "11798940", "text": "Major professional sports teams of the United States and Canada This article is a list of teams that play in one of the six major sports leagues in the United States and Canada: the Canadian Football League (CFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), and the National Hockey League (NHL). Future expansion teams whose inaugural seasons are confirmed are also included in this list. This list does not include minor league teams. The leagues included and abbreviations used for those leagues are as follows: Est. represents the first", "title": "Major professional sports teams of the United States and Canada" }, { "docid": "11798941", "text": "year the team played in its current media market. For brevity, only the most recent nicknames for teams that have had multiple nicknames in their current media market are listed. Major professional sports teams of the United States and Canada This article is a list of teams that play in one of the six major sports leagues in the United States and Canada: the Canadian Football League (CFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), and the National Hockey League (NHL). Future expansion teams whose inaugural seasons are confirmed", "title": "Major professional sports teams of the United States and Canada" }, { "docid": "1930712", "text": "school is reaching for a higher rating by updating facilities with energy efficient technologies. George Washington University is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference and most of its teams play at the NCAA Division I level. All indoor sports play at the Smith Center on the Foggy Bottom campus. The outdoor events are held at the Mount Vernon campus Athletic Complex. The university's colors are buff and blue (buff being a color similar to tan, but sometimes represented as gold or yellow). The colors were taken from George Washington's uniform in the Revolutionary War. The teams have achieved great", "title": "George Washington University" }, { "docid": "11331070", "text": "Luther Hackman Luther Gean Hackman (born October 10, 1974) is a former professional pitcher for various baseball teams. Hackman was selected by Colorado Rockies in 6th round (154th overall) of the 1994 Major League Baseball Draft. He has played at the major league level for the Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals, and San Diego Padres. In 2007, Hackman played nearly all of the season with the Nashville Sounds, the Triple-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. He was released from his contract on August 18, and then signed as a free agent by the Triple-A Oklahoma Redhawks on August 24. In", "title": "Luther Hackman" }, { "docid": "11331072", "text": "then later ejected by home plate umpire for repeating covering the pitching rubber with dirt. Luther Hackman Luther Gean Hackman (born October 10, 1974) is a former professional pitcher for various baseball teams. Hackman was selected by Colorado Rockies in 6th round (154th overall) of the 1994 Major League Baseball Draft. He has played at the major league level for the Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals, and San Diego Padres. In 2007, Hackman played nearly all of the season with the Nashville Sounds, the Triple-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. He was released from his contract on August 18, and", "title": "Luther Hackman" }, { "docid": "2763476", "text": "an intramural program that runs year-round. Students and staff compete for league trophies in sports such as basketball, bowling, flag football, golf, soccer, softball, ultimate frisbee, and volleyball, or play in tournaments in billiards, racquetball, tennis, and other sports. The UAB Health System (UABHS) is a partnership between UAB and the \"University of Alabama Health Services Foundation\" (UAHSF), a private not-for-profit medical practice made up of the faculty of the UAB School of Medicine. UABHS is governed by a board of directors which has representatives of UAHSF, the University of Alabama Board of Trustees, and UAB administrators. The UAB president", "title": "University of Alabama at Birmingham" }, { "docid": "17149643", "text": "In his sophomore year, Devall took on a bigger role in Alabama's defense. He played in thirteen games, recording 30 tackles (including 14 solo), and five tackles for a loss of yardage. He also tied Adrian Hubbard for second-most quarterback sacks on the team with three, behind A'Shawn Robinson's 5.5 sacks. In a 52–0 shutout against Arkansas, Devall was credited with three tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, a sack and a quarterback hurry. Denzel Devall Denzel Devall (born 1994) is a former American football linebacker who played for the University of Alabama from 2012–2015. In July 2016, he started serving", "title": "Denzel Devall" }, { "docid": "3534212", "text": "the choir performed a historical concert at the Alabama Music Educators Association (AMEA) Annual Conference. This was a historical event because the choir was the first HBCU Choir in the state to perform at that conference. In 2014, the choir was invited by the Distinguished Concerts International of New York (DCINY)to be presented in concert at the Lincoln Center in New York, NY. Alabama A&M's sports teams participate in NCAA Division I (Football Championship Subdivision, formerly I-AA for football) in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). Alabama A&M's colors are maroon and white and their mascot is the Bulldog. The Alabama", "title": "Alabama A&M University" }, { "docid": "13539521", "text": "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet \"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet\" is a popular reference to William Shakespeare's play \"Romeo and Juliet\", in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague, that is, that he is named \"Montague\". The reference is often used to imply that the names of things do not affect what they really are. This formulation is, however, a paraphrase of Shakespeare's actual language. Juliet compares Romeo to a rose saying that if he were not", "title": "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" }, { "docid": "15737405", "text": "Alfred Hackman Alfred Hackman (1811-1874), was sub-librarian at the Bodleian Library. Hackman was born at Fulham, southwest of London, on 8 April 1811. His father, Thomas Hackman, was the parochial vestry clerk in Fulham, giving him access to the powerful Bishop of London, William Howley. Through Howley's influence, Alfred Hackman matriculated as a servitor of Christ Church, Oxford on 25 Oct. 1832. Hackman was educated in France, and then spent several years as an usher in a boarding-school run by his father. Hackman graduated from university with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1837 and then received a Master of", "title": "Alfred Hackman" }, { "docid": "13539527", "text": "a man’ could be reconnected into verse through correction with Q1. Modern editors have generally concurred. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet \"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet\" is a popular reference to William Shakespeare's play \"Romeo and Juliet\", in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague, that is, that he is named \"Montague\". The reference is often used to imply that the names of things do not affect what they really are. This formulation is, however, a paraphrase", "title": "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" }, { "docid": "3333308", "text": "The Daily of the University of Washington The Daily of the University of Washington, usually referred to in Seattle simply as The Daily, is the student newspaper of the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. It is staffed entirely by University of Washington students, excluding the publisher, advertising adviser, accounting staff, and delivery staff. \"The Daily\" features regular news, sports, opinion, and arts & leisure sections, as well as weekly science and wellness sections and an online podcast. In addition to its regular daily and weekly sections, \"The Daily\" publishes a number of special sections every year. An edition of", "title": "The Daily of the University of Washington" }, { "docid": "15737408", "text": "18 Sept, 1874. He is buried at St. Sepulchre's Cemetery in Oxford. Alfred Hackman Alfred Hackman (1811-1874), was sub-librarian at the Bodleian Library. Hackman was born at Fulham, southwest of London, on 8 April 1811. His father, Thomas Hackman, was the parochial vestry clerk in Fulham, giving him access to the powerful Bishop of London, William Howley. Through Howley's influence, Alfred Hackman matriculated as a servitor of Christ Church, Oxford on 25 Oct. 1832. Hackman was educated in France, and then spent several years as an usher in a boarding-school run by his father. Hackman graduated from university with a", "title": "Alfred Hackman" }, { "docid": "16932512", "text": "Officer, and Chief Scientific Officer respectively. Gene by Gene Gene by Gene is a commercial genetic testing company based in Houston, Texas. The company is owned by Bennett Greenspan and Max Blankfeld, and is the parent company of Family Tree DNA. Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd. was formed in 2000 with the creation of Family Tree DNA. In September 2012, Greenspan and Blankfeld restructured the company and renamed it Gene by Gene, Ltd. After restructuring, the business comprises four divisions; DNA DTC, DNA Findings, DNA Traits, and Family Tree DNA. Family Tree DNA was the first commercial company to develop DNA", "title": "Gene by Gene" }, { "docid": "16932508", "text": "Gene by Gene Gene by Gene is a commercial genetic testing company based in Houston, Texas. The company is owned by Bennett Greenspan and Max Blankfeld, and is the parent company of Family Tree DNA. Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd. was formed in 2000 with the creation of Family Tree DNA. In September 2012, Greenspan and Blankfeld restructured the company and renamed it Gene by Gene, Ltd. After restructuring, the business comprises four divisions; DNA DTC, DNA Findings, DNA Traits, and Family Tree DNA. Family Tree DNA was the first commercial company to develop DNA testing for genealogical purposes. It has", "title": "Gene by Gene" }, { "docid": "5276902", "text": "Gene Osborn Gene Osborn (August 10, 1922 – November 27, 1975) was a radio and television sportscaster in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, known primarily as a play-by-play for several major league baseball teams. He also had a substantial career in radio and television sports in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which he considered his adopted hometown. Osborn, the son of Elizabeth (née Collins) and James Osborn, was born and raised in Davenport, Iowa, where he played baseball and other sports. He attended St. Ambrose University, then known as St. Ambrose College. Osborn was considered a top draft prospect for the St.", "title": "Gene Osborn" }, { "docid": "4646684", "text": "the person who had the most influence on shaping The University of Alabama for decades to come began his tenure as president. Dr. George H. \"Mike\" Denny left the presidency of Washington and Lee University in Virginia to lead The University of Alabama through an unprecedented period of growth. Denny was known for his ability to make the most of limited funds in growing The University of Alabama, which he dubbed \"the Capstone\" of education in the state. His love for athletics, especially football, and his devotion to students earned him their loyalty and affection. In 1929, students raised money", "title": "History of the University of Alabama" }, { "docid": "19599627", "text": "guests have collectively given an average rating of 4.43. The show has featured several comedians, actors, and filmmakers as guest hosts. It also features interviews with actors and filmmakers who have collaborated with Washington as well as other notable figures in black film and media. Guests are generally asked to list their top 5 favorite Denzel Washington films, in order. A guest choosing more than five films for their list known as \"Cooglering\", as guest Ryan Coogler did so by including multiple films tied for one spot. Notable interviewees and guest hosts include: Some of the common characteristics and features", "title": "Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period" }, { "docid": "16433581", "text": "1997, the Bulldogs went 136-20. The Alabama A&M Bulldogs men's basketball team has made the NCAA Tournament once, in 2005. The AAMU-Alabama State basketball rivalry is annually the highest attended and most anticipated series for both schools. Alabama A&M's men's soccer team won two NCAA Division II national championships in 1977 and 1979, and was runner-up in Division I in 1981. The program was discontinued following the 2011 season. Alabama A&M Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs The Alabama A&M Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs are the athletic teams that represent Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University. The program features 15 varsity sports teams.", "title": "Alabama A&M Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs" }, { "docid": "4148919", "text": "U.S. cities with teams from four major league sports There are 13 U.S. cities with teams from four major sports, where \"city\" is defined as the entire metropolitan area, and \"major professional sports leagues\" as: The New York and the Los Angeles metropolitan areas, the two largest cities in the country, are the only two regions with at least two teams in each major sports league, with the New York metropolitan area being home to three NHL clubs. \"Italicized\" teams play outside the city limits of the metropolitan area's core city or cities; the specific location is given in parentheses.", "title": "U.S. cities with teams from four major league sports" }, { "docid": "18513203", "text": "Relocation of sports teams in the United Kingdom Relocation of professional sports teams in the United Kingdom is a practice which involves a sports team moving from one metropolitan area to another, although occasionally moves between municipalities in the same conurbation are also included. For relocations in other part of the world see \"Relocation of professional sports teams\". In British sport, the relocation of teams away from their traditional districts is unusual because of the nature of the relationship between clubs and their fans: the local football club is regarded by most English football supporters as part of the local", "title": "Relocation of sports teams in the United Kingdom" }, { "docid": "11710310", "text": "fainted. He knelt to help her, but found blood on his hands, and got her into the Shakspeare tavern. He did not see Hackman at the time, but after he had been arrested, asked him what had possessed him, and he answered \"that it was not a proper place to ask that question, or something to that effect... I asked him his name, and I understood from him that his name was Hackman; I think he pronounced his name with an H. I asked him if he knew anybody. He said, he knew a Mr. Booth, in Craven-street in the", "title": "James Hackman" }, { "docid": "161500", "text": "as New York City Detective Jimmy \"Popeye\" Doyle in \"The French Connection\", marking his graduation to leading man status. He followed this with leading roles in the disaster film \"The Poseidon Adventure\" (1972) and Francis Ford Coppola's \"The Conversation\" (1974), which was nominated for several Oscars. That same year, Hackman appeared in what became one of his most famous comedic roles as The Blindman in \"Young Frankenstein\". He later appeared as one of Teddy Roosevelt's former Rough Riders in the Western horse-race saga \"Bite the Bullet\" (1975), as well as in that year's sequel \"French Connection II\". In 1975 he", "title": "Gene Hackman" }, { "docid": "970098", "text": "Fisher\". His second directorial effort was \"The Great Debaters\", released in 2007. Washington's third directorial effort, \"Fences\", in which he also starred, was released on December 16, 2016, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Washington was born in Mount Vernon, New York. His mother, Lennis \"Lynne\" (née Lowe; born 1924), was a beauty parlor owner and operator born in Georgia and partly raised in Harlem. His father, Denzel Hayes Washington Sr. (1909–1991), a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, was an ordained Pentecostal minister, and also worked for the New York City Water Department and at a", "title": "Denzel Washington" }, { "docid": "14873673", "text": "the song \"That Day Is Gonna Come\" as a tribute to Hackman, with the song's video featuring unique Super 8 and video footage shot by Vollmer on the road over the years. Hackman's most enduring song, \"Heavy Metal Love\", was resurrected for the Trailer Park Boys movie \"\". The then-current version of Helix later re-recorded the song and included it on their 2006 EP \"Get Up!\". Paul Hackman Paul Wayne Hackman (November 14, 1953 – July 5, 1992) was a Canadian guitarist who performed with the rock band Helix from 1976 until his death in a road accident. Among the", "title": "Paul Hackman" }, { "docid": "161493", "text": "date was the romantic comedy film \"Welcome to Mooseport\" in 2004, co-starring comedian Ray Romano. Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Eugene Ezra Hackman and Anna Lyda Elizabeth (née Gray). He has one brother, Richard. He has Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry; his mother was born in Lambton, Ontario. His family moved frequently, finally settling in Danville, Illinois, where they lived in the house of his English-born maternal grandmother, Beatrice. Hackman's father operated the printing press for the \"Commercial-News\", a local paper. His parents divorced in 1943 and his father subsequently left the family.", "title": "Gene Hackman" }, { "docid": "15315736", "text": "genes was removed, the remaining gene would not be able to provide the full set of functions and the host cell would likely suffer some detrimental consequences. Therefore, at this later stage of the process, there is a strong selection pressure against removing any of the two gene copies that arose by gene duplication. The duplication becomes permanently established in the genome of the host cell or organism. EAC stands for \"Escape from Adaptive Conflict\". This name first appeared in a publication by Hittinger and Carroll 2007. The evolutionary process described by the EAC model actually begins before the gene", "title": "Evolution by gene duplication" }, { "docid": "970116", "text": "New York City to negotiate with Washington, who accepted the offer. In 2016, Washington directed the film \"Fences\", co-starring Viola Davis and based on Wilson's play of the same name, with a script by Wilson. Set in 1950s Pittsburgh, Washington plays a former Negro league baseball player working as a waste collector who struggles to provide for his family and come to terms with the events of his life. The film was released on December 16, 2016, by Paramount Pictures. For his performance, Washington was nominated in the Best Actor category for a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award.", "title": "Denzel Washington" }, { "docid": "18513325", "text": "Leicester City Bus, hence the change in nickname to \"Riders\" in 1986, becoming the Leicester Riders. They briefly moving back to play at Loughborough University in 2000, following the closure of Granby Halls, at a new venue barely a stone's throw from Victory Hall where the club played its first game, but the club did not change its name. In 2004 the Riders agreed a sponsorship deal with De Montfort University and moved back to Leicester, where they played their games at De Monfort's John Sandford Sports Centre. The Rossendale Raptors, based in Rossendale, with the goal of establishing themselves", "title": "Relocation of sports teams in the United Kingdom" }, { "docid": "3252783", "text": "owners for leaving behind faithful fans and governments for spending millions of dollars of tax money on attracting teams. However, since sports teams in the United States are generally treated like any other business under antitrust law, there is little sports leagues can do to prevent teams from flocking to the highest bidders (for instance, the Los Angeles Rams filed suit when the other NFL owners initially blocked their move to St. Louis, which caused the NFL to back down and allow that relocation to proceed). Major League Baseball, unique among the major professional sports leagues, has an exemption from", "title": "Relocation of professional sports teams" }, { "docid": "3534203", "text": "Alabama A&M University Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (often called Alabama A&M, formerly the State Normal and Industrial School of Huntsville and State Agricultural and Mechanical Institute for Negroes) is a public, historically black, land-grant university located in Normal, a neighborhood of Huntsville, Alabama, United States. AAMU is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and has been accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Founded in the 1870s as a normal school, it took its present name in 1969. Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University Historic District, also known as Normal Hill College Historic District, has 28", "title": "Alabama A&M University" }, { "docid": "3252773", "text": "or nonexistent fan-bases. Reasons for relocations are commonly motivated by either problems with finances, problems with inadequate facilities, lack of support or the wishes of the owner(s). In most cases, it is a combination of some or all of those problems. Unlike most professional sport systems worldwide, sports organizations in North America generally do not operate a system of promotion and relegation in which poorly performing teams are replaced with teams that do well in lower-level leagues. North America does not have comprehensive governing bodies whose authority extends from the amateur to the highest levels of a given sport. Unlike", "title": "Relocation of professional sports teams" }, { "docid": "2974286", "text": "his brother, film director Ridley Scott. Many actors paid tribute to him, including Tom Cruise, Christian Slater, Val Kilmer, Eddie Murphy, Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Elijah Wood, Dane Cook, Dwayne Johnson, Stephen Fry, Peter Fonda and Keira Knightley, as well as musical collaborators Hybrid. Cruise stated, \"He was a creative visionary whose mark on film is immeasurable.\" Denzel Washington, Scott's most frequent acting collaborator, said, \"Tony Scott was a great director, a genuine friend and it is unfathomable to think that he is now gone.\" Directors UK chairman Charles Sturridge commented, \"Tony Scott was a brilliant British director with an", "title": "Tony Scott" }, { "docid": "7799828", "text": "shown to great dramatic advantage, but they both do a lot to make the movie shine.\" The Pelican Brief (film) The Pelican Brief is a 1993 American legal political thriller based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Julia Roberts in the role of young law student Darby Shaw and Denzel Washington as \"Washington Herald\" reporter Gray Grantham. The film, which features music composed by James Horner, was the last film that featured Pakula as a writer or producer before his death. After two Supreme Court justices are killed", "title": "The Pelican Brief (film)" }, { "docid": "6757669", "text": "hat worn by University of Alabama coach “Bear” Bryant, life size dioramas, athletic equipment and historic uniforms. The current executive director is Scott Myers, the former Managing Partner of the Alabama Steeldogs arena football team. Mr. Myers replaced William Legg, who helped spearhead the revitalization of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1992 with a new facility. The current museum is a showplace of sports memorabilia and is often used as an example of how an effective sports museum should be presented. The curator responsible for the display of artifacts is Dr. Avalee Willoughby. She was recognized in 2007", "title": "Alabama Sports Hall of Fame" }, { "docid": "4495273", "text": "has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, Texas Sports Hall of Fame, Texas A&M Hall of Fame, Gator Bowl Hall of Fame and Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame. He also received an honorary doctoral degree from Harding University. Gene Stallings' involvement in the disability community, has also been strong. His son, John Mark was born with Trisomy 21, Down syndrome, and Gene Stallings has a school for children with disabilities named after him on the University of Alabama Campus, for which he hosts a charity golf tournament every year. The playground at", "title": "Gene Stallings" }, { "docid": "5914461", "text": "Perry appears as Madea. I Can Do Bad All by Myself (play) Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself is a 1999 play directed by, written by, and starring Tyler Perry. The play marks for the first official appearance of the well-known fictional character Madea, who is portrayed by Perry. (The story line was very different from 1999-2000). Vianne Griffin, who is settling a divorce with her ex-husband Anthony Griffin – a successful stock broker, has moved in with her grandmother, Mable \"Madea\" Simmons. Madea didn’t like Anthony at all. Madea just got home from the hospital because", "title": "I Can Do Bad All by Myself (play)" }, { "docid": "5914448", "text": "I Can Do Bad All by Myself (play) Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself is a 1999 play directed by, written by, and starring Tyler Perry. The play marks for the first official appearance of the well-known fictional character Madea, who is portrayed by Perry. (The story line was very different from 1999-2000). Vianne Griffin, who is settling a divorce with her ex-husband Anthony Griffin – a successful stock broker, has moved in with her grandmother, Mable \"Madea\" Simmons. Madea didn’t like Anthony at all. Madea just got home from the hospital because she is diabetic. Another", "title": "I Can Do Bad All by Myself (play)" }, { "docid": "10963188", "text": "Scenes from a Movie Scenes from a Movie is an American band from Charleston, West Virginia. Scenes from a Movie members Tony Bush and Jon Ewing were friends in high school. Ewing went on to the University of Charleston while Bush went to college at Bowling Green State University. Ewing, and the guitarist Luke Del Papa, convinced Bush to leave university and the group expanded to a quintet, choosing the name Scenes from a Movie. Adding Jared Miller on drums and Adam Triplett on bass guitar, the group started touring, soon appearing with groups such as The Starting Line, Thursday", "title": "Scenes from a Movie" }, { "docid": "14873671", "text": "gold in Canada. By the end of the 1980s, Hackman had toured not only all over Canada, United States and England, but even played in Sweden and Trinidad. In 1990, after a short break, Helix released what would turn out to be its final album with Hackman, \"Back for Another Taste\", for which Hackman and Vollmer co-wrote \"Runnin' Wild in the 21st Century\". Hackman and Brian Vollmer agreed to take a short break, during which Vollmer would compose songs for a solo album, while Hackman would write for the next Helix CD. A tour of Western Canada was booked for", "title": "Paul Hackman" }, { "docid": "18680612", "text": "Denzel Valentine Denzel Robert Valentine (born November 16, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Michigan State. As a senior, Valentine became the first player in Michigan State history to be recognized as the National Player of the Year by The Associated Press. He also earned other player of the year awards from the NABC, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, NBC Sports, and Basketball Times in addition to being named a unanimous First-Team All-American. Valentine attended J. W. Sexton High School, where he was coached by", "title": "Denzel Valentine" }, { "docid": "1875436", "text": "and poet Melvin Tolson, was the subject of a 2005 AMS Pictures documentary, \"The Great Debaters, The Real Great Debaters of Wiley College,\" which received heavy play around Texas, followed by 2007 dramatic movie, \"The Great Debaters\", directed by and starring Denzel Washington. In 1935, the Wiley College debate team defeated the reigning national debate champion, the University of Southern California (depicted as Harvard University in \"The Great Debaters\"). In 2007, Denzel Washington announced a donation of $1 million to Wiley so the team could be re-established. The Wiley College Debate Team, now also known as the Melvin B. Tolson/Denzel", "title": "Wiley College" }, { "docid": "16932511", "text": "diagnostic tests to identify genetic disorders and susceptibility to inherited diseases and other characteristics, and serves certified medical professionals and researchers. DNA Findings offers certified relationship tests, including paternity and siblingship tests. DNA DTC was created to serve the Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) market and institutional clients such as life science companies, contract research organizations, academic institutions and public-sector research facilities. In July 2013, Gene by Gene acquired Austin-based startup Arpeggi, Inc., which wrote alignment and variant-calling computer algorithms for next-generation sequencing data. Arpeggi's founders Jason Wang, Nir Leibovich, and David Mittelman joined Gene by Gene as Chief Technology Officer, Chief Business", "title": "Gene by Gene" }, { "docid": "7737100", "text": "was then anchored by the current morning anchor team of Jim Donovan & Rahel Solomon. On July 1st 2015, Washington was named the new co-anchor of \"Eyewitness News\" weeknight broadcasts a day after lead anchor Chris May was fired by station management along with then-Chief Meteorologist Kathy Orr & Sports Director Beasley Reese. Washington is the son of Ulysses S. Washington, a noted professor and former football coach at Delaware State University. He is the godfather of Philadelphia Eagles safety Nate Allen. Washington also is the second cousin of actor Denzel Washington. Washington attended University of Richmond, and is an", "title": "Ukee Washington" }, { "docid": "2401085", "text": "sometimes we're not sure if we're cheering for tolerance or touchdowns. Real life is never this simple, but then that's what the movies are for\". In the \"San Francisco Chronicle\", Mick LaSalle wrote that the film reminds the viewer that \"it's possible to make a sentimental drama that isn't sickening — and a sports movie that transcends cliches.\" Columnist Bob Grimm of the \"Sacramento News & Review\", somewhat praised the film, writing, \"The film is quite lightweight for the subject matter, but Washington and company make it watchable.\" Some detractors like Owen Gleiberman of \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote, \"Denzel Washington should", "title": "Remember the Titans" }, { "docid": "3761029", "text": "The current SGA President at Alabama State University is Jaylon Pickett. Students are served by two media publications, \"The Hornet Tribune\" (student newspaper) and \"The Hornet\" (the student yearbook). The Alabama State University Department of Athletics currently sponsors men's intercollegiate football, baseball, basketball, golf, tennis, track and cheerleading, along with women's intercollegiate basketball, soccer, softball, bowling, tennis, track, volleyball, golf and cheerleading. Sports teams participate in NCAA Division I (FCS – Football Championship Subdivision for football) in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), which it joined in 1982. The university's colors are black and old gold and their nickname is the", "title": "Alabama State University" }, { "docid": "4646669", "text": "History of the University of Alabama The University of Alabama, the state's oldest continuously public university, is a senior comprehensive doctoral-level institution located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The History of The University of Alabama begins with an act of United States Congress in 1818 authorizing the newly formed Alabama Territory to set aside a township for the establishment of a \"seminary of learning.\" Alabama was admitted to the Union on March 20, 1819, and a second township added to the land grant. The seminary was established by the General Assembly on December 18, 1820, and named \"The University of the State", "title": "History of the University of Alabama" }, { "docid": "17514848", "text": "1972 studio album \"See All Her Faces\". Yellowman covered it for \"King Yellowman\" (1984). \"Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do\" is sampled in \"Upgrade U\" by Beyoncé and Jay-Z, from Beyoncé's album \"B'Day\" (2006) and in \"No Homo Outro\", a track from \"Turtleneck & Chain\" (2011) by The Lonely Island. Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do \"Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do\" is a single by American recording artist Betty Wright from her debut studio album \"My First Time Around\" (1968). It was written by Willie Clarke and Clarence Reid, and released in 1968 by Alston Records.", "title": "Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do" }, { "docid": "15315735", "text": "al. 1999. The first step is gene duplication. The gene duplication in itself is neither advantageous, nor deleterious, so it will remain at low frequency within a population of individuals that do not carry a duplication. According to DDC, this period of neutral drift may eventually lead to the complementary retention of sub-functions distributed over the two gene copies. This comes about by activity reducing (degenerative) mutations in both duplicates, accumulating over time periods and many generations. Taken together, the two mutated genes provide the same set of functions as the ancestral gene (before duplication). However, if one of the", "title": "Evolution by gene duplication" }, { "docid": "4148926", "text": "The San Francisco Bay Area has two teams in two sports, the NFL's 49ers and Raiders and MLB's San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics. The only areas with at least two franchises in all four sports are New York and Los Angeles, which are the largest and second largest largest cities and the largest metropolitan areas in the United States. In New York, three of the metro area's nine major sports franchises play outside the city limits and by extension, outside the state of New York: the NFL's Jets and Giants, and the NHL's Devils all play in New Jersey.", "title": "U.S. cities with teams from four major league sports" }, { "docid": "13668701", "text": "Fox Sports Networks-supplied programming, after failing to reach an agreement to continue carrying FSN's nationally distributed programs. In October 2016, CSN Mid-Atlantic announced that it would extend its broadcast rights to the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards through a long-term deal with the teams' owner, Monumental Sports & Entertainment. As a result, Monumental Sports & Entertainment took an equity stake in the network, while NBCUniversal took an equity stake in the Monumental Sports Network—an over-the-top subscription service focusing on other teams owned by the company. Comcast rebranded the network as NBC Sports Washington on October 2, 2017, as part of", "title": "NBC Sports Washington" }, { "docid": "19029435", "text": "and Mort against one another while the kids enjoy a fun day. All Louise wants is to scour for change, eat Fortune Fudge and ride the Zany Plane inverted; Tina wants to ponder her fudge fortune. But, Gene has other ideas. The kids meet Darryl, Jimmy Jr., Jocelyn, Tammy, Zeke, and Rudy on the Wharf. Gene suggests they travel to a farm on Route 6 where Gene heard there lives a two-butted goat. The other kids do not believe, but Gene wants mystery and magic...or he will die trying to find it. Alasdair Wilkins of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the", "title": "Stand by Gene" }, { "docid": "10460476", "text": "Sports in Washington, D.C. Sports in the Washington, D.C. area include major league sports teams, popular college sports teams, and a variety of other team and individual sports. The Washington metropolitan area is also home to several major sports venues including Capital One Arena, RFK Stadium, FedExField, Audi Field, and Nationals Park. 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In British sport, the relocation of teams away from their traditional districts is unusual because of the nature of the relationship between clubs and their fans: the local football club is regarded", "title": "Relocation of sports teams in the United Kingdom" }, { "docid": "10121165", "text": "History of sports in Mobile, Alabama Mobile, Alabama is home to many different sports teams and events. It is also home to several notable athletes. The Azalea Trail Run is an annual 10K race and 2-mile fun run held each Spring which winds through the streets of historic downtown Mobile. The GMAC Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A college football bowl game played annually at Ladd Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. It pits a Conference USA team (home team) against a team from either the Mid-American Conference or the Western Athletic Conference. The Senior Bowl is an annual post-season", "title": "History of sports in Mobile, Alabama" } ]
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[ { "docid": "2044542", "text": "Dirty Harry Dirty Harry is a 1971 American action crime thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the \"Dirty Harry\" series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Inspector \"Dirty\" Harry Callahan. The film drew upon the actual case of the Zodiac Killer as the Callahan character seeks out a similar vicious psychopath. \"Dirty Harry\" was a critical and commercial success and set the style for a whole genre of police films. It was followed by four sequels: \"Magnum Force\" in 1973, \"The Enforcer\" in 1976, \"Sudden", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "7118712", "text": "as a car chase, barroom brawl, defusing bombs and \"Feel Lucky\" mode. Dirty Harry (film series) Dirty Harry is an American film series featuring San Francisco Police Department Homicide Division Inspector \"Dirty\" Harry Callahan who is notorious for being extremely violent and ruthless in his methods, and a danger for any partner assigned to him. Actor Clint Eastwood portrayed Callahan in all five of the series' films. \"Dirty Harry\" (1971) was directed by Don Siegel and starred Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan. Harry tracks serial killer Scorpio (loosely based on the Zodiac killer). Eastwood's iconic portrayal of the blunt-speaking, unorthodox", "title": "Dirty Harry (film series)" }, { "docid": "7118699", "text": "Dirty Harry (film series) Dirty Harry is an American film series featuring San Francisco Police Department Homicide Division Inspector \"Dirty\" Harry Callahan who is notorious for being extremely violent and ruthless in his methods, and a danger for any partner assigned to him. Actor Clint Eastwood portrayed Callahan in all five of the series' films. \"Dirty Harry\" (1971) was directed by Don Siegel and starred Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan. Harry tracks serial killer Scorpio (loosely based on the Zodiac killer). Eastwood's iconic portrayal of the blunt-speaking, unorthodox detective set the style for a number of his subsequent roles, and", "title": "Dirty Harry (film series)" }, { "docid": "2044580", "text": "replies, \"Pal? They're already making movies about it.\" \"Dirty Harry\" helped popularize the Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver, chambered for the powerful .44 Magnum cartridge, and initiated an increase in sales of the handgun. In 2010, artist James Georgopoulos included the screen-used guns from \"Dirty Harry\" in his Guns of Cinema series. Notes Bibliography Dirty Harry Dirty Harry is a 1971 American action crime thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the \"Dirty Harry\" series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Inspector \"Dirty\" Harry Callahan.", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "7898106", "text": "Loose\", and the password for level 2 is Misty, a reference to \"Play Misty for Me\", both non-Dirty Harry films starring Clint Eastwood. Dirty Harry (1990 video game) Dirty Harry is a 1990 video game based on the \"Dirty Harry\" film franchise starring Clint Eastwood. Harry Callahan is a San Francisco police detective who rarely follows police protocol. A powerful drug lord known as The Anaconda has created a burgeoning drug-smuggling operation by recruiting all of San Francisco's drug gangs. Harry must crack the case and take down the kingpin himself on Alcatraz. The game is a side-scroller in which", "title": "Dirty Harry (1990 video game)" }, { "docid": "7898103", "text": "Dirty Harry (1990 video game) Dirty Harry is a 1990 video game based on the \"Dirty Harry\" film franchise starring Clint Eastwood. Harry Callahan is a San Francisco police detective who rarely follows police protocol. A powerful drug lord known as The Anaconda has created a burgeoning drug-smuggling operation by recruiting all of San Francisco's drug gangs. Harry must crack the case and take down the kingpin himself on Alcatraz. The game is a side-scroller in which players must guide Dirty Harry throughout San Francisco. He wears a blue suit, although it can be exchanged for a white suit. He", "title": "Dirty Harry (1990 video game)" }, { "docid": "6609265", "text": "AMP AutoMag built specifically for that film. In \"Dirty Harry\", he used a Winchester Model 70 bolt-action rifle in .458 Winchester Magnum for the night gunfight with the Scorpio Killer and used a switchblade during his second encounter with Scorpio. Harry also uses a Colt Python revolver to obtain ballistics evidence in \"Magnum Force\". Other weapons Callahan uses initially in the final climax of other films include a bomb, an M72 LAW rocket launcher and a harpoon gun. In \"Dirty Harry\" the San Francisco police chief comments on Callahan's fondness for overkill observing that he \"likes an edge\"; Callahan responds", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "5978127", "text": "from the film as Clint Eastwood never recorded a voice over for the video game. Warner Bros. was reluctant to release details on the gameplay, but offered a few hints. While it was never confirmed, it appears that \"Dirty Harry\" was to offer a free-roaming San Francisco. \"The city of San Francisco can be a character\", Warner Bros. Jason Hall said, \"It can live\". One key aspect of gameplay was discussed in slight detail. As in the films, Harry Callahan walks the line between bad cop and psychopath. Players were also to walk that line. The game was to feature", "title": "Dirty Harry (2007 video game)" }, { "docid": "14343459", "text": "crime. Filming for Dirty Harry began in April 1971 and involved some risky stunts, with much footage shot at night and filming the city of San Francisco aerially which the film series is renowned for. Dirty Harry is arguably Eastwood's most memorable character and the lines that Callahan utters when addressing a wounded bank robber are often cited amongst the most memorable in cinematic history (see box). The film has been cited with inventing the \"loose-cannon cop genre\" that is imitated to this day. Eastwood's tough, no-nonsense portrayal of Dirty Harry touched a cultural nerve with many who were fed", "title": "Clint Eastwood in the 1970s" }, { "docid": "2044567", "text": "bureaucracy. Although Eastwood was able to convince Siegel not to have Callahan toss the badge, when the scene was filmed, Eastwood changed his mind and went with Siegel's preferred ending. One evening Eastwood and Siegel had been watching the San Francisco 49ers in Kezar Stadium in the last game of the season and thought the eerie Greek amphitheater-like setting would be an excellent location for shooting one of the scenes where Callahan encounters Scorpio. In San Francisco, California In Marin County, California In Los Angeles County, California The soundtrack for \"Dirty Harry\" was created by composer Lalo Schifrin, who created", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "5978125", "text": "Dirty Harry (2007 video game) Dirty Harry is a canceled video game that was in development by The Collective, Inc. intended to be published by Warner Bros. Interactive. The game was to continue the story of the 1971 film of the same name starring Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan, the protagonist. Clint Eastwood was intended to reprise his role, lending his voice and likeness as well as consulting and creative input. The game was to follow the same storyline of the film, with the San Francisco detective tracking down a serial killer named Scorpio. Versions were planned for both the", "title": "Dirty Harry (2007 video game)" }, { "docid": "6609250", "text": "justifies his use of deadly force against the criminals. Conversely, in \"Sudden Impact\" when he finds out that Jennifer Spencer (Sondra Locke), the person responsible for a series of murders in San Francisco and San Paulo, was a rape victim killing her unpunished rapists, he lets her go free, indicating that he feels her retribution was justified. In \"The Dead Pool\" Callahan shoots a fleeing and unarmed Mafia assassin in the back and kills the villain in the end with a harpoon knowing that the man's pistol is out of ammunition. Callahan goes a step further in \"Dirty Harry\", in", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "6609248", "text": "Force\", in which Harry is shown fighting vigilantism. Callahan is an inspector with the San Francisco Police Department, usually with the Homicide department, although for disciplinary or political reasons he is occasionally transferred to other less prominent units, such as Personnel (in \"The Enforcer\") or Stakeout (in \"Magnum Force\") or just sent out of town on mundane research assignments (in \"Sudden Impact\"). Callahan's primary concern is protecting and avenging the victims of violent crime. Though proficient at apprehending criminals, his methods are often unconventional; while some claim that he is prepared to ignore the law and professional and ethical boundaries,", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "2044579", "text": "local and federal police committing offences and overstepping their authority by entrapment and obstruction of justice. Author McGilligan, argued that America needed a hero, a winner at a time when the authorities were losing the battle against crime. The box-office success of \"Dirty Harry\" led to the production of four sequels. In the 2007 film \"Zodiac\", also set in San Francisco and inspired by the Zodiac Killer, cartoonist Robert Graysmith approaches police detective Dave Toschi at the cinema, where he is watching \"Dirty Harry\" with his wife. When Graysmith tells Toschi he is going to catch the Zodiac killer, Toschi", "title": "Dirty Harry" } ]
[ { "docid": "6609246", "text": "Dirty Harry (character) Inspector Harold Francis Callahan, also known as Dirty Harry, is a fictional character in the \"Dirty Harry\" film series, which consists of \"Dirty Harry\" (1971), \"Magnum Force\" (1973), \"The Enforcer\" (1976), \"Sudden Impact\" (1983) and \"The Dead Pool\" (1988). Callahan is portrayed by Clint Eastwood in each film. From his debut, Callahan became the template for a new kind of movie cop: an antihero who does not hesitate to cross professional and ethical boundaries in pursuit of his own vision of justice, especially when the law is poorly served by an inept bureaucracy. Callahan is often considered", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "7118705", "text": "Callahan. Bruce Willis played Hartigan, the \"Dirty Harry of the story\", in the \"Sin City\" (2005) film. This 1985 film featuring Jackie Chan was Chan's second American feature film. The movie was noted for being similar to the \"Dirty Harry\" series, with inspiration taken therefrom by director James Glickenhaus. Directed by and co-starring Clint Eastwood; the film features an aging, tough cop who partners with a rookie cop, played by Charlie Sheen. Upon the film's release critics and audiences noted the similarities between Eastwood's two characters. Eastwood returned to acting after a four-year self-imposed hiatus in this 2008 film, which", "title": "Dirty Harry (film series)" }, { "docid": "2044550", "text": "earlier encounter, Callahan does have one remaining bullet, with which he kills Scorpio when the latter goes for his gun. Callahan takes out his inspector's badge and throws it into the water before walking away. The script, titled \"Dead Right\", by the husband-and-wife team of Harry Julian Fink and Rita M. Fink, was originally about a hard-edged New York City police inspector, Harry Callahan, who is determined to stop Travis, a serial killer, even if he has to skirt the law and accepted standards of policing, blurring the distinction between criminal and cop, to address the question as to how", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "6609247", "text": "a film icon, so much so that his nickname, \"Dirty Harry\", has entered the lexicon as slang for ruthless police officers. All of the \"Dirty Harry\" films feature Callahan killing criminals, mostly in gunfights. Phrases he utters in armed stand-offs, \"\"Go ahead, make my day\"\" and \"\"[...] you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?\"\" have become iconic. As the 1971 film was criticized for carrying fascist, or at least authoritarian, undertones, the sequels attempted to be more balanced by pitting Harry against villains from a broader ideological spectrum; notably in 1973's \"Magnum", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "6609270", "text": "this goes any further, with Spencer commenting 'Neither of us want to be alone tonight'. \"The Dead Pool\" implies a romantic relationship with news reporter Samantha Walker, and the film ends with her and Callahan walking away together. Callahan is considered a film icon, so much so that his nickname, \"Dirty Harry\", has entered the lexicon as slang for ruthless police officers. Harry Callahan was voted number 23 by \"Empire\" Magazine on their list of \"The 100 Greatest Movie Characters\". Callahan was voted the 17th greatest movie hero on \"100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains\". He was also named one", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "6609257", "text": "a jumper, Callahan states he is known as Dirty Harry because he is assigned to \"every dirty job that comes along\". When Harry is ordered to deliver ransom money to Scorpio, Gonzalez opines \"no wonder they call him Dirty Harry; [he] always gets the shit end of the stick\". In \"Dirty Harry\", Gonzalez humorously suggests that Callahan's nickname may have an alternate origin given that he twice ends up peeking through a naked woman's window and later follows a suspect into a strip club. The films reveal little about Callahan's personal background. In the first film, Callahan tells Chico Gonzalez's", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "2044551", "text": "far a free, democratic society can go to protect itself. The original draft ended with a police sniper, instead of Callahan, shooting Scorpio. Another earlier version of the story was set in Seattle, Washington. Four more drafts of the script were written. Although Dirty Harry is arguably Clint Eastwood's signature role, he was not a top contender for the part. The role of Harry Callahan was offered to John Wayne and Frank Sinatra, and later to Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, and Burt Lancaster. In his 1980 interview with \"Playboy\", George C. Scott claimed that he was initially offered the role,", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "6609272", "text": "a March 1985 speech to the American Business Conference. Promising to veto any proposed tax rises, he challenged those who wanted them to: \"Go ahead, make my day.\" It has also given its name to a law in Colorado, the Make My Day Law, which protects homeowners who use lethal force against intruders. Dirty Harry (character) Inspector Harold Francis Callahan, also known as Dirty Harry, is a fictional character in the \"Dirty Harry\" film series, which consists of \"Dirty Harry\" (1971), \"Magnum Force\" (1973), \"The Enforcer\" (1976), \"Sudden Impact\" (1983) and \"The Dead Pool\" (1988). Callahan is portrayed by Clint", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "11397444", "text": "\"The Mexico Kill\", \"Family Skeletons\", \"City of Blood\", \"Massacre at Russian River\", \"Hatchet Men\", \"The Killing Connection\", \"The Blood of Strangers\", \"Death in the Air\", \"The Dealer of Death\". The series ended in 1983, the same year \"Sudden Impact\" was released. During the 1990s, Jean-Paul Schweighaeuser translated the \"Dirty Harry\" novels into French, for publication by Éditions Fleuve Noir as the \"Collection Supercops\". Dirty Harry novels \"Dirty Harry\" novels include film novelizations and original tie-ins based on the \"Dirty Harry\" film franchise. Like the films, the novels portray Inspector \"Dirty Harry\" Callahan as he ruthlessly fights criminals. Novelizations of the", "title": "Dirty Harry novels" }, { "docid": "7118704", "text": "graphic novels, revealed in an interview that he created the \"Sin City\" story-arc \"That Yellow Bastard\" out of his dislike of \"The Dead Pool\". Miller said: \"When I went to see the last \"Dirty Harry\" movie, \"The Dead Pool\", I was disgusted. I went out and said, this is not a \"Dirty Harry\" movie, this is nothing, this is a pale sequel.\" and I also said, \"that's not the last \"Dirty Harry\" story, I will show you the last \"Dirty Harry\" story.\" Another character in \"That Yellow Bastard\" story is Nancy Callahan, who is a pastiche or caricature of Harry", "title": "Dirty Harry (film series)" }, { "docid": "10053607", "text": "Unfortunately, the game balance got thrown out of sync, and the final result lies in video limbo: young players will be turned off by the difficulty of the game, and experienced gamers will finish it too quickly.\" Jung also noted \"That's Larry, not Harry\" this is probably a reference to the Dirty Harry movies. He then gave the game a low score of 5 out of 10. Dirty Larry: Renegade Cop Dirty Larry: Renegade Cop is a beat 'em up video game developed by Knight Technologies and published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Lynx in . You play as", "title": "Dirty Larry: Renegade Cop" }, { "docid": "17609322", "text": "Dirty Cop No Donut Dirty Cop No Donut is a 1999 mockumentary film directed by Tim Ritter. It follows a corrupt police officer (who is actually a police impersonator) called \"Officer Friendly\" (Joel D. Wynkoop) as he goes on a rampage. Released direct-to-video in 1999, it was given a limited theatrical release in 2001, where it received scathing reviews from critics. A sequel, titled \"\", was released in 2001. Mainstream critical reaction to \"Dirty Cop No Donut\" upon its limited theatrical release in 2001 was overwhelmingly negative, with the film earning a score of 6/100 (indicating \"universal dislike or disgust\")", "title": "Dirty Cop No Donut" }, { "docid": "11397441", "text": "Dirty Harry novels \"Dirty Harry\" novels include film novelizations and original tie-ins based on the \"Dirty Harry\" film franchise. Like the films, the novels portray Inspector \"Dirty Harry\" Callahan as he ruthlessly fights criminals. Novelizations of the first four films, \"Dirty Harry\", \"Magnum Force\", \"The Enforcer\", and \"Sudden Impact\", were published between 1971 and 1983. Additionally, after star Clint Eastwood announced he would make no further \"Dirty Harry\" films after \"The Enforcer\", Warner Books published twelve new novels attributed to Dane Hartman, a collective pen name used by at least three authors, between 1981 and 1983. Warner Bros. licensed novelizations", "title": "Dirty Harry novels" }, { "docid": "6609253", "text": "judges and prosecutors are wary of handling his cases because of frequent violations of the Fourth Amendment and other irregularities. A police commissioner admits that Callahan's \"unconventional methods ... get results\", but adds that his successes are \"more costly to the city and this department in terms of publicity and physical destruction than most other men's failures\". (The publicity makes him well known; in \"Sudden Impact\", the police chief of another city calls him \"the famous Harry Callahan\", and by \"The Dead Pool\" he is so well known that the department wants to transfer him to Public Relations, even while", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "5978128", "text": "reactive AI, both for crooks and cops. While there was no further explanation, it appeared that if the player was soft on crooks, they may not take Harry Callahan seriously. On the other end, excessive force will put you in trouble with the police chief. According to official press releases by Warner Bros., \"\"Dirty Harry\" helped define a genre and introduced the world to a character who has since become a cultural icon, so bringing Clint Eastwood's authentic Dirty Harry character to this next generation of consoles provides exciting promise for game playing audiences everywhere\", said Jason Hall, Senior Vice", "title": "Dirty Harry (2007 video game)" }, { "docid": "2044543", "text": "Impact\" in 1983 (directed by Eastwood himself) and \"The Dead Pool\" in 1988. In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being \"culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant\". A killer (Andrew Robinson) shoots a girl in a hotel rooftop swimming pool. Police arrive at the crime scene, where SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) finds a blackmail note signed \"Scorpio\" ordering the city to pay $100,000 or he will continue to kill. The mayor (John Vernon) asks police officers what is being done to track the killer. During lunch, Inspector", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "2044566", "text": "one,\" spoken by Scorpio when Callahan removes his gun, was an ad-lib by Robinson. The crew broke into laughter as a result of the double entendre and the scene had to be re-shot, but the line stayed. The final scene, in which Callahan throws his badge into the water, is a homage to a similar scene from 1952's \"High Noon\". Eastwood initially did not want to toss the badge, believing it indicated that Callahan was quitting the police department. Siegel argued that tossing the badge was instead Callahan's indication of casting away the inefficiency of the police force's rules and", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "6609256", "text": "the present system, despite its flaws, to the vigilante alternative. In his fight against criminals, however, including the fellow officers on the death squad, Callahan is merciless and shows no hesitation or remorse at killing them. In \"Dirty Harry\", several explanations are suggested for his nickname. When his partner Chico Gonzalez asks of its origins, Frank DiGiorgio says that \"that's one thing about our Harry; [he] doesn't play any favorites. Harry hates everybody: limeys, micks, hebes, fat dagos, niggers, honkies, chinks- you name it,\" even though DiGiorgio was joking; Callahan is not a racist. After being called to talk down", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "17609323", "text": "on Metacritic. \"The New York Times\" called the film a \"stomach-turning exercise in gratuitous sadism\", while \"The New York Post\" remarked that it was \"a totally inept and unfunny parody of the TV show 'Cops.'\" The \"Village Voice\" considered the film to be \"as drunk on fake blood as Friendly is on police power.\" \"TV Guide\" stated that \"overall the project smacks of juvenile hijinks, even though writer/producer/director/cinematographer Tim Ritter has been making films since the mid-'80s.\" Dirty Cop No Donut Dirty Cop No Donut is a 1999 mockumentary film directed by Tim Ritter. It follows a corrupt police officer", "title": "Dirty Cop No Donut" }, { "docid": "6609258", "text": "wife that his wife was killed by a drunk driver. She appears in \"Magnum Force\" in an old photograph which Harry turns around. The doctor tending to him after the first film's bank robbery intimates that \"us Potrero Hill boys gotta stick together\". The first film's novelization explains that Callahan grew up in this neighborhood and describes a hostile relationship between the police and the residents. Callahan recalls once throwing a brick at a police officer, who picked it up and threw it back. The following sequels show that Harry lives within the city limits in a small studio apartment", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "10053606", "text": "Dirty Larry: Renegade Cop Dirty Larry: Renegade Cop is a beat 'em up video game developed by Knight Technologies and published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Lynx in . You play as Dirty Larry, a cop who fights criminals in the city of Steelburg. The player moves through each level beating up criminals, picking up weapons to get to the final boss known as Mr Big. Robert Jung reviewed the game which was published to IGN. In his final verdict he went on to say that \"Conceptually, Dirty Larry had the ingredients to be a easy, no-nonsense action title.", "title": "Dirty Larry: Renegade Cop" }, { "docid": "6609268", "text": "she is aware of the risks of being his partner. Occasional Callahan partner Frank DiGiorgio is also killed, albeit whilst working with another officer. Of all Callahan's partners seen on screen, Quan and Gonzalez are the only two to survive. Gonzalez saves Callahan's life by shooting at Scorpio right before Scorpio was about to shoot Callahan. Callahan's partner in \"Sudden Impact\" played by Albert Popwell also played a bank robber in \"Dirty Harry\", a community activist in \"The Enforcer\", and a pimp in \"Magnum Force\". Another theme explored in several movies is Callahan being assigned a partner he would instinctively", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "7118709", "text": "\"Weltanschauung\".\" Tom Charity of \"CNN\" said of Walt, \"Like other Eastwood heroes before him, Walt sacrifices his independence by accepting that others depend on him.\" John Serba of \"The Grand Rapids Press\" said that Walt, who is \"bitter, hopelessly cranky,\" \"shares a sense of moral certainty\" with Callahan, but that Walt \"is infused with the wisdom and weariness\" that Callahan does not have. Warner Home Video owns rights to the \"Dirty Harry\" series. The five films have been remastered for DVD three times — in 1998, 2001 and 2008. They have been packaged in several DVD box sets. The \"Dirty", "title": "Dirty Harry (film series)" }, { "docid": "6609266", "text": "that \"I'll take all the edge I can get\". When Al Quan becomes Callahan's partner in \"The Dead Pool\", the inspector respects Quan's experience but does not want to work with anyone because, he says, \"most of my partners end up in the hospital or dead\"; he warns Quan to \"get a bulletproof vest\". It is a recurring theme in the \"Dirty Harry\" films that Callahan has a high turnover of partners; most are killed or wounded while working with him. In \"Dirty Harry\", he mentions two unseen partners named Fanducci and Dietrich; Dietrich is in the hospital having been", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "5978130", "text": "films.\" The game was canceled in 2007 due to reported \"trouble\" at The Collective, which was later revealed to be budgetary issues and a rushed schedule - along with their then-recent merger with Shiny Entertainment to form Double Helix Games. Dirty Harry (2007 video game) Dirty Harry is a canceled video game that was in development by The Collective, Inc. intended to be published by Warner Bros. Interactive. The game was to continue the story of the 1971 film of the same name starring Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan, the protagonist. Clint Eastwood was intended to reprise his role, lending", "title": "Dirty Harry (2007 video game)" }, { "docid": "3950868", "text": "over 10,000 proof prints. The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, which actively collects, preserves and makes available individual works by 20th-century North American photographers, maintains his photographic archives. His estate is represented in New York City by the Pace/MacGill Gallery. His wife Eleanor died on February 28, 2012 in a hospice in Atlanta at the age of 95. In 2013, the Vancouver Art Gallery received the extraordinary gift of almost 600 Callahan photographs from the Larry and Cookie Rossy Family Foundation. Harry Callahan (photographer) Harry Morey Callahan (October 22, 1912 – March 15, 1999) was a", "title": "Harry Callahan (photographer)" }, { "docid": "2044575", "text": "2008 DVD is Clint Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel. The film, along with its sequels, has been released in high definition, on various Digital distribution services, including the iTunes Store. \"Dirty Harry\" received recognition from the American Film Institute. The film was ranked #41 on 100 Years ... 100 Thrills, a list of America's most heart-pounding movies. Harry Callahan was selected as the 17th greatest movie hero on 100 Years ... 100 Heroes & Villains. The movie's famous quote \"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?\" was ranked 51st on 100 Years ...", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "7118702", "text": "themselves the People's Revolutionary Strike Force. Harry opposes introducing inexperienced inspectors to the dangers of police work, whether male or female, and sees the homicide department as too dangerous for his new partner, who worked until recently in Personnel. Though Moore starts out overenthusiastic, she soon proves herself valuable to Harry, and matures quickly, earning Harry's respect in the process. \"Sudden Impact\" (1983) was directed by Clint Eastwood. Aging, but still bitter, Callahan is sent to a small town to follow up a lead in a murder case, which leads him directly to a rape victim who is out to", "title": "Dirty Harry (film series)" }, { "docid": "2044563", "text": "all the kids lined up at the school – he kidnaps them at the school, actually – and they showed the picture to the other police after he's made his demands; he wants a 747 to take him away to a country where he'll be free of police harassment [Milius laughs uproariously], terrible things like this. And the children all end up like a graduation picture, and the teacher is saying, \"What is that object under Andy Robinson?\" and a cop says, \"That's a claymore mine.\" Teacher asks, \"What's a claymore mine?\" And we hear the voice of Harry say,", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "17583882", "text": "and he patrolled the city’s beaches. The first female as a member of a police force for all of New Jersey was Margaret Creswell. She began her Atlantic City police officer career in 1924. The Atlantic City Police Department Police Chiefs has an extensive history. The first police chief was Barton Gaskill, 1870; followed by: John R Lake, 1872; Simon L. Wescoat, 1874; John Hamon, 1876; Simon L. Wescoat, 1877; Joseph T. Note, 1880; Charles R. Lacy, 1881; George B. Zane, 1882; James Robinson, 1883; Harry C. Eldridge, 1887; George W. France, 1887; Harry C. Eldridge, 1890; Charles W. Maxwell,", "title": "Atlantic City Police Department" }, { "docid": "3950863", "text": "Harry Callahan (photographer) Harry Morey Callahan (October 22, 1912 – March 15, 1999) was a twentieth century American photographer. Harry Morey Callahan was born in Detroit, Michigan. He worked at Chrysler when he was a young man then left the company to study engineering at Michigan State University. He dropped out, returned to Chrysler and joined its camera club. Callahan began teaching himself photography in 1938. He formed a friendship with Todd Webb who was also to become a photographer. A talk given by Ansel Adams in 1941 inspired him to take his work seriously. In 1941, Callahan and Webb", "title": "Harry Callahan (photographer)" }, { "docid": "2044570", "text": "Eastwood do what he does, and he does it so well.\" Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out four, calling it \"very effective at the level of a thriller\" but denouncing its moral position as \"fascist.\" Gene Siskel gave the film a full four out of four stars and praised it as \"one of the great police thrillers of motion picture history,\" though he too thought that the film's message was \"dangerous.\" Roger Greenspun of \"The New York Times\" wrote that \"what makes 'Dirty Harry' worth watching no matter how dumb the story, is Siegel's superb sense", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "13917786", "text": "sidearm used by the KCMO PD is the Glock 22 or Glock 23 both in .40 S&W. Officers also had the choice of choosing the Smith & Wesson Sigma but that is no longer chosen by officers as was the S&W 4026 (Smith & Wesson Model 4006) .40 S&W which had the KCMO PD Badge and KCPD engraved on the slide. The Tactical Response Teams of KCPD was featured in A&E's reality series \"Kansas City SWAT\". Kansas City Police Department (Missouri) The Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) is the principal law enforcement agency serving Kansas City, Missouri. The current chief", "title": "Kansas City Police Department (Missouri)" }, { "docid": "11276158", "text": "Beverly Hills Police history. The Beverly Hills police department and LAPD has been featured in several films including the \"Beverly Hills Cop\" series and the 1986 comedy movie \"Down and Out in Beverly Hills\". Beverly Hills Police Department The Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD) is the police department of the City of Beverly Hills, California. The first law enforcement agency was formed shortly after the City of Beverly Hills was incorporated in 1914. The first city marshal was Augustus Niestrum with a deputy named Jack Munson whose home also served as the headquarters for both the city's Fire and Police", "title": "Beverly Hills Police Department" }, { "docid": "6609263", "text": "one film, Harry's partner Frank DiGiorgio, refers to Harry's gun as a \"pocket-cannon\". One of the \"hero guns\" used on-camera in \"Magnum Force\" is in the possession of John Milius. It is presently on loan to the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia, in the \"Hollywood Guns\" exhibit in the William B. Ruger Gallery. Callahan loses control of his sidearm four times during the course of the series. First, in \"Dirty Harry\" when Scorpio tells him to take it out and throw it when he is confronted at the cross in the park. Second, in \"Magnum Force\", where Captain Briggs", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "2044569", "text": "controversy when it was released, sparking debate over issues ranging from police brutality to victims' rights and the nature of law enforcement. Feminists in particular were outraged by the film and at the 44th Academy Awards protested outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, holding up banners which read messages such as \"Dirty Harry is a Rotten Pig\". Jay Cocks of \"Time\" praised Eastwood's performance as Dirty Harry, describing him as \"giving his best performance so far, tense, tough, full of implicit identification with his character\". Neal Gabler also praised Eastwood's performance in the film: \"There's an incredible pleasure in watching Clint", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "8299637", "text": "But Woods operates in this movie almost as if he were writing his own footnotes. He uses his personality, his voice and his quirky sense of humor to undermine the material and comment on it, until \"Cop\" becomes an essay on this whole genre of movie. And then, with the movie's startling last shot, Woods slams shut the book. It's as if Woods and Harris watched a Dirty Harry movie one night and decided to see what would happen if Harry were really dirty.\" The film was broadcast on February 10, 1989, on American TV and The Madison Courier gave", "title": "Cop (film)" }, { "docid": "12599651", "text": "responded to a dispute call with guns involved on Black Rock Avenue. According to police the suspect had two shotguns and a rifle in the apartment, and was firing at Bridgeport police while having a dispute with a woman. The current chief is Joseph Gaudett. In the 2008 film \"Pistol Whipped\", Steven Seagal plays a former cop from the Bridgeport Police Department. Bridgeport Police Department The Bridgeport Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is responsible for most law enforcement within the geographical boundary of City of Bridgeport, with the exception", "title": "Bridgeport Police Department" }, { "docid": "2044561", "text": "to have received several death threats and was forced to get an unlisted telephone number. In real life, Robinson is a pacifist who deplores the use of firearms. Early in principal photography on the film, Robinson would reportedly flinch in discomfort every time he was required to use a gun. As a result, Siegel was forced to halt production briefly and sent Robinson for brief training in order to learn how to fire a gun convincingly. Milius says his main contribution to the film was \"a lot of guns. And the attitude of Dirty Harry, being a cop who was", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "7118700", "text": "its box-office success led to the production of four sequels. The \"alienated cop\" motif was subsequently imitated by a number of other films. At the beginning and end of the film, Callahan corners a criminal and says, \"You've got to ask yourself a question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?\" (The line is often misquoted as \"Do you feel lucky, punk?\", and in the second movie, Magnum Force, Harry begins by saying, “do you feel lucky”). It was the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1971 after \"Fiddler on the Roof\", \"The French Connection\", and \"Diamonds Are Forever\". \"Magnum Force\" (1973)", "title": "Dirty Harry (film series)" }, { "docid": "6899206", "text": "television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. It starred Mike Connors as the titular character, Joe Mannix. The novel \"Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop\" has at least two significant homages to \"Mannix\": Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop is the eighth novel written by Lee Goldberg to be based on the television series \"Monk\". It was published on July 7, 2009. Like the other novels, the story is narrated by Natalie Teeger, Monk's assistant. Adrian Monk and Natalie Teeger stop by the University of California to investigate an open-and-shut", "title": "Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop" }, { "docid": "6609267", "text": "shot, while Fanducci is dead (in \"The Enforcer\", reference is made to the fact that Fanducci was killed in 1968). His partner in \"Dirty Harry\", Chico Gonzalez, is shot by Scorpio and though he survives, he decides to quit the police (in \"Magnum Force\", Harry remarks that Gonzalez became a college teacher after leaving the police force). His partner in \"Magnum Force\", Earlington \"Early\" Smith is killed by a bomb planted in his mailbox. Kate Moore in \"The Enforcer\" is killed by terrorists while saving Callahan's life. She had previously cited to Harry Fanducci and Smith's names, to demonstrate that", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "17583881", "text": "and the ordinances of the City of Atlantic City; direct and control vehicular and pedestrian traffic; provide attendance and protection during emergencies; suppress riots, mobs and insurrections; disperse unlawful or dangerous assemblies; preserve order at all elections, public meetings and assemblages; provide appearances in court; cooperate with other law enforcement agencies; and provide training for the efficiency of its members and officers. See . The Police Department of the City of Atlantic City is established pursuant to and shall after this be called the “Atlantic City Police Department.\" In 1855, William S. Cazier was the first “constable of the surf”", "title": "Atlantic City Police Department" }, { "docid": "14882778", "text": "command officers.. Culver City Police Department The Culver City Police Department (CCPD) is the police department in Culver City, California. The CCPD is a full-service police department and includes more than 160 persons on staff, and serves an area of . The police chief is Scott Bixby. The Culver City Police Department was founded on November 21, 1917, when the City Trustees provided for the employment of a City Marshal in their 5th resolution. As a result, Frank W. Bradley started work on November 21, 1917. The department did not function as a full-service police department, using the County Jail", "title": "Culver City Police Department" }, { "docid": "14882776", "text": "Culver City Police Department The Culver City Police Department (CCPD) is the police department in Culver City, California. The CCPD is a full-service police department and includes more than 160 persons on staff, and serves an area of . The police chief is Scott Bixby. The Culver City Police Department was founded on November 21, 1917, when the City Trustees provided for the employment of a City Marshal in their 5th resolution. As a result, Frank W. Bradley started work on November 21, 1917. The department did not function as a full-service police department, using the County Jail for prisoners,", "title": "Culver City Police Department" }, { "docid": "16402390", "text": "Hyattsville City Police Department The City of Hyattsville Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency in Hyattsville, Maryland in the United States, servicing a population of 18,262 (2010 Census) residents and visitors within 2.7 square miles (7.0 km²) of the municipality. The City of Hyattsville Police Department is an internationally accredited, full-service police department, which maintains its own 24/7 emergency communications section. The current head of the agency is Interim Chief Amal Awad. On June 30, 2017, the City of Hyattsville Police Department began providing dispatch services to the neighboring City of Mount Rainier Police Department. (Mount Rainier Police", "title": "Hyattsville City Police Department" }, { "docid": "19890623", "text": "Iowa City Police Department The Iowa City Police Department is the municipal police department for the city of Iowa City, Iowa. The department consists of 82 sworn and 30 non-sworn personnel. The Iowa City Police department's jurisdiction overlaps with the Johnson County Sheriff's Department and the University of Iowa Department of Public Safety Police Division. The Iowa City Police department has been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign three consecutive years for having a perfect score on the Municipal Equality Index Scorecard. The report from the Human Rights Campaign states [this] \"is not a ranking of a city’s atmosphere or", "title": "Iowa City Police Department" }, { "docid": "19890625", "text": "killed in the line of duty. In addition to the police department headquarters, the Iowa City Police Department also has a substation located at 1067 Highway 6 E, Iowa City, Iowa. The substation houses the Crime Prevention Office, while also providing community meeting space for small group meetings. Iowa City Police Department The Iowa City Police Department is the municipal police department for the city of Iowa City, Iowa. The department consists of 82 sworn and 30 non-sworn personnel. The Iowa City Police department's jurisdiction overlaps with the Johnson County Sheriff's Department and the University of Iowa Department of Public", "title": "Iowa City Police Department" }, { "docid": "14343461", "text": "praised his performance as Dirty Harry, describing him as \"giving his best performance so far, tense, tough, full of implicit identification with his character\", the film was widely criticized because of Eastwood's portrayal of the ruthless cop. Feminists in particular were outraged by the film, and at the 1971 Oscar telecast, protested outside holding up banners which read messages such as \"Dirty Harry is a Rotten Pig\". Many critics expressed concern with what they saw as bigotry, with \"Newsweek\" describing the film as \"a right-wing fantasy\", \"Variety\" as \"a specious, phony glorification of the police and police brutality with a", "title": "Clint Eastwood in the 1970s" }, { "docid": "8914153", "text": "Williams Electronic Games, Incorporated that is a subsidiary of WMS Industry. It is also known by its abbreviation of DH. This pinball game falls under the themes of celebrities, fictional, and licensed theme. The playfield of Dirty Harry includes shooting pinballs at targets, sinkholes, ramps, magnets in through loops. This pinball machine is recorded to weigh 250 pounds. The slogans that were included in the Dirty Harry pinball game include the following: Dirty Harry (pinball) Dirty Harry is a Williams pinball machine released in March 1995. It is based on the fictional character of the same name. The Dirty Harry", "title": "Dirty Harry (pinball)" }, { "docid": "13751158", "text": "within the division include: \"Sergeant Chris Perry, Chief Animal Control Officer\" Since the establishment of the Manassas Police Department, 1 officer has died in the line of duty. Manassas City Police Department The Manassas City Police Department (MCPD) is the primary law enforcement agency servicing 37,821 people living in City of Manassas, VA. Located at 9518 Fairview Avenue, the Manassas City Police Department serves a jurisdiction of approximately . In 2008, the department employed 90 sworn police officers, 12 unsworn police officers. On July 9, 2014, Manassas City Police Department became newsworthy after a local teenager sent explicit photos of", "title": "Manassas City Police Department" }, { "docid": "8914152", "text": "Dirty Harry (pinball) Dirty Harry is a Williams pinball machine released in March 1995. It is based on the fictional character of the same name. The Dirty Harry pinball machine was designed by Barry Oursler. The art for this game was produced by Kevin O'Connor and Pat McMahon. The animation was produced by Scott Slomiany, Adam Rhine, and Brian Morris. The music and sound for his game was produced by Vince Pontarelli. The mechanics of the game were produced by Zofia Bil. Dirty Harry is a multiplayer game that allows up to 4 players. The manufacturer of Dirty Harry is", "title": "Dirty Harry (pinball)" }, { "docid": "18080908", "text": "he later went on to fight crime as the Flash. Central City Police Department The Central City Police Department (CCPD) is a fictional police department servicing Central City, as depicted in comic books published by DC Comics, in particular those tied into the Flash books. Central City Police Department is both an ally and opponent of Flash, the superhero long-established in Central City. Darryl Frye is the Captain of the Central City Police. He has seen the Crime Lab division decline over the years from the best the Mid West had to offer, to a department mired in wrongful convictions", "title": "Central City Police Department" }, { "docid": "18080906", "text": "Central City Police Department The Central City Police Department (CCPD) is a fictional police department servicing Central City, as depicted in comic books published by DC Comics, in particular those tied into the Flash books. Central City Police Department is both an ally and opponent of Flash, the superhero long-established in Central City. Darryl Frye is the Captain of the Central City Police. He has seen the Crime Lab division decline over the years from the best the Mid West had to offer, to a department mired in wrongful convictions and budget cuts. Frye became the legal guardian to Barry", "title": "Central City Police Department" }, { "docid": "13751155", "text": "Manassas City Police Department The Manassas City Police Department (MCPD) is the primary law enforcement agency servicing 37,821 people living in City of Manassas, VA. Located at 9518 Fairview Avenue, the Manassas City Police Department serves a jurisdiction of approximately . In 2008, the department employed 90 sworn police officers, 12 unsworn police officers. On July 9, 2014, Manassas City Police Department became newsworthy after a local teenager sent explicit photos of herself to her then boyfriend (age 17) who in return sent explicit video of himself to the teen. When the female teenager's mother complained, the MCPD officials chose", "title": "Manassas City Police Department" }, { "docid": "2044546", "text": "sexual encounter before being caught by neighbors who try to beat him up as a peeping Tom, until Chico interferes. Based on Scorpio's communications, the city decides he will next try to kill a Catholic priest. They set up a stake-out, but Callahan gets again distracted. Scorpio arrives and there is a shootout in which a policeman disguised as a priest is killed. Scorpio delivers a second ransom demand to the police, stating he has now kidnapped a teenage girl who he says will die if his demands are not met. Callahan is assigned to deliver a case full of", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "17583899", "text": "inappropriately. In February 2017, Atlantic City police officer Dayton Brown was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after an alleged domestic-violence incident involving his girlfriend. Atlantic City Police Department The Atlantic City Police Department is a municipal law enforcement agency that serves Atlantic City, New Jersey. The department is currently headed by Chief of Police Henry White who succeeded previous chief Ernest Jubilee. The department includes a Patrol Unit, Traffic Unit (made up of a Motorcycle Unit and an Accident Investigation Unit) and a K-9 Unit. Other divisions are Investigations, Vice, Support and Internal Affairs. In 1907 the Police Department", "title": "Atlantic City Police Department" }, { "docid": "19105867", "text": "only known officer in Boise killed in the line of duty. Boise City Police Department The Boise City Police Department (BPD) is located in Idaho's Capital with a population of 214,237 (2013) which is the largest city in Idaho. Boise City Police employs just over 400 people with 325 allocated positions for sworn officers and 82 civilians. In 1864 the city of Boise, Idaho was made the territorial capital and a municipal government was formed. John Ward became the Marshal The police Department was officially started in 1903 consisting of a chief of police, a police sergeant and seven police", "title": "Boise City Police Department" }, { "docid": "19105865", "text": "Boise City Police Department The Boise City Police Department (BPD) is located in Idaho's Capital with a population of 214,237 (2013) which is the largest city in Idaho. Boise City Police employs just over 400 people with 325 allocated positions for sworn officers and 82 civilians. In 1864 the city of Boise, Idaho was made the territorial capital and a municipal government was formed. John Ward became the Marshal The police Department was officially started in 1903 consisting of a chief of police, a police sergeant and seven police officers. It only had one female officer in the early 1930s", "title": "Boise City Police Department" }, { "docid": "17583877", "text": "Atlantic City Police Department The Atlantic City Police Department is a municipal law enforcement agency that serves Atlantic City, New Jersey. The department is currently headed by Chief of Police Henry White who succeeded previous chief Ernest Jubilee. The department includes a Patrol Unit, Traffic Unit (made up of a Motorcycle Unit and an Accident Investigation Unit) and a K-9 Unit. Other divisions are Investigations, Vice, Support and Internal Affairs. In 1907 the Police Department was established in Atlantic City by ordinance number sixteen. Specifically, ordinance sixteen of 1907 states the following within section one: \"\"Be it ordained by City", "title": "Atlantic City Police Department" }, { "docid": "5752522", "text": "face many of the issues regular Police Officers face regarding working conditions, including safety, disciplinary actions, and uniform allowance reimbursement. Membership is voluntary. Since the establishment of the New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police, seven officers have died in the line of duty. (Solid green bar speckled tiny gold stars) is awarded for: New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police The New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police is a volunteer reserve police force which is a subdivision of the Patrol Services Bureau of the New York City Police Department. Auxiliary Police Officers assist the NYPD with uniformed patrols,", "title": "New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police" }, { "docid": "2044571", "text": "of the city, not as a place of moods but as a theater for action.\" Kevin Thomas of the \"Los Angeles Times\" called it \"a high-style film with lowbrow appeal, a movie after which you may dislike yourself for liking it as much as you do.\" A section of the Philippine police force ordered a print of the film for use as a training film. Since its release, the film's critical reputation has grown in stature. \"Dirty Harry\" was selected in 2008 by \"Empire\" magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. It was placed similarly on", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "5242507", "text": "the police commissioner when Commissioner Correa was killed by the League of Assassins. Each of the different media appearances introduce a member of the Gotham City Police Department that is exclusive to the project: Gotham City Police Department The Gotham City Police Department (GCPD) is a fictional police department appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The GCPD services Gotham City and is typically depicted in stories featuring the superhero Batman. Acting as both ally and opponent of Batman, the superhero long-established in Gotham, the GCPD has long been steeped in corruption, with numerous officers both high-and-low ranking", "title": "Gotham City Police Department" }, { "docid": "2044549", "text": "Scorpio pays a man $200 to beat him severely, then reports to a hospital claiming he is a victim of police brutality. Scorpio later acquires a handgun, hijacks a school bus and contacts the police with yet another ransom demand for money and a flight out of the Santa Rosa airport. Callahan jumps onto the roof of the bus from an overpass. After Callahan forces Scorpio off the bus, the latter flees to a nearby quarry and holds a boy at gunpoint. Having shot Scorpio through the shoulder, Callahan reprises his line about losing count of his shots. Unlike the", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "2044545", "text": "to know if the gun is still loaded. Callahan pulls the trigger with the weapon pointed directly at the robber, and laughs as it is revealed to be empty. Callahan is assigned a new partner, Chico Gonzalez (Reni Santoni), whom he believes to be an inexperienced rookie. Scorpio is staking out potential victims near a public park, but is spotted by a police helicopter and runs away. Callahan and his new partner believe they see him that night on the streets, but in the course of tracing him to his home, Callahan looks into a window and briefly watches a", "title": "Dirty Harry" }, { "docid": "5752499", "text": "New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police The New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police is a volunteer reserve police force which is a subdivision of the Patrol Services Bureau of the New York City Police Department. Auxiliary Police Officers assist the NYPD with uniformed patrols, providing traffic control, crowd control, and other services during major events. Over 4,500 Auxiliary Police officers contribute over one million hours of service each year. The NYPD Auxiliary Police program is the largest Auxiliary Police program in the United States. There are seven titles (referred to as ranks) in the New York City Police", "title": "New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police" }, { "docid": "5978129", "text": "President of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. \"Our work with The Collective is aimed at culminating in a game with an all-new story that allows players to experience the action and suspense of the legendary franchise firsthand.\" \"Working with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Clint Eastwood to create a compelling, state-of-the-art game that brings Dirty Harry Callahan to life on next generation consoles is very exciting\", said Doug Hare, co-founder and Vice President of Production for The Collective. \"We are focused on creating genre defining story-telling gameplay, along with next generation graphics depicting action-packed sequences that are consistent with the renowned", "title": "Dirty Harry (2007 video game)" }, { "docid": "6811513", "text": "and custom made sniper rifles. In the past the department allowed a variety of weapons, and during Prohibition, some officers carried Thompson submachine guns. The department still maintains some of the historic Thompson guns in its inventory. Oklahoma City Police Department The Oklahoma City Police Department (OCPD or OKC PD), was established in 1898 following the Land Runs. The OCPD is the largest law enforcement agency in the State of Oklahoma and has primary police jurisdiction within the corporate limits of the City of Oklahoma City. The OCPD is one of the oldest police departments in Oklahoma, tracing its roots", "title": "Oklahoma City Police Department" }, { "docid": "13917784", "text": "Kansas City Police Department (Missouri) The Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) is the principal law enforcement agency serving Kansas City, Missouri. The current chief is Colonel Richard Smith. Col. Smith, who served as head of the KCPD's Central Patrol Division, became the city's 46th police chief on August 15, 2017. The Mission of the Kansas City Missouri Police Department is to protect and serve with professionalism, honor and integrity. Kansas City Police Department is the largest city police agency in Missouri, based on number of employees, city population, and geographic area served. The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners is", "title": "Kansas City Police Department (Missouri)" }, { "docid": "6899154", "text": "Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop is the eighth novel written by Lee Goldberg to be based on the television series \"Monk\". It was published on July 7, 2009. Like the other novels, the story is narrated by Natalie Teeger, Monk's assistant. Adrian Monk and Natalie Teeger stop by the University of California to investigate an open-and-shut self-defense murder. Professor Jeremiah Cowan was giving a class when a gunman burst into the room and pointed a gun at him. Cowan shot the intruder before the intruder could get a shot. The shooter's name is", "title": "Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop" }, { "docid": "17746392", "text": "Android Cop Android Cop is a 2014 American science fiction action film produced by The Asylum and directed by Mark Atkins. The film stars Michael Jai White, Charles S. Dutton, Randy Wayne and Kadeem Hardison. It is a mockbuster of \"RoboCop\". In the year 2098, Los Angeles Police Department detective Hammond (Michael Jai White) and his new partner \"Andy\" (Randy Wayne) — a state of the art crimefighting robot cop — are tasked with recovering a runaway Telepresence android containing the consciousness of Mayor Jacobs's (Charles S. Dutton) daughter Helen (Larissa Vereza), who remains unaware that she is a human", "title": "Android Cop" }, { "docid": "7215764", "text": "Once a Cop Once a Cop () is a 1993 Hong Kong action film directed by Stanley Tong and starring Michelle Yeoh. It is a spin-off of Jackie Chan's \"Police Story\" film series involving the character Yeoh portrayed in \"\". The film is also known as Project S in original territories and many other titles, including Police Story IV (inaccurately), Police Story 3 Part 2, Supercop (UK) and Supercop 2 (US). Although Jackie Chan only has a cameo appearance in this film, some DVD covers prominently featured Chan, misleading audiences into thinking he is one of the main characters. He", "title": "Once a Cop" }, { "docid": "5883331", "text": "the Werwolf, which breaks down a short distance away. Dirty Harry (song) \"Dirty Harry\" is a song from British alternative rock virtual band Gorillaz' second studio album \"Demon Days\". \"Dirty Harry\" was first released as a promotional single on iTunes before being released as the third single from the album on 21 November 2005, peaking at #6 in the UK. An early version entitled \"I Need a Gun\" was included on Damon Albarn's album \"Democrazy\". On 8 December 2005, \"Dirty Harry\" was nominated for a Grammy under the category \"Urban/Alternative Performance\", but was beaten by Damian \"Jr. Gong\" Marley's \"Welcome", "title": "Dirty Harry (song)" }, { "docid": "5883328", "text": "Dirty Harry (song) \"Dirty Harry\" is a song from British alternative rock virtual band Gorillaz' second studio album \"Demon Days\". \"Dirty Harry\" was first released as a promotional single on iTunes before being released as the third single from the album on 21 November 2005, peaking at #6 in the UK. An early version entitled \"I Need a Gun\" was included on Damon Albarn's album \"Democrazy\". On 8 December 2005, \"Dirty Harry\" was nominated for a Grammy under the category \"Urban/Alternative Performance\", but was beaten by Damian \"Jr. Gong\" Marley's \"Welcome to Jamrock\". The video was first released on 25", "title": "Dirty Harry (song)" }, { "docid": "7215769", "text": "to the US nearly three years later and it managed to gross US$16,270,600. Once a Cop Once a Cop () is a 1993 Hong Kong action film directed by Stanley Tong and starring Michelle Yeoh. It is a spin-off of Jackie Chan's \"Police Story\" film series involving the character Yeoh portrayed in \"\". The film is also known as Project S in original territories and many other titles, including Police Story IV (inaccurately), Police Story 3 Part 2, Supercop (UK) and Supercop 2 (US). Although Jackie Chan only has a cameo appearance in this film, some DVD covers prominently featured", "title": "Once a Cop" }, { "docid": "10744856", "text": "goods to be freighted in from Fort Worth. The community was dealt a severe blow in December 1877 when it lost the county seat to neighboring Belle Plain in a hotly contested election. In 1880, Callahan City was bypassed by the railroad, and the few remaining residents dispersed leaving the town all but abandoned. Today, the former cemetery is all that remains of the community. The Handbook of Texas Online entry for Callahan City Callahan City, Texas Callahan City is a ghost town in Callahan County, Texas, United States. Founded in 1876, Callahan City was envisioned as a center of", "title": "Callahan City, Texas" }, { "docid": "6609249", "text": "regarding them as needless red tape hampering justice, his methods are usually within the law – he takes advantage of situations that justify his use of deadly force, sometimes almost creating those situations. When a group of men holding hostages in a liquor store in \"The Enforcer\" demand a getaway car, Callahan delivers one by driving the car through the store's plate glass window and then shooting the robbers. Rather than following the rules of the police department, Callahan inserts himself into the scene of the event at a time when the imminent use of deadly force by the criminals", "title": "Dirty Harry (character)" }, { "docid": "11638547", "text": "Clint Eastwood 1980 film \"Any Which Way You Can\" featured scenes in the city of Bakersfield with a car chase scene involving Bakersfield Police officers. A fourth season episode of \"\", entitled \"Dead Ringer\", featured a secondary murder plot involving a female Bakersfield Police detective as a possible suspect. In 1999, KB Toys released a line of exclusive diecast metal toy cars based on classic hotrod cars featuring real city police logos and paint schemes. \"Cop Rods\" by Mattel featured a tail dragger hotrod decorated in the Bakersfield Police department style. The Zoe Saldana 2011 film \"Colombiana\" features the Bakersfield", "title": "Bakersfield Police Department" }, { "docid": "17583879", "text": "of service less than one year shall hold their respective offices during good behavior, or until by age or disease they become permanently incapacitated to discharge their duties, provided, however, that any officers of said Department may be removed for reasons and in the manner hereinafter provided.\"\" As of today, the Police Department is established by authority of City Ordinance 52-1 of Atlantic City, entitled, \"Creation of Police Division”. There is hereby created in and for the City of Atlantic City, a Police Division (Division) within the Department of Public Safety. The Division shall consist of a Chief of Police", "title": "Atlantic City Police Department" }, { "docid": "19890624", "text": "quality of life. It is an evaluation of the city’s law and policies, and an examination of how inclusive city services are of LGBTQ people.\" The Iowa City Police Department employs three full-time officers who serve as liaisons to the LGBTQ community. The officers' department goals include fostering positive relations between the LGBTQ community and the police department, assisting in dialogue with police concerning LGBTQ-related crimes, working in partnership with other agencies on LGBTQ-related issues, and maintaining an interactive role in police training regarding the LGBTQ community. In the history of the Iowa City Police Department, one officer has been", "title": "Iowa City Police Department" }, { "docid": "11700753", "text": "the 2010s, however the cars were painted white instead of grey and the motto on the front fenders were omitted. In the mid-2000s, the RCPD used Chevrolet Tahoes and Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors with the cars' paint schemes were changed from white to grey. Rockville City Police Department The Rockville City Police Department (RCPD) is a U.S. law enforcement agency responsible for patrolling the city of Rockville, the third largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland. The RCPD patrols the city in cooperation with the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD). The agency serves a jurisdiction consisting of over", "title": "Rockville City Police Department" }, { "docid": "16402391", "text": "Department had been dispatched by the Bladensburg Police Department for the past 20 years, after having decided it was more cost-effective to have their officers dispatched by another police agency, rather than running an emergency communications center themselves.) The City of Hyattsville Police Department is a paramilitary organization with a rank structure similar to the United States military. The ranks of Corporal through Lieutenant are based on promotional testing. The ranks of Chief and Captain are appointed by the Mayor and Council. The City of Hyattsville Police Department's rank structure is as listed: Members of the City of Hyattsville Police", "title": "Hyattsville City Police Department" }, { "docid": "20793290", "text": "the department have been required to learn English. The Band of the Minsk City Police Department has been operating in the directorate since October 10, 1964. It is similar in nature and purpose to the NYPD Police Band. In Soviet times, the band traveled all over the USSR and often performed in places that have experienced hardship, including Chernobyl in July 1986 and Leninakan in 1989. It gave its first performance as a Belarusian band in Germany in 1993. Minsk City Police Department The Minsk City Police Department (Belarusian: Мінскі гарадскі паліцэйскі кіравання; Russian: Минский городской полицейский управления) officially known", "title": "Minsk City Police Department" }, { "docid": "3757107", "text": "1994 with the addition of the song \"Robert Tilton Handjob\" from the \"Piece Man\" 7\"). Wharton Tiers engineered the EP. Puleo reports their name was inspired by both the band members' shared dislike of police officers, and a newspaper headline about a botched police raid, reading \"'Cop Shot Cop' or maybe it was 'Cop Shoots Cop.'\" Another possible explanation for the band's moniker is what is described as a \"junkie's to do list:\" \"cop\" (obtain drugs, especially heroin) \"shoot\" (Inject the drugs)\" and \"cop\" again. The trio placed a number of posters stating only \"CopShootCop\" around New York, which helped", "title": "Cop Shoot Cop" }, { "docid": "8907139", "text": "Aguadilla City Police Department The Aguadilla City Police Department (A.C.P.D.), or \"Policia Municipal de Aguadilla\" in Spanish, are the local police force in the town of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It was created under law #19 of May 12, 1977, known as Ley de la Policia Municipal (Municipal Police Law) creating the local police forces in each city of Puerto Rico. The A.C.P.D. only have jurisdiction in the municipality of Aguadilla and provide service and protection to local citizens and travelers alike in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Police Department who have full jurisdiction. The majority of the force is bilingual", "title": "Aguadilla City Police Department" }, { "docid": "11700745", "text": "Rockville City Police Department The Rockville City Police Department (RCPD) is a U.S. law enforcement agency responsible for patrolling the city of Rockville, the third largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland. The RCPD patrols the city in cooperation with the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD). The agency serves a jurisdiction consisting of over 65,000 people and has been a CALEA-accredited agency since 1994. According to the RCPD, its mission is to protect and promote community safety, ensure the safe and orderly movement of traffic, and seek solutions to any problem that creates fear or threatens the quality of", "title": "Rockville City Police Department" } ]
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The first issue of Playboy magazine was on newsstands in December, 1953. Which starlet/model was featured as the first centerfold?
[ "Marilyn monroe", "Marirlyn Monroe", "Norma DiMaggio", "Norma Jean DiMaggio", "Norma Jean Dougherty", "Norma Mortenson", "Marliyn Monroe", "Norma Dougherty", "Marilyn Monroe Miller", "Marylyn Monroe", "Norma Jean Baker Mortenson", "Norma Jeane Baker", "Norma Baker", "Natasha Lytess", "Norma Jean Mortenson", "Norma Jean Baker", "Norma Jeane", "Marilyn Monroe", "Norma Jeane DiMaggio", "Norma Jean Mortensen", "Marilyn Munro", "Merylin Monroe", "Norma Jeane Mortenson", "Marylin Monroe", "Marilyn Monro", "Charles Stanley Gifford", "Norma Jeane Dougherty", "Fifth Helena Drive", "Norma jeane mortenson", "Marilyn Munroe" ]
[ { "docid": "4718232", "text": "Centerfold The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine refers to a gatefolded spread, usually a portrait such as a pin-up or a nude, inserted in the middle of the publication, or to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opposed to those that are perfect-bound), the centerfold does not have any blank space cutting through the image. The term was coined by Hugh Hefner, founder of \"Playboy\" magazine. The success of the first issue of \"Playboy\" has been attributed in large part to its centerfold: a nude of Marilyn Monroe. The advent of monthly centerfolds gave the", "title": "Centerfold" }, { "docid": "312816", "text": "and mother. However, the publisher of an unrelated men's adventure magazine, \"Stag,\" contacted Hefner and informed him it would file suit to protect their trademark if he were to launch his magazine with that name. Hefner, his wife Millie, and Sellers met to seek a new name, considering \"Top Hat\", \"Gentleman\", \"Sir'\", \"Satyr\", \"Pan\" and \"Bachelor\" before Sellers suggested \"Playboy\". The first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second. He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen. The first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used originally was taken for a", "title": "Playboy" }, { "docid": "2776996", "text": "as a \"former\" Playmate because \"Once a Playmate, always a Playmate\". Marilyn Monroe, who was featured in the first issue, was the only one to appear as \"Sweetheart of the Month.\" The first model called a Playmate of the Month was Margie Harrison, Miss January 1954, in the second issue of \"Playboy\". Generally a woman may appear only once as a Playmate, but in the early years of the magazine, some models were featured multiple times. Marilyn Waltz (February 1954, April 1954, April 1955 her first appearance was as Margaret Scott) and Janet Pilgrim (July 1955, December 1955, and October", "title": "Playboy Playmate" }, { "docid": "8687298", "text": "1955 that Greenleaf published the first issue of \"Rogue\" (although it had a cover date of December), a magazine which was competitive with \"Playboy\", a magazine dealing with sex which had been published for about two years at this time. In 1953, as a solo and unidentified effort, Hugh Hefner's \"Playboy\" V1#1 appeared without a date late in the year [November]. It was an almost immediate success with that calendar photo of Marilyn Monroe being reused to its best advantage. About \"Playboy\" and Hugh Hefner, Hamling states in a letter to his friend, and lawyer, Stanley Fleishman: \"I remember my", "title": "Rogue (magazine)" }, { "docid": "12747638", "text": "starlets. But the circulation of his magazines declined in the post-war years. By early 1952 his accountant told him that he was broke. In addition to rival imitators, Harrison \"could not compete with the new celebrity focused men's magazine, \"Playboy\", whose first issue, released in 1953, featured a full color centerfold of Marilyn Monroe.\" But Harrison had an aversion to real nudity and never went the route of \"Playboy\". Instead, he returned to his \"New York Graphic\" roots. Thus \"Whisper\" would morph a third time in the 1950s to imitate the most audacious of Harrison's periodicals. Back in 1947, Harrison", "title": "Robert Harrison (publisher)" }, { "docid": "8687303", "text": "no four-color reproduction, or full-page cartoons, and certainly no centerfold. Hamling was the editor and publisher, his wife, Frances, was executive editor; and Frank M. Robinson was the first managing editor. Henry Botts, a friend of Hamling's, became the first associate editor. Lead fiction was by a hot science fiction author, Harlan Ellison who became associate editor with the third issue (April 1956). The first issue of \"Rogue\" was published in November 1955, with a December release date. Following Hefner's successful lead with the first issue of \"Playboy\", that first issue of \"Rogue\" contained \"A New Aspect of Marilyn Monroe,\"", "title": "Rogue (magazine)" }, { "docid": "13816997", "text": "or startled by the viewer. The subject would usually have an expression of delight which seemed to invite the viewer to come and play. During World War II pin-up pictures of scantily clad movie stars were extremely popular among American servicemen. Betty Grable was one of the most famous pin-up models of all time; her pinup in a bathing suit was extremely popular with World War II soldiers. In December 1953, Marilyn Monroe was featured in the first issue of \"Playboy\" magazine. Bettie Page was the Playboy Playmate of the Month in January 1955. \"Playboy\" was the first magazine featuring", "title": "Glamour photography" }, { "docid": "4339518", "text": "While the 1940s images focused mostly on legs, by the 1950s, the emphasis shifted to breasts. Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe were two of the most popular pinup models. Marilyn Monroe continued to be a popular model for the men's magazines in the 1950s. The 1950s saw the rise of the first mass-market softcore pornographic magazines: \"Modern Man\" in 1952 and \"Playboy\" in 1953. Hugh Hefner's \"Playboy\" started a new style of the men's glossy magazine (or girlie magazine). Hefner coined the term centrefold, and in the first edition of his \"Playboy\" used a photograph of a nude Marilyn Monroe,", "title": "Pornographic magazine" }, { "docid": "9742106", "text": "cheesecake periodical. \"People Today\" featured models,celebrities, the elite, news you can use and people in the know. The magazine was published into the 1970s, following the steps of \"Playboy\" and \"Modern Man\". The magazine featured many popular models such as Pat Sheehan, Mara Corday, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Elizabeth Taylor, June Blair, and Jean Carroll. Subjects of the magazine included women, money, celebrities, and gossip. People Today (magazine) People Today was an adult magazine founded in early 1950s. The first issue was published on June 20, 1950 and featured Faye Emerson on the Cover. \"People Today\" was a pocket digest", "title": "People Today (magazine)" } ]
[ { "docid": "4718236", "text": "maintain a monthly designation reminiscent of a print magazine centerfold; for example, the \"Twistys\" Treat. Centerfold The centerfold or centrefold of a magazine refers to a gatefolded spread, usually a portrait such as a pin-up or a nude, inserted in the middle of the publication, or to the model featured in the portrait. In saddle-stitched magazines (as opposed to those that are perfect-bound), the centerfold does not have any blank space cutting through the image. The term was coined by Hugh Hefner, founder of \"Playboy\" magazine. The success of the first issue of \"Playboy\" has been attributed in large part", "title": "Centerfold" }, { "docid": "4103262", "text": "realms of God. Samuel Z. Arkoff wrote in his memoirs that he got a lot of resistance for producing a film portraying a teenager becoming a monster, an idea that had never been exploited in film before. The film became the first one to have the word \"teenage\" in the title. Dawn Richard, who plays a teenaged gymnast in the film, was actually a 22-year-old \"Playboy\" centerfold model at the time, appearing in the magazine's May 1957 issue, which hit the newsstands a couple months ahead of the movie. Pepe, the Romanian janitor at the police station, was played by", "title": "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" }, { "docid": "8907781", "text": "2005 but returned as of 2006. Due to declining sales, (circulation - 25,000), the last issue was January 2000, which featured Elina Giani on the cover and Jodi Ann Paterson as the centerfold. Notable Australian celebrities who have appeared on the cover or in the magazine include: Australian Playboy Australian Playboy was an Australian imprint of \"Playboy\" magazine. In 1979 Kerry Packer's ACP Magazines secured the Australian rights to \"Playboy\" magazine. \"Australian Playboy\" featured similar content to the lead US edition, and included interviews, feature articles and entertainment reviews. The magazine would rely heavily on the US edition for pictorials,", "title": "Australian Playboy" }, { "docid": "312831", "text": "coincidentally, a cropped image of the issue's centerfold (which featured Lena Söderberg) became a de facto standard image for testing image processing algorithms. It is known simply as the \"Lenna\" (also \"Lena\") image in that field. In 1970, \"Playboy\" became the first gentleman's magazine to be printed in braille. It is also one of the few magazines whose microfilm format was in color, not black and white. Playboy's iconic and enduring mascot, a stylized silhouette of a rabbit wearing a tuxedo bow tie, was created by \"Playboy\" art director Art Paul for the second issue as an endnote, but was", "title": "Playboy" }, { "docid": "4603488", "text": "of \"Playboy\". By the mid-1970s, Roberto had struck a deal with Playboy Enterprises, and was asked by his father to consult the Ministry of Justice given the military dictatorship in place had a censorship policy on the press. Minister Armando Falcão vetoed the publication, saying that \"no publication under the name \"Playboy\" in Brazil, no matter its content.\" Seeing a loophole, Roberto submitted the already done preprint for issue 1 under the name A Revista do Homem (Men's Magazine), and got approved. The first issue of \"Homem\" got on newsstands in August 1975, and the magazine was allowed to use", "title": "Playboy (Brazil)" }, { "docid": "2776994", "text": "Playboy Playmate A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of \"Playboy\" magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOM). The PMOM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the \"Playmate Data Sheet\", which lists her birthdate, measurements, turn-ons, and turn-offs. At the end of the year, one of the twelve Playmates of the Month is named Playmate of the Year (PMOY). Currently, Playmates of the Month are paid US$25,000 and Playmates of the Year receive an additional US$100,000 plus a car and a motorcycle. In addition, Anniversary Playmates are usually chosen", "title": "Playboy Playmate" }, { "docid": "2777001", "text": "issue, in which her PMOY pictorial is featured. However, from 2003 to 2005, PMOYs did not appear on the covers of their PMOY issues, and 2007 PMOY Sara Jean Underwood did not either. Instead, celebrities appearing in celebrity pictorials in the PMOY issues appeared on the covers. The 2010 PMOY, Hope Dworaczyk, did appear on the cover, and was the first model to be the subject of a three-dimensional \"Playboy\" centerfold photograph. The average age of a Playmate of the Year, 23.5 years, is slightly higher than that of a Playmate of the Month, 22.4 years. In 1964, at the", "title": "Playboy Playmate" }, { "docid": "8907780", "text": "centerfold, selling nearly 200,000 copies. In 1982 Packer sold the rights to Mason Stewart Publishing, publishers of surfing magazine, \"Trax\", and rock music magazine, \"RAM\". Sales settled at around 140,000. The biggest selling edition of \"Australian Playboy\" was the October 1995 issue with Dannii Minogue on the cover and Cynthia Brown as the centerfold. By 1996 sales of the magazine had fallen to 36,000 and in 1997 Mason Stewart Publishing was taken over by British publisher EMAP International Limited, with Philip Mason becoming non-executive chairman of EMAP Australia. Playboy was not sold in the state of Queensland during 2004 and", "title": "Australian Playboy" }, { "docid": "18542874", "text": "attempt to find the link between Shroeder and the heiress. \"Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?\" has never been released on any format in the United States. The film aired on NBC on January 16, 1977. \"Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?\" was released on DVD in region 4. Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (also known simply as Stonestreet) is a 1977 American made-for-television mystery-crime film starring Barbara Eden,directed by Russ Mayberry from a teleplay written by Leslie Stevens and produced as a pilot for a proposed television series that was not picked", "title": "Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?" }, { "docid": "2777002", "text": "age of 18, Donna Michelle became the youngest PMOY ever. Jo Collins (1965) and Christa Speck (1962) both were 19. Sharon Clark (1971), Karen McDougal (1998) and Ida Ljungqvist (2009) became PMOY at the age of 27. Only three women became PMOY in their 30s: Tiffany Fallon (2005) at 31, Kathy Shower (1986) at 33, and Eugena Washington (2016) at 31. Playmates who attained fame for reasons in addition to their \"Playboy\" appearance(s) include (with the date of their appearance): Playboy Playmate A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of \"Playboy\" magazine as Playmate of the Month", "title": "Playboy Playmate" }, { "docid": "9345398", "text": "for photos illustrating stories in Cosmopolitan magazine. Pennington married Shaun Cassidy, who was eight years junior to her, in December 1979. They had two children together, and divorced in 1993. Daughter with Shaun Cassidy, named Caitlin Ann Pennington (model) Ann Victoria Pennington (born June 3, 1950 in Seattle, Washington) is an American model and actress. She was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1976 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar and Phillip Dixon. Pennington is the sister of fellow model Janice Pennington, and like Janice, appeared as a model on game shows. Her most notable", "title": "Ann Pennington (model)" }, { "docid": "4718233", "text": "pin-up a new respectability, and helped to sanitize the notion of \"sexiness\". Being featured as a centerfold could lead to film roles for models, and still occasionally does today. Early on, Hefner required \"Playboy\" centerfolds to be portrayed in a very specific way, telling photographers in a 1956 memo that the \"model must be in a natural setting engaged in some activity 'like reading, writing, mixing a drink'...[and]... should have a 'healthy, intelligent, American look—a young lady that looks like she might be a very efficient secretary or an undergrad at Vassar.'\" Hefner later said that the ideal centerfold is", "title": "Centerfold" }, { "docid": "7874164", "text": "Lynda Wiesmeier Lynda Ann Wiesmeier (pronounced WEES-myer, May 30, 1963 – December 16, 2012) was an American model and actress. She made her debut film in \"American Pop\". Wiesmeier was selected as both cover model and Playmate of the Month for the July 1982 issue of \"Playboy\" magazine, and her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Wiesmeier also appeared in several Playboy newsstand special editions and videos, and worked steadily for \"Playboy\" for more than five years after she graced the magazine's fold-out page, first as a nude glamour and pin-up model, and then as a promotional model and a", "title": "Lynda Wiesmeier" }, { "docid": "19771953", "text": "manga was published on \"Bart\" magazine of the publisher Shueisha between 1998 and 2000. In Japan it was first published in \"tankōbon\" format through a single omnibus edition in December 1998. Then a new edition of three volumes was published through the \"Super Playboy Comics\" label from December 1999 to April 2000. An American edition was published by Gutsoon! Entertainment on its magazine \"Raijin Comics\", starting from the second issue in January 2003. The graphic novel version had four volumes that were published between July 9, 2003 and January 6, 2004. A spin-off series, also written by Hidaka, but this", "title": "The First President of Japan" }, { "docid": "7813177", "text": "Gallery (magazine) Gallery is a men's magazine published by Magna Publishing Group. It is one of the more popular \"skin\" magazines that arose on the \"Playboy\" magazine pattern in the 1970s. \"Gallery\" was launched by Ronald L. Fenton and trial attorney F. Lee Bailey in Chicago, Illinois. The first issue appeared on newsstands in November 1972 bearing an uncanny resemblance to \"Playboy\" magazine. When \"Playboy\" publisher Hugh Hefner sent a letter to Bailey pointing out the similarities, the layout of \"Gallery\" was quickly changed. Financial difficulties plagued the magazine from the start, causing Bailey to leave during its inaugural year.", "title": "Gallery (magazine)" }, { "docid": "7813174", "text": "Gallery (magazine) Gallery is a men's magazine published by Magna Publishing Group. It is one of the more popular \"skin\" magazines that arose on the \"Playboy\" magazine pattern in the 1970s. \"Gallery\" was launched by Ronald L. Fenton and trial attorney F. Lee Bailey in Chicago, Illinois. The first issue appeared on newsstands in November 1972 bearing an uncanny resemblance to \"Playboy\" magazine. When \"Playboy\" publisher Hugh Hefner sent a letter to Bailey pointing out the similarities, the layout of \"Gallery\" was quickly changed. Financial difficulties plagued the magazine from the start, causing Bailey to leave during its inaugural year.", "title": "Gallery (magazine)" }, { "docid": "20376824", "text": "Policewoman Centerfold Policewoman Centerfold is a 1983 television movie starring Melody Anderson and Ed Marinaro, loosely based on the story of police officer Barbara Schantz who posed for \"Playboy\" magazine in 1982. It first aired on Monday, October 17, 1983, and was the seventh most-watched prime time program in the United States for the week, out-drawing \"Monday Night Football\". It was rebroadcast in early July 1985, during the American summer TV season, when it was the most-viewed program of the week. Upon its release, one review noted that the lead role \"is not one offering much opportunity for an acting", "title": "Policewoman Centerfold" }, { "docid": "5465376", "text": "also part of the first group of Playmates to compete as a team in the 2000 Eco-Challenge in Borneo, which aired on the USA Network. Jennifer Lavoie Jennifer J. Lavoie (born February 25, 1971 in Nashua, New Hampshire) is an American model, actress and entrepreneur. She was selected as \"Playboy\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Playmate of the Month for August 1993, and she appeared on the cover of the October 1994 issue of the magazine. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Lavoie has appeared in several \"Playboy\" videos and special editions, working steadily for \"Playboy\" for more than seven years following her centerfold", "title": "Jennifer Lavoie" }, { "docid": "7464105", "text": "Ursula Buchfellner Ursula Buchfellner (born 8 June 1961) is a German model and actress. She was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Weissbrich. Buchfellner also was the Playmate for the December 1977 issue of \"Playboy's\" German edition, being only 16 at the time when the photos were taken (she was 17 in relation to the edition in which her photos were published). In November 1985 she became the first Playmate to go on to appear in \"Penthouse\" magazine. International acting and modeling careers followed Buchfellner's \"Playboy\" appearance. She was", "title": "Ursula Buchfellner" }, { "docid": "4876448", "text": "to their own needs and wants, and has the option of experiencing the infamous \"Playboy\" Playmate parties in locations such as the Grotto and the Clubhouse. Hef, as well as all other characters in the game, can build three types of relationships with other characters: casual, business, and romantic. Each month, the player has to print an issue of the magazine. To do that the player needs a cover shoot, a centerfold, an essay from a celebrity, interview with a celebrity, a pictorial about a subject and an article about a subject. The player must hire photographers and writers to", "title": "Playboy: The Mansion" }, { "docid": "5684706", "text": "Jennifer Jackson (model) Jennifer Jackson (born February 6, 1945) is an American model who was chosen as \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the March 1965 issue. She was the first Black Playmate of the Month and was photographed by Pompeo Posar. Jackson also worked as a Playboy Bunny in a Playboy Club. In October 2017, Cooper Hefner, son of \"Playboy\" founder Hugh Hefner, announced that Ines Rau would appear as \"Playmate of the Month\" in the magazine's November/December 2017 issue, making her the first openly transgender woman to be featured this way. Hefner likened the choice to feature", "title": "Jennifer Jackson (model)" }, { "docid": "16084082", "text": "Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story is a 1981 American made-for-television biographical film directed by Gabrielle Beaumont. It is a dramatization of the life and the murder of Playboy Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten, played by Jamie Lee Curtis. The movie was aired on NBC on November 1, 1981. Two years later the same story was developed by director Bob Fosse in his movie \"Star 80\", starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts. A depiction of the life and times of an up and coming model and actress, Dorothy Stratten,", "title": "Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story" }, { "docid": "18542872", "text": "Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (also known simply as Stonestreet) is a 1977 American made-for-television mystery-crime film starring Barbara Eden,directed by Russ Mayberry from a teleplay written by Leslie Stevens and produced as a pilot for a proposed television series that was not picked up by the network. The film originally premiered as the \"NBC Movie of the Week\" on January 16, 1977. Liz Stonestreet (Barbara Eden) is a private investigator whose late husband, a police detective, was killed in the line of duty and she becomes a policewoman to keep his beliefs", "title": "Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?" }, { "docid": "9896808", "text": "in Magazine Front Cover Design from the Society of Print Awards in 2006. \"FiRST\"'s tagline is \"Asia's premier movie magazine.\" From 7 May 2009, \"FiRST\" stopped running as a monthly magazine and became a weekly pull-out section in \"The New Paper.\" First (magazine) FiRST is a Singaporean movie magazine formerly published monthly, now running as a weekly newspaper insert. Established in December 2002 by SPH Magazines, the magazine was the only Singaporean publication entirely about movies. Each issue contains reviews of films and DVDs, as well as collectibles such as posters and postcards. The magazine also includes movie news, early", "title": "First (magazine)" }, { "docid": "7874165", "text": "feature reporter for the Playboy Channel. She died at age 49 in December 2012 due to a brain tumor. Lynda Wiesmeier Lynda Ann Wiesmeier (pronounced WEES-myer, May 30, 1963 – December 16, 2012) was an American model and actress. She made her debut film in \"American Pop\". Wiesmeier was selected as both cover model and Playmate of the Month for the July 1982 issue of \"Playboy\" magazine, and her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Wiesmeier also appeared in several Playboy newsstand special editions and videos, and worked steadily for \"Playboy\" for more than five years after she graced the", "title": "Lynda Wiesmeier" }, { "docid": "5502738", "text": "Alexandria Karlsen Alexandria (\"Lexie\") Karlsen (born October 26, 1978) is a US model, actress and author. At age 18, Karlsen obtained her Series 6 and Series 63 securities licenses and worked for The Vanguard Group before posing as Playboy Magazine's Miss March 1999. Karlsen appeared in the Summer 1997 premiere issue of \"Perfect 10\". She was \"Playboy\"'s Playmate of the Month for March 1999, photographed by Arny Freytag and Stephen Wayda. Karlsen appeared in several Playboy videos and special editions, working for Playboy following her centerfold appearance. Karlsen was featured in the November 2002 issue of \"Stuff\" magazine in the", "title": "Alexandria Karlsen" }, { "docid": "9896807", "text": "First (magazine) FiRST is a Singaporean movie magazine formerly published monthly, now running as a weekly newspaper insert. Established in December 2002 by SPH Magazines, the magazine was the only Singaporean publication entirely about movies. Each issue contains reviews of films and DVDs, as well as collectibles such as posters and postcards. The magazine also includes movie news, early buzz about upcoming films and exclusive interviews. The magazine focuses mostly on films from Hong Kong and the U.S. Often, freebies such as double-sided posters, postcard packs or A4-sized posters are enclosed. The magazine has won an Honourable Mention for Excellence", "title": "First (magazine)" }, { "docid": "6318794", "text": "Cynthia Myers Cynthia Jeanette Myers (September 12, 1950 – November 4, 2011) was an American model, actress, and \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1968 issue. Myers was the first \"Playboy\" Playmate born in the 1950s when she appeared in the magazine in December 1968. The pictures were shot in June 1968 when she was 17 years old, but it was Playboy's policy by that time to wait until a Playmate turned 18 before her pictures would be published. Her pictorial was titled \"Wholly Toledo!\" because of Myers' hometown and large breasts. Her centerfold was photographed by", "title": "Cynthia Myers" }, { "docid": "2887372", "text": "Lenna Lenna or Lena is the name given to a standard test image widely used in the field of image processing since 1973. It is a picture of the Swedish model Lena Söderberg, shot by photographer Dwight Hooker, cropped from the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of \"Playboy\" magazine. The spelling \"Lenna\" comes from the anglicisation used in the original \"Playboy\" article. Before Lenna, the first use of a \"Playboy\" magazine image to illustrate image processing algorithms was in 1961. Lawrence G. Roberts used two cropped 6-bit grayscale facsimile scanned images from \"Playboy\"'s July 1960 issue featuring Playmate Teddi", "title": "Lenna" }, { "docid": "312833", "text": "fighter-evaluation squadron. Besides its centerfold, a major part of \"Playboy\" for much of its existence has been the \"Playboy\" Interview, an extensive (usually several thousand-word) discussion between a notable individual and an interviewer (historian Alex Haley, for example, served as a \"Playboy\" interviewer on a few occasions; one of his interviews was with Martin Luther King Jr.; he also interviewed Malcolm X and American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell in the April 1966 issue, then coauthored Malcolm X's autobiography). One of the magazine's most notable interviews was a discussion with then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in the November 1976 issue,", "title": "Playboy" }, { "docid": "12930406", "text": "Hope Dworaczyk Hope Dworaczyk Smith ( ; born November 21, 1984) is an American Playboy model, TV host and reality television personality. She first gained fame as \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for April 2009 after testing for the 55th Anniversary Playmate search, and later became the 2010 Playmate of the Year. Smith appeared on the cover of the April 2009 issue of \"Playboy\" magazine together with Seth Rogen. Her centerfold pictorial was photographed by Stephen Wayda. She was later selected as the 2010 Playmate of the Year. Her PMOY pictorial was in the June 2010 issue of the", "title": "Hope Dworaczyk" }, { "docid": "18268733", "text": "Centerfold (group) Centerfold was a Dutch female pop trio that scored a string of hit records in the Netherlands during the mid to late 1980s. The original line-up consisted of Laura Fygi, Rowan Moore and Cecilia de la Rie. Their first single \"Bad Boy\" was accompanied by a spicy photoshoot for the Dutch \"Playboy\" in 1984. The ladies performed their song naked in the popular TV-show TopPop, and soon Centerfold became a household name through their sex kitten image. The single \"Dictator (Centerfold song)\" marked the breakthrough of the group and reached Number 6 in the Dutch Top 40 and", "title": "Centerfold (group)" }, { "docid": "12220280", "text": "Kelly Carrington Kelly Carrington born Kelly Hemberger is an American model and clothing designer. She is the founder and creative director of the luxury swimwear line, Éclairée. She was \"Playboy's\" October 2008 Playmate of the Month. She was also featured on the cover of the same issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Stephen Wayda. At the time of her \"Playboy\" pictorial, she was attending the University of Florida. The magazine issue with her as a cover model had a headline advertising a pictorial of girls of the Big Ten Conference, which doesn't include the University of Florida. In a previous", "title": "Kelly Carrington" }, { "docid": "312830", "text": "reportedly \"considering killing the print magazine,\" as the publication \"has lost as much as $7 million annually in recent years.\" However, in the July/August 2018 issue a reader asked if the print magazine would discontinue, and Playboy responded that it was not going anywhere. In September of 2018 the magazine announced it would move to publishing quarterly beginning in 2019. The best-selling \"Playboy\" edition was the November 1972 edition, which sold 7,161,561 copies. One-quarter of all American college men were buying or subscribing to the magazine every month. On the cover was model Pam Rawlings, photographed by Rowland Scherman. Perhaps", "title": "Playboy" }, { "docid": "7426270", "text": "in Carson City, Nevada. Von Duuglas-Ittu was a studio agent and assistant director. They divorced on January 6, 1954. Sheehan made it into her first magazine, \"Comedy\", on July 1953. She later got into acting, performing in her first movie: \"The Adventures of Hajji Baba\". She posed for magazines such as \"TV Fan\" and \"People Today\". In 1955, she finally got to speak on camera in her first dialogue role in \"Son of Sinbad\". Sheehan was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for October 1958, tied with Mara Corday. Her centerfold was photographed by Sam Wu. She was in the", "title": "Pat Sheehan (model)" }, { "docid": "7278840", "text": "The Playboy The Playboy is a graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, serialized in 1990 in Brown's comic book \"Yummy Fur\" and collected in different revised book editions in 1992 and 2013. It deals with Brown's guilt and anxiety over his obsessive masturbation to \"Playboy\" Playmate models. The story begins with Brown's first purchase of an issue of \"Playboy\" as a teenager. His obsessive masturbating gives him great guilt and anxiety, and out of fear of being caught he repeatedly rids himself of copies of the magazine, only to retrieve them later. His conflicting emotions follow him into adulthood", "title": "The Playboy" }, { "docid": "5465375", "text": "Jennifer Lavoie Jennifer J. Lavoie (born February 25, 1971 in Nashua, New Hampshire) is an American model, actress and entrepreneur. She was selected as \"Playboy\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Playmate of the Month for August 1993, and she appeared on the cover of the October 1994 issue of the magazine. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Lavoie has appeared in several \"Playboy\" videos and special editions, working steadily for \"Playboy\" for more than seven years following her centerfold appearance. Lavoie was one of the original members of the Playboy Xtreme Team, a group of Playmates who competed in extreme adventure racing. She was", "title": "Jennifer Lavoie" }, { "docid": "19416207", "text": "Duke (magazine) Duke was a short-lived men's magazine formed by ex-employees of the Johnson Publishing Company. It is notable as an early attempt at an upscale adult periodical for African-American audiences. It was primarily a black and white publication, although the cover and centerfold were color printed. Like many of its contemporaries, the magazine was heavily inspired by the runaway success of \"Playboy\" magazine, although it featured no outright nudity and remained very tame all around. It was based in Chicago, both Playboy's hometown and a hub for African-American intellectuals of that era. The magazine's centerfold models were called Duchess", "title": "Duke (magazine)" }, { "docid": "7608994", "text": "Playboy Indonesia Playboy Indonesia is a franchise of \"Playboy magazine\" in Indonesia. The magazine was first published in April 2006. It is published by Velvet Silver Media and edited by Erwin Arnada. This edition of the magazine is notable in that it features no nudity and that it is the first \"Playboy\" to be published in a Muslim-majority country since a Turkish edition that was discontinued in the mid-1990s. Despite tailoring the magazine to conservative local sensibilities, with fully clad models and articles such as an interview with dissident author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, the magazine's premiere issue on April 6,", "title": "Playboy Indonesia" }, { "docid": "7849440", "text": "shop. She was Kiss drummer Peter Criss's second wife. Criss started dating Jensen while still married to his first wife, Lydia. During her marriage to Peter Criss, she again used her birth name Debra Svensk. She has a daughter with Criss, Jennilee Criss. Debra Jensen Debra Jensen (born Debra Svensk on March 12, 1958 in Orange County, California) is an American model. She was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1978 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Phillip Dixon. Jensen was also on the cover of the March, 1978 issue of Playboy magazine. After her time as", "title": "Debra Jensen" }, { "docid": "3045134", "text": "suits are most frequently worn by female characters, they are occasionally worn by men, usually for comic effect. In Brazil, there are no Playboy Clubs, but Playboy's Brazilian division has Bunnies who attend its events. The official Bunnies are currently three, and they were also Playmates—both separately, and together in the cover pictorial for the December 2008 edition. Bunnies should not be confused with Playboy Playmates, women who appear in the centerfold pictorials of \"Playboy\" magazine, although a few bunnies went on to become Playmates and vice versa (see below). In 2006, The Palms Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas opened the", "title": "Playboy Bunny" }, { "docid": "18268736", "text": "Bullet Records released a \"Best Of\" CD of the group in 1992. Laura Fygi went on to become a highly acclaimed jazz singer. Rowan Moore made her debut as a television moderator for Dutch broadcasting association VPRO and commercial TV. Centerfold (group) Centerfold was a Dutch female pop trio that scored a string of hit records in the Netherlands during the mid to late 1980s. The original line-up consisted of Laura Fygi, Rowan Moore and Cecilia de la Rie. Their first single \"Bad Boy\" was accompanied by a spicy photoshoot for the Dutch \"Playboy\" in 1984. The ladies performed their", "title": "Centerfold (group)" }, { "docid": "8907779", "text": "Australian Playboy Australian Playboy was an Australian imprint of \"Playboy\" magazine. In 1979 Kerry Packer's ACP Magazines secured the Australian rights to \"Playboy\" magazine. \"Australian Playboy\" featured similar content to the lead US edition, and included interviews, feature articles and entertainment reviews. The magazine would rely heavily on the US edition for pictorials, and thus reprinted many pictorials featuring popular US Playmates and celebrities including Pamela Anderson, Erika Eleniak and Anna Nicole Smith. An Australian Playmate of the Year would be crowned annually. The first edition issued February 1979, featured Rosemary Paul on the cover and Karen Pini as the", "title": "Australian Playboy" }, { "docid": "7327360", "text": "in March 1965). Her centerfold was photographed by Don Klumpp. A few months later, Bell became the first black person to appear on the magazine's cover. Darine Stern, who is often erroneously credited with this distinction, was actually the first black woman to appear on the cover of \"Playboy\" on her own, in the October 1971 issue. Bell was featured with four other playmates in the January 1970 cover of the magazine. After Bell's appearance in \"Playboy\", she enjoyed a brief acting career, working on such films as \"Mean Streets\" and \"The Klansman\" (for some roles she was credited as", "title": "Jean Bell" }, { "docid": "19899978", "text": "1923. Seeing itself as a complement to the campus newspaper \"The Daily Texan\", the \"Ranger\" focused on humor, cartoons, and images of young women on its covers. Gag cartoons and comic strips were a staple of the magazine from its inception. From early on until late in its run, the magazine featured a female UT student on the cover as the so-called \"Girl of the Month\" or \"GOM.\" For a number of years (beginning sometime after 1953) \"The Texas Ranger\" also ran a \"Playboy\" parody in its March issue. Over the years \"The Texas Ranger\" often drew the ire of", "title": "The Texas Ranger (magazine)" }, { "docid": "7849439", "text": "Debra Jensen Debra Jensen (born Debra Svensk on March 12, 1958 in Orange County, California) is an American model. She was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1978 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Phillip Dixon. Jensen was also on the cover of the March, 1978 issue of Playboy magazine. After her time as a Playboy model, she began modeling for Coppertone. More recently, Jensen has appeared on a couple of episodes of the reality TV series \"The Girls Next Door\". Jensen grew up in Southern California. As a teenager she worked at a Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream", "title": "Debra Jensen" }, { "docid": "7820993", "text": "Monica Tidwell Monica Tidwell (born January 14, 1954 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American model. A red-head, she was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1973 issue; her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker and Bill Frantz. She holds the distinction of being the first Playmate who was younger than the magazine itself -she was just 19 at the time of the photo shoot, having been born just as the second issue of Playboy was hitting the newstands. Tidwell was the Primary Producer of the 2008 Off Broadway play \"Mindgame\" in New York City. Written by Anthony", "title": "Monica Tidwell" }, { "docid": "7867239", "text": "Karen Witter Karen Rachel Witter (born December 13, 1961 in Long Beach, California) is an American model and actress. She was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1982 issue, and her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag. Witter later appeared on the cover of the March 1983 issue with fellow Playmates Kimberly McArthur and Kelly Tough. She was also featured in the December 1991 issue. She soon made the transition to acting, working mostly on television on series as diverse as \"Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer\" (1984), the syndicated version of \"Sale of the Century\" (1985-86), \"Cheers\" (1988),", "title": "Karen Witter" }, { "docid": "13265068", "text": "gay lifestyle publication to be carried on newsstands in the city, \"Next Magazine\" was first primarily popular for the escort listings and personal ad sections. The magazine was also the first to include a section that featured listings of upcoming gay meetings, events, and parties at legendary venues including The Roxy, The Tunnel, Limelight, and Club USA. The early covers of the magazine featured body shots of models. Most models did not begin showing their faces in gay publications until later years for fear of being outed. In every issue, the magazine included a “Shot in the Dark” section, which", "title": "Next Magazine (New York City)" }, { "docid": "7741145", "text": "Betty Blue (model) Betty Blue (August 14, 1931 in West Memphis, Arkansas – August 23, 2000) was an American model and actress and was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1956 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Hal Adams. A self-described nudist, Blue was a showgirl at the El Rancho Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas before becoming a Playmate, and posed for other men's magazines before and after joining the \"Playboy\" family. She also did additional nude photo shoots for \"Playboy\", usually anonymously, and can be seen in a mid-1990s topless shot in \"The Playmate Book\".", "title": "Betty Blue (model)" }, { "docid": "7468518", "text": "September 1993. The launch of \"Barely Legal\" revolutionized the porn industry with at least 22 copycat titles appearing, as well as format changes in established publications and in the video medium. \"Barely Legal\" is published 13 times per year by Larry Flynt Publications, and is sometimes marketed as \"Hustler Barely Legal\". Hustler Video also produces a \"Barely Legal\" line of videos. Less frequently, LFP publishes \"Barely Legal Hardcore\" magazine, which depicts young women engaging in hardcore sex. Gail Harris was featured as a centerfold model and on the front cover of the March 1986 issue of \"Hustler\". Barely Legal (magazine)", "title": "Barely Legal (magazine)" }, { "docid": "12220281", "text": "interview, she was misquoted as saying that she was on the cover because she was more attractive than any of the Big Ten women. Kelly Carrington Kelly Carrington born Kelly Hemberger is an American model and clothing designer. She is the founder and creative director of the luxury swimwear line, Éclairée. She was \"Playboy's\" October 2008 Playmate of the Month. She was also featured on the cover of the same issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Stephen Wayda. At the time of her \"Playboy\" pictorial, she was attending the University of Florida. The magazine issue with her as a cover", "title": "Kelly Carrington" }, { "docid": "4589082", "text": "called the \"first lady of the internet\". The title was given to her by Jeff Seideman in a press release he issued announcing her appearance at the 50th annual IS&T Conference. Söderberg is married and has three children. Lena Söderberg Lena Söderberg, born Sjööblom (born 31 March 1951) is a Swedish model who appeared as a Playmate in the November 1972 issue of \"Playboy\" magazine, as Lenna Sjööblom. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker. A head and shoulder section of her centerfold, this cropped section itself known as Lenna, is often used to test algorithms in digital image processing.", "title": "Lena Söderberg" }, { "docid": "9882036", "text": "a black belt, and was later featured in Inside Karate magazine. In 1986, she appeared in Celebrity Sleuth Magazine, Playboy Magazine in the Grapevine section, and did a centerfold for Femme Fatales Magazine. In the 1970s while living in London, Cadell was a model, a \"page 3 girl\", and the face of Miner's Make-up with whom she had a modeling contract. Cadell made a number of British television appearances in the 1970s such as Spooner's Patch, The Les Dawson Show and Steptoe & Son. She also appeared in the July 1975 (Volume 10 no 7) issue of men's magazine \"Mayfair\"", "title": "Ava Cadell" }, { "docid": "14058775", "text": "edition included the following: The 2012 issue featured the following athletes: The 2013 issue featured the following athletes: The 2014 issue featured the following athletes : The 2015 issue featured the following athletes : Source: Source The Body Issue The Body Issue is an edition of \"ESPN The Magazine\" that features dozens of athletes in nude and semi-nude photographs, which is intended to rival the annual Swimsuit Issue from \"Sports Illustrated\". The first issue debuted on October 19, 2009. The issue was a response to the decline in advertising spending resulting from the financial crisis of 2007–2010 and late-2000s recession", "title": "The Body Issue" }, { "docid": "7741146", "text": "Blue had a limited acting career, mostly in TV commercials and some B-movies. From 1957 to 1963, Blue was married to producer and director Harold Lime. They remarried in 1991. Upon her death from heart failure, her ashes were sprinkled on the grounds of the Playboy Mansion. Betty Blue (model) Betty Blue (August 14, 1931 in West Memphis, Arkansas – August 23, 2000) was an American model and actress and was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1956 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Hal Adams. A self-described nudist, Blue was a showgirl at the El Rancho", "title": "Betty Blue (model)" }, { "docid": "17110238", "text": "Tasha Reign Tasha Reign (born January 15, 1989) is the stage name of Rachel Swimmer, an American pornographic actress, nude model, producer, and sex columnist known for her appearances in \"Playboy\" and \"Penthouse\" magazine. A former Hooters Girl, she began her career as a professional stripper in 2008, dancing at a club called the Silver Reign, from which she took her pseudonym. While enrolled as a student at UCLA, Reign was selected by \"Playboy\" magazine for its 2010 \"Girls of the Pac-10\" issue, as well as the magazine's \"Cyber Girl of the Week\". She appeared as a centerfold model in", "title": "Tasha Reign" }, { "docid": "707180", "text": "Archie Comic Publications. Siberkleit and Coyne discontinued Columbia Publications. In the late 1950s, Archie Publishing launched its \"Archie Adventure Series\" line with a new version of the Shield and two new characters. The February 1962 issue of Harvey Kurtzman's \"Help!\" magazine featured his parody of the Archie characters in its \"Goodman Beaver\" story, \"Goodman Goes Playboy\", which was illustrated by frequent collaborator Will Elder. \"Help!\" publisher Jim Warren received a letter on December 6, 1961, accusing \"Help!\" of copyright infringement and demanding removal of the offending issue from newsstands. Warren was unable to recall the magazine, but he agreed to", "title": "Archie Comics" }, { "docid": "7845099", "text": "Patricia McClain Patricia Margot McClain (born May 3, 1954 in Long Beach, California) is an American model. She was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1976 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus. In 1996, McClain's firing from her office manager job at a pest extermination company made national news. When she was first hired, she disclosed her playmate past to her employers and was told to keep quiet about it to her co-workers due to the company's sexual harassment policy. She was fired one month after Playboy published the book, \"Playboy Magazine: Five Decades of", "title": "Patricia McClain" }, { "docid": "4288009", "text": "India Allen India Allen (born India Juliana Orban on June 1, 1965 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American actress and model. Allen appeared as a centerfold in the December 1987 issue of \"Playboy\" magazine and was subsequently named Playmate of the Year in 1988. Allen was initially encouraged by her mother when she turned eighteen to pursue modeling and to try out for Playboy, but she was not interested. The suggestion came up again a few years later when her casting agent sent her to do a small role in a short film parody of Beverly Hills Cop II, in", "title": "India Allen" }, { "docid": "7849817", "text": "\"Dukes of Hazzard\", \"Magnum, P.I.\", \"Fantasy Island\", and \"The Love Boat\". She worked as an artist before her death from an asthma attack. 2. Death Certificate State of Hawaii showing date of death, December 5, 2010, 12:20 AM Pamela Bryant Pamela Jean Bryant (born February 8, 1959, in Indianapolis, Indiana; died on December 5, 2010) was an American model and actress. She was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1978 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Bryant first appeared in \"Playboy\" in the September 1977 pictorial \"The Girls of the Big Ten\". (She was attending", "title": "Pamela Bryant" }, { "docid": "9345397", "text": "Ann Pennington (model) Ann Victoria Pennington (born June 3, 1950 in Seattle, Washington) is an American model and actress. She was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1976 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar and Phillip Dixon. Pennington is the sister of fellow model Janice Pennington, and like Janice, appeared as a model on game shows. Her most notable work was as a regular on \"Card Sharks\", but she also appeared as a substitute in 1976 on the version of \"The Nighttime Price Is Right\" hosted by Dennis James. She also appeared in commercials and", "title": "Ann Pennington (model)" }, { "docid": "15604427", "text": "during a time period that was still repressive of that culture. \"The Playboy Club\" also touched upon changing thoughts with regard to racial diversity during the 1960s. One of the supporting characters, Brenda, seeks to become the first African American Playboy Bunny. Her role in the series illustrates Hugh Hefner's decision to integrate his clubs, both by hiring black women and allowing black key-holders and performers, which was considered unusual at the time. Brenda was loosely based on the model Jennifer Jackson, the actual first Black Playmate of the Month, although neither Naughton nor the \"Playboy Club\" producers contacted Jackson", "title": "The Playboy Club" }, { "docid": "312838", "text": "additional pictorials, videos of Playmates and Playboy Cyber Girls that are not featured in the magazine. Archives of past \"Playboy\" articles and interviews are also included. In September 2005, Playboy launched the online edition of the magazine \"Playboy Digital\". In 2010, Playboy introduced \"The Smoking Jacket\", a safe-for-work website designed to appeal to young men, while avoiding nude images or key words that would cause the site to be filtered or otherwise prohibited in the workplace. In May 2011, Playboy introduced i.playboy.com, a complete, uncensored version of its near 700 issue archive, targeting the Apple iPad. By launching the archive", "title": "Playboy" }, { "docid": "14408555", "text": "revolving slot of Playboy-related celebrity guests. Season one celebrity judges included Adrianne Curry, Sara Jean Underwood, Andrea Lowell, Tiffany Fallon, Traci Bingham, Ida Ljungqvist, Carmella DeCesare, and \"The Girls Next Door\". One by one, each team was eliminated, with ultimately 1 photographer and 1 model getting the chance to be featured in Playboy magazine. \"Playboy Shootout\" is scheduled to premiere on April 3, 2010 at 10:00pm EST, as part of Playboy TV's new Saturday block of Date Night couples-friendly programming with a new episode appearing every Saturday until the finale on June 5, 2010. Playboy Shootout Playboy Shootout is an", "title": "Playboy Shootout" }, { "docid": "667362", "text": "use a CDS postmark because the town is relevant to the stamp issue, you would have to go to the town’s local Post Office to get it. On a cover, the postmark should touch each stamp and link them to the envelope. Postmarks came to the foreground in the early 1960s, when collectors started to demand more interesting cancellations on their first day covers. For the Red Cross issue in 1963, a special Florence Nightingale cover was posted at her birthplace, West Wellow. The Botanical Conference issue of 1964 featured primroses on the stamps, so one clever cover dealer posted", "title": "First day of issue" }, { "docid": "4589081", "text": "Lena Söderberg Lena Söderberg, born Sjööblom (born 31 March 1951) is a Swedish model who appeared as a Playmate in the November 1972 issue of \"Playboy\" magazine, as Lenna Sjööblom. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker. A head and shoulder section of her centerfold, this cropped section itself known as Lenna, is often used to test algorithms in digital image processing. She was a guest at the 50th annual Conference of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology in 1997, where she gave a presentation about herself. Because of the ubiquity of her \"Playboy\" photo scan, she has been", "title": "Lena Söderberg" }, { "docid": "8147486", "text": "16 (magazine) 16 was a fan magazine published in New York City. Founded in 1956, the first issue of \"16\" hit the newsstands in May 1957, with Elvis Presley on the cover. However, its longtime editor-in-chief, former fashion model and subscriptions clerk Gloria Stavers, transformed \"16\" from a standard general-interest movie magazine into a major fan magazine focused on the preteen female as its primary reader base. Stavers was editor from 1958 until 1975. She chose to cater to that particular demographic because of the many fan letters she had read from girls aged nine through 12 writing to popular", "title": "16 (magazine)" }, { "docid": "7849816", "text": "Pamela Bryant Pamela Jean Bryant (born February 8, 1959, in Indianapolis, Indiana; died on December 5, 2010) was an American model and actress. She was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1978 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Bryant first appeared in \"Playboy\" in the September 1977 pictorial \"The Girls of the Big Ten\". (She was attending Indiana University at the time). She went on to have an extensive acting career, appearing in films such as \"H.O.T.S.\" (1979), \"Don't Answer the Phone\" (1980) and \"Private Lessons\" (1981). Bryant also appeared on TV shows such as", "title": "Pamela Bryant" }, { "docid": "312817", "text": "calendar rather than for \"Playboy\". Hefner chose what he deemed the \"sexiest\" image, a previously unused nude study of Marilyn stretched with an upraised arm on a red velvet background with closed eyes and mouth open. The heavy promotion centered around Marilyn's nudity on the already-famous calendar, together with the teasers in marketing, made the new Playboy magazine a success. The first issue sold out in weeks. Known circulation was 53,991. The cover price was 50¢. Copies of the first issue in mint to near mint condition sold for over $5,000 in 2002. The novel \"Fahrenheit 451\", by Ray Bradbury,", "title": "Playboy" }, { "docid": "8147493", "text": "\"16\" continued to serve up one \"boy band\" after another, from new wave artists like Duran Duran to N'Sync. However, Destiny's Child broke the racial and gender barrier when they appeared on the cover. 16 (magazine) 16 was a fan magazine published in New York City. Founded in 1956, the first issue of \"16\" hit the newsstands in May 1957, with Elvis Presley on the cover. However, its longtime editor-in-chief, former fashion model and subscriptions clerk Gloria Stavers, transformed \"16\" from a standard general-interest movie magazine into a major fan magazine focused on the preteen female as its primary reader", "title": "16 (magazine)" }, { "docid": "7867241", "text": "is still acting and also teaches in person and online classes in how to live in unconditional love, and creates personalized guided meditations for people so they can feel they have all they desire. Karen Witter Karen Rachel Witter (born December 13, 1961 in Long Beach, California) is an American model and actress. She was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1982 issue, and her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag. Witter later appeared on the cover of the March 1983 issue with fellow Playmates Kimberly McArthur and Kelly Tough. She was also featured in the December", "title": "Karen Witter" }, { "docid": "4603493", "text": "March 1990, May 2001 and January 2005; Scheila: February 1998, September 1999, November 2000, December 2001, April 2009). The best-selling issue is the December 1999 issue with Joana Prado \"Feiticeira\" in the cover, with 1.25 million magazines sold. In 2015, the fortieth year of publication, Abril dedided to stop publishing \"Playboy\" due to costs given the diminishing circulation could not offset the licensing royalties. Eventually a new deal was set with PBB Entertainment to relaunch the publication starting in March 2016. Playboy (Brazil) The Brazilian edition of \"Playboy\" is a local franchise of \"Playboy\" magazine. Established in 1975 by Editora", "title": "Playboy (Brazil)" }, { "docid": "8293832", "text": "Centerfold (song) \"Centerfold\" is a single released by The J. Geils Band from their album \"Freeze Frame\". The song is about a man who is shocked to discover that his high school crush appeared in a centerfold spread for an unspecified men's magazine. The song's narrator is torn between conflicting feelings: his disappointment due to her loss of innocence, and his lust until the end of the song. It was released in autumn 1981, and eventually went to Number 1 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in February 1982, and stayed there for six weeks. It was the first single", "title": "Centerfold (song)" }, { "docid": "5790350", "text": "its own sales and marketing staff and launched the channel on several major multiple system operators. At the time of its launch, programming featured on the channel consisted of R-rated films. It was broadcast for only ten hours each day, from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. ET, during its first eleven years of existence. The channel re-launched as Playboy TV and adopted its current name on November 1, 1989. The network expanded its programming with the adoption of a 24-hour schedule in 1994. Playboy TV was originally developed as a video version of Playboy Magazine. Programming featured music reviews, celebrity", "title": "Playboy TV" }, { "docid": "2000863", "text": "in 1986. The 10th Anniversary Issue of High Society, published May, 1986 featured Gail Thackray (Gail Harris) with a 10-page spread, Centerfold and Front cover. Over its twenty-five year run Margot Kidder, Ann-Margret and Barbra Streisand unsuccessfully attempted to sue the magazine after it published nude photos of them. \"High Society\" has a Pay Per View channel. The magazine is published by the Magna Publishing Group, which was acquired by 1-800-PHONESEX on December 22, 2015. High Society (magazine) High Society is a U.S. pornographic magazine. In addition to hardcore pictorials of nude models, it also has feature articles and occasional", "title": "High Society (magazine)" }, { "docid": "13830133", "text": "died on February 5 1994 due to complications of breast cancer. Darine Stern Darine Stern (November 16, 1947 – February 5, 1994) was an American model and the first African-American model featured on the cover of \"Playboy\" magazine by herself. Stern was the first black woman to appear by herself on the cover of \"Playboy\" in the magazine's October 1971 issue. Her appearance followed Jean Bell who was featured on the magazine's January 1970 cover, but with four other models. Following her cover on \"Playboy\", Stern went on to become a high-profile model and she was represented by Ford Models,", "title": "Darine Stern" }, { "docid": "13830132", "text": "Darine Stern Darine Stern (November 16, 1947 – February 5, 1994) was an American model and the first African-American model featured on the cover of \"Playboy\" magazine by herself. Stern was the first black woman to appear by herself on the cover of \"Playboy\" in the magazine's October 1971 issue. Her appearance followed Jean Bell who was featured on the magazine's January 1970 cover, but with four other models. Following her cover on \"Playboy\", Stern went on to become a high-profile model and she was represented by Ford Models, Nina Blanchard, Ellen Hart and Shirley Hamilton Models of Chicago. She", "title": "Darine Stern" }, { "docid": "6908024", "text": "Playboy Club The Playboy Club was initially a chain of nightclubs and resorts owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises. The first club opened at 116 E. Walton Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States, on February 29, 1960. Each club generally featured a Living Room, a Playmate Bar, a Dining Room, and a Club Room. Members and their guests were served food and drinks by Playboy Bunnies, some of whom were featured in \"Playboy\" magazine. The clubs offered name entertainers and comedians in the Club Rooms, and local musicians and the occasional close-up magician in the Living Rooms. Starting with", "title": "Playboy Club" }, { "docid": "3482955", "text": "its January 2013 issue. \"True West\" began publication in 1953 under founder Joe Small of Austin, Texas. The idea for \"True West\" originated from a monthly feature in Small's first publication, \"Sporting Magazine\". The magazine's recurring \"Bad Man\" article, about outlaws of the West, was the feature that generated the most reader mail and interest. \"True West\" was born to satisfy the readers' hunger for Old West history. \"True West\" was the largest Western magazine on the market in the 1960s, selling hundreds of thousands of copies monthly at newsstands. The magazine benefited from an era featuring popular television western", "title": "True West Magazine" }, { "docid": "11779414", "text": "Juliette Fretté Juliette Rose Fretté (born December 25, 1983) is an American comedian, writer, artist, activist, and model. Known as \"The Naughty Feminist\", in 2017, she began writing for National Lampoon and Weekly Humorist, headlining with her spoof series \"The Adventures of Angry Vagina\". The Playmate of the Month for the June 2008 issue of \"Playboy\" magazine, as a UCLA undergrad, Fretté first posed nude for \"Playboy\"'s October 2005 issue, \"Girls of the Pac-10\". She was featured in the Playboy Cyber Club as a Coed of the Week (January 2006) and Coed of the Month (March 2006) under the name", "title": "Juliette Fretté" }, { "docid": "312834", "text": "in which he stated \"I've committed adultery in my heart many times.\" David Sheff's interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared in the January 1981 issue, which was on newsstands at the time of Lennon's murder; the interview was later published in book format. Another interview type section, entitled \"20Q\" (a play on the game of Twenty Questions), was added in October 1978. Cheryl Tiegs was the first interviewee for the section. \"Rock the Rabbit\" was an annual music news and pictorial feature published in the March edition. The pictorial featured images of rock bands photographed by music photographer", "title": "Playboy" }, { "docid": "3367959", "text": "mid-level SE and top-of-the line SE-G, but later the cheaper model was discontinued. The Starlet GT turbo is a high performance model of the fourth generation Starlet, first introduced in 1990 as a successor to the 70 series Starlet 1.3 Turbo R. The EP82 GT turbo was powered by a turbocharged version of a Toyota's E Engine, the 4E-FTE with a CT9 turbocharger. This engine produced at 6,400 rpm. The car weighed in at , providing a greater than 100 kilowatt per tonne power-to-weight ratio. Adding to its handling abilities, Toyota's active suspension technology continued from the previous generation, called", "title": "Toyota Starlet" }, { "docid": "11243215", "text": "Pinups (magazine) Pinups is a triannual artists' publication in the United States playing on the historical centerfold practice of nudie magazines by making the centerfold the sole feature. There are no words—just an exaggeration of the classic centerfold. The magazine exists in book form but can be taken apart and tiled to reveal a 70\" x 32\" image. Pinups is created by Christopher Schulz and printed in New York City. In April 2007 the first issue of \"Pinups\" was made. It was printed with a Xerox process. In 2008 the printing changed from Xerox to offset. Through the issues, \"Pinups\"", "title": "Pinups (magazine)" }, { "docid": "7820994", "text": "Horowitz (writer of \"Foyle's War\"), the play was directed by British film director Ken Russell and starred Keith Carradine, Lee Godart and Kathleen McNenny. Monica Tidwell Monica Tidwell (born January 14, 1954 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American model. A red-head, she was \"Playboy\" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1973 issue; her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker and Bill Frantz. She holds the distinction of being the first Playmate who was younger than the magazine itself -she was just 19 at the time of the photo shoot, having been born just as the second issue of", "title": "Monica Tidwell" }, { "docid": "5204775", "text": "Lauren Anderson (model) Lauren Anderson (born June 6, 1980; Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American model who was chosen as \"Playboy\"'s Playmate of the Month in July 2002 and has appeared in numerous \"Playboy\" videos. Lauren was the winner of the TV special \"Who Wants to Be a Playboy Centerfold?\", broadcast on Fox in May 2002. She starred in the variety production \"Headlights and Tailpipes\" in Las Vegas at the Stardust Resort & Casino. Anderson appeared in the March 2008 \"Playboy Spain\" on the cover as well as a pictorial and interview. Lauren was a PETA member in 2008. On July", "title": "Lauren Anderson (model)" }, { "docid": "15731633", "text": "Tiger (magazine) Tiger was an American men's magazine that featured photographs of pin-up girls as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1956 by G. George Fox, Jr. and published by Reynard Press into the mid-1960s. The first issue was Vol. 1 No. 1 dated May 1956. \"Tiger\" was printed bi-monthly and circulated throughout the United States by paid subscription with the banner proclaiming \"Every Man A Tiger\" and featuring articles on music, sports cars, books, arts and antiques for men, along with a pin-up centerfold girl called \"Miss Tiger\" and a cartoon section called the", "title": "Tiger (magazine)" }, { "docid": "14428915", "text": "Jem (magazine) Jem was a magazine founded by Joe Weider in the 1950s as entertainment for heterosexual men. First Issue is November 1956 with Candy Barr on the cover. The monthly periodical was encouraged by American News distributors which asked Weider to start a competitor publication to rival the success Hugh Hefner had achieved with \"Playboy Magazine\". \"Jem\" published photos of topless models and featured articles about dining, nightlife, and wine. Its companion magazine was \"Monsieur\". \"Jem\" was quickly successful although Weider says that he was never very interested in its viability. A number of \"Jem\" issues feature Weider's wife,", "title": "Jem (magazine)" }, { "docid": "7278859", "text": "work in a later issue. Brown's attitudes towards pornography have since changed greatly. When he made \"The Playboy\" he was struggling with his embarrassment over buying pornography; two decades later he vocally advocated for the decriminalization of prostitution in \"Paying for It\" (2011). The Playboy The Playboy is a graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, serialized in 1990 in Brown's comic book \"Yummy Fur\" and collected in different revised book editions in 1992 and 2013. It deals with Brown's guilt and anxiety over his obsessive masturbation to \"Playboy\" Playmate models. The story begins with Brown's first purchase of an", "title": "The Playboy" }, { "docid": "16512411", "text": "discs to 19 cents by early August. Rosemary Clooney recorded \"First Warm Day\" one month before her 24th birthday. At about the same time, the veteran performer from the previous generation for whom the song was written, 52-year-old Mabel Mercer (who first sang one of Bart Howard's compositions in 1938 and employed him as her piano accompanist during the late 1940s), recorded the song for issue on an Atlantic Records EP. It was also included on her first 10\" Atlantic LP album, \"Songs by Mabel Mercer, Vol. 1\" (1953), and subsequently reappeared on Atlantic's double 12\" LP album, \"The Art", "title": "On the First Warm Day" }, { "docid": "8259014", "text": "Debonair (magazine) Debonair is an Indian monthly men's magazine, originally modelled after \"Playboy\". \"Debonair\" was founded in 1973. Its first issue was published in April 1974. The founding publisher was Susheel Somani. The magazine, best known for its topless female centerfolds, was first edited by Ashok Row Kavi and Anthony Van Braband. Vinod Mehta also worked as the editor of the magazine. Under editor Derek Bose, \"Debonair\" was reformatted to remove nudity and target a younger demographic in 2005. It is published on a monthly basis. Debonair has also featured a number of Indian film actresses on its cover when", "title": "Debonair (magazine)" } ]
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That totally bad-assed mariner known as Popeye sports tattoos of what on his massive forearms?
[ "Anchor (as Symbol)", "⚓", "Boat anchor", "Stock anchor", "Wooden anchor", "Danforth anchor", "Maritime anchor", "Cat stopper", "Danforth (anchor)", "Anchors", "Stream anchor", "CQR", "Anchor", "Kedge anchor" ]
[ { "docid": "7971357", "text": "Popeye Village Popeye Village, also known as Sweethaven Village, is a purpose-built film set village, now converted into a small attraction fun park, consisting of a collection of rustic and ramshackle wooden buildings. It is located at Anchor Bay, 3 kilometres (2 mi) from the village core of Mellieħa, Malta. It was built as a film set for the production of the 1980 live-action musical feature film \"Popeye\", produced by Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Productions starring Robin Williams. Today it is open to the public as an open-air museum and sea-side resort. The construction of the film set began", "title": "Popeye Village" } ]
[ { "docid": "16411569", "text": "gangs who dwelt in these same districts. Sailor tattoos differentiated from these terrestrial tattoos as sailors continued to design new mariner motifs of their own, creating a distinct tattooing culture among sailors. By the 19th century, about 90% of all United States Navy sailors had tattoos. In 2016 the US Navy issued new, more liberal policies on sailor tattoos, allowing Sailors to have tattoos below the knee and on the forearms and hands, as well as allowing tattoos up to one inch by one inch on the neck including behind the ear. Additionally, Sailors with visible tattoos will be eligible", "title": "Sailor tattoos" }, { "docid": "17617776", "text": "the Society Islands of French Polynesia during 2004 and 2007, and the survey successfully discovered dozens of new species. The survey team was led by Neal L. Evenhuis, former president of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature and a Senior Research Entomologist at the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. The formal description was published on 3 August 2013 in the journal \"Zootaxa\". Evenhuis, known for his eccentric style of giving binomial names, gave the specific name \"C. popeye\" because the swollen mid-tibia (middle legs) of the fly somewhat resemble the bulging forearms of the well-known cartoon hero Popeye the Sailor Man", "title": "Campsicnemus popeye" }, { "docid": "17617779", "text": "courtship rituals to impress the mate. They are found to congregate around bodies of water. Campsicnemus popeye Campsicnemus popeye is a species of carnivorous fly described in 2013. It was discovered from the Society Islands in French Polynesia. The species is named after the famous cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man because of the enlarged tibia (which are like the bulging forearms of Popeye). The species is in fact among a group of six new species described as \"Popeye flies\". The specimen was collected in 2006 during an expedition to Tahiti. \"Campsicnemus popeye\" was discovered as a part of Terrestrial", "title": "Campsicnemus popeye" }, { "docid": "17617775", "text": "Campsicnemus popeye Campsicnemus popeye is a species of carnivorous fly described in 2013. It was discovered from the Society Islands in French Polynesia. The species is named after the famous cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man because of the enlarged tibia (which are like the bulging forearms of Popeye). The species is in fact among a group of six new species described as \"Popeye flies\". The specimen was collected in 2006 during an expedition to Tahiti. \"Campsicnemus popeye\" was discovered as a part of Terrestrial Arthropods of French Polynesia Survey funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. The survey covered", "title": "Campsicnemus popeye" }, { "docid": "16411568", "text": "both animals are not capable of swimming and according to superstition God would look down upon a shipwreck and see the image of an animal incapable of swimming, take the tattooed sailor into his hand and place them on land. Another example is the North Star (Nautical Star or compass rose); sailors had the belief that by wearing this symbol it would help them find their way home. Tattoos developed in the underclass of mariner culture; in time, they grew in popularity in the port districts frequented by those sailors. Consequently, the tattoos became associated with the criminals, prostitutes, and", "title": "Sailor tattoos" }, { "docid": "17617777", "text": "Adult \"Campsicnemus popeye\" has a body length between 3 and 3.2 mm, and wing length of 3.1 to 3.6 mm. Its head is black in colour with dark-brown toward the front face. It has a pair of antennae and a pair of compound eyes, which are distinctively red. The antennal segments are a mixture of black and yellow patterns. The main body (thorax) is yellow, while its setae are black. The mid-tibia is particularly enlarged towards the apical region, somewhat like the swollen forearms of Popeye. The wing membrane is uniformly pale-smoky coloured. The abdominal segments (tergites) are largely brown,", "title": "Campsicnemus popeye" }, { "docid": "17446679", "text": "Tattoos (album) Tattoos is the third studio album by American singer Jason Derulo. The album was released on September 20, 2013 through Beluga Heights Records and Atlantic Records and its affiliated record labels. Incorporating a base core of R&B, pop and electronic dance music, Derulo wanted the album to be \"totally different\" from his previous albums and show the growth in his writing and his overall performance saying \"there are so many twists and turns on the album... It's important when someone thinks they've figured you out to flip them\". A deluxe edition of the album featuring 3 bonus tracks,", "title": "Tattoos (album)" }, { "docid": "8487499", "text": "Course, in Bragg Creek, Alberta, near Calgary. Leonard was one of the best ball strikers and longest hitters of his era, despite being a diminutive 5' 6\" in height. Part of his powerful swing could be attributed to his massive forearms. The other players noticed this physical feature and gave him the nickname \"Popeye\". Leonard was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1964, the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1966, and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1972. He died of heart failure in Vancouver at the age of 90. PGA Tour playoff record (1–1) \"Note:", "title": "Stan Leonard" }, { "docid": "14620312", "text": "Tattoos & Tequila Tattoos & Tequila is the third solo studio album by Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil. It is his first solo release in 7 years since the live album \"\" in 2003 and first solo studio album in 15 years since 1995's \"Carved in Stone\". It is also Neil's only solo project as the current lead singer of Mötley Crüe. The album is largely made up of covers of 1970s rock songs, with only a couple of original tracks thrown in: the title track and lead single \"Tattoos & Tequila\", written by Marti Frederiksen, and \"Another Bad Day\",", "title": "Tattoos & Tequila" }, { "docid": "15897544", "text": "Canadian Hot 100 and peaked at number 59. The song has sold 754,000 digital downloads as of May 2, 2012. Tattoos on This Town \"Tattoos on This Town\" is a song written by Michael Dulaney, Wendell Mobley, and Neil Thrasher and recorded by American country music artist Jason Aldean. It was released on September 5, 2011 as the fourth single from Aldean's 2010 album \"My Kinda Party\". \"Tattoos on This Town\" is a moderate up-tempo country rock song in which the narrator reflects on the effect growing up in his home town had on him and those he grew up", "title": "Tattoos on This Town" }, { "docid": "15897539", "text": "Tattoos on This Town \"Tattoos on This Town\" is a song written by Michael Dulaney, Wendell Mobley, and Neil Thrasher and recorded by American country music artist Jason Aldean. It was released on September 5, 2011 as the fourth single from Aldean's 2010 album \"My Kinda Party\". \"Tattoos on This Town\" is a moderate up-tempo country rock song in which the narrator reflects on the effect growing up in his home town had on him and those he grew up with (friends or significant other is never directly acknowledged) by revisiting events of their lives and expressing them in a", "title": "Tattoos on This Town" }, { "docid": "483035", "text": "surface. The images revealed river beds, craters, massive extinct volcanoes (such as Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the Solar System; Mariner 9 led directly to its reclassification from Nix Olympica), canyons (including the Valles Marineris, a system of canyons over about long), evidence of wind and water erosion and deposition, weather fronts, fogs, and more. Mars' small moons, Phobos and Deimos, were also photographed. The findings from the Mariner 9 mission underpinned the later Viking program. The enormous Valles Marineris canyon system is named after Mariner 9 in honor of its achievements. After depleting its supply of attitude", "title": "Mariner 9" }, { "docid": "13514864", "text": "known to be preserved. Popeye was recently featured on the \"Brad and John: Mornings on KISM\" \"When Animals Attack\" segment. Director Robert Altman used the character in \"Popeye\", a 1980 live-action musical feature film, starring Robin Williams as Popeye (his first starring movie role), Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl, and Paul L. Smith as Bluto, with songs by Harry Nilsson and Van Dyke Parks. The script was by Jules Feiffer, who adapted the 1971 Nostalgia Press book of 1936 strips for his screenplay, thus retaining many of the characters created by Segar. A co-production of Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "16654294", "text": "and stands in Fairweather Park, adjacent to the marina. She is known as Popeye presumably for her left eye which is a cloudy white—something that has also been reflected in her statue. Popeye is a major attraction for the town of Friday Harbor, but few people know that it's against the law - as enforced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - to feed any marine mammal in Washington state waters. Popeye was featured on 92.9 KISM's Brad and John show, \"When Animals Attack,\" on Wednesday, August 18, 2017. Popeye, the 200+ lb seal, attacked a man on Thursday,", "title": "Popeye (seal)" }, { "docid": "13913292", "text": "by the lymphatic system and not accumulate. Lymph nodes may become discolored and inflamed with the presence of tattoo pigments, but discoloration and inflammation are also visual indicators of melanoma; consequently, diagnosing melanoma in a patient with tattoos is made difficult, and special precautions must be taken to avoid misdiagnoses. A regimen of blood thinners may affect the tattooing process, causing excess bleeding. This increased bleeding can slow the process of getting enough ink into the skin. The aftercare healing may also take longer. Tattoos Bad for Health Health effects of tattoos A variety of health effects can result from", "title": "Health effects of tattoos" }, { "docid": "14620314", "text": "stated in an interview conducted with Nikki Sixx on Sixx Sense radio, the track, \"Another Bad Day\" was originally slated for Mötley Crüe. However, the band's drummer Tommy Lee disliked the song. In 2010, Vince played \"Another Piece of Meat\" onstage with the hard rock band Scorpions. Tattoos & Tequila Tattoos & Tequila is the third solo studio album by Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil. It is his first solo release in 7 years since the live album \"\" in 2003 and first solo studio album in 15 years since 1995's \"Carved in Stone\". It is also Neil's only solo", "title": "Tattoos & Tequila" }, { "docid": "13514875", "text": "Popeye dance songs was released in 1996 under the title \"New Orleans Popeye Party.\" Initially Popeye's chief superhuman characteristic was his indestructibility, rather than super strength, which was attributed to his having rubbed the head of Bernice the Whiffle Hen numerous times after being shot. Popeye later attributed his strength to spinach. The popularity of Popeye helped boost spinach sales. Using Popeye as a role model for healthier eating may work; a 2010 study revealed that children increased their vegetable consumption after watching Popeye cartoons. The spinach-growing community of Crystal City, Texas, erected a statue of the character in recognition", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "19331752", "text": "Mariner (album) Mariner is a collaborative studio album between the Swedish band Cult of Luna and the American vocalist Julie Christmas, formerly of the bands Made Out of Babies and Battle of Mice. Serving as Cult of Luna's seventh studio album and the first time Christmas has appeared on the entirety of a full-length album since her 2010 solo debut \"The Bad Wife\", \"Mariner\" was released on April 8, 2016 through Indie Recordings. Contrasting the industrial city themes of Cult of Luna's last studio efforts, \"Vertikal\" and \"Vertikal II\" from 2013, \"Mariner\" focuses its concept on space exploration. Both Julie", "title": "Mariner (album)" }, { "docid": "4756868", "text": "Walt Disney's \"Silly Symphony\" \"The Country Cousin\". Footage from this short was later used in the 1952 Famous Studios \"Popeye\" cartoon \"Big Bad Sindbad\", in which Popeye relates the story of his encounter with Sindbad to his 3 nephews. The \"Popeye Color Specials\", \"Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves\", and \"Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp\" (both of which were also adapted from a story featured in \"One Thousand and One Nights\") are in the public domain, and are widely available on home video and DVD. A fully restored version with the original Paramount mountain logo opening and closing", "title": "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor" }, { "docid": "17446728", "text": "forearms, and below the neck and on the chest. Orthodox Coptic Christians who live in Egypt commonly tattoo themselves with the symbols of Coptic crosses on their right wrists, the history of this custom is similar to that of the Christian Croat tattoos. Among Mormons getting a tattoo is not considered sinful, but it is discouraged as it is altering the creation of God. Christianity-related tattoos are highly common among military veterans and born-again Christians (people that lived difficult lives and rediscovered spirituality). Many Christians with tattoos will have a Psalm or verse from the Bible tattooed on their body", "title": "Religious perspectives on tattooing" }, { "docid": "12080829", "text": "Popeye, Olive and Bluto was set up from the beginning and soon became the template for most \"Popeye\" productions that would follow. The cartoon opens with a newspaper headline announcing Popeye as a movie star, reflecting the transition into film. \"I Yam What I Yam\" became the first entry in the regular \"Popeye the Sailor\" series. Thanks to the animated shorts, Popeye became even more of a sensation than he had been in comic strips. As Betty Boop gradually declined in quality as a result of Hays Code enforcement in 1934, Popeye became the studio's star character by 1936. Popeye", "title": "Popeye the Sailor (film series)" }, { "docid": "13514839", "text": "public domain in most countries, but remains under copyright in the United States. Because Segar was an employee of King Features Syndicate when he created the Popeye character for the company's \"Thimble Theatre\" strip, Popeye is treated as a work for hire under U.S. copyright law. Works for hire are protected for 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter. Since Popeye made his first appearance in January 1929, and all U.S. copyrights expire on December 31 of the year that the term ends, Popeye will enter the public domain in the U.S. on January 1,", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "13514872", "text": "game. Mario (then known as Jumpman) was originally supposed to be Popeye, Donkey Kong was originally Bluto, and the character Pauline was originally Olive Oyl, but when Nintendo was unable to acquire the rights to use the actual franchise characters, it decided to create original characters instead. The 1988 Walt Disney/Touchstone Pictures film \"Who Framed Roger Rabbit\" featured many classic cartoon characters, and the absence of Popeye was noted by some critics. Popeye (along with Bluto and Olive Oyl) actually had a cameo role planned for the film. However, since the Popeye cartoons were based on a comic strip, Disney", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "5768568", "text": "the crew members were clubbed to death, their heads so badly beaten as to be unrecognisable. For the next three days the ship was stripped of her iron, a valuable commodity, and had her guns removed before being burnt to the water line to more readily remove what iron remained. Fīnau assumed responsibility for Mariner, taking him under his protection. Mariner became known as Toki 'Ukamea (\"Iron Axe\") and spent the next four years living amongst the islanders. He lived mostly in the northern island group of Vavau. During this period, Mariner witnessed Fīnau's attempts to unify the islands, using", "title": "William Mariner (writer)" }, { "docid": "13514847", "text": "even Mae Questel. Many of the \"Thimble Theatre\" characters, including Wimpy, Poopdeck Pappy, and Eugene the Jeep, eventually made appearances in the Paramount cartoons, though appearances by Olive Oyl's extended family and Ham Gravy were notably absent. Thanks to the animated-short series, Popeye became even more of a sensation than he had been in comic strips, and by 1938, polls showed that the sailor was Hollywood's most popular cartoon character. In every Popeye cartoon, the sailor is invariably put into what seems like a hopeless situation, upon which (usually after a beating), a can of spinach becomes available, and Popeye", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "16411564", "text": "traced back as far as the 1700s when Captain James Cook came across the Maori of the South Pacific, and his crew decided to get tattoos as \"souvenirs\" of their visit. After that the connection between sailors and tattoos steadily increased. A focus on the regulation of tattoos did not begin until the early 1900s when the United States government declared that anyone with an \"obscene\" tattoo would not be allowed in the Navy. With the declaration many young men took advantage of the easy way out of serving, thus creating a boom in tattoos of nude women. However, if", "title": "Sailor tattoos" }, { "docid": "13913289", "text": "or hysteresis. Burning can occur on smaller tattoos such as \"permanent makeup\", but this is rare. Non-ferrous pigments have also been known to cause burns during an MRI . It should be stressed that tattoo burns are rare, so merely having a tattoo does not contraindicate the use of MRI scanning. The most common dermal reactions to tattoo pigments are granulomas and various lichenoid diseases. Other conditions noted have been cement dermatitis, collagen deposits, discoid lupus erythematosus, eczematous eruptions, hyperkeratosis and parakeratosis, and keloids. Hypersensitive reactions to tattoos are known to lay latent for significant periods of time before exhibiting", "title": "Health effects of tattoos" }, { "docid": "4348003", "text": "up and takes Swee'Pea himself. Popeye enters the ship and meets the Commodore, realizing that he is his father, Poopdeck Pappy. Pappy initially denies that Popeye is his son; to prove it, Pappy tries to feed Popeye canned spinach, which he says is his family's source of great strength. Popeye hates spinach and refuses to eat it. Bluto kidnaps Olive as well and sets sail to find Pappy's treasure. Popeye, Pappy, Wimpy and the Oyl family board Pappy's ship to give pursuit. Bluto sails to Scab Island, a desolate island in the middle of the ocean, while Pappy argues with", "title": "Popeye (film)" }, { "docid": "496214", "text": "million miles. Three weeks later, on November 28, 1964, Mariner 4 was launched successfully on a 7½-month voyage to Mars. The instruments on Mariner 3 included: Mariner 3 Mariner 3 (together with Mariner 4 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was one of two identical deep-space probes designed and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for NASA's Mariner-Mars 1964 project that were intended to conduct close-up (flyby) scientific observations of the planet Mars and transmit information on interplanetary space and the space surrounding Mars, televised images of the Martian surface and radio occultation data of spacecraft signals as affected by the", "title": "Mariner 3" }, { "docid": "13514868", "text": "but some merchandise is still being produced. Local folklore in Chester, Illinois, Segar's hometown, claims that Frank “Rocky” Fiegel (b. in Poland, January 27, 1868) was the real-life inspiration for the character Popeye. He had a prominent chin, sinewy physique, characteristic pipe, and a propensity and agile skill for fist-fighting. Fiegel died on March 24, 1947 never having married. His gravestone has the image of Popeye engraved on it. The town of Chester erected a statue of Popeye in Fiegel’s honor, which still stands today. According to Popeye historian Michael Brooks, Segar regularly sent money to Fiegel. Separate hometown residents", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "5141832", "text": "compilation as possible to give the consumer complete value.\" Warner CEO Roger Ames accepted, and a track listing was put together in only a couple of months. Totally Hits Totally Hits was a series of various artists compilation albums released in collaboration with BMG and Warner Music Group, intending to showcase some of the most popular hit songs of the time. The series was intended to rival EMI and UMG's \"Now That's What I Call Music!\" series. For the first volume, a massive ad campaign was launched, with both record labels putting out TV spots, Internet ads, and promotions for", "title": "Totally Hits" }, { "docid": "5141830", "text": "Totally Hits Totally Hits was a series of various artists compilation albums released in collaboration with BMG and Warner Music Group, intending to showcase some of the most popular hit songs of the time. The series was intended to rival EMI and UMG's \"Now That's What I Call Music!\" series. For the first volume, a massive ad campaign was launched, with both record labels putting out TV spots, Internet ads, and promotions for the release. Label executives referred to it as \"the definitive collection of 1998 and 1999 hit singles,\" and \"the first multi-format collection to boast virtually an entire", "title": "Totally Hits" }, { "docid": "496210", "text": "Mariner 3 Mariner 3 (together with Mariner 4 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was one of two identical deep-space probes designed and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for NASA's Mariner-Mars 1964 project that were intended to conduct close-up (flyby) scientific observations of the planet Mars and transmit information on interplanetary space and the space surrounding Mars, televised images of the Martian surface and radio occultation data of spacecraft signals as affected by the Martian atmosphere back to Earth. It was the third of ten spacecraft within the Mariner program. Mariner 2 had been a modified Ranger lunar probe, however", "title": "Mariner 3" }, { "docid": "16411565", "text": "they later decided to join the navy they had to have a tattoo artist \"dress\" the woman. Norman Collins, better known as Sailor Jerry, was a prolific tattoo artist for sailors. During the Second World War in Honolulu, Hawaii, the red-light district was ablaze with sailors and soldiers about to ship off, and in the very center of this was Collins. His skill and prolific work helped make tattoos an art form in America rather than merely a permanent souvenir for drunken sailors. The popularity of his tattoos resulted in publicity that nearly ruined Collins. Government scrutiny made him temporarily", "title": "Sailor tattoos" }, { "docid": "496108", "text": "Mariner 2 Mariner 2 (Mariner-Venus 1962), an American space probe to Venus, was the first robotic space probe to conduct a successful planetary encounter. The first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program, it was a simplified version of the Block I spacecraft of the Ranger program and an exact copy of Mariner 1. The missions of Mariner 1 and 2 spacecraft are together sometimes known as the Mariner R missions. Original plans called for the probes to be launched on the Atlas-Centaur, but serious developmental problems with that vehicle forced a switch to the much smaller Agena B stage.", "title": "Mariner 2" }, { "docid": "13514857", "text": "BBC aired a half-hour version of \"The All New Popeye Show\", from the early-1980s to 2004. Popeye briefly returned to CBS in 1987 for \"Popeye and Son\", another Hanna-Barbera series, which featured Popeye and Olive as a married couple with a son named Popeye Jr., who hates the taste of spinach but eats it to boost his strength. Maurice LaMarche performed Popeye's voice; Mercer had died in 1984. The show lasted for one season. In 2004, Lions Gate Entertainment produced a computer-animated television special, \"\", which was made to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Popeye. Billy West performed the", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "13514876", "text": "of Popeye's positive effects on the spinach industry. There is another Popeye statue in Segar's hometown, Chester, Illinois, and statues in Springdale and Alma, Arkansas (which claims to be \"The Spinach Capital of the World\"), at canning plants of Allen Canning, which markets Popeye-branded canned spinach. In addition to Allen Canning's Popeye spinach, Popeye Fresh Foods markets bagged, fresh spinach with Popeye characters on the package. In 2006, when spinach contaminated with \"E. coli\" was accidentally sold to the public, many editorial cartoonists lampooned the affair by featuring Popeye in their cartoons. A frequently circulated story claims that Fleischer's choice", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "16121990", "text": "a strong supporter of ex-River City Tanlines member Matthew Melton and his many solo and side-projects, and have released many of Alicja Trout's bands outside of River City Tanlines with her Lost Sounds, Black Sunday and Mouserocket projects. The label continues to release garage-punk and have sparked the career of Bad Sports' member Orville Neeley's new project, OBN III's who are fast becoming a staple in the Austin garage-punk community. They recently were featured on the cover of the popular zine Maximum Rock N Roll with a full interview inside. Before that, Tic Tac Totally helped launch the career of", "title": "Tic Tac Totally" }, { "docid": "13514862", "text": "a character later known as Matey the Newsboy. This program was broadcast Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights at 7:15pm. September 10, 1935 through March 28, 1936 on the NBC Red Network (87 episodes), initially sponsored by Wheatena, a whole-wheat breakfast cereal, which would routinely replace the spinach references. Music was provided by Victor Irwin's Cartoonland Band. Announcer Kelvin Keech sang (to composer Lerner's \"Popeye\" theme) \"Wheatena is his diet / He asks you to try it / With Popeye the sailor man.\" Wheatena paid King Features Syndicate $1,200 per week. The show was next broadcast Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "13514871", "text": "has been Popeye's cultural impact that the medical profession sometimes refers to the biceps bulge symptomatic of a tendon rupture as the \"Popeye muscle.\" Note, however, that under normal (non-spinach-influenced) conditions, Popeye has pronounced muscles of the \"forearm\", not of the biceps. In 1973, Cary Bates created Captain Strong, a takeoff of Popeye, for DC Comics, as a way of having two cultural icons – Superman and (a proxy of) Popeye – meet. The 1981 Nintendo videogame Donkey Kong, which introduced its eponymous character and Nintendo's unofficial company mascot Mario to the world, was originally planned to be a Popeye", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "8793579", "text": "Popeye the Sailor (film) Popeye the Sailor is a 1933 animated short produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. While billed as a Betty Boop cartoon, Betty Boop only makes a small appearance, as it actually starred Popeye the Sailor in his first animated appearance. The cartoon begins with stock film footage of newspapers rolling off a printing press. The front page of one of the newspapers appears, with a headline declaring that Popeye has become a movie star. The camera zooms in on the illustration of Popeye, which then comes to life, as Popeye (voiced by William", "title": "Popeye the Sailor (film)" }, { "docid": "13514880", "text": "Popeye Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. The character first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929, and Popeye became the strip's title in later years. Popeye has also appeared in theatrical and television animated cartoons. Segar's \"Thimble Theatre\" strip was in its 10th year when Popeye made his debut, but the one-eyed (left) sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip, and \"Thimble Theatre\" became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s. After Segar's death in 1938, \"Thimble Theatre\" was continued", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "13514823", "text": "Popeye Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. The character first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929, and Popeye became the strip's title in later years. Popeye has also appeared in theatrical and television animated cartoons. Segar's \"Thimble Theatre\" strip was in its 10th year when Popeye made his debut, but the one-eyed (left) sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip, and \"Thimble Theatre\" became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s. After Segar's death in 1938, \"Thimble Theatre\" was continued", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "272320", "text": "reveal a sign of life on the vast majority of these photographs; thus, based on the 22 photographs taken by Mariner 4, one could not conclude there was no intelligent life on Mars. The solar wind was measured, and compared with simultaneous records from Mariner 5 which went to Venus. The total cost of the Mariner 4 mission is estimated at $83.2 million. Total research, development, launch, and support costs for the Mariner series of spacecraft (Mariners 1 through 10) was approximately $554 million. Mariner 4 Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner–Mars 1964) was the fourth in", "title": "Mariner 4" }, { "docid": "7971359", "text": "months, and filming commenced on January 23, 1980 and wrapped later that year on June 19. The film, based on the comic strips by E. C. Segar, is set around the fictional village of Sweethaven, where the sailor Popeye arrives in an attempt to find his long-lost father. Although the film had mixed reviews, Popeye Village remains a popular tourist attraction. Popeye Village is open to the public seven days a week and, apart from the film set itself, has a number of family attractions for the visitor to experience. There are shows, rides and museums, as well as play", "title": "Popeye Village" }, { "docid": "6632616", "text": "co-production of Popeye I and Popeye II missiles in Turkey. There have been reports that Israel has exported Popeye and its variants to various countries: Popeye (missile) Popeye is the name of a family of air-to-surface missiles developed and in use by Israel, of which several types have been developed for Israeli and export users. A long-range submarine-launched cruise missile variant of the Popeye Turbo has been speculated as being employed in Israel's submarine-based nuclear forces. The United States operates the Popeye under a different designation according to US naming conventions as the AGM-142 Have Nap. The Popeye is designed", "title": "Popeye (missile)" }, { "docid": "10259464", "text": "I Yam What I Yam I Yam What I Yam is a Popeye theatrical cartoon short, starring William \"Billy\" Costello as Popeye, Bonnie Poe as Olive Oyl and Charles Lawrence as Wimpy. It was released in 1933 and was the second cartoon in the Popeye the Sailor series of theatrical cartoons released by Paramount Pictures, lasting through 1957. The cartoon opens with Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy riding on a small rowboat through a heavy rainstorm in the ocean. Popeye is standing up against the torrent of rain singing his theme song, while Olive is rowing the boat and Wimpy", "title": "I Yam What I Yam" }, { "docid": "17446702", "text": "or daring, but it's packed with enough hooks, singalong choruses and dancefloor-grabbing moments to make it a thoroughly enjoyable listen\", rating the album 3 stars out of 5. Caroline Sullivan from \"The Guardian\", Also rating it 3 stars out of a possible 5, praised the album as a whole for its \"clubby hooks.\" Sullivan went on to say that Derulo, as with his previous 2 albums, hasn't quite \"figured out what to do about his innate romanticism\", calling the album \"a battle between the lover in him and the priapic Lothario.\" Rachel Keigley from the Sonoma State Star said \"Tattoos\"", "title": "Tattoos (album)" }, { "docid": "4348008", "text": "methods). In December 1979, Disney joined the film as part of a two-picture co-production deal with Paramount which also included \"Dragonslayer\". Disney acquired the foreign rights through its Buena Vista unit; the deal was motivated by the drawing power that the studio's films had in Europe. The film was shot in Malta. The Sweethaven set that was built for the film still exists, and it is now a popular tourist attraction known as Popeye Village. According to Parish, Robin Williams referred to this set as \"Stalag Altman\". \"Popeye\" premiered at the Mann's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles on December 6,", "title": "Popeye (film)" }, { "docid": "13514846", "text": "Hayes reviewed: In late 2012, IDW began reprinting the original 1940s–1950s Sagendorf Popeye comic books under the title of \"Classic Popeye\". In November 1932, King Features signed an agreement with Fleischer Studios to have Popeye and the other \"Thimble Theatre\" characters begin appearing in a series of animated cartoons. The first cartoon in the series was released in 1933, and \"Popeye\" cartoons, released by Paramount Pictures, would remain a staple of Paramount's release schedule for nearly 25 years. William Costello was the original voice of Popeye, a voice that would be replicated by later performers, such as Jack Mercer and", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "164330", "text": "pictures of him in later life show large snake or dragon tattoos on his forearms, presumably obtained at this time. Taking a great interest in indigenous religious beliefs, Gardner told his first biographer that he had attended Dusun séances or healing rituals. He was unhappy with the working conditions and the racist attitudes of his colleagues, and when he developed malaria he felt that this was the last straw; he left Borneo and moved to Singapore, in what was then known as the Straits Settlements, part of British Malaya. Arriving in Singapore, he initially planned to return to Ceylon, but", "title": "Gerald Gardner (Wiccan)" }, { "docid": "5654608", "text": "have a son named Tank. Like old times, Popeye and Bluto are rivals, as are their sons. In 2014, including it in an article about twelve 1980s cartoons that supposedly did not deserve remembrance, \"io9\" was largely critical of the series, noting that it did not utilize the conventions established by the theatrical \"Popeye\" short films. In late 2008, Warner Home Video planned to release four \"Popeye and Son\" episodes (8 cartoons) on DVD as \"Popeye & Friends Volume Two\" (\"Volume One\", released earlier in 2008, contained episodes of the previous Hanna-Barbera \"Popeye\" series, \"The All New Popeye Hour\"). The", "title": "Popeye and Son" }, { "docid": "18715352", "text": "over other thieves within the thieves' law. In Russian criminal jargon or \"Fenya\" (феня), a full set of tattoos is known as \"frak s ordenami\" (a tailcoat with decorations). The tattoos show a \"service record\" of achievements and failures, prison sentences and the type of work a criminal does. They might also represent his \"thief's family\", naming others within hearts or with the traditional tomcat image. Misappropriation of the tattoos of a \"legitimate thief\" could be punished by death, or the prisoner would be forced to remove them themselves \"with a knife, sandpaper, a shard of glass or a lump", "title": "Russian criminal tattoos" }, { "docid": "18715359", "text": "or pigs. A thief's collection of tattoos represent his \"suit\" (\"mast\"), which indicates his status within the community of thieves and his control over other thieves within the thieves' law. They might also represent his \"thief's family\", naming others within hearts or with the traditional tom cat image. Tattoos on the hands and fingers were common, and for women, palm tattoos showing insults were popular in the 1940s and 50s. There are tattoos that are forcibly applied to signify \"demotion\" (\"razzhalovanie\"). These may depict sexual acts, and are designed to lower the owner in the eyes of other prisoners and", "title": "Russian criminal tattoos" }, { "docid": "13514825", "text": "the years, Popeye has also appeared in comic books, television cartoons, arcade and video games, hundreds of advertisements, peripheral products ranging from spinach to candy cigarettes, and the 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman and starring Robin Williams as Popeye. Charles M. Schulz said, \"I think \"Popeye\" was a perfect comic strip, consistent in drawing and humor\". In 2002, \"TV Guide\" ranked Popeye number 20 on its \"50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time\" list. Popeye's story and characterization vary depending on the medium. Originally, Popeye got \"luck\" from rubbing the head of the Whiffle Hen; by 1932, he", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "8793582", "text": "life, because of the can of spinach he ate. Popeye the Sailor (film) Popeye the Sailor is a 1933 animated short produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. While billed as a Betty Boop cartoon, Betty Boop only makes a small appearance, as it actually starred Popeye the Sailor in his first animated appearance. The cartoon begins with stock film footage of newspapers rolling off a printing press. The front page of one of the newspapers appears, with a headline declaring that Popeye has become a movie star. The camera zooms in on the illustration of Popeye, which", "title": "Popeye the Sailor (film)" }, { "docid": "496221", "text": "Mariner 8 Mariner-H (Mariner Mars '71), also commonly known as Mariner 8, was (along with Mariner 9) part of the Mariner Mars '71 project. It was intended to go into Mars orbit and return images and data, but a launch vehicle failure prevented Mariner 8 from achieving Earth orbit and the spacecraft reentered into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after launch. Mariner 8 was launched on an Atlas-Centaur SLV-3C booster (AC-24). The main Centaur engine was ignited 265 seconds after launch, but the upper stage began to oscillate in pitch and tumbled out of control. The Centaur stage shut down 365", "title": "Mariner 8" }, { "docid": "13514831", "text": "many more newspapers as a result. Initial strips presented Olive as being less than impressed with Popeye, but she eventually left Ham Gravy to become Popeye's girlfriend and Ham Gravy left the strip as a regular. Over the years, however, she has often displayed a fickle attitude towards the sailor. Castor Oyl continued to come up with get-rich-quick schemes and enlisted Popeye in his misadventures. Eventually, he settled down as a detective and later on bought a ranch out West. Castor has seldom appeared in recent years. In 1933, Popeye received a foundling baby in the mail, whom he adopted", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "18417718", "text": "Chinese calligraphy tattoos Chinese calligraphy tattoos are tattoos of Chinese characters in a calligraphic style. Today, Chinese calligraphy tattoos can be found worldwide. Chinese calligraphy is the stylized, artistic writing of Chinese characters; the written form of Chinese that unites the languages spoken in China. Calligraphy is considered supreme among the visual arts in China and sets the standard for which Chinese painting is judged. Chinese calligraphy and painting are closely related. In pre-modern China, textual tattoos were used as a punishment for criminals. Criminals would get textual tattoos on their cheeks and foreheads of the crime that they committed", "title": "Chinese calligraphy tattoos" }, { "docid": "7649813", "text": "correct jump, as well as flashy markings. 2000 - 79.5% total - Conformation: 82% - Movement: 78.5% - Type: 77% - Received a “10” for scope and technique in the course jumping 2003 2004 2005 Popeye K Popeye K is a Dutch Warmblood stallion that competes on the \"A\" circuit in show hunter classes. Popeye K was bred in Ashton, Ontario at Ashland farm. Popeye K is by the great show jumper Voltaire, who has produced several offspring that compete at the international level or are excellent sires themselves, including Finesse, Helios, Play it Again, Altair, and Concorde. The dam", "title": "Popeye K" }, { "docid": "13514834", "text": "blend of comedy, fantasy, satire and suspense in \"Thimble Theater Starring Popeye\". \"Thimble Theatre\" became one of King Features' most popular strips during the 1930s. A poll of adult comic strip readers in the April 1937 issue of \"Fortune\" magazine voted \"Popeye\" their second favourite comic strip (after \"Little Orphan Annie\"). By 1938, \"Thimble Theatre\" was running in 500 newspapers, and over 600 licensed \"Popeye\" products were on sale. The success of the strip meant Segar was earning $100,000 a year at the time of his death. Following an eventual name change to \"Popeye\" in the 1970s, the comic remains", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "16411563", "text": "traditional Sailor Jerry designs, nautical tattoos and even clothing printed with stylized sailor tattoo images. It is believed that tattooing on European sailors originated with Captain James Cook's crew after he arrived in the Pacific. Sailor tattoos eventually became one of the attributes that identified a sailor. Many other cultures had long used tattoos for identification or aesthetics, such as the Japanese, Chinese, and Pacific Islanders, but the connection with a seafaring lifestyle in European culture developed into its own unique style of tattooing. Western European sailors took up the practice of religious designs readily: Tattoos with sailors can be", "title": "Sailor tattoos" }, { "docid": "16102746", "text": "seats in tandem. The company went out of business in the early 1990s after only a few years of production. Mariner Aircraft Mariner The Mariner Aircraft Mariner is an American ultralight amphibious flying boat that was designed by Larry Seifert and produced by Mariner Aircraft, starting in 1989. The aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction. The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of plus floats. In its monoplane single seat version the aircraft has a standard empty weight of . Many were registered as", "title": "Mariner Aircraft Mariner" }, { "docid": "16102744", "text": "Mariner Aircraft Mariner The Mariner Aircraft Mariner is an American ultralight amphibious flying boat that was designed by Larry Seifert and produced by Mariner Aircraft, starting in 1989. The aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction. The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of plus floats. In its monoplane single seat version the aircraft has a standard empty weight of . Many were registered as amateur-builts rather than ultralights. It features a multiple wing arrangement, a single-seat, open cockpit, re-positionable conventional landing gear and a", "title": "Mariner Aircraft Mariner" }, { "docid": "13514855", "text": "Sea Hag. The 1960s cartoons have been issued on both VHS and DVD. On September 9, 1978, \"The All New Popeye Hour\" debuted on the CBS Saturday morning lineup. It was an hour-long animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which tried its best to retain the style of the original comic strip (Popeye returned to his original costume and Brutus to his original name of Bluto), while complying with the prevailing content restrictions on violence. In addition to providing many of the cartoon scripts, Mercer continued to voice Popeye, while Marilyn Schreffler and Allan Melvin became the new voices of", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "20119603", "text": "left of him, the aliens fight for the source of his great might. Popeye is not entirely gone, however, and his invisible hand secures the spinach. Visible and strong again, he joins the spacemen's fight until they are finally pacified. He then borrows their spaceship and safely travels back to Earth while singing his song. Popeye, the Ace of Space Popeye, the Ace of Space (1953) is a 3D theatrical cartoon released as a Stereotoon. It was produced by Famous Studios for the Stereotoon series featuring Popeye and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was the first Paramount cartoon to be", "title": "Popeye, the Ace of Space" }, { "docid": "15897542", "text": "It then fast-forwards through the young widow's life, in which she attends her husband's funeral and also gives birth to a son. As the video ends, the son, now a young boy (wearing his late father's old cap), throws a stone into the lake near the tree where his parents had carved \"I Love You\" many years before. Throughout the video, Aldean and his band perform inside an aircraft hangar, filmed in Smyrna, Tennessee. \"Tattoos on This Town\" debuted at number 18 on \"Billboard\"'s Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart in 2010 as an album cut based on downloads. Upon its", "title": "Tattoos on This Town" }, { "docid": "8918627", "text": "Near the end of the movie, Popeye accidentally kills Bill Mulderig (Bill Hickman), a federal agent with whom he previously had an argument. Undeterred with his death, Popeye continues in pursuit of his foe. This shows Popeye's absolute obsession in his mission. The 1975 sequel \"French Connection II\" follows Popeye as he pursues drug smuggler Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) back to Marseille. Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey — the only two cast members to appear in both movies — reprised their roles as Popeye and Charnier. While the original movie was based on a true story, the sequel was entirely", "title": "Jimmy \"Popeye\" Doyle" }, { "docid": "4348002", "text": "docks; when the taxman harasses him, Popeye pushes him into the water, prompting the townsfolk to celebrate. In the chaos, Wimpy, who has been intimidated by Bluto, kidnaps Swee'Pea for him. That night, Olive remarks to herself about her budding relationship with Popeye, while Popeye writes a message in a bottle for Swee'Pea. Wimpy sees Bluto taking Swee'Pea into the Commodore's ship; he and Olive inform Popeye. Inside, Bluto presents the boy to the Commodore, promising that he is worth a fortune. When the Commodore reminds Bluto that his buried treasure is all the fortune he needs, Bluto ties him", "title": "Popeye (film)" }, { "docid": "7649810", "text": "Popeye K Popeye K is a Dutch Warmblood stallion that competes on the \"A\" circuit in show hunter classes. Popeye K was bred in Ashton, Ontario at Ashland farm. Popeye K is by the great show jumper Voltaire, who has produced several offspring that compete at the international level or are excellent sires themselves, including Finesse, Helios, Play it Again, Altair, and Concorde. The dam of Popeye K includes the great show jumper and sire Ramiro Z, who was the leading sire of jumpers in the world throughout much of the 1990s, and who produced the likes of Ratina Z,", "title": "Popeye K" }, { "docid": "18715357", "text": "be referred to as \"peshnya\" (ice pick), \"pchyolka\" (bee), \"shpora\" (spur), or \"shilo\" (sting), while the tattoo machine can be referred to as \"mashinka\" (little machine) or \"bormashina\" (dentist's drill), and the ink is referred to as either \"mazut\" (fuel oil) or \"gryaz\" (dirt). The tattoos themselves were referred to as a \"reklama\" (advertising), \"regalka\" (regalia), \"kleimo\" (brand), or \"rospis\" (painting). Common designs and themes grew over the years, often having different meanings depending on the location of the tattoo. The imagery often does not literally mean what it is depicting—for example, tattoos displaying Nazi imagery represent a rejection of", "title": "Russian criminal tattoos" }, { "docid": "13514859", "text": "with redesigned cover art. Popeye has made brief parody appearances in modern animated productions, including: On December 2, 2018, a Popeye web series produced by the WildBrain studio was premiered on its official YouTube channel. Popeye’s theme song, titled \"I'm Popeye The Sailor Man\", composed by Sammy Lerner in 1933 for Fleischer’s first \"Popeye the Sailor\" cartoon, has become forever associated with the sailor. \"The Sailor's Hornpipe\" has often been used as an introduction to Popeye's theme song. A cover of the theme song, performed by Face to Face, is included on the 1995 tribute album \"\", produced by Ralph", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "13514837", "text": "characters, such as the Thung, also had a very Segar-like quality. What set Sagendorf apart from Segar more than anything else was his sense of pacing. Where plotlines moved very quickly with Segar, it would sometimes take an entire week of Sagendorf's daily strips for the plot to be advanced even a small amount. From 1986 to 1992, the daily strip was written and drawn by Bobby London, who, after some controversy, was fired from the strip for a story that could be taken to satirize abortion. London's strips put Popeye and his friends in updated situations, but kept the", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "13514861", "text": "led to appearances in many other forms. For more than 20 years, Stephen DeStefano has been the artist drawing Popeye for King Features licensing. \"Popeye\" was adapted to radio in several series broadcast over three different networks by two sponsors from 1935 to 1938. Popeye and most of the major supporting characters were first featured in a thrice-weekly 15-minute radio program, \"Popeye the Sailor\", which starred Detmar Poppen as Popeye along with most of the major supporting characters—Olive Oyl (Olive Lamoy), Wimpy (Charles Lawrence), Bluto (Jackson Beck) and Swee'Pea (Mae Questel). In the first episode, Popeye adopted Sonny (Jimmy Donnelly),", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "5654606", "text": "Popeye and Son Popeye and Son is an American animated comedy series based on the \"Popeye\" comic strip created E.C. Segar and published by King Features Syndicate. Jointly produced by Hanna-Barbera and King Features subsidiary King Features Entertainment, the series aired for one season of thirteen episodes on CBS. It is a follow-up to \"The All New Popeye Hour\". Maurice LaMarche performed the voice of Popeye in this series, succeeding Jack Mercer in that role. It is also the first set of Popeye cartoons that were produced since Mercer's death in 1984. Following its original run on CBS, this series", "title": "Popeye and Son" }, { "docid": "2591127", "text": "and Toronto named Mariner head coach on 7 June 2012. Mariner recorded his first victory as Toronto manager on 27 June against Montreal Impact, the game ended in a 3-0 away win. Mariner was dismissed on 7 January 2013. Mariner was praised by former Toronto FC players Andrew Wiedeman and Eric Hassli. Paul Mariner Paul Mariner (born 22 May 1953) is an English football coach and retired player. He was most recently the head coach and technical director at Major League Soccer club Toronto FC, until his dismissal in January 2013. A centre forward during his playing days, Mariner began", "title": "Paul Mariner" }, { "docid": "13514850", "text": "created a new incarnation of \"The Popeye Show\". The show aired the Fleischer and Famous Studios \"Popeye\" shorts in versions approximating their original theatrical releases by editing copies of the original opening and closing credits (taken or recreated from various sources) onto the beginnings and ends of each cartoon, or in some cases, in their complete, uncut original theatrical versions direct from such prints that originally contained the front-and-end Paramount credits. The series aired 135 \"Popeye\" shorts over forty-five episodes, until March 2004. \"The Popeye Show\" continued to air on Cartoon Network's spin-off network Boomerang. While many of the Paramount", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "272299", "text": "Mariner 4 Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner–Mars 1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode. It was designed to conduct closeup scientific observations of Mars and to transmit these observations to Earth. Launched on November 28, 1964, Mariner 4 performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first close-up pictures of the Martian surface. It captured the first images of another planet ever returned from deep space; their depiction of a cratered, seemingly dead world, largely changed the scientific community's view of life on", "title": "Mariner 4" }, { "docid": "16411562", "text": "Sailor tattoos Sailor tattoos refer to a type of tattoo traditionally favored by sailors and the traditions that accompany these tattoos. \"Old school\" tattoos were common among sailors, depicting images like swallows on either side of the chest, girls in sailor hats, and pairs of dice. Sailor Jerry's work typified this style of tattooing during the early-mid twentieth century. After falling out of style for several decades, these stylized tattoos are regaining popularity again among young people, both sailors and non-sailors. They are particularly favored among tattoo artists themselves. This returning trend is also seen in the increasing popularity of", "title": "Sailor tattoos" }, { "docid": "13514860", "text": "Sall for MCA Records. A jazz version, performed by Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet, appears on their 2009 Summit Records release \"Underdog and Other Stories\". Playground song parodies of the theme have become part of children's street culture around the world, usually interpolating \"frying pan\" or \"garbage can\" into the lyrics as Popeye's dwelling place and ascribing to the character various unsavory actions or habits that transform the character into an \"Anti-Popeye\", and changing his exemplary spinach-based diet into an inedible morass of worms, onions, flies, tortillas and snot. The success of Popeye as a comic-strip and animated character has", "title": "Popeye" }, { "docid": "16411570", "text": "for recruiting duty or duty training recruits at boot camp. Sailor tattoos Sailor tattoos refer to a type of tattoo traditionally favored by sailors and the traditions that accompany these tattoos. \"Old school\" tattoos were common among sailors, depicting images like swallows on either side of the chest, girls in sailor hats, and pairs of dice. Sailor Jerry's work typified this style of tattooing during the early-mid twentieth century. After falling out of style for several decades, these stylized tattoos are regaining popularity again among young people, both sailors and non-sailors. They are particularly favored among tattoo artists themselves. This", "title": "Sailor tattoos" }, { "docid": "4348001", "text": "sing Swee'Pea to sleep. The next day, Olive tells Popeye that during his match with Oxheart, she discovered that Swee'Pea can predict the future by whistling when he hears the correct answer to a question. Wimpy, the local con artist and petty gambler, overhears and asks to take Swee'Pea out for a walk, though he actually takes him to the \"horse races\" (actually a mechanical carnival horse game) and wins two games. Popeye is outraged, and vents his frustrations to the racing parlor's customers. Fearing further exploitation of his child, Popeye moves out of the Oyls' home and onto the", "title": "Popeye (film)" }, { "docid": "7971361", "text": "audio-visual show which includes clips from the actual film and the set's construction. The cinema can accommodate approximately 40 people and has a show every hour. Fifteen minutes of the 20 is devoted to advertising the theme park attached to the complex. Popeye Village hosts a variety of functions and activities at certain times of the year, including casual barbecue lunches and dinners. Performers and animators provide regular entertainment for families while they are visiting the village, and many of these shows interact with the audience. They include: Popeye Village Popeye Village, also known as Sweethaven Village, is a purpose-built", "title": "Popeye Village" }, { "docid": "18417719", "text": "and would therefore have their crime on display for the rest of their lives. Chinese textual tattoos are unique and also very common today. The possession of tattoos is meant to express the concept of being in control of one's body. People also receive these tattoos because they find them aesthetically pleasing as well as empowering. Many more women than men are receiving textual tattoos, wanting to give the impression of total ownership and control over their own bodies. Chinese calligraphy tattoos Chinese calligraphy tattoos are tattoos of Chinese characters in a calligraphic style. Today, Chinese calligraphy tattoos can be", "title": "Chinese calligraphy tattoos" }, { "docid": "995427", "text": "the Rose\" for the documentary Becoming Bulletproof. Boyd is known for his wide variety of tattoos. On his forearms he carries the widely known mantra Om Mani Padme Hum, referring to the qualities of generosity, ethics, patience, diligence, renunciation and wisdom. Underneath that is a koi fish in red ink by Lars Johansson. On the inside of his right arm he has several tattoos, one once again incorporating the Tibetan mantra and another designed after Sarah Kerrigan. Following the release of their album \"A Crow Left of the Murder,\" he got an elaborate back tattoo featuring the common image of", "title": "Brandon Boyd" }, { "docid": "20119601", "text": "drives along a country road in his boat-shaped car. When he sees that a bridge is out, he takes care of the problem with the help of some spinach. Meanwhile, an alien spaceship approaches Earth with its occupants bent on finding and abducting an average Earthman to conduct their tests on. They find Popeye instead, and snatch him away from his car via a propeller-mounted plunger. Later, the ship arrives at its planet of origin (determined by Popeye to be Mars). Many green-skinned aliens are in attendance as the Earthman is put on the first of their sinister machines: a", "title": "Popeye, the Ace of Space" }, { "docid": "17986124", "text": "previously run cruises at Glenelg. She did not however (according to the local legend) gain the same acceptance with the children, who preferred to \"wait for \"Popeye\"\", prompting Watts to re-christen her \"Popeye II\". Later, three new jarrah-hulled boats, capable of carrying 40 passengers each, were built at Port Adelaide; they were numbered \"Popeye 3\", \"Popeye 4\" and \"Popeye 5\", running round trips between Elder Park and Adelaide Zoo. Apart from scheduled runs on weekends and holidays during the warmer months, \"Popeyes\" were available for private hire, for weddings, children's birthday parties and other events. During the years that he", "title": "Popeye (boat)" }, { "docid": "2202226", "text": "episode in season 5 titled \"Totally Mystery Much?\" with \"Martin Mystery\", a Marathon-produced series that aired from 2003 to 2006. The title character, Diana Lombard, Jenni and Marvin made cameo appearances in \"Super Agent Much?\" in season 3. A \"Totally Spies!\" comics were released monthly in Sweden. Five books with about 90 pages came out in Brazil as well. Each book represents an episode from the series. There is another comic called \"Totally Spies Unleashed\"; this opens with \"I Hate the 80s!\", in which a bad guy, Boogie Gus, has invented a retro ray that de-ages people. The second story,", "title": "Totally Spies!" }, { "docid": "14192571", "text": "Popeye shiner. A major threat to these fish is an influx of exotic fish species. In Indiana, an influx of three species of Asian carp—grass carp (\"Ctenopharyngodon idella\"), bighead carp (\"Hypothalmichthys nobilis\"), and silver carp (\"Hypothalmichthys molitrix\")—likely contributed to the total extirpation of the Popeye shiner. Ohio has a program that strives to protect and restore stream habitats of native species that are endangered or threatened in some way. This program is known as the Division of Wildlife's Stream Conservation Program. The intent of this program is to assess and record the number of species deemed \"Species of Greatest Conservation", "title": "Popeye shiner" }, { "docid": "17446683", "text": "the album helped Derulo bring out his more \"sensitive side\" compared to previous his work. \"Tattoos\" debuted at number five on the Australian Albums Chart and the UK Albums Chart, where it became his highest-charting album in that country. Only a five track extended play under the same title, was released in the United States, while the full length repackaged version of the album was released on April 15, 2014 under the new title, \"Talk Dirty\". During that same week, a special edition of \"Tattoos\" was released in the UK and Australia, featuring all of the newly recorded material from", "title": "Tattoos (album)" }, { "docid": "17446701", "text": "the re-release of \"Tattoos\" on May 6, 2014. \"Bubblegum\" was sent to Australian and New Zealand radio as the album's 7th single on August 3, 2014. An official lyric video was released on August 27. Upon release, \"Tattoos\" has received generally mixed reviews. According to Metacritic, where they assign a weighted average score out of 100 to ratings and reviews from selected mainstream critics, the album received an average of 49, based on 4 reviews. Marian Tuin from the Examiner, called the album \"a therapeutic expression through songwriting.\" Digital Spy's, Robert Copsey summarised that \"Tattoos\" \"may not be particularly bold", "title": "Tattoos (album)" }, { "docid": "16654293", "text": "Popeye (seal) Popeye is a female harbor seal that has become the official seal of Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. Since 1995, Popeye has been a frequent visitor to Friday Harbor. Her visits became so common that in 2005, the Port of Friday Harbor named her the port's official seal. The State of Washington mandated that each public port have an \"official seal,\" possibly thinking of an ink stamp; the Port director and Port commission: Greg Hertel, Brian Calvert and Mike Ahrenius interpreted this differently giving the beloved seal the title. A granite sculpture of Popeye was also commissioned", "title": "Popeye (seal)" }, { "docid": "20119600", "text": "Popeye, the Ace of Space Popeye, the Ace of Space (1953) is a 3D theatrical cartoon released as a Stereotoon. It was produced by Famous Studios for the Stereotoon series featuring Popeye and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was the first Paramount cartoon to be created in 3D format. The other is \"Boo Moon\" with Casper the Friendly Ghost. Aiming to make a big impression on audiences, Paramount allocated additional funding for the Stereotoons which more than doubled the amount usually budgeted for Famous Studios cartoons of the day. A semi-remake of the earlier Popeye cartoon Rocket to Mars, Popeye", "title": "Popeye, the Ace of Space" }, { "docid": "20492739", "text": "daily lives unnoticed. Photographs of popular tattooed ladies reveal that their tattoos did not extend past their forearms, above their neck or below their ankles. In addition, many of these ladies' bore tattoos that included religious and patriotic iconography. Whether this was for personal preference or as a means of self-expression is not known, however, the organization and thematic nature of these tattoos demonstrate a common pattern. Tattooed ladies used such images to elevate the status of their tattoos as a proper art form worthy of display and as a way to soften the blow of their nonconforming bodies for", "title": "Tattooed Lady" }, { "docid": "6632607", "text": "Popeye (missile) Popeye is the name of a family of air-to-surface missiles developed and in use by Israel, of which several types have been developed for Israeli and export users. A long-range submarine-launched cruise missile variant of the Popeye Turbo has been speculated as being employed in Israel's submarine-based nuclear forces. The United States operates the Popeye under a different designation according to US naming conventions as the AGM-142 Have Nap. The Popeye is designed for precision attack against large targets from stand off ranges. The standard Popeye and smaller Popeye-Lite are powered by a single-stage solid rocket. Rafael offered", "title": "Popeye (missile)" }, { "docid": "483033", "text": "on November 14, 1971, planetary scientists were surprised to find the atmosphere was thick with \"a planet-wide robe of dust, the largest storm ever observed.\" The surface was totally obscured. Mariner 9's computer was thus reprogrammed from Earth to delay imaging of the surface for a couple of months until the dust settled. The main surface imaging did not get underway until mid-January 1972. However, surface-obscured images did contribute to the collection of Mars science, including understanding of the existence of several huge high-altitude volcanoes of the Tharsis Bulge that gradually became visible as the dust storm abated. This unexpected", "title": "Mariner 9" }, { "docid": "16411567", "text": "events or experiences such travels, achievements, naval hierarchy, rank, status, membership, and/or any other significant event in life. Examples of popular symbols in the sailor tattooing are: Sailor tattoos are also a visual way to preserve the culture of the sailors' superstitions. Throughout history sailors were a very superstitious group and believed that certain symbols and talismans would help them in when facing certain events in life. They thought that those symbols would attract good luck or bad luck in the worst of the cases. For example, the images of a pig and a hen were considered wards against drowning;", "title": "Sailor tattoos" }, { "docid": "10815498", "text": "what Mathews played. Even injuries in individual sports such as skiing can fall under this explanation as it is common to make a bad move in this sport and get caught up in a massive mistake of the athlete's own doing which results in injury. Finally, winning and losing streaks come to a close in all sports and this includes Milwaukee's nine-game winning streak in 1954. This makes the 1972 Miami Dolphins perfect season, 2007 New England Patriots perfect regular season, and the 2008 Detroit Lions winless season all the more remarkable. \"SI\" addressed its own opinions on the alleged", "title": "Sports Illustrated cover jinx" }, { "docid": "4348004", "text": "his son and rants about children. Popeye catches Bluto and fights him, but despite his determination, Popeye is overpowered. During the duel, Pappy recovers his treasure and opens the chest to reveal a collection of personal sentimental items from Popeye's infancy, including a few cans of spinach. A gigantic octopus awakens and attacks Olive from underwater (after Pappy saves Swee'Pea from a similar fate). With Popeye in a choke hold, Pappy throws him a can of spinach; Bluto, recognizing Popeye's dislike for spinach, force-feeds him the can before throwing him into the water. The spinach revitalizes Popeye and boosts his", "title": "Popeye (film)" } ]
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Taking her stage name from a Queen song, what singer was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta in 1986?
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[ { "docid": "19393941", "text": "is Joanne (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta), noticed that her aunt's death had a profound effect on her family and her work. Her debut album, \"The Fame\" (2008), contained a poem titled \"For a Moment\" by Joanne in the album's booklet. Gaga credits Joanne for helping her overcome addiction problems, and dedicated The Fame Ball Tour to her. The singer tattoed the date Joanne's died on her left biceps, in between lines of a verse from a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. The singer's parents opened a restaurant called Joanne Trattoria in New York in 2012. Gaga has often noted that", "title": "Joanne (album)" }, { "docid": "19678045", "text": "Joanne Trattoria Cookbook Joanne Trattoria Cookbook: Classic Recipes and Scenes from an Italian American Restaurant is a cookbook written by Joe Germanotta, father of American singer Lady Gaga and owner of the New York City restaurant Joanne Trattoria. It was released on November 22, 2016, by Post Hill Press. American singer Lady Gaga's aunt, Joanne Stefani Germanotta, died on December 18, 1974, when she was 19, due to complications arising from lupus. Although the singer was born almost 12 years after Joanne's death, the latter's influence was predominant on the Germanotta family and Gaga's work, including naming her fifth studio", "title": "Joanne Trattoria Cookbook" }, { "docid": "14301806", "text": "Joanne Angelina Germanotta from her birth in 1986, and chronicles her education at Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York, her early visits to nightclubs with her mother to perform at open-mic events, and her brief foray into the Tisch School of the Arts, leading up to her first experience of fame. Germanotta took the name \"Lady Gaga\" from the song \"Radio Ga Ga\" by the rock group Queen; she released her first album \"The Fame\" in 2008. \"Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop\" describes the musician's success in the industry, noting her business collaborations and appearance on the cover", "title": "Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop" }, { "docid": "14301809", "text": "Wan: The Biography\" (Gok Wan). Blackburn specializes in celebrity biographies; she motivates herself to write 5,000 words per day. Overlook Press stated it was the first published biography about Lady Gaga. \"Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop\" has 288 pages, including 32 pages of photographs of the musician. The author compares Lady Gaga to Madonna, writing that both are independent and work to assert control over their futures. The book discusses Lady Gaga's early life and background, including her upbringing in a New York City household with her father, a businessman. Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986, from", "title": "Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop" }, { "docid": "19678051", "text": "served, and has extra footnotes, explaining important points to be considered while cooking. Interspersed between the recipes are the pictures and the Germanotta family stories, anecdotes and drawings. Joanne Trattoria Cookbook Joanne Trattoria Cookbook: Classic Recipes and Scenes from an Italian American Restaurant is a cookbook written by Joe Germanotta, father of American singer Lady Gaga and owner of the New York City restaurant Joanne Trattoria. It was released on November 22, 2016, by Post Hill Press. American singer Lady Gaga's aunt, Joanne Stefani Germanotta, died on December 18, 1974, when she was 19, due to complications arising from lupus.", "title": "Joanne Trattoria Cookbook" }, { "docid": "15227124", "text": "Collins of \"Dose\" felt the video was a \"great opportunity for the singer to finally find out what it's like to make out with herself.\" Kyle Anderson of \"Entertainment Weekly\" noted of the scene in which Gaga plays a piano in a cornfield beside her male alter ego: \"She's just Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, playing a piano in the middle of a corn field—with a little making out on the side, of course.\" Gil Kaufman of MTV News believed that Gaga was not joking when she talked about the video being about the \"torture\" of being away from the one", "title": "You and I (Lady Gaga song)" }, { "docid": "12051592", "text": "Lady Gaga Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her unconventionality and provocative work, as well as visual experimentation. Gaga began performing as a teenager, singing at open mic nights and acting in school plays. She studied at Collaborative Arts Project 21, through New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, before dropping out to pursue a music career. After Def Jam Recordings canceled her contract, Gaga worked as a songwriter for Sony/ATV Music Publishing, where Akon helped her sign a joint deal", "title": "Lady Gaga" }, { "docid": "12051668", "text": "total of 61 million equivalent units certified according to Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She became the first woman to receive the Digital Diamond Award certification from RIAA, is one of three artists with at least two Diamond certified songs (\"Bad Romance\" and \"Poker Face\"), and is the first and only artist to have two songs pass 7 million downloads (\"Poker Face\" and \"Just Dance\"). Lady Gaga Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her unconventionality and provocative work, as well as", "title": "Lady Gaga" }, { "docid": "19733266", "text": "scope=\"row\"| Italy ! scope=\"row\" | Worldwide Joanne (Lady Gaga song) \"Joanne\", also known as \"Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?)\", is a song recorded by American singer Lady Gaga for her fifth studio album, also called \"Joanne\", in 2016. It was released as the album's third official single on December 22, 2017 in Italy, and a piano version followed in the rest of the world on January 26, 2018. The track was written and produced by Gaga and Mark Ronson, with additional production from BloodPop. Inspired by the singer's late aunt, Joanne Germanotta, the song became a focal point", "title": "Joanne (Lady Gaga song)" }, { "docid": "19733246", "text": "Joanne (Lady Gaga song) \"Joanne\", also known as \"Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?)\", is a song recorded by American singer Lady Gaga for her fifth studio album, also called \"Joanne\", in 2016. It was released as the album's third official single on December 22, 2017 in Italy, and a piano version followed in the rest of the world on January 26, 2018. The track was written and produced by Gaga and Mark Ronson, with additional production from BloodPop. Inspired by the singer's late aunt, Joanne Germanotta, the song became a focal point for the musical direction of the", "title": "Joanne (Lady Gaga song)" }, { "docid": "19733248", "text": "The clip showed the singer belting the song around various natural setting and was critically praised. Gaga performed \"Joanne\" at the 60th Grammy Awards and during her Joanne World Tour (2017–2018). It was also featured in the 2017 documentary \"\", during a scene involving Gaga and her grandmother listening to the track. The song has been nominated at the 61st Grammy Awards for Best Pop Solo Performance. Lady Gaga's deceased aunt, Joanne Germanotta, had a profound effect on the singer's life and career. Gaga included one of her aunt's unpublished poems on her first album's booklet, and tattooed the date", "title": "Joanne (Lady Gaga song)" }, { "docid": "19393988", "text": "from \"Joanne\" liner notes. !scope=\"row\"|Worldwide (IFPI) Joanne (album) Joanne is the fifth studio album by American singer Lady Gaga. It was released on October 21, 2016 by Streamline and Interscope Records. Production was done by Gaga with Mark Ronson and BloodPop, alongside a variety of collaborators including Kevin Parker, Emile Haynie, Jeff Bhasker and Josh Homme. Musically, \"Joanne\" features \"stripped-down\" soft rock and dance-pop stylings, which put emphasis on the singer's vocal abilities. Lyrically, the album delves into the theme of family and life's emotions, with the death of Gaga's aunt Joanne Stefani Germanotta having a deep influence on the", "title": "Joanne (album)" }, { "docid": "12051596", "text": "and earnings rankings. She was ranked at number four on VH1's Greatest Women in Music in 2012, finished second on \"Time\"s 2011 readers' poll of the most influential people of the past ten years, and was named \"Billboard\"s Woman of the Year in 2015. She is known for her philanthropy and social activism, including LGBT rights, and for her non-profit organization, the Born This Way Foundation, which focuses on promoting youth empowerment and combating bullying. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on March 28, 1986, at the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, to a Catholic family. Her", "title": "Lady Gaga" }, { "docid": "19393926", "text": "Joanne (album) Joanne is the fifth studio album by American singer Lady Gaga. It was released on October 21, 2016 by Streamline and Interscope Records. Production was done by Gaga with Mark Ronson and BloodPop, alongside a variety of collaborators including Kevin Parker, Emile Haynie, Jeff Bhasker and Josh Homme. Musically, \"Joanne\" features \"stripped-down\" soft rock and dance-pop stylings, which put emphasis on the singer's vocal abilities. Lyrically, the album delves into the theme of family and life's emotions, with the death of Gaga's aunt Joanne Stefani Germanotta having a deep influence on the record. The album era marked a", "title": "Joanne (album)" }, { "docid": "19393940", "text": "available as and when released. However, on Amazon's Echo speakers, fans found that if they instructed it to \"Play \"Joanne\" by Lady Gaga\", it previewed 30 second snippets of each track. Amazon later disabled previews for the whole album. Three days prior to the official release date of October 21, the album was mistakenly put up for sale in shops in Belgium, resulting in people posting it on the Internet. Gaga named the album after Joanne Stefani Germanotta, her father's sister. She died on December 18, 1974, at age 19, due to complications arising from lupus. Gaga, whose middle name", "title": "Joanne (album)" }, { "docid": "19678047", "text": "the Tuscan countryside, and near a fireplace at the entrance, diners can see the Germanotta family photos hanging by a front booth. In August 2016, Post Hill Press announced the release of a cookbook authored by Germanotta, titled \"Joanne Trattoria Cookbook: Classic Recipes and Scenes from an Italian American Restaurant\". The book was released by the publishing house on November 22, 2016 in hardcover format. Germanotta said that he had no inkling of what the process of writing a book consisted of, and had to learn each step, including how to promote it. \"Joanne Trattoria Cookbook\" consists of recipes for", "title": "Joanne Trattoria Cookbook" }, { "docid": "19733260", "text": "of her passing. The video features a cameo appearance from Gaga's sister, Natalie Germanotta. Joey Nolfi from \"Entertainment Weekly\" described the visual as \"gorgeous\", feeling that it \"seems to favor the beauty of the journey over the destination... We still don't know where [Gaga] thinks she's going.\" Hollee Actman Becker from \"Elite Daily\" found symbolism in the scene showing Gaga crossing a bridge with a rainbow in the sky. She believed it to portray Joanne crossing into the afterlife. \"What an amazing tribute — so beautiful and raw\", Becker concluded. \"W\" magazine's Evelyn Wang commended Gaga for releasing a music", "title": "Joanne (Lady Gaga song)" }, { "docid": "12909794", "text": "with a plaque from the Recording Industry Association of America by social blogger Perez Hilton commemorating three million sales of her debut single \"Just Dance\", during her performance at the Wiltern Theatre. This show was also attended by rapper Kanye West. Craig Rosen from \"The Hollywood Reporter\" said that \"Lady Gaga showed she's a serious contender to Madonna's crown Friday at the Wiltern. She might be a relative newcomer, but the artist born Stefani Joanne Germanotta commanded the stage with a royal air during her hourlong set, at times even sporting a glowing scepter.\" The Fame Ball Tour The Fame", "title": "The Fame Ball Tour" }, { "docid": "640827", "text": "both Madonna and Prince were given those names at birth; Lady Gaga named herself after the song \"Radio Ga Ga\" by the band Queen. Actor Marion Morrison adopted the stage name John Wayne because \"Marion\" had come to be more common as a female name and he felt it was at odds with the masculine cowboy characters he portrayed. Similarly, Norma Jeane Baker changed her name to the far more glamorous-sounding Marilyn Monroe. Hip-hop artists are known to use stage names, such as Jay-Z (born Shawn Carter), 50 Cent (born Curtis Jackson), Diddy (born Sean Combs), Ludacris (born Chris Bridges),", "title": "Stage name" }, { "docid": "19733250", "text": "from the autoimmune disease lupus when she was 19 years old. In an interview, Gaga revealed that Joanne's lupus got more complicated after she experienced a sexual assault, and those complications resulted in her death. The incident affected the Germanotta family and according to Gaga, the grief never left them completely. Writing \"Joanne\" helped Gaga deal with her father's pain of losing his sister. During the New York City show of her Dive Bar Tour (2016), Gaga added that despite the song's relevance to her family, she wanted the track to appeal to everyone who had suffered the loss of", "title": "Joanne (Lady Gaga song)" }, { "docid": "19678046", "text": "album as \"Joanne\". Joanne Trattoria, an Italian restaurant located at West 68th Street in New York City, was opened in January 2012 by Gaga. The restaurant is co-owned by Gaga's parents, Joe and Cynthia Germanotta. Chef Art Chef had met Gaga during a taping of \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\", and partnered with Gaga for working in the restaurant. \"The New York Times\" described the place as having a \"well-stocked bar, a cozy back patio and seating for about 70 people\". A long dream of Joe Germanotta, the restaurant serves Southern Italian cuisine. Decor of the jaunt consists of scenes of", "title": "Joanne Trattoria Cookbook" }, { "docid": "14041915", "text": "adapted from \"The Fame Monster\" album liner notes. Speechless (Lady Gaga song) \"Speechless\" is a song written and performed by American singer Lady Gaga, from her third EP, \"The Fame Monster\". The song was written by Gaga to convince her father, Joseph Germanotta, to undergo open-heart surgery, in order to repair his malfunctioning aortic valve, and as a reminder for her younger fans to appreciate their parents. \"Speechless\" is described as Gaga's \"Fear of Death Monster\". The 1970s rock music-inspired power ballad received mixed reviews from critics, who praised it for drawing influences from Queen, as well as its sincerity", "title": "Speechless (Lady Gaga song)" }, { "docid": "14041901", "text": "Speechless (Lady Gaga song) \"Speechless\" is a song written and performed by American singer Lady Gaga, from her third EP, \"The Fame Monster\". The song was written by Gaga to convince her father, Joseph Germanotta, to undergo open-heart surgery, in order to repair his malfunctioning aortic valve, and as a reminder for her younger fans to appreciate their parents. \"Speechless\" is described as Gaga's \"Fear of Death Monster\". The 1970s rock music-inspired power ballad received mixed reviews from critics, who praised it for drawing influences from Queen, as well as its sincerity while others criticized it for \"com[ing] off as", "title": "Speechless (Lady Gaga song)" }, { "docid": "19393948", "text": "Gaga's life, from her father Joe Germanotta and ex-fiancé Taylor Kinney. She cited that using her \"rebellious spirit\" she wanted to understand all the different relationships that she had gone through, saying that \"Joanne\" was not a \"sad album. It's an album that is very revealing of me as a woman\". According to Kevin Fallon from \"The Daily Beast\", \"The act of being Lady Gaga had drowned out the brilliant music, and the importance of Lady Gaga had somehow muddied the simple pleasure of being her fan: It was her authenticity, in all of its strangeness and lofty artistic pursuit,", "title": "Joanne (album)" } ]
[ { "docid": "6905042", "text": "Crash (Gwen Stefani song) \"Crash\" is a song by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani from her debut solo studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). Written by Stefani and No Doubt bandmate Tony Kanal, the song uses automobile metaphors to describe a relationship, and it received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Not originally planned as a single, the song was released as the album's sixth and final single on January 24, 2006, during Stefani's pregnancy. Stefani had been working on her solo project with Linda Perry. The two penned several songs, including lead single \"What You Waiting For?\",", "title": "Crash (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "19139043", "text": "where she also sang her singles \"Make Me Like You\", \"Hollaback Girl\", and \"The Sweet Escape\". Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"This Is What the Truth Feels Like\", Interscope Records. Misery (Gwen Stefani song) \"Misery\" is a song recorded by American singer Gwen Stefani for her third solo studio album, \"This Is What the Truth Feels Like\" (2016). Initially released as a promotional single, it became the record's third and final single on May 23, 2016, when it was sent to hot adult contemporary radio. Stefani co-wrote the song with Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels, Mattias Larsson, and Robin", "title": "Misery (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "5014737", "text": "Rich Girl (Gwen Stefani song) \"Rich Girl\" is a song by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani from her debut solo studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). Produced by Dr. Dre, the track features American rapper Eve, and is a remake of Louchie Lou & Michie One's 1993 song of the same name, which is in turn an adaptation of the \"Fiddler on the Roof\" song \"If I Were a Rich Man\". Stefani says the song discusses her dreams of fame and riches from the perspective of \"when she was just an Orange County girl\". The last song to", "title": "Rich Girl (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "19139015", "text": "Misery (Gwen Stefani song) \"Misery\" is a song recorded by American singer Gwen Stefani for her third solo studio album, \"This Is What the Truth Feels Like\" (2016). Initially released as a promotional single, it became the record's third and final single on May 23, 2016, when it was sent to hot adult contemporary radio. Stefani co-wrote the song with Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels, Mattias Larsson, and Robin Frediksson, with the latter two serving as the producers. An electropop song, \"Misery\" uses digital hand clapping and an upbeat samba to produce a futuristic-sounding melody. The lyrics describe a lover who", "title": "Misery (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "5014754", "text": "Girl\" at number 24 on its Top 40 Videos of 2005. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" Rich Girl (Gwen Stefani song) \"Rich Girl\" is a song by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani from her debut solo studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). Produced by Dr. Dre, the track features American rapper Eve, and is a remake of Louchie Lou & Michie One's 1993 song of the same name, which is in turn an adaptation of the \"Fiddler on the Roof\" song \"If I Were a Rich Man\". Stefani says the song discusses", "title": "Rich Girl (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "5468173", "text": "Cool (Gwen Stefani song) \"Cool\" is a song by American singer Gwen Stefani from her debut solo studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). Written by Stefani and Dallas Austin, the song was released on July 5, 2005 as the album's fourth single. It was written by Austin basing the song on No Doubt's \"Simple Kind of Life\", but he did not finish it. He then asked for help from Stefani, and they finished the song in 15 minutes. The single's musical style and production were inspired by synth-pop and new wave arrangements from the 1980s, and its lyrics chronicle", "title": "Cool (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "12989250", "text": "Stefani performed the \"Slow Jam Mix\" of the song during her The Sweet Escape Tour (2007); the performance also included Stefani in a 1940s-style bathing suit, once again accompanied by the Harajuku Girls. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" The Real Thing (Gwen Stefani song) \"The Real Thing\" is a song by American singer Gwen Stefani from her debut solo studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). It was written by Stefani, Linda Perry, and her then-husband Gavin Rossdale, who is credited as \"GMR\". Nellee Hooper produced the song, with Mark \"Spike\" Stent serving as", "title": "The Real Thing (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "18558056", "text": "Serious (Gwen Stefani song) \"Serious\" is a song by American singer Gwen Stefani for her debut solo studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). It was released on November 12, 2004, along with the rest of the aforementioned album by Interscope Records. The track was written by Stefani and her No Doubt bandmate, Tony Kanal. The latter also produced the song with Mark \"Spike\" Stent, who Stefani and Kanal previously worked with on No Doubt's fifth studio album, \"Rock Steady\" (2001). \"Serious\" is a synthpop song with lyrics pertaining to a strong romantic interest in a significant other. \"Serious\" received", "title": "Serious (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "12825468", "text": "Yummy (Gwen Stefani song) \"Yummy\" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani, featuring American musician Pharrell Williams, from her second solo studio album, \"The Sweet Escape\" (2006). The track was released on November 11, 2006 as a promotional single for the parent album's release through Interscope Records. It was developed during several sessions in Miami, Florida and Hollywood, California in July 2005, for an intended EP or as extra tracks on her video album \"Harajuku Lovers Live\" (2005). The song was written by Stefani and Williams and produced by The Neptunes. Musically, the collaboration is a", "title": "Yummy (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "6905049", "text": "released instead of a narrative video. The video was directed by Sophie Muller at a performance in Anaheim, California, during Stefani's Harajuku Lovers Tour. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" Crash (Gwen Stefani song) \"Crash\" is a song by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani from her debut solo studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). Written by Stefani and No Doubt bandmate Tony Kanal, the song uses automobile metaphors to describe a relationship, and it received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Not originally planned as a single, the song was released as the", "title": "Crash (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "18528822", "text": "Shine (Gwen Stefani song) \"Shine\" is a song recorded by American singer Gwen Stefani, featuring collaborative vocals by American entertainer Pharrell Williams. Originally intended for Stefani's band No Doubt, it was written and produced by Williams, with songwriting contributions from Stefani. It is a reggae pop and ska song that is featured in the 2014 animated film \"Paddington.\" The lyrics revolve around the lead character Paddington Bear's journey to London and his identity crisis. Stefani initially disagreed with Williams' choice to use direct references to Paddington in the lyrics, but praised this decision after watching the film with her children.", "title": "Shine (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "5468188", "text": "video album \"Harajuku Lovers Live\", released on December 5, 2005. It was also briefly used in the 2006 movies, \"Click\" and \"Last Holiday\". Sofia Coppola's 2010 drama film \"Somewhere\", features Elle Fanning's character Cleo performing an ice dancing routine to the song. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" Cool (Gwen Stefani song) \"Cool\" is a song by American singer Gwen Stefani from her debut solo studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). Written by Stefani and Dallas Austin, the song was released on July 5, 2005 as the album's fourth single. It was written by", "title": "Cool (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "640835", "text": "his professional name as a legal name, changed it back to his birth name in 1986. Another example is Marvin Lee Aday, known by his stage name, Meat Loaf. In a similar way, actress and singer Miley Cyrus was born Destiny Hope Cyrus, but found \"Miley\" more comfortable, making it her legal name. Entire musical groups have been known to adopt a common stage surname, the most notable arguably being the Ramones. Recent examples include Those Darlins and Los Campesinos!. Notes Stage name A stage name is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers, such as actors, comedians, singers and", "title": "Stage name" }, { "docid": "18558066", "text": "tour entitled Harajuku Lovers Tour. The track was performed as a finale/encore alongside \"Bubble Pop Electric\" during the original setlist of the show, but was performed earlier in later shows as \"Hollaback Girl\" became the new encore, preceded by \"Serious\" and the aforementioned song. In the performance, Stefani was carried out in a stretcher by the Harajuku Girls, dressed up as nurses. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" Serious (Gwen Stefani song) \"Serious\" is a song by American singer Gwen Stefani for her debut solo studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). It was released", "title": "Serious (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "12989241", "text": "The Real Thing (Gwen Stefani song) \"The Real Thing\" is a song by American singer Gwen Stefani from her debut solo studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). It was written by Stefani, Linda Perry, and her then-husband Gavin Rossdale, who is credited as \"GMR\". Nellee Hooper produced the song, with Mark \"Spike\" Stent serving as an additional producer. A synth-pop and Europop ballad, \"The Real Thing\" talks about mutual love between two lovers. Interscope Records issued the track as a promotional single exclusively in the Philippines a year after the album's release. It was released as a CD single", "title": "The Real Thing (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "20278599", "text": "Christmas Eve (Gwen Stefani song) \"Christmas Eve\" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani for her fourth studio album, \"You Make It Feel Like Christmas\" (2017). It was released digitally as the album's second and final promotional single on October 5, 2017, through Interscope Records. The track was written by Stefani, Justin Tranter, and Michael Busbee while production was handled by busbee and Eric Valentine. Commercially, it peaked at number twenty on both \"Billboard\"s Holiday Digital Songs and Holiday Digital Song Sales charts in the United States. During 2017, Stefani attended recording sessions where she worked", "title": "Christmas Eve (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "12825478", "text": "songs \"Harajuku Girls\", \"Don't Get It Twisted\", \"Now That You Got It\", and \"Bubble Pop Electric\", and the aforementioned song. The medley contained J-pop and disco elements, and served as a \"virtual sonic tour of Stefani's many stylistic identities\". Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"The Sweet Escape\", Interscope Records. Yummy (Gwen Stefani song) \"Yummy\" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani, featuring American musician Pharrell Williams, from her second solo studio album, \"The Sweet Escape\" (2006). The track was released on November 11, 2006 as a promotional single for the parent album's release through", "title": "Yummy (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "18528838", "text": "purchase on the iTunes Store. Credits adapted from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers: Shine (Gwen Stefani song) \"Shine\" is a song recorded by American singer Gwen Stefani, featuring collaborative vocals by American entertainer Pharrell Williams. Originally intended for Stefani's band No Doubt, it was written and produced by Williams, with songwriting contributions from Stefani. It is a reggae pop and ska song that is featured in the 2014 animated film \"Paddington.\" The lyrics revolve around the lead character Paddington Bear's journey to London and his identity crisis. Stefani initially disagreed with Williams' choice to use direct references", "title": "Shine (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "19139018", "text": "performing the song while she wears various outfits in the abandoned premises. The video was well-received, especially for Stefani's multiple costume changes. Makeup artist Gregory Arlt and hairstylist Danilo won the Best Hair & Make Up award at the 2016 Ibiza Music Video Awards for their contributions to the video. The singer performed \"Misery\" live on various occasions, including on television and during her This Is What the Truth Feels Like Tour in 2016. When beginning work on her then-untitled third studio album, Stefani sought inspiration from her personal life in order to write lyrics for new material. She noted:...", "title": "Misery (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "19733264", "text": "and heartbreaking\". Maria Pasquini from \"People\" thought that the performance of \"Joanne\" was \"stirring\". \"Joanne\" was featured in documentary film, \"\", which chronicled the recording of the eponymous album and the singer's life. In one of the scenes, the singer and her father visit her grandmother at the nursing home, so that she can listen to the track about Joanne. Gaga's father is \"overcome with emotion, [and] steps out of the room during the visit\", and her grandmother reassures the singer that she \"got it right\" with the song. Spencer Kornhaber of \"The Atlantic\" named it \"the most memorable scene", "title": "Joanne (Lady Gaga song)" }, { "docid": "12825477", "text": "Davies, writing for BBC Music, described it as a \"bland filler\" that \"sums her up [as] coquettish, amusing, annoying and hip wiggling in equal measure\". Stefani included the song on the setlist for her 2006 world concert tour entitled The Sweet Escape Tour. For the show's rendition, the singer walked upon a moving walkway alongside two keyboard players; Fuoco-Karasinski compared the introduction to that of Jamiroquai. The recording was also played during Stefani's fashion shows. At the promotional concert series MasterCard Priceless Surprises Presents Gwen Stefani, the song was performed as a part of a \"Harajuku Medley\", consisting of the", "title": "Yummy (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "20278602", "text": "both track the best-selling digital holidays songs of the week, it entered and peaked at number 20 during the week of October 28, 2017. Christmas Eve (Gwen Stefani song) \"Christmas Eve\" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani for her fourth studio album, \"You Make It Feel Like Christmas\" (2017). It was released digitally as the album's second and final promotional single on October 5, 2017, through Interscope Records. The track was written by Stefani, Justin Tranter, and Michael Busbee while production was handled by busbee and Eric Valentine. Commercially, it peaked at number twenty on", "title": "Christmas Eve (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "1444757", "text": "her 13th on their \"100 Greatest Women in Music\" list in 2012. Including her work with No Doubt, Stefani has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. Gwen Renée Stefani was born on October 3, 1969, in Fullerton, California, and raised Roman Catholic in Anaheim, California. She was named after a stewardess in the 1968 novel \"Airport\", and her middle name, Renée, comes from The Four Tops' 1968 cover of The Left Banke's 1966 song \"Walk Away Renée\". Her father, Dennis Stefani, worked as a Yamaha marketing executive. Her mother, Patti (\"née\" Flynn), worked as an accountant before becoming a", "title": "Gwen Stefani" }, { "docid": "8927049", "text": "that appear in the video, referring to some of them as \"Nunzilla\", \"Gweninatrix\", and \"CinderGwennie\", and commented that \"your speakers have a mute setting for good reason.\" Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"The Sweet Escape\". Wind It Up (Gwen Stefani song) \"Wind It Up\" is a song by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani. Originally written for inclusion on Stefani's Harajuku Lovers Tour, the song was later recorded for her second solo studio album, \"The Sweet Escape\" (2006). The track contains an interpolation of \"The Sound of Music\" song \"The Lonely Goatherd\". \"Wind It Up\" was negatively received", "title": "Wind It Up (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "5014707", "text": "What You Waiting For? \"What You Waiting For?\" is a song by American singer Gwen Stefani from her debut solo studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). Written by Stefani and Linda Perry, the song is the album's opening track and was released as Stefani's debut solo single. \"What You Waiting For?\" details Stefani's lack of inspiration, fear of producing the album, as well as her reaction to pressures exerted by her record label. It is primarily an electropop song and introduces Stefani's four back-up dancers, the Harajuku Girls, who had a major input into the album's production. \"What You", "title": "What You Waiting For?" }, { "docid": "11215570", "text": "In 1997, it was translated and released by Bengali Singer-songwriter Kabir Suman. Translated into Swedish (Adjö, Angelina) by Michael Wiehe appearing on the 2007 album Dylan på Svenska (Dylan in Swedish) Mikael Wiehe & Ebba Forsberg. Translated into Swedish (Farväl Angelina) by Per Gessle appearing on the 1985 album Scener. Farewell, Angelina (song) \"Farewell Angelina\" is a song written by Bob Dylan in the mid-1960s, and most famously recorded by Joan Baez. Dylan attempted to record \"Farewell Angelina\" only once, during the first session for his 1965 album \"Bringing It All Back Home\", and he abandoned all attempts to record", "title": "Farewell, Angelina (song)" }, { "docid": "7541012", "text": "tube sunder gallen\" (Middle High German for \"rose without a thorn, a dove without gall\"). Irene Angelina Irene Angelina (; c. 1181 – 27 August 1208), was a Byzantine princess member of the Angelos dynasty and by her two marriages Queen of Sicily in 1193 and Queen of Germany from 1198 to 1208. She was the second daughter of Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelos and his first wife, an unknown Palaiologina? who became nun with the name Irene. Irene was born in Constantinople. Her father Isaac II inaugurated his reign with a decisive victory over the Norman invaders on the", "title": "Irene Angelina" }, { "docid": "7541008", "text": "Irene Angelina Irene Angelina (; c. 1181 – 27 August 1208), was a Byzantine princess member of the Angelos dynasty and by her two marriages Queen of Sicily in 1193 and Queen of Germany from 1198 to 1208. She was the second daughter of Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelos and his first wife, an unknown Palaiologina? who became nun with the name Irene. Irene was born in Constantinople. Her father Isaac II inaugurated his reign with a decisive victory over the Norman invaders on the Balkans in the 1185 Battle of Demetritzes. In 1193 he and King Tancred of Sicily", "title": "Irene Angelina" }, { "docid": "5014732", "text": "\"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" What You Waiting For? \"What You Waiting For?\" is a song by American singer Gwen Stefani from her debut solo studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). Written by Stefani and Linda Perry, the song is the album's opening track and was released as Stefani's debut solo single. \"What You Waiting For?\" details Stefani's lack of inspiration, fear of producing the album, as well as her reaction to pressures exerted by her record label. It is primarily an electropop song and introduces Stefani's four back-up dancers, the Harajuku Girls, who had a major input into the", "title": "What You Waiting For?" }, { "docid": "14715239", "text": "Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina) \"Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina)\" is a song by alternative rock band Sponge, released in 1996 as the debut single from their second album \"Wax Ecstatic\". The music video for \"Wax Ecstatic\" revolves around a roller derby girl (Angelina, or \"Angel\", per her nickname) and her aspirations to better her output in the sport. She purchases \"Wax Ecstatic\" pills (a gold colored gelatin tab), and starts taking them. Footage is shown of 1990s-era roller derby, along with footage of the band playing to include lead singer Vinnie Dombroski promoting Wax Ecstatic as being the answer", "title": "Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina)" }, { "docid": "6676781", "text": "Eva Angelina Eva Angelina (born March 14, 1985) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress, feature dancer, and real estate agent. She began her career at around 18 years old and has won several industry awards, including the 2008 AVN Award for Best Actress – Video and the 2008 XBIZ Award for Female Performer of the Year. Angelina was born in Huntington Beach, California. She has said she is of Cuban, Chinese, English and Irish descent. Angelina entered the porn industry by answering an advertisement in the newspapers; her first scene was for the \"Shane's World\" series with", "title": "Eva Angelina" }, { "docid": "8927036", "text": "Wind It Up (Gwen Stefani song) \"Wind It Up\" is a song by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani. Originally written for inclusion on Stefani's Harajuku Lovers Tour, the song was later recorded for her second solo studio album, \"The Sweet Escape\" (2006). The track contains an interpolation of \"The Sound of Music\" song \"The Lonely Goatherd\". \"Wind It Up\" was negatively received by most music critics, who criticized the song's use of yodeling and found the track to be over the top. It was released as the album's lead single on October 31, 2006 and reached the top 20", "title": "Wind It Up (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "5014745", "text": "Stylus Magazine described it as \"a lite version of 'Hey Baby.'\" Several reviewers found it ironic that Stefani, who had already sold 26 million records with No Doubt, discussed having money in the counterfactual conditional. John Murphy from musicOMH found it \"rather strange\" for Stefani to sing the song while living off of royalties from No Doubt and her husband, post-grunge musician Gavin Rossdale. Anthony Carew from Neumu called the lyrics \"insipid\" and noted that \"the incredibly wealthy pop-starlet wonders what it'd be like to be, uh, incredibly wealthy\". \"The Orange County Register\" writer Ben Wener told Stefani that the", "title": "Rich Girl (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "10864273", "text": "Taking Chances (song) \"Taking Chances\" is a song recorded by Canadian singer Celine Dion, taken from her tenth English-language studio album of the same name (2007). It was written by Kara DioGuardi and former Eurythmics member, Dave Stewart for their band named Platinum Weird. The song was supposed to be released as a single in February 2007 from their unreleased self-titled album. However, after DioGuardi and Stewart recorded it, they played the track for Dion's husband René Angélil, who loved it and she recorded it. It was released as the first single from \"Taking Chances\" in September 2007. \"Taking Chances\"", "title": "Taking Chances (song)" }, { "docid": "11215567", "text": "Farewell, Angelina (song) \"Farewell Angelina\" is a song written by Bob Dylan in the mid-1960s, and most famously recorded by Joan Baez. Dylan attempted to record \"Farewell Angelina\" only once, during the first session for his 1965 album \"Bringing It All Back Home\", and he abandoned all attempts to record the song again. Dylan's one recording of the song was eventually issued in 1991 on \"The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991\" and again on \"\". Joan Baez included this song on her 1965 album \"Farewell Angelina\". In the UK the song was issued at the same time", "title": "Farewell, Angelina (song)" }, { "docid": "1444798", "text": "of Barbados musicians, claimed that both Stefani and No Doubt had helped influence their music, to which the lead singer of the group, Amanda Reifer, admitted that she would \"pass out\" if she were to ever meet Stefani. The lead single from \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\", \"What You Waiting For?\", was considered by Pitchfork to be one of the best singles by Stefani, and would later place it at number sixteen on their \"Top 50 Singles of 2004\" list. Additionally, \"Hollaback Girl\" from the aforementioned album would go on to be the first song to digitally sell an excess of", "title": "Gwen Stefani" }, { "docid": "20874511", "text": "Yuki Goto (singer, born 1986) In 1999, when he was in 6th grade, Goto was scouted by Harmony Promotion while he was at one of Maki Goto's events. He was assigned to a group with Sonim and Ken under the name EE Jump as their lead rapper. Together, they made their first televised appearance on the variety show \"Warau Inu no Bōken\". Though Ken left the group before their CD debut, EE Jump released their first single on October 18, 2000 with the song \"Love is Energy!\" and achieved mainstream success with their summer hit on May 16, 2001. Despite", "title": "Yuki Goto (singer, born 1986)" }, { "docid": "5497844", "text": "Patra (singer) Dorothy Smith (born 22 November 1972), better known by her stage name Patra is a Jamaican Reggae/Dancehall recording artist. In her beginnings as a female dancehall deejay in the late 1980s, she used the stage name Lady Patra. Patra first made an impression on the US charts as a featured singer on the Shabba Ranks song, \"Family Affair\", which hit No. 84 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in 1994. In 1993, Patra released her debut album \"Queen of The Pack\" (#1 on the Reggae albums chart). It was led by the single \"Think (About It)\" in 1993, which", "title": "Patra (singer)" }, { "docid": "6565654", "text": "Joanne Accom Joanne Accom (born Joanne Ruth Charlotte Accom on 13 November 1978), nicknamed Joanne BZ, is an Australian dance, pop singer-songwriter. Joanne's first single, \"Jackie\", was released in late 1998. It reached No. 3 on the ARIA Charts, and became the highest selling single in Australia by an Australian artist during the 12-month period of eligibility for the 1999 ARIA Music Awards. For \"Jackie\", Joanne was credited as B.Z. featuring Joanne or Joanne/BZ, referring to the original performers of the song, Blue Zone. She released the singles \"Pack Your Bags\" and \"Are You Ready\" in 1999. Her next release", "title": "Joanne Accom" }, { "docid": "1444780", "text": "one on the \"Billboard\" 200 with 84,000 album-equivalent units sold in its first week, earning Stefani her first number-one album on the chart as a solo artist. To further promote the album, Stefani embarked on her This Is What the Truth Feels Like Tour with rapper Eve in the United States. The singer voiced DJ Suki in the animated film \"Trolls\", which was released on November 4, 2016. She is also included on five songs from the . On September 8, 2016, Stefani announced that she would be performing at the final two shows at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre for", "title": "Gwen Stefani" }, { "docid": "14400879", "text": "of the Eurovision Song Contest. A new song, \"Sweet People\", was chosen, two days after the 22 March deadline had passed, so NTU was fined by the EBU. Alyosha performed in the second semi-final on 27 May 2010, where she progressed to the final. In the final Alyosha finished 10th with 108 points. Alyosha (singer) Olena Oleksandrivna Kucher-Topolya (, born 14 May 1986), better known by her stage name Alyosha (), is a Ukrainian singer. Alyosha was born on 14 May 1986 in Zaporizhia. She studied vocals at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts and signed with the", "title": "Alyosha (singer)" }, { "docid": "11215568", "text": "as a single. Baez' version, though only about half as long as Dylan's recording, was very similar in structure and showed her moving away from pure folk music with the use of string bass accompaniment. Baez has often included performances of the song in her concerts, from 1965 through the 2010s. A live version appears on 1984's \"Live Europe '83.\" \"Farewell Angelina\" has remained a continuous part of Joan Baez' concert repertoire, being recorded twice for live albums during the 1980s. The song has also been recorded by the New Riders of the Purple Sage (on \"Oh, What a Mighty", "title": "Farewell, Angelina (song)" }, { "docid": "18528826", "text": "by Williams and Stefani instead. In an official statement, film executive Bob Weinstein called Stefani and Williams \"the perfect artistic duo\", saying their work \"brought to life the charm that Paddington represents\". Stefani said her involvement was motivated by her personal connection to the film's setting through her marriage to English musician Gavin Rossdale. She added that the film and the track allowed her children to recognise their origins. Williams considered the song to be \"a wonderful opportunity, as a parent, to contribute to something as classic, authentic and generational to all of our lives, as Paddington Bear\"; Stefani said", "title": "Shine (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "19915184", "text": "was advertised as a promotional event for her upcoming third album. The performance was accompanied by a feather backdrop and Stefani in matching clothing. Since she performed \"Start a War\" along with her recent releases (\"Baby Don't Lie\", \"Spark the Fire\", and \"Together\"), several news publications believed it would receive a commercial release. Having heard the performance, a blogger from KLUC-FM speculated that the track could belong to either Stefani or No Doubt. Start a War (song) \"Start a War\" is an unreleased song recorded by American singer Gwen Stefani. Originally intended for inclusion on her then-upcoming and untitled third", "title": "Start a War (song)" }, { "docid": "6676783", "text": "from performing throughout her adult film career. As of August 2014 she remains active in the adult entertainment industry as a girl/girl porn performer and feature dancer. She was married to British pornographic actor Danny Mountain from 2007 to 2009. In December 2008, she gave birth to their daughter, Sylvi. She earned a real estate license in May 2014. Eva Angelina Eva Angelina (born March 14, 1985) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress, feature dancer, and real estate agent. She began her career at around 18 years old and has won several industry awards, including the 2008", "title": "Eva Angelina" }, { "docid": "6905047", "text": "that Stefani \"maintains her signature sass throughout\". \"Crash\" had originally not been planned as a major single release from \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" In late 2005 Stefani announced that she was pregnant (while performing the song on tour in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) and would be delaying her second solo album, and the song was announced as the sixth single in January 2006. The song impacted US contemporary hit radio and rhythmic contemporary radio stations in the US on January 24, 2006. The single debuted at number 95 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 on February 11, 2006. It reached number 45", "title": "Crash (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "12687579", "text": "Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 Cyprus was present at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, held in Bergen, Norway. For 1986, the Cypriot broadcaster, the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, selected their candidate for the Eurovision Song Contest internally. They chose Elpida, then a very popular singer in Greece and the Greek diaspora, who already had experience at Eurovision, representing Greece in 1979. The song chosen to go with her was \"Tora Zo,\" (\"Now I Live\"), composed by Peter Yiannakis, with lyrics by Yiannakis and Fivos Gavris. At the Contest in Bergen, Elpida was the fifteenth performer on stage, following Germany", "title": "Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986" }, { "docid": "1444783", "text": "after the No Doubt song, \"Just A Girl\". Stefani made most of the clothing that she wore on stage with No Doubt, resulting in increasingly eclectic combinations. Stylist Andrea Lieberman introduced her to haute couture clothing, which led to Stefani launching a fashion line named L.A.M.B. in 2004. The line takes influence from a variety of fashions, including Guatemalan, Japanese, and Jamaican styles. The line achieved popularity among celebrities and is worn by stars such as Teri Hatcher, Nicole Kidman, and Stefani herself. In June 2005, she expanded her collection with the less expensive Harajuku Lovers line, which she referred", "title": "Gwen Stefani" }, { "docid": "19188077", "text": "\"Long Way to Go\" occasionally flashed on the screens above Stefani. Due to the topic of interracial dating prevalent in the song, Stefani was surrounded by individuals of different races throughout the performance. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" Long Way to Go (Gwen Stefani and André 3000 song) \"Long Way to Go\" is a song by American singer Gwen Stefani and American rapper André 3000. The song appears as the closing track on Stefani's debut studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). It was released on November 23, 2004, along with the rest of", "title": "Long Way to Go (Gwen Stefani and André 3000 song)" }, { "docid": "10864294", "text": "Fox's hit TV show \"Glee\" by Lea Michele's character Rachel Berry on the episode entitled \"Preggers,\" in the first season. It peaked at number 71 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts when it was released. North American/European digital single European CD single/digital single Japanese CD single Australian/European digital EP Australian/European CD maxi single French CD single/digital EP French digital EP French CD maxi single Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"Taking Chances\", Epic Records. Taking Chances (song) \"Taking Chances\" is a song recorded by Canadian singer Celine Dion, taken from her tenth English-language studio album of the same name", "title": "Taking Chances (song)" }, { "docid": "1444787", "text": "Kingdom\"s songs, such as \"Don't Speak\", \"Sunday Morning\", and \"Hey You!\", chronicle the ups and downs of their relationship. Many years later, Stefani co-wrote her hit song \"Cool\" about their relationship as friends for her 2004 debut solo album \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" Stefani met Bush lead singer and guitarist Gavin Rossdale in 1995, when No Doubt and headlining band Bush performed at a holiday concert for radio station KROQ. They married on September 14, 2002, with a wedding in St Paul's, Covent Garden, London. A second wedding was held in Los Angeles two weeks later. Stefani has three sons", "title": "Gwen Stefani" }, { "docid": "640812", "text": "with Davy Jones of The Monkees. Singer Ray Charles, born Ray Robinson, changed his name to avoid confusion with boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. A performer may also have had their stage name chosen for them by their agent – such was the case with Barbara Eden, born Barbara Jean Huffman – or, in the heyday of the Hollywood studios, by a movie studio. Joan Rivers (born Joan Alexandra Molinsky) went one step further and named herself after a former agent, Tony Rivers, after he told her to change her name. In the non English-speaking world, an example is the Taiwanese", "title": "Stage name" }, { "docid": "19915176", "text": "Start a War (song) \"Start a War\" is an unreleased song recorded by American singer Gwen Stefani. Originally intended for inclusion on her then-upcoming and untitled third studio album, the ballad was written by Stefani and Sia Furler, with Arnthor Birgisson as executive producer. The singer expressed gratitude towards Furler for helping her create the composition. The song was initially meant to serve as a bonus track on a CD maxi single for her 2014 single \"Baby Don't Lie\", although the distribution was scrapped by Interscope and Mad Love Records. After being registered with a UPC, it was then revealed", "title": "Start a War (song)" }, { "docid": "19139042", "text": "Stephen Bradley and Gabrial McNair accompanied her. Her attire consisted of torn jeans and a high-waisted top, which is comparable to her clothing on previous performances. On the April 19, 2016, episode of \"The Voice\", the song was sung live by the singer, who created an Indian-inspired atmosphere. Backup singers and dancers, in addition to a \"psychedelic lighting scheme\", joined Stefani as she sang it in front a live audience. At the end of the performance, her boyfriend Shelton welcomed her with a standing ovation and continuous applause. The single's most recent performance occurred on July 15, 2016, during \"Today\",", "title": "Misery (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "19188068", "text": "Long Way to Go (Gwen Stefani and André 3000 song) \"Long Way to Go\" is a song by American singer Gwen Stefani and American rapper André 3000. The song appears as the closing track on Stefani's debut studio album, \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" (2004). It was released on November 23, 2004, along with the rest of \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" by Interscope Records. The track was written by both Stefani and 3000, while 3000 was the sole producer of the track. Despite being scrapped from André 3000's OutKast studio album, \"The Love Below\" (2003), Stefani and 3000 finalized a reworked", "title": "Long Way to Go (Gwen Stefani and André 3000 song)" }, { "docid": "19139034", "text": "the Fire\" (2014), while the video's production was handled by Grant Jue of Wondros. The video opens with Stefani standing behind a counter in an abandoned and faintly-lit warehouse. Her attire consists of a golden outfit and spiked crown, reminiscent of that of Lady Liberty. Various scenes of Stefani in a black wardrobe intertwine with other scenes in the video. The singer then wears a garden-inspired sheer dress and a \"flower crown\", as darkened shots of her face also are shown among a trio of background dancers. As the song's pre-chorus commences, Stefani is shown in a Gothic, black dress,", "title": "Misery (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "19393942", "text": "although she had never met Joanne, she was \"one of the most important figures in my life\". So after she wrote the song \"Joanne\" with Ronson, they decided to name the album as the same, making it a tribute. Along with revealing the album title, Gaga also unveiled the cover artwork. It consists of the singer wearing a pink, wide-brimmed hat, with her left profile against a blue background. The hat was designed by milliner Gladys Tamez who revealed that it was also another source of inspiration behind the overall direction of \"Joanne\". The milliner explained to \"The Daily Beast\"", "title": "Joanne (album)" }, { "docid": "16700965", "text": "Fonsi released his new single 'Calypso' ft. Stefflon Don, a song on which Dyo is credited as a co-writer. On 1 October 2018, Dyo received a BMI award for her songwriting contribution on the Maroon 5 hit single 'What Lovers Do'. Dyo (singer) Dayo Olatunji (born 4 March 1992), better known by her stage name Dyo (formerly Ms D), is an Ivor Novello nominated, multi-platinum selling singer/songwriter from London, England. Dyo grew up in East Ham, East London. Her mother was born in the United Kingdom and her father was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Having started to sing at the", "title": "Dyo (singer)" }, { "docid": "6905044", "text": "for Stefani. Although Stefani had wanted to work with Kanal, she was concerned that his work would not fit with her dance-oriented album; however, she called it her \"favorite track that [she had] written so far\", and the two worked on the track, modeling it after hip hop trio Salt-n-Pepa. \"Crash\" received mixed reviews from critics. In a review for \"The New York Times\", Kelefa Sanneh noted that the track \"successfully conjure[s] up the infectious spirit of early Madonna.\" David Browne of \"Entertainment Weekly\" called the song \"a pricey retro fashion blurb\" on which Stefani appears as \"an old-school, gold-chained", "title": "Crash (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "16851604", "text": "Zia (singer) Park Ji Hye (born July 21, 1986), better known by her stage name Zia, is a South Korean singer. Zia's first foray into the music industry was when she participated in the 2003 'BoA-jjang Contest' where she placed first overall. In 2005, she was featured on KCM's song '물론' for his second album. Later on that year, she released a song for the soundtrack of the Korean movie, \"Shadowless Sword\". Zia released her debut album \"Voice of Heaven\" through the agency Taewon Entertainment in July 2007. Her leading single was the ballad 물끄러미, which was greeted with great", "title": "Zia (singer)" }, { "docid": "16851609", "text": "Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards – [Artist of the Year (Song)]: ZiA – Loved You (With Seo In Guk) 2015 – 21st Republic of Korea Entertainment Arts Awards (Best Ballad Singer) Zia (singer) Park Ji Hye (born July 21, 1986), better known by her stage name Zia, is a South Korean singer. Zia's first foray into the music industry was when she participated in the 2003 'BoA-jjang Contest' where she placed first overall. In 2005, she was featured on KCM's song '물론' for his second album. Later on that year, she released a song for the soundtrack of the Korean movie,", "title": "Zia (singer)" }, { "docid": "19139040", "text": "the city of the same name, makeup artist Gregory Arlt and hairstylist Danilo won the award for Best Hair & Make Up. Stefani performed the track live during various public appearances. She performed it during her headlining tours, including the MasterCard Priceless Surprises Presents Tour (2015–16) and This Is What the Truth Feels Like Tour (2016). During the former promotional tour, \"Misery\" was only performed at the final show in Tokyo, Japan, before performances of \"Cool\" and \"Make Me Like You\". The choreography and costumes continued into these succeeding performances. During the rendition, Stefani wore \"red track pants\" and a", "title": "Misery (Gwen Stefani song)" }, { "docid": "14400877", "text": "Alyosha (singer) Olena Oleksandrivna Kucher-Topolya (, born 14 May 1986), better known by her stage name Alyosha (), is a Ukrainian singer. Alyosha was born on 14 May 1986 in Zaporizhia. She studied vocals at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts and signed with the Catapult Music record label in 2008. On 20 March 2010, Alyosha won the Ukrainian National Final and thus represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. She replaced Vasyl Lazarovych who was originally picked on December 29, 2009 to represent Ukraine. After some political changes that took place in Ukraine his candidacy was", "title": "Alyosha (singer)" }, { "docid": "1444789", "text": "her for \"kick[ing] her vibrato addiction\". IGN described Stefani as having a \"unique vocal prowess\". The \"Chicago Tribune\" stated that Stefani had a \"brash alto.\" Stefani's debut album \"Love. Angel. Music. Baby.\" took influence from a variety of 1980s genres, which included electropop, new wave, dance-rock, hip hop, R&B, soul, and disco music. Stefani cited early Madonna, Lisa Lisa, Club Nouveau, Prince, New Order and The Cure as major influences for the album. Several of the album's tracks were designed for clubs, and contained electro beats meant for dancing. Referencing fashion and wealth in the album, the singer name-drops several", "title": "Gwen Stefani" }, { "docid": "9183536", "text": "Fashion Awards. Joanne Gair worked with Stefani on her make-up. New (No Doubt song) \"New\" is a song by American rock band No Doubt, written by band members Gwen Stefani and Tom Dumont for the \"Go\" soundtrack (1999). It was later included on No Doubt's fourth studio album \"Return of Saturn\" (2000). It's the first single as a quartet, after the departure of original keyboardist Eric Stefani in 1994. The song is available as a downloadable track for the music video game series \"Rock Band\" and \"Guitar Hero\". The song was a complete departure from the band's previous singles, switching", "title": "New (No Doubt song)" }, { "docid": "640813", "text": "Mandopop girl group S.H.E (composed of Selina Jen, Hebe Tian, and Ella Chen), whose members' English names were chosen by their manager after taking personality tests. Former child star Patty Duke (whose real name is Anna Marie Duke) had her stage name chosen for her by her first managers. Their choice of the name \"Patty\" was inspired by another child actress named Patty McCormack (Patty Duke later entitled her autobiography \"Call Me Anna\" (). Cary Grant (born Archibald Leach) had his name selected for him by Paramount Pictures. He had been using the name \"Cary Lockwood\", but the studio decided", "title": "Stage name" }, { "docid": "5790893", "text": "queen of the night?\" and the toilet responds saying \"Whitney Houston\". The song was covered by Monika Linkytė in week two of \"\"Eurovizijos\" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka\". Madame Tussauds Hollywood's wax figure of Houston depicts her performance of the title song in the bodyguard Queen of the Night (song) \"Queen of the Night\" is a song co-written and performed by American pop/R&B singer Whitney Houston. It was the fifth and final single released from her multi-platinum soundtrack \"\", and it is played during the closing credits of the film of the same name. \"Queen of the Night\" is an uptempo", "title": "Queen of the Night (song)" }, { "docid": "19322982", "text": "Rare (song) \"Rare\" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani from her third studio album, \"This Is What the Truth Feels Like\" (2016). It was released on March 18, 2016, along with the rest of \"This Is What the Truth Feels Like\" by Interscope Records. The track was written by Stefani, Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels, and Greg Kurstin; Kurstin was the track's sole producer. \"Rare\" is an electropop and folk pop influenced song and serves as the album's closing track. Lyrically, the song discusses finding love when all hope was lost. Several media outlets speculated that", "title": "Rare (song)" }, { "docid": "9296827", "text": "Escape\". The Sweet Escape (song) \"The Sweet Escape\" is a song by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani from her second studio album of the same name (2006). It was written by Stefani, Akon, and Giorgio Tuinfort. Akon, who is also a featured artist, developed the song's beat before collaborating with Stefani. He designed it based on her previous work with No Doubt, and Stefani later commented that it put her \"on the yellow brick road to the No Doubt record I might do\". \"The Sweet Escape\" is an apology for a fight between two lovers and describes a dream", "title": "The Sweet Escape (song)" }, { "docid": "9296807", "text": "The Sweet Escape (song) \"The Sweet Escape\" is a song by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani from her second studio album of the same name (2006). It was written by Stefani, Akon, and Giorgio Tuinfort. Akon, who is also a featured artist, developed the song's beat before collaborating with Stefani. He designed it based on her previous work with No Doubt, and Stefani later commented that it put her \"on the yellow brick road to the No Doubt record I might do\". \"The Sweet Escape\" is an apology for a fight between two lovers and describes a dream of", "title": "The Sweet Escape (song)" }, { "docid": "19733253", "text": "seconds while the piano version is 4 minutes and 39 seconds long. The third track on the record, \"Joanne\" is the first time that the overall tempo of the album slows. The composition is stripped-down, with Gaga's vocals accompanied by an acoustic guitar. The singer uses a different vocal register, making the song sound like a lullaby with added percussion sounds. Andrew Unterberger of \"Billboard\" noted that the lyrics, which pay homage to Joanne, are written in the first person, but the context is derived from Gaga's family's perspective about her aunt's death. The tempo and somberness is further enhanced", "title": "Joanne (Lady Gaga song)" }, { "docid": "10185426", "text": "Double (singer) Double (stylized as DOUBLE) is the stage name for Japanese R&B singer (born March 14, 1975). Double used to be the name for the two member R&B group consisting of Takako and her sister Sachiko. After the death of her sister in May 1999, Takako started her solo career adopting Double as her stage name. Double has been titled as the \"Queen of R&B\" and is considered to be a pioneer for being the first artist to bring American-style R&B to Japan. Double was born in Niigata, Japan. After her older sister came back from a trip to", "title": "Double (singer)" }, { "docid": "14830685", "text": "Joanne Nova Joanne Nova is an Australian science writer, blogger, and speaker. Born Joanne Codling, she adopted the stage name \"Nova\" in 1998 when she was preparing to host a children's television program. Nova has disputed the findings of climate science on global warming for a number of years. Nova received a Bachelor of Science first class and won the FH Faulding and the Swan Brewery prizes at the University of Western Australia. Her major was microbiology, molecular biology. Nova received a Graduate Certificate in Scientific Communication from the Australian National University in 1989, and she did honours research in", "title": "Joanne Nova" }, { "docid": "20774167", "text": "her now-famous stage name. Her other monikers include \"Asia's Diva\", \"Theme Song Queen\", and \"Timeless Diva\". Dulce was first married to singer Danny Cruz, with whom she had three children: Daniel, David and Dan. She is currently married to Bernard Beltran Cruzata, with whom she had two daughters, Jemimah and Abigail. Dulce (Filipino singer) Maria Teresa Magdalena Abellare Llamedo Cruzata (born July 22, 1961), known mononymously as Dulce, is a Filipino singer. Dulce was born on July 22, 1961 in Villa Bulsita, Bulacao Pardo, Cebu City, Philippines. She started singing at the age of two, joining many contests until she", "title": "Dulce (Filipino singer)" }, { "docid": "640828", "text": "Lil Wayne (born Dwayne Carter Jr.), and Soulja Boy (born DeAndre Way). At times, these artists will use their real names to make promoted material seem more authentic or personal. Eminem has used his real name, Marshall Mathers, in various public events and as an alter ego as his real name gained recognition following the release of his multi-platinum album, \"The Marshall Mathers LP\". Similarly, LL Cool J released the albums \"Mr. Smith\" and \"Todd Smith\" in 1995 and 2006, respectively, under his real name Todd Smith. Rapper-singer-actress Queen Latifah released \"The Dana Owens Album\" under her own given name,", "title": "Stage name" }, { "docid": "3264277", "text": "him in 1996. Her daughter, Wan Nur Khaleda also follows her mother’s footsteps as a singer, though more into hip hop music under the stage name of 'Kayda'. Sheila Majid Dato' Shaheila binti Abdul Majid (born 3 January 1965), known by her stage name Sheila Majid, is a Malaysian female pop singer who is best known for her 1986 song, \"Sinaran\". Her musical prowess especially in the genre of jazz music has led her to be dubbed as \"Malaysia's Queen of Jazz\". Sheila Majid was born in Kuala Lumpur, (then in Selangor state), Malaysia on 3 January 1965. Her mother", "title": "Sheila Majid" } ]
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Name the year: The Euro becomes official currency; Mandalay Bay opens in Vegas; Columbine; SpongeBob SquarePants debuts; Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour de France; WTO riots paralyze Seattle;
[ "1999", "one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine" ]
[ { "docid": "5589732", "text": "stages lead the classification. 2000 Tour de France The 2000 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 1 to 23 July, and the 87th edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005; the Union Cycliste Internationale has confirmed this verdict. The Tour started with an individual time trial in Futuroscope (not an official prologue", "title": "2000 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "5589722", "text": "2000 Tour de France The 2000 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 1 to 23 July, and the 87th edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005; the Union Cycliste Internationale has confirmed this verdict. The Tour started with an individual time trial in Futuroscope (not an official prologue because it was longer", "title": "2000 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "5549058", "text": "1999 Tour de France The 1999 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 3 to 25 July, and the 86th edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven consecutive Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005 (which were, originally, the most wins in the event's history); the Union Cycliste Internationale confirmed the result. There were no French stage winners for the", "title": "1999 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "2232142", "text": "2004 Tour de France The 2004 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 3 to 25 July, and the 91st edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005; the Union Cycliste Internationale confirmed this verdict. The event consisted of 20 stages over . Armstrong had been favored to win, his competitors seen as being", "title": "2004 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "1896954", "text": "super-combativity award. 2003 Tour de France The 2003 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 5 to 27 July, and the 90th edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005; the Union Cycliste Internationale has confirmed this verdict. The event started and ended in Paris, covering proceeding clockwise in twenty stages around France, including", "title": "2003 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "1896946", "text": "2003 Tour de France The 2003 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 5 to 27 July, and the 90th edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005; the Union Cycliste Internationale has confirmed this verdict. The event started and ended in Paris, covering proceeding clockwise in twenty stages around France, including six major", "title": "2003 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "715741", "text": "2002 Tour de France The 2002 Tour de France was a multiple-stage bicycle race held from 6 to 28 July, and the 89th edition of the Tour de France. The event started in Luxembourg and ended in Paris. The Tour circled France counter-clockwise, visiting the Pyrenees before the Alps. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005; the Union Cycliste Internationale has confirmed this", "title": "2002 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "5549066", "text": "each stage to the cyclists they considered most combative. The cyclist with the most votes in all stages lead the classification. 1999 Tour de France The 1999 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 3 to 25 July, and the 86th edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven consecutive Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005 (which were, originally, the", "title": "1999 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "2232147", "text": "any other rider or upgrade other placings in any of the affected events. 2004 Tour de France The 2004 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 3 to 25 July, and the 91st edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005; the Union Cycliste Internationale confirmed this verdict. The event consisted of 20 stages", "title": "2004 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "414025", "text": "2001 Tour de France The 2001 Tour de France was a multiple-stage bicycle race held from 7 to 29 July, and the 88th edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005. The verdict was subsequently confirmed by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The race included a team time trial, two individual time trials and five consecutive mountain-top finishing stages,", "title": "2001 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "7529666", "text": "in which Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France seven times (1999–2005), Fernando Escartín is the sole rider not to be implicated in a doping scandal. With \"20 of the 21 podium finishers in the Tour de France from 1999 through 2005 directly tied to likely doping through admissions, sanctions, public investigations or exceeding the UCI hematocrit (a blood test to discover EPO use) threshold\", Escartin's third-place finish in the 1999 Tour de France stands as the lone of the 21 podium finishes that was untainted, during the years (1999–2005) in which Lance Armstrong finished the Tour de France in", "title": "Doping at the Tour de France" }, { "docid": "6508253", "text": "little longer, I would add a half-star to the score.\" The editors of \"Computer Gaming World\" nominated \"SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month\" for their 2003 \"Adventure Game of the Year\" award, which ultimately went to \"\". SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month is a 2002 point-and-click adventure video game developed by AWE Games and published by THQ for PC. It is based on the television show \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", which premiered on Nickelodeon in 1999. The story focuses on SpongeBob SquarePants receiving two tickets to Neptune's Paradise, a theme park. But many unexpected things", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month" }, { "docid": "7529664", "text": "skin cream, but UCI rules required that prescriptions be shown to sports authorities in advance of use. Armstrong's former assistant, Mike Anderson, stated that Armstrong used a substance with a trade name similar to \"androstenine\". This resulted in a lawsuit against Anderson and a countersuit against Armstrong. In late August 2005, one month after Lance Armstrong's seventh consecutive Tour victory, the French sports newspaper \"L'Équipe\" claimed evidence that Armstrong had used EPO in the 1999 Tour de France. The claim was based on urine samples archived by the French National Laboratory for Doping Detection (LNDD) for research. Armstrong denied using", "title": "Doping at the Tour de France" }, { "docid": "6333353", "text": "Rock Bottom (SpongeBob SquarePants) \"Rock Bottom\" is the 35th episode of the first season of the American animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". It originally was produced in 1999 and aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on March 15, 2000. The series follows the adventures of the title character in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. In the episode, SpongeBob becomes stranded in an abyssopelagic zone that is a city called Rock Bottom. The episode was written by Paul Tibbitt, Ennio Torresan, Jr., and David Fain, and the animation was directed by Tom Yasumi. Upon release, \"Rock Bottom\" was viewed", "title": "Rock Bottom (SpongeBob SquarePants)" }, { "docid": "6508245", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month is a 2002 point-and-click adventure video game developed by AWE Games and published by THQ for PC. It is based on the television show \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", which premiered on Nickelodeon in 1999. The story focuses on SpongeBob SquarePants receiving two tickets to Neptune's Paradise, a theme park. But many unexpected things happen along the way. \"Employee of the Month\" is a point-and-click adventure game in which the player controls SpongeBob SquarePants. Gameplay consists of the player accomplishing various tasks and collecting items for citizens of Bikini Bottom. A", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month" }, { "docid": "1586675", "text": "Orlando in Florida. SpongeBob SquarePants (character) SpongeBob SquarePants is a fictional character, the titular character and protagonist of the American animated television series of the same name. He is voiced by actor and comedian Tom Kenny and first appeared on television in the series' pilot episode \"Help Wanted\" on May 1, 1999. SpongeBob was created and designed by cartoonist and educator Stephen Hillenburg, who began developing the show shortly after the cancellation of \"Rocko's Modern Life\" in 1996. Hillenburg intended to create a series about an over-optimistic sea sponge living in an underwater town. Hillenburg compared the character's personality to", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (character)" }, { "docid": "1586645", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants (character) SpongeBob SquarePants is a fictional character, the titular character and protagonist of the American animated television series of the same name. He is voiced by actor and comedian Tom Kenny and first appeared on television in the series' pilot episode \"Help Wanted\" on May 1, 1999. SpongeBob was created and designed by cartoonist and educator Stephen Hillenburg, who began developing the show shortly after the cancellation of \"Rocko's Modern Life\" in 1996. Hillenburg intended to create a series about an over-optimistic sea sponge living in an underwater town. Hillenburg compared the character's personality to Laurel and Hardy", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (character)" }, { "docid": "7529663", "text": "a casualty of the disclosures, which Manzano judged to be \"an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.\" Lance Armstrong has become a symbol for doping at the Tour de France. Suspicions arose initially over his association with Italian physician Michele Ferrari and his extraordinary achievements on the road. In 1999, Armstrong failed tests for a glucocorticosteroid hormone. Armstrong explained he had used an external cortisone ointment to treat a saddle sore and produced a prescription for it. The amount detected was below the threshold and said to be consistent with the amount used for a topical", "title": "Doping at the Tour de France" }, { "docid": "14129694", "text": "the show.\" Hutchins became the regular series sound designer. \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" aired its first episode, \"Help Wanted\", along with sister episodes \"Reef Blower\" and \"Tea at the Treedome\", on May 1, 1999, following the television airing of the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards. The series later made its \"official\" debut on July 17, 1999 with the second episode \"Bubblestand\" and \"Ripped Pants\". \"Help Wanted\" was excluded in the \"SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 1st Season\" DVD, featuring the rest of the first-season episodes, since its release on October 28, 2003. It was not included because Nickelodeon did not want to pay Tiny", "title": "Help Wanted (SpongeBob SquarePants)" }, { "docid": "5593236", "text": "years. However, Ullrich would never win the Tour again, although he did reach the podium four more times finishing second to Pantani in 1998 and standing 2nd on the podium to Lance Armstrong three times. He also reached the podium in the 2005 Tour de France, but that result was later voided. Ullrich would win another Grand Tour however, the 1999 Vuelta a Espana. 1997 Tour de France The 1997 Tour de France was the 84th edition of the Tour de France and took place from 5 to 27 July. Jan Ullrich's victory margin, of 9' 09\" was the largest", "title": "1997 Tour de France" } ]
[ { "docid": "17054590", "text": "Lance Armstrong doping case The Lance Armstrong doping case was a doping investigation that led to American former professional road racing cyclist Lance Armstrong being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and his eventual admission to using performance-enhancing drugs. For much of his career, Lance Armstrong faced persistent allegations of doping, but until 2006 no official investigation was undertaken. The first break in the case came in 2004, when SCA Promotions, a Dallas-based insurer, balked at paying a US$5 million bonus to Armstrong for winning his sixth consecutive Tour de France. SCA president Bob Hamman had read \"L.A.", "title": "Lance Armstrong doping case" }, { "docid": "3528624", "text": "2005 Tour de France The 2005 Tour de France was the 92nd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 2–24 July, with 21 stages covering a distance . It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999–2005; the Union Cycliste Internationale has confirmed this verdict. The first stages were held in the département of the Vendée, for the third", "title": "2005 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "18014149", "text": "Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong is a sports book written by \"Sunday Times\" journalist David Walsh, which released on December 13, 2012. In the book, Walsh writes about his 13-year fight to bring out the truth behind American cyclist Lance Armstrong's seven Tour de France wins, i.e. that Armstrong had used banned substances. Walsh was vindicated when Armstrong was stripped of all seven of his Tour titles and banned from sport for life on October 22, 2012. Armstrong's seven Tour wins are told to be his \"seven deadly sins\".", "title": "Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong" }, { "docid": "1963556", "text": "races. Armstrong also uses the name \"Mellow Johnny\" for his Texas-based bike shop. The Lance Armstrong Foundation donated the yellow jersey from Armstrong's fourth Tour de France win (2002) to the National Museum of American History. The Tour de France, and other bicycle stage races, are decided by totalling the time each rider takes on the daily stages. Time can be added or subtracted from this total time as bonuses or penalties for winning individual stages or being first to the top of a climb or for infractions of the rules. The rider with the lowest overall time at the", "title": "General classification in the Tour de France" }, { "docid": "5594474", "text": "2006 Tour de France The 2006 Tour de France was the 93rd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took between 1 July to 23 July. It was won by Óscar Pereiro following the disqualification of apparent winner Floyd Landis. Due to United States Anti-Doping Agency announcing in August 2012 that they had disqualified Lance Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999–2005, this is the first Tour to have an overall winner since 1998. The Tour began with a prologue in Strasbourg, on the French-German border,", "title": "2006 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "3528638", "text": "events. Óscar Pereiro was given the super-combativity award by the jury who chose him as the most attacking cyclist. 2005 Tour de France The 2005 Tour de France was the 92nd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 2–24 July, with 21 stages covering a distance . It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999–2005; the Union Cycliste", "title": "2005 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "17054618", "text": "the False Claims Act suit filed by Landis. He was also concerned about the toll it was taking on his kids. As Macur put it, Armstrong wanted to \"confess on his own terms.\" Lance Armstrong doping case The Lance Armstrong doping case was a doping investigation that led to American former professional road racing cyclist Lance Armstrong being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and his eventual admission to using performance-enhancing drugs. For much of his career, Lance Armstrong faced persistent allegations of doping, but until 2006 no official investigation was undertaken. The first break in the case", "title": "Lance Armstrong doping case" }, { "docid": "8157162", "text": "and his victory is cemented by sucking the Dutchman back into his bottle. Afterwards, as the Dutchman's ship catches fire, SpongeBob escapes with his friends on a flying boat to celebrate at the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob SquarePants is giving Gary the Snail a walk through Jellyfish Fields. Gary then smells Kelp Nip and runs off. After SpongeBob finds Gary he finds a chest. SpongeBob opens it and finds a bottle. SpongeBob then opens the bottle and the Flying Dutchman appears. After SpongeBob mistakes the Dutchman for a genie that will grant him a wish, he tells SpongeBob to find his", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman" }, { "docid": "18014150", "text": "Armstrong confessed to doping in an interview with Oprah Winfrey in January 2013. The 2015 movie \"The Program\" is based on the book. Chris O'Dowd and Ben Foster star as Walsh and Armstrong, respectively. The movie earned $3.3 million worldwide. Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong is a sports book written by \"Sunday Times\" journalist David Walsh, which released on December 13, 2012. In the book, Walsh writes about his 13-year fight to bring out the truth behind American cyclist Lance Armstrong's seven Tour de France wins, i.e. that Armstrong", "title": "Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong" }, { "docid": "20532192", "text": "the highest Patty Pouch wins. If the active player wins, they take the Location card. If the opponent won, they have thwarted their attempt and the Location card remains on the board. SpongeBob Squarepants Trading Card Game Spongebob Squarepants Trading Card Game is an out-of-print collectible card game by Upper Deck based on the cartoon series of the same name. The game was first released in 2003. The Aquatic Amigos booster packs set had 101 cards. The game was also released as the \"Deep Sea Duel Starter Deck\" and contained 27 unique cards. You and an opponent each assemble a", "title": "SpongeBob Squarepants Trading Card Game" }, { "docid": "13477971", "text": "stage 8 of the 1993 Tour de France and stage 18 of the 1995 Tour de France. In 1996, he was diagnosed with a potentially fatal metastatic testicular cancer. After his recovery, he founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation (now the Livestrong Foundation) to assist other cancer survivors. Returning to cycling in 1998, he was a member of the US Postal/Discovery team between 1998 and 2005, when he won his Tour de France titles, as well as a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics. Armstrong retired from racing at the end of the 2005 Tour de France, but returned to", "title": "Lance Armstrong" }, { "docid": "11149428", "text": "Rescue. SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge is a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter roller coaster located at Nickelodeon Universe in the Mall of America, Bloomington, Minnesota. Standing 74.5 feet tall, it is the tallest roller coaster in the park. It also features a beyond vertical (97 degrees) drop. It is the first roller coaster themed to SpongeBob SquarePants, and opened with the Nickelodeon Universe grand opening on March 15, 2008. The ride features a vertical loop, a cutback, and heartline roll. The ride was installed by Ride Entertainment Group, who handles all of Gerstlauer's operations in the Western", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge" }, { "docid": "11149426", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge is a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter roller coaster located at Nickelodeon Universe in the Mall of America, Bloomington, Minnesota. Standing 74.5 feet tall, it is the tallest roller coaster in the park. It also features a beyond vertical (97 degrees) drop. It is the first roller coaster themed to SpongeBob SquarePants, and opened with the Nickelodeon Universe grand opening on March 15, 2008. The ride features a vertical loop, a cutback, and heartline roll. The ride was installed by Ride Entertainment Group, who handles all of Gerstlauer's operations in the Western Hemisphere.", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge" }, { "docid": "6557746", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Avenger SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Avenger is a SpongeBob video game developed by Tantalus Media and published by THQ for Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable (PSP). It is the first SpongeBob game on both consoles. SpongeBob acquires Mermaid Man's powers when he wears his belt. Unfortunately SpongeBob accidentally puts the Dirty Bubble into a washing machine with the belt, which causes him to split into countless dirty bubbles. SpongeBob has to stop villains such as Manray, The Sinister Slug, The Jumbo Shrimp, Atomic Flounder, and Dirty Bubble, using Mermaid Man's powers to save Bikini Bottom. The", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Avenger" }, { "docid": "1963568", "text": "disappeared with the Tour de France's other archives, when they were taken south in 1940 to avoid the German invasion. But a man, who knew Garin as a small boy, recalled that the Garin admitted catching a train part of the way. In 2012, Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by UCI, following a report by the United States Anti-Doping Agency revealing that Armstrong had systematically used performance-enhancing drugs for much of his career, including all seven Tour victories. The rider who has most worn the yellow jersey is the Belgian Eddy Merckx, who wore", "title": "General classification in the Tour de France" }, { "docid": "17054607", "text": "meaning that it accepted USADA's sanctions of a lifetime ban for Armstrong and stripping of all results since August 1, 1998, including his Tour de France titles. UCI president Pat McQuaid remarked that he was \"sickened\" by the USADA report, particularly how the US Postal team officials coerced one of Armstrong's teammates, David Zabriskie, into taking EPO. He added, \"Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling. He deserves to be forgotten in cycling. Something like this must never happen again.\" The day following the UCI decision, Armstrong deleted references to his Tour wins from his Twitter biography. On November 2,", "title": "Lance Armstrong doping case" }, { "docid": "3726929", "text": "events of the movie take place at the end of the series. It is the first film in the \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" film series. In this film, Plankton devises a plan to discredit his business rival Mr. Krabs by stealing King Neptune's crown and framing Mr. Krabs for the crime. SpongeBob and Patrick must retrieve the crown from Shell City to save Mr. Krabs from Neptune's wrath and the oceanic world from Plankton's plan. Previous offers by Paramount Pictures for a film adaptation of \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" had been rejected by Stephen Hillenburg, but he eventually accepted one offer in 2002. A", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" }, { "docid": "13478034", "text": "1997. They married on May 1, 1998, and had three children. The pregnancies were made possible through sperm Armstrong banked three years earlier, before chemotherapy and surgery. The couple divorced in 2003. At Armstrong's request, his children flew to Paris for the Tour de France podium ceremony in 2005, where his son Luke helped his father hoist the trophy, while his daughters (in yellow dresses) held the stuffed lion mascot and bouquet of yellow flowers. Lance and Kristin Armstrong announced their divorce in 2003, the same year that Lance began dating singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow. The couple announced their engagement in", "title": "Lance Armstrong" }, { "docid": "13561466", "text": "Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants is a 2009 American documentary film directed and co-written by Patrick Creadon. The special was released on VH1 on July 14, 2009, and was included on the North American DVD \"The First 100 Episodes\" released on September 23, 2009. The documentary chronicles the popular culture success of the animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". It features commentaries from series creator Stephen Hillenburg and other celebrity fans. \"Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants\" focuses on the American animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" and its immersion into global", "title": "Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "7716230", "text": "Sandals enters the Chum Bucket to eat his patty; however, he tells SpongeBob that he ordered his Krabby Patty without pickles, but SpongeBob just laughs. Sandals then starts swelling and he explodes, leaving only his eyes, head, and feet. He then says that he is allergic to pickles and walks away. SpongeBob says, \"Well, that was pickle-culiar,\" and laughs again. SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D (also known as SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D Ride, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Ride or SpongeBob SquarePants 3-D) is a cel-shaded 4-D film based upon the popular television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". It can be found at many", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D" }, { "docid": "3726931", "text": "its franchises with SpongeBob inflatable figures. The film was a box office success, grossing $140 million worldwide, and received generally positive reviews from critics. A stand-alone sequel titled \"\" was released on February 6, 2015, and a second sequel titled is scheduled for a release of July 17, 2020. A group of pirates find tickets to \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\" in a treasure chest and enter a theater to watch the film. SpongeBob SquarePants cheerfully prepares for the opening ceremony for the Krusty Krab 2, expecting his boss, Mr. Krabs, to promote him to manager of the new restaurant. Instead", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" }, { "docid": "6008406", "text": "PM, Monday through Thursday, to increase exposure of the series. By the end of that year \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" boasted the highest ratings for any children's series, on all of television. Weekly viewership of the series had reached around fifteen million, at least five million of whom were adults. In October 2002, another Nickelodeon series, \"The Fairly OddParents\", ranked as the No. 2 program for children between 2 and 11 years old. Its ratings at that time were almost equal to \"SpongeBob SquarePants\"' then-average of 2.2 million viewers per episode. \"The Fairly OddParents\" even briefly surpassed \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", causing the latter", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "3726938", "text": "the theater. \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\" was long-planned; Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures had approached series creator Stephen Hillenburg for a film based on the show, but he refused for more than a year. Hillenburg was concerned, after watching \"The Iron Giant\" and \"Toy Story\" with his sons, about the challenge of SpongeBob and Patrick doing something more cinematically-consequential and inspiring without losing what he calls the SpongeBob \"cadence.\" He said, on a break from season-four post-production, \"To do a 75-minute movie about SpongeBob wanting to make some jellyfish jelly would be a mistake, I think [...] This had to be", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" }, { "docid": "6008403", "text": "series, with a 50-hour television marathon titled \"The Ultimate SpongeBob SpongeBash Weekend\". The marathon began with a new episode, \"To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants\". Saturday saw a countdown of the top ten episodes as picked by fans, as well as an airing of \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\". The marathon finished on Sunday, which saw a countdown of episodes as picked by celebrities, as well as the premiere of ten new episodes. Nickelodeon continued celebrating the anniversary through the rest of the year. An eight-episode DVD set featuring \"To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants\" shortly followed the marathon, with a", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "3726928", "text": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 American live-action/animated comedy film based on the Nickelodeon animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". The film was co-written, directed, and produced by series creator Stephen Hillenburg, with live-action sequences directed by Mark Osborne, and features the series' cast of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass and Mr. Lawrence, while also starring Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Tambor, Alec Baldwin and David Hasselhoff. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by Hillenburg's production company United Plankton Pictures along with Nickelodeon Movies and Rough Draft Korea as the animation studio. The", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" }, { "docid": "3726982", "text": "It's a Wonderful Sponge\", is scheduled for release on July 17, 2020, with Tim Hill as writer, producer and director. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 American live-action/animated comedy film based on the Nickelodeon animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". The film was co-written, directed, and produced by series creator Stephen Hillenburg, with live-action sequences directed by Mark Osborne, and features the series' cast of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass and Mr. Lawrence, while also starring Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Tambor, Alec Baldwin and David Hasselhoff. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" }, { "docid": "6008440", "text": "formerly Camp Snoopy, to Nickelodeon Universe in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota. The new theme park features a \"SpongeBob\"-themed Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter custom roller coaster, the SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge, which has replaced the Mystery Mine Ride and Olde Time Photo store on the west end of the theme park, which opened March 15, 2008. On May 23, 2015, an interactive 3D show titled \"SpongeBob SubPants Adventure\" opened in Texas at Moody Gardens. According to Moody Gardens President and CEO John Zendt, \"Visitors will be able to interact with the Nickelodeon characters on a digital stage as they", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "19229729", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants (film series) SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated/live-action comedy film series based on the Nickelodeon television program of the same name, created by Stephen Hillenburg. It began in 2004 with the release of \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\". The series is distributed and owned by Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Nickelodeon's parent company Viacom. All films feature the regular television voice cast: Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley, Carolyn Lawrence, Mary Jo Catlett and Lori Alan. The first installment is directed by Hillenburg, the second is directed by former showrunner Paul Tibbitt, and", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (film series)" }, { "docid": "6557751", "text": "its voiceovers, its use of the DS touchscreen, and its graphics, writing that it \"is drawn exactly like the TV show.\" Hollingshead noted that the addition of minigames would have increased the game's overall enjoyment and replayability, but wrote, \"Exploration and conversation are what players will experience the most, which is a welcomed change from most handheld games. It’s fun to just explore with SpongeBob and talk to his silly friends.\" SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Avenger SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Avenger is a SpongeBob video game developed by Tantalus Media and published by THQ for Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Avenger" }, { "docid": "6124995", "text": "saying \"These moves are amusing and charming, while Squidward's bitterness is easy to relate to.\" In 2009, \"Pizza Delivery\" was chosen by viewers on Nick.com as the 1 episode during a television marathon called \"The Ultimate SpongeBob SpongeBash\". In the iTunes collection, \"SpongeBob SquarePants: Tom Kenny's Top 20\", Tom Kenny, the voice actor for SpongeBob, lists it as among his all-time favorite episodes. He writes in the description for the episode: Pizza Delivery (SpongeBob SquarePants) \"Pizza Delivery\" is the first segment of the fifth episode of the American animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". The episode was written by Sherm Cohen,", "title": "Pizza Delivery (SpongeBob SquarePants)" }, { "docid": "17455386", "text": "trailer for the game was released in July 2013. IGN panned the game with a score of 3.5 out of 10. Both \"PlayStation Official Magazine\" and \"Official PlayStation Magazine\" awarded the game a 5/10. GamingBolt rated the game 7 out of 10. SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge is an action-adventure video game based on the television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". It was released in October 2013 for Wii U, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The game was developed by Behaviour Interactive and published by Activision, who took over the license from", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge" }, { "docid": "18224876", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants 4D: The Great Jelly Rescue SpongeBob SquarePants 4D: The Great Jelly Rescue (often referred to as SpongeBob SquarePants 4D or simply The Great Jelly Rescue) is a 4-D film attraction that serves a sequel to \"SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D\". It follows SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy as they go jellyfishing. The ride begins when the French Narrator (Tom Kenny) tells the audience to put away their cameras, cell phones, and other electronics. The audience then \"dives\" underwater in a submarine, \"hitting\" an anchor in the process. It then lands on Jellyfish Fields, where SpongeBob (Kenny) and Patrick (Bill Fagerbakke) sing", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants 4D: The Great Jelly Rescue" }, { "docid": "1586667", "text": "to promote junk food to children, but it's utterly reprehensible when that character simultaneously promotes objectified, sexualized images of women.\" In an official statement released by Burger King, they claimed that \"this campaign is aimed at parents.\" Throughout the run of \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", the SpongeBob character has become very popular with children, teens, and adults. The character's popularity has spread from Nickelodeon's original demographic of two- to eleven-year-olds, to teenagers and adults, including college campuses and celebrities such as Sigourney Weaver and Bruce Willis. Salon.com indicates that the unadulterated innocence of SpongeBob is what makes the character so appealing. SpongeBob", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (character)" }, { "docid": "16858249", "text": "blood doped as well as falsifying documents saying he passed drug tests. Doping helped him for each of his seven Tour de France wins, Armstrong told Winfrey. According to USADA, samples from Armstrong taken in 2009 and 2010 as well are \"fully consistent with blood manipulation including EPO use and/or blood transfusions\". Armstrong is fighting to avoid paying millions of dollars in prize money back. In a 2016 speech to University of Colorado, Boulder professor Roger A. Pielke, Jr.'s Introduction to Sports Governance class, Armstrong stated he began doping in \"late Spring of 1995\". History of Lance Armstrong doping allegations", "title": "History of Lance Armstrong doping allegations" }, { "docid": "6008419", "text": "ilk made possible\". Viewers of the UK television network Channel 4 voted \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" the 28th \"Greatest Cartoon\" in a 2004 poll. \"TV Guide\" listed the character of \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" at No. 9 for its \"50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time\". In 2013, the publication ranked \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" the eighth \"Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time\". In June 2010, \"Entertainment Weekly\" named SpongeBob one of the \"100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years\". In July 2009, Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York launched a wax sculpture of SpongeBob in celebration of the series' 10th anniversary. This made", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "6008438", "text": "We thought it was funny to make a really lush, beautiful love song to his underwear\". \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie – Music from the Movie and More...\", a soundtrack album featuring the score of \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\", was released along with the feature-length film in November 2004. Various artists including the Flaming Lips, Wilco, Ween, Motörhead, the Shins, and Avril Lavigne contributed to the soundtrack that reached number 76 on the US \"Billboard\" 200. SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D film and ride opened in various locations, including Six Flags Over Texas, Flamingo Land Resort, and the Shedd Aquarium. The ride features", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "11154678", "text": "decided to use the name \"SpongeBob\". He chose \"SquarePants\" as a family name as it referred to the character's square shape and it had a \"nice ring to it\". The first season featured Tom Kenny as the voice of the title character SpongeBob SquarePants and his pet snail Gary. SpongeBob's best friend, a starfish named Patrick Star, was voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, while Rodger Bumpass played the voice of Squidward Tentacles, an arrogant and ill-tempered octopus. Other members of the cast were Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs, a miserly crab obsessed with money and SpongeBob's boss at the Krusty Krab;", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 1)" }, { "docid": "3726980", "text": "the film. The game's plot was based on the film, with SpongeBob and Patrick on a mission taking them outside Bikini Bottom to retrieve Neptune's crown. On October 4, 2004, THQ announced the game's mobile release. Nickelodeon vice-president for new-media business development Paul Jelinek said, \"As one of the leading publishers of wireless entertainment content, THQ Wireless is introducing the SpongeBob SquarePants license to a whole new audience of gamers [...] THQ has been a great partner to Nickelodeon over the years and we look forward to the same standard of excellence with these upcoming SpongeBob SquarePants games for wireless", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" }, { "docid": "7689237", "text": "journey to nine different worlds, supposedly, inside the dreams of the characters. The Wii version was a North American launch title. It is also the first \"SpongeBob\" game released in Japan (PlayStation 2 and Wii versions), but was released under the title SpongeBob (スポンジ・ボブ \"Suponjibobu\"), to mark it as the first video game in the \"SpongeBob\" series to have a Japanese release. The Windows version of the game is titled \"SpongeBob SquarePants: Nighty Nightmare\". Players have access to three playable characters during the game, SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Starfishman (Patrick Star in superhero form), and Sheldon J. Plankton, and must guide", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab" }, { "docid": "8157174", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge is a 2001 2D platform game developed by Climax Development and published by THQ. The game is based on the Nickelodeon cartoon series of the same name. It was released for PlayStation on November 5, and for Game Boy Advance on November 8, 2001. The Game Boy Advance version was also released on a Twin Pack cartridge bundled with \"\" and a Triple Pack cartridge bundled with \"Tak and the Power of Juju\" and \"\" in 2005. It is the second SpongeBob game released on PlayStation, after \"Nicktoons Racing\", which features SpongeBob, Patrick, and", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge" }, { "docid": "5538961", "text": "victory after his first one to Gap in the 2003 Tour de France that had seen the major injury to Joseba Beloki and the remarkable cross-country exploits of Lance Armstrong. The peloton, and all the main contenders, came in at 1'15\" behind thus preserving Armstrong in the yellow jersey and Vinokourov's exploits not making up for the previous day's losses. 2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11 The 2005 Tour de France was the 92nd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Fromentine with an individual time trial on 2 July", "title": "2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11" }, { "docid": "8157156", "text": "best \"SpongeBob\" game ever made,\" but wrote that it still sold well because of the \"SpongeBob\" license. SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty is a 2001 video game released by THQ featuring SpongeBob SquarePants. The game features two separate stories, depending on which side of the bed the player chooses to wake up on. The game features five mini-games. Plankton kidnaps SpongeBob's pet snail Gary, and SpongeBob must do tasks for Plankton to give Gary back. SpongeBob's first task, given over a tape recorder, is to get his boating permit. The recorder fails to self-destruct after", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty" }, { "docid": "8157151", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty is a 2001 video game released by THQ featuring SpongeBob SquarePants. The game features two separate stories, depending on which side of the bed the player chooses to wake up on. The game features five mini-games. Plankton kidnaps SpongeBob's pet snail Gary, and SpongeBob must do tasks for Plankton to give Gary back. SpongeBob's first task, given over a tape recorder, is to get his boating permit. The recorder fails to self-destruct after the briefing. SpongeBob asks Patrick for help, so Patrick agrees to help SpongeBob collect jellyfish jelly. After", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty" }, { "docid": "7716226", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D (also known as SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D Ride, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Ride or SpongeBob SquarePants 3-D) is a cel-shaded 4-D film based upon the popular television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". It can be found at many aquariums and theme parks across the world. The ride consists of a pre-show which then leads into a stadium seated auditorium. The ride is in 4-D, meaning it is a motion simulator with a 3D movie. The effects on the ride vary at different parks. Water spray, bubbles, wind, leg ticklers, smoke, and smells are usually found. The ride once", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D" }, { "docid": "14756370", "text": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie – Music from the Movie and More... The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - Music from the Movie and More... is a soundtrack album for the 2004 animated film \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\", released on November 9, 2004 by Sire Records and Nick Records. It is SpongeBob SquarePants' second album. The album is an example of the crew of \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" eclectic musical tastes. When The Flaming Lips member Wayne Coyne suggested a duet with Justin Timberlake, series creator Stephen Hillenburg responded with, “I don't want any of those sort of commercial weirdos on there. I don't like", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie – Music from the Movie and More..." }, { "docid": "6008447", "text": "to want its food because of the free toy. As a tie-in beverage for the DVD release of \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\", 7-Eleven released the limited edition \"Under-the-Sea Pineapple Slurpee\" in March 2004. Pirate's Booty released limited edition \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" Pirate's Booty snacks in 2013. In 2007, high-end \"SpongeBob\"-themed electronics have been introduced by Imation Electronics Products under the Npower brand, including MP3 players, digital cameras, a DVD player, and a flatscreen television. Pictures of \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" also began to appear on the labels of 8 oz. cans of Green Giant cut green beans and frozen packages of Green Giant", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "6008444", "text": "estimated $8 billion merchandising revenue for Nickelodeon. It is also the most distributed property of MTV Networks. \"SpongeBob\" is viewed in 170 countries speaking 24 languages, and has also become \"a killer merchandising app\". The title character and his friends have been used as a theme for special editions of well-known family board games, including Monopoly, Life, and Operation, as well as a \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" edition of Ants in the Pants, and Yahtzee. In 2001, \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" signed a marketing deal with Target Corporation and Burger King, expanding its merchandising. The popularity of SpongeBob has translated well into sales figures.", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "6333358", "text": "The Best of SpongeBob SquarePants on the May 11, 2004. It was also included on the \"SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 1st Season\" DVD on October 28, 2003. On September 22, 2009, the episode was released on the \"SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes\" DVD, alongside all the episodes of seasons one through five. \"Rock Bottom\" was watched by 2.1 million viewers upon its release. It received very positive reviews from media critics. Nancy Basile of About.com gave the episode a positive response and ranked it 4 on her \"Best \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" Episodes\" list. Basile said \"The raspberries and SpongeBob's increasing", "title": "Rock Bottom (SpongeBob SquarePants)" }, { "docid": "18224880", "text": "into the Krusty Krab, crashing into Plankton's truck, destroying it, and freeing all of the jellyfish. But before Plankton can flee, a jellyfish shoots him with Sandy's net launcher, defeating him. Sandy then finds out that SpongeBob has absorbed soot into his body, then he releases it. Mr. Krabs (Clancy Brown) tells SpongeBob that his break is over, then he goes back inside the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy all say goodbye to the audience as they sing \"The Jellyfish Song\" and the submarine leaves the ocean floor. SpongeBob SquarePants 4D: The Great Jelly Rescue SpongeBob SquarePants 4D: The", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants 4D: The Great Jelly Rescue" }, { "docid": "19229743", "text": "F. Wilson, Hillenburg stated that he was contributing to the story of the film. Tibbitt later revealed on Twitter in late 2013 that \"Steve [Hillenburg] and I wrote the new movie together and he has been in the studio everyday working with us.\" Production on the film was expected to finish in November 2014. SpongeBob SquarePants (film series) SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated/live-action comedy film series based on the Nickelodeon television program of the same name, created by Stephen Hillenburg. It began in 2004 with the release of \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\". The series is distributed and owned by", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (film series)" }, { "docid": "14866698", "text": "it overseas [to Rough Draft Studios in South Korea].\" Before his idea of Count Orlok, Lender thought of \"Floorboard Harry\", a deleted gag that concludes the broadcast episode, in which he initially flickers the lights. \"Graveyard Shift\" was released on the DVD compilation titled \"SpongeBob SquarePants: Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies\" on March 12, 2002. It was also included on the \"SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 2nd Season\" DVD released on October 19, 2004. On September 22, 2009, the episode was released on the \"SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes\", alongside all of the episodes of seasons one through five. On", "title": "Graveyard Shift (SpongeBob SquarePants)" }, { "docid": "6008422", "text": "2013 that features soldiers in the Russian army and navy singing the \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" theme song as they march. According to the website that uploaded the video, this is one of the \"most popular marching songs\" in the Russian military. The video garnered nearly 50,000 views within its first week. In 2005, an online video that showed clips from \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" and other children's shows set to the Sister Sledge song \"We Are Family\" to promote diversity and tolerance was attacked by an evangelical group in the United States, because they saw SpongeBob being used to \"advocate homosexuality\". James Dobson", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "11352394", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam is an action puzzle game featuring licensed characters from \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". The game was released on Xbox Live Arcade on December 26, 2007. The game, along with \"Screwjumper!\", is publisher THQ's first game designed for download. A storm current has disrupted a shipment of the undergarments of Lord of the Sea Neptune's underwear, spreading them across the ocean floor. Neptune has called upon his subjects to collect the lost undergarments, with a reward offered to the one who collects the most underwear. Players progress through 10 levels of play by collecting 99", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam" }, { "docid": "11352396", "text": "such as reversing the controls. \"Underpants Slam\" has a score of 55 on Metacritic and a score of 3.5 out of 5 on GamesRadar. SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam is an action puzzle game featuring licensed characters from \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". The game was released on Xbox Live Arcade on December 26, 2007. The game, along with \"Screwjumper!\", is publisher THQ's first game designed for download. A storm current has disrupted a shipment of the undergarments of Lord of the Sea Neptune's underwear, spreading them across the ocean floor. Neptune has called upon his subjects to collect the", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam" }, { "docid": "10061549", "text": "bonus features. It was also released on the \"SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 5, Vol. 1\" DVD on September 4, 2007. On September 22, 2009, \"Friend or Foe\" was released in the \"SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes\" DVD, alongside all the episodes of seasons one through five. In 2007, Nickelodeon partnered with Stride Rite Corporation to co-sponsor the \"SpongeBob SquarePants Friend or Foe?\" network event on Nickelodeon on Friday, April 13. Stride Rite utilized Nickelodeon as the exclusive marketing platform for its SuperBall footwear line, in support of the \"SpongeBob\" event. Stride Rite vice president Phil Risinger said \"\"SpongeBob SquarePants Friend", "title": "Friend or Foe (SpongeBob SquarePants)" }, { "docid": "7689236", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab is a platform video game released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 (PS2), Game Boy Advance (GBA), Nintendo DS, and Wii by THQ. The PS2, GameCube, and Wii versions are all ports of the same game developed by Blitz Games, while the GBA, Nintendo DS and PC versions were separate games developed by WayForward Technologies and AWE Games respectively. It is based on the Nickelodeon animated sitcom \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", and stars the title character, his best friend Patrick Star, and their enemy Plankton as they", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab" }, { "docid": "8157135", "text": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (video game) The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 video game based on the animation movie of the same name. The game was released on the PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, Xbox, GameCube, and Microsoft Windows. The PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube versions were developed by Heavy Iron Studios. The Game Boy Advance version was developed by WayForward Technologies. The Microsoft Windows version was developed by AWE Games. The GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PC, and Xbox versions received mixed to average reviews, while the PS2 version received generally favorable reviews. The plot of the video game", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (video game)" }, { "docid": "8157150", "text": "PS2 Classic on February 7, 2012. It was later taken off the store. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (video game) The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 video game based on the animation movie of the same name. The game was released on the PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, Xbox, GameCube, and Microsoft Windows. The PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube versions were developed by Heavy Iron Studios. The Game Boy Advance version was developed by WayForward Technologies. The Microsoft Windows version was developed by AWE Games. The GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PC, and Xbox versions received mixed to average reviews, while", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (video game)" }, { "docid": "6008449", "text": "of clothing and accessories. Sandy Cheeks and Gary the Snail are also available as pre-stuffed minis. Build-A-Bear Workshop stores nationwide celebrated the arrival of SpongeBob with a series of special events from May 17 through May 19. On July 13, 2013, Toyota, with Nickelodeon, unveiled a \"SpongeBob\"-inspired Toyota Highlander. The 2014 Toyota Highlander was launched on SpongeBob Day at the San Diego Padres v. Giants game. The \"SpongeBob\" Toyota Highlander visited seven U.S. locations during its release, including the Nickelodeon Suites Resort Orlando in Florida. SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine science educator", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "13129706", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One \"SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One\" is the 11th episode of the sixth season and the 111th overall episode of the American animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". The episode was written by Aaron Springer who also directed the stoyboards, Paul Tibbitt, and Steven Banks, and the animation was directed by Andrew Overtoom and supervising director, Alan Smart. The episode was part of the series' tenth anniversary celebration in 2009. It features guest appearances by Johnny Depp as the voice of Jack Kahuna Laguna, Bruce Brown as the narrator, and Davy Jones as himself. It", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One" }, { "docid": "14866689", "text": "Graveyard Shift (SpongeBob SquarePants) \"Graveyard Shift\" is the first part of the 16th episode of the second season, and the 36th episode overall, of the American animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". The episode was written by Mr. Lawrence, Jay Lender and Dan Povenmire, and the animation was directed by Sean Dempsey. Lender and Povenmire also served as storyboard directors. It originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on September 6, 2002, one year after \"Band Geeks\". The series follows the adventures and endeavours of the title character and his various friends in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. In", "title": "Graveyard Shift (SpongeBob SquarePants)" }, { "docid": "6008448", "text": "green beans and butter sauce, which featured free stickers in 2007 as part of an initiative to encourage kids to eat their vegetables. The Simmons Jewelry Co. released a $75,000 diamond pendant as part of a \"SpongeBob\" collection. In New Zealand, the UK-based Beechdean Group unveiled the \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" Vanilla Ice Cream character product as part of a licence deal with Nickelodeon. NZ Drinks launched the \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" bottled water. Build-A-Bear Workshop introduced the new \"SpongeBob SqaurePants\" collection in stores and online in North America on May 17, 2013. Shoppers can dress their SpongeBob and Patrick plush in a variety", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "11154698", "text": "in numerous languages. The episode \"Help Wanted\" was also a bonus feature in the series DVD called \"SpongeBob SquarePants: 10 Happiest Moments\" that was released on September 14, 2010. On April 29, 2014, \"Help Wanted\" was released on the \"SpongeBob, You're Fired!\" episode compilation DVD. Upon release, the DVD set was quickly sold out at Best Buy and was selling \"briskly\" at online retailers, including Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Walmart. In 2012, the DVD was released in slim packaging. Bibliography SpongeBob SquarePants (season 1) The first season of the American animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", created by former marine", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 1)" }, { "docid": "6008443", "text": "the competition, and, on August 13, 2013, the \"under 18 years of age\" category was won by David of the United States for his \"The Krabby Commercial\", while the \"Finally Home\" short by Nicole of South Africa won the \"18 and over\" category. SpongeBob was adapted as a musical for the live stage in 2016 by director Tina Landau. \"SpongeBob SquarePants, The Broadway Musical\" premiered in Chicago in 2016 and opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on December 4, 2017. The popularity of \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" inspired merchandise from T-shirts to posters. It was reported that the franchise generated an", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "1586673", "text": "and Pikachu. The character also spawned a soap-filled sponge product manufactured by SpongeTech. In early 2009, the Simmons Jewelry Co. released a $75,000 diamond pendant as part of a \"SpongeBob\" collection. On May 17, 2013, Build-A-Bear Workshop introduced the new \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" collection in stores and online in North America. \"For the first time ever, Build-A-Bear Workshop Guests can finally take home the underwater fun of SpongeBob SquarePants and his friends,\" said Maxine Clark, Build-A-Bear Workshop founder and chief executive. \"We are excited to be working with Nickelodeon to bring this iconic series and its lovable characters to life at", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (character)" }, { "docid": "8157131", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula is a platform action video game developed by Vicarious Visions and published by THQ for the Game Boy Color handheld video game console. The game was released in the United States on March 14, 2001, and in Europe on May 4, 2001. The game's story centers on SpongeBob SquarePants, a sea sponge who lives in the undersea town of Bikini Bottom and works for Mr. Krabs as the fry cook of the Krusty Krab fast food restaurant. SpongeBob is destined to become the ocean's greatest fry", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula" }, { "docid": "3726973", "text": "those animated features that spent zillions on character design, pedigree and verisimilitude. But SpongeBob is a sweet, silly thing with a child-friendly esthetic all its own.\" Will Lawrence of \"Empire\" gave the film four out of five stars, calling it \"a film for kids, students, stoners, anyone who enjoys a break from reality.\" Lisa Schwarzbaum of \"Entertainment Weekly\" gave it a B-minus grade: \"The best moments in his [SpongeBob SquarePants] first movie outing are those that feel most TV-like, just another day in the eternally optimistic undersea society created with such contagious silliness by Stephen Hillenburg.\" Desson Thomson of \"The", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" }, { "docid": "6298733", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! is a party video game based on the TV series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". It was released in October 2005 for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and the PC. It was released for the Nintendo DS in Korea in 2007, its North American release was cancelled. It is the first \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" title to feature multiplayer mini-games, similar to the \"Mario Party\" video game series. In the home console versions of the game, the city of Bikini Bottom is producing an anniversary show of \"The New Adventures of Mermaid", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!" }, { "docid": "6298743", "text": "gave 7+ points to the graphics of the game, the sound, and the gameplay. Criticism from IGN was focused on the dialogue being repetitive and the game lacking depth. IGN gave it a 7 overall rating. SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! is a party video game based on the TV series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". It was released in October 2005 for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and the PC. It was released for the Nintendo DS in Korea in 2007, its North American release was cancelled. It is the first \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" title", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!" }, { "docid": "6008405", "text": "television. It held an average national Nielsen rating of 4.9 among children aged two through eleven, denoting 1.9 million viewers. Two years later, the series had firmly established itself as Nickelodeon's second highest rated children's program, after \"Rugrats\". That year, 2001, \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" was credited with helping Nickelodeon take the \"Saturday-morning ratings crown\" for the fourth straight season. The series had gained a significant adult audience by that point – nearly 40 percent of its 2.2 million viewers were aged 18 to 34. In response to this weekend-found success, Nickelodeon gave \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" time slots at 6 PM and 8", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "6124992", "text": "written together by Springer and Cohen, which they would continue to work on episodes together until midway of the first season. \"Pizza Delivery\" was released on the DVD compilation called \"SpongeBob SquarePants: Christmas\" on September 30, 2003. It was also included in \"SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 1st Season\" DVD released on October 28, 2003. On September 22, 2009, \"Pizza Delivery\" was released on the \"SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes\" DVD, alongside all the episodes of seasons one through five. \"Pizza Delivery\" received critical acclaim and is frequently cited as one of the show's best episodes. Nancy Basile of About.com", "title": "Pizza Delivery (SpongeBob SquarePants)" }, { "docid": "8250859", "text": "seconds over a 24 km time trial from Versailles. In doing so, he closed a 50-second gap to win the 1989 Tour de France by eight seconds. It was the first (and only) time trial final stage on the Champs-Élysées. The 1964, 1965 and 1967 Tours finished with time trials to the Parc des Princes, and the 1968 to 1971 stages had time trials to the Vélodrome de Vincennes (Cipale). In 2005, Lance Armstrong had a comfortable lead in the general classification, but behind him Alexander Vinokourov and Levi Leipheimer were only two seconds apart, on fifth and sixth place.", "title": "Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France" }, { "docid": "11154699", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 2) The second season of the American animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", created by Stephen Hillenburg, aired on Nickelodeon from October 26, 2000 to July 26, 2003, and consists of 20 episodes. The series chronicles the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The season was executive produced by series creator Hillenburg, who also acted as the showrunner. During the season's run, \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" became Nickelodeon's 2 children's program, behind \"Rugrats\". Nearly 40 percent of \"SpongeBob\"s audience of 2.2 million were aged 18 to 34.", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 2)" }, { "docid": "19194415", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants (musical) SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical (originally titled The SpongeBob Musical) is a stage musical, co-conceived and directed by Tina Landau with songs by various artists and a book by Kyle Jarrow. It is based on the Nickelodeon animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" and made its world premiere in June 2016 at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago. The musical premiered on Broadway at the Palace Theatre in December 2017. The musical opened to critical acclaim. With twelve Tony Award nominations, it tied for most-nominated production at the 2018 72nd Tony Awards with \"Mean Girls\". The show closed at", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (musical)" }, { "docid": "6008445", "text": "In 2002, \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" dolls sold at a rate of 75,000 per week, which was faster than Tickle Me Elmo dolls were selling at the time. SpongeBob has gained popularity in Japan, specifically with Japanese women. Nickelodeon's parent company Viacom purposefully targeted marketing at women in the country. Skeptics initially doubted that SpongeBob could be popular in Japan, as the character's design is very different from already popular designs for Hello Kitty and Pikachu. Ratings and merchandise sales showed \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" has caught on with parents and with college audiences. In a recent promotion, college-oriented website Music.com gave away 80,000", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "6008407", "text": "series to drop into second place — at this time, \"The Fairly OddParents\" had a 6.2 rating and nearly 2.5 million child viewers, while \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" had a 6.0 rating and 2.4 million kids 2–11. Nickelodeon \"recognized\" \"The Fairly OddParents\" for its climbing ratings and installed it into a new 8 P.M. time slot, previously occupied by \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". In an interview, Cyma Zarghami, then-general manager and executive vice president of Nickelodeon, said, \"Are we banking on the fact that \"Fairly OddParents\" will be the next \"SpongeBob\"? ... We are hoping. But \"SpongeBob\" is so unique, it's hard to say", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "715743", "text": "Heras (4th Vuelta 2001). Important riders who were not present were Jan Ullrich (2nd last year, injury) and Gilberto Simoni (winner 2001 Giro). Teams qualified for the 2002 Tour de France by various methods. was selected because it included the winner of the previous edition, Lance Armstrong. was selected because it included the winner of the 2001 UCI Road World Cup, Erik Dekker. , and were selected because they won the team classifications in respectively the 2001 Giro d'Italia, 2001 Tour de France and 2001 Vuelta a España. A further seven teams qualified based on the UCI ranking in the", "title": "2002 Tour de France" }, { "docid": "13561469", "text": "LeBron James, Ricky Gervais and Rosario Dawson. The documentary film was endorsed to mark the celebration of the series' 10th anniversary, following a \"SpongeBob\" marathon the next weekend. The anniversary was also celebrated with the premiere of the television film \"SpongeBob's Truth or Square\" and the special episode \"To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants\". On September 22, 2009, the documentary became available in the DVD compilation \"SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes\" as a bonus feature. The DVD consists 14 discs and runs 2200 minutes long. Other bonus features included in the DVD set are Limited edition etched Plexiglass case,", "title": "Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "docid": "19229735", "text": "will be an origin story of SpongeBob meeting his friends for the first time at Camp Coral, and the film will use full CGI animation provided by Mikros Image for the underwater sequences, a first for the film series. Hans Zimmer was also announced as the new composer for the film. Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures had approached \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" creator Stephen Hillenburg for a film based on the show as early as 2001, but he refused for more than a year. He was concerned, after watching \"The Iron Giant\" and \"Toy Story\" with his sons, about the challenge of SpongeBob", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (film series)" }, { "docid": "13129717", "text": "Reel Awards for Best Sound Editing: Television Animation. It has also been nominated at the 37th Annie Awards for Best Home Entertainment Production for its DVD release. Lesley Aeschiliman of Yahoo! Voices wrote \"This year [2009] is SpongeBob SquarePants' tenth anniversary, and I hate to say it, but SpongeBob has really been showing his age recently. This special was not worth being part of such a milestone year for a television series.\" The DVD received mostly positive reviews. In his review from TV Shows on DVD, Gord Lacey said that the video quality is \"fairly good\" and the audio was", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One" } ]
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Qualcomm stadium is the home to what NFL team?
[ "San Diego Chargers", "San Diego Chargers Depth Chart", "SD Chargers", "San Diego Changers", "Chargers", "The Chargers", "Charger's", "Los Angeles Chargers", "Logos and uniforms of the San Diego Chargers" ]
[ { "docid": "20186126", "text": "instead opting for a new NFL stadium in Inglewood proposed by Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke. Since 2007, the Chargers had an option every February 1 to terminate their lease at Qualcomm Stadium, their home at the time since 1967. Under the lease terms, the Chargers would have owed the city an exit fee in the amount of $17.6 million if they had relocated in or before 2015. The team had been working to build a publicly funded stadium since 2002 and proposed a new stadium as part of a convention center annex. However, the plan faced opposition from", "title": "Proposed Los Angeles NFL stadiums" }, { "docid": "5625124", "text": "2003 NFL season The 2003 NFL season was the 84th regular season of the National Football League (NFL). Regular-season play was held from September 4, 2003, to December 28, 2003. Due to damage caused by the Cedar Fire, Qualcomm Stadium was used as an emergency shelter, and thus the Miami Dolphins–San Diego Chargers regular-season match on October 27 was instead played at Sun Devil Stadium, the home field of the Arizona Cardinals. The playoffs began on January 3, 2004. The NFL title was won by the New England Patriots when they defeated the Carolina Panthers, 32–29, in Super Bowl XXXVIII", "title": "2003 NFL season" }, { "docid": "17084814", "text": "to the nation's second-largest market for both teams; the Raiders played in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1994 while the Chargers called LA home for their inaugural season in the American Football League. The Chargers were the only NFL team to play in Southern California at the time (until the Rams moved to Los Angeles in 2016), with San Diego being a distance from Los Angeles, and the Chargers counted Los Angeles as a secondary market. The Chargers have been looking to replace Qualcomm Stadium (which, like the Oakland Coliseum opened in the late 1960s) since at least 2003, and", "title": "2016 NFL season" }, { "docid": "17084762", "text": "inaugural season in the American Football League. The Chargers are currently the only NFL team to play in Southern California, with San Diego being a distance from Los Angeles and currently have Los Angeles as a secondary market. The Chargers have been looking to replace Qualcomm Stadium (which, like the O.co Coliseum opened in the late 1960s) since at least 2003, and have had an annual out clause in which it can move in exchange for paying a fine to the city of San Diego for its remaining years on its lease. Due to both television contracts, NFL bylaws, and", "title": "2015 NFL season" }, { "docid": "3081255", "text": "paid $500,000 for the rights through December 31, 2018. It is the home of the San Diego State Aztecs football team from San Diego State University. One college football bowl game, the Holiday Bowl, is held in the stadium every December. The stadium was the longtime home of two professional franchises: the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL) and the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Chargers played at the stadium from 1967 through the 2016 season, after which they moved to Los Angeles to become the Los Angeles Chargers. The Padres played home", "title": "SDCCU Stadium" }, { "docid": "3368871", "text": "for the Chargers and Los Angeles Rams, who are currently playing in the far larger Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, with opening scheduled in 2020. Over its history, Vanderbilt Stadium has occasionally been used for concerts and major speakers. Vanderbilt Stadium Vanderbilt Stadium is a football stadium located in Nashville, Tennessee. Completed in 1922 (then named Dudley Field) as the first stadium in the South to be used exclusively for college football, it is the home of the Vanderbilt University football team. Vanderbilt Stadium hosted the Tennessee Oilers (now Titans) during the 1998 NFL season and the first Music City Bowl", "title": "Vanderbilt Stadium" }, { "docid": "2611805", "text": "games were held in the following seasons with similarly enthusiastic crowds, including three featuring the Baltimore Colts in 1972, when the team trained in Tampa during the NFL preseason. These preseason games gave NFL owners and officials ample opportunity to assess the Tampa Bay area and the stadium, and on April 24, 1974, Tampa was awarded an NFL expansion team to begin play in the 1976 season. The Buccaneers' first regular season home game was held on September 19, 1976, when the Bucs lost to the San Diego Chargers 23-0. That would become a trend, as the team began their", "title": "Tampa Stadium" }, { "docid": "20186095", "text": "January 2016 meeting. The stadium when completed will be the home of the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers. The acceptance of the Inglewood project with teams signed to move in killed the other stadium projects. This article covers the numerous stadium proposals for Los Angeles between 1995 and 2016. In early May 1998, entertainment guru Michael Ovitz announced he would lead a largely privately financed $750 million project to build a stadium in Carson, California in hopes of landing the expansion team. In late October 1998, NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue announced that the NFL owners would indeed", "title": "Proposed Los Angeles NFL stadiums" }, { "docid": "7468141", "text": "fourth quarter. With no timeouts left, San Diego drove to the Patriots 36-yard line on their final possession, but Nate Kaeding's 54-yard field goal attempt fell short with three seconds remaining in the game. One month later, Schottenheimer was fired by San Diego, ending his 21-year coaching career. His 14–2 season with the Chargers was his best regular season record ever, and he is the only coach in NFL history to be fired after racking up 14 wins. To date, this is New England’s last road playoff win, as well as New England’s last playoff game at Qualcomm Stadium. Although", "title": "2006–07 NFL playoffs" }, { "docid": "14137394", "text": "Meanwhile, the United Football League had set aside a portion of their television contract for their 2011 UFL season, as a potential package of replacement programs for the networks; while CBS and Fox briefly negotiated with the UFL regarding the package, neither network committed to carrying the games, forcing the UFL to postpone its season by a month. The following stadiums received new naming rights: In addition, the San Diego Chargers' home field, Qualcomm Stadium, was temporarily renamed \"Snapdragon Stadium\" for a ten-day period from December 16–25, which included the team's Week 15 home game vs. the Baltimore Ravens, as", "title": "2011 NFL season" }, { "docid": "9465989", "text": "tax from its current 12.5% up to 16.5% would not have caused harm to the tourism economy, countering claims laid by the opposition that the additional tax would have caused fewer tourists to come to San Diego. Voice of San Diego reported on March 11, 2015, that a new Chargers' stadium would likely not make San Diego money, citing that the city still owed millions in tax dollars for the renovations to Chargers' Qualcomm Stadium repairs from 1997, and is currently paying about $12 million yearly for Qualcomm. The article stated that San Diego taxpayers subsidize Qualcomm stadium with over", "title": "San Diego Chargers stadium proposals" } ]
[ { "docid": "5625123", "text": "2002 NFL season The 2002 NFL season was the 83rd regular season of the National Football League. The league went back to an even number of teams, expanding to 32 teams with the addition of the Houston Texans. The clubs were then realigned into eight divisions, four teams in each. Also, the Chicago Bears played their home games in 2002 in Champaign, Illinois at Memorial Stadium because of the reconstruction of Soldier Field. The NFL title was eventually won by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when they defeated the Oakland Raiders 48–21 in Super Bowl XXXVII, at Qualcomm Stadium in San", "title": "2002 NFL season" }, { "docid": "5625113", "text": "2002 NFL season The 2002 NFL season was the 83rd regular season of the National Football League. The league went back to an even number of teams, expanding to 32 teams with the addition of the Houston Texans. The clubs were then realigned into eight divisions, four teams in each. Also, the Chicago Bears played their home games in 2002 in Champaign, Illinois at Memorial Stadium because of the reconstruction of Soldier Field. The NFL title was eventually won by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when they defeated the Oakland Raiders 48–21 in Super Bowl XXXVII, at Qualcomm Stadium in San", "title": "2002 NFL season" }, { "docid": "9050248", "text": "because owner Eddie DeBartolo, Jr. was facing legal troubles, which led him to surrender ownership of the team to his sister Denise DeBartolo York and brother-in-law John York. Mills Corporation, the company chosen by the 49ers, was unable to put together a plan to successfully construct a new stadium for the team. NFL owners had gone as far as awarding the new stadium the rights to host Super Bowl XXXVII. When stadium plans stalled, the game went to San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium instead. For years, the city and team ownership were embattled over attempts to gain funding and a green-light", "title": "Levi's Stadium" }, { "docid": "14531531", "text": "time since Wembley's opening. They played against Turkey at Etihad Stadium, Manchester and against Australia at Stadium of Light, Sunderland. Not included is the Northern Ireland (playing as Ireland) game in 1973 at Goodison Park as Northern Ireland were the designated home team, which was moved from Belfast due to ongoing civil unrest. England national football team home stadium Wembley Stadium in London is the current exclusive home stadium for the England national football team. This has been the case since it was opened in 2007, following on from the old Wembley Stadium it replaced. England have however also played", "title": "England national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "14531527", "text": "England national football team home stadium Wembley Stadium in London is the current exclusive home stadium for the England national football team. This has been the case since it was opened in 2007, following on from the old Wembley Stadium it replaced. England have however also played many of their home games away from Wembley throughout their history, both in friendly matches and for competitive tournaments. While the England team played their first official home match on 8 March 1873 (their second official international), the old Wembley was not built until 1923 (being known at the time as the Empire", "title": "England national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "18177260", "text": "Belgium national football team home stadium Throughout their history, the Belgian national football team have played at 23 home locations in 11 urban areas, most often in the country's Capital Region, Brussels. The national King Baudouin Stadium, with a capacity of 50,024 people, is the usual playing ground nowadays. At this location, the majority of the Red Devils' home matches took place. Other stadiums (with a smaller capacity) are normally assigned as home ground in case a rather small audience is to be expected or when the national stadium is in repair. Belgium's first official match in 1904 was a", "title": "Belgium national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "4554575", "text": "again until 2016 2002–03 NFL playoffs The National Football League (NFL) playoffs for the 2002 season began on January 4, 2003. The postseason tournament concluded with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeating the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII, 48–21, on January 26, at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California. Prior to the 2002–03 season, the league realigned its teams into eight divisions (four in each conference). Thus, the 12-team playoff format was modified. The league still abides by this updated system today: As a result, a wild card team can no longer host a playoff game during the opening Wild", "title": "2002–03 NFL playoffs" }, { "docid": "4554505", "text": "2002–03 NFL playoffs The National Football League (NFL) playoffs for the 2002 season began on January 4, 2003. The postseason tournament concluded with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeating the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII, 48–21, on January 26, at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California. Prior to the 2002–03 season, the league realigned its teams into eight divisions (four in each conference). Thus, the 12-team playoff format was modified. The league still abides by this updated system today: As a result, a wild card team can no longer host a playoff game during the opening Wild Card round. Prior", "title": "2002–03 NFL playoffs" }, { "docid": "18177264", "text": "matches. However, the UEFA later awarded the games to the Wembley Stadium when due to delays and uncertainty that the new stadium in Brussels would be completed in time. Some stadiums were given different names at different times; only the official name at the last time the national team played is mentioned below. Statistics include official FIFA-recognised matches only; unofficial games can be found \"here\". Belgium national football team home stadium Throughout their history, the Belgian national football team have played at 23 home locations in 11 urban areas, most often in the country's Capital Region, Brussels. The national King", "title": "Belgium national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "19562648", "text": "Algeria national football team home stadium Stade Mustapha Tchaker in Blida is the current exclusive home stadium for the Algeria national football team. This has been the case since it was opened in 2002, Algeria have however also played many of their home games away from Tchaker throughout their history, both in friendly matches and for competitive tournaments. Unlike many selections, \"Les Fennecs\" have no recognized national stadium. Whether for the qualifying matches for the World Cup or friendly matches, they turn around the country and changing in many however stages major international meetings are usually held at Stade 5", "title": "Algeria national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "8659985", "text": "Park in 2020. Scotland national football team home stadium Hampden Park in Glasgow is the primary home stadium for the Scotland national football team. This has been the case since 1906, soon after it opened. The present site of Hampden Park is the third location to bear that name and both the previous locations also hosted Scotland games. Scotland have also played many of their home games in other stadiums throughout their history, both in friendly matches and for competitive tournaments. Scotland hosted the first official international match, a goalless draw against England on 30 November 1872, at the Hamilton", "title": "Scotland national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "8659978", "text": "Scotland national football team home stadium Hampden Park in Glasgow is the primary home stadium for the Scotland national football team. This has been the case since 1906, soon after it opened. The present site of Hampden Park is the third location to bear that name and both the previous locations also hosted Scotland games. Scotland have also played many of their home games in other stadiums throughout their history, both in friendly matches and for competitive tournaments. Scotland hosted the first official international match, a goalless draw against England on 30 November 1872, at the Hamilton Crescent cricket ground", "title": "Scotland national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "14690542", "text": "to move matches away from the Millennium Stadium. In response, several friendly matches were moved to various venues around Wales, including the first international matches held at the Cardiff City Stadium, Liberty Stadium and Parc y Scarlets. In July 2010, plans were revealed to move three of Wales' four upcoming home matches during the qualifying stage of UEFA Euro 2012 away from the Millennium Stadium, which would become the first competitive fixtures to be played away from the ground since it opened. Wales national football team home stadium This is a list of stadiums which have hosted Wales international football", "title": "Wales national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "12079538", "text": "2008 San Diego State Aztecs football team The 2008 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented San Diego State University in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were coached by Chuck Long and played their home games at Qualcomm Stadium. The 2008 season was expected to be rough for the Aztecs after losing several key offensive players to the National Football League (NFL). The team looked to redshirt freshman quarterback Ryan Lindley to replace star quarterback Kevin O'Connell. The team also lost two of its leading wide receivers in Brett Swain and Chaz Schilens along with four", "title": "2008 San Diego State Aztecs football team" }, { "docid": "15318387", "text": "standard the modem supports and at what rates depends on the chip being used. Below is a list of Gobi-enabled modem chipsets released by Qualcomm and their features: MDM1000: MDM2000: MDM6200: MDM6600: MDM8200A: MDM8220: MDM9200: MDM9600: Mobile Innovation Awards - Mobile Computing – LAPTOP Magazine. Qualcomm Gobi Qualcomm Gobi is a family of embedded mobile broadband modem products by Qualcomm. Gobi technology was designed to allow for any product with the embedded solution to connect to the internet anywhere a wireless carrier provides data coverage. One of the more notable products that contain a Gobi modem is the iPhone 4", "title": "Qualcomm Gobi" }, { "docid": "11521518", "text": "of their stadium deal in Oakland and the lack of an NFL-ready stadium in their eventual home in Las Vegas, have also agreed to annual international games. The rule does not apply to teams using a temporary stadium within their own market; the Minnesota Vikings were not required to host a home game abroad while using TCF Bank Stadium, for example. NFL rules also require the designated home team for each international game to have their home stadium reserved for use in the event that a game cannot be played at the international site. The Miami Dolphins hosted the New", "title": "NFL International Series" }, { "docid": "14531529", "text": "next half century, meaning just ten home games were played outside of old Wembley in the period after 1951 until 1999. The next series of non-Wembley home games, 34 in all, took place between 2001 and 2007, in the period between the old Wembley closing and the new Wembley opening, due to it being built on the same site. When the old Wembley was closed in October 2000, the national team went 'on tour'. The stadium was not demolished until 2003, and the new stadium was not completed until 2007, well behind schedule. Manchester United's home stadium Old Trafford was", "title": "England national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "3326195", "text": "1938. The Rams returned to the stadium in 1939 and played home games there through the 1941 season before moving to League Park for the remainder of their time in Cleveland. The team returned to the stadium one last time to host the 1945 NFL Championship Game, a 15–14 win in what was the final Rams game in Cleveland before the team relocated to Los Angeles. The only Great Lakes Bowl was held there in 1947. The stadium hosted the annual Notre Dame/Navy college football game 11 times: in 1932, 1934, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1976 and", "title": "Cleveland Stadium" }, { "docid": "5155664", "text": "Shaw Stadium Shaw Stadium is a stadium in East Cleveland, Ohio, United States, mainly used for high school football. The stadium was built in 1923 and is home to the Shaw High School Cardinals football team and marching band. In 1938, the Cleveland Rams of the National Football League (NFL) played three of their four home games at Shaw, winning two and losing one. The Rams earned their first home NFL victory in franchise history with a defeat of the Detroit Lions, followed by a win over the Chicago Bears. Both Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University, which", "title": "Shaw Stadium" }, { "docid": "3217973", "text": "1932. Former Milwaukee ticket holders were offered tickets at Lambeau to one pre-season game and games 2 and 5 of the regular season schedule, in what is referred to as the \"Gold package.\" County Stadium was partly responsible for Lambeau Field's existence, as it was not only intended to lure an MLB team to Milwaukee, but also to lure the Packers to Milwaukee full-time. As originally constructed, County Stadium was double the size of the Packers' then-home, City Stadium, leading the NFL to give the Packers an ultimatum—build a bigger stadium or move to Milwaukee. Green Bay responded with a", "title": "Milwaukee County Stadium" }, { "docid": "6940460", "text": "applications. Ethernet – Qualcomm Atheros offers the ETHOS line of Ethernet solutions, as well as the low-energy EDGE line, which supports the IEEE 802.3az-2010 Energy Efficient standard. Hybrid Networking – Qualcomm Atheros' hybrid networking technology, Hy-Fi™, integrates WLAN, PLC, and Ethernet technologies. The technology, which complies with the IEEE 1905.1 standard for hybrid home networking, is capable of detecting the optimal path for data to be transferred at any given moment. Location Technology – In 2012, Qualcomm Atheros announced its IZat location technology. The technology uses multiple sources, such as satellites and WLAN networks, to pinpoint the location of the", "title": "Qualcomm Atheros" }, { "docid": "1883514", "text": "Qualcomm Qualcomm Incorporated is an American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products and services. It derives most of its revenue from chipmaking and the bulk of its profit from patent licensing businesses. The company headquarters is located in San Diego, California, United States, and has 224 worldwide locations. The parent company is Qualcomm Incorporated (Qualcomm), which includes the Qualcomm Technology Licensing Division (QTL). Qualcomm's wholly owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), operates substantially all of Qualcomm's R&D activities. Qualcomm was created on July 1, 1985 by seven former Linkabit employees led by Irwin", "title": "Qualcomm" }, { "docid": "1883531", "text": "market for third-generation phones. The complaints were first lodged in 2005 by leading handset manufacturers Ericsson, Nokia, NEC, Panasonic and Texas Instruments. In October 2008, Nokia announced it will make a one-time payment of $2.29 billion (US) to Qualcomm as part of its patent agreement with the company. The Chinese TDSCDMA 3G technology was developed primarily to avoid Qualcomm licensing fees, although Qualcomm claims that the Chinese technology still infringes on many Qualcomm patents. QChat is a push-to-talk (PTT) technology. The QChat software application was developed by Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS), a division of Qualcomm and part of the Qualcomm", "title": "Qualcomm" }, { "docid": "9050260", "text": "stadium would not have been a first, as the two shared Kezar Stadium for part of 1960. It would have also fulfilled the late Raiders owner Al Davis' goal of a new stadium, something he had strongly desired since the late 1980s although Davis was against sharing a new stadium with another NFL team in Los Angeles when the idea was proposed to him, prompting his move back to Oakland in 1995. The Raiders, as it stands, play at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum and are the only NFL team still sharing its home field with a Major League Baseball team;", "title": "Levi's Stadium" }, { "docid": "17084759", "text": "his territorial rights and previously voiced support of an NFL team moving there when the New Orleans Saints temporarily played in San Antonio in 2005 due to damages to the Superdome following Hurricane Katrina — both favor an NFL team playing in San Antonio. Though San Antonio is a smaller market than the San Francisco Bay Area, the Raiders would not be sharing the market with another NFL team, and would only compete with the NBA's San Antonio Spurs among major sports teams. Additionally, the Raiders would use the Alamodome as a temporary home until an NFL-specific stadium could be", "title": "2015 NFL season" }, { "docid": "14690538", "text": "Wales national football team home stadium This is a list of stadiums which have hosted Wales international football matches. To date, fifteen grounds have been used to host Welsh home matches. Wales played their first home international on 5 March 1877 at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham, losing 2–0 to Scotland. As a result, the Racecourse Ground is officially recognised as the oldest football ground in the world that continues to host international matches, ahead of Hampden Park in Glasgow which did not host its first match for another 27 years, and has hosted more Welsh international matches than any", "title": "Wales national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "19562650", "text": "two goals to one. Other historic sites that have hosted regular international home games of the Algeria are Stade 5 Juillet 1962 of Algiers but also Stade Mustapha Tchaker of Blida or also to the Stade Ahmed Zabana of Oran. Algeria is sometimes relocates its friendly matches in Europe, Algeria has played many games at \"home\" in recent years France and Switzerland due to the fact that there is a large community expatriates in western Europe and much of the players play in European leagues. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Official Site dzfoot.com Algeria national football team home stadium Stade", "title": "Algeria national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "8659982", "text": "first international in 1906. It expanded to the point where it set world record attendances between the 1900s and 1930s. Even as late as 1970, Hampden set a record attendance for a UEFA competition match, the 1969–70 European Cup semi-final second leg between Celtic and Leeds United. Hampden continued to be the main home stadium for the Scotland national team until the early 1990s. It then required significant redevelopment to become an all-seater stadium, meeting the requirements of the Taylor Report. Ibrox Park and Pittodrie Stadium in Aberdeen had both been largely redeveloped before then and hosted some of the", "title": "Scotland national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "2573963", "text": "season, and playoffs. This streak dates back to the 1994 season, while the team was still at Foxboro Stadium. By September 2016 this streak was 231 straight games. From the 1971 to 2001 NFL seasons, the Patriots played all of their home games at Foxboro Stadium. The stadium was privately funded on an extremely small budget and featured few amenities. Its aluminum benches would freeze over during cold-weather games and it had an unorganized dirt parking lot. Foxboro Stadium did not bring in the profits needed to keep an NFL team in New England; at just over 60,000 seats, it", "title": "Gillette Stadium" }, { "docid": "1883530", "text": "interfaces are for the most part based on Qualcomm patents, and royalties from these patents represent a significant part of Qualcomm's revenue. This followed a series of patent-related lawsuits and antitrust complaints, spearheaded by Broadcom, in the US. In 2006, Broadcom started a series of patent-related lawsuits and antitrust complaints against Qualcomm to get what Broadcom regarded fair terms for access to the W-CDMA technologies. Broadcom was soon joined by Nokia and others, and complaints were also filed in the European Commission. In 2007, the European Commission launched an inquiry into Qualcomm's possible abusing of its dominant position in the", "title": "Qualcomm" }, { "docid": "1883524", "text": "Qualcomm approximately $11.7b in market capitalization. In July 2007, Reliance and Qualcomm decided to settle the matter and agreed to expand the use of CDMA technology in India. In June 2007, the U.S. International Trade Commission blocked the import of new cell phone models based on particular Qualcomm microchips. They found that these Qualcomm microchips infringe patents owned by Broadcom. Broadcom has also initiated patent litigation in U.S. courts over this issue. At issue is software designed to extend battery life in chips while users make out-of-network calls. In October, an ITC administrative judge made an initial ruling that Qualcomm", "title": "Qualcomm" }, { "docid": "1883525", "text": "violated the Broadcom patent covering that feature and the commission later affirmed the decision. Sprint Nextel Corp. is using a software patch from Qualcomm to get around a U.S. government agency ban on new phones with Qualcomm chips. In August 2007, Judge Rudi Brewster held that Qualcomm had engaged in litigation misconduct by withholding relevant documents during the lawsuit it brought against Broadcom and that Qualcomm employees had lied about their involvement. In July 2009, South Korea's antitrust watchdog fined Qualcomm a record Won260bn ($207m) for \"unfair\" business practices related to its chipset sales, sparking strong protests from the company.", "title": "Qualcomm" }, { "docid": "19135834", "text": "incurs by hosting Raiders games. With the city of Oakland filing a lawsuit against the Raiders and the NFL in December 2018, the Raiders management has indicated that the team will leave Oakland after the 2018 season and find a temporary stadium elsewhere until Las Vegas Stadium is finished. On September 4, University of Phoenix Stadium, the home field of the Arizona Cardinals, was renamed State Farm Stadium. The naming rights agreement is for 18 years; however, the cost of the deal was not disclosed. On June 20, the Denver Broncos' home stadium was renamed Broncos Stadium at Mile High.", "title": "2018 NFL season" }, { "docid": "11521513", "text": "team that plays a home game in London sells a cheaper season ticket package for its own stadium with seven regular season games rather than the usual eight. Each designated home team receives US$1 million for giving up the home game. On October 11, 2011, the NFL owners approved playing NFL games in Great Britain through the year 2016. This stated that a home team could visit every year for up to five years but visitors could only visit once every five years. However, in 2015 the Detroit Lions returned to London as visitors in an apparent disregard for this", "title": "NFL International Series" }, { "docid": "9234021", "text": "Miami, in 2012. Sun Life Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) was then renovated to eliminate its baseball functionality, making it a football-only stadium. With the Marlins' relocation, the Oakland Athletics are the last team in the U.S. still sharing a stadium with an NFL team (the Oakland Raiders), the Oakland Coliseum. This arrangement will end once the Raiders move to Las Vegas (most likely in 2020), after which each NFL and MLB franchise will have its own stadium. The Athletics are currently seeking a new home; they are currently exploring plans to build Oakland Ballpark. Before announcing their upcoming move", "title": "Multi-purpose stadium" }, { "docid": "2283218", "text": "home field of their rivals, the University of Miami Hurricanes. Hard Rock Stadium Hard Rock Stadium is a multipurpose football stadium located in Miami Gardens, Florida, a city north of Miami. It is the home stadium of the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). Hard Rock Stadium also plays host to the Miami Hurricanes football team during their regular season. The facility also hosts the Orange Bowl, an annual college football bowl game. It was the home to the Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1993 to 2011. The stadium has hosted five Super Bowls (XXIII,", "title": "Hard Rock Stadium" }, { "docid": "2135983", "text": "the Giants playing a home game one day and the Jets playing the other. The night between the games was a challenge for the stadium grounds crew, as they only had hours to convert the stadium from one team's colors to the other. As per the NFL schedule, the Giants and the Jets play each other once every four years. In that case, there was a predetermined home team, and a predetermined away team. In those games, the away team gets a rare away game in their own home stadium. The Giants and Jets typically play each other every year", "title": "Giants Stadium" }, { "docid": "7259942", "text": "the American Professional Football Association in 1939. The Bulldogs then became charter members of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League in 1940 and played in Gilmore Stadium until 1948, when the team moved to Long Beach, California, for its (and the league's) final season. The stadium was also home to another professional football teams, the Los Angeles Mustangs of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League. Gilmore Stadium was the site of two 1940 National Football League (NFL) Pro Bowls. The stadium was home to the collegiate Loyola Marymount Lions football team and Pepperdine Waves football team. On January 14, 1940,", "title": "Gilmore Stadium" }, { "docid": "1804209", "text": "Louisville (NFL) Louisville, Kentucky had two professional American football teams in the National Football League: the Louisville Breckenridges (or Brecks for short) from 1921 to 1924 and the Louisville Colonels in 1926. The NFL intended for the Brecks to be a traveling team, however the team played a series of \"home\" games. All Brecks home games were played at Eclipse Park, until the stadium caught fire and burned to the ground on November 20, 1922. Meanwhile, the Colonels played all of their games on the road. While the Colonels were really a traveling team out of Chicago they are usually", "title": "Louisville (NFL)" }, { "docid": "17559207", "text": "Broadcom. \"Qualcomm Inc. v. Broadcom Corp.\", \"Qualcomm II\", 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 911 (S.D. Cal. Jan. 7, 2008) The case was then taken to a US district court where Qualcomm appealed its case. This court examined Qualcomm's misconduct and what it described as \"intentional and persistent insulation\". Therefore, the court once more ruled in Broadcom's favor and ordered that Qualcomm could not enforce its patents in question, or any derivative of them. The court affirmed the decision of the lower court, that Qualcomm had waived its right to enforce its patent since it failed to disclose it to a standards", "title": "Qualcomm Inc. v. Broadcom Corp." }, { "docid": "11896350", "text": "them in midseason are noted. There have been no NFL traveling teams since 1952, owing to the increased stability of the league. Even in cases when an NFL team's home stadium has been rendered unusable due to damages or renovations, the teams have arranged and designated temporary home stadiums in each case and no NFL team has had to play more than two designated home games (out of eight in a season) outside their home stadium. In the Canadian Football League, the Las Vegas Posse were converted to a road team near the end of the 1994 season, their sole", "title": "Traveling team" }, { "docid": "20068928", "text": "Qualcomm Ventures Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund with 140+ active portfolio companies. Investing in startups targeting the wireless ecosystem, the group focuses on investments in the sectors of automotive, data center and enterprise, digital health, Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile. Qualcomm Ventures has experienced seven portfolio company exits of $1 billion dollars, including 99 (app), Cruise Automation, Fitbit, Invensense, NQ Mobile, and Ring, Waze. In November, 2018, Qualcomm Ventures annoucned it has plans to invest up to $100 million in artificial intelligence. It will", "title": "Qualcomm Ventures" }, { "docid": "4554808", "text": "1997–98 NFL playoffs The National Football League playoffs for the 1997 season began on December 27, 1997. The postseason tournament concluded with the Denver Broncos defeating the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXII, 31–24, on January 25, 1998, at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California. These playoffs marked the final season that NBC was the AFC network. CBS would then take over the rights to the AFC before the start of the following season. Super Bowl XXXII was also NBC's last NFL broadcast overall until 2006, when they signed on to televise \"Sunday Night Football\". ABC continued to broadcast", "title": "1997–98 NFL playoffs" }, { "docid": "3081254", "text": "SDCCU Stadium San Diego County Credit Union Stadium, commonly known as SDCCU Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in San Diego, California, United States. The stadium opened in 1967 as San Diego Stadium and was known as Jack Murphy Stadium from 1981 to 1997. From 1997 to 2017, the stadium's naming rights were owned by San Diego-based telecommunications equipment company Qualcomm, and the stadium was known as Qualcomm Stadium. The naming rights expired on June 14, 2017, and the stadium was renamed SDCCU Stadium on September 19, 2017. Currently, the naming rights are owned by San Diego County Credit Union, who", "title": "SDCCU Stadium" }, { "docid": "2135981", "text": "largely to the dual occupancy of Giants Stadium by two NFL teams since 1984, it surpassed Wrigley Field (home of the Chicago Bears for 50 seasons) as the venue to have hosted more NFL games than any other in league history. The game played between the Jets and Miami Dolphins on September 14, 2003 was the 366th regular season NFL game at Giants Stadium breaking Wrigley's regular season record. Since the stadium was originally built for the Giants, the stadium's lower walls were blue and the seats and the stadium's four gates were red and blue to reflect the team", "title": "Giants Stadium" }, { "docid": "19269269", "text": "European markets. However, the agreement of league owners is needed to undertake an expansion or relocation, and a London franchise would face financial, legal and logistical challenges. Possible home stadiums for the London team include one or more of Wembley Stadium, Twickenham Stadium or Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The NFL is aiming to establish a London franchise by around 2025, and has the active support of the UK government. Since 2007, the league has held multiple regular season games in London each season as part of NFL London Games, allowing the league to test solutions to some of the challenges facing", "title": "Potential London NFL franchise" }, { "docid": "8319019", "text": "County areas\". However, despite problems with Qualcomm Stadium, Spanos refused to exercise the escape clause ever since the opportunity was offered in 2007. In March 2015, Goodell said that, despite the stadium proposals, the league was \"not focused\" on bringing NFL back to Los Angeles for the 2016 NFL season, and any Los Angeles team in 2016 would \"have to play in a temporary facility.\" He added one month later that only one of the two proposals would be greenlighted by the league. By June 2015, the NFL had sent requests regarding the possibility of temporarily hosting football games to", "title": "History of the National Football League in Los Angeles" }, { "docid": "20077208", "text": "NFL franchise could participate as a partner or tenant: \"Our group will provide the funds previously allocated to be provided by the City of San Diego and guarantee the stadium's expeditious construction. Accordingly it will not require voter approval.\" It also said they would provide \"new state of the art scoreboards and upgrade Qualcomm Stadium while the new stadium is being constructed\". On March 1, 2017, Fortress Investment Group submitted a tweaked version of the Oakland stadium plan to the NFL. On March 6, 2017, the Raiders revealed that Bank of America would be replacing Sheldon Adelson's portion of the", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "docid": "3335529", "text": "owner Art Modell announced he was moving his team to Baltimore. Following protracted negotiations between Modell, the two cities and the NFL, it was decided that Modell would be allowed to take his players and organization to Baltimore as the Ravens, while leaving the Browns name and legacy for a replacement team that returned in 1999. The Ravens were tenants of the stadium until the end of the 1997 NFL regular season, when they moved to what is now M&T Bank Stadium. It was bid farewell in style by both the Orioles (in a field-encircling ceremony staged by many former", "title": "Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)" }, { "docid": "66836", "text": "any other state. The San Francisco Bay Area has seven major league teams spread in its three major cities: San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland, while the Greater Los Angeles Area is home to ten major league franchises. San Diego and Sacramento each have one major league team. The NFL Super Bowl has been hosted in California 11 times at four different stadiums: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Rose Bowl, Stanford Stadium, and San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium. A twelfth, Super Bowl 50, was held at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara on February 7, 2016. California has long had many respected", "title": "California" }, { "docid": "9050259", "text": "for alternate colors and two home-team locker rooms. The 49ers and Raiders publicly said it would be an option if possible, while NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was strongly in favor of the two sharing a stadium. Fans of both teams reacted negatively to the idea. Along with the New York metropolitan area, where the New York Giants and New York Jets shared Giants Stadium from 1984 to 2009 and currently share its successor, MetLife Stadium, the DC-Baltimore metro area and Los Angeles. The Bay Area is one of 4 NFL markets with two teams. The 49ers and Raiders sharing a", "title": "Levi's Stadium" }, { "docid": "2283180", "text": "Hard Rock Stadium Hard Rock Stadium is a multipurpose football stadium located in Miami Gardens, Florida, a city north of Miami. It is the home stadium of the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). Hard Rock Stadium also plays host to the Miami Hurricanes football team during their regular season. The facility also hosts the Orange Bowl, an annual college football bowl game. It was the home to the Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1993 to 2011. The stadium has hosted five Super Bowls (XXIII, XXIX, XXXIII, XLI and XLIV), the 2010 Pro Bowl, two", "title": "Hard Rock Stadium" }, { "docid": "3285717", "text": "Memorial Stadium (Clemson) Frank Howard Field at Clemson Memorial Stadium, popularly known as \"Death Valley\", is home to the Clemson Tigers, an NCAA Division I FBS football team located in Clemson, South Carolina. Built in 1941–1942, the stadium has seen expansions throughout the years, with the most recent being the WestZone, which began in 2004 and was completed in 2006. Prior to the completion of Bank of America Stadium, in Charlotte, Memorial Stadium served as the home venue for the National Football League (NFL)'s Carolina Panthers during the team's inaugural 1995 season. Currently, the stadium is the largest in the", "title": "Memorial Stadium (Clemson)" }, { "docid": "4889661", "text": "Old Cardinal Stadium \"Old\" Cardinal Stadium is the common name of a former college and minor league baseball and college football stadium in Louisville, Kentucky, officially named Cardinal Stadium. It is on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center, and was called Fairgrounds Stadium when it first opened for an NFL exhibition football game between the Baltimore Colts and Philadelphia Eagles on September 9, 1956. The lone Bluegrass Bowl was held here in 1958. Cardinal Stadium was home to the Louisville Raiders football team from 1960 through 1962. It was the home to two minor league baseball teams in Louisville:", "title": "Old Cardinal Stadium" }, { "docid": "15318384", "text": "Qualcomm Gobi Qualcomm Gobi is a family of embedded mobile broadband modem products by Qualcomm. Gobi technology was designed to allow for any product with the embedded solution to connect to the internet anywhere a wireless carrier provides data coverage. One of the more notable products that contain a Gobi modem is the iPhone 4 for Verizon, which contains a MDM6600, however it does not take advantage of the support for HSPA+. On October 23, 2007, Qualcomm announced the first set of Gobi-enabled chipsets to be commercially available in the second quarter of 2008. The first chip produced by Qualcomm,", "title": "Qualcomm Gobi" }, { "docid": "20068929", "text": "provide capital to startups building on-device AI, which is AI that runs on the end device, like a smartphone or vehicle, rather than in the cloud. Qualcomm Ventures Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund with 140+ active portfolio companies. Investing in startups targeting the wireless ecosystem, the group focuses on investments in the sectors of automotive, data center and enterprise, digital health, Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile. Qualcomm Ventures has experienced seven portfolio company exits of $1 billion dollars, including 99 (app), Cruise Automation, Fitbit,", "title": "Qualcomm Ventures" }, { "docid": "18177261", "text": "home game, at the Stade du Vivier d'Oie in Uccle. Before their first official match in the national Jubilee Stadium in Brussels in 1931, the Red Devils made 67 home appearances in the current urban areas of Antwerp, Brussels, Liège, Seraing and Verviers. In that era, Antwerp and its surroundings often hosted the Belgian home matches (32 times), mostly explained by the frequent confrontations against the national team of Antwerp's neighbouring country Netherlands, and the 1920 Olympics football tournament held at the Olympisch Stadion (the \"Kiel\"). From 1931 on, the large majority of the home games have been played in", "title": "Belgium national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "11521520", "text": "one of their eight home games each year at Wembley Stadium. However, on August 13, 2012, the team announced that they would not play the proposed games in London in 2013 and 2014, only the 2012 game against the New England Patriots that had already been scheduled. Goodell had previously proposed the use of certain regular teams in the International Series in an effort to build a fan base for those teams, raising the prospect of a permanent NFL team on the British Isles. An NFL bid to become anchor tenants of London's Olympic Stadium failed. The Jacksonville Jaguars took", "title": "NFL International Series" }, { "docid": "5619505", "text": "played outside the United States when a San Francisco 49ers – Arizona Cardinals game was played at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on October 2 (the Cardinals won 31–14). The game drew an NFL regular season record of 103,467 paid fans. It was a home game for the Cardinals, mostly because the team rarely sold out at their then-home field, Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. This season was the last year that the Cardinals played at Sun Devil Stadium; the team then moved to their new Cardinals Stadium in nearby Glendale. Due to the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina", "title": "2005 NFL season" }, { "docid": "9153405", "text": "the MLB team in their city made the playoffs. On some occasions, the NFL game could be moved to Saturday or Monday. The NFL would often schedule October division games so that teams would be able to swap home game dates if it appeared that the MLB playoff schedule would make a stadium unavailable to the NFL. Perhaps the most extreme case was in 1973, when the New York Jets played at Shea Stadium and were forced to play their first six games on the road due to the Mets playing in the World Series. As more MLB teams started", "title": "NFL regular season" }, { "docid": "3368856", "text": "Vanderbilt Stadium Vanderbilt Stadium is a football stadium located in Nashville, Tennessee. Completed in 1922 (then named Dudley Field) as the first stadium in the South to be used exclusively for college football, it is the home of the Vanderbilt University football team. Vanderbilt Stadium hosted the Tennessee Oilers (now Titans) during the 1998 NFL season and the first Music City Bowl in 1998 and also hosted the Tennessee state high school football championships for many years. Vanderbilt Stadium is the smallest football stadium in the Southeastern Conference, and was the largest stadium in Nashville until the completion of the", "title": "Vanderbilt Stadium" }, { "docid": "14905412", "text": "one station to air a local broadcast for each team in the contest, NFL Audio Pass and Sirius Satellite Radio were the only options for those who want to listen to their home team but live outside of the flagship station's listening range. In addition to the team broadcasts, the NFL Audio Pass Super Bowl package included various foreign language broadcasts, live feeds from the stadium PA announcer, archives, and \"press box\" stat play-by-play. In the past, from spring until August 1, NFL Field Pass opened up its archives to \"free preview.\" All games from the past years were available", "title": "NFL Game Pass" }, { "docid": "18177262", "text": "the stadium at the Heysel plain in Brussels. Inaugurated as \"Jubilee Stadium\" in 1930 with an unofficial match against Netherlands, and renamed \"Heysel Stadium\" in 1946, it underwent a drastical transformation in 1995. From then on, the stadium was named after the late King Baudouin I. Also over the totality of home games since 1904, the location of the current King Baudouin Stadium accounts for the majority of home games played. In May 2013, it was announced that the King Baudouin Stadium would be demolished to create place for housing and that a new stadium would arise nearby at the", "title": "Belgium national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "4168943", "text": "Stanford Stadium) to host a Super Bowl though having never served as the full-time home stadium for an NFL or AFL team (Stanford Stadium hosted one San Francisco 49ers game after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake). Because the NFL has a policy limiting the hosting of a Super Bowl to metropolitan areas with NFL teams, the Super Bowl has not been played at the Rose Bowl since the Rams and Raiders departed the Los Angeles area in . The most recent Super Bowl held in southern California was XXXVII in San Diego in January 2003. The next L.A.-based Super Bowl", "title": "Rose Bowl (stadium)" }, { "docid": "2005715", "text": "born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 15, 1912. DiPardo has written songs about the team such as \"The Chiefs are on the Warpath\" and \"The Hank Stram Polka\". DiPardo earned a Super Bowl ring for the Chiefs' victory in Super Bowl IV. Arrowhead Stadium Arrowhead Stadium is an American football stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It primarily serves as the home venue of the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). It is part of the Truman Sports Complex with adjacent Kauffman Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB).", "title": "Arrowhead Stadium" }, { "docid": "9919228", "text": "additional 3,000 temporary seats were added at that time as well to accommodate the Portland State football team. The team used Hillsboro Stadium in 2000 when then Civic Stadium (now Providence Park) was being renovated. Portland's Central Catholic High School also played their home games at the stadium that season as well. In May 2001, the University of Oregon Ducks football team held their annual spring game at the stadium. This scrimmage event included future NFL quarterbacks Joey Harrington and Jason Fife. In October 2005, Hillsboro Stadium hosted a college football game between Southern Oregon University (SOU) and Pacific Lutheran", "title": "Hillsboro Stadium" }, { "docid": "1804099", "text": "Cincinnati Reds (NFL) The Cincinnati Reds were a National Football League team that played the 1933 season and the first eight games of the 1934 season. The football Reds played most of their home games at Crosley Field. Other home games were played at Dayton's Triangle Park, Portsmouth's Universal Stadium and Xavier University's Corcoran Stadium in a rare night game against the Chicago Cardinals. The team was eventually suspended for failure to pay league dues during the 1934 season and the St. Louis Gunners, an independent team, replaced the Reds on the schedule for the last three games. The Reds", "title": "Cincinnati Reds (NFL)" }, { "docid": "1804102", "text": "and 1931. Cincinnati Reds (NFL) The Cincinnati Reds were a National Football League team that played the 1933 season and the first eight games of the 1934 season. The football Reds played most of their home games at Crosley Field. Other home games were played at Dayton's Triangle Park, Portsmouth's Universal Stadium and Xavier University's Corcoran Stadium in a rare night game against the Chicago Cardinals. The team was eventually suspended for failure to pay league dues during the 1934 season and the St. Louis Gunners, an independent team, replaced the Reds on the schedule for the last three games.", "title": "Cincinnati Reds (NFL)" }, { "docid": "392199", "text": "Mets (76 home dates); 1,288,048 by the Yankees (71 home dates); 361,102 by the Jets (seven home games) and 358,830 by the Giants (also seven). Having both the Giants and Jets share Shea Stadium for one season foreshadowed what was to come in the future with the Meadowlands (a.k.a. Giants Stadium), after the Jets left Flushing Meadows for New Jersey following the 1983 NFL season. Shea was a circular stadium, with the grandstand forming about two-thirds of a circle around the field and ending a short distance beyond the foul lines. The remainder of the perimeter was mostly empty space", "title": "Shea Stadium" }, { "docid": "3081262", "text": "enclosed, with the exception of where the scoreboard is located. Nearly 11,000 seats were added in readiness for Super Bowl XXXII in 1998, bringing the capacity to 70,561. Also in 1997, the facility was renamed Qualcomm Stadium after Qualcomm Corporation paid $18 million for the naming rights. The naming rights belonged to Qualcomm until 2017, after which the rights were purchased by San Diego County Credit Union. In order to continue to honor Murphy, the city named the stadium site Jack Murphy Field. However, as part of the naming agreement Jack Murphy Field was not allowed to be used alongside", "title": "SDCCU Stadium" }, { "docid": "2135982", "text": "colors. When the Jets moved in, green banners were hung over the walls and eventually over the outer gates of the stadium anytime the team hosted a game. In addition, team-specific end zone decorations would be changed for Jets home games. This was accomplished by either painting over the Giants logos, or replacing the turf section of each end zone. Midfield decorations at the 50-yard line were typically not team-specific (in early years a Meadowlands logo, and later an NFL shield), which could be used for both teams' games. In mid-December, traditionally the stadium hosted a Saturday-Sunday NFL doubleheader, with", "title": "Giants Stadium" }, { "docid": "2135962", "text": "Giants Stadium was closed following the 2009 NFL season following the construction of what is now MetLife Stadium in the surrounding parking lot. The stadium's final event was the January 3, 2009 game featuring the Jets hosting the Cincinnati Bengals on \"Sunday Night Football\". A month after the game, demolition of the structure began and was completed on August 10, 2010. The New York Giants and New York Jets both moved to MetLife Stadium in 2010. Giants Stadium was the first major league sporting venue in New Jersey (though the Brooklyn Dodgers had played seven home games at Roosevelt Stadium", "title": "Giants Stadium" }, { "docid": "8064456", "text": "Philadelphia Eagles used the stadium twice for home games. On Tuesday, November 6, 1934, the Eagles beat the Cincinnati Reds, 64-0. This game was historic because it was the first time in NFL history that a team scored ten touchdowns in one game, and it is still the second most lopsided game in NFL history, second only to the Chicago Bears' 73-0 victory over the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL Championship Game. It was also the last game ever for the Reds, who had found out the previous day that their team was being disbanded and replaced in the", "title": "Temple Stadium" }, { "docid": "3081044", "text": "team. Kezar Stadium Kezar Stadium is an outdoor athletics stadium in San Francisco, California, located adjacent to Kezar Pavilion in the southeastern corner of Golden Gate Park. It is the former home of the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders (first AFL season only) of the National Football League (NFL) and of the San Francisco Dragons of Major League Lacrosse. It currently serves as the home of San Francisco City FC of the Premier Development League. Kezar also hosts amateur and recreation sports leagues, as well as numerous San Francisco high school football games (including the city championship, known", "title": "Kezar Stadium" }, { "docid": "499064", "text": "the New York Yankees based in Yankee Stadium. The league failed after only one year, but the team continued as a member of the NFL for two seasons before ceasing operations. A second New York Yankees football team, not related to the first, split its home games between Yankee Stadium and Downing Stadium as it competed in the second AFL in 1936 and 1937. A third AFL New York Yankees took the field in 1940 and became the New York Americans in 1941. The New York Yankees of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) played their home games at Yankee Stadium", "title": "Yankee Stadium (1923)" }, { "docid": "3997651", "text": "Neyland Stadium Neyland Stadium (pronounced \"NEE-land\") is a sports stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It serves primarily as the home of the Tennessee Volunteers football team, but is also used to host large conventions and has been a site for several National Football League (NFL) exhibition games. The stadium's official capacity is 102,455. Constructed in 1921, and originally called Shields–Watkins Field (the playing surface is still called that today), the stadium has undergone 16 expansion projects, at one point reaching a capacity of 104,079 before being slightly reduced by alterations in the following decade. Neyland Stadium is the fifth", "title": "Neyland Stadium" }, { "docid": "1883537", "text": "have full access if the affected user installs an app that exploits one of the vulnerabilities. According to Check Point this affects 900 million Android users. Affected phones include some of the most recent Android phones. Check Point has published a scan tool for Android users and BlackBerry is developing a repair tool. Qualcomm has released fixes for all four issues, three of which had been included in the Android updates for the top Google phones at the time of publication of the bug. Qualcomm Qualcomm Incorporated is an American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company that designs and markets", "title": "Qualcomm" }, { "docid": "1883515", "text": "Jacobs. The company was named Qualcomm for “QUALity COMMunications.” It started as a contract research and development center largely for government and defense projects. Qualcomm merged with Omninet in 1988 and raised $3.5 million in funding in order to produce the Omnitracs satellite communications system for trucking companies. Qualcomm grew from eight employees in 1986 to 620 employees in 1991, due to demand for Omnitracs. By 1989, Qualcomm had $32 million in revenues, 50 percent of which was from an Omnitracs contract with Schneider National. Omnitracs profits helped fund Qualcomm's research and development into code-division multiple access (CDMA) technologies for", "title": "Qualcomm" }, { "docid": "887835", "text": "four times: 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2004. Whenever the Cardinals struggled, Sun Devil Stadium was frequently one of the quietest stadiums in the league. Cardinals home games often did not sell out in time for them to be aired locally, in compliance with NFL blackout policy at the time. The few fans who did show up for games were most often rooting for the visiting team, creating what amounted to \"home games\" on the road for many opposing teams. A significant percentage of the state's residents only live there during the winter and live elsewhere for the rest of the", "title": "Sun Devil Stadium" }, { "docid": "8659984", "text": "since 1999 and almost all competitive games. Some friendlies have been moved to smaller venues outside Glasgow, usually either Pittodrie or Easter Road in Edinburgh. Hampden was closed for a year due to its use as an athletics stadium in the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The lease that the SFA holds on Hampden is due to expire after UEFA Euro 2020. During the 2017–18 season, Celtic (Celtic Park), Rangers (Ibrox) and the Scottish Rugby Union (Murrayfield) made offers to become the regular home of the Scotland team. In September 2018, the SFA announced an agreement to purchase the ground from Queen's", "title": "Scotland national football team home stadium" }, { "docid": "2005700", "text": "Arrowhead Stadium Arrowhead Stadium is an American football stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It primarily serves as the home venue of the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). It is part of the Truman Sports Complex with adjacent Kauffman Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). Arrowhead Stadium has a seating capacity of 76,416, making it the 28th largest stadium in North America and the sixth largest NFL stadium. It is also the largest sports facility by capacity in the state of Missouri. A $375 million renovation was completed", "title": "Arrowhead Stadium" }, { "docid": "3997672", "text": "a 12-inch bed of sand to enhance drainage. Neyland Stadium Neyland Stadium (pronounced \"NEE-land\") is a sports stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It serves primarily as the home of the Tennessee Volunteers football team, but is also used to host large conventions and has been a site for several National Football League (NFL) exhibition games. The stadium's official capacity is 102,455. Constructed in 1921, and originally called Shields–Watkins Field (the playing surface is still called that today), the stadium has undergone 16 expansion projects, at one point reaching a capacity of 104,079 before being slightly reduced by alterations in", "title": "Neyland Stadium" }, { "docid": "3325995", "text": "Raymond James Stadium Raymond James Stadium, also known as \"Ray Jay\", is a multi-purpose football stadium located in Tampa, Florida. It is home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL) as well as the NCAA's South Florida Bulls football team. The stadium seats 65,618. With the addition of temporary seating, it can be expanded to 75,000 for special events. Raymond James Stadium hosted Super Bowls XXXV and XLIII, as well as the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship. It is also set to host Super Bowl LV in February 2021. Raymond James Stadium was built to", "title": "Raymond James Stadium" }, { "docid": "2699678", "text": "97. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium (commonly known as RFK Stadium, originally District of Columbia Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Washington, D.C. It is located about due east of the US Capitol building, near the west bank of the Anacostia River and adjacent to the D.C. Armory. It opened in 1961. RFK Stadium was home to a National Football League (NFL) team, two Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, five professional soccer teams, two college football teams, a bowl game and a USFL team. It has hosted five NFC Championship games, two MLB All-Star Games,", "title": "Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium" }, { "docid": "2699599", "text": "Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium (commonly known as RFK Stadium, originally District of Columbia Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Washington, D.C. It is located about due east of the US Capitol building, near the west bank of the Anacostia River and adjacent to the D.C. Armory. It opened in 1961. RFK Stadium was home to a National Football League (NFL) team, two Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, five professional soccer teams, two college football teams, a bowl game and a USFL team. It has hosted five NFC Championship games, two MLB All-Star Games, men's", "title": "Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium" }, { "docid": "6940457", "text": "for a total of US$3.7 billion. Atheros became a subsidiary of Qualcomm under the name Qualcomm Atheros. After the acquisition, the division unveiled the WCN3660 Combo Chip, which integrated dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and FM into Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile processors. Qualcomm Atheros launched the Skifta media shifting application for Android and released the first HomePlug Green PHY solution at the end of the year. In 2012, Qualcomm Atheros announced a Wi-Fi Display product at CES 2012, along with a new chip for HomePlug AV power line networking. At Mobile World Congress 2012, Qualcomm Atheros demonstrated a suite of 802.11ac enabled products.", "title": "Qualcomm Atheros" }, { "docid": "17074618", "text": "while Alameda County (co-owners of the current stadium) indicated they would probably not support the plan. Davis, in the meantime, continued to negotiate with San Antonio officials and had team officials scout the Alamodome to determine if it would be suitable for the NFL. The Rams and the St. Louis CVC began negotiating deals to get the Rams home stadium, the Edward Jones Dome into the top 25 percent of stadiums in the league (i.e., top eight teams of the thirty two NFL teams in reference to luxury boxes, amenities and overall fan experience). Under the terms of the lease", "title": "2014 NFL season" }, { "docid": "10387973", "text": "Schools system, it essentially has been the home field for several future NFL players, including Jamal Lewis and Ahmad Carroll (Douglass), Lawrence Smith (Washington), Kelly Campbell (Mays), David Rocker, Tracy Rocker, and Corey Barlow (Fulton), Greg Favors (Southside), Kelvin Pritchett (Therrell) and Super Bowl XX MVP Richard Dent (Murphy). Lakewood Stadium was the first high school stadium in the state of Georgia to have artificial turf. Lakewood Stadium was the site of the 1975 GHSA Class AAA Football Championship Game between Douglass High School and Central High School (Macon). Central (Macon) defeated home team Douglass 21 to 14. Lakewood Stadium", "title": "Lakewood Stadium" }, { "docid": "4208798", "text": "of seating. In 1932, the stadium hosted the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. In 1935, Stanford Stadium set a record for single-game attendance, with 94,000 spectators filling it for a 13–0 victory over California. In January 1985, Super Bowl XIX was held in Stanford Stadium, with the Bay Area's own San Francisco 49ers defeating the Miami Dolphins, 38–16. Stanford Stadium is one of two venues (the Rose Bowl being the other) to host a Super Bowl without previously serving as the home stadium of a National Football League (NFL) or American Football League (AFL) team. As of now, Super", "title": "Stanford Stadium" } ]
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What is the shoemakers model of the human foot called?
[ "The Last (disambiguation)", "A Last", "The Last" ]
[ { "docid": "7346832", "text": "cutting paths through the Florida swamps during the Second Seminole War, which occurred during the time it was issued to infantry sergeants, drummers and fifers. This is somewhat corroborated by the French nickname for their version of the sword, \"coupe choux\" (cabbage cutter). The last Ames contract for this sword was completed in 1862, although as a stock item it continued to be listed in company catalogs for decades afterwards. The design was based on the French foot artillery short sword of 1816, which with minor changes was basically repeated in 1831. The French model was based on the Roman", "title": "Model 1832 foot artillery sword" }, { "docid": "20363913", "text": "(The Invisible Realm). One Foot (Walk the Moon song) \"One Foot\" is a song by American rock band Walk the Moon for their third studio album, \"What If Nothing\" (2017). The song was released as the album's lead single on September 22, 2017. \"Billboard\" said the song \"encourages the same ecstatic abandon as 'Shut Up and Dance' but, unlike its '90s-worshipping predecessor, follows EDM logic with a gravity-defying beat drop and reverberating vocals.\" Eli Maiman said: \"It's indicative of the album's 'bigger, epic sound'.\" Nicholas Petricca said: One Foot' is facing the void. The last record, we felt like we", "title": "One Foot (Walk the Moon song)" }, { "docid": "20363911", "text": "One Foot (Walk the Moon song) \"One Foot\" is a song by American rock band Walk the Moon for their third studio album, \"What If Nothing\" (2017). The song was released as the album's lead single on September 22, 2017. \"Billboard\" said the song \"encourages the same ecstatic abandon as 'Shut Up and Dance' but, unlike its '90s-worshipping predecessor, follows EDM logic with a gravity-defying beat drop and reverberating vocals.\" Eli Maiman said: \"It's indicative of the album's 'bigger, epic sound'.\" Nicholas Petricca said: One Foot' is facing the void. The last record, we felt like we had a lot", "title": "One Foot (Walk the Moon song)" }, { "docid": "3644210", "text": "they can be recycled and remoulded when they wear out. Cordwainers, or bespoke shoemakers, often use lasts that are specifically designed to the proportions of individual customers' feet. Made from various modern materials, they don't need to withstand the pressures of mass production machinery, but they must be able to handle constant tacking and pinning, and the wet environment associated with stretching and shaping materials such as leather. Last A last is a mechanical form that has a shape similar to that of a human foot. It is used by shoemakers and cordwainers in the manufacture and repair of shoes.", "title": "Last" } ]
[ { "docid": "6138998", "text": "model for Dr. Scholl's during that period. Foot model A foot model is a person who models footwear which can include accessories such as shoes, socks, jewellery and other related items. Foot modeling is mostly used in the advertisement of shoes, foot jewellery, socks, toenail polish, fungus treatments, foot supports, etc. Famous foot models include Zara Miller, Ashleigh Morris, Claire Kesby-Smith, Beverley Brown, Hannah Howells, Scott Adams and Elisha Cuthbert. Zara Miller and Beverley Brown are well known foot models in the U.K. Scott Adams was the most sought after foot model in the U.S from the mid-1970s until he", "title": "Foot model" }, { "docid": "7677116", "text": "the greatest propulsive force in walking and running. This gives the human foot an 'everted' or relatively outward-facing appearance compared to that of other apes. The strong twisting of the anterior part of the human foot on the posterior part tends to increase the height of the medial longitudinal arch. However, there is now considerable evidence that shoe-wearing also accentuates the height of the medial longitudinal arch and that the height of the medial longitudinal arch also differs very considerably between individuals and at different speeds. It is not yet agreed to what extent the early human ancestor \"Australopithecus afarensis\",", "title": "Arches of the foot" }, { "docid": "6138997", "text": "Foot model A foot model is a person who models footwear which can include accessories such as shoes, socks, jewellery and other related items. Foot modeling is mostly used in the advertisement of shoes, foot jewellery, socks, toenail polish, fungus treatments, foot supports, etc. Famous foot models include Zara Miller, Ashleigh Morris, Claire Kesby-Smith, Beverley Brown, Hannah Howells, Scott Adams and Elisha Cuthbert. Zara Miller and Beverley Brown are well known foot models in the U.K. Scott Adams was the most sought after foot model in the U.S from the mid-1970s until he retired in 1995. He was the top", "title": "Foot model" }, { "docid": "7677117", "text": "(3.75 million years ago onwards) had acquired a functionally human-like foot, but the medial twist of the forefoot evident in fossil footbones of this species, and in the Laetoli footprint trail in Tanzania generally attributed to this species, certainly appears less marked than is evident in fossil footbones of \"Homo erectus\" (sometimes called \"Homo georgicus\") from Dmanisi, Georgia (c. 1. 8 million years ago) and the roughly contemporaneous fossil footprint trail at Ileret, Kenya attributed to \"Homo erectus ergaster\". Arches of the foot The arches of the foot, formed by the tarsal and metatarsal bones, strengthened by ligaments and tendons,", "title": "Arches of the foot" }, { "docid": "4434716", "text": "What Is This Thing Called Love? \"What Is This Thing Called Love?\" is a 1929 popular song written by Cole Porter, for the musical \"Wake Up and Dream\". It was first performed by Elsie Carlisle in March 1929. The song has become a popular jazz standard and one of Porter's most often played compositions. \"Wake Up and Dream\" ran for 263 shows in London. The show was also noticed in New York, and the critics praised Tilly Losch's performance of the song. The show was produced on Broadway in December 1929; in the American rendition, \"What Is This Thing Called", "title": "What Is This Thing Called Love?" }, { "docid": "19801773", "text": "New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860 The New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860 began on February 22, 1860 with 3,000 shoemakers walking off their jobs in Lynn, Massachusetts. It ended in April with modest gains for shoemakers, including pay increases and owner recognition of some labor unions. The Panic of 1857 resulted in the temporary loss of jobs for many shoemakers. Workers were also angry at the increasing mechanization of the shoemaking process. When companies began hiring again, the cost of shoes went up and wages declined significantly. Hours were long (16 hours of work per day) and wages were", "title": "New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860" }, { "docid": "19801777", "text": "in the Union Army and died in 1865. New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860 The New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860 began on February 22, 1860 with 3,000 shoemakers walking off their jobs in Lynn, Massachusetts. It ended in April with modest gains for shoemakers, including pay increases and owner recognition of some labor unions. The Panic of 1857 resulted in the temporary loss of jobs for many shoemakers. Workers were also angry at the increasing mechanization of the shoemaking process. When companies began hiring again, the cost of shoes went up and wages declined significantly. Hours were long (16", "title": "New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860" }, { "docid": "4434718", "text": "forms the basis of several jazz compositions (contrafact), such as \"Hot House\" by Tadd Dameron What Is This Thing Called Love? \"What Is This Thing Called Love?\" is a 1929 popular song written by Cole Porter, for the musical \"Wake Up and Dream\". It was first performed by Elsie Carlisle in March 1929. The song has become a popular jazz standard and one of Porter's most often played compositions. \"Wake Up and Dream\" ran for 263 shows in London. The show was also noticed in New York, and the critics praised Tilly Losch's performance of the song. The show was", "title": "What Is This Thing Called Love?" }, { "docid": "11559722", "text": "Human visual system model A human visual system model (HVS model) is used by image processing, video processing and computer vision experts to deal with biological and psychological processes that are not yet fully understood. Such a model is used to simplify the behaviours of what is a very complex system. As our knowledge of the true visual system improves, the model is updated. Psychovisual involves the study of the psychology of vision. It is common to think of \"taking advantage\" of the HVS model to produce desired effects. Examples of taking advantage of an HVS model include colour television.", "title": "Human visual system model" }, { "docid": "6427456", "text": "SAS (shoemakers) San Antonio Shoemakers (SAS) is an American shoe manufacturer that was founded in 1976 in San Antonio, Texas by Terry Armstrong and Lew Hayden. The company specializes in handcrafted men's and women's shoes. They are a family-owned company which manufactures their shoes in Texas, United States of America. Some shoe operations, such as hand stitching and hand lacing, are done in Acuna, Mexico on a few select SAS handbag styles. The majority of shoe operations are conducted at two US based factories in San Antonio, Texas and Del Rio, Texas. A primary selling point at SAS is their", "title": "SAS (shoemakers)" }, { "docid": "6427458", "text": "a factory tour. SAS has been known to give back to the community in times of need. A team of volunteers from SAS, their \"Comfort and Support Team\" visit disaster areas to fit victims with free shoes when they are in need. According to the SAS website, the Comfort and Support Team has donated over 14,000 pairs of shoes so far, along with other necessities, to victims of natural disasters. SAS (shoemakers) San Antonio Shoemakers (SAS) is an American shoe manufacturer that was founded in 1976 in San Antonio, Texas by Terry Armstrong and Lew Hayden. The company specializes in", "title": "SAS (shoemakers)" }, { "docid": "11559724", "text": "from evolution, when we needed to defend ourselves or hunt for food. We often see demonstrations of HVS features when we are looking at optical illusions. Human visual system model A human visual system model (HVS model) is used by image processing, video processing and computer vision experts to deal with biological and psychological processes that are not yet fully understood. Such a model is used to simplify the behaviours of what is a very complex system. As our knowledge of the true visual system improves, the model is updated. Psychovisual involves the study of the psychology of vision. It", "title": "Human visual system model" }, { "docid": "7677115", "text": "by bipedally walking apes, which must directly or indirectly reflect the pressure they exert to support and propel themselves do suggest that they exert lower foot pressure under the medial part of their midfoot. However, human feet, and the human medial longitudinal arch, differ in that the anterior part of the foot is medially twisted on the posterior part of the foot, so that all the toes may contact the ground at the same time, and the twisting is so marked that the most medial toe, the big toe or hallux, (in some individuals the second toe) tends to exert", "title": "Arches of the foot" }, { "docid": "9229790", "text": "other, and wind up engaging in reproductive activities after all. What Is This Thing Called Love? (short story) \"What Is This Thing Called Love?\" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was requested by Cele Goldsmith Lalli, editor of \"Amazing Stories\", as a satire of an article in \"Playboy\" called \"Girls of the Slime God\" which had suggested that pulp science fiction stories were concerned with aliens and sex. The story appeared in the March 1961 issue of \"Amazing\" as \"Playboy and the Slime God\", but Asimov later retitled it \"What Is This Thing Called Love?\"", "title": "What Is This Thing Called Love? (short story)" }, { "docid": "9229786", "text": "What Is This Thing Called Love? (short story) \"What Is This Thing Called Love?\" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was requested by Cele Goldsmith Lalli, editor of \"Amazing Stories\", as a satire of an article in \"Playboy\" called \"Girls of the Slime God\" which had suggested that pulp science fiction stories were concerned with aliens and sex. The story appeared in the March 1961 issue of \"Amazing\" as \"Playboy and the Slime God\", but Asimov later retitled it \"What Is This Thing Called Love?\" According to Asimov, in \"1938-39 ... for some half a", "title": "What Is This Thing Called Love? (short story)" }, { "docid": "7346830", "text": "Model 1832 foot artillery sword The Model 1832 foot artillery sword was a short-sword with a straight, double-edged blade and brass-mounted leather scabbard. The U.S. Model 1832 foot artillery short-sword has a solid brass hilt, a crossguard, and a blade usually in length. This model was the first sword contracted by the U.S. with the Ames Manufacturing Company of Springfield (later Chicopee), Massachusetts, with production starting in 1832. In later years, it was also imported and supplied by W.H. Horstmann & Sons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a personal side arm, it was intended for use by the regular or foot", "title": "Model 1832 foot artillery sword" }, { "docid": "7677114", "text": "can also cause plantar fasciitis as they cause the plantar fascia to be stretched away from the calcaneus or heel bone. Additionally, high or low arches can increase the risk of shin splints as the anterior tibialis must work harder to keep the foot from slapping the ground. The non-human apes (the gibbons, mountain and lowland gorillas, orangutan, chimpanzee and bonobo) tend to walk on the lateral side of the foot, that is with an 'inverted' foot, which may reflect a basic adaptation to walking on branches. It is often held that their feet lack longitudinal arches, but footprints made", "title": "Arches of the foot" }, { "docid": "18726625", "text": "the United States, the single reached #21 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. What Is This Thing Called Love? (Alexander O'Neal song) \"What Is This Thing Called Love?\" is a song written by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and recorded by American recording artist Alexander O'Neal. It is the second single from the singer's fourth solo album, \"All True Man\" (1991). The song's distinctive backing vocals were performed by Lisa Keith. Following the successful chart performances of the \"All True Man\" single \"All True Man\", \"What Is This Thing Called Love?\"", "title": "What Is This Thing Called Love? (Alexander O'Neal song)" }, { "docid": "18726624", "text": "What Is This Thing Called Love? (Alexander O'Neal song) \"What Is This Thing Called Love?\" is a song written by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and recorded by American recording artist Alexander O'Neal. It is the second single from the singer's fourth solo album, \"All True Man\" (1991). The song's distinctive backing vocals were performed by Lisa Keith. Following the successful chart performances of the \"All True Man\" single \"All True Man\", \"What Is This Thing Called Love?\" was released as the album's second single. Alexander O'Neal's 19th hit single and it reached #53 in the UK Singles Chart. In", "title": "What Is This Thing Called Love? (Alexander O'Neal song)" }, { "docid": "7346834", "text": "English models a plain or smooth pommel on the hilt. Model 1832 foot artillery sword The Model 1832 foot artillery sword was a short-sword with a straight, double-edged blade and brass-mounted leather scabbard. The U.S. Model 1832 foot artillery short-sword has a solid brass hilt, a crossguard, and a blade usually in length. This model was the first sword contracted by the U.S. with the Ames Manufacturing Company of Springfield (later Chicopee), Massachusetts, with production starting in 1832. In later years, it was also imported and supplied by W.H. Horstmann & Sons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a personal side arm,", "title": "Model 1832 foot artillery sword" }, { "docid": "12111505", "text": "been deemed unusual. Finding two feet has been given a \"million to one odds\" and has thus been described as \"an anomaly\". The finding of the third foot made it the first time three such discoveries had been made so close to each other. The fourth discovery caused speculation about human interference and, statistically, was called \"curious\". A newspaper article in February 2008 captured Jørn Lier Horst's attention and he began to write \"Dregs\"; while writing, the discovery of a fourth foot was made public. After the fifth foot was discovered the story had begun to receive increased international media", "title": "Salish Sea human foot discoveries" }, { "docid": "9406939", "text": "What Is the What What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a 2006 novel written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. As a boy, Achak is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when the Arab militia, referred to as \"murahaleen\" (which is Arabic for the deported), wipes out his Dinka village, Marial Bai. During the assault, he loses sight", "title": "What Is the What" }, { "docid": "9406947", "text": "That Happens Will Happen Today\". Tom Tykwer plans to adapt the novel into a film. In 2009, the novel received the Prix Médicis étranger in France. What Is the What What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a 2006 novel written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. As a boy, Achak is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when", "title": "What Is the What" }, { "docid": "6919320", "text": "memory’s decay time to be smaller, thus reducing their probability of recall. Human processor model Human processor model or MHP (Model Human Processor) is a cognitive modeling method developed by Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran, & Allen Newell (1983) used to calculate how long it takes to perform a certain task. Other cognitive modeling methods include parallel design, GOMS, and KLM (human-computer interaction). Cognitive modeling is one way to evaluate the usability of a product. This method uses experimental times to calculate cognitive and motor processing time. The value of the human processor model is that it allows a", "title": "Human processor model" }, { "docid": "6919315", "text": "Human processor model Human processor model or MHP (Model Human Processor) is a cognitive modeling method developed by Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran, & Allen Newell (1983) used to calculate how long it takes to perform a certain task. Other cognitive modeling methods include parallel design, GOMS, and KLM (human-computer interaction). Cognitive modeling is one way to evaluate the usability of a product. This method uses experimental times to calculate cognitive and motor processing time. The value of the human processor model is that it allows a system designer to predict the performance with respect to time it takes", "title": "Human processor model" }, { "docid": "12130928", "text": "is triplanar. The axis of rotation in the foot joints is not perpendicular to any of the cardinal planes (sagittal, horizontal, frontal) of the human body. The triplanar motion of the foot postulates that blocking of any one component of triplanar motion in a single cardinal plane prevents movement in the other two planes as well. This all-or-nothing rule is the premise for orthotic posting or wedging. Supportive orthotics in the shoe is a method commonly implemented to treat many common running injuries associated with excessive pronation. An advantage of orthotics is that they often allow the runner to continue", "title": "Pronation of the foot" }, { "docid": "19801774", "text": "low; men were earning only $3 a week and women just $1. In early 1860, the Mechanics Association was formed and it demanded higher wages. The company owners refused to meet with committees of the association and workers decided to strike. The beginning date of the strike was intentionally chosen to coincide with the birthday of former U.S. President George Washington. Within a week, the strike had spread to 25 other New England towns, including towns in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and even New York. 20,000 more shoemakers refused to work while 20,000 others openly supported the shoemakers with marches,", "title": "New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860" }, { "docid": "9406940", "text": "of his father and his childhood friends, Moses and William K. William K escapes. However, Moses is believed to be dead after the assault. Achak seeks shelter in the house of his aunt with his mother, who is frequently identified throughout the book with a yellow dress. Before they are hidden, they hear the screaming of Achak's aunt, and his mother goes to investigate. Achak never sees her again. He evades detection by hiding in a bag of grain, and credits God for helping him stay quiet. He flees on foot with a group of other young boys (the \"Lost", "title": "What Is the What" }, { "docid": "8282710", "text": "Human-body model The human-body model (HBM) is the most commonly used model for characterizing the susceptibility of an electronic device to damage from electrostatic discharge (ESD). The model is a simulation of the discharge which might occur when a human touches an electronic device. The HBM definition most widely used is the test model defined in the United States military standard, MIL-STD-883, Method 3015.9, Electrostatic Discharge Sensitivity Classification. This method establishes a simplified equivalent electrical circuit and the necessary test procedures required to model an HBM ESD event. An internationally widely used standard is JEDEC standard JS-001. HBM is used", "title": "Human-body model" }, { "docid": "7677113", "text": "arches results in what is known as flat feet. A person with a low longitudinal arch, or flat feet will likely stand and walk with their feet in a pronated position, where the foot everts or rolls inward. This makes the person susceptible to heel pain, arch pain and plantar fasciitis. Flat footed people may also have more difficulty performing exercises that require supporting their weight on their toes. People who have high longitudinal arches or a cavus foot tend to walk and stand with their feet in a supinated position where the foot inverts or rolls outward. High arches", "title": "Arches of the foot" }, { "docid": "7222149", "text": "an intuitive layout, in terms of accomplishing user goals—what is often called user-centered design. Good user interface design facilitates finishing the task at hand without drawing unnecessary attention to itself. Graphic design may be utilized to support its usability; however, the design process must balance technical functionality and visual elements (e.g., mental model) to create a system that is not only operational but also usable and adaptable to changing user needs. 10-foot user interface In computing, 10-foot user interface (\"10-foot UI\") is a graphical user interface designed for televisions. Compared to desktop computer and smartphone user interfaces, it uses text", "title": "10-foot user interface" }, { "docid": "16214076", "text": "misunderstood as a denial of the adaptive value of the female orgasm in general, or even as a claim that female orgasms lack significance. The anthropologist Melvin Konner called \"The Evolution of Human Sexuality\" \"the classic introduction to the evolutionary dimensions\" of sex in \"The Tangled Wing\" (2002). Pinker called \"The Evolution of Human Sexuality\" \"groundbreaking\" in \"The Blank Slate\" (2002). He criticized what he considered personal abuse of Symons by Lewontin \"et al.\" in their discussion of \"The Evolution of Human Sexuality\" in \"Not in Our Genes\". Buss called \"The Evolution of Human Sexuality\" the first \"watershed in the", "title": "The Evolution of Human Sexuality" }, { "docid": "6356231", "text": "innervated by the lateral plantar nerve (S2–3). Those in the fourth interosseous space are innervated by the superficial branch and the other by the deep branch. In the angular interval left between the heads of each of the three lateral muscles, one of the perforating arteries passes to the dorsum of the foot; through the space between the heads of the first muscle the deep plantar branch of the dorsalis pedis artery enters the sole of the foot. Dorsal interossei of the foot In human anatomy, the dorsal interossei of the foot are four muscles situated between the metatarsal bones.", "title": "Dorsal interossei of the foot" }, { "docid": "18963055", "text": "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? \"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?\" is the title now given to a speech by Frederick Douglass delivered on July 5, 1852, in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, addressing the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. The speech is perhaps the most widely known of all of Frederick Douglass' writings save his autobiographies. Many copies of one section of it, beginning in para. 32, have been circulated online. Due to this and the variant titles given to it in various places, and the fact that it is called a July", "title": "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" }, { "docid": "9406942", "text": "writes: \"Over the course of many years, Dave and I have collaborated to tell my story... I told [him] what I knew and what I could remember, and from that material he created this work of art.\" The book is typical of Eggers' style: blending non-fictional and fictional elements into a non-fiction novel or memoir. By classifying the book a novel, Eggers says, he freed himself to re-create conversations, streamline complex relationships, add relevant detail and manipulate time and space in helpful ways—all while maintaining the essential truthfulness of the storytelling. However, not all critics were impressed. Lee Siegel sees", "title": "What Is the What" }, { "docid": "1561563", "text": "longer be found on the CD release. The original included the \"Chinese menu\" back cover, in which the titles were listed in what might be called a \"Chinese Restaurant font.\" This was removed for the 2003 CD release. One Foot in the North One Foot in the North is the twentieth album by Jandek, and the only to be released in 1991. It is Corwood Industries release #0758, and featured voice and electric guitar for about half the album before drums and a second, more \"polished\" lead guitar joined along. A silhouette of a young Jandek, standing in his room.", "title": "One Foot in the North" }, { "docid": "12130922", "text": "neither pronating nor supinating. If the foot is pronating or supinating during the stance phase of the gait cycle when it ought to be in the neutral position, a biomechanical problem may exist. For ease of choosing corrective footwear, three types of pronation are recognized: neutral pronation, overpronation, and underpronation. Some pronation, also called eversion, is natural in the body’s regular movement. Neutral pronation occurs when the foot experiences a normal, healthy amount of pronation instead of overpronating or underpronating. In healthy movement more of the toe area will be used when pushing off than in unhealthy movement. In neutral", "title": "Pronation of the foot" }, { "docid": "12111506", "text": "attention. With major headlines from newspapers such as the Melbourne \"Herald Sun\", \"The Guardian\", and the \"Cape Times\" in South Africa, the story elicited much speculation about the cause of the mystery, originating from \"morbid fascination\" with this type of subject, as stated by one scientist who identifies remains of victims. On his late night talk show David Letterman questioned two of his audience members who were Canadian about the mystery. Salish Sea human foot discoveries The Salish Sea human foot discoveries refers to the discoveries of multiple detached human feet on the Pacific Northwest coasts of the Salish Sea", "title": "Salish Sea human foot discoveries" }, { "docid": "12111496", "text": "Salish Sea human foot discoveries The Salish Sea human foot discoveries refers to the discoveries of multiple detached human feet on the Pacific Northwest coasts of the Salish Sea in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, United States. The first discovery occurred on August 20, 2007 on Jedediah Island in British Columbia. In the years since, multiple detached feet have been discovered on the coasts of numerous islands in British Columbia, as well as in the U.S. cities of Tacoma and Seattle. In December 2017, \"The Guardian\" reported: \"In the past dozen cases, the provincial coroner’s office has ruled out foul", "title": "Salish Sea human foot discoveries" }, { "docid": "14114084", "text": "Foot of the Mountain (song) \"Foot of the Mountain\" is the first single from the A-ha album of the same name. It was used as the official anthem of the 2009 World Championships in Athletics held in Berlin. The single reached #3 in Germany, and is the highest charting single of the band in that country since Take On Me in 1985. \"Foot of the Mountain\", was released exclusively as a download single in selected territories of Mainland Europe. In Germany, a physical 2-track CD Single was released. In the UK, a so-called digital bundle was released. May 2009 saw", "title": "Foot of the Mountain (song)" }, { "docid": "4354873", "text": "diffuse into the local atmosphere. He once explained to Mortimer what it was and what it was capable of, who then stole some to murder his siblings by throwing it on the fire just before he left. Mortimer thought Sterndale would be at sea before news reached Plymouth, but Sterndale recognized the poison’s effects from the vicar’s description of the tragedy and deduced right away what had happened. Holmes’s sympathies in this matter lie with Sterndale, and he tells him to go back to his work in Africa. \"The Devil's Foot\" was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 1994 by", "title": "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" }, { "docid": "6927990", "text": "Denotational semantics of the Actor model The denotational semantics of the Actor model is the subject of denotational domain theory for Actors. The historical development of this subject is recounted in [Hewitt 2008b]. The denotational theory of computational system semantics is concerned with finding mathematical objects that represent what systems do. Collections of such objects are called domains. The Actor uses the domain of event diagram scenarios. It is usual to assume some properties of the domain, such as the existence of limits of chains (see cpo) and a bottom element. Various additional properties are often reasonable and helpful: the", "title": "Denotational semantics of the Actor model" }, { "docid": "6356228", "text": "Dorsal interossei of the foot In human anatomy, the dorsal interossei of the foot are four muscles situated between the metatarsal bones. The four interossei muscles are bipenniform muscles each originating by two heads from the proximal half of the sides of adjacent metatarsal bones. The two heads of each muscle form a central tendon which passes forwards deep to the deep transverse metatarsal ligament. The tendons are inserted on the bases of the second, third, and fourth proximal phalanges and into the aponeurosis of the tendons of the extensor digitorum longus without attaching to the extensor hoods of the", "title": "Dorsal interossei of the foot" }, { "docid": "11281541", "text": "agrees to return her foot in exchange for a small statuette.The princess steals him away to Egypt where he meets her father and several other ancient pharoahs. Hermonthis' father, Xixouthros, is appropriately pleased that his daughter's foot is returned to the rest of her. Xixouthros ask what he can do in appreciation. The protagonist asks Hermonthis' hand in marriage, which is refused, as he is only 27 and Hermonthis is over 30 centuries, and deserves someone who is equally durable. The protagonist is abruptly woken from this potential dream by the arrival of a friend. Now awake, he observes that", "title": "The Mummy's Foot" }, { "docid": "9229788", "text": "with aliens and sex. According to Asimov the article was mostly based on \"Marvel\" since its contents had been the raciest. Cele Goldsmith Lalli, editor of \"Amazing Stories\", requested a satire of the \"Playboy\" article. Asimov set out to write a story telling how a sex-interested alien and humans might \"really\" interact. The story appeared in the March 1961 issue of \"Amazing\" as \"Playboy and the Slime God\", but when Asimov included it in his 1969 collection \"Nightfall and Other Stories\" he retitled it \"What Is This Thing Called Love?\" Goldsmith Lalli rewrote the story's last three paragraphs, a change", "title": "What Is This Thing Called Love? (short story)" }, { "docid": "9229789", "text": "Asimov regarded as a great improvement, and which he kept. Non-human aliens from the other end of the Galaxy visit Earth and kidnap two humans, a man and a woman. They take them up from the surface to their spaceship and question them about human interaction and methods of human reproduction, which is quite different from theirs. Predictably, the humans react with great indignation when requested to demonstrate human reproduction, and the aliens finally give up on their research and return the humans to Earth. As the aliens return to their planet, the two humans find themselves attracted to each", "title": "What Is This Thing Called Love? (short story)" }, { "docid": "9686494", "text": "owner. She called out which was the rightful owner, and the king said she had meddled and must go home. She asked him to eat one last meal with her, and then she drugged it. When he was asleep, she put him in the carriage and went home. When the king woke, she told him she was entitled to him, because she valued him most of everything in the castle. The king took her back to the castle and gave her the right to judge all his affairs. What Is the Fastest Thing in the World? What Is the Fastest", "title": "What Is the Fastest Thing in the World?" }, { "docid": "12715771", "text": "The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book \"A Bend in the River\". \"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.\" French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage", "title": "The World Is What It Is" }, { "docid": "17336189", "text": "The Library of the History of Human Imagination The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination is a private library and collection of artistic, scientific and historical artifacts. The Library was founded and is owned by Jay Walker. The 3,600 square foot facility is a wing of Walker’s home in Ridgefield, Connecticut. It contains about 30,000 books as well as maps, charts, artworks and a wide variety of museum-level artifacts. It is not open to the public. The Library was constructed in 2002 to house and showcase a collection of books and artifacts that Walker had been assembling for", "title": "The Library of the History of Human Imagination" }, { "docid": "14060250", "text": "in cybernetics. N. Katherine Hayles, author of \"How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics\", describes the effects of technology in the age of virtual information and what it means for humans to live in an ever-advancing society. The American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) is a research association founded in 1964, the same year Wiener died, and is dedicated to the cooperative understanding and further improvement of cybernetics theory. The Human Use of Human Beings has been translated to French in 1950 as \"Cybernétique et société\" (Paris : 10/18). The Human Use of Human Beings The Human", "title": "The Human Use of Human Beings" }, { "docid": "17336193", "text": "in his own handwriting. The president jotted down his thoughts on the napkin during a Rose Garden meeting with U.S. Army Air Corps General Hap Arnold, who took the napkin back to the Pentagon where it remained classified for many years. Additional artifacts in the Library include: The Library of the History of Human Imagination The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination is a private library and collection of artistic, scientific and historical artifacts. The Library was founded and is owned by Jay Walker. The 3,600 square foot facility is a wing of Walker’s home in Ridgefield, Connecticut.", "title": "The Library of the History of Human Imagination" }, { "docid": "3651046", "text": "be affected. Some foot disorders may present with just a mild ache, but other foot disorders can be very serious and limit ability to walk or bear weight. Most minor cases of foot pain respond to home care treatments except when severe pain is present as it is a disabling condition and usually needs some type of medical attention. If foot pain is not treated in time, it can lead to long term disability and continuing damage to the foot. The most common cause of foot pain is wearing ill fitting shoes. Women often wear tight shoes that are narrow", "title": "Diseases of the foot" }, { "docid": "12130920", "text": "Pronation of the foot Pronation is a natural movement of the foot that occurs during foot landing while running or walking. Composed of three cardinal plane components: subtalar eversion, ankle dorsiflexion, and forefoot abduction, these three distinct motions of the foot occur simultaneously during the pronation phase. Pronation is a normal, desirable, and necessary component of the gait cycle. Pronation is the first half of the stance phase, whereas supination starts the propulsive phase as the heel begins to lift off the ground. The normal biomechanics of the foot absorb and direct the occurring throughout the gait whereas the foot", "title": "Pronation of the foot" }, { "docid": "3651055", "text": "the ankle and foot, or give rise of gangrene of the toes and foot. Immobility of a person may result in prolonged pressure applied to the heels causing pressure sores. Impaired venous drainage from the foot in varicose veins may sequentially result in brown haemosiderin discolouration to the ankle and foot, varicose stasis dermatitis and finally venous ulcers. Other disorders of the foot include osteoarthritis of the joints, peripheral neuropathy and plantar warts. Diseases of the foot Diseases of the foot generally are not limited, that is they are related to or manifest elsewhere in the body. However, the foot", "title": "Diseases of the foot" }, { "docid": "3651045", "text": "Diseases of the foot Diseases of the foot generally are not limited, that is they are related to or manifest elsewhere in the body. However, the foot is often the first place some of these diseases or a sign or symptom of others appear. This is because of the foot's distance from the central circulation, the heart and its constant exposure to pressures from the ground and the weight of the body. The foot may look simple but is a complex structure with 26 bones, 33 joints, numerous muscles, nerves and different ligament types. Any part of the foot can", "title": "Diseases of the foot" }, { "docid": "11794796", "text": "What Is Intelligence? What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect is a book by psychologist James R. Flynn which outlines his model for an explanation of the eponymous Flynn effect. The book summarizes much of the work of Flynn in this area, as well as that of his colleague William Dickens of the Brookings Institution. The book begins with a description of what has generally become known as \"the Flynn effect\": the steady rise from one generation to the next in average scores on IQ tests over time. Flynn notes that this effect apparently contradicts some fundamental beliefs about IQ", "title": "What Is Intelligence?" }, { "docid": "12130921", "text": "is flexible (pronation) and rigid (supination) during different phases of the gait cycle. As the foot is loaded, eversion of the subtalar joint, dorsiflextion of the ankle, and abduction of the forefoot occur. Pronation should not occur past the latter stages of midstance, as the normal foot should then supinate in preparation for toe-off. Abnormal pronation occurs when a foot pronates when it should supinate, or overpronates during a normal pronation period of the gait cycle. Approximately four degrees of pronation and supination are necessary to enable the foot to propel forward properly. In the neutral position, the foot is", "title": "Pronation of the foot" }, { "docid": "12111500", "text": "with dried seaweed. Royal Canadian Mounted Police launched an investigation into the hoax and an arrest could be made due to charges of public mischief. After the eleventh foot was found on August 31, 2011, several running shoes containing what police suspected was raw meat were found washed up on Oak Beach, British Columbia. The series of discoveries has been called \"astounding\" and \"almost beyond explanation\", as no other body parts have turned up. The discoveries have caused speculation that the feet may be those of people who died in a boating accident or a plane crash in the ocean.", "title": "Salish Sea human foot discoveries" }, { "docid": "3651047", "text": "and constrictive, and thus are most prone to foot problems. Tight shoes often cause overcrowding of toes and result in a variety of structural defects. The next most common cause of foot disease is overuse or traumatic injuries. Besides a physical examination, an x-ray MRI or an ultrasound study may be obtained to assess the soft tissues and blood vessels. Standardized questionnaires and scoring systems, like the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS) foot and ankle questionnaires, can help elicit the history and physical exam necessary to make and accurate diagnosis of foot and ankle conditions. Often there is", "title": "Diseases of the foot" }, { "docid": "9406944", "text": "\"we really hadn’t decided whether I was just helping Valentino write his own book, or if I was writing a book about him.\" Valentino points out that, \"I thought I might want to write my own book, but I learned that I was not ready to do this. I was still taking classes in basic writing at Georgia Perimeter College.\" Dave Eggers discusses the difficulties in writing a book of this nature: \"For a long while there, we continued doing interviews, and I gathered the material. But all along, I really didn’t know exactly what form it would finally take—whether", "title": "What Is the What" }, { "docid": "18462548", "text": "The Model of Poesy The Model of Poesy is a Renaissance English treatise about the art of poetry written by William Scott in about 1599. It contains a theoretical description of what poetry is, and practical guidelines about how to write well. Scott, following on from Philip Sidney's \"An Apology for Poetry\", develops his poetics in the classical and continental tradition, and includes examples from many English writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare. Scott also quotes from his partial translation of Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas' \"La Sepmaine \"that is found directly after the \"Model\" in the", "title": "The Model of Poesy" }, { "docid": "16154366", "text": "Bioecological model The bioecological model is a theoretical model of gene–environment interactions in human development. This model, first proposed by Urie Bronfenbrenner and Stephen J. Ceci, in 1994, is an extension of Bronfenbrenner's original theoretical model of human development, called ecological systems theory. Bronfenbrenner developed the bioecological model after recognizing that the individual was overlooked in other theories of human development, which were largely focused on the context of development (e.g., the environment). The bioecological model of human development can be applied to both children and maturing adults, and is thus a lifespan approach to development. The framework emphasizes the", "title": "Bioecological model" }, { "docid": "12715772", "text": "in 1996. The biography has been extensively reviewed: the reviewers include Paul Theroux, who wrote an earlier book about Naipaul. The biography was selected by the editors of the \"New York Times Book Review\" as one of the \"Times\"' \"10 Best Books of 2008\". It won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, and the British literary award the Hawthornden Prize. The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in", "title": "The World Is What It Is" }, { "docid": "12130933", "text": "support isn’t necessarily needed to correct supination as it is to correct overpronation. Pronation of the foot Pronation is a natural movement of the foot that occurs during foot landing while running or walking. Composed of three cardinal plane components: subtalar eversion, ankle dorsiflexion, and forefoot abduction, these three distinct motions of the foot occur simultaneously during the pronation phase. Pronation is a normal, desirable, and necessary component of the gait cycle. Pronation is the first half of the stance phase, whereas supination starts the propulsive phase as the heel begins to lift off the ground. The normal biomechanics of", "title": "Pronation of the foot" }, { "docid": "4354872", "text": "Mortimer Tregennis poisoned his siblings, but who killed Mortimer? It is Dr. Sterndale, who left physical evidence at the vicarage clearly implicating himself. Holmes confronts Sterndale, who explains that he loved Brenda for years (but had been unable to marry her because of the current marriage laws which prevented him from divorcing his wife even though she abandoned him years ago) and killed Mortimer in revenge for the cruel murder. The poison is called \"Radix pedis diaboli\" (\"Devil’s-foot root\" in Latin), Sterndale collected from Africa as a curiosity. The toxic contents of the plant root are vaporized by heat and", "title": "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" }, { "docid": "7677106", "text": "Arches of the foot The arches of the foot, formed by the tarsal and metatarsal bones, strengthened by ligaments and tendons, allow the foot to support the weight of the body in the erect posture with the least weight. They are categorized as longitudinal and transverse arches. The longitudinal arches of the foot can be divided into medial and lateral arches. The medial arch is higher than the lateral longitudinal arch. It is made up by the calcaneus, the talus, the navicular, the three cuneiforms (medial, intermediate, and lateral), and the first, second, and third metatarsals. Its summit is at", "title": "Arches of the foot" }, { "docid": "20813760", "text": "about what he proposed as the discovery of the clitoris, stated that, \"like a penis, \"if you touch it, you will find it rendered a little harder and oblong to such a degree that it shows itself as a sort of male member.\" (There was much debate on the actual discovery of the clitoris between male European scientists and many claimed to have described it first: by dissecting the human body and writing down what was observed these European scientists could claim in their idea of the body that they had discovered or created new knowledge.) This one-sex model was", "title": "History of beliefs about the human body" }, { "docid": "12111502", "text": "ocean currents may carry floating items long distances, and because currents in the Strait of Georgia are unpredictable. A foot may float as far as . Also, human feet have a tendency to produce adipocere (a soap-like substance formed from body fat), which makes it hard for forensic scientists to find clues. Under optimal conditions, a human body may remain intact in water for as long as three decades, meaning that the feet may have been floating around for years. Another theory is that the feet belonged to people who died in the Asian tsunami on December 26, 2004. Richmond-based", "title": "Salish Sea human foot discoveries" }, { "docid": "3651051", "text": "for many reasons but the most common is not wearing proper shoes, arthritis and different inherited structural defects. Flat feet (Pes planus foot) essentially means that the arch inside the foot is flat. This very common painless disorder may occur at birth or after pregnancy. Flat feet generally do not cause problems but may sometimes cause the foot to rotate inwards (pronation). There are orthotic shoe insoles (foot orthotics) that help correct flat feet. Surgery does not correct flat feet and should be avoided. Hammer toes are unsightly and reveal a toe that is curled due to a bend in", "title": "Diseases of the foot" }, { "docid": "11794800", "text": "appeared on its back cover in publication, \"This book is a gold mine of pointers to interesting work, much of which was new to me. All of us who wrestle with the extraordinarily difficult questions about intelligence that Flynn discusses are in his debt.\" What Is Intelligence? What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect is a book by psychologist James R. Flynn which outlines his model for an explanation of the eponymous Flynn effect. The book summarizes much of the work of Flynn in this area, as well as that of his colleague William Dickens of the Brookings Institution. The", "title": "What Is Intelligence?" }, { "docid": "19432368", "text": "interest with its variety, saying: \"It's another sign of a great artist that they can seemingly do whatever they want and yet what they choose to do remains worthwhile.\" Steve Bennett of \"ICv2\" described the manga as an \"unbelievably bleak, unsentimental indictment of human life that makes no attempt to impart anything like a moral\", concluding that it is a \"compelling work, meant for a genuinely mature audience, skillfully told by [Tezuka].\" David Brothers of Comics Alliance called Tezuka's art style \"eminently readable\", with a skillful use of panels and metaphors, and said of Tezuka: \"his cartooning is wonderful, his", "title": "The Book of Human Insects" }, { "docid": "4354866", "text": "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot \"The Adventure of the Devil's Foot\" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as \"His Last Bow\". Doyle ranked \"The Adventure of the Devil's Foot\" ninth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves at Poldhu in Cornwall one spring for the former’s health, but the holiday ends with a bizarre event. Mr. Mortimer Tregennis, a local gentleman, and Mr. Roundhay, the local vicar, come to Holmes to", "title": "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" }, { "docid": "3521163", "text": "Human furniture Human furniture is furniture in which a person's body is used as a tray, foot stool, chair, table, cabinet or other item. Forniphilia is the practice of creating human furniture. Examples of human furniture have appeared in modern art and in pornography. A model used as human furniture may be nude or semi-nude to add to the erotic or aesthetic appeal. Allen Jones' sculptures \"Hatstand\", \"Table\" and \"Chair\", made in 1969, which show semi-naked women in the roles of furniture, is a classic example of the depiction of forniphilia as art. The term \"forniphilia\" was coined by bondage", "title": "Human furniture" }, { "docid": "14114085", "text": "the band performing the song on the show \"Germany's Next Top Model\" hosted by Heidi Klum and on \"The Dome\" (dubbed \"Europe's biggest music show\") together with fellow Norwegian Alexander Rybak. On 11 June 2009 at 8:13 CEST the music video premiered simultaneously on four major German networks, namely ProSieben, Sat.1, kabel eins and N24. It was also made available for streaming on the major German website Myvideo.de, a page with 228 million monthly hits. German 2-track physical single UK Digital Bundle A-ha's \"Foot of the Mountain\" was the most played song on Norwegian radio in 2009, with 122:32:39 of", "title": "Foot of the Mountain (song)" }, { "docid": "19322908", "text": "song she wrote with J.R. Rotem, Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels. She described it as a \"work of art\" for \"express[ing] so clearly what [she] was [going through] at the time\". They also worked on other songs, such as \"Naughty\", \"Misery\", which she considered a \"really happy song,\" and \"Make Me Like You\", produced by Mattman & Robin, which, having been surprised by the result, she called \"so good\"! \"This Is What the Truth Feels Like\" focuses on several themes, including \"moving on from a broken relationship\" to \"falling in love again\". Her divorce from Gavin Rossdale served as the", "title": "This Is What the Truth Feels Like" }, { "docid": "17827034", "text": "being used as model for reform of surveillance law and policy around the world and to provide a benchmark for measuring whether a State's surveillance practices comply with International Human Rights Law. International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance The International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance(also called the \"Necessary and Proportionate Principles\" or just \"the Principles\") is a document which attempts to \"clarify how international human rights law applies in the current digital environment\". Communications Surveillance(Mass Surveillance of Communication) conflicts with a number of International Human Rights, mainly that of Privacy.", "title": "International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance" }, { "docid": "12130932", "text": "of Technology, “The least amount of pronation takes place when running barefoot.\" Supination is the opposite, and occurs when the foot impacts the ground and there is not enough of an “inward roll” in the foot’s motion. The weight of the body isn’t transferred at all to the big toe, forcing the outside of the foot and the smaller toes which can't handle the stress as well to take the majority of the overweight instead. Runner’s World states, “[Underpronators] do best in a neutral-cushioned shoe that encourages a more natural foot motion.\" Since underpronators’ feet don’t roll inward like overpronators’,", "title": "Pronation of the foot" }, { "docid": "12130927", "text": "with many overuse injuries in running including medial tibial stress syndrome, or shin splints, and knee pain Hintermann states, “Individuals with injuries typically have pronation movement that is about two to four degrees greater than that of those with no injuries.” He adds however, that between 40% and 50% of runners who overpronate do not have overuse injuries. This suggests that although pronation may have an effect on certain injuries, it is not the only factor influencing their development. The design principles of foot orthoses are founded on knowledge of the functional anatomy of the foot. Pronation of the foot", "title": "Pronation of the foot" }, { "docid": "13386140", "text": "Depeche Mode.\" \"Östgöta Correspondenten\" gave a favourable review stating: \"It is clear to see where Coldplay get their inspiration from.\" \"Kristianstadsbladet\" were less favorable, stating that the album was a: \"Sleeping pill.\" In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number five on the UK Albums Chart, the band's highest chart position since 1988. \"Foot of the Mountain\" reached platinum status in Russia, and in January 2010 it was certified platinum in Germany. Additional musicians Foot of the Mountain Foot of the Mountain is the ninth studio album by the Norwegian pop rock band A-ha. It was released on 19", "title": "Foot of the Mountain" }, { "docid": "5292400", "text": "not the case in general – the standard model includes the non-Abelian and groups (such groups lead to what is called a Yang–Mills gauge theory). We need to introduce three gauge fields corresponding to each of the subgroups . The kinetic term can now be written simply as where the traces are over the and indices hidden in and respectively. The two-index objects are the field strengths derived from and the vector fields. There are also two extra hidden parameters: the theta angles for and . The next step is to \"couple\" the gauge fields to the fermions, allowing for", "title": "Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model" }, { "docid": "6919318", "text": "to predict human performance. The method for determining processes can be broken down into the following steps. SVG version of Human Processor Model Once complete, the calculations can then be used to determine the probability of a user remembering an item that may have been encountered in the process. The following formula can be used to find the probability: \"P = e\" where \"K\" is the decay constant for the respective memory in question (working or long term) and \"t\" is the amount of time elapsed (with units corresponding to that of \"K\"). The probability could then be used to", "title": "Human processor model" }, { "docid": "5629909", "text": "brown falcon who was later mutated), and Bludgeon (a mutant hammerhead shark). In the first and movies, the Foot Clan is a group of ninja thieves founded by the Shredder in Japan, but later stationed in New York. The Shredder had taken what Foot Soldiers he had from Japan, and began taking kids from the streets upon moving to New York and training them in Ninjutsu himself. His second-in-command is another Ninjutsu master called Tatsu. In the films, the Foot use the kanji , which translates to \"demon\" or \"ogre\", as their symbol, worn in their hachimaki or on their", "title": "Foot Clan" }, { "docid": "11883194", "text": "to HRA. Under the \"cost approach\", also called the \"human resource cost accounting method\" or model, there is an acquisition cost model and a replacement cost model. Under the \"value approach\", there is a present value of future earnings method, a discounted future wage model, and a competitive bidding model under. Considering the plus and minus of various models, Chennai based, CA Lakshminarayanan Ramanujam, has worked out a simple to use and easy to adopt, unique model titled GiveGET, for the Human Resource Valuation and Accounting, while acCounting for PEACE. This approach is also called an acquisition cost model. This", "title": "Human resource accounting" }, { "docid": "12111499", "text": "Vancouver Sun\" reported that recent arrivals from Kimsquit reported a human leg encased in a high boot was found on a beach near the mouth of the Salmon River (a previous name for the Dean River near Kimsquit, near the headwater of Dean Channel). It was thought the remains were from a man who had drowned on the river the previous summer. Another \"human\" foot, discovered on June 18, 2008, on Tyee Spit near Campbell River on Vancouver Island, was a hoax. The hoax was a \"skeletonized animal paw\" which was put in a sock and shoe and then stuffed", "title": "Salish Sea human foot discoveries" }, { "docid": "12130930", "text": "by reducing the amount of plantar force (a force generated by excess pronation). Motion control and stability shoes have increased medial support which may increase stability to the foot and leg and lower the amount of pronation in the foot. Instead, extra cushioning in the shoe is the best way to correct underpronation. Certain methods of taping the foot and leg have also been shown to be effective in preventing overpronation. In a study conducted at the University of Queensland, a taping procedure known as the LowDye taping technique was shown to be effective in controlling pronation during both movement", "title": "Pronation of the foot" }, { "docid": "12130923", "text": "pronation the weight distributes fairly evenly among all of the toes with a slight emphasis on the big toe and second toe which are better adapted to handle more of the load. Those who overpronate tend to push off almost completely from the big toe and second toe. As a result, the shock from the foot’s impact doesn’t spread evenly throughout the foot and the ankle has trouble stabilizing the rest of the body. Additionally, an unnatural angle forms between the foot and ankle and the foot splays out abnormally. It is common even for people who pronate normally to", "title": "Pronation of the foot" }, { "docid": "8282711", "text": "primarily for manufacturing environments to quantify a integrated circuit to survive the manufacturing process. A similar standard, IEC 61000-4-2, is used for system level testing and quantifies protection levels for a real world ESD event in an uncontrolled environment. In both JS-001-2012 and MIL-STD-883H the charged human body is modeled by a 100 pF capacitor and a 1500 ohm discharging resistance. During testing, the capacitor is fully charged to several kilovolts (2 kV, 4 kV, 6 kV and 8 kV are typical standard levels) and then discharged through the resistor connected in series to the device under test. Human-body model", "title": "Human-body model" }, { "docid": "18963066", "text": "under the sea, as well as on the earth. In the United States, the speech is widely taught in history and English classes in high school and college. American studies professor Andrew S. Bibby argues that because many of the editions produced for educational use are abridged, they often misrepresent Douglass's original through omission or editorial focus. The speech has been notably performed or read by important figures, including the following actors: What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? \"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?\" is the title now given to a speech by Frederick", "title": "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" }, { "docid": "4649038", "text": "gondola but actually on top of the blimp), the other is the final scene of the film which has a twist ending. \"Map of the Human Heart\" was critically reviewed and found favourable mention from many film critics. Roger Ebert noted: \"\"Map of the Human Heart\" tells a soaring story of human adventure - adventure of the best kind, based not on violence, but on an amazing personal journey. It is incredible sometimes what distances can be traveled in a single human life, and this is a movie about a man who could not have imagined his end in his", "title": "Map of the Human Heart" }, { "docid": "11794797", "text": "long held by human intelligence researchers, and categorizes these contradictions into four seeming \"paradoxes\": Much of the remainder of the book is then devoted to proposing possible ways to resolve these inconsistencies, outlining along the way a reconceptualization of \"intelligence\" and how it might be better measured and studied. The Dickens/Flynn model, as outlined in the book, attempts to explain the Flynn effect by suggesting that genes and environment have interacted in manner which leads to a multiplying of influence from both on IQ scores. In particular, people now live in a cognitive environment that has changed substantially over the", "title": "What Is Intelligence?" }, { "docid": "14114088", "text": "commercially available in Germany on a special edition of the Foot of the Mountain album. Foot of the Mountain (song) \"Foot of the Mountain\" is the first single from the A-ha album of the same name. It was used as the official anthem of the 2009 World Championships in Athletics held in Berlin. The single reached #3 in Germany, and is the highest charting single of the band in that country since Take On Me in 1985. \"Foot of the Mountain\", was released exclusively as a download single in selected territories of Mainland Europe. In Germany, a physical 2-track CD", "title": "Foot of the Mountain (song)" }, { "docid": "17551811", "text": "of the perfect competition market period, which came to an end along with the Great Depression causing the Chicago School model to become out of date. In the 1980s sociologists, geographers, urban planners based in Southern California have started to write about a different design of city development- the one that was ongoing in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and was also reflective of what was happening throughout the United States. The City. Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment. The City is a book by American urban sociologists Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess published", "title": "The City. Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment." }, { "docid": "7526859", "text": "The \"What Time Is Love?\" Story The \"What Time Is Love?\" Story is a compilation album by British electronic music duo The KLF, comprising six versions of their techno track \"What Time Is Love?\". By 1989 (see 1989 in music), the popularity of the \"Pure Trance Original\" of \"What Time Is Love?\" in European clubs had reportedly spawned eighteen unauthorised cover versions and sound-alikes. In a novel move, some of these were collated by The Orb's Alex Paterson at The KLF's behest, and released as a compilation album entitled \"The \"What Time Is Love?\" Story\", which was sold commercially for", "title": "The \"What Time Is Love?\" Story" }, { "docid": "5292391", "text": "which depends on their energy. In the alternative Heisenberg picture, state vectors are kept constant, at the price of having the operators (in particular the observables) be time-dependent. The interaction picture constitutes an intermediate between the two, where some time dependence is placed in the operators (the quantum fields) and some in the state vector. In QFT, the former is called the free field part of the model, and the latter is called the interaction part. The free field model can be solved exactly, and then the solutions to the full model can be expressed as perturbations of the free", "title": "Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model" }, { "docid": "8054898", "text": "The Foot Book The Foot Book is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and first published in 1968. \"The Foot Book\" is intended for young children, and it seeks to convey the concept of opposites through depictions of different kinds of feet. The text of \"The Foot Book\" is highly stylized, containing the rhymes, repetitions, and cadences typical of Dr. Seuss's work. \"The Foot Book\" is Seuss's first in the Bright and Early Books series, intended for children too young for books in the Beginner Books series. It was also his first book after the death of his wife", "title": "The Foot Book" }, { "docid": "19398873", "text": "(1973) is a British short film, adapted by Sture Rydman from \"The Middle Toe of the Right Foot\" and another story, \"Nobody's House\" by A. M. Burrage. The Middle Toe of the Right Foot \"The Middle Toe of the Right Foot\" is a ghost story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was first published in \"The San Francisco Examiner\" on April 17, 1890 and was reprinted the following year as part of \"Tales of Soldiers and Civilians\". The plot was apparently inspired by the front page \"Examiner\" news story from November 14, 1888 which described", "title": "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot" } ]
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Former Representative from the 5th district, Rahm Emanuel was born on Nov 29, 1959. What government position does he hold?
[ "White House Chief Of Staff", "White House chief of staff", "The chief of staff", "White house chief of staff", "White House CoS", "White House Chief of Staff", "Chief of Staff to the President" ]
[ { "docid": "12656515", "text": "2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election A special election was held in Illinois's 5th congressional district in 2009 to fill the seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel. On April 7, Democratic nominee Michael Quigley defeated Republican nominee Rosanna Pulido and Green nominee Matt Reichel. Quigley was sworn in on April 21 and will serve out the current congressional term. Emanuel officially resigned from the House of Representatives, effective January 2, in a letter to his constituents and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Emanuel was named White House Chief of Staff by incoming President-elect Barack Obama.", "title": "2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election" }, { "docid": "5751260", "text": "Ari Emanuel Ari Emanuel (born March 29, 1961) is an American talent agent and the co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor (WME), an entertainment and media agency. He was a founding partner of the Endeavor Talent Agency and was instrumental in shaping its June 2009 merger with the William Morris Agency. Born to a Jewish family in Chicago, Emanuel was raised in suburban Wilmette, Illinois. Emanuel is the brother of former White House Chief of Staff and current Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel, National Institutes of Health bioethicist Ezekiel J. Emanuel, and adopted sister Shoshana Emanuel. His father, Jerusalem-born Dr. Benjamin", "title": "Ari Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452780", "text": "phone.\" Emanuel remained neutral in the race until June 4, 2008, the day after the final primary contests, when he endorsed Obama. On November 6, 2008, Emanuel accepted the position of White House Chief of Staff for US President Barack Obama. He resigned his congressional seat effective January 2, 2009. A special primary to fill his vacated congressional seat was held on March 3, 2009, and the special general election on April 7. John Fritchey, a candidate for that seat, said at a forum that Emanuel had told him he may be interested in running for the seat again in", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452754", "text": "the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee from 2005 to 2007, and as the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, from 2007 to 2009. After the 2008 presidential election, President Barack Obama appointed Emanuel to serve as White House chief of staff. In October 2010, Emanuel resigned as chief of staff to run as a candidate in Chicago's 2011 mayoral election. Because of questions over his eligibility to run for mayor, Emanuel's candidacy was initially rejected by the Illinois First District Appellate Court, though he was later found eligible to run in a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "8480042", "text": "of the Republican Party. As of the most recent redistricting it includes part of Cook County, and was represented by Democrat Rahm Emanuel from January 2003 until he resigned on January 2, 2009, to become White House Chief of Staff. On April 8, 2009, Mike Quigley won a special election to fill the seat. George W. Bush received 33% of the vote in this district in 2004. The district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index score of D +20. Despite its recent historical preference for Democrats, the district was represented by a Republican for two years after Dan Rostenkowski lost", "title": "Illinois's 5th congressional district" }, { "docid": "2452789", "text": "himself, Emanuel donated the money to Young Chicago Authors, a community organization which helps young people with writing and publishing skills. Emanuel was elected on February 22, 2011, with 55% of the vote, and was sworn in as the 55th Mayor of Chicago on May 16, 2011, at the Pritzker Pavilion. At his inauguration were outgoing Mayor Richard M. Daley, Vice President Joe Biden, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, former Mayor Jane Byrne, and William M. Daley, brother of the outgoing mayor and who would later serve as White House Chief of Staff. Emanuel is Chicago's first", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" } ]
[ { "docid": "2452806", "text": "passionate cyclist, he rides a custom-built, state-of-the-art Parlee road bike. Rahm Emanuel Rahm Israel Emanuel (; born November 29, 1959) is an American politician, who is the 44th and current mayor of Chicago. A member of the Democratic Party, Emanuel was elected in 2011, and reelected on April 7, 2015. Born in Chicago, Emanuel is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Northwestern University. Working early in his career in Democratic politics, Emanuel was appointed as director of the finance committee for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. In 1993, he joined the Clinton administration, where he served as the assistant", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452752", "text": "Rahm Emanuel Rahm Israel Emanuel (; born November 29, 1959) is an American politician, who is the 44th and current mayor of Chicago. A member of the Democratic Party, Emanuel was elected in 2011, and reelected on April 7, 2015. Born in Chicago, Emanuel is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Northwestern University. Working early in his career in Democratic politics, Emanuel was appointed as director of the finance committee for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. In 1993, he joined the Clinton administration, where he served as the assistant to the president for political affairs and as the senior", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452758", "text": "Reese Hospital who was once a member of the Irgun, a Jewish paramilitary organization that operated in British Mandate Palestine. His mother, Marsha (née Smulevitz), is the daughter of a West Side Chicago union organizer who worked in the civil rights movement, and briefly owned a local rock and roll club, and later became an adherent of Benjamin Spock's writings. Emanuel's parents met during the 1950s in Chicago. Emanuel was born on November 29, 1959, in Chicago, Illinois. His first name, \"Rahm\" () means \"high\" or \"lofty\" in Hebrew. He has been described by his older brother Ezekiel, an oncologist", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452773", "text": "term, while Emanuel advocated a more tactical approach focusing attention on key districts. The Democratic Party gained 30 seats in the House in the 2006 elections, and Emanuel received considerable praise for his stewardship of the DCCC, even from Illinois Republican Rep. Ray LaHood, who said, \"He legitimately can be called the golden boy of the Democratic Party today. He recruited the right candidates, found the money, and funded them, and provided issues for them. Rahm did what no one else could do in seven cycles.\" However, Emanuel also faced some criticism for his failure to support some progressive candidates,", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452802", "text": "the Tribune, they were informed that 90 percent of the e-mails had been deleted by Emanuel and his top aides. As a result, Emanuel came under fire for going against his campaign promise to create \"the most open, accountable, and transparent government that the City of Chicago has ever seen\". Lollapalooza, an annual summer music festival in Grant Park, was exempt from taxation. Emanuel's brother Ari is the co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor, which co-owns the event. In 2011 Rahm Emanuel asked the City Council to appoint an independent third party negotiator, to avoid having the negotiation seen as biased.", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452794", "text": "of the 1983 Shakman Decree, which bars city officials from making political considerations in the hiring process. Rahm Emanuel faced a great deal of criticism for his handling of the October 20, 2014, police shooting of Laquan McDonald. The dash-cam video of the shooting was initially withheld, and only was released after a judge ordered it on November 24, 2015. After the video release, Emanuel was condemned for covering up the incident and allowing Chicago police to use excessive force against minorities. \"Chicago Tribune\" columnist John Kass wrote that the Emanuel administration withheld from the public the police dashboard camera", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452753", "text": "advisor to the president for policy and strategy before resigning, in 1998. Beginning a career in finance, Emanuel worked at the investment bank Wasserstein Perella & Co. from 1998 for 2½ years, and served on the board of directors of Freddie Mac. In 2002, Emanuel ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives vacated by Rod Blagojevich, who resigned to become governor of Illinois. Emanuel won the first of three terms representing Illinois's 5th congressional district, a seat he held from 2003 to 2009. During his tenure in the House, Emanuel held two Democratic leadership positions, serving as", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452770", "text": "former Illinois state representative Nancy Kaszak. During the primary, Edward Moskal, president of the Polish American Congress, a political action committee endorsing Kaszak, called Emanuel a \"millionaire carpetbagger\". Emanuel won the primary and defeated Republican candidate Mark Augusti in the general election. Emanuel's inaugural election to the House was the closest he ever had, as he won over 70% of the vote in all of his re-election bids. Emanuel was elected after the October 2002 joint Congressional resolution authorizing the Iraq War, and so did not vote on it. However, in the lead up to the resolution, Emanuel spoke out", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452774", "text": "as Howard Dean advocated. Emanuel had \"aggressively recruited right-leaning candidates, frequently military veterans, including former Republicans\". Many of the Representatives that Rahm had recruited, such as Heath Shuler, ending up \"[voted] against important Obama Administration priorities, like economic stimulus, banking reform, and health care\". Howie Klein has suggested that Emanuel's congressional campaign strategy was short-sighted, as it \"contributed to the massive G.O.P. majorities we have now, the biggest since the nineteen-twenties\" when the Democrats lost control of the House in the 2010 mid-term elections. After Emanuel's election as chairman of the Democratic Caucus (see below), Chris Van Hollen became committee", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452769", "text": "Bush Administration rejected a request under the Freedom of Information Act to review Freddie Mac board minutes and correspondence during Emanuel's time as a director. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight later accused the board of having \"failed in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention\". Emanuel resigned from the board in 2001 before his first bid for Congress. In 2002, Emanuel pursued the U.S. House seat in the 5th district of Illinois, previously held by Rod Blagojevich, who successfully ran for governor of Illinois. His strongest opponent in the crowded primary of eight was", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "4816031", "text": "war hero Jan Nowak-Jeziorański was a Nazi collaborator. In 2002, when Rahm Emanuel pursued the U.S. House seat in the 5th District of Illinois, Moskal supported former Illinois State Representative Nancy Kaszak. Moskal called Emanuel a \"millionaire carpetbagger who knows nothing\" about \"our heritage\". Moskal also charged that Emanuel had dual citizenship with Israel and had served in the Israeli Army. Emanuel's father was an Israeli immigrant. Emanuel was a civilian volunteer assisting the Israel Defense Forces for a short time during the 1991 Gulf War. He took former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar to task at a Pulaski (Kazimierz Pułaski)", "title": "Edward Moskal" }, { "docid": "2452803", "text": "Although the deal was reached before Emanuel took office, tax breaks must be negotiated every year. It was later revealed that the festival received its tax exemption for 2011 in the final days of the Daley administration. In 2012, Lollapalooza paid taxes for the first time in seven years and extended its contract to host in Grant Park through 2021. | colspan=10 |U.S. House, 5th District of Illinois (General Election) !Year !Winning candidate !Party !Pct !Opponent !Party !Pct !Opponent !Party !Pct Emanuel and his wife, Amy Merritt Rule, have a son and two daughters. The family lives in the Ravenswood", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "12656520", "text": "for the Democratic nomination, which would almost assure being elected to Congress. In fact, over 12,000 more votes were cast in the Democratic Primary than there were in the general election. [[Category:Special elections to the 111th United States Congress|Illinois 2009 05 2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election A special election was held in Illinois's 5th congressional district in 2009 to fill the seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel. On April 7, Democratic nominee Michael Quigley defeated Republican nominee Rosanna Pulido and Green nominee Matt Reichel. Quigley was sworn in on April 21 and will serve out the current congressional term.", "title": "2009 Illinois's 5th congressional district special election" }, { "docid": "8125459", "text": "Sydney Emanuel Mudd II Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (June 20, 1885 – October 11, 1924) was an American attorney and politician from Maryland's 5th congressional district, elected to several terms as a US Representative in Congress, dying in office. He was a Republican. Born at his parents' plantation in Gallant Green, Charles County, Maryland, Mudd was the son of Sydney Emanuel Mudd, who became a US Congressman, and his wife. He was raised Catholic, attending the public schools of Charles County and the District of Columbia. He moved with his parents to La Plata, Maryland, in 1896. He graduated from", "title": "Sydney Emanuel Mudd II" }, { "docid": "2452798", "text": "But Well-Deserved Fall of Rahm Emanuel\", an article critically reevaluating Emanuel's legacy as a political operative since the early 1990s. In 2012, during the contract negotiations between the city and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), compromise could not be reached over issues like health insurance increases, teacher evaluations, and seniority pay increases. On August 8, 2012, the CTU voted 90% to authorize a strike. On September 10, the CTU began a strike after CTU President Lewis declared that negotiations with the city were not succeeding. On September 14, the CTU reached a tentative agreement with the city which included preferences", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452777", "text": "the goal of \"to help make health care affordable and available for all Americans\". In his 2006 book, co-authored with Bruce Reed, \"The Plan: Big Ideas for America\", Emanuel advocated a three-month compulsory universal service program for Americans between the ages of 18 and 25. An expanded version was later proposed by Barack Obama during his 2008 campaign. During his original 2002 campaign, Emanuel \"indicated his support of President Bush's position on Iraq, but said he believed the President needed to better articulate his position to the American people\". In the 2006 congressional primaries, Emanuel, then head of the Democratic", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "8125462", "text": "Chapel Point near La Plata, where his father was also buried. Sydney Emanuel Mudd II Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (June 20, 1885 – October 11, 1924) was an American attorney and politician from Maryland's 5th congressional district, elected to several terms as a US Representative in Congress, dying in office. He was a Republican. Born at his parents' plantation in Gallant Green, Charles County, Maryland, Mudd was the son of Sydney Emanuel Mudd, who became a US Congressman, and his wife. He was raised Catholic, attending the public schools of Charles County and the District of Columbia. He moved with", "title": "Sydney Emanuel Mudd II" }, { "docid": "2452757", "text": "made steady progress in recovering his political support. He initially announced in October 2017 he planned to run for a third term, but on September 4, 2018, Emanuel reversed this decision and stated he would not seek a third term due to personal obligations. Emanuel's grandfather was a Moldovan Jew who emigrated from Bessarabia. The surname \"Emanuel\" (Hebrew: ), which means \"God with us\", was adopted by their family in honor of his father's brother Emanuel Auerbach, who was killed in 1933 in an altercation with Arabs in Jerusalem. Emanuel's father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, is a Jerusalem-born pediatrician at Michael", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452767", "text": "has \"mellowed out\". Stories of his personal style have entered the popular culture, inspiring articles and websites that chronicle these and other quotes and incidents. The character Josh Lyman in \"The West Wing\" was said to be based on Emanuel, though executive producer Lawrence O'Donnell denied this. After serving as an advisor to Bill Clinton, in 1998 Emanuel resigned from his position in the Clinton administration and joined the investment banking firm Wasserstein Perella, where he worked for 2 1/2 years. Although he did not have an MBA degree or prior banking experience, he became a managing director at the", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "9480974", "text": "Turk, Emanuel Cleaver's political rival who came close to unseating the Congressman in 2010. Despite numerous public forums and over the overwhelming objection of nearly all the citizens who participated, the new district excluding the \"Turk Peninsula\" was approved. In order to replace the lost population of the Turk Peninsula, three rural counties were added to the 5th district. http://lstribune.net/lees-summit-news/jacob-turk-statement-on-missouri-supreme-court-upholding-district-5-being-redrawn-around-turk-s-home..htm Missouri's 5th congressional district Missouri's 5th Congressional District has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by Democrat Emanuel Cleaver, the former Mayor of Kansas City, since 2005. The district primarily consists of the inner ring of the", "title": "Missouri's 5th congressional district" }, { "docid": "2452783", "text": "things that you had never considered, or that you didn't think were possible.\" In a 2009 article in \"The New York Times\", Emanuel was characterized as being \"perhaps the most influential chief of staff of a generation\". He has a reputation for his no-holds-barred negotiation style that involves \"his share of shouting and cursing\". Ezekiel Emanuel has written, \"The impatient, pushy Emanuel style is so well known that during a recent job interview I was asked, point-blank, whether I had the level-headed temperament the position required... [A]s obvious to our flaws are to others, it's difficult to recognize them in", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452772", "text": "skipped every hearing allegedly for reasons of avoiding any appearance of favoritism, impropriety, or conflict of interest. Emanuel aligned himself with the Democratic Leadership Council. Emanuel assumed the position of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman (DCCC) after the death of the previous chair, Bob Matsui. Emanuel led the Democratic Party's effort to capture the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2006 elections. The documentary \"HouseQuake\", featuring Emanuel, chronicles those elections. Emanuel had disagreements over Democratic election strategy with Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. Dean favored a \"fifty-state strategy\", building support for the Democratic Party over the long", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "19375294", "text": "Erhard Rahm Erhard Rahm (born 1959) is a German computer scientist and professor at the University of Leipzig. His research areas are database systems, data integration and Big Data. Rahm studied computer science at Kaiserslautern University of Technology from 1979 to 1984 where he also earned his Ph.D. in 1988. From 1988 to 1989 he was a post-doc at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne. He was an assistant professor at Kaiserslautern University of Technology from 1989 to 1994 and received the Venia legendi in 1993. Since 1994 he is a full professor for databases at the", "title": "Erhard Rahm" }, { "docid": "19375295", "text": "University of Leipzig. He spent extended research visits at Microsoft Research in Redmond (WA) and the Australian National University. Erhard Rahm Erhard Rahm (born 1959) is a German computer scientist and professor at the University of Leipzig. His research areas are database systems, data integration and Big Data. Rahm studied computer science at Kaiserslautern University of Technology from 1979 to 1984 where he also earned his Ph.D. in 1988. From 1988 to 1989 he was a post-doc at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne. He was an assistant professor at Kaiserslautern University of Technology from 1989 to", "title": "Erhard Rahm" }, { "docid": "17769196", "text": "Gabe Klein Gabe Klein (born February 14, 1971) is an entrepreneur, author, investor and former government official. Klein was Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) from May 16, 2011 to December, 2013. He was appointed to this position by Mayor Rahm Emanuel when he took office on May 16, 2011. Klein was also the Director of the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) from the end of 2008 until the end of Mayor Adrian Fenty's term, December 31, 2010. Prior, Klein was an Executive with Boston-based Zipcar. He recently authored a book titled Start-Up City: Inspiring Private", "title": "Gabe Klein" }, { "docid": "2452782", "text": "settlements, Emanuel would be tough and pressure the Israelis to comply. Some Palestinians expressed dismay at Emanuel's appointment. Weeks after accepting the appointment, Emanuel participated on a panel of corporate chief executive officers sponsored by the \"Wall Street Journal\", and said, \"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.\" The quote was taken out of context by some commentators as evidence \"... that the left supposedly wants to exploit circumstances to ram its agenda through\". Emanuel explained later, \"... what I said was, never allow a good crisis to go to waste when it's an opportunity to do", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452778", "text": "congressional campaign committee, helped organize a run by Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran with no political experience, against grassroots candidate Christine Cegelis in Illinois' 6th district. Expedited withdrawal from Iraq was a central point of Cegelis' campaign and Duckworth opposed a withdrawal timetable. In June 2007, Emanuel condemned an outbreak of Palestinian violence in the Gaza Strip and criticized Arab countries for not applying the same kind of pressure on the Palestinians as they have on Israel. At a 2003 pro-Israel rally in Chicago, Emanuel told the marchers that Israel was \"ready for peace\" but would not get there", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452765", "text": "on the Clinton campaign Emanuel was a paid retainer of the investment bank Goldman Sachs. Following the campaign, Emanuel became a senior advisor to Clinton at the White House from 1993 to 1998. In the White House, Emanuel was initially Assistant to the President for Political Affairs and then Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Strategy. He was a leading strategist in White House efforts to institute NAFTA and universal health care, among other Clinton initiatives. Emanuel is known for his \"take-no-prisoners style\" that has earned him the nickname \"Rahmbo\". Emanuel sent a dead fish in a box", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "7095546", "text": "his interviews, former Democratic Caucus chairman Rahm Emanuel advised his fellow Democrats not to appear on the show, causing Colbert to make fun of Emanuel's advice on the show. Better Know a District segments subsequently began appearing much less frequently on the \"Report\", suggesting many in Congress took Emanuel's advice. In January 2009, Colbert received what he jocularly claimed was a letter from U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and said he was cleared to begin interviewing congressmen once again. However he began the 2009 season of Better Know A District by interviewing Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz", "title": "Better Know a District" }, { "docid": "7535427", "text": "sent a Republican to the U.S. Congress since Reconstruction. Griffith was ousted in the Republican primary by current Representative Mo Brooks. George W. Bush won 60% of the vote in this district in 2004. John McCain also carried the 5th District in 2008 with 60.91% of the vote while Barack Obama received 37.99%. , there are three former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 5th congressional district that are currently living. The most recent representative to die was Robert E. Jones, Jr. (1973–1977) on June 4, 1997. Alabama's 5th congressional district Alabama's 5th congressional district is a", "title": "Alabama's 5th congressional district" }, { "docid": "20953972", "text": "works. Hecht died on February 25, 1862. Emanuel Hecht Emanuel Hecht (1821-1862) was a Jewish-German writer and educator from the 19th century. He was notable for writing devotional works and religious text books. Emanuel Hecht was born in 1821 in Nordheim (now Nordheim am Main), Germany. In 1842 Hecht graduated from the Royal Training College for Teachers in Würzburg. After the district government of Lower Franconia appointed Hecht instructor of admission candidates of that school, Hecht relinquished the position, devoting himself to teaching Jewish youth. Hecht went on to publish many essays during his three years of service in a", "title": "Emanuel Hecht" }, { "docid": "20953968", "text": "Emanuel Hecht Emanuel Hecht (1821-1862) was a Jewish-German writer and educator from the 19th century. He was notable for writing devotional works and religious text books. Emanuel Hecht was born in 1821 in Nordheim (now Nordheim am Main), Germany. In 1842 Hecht graduated from the Royal Training College for Teachers in Würzburg. After the district government of Lower Franconia appointed Hecht instructor of admission candidates of that school, Hecht relinquished the position, devoting himself to teaching Jewish youth. Hecht went on to publish many essays during his three years of service in a Lower Franconian small community. These essays were", "title": "Emanuel Hecht" }, { "docid": "2452762", "text": "working part-time at an Arby's restaurant, Emanuel severely cut his right middle finger on a meat slicer, which was later infected from swimming in Lake Michigan. His finger was partially amputated due to the severity of the infection. Emanuel began his political career with the public interest and consumer rights organization Illinois Public Action. He went on to serve in a number of capacities in local and national politics, initially specializing in fund-raising for Illinois campaigns, and then nationally. Emanuel worked for Democrat Paul Simon's 1984 election to the U.S. Senate. He also worked as the national campaign director for", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "14638244", "text": "Karl Rahm Karl Rahm (2 April 1907 – 30 April 1947) was a Sturmbannführer (major) in the German \"Schutzstaffel\" who, from February 1944 to May 1945, served as the commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Rahm was the third and final commander of the camp, succeeding Siegfried Seidl and Anton Burger. He was executed for war crimes. Rahm was born in 1907 in the city of Klosterneuburg, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He apprenticed as a toolmaker and worked for a time in Vienna, where during the 1920s he was exposed to the activities of the Austrian Nazi", "title": "Karl Rahm" }, { "docid": "2452760", "text": "written that their father \"did not believe in falsely building his sons' self-esteem by purposefully letting us win, or tolerating sloppy play\". About Rahm, he also wrote: Rahm was encouraged by his mother to take ballet lessons, and is a graduate of the Evanston School of Ballet, as well as a student of The Joel Hall Dance Center, where his children later took lessons. He won a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet, but turned it down to attend Sarah Lawrence College, a liberal arts school with a strong dance program. This background, as well as the mayor's short stature, has", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "6890478", "text": "Karl M. LeCompte became the representative of Iowa's 4th Congressional District, and U.S. Representative Paul H. Cunningham was the representative from Iowa's 6th Congressional District. Iowa's 5th Congressional District was also redistricted in 1972. U.S. Representative Neal Smith was taken out of Iowa's 5th Congressional District and put in the 4th Congressional District. U.S. Representative William J. Scherle was taken out of Iowa's 7th Congressional District (which was permanently removed) and put into the 5th Congressional District where he ran against future U.S. Senator Tom Harkin. On June 22, 2001, the Iowa General Assembly passed a plan to redistrict the", "title": "Iowa's 5th congressional district" }, { "docid": "9480973", "text": "Missouri's 5th congressional district Missouri's 5th Congressional District has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by Democrat Emanuel Cleaver, the former Mayor of Kansas City, since 2005. The district primarily consists of the inner ring of the Kansas City metropolitan area, including nearly all of Kansas City south of the MIssouri River. The district stretches east to Marshall. The 5th Congressional District in MO has historically included most of Jackson County and parts of neighboring counties made up of urban and suburban areas. After the 2010 Census, the district was redrawn to exclude the house of Jacob", "title": "Missouri's 5th congressional district" }, { "docid": "20129613", "text": "Committees on Constitutional Officers, Elections & State Government; Environment & Energy; Financial Institutions; Judiciary I. In 1993, she received Outstanding Freshman Legislator awards from the Illinois Hospital Association and the Illinois Health Care Association. In 1996, she vacated her seat to run for the Democratic nomination in Illinois's 5th congressional district losing to future Governor of Illinois and fellow State Representative Rod Blagojevich. She ran for the seat again in 2002, this time losing to Rahm Emanuel. She endorsed Gery Chico in the 2011 mayoral election. From 2005-2008, Nancy served on the Board of Rush North Shore Medical Center. From", "title": "Nancy Kaszak" }, { "docid": "2452785", "text": "support. Emanuel wanted to expand coverage for children, and increase the number of single mothers eligible for Medicaid. For that reason, it was called \"the Titanic plan\". Reportedly, House Speaker Pelosi had to convince Obama on the health care initiative after Emanuel dramatically scaled it back. Emanuel has since apologized for his role, saying, \"Thank God for the country, he didn't listen to me\", after the Supreme Court upheld \"ObamaCare\" in 2012. As chief of staff, Emanuel would make his staff laugh. During a staff meeting, when Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra gave uniformly upbeat reports, Emanuel is said to", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452791", "text": "party. Emanuel announced in October 2017 that he was running for reelection in 2019, despite low approval ratings and some potentially serious challengers. In September 2018, Emanuel then announced he would not run for reelection as previously announced. Close friend David Axelrod told USA Today that Emanuel had grown uncertain about his devotion to a third term. Emanuel had been leading in the polls prior to his decision to withdraw. In an interview with the \"Chicago Tribune\", Emanuel stated that he had been conferring with his wife and children for months before announcing the decision and that he felt it", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452766", "text": "to a pollster who was late delivering polling results. On the night after the 1992 election, angry at Democrats and Republicans who \"betrayed\" them in the 1992 election, Emanuel stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign and began plunging a steak knife into the table and began rattling off names while shouting \"Dead! Dead! Dead!\". Before Tony Blair gave a pro-Clinton speech during the impeachment crisis, Emanuel reportedly screamed at Blair \"Don't fuck this up!\" while Clinton was present. Blair and Clinton both burst into laughter. However, by 2007 friends of Emanuel were saying that he", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "17096268", "text": "prior police superintendent, Jody Weis. McCarthy was terminated by Rahm Emanuel following the fallout from the shooting of Laquan McDonald. On March 21, 2018, McCarthy announced he is officially running for Mayor of Chicago in the 2019 election, against Mayor Emanuel. He currently resides in Chicago, and is a father to his two daughters Kyla McCarthy, Kimberly, and son Kiernan. July 2018 polling indicated that Garry McCarthy was the leading challenger to incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel. In September 2018, Emanuel announced he would not be running for reelection. Garry McCarthy Garry Francis McCarthy (born May 4, 1959) is an American", "title": "Garry McCarthy" }, { "docid": "20645306", "text": "and built various vacation houses, single-family residences and exhibition pavilions, most notably the 1959 pavilion for SAFFA, in the Scandinavian style. The relative social and personal freedom allowed women in Scandinavia also formed a lasting impression on Rahm. In 1942 she put together a book on the subject illustrated with her own drawings. Her position as a woman made it difficult for Rahm to secure building licenses and she was excluded from design competitions, especially for profitable public building projects, and she decided to close her firm and retire as an architect in 1966. Following the closure of her office,", "title": "Berta Rahm" }, { "docid": "2452799", "text": "for teachers who have been laid off due to a school closing to be hired in another school and student test scores having less of a role in teacher evaluations than the city had originally planned. This tentative agreement did not hold, and the strike continued, after which Emanuel announced his intention to seek a legal injunction, forcing teachers back to work. On September 17, Emanuel's efforts to end the strike stalled as the walkout went into the second week. Delegates from the CTU voted to end the strike on September 18, 2012, and students began their return to the", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452761", "text": "led critics of the Mayor to nickname him \"tiny dancer\". While an undergraduate, Emanuel was elected to the Sarah Lawrence Student Senate. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts, and went on to receive a Master of Arts in Speech and Communication from Northwestern University in 1985. Emanuel took part in a two-week civilian volunteer holiday, known as the Sar-El, where, as a civilian volunteer, he assisted the Israel Defense Forces during the 1991 Gulf War, helping to repair truck brakes in one of Israel's northern bases. While a high school student", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452786", "text": "have looked at him and said: \"Whatever you're taking, I want some.\" Emanuel had a hand in war strategy, political maneuvering, communications and economic policy. Bob Woodward wrote in \"Obama's Wars\" that Emanuel made a habit of telephoning CIA Director Leon Panetta and asking about the lethal drone strikes aimed at Al Qaeda, asking, \"Who did we get today?\". In 2010, Emanuel was reported to have conflicts with other senior members of the president's team and ideological clashes over policy. He was also the focal point of criticism from left-leaning Democrats for the administration's perceived move to the center. By", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452797", "text": "woman whom the officer had shot by mistake. On December 28, Emanuel announced that he was cutting short his vacation in Cuba to deal with the crisis. Emanuel announced several changes to the Chicago police department on December 30, including doubling the number of Tasers issued to officers. On New Year's Eve, the Emanuel administration released e-mails revealing they had sought to coordinate with independent agencies such as the Independent Police Review Authority regarding public relations after the shooting. The same day The New Yorker added to the wave of negative media attention surrounding the mayor by publishing \"The Sudden", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "8506875", "text": "Canaan, Plymouth, Roxbury, Salisbury, Sharon, Thomaston, Torrington (part), Warren, Washington, Watertown, and Woodbury. New Haven County - Cheshire, Meriden, Middlebury, Southbury, Waterbury (part), and Wolcott. , six former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's 5th congressional district are alive. The most recent representative to die was William R. Ratchford (1979-1985) on January 2, 2011. Connecticut's 5th congressional district Connecticut's 5th Congressional District is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in the northwestern part of the state, the district runs from Meriden and New Britain in central Connecticut, westward to Danbury and the surrounding", "title": "Connecticut's 5th congressional district" }, { "docid": "16438438", "text": "2012 Negros Occidental's 5th legislative district special election A special election for Negros Occidental's 5th district seat in the House of Representatives of the Philippines was on June 2, 2012. The special election was called after incumbent representative Iggy Arroyo died on January 26, 2012. Binalbagan Mayor Alejandro Mirasol defeated Negros Occidental Provincial Board Member Emilio Yulo in the election. Iggy Arroyo, brother-in-law of Pampanga representative and former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, was in his third and final term as representative of Negros Occidental's 5th district when he died on January 26, 2012, in London. A House resolution was filed declaring", "title": "2012 Negros Occidental's 5th legislative district special election" }, { "docid": "2452776", "text": "After Vice President Dick Cheney asserted that he did not fall within the bounds of orders set for the executive branch, Emanuel called for cutting off the $4.8 million the Executive Branch provides for the Vice President's office. Emanuel is generally liberal on social issues. He has maintained a 100-percent pro-choice voting record, supports LGBT rights including same-sex marriage, and is a strong supporter of gun control, rated \"F\" by the NRA in December 2003. He has also strongly supported the banning of numerous rifles based upon \"sporting purposes\" criteria. During his original 2002 campaign, Emanuel spoke in support of", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "6619522", "text": "Ben Emanuel Benjamin F. Emanuel (born on June 18, 1982 in Texas City, Texas) is a former American football free safety. He went to UCLA. He attended Clear Brook High School. Emanuel was drafted the Carolina Panthers in the 5th round (171st overall) in the 2005 NFL Draft and spent time on the practice roster before being traded to the San Francisco 49ers and dressed for 11 games, starting eight, recording 45 tackles, one sack, one interception, and three pass knockdowns. He signed with the Cleveland Browns in 2006 but did not play. On March 11, 2008, Emanuel signed as", "title": "Ben Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452784", "text": "ourselves.\" At a January 2010 closed-door meeting in the White House with liberal activists, Emanuel called them \"fucking retarded\" for planning to run TV ads attacking conservative Democrats who didn't support Obama's health-care overhaul. After the remarks were quoted in a front-page story of the Wall Street Journal, and after he was criticized by Sarah Palin, Emanuel apologized to organizations for the mentally handicapped for using the word \"retarded\". According to Jonathan Alter's book, , Emanuel opposed Barack Obama's plan for a broad health care reform, but Obama overrode him. Emanuel advocated a smaller plan because it could get bi-partisan", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "7254662", "text": "and his family currently live in Sacramento, California. Rahm has stated that he is no longer a practicing Mormon. Kevin Rahm Kevin Rahm (born January 7, 1971) is an American actor known for his television roles as Kyle McCarty on \"Judging Amy\", Lee McDermott on \"Desperate Housewives\", and Ted Chaough on \"Mad Men\". Kevin Rahm was born on January 7, 1971 in Mineral Wells, Texas. He attended and graduated from Atlanta High School in Atlanta, Texas in May 1989. Following high school, Rahm, then a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, attended one the church's Missionary", "title": "Kevin Rahm" }, { "docid": "10355574", "text": "the city board of assessors. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1868 and practiced. He served as president of Mount Sinai Hospital 1870-1876. He served as commissioner of immigration 1870-1873. Excise commissioner in 1879. Treasurer of the Society for the Relief of Poor Hebrews. He died in New York City August 29, 1897. He was interred in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. Hart was New York's first Jewish congressman. Emanuel B. Hart Emanuel Bernard Hart (October 27, 1809 – August 29, 1897) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born in New York City, Hart", "title": "Emanuel B. Hart" }, { "docid": "7664582", "text": "is heavily Republican. Arizona began sending a fifth member to the House after the 1980 Census. , there are five former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona's 5th congressional district that are currently living. The most recent representative to die was James F. McNulty, Jr. (1983-1985) on June 30, 2009. Arizona's 5th congressional district Arizona's 5th congressional district is a congressional district located in the U.S. state of Arizona. The district contains Gilbert, Queen Creek, southern and eastern Chandler, and eastern Mesa. It is within eastern Maricopa County, and includes most of the East Valley. It is", "title": "Arizona's 5th congressional district" }, { "docid": "9251295", "text": "Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). She attended marches and demonstrations with her children. In a 2009 interview Emanuel recalled that in his childhood \"worrying about ethical questions was very much part and parcel of our daily routine.\" His two younger brothers are Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and Hollywood-based talent agent Ari Emanuel. He has an adopted sister, Shoshana Emanuel with cerebral palsy. His father’s brother, Emanuel, was killed in the 1936 Arab Riots in the British Mandate of Palestine, after which the family changed its name from Auerbach to Emanuel in his honor. As children, the three Emanuel brothers shared", "title": "Ezekiel Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452779", "text": "until Palestinians \"turn away from the path of terror\". Emanuel declared in April 2006 that he would support Hillary Clinton should she pursue the presidency in 2008. Emanuel remained close to Clinton since leaving the White House, talking strategy with her at least once a month as chairman of the DCCC. However, Emanuel's loyalties came into conflict when his home-state Senator, Barack Obama, expressed interest in the race. Asked in January 2007, about his stance on the Democratic presidential nomination, he said: \"I'm hiding under the desk. I'm very far under the desk, and I'm bringing my paper and my", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "7500273", "text": "Colorado congressional districts, the 5th Congressional district consisted of El Paso and Teller counties, as well as portions of Arapahoe, Douglas, and Fremont counties. Following the 2000 U.S. Census and associated realignment of Colorado congressional districts, the 5th Congressional district consisted of Chaffee, El Paso, Fremont, Lake, and Teller counties, as well as portions of Park County. Election results from presidential races , there are two former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado's 5th congressional district who are currently living at this time. The most recent representative to die was William L. Armstrong (1973-1979) on July 5,", "title": "Colorado's 5th congressional district" }, { "docid": "2452775", "text": "chair for the 110th Congress. After his role in helping the Democrats win the 2006 elections, Emanuel was believed to be a leading candidate for the position of Majority Whip. Nancy Pelosi, who became the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, persuaded him not to challenge Jim Clyburn, but instead to succeed Clyburn in the role of Democratic Caucus Chairman. In return, Pelosi agreed to assign the caucus chair more responsibilities, including \"aspects of strategy and messaging, incumbent retention, policy development, and rapid-response communications\". Caucus vice-chair John Larson remained in his role instead of running for the chairman position.", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452800", "text": "schools the following day. On September 17, 2013, Emanuel's appointed Chicago Board of Education announced the closing of 50 Chicago public schools, 49 elementary schools and a high school — the largest school closure in Chicago history. On August 16, 2011, Emanuel unveiled \"Healthy Chicago\", the city's first-ever public health blueprint with the Chicago Department of Public Health's Commissioner Bechara Choucair. Emanuel initiated the consolidation of City Council committees from 19 to 16 in a cost control effort. On October 30, 2012, Emanuel voiced his support for the demolition of the abandoned Prentice Women's Hospital Building, in order for Northwestern", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452790", "text": "Jewish mayor. An August 2014, \"Chicago Tribune\" poll reported Emanuel had a 35% approval rating as mayor of Chicago. In 2015, Emanuel won 56 percent of the vote in the run-off election against Jesús \"Chuy\" García held on April 7, 2015. He had been hurt by sharp neighborhood criticism of his decision to shut down 50 public schools in black and Latino neighborhoods, and his installation of red light cameras, together with anger at the high level of gun violence on the streets. On the other hand, he was supported by the business community and most elements of the Democratic", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "9251296", "text": "a bedroom and spent summers together in Israel. All three brothers took ballet lessons in their childhood, which Emanuel says \"hardened us and taught us that if you do something unusual, people will take potshots at you.\" Emanuel and his brother Rahm frequently argue about healthcare policy. Emanuel mimics his brother's end of the conversation: \"You want to change the whole healthcare system, and I can’t even get SCHIP [State Children’s Health Insurance Program] passed with dedicated funding? What kind of idiot are you?\" Emanuel is a divorced father of three daughters. His daughter Gabrielle, a 2010 graduate of Dartmouth", "title": "Ezekiel Emanuel" }, { "docid": "6619523", "text": "a free agent with the Calgary Stampeders. He did not play. Ben Emanuel Benjamin F. Emanuel (born on June 18, 1982 in Texas City, Texas) is a former American football free safety. He went to UCLA. He attended Clear Brook High School. Emanuel was drafted the Carolina Panthers in the 5th round (171st overall) in the 2005 NFL Draft and spent time on the practice roster before being traded to the San Francisco 49ers and dressed for 11 games, starting eight, recording 45 tackles, one sack, one interception, and three pass knockdowns. He signed with the Cleveland Browns in 2006", "title": "Ben Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452756", "text": "matter. In early December 2015, the federal Justice Department announced an investigation into the operations of the Chicago Police Department, a move which Emanuel initially opposed. At one point, half of Chicagoans favored Emanuel's resignation, with highly critical evaluations of the mayor appearing in such sources as \"The New York Times\" and \"The New Yorker\", and coming from such figures as the Reverend Al Sharpton. By July 2017, Emanuel was said to have raised $1.6 million towards a potential run for a third term in the 2019 election, and although his approval ratings had not recovered to 50%, he had", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "7254658", "text": "Kevin Rahm Kevin Rahm (born January 7, 1971) is an American actor known for his television roles as Kyle McCarty on \"Judging Amy\", Lee McDermott on \"Desperate Housewives\", and Ted Chaough on \"Mad Men\". Kevin Rahm was born on January 7, 1971 in Mineral Wells, Texas. He attended and graduated from Atlanta High School in Atlanta, Texas in May 1989. Following high school, Rahm, then a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, attended one the church's Missionary Training Centers before serving as a missionary in France, Switzerland, and on the islands of Mauritius and Réunion between", "title": "Kevin Rahm" }, { "docid": "7167126", "text": "boss. Humiliated, they go home and decide that their father isn't such an important person after all. They throw a massive tantrum, and confront their father asking him why he has to grovel under Taro's father. Kennosuke answers that Taro's father is richer and holds a higher position than he does. Dissatisfied with this answer, the two decide to hold a hunger strike. Ryoichi gets a spanking from his father, but after the children have gone to bed, the father confides in the wife that he does not enjoy doing what he does. Both wish for a better future for", "title": "I Was Born, But..." }, { "docid": "19586069", "text": "Jon Rahm Jon Rahm Rodríguez (born 10 November 1994) is a Spanish professional golfer. He was the number one golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for a record 60 weeks and was the low amateur at the 2016 U.S. Open. Prior to this event, Rahm was ranked 766 in the Official World Golf Ranking. On 21 January 2018, Rahm reached a career-high ranking of No. 2 in the world after winning the CareerBuilder Challenge. Born in Barrika, Basque Country, Spain, Rahm played collegiate golf for the Arizona State Sun Devils where he won 11 college tournaments, which is second", "title": "Jon Rahm" }, { "docid": "2452771", "text": "strongly in support of the war, urging a United States' \"muscular projection of force\" in Iraq. Emanuel has been the focus of anti-war protests for his support of funding bills for the war in Iraq, and his support, during Democratic party primaries, of Democratic candidates that were more hawkish. In January 2003, Emanuel was named to the House Financial Services Committee and sat on the subcommittee that oversaw Freddie Mac. A few months later, Freddie Mac Chief Executive Officer Leland Brendsel was forced out and the committee and subcommittee commenced more than a year of hearings into Freddie Mac. Emanuel", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "6925439", "text": "26, 2013 to become secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs under Governor Jindal. Originally 14 candidates ran to succeed Alexander, including Clyde C. Holloway, a former representative from Louisiana's 8th congressional district, since disbanded. Riser and McAllister emerged from the primary to meet in the runoff. Louisiana's 5th congressional district Louisiana's 5th Congressional District is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The district covers most of the northeastern and central portions of the state and much of the northern portions of the Florida parishes. It contains the cities of Monroe and Alexandria. \"On November 16,", "title": "Louisiana's 5th congressional district" }, { "docid": "2452805", "text": "of my heritage and treasure the values it has taught me.\" Emanuel's children attended the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's south side. Each year during the winter holidays, Emanuel takes a family trip where his children can be exposed to other cultures and parts of the world. Prior family trips have been to Vietnam, India, Kenya, Zambia, and South America. His 2015 holiday trip was scheduled for the island of Cuba. Emanuel trains for and participates in triathlons. In 2011, he scored 9th out of 80 competitors in his age group. A", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "10355573", "text": "Emanuel B. Hart Emanuel Bernard Hart (October 27, 1809 – August 29, 1897) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born in New York City, Hart attended the public schools and prepared for college. He engaged in mercantile pursuits. He served as a colonel in the militia. He served as a member of the board of aldermen in 1845. Hart was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853). He was appointed by President Buchanan surveyor of the port of New York and served from 1857 to 1861. He served as member of", "title": "Emanuel B. Hart" }, { "docid": "7535423", "text": "Alabama's 5th congressional district Alabama's 5th congressional district is a U.S. congressional district in Alabama, which elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives. It encompasses the counties of Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison, Morgan and most of Jackson. It is currently represented by Republican Mo Brooks, a former Madison County Commissioner. Brooks was elected in 2010 after defeating Democrat-turned-Republican incumbent Parker Griffith in the 2010 Republican primary. Brooks later went on to defeat Democrat Steve Raby in the November general election. Two major economic projects have lastingly impacted the 5th District and have indelibly dictated the politics of North", "title": "Alabama's 5th congressional district" }, { "docid": "6178823", "text": "Johnny Rahm Johnny Rahm (June 11, 1965 – November 7, 2004) was the stage name of Barry \"J.T.\" Rogers, an American former gay pornographic film actor and magazine model. Barry Thomas Rogers, who was known to friends as \"J.T.,\" was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, the son of J.T. and Connie Rogers, and raised in a conservative Baptist home. He had two sisters (Kim and Angela) and a brother (Scott). He attended Gilead Christian Academy, a Christian high school in Macon, Georgia and the fundamentalist Bob Jones University (BJU) in Greenville, South Carolina. Rogers was expelled from the university midway through", "title": "Johnny Rahm" }, { "docid": "15541974", "text": "Glen Klippenstein Glen Klippenstein (born May 29, 1937) is a Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives. Klippenstein represents the 5th District, encompassing all or parts of Buchanan, Clinton, De Kalb and Gentry counties in northwest Missouri. He is also a former interim State Senator for the 12th District. Glen O. Klippenstein was born May 29, 1937 on his grandparents' farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. He attended Academy of the New Church Secondary Schools in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1955. Representative Klippenstein received his higher education at Penn State University, earning a degree in Animal Science in 1959. He", "title": "Glen Klippenstein" }, { "docid": "2452792", "text": "was time to \" write the next chapter.\" Emanuel assembled a transition team from varied backgrounds. On November 16, the city council voted unanimously to adopt the mayor's first budget, which decreased the budget by $34 million and increased spending by $46.2 million, supported by increasing fees and fines. Despite most Aldermen opposing cuts to library workers and the closure of mental health clinics, they ultimately supported it, calling it \"honest\". At a news conference in November 2012, Emanuel listed his top three priorities for the state legislature as security and pension reform, adding a casino to Chicago, and equal", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "12907463", "text": "clubs. On 26 March 2010 Brøndby IF officials hired the coach to replace Kent Nielsen, who had been dismissed following the 1–3 home defeat against HB Køge the day before. He was sacked as manager of Brøndby on 24 October 2011 following a miserable start of the 2011-12 season. In June 2012 he was named new manager of Boldklubben Frem in the Danish 2nd Divisions. He left the club by mutual consent on 29 April 2014. Henrik Jensen (footballer, born 1959) Henrik Jensen (born 25 October 1959) is a Danish former Association football player and former manager of Brøndby IF", "title": "Henrik Jensen (footballer, born 1959)" }, { "docid": "10880338", "text": "as the central government shares oil revenues through budget allocations on an equitable basis with Iraq's provinces.\" He pointed out that provincial gains have been more pronounced, explaining that \"there is abundant evidence that the security gains have opened the door for meaningful politics.\" Several Congressional Democrats strongly criticised the report before it came out. Democratic Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois stated that \"We don't need a report that wins the Nobel Prize for creative statistics or the Pulitzer for fiction.\" After Petraeus' testimony, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada argued the General's \"plan is just more of", "title": "Report to Congress on the Situation in Iraq" }, { "docid": "2452759", "text": "and bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, as \"quiet and observant\" as a child. Ari, the youngest, is the co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor, a talent agency with headquarters in Beverly Hills, California; he also has a younger adopted sister, Shoshana. While he lived in Chicago, Emanuel attended the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School. After his family moved to Wilmette, north of the city, Emanuel attended public schools: Romona School, Locust Junior High School, and New Trier High School. He and his brothers attended summer camp in Israel, including the summer following the June 1967 Six-Day War. Ezekiel has", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "14221436", "text": "words: Considerations on Representative Government Considerations on Representative Government is a book by John Stuart Mill published in 1861. Mill argues for representative government, the ideal form of government in his opinion. One of the more notable ideas Mill puts forth in the book is that the business of government representatives is not to make legislation. Instead Mill suggests that representative bodies such as parliaments and senates are best suited to be places of public debate on the various opinions held by the population and to act as watchdogs of the professionals who create and administer laws and policy. In", "title": "Considerations on Representative Government" }, { "docid": "14221435", "text": "Considerations on Representative Government Considerations on Representative Government is a book by John Stuart Mill published in 1861. Mill argues for representative government, the ideal form of government in his opinion. One of the more notable ideas Mill puts forth in the book is that the business of government representatives is not to make legislation. Instead Mill suggests that representative bodies such as parliaments and senates are best suited to be places of public debate on the various opinions held by the population and to act as watchdogs of the professionals who create and administer laws and policy. In his", "title": "Considerations on Representative Government" }, { "docid": "9722445", "text": "Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Lamar, Pearl River, Perry, and Stone counties as well as a portion of Wayne County. After it was abolished, most of the fifth district was absorbed by the state's fourth congressional district. The district's last election took place on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Gene Taylor, who had represented the district since 1989, easily won re-election. Mississippi's 5th congressional district Mississippi's 5th congressional district existed from 1855 to 2003. The state was granted a fifth representative by Congress following the 1850 census. From 1853 to 1855, the fifth representative was elected at-large instead of by district, favoring", "title": "Mississippi's 5th congressional district" }, { "docid": "2452768", "text": "firm's Chicago office in 1999, and according to Congressional disclosures, made $16.2 million in his years as a banker. At Wasserstein Perella, he worked on eight deals, including the acquisition by Commonwealth Edison of Peco Energy and the purchase by GTCR Golder Rauner of the SecurityLink home security unit from SBC Communications. Emanuel was named to the Board of Directors of Freddie Mac by President Clinton in 2000. He earned at least $320,000 during his time there, including later stock sales. During Emanuel's time on the board, Freddie Mac was plagued with scandals involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities. The", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "9613975", "text": "Indiana's 5th congressional district Indiana's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Indiana that takes the north side of Indianapolis as well as its eastern and northern suburbs, including Marion, Carmel, Anderson, Noblesville, Fishers, and parts of Kokomo. This suburban district is predominantly white and is the wealthiest congressional district in Indiana, per median income. The district is currently represented by Republican Susan Brooks. Election results from presidential races: Before the 2000 U.S. Census, the 5th Congressional District was located in what is now parts of the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Districts. , three former", "title": "Indiana's 5th congressional district" }, { "docid": "6178827", "text": "his death was, I hope he’s found the peace he couldn’t find in life.\" Johnny Rahm Johnny Rahm (June 11, 1965 – November 7, 2004) was the stage name of Barry \"J.T.\" Rogers, an American former gay pornographic film actor and magazine model. Barry Thomas Rogers, who was known to friends as \"J.T.,\" was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, the son of J.T. and Connie Rogers, and raised in a conservative Baptist home. He had two sisters (Kim and Angela) and a brother (Scott). He attended Gilead Christian Academy, a Christian high school in Macon, Georgia and the fundamentalist Bob Jones", "title": "Johnny Rahm" }, { "docid": "19386207", "text": "Harold Rahm Harold Joseph Rahm, a Catholic priest and Jesuit, became well known for his work with gangs and inner-city youth in El Paso, Texas, US. From there he went to Campinas, Brazil, where he extended his efforts at prevention and treatment of drug addiction, receiving wide acclaim for his initiatives. Harold Rahm was born in Tyler, Texas, on February 22, 1919, and during high school planned to become a doctor like his father. But he was drawn to the priesthood and tried the diocesan seminary. Not happy there, he read of the exploits of Jesuit Frs. Pere Marquette and", "title": "Harold Rahm" }, { "docid": "2452763", "text": "the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 1988, and was senior advisor and chief fund-raiser for Richard M. Daley's successful initial campaign for mayor of Chicago, in 1989. At the start of then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's presidential primary campaign, Emanuel was appointed to direct the campaign's finance committee. Emanuel insisted that Clinton schedule time for fund-raising and delay campaigning in New Hampshire. Clinton embarked on an aggressive national fund-raising campaign that allowed the campaign to keep buying television time as attacks on Clinton's character threatened to swamp the campaign during the New Hampshire primary. Clinton's primary rival, Paul Tsongas (the New", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "7479442", "text": "the Democratic Caucus for the 111th Congress, Representative John B. Larson (D-Connecticut) was elected Caucus Chairman by acclamation. The election was presided over by the outgoing chairman of the Democratic Caucus for the 110th Congress, former Representative Rahm Emanuel (D-Illinois). Rep. Larson officially assumed the position of chairman on the first day of the 111th Congress, January 3, 2009. After his election as chairman at the Organizational Meeting on November 18, Chairman Larson presided over the election of Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-California), who defeated Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio by a vote count of 175 to 67. Rep. Becerra likewise", "title": "United States House of Representatives Democratic Caucus" }, { "docid": "14805769", "text": "two shutouts in five games. During that season, Rahm was briefly loaned to Södertälje SK in HockeyAllsvenskan where he dressed as a backup for two games, and to Frölunda HC in Elitserien where he joined as an extra goaltender during practices. After that season, he signed a two-year contract with Frölunda, and was assigned to their HockeyAllsvenskan affiliate Borås HC, but due to a groin injury during the pre-season, Rahm started the 2007–08 season with his former team Sunne in Division 1. On August 5, 2010, it was revealed that on June 28, 2010, Rahm tested positive for use of", "title": "Robin Rahm" }, { "docid": "19386224", "text": "awards are: Among Rahm's numerous publications, the following are most notable. Harold Rahm Harold Joseph Rahm, a Catholic priest and Jesuit, became well known for his work with gangs and inner-city youth in El Paso, Texas, US. From there he went to Campinas, Brazil, where he extended his efforts at prevention and treatment of drug addiction, receiving wide acclaim for his initiatives. Harold Rahm was born in Tyler, Texas, on February 22, 1919, and during high school planned to become a doctor like his father. But he was drawn to the priesthood and tried the diocesan seminary. Not happy there,", "title": "Harold Rahm" }, { "docid": "2452795", "text": "video of the shooting in order to secure the reelection. Emanuel responded to criticism of the shooting and how it was handled by firing police Superintendent Garry McCarthy. In early December, the federal Justice Department announced an investigation into the Chicago Police Department, a move which Emanuel initially called \"misguided\". Illinois state legislator La Shawn Ford also introduced a bill to recall the mayor (an effort most pundits claim is more symbolic than practical). Protests erupted soon after the release of the video, and on Black Friday protesters shut down part of the city's Magnificent Mile. Public calls for resignation", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "2452804", "text": "neighborhood on Chicago's north side. Rule converted to Judaism shortly before their wedding. Emanuel is a close friend of fellow Chicagoan David Axelrod, chief strategist for Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaign, and Axelrod signed the ketuba, the Jewish marriage contract, at Emanuel's wedding. The Emanuels are members of the Chicago synagogue Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel. Rabbi Asher Lopatin of the congregation described Emanuel's family as \"a very involved Jewish family\", adding that \"Amy was one of the teachers for a class for children during the High Holidays two years ago\". Emanuel has said of his Judaism: \"I am proud", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "3325638", "text": "Representative of the Government in the Senate The Representative of the Government in the Senate () is the member of the Senate of Canada who chiefly is responsible for introducing, promoting, and defending the government's bills in the Senate after they are passed by the House of Commons of Canada. The representative is appointed by the Prime Minister of Canada. The position replaced the Leader of the Government in the Senate (), which from 1867–2015 was a senator who was a member of the governing party and led the government side in the Senate of Canada (whether or not that", "title": "Representative of the Government in the Senate" }, { "docid": "2452755", "text": "of Illinois. Emanuel won with 55% of the vote over five other candidates in the non-partisan mayoral election, succeeding 22-year incumbent Richard M. Daley. Although Emanuel failed to obtain an absolute majority in the February 2015 mayoral election, he defeated Cook County board commissioner Jesús \"Chuy\" García in the subsequent run-off election in April. In late 2015, Emanuel's approval rating plunged to \"the low 20s\" in response to a series of scandals, most directly the police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, the city's subsequent attempts to withhold a video of the shooting, and the lack of an investigation into the", "title": "Rahm Emanuel" }, { "docid": "13109886", "text": "Emanuel Mac Troutman Emanuel Mac Troutman (January 7, 1915 – October 8, 2004) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Born in Greenwood Township, Pennsylvania, Troutman received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Dickinson College in 1934 and a Bachelor of Laws from Dickinson School of Law (now Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law) in 1936. He began working for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company in 1937, as an assistant to the general counsel, becoming its general counsel in 1958, and remaining in that position until 1962.", "title": "Emanuel Mac Troutman" } ]
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Currently the 3rd most popular search engine, what is the name of Microsoft's competitor to Google?
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[ { "docid": "14142563", "text": "Bing which displays Microsoft content when rivals do not. Bing displays Microsoft content in first place more than twice as often as Google shows Google content in first place. This indicates that as far as there is any 'bias', Google is less biased than its principal competitor. Search neutrality Search neutrality is a principle that search engines should have no editorial policies other than that their results be comprehensive, impartial and based solely on relevance. This means that when a user queries a search engine, the engine should return the most relevant results found in the provider's domain (those sites", "title": "Search neutrality" }, { "docid": "10308209", "text": "flagship search engine, Bing, and its intelligent personal assistant service, Cortana. “By growing Microsoft Academic Search from a research effort to production,” [Microsoft Research's Kuansan] Wang says, “our goal is to make Bing-powered Cortana the best personal research assistant for our users\" Microsoft Academic Search Microsoft Academic Search was a research project and academic search engine retired in 2012. It relaunched in 2016 as Microsoft Academic. Microsoft launched a search tool called Windows Live Academic Search in 2006 to directly compete with Google Scholar. It was renamed Live Search Academic after its first year and then discontinued two years later.", "title": "Microsoft Academic Search" }, { "docid": "20086024", "text": "public known incident of a search engine being scraped happened in 2011 when Microsoft was caught scraping unknown keywords from Google for their own, rather new Bing service. () But even this incident did not result in a court case. One possible reason might be that search engines like Google are getting almost all their data by scraping millions of public reachable websites, also without reading and accepting those terms. A legal case won by Google against Microsoft would possibly put their whole business as risk. Search engine scraping Search engine scraping is the process of harvesting URLs, descriptions, or", "title": "Search engine scraping" }, { "docid": "7323024", "text": "further to 20.9%. As of October 2018, Bing is the third largest search engine in the US, with a query volume of 4.58%, behind Google (77%) and Baidu(14.45%). Yahoo! Search, which Bing largely powers, has 2.63%. Since 2006, Microsoft had conducted a number of tie-ins and promotions for promoting Microsoft's search offerings. These include: Bing's debut featured an $80 to $100 million online, TV, print, and radio advertising campaign in the US. The advertisements do not mention other search engine competitors, such as Google and Yahoo!, directly by name; rather, they attempt to convince users to switch to Bing by", "title": "Bing (search engine)" }, { "docid": "10308207", "text": "Microsoft Academic Search Microsoft Academic Search was a research project and academic search engine retired in 2012. It relaunched in 2016 as Microsoft Academic. Microsoft launched a search tool called Windows Live Academic Search in 2006 to directly compete with Google Scholar. It was renamed Live Search Academic after its first year and then discontinued two years later. In 2009, Microsoft Research Asia Group launched a beta tool called Libra in 2009, which was for the purpose of algorithms research in object-level vertical search, data mining, entity linking, and data visualization. Libra was redirected to the MAS service by 2011", "title": "Microsoft Academic Search" }, { "docid": "7323003", "text": "as \"Tiger\", the new index-serving technology had been incorporated into Bing globally since August that year. In May 2012, Microsoft announced another redesign of its search engine that includes \"Sidebar\", a social feature that searches users' social networks for information relevant to the search query. , Bing is the third largest search engine in the US, with a query volume of 4.58%, behind Google (77%) and Baidu (14.45%). Yahoo! Search, which Bing largely powers, has 2.63%. Microsoft originally launched MSN Search in the third quarter of 1998, using search results from Inktomi. It consisted of a search engine, index, and", "title": "Bing (search engine)" }, { "docid": "20965716", "text": "better results to that specific user and provide the user with a better searching experience. However, search engines can also abuse and compromise the privacy of the user's data by selling it to advertisers in order to gain profits. Users must decide what is more important to their search engine experience: relevance and speed of results or their privacy. The legal framework for protecting user privacy is not very solid. A few of the most popular search engines are Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Baidu, but many other search engines that are focused on privacy have cropped up recently, such as", "title": "Search engine privacy" }, { "docid": "7323028", "text": "jointly release \"Firefox with Bing\", an edition of Firefox where Bing has replaced Google as the default search engine. The standard edition of Firefox has Google as its default search engine, but has included Bing in its list of search providers since Firefox version 4.0. In addition, Microsoft paid Verizon Wireless $550 million USD to use Bing as the default search provider on Verizon's BlackBerry and have Verizon \"turn off\" (via BlackBerry service books) the other search providers available. Users could still access other search engines via the mobile browser. In 2012, a Bing marketing campaign asked the public which", "title": "Bing (search engine)" }, { "docid": "5394528", "text": "by Google, in 2009 Yahoo! and Microsoft announced the intention to forge an alliance. The Yahoo! & Microsoft Search Alliance eventually received approval from regulators in the US and Europe in February 2010. Search engine optimization consultants expanded their offerings to help businesses learn about and use the advertising opportunities offered by search engines, and new agencies focusing primarily upon marketing and advertising through search engines emerged. The term \"search engine marketing\" was popularized by Danny Sullivan in 2001 to cover the spectrum of activities involved in performing SEO, managing paid listings at the search engines, submitting sites to directories,", "title": "Search engine marketing" }, { "docid": "7323032", "text": "the term, Google set up a honeypot, configuring the Google search engine to return specific unrelated results for 100 nonsensical queries such as \"hiybbprqag\". Over the next couple of weeks, Google engineers entered the search term into Google, while using Microsoft Internet Explorer, with the Bing Toolbar installed and the optional Suggested Sites enabled. In 9 out of the 100 queries, Bing later started returning the same results as Google, despite the only apparent connection between the result and search term being that Google's results connected the two. Microsoft's response to this issue, coming from a company spokesperson, was: \"We", "title": "Bing (search engine)" }, { "docid": "20086018", "text": "known case or broken law. The process of entering a website and extracting data in an automated fashion is also often called \"crawling\". Search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo are getting almost all their data from automated crawling bots. Google is the by far largest search engine with most users in numbers as well as most revenue in creative advertisements, this makes Google the most important search engine to scrape for SEO related companies. Google does not take legal action against scraping, likely for self-protective reasons. However Google is using a range of defensive methods that makes scraping their", "title": "Search engine scraping" }, { "docid": "20086017", "text": "Search engine scraping Search engine scraping is the process of harvesting URLs, descriptions, or other information from search engines such as Google, Bing or Yahoo. This is a specific form of screen scraping or web scraping dedicated to search engines only. Most commonly larger search engine optimization (SEO) providers depend on regularly scraping keywords from search engines, especially Google, to monitor the competitive position of their customers' websites for relevant keywords or their indexing status. Search engines like Google do not allow any sort of automated access to their service but from a legal point of view there is no", "title": "Search engine scraping" }, { "docid": "7331559", "text": "large mainstream technology companies. One such example is the rivalry between Microsoft and Google. Microsoft had been touting its Bing search engine to counter Google's competitive position. Furthermore, the two companies are increasingly offering overlapping services, such as webmail (Gmail vs. Hotmail), search (both online and local desktop searching), and other applications (for example, Microsoft's Windows Live Local competes with Google Earth). In addition to an Internet Explorer replacement Google designed its own Linux-based operating system called Chrome OS to directly compete with Microsoft Windows. There were also rumors of a Google web browser, fueled much by the fact that", "title": "History of Google" }, { "docid": "7323027", "text": "Gulf oil spill each time he mentioned the word \"Bing\" on air. Colbert mostly mentioned Bing in out-of-context situations, such as Bing Crosby and Bing cherries. By the end of the show, Colbert had said the word 40 times, for a total donation of $100,000. Colbert poked fun at their rivalry with Google, stating \"Bing is a great website for doing Internet searches. I know that, because I Googled it.\" Bing was added into the list of search engines available in Opera browser from v10.6, but Google remained the default search engine. Mozilla Firefox made a deal with Microsoft to", "title": "Bing (search engine)" }, { "docid": "7323008", "text": "the word \"Live\" remained in the name. As an effort to create a new identity for Microsoft's search services, Live Search was officially replaced by Bing on June 3, 2009. The Bing name was chosen through focus groups, and Microsoft decided that the name was memorable, short, easy to spell, and that it would function well as a URL around the world. The word would remind people of the sound made during \"the moment of discovery and decision making.\" Microsoft was assisted by branding consultancy Interbrand in their search for the best name for the new search engine. The name", "title": "Bing (search engine)" }, { "docid": "11147141", "text": "initiating the query. Microsoft Search Server Microsoft Search Server (MSS) is an enterprise search platform from Microsoft, based on the search capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. MSS shares its architectural underpinnings with the Windows Search platform for both the querying engine and the indexer. Microsoft Search Server was once known as SharePoint Server for Search. Microsoft Search Server has been made available as Search Server 2008, which was released in the first half of 2008. In 2010, Search Server 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/searchserverexpress/en/us/technical-resources.aspx became available, including a free version, named Search Server 2010 Express. The express edition will feature the same", "title": "Microsoft Search Server" }, { "docid": "11147135", "text": "Microsoft Search Server Microsoft Search Server (MSS) is an enterprise search platform from Microsoft, based on the search capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. MSS shares its architectural underpinnings with the Windows Search platform for both the querying engine and the indexer. Microsoft Search Server was once known as SharePoint Server for Search. Microsoft Search Server has been made available as Search Server 2008, which was released in the first half of 2008. In 2010, Search Server 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/searchserverexpress/en/us/technical-resources.aspx became available, including a free version, named Search Server 2010 Express. The express edition will feature the same feature-set as the", "title": "Microsoft Search Server" }, { "docid": "14727571", "text": "Google Real-Time Search Google Real-Time Search was a feature of Google Search provided by Google in which search results also sometimes included real-time information from sources such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and news websites. The feature was introduced on December 7, 2009 and went off-line on July 2, 2011 after the deal with Twitter expired. Real-Time Search included Facebook status updates beginning on February 24, 2010. A feature similar to Real-Time Search was already available on Microsoft's Bing search engine, which showed results from Twitter and Facebook. The interface for the engine showed a live, descending \"river\" of posts in", "title": "Google Real-Time Search" }, { "docid": "160934", "text": "economic, social and health trends. Data about the frequency of use of search terms on Google can be openly inquired via Google Trends and have been shown to correlate with flu outbreaks and unemployment levels, and provide the information faster than traditional reporting methods and surveys. As of mid-2016, Google's search engine has begun to rely on deep neural networks. Competitors of Google include Baidu and Soso.com in China; Naver.com and Daum.net in South Korea; Yandex in Russia; Seznam.cz in the Czech Republic; Yahoo in Japan, Taiwan and the US, as well as Bing and DuckDuckGo. Some smaller search engines", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "7323029", "text": "search engine they believed was better when its results were presented without branding, similar to the Pepsi Challenge in the 1970s. This poll was nicknamed \"Bing It On\". Microsoft presented a study of almost 1,000 people which showed that 57% of participants in such a test preferred Bing's results, with only 30% preferring Google. Bing censors results for \"adult\" search terms for some regions, including India, People's Republic of China, Germany and Arab countries where required by local laws. However, Bing allows users to change their country or region preference to somewhere without restrictions, such as the United States, United", "title": "Bing (search engine)" }, { "docid": "5394549", "text": "marketing to attract business. Search engine marketing Search engine marketing (SEM) is a form of Internet marketing that involves the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs) primarily through paid advertising. SEM may incorporate search engine optimization (SEO), which adjusts or rewrites website content and site architecture to achieve a higher ranking in search engine results pages to enhance pay per click (PPC) listings. In 2007, U.S. advertisers spent US $24.6 billion on search engine marketing. In Q2 2015, Google (73.7%) and the Yahoo/Bing (26.3%) partnership accounted for almost 100% of U.S. search engine", "title": "Search engine marketing" }, { "docid": "7323001", "text": "Bing (search engine) Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service has its origins in Microsoft's previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search. Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products. It is developed using ASP.NET. Bing, Microsoft's replacement for Live Search, was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009, at the \"All Things Digital\" conference in San Diego, California, for release on June 1, 2009. Notable new features at the time included the listing of search suggestions while queries", "title": "Bing (search engine)" }, { "docid": "160945", "text": "vast amounts of information available into one simple set of search results. In August 2009, Google invited web developers to test a new search architecture, codenamed \"Caffeine\", and give their feedback. The new architecture provided no visual differences in the user interface, but added significant speed improvements and a new \"under-the-hood\" indexing infrastructure. The move was interpreted in some quarters as a response to Microsoft's recent release of an upgraded version of its own search service, renamed Bing, as well as the launch of Wolfram Alpha, a new search engine based on \"computational knowledge\". Google announced completion of \"Caffeine\" on", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "5394525", "text": "Search engine marketing Search engine marketing (SEM) is a form of Internet marketing that involves the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs) primarily through paid advertising. SEM may incorporate search engine optimization (SEO), which adjusts or rewrites website content and site architecture to achieve a higher ranking in search engine results pages to enhance pay per click (PPC) listings. In 2007, U.S. advertisers spent US $24.6 billion on search engine marketing. In Q2 2015, Google (73.7%) and the Yahoo/Bing (26.3%) partnership accounted for almost 100% of U.S. search engine spend. As of 2006,", "title": "Search engine marketing" }, { "docid": "7144045", "text": "Overture (which owned AlltheWeb and AltaVista) in 2003. Yahoo! switched to Google's search engine until 2004, when it launched its own search engine based on the combined technologies of its acquisitions. Microsoft first launched MSN Search in the fall of 1998 using search results from Inktomi. In early 1999 the site began to display listings from Looksmart, blended with results from Inktomi. For a short time in 1999, MSN Search used results from AltaVista instead. In 2004, Microsoft began a transition to its own search technology, powered by its own web crawler (called msnbot). Microsoft's rebranded search engine, Bing, was", "title": "Web search engine" }, { "docid": "19021810", "text": "Search Engine Marketing in China Currently, the largest internet enterprise are Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba. Followed by Soso, Sogou, Bing, and Yahoo. Google had been in the list from 2000, until a heated dispute regarding cyberattacks, which forced Google to pull its search engine in March 2010. Not only that, they have removed and created their own Twitter and YouTube in a form of Sina Weibo and Youku. With the Great China Firewall keeping closed doors around their firms and agencies, international businesses won't be able to interfere with China's market. By doing so, it gives local businesses to compete against", "title": "Search Engine Marketing in China" }, { "docid": "1562331", "text": "different signals. The leading search engines, Google, Bing, and Yahoo, do not disclose the algorithms they use to rank pages. Some SEO practitioners have studied different approaches to search engine optimization, and have shared their personal opinions. Patents related to search engines can provide information to better understand search engines. In 2005, Google began personalizing search results for each user. Depending on their history of previous searches, Google crafted results for logged in users. In 2007, Google announced a campaign against paid links that transfer PageRank. On June 15, 2009, Google disclosed that they had taken measures to mitigate the", "title": "Search engine optimization" }, { "docid": "7323019", "text": "integration with Microsoft Bing search engine. In addition to the traditional web search functions, Bing Bar also allows search on other Bing services such as Images, Video, News and Maps. When users perform a search on another search engine, the Bing Bar's search box will automatically populate itself, allowing the user to view the results from Bing, should it be desired. Bing Bar also links to Outlook.com, Skype and Facebook. Microsoft released a beta version of Bing Desktop, a program developed to allow users to search Bing from the desktop, on April 4, 2012. The initial release followed shortly on", "title": "Bing (search engine)" }, { "docid": "7323005", "text": "effort to better compete in the market. The first public beta of Windows Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, with the final release on September 11, 2006 replacing MSN Search. The new search engine used search tabs that include Web, news, images, music, desktop, local, and Microsoft Encarta. In the roll-over from MSN Search to Windows Live Search, Microsoft stopped using Picsearch as their image search provider and started performing their own image search, fueled by their own internal image search algorithms. On March 21, 2007, Microsoft announced that it would separate its search developments from the Windows", "title": "Bing (search engine)" } ]
[ { "docid": "160941", "text": "tools. Because Google is the most popular search engine, many webmasters attempt to influence their website's Google rankings. An industry of consultants has arisen to help websites increase their rankings on Google and on other search engines. This field, called search engine optimization, attempts to discern patterns in search engine listings, and then develop a methodology for improving rankings to draw more searchers to their clients' sites. Search engine optimization encompasses both \"on page\" factors (like body copy, title elements, H1 heading elements and image alt attribute values) and Off Page Optimization factors (like anchor text and PageRank). The general", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "7144055", "text": "engines make money every time someone clicks on one of these ads. Google is the world's most popular search engine, with a market share of 90.14 percent as of February, 2018. The world's most popular search engines (with >2% market share) are: <graph>{ }</graph> In some East Asian countries and Russia, Google is not the most popular search engine. In Russia, Yandex commands a marketshare of 61.9 percent, compared to Google's 28.3 percent. In China, Baidu is the most popular search engine. South Korea's homegrown search portal, Naver, is used for 70 percent of online searches in the country. Yahoo!", "title": "Web search engine" }, { "docid": "7144056", "text": "Japan and Yahoo! Taiwan are the most popular avenues for internet search in Japan and Taiwan, respectively. Most countries' markets in Western Europe are dominated by Google, except for Czech Republic, where Seznam is a strong competitor. Although search engines are programmed to rank websites based on some combination of their popularity and relevancy, empirical studies indicate various political, economic, and social biases in the information they provide and the underlying assumptions about the technology. These biases can be a direct result of economic and commercial processes (e.g., companies that advertise with a search engine can become also more popular", "title": "Web search engine" }, { "docid": "160979", "text": "Google Search Google Search, also referred to as Google Web Search or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google LLC. It is the most used search engine on the World Wide Web across all platforms, with 92.74% market share as of October 2018, handling more than three billion searches each day. The order of search results returned by Google is based, in part, on a priority rank system called \"PageRank\". Google Search also provides many different options for customized search, using symbols to include, exclude, specify or require certain search behavior, and offers specialized interactive experiences, such", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "160932", "text": "Google Search Google Search, also referred to as Google Web Search or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google LLC. It is the most used search engine on the World Wide Web across all platforms, with 92.74% market share as of October 2018, handling more than three billion searches each day. The order of search results returned by Google is based, in part, on a priority rank system called \"PageRank\". Google Search also provides many different options for customized search, using symbols to include, exclude, specify or require certain search behavior, and offers specialized interactive experiences, such", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "19906583", "text": "Microsoft Academic Microsoft Academic is a free public web search engine for academic publications and literature, developed by Microsoft Research. Re-launched in 2016, the tool features an entirely new data structure and search engine using semantic search technologies. It currently indexes over 375 million entities, 170 million of which are academic papers. The Academic Knowledge API offers information retrieval from the underlying database using REST endpoints for advanced research purposes. The service replaces the earlier Microsoft research project, Microsoft Academic Search, which ended development in 2012. Preliminary reviews by bibliometricians suggest the new Microsoft Academic Search is a competitor to", "title": "Microsoft Academic" }, { "docid": "20907207", "text": "make it universally accessible and useful.\" The letter states that, although Dragonfly has the power to \"do more harm than good,\" it is valuable in that it can shed light on \"how different approaches may work out in China.\" Three anonymous Google employees from China said they supported the project, citing a need for a competitor to the Chinese search engine Baidu. In December 2018, \"The Intercept\" reported that the Dragonfly project had \"effectively been shut down\" after a clash within Google, led by members of the company's privacy team. Dragonfly (search engine) According to press reports, Dragonfly is an", "title": "Dragonfly (search engine)" }, { "docid": "18867691", "text": "Sputnik (search engine) Sputnik is a web search engine owned by the Russian state-owned telecommunications company Rostelecom. It markets itself as an engine geared towards \"local services\". At the end of the week of the launch, it was responsible for 0.01% of the search engine traffic in Russia, compared with 62% for Yandex and 28% for Google. It went through the maximum in February 2016, with 11 thousands hits (compared with 121 million hits of Yandex). In January 2017, Sputnik was the 15th most popular search engine in Russia, with 1 / 32,000 times the hits of Yandex. The experts", "title": "Sputnik (search engine)" }, { "docid": "19906584", "text": "Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus for academic research purposes as well as citation analysis. Microsoft Academic Microsoft Academic is a free public web search engine for academic publications and literature, developed by Microsoft Research. Re-launched in 2016, the tool features an entirely new data structure and search engine using semantic search technologies. It currently indexes over 375 million entities, 170 million of which are academic papers. The Academic Knowledge API offers information retrieval from the underlying database using REST endpoints for advanced research purposes. The service replaces the earlier Microsoft research project, Microsoft Academic Search, which ended development", "title": "Microsoft Academic" }, { "docid": "7941094", "text": "engines can be created to search for information on particular topics chosen by the creator. Google Custom Search Engine allows creators to select what websites will be used to search for information which helps to eliminate any unwanted websites or information. Creators can also attach their custom search engine to any blog or webpage. Google AdSense results can also be triggered from certain search queries, which would generate revenue for the site owner. Provided as part of the original service, subscribed links were discontinued on 15 September 2011. Subscribed Links were web results that users could manually subscribe to. Anyone", "title": "Google Custom Search" }, { "docid": "160976", "text": "from Google that are not directly search-related. Gmail, for example, is a webmail application, but still includes search features; Google Browser Sync does not offer any search facilities, although it aims to organize your browsing time. Also Google starts many new beta products, like Google Social Search or Google Image Swirl. In 2009, Google claimed that a search query requires altogether about 1 kJ or 0.0003 kW·h, which is enough to raise the temperature of one liter of water by 0.24 °C. According to green search engine Ecosia, the industry standard for search engines is estimated to be about 0.2", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "7543146", "text": "Google Blog Search Google Blog Search was a specialized service of Google used to search blogs. It was discontinued in May 2011. The Blog Search was \"the first major search engine to offer full-blown blog and feed search capabilities\". It was released in 2005. The bots appeared to be faster than the standard Googlebot, because updates to blogs often become available within hours instead of weeks taken by Googlebot default. The Blog Search searches were done identically to the Google Search by typing your search terms in the search field and seeing the most relevant results related to the topic.", "title": "Google Blog Search" }, { "docid": "20965720", "text": "in 1998, is by far the most widely used search engine, receiving billions and billions of search queries every month. Google logs all search terms in a database along with the date and time of search, browser and operating system, IP address of user, the Google cookie, and the URL that shows the search engine and search query. The privacy policy of Google states that they do pass on user data to various affiliates, subsidiaries, and \"trusted\" business partners. Yahoo, founded in 1995, also collects user data. It is a well known fact that users do not read privacy policies,", "title": "Search engine privacy" }, { "docid": "160938", "text": "users to be able to ask the question such as 'What shall I do tomorrow?' and 'What job shall I take?'\". Schmidt reaffirmed this during a 2010 interview with the Wall Street Journal: \"I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions, they want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.\" In 2013 the European Commission found that Google Search favored Google's own products, instead of offering consumers the best result for their needs. In February 2015 Google announced a major change to its mobile search algorithm which would favor mobile friendly over other", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "7941093", "text": "Google Custom Search Google Custom Search (formerly known as Google Co-op) is a platform provided by Google that allows web developers to feature specialized information in web searches, refine and categorize queries and create customized search engines, based on Google Search. The service allows users to narrow the 11.5 billion indexed webpages down to a topical group of pages relevant to the creator's needs. Google launched the service on October 23, 2006. The Google Custom Search platform consists of three services: Released on October 23, 2006, Google Custom Search allows anyone to create their own search engine by themselves. Search", "title": "Google Custom Search" }, { "docid": "1562338", "text": "per click; however, this practice was discontinued in 2009. Search engine crawlers may look at a number of different factors when crawling a site. Not every page is indexed by the search engines. Distance of pages from the root directory of a site may also be a factor in whether or not pages get crawled. Today, most people are searching on Google using a mobile device. In November 2016, Google announced a major change to the way crawling websites and started to make their index mobile-first, which means the mobile version of your website becomes the starting point for what", "title": "Search engine optimization" }, { "docid": "20907191", "text": "Dragonfly (search engine) According to press reports, Dragonfly is an Internet search engine app being prototyped by Google that is designed to be compatible with China's state censorship provisions. Unlike a previous search engine designed by Google for use in China, Dragonfly would not notify users that results or search terms have been censored. The public learned of Dragonfly's existence in August 2018, when \"The Intercept\" leaked an internal memo written by a Google employee about the project. The search engine is reportedly designed to link users' phone numbers to their search queries and censor websites such as Wikipedia and", "title": "Dragonfly (search engine)" }, { "docid": "160935", "text": "offer facilities not available with Google, e.g. not storing any private or tracking information. Within the USA, as of July 2018, Microsoft Sites handled 24.2 percent of all search queries in the United States. During the same period of time, Oath (formerly known as Yahoo) had a search market share of 11.5 percent. Market leader Google generated 63.2 percent of all core search queries in the United States. Google's rise to success was largely due to a patented algorithm called PageRank that helps rank web pages that match a given search string. When Google was a Stanford research project, it", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "160960", "text": "moment.\" Users can also tell Google they're not interested in certain topics to avoid seeing future updates. The Google feed launched in December 2016 and received a major update in July 2017. As of May 2018, the Google feed can be found on the Google app and by swiping left on the home screen of certain Android devices. Until May 2013, Google Search had offered a feature to translate search queries into other languages. A Google spokesperson told \"Search Engine Land\" that \"Removing features is always tough, but we do think very hard about each decision and its implications for", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "7144057", "text": "in its organic search results), and political processes (e.g., the removal of search results to comply with local laws). For example, Google will not surface certain neo-Nazi websites in France and Germany, where Holocaust denial is illegal. Biases can also be a result of social processes, as search engine algorithms are frequently designed to exclude non-normative viewpoints in favor of more \"popular\" results. Indexing algorithms of major search engines skew towards coverage of U.S.-based sites, rather than websites from non-U.S. countries. Google Bombing is one example of an attempt to manipulate search results for political, social or commercial reasons. Several", "title": "Web search engine" }, { "docid": "7331588", "text": "up paying more, and UK tax officials were under investigation for what has been termed a \"sweetheart deal\" for Google. History of Google The Google company was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most widely used web-based search engine. Page and Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithmat first known as \"BackRub\"in 1996. The search engine soon proved successful and the expanding company moved several times, finally settling at Mountain View in 2003. This marked a phase of rapid growth, with the company making", "title": "History of Google" }, { "docid": "9204313", "text": "the Search Engine Strategies San Jose event, is the party at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA (Googleplex), dubbed \"Google Dance\". Search Engine Strategies Search Engine Strategies (SES) is a conference series focused on search engine marketing and search engine optimization. The conference was created by Danny Sullivan, founder and former lead editor of Search Engine Watch. The first SES conference was on November 18, 1999 in San Francisco, California and marked the first formal occasion that site owners had met with search engines. The conference expanded internationally in 2000 when the first SES UK was held in London, England", "title": "Search Engine Strategies" }, { "docid": "12298452", "text": "Google Insights for Search was closed and merged into Google Trends again. Google Insights for Search Google Insights for Search was a service by Google similar to Google Trends, providing insights into the search terms people use in the Google search engine. Unlike Google Trends, Google Insights for Search provides a visual representation of regional interest on a country's map. It displays top searches and rising searches that may help with keyword research. Results can be narrowed down with categories that are displayed for each search terms. Term order is important in searches, and that different results will be found", "title": "Google Insights for Search" }, { "docid": "16615795", "text": "Google Compute Engine Google Compute Engine (GCE) is the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) component of Google Cloud Platform which is built on the global infrastructure that runs Google’s search engine, Gmail, YouTube and other services. Google Compute Engine enables users to launch virtual machines (VMs) on demand. VMs can be launched from the standard images or custom images created by users. GCE users must authenticate based on OAuth 2.0 before launching the VMs. Google Compute Engine can be accessed via the Developer Console, RESTful API or command-line interface (CLI). Google announced Compute Engine on June 28, 2012 at Google", "title": "Google Compute Engine" }, { "docid": "12298451", "text": "Google Insights for Search Google Insights for Search was a service by Google similar to Google Trends, providing insights into the search terms people use in the Google search engine. Unlike Google Trends, Google Insights for Search provides a visual representation of regional interest on a country's map. It displays top searches and rising searches that may help with keyword research. Results can be narrowed down with categories that are displayed for each search terms. Term order is important in searches, and that different results will be found if keywords are placed in a different order. On September 27, 2012,", "title": "Google Insights for Search" }, { "docid": "7144062", "text": "dollars from investors like Rite Internet Ventures, and it also faltered. Other religion-oriented search engines are Jewgle, the Jewish version of Google, and SeekFind.org, which is Christian. SeekFind filters sites that attack or degrade their faith. Search engine submission is a process in which a webmaster submits a website directly to a search engine. While search engine submission is sometimes presented as a way to promote a website, it generally is not necessary because the major search engines use web crawlers, that will eventually find most web sites on the Internet without assistance. They can either submit one web page", "title": "Web search engine" }, { "docid": "7144064", "text": "links to websites from their own pages. This could appear helpful in increasing a website's ranking, because external links are one of the most important factors determining a website's ranking. However, John Mueller of Google has stated that this \"can lead to a tremendous number of unnatural links for your site\" with a negative impact on site ranking. Web search engine A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a line of results, often referred to as search engine results pages", "title": "Web search engine" }, { "docid": "8885139", "text": "world's public code. The methodology employed combines a trigram index with a custom-built, denial-of-service resistant regular expression engine. In March 2010, the code of RE2, the regular expression engine used in Google Code Search, was made open source. Google Code Search supported POSIX extended regular expression syntax, excluding back-references, collating elements, and collation classes. Languages not officially supported could be searched for using the file: operator to match the common file extensions for the language. In October 2011, Google announced that Code Search was to be shut down along with the Code Search API. The service remained online until March", "title": "Google Code Search" }, { "docid": "1982818", "text": "Alex Jones has often conducted what he calls \"Google bombs\" by dispatching instructions to his radio/Internet listeners. In this context the term is used to describe a rapid and massive influx of keyword searches for a particular phrase. The keyword surge gives the impression that the related content has suddenly become popular. The strategy behind this type of Google bombing is to attract attention from the larger mainstream media and influence them to publish content related to the keyword. By studying what types of ranking manipulations a search engine is using, a company can provoke a search engine into \"lowering\"", "title": "Google bomb" }, { "docid": "7144053", "text": "it gives back. While there may be millions of web pages that include a particular word or phrase, some pages may be more relevant, popular, or authoritative than others. Most search engines employ methods to rank the results to provide the \"best\" results first. How a search engine decides which pages are the best matches, and what order the results should be shown in, varies widely from one engine to another. The methods also change over time as Internet usage changes and new techniques evolve. There are two main types of search engine that have evolved: one is a system", "title": "Web search engine" }, { "docid": "10073876", "text": "Google itself. Google is tight lipped about the discrepancy. The list on Google Webmaster Tools includes nofollow links that do not convey search engine optimization authority to the linked site. On the other hand, the list of links generated with a \"link:example.com\" type query are deemed by Google to be \"important\" links in a controversial way. Google Webmaster Tools, as well as the Google index, seems to routinely ignore link spam. Once a manual penalty has been removed, Google Webmaster Tools will still display the penalty for another 1–3 days. After the Google Search Console rebrand, information has been produced", "title": "Google Search Console" }, { "docid": "15560821", "text": "to a specific type of website. Competitor backlinking Competitor backlinking is a search engine optimization strategy that involves analyzing the backlinks of competing websites within a vertical search. The outcome of this activity is designed to increase organic search engine rankings and to gain an understanding of the link building strategies used by business competitors. By analyzing the backlinks to competitor websites, it is possible to gain a benchmark on the number of links and the quality of links that is required for high search engine rankings. Another possible outcome of competitive backlinking is the identification of the type of", "title": "Competitor backlinking" }, { "docid": "15560820", "text": "Competitor backlinking Competitor backlinking is a search engine optimization strategy that involves analyzing the backlinks of competing websites within a vertical search. The outcome of this activity is designed to increase organic search engine rankings and to gain an understanding of the link building strategies used by business competitors. By analyzing the backlinks to competitor websites, it is possible to gain a benchmark on the number of links and the quality of links that is required for high search engine rankings. Another possible outcome of competitive backlinking is the identification of the type of websites that are inclined to link", "title": "Competitor backlinking" }, { "docid": "16615813", "text": "of Google data center, Compute Engine can automatically migrate the VMs from one host to the other without involving any action from the users. This delivers better uptime to applications. Google Compute Engine Google Compute Engine (GCE) is the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) component of Google Cloud Platform which is built on the global infrastructure that runs Google’s search engine, Gmail, YouTube and other services. Google Compute Engine enables users to launch virtual machines (VMs) on demand. VMs can be launched from the standard images or custom images created by users. GCE users must authenticate based on OAuth 2.0", "title": "Google Compute Engine" }, { "docid": "19016875", "text": "Search engine optimization metrics A number of metrics are available to marketers interested in search engine optimization. Search engines and software creating such metrics all use their own crawled data to derive at a numeric conclusion on a website's organic search potential. Since these metrics can be manipulated, they can never be completely reliable for accurate and truthful results. Google PageRank (Google PR) is one of the methods Google uses to determine a page's relevance or importance. Important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results. Google PageRank (PR) is", "title": "Search engine optimization metrics" }, { "docid": "8885138", "text": "Google Code Search Google Code Search was a free beta product from Google which debuted in Google Labs on October 5, 2006, allowing web users to search for open-source code on the Internet. Features included the ability to search using operators, namely lang:, package:, license: and file:. The code available for searching was in various formats including tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip, CVS, Subversion, git and Mercurial repositories. The site allowed the use of regular expressions in queries, which at the time was not offered by any other search engine for code. This makes it resemble grep, but over the", "title": "Google Code Search" }, { "docid": "160967", "text": "both on a computer used to make the search, and in records kept by the search provider. When using a search engine through a browser program on a computer, search terms and other information may be stored on the computer by default, unless the browser is set not to do this, or they are erased. Saved terms may be discovered on forensic analysis of the computer. An Internet Service Provider (ISP) or search engine provider (e.g., Google) may store records which relate search terms to an IP address and a time. Whether such logs are kept, and access to them", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "7123122", "text": "Google China Google China is a subsidiary of Google. Once a popular search engine, most services offered by Google China were blocked by the Great Firewall in the People's Republic of China. In 2010, searching via all Google search sites, including Google Mobile, were moved from mainland China to Hong Kong. By November 2013 its search market share had declined to 1.7% from its August 2009 level of 36.2%. On 12 September 2000, Google announced the addition of Simplified and Traditional Chinese versions to Google.com and began to provide search services for Chinese users worldwide. On 10 September 2004, Google.com", "title": "Google China" }, { "docid": "1562350", "text": "website operators to liberate themselves from dependence on search engine traffic. In addition to accessibility in terms of web crawlers (addressed above), user web accessibility has become increasingly important for SEO. Optimization techniques are highly tuned to the dominant search engines in the target market. The search engines' market shares vary from market to market, as does competition. In 2003, Danny Sullivan stated that Google represented about 75% of all searches. In markets outside the United States, Google's share is often larger, and Google remains the dominant search engine worldwide as of 2007. As of 2006, Google had an 85–90%", "title": "Search engine optimization" }, { "docid": "20965725", "text": "engine when it decides which links to show for different search queries submitted by that user or which ads to target them with. An interesting development in this field is the invention of automated learning, also known as machine learning. Using this, search engines can refine their profiling models to more accurately predict what any given user may want to click on by doing A/B testing of results offered to users and measuring the reactions of users. Companies like Google, Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon have all started personalizing results more and more. One notable example is how Google Scholar takes", "title": "Search engine privacy" }, { "docid": "160946", "text": "June 8, 2010, claiming 50% fresher results due to continuous updating of its index. With \"Caffeine\", Google moved its back-end indexing system away from MapReduce and onto Bigtable, the company's distributed database platform. The Knowledge Graph is a knowledge base used by Google to enhance its search engine's results with information gathered from a variety of sources. This information is presented to users in a box to the right of search results. Knowledge Graph boxes were added to Google's search engine in May 2012, starting in the United States, with international expansion by the end of the year. The information", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "160962", "text": "of \"Search Engine Land\" wrote that \"Personally, I kind of like Google Instant and I think it represents a natural evolution in the way search works\", and also praised Google's efforts in public relations, writing that \"With just a press conference and a few well-placed interviews, Google has parlayed this relatively minor speed improvement into an attention-grabbing front-page news story\". The upgrade also became notable for the company switching Google Search's underlying technology from HTML to AJAX. Instant Search could be disabled via Google's \"preferences\" menu for those who didn't want its functionality. The publication \"\" compiled a list of", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "7123150", "text": "is also a common surname — was blocked after erroneous rumours about the death of Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. Google China Google China is a subsidiary of Google. Once a popular search engine, most services offered by Google China were blocked by the Great Firewall in the People's Republic of China. In 2010, searching via all Google search sites, including Google Mobile, were moved from mainland China to Hong Kong. By November 2013 its search market share had declined to 1.7% from its August 2009 level of 36.2%. On 12 September 2000, Google", "title": "Google China" }, { "docid": "8265411", "text": "Google Voice Search Google Voice Search or Search by Voice is a Google product that allows users to use Google Search by speaking on a mobile phone or computer, i.e. have the device search for data upon entering information on what to search into the device by speaking. Initially named as Voice Action which allowed one to give speech commands to an Android phone. Once only available for the U.S. English locale – commands were later recognizable and replied to in American, British, and Indian English; French, Italian, German, and Spanish. In Android 4.1+ (Jelly Bean), it was merged with", "title": "Google Voice Search" }, { "docid": "20965758", "text": "(COPA). It was doing a study to see how effective its filtering software was in regards to child pornography. To do this, the government subpoenaed search data from Google, AOL, Yahoo!, and Microsoft to use in its analysis and to show that people search information that is potentially compromising to children. This search data that the government wanted included both the URLs that appeared to users and the actual search queries of users. Of the search engines the government subpoenaed to produce search queries and URLs, only Google refused to comply with the government, even after the request was reduced", "title": "Search engine privacy" }, { "docid": "20965751", "text": "data to hand over to the government. The specific employees who must be available to be confronted under the Confrontation Clause are the producer who decides what data is relevant and provides the government with what they've asked for, the Google analyst who certifies the proper collection and transmission of data, and the custodian who keeps records. The data these employees of Google curate for trial use is then thought of as testimonial statement. The overall effectiveness of the Confrontation Clause on search engine privacy is that it places a check on how the government can use big data and", "title": "Search engine privacy" }, { "docid": "16811215", "text": "in Chrome web store now. Bilingual search engine A bilingual search engine provides multiple language search pages when users type keyword in one language. Obviously, this kind of search engine will give more detailed information for people who speak more than one language, although many mainstream search engines provide multiple languages services. However, the difference between a bilingual search engine and a multiple language search engine is a bilingual search engine will translate keyword from one language to another automatically. Google also published a plug-in (Bilingual Search Suggestion) for Chrome browser to meet the requirement of bilingual search,but it was", "title": "Bilingual search engine" }, { "docid": "16811214", "text": "Bilingual search engine A bilingual search engine provides multiple language search pages when users type keyword in one language. Obviously, this kind of search engine will give more detailed information for people who speak more than one language, although many mainstream search engines provide multiple languages services. However, the difference between a bilingual search engine and a multiple language search engine is a bilingual search engine will translate keyword from one language to another automatically. Google also published a plug-in (Bilingual Search Suggestion) for Chrome browser to meet the requirement of bilingual search,but it was canceled and unable be found", "title": "Bilingual search engine" }, { "docid": "4484242", "text": "Google Alerts Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service, offered by the search engine company Google. The service sends emails to the user when it finds new results—such as web pages, newspaper articles, blogs, or scientific research—that match the user's search term(s). In 2003, Google launched Google alerts which were the result of Naga Kataru's efforts. His name is on the three patents for Google Alerts. Google reported the system was not functioning properly as of 2013: \"we’re having some issues with Alerts not being as comprehensive as we’d like\". However, the service is still operational and", "title": "Google Alerts" }, { "docid": "20965741", "text": "search engine maintains the privacy of its users by not collecting data on or tracking its users. While this may sound simple, users must take into account the tradeoff between privacy and relevant results when deciding to switch search engines. Results to search queries can be very different when the search engine has no search history to aid it in personalization. Mozilla is known for its beliefs in protecting user privacy on Firefox. Mozilla Firefox users have the capability to delete the tracking cookie that Google places on their computer, making it much harder for Google to group data. Firefox", "title": "Search engine privacy" }, { "docid": "4484243", "text": "completely accessible around the world. Google Alerts continued to face critical performance issues and temporary unavailability on regional basis but, the Google technical support has been successfully addressing the reported issues by users on its official forum. Google Alerts Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service, offered by the search engine company Google. The service sends emails to the user when it finds new results—such as web pages, newspaper articles, blogs, or scientific research—that match the user's search term(s). In 2003, Google launched Google alerts which were the result of Naga Kataru's efforts. His name is on", "title": "Google Alerts" }, { "docid": "12058158", "text": "and Kitchen furnishings(Furniture, Decor, Housekeeping, Kitchen, etc.) categories. Visual Search is being used by E-commerce companies as a tool for similar product recommendations, Image search and product discovery. Other companies in the image recognition space are the reverse image search-engines TinEye and Google's \"search by image\" feature of Google Images. Visual search engine A Visual Search Engine is a search engine designed to search for information on the World Wide Web through the input of an image or a search engine with a visual display of the search results. Information may consist of web pages, locations, other images and other", "title": "Visual search engine" }, { "docid": "1562351", "text": "market share in Germany. While there were hundreds of SEO firms in the US at that time, there were only about five in Germany. As of June 2008, the marketshare of Google in the UK was close to 90% according to Hitwise. That market share is achieved in a number of countries. As of 2009, there are only a few large markets where Google is not the leading search engine. In most cases, when Google is not leading in a given market, it is lagging behind a local player. The most notable example markets are China, Japan, South Korea, Russia", "title": "Search engine optimization" }, { "docid": "160955", "text": "top of the mobile website in a swipeable carousel-like format. Originally limited to movie and recipe websites in the United States only, the feature expanded to all countries globally in 2017. Besides the main text-based search-engine features of Google search, it also offers multiple quick, interactive experiences. These include, but are not limited to: On certain occasions, the logo on Google's webpage will change to a special version, known as a \"Google Doodle\". This is a picture, drawing, animation or interactive game that includes the logo. It is usually done for a special event or day although not all of", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "160977", "text": "grams of CO emission per search. Google's 40,000 searches per second translate to 8 kg CO per second or over 252 million kilos of CO per year. In 2007, a group of researchers observed a tendency for users to rely on Google Search exclusively for finding information, writing that \"With the Google interface the user gets the impression that the search results imply a kind of totality. ... In fact, one only sees a small part of what one could see if one also integrates other research tools.\" In 2011, Google Search query results have been shown to be tailored", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "8506844", "text": "is determined by the administrators of the search engine. Human-powered search engines rely on humans to submit information that is subsequently indexed and catalogued. Only information that is submitted is put into the index. In both cases, when you query a search engine to locate information, you're actually searching through the index that the search engine has created —you are not actually searching the Web. These indices are giant databases of information that is collected and stored and subsequently searched. This explains why sometimes a search on a commercial search engine, such as Yahoo! or Google, will return results that", "title": "Search engine technology" }, { "docid": "160939", "text": "websites. Nearly 60% of Google's online search traffic comes from mobile phones. Google says it wants its users to have access to premium quality websites. Those websites which lack a mobile friendly interface would be demoted and it is expected that this update will cause a shake-up of ranks. Businesses who fail to update their websites accordingly could see a dip in their regular websites traffic. Google indexes hundreds of terabytes of information from web pages. For websites that are currently down or otherwise not available, Google provides links to cached versions of the site, formed by the search engine's", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "4610280", "text": "period, sites with similar features such as CiteSeer, Scirus, and Microsoft Windows Live Academic search were developed. Some of these are now defunct; although in 2016, Microsoft launched a new competitor, Microsoft Academic. A major enhancement was rolled out in 2012, with the possibility for individual scholars to create personal \"Scholar Citations profiles\", public author profiles that are editable by authors themselves. Individuals, logging on through a Google account with a bona fide address usually linked to an academic institution, can now create their own page giving their fields of interest and citations. Google Scholar automatically calculates and displays the", "title": "Google Scholar" }, { "docid": "7941095", "text": "was allowed to make a new Subscribed Link, and did not necessarily need knowledge on how to create a feed, as a basic link could be created. Subscriptions were then available in a special directory. Topics are specific areas of search, which can be developed by people with knowledge of a certain subject. These topics are then displayed at the top of relevant Google web searches, so the user can refine the searches to what they want. Currently, there is a limited number of topics that Google is wanting to develop, namely Health, Destination Guides, Autos, Computer games, Photography and", "title": "Google Custom Search" }, { "docid": "12058157", "text": "will analyze the data and create a page of the results sorted with the efficiency of each team, to eventually be sent to the mobile phone. Google Goggles is the most popular application of image search engines, developed by Google Labs. Available for Android only today. CamFind is a similar application available for both Android and iOS. JustVisual.com (formerly known as 'Superfish') and its LikeThat showcase apps are API for developers to create their own visual-search mobile app. Visual search has a wide application in Retail Industry both online and offline for Fashion (Clothing, Jewelry, Bags, Footwear, etc.) , Home", "title": "Visual search engine" }, { "docid": "20907198", "text": "on Google's end) search engine based out of Hong Kong. Almost immediately, the Chinese government blocked Chinese users' access to certain results produced by that engine. Brin justified Google's sudden policy switch by arguing that operating a search engine in China no longer aligned with Google's goals of advancing internet freedom, as the company had been seeing a daily \"increase\" in requests for certain topics or search terms to be censored, rather than the other way around. Google faced widespread criticism for the decision which some commentators called a \"face saving capitulation\": an attempt by Google to take a stand", "title": "Dragonfly (search engine)" }, { "docid": "7941185", "text": "to users known through social networks. Google's search algorithm is driven by collecting and storing web history in its databases. For non-authenticated users Google looks at anonymously stored browser cookies on a user's browser and compares the unique string with those stored within Google databases. Google accounts logged into Google Chrome use user's web history to learn what sites and content you like and base the search results presented on them. Using the data provided by the user Google constructs a profile including gender, age, languages, and interests based on prior behaviour using Google services. When a user performs a", "title": "Google Personalized Search" }, { "docid": "20907196", "text": "inconsistent with our mission, providing no information is more inconsistent with our mission,\" referring to the alternative of not servicing Chinese users at all. Google also downplayed the extent of the new search engine's censorship, reminding users that it also removes search results from its German, French, and U.S. platforms in order to comply with local government regulations in those countries. Ultimately, Google.cn received tepid acceptance: some commentators even praised the search engine with the logic that Chinese citizens, through conducting searches and observing which results had been removed, could better their understanding of what it was their government did", "title": "Dragonfly (search engine)" }, { "docid": "8506855", "text": "slow when solving complex queries (with multiple logical or string matching arguments). Databases allow pseudo-logical queries which full-text searches do not use. There is no crawling necessary for a database since the data is already structured. However, it is often necessary to index the data in a more economized form to allow a more expeditious search. Sometimes, data searched contains both database content and web pages or documents. Search engine technology has developed to respond to both sets of requirements. Most mixed search engines are large Web search engines, like Google. They search both through structured and unstructured data sources.", "title": "Search engine technology" }, { "docid": "8895311", "text": "Database search engine A database search engine is a search engine that operates on material stored in a digital database. Categories of search engine software include: The largest online directories, such as Google and Yahoo, utilize thousands of computers to process billions of website documents using web crawlers or spiders (software), returning results for thousands of searches per second. Processing high query volumes requires software to run in a distributed environment with redundancy. Searching for textual content in databases or structured data formats (such as XML and CSV) presents special challenges and opportunities which specialized search engines resolve. Databases allow", "title": "Database search engine" }, { "docid": "7144043", "text": "looking to give a single search engine an exclusive deal as the featured search engine on Netscape's web browser. There was so much interest that instead Netscape struck deals with five of the major search engines: for $5 million a year, each search engine would be in rotation on the Netscape search engine page. The five engines were Yahoo!, Magellan, Lycos, Infoseek, and Excite. Google adopted the idea of selling search terms in 1998, from a small search engine company named goto.com. This move had a significant effect on the SE business, which went from struggling to one of the", "title": "Web search engine" }, { "docid": "6176360", "text": "set returned. While there may be millions of videos that include a particular word or phrase, some videos may be more relevant, popular or have more authority than others. This arrangement has a lot to do with search engine optimization. Most search engines use different methods to classify the results and provide the best video in the first results. However, most programs allow sorting the results by several criteria. This criterion is more ambiguous and less objective, but sometimes it is the closest to what we want; depends entirely on the searcher and the algorithm that the owner has chosen.", "title": "Video search engine" }, { "docid": "1562339", "text": "Google includes in their index. To avoid undesirable content in the search indexes, webmasters can instruct spiders not to crawl certain files or directories through the standard robots.txt file in the root directory of the domain. Additionally, a page can be explicitly excluded from a search engine's database by using a meta tag specific to robots (usually <meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex\"> ). When a search engine visits a site, the robots.txt located in the root directory is the first file crawled. The robots.txt file is then parsed and will instruct the robot as to which pages are not to be crawled.", "title": "Search engine optimization" }, { "docid": "8506848", "text": "employ technology that has evolved over the years. There are a number of sub-categories of search engine software that are separately applicable to specific 'browsing' needs. These include web search engines (e.g. Google), database or structured data search engines (e.g. Dieselpoint), and mixed search engines or enterprise search. The more prevalent search engines, such as Google and Yahoo!, utilize hundreds of thousands computers to process trillions of web pages in order to return fairly well-aimed results. Due to this high volume of queries and text processing, the software is required to run in a highly dispersed environment with a high", "title": "Search engine technology" }, { "docid": "7331555", "text": "exchange under the ticker symbol GOOG. When Alphabet was created as Google's parent company, it retained Google's stock price history and ticker symbol. In February 2003, Google acquired Pyra Labs, owner of the Blogger website. The acquisition secured the company's competitive ability to use information gleaned from blog postings to improve the speed and relevance of articles contained in a companion product to the search engine Google News. In February 2004, Yahoo! dropped its partnership with Google, providing an independent search engine of its own. This cost Google some market share, yet Yahoo!'s move highlighted Google's own distinctiveness, and today", "title": "History of Google" }, { "docid": "160951", "text": "largest of those, the google.com site, is the top most-visited website in the world. Some of its features include a definition link for most searches including dictionary words, the number of results you got on your search, links to other searches (e.g. for words that Google believes to be misspelled, it provides a link to the search results using its proposed spelling), and many more. Google search accepts queries as normal text, as well as individual keywords. It automatically corrects misspelled words, and yields the same results regardless of capitalization. For more customized results, one can use a wide variety", "title": "Google Search" } ]
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What product was advertised with the slogan: Like a rock?
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[ { "docid": "4294671", "text": "Like a Rock Like a Rock is the thirteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music). The title track is best known for being featured in Chevrolet truck commercials throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. \"Fortunate Son\" is a live cover of the 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival hit, recorded March 31, 1983 at Cobo Hall in Detroit. It was originally available only as the B-side of the \"American Storm\" single, and was added as a bonus track to the CD release of the album. The vinyl version ends with \"Somewhere Tonight\". The song", "title": "Like a Rock" }, { "docid": "4294673", "text": "tracks - \"Billboard\" (North America) Like a Rock Like a Rock is the thirteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music). The title track is best known for being featured in Chevrolet truck commercials throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. \"Fortunate Son\" is a live cover of the 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival hit, recorded March 31, 1983 at Cobo Hall in Detroit. It was originally available only as the B-side of the \"American Storm\" single, and was added as a bonus track to the CD release of the album. The vinyl version ends", "title": "Like a Rock" }, { "docid": "7632721", "text": "your late teens when you have no special commitments and no career. It's your last blast of fun before heading into the cruel world.\" The guitar track was over dubbed by Rick Vito. The song was also featured in the 2005 film \"The Weather Man\", starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Caine. This song's greatest exposure was in Chevrolet truck television advertisements from 1991 until 2004, for Chevrolet's massively successful \"Like a Rock\" campaign, which was also one of their longest-running ad campaigns. The song would help sell millions of trucks over the years, and is still widely associated with Chevrolet", "title": "Like a Rock (song)" } ]
[ { "docid": "1489976", "text": "what to purchase. The slogan is used by companies to affect the way consumers view their product compared to others. Slogans can also provide information about the product, service or cause its advertising. The language used in the slogans is essential to the message it wants to convey. Current words used can trigger different emotions that consumers will associate that product with. The use of good adjectives makes for an effective slogan; when adjectives are paired with describing nouns, they help bring the meaning of the message out through the words. When a slogan is used for advertising purposes its", "title": "Slogan" }, { "docid": "1489977", "text": "goal is to sell the product or service to as many consumers through the message and information a slogan provides. A slogan's message can include information about the quality of the product. Examples of words that can be used to direct the consumer preference towards a current product and its qualities are: good, beautiful, real, better, great, perfect, best, and pure. Slogans can influence that way consumers behave when choosing what product to buy. Slogans offer information to consumers in an appealing and creative way. A slogan can be used for a powerful cause where the impact of the message", "title": "Slogan" }, { "docid": "16476866", "text": "2013. The product description reading; \"\"This expanded version has been re-mastered by Ian himself and is a testament to the great album it was, enhanced with upgraded packaging and a bonus disc of the B-sides that came with the assorted singles. This is a great addition to the canon of Ian's work\"\" Head Like a Rock Head Like a Rock is a 1994 concept album by Ian McNabb. The album was nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Prize and was McNabb's second solo album. The album was recorded in Los Angeles with the backing band Crazy Horse. The album peaked", "title": "Head Like a Rock" }, { "docid": "15781719", "text": "week, the song went up two spots, peaking at number forty-four. The following two weeks, \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" remained stationary at number forty-four on the weeks ending August 1, 2011 and August 8, 2011, respectively. A music video for \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" was shot and directed by Sanaa Hamri at Citrus College in Glendora, California. Porcelain Black discussed the idea behind the music video for \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" with AOL's Carlos Ramirez, stating it was based on real life experiences. After Porcelain Black's mother had", "title": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" }, { "docid": "15781717", "text": "depth about the genre mix in \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\": Although the song's title references the physical appearance of what rock and roll looks like, Porcelain Black revealed in an interview with AOL's \"NoiceCreep\" that rock and roll is not dependent on the physical appearance of someone. She stated: \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" received generally mixed reviews by critics, most of whom were surprised with Porcelain Black's outgoing persona and the pop production by RedOne. Gerrick D. Kennedy of \"Los Angeles Times\" complimented the song's production by stating that it could have", "title": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" }, { "docid": "15781726", "text": "instead, the classroom setting was criticized while the presence of Lil Wayne was appreciated. The song was also used in the 2013 film, \"The Smurfs 2\". This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" is the debut single of American industrial singer-songwriter Porcelain Black, featuring American rapper Lil Wayne. This song serves as the lead single from the singer's debut studio album, \"Mannequin Factory\". Produced by Moroccan-Swedish producer RedOne, who had originally discovered Black, \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" is influenced by the genre of rock, lyrically stating how", "title": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" }, { "docid": "15781710", "text": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" is the debut single of American industrial singer-songwriter Porcelain Black, featuring American rapper Lil Wayne. This song serves as the lead single from the singer's debut studio album, \"Mannequin Factory\". Produced by Moroccan-Swedish producer RedOne, who had originally discovered Black, \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" is influenced by the genre of rock, lyrically stating how the listener should be proud of who they are. The song was released digitally in the United States on March 29, 2011, and managed to chart", "title": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" }, { "docid": "1489975", "text": "slogan with the product it is representing. A slogan is part of the production aspect that helps create an image for the product, service or cause it's representing. A slogan can be a few simple words used to form a phrase that can be used in a repetitive manner. In commercial advertising, corporations will use a slogan as part of promotional activity. Slogans can become a global way of identifying good or service, for example Nike's slogan 'Just Do It' helped establish Nike as an identifiable brand worldwide. Slogans should catch the audience's attention and influence the consumer's thoughts on", "title": "Slogan" }, { "docid": "15781713", "text": "their real names, Alaina Beaton and Dwayne Carter, Jr. respectively. After being introduced to Lil Wayne's manager, Derrick \"EI\" Lawrence, by producer RedOne, Porcelain Black stated that she met Lil Wayne in New York City when he heard \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\", where he expressed an interest in adding his vocals to the song. The single cover for \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" was revealed on March 21, 2011, alongside a snippet of the song. \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" was released digitally through the United States iTunes Store on", "title": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" }, { "docid": "15781716", "text": "to be proud of who they are. Vocally, Porcelain Black sings as if straining through \"a maze of razorblades,\" according to Steven J. Horowitz of \"YRB Magazine\". The RedOne-produced track employs a beat that is reminiscent of his work with Lady Gaga. Porcelain Black screams in the chorus \"Hey hey hey if you're ready to rage / Raise your hands up, this what rock and roll looks like / Yeah yeah yeah, wearing leather and lace / Raise your hands up, this what rock and roll looks like.\" While being interviewed by the \"Los Angeles Times\", Porcelain Black discussed in", "title": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" }, { "docid": "15781711", "text": "at number forty-four on the US \"Billboard\" Hot Dance Club Songs. A music video for \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\", shot and directed by Sanaa Hamri, was released on March 27, 2011. The music video pays homage to Porcelain Black's high school experiences, where she was constantly teased by \"snobby rich kids\", but never gave in to the pressure of her peers around her. The video serves as a form of revenge for Porcelain Black against high school tormentors. \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" garnered mixed reviews from critics, most of whom were shocked", "title": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" }, { "docid": "1489972", "text": "receiver interprets them. Therefore, the slogan has a large job in portraying the brand (Dass, Kumar, Kohli, & Thomas, 2014). Therefore, the slogan should create a sense of likability in order for the brand name to be likable and the slogan message very clear and concise. Dass, Kumar, Kohli, & Thomas' (2014) research suggests that there are certain factors that make up the likability of a slogan. The clarity of the message the brand is trying to encode within the slogan. The slogan emphasizes the benefit of the product or service it is portraying. The creativity of a slogan is", "title": "Slogan" }, { "docid": "15781718", "text": "been used by Lady Gaga. Ian Drew of \"Us Weekly\" called the single \"shocking\" and \"electric\". Allison Stewart of \"The Washington Post\" gave \"This Is What Rock ‘n’ Roll Looks Like” a mixed review, describing Porcelain Black as a \"girl-fronted version of Mötley Crüe circa Dr. Feelgood\". Jon Wiederhorn of \"Inked\" dubbed the song \"a euphoric digital feast of raspy melodic vocals, four-to-the-floor beats, and keyboards that buzz like electric guitars.\" \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" debuted on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Dance Club Songs at number forty-six, on the week ending July 18, 2011. The following", "title": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" }, { "docid": "18761648", "text": "shall not discriminate between its own and like foreign products (giving them “national treatment”). In essence, if two products are found to be ‘like’ then the issue is whether the foreign product is treated less favourable than the domestic product or another foreign product. The definition of ‘like product’ has given GATT and WTO's appellate body and panels many interpretive difficulties. It has been difficult to apply this concept of ‘like product’ uniformly throughout GATT since contracting parties have never developed a general definition of “like product” for application to all provisions of GATT, therefore likeness should be assessed on", "title": "Like product" }, { "docid": "4885201", "text": "What It's Like \"What It's Like\" is a song by American musician Everlast. It was released in September 1998 as the lead single from his album \"Whitey Ford Sings the Blues\". The song is typical of the style Everlast embraced after leaving hip hop trio House of Pain, being a combination of rock, hip-hop and blues incorporating characterization and empathy towards impoverished protagonists. The song went to number one on the US \"Billboard\" Mainstream Rock chart for one week and number one on the Modern Rock Tracks chart for nine weeks. It also peaked at number 13 on the \"Billboard\"", "title": "What It's Like" }, { "docid": "1557123", "text": "to scholars. Critics argue taglines are a self-gratifying, unnecessary form of corporate branding that is neither memorable nor pithy. However, proponents argue if taglines enter everyday public discourse, the company's market influence could exponentially increase. A marketing slogan can play a part in the interplay between rival companies. A functional slogan usually: The business sloganeering process communicates the value of a product or service to customers, for the purpose of selling the product or service. It is a business function for attracting customers. Advertising slogan Advertising slogans are short phrases used in advertising campaigns to generate publicity and unify a", "title": "Advertising slogan" }, { "docid": "1557121", "text": "as ideas take hold with the public. Some advertising slogans retain their influence even after general use is discontinued. If an advertising slogan enters into the public vernacular, word-of-mouth communication may increase consumer awareness of the product and extend an ad campaign's lifespan. Slogans that associate emotional responses or evoke recollections of past memories increase their likelihood to be adopted by the public and shared. Additionally, by linking a slogan to a commonplace discussion topic (e.g. stress, food, traffic), consumers will recall the slogan more often and associate the corporation with their personal experiences. If a slogan is adopted by", "title": "Advertising slogan" }, { "docid": "7632722", "text": "today. Like a Rock (song) \"Like a Rock\" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger. It was recorded with The Silver Bullet Band and released in May 1986 as the second single from their album \"Like a Rock\". The single peaked at #1 on the US \"Billboard\" Mainstream Rock Tracks. Seger told the \"New York Times\" that the song \"was inspired partly by the end of a relationship I had that had lasted for 11 years. You wonder where all that time went. But beyond that, it expresses my feeling that the best years of your life are", "title": "Like a Rock (song)" }, { "docid": "7632720", "text": "Like a Rock (song) \"Like a Rock\" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger. It was recorded with The Silver Bullet Band and released in May 1986 as the second single from their album \"Like a Rock\". The single peaked at #1 on the US \"Billboard\" Mainstream Rock Tracks. Seger told the \"New York Times\" that the song \"was inspired partly by the end of a relationship I had that had lasted for 11 years. You wonder where all that time went. But beyond that, it expresses my feeling that the best years of your life are in", "title": "Like a Rock (song)" }, { "docid": "16476865", "text": "Head Like a Rock Head Like a Rock is a 1994 concept album by Ian McNabb. The album was nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Prize and was McNabb's second solo album. The album was recorded in Los Angeles with the backing band Crazy Horse. The album peaked at No. 29 on the official UK charts. Late in 2012, Ian revealed that his first three studio albums were to be re-released as 'expanded editions' and subsequently in early December, a listing for 'Head Like a Rock (Expanded edition)' was put on Amazon with a scheduled release date of 28 January", "title": "Head Like a Rock" }, { "docid": "12273729", "text": "What Them Girls Like \"What Them Girls Like\" is the first single from Ludacris's sixth studio album \"Theater of the Mind\". The single features Chris Brown and Sean Garrett and is produced by Darkchild. The song was available on iTunes Store on August 7, 2008. It was leaked to the internet on August 1, 2008. Allmusic editor David Jeffries called this song completely unsurprising, with rock-solid hook. Ken Copabianco described the song: His \"sex talk is good-natured and slyly insightful about love (\"What Them Girls Like\")\" XXL Magazine wrote a mixed review: \"Elsewhere, he’s just straight reaching—“What Them Girls Like,”", "title": "What Them Girls Like" }, { "docid": "18361842", "text": "the project being posted. Crowdfunding process successfully finished on November 13, 2013, with $50,457 pledged. What Was Done, Vol. 1: A Decade Revisited What Was Done, Vol. 1: A Decade Revisited is an acoustic album by rock band The Classic Crime released on October 28, 2014 via BadChristian Music. Like their previous effort, \"Phoenix\" (2012), the album was funded through the website Kickstarter. Kickstarter backers were able to digitally download the album one week prior to its release date. A Kickstarter project entitled \"Help The Classic Crime Make \"What Was Done: Volume One\"\" was created on October 15, 2013 with", "title": "What Was Done, Vol. 1: A Decade Revisited" }, { "docid": "5380232", "text": "band's rights by featuring a soundalike recording of \"What I Like About You\" in the game. The Romantics lost their case in December 2007, with the judge stating that Activision had taken all the necessary steps in developing its product. The song was covered by Australian rock band 5 Seconds of Summer for their 2014 \"She Looks So Perfect\" EP, reaching number 137 on the UK Singles Chart. The studio mix of the song is included on the group's 2014 live album, \"LiveSOS\", and was serviced to American mainstream radio on December 2, 2014 as its lead single. It received", "title": "What I Like About You (song)" }, { "docid": "18361841", "text": "What Was Done, Vol. 1: A Decade Revisited What Was Done, Vol. 1: A Decade Revisited is an acoustic album by rock band The Classic Crime released on October 28, 2014 via BadChristian Music. Like their previous effort, \"Phoenix\" (2012), the album was funded through the website Kickstarter. Kickstarter backers were able to digitally download the album one week prior to its release date. A Kickstarter project entitled \"Help The Classic Crime Make \"What Was Done: Volume One\"\" was created on October 15, 2013 with a funding goal of $15,000. The goal was met within the first two days of", "title": "What Was Done, Vol. 1: A Decade Revisited" }, { "docid": "12273731", "text": "a 40-second intro before the music starts in the video. What Them Girls Like \"What Them Girls Like\" is the first single from Ludacris's sixth studio album \"Theater of the Mind\". The single features Chris Brown and Sean Garrett and is produced by Darkchild. The song was available on iTunes Store on August 7, 2008. It was leaked to the internet on August 1, 2008. Allmusic editor David Jeffries called this song completely unsurprising, with rock-solid hook. Ken Copabianco described the song: His \"sex talk is good-natured and slyly insightful about love (\"What Them Girls Like\")\" XXL Magazine wrote a", "title": "What Them Girls Like" }, { "docid": "5994387", "text": "of the 1960s, advertised with an armed knight riding a white horse. At the end of the Doors song \"Touch Me\", Jim Morrison says the slogan \"Stronger Than Dirt\". A widely mocked commercial in the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s declared, \"Armed... with AJAX!\" American actor Eugene Roche gained household fame as AJAX man, \"Squeaky Clean\", in many television commercials of the 1970s. In the United Kingdom, character actress Ann Lancaster appeared on television advertisements featuring the slogan, \"It cleans like a white tornado\". Colgate ceased advertising in the United Kingdom for the brand in January", "title": "Ajax (cleaning product)" }, { "docid": "15781715", "text": "Porcelain Black complimented R3hab's remix in an interview with MTV News: \"I wish[ed] his remixes were the official singles because they really pop off next level. I love all the spooky horror pop synths he throws in the mixes, and the breakdowns make me wanna throw back shots of whiskey and hair whip. If I could have sex with a song I'd def be tappin’ dat remix!\" Described as \"in-your-face\", \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" is influenced by the genres of rock, dance-pop, and power pop, while containing \"roaring\" guitars and lyrics which aim to remind listeners", "title": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" }, { "docid": "8313330", "text": "Rock You Like a Hurricane \"Rock You Like a Hurricane\" is a song by German rock band Scorpions. The song was released as the lead single from their ninth studio album, \"Love at First Sting\" (1984). It was written by Klaus Meine, Herman Rarebell, Rudolf Schenker and arranged/produced by Dieter Dierks. The lyrics of \"Rock You Like a Hurricane\" also reference the title of the album on which it originally appeared – \"Love at First Sting\". \"Rock You Like a Hurricane\" reached number 25 in the USA \"Billboard\" Hot 100, greatly contributing to the album's success, and MTV put the", "title": "Rock You Like a Hurricane" }, { "docid": "10266426", "text": "Love Is Like a Rock \"Love Is Like a Rock\" is a song by American rock musician Donnie Iris from his 1981 album \"King Cool\". The song was released as the second single from his second album. The song reached No. 37 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart and No. 9 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song was also recorded by Slade on their 1987 album \"You Boyz Make Big Noize\". \"Love is Like a Rock\" is often used by the Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania band during football games. Iris attended SRU in the", "title": "Love Is Like a Rock" }, { "docid": "15781712", "text": "by Porcelain Black's image and sounds but favored her apparent perception of herself as the \"offspring\" of fellow musicians Britney Spears and Marilyn Manson and their individual styles. Porcelain Black performed the song on the \"Late Show with David Letterman\", marking her debut televised appearance. The song was featured in an episode of Beavis and Butthead and the 2013 film, \"The Smurfs 2\". \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" was written by Porcelain Black, Lil Wayne, RedOne, Bilal Hajji, with RedOne providing the song's production. In the song's writing credits, Porcelain Black and Lil Wayne are credited under", "title": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" }, { "docid": "18761647", "text": "Like product A “like product” describes the particular relationship in international trade law between two goods that are produced by two different trading nations. This concept is the foundation of the two central principles of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) system as outlined in the \"General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1947\" (GATT): Most Favoured Nation (Article I) and National Treatment (Article III). If two products cannot be differentiated under the WTO system/GATT then the non-discrimination principle stipulates that a WTO trading member shall not discriminate between like products from different trading partners (giving them equally “most favoured-nation” status) and", "title": "Like product" }, { "docid": "15781714", "text": "March 29, 2011. Following the release of Porcelain Black's second single, \"Naughty Naughty,\" Dutch DJ, remixer and house music producer R3hab produced a remix of \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like,\" making it available for free download through SoundCloud on January 24, 2012. R3hab went on to compliment Porcelain Black's original song, stating, \"The original vibe is crazy, and I am a big fan of Lil Wayne. This track makes you wanna rage like the lyrics say! I see [the remix] as a rollercoaster ride. Breaks slow it down. Then there is a climb, and the big drop!\"", "title": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" }, { "docid": "10266430", "text": "also highlighted the song as an album standout by labeling it an AMG Pick Track. In the album's 2007 Salvo remaster liner notes, writer Chris Ingham said: \"\"Love Is Like a Rock\" is a telling observation about Slade's ongoing quest to style themselves to the times. One of several more obvious candidates for a single than the tracks that were actually chosen, it nevertheless kicks off the record in great rambunctious style.\" Love Is Like a Rock \"Love Is Like a Rock\" is a song by American rock musician Donnie Iris from his 1981 album \"King Cool\". The song was", "title": "Love Is Like a Rock" }, { "docid": "8313335", "text": "of the German football team Hannover 96, as Scorpions originated from the same city. The team formerly used the song as entrance music. The song is referenced in Dave Eggers' 2002 novel \"You Shall Know Our Velocity\", in which the main characters attempt to anonymously distribute money on a round the world trip by taping parcels containing cash and bearing the line \"Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane\" onto houses, animals and other objects. Band members Production Rock You Like a Hurricane \"Rock You Like a Hurricane\" is a song by German rock band Scorpions. The song was", "title": "Rock You Like a Hurricane" }, { "docid": "18761650", "text": "not a strict guideline, neither is it exhaustive): Other relevant elements: Excluded criteria: Like product A “like product” describes the particular relationship in international trade law between two goods that are produced by two different trading nations. This concept is the foundation of the two central principles of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) system as outlined in the \"General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1947\" (GATT): Most Favoured Nation (Article I) and National Treatment (Article III). If two products cannot be differentiated under the WTO system/GATT then the non-discrimination principle stipulates that a WTO trading member shall not discriminate between", "title": "Like product" }, { "docid": "10503473", "text": "The gospel version of \"Loves Me Like a Rock\" by the Dixie Hummingbirds reached number 72 on the \"Billboard\" R&B chart and won the group a Grammy for Best Soul Gospel performance in 1974. Paul Simon performed the song with the Muppets during his guest appearance on \"The Muppet Show\". Christopher Wheat released his rendition of \"Loves Me Like A Rock\" in 2015, recorded in the United Kingdom at the Limehouse Studios in London. Third Day covered \"Loves Me Like A Rock\" in 2017, recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, at the legendary FAME Studios. The Oak Ridge Boys provided backing", "title": "Loves Me Like a Rock" }, { "docid": "8479247", "text": "I Know What I Like \"I Know What I Like\" is a song performed by Huey Lewis and the News and released as a single from the album \"Fore!\" in 1987. The single peaked at number nine on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Like the earlier single, \"Hip to Be Square\", \"I Know What I Like\" featured background performances by then-San Francisco 49ers, Dwight Clark, Riki Ellison, Ronnie Lott, and Joe Montana. Upon the release of the album in 1986, \"I Know What I Like\" peaked at number 25 on the \"Billboard\" Album Rock Tracks chart in September 1986. When", "title": "I Know What I Like" }, { "docid": "17778470", "text": "less juvenile and slightly more interesting. 'Give You What You Like' begins with the words, 'Please wrap your drunken arms around me.' (At last, darker material!) This is a rather sleazy song, but it is way more interesting than the shallow stabs at teen pop. At least there is some sort of grit. It's not just a middle finger (referencing the album's opening track, \"Rock n Roll\").\" Sam Lansky of \"Idolator\" called the middle of the album (including \"Give You What You Like\") \"less-effective\", but praised \"Let Me Go\" and \"Give You What You Like\", writing that while \"Let Me", "title": "Give You What You Like" }, { "docid": "1620264", "text": "call and response format, with the speaker shouting \"Amandla\" and the crowd replying \"Awethu\". Power to the people (slogan) \"Power to the people\" is a cultural expression and political slogan that has been used in a wide variety of contexts. During the 1960s in the United States, young people began speaking and writing this phrase as a form of rebellion against what they perceived as the oppression by the older generation, especially The Establishment. The Black Panthers used the slogan \"All Power to the People\" to protest the rich, ruling class domination of society. Pro-democracy students used it to protest", "title": "Power to the people (slogan)" }, { "docid": "15781725", "text": "Black's choreography as \"racy,\" later complimenting Porcelain Black on her \"two-toned, Cruella De Vil-inspired coiffure.\" Porcelain Black walked down the runway in a camouflage corset designed by Falguni and Shane Peacock at the 2012 Spring Fashion Week, as her song played in the background. Her appearance there was used to promote the single. \"This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like\" appeared in the tenth episode of the eighth season of Beavis and Butthead. Expecting the duo to comment on the disparity between the song's title and its genre, R.L. Shaffer of \"IGN\" noticed that no such comparison was made;", "title": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" }, { "docid": "10503471", "text": "Loves Me Like a Rock \"Loves Me Like a Rock\" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the second single from his third studio album, \"There Goes Rhymin' Simon\" (1973), released on Columbia Records. It features background vocals from the Dixie Hummingbirds, a Southern black gospel group. Although the lyrics are not typically associated with gospel music, the Dixie Hummingbirds were eager to record the song with Simon, and they recorded their own version of the song soon afterward. The song peaked at number two on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100; it was also a top five", "title": "Loves Me Like a Rock" }, { "docid": "10503474", "text": "vocals for the track. Loves Me Like a Rock \"Loves Me Like a Rock\" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the second single from his third studio album, \"There Goes Rhymin' Simon\" (1973), released on Columbia Records. It features background vocals from the Dixie Hummingbirds, a Southern black gospel group. Although the lyrics are not typically associated with gospel music, the Dixie Hummingbirds were eager to record the song with Simon, and they recorded their own version of the song soon afterward. The song peaked at number two on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100; it was", "title": "Loves Me Like a Rock" }, { "docid": "5555006", "text": "\"Rock DJ\", in which the singer strips his skin off in graphic detail. Miller relegated the banning due to Madonna being a woman \"and the idea of a woman taking her aggression out on men is something the network can just not have. That's what is so disturbing. And that really is what it feels like for a girl\". Writing for the \"San Francisco Chronicle\", Neva Chonin accused the video for being a marketing ploy; \"Madonna knew [the video] would spark controversy and that MTV would probably ban it. Much fanfare and publicity, more record sales\". Nonetheless, she praised it", "title": "What It Feels Like for a Girl" }, { "docid": "16451454", "text": "on \"Billboard\"s survey in the day after the broadcast, most of which came from hourly airplay on stations owned by Clear Channel Communications. Feel Like a Rock Star \"Feel Like a Rock Star\" is a song written by Chris Tompkins and Rodney Clawson and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney as a duet with Tim McGraw. It was released in April 2012 as the first single from Chesney's 2012 album \"Welcome to the Fishbowl\". It is also Chesney’s last single to be released from BNA Records. Chesney recorded the song as a duet with McGraw and premiered it", "title": "Feel Like a Rock Star" }, { "docid": "16451451", "text": "Feel Like a Rock Star \"Feel Like a Rock Star\" is a song written by Chris Tompkins and Rodney Clawson and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney as a duet with Tim McGraw. It was released in April 2012 as the first single from Chesney's 2012 album \"Welcome to the Fishbowl\". It is also Chesney’s last single to be released from BNA Records. Chesney recorded the song as a duet with McGraw and premiered it at the Academy of Country Music Awards show, broadcast on April 1, 2012. The two toured together in mid-2012. Rodney Clawson and Chris", "title": "Feel Like a Rock Star" }, { "docid": "15295177", "text": "throughout the Midwest gaining a loyal following in those states. They won the Ernie Ball Warped Tour Battle of the Bands and played the Detroit date at Comerica Park, as well as opening up for nationals like Cavo, Mayday Parade, and Pop Evil, and Danko Jones at the sold out WWBN Banana Binge Before Christmas Show in 2010. The Product The Product is an Alternative Rock band based out of Goodells, Michigan. The Product formed in early 2009 with the original line-up of B.J. Perry, R.J. Perry, Rich Bennett and Jerome Reilly. Several months later the band parted ways with", "title": "The Product" }, { "docid": "1557119", "text": "Advertising slogan Advertising slogans are short phrases used in advertising campaigns to generate publicity and unify a company's marketing strategy. The phrases may be used to attract attention to a distinctive product feature or reinforce a company's brand. According to the 1913 Webster's Dictionary, a slogan () derives from the Gaelic \"sluagh-ghairm\" (an army cry). Its contemporary definition denotes a distinctive advertising motto or advertising phrase used by any entity to convey a purpose or ideal. This is also known as a catchphrase. Taglines or tags are American terms describing brief public communications to promote certain products and services. In", "title": "Advertising slogan" }, { "docid": "10266429", "text": "compositional brilliance, but Slade's consistent ability to suck you into their friendly carousing is impressive. It starts with the muscular riff of \"Love Is Like a Rock\" and never lets up through raspy Holder chorus after chorus.\" Doug Stone of \"AllMusic\" said in a retrospective review of the album: \"The raging opener \"Love Is Like a Rock,\" didn't fare any better commercially for the boyz than the tune did for awesome originators Donnie Iris and the Cruisers; this class cut remains an ace way to kick off the album because \"Love\" is, like, so Slade in the first place.\" Stone", "title": "Love Is Like a Rock" }, { "docid": "13011600", "text": "consisting of the duo of Glenn Gregory and Ware. Just Music - Naked as Advertised Naked as Advertised Naked as Advertised is the eighth studio album by the English synthpop band Heaven 17. It was originally released in 2008, on the label Just Music, three years after their previous album, \"Before After\". The album contained re-workings of tracks such as \"Temptation\" along with versions of Martyn Ware songs best known from his time with the Human League, including \"Being Boiled\" and \"Empire State Human\", as well as a cover of The Associates' hit \"Party Fears Two\". Following the departure of", "title": "Naked as Advertised" }, { "docid": "15321568", "text": "on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. \"I Know What Boys Like\" was released as a single from the album in 1982. VH1 named the song as the 82nd greatest one-hit wonder of all-time in 2002 as well as the 34th greatest one-hit wonder of the 1980s in 2009. I Know What Boys Like (song) \"I Know What Boys Like\" is a song written by guitarist Chris Butler in 1978, while he was still a member of the rock band Tin Huey. It was recorded by Butler and released as a single in 1980, but beyond some club success, it did not", "title": "I Know What Boys Like (song)" }, { "docid": "1620258", "text": "Power to the people (slogan) \"Power to the people\" is a cultural expression and political slogan that has been used in a wide variety of contexts. During the 1960s in the United States, young people began speaking and writing this phrase as a form of rebellion against what they perceived as the oppression by the older generation, especially The Establishment. The Black Panthers used the slogan \"All Power to the People\" to protest the rich, ruling class domination of society. Pro-democracy students used it to protest America's military campaign in Vietnam. In his 1974 book \"Computer Lib\", Ted Nelson connected", "title": "Power to the people (slogan)" }, { "docid": "8290282", "text": "\"What did you want, good grammar or good taste?\" \"I wanted to live a lot longer than this!\"). With the new slogan in wide use, \"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should\" was retired permanently in 1972. In 1981, actor James Garner claimed responsibility for the wording of the slogan during an interview with \"Playboy\" magazine. Garner, who narrated the original commercial, stated that his first action ever to be captured on film was to misread the line that had been provided to him. However, as noted above, the advertisements first appeared in print before their debut on television, which", "title": "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" }, { "docid": "5380229", "text": "What I Like About You (song) \"What I Like About You\" is a song by American rock band The Romantics. The song, written by Romantics members Wally Palmar, Mike Skill and Jimmy Marinos in 1979 is included on the band's self-titled debut album (1980), and was also released as a single. Marinos, the band's drummer, is the lead vocalist on the song. The band filmed a music video for the song that appeared frequently on MTV during the early 1980s. \"What I Like About You\" was written by Palmar, Marinos and Skill around a guitar part by Skill. The song's", "title": "What I Like About You (song)" }, { "docid": "10812732", "text": "Osiris Shoes video \"Feed the Need\" featured the \"With a Girl Like You\" (James Brockman's section). Part of the song was featured in a trailer for the 2013 film \"Warm Bodies\". The song was featured at the end of the \"\" season 9 episode \"The Real McCoy\", when Adam and his girlfriend are dancing. The song was featured on the \"Girls\" season 1 episode, \"Vagina Panic\". With a Girl Like You \"With a Girl like You\" is a song released by the English rock band the Troggs, written by Reg Presley and produced by Larry Page. The song reached number", "title": "With a Girl Like You" }, { "docid": "5554966", "text": "What It Feels Like for a Girl \"What It Feels Like for a Girl\" is a song recorded by American singer Madonna for her eighth studio album \"Music\" (2000). It was released as the third and final single from the album on April 17, 2001, by Maverick Records. Madonna and Guy Sigsworth wrote and produced the song with David Torn as co-writer, and Mark \"Spike\" Stent as a co-producer. \"What It Feels Like For a Girl\" is a mid-tempo electronic and synth-pop song, with filtered bass licks, tidal keys and pads as part of its instrumentation. Lyrically, it conveys society's", "title": "What It Feels Like for a Girl" }, { "docid": "15321567", "text": "I Know What Boys Like (song) \"I Know What Boys Like\" is a song written by guitarist Chris Butler in 1978, while he was still a member of the rock band Tin Huey. It was recorded by Butler and released as a single in 1980, but beyond some club success, it did not appear on any charts. When he formed the band The Waitresses, with Patty Donahue as lead vocalist, the band recorded the song for its debut album, \"Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?\", released by Polydor Records in 1981. This version peaked at number 62 the week of May 29, 1982", "title": "I Know What Boys Like (song)" }, { "docid": "1489969", "text": "Slogan A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a clan, political, commercial, religious, and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose, with the goal of persuading members of the public or a more defined target group. The \"Oxford Dictionary of English\" defines a slogan as \"a short and striking or memorable phrase used in advertising.\" A slogan usually has the attributes of being memorable, very concise and appealing to the audience. The word slogan is derived from \"slogorn\" which was an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic and Irish \"sluagh-ghairm\" (\"sluagh\" \"army\", \"host\" +", "title": "Slogan" }, { "docid": "8313333", "text": "for \"Blades of Glory\", \"The Iron Giant\", \"Human Weapon\", and \"Monsters vs. Aliens\". The song was featured at the end of the \"Scorpion\" episode, \"A Cyclone\". It was also used in \"The Simpsons Game\" at some points in the end of the game along with the credits. The song has been used in other video games including \"\" on the radio station V-Rock, \"\", \"\", and \"NHL 10\". \"Rock You Like a Hurricane\" is commonly played at sporting events, becoming an unofficial anthem for numerous teams, such as the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, Miami Hurricanes, Carolina Hurricanes, Buffalo Sabres (who use", "title": "Rock You Like a Hurricane" }, { "docid": "8923024", "text": "oven’s inclusion in \"30 Rock\" was widely seen as an example of product placement, especially as the product was later advertised during the commercial break. However, Tina Fey, the show’s creator and writer of the episode, stated the oven was actually included in the show purely as a joke and that GE had nothing to do with it, although she suspects, \"maybe somebody's taking credit for it.\" Allison Eckelkamp, a spokesperson for GE, confirmed this and says that GE chose to run ads for the oven during the commercial break to make sure viewers knew it was a real product,", "title": "Pilot (30 Rock)" }, { "docid": "16232925", "text": "\"If you take a step back from the powerful storyline, the music itself is classic Lita Ford, and that’s what really brings \"Living Like a Runaway\" over the top\". Living Like a Runaway Living Like a Runaway is the eighth studio album from American rock-musician Lita Ford, released in June 2012. This is the first album of Ford's to be released on SPV/Steamhammer Records. \"SPV gets who I am, my work, and what it takes to bring this project to life. I'm very excited to have them on my team,\" says Lita. The album was co-written and produced by rock", "title": "Living Like a Runaway" }, { "docid": "13011599", "text": "Naked as Advertised Naked as Advertised is the eighth studio album by the English synthpop band Heaven 17. It was originally released in 2008, on the label Just Music, three years after their previous album, \"Before After\". The album contained re-workings of tracks such as \"Temptation\" along with versions of Martyn Ware songs best known from his time with the Human League, including \"Being Boiled\" and \"Empire State Human\", as well as a cover of The Associates' hit \"Party Fears Two\". Following the departure of Ian Craig Marsh in 2007, this is the first Heaven 17 album with the band", "title": "Naked as Advertised" }, { "docid": "1489979", "text": "constitutes merely 7% of the received information. As a result, any slogan merely possesses a supportive task.\" (Rumšienė & Rumšas, 2014). Looking at a slogan as a supportive role to a brands image and portrayal is helpful to understand why advertisers need to be careful in how they construct their slogan, as it needs to mold with the other components of the brand image, being logo and name. For example, if a slogan was pushing towards \"environmentally friendly,\" yet the logo and name seemed to show very little concern for the environment, it would be harder for the brand to", "title": "Slogan" }, { "docid": "1489974", "text": "or \"straplines\" in the United Kingdom. Europeans use the terms \"baselines\", \"signatures\", \"claims\" or \"pay-offs\". \"Sloganeering\" is a mostly derogatory term for activity which degrades discourse to the level of slogans. Slogans are used to convey a message about the product, service or cause that it is representing. It can have a musical tone to it or written as a song. Slogans are often used to capture the attention of the audience it is trying to reach. If the slogan is used for commercial purposes, often it is written to be memorable/catchy in order for a consumer to associate the", "title": "Slogan" }, { "docid": "1489980", "text": "integrate these components into a successful brand image, as they would not integrate together towards a common image. Slogan A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a clan, political, commercial, religious, and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose, with the goal of persuading members of the public or a more defined target group. The \"Oxford Dictionary of English\" defines a slogan as \"a short and striking or memorable phrase used in advertising.\" A slogan usually has the attributes of being memorable, very concise and appealing to the audience. The word slogan is", "title": "Slogan" }, { "docid": "4885204", "text": "sympathy for each character's struggle through the phrase \"Then you really might know what it's like'. The cause of the first character's lifestyle as a beggar is presented as irrelevant. At the end of the music video for the song, all of the characters (along with other people) are crowded around a window. Behind the window, an idyllic family is having an enjoyable dinner, oblivious to the less fortunate who are outside. What It's Like \"What It's Like\" is a song by American musician Everlast. It was released in September 1998 as the lead single from his album \"Whitey Ford", "title": "What It's Like" }, { "docid": "5555014", "text": "number 125 on the UK Singles Chart. In his review of the soundtrack, Fraser McAlpine from BBC News felt that \"the decision to get all the boys to sing 'What It Feels Like for a Girl' is inspired, and represents a genuinely powerful musical moment that doesn't need the television show's plot to make it fly\". Credits adapted from liner notes of 12-inch single. What It Feels Like for a Girl \"What It Feels Like for a Girl\" is a song recorded by American singer Madonna for her eighth studio album \"Music\" (2000). It was released as the third and", "title": "What It Feels Like for a Girl" }, { "docid": "14910963", "text": "brightest of the nu-eyed-soul set\". What Did You Think Was Going to Happen? What Did You Think Was Going to Happen? is the debut studio album from Los Angeles band 2AM Club. It was released September 14, 2010 by RCA Records. On May 31, the band released a song named \"Baseline\" that was a bonus track on \"What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?\" (sold on iTunes). It was advertised by them via Twitter, and was available for free download through a file sharing website, Hulk Share. Matt Collar of Allmusic stated that with this album \"2AM Club reveal", "title": "What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?" }, { "docid": "14910962", "text": "What Did You Think Was Going to Happen? What Did You Think Was Going to Happen? is the debut studio album from Los Angeles band 2AM Club. It was released September 14, 2010 by RCA Records. On May 31, the band released a song named \"Baseline\" that was a bonus track on \"What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?\" (sold on iTunes). It was advertised by them via Twitter, and was available for free download through a file sharing website, Hulk Share. Matt Collar of Allmusic stated that with this album \"2AM Club reveal themselves as the best and", "title": "What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?" }, { "docid": "11079953", "text": "Rock Like War Rock Like War is a song by Rustic Overtones that appears on the band's 2007 studio album Light at the End. \"Rock Like War\" was first premiered by the band on July 26, 1998 at a performance at the State Theater in Portland, Maine, along with a half-dozen other new songs. The song entered the band's normal rotation of live songs that appeared on their set lists, although they left the song off both 1998's Rooms by the Hour and 2001's Viva Nueva! When the band broke up in 2002, the song still remained unrecorded and was", "title": "Rock Like War" }, { "docid": "5380234", "text": "footage from the group's performance at The Forum near Los Angeles, as well behind-the-scenes clips and shots of the audience. What I Like About You (song) \"What I Like About You\" is a song by American rock band The Romantics. The song, written by Romantics members Wally Palmar, Mike Skill and Jimmy Marinos in 1979 is included on the band's self-titled debut album (1980), and was also released as a single. Marinos, the band's drummer, is the lead vocalist on the song. The band filmed a music video for the song that appeared frequently on MTV during the early 1980s.", "title": "What I Like About You (song)" }, { "docid": "8313331", "text": "video in heavy rotation. In 2006, VH1 named \"Rock You Like a Hurricane\" number 31 on their 40 Greatest Metal Songs and in 2009 it was named the 18th greatest hard rock song of all time also by VH1. On 15 November 2010 it was named the number 4 best riff of the '80s. The racetrack depicted on the single's sleeve corresponds to the Circuito Permanente de Jerez, located in Spain. A new version was recorded in 2000 as \"Hurricane 2000\" on the album \"Moment of Glory\", featuring Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra backing the track. In the same way, it was", "title": "Rock You Like a Hurricane" }, { "docid": "2911171", "text": "two options in 1954, when a famous ad campaign for Winston cigarettes introduced the slogan \"Winston tastes good — like a cigarette should.\" The slogan was criticized for its usage by prescriptivists, the \"as\" construction being considered more proper. Winston countered with another ad, featuring a woman with greying hair in a bun who insists that ought to be \"Winston tastes good \"as\" a cigarette should\" and is shouted down by happy cigarette smokers asking \"What do you want — good grammar or good taste?\" The appropriateness of its usage as a conjunction is still disputed, however. In some circles", "title": "Like" }, { "docid": "5554972", "text": "directed by Andrew Birkin, in which the voice of actress Charlotte Gainsbourg speaks softly, \"Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots. 'Cause it's OK to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading. 'Cause \"you\" think that \"being\" a girl is degrading. But secretly you'd love to know what it's like... Wouldn't you? What it feels like for a girl\". Madonna listened to the phrase uttered by Gainsbourg and started writing the song and the melody, resulting in \"What It Feels Like for a Girl\", a track described", "title": "What It Feels Like for a Girl" }, { "docid": "18660879", "text": "What Was Before What Was Before () is a 2010 novel by the German writer Martin Mosebach. Through a series of vignettes, it tells the story of a man from the affluent suburbs of Frankfurt, who is asked by his girlfriend what his life was like before they met. An English translation by Kári Driscoll was published in 2014. \"Publishers Weekly\" wrote: \"Mosebach's charming, exuberant narrator is not be trusted, and the novel calls into question our notions of memory. Mosebach's writing is florid, tinged with a biting wit. ... Irreverent, playful, and intricate, Mosebach's book is a deconstruction of", "title": "What Was Before" }, { "docid": "18660880", "text": "how we choose to tell stories.\" What Was Before What Was Before () is a 2010 novel by the German writer Martin Mosebach. Through a series of vignettes, it tells the story of a man from the affluent suburbs of Frankfurt, who is asked by his girlfriend what his life was like before they met. An English translation by Kári Driscoll was published in 2014. \"Publishers Weekly\" wrote: \"Mosebach's charming, exuberant narrator is not be trusted, and the novel calls into question our notions of memory. Mosebach's writing is florid, tinged with a biting wit. ... Irreverent, playful, and intricate,", "title": "What Was Before" }, { "docid": "3703477", "text": "began a similar copycat advertising campaign in Ireland stating that its product \"does exactly what it says on the tube\". The phrase is a registered trademark of the Sherwin-Williams Company, the owner of Ronseal, across the European Community for products including paints, varnishes, and wood preservatives (E3085826). In 2007, a song titled \"What It Says on the Tin\" was released by the British singer Katie Melua. Although the song is about relationships, the phrase has a similar meaning. Does exactly what it says on the tin \"It does exactly what it says on the tin\" was originally an advertising slogan", "title": "Does exactly what it says on the tin" }, { "docid": "1489973", "text": "another factor that had a positive effect on the likability of a slogan. Lastly, leaving the brand name out of the slogan will have a positive effect on the likability of the brand itself. Advertisers must keep into consideration these factors when creating a slogan for a brand, as it clearly shows a brand is a very valuable asset to a company, with the slogan being one of the three main components to a brands' image. The original usage refers to the usage as a clan motto among Highland clans. Marketing slogans are often called \"taglines\" in the United States", "title": "Slogan" }, { "docid": "5554981", "text": "its nature. Lyrically, \"What It Feels Like for a Girl\" condemns male chauvinism by addressing hurtful myths about female inferiority and female role-playing in society, with the singer inviting men to imagine themselves as girls. Initially planned to be the album's second single, \"What It Feels Like for a Girl\" was eventually released as the album's third single on April 17, 2001. Upon release, several remixes were commissioned, created by Above & Beyond, Victor Calderone, Richard \"Humpty\" Vission, Paul Oakenfold and Tracy Young. The \"Velvet Masta Mix\", created by Richard Vission, gave the song a bass-heavy intro and a funkier", "title": "What It Feels Like for a Girl" }, { "docid": "10812731", "text": "With a Girl Like You \"With a Girl like You\" is a song released by the English rock band the Troggs, written by Reg Presley and produced by Larry Page. The song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 4 August 1966, where it remained for two weeks. In the U.S., it peaked at #29 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The song is featured, uncut, in a school dance scene from the 1991 Nicole Kidman/Noah Taylor film, \"Flirting\". It is also featured in the films and/or soundtracks to \"Shine\", \"The Good Night\" and \"The Boat That Rocked\". The", "title": "With a Girl Like You" }, { "docid": "9329080", "text": "Great Idea!\" is also utilized as a promotional vehicle to capture the imagination of home shopping channels' executive decision-makers, who often study the show for new product leads. Many of the products that debut on this program eventually launch nationwide on one of the many shop-at-home television networks. Just like HSN and QVC programs, \"What a Great Idea!\" offers a call-in number, where interested members of the viewing audience can order the product directly to their home. Some of the items showcased on the program include fitness DVDs, beverage coolers, educational items for children, and health products. \"What a Great", "title": "What a Great Idea!" }, { "docid": "15781721", "text": "video as revenge. She stated: It was about getting revenge. People were always hating on me, because I was different. I was like, \"I'm going to sing, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that,\" they were like \"OK, sure you are.\" And I was like \"No, I'm serious. This is what I'm going to do.\" And everybody was like, \"Yeah right.\" Even when I told everyone I was moving to LA to do music and had a going away party, only one person showed up, because no one believed that I was really going away. They were", "title": "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" }, { "docid": "2056674", "text": "crowd roared like a lion,\" \"A lot of people met the band,\" or \"The band got down like a Magikist\". Many songs end with the phrase \"Rock over London, rock on, Chicago,\" followed by a product slogan, such as \"Wheaties. Breakfast of Champions\" or \"Blockbuster. Wow! What a difference.\" Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote that despite Willis' prolific output his songs were essentially variations on the same simple structure, melody and lyrical themes. He also questioned record company motives for releasing albums by Willis: \"It's certainly admirable that Willis has decided to not be tied down by his", "title": "Wesley Willis" }, { "docid": "13380537", "text": "It Was Almost Like a Song (album) It Was Almost Like a Song is the eighth studio album by country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in 1977 by RCA Records. The album produced two #1 hits for Milsap, including the title track, which marked his debut on the Adult Contemporary chart, peaking at #7 and reaching #16 on the Billboard 100. \"What a Difference You've Made in My Life,\" was the other #1 single, it was re-recorded for his 2009 album \"Then Sings My Soul.\" \"It Was Almost Like a Song\" reached #3 on Country album charts and", "title": "It Was Almost Like a Song (album)" }, { "docid": "1489978", "text": "is essential to the cause. The slogan can be used to raise awareness about a current cause; one way is to do so is by showing the truth that the cause is supporting. A slogan should be clear with a supporting message. Slogans, when combined with action, can provide an influential foundation for a cause to be seen by its intended audience. Slogans, whether used for advertising purpose or social causes, deliver a message to the public that shapes the audiences' opinion towards the subject of the slogan. \"It is well known that the text a human hears or reads", "title": "Slogan" }, { "docid": "6528922", "text": "Do What U Like \"Do What U Like\" is the debut single by English boy band Take That. It was released on 12 July 1991 as the lead single from their debut studio album, \"Take That & Party\" (1992). The song was written by Gary Barlow and Ray Hedges, and it was produced by Hedges with additional production by Graham Stack. \"Do What U Like\" was released on 15 July 1991 as the lead single from Take That's debut album \"Take That & Party\" (1992). The single was released on then-manager Nigel Martin-Smith's record label Dance U.K. and was a", "title": "Do What U Like" }, { "docid": "16566926", "text": "been able to officially make clear the relationship in the series itself. The episode was first physically released as part of the 2013 \"Fionna & Cake\" DVD, which included 16 episodes from the series' second, third, and fourth seasons. It was later re-released as part of the complete third season DVD in February 2014. In addition, the 2015 limited edition 12\" vinyl record release \"Marceline the Vampire Queen Rock the Nightosphere\" included \"I'm Just Your Problem\" alongside other songs sung by Marceline. What Was Missing \"What Was Missing\" is the tenth episode of the third season of the American animated", "title": "What Was Missing" }, { "docid": "5994386", "text": "(an all purpose cleaner, a bathroom cleaner, and a window cleaner), well known in Australia and New Zealand, are among market leaders. When Ajax was first released in 1947, the commercial for the product was produced by Shamus Culhane. The original Ajax powder slogan was \"Stronger than dirt!\", a reference to the muscular hero Ajax of Greek mythology. Some Ajax dish soaps now feature the trademarked slogan \"Stronger than grease!\" which may be a pun on \"Greece.\" Another early slogan was \"Ajax... the foaming cleanser!\" The first slogan was used again for Ajax Laundry Detergent when introduced in the beginning", "title": "Ajax (cleaning product)" }, { "docid": "19027949", "text": "Garage Beat '66 Volume 1: Like What, Me Worry?! Garage Beat '66 Volume 1: Like What, Me Worry?! is the first installment in the Garage Beat '66 series of garage rock compilations issued by Sundazed Records, which is available exclusively on compact disc. It features well-researched liner notes, written by recognized garage rock authorities, which supply background information about each song and act, often including photographs of the bands. Like all of the entries in the series it is noted for good sound quality, as all of the tracks are mastered from the original studio master sources. The set opens", "title": "Garage Beat '66 Volume 1: Like What, Me Worry?!" }, { "docid": "8234793", "text": "of \"The Song & the Slogan\" is taken from Sandburg's \"The Road and the End\" (1916). Solo voice and piano alone mark a stark contrast from the beginning section as the narration turns introspective and solemn. The final section of the work is the \"slogan,\" reflects Sandburg's writings on Abraham Lincoln. The piece ends with the piano chord of \"the prairie\" while the instruments replay their individual phrases. The world premiere of \"The Song & the Slogan\" took place on November 14, 2000, at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The production", "title": "The Song and The Slogan" }, { "docid": "6728325", "text": "Product feed A product feed or product data feed is a file made up of a list of products and attributes of those products organized so that each product can be displayed, advertised or compared in a unique way. A product feed typically contains a product image, title, product identifier, marketing copy, and product attributes. Product feeds supply the content that is presented on many kinds of e-commerce websites such as search engines, price comparison websites, affiliate networks, and other similar aggregators of e-commerce information. Product data feeds are generated by manufacturers, online retailers and, in some cases, product information", "title": "Product feed" }, { "docid": "17778465", "text": "Give You What You Like \"Give You What You Like\" is a song recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne from her self-titled fifth studio album released in 2013. It was written by Lavigne with her husband Chad Kroeger and David Hodges. The song has been praised by critics for expanding Lavigne's musical diversity and exposing her to new genres of music and is the sixth track on the album. Musically, \"Give You What You Like\" is a folk-pop song with lyrics that describe combating loneliness through swapping sex. On 30 March 2014, Lavigne confirmed that \"Give You What You Like\"", "title": "Give You What You Like" }, { "docid": "19322953", "text": "listed it at number 18 out of the year's 20 best and wrote, \"Stefani has never sounded more vulnerable than she does on \"This Is What the Truth Feels Like\", a vivid assortment of urgent, top 40 goods\". Notes Credits adapted from the liner notes of the international deluxe edition of \"This Is What the Truth Feels Like\". Musicians Technical Artwork This Is What the Truth Feels Like This Is What the Truth Feels Like is the third studio album by American singer Gwen Stefani. It was released on March 18, 2016, by Interscope Records. Initially, the album was scheduled", "title": "This Is What the Truth Feels Like" }, { "docid": "1357620", "text": "contains the line \"I'd like to buy the world a Coke\" and repeats \"It's the real thing\", which was Coca-Cola's marketing slogan at the time. Coca Cola introduced that slogan in October 1969. Several versions of the ad have been made. In 2007, \"Campaign\" magazine called it \"one of the best-loved and most influential ads in TV history\". It served as a milestone—the first instance of the recording industry's involvement with advertising. Marketing analysts have noted Coca-Cola's strategy of marrying the idea of happiness and universal love of the product illustrated by the song. The commercial has continued receiving accolades", "title": "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" }, { "docid": "8234791", "text": "Sandburg’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of 103 poems, \"Cornhuskers\", published in 1918. Opening with \"“I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of its women, gave me a song and a slogan,”\" the narrator offers a vivid description of the prairie land with its lively stories. The prairie itself is also given voice: \"“The prairie sings to me in the forenoon and I know in the night I rest easy in the prairie arms, on the prairie heart.”\"\"Illinois Farmer also appears in \"Cornhuskers\". \"The Song & the Slogan\" begins with", "title": "The Song and The Slogan" }, { "docid": "10266428", "text": "Hill said of the song: \"This track is a cover of an American song which Jim thought sounded a bit like us in its original format. Jim suggested that it would fit in nicely to the current mould of Bon Jovi/Europe. Roy also liked the song, so we got him to produce it. It's got an up-tempo American feel to it.\" In a review of \"You Boyz Make Big Noize\", an American review from \"Guitar\" magazine highlighted \"Love Is Like a Rock\" as one of three of the album's 'hot spots' and stated \"No one will ever mistake this for", "title": "Love Is Like a Rock" }, { "docid": "8234789", "text": "The Song and The Slogan The Song & the Slogan was composed by Daniel Steven Crafts in 1996, on commission from the late opera tenor Jerry Hadley. It sets to music sections of Carl Sandburg’s 1918 prose poem “Prairie” with excerpts from other Sandburg poems chosen by Hadley. The piece premiered in 2000 and was later made into a TV program for Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television. The poem “Illinois Farmer” (which Hadley later called a depiction of his father) was set separately as a song and used as an encore at the premiere. In 2003, the production was", "title": "The Song and The Slogan" }, { "docid": "8438965", "text": "prove to his critics that he could interpret a song differently from Gabriel, having been previously dismissed in his career as a Gabriel clone. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) \"I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)\" was the first charting single by the rock band Genesis. It was drawn from their 1973 album \"Selling England by the Pound\". The single was released in the UK in February 1974, and became a minor hit in April 1974, when it reached number 21 in the UK Singles Chart. The song's lyrics concern a young man who is employed", "title": "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" } ]
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Which famous bodybuilder advertised his ability to transform a "97 pound weakling" into a muscle man?
[ "The Insult that Made a Man out of Mac", "Angelo Siciliano", "97-pound weakling", "Charles Atlas" ]
[ { "docid": "2865208", "text": "the age of 89. The famous Charles Atlas print advertisements became iconic mostly because they were printed in cartoon form from the 1930s on, and in many comic books from the 1940s onwards – in fact continuing long after Atlas' death. The typical scenario, usually expressed in comic strip form, presented a skinny young man (usually accompanied by a female companion) being threatened by a bully. The bully pushes down the \"97-pound weakling\" and the girlfriend joins in the derision. The young man goes home, gets angry (usually demonstrated by his kicking a chair), and sends away for the free", "title": "Charles Atlas" }, { "docid": "1750081", "text": "a book written by Peter Henshaw, a \"muscle car\" is \"a product of the American car industry adhering to the hot rodder's philosophy of taking a small car and putting a large-displacement engine in it. The Muscle Car is Charles Atlas kicking sand in the face of the 98 horsepower weakling.\" Henshaw further asserts that the muscle car was designed for straight-line speed, and did not have the \"sophisticated chassis\", \"engineering integrity\", or \"lithe appearance\" of European high-performance cars. In the United States, lightweight cars featuring high-performance engines were termed \"supercar\" before the classification of muscle car became popular. For", "title": "Muscle car" }, { "docid": "2865200", "text": "on top of a hotel in Coney Island and legally changed his name in 1922. He marketed his first bodybuilding course with health and fitness writer Dr. Frederick Tilney in November 1922. The duo ran the company out of Tilney's home for the first six months. In 1929, Tilney sold his half of the business to advertising man Charles P. Roman and moved to Florida, until his death in 1972. Charles Atlas Ltd. was founded in 1929 and, as of 2015, continues to market a fitness program for the \"97-pound weakling\" (44 kg). The company is now owned by Jeffrey", "title": "Charles Atlas" }, { "docid": "2865199", "text": "Charles Atlas Charles Atlas (born Angelo Siciliano; October 30, 1892 – December 24, 1972) was an Italian-American bodybuilder best remembered as the developer of a bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program which spawned a landmark advertising campaign featuring his name and likeness; it has been described as one of the longest-lasting and most memorable ad campaigns of all time. Atlas trained himself to develop his body from that of a \"scrawny weakling\", eventually becoming the most popular bodybuilder of his day. He took the name \"Charles Atlas\" after a friend told him that he resembled the statue of Atlas", "title": "Charles Atlas" } ]
[ { "docid": "6194827", "text": "offends Daffy as he considers himself a \"scrawny little ten pound weakling.\" Daffy tries to win back his girl and takes some muscle tonic, bought from a glad-handed traveling salesman who happens to be nearby, which he thinks has made him as strong as the muscle-bound duck. Daffy repeatedly falls short in his attempts to demonstrate his strength, but through a fluke (and one of the salesman's props, a \"five thousand-pound\" barbell), manages to dispatch his rival in the end. The muscle-bound duck lifts the \"barbell\" which sends him rocketing thousands of feet into the air. When he plummets back", "title": "Muscle Tussle" }, { "docid": "6194826", "text": "He replies that he'll bob Daffy so hard he'll have to open his vest to eat if he says one more word. Daffy takes the threat as a joke, and the muscle-bound duck proceeds to hit Daffy so hard that his head sinks into his stomach. In a daze, Daffy orders \"One cheeseburger, hold the onions\". Melissa urges Daffy to fight back, but he backs off and instead attempts to curry favor with the larger duck. Disgusted by his cowardice, Melissa goes off with the muscle-bound duck and bids Daffy farewell, calling him a \"scrawny little nine pound weakling\" which", "title": "Muscle Tussle" }, { "docid": "8278678", "text": "Weakling Weakling was an American black metal band from San Francisco. The band never toured and released only one album, \"Dead as Dreams\", recorded in 1998 and released on Tumult Records in 2000. The name Weakling, according to founding member John Gossard, came from the title of a song by the band Swans from their album \"Filth\". Weakling was initially started by guitarist John Gossard and guitarist/drum programmer Robert Williams of Ubzub. The two ended up releasing an early version of \"No One Can be Called As A Man While He'll Die\" on a compilation tape Wintergrief released by Nahitfol", "title": "Weakling" }, { "docid": "14029445", "text": "Muscle & Fitness, Iron Man, Muscle Mag International, Flex Magazine Pearson was known to have the best shoulder to Waist ratio in bodybuilding. Tony Pearson (bodybuilder) Tony Pearson (born January 11, 1957 in Memphis, Tennessee) grew up in St. Louis, Missouri is an American bodybuilding champion. His bodybuilding championships include individual and couples competitions. Tony Pearson was born the second youngest of eight children (five girls and three boys). His mother, Daisy Pearson, was a stay at home mom and his father, Sam Pearson, worked as an ice and coal delivery man. Tony grew up during the civil rights era", "title": "Tony Pearson (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "8278682", "text": "Gossard went on to join established funeral doom outfit Asunder, and formed a second black metal band, Dispirit, in the wake of Asunder's dissolution. Keyboardist Casey Ward currently plays drums in The Husbands. Drummer Sam Foster currently plays drums for death metal band Saros. Although Weakling has never officially announced a split, they broke up in 1999. Weakling Weakling was an American black metal band from San Francisco. The band never toured and released only one album, \"Dead as Dreams\", recorded in 1998 and released on Tumult Records in 2000. The name Weakling, according to founding member John Gossard, came", "title": "Weakling" }, { "docid": "8010136", "text": "muscle – an injury from September 2003 which would eventually force him to temporarily retire from bodybuilding. Since 2014 Alexander is back to professional bodybuilding and does actively training now. Alexander currently resides in Russia with his wife Natalia, his daughter Veronica and his two young baby-twins. Aleksandr Fyodorov (bodybuilder) Alexander Fyodorov () (born May 6, 1978) is a retired IFBB professional bodybuilder. Fyodorov earned his IFBB Pro Card after winning the 2003 IFBB European Amateur Championships. After competing in various Russian and other European professional bodybuilding competitions in 2003 and 2004 where he earned two top 3 finishes, including", "title": "Aleksandr Fyodorov (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "5848839", "text": "at the Mr. Olympia. In 2012, Cutler was unable to compete at the Mr. Olympia due to a biceps injury. Cutler competed in the 2013 Olympia and placed 6th. Cutler has since focused on his business venture, Cutler Nutrition, which specializes in bodybuilding nutritional supplements, in addition to his social media presence. Cutler resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has been featured on the cover of several fitness magazines such as \"Muscle and Fitness\", \"Flex\", and \"Muscular Development\". Jay Cutler (bodybuilder) Jason Isaac \"Jay\" Cutler (born August 3, 1973) is an American IFBB professional bodybuilder. He is a four-time Mr.", "title": "Jay Cutler (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "16447717", "text": "A Nightmare A Nightmare (French: Le cauchemar) is a short silent trick film created and released in 1896 and directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 82 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a \"scène fantastique\". The film was shot outside in the garden of Méliès's property in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, with painted scenery. Méliès plays the sleeping man. A man attempting tosses and turns in his sleep, and is visited by various visions which transform into each other, including a girl clad only in a sheet, a minstrel wearing blackface,", "title": "A Nightmare" }, { "docid": "2502828", "text": "several fibroblasts can be attached to a cardiomyocyte at once. When attached to a cardiomyocyte they can influence the electrical currents passing across the muscle cell's surface membrane, and in the context are referred to as being electrically coupled. Other potential roles for fibroblasts include electrical insulation of the cardiac conduction system, and the ability to transform into other cell types including cardiomyocytes and adipocytes. Continuing the analogy of heart muscle as being like a wall, the extracellular matrix is the mortar which surrounds the cardiomyocyte and fibroblasts bricks. The matrix is composed of proteins such as collagen and elastin", "title": "Cardiac muscle" }, { "docid": "8010262", "text": "David Henry (bodybuilder) David Henry (born February 24, 1975 in Denver, Colorado) is an American International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) professional bodybuilder. Henry is a Master Sgt. (E-7) in the United States Air Force. He lives in Tucson, Arizona. At age 17, David started training with weights for his track & field events and competed his first bodybuilding competition, the Team Muscle Tech Challenge, where he won. His first National Physique Committee (NPC) competition was in the 2001 NPC Nationals, where he placed 11th in the middleweight division. His first IFBB competition was the Florida Pro Xtreme Challenge of 2004,", "title": "David Henry (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "5998361", "text": "Mary Roberts (bodybuilder) Mary Roberts was one of the top professional female bodybuilders of the 1980s. She possessed a classic short (5-3), thick physique featuring an overwhelming upper body even as a lightweight. Roberts big arms, deltoids and chest with her mature looks and flashing, almost challenging dark eyes projected a very powerful, confident aura onstage. A three-page photospread in Muscle & Fitness magazine's September 1982 issue on various female bodybuilder physique types used Roberts, doing a side chest pose in a blue leotard, to epitomize the most heavily muscled physique. The copy quoted famed male bodybuilder Casey Viator as", "title": "Mary Roberts (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "16214607", "text": "A Man Walks Into a Bar... \"A Man Walks Into a Bar...\" is the 14th episode in the eighth season, and the 176th overall episode, of the American crime drama television series \"NCIS\". It first aired on CBS in the United States on February 8, 2011. The episode is written by Gary Glasberg and directed by James Whitmore, Jr., and was seen by 20.35 million viewers. In the episode, a naval commander is found dead in his rack aboard ship, apparently murdered. The NCIS team investigates while having to deal with mandatory psychological evaluations conducted by Dr. Rachel Cranston, who", "title": "A Man Walks Into a Bar..." }, { "docid": "16963374", "text": "One Pound Fish Man Muhammad Shahid Nazir (Urdu, ; born 1981), also known as the One Pound Fish Man (sometimes stylised as £1 Fish Man), is a Pakistani trader and recording artist who found fame as an internet sensation for his viral video \"One Pound Fish\". His subsequent appearance on \"The X Factor\" led to a record deal with Warner Music. Nazir was born in the town of Pattoki, near Lahore in Punjab, Pakistan. He grew up listening to Bollywood and Punjabi music, and would sing religious songs during assembly at school. Prior to emigrating to the United Kingdom for", "title": "One Pound Fish Man" }, { "docid": "16040023", "text": "Man Walks Into a Room Man Walks Into a Room, published in the United States by Doubleday on May 1, 2002, is the first novel by American writer Nicole Krauss. Set in 1957 and the present day, the novel, which is a meditation on memory and personal history, solitude and intimacy, tells the story of Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, who is found wandering in the Nevada desert with no memory of his previous life. Samson Greene is found wandering in the Nevada desert and is identified by the ID in his wallet as he", "title": "Man Walks Into a Room" }, { "docid": "8016577", "text": "Chris Cook (bodybuilder) Chris Cook is an American IFBB professional bodybuilder. Chris Cook's first bodybuilding competition was in 1996, where he placed 1st in the heavy weight division and Overall in the NPC (National Physique Committee) Mr. Anchorage. His first IFBB event was in The New York Cup of 2005, where he placed 6th. In 2006 he competed in the Arnold Classic and the Ironman Pro Invitational, both for the first time, and placed 15th and 10th respectively. Chris Cook has been featured in many fitness and bodybuilding articles, including being featured on the cover of FLEX magazine, Muscle and", "title": "Chris Cook (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "2865210", "text": "copyrighted in 1932 included \"Battle Fought in Bed that made Fred a He-Man!\", \"Insult that Made a Man out of Mac\", and \"Let Me Give You a Body that Men Respect and Women Admire!\". Slogans copyrighted the following year included \"97 pound weakling... Who became the World's Most Perfectly Developed Man\", and \"Just Seven Days that's All I Need\". In this, the full-length version, the protagonist, \"Mac,\" is accosted on the beach by a sand-kicking bully while his date watches. Humiliated, the young man goes home and, after kicking a chair and gambling a three-cent stamp, subscribes to Atlas's \"Dynamic-Tension\"", "title": "Charles Atlas" }, { "docid": "16988808", "text": "Hooked: Muscle Women Hooked: Muscle Women was a 2008 MSNBC documentary focused on professional female bodybuilding. The primary focuses of the documentary is on two International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) pro bodybuilders, Colette Nelson and Kristy Hawkins and their competing in the 2008 Ms. International. The documentary also features Teresita Morales a World Natural Bodybuilding Federation (WNBF) pro natural female bodybuilder who competes in the 2008 World Championships. Kristy Hawkins, of Pasadena, California, is a 27-year-old professional female bodybuilder. Since she was 17 years old, she had competed as an amateur bodybuilder. In November 2007, she won the light-heavyweight and", "title": "Hooked: Muscle Women" }, { "docid": "16214618", "text": "\"lost scene\"-competition about an unseen scene between Tony and Kate up on a roof, taken from the episode \"An Eye for an Eye\" in season 2. The episode received positive reviews from critics and fans. Steve Marsi from TV Fanatic stated that \"I had my doubts about the premise of this episode from the get-go, but the writers again deserve credit for turning what could have been cliched filler into excellent TV\". A Man Walks Into a Bar... \"A Man Walks Into a Bar...\" is the 14th episode in the eighth season, and the 176th overall episode, of the American", "title": "A Man Walks Into a Bar..." }, { "docid": "16963378", "text": "Pakistani national television as he had gained huge popularity in his own country after the song and that he would be able to see his family before returning to the United Kingdom. His agent, Samir Ahmed, said: \"He will be returning to Pakistan and will be celebrating New Year with his family. His return to the UK is pending approval of a working visa. We fully expect him to return in the coming weeks\". One Pound Fish Man Muhammad Shahid Nazir (Urdu, ; born 1981), also known as the One Pound Fish Man (sometimes stylised as £1 Fish Man), is", "title": "One Pound Fish Man" }, { "docid": "16214616", "text": "This is the first episode to feature clips of all the main characters (except Emily Wickersham's character Ellie Bishop, who joined the cast in season 11) in the series, and it introduces Dr. Rachel Cranston as a new recurring character on the show. The title of the episode refer to the joke about a man who walks into a bar, and the response from the bartender. \"Responses\" in different situations is another big part of this episode, shown in flashbacks from the characters' own history of the show. \"A Man Walks Into a Bar...\" was seen by 20.35 million live", "title": "A Man Walks Into a Bar..." }, { "docid": "13409221", "text": "a number of flamboyant characters including an American boxer, a British female bodybuilder, a top hat wearing Spaniard, a Norwegian polar bear, a Ghanaian bodybuilder with an afro and a rubber ducky on top, a Russian bodybuilder with a mohawk and headphones, and a Japanese bodybuilder with goofy goggles and a topknot. The game features the standard arcade mode and a time attack mode that sees players trying to survive for as long as possible against increasingly faster speeds. \"Muscle March\" is based on an unreleased arcade game of the same name. Instead of the motion detecting controls in the", "title": "Muscle March" }, { "docid": "10673443", "text": "Muscle worship Muscle worship (also called sthenolagnia) is a form of body worship in which one participant, the worshiper, touches the muscles of another participant, the dominant, in a sexually arousing manner. The practice of muscle worship can involve various wrestling holds and lifts, as well as the rubbing, massaging, kissing, or licking of a dominant's body. Although muscle worship participants may be of any gender or sexual orientation, the dominant (often a professional bodybuilder, fitness competitor, or wrestler), is almost always an individual with either a large body size or a high degree of visible muscle mass, while the", "title": "Muscle worship" }, { "docid": "16988812", "text": "which is why dating a bodybuilder who is equally hooked on building muscle makes a relationship easier. Colette Nelson is a 33-year-old professional female bodybuilder. She has been competing as a bodybuilder since she was 19 years old. At the age of 12 years, she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Her doctor told her that he would start her on insulin and she has to exercise to keep her blood pressure under control. In high school, she became obsessed with exercise, teaching up to 20 aerobics classes a week. In college, she started weight lifting and fell in love", "title": "Hooked: Muscle Women" }, { "docid": "15402449", "text": "On April 8, Muscle lost to Punishment in a rematch. Following losses in both singles and tag team matches, Czawlytko left MCW in mid-October and wrestled his final match on January 29, 2000, when he resumed his Maxx ring name as he defeated Felony in a match for Xtreme Pro Wrestling. Max Muscle John Czawlytko (born February 22, 1963) is an American former professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in World Championship Wrestling under the ring names Max Muscle and Maxx. After a career as a bodybuilder, Czawlytko began training to become a professional wrestler. Following his", "title": "Max Muscle" }, { "docid": "7703773", "text": "Marx's terminology), the Soviet Union adapted the formula as: \"From each according to his ability, to each according to his work (labour investment)\". While liberation theology has sought to interpret the Christian call for justice in a way that is in harmony with this Marxist dictum, many have noted that Jesus' teaching in the \"Parable of the Talents\" (Matthew 25:14–30) affirms only \"TO each according to his ability\" (Matt. 25:15), and not \"FROM each according to his ability\". From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs \"From each according to his ability, to each according to", "title": "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" }, { "docid": "16040025", "text": "Lana, who has temporarily moved to attend film school at UCLA. He receives a call from Dr. Ray Malcolm who invites him to come to Los Angeles and be a part of his experimental procedures. While in Los Angeles being tested Samson meets Donald, a man who is working with Ray and his team so that they can extract one of his memories. After Donald's memory is extracted Samson agrees to be the first subject to have a memory transferred into his brain. When the procedure succeeds he is left with violent images of nuclear weapons testing which upset him", "title": "Man Walks Into a Room" }, { "docid": "19468180", "text": "In for a Penny, In for a Pound In for a Penny, In for a Pound is an album composed by Henry Threadgill for his jazz quintet Zooid, featuring Jose Davila, Liberty Ellman, Christopher Hoffman, and Elliot Humberto Kavee. It was released by Pi Recordings and was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music. \"In for a Penny, In for a Pound\" was composed by Henry Threadgill and recorded by his band, Zooid. The album, which is a two-disc suite, is composed of six tracks. Threadgill composed a concerto-like piece for each of his band members. However, the album includes", "title": "In for a Penny, In for a Pound" }, { "docid": "16040028", "text": "from Susan Sontag and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The movie rights to the novel were optioned by Richard Gere. Man Walks Into a Room Man Walks Into a Room, published in the United States by Doubleday on May 1, 2002, is the first novel by American writer Nicole Krauss. Set in 1957 and the present day, the novel, which is a meditation on memory and personal history, solitude and intimacy, tells the story of Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, who is found wandering in the Nevada desert with no", "title": "Man Walks Into a Room" }, { "docid": "14029436", "text": "I think I can make you a champion.\" Over the next few months he packed on twenty pounds of muscle and six months later Tony told his trainer that he was leaving. In 1976, at the age of nineteen, Pearson moved to California to fulfill his dream of becoming a professional bodybuilder. After arriving in Los Angeles he was homeless for a period of time. After getting on his feet, the young Pearson ventured to the \"Mecca of bodybuilding\", Gold's Gym in Venice, California. It was there that he was introduced to all of the great bodybuilding legends of the", "title": "Tony Pearson (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "11111510", "text": "The Bodybuilder and I The Bodybuilder and I is a 2007 feature-length documentary film written and directed by Bryan Friedman, taking viewers on a journey into the subculture of geriatric bodybuilding as the filmmaker tries to reconnect with his father. The film is co-produced by January Films and the National Film Board of Canada. 59-year-old Bill Friedman is a competitive bodybuilder - a former world champ in the age 50-60 category, determined to win his title back. Documentary director Bryan Friedman is 26. Bill - Bryan's dad - hasn't been around since Bryan was a baby. In \"The Bodybuilder and", "title": "The Bodybuilder and I" }, { "docid": "20472144", "text": "Kali Muscle Chuck Kirkendall (born February 18, 1975) common known as Kali Muscle, is a bodybuilder originally from Oakland, California. He is also an actor and has appeared in commercials for Taco Bell, Geico, Snickers, Comcast, Honda and others. He is a motivator who draws on his own life experience and time spent in prison to deter people from taking the wrong path. Kali was born Chuck Kirkendall on February 18, 1975. One of three children, he was brought up by his mother and step-father. He came from a poor neighborhood. When he was still young one of his brothers", "title": "Kali Muscle" }, { "docid": "12561021", "text": "testosterone is one of the body's major growth hormones, on average, men find hypertrophy much easier to achieve than women. Taking additional testosterone or other anabolic steroids will increase muscular hypertrophy. Muscular, spinal and neural factors all affect muscle building. Sometimes a person may notice an increase in strength in a given muscle even though only its opposite has been subject to exercise, such as when a bodybuilder finds her left biceps stronger after completing a regimen focusing only on the right biceps. This phenomenon is called cross education. Inactivity and starvation in mammals lead to atrophy of skeletal muscle,", "title": "Muscle" }, { "docid": "15402446", "text": "Max Muscle John Czawlytko (born February 22, 1963) is an American former professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in World Championship Wrestling under the ring names Max Muscle and Maxx. After a career as a bodybuilder, Czawlytko began training to become a professional wrestler. Following his training, Czawlytko adopted the ring name The Brute and began competing as part of a tag team called The Skull Crushers alongside Bryan Carreiro, who performed under the ring name The Beast. In 1993, Czawlytko signed a contract with World Championship Wrestling. He was sent to the WCW Power Plant for", "title": "Max Muscle" }, { "docid": "3460816", "text": "Muscle fatigue Muscle fatigue is the decline in ability of a muscle to generate force. It can be a result of vigorous exercise but abnormal fatigue may be caused by barriers to or interference with the different stages of muscle contraction. There are two main causes of muscle fatigue: the limitations of a nerve’s ability to generate a sustained signal (neural fatigue) and the reduced ability of the muscle fiber to contract (metabolic fatigue). Muscle cells work by detecting a flow of electrical impulses from the brain which signals them to contract through the release of calcium by the sarcoplasmic", "title": "Muscle fatigue" }, { "docid": "3460829", "text": "remain, and conduction velocities of the nervous system decreasing over time. Muscle fatigue Muscle fatigue is the decline in ability of a muscle to generate force. It can be a result of vigorous exercise but abnormal fatigue may be caused by barriers to or interference with the different stages of muscle contraction. There are two main causes of muscle fatigue: the limitations of a nerve’s ability to generate a sustained signal (neural fatigue) and the reduced ability of the muscle fiber to contract (metabolic fatigue). Muscle cells work by detecting a flow of electrical impulses from the brain which signals", "title": "Muscle fatigue" }, { "docid": "11420546", "text": "Round About a Pound a Week Round About a Pound a Week was an influential 1913 survey of poverty and infant mortality in London, by feminist and socialist Maud Pember Reeves, co-authored by anarchist activist Charlotte Wilson. The project was conceived and carried out under the auspices of the Fabian Society's Women's Group, which she co-founded in 1908. The report was originally published as a political pamphlet or tract, arguing for specific reforms, but is still in print and considered relevant today. A Royal Commission was gathering evidence on the Poor Laws; Beatrice Webb was a commissioner, and contributed to", "title": "Round About a Pound a Week" }, { "docid": "7703767", "text": "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs \"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs\" is a slogan popularised by Karl Marx in his 1875 \"Critique of the Gotha Program\". The principle refers to free access and distribution of goods, capital and services. In the Marxist view, such an arrangement will be made possible by the abundance of goods and services that a developed communist system will produce; the idea is that, with the full development of socialism and unfettered productive forces, there will be enough to satisfy everyone's needs. The", "title": "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" }, { "docid": "17587306", "text": "Laura Davies (bodybuilder) Laura Davies (born July 23, 1960 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a professional Canadian bodybuilder of Welsh descent. As a young child, Laura Davies displayed athletic ability. She participated in sports ranging from track to football. At the time weight-lifting was not a typical female pursuit in Canada. However, she began training. Simultaneously, she was approached to be a cheerleader for the Hamilton Tiger Cats. She became part of the Tiger Cats' team at age 16 and continued to be a cheerleader for five years. By that time, Laura Davies graduated from Delta High School in 1974. She", "title": "Laura Davies (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "6502198", "text": "Sinatra's 1965 NBC television special of the same name (\"\"). A Man and His Music A Man and His Music is a 1965 double album by Frank Sinatra. It provides a brief retrospective of Sinatra's musical career. The album won the 1967 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Instead of using the original recordings, which were made for RCA, Columbia and Capitol Records, and therefore not licensed for use by his then-current label, Reprise, Sinatra used re-recorded versions for the majority of the album's songs, culling tracks from his prior Reprise albums. Three songs were specifically recorded for the", "title": "A Man and His Music" }, { "docid": "6502196", "text": "A Man and His Music A Man and His Music is a 1965 double album by Frank Sinatra. It provides a brief retrospective of Sinatra's musical career. The album won the 1967 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Instead of using the original recordings, which were made for RCA, Columbia and Capitol Records, and therefore not licensed for use by his then-current label, Reprise, Sinatra used re-recorded versions for the majority of the album's songs, culling tracks from his prior Reprise albums. Three songs were specifically recorded for the project: \"I'll Never Smile Again\", \"Come Fly with Me\" and", "title": "A Man and His Music" }, { "docid": "17587308", "text": "weights in her late forties. In 2010, when she returned to stage, she won the Miss Ontario Title again. Laura's perseverance and determination reflect that success can be achieved even in one’s later years. Laura Davies (bodybuilder) Laura Davies (born July 23, 1960 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a professional Canadian bodybuilder of Welsh descent. As a young child, Laura Davies displayed athletic ability. She participated in sports ranging from track to football. At the time weight-lifting was not a typical female pursuit in Canada. However, she began training. Simultaneously, she was approached to be a cheerleader for the Hamilton Tiger", "title": "Laura Davies (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "16214617", "text": "viewers following its broadcast on February 8, 2011, with a 12.1/19 share among all households, and a 4.2/12 share among adults aged 18 to 49. A rating point represents one percent of the total number of television sets in American households, and a share means the percentage of television sets in use tuned to the program. In total viewers, \"A Man Walks Into a Bar...\" easily won \"NCIS\" and CBS the night, while the spin-off \"\" drew second and was seen by 17.16 million viewers. It also became the fourth largest ratings for the week it aired. CBS had a", "title": "A Man Walks Into a Bar..." }, { "docid": "11420550", "text": "of poor housing conditions in child mortality, and how prenatal nutrition could help. Round About a Pound a Week Round About a Pound a Week was an influential 1913 survey of poverty and infant mortality in London, by feminist and socialist Maud Pember Reeves, co-authored by anarchist activist Charlotte Wilson. The project was conceived and carried out under the auspices of the Fabian Society's Women's Group, which she co-founded in 1908. The report was originally published as a political pamphlet or tract, arguing for specific reforms, but is still in print and considered relevant today. A Royal Commission was gathering", "title": "Round About a Pound a Week" }, { "docid": "7906841", "text": "result in muscle weakening and atrophy. Such consequences are also noted in small hibernating mammals like the golden-mantled ground squirrels and brown bats. Bears are an exception to this rule; species in the family Ursidae are famous for their ability to survive unfavorable environmental conditions of low temperatures and limited nutrition availability during winter by means of hibernation. During that time, bears go through a series of physiological, morphological and behavioral changes. Their ability to maintain skeletal muscle number and size at time of disuse is of significant importance. During hibernation, bears spend four to seven months of inactivity and", "title": "Muscle atrophy" }, { "docid": "1624483", "text": "laser-gun in the film and the mini-comics, a battle axe, a shield, and other equipment - including vehicles) while battling his foes. His sword, apparently indestructible, could deflect bolts of energy. His sister Adora's Sword of Protection was not entirely indestructible; the stone in the hilt was once damaged, preventing her from transforming. In addition, the sword gave him the ability to transform from Prince Adam into He-Man (and back) by utilizing the powers of Castle Grayskull. He also uses his sword to transform Cringer into Battle Cat. In the earliest versions of the story (for example, the first four", "title": "He-Man" }, { "docid": "8000833", "text": "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me) \"What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)\" is a song written by Glenn Sutton. The song's title is a reference to beer, specifically Schlitz beer, which for many years was advertised with the slogan, \"The beer that made Milwaukee famous.\" In 1968, Jerry Lee Lewis released his version as a single. It became a top 10 hit on \"Billboard\"'s Country chart and also made a minor impact on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. In 1971, writer Sutton's wife Lynn Anderson recorded a version for her album", "title": "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)" }, { "docid": "1694330", "text": "reviews. In his review in \"The New York Times\", Bosley Crowther wrote, \"For a first-rate demonstration of the artfulness of a cameraman and the skill at putting together handsome pictures and a strongly sentimental musical score, there is nothing around any better than Claude Lelouch's \"A Man and a Woman\".\" Crowther lauded the \"beautiful and sometimes breath-taking exposition of visual imagery intended to excite the emotions\" and praised the director for his ability to create something unique from the commonplace: The review in \"Variety\" noted the performances of the lead actors: \"Anouk Aimee has a mature beauty and an ability", "title": "A Man and a Woman" }, { "docid": "1294311", "text": "Today, Dickerson lives in Florida where he continues to train, conduct seminars, and correspond with current athletes. During the 1960s, Dickerson did much physique modeling. His 1970's nude work for photographer Jim French is today considered some of the best in an admittedly limited field. Chris appeared in French's hardcover photo essay, Man (1972) and also posed for the photographer ten years later. These photos ran in an issue of Olympus, published by Colt Studios. | colspan=\"3\" style=\"text-align:center;\"| Mr. Olympia Chris Dickerson (bodybuilder) Henri Christophe \"Chris\" Dickerson (born August 25, 1939) is an American former professional bodybuilder. Dickerson was born", "title": "Chris Dickerson (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "19468183", "text": "to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music (following Wynton Marsalis's \"Blood on the Fields\" in 1997 and Ornette Coleman's \"Sound Grammar\" in 2007). All compositions by Henry Threadgill. Adapted from AllMusic. In for a Penny, In for a Pound In for a Penny, In for a Pound is an album composed by Henry Threadgill for his jazz quintet Zooid, featuring Jose Davila, Liberty Ellman, Christopher Hoffman, and Elliot Humberto Kavee. It was released by Pi Recordings and was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music. \"In for a Penny, In for a Pound\" was composed by Henry Threadgill and recorded", "title": "In for a Penny, In for a Pound" }, { "docid": "6475939", "text": "identity is , a 22-year-old motocross racer. He has the ability to perceive threats from the Iron Cross Army with his spider-senses. He fights the Iron Cross Army in order to avenge his father's death. To conceal his superhero identity, Takuya acts as a weakling in front of his friends. Takuya gets chastised by his friends whenever he runs away from danger and is often compared unfavorably to Spider-Man. Moreover, his financial income as a motorcycle racer decreases after becoming Spider-Man due to his reduced participation in races, forcing him to assist Hitomi in her job to pay for his", "title": "Spider-Man (Japanese TV series)" }, { "docid": "8148420", "text": "A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim was a 1967 television special starring Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, accompanied by Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. The medley that Jobim and Sinatra sing together was arranged by Claus Ogerman. The title is a reference to Sinatra's previous two television specials by this name, 1965's \"A Man and His Music\", the following years \"A Man and His Music - Part II\" and his 1965 album, \"A Man and His Music\", which won the Grammy Award for Album of", "title": "A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim" }, { "docid": "8278680", "text": "given to a single fan in Europe or burying copies of the album in the ground and giving maps to fans who wanted to find them. Band leader John Gossard has since decried the spread of these stories as a publicity stunt pulled by the band's record label noting that the ideas were never intended to be more than a joke between the band members. Initially, Weakling was mainly noted for featuring guitarist Josh Smith of The Fucking Champs (fellow Champ Tim Green served as producer), but a recent reissue of their material has brought their work some more attention,", "title": "Weakling" }, { "docid": "8278679", "text": "Productions in 1996. Briefly, Gossard and Williams continued with Weakling adding Jim Mack on bass, and Antoine Reuben Diavola on drums. Dissatisfied with the dedication of the members, Gossard left the band while the rest of the lineup continued on as Black Goat. The one idea contributed by Mack for the song \"This Entire Fucking Battlefield\" was later discovered to have been 'borrowed' from the Norwegian band Demonic's song \"Nar Morket Faller\". Prior to the release of the album, a few odd tales sprung up about the possible ways it could be distributed, including printing a single copy to be", "title": "Weakling" }, { "docid": "8009996", "text": "Víctor Martínez (bodybuilder) Víctor Martínez (born July 29, 1973) is an International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) professional bodybuilder, and the second Dominican bodybuilder to turn professional, the first being Tony Domenench from Puerto Plata, who turned pro in 1995. His career highlights were winning the Arnold Classic in 2007 and finishing runner-up at the 2007 Mr. Olympia. He signed a contract for a sponsorship deal with \"Maximum Human Performance\" which also sponsors Michael Kefalianos. Martínez's career was launched when he competed in the 1997 National Physique Committee (NPC) New York Metro Championships as a light heavyweight, where he placed first.", "title": "Víctor Martínez (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "15854955", "text": "A Man and His Dog A Man and His Dog (\"Un Homme et Son Chien\") is a 2008 French film directed by French director Francis Huster, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, based on the 1952 film Umberto D. directed by Vittorio De Sica, and written by Cesare Zavattini. It was the first film in seven years featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo due to him having had a stroke. Charles is an old retiree who lives in a maid's room in the house of his lover, a rich widow. He is forced out onto the street with his dog after the widow breaks off the", "title": "A Man and His Dog" }, { "docid": "4764436", "text": "Manx pound The Manx pound () is the currency of the Isle of Man, in parity with the pound sterling. The Manx pound is divided into 100 pence. Notes and coins, denominated in pounds and pence, are issued by the Isle of Man Government. The Isle of Man is in a one-sided \"de facto\" currency union with the United Kingdom: the Manx government has decided to make UK currency legal tender on the island, and to back its own notes and coins with Bank of England notes. Manx government notes may, on demand, be exchanged at par for Bank of", "title": "Manx pound" }, { "docid": "3527665", "text": "old slave ballad, in front of the jury. In the TV version, Jerry's level of self-awareness is minimal, but his lawyer demonstrates his humanity through three traits: first, his fondness for singing \"Jingle Bells\"; second, his ability to tell a lie in order to obtain a cigarette; third (and most significant) his sense of self-preservation, which is demonstrated through video footage of Jerry cutting away from where a mine is so a fellow minesweeper gets blown up instead. Jerry Was a Man \"Jerry Was a Man\" (1947) is a short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It is about an attempt", "title": "Jerry Was a Man" }, { "docid": "14029433", "text": "Tony Pearson (bodybuilder) Tony Pearson (born January 11, 1957 in Memphis, Tennessee) grew up in St. Louis, Missouri is an American bodybuilding champion. His bodybuilding championships include individual and couples competitions. Tony Pearson was born the second youngest of eight children (five girls and three boys). His mother, Daisy Pearson, was a stay at home mom and his father, Sam Pearson, worked as an ice and coal delivery man. Tony grew up during the civil rights era of the early 1960s in Memphis, TN. In 1959, at age two, Tony's parents divorced, at which time he and one of his", "title": "Tony Pearson (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "19698136", "text": "his afflictions, with the proviso “you must never till the end of time forget [your] god”, a “happy ending” framing device which also appears in other works of this genre. Dialogue between a Man and His God at CDLI Dialogue between a Man and His God The Dialogue between a Man and His God is the earliest known text to address the answer to the question of why a god permits evil, or theodicy, a reflection on human suffering. It is a piece of Wisdom Literature extant on a single clay cuneiform tablet written in Akkadian and attributed to Kalbanum,", "title": "Dialogue between a Man and His God" }, { "docid": "3588832", "text": "Pound for pound Pound for pound is a ranking used in combat sports, such as boxing wrestling, or mixed martial arts, of who the better fighters are relative to their weight (i.e., adjusted to compensate for weight class). As these fighters do not compete directly, judging the best fighter pound for pound is subjective, and ratings vary. They may be based on a range of criteria including \"quality of opposition\", factors such as how exciting the fighter is or how famous they are, or be an attempt to determine who would win if all those ranked were the same size.", "title": "Pound for pound" }, { "docid": "15854956", "text": "relationship, as she decides to marry again. With no home nor way to make money, they wander the streets of Paris. A Man and His Dog A Man and His Dog (\"Un Homme et Son Chien\") is a 2008 French film directed by French director Francis Huster, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, based on the 1952 film Umberto D. directed by Vittorio De Sica, and written by Cesare Zavattini. It was the first film in seven years featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo due to him having had a stroke. Charles is an old retiree who lives in a maid's room in the house of", "title": "A Man and His Dog" }, { "docid": "20472148", "text": "part of Mikey. In 2014 he appeared in the episode \"Road to Natesville \", from the TV series, \"Raising Hope\", playing the part of Brett. He played the part of bones in the Demetrius Navarro, Valente Rodriguez production, \"The Big Shot\", a film about two small time film producers who have to make a successful movie as they are under pressure from their exec producer. They come up with an idea to kill one of their lead actors. Kali Muscle Chuck Kirkendall (born February 18, 1975) common known as Kali Muscle, is a bodybuilder originally from Oakland, California. He is", "title": "Kali Muscle" }, { "docid": "9140909", "text": "Pound revolutionized the Olympic movement using such deals to transform the IOC into a multibillion-dollar enterprise. He became known as an outspoken critic of corruption within the IOC, while at the same time supporting the leadership of IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch. His criticisms were given a wide airing after the scandals surrounding the Salt Lake City Olympics broke, and he was then appointed head of the inquiry into the corruption. He also campaigned vehemently for stronger drug testing. With the retirement of Samaranch in 2001, he ran for president of the IOC, but the IOC chose Belgian Jacques Rogge.", "title": "Dick Pound" }, { "docid": "19458173", "text": "To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man) \"To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)\" is a song written and originally performed by American country music artist Loretta Lynn. It was released as a single in June 1969 via Decca Records. \"To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)\" was recorded at the Bradley's Barn on May 28, 1969. Located in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, the session was produced by renowned country music producer Owen Bradley. Two additional tracks were recorded during this session. \"To Man a Man (Feel Like a Man)\" reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country", "title": "To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)" }, { "docid": "7703772", "text": "life but life's prime want\". Marx explained his belief that, in such a society, each person would be motivated to work for the good of society despite the absence of a social mechanism \"compelling\" them to work, because work would have become a pleasurable and creative activity. Marx intended the initial part of his slogan, \"from each according to his ability\" to suggest not merely that each person should work as hard as they can, but that each person should best develop their particular talents. Claiming themselves to be at a \"lower stage of communism\" (i.e. \"socialism\", in line with", "title": "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" }, { "docid": "8986313", "text": "Japanese literature. The Man Who Turned Into A Stick The Man Who Turned Into A Stick (棒になった男 – Bō ni natta otoko) is a one-act play written in 1957 by Kōbō Abe. It is the first of three plays written between 1957 and 1969 meant to symbolize the different stages of life, usually shown together. The first, representing birth, is \"The Suitcase\". The second, \"The Cliff of Time\", represents life itself, or \"The Process\" and the third, \"The Man who Turned into a Stick\", is death. This play has been considered as a main example of the current of magic", "title": "The Man Who Turned Into A Stick" }, { "docid": "8986312", "text": "The Man Who Turned Into A Stick The Man Who Turned Into A Stick (棒になった男 – Bō ni natta otoko) is a one-act play written in 1957 by Kōbō Abe. It is the first of three plays written between 1957 and 1969 meant to symbolize the different stages of life, usually shown together. The first, representing birth, is \"The Suitcase\". The second, \"The Cliff of Time\", represents life itself, or \"The Process\" and the third, \"The Man who Turned into a Stick\", is death. This play has been considered as a main example of the current of magic realism in", "title": "The Man Who Turned Into A Stick" }, { "docid": "19146459", "text": "was \"A Man and His Mountain: The Story of Leonard Knight\". Leonard Knight: A Man & His Mountain Leonard Knight: A Man & His Mountain is a 2015 documentary film directed by Andrew Blake Doyle about the life and message of American outsider artist Leonard Knight and his visionary environment known as: Salvation Mountain. Focused around Leonard Knight and Salvation Mountain's simple message of \"God Is Love\", the film follows Knight's thirty year journey and his convicted dedication to spread that message. Hosted by actress Julianna Barninger, the documentary starts from the premise of asking the question: \"If you had", "title": "Leonard Knight: A Man & His Mountain" }, { "docid": "19458174", "text": "Singles survey in 1969. The song became her sixteenth top ten single under the Decca recording label. Additionally, the song peaked at number four on the Canadian \"RPM\" Country Songs chart during this same period. It was included on her studio album, \"Woman of the World / To Make a Man\" (1969). To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man) \"To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)\" is a song written and originally performed by American country music artist Loretta Lynn. It was released as a single in June 1969 via Decca Records. \"To Make a Man (Feel Like", "title": "To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)" }, { "docid": "6615493", "text": "and intelligently upon his thoughts, he may remake his life, and transform his circumstances. The price of the book is only one shilling, and it can be carried in the pocket.\" It was also described by Allen as \"A book that will help you to help yourself\", \"A pocket companion for thoughtful people\", and \"A book on the power and right application of thought.\" The title is influenced by a verse in the Bible from the Book of Proverbs, chapter 23, verse 7: \"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he\". The full passage, taken from the King", "title": "As a Man Thinketh" }, { "docid": "15994130", "text": "operation, braided/netted or embedded membranes and stretching membranes or rearranging membranes. Among the most commonly used PAMs today is a cylindrically braided muscle known as the McKibben Muscle, which was first developed by J. L. McKibben in the 1950s. Artificial muscles constructed from ordinary fishing line and sewing thread can lift 100 times more weight and generate 100 times more power than a human muscle of the same length and weight. Artificial muscles based on fishing line already cost orders of magnitude less (per pound) than shape-memory alloy or carbon nanotube yarn; but currently have relatively poor efficiency. Individual macromolecules", "title": "Artificial muscle" }, { "docid": "20362997", "text": "Nick Scott (bodybuilder) Nick Scott is a disabled professional bodybuilder, wheelchair ballroom dancer, author, and motivational speaker. Scott lost nearly all use of his legs in a car accident at the age of 16. Shortly afterward he started weight training, going on to compete and win in powerlifting competitions in the bench press. As a bodybuilder, he helped to develop the sport of wheelchair bodybuilding, organising the first IFBB Pro Wheelchair Championships in 2011, and getting the IFBB Professional Wheelchair Division added to the Arnold Classic in 2016. As a professional wheelchair ballroom dancer, he and his partner Aubree Marchione", "title": "Nick Scott (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "532831", "text": "a boomerang in battle. He possesses a supernatural ability to communicate with animals. Lightwave's real name is Aurora Dante. Like her half-brother Bobby Drake (a.k.a. the superhero Iceman), Lightwave is a mutant. She can manipulate and control light. Her other light-based powers include laser blasts, photonic force fields and solid light pressor beams. She can also transform herself into light; in such a form, she is able to exist in the vacuum of outer space. Lightwave's only appearance was in \"Save the GuardStar\", the final episode of the 1980s cartoon. She is voiced by Annie Lockhart. Bobby Drake explains his", "title": "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends" }, { "docid": "18291264", "text": "just the domain of better-pedigreed productions, \"How To Be A Man\" strips the genre down to its bare essentials, which primarily has the effect of emphasizing the careful tonal calibration required to effectively pull off a such a relentless raunch-fest. ... With his extensive media background, \"Vice Magazine\" co-founder, comedian and ad-man McInnes would seem to be a savvy commentator on contemporary male foibles, but \"Man\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s litany of life lessons turns out to have variable appeal when reduced to their lowest common denominators of sex, partying and bodily functions.\" How to Be a Man How to Be a Man is", "title": "How to Be a Man" }, { "docid": "10704120", "text": "Muscle tissue Muscle tissue is a soft tissue that composes muscles in animal bodies, and gives rise to muscles' ability to contract. This is opposed to other components or tissues in muscle such as tendons or perimysium. It is formed during embryonic development through a process known as myogenesis. Muscle tissue varies with function and location in the body. In mammals the three types are: skeletal or striated muscle; smooth or non-striated muscle; and cardiac muscle, which is sometimes known as semi-striated. Smooth and cardiac muscle contracts involuntarily, without conscious intervention. These muscle types may be activated both through interaction", "title": "Muscle tissue" }, { "docid": "2810582", "text": "trek, an interview with the Man in the Moon, and a brutal return to reality back on earth\"—directly from the 1901 attraction, but also incorporated many plot elements (including the presence of six astronomers with pseudo-scientific names, telescopes that transform into stools, a moonshot cannon mounted above ground, a scene in which the moon appears to approach the viewer, a lunar snowstorm, an earthrise scene, and umbrella-wielding travelers), not to mention the parodic tone of the film, from the Offenbach operetta. As the science writer Ron Miller notes, \"A Trip to the Moon\" was one of the most complex films", "title": "A Trip to the Moon" }, { "docid": "18392291", "text": "regenerative capabilities. Currently VML is treated through an autologous muscle flap or graft but there are various problems associated with this procedure. Donor site morbidity, lack of donor tissue, and inadequate vascularization all limit the ability of doctors to adequately treat VML. The field of muscle tissue engineering attempts to address this problem through the design of a functional muscle construct that can be used to treat the damaged muscle instead of harvesting an autologous muscle flap from elsewhere on the patient's body. Muscle is a naturally aligned organ, with individual muscle fibers packed together into larger units called fascicles.", "title": "Muscle tissue engineering" }, { "docid": "15171520", "text": "whether it has ever been filmed. It Takes a Muscle \"It Takes a Muscle\" is a song by British recording artist M.I.A. from her third studio album, \"Maya\" (2010). It is a cover of the song \"It Takes a Muscle [To Fall in Love]\" by Dutch project Spectral Display and was written by the act's members Michael Mulders and Henri Overduin. It was originally released in 1982 as a single from their debut album \"Spectral Display\". Production of M.I.A.'s version was handled by Diplo and incorporated reggae elements. The single was released worldwide as a digital download, under license to", "title": "It Takes a Muscle" }, { "docid": "15171518", "text": "It Takes a Muscle \"It Takes a Muscle\" is a song by British recording artist M.I.A. from her third studio album, \"Maya\" (2010). It is a cover of the song \"It Takes a Muscle [To Fall in Love]\" by Dutch project Spectral Display and was written by the act's members Michael Mulders and Henri Overduin. It was originally released in 1982 as a single from their debut album \"Spectral Display\". Production of M.I.A.'s version was handled by Diplo and incorporated reggae elements. The single was released worldwide as a digital download, under license to XL Recordings and N.E.E.T. Recordings, on", "title": "It Takes a Muscle" }, { "docid": "9204418", "text": "Muscle hypertrophy Muscle hypertrophy involves an increase in size of skeletal muscle through a growth in size of its component cells. Two factors contribute to hypertrophy: sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, which focuses more on increased muscle glycogen storage; and myofibrillar hypertrophy, which focuses more on increased myofibril size. A range of stimuli can increase the volume of muscle cells. These changes occur as an adaptive response that serves to increase the ability to generate force or resist fatigue in anaerobic conditions. Strength training, or resistance exercise, brings about neural and muscular adaptations which increase the capacity of an athlete to exert force", "title": "Muscle hypertrophy" }, { "docid": "11328874", "text": "Dispute between a man and his Ba The Dispute between a man and his Ba or The Debate Between a Man and his Soul is an ancient Egyptian text dating to the Middle Kingdom about a man deeply unhappy with his life. It is part of the so-called Wisdom literature and takes the form of a dialogue between a man and his \"ba\". The beginning of the text is missing, there are a number of lacunae, and translation of the remainder is difficult. The only copy to survive, consisting of 155 columns of hieratic writing, is on the \"recto\" of", "title": "Dispute between a man and his Ba" }, { "docid": "16040027", "text": "was critically acclaimed. Joy Press, writing in the \"Village Voice\", said: \"Krauss is a fluent, thoughtful writer who takes on a lot of complex ideas and rarely loses her grip on them... Man Walks Into a Room is a chilling addition to the annals of amnesia lit. It's a novel that grapples with the ephemeral experience of being human and the realization that we create a lifetime of memories that vanish when we do\". Gillian Flynn, in a review for \"Entertainment Weekly\", described Krauss's prose as \"casually dazzling, as are the ideas she explores through Samson\". The novel won praise", "title": "Man Walks Into a Room" }, { "docid": "16988830", "text": "being in total control of their lives and the other being in profoundly compromised in dealing with the regular world. Kristy stated that while you have to be a little nuts to be a bodybuilder, she won't change it for anything else. The final results for the 2008 Ms. International: Hooked: Muscle Women Hooked: Muscle Women was a 2008 MSNBC documentary focused on professional female bodybuilding. The primary focuses of the documentary is on two International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) pro bodybuilders, Colette Nelson and Kristy Hawkins and their competing in the 2008 Ms. International. The documentary also features Teresita", "title": "Hooked: Muscle Women" }, { "docid": "11328877", "text": "edition was published during 1859, and subsequently numerously translated, with sometimes widely differing interpretation. Dispute between a man and his Ba The Dispute between a man and his Ba or The Debate Between a Man and his Soul is an ancient Egyptian text dating to the Middle Kingdom about a man deeply unhappy with his life. It is part of the so-called Wisdom literature and takes the form of a dialogue between a man and his \"ba\". The beginning of the text is missing, there are a number of lacunae, and translation of the remainder is difficult. The only copy", "title": "Dispute between a man and his Ba" }, { "docid": "13011600", "text": "consisting of the duo of Glenn Gregory and Ware. Just Music - Naked as Advertised Naked as Advertised Naked as Advertised is the eighth studio album by the English synthpop band Heaven 17. It was originally released in 2008, on the label Just Music, three years after their previous album, \"Before After\". The album contained re-workings of tracks such as \"Temptation\" along with versions of Martyn Ware songs best known from his time with the Human League, including \"Being Boiled\" and \"Empire State Human\", as well as a cover of The Associates' hit \"Party Fears Two\". Following the departure of", "title": "Naked as Advertised" }, { "docid": "13264721", "text": "To Find a Man To Find a Man is a 1972 American comedy-drama film directed by Buzz Kulik and starring Pamela Sue Martin, Darren O'Connor, and Lloyd Bridges. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosalind McCarthy is a spoiled 16-year-old who returns home to New York City from boarding school for the holidays. She confides to a friend, Andy, that she might be pregnant. They seek out the advice of Dr. Katchaturian, a pharmacist. Rosalind naively tries to induce a miscarriage by jumping, drinking castor oil, even douching with soda pop. Resigned to an abortion before a", "title": "To Find a Man" }, { "docid": "19146456", "text": "Leonard Knight: A Man & His Mountain Leonard Knight: A Man & His Mountain is a 2015 documentary film directed by Andrew Blake Doyle about the life and message of American outsider artist Leonard Knight and his visionary environment known as: Salvation Mountain. Focused around Leonard Knight and Salvation Mountain's simple message of \"God Is Love\", the film follows Knight's thirty year journey and his convicted dedication to spread that message. Hosted by actress Julianna Barninger, the documentary starts from the premise of asking the question: \"If you had something to say to the world, how would you do it?\"", "title": "Leonard Knight: A Man & His Mountain" }, { "docid": "4764460", "text": "the positive side, the introduction of a Manx euro was expected to benefit Isle of Man manufacturers and tourism by the removal of currency exchange costs for customers and tourists from the eurozone. The latter was also believed to increase the level of competitiveness on the Isle of Man, due to an increase in European businesses, which would benefit the Isle of Man economy. \"The exchange rate is the same as for GBP, British Pounds Sterling. Only \"XE.com\" links are available.\" Manx pound The Manx pound () is the currency of the Isle of Man, in parity with the pound", "title": "Manx pound" }, { "docid": "18640409", "text": "to see heroes getting happy endings, and, after Maleficent reveals that her fire and ability to transform into a dragon has disappeared, Regina decides to use the royal wedding to inspire Maleficent. Regina takes Maleficent to the remnants of the forest that the sorceress once burned and shows her the tree that is burning eternally. Maleficent attempts to channel the fire back into her body but she still lacks the ability to transform and the duo are captured by King Stefan, who had ruined Maleficent's plans in the past, and his guards. Regina refuses to give up and burns through", "title": "Enter the Dragon (Once Upon a Time)" }, { "docid": "8148422", "text": "enough for her.\" Fitzgerald and Sinatra came close to recording together around this period, but the plans were eventually scuppered. A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim was a 1967 television special starring Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, accompanied by Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. The medley that Jobim and Sinatra sing together was arranged by Claus Ogerman. The title is a reference to Sinatra's previous two television specials by this name, 1965's \"A Man and His Music\", the following years \"A Man and His Music", "title": "A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim" }, { "docid": "13264723", "text": "her way of a thank-you. To Find a Man To Find a Man is a 1972 American comedy-drama film directed by Buzz Kulik and starring Pamela Sue Martin, Darren O'Connor, and Lloyd Bridges. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosalind McCarthy is a spoiled 16-year-old who returns home to New York City from boarding school for the holidays. She confides to a friend, Andy, that she might be pregnant. They seek out the advice of Dr. Katchaturian, a pharmacist. Rosalind naively tries to induce a miscarriage by jumping, drinking castor oil, even douching with soda pop. Resigned", "title": "To Find a Man" }, { "docid": "13505341", "text": "que nos enfrentamos es a un cóndor\". With this phrase, Gertrude Potts gives Leon Maria Lozano his famous alias. During the wave of killings the murdered liberals are left in other municipalities to be buried anonymously as \"N.N.\". All the people are afraid to confess or speak out, for fear of being killed by \"The Condor\" Leon Maria Lozano, now \"the Condor\" is transformed into a sinister and Machiavellian man, not only pursuing the Liberals, but anyone who opposes his regime. After being criticized by a journalist, one of \"the birds\" travels to the man's office and abruptly shoots him.", "title": "A Man of Principle" }, { "docid": "12912392", "text": "Jim Morris (bodybuilder) Jim Morris (August 31, 1935 – January 28, 2016) was an American bodybuilder known for winning competitions over a thirty-year career. Among the titles Morris won are: Mr. USA (1972), AAU Mr. America (1973), Mr. International (1974), and Mr. Olympia Masters Over 60 (1996). At age 50, he became a vegetarian and over 15 years transitioned to vegan, a diet to which he credited much of his excellent health. He posed nude for a PETA ad in support of the vegan lifestyle. Morris, who still trained regularly as of 2011, had been bodybuilding since September 1954. From", "title": "Jim Morris (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "12805396", "text": "formerly Dorian Yates). He is a very well known bodybuilder in the UK. Mark Harris (bodybuilder) Mark Harris (born Neath) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder from Wales. He is six times UKBFF Welsh champion and overall UKBFF (formerly EFBB) British champion of 2001. He nearly won the overall UKFBB British bodybuilding Championships in 2000 but was pipped to the post by Mike King. In 2001, a \"shredded\" Mark became overall British champion as a middleweight and turned pro. He made his pro debut in the English Grand Prix several weeks later. Mark is currently sponsored by the bodybuilding supplement company", "title": "Mark Harris (bodybuilder)" }, { "docid": "2192405", "text": "the title story. \"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\" was first produced by the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1986. A television version of the opera was subsequently broadcast in the UK. Peter Brook adapted Sacks's book into an acclaimed theatrical production, \"L'Homme Qui...\", which premiered at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, in 1993. An Indian theatre company performed a play entitled \"The Blue Mug\", based on the book, starring Rajat Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Ranvir Shorey, and Vinay Pathak. \"The Man Who\", an album by the Scottish indie pop band Travis, is", "title": "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" }, { "docid": "1281285", "text": "the narrator will believe it. The story's opening bears a similarity to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\" (1798): in both, an excited old man tells his story of shipwreck and survival. The tale is one of sensation, emphasizing the narrator's thoughts and feelings, especially his terror of being killed in the whirlpool. The narrator uses his reasoning skills to survive and the story is considered one of Poe's early examples of science fiction. The story mentions Jonas Danilssønn Ramus, a man from Norway who wrote about a famous maelström at Saltstraumen. The opening epigraph is quoted", "title": "A Descent into the Maelström" } ]
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Who's missing? Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer ,John G. Roberts, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor. A bonus point if you can tell me why the missing person is missing.
[ "John Paul Stephens", "Justice John Stevens", "Stevens J", "Justice Stevens", "J. P. Stevens", "John Paul Stevens", "John P. Stevens", "Justice John Paul Stevens" ]
[ { "docid": "5172049", "text": "before learning of the existence of the outstanding warrant. Although Roberts has often sided with Scalia and Thomas, he also provided a crucial vote against their mutual position in \"Jones v. Flowers\", siding with liberal justices of the court in ruling that, before a home is seized and sold in a tax-forfeiture sale, due diligence must be demonstrated and proper notification needs to be sent to the owners. Dissenting justices were Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, while Roberts's opinion was joined by David Souter, Stephen Breyer, John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Samuel Alito did not participate.", "title": "John Roberts" }, { "docid": "7869327", "text": "change in the Court's membership caused by the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the confirmation of Justice Samuel Alito to her seat on January 31, 2006. Chief Justice: John Roberts Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor (retired January 31, 2006), Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito (confirmed January 31, 2006) 2005 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down sixteen \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2005 term, which lasted from October 3, 2005 until", "title": "2005 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "5534705", "text": "would consider the merits of the case. On June 12, 2008 the Supreme Court ruled in the case \"Boumediene v. Bush\", 5–4, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to access the US justice system. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion: The Court also ruled that the Combatant Status Review Tribunals were \"inadequate\". Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter and John Paul Stevens joined Kennedy in the majority. Chief Justice John Roberts, in the dissenting opinion, called the CSR Tribunals: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia joined Roberts in the dissent. Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center", "title": "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" }, { "docid": "1294352", "text": "v. Bush, 5-4 that Guantanamo captives were entitled to access the US justice system. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion: The Court also ruled that the Combatant Status Review Tribunals were \"inadequate\". Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter and John Paul Stevens joined Kennedy in the majority. Chief Justice John Roberts, in the minority opinion, called the CSR Tribunals Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia joined Roberts in the dissent. Vincent Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the organization that initiated the action that triggered the Supreme Court ruling responded: In January", "title": "Unlawful combatant" }, { "docid": "2270820", "text": "Carhart\", held that the statute does not violate the Constitution. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority which included Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and Chief Justice John Roberts. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the dissent which was joined by Stephen Breyer, David Souter, and John Paul Stevens. Kennedy's majority opinion argued that the case differed from \"Stenberg v. Carhart\", a 2000 case in which the Supreme Court struck down a state ban on partial-birth abortion as unconstitutional, in that the Partial Birth Abortion Act defined the banned procedure more clearly. In dissent, Ginsburg argued that the decision", "title": "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act" }, { "docid": "14573082", "text": "Proper\" Clause permitted Congress to enact such a provision. John Roberts, John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor joined Breyer's opinion. Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito filed opinions concurring in the judgment. Clarence Thomas filed a dissenting opinion in which Antonin Scalia joined in all but Part III– A–1–b. The Court said: \"We base this conclusion on five considerations, taken together.\" The five considerations are as follows. United States v. Comstock United States v. Comstock, 560 U.S. 126 (2010), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that the federal government has authority", "title": "United States v. Comstock" }, { "docid": "8420251", "text": "effect that a different attorney and one that the defendant wished to have would have had on the proceedings—including whether a trial would have occurred in the first place. The entire proceeding was therefore unfair and unreliable, and must be reversed. Justice Scalia was joined by Justice John Paul Stevens, Justice David Souter, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Justice Stephen Breyer. This case was one of only three in his tenure where Scalia alone sided with the liberal wing of the Court. Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Anthony Kennedy, and Justice Clarence Thomas, dissented. Alito", "title": "United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez" }, { "docid": "13527513", "text": "Act pre-empts only the former.\" Scalia noted that states \"have always enforced their general laws against national banks--and have enforced their banking-related laws against national banks for at least 85 years.\" The case is notable for the justices composing the 5-4 majority, which included the liberal justices (John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer) along with the conservative Scalia, who authored the opinion. Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, and Chief Justice John Roberts, wrote a dissent. The case is further notable for the suggested relationship of this OCC decision to the", "title": "Cuomo v. Clearing House Ass'n, L.L.C." }, { "docid": "11983416", "text": "person who knowingly broke immigration law. Chief Justice William Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justices Sandra O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a dissent, joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The dissent expressed concern that employers would use the lack of immigration status of an employee to relieve themselves of responsibility under the NLRA. Hoffman Plastics is a small business based in Paramount, California which manufactures polyvinyl resins and plastic pipework. In 1988 Hoffman Plastics hired Castro. At the time of hiring, Castro presented", "title": "Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB" }, { "docid": "530373", "text": "first sixteen years on the Court, O'Connor voted with Rehnquist more than with any other justice. Later on, as the Court's make-up became more conservative (e.g., Anthony Kennedy replacing Lewis Powell, and Clarence Thomas replacing Thurgood Marshall), O'Connor often became the swing vote on the Court. However, she usually disappointed the Court's more liberal bloc in contentious 5–4 decisions: from 1994 to 2004, she joined the traditional conservative bloc of Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Thomas 82 times; she joined the liberal bloc of John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer only 28 times. O'Connor's", "title": "Sandra Day O'Connor" }, { "docid": "11164966", "text": "potentially violate the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of citizens outside healthcare facilities? Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion: Justices David Souter, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer concurred: Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented: Justice Anthony Kennedy dissented: Hill v. Colorado Hill v. Colorado, 530 U.S. 703 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court decision. The Court ruled 6–3 that the First Amendment right to free speech was not violated by a Colorado law limiting protest, education, distribution of literature, or counseling within eight feet of a person entering a healthcare facility. In", "title": "Hill v. Colorado" }, { "docid": "15303926", "text": "States Supreme Court Justices: Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice John Paul Stevens. In the past, other dignitaries who have also spoken at the national awards program, included Tom Brokaw, Bob Schieffer, Tim Russert, Chris Matthews, George Will, Jeffrey Toobin and master of ceremonies, Bill Press. Performers have included Jay Leno, Kristen Chenoweth, Bernadette Peters, Katherine Jenkins and Vanessa Williams. Burton is also credited with having established the Holmes Debates at the Library of Congress which featured a national debate between members of the United States Justice Department and renowned legal", "title": "William C. Burton" }, { "docid": "11058711", "text": "He has interviewed Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Stevens, Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Justice Kennedy. Justice Ginsburg credited his early support for her Supreme Court candidacy as a factor in her nomination. His essay about Sonia Sotomayor, then a potential Supreme Court nominee, provoked controversy for its use of anonymous sources. However, other media outlets, including the \"New York Times\", had relied upon similar sources. Rosen worked with Justice Elena Kagan for many years and is the brother-in-law of Justice Department attorney Neal Katyal. In an opinion piece published after Kagan's nomination hearings and", "title": "Jeffrey Rosen" }, { "docid": "8840896", "text": "Gore\", the court ruled that the Constitution placed limits on punitive damages, with liberal justices Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens in the majority and Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissenting. Under Chief Justice John Roberts, some expect the court to be more likely to take cases that could resolve tort reform debates. Tort reform Tort reform refers to proposed changes in the civil justice system that aim to reduce the ability of victims to bring tort litigation or to reduce damages they can receive. Tort actions are civil common law claims first created in the English commonwealth", "title": "Tort reform" } ]
[ { "docid": "7075113", "text": "eight holdovers from the Rehnquist Court: Stevens, O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer. President Bush nominated Samuel Alito (after the withdrawal of Bush's first nominee, White House Counsel Harriet Miers) to replace O'Connor, and he was confirmed in January 2006. In 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to replace Souter, and in 2010 Obama nominated Elena Kagan to replace Stevens. After six years, Justice Scalia died in February 2016. In the following month Obama nominated Merrick Garland, but Garland's nomination was never considered by the Senate, and it expired when", "title": "Roberts Court" }, { "docid": "5375047", "text": "voted with Ginsburg and Breyer 90 percent of the time, one of the highest agreement rates on the Court. In a 2015 article titled \"Ranking the Most Liberal Modern Supreme Court Justices\", Alex Greer identified Sotomayor as representing a more liberal voting pattern than both Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Greer placed Sotomayor as having the most liberal voting history of all the current sitting Justices, and slightly less liberal than her predecessors Thurgood Marshall and John Marshall Harlan II on the Court. Justices Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito (and former Justice Scalia) have comprised the identifiable conservative wing", "title": "Sonia Sotomayor" }, { "docid": "20728644", "text": "challenged by the petitioners. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito. Gorsuch wrote that the language of the \"inter partes\" statute as passed by Congress was clear, in that there was no \"partial institution\" power enjoyed by the Director. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. Ginsburg argued that as they have already determined from \"Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee\" that the Director is not mandated to grant an \"inter partes\" review, the language of the", "title": "SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu" }, { "docid": "13911062", "text": "Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor 2009 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down nineteen \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2009 term, which began on October 5, 2009, and concluded October 3, 2010. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and", "title": "2009 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "20226672", "text": "result. On March 21, 2017, oral arguments were heard before the Supreme Court, where Professor Jeffrey L. Fisher appeared for the plaintiffs. On June 12, 2017, the Supreme Court delivered judgment in favor of Microsoft, voting unanimously to reverse and remand to the lower court. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion of the Court, joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito concurred only in the judgment. Microsoft Corp. v. Baker Microsoft Corp. v. Baker, 582 U.S. ___ (2017), is a United", "title": "Microsoft Corp. v. Baker" }, { "docid": "20687992", "text": "raised by Oil States. The case was heard by the Court on November 27, 2017, and its decision was given on April 24, 2018. The Court ruled 7-2 holding that the inter partes review process did not violate either Article III or the Seventh Amendment. The majority decision was written by Justice Clarence Thomas and joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. A concurring opinion was filed by Justice Breyer and joined by Ginsburg and Sotomayor. Thomas asserted that the granting of a patent was a public right and more", "title": "Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC" }, { "docid": "16416191", "text": "Normally, laws are presumed to apply prospectively only. Absent clear evidence of a congressional intent that the law operate retroactively, it was error to do so Justice Ginsburg's opinion was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a dissenting opinion in which he stated that \"we should concern ourselves with the statute's actual operation on regulated parties, not with retroactivity as an abstract concept or as a substitute for fairness concerns.\" He was joined in his opinion by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Scalia held", "title": "Vartelas v. Holder" }, { "docid": "19067433", "text": "2016), Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan 2015 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down eighteen \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2015 term, which began October 5, 2015 and concluded October 2, 2016. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated", "title": "2015 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "12662723", "text": "opposed William Rehnquist's successful nomination to become Chief Justice. He opposed both of George H. W. Bush's successful nominations, David Souter and Clarence Thomas, as well, but supported Bill Clinton's nominations of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. He strongly opposed the successful nominations of both Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, both nominated by President George W. Bush. From 2001 to 2003, Kennedy led a forty-five member all Democrat Senate filibuster to block the appointment of former assistant Solicitor General Miguel Estrada to the United States court of appeals. When Estrada withdrew his nomination, Kennedy proclaimed", "title": "Political positions of Ted Kennedy" }, { "docid": "13153219", "text": "President Joe Biden, Chief Justice John Roberts, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and Governor of California Jerry Brown. Additionally, Democratic governor Bill Richardson and Republican former mayor Rudy Giuliani, both Catholics, sought the nomination for their respective parties in the 2008 presidential election. The Supreme Court currently includes four Catholics, including Chief Justice John Roberts and four associate justices: Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Sonia Sotomayor. For seven years (beginning with the appointment of Justice Sotomayor in 2009 and ending with the death of Justice Scalia in 2016) Catholics held a majority (of five justices)", "title": "History of the Catholic Church in the United States" }, { "docid": "17651093", "text": "Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan 2013 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States has handed down eight \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2013 term, which began October 7, 2013 and will conclude October 5, 2014. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated", "title": "2013 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "1547967", "text": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ruth Bader Ginsburg (; born Joan Ruth Bader; March 15, 1933) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice (after Sandra Day O'Connor) of four to be confirmed to the court (along with Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who are still serving). Following O'Connor's retirement, and until Sotomayor joined the court, Ginsburg was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her", "title": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" }, { "docid": "18747767", "text": "General, with Justice Kagan describing the execution protocol as \"burning alive, from the inside.\" Justice Thomas, as is usual, said nothing. On June 29, 2015, the last day of the term, the Supreme Court ruled against the condemned prisoners in a 5–4 decision. At the opinion announcement, Justices Sotomayor and Breyer read aloud their dissents from the bench, while Scalia also read aloud a statement criticizing the previous week’s decision in \"Obergefell v. Hodges\". Justice Samuel Alito delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas. According to", "title": "Glossip v. Gross" }, { "docid": "13922871", "text": "Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer. Justice Antonin Scalia was joined by Justices John Roberts and Clarence Thomas in the dissent. Justice Samuel Alito wrote a separate dissent. Dada v. Mukasey Dada v. Mukasey, 554 U.S. 1 (2008), was a United States Supreme Court case involving deportation procedures. Samson T. Dada was a citizen of Nigeria who had married an American citizen. When immigration officials tried to deport him for overstaying his visa, he appealed, claiming his marriage entitled him to remain in the United States. The Court ruled, in a 5–4 decision, that complying with a deportation order did not", "title": "Dada v. Mukasey" }, { "docid": "12578908", "text": "Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito 2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down nine \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2008 term, which began on October 6, 2008 and concluded October 4, 2009. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and", "title": "2008 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "19486269", "text": "Theodore Olson, Chief Justice John Roberts said: His dissenting opinion is discussed in detail below. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the majority opinion, which held that § 8772 does not infringe on the separation of powers between the legislative and judicial branches of government, considering also that the law is an exercise of congressional authority regarding foreign affairs. Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Elena Kagan joined the majority opinion (however, Justice Thomas did not join as to Part II-C of the opinion). The majority began by explaining that judiciary's authority under", "title": "Bank Markazi v. Peterson" }, { "docid": "6360598", "text": "less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats\". At the time of his remarks, 6.4 percent of justices had been Jewish in the history of the court. With Breyer's appointment in 1994, there were two Roman Catholic justices, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, and two Jewish justices, Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Clarence Thomas, who had been raised as a Roman Catholic but had attended an Episcopal church after his marriage, returned to Catholicism later in the 1990s. At this point, the four remaining Protestant justices—Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, and Souter—remained", "title": "Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "13560684", "text": "Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor reveals that the majority was formed by John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito. Despite the ruling, the proceedings elicited unprecedented live coverage through social networking site Twitter from gay-interest magazine \"The Advocate\", the National Center for Lesbian Rights, an official feed from the group representing the plaintiffs (AFER), a California-based progressive organization Courage Campaign, and several independent parties including Chris Geidner, maintainer of the LGBT-oriented Law Dork blog, San Francisco-based attorney Chris Stoll, and others. Filmmakers John Ireland and John Ainsworth filmed and distributed a re-enactment of the trial. Actors participating in", "title": "Hollingsworth v. Perry" }, { "docid": "20427158", "text": "2018), Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch 2017 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down sixteen \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2017 term, which began October 2, 2017, and concluded September 30, 2018. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated", "title": "2017 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "19586866", "text": "the unanimous Utah Supreme Court reversed, in an opinion by Justice Thomas Rex Lee. On June 20, 2016, the Supreme Court reversed, by a vote of 5-3. Writing for the Court, Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, and Samuel Alito, held that the evidence was admissible because \"the discovery of a valid arrest warrant was a sufficient intervening event to break the causal chain between the unlawful stop and the discovery of drug-related evidence on Strieff's person.\" Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissenting opinion in which she argued the evidence should", "title": "Utah v. Strieff" }, { "docid": "17168981", "text": "the Copyright Act to works \"lawfully made under this title\" is not limited by geography. Rather, it applies to all copies legally made anywhere, not just in the United States, in accordance with U.S. copyright law. So, wherever a copy of a book is first made and sold, it can be resold in the U.S. without permission from the publisher. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the opinion of the court which was joined by five Justices (Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor, and Kagan). Justice Elena Kagan also wrote a separate concurring opinion, signed by Samuel Alito. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented, joined", "title": "Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc." }, { "docid": "20721717", "text": "the Sixth Amendment. The Court agreed to hear the case by September 2017, and scheduled oral arguments for January 17, 2018. The Court issued its ruling on May 14, 2018, in a 6–3 decision that found in favor of McCoy that under the Sixth Amendment, a defendant has the right to choose the objective of their defense, and can refrain their legal council from admitting guilt. The majority opinion was written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and joined by Justices John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. Ginsburg wrote in her opinion, \"Even when a criminal", "title": "McCoy v. Louisiana" }, { "docid": "433281", "text": "Alito on one side, Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan on the other, and Justice Kennedy holding the balance. Of these 16 cases, Justice Kennedy sided with the conservatives on 10 cases, and with the liberals on 6. Three cases were decided by an interesting alignment of justices, with Chief Justice Roberts joined by Justices Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer and Alito in the majority, with Justices Scalia, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan in the minority. The greatest agreement between justices was between Ginsburg and Kagan, who agreed on 72 of the 75 (96%) cases, in which both voted; the lowest agreement between", "title": "Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "8892353", "text": "O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer 2002 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down twelve \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2002 term, which began October 7, 2002 and concluded October 5, 2003. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred", "title": "2002 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "8405749", "text": "O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer 2003 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down seven \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2003 term, which began October 6, 2003 and concluded October 3, 2004. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred", "title": "2003 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "7878683", "text": "O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer 2004 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down six \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2004 term, which began October 4, 2004 and concluded October 3, 2005. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred", "title": "2004 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "20245805", "text": "O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer 1999 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down eleven \"per curiam\" opinions during its 1999 term, which began October 4, 1999 and concluded October 1, 2000. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred", "title": "1999 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "14701318", "text": "O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer 2001 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down nine \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2001 term, which began October 1, 2001 and concluded October 6, 2002. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred", "title": "2001 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "14699148", "text": "O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer 2000 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down nine \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2000 term, which began October 2, 2000 and concluded September 30, 2001. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred", "title": "2000 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "20120370", "text": "Solicitor General appeared for that state. On April 19, 2017, the Supreme Court delivered judgment in favor of the accused, voting 7-1 to reverse and remand to the state court. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion of the Court, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. This decision held that the part of the law regarding \"any fine, penalty, court costs, or restitution imposed upon and paid by the wrongfully convicted person\" violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process. The petitioners are entitled to prompt repayment of the", "title": "Nelson v. Colorado" }, { "docid": "12327338", "text": "for the establishment of a no-fly zone over the country. McCain was a believer in judges who would, as he sees it, \"strictly interpret the Constitution,\" and was against what he sees as \"the systemic abuse of our federal courts\" by judges who \"preemptively\" decide American social policy. In 1987, he supported the failed confirmation of Reagan nominee Robert Bork. He then supported and voted for the appointments of both-Bushes nominees David Souter, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito. In 1993 and 1994, McCain voted to confirm Clinton nominees Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whom he considered to", "title": "Political positions of John McCain" }, { "docid": "8990173", "text": "Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito 2006 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down eight \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2006 term, which began October 2, 2006 and concluded September 30, 2007. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred unless", "title": "2006 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "11737853", "text": "Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito 2007 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down six \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2007 term, which began October 1, 2007 and concluded September 30, 2008. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred unless", "title": "2007 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "16416106", "text": "of the September 11 hijackers was \"stopped and ticketed for speeding just two days before hijacking Flight 93,\" emphasizing the discrepancies that may exist between why an individual is arrested and the kind of threat they pose to society. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito issued separate concurrences. Justice Stephen Breyer dissented, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. In the dissent, they argued that empirical evidence on strip-searches suggests there is no convincing reason that, in the absence of reasonable suspicion, involuntary strip-searches of those arrested for minor offenses are necessary. They cited a study", "title": "Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders" }, { "docid": "18323317", "text": "Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan 2014 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down eight \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2014 term, which began October 6, 2014 and concluded October 4, 2015. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred unless otherwise", "title": "2014 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "16887661", "text": "Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan 2012 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down six \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2012 term, which began October 1, 2012 and concluded October 6, 2013. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred unless otherwise", "title": "2012 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "16032969", "text": "Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan 2011 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down thirteen \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2011 term, which began October 3, 2011 and concluded September 30, 2012. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred unless otherwise", "title": "2011 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "15057832", "text": "Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan 2010 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States handed down ten \"per curiam\" opinions during its 2010 term, which began October 4, 2010 and concluded October 1, 2011. Because \"per curiam\" decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred unless otherwise", "title": "2010 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" }, { "docid": "2481430", "text": "Lady Laura Bush; Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor; Newt Gingrich; Karl Rove; Donna Brazile, and journalists Tavis Smiley, Gwen Ifill, Tina Brown, Andrea Mitchell and Tom Brokaw. The center has hosted several debates, including a 2008 Democratic presidential primary debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama a town hall meeting with Senator John McCain, and a 2006 Pennsylvania Senatorial debate between Republican incumbent Rick Santorum and Democratic challenger Bob Casey. In 2006 the center became home to the Liberty Medal, an annual award established in 1988 to recognize \"men", "title": "National Constitution Center" }, { "docid": "4793567", "text": "Steven Breyer, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Justice Lewis F. Powell, and Justice Harry A. Blackmun. Justice Thomas thought so much of the experience that he returned in 2000, 2002 and 2006 to teach a special one-week seminar on the Supreme Court. Drake's main law building and law library were named in Opperman's honor and in 1994, a campus plaza was dedicated in memory of his wife, Jeanice Opperman, who died in 1993. He has also donated to the New York University", "title": "Dwight D. Opperman" }, { "docid": "1440995", "text": "Bush appointees Roberts and Alito had had time to make an impact, Rossum wrote that Scalia had failed to win converts among his conservative colleagues for his use of originalism, whereas Roberts and Alito, as younger men with an originalist approach, greatly admired Scalia battling for what he believed in. Following the appointments of Roberts and Alito, both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are identified in their judicial temperament as being originalists with Kavanuagh referred to as \"a stalwart originalist\" in the tradition of Scalia. In a 2009 public conversation, Justice Stephen Breyer questioned Scalia, indicating that those who ratified the Fourteenth", "title": "Antonin Scalia" }, { "docid": "19063107", "text": "attorneys appearing for the prisoner and the state as well as an \"amicus curiae\" appointed by the Court, arguing against the Court's jurisdiction, and the U.S. Deputy Solicitor General, arguing as a friend of the prisoner. On January 25, 2016, the Supreme Court delivered judgment in favor of the prisoner, by a vote of 6-3. Writing for the Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, applied the \"Miller v. Alabama\" rule retroactively, holding that prisoners previously given automatic life sentences with no chance of", "title": "Montgomery v. Louisiana" }, { "docid": "14959702", "text": "theme of the video is American troops keeping in touch with their families back home. The video was shot in Fort Campbell, Kentucky and also uses stock footage of troops returning to base from the Gulf War. \"This Is Me Missing You\" debuted at number 70 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of April 29, 1995. This Is Me Missing You \"This Is Me Missing You\" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist James House. It was released in April 1995 as the third single from his album \"Days Gone", "title": "This Is Me Missing You" }, { "docid": "5747136", "text": "to deter the 1998 bombing that injured the clinic worker featured in NARAL's ad makes it all the more ludicrous to suggest that Roberts's proper reading of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 in 1991 is somehow responsible.\" In the face of intense criticism even among supporters of legal abortion, NARAL eventually withdrew the inflammatory ads. Roberts is the second sitting justice to have graduated from Harvard College (along with David Souter) and the sixth sitting justice to attend Harvard Law School (Souter, Stephen Breyer, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony Kennedy all graduated from Harvard Law School, while Ruth Bader", "title": "John Roberts Supreme Court nomination" }, { "docid": "20363491", "text": "Clarence Thomas joined by Justices Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, and Gorsuch, while Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the dissenting opinion joined by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. Encino Motorcars v. Navarro Encino Motorcars v. Navarro, 579 U.S. ___ (2016), 584 U.S. ___ (2018), was a Supreme Court of the United States case addressing overtime pay. Specifically at issue is whether automotive service advisors are eligible for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The case had been heard twice by the Supreme Court. In the first pass, the Court had vacated a previous decision by the Ninth Circuit Appeals Court", "title": "Encino Motorcars v. Navarro" }, { "docid": "20762682", "text": "to hear the case, and oral arguments were heard on February 28, 2018. The Court issued its ruling on June 14, 2018, stating in a 7–2 decision that Minnesota's law did violate the First Amendment, ruling it unconstitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch. Roberts found that the Minnesota law is not \"capable of reasoned application\" of deciding what type of political speech they can prevent, as the term \"political\" used the statute may be up for inconsistent interpretation, as demonstrated from", "title": "Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky" }, { "docid": "7075115", "text": "action, campaign finance regulation, abortion, capital punishment, gay rights, and criminal sentencing. Major decisions of the Roberts Court include: The Roberts Court has been described as \"conservative in most cases, liberal in some,\" with (prior to the death of Justice Scalia) five conservative-leaning justices and four liberal-leaning justices. Alito, Thomas, Kennedy, Roberts, and Scalia (prior to his death) generally have taken more conservative positions, while Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan have generally taken more liberal positions. Souter and Stevens had also been part of the liberal bloc prior to their respective retirements. These two blocs of voters have lined up", "title": "Roberts Court" }, { "docid": "4139172", "text": "under the Commerce Clause. Alito, Roberts, and Kennedy did not join that assertion. Justices Ginsburg, Souter, Breyer, and Stevens dissented, contending that the ruling ignored Supreme Court abortion precedent. Moreover, despite having been at one time nicknamed \"Scalito,\" Alito's views have differed from those of Scalia (and Thomas), as in the Michael Taylor case cited above and various other cases of the 2005 term. A fierce critic of reliance on legislative history in statutory interpretation, Scalia was the only member of the Court in \"Zedner v. United States\" not to join a section of Alito's opinion that discussed the legislative", "title": "Samuel Alito" }, { "docid": "8922233", "text": "nominee, Douglas Ginsburg, withdrew before a vote. Reagan's third nominee, Anthony Kennedy, was confirmed by the Senate. Brennan retired in 1990 and Marshall in 1991, giving President George H.W. Bush the opportunity to appoint Justices David Souter and Clarence Thomas. White retired in 1993 and Blackmun retired in 1994, and President Bill Clinton appointed Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer to replace them. The composition of the Supreme Court remained unchanged for the balance of the Rehnquist era, which ended when Rehnquist died in September 2005. He was succeeded by the current Chief Justice, John Roberts, who was appointed", "title": "Rehnquist Court" }, { "docid": "19664778", "text": "allowed nominations to be advanced by a simple majority vote rather than the historical norm of a three-fifths supermajority vote. President Trump began his term in January 2017 with a vacancy to be filled as a result of the February 2016 death of Justice Antonin Scalia. As three of the Court's justices at the time—Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born 1933), Anthony Kennedy (born 1936) and Stephen Breyer (born 1938)—were aged 78 or older, speculation arose that additional vacancies could occur during Trump's four-year presidential term. Because Ginsburg and Breyer were part of the liberal wing of the Court and Kennedy was", "title": "Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates" }, { "docid": "5747137", "text": "Ginsburg attended there for two years and transferred to Columbia Law School). He is the 109th justice to serve on the court, as well as the 17th Chief Justice. With the addition of Roberts, the Supreme Court's membership had more Roman Catholics with four (Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Kennedy) than justices of other denominations. Upon the confirmation of Samuel Alito in 2006, the Roman Catholics on the court numbered five, with two Protestant (Stevens and Souter) and two Jewish (Ginsburg and Breyer) justices. Notes: D = Democratic; R = Republican; I = independent; ID = Independent Democratic </div> During Judiciary", "title": "John Roberts Supreme Court nomination" }, { "docid": "11134012", "text": "Puerto Rico Supreme Court Chief Justice Liana Fiol Matta , Antonio García Padilla, Luis Aníbal Avilés, Demetrio Fernández, and Roberto Aponte Toro. Visiting speakers have included United States Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and professors Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School, Owen Fiss of Yale Law School and the late Ferdinand Stone of Tulane Law School. Some of the deans include: The UPR Law School Building was designed by architect Henry Klumb and inaugurated in 1962, replacing a converted tobacco storage facility which housed the Law school for many years. Built during David", "title": "University of Puerto Rico School of Law" }, { "docid": "16416105", "text": "a 5–4 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Court held that officials may strip-search individuals who have been arrested for any crime before admitting the individuals to jail, even if there is no reason to suspect that the individual is carrying contraband. Kennedy was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas. Justice Thomas joined all parts of Kennedy's opinion except part IV. In his opinion, Kennedy noted that Timothy McVeigh was stopped by a state trooper after the Oklahoma City federal building bombing for driving without a license plate. And, one", "title": "Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders" }, { "docid": "1930694", "text": "Clarence Thomas, William Strong, David J. Brewer, Willis Van Devanter and John Marshall Harlan were among those who served on its faculty. Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Antonin Scalia presided over its moot court in 2006, 2007 and 2009, respectively. The law school is located primarily on the east side of University Yard. The Graduate School of Education & Human Development (GSEHD) officially started in 1909. The school is composed of five distinct academic departments, and it is one of the largest schools within GW. The George Washington University College of Professional Studies", "title": "George Washington University" }, { "docid": "3845536", "text": "intend to murder or to hold them permanently or for ransom). The \"Wall Street Journal\" reported in 2012 that: \"It is estimated that some 8 million children go missing around the world each year.\" The BBC News reported that of the children who go missing worldwide, \"while usually the child is found quickly the ordeal can sometimes last months, even years.\" Over 305,000 people were reported missing in Australia from 2008-2015 (Bricknell, 2017), which is estimated to be one person reported missing every 18 minutes (Henderson, Henderson & Kienan, 2000). Around 38,159 missing person reports are made on average every", "title": "Missing person" }, { "docid": "20169973", "text": "Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Clarence Thomas. Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy, issued an opinion concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part, arguing that District 12 was constitutional. Neil Gorsuch did not take part in the case, which was argued before he was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Cooper v. Harris Cooper v. Harris, 581 U.S. ___ (2017), is a case by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court ruled 5–3 that the North Carolina General Assembly used race too heavily in re-drawing two Congressional districts following the", "title": "Cooper v. Harris" }, { "docid": "3845526", "text": "Missing person A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as his or her location and fate are not known. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2–5% of missing children in", "title": "Missing person" }, { "docid": "5105477", "text": "the 37 years from 1959 to 1996, when it was renamed the George Washington University Law School. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, William Strong, David J. Brewer, Willis Van Devanter and John Marshall Harlan were among those who served on its faculty. Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Justice Samuel Alito presided over its moot court in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2016. GW Law has the oldest intellectual property program in the country, with alumni having written patents for some of the greatest technological achievements of the past 130 years—including", "title": "George Washington University Law School" }, { "docid": "14959701", "text": "This Is Me Missing You \"This Is Me Missing You\" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist James House. It was released in April 1995 as the third single from his album \"Days Gone By\". The song reached number 6 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in August 1995. House wrote this song with Debi Cochran and Monty Powell. Deborah Evans Price, of \"Billboard\" magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that House \"has a knack for packing emotion into every syllable of a lyric.\" The music video was directed by Steven Goldmann. The", "title": "This Is Me Missing You" }, { "docid": "18881771", "text": "constitution and laws,” and that the lawmaking power in Arizona “plainly includes the power to enact laws through initiative”. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan joined. The Court affirmed the District Court's ruling, holding that \"[r]edistricting is a legislative function to be performed in accordance with the State’s prescriptions for lawmaking, which may include the referendum, \"Ohio ex rel. Davis v. Hildebrant,\" 241 U. S. 565, 567, and the Governor’s veto, \"Smiley v. Holm\", 285 U. S. 355, 369. While exercise of the initiative", "title": "Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission" }, { "docid": "12141177", "text": "his registration back to Republican, ran on the \"Tea Party\" line, a line created by Buffalo area Libertarian Party activist James Ostrowski primarily to run candidates against endorsed Republicans. (Davis sought the endorsements of the Republican and Conservative parties in the 2011 election, but did not receive either one.) Davis filed his lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission between his 2006 and 2008 runs for office. Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion for the court, in which Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas joined. Alito reviewed the law in question", "title": "Davis v. FEC" }, { "docid": "16158129", "text": "a big concession, Mr. Libby. Then you're saying, you can only win this case if this Court decides that the \"Gertz\" statement was a kind of overstatement, an exaggeration, puffery.\" On June 28, 2012, a divided Supreme Court held that the Stolen Valor Act's prohibition against making false statements of having been awarded a military medal violated the First Amendment. However, the six justices in the majority could not agree on a single rationale for the decision. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for a plurality consisting of himself, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, wrote", "title": "United States v. Alvarez" }, { "docid": "16997170", "text": "Fair Labor Standards Act, because they were effecting sales within the Act's exception in § 213(a). Justice Alito delivered the opinion of the court, in which Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas joined. Justice Breyer filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan joined. Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 567 U.S. 142 (2012), is a US labor law case of the United States Supreme Court. It held that pharmaceutical sales representatives were not eligible for overtime pay. The court ruled in a majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito", "title": "Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp." }, { "docid": "14806047", "text": "of whether they got there by the same reasoning. Goldstein's statistics show that the two agreed in full only 74% of the time, and that the frequency of agreement between Scalia and Thomas is not as outstanding as is often implied by pieces aimed at lay audiences. For example, in that same term, Souter and Ginsburg voted together 81% of the time by the method of counting that yields a 74% agreement between Thomas and Scalia. By the metric that produces the 91% Scalia/Thomas figure, Ginsburg and Breyer agreed 90% of the time. Roberts and Alito agreed 94% of the", "title": "Clarence Thomas" }, { "docid": "3845554", "text": "their social lives and find emotional well-being. On May 26, 2002, a monument to missing persons was unveiled in County Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland by President Mary McAleese. It was the first monument of its kind in the world. Missing person A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as his or her location and fate are not known. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or", "title": "Missing person" }, { "docid": "13909117", "text": "The Missing Person The Missing Person is a 2008 American comedy-drama-mystery film written and directed by American independent filmmaker Noah Buschel and starring Michael Shannon and Amy Ryan. It premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. and was distributed by Strand Releasing to a limited number of theaters on November 20, 2009. John Rosow (Michael Shannon) is an alcoholic private investigator. Suddenly Rosow is given the case of his life when he is hired to tail a man named Harold Fullmer (Frank Wood) on a train. Rosow soon discovers that Fullmer is one of the thousands presumed missing after 9/11,", "title": "The Missing Person" }, { "docid": "3845542", "text": "NCIC \"Missing Person File\" does have a category that is entitled \"Juvenile\" or \"EMJ\", but that category does not reflect the total number of all juveniles reported missing to the NCIC, for whom local police are searching. The NCIC also uses its own classification criteria; it does not use the above NISMART definitions of what constitutes a missing child. The NCIC data is limited to individuals who have been reported to the NCIC as missing, and are being searched for, by local police. In addition, the EMJ category does not contain all reports of juveniles who have been reported missing", "title": "Missing person" }, { "docid": "5375075", "text": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. According to the Smithsonian at the time, the painting was on loan to the museum for three years. In May 2015 she received the Katharine Hepburn medal from Bryn Mawr College. The Katharine Hepburn Medal recognizes women who change their worlds: those whose lives, work, and contributions embody the intelligence, drive, and independence of the four-time Oscar winner and her namesake mother, an early feminist activist. Sonia Sotomayor Sonia Maria Sotomayor (; born June 25, 1954) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme", "title": "Sonia Sotomayor" }, { "docid": "16997036", "text": "sets of disproportionate sentences, not previously present.\" This reading of the law would be \"at odds with Congress' basic efforts to achieve more uniform, more proportionate sentences.\" Breyer concluded by arguing that \"We have no reason to believe Congress would have wanted to impose an unforeseeable, potentially complex application date.\" Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented from the decision of the Court, arguing that the new more lenient minimums don't apply to pre-2010 offenders. Scalia saw the silence of the Act on retroactivity as a reason that the", "title": "Dorsey v. United States" }, { "docid": "18889296", "text": "served by their policies.\" Justice Kennedy also cautioned that \"a disparate-impact claim that relies on a statistical disparity must fail if the plaintiff cannot point to a defendant’s policy or policies causing that disparity.\" Justice Samuel Alito issued a dissenting opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Antonin Scalia, and Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Alito argued that the Fair Housing Act never authorized such disparate impact claims in 1968, when the law was enacted, \"[a]nd nothing has happened since then to change the law's meaning\". Justice Thomas also issued a separate dissenting opinion in which he questioned Justice Kennedy's", "title": "Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc." }, { "docid": "5375043", "text": "time, and the Portuguese are generally excluded from its meaning. Sotomayor is among four women to have historically served on the Court, together with Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan, the last of whom won confirmation a year after Sotomayor by a comparable 63–37 vote. Sotomayor's appointment gave the Court a record six Roman Catholic justices serving at the same time. Sotomayor became one of the three youngest of the justices sitting on the Court, along with John Roberts and Elena Kagan. Sotomayor cast her first vote as an associate Supreme Court justice on August 17, 2009,", "title": "Sonia Sotomayor" }, { "docid": "12189042", "text": "the song reached No. 28 on the UK Singles Chart. It has also topped the Adult Contemporary charts in Canada, topping out in #1 until April 1992. The music video for \"Missing You Now\" featured actress Teri Hatcher, with whom Bolton was reportedly dating at the time. Missing You Now \"Missing You Now\" is a song recorded by Michael Bolton. It was the fourth single released from his 1991 album, \"Time, Love & Tenderness\". The song features saxophone player Kenny G; it was produced by Walter Afanasieff, who also co-wrote the song with Bolton and noted songwriter Diane Warren. \"Missing", "title": "Missing You Now" }, { "docid": "7997486", "text": "was included on Waite's album \"Downtown: Journey of a Heart\" and Krauss's \"\", both released via Rounder Records. The rendition spent 21 weeks on Hot Country Songs between December 2006 and mid-2007, peaking at number 34. Missing You (John Waite song) \"Missing You\" is a song co-written and recorded by English musician John Waite. It was released in June 1984 as the lead single from his second album, \"No Brakes\". It reached #1 on \"Billboard\"s Album Rock Tracks and on the Hot 100 as well as #9 on the UK Singles Chart. \"Missing You\" was the only record from 1984", "title": "Missing You (John Waite song)" }, { "docid": "3845533", "text": "black girl from Wisconsin, went missing, she received only local news coverage and is still missing to this day. Within America, there are several organizations that bring awareness and equality to missing people of color, such as the Black and Missing Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 2008. The Black and Missing Foundation's goal is to provide resources to families of missing people of color and educate minority groups on personal safety. Additionally, Deidra Robey leads a non-profit organization called Black and Missing but not Forgotten, which provides assistance in spreading awareness about a missing person. It has also been", "title": "Missing person" }, { "docid": "20274302", "text": "on May 14, 2018, reversing the Third Circuit's ruling in a 7–2 decision. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, and Neil Gorsuch, and in part by Justice Stephen Breyer. The majority opinion agreed that one specific clause of PASPA, 28 U.S.C. §§ 3701(1), did commandeer power from the states to regulate their own gambling industries, following \"New York v. United States\", and thus was unconstitutional, reversing the Third Circuit decision. Alito wrote \"Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each state", "title": "Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association" }, { "docid": "3845539", "text": "of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART–2) study summary by the US Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) indicate, a child can be missing for many reasons, including \"Nonfamily abductions\", \"Family abductions,\" \"Runaway/thrownaway episodes,\" \"Missing involuntary, lost, or injured events,\" and \"Missing benign explanation situations.\" NISMART–2 defined a missing child both with regard to children who were missing from their caretakers, and children who were missing from their caretakers and reported to an agency for assistance locating the missing children. NISMART–2 considered a child as missing \"when the child experienced a qualifying episode during which the child's", "title": "Missing person" }, { "docid": "7997473", "text": "Missing You (John Waite song) \"Missing You\" is a song co-written and recorded by English musician John Waite. It was released in June 1984 as the lead single from his second album, \"No Brakes\". It reached #1 on \"Billboard\"s Album Rock Tracks and on the Hot 100 as well as #9 on the UK Singles Chart. \"Missing You\" was the only record from 1984 to spend only one week at the top of the Hot 100. The song was nominated for the 1985 Best Pop Vocal Performance Male Grammy Award. Waite re-recorded the song with country/bluegrass artist Alison Krauss which", "title": "Missing You (John Waite song)" }, { "docid": "20288886", "text": "amended by the Help America Vote act and a point of contention raised by the respondents, was not in claimed conflict with previous language from the National Voter Registration Act. Alito wrote that Ohio's law \"does not strike any registrant solely by reason of the failure to vote\" and \"[i]nstead, as expressly permitted by federal law, it removes registrants only when they have failed to vote and have failed to respond to a change-of-residence notice\". Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, argued against Alito's reading of Congress's intent", "title": "Husted v. Randolph Institute" }, { "docid": "1879920", "text": "narrow majority of 5-4, marking the first time the Court has allowed a ban on any type of abortion since 1973. The opinion, which came from justice Anthony Kennedy, was joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and the two recent appointees, Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts. In the case of \"Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt\", the Supreme Court in a 5-3 decision on June 27, 2016 swept away forms of state restrictions on the way abortion clinics can function. The Texas legislature enacted in 2013 restrictions on the delivery of abortions services that created an undue burden", "title": "Abortion in the United States" }, { "docid": "1441009", "text": "a Catholic priest, Matthew had a career in the army, and Christopher is a writer. All four daughters, Catherine, Ann, Margaret, and Mary, have families. According to Scalia, Maureen raised all nine children \"with very little assistance from me\". The family resided in McLean, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Scalia enjoyed a warm relationship with fellow Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, considered a member of the court's liberal wing, with the two attending the opera together and appearing together onstage as supernumeraries in Washington National Opera's 1994 production of \"Ariadne auf Naxos\". Ginsburg was a colleague of Scalia on the", "title": "Antonin Scalia" }, { "docid": "15057888", "text": "relief... that will gut the State's substantive consumer protection laws...\" The majority opinion was written by Justice Antonin Scalia, and joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito. \"Requiring the availability of classwide arbitration interferes with fundamental attributes of arbitration,\" Scalia wrote. \"We find it hard to believe that defendants would bet the company with no effective means of review, and even harder to believe that Congress would have intended to allow state courts to force such a decision.\" Justice Scalia focused on the impact California's unconscionability law was having on arbitration clauses", "title": "AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion" }, { "docid": "3845527", "text": "Europe. By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends. A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing", "title": "Missing person" }, { "docid": "12189041", "text": "Missing You Now \"Missing You Now\" is a song recorded by Michael Bolton. It was the fourth single released from his 1991 album, \"Time, Love & Tenderness\". The song features saxophone player Kenny G; it was produced by Walter Afanasieff, who also co-wrote the song with Bolton and noted songwriter Diane Warren. \"Missing You Now\" just missed the Top 10 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, topping out at No. 12 in March 1992. The song did reach No. 1 on the adult contemporary chart for three weeks, Bolton's sixth song to do so and Kenny G's first. In addition,", "title": "Missing You Now" }, { "docid": "13909119", "text": "list of the Top Three Films of 2009, and Variety critic Dennis Harvey's list of the Top 25 films of the year. The Missing Person The Missing Person is a 2008 American comedy-drama-mystery film written and directed by American independent filmmaker Noah Buschel and starring Michael Shannon and Amy Ryan. It premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. and was distributed by Strand Releasing to a limited number of theaters on November 20, 2009. John Rosow (Michael Shannon) is an alcoholic private investigator. Suddenly Rosow is given the case of his life when he is hired to tail a man", "title": "The Missing Person" }, { "docid": "9105290", "text": "research: Missing completely at random, missing at random, and missing not at random. Missing data can be handled similarly as censored data. Understanding the reasons why data are missing is important for handling the remaining data correctly. If values are missing completely at random, the data sample is likely still representative of the population. But if the values are missing systematically, analysis may be biased. For example, in a study of the relation between IQ and income, if participants with an above-average IQ tend to skip the question ‘What is your salary?’, analyses that do not take into account this", "title": "Missing data" }, { "docid": "3845531", "text": "Child in Greece. Some missing person cases are given wide media coverage, with the searchers turning to the public for assistance. The persons' photographs may be displayed on bulletin boards, milk cartons, postcards, websites and social media to publicize their description. A racial disparity between the American news media response when a white individual goes missing and when a black individual goes missing has been observed. According to Seong-Jae Min & John C. Feaster, throughout history the news media has provided white individuals, particularly affluent women, more comprehensive news coverage than people of color. The authors have noted that while", "title": "Missing person" } ]
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March 3, 1991 saw George Holliday videotaped what event that eventually lead to a series of riots that resulted in 53 deaths?
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[ { "docid": "1428734", "text": "beating of a person in custody, usually while handcuffed, and usually taking place somewhere between the scene of the arrest and the station house. In March 1991, members of the Los Angeles Police Department harshly beat an African American suspect, Rodney King, while a white civilian videotaped the incident, leading to extensive media coverage and criminal charges against several of the officers involved. In April 1992, hours after the four police officers involved were acquitted at trial, the Los Angeles riots of 1992 commenced, causing 53 deaths, 2,383 injuries, more than 7,000 fires, damage to 3,100 businesses, and nearly $1", "title": "Police brutality" }, { "docid": "14800693", "text": "elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1989, becoming the first African American to lead a major United States political party. Colin Powell was appointed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1989. In 1990 Douglas Wilder was elected as the first African-American governor in Virginia. Four white police officers were videotaped beating African-American Rodney King in Los Angeles, on March 3, 1991. Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the US Supreme Court in 1991. The 1992 Los Angeles riots erupted after the officers accused of beating Rodney King were acquitted. In 1992 Mae Carol Jemison became the", "title": "Post–civil rights era in African-American history" }, { "docid": "3986712", "text": "Attack on Reginald Denny The attack on Reginald Denny was an incident in the 1992 Los Angeles riots in which Reginald Denny, a white construction truck driver, was beaten nearly to death by a group of black men who came to be known as the \"L.A. Four\". The attack was captured on video by a news helicopter, and broadcast live on US national television. On March 3, 1991, a plumbing salesman and amateur videographer named George Holliday video-recorded motorist Rodney King at the end of a police pursuit, being beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers. The outrage resulting from", "title": "Attack on Reginald Denny" } ]
[ { "docid": "18572941", "text": "week. According to Andy Kellman of AllMusic, the number-one song, \"Uptown Funk\", leads the way in this compilation of hits from late 2014/early 2015 \"followed by a succession of singles that fared either nearly or just as well.\" Now That's What I Call Music! 53 (U.S. series) Now That's What I Call Music! 53 is the 53rd edition of the \"Now!\" series in the United States. It was released on February 3, 2015. It features 21 tracks including the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 number-one hit \"Uptown Funk\". \"Now 53\" debuted at number 2 on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart with 99,000 copies", "title": "Now That's What I Call Music! 53 (U.S. series)" }, { "docid": "5475925", "text": "Ms. Holliday is a fitting end to the massive event. Holliday has been married twice. In March 1991, just two months after she met keyboardist Billy Meadows in a nightclub where she was singing, they married. \"He had a great sense of humor and he made me laugh all the time,\" Holliday says of her first husband. \"I had been feeling bad for so long, I wanted to laugh.\" But in December 1991, just nine months later, they divorced; the marriage, according to Holliday, \"ran out of steam.\" She explained of Meadows: \"We just didn't know each other well enough.\"", "title": "Jennifer Holliday" }, { "docid": "15817058", "text": "2011 England riots The 2011 England riots, more widely known as the London Riots were a series of riots between the 6th of August and 11 August 2011, when thousands of people rioted in cities and towns across England, saw looting, arson, and mass deployment of police, and resulted in the deaths of five people. Protests started in Tottenham, London, following the death of Mark Duggan, a local man who was shot dead by police on 4 August. Several violent clashes with police ensued, along with the destruction of police vehicles, a double-decker bus and many homes and businesses, thus", "title": "2011 England riots" }, { "docid": "15817146", "text": "and violence. He was given a two-year sentence for violence and handling stolen goods. 2011 England riots The 2011 England riots, more widely known as the London Riots were a series of riots between the 6th of August and 11 August 2011, when thousands of people rioted in cities and towns across England, saw looting, arson, and mass deployment of police, and resulted in the deaths of five people. Protests started in Tottenham, London, following the death of Mark Duggan, a local man who was shot dead by police on 4 August. Several violent clashes with police ensued, along with", "title": "2011 England riots" }, { "docid": "18572940", "text": "Now That's What I Call Music! 53 (U.S. series) Now That's What I Call Music! 53 is the 53rd edition of the \"Now!\" series in the United States. It was released on February 3, 2015. It features 21 tracks including the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 number-one hit \"Uptown Funk\". \"Now 53\" debuted at number 2 on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart with 99,000 copies sold in its first week. As of July 2015, the compilation has sold 451,000 copies. It became the first album in history to miss the top position of the \"Billboard\" 200 despite being the best-selling album of the", "title": "Now That's What I Call Music! 53 (U.S. series)" }, { "docid": "5732956", "text": "defeat, Holliday hit a go-ahead home run off starter Clayton Kershaw in Game 2. With the Cardinals maintaining a 2–1 advantage and two outs in the ninth inning, Holliday dropped a line drive off James Loney's bat. Had he caught the ball, that play would have ended the contest for a Cardinals win and a 1–1 Series tie. Instead, Loney ended up on second base, setting the Dodgers up to eventually score the game-winning run for a 3–2 final margin. Los Angeles swept the best-of-five series, ending the Cardinals' season, and the Game 2 error left Holliday with a reputation", "title": "Matt Holliday" }, { "docid": "5732942", "text": "that same score. Boston eventually won the title by sweeping the Rockies, thus ending their season on a four-game losing streak. Following the season, Holliday placed second in the MVP voting with 336 points to Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins with 363, in what was the closest result for the NL MVP since Atlanta Braves third baseman Terry Pendleton edged Pittsburgh Pirates left fielder Barry Bonds by 15 points in 1991. Holliday was selected as the Rockies' Player of the Year for the second time and \"The Sporting News\" named him to their All-Star team. On December 14, Stillwater High School", "title": "Matt Holliday" }, { "docid": "18022118", "text": "That Which That Orphan Saw That Which That Orphan Saw () is a novel by Iranian author Mohammad Reza Sarshar about the life of Mohammad, the prophet of Islam. Sarshar has attempted to describe the tumultuous and unique life of Mohammad in the novel. Muslims believe that Mohammad was the last prophet and the most complete human being. \"That Which That Orphan Saw\" has received numerous awards and has been reprinted many times in Iran. The idea for writing the novel came to Sarshar in 1980 because he believed that there were no valuable life stories about Mohammad available for", "title": "That Which That Orphan Saw" }, { "docid": "13320935", "text": "on to say that the production incorporates \"sweet, understated fiddle and piano that interplay nicely with Strait's eloquent vocal performance.\" \"What Do You Say to That\" re-entered the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart at number 67 as an official single for the week of July 31, 1999. What Do You Say to That \"What Do You Say to That\" is a song written by Jim Lauderdale and Melba Montgomery. First recorded by David Ball on his album \"Play\", it was later recorded by George Strait on his album \"Always Never the Same\". Strait's version was released in", "title": "What Do You Say to That" }, { "docid": "5871844", "text": "and Muslims attacked each other. The violence and riots spread to several parts of the city. There were more deaths and more stabbings and 16 police station areas (Pydhonie, Dongri, Agripada, Gamdevi, V.P. Road, Byculla, Bhoiwada, Nagpada, Kherwadi, Nehru Nagar, Kurla, Deonar, Trombay, Bandra, Vakola and Jogeshwari) were affected by serious riots. The stabbing incidents resulted in deaths of 16 Hindu and four Muslims and injured 3 Hindus and twelve Muslims. Eleven cases of mob violence occurred in different jurisdictional areas, killing two Muslims and injuring two Hindus and two Muslims. Seven cases of arson were reported on that day", "title": "Bombay riots" }, { "docid": "18022122", "text": "acts on the recommendation of the priestess and finally kills 300 camels and Abdullah survives. Abdullah marries a woman and she gives birth to a son. He moves towards Sham and becomes sick near Yathrib and passes away in Yathrib. Consequently, Mohammad is born without a father. The promised prophet of the apocalypse is mentioned in different parts of the book. This book published to Urdo, Arabic and Turkish. Amazon website has published it. That Which That Orphan Saw That Which That Orphan Saw () is a novel by Iranian author Mohammad Reza Sarshar about the life of Mohammad, the", "title": "That Which That Orphan Saw" }, { "docid": "13090553", "text": "relegated to supply the remainder. In November 2015, National Grid announced that Holliday would step down as CEO in March 2016, and that John Pettigrew, the UK executive director who joined National Grid 25 years ago, would succeed Holliday. Holliday left National Grid in July 2016. In March 2017, Greg Clark MP, the UK Secretary of State for Energy, established an independent Inquiry into the conduct of a 2012 decommissioning services procurement process undertaken by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and the reasons why the contract subsequently awarded to Cavendish Fluor Partnership in 2014 \"proved unsustainable\". Holliday was asked to lead", "title": "Steve Holliday" }, { "docid": "13914366", "text": "of \"What Bird is That?\" It was published in 1984 and incorporated all of Cayley’s paintings created over many years for his vision of releasing a “big bird book” and included a revised taxonomy. In the 53 years since its first edition, more than a hundred new bird species had been identified in Australia. Scientific names had been changed and groups of birds had been reordered. Lindsey brought \"What Bird is That?\" up-to-date with the latest birding conventions of the time, as well as contributing a valuable supplementary list of birds and a scholarly catalogue of Cayley’s paintings. The \"Signature", "title": "What Bird is That?" }, { "docid": "13320934", "text": "What Do You Say to That \"What Do You Say to That\" is a song written by Jim Lauderdale and Melba Montgomery. First recorded by David Ball on his album \"Play\", it was later recorded by George Strait on his album \"Always Never the Same\". Strait's version was released in July 1999 as the third and final single from this album. It peaked at number 4 in the United States, and number 2 in Canada. Larry Flick, of \"Billboard\" magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a \"lovely little tune with a pretty melody and a positive lyric.\" He goes", "title": "What Do You Say to That" }, { "docid": "17336001", "text": "Muslim Congress, a party formed in the 1980s to give voice to the Muslims of the east, broke from the PA coalition it earlier belonged to. Mawanella riots The Mawanella riots was a series of planned attacks on the Sri Lankan Muslim minority by the majority Sinhalese in the town of Mawanella, that resulted in the deaths of two people and left more than 15 injured in the clashes and also leading to destruction of millions of rupees worth property in the region. On April 30, 2001, a group of thugs entered a hotel owned by a Muslim, took some", "title": "Mawanella riots" }, { "docid": "17335996", "text": "Mawanella riots The Mawanella riots was a series of planned attacks on the Sri Lankan Muslim minority by the majority Sinhalese in the town of Mawanella, that resulted in the deaths of two people and left more than 15 injured in the clashes and also leading to destruction of millions of rupees worth property in the region. On April 30, 2001, a group of thugs entered a hotel owned by a Muslim, took some cigarettes without paying, and then menaced the cashier to hand over money. When he refused to oblige, the cashier was seized, dragged outside, tied to an", "title": "Mawanella riots" }, { "docid": "14756796", "text": "senior African-American prison warden, lead an effort to have a prison named for C. A. Holliday, an African-American community activist and pastor in the Huntsville area. Watkins sent many letters to Governor of Texas Ann Richards, asking her to name a prison after Holliday. The $30 million Holliday Unit, with a capacity of around 2,000 beds, opened in January 1994. Cigarette smoking at Holliday was forbidden since the facility's opening, while a TDCJ-wide smoking ban, stemming from a November 18, 1994 Texas Board of Criminal Justice unanimous decision to forbid smoking at all TDCJ facilities, began on March 1, 1995.", "title": "C. A. Holliday Transfer Facility" }, { "docid": "5475926", "text": "Her second marriage, which began on March 21, 1993 and ended in 1994, was to Rev. Andre Woods, a minister in Detroit. \"Jet\" magazine covered the marriage in their April 19, 1993 issue. Though Woods was a charismatic Detroit preacher, she subsequently said that even so, he was a player who also ran through her money. Still, Holliday was devastated when, in 1994, that marriage, too, ended, just four months after her mother died of cancer. \"It was like experiencing two deaths at the same time,\" she remembered. \"The grief was overwhelming.\" Holliday attended Texas Southern University. She later received", "title": "Jennifer Holliday" }, { "docid": "17954999", "text": "including those from March and May and many from February the commission had not counted, to be much higher, somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000. Several media reported a number of about or more than 2,000 deaths (and 2 to 300 deaths in May). Eventually, the army interfered to end the bloody clashes when it became clear the police could not control them. These became the first so-called \"Sharia clashes\", the start of the religious riots phase of the Sharia Conflict (1999–present). 2000 Kaduna riots The 2000 Kaduna riots were religious riots in Kaduna involving Christians and Muslims over the introduction", "title": "2000 Kaduna riots" }, { "docid": "18022119", "text": "teenagers. The 8th reprinting was published in May 2013. The book was translated to English by James C. Klark. The first part of \"That Which That Orphan Saw\" starts with dream of Abdul-Muttalib in which he is ordered to dig the Zamzam Well. He finds the place to dig near Mecca which he about heard in his dream. The Quraysh are against digging the well and ask Abdul-Muttalib not to do this. Finally they agree to visit a priest and accept his judgement. The priest lives outside of Mecca. Some of the Quraysh head towards the place of the priest", "title": "That Which That Orphan Saw" }, { "docid": "17397472", "text": "Azad Maidan riots Azad Maidan Riots was initially a protest organized in Azad Maidan on 11 August 2012 to condemn the Rakhine riots and Assam riots, which later turned into a riot. The riot reportedly began as the crowd got angry either after hearing an inflammatory speech or after seeing photographs of Assam violence and Rakhine state riots. The riot resulted in two deaths and injuries to 54 people including 45 policemen. Mumbai Police estimated that the riots caused a loss of 2.74 crore in damages to public and private property. The indigenous Bodo community of Assam alleged that the", "title": "Azad Maidan riots" }, { "docid": "5475920", "text": "weight loss was attained strictly by diet. Eventually, in an effort to avoid regaining the weight, Holliday had gastric bypass surgery. After the initial weight loss, she released an LP and video titled \"I’m On Your Side.\" The video, unlike most videos, was recorded live. In 1995, Holliday released the gospel album \"On & On.\" In a March 2008 interview, she revealed that she was in the studio working on a new album, to be released later that year. In April 2011, Holliday released a Christian CD titled \"Goodness and Mercy\" on her own Euphonic Records label. She produced it", "title": "Jennifer Holliday" }, { "docid": "16959212", "text": "in several offensive categories. Holliday was named to the staff of Arizona State beginning in 2008. During his tenure, the Sun Devils signed the nation's top recruiting class and appeared in the 2009 College World Series. For his efforts, Vanderbilt named him recruiting coordinator and assistant coach in 2010. The Commodores made a run to the College World Series with Holliday on the staff. It was the program's first College World Series appearance. As recruiting coordinator at Vanderbilt, Holliday helped assemble a roster that would set a SEC record for regular season conference wins with a 26-3 record in 2013,", "title": "Josh Holliday" }, { "docid": "13639950", "text": "2009 Gojra riots The 2009 Gojra riots were a series of attacks targeting Christians in Gojra town in Punjab province of Pakistan. These resulted in the deaths of eight Christians including four women and a child. Christians make up 1.6% of Pakistan's predominantly Sunni Muslim population of 210 million people. Gojra, which is located in the Toba Tek Singh District of Pakistan's Punjab province, has a relatively high number of Christians. Although the two communities generally live peacefully, Muslims have intermittently targeted churches and Christians. Minorities also face intimidation at the hands of discriminatory laws, including a blasphemy law that", "title": "2009 Gojra riots" }, { "docid": "7232936", "text": "The Adventures of Hiram Holliday The Adventures of Hiram Holliday is an American adventure sitcom that aired on NBC from October 3, 1956 to February 27, 1957. Starring Wally Cox in the title role, the series is based on the 1939 novel of the same name by Paul Gallico. The series is similar to the book, and focuses on the adventures of a newspaper proofreader who through years of secret practice has gained James Bond-like skills in many forms of physical combat, shooting, and in activities as diverse as rock climbing and scuba diving. The proofreader, Hiram Holliday (Cox), was", "title": "The Adventures of Hiram Holliday" }, { "docid": "889365", "text": "he saw as the dangers of the Act. George III initially humoured Gordon, but grew increasingly irritated with him and eventually refused any future audiences. The political climate deteriorated rapidly. On 29 May 1780, Gordon called a meeting of the Protestant Association, and his followers subsequently marched on the House of Commons to deliver a petition demanding the repeal of the Act. After the first march to Parliament, further riots occurred involving groups whose grievances were nationalistic, economic, or political, rather than religious. Aside from the issue of Catholic emancipation, it has also been suggested that the driving force of", "title": "Gordon Riots" }, { "docid": "7219018", "text": "Champagne Riots The Champagne Riots of 1910 and 1911 resulted from a series of problems faced by grape growers in the Champagne area of France. These included four years of disastrous crop losses, the infestation of the phylloxera louse (which destroyed of vineyards that year alone), low income and the belief that wine merchants were using grapes from outside the Champagne region. The precipitating event may have been the announcement in 1908 by the French government that it would delimit by decree the exact geographic area that would be granted economic advantage and protection by being awarded the Champagne appellation.", "title": "Champagne Riots" }, { "docid": "13856200", "text": "scattered around Sivakasi leaving 3 Nadars dead. Eventually the riots came to an end after the intervention of the military in mid-July 1899. Sivakasi riots of 1899 The Sivakasi riots of 1899 are a series of communal disturbances which occurred during 6 June 1899 in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India. The Nadar historian Samuel Sargunar claimed that the Nadars are the descendants of the ancient rulers of Pandyan kingdom and that when Nayak rulers captured the Pandya country, they divided the country into several \"Palayams\" (divisions) and appointed Palaiyakkars as rulers. The Nayak rulers of Tamil Nadu, as per the claims", "title": "Sivakasi riots of 1899" }, { "docid": "14214547", "text": "as himself. When Andre (Leon G. Thomas III) reveals that he will be hosting a party at Thompson's house, Rex the puppet sings part of the \"What Up with That\" theme song. In addition to these sketches, Diondre Cole, the backup dancer, and the saxophonist appeared in the monologue of the April 17, 2010 episode hosted by Ryan Phillippe, where he questions why MacGruber has a movie while he does not. What Up with That \"What Up with That?\" is a recurring sketch on the NBC television series \"Saturday Night Live\" which first aired in 2009. It stars Kenan Thompson", "title": "What Up with That" }, { "docid": "5047973", "text": "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street is Theodor Seuss Geisel's first children's book. It was published under the pen name Dr. Seuss. First published by Vanguard Press in 1937, the story follows a boy named Marco, who describes a parade of imaginary people and vehicles traveling along a road, Mulberry Street, in an elaborate fantasy story he dreams up to tell his father at the end of his walk. However, when he arrives home he decides instead to tell his father what he actually saw—a simple", "title": "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" }, { "docid": "17397481", "text": "reaction to the criticisms, the journal Samwad apologised for publishing the poem. Azad Maidan riots Azad Maidan Riots was initially a protest organized in Azad Maidan on 11 August 2012 to condemn the Rakhine riots and Assam riots, which later turned into a riot. The riot reportedly began as the crowd got angry either after hearing an inflammatory speech or after seeing photographs of Assam violence and Rakhine state riots. The riot resulted in two deaths and injuries to 54 people including 45 policemen. Mumbai Police estimated that the riots caused a loss of 2.74 crore in damages to public", "title": "Azad Maidan riots" }, { "docid": "16337841", "text": "Tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2012 On March 2 and 3, 2012, a deadly tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States into the Ohio Valley region. The storms resulted in 41 tornado-related fatalities, 22 of which occurred in Kentucky. Tornado-related deaths also occurred in Alabama, Indiana, and Ohio. The outbreak was the second deadliest in early March for the U.S. since official records began in 1950; only the 1966 Candlestick Park tornado had a higher death toll for a tornadic system in early March. February 2012 was more active than normal in terms of the", "title": "Tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2012" }, { "docid": "12508176", "text": "to what should have been a central issue: the use of excessive force, including shooting into a crowd with bursts of automatic-weapon fire.\" 1990 Temple Mount riots The 1990 Temple Mount riots, or the Al Aqsa Massacre, also known as Black Monday, was an event that took place at the Temple Mount, Jerusalem at 10:30 am on Monday, 8 October 1990 before Zuhr prayer during the third year of the First Intifada. They began after a decision by the Temple Mount Faithful to lay a cornerstone at the site, and Arab rioting against Jewish worshippers. The riots resulted in the", "title": "1990 Temple Mount riots" }, { "docid": "16337881", "text": "people were injured by this tornado along its 49-mile long path. Tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2012 On March 2 and 3, 2012, a deadly tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States into the Ohio Valley region. The storms resulted in 41 tornado-related fatalities, 22 of which occurred in Kentucky. Tornado-related deaths also occurred in Alabama, Indiana, and Ohio. The outbreak was the second deadliest in early March for the U.S. since official records began in 1950; only the 1966 Candlestick Park tornado had a higher death toll for a tornadic system in early March.", "title": "Tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2012" }, { "docid": "17082549", "text": "and burnt him to death. The municipal corporation by-election scheduled for 22 September was postponed. The first curfew relaxation on the next day resulted in 30 deaths within the first 3 hours. According to the Justice Reddy Commission set up by the Congress Government to investigate the riots, the Hindu nationalist organizations like RSS, Hindu Mahasabha and Jan Sangh were involved in the riots. The Justice Jaganmohan Reddy Commission of Enquiry was set up by the Government of Gujarat's Home Department. It published a report in 1971, questioning the police's role in the riots. It found around six instances of", "title": "1969 Gujarat riots" }, { "docid": "17575212", "text": "to anti-Asian activists becoming concerned with the growing Asian population during the summer of 1907 (Lee, 551). The Vancouver race riots resulted in restrictive legislation, In 1907–1908, 2,623 Indians and South Asians entered Canada. In 1908–1909, only six South Asian immigrants entered Canada. The riots resulted in more attention focused on Asian immigration policies within the United States and Canada. Pacific Coast race riots of 1907 The Pacific Coast race riots were a series of riots that took place within the United States and Canada. The riots, which resulted in violence, were the result of anti-Asian tension caused by white", "title": "Pacific Coast race riots of 1907" }, { "docid": "2539982", "text": "1921 Jaffa riots The Jaffa riots (commonly known in ) was a series of violent riots in Mandatory Palestine on May 1–7, 1921, which began as a fight between two Jewish groups but developed into an attack by Arabs on Jews during which many were killed. The rioting began in Jaffa and spread to other parts of the country. The riot resulted in the deaths of 47 Jews and 48 Arabs. Another 146 Jews and 73 Arabs were wounded. On the night of 1 May 1921, the Jewish Communist Party (precursor of the Palestine Communist Party) distributed Arabic and Yiddish", "title": "1921 Jaffa riots" }, { "docid": "20701996", "text": "encounter.\" Betty Holliday Elizabeth Gertrude Holliday (23 May 1925—3 April 2011), known professionally as Betty Holliday and Betty Holliday Deckoff, was an American visual artist and educator who was active on Long Island, New York, and in New York City. Her most well-known works are large figurative paintings and drawings. Her early paintings were dominated by color, as she was trained when Abstract Expressionism was the dominant American art movement; later she became interested in photography and, as a result, experimented in \"decolorizing\" her paintings and drawings. Betty Holliday was the youngest daughter of Gertrude Holliday and George Alvin Holliday", "title": "Betty Holliday" }, { "docid": "20701987", "text": "Betty Holliday Elizabeth Gertrude Holliday (23 May 1925—3 April 2011), known professionally as Betty Holliday and Betty Holliday Deckoff, was an American visual artist and educator who was active on Long Island, New York, and in New York City. Her most well-known works are large figurative paintings and drawings. Her early paintings were dominated by color, as she was trained when Abstract Expressionism was the dominant American art movement; later she became interested in photography and, as a result, experimented in \"decolorizing\" her paintings and drawings. Betty Holliday was the youngest daughter of Gertrude Holliday and George Alvin Holliday (1887–1970);", "title": "Betty Holliday" }, { "docid": "7219033", "text": "but the classification system still serves as an aid in determining prices with Grand and Premier crus vineyards receiving considerably more for their grapes than vineyards in villages with ratings below 90%. Champagne Riots The Champagne Riots of 1910 and 1911 resulted from a series of problems faced by grape growers in the Champagne area of France. These included four years of disastrous crop losses, the infestation of the phylloxera louse (which destroyed of vineyards that year alone), low income and the belief that wine merchants were using grapes from outside the Champagne region. The precipitating event may have been", "title": "Champagne Riots" }, { "docid": "17985732", "text": "Miss World riots The Miss World riots were a series of religiously-motivated riots in the Nigerian city of Kaduna in November 2002, claiming the lives of more than 200 people. The Miss World beauty pageant, that was controversial in Nigeria, was relocated to London after bloody clashes between Muslims and Christians, caused by what some Muslims deemed to be a \"blasphemous\" article in the Christian newspaper \"ThisDay\" about the event. The Miss World riots were part of the Sharia conflict in Nigeria, that started in 1999 when several predominantly Islamic states in Northern Nigeria decided to introduce Sharia law. Because", "title": "Miss World riots" }, { "docid": "17778766", "text": "1 December 2013 Euromaidan riots A series of riots occurred in several locations of downtown Kiev, Ukraine, on 1 December 2013 in response to a police crackdown on Euromaidan's protesters and journalist on the night of 30 November. The day saw the highest numbers of journalists injured by police in a single event since Ukraine's independence regain in 1991. Also, 1 December became the first instance of a public building being occupied by protesters in modern history of the country. On the night of 30 November 2013 at 04:00, armed with batons, stun grenades, and tear gas, Berkut special police", "title": "1 December 2013 Euromaidan riots" }, { "docid": "16462903", "text": "1562 Riots of Toulouse The 1562 Riots of Toulouse are a series of events (occurring largely in the span of a week) that pitted members of the Reformed Church of France (often called Huguenots) against members of the Roman Catholic Church in violent clashes that ended with the deaths of between 3,000–5,000 citizens of the French city of Toulouse. These events exhibit the tensions that would soon explode into full civil war during the French Wars of Religion. The history and political structure of Toulouse played a significant part in the tensions that led to the riots in 1562. The", "title": "1562 Riots of Toulouse" }, { "docid": "11276919", "text": "also concluded that the majority of first rioters were high school students who began taking their frustration out on white business owners. Once the riots started, however, witnesses said that the riots expanded and multiple adults joined the teenage rioters. No evidence was found that concluded anyone intentionally set fire to a black-owned business or residence. The riots resulted in over 125 fires and 210 buildings being damaged, totaling $10 million worth of damages. Power lines and telephone lines all around the city were knocked out. In the first two days of rioting, police reported multiple civilian deaths but were", "title": "1968 Chicago riots" }, { "docid": "16023629", "text": "Driver deaths in British motorsport series Motorsport of any type, or at any level, is dangerous by its very nature. However the nature of the media often means that only deaths in high-profile series, with mainstream TV coverage, are reported in the press. For example, the deaths of Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli within a week of each other in 2011, received significant press attention while other recent deaths did not. This can give a misleading impression to the general public as to the number of deaths that occur in the sport as a whole. The list below shows drivers", "title": "Driver deaths in British motorsport series" }, { "docid": "16218034", "text": "judges and competitors through a series of exhibitions. The first stop was Clearwater, Florida, Florida, then progressed on to Providence, Rhode Island, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ended in New York City. Holliday qualified for the National Championships that year and finished in 13th place. Holliday's 4th National appearance was at the 1993 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, held at the US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Holliday's 5th and final National appearance was at the 1994 United States Figure Skating Championships, held at the Joe Louis Arena and as memorable as that event was (the attack on Nancy Kerrigan) for Holliday the", "title": "Larry Holliday" }, { "docid": "17207861", "text": "area. As false rumours about his death spread, Muslim mobs came out in open, followed by the Hindu mobs, and the violence spread. The violence lasted for ten weeks, and resulted in 200 to 300 deaths; thousands were injured. Not a single rioter was arrested. Chief Minister Marri Chenna Reddy, a member of the Indian National Congress, claimed that the riot had been engineered by his rivals in his own party, who wanted to oust him. 1990 Hyderabad riots 1990 Hyderabad riots were riots that occurred in Hyderabad of Telangana, the then Andhra Pradesh state of India in 1990. The", "title": "1990 Hyderabad riots" }, { "docid": "6414053", "text": "arrest King. The officers stated that King resisted arrest and Officers Powell, Wind and Briseño had to use force to subdue him. The incident was videotaped by a nearby resident, George Holliday, who sold it to local TV station KTLA. The station aired parts of the video and CNN aired it the next day. The police officers were tried for the use of excessive force in state court in Simi Valley in 1992 and acquitted on April 29 that year. Later the same day the 1992 Los Angeles riots erupted, which went on to claim the lives of sixty-three people.", "title": "Stacey Koon" }, { "docid": "2029590", "text": "where he thought the gambling opportunities were better. Holliday finally joined the Earps in Tombstone in September 1880. Some accounts report that the Earps sent for Holliday for assistance with dealing with the outlaw Cowboys. Holliday quickly became embroiled in the local politics and violence that led up to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in October 1881. Holliday and Horony had many fights. After a particularly nasty, drunken argument, Holliday kicked her out. County Sheriff Johnny Behan and Milt Joyce saw an opportunity and exploited the situation. They plied Horony with more booze and suggested to her a way", "title": "Doc Holliday" }, { "docid": "16218027", "text": "separated the top 3 medalists. On April 14, 2012 at the 2012 U.S. Adult Championships, in Bensenville, Illinois, Holliday won his sixth national title. Skating to \"While My Guitar Gently Weeps\", Holliday had an emotional win and a score of 51.55. The Championship junior-senior men's event at the 2013 U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships in Scottsdale, Arizona featured a triple jump for the first time in years, with Holliday landing a triple Salchow. Unfortunately mounting mistakes later in the program kept him from defending the title. Skating to Casablanca, Holliday won the Open Master Senior Men gold medal at the", "title": "Larry Holliday" }, { "docid": "14214542", "text": "What Up with That \"What Up with That?\" is a recurring sketch on the NBC television series \"Saturday Night Live\" which first aired in 2009. It stars Kenan Thompson as Diondre Cole, host of a talk show on BET. Supporting characters include Taran Killam as the show's announcer (originally Will Forte), Vanessa Bayer (originally Jenny Slate) and Cecily Strong (originally Nasim Pedrad) as backup singers/dancers Pippa and Piper, respectively, Fred Armisen as Giuseppe, a Kenny G-like saxophone player, and Jason Sudeikis as Vance, an overzealous backup dancer. The sketch has incorporated unannounced cameo appearances by a number of celebrities. In", "title": "What Up with That" }, { "docid": "13914364", "text": "according to their usual habitat. The accompanying text included brief notes on distribution, breeding and behaviour. While initial sales were poor, history tells us that Cayley had accurately discerned a market need and successfully responded to it. During WWII sales accelerated and Cayley’s first collection, reprinted time and time again, eventually became a household name among birdwatchers and the book was recognised as an Australian classic. The original sponsorship of \"What Bird is That?\" proved a great investment for the Gould League, who benefited from the sale of its numerous reprints and revised editions. By 1960, it was rated the", "title": "What Bird is That?" }, { "docid": "3695364", "text": "Research designs a new series of robots, the JG series, nicknamed \"George\", to investigate the problem. The intent is that the George machines will begin by obeying all orders and gradually learn to discriminate rationally, thus becoming able to function in Earth's society. As their creator explains to George Ten, the Three Laws refer to \"human beings\" without further elaboration, but—quoting Psalm 8:4—\"What is Man that thou art mindful of Him?\" George Ten considers the issue and informs his creator that he cannot progress further without conversing with George Nine, the robot constructed immediately before him. Together, the two Georges", "title": ". . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him" }, { "docid": "16218033", "text": "1991. He finished in 7th place at that event. By the summer of 1991 more sponsors came out in support of Holliday's cause. The business man Robert Crown from a wealthy Chicago family agreed to donate $20,000 toward Holliday's training expenses. From the generosity of the prominent businessman from Chicago, Holliday and his coach Les Hanson set out for the East Coast in the month of October. Since the U.S. Nationals were to be held in Orlando, Florida at the Amway Arena in January 1992, coach Hanson thought it would be wise to get better acquainted with the east coast", "title": "Larry Holliday" }, { "docid": "13639961", "text": "into law by a dictator, who politicized religion to make up for his own lack of legitimacy.” 2009 Gojra riots The 2009 Gojra riots were a series of attacks targeting Christians in Gojra town in Punjab province of Pakistan. These resulted in the deaths of eight Christians including four women and a child. Christians make up 1.6% of Pakistan's predominantly Sunni Muslim population of 210 million people. Gojra, which is located in the Toba Tek Singh District of Pakistan's Punjab province, has a relatively high number of Christians. Although the two communities generally live peacefully, Muslims have intermittently targeted churches", "title": "2009 Gojra riots" }, { "docid": "6238617", "text": "mounted police and German tanks, taken from Germany after World War I, were used indiscriminately by the police and army despite the fact there were women and children in attendance. The article suggested that the deaths and injuries were the result of police acting to break up the celebration, and that overall, there were 130 sentenced and/or fined. May Day riots of 1919 The May Day riots of 1919 were a series of violent demonstrations that occurred throughout Cleveland, Ohio on May 1 (May Day), 1919. The riots occurred during the May Day parade organised by Socialist leader Charles Ruthenberg,", "title": "May Day riots of 1919" }, { "docid": "18699791", "text": "Cecil Holliday Cecil Holliday was the Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council in 1906. He also served as commandant of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps. Holliday was born in Kersemoor, Manchester in 1857, the youngest son of John Holliday. Holliday moved to Shanghai in the early 1877 to join Messrs Holliday, Wise & Co., a partnership that had been established by his father soon after China opened to trade in 1842. He was a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps and was promoted through its ranks eventually becoming commandant on two occasions. He was elected to and became chairman of the", "title": "Cecil Holliday" }, { "docid": "16784429", "text": "Jack Holliday John William \"Jack\" Holliday (19 December 1908 – 1987) was an English football forward who played in the Football League for Brentford and Middlesbrough. In 2013 Holliday was voted by the Brentford supporters as the club's fourth-greatest ever player and he holds the club record for most goals in a season. He was posthumously inducted into the Brentford Hall of Fame in 2015. A forward, Holliday joined hometown club Middlesbrough in March 1930. Behind George Camsell in the pecking order, he spent most of his time in the club's reserve team, winning the North Eastern League title with", "title": "Jack Holliday" }, { "docid": "16566403", "text": "Jubilee riots The Jubilee riots of 1875 were an outbreak of Protestant-Catholic sectarian violence in Toronto. The riots happened during a series of Catholic religious pilgrimages related to the Jubilee year declared by Pope Pius IX. The first riot occurred on September 22, during a pilgrims' march to the bishop's palace at St. Michael's Cathedral. The parade had been advertised in the \"Irish Canadian\" newspaper, which led a group of opponents to petition Mayor Francis Henry Medcalf to have the event banned. It proceeded, however, with a pledge from the Catholic clergy that is would remain \"quiet, peaceful, and Christian\".", "title": "Jubilee riots" }, { "docid": "16077960", "text": "however, with motorcycle racing suffering more instances than car racing. This is largely due to the nature of motorcycle riding and lack of protection it affords a rider in the event of a crash. Deaths in motorsport can be categorised as follows. This section covers all driver deaths in car or truck racing events. These have either taken place at racing cirucits or oval racing venues. Deaths in all series and in all types of vehicles are included, from club or national level series to high-profile events like Formula 1 and Champ Car. This covers rider deaths in all forms", "title": "Deaths in motorsport" }, { "docid": "5732968", "text": "at that point, but scored seven runs to win, 7–1. Eventually, the Giants won the series. The Missouri Athletic Club named Holliday their Sports Personality of the Year for 2012. Holliday hit a grand slam on June 9, 2013, during a seven-run 10th inning against the Reds in an 11–4 victory. He left the July 11 game against the Cubs early because of a tightened right hamstring sustained while running to first base, prompting the Cardinals to place him on the DL. He returned July 27 against the Braves. In another game against the Reds on August 26, Holliday's three-run", "title": "Matt Holliday" }, { "docid": "7284280", "text": "5, 1993 on Country Music Television. The video featured Twain dancing around on the beach. The video is available on Twain's DVD \"The Platinum Collection\". \"What Made You Say That\" debuted on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart the week of March 27, 1993 at number 74. It spent 18 weeks on the chart and climbed to a peak position of number 55 on May 15, 1993, where it remained for two weeks. Side 1 Side 2 What Made You Say That \"What Made You Say That\" is a song by Canadian singer Shania Twain. It was the", "title": "What Made You Say That" }, { "docid": "17209132", "text": "At the end of October, a series of stabbings and killings resulted in at least 14 deaths. The riots happened during the chief ministership of the Congress leader V. P. Singh. The Union Minister Yogendra Makwana blamed the violence on the RSS, Jan Sangh and BJP. The Prime Minister Indira Gandhi suggested that \"foreign forces\" (referring to Pakistan) and \"communal parties\" were behind the violence. The Times of India editor Girilal Jain blamed the \"anti-social elements\" among the Muslims were partly responsible for the violence, and criticized the Muslim leaders for not admitting to the facts and instead blaming the", "title": "1980 Moradabad riots" }, { "docid": "2029579", "text": "ask gambler Doc Holliday, who had played cards with Rudabaugh. Holliday told Earp that Rudabaugh was headed back to Kansas. After about a month in Fort Griffin, Earp returned to Fort Clark and in early 1878, he went to Dodge City, where he became the assistant city marshal, serving under Charlie Bassett. During the summer of 1878, Holliday and Harony also arrived in Dodge City, where they stayed at Deacon Cox's boardinghouse as Dr. and Mrs. John H. Holliday. Holliday sought to practice dentistry again, and ran an ad in the local paper: According to accounts of the following event", "title": "Doc Holliday" }, { "docid": "12198551", "text": "Am I That Easy to Forget \"Am I That Easy to Forget\" is the title of a popular song written by country music singer Carl Belew and W.S. Stevenson and published in 1958. Belew recorded his song in Nashville on December 17, 1958, and released the single in March 1959, where it reached number nine on the U.S. country music chart. Other country music artists who have recorded cover versions of the song include: Skeeter Davis (#11 country, 1960); Ernest Tubb (1960); Gene Vincent (1966); George Jones (1967); Patti Page (1968); Jim Reeves (#12 country, 1973); and Prairie Oyster (1991).", "title": "Am I That Easy to Forget" }, { "docid": "16463062", "text": "the whole celebration was seen with particular disgust by the Enlightenment writer Voltaire, who called it \"the procession to thank God for four thousand murders.\" 1562 Riots of Toulouse The 1562 Riots of Toulouse are a series of events (occurring largely in the span of a week) that pitted members of the Reformed Church of France (often called Huguenots) against members of the Roman Catholic Church in violent clashes that ended with the deaths of between 3,000–5,000 citizens of the French city of Toulouse. These events exhibit the tensions that would soon explode into full civil war during the French", "title": "1562 Riots of Toulouse" }, { "docid": "2029619", "text": "state that Holliday was buried in the Linwood Cemetery, but the exact location of his grave is uncertain. Holliday maintained a fierce persona as was sometimes needed for a gambler to earn respect. He had a contemporary reputation as a skilled gunfighter which modern historians generally regard as accurate. Tombstone resident George W. Parsons wrote that Holliday confronted Johnny Ringo in January 1882, telling him, \"All I want of you is ten paces out in the street.\" Ringo and he were prevented from a gunfight by the Tombstone police, who arrested both. During the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Holliday", "title": "Doc Holliday" }, { "docid": "7232941", "text": "hindsight of later events - some of which turned out to be wrong and others were quite accurate. George Ward notes that \"It is very evident that the Hiram Holliday saga was written in the direct aftermath of the Munich Agreement. It is clear where Gallico stood about Neville Chamberlain's policies of Appeasement. Holliday (and implicitly, Gallico) believes that the British have become soft and decadent, that they have lost the will to fight. The drunken debauched lord which Holliday sees in a night club is contrasted with the high ideals of Chivalry and the poetry of Chaucer(...) Where the", "title": "The Adventures of Hiram Holliday" }, { "docid": "13945106", "text": "statistics and its lack of technical grounding. \"What the Dog Saw\" debuted at #3 on the \"New York Times\" Bestseller List. It spent three weeks in the top 3 and a total of 16 weeks on the chart, appearing concurrently with Gladwell's previous book \"Outliers\". It was also an Amazon Top 25 seller for the month of November. \"What the Dog Saw\" was named to Bloomberg's top 50 business books of 2009. All of the articles in \"What the Dog Saw\" can be read for free on Gladwell's website. Part 1: \"Obsessives, Pioneers, and other varieties of Minor Genius\" Part", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "16023630", "text": "that have died racing in British national or club car racing series since 1970. The list only includes drivers to have died during a race and only those competing in British domestic series. The deaths are spread across the major existing circuits in the country, with only Knockhill and Rockingham Motor Speedway (opened 2001) not having any recorded driver deaths. + = Multiple drivers to have died in the same incident (see previous/following entry) Driver deaths in British motorsport series Motorsport of any type, or at any level, is dangerous by its very nature. However the nature of the media", "title": "Driver deaths in British motorsport series" }, { "docid": "8444986", "text": "Kylie Minogue\". These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of \"What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before)\". Minogue performed the song on the following concert tours: What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before) \"What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before)\" is a song recorded by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, released as the lead single from her first greatest hits album \"Greatest Hits\" (1992). The song was written by Mike Stock, Minogue and Pete Waterman, and produced by Stock and Waterman. It was Minogue's last original single to be released from the record", "title": "What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before)" }, { "docid": "13945107", "text": "2: \"Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses\" Part 3: \"Personality, Character, and Intelligence\" What the Dog Saw What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures is the fourth book released by author Malcolm Gladwell, on October 20, 2009. The book is a compilation of the journalist's articles published in \"The New Yorker\". Gladwell initially covered business and science in \"The Washington Post\" before joining the staff at \"The New Yorker\" in 1997. Each of the articles first appeared in \"The New Yorker\" and was handpicked by Gladwell. The stories share a common theme, namely that Gladwell tries to show us the world through", "title": "What the Dog Saw" }, { "docid": "2198358", "text": "Watts riots The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, an African-American motorist on parole for robbery, was pulled over for reckless driving. A minor roadside argument broke out, and then escalated into a fight with police. Community members reported that the police had hurt a pregnant woman, and six days of civil unrest followed. Nearly 4,000 members of the California Army National Guard helped suppress the disturbance, which resulted in 34 deaths and over $40 million", "title": "Watts riots" }, { "docid": "2029577", "text": "shot and seriously wounded the unarmed Holliday. On July 7, the \"Dallas Weekly Herald\" incorrectly reported that Holliday had been killed. His cousin, George Henry Holliday, moved west to help him recover. Once healed, Holliday relocated to Fort Griffin, Texas. While dealing cards at John Shanssey's saloon, he met Mary Katharine \"Big Nose Kate\" Horony, a dance hall woman and occasional prostitute. Her nose was a prominent feature. \"Tough, stubborn and fearless,\" she was educated, but chose to work as a prostitute because she liked her independence. She is the only woman with whom Holliday is known to have had", "title": "Doc Holliday" }, { "docid": "10685610", "text": "week 4 against the Philadelphia Eagles. 's NFL off-season, Trindon Holliday held at least 11 Broncos franchise records, including: On March 17, 2014, Holliday signed a one-year contract with the New York Giants. He was released on October 6, 2014. Holliday signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on October 21, 2014. He was waived/injured on October 31, 2014. On December 26, 2014, the San Francisco 49ers signed Holliday. He was released on April 30, 2015. On June 3, 2015, the Oakland Raiders signed Holliday. He was expected to compete with T. J. Carrie for the No. 1 returner job for", "title": "Trindon Holliday" }, { "docid": "9102962", "text": "the characters from his mentor's show, had won the role. He was eventually fired from the series due to ongoing concerns around his substance abuse. He has numerous television and movie appearances to his credit, including roles in \"\" (1987), CBS’s made-for-television movie \"\" (2000), \"Hope & Faith\" (2004), and \"\" (2005). He published a book of poetry in 1998 entitled \"The Book of K-III: The Contemporary Poetics of Kene Holliday\". Holliday became a traveling evangelist, and he and his wife spent the next decade preaching in gospel musicals. Holliday became round-the-clock caregiver for his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's", "title": "Kene Holliday" }, { "docid": "15559902", "text": "and geo-chronology of archaeological and non-archaeological sites. Holliday also spent his time in Madison, Wisconsin pursuing his interests in Paleoindian archaeology. This resulted in a series of papers on late Quaternary stratigraphy, paleoenvironments and Paleoindian geo-archaeology. This series of papers gave way to Holliday’s 1995 Geological Society of America book, Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of Late Quaternary Valley Fills, as well as his 1997 book titled Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains. Holliday also devoted some of time to the application of his ideas on using soils in geoarchaeological research, on which he wrote a book, Soils in Archaeological Research,", "title": "Vance T. Holliday" }, { "docid": "15941824", "text": "1991 Handsworth riots The third Handsworth riot occurred on 2 September 1991 in Handsworth, an inner-city area of Birmingham, when a power cut plunged the area into darkness and sparked a looting spree in local shops. 200 police officers in riot gear were called in to bring the unrest under control. Hundreds of shops and houses were looted and cars were stolen. This occurred around the same time as rioting in Oxford, Dudley, Tyneside and Cardiff. This was the third time in a decade that Handsworth had been the scene of major rioting, following a riot in 1981 and the", "title": "1991 Handsworth riots" }, { "docid": "17431098", "text": "1991 in Shooto The year 1991 is the 3rd year in the history of Shooto, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the Japan. In 1991 Shooto held 7 events beginning with, \"Shooto: Shooto\". Shooto: Shooto was an event held on January 13, 1991, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Shooto: Shooto was an event held on March 29, 1991, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Shooto: Shooto was an event held on May 31, 1991, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Shooto: Shooto was an event held on August 3, 1991, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Shooto: Shooto", "title": "1991 in Shooto" }, { "docid": "5732997", "text": "Sox manager John Farrell. Farrell pitched for Tom Holliday at OSU, helping propel them to four College World Series appearances. When Matt and Josh were still toddlers, Farrell often babysat them when their parents went out. Years later, when Matt Holliday was a member of the Rockies team that played the Red Sox in the 2007 World Series, Farrell was the Red Sox pitching coach. Six years after that, as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals, Holliday again played against Farrell. This time, he was the Red Sox manager. In both Series, however, Farrell's teams were victorious over Holliday's.", "title": "Matt Holliday" }, { "docid": "14487834", "text": "referred to as a \"second season\", was very quiet. The Andover, Kansas outbreak of April 26, 1991 was famous for its violent tornadoes, incredible video and is the signature event of this tornado season. 1991 saw one F5 tornado touch down in Kansas. Confirmed tornado total for the entire year 1991 in the United States. There were 29 tornadoes confirmed in the US in January. There were 11 tornadoes confirmed in the US in February. There were 157 tornadoes confirmed in the US in March. Late March saw several small to moderate outbreaks. Tornadoes on March 22 killed six people", "title": "Tornadoes of 1991" }, { "docid": "16784433", "text": "1930s, playing his last professional game for the club on the final day of the 1938–39 season, a 2–0 defeat to Arsenal at Highbury. The breakout of the Second World War in September 1939 saw professional football suspended, but Holliday remained with the club through the war years, making his final appearance against Reading on the final day of the 1943–44 season. In seven years of competitive football with Brentford, Holliday scored 119 goals in 223 games. Only two players have surpassed Holliday's goalscoring record for the club (Jim Towers and George Francis) and his 9 hattricks in league matches", "title": "Jack Holliday" }, { "docid": "16218031", "text": "12th place in the Compulsory figures event and 10th overall. His overall 10th-place finish at the Nationals qualified him for the 1990 U.S. Olympic Festival competition, held at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota July 7–8, 1990. During the summer of 1990 a group of sponsors put forth a major effort to get Holliday to the 1992 Winter Olympics. There were dozens of articles on Holliday, countless radio spots, and at least four different television reports, including a segment on the Today show (Sportsman of the Week, narrated by Deborah Norville). Father George Clements and Alderman Danny K. Davis (29th", "title": "Larry Holliday" }, { "docid": "2029614", "text": "be repaid, Holliday could not comply. He knew Allen was armed, and when Allen appeared ready to attack him, he shot him, wounding him in the arm. Holliday was arrested and put on trial. He claimed self-defense, noting that Allen outweighed him by 50 pounds and he feared for his life. A witness testified that Allen had been armed and in Hyman's earlier in the day apparently looking for Holliday. On March 28, 1885, the jury acquitted Holliday. In 1887, prematurely gray and badly ailing, Holliday made his way to the Hotel Glenwood, near the hot springs of Glenwood Springs,", "title": "Doc Holliday" }, { "docid": "17381022", "text": "to put down disturbances like these. This law strengthened magistrates powers and allowed Justices of the Peace to disperse demonstrations without fear of prosecution. In September and early October the government arrested the leading Tories in fear of a Jacobite rising. The Jacobite rising of 1715 resulted in failure. 1715 England riots In the spring and summer of 1715 a series of riots occurred in England, protesting against the first Hanoverian king of Britain, George I and his new Whig government. The rioters often attacked Dissenting chapels (the Dissenters were allied to the Whigs). The riots occurred on symbolic days:", "title": "1715 England riots" }, { "docid": "14620701", "text": "Zamfara State lead poisoning epidemic A series of lead poisonings in Zamfara State, Nigeria, led to the deaths of at least 163 people between March and June 2010, including 111 children. Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health figures, state the discovery of 355 cases with 46 percent proving fatal. This is one of the many lead poisoning epidemics with low and middle income countries. An annual immunization programme in Northern Nigeria led to the discovery of a high number of child deaths in the area. An investigation showed that they had been digging for gold at the times of their deaths,", "title": "Zamfara State lead poisoning epidemic" }, { "docid": "8253143", "text": "the character of Tom Schofield, great-nephew of Ena Sharples. Episodes #1286 (14 May), #1287 (16 May), #1288 (21 May), #1289 (23 May), and #1291 (30 May). Episode # 1289 appears on the Coronation Street 1973 Classic 8 Episodes DVD. Holliday was a five-time nominee and four-time winner of the Carbonell Award for Best Actor in Musicals: Holliday died from cancer on March 26, 1999. David Holliday David Holliday (August 4, 1937March 26, 1999) was an American Broadway actor and television voice actor. He is best known as the voice of Virgil Tracy, pilot of \"Thunderbird 2\", in the first series", "title": "David Holliday" }, { "docid": "3570712", "text": "not re-tried. While the police were criticized for racism by the community, Heather Mac Donald wrote that \"only three of the 15 cases raise serious questions about officer misjudgment and excessive force.\" She said most of the deaths resulted from defensive actions by police. In the last four shootings by the department, two of which were lethal, all the police officers were black. Mac Donald also wrote that the incidence of police shootings was comparable to other cities of the same size, and below those in St. Louis, Missouri. Three weeks before the riots, the American Civil Liberties Union and", "title": "Cincinnati riots of 2001" }, { "docid": "17831989", "text": "Stuart Holliday Stuart W. Holliday is the President and CEO of the Meridian International Center, nonprofit organization that works with the U.S. Department of State, U.S. embassies, governments, public and private sector organizations, and leaders worldwide to promote global diplomacy, leadership development, educational, cultural exchanges, and diplomatic policy programs. Holliday is the former U.S. Ambassador for Special Political Affairs at the United Nations and Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, and Associate Director of Presidential Personnel. Stuart Holliday was born in Malawi, the son of United States diplomats. He attended Avon Old Farms School in Avon, Connecticut. He obtained", "title": "Stuart Holliday" }, { "docid": "9979093", "text": "cold. Eric is woken up by a thunderstorm and is worried about Tillie and the birthday train. After Tillie regains consciousness, she pulls the train out of the snow using her cowcatcher as a snowplow and down the mountain before they reach the town, much to Eric's delight and Jill's amazement. Although very tired from her long and adventurous journey over the mountain, Tillie is very proud and happy and tells her best friend Chip that she did what she could. The Little Engine That Could (1991 film) The Little Engine that Could is a 1991 animated direct-to-video short film", "title": "The Little Engine That Could (1991 film)" }, { "docid": "2029567", "text": "age 36. Holliday's colorful life and character have been depicted in many books and portrayed by well-known actors in numerous movies and television series. Since his death, researchers have concluded that, contrary to popular myth-making, Holliday killed only one or two men. Holliday was born in Griffin, Georgia, to Henry Burroughs Holliday and Alice Jane (McKey) Holliday. He was of English and Scottish ancestry. His father served in the Mexican–American War and the Civil War (as a Confederate). When the Mexican–American War ended, Henry brought home an adopted son named Francisco and taught Holliday to shoot. Holliday was baptized at", "title": "Doc Holliday" }, { "docid": "4719509", "text": "the crowd, killing three former soldiers: Sergeant Adjetey, Corporal Attipoe and Private Odartey Lamptey. Apart from the three fatalities, a further 60 ex-servicemen were wounded. In response to this violence, the population of Accra erupted into five days of rioting, in which both Asian and European-owned stores and businesses were looted and more deaths occurred. By 1 March, the Governor had declared a state of emergency and a new Riot Act was put in place. The British colonial government set up the Watson Commission, which examined the circumstances surrounding the riots, and paved the way for constitutional changes that eventually", "title": "1948 Accra riots" }, { "docid": "8444980", "text": "What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before) \"What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before)\" is a song recorded by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, released as the lead single from her first greatest hits album \"Greatest Hits\" (1992). The song was written by Mike Stock, Minogue and Pete Waterman, and produced by Stock and Waterman. It was Minogue's last original single to be released from the record label PWL, as although \"Celebration\" was released as the last single, it was a cover version, not an original single. The single was released on 10 August 1992 as a CD", "title": "What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before)" }, { "docid": "5732984", "text": "the Toronto Blue Jays. He became the 93rd player in major league history to reach that milestone along with 2,000 hits. On June 28, Holliday was placed on the 10-day disabled list due to a viral infection. On July 5, it was revealed that Holliday tested positive for an Epstein-Barr virus, a symptom associated with mononucleosis. He hit a game-tying home run in the ninth inning versus Craig Kimbrel of the Boston Red Sox on July 15, which the Yankees eventually won in 16 innings, 4−1. On August 6, Holliday was again placed on the 10-day disabled list due to", "title": "Matt Holliday" }, { "docid": "9159231", "text": "Like\" was then released as the band's lead single on Martin-Smith's own label, \"Dance UK\", on July 15, 1991, with \"Waiting Around\" appearing as the B-side, and \"Take That and Party\" being sidelined for release on the band's debut album. The single, despite being at #82, was enough for the band to be noticed by RCA Records, who signed them up to their label, and got them in contact with one of their most prolific songwriters, Graham Stack. Stack and Barlow then co-wrote the band's debut single on RCA, \"Promises\", which was released on November 18, 1991, with \"Do What", "title": "Take That & Party" }, { "docid": "12569482", "text": "2015 that resulted in its closure, Merlin Entertainment announced on 5 June 2015 that they were closing Saw – The Ride and two other roller coasters at Chessington World of Adventures for the \"foreseeable future\" while safety protocols and procedures are being evaluated. The ride eventually reopened on 9 July 2015. Saw – The Ride Saw – The Ride is a Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter roller coaster located at Thorpe Park in the United Kingdom. Designed by Merlin Studios and manufactured by Gerstlauer, the roller coaster opened to the public on 14 March 2009. The ride is themed to the \"Saw\" film", "title": "Saw – The Ride" }, { "docid": "17575207", "text": "Pacific Coast race riots of 1907 The Pacific Coast race riots were a series of riots that took place within the United States and Canada. The riots, which resulted in violence, were the result of anti-Asian tension caused by white opposition to the increasing Asian population during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The riots took place in San Francisco, California; Bellingham, Washington; and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Each city and anti-Asian activist group held its own unique reasoning for their specific riot. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States was experiencing a wave of", "title": "Pacific Coast race riots of 1907" } ]
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Doctor Julius Hibbert is the resident General Practitioner on what TV series?
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[ { "docid": "742857", "text": "Dr. Hibbert Dr. Julius M. Hibbert, usually referred to as Dr. Hibbert, is a recurring character on the animated series \"The Simpsons\". His speaking voice is provided by Harry Shearer and his singing voice was by Thurl Ravenscroft, and he first appeared in the episode \"Bart the Daredevil\". Dr. Hibbert is Springfield's most prominent and competent doctor, though he sometimes makes no effort to hide or makes light of his high prices. Dr. Hibbert is very good-natured, and is known for finding a reason to laugh at nearly every situation. Dr. Hibbert is the Simpsons' (usually) kind-hearted family doctor, a", "title": "Dr. Hibbert" }, { "docid": "742868", "text": "season episode \"Trilogy of Error\", in which Marge accidentally severs Homer's thumb, she expresses disappointment with how Hibbert handles Homer's plight and attempts to go to Riviera instead. Dr. Hibbert Dr. Julius M. Hibbert, usually referred to as Dr. Hibbert, is a recurring character on the animated series \"The Simpsons\". His speaking voice is provided by Harry Shearer and his singing voice was by Thurl Ravenscroft, and he first appeared in the episode \"Bart the Daredevil\". Dr. Hibbert is Springfield's most prominent and competent doctor, though he sometimes makes no effort to hide or makes light of his high prices.", "title": "Dr. Hibbert" } ]
[ { "docid": "20150752", "text": "mixed reviews. USA Today rated the series 1/2 out of 4 stars stating \"It's a shame, because it's a waste of the talents of Czuchry and VanCamp (Revenge), two usually appealing TV veterans\" and \"\"The Resident\" can't save itself\". Meanwhile, TV Line rated the series a B+ and said, \"The Resident takes a hard look at the thorny ethical issues surrounding today's health-care providers.\" The first season was also often compared to ABC's medical drama, \"The Good Doctor\". The series also proved to be unpopular with medical officials. A current medical student stated \"It harms the public by grossly misrepresenting", "title": "The Resident (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20150744", "text": "14-episode season and renewed the series for a second season on May 7, 2018. The first season officially concluded on May 14, 2018. During the 2017–2018 United States television season, the series ranked #41 and averaged 7.02 million viewers. The second season premiered on September 24, 2018. The series revolves around the lives and actions of staff members at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital located in Atlanta, Georgia, primarily those of third-year resident internist, Conrad Hawkins; first-year medical intern, Devon Pravesh, who is assigned to Hawkins; as well as Nicolette \"Nic\" Nevin, a nurse practitioner and Hawkins' love interest. Exploring the", "title": "The Resident (TV series)" }, { "docid": "1615517", "text": "(international medical graduates (IMGs)). General practitioner In the medical profession, a general practitioner (GP) is a medical doctor who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients. A general practitioner manages types of illness that present in an undifferentiated way at an early stage of development, which may require urgent intervention. The holistic approach of general practice aims to take into consideration the biological, psychological, and social factors relevant to the care of each patient's illness. Their duties are not confined to specific organs of the body, and they have particular skills in treating", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "1615474", "text": "General practitioner In the medical profession, a general practitioner (GP) is a medical doctor who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients. A general practitioner manages types of illness that present in an undifferentiated way at an early stage of development, which may require urgent intervention. The holistic approach of general practice aims to take into consideration the biological, psychological, and social factors relevant to the care of each patient's illness. Their duties are not confined to specific organs of the body, and they have particular skills in treating people with multiple health", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "1615498", "text": "of working day”. There is an NHS England initiative to situate GPs in or near hospital emergency departments to divert minor cases away from A&E and reduce pressure on emergency services. 97 hospital trusts have been allocated money, mostly for premises alterations or development. A medical practitioner is a type of doctor. The population of this type of medical practitioner is declining, however. Currently, the United States Navy has many of these general practitioners, known as General Medical Officers or GMOs, in active practice. The GMO is an inherent concept to all military medical branches. GMOs are the gatekeepers of", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "20150753", "text": "core concepts of medicine\". A second medical student indirectly called the series unrealistic. The Resident (TV series) The Resident is an American medical drama television series aired by Fox Broadcasting Company that premiered on January 21, 2018, as a lead-out to the Vikings-Eagles NFC Championship, and as a mid-season replacement entry in the 2017–18 television season. The fictional series focuses on the lives and duties of staff members at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital, while delving into the bureaucratic practices of the hospital industry. The show was purchased by Fox from Showtime in 2017. It was created by Amy Holden Jones,", "title": "The Resident (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20150743", "text": "The Resident (TV series) The Resident is an American medical drama television series aired by Fox Broadcasting Company that premiered on January 21, 2018, as a lead-out to the Vikings-Eagles NFC Championship, and as a mid-season replacement entry in the 2017–18 television season. The fictional series focuses on the lives and duties of staff members at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital, while delving into the bureaucratic practices of the hospital industry. The show was purchased by Fox from Showtime in 2017. It was created by Amy Holden Jones, Hayley Schore, and Roshan Sethi. On May 10, 2017, Fox ordered a full", "title": "The Resident (TV series)" }, { "docid": "14979444", "text": "London (now Clock Court). The plot revolved around the trials of medical students at St Swithin's hospital in London. Well-known actors David Jason (\"Only Fools and Horses\"), and James Beck (\"Dad's Army\"), both appeared in the 1970 Series 2 episode: \"What Seems to be the Trouble?\". Series 1 Series 2 Doctor in the House (TV series) Doctor in the House is a British television comedy series based on a set of books and a film of the same name by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of medical students. It was produced by London Weekend Television from 1969", "title": "Doctor in the House (TV series)" }, { "docid": "1615499", "text": "medicine in that they hold the purse strings and decide upon the merit of specialist consultation. The US now holds a different definition for the term \"general practitioner\". The two terms \"general practitioner\" and \"family practice\" were synonymous prior to 1970. At that time both terms (if used within the US) referred to someone who completed medical school and the one-year required internship, and then worked as a general family doctor. Completion of a post-graduate specialty training program or residency in family medicine was, at that time, not a requirement. A physician who specializes in \"family medicine\" must now complete", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "1615502", "text": "a medical license without completion of residency. If one wanted to become a \"house-call-making\" type of physician, one still needs to only complete one or two years of a residency in either pediatrics, family medicine or internal medicine. This would make a physician a non-board eligible general practitioner able to qualify and obtain a license to practice medicine in 47 of the 50 United States of America. Since the establishment of the Board of Family Medicine, a family medicine physician is no longer the same as a general practitioner. What makes a Family Medicine Physician different than a General Practitioner/Physician", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "6625050", "text": "Northeast Medical Partners in Providence, Rhode Island. Most of the comedy surrounds Dr. Stratford's zany antics, tempered by his commitment to his profession and his patients. Though at first serving as \"straight men\" for Frewer's manic style of comic acting, the other characters gained more depth as the series progressed, and the plots sometimes focused on issues such as AIDS, breast cancer, and homophobia. Mike Stratford (Matt Frewer): General practitioner, novelist, and TV medical expert, Mike is devoted to his patients, sometimes offering his services for free, much to the consternation of his partners in the practice. His many responsibilities", "title": "Doctor Doctor (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "18518813", "text": "What Is Love (TV series) What Is Love () is a 2012 Taiwanese romantic-comedy television series. The television drama was produced by Bethel Video Productions Ltd, starring Wu Kang-jen and Jade Chou. The shooting began on April 9, 2012, and first aired on July 20, 2012 on TTV. Thirty-two-year-old Li Yi Hua (Jade Chou) is longing for a romantic relationship and wants to marry a good man. Along comes Bai Zong You (Chris Wu), who breaks women's hearts with one-night stands. Bai Zong You sets his sights on wooing Li Yi Hua next. What she doesn't know is that she", "title": "What Is Love (TV series)" }, { "docid": "19374408", "text": "the Silver Logie Award for Most Popular Drama Program, and, additional 2018 nominations consisted of the series winning twice for the Logie Award for Most Popular Drama Program and the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Drama Series. The series has not yet been the recipient of any awards. Doctor Doctor (Australian TV series) Doctor Doctor (also known outside of Australasia as The Heart Guy) is an Australian television drama that premiered on the Nine Network on 14 September 2016. It follows the story of Hugh Knight, a rising heart surgeon who is gifted, charming and infallible. He is a hedonist", "title": "Doctor Doctor (Australian TV series)" }, { "docid": "19374406", "text": "not just in bits you like\". However it was said of the series that \"A decent enough show with potential that’s already been rewarded with a second season, \"Doctor Doctor\" nevertheless needs to look hard at what it wants to be in life if it’s to avoid losing patience.\" \"Doctor Doctor\" has been nominated for a total of 13 awards; in 2016, Kirsty McGregor was nominated for a Casting Guild of Australia Award (CGA) for Best Casting in a TV Drama, while in 2017, at the AACTA Awards, Tina Bursill was nominated for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a", "title": "Doctor Doctor (Australian TV series)" }, { "docid": "18518818", "text": "and stayed at the same spot, with the exception of its third episode, until it reached the third spot on its last episode, with a total average of 0.54. Its drama competitors were CTV's \"Confucius\", FTV's \"Independent Heroes\", and SETTV's \"Rainy Night Flower\" and \"Father's Wish\". The viewers' survey was conducted by AGB Nielsen. What Is Love (TV series) What Is Love () is a 2012 Taiwanese romantic-comedy television series. The television drama was produced by Bethel Video Productions Ltd, starring Wu Kang-jen and Jade Chou. The shooting began on April 9, 2012, and first aired on July 20, 2012", "title": "What Is Love (TV series)" }, { "docid": "15136574", "text": "What Do You Know? (TV series) What Do You Know? is a children's television program first screened on the Australian children's channel ABC3 on 27 December 2010. 'What Do You Know?' is hosted by Ben Crawley and includes a resident DJ, Dr Rhythm. Contestants are aged between 12–15 years and compete in two teams of three. The captain of the team has a passion for a topic of their choice such as history, sport and pop culture, with the remaining two team members being the 'brain trust'. The six teams with the highest scores at the end of the series", "title": "What Do You Know? (TV series)" }, { "docid": "6775847", "text": "Edward Hibbert Edward Hibbert (born 9 September 1955) is an Anglo-American actor and literary agent. He played Gil Chesterton in the TV series \"Frasier\". He also voiced Zazu in both \"\" and \"The Lion King 1½\", replacing Rowan Atkinson. Hibbert was born on Long Island, New York, the son of actor Geoffrey Hibbert. He has one sister. He was brought up in Britain, where he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He returned to the US in the mid-1980s. Hibbert had a starring role as Faulconbridge in the BBC's production of \"The Life and Death of King John\", published", "title": "Edward Hibbert" }, { "docid": "20152592", "text": "The Good Doctor (TV series) The Good Doctor is an American medical drama television series based on the 2013 award-winning South Korean series of the same name. The actor Daniel Dae Kim first noticed the series and bought the rights for his production company. He began adapting the series and in 2015 eventually shopped it to CBS, his home network. CBS decided against creating a pilot. Because Kim felt so strongly about the series, he bought back the rights from CBS. Eventually, Sony Pictures Television and Kim worked out a deal and brought on David Shore, creator of the Fox", "title": "The Good Doctor (TV series)" }, { "docid": "6625049", "text": "Doctor Doctor (U.S. TV series) Doctor Doctor is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS. It began a short run in June 1989, and was picked up for a full season the following fall. A second season followed in 1989–1990, but the show was cancelled at the end of the 1990–1991 television season, due to low ratings. One episode, \"Long Day's Journey Into Deirdre\", remains unaired in the United States (although it was aired as part of series runs in Australia and Great Britain). The show features Matt Frewer as Dr. Mike Stratford, a partner in the medical practice", "title": "Doctor Doctor (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "19374393", "text": "Doctor Doctor (Australian TV series) Doctor Doctor (also known outside of Australasia as The Heart Guy) is an Australian television drama that premiered on the Nine Network on 14 September 2016. It follows the story of Hugh Knight, a rising heart surgeon who is gifted, charming and infallible. He is a hedonist who, due to his sheer talent, believes he can live outside the rules. His \"work hard, play harder\" philosophy is about to come back and bite him. On 28 September 2016, Nine renewed the program for a second season after just two episodes having been aired. On 11", "title": "Doctor Doctor (Australian TV series)" }, { "docid": "8755660", "text": "Doctor Dolittle (TV series) Doctor Dolittle is an animated series produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in association with 20th Century Fox Television. It was created for television by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng in association with Paul Harrison and Lennie Weinrib. The series was broadcast on the NBC network. An altered version of the song \"Talk to the Animals\" was heard during the opening credits. The series is loosely based on the books by Hugh Lofting, as well as the 1967 film of the same name which center around Doctor Dolittle (voiced by Bob Holt), an animal doctor who has", "title": "Doctor Dolittle (TV series)" }, { "docid": "19375187", "text": "series was made available on Amazon Prime on 20 May 2016. For its presentation on Amazon Prime, the series’ original three parts were recut into four episodes, each with an introduction and an epilogue featuring Fellowes himself. The series was released on DVD in the re-cut, 4-episode version. Doctor Thorne (TV series) Doctor Thorne is a 2016 three-part (divided into four parts for broadcast in North America) television drama adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel \"Doctor Thorne\" scripted by Julian Fellowes for ITV. Mary Thorne, penniless and with undisclosed parentage, grows up under the guardianship of her uncle Doctor Thorne.", "title": "Doctor Thorne (TV series)" }, { "docid": "17898154", "text": "in the US on Lifetime in April 2016 as \"Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned\" and began streaming on Netflix in October 2016. In Spain, the series' first installment was first broadcast on Nova in June 2018, and will air again on Antena 3 with two episodes per week as of September 5 and September 6, respectively. Doctor Foster (TV series) Doctor Foster is a BBC One drama television series that was first broadcast on 9 September 2015. The five-part series, written by Mike Bartlett, is about Dr Gemma Foster, who suspects that her husband is having an affair. After she", "title": "Doctor Foster (TV series)" }, { "docid": "6625060", "text": "After Elizabeth's departure from the show, Mike finds himself fending off requests to do \"disease of the week\" pieces, or even to promote products such as a \"Miracle Slimming Supplement\". The crew list includes Peter Bonerz and James Widdoes. The music for the opening titles was the rock and roll song \"Good Lovin'\", written by Ahmet Ertegün, Leroy Kirkland, Jesse Stone, and Danny Taylor. It begins with the bass vocal singing \"D-D-D-D-Doctor, Doctor, D-D-D-D-Doc.\" Doctor Doctor (U.S. TV series) Doctor Doctor is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS. It began a short run in June 1989, and was", "title": "Doctor Doctor (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "1615486", "text": "relevant specialty. The right to practice as a general practitioner gives a certificate of appropriate qualifications. General medical practice can be carried out both individually and in a group, including with the participation of narrow specialists. The work of general practitioners is allowed, both in the medical institution and in private. The general practitioner has broad legal rights. He can lead junior medical personnel, provide services under medical insurance contracts, conclude additional contracts to the main contract, and conduct an examination of the quality of medical services. For independent decisions, the general practitioner is responsible in accordance with the law.", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "15136575", "text": "make it into finals week. What Do You Know? (TV series) What Do You Know? is a children's television program first screened on the Australian children's channel ABC3 on 27 December 2010. 'What Do You Know?' is hosted by Ben Crawley and includes a resident DJ, Dr Rhythm. Contestants are aged between 12–15 years and compete in two teams of three. The captain of the team has a passion for a topic of their choice such as history, sport and pop culture, with the remaining two team members being the 'brain trust'. The six teams with the highest scores at", "title": "What Do You Know? (TV series)" }, { "docid": "8755665", "text": "Lanka as \"Dosthara Hoda hitha\" Doctor Dolittle (TV series) Doctor Dolittle is an animated series produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in association with 20th Century Fox Television. It was created for television by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng in association with Paul Harrison and Lennie Weinrib. The series was broadcast on the NBC network. An altered version of the song \"Talk to the Animals\" was heard during the opening credits. The series is loosely based on the books by Hugh Lofting, as well as the 1967 film of the same name which center around Doctor Dolittle (voiced by Bob Holt),", "title": "Doctor Dolittle (TV series)" }, { "docid": "14979443", "text": "Doctor in the House (TV series) Doctor in the House is a British television comedy series based on a set of books and a film of the same name by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of medical students. It was produced by London Weekend Television from 1969 to 1970. Writers for the \"Doctor in the House\" episodes were Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Bernard McKenna. The series was directed by David Askey and Maurice Murphy among others and the producer was Humphrey Barclay. The external establishing shots were of Wanstead Hospital,", "title": "Doctor in the House (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20770823", "text": "resident. On May 26, Fuji TV first announced they will make an adaptation of Good Doctor with Kento Yamazaki as the lead actor. Begins with a tweet three days before on the official twitter account of Good doctor 2018 that Kento will star in the new Fuji TV drama as main lead, and then a few days later the other supporting casts were announced. Special screening for episode 1 was held on July 8, 2018 which was attended by three main lead of the drama. The first filming began around June 17 2018, with start a shooting from the story", "title": "Good Doctor (Japanese TV series)" }, { "docid": "12194023", "text": "as he tries to make a start in his profession. He obtains a series of jobs, including working in otolaryngology and as a general practitioner, before returning to St. Swithin's Hospital (where he received his training) as a Junior Registrar. Notable events also include Upton's (and other young doctors') pursuit of women. Airdates given here are for London Weekend Television. Michael Upton, having qualified as a doctor, has an interview for a house officer post at All Saints Hospital, where they seem mainly interested in his prowess as a rugby wing three-quarter – apart from the cross-dressing consultant chairing the", "title": "Doctor at Large (TV series)" }, { "docid": "8398385", "text": "Doctor Doctor (South Korean TV series) Doctor Doctor (닥터 닥터) is a South Korean sitcom produced by iTV in 2000. The background of the comedy focuses on the \"Good Doctor Hospital\". Several characters in the sitcom used their real names in their roles. The sitcom showed several gags among the staff. Once, Dr. Ahn had enountered an old patient who had received a bad treatment from Dr. Ahn and thought that she could receive free treatment. Dr. Ahn, being too ashamed to correct her that treatment is not free, agreed to give her a free treatment. The news spread around,", "title": "Doctor Doctor (South Korean TV series)" }, { "docid": "17898149", "text": "Doctor Foster (TV series) Doctor Foster is a BBC One drama television series that was first broadcast on 9 September 2015. The five-part series, written by Mike Bartlett, is about Dr Gemma Foster, who suspects that her husband is having an affair. After she follows several lines of enquiry, far more in her life unravels, including a streak of violence below the surface. The storyline was inspired by the ancient myth of Medea, a wronged wife who poisons her husband's new bride and kills their children. The second series started on 5 September 2017 and concluded on 3 October 2017.", "title": "Doctor Foster (TV series)" }, { "docid": "14977367", "text": "Doctor at Sea (TV series) Doctor at Sea was a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of Doctors at sea. The series follows directly from its predecessor \"Doctor in Charge\", and was produced by London Weekend Television in 1974. Despite it predecessors having much larger series' Doctor at Sea only was limited to thirteen episodes and one series. It was reported that only one series was to be produced as costs for this series was a lot higher than previous series. Writers for the \"Doctor at Sea\" episodes were Richard", "title": "Doctor at Sea (TV series)" }, { "docid": "12194022", "text": "Doctor at Large (TV series) Doctor at Large is a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of newly qualified doctors. The series follows directly from its predecessor \"Doctor in the House\", and was produced by London Weekend Television in 1971. Writers for the \"Doctor at Large\" episodes were Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bernard McKenna, Geoff Rowley, Andy Baker, Jonathan Lynn and David Yallop, as well as George Layton (under the pseudonym of \"Oliver Fry\"). The plot revolves around newly qualified Doctor Michael Upton", "title": "Doctor at Large (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20152608", "text": "Glassman (Richard Schiff) and Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore), however, Poniewozik writes that \"Mr. Schiff is convincing in the role and Mr. Highmore is striking in his.\" Speaking of Freddie Highmore's Golden Globe nomination on Monday, December 11, 2017, for his role in \"The Good Doctor\", Laura Bradley, writing for \"Vanity Fair\" says: \"... Freddie Highmore received the awards recognition that has long and unjustly eluded him...\" Bradley feels that Highmore's performance has been \"the central key\" to the show's enormous success and while the show had lukewarm reviews, most critics have praised Highmore's work. The Good Doctor (TV series)", "title": "The Good Doctor (TV series)" }, { "docid": "17514521", "text": "of uncertainty about a closing sequence that packed more action into ten minutes than the previous three hours and 50 minutes.\" Ben Walsh of \"The Independent\" gave it four out of five stars and said \"David Threlfall excels as the retired detective who can't let this case go, and, up until the bonkers and gothic last 10 minutes, this is beautifully paced TV.\" \"What Remains\" was longlisted for the drama category of the National Television Awards. Acorn Media UK released the series on DVD on 7 October 2013. What Remains (TV series) What Remains is a British television drama series", "title": "What Remains (TV series)" }, { "docid": "14977368", "text": "Laing, George Layton, Jonathan Lynn, Bernard McKenna, Gail Renard and Phil Redmond. Series 1 Doctor at Sea (TV series) Doctor at Sea was a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of Doctors at sea. The series follows directly from its predecessor \"Doctor in Charge\", and was produced by London Weekend Television in 1974. Despite it predecessors having much larger series' Doctor at Sea only was limited to thirteen episodes and one series. It was reported that only one series was to be produced as costs for this series was a", "title": "Doctor at Sea (TV series)" }, { "docid": "8398392", "text": "Baek fell asleep, he dreamt of he himself falling down from the stairs, and asked for Jeong-hoon to help him up. Jeong-hoon held his hands, and stepped on his leg hard and ran away. The next day, Hye-eun was told to send Kimchi to nurse Wang's home. She witnessed that they were having a starring competition, seeing who could keep her eyes for a longer period of time. Hye-eun broke up the game and told them to stop their childish game, and again just before she left. Doctor Doctor (South Korean TV series) Doctor Doctor (닥터 닥터) is a South", "title": "Doctor Doctor (South Korean TV series)" }, { "docid": "1615477", "text": "term has become somewhat ambiguous, and is not synonymous with the terms \"family doctor\" or \"primary care physician\", as described below. Historically, the role of a GP was once performed by any doctor qualified in a medical school working in the community. However, since the 1950s, general practice has become a specialty in its own right, with specific training requirements tailored to each country. The Alma Ata Declaration in 1978 set the intellectual foundation of what primary care and general practice is nowadays. The basic medical degrees in India and Bangladesh are MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery), BAMS", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "19375185", "text": "Doctor Thorne (TV series) Doctor Thorne is a 2016 three-part (divided into four parts for broadcast in North America) television drama adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel \"Doctor Thorne\" scripted by Julian Fellowes for ITV. Mary Thorne, penniless and with undisclosed parentage, grows up under the guardianship of her uncle Doctor Thorne. She spends much of her formative years in the company of the Gresham family at Greshamsbury Park estate. As they close on the world of adult cares and responsibilities, the past starts to impinge and the financial woes of the Gresham family threaten to tear relationships apart. Response", "title": "Doctor Thorne (TV series)" }, { "docid": "1615503", "text": "is two-fold. First off a Family Medicine Physician has completed the three years of Family Medicine residency and is board eligible or board certified in Family Medicine; while a General Practitioner does not have any board certification and cannot sit for any board exam. Secondly, a Family Medicine Physician is able to practice obstetrics, the care of the pregnant woman from conception to delivery, while a general practitioner is not adequately trained in obstetrics. Prior to recent history most postgraduate education in the United States was accomplished using the mentor system. A physician would finish a rotating internship and move", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "20152597", "text": "season of 18 episodes on October 3, 2017. On March 7, 2018, ABC renewed the series for a second season. On February 17, 2017, Antonia Thomas was cast as Dr. Claire Browne, a strong-willed and talented doctor who forms a special connection with Shaun. A week later, Freddie Highmore was cast in the lead role as Dr. Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism; and Nicholas Gonzalez was cast as Dr. Neil Melendez, the boss of the surgical residents at the hospital. The next month, Chuku Modu was cast as resident Dr. Jared Kalu (originally Dr. Jared Unger); Hill Harper", "title": "The Good Doctor (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20770824", "text": "section of the station. This is notified through the drama official twitter account. \"Good Doctor\" received good ratings with its first airing at 11.5%, the highest rating in the last 2 years from the same timeslot on Fuji TV. The drama aired on WakuWaku Japan in Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, and Vietnam. Starting 21 July every Saturday 9.00pm(SGP), 8.00pm (JKT). Good Doctor (Japanese TV series) Minato Shindo (Kento Yamazaki) is autistic with savant syndrome. He has an amazing memory and keen spatial skills, but he finds it difficult to communicate with others. When he was a", "title": "Good Doctor (Japanese TV series)" }, { "docid": "7896770", "text": "moved from Southampton General Hospital to Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals in London, with the presentation team changing; subsequent presenters included Jeremy Milnes and Nadia Sawalha. Both \"The General\" and \"City Hospital\" were produced by Topical Television. The General (TV series) The General was a BBC fly-on-the-wall Television series hosted by Yvette Fielding, Chris Serle and Heather Mills. Based at Southampton General Hospital, the programme tracked the progress of selected patients, including outpatients, at the hospital. The series was broadcast live every weekday on BBC One, in a daytime slot. 61 episodes of the programme were aired in total; 58", "title": "The General (TV series)" }, { "docid": "1615491", "text": "During the GP specialty training programme, the medical practitioner must complete a variety of assessments in order to be allowed to practice independently as a GP. There is a knowledge-based exam with multiple choice questions called the Applied Knowledge Test (AKT). The practical examination takes the form of a \"simulated surgery\" in which the doctor is presented with thirteen clinical cases and assessment is made of data gathering, interpersonal skills and clinical management. This Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA) is held on three or four occasions throughout the year and takes place at the renovated headquarters of the Royal College of", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "1615482", "text": "three years as a junior practitioner (\"interne\") : This ends with a doctorate, a research work which usually consist of a statistical study of cases to propose a care strategy for a specific affliction (in an epidemiological, diagnostic, or therapeutic point of view). General Practice was established as a medical specialty in Greece in 1986. To qualify as a General Practitioner (γενικός ιατρός, genikos iatros) doctors in Greece are required to complete four years of vocational training after medical school, including three years and two months in a hospital setting. General Practitioners in Greece may either work as private specialists", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "19370874", "text": "The War Doctor (audio drama series) The War Doctor, announced in October 2015, is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the TV show \"Doctor Who\". It sees the return of Sir John Hurt as the War Doctor, a role he previously portrayed in the TV story \"The Name of the Doctor\" as well as more prominently in the 50th Anniversary special \"The Day of the Doctor\". The series consists of four box sets, each made up of three hour-long episodes, the first released in December 2015, the remaining three volumes followed across 2016 and into 2017. The", "title": "The War Doctor (audio drama series)" }, { "docid": "7896768", "text": "The General (TV series) The General was a BBC fly-on-the-wall Television series hosted by Yvette Fielding, Chris Serle and Heather Mills. Based at Southampton General Hospital, the programme tracked the progress of selected patients, including outpatients, at the hospital. The series was broadcast live every weekday on BBC One, in a daytime slot. 61 episodes of the programme were aired in total; 58 of them in 1998 (from April to June), and the other three in 2002. The original director of the series was Dave Heather. As well as the presenting team tracking patients and staff in the hospital, the", "title": "The General (TV series)" }, { "docid": "6775850", "text": "in \"\" and in \"The Lion King 1½\". His appearances in films include \"The Prestige\", \"Taking Woodstock\", and \"The First Wives Club\". He is also a literary agent and a partner in the literary agency Donadio & Olson, Inc. He has authors Chuck Palahniuk, Christopher Bram, Steven DeRosa, and Ed Sikov among his clients and has also represented film rights for \"Fight Club\" and \"Gods and Monsters\" plus others. Edward Hibbert Edward Hibbert (born 9 September 1955) is an Anglo-American actor and literary agent. He played Gil Chesterton in the TV series \"Frasier\". He also voiced Zazu in both \"\"", "title": "Edward Hibbert" }, { "docid": "8983496", "text": "to \"The One Show\" (BBC One). He presents \"Inside Health\", a BBC Radio 4 series discussing health issues, which had its first broadcast on 10 January 2012. Mark Porter (general practitioner) Mark Christopher Milson Porter, MBE (born 12 November 1962, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England) is a GP and medical correspondent for \"The Times\". He also presents on Radio 4 \"Case Notes\" and \"Inside Health\". He joined \"The One Show\" on BBC One in 2011. Porter is in general practice in Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire and he lives in the Cotswolds with his wife and two daughters (born April 1989 and July 1990).", "title": "Mark Porter (general practitioner)" }, { "docid": "8805138", "text": "conducting an ophthalmic examination as appropriate, and referring patients for further investigation and treatment where indicated.\" \"Some OMPs also work in the Hospital Eye Service or as General Practitioners or in other health care settings\".\" The Royal College of Ophthalmologists - Ophthalmic Medical Practitioners Ophthalmic medical practitioner An ophthalmic medical practitioner (OMP) is a medical practitioner. In the UK they are registered with a qualification in ophthalmology who is employed to carry out medical eye examinations and prescribe glasses, contact lenses, eyepatches and other orthoptic treatment. In order to work as an ophthalmic medical practitioner a doctor must be on", "title": "Ophthalmic medical practitioner" }, { "docid": "16322623", "text": "of the Albanian Society of Britain, 1996–2000. Hibbert was appointed CMG in 1966 and knighted KCMG in 1979 and GCMG in 1982. He was appointed Commandeur in the Légion d'Honneur in 1995. He was made an Honorary Resident Fellow of University College of Swansea in 1988 and an Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, in 1991. Reginald Hibbert Sir Reginald Alfred Hibbert, (21 February 1922 – 5 October 2002) was a British diplomat. Reginald Hibbert was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet and Worcester College, Oxford where he took a war-shortened course in modern history. After graduating in 1942 he", "title": "Reginald Hibbert" }, { "docid": "19453822", "text": "What Went Down (TV series) What Went Down is a 2014 comedy montage series that features collections of sports screw-ups, epic fails, and embarrassing outcomes. The series premiered on September 8, 2014 on The CW and in US broadcast syndication. What Went Down is created and produced by Bellum Entertainment Group and is distributed internationally by Sky Vision. The third season of What Went Down debuted on September 10, 2016. What Went Down has used many segment names for many episodes. The most common segments include: What's About to Go Down<br>Never Have I Ever<br>Devin Supertramp Moment<br>Would You Rather? What Went", "title": "What Went Down (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20150746", "text": "from Showtime and ordered a pilot episode under the name, \"The Resident\". On May 10, 2017, the series received a full season order of 14 episodes. Phillip Noyce, an executive producer for the series, directed the first two episodes of the season after signing a multi-year deal with 20th Century Fox Television. On May 7, 2018, Fox renewed the series for a 13-episode second season and pre-production began on June 8, 2018. On October 10, 2018, it was reported that Fox ordered an additional nine episodes for the second season, bringing the total episode count to 22. On February 21,", "title": "The Resident (TV series)" }, { "docid": "16277494", "text": "a first year neurosurgery resident. Unlike Hae-jo, Cha Yeo-wook graduated from the best medical school and is the grandson of the chairman of the board at the Korea University Hospital. His background to become a doctor is impeccable. Kang Eun-hyun (Park Gun-hyung) is the chief resident of neurosurgery. A love triangle begins between these three people. Syndrome (TV series) Syndrome () is a 2012 South Korean medical drama series, starring Han Hye-jin, Song Chang-eui and Park Gun-hyung. It is set in the world of neurosurgery where a medical student finds herself in a love triangle with two fellow doctors. The", "title": "Syndrome (TV series)" }, { "docid": "19453823", "text": "Down is distributed to international markets by Sky Vision. The series has sold to 124 territories including Seven Network in Australia, Blue Ant Media in Canada, BBC Worldwide in Poland, Discovery Focus in Italy, Globosat in Brazil and ProSieben Maxx in Germany. What Went Down (TV series) What Went Down is a 2014 comedy montage series that features collections of sports screw-ups, epic fails, and embarrassing outcomes. The series premiered on September 8, 2014 on The CW and in US broadcast syndication. What Went Down is created and produced by Bellum Entertainment Group and is distributed internationally by Sky Vision.", "title": "What Went Down (TV series)" }, { "docid": "19374397", "text": "Screen NSW. The casting director of \"Doctor Doctor\" is Kirsty McGregor, who has worked for casting on popular television series, such as \"Modern Family\" and \"Top of the Lake\". It was announced in early 2016 that Roger Corser had received the leading role in the series as heart surgeon, Hugh Knight, before the Nine Network has formally announced the series. Corser was still appearing on the ABC drama series \"The Doctor Blake Mysteries\", for which he only appeared in Season 4 in 2016, and of the role he said that \"he [I] was enjoying playing a different style of character", "title": "Doctor Doctor (Australian TV series)" }, { "docid": "17514498", "text": "What Remains (TV series) What Remains is a British television drama series that was first broadcast on BBC One on 25 August 2013. The last episode was broadcast on 15 September 2013. It was written by Tony Basgallop and directed by Coky Giedroyc. A body is discovered in the attic of a tenement house in Coulthard Street. The body is the remains of Melissa Young (Jessica Gunning), a young woman who owns the top flat and whose death has been unnoticed for two years. Detective Len Harper (David Threlfall) investigates. Disturbed by Melissa's unnoticed death and to stave off his", "title": "What Remains (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20770822", "text": "Good Doctor (Japanese TV series) Minato Shindo (Kento Yamazaki) is autistic with savant syndrome. He has an amazing memory and keen spatial skills, but he finds it difficult to communicate with others. When he was a kid, Minato aspired to become a doctor because his older brother died when he was young. One day he met with doctor Akira Shiga (Akira Emoto) and amazed him by his ability to remember all the human organs at a young age. Doctor Akira committed to support Minato and upon the recommendation from him, Minato eventually enters the world of pediatric surgery as a", "title": "Good Doctor (Japanese TV series)" }, { "docid": "20152594", "text": "at ABC after a previous attempted series did not move forward at CBS Television Studios in 2015; \"The Good Doctor\" was ordered to series in May 2017. On October 3, 2017, ABC picked up the series for a full season of 18 episodes. The series is primarily filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. The series debuted on September 25, 2017. \"The Good Doctor\" has received mixed to positive reviews from critics, with particular praise given to Highmore's performance, and strong television ratings. In March 2018, ABC renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on September 24, 2018. The series", "title": "The Good Doctor (TV series)" }, { "docid": "6775849", "text": "Broadway as \"Mr. Praed\" (the architect) in Roundabout Theatre's 2010 production of \"Mrs. Warren's Profession\" starring Cherry Jones. He appeared on Broadway in the new musical \"It Shoulda Been You\" in 2015, again working with David Hyde Pierce, this time with Pierce as the director. He guest-starred on TV shows including \"Cosby\", \"Murder She Wrote\" and \"\" but is probably best known for his recurring role on \"Frasier\" as Gil Chesterton, KACL's haughty, effeminate restaurant critic. As a voice actor, Hibbert has been the voice of Evil the Cat on the \"Earthworm Jim\" TV series, and the voice of Zazu", "title": "Edward Hibbert" }, { "docid": "17325716", "text": "Awareness Campaign Headquarters and was designated as a \"Good Program\" by the Korea Communications Standards Commission. An American remake of the same name, produced by Daniel Dae Kim, debuted late September, 2017 on ABC. The story of a surgeon with autism is set in San Jose, California, airing during fall of 2017. Good Doctor (South Korean TV series) Good Doctor () is a 2013 South Korean medical drama television series starring Joo Won, Moon Chae-won, Joo Sang-wook, Kim Min-seo, Chun Ho-jin, Kwak Do-won and Ko Chang-seok. It aired on KBS2 from August 5 to October 8, 2013, on Mondays and", "title": "Good Doctor (South Korean TV series)" }, { "docid": "17325713", "text": "Good Doctor (South Korean TV series) Good Doctor () is a 2013 South Korean medical drama television series starring Joo Won, Moon Chae-won, Joo Sang-wook, Kim Min-seo, Chun Ho-jin, Kwak Do-won and Ko Chang-seok. It aired on KBS2 from August 5 to October 8, 2013, on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.The early working title was \"Green Scalpel\" (; lit. \"Green Mes\"). =Synopsis= Park Shi-on (Joo Won) is an autistic savant who was sent to a specialized care center as a child, where he was discovered to have a genius-level memory and keen spatial skills. He eventually enters", "title": "Good Doctor (South Korean TV series)" }, { "docid": "8798836", "text": "appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. He received the honorary degree Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the Victoria University of Manchester in February 1902, in connection with the 50th jubilee celebrations of the establishment of the university. Hibbert died in November 1908, aged 84. J. T. Hibbert Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert (5 January 1824 – 7 November 1908), known as J. T. Hibbert, was a British barrister and Liberal politician. The eldest son of Elijah Hibbert and Betty Hilton, he was educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar, Inner", "title": "J. T. Hibbert" }, { "docid": "20703078", "text": "What We Do in the Shadows (TV series) What We Do in the Shadows is an upcoming American comedy television series based on the 2014 film of the same name that is set to premiere in 2019 on FX. \"What We Do in the Shadows\" is set in New York City and follows \"three vampires who have been roommates for hundreds and hundreds of years.\" On January 22, 2018, it was announced that FX had given the production a pilot order. The series is set to be written by Jemaine Clement and directed by Taika Waititi both of whom are", "title": "What We Do in the Shadows (TV series)" }, { "docid": "11332902", "text": "lived for years with Rosina in what is now known as the Black-Binney House, which is now a national historic site. Hibbert Binney Hibbert Binney (12 August 1819 – 30 April 1887) was a Canadian Church of England bishop. He was the fourth Bishop of Nova Scotia from 1851 to 1887. Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the grandson of Hibbert Newton Binney and the son of the Reverend Hibbert Binney and Henrietta Amelia Stout. Hibbert Binney Sr. was the rector of St George’s Church in Sydney. In 1823, Binney Sr. returned to England with his family to become rector of", "title": "Hibbert Binney" }, { "docid": "9012347", "text": "Foundation doctor A Foundation doctor (FY1 or FY2 also known as a house officer) is a grade of medical practitioner in the United Kingdom undertaking the \"Foundation Programme\" – a two-year, general postgraduate medical training programme which forms the bridge between medical school and specialist/general practice training. Being a Foundation Doctor is compulsory for all newly qualified medical practitioners in the UK from 2005 onwards. The grade of Foundation Doctor has replaced the traditional grades of pre-registration house officer and senior house officer. Foundation doctors have the opportunity to gain experience in a series of posts in a variety of", "title": "Foundation doctor" }, { "docid": "20150750", "text": "filming also took place in Conyers, Georgia, on a production set previously used for Fox's \"Sleepy Hollow\". Filming for the first production block took place between March 20 and April 5, 2017. Filming for the second season began in July 2018. In the United States, new episodes are broadcast by Fox. Internationally, the series is shown on Seven Network in Australia, City (season 1) and CTV (season 2) in Canada, and on Universal TV in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In Latin America, the series is broadcast by Fox's Latin America counterpart. Episodes can be watched next day on the", "title": "The Resident (TV series)" }, { "docid": "1457911", "text": "series showing successive generations of English gentlewomen involved in important historical events starting with the Reformation and ending with World War II. Hibbert continued to use the pseudonym \"Jean Plaidy\" for her historical novels about the crowned heads of Europe. Her books written under this pseudonym were popular with the general public and were also hailed by critics and historians for their historical accuracy, quality of writing, and attention to detail. Hibbert based her research on the writings of British historians such as John Speed, James Anthony Froude, Alexander Fraser Tytler and Agnes Strickland. Each of Hibbert's \"Jean Plaidy\" books", "title": "Eleanor Hibbert" }, { "docid": "4236432", "text": "Larry McDonald's album \"Drumquestra\". His track is called \"What about the Children?\", a house track with accompanying video shot on location in New York. The same year he also performed vocals with Iowa reggae band Public Property on their album \"Work to Do\". Hibbert was also a judge for the 10th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers. Hibbert collaborated with the Jacksonville, Florida southern rock/blues group, JJ Grey & MOFRO. He is featured in their song, \"The Sweetest Thing\", on their album, \"Georgia Warhorse\". In 2011, Hibbert was featured in the documentary released by Director George Scott", "title": "Toots Hibbert" }, { "docid": "1615510", "text": "and Remote Medicine), if successful. Since 1996 this qualification or its equivalent has been required in order for new GPs to access Medicare rebates as a specialist general practitioner. Doctors who graduated prior to 1992 and who had worked in general practice for a specified period of time were recognized as \"Vocationally Registered\" or \"VR\" GPs, and given automatic and continuing eligibility for general practice Medicare rebates. There is a sizable group of doctors who have identical qualifications and experience, but who have been denied access to VR recognition. They are termed \"Non-Vocationally Registered\" or so-called \"non-VR\" GPs. The federal", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "19374402", "text": "departed Essential Media in order to establish his own production company, Easy Tiger Tiger, from which \"Doctor Doctor\" is currently produced under as of its second season. The company is majority owned by FremantleMedia. The theme song is a cover version of the American band Canned Heat song \"Going Up the Country\", performed by Patience Hodgson of the Australian indie/alternative rock band The Grates. The song is not available for international airings of the series as the opening theme is replaced with the same instrumental music which is used over the end credits. \"Doctor Doctor\" was broadcast on the Nine", "title": "Doctor Doctor (Australian TV series)" }, { "docid": "1615509", "text": "Officers (different titles depending on jurisdictions) before specialist training begins. For general practice training, the medical practitioner then applies to enter a three- or four-year program either through the \"Australian General Practice Training Program\", \"Remote Vocational Training Scheme\" or \"Independent Pathway\". The Australian Government has announced an expansion of the number of GP training places through the AGPT program- 1,500 places per year will be available by 2015. A combination of coursework and apprenticeship type training leading to the awarding of the FRACGP (Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners) or FACRRM (Fellowship of Australian College of Rural", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "8105773", "text": "On the Waterfront (TV series) On the Waterfront was a BBC Saturday morning children's programme, filmed at Brunswick Dock, Liverpool. It was hosted by Andrew O'Connor, Kate Copstick, Bernadette Nolan and Terry Randall. The programme ran for two seasons in 1988 and 1989, and consisted of comedy sketches interspersed with cartoons, competitions and music. The Executive Producer was; Martin Hughes, the Producer; Stephen Rider Haggard The writer Russell T Davies, later a BAFTA Award-winner for his work on programmes such as \"Queer as Folk\" and \"Doctor Who\", worked on the series, writing the script for a comedy dubbed version of", "title": "On the Waterfront (TV series)" }, { "docid": "17325714", "text": "the field of pediatric surgery as a resident, where he is given six months to prove himself capable. However, due to his atypical mental and emotional condition, Shi-on faces conflict from his peers and patients, who view him as childlike and unreliable. Most critical is the hotheaded surgeon Kim Do-han (Joo Sang-wook), who labels him a soulless robot of a doctor who can only rely heavily on his photographic memory instead of feeling what the patient needs. Despite help from understanding and fair colleagues like Cha Yoon-seo (Moon Chae-won) and Han Jin-wook (Kim Young-kwang), the hospital is a fierce and", "title": "Good Doctor (South Korean TV series)" }, { "docid": "7072502", "text": "Hibbert recorded 24 points and 12 rebounds in a Pacers win. In Game 6, Hibbert recorded 25 points and 12 rebounds, along with 5 blocks, including a significant block on Carmelo Anthony, which led the Pacers to the 2013 Eastern Conference Finals. Hibbert averaged 15.8 points and 3.8 blocks in this series. During the post-game press conference after Game 6 of the 2013 Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat, Hibbert used the term \"no homo\" and later was fined $75,000 by the NBA for the remark. Hibbert apologized for his comments in a statement released by the Pacers: \"I", "title": "Roy Hibbert" }, { "docid": "8755664", "text": "to force him to reveal how he is capable of talking to animals. However, due to Doctor Dolittle's skills as well as the pirates' ineptitude, they never succeed. Aside from a brief period in the early 1980s as part of \"The Krofft Supershow,\" the series has never been shown in syndication, possibly due to the politically incorrect stereotypes of the pirate crew, as well as the strong drug implications present during George and the Grasshoppers' rock and pop numbers. It first appeared on British TV on BBC 1 on Thursday, 25 November 1971. It was dubbed in Sinhala in Sri", "title": "Doctor Dolittle (TV series)" }, { "docid": "20703080", "text": "had the potential to recur should the production receive a series order. On April 11, 2018, it was reported that Hayden Szeto had been cast in the pilot. On October 7, 2018, the series held a panel at the annual New York Comic Con moderated by \"Rolling Stone\"s Alan Sepinwall and featuring co-creators Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, along with fellow executive producer Paul Simms. Before the panel began, the first episode of the series was screened for the audience. What We Do in the Shadows (TV series) What We Do in the Shadows is an upcoming American comedy television", "title": "What We Do in the Shadows (TV series)" }, { "docid": "9009853", "text": "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor (TV series) Trust Me, I'm a Doctor was originally a BBC Two television programme looking at the state of health care in Britain with a combination of factual reporting and satire, presented by Phil Hammond. In 2013, a new BBC Two television series with the same name was launched, presented by a team comprising: medical journalist Michael Mosley, Chris van Tulleken, Saleyha Ahsan and surgeon Gabriel Weston. The original series of the show ran for four series between 1996 and 1999. A book by Hammond, also entitled \"Trust Me, I'm a Doctor\" accompanied the series.", "title": "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor (TV series)" }, { "docid": "16307768", "text": "and is expected to include the regular characters of the present cast. The plots of four telemovies will see Doctor Lucien Blake disappear in mysterious circumstances, with his new bride Jean Beazley to take on a more central role. The Doctor Blake Mysteries The Doctor Blake Mysteries is an Australian television series that premiered on ABC TV on 1 February 2013 at 8:30 pm. The series stars Craig McLachlan in the lead role of Doctor Lucien Blake, who returns home to Ballarat, northwest of Melbourne, in the late 1950s to take over his late father's general medical practice and role", "title": "The Doctor Blake Mysteries" }, { "docid": "13812067", "text": "they find a missing Jenni, (who was being looked after by a man who lived in the forest) and later, Michael's son, Nathan. After finding Jenni, they realise something isn't right with her, as she appears to be in an unresponsive and trance-like state and appears to have Heterochromia in her right eye, something she didn't have before. In order to try to find out what is going on in Two Gardens, they manage to kidnap the resident doctor, Cynthia Ross, with very limited success. The doctor refuses to reveal what she knows, leading eventually to Harris and Frances begging", "title": "The Cult (TV series)" }, { "docid": "18049937", "text": "James Hibbert James Hibbert (born 1831) was an English architect who practised in Preston, Lancashire. Hibbert was born in Preston and educated at Preston Grammar School. From 1855 Hibbert worked in partnership with Nathan Rainford. He also became an alderman of Preston. Hibbert's finest and most important work is the Harris Museum (1882–93), which is described by Hartwell and Pevsner in the \"Buildings of England\" series as \"one of the largest, most imposing and memorable public buildings in north Lancashire\". It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. He also designed", "title": "James Hibbert" }, { "docid": "5513888", "text": "The Heat Is On (TV series) The Heat Is On is a BBC talent show that was a regular fixture on the Saturday night schedule between 1990 and 1994. The show was originally hosted by comedian/impressionist Bobby Davro, with his catchphrase of \"They're in heat, so vote with your feet!\" sweeping the nation. Davro left the show in 1993 after a Sunday tabloid published an exposé on his cocaine-fuelled prostitute orgies. Despite this setback though the programme continued to be a ratings winner and the show was nominated in six categories at the Baftas ceremony later that year. After continuing", "title": "The Heat Is On (TV series)" }, { "docid": "1615512", "text": "policy of the Australian Medical Association (AMA). Medicare is Australia's universal health insurance system, and without access to it, a practitioner cannot effectively work in private practice in Australia. Procedural General Practice training in combination with General Practice Fellowship was first established by the \"Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine\" in 2004. This new fellowship was developed in aid to recognise the specialised skills required to work within a rural and remote context. In addition it was hoped to recognise the impending urgency of training Rural Procedural Practitioners to sustain Obstetric and Surgical services within rural Australia. Each training", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "742864", "text": "episode \"'Round Springfield\", it is implied that he and Bleeding Gums Murphy are long-lost brothers; Hibbert says he has a long-lost brother who is a jazz musician and Murphy says he has a brother who is a doctor that chuckles at inappropriate times, but somehow the two do not put these clues together. However, Murphy later dies, so it will never be known for certain if they are brothers or not. Hibbert also bears a striking resemblance to the director of the Shelbyville orphanage, who mentions a personal quest to find his long-lost twin to an indifferent Homer. In the", "title": "Dr. Hibbert" }, { "docid": "7072501", "text": "Orlando Magic, Hibbert recorded 9 blocks. On July 13, 2012, Hibbert re-signed with the Pacers on a reported four-year, $58 million contract. On November 21, 2012, Hibbert set a career high by recording 11 blocks as part of a 10 point/11 rebound/11 block triple-double in a victory against the New Orleans Hornets. The 11 blocks also broke the franchise record for most blocks in a single game, and Hibbert became only the second player in Pacers history (alongside Jermaine O'Neal) to record a points-rebounds-blocks triple-double. In Game 3 of a 2013 Eastern Conference Semifinals series against the New York Knicks,", "title": "Roy Hibbert" }, { "docid": "13310400", "text": "to Taiwan on vacation. The series aired on Mnet Japan beginning July 30, 2008. Park Yong-ha and Song Yoon-ah visited Japan to promote it in a showcase attend by 800 VIP guests at Toho Cinema in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo. On Air (TV series) On Air () is a 2008 South Korean television series, starring Kim Ha-neul, Park Yong-ha, Lee Beom-soo and Song Yoon-ah. The series is a behind-the-scenes look at a fictional television drama, revealing details about what normally goes on behind a TV drama production. It aired on SBS from March 5 to May 15, 2008 on Wednesdays and", "title": "On Air (TV series)" }, { "docid": "5513889", "text": "with a succession of guest presenters (including Jill Dando, Lenny Henry and a then 12-year-old Jamie Oliver) the show was eventually cancelled in late 1994, after an unfortunate incident during filming for that year's Christmas special. Producers of the show have included former presenter Chris Kelly. Notably, a six-year-old Dylan Mills (aka Dizzee Rascal) appeared as a performer on the show. His five-minute act included an array of circus skills. The Heat Is On (TV series) The Heat Is On is a BBC talent show that was a regular fixture on the Saturday night schedule between 1990 and 1994. The", "title": "The Heat Is On (TV series)" }, { "docid": "16307760", "text": "The Doctor Blake Mysteries The Doctor Blake Mysteries is an Australian television series that premiered on ABC TV on 1 February 2013 at 8:30 pm. The series stars Craig McLachlan in the lead role of Doctor Lucien Blake, who returns home to Ballarat, northwest of Melbourne, in the late 1950s to take over his late father's general medical practice and role as police surgeon after an absence of 30 years. Five series aired as of 2017, with a telemovie scheduled to close the program at the completion of the fifth season. In October 2017, the Seven Network announced they acquired", "title": "The Doctor Blake Mysteries" }, { "docid": "18042890", "text": "year, he started medical studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, completing his education in 1878. One year later, in 1879, he obtained a PhD, with a dissertation on “Historical Sketches of Erysipelas.“ He continued his medical education at the universities of Vienna, Berlin, Prague and Budapest. From 1880 to 1897, he was a general practitioner and ophthalmologist in Rosenheim (Upper Bavaria), a community insurance doctor, a medical officer of the Royal Bavarian Landwehr,a railway doctor,a factory doctor of the match factory Hamberger, and a general practitioner at the \"Marienbad.\" During this time, he lived in a house located at Innstraße", "title": "Julius Mayr" }, { "docid": "15274647", "text": "Stephen Hibbert Stephen Hibbert (born 14 June 1959) is an English actor and comedy writer. He played the role of the Gimp in the Quentin Tarantino film \"Pulp Fiction\" (1994). Hibbert began his career as a member of the Los Angeles-based improv group The Groundlings. It was where he met his first wife Julia Sweeney, marrying in 1989, then divorcing in 1994. Besides \"Pulp Fiction\", Hibbert has also appeared in the films \"\" (1999), \"The Cat in the Hat\" (2003) and \"\" (2007). As well as appearing in the television series \"Newhart\", \"Just Shoot Me\", \"Jericho\", \"Rodney\", \"Back to You\",", "title": "Stephen Hibbert" }, { "docid": "1615490", "text": "a General Practitioner of medicine had to do a minimum of the following postgraduate training: This process changed under the programme Modernising Medical Careers. Medical practitioners graduating from 2005 onwards have to do a minimum of five years postgraduate training: The postgraduate qualification Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP) was previously optional. In 2008, a requirement was introduced for doctors to succeed in the MRCGP assessments in order to be issued with a certificate of completion of their specialty training (CCT) in general practice. After passing the assessments, they are eligible to use the post-nominal letters MRCGP.", "title": "General practitioner" }, { "docid": "19370876", "text": "having a change of heart and regenerating into his warrior form (as seen in the television mini-episode \"The Night of the Doctor\"). The series consists of four box sets, each made up of four hour-long episodes, the first was released in October 2017, the remaining three volumes follow yearly from 2018. <section begin=special1 /> <section end=special1 /> <section begin=special2 /> <section end=special2 /> <section begin=special3 /> <section end=special3 /> <section begin=special4 /><section end=special4 /> The War Doctor (audio drama series) The War Doctor, announced in October 2015, is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the TV show", "title": "The War Doctor (audio drama series)" }, { "docid": "9009855", "text": "The first episode of the 2013 series had an audience of over 3 million viewers, and gained the highest audience figures for a factual programme on the channel, and was recommissioned. Trust Me, I'm a Doctor (TV series) Trust Me, I'm a Doctor was originally a BBC Two television programme looking at the state of health care in Britain with a combination of factual reporting and satire, presented by Phil Hammond. In 2013, a new BBC Two television series with the same name was launched, presented by a team comprising: medical journalist Michael Mosley, Chris van Tulleken, Saleyha Ahsan and", "title": "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor (TV series)" }, { "docid": "10780882", "text": "had personal experience of), discussion between the presenters and a guest medical (or paramedical) expert to give added insight to a selected medical topic, and a live phone-in when the television doctors answer viewers telephone questions and a few email questions. \"Doctor, Doctor\" was shown when Five's major morning show, \"The Wright Stuff\" was taking a break from broadcasting. Doctor, Doctor (talk show) Doctor, Doctor is a live talk show broadcast on British television on Five starting in 2005, and hosted by presenters Mark Porter (who is also a general practitioner) and Raj Persaud (who is also a psychiatrist). It", "title": "Doctor, Doctor (talk show)" }, { "docid": "18518814", "text": "might have true feels for him. The following are the cast of \"What Is Love\" series: Kenting Beach was used as a background scene for the opening theme of the program as well as the location of the montages used during the last episodes of the series. Various areas around Miramar Entertainment Park were used when the characters walk to and from their workplaces. Other filming locations include: Taipei City Hall, 三星張 Bed and Breakfast Meihua Lake, Cingjing Farm, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Diamond Tony's Italian Bistro, The Villa Herbs Restaurant, Cingjing National Hotel, and Yue Ying Landscape Holiday", "title": "What Is Love (TV series)" }, { "docid": "13310397", "text": "On Air (TV series) On Air () is a 2008 South Korean television series, starring Kim Ha-neul, Park Yong-ha, Lee Beom-soo and Song Yoon-ah. The series is a behind-the-scenes look at a fictional television drama, revealing details about what normally goes on behind a TV drama production. It aired on SBS from March 5 to May 15, 2008 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 21 episodes. Jang Ki-joon (Lee Beom-soo) used to be a top manager in the business but he went bankrupt as he couldn't compete with other powerful agencies. He was 'rescued' by Oh Seung-ah (Kim Ha-neul),", "title": "On Air (TV series)" }, { "docid": "2946791", "text": "teach and unfold to his students, in the short space of two weeks, all that [our teacher] imparted to us.\" Students completing the course receive the certificate \"C.S.\" and are referred to as having been \"class taught\". The work of a Christian Science practitioner, according to John M. Tutt, a medical doctor who left medicine and became a Christian Science practitioner, is that of \"friend\", \"helper\" and \"persuader\". He says that the practitioner-patient relationship is critical and requires \"the same spirit of cooperation\" as with a medical doctor. Rather than the \"mere reading of citations furnished by the practitioner or", "title": "Christian Science practitioner" } ]
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The role that would eventually become synonymous with Peter Falk, Lt. Columbo, was originally offered to what legendary crooner, who turned it down?
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[ { "docid": "1883025", "text": "of cancer while the play was touring in out-of-town tryouts; Columbo was his last role. In 1968, the same play was made into a two-hour television movie that aired on NBC. The writers suggested Lee J. Cobb and Bing Crosby for the role of Columbo, but Cobb was unavailable and Crosby turned it down because he felt it would take too much time away from the golf links. Director Richard Irving convinced Levinson and Link that Falk, who wanted the role, could pull it off even though he was much younger than the writers had in mind. Originally a one-off", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "4367167", "text": "Crooner Crooner is an American epithet given primarily to male singers of jazz standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, backed by either a full orchestra, a big band or a piano. Originally it was an ironic term denoting a sentimental singing style made possible by the use of microphones. Some performers, such as Russ Columbo, did not accept the term: Frank Sinatra once said that he did not consider himself or Bing Crosby \"crooners\". This dominant popular vocal style coincided with the advent of radio broadcasting and electrical recording. Before the advent of the microphone, popular singers like Al", "title": "Crooner" }, { "docid": "4367171", "text": "of singing became an enduring part of country music. Bing Crosby achieved a million seller with his 1940 rendition of the song \"San Antonio Rose\", originally recorded by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys. In 1942 Perry Como had a smash hit with \"Deep in the Heart of Texas\"; Bing Crosby, who had an enormous influence on Perry Como, covered this song and took it to the #3 position in the US chart that same year. Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves and Ray Price are especially well known for their country crooner standards. Dean Martin is rather famous for the country", "title": "Crooner" } ]
[ { "docid": "326508", "text": "Peter Falk Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American actor, known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series \"Columbo\" (1968–2003), for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards (1972, 1975, 1976, 1990) and a Golden Globe Award (1973). He first starred as Columbo in two 90-minute TV pilots; the first with Gene Barry in 1968 and the second with Lee Grant in 1971. The show then aired as part of \"The NBC Mystery Movie\" series from 1971 to 1978, and again on ABC from 1989 to 2003. Falk was twice", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "326544", "text": "learned more about acting from him at that early stage of my career than I had from anyone else.\" Rob Reiner said: \"He was a completely unique actor\", and went on to say that Falk's work with Alan Arkin in \"The In-Laws\" was \"one of the most brilliant comedy pairings we've seen on screen\". Peter Falk Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American actor, known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series \"Columbo\" (1968–2003), for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards (1972, 1975, 1976, 1990) and a Golden Globe", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "326533", "text": "up to me shouting, 'Columbo, Columbo!'\" Singer Johnny Cash recalled acting in one episode, and although he was not an experienced actor, he writes in his autobiography: \"Peter Falk was good to me. I wasn't at all confident about handling a dramatic role, and every day he helped me in all kinds of little ways.\" The first episode of \"Columbo\" as a series was directed in 1971 by a 24-year-old Steven Spielberg in one of his earliest directing jobs. Falk recalled the episode to Spielberg biographer Joseph McBride: The character of Columbo had previously been played by Bert Freed in", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "326531", "text": "the fact that Peter Falk saved my ass. I love show business, and I love Peter Falk.\" Although Falk appeared in numerous other television roles in the 1960s and 1970s, he is best known as the star of the TV series \"Columbo\", \"everyone's favorite rumpled television detective\". His character was a shabby and ostensibly absent-minded police detective lieutenant driving a Peugeot 403, who had first appeared in the 1968 film \"Prescription: Murder\". Rather than a whodunit, the show typically revealed the murderer from the beginning, then showed how the Los Angeles police detective Columbo went about solving the crime. Falk", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "326535", "text": "Emmys for his role as Columbo. \"Columbo\" was so popular, co-creator William Link wrote a series of short stories published as \"The Columbo Collection\" (Crippen & Landru, 2010) which includes a drawing by Falk of himself as Columbo, and the cover features a caricature of Falk/Columbo by Al Hirschfeld. Falk was a close friend of independent film director John Cassavetes and appeared in his films \"Husbands\", \"A Woman Under the Influence\", and, in a cameo, at the end of \"Opening Night\". Cassavetes guest-starred in the \"Columbo\" episode \"Étude in Black\" in 1972; Falk, in turn, co-starred with Cassavetes in the", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "19512816", "text": "1980, after 13 episodes. Peter Falk expressed his disapproval of the spin-off, calling it a \"bad idea\" and \"disgraceful\". When \"Columbo\" returned to the air in 1989 on ABC, it was further established that Lt. Columbo and his wife Mrs. Columbo were still happily married and the existence of the series \"Mrs. Columbo\" was effectively ignored. The \"Mrs. Columbo\" episode \"A Riddle for Puppets\" was included as a bonus feature in the Region 1 DVD release of the fourth season of \"Columbo\", released in August 2005. The episode \"Murder Is a Parlor Game\" was included in the third season of", "title": "Mrs. Columbo" }, { "docid": "774178", "text": "star Peter Falk, wanting his advice on how to approach playing a sleuth character. While discussing the role, Falk told Dunaway about a \"Columbo\" script that he had written himself. \"It's All in the Game\" featured a seductive woman who plays a game of cat-and-mouse with Lt. Columbo in the midst of a murder. Falk had written the script some years prior, saying that he could not find the right actress to take on the role. He offered her the role, and Dunaway accepted immediately. The 1993 TV movie proved a success, nominated for several Golden Globe and Emmy Awards.", "title": "Faye Dunaway" }, { "docid": "19514660", "text": "Columbo (character) Columbo or Lieutenant Columbo is the eponymous main character in the successful detective crime drama series \"Columbo\". The character is a shrewd but inelegant blue-collar homicide detective whose trademarks include his shambling manner, rumpled beige raincoat and off-putting, relentless investigative approach. Columbo is portrayed primarily by Peter Falk, who appeared in the role from 1968 through 2003. Columbo's first name has never officially been identified, although the name \"Frank Columbo\" has been visible on pieces of identification throughout the show's history. The character of Columbo was created by William Link, who said that Columbo was partially inspired by", "title": "Columbo (character)" }, { "docid": "326540", "text": "I saw it, for Falk.\" In 2007, Falk appeared with Nicolas Cage in the thriller \"Next\". Falk married Alyce Mayo whom he met when the two were students at Syracuse University, on April 17, 1960. The couple adopted two daughters, Catherine (who was to become a private investigator) and Jackie. Falk and his wife divorced in 1976. On December 7, 1977, he married actress Shera Danese, who guest-starred on the \"Columbo\" series on numerous occasions. Falk was an accomplished artist, and in October 2006 he had an exhibition of his artwork at the Butler Institute of American Art. He took", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "1883042", "text": "her that he couldn't sleep at night if he had doubts, because he frequently watched \"Columbo\" as a child. In Harry Turtledove's sf/alternate history novel Homeward Bound a non-human detective, Inspector Garanpo, is a recognizable tribute to Columbo. A statue of Lieutenant Columbo and his dog was unveiled in 2014 on Miksa Falk Street in Budapest, Hungary. According to Antal Rogán, then-district mayor of the city, Peter Falk may have been related to Hungarian writer and politician Miksa Falk, although there is no evidence yet to prove it. A podcast about \"Columbo\" was launched in 2014, primarily considering episodes of", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "326536", "text": "1976 film \"Mikey and Nicky\". Falk describes his experiences working with Cassavetes, specifically remembering his directing strategies: \"Shooting an actor when he might be unaware the camera was running.\" In 1978, Falk appeared on the comedy TV show \"The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast\", portraying his Columbo character, with Frank Sinatra the evening's victim. Falk continued to work in films, including his performance as a questionable ex-CIA agent of dubious sanity in the comedy \"The In-Laws\". Director Arthur Hiller said during an interview that the \"film started out because Alan Arkin and Peter Falk wanted to work together. They went to", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "19514693", "text": "the year of their marriage between 1961 and 1963. In a \"celebrity roast\" of Frank Sinatra hosted on television by Dean Martin, Peter Falk—appearing in character as Columbo—indicated that Mrs. Columbo's first name was \"Rose\" although this may just have been for the purposes of the sketch. Sinatra also later called out \"Hi Rosie!\" when told by Falk as Columbo that Mrs. Columbo is watching. In the episode \"Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo\", Columbo's wife is targeted by a psychotic killer (Helen Shaver). During the investigation Columbo states that his wife loves Chopin and describes her as being busy with", "title": "Columbo (character)" }, { "docid": "1883027", "text": "whodunits. According to \"TV Guide\", the original plan was that a new \"Columbo\" episode would air every week, but as a motion picture star, Peter Falk refused to commit to such an arduous schedule, which would have meant shooting an episode every five days. The network arranged for the \"Columbo\" segments to air once a month on Wednesday nights. The high quality of \"Columbo\", \"McMillan & Wife\", and \"McCloud\" was due in large part to the extra time spent on each episode. The term \"wheel show\" was coined to describe this format, and additional such series were attempted by NBC,", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "1883030", "text": "reactions to Columbo's antics more genuine. Some of the episodes established that Columbo carried a Colt snub-nosed revolver in his raincoat, which he pulled in rare episodes, and would occasionally remark that his wife, 'the Mrs.', would not allow him to buy a new car because it 'wasn't necessary', portraying the detective throughout the series as permanently driving an aged and battered 1959 Peugeot 403 Cabriolet. A few years prior to his death, Falk had expressed interest in returning to the role. In 2007, he claimed he had chosen a script for one last Columbo episode, \"Columbo: Hear No Evil\".", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "1883039", "text": "episodes up to Murder, a Self-Portrait were released on DVD in Japan. The Columbo character first appeared on stage in 1962 in \"Prescription: Murder\" with Thomas Mitchell in the role of Columbo. In 2010, \"Prescription: Murder\", was revived for a tour of the United Kingdom with Dirk Benedict and later John Guerrasio as Columbo. Falk appeared as Columbo in an \"Alias\" sketch produced for a 2003 TV special celebrating the 50th anniversary of ABC. Falk appeared in character as Columbo in 1977 at \"The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast\" of Frank Sinatra. The insurance investigator, John Frazier (played by James Corden)", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "1883036", "text": "show's composers, Patrick Williams. \"Columbo\" received numerous awards and nominations from 1971 to 2005, including 13 Emmys, two Golden Globe Awards, two Edgar Awards and a TV Land Award nomination in 2005 for Peter Falk. As of January 10, 2012, Universal Studios Home Entertainment had released all 69 episodes of \"Columbo\" on DVD. The episodes are released in the same chronological order as they were originally broadcast. On October 16, 2012, Universal released \"Columbo — The Complete Series\" on DVD in Region 1. Because the \"Columbo\" episodes from 1989 to 2003 were aired very infrequently, different DVD sets have been", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "326523", "text": "Times\" film critic Bosley Crowther, while dismissing the movie as \"an average gangster film\", singled out Falk's \"amusingly vicious performance\". Crowther wrote: The film turned out to be Falk's breakout role. In his autobiography, \"Just One More Thing\" (2006), Falk said his selection for the film from thousands of other Off-Broadway actors was a \"miracle\" that \"made my career\" and that without it, he would not have received the other significant movie roles that he later played. Falk, who played Reles again in the 1960 TV series \"The Witness\", was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "1883031", "text": "The script was renamed \"Columbo's Last Case\". ABC declined the project. In response, producers for the series announced that they were attempting to shop the project to foreign production companies. However, Falk was diagnosed with dementia in late 2007. During a 2009 court trial over Falk's care, Dr Stephen Read stated that the actor's condition had deteriorated so badly that Falk could no longer remember playing a character named Columbo, nor could he identify who Columbo was. Falk died on June 23, 2011, aged 83. The first season première \"Murder by the Book\" was written by Steven Bochco and directed", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "326525", "text": "to you, the director, is responding well to what you are trying to do.\" Falk once recalled how Capra reshot a scene even though he yelled \"Cut and Print,\" indicating the scene was finalized. When Falk asked him why he wanted it reshot: \"He laughed and said that he loved the scene so much he just wanted to see us do it again. How's that for support!\" For the remainder of the 1960s, Falk had mainly supporting movie roles and TV guest-starring appearances. Falk turned in a gem of a performance as one of two cabbies who falls victim to", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "8421061", "text": "the blaxploitation genre, \"The Man with the Golden Gun\" borrowed from the martial arts genre that was popular in the 1970s through films such as \"Fist of Fury\" (1972) and \"Enter the Dragon\" (1973). However, the use of the martial arts for a fight scene in the film \"lapses into incredibility\" when Lt Hip and his two nieces defeat an entire \"dojo\". Originally, the role of Scaramanga was offered to Jack Palance, but he turned the opportunity down. Christopher Lee, who was eventually chosen to portray Scaramanga, was Ian Fleming's step-cousin and Fleming had suggested Lee for the role of", "title": "The Man with the Golden Gun (film)" }, { "docid": "326524", "text": "performance in the film. In 1961, multiple Academy Award-winning director Frank Capra cast Falk in the comedy \"Pocketful of Miracles\". The film was Capra's last feature, and although it was not the commercial success he hoped it would be, he \"gushed about Falk's performance\". Falk was nominated for an Oscar for the role. In his autobiography, Capra wrote about Falk: For his part, Falk says he \"never worked with a director who showed greater enjoyment of actors and the acting craft. There is nothing more important to an actor than to know that the one person who represents the audience", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "326534", "text": "a single television episode of \"The Chevy Mystery Show\" in 1960, and by Thomas Mitchell on Broadway. Falk first played Columbo in \"Prescription: Murder\", a 1968 TV movie, and the 1970 pilot for the series, \"Ransom for a Dead Man\". From 1971 to 1978, \"Columbo\" aired regularly on NBC as part of the umbrella series \"NBC Mystery Movie\". All episodes were of TV movie length, in a 90- or 120-minute slot including commercials. In 1989, the show returned on ABC in the form of a less frequent series of TV movies, still starring Falk, airing until 2003. Falk won four", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "1883035", "text": "1972 for \"Lady in Waiting\". \"Columbo\" also featured an unofficial signature tune, the children's song \"This Old Man\". It was introduced in the episode \"Any Old Port in a Storm\" in 1973 and the detective can be heard humming or whistling it often in subsequent films. Peter Falk admitted that it was a melody he personally enjoyed and one day it became a part of his character. The tune was also used in various score arrangements throughout the three decades of the series, including opening and closing credits. A version of it, titled \"Columbo\", was created by one of the", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "1883014", "text": "Columbo Columbo () is an American television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The character and show, created by Richard Levinson and William Link, popularized the inverted detective story format, which begins by showing the commission of the crime and its perpetrator; the plot therefore usually has no \"whodunit\" element, and instead revolves around how a perpetrator known to the audience will finally be caught and exposed (sometimes referred to as a \"howcatchem\"). Columbo is a shrewd but inelegant blue-collar homicide detective whose trademarks include his rumpled beige raincoat, unassuming demeanor,", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "19514698", "text": "Columbo\", the detective's wife is given the first name of Kate (presumably short for Katherine or some variant thereof) and portrayed by Kate Mulgrew. On duty, Columbo drives his own car, a French 1959 Peugeot 403 convertible equipped with a police radio. In early episodes the car used was clearly royal blue, though faded; later it seems to be \"primer\"-colored. Columbo says he parks his car in the shade because the sun ruins the paint. The California license plate, clearly seen in the first episode to be \"044 APD\", is damaged and crooked in later episodes. Peter Falk selected the", "title": "Columbo (character)" }, { "docid": "19512813", "text": "a first name in the original \"Columbo\" series but was named Kate in this series. After poor ratings and reception from both audiences and the original producers of \"Columbo\", both the series and the eponymous character herself were renamed in an attempt to change direction, but this did not help ratings and the series was ultimately canceled in March 1980 after 13 episodes had aired. Neither Peter Falk nor the character of Lieutenant Columbo ever appeared on or endorsed the show. Kate Columbo (later renamed Kate Callahan after an off-screen divorce) is the wife of Lieutenant Columbo, the title character", "title": "Mrs. Columbo" }, { "docid": "326538", "text": "who had once been an angel, but who had grown disillusioned with only observing life on Earth and had in turn given up his immortality. Falk described the role as \"the craziest thing that I've ever been offered\", but he earned critical acclaim for his supporting performance in the film. In 1998, Falk returned to the New York stage to star in an Off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller's \"Mr. Peters' Connections\". His previous stage work included shady real estate salesman Shelley \"the Machine\" Levine in the 1986 Boston/Los Angeles production of David Mamet's prizewinning \"Glengarry Glen Ross\". Falk starred in", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "1883028", "text": "but the astounding success of \"The NBC Mystery Movie\" series was not repeated. \"Columbo\" was an immediate hit in the Nielsen ratings and Falk won an Emmy Award for his role in the show's first season. In its second year the \"Mystery Movie\" series was moved to Sunday nights, where it then remained during its seven-season run. The show became the anchor of NBC's Sunday night line up. \"Columbo\" aired regularly from 1971–78 on NBC. After its cancellation by NBC in 1978 \"Columbo\" was revived on ABC between 1989 and 2003 in several new seasons and a few made-for-TV movie", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "326532", "text": "would describe his role to Fantle: Television critic Ben Falk (no relation) added that Falk \"Created an iconic cop… who always got his man (or woman) after a tortuous cat-and-mouse investigation\". He also noted the idea for the character was, \"Apparently inspired by Dostoyevsky's dogged police inspector, Porfiry Petrovich, in the novel \"Crime and Punishment\". Falk tries to analyze the character and notes the correlation between his own personality and Columbo's: With \"general amazement\", Falk notes: \"The show is all over the world. I've been to little villages in Africa with maybe one TV set, and little kids will run", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "326512", "text": "\"Cigar Aficionado\" magazine with Arthur Marx, Falk said: \"I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, 'Try this.' I got such a laugh you wouldn't believe.\" Falk's first stage appearance was at the age of 12 in \"The Pirates of Penzance\" at Camp High Point in upstate New York, where one of his camp counselors was Ross Martin (they would later act together in \"The Great Race\" and the \"Columbo\" episode", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "326510", "text": "(1987), \"The Player\" (1992), and \"Next\" (2007), as well as many television guest roles. Director William Friedkin said of Falk's role in his film \"The Brink's Job\" (1978): \"Peter has a great range from comedy to drama. He could break your heart or he could make you laugh.\" In 1996, \"TV Guide\" ranked Falk No. 21 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. He received posthumously a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013. Born in New York City, Falk was the son of Michael Peter Falk (1897–1981), owner of a clothing and dry goods", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "19514680", "text": "the scene of the crime or even while interviewing a suspect. He generally produces the egg from his raincoat pocket, before seeking a hard surface upon which to break its shell; in \"A Stitch in Crime\" he uses a piece of evidence found at the murder scene. He prefers to eat the egg salted, stating in \"Lovely but Lethal\" that he usually carries a shaker of salt in his pocket. Columbo's first name is never explicitly mentioned during the series. Even the opening credits just simply read, \"Peter Falk as Columbo\". When asked, Columbo always emphatically answers \"Lieutenant\". In the", "title": "Columbo (character)" }, { "docid": "3134651", "text": "of the eyes of \"The Phantom\" not showing whenever he wore his mask. The old Greek busts had no eye pupils, which Falk felt gave them an inhuman, interesting look. It is also probable that the look of \"The Phantom\" inspired the look of what has today become known as the \"superhero\". Falk originally thought that his comic strips would last a few weeks at best. However, he wrote them for more than six decades, until the last days of his life. Falk's next large passion after cartooning was the theater and stage plays. During his lifetime, Falk ran five", "title": "Lee Falk" }, { "docid": "16701511", "text": "such transfusions, they begin to slowly petrify. They become the medical staff of doctors at a girls' reform school, assuring a steady supply of vital young bodies to feed upon. However, two outsiders sent to the school, Dr. Jess Rogers (Hudson) and social worker Carol Adams (Austin), become suspicious of the unusual number of otherwise healthy inmates dying of heart failure or suicide. They begin a quiet investigation, eventually exposing the doctors and their crimes and saving future victims. The Man Who Turned to Stone The Man Who Turned to Stone (a.k.a. The Petrified Man) is a 1957 black-and-white science", "title": "The Man Who Turned to Stone" }, { "docid": "3134653", "text": "Paul Newman, Ezio Pinza, James Mason, Jack Warner, Shelley Winters, Farley Granger, Eve Arden, Alexis Smith, Victor Jory, Cedric Hardwicke, Eva Marie Saint, Eva Gabor, Sarah Churchill, James Donn, Eddie Bracken, Ann Corio, Robert Wilcox and Paul Robeson to perform in them. The actors and actresses were all paid for their work, but many of them worked on small fractions of what they would normally earn with their movie work. Falk was proud to state that Marlon Brando had turned down an offer of $10,000 a week to act in Broadway plays, in favor of working for Falk in Boston", "title": "Lee Falk" }, { "docid": "11895228", "text": "What It Comes Down To \"What It Comes Down To\" is a song by The Isley Brothers, who released it in late 1973 as a follow-up to the group's crossover pop hit, \"That Lady, Pt. 1 & 2\". Both songs were featured on the group's Epic debut, \"3 + 3\". It features a synthesizer keyboard solo from Chris Jasper, Ernie Isley on guitar and Ronald Isley on lead vocals. The b-side of the song was the ballad \"The Highways Of My Life\". The song peaked at number 55 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and was a top five hit on", "title": "What It Comes Down To" }, { "docid": "1883043", "text": "the television series. \"Mrs. Columbo\", a spin-off TV series starring Kate Mulgrew, aired in 1979 and was canceled after only thirteen episodes. Lt. Columbo was never seen on \"Mrs. Columbo\"; each episode featured the resourceful Mrs. Columbo solving a murder mystery she encountered in her work as a newspaper reporter. Connections with the original \"Columbo\" series were made obvious: the glaring presence of Columbo's car in the driveway, Dog, and Mrs. Columbo emptying ashtrays containing the famous green cigar butts—all featured in the show's opening sequence. References were also made to Kate's husband being a police lieutenant. Columbo Columbo ()", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "11895229", "text": "the R&B singles chart where it peaked at number 5. What It Comes Down To \"What It Comes Down To\" is a song by The Isley Brothers, who released it in late 1973 as a follow-up to the group's crossover pop hit, \"That Lady, Pt. 1 & 2\". Both songs were featured on the group's Epic debut, \"3 + 3\". It features a synthesizer keyboard solo from Chris Jasper, Ernie Isley on guitar and Ronald Isley on lead vocals. The b-side of the song was the ballad \"The Highways Of My Life\". The song peaked at number 55 on the", "title": "What It Comes Down To" }, { "docid": "326539", "text": "a trilogy of holiday television movies – \"A Town Without Christmas\" (2001), \"Finding John Christmas\" (2003), and \"When Angels Come to Town\" (2004) – in which he portrayed Max, a quirky guardian angel who uses disguises and subterfuge to steer his charges onto the right path. In 2005, he starred in \"The Thing About My Folks\". Although movie critic Roger Ebert was not impressed with most of the other actors, he wrote in his review: \"... We discover once again what a warm and engaging actor Peter Falk is. I can't recommend the movie, but I can be grateful that", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "451177", "text": "20 years. Sander and Ganz also recommended Curt Bois to Wenders and asked Bois to perform. Bois' performance as Homer marked his final feature film in an 80-year career, beginning as a child actor. Peter Falk's role was not planned until photography had already begun, with Wenders planning an artist or political official to have an analogous role until assistant Claire Denis suggested the \"Columbo\" star would be familiar to everyone. Falk described the part as \"the craziest thing that I've ever been offered\", but quickly agreed. He was accustomed to the improvisation the newly created role required, and when", "title": "Wings of Desire" }, { "docid": "326519", "text": "you always late?' and I said, 'I have to drive down from Hartford.'\" She looked down her nose and said, \"What do you do in Hartford? There's no theater there. How do you make a living acting?\" Falk confessed he wasn't a professional actor. According to him Le Gallienne looked at him sternly and said: \"Well, you should be.\" He drove back to Hartford and quit his job. Falk stayed with the Le Gallienne group for a few months more, and obtained a letter of recommendation from Le Galliene to an agent at the William Morris Agency in New York.", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "19514686", "text": "the homicide department, having never worked as a uniformed officer for that police force. This is contradicted by the 1974 episode \"Negative Reaction\", in which he claims that he has been \"on the force\" for 15 years already by that time. In \"Prescription Murder\", Columbo speaks of a colleague, Lieutenant Silver, who was supposed to be assigned to the case but was thought to be \"too young and inexperienced\" compared to Columbo. In mentioning Lt. Silver, Columbo begins a tradition that will return often, of the rejection of lesser officers from his investigations. However, he also often involves younger detectives", "title": "Columbo (character)" }, { "docid": "4536295", "text": "The \"smoking gun\" was \"Trivial Pursuit\"s assertion that the TV character of Lt. Columbo had the first name \"Philip\". This \"fact\" originally appeared in Worth's book, but it was actually an invention of Worth's that was entirely untrue. Lt. Columbo's first name was never spoken aloud in the TV series \"Columbo\". When pressed, he would insist that it was \"Lieutenant\". The \"fact\" that the Lieutenant's full name was \"Philip Columbo\" was planted by Worth in his book (and its sequels) in an attempt to catch out anyone who might try to violate his copyright. In 1984, he filed a $300", "title": "The Trivia Encyclopedia" }, { "docid": "7988696", "text": "\"Shane\", in which Freed added a unique touch of realism by beginning the show clean-shaven and growing a beard from one week to the next, never shaving again through the season. Freed played homicide detective Lt. Columbo in a live 1960 television episode of \"The Chevy Mystery Show\" seven years before Peter Falk played the role, and also before Thomas Mitchell portrayed the eccentric police detective on stage prior to the Falk version. He made four guest appearances on \"Perry Mason\", including the role of Ken Woodman in the 1960 episode, \"The Case of the Treacherous Toupee\"; murder victim Joe", "title": "Bert Freed" }, { "docid": "9136082", "text": "Buffy. Bianca Lawson originally won the role of Cordelia Chase, but turned it down due to other contractual obligations. Lawson would later be cast as vampire slayer Kendra in the show's second season. Cordelia was originally intended to serve as a dramatic foil to Buffy, and to represent the characteristics of the less mature and shallower Buffy portrayed in the original film. Julie Benz, who portrayed Darla, originally auditioned for the role of Buffy. However, Benz was later offered the minor role of Darla in the pilot episode. Although the character (originally an unnamed minor vampire) was supposed to die", "title": "Welcome to the Hellmouth" }, { "docid": "5262172", "text": "Johan Peter Falk Johan Peter Falk (26 November 1732 – 31 March 1774) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. His first name is sometimes spelled \"Johann\"; his middle name is sometimes spelled \"Pehr\"; and his surname is sometimes spelled \"Falck\". Falk was born in the parish of Broddetorp in Västergötland, Sweden. He was the son of Peter Falck (1701-1754) and his wife Beata Winge (1706-1771). He studied at the University of Uppsala under Carl Linnaeus as served as a tutor for his son, Carl Linnaeus the Younger. He defended his dissertation in 1762. Falk traveled to", "title": "Johan Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "1466852", "text": "songs. On \"Proud Mary\" and \"It's Gonna Work Out Fine\", Laurence Fishburne sings Ike Turner's parts. For Tina Turner's solo recordings, the original masters were used, including the Phil Spector-produced \"River Deep - Mountain High\". Laurence Fishburne was offered the role of Ike Turner five times and turned it down each time. <nowiki>\"</nowiki>It was pretty one-sided,<nowiki>\"</nowiki> said Fishburne, who turned down the project based on the script he first read. Ike, Fishburne added, was <nowiki>\"</nowiki>obviously the villain of the piece, but there was no explanation as to why he behaved the way he behaved - why she was with him", "title": "What's Love Got to Do with It (film)" }, { "docid": "326518", "text": "\"The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial\", \"The Crucible\", and \"The Country Girl\" by Clifford Odets. Falk also studied with Eva Le Gallienne, who was giving an acting class at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut. Falk later recalled how he \"lied his way\" into the class, which was for professional actors. He drove down to Westport from Hartford every Wednesday, when the classes were held, and was usually late. In his 1997 interview with Arthur Marx in \"Cigar Aficionado\" Magazine, Falk said of Le Gallienne: \"One evening when I arrived late, she looked at me and asked, 'Young man, why are", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "6713921", "text": "afterwards said he disliked, and the song was duly performed for Ziegfeld but he did not accept it. Russ Columbo, however, sang it on his radio show and recorded it on October 9, 1931 for Victor Records and it was very popular in 1932. Columbo also sang it in the 1933 short film \"That Goes Double\". In 1946 the song became a major hit for Billy Eckstine, Perry Como and the Ink Spots. African-American crooner Billy Eckstine recorded his version with Duke Ellington on piano and Art Blakey on drums September 4, 1945. The record became a million seller and", "title": "Prisoner of Love (Russ Columbo song)" }, { "docid": "183943", "text": "of filming and badly wanted the part, begged Waters to cast her as Veronica. Eventually, she was given the role, with Christian Slater being signed to play J.D. shortly thereafter. Heather Graham, then seventeen, was offered the part of Heather Chandler, but turned it down. Kim Walker, who was dating Slater at the time, was offered the role instead. Graham was then cast as Heather McNamara, but her mother refused to allow her to accept the role, so Lisanne Falk was given the role instead. Principal photography took place over 32 days in July and August 1988. Although set in", "title": "Heathers" }, { "docid": "10190354", "text": "using his victims’ parathyroid glands as an elixir to ward off the signs of age. When Bonnet requires a vital surgery to be undertaken he asks his old colleague Prof. Ludwig Weiss (Arnold Marlé) to perform it. He declines and Bonnet then blackmails Pierre Gerard (Lee) into performing the operation by endangering the life of Janine Dubois (Hazel Court), a young lady in whom both Bonnet and Gerard are romantically interested. The film was made on a budget of £84,000. The lead role was originally offered to Peter Cushing, who turned it down only a few days before shooting started", "title": "The Man Who Could Cheat Death" }, { "docid": "19514682", "text": "later appears on the address of a neighbor of the local police \"comisario\" (played by Pedro Armendáriz Jr.). Universal Studios, in the box set of seasons 1–4 under their \"Playback\" label, included a picture of Columbo's police badge on the back of the box, with signature \"Frank Columbo\" and \"Lt. Frank Columbo\" in type. This appears to be a different badge from the one seen in \"Dead Weight\", with a different signature (a common occurrence with props). The name \"Frank\" is also clearly seen in the episode from 1991 called \"Death Hits The Jackpot\" when Lt. Columbo shows how shiny", "title": "Columbo (character)" }, { "docid": "2653307", "text": "Peter Capaldi. Eccleston and Capaldi would go on to play the Ninth and Twelfth incarnations of the Doctor, respectively, in the revived series of \"Doctor Who\" which began in 2005. Eccleston turned down the offer to audition for the TV Movie because at the time he felt he was not yet an established enough actor and did not want to be associated with a \"brand name\" so early in his career. Capaldi declined because he felt it was unlikely that he would be given the part. Of those actors who originally auditioned for the role of the Doctor, a number", "title": "Doctor Who (film)" }, { "docid": "10417796", "text": "Boston and Larry Fleisher, Falk turned to ProServ's Donald Dell in 1974. Falk attempted to get Dell on the phone for \"six or seven weeks.\" Finally, annoyed at Dell's seeming unavailability, Falk called Dell's office \"about 17 times in a three-hour period\" until Dell took his call. When Dell informed him that ProServ was not hiring, Falk offered to work for free. Dell consented to take on Falk as an unpaid intern while he was attending law school, finally offering him a full-time job starting at $13,000 after his graduation from George Washington University Law School in 1975. Dell was", "title": "David Falk" }, { "docid": "326520", "text": "In 1956, he left his job with the Budget Bureau and moved to Greenwich Village to pursue an acting career. Falk's first New York stage role was in an Off-Broadway production of Molière's \"Don Juan\" at the Fourth Street Theatre that closed after its only performance on January 3, 1956. Falk played the second lead, Sganarelle. His next theater role proved far better for his career. In May, he appeared at Circle in the Square in a revival of \"The Iceman Cometh\" with Jason Robards playing the bartender. Later in 1956, Falk made his Broadway debut, appearing in Alexander Ostrovsky's", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "4272496", "text": "Argentinian and Australian production, the local Volkswagen assembler in New Zealand built 1,033 Peugeot 403s in just under four years, beginning in March 1960. On the American television show \"Columbo\", starring Peter Falk, the shambling hero, detective Lt. Columbo, drove a shabby-looking 403 cabriolet dating from 1959 or 1960. According to the 1991 episode \"Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star,\" the car's cabriolet roof had never been lowered during his years of ownership. However, in the 1973 episode \"The Most Dangerous Match\", Columbo can be seen driving the car with a lowered roof. Peugeot 403 The Peugeot 403", "title": "Peugeot 403" }, { "docid": "5262173", "text": "Russia and in 1763 and became Curator for the Cabinet of Natural History in St. Petersburg. In 1765, Falck was appointed Professor in medicine and botany at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He participated in the expedition to the central Russian province of Povolzhye, Siberia, Altay, and Transbaikal (1768–1774) organised by the Prussian scientist Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811). In 1774, Falk took his own life in Kazan. Falk's notes were published in Germany as \"Beyträge zur topgraphischen Kentniss des russischen Reichs I.III\" (1785–1786). They were edited by Johann Gottlieb Georgi (1729–1802) Johan Peter Falk Johan Peter Falk (26 November 1732", "title": "Johan Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "19690109", "text": "films. The film Svart gryning about the case of Dagmar Hagelin was the first. TV-series like Fiendens fiende, Goltuppen and Nya tider would come next. He acted as the character \"Carl Gripenhielm\" for 435 episodes of the soap opera Nya tider. Peder Falk Jan-\"Peder\" Falk (born 20 September 1947) is a Swedish actor, screenwriter and director. He has worked for Stockholm's stadsteater for most of his career, and is most known for his role at Carl Gripenhieln in the soap opera Nya tider, and for the role as cabinet secretary Peter Sorman in the show Fiendens fiende. Falk studied in", "title": "Peder Falk" }, { "docid": "1394231", "text": "that was the great detective's hallmark\". \"The Hound of the Baskervilles\" was originally conceived as the first in a series of Sherlock Holmes films, but eventually no sequels were made. Immediately upon completion of \"The Hound of the Baskervilles\", Cushing was offered the lead role in the Hammer film \"The Man Who Could Cheat Death\", a remake of \"The Man in Half Moon Street\". Cushing turned it down, in part because he did not like the script by Jimmy Sangster, and the lead role was taken instead by Anton Diffring. Cushing next appeared for Hammer when he played the Sheriff", "title": "Peter Cushing" }, { "docid": "1883016", "text": "Episodes of All Time\" and in 1999, the magazine ranked Lt. Columbo No. 7 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. In 2012, the program was chosen as the third-best cop or legal show on \"\". In 2013, \"TV Guide\" included it in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time and ranked it at #33 on its list of the 60 Best Series. Also in 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it No. 57 in the list of 101 Best Written TV Series. After two pilot episodes, the show originally aired on NBC", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "326529", "text": "\"Wagon Train\". Falk played the title role of \"Gus\", and Sands was his younger brother, Ethan Morgan. Ethan accidentally shoots wagonmaster Chris Hale, played by John McIntire, while the brothers are in the mountains looking at possible route options. Gus makes the decision to leave Hale behind- even choking him, believing he is dead. Ethan has been overcome with oxygen deprivation and needs Gus' assistance to reach safety down the mountain. Unknown to the Morgans, Hale crawls down the mountain through snow, determined to obtain revenge against Gus. In time, though, Hale comes to understand the difficult choice Morgan had", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "326530", "text": "to make, and the brothers reconcile their own differences. This episode is remembered for its examination of how far a man will persist amid adversity to preserve his own life and that of his brother. Falk's first television series was in the title role of the drama \"The Trials of O'Brien\", in which he played a lawyer. The show ran in 1965 and 1966 and was cancelled after 22 episodes. In 1971, Pierre Cossette produced the first Grammy Awards show on television with some help from Falk. Cossette writes in his autobiography, \"What meant the most to me, though, is", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "2003043", "text": "take up her new post immediately. It was suggested that Edward Barnes, a production assistant, would temporarily produce the show until Baxter arrived, at which point he would become her assistant. This suggestion was turned down, and a more experienced producer, Leonard Chase, was appointed, with Barnes as his assistant. Baxter eventually joined \"Blue Peter\" at the end of October 1962.← During this period, many iconic features of \"Blue Peter\" were introduced. The first appeal took place in December 1962, replacing the practice of reviewing toys that children would ask for themselves. \"Blue Peter\"'s first pet, a brown and white", "title": "Blue Peter" }, { "docid": "8827699", "text": "1941. The \"New York Times\" thought it was old fashioned but enjoyed the depiction of the era saying it created a \"lively scene for a sad story.\" The book was a best seller in the US, selling more than 100,000 copies in 1942. Margaret Lockwood later wrote that when she heard about the project, she read the novel and thought she would be ideal for the role of Clarissa. She was not pleased to be cast as Hesther, but eventually agreed. Lockwood says that James Mason's role was originally offered to Eric Portman who turned it down. Lockwood was the", "title": "The Man in Grey" }, { "docid": "13911713", "text": "Franco Columbo Javier Descalza Coronado (born August 11, 1953) is a Mexican retired \"Luchador\", or professional wrestler, currently working as a match maker for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Descalza is best known under the ring name Franco Columbo, a name he uses even after retiring from wrestling. Descalza was trained for his professional wrestling career by legendary Mexican wrestling trainer Diablo Velazco before making his debut in 1975 as \"Franco Columbo\". Due to Velazco's connections to Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), Mexico's largest and the world's oldest professional wrestling promotion, Columbo landed job with EMLL only a", "title": "Franco Columbo" }, { "docid": "18442025", "text": "Gregg reprises his role as Coulson from the film series, and is joined by principal cast members Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, and Nick Blood. The episode introduces the Inhumans to the MCU, and reveals that principal character Skye (Bennet) is actually comics character Daisy Johnson, while guest character \"The Doctor\" (Kyle MacLachlan) is Calvin Zabo. \"What They Become\" originally aired on ABC on December 9, 2014, and according to Nielsen Media Research, was watched by 5.29 million viewers. The episode received a positive critical response, with the performance of guest star Kyle MacLachlan", "title": "What They Become" }, { "docid": "1976192", "text": "well with his character's evil and also help the audience to accept this \"new\" Fonda as the bad guy, but Leone immediately told him to remove the contacts and facial hair. Leone felt that Fonda's blue eyes best reflected the cold, icy nature of the killer. It was one of the first times in a Western film where the villain would be played by the lead actor. Leone originally offered the role of Harmonica to Clint Eastwood; when he turned it down, Leone hired Charles Bronson who had originally been offered and turned down the part of the Man with", "title": "Once Upon a Time in the West" }, { "docid": "14277164", "text": "instead of dying from a stroke; an additional subplot on a romance between Tian Boguang and Lan Fenghuang; Dongfang Bubai is given a greater role in the series as the ultimate villain as opposed to his role as a minor antagonist in the novel, in which he only appears in one chapter. Ann Kok was initially selected to play Yue Lingshan but she rejected the offer. Jacelyn Tay also turned down her role as Dongfang Bubai initially, but retook her role after a telling-off by Steve Ma in the Singaporean media. The Legendary Swordsman The Legendary Swordsman is a Singaporean", "title": "The Legendary Swordsman" }, { "docid": "2380128", "text": "but he disliked the experience. McGoohan received two Emmy Awards for his work on \"Columbo\", with his long-time friend Peter Falk. McGoohan had said that his first appearance on \"Columbo\" (episode: \"By Dawn's Early Light\", 1974) was probably his favourite American role. He directed five \"Columbo\" episodes (including three of the four in which he appeared), one of which he also wrote and two of which he also produced. McGoohan was involved with the \"Columbo\" series in some capacity from 1974 to 2000 and his daughter Catherine McGoohan appeared with him in his final episode, \"Ashes to Ashes\". The other", "title": "Patrick McGoohan" }, { "docid": "2548841", "text": "revival of the mystery wheel, titled the ABC Monday Mystery Movie. The network brought back original \"Mystery Movie\" series \"Columbo\" to be part of the wheel, with Peter Falk returning in the title role. Two new series joined Columbo in its first year, \"Gideon Oliver\", starring Louis Gossett, Jr. as a crime solving anthropologist, and \"B.L. Stryker\", which featured Burt Reynolds as a South Florida private investigator. Columbo continued in its second season on Saturday (as \"ABC Saturday Mystery Movie\") with two other films series in August 1990. The new \"Christine Cromwell\", a San Francisco based mystery starring Jaclyn Smith.", "title": "The NBC Mystery Movie" }, { "docid": "16499775", "text": "What I've Become What I've Become is the third studio album by Christian rock band Ashes Remain. The album was released on August 23, 2011 by the label Fair Trade Services. The album has charted on \"Billboard\"'s Christian and Heatseeker Albums charts at Nos. 25 and 18 respectively. This album was produced by Rob Hawkins. The album was met with generally positive reviews from critics. Alpha Omega New's Elise F. said that \"What I've Become, the debut album of rock band Ashes Remain, is part Kutless, part Red, a bit Decyfer Down, and overall one of the best rock albums", "title": "What I've Become" }, { "docid": "12783090", "text": "On September 5, it was announced that the album would be released in November. On September 24, \"Anna No\" and \"Dressed in Blue\" were posted on the band's Myspce profile. \"The Eventually Home\" was originally planned for released on November 5 through independent label Favorite Gentlemen Recordings. However, it was instead released on November 11. The Eventually Home The Eventually Home is the second release from Andy Hull's solo project, Right Away, Great Captain. The concept record conveys the journey of a 17th-century sailor who has been betrayed by his wife who has committed adultery with his own brother. In", "title": "The Eventually Home" }, { "docid": "1883029", "text": "\"specials\". Columbo's wardrobe was personally provided by Peter Falk; they were his own clothes, including the high-topped shoes and the shabby raincoat, which made its first appearance in \"Prescription: Murder\". Falk would often ad lib his character's idiosyncrasies (fumbling through his pockets for a piece of evidence and discovering a grocery list, asking to borrow a pencil, becoming distracted by something irrelevant in the room at a dramatic point in a conversation with a suspect, etc.), inserting these into his performance as a way to keep his fellow actors off-balance. He felt it helped to make their confused and impatient", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "19514676", "text": "suspect, he jokes: \"That'll be good, you and me together, Pat. Three eyes are better than one..\" In almost every episode of the later ABC series, Columbo is heard whistling the children's song \"This Old Man\". It often appears as a motif in the musical score and considered an unofficial title score. The song was first included when Falk stood around in character, whistling the tune without it being in the script and was later considered so fitting for the character that the series used it in almost every episode. In \"Murder Under Glass\", an orchestral version is used for", "title": "Columbo (character)" }, { "docid": "19514673", "text": "an aversion to viewing surgical procedures and an apparent fear of needles. In \"A Stitch in Crime\", Columbo says he \"faints\" merely by being in a hospital. He claims to be afraid of heights, once remarking to an FAA investigator who offered him a job, \"I don't even like being this tall\" (\"Swan Song\", 1974). Columbo claims he is always nervous when he is in the passenger seat rather than driving, and in fact is extremely nervous during certain investigations. In \"A Stitch in Crime\", Columbo grumbles throughout the episode about being sleep-deprived and working too hard. (Columbo suffers from", "title": "Columbo (character)" }, { "docid": "10417806", "text": "Jordan became \"indisputably the most powerful and effective endorser of products in American history, ... (making) the business of hawking products more lucrative than playing the game.\" Jordan's success was such that he turned down $300 million worth of endorsement deals in the space of 4 months in 1998. In 1992, after great early success, Falk considered himself underpaid and underappreciated. He split with ProServ and Donald Dell to establish his own company, Falk Associates Management Enterprises (FAME). I paid more in taxes this year (1996) than I earned in 17 years working for Donald Dell\", Falk said with some", "title": "David Falk" }, { "docid": "3362687", "text": "extended into comedy equally well, notably in several roles as an overbearing mother. In \"Plaza Suite\" (1971), a comedy directed by Arthur Hiller and written by Neil Simon, she played the harassed mother of a bride, with Walter Matthau as the father. The film was followed by another comedy role as the mother in \"Portnoy's Complaint\" (1972). Also in 1971, she played cold-blooded killer Leslie Williams on the second episode (\"Ransom for a Dead Man\") of the Peter Falk series \"Columbo\". She would appear with Falk again on Broadway \"Prisoner of Second Avenue\", whose playwright Neil Simon said that his", "title": "Lee Grant" }, { "docid": "3790182", "text": "His family moved to Los Angeles when he was 16, and he attended Belmont High School there, left high school at age 17 to study violin under Calmon Luvovski and travel with various bands around the country. He sang and played violin in numerous nightclubs. By 1928, at the age of 20, Columbo began to participate in motion pictures, including a Vitaphone short in which Columbo appeared as a member of Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra. Eventually, he did obtain some feature work in front of the camera, but he slowed down his activities in cinema to pursue other interests.", "title": "Russ Columbo" }, { "docid": "4425863", "text": "been used, he would have been number two. However, the rule at the time was that anyone who won three distances was World Champion (a remnant from pre–World War I days, when a skater had to win at least three distances to become World Champion). Segments of the crowd thought Falk-Larssen did not give his utmost during the final 10,000 m race, and he was booed during many of the laps. This was the only time in history that the World Champion had a worse samalog score than the number two, and it eventually resulted in the abolishment of the", "title": "Rolf Falk-Larssen" }, { "docid": "11384744", "text": "Fyodorovich, asking the tsar to provide him with his own household, which would soon happen. A German scholar Adam Olearius, who travelled through Russia in the 1630s, mentions Hans Falk in his book \"Beschreibung der muscowitischen und persischen Reise\", saying that he was a very experienced craftsman from Nuremberg and taught Russians how to cast cannons. Adam Olearius also says that Falk was able to make cannons that could discharge 26 pounds (11.8 kg) of iron with 25 pounds (11.3 kg) of gunpowder. According to Olearius, this is what made Hans Falk famous in Holland. In 1641, Mikhail Fyodorovich ordered", "title": "Hans Falk (bellmaker)" }, { "docid": "16701510", "text": "The Man Who Turned to Stone The Man Who Turned to Stone (a.k.a. The Petrified Man) is a 1957 black-and-white science fiction film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Sam Katzman, directed by László Kardos, that stars Victor Jory, William Hudson, and Charlotte Austin. The screenplay was written by Bernard Gordon under his pen name Raymond T. Marcus. \"The Man Who Turned to Stone\" was released in 1957 on a double bill with another Katzman-produced film, \"Zombies of Mora Tau\". Two hundred years ago, a group of unethical doctors learned to extend their lives by draining the vitality of others. Without", "title": "The Man Who Turned to Stone" }, { "docid": "13911715", "text": "are currently responsible for planning CMLL's weekly shows in Arena Mexico and Arena Coliseo, CMLL's two most popular venues. Franco Columbo Javier Descalza Coronado (born August 11, 1953) is a Mexican retired \"Luchador\", or professional wrestler, currently working as a match maker for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Descalza is best known under the ring name Franco Columbo, a name he uses even after retiring from wrestling. Descalza was trained for his professional wrestling career by legendary Mexican wrestling trainer Diablo Velazco before making his debut in 1975 as \"Franco Columbo\". Due to Velazco's connections to Empresa Mexicana de", "title": "Franco Columbo" }, { "docid": "10417814", "text": "\"The New York Times\" article that he would \"roll up his sleeves and exert as much influence as he (could) behind the scenes... (planning) to take a more proactive role in ending the lockout.\" Shortly after his statements in the \"Times\" article, Falk and Arn Tellem, who together represented more than 70 of the NBA's 400 players, organized a charity exhibition game, with part of the proceeds going to financially pinched NBA players. The rosters had a number of Falk clients, and some saw the game as a threat by Falk \"to create a new league through a partnership with", "title": "David Falk" }, { "docid": "11257455", "text": "Between the two of them, the overexcited hens' egg production is increased to a level beyond what Porky can handle, including a just-hatched hen chick laying an egg many times her own size. Surveying literal hills and mountains of eggs all over his farm, Porky is impressed and asks the two roosters, \"How did you ever m-m-make 'em lay all those eggs.\" The roosters demonstrate their technique by crooning at Porky, who lays a mountainful of eggs himself as a result. Swooner Crooner Swooner Crooner is a 1944 \"Looney Tunes\" cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin. The cartoon was nominated for", "title": "Swooner Crooner" }, { "docid": "10417819", "text": "his name used for fear of angering Falk. \"If he just had Michael, he would be considered a marketing genius, which he is. But David represents so many players that he is a major force. He pretty much gets what he asks for.\" A 1999 deal in which Falk forced the Minnesota Timberwolves to trade Stephon Marbury gives a good indication of how Falk used his power. Falk threatened the Timberwolves by telling them that Marbury would walk away in free agency at the end of the season if he was not traded, as well as suggesting that he would", "title": "David Falk" }, { "docid": "17991887", "text": "bros .\" In terms of the action sequences in the episode, Sava also argued that the fight was paced similar to the fights between Peter Griffin and The Giant Chicken in the Fox animated sitcom \"Family Guy\". Who Would Win \"Who Would Win\" is the twenty-first episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series \"Adventure Time\". The episode was written and storyboarded by Ako Castuera and Jesse Moynihan, from a story by Patrick McHale, Kent Osborne, and Pendleton Ward. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on September 3, 2012. The series follows the adventures of Finn (voiced", "title": "Who Would Win" }, { "docid": "1883037", "text": "released around the world. In many Region 2 and Region 4 countries, all episodes have now been released as ten seasons, with the tenth season covering the last 14 shows from \"Columbo Goes to College\" (1990) to the most recent \"Columbo Likes the Nightlife\" (2003). However, in France and The Netherlands (also Region 2), the DVDs were grouped differently and released as twelve seasons. In Region 1, all episodes from seasons 8 on are grouped differently; all the episodes that were originally aired on ABC were released under the title \"COLUMBO: The Mystery Movie Collection\". To commemorate the death of", "title": "Columbo" }, { "docid": "10106301", "text": "the role when it initially was offered to him. \"I wasn't worried about whether the character was a gay person or not; the reason I turned it down, frankly, is I read the script and I didn't think much happened in it. I just thought it was kind of tame.\" After he discussed the script with Carol Rossen, who was to become his second wife, she responded, \"You're going to get on the phone and call Hollywood and tell them you want to do this part before they give it to somebody else,\" and Holbrook did just that. He felt", "title": "That Certain Summer" }, { "docid": "14214542", "text": "What Up with That \"What Up with That?\" is a recurring sketch on the NBC television series \"Saturday Night Live\" which first aired in 2009. It stars Kenan Thompson as Diondre Cole, host of a talk show on BET. Supporting characters include Taran Killam as the show's announcer (originally Will Forte), Vanessa Bayer (originally Jenny Slate) and Cecily Strong (originally Nasim Pedrad) as backup singers/dancers Pippa and Piper, respectively, Fred Armisen as Giuseppe, a Kenny G-like saxophone player, and Jason Sudeikis as Vance, an overzealous backup dancer. The sketch has incorporated unannounced cameo appearances by a number of celebrities. In", "title": "What Up with That" }, { "docid": "5931664", "text": "Darrel R. Falk Darrel R. Falk (born 1946) is an American biologist. He is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Point Loma Nazarene University and is the past president and a current senior advisor with BioLogos Foundation, an advocacy group that emphasizes compatibility between science and Christian faith. Falk attended Simon Fraser University, originally planning to become a medical doctor. In his second university semester, he signed up for Introduction to Biology, Genetics, and Developmental Biology. Falk graduated from Simon Fraser University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. He then completed his Ph.D. from the University of", "title": "Darrel R. Falk" }, { "docid": "3363372", "text": "1959, he starred in thirty-nine episodes of the syndicated television series, \"Glencannon\", which had aired two years earlier in the United Kingdom. In the early 1960s, Mitchell originated the stage role \"Columbo\", later made famous on NBC and ABC television by Peter Falk (Bert Freed played the part on live television before Mitchell portrayed Columbo on stage); Columbo was Mitchell's last role. Mitchell died at age 70 from peritoneal mesothelioma in Beverly Hills, California. In 1953, Mitchell became the first man to win the \"triple crown\" of acting awards (Oscar, Emmy, Tony). He remains one of only a handful of", "title": "Thomas Mitchell (actor)" }, { "docid": "326528", "text": "In 1961, Falk was nominated for an \"Emmy Award\" for his performance in the episode \"Cold Turkey\" of James Whitmore's short-lived series \"The Law and Mr. Jones\" on ABC. On September 29, 1961, Falk and Walter Matthau guest-starred in the premiere episode, \"The Million Dollar Dump\", of ABC's crime drama \"\", with Stephen McNally and Robert Harland. He won an Emmy for \"The Price of Tomatoes\", a drama carried in 1962 on \"The Dick Powell Show\". In 1963, Falk and Tommy Sands appeared as brothers who disagreed on the route for a railroad in \"The Gus Morgan Story\" on ABC's", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "7737691", "text": "the song \"Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)\". The World Turned Upside Down \"The World Turned Upside Down\" is an English ballad. It was first published on a broadside in the middle of the 1640s as a protest against the policies of Parliament relating to the celebration of Christmas. Parliament believed the holiday should be a solemn occasion, and outlawed traditional English Christmas celebrations. There are several versions of the lyrics. It is sung to the tune of another ballad, \"\"When the king enjoys his own again\"\". According to American legend, the British army band under Lord Cornwallis played this", "title": "The World Turned Upside Down" }, { "docid": "18442045", "text": "hasn’t seen an episode so simultaneously satisfying to longtime comic-book fans and frustrating to its general audience as it does in \"What They Become\"\", noting that the Daisy/Cal and Inhuman reveals would mean nothing to average viewers, as opposed to \"Marvel maniacs\" who \"should be elated\". McCabe did have praise for MacLachan's performance, calling his reunion with Skye \"the most entertaining\" scene of the season, and saying \"He generates humor, rage, joy, spite, menace, sympathy, and insanity all in the span of a few minutes. ... watching him creepily stroke Skye’s hair as he hums “Daisy Bell” is absurdly entertaining.\"", "title": "What They Become" }, { "docid": "19690107", "text": "Peder Falk Jan-\"Peder\" Falk (born 20 September 1947) is a Swedish actor, screenwriter and director. He has worked for Stockholm's stadsteater for most of his career, and is most known for his role at Carl Gripenhieln in the soap opera Nya tider, and for the role as cabinet secretary Peter Sorman in the show Fiendens fiende. Falk studied in Umeå during the late 1960s, he during a period of time worked as a reporter for Västerbottens Folkblad newspaper. After he had finished his studies at Scenskolan in Malmö between 1969 and 1973 he did children's theater in Norrköping. In 1973", "title": "Peder Falk" }, { "docid": "326517", "text": "then became a management analyst with the Connecticut State Budget Bureau in Hartford. In 1997, Falk characterized his Hartford job as \"efficiency expert\": \"I was such an efficiency expert that the first morning on the job, I couldn't find the building where I was to report for work. Naturally, I was late, which I always was in those days, but ironically it was my tendency never to be on time that got me started as a professional actor.\" While working in Hartford, Falk joined a community theater group called the Mark Twain Masquers, where he performed in plays that included", "title": "Peter Falk" }, { "docid": "326543", "text": "a result of anesthesia or some other reaction to the operations. Shera Danese Falk was appointed as her husband's conservator. On the evening of June 23, 2011, Falk died at his longtime home on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills at the age of 83. His death was primarily caused by pneumonia, with complications of Alzheimer's disease being a secondary and underlying cause. His daughters said they would remember his \"wisdom and humor\". Falk's body was buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. His death was marked by tributes from many film celebrities. Steven Spielberg said, \"I", "title": "Peter Falk" } ]
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What American actor, born on Dec 8, 1936, was equally famous for his role as Caine on TVs Kung Fu and for dying in a Bangkok hotel closet in a case of autoerotic asphyxiation gone awry?
[ "David Carradine", "John Arthur Carradine" ]
[ { "docid": "2680195", "text": "it is a risk. I don't blame them. If the situation were reversed, and an American star were to come to Hong Kong, and I was the man with the money, I would have my own concerns as to whether the acceptance would be there.\" Whether or not \"Kung Fu\" was based on a concept by Lee, he was undoubtedly considered for the starring role, according to Herbie Pilato in his 1993 book \"The Kung Fu Book of Caine: The Complete Guide to TV's First Mystical Eastern Western\" (pages 32–33), and David Carradine himself in a 1989 interview mentions that", "title": "Kung Fu (TV series)" }, { "docid": "15655875", "text": "hotel, \"a mishmash of bygone styles, the Nai Lert is a bit disappointing in the cramped rooms, but glorious underneath a shady tree in its private garden-park.\" The hotel was awarded Thailand’s Leading Business Hotel by the World Travel Awards Asia in 2008. The hotel restaurant \"Ma Maison\" was named Best Restaurant by Thailand Tatler’s Best Restaurants. On June 3, 2009, American actor David Carradine was found dead of autoerotic asphyxiation. in the wardrobe of his room in the hotel. The hotel was sold to Bangkok Dusit Medical Services in 2016 and closed on December 31, 2016 for conversion to", "title": "Swissôtel Nai Lert Park Hotel" }, { "docid": "2680202", "text": "and Joanna start a relationship when they both admit to being big fans of \"Kung Fu\", and suggest watching it together. In the film \"Pulp Fiction\" by Quentin Tarantino, Jules tells Vincent that he intends to \"walk the Earth like Caine in Kung Fu.\" Tarantino later cast Carradine as the title character in his films \"\" and \".\" The British comedy series \"The Goodies\" had an episode called \"Kung Fu Kapers\" which was mostly a parody of \"Kung Fu\". Kung Fu (TV series) Kung Fu is an American action-adventure martial arts western drama television series starring David Carradine. The series", "title": "Kung Fu (TV series)" }, { "docid": "2680187", "text": "Kung Fu (TV series) Kung Fu is an American action-adventure martial arts western drama television series starring David Carradine. The series follows the adventures of Kwai Chang Caine (portrayed by David Carradine as an adult, Keith Carradine as a teenager, and Radames Pera as a young boy), a Shaolin monk who travels through the American Old West, armed only with his spiritual training and his skill in martial arts, as he seeks Danny Caine, his half-brother. Many of the used in the series are adapted from or derived directly from the \"Tao Te Ching\", a book of ancient Taoist philosophy", "title": "Kung Fu (TV series)" }, { "docid": "2863818", "text": "David Carradine David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine; December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009) was an American actor, musician, painter and martial artist. He is noted for his leading role as peace-loving Shaolin monk, Kwai Chang Caine, in the television series \"Kung Fu\" (1972–1975). He was also known for playing Frankenstein in \"Death Race 2000\" (1975) and Bill in both \"Kill Bill\" films (–). He was a member of the Carradine family of actors that began with his father, John Carradine. His father's acting career, which included major and minor roles on stage and television, and in cinema, spanned", "title": "David Carradine" }, { "docid": "7906070", "text": "Kwai Chang Caine Kwai Chang Caine () is a fictional character and the protagonist of the ABC 1972–1975 action-adventure western television series \"Kung Fu\". He has been portrayed by David Carradine as an adult, Keith Carradine as a younger Caine and Radames Pera as the child Caine, and Stephen Manley as the youngest Caine. In the late 19th century China, Kwai Chang Caine was the orphaned son of an American man and a Chinese woman. He was raised in a Shaolin Monastery in Hunan Province, and was trained by the monks to be a Shaolin master. \"Kung Fu\" follows his", "title": "Kwai Chang Caine" }, { "docid": "8843476", "text": "a Caucasian-centric world view.\" A prominent example of the whitewashing of Asian roles is the 1970s TV series, \"Kung Fu\", in which the leading character – a Chinese monk and martial arts master who fled China after having accidentally slain the emperor's nephew – is portrayed by European-American actor, David Carradine. The film \"\" describes to some extent the struggles that ensued when Hollywood moguls attempted to cast Bruce Lee in the starring role of Caine but were overruled. Michael Derrick Hudson, an American poet, used a Chinese female \"nom de plume\". Portrayal of East Asians in American film and", "title": "Portrayal of East Asians in American film and theater" }, { "docid": "7109405", "text": "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Kung Fu: The Legend Continues is an American-Canadian action/crime drama series and sequel to the original 1972–1975 television series \"Kung Fu\". While the original \"Kung Fu\" series was set in the American old west, \"Kung Fu: The Legend Continues\" was set in modern times. It starred David Carradine and Chris Potter as a father and son trained in kung fu – Carradine playing a Shaolin monk, Potter a police detective. The series aired in syndication for four seasons from January 27, 1993 to January 1, 1997, and was broadcast in over 70 countries. Filming took", "title": "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" } ]
[ { "docid": "2863820", "text": "a variety of genres including action, documentaries, drama, horror, martial arts, science fiction, and westerns. In addition to his acting career, Carradine was a director and musician. Moreover, influenced by his \"Kung Fu\" role, he studied martial arts. On April 1, 1997, Carradine received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was arrested and prosecuted for a variety of offenses, which often involved substance abuse. On June 3, 2009, he was found dead in a closet in his hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand due to a fatal autoerotic asphyxiation accident. Carradine was born on December 8, 1936, as", "title": "David Carradine" }, { "docid": "2680191", "text": "heartbeat? Caine: No. Po: Do you hear the grasshopper which is at your feet? Caine: Old man, how is it that you hear these things? Po: Young man, how is it that you do not? </poem> During four episodes of the third and final season (\"Barbary House\", \"Flight to Orion\", \"The Brothers Caine\", and \"Full Circle\"), Caine finds his brother Danny (Tim McIntire) and his nephew Zeke (John Blyth Barrymore). David Chow, who was also a guest star in the series, acted as the technical and kung fu advisor, a role later undertaken by Kam Yuen. \"Kung Fu\" was created", "title": "Kung Fu (TV series)" }, { "docid": "4158762", "text": "Half a Loaf of Kung Fu Half a Loaf of Kung Fu () is a 1978 Hong Kong action comedy martial arts film directed by Chen Chi-hwa and written by Jackie Chan, who also starred in the lead role. The film co-stars Dean Shek and James Tien. The film was released in Hong Kong on 1 July 1978. Chan plays a bumbling kung fu student who becomes involved in a series of adventures. Chan plays a bumbling long haired acrobat named Jiang who really wants to practice kung fu. He finds an advertisement for work at the Mansion as a", "title": "Half a Loaf of Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "7109380", "text": "is also named Kwai Chang Caine after his grandfather) played by David Darlow and his son Johnny Caine, portrayed by Brandon Lee. The story explains the fate of the original Caine: he had married and become a town's \"medicine man\". One night he had a heart attack. His ghost appears to his grandson and great-grandson. Later, the pair destroys a drug operation. Kung Fu: The Next Generation Kung Fu: The Next Generation is a 1987 television pilot which was intended to be a follow-up to the 1972-75 television series, \"Kung Fu\". It was the second follow-up to the series after", "title": "Kung Fu: The Next Generation" }, { "docid": "4158765", "text": "grossing () at the box office. Combined, the film grossed in East Asia. Half a Loaf of Kung Fu Half a Loaf of Kung Fu () is a 1978 Hong Kong action comedy martial arts film directed by Chen Chi-hwa and written by Jackie Chan, who also starred in the lead role. The film co-stars Dean Shek and James Tien. The film was released in Hong Kong on 1 July 1978. Chan plays a bumbling kung fu student who becomes involved in a series of adventures. Chan plays a bumbling long haired acrobat named Jiang who really wants to practice", "title": "Half a Loaf of Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "4131905", "text": "Radames Pera Radames Pera (born September 14, 1960) is an American former actor best known for his role as \"Grasshopper\" the student Kwai Chang Caine in the 1972–1975 television series \"Kung Fu\". Pera was born in New York City, New York, the son of actress Lisa Pera. His mother moved to Hollywood in 1963 so that she could pursue an acting career. From 1972 until 1975, Radames appeared as the young Kwai Chang Caine in the ABC television series \"Kung Fu\". Caine was an orphan from Hunan Province in China who had an American father and a Chinese mother. He", "title": "Radames Pera" }, { "docid": "2751817", "text": "as early as 8 years of age. Gan Wing Gwai was a master of Pi Gua kung fu and after his death, Kou Si decided to train Geng De Hai in Da Sheng Kung Fu. After mastering Da Sheng Kung Fu and combining it with Pi Gua Kung Fu, out of respect for Kou Si's friendship, in naming the new technique Geng De Hai placed Da Sheng at the beginning followed by Pi Gua hence the name Da Sheng Pi Gua Kung Fu. Traditional hou quan as taught in Mainland China includes running on all fours (i.e. the hands and", "title": "Monkey Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "20668345", "text": "Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny is an American animated web television series produced by DreamWorks Animation released for Amazon Prime on November 16, 2018. It is the second TV series in the \"Kung Fu Panda\" franchise following \"\". Developer Mitch Watson has confirmed that Mick Wingert will reprise his role from \"Legends of Awesomeness\" as Po. Set after the events of \"Kung Fu Panda 3\", the series follows Po on a fresh adventure featuring four panda kids who happen upon a mystical cave beneath the Panda Village. The panda kids accidentally", "title": "Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny" }, { "docid": "6545660", "text": "Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny\" is an animated web television series produced by DreamWorks Animation released for Amazon Prime on November 16, 2018. It is the second TV series in the Kung Fu Panda franchise following Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. Developer Mitch Watson has confirmed that Mick Wingert will reprise his role from Legends of Awesomeness as Po.[3] The \"Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special\" was aired on NBC Wednesday, November 24, 2010. A video game adaptation of the film was published by Activision on June 3, 2008. The game was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii,", "title": "Kung Fu Panda" }, { "docid": "11343533", "text": "last (and thanks to Lam Chung Fu's hard work), the players succeed in defeating Pau's team and become world famous. Kung Fu Soccer Kung Fu Soccer (Chinese:功夫足球) is a Hong Kong television drama series that aired on TVB from December 6, 2004 to January 9, 2005. \"Kung Fu Soccer\" is about the soccer world intertwined with talented people from the world of Kung Fu. Each character has a special Kung Fu talent that they use to play soccer. Lam Chung Fu (Anthony Wong) was once a great soccer player in China. While at the top of his soccer-playing career, his", "title": "Kung Fu Soccer" }, { "docid": "4737074", "text": "Kung Fu Hustle Kung Fu Hustle is a 2004 martial arts gangster comedy film, directed, produced and written by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the lead role. The other producers were Chui Po-chu and Jeffrey Lau, and the screenplay was co-written with Huo Xin, Chan Man-keung, and Tsang Kan-cheung. Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Danny Chan Kwok-kwan, and Bruce Leung Siu-lung co-starred in prominent roles. After the commercial success of \"Shaolin Soccer\", its production company, Star Overseas, began to develop \"Kung Fu Hustle\" with Columbia Pictures Asia in 2002. The film features a number of retired actors famous for 1970s", "title": "Kung Fu Hustle" }, { "docid": "8231509", "text": "practitioners of martial arts as actors in martial arts films. Kung fu films were internationally successful and popular in the West where a kung fu fad had taken root. The anti-imperialist themes of his films held a broad appeal for groups that felt marginalized and contributed to his popularity in Southeast Asia and the African-American and Asian-American communities of urban America. Audiences were sympathetic with Lee's role as a minority figure struggling against and overcoming prejudice, social inequality, and racial discrimination. The genre declined after Bruce Lee's sudden death in 1973. In the same year, a stock market crash brought", "title": "Kung fu film" }, { "docid": "1907007", "text": "to 10% are related to electrocution, foreign body insertion, overdressing/body wrapping, or another atypical method. Specific causes include the use of chemicals such as amyl nitrite, GHB, or nitrous oxide, and props and tools such as knives, oversized dildos, ligatures or bags for asphyxiation, duct tape, electrical apparatus for shocks, water for self-immersion, fire-making equipment for self-immolation, or sharp, unhygienic or large fetishized objects. Male victims are much more likely to use a variety of devices during autoerotic behaviour than female victims. The subject has been treated in two books, \"Autoerotic Fatalities\" by Hazelwood et al. (1983) and \"Autoerotic Asphyxiation:", "title": "Autoerotic fatality" }, { "docid": "10669654", "text": "against drug use in particular Meth and Alcohol, and advocated for healthy living. Kung Fu Vampire was initially known for making appearances with a shaved head and pale face paint. Since 2011, Kung Fu Vampire grew his hair out and has stopped using face paint in his performances stating that he would rather spend that time connecting with fans at concert as opposed to preparation. • TunnA Beatz • Subliminal Beats Kung Fu Vampire Kung Fu Vampire is an American rapper from San Jose, California and the vocalist of the musical group of the same name. He has nationally toured", "title": "Kung Fu Vampire" }, { "docid": "4158764", "text": "other, and when he leaves Jiang takes the body into town to collect the reward. Using the money from the reward, Jiang tries to fulfill his kung fu dreams and find a master. He is suddenly attacked by the crazy witch and is about to lose until a mystery master shows up and beats her. The master turns out to be a bum, and teaches Jiang kung fu. He then goes on a journey with a princess to find a special jade plant. In Hong Kong, the film grossed (). In Japan, it was the 16th highest-grossing film of 1983,", "title": "Half a Loaf of Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "16929514", "text": "The Incredible Kung Fu Master The Incredible Kung Fu Master (), also known as The Kung Fu Master () is a 1979 martial arts action comedy film directed by Joe Cheung and starring Sammo Hung and Stephen Tung, the latter in his first leading role. This film features an action direction from a number of famous action directors including Sammo Hung Stunt Team, Lam Ching-ying, Billy Chan, Bryan Leung and Yuen Biao. Two brothers Lee Chun Fei (Wong Ha), a Wing Chun stylist, and Lee Chun Pang (Peter Chan), a Five Animals stylist, encounters a town bully Yeung Wai (Lee", "title": "The Incredible Kung Fu Master" }, { "docid": "4158763", "text": "body guard. Jiang doesn't get the body guard position, but cons his way into a job using his kung fu skills, and gets himself into the middle of some shady business. He is told not to go near the \"guest room\" where the special guest is staying. A fellow employee tells Jiang that there is an evil witch who lives in the guest room and is not to be disturbed. Jiang of course is caught spying on her and is run off the land. He then encounters two kung fu masters fighting in the woods. He watches one kill the", "title": "Half a Loaf of Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "20652104", "text": "faintly sour taste; you feel especially bad for the people sucked into Elliot’s high-kicking vortex. (One \"Blood Fight\" actor, hung out to dry by Elliot and the doc filmmakers alike, seems to have sprung from the \"Waiting for Guffman\" ensemble cast.) I’m mostly sure \"Kung Fu Elliot\" is for real; if not, somebody went to a lot of trouble to create the trailers for Elliot Scott’s past DVD efforts, such as \"They Killed My Cat\"\". In a review, the critic Chris Klimek wrote that \"Kung Fu Elliot\" was entertaining, but that: \"\"Kung Fu Elliot\"’s violent climax arrives so swiftly, it", "title": "Kung Fu Elliot" }, { "docid": "7923988", "text": "Jow-Ga Kung Fu Jow Ga Kung Fu (Chinese: 周家) (or Jow Gar, Zhou Jia, or other forms of romanisation) () is a form of Kung Fu. It was founded by Jow Lung who was born in 1891, on the eleventh day of the third lunar month (April 16, 1891) in Sa Fu Village of the Canton Province, and died in 1919. His father was Jow Fong Hoy and his mother’s maiden name was Li. At the time of its inception, this particular style of Kung Fu was labeled as having the head of Hung Gar, the tail of Choy Gar", "title": "Jow-Ga Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "19316741", "text": "a bunny boy. But watching the boy play with the same passion he'd had all those years ago convinces Po to let him keep them. Po then admits to the Furious Five that his Five are \"where they're meant to be\" and that, in any case, he already has \"the original ones\". \" Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll is an animated short film in the \"Kung Fu Panda\" film series. It was included on the 2015 Digital HD and 2016 Blu-ray, and DVD re-release of \"Kung Fu Panda\" and \"Kung Fu", "title": "Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll" }, { "docid": "4737117", "text": "the midst of making the movie, but it is currently put on hold in view of other incoming projects\". Production of \"Kung Fu Hustle 2\" was delayed while Chow filmed the science fiction adventure film \"CJ7\". As a result, \"Kung Fu Hustle 2\" was slated for a 2014 release. By 2017, Chow already completed \"The Mermaid\" and \"\". Due to his focus on behind-the-scenes production and the fact that he hasn't made an appearance since CJ7, it was suspected that he had stopped acting. However, Chow clarified that he still wants to act, but hasn't found a role suited for", "title": "Kung Fu Hustle" }, { "docid": "7923999", "text": "martial arts field.\" Master Chian Yi then ordered Jow Lung to leave the temple. When Jow Lung went back to Kuala Lumpur, he felt like centuries had gone by, but he never stopped practicing Kung Fu. From continuous practice, Jow Lung realized the uniqueness of the three styles of Kung Fu he learned and decided to combine them into one, thereby developing Jow Ga Kung Fu. Jow Lung felt that he would not be able to spread his family's Kung Fu in Kuala Lumpur, so he went back to his hometown in China. Jow Lung 周龍 began his martial arts", "title": "Jow-Ga Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "4127506", "text": "Erotic asphyxiation Erotic asphyxiation (variously called asphyxiophilia, hypoxyphilia or breath control play) is the intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for the purposes of sexual arousal. The term autoerotic asphyxiation is used when the act is done by a person to him- or herself. Colloquially, a person engaging in the activity is sometimes called a \"gasper\". The erotic interest in asphyxiation is classified as a paraphilia in the \"Diagnostic and Statistical Manual\" of the American Psychiatric Association. Author John Curra wrote, \"The carotid arteries (on either side of the neck) carry oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the brain.", "title": "Erotic asphyxiation" }, { "docid": "4127513", "text": "diagnosed as murder and especially so when a partner is present. Lawyers and insurance companies have brought cases to the attention of clinicians because some life insurance claims are payable in the event of accidental death, but not suicide. The sensational nature of autoerotic asphyxiation often makes it the subject of urban legends. It has also been mentioned specifically in a number of works of fiction. Erotic asphyxiation Erotic asphyxiation (variously called asphyxiophilia, hypoxyphilia or breath control play) is the intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for the purposes of sexual arousal. The term autoerotic asphyxiation is used when", "title": "Erotic asphyxiation" }, { "docid": "17093111", "text": "Kung Fu Rabbit Kung Fu Rabbit is a platform video game for the Android, iOS, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and Wii U. It was developed by French team cTools Studio for the mobile platforms and ported by Neko Entertainment for the rest. It features a white rabbit who teaches kung fu in the temple of rabbits. When the Universal Evil kidnaps all of his students, he goes on a quest to save them. \"Kung Fu Rabbit\" received mixed reviews from critics upon release. On Metacritic, the game holds scores of 65/100 for the 3DS version based on 6", "title": "Kung Fu Rabbit" }, { "docid": "17975591", "text": "Hum Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role The Hum Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC). It is given in an honor of an actor or actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a negative or villainous role while working within the Television industry. As of 2nd Hum Awards (for 2013) was held in 2014 with Noman Ejaz winning the award, who was honored for his role in \"Ullu Baraye Farokht Nahi\".The award has commonly been referred", "title": "Hum Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role" }, { "docid": "17975587", "text": "Hum Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role The Hum Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC). It is given in an honor of an actor or actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a negative or villainous role while working within the Television industry. As of 2nd Hum Awards (for 2013) was held in 2014 with Noman Ejaz winning the award, who was honored for his role in \"Ullu Baraye Farokht Nahi\".The award has commonly been referred", "title": "Hum Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role" }, { "docid": "1803367", "text": "Shaolin Kung Fu Shaolin Kung Fu (), also called Shaolin Wushu () or Shaolin quan (), is one of the oldest, largest, and most famous styles of wushu or kungfu. It combines Zen Buddhism and martial arts and originated and was developed in the Shaolin temple in Henan province, China during its 1500-year history. Popular sayings in Chinese folklore related to this practice include \"All martial arts under heaven originated from Shaolin\" and \"Shaolin kung fu is the best under heaven,\" indicating the influence of Shaolin kung fu among martial arts. The name \"Shaolin\" is also used as a brand", "title": "Shaolin Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "9324705", "text": "Kung Fu Mahjong 2 Kung Fu Mahjong 2 () is a 2005 Hong Kong film directed by Wong Jing and starring Cherrie Ying, Yuen Wah and Yuen Qiu. It is the first sequel to \"Kung Fu Mahjong\". A master Mahjong player named Fanny (Cherrie Ying) gets divorced by her husband and must play in the King of Mahjong match to win him back. As she plays, she must rely on her kung fu skills to beat up the famous cheaters such as the Japanese woman, a very strong man, the triplets and much more and win allied with her classmates,", "title": "Kung Fu Mahjong 2" }, { "docid": "13470929", "text": "more sequels after \"Kung Fu Panda 3\", bringing it to a six-film series. Beside the main films, \"Kung Fu Panda\" franchise also consists of three short films \"Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five\", \"Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special\" and \"\". A television series titled \"\" aired on Nickelodeon from September 19, 2011 to June 29, 2016. The show ran for three seasons and had a total of 78 episodes. Kung Fu Panda 2 Kung Fu Panda 2 is a 2011 American computer-animated comedy-drama martial arts film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The sequel to", "title": "Kung Fu Panda 2" }, { "docid": "17889812", "text": "Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Guldbagge for Best Actor in a Supporting Role is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish: \"Guldbaggen\") to actors working in the Swedish motion picture industry. The categories for Best Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress were first introduced in 1995. In 1992, Ernst Günther received a Guldbagge for Creative Efforts, for his supporting role as Gottfrid in \"House of Angels\". Each Guldbagge Awards ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Guldbagge Award for Actor", "title": "Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role" }, { "docid": "4737119", "text": "critics with many comparing it to similar MMO games such as \"Guild Wars\" and \"Phantasy Star Online\". A North American release for PC and PS3 was planned for late 2009, but never came to fruition. The game was only available in Asia for the PC. Kung Fu Hustle Kung Fu Hustle is a 2004 martial arts gangster comedy film, directed, produced and written by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the lead role. The other producers were Chui Po-chu and Jeffrey Lau, and the screenplay was co-written with Huo Xin, Chan Man-keung, and Tsang Kan-cheung. Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Danny", "title": "Kung Fu Hustle" }, { "docid": "14966694", "text": "Kung-Fu Live Kung-Fu Live is an interactive fighting game developed by Virtual Air Guitar Company exclusively for the PlayStation Network. The game tracks the players movement using the PlayStation Eye and free-motion technology. It is quoted as being the best of the PlayStation 3 Fitness Games, \"I would say it is a must-have if you’re a fan of fighting games and want to see what the future holds for innovative, creative game design,\" \"Kung-Fu Live\" has received generally mixed reviews. It had an average score of 53.76% at GameRankings, based on 27 reviews and an average score of 50/100 at", "title": "Kung-Fu Live" }, { "docid": "2680197", "text": "for the setting in China. The series used slow-motion effects for the action sequences, which Warner Brothers had previously utilized in the 1969 Sam Peckinpah film \"The Wild Bunch\", and were also subsequently utilized for the action sequences in the science-fiction series \"The Six Million Dollar Man\". In \"\" (1986) Caine (played by Carradine) is forced to fight his hitherto unknown son, Chung Wang (played by Brandon Lee). Herbie Pilato in \"The Kung Fu Book of Caine\" (page 157) also comments that Bruce Lee's son, Brandon Lee, was involved in sequels related to the series: The late Brandon Lee, son", "title": "Kung Fu (TV series)" }, { "docid": "13887163", "text": "hyper tension, no one had reported that Cuesta had felt ill up to the day he died and he is believed to have died in his sleep. Cuesta was not found until January 5 when his son went to his father's house to check on him. Kung Fu (wrestler) Raymundo Cuesta Veloz (January 20, 1951 – January 3, 2001) was a Mexican \"Luchador\" or professional wrestler best known under the ring name \"Kung Fu\". As Kung Fu he made a name for himself as part of \"Trio Fantásticos\" along with Kato Kung Lee and Black Man, a very popular \"tecnico\"", "title": "Kung Fu (wrestler)" }, { "docid": "1878942", "text": "record labels, and has allowed Kung Fu to put its stamp on albums by notable artists who are not signed to the label. For example, in 2004 Kung Fu served as both the European distributor for Social Distortion's album \"Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll\" and as the American distributor for the UK band Stiff Little Fingers' album \"Guitar and Drum\". Much like other independent record labels, Kung Fu has released a series of low-priced compilation samplers designed to draw attention to the label. Originally these compilations did not have a unifying title similar to Epitaph's \"Punk-O-Rama\" or Fat's \"Fat", "title": "Kung Fu Records" }, { "docid": "20251770", "text": "Gold Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role Gold Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role – Male is an award given as part of its annual Boroplus Gold Awards for TV serials, to recognize a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. The award was first awarded in 2007 under the title Best Actor in a Lead Role. A special award called Best Actor – Critics or Best Actor – Jury was also awarded occasionally in 2000s, whose winner was selected by the jury of critics assigned to the function. The jury", "title": "Gold Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role" }, { "docid": "7109407", "text": "priests should serve as mercenaries. After the destruction of the temple, each believed the other had perished and went on their separate ways; Caine wandered and traveled, much as his grandfather had, while Peter became a foster child and eventually a police officer. The series begins when Caine comes to fictional Sloanville and ends up in the Chinatown section of town, where Peter's precinct is located, and they are reunited after 15 years. \"Kung Fu: The Legend Continues\" lasted four seasons with a total of 88 episodes. The pilot episode, \"Initiation,\" was presented as a two-parter. It established the main", "title": "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" }, { "docid": "15106291", "text": "special was released on DVD and Blu-ray, as simply \"Kung Fu Panda Holiday\", on November 6, 2012. In Australia and the UK it was released under a new title of \"Kung Fu Panda: Po's Winter Wonderland\", which was released on November 11, 2012, and November 19, 2012, exclusively at Sainsbury's stores. It was re-released on DVD on October 1, 2013 along with \"Shrek the Halls\", \"Merry Madagascar\", \"Gift of the Night Fury\", and \"The Croods\". Kung Fu Panda Holiday Kung Fu Panda Holiday is a 2010 American computer-animated television special produced by DreamWorks Animation and directed by Tim Johnson. A", "title": "Kung Fu Panda Holiday" }, { "docid": "6506418", "text": "Watermelons\". From 1972-1975, the single award was handed out to the best actor and actress of the respective award giving years, with honourable mentions made to supporting casts. From 1976 to the present, the accolade has been handed out as a separate award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Candidates for this award must be human and male, and cannot be nominated for the same role in the supporting actor category. AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role The AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role is an award presented by the Australian Academy of", "title": "AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role" }, { "docid": "13887156", "text": "when Fishman regained the title. Kung Fu regained the title from Fishman on April 2, 1978 and went on to hold it for six months before losing the title to Américo Rocca on December 10, 1978. Around the time of his title victory Kung Fu was teamed up with Kato Kung Lee, a Panamanian wrestler who used the same combination of wrestling and martial arts as Kung Fu did. Together the team won the Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship at least two times. The team also won the masks of Los Jaliscos (Jalisco I and Jalisco II) in a \"Luchas", "title": "Kung Fu (wrestler)" }, { "docid": "20668346", "text": "absorb the chi of ancient and powerful Kung Fu warriors known as the Four Constellations: Blue Dragon, Black Tortoise, White Tiger and Red Phoenix. They realize they are now destined to save the world from an evil force, landing Po with his biggest challenge yet — teaching this ragtag band of kids how to wield their newfound Kung Fu powers. Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny is an American animated web television series produced by DreamWorks Animation released for Amazon Prime on November 16, 2018. It is the second TV series in", "title": "Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny" }, { "docid": "11343529", "text": "Kung Fu Soccer Kung Fu Soccer (Chinese:功夫足球) is a Hong Kong television drama series that aired on TVB from December 6, 2004 to January 9, 2005. \"Kung Fu Soccer\" is about the soccer world intertwined with talented people from the world of Kung Fu. Each character has a special Kung Fu talent that they use to play soccer. Lam Chung Fu (Anthony Wong) was once a great soccer player in China. While at the top of his soccer-playing career, his brother Pau set him up and he was forced to give up soccer. One day, Fu meets a young man", "title": "Kung Fu Soccer" }, { "docid": "20251771", "text": "award was awarded without prior nominations until 2012. Since then, the jury award is also awarded with prior nominations just like the original award which is now called Best Actor – Popular. Gold Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role Gold Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role – Male is an award given as part of its annual Boroplus Gold Awards for TV serials, to recognize a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. The award was first awarded in 2007 under the title Best Actor in a Lead Role. A special", "title": "Gold Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role" }, { "docid": "12712051", "text": "Kung Fu Panda: Legendary Warriors Kung Fu Panda: Legendary Warriors is a video game for the Nintendo DS and Wii. It is a sequel to the video game \"Kung Fu Panda\". Players get to play the role as Po, Shifu, Tigress, and Monkey throughout the game levels. A significant feature has Jackie Chan reprising his role of Master Monkey. The narrator narrates about the Valley of Peace, which was guarded under the watchful eye of the Dragon Warrior Po the panda, and the Furious Five (Master Crane, Monkey, Viper, Mantis and Tigress). Meanwhile, Tai Lung resurfaces and plans to get", "title": "Kung Fu Panda: Legendary Warriors" }, { "docid": "12712057", "text": "with no doors and the gameplay would be exactly the same.\" Kung Fu Panda: Legendary Warriors Kung Fu Panda: Legendary Warriors is a video game for the Nintendo DS and Wii. It is a sequel to the video game \"Kung Fu Panda\". Players get to play the role as Po, Shifu, Tigress, and Monkey throughout the game levels. A significant feature has Jackie Chan reprising his role of Master Monkey. The narrator narrates about the Valley of Peace, which was guarded under the watchful eye of the Dragon Warrior Po the panda, and the Furious Five (Master Crane, Monkey, Viper,", "title": "Kung Fu Panda: Legendary Warriors" }, { "docid": "4737114", "text": "While not a blockbuster, \"Kung Fu Hustle\" managed to become the highest-grossing foreign-language film in North America in 2005, the film went on to generate more than US$30,000,000 in United States home video market. The film was nominated for sixteen Hong Kong Film Awards, out of which winning: Best Picture, Best Action Choreography, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects, Best Supporting Actor and Best Visual Effects. Five more awards were later picked up at the Golden Horse Awards including an award for Best Director for Stephen Chow. In the United States \"Kung Fu Hustle\" was well received by various film", "title": "Kung Fu Hustle" }, { "docid": "8231510", "text": "Hong Kong into a recession. During the economic downturn, audiences in Hong Kong shifted to favoring comedies and satires. In the late 1970s the kung fu comedy appeared as a new genre, merging the martial arts of kung fu films with the comedy of Cantonese satires. The films of Lau Kar-leung, Yuen Woo-ping, and Sammo Hung followed this trend. Yuen's \"Drunken Master\" in 1978 was a financial success that transformed Jackie Chan, its leading actor, into a major Hong Kong movie star. The mixture of slapstick comedy with martial arts reinvigorated the kung fu genre. Jackie Chan was the first", "title": "Kung fu film" }, { "docid": "1878937", "text": "of a Punk Planet\". Their first new studio album for Kung Fu was \"Internet Dating Superstuds\" in 2002, by which time more bands had signed to the label including Audio Karate, Ozma, Tsunami Bomb, and Mi6. In the next few years the label added The God Awfuls, Underminded, and Versus the World, and launched the hardcore spinoff label Broken Sounds Records. In recent years there has been less activity from the Kung Fu Records label, as Escalante has focused his attention on Kung Fu Films releases and on his new career as a morning radio show host. A number of", "title": "Kung Fu Records" }, { "docid": "7285453", "text": "Kung Fu Chaos Kung Fu Chaos is a 3D fighting party game developed by Just Add Monsters and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was released worldwide for the Xbox in 2003. \"Kung Fu Chaos\" often breaks the fourth wall. The entire game is about the player controlling a selection of characters making a kung fu film. The actions of these characters are then processed as films and the player can watch them. Although the game is centered on a classic kung fu film, it has certain characters and levels that do not belong in a martial arts film (such", "title": "Kung Fu Chaos" }, { "docid": "12142157", "text": "and was then sent to gather ingredients for meals to be served to the fleeing villagers. From the hilltop his father had specified, Po then watched as the future Furious Five battled Boar, and quickly determined what he wanted to do with his life: practice Kung fu. He later made a set of Furious Five action figures which he treasured for years. In \"Kung Fu Panda 3\", Po is promoted to be a teacher when Shifu decides to retire from active duty to focus on honing chi. However, in his first lesson, Po's attempts to train the Furious Five ends", "title": "Po (Kung Fu Panda)" }, { "docid": "7109408", "text": "characters and introduced many of the concepts that are seen throughout the series. As with the rest of the series, much of the storytelling was done through flashbacks. On May 27, 2014, Warner Bros. released the complete first season on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time in the USA only not Canada, via their Warner Archive Collection. Season 2 was released on August 18, 2015. Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Kung Fu: The Legend Continues is an American-Canadian action/crime drama series and sequel to the original 1972–1975 television series \"Kung Fu\". While the original \"Kung Fu\" series", "title": "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" }, { "docid": "13887153", "text": "Kung Fu (wrestler) Raymundo Cuesta Veloz (January 20, 1951 – January 3, 2001) was a Mexican \"Luchador\" or professional wrestler best known under the ring name \"Kung Fu\". As Kung Fu he made a name for himself as part of \"Trio Fantásticos\" along with Kato Kung Lee and Black Man, a very popular \"tecnico\" (Face or \"good guys\") trio in the early 1980s. Raymundo Cuesta made his professional wrestling debut in 1968, using the ring name Ray Acosta, and generally working low card matches while gaining experience. On August 4, 1974 Cuesta lost a \"Luchas de Apuesta\", or bet match,", "title": "Kung Fu (wrestler)" }, { "docid": "17415420", "text": "arts skills and knowledge in exchange for his freedom. The first teaser trailer was released on 20 July 2014. The final trailer was released on 4 September 2014, displaying its Hong Kong release date on 30 October 2014. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 71% score based on 17 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. Kung Fu Jungle Kung Fu Jungle, also known as Kung Fu Killer and Last of the Best, is a 2014 Hong Kong-Chinese action thriller film directed by Teddy Chan and starring Donnie Yen, Wang Baoqiang, Charlie Yeung and Michelle Bai. The film premiered", "title": "Kung Fu Jungle" }, { "docid": "8231513", "text": "the sports and comedy genres. Chow's 2004 film \"Kung Fu Hustle\", choreographed by martial arts directors Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo-ping, was a similar mixture of kung fu and comedy that achieved international success. Donnie Yen, who emerged during the early 1990s in Jet Li's \"Once Upon a Time in China II\", is currently Hong Kong's top paid actor, starring in several films which helped him achieve international recognition, such as the \"Ip Man trilogy\" and \"\". The competing Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest studios entered Western markets in the 1970s by releasing dubbed kung fu films in the United", "title": "Kung fu film" }, { "docid": "17415418", "text": "Kung Fu Jungle Kung Fu Jungle, also known as Kung Fu Killer and Last of the Best, is a 2014 Hong Kong-Chinese action thriller film directed by Teddy Chan and starring Donnie Yen, Wang Baoqiang, Charlie Yeung and Michelle Bai. The film premiered at the 58th BFI London Film Festival on 12 October 2014 and was later released theatrically on 30 October 2014 in Hong Kong and 31 October 2014 in China. It is being released as \"Kung Fu Killer\" in the United Kingdom and United States. Being a critical success, it was nominated for numerous Hong Kong Film awards.", "title": "Kung Fu Jungle" }, { "docid": "2863873", "text": "Wireless Road, near Sukhumvit Road, in central Bangkok, Thailand. He was in Bangkok to shoot his latest film, titled \"Stretch\". A police official said that Carradine was found naked, hanging by a rope in the room's closet, causing immediate speculation that his death was suicide. However, reported evidence suggested that his death was accidental, the result of autoerotic asphyxiation. Two autopsies were conducted, one involving the celebrity pathologist Pornthip Rojanasunan, and both concluded that the death was not a suicide. The cause of death became widely accepted as \"accidental asphyxiation.\" Immediately following his death, two of Carradine's former wives, Gail", "title": "David Carradine" }, { "docid": "18700809", "text": "for 1979. This results to give a leading villain role for Eagle Han who numorously worked for the low budget movies (such as Bruce Le`s Return of the Red Tiger.) in South Korea. The success of the movie will later give him more villain roles in Godfrey Ho`s movies. Nevertheless, this was John Liu`s last Korean and Hong Kong production film and will later working on Hong Kong industry. Don Wong however will later team up with Eagle Han once again in Quick Step Mantis and Wild Panther. Death Duel of Kung Fu Death Duel of Kung Fu is 1979", "title": "Death Duel of Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "17093112", "text": "reviews, 70/100 for the iOS version based on 10 reviews, 72/100 for the PS Vita version based on 5 reviews, and 65/100 for the Wii U version based on 14 reviews. Kung Fu Rabbit Kung Fu Rabbit is a platform video game for the Android, iOS, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and Wii U. It was developed by French team cTools Studio for the mobile platforms and ported by Neko Entertainment for the rest. It features a white rabbit who teaches kung fu in the temple of rabbits. When the Universal Evil kidnaps all of his students, he goes", "title": "Kung Fu Rabbit" }, { "docid": "11308127", "text": "Kung Fu Kids Kung Fu Kids is a locally produced live-action fantasy series which tell the story of seven children of different personalities united by a prophecy. The series used the song Kung Fu Fighting on its series teaser. It began airing from January 28, 2008 to April 25, 2008 back to back with Palos and Lobo, as part of ABS-CBN's new primetime block replacing \"Lastikman\". Kung Fu Kids is also replayed on Yey! Kung Fu Kids is about friendship, love for family, and courage. The destined kids are led by Lembot, the weakest and least confident of the bunch.", "title": "Kung Fu Kids" }, { "docid": "18648153", "text": "for the first time for the 2015 awards. Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical is an annual award presented by The Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and, renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor Lord Olivier. The award has been given as a singular award for Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in", "title": "Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical" }, { "docid": "20652112", "text": "debate over the veracity of the film, critic Rob Hunter wrote: \"There are moments in the third act that might test the trust of viewers suspecting a staged interaction or line reading, but by all accounts what we see is real. It’s easy to question as Scott and his cohorts are at times too ridiculously bad at what they do, but their sincerity is on equal display.\" Kung Fu Elliot Kung Fu Elliot is a 2014 Canadian film co-directed by Matthew Bauckman and Jaret Belliveau, reportedly a documentary, concerning the attempt of Elliot \"White Lighting\" Scott to become \"Canada's first", "title": "Kung Fu Elliot" }, { "docid": "19883700", "text": "captain Olaf C. Olsen when he was operating the \"Narwhal\" and the \"Minnie A. Caine\" as fishing barges of the Santa Monica Pier became the prototype and the inspiration for the cartoon character Popeye which was created by American cartoonist E. C. Segar. However, there is an alternative theory which states that Popeye was inspired by Rocky Fiegel from Chester, Illinois. Elmer Caine, the \"Minnie A. Caine\" ordering customer, died early and unexpectedly in 1908 leaving his wife Minnie Caine with estate of over $1 million. She survived her husband by 14 years, dying in San Francisco in 1922 when", "title": "Minnie A. Caine" }, { "docid": "18648152", "text": "Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical is an annual award presented by The Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and, renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor Lord Olivier. The award has been given as a singular award for Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical since 1991 and has been separated", "title": "Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical" }, { "docid": "11991980", "text": "Kung Fu Factory Kung Fu Factory is an American independent video game developer located in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The company was formerly known as Just Games Interactive, which developed \"\" and \"\", and worked on \"UFC Undisputed 2009\". Kung Fu Factory is the first third party developer to have worked on a \"Mortal Kombat\" game. Recently the company has released several #1 Mobile games including the Adventure Time: Card Wars Sries, SpongeBob Moves In, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rooftop Run. The company's latest Top Grossing mobile F2P game is WWE Champions, which was developed in", "title": "Kung Fu Factory" }, { "docid": "20821753", "text": "Kung Fu Monster Kung Fu Monster (), previously translated as When Robbers Meet the Monster, is an upcoming Hong Kong-Chinese \"wuxia\" fantasy film directed by Andrew Lau and starring Louis Koo, Chen Xuedong, Bao Bei'er, Zhou Dongyu and Bea Hayden. Production for the film began on 13 April 2017 and wrapped up on 8 June of the same year in Beijing, and is set for release in December 2018. During the Wanli Emperor's reign in the Ming dynasty, Sun Yehe, supervisor of the Eastern Depot, was ordered to capture monsters that have escaped from the royal palace. At the same", "title": "Kung Fu Monster" }, { "docid": "13887161", "text": "a feud that let to Kung Fu being unmasked on October 26, 1990 as he lost a \"Luchas de Apuestas\" match. After losing his mask Kung Fu seemed to have lost a step or two in the ring, losing part of appeal when he lost the mask, something which is not uncommon in Lucha libre. After his mask loss Kung Fu turned \"rudo\", using his nunchuks to attack other wrestlers. After an initial push as a \"rudo\" Kung Fu started to sink in the ranks, being used more and more to help young wrestlers gain experience and make them look", "title": "Kung Fu (wrestler)" }, { "docid": "4200906", "text": "since 1995. Legend: BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Best Actor in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film. From 1952 to 1967, there were two Best Actor awards: one for a British actor and another for a foreign actor. In 1968, the two prizes of British and Foreign actor were combined to create a single Best Actor award. Its current title, for Best Actor in a Leading Role,", "title": "BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role" }, { "docid": "4200905", "text": "BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Best Actor in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film. From 1952 to 1967, there were two Best Actor awards: one for a British actor and another for a foreign actor. In 1968, the two prizes of British and Foreign actor were combined to create a single Best Actor award. Its current title, for Best Actor in a Leading Role, has been used", "title": "BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role" }, { "docid": "14888634", "text": "multi-sensory attraction, based on \"Kung Fu Panda\", will be coming in 2018 at Universal Studios Hollywood. Kung Fu Panda (franchise) Kung Fu Panda is a media franchise by DreamWorks Animation, consisting of three films: \"Kung Fu Panda\" (2008), \"Kung Fu Panda 2\" (2011) and \"Kung Fu Panda 3\" (2016). The first two were distributed by Paramount Pictures, while the third film was distributed by 20th Century Fox. Three shorts, \"Secrets of the Furious Five\" (2008), \"Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special\" (2010) and \"\" (2011), were also released. A television series for Nickelodeon television network, \"\", premiered in 2011. A second", "title": "Kung Fu Panda (franchise)" }, { "docid": "11991981", "text": "partnership with Scopely and WWE. Kung Fu Factory Kung Fu Factory is an American independent video game developer located in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The company was formerly known as Just Games Interactive, which developed \"\" and \"\", and worked on \"UFC Undisputed 2009\". Kung Fu Factory is the first third party developer to have worked on a \"Mortal Kombat\" game. Recently the company has released several #1 Mobile games including the Adventure Time: Card Wars Sries, SpongeBob Moves In, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rooftop Run. The company's latest Top Grossing mobile F2P game is WWE", "title": "Kung Fu Factory" }, { "docid": "17722793", "text": "Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role is an award given by Indiantelevision.com as part of its annual Indian Telly Awards for TV serials, to recognize a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a comic role. The award was first awarded in 2004. Since 2010, the award has been separated in two categories, Jury Award and Popular Award. Jury award is given by the chosen jury of critics assigned to the function while Popular Award is given on the basis of public voting. As", "title": "Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role" }, { "docid": "6545635", "text": "opening for a non-sequel film, the highest grossing animated film of the year worldwide, and also had the fourth-largest opening weekend for a DreamWorks animated film at the American and Canadian box office, behind \"Shrek 2\", \"Shrek the Third\", and \"Shrek Forever After\". A sequel, \"Kung Fu Panda 2\", was released on May 26, 2011, along with a television series \"\" premiering on Nickelodeon later that same year as a part of a franchise. A second sequel called \"Kung Fu Panda 3\" was released on January 29, 2016. In the Valley of Peace, a land in ancient China inhabited by", "title": "Kung Fu Panda" }, { "docid": "17889813", "text": "in a Supporting Role and the film associated with the award. In the columns under the winner of each award are the other nominees for best supporting actor. Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Guldbagge for Best Actor in a Supporting Role is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish: \"Guldbaggen\") to actors working in the Swedish motion picture industry. The categories for Best Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress were first introduced in 1995. In 1992, Ernst Günther received a Guldbagge for Creative Efforts,", "title": "Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role" }, { "docid": "10669649", "text": "Fu Vampire\" concept. Concepts from an unpublished novel he wrote also formed the basis for the group's stage act and beliefs centered around \"Balance\" KFV refers to it as the \"Yin and Yang of Fang\" . In 2006, Kung Fu Vampire was voted \"Best Local Band\" by \"Metro Silicon Valley\" readers. and went on to win the award 2 more times. Director Darren Lynn Bousman was impressed by Kung Fu Vampire's performance style, and pushed for the rapper to perform at the release party for \"Saw III\" as well as opting to do a Music Video. Kung Fu Vampire has", "title": "Kung Fu Vampire" }, { "docid": "17908450", "text": "released on 19 April 2017. Local Kung Fu Local Kung Fu is an Assamese Kung fu comedy film directed by Kenny Deori Basumatary and the second Assamese film to have a nationwide release. It has also been dubbed as India’s first Kung fu film. The plot revolves around Charlie, \"an ordinary boy from Guwahati with a delicate stomach\", his girlfriend and a number of madcap characters. Charlie is living with his uncle and cousin, Johnny, in Guwahati. He had shifted from Tezpur, due to his girlfriend, Sumi, being sent away to Guwahati in an attempt by her father to keep", "title": "Local Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "7924020", "text": "- Double Daggers vs. Spear Two-Man Set (雙匕首對槍對折) Dani Fu Pa Deoi Darn Dou - Tiger Lance/Trident vs. Single Sabre with Shield (大虎巴對單刀) Bau Jong Dou Deoi Cheung - Elbow-Guarding Knives (Butterfly Knives) vs. Spear (保踭刀對槍) The Jow Ga Style is famous for its lion dance. Their participation can be seen in numerous performances at various important ceremonies, primarily Chinese New Year, weddings, and government functions. Jow-Ga Kung Fu Jow Ga Kung Fu (Chinese: 周家) (or Jow Gar, Zhou Jia, or other forms of romanisation) () is a form of Kung Fu. It was founded by Jow Lung who was", "title": "Jow-Ga Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "17722794", "text": "of 2014, the original award is renamed to the Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Drama) and an additional award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Comedy) has been introduced. Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role is an award given by Indiantelevision.com as part of its annual Indian Telly Awards for TV serials, to recognize a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a comic role. The award was first awarded in 2004. Since 2010, the award has been", "title": "Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role" }, { "docid": "14574194", "text": "Kung Fu Rider Kung Fu Rider (Japanese: 街スベリ, Chinese: 功夫滑仔), previously known as \"Slider\", is an action video game for the PlayStation 3. The game is developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for use with the new PlayStation Move controller. It was officially unveiled at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It was released in 17 September 2010. Players take the role of Toby or Karin in the game, Toby is a private investigator while Karin is his secretary who has to escape from the Triads in Hong Kong. Players have to utilize the", "title": "Kung Fu Rider" }, { "docid": "4737091", "text": "involving the Beast, which had to be reshot 28 times. In addition to famous martial artists, \"Kung Fu Hustle\" features legends of Chinese cinema. Two famous Chinese directors appear in the film: Zhang Yibai, who plays Inspector Chan at the beginning of the film, and Feng Xiaogang, who plays the boss of the Crocodile Gang. In casting Sing's love interest Fong, Chow stated that he wanted an innocent looking girl for the role. Television actress Eva Huang, in her film debut, was chosen from over 8,000 girls. When asked about his decision in casting her, Chow said that he \"just", "title": "Kung Fu Hustle" }, { "docid": "17886655", "text": "Due to a mediocre film year, no awards ceremony was held in 1971. Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role The Guldbagge for Best Actor in a Leading Role is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish: \"Guldbaggen\") to actors working in the Swedish motion picture industry. Each Guldbagge Awards ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Guldbagge Award for Actor in a Leading Role and the film associated with the award. Before 1991 the awards did not announce nominees, only winners.", "title": "Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role" }, { "docid": "3374228", "text": "Rag Doll Kung Fu Rag Doll Kung Fu is a fighting video game, created predominantly by artist Mark Healey, while working for Lionhead Studios, along with other Lionhead employees, such as David Smith and Alex Evans. \"Rag Doll Kung Fu\" is available from Valve Corporation's Steam content delivery platform. It is notable as the first third-party published game to be released on Steam. An updated version, called \"Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic\" was made available for download on the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 on 9 April 2009. The game features string puppets that allow for complete", "title": "Rag Doll Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "17608530", "text": "Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role – Male is an award given by Indiantelevision.com as part of its annual Indian Telly Awards for TV serials, to recognize a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a comic role. The award was first awarded in 2002. Since 2010, the award has been separated in two categories, Jury Award and Popular Award. Winner of Jury award is chosen by the jury of critics assigned to the function while Popular Award is given on the basis of", "title": "Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role" }, { "docid": "17608531", "text": "public voting. Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role – Male is an award given by Indiantelevision.com as part of its annual Indian Telly Awards for TV serials, to recognize a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a comic role. The award was first awarded in 2002. Since 2010, the award has been separated in two categories, Jury Award and Popular Award. Winner of Jury award is chosen by the jury of critics assigned to the function while Popular Award is given on the", "title": "Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role" }, { "docid": "13113468", "text": "King Kung Fu King Kung Fu is a 1976 comedy film directed by Lance D. Hayes that is a low budget spoof of both \"King Kong\" and \"Kung Fu\" done in a slapstick style. \"King Kung Fu\" tells the story of a good-humored, hat-loving, Chinese talking gorilla originally named Jungle Jumper who has been taught karate. After beating up his Kung Fu Master owner, Alfunku, when the latter dared him to snatch a banana from his hand, he is shipped off to the U.S. as a \"goodwill gift\" by his battered and embarrassed teacher, where he is renamed King Kung", "title": "King Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "4737090", "text": "midnight snacks every day. Bruce Leung, who played the Beast, was Stephen Chow's childhood martial arts hero. Leung Siu Lung was a famous action film director and actor in the 1970s and 1980s, known as the \"Third Dragon\" after Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. After becoming unpopular in the Taiwanese film market in the late 1980s following a visit to China, he switched to a career in business. \"Kung Fu Hustle\" was his return to the film industry after a fifteen-year hiatus. He regarded Chow as a flexible director with high standards, and was particularly impressed by the first scene", "title": "Kung Fu Hustle" }, { "docid": "14888616", "text": "Kung Fu Panda (franchise) Kung Fu Panda is a media franchise by DreamWorks Animation, consisting of three films: \"Kung Fu Panda\" (2008), \"Kung Fu Panda 2\" (2011) and \"Kung Fu Panda 3\" (2016). The first two were distributed by Paramount Pictures, while the third film was distributed by 20th Century Fox. Three shorts, \"Secrets of the Furious Five\" (2008), \"Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special\" (2010) and \"\" (2011), were also released. A television series for Nickelodeon television network, \"\", premiered in 2011. A second series, \"\", was released on Amazon Prime in November 2018. The franchise, set in a fantasy", "title": "Kung Fu Panda (franchise)" }, { "docid": "14270568", "text": "Kung Fu Chefs Kung Fu Chefs () is a 2009 Hong Kong action film directed by Ken Yip, starring Sammo Hung, Louis Fan, Vanness Wu, Sammo Hung's real life son Timmy Hung, Ku Feng and Lee Hoi San. This was Lee Hoi San's final film appearance. This film was shot with a low budget. Wong Kai Joe (Louis Fan) has had hatred of his uncle Wong Ping Yee (Sammo Hung) in his heart for a very long time and does what he can to oust his uncle from the village and to claim rights to the Dragon Head Cleaver, a", "title": "Kung Fu Chefs" }, { "docid": "1878933", "text": "Kung Fu Records Kung Fu Records is an American independent record label founded in 1996 by Joe Escalante and Warren Fitzgerald of the punk rock band The Vandals. Founded in order to release a record by the Riverside, California band Assorted Jelly Beans, the label soon grew to include a roster of notable artists such as The Ataris, Ozma, Tsunami Bomb, and The Vandals themselves. In 2000 Escalante started Kung Fu Films as a subsidiary of the music label in order to release DVDs of live concerts, music videos, band documentaries, and independent films. In 2005 Kung Fu also spawned", "title": "Kung Fu Records" }, { "docid": "11840300", "text": "Kung Fu Tootsie Kung Fu Tootsie (Thai: ตั๊ดสู้ฟุด or \"Tat soo foot\") is a 2007 Thai action-comedy film written and directed by Jaturong Mokjok. The English title of the film is an allusion to the 1982 American comedy film \"Tootsie\". A Thai slang term for transvestite or effeminate man, \"toot\" (ตุ๊ด), comes from the first syllable of \"Tootsie\". The Thai name of the film, \"Tat soo foot\" is a Thai spoonerism for \"toot soo fat\", which translates roughly as \"butt-kicking sissy\". \"Kung Fu Tootsie\" is set in Hong Kong, the story of Tien and Tao, twins separated at birth. When", "title": "Kung Fu Tootsie" }, { "docid": "2751814", "text": "Monkey Kung Fu Monkey Kung Fu, or Monkey Fist (猴拳), is a Chinese martial art which utilizes ape or monkey-like movements as part of its technique. There are a number of independently developed systems of monkey kung fu. Examples include Xingzhemen (行者門) named after the protagonist Sun Wukong of the popular Ming dynasty novel \"Journey to the West\", Nanhouquan (南猴拳) or Southern Monkey Fist originating from the Southern Shaolin Temple as well as the better-known Da Sheng Pi Gua Men 大聖劈掛門 style of Hong Kong. The Hou Quan style from the Emei region, taught by the famous \"Monkey King\" Xiao", "title": "Monkey Kung Fu" }, { "docid": "4737088", "text": "in the apartments were antiques from all over China. \"Kung Fu Hustle\" features several prolific Hong Kong action cinema actors from the 1970s. Yuen Wah, a former student of the China Drama Academy Peking Opera School who appeared in over a hundred Hong Kong films and was a stunt double for Bruce Lee, played the Landlord of Pig Sty Alley. Wah considered starring in \"Kung Fu Hustle\" to be the peak of his career. In spite of the film's success, he worried that nowadays fewer people practice martial arts. Auditions for the role of the Landlady began in March 2003.", "title": "Kung Fu Hustle" } ]