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[ { "docid": "1614691", "text": "The show starred Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler and Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson for its first twelve seasons until the former left the cast, unable to come to an agreement on his contract. As of November 29, 2018, \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\" has aired 444 original episodes. On May 9, 2018, NBC renewed the series for a twentieth season, which allowed it to tie the flagship \"Law & Order\" and \"Gunsmoke\" for the longest-running scripted drama in U.S. television history. The season premiered on September 27, 2018. The idea for \"Law & Order: Special Victims", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" }, { "docid": "20107868", "text": "as her character Erin Lindsay. It was said, \"Sophia Bush, who plays Det. Erin Lindsay on the new NBC drama, is traveling to New York this coming week to shoot a scene for Law & Order: SVU with star Mariska Hargitay.\" The Comic's Comic wrote about Silverman's casting, \"Jonathan Silverman plays Josh Galloway, a stand-up comedian who makes a name for himself with rape jokes and a crime for himself in alleged rapes in tonight’s episode, “Comic Perversions.”\" It was posted on Skyler Day's website \"Skyler is bringing her character “Renee Clark” back to Law & Order: SVU on February", "title": "Comic Perversion" }, { "docid": "16203068", "text": "have remembered.\" In September, Leight said in an interview with \"TV Guide\" that this season's theme would revolve around \"everybody having secrets\". On September 17, 2012, both Mariska Hargitay and Danny Pino tweeted that filming on \"SVU\" episode 300 started. Mariska tweeted \"Can't believe we started filming our 300 episode today! #svu\" and Pino tweeted with, \"Congrats on 300 SVU's. Proud 2 contribute 28 to the tally. #quality&quantity\". Production on season 14 of \"Law & Order: SVU\" (along with other New York City based TV series) was halted by NBC starting October 29, 2012 in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 14)" }, { "docid": "9808294", "text": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 7) The seventh season of the television series, \"\" premiered September 20, 2005 and ended May 16, 2006 on NBC. It aired on Tuesday nights at 10pm/9c. Critically the show's most successful season, both lead actors received nominations at the 2006 Emmy Awards with a win by Mariska Hargitay. Repeating a pattern established by other \"SVU\" seasons, the Season 7 premiere was filmed before the airing of the Season 6 finale. Long-time \"SVU\" co-executive producers, , , and departed the series at the end of Season 7. Additionally, long-time \"Law & Order\" franchise", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 7)" }, { "docid": "9808303", "text": "guest starred as a young mother who has abandoned at least two babies in order to cover up incest. This was one of the more memorable roles for the actress according to a 2011 interview in which she said \"When I did \"Law & Order: SVU\", Mariska Hargitay was particularly good to me and I actually enjoyed diving into a dark place for that character.\" The sixteenth episode \"Gone\" showed three teenage boys on trial for the murder of a teenage girl whose body was never found. Susan Saint James guest starred as their attorney, marking her first television role", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 7)" }, { "docid": "1614689", "text": "has been nominated for and won numerous awards, including the 2006 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Mariska Hargitay, the first, and to date only, Emmy to be received by a regular on any \"Law & Order\" series. It is the current longest running scripted non-animated U.S. primetime TV series since the cancellation of the original \"Law & Order\" on May 24, 2010 and is the fourth-longest running scripted U.S. primetime TV series on a major broadcast network. \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\" originally centered almost exclusively on the detectives of the Special Victims Unit", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" }, { "docid": "10139548", "text": "\"Charisma\" was dedicated to her memory. Towards the end of the season, \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\" crossed over with the third \"Law & Order\" spin-off, \"\" with two episodes: \"Night\" in \"SVU\" and \"Day\" in \"TBJ\". In the episode Casey Novak is beaten unconscious by an Islamic fundamentalist. In an interview for USA Network, Diane Neal, who did her own stunts, revealed that she indeed passed out due to an error in how they acted out the scene. In an interview about Season 6, Mariska Hargitay mentioned that filming of the night time scenes took place on Tuesday", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 6)" }, { "docid": "16203090", "text": "the same day, the Joyful Heart Foundation released a statement apologizing to the viewers who feel betrayed. While the executives of the JHF reiterated that they have no say over the production of \"SVU\" episodes, they indicated that \"We were not aware of this casting choice and we have formally expressed our concerns to the executives and producers at SVU.\" Despite being the foundation's president, the personal opinion of Mariska Hargitay, whose contract with NBC contains a publicity clause, was not mentioned. Warren Leight began responding to the controversy on January 12, 2013, by writing a seven-part tweet \"We understand", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 14)" } ]

[ { "docid": "16911868", "text": "Esparza is \"most familiar to TV viewers as Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Rafael Barba on 'Law & Order: SVU.'\" According to Esparza, Barba's \"flashy, high-fashion suits ... and snappy suspenders\" are popular online, with Kate Stanhope of \"TV Guide\" adding that the character's \"designer duds have been a hit with fans\". Esparza has been credited in 115 episodes of \"SVU\" (appearing in 85) as Barba, making him the 2nd longest serving ADA in the \"Law & Order\" franchise history after Jack McCoy. Rafael Barba Rafael Barba is a fictional character portrayed by Raúl Esparza, who joined the cast of the", "title": "Rafael Barba" }, { "docid": "8275924", "text": "her the fifth-longest serving ADA in the \"Law & Order\" franchise history, surpassed by Rafael Barba (\"SVU\"), Alexandra Cabot (\"SVU\"), Ron Carver (\"CI\"), and Casey Novak (\"SVU\"). Connie Rubirosa Consuelo \"Connie\" Rubirosa is a fictional character, portrayed by Alana de la Garza, who joined the cast of long-running NBC drama series \"Law & Order\" during the 17th-season premiere episode \"Fame\". She is the only second-chair assistant district attorney of \"Law & Order\" to have appeared in four complete seasons. She later appeared on \"\" as a series regular until the show's cancellation in May 2011. In January 2014, she appeared", "title": "Connie Rubirosa" }, { "docid": "5444494", "text": "up against Defense Attorney Marvin Exley (Ron Rifkin), who is defending a woman who seems to have fabricated her own abduction. Neal has been credited in 112 episodes of \"SVU\" (appearing in 105) as Novak. Additionally, she appears in a 2005 episode of \"\", bringing her total episode count to 113. Casey Novak Casey Novak is a fictional character on \"\", portrayed by Diane Neal. She is the only female Assistant District Attorney (ADA) to have appeared in five complete seasons in any \"Law & Order\" series and the longest-running ADA in the entire franchise. Casey Novak is a young", "title": "Casey Novak" }, { "docid": "1614738", "text": "simultaneously, two episodes after the original airing in the US. In Venezuela, the cable network \"Fox Life\" airs Law & Order: SVU starting from season 1 every Monday to Friday at 9:05pm. \"Law & Order: SVU\" is broadcast at 9.30 pm on Tuesdays on TV3 in New Zealand. Series 18 premiered on 11 April 2017. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often abbreviated to Law & Order: SVU or just SVU) is an American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced. In the", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" }, { "docid": "20817338", "text": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 20) The twentieth season of \"\" premiered on Thursday, September 27, 2018, at 9PM ET with a two-part premiere episode. The following Thursday, the series started airing new episodes at 10PM ET. This landmark season of \"SVU\" tied it with both the original \"Law & Order\" series and \"Gunsmoke\" as longest-running scripted non-animated U.S. primetime TV series. \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\" was renewed for a twentieth season on May 9, 2018. Production started on July 16, 2018. On July 12, 2018, Executive Producer Julie Martin posted a photo of a script", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 20)" }, { "docid": "1614701", "text": "spinoff, \"\", until it was pulled from the network in January 2011 to be retooled. \"SVU\" moved back to 10:00 p.m. on January 12, 2011, until the end of the 13th season. With season 14, \"SVU\" moved back to 9:00 p.m. after a two-hour season premiere event on September 26, 2012. Beginning with Season 20, SVU will air on Thursday nights at 10 PM, after NBC decided to devote their entire Wednesday primetime lineup to the Chicago Med, PD, and Fire trilogy. This will mark the first time ever that Law & Order SVU has held this timeslot on Thursday", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" }, { "docid": "5497141", "text": "Alexandra Cabot Alexandra \"Alex\" Cabot is a fictional character within the \"Law & Order\" universe portrayed by Stephanie March. She is a primary character in \"\" and \"Conviction\". Cabot first appears in the \"SVU\" episode \"Wrong Is Right\", when she is hired to work with SVU as their permanent assistant district attorney (ADA) overseeing the legality of its arrests, following a rotating mix of ADAs, among them Abbie Carmichael (Angie Harmon) of the original \"Law & Order\". She is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and has an \"uncle Bill\" who is a federal judge. While Cabot has great compassion", "title": "Alexandra Cabot" }, { "docid": "1614737", "text": "on Syfy in 2006. In Australia, \"Law & Order: SVU\" airs on Network Ten and Australia's cable channel Universal Channel (formerly aired on TV1 which ceased to broadcast in December 2013). In the UK \"Law & Order: SVU\" originally aired on the Hallmark Channel (which in 2012 became the Universal Channel) with a terrestrial TV airing on Channel 5 in 2016 which then switched to Five USA. The UK is two and half weeks behind the US. In Brazil and rest of Latin America, \"Law & Order: SVU\" also airs on Universal Channel, with weekdays episodes from past seasons and", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" }, { "docid": "18550844", "text": "Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU is a 2013 weird fiction novella by Carmen Maria Machado, told in the form of 272 capsule synopses for the first 12 seasons of the police procedural, \"\". It was first published in \"The American Reader\", in May 2013. As Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson investigate standard cases of horrific depravity and cruelty, they gradually find themselves enmeshed in a mysterious situation involving alien abductions, ghosts with bells for eyes, and—perhaps most disturbingly—the appearance of Abler and Henson, two doppelgängers who are", "title": "Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU" }, { "docid": "10107397", "text": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 5) The fifth season of the television series, \"\" premiered September 23, 2003, and ended May 18, 2004, on NBC. \"Law & Order: SVU\" moved away from its Friday night slot to Tuesday nights at 10pm/9c. Casey Novak, the unit's longest-serving ADA, was introduced in the fifth episode when Diane Neal joined the cast to fill the absence left by Stephanie March. Early reports about Stephanie March leaving the cast at the end of indicate that the first Season 5 episodes were written if not filmed by May 2003. The sixth episode, \"Coerced\",", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 5)" }, { "docid": "10314522", "text": "unfortunately been fooled by the usual fraudulent techniques of cold reading and hot reading used by \"grief vampires\" like Henry to convince people that they have paranormal powers. The \"Law & Order\" programs often base their fictional stories on real-life events and have featured stories based on Grace on several occasions. In the episode \"Haystack\" of \"Law & Order: SVU\", an overzealous reporter named Cindy Marino (played by Kali Rocha) causes the mother of a kidnapped son to commit suicide. On \",\" Grace has also been compared to a character named Faith Yancy (Geneva Carr) who hosts a similar talk", "title": "Nancy Grace" }, { "docid": "12426048", "text": "\"superb actor.\" Wolf said, \"He did a terrific job this season on 'SVU', and I look forward to working with him again in the near future.\" Beach joined \"Law & Order: SVU\" on the heels of his starring role in Dick Wolf's Emmy-winning HBO film \"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee\", which earned the actor a Golden Globe nomination. \"I very much enjoyed my year on \"Law & Order: SVU\",\" Beach said. \"Now I'm looking forward to new adventures.\" Beach also guest-starred in two episodes as Detective Lake, \"\" and \"\", prior to fully joining the cast. For , Dick", "title": "Cold (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)" }, { "docid": "1614688", "text": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often abbreviated to Law & Order: SVU or just SVU) is an American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced. In the style of the original \"Law & Order\", episodes are often \"ripped from the headlines\" or loosely based on real crimes that have received media attention. Created by Dick Wolf, the series premiered on NBC on September 20, 1999, as the second series in Wolf's successful \"Law & Order\" franchise. \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\"", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" }, { "docid": "18412268", "text": "Andrew Llewellyn (the fire victim who had the child porn photos), and the officer guarding him were shot and killed. Benson comments that their suspect fled back to Chicago. \"Chicago Crossover\" was written by long-time \"Law & Order\" franchise writer (teleplay), \"SVU\" executive producer/show runner Warren Leight and \"Law & Order: SVU\" creator Dick Wolf, and was directed by Steve Shill. This episode marks the first episode to credit Dick Wolf as a writer since the 100th episode of \"SVU\", \"Control\", back in the . In this episode, Raúl Esparza (Assistant District Attorney Rafael Barba) and newcomer Peter Scanavino (Detective", "title": "Chicago Crossover" }, { "docid": "18550845", "text": "living Stabler and Benson's lives better than Stabler and Benson are. \"The Huffington Post\" included it on a list of \"the 10 Best Short Stories You've Never Read\", describing it as \"funny, disturbing, canny, and inventive\", and \"engaging, strange, and wholly original.\" At \"National Public Radio\", K. Tempest Bradford compared it to \"Lovecraft meets Dick Wolf\", stating that it is her \"favorite\" of Machado's work, while \"Strange Horizons\" called it a \"highlight of the year\". Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU is a 2013 weird fiction novella by", "title": "Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU" }, { "docid": "20154812", "text": "of \"SVU\" (\"Something Happened\"). Walters played the rape victim, Laurel Linwood, who knows she was raped but can't remember what happened. Going played Laurel's sister, Leah, who is brought in to help fill in the blanks. On September 20, 2017, it was announced Sam Waterston would guest star in an upcoming episode of \"SVU\" as his \"Law & Order\" character, Jack McCoy. Waterston was re-united with show runner/EP Michael S. Chernuchin, who also held the same position at the time Waterston joined the original series in 1994; Chernuchin is credited as the creator of the McCoy character. This also marked", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 19)" }, { "docid": "20569199", "text": "Stone being dropped. Philip Winchester was first announced to be starring in \"Chicago Law\" (later renamed \"Chicago Justice\") on February 19, 2016. It was later reported that Winchester would first appear in a backdoor pilot episode embedded in \"Chicago P.D.\" Winchester continued to guest star in \"P.D.\" and made also a appearance in \"Chicago Med\". Following the cancellation of \"Justice\", it was announced that Winchester would move to \"Law & Order: SVU\" in a starring capacity. Winchester replaced Raúl Esparza on \"SVU\" who departed the series in Winchester's debut episode. Peter Jankowski, COO and President of Wolf Films, stated \"When", "title": "Peter Stone (Chicago and Law & Order character)" }, { "docid": "10139556", "text": "victim. For an interview in 2008, McCurdy wrote \"My favorite job to this day has been Law and Order: SVU. I played a girl who had been badly abused, so the part involved lots of crying and seriousness.\" In \"Haunted\", Ernest Waddell made his first of what would become several appearances as Fin Tutuola's son Ken Randall. The character had been mentioned in previous seasons but never shown. Neal Baer stated that the plan to reveal family members slowly was intentional with \"We like revealing those kinds of things about a character - as you would in any workplace where", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 6)" }, { "docid": "9824931", "text": "the term \"mothership\" to distinguish the original from its spin-offs. This phrase has become popular with fans of the franchise. Unlike the original \"Law & Order\", filming for \"SVU\" began in North Bergen, New Jersey since there was not enough real estate available to get a studio in Manhattan. The production staff were still told to think of the area as being Manhattan. As with \"Law & Order\", writers for the series primarily worked in Los Angeles. However, \"SVU\" featured more female writers with the series aiming to bring a \"strong woman's perspective\" to the screen. Writer Dawn DeNoon has", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 1)" }, { "docid": "12426044", "text": "which ultimately leads to his arrest, leaving Novak and the SVU detectives in shock. \"Cold\" was written by Judith McCreary and directed by David Platt. In April 2008, it was first announced that Diane Neal who portrayed Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak since the would abruptly depart the cast. An \"SVU\" spokesperson confirmed the actress' departure to \"TV Guide\", saying, \"Diane spent five years on SVU and was a tremendous addition to the SVU team. She is looking forward to new opportunities and she will be missed.\" But as soon as it was announced Neal had departed the cast, it", "title": "Cold (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)" }, { "docid": "16203069", "text": "Show runner/executive producer Warren Leight tweeted on October 30, \"SVU cast and crew seem to be safe. Our stages, and many of us, in the dark. Our thoughts and prayers to all suffering in Sandy's wake\". Ice-T tweeted on November 1, 2012, \"SANDY Update: SVU production shut down all week. No power on set.\" \"Law & Order: SVU's\" home studio on Chelsea Piers had water damage and a loss of electrical power; according to a note on the complex's website, \"The city has not issued any location permits this week, so probably the earliest we'll be able to shoot is", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 14)" }, { "docid": "16776308", "text": "of the main detectives.\" Bradford added that; \"\"Law & Order: SVU\" has long been one of my favorite shows and I am not giving up on it just yet.\" Brittany Frederick of \"Starpulse\" felt differently about the episode, positively reviewing the episode's continuing storyline and guest stars Paget Brewster and Adam Baldwin. \"Foster is a character who could be an incredibly one-dimensional antagonist, and in her first scene, certainly comes off that way. Yet in short order, Brewster is able to establish her as someone sympathetic to the situation, who could be as much an ally as she is an", "title": "Lost Reputation" }, { "docid": "8235412", "text": "more recent years, Blauner has been writing for television. He has been on the writing staffs of three shows in the Law & Order franchise. He served as a co-executive producer of \"Law & Order: SVU\", where he was the writer of the show's 300th episode, \"Manhattan Vigil,\" which was loosely based on his 2007 short story \"Going, Going, Gone.\" A 2013 episode, \"Legitimate Rape,\" co-written with Kevin Fox, was nominated for an Edgar award for best teleplay. From 2015 to 2018, he wrote as a co-executive producer for the CBS show, \"Blue Bloods.\" His first novel in eleven years,", "title": "Peter Blauner" }, { "docid": "4728566", "text": "Orphan of Zhao\" was a co-production with La Jolla Playhouse. Wong announced his departure from the cast of \"Law & Order: SVU\" in July 2011, to join another NBC police drama, \"Awake\", in which he portrayed Dr. Johnathan Lee, a confrontational therapist of an LAPD detective (portrayed by Jason Isaacs) who lived in two realities. Wong guest starred in a episode of \"Law & Order: SVU\" titled \"Father Dearest\" (which aired May 2, 2012). In 2015, he was named Artist-in-Residence at La Jolla Playhouse. Wong guest starred on a \"\" Episode 1.13 titled \"The Walking Dead\" (which aired February 3,", "title": "BD Wong" }, { "docid": "18352398", "text": "star. However, he was promoted to the main cast in the fifth episode of the same season, \"Pornstar's Requiem\". Carisi is not the only character Scanavino has portrayed in the \"Law & Order\" franchise. In 2013, Scanavino guest-starred in \"SVU\"'s episode, \"Monster's Legacy\", as an attempted murderer, Johnny Dubcek. Prior to that, he had appeared in \"\", \"\" and \"Law & Order\" in various roles. Dominick Carisi Jr. Dominick \"Sonny\" Carisi Jr. is a fictional character on the NBC police procedural drama \"\", portrayed by Peter Scanavino. Carisi is a detective with the Manhattan SVU at the 16th Precinct of", "title": "Dominick Carisi Jr." }, { "docid": "1614700", "text": "marathon blocks. With the season eleven premiere on September 23, 2009, the series vacated its Tuesday 10 p.m. ET slot because NBC began a prime-time weeknight Jay Leno series. The new time slot became Wednesday nights at 9:00 p.m. ET on NBC, with CTV still airing \"SVU\" on Tuesdays at 10:00 in Canada. After the 2010 Winter Olympics on March 3, 2010, the time slot for \"SVU\" changed again to Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET, where it stayed until the twelfth season. In the 12th season, \"SVU\" moved back to 9:00 p.m. to lead in the newest \"Law & Order\"", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" }, { "docid": "10107410", "text": "Weary. Matt Loguercio, who played a teacher in the episode wrote at length about how he had been auditioning for all three \"Law & Order\" when he got the call to appear. He stayed up to date on auditions by taking a classes taught by Jonathan Strauss and Jennifer Jones. Jones was the Assistant Casting Director for \"SVU\" at the time and Strauss became the Casting Director after Julie Tucker departed. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 5) The fifth season of the television series, \"\" premiered September 23, 2003, and ended May 18, 2004, on NBC.", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 5)" }, { "docid": "18030339", "text": "announced that \"Chicago PD\", \"Chicago Fire\", and also \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\", could continue to have crossover episodes during the 2014–15 season. The episode entitled \"Chicago Crossover\" aired on November 12, 2014, as part of a crossover between \"Chicago P.D.\", \"Chicago Fire\", and \"SVU\". Additionally, the episode entitled \"Daydream Believer\", served as the second crossover with the three aforementioned shows. Peter Scanavino joined, originally in a recurring capacity, as Detective Dominick \"Sonny\" Carisi Jr., beginning with the season premiere episode \"Girls Disappeared\". Detective Carisi is \"going to come in [to SVU] and shake things up...a guy who maybe", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 16)" }, { "docid": "17251555", "text": "co-worker, Baltimore Detective Meldrick Lewis (Clark Johnson). Kirk Acevedo appeared as Eddie Garcia in \"October Surprise\", a childhood friend of ADA Rafael Barba (Raúl Esparza). Originally, Acevedo played District Attorney investigator Hector Salazar in the short-lived \"Law & Order\" spin-off, \"\". He had made an appearance on \"SVU\" in the \"TBJ\"-\"SVU\" crossover episode \"Night\". Tony Award winner Billy Porter guest starred in \"Dissonant Voices\" as singing coach and television personality Jackie Walker, who was accused of sexual abuse by his students. \"The X Factor\" season 2 contestant Carly Rose Sonenclar portrayed Grace Belsey in this episode. Ashanti, Clay Aiken and", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 15)" }, { "docid": "16380317", "text": "a portion of this episode, late August 2010 in Los Angeles with \"\" star, Skeet Ulrich. Hargitay was attending the Primetime Emmy Awards, in which she was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. This episode was the first time \"Law & Order: SVU\" had shot an episode on the West Coast. \"Behave\" is inspired by rape survivor and advocate Helena Lazaro, who spoke at a fundraiser for Hargitay's Joyful Heart Foundation; several years earlier, she submitted to an exam for a rape evidence collection kit that was ignored by police. \"I'm so honored that the \"SVU\" writers", "title": "Behave (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)" }, { "docid": "10139554", "text": "is prompted by an overprotective mother played by Dana Delany. \"SVU\" writers had been asking Delany to do a show for years and wrote the part with her in mind. According to Delany, \"It deals with First Amendment rights and a Howard Stern type character. I think it presents both sides of the argument well.\" Kyle MacLachlan starred in the episode \"Conscience\" as a grieving father who notices an opportunity to eliminate a sociopath. MacLachlan later pointed out \"I took matters into my own hands and actually got away with it which was one of the few times on SVU", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 6)" }, { "docid": "16203096", "text": "the Winter, \"American Idol\", \"Supernatural\" on CW, and CBS's veteran drama \"Criminal Minds\" (this occurring for the third time \"SVU\" has been pushed back to 9:00PM (Eastern). Season fourteen premiered (episodes: \"Lost Reputation\" & \"Above Suspicion\") fairly well earning approximately 7.19 million total viewers with a 2.1 in the age 18-49 demographic with a 6% share. The series' 300th episode (\"Manhattan Vigil\") was watched by approximately 6.77 million total viewers and earned a 1.9 in the age 18-49 demographic with a 5% share. Leading into Thanksgiving, \"SVU\" saw a sharp decline in the 18-49 demographic with the episode \"Lesson's Learned\",", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 14)" }, { "docid": "20154797", "text": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 19) The nineteenth season of \"\" premiered on September 27, 2017 and finished on May 23, 2018 with a two-part season finale. Michael S. Chernuchin, who had previously worked on \"Law & Order\", \"\", and \"Chicago Justice\" took over from Rick Eid as showrunner. This is also the first season since in 2010–2011 where another \"Law & Order\" series—\"Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders\"—aired alongside \"SVU\" on NBC. \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\" was renewed for a 19th season on May 12, 2017. Chernuchin took over from Eid as showrunner", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 19)" }, { "docid": "20569193", "text": "a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, which fact is later confirmed in \"Law & Order: SVU\", when he reveals that his baseball career ended when he tore his UCL. The character later went on to make further guest appearances in \"Chicago P.D.\". Stone also played a major role in a three-part crossover among \"Chicago Fire\", \"P.D.\", and \"Justice\". Following the cancellation of \"Chicago Justice\", the character went on to reprise his role as a guest star in \"Chicago Med\". In his first appearance on \"Law & Order: SVU\", Stone attends his father's funeral. He is later appointed by District Attorney", "title": "Peter Stone (Chicago and Law & Order character)" }, { "docid": "9808301", "text": "of serial rapes.\" Keri Lynn Pratt guest starred in the episode \"Rockabye\" as a teenage mother who self-aborts. In a 2012 interview, shortly after he departed as the \"SVU\" showrunner, Neal Baer recalled \"I just loved doing shows on SVU that raised these really tough trenchant issues. Could we still do those? SVU is still on. Could we still do a show about a teen access to abortion? I'm not sure.\" In the eleventh episode \"Alien\", Raquel Castro played the child of a lesbian couple named Emma. When one of her mothers dies, she lies about being sexually abused as", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 7)" }, { "docid": "16203078", "text": "2012, showrunner/EP Warren Leight tweeted that along with Gould and Grodin; Buck Henry, Frank Wood, Robert Sella, Anthony Rapp, and Elizabeth Marvel would also be guest starring in \"Lessons Learned\". Patricia Arquette and Anne Meara guest starred as daughter and mother in the \"SVU\" episode \"Dreams Deferred\". The episode revolved around an armed and dangerous man who goes on a killing spree with Arquette's Jeannie - a prostitute with whom he has a long-standing relationship - representing the last person he calls. When Jeannie goes missing, the SVU is tasked with convincing their NYPD cohorts that her life is worth", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 14)" }, { "docid": "16203098", "text": "Frame\" saw a series high in overall viewership in with 8.42 million total viewers. As of December 6, 2012, \"SVU\" averaged a 1.7 18-49 rating in Live+same day that Fall, airing with virtually no lead-in (NBC’s struggling Wednesday comedy block), \"SVU\" had improved its challenging Wednesday 9 PM slot by 55% in adults 18-49 year-to-year but the network aired the now-defunct \"Harry's Law\" in the hour last fall. In Live+7, \"SVU\" averaged a 2.6/7 in 18-49 and 8.6 million viewers this season up to that point. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 14) The fourteenth season of \"\" debuted", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 14)" }, { "docid": "15610183", "text": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 13) The thirteenth season of \"\" debuted on NBC on September 21, 2011, and concluded on May 23, 2012. With \"\" and \"\" having ended in July 2011 and June 2011 respectively, this season of \"Law & Order: SVU\" was the first to be broadcast without any other running U.S. \"Law & Order\" series, a position the series has held until the nineteenth season, when \"Law & Order True Crime\" premiered. Season 13 dealt with the departure of Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) from the Special Victims Unit after . Additionally, Warren Leight,", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 13)" }, { "docid": "5053555", "text": "at the funeral. Stone's son is Peter Stone, formerly a Cook County Assistant State's Attorney and lead character on \"Chicago Justice\". Peter first appears on the \"Chicago P.D.\" episode \"Justice\", which is the backdoor pilot for \"Chicago Justice\". Peter also appears in season 19 of \"\", and eventually becomes the titular sex crimes bureau's ADA. Stone also had a daughter, Pamela, who is introduced in the \"SVU\" episode \"Send in the Clowns\". Pamela has paranoid schizophrenia, and has been hospitalized for most of her life. According to Peter, their father would visit Pamela once a week, and Peter has continued", "title": "Benjamin Stone (Law & Order character)" }, { "docid": "5135605", "text": "introduced as characters on \"Homicide\". The character has spanned over 20 years and 23 seasons of network television. Along with his main cast roles on \"Homicide\" and \"SVU\", Munch has also appeared as a character in other TV series, movies, talk shows, albums and comic books: Munch has become the only fictional character, played by a single actor, to physically appear on 10 different television series. These shows were on five different networks: NBC (\"Homicide: Life on the Street\", \"Law & Order\", \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\", \"Law & Order: Trial by Jury\", and \"30 Rock\"); Fox (\"The X-Files\"", "title": "John Munch" }, { "docid": "17251551", "text": "John Munch) would depart the main cast in the fifth episode, \"Wonderland Story.\" The storyline showed Munch retiring from the Special Victims Unit after 15 years in order to move onto becoming a Special District Attorney Investigator, which allowed the character to make future recurring appearances on the series. Belzer, one of the series' original cast members, collectively portrayed Munch for 20 years as a regular on \"\" (1993–99) and later \"SVU\", in conjunction with guest appearances in other \"Law & Order\" universe shows. On December 10, 2013, it was announced that Dann Florek (Captain Donald Cragen) would depart \"SVU\"", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 15)" }, { "docid": "16797787", "text": "was Nick. Forever an Elliot Stabler fan, I guess I am still getting used to his \"replacement.\" These episodes made me long for Elliot even more. Nick seemed too rogue and brooding. He did not interact with anyone and for most of the episodes, I focused my suspicion on him. That is not good when it involves one of the main detectives.\" Bradford added that; \"\"Law & Order: SVU\" has long been one of my favorite shows and I am not giving up on it just yet.\" On \"Huffington Post\", novelist and former sex crimes prosecutor Allison Leotta said that", "title": "Above Suspicion (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)" }, { "docid": "5497160", "text": "an apparent car accident. Both Cabot and Benson believe that Nick is responsible, but he nevertheless wins custody of Ruby. Though now on opposite sides, Cabot and Benson part ways on good terms; they express admiration for each other, and embrace. Cabot then goes to meet another client. March has been credited in 96 episodes of \"SVU\" (appearing in 92), making her the third-longest ADA in the franchise history, surpassed by Casey Novak (\"SVU\"), and Ron Carver (\"\"). Additionally, she is credited in all 13 episodes of \"Conviction\", bringing her total episode count to 109. Alexandra Cabot Alexandra \"Alex\" Cabot", "title": "Alexandra Cabot" }, { "docid": "9808305", "text": "family with a dark past and a complicated relationship with Fin's son. This role united Ludacris with fellow rapper Ice-T. When being interviewed, Bridges joked \"No, we don't rap on the SVU set. It's all about acting.\" The episode \"Fault\" featured what Neal Baer called \"an unusual and forceful performance from Lou Diamond Phillips.\" Phillips, who was a fan of the program already played Victor Paul Gitano, a recently released sex offender who kidnaps two children and puts Detectives Benson and Stabler in a situation where their partnership is pushed to its limits. \"Fault\" has been named one of Hargitay's", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 7)" }, { "docid": "15610191", "text": "\"I don't know if or when I'll be back [on SVU]! It was amazing to have such a cool job for 11 years and to be a real NY Actor.\" Wong reprised his role in the episode \"\", which aired on May 2, 2012. Tamara Tunie was moved from the main cast credits to a \"special guest\" starring role. Linus Roache reprised his role of ADA Michael Cutter from the original \"Law & Order\" series in the season premiere episode. Cutter has been promoted at the DA's office to Bureau Chief ADA in which he oversees the ADAs assigned to", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 13)" }, { "docid": "9784777", "text": "York-based show with giving him the opportunity to regularly act in theatre. Four cast members of \"SVU\" who would recur in subsequent years first appeared in the third season. In \"Counterfeit,\" Robert John Burke began playing when it is believed that the Special Victims Unit has been guilty of misconduct. Peter Hermann first played Defense Attorney Trevor Langan in \"Monogamy,\" the episode on which Hermann and Hargitay, who would later marry, first met. The show later hinted in future seasons a light romantic flame between them. In \"Surveillance,\" Joel de la Fuente first appears as the Technical Assistance Response Unit", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 3)" }, { "docid": "9824939", "text": "season's penultimate episode, \"Nocturne,\" Kent Broadhurst played Lawrence Holt, a piano teacher who molests his students. Wilson Jermaine Heredia played Evan, Holt's student and victim, who knows more about Holt's crimes than he lets on. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 1) , an American police procedural television series, premiered on September 20, 1999 on NBC. Created by Dick Wolf, it is the first spin-off of \"Law & Order\" and follows the detectives of a fictionalized version of the New York City Police Department's Special Victims Unit, which investigates sexually based offenses. \"SVU\" originally aired on Monday", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 1)" }, { "docid": "15746110", "text": "terrific!\" The month before, Ausiello hinted that there would be a fatality on the show. At the start of 2011 when \"SVU\"'s future was unknown, Baer said of Hargitay and Meloni's status on returning with the show, \"They're the longest running drama duo in TV history,\" Baer continues, \"and I think [they'll be around] as long as they can keep playing new angles within the parameters of the show.\" And as the credits showed that Baer did not write \"Smoked\", he commented; \"I don't have plans to write some farewell show,” he laughed. \"It will just be a really good,", "title": "Smoked (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)" }, { "docid": "12628974", "text": "episodes spiking when \"CSI: NY\" episodes were repeats (or replaced with other programming) when \"Law & Order\" episodes were new. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Law & Order (season 19) The 19th season of \"Law & Order\" premiered on NBC on November 5, 2008, and concluded on June 3, 2009. This was the third time in the series where there were no changes in the cast from the previous season and the last season to air on Wednesday nights at 10PM/9c, \"\" has claimed the slot off-and-on (\"SVU\" often placed at 9PM/8c to lead other programming that later gets moved or taken off", "title": "Law & Order (season 19)" }, { "docid": "16203081", "text": "ADA Barba (Raúl Esparza). However, while James arrests an SVU rape victim for the crime, Barba and the SVU team like a different suspect for the murder. The trials start simultaneously and both prosecutors must fight for a conviction before the other can destroy their case. In \"Beautiful Frame\", Yvonne Zima portrayed a rape victim in an SVU case who is arrested for the murder of her ex-boyfriend. Suffolk County DA Pam James (Kaczmarek) lands the case and swiftly brings charges against the young woman. Detective Benson questions the circumstances of the arrest and gathers enough evidence for ADA Barba", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 14)" }, { "docid": "1614730", "text": "brings empathy to his cases while dealing with a stressful home life, while Rollins' dogged persistence and instincts help her close cases, but her secrets could derail her career. In the current seasons, the Manhattan SVU is now run by Lieutenant Olivia Benson. \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\" has started its twentieth season. Each season has aired on NBC and consists of 19 to 25 episodes, each lasting approximately forty minutes (sixty minutes including commercials). \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\" premiered on Monday, September 20, 1999. After nine episodes, the show was moved to Friday nights, where it", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" }, { "docid": "9808304", "text": "in ten years. Saint James stated in an interview that she was eager to play a \"Law & Order\" part and would have played a judge if it had been up to her. The same interview revealed that she was a long time fan of \"SVU\" having watched \"almost every episode multiple times.\" Another Season 7 guest star who mentioned being a fan of the program was Chris \"Ludacris\" Bridges who said \"Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.\" Ludacris guest starred in \"Venom\" as Darius Parker, a member of Fin Tutuola's", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 7)" }, { "docid": "16487862", "text": "D. Wong returns for this episode, portraying his character Dr. George Huang, who helps the SVU detectives find out who is raping young girls who have a common biological father, an unknown sperm donor. Wong was officially cast to the series in and stayed until the end of Season 12, his last on-screen appearances in the episode \"\". Wong left \"SVU\" to star in another NBC series, \"Awake\", where he also portrays a psychiatrist. Behind the scenes, B. D. Wong shared his character's fascination with the macabre subject matter in this episode: When \"TV Guide\" announced that James Van Der", "title": "Father Dearest (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)" }, { "docid": "16203079", "text": "saving. Meara played Jeannie's mother, Irene, who worries for her daughter's health and safety. The duo joined previously announced guest star Jason Gedrick in the episode. Denis O'Hare guest starred in \"Presumed Guilty\" as Father Shea, a priest who is pulled from his car and brutally beaten. O'Hare played Father Shea in the \"Law & Order: Criminal Intent\" episode \"\" under showrunner/executive producer Warren Leight in 2008. This marks O'Hare's second stint on \"SVU\", following an appearance in 2000. He guest-starred on the original \"Law & Order\" four times, most recently in 2003 also playing a priest, Father Hogan. Erik", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 14)" }, { "docid": "17211379", "text": "Intent\" episode #115 \"Semi Professional\" 2002); Det. Finch (\"Law & Order: Criminal Intent\" episode #318 \"Ill Bred\" 2004); Kyle Marsden (\"Law & Order\": episode #1503 \"The Brotherhood\" 2004); Fireman Charlie Hugo (\"Law & Order: Criminal Intent\" episode #604 \"Maltese Cross\" 2006); State Trooper Lawley (\"Law & Order: SVU\" episode #819 \"Florida\" 2007); Elvis Howell (\"Law & Order: Criminal Intent\" episode #910 \"Disciple\" 2010); and Sergeant Forde (\"Law & Order: Los Angeles\" episode #113 \"Reseda\" 2011). Kelly continues his writing pursuits and has several scripts in development. Kelly's grandfather was screenwriter William Fay (Kid Galahad, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Schlitz Playhouse). Kelly", "title": "Chance Kelly" }, { "docid": "11344185", "text": "fifteen, \"Countdown,\" Andrea Bowen played a key witness who helps the SVU track a serial killer. In the episode \"Runaway\", Kelly Karbacz played a teenage girl who goes missing. Sean Nelson guest-starred as an informant who helps the SVU search for her. About \"Runaway\" showrunner Neal Baer said, \"That's the only episode ever broadcast just once on the network — because it was stinky.\" However, the producers still decided to showcase a scene from the episode in the Season 1 DVD extras to help analyze Cragen's character. In the eighteenth episode, \"Manhunt\", noted for exploring the partnership between Detectives Munch", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 2)" }, { "docid": "5188067", "text": "on Law and Order: SVU\". SVU often references crimes among students occurring at Hudson University. In episode 2 of season 1, Hudson University is mentioned at a bar by a graduate student who claims to be teaching there. Unlike on most shows, it is said to be located not in New York but in Williamsburg, Virginia, and is loosely based on the College of William & Mary. (The SEAL Team members on the show, like those in real life, live and work in nearby Virginia Beach when not on missions.) In season 3 episode 5 uranium is stolen from a", "title": "Hudson University" }, { "docid": "16434553", "text": "Assistant District Attorney David Haden in four episodes, respectively. In an interview close to the episodes original airing, Connick, Jr. enjoyed his time on \"SVU\", stating; \"The greatest thing for me is that I became friends with Mariska [Hargitay], she's an incredible woman, has an amazing family, and I really feel that although my time on \"SVU\" has come to an end, that I made a really good life-long friend, and if I have the good fortune of coming back I'd be very happy about that and if not, I feel really proud of the work I've done thus far", "title": "Justice Denied (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)" }, { "docid": "1614695", "text": "three-year deal with Sony Pictures Television, that will allow him to work on \"SVU\" one more season, its seventeenth. Leight joined the show in . It was announced on March 10, 2016 that original \"Law & Order\" veteran producer Rick Eid would take Leight's place as showrunner starting in season 18. Creator Dick Wolf commented to \"The Hollywood Reporter\", \"I'm extremely pleased that Rick had decided to rejoin the family and hope that he will be here for years to come.\" During post-production of season 18, following the announcement that \"SVU\" was renewed for a nineteenth season, it was revealed", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" }, { "docid": "10772249", "text": "Michael Cutter Michael \"Mike\" Cutter is a fictional character on the long-running NBC series \"Law & Order\" and its spinoff \"\" played by Linus Roache. The character debuted in the eighteenth season premiere of \"Law & Order\", broadcast on January 2, 2008, and remained until its series finale \"Rubber Room\" on May 24, 2010. The character returned to television in the thirteenth season premiere of \"Special Victims Unit\", broadcast on September 21, 2011. He has appeared in sixty-three episodes of \"L&O\" and four episodes of \"SVU\". Within the continuity of \"Law & Order\", Cutter is an Executive Assistant District Attorney,", "title": "Michael Cutter" }, { "docid": "16380312", "text": "by long-time \"Law & Order: SVU\" writer, and was directed by Helen Shaver. It was inspired by the backlog of rape kits across the United States and the story of California rape victim, Helena Lazaro, whose evidence went unprocessed for years. Skeet Ulrich made a special guest appearance in this episode as his \"\" character, , who was on Vicki's rape case when she lived in Los Angeles. \"Law & Order: Los Angeles\" originally premiered on NBC directly after this episode. \"Behave\" was given generally positive reviews from critics, especially Hewitt's portrayal of Vicki Sayers, and according to the Nielsen", "title": "Behave (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)" }, { "docid": "18030347", "text": "in the same episode as Don Cragen. Cragen, previously a main character, who served as Captain of SVU from 1999 until the fifteenth season, assists Benson in re-opening the case and gathering evidence. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 16) The sixteenth season of \"\" debuted on Wednesday, September 24, 2014, at 9pm/8c (Eastern), and concluded on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, on NBC. \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\" was renewed for a sixteenth season on May 7, 2014, by NBC. and premiered on September 24, 2014. Production on the season commenced on May 22, with the", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 16)" }, { "docid": "5135598", "text": "crossover with \"Law and Order\", Munch loses badly to Briscoe in a pool game and learns Briscoe had briefly dated, and had sex with, Gwen. Distraught, he gets drunk and proclaims that he forgives Gwen and still loves her. Despite this, he and Briscoe become quite good friends—their interaction in the two following crossovers between \"Homicide\" and \"Law & Order\", as well as in a crossover between \"Law & Order\" and \"SVU\", is generally friendly (Belzer originally pitched to Dick Wolf that Munch join \"Law and Order\" as Briscoe's new partner, but the role had already been filled by Ed", "title": "John Munch" }, { "docid": "18030341", "text": "Rifkin returns to \"SVU\" portraying defense attorney Marvin Exley in an episode which aired in October, \"Producer’s Backend\". Exley represents Tensley (portrayed by Stevie Lynn Jones), a young Hollywood celebrity in conflict with the law. Brian d'Arcy James stars as the top-level producer who gave Tensley a score. Dana Wheeler-Nicholson also guest stars as Tensley's mother. Delaney Williams returns to \"SVU\" as Counselor John Buchanan in the episode, \"Pornstar's Requiem\". Buchanan represents a student accused of raping a pornstar. Buchanan may have a difficult case but there are certain elements that play in his and his clients favor. He makes", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 16)" }, { "docid": "16434552", "text": "and ensure no one is wrongfully imprisoned. Cragen says the Conviction Integrity Unit will start with the SVU and Haden is the attorney in charge. Benson and Haden meet for drinks and decide to end their relationship in order to protect the integrity of the SVU and avoid a conflict of interest. \"Justice Denied\" was written by (teleplay and story) and showrunner/executive producer, Warren Leight (story), and directed by Michael Slovis. This episode was the final episode of the thirteenth season for both recurring guest stars Andre Braugher and Harry Connick, Jr., who portrayed defense attorney Bayard Ellis and Executive", "title": "Justice Denied (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)" }, { "docid": "10281039", "text": "Beach's fellow cast members, Richard Belzer and Ice-T. It was decided at the end of the to write Lake out of the series in an effort to bring the focus of the show back to the core cast. Neal Baer said the departure was mutual and amicable, and Beach said that he enjoyed his year on \"SVU\" but was looking forward to \"new adventures.\" Reaction to Lake was negative. Susan Green and Randee Dawn, writers of \"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Unofficial Companion\", felt that Lake was never fully accepted by \"SVU\" viewers. They felt his presence seemed", "title": "Chester Lake (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)" }, { "docid": "16510363", "text": "and 18–49 age demographics ahead of \"CSI\" and \"Law & Order: SVU\". After a nearly two-month hiatus since February 29, 2012, \"Revenge\" returned on April 18, 2012 at No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings and won its timeslot against every other television network with a first-place finish among Total Viewers, Adults 18–49 and Adults 25–54. \"Revenge\" won over an original episode of NBC's \"Law & Order: SVU\" in Total Viewers (+33%), Adults 18–49 (+53%) and Adults 25–54 (+45%) and generated big year-to-year time-period gains in Total Viewers (+81%), Adults 18–49 (+35%) and Adults 25–54 (+38%), rising over first-run programming on", "title": "Revenge (season 1)" }, { "docid": "10903022", "text": "with the abortion debate. A 2008 article for Newsday that criticized American media for avoiding any mention of abortion called \"Law & Order: SVU\" the \"one exception... willing to take such risks.\" This season of \"SVU\" also coincided with the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike for which Neal Baer served on the negotiating committee. With all of the writing staff participating in the strike, episodes stopped airing for nearly three whole months after the January 22, 2008 episode \"Inconceivable\". With Geoffrey Erb having left during the , George Pattison became the show's director of photography. When discussing the visuals", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 9)" }, { "docid": "9808299", "text": "a great actor who for whatever reason, you'll speak the same language.\" The second episode \"Design\" was a crossover with the \"Law & Order\" episode \"Flaw\". Estella Warren and Lynda Carter starred in the episodes as April Troost and Lorraine Dillon respectively, a mother-daughter pair of con-artists. When discussing her role, Carter said \"Having so often been the heroine, I thoroughly enjoyed playing a grifter and exploring some of the darker aspects of human nature.\" In the same episode, one of their marks was played by Bobby Flay, the then-husband of former \"SVU\" star Stephanie March. The sixth episode \"Raw\"", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 7)" }, { "docid": "12628973", "text": "Law & Order (season 19) The 19th season of \"Law & Order\" premiered on NBC on November 5, 2008, and concluded on June 3, 2009. This was the third time in the series where there were no changes in the cast from the previous season and the last season to air on Wednesday nights at 10PM/9c, \"\" has claimed the slot off-and-on (\"SVU\" often placed at 9PM/8c to lead other programming that later gets moved or taken off schedule) from Fall 2009 to present. The series had a decline in the ratings from being in competition with CBS's \"\". Certain", "title": "Law & Order (season 19)" }, { "docid": "8815615", "text": "to the use of a name that was similar to her own and called for a boycott of \"SVU\" based on this. With the sixth episode \"Infiltrated\", Vincent Spano began playing FBI Agent Dean Porter, the case agent for Detective Benson's undercover work. The character would go on to cross paths with SVU detectives again in later episodes. In the seventh episode \"Underbelly\", Diane Neal had a scene with her husband Marcus Fitzgerald who played an ADA. In the eighth episode \"Cage\", Margo Martindale played Rita Gabler, a foster parent whose methods have a devastating effect on a young girl.", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 8)" }, { "docid": "5497149", "text": "reappearance on \"SVU\", Cabot returns to New York and resumes her work in the district attorney's office as the homicide bureau chief (replacing Tracey Kibre from \"\") in the \"Law & Order\" spinoff \"Conviction\". She plays a tough but understanding supervisor to a young group of ADAs. Her attitude and personality in this role were much different from those of the young ADA who prosecuted cases in \"SVU\". Cabot's departure from witness protection and return to New York as a bureau chief was not explained during the show's airing, as she was a last-minute addition to the cast and most", "title": "Alexandra Cabot" }, { "docid": "10214181", "text": "character's mind.\" The decorated actress Pam Grier appeared in the fifth episode \"Disappearing Acts\". She appeared again in the fifteenth episode \"Pandora\" and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her time on \"SVU\". The episode \"Angels\" guest starred Pablo Santos as Ernesto Diaz, a Guatemalan boy who endured years of living as a sex slave. Of the previous \"SVU\" episodes focusing on child molestation, most of them were careful not to expose the child actors to the actual content of the sex crimes. However, Santos discussed several details in his", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 4)" }, { "docid": "7711927", "text": "Her fine art appeared on TV in \"Law & Order SVU\" as the artwork of a serial killer, and in a fight scene of the show Kidnapped. In March 2006, A\"rt & Antiques\" named von Buhler as \"one of the top contemporary surrealists.\" However, she has also been linked to the Lowbrow, and Fluxus movements. Her art has been displayed in galleries and museums around the world, and her work is in the collections of Howard Stern, Jann Wenner, The Nassau County Museum of Art, The Staten Island Museum, The University of Toronto, The Opera Company of Philadelphia, Dana Farber", "title": "Cynthia von Buhler" }, { "docid": "8406860", "text": "series \"Six Degrees\". Burke has had recurring roles on \"Law & Order\" and \"\" (where he has the recurring role of NYPD Internal Affairs Lieutenant (later Captain) Ed Tucker, a frequent nemesis for the SVU detective squad) and has appeared in \"Person of Interest\" (as a crooked cop working for the mob), and \"The Sopranos\" in 2004. Burke was on \"Sex and the City\" in seasons four and five, playing Miranda's hookup. Also in 2004, Burke played the role of Mr. Neck in the independent film \"Speak\". Burke's largest mainstream role to date has been taking over the lead from", "title": "Robert John Burke" }, { "docid": "13476269", "text": "been a big fan of her films. But my immediate question was 'Do I live?'\" <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 11) The eleventh season of \"\" premiered on September 23, 2009 and concluded on May 19, 2010. It was moved from Tuesdays to Wednesdays at 9 pm/8c ET for the NBC broadcast. On March 3, 2010, \"SVU\" returned to its previous time slot of 10pm/9c ET. On January 22, 2010, in the wake of the conflict between Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien, NBC announced that they would order two additional episodes to fill in the gaps", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 11)" }, { "docid": "13476260", "text": "starred in the first episode as a police officer named Nate Kendall, who saves a rape victim in the beginning of the episode and helps SVU solve the case. In the second episode Eric McCormack played the CEO of a \"sugar daddy\" dating website named Vance Shepard. Scott Foley played a real-estate developer with severe alcoholism in the fourth episode \"Hammered\". He said that the interesting role attracted him to the show with: \"the character was fully developed with addictions and problems both personally and professionally. Plus... it's \"SVU\", come on!\" His character is suspected of murdering an abortion doctor.", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 11)" }, { "docid": "16819781", "text": "Mikey (Joey Oglesby) saying she could \"work it off\". Tutuola and Amaro go to Cragen to get a warrant to bust them, but Cragen comes to the scene with Lieutenant Alexandra Eames (Kathryn Erbe) who transferred out of the Major Case Squad and is on loan to a joint City/Federal Homeland Security Task Force, Eames taking the SVU off the case, citing they had stumbled upon a terrorism case. Eames tells the SVU detectives she understands their frustration, but Eames explains the Pappases came into the country with fake visas, as well as their victim Pilar (Jamila Velazquez), and they", "title": "Acceptable Loss (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)" }, { "docid": "16203083", "text": "Harden returned as in \"Secrets Exhumed,\" (aired February 6, 2013). Agent Lewis partners with the SVU when she suspects a rape-murder case is connected to several cases across the country. This marked Harden's fourth episode on \"SVU\". Harold Perrineau guest starred in the same episode as career criminal Brian Traymor, Jay Karnes also guest stars. The band Jane's Addiction's Dave Navarro guest starred in the episode \"Funny Valentine\" as a sound engineer (instead of a musician), named Ferrari who is a part of the entourage for one of hip-hop's rising stars. Ferrari witnesses a crime, but refuses to rat out", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 14)" }, { "docid": "9824936", "text": "Family members of both lead detectives appeared in the opening episode. Kathy Stabler, Elliot Stabler's wife, was played by Isabel Gillies. Gillies continued to play Kathy Stabler over the course of the next 11 years either as a guest star or a recurring actress. She recalled that she was in the middle of buying a wedding dress when she got the call to be on \"SVU\". Elizabeth Ashley was cast to play Serena Benson, Olivia's mother. Serena Benson did not appear in \"SVU\" again but was mentioned several times. Her character's history of being a rape victim who never got", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 1)" }, { "docid": "15610212", "text": "coming back.\" He also confirmed Dean Winters would return as well, \"He's a terrific actor. ... Olivia has that line that Cassidy used to work in SVU \"last century,\" and that's true. The show has legs. But I thought he had a lot of swag to him—I was very impressed. I thought the tension between Cassidy and Amaro was very believable.\" <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 13) The thirteenth season of \"\" debuted on NBC on September 21, 2011, and concluded on May 23, 2012. With \"\" and \"\" having ended in July 2011 and June", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 13)" }, { "docid": "5135602", "text": "admitting his feelings to be \"slightly hurt\". Following season nine, in which Munch appeared in just over half of the episodes, Belzer reiterated his mystification at the development, but also seemed to want to tone it down: \"It's like yanking the tonsils out of the gift horse if I complain too much. I've been lucky over the years [...] \"c'est la vie\": I'm not starving.\" Although \"Homicide\" and \"Law & Order: SVU\" officially share the same continuity, they provide conflicting accounts of Munch's childhood, and \"SVU\" rarely mentions Munch's past as a Baltimore detective. Four regular actors from \"Homicide\" (Peter", "title": "John Munch" }, { "docid": "20569197", "text": "and the SVU team, the resulting shoot-out ends up mortally wounding Pamela, who dies in her devastated brother's arms. However, after Stone tells Benson that his sister's last word was his first name, he begins weeping in her arms. In the premiere \"\", it is revealed that Stone has been drinking heavily out of guilt for Pamela's death. He also turns down Benson's offer to talk about his feelings about this, despite her trying to be there for him. In \"Revenge\", Stone welcomes both Benson and Carol Solomon, one of the rape victims, to teach rape and murder suspect Tony", "title": "Peter Stone (Chicago and Law & Order character)" }, { "docid": "13476259", "text": "28. She played , the new assistant district attorney for a four-episode arc. \"SVU\" executive producer Baer described her character as \"a funny adrenaline junkie who loves to be in the middle of everything and shares a past with Stabler. She's been married before and has a lot of secrets.\" She began filming her scenes in March. Her performances were not well received by television critics. Ken Tucker of \"Entertainment Weekly\" concluded her first episode as, \"an episode filled with such clunky dialogue and improbable details that by the end, she seemed like a 'special victim' herself\". Wentworth Miller guest", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 11)" }, { "docid": "2510281", "text": "until February 2015, when it was replaced by \"Late Lunch Live\". \"Broadchurch\" aired Monday nights at 22:00. \"Judge Judy\" remains on TV3 and has been its highest rated daytime schedule programme since its inception in 1998. Re-runs of \"The Jeremy Kyle Show\" have now ended. \"Tipping Point\" is broadcast by the channel. Late night TV includes re-runs of \"Law & Order: SVU\" which has been part of the TV3 schedule since it began. Prime time programming includes \"Tipping Point\" spin off \"Tipping Point:Lucky Stars\", \"Off Their Rockers\", \"All Star Family Fortune\", \"The Cube\" and Australian Drama \"Wentworth Prison\". Virgin Media", "title": "Virgin Media One" }, { "docid": "16380323", "text": "10.63 million households with a 3.2 rating / 10% share in the key demographic. \"SVU\" that night was beat out by a new episode of: \"Criminal Minds\" on CBS which was viewed by an estimated 14.56 million households with a 3.6 rating / 10% share and in the first half-hour, by the ABC comedy, \"Modern Family\", which was viewed by an estimated 11.91 million homes and had a 4.6 rating / 13% share. In the last half-hour, \"SVU\" beat the ABC comedy, \"Cougar Town\" which was only viewed by 6.96 million homes, but it tied with \"SVU\" in the 18-49", "title": "Behave (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)" }, { "docid": "18573881", "text": "and \"Chicago\" franchise creator Dick Wolf announced that there would be a four-show crossover between \"SVU\" and the three \"Chicago\" shows (\"Fire\", \"P.D.\", and \"Med\") as well as announcing a desire by him and other producers for the revival of the original \"Law & Order\" series. However, in December 2015, \"Chicago P.D.\" showrunner Matt Olmstead revealed that there were no plans for a four-show crossover and that it would only be done if the producers found the right way to do it. Instead, a two-show crossover between \"SVU\" and \"P.D.\" aired in February 2016. It was announced in May 2015,", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 17)" }, { "docid": "15610200", "text": "Down\", in which he played Jake Stanton, a former all-star quarterback caught up in a sting operation with an underage prostitute. Stanton is represented by famed defense attorney Bayard Ellis (Andre Braugher). Beth Chamberlin guest starred as Georgia Stanton, the wife of Treat Williams' Jake Stanton. Real-life football pros Jerry Rice and Warren Sapp also made special appearances. Kevin Pollak guest starred in the episode \"Theatre Tricks\", playing a judge who finds himself on the wrong side of the law. Pollak tweeted on December 2, 2011; \"Big ass props to the crew and cast of \"Law & Order: SVU\" for", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 13)" }, { "docid": "17841543", "text": "and \"Fan #3\" in the Season 4 sketch \"Fame\", also directed by McFaul. Additionally, Snider has been on Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack, Law & Order: SVU, All My Children and Bull. He's also appeared in commercials for Sprint, Spectrum, Liberty Mutual, Time Warner Cable, Heineken, DirecTV, AFLAC and New York Lottery among others. Snider has authored over 75 books featuring fictional television and comic book characters from properties such as Star Trek, Cartoon Network and the Muppets. His hardcover DC Comics Ultimate Character Guide was released in 2011, and reached #4 on Bookscan’s list of Best Selling Graphic Novels", "title": "Brandon T. Snider" }, { "docid": "18573888", "text": "center. Former series regular Richard Belzer reprised his role as John Munch in the episode \"Fashionable Crimes\", where Munch returns to SVU to assist in the case of a young model who claims to have been preyed upon by a famous fashion photographer. Munch and Fin had their eyes on the photographer in the past, but were unable to build a case at the time. In April 2016, it was announced that Brad Garrett would guest star in the two-part season finale which aired on May 18 and 25. He portrayed the role of Gary Munson, a correctional officer who", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 17)" }, { "docid": "16434546", "text": "producer Warren Leight (story), and directed by freshman \"Law & Order: SVU\" director Michael Slovis. This episode is notable for ending the season thirteen story arcs for characters and , who were portrayed by Harry Connick, Jr. and Andre Braugher respectively; this episode also ending Detective Benson's relationship with EADA Haden who is promoted at the end of the episode. \"Justice Denied\" earned generally positive reviews, critics praising the break-up scene between Benson and Haden and Benson accepting Amaro as \"a good partner\"; the break-up scene made number 21 out of 25 on \"TV Guide's\" 2012 Best TV Episodes. According", "title": "Justice Denied (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)" }, { "docid": "14535248", "text": "the end of the season, Neal Baer resigned his position as showrunner. After the season finale, Christopher Meloni, BD Wong, and Tamara Tunie left the principal cast. For the first eleven years of \"Law & Order: SVU\", the set had been located in New Jersey, at NBC's Central Archives building in North Bergen. Faced with losing the state's 20 percent tax incentive, the show moved to New York City into the studio space at Chelsea Piers that was occupied by the original \"Law & Order\" series. After the fourth episode of the season, the original New Jersey set was no", "title": "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 12)" }, { "docid": "5314492", "text": "usually as different (sometimes very different) characters. This is because filming occurs in the New York City area and thus draws from the same pool of actors. Some prominent examples of the same actor playing different roles in different episodes are: Also due to the New York filming, a number of actors appearing in \" Law & Order\" shows have had regular or recurring roles on soaps. Most notable is Tamara Tunie, who simultaneously played both medical examiner Melinda Warner on \"SVU\" as well as (until 2007) District Attorney Jessica Griffin on \"As the World Turns\". Likewise, New York theater", "title": "Law & Order (franchise)" } ]

[ "S phase" ]

[ { "docid": "2899120", "text": "briefly at M phase when the nucleus and then the cell divide in two. The process of cell division, called cell cycle, has four major parts called phases. The first part, called G phase is marked by synthesis of various enzymes that are required for DNA replication. The second part of the cell cycle is the S phase, where DNA replication produces two identical sets of chromosomes. The third part is the G phase in which a significant protein synthesis occurs, mainly involving the production of microtubules that are required during the process of division, called mitosis. The fourth phase,", "title": "Cell growth" }, { "docid": "11716076", "text": "between sister chromatids. The remaining two-thirds, or more, of homology directed repair occurs as a result of interaction between non-sister homologous chromatids. Regulation of DNA double-strand break repair pathway choice (Full Free PDF Article) Homology directed repair Homology directed repair (HDR) is a mechanism in cells to repair double strand DNA lesions. The most common form of HDR is homologous recombination. The HDR mechanism can only be used by the cell when there is a homologue piece of DNA present in the nucleus, mostly in G2 and S phase of the cell cycle. Other examples of homology-directed repair include single-strand", "title": "Homology directed repair" }, { "docid": "11716068", "text": "Homology directed repair Homology directed repair (HDR) is a mechanism in cells to repair double strand DNA lesions. The most common form of HDR is homologous recombination. The HDR mechanism can only be used by the cell when there is a homologue piece of DNA present in the nucleus, mostly in G2 and S phase of the cell cycle. Other examples of homology-directed repair include single-strand annealing and breakage-induced replication. When the homologue DNA piece is absent, another process called non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) can take place instead. HDR is important for suppressing the formation of cancer. HDR maintains genomic", "title": "Homology directed repair" }, { "docid": "9835976", "text": "double-stranded DNA helix has to be unwound to expose two single-stranded DNA templates for replication. DNA helicases are responsible for unwinding the double-stranded DNA during chromosome replication. Helicases in eukaryotic cells are remarkably complex. The catalytic core of the helicase is composed of six minichromosome maintenance (Mcm2-7) proteins, forming a hexameric ring. Away from DNA, the Mcm2-7 proteins form a single heterohexamer and are loaded in an inactive form at origins of DNA replication as a head-to-head double hexamers around double-stranded DNA. The Mcm proteins are recruited to replication origins then redistributed throughout the genomic DNA during S phase, indicative", "title": "Eukaryotic DNA replication" } ]

[ { "docid": "11143560", "text": "in PMS2 can inhibit this apoptosis. Thus, an added deficiency in PMS2 likely would be selected for in the face of the increased DNA damages when ERCC1 and/or ERCC4 (XPF) are deficient. When ERCC1 deficient Chinese hamster ovary cells were repeatedly subjected to DNA damage, of five clones derived from the surviving cells, three were mutated in Pms2. ERCC1, PMS2 double mutant Chinese hamster ovary cells, when exposed to Ultraviolet light (a DNA damaging agent), showed a 7,375-fold greater mutation frequency than wild type Chinese hamster ovary cells, and a 967-fold greater mutation frequency than the cells defective in ERCC1,", "title": "PMS2" }, { "docid": "1797351", "text": "density of the one-generation cells, but still higher than cells grown only in N DNA medium, as the original N DNA would have been split evenly among all DNA strands. The result was consistent with the semiconservative replication hypothesis. Meselson–Stahl experiment The Meselson–Stahl experiment is an experiment by Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl in 1958 which supported Watson and Crick's hypothesis that DNA replication was semiconservative. In semiconservative replication, when the double stranded DNA helix is replicated, each of the two new double-stranded DNA helices consisted of one strand from the original helix and one newly synthesized. It has been", "title": "Meselson–Stahl experiment" }, { "docid": "11124320", "text": "stressful conditions such as in \"Helicobacter pylori\"-associated gastritis. After ionizing radiation DNA-PKcs was increased in the surviving cells of oral squamous cell carcinoma tissues. The ATM protein is important in homologous recombinational repair (HRR) of DNA double strand breaks. When cancer cells are deficient in ATM the cells are \"addicted\" to DNA-PKcs, important in the alternative DNA repair pathway for double-strand breaks, non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). That is, in \"ATM\"-mutant cells, an inhibitor of DNA-PKcs causes high levels of apoptotic cell death. In \"ATM\" mutant cells, additional loss of DNA-PKcs leaves the cells without either major pathway (HRR and NHEJ)", "title": "DNA-PKcs" }, { "docid": "16902273", "text": "old. When 40 particular proteins were evaluated in a muscle of rats, the majority of the proteins showed significant decreases during aging from 18 months (mature rat) to 30 months (aged rat) of age. Another type of DNA damage, the double-strand break, was shown to cause cell death (loss of cells) through apoptosis. This type of DNA damage would not accumulate with age, since once a cell was lost through apoptosis, its double-strand damage would be lost with it. Thus, damaged DNA segments undermine the DNA replication machinery because these altered sequences of DNA cannot be utilized as true templates", "title": "DNA damage (naturally occurring)" }, { "docid": "5981335", "text": "plants, animals, fungi and protists. In cells that divide through mitosis, homologous recombination repairs double-strand breaks in DNA caused by ionizing radiation or DNA-damaging chemicals. Left unrepaired, these double-strand breaks can cause large-scale rearrangement of chromosomes in somatic cells, which can in turn lead to cancer. In addition to repairing DNA, homologous recombination also helps produce genetic diversity when cells divide in meiosis to become specialized gamete cells—sperm or egg cells in animals, pollen or ovules in plants, and spores in fungi. It does so by facilitating chromosomal crossover, in which regions of similar but not identical DNA are exchanged", "title": "Homologous recombination" }, { "docid": "4594070", "text": "°C for at least six months when protected from light. For longterm storage the solutions are instead frozen at −20 °C or below. The dyes bind to the minor groove of double-stranded DNA with a preference for sequences rich in adenine and thymine. Although the dyes can bind to all nucleic acids, AT-rich double-stranded DNA strands enhance fluorescence considerably. Hoechst dyes are cell-permeable and can bind to DNA in live or fixed cells. Thus, these stains are often called \"supravital\", meaning that live cells survive a treatment with these compounds. Cells that express specific ATP-binding cassette transporter proteins can also", "title": "Hoechst stain" }, { "docid": "3489025", "text": "damage in frequently dividing cells, because it gives rise to mutations, is a prominent cause of cancer. In contrast, DNA damage in infrequently-dividing cells is likely a prominent cause of aging. Cells cannot function if DNA damage corrupts the integrity and accessibility of essential information in the genome (but cells remain superficially functional when non-essential genes are missing or damaged). Depending on the type of damage inflicted on the DNA's double helical structure, a variety of repair strategies have evolved to restore lost information. If possible, cells use the unmodified complementary strand of the DNA or the sister chromatid as", "title": "DNA repair" }, { "docid": "16902277", "text": "based on which genes are mutated in the cells. For instance, while unirradiated cells will progress normally through the cell cycle, cells that are exposed to x-irradiation either permanently arrest (become inviable) or delay in the G2 phase before continuing to divide in mitosis, further corroborating the idea that the G2 delay is crucial for DNA repair. However, rad strains, which are deficient in DNA repair, exhibit a markedly different response. For instance, rad52 cells, which cannot repair double-stranded DNA breaks, tend to permanently arrest in G2 when exposed to even very low levels of x-irradiation, and rarely end up", "title": "DNA damage (naturally occurring)" }, { "docid": "8088499", "text": "is about 60 Å in length in eukaryotic RTs, corresponding to nearly two helical turns. When eukaryotic RT extends a conventional primer, the growing DNA/RNA double helix spirals along the cleft, and as the double helix passes the RNase H domain, the template RNA is digested to release the nascent strand of cDNA. In the case of msDNA primer extension, however, a long strand of RNA remains attached to the 3'-OH of the priming G. Although it is possible to model an RT-primer template complex which would make the 2'-OH accessible for the priming reaction, further extension of the DNA", "title": "Multicopy single-stranded DNA" }, { "docid": "15065785", "text": "with relative ease indicates that we will soon have a wealth of information about where and when large changes in chromosome folding occur during development and in different diseases. Replication timing Replication timing refers to the order in which segments of DNA along the length of a chromosome are duplicated. In eukaryotic cells (cells that package their DNA within a nucleus), chromosomes consist of very long linear double-stranded DNA molecules. During the S-phase of each cell cycle (Figure 1), all of the DNA in a cell is duplicated in order to provide one copy to each of the daughter cells", "title": "Replication timing" }, { "docid": "13804211", "text": "as well as for long-term neurodegenerative diseases. DNA is damaged thousands of times during each cell cycle, and that damage must be repaired, including in cancer cells. Otherwise the cells may die due to this damage. BRCA1, BRCA2 and PALB2 are proteins that are important for the repair of double-strand DNA breaks by the error-free homologous recombinational repair, or HRR, pathway. When the gene for one of these proteins is mutated, the change can lead to errors in DNA repair that can eventually cause breast cancer. When subjected to enough damage at one time, the altered gene can cause the", "title": "PARP inhibitor" }, { "docid": "3489029", "text": "third type of DNA damage reversed by cells is certain methylation of the bases cytosine and adenine. When only one of the two strands of a double helix has a defect, the other strand can be used as a template to guide the correction of the damaged strand. In order to repair damage to one of the two paired molecules of DNA, there exist a number of excision repair mechanisms that remove the damaged nucleotide and replace it with an undamaged nucleotide complementary to that found in the undamaged DNA strand. Double-strand breaks, in which both strands in the double", "title": "DNA repair" }, { "docid": "15601640", "text": "lipid asymmetry, cytoskeleton alterations, changes in mitochondrial function, and increased concentration of cytosolic calcium. Regardless of these cellular alterations, pseudoapoptotic cells reverse these changes to resume normal cellular process. Pseudoapoptosis has also been used in some instances when describing an accelerated, drug induced apoptotic pathway by bleomycin. Cell death occurs as it would in apoptosis, but certain apoptotic mechanisms are not utilized when in the presence of bleomycin. Bleomycin (BLM) is a cytotoxic, anticancerous drug that catalyzes double-stranded breaks (DSB) and single-stranded breaks (SSB) along DNA molecules. BLM has four distinguishable molecular components that determine function, including a DNA-binding region,", "title": "Pseudoapoptosis" }, { "docid": "3489013", "text": "daughter cells after it undergoes mitosis. As a consequence, the DNA repair process is constantly active as it responds to damage in the DNA structure. When normal repair processes fail, and when cellular apoptosis does not occur, irreparable DNA damage may occur, including double-strand breaks and DNA crosslinkages (interstrand crosslinks or ICLs). This can eventually lead to malignant tumors, or cancer as per the two hit hypothesis. The rate of DNA repair is dependent on many factors, including the cell type, the age of the cell, and the extracellular environment. A cell that has accumulated a large amount of DNA", "title": "DNA repair" }, { "docid": "20530670", "text": "measured by tritiated thymidine incorporation into trichloroacetic acid (TCA) – insoluble material via salvage pathways. Thymidine incorporation measures growth based on rates of DNA synthesis, using the assumption that only growing cells can incorporate the radioactive thymidine to synthesize DNA. Weaknesses of this procedure include labeling of other molecules besides DNA when tritiated thymidine is added to a sample. In cases of carbon limitation, thymidine may also be used as a carbon source instead of as a DNA precursor. Results of thymidine incorporation experiments may be misleading when the proportion of thymidine incorporated into DNA compared to other molecules is", "title": "Bacterioplankton counting methods" }, { "docid": "13463515", "text": "which pathway will be used for repair of double strand breaks in DNA. When FEN1, Ligase III, MRE11, NBS1, PARP1 or XRCC1 are over-expressed (this occurs with FEN1 when its promoter is hypomethylated) the highly inaccurate MMEJ pathway may be favored, causing a higher rate of mutation and increased risk of cancer. Cancers are very often deficient in expression of one or more DNA repair genes, but over-expression of a DNA repair gene is less usual in cancer. For instance, at least 36 DNA repair enzymes, when mutationally defective in germ line cells, cause increased risk of cancer (hereditary cancer", "title": "Microhomology-mediated end joining" }, { "docid": "11873826", "text": "of articles from 1970 to 1977, PV Narasimh Acharya, Phd. (1924–1993) theorized and presented evidence that cells undergo \"irreparable DNA damage,\" whereby DNA crosslinks occur when both normal cellular repair processes fail and cellular apoptosis does not occur. Specifically, Acharya noted that double-strand breaks and a \"cross-linkage joining both strands at the same point is irreparable because neither strand can then serve as a template for repair. The cell will die in the next mitosis or in some rare instances, mutate.\" In tissues composed of non- or infrequently replicating cells, DNA damage can accumulate with age and lead either to", "title": "DNA damage theory of aging" }, { "docid": "16902278", "text": "progressing through the later stages of the cell cycle. This is because the cells cannot repair DNA damage and thus do not enter mitosis. Various other rad mutants exhibit similar responses when exposed to x-irradiation. However, the rad9 strain exhibits an entirely different effect. These cells fail to delay in the G2 phase when exposed to x-irradiation, and end up progressing through the cell cycle unperturbed, before dying. This suggests that the RAD9 gene, unlike the other RAD genes, plays a crucial role in initiating G2 arrest. To further investigate these findings, the cell cycles of double mutant strains have", "title": "DNA damage (naturally occurring)" }, { "docid": "542085", "text": "signaling system in \"S. mutans\" includes the Competence Stimulating Peptide (CSP) that controls genetic competence. Genetic competence is the ability of a cell to take up DNA released by another cell. Competence can lead to genetic transformation, a form of sexual interaction, favored under conditions of high cell density and/or stress where there is maximal opportunity for interaction between the competent cell and the DNA released from nearby donor cells. This system is optimally expressed when \"S. mutans\" cells reside in an actively growing biofilm. Biofilm grown \"S. mutans\" cells are genetically transformed at a rate 10- to 600-fold higher", "title": "Biofilm" }, { "docid": "3150822", "text": "when it occurs during meiosis it is an adaptation for repairing the genomic DNA which is passed on to progeny. Recombinational repair is the only repair process known which can accurately remove double-strand damages in DNA, and such damages are both common in nature and ordinarily lethal if not repaired. For instance, double-strand breaks in DNA occur about 50 times per cell cycle in human cells [see DNA damage (naturally occurring)]. Recombinational repair is prevalent from the simplest viruses to the most complex multicellular eukaryotes. It is effective against many different types of genomic damage, and in particular is highly", "title": "Evolution of sexual reproduction" }, { "docid": "16840041", "text": "designed guide RNA CRISPR/Cas9 could be used to induce double-stranded breaks at specific points within DNA sequences. It was later demonstrating that CRISPR/Cas9 could edit human cells in a dish. Although the early generation lacks the specificity of TALEN, the major advantage of this technology is the simplicity of the design. It also allows multiple sites to be targeted simultaneously, allowing the editing of multiple genes at once. CRISPR/Cpf1 is a more recently discovered system that requires a different guide RNA to create particular double-stranded breaks (leaves overhangs when cleaving the DNA) when compared to CRISPR/Cas9. Genetic engineering techniques Genetic", "title": "Genetic engineering techniques" }, { "docid": "9344571", "text": "Crosslinking of DNA In genetics, crosslinking of DNA occurs when various exogenous or endogenous agents react with two nucleotides of DNA, forming a covalent linkage between them. This crosslink can occur within the same strand (intrastrand) or between opposite strands of double-stranded DNA (interstrand). These adducts interfere with cellular metabolism, such as DNA replication and transcription, triggering cell death. These crosslinks can, however, be repaired through excision or recombination pathways. DNA crosslinking also has useful merit in chemotherapy and targeting cancerous cells for apoptosis , as well as in understanding how proteins interact with DNA. Many characterized crosslinking agents have", "title": "Crosslinking of DNA" }, { "docid": "97581", "text": "grow, but, when a cell divides, it must replicate the DNA in its genome so that the two daughter cells have the same genetic information as their parent. The double-stranded structure of DNA provides a simple mechanism for DNA replication. Here, the two strands are separated and then each strand's complementary DNA sequence is recreated by an enzyme called DNA polymerase. This enzyme makes the complementary strand by finding the correct base through complementary base pairing and bonding it onto the original strand. As DNA polymerases can only extend a DNA strand in a 5′ to 3′ direction, different mechanisms", "title": "DNA" }, { "docid": "17199708", "text": "When the two antibodies bind to a protein the complimentary strands will anneal and produce a double stranded piece of DNA that can then be amplified using PCR. Each pair of antibodies designed for one protein is tagged with a different DNA sequence. The DNA amplified from PCR can then be sequenced, and the protein levels quantified. In mass spectroscopy based proteomics there are three major steps needed for peptide identification: sample preparation, separation of peptides, and identification of peptides. Several groups have focused on oocytes or very early cleavage-stage cells since these cells are unusually large and provide enough", "title": "Single-cell analysis" }, { "docid": "13566589", "text": "sequenced strain was ATCC BAA-816. \"Deinococcus radiodurans\" has a unique quality in which it can repair both single- and double-stranded DNA. When damage is apparent to the cell, it brings it into a compartmental ring-like structure, where the DNA is repaired and then is able to fuse the nucleoids from the outside of the compartment with the damaged DNA. \"D. radiodurans\" is a rather large, spherical bacterium, with a diameter of 1.5 to 3.5 µm. Four cells normally stick together, forming a tetrad. The bacteria are easily cultured and do not appear to cause disease. Under controlled growth conditions, cells", "title": "Deinococcus radiodurans" }, { "docid": "3833605", "text": "or where the woman is over the age of 35 (when the risk of genetically related disorders is higher). In addition, by allowing parents to select an embryo without genetic disorders, they have the potential of saving the lives of siblings that already had similar disorders and diseases using cells from the disease free offspring. Differentiated somatic cells and ES cells use different strategies for dealing with DNA damage. For instance, human foreskin fibroblasts, one type of somatic cell, use non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), an error prone DNA repair process, as the primary pathway for repairing double-strand breaks (DSBs) during", "title": "Embryonic stem cell" }, { "docid": "9836007", "text": "helicases are double hexamers that are loaded onto double stranded DNA whereas prokaryotic helicases are single hexamers loaded onto single stranded DNA. Segregation of chromosomes is another difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Rapidly dividing cells, such as bacteria, will often begin to segregate chromosomes that are still in the process of replication. In eukaryotic cells chromosome segregation into the daughter cells is not initiated until replication is complete in all chromosomes. Despite these differences, however, the underlying process of replication is similar for both prokaryotic and eukaryotic DNA. List of major proteins involved in eukaryotic DNA replication: Eukaryotic DNA", "title": "Eukaryotic DNA replication" }, { "docid": "97597", "text": "reproduction, when genetic recombination occurs. Chromosomal crossover is when two DNA helices break, swap a section and then rejoin. Recombination allows chromosomes to exchange genetic information and produces new combinations of genes, which increases the efficiency of natural selection and can be important in the rapid evolution of new proteins. Genetic recombination can also be involved in DNA repair, particularly in the cell's response to double-strand breaks. The most common form of chromosomal crossover is homologous recombination, where the two chromosomes involved share very similar sequences. Non-homologous recombination can be damaging to cells, as it can produce chromosomal translocations and", "title": "DNA" }, { "docid": "3381219", "text": "cells, ColE1 ori for double-stranded DNA replication, or f1 ori for single-stranded DNA replication in prokaryotes. They frequently also contain a gene for selection such as antibiotic resistance, so that the transformed cells can be identified by plating on a medium containing the antibiotic. Those cells which did not take up the cosmid would be unable to grow. Unlike plasmids, they can also be packaged in phage capsids, which allows the foreign genes to be transferred into or between cells by transduction. Plasmids become unstable after a certain amount of DNA has been inserted into them, because their increased size", "title": "Cosmid" }, { "docid": "6839960", "text": "be washed out of the cells and so not be available for re-synthesis into ATP when the kidney is rewarmed. Nuclear DNA is injured during cold storage of kidneys. Lazarus showed that single stranded DNA breaks occurred within 16 hours in hypothermically stored mice kidneys, with the injury being inhibited a little by storage in Collins' or Sacks' solutions. This nuclear injury differed from that seen in warm injury when double stranded DNA breaks occurred. Perfusion storage methods can mechanically injury the vascular endothelium of the kidney, which leads to arterial thrombosis or fibrin deposition after reimplantation. Hill noted that,", "title": "Machine perfusion" }, { "docid": "20545650", "text": "the formation of ROS by generating a superoxide anion by transferring electrons from cytosolic NADPH across the cell membrane to the extracellular molecular oxygen. This process increases the potential for leakage of electrons and free radicals from the mitochondria. The exposure to the LDIR induces electron release from the mitochondria resulting in more electrons contributing to the superoxide formation in the cells. The production of ROS in high quantity in cells results in the degradation of biomolecules such as proteins, DNA, and RNA. In one such instance the ROS are known to create double stranded and single stranded breaks in", "title": "Biological effects of radiation on the epigenome" }, { "docid": "3489040", "text": "So when a lesion is encountered, the replication fork will stall, PCNA will switch from a processive polymerase to a TLS polymerase such as Pol ι to fix the lesion, then PCNA may switch to Pol ζ to extend the mismatch, and last PCNA will switch to the processive polymerase to continue replication. Cells exposed to ionizing radiation, ultraviolet light or chemicals are prone to acquire multiple sites of bulky DNA lesions and double-strand breaks. Moreover, DNA damaging agents can damage other biomolecules such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and RNA. The accumulation of damage, to be specific, double-strand breaks or", "title": "DNA repair" }, { "docid": "16365562", "text": "(MMEJ) repair of double strand breaks. It is one of 6 enzymes required for this error prone DNA repair pathway. LIG3 is upregulated in chronic myeloid leukemia, multiple myeloma, and breast cancer. Cancers are very often deficient in expression of one or more DNA repair genes, but over-expression of a DNA repair gene is less usual in cancer. For instance, at least 36 DNA repair enzymes, when mutationally defective in germ line cells, cause increased risk of cancer (hereditary cancer syndromes). (Also see DNA repair-deficiency disorder.) Similarly, at least 12 DNA repair genes have frequently been found to be epigenetically", "title": "LIG3" }, { "docid": "1945164", "text": "investigation. \"In vitro,\" when cells approach the Hayflick limit, the time to senescence can be extended by inactivating the tumor suppressor proteins - p53 and Retinoblastoma protein (pRb). Cells that have been so-altered eventually undergo an event termed a \"crisis\" when the majority of the cells in the culture die. Sometimes, a cell does not stop dividing once it reaches crisis. In a typical situation, the telomeres are shortened and chromosomal integrity declines with every subsequent cell division. Exposed chromosome ends are interpreted as double-stranded breaks (DSB) in DNA; such damage is usually repaired by reattaching (religating) the broken ends", "title": "Telomerase" }, { "docid": "5154534", "text": "tolerate rapidly harsh environmental fluctuations and exposure to various antimicrobial agents to survive. Transformation is a bacterial adaptation involving the transfer of DNA from one bacterium to another through the surrounding medium. Transformation is a primitive form of sexual reproduction. For a bacterium to bind, take up, and recombine exogenous DNA into its chromosome, it must enter a special physiological state termed “competence”. In \"S. mutans\", a peptide pheromone quorum-sensing signaling system controls genetic competence. This system functions optimally when the S. mutans cells are in crowded biofilms. \"S. mutans\" cells growing in a biofilm are transformed at a rate", "title": "Streptococcus mutans" }, { "docid": "13804212", "text": "death of the cells. PARP1 is a protein that is important for repairing single-strand breaks ('nicks' in the DNA). If such nicks persist unrepaired until DNA is replicated (which must precede cell division), then the replication itself can cause double strand breaks to form. Drugs that inhibit PARP1 cause multiple double strand breaks to form in this way, and in tumours with BRCA1, BRCA2 or PALB2 mutations, these double strand breaks cannot be efficiently repaired, leading to the death of the cells. Normal cells that don't replicate their DNA as often as cancer cells, and that lack any mutated BRCA1", "title": "PARP inhibitor" }, { "docid": "8893943", "text": "and the new RNA molecule to be released. Moving of the transcription bubble in the process may be seen with specialized staining techniques, spectroscopy or microscopy. This process can be seen in live bacterial cells and purified polymerase enzymes. However, in the bacterial cells, topological problems may occur during the process of transcription, but they are resolved by topoisomerase enzymes. Transcription bubble A transcription bubble is a molecular structure that is formed during the transcription of DNA when a limited portion of the DNA double strand is unwound. The Transcription bubble ranges from around 12-14 base pairs, but can be", "title": "Transcription bubble" }, { "docid": "6272702", "text": "TUNEL assay Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) is a method for detecting DNA fragmentation by labeling the 3′- hydroxyl termini in the double-strand DNA breaks generated during apoptosis. TUNEL is a method for detecting apoptotic DNA fragmentation, widely used to identify and quantify apoptotic cells, or to detect excessive DNA breakage in individual cells. The assay relies on the use of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT), an enzyme that catalyzes attachment of deoxynucleotides, tagged with a fluorochrome or another marker, to 3'-hydroxyl termini of DNA double strand breaks. It may also label cells having DNA damaged by other", "title": "TUNEL assay" }, { "docid": "14572535", "text": "for the success of the next step, the staining of the cells. Prior to (or during the staining step) the cells are often treated with RNase A to remove RNAs. This is important because certain dyes that stain DNA will also stain RNA, thus creating artefacts that would distort the results. An exception is the metachromatic fluorochrome acridine orange, which under the specific staining protocol can differentially stain both, RNA (generating red luminescence) and DNA (green fluorescence), or in another protocol, after removal of RNA and partial DNA denaturation, to differentially stain double-stranded DNA (green fluorescence) versus single-stranded DNA(red luminescence).", "title": "Cell cycle analysis" }, { "docid": "9344583", "text": "Because the toxicity of these drugs depends on TOP1 trapping, cellular sensitivity to these compounds depends directly on TOP1 expression levels. As a result, the function of these drugs is to serve as enzyme poisons rather than inhibitors. This can be applied to treat tumor cells by utilizing TOP 2 enzyme poisons. Crosslinking of DNA In genetics, crosslinking of DNA occurs when various exogenous or endogenous agents react with two nucleotides of DNA, forming a covalent linkage between them. This crosslink can occur within the same strand (intrastrand) or between opposite strands of double-stranded DNA (interstrand). These adducts interfere with", "title": "Crosslinking of DNA" }, { "docid": "11138468", "text": "suggest that human MRE11A is descended from prokaryotic and protist ancestral Mre11 proteins that served a role in early processes for repairing DNA damage. MRE11 has a role in microhomology-mediated end joining (MMEJ) repair of double strand breaks. It is one of 6 enzymes required for this error prone DNA repair pathway. MRE11 is over-expressed in breast cancers. Cancers are very often deficient in expression of one or more DNA repair genes, but over-expression of a DNA repair gene is less usual in cancer. For instance, at least 36 DNA repair enzymes, when mutationally defective in germ line cells, cause", "title": "MRE11A" }, { "docid": "7435841", "text": "physiological environments, topotecan is in equilibrium with its inactive carboxylate form. Topotecan's active lactone form intercalates between DNA bases in the topoisomerase-I cleavage complex. The binding of topotecan in the cleavage complex prevents topoisomerase-I from religating the nicked DNA strand after relieving the strain. This intercalation therefore traps the topoisomerase-I in the cleavage complex bound to the DNA. When the replication-fork collides with the trapped topoisomerase-I, DNA damage occurs. The unbroken DNA strand breaks and mammalian cells cannot efficiently repair these double strand breaks. The accumulation of trapped topoisomerase-I complexes is a known response to apoptotic stimuli. This disruption prevents", "title": "Topotecan" }, { "docid": "17363970", "text": "been confirmed in T cells, monocytes and B cells more than one year after transplantation. Nervana is an investigational ddRNAi construct that knocks down the expression of protein kinase C gamma (PKCγ) known to be associated with neuropathic pain and morphine tolerance. Two conserved PKCγ sequences found across all key model species and humans have been identified, and both single and double DNA cassettes designed. In vitro, expression of PKCγ was silenced by 80%. When similar ddRNAi constructs were delivered intrathecally using a lentiviral vector, pain relief in a neuropathic-rat model was demonstrated. The development of resistance to chemotherapies such", "title": "DNA-directed RNA interference" }, { "docid": "16902276", "text": "about radiation-sensitive (RAD) genes, and the effect that RAD mutations may have on the typical cellular DNA damaged-induced delay response. Specifically, the RAD9 gene plays a crucial role in detecting DNA damage and arresting the cell in G2 until the damage is repaired. Through extensive experiments, researchers have been able to illuminate the role that the RAD genes play in delaying cell division in response to DNA damage. When wild-type, growing cells are exposed to various levels of x-irradiation over a given time frame, and then analyzed with a microcolony assay, differences in the cell cycle response can be observed", "title": "DNA damage (naturally occurring)" }, { "docid": "3620046", "text": "to a negligible quantity. The inserted chromosome yields a large fragment when the homologous region is amplified. The males are distinguished as having two DNA amplicons present, while females have only a single amplicon. The kit adapted for carrying out the method includes a pair of primers to amplify the locus and optionally polymerase chain reaction reagents. LCR can be used to diagnose tuberculosis. The sequence containing protein antigen B is targeted by four oligonucleotide primers—two for the sense strand, and two for the antisense strand. The primers bind adjacent to one another, forming a segment of double stranded DNA", "title": "Amplicon" }, { "docid": "15362582", "text": "are selectively killed, and only those cells that can actively replicate DNA containing the selectable marker gene encoded by the vector are able to survive. When bacterial cells are used as host organisms, the selectable marker is usually a gene that confers resistance to an antibiotic that would otherwise kill the cells, typically ampicillin. Cells harboring the plasmid will survive when exposed to the antibiotic, while those that have failed to take up plasmid sequences will die. When mammalian cells (e.g. human or mouse cells) are used, a similar strategy is used, except that the marker gene (in this case", "title": "Molecular cloning" }, { "docid": "7145457", "text": "DNA, and DNA ligase joins the ends to make another molecule of double-stranded circular DNA. As a summary, a typical DNA rolling circle replication has five steps: Some DNA viruses replicate their genomic information in host cells via rolling circle replication. For instance, \"human herpesvirus-6\" (HHV-6)(hibv) expresses a set of \"early genes\" that are believed to be involved in this process. The long concatemers that result are subsequently cleaved between the pac-1 and pac-2 regions of HHV-6's genome by ribozymes when it is packaged into individual virions. Human Papillomavirus-16 (HPV-16) is another virus that employs rolling replication to produce progeny", "title": "Rolling circle replication" }, { "docid": "4590961", "text": "DNA and became more fluorescent when bound. This led to its use in identifying mitochondrial DNA in ultracentrifugation in 1975, the first recorded use of DAPI as a fluorescent DNA stain. Strong fluorescence when bound to DNA led to the rapid adoption of DAPI for fluorescent staining of DNA for fluorescence microscopy. Its use for detecting DNA in plant, metazoa and bacteria cells and virus particles was demonstrated in the late 1970s, and quantitative staining of DNA inside cells was demonstrated in 1977. Use of DAPI as a DNA stain for flow cytometry was also demonstrated around this time. When", "title": "DAPI" }, { "docid": "784085", "text": "Semiconservative replication Semiconservative replication describes the mechanism by which DNA is replicated in all known cells. It derives its name from the fact that this mechanism of transcription was one of three models originally proposed for DNA replication: The deciphering of the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick in 1953 suggested that each strand of the double helix would serve as a template for synthesis of a new strand. However, there was no way of knowing how the newly synthesized strands might combine with the template strands to form two double helical DNA molecules. The semiconservative model seemed most", "title": "Semiconservative replication" }, { "docid": "20545638", "text": "of DNA double strand breaks can lead to cell cycle arrest in somatic cells and cause cell death. Due to its ability to induce cell cycle arrest, ionizing radiation is used on abnormal growths in the human body such as cancer cells, in radiation therapy. Most cancer cells are fully treated with some type of radiotherapy, however some cells such as stem cell cancer cells show a reoccurrence when treated by this type of therapy. Non-ionising radiations, electromagnetic fields (EMF) such as radiofrequency (RF), or power frequency radiation have become very common in everyday life. All of these exist as", "title": "Biological effects of radiation on the epigenome" }, { "docid": "9655571", "text": "by maintaining the levels of proteins that have key roles in DNA double-strand break repair during the processes of non-homologous end joining and homologous recombination. Mutations in lamin A (LMNA) cause Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome, a dramatic form of premature aging. Mouse cells deficient for maturation of prelamin A show increased DNA damage and chromosome aberrations and are more sensitive to DNA damaging agents. The inability to adequately repair DNA damages when A-type lamins are defective is likely responsible for some of the aspects of premature aging. Currently, there is no cure for laminopathies and treatment is largely symptomatic and supportive.", "title": "Laminopathy" }, { "docid": "12569910", "text": "Anti-dsDNA antibodies Anti-double stranded DNA (Anti-dsDNA) antibodies are a group of anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) the target antigen of which is double stranded DNA. Blood tests such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and immunofluorescence are routinely performed to detect anti-dsDNA antibodies in diagnostic laboratories. They are highly diagnostic of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and are implicated in the pathogenesis of lupus nephritis. The first evidence for antinuclear antibodies arose in 1948 when Hargraves, Richmond and Morton discovered the LE cell. These abnormal cells, which are found in the bone marrow of persons who have SLE are categorised as polymorphonuclear leukocytes with", "title": "Anti-dsDNA antibodies" }, { "docid": "11590562", "text": "antipyretic and analgesic drugs are commonly prescribed. Viral disease A viral disease (or viral infection or infectious disease), occurs when an organism's body is invaded by pathogenic viruses, and infectious virus particles (virions) attach to and enter susceptible cells. Basic structural characteristics, such as genome type, virion shape and replication site, generally share the same features among virus species within the same family. There are five double-stranded DNA families: three are non enveloped (Adenoviridae, Papillomaviridae and Polyomaviridae) and two are enveloped (Herpesviridae and Poxviridae). All of the non-enveloped families have icosahedral capsids. There is one family of partly double-stranded DNA", "title": "Viral disease" }, { "docid": "11590557", "text": "Viral disease A viral disease (or viral infection or infectious disease), occurs when an organism's body is invaded by pathogenic viruses, and infectious virus particles (virions) attach to and enter susceptible cells. Basic structural characteristics, such as genome type, virion shape and replication site, generally share the same features among virus species within the same family. There are five double-stranded DNA families: three are non enveloped (Adenoviridae, Papillomaviridae and Polyomaviridae) and two are enveloped (Herpesviridae and Poxviridae). All of the non-enveloped families have icosahedral capsids. There is one family of partly double-stranded DNA viruses: Hepadnaviridae. These viruses are enveloped. There", "title": "Viral disease" }, { "docid": "19462189", "text": "cell by Tf. Most metal-based anti-tumor compounds interact strongly with DNA. Binding assays of KP1019 with the four common nucleotide bases reveal a preference for guanosine 5’-monophosphate and adenosine 5’-monophosphate. KP1019 is able to untwist and bend DNA weakly. While Pt-based compounds also target purines, KP1019’s DNA lesions may differ in quantity and strength. In tumor cells, the drug induces 15-fold lower interstrand DNA cross-linking efficiency than cisplatin. The interaction of KP1019 and its imidazole-containing analogue KP418 with DNA increases in the hypoxic environment that tumor cells are subject to. This correspondingly increased cytotoxicity as well. KP1019 and KP1339 both", "title": "KP1019" }, { "docid": "5373501", "text": "to 7 is considered Intermediate. 8 to 9 is considered High. The presence of cancer cell in small blood vessels is called vascular invasion. The presence of vascular invasion increases the probability of systemic spread. DNA analysis indicates the amount of DNA in cancer cells and how fast the cancer is growing. Cells with the normal amount of DNA are called diploid. Cells with too much or too little DNA are called aneuploid. Aneuploid cells are more likely to spread than diploid cells. DNA testings indicates the rate of growth by determining the number of cells in the synthetic phase", "title": "Invasive carcinoma of no special type" }, { "docid": "516329", "text": "pairing with guanine) would lead to formation of uracil (which would base pair with adenine) during DNA synthesis. Uracil-DNA glycosylase excises uracil bases from double-stranded DNA. This enzyme would therefore recognize and cut out both types of uracil – the one incorporated naturally, and the one formed due to cytosine deamination, which would trigger unnecessary and inappropriate repair processes. This problem is believed to have been solved in terms of evolution, i.e. by \"tagging\" (methylating) uracil. Methylated uracil is identical to thymine. Therefore, it is hypothesized that, over time, thymine became the DNA standard instead of uracil. Therefore, cells now", "title": "Uracil" }, { "docid": "14077279", "text": "in cells with DNA damage. Through combination of DNA damage and nuclear localization of exogenous cyclin B, they were able to determine that cells would divide even with DNA damage if the cyclin B were forced to be expressed in the nucleus. This suggests that spatial localization of cyclin B may play a role as a checkpoint of mitosis. If the cells, under normal circumstances, don’t divide when their genetic information is damaged, but will enter mitosis if endogenous cyclin B is expressed in the nucleus, it is likely that the translocation of the cyclin B to the cytoplasm is", "title": "Biochemical switches in the cell cycle" }, { "docid": "11323778", "text": "at the junction between double-stranded and single-stranded DNA. During nucleotide excision repair, several protein complexes cooperate to recognize damaged DNA and locally separate the DNA helix for a short distance on either side of the site of a site of DNA damage. The ERCC1–XPF nuclease incises the damaged DNA strand on the 5′ side of the lesion. During NER, the ERCC1 protein interacts with the XPA protein to coordinate DNA and protein binding. Mammalian cells with mutant ERCC1–XPF are moderately more sensitive than normal cells to agents (such as ionizing radiation) that cause double-stranded breaks in DNA. Particular pathways of", "title": "ERCC4" }, { "docid": "11141145", "text": "the junction between double-stranded and single-stranded DNA. During nucleotide excision repair, several protein complexes cooperate to recognize damaged DNA and locally separate the DNA helix for a short distance on either side of the site of a DNA damage. The ERCC1–XPF nuclease incises the damaged DNA strand on the 5′ side of the lesion. During NER, the ERCC1 protein interacts with the XPA protein to coordinate DNA and protein binding. Mammalian cells with mutant ERCC1–XPF are moderately more sensitive than normal cells to agents (such as ionizing radiation) that cause double-stranded breaks in DNA. Particular pathways of both homologous recombination", "title": "ERCC1" }, { "docid": "13804214", "text": "cells that are low in oxygen (e.g. in fast growing tumors) are sensitive to PARP inhibitors. Started Phase III: Started Phase II: Started Phase I: Currently Discontinued: Experimental: The main function of radiotherapy is to produce DNA strand breaks, causing severe DNA damage and leading to cell death. Radiotherapy has the potential to kill 100% of any targeted cells, but the dose required to do so would cause unacceptable side effects to healthy tissue. Radiotherapy therefore can only be given up to a certain level of radiation exposure. Combining radiation therapy with PARP inhibitors offers promise, since the inhibitors would", "title": "PARP inhibitor" }, { "docid": "9414833", "text": "originates a sporophyte composed of a foot, seta, and capsule, where thousands of haploid spores are produced by meiosis. \"P. patens\" is an excellent model in which to analyze repair of DNA damages in plants by the homologous recombination pathway. Failure to repair double-strand breaks and other DNA damages in somatic cells by homologous recombination can lead to cell dysfunction or death, and when failure occurs during meiosis, it can cause loss of gametes. The genome sequence of \"P. patens\" has revealed the presence of numerous genes that encode proteins necessary for repair of DNA damages by homologous recombination and", "title": "Physcomitrella patens" }, { "docid": "2453324", "text": "sister chromatid. In the nucleus of many types of normal cells, the BRCA1 protein interacts with RAD51 during repair of DNA double-strand breaks. These breaks can be caused by natural radiation or other exposures, but also occur when chromosomes exchange genetic material (homologous recombination, e.g., \"crossing over\" during meiosis). The BRCA2 protein, which has a function similar to that of BRCA1, also interacts with the RAD51 protein. By influencing DNA damage repair, these three proteins play a role in maintaining the stability of the human genome. BRCA1 is also involved in another type of DNA repair, termed mismatch repair. BRCA1", "title": "BRCA1" }, { "docid": "4564025", "text": "and LH in males will not increase the rate of spermatogenesis. However, with age, the rate of production will decrease, even when the amount of hormone that is secreted is constant; this is due to higher rates of degeneration of germ cells during meiotic prophase. In the following table, ploidy, copy number and chromosome/chromatid counts listed are for a single cell, generally prior to DNA synthesis and division (in G if applicable). Primary spermatocytes are arrested after DNA synthesis and prior to division. Spermatocytes regularly overcome double-strand breaks and other DNA damages in the prophase stage of meiosis. These damages", "title": "Spermatocyte" }, { "docid": "9314418", "text": "new embryo with 23 pairs of chromosomes, half from each parent. Mating and resultant mate choice result in sexual selection. In normal cell division (mitosis) is possible when the double helix separates, and a complement of each separated half is made, resulting in two identical double helices in one cell, with each occupying one of the two new daughter cells created when the cell divides. Chromosomes all contain DNA made up of four nucleotides, abbreviated C (cytosine), G (guanine), A (adenine), or T (thymine), which line up in a particular sequence and make a long string. There are two strings", "title": "Introduction to genetics" }, { "docid": "16365559", "text": "now evident that the DNA ligase III-alpha/XRCC1 complex enables cells that either lack or have reduced DNA ligase I activity to complete DNA replication. Given the biochemical and cell biology studies linking the DNA ligase III-alpha/XRCC1 complex with excision repair and the repair of DNA single strand breaks, it was surprising that the cells lacking nuclear DNA ligase III-alpha did not exhibit significantly increased sensitivity to DNA damaging agent. These studies suggest that there is significant functional redundancy between DNA ligase I and DNA ligase III-alpha in these nuclear DNA repair pathways. In mammalian cells, most DNA double strand breaks", "title": "LIG3" }, { "docid": "10851061", "text": "fluid and put through the flow cytometer. Cells are sent one at a time through a laser beam and the light scatter is measured by a detector. Cells or their components can be labeled with fluorescent markers so that they emit different wavelengths of light in response to the laser, allowing for additional data collection. For quantitative cell cycle analysis, cells are usually fixed with ethanol and stained with DNA-binding dyes like propidium iodide, Hoechst 33342, DAPI, 7-Aminoactinomysin D, Mithramycin, DRAQ5, or TO-PRO-3, allowing for determination of phase by DNA quantity. However, if these cells have been fixed, they are", "title": "Cell synchronization" }, { "docid": "4871984", "text": "and MBD4 are strictly specific for double-stranded DNA. TDG can remove thymine glycol when present opposite guanine, as well as derivatives of U with modifications at carbon 5. Current evidence suggests that, in human cells, TDG and SMUG1 are the major enzymes responsible for the repair of the U:G mispairs caused by spontaneous cytosine deamination, whereas uracil arising in DNA through dU misincorporation is mainly dealt with by UNG. MBD4 is thought to correct T:G mismatches that arise from deamination of 5-methylcytosine to thymine in CpG sites. MBD4 mutant mice develop normally and do not show increased cancer susceptibility or", "title": "DNA glycosylase" }, { "docid": "2725897", "text": "they cut, while others, including restriction enzymes, are very sequence-specific. Some cleave only double-stranded DNA; others are specific for single-stranded molecules; and still others are active toward both. DNase enzymes can be inhaled using a nebuliser by cystic fibrosis sufferers. DNase enzymes help because white blood cells accumulate in the mucus, and, when they break down, they release DNA, which adds to the 'stickiness' of the mucus. DNase enzymes break down the DNA, and the mucus is much easier to clear from the lungs. Intrapleural tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) combined with deoxyribonuclease has been shown to increase pleural drainage, decrease", "title": "Deoxyribonuclease" }, { "docid": "11918292", "text": "cells cannot divide indefinitely as after a few cycles of cell division the cells stop expressing an enzyme telomerase. The genetic material, in the form of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), continues to shorten with each cell division, and cells eventually stop dividing when they sense that their DNA is critically shortened. However, this enzyme in \"youthful\" cells replaces these lost bits (nucleotides) of DNA, thus making almost unlimited cycles of cell division possible. It is believed that the above-mentioned tissues have a constitutional elevated expression of telomerase. When ultimately many cells are produced by a single cell, \"clonal expansion\" is said", "title": "Clone (cell biology)" }, { "docid": "11124321", "text": "for repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Elevated DNA-PKcs expression is found in a large fraction (40% to 90%) of some cancers (the remaining fraction of cancers often has reduced or absent expression of DNA-PKcs). The elevation of DNA-PKcs is thought to reflect the induction of a compensatory DNA repair capability, due to the genome instability in these cancers. (As indicated in the article Genome instability, such genome instability may be due to deficiencies in other DNA repair genes present in the cancers.) Elevated DNA-PKcs is thought to be \"beneficial to the tumor cells\", though it would be at the expense", "title": "DNA-PKcs" }, { "docid": "2088527", "text": "If this uneven division occurs in meiosis I, then none of the daughter cells will have proper chromosomal distribution and severe effects can ensue, including Down’s syndrome. Unequal division can also occur during the second meiotic division. Nondisjunction which occurs at this stage can result in normal daughter cells and deformed cells. While the main function of homologous chromosomes is their use in nuclear division, they are also used in repairing double-strand breaks of DNA. These double-stranded breaks may occur in replicating DNA and are most often the result of interaction of DNA with naturally occurring damaging molecules such as", "title": "Homologous chromosome" }, { "docid": "2032311", "text": "mutations. In addition, faulty repair of these accumulated DNA damages may give rise to epigenetic alterations or epimutations. While a mutation or epimutation in a DNA repair gene, itself, would not confer a selective advantage, such a repair defect may be carried along as a passenger in a cell when the cell acquires an additional mutation/epimutation that does provide a proliferative advantage. Such cells, with both proliferative advantages and one or more DNA repair defects (causing a very high mutation rate), likely give rise to the high frequency of total genome mutations seen in carcinomas. In somatic cells, deficiencies in", "title": "Carcinoma" }, { "docid": "15065775", "text": "Replication timing Replication timing refers to the order in which segments of DNA along the length of a chromosome are duplicated. In eukaryotic cells (cells that package their DNA within a nucleus), chromosomes consist of very long linear double-stranded DNA molecules. During the S-phase of each cell cycle (Figure 1), all of the DNA in a cell is duplicated in order to provide one copy to each of the daughter cells after the next cell division. The process of duplicating DNA is called DNA replication, and it takes place by first unwinding the duplex DNA molecule, starting at many locations", "title": "Replication timing" }, { "docid": "2999703", "text": "Y chromosome in one of the first embryonic cell divisions. These mosaics can then be used to analyze such things as courtship behavior, female sexual attraction, and the autonomy or non-autonomy of particular genes. Genetic mosaics can also be created through mitotic recombination. Such mosaics were originally created by irradiating flies heterozygous for a particular allele with X-rays, inducing double-strand DNA breaks which, when repaired, could result in a cell homozygous for one of the two alleles. After further rounds of replication, this cell would result in a patch, or \"clone\" of cells mutant for the allele being studied. More", "title": "Mosaic (genetics)" }, { "docid": "188445", "text": "RNA and various enzymes, including reverse transcriptase, integrase, ribonuclease, and protease, are injected into the cell. During the microtubule-based transport to the nucleus, the viral single-strand RNA genome is transcribed into double-strand DNA, which is then integrated into a host chromosome. HIV can infect dendritic cells (DCs) by this CD4-CCR5 route, but another route using mannose-specific C-type lectin receptors such as DC-SIGN can also be used. DCs are one of the first cells encountered by the virus during sexual transmission. They are currently thought to play an important role by transmitting HIV to T cells when the virus is captured", "title": "HIV" }, { "docid": "4081047", "text": "glow brightly when they attached to the DNA double helix. When rhodium complexes were attached to the DNA, they would attract the electron causing the glow, and \"turn off\" the effect. During her time at Columbia, Barton obtained two patents for this method of analyzing DNA structure. In 1989, Barton moved to Caltech, where her research has focused on charge transport in DNA. By using specially-designed chiral metal complexes as probes of DNA she has been able to study how DNA is damaged and repaired. In DNA-based diagnostic tests, complexes are used to determine whether electrons can flow across the", "title": "Jacqueline Barton" }, { "docid": "199588", "text": "from cosmic rays and solar wind, are normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere. When they interact in sufficient quantity, their effect is visible to the naked eye in a phenomenon called an aurora. Outside Earth's atmosphere, crews are exposed to about 1 millisievert each day, which is about a year of natural exposure on Earth. This results in a higher risk of cancer for astronauts. Radiation can penetrate living tissue and damage the DNA and chromosomes of lymphocytes. These cells are central to the immune system, and so any damage to them could contribute to the lower immunity experienced by astronauts.", "title": "International Space Station" }, { "docid": "3712258", "text": "study membrane biology, including the uptake of macromolecules and viruses . These are also used in somaclonal variation. Protoplasts are widely used for DNA transformation (for making genetically modified organisms), since the cell wall would otherwise block the passage of DNA into the cell. In the case of plant cells, protoplasts may be regenerated into whole plants first by growing into a group of plant cells that develops into a callus and then by regeneration of shoots (caulogenesis) from the callus using plant tissue culture methods. Growth of protoplasts into callus and regeneration of shoots requires the proper balance of", "title": "Protoplast" }, { "docid": "182101", "text": "the House of Representatives. Within certain regulatory limits, and subject to the effect of state legislation, therapeutic cloning is now legal in some parts of Australia. Canadian law prohibits the following: cloning humans, cloning stem cells, growing human embryos for research purposes, and buying or selling of embryos, sperm, eggs or other human reproductive material. It also bans making changes to human DNA that would pass from one generation to the next, including use of animal DNA in humans. Surrogate mothers are legally allowed, as is donation of sperm or eggs for reproductive purposes. Human embryos and stem cells are", "title": "Human cloning" }, { "docid": "7392698", "text": "mammalian target of rapamycin, and more. SIRT1, SIRT6 and SIRT7 proteins are employed in DNA repair. SIRT1 protein promotes homologous recombination in human cells and is involved in recombinational repair of DNA breaks. SIRT6 is a chromatin-associated protein and in mammalian cells is required for base excision repair of DNA damage. SIRT6 deficiency in mice leads to a degenerative aging-like phenotype. In addition, SIRT6 promotes the repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Furthermore, over-expression of SIRT6 can stimulate homologous recombinational repair. SIRT7 knockout mice display features of premature aging. SIRT7 protein is required for repair of double-strand breaks by non-homologous end", "title": "Sirtuin" }, { "docid": "3412877", "text": "other antimetabolite anti-cancer drugs, it acts by disrupting the DNA replication process of dividing cancer cells in the body. Hydroxyurea selectively inhibits ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase, an enzyme required to convert ribonucleoside diphosphates into deoxyribonucleoside diphosphates, thereby preventing cells from leaving the G1/S phase of the cell cycle. This agent also exhibits radiosensitizing activity by maintaining cells in the radiation-sensitive G1 phase and interfering with DNA repair. Biochemical research has explored its role as a DNA replication inhibitor which causes deoxyribonucleotide depletion and results in DNA double strand breaks near replication forks (see DNA repair). Repair of DNA damaged by chemicals", "title": "Hydroxycarbamide" }, { "docid": "8843688", "text": "strand hypothesis has proven difficult. After Cairns first proposed the immortal DNA strand mechanism, the theory has undergone several refinements. In 2002, he proposed that in addition to using immortal DNA strand mechanisms to segregate DNA, when the immortal DNA strands of adult stem cells undergo damage, they will choose to die (apoptose) rather than use DNA repair mechanisms that are normally used in non-stem cells. Emmanuel David Tannenbaum and James Sherley developed a quantitative model describing how repair of point mutations might differ in adult stem cells. They found that in adult stem cells, repair was most efficient if", "title": "Immortal DNA strand hypothesis" }, { "docid": "784087", "text": "37 °C, the rate of strand elongation was 749 nucleotides per second. The mutation rate per base pair per round of replication during phage T4 DNA synthesis is . Thus semiconservative DNA replication is both rapid and accurate. Semiconservative replication Semiconservative replication describes the mechanism by which DNA is replicated in all known cells. It derives its name from the fact that this mechanism of transcription was one of three models originally proposed for DNA replication: The deciphering of the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick in 1953 suggested that each strand of the double helix would serve as", "title": "Semiconservative replication" }, { "docid": "20409856", "text": "false-positives. In contrast, in linear amplification, the errors would appear randomly at different locations in the amplicons to be easily filtered out. Genomic DNA is randomly fragmented and tagged by Tn5 transposon insertion containing T7 promoter sequence, and the resulting DNA fragments are linearly amplified into RNAs by T7 in vitro transcription. Following reverse transcription and second strand synthesis, double-stranded DNA amplicons are formed representing the linear amplification product of the original genomic DNA, which is suitable for DNA library preparation and sequencing. 1. Cell lysis. Single cells are placed into PCR tubes containing lysis buffer by mouth pipetting, flow", "title": "LIANTI" }, { "docid": "9835868", "text": "Prokaryotic DNA replication Prokaryotic DNA replication is the process by which a prokaryote duplicates its DNA into another copy that is passed on to daughter cells. Although it is often studied in the model organism \"E. coli\", other bacteria show many similarities. Replication is bi-directional and originates at a single origin of replication (OriC). It consists of three steps: Initiation, elongation, and termination. All cells must finish DNA replication before they can proceed for cell division. Media conditions that support fast growth in bacteria also couples with shorter inter-initiation time in them, i.e. the doubling time in fast growing cells", "title": "Prokaryotic DNA replication" }, { "docid": "8843682", "text": "adult stem cells to be labeled during their formation. These long-term cells were demonstrated to be actively cycling, as demonstrated by incorporation and release of BrdU. Since these cells were cycling but continued to contain the BrdU label in their DNA, the researchers reasoned that they must be segregating their DNA using an immortal DNA strand mechanism. Joshua Merok \"et al.\" from the lab of James Sherley engineered mammalian cells with an inducible p53 gene that controls asymmetric divisions. BrdU pulse/chase experiments with these cells demonstrated that chromosomes segregated non-randomly only when the cells were induced to divide asymmetrically like", "title": "Immortal DNA strand hypothesis" }, { "docid": "2868917", "text": "within cancer cells could lead to increased apoptosis due to high accumulation of DNA damage. One such inhibitor of histone acetyltransferases is called garcinol. This compound is found within the rinds of the garcinia indica fruit, otherwise known as mangosteen. To explore the effects of garcinol on histone acetyltransferases, researchers used HeLa cells. The cells underwent irradiation, creating double-strand breaks within the DNA, and garcinol was introduced into the cells to see if it influenced the DNA damage response. If garcinol is successful at inhibiting the process of non-homologous end joining, a DNA repair mechanism that shows preference in fixing", "title": "Histone acetyltransferase" }, { "docid": "12426388", "text": "archaea, \"Halobacterium volcanii\" forms cytoplasmic bridges between cells that appear to be used for transfer of DNA from one cell to another. Another archaeon, \"Sulfolobus solfataricus\", transfers DNA between cells by direct contact. Frols et al. found that exposure of \"S. solfataricus\" to DNA damaging agents induces cellular aggregation, and suggested that cellular aggregation may enhance DNA transfer among cells to provide increased repair of damaged DNA via homologous recombination. While prokaryotes are considered strictly unicellular, most can form stable aggregate communities. When such communities are encased in a stabilizing polymer matrix (\"slime\"), they may be called \"biofilms\". Cells in", "title": "Prokaryote" }, { "docid": "9557984", "text": "biological importance of phosphates is as a component of nucleotides, which serve as energy storage within cells (ATP) or when linked together, form the nucleic acids DNA and RNA. The double helix of our DNA is only possible because of the phosphate ester bridge that binds the helix. Besides making biomolecules, phosphorus is also found in bone and the enamel of mammalian teeth, whose strength is derived from calcium phosphate in the form of Hydroxylapatite. It is also found in the exoskeleton of insects, and phospholipids (found in all biological membranes). It also functions as a buffering agent in maintaining", "title": "Phosphorus cycle" }, { "docid": "17248086", "text": "Zeocin Zeocin is a formulation of phleomycin D1, a glycopeptide antibiotic and one of the phleomycins from \"Streptomyces verticillus\" belonging to the bleomycin family of antibiotics. It is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that is effective against most bacteria, filamentous fungi, yeast, plant, and animal cells. It causes cell death by intercalating into DNA and inducing double stranded breaks of the DNA. Zeocin is blue in colour due to the presence of copper ion Cu. The copper-chelated form of zeocin is inactive. When zeocin enters a cell, the Cu is reduced to Cu and then removed, and zeocin becomes activated and can", "title": "Zeocin" }, { "docid": "13566595", "text": "final step, there is crossover by means of RecA-dependent homologous recombination. \"D. radiodurans\" is capable of genetic transformation, a process by which DNA derived from one cell can be taken up by another cell and integrated into the recipient genome by homologous recombination. When DNA damages (e.g. pyrimidine dimers) are introduced into donor DNA by UV irradiation, the recipient cells efficiently repair the damages in the transforming DNA as they do in cellular DNA when the cells themselves are irradiated. Michael Daly has suggested the bacterium uses manganese complexes as antioxidants to protect itself against radiation damage. In 2007 his", "title": "Deinococcus radiodurans" }, { "docid": "1797344", "text": "Meselson–Stahl experiment The Meselson–Stahl experiment is an experiment by Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl in 1958 which supported Watson and Crick's hypothesis that DNA replication was semiconservative. In semiconservative replication, when the double stranded DNA helix is replicated, each of the two new double-stranded DNA helices consisted of one strand from the original helix and one newly synthesized. It has been called \"the most beautiful experiment in biology.\" Meselson and Stahl decided the best way to tag the parent DNA would be to change one of the atoms in the parent DNA molecule. Since nitrogen is found in the nitrogenous", "title": "Meselson–Stahl experiment" }, { "docid": "10195512", "text": "hyperactivation induces pan-nuclear phosphorylation of histone H2AX among all the chromatin. H2AX phosphorylation is the signal, which allows double-strand break repair proteins (from NHEJ and homologous recombination pathways) to form DNA repair complexes selectively on DNA double-strand breaks. Dbait-dependent unspecific phosphorylation of H2AX results in inefficient double strand break recognition and repair. Most of the anticancer therapies act by induction of DNA damage (chemotherapy and radiation therapy). DNA breaks are the most lethal damage for cells, as one single double-strand break if unrepaired is sufficient to lead to cell death. \"Dbait\" enhances the efficacy of the DNA damaging agents as", "title": "SiDNA" }, { "docid": "19495332", "text": "is related to the uptake by cells of spontaneously released bacterial DNA, thus suggesting the existence of circulating DNA. In view of the malignant transformations obtained with DNA, the oncogenic (cancer-causing) role of circulating DNA is postulated.\" In the late 1970s, building on the discovery of circulating DNA in human blood by Mandel and Metais, Leon and his collaborators developed a radioimmunoassay for measuring nanogram quantities of nucleic acids in serum. This technique enabled them to observe that cancer patients tended to possess a greater quantity of circulating DNA in serum (on average) than their healthy counterparts. This led Stroun", "title": "Maurice Stroun" }, { "docid": "547384", "text": "other before being purified from the solution. Each method of extraction works well in the laboratory, but an analyst typically selects their preferred method based on factors such as the cost, the time involved, the quantity of DNA yielded, and the quality of DNA yielded. After the DNA is extracted from the sample, it can be analyzed, whether it be RFLP analysis or quantification and PCR analysis. The first methods for finding out genetics used for DNA profiling involved RFLP analysis. DNA is collected from cells and cut into small pieces using a restriction enzyme (a restriction digest). This generates", "title": "DNA profiling" }, { "docid": "17266475", "text": "all cases, cells lack the ability to repair double-stranded DNA breaks, making these compounds especially effective for treating tumor cells. The free radical mechanism to treat certain types of cancers extends beyond enediynes. Tirapazamine generates a free radical under anoxic conditions instead of the trigger mechanism of an enediyne. The free radical then continues on to cleave DNA in a similar manner to 1,4-didehydrobenzene in order to treat cancerous cells. It is currently in Phase III trials. Free radical damage to DNA Free radical damage to DNA can occur as a result of exposure to ionizing radiation or to radiomimetic", "title": "Free radical damage to DNA" } ]

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[ { "docid": "97434", "text": "Nergal, son of Enlil. Apollo Smintheus (Greek ), the mouse killer eliminates mice, a primary cause of disease, hence he promotes preventive medicine. Delphi is perhaps best known for its oracle, the Pythia, the sibyl or priestess at the sanctuary dedicated to Apollo. According to Aeschylus in the prologue of the \"Eumenides\", the oracle had origins in prehistoric times and the worship of Gaea, a view echoed by H.W. Parke. One tale of the sanctuary's discovery states that a goatherd, who grazed his flocks on Parnassus, one day observed his goats playing with great agility upon nearing a chasm in", "title": "Delphi" }, { "docid": "97432", "text": "the chthonic serpent Python, Pythia in older myths, but according to some later accounts his wife, Pythia, who lived beside the Castalian Spring. Some sources say it is because Python had attempted to rape Leto while she was pregnant with Apollo and Artemis. This spring flowed toward the temple but disappeared beneath, creating a cleft which emitted chemical vapors that purportedly caused the oracle at Delphi to reveal her prophecies. Apollo killed Python but had to be punished for it, since she was a child of Gaia. The shrine dedicated to Apollo was originally dedicated to Gaia and shared with", "title": "Delphi" }, { "docid": "97423", "text": "\"drako\" a serpent or a dragon who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth. \"Python\" (derived from the verb πύθω (\"pythō\"), \"to rot\") is claimed by some to be the original name of the site in recognition of Python which Apollo defeated. The Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo recalled that the ancient name of this site had been \"Krisa\". Others relate that it was named Pytho (Πυθώ) and that Pythia, the priestess serving as the oracle, was chosen from their ranks by a group of priestesses who officiated at the temple. Excavation at Delphi, which was a post-Mycenaean", "title": "Delphi" }, { "docid": "97428", "text": "that Apollo walked to Delphi from the north and stopped at Tempe, a city in Thessaly, to pick laurel (also known as bay tree) which he considered to be a sacred plant. In commemoration of this legend, the winners at the Pythian Games received a wreath of laurel picked in the temple. Delphi became the site of a major temple to Phoebus Apollo, as well as the Pythian Games and the prehistoric oracle. Even in Roman times, hundreds of votive statues remained, described by Pliny the Younger and seen by Pausanias. Carved into the temple were three phrases: (\"gnōthi seautón\"", "title": "Delphi" }, { "docid": "640124", "text": "Pythia The Pythia (, ) was the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi who also served as the oracle, commonly known as the Oracle of Delphi. The name \"Pythia\" is derived from Pytho, which in myth was the original name of Delphi. In etymology, the Greeks derived this place name from the verb, () \"to rot\", which refers to the sickly sweet smell of the decomposition of the body of the monstrous Python after she was slain by Apollo. The Pythia was established at the latest in the 8th century BC, and was widely", "title": "Pythia" }, { "docid": "19213744", "text": "temple remains show an oak tree at the location. Apollo, the most important oracular deity, is most closely associated with the supreme knowledge of future events which is the possession of Zeus. Apollo was known as Apollo Moiragetes, referring to Apollo as the god of fate. The oracle at Delphi gave oracles from Apollo. Apollo in an oracular function is associated with both , purification and truth. Even though the prophecies given by him were ambiguous, he is said to have never uttered a lie. Apollo's oracle at Delphi is the most famous and was the most important oracular site", "title": "Greek divination" }, { "docid": "9724608", "text": "Greece. They lived at Delphi, where they spent the summers camped in spruce huts high above the village on Mount Parnassus. After a short time, Cook began to wear \"fustanella\", the traditional Greek shepherd's attire. In 1924 he contracted a rare infectious disease from his pet dog and died. Cook's obituary appeared on the front page of the \"New York Times\". He is buried at Delphi in a small cemetery within hundreds of feet of the ruins of the famous Temple of Apollo, home of the oracle. So beloved was Cook by the locals that the Greek government allowed a", "title": "George Cram Cook" }, { "docid": "17183505", "text": "Delphic maxims The Delphic maxims are a set of 147 aphorisms inscribed at Delphi. Originally, they were said to have been given by the Greek god Apollo's Oracle at Delphi and were therefore attributed to Apollo himself. The 5th century scholar Stobaeus later attributed them to the Seven Sages of Greece. Contemporary scholars, however, hold that their original authorship is uncertain and that 'most likely they were popular proverbs, which tended later to be attributed to particular sages.' Perhaps the most famous of these maxims is 'know thyself,' which was carved into the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. The specific", "title": "Delphic maxims" }, { "docid": "13961812", "text": "their favor. It is important to note the historical and geographical importance of the area in which the Athenian treasury is located. The Athenians, Siphnians, and the Sikyonians each had their own treasury lining the pathway to the Temple of Apollo, at the site of Delphi. The geographical location of the Temple of Apollo was significant in Greek mythology as it was the destination where two eagles, placed at opposite ends of the earth by Zeus, met. This temple was considered an oracle, where Apollo could communicate to humans through the Pythia. The greeks, their leaders and other foreign leaders", "title": "Athenian Treasury" }, { "docid": "640142", "text": "us the most information about the organization of the oracle at that time. Before 200 BC, while the temple was dedicated to Apollo, there was probably only one priest of Apollo. Priests were chosen from among the main citizens of Delphi, and were appointed for life. In addition to overseeing the oracle, priests would also conduct sacrifices at other festivals of Apollo, and had charge of the Pythian games. Earlier arrangements, before the temple became dedicated to Apollo, are not documented. The other officiants associated with the oracle are less well known. These are the hosioi (\"ὅσιοι\", \"holy ones\") and", "title": "Pythia" }, { "docid": "3444792", "text": "city is on the flanks of this hill and to the south and west. The site of the oracle and temple of Apollo have not been found. Patara was said to have been founded by Patarus (), a son of Apollo. It was situated at a distance of 60 stadia to the southeast of the mouth of the river Xanthos. Patara was noted in antiquity for its temple and oracle of Apollo, second only to that of Delphi. The god is often mentioned with the surname \"Patareus\" (). Herodotus says that the oracle of Apollo was delivered by a priestess", "title": "Patara, Lycia" }, { "docid": "844138", "text": "months prior. Nine citizens from Delphi, called Theoroi, were sent to all Greek cities to announce the beginning of the games in order to attract athletes, as well as to declare the period of the Sacred Truce (Hierominia), aiming at protecting not only the Theoroi and the athletes who travelled to Delphi, but also the temple of Apollo itself. If a city was involved in armed conflict or in robberies during that period, its citizens were forbidden to enter the Sanctuary, participate at the games, or consult the Oracle. At the same time, the truce allowed the Amphictyony to focus", "title": "Pythian Games" }, { "docid": "2623997", "text": "festivals and rituals associated with the god. A body of priestesses might also maintain the cult at a particular holy site, such as the Peleiades at the oracle of Dodona. The \"Arrephoroi\" were young girls ages seven to twelve who worked as servants of Athena Polias on the Athenian Acropolis and were charged with conducting unique rituals. At several sites women priestesses served as oracles , the most famous of which is the Oracle of Delphi. The priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi was the Pythia, credited throughout the Greco-Roman world for her prophecies, which gave her a", "title": "Ordination of women" }, { "docid": "13961813", "text": "journeyed to the temple of Apollo seeking advice from the Pythia, despite misinterpretations often leading to twists in fate. Much like the Olympics today, the site of Delphi hosted the Pythian games as a dedication to Apollo, in the site’s Greek theater. As well as athletic competitions, the Pythian games also held poetry, dance and music contests, drawing in spectators and crowds. The presence of the oracle and the Pythian games, allowed the Athenians to showcase their treasury on an international scale. Athenian Treasury The Athenian Treasury (Greek: Θησαυρός των Αθηναίων) at Delphi was constructed by the Athenians to house", "title": "Athenian Treasury" }, { "docid": "8719511", "text": "Claros Claros (, \"Klaros\"; ) was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the coast of Ionia. It contained a temple and oracle of Apollo, honored here as Apollo Clarius. It was located on the territory of Colophon, one of the twelve Ionic cities, twelve kilometers to the north. The coastal city Notion lay two kilometers to the south. The ruins of the sanctuary are now found north of the modern town Ahmetbeyli in the Menderes district of Izmir Province, Turkey. The Temple of Apollo at Claros was a very important center of prophecy as in Delphi and Didyma. The oldest information", "title": "Claros" }, { "docid": "15482015", "text": "Xenoclea Xenoclea (Ancient Greek: Ξενόκλεια), who appears as a character in the legend of Hercules, was the \"Pythia\", or priestess and oracle, of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. The Delphic oracle was a historical reality and was established in the 8th century BC. According to Pausanias and others, Hercules travelled to Delphi to consult the Oracle following the death of Iphitus, whom he had thrown off a wall in the city of Tiryns while Iphitus was staying with him as a guest. Suffering from nightmares, Hercules sought advice as to how to be cured. However, when he came to", "title": "Xenoclea" }, { "docid": "10065108", "text": "Hypate In Greek mythology, Hypate (Ὑπάτη) was one of the three Muses of the lyre who were worshipped at Delphi, where the Temple of Apollo and the Oracle were located. Her name was also the highest of the seven notes of the lyre. Her sisters who were worshipped along with her were Nete and Mese. These three muses were comparable to the original three, Aoide, Melete, and Mneme. Alternatively, they were Cephisso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis, which portrayed them as the daughters of Apollo. The name of the ancient city Hypate (now Ypati, a village in Phthiotis west of Lamia) is", "title": "Hypate" }, { "docid": "10065109", "text": "unrelated to this Muse. It has a different etymology meaning \"the height of Oeta (Oiti)\". Hypate In Greek mythology, Hypate (Ὑπάτη) was one of the three Muses of the lyre who were worshipped at Delphi, where the Temple of Apollo and the Oracle were located. Her name was also the highest of the seven notes of the lyre. Her sisters who were worshipped along with her were Nete and Mese. These three muses were comparable to the original three, Aoide, Melete, and Mneme. Alternatively, they were Cephisso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis, which portrayed them as the daughters of Apollo. The name", "title": "Hypate" }, { "docid": "872191", "text": "Apollo, and buried under the Omphalos, and that it is a case of one god setting up his temple on the grave of another. The priestess of the oracle at Delphi became known as the Pythia, after the place-name Pytho, which Greeks explained as named after the rotting (πύθειν) of the slain serpent's corpse in the strength of Hyperion (day) or Helios (the sun). Karl Kerenyi pointed out that the older tales mentioned two dragons, who were perhaps intentionally conflated; the other was a female dragon (\"drakaina\") named Delphyne in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, with whom dwelt a male", "title": "Python (mythology)" }, { "docid": "9483805", "text": "Doric hexastyle temple of 6 by 15 columns. This temple was destroyed in 375 BC by an earthquake. The pediment sculptures are a tribute to Praxias and Androsthenes of Athens. Of a similar proportion to the second temple it retained the 6 by 15 column pattern around the stylobate. Inside was the adyton, the centre of the Delphic oracle and seat of Pythia. The temple had the statement \"Know thyself\", one of the Delphic maxims, carved into it (and some modern Greek writers say the rest were carved into it), and the maxims were attributed to Apollo and given through", "title": "Temple of Apollo (Delphi)" }, { "docid": "97433", "text": "Poseidon. The name Pythia remained as the title of the Delphic oracle. Erwin Rohde wrote that the Python was an earth spirit, who was conquered by Apollo, and buried under the omphalos, and that it is a case of one deity setting up a temple on the grave of another. Another view holds that Apollo was a fairly recent addition to the Greek pantheon coming originally from Lydia. The Etruscans coming from northern Anatolia also worshipped Apollo, and it may be that he was originally identical with Mesopotamian Aplu, an Akkadian title meaning \"son\", originally given to the plague God", "title": "Delphi" }, { "docid": "6400265", "text": "Adjacent to the temple there was a great pool with a tunnel and a fence that enclosed the sacred woods. The temple was in honour of the god Apollo in his prophetic oracle aspect inspired after the Delphi model to which purification ceremonies were tied. Heracles, the hero made god dear to tyrants, and maybe also Jupiter, whose image we have to imagine on the central wall of the temple were tied to Apollo. By the middle of the 5th century BC, all work on the temple was complete and it began a slow decline while the structures sacred to", "title": "Portonaccio (Veio)" }, { "docid": "10017759", "text": "Apollonius of Rhodes (early 3rd century BC), says that Apollo \"slew with his bow the monster Delphyne\", \"beneath the rocky ridge of Parnassus\", and that the victory was cheered by the \"Corycian nymphs\", who were associated with the Corycian cave on the slopes of Parnassus above Delphi. Plutarch (c. 46 AD – 120 AD), refers to the monster who \"fought with Apollo for the oracle at Delphi\" as female, and says that although it was recorded that at one time the oracle at Delphi was made \"desolate and unapproachable\" by a dragoness, in fact, \"it was the desolation that attracted", "title": "Delphyne" }, { "docid": "2608080", "text": "of Apollo and Artemis. The names \"Phoebe\" and \"Phoebus\" (masculine) came to be applied as synonyms for Artemis and Apollo respectively (as well as for Selene and Helios). According to a speech, that Aeschylus in \"The Eumenides\" puts in the mouth of the Delphic priestess herself, Phoebe received control of the Oracle at Delphi from Themis: \"Phoebe in this succession seems to be his private invention,\" D. S. Robertson noted, reasoning that in the three great allotments of oracular powers at Delphi, corresponding to the three generations of the gods, \"Ouranos, as was fitting, gave the oracle to his wife", "title": "Phoebe (Titaness)" }, { "docid": "97427", "text": "the foundation stories of several Greek colonies, the founding colonists were first dedicated at Delphi. The name \"Delphi\" comes from the same root as δελφύς \"delphys\", \"womb\" and may indicate archaic veneration of Gaia at the site. Apollo is connected with the site by his epithet Δελφίνιος \"Delphinios\", \"the Delphinian\". The epithet is connected with dolphins (Greek δελφίς,-ῖνος) in the Homeric \"Hymn to Apollo\" (line 400), recounting the legend of how Apollo first came to Delphi in the shape of a dolphin, carrying Cretan priests on his back. The Homeric name of the oracle is \"Pytho\" (Πυθώ). Another legend held", "title": "Delphi" }, { "docid": "12451346", "text": "was thus said: \"That word spoken from tree-clad mother Gaia's (Earth's) navel-stone [Delphoi].\" Depending on the source, Gaia passed her powers on to Poseidon, Apollo, or Themis. Pausanias wrote: Apollo is the best-known as the oracle power behind Delphi, long established by the time of Homer, having killed Gaia's child Python there and usurped the chthonic power. Hera punished Apollo for this by sending him to King Admetus as a shepherd for nine years. Gaia or Ge had at least three sanctuaries in Greece, which where mentioned by Pausanias. There was a temple of Ge Eurusternos on the Crathis near", "title": "Gaia" }, { "docid": "3452151", "text": "for sanctuary in a temple, but eventually he joined the conspirators when he found out that all they wanted was to make sure there would be no opposition to the reforms Lycurgus had in mind. According to the legend found in Plutarch's \"Lives\" and other sources, when Lycurgus became confident in his reforms, he announced that he would go to the oracle at Delphi to sacrifice to Apollo. However, before leaving for Delphi he called an assembly of the people of Sparta and made everyone, including the kings and Gerousia, take an oath binding them to observe his laws until", "title": "Lycurgus of Sparta" }, { "docid": "1064030", "text": "to be the voices of the unliving, who took up residence in the stomach of the ventriloquist. The ventriloquist would then interpret the sounds, as they were thought to be able to speak to the dead, as well as foretell the future. One of the earliest recorded group of prophets to use this technique was the Pythia, the priestess at the temple of Apollo in Delphi, who acted as the conduit for the Delphic Oracle. One of the most successful early gastromancers was Eurykles, a prophet at Athens; gastromancers came to be referred to as \"Euryklides\" in his honour. In", "title": "Ventriloquism" }, { "docid": "331123", "text": "of his life at Chaeronea, and was initiated into the mysteries of the Greek god Apollo. For many years Plutarch served as one of the two priests at the temple of Apollo at Delphi, the site of the famous Delphic Oracle, twenty miles from his home. By his writings and lectures Plutarch became a celebrity in the Roman Empire, yet he continued to reside where he was born, and actively participated in local affairs, even serving as mayor. At his country estate, guests from all over the empire congregated for serious conversation, presided over by Plutarch in his marble chair.", "title": "Plutarch" }, { "docid": "9483806", "text": "the oracle and/or the Seven Sages of Greece (\"know thyself\" perhaps also being attributed to other famous philosophers). The temple survived until AD 390, when the Roman emperor Theodosius I silenced the oracle by destroying the temple and most of the statues and works of art in the name of Christianity. The site was completely destroyed by zealous Christians in an attempt to remove all traces of Paganism. The ruins of this temple decay at a faster rate than some of the other ruins on the Southern slopes of the Parnassos mountain. This is mostly due to the use of", "title": "Temple of Apollo (Delphi)" }, { "docid": "19321218", "text": "itinerary was the land of the Ozolian Locrians. The book was probably accomplished between 143 and 161 A.D. The detailed description of Pausanias was valuable to later scholarship and to the attempts at reconstructing the site. Although the treasures of Delphi had been looted by the Phoceans initially and by Roman emperors such as Nero later on, in Pausanias' times there were still enough monuments to admire and describe. He focuses on religious art and architecture. He is very detailed on the narration of the Oedipus myth, on the foundation of the oracle and temple of Apollo, on the Pythian", "title": "Pausanias' description of Delphi" }, { "docid": "97436", "text": "the sibyl would fall into a trance, allowing Apollo to possess her spirit. In this state she prophesied. The oracle could not be consulted during the winter months, for this was traditionally the time when Apollo would live among the Hyperboreans. Dionysus would inhabit the temple during his absence. The time to consult pythia for an oracle during the year is determined from astronomical and geological grounds related to the constellations of Lyra and Cygnus but the hydrocarbon vapours emitted from the chasm. Similar practice was followed in other Apollo oracles too. While in a trance the Pythia \"raved\" –", "title": "Delphi" } ]

[ { "docid": "19323764", "text": "his predecessor. Ex voto of the Attalids (Delphi) Several Hellenistic kings dedicated monuments in the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi, in an effort to emphasize their prestige. Among those kings were the Attalids of Pergamon, who occupied a prominent position at the highest point of the Sacred Way, close to the temple of Apollo where they erected their ex votos. The highest part of the Sacred Way and the area around the temple of Apollo in Delphi was one of the most prominent positions in the sanctuary and was built at a relatively late date. To the right there is", "title": "Ex voto of the Attalids (Delphi)" }, { "docid": "19323761", "text": "Ex voto of the Attalids (Delphi) Several Hellenistic kings dedicated monuments in the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi, in an effort to emphasize their prestige. Among those kings were the Attalids of Pergamon, who occupied a prominent position at the highest point of the Sacred Way, close to the temple of Apollo where they erected their ex votos. The highest part of the Sacred Way and the area around the temple of Apollo in Delphi was one of the most prominent positions in the sanctuary and was built at a relatively late date. To the right there is a square", "title": "Ex voto of the Attalids (Delphi)" }, { "docid": "6624108", "text": "son of Aeolus. So they traveled to Delphi to seek a sign from the oracles. Outside the temple of Apollo at Delphi, Hermes recalls the time when Creusa, the daughter of Erectheus, mated with Apollo in a cave at Long Rocks under the Acropolis. Apollo concealed her pregnancy from her father and Creusa secretly gave birth to a child, whom she left in a basket, along with some trinkets, expecting that he would be devoured by beasts. Apollo sent Hermes to bring the boy to Delphi where he has grown up as an attendant at the temple. Creusa, meanwhile, was", "title": "Ion (play)" }, { "docid": "9483804", "text": "Temple of Apollo (Delphi) The ruins of the Temple of Apollo visible today date from the 4th century BC, and are of a peripteral Doric building. It was erected by Spintharus, Xenodoros, and Agathon on the remains of an earlier temple, dated to the 6th century BC which itself was erected on the site of a 7th-century BC construction attributed to the architects Trophonios and Agamedes. The 6th-century BC temple was named the \"Temple of Alcmonidae\" in tribute to the Athenian family who funded its reconstruction following a fire, which had destroyed the original structure. The new building was a", "title": "Temple of Apollo (Delphi)" }, { "docid": "850975", "text": "and snakes, and lived in a gated temple, where she was worshipped by the people of that land. She, along with her temple and priests, was swallowed up by a hole in the ground that opened beneath her, as the result of Philip's curse. Echidna was perhaps associated with the monster killed by Apollo at Delphi. Though that monster is usually said to be the male serpent Python, in the oldest account of this story, the \"Homeric Hymn to Apollo\", the god kills a nameless she-serpent (\"drakaina\"), subsequently called Delphyne, who had been Typhon's foster-mother. Echidna and Delphyne share several", "title": "Echidna (mythology)" }, { "docid": "6303731", "text": "Praxias and Androsthenes Praxias and Androsthenes (), Greek sculptors, who are said by Pausanias (x. 19, 4) to have executed the pediments of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. Both were Athenians, Praxias a pupil of Calamis. The statement raises historic difficulties, as, according to the leaders of the recent French excavations at Delphi, the temple of Apollo was destroyed about 373 BC and rebuilt by 339 BC, a date which seems too late for the lifetime of a pupil of Calamis. In any case no fragments of the pediments of this later temple have been found, and it has", "title": "Praxias and Androsthenes" }, { "docid": "9483808", "text": "was constructed between 525-505 BC and ruined by fire or earthquake in 373 BC, the sixth temple of Apollo was finished in 320 BC and is the one visible today. Temple of Apollo (Delphi) The ruins of the Temple of Apollo visible today date from the 4th century BC, and are of a peripteral Doric building. It was erected by Spintharus, Xenodoros, and Agathon on the remains of an earlier temple, dated to the 6th century BC which itself was erected on the site of a 7th-century BC construction attributed to the architects Trophonios and Agamedes. The 6th-century BC temple", "title": "Temple of Apollo (Delphi)" }, { "docid": "6303732", "text": "been suggested that they were removed bodily to Rome. Praxias and Androsthenes Praxias and Androsthenes (), Greek sculptors, who are said by Pausanias (x. 19, 4) to have executed the pediments of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. Both were Athenians, Praxias a pupil of Calamis. The statement raises historic difficulties, as, according to the leaders of the recent French excavations at Delphi, the temple of Apollo was destroyed about 373 BC and rebuilt by 339 BC, a date which seems too late for the lifetime of a pupil of Calamis. In any case no fragments of the pediments of", "title": "Praxias and Androsthenes" }, { "docid": "5584048", "text": "(Mezapos), Oetylus (Oitylo), Kardamili (or Skardamoula), Gerenia, Teuthrone (Kotronas), and Las (Passavas). Under the Mycenaeans, Mani flourished and a temple dedicated to the Greek god Apollo was built at Cape Tenaron. The temple was of such importance that it rivaled Delphi which was then a temple dedicated to Poseidon. Eventually, the temple of Tenaron was dedicated to Poseidon and the temple at Delphi was dedicated to Apollo. According to other legends, there is a cave near Tenaro that leads to Hades. Mani was also featured in other tales such as the one where Helen of Troy (Queen of Sparta), and", "title": "Maniots" }, { "docid": "19323323", "text": "Halos (Delphi) The Halos was a round open space close to the temple of Apollo in Delphi, where ancient rituals were being performed. Between the Bouleuterion and Sibyl's Rock in the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi there is a narrow pass leading to the fountain which the dragon Python was supposedly guarding. Apollo killed the dragon and then left for the land of the Hyperboreans in order to be expiated from the murder. This action signifies in mythology the transition from the early chthonic cults to the cult of the god of light and music. At that spot, in front", "title": "Halos (Delphi)" }, { "docid": "331126", "text": "personalities who lived or traveled there. One of his most important works is the \"Why Pythia does not give oracles in verse\" (Moralia 11) ( \"Περὶ τοῦ μὴ χρᾶν ἔμμετρα νῦν τὴν Πυθίαν\"). Even more important is the dialogue \"On the E in Delphi\" (\"Περὶ τοῦ Εἶ τοῦ ἐν Δελφοῖς\"), which features Ammonius, a Platonic philosopher and teacher of Plutarch, and Lambrias, Plutarch's brother. According to Ammonius, the letter E written on the temple of Apollo in Delphi originated from the following fact: the wise men of antiquity, whose maxims were also written on the walls of the vestibule of", "title": "Plutarch" }, { "docid": "9199724", "text": "Miletus to the Temple of Apollo at Didyma began at the Delphinion\" Inscriptions found on the walls of the Delphinion tell us the site also served as the city archive. The Delphinion in Athens near the Acropolis contained a court of law, which was used to try homicide cases where the accused had claimed the defence of justifiable homicide. Delphinion A Delphinion (ancient Greek: Δελφίνιον) found in ancient Greece, was a temple of Apollo Delphinios (\"Apollo of the womb\") also known as \"Delphic Apollo\" or \"Pythian Apollo\", the principal god of Delphi, who was regarded as the protector of ports", "title": "Delphinion" }, { "docid": "18286403", "text": "evoque the circular column and its three maidens. Dancers of Delphi The Dancers of Delphi, also known as the Acanthus Column, are three figures in high relief on top of an acanthus column found near the sanctuary of Pythian Apollo at Delphi. They are on display in the Delphi Archaeological Museum and were the inspiration for the first of Claude Debussy's \"Préludes\". The fragments were discovered between May and July 1894 on the terraces to the east and northeast of the Temple of Apollo. The excavators rapidly reconstituted a column of around 13 metres, made up of five drums and", "title": "Dancers of Delphi" }, { "docid": "18286394", "text": "Dancers of Delphi The Dancers of Delphi, also known as the Acanthus Column, are three figures in high relief on top of an acanthus column found near the sanctuary of Pythian Apollo at Delphi. They are on display in the Delphi Archaeological Museum and were the inspiration for the first of Claude Debussy's \"Préludes\". The fragments were discovered between May and July 1894 on the terraces to the east and northeast of the Temple of Apollo. The excavators rapidly reconstituted a column of around 13 metres, made up of five drums and a capital decorated with acanthus leaves and surmounted", "title": "Dancers of Delphi" }, { "docid": "19240307", "text": "Altar of the Chians The Altar of the Chians was the altar of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, dedicated by the people of Chios. The Altar of the Chians was the main altar of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. It was built after the reconstruction of the Temple in the 330s, replacing an older altar dated to the time of the Alcmaeonids. The 4th century altar was dedicated by the people of Chios, as related on an inscription on the left side of its crowning. On the right part of the euthynteria is written an inscription offering the", "title": "Altar of the Chians" }, { "docid": "9199723", "text": "Delphinion A Delphinion (ancient Greek: Δελφίνιον) found in ancient Greece, was a temple of Apollo Delphinios (\"Apollo of the womb\") also known as \"Delphic Apollo\" or \"Pythian Apollo\", the principal god of Delphi, who was regarded as the protector of ports and ships. The ruin of the Delphinion in Miletus is still mostly standing. A rectangular temenos, the remains of the temple at the site date back to as early as the fifth century B.C.E. Still present are a rectangular altar with volute acroteria, as well as a few other round marble altars. An \"annual Spring procession which went from", "title": "Delphinion" }, { "docid": "9483807", "text": "limestone, a softer material, along with porous stone. The first temple of Apollo was, according to the myth, made of daphne (laurel the sacred symbol of Apollo), the second temple of Apollo was made of bees wax and feathers (the remains of two structures dating from the 8th century BC could be associated with the first two temples), the third temple of Apollo was made out of bronze, the fourth temple of Apollo was constructed around the end of the 7th century BC and, according to Pausanias, ruined by fire in 548 BC, the fifth temple of Apollo (Alcmaeonid Temple)", "title": "Temple of Apollo (Delphi)" }, { "docid": "97463", "text": "sited. The retaining wall was built to support the terrace housing the construction of the second temple of Apollo in 548 BC. Its name is taken from the polygonal masonry of which it is constructed. At a later date, from 200 BC onwards, the stones were inscribed with the manumission contracts of slaves who were consecrated to Apollo. Approximately a thousand manumissions are recorded on the wall. The sacred spring of Delphi lies in the ravine of the Phaedriades. The preserved remains of two monumental fountains that received the water from the spring date to the Archaic period and the", "title": "Delphi" }, { "docid": "864066", "text": "Phemonoe In Greek mythology, Phemonoe ( ; ) was a Greek poet of the ante-Homeric period. She was said to have been the daughter of Apollo, his first priestess at Delphi, or of his possible son Delphus, and the inventor of the hexameter verses, a type of poetic metre. In some studies, attributed to the phrase \"know thyself\" (γνῶθι σεαυτόν) found inscribed at the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Some writers seem to have placed her at Delos instead of Delphi; and Servius identifies her with the Cumaean Sibyl. The tradition which ascribed to her the invention", "title": "Phemonoe" }, { "docid": "9483697", "text": "bas-reliefs of hunting the Galatians, from Delphi, and 6th century BC Chian art, with sculptures of the Niobids by Bupalus and Athenis. The cult group in the cella included a statue of Apollo Citharoedus, possibly by Scopas and perhaps from the sanctuary of Apollo at Rhamnus in Attica; a sculpture of Diana, by Timotheos; and one of Latona, sculpted by Cephisodotus. Into shelves at the basis of the statue of Apollo were placed the Sibylline Books, transferred here from the temple of Jupiter on the Capitol (cf. Suetonius, \"Div. Aug.\" 31.3). The temple was surrounded by a portico (the portico", "title": "Temple of Apollo Palatinus" }, { "docid": "16085", "text": "taught to the humans the art of healing and archery. Phoebe, his grandmother, gave the oracular shrine of Delphi to Apollo as a birthday gift. Themis inspired him to be the oracular voice of Delphi thereon. Later, with his bow and arrows that he had received from Hephaestus, Apollo went in search of the chthonic dragon Python, which lived in Delphi beside the Castalian Spring, and was a terror to the people. Hera had sent this serpent to hunt the pregnant Leto to her death across the world. To avenge the trouble given to his mother, Apollo killed Python in", "title": "Apollo" }, { "docid": "20365048", "text": "Spintharus of Corinth Spintharus of Corinth () was an ancient Greek architect. Pausanias reported in his \"Descriptions of Greece\" that the Alcmaeonids hired him to build a temple at Delphi. This is the only record of Spintharus. The temple to Apollo at Delphi had to be rebuilt after a fire in 548 BC and again after an earthquake in 373 BC. Historians have offered competing claims as to which temple Spintharus constructed. J. B. Bury argued he built the 6th century temple because of accounts saying the fourth century temple was built by Xenodorus. John Henry Middleton dated Spintharus's construction", "title": "Spintharus of Corinth" }, { "docid": "20365050", "text": "which was completed in 320 BC. William Bell Dinsmoor notes that expense reports suggest that Xenodorus and Agathon continued Spintharus' construction on the fourth century temple. Middleton also suggested Spintharus also built the temple at Corinth due to similarities in some of the details such as the hypotrachelia. Spintharus of Corinth Spintharus of Corinth () was an ancient Greek architect. Pausanias reported in his \"Descriptions of Greece\" that the Alcmaeonids hired him to build a temple at Delphi. This is the only record of Spintharus. The temple to Apollo at Delphi had to be rebuilt after a fire in 548", "title": "Spintharus of Corinth" }, { "docid": "10602815", "text": "of Parian marble, include a carriage with four horses, carrying Apollo. To the left of the carriage stood three female figures, possibly the daughters of Kekrops, king of Athens, and to the right three male figures. The scene is identified as the advent of Apollo to Delphi. The central acroterion of the temple depicted a victory (Nike) running with her knee lifted up in the air. The two side acroteria depicted Sphinxes. The western pediment sculptures depicted a Gigantomachy. Both pediments are attributed to the Athenian sculptor Antenor. The sculptures of the pediments of the 4th century temple were made", "title": "Delphi Archaeological Museum" }, { "docid": "3436503", "text": "ritual focus being water. The 6th century \"Didymaion\", dedicated to Apollo, enclosed a smaller temple that was its predecessor, which archaeologists have identified. Its treasury was enriched by gifts from Croesus. Apollo was worshipped in nearby Miletus under the name Delphinius (the same name was also used at Delphi). At Didyma, he was worshipped as Didymeus (Διδυμευς). His other names in the area were Philesios, and Carinus (Καρινος). Until its destruction by the Persians in 494 BC, Didyma's sanctuary was administered by the family of the Branchidae, who claimed descent from an eponymous Branchos, a youth beloved of Apollo. The", "title": "Didyma" }, { "docid": "97456", "text": "Apollo sat to deliver her prophecies. The ancient theatre at Delphi was built further up the hill from the Temple of Apollo giving spectators a view of the entire sanctuary and the valley below. It was originally built in the 4th century BC but was remodeled on several occasions, particularly in 160/159 B.C. at the expenses of king Eumenes II of Pergamon and in 67 A.D. on the occasion of emperor Nero's visit. The koilon (cavea) leans against the natural slope of the mountain whereas its eastern part overrides a little torrent which led the water of the fountain Cassotis", "title": "Delphi" }, { "docid": "97426", "text": "in that they were not of such vast importance to the city of Delphi as the games at Olympia were to the area surrounding Olympia. Delphi would have been a renowned city whether or not it hosted these games; it had other attractions that led to it being labeled the \"omphalos\" (navel) of the earth, in other words, the centre of the world. In the inner \"hestia\" (hearth) of the Temple of Apollo, an eternal flame burned. After the battle of Plataea, the Greek cities extinguished their fires and brought new fire from the hearth of Greece, at Delphi; in", "title": "Delphi" }, { "docid": "246079", "text": "was the giant Tityos, a phallic being who grew so vast that he split his mother's womb and had to be carried to term by Gaia herself. He attempted to rape Leto near Delphi under the orders of Hera, but was laid low by the arrows of Apollo and/or Artemis, as Pindar recalled in a Pythian ode. Another ancient earth creature that had to be overcome was the dragon Python, which lived in a cleft of the mother-rock beneath Delphi and beside the Castalian Spring. Apollo slew it but had to do penance and be cleansed afterward, since though Python", "title": "Leto" }, { "docid": "11079461", "text": ". . . and the Thymbrios River, which flows through the plain and empties into the River Skamandros at the temple of Apollon Thymbraios.\" Also according to Strabo, the distance from Ilium, the town erected by the Romans on the old site of Troy, to the temple was about 50 stadia. Thymbra was also the location of a major temple and sanctuary of Apollo (one of his epithets is \"Lord of Delphi and Thymbra\"). The god was known there as \"Apollo Thymbraios\", a localizing epithet. In Greek mythology, the temple is tied to the fall of Troy as the location", "title": "Thymbra" }, { "docid": "19321461", "text": "Treasury of Cyrene The Treasury of Cyrene (\"Treasury of the Cyreneans\") was a building in the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. The treasury was possibly built as a token of gratitude for a large endowment of wheat offered to Delphi's inhabitants during a lean period. The Treasury of Cyrene was probably the last treasury to have been built within the sanctuary of Apollo. It was oriented towards the Temple of Apollo. Its date of construction is estimated at ca. 334–322 B.C. It was constructed at the eastern part of the precinct, supported by a base (crepis) made of limestone and", "title": "Treasury of Cyrene" }, { "docid": "19321379", "text": "Monument of Prusias II The stele of Prusias is one of the ex votos at the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi, constructed in honour of king Prusias II of Bithynia. The stele of Prusias is located to the northeast of the entrance of the temple of Apollo in the archaeological site of Delphi. It has been restored in situ. The monument has been identified through an inscription mentioning that it was dedicated by the Aetolian League to honour king Prusias II of Bithynia, in northwestern Asia Minor: «».(To the king Prusias, son of king Prusias, the Aetolian League for his", "title": "Monument of Prusias II" }, { "docid": "872192", "text": "serpent named Typhon: \"The narrators seem to have confused the dragon of Delphi, Python, with Typhon or Typhoeus, the adversary of Zeus\". The enemy dragoness \"... actually became an Apollonian serpent, and Pythia, the priestess who gave oracles at Delphi, was named after him. Many pictures show the serpent Python living in amity with Apollo and guarding the Omphalos, the sacred navel stone and midpoint of the earth, which stood in Apollo's temple\" (Kerenyi 1951:136). This myth has been described as an allegory for the dispersal of the fogs and clouds of vapor which arise from ponds and marshes (Python)", "title": "Python (mythology)" }, { "docid": "7420892", "text": "where Apollo met with Cibele. It was said that only the priest of the Great Mother could enter the cave without being overpowered by the noxious underground fumes. Temples dedicated to Apollo were often built over geologically active sites, including his most famous, the temple at Delphi. When the Christian faith was granted official primacy in the 4th century, this temple underwent a number of desecrations. Part of the peribolos was also dismantled to make room for a large Nympheum. Next to this temple and within the sacred area is the oldest local sanctuary, Pluto's Gate, a ploutonion () or", "title": "Hierapolis" }, { "docid": "837592", "text": "BC lyric poet Pindar provides some of the earliest details of the battle between the Giants and the Olympians. He locates it \"on the plain of Phlegra\" and has Teiresias foretell Heracles killing Giants \"beneath [his] rushing arrows\". He calls Heracles \"you who subdued the Giants\", and has Porphyrion, who he calls \"the king of the Giants\", being overcome by the bow of Apollo. Euripides' \"Heracles\" has its hero shooting Giants with arrows, and his \"Ion\" has the chorus describe seeing a depiction of the Gigantomachy on the late sixth century Temple of Apollo at Delphi, with Athena fighting the", "title": "Giants (Greek mythology)" }, { "docid": "19323325", "text": "platforms and bases for monuments were erected, particularly in the Hellenistic period. Among them stands out the base for a statue of the Pergamene king Attalus II Philadelphus(159-138 B.C.), dedicated by the city of Delphi. To the northeast the Halos is delimited by the Polygonal wall, built after the destruction of the Temple of Apollo (Delphi) in 548 B.C., in order to support the ground for the erection of the new temple that was going to be built under the auspices of the Alcmaeonids. To the north of the Halos stood the Portico of the Athenians, also lying against the", "title": "Halos (Delphi)" }, { "docid": "2854519", "text": "curves becomes regular in form. Forearm and hand correctly pronated. Arms sometimes held free from body. Flanks; occasionally at first later regularly, flank and buttock of supporting leg rise in conformity with action. This period is framed by the stasis of the Peisistratid era and the beginning of Athenian democracy and the Persian war. The upper limit of this group may be fixed by the sculpture of the temple of Apollo, Delphi. Architecturally earlier than the Hekatompedon of Athens the Delphi temple has a probable date of c.520, thus the kouroi of its pediment which betray the swelling trapezium and", "title": "Kouros" }, { "docid": "97430", "text": "to one pair of scholars, \"The actual authorship of the three maxims set up on the Delphian temple may be left uncertain. Most likely they were popular proverbs, which tended later to be attributed to particular sages.\" According to the Homeric hymn to the Pythian Apollo, Apollo shot his first arrow as an infant which effectively slew the serpent Pytho, the son of Gaia, who guarded the spot. To atone the murder of Gaia's son, Apollo was forced to fly and spend eight years in menial service before he could return forgiven. A festival, the Septeria, was held every year,", "title": "Delphi" }, { "docid": "15527645", "text": "Pompeius Trogus, and Pausanias, writing in the second century AD, are the only extant sources to mention the Gallic attack on Delphi. Pausanias insisted that the Gauls did not sack the temple sanctuary and even went so far as to claim none of the Gauls survived the retreat, while Justinus' summary only states that the attack was a disaster and resulted in the fragmentation of the Gallic force, with some settling in Anatolia, others in Thrace, and a third contingent that returned to Tolosa. While Strabo, quoting Poseidonius, argued that the Temple of Apollo at Delphi lacked the treasure to", "title": "The Gold of Tolosa" }, { "docid": "2823274", "text": "given in Euripides' \"Ion\", that the battle was depicted on the late sixth century BC Temple of Apollo at Delphi. The east pediment of the Old Temple of Athena on the Acropolis of Athens, dating from the late sixth century, prominently displayed Athena standing over a fallen giant, possibly Enceladus. The battle was probably also depicted on the new \"peplos\" (robe) presented to Athena on the Acropolis of Athens as part of the Panathenaic festival. At Versailles, Louis XIV's consistent iconographic theme of the triumphs of Apollo and the Olympians against all adversaries included the fountain of Enceladus in its", "title": "Enceladus (giant)" }, { "docid": "1945876", "text": "buildings as gifts, and military trophies, paintings and items in precious metals, effectively turning them into a type of museum. Some sanctuaries offered oracles, people who were believed to receive divine inspiration in answering questions put by pilgrims. The most famous of these by far was the female priestess called the Pythia at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, and that of Zeus at Dodona, but there were many others. Some dealt only with medical, agricultural or other specialized matters, and not all represented gods, like that of the hero Trophonius at Livadeia. The temple was the house of the", "title": "Ancient Greek religion" }, { "docid": "10017758", "text": "for she was a very bloody plague\", and says that \"whosoever met the dragoness, the day of doom would sweep him away\". According to the Hymn, she was the foster mother of the snaky monster Typhon, who was given to the dragoness, \"an evil to an evil\" (\"κακῷ κακόν\"), by his mother Hera. Typhon was to eventually battle Zeus, for supremacy of the cosmos. The \"Hymn\" goes on to describe how, while building his oracular temple at Delphi, Apollo encountered the she-serpent near a \"sweet flowing spring\". Apollo shot the dragoness with an arrow from his bow, and the monster:", "title": "Delphyne" }, { "docid": "10490022", "text": "then sets out looking for the talking pig, Gryllus. She finds him first at an auction where she buys him for 200 drachmas then Gryllus runs away and he winds up at Big Stavros's Kebab bar where he is forced to entertain customers and where Sibyl takes him back. Together they set off for the temple at Delphi. Apollo informs Sibyl that she and Gryllus must find a goatherd boy living on top of a mountain. Once Sibyl and Gryllus find the goatherd, (who turns out to be the god Zeus) they set off once more for Apollo's temple at", "title": "The Pig Scrolls" }, { "docid": "14540411", "text": "Panthous In Greek mythology, Panthous (), son of Othrys, was an elder of Troy, husband of the \"queenly\" Phrontis and father of Euphorbus, Polydamas and Hyperenor. Panthous was originally a priest of Apollo at Delphi. When Priam, after Troy had been destroyed by Heracles, sent a son of Antenor to Delphi to inquire whether it was appropriate to build a new citadel on the foundations of the destroyed city, said son of Antenor was charmed by Panthous' beauty and carried him off. Panthous, in accord with Priam' s will, continued to perform his duties as a priest of Apollo at", "title": "Panthous" }, { "docid": "18698466", "text": "were excavated from the sanctuary of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, in 1860. The remainder was found in 1893. It was originally set up on a stele around 560 BC as an offering to the Temple of Apollo by Naxos, one of the richest Cycladic islands at the time. The overall height of the statue, the column and its base topped 12.5 meters. The Greek sphinx, a lion with the face of a human female, was considered as having ferocious strength, and was thought of as a guardian, often flanking the entrances to temples. Sphinxes depictions are generally associated", "title": "Sphinx of Naxos" }, { "docid": "7332084", "text": "Stoa of the Athenians The Stoa of the Athenians is an ancient portico in the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi, Greece, located south of the Apollo Temple. The southern side of the polygonal wall of the platform forms the north wall of the stoa. It was constructed c. 478 BC-470 BC during the early Classical period. The one-aisled stoa with Ionic colonnade opens toward the southeast. It was dedicated by the Athenians after the Persian Wars. The Stoa of the Athenians is built against the polygonal wall supporting the terrace of the temple of Apollo. The monument has been identified", "title": "Stoa of the Athenians" }, { "docid": "13989922", "text": "Temple of Asclepius, Epidaurus The Temple of Asclepius was a sanctuary in Epidaurus dedicated to Asclepius. The sanctuary at Epidaurus was the rival of such major cult sites as the Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia and Apollo at Delphi. The temple was built in the early 4th-century BC. If still in use by the 4th-century, the temple would have been closed during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire, when the Christian Emperors issued edicts prohibiting non-Christian worship. The temple was Doric, six columns by eleven, measuring ca. 80 feet in length. It is preserved in foundations only.", "title": "Temple of Asclepius, Epidaurus" }, { "docid": "14376988", "text": "praetor in charge of the investigation against Pleminius, were sent as Rome's ambassadors to Delphi with gifts to dedicate at the temple. These included a 200-pound gold crown and images (\"simulacra\") of the spoils seized from Hasdrubal, amounting to 1,000 pounds of silver. This embassy occurred in the context of what Livy characterizes as a sudden attack of religiosity at Rome, which in addition to a consultation with the Sibylline books resulted most famously in the importation of the cult of Cybele to Rome. Catius and Matho received favorable omens when they sacrificed to Pythian Apollo at Delphi. The question", "title": "Quintus Catius" }, { "docid": "7915984", "text": "Adyton The adyton () or (Latin) was a restricted area within the cella of a Greek or Roman temple. The \"adyton\" was frequently a small area at the farthest end of the cella from the entrance: at Delphi it measured just . The \"adyton\" often would house the cult image of the deity. \"Adyta\" were spaces reserved for oracles, priestesses, priests, or acolytes, and not for the general public. \"Adyta\" were found frequently associated with temples of Apollo, as at Didyma, Bassae, Clarus, Delos, and Delphi, although they were also said to have been natural phenomena (see the story of", "title": "Adyton" }, { "docid": "3435653", "text": "onwards as fully sculpted figures placed on the corners and ridges of the pediments. They could depict bowls and tripods, griffins, spinxes, and especially mythical figures and deities. For example, depictions of the running Nike crowned the Alcmaeonid temple of Apollo at Delphi, and mounted amazons formed the corner akroteria of the temple of Asklepios in Epidauros. Pausanias (5, 10, 8) describes bronze tripods forming the corner akroteria and statues of Nike by Paeonios forming the ridge ones on the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. For the sake of completeness, a further potential bearer of sculptural decoration should be mentioned", "title": "Ancient Greek temple" }, { "docid": "19321226", "text": "is, however, not very clear which is actually the omphalos he describes. He includes a series of smaller statues and ex votos, also lost today. After a lengthy narration of the attacks of the Gauls against Delphi, he goes on to describe the temple of Apollo. He describes the representations on the pediments and the interior of the temple, speaking about the altar of Poseidon. Very detailed is also the description of the Lesche of the Cnidians and particularl, as mentioned above, of the painting of the \"Capture of Troy\" by Polygnotus. Finally, Pausanias refers to the Stadium and the", "title": "Pausanias' description of Delphi" }, { "docid": "97443", "text": "around the protection of the Temple of Apollo. This shrine was destroyed by fire in 548 BC and then fell under the control of the Alcmaeonids banned from Athens. In 449–448 BC, the Second Sacred War (fought in the wider context of the First Peloponnesian War between the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta and the Delian-Attic League led by Athens) resulted in the Phocians gaining control of Delphi and the management of the Pythian Games. In 356 BC the Phocians under Philomelos captured and sacked Delphi, leading to the Third Sacred War (356–346 BC), which ended with the defeat of", "title": "Delphi" }, { "docid": "4857320", "text": "made the decision to tax these temples for their valuable objects. Letters of appropriation were sent forthwith, delivered by revenue agents in wagons and ships. The sources concentrate on the three most famous temples: the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the Asclepeion at Epidaurus, and the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, which latter yielded “a vast fortune” according to Diodorus Siculus These were not the only temples taxed; there is evidence that the tax might have been on all temples. Pausanias mentions the removal of the statue of Athena from a temple in Haliartus, Boeotia. At this time Sulla was still", "title": "Physics (Aristotle)" }, { "docid": "19237729", "text": "the visible archaeological remains based on Pausanias for identification. He described the stadium and the theatre at that date as well as some free standing pieces of sculpture. He also recorded several inscriptions, most of which are now lost. His identifications however were not always correct: for example he described a round building he saw as the temple of Apollo while this was simply the base of the Argives' ex-voto. Information for the following two centuries of Ottoman rule is relatively sparse and confused. Delphi was renamed Kastri and was subjected to the kaza (district) of Salona (Amphissa). We also", "title": "Ottoman Delphi" }, { "docid": "16087", "text": "was given his place on Olympus. Henceforth, Apollo became the god who cleansed himself from the sin of murder and, made men aware of their guilt and purified them. Zeus, for his son's integrity, gave Apollo the seat next to him on his right side. He also gifted to Apollo a golden tripod, bow and arrows, a golden chariot drawn by swans and the land of Delphi. Soon after his return, Apollo needed to recruit people to Delphi. So, when he spotted a ship sailing from Crete, he sprang aboard in the form of a dolphin. The crew was awed", "title": "Apollo" }, { "docid": "2549316", "text": "to protect sanctuaries and impose sentences on those who molested sanctuaries. All members were obliged to pledge themselves by an oath as reported by Aeschines. Based on legend, the Great Amphictyonic League was founded somewhat after the Trojan War, for the protection and administration of the temple of Apollo in Delphi and temple of Demeter in Anthela (Ἀνθήλη), near Thermopylae. The founding myth claimed that it had been founded in the most distant past by an eponymous founder Amphictyon, brother of Hellen, the common ancestor of all Hellenes. Representatives of the twelve members (called \"hieromnemones\") met in Thermopylae in spring", "title": "Amphictyonic League" }, { "docid": "847585", "text": "Phlegyas Phlegyas () or Pleugos, son of Ares and Chryse or Dotis, was king of the Lapiths in Greek mythology. He was the father of Ixion and Coronis, one of Apollo's lovers. While pregnant with Asclepius, Coronis fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus. When a hooded crow informed Apollo of the affair, he sent his sister Artemis to kill Coronis, unable to perform the task himself. However, Hermes rescued the baby from Coronis' womb and gave it to the centaur Chiron to raise. Phlegyas, angry at Apollo for killing his daughter, torched the Apollonian temple at Delphi, causing", "title": "Phlegyas" }, { "docid": "836048", "text": "the Erinyes, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety. He takes refuge in the temple at Delphi; but, even though Apollo had ordered him to do the deed, he is powerless to protect Orestes from the consequences. At last Athena receives him on the acropolis of Athens and arranges a formal trial of the case before twelve judges, including herself. The Erinyes demand their victim; he pleads the orders of Apollo. Athena votes last announcing that she is for acquittal; then the votes are counted and the result is a tie, resulting in", "title": "Orestes" }, { "docid": "2103450", "text": "to grasp meaning from the Quran. In an internet forum a moderator is one who enforces the rules. Moderation Moderation is the process of eliminating or lessening extremes. It is used to ensure normality throughout the medium on which it is being conducted. Common uses of moderation include: Moderation is also a principle of life. In ancient Greece, the temple of Apollo at Delphi bore the inscription \"Meden Agan\" () - 'Nothing in excess'. Doing something \"in moderation\" means not doing it excessively. For instance, someone who moderates their food consumption tries to eat all food groups, but limits their", "title": "Moderation" }, { "docid": "19807495", "text": "Delos, he became interested in 1906 in the proto-history of the sanctuary, unearthed the \"Portico Antigone\" with one of the tombs of the Hyperborean Virgins (the Theke), and discovered the remains of a Minoan and Mycenaean Delos in the sanctuary of Apollo and Artemis. With Charles Picard, he prepared the enhancement of the excavations of the city and the Temple of Zeus by a mission to Stratos (Acarnania). At Delphi, his studies on the tholos of the Sicycone Treasury, the east pediment of the archaic temple on the nearby monument of the opisthodomos, and especially the terrace of the temple", "title": "Fernand Courby" }, { "docid": "16160", "text": "triangle with acute angles at the base. The Siphnian Treasury in Delphi was one of the first Greek buildings utilizing the solution to put the dominating form in the middle, and to complete the descending scale of height with other figures sitting or kneeling. The pediment shows the story of Heracles stealing Apollo's tripod that was strongly associated with his oracular inspiration. Their two figures hold the centre. In the pediment of the temple of Zeus in Olympia, the single figure of Apollo is dominating the scene. These representations rely on presenting scenes directly to the eye for their own", "title": "Apollo" }, { "docid": "10490021", "text": "The Pig Scrolls The Pig Scrolls (2004), by Paul Shipton, is a young adult comedy adventure novel about a talking pig (Gryllus) and his endeavours to save the world. The novel is set in Ancient Greece with many, often comical, references to ancient Greek mythology and life. The characters include all the major Ancient Greek gods, some minor deities, the young Homer and Sibyl, a prophetess in training at the temple of Apollo in Delphi. After all the Olympian gods go missing, Sibyl has a premonition in which the sun god Apollo tells her to find \"the talking pig\". Sibyl", "title": "The Pig Scrolls" }, { "docid": "19807497", "text": "armistice September 29, 1918 earned him the Greek Medal of Military Merit and the French Croix de Guerre with citation to the order of the Eastern Army. As soon as 1919, resuming the publication of the monuments of the terrace of the temple of Apollo at Delphi interrupted by the war, he undertook a comprehensive study of the altar of Pythian Apollo. It was in Delos that Fernand Courby started his study on \"Les vases grecs à reliefs\" (from prehistoric to Roman times), which he made the subject of his doctoral thesis published in 1922. This book of reference on", "title": "Fernand Courby" }, { "docid": "13961798", "text": "Athenian Treasury The Athenian Treasury (Greek: Θησαυρός των Αθηναίων) at Delphi was constructed by the Athenians to house dedications and votive offerings made by their city and citizens to the sanctuary of Apollo. The entire treasury including its sculptural decoration is built of Parian marble. The date of construction is disputed, and scholarly opinions range from 510 to 480 BCE. It is located directly below the Temple of Apollo along the Sacred Way for all visitors to view the Athenian treasury on the way up to the sanctuary. Pausanias mentions the building in his account of the sanctuary, claiming that", "title": "Athenian Treasury" }, { "docid": "5589432", "text": "joined the Macedonian Kingdom under Philip II. The area became a theatre of war where the Aetolians and the Thessalians clashed with the Macedonians, especially during the Second and the Third Macedonian Wars. The city during the classical period was influential as demonstrated in the influence wielded by the tetrach Daochos, who ruled from Pharsalos. He was part of the Council of Amphictyonic League, administered the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, and conducted the Pythian Games. Daochos built several monuments at Pharsalos dedicated to members of his family. Parts of the eight portraits that survived showed classical style, depicting subjects", "title": "Farsala" }, { "docid": "19323777", "text": "Roman Agora (Delphi) The Roman Agora is the first building that one encounters nowadays upon entering the archaeological site of the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. The first building remains that the visitor sees upon entering the precinct of the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi is a large rectangular paved square, which used to be surrounded by Ionic porticos on its three sides, whereas along the southern side was formed a kind of corridor. The square was built in the Roman period, but the remains visible at present along the north and northwestern sides date to the Late Antique period.", "title": "Roman Agora (Delphi)" }, { "docid": "19322079", "text": "the family, so they did not want to be separated from their social environment, yet they would rather have the choice. The manumission acts were usually attended by witnesses, whose names are also mentioned on the inscription. The other people mentioned are the priests of the temple of Apollo and thus manumission inscriptions constitute an excellent source for tracing the succession lists of the priesthood of Delphi. A typical manumission inscription is that of the female slave Meda: 1 ἄρχο[ντος Ἀμφι]στ[ράτου] <br>μηνὸς [— — —] <br>κου, ἐπὶ τοῖσ[δε ἀπέδ]ο[τ]ο Τι- <br>μὼ Εὐδίκου, συνεπαινέοντος <br>5 τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτᾶς Λαδίκου, σῶμα γυ-", "title": "Manumission inscriptions at Delphi" }, { "docid": "2233106", "text": "south by another apsidal building which also came to light: the so-called \"Daphniforio\" or \"space with laurels\" (7.5 x 11.5m) is the most ancient edifice in Eretria, related to the early cult of Apollo in Delphi. At the centre of this edifice were preserved the clay bases supporting the laurel trunks that propped up the roof. In the early sixteenth century a second hecatompedon temple was erected through earth fills upon its Geometric predecessor, on a solid artificial terrace. This temple had wooden columns (six at the narrow sides and nineteen at the longer sides), and was subsequently covered with", "title": "Eretria" }, { "docid": "522948", "text": "treated the inhabitants cordially, unlike the Potidaeans, who had been enslaved. Philip II then involved Macedonia in the Third Sacred War (356–346BC). It began when Phocis captured and plundered the temple of Apollo at Delphi instead of submitting unpaid fines, causing the Amphictyonic League to declare war on Phocis and a civil war among the members of the Thessalian League aligned with either Phocis or Thebes. PhilipII's initial campaign against Pherae in Thessaly in 353BC at the behest of Larissa ended in two disastrous defeats by the Phocian general Onomarchus. PhilipII in turn defeated Onomarchus in 352BC at the Battle", "title": "Macedonia (ancient kingdom)" }, { "docid": "6533428", "text": "Corycia In Greek mythology, Corycia (Ancient Greek: Κωρύκια \"Korykia\") or Corycis (Kôrukis), was a naiad who lived on Mount Parnassus in Phocis. Her father was the local river-god Kephisos or Pleistos of northern Boeotia. With Apollo, she became the mother of Lycoreus (Lyrcorus) who gave his name to the city Lycoreia. Corycia was one of the nymphs of the springs of the Corycian Cave which was named after her. She was related to the nymph, Castalia, who presided over the sacred springs at Delphi. Corycia was closely identified with Kleodora and Melaina. The plural, Coryciae, is applied to the daughters", "title": "Corycia" } ]

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[ { "docid": "19574794", "text": "God of War (2018 video game) God of War is an action-adventure video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE). Released on April 20, 2018, for the PlayStation 4 (PS4) console, it is the eighth installment in the \"God of War\" series, the eighth chronologically, and the sequel to 2010's \"God of War III\". Unlike previous games, which were loosely based on Greek mythology, this installment is loosely based on Norse mythology, with the majority of it set in ancient Norway in the realm of Midgard. For the first time in the series, there", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "19574794", "text": "God of War (2018 video game) God of War is an action-adventure video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE). Released on April 20, 2018, for the PlayStation 4 (PS4) console, it is the eighth installment in the \"God of War\" series, the eighth chronologically, and the sequel to 2010's \"God of War III\". Unlike previous games, which were loosely based on Greek mythology, this installment is loosely based on Norse mythology, with the majority of it set in ancient Norway in the realm of Midgard. For the first time in the series, there", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "11696460", "text": "herself is the key to pacifying the Flame and allowing him to open the Box. After finally killing Zeus, he refuses to help Athena assume the role of new patron of mankind and disappears. is a short text-based game, released through Facebook Messenger on February 1, 2018. The game serves as a prequel story to 2018's \"God of War\", and follows Atreus on his first adventure in the Norse wilds. God of War was released worldwide on April 20, 2018, for the PlayStation 4 console. Many years after the events of \"God of War III\", Kratos has ended up in", "title": "God of War (franchise)" }, { "docid": "19574839", "text": "some of the lore of \"God of War\"s Nordic world. In January 2018, the game's release date was confirmed for April 20, 2018. A trailer was also released that showed that the character Mímir from the mythology would have a role in the game. \"God of War\" went gold on March 22. During early development, there was talk about having a different protagonist for the game, but it was decided to keep Kratos. Referencing the Nintendo character Mario and the \"Mario\" games, Barlog said that just like Mario, \"Kratos is intrinsically tied\" to the \"God of War\" series. In regards", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "20629741", "text": "the Hand\" was later sent to urban contemporary radio on April 10, 2018. The album's third single, \"Beyond\", was released on April 20, 2018, it was later sent to urban contemporary radio on April 30, 2018. \"Good Thing\" received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 74, based on 17 reviews. Chris Willman of \"Variety\" gave the album a positive review stating, \"The new album is not that drastically less of a classicist affair than \"Coming Home\", when all is", "title": "Good Thing (Leon Bridges album)" }, { "docid": "19574849", "text": "silent and everyone will talk in old Norse, so that you won't understand anything anybody's saying.\" After hearing Barlog's case, Sony gave him the freedom to incorporate Atreus. Lead level designer Rob Davis also noted that with Atreus, it allowed for \"significant gameplay and storytelling opportunities that might not otherwise [been] possible.\" \"God of War (PlayStation Soundtrack)\" was released on April 20, 2018 by Sony Classical Records. The soundtrack was composed by Bear McCreary, who is best known for his work on television shows such as \"Battlestar Galactica\" and \"The Walking Dead\". McCreary was called into Santa Monica Studio in", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" } ]

[ { "docid": "11137801", "text": "Cory Barlog Cory Barlog (born September 2, 1975) is the creative director at SIE Santa Monica Studio. He is a video game director and writer, known for his work on \"God of War\" (2005), \"God of War II\", and \"God of War\" (2018). Before coming to Sony's Santa Monica Studio, Barlog worked on \"\" and \"\". After joining Santa Monica, Barlog was the lead animator for \"God of War\" (2005), and was game director of \"God of War II\" (2007), for which he won a BAFTA for his writing work on the game. He also served as game director of", "title": "Cory Barlog" }, { "docid": "9868504", "text": "game's instruction manual, featuring a one-page teaser with \"PSP\" in the Omega symbol and stating \"Coming 2007\". On March 12, 2007, \"God of War II\" was launched at the Metreon: \"God of War II\" Game Director Cory Barlog officially confirmed the development of \"Chains of Olympus\", stating \"It is its own story that connects to the overall story. \"God of War\", \"God of War II\", and then if all the stars align \"God of War III\" will be the telling of a trilogy. This PSP story will be a further fleshing out.\" An initial trailer for \"Chains of Olympus\" was", "title": "God of War: Chains of Olympus" }, { "docid": "17662206", "text": "goddag-sjukan\", a disease where the affected can only say \"God dag, god dag\" (\"Good day, good day\"), even if the disease always comes to an end later. Sune writes a note to his mother. When coming to school, Sune tries to avoid answering questions. He is exposed during the Swedish lesson, when required to answer a question. His schoolteacher said she cured the disease with curiosity. In the nearby forest, a \"war\" (using cones) has broken out during a break, where the 1st graders and the 2nd graders fight the 3rd graders. Sune is about to free Daniel, but ends", "title": "Sagan om Sune" }, { "docid": "10206868", "text": "to inform people about the various things about to happen in the future. Y. G starts his task of telling people, but no one believes him in the beginning. Slowly when what he says starts occurring people term him a powerful monk and start coming to him. God takes several other famous actor forms Kamal Hassan, Rajinikanth, Jaishankar and keeps hinting the world through YGM. One day, God tells YGM that his son is going to die. The tables turn and YGM starts cursing God. Does God win YGM,s faith back is the story. Rajinikant coming out of Raghavendra temple,", "title": "Uruvangal Maralam" }, { "docid": "9108318", "text": "fought with such a valor that even the great Syrian warriors got frightend of him when they heard that Ali is coming for an attack. the battle of that day was so fierce that it continued to the night. by the time Ali and his army had pushed the Syrians 500 meters back from the battleground and victory became in sight. it is said that every man Ali killed he called out \" god is great \" and when it was counted it came on 534 confirmed kills which is a record in history of war. William Muir wrote that,", "title": "Military career of Ali" }, { "docid": "13058906", "text": "Bluepoint Games Bluepoint Games, Inc. is an American independent video game developer located in Austin, Texas. Vice President Andy O'Neil previously served as technical lead engineer on \"Metroid Prime\" (2002) and \"\" (2004) titles for Nintendo of America Inc. Bluepoint Games' first title, \"Blast Factor\" (2006), launched when Sony debuted its PlayStation 3, and was one of only two downloadable PS3 games available at the time. On August 31, 2009, it was announced that remastered versions of \"God of War\" and \"God of War II\" would be coming to the PlayStation 3 as \"God of War Collection\". Bluepoint Games handled", "title": "Bluepoint Games" }, { "docid": "11696466", "text": "third-person, fixed cinematic camera with the exception of \"Betrayal\", which is the only installment to feature a 2D side-scrolling view. In 2018's \"God of War\", the camera was switched from being fixed and became an over-the-shoulder free camera. A first-person camera is featured in \"God of War III\" and \"Ascension\". Throughout the series, the player controls the character Kratos in a combination of hack and slash combat, platforming, and puzzle game elements to achieve goals and complete the story (platforming elements were removed from 2018's \"God of War\" due to the camera change). 2018's \"God of War\" adds Kratos' son", "title": "God of War (franchise)" }, { "docid": "11696475", "text": "and replenish the Rage meter in the original \"God of War\". Gold orbs found in \"God of War II\" and \"Ascension\", and white orbs in \"God of War III\", replenish the Rage meter instead of red orbs; the Rage meter in \"Ascension\" is also refilled by landing attacks on foes. Chests with changing colors, which allow players to choose which meter to replenish, have also been available. Red orbs can also be collected by killing foes and destroying certain inanimate objects. Bosses and more powerful opponents release a combination of colored orbs when killed via the quick-time feature. For 2018's", "title": "God of War (franchise)" }, { "docid": "19574862", "text": "\"God of War\", Sony partnered with Facebook to develop the play-by-web game, which released on February 1, 2018. Completing the game unlocks downloadable concept art. The short story follows Atreus on his first adventure in the Norse wilds. After archery training and learning runes with his mother, Atreus adventures into the wilderness after telepathically hearing the voice of a dying deer; he finds it covered in blood and stays with it during its final moments. A couple of draugrs appear and Atreus attempts to fight them, but is injured. He is saved by his father, Kratos, who was out hunting.", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "19574818", "text": "tells him that he is a god. Atreus then becomes increasingly arrogant on their journey, and he murders a weakened Modi, despite Kratos ordering not to. At Midgard's peak, they are ambushed by Baldur, resulting in Jötunheim's portal being destroyed and the group falling into Helheim. Atreus makes amends with Kratos and they find out about Freya and Baldur's familial relationship. Returning to Midgard, Mímir realizes there is another way to reach Jötunheim, but it requires recovering his missing eye. After obtaining it from Jörmungandr's belly, who had inadvertently swallowed it when he ate a statue of Thor, they are", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "14114262", "text": "that Zeus feared a perpetuation of the son-killing-father cycle, as Zeus imprisoned his father Cronos. This was confirmed in \"God of War III\" when Kratos discovered that Zeus was infected with fear when Kratos first opened Pandora's Box and used its power to kill Ares. After a lengthy battle and an enlightening encounter with Pandora in his psyche, Kratos finally overcame and killed Zeus. Later in \"God of War\" (2018), Zeus appears as a haunting vision to Kratos while in Helheim. The character was originally voiced by Paul Eiding in 2005's \"God of War\". Corey Burton, who had previously voiced", "title": "Characters of God of War" }, { "docid": "3082740", "text": "up to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to engage him. But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, \"What have we to do with each other, O King of Judah? I am not coming against you today but against the house with which I am at war, and God has ordered me to hurry. Stop for your own sake from interfering with God who is with me, so that He will not destroy you.\" However, Josiah would not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to make war with him; nor did he", "title": "Battle of Megiddo (609 BC)" }, { "docid": "18788378", "text": "will be interesting to readers of Bruno Frank's brilliant \"The Persians Are Coming\", for Morand presents in Congo an example of the African out of America whose primitive appeal to anemic Europe is breaking down its civilization. This theory is further upheld by the drawings of Aaron Douglas when he gives us those pale shadowy figures dancing before a symbolic background. Pale arms raised in supplication to an African god that magnetizes decadent Europe after the scourge of war. Aaron Douglas knows his own people and his drawings are in sharp contrast to the deliberate violence of Morand's prose.\" Black", "title": "Black Magic (book)" }, { "docid": "11696507", "text": "\"God of War II\", the second novelization of the series, was written by Vardeman alone and was published by Del Rey Books on February 12, 2013. The third novelization in the series, titled \"God of War – The Official Novelization\", is of 2018's \"God of War\". It was released on August 28, 2018 by Titan Books and was written by Cory Barlog's father, James Barlog. Six \"God of War\" soundtracks have been commercially released and have featured several composers, including Gerard K. Marino, Ron Fish, Winifred Phillips, Mike Reagan, Cris Velasco, Winnie Waldron, Marcello De Francisci, Jeff Rona, Tyler Bates,", "title": "God of War (franchise)" }, { "docid": "19574854", "text": "several months working with Barlog, Scaturro, Leary, Sony music director Chuck Doud, and the rest of the development team in making this new theme. McCreary described it as \"arguably one of my most structurally satisfying and catchy melodies.\" After further scoring, McCreary realized that Faye would require a theme, and his original one was \"exactly [what] I needed.\" This melody was woven throughout several scenes and is featured as prominently in the game as Kratos' theme. The three-note Kratos theme is most obviously heard in the title track, \"God of War\". When it was decided that \"God of War\" would", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "11696514", "text": "worldwide. \"God of War\" (2005), \"God of War II\", \"Chains of Olympus\", \"God of War Collection\", \"God of War III\", and \"God of War\" (2018) each received critical acclaim from several reviewers as compiled by review aggregator Metacritic, with both the 2005 and 2018 titles being tied for the highest score in the franchise at 94/100. \"Betrayal\" and \"Ghost of Sparta\" only received generally favorable reception. \"Ascension\" also only had a generally favorable reception and, not including the PlayStation Vita port of \"God of War Collection\", it has the lowest score in the series from Metacritic (80/100). At the time", "title": "God of War (franchise)" }, { "docid": "16756449", "text": "loyalty to Penn State to his Christian faith. He said, \"Every day I wake up and thank God because we could have just been forgotten about. God puts people in my life that are going to help me no matter the situation. He's put coaches in my life that are going to help me out and further my career. Everything, it seems, is working out for the better. I know it might not seem like that ... but when you look deeper and deeper into bowl games and championships, (God) did this for a reason.\" Coming into the 2012 season,", "title": "Gerald Hodges" }, { "docid": "19574864", "text": "of 2018, regardless of platform. \"God of War\" received particular praise for its art direction, graphics, combat system, music, story, use of Norse mythology, characters, and cinematic feeling. Many also felt that it had successfully revitalized the series without losing the core identity of its predecessors. The story was well praised. Nick Plessas of \"Electronic Gaming Monthly\" (\"EGM\") said that the story's most memorable moments are the interactions between Kratos and Atreus. He also noted that \"there is often some comic relief to be found when Kratos' curtness and Atreus' charming naivety collide.\" Furthermore, he acknowledged that the presence of", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "4757064", "text": "graphics occasionally stutter or even slow down.\" He still gave the game a perfect score, concluding, \"these problems are minor nits next to \"God of War\"s creative design, riveting plot and sheer balls-out fun. One of the best action titles on the PS2, \"God of War\" stands out as an ultraviolent masterpiece.\" Sell said \"God of War\" has very few flaws and that the only one worth mentioning is the camera system: he said that although the cameras do a great job of following Kratos, \"there are a fair few annoying moments when you're attacked by something off-screen, or you", "title": "God of War (2005 video game)" }, { "docid": "9868503", "text": "the return of the Sun, Kratos loses consciousness from the exertion and plummets to the ground. At the last moment, Kratos is saved by Athena and Helios, and Athena tells Helios that \"He will live.\" Game developer Ready at Dawn pitched the idea of a \"God of War\" game for the PlayStation Portable to SCE Santa Monica Studio soon after the original \"God of War\" launched. In February 2007, Ready at Dawn posted a teaser featuring \"Coming Soon\" in the \"God of War\" font. An editor from 1UP obtained an early copy of \"God of War II\" and posted the", "title": "God of War: Chains of Olympus" }, { "docid": "19574863", "text": "The two then battle a revenant before returning home. \"God of War\" received \"universal acclaim\" according to review aggregator Metacritic, tying it with the original \"God of War\" for the highest score in the franchise. It has the fourth-highest score of all-time for a PlayStation 4 game, and the highest score for an original, non-remastered PlayStation 4 exclusive. It was the highest rated PlayStation 4 game of 2018 until the release of \"Red Dead Redemption 2\" in October, which pushed \"God of War\" to second. It is also tied with the Xbox One version of \"Celeste\" for the second-highest score", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "8776762", "text": "and worldwide, it is poorly educated but of late we have seen educated professionals coming out. This is to support what was once said by Nelson Mandela that only education can turn the child of a peasant farmer into a medical doctor. Of late they been medical doctors, engineers, chartered accountants, teachers, nurses coming out of this poor rural community. When you ask each of them, they have the same answer... \"It is by the grace of God\". Education has been the pillar of growth to these families of great note has been the Chimusoros, Dovos with the biggest number", "title": "Marira" }, { "docid": "424048", "text": "hardships, disasters, famine, war, pain, and suffering, which will wipe out more than 75% of all life on the earth before the Second Coming takes place. Some Pretribulationists believe that those who choose to follow God, will be raptured before the tribulation, and thus escape it. On the other hand, some Posttribulationists (Christians who believe the rapture is synonymous with the resurrection that takes place after the Tribulation) believe Christians must endure the Tribulation as a test of their faith. According to Dispensationalists who hold the futurist view, the Tribulation is thought to occur before the Second Coming of Jesus", "title": "Great Tribulation" }, { "docid": "14114241", "text": "III\", which is also titled \"God of War\" (2018). The \"God of War\" mythos expanded into literature, with a novelization of the original \"God of War\" published in 2010, and a six-issue comic series that introduced new characters and plot developments that was published from 2010–11. A novelization of \"God of War II\" was published in 2013, and a film adaptation of the original \"God of War\" has been in development since 2005. A prequel graphic novel titled \"\" (2012–13) was released in the lead up to \"Ascension\"s release and is the backstory of the player's multiplayer character. To go", "title": "Characters of God of War" }, { "docid": "14495913", "text": "me, 'Oh my God, he's ripping off \"Kick-Ass\",' because it's coming out one year later, but James was doing this when I was doing \"Kick-Ass\" as well. Both projects were coming together at exactly the same time.\" Millar went on to screen \"Super\" at his \"Kapow!\" comic convention in London. Gunn also responded to the accusations, pointing out that \"It sucks on the one hand and then on the other hand, who gives a shit? There are 4,000 bank heist movies. We can have five superheroes-without-powers movies. What does bum me out [is] people who pretend like \"Kick-Ass\" was the", "title": "Super (2010 American film)" }, { "docid": "19453234", "text": "from the acolytes and priestess of Trake, the new God of War. Itkovian's sacrifice (in Memories of Ice) gave birth to a new cult (the cult of the Redeemer), propelling him to godhood. But another god is out there to bend and corrupt the cult. And only a former Seerdomin appears to stand in that god's path. Anomander Rake, the Son of Darkness, asks Endest Silann, the broken High Mage of Moon's Spawn, and Spinnock Durav, the wandering Tiste Andii warrior, to do what must be done, as he senses many things coming. As Karsa Orlong and Samar Dev traverse", "title": "Toll the Hounds" }, { "docid": "14114263", "text": "Zeus in the animated Disney show based on the film \"Hercules\", took over the role in \"God of War II\". He continued it in \"God of War III\", in the multiplayer mode of \"Ascension\", where Zeus appears as one of the four gods that players can pledge their allegiance to, and in 2018's \"God of War\". Fred Tatasciore provided Zeus's voice in \"Ghost of Sparta\"s after-game \"Combat Arena\" mode. Zeus, as he appears in \"God of War III\", is a downloadable playable character in \"PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale\" (2012); he became available on March 19, 2013. Atreus is a secondary", "title": "Characters of God of War" }, { "docid": "17917442", "text": "bore down on him. Korean War veteran Richard Chilton, whose uncle Pfc. Gordon W. Roberts served with Conner in combat and was killed in action at Anzio on 31 January 1944, stated in 2015, \"My God, he held off 600 Germans and six tanks coming right at him. When they got too close, his commander told him to vacate and instead, he says, 'Blanket my position.'\" The request meant Conner was calling for artillery strikes as he was being overrun, risking his life in order to draw friendly fire that would take out the enemy, too, during which time he", "title": "Garlin Murl Conner" }, { "docid": "11696512", "text": "it for being powerful, rich, and pulsing, though felt it was repetitive at times. Bear McCreary is the most recent composer to work on the series as he composed the music for 2018's \"God of War\" on PlayStation 4. \"God of War: Blood & Metal\" is a heavy metal homage by various bands on the Roadrunner Records label, and features original music inspired by the \"God of War\" video game series. The EP was released for purchase on March 2, 2010, and is available from ShockHound and the iTunes Store. It was also included as downloadable content in the \"God", "title": "God of War (franchise)" }, { "docid": "19574796", "text": "of the franchise, a major gameplay change is that Kratos prominently uses a magical battle axe instead of his signature double-chained blades. \"God of War\" also uses an over-the-shoulder free camera, with the game in one shot, as opposed to the fixed cinematic camera of the previous entries. It includes role-playing video game elements, and Kratos' son Atreus provides assistance in combat. The majority of the original game's development team worked on \"God of War\" and designed it to be accessible and grounded. A separate short text-based game, \"\", was released in February 2018 and follows Atreus on his first", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "11696506", "text": "comic series from Dark Horse Comics, also titled \"God of War\" and written by Chris Roberson with art by Tony Parker, began publication in November 2018. The four-issue miniseries serves as a prequel story to the 2018 game. Issue #0 was included digitally with the three different special editions of the game. The \"God of War\" novels recount the events of the games and offer deeper insights into their stories. \"God of War\", the official novelization of the first game, was written by Matthew Stover and Robert E. Vardeman. It was published on May 25, 2010, by Del Rey Books.", "title": "God of War (franchise)" }, { "docid": "20714310", "text": "on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 6.38 out of 10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"A sincere and thoughtful handling of spiritual themes helps \"God Friended Me\" overcome -- and even benefit from -- its earnest approach to a potentially off-putting premise.\" Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 57 out of 100 based on 14 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". \"God Friended Me\" premiered in the United States and Canada on September 30, 2018. The series premiered in Australia on November 5, 2018. God Friended Me God Friended Me is an American comedy-drama", "title": "God Friended Me" }, { "docid": "19574824", "text": "returned to the series as game director for the new installment. Barlog has been a major contributor in the development of the \"God of War\" series since the original installment in 2005, with his prior most notable role being game director of \"God of War II\" (2007). This new installment was his fifth \"God of War\" game. In naming the game, Barlog stated that it was deliberately titled \"God of War\" with no numeral or subtitle because although it is a continuation of the series, \"we are reimagining everything.\" Head of Santa Monica Studio Shannon Studstill and Barlog said that", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "12262952", "text": "as \"God Hates Fangs\" (God Hates Fags) and \"Coming out of the coffin\" (coming out of the closet). \"Entertainment Weekly\"s Ken Tucker wrote that the show is built \"around a series of metaphors: Vampire rights stand in for gay rights, and now the clever laughs elicited from this bratty-vampire girl represent an extreme of adolescent rebelliousness\". David Bianculli of NPR wrote, \"\"True Blood\" is big on allegory, and the tension about accepting vampires into society is an obvious play on civil rights in general, and gay rights in particular\". However, the series' creator, Alan Ball, who is gay, has stated", "title": "True Blood" }, { "docid": "11696469", "text": "that are kept throughout the entire game, the player collects up to five World Weapons (such as a sword or a javelin) that have limited usage. When there is not a World Weapon equipped, the player can punch or kick foes as part of a new mechanic added to the game. In 2018's \"God of War\", Kratos' primary weapon is a magical battle axe called the Leviathan Axe. It can be thrown and summoned back to his hand, similar to Thor's hammer Mjölnir. Later on in the game, he recovers the Blades of Chaos, which perform similarly as they did", "title": "God of War (franchise)" }, { "docid": "3047442", "text": "Megiddo and killed him (), whereas the second book of Chronicles () gives a lengthier account and states that Josiah was fatally wounded by Egyptian archers and was brought back to Jerusalem to die. His death in the latter account was attributed to him \"not listen[ing] to what Necho had said at God's command...\" when Necho stated: \"What have I to do with you, king of Judah? I am not coming against you today, but against the house with which I am at war; and God has commanded me to hurry. Cease opposing God, who is with me, so that", "title": "Josiah" }, { "docid": "3844368", "text": "probable results of a situation to accurately predict the war plans of both Cruz and Al-Zee. He subsequently uses his ability to recognize even the vaguest patterns (which makes him seem to know more than he actually does) to bypass guards, escape interrogations, and ultimately win an audience with the warring leaders. Ultimately, the Avatar fails to stop the coming of the war. However, at the conclusion of the book, the Prime Influencer, who turns out to be an opinionated café owner whom the Avatar had met previously by chance, launches a simple, yet catchy, phrase (\"If God is so", "title": "The Religion War" }, { "docid": "19574859", "text": "War\" would not have microtransactions post-launch, a feature that has become prominent with other recent games and negatively criticized. An official novelization of the game, written by Cory Barlog's father, James Barlog, was released on August 28, 2018 by Titan Books. An audiobook version is also available, narrated by Alastair Duncan, who voiced Mímir in the game. Among the various digital content in the collector's editions was \"God of War\" #0 from Dark Horse Comics. Issue #1 was published in print on November 14, 2018. Written by Chris Roberson with art by Tony Parker, the four-part miniseries takes place between", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "19574807", "text": "the game, Atreus helps in combat, traversal, exploration, and puzzle-solving. When facing a large number of enemies, he distracts the weaker ones as Kratos fights the stronger ones. If too many enemies gang up on Atreus, he is knocked out for the remainder of that combat. Just like Kratos, Atreus acquires new skills, armor, special arrows, such as lightning arrows, as well as runic attacks for his Talon Bow, but it only has one slot instead of two. Atreus' runic attacks summon different spectral animals with different abilities. For example, one summons a wolf that attacks enemies, while another summons", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "19574798", "text": "of release, also making it one of the best-selling PlayStation 4 games of all time. \"God of War\" won several awards, including \"Game of the Year\" and \"Best Game Direction\" at The Game Awards 2018 and \"Best Storytelling\" and \"PlayStation Game of the Year\" at the 2018 Golden Joystick Awards, and received several nominations in other categories from both media outlets and industry ceremonies and events. A novelization of the game was released in August 2018, followed by a four-issue prequel comic series that began publication in November. The gameplay is vastly different from the previous installments, as it was", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "16917498", "text": "(2011), and \"God of War Saga\" (2012). With the exception of \"God of War III\" in the \"God of War Saga\", each collection features remastered ports of the games that were not originally released on the PS3. \"God of War III\" was later remastered as \"God of War III Remastered\" and released on PlayStation 4 (PS4) in July 2015. \"\", \"\", and \"God of War\" (2018) are the only installments that have not been remastered for a newer platform or included in a collection. Each collection was praised for how the games were remastered, as well as their price. IGN", "title": "God of War video game collections" }, { "docid": "19574816", "text": "imprisoned Mímir. After they leave, Kratos and Atreus confront Mímir, who reveals that their goal is actually in Jötunheim, but travel there has been blocked to keep out Odin and Thor. Mímir, however, knows another passage. He instructs Kratos to cut off his head and have it revived by the Witch of the Woods, revealed to be Freya. Kratos immediately distrusts her, but both Freya and Mímir warn him that he must tell Atreus about his true nature. Kratos, Atreus, and Mímir's head journey to collect needed components to open Jötunheim's portal when they are attacked by Modi and Magni.", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "3752719", "text": "Pt. II, art. 1, Q. ii, also ex professo, ibid., Pt. I, art. I, Q. iii), and when asked the reason why, they point out the absolute incongruity of turning to God and clinging to sin, which is hostile to God's law. The Council of Trent, mindful of the tradition of the ages, defined (Sess. XlV. ch. iv de Contritione) that \"contrition has always been necessary for obtaining forgiveness of sin\". The positive command of God is also clear in the premises. The Baptist sounded the note of preparation for the coming of the Messiah: \"Make straight his paths\"; and,", "title": "Contrition" }, { "docid": "9074458", "text": "cause I'm coming straight from the heart. [I'm] just telling the truth, [and] that's all you gotta know.\" War with God \"War with God\" is a song on the album \"Release Therapy\" by rapper Ludacris. Released in July 2006, the song saw Ludacris return to music after some time off to concentrate on his acting career. In the track, Ludacris goes on the offensive against an unknown rapper who has sold drugs, and makes repeated references to firing guns in his songs, isn't as rich as Ludacris himself and likes to give himself titles; these allegations are directed toward T.I..", "title": "War with God" }, { "docid": "19574876", "text": "not an option at time of the review. Juba stated that \"\"God of War\"s momentum rarely falters, and when it does, the inconvenience is brief.\" One example he gave was the map, saying that although players have freedom to explore, it can be difficult to track Kratos' position. He also felt that the fast-travel system was \"weirdly cumbersome\" and that it opens up too late in the game. Although he enjoyed these features, Faulkner noted that some players may dislike the fact that the game has a lack of player agency, and that players have to explore the majority of", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "20838741", "text": "Unless the Water Is Safer than the Land Unless the Water is Safer than the Land, whose Filipino language Title, \"Musmos na Sumibol sa Gubat ng Digma\" actually literally means \"<nowiki>A</nowiki> Child who Sprung out of Forest of War\", is a 2018 Philippine independent film directed by Iar Lionel Arondaing. It was released on August 3, 2018 as part of the 14th (2018) Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Sound in the full-length feature film category. In the film, an old man recounts the a coming-of-age tale of a young Muslim girl named Eshal (Junyka", "title": "Unless the Water Is Safer than the Land" }, { "docid": "13656251", "text": "act they were unaware would break the final seal imprisoning Lucifer. In the fifth season premiere \"Sympathy for the Devil\", Zachariah reveals that Dean is destined to serve as the human vessel for the archangel Michael in the coming battle against Lucifer. When Dean refuses, Zachariah tortures the Winchesters by inflicting various diseases upon them. However, Zachariah is shocked when Castiel appears, and flees after restoring the brothers out of fear that God resurrected Castiel. Sam and Dean later have a falling out and go their separate ways. Zachariah uses this opportunity in \"The End\" to send Dean to an", "title": "Zachariah (Supernatural)" }, { "docid": "2441274", "text": "He declared the then US president George W. Bush to be an \"\"enemy of Muslims\"\". \"\"America declared war against God. Sharon declared war against God and God declared war against America, Bush and Sharon. The war of God continues against them and I can see the victory coming up from the land of Palestine by the hand of Hamas.\"\" On 17 April 2004, Rantisi was killed by the Israeli Air Force in an assassination, after they fired Hellfire missiles from an AH-64 Apache helicopter at his car. Two others, a bodyguard named Akram Nassar and Rantisi's 27-year-old son Mohammed, were", "title": "Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi" }, { "docid": "18809726", "text": "a \"very, very lavish, stupid sort of procedure\" in a large studio with multiple people coming in and going or just hanging around, of which he said \"On one hand, you think it's good for morale to do that, but no, it wasn't, evidently, in the end.\" Following their debut album \"Opus Eponymous\", which is about the coming of the Antichrist, and \"Infestissumam\", which is about the presence of the Antichrist, \"Meliora\"'s main theme is \"the absence of god\". A Nameless Ghoul said, \"The lyrics deal with the void that happens when there is no god, when there is no", "title": "Meliora (album)" }, { "docid": "15698996", "text": "world to battle against the forces of good during the Battle of Armageddon. Jesus says that his coming will be like that of a thief in the night, urging his followers to stay alert. When the seventh bowl is poured out, a global earthquake causes the cities of the world to collapse. All the mountains and islands are removed from their foundations. Giant hailstones weighing nearly 100 pounds plummet onto the planet. The plagues are so severe that the wicked's hatred of God intensifies while the incorrigible continue to curse God. Seven bowls The seven bowls (, \"phialas\", sing. φιάλη", "title": "Seven bowls" }, { "docid": "9708010", "text": "artists, and awards them based upon relevance, originality, and mastery. In 2017, he completed a work of art entitled \"The Impossible Dream\", which was inspired by the blue of Trixi Schuba's Olympic skating costume, and her music choice. This work of art emphasizes the value and metaphoric importance of the circle as a shape representing life coming \"full circle\" when one fully trusts God. \"GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix\" Shepherd Clark Shepherd Walton Clark (born March 1, 1971) is an American former competitive figure skater and the reigning World Figure Champion of The World Figure Sport Society. In 2018,", "title": "Shepherd Clark" }, { "docid": "6285763", "text": "ore delivered from its prison colony to the King, who is fighting the orcs on the mainland. Most of the farms in Khorinis are owned by one landowner who has hired mercenaries to protect him and his farms from the militia when they try to collect taxes from the farms. This has caused Khorinis to be on the edge of a civil war. The city is low on food and relies on travelling merchants as the ships from the mainland have stopped coming because of the war. People in Khorinis believe in three gods. Adanos, the god of water and", "title": "Gothic II" }, { "docid": "11223199", "text": "Kratos (God of War) Kratos is a video game character from SIE Santa Monica Studio's \"God of War\" series, which was based on Greek mythology, before shifting to Norse mythology. Kratos, also known as the \"Ghost of Sparta\", first appeared in the video game \"God of War\", which led to the development of seven additional games featuring the character as the protagonist. Kratos also appears as the protagonist of the 2010 and 2018 comic series, as well as the franchises three novels that retell the events of three of the games. The character was voiced by Terrence C. Carson from", "title": "Kratos (God of War)" }, { "docid": "11223207", "text": "and the Boots of Hermes (\"God of War III\"). According to an early \"God of War\" script, the character is tall. In 2018's \"God of War\", the designers gave Kratos a more Nordic look, including a full beard. They also changed his main weapon to a magical battle axe to make the combat more grounded. Unlike previous games, players can change and upgrade Kratos' three different armor pieces, one of the game's various RPG elements. Kratos' appearance throughout the Greek games can be altered in bonus play; completing the game at certain levels of difficulty and in challenge modes unlock", "title": "Kratos (God of War)" }, { "docid": "19574873", "text": "few games.\" However, the few boss fights that are in the game \"do the series proud\". In regards to the vast world of \"God of War\", Faulkner said that \"The great thing about the exploration in \"God of War\" is that you can participate in it as little or as much as you want.\" He said that an excellent design decision was that during main plot points, the game will keep the player on task, while in between, the player can explore, allowing \"God of War\" \"to have the best of both worlds\". Plessas noted that although the puzzles require", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "14058622", "text": "was made available for pre-order on June 20, 2018, along with the promotional single \"The Light Is Coming\", featuring rapper Nicki Minaj. The album's second single, \"God Is a Woman\", was released on July 13, 2018. It peaked at number 8 on the Hot 100 and was Grande's 10th song to reach the top 10 on that chart. The album was released on August 17, 2018. Grande gave four concerts to promote the album, billed as \"The Sweetener Sessions\", at New York City's Irving Plaza, The Vic Theatre in Chicago, Ace Theater in Los Angeles, and KOKO in London between", "title": "Ariana Grande" }, { "docid": "10430675", "text": "that have been prophesied, are listed below: The Book of Acts states, \"Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.\" It is believed that this means that there must be a restitution of all things before the Second Coming. The Book", "title": "Second Coming (LDS Church)" }, { "docid": "796385", "text": "drama series SKAM focused on a main character coming out and his relationship with another boy. \"Love, Simon\", based on the book, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, debuted in 2018, and is the first major studio film about a gay teenager coming out. \"Out\" is a common word or prefix used in the titles of LGBT-themed books, films, periodicals, organizations, and TV programs. Some high-profile examples are Out Magazine, the defunct OutWeek Magazine, and OutTV. In political, casual, or even humorous contexts, \"coming out\" means by extension the self-disclosure of a person's secret behaviors, beliefs, affiliations, tastes, identities, and", "title": "Coming out" }, { "docid": "19574879", "text": "chart. The game sold over 3.1 million copies within three days of its release, making it the fastest-selling PlayStation 4 exclusive at the time. The game was the fastest-selling game of the month of its release and contributed to the PS4 being the best-selling console of that month. In total, the game sold over five million copies in its first month, and 2.1 million in digital sales. The game was nominated for \"Game of the Show\", \"Best PlayStation 4 Game\", and \"Best Action Game\" at IGN's Best of E3 2016 Awards. God of War (2018 video game) God of War", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "11200534", "text": "Coming Out show on 7 December 2016. It began airing on 19 November 2017. 12 contestants, broadcast from 19 November – 10 December 2017: Ant & Dec confirmed at the end of the Coming Out show on 15 December 2017 that the show will return the following year (2018). It is the first series in its brand-new two-year contract. However, on 9 August 2018, Anthony McPartlin confirmed that he will not be presenting the eighteenth series as he continues to get treatment after being admitted to rehab in March. It began airing on 18 November 2018. On 29 August, ITV", "title": "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (UK TV series)" }, { "docid": "19726552", "text": "Kratos in the 2018 video game, \"God of War\". He is also the lead actor in the drama film \"Mid90s\" directed by Jonah Hill and has a supporting role as Tarby in the fantasy-horror family film \"The House with a Clock in Its Walls\". Sunny Suljic Sunny Suljic (born August 10, 2005) is an American child actor and skateboarder. He is known for his roles as Bob in Yorgos Lanthimos 2017 drama \"The Killing of a Sacred Deer\" and as the voice and motion capture actor for Atreus, the son of Kratos in the 2018 video game, \"God of War\".", "title": "Sunny Suljic" }, { "docid": "1697686", "text": "similar analysis, but argues further that the global cultural influence of the U.S. is a good thing. Nationalism is the main process through which the government is able to shape public opinion. Propaganda in the media is strategically placed in order to promote a common attitude among the people. Louis A. Perez Jr. provides an example of propaganda used during the war of 1898, \"We are coming, Cuba, coming; we are bound to set you free! We are coming from the mountains, from the plains and inland sea! We are coming with the wrath of God to make the Spaniards", "title": "American imperialism" }, { "docid": "14114257", "text": "haunt and taunt him about his past that he had kept secret from his son Atreus. As he was retrieving his old weapons, the Blades of Chaos, she said he was nothing more than a monster, to which Kratos replied that he was not her monster anymore. The character was voiced by Carole Ruggier in 2005's \"God of War\", 2007's \"God of War II\", and 2018's \"God of War\". Erin Torpey voiced the character in \"Chains of Olympus\" (2008), \"God of War III\" (2010), and \"Ghost of Sparta\" (2010). Gaia was the mother of the Titans and embodiment of Earth.", "title": "Characters of God of War" }, { "docid": "5018686", "text": "Ex nihilo In theology, the common phrase (), contrasts with (creation out of some pre-existent, eternal matter) and (creation out of the being of God). is the ongoing divine creation. The phrase also appears in the classical philosophical formulation , which means \"out of nothing comes nothing\". When used outside of religious or metaphysical contexts, also refers to something coming from nothing. For example, in a conversation, one might call a topic \"\" if it bears no relation to the previous topic of discussion. Ancient Near Eastern mythologies and classical creation myths in Greek mythology envisioned the creation of the", "title": "Ex nihilo" }, { "docid": "5018707", "text": "technical Latinate phrase itself. The English-language word \"create\" itself comes from the Latin \"creare\" (to make, bring forth, produce, beget), with a root cognate with \"crescere\" (to arise, to grow) and allied to the English word \"crescent\" (originally meaning \"growing\"). Ex nihilo In theology, the common phrase (), contrasts with (creation out of some pre-existent, eternal matter) and (creation out of the being of God). is the ongoing divine creation. The phrase also appears in the classical philosophical formulation , which means \"out of nothing comes nothing\". When used outside of religious or metaphysical contexts, also refers to something coming", "title": "Ex nihilo" }, { "docid": "12178472", "text": "communities. Becoming acquintated with these movements convinced Kartano that all kinds of sexuality were evil, even when in marriage. The sermons of Kartanoism were best known for significant coverage of waiting for the end of the world. The second coming of Jesus was thought to be coming immediately, and before it, the sinful world would receive its punishment. The Winter War provided a good reason to declare that the Wrath of God would be wrought upon the infidels. The Kartanoists themselves thought they had founded a bridal parish for the end of times, which Jesus would embrace as his own", "title": "Kartanoism" }, { "docid": "12196021", "text": "beliefs. Not only did Epps reject the orthodox church establishments, but he also rejected a number of the mainstream Christian doctrines. He rejected the doctrine of the immortal soul, emphasising instead resurrection as the escape from death. In this vein, the second coming of Christ is also emphasised. He taught that Hell is the grave, not the place of torment of mainstream Christianity. He also rejected the Christian Trinity, stating that Jesus, the Son of God, was a human by nature. He also spoke out against the glorification of war-heroes: \"the honour of the British flag is a specious phrase", "title": "John Epps" }, { "docid": "17370704", "text": "Carole Ruggier Carole Ruggier is a British actress of Maltese, Italian and Irish descent. As a casting director, director, and voice actress, she is known for her work on video games. Notable voice roles include Athena in \"God of War\", \"God of War II\" and \"God of War (2018)\", and Auntie Dot in \".\" Ruggier's family left Egypt as refugees from the Suez Crisis and she was born just after their arrival in the UK. She grew up in London and moved to Los Angeles, California. She trained as an actress at The Arts Educational Drama School in London and", "title": "Carole Ruggier" }, { "docid": "6501585", "text": "words \"Hebrew\" (\"ivri\"), \"slave\" or \"servant\" (\"eved\"), \"free\" (\"chofshi\"), and \"covenant\" (\"brit\"). The haftarah literally quotes the parashah. And the haftarah recites the setting of the parashah (described in the previous parashah), the time at which God brought the Israelites \"out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.\" When the parashah coincides with the special Sabbath Shabbat Shekalim (as it does in 2018, 2020, 2023, 2026, 2028, and 2029), the haftarah is When the parashah coincides with the special Sabbath Shabbat Rosh Chodesh (as it does in 2021 and 2024), the haftarah is When the parashah", "title": "Mishpatim" }, { "docid": "2579841", "text": "theology. Jews believe Jesus of Nazareth did not fulfill messianic prophecies that establish the criteria for the coming of the messiah. Judaism rejects Jesus as God, Divine Being, intermediary between humans and God, messiah or holy. Belief in the Trinity is also held to be incompatible with Judaism, as are a number of other tenets of Christianity. In Judaism, the idea of God as a duality or trinity is heretical — it is even considered by some polytheistic. According to Judaic beliefs, the Torah rules out a trinitarian God in Deuteronomy (6:4): \"Hear Israel, the Lord is our God, the", "title": "Judaism's view of Jesus" }, { "docid": "19574860", "text": "the events of \"God of War III\" and the 2018 game. Since launch, Santa Monica has supported the game via patch updates to address software bugs. Additionally, the developers have added new features along with these free updates. A Photo Mode was released as part of update patch 1.20 on May 9, 2018. Photo Mode allows players to take customized in-game screenshots. Players can adjust the field of view, depth of view, filters, borders, the visibility of characters, and the ability to change the facial expressions of Kratos and Atreus. At E3 2018, a New Game Plus mode was confirmed,", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "19574844", "text": "also sought in making the decision, and out of all the auditions, he liked Judge the most. The two bonded well, and Judge described his time with Suljic as time he had missed with his own children. In stepping into the role of Kratos, Judge took it as an opportunity to add something new to the character. He researched the character and Carson's performance, but decided not to imitate it. Since Santa Monica was going in a new direction, he decided to start fresh. Judge was thrown off when he first read the script, stating it \"was a real script\",", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "2078507", "text": "Evangelical interpretation has history divided into two eras: the \"present evil age\" and the \"age to come\" which supports the concept of the Second coming of Christ. Imagery of spiritual warfare is displayed in the Book of Revelation when after the War in Heaven (Rev.12:7), the beasts and kings of the earth wage war against God's people (Rev.19:19), and a final battle ensues with Satan and the nations of the earth against God himself (Rev.20:8). Christian practices of spiritual warfare vary throughout Christianity. The development of specific spiritual warfare techniques has also generated many discussions in the Christian missions community.", "title": "Spiritual warfare" }, { "docid": "17103459", "text": "June 2023. On 12 August 2018, Coman played the first competitive fixture of the season after coming on as a substitute and scored a goal in a 5–0 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt as his side won the 2018 DFL-Supercup. On 24 August 2018, Coman sustained a syndesmosis ligament tear above his left ankle in a match against 1899 Hoffenheim on Matchday 1 in the Bundesliga. This injury was similar to the injury Coman sustained last season when he was out for almost three months. On 1 December 2018, Coman returned from injury when he came on as a substitute against", "title": "Kingsley Coman" }, { "docid": "1950762", "text": "What thing is this? what new doctrine [is] this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him. Matthew 8:28–33 – And when he Jesus was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with demons, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? And there was a good way off", "title": "Christian demonology" }, { "docid": "19574836", "text": "by a couple of months. He also confirmed that the game was built for the standard PlayStation 4, but the game would \"benefit from the power\" of the PlayStation 4 Pro; an updated version of the PlayStation 4 that can render games in 4K and was released a few months after \"God of War\" was announced. Players with a PS4 Pro have two options to either favor resolution or favor performance when playing the game. Favoring resolution runs the game in 4K with checkerboard rendering, while the performance option runs the game at 1080p. Resolution mode targets a frame rate", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "7017067", "text": "1884, and Rimouski, with a normal school, in 1906, besides sending missionaries to New Orleans in 1822, Charlestown (Boston) in 1824, Galveston in 1849 and Montana in 1893. The Ursuline Monastery of Quebec, established in 1639, founded the following monasteries and convents which were autonomous until 1953: The era is coming to a close. Article from Globe and Mail, July 26, 2018. Of 52 sisters only four will remain when 48 move to a care facility in September 2018. \"When the last nuns pad out the door, it will not be easy to return. The massive wooden door to the", "title": "Ursulines of Quebec" }, { "docid": "11696471", "text": "player. As well as the QTE system, \"Ascension\" features a prompt-less free-form system, allowing players the choice of when to attack or dodge based on the enemy's actions. A grab maneuver can be used on minor foes. 2018's \"God of War\" changed this up; after an enemy has been weakened enough, a prompt will appear above its head, and depending on the enemy, Kratos may rip it in half or grab them and throw them into other enemies, among other possible outcomes. He will also jump on top of and ride large enemies, such as ogres, causing them to attack", "title": "God of War (franchise)" }, { "docid": "11223210", "text": "other figures from Greek mythology, including the heroes Perseus, Theseus, and Achilles, but his strongest influence is the hero Heracles (Roman Hercules), who appears in \"God of War III\" with the Romanized name and is the character's half-brother. For 2018's \"God of War\", Barlog explained that Kratos had to change his cycle of violence and learn how to control his rage. He said that Kratos had made many bad decisions, which led to the destruction of Olympus, and wanted to know what would happen if Kratos made a good decision. The birth of Barlog's own son influenced the idea of", "title": "Kratos (God of War)" }, { "docid": "19574872", "text": "showed us was possible on this platform.\" Brown noted that \"\"God of War\" is a technical and artistic showcase. It is without a doubt one of the best-looking console games ever released.\" Dan Ryckert of \"Giant Bomb\" claimed that games such as \"\" and \"Horizon Zero Dawn\" \"made great cases for a PS4 Pro and a 4K television, but \"God of War\"s visuals are a bigger selling point than anything I've seen on Sony's platform to date.\" Despite the game's grandeur, Plessas felt that the boss fights \"do not hit quite the same frequency as they did in the past", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "11223244", "text": "is vengeance and \"all he desires is murder.\" IGN also stated that in time the player would begin to \"love and loathe Kratos and hate Ares.\" \"GamePro\" said it was \"Kratos' tragic fall and brutal ascension to the peaks of Mount Olympus that made the original \"God of War\" so memorable.\" PlayStation Universe said he was \"certainly a unique character and a warrior to be reckoned with,\" and that \"this iconic PlayStation anti-hero will surely not be forgotten.\" Critics acclaimed Kratos' portrayal in \"God of War\" (2018), with many complimenting his more layered and relatable personality compared to previous incarnations.", "title": "Kratos (God of War)" }, { "docid": "13542492", "text": "issue of \"50 Badass Women\" for her work alongside notable figures such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Emma Watson. On July 26, 2018, Kiyoko was invited by Taylor Swift to perform with her on stage at Gillette Stadium, marking Kiyoko's first stadium performance. The performance video for \"What I Need\" was released on August 17, 2018. At the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, Kiyoko won the award for Push Artist of the Year and performed \"Curious\" on stage. Kiyoko is a lesbian and knew she was attracted to girls when she was six years old, coming out to her parents", "title": "Hayley Kiyoko" }, { "docid": "7216708", "text": "any form he wishes, but his most common \"alter ego\" is a tall, dark-haired young man with piercing blue eyes and a penchant for cigarettes. Mortem is unlike the traditional Satan because he does not seduce or tempt anyone. He enters people's lives when they seek him out, but never makes any effort to keep anyone's soul, much less trick or bargain for any followers. Nor is he in any kind of eternal war with God. He was a bookkeeper for God, but found his job superfluous since God is omnipotent and all-seeing. Rather than talking to God about this,", "title": "Indigo Muldoon" }, { "docid": "16451527", "text": "to three per mesh. For a complex character model like Kratos, \"independent textures are needed for body parts unique to him, each wrapping around the head, torso and limbs - all of which form an editable 'UV set' when laid out flat.\" Allowing more UV sets also made it possible to have a more natural look to the environment. \"Ascension\" was not as dramatic an advance in graphics over its predecessor as \"God of War III\" had been: \"From a graphics 'technical' perspective, to a large degree \"God of War: Ascension\" was more refinement on the graphics front\" said another", "title": "God of War: Ascension" }, { "docid": "9808852", "text": "the sound of \"just somebody who left the tape running when we were doing these orchestral bits.\" The band came across it \"kind of accidentally\" and enjoyed it enough to include it on the album. \"Odd Even\" is \"an airy dip into baroque pop incorporating lush string arrangements.\" \"Red Fire Coming Out Of His Gills\" returns to the \"aquatic fairy tale theme\" of the end of \"Wireless\" and \"turns it into a classically infused anthem that wouldn't be out of place as the soundtrack to a really strange animated children's TV show.\" \"Foundling\" was described as having \"subdued beauty,\" and", "title": "Sing to God" }, { "docid": "11696493", "text": "few months after \"God of War\" was announced. The game's story was estimated to take 25–35 hours to complete, which is significantly more than the previous four main installments, which each took an average of 10 hours to complete. Cory Barlog also confirmed that the 2018 game would not be Kratos' last. He said that future games could see the series tackling Egyptian or Mayan mythology, and that although the 2018 game focuses on Norse mythology, it alludes to the fact that there are other mythologies co-existing in the world. Barlog also said that he liked the idea of having", "title": "God of War (franchise)" }, { "docid": "12769202", "text": "because it is apostolic. France reaches a similar conclusion to that of Giblin. He notes that in Daniel 7, the coming of the Son of man is to God, and there is no indication of a coming to earth. The verb used in the LXX Daniel 7 and in allusions to it is distinct from parousia, so Matthew does not seem to want to convey parousia when speaking of the coming of the Son of man. France reads the coming of the Son of man as not a particular historical event, but as Jesus’ enthronement, vindication, and empowering. This seems", "title": "Coming Persecutions" }, { "docid": "19574861", "text": "and was released as part of update patch 1.30 on August 20, 2018. In order for players to access the mode, they must have completed the game on any difficulty. The mode itself can be played on any difficulty, but enemies are higher leveled with new maneuvers. All obtained items carry over to New Game Plus, and there are new resources to further upgrade gear, which also have a new rarity level. The option to skip cutscenes was also added. God of War: A Call from the Wilds is a text-based game playable through Facebook Messenger. To help further promote", "title": "God of War (2018 video game)" }, { "docid": "5640540", "text": "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus \"Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus\" is the sixteenth and penultimate episode of the third season of the animated television series \"South Park\". It was originally broadcast on December 29, 1999. The episode took place during the millennium celebrations. The episode's title and the theme of menstruation was inspired by the book \"Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.\" As the year 1999 is ending, Cartman realizes blood is coming out of his anus, leading him to believe he is experiencing his first period. He taunts the other boys for not having", "title": "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus" }, { "docid": "6184743", "text": "thousand years, in which the world will have essentially become a Christendom. This view was held by Jonathan Edwards. In the futurist view of Christian eschatology, the Tribulation is a relatively short period of time where anyone who chose not to follow God before the Rapture and was left behind (according to Pre-Tribulation doctrine, not Mid- or Post-Tribulation teaching) will experience worldwide hardships, disasters, famine, war, pain, and suffering, which will wipe out more than 75% of all life on the earth before the Second Coming takes place. According to some Dispensationalists who hold the futurist view, the Tribulation is", "title": "Futurism (Christianity)" }, { "docid": "11696522", "text": "into the multiplayer, they were critical of the balance and depth of combat. \"Edge\" magazine approved of the multiplayer, stating it is an \"evolutionary step\" with \"some fine ideas ... that will form part of this genre's future template.\" 2018's \"God of War\" received some criticism, for example, a couple of reviewers disliked that the fast travel option unlocked very late into the game. The collections have also received praise. IGN (9.4/10) awarded \"God of War Collection\" (PS3) the \"Editor's Choice\" Award and praised the enhanced resolutions, lower price point and smoother frame rates, and stated it was the \"definitive", "title": "God of War (franchise)" }, { "docid": "8861764", "text": "stand not knowing when he is coming home and knowing that he is with Carly. She tells him to put her first and asks him to move out, which he does regretfully. The same night, Carly prays, asking God for a miracle for her children. Soon after she gets a call from the neurologist who wants to meet with her. He comes over and tells Carly that she does not have a tumor, but an abscess and is not dying. Carly is thrilled and wants to tell Jack when he arrives. However, he makes her sit down and takes her", "title": "Jack Snyder and Carly Tenney" }, { "docid": "4757060", "text": "the uneven transitions between tracks. In March 2010, the soundtrack was released as downloadable content as part of the \"God of War Trilogy Soundtrack\" in the \"God of War III Ultimate Edition\". \"God of War\" received \"universal acclaim\" according to review aggregator Metacritic with a score of 94 out of 100, and a score of 93.58% from GameRankings. Tom Lane of CNN wrote, \"\"God of War\" is the type of game that makes you remember why you play games in the first place.\" He said it is addictive and the action is balanced with a modest amount of puzzle and", "title": "God of War (2005 video game)" }, { "docid": "14114256", "text": "him about his brother Deimos in \"Ghost of Sparta\", Athena was still sympathetic towards Kratos even after he renounced the gods and was betrayed by Zeus in \"God of War II\". Athena died trying to protect Zeus from Kratos, and was resurrected and elevated to a new level of understanding in \"God of War III\". With ulterior motives, Athena became Kratos' ally once more and guided him to the Flame of Olympus surrounding Pandora's Box, which allowed Kratos to kill Zeus and end the reign of Mount Olympus. Her spirit later returns to Kratos in \"God of War\" (2018) to", "title": "Characters of God of War" }, { "docid": "8006390", "text": "between the flood and the incarnation of Christ, and from the incarnation of Christ to the Second Coming. God, Heaven, and Har Magedon God, Heaven and Har Magedon: A Covenantal Tale of Cosmos and Telos (2006) is Reformed theologian Meredith G. Kline's major work in many ways summing up his contributions to biblical and covenant theology, written for a more general audience. The book focuses on defining the Mountain of God (Har Magedon) and the holy war waged for that mountain throughout the different eras of the history of redemption described in the Old and New Testaments. Kline outlines an", "title": "God, Heaven, and Har Magedon" } ]

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[ { "docid": "625756", "text": "Falls by Luna Island. Located on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls form the highest flow rate of any waterfall in North America that has a vertical drop of more than . During peak daytime tourist hours, more than 168,000 m (six million cubic feet) of water goes over the crest of the falls every minute. Horseshoe Falls is the most powerful waterfall in North America, as measured by flow rate. The falls are north-northwest of Buffalo, New York, and south-southeast of Toronto, between the twin cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara", "title": "Niagara Falls" } ]

[ { "docid": "12188545", "text": "pop singles chart. Like the majority of Chicago's music videos from the late 1980s, the video for \"Niagara Falls\" featured various people shown throughout, with the main storyline revolving around a couple trying to make things work. The band itself never appears. Niagara Falls (Chicago song) \"Niagara Falls\" is the fourth single released by the American rock band, Chicago, from their 1986 album, \"Chicago 18\". Lead vocals were shared by Jason Scheff and Bill Champlin. When writing the song, the band misspelled \"Niagara\" as \"Niagra\"; this mistake can be seen in the music video's title and most likely on the", "title": "Niagara Falls (Chicago song)" }, { "docid": "12188544", "text": "Niagara Falls (Chicago song) \"Niagara Falls\" is the fourth single released by the American rock band, Chicago, from their 1986 album, \"Chicago 18\". Lead vocals were shared by Jason Scheff and Bill Champlin. When writing the song, the band misspelled \"Niagara\" as \"Niagra\"; this mistake can be seen in the music video's title and most likely on the album, as Warner Bros. Records and Chicago never corrected it. Following the successful singles, \"Will You Still Love Me?\" (#3 US pop) and \"If She Would Have Been Faithful...\" (#17 US pop), \"Niagara Falls\" only reached #91 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100", "title": "Niagara Falls (Chicago song)" }, { "docid": "3866691", "text": "who know about the blocked spring and would tell Jean about it should they come to trust him. Jean initially makes progress, and earns a small profit from his rabbit farm. In the long run, getting water proves a problem, and dragging it all the way from the distant spring becomes a backbreaking experience. Jean asks to borrow Ugolin's mule, but is met only with vague excuses. Then, when the rain does come, it falls on the surrounding area but not where it is needed. Jean loudly berates God, whom he thinks has already given him enough trouble by deforming", "title": "Jean de Florette" }, { "docid": "18325450", "text": "an untruth that one believes to be true does. Conversely, profound or universal truths can actually remove moisture from the air. In the midst of this phenomenon, Matt decides to come out to his traditional Chinese family after his partner, Gus, refuses to marry him until he does. \"Water\" won the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. \"The Guardian\" called it \"deeply personal\", while \"Lambda Literary\" said it was a \"standout\". \"Kirkus Reviews\" described it as \"so beautiful it hurts;\" however, the \"Los Angeles Review of Books\" described it as \"(u)ndoubtedly sweet but also rather sappy.\" The Water That", "title": "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" }, { "docid": "11706937", "text": "(ULV) spraying. Himel (1974) made a distinction between exo-drift (the transfer of spray out of the target area) and endo-drift, where the active ingredient (AI) in droplets falls into the target area, but does not reach the biological target. Endo-drift is volumetrically more significant and may therefore cause greater ecological contamination (e.g. where chemical pesticides pollute ground water). Bystander exposure describes the event when individuals unintentionally come in contact with airborne pesticides. Bystanders include workers working at an area separate to the pesticide application are, individuals living in the surrounding areas of an application area, or individuals passing by fields", "title": "Pesticide drift" }, { "docid": "16466531", "text": "Timberwolf Falls. There, spectators can stand waiting for one of the boats to come down the drop and create a wave which does in fact make it to the bridge soaking not only riders but also spectators standing on the bridge. Also, all riders must cross the bridge as the Splash Zone is part of the exit to the ride. Timberwolf Falls Timberwolf Falls is a Shoot-the-Chute water ride that opened in 1989 at Canada's Wonderland. The ride contains a basic oval shape and features one drop creating a wave soaking all riders. The ride also features a \"Splash Zone\"", "title": "Timberwolf Falls" }, { "docid": "15473912", "text": "Pandavkada Falls Pandavkada Falls is a waterfall located Kharghar, a suburb of Navi Mumbai. The waterfall, about 107 metres high is a type of 'plunge' waterfall in nature pouring in massive amounts of water on the rocky surface underneath. Pandavkada Waterfall is a popular spot for one day picnics. Pandavkada is said to have derived its name from the Pandavas, who had once visited the place and took bath below the falls when they were exiled in the forests as per Hindu mythology. And within pandavkada is a big tunnel from where pandavas had come, that's why it is known", "title": "Pandavkada Falls" }, { "docid": "14249420", "text": "Negru de Purcari. According to Master of Wine Jancis Robinson, Băbească neagră tends to make pale, light-bodied, fruity red wines with notable acidity and a characteristic sour cherry note. The pink-berried color mutation Băbească gri tends to produce minerally white wines with lime notes that persist on the finish. Over the years Băbească neagră has been known under a variety of synonyms including: Aldarusa, Asil Kara, Asîl Kara (in the Republic of Dagestan), Băbească, Babeasca, Babiasca niagra, Babiaska niagra, Bobiaska niagra, Bobyaksa nigra, Bobyaska nyagra, Căldărușă, Caldarusa, Chernyi Redkii (in Ukraine), Chernyl Redkyl, Ciornai Redchii, Crăcană, Cracana, Crăcǎnatǎ, Cracanata, Crecanate,", "title": "Băbească neagră" }, { "docid": "586362", "text": "length does not have water flowing over it. The water of the lower Iguazu collects in a canyon that drains into the Paraná River, a short distance downstream from the Itaipu Dam. The junction of the water flows marks the border between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Some points in the cities of Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, Puerto Iguazú, Argentina, and Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, have access to the Iguazu River, where the borders of all three nations may be seen, a popular tourist attraction for visitors to the three cities. The Iguazu Falls are arranged in a way that resembles", "title": "Iguazu Falls" }, { "docid": "8559474", "text": "Trench performed at New Year Celebrations in Niagra Falls, Ontario in 2017. The US Suspending Gravity Tour was announced on December 3, 2018 to promote their upcoming fifth studio album in 2019. Current members Studio albums Marianas Trench (band) Marianas Trench is a Canadian pop rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, formed in 2001. The band consists of members Josh Ramsay (lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, pianist, songwriter, and occasional drummer), Matt Webb (lead guitarist and backing vocalist), Mike Ayley (bass guitarist and backing vocalist), and Ian Casselman (drummer, percussionist, and backing vocalist). The band has released four full-length studio albums,", "title": "Marianas Trench (band)" }, { "docid": "18325449", "text": "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere \"The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere\" is an award-winning 2013 science fiction/magic realism short story by John Chu. \"Water\" was first published on Tor.com, after being purchased by editor Ann VanderMeer, and subsequently republished in \"Wilde Stories 2014\". As well, Chu has read the story aloud for the \"StarShipSofa\" podcast. Some weeks prior to the beginning of the story, an unexplained phenomenon begins worldwide: whenever a person lies, water falls on that person from nowhere. Phrasing a potential lie as a question does not cause water to fall, while stating", "title": "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" }, { "docid": "11144752", "text": "surgery was complete, the presidential physician, Presley M. Rixey, gently told her what had occurred. Ida McKinley took the news calmly; she wrote in her diary, \"Went to Niagra Falls this morning. My Dearest was receiving in a public hall on our return, when he was shot by a ... \" Leech, in her biography of President McKinley, suggests that the First Lady could not write the word, \"anarchist\". Within minutes of the shots, the news was conveyed around the world by telegraph wire, in time for the late newspaper editions in the US. In the era before radio, thousands", "title": "Assassination of William McKinley" }, { "docid": "13665173", "text": "(Vol. 1)\", by Dr. Gurbaksh Singh Group V: \"Sikhism: A Universal Message\", by Dr. Gurbaksh Singh Gurdwara Pittsburgh, Monroeville, PA Group I: \"My Guru's Blessings Book 1\", by S. Daljeet Singh, Gyan Khand Media Group II: \"My Guru's Blessings Book 2\", by S. Daljeet Singh, Gyan Khand Media Group III: \"Teaching Sikh Heritage to the Youth (Vol. 2)\", by Dr. Gurbaksh Singh Group III: \"Sahibey Kamaal Guru Gobind Singh\", by Daulat Rai Group V: \"Sidh Gosht\", Sikh Missionary College, Ludhiana Winners: Group ||First Place ||Second Place ||Third Place 1 ||Gurdit Singh (WA)|| ||Saachvir Singh (Niagra Falls) ||Pavan Singh (Dallas) 2", "title": "Sikh Youth Symposium" }, { "docid": "12727925", "text": "smaller volume, and is essentially a long cascade that does not have any prominent vertical drops. Rockflow Canyon Falls, at , is a 200 foot (60m) horsetail located where the water from Seahpo Peak Falls and Cloudcap Falls converges. It is the final waterfall on the drainage before it empties into the Baker River. In some months it is seen in tandem with a seasonal waterfall of similar height. Mount Shuksan Waterfalls There are four prominent waterfalls in the basin of a short tributary of Sulphide Creek, on the southeast flanc of 9,127-foot (2,781m) Mount Shuksan in North Cascades National", "title": "Mount Shuksan Waterfalls" }, { "docid": "12923523", "text": "Sunset Falls Sunset Falls is the final of the three waterfalls on the South Fork Skykomish River. The falls drop in a long, narrow, powerful chute. The river is thought to attain speeds of an hour and the chute is nearly long. In high water, because of several potholes in the falls, water can sometimes shoot out as much as 30 feet. Public access to Sunset Falls currently does not exist. On May 30, 1926, daredevil stunt performer Al Faussett ran the falls in a canoe with hundreds of people watching from the rocks beside the falls. He escaped with", "title": "Sunset Falls" }, { "docid": "13987506", "text": "photographers\" uses four types for classification: falls, cascade, slide, and chute. The first, falls, is the same as the DCNR's bridal-veil type, with water that falls freely from a ledge. Brown divides the wedding-cake class into three types: cascade, where water falls down a \"vertical to nearly vertical\" surface that has terraces; slide, where water falls down a \"near vertical to less than vertical\" wide surface that is smoother than a cascade; and chute, where the water is confined by rock as it falls down \"a narrow slide or cataractlike feature\". Ricketts Glen State Park is in the Susquehanna River", "title": "Waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park" }, { "docid": "9752539", "text": "Kumbakkarai Falls Kumbakkarai Falls are lesser known falls in the foothills of the Kodaikanal Hills. They are located at in Theni district, from Periyakulam. Kumbakkarai Falls are located along the Kodai-Vellagavi-Periyakulam footpath. These falls have two stages. At the first stage, water collects in huge rock recesses which are each named after wild animals such as tiger, elephant, snake etc. The Pambar river then flows to the second stage before falling as the main waterfall. The water originates in Kodaikanal Hills and flows along the rocks and finally reaches the foot hills. This place is called Kumbakarai. The travellers come", "title": "Kumbakkarai Falls" }, { "docid": "6523920", "text": "waterfalls in Chhattisgarh. Water cascading from the hills surrounding the falls provides splendid views. Splashing streams of water come down at speed from a height of more than 100 feet on the river Mugabahar which originates in a lake not very far away from this point. The area surrounding the fall features green forests. The water flowing through the various streams and crossing numerous paths along the way in a zigzag manner and finally ending up in the falls is a treat to watch. Besides the natural environment associated with this place, Tirathgarh Falls is also an important religious place", "title": "Kanger Ghati National Park" }, { "docid": "9774472", "text": "onto the dock, but the continued backward force causes all the boards to stack up and then the last board to come loose. The dog, followed by the boards, falls into the water. Tom does not give up the fight, and Spike is squeezed through a pair of rocks on the way back to the cat. Jerry then hands Tom a club to knock out the \"fish,\" and the oblivious cat, believing he has caught the dog and not noticing his bait next to him, wades into the water and hits Spike in the head multiple times with the club.", "title": "Cat Fishin'" }, { "docid": "12484590", "text": "likelihood over large areas. Dry thunderstorms generally occur in deserts or places where the lower layers of the atmosphere usually contain little water vapor. Any precipitation that falls from elevated thunderstorms can be entirely evaporated as it falls through the lower dry layers. They are common during the summer months across much of western North America and other arid areas. The shaft of precipitation that can be seen falling from a cloud without reaching the ground is called \"virga\". A thunderstorm does not have to be completely dry to be considered dry; in many areas is the threshold between a", "title": "Dry thunderstorm" }, { "docid": "14508393", "text": "the road to chaibasa. It is from Ranchi. Khunti is on NH 75 or Ranchi-Chaibasa Highway. Jharkhand Tourism Panchghagh Falls Panchghagh Falls is a waterfall located in Khunti district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. In its bid to find its way through the hard and jagged terrain, the Banai River branches itself out in five different streams, generating ubiquitous singing rivulets through the cluster of rocks. One writer says, “Unlike Jonha and Hundru Falls, Panchghagh’s water does not fall from great heights. Still, one can almost hear the roar of the water when one arrives near it, because all", "title": "Panchghagh Falls" }, { "docid": "5455113", "text": "approaches Center Hill Lake. At the Falling Water Cascades, located just downstream from the old Burgess Falls Dam, the river gradually spills over a embankment of rocks. Almost immediately downstream from the Cascades, the river drops another at Little Falls. Beyond Little Falls, where the river briefly bends to the north, is an cascade known as Middle Falls. Downstream from Middle Falls, where the river bends westward again, is the Burgess Falls. The distance between Falling Water Cascades and Burgess Falls is less than a mile. Burgess Falls spills into a large limestone gorge enclosed by sheer walls high. The", "title": "Burgess Falls State Park" }, { "docid": "2561197", "text": "outside the Oxford city gates he falls off his horse and breaks his neck. In the longer version, the nuns in Binsey complain of having to fetch water from the distant River Thames, so Frideswide prays to God and a well springs up. The well water has healing properties and many people come to seek it out. This well can still be found today at the Church of Saint Margaret in Binsey, a few miles up river from Oxford. Frithuswith remained abbess of the Oxford monastery, where she was later buried, until her death in about 727. St Frideswide's Priory,", "title": "Frithuswith" }, { "docid": "6504027", "text": "is reduced to a muddy marsh. In 1973 Tropical Cyclone Kerry crossed the north-west coast and moved south-west as far as the northern goldfields. Nearby pastoral leases such as Windidda Station received falls of and Prenti Downs received over a four-day period. The run-off was enormous, causing widespread flooding, with the Lake overflowing, leaving the area between Carnegie and Wiluna being described as \"one huge lake\". Water entering the lake, unlike in more easterly \"playa\"s of the Australian arid zone, does not come from well-defined river channels since the soils of the region are so weathered – lacking tectonic or", "title": "Lake Carnegie (Western Australia)" }, { "docid": "11961231", "text": "girl named Anuradha at water kingdom and falls in love with her. John dislikes this as the girl is much elder to Cyrus. John tries to make Cyrus understand that he should not lie and bunk from school to meet his girlfriend Anuradha. Cyrus has lied to Anuradha that he studies in college. John and Cyrus have a tiff and get into brawl over this. As Cyrus does not come to school for eight days, his Hindi teacher Mrs. Sharma calls up his mother. Cyrus's mother gets shocked on knowing that Cyrus has not gone to school for the past", "title": "Hip Hip Hurray (TV series)" }, { "docid": "14508391", "text": "Panchghagh Falls Panchghagh Falls is a waterfall located in Khunti district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. In its bid to find its way through the hard and jagged terrain, the Banai River branches itself out in five different streams, generating ubiquitous singing rivulets through the cluster of rocks. One writer says, “Unlike Jonha and Hundru Falls, Panchghagh’s water does not fall from great heights. Still, one can almost hear the roar of the water when one arrives near it, because all the five branched-out and swirling streams hit the rocks in a very turbulent manner. It’s a treat to", "title": "Panchghagh Falls" }, { "docid": "13651409", "text": "Kutladampatti Falls Kutladampatti Falls is a waterfall located in the village of Kutladampatti near Vadipatti in Madurai district about northwest of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. The waterfall is in a reserve forest managed by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department. The water falls from a height of about . Tourists from Madurai can take a direct bus from the Periyar bus stand. Tourists may also come via Vadipatti, travelling by bus number 71. The falls are from Vadipatti. State Mini bus services are available from the Vadipatti bus stand. The number of tourist visits peaks from September to February. Public transportation", "title": "Kutladampatti Falls" }, { "docid": "14767332", "text": "High Falls (Rochester, New York) The High Falls are one of three voluminous waterfalls on the Genesee River, that flow through the city of Rochester in New York. The High Falls are located about upstream from the lower falls and act as their source. The High Falls area was the site of much of Rochester's early industrial development, where industry was powered by falling water. Brown's Race diverts water from above the falls and was used to feed various flour mills and industries, today the water is used to produce hydroelectric power. The High Falls may be viewed from the", "title": "High Falls (Rochester, New York)" }, { "docid": "4864575", "text": "the parking lot at the base leads to the stone bridge that crosses the main part of the falls. That trail continues on east to Multnomah Falls, the next falls to the east. This waterfall is visible directly from the Historic Columbia River Highway. Wahkeena Falls Wahkeena Falls is a 242-foot (73 m) waterfall in the Columbia River Gorge in the state of Oregon. The waterfall is unlike nearby Multnomah Falls in that the water does not directly plunge to the ground. Wahkeena Falls, rather, has a more subtle cascading flow. These falls have been featured in numerous travel guides", "title": "Wahkeena Falls" }, { "docid": "14611258", "text": "Zero-curtain effect The zero-curtain effect occurs in cold (particularly periglacial) environments where the phase transition of water to ice is slowed down due to latent heat release. The effect is notably found in arctic and alpine permafrost sediments, and occurs where the air temperature falls below 0°C (the freezing point of water) followed by a rapid drop in soil temperature. Because of this effect, the lowering of temperature in moist, cold ground does not happen at a uniform rate. The loss of heat through conduction is reduced when water freezes, and latent heat is released. This heat of fusion is", "title": "Zero-curtain effect" }, { "docid": "911675", "text": "Fairfax County, including the dense commercial areas of Tysons Corner and Merrifield, until January 2014, when the water utility was sold to the Fairfax County Water Authority. The city is served by Falls Church City Public Schools: Of these four Falls Church City Public Schools, one, Mount Daniel Elementary School, is located outside city limits in neighboring Fairfax County. Falls Church High School is not part of the Falls Church City Public School system, but rather the Fairfax County Public School system; it does not serve the city of Falls Church. Falls Church City is eligible to send up to", "title": "Falls Church, Virginia" }, { "docid": "11475300", "text": "to Demote Harshvardhan if he does not nab the killer in 24 hours, to which the latter replies assertively. Harshvardhan gives a mobile phone to Neha, telling her that if Raj calls on her, she must dial his number and inform him immediately. Raj does go to Neha to explain his situation but she pushes him off and dials Harshvardhan. Surprisingly, Harshvardhan does not answer the phone. She then leaves a voice message saying that Raj has come to kill her. Raj hits Neha and she falls unconscious. Then the movie reaches its climax where Harshvardhan appears on the scene.", "title": "Baaz: A Bird in Danger" }, { "docid": "9502139", "text": "not have to pay for the cost of water depletion, but is still gaining the utility or profit from using the water, the individual will continue to use the water. Every individual will come to this same conclusion and the natural resource will be depleted. This can be seen in a pay-off matrix. Where there are two individuals making separate choices to defect by privatizing benefits and commonizing costs, or to cooperate and refrain from personal gain in order to preserve a resource. If Individual A decides to preserve water while Individual B does not then Individual A will only", "title": "CC–PP game" }, { "docid": "989477", "text": "bracket (or \"deploy\"). Deployment can happen either manually where someone must physically remove it from its bracket or automatically where water pressure will cause a hydrostatic release unit to separate the EPIRB from its bracket. If it does not come out of the bracket it will not activate. There is a magnet in the bracket which operates a reed safety switch in the EPIRB. This prevents accidental activation if the unit gets wet from rain or shipped seas. Once deployed, EPIRBs can be activated, depending on the circumstances, either manually (crewman flicks a switch) or automatically (when water contacts the", "title": "Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station" }, { "docid": "7720927", "text": "the mountains in southern Sinai where the temperature falls well below this threshold and there is often snow in the winter. \"A. russatus\" is also very good at conserving the little water it gets from its diet of insects and plants. It does this by producing extremely concentrated urine with urea content up to 4800 mM and chloride concentration up to 1500 mM. This means that it could survive drinking sea water, which is very rare in mammals. \"Acomys russatus\" is an opportunistic breeder that reaches sexual maturity at approximately 58 days of age. There is no mating season for", "title": "Golden spiny mouse" }, { "docid": "20576381", "text": "animals described in the table below. A Medium CAFO falls within the size range in the table below and either: • has a manmade ditch or pipe that carries manure or wastewater to surface water; or • the animals come into contact with surface water that passes through the area where they’re confined. If an operation is found to be a significant contributor of pollutants, the permitting authority may designate a medium-sized facility as a CAFO. A Small CAFO confines fewer than the number of animals listed in the table and has been designated as a CAFO by the permitting", "title": "Groundwater contamination from animal agriculture" }, { "docid": "4864574", "text": "Wahkeena Falls Wahkeena Falls is a 242-foot (73 m) waterfall in the Columbia River Gorge in the state of Oregon. The waterfall is unlike nearby Multnomah Falls in that the water does not directly plunge to the ground. Wahkeena Falls, rather, has a more subtle cascading flow. These falls have been featured in numerous travel guides and in photography books. Spellings of this name are dubious because the word is an English transliteration of a Native American (reportedly Yakama) phrase meaning \"most beautiful\". Wahkeena Falls is along the Historic Columbia River Highway, about east of Troutdale, Oregon. A hike from", "title": "Wahkeena Falls" }, { "docid": "13651411", "text": "and attract more tourists, the Department of Tourism, Government of Tamil nadu, has taken a number of measures including construction of 2km trek to this fall for the convenience of the trekkers. Kutladampatti Falls Kutladampatti Falls is a waterfall located in the village of Kutladampatti near Vadipatti in Madurai district about northwest of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. The waterfall is in a reserve forest managed by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department. The water falls from a height of about . Tourists from Madurai can take a direct bus from the Periyar bus stand. Tourists may also come via Vadipatti, travelling", "title": "Kutladampatti Falls" }, { "docid": "4630771", "text": "falls and made his passage through the Columbia Gorge relatively easy. Modeste Demers wrote about the seasonal change in 1839: \"One may be astonished to learn that these \"chutes\", so terrible at low water, are smooth and still at very high water, which does not happen every year. Then it is that, instead of fearing them, the voyageurs hasten to approach them, to light their pipes and rest.\" More difficult was the Long Narrows, or Big Dalles, ten miles below Celilo Falls. This section of the river was impassable during high water. During the autumn low water they were passable", "title": "Celilo Falls" }, { "docid": "80799", "text": "city owns its power, gas and water, and cable TV service. Because of this, Cedar Falls Utilities provides gigabit speeds to residents, this became available on January 14, 2015. Cedar Falls has the power to do so because, unlike 19 other states, Iowa does not prohibit municipal broadband from competing with the private cable TV monopoly. The underground music scene in the Cedar Falls area from 1977 to present day is well documented. The Wartburg College Art Gallery in Waverly, Iowa hosted a collaborative history of the bands, record labels, and music venues involved in the Cedar Falls music scene", "title": "Cedar Falls, Iowa" }, { "docid": "13215524", "text": "Meanwhile, Sue does the raffle for the German coffee maker, which she wins herself. Ennis admits that he lost Merch, which upsets Miracle. Outraged, Ennis takes a crystal ball and throws it at the ball toss, at which Sue falls into the tub of water. Andrew and Helen then notice a magnet in Sue's skirt, which indicates that Sue cheated for the coffee maker. Ennis gets some prizes in a booth, including Merch clinging onto a Pluto doll, and Miracle sees that her prophecy has come true and thanks Ennis with a hug. She says that it is still a", "title": "Miracle's Are Real" }, { "docid": "19594278", "text": "amounts of water into it. Fin realizes that the only location with enough water to work is Niagara Falls, so they travel there with the nukenado following them. At Niagara Falls, Reynolds volunteers to jump near the falls with a squirrel suit to set off the device, which will reverse the water flow upward into the nukenado and cool it. However, the device does not have enough power, and Reynolds falls off a cliff. Col. Shepard volunteers to pilot the mech suit to complete the plan, but is swallowed by a shark before he can put it on. Fin puts", "title": "Sharknado: The 4th Awakens" }, { "docid": "12354837", "text": "come back. The clock suddenly feels the loss and desperately awaits her return, finally knowing both tight loneliness and cold emptiness. Alas, she does not come back and when he is next wound up, his spring breaks. The mouse, unbeknownst to the clock, has been eaten by an owl that falls in love with a lighted taxi meter and dances for rides. Where the mouse was eaten, a little pink flower grows up. A bee drinks the flower's nectar and shows its affection to a dying hibiscus flower. A rather snooty white mouse thinks she'd make a better hibiscus and", "title": "The Marzipan Pig" }, { "docid": "12844061", "text": "the Taylor River that flows about off Mount Anderson, 1/2 of which is spent tumbling off these falls. Otter Falls (Washington) Otter Falls (also Otter Slide, Otter Slide Falls or Otter Creek Falls) is a waterfall in King County, Washington; on the southern wall of Mount Anderson. It drops about in all, but due to the relatively moderate pitch of the mountainside, only about 1/3 of the total height can be seen from the ground. The drainage of Otter Creek, which feeds the falls, is fairly small, and consists mostly of granite which does not retain water. Therefore, the waterfall", "title": "Otter Falls (Washington)" }, { "docid": "19903526", "text": "incremental improvement of these services. It is a market-based approach and commonly does not involve product subsidies. \"Self-supply\" is different from \"supported self-supply.\" The first term refers to situations where people improving their water and sanitation services on their own. \"Supported self-supply\" refers to a deliberately guided process, usually by a government agency or a non-governmental organization. Many examples of self-supply taking off in a short time come from situations where government-led service provision broke down (e.g., in countries of the former Soviet Union). The approach can also be deliberately used by government agencies or external support agencies to complement", "title": "Self-supply of water and sanitation" }, { "docid": "12844060", "text": "Otter Falls (Washington) Otter Falls (also Otter Slide, Otter Slide Falls or Otter Creek Falls) is a waterfall in King County, Washington; on the southern wall of Mount Anderson. It drops about in all, but due to the relatively moderate pitch of the mountainside, only about 1/3 of the total height can be seen from the ground. The drainage of Otter Creek, which feeds the falls, is fairly small, and consists mostly of granite which does not retain water. Therefore, the waterfall relies entirely on snowmelt to flow and often dries up by July. Otter Creek is a tributary of", "title": "Otter Falls (Washington)" }, { "docid": "14452496", "text": "the residents. The slum does not offer water, electricity, or good roads. Besides the home-run businesses in the slum, another trade is arising that is becoming more common and more profitable. The illegal exchange of water is increasingly common, especially in Baiganwadi where less than 5% of the population have safe drinking water at their access. Most people do not have access to clean water, and none of the makeshift homes come with running water taps or basins. The illegal water trade brings water to the residents of the slums for a price. Bags of water are exchanged, though illegally,", "title": "Baiganwadi" }, { "docid": "10113898", "text": "flee for their lives through the collapsing caverns. They cross over a small booby- trapped lake (which one of Bockner's men fell victim to earlier), only to be stopped by Bockner, who demands they surrender their diamonds to him. Quatermain places the diamonds on the central stepping stone that triggers the trap and tells Bockner to come take the diamonds himself if he wants them. Bockner does so and falls into the lake, only to be seized in the jaws of a Mokele-mbembe and dragged beneath the water. The trap resets itself and the diamonds rise back to the surface,", "title": "King Solomon's Mines (1985 film)" }, { "docid": "7116165", "text": "and she does the same. Just as they reach the waterfall, though, the party is attacked by ogres, gryphons and an enraged Vollys. The sky begins to lighten, and Addie tells Meryl, who is having the time of her life in battle, to run to the water and drink. While she is running, though, Addie is caught by an ogre unexpectedly and screams. Meryl runs back to rescue her when the first rays of sunlight come, just as rain begins to fall. Addie is knocked unconscious, Meryl falls to the ground, and shining beings of light fly down. When Addie", "title": "The Two Princesses of Bamarre" }, { "docid": "14500599", "text": "Climate of the Falkland Islands The climate of the Falkland Islands is cool and temperate, regulated by the large oceans which surround it. The Falkland Islands are located over from South America, to the north of the Antarctic convergence, where cooler waters from the south mix with warmer waters from the north. Winds mostly come from the west, creating a difference between the relative levels of precipitation between the eastern islands and the western islands. The total annual rainfall is only about . Although snow falls, it does not settle due to the strength of the winds. The temperature of", "title": "Climate of the Falkland Islands" }, { "docid": "15518568", "text": "regardless of the long term environmental effects. Much of the GVNML operational area is downstream from Sambhar Salt Lake, where, unless ground water can be recharged farmers have to rely on salt water for irrigation. This water has high levels of Total Dissolved Solubles (TDS) leading to reduced soil fertility. These area specific problems are coupled with droughts leading to real challenges for sustainably managing natural resources. The community has been hit hard by the repercussions of declining agriculture. Against an average rainfall of 600 mm, Laporiya gets only 323 mm When the monsoon does come, it is essential to", "title": "GVNML" }, { "docid": "14493336", "text": "Hundru Falls The Hundru Falls () is a waterfall located in Ranchi district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It is the 34th highest waterfall in India. It's one of the most famous tourist place near Ranchi in jharkhand. The Hundru Falls is created on the course of the Subarnarekha River, where it falls from a height of creating one of the highest water falls in the state. The spectacular scene of water falling from such a great height has been described as a sight to behold. The different formations of rock due to the erosion by the constantly falling", "title": "Hundru Falls" }, { "docid": "13660523", "text": "landlord, and watches as they depart with her corpse. Loftis does not come home at the normal time he would from work, and actually does not come home for several days. As the days pass, the home of the brothers falls into similar disrepair that Bailey’s did, their toilet stops working, and they run out of their own food. With fear of discovery, they cannot call a repairman to fix the toilet, and Cooter fears using Bailey’s food, so he is forced to resort to begging, at the same place that Bailey had to beg for food. Finally, four days", "title": "Exchange Value" }, { "docid": "3238126", "text": "precipice, which creates an almost blinding spray. High water occurs following a period of heavy rains or snow followed by warm rainy weather. This can occur during the rainy season which lasts from November through March. During high water, the falls take on a curtain form. For the Snoqualmie People, who have lived for centuries in the Snoqualmie Valley in western Washington, Snoqualmie Falls is central to their culture, beliefs, and spirituality. A traditional burial site, to the Snoqualmie, the falls are \"the place where First Woman and First Man were created by Moon the Transformer\" and \"where prayers were", "title": "Snoqualmie Falls" }, { "docid": "8424033", "text": "the photograph of the signature to Elisa, who falls apart in tears. Chee goes home to meet Janet Pete, who says she is taking leave to go home and reconsider her life. Leaphorn shows photographs to Amos Nez at his hogan. Nez does not recognize Hal Breedlove. The man he knew as Breedlove is Eldon Demott. Leaphorn drives to a point above Nez’s hogan, where he expects Eldon will come to kill Nez. Eldon arrives and hears from Leaphorn how strong the evidence is to convict him for killing Maryboy and for shooting Chee. Those two would put him in", "title": "The Fallen Man" }, { "docid": "13362589", "text": "wish comes true they come back to make an offering to the Goddess Gangamma which they would have agreed upon once their wish became true. The water from the well is believed to cure many skin ailments. Local people believe that the Pushkarini water is very powerful, and sprinkling it in the field will yield good crop. Devotees can test whether their wishes will be fulfilled by placing a flower on the head of the deity. Locals believe that if the flower falls on the right side it is positive and negative if it falls on the left. Devotees who", "title": "Boyakonda Gangamma" }, { "docid": "14483215", "text": "2014, the water wheel trash interceptor known as Mr. Trash Wheel sits at the mouth of the Jones Falls River in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. A February 2015 agreement with a local waste-to-energy plant is believed to make Baltimore the first city to use reclaimed waterway debris to generate electricity. Mr. Trash Wheel is the world's first permanent water wheel trash interceptor to clean up the city's polluted Inner Harbor. The Jones Falls river watershed drains of land outside of Baltimore and is a significant source of trash that enters the harbor. Garbage collected by Mr. Trash Wheel could come from", "title": "Baltimore" }, { "docid": "8013849", "text": "contrary to the popular belief that the name Millaa Millaa means either \"water fall\", \"many waterfalls\" or \"plenty water\", but does demonstrate how important the falls are in the regional psyche. In 1882 tracks were blazed through the rainforest close to the falls by both Sub Inspector Alexander Douglas (May 1882) and Christie Palmerston (October to December 1882). Palmerston also mapped an improved track through the area during 1884-1885, which subsequently became known as the Palmerston track. The popular belief that Palmerston camped at and named Millaa Millaa falls, which is in part commemorated by a monument at the site,", "title": "Millaa Millaa Falls" }, { "docid": "13145426", "text": "released and captured using the valve at the top of the outlet end of the bag, this gas can be used for cooking, lighting and heating (although CART currently intend to use the gas solely for cooking.) The water is released through the outlet pipe, this water is known as ‘High nutrient’ or ‘Black’ water. Less than 10% of the products are solids and therefore only need removing from the bag every few years, these solids can be used as a high nutrient fertiliser for fruit trees or for plants where the fertiliser does not come into direct contact with", "title": "Centre for Appropriate Rural Technology" }, { "docid": "9988147", "text": "in Kerala. Once people reach the parking area, they have to pass through a security check at the entrance where they make sure you don't carry any plastic. It takes 10-15 minutes walk to the waterfalls and water flow is less during summer, which makes it easy to reach the rocks where water falls. Soochipara Falls Soochipara Falls also known as Sentinel Rock Waterfalls is a three-tiered waterfall in Vellarimala, Wayanad, India. It is surrounded by deciduous, evergreen and montane forests. Locally referred to as Soochipara (\"Soochi\" meaning \"Needle\" and \"Para\" meaning \"Rock\"), the 15-20 minute drive from Meppadi to", "title": "Soochipara Falls" }, { "docid": "15388304", "text": "Worried, depressed Aisha waits for Moiz to come to Pakistan to visit her but he does not come; years pass but he doesn't come influenced by his mother. In the mean time Noor is growing Up, Aisha's daughter is fond of Javad and thinks him as his father. The job Moiz was supposed to by raising his kids and being a support for his wife another man, Jawad does. Jawad eventually falls in love with Aisha and proposes her. She rejects, but is later softened by his talk. When she is overheard by her Mother in law, she tells Moiz", "title": "Qaid-e-Tanhai" }, { "docid": "14138769", "text": "tumbled over \"felles\". This confusing local practice of using \"falls\" in the name of rocky streams was also applied to Baltimore's Jones Falls and Gunpowder Falls, which do not have waterfalls. During periods of high water conditions the stream can be whitewater kayaked, with the most challenging section running from the dam in Dickeyville to the Washington Street bridge crossing. This section is entirely within the city limits of Baltimore. An unusual feature of the run is a point where a city water pipe main crosses about a foot above the water level; kayaking normally requires a portage around the", "title": "Gwynns Falls" }, { "docid": "9320945", "text": "he tries to slip unseen into the water (\"Getta Load of Toad\"). But the animals come to look at Toad in his suit, and eventually, freezing, he must come out, where everyone sees him in his bathing suit. Turtle proceeds to feed the fish in the pond (\"Underwater Ballet\"). Later on, Frog has left Toad a note that he has gone to the island on the lake to be alone, and Toad worries that Frog is sad. He rides a log out to the island, bringing lunch for the two of them, but he falls off the log into the", "title": "A Year with Frog and Toad" }, { "docid": "4231252", "text": "for many generations to come. Camping is not permitted at the falls themselves. There are no shower facilities, no electrical services, and the only toilet facilities are of the outhouse variety. There is a picnic area, and another place for a stopping if travelling further north or south. There are two hiking trails with rugged campsites leading from the Picnic and Falls areas. The trails are very rugged, and only recommended for experienced backpackers to attempt. The trail to Kwasitchewan Falls is 22 km (about 13 miles) return. The campsites are accessible by water and a short portage via the", "title": "Pisew Falls Provincial Park" }, { "docid": "7419016", "text": "away from the jutting rocky bed before cascading into the river displaying the force at which it flows. This force is well tapped here and there is a hydraulic power generating station installed. It is in its best form during monsoon, but during seasons where there is less inflow of water, you can climb onto the rocks and explore more. From Mysore, drive down Mysore-Hassan highway and reach K.R.Nagar. Here, any of the locals can guide you to the falls. It is approximately 8 kilometers from K.R.Nagar. The falls is unsafe as water flow increases suddenly when water is released", "title": "Chunchanakatte Falls" }, { "docid": "6672886", "text": "sent to climb it does so. However, the child is not injured or bloodied in any way. The brutal versions of the rope trick seem to have come from retelling. To show this, Penn and Teller set up a \"performance\" where a foreign couple enters the auditorium at the end of the trick, when the rope falls down and the child miraculously comes back to life. Rumors about the rope trick started spreading both within the local community and in England, when the couple returned home. Penn and Teller do feel that one of the actions of street magicians in", "title": "Penn & Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour" }, { "docid": "1918814", "text": "height is small but the currents are noticeable. Simplicio counters with the peripatetic explanations, which are based on the depths of the sea, and the dominion of the moon over the water, though this doesn't explain the risings when the moon is below the horizon. But he admits it could be a miracle. When the water in Venice rises, where does it come from? There is little rise in Corfu or Dubrovnik. From the ocean through the Straits of Gibraltar? It's much too far away and the currents are too slow. So could the movement of the container cause the", "title": "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" }, { "docid": "12323903", "text": "of the sea and the resulting slight thermal expansion of the upper of water. Additional contributions, as much as one quarter of the total, come from water sources on land, such as melting snow and glaciers and extraction of groundwater for irrigation and other agricultural and human needs. The rising trend from global warming is expected to continue until at least the end of the 21st century. The sea plays a part in the water or hydrological cycle, in which water evaporates from the ocean, travels through the atmosphere as vapour, condenses, falls as rain or snow, thereby sustaining life", "title": "Sea" }, { "docid": "12590480", "text": "the longest will be Paymaster. Myammee hesitates at first to jump in the water because she doesn't want to damage her weave, but eventually jumps in and swims to a preserver. When everybody's hoisted up, everybody has their legs through the hole of the preserver, except for It. It then falls and lands in the water, making him come in last place. Soon, Ice falls as she can't hold anymore, then Myammee falls as she isn't in a comfortable position. Angelique's arms get tired and hangs only by her legs then her feet accidentally slip out of buoy and she", "title": "I Love Money (season 2)" }, { "docid": "10459301", "text": "Extreme Unction (Anointing of the Sick): spiritual healing. The sacrament of Baptism has the outward sign of a washing. \"He that washes himself (baptuzatur) after touching the dead, if he touched them again, what does his washing avail?\" (Sirach 34,30). The sacrament does not come from the water, but from the act of pouring the water, in the form of a washing. (St. Hugh of Victor held that the water was the sacrament, but this is in error.) The outward reality is in the washing with water, while the sacramental sign is the inward justification: this is the reality, or", "title": "Thomistic sacramental theology" }, { "docid": "14018192", "text": "the sacred water from the vase is that the first cup of sacred water is taken out for blessing the members of the Royal family of the Chogyals, then the second cup is meant for the Lamas and the third cup of water is meant for the devotees to whom it is distributed. Pilgrims come to the monastery from all regions of Sikkim to be blessed with the holy water. The festival is of particular importance to the Bhutias (ethnic Tibetans) of Sikkim who hold the “life-sustaining water of the rivers” with great reverence. The festival falls on the 15th", "title": "Tashiding Monastery" }, { "docid": "4852574", "text": "environment of a pirate. The climactic battle was shot in a former air hangar at Palmdale, California, where the cast had to wear wetsuits underneath their costumes on angle-tipped ships. The water-drenched set was kept in freezing temperatures, to make sure bacteria did not come inside and infect the crew. A second unit was shot at Niagara Falls. Industrial Light & Magic did 750 effects shots, while Digital Domain also took on 300. They spent just five months finishing the special effects. The film posed numerous challenges in creating water-based effects. Filming finished on December 12, 2006 in Molokai, and", "title": "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" }, { "docid": "4577999", "text": "The complex also houses Samadhis of his disciples like Dalibai and some other of his chief disciples. The complex also houses the tombs of five Muslim Pirs, who had come from Mecca. The complex also houses a step-well, the water of which devotees believe has healing powers. Ramdev Pir Jayanti, the birth date of Ramdev, is celebrated every year in India by his devotees. It falls on Dooj (the second day) of Shukla paksha of Bhadrapad month of Hindu calendar. In Rajasthan, this day is observed as a public holiday and a fair is held at the Ramdevra temple, where", "title": "Ramdev Pir" }, { "docid": "8919725", "text": "shoreline called 'edge waves'. The regular arrival of incoming waves in the near shore waters causes the development of waves perpendicular to the direction of the incoming waves; these are termed 'edge waves'. These edge waves become trapped near the shoreline and when two of them come together from opposite directions, a standing edge wave is formed. The movement patterns of these waves are fixed and so can be defined as two regions of interest, the nodal and antinodal points. The antinodal point is where all the movement takes place as the water rises and falls, creating a series of", "title": "Beach cusps" }, { "docid": "522443", "text": "lowest since 1918. In 2012 Lake Michigan-Huron's seasonal rise was about 4 inches where it usually is about 12 inches. Normally the Chicago River water level is two feet lower than the lake and therefore does not flow into the lake. If the lake level falls too low threatening to reverse the river flow, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago would be forced to close locks between the lake and river for longer periods of time limiting navigation. A reversal flow of the Chicago River into Lake Michigan would have a negative impact on navigation and on the", "title": "Chicago River" }, { "docid": "5943944", "text": "Surface erosion of the surface of a levee is usually caused by the action of wind and water (waves but also normal flow). Erosion can be worsened by pre-existing or new damage to a levee. Areas with no surface protection are more prone to erosion. A levee grazed by certain types of animals, like sheep, can show trails used by the animals where grass does not grow. Trees in levees are a special risk. A tree can become unstable after the soil of the levee has become saturated with water. When the tree falls the root system will likely take", "title": "Levee breach" }, { "docid": "4550923", "text": "come from Keats' work as a medical student, where his sympathy for patients, as his friend Charles Brown believed, hindered his work. Keats was aware of the harm that could come to patients if he made any mistakes. Keats' fear of death is also present for his own life, not just his patients. This fear is evident on his gravestone, with the words \"Here lies one whose name was writ in water.\" The epitaph, which Keats requested on his deathbed, reflects Keats' fears of death and anger with fate, as \"When I Have Fears\" does. The last three lines of", "title": "When I Have Fears" }, { "docid": "18727235", "text": "(in the local dialect also \"Perečnik\") is ultimately derived from the verb \"prati\", which originally meant 'to strike, beat'. It also refers to water falling over a steep cliff, and in standard Slovene has also developed into the sense 'to wash clothing' (via the sense 'to beat laundry'). Peričnik Falls Peričnik Falls (; ) is a waterfall in Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Peričnik Falls is one of the best-known waterfalls in Slovenia. It flows from a hanging valley in Triglav National Park into the glacial Vrata Valley, where the water of Peričnik Creek then flows into Bistrica Creek. There are", "title": "Peričnik Falls" }, { "docid": "9874183", "text": "Thottikallu Thottikallu is a place near Bangalore off the Kanakapura road which is famous for a falls called Thottikallu falls, more popularly known as TK falls. It is also known as 'SwarnaMukhi' water falls. SwarnaMukhi translates as 'Golden-Faced'. The route at Kagalpura (Kaggalipura) off the Bangalore - Kanakapura road will lead to a place called Byalemaradadoddi, from where a mud road leads to the falls. The place also has a small shrine. There will not be much water in summer and hence better to visit in or just after monsoon. This venue is a great place to for trekking and", "title": "Thottikallu" }, { "docid": "4141738", "text": "Edinburgh. The river empties into St. Mary's Bay. The river currently is obstructed by four dams, three of which are used to generate hydroelectricity: Weymouth Falls, Sissiboo Falls and Fourth Lake. Sissiboo does come from the Mi'kmaq language. It comes from the 2 words Sis't Sipu'l. sipu is river, sipu'l is rivers, sis't is 3. It means 3 rivers Sissiboo River The Sissiboo River is a river located in Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The origins of the name \"Sissiboo\" are not known. The most credible is a derivation from the Mi'kmaq word for river, \"Seboo.\" Local lore offers a", "title": "Sissiboo River" }, { "docid": "1196201", "text": "led to spelling variations that ultimately made the word what it is today. No evidence suggests that the name is from Klamath origin. The Klamath themselves called the region \"Yulalona\" or \"Iwauna\", which referred to the phenomenon of the Link River flowing upstream when the south wind blew hard. The Klamath name for the Link River white water falls was \"Tiwishkeni,\" or \"where the falling waters rush\". From this Link River white water phenomenon \"Falls\" was added to Klamath in its name. In reality it's best described as rapids rather than falls. The rapids are visible a short distance below", "title": "Klamath Falls, Oregon" }, { "docid": "3518075", "text": "pumped from the Grand Coulee Dam, into Banks Lake to act as an Equalizing Reservoir and irrigation water source. Evidence of the waterfalls includes a plunge basin where the falls began, immediately south of Coulee City. It contains at least of gravel lower than the open flooring of the land. The river above the falls was shallow and much wider than the gorge. Thus, it wrapped around the lip of the main falls creating lateral falls. These flowed until the recession of the main falls denied them water. Northrup Canyon in Steamboat Rock State Park, contains a dry cataract as", "title": "Grand Coulee" }, { "docid": "1552582", "text": "formed through a technique called \"twist and rip\", as well as backcombing and rolling. Together, these alternative techniques are more commonly referred to as \"salon\" or \"manicured\" dreadlocks. Using beeswax to make dreads can cause problems because it does not wash out, due to the high melting point of natural wax. Because wax is a hydrocarbon, water alone, no matter how hot, will not be able to remove wax. This is often where problems like mold and dread rot come from, the wax clogs inside the length of the dread meaning water can't run out easily. Having wet dreads for", "title": "Dreadlocks" }, { "docid": "9612367", "text": "she believes has gone AWOL. As Two Shoes leaves the room, vowing to mop the floor with Tom's hide come morning, Tom emerges from his hiding place, but he trips up over some of the spilled food and crashes into the refrigerator where he is squirted with some seltzer water, sobering him up again. Jerry, holding a chicken drumstick, approaches Tom, unaware that he is now sober and very angry. Tom chases after Jerry towards the bathroom, but slips on a bath mat and crashes into a wall. A bottle of bay rum (a kind of lotion, not alcohol) falls", "title": "Part Time Pal" }, { "docid": "9193474", "text": "Mama has come out of Hurrell's store (but cannot help thinking there is another way around the hole, so El Nombre tells her that if she is brave like him, she can jump across it, but when he falls down it, she opts to go around it again instead), and Lord and Lady Posh give instructions to their gardener, Jarvis, on where he has to plant their roses and daisies. Juan has lost Tanto so El Nombre helps him and Mama to find him, the bear from the first episode tries to boil a saucepan of water over a fire", "title": "Numbertime" }, { "docid": "14329798", "text": "stream of water. If water level falls below the limit level, current stops flowing as the circuit is not complete. This stops heating the water and producing steam. Clean water does not leave any kind of ion in the boiler, when it gets evaporated into steam. Thus, the formation of scales is reduced. Electrode boiler An electrode boiler (jet type) is a type of boiler that uses electricity flowing through streams of water to create steam. The conductive and resistive properties of water are employed to carry electric current. The most common type of electrode boiler pumps water from the", "title": "Electrode boiler" }, { "docid": "3276108", "text": "hot or cold in the city. Precipitation is plentiful throughout the year and Hamilton does not have a dry season month, a month where on average less than of precipitation falls. Summer precipitation is usually from showers, thunderstorms, and tropical disturbances or even tropical cyclones. Meanwhile, winter precipitation is typically derived from westerly moving extra-tropical cyclones and their associated fronts. Erratic, extended dry spells occasionally develop because of variations in the semi-permanent sub-tropical ridge locally known as the Bermuda-Azores High. Schools in Hamilton: Hamilton has a host of beaches, which provide many opportunities for water sports, including surfing, wind surfing,", "title": "Hamilton, Bermuda" }, { "docid": "10010308", "text": "pay a $2 fee to view the falls. There are winter and spring views from platforms and paths at Whitewater Falls. The area surrounding the falls is sufficiently treacherous that hiking off-trail in the area is strongly discouraged by park rangers. Corbin Creek Falls Corbin Creek Falls is a waterfall in North Carolina on Corbin Creek near Upper Whitewater Falls. As with most of North Carolina's waterfalls, it is in the mountainous area of the state. There is a cluster of falls in the area where the borders of Georgia and the Carolinas come together. Corbin Creek Falls is part", "title": "Corbin Creek Falls" }, { "docid": "16927015", "text": "the Veshu River, a tributary of the Jehlum River, in an alpine valley covered in pine and fir trees within the Pir Panjal mountains. It lies at an altitude of 2266 metres above sea level. The road route is from Srinagar-Kulgam- Damhal-Hanjipora-Aharbal Road. Aharbal is known for its waterfall, Aharbal Falls, where the Veshu falls noisily 25 metres and 7 metres through a narrow gorge of granite boulders. Aharbal Falls are also referred to as the Niagara Falls of Kashmir, owing to the volume of the water that falls. According to a report, the water volume would be sufficient to", "title": "Aharbal" }, { "docid": "8186982", "text": "Asleep in the Deep (Dad's Army) Asleep in the Deep is the first episode of the fifth series of the British television sitcom \"Dad's Army\". It was originally transmitted on 6 October 1972. The title may have come from the song, \"Asleep in the Deep\" that is referenced by Private Walker in the episode. A bomb falls on the local pumping station, where Walker and Godfrey are on patrol. Efforts at freeing them result in the rest of the platoon becoming trapped with them, and a pipe bursting, filling the room rapidly with water... The episode opens with the Walmington-on-Sea", "title": "Asleep in the Deep (Dad's Army)" }, { "docid": "6634781", "text": "world. Meanwhile, in Sparta, Helen sees Paris's judgement in a pool of water and happily accepts his choice of her love. She later meets the Mycenaean King, Agamemnon, who has come to claim her sister, Clytemnestra, as his bride, but is also immediately taken by Helen's attractiveness. During the wedding feast, after she noticed that everyone seems to be staring at her including Agamemnon and Menelaus, his brother, she is kidnapped by two Athenians. Helen learns the truth of her mother's death from Theseus, one of the men who kidnapped her, then they took her to Athens, where she falls", "title": "Helen of Troy (miniseries)" }, { "docid": "10901191", "text": "to Europe. He does win, but the gang accompanies him as well, which causes his trip to become a nightmare. The group treks through Venice, Rome, Pompeii, Naples, and London. Finally, the entourage ends up in Paris, where Farina manages to falls off the side of the Eiffel Tower. Finlayson tries desperately tries to rescue Farina, leading him to wake up from what was apparently a daydream caused by the gang tossing sleeping pills into his water. Seeing the World Seeing the World (also known as A Roamin' Holiday) is a 1927 silent \"Our Gang\" film, directed by Robert F.", "title": "Seeing the World" }, { "docid": "625797", "text": "the mist plume of the falls reaching landside. In 1996 there were 29 mist days recorded, but by 2003 that number had risen to 68. Another study has discounted this opinion and linked mist production to the difference in air and water temperature at the falls. However, this study does not offer opinion as to why mist days have been increasing, just that the hotel breezes are an unlikely cause. In 2013, New York State began an effort to renovate The Sisters Islands located on Goat Island. New York State used funds from the re-licensing of the New York Power", "title": "Niagara Falls" }, { "docid": "945193", "text": "sheet is usually for one day). While the rain falls, the water collected by the funnel falls into the container and raises the buoy ..., that makes the pen arm raising in the vertical axis marking the cardboard accordingly. If the rainfall does not vary, the water level in the container remains constant, and while the drum rotates, the pen's mark it's more or less a horizontal line, proportional to the amount of water that is falling. When the pen reaches the top edge of the recording paper, it means that the buoy is \"up high in the tank\" leaving", "title": "Rain gauge" }, { "docid": "9779897", "text": "combined height of , the upper section is not completely visible while the fully visible lower segment stands in height as it thunders out of a narrow gorge carved through dark gray basalt. The plunge pool has a picturesque quality due to the surrounding natural walls that form a semi-circular rotunda extending from the falls to the main vantage point. As with most waterfalls, Wahclella does exhibit some seasonality of water flow. However, because Tanner Creek is sourced primarily by an underground spring, the flow is never dramatically affected by adverse weather. Wahclella Falls was named after a nearby village", "title": "Wahclella Falls" }, { "docid": "13462878", "text": "Northern Nevada has a limited supply of surface water which is considered a precious commodity, however large amounts of water can be found underground. At the Pipeline, pit water is pumped from aquifers where it is pumped to ranch land to be reintroduced into the groundwater supply. The mine keeps two streams of water, a \"contact\" water stream in which the water has come into contact with the mining operation, and a \"non-contact\" water stream where the water has not come into contact with the mining operation. The 'contact water stream is recycled and reused in the mining operation where", "title": "Cortez Gold Mine" }, { "docid": "9980129", "text": "Tirparappu Waterfalls Tirparappu Waterfalls are located in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu state, India. The Kodayar River makes its descent at Thiruparappu. The water fall at this place is about from Pechiparai Dam. It is just a 15 min drive from the waterfalls.The river bed is rocky and about in length. The water falls from a height of nearly and the water flows for about seven months per year. The whole bed above the falls is one rocky mass which extends upstream where the Thirparappu weir has been constructed for supplying water to the paddy fields. On either side of the", "title": "Tirparappu Waterfalls" }, { "docid": "864209", "text": "most of the rain falls in the mountainous areas, much of this water finds its way back to the western coastal plains in the form of rivers and streams that empty into the Gulf of California and fill underground aquifers. Most of the year's precipitation falls during the rainy season, which is locally called “las aguas” (the waters). These last from July to mid September, when monsoon winds bring moist air from southerly tropical waters. Most of this is from the Pacific Ocean west of Central America but can also come from Gulf of Mexico as well. This moister flow", "title": "Sonora" }, { "docid": "816545", "text": "jagged lip of the falls, the crest is about long (but see coastline paradox). The torrent of water passing over the crest of the falls is about deep. The height of the American Falls ranges between . This measurement is taken from the top of the Falls to top of the rock pile (talus). The height of the Falls from the top of the Falls to the river is . Visitors can view the falls from a steep angle on the American side, where it is possible to approach to within several meters of the edge of the falls. One", "title": "American Falls" }, { "docid": "18524723", "text": "of 5 to 7 m. After the 13th lake the waterfall has a height of three meters with a very quick drop of the water that falls into the 14th lake, creating a 14 meters high waterfall toward the 15th lake. At the 15th lake with a similar height the water falls in the 16th lake where Mirusha canyon ends. The dimensions of the lakes vary from the first up to the 16th, depending on the amount of the water and rainfalls in the catchment of Mirusha. Another characteristic of Mirusha Canyon is also the river erosion where during the", "title": "Mirusha Park" } ]

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[ { "docid": "9377", "text": "rise to the Hebrew script. The South Arabian alphabet, a sister script to the Phoenician alphabet, is the script from which the Ge'ez alphabet (an abugida) is descended. Vowelless alphabets, which are not true alphabets, are called abjads, currently exemplified in scripts including Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac. The omission of vowels was not always a satisfactory solution and some \"weak\" consonants are sometimes used to indicate the vowel quality of a syllable (matres lectionis). These letters have a dual function since they are also used as pure consonants. The Proto-Sinaitic or Proto-Canaanite script and the Ugaritic script were the first", "title": "Alphabet" }, { "docid": "5512807", "text": "alphabet, in which vowels were accorded equal status with consonants. According to Greek legends transmitted by Herodotus, the alphabet was brought from Phoenicia to Greece by Cadmos. The letters of the Greek alphabet are the same as those of the Phoenician alphabet, and both alphabets are arranged in the same order. However, whereas separate letters for vowels would have actually hindered the legibility of Egyptian, Phoenician, or Hebrew, their absence was problematic for Greek, where vowels played a much more important role. The Greeks used for vowels some of the Phoenician letters representing consonants which weren't used in Greek speech.", "title": "History of the alphabet" }, { "docid": "781735", "text": "for sounds not in Greek at the time. Those additional letters are based on Demotic script. According to Herodotus, the Phoenician prince Cadmus was accredited with the introduction of the Phoenician alphabet—\"phoinikeia grammata\", \"Phoenician letters\"—to the Greeks, who adapted it to form their Greek alphabet, which was later introduced to the rest of Europe. Herodotus estimates that Cadmus lived sixteen hundred years before his time, or around 2000 BC, and claims that the Greeks did not know of the Phoenician alphabet before Cadmus. However, Herodotus's writings are not used as a standard source by contemporary historians. The Greek alphabet is", "title": "Phoenician alphabet" }, { "docid": "9373", "text": "items, in such contexts as numbered lists and number placements. The English word \"alphabet\" came into Middle English from the Late Latin word \"alphabetum\", which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος (\"alphabētos\"). The Greek word was made from the first two letters, \"alpha\"(α) and \"beta\"(β). The names for the Greek letters came from the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet; \"aleph\", which also meant \"ox\", and \"bet\", which also meant \"house\". Sometimes, like in the alphabet song in English, the term \"ABCs\" is used instead of the word \"alphabet\" (\"Now I know my ABCs\"...). \"Knowing one's ABCs\", in", "title": "Alphabet" } ]

[ { "docid": "6890229", "text": "and order of appearance correspond closely. The Greek alphabet, adapted around 800 BCE, added four letters. This was the first alphabet assigning letters not only to consonant sounds, but also to vowels. The Roman Empire brought the development and refinement of our Roman alphabet, beginning around 500 BCE. The Romans added or dropped certain letters to accommodate Greek and Etruscan words; they also experimented with styles such as cursive when writing in ink. By about the fifth century CE, the beginnings of lowercase letterforms began to emerge in Roman writing, but they did not come into common use until the", "title": "Letter (alphabet)" }, { "docid": "11183391", "text": "that they knew their own name-letters were there. The letters first learned by a child, commonly their own name, may come to have lasting positive associations. Hoorens and Todorova tested this by looking for a name-letter effect in bilingual subjects where their mother tongue alphabet was Cyrillic and their foreign-language alphabet Roman. Because learning a foreign language at a later age does not typically involve extra attention given to name letters, there should be no name-letter effect in the foreign-language alphabet, only in the first-language alphabet. Results of a study with 100 Bulgarian subjects who at a later age learned", "title": "Name-letter effect" }, { "docid": "9399", "text": "(for the Latin script), with 46. However, these scripts either count di- and tri-graphs as separate letters, as Spanish did with \"ch\" and \"ll\" until recently, or uses diacritics like Slovak \"č\". The Georgian alphabet ( \"\") is alphabetical writing system. It is the largest true alphabet where each letter is graphically independent with 33 letters. Original Georgian alphabet had 38 letters but 5 letters were removed in 19th century by Ilia Chavchavadze. The Georgian alphabet is much closer to Greek than the other Caucasian alphabets. The numeric value runs parallel to the Greek one, the consonants without a Greek", "title": "Alphabet" }, { "docid": "2823798", "text": "some material promulgated. Although it did not supplant the Syriac script, the usage of the Latin script in the Syriac community has still become widespread because most of the Assyrian diaspora is in Europe and the Anglosphere, where the Latin alphabet is predominant. As a result of Westernisation, the Latin alphabet has been used for Syriac writing. Some letters are altered and would feature diacritics and macrons to indicate long vowels, schwas and diphthongs. The letters with diacritics and macrons, though, are mostly upheld in educational or formal writing. The Latin letters below are commonly used when it comes to", "title": "Syriac alphabet" }, { "docid": "6174611", "text": "Letters\" (\"О писмєньхъ\") by Chernorizets Hrabar, where he defended the Cyrillic alphabet against its Byzantine Greek critics and proved not only its right to existence but also its superiority to the Greek alphabet arguing that the Greek letters were neither the oldest known to man, nor divine. In the form of rhetoric questions and answers \"On the Letters\" demonstrated excellent historic and linguistic knowledge of Chernorizets Hrabar, as he indicated that \"God did not first create the Hebrew or the Greek language, but Syrian which Adam spoke...\" and underlined that \"Before then the Greeks had no alphabet of their own", "title": "First Bulgarian Empire" }, { "docid": "5512811", "text": "the early western Greek dialects, where the letter eta remained an , gave rise to the Old Italic alphabet which in turn developed into the Old Roman alphabet. In the eastern Greek dialects, which did not have an /h/, eta stood for a vowel, and remains a vowel in modern Greek and all other alphabets derived from the eastern variants: Glagolitic, Cyrillic, Armenian, Gothic (which used both Greek and Roman letters), and perhaps Georgian. Although this description presents the evolution of scripts in a linear fashion, this is a simplification. For example, the Manchu alphabet, descended from the abjads of", "title": "History of the alphabet" }, { "docid": "6146123", "text": "in Basque is \"a\" and the least common is \"v\" (although \"w\", \"y\", and \"q\" did not appear at all in the sampled text). Basque alphabet The Basque alphabet is a Latin alphabet used to write the Basque language. It consists of 27 letters. The letters of the Basque alphabet are the 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet plus the \"ñ\" (and the \"ç\", as a variant of the \"c\"). This is the whole list, plus the IPA phonology: All letters and digraphs represent unique phonemes. The main exception is if \"l\", \"n\" or sometimes \"t\" is preceded", "title": "Basque alphabet" }, { "docid": "242770", "text": "in the 1st century BC, Latin adopted the Greek letters and (or readopted, in the latter case) to write Greek loanwords, placing them at the end of the alphabet. An attempt by the emperor Claudius to introduce three additional letters did not last. Thus it was during the classical Latin period that the Latin alphabet contained 23 letters: The Latin names of some of these letters are disputed. In general the Romans did not use the traditional (Semitic-derived) names as in Greek: the names of the plosives were formed by adding to their sound (except for and , which needed", "title": "Latin alphabet" }, { "docid": "891526", "text": "Abkhaz alphabet The Abkhaz alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet of 62 letters used for the Abkhaz language. Abkhaz did not become a written language until the 19th century. Up until then, Abkhazians, especially princes, had been using Greek (up to c. 9th century), Georgian (9–19th centuries), and partially Turkish (18th century) languages. The Abkhaz word for alphabet is анбан (anban), which was borrowed from Georgian ანბანი (anbani). The first Abkhaz alphabet was created in 1862 by Dimitry Gulia and K. Machavariani. The script was developed by Peter von Uslar. It had 37 letters and was based on the Cyrillic script.", "title": "Abkhaz alphabet" }, { "docid": "3234325", "text": "alphabet by three letters, but any number works. Another method of substitution cipher is based on a keyword. All spaces and repeated letters are removed from a word or phrase, which the encoder then uses as the start of the cipher alphabet. The end of the cipher alphabet is the rest of the alphabet in order without repeating the letters in the keyword. For example, if the keyword is CIPHER, the cipher alphabet would look like this: The previous examples were all examples of monoalphabetic substitution ciphers, where just one cipher alphabet is used. It is also possible to have", "title": "Classical cipher" }, { "docid": "4846187", "text": "Claudian letters The Claudian letters were developed by, and named after, the Roman Emperor Claudius (reigned 41–54). He introduced three new letters to the Latin alphabet: These letters were used to a small extent on public inscriptions dating from Claudius' reign, but their use was abandoned after his death. Their forms were probably chosen to ease the transition, as they could be made from templates for existing letters. He may have been inspired by his ancestor Appius Claudius the Censor, who made earlier changes to the Latin alphabet. Claudius did indeed introduce his letters during his own term as censor", "title": "Claudian letters" }, { "docid": "9884", "text": "gi da\", in much the same way that \"abecedary\" is derived from Latin \"a be ce de\", \"abjad\" is derived from the Arabic \"a b j d\", and \"alphabet\" is derived from the names of the two first letters in the Greek alphabet, \"alpha\" and \"beta\". As Daniels used the word, an abugida is in contrast with a syllabary, where letters with shared consonants or vowels show no particular resemblance to one another, and also with an alphabet proper, where independent letters are used to denote both consonants and vowels. The term \"alphasyllabary\" was suggested for the Indic scripts in", "title": "Abugida" }, { "docid": "242767", "text": "alphabets may discard letters, like the Rotokas alphabet, or add new letters, like the Danish and Norwegian alphabets. Letter shapes have evolved over the centuries, including the development in Medieval Latin of lower-case, forms which did not exist in the Classical period alphabet. English is the only major modern European language requiring no diacritics for native words (although a diaeresis may be used in words such as \"coöperation\"). It is generally believed that the Romans adopted the Cumae alphabet, a variant of the Greek alphabet, in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in Southern Italy. (Gaius Julius", "title": "Latin alphabet" }, { "docid": "891529", "text": "The modern Abkhaz orthography gives preference to the letters Г П with descender (Ӷ Ԥ) instead of hook (Ҕ Ҧ). The characters Ԥ and ԥ are encoded in Unicode since version 5.2. Abkhaz alphabet The Abkhaz alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet of 62 letters used for the Abkhaz language. Abkhaz did not become a written language until the 19th century. Up until then, Abkhazians, especially princes, had been using Greek (up to c. 9th century), Georgian (9–19th centuries), and partially Turkish (18th century) languages. The Abkhaz word for alphabet is анбан (anban), which was borrowed from Georgian ანბანი (anbani). The", "title": "Abkhaz alphabet" }, { "docid": "11409359", "text": "called by any one before Scaliger by the combination ἐπίσημον βαῦ. However this may be, Scaliger has been followed by all who have written on the subject since his time. The true account of these three characters seems to be that though the Phoenicians themselves did not use the letters of their alphabet for purposes of numeration, the Greeks, who derived their alphabet from them, did so in the 5th century BC; that their alphabet then still contained two of the Phoenician letters which in the next century were disused, viz., βαῦ in the sixth place, and κόππα, the Roman", "title": "Marcosians" }, { "docid": "6866785", "text": "based on a transliteration of Cyrillic into Latin letters, would have used apostrophes to denote those Kazakh letters where there was no direct Latin equivalent. It is similar to the Karakalpak Latin alphabet and the Uzbek alphabet. A revised version of the 2017 Latin alphabet was announced in February 2018. Presidential Decree 637 of 19 February 2018 amends the 2017 decree and the use of apostrophes was discontinued and replaced with diacritics and digraphs. Notably, the new alphabet uses the acute accent where other alphabets prefer using umlauts. The Uniform Turkic Alphabet was used in the USSR from 1927 to", "title": "Kazakh alphabets" }, { "docid": "13606684", "text": "(\"ō\") although this letter was taken from the Greek alphabet to write foreign words beginning with \"o\" . The number and order of the letters have changed over time. In the Middle Ages, two new letters (օ , ֆ ) were introduced in order to better represent foreign sounds; this increased the number of letters from 36 to 38. From 1922 to 1924, Soviet Armenia adopted a reformed spelling of the Armenian language. The reform changed the digraph ու and the ligature և into two new letters, but it generally did not change the pronunciation of individual letters. Those outside", "title": "Armenian alphabet" }, { "docid": "3181360", "text": "follows: Alpha and Omega represent the sovereign majesty of God and His dominion and lordship over all things. These letters come from the book of Revelation, where Jesus Christ says, \"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.\" The letter Gamma, the third letter in the Greek alphabet, represents Christ, which itself begins with \"C\", the third letter of the English alphabet. It is in the center to represent Christ being at the center of the fraternity and the lives of its members. Pledges may become active members of an AGO", "title": "Alpha Gamma Omega" }, { "docid": "17992990", "text": "does not mix consonants and vowels. Rather, first are velar consonants, then coronals, labials, sibilants, etc. The vowels come after the consonants. The order from the \"Hunminjeong'eum\" in 1446 was: In 1527, Choe Sejin reorganized the alphabet in Hunmongjahoe: This is the basis of the modern alphabetic orders. It was before the development of the Korean tense consonants and the double letters that represent them, and before the conflation of the letters (') and (ng). Thus, when the North Korean and South Korean governments implemented full use of the Korean alphabet, they ordered these letters differently, with North Korea, placing", "title": "Hangul" }, { "docid": "7384029", "text": "about whether to unite, so one Patriarch would be the head of both Churches in Egypt. The unification did not come about, but one of the proposals made at the time was to make Coptic pronunciation conform more closely to Greek. The chief architect of this project was Arian G. Moftah, who taught Coptic in the Patriarchal Church at that time. Since the Coptic alphabet shares many letters with the Greek alphabet, he assumed that any change of Coptic pronunciation towards Greek would be a positive reform and would also assist with the expected union between the churches. At the", "title": "Coptic pronunciation reform" }, { "docid": "20865525", "text": "includes all the Ukrainian letters with the exception of ї, plus ы and ъ. The Rusyn alphabets all place ь after я, like the Ukrainian alphabet did until 1990. The vast majority of Cyrillic alphabets place ь before э (if present), ю, and я. The Lemko and Prešov Rusyn alphabets place ъ at the very end, while the vast majority of Cyrillic alphabets place it after щ. They also place ы before й, while the vast majority of Cyrillic alphabets place it after ш, щ (if present), and ъ (if present). In the Prešov Rusyn alphabet, і and ї come", "title": "Carpathian Rusyn language" }, { "docid": "9402", "text": "a new letter ՈՒ ու (which was a digraph before). The Armenian word for \"alphabet\" is \"\" (), named after the first two letters of the Armenian alphabet Ա այբ ayb and Բ բեն ben. The Armenian script's directionality is horizontal left-to-right, like the Latin and Greek alphabets. Alphabets often come to be associated with a standard ordering of their letters, which can then be used for purposes of collation—namely for the listing of words and other items in what is called \"alphabetical order\". The basic ordering of the Latin alphabet (A B C D E F G H I", "title": "Alphabet" }, { "docid": "14302526", "text": "k, L l, M m, N n, P p, W w, ). Alphabetic order differs from the normal Latin order in that the vowels come first, then the consonants. The five vowels with macrons – Ā ā, Ē ē, Ī ī, Ō ō, Ū ū – are not treated as separate letters, but are alphabetized immediately after unaccented vowels. The okina is ignored for purposes of alphabetization, but is included as a consonant. Hawaiian alphabet The Hawaiian alphabet (in ) is an alphabet used to write Hawaiian. It was adapted from the English alphabet in the early 19th century by", "title": "Hawaiian alphabet" }, { "docid": "4467746", "text": "ending \"-ed\" where it is pronounced as such (for example \"dropt\" for \"dropped\"). Some of the English language's most celebrated writers and poets have used these spellings and others proposed by today's spelling reformers. Edmund Spenser, for example, used spellings such as \"rize, wize\" and \"advize\" in his famous poem \"The Faerie Queene\", published in the 1590s. Many English words are based on French modifications (e.g., \"colour\" and \"analogue\") even though they come from Latin or Greek. The English alphabet has several letters whose characteristic sounds are already represented elsewhere in the alphabet. These include X, which can be realised", "title": "English-language spelling reform" }, { "docid": "2823784", "text": "Syriac alphabet The Syriac alphabet ( ) is a writing system primarily used to write the Syriac language since the 1st century AD. It is one of the Semitic abjads descending from the Aramaic alphabet through the Palmyrene alphabet, and it shares similarities with the Phoenician, Hebrew, Arabic and the traditional Mongolian scripts. Syriac is written from right to left in horizontal lines. It is a cursive script where most, but not all, letters connect within a word. Spaces separate individual words. All 22 letters are consonants, although there are optional diacritic marks to indicate vowels and other features. In", "title": "Syriac alphabet" }, { "docid": "9412", "text": "usually achieved in practice; some languages (such as Spanish and Finnish) come close to it, while others (such as English) deviate from it to a much larger degree. The pronunciation of a language often evolves independently of its writing system, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language. Languages may fail to achieve a one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds in any of several ways: National languages", "title": "Alphabet" }, { "docid": "10774825", "text": "Slavica alphabet Slavica is a simple writing system for the Croatian and Serbian languages proposed by Rajko Igić in his 1987 book, \"Nova Slovarica\", published by Universal from Tuzla. The alphabet is a combination of Croat Latin and Serbian Cyrillic alphabets and was intended for people from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that spoke the same language but wrote it using two different writing systems. Slavica uses 17 Latin letters, with 8 Cyrillic letters used in the cases where the native Slavic Latin script uses diacritics and digraphs. Five letters common to both alphabets — \"a\", \"e\", \"o\", \"j\", and", "title": "Slavica alphabet" }, { "docid": "8879430", "text": "in its position – according to Plutarch, by Spurius Carvilius Ruga – so that afterward, C = /k/, G = /ɡ/. An attempt by the emperor Claudius to introduce three additional letters was short-lived, but after the conquest of Greece in the 1st century BC the letters Y and Z were, respectively, adopted and readopted from the Greek alphabet and placed at the end. Now the new Latin alphabet contained 23 letters: The Latin names of some of the letters are disputed. In general, however, the Romans did not use the traditional (Semitic-derived) names as in Greek, but adopted the", "title": "History of the Latin script" }, { "docid": "101576", "text": "the 16th century. The spoken language however has changed a lot since then, creating a gap between the spoken and written languages. The modern Danish alphabet is similar to the English one, with three additional letters: \"æ\", \"ø\", and \"å\", which come at the end of the alphabet, in that order. The letters c, q, w, x and z are only used in loan words. A spelling reform in 1948 introduced the letter \"å\", already in use in Norwegian and Swedish, into the Danish alphabet to replace the digraph \"aa\". The old usage continues to occur in some personal and", "title": "Danish language" }, { "docid": "6720065", "text": "Old English Latin alphabet The Old English Latin alphabet—though it had no standard orthography—generally consisted of 24 letters, and was used for writing Old English from the 9th to the 12th centuries. Of these letters, 20 were directly adopted from the Latin alphabet, two were modified Latin letters (Æ, Ð), and two developed from the runic alphabet (Ƿ, Þ). The letters K, Q and Z were not in the spelling of native English words. In the year 1011, a writer named Byrhtferð ordered the Old English alphabet for numerological purposes. He listed the 24 letters of the Latin alphabet (including", "title": "Old English Latin alphabet" }, { "docid": "6720060", "text": "Old English Latin alphabet The Old English Latin alphabet—though it had no standard orthography—generally consisted of 24 letters, and was used for writing Old English from the 9th to the 12th centuries. Of these letters, 20 were directly adopted from the Latin alphabet, two were modified Latin letters (Æ, Ð), and two developed from the runic alphabet (Ƿ, Þ). The letters K, Q and Z were not in the spelling of native English words. In the year 1011, a writer named Byrhtferð ordered the Old English alphabet for numerological purposes. He listed the 24 letters of the Latin alphabet (including", "title": "Old English Latin alphabet" }, { "docid": "2259140", "text": "of 30 graphemes and eight digraphs: Based on the Steuer alphabet, in 2006 the \"Phonetic Silesian Alphabet\" was proposed: Silesian's phonetic alphabet replaces the digraphs with single letters (Sz with Š, etc.) and does not include the letter Ł, whose sound can be represented phonetically with U. It is therefore the alphabet that contains the fewest letters. Although it is the (phonetically) most logical and hence the most intuitive writing of Silesian, it did not become popular with Silesian organizations, with the argument that it contains too many caron diacritics and hence resembles the Czech alphabet. Large parts of the", "title": "Silesian language" }, { "docid": "16658899", "text": "respective alphabet sequences. In some languages, digraphs are included in the collation sequence (e.g. Hungarian CS, Welsh RH). The International Phonetic Alphabet is also derived mainly from the Latin script. Coverage of the letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet can be and additional letters can be Most alphabets have the letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet in the same order as that alphabet. Some alphabets regard digraphs as distinct letters, e.g. the old Spanish alphabet had CH and LL sorted apart from C and L. Some Spanish dictionaries still list \"ll\" separately. Some alphabets sort letters that have", "title": "Latin-script alphabet" }, { "docid": "197201", "text": "on the context and language. Occasionally letters or diacritics are added, removed or modified by the International Phonetic Association. As of the most recent change in 2005, there are 107 letters, 52 diacritics and four prosodic marks in the IPA. These are shown in the current IPA chart, posted below in this article and at the website of the IPA. In 1886, a group of French and British language teachers, led by the French linguist Paul Passy, formed what would come to be known from 1897 onwards as the International Phonetic Association (in French, \"\"). Their original alphabet was based", "title": "International Phonetic Alphabet" }, { "docid": "3401183", "text": "must be terminated by a different termination symbol or word. A suffix tree for a string formula_1 of length formula_6 can be built in formula_17 time, if the letters come from an alphabet of integers in a polynomial range (in particular, this is true for constant-sized alphabets). For larger alphabets, the running time is dominated by first sorting the letters to bring them into a range of size formula_18; in general, this takes formula_4 time. The costs below are given under the assumption that the alphabet is constant. Assume that a suffix tree has been built for the string formula_1", "title": "Suffix tree" }, { "docid": "3755332", "text": "written in Molodtsov alphabet, also derived from Cyrillic. In the 1930s it was switched to Latin. Since the 1940s the Komi alphabet was simply changed to the Russian alphabet, albeit with the addition of \"І, і\" and \"Ӧ, ӧ\". Letters particular to the Molodtsov alphabet include ԁ, ԃ, ԅ, ԇ, ԉ, ԋ, ԍ, ԏ, where the hooks represent palatalization. In addition, the letters Ф ф, Х х, and Ц ц might be used for words borrowed from Russian. The first book published in Komi was a vaccination manual published in 1815. Komi has seven vowels: close , , , mid", "title": "Komi language" }, { "docid": "2743668", "text": "taken place from the 15th century and lasted right up to the 19th century. Other forms of Arabic-based scripts existed in the region, notably the Pegon alphabet of Javanese language in Java and the Serang alphabet of Bugis language in South Sulawesi. Both writing systems applied extensively the Arabic diacritics and added several letters other than Jawi letters to suit the languages. Due to their fairly limited usage, the spelling system of both scripts did not undergo similar advance developments and modifications as experienced by Jawi script. The script became prominent with the spread of Islam, as the Malays found", "title": "Jawi alphabet" }, { "docid": "8597403", "text": "alphabet. From then on, represented the voiced plosive , while was generally reserved for the voiceless plosive . The letter was used only rarely, in a small number of words such as \"Kalendae\", often interchangeably with . After the Roman conquest of Greece in the 1st century BC, Latin adopted the Greek letters and (or readopted, in the latter case) to write Greek loanwords, placing them at the end of the alphabet. An attempt by the emperor Claudius to introduce three additional letters did not last. Thus it was during the classical Latin period that the Latin alphabet contained 23", "title": "Latin script" }, { "docid": "4741167", "text": "its spelling. This rule excludes recent loanwords such as proper names. The letters representing vowel sounds in Turkic languages are, in alphabetical order, , and , , , , , , . The Uniform Turkic Alphabet was a Latin alphabet used by non-Slavic peoples of the USSR in the 1930s. The alphabet used letters from Jaꞑalif as it was also a part of the uniform alphabet. The uniform alphabet utilized Latin letters, excluding \"w\". Some additional letters were also introduced into the alphabet. Common Turkic Alphabet The terms Common Turkic Alphabet or Turkic concil Alphabet refer to two different systems", "title": "Common Turkic Alphabet" }, { "docid": "1976786", "text": "(e, é, i, í, ö, ő, ü, ű). The names of the consonants are always pronounced with a vowel. In the old alphabet, the consonant-vowel order is reversed, unlike today's pronunciation (\"ep\" rather than \"pé\"). This is because the oldest inscriptions lacked vowels and were rarely written down, similar to other ancient languages' consonant-writing systems (Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, etc.). The alphabet did not contain letters for the phonemes dz and dzs of modern Hungarian, since these are relatively recent developments in the language's history. Nor did it have letters corresponding to the Latin q, w, x and y. The modern", "title": "Old Hungarian alphabet" }, { "docid": "94745", "text": "(However, in some computer graphics contexts, the ordinate axis may be oriented downwards.) The origin is often labeled \"O\", and the two coordinates are often denoted by the letters \"X\" and \"Y\", or \"x\" and \"y\". The axes may then be referred to as the \"X\"-axis and \"Y\"-axis. The choices of letters come from the original convention, which is to use the latter part of the alphabet to indicate unknown values. The first part of the alphabet was used to designate known values. A Euclidean plane with a chosen Cartesian coordinate system is called a \"Cartesian plane\". In a Cartesian", "title": "Cartesian coordinate system" }, { "docid": "14734952", "text": "Swedish Dialect Alphabet The Swedish Dialect Alphabet () is a phonetic alphabet created in 1878 by Johan August Lundell and used for the narrow transcription of Swedish dialects. The initial version of the alphabet consisted of 89 letters, 42 of which came from the phonetic alphabet proposed by Carl Jakob Sundevall. It has since grown to over 200 letters.<ref name=\"L2/06-036\"></ref> The alphabet supplemented Latin letters with symbols adapted from a range of alphabets, including modified forms of þ and ð from Germanic alphabets, γ and φ from the Greek alphabet and ы from the Cyrillic alphabet, and extended with systematic", "title": "Swedish Dialect Alphabet" }, { "docid": "9385", "text": "the Brahmi script, which is often believed to be a descendant of Aramaic. In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great. Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation (P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.); its design was planned by the government of the day; and it places individual letters in syllable clusters with equal dimensions, in the same way as Chinese characters, to allow for mixed-script writing (one syllable always takes", "title": "Alphabet" }, { "docid": "9711277", "text": "displaced Chagatai; \"Kona Yëziq\", meaning \"old script\", now distinguishes it and UEY from the alternatives that are \"not\" derived from Arabic. Between 1937 and 1954 the Perso-Arabic alphabet used to write Uyghur was modified by removing redundant letters and adding markings for vowels. A Cyrillic alphabet was adopted in the 1950s and a Latin alphabet in 1958. The modern Uyghur Perso-Arabic alphabet was made official in 1978 and reinstituted by the Chinese government in 1983, with modifications for representing Uyghur vowels. The Arabic alphabet used before the modifications (Kona Yëziq) did not represent Uyghur vowels and according to Robert Barkley", "title": "Uyghur Arabic alphabet" }, { "docid": "10760691", "text": "Bohorič alphabet The Bohorič alphabet () was an orthography used for Slovene between the 16th and 19th centuries. Its name is derived from Adam Bohorič, who codified the alphabet in his book \"Articae Horulae Succisivae\". It was printed in 1583 and published in 1584. The Bohorič alphabet was first used by the Lutheran preacher Primož Trubar, the author of the first printed book in Slovene. However, Trubar did not follow strict rules and often used alternate spellings for the same word. The alphabet consists of 25 letters (including 3 digraphs) in the following order: a b d e f g", "title": "Bohorič alphabet" }, { "docid": "16658897", "text": "Latin-script alphabet A Latin-script alphabet (Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet) is an alphabet that uses letters of the Latin script. The 21-letter archaic Latin alphabet and the 23-letter classical Latin alphabet belong to the oldest of this group. The 26-letter ISO basic Latin alphabet contains the 26 most widely used letters. Apart from alphabets for spoken languages, there exist phonetic alphabets and Spelling alphabets. Some letters of the Latin script were altered slightly for use in particular languages, although the main letters are largely the same. There were several general types of alterations made to extend the alphabet's uses, depending", "title": "Latin-script alphabet" }, { "docid": "13401037", "text": "Pashto alphabet The Pashto alphabet () is derived from the Perso-Arabic or Arabic script, with letters added to accommodate phonemes used in Pashto that are not found in Arabic. In the 16th century, Bayazid Pir Roshan from Waziristan invented the Roshani script to write Pashto. It had 41 letters: 28 of his letters came from the Arabic alphabet. He introduced 13 new letters into the Pashto alphabet. Most of the new letters he introduced i.e. ګ ,ښ ,ړ ,ډ ,څ ,ټ and ڼ are still written in the same form and are pronounced almost in the same way in modern", "title": "Pashto alphabet" }, { "docid": "2806277", "text": "speech the \"foreign sounds\" were replaced with respectively /t͡ɕ/, /p/, and /k/, respectively. The Komi-Permyak vowel system can be considered as being three-dimensional, where vowels are characterised by three features: front and back, rounded and unrounded and vowel height. Komi-Permyak does not distinguish between long and short vowels and does not have vowel harmony. There are no diphthongs; when two vowels come together, which occurs at some morpheme boundaries, each vowel retains its individual sound. The both regional standards of the Komi language have an identical alphabet, introduced in 1938. The alphabet (анбур) includes all the Russian letters plus two", "title": "Komi-Permyak language" }, { "docid": "2258373", "text": "was a one-to-one correspondence between sounds and letters, Jernej Kopitar urged the development of a new alphabet. In 1825, Franc Serafin Metelko proposed his version of the alphabet called \"metelčica\". However, it was banned in 1833 in favour of the bohoričica after the so-called \"Suit of the Letters\" (\"Črkarska pravda\") (1830–1833), which was won by France Prešeren and Matija Čop. Another alphabet, \"dajnčica\", was developed by Peter Dajnko in 1824, but did not catch on as widely as \"metelčica\"; it was banned in 1838 because it mixed Latin and Cyrillic characters, which was seen as a poor way to handle", "title": "Slovene alphabet" }, { "docid": "11133878", "text": "alphabet was prolifically employed in the Perm Oblast, where virtually all Komi-language publications from 1932 to 1936 were made in the Latin Molodtsov alphabet. Molodtsov alphabet The Cyrillic Molodtsov alphabet (, \"Molodcov anbur\") is an alphabet derived from Cyrillic that was used in the 1920s and 1930s to write two versions of the Komi language; Komi-Zyrian and Komi-Permyak. It was replaced by the Latin Molodtsov alphabet in 1931 and later by the Cyrillic alphabet in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The letters particular to the Cyrillic Molodtsov alphabet are: Ԁ Ԃ Ԅ Ԇ Ԉ Ԋ Ԍ Ԏ (the hooks", "title": "Molodtsov alphabet" }, { "docid": "9379", "text": "all alphabets in the West. The vowels have independent letter forms separate from those of consonants; therefore it was the first true alphabet. The Greeks chose letters representing sounds that did not exist in Greek to represent vowels. Vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script that was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols, including 5 vowels. In its early years, there were many variants of the Greek alphabet, a situation that caused many different alphabets to evolve from it. The Greek alphabet, in its Euboean form, was", "title": "Alphabet" }, { "docid": "2547272", "text": "the letters of the alphabet in their conventional order from one to nine, 10 to 90 and 100 to 900; in this arrangement obsolete letters were retained in their original places so as to give the requisite number of 27 symbols. The Roman system of numerals — M, D, C, L, X, V, I (for 1,000, 500, 100, 50, 10, 5 and 1) is generally supposed to have arisen from the adaptation of those symbols in the Greek alphabet which the Romans did not want; an alternative theory is that it is simplified from a series of ideographs representing the", "title": "Epigraphy" }, { "docid": "1596684", "text": "the letter \"w\" is considered an official letter. In computing, several different coding standards have existed for this alphabet: Danish and Norwegian alphabet The Danish and Norwegian alphabet, called the Dano-Norwegian alphabet is based upon the Latin alphabet and has consisted of the following 29 letters since 1917 (Norwegian) and 1948 (Danish). The letters c, q, w, x and z are not used in the spelling of indigenous words. They are rarely used in Norwegian, where loan words routinely have their orthography adapted to the native sound system. Conversely, Danish has a greater tendency to preserve the original spelling of", "title": "Danish and Norwegian alphabet" }, { "docid": "16620853", "text": "letters represent the phonemes /æ/, /ŋ/, /œ/, /ů/, /y/, /ẙ/ and /ə/. Mari alphabet The Mari language is mostly written using a Cyrillic alphabet. The Meadow Mari alphabet uses all of the letters of the Russian alphabet, plus 3 more: ҥ, ӧ, and ӱ. Respectively, these letters represent the phonemes /ŋ/, /œ/, and /y/. The Hill Mari alphabet uses all of the letters of the Russian alphabet, plus 4 more: ӓ, ӧ, ӱ, and ӹ. Respectively, these letters represent the phonemes /æ/, /œ/, /y/, and /ə/. The North-Western Mari alphabet uses all of the letters of the Russian alphabet, plus", "title": "Mari alphabet" }, { "docid": "9405", "text": "\"sci-\" (all incidentally loanwords) instead of appearing after initial \"sz\", as though it were a single letter—in contrast to several languages such as Albanian, in which \"dh-\", \"ë-\", \"gj-\", \"ll-\", \"rr-\", \"th-\", \"xh-\" and \"zh-\" (all representing phonemes and considered separate single letters) would follow the letters \"d\", \"e\", \"g\", \"l\", \"n\", \"r\", \"t\", \"x\" and \"z\" respectively, as well as Hungarian and Welsh. Further, German words with umlaut are collated ignoring the umlaut—contrary to Turkish that adopted the graphemes ö and ü, and where a word like \"tüfek\", would come after \"tuz\", in the dictionary. An exception is the", "title": "Alphabet" }, { "docid": "8749236", "text": "Romic alphabet The Romic Alphabet, sometimes known as the Romic Reform, is a phonetic alphabet proposed by Henry Sweet. It descends from Ellis's Palaeotype alphabet and English Phonotypic Alphabet, and is the direct ancestor of the International Phonetic Alphabet. In Romic every sound had a dedicated symbol, and every symbol represented a single sound. There were no capital letters; there were letters derived from small capitals, though these were distinct letters. There were two variants, Broad Romic and Narrow Romic. Narrow Romic utilized italics to distinguish fine details of pronunciation; Broad Romic was cruder, and in it the vowels had", "title": "Romic alphabet" }, { "docid": "2111787", "text": "in Russian or other Slavic languages (there are no words of Slavic origin beginning with \"f\" at all). The last line contains only one translatable word – \"червь\" (\"worm\"), which, however, was not included in the \"translation\". Russian alphabet The Russian alphabet () uses letters from the Cyrillic script. The modern Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters. The Russian alphabet is as follows: Consonant letters represent both \"soft\" (palatalized, represented in the IPA with a ) and \"hard\" consonant phonemes. If consonant letters are followed by vowel letters, the soft/hard quality of the consonant depends on whether the vowel is", "title": "Russian alphabet" }, { "docid": "2111771", "text": "Russian alphabet The Russian alphabet () uses letters from the Cyrillic script. The modern Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters. The Russian alphabet is as follows: Consonant letters represent both \"soft\" (palatalized, represented in the IPA with a ) and \"hard\" consonant phonemes. If consonant letters are followed by vowel letters, the soft/hard quality of the consonant depends on whether the vowel is meant to follow \"hard\" consonants or \"soft\" consonants ; see below. A soft sign indicates palatalization of the preceding consonant without adding a vowel. However, in modern Russian six consonant phonemes do not have phonemically distinct \"soft\"", "title": "Russian alphabet" }, { "docid": "1332824", "text": "of Poland has 34 letters. It includes all the Ukrainian letters with the exception of ї, plus ы and ъ. The Pannonian Rusyn alphabet has 32 letters, namely all the Ukrainian letters except і. The Rusyn alphabets all place ь after я, like the Ukrainian alphabet did until 1990. The vast majority of Cyrillic alphabets place ь before э (if present), ю, and я. The Lemko and Prešov Rusyn alphabets place ъ at the very end, while the vast majority of Cyrillic alphabets place it after щ. They also place ы before й, while the vast majority of Cyrillic alphabets", "title": "Rusyn language" }, { "docid": "4256248", "text": "the alphabet. Rather than the ancient Semitic names for the letters (\"aleph\", \"beth\", \"gimel\"), the letters are known as \"a\", \"ba\", \"ga\" and so on. It is written from right to left in horizontal lines. It is a cursive script, but not all letters connect within a word. Spaces separate individual words. The Mandaic alphabet contains 22 letters (in the same order as the Aramaic alphabet) and the digraph \"adu\". The alphabet is formally closed by repeating the first letter, \"a\", so that it has a symbolic count of 24 letters: Unlike most other Semitic alphabets, vowels are usually written", "title": "Mandaic alphabet" }, { "docid": "4197499", "text": "(see page 12,13). These three glyphs do not have the official status of letters, but serve to represent these sounds when they are indispensable to comprehension. Turkey does not recognize this alphabet. Use of the letters Q, W, and X, which did not exist in the Turkish alphabet until 2013, led to persecution in 2000 and 2003 (see , p. 8, and ). Since September 2003, many Kurds applied to the courts seeking to change their names to Kurdish ones written with these letters, but failed. The Turkish government finally legalized the letters Q, W, and X as part of", "title": "Kurdish alphabets" }, { "docid": "10633132", "text": "letters to indicate that a vowel is long: In yet other dialects, with additional sounds, additional letters are employed: Quechua employs additional letters to write loanwords, mainly originating from Spanish. In careful speech, the letters may represent a Spanish sound, but generally are substituted with a native sound. For phonetic transcription, four additional letters are used: Quechua alphabet The Quechua alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet. It is used to write the Quechuan languages. The number of letters employed in writing Quechua highly depends on the Quechua dialect. However, the following are the core letters generally used: In Ecuador", "title": "Quechua alphabet" }, { "docid": "16620852", "text": "Mari alphabet The Mari language is mostly written using a Cyrillic alphabet. The Meadow Mari alphabet uses all of the letters of the Russian alphabet, plus 3 more: ҥ, ӧ, and ӱ. Respectively, these letters represent the phonemes /ŋ/, /œ/, and /y/. The Hill Mari alphabet uses all of the letters of the Russian alphabet, plus 4 more: ӓ, ӧ, ӱ, and ӹ. Respectively, these letters represent the phonemes /æ/, /œ/, /y/, and /ə/. The North-Western Mari alphabet uses all of the letters of the Russian alphabet, plus 7 more: ӓ, ҥ, ӧ, ө, ӱ, ӫ and ӹ. Respectively, these", "title": "Mari alphabet" }, { "docid": "4373807", "text": "alphabet and shares similarities with the Phoenician, Hebrew, Arabic, and the traditional Mongolian alphabets. The alphabet consists of 22 letters, all of which are consonants. It is a cursive script where some, but not all, letters connect within a word. The oldest and classical form of the alphabet is \"\" (); the name is thought to derive from the Greek adjective \"strongýlē\" (, 'rounded'), Although ʾEsṭrangēlā is no longer used as the main script for writing Syriac, it has undergone some revival since the 10th century. When Arabic gradually began to be the dominant spoken language in the Fertile Crescent", "title": "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic" }, { "docid": "13899473", "text": "length of RISK's career and his lifelong dedication to letterforms. \"Twenty-Six is a celebration of where I'm at today and where I have come from,\" RISK explained. \"I have been painting for 26 years; there are 26 letters in the alphabet—I could not pick a better way to define myself and my view of graffiti art.\" In 2014, Risk joined Regime Management. Gastman, Roger. \"Freight Train Graffiti.\" New York: Abrams, 2006. Alva, Robert. \"The History of Los Angeles Graffiti Art.\" Alva & Reiling Publications, 2005. Grody, Steve. \"Graffiti L.A.\" New York: Abrams, 2006. RISK (graffiti artist) RISK (born Kelly Graval),", "title": "RISK (graffiti artist)" }, { "docid": "10271634", "text": "French manual alphabet The French manual alphabet is an alphabet used for French Sign Language (LSF), both to distinguish LSF words and to sign French words in LSF. The alphabet has the following letters: These are largely similar to the letters of the American manual alphabet. A few letters (upward G, sideward M and N) are oriented differently, with the result that D and G depend on a difference in hand shape that has been lost from informal ASL, and N looks like an ASL H. Several letters (hitchhiker-thumb A, clawed E, splayed F, nodding P, etc.) have minor differences", "title": "French manual alphabet" }, { "docid": "466290", "text": "of the vowels \"a/o/u\" and as a (standardized) variant spelling of \"ss\", not as independent letters, so they come after the unmodified letters in the alphabetical order. The German alphabet ends with \"z\". A glyph variant of Z originating in the medieval Gothic minuscules and the Early Modern Blackletter typefaces is the \"tailed z\" (German ', also '). In some Antiqua typefaces, this letter is present as a standalone letter or in ligatures. Ligated with long s (ſ), it is part of the origin of the Eszett (ß) in the German alphabet. The character ezh (Ʒ) resembles a tailed z.", "title": "Z" }, { "docid": "16741732", "text": "\"The Kid.\" The result was published children's book, \"Cloudberry\". For higher literature courses Aksyonova seriously addressed the issues Dolgan writing. In his first letter to the translator Valery Kravtsov it in March 1978, it was reported that he wanted the experience of other nations. \"Now come to grips with our alphabet - wrote Aksenov. - I'll take five letters of the Yakuts and the Kazakhs want to take two letters. \" The first draft of his prepared script Aksenova by the end of 1978. Her version is largely supported by Novosibirsk philologists. In 1979, was approved by Dolgan alphabet. A", "title": "Ogdo Aksyonova" }, { "docid": "16640991", "text": "Hungarian Braille The braille alphabet used to write Hungarian is based on the international norm for the 26 basic letters of the Latin script. However, the letters for \"q\" and \"z\" have been replaced, to increase the symmetry of the accented letters of the Hungarian alphabet, which are largely innovative to Hungarian braille. The Hungarian alphabet is: The letters that conform to traditional braille are: The accented vowel letters are derived from their base letters through stretching or reflection as follows. The traditional letter for \"q\" (which is not part of the basic Hungarian alphabet) has been reassigned to \"ö\",", "title": "Hungarian Braille" }, { "docid": "1596675", "text": "Danish and Norwegian alphabet The Danish and Norwegian alphabet, called the Dano-Norwegian alphabet is based upon the Latin alphabet and has consisted of the following 29 letters since 1917 (Norwegian) and 1948 (Danish). The letters c, q, w, x and z are not used in the spelling of indigenous words. They are rarely used in Norwegian, where loan words routinely have their orthography adapted to the native sound system. Conversely, Danish has a greater tendency to preserve the original spelling of loan words. In particular, a 'c' that represents /s/ is almost never normalized to 's' in Danish, as would", "title": "Danish and Norwegian alphabet" }, { "docid": "1630851", "text": "Turkish alphabet The Turkish alphabet () is a Latin-script alphabet used for writing the Turkish language, consisting of 29 letters, seven of which (Ç, Ş, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ü) have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language. This alphabet represents modern Turkish pronunciation with a high degree of accuracy and specificity. It is the current official alphabet and the latest in a series of distinct alphabets used in different eras. The letters of the Turkish alphabet are: Of these 29 letters, eight are vowels (A, E, I, İ, O, Ö, U, Ü); the", "title": "Turkish alphabet" }, { "docid": "331695", "text": "India, Southeast Asia, Tibet, and Mongolia. Initially, the Aramaic script did not differ from the Phoenician, but then the Aramaeans simplified some of the letters, thickened and rounded their lines: a specific feature of its letters is the distinction between d and r. One innovation in Aramaic is the \"matres lectionis\" system to indicate certain vowels. Early Phoenician-derived scripts did not have letters for vowels, and so most texts recorded just consonants. Most likely as a consequence of phonetic changes in North Semitic languages, the Aramaeans reused certain letters in the alphabet to represent long vowels. The letter \"aleph\" was", "title": "Palaeography" }, { "docid": "5512823", "text": "French/American one-handed alphabets retain the forms of the Latin alphabet, as the Indian manual alphabet does Devanagari, and the Korean does Hangul), Braille, semaphore, maritime signal flags, and the Morse codes are essentially arbitrary geometric forms. The shapes of the English Braille and semaphore letters, for example, are derived from the alphabetic order of the Latin alphabet, but not from the graphic forms of the letters themselves. Most modern forms of shorthand are also unrelated to the alphabet, generally transcribing sounds instead of letters. History of the alphabet The history of alphabetic writing goes back to the consonantal writing system", "title": "History of the alphabet" }, { "docid": "20865524", "text": "Carpathian Rusyn language Carpathian Rusyn ( (), ()) is a dialect of the Rusyn language, spoken by the Rusyns of Carpathian Ruthenia (Eastern Slovakia, Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine, Southern Poland). Carpathian Rusyn is spoken in: The table below shows the alphabet of Slovakia (Prešov) Rusyn. The alphabet of the other Carpathian Rusyn standard, Lemko (Poland) Rusyn, differs from it only by lacking the letters ё and ї. The Prešov Rusyn alphabet of Slovakia has 36 letters. It includes all the letters of the Ukrainian alphabet plus ё, ы, and ъ. The Lemko Rusyn alphabet of Poland has 34 letters. It", "title": "Carpathian Rusyn language" }, { "docid": "2365268", "text": "be seen, the Uyghur Arabic alphabet, Uyghur New Script and Uyghur Latin alphabet each have a total of 32 letters (including one digraph for NG/ng in the two Latin-based alphabets, plus four digraphs in ULY). There may still exist differences in texts using the newer Latin orthography, where the standard choice of is sometimes written instead, with the acute accent instead of the standardized diaeresis: this should not make any difference in Uyghur. The Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet has three additional letters, the Cyrillic soft letters/ligatures , , and , representing , , and , respectively, which are written with independent", "title": "Uyghur alphabets" }, { "docid": "2335314", "text": "English alphabet The modern English alphabet is a Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters, each having an uppercase and a lowercase form, and the same letters constitute the ISO basic Latin alphabet. The exact shape of printed letters varies depending on the typeface (and font), and the shape of handwritten letters can differ significantly from the standard printed form (and between individuals), especially when written in cursive style. English is the only major modern European language requiring no diacritics for native words (although a diaeresis is used by some publishers in words such as \"coöperation\" or \"naïve\"). Written English does,", "title": "English alphabet" }, { "docid": "2643780", "text": "is pronounced as if it were \"Schi\" all over the German-speaking areas (reflecting its pronunciation in its source language Norwegian), but only written that way in Austria. This section lists German letters and letter combinations, and how to pronounce them transliterated into the International Phonetic Alphabet. This is the pronunciation of Standard German. Note that the pronunciation of standard German varies slightly from region to region. In fact, it is possible to tell where most German speakers come from by their accent in standard German (not to be confused with the different German dialects). Foreign words are usually pronounced approximately", "title": "German orthography" }, { "docid": "300019", "text": "half-uncial script of the Latin alphabet introduced by Irish Christian missionaries. This was replaced by insular script, a cursive and pointed version of the half-uncial script. This was used until the end of the 12th century when continental Carolingian minuscule (also known as \"Caroline\") replaced the insular. The Latin alphabet of the time still lacked the letters and , and there was no as distinct from ; moreover native Old English spellings did not use , or . The remaining 20 Latin letters were supplemented by four more: (, modern \"ash\") and (, now called eth or edh), which were", "title": "Old English" }, { "docid": "3254812", "text": "Greek alphabet The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late ninth or early eighth century BC. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the first alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. In Archaic and early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many different local variants, but, by the end of the fourth century BC, the Eucleidean alphabet, with twenty-four letters, ordered from alpha to omega, had become standard and it is this version that is still used to write Greek today. These twenty-four letters", "title": "Greek alphabet" }, { "docid": "4513557", "text": "script, known as (\"script with dots and circles\"). As a result, the Manchu alphabet contains little ambiguity. Recently discovered manuscripts from the 1620s make clear, however, that the addition of dots and circles to Manchu script began before their supposed introduction by Dahai. Dahai also added ten graphemes (\"tulergi hergen\": \"foreign (outer) letters\"), to allow Manchu to be used to write Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan loanwords. Previously, these words contained sounds that did not have corresponding letters in Manchu. Sounds that were transliterated included the aspirated sounds k' (Chinese pinyin: k, ), k (g, ), x (h, ); ts' (c,", "title": "Manchu alphabet" }, { "docid": "3254845", "text": "letters were also used to write numbers. In the classical Ionian system, the first nine letters of the alphabet stood for the numbers from 1 to 9, the next nine letters stood for the multiples of 10, from 10 to 90, and the next nine letters stood for the multiples of 100, from 100 to 900. For this purpose, in addition to the 24 letters which by that time made up the standard alphabet, three otherwise obsolete letters were retained or revived: digamma for 6, koppa for 90, and a rare Ionian letter for [ss], today called sampi , for", "title": "Greek alphabet" }, { "docid": "92293", "text": "systems of collation where items of information are identified by strings consisting principally of letters from an alphabet. The ordering of the strings relies on the existence of a standard ordering for the letters of the alphabet in question. (The system is not limited to alphabets in the strict technical sense; languages that use a syllabary or abugida, for example Cherokee, can use the same ordering principle provided there is a set ordering for the symbols used.) To decide which of two strings comes first in alphabetical order, initially their first letters are compared. The string whose first letter appears", "title": "Collation" }, { "docid": "24213", "text": "letters to differentiate them. (The Aramaic language had fewer phonemes than the Arabic, and some originally distinct Aramaic letters had become indistinguishable in shape, so that in the early writings 15 distinct letter-shapes had to do duty for 28 sounds; cf. the similarly ambiguous Pahlavi alphabet.) The first surviving document that definitely uses these dots is also the first surviving Arabic papyrus (PERF 558), dated April 643, although they did not become obligatory until much later. Important texts were and still are frequently memorized, especially in Qurʾan memorization, a practice which probably arose partially from a desire to avoid the", "title": "Arabic alphabet" }, { "docid": "12021644", "text": "Corsican alphabet The modern Corsican alphabet (Corsican u santacroce or u salteriu) uses 22 basic letters taken from the Latin alphabet with some changes, plus some multigraphs. The pronunciations of the English, French, Italian or Latin forms of these letters are not a guide to their pronunciation in \"Corsu\", which has its own pronunciation, often the same, but frequently not. As can be seen from the table below, two of the phonemic letters are represented as trigraphs, plus some other digraphs. Nearly all the letters are allophonic; that is, a phoneme of the language might have more than one pronunciation", "title": "Corsican alphabet" }, { "docid": "9384", "text": "Clement of Ohrid, who was their disciple. They feature many letters that appear to have been borrowed from or influenced by the Greek alphabet and the Hebrew alphabet. The longest European alphabet is the Latin-derived Slovak alphabet which has 46 letters. Beyond the logographic Chinese writing, many phonetic scripts are in existence in Asia. The Arabic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Syriac alphabet, and other abjads of the Middle East are developments of the Aramaic alphabet, but because these writing systems are largely consonant-based they are often not considered true alphabets. Most alphabetic scripts of India and Eastern Asia are descended from", "title": "Alphabet" }, { "docid": "2823800", "text": "character references can be in decimal format (&#\"DDDD\";) or hexadecimal format (&#x\"HHHH\";). For example, ܕ and ܕ (1813 in decimal) both represent U+0715 SYRIAC LETTER DALATH. Syriac alphabet The Syriac alphabet ( ) is a writing system primarily used to write the Syriac language since the 1st century AD. It is one of the Semitic abjads descending from the Aramaic alphabet through the Palmyrene alphabet, and it shares similarities with the Phoenician, Hebrew, Arabic and the traditional Mongolian scripts. Syriac is written from right to left in horizontal lines. It is a cursive script where most, but not all, letters", "title": "Syriac alphabet" }, { "docid": "2258371", "text": "albeit with some adaptations. Japanese, Indian and Arabic names such as \"Kajibumi\", \"Djakarta\" and \"Jabar\" are written as \"Kadžibumi\", \"Džakarta\" and \"Džabar\", where j is replaced with dž. Except for ć and đ, graphemes with diacritical marks from other foreign alphabets (e.g., ä, å, æ, ç, ë, ï, ń, ö, ß, ş, ü) are not used as independent letters. The modern alphabet (\"abeceda\") was standardised in the mid-1840s from an arrangement of the Croatian national reviver and leader Ljudevit Gaj which would become the Croatian alphabet, and was in turn patterned on the Czech alphabet. Before the current alphabet became", "title": "Slovene alphabet" }, { "docid": "8597400", "text": "Latin script Latin or Roman script is a set of graphic signs (script) based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet. This is derived from a form of the Cumaean Greek version of the Greek alphabet used by the Etruscans. Several Latin-script alphabets exist, which differ in graphemes, collation, and phonetic values from the classical Latin alphabet. The Latin script is the basis of the International Phonetic Alphabet, and the 26 most widespread letters are the letters contained in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Latin script is the basis for the largest number of alphabets of any writing system", "title": "Latin script" }, { "docid": "2296612", "text": "taboo and most were frowned upon as non-scholarly. However, nowadays Sinhalese slang words and terms, even the ones with sexual references, are commonly used among younger Sri Lankans. The Sinhalese script, \"Sinhala hodiya\", is based on the ancient Brahmi script, as are most Indian scripts. The Sinhalese alphabet is closely related to South Indian Grantha alphabet and Khmer alphabet taken the elements from the related Kadamba alphabet. The Sinhalese writing system is an abugida, where the consonants are written with letters while the vowels are indicated with diacritics (\"pilla\") on those consonants, unlike English where both consonants and vowels are", "title": "Sinhalese language" }, { "docid": "4143880", "text": "the 27th letter. A traditional method for constructing a mixed alphabet from a key word or phrase is to write out the unique letters of the key in order, followed by the remaining letters of the alphabet in the usual order. For example, the key FELIX MARIE DELASTELLE yields the mixed alphabet FELIXMARDSTBCGHJKNOPQUVWYZ+. To each letter in the mixed alphabet we assign one of the 27 trigrams (111, 112, …, 333) by populating a 3 × 3 × 3 cube with the letters of the mixed alphabet, and using the Cartesian coordinates of each letter as the corresponding trigram. From", "title": "Trifid cipher" }, { "docid": "174978", "text": "and was known by Jewish sages as the Ashuri alphabet (lit. \"Assyrian\"), since its origins were alleged to be from Assyria. Various \"styles\" (in current terms, \"fonts\") of representation of the Jewish script letters described in this article also exist, including a variety of cursive Hebrew styles. In the remainder of this article, the term \"Hebrew alphabet\" refers to the square script unless otherwise indicated. The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. It does not have case, but five letters have different forms when used at the end of a word. Hebrew is written from right to left. Originally, the alphabet", "title": "Hebrew alphabet" }, { "docid": "668277", "text": "of Greek origin; 6 or 7 more were retained from Demotic, depending on the dialect (6 in Sahidic, another each in Bohairic and Akhmimic). In addition to the alphabetic letters, the letter ϯ stood for the syllable or . As the Coptic alphabet is simply a typeface of the Greek alphabet, with a few added letters, it can be used to write Greek without any transliteration schemes. Latin equivalents would include the Icelandic alphabet (which likewise has added letters), or the Fraktur alphabet (which has distinctive forms). While initially unified with the Greek alphabet by Unicode, a proposal was later", "title": "Coptic alphabet" }, { "docid": "17236957", "text": "ME or not, must acknowledge receipt of the message, but must not indicate its receipt to the user and must discard its contents, so the message will not be stored in the (U)SIM or ME. A special 7-bit encoding called \"GSM 7 bit default alphabet\" was designed for Short Message System in GSM. The alphabet contains the most-often used symbols from most Western-European languages (and some Greek uppercase letters). Some ASCII characters and the Euro sign did not fit into the GSM 7-bit default alphabet and must be encoded using two septets. These characters form GSM 7-bit default alphabet \"extension", "title": "GSM 03.40" }, { "docid": "24188", "text": "Arabic alphabet The Arabic alphabet ( ', or ') or Arabic abjad is the Arabic script as it is codified for writing Arabic. It is written from right to left in a cursive style and includes 28 letters. Most letters have contextual letterforms. Originally, the alphabet was an abjad, with only consonants, but it is now considered an \"impure abjad\". As with other \"abjads\", such as the Hebrew alphabet, scribes later devised means of indicating vowel sounds by separate vowel diacritics. The basic Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters. Adaptations of the Arabic script for other languages added and removed some", "title": "Arabic alphabet" }, { "docid": "10861165", "text": "Alphabet book An alphabet book is a book primarily designed for young children. It presents letters of the alphabet with corresponding words and/or images. Some alphabet books feature capitals and lower case letter forms, keywords beginning with specific letters, or illustrations of keywords. Alphabet books may consist of sentences, paragraphs, or entire pages highlighting letters and corresponding keywords in a variety of creative and imaginative formats. Alphabet books introduce the sounds and letters of the ordered alphabet. These books provide a non-threatening genre in which children engage in a variety of both fiction and non-fiction texts. Alphabet books provide opportunities", "title": "Alphabet book" }, { "docid": "7339994", "text": "but contain Greek innovations such as the letters Φ and Ψ which did not exist in the earliest forms of the Greek alphabet. The Anatolian alphabets fell out of use around the 4th century BCE with the onset of the Hellenistic period. Alphabets of Asia Minor Various alphabetic writing systems were in use in Iron Age Anatolia to record Anatolian languages and Phrygian. Several of these languages had previously been written with logographic and syllabic scripts. The alphabets of Asia Minor proper share characteristics that distinguish them from the earliest attested forms of the Greek alphabet. Many letters in these", "title": "Alphabets of Asia Minor" }, { "docid": "15334032", "text": "the Ukrainian alphabet until 1990, the Pannonian Rusyn alphabet places ь after я, while the vast majority of Cyrillic alphabets place ь before э (if present), ю, and я. The Prešov Rusyn alphabet of Slovakia has 36 letters. It includes all the letters of the Pannonian Rusyn alphabet plus ё, і, ы, and ъ. The Lemko Rusyn alphabet of Poland has 34 letters. It includes all the letters of the Pannonian Rusyn alphabet with the exception of ї, plus і, ы, and ъ. In the Ukrainian alphabet, и precedes і and ї, and the Pannonian Rusyn alphabet (which doesn't have", "title": "Pannonian Rusyn language" } ]

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[ { "docid": "9835676", "text": "monitoring are based on networks of static and sparse measurement stations. However, there are drivers behind current rises in the use of low-cost sensors for air pollution management in cities. The immense urban growth of Chinese cities substantially increases the need for consumer goods, vehicles and energy. This in turn increases the burning of fossil fuels, resulting in smog. Exposure to Smog poses a threat to the health of Chinese citizens. A study from 2012 shows fine particles in the air, which cause respiratory and cardiovascular diseases are one of the key pollutants that are accounted for a large fraction", "title": "Pollution in China" }, { "docid": "9835676", "text": "monitoring are based on networks of static and sparse measurement stations. However, there are drivers behind current rises in the use of low-cost sensors for air pollution management in cities. The immense urban growth of Chinese cities substantially increases the need for consumer goods, vehicles and energy. This in turn increases the burning of fossil fuels, resulting in smog. Exposure to Smog poses a threat to the health of Chinese citizens. A study from 2012 shows fine particles in the air, which cause respiratory and cardiovascular diseases are one of the key pollutants that are accounted for a large fraction", "title": "Pollution in China" } ]

[ { "docid": "17720617", "text": "pathogens and bacteria can be spread through PM smog and cause diseases. For example, Chinese researchers have found that smog in Beijing contains significant amounts of inhalable microbial allergens and pathogenic species, which increase the risk of respiratory diseases. The same study also reported that among all the microorganisms within PM particles, 86.1% are bacteria, 13% eukaryota, 0.8% archaea, and 0.1% viruses. The smog contains a variety of microorganisms such as \"Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes,\" and \"Euryarchaeota.\" Many of these are not harmful to humans, but some pathogenic microorganisms are carried through smog, and their numbers increase as the", "title": "2013 Eastern China smog" }, { "docid": "19723559", "text": "mobile sources such as motor vehicles. Although smog is a chronic condition, unfavorable weather conditions and excessive pollutants can cause intense concentrations of smog that can cause acute illness and death; because of their unusual visibility and lethality, these intense smog events have often been publicized in the media and are typically described as disasters or, more specifically, environmental disasters. An acute \"smog event\" may also be called simply \"a smog\", a smog \"episode\", or a \"killer smog\" (if it caused, or had the potential to cause, deaths). Even before the 1966 smog episode in New York City, it was", "title": "1966 New York City smog" }, { "docid": "10919199", "text": "picture on the right shows what Beijing, China would look like if No Car Day made more of an impact on individuals. But it also shows the daily occurrence of smog filled air that accompanies China. Smog makes it hard to breathe and is unhealthy for the population. No Car Day's original focus was to advocate drivers about the environmental impact of driving cars. But it always hasn't grabbed drivers attentions in China. No Car Day hasn't necessarily been a recurring thing. They've advocated for the environment but they haven't made strides in getting people to do more public transportation.", "title": "No Car Day" }, { "docid": "359749", "text": "pollution in China. Especially during autumn and winter when coal-fired heating ramps up, the amount of produced smoke at times forces some Chinese cities to close down roads, schools or airports. One prominent example for this was China's Northeastern city of Harbin in 2013. Traffic emissions – such as from trucks, buses, and automobiles– also contribute to the formation of smog. Airborne by-products from vehicle exhaust systems cause air pollution and are a major ingredient in the creation of smog in some large cities. The major culprits from transportation sources are carbon monoxide (CO),nitrogen oxides (NO and NO),volatile organic compounds,", "title": "Smog" }, { "docid": "16641033", "text": "full intellectual property rights on the technology.\" According to Martin, \"China has made clear its intention to go it alone,\" adding that China already has a monopoly over most of the world's rare earth minerals. In March 2014, with their reliance on coal-fired power having become a major cause of their current \"smog crisis,\" they reduced their original goal of creating a working reactor from 25 years down to 10. \"In the past, the government was interested in nuclear power because of the energy shortage. Now they are more interested because of smog,\" said Professor Li Zhong, a scientist working", "title": "Thorium-based nuclear power" }, { "docid": "17720604", "text": "China Meteorological Administration jointly released the \"Green Paper on Climate Change: Addressing Climate Change (2013)\". It stated that the fog and smog in China had increased in the past 50 years with the number of fog-free days significantly reduced, while that of the smog days were significantly increasing with the phenomenon of persisting smog days. The fastest growing fog and smog days occurred in the Pearl and Yangtze River Delta regions, which are the most industrialized areas. The report also indicated that the main reason of increased fog and smog days is the yearly increase in fossil fuel consumption in", "title": "2013 Eastern China smog" }, { "docid": "17622633", "text": "an all-time high, several northern cities are among one of the most polluted cities and has one of the worst air quality in China. Reporting on China's airpocalypse has been accompanied by what seems like a monochromatic slideshow of the country's several cities smothered in thick smog. According to a survey made by \"Global voices China\" in February 2013, China's 10 most polluted cities on the blacklist includes major Chinese cities like Beijing, Jinan, Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, and 6 other prefectural cities all in Hebei Province. These cities are all situated in traditional geographic subdivision of North China. All highways in", "title": "2013 Northeastern China smog" }, { "docid": "17048089", "text": "sometimes reported to the police in Beijing by neighbors who complain about the smoke and aroma that gets into homes, as well as about concerns about food poisoning that can occur from improper meat handling and cooking. In 2013, outdoor barbecue stands were banned due to heavy smog conditions. Chinese authorities have stated that shaokao operations and Chunjie fireworks are a significant cause of smog in Beijing. Shaokao Shaokao (Chinese: , \" shāo kǎo\"), also romanized as shao kao, is the Chinese translation of \"barbecue\". Chinese variants of the practice constitute a significant aspect of Chinese cuisine. In China, it", "title": "Shaokao" }, { "docid": "19723618", "text": "\"Slate\". \"USA Today\" cited the 1966 smog after China issued its first \"red alert\" air quality warning in December 2015; the same month, an article in \"The Huffington Post\" used the 1966 smog to argue that China could follow the United States' model to regulate pollution. The smog event has been referenced in pop culture. Smog figures into the plot of the 2012 \"Mad Men\" episode \"Dark Shadows\", which is set in New York City during the same Thanksgiving weekend in 1966. A reviewer in \"The A.V. Club\" interpreted the writers' use of the smog as a symbolic representation of", "title": "1966 New York City smog" }, { "docid": "17720619", "text": "PM concentration lower than 12 µg/m indicates good air quality and between 12 and 35 µg/m the airquality is moderate. An AQI value over 300 represents hazardous air quality and below 50 the air quality is good. In December 2013, huge areas of Eastern China reached \"hazardous\" level for multiple days. 2013 Eastern China smog The 2013 Eastern China smog was a severe air pollution episode that affected East China, including all or parts of the municipalities of Shanghai and Tianjin, and the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, and Zhejiang, during December 2013. A lack of cold air", "title": "2013 Eastern China smog" }, { "docid": "2007593", "text": "gas fires), or for those who preferred, to burn coke instead which produces minimal smoke. Central heating (using gas, electricity, oil or permitted solid fuel) was rare in most dwellings at that time, not finding favour until the late 1960s onwards. Despite improvements, insufficient progress had been made to prevent one further smog event approximately ten years later, in early December 1962. Atmospheric scientists at Texas A&M University investigating the haze of polluted air in Beijing realized their research led to a possible cause for the London event in 1952. \"By examining conditions in China and experimenting in a lab,", "title": "Great Smog of London" }, { "docid": "17720602", "text": "2013 Eastern China smog The 2013 Eastern China smog was a severe air pollution episode that affected East China, including all or parts of the municipalities of Shanghai and Tianjin, and the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, and Zhejiang, during December 2013. A lack of cold air flow, combined with slow-moving air masses carrying industrial emissions, collected airborne pollutants to form a thick layer of smog over the region. Levels of PM particulate matter averaged over 150 micrograms per cubic metre; in some areas, they were 300 to 500 micrograms per cubic metre. It was one of the", "title": "2013 Eastern China smog" }, { "docid": "359746", "text": "pollutants that also combine with the primary emissions to form photochemical smog. In certain other cities, such as Delhi, smog severity is often aggravated by stubble burning in neighboring agricultural areas. The atmospheric pollution levels of Los Angeles, Beijing, Delhi, Lahore, Mexico City, Tehran and other cities are often increased by an inversion that traps pollution close to the ground. The developing smog is usually toxic to humans and can cause severe sickness, a shortened life span, or premature death. Coinage of the term \"smog\" is generally attributed to Dr. Henry Antoine Des Voeux in his 1905 paper, \"Fog and", "title": "Smog" }, { "docid": "359761", "text": "from this experiment concluded that there is a link between early-life pollution exposure that leads to the development of asthma, proposing the ongoing effect of the Great Smog. Modern studies continue to find links between mortality and the presence of smog. One study, published in Nature magazine, found that smog episodes in the city of Jinan, a large city in eastern China, during 2011–15, were associated with a 5.87% (95% CI 0.16–11.58%) increase in the rate of overall mortality. This study highlights the effect of exposure to air pollution on the rate of mortality in China. The U.S. EPA has", "title": "Smog" }, { "docid": "1852471", "text": "Also according to this report, 7 of 10 most air polluted cities are in China, including Taiyuan, Beijing, Urumqi, Lanzhou, Chongqing, Jinan and Shijiazhuang. As air pollution in China is at an all-time high, several northern cities are among the most polluted cities and has one of the worst air quality in China. Reporting on China's air quality has been accompanied by what seems like a monochromatic slideshow of the country's several cities smothered in thick smog. According to a survey made by \"Global voices China\" in February 2013, Jinan is among China's 10 most polluted cities, and is the", "title": "Jinan" }, { "docid": "19723590", "text": "and continue to cause disease and death for years. The results of Greenburg's paper were reported by \"The New York Times\". The smog was compared to the 1948 smog in Donora, Pennsylvania and the Great Smog of London of 1952, both of which lasted five days. The London smog's death toll of 4,000 was far higher than Donora, but the smog in Donora was far more severe; at the time of its smog, Donora was a small industrial town with a population of only 13,000, and its population was proportionally hit much harder with 20 deaths and smog-related illnesses among", "title": "1966 New York City smog" }, { "docid": "17622636", "text": "25 micrograms per cubic meter (µg/m³). On the morning of 23 October, PM measurements in Harbin had fallen to an average of 123 µg/m³. 2013 Northeastern China smog A dense wave of smog began in Northeast China, especially in major cities including Harbin, Changchun and Shenyang, as well as the surrounding Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning provinces on 20 October 2013. Unseasonably warm temperatures with very little wind across northeastern China coincided with the initiation of Northeast China's coal-powered municipal heating system. Record densities of fine particulates were measured in the city. In Harbin, the levels of PM particulate matter rose", "title": "2013 Northeastern China smog" }, { "docid": "17622630", "text": "2013 Northeastern China smog A dense wave of smog began in Northeast China, especially in major cities including Harbin, Changchun and Shenyang, as well as the surrounding Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning provinces on 20 October 2013. Unseasonably warm temperatures with very little wind across northeastern China coincided with the initiation of Northeast China's coal-powered municipal heating system. Record densities of fine particulates were measured in the city. In Harbin, the levels of PM particulate matter rose to 1,000 micrograms per cubic metre, worse than Beijing's historic highs. Visibility dropped to and authorities grounded flights and closed more than 2,000 schools.", "title": "2013 Northeastern China smog" }, { "docid": "19723557", "text": "the smog, President Lyndon B. Johnson and members of Congress worked to pass federal legislation regulating air pollution in the United States, culminating in the 1967 Air Quality Act and the 1970 Clean Air Act. The 1966 smog is a milestone that has been compared with other pollution events, including the health effects of pollution from the September 11 attacks and pollution in China. The word \"smog\" (a portmanteau of \"smoke\" and \"fog\") is used to describe several forms of air pollution commonly found in urban and industrialized areas. There are several ways to define and categorize types of smog,", "title": "1966 New York City smog" }, { "docid": "5985872", "text": "lack of rainfall. The annual rainfall, more than half of which falls in July and August alone, is highly variable and not reliable. In the city itself, this amount has averaged to a meagre per annum. As air pollution in China is at an all-time high, several Hebei cities are among one of the most polluted cities and has one of the worst air quality in China. Reporting on China's airpocalypse has been accompanied by what seems like a monochromatic slideshow of the country's several cities smothered in thick smog. According to a survey made by \"Global voices China\" in", "title": "Xingtai" }, { "docid": "2675807", "text": "the area receives 2,600−2,900 hours of sunshine annually. As air pollution in China is at an all-time high, several Hebei cities are among the most polluted in the country and Tangshan has some of the worst air quality in China. Reporting on China's airpocalypse has been accompanied by what seems like a monochromatic slideshow of the country's several cities smothered in thick smog. According to a survey made by \"Global voices China\" in February 2013, 7 cities in Hebei including Xingtai, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Handan, Langfang, Hengshui and Tangshan, are among China's 10 most polluted cities. Tangshan is an important heavy", "title": "Tangshan" }, { "docid": "17720605", "text": "China. The report calls for urgent implementation of regional joint prevention and control measures to effectively solve the air pollution crisis. The mixture of natural fog and unnatural smog started accumulating over the first weekend of December 2013. In Shanghai, the Air Quality Index (AQI) crossed the threshold of 300 on 2 December. The lingering smog also left the air qualities in neighboring cities, such as Nanjing, Jiaxing, at seriously polluted levels. The National Meteorological Center (NMC) issued yellow alert for smog and fog, the third most serious alert in China's four-tiered system. PM particulate levels reached their highest point", "title": "2013 Eastern China smog" }, { "docid": "17720613", "text": "the air pollution in Eastern China, contributing to the growing smog problem in large areas across cities. The composition of PM particles varies, and they are often made of heavy metals and various toxic compounds, such as lead and sulfate. Small particles can be suspended in the air for long periods of time due to their low masses. While some particles such as large-size carbon may be seen as soot and smoke, most of them can only be detected with a microscope. The Chinese Academy of Sciences indicated that smog in Beijing is a combination of both artificial factors and", "title": "2013 Eastern China smog" }, { "docid": "17720611", "text": "all middle and primary schools and kindergartens. Experts say these figures indicate high levels of dust on construction sites. Children's Hospital outpatient services increased by 33 percent; the general incidence of bronchitis, pneumonia, upper respiratory tract infection increased significantly. The smog dissipated 12 December. Officials blamed the dense pollution on lack of wind, automobile exhaust emissions under low air pressure and coal-powered district heating system in North China. Visibility was reduced to less than 50 meters. Many highways in East China's Jiangxi province were closed. The severe smog is raising awareness in re-assessing China's air pollution. On 12 February 2014,", "title": "2013 Eastern China smog" }, { "docid": "74669", "text": "London smog was caused primarily by the heavy use of coal. Globally coal is estimated to cause 800,000 premature deaths every year, mostly in India and China. Breathing in coal dust causes coalworker's pneumoconiosis which is known colloquially as \"black lung\", so-called because the coal dust literally turns the lungs black from their usual pink color. In the United States alone, it is estimated that 1,500 former employees of the coal industry die every year from the effects of breathing in coal mine dust. Around 10% of coal is ash: coal ash is hazardous and toxic to human beings and", "title": "Coal" }, { "docid": "359743", "text": "Smog Smog is a type of severe air pollution. The word \"smog\" was coined in the early 20th century as a blending of the words smoke and fog to refer to smoky fog, its opacity, and odor. The word was then intended to refer to what was sometimes known as pea soup fog, a familiar and serious problem in London from the 19th century to the mid-20th century. This kind of visible air pollution is composed of nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides, ozone, smoke and other particulates. Man-made smog is derived from coal combustion emissions, vehicular emissions, industrial emissions, forest and", "title": "Smog" }, { "docid": "596479", "text": "to cause a dangerously elevated UV index at the surface. Secondly, the nitrogen oxides cause photochemical smog, which darkens the sky and blocks out parts of the sunlight spectrum. This would affect photosynthesis, but models show only about a 1% reduction of the total sunlight spectrum, lasting a few years. However, the smog could potentially cause a cooling effect on Earth's climate, producing a \"cosmic winter\" (similar to an impact winter, but without an impact), but only if it occurs simultaneously with a global climate instability. Thirdly, the elevated nitrogen levels in the atmosphere would wash out and produce nitric", "title": "Gamma-ray burst" }, { "docid": "10653310", "text": "this is still lower than the national average of 951, according to 2006 Statistics Canada data, and far lower than other cities of comparable size (particularly those in the United States). A vehicle emissions testing program known as Ontario's Drive Clean began in 1999, and has had a minimal impact on smog in Toronto. 2005 was Toronto's worst year on record for smog with a total of 48 smog alert days. The Ontario Medical Association estimated in 2005 that total air pollution (from all sources) would cause some 5,800 deaths and 17,000 hospital admissions that year. Several municipally funded programs", "title": "Health in Toronto" }, { "docid": "359760", "text": "lungs' working capacity, cause shortness of breath, pain when inhaling deeply, wheezing, and coughing. It can cause eye and nose irritation and it dries out the protective membranes of the nose and throat and interferes with the body's ability to fight infection, increasing susceptibility to illness. Hospital admissions and respiratory deaths often increase during periods when ozone levels are high. There is a lack of knowledge on the long-term effects of air pollution exposure and the origin of asthma. An experiment was carried out using intense air pollution similar to that of the 1952 Great Smog of London. The results", "title": "Smog" }, { "docid": "15424497", "text": "The state’s 34 million residents own approximately 25 million cars—one for every adult aged 18 years or older. Smog is created when nitrogen oxides (NOx) and hydrocarbon gases (HC) are exposed to sunlight. The five gasses monitored during a smog check are Hydrocarbons (HC), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), and Oxygen (O2). In 1998 the Air Resource Board identified diesel particulate matter as carcinogenic. Further research revealed that it can cause life-shortening health problems such as respiratory illness, heart problems, asthma, and cancer. Diesel particulate matter is the most common airborne toxin that Californians breathe. Between", "title": "California Smog Check Program" }, { "docid": "15424499", "text": "of children living in Southern California found that smog can cause asthma. The study of over 3,000 children showed those living in high-smog areas were more likely to develop asthma if they were avid athletes, when compared to children who did not participate in sports. More people in California live in areas that do not meet federal clean air standards than in any other state. A report by the American Lung Association states that some areas in California are the most polluted in the United States, with air quality that is likely damaging the health of millions of people. The", "title": "California Smog Check Program" }, { "docid": "8008274", "text": "walk only on roofs), Zanna and Deeba make their way to the Propheseers where they learn more about the Smog. Apparently, after the Smog was created in London, a group of weatherwitches called the \"Armets\" battled it with a magic weapon called the \"Klinneract.\" However, the Smog was not killed. Instead, it travelled to UnLondon. It is prophesied in The Book (a talking tome) that the Shwazzy would come one day and save UnLondon. But, in spite of what is prophesied, Zanna fails in her first battle against the Smog. Brokkenbroll, master of broken umbrellas (or \"un\"brellas) arrives in time", "title": "Un Lun Dun" }, { "docid": "19723617", "text": "the 1966 smog. Elizabeth M. Lynch, a New York City legal scholar, said that images of visible air pollution in Beijing from 2012 were \"gross\" but not \"that much different from pictures of New York City in the 1950s and 1960s\", specifically referring to the 1952, 1962, and 1966 smog events. Lynch wrote that the Chinese government's increased transparency on the issue was an encouraging sign that pollution in China could be regulated and abated just as it had in the United States. Similar comparisons between the 1966 smog and Chinese pollution in late 2012 appeared in \"Business Insider\" and", "title": "1966 New York City smog" }, { "docid": "19723595", "text": "lack of municipal resources after white flight—as \"emblems of larger governmental neglect and social inequality\". The smog is commonly cited as one of the most-visible and most-discussed environmental disasters of the 1960s in the United States, alongside the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill and the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire. National public awareness of the smog and its health effects spurred the nascent environmental movement in the United States and galvanized support for legislation to regulate air pollution. Vernon McKenzie, chief of the air pollution division of the federal Public Health Service, called the smog \"a warning of what can happen—and", "title": "1966 New York City smog" }, { "docid": "17321138", "text": "Under the Dome were withdrawn from online websites including the People’s Daily Online and other mainstream platforms. The documentary was finally banned on March 7th, 2015, in mainland China, by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China. The reason of banning was said to be the pressure of public perception of smog and the fear of collective action of the people. Public Opinion After viewing Under the Dome after its release, a large number of Internet viewers expressed their support towards the documentary as well as opinions on smog in China online. More than 80% of viewers said", "title": "Under the Dome (film)" }, { "docid": "17720615", "text": "to use cleaner energy such as natural gas. Automobile exhaust also significantly contributed to the smog problem. More importantly, such chemicals, along with organic carbon released from coal burning, may react with each other in the air, creating more toxic, harmful particles made of SO and NO. PM particles are small enough to pass through the human respiratory system and reach the lung, causing problems like heart attacks and asthma attacks. In northern China, people live, on average, 5.5 years fewer than those in southern China, because of the over-reliance on burning coal for heating systems, which produces huge amounts", "title": "2013 Eastern China smog" }, { "docid": "3063543", "text": "the third lowest recorded temperature of New Zealand's major cities. On cold winter nights, the surrounding hills, clear skies, and frosty calm conditions often combine to form a stable inversion layer above the city that traps vehicle exhausts and smoke from domestic fires to cause smog. While not as bad as smog in Los Angeles or Mexico City, Christchurch smog has often exceeded World Health Organisation recommendations for air pollution. To limit air pollution, the regional council banned the use of open fires in the city in 2006. In 2008 council prohibited the use of woodburners more than 15 years", "title": "Christchurch" }, { "docid": "19723580", "text": "New Jersey reported what was then its worst-ever smog. Elizabeth, New Jersey had smog at half the levels of New York City. A Connecticut health official reported air pollution four times higher than average, but the impact in Greenwich, Connecticut was considered minimal. The nearby New York counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester reported very little smog. Although not part of the area covered by the alert, unusually high smog was reported as far as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Boston, Massachusetts, whose mayor issued a similar health warning. The alert was declared upon the advice of the Interstate Sanitation Commission. Members", "title": "1966 New York City smog" }, { "docid": "19723593", "text": "to address a given environmental problem can cause undesired side effects, sometimes unforeseeable, which are often related to a city's limited resources. Environmental harms in general are linked to urban decay and social inequality. After the 1966 smog, the task of eliminating or reducing air pollution became an essential part of the goal to make \"the city attractive again to the middle class and acceptable to all its residents.\" Such harms—but especially those that create obvious and unpleasant effects, as smog does—were among the factors that, historically, motivated and exacerbated white flight from American cities, including New York City, in", "title": "1966 New York City smog" }, { "docid": "1852472", "text": "only Shandong city to be on this list. Other cities on the blacklist includes major Chinese cities like Beijing, Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, and 6 other prefectural cities all in Hebei Province. These cities are all situated in traditional geographic subdivision of \"Huabei (North China) Region\". A dense wave of smog began in the Central and Eastern part of China on 2 December 2013 across a distance of around , including Jinan and surrounding Shandong area. A lack of cold air flow, combined with slow-moving air masses carrying industrial emissions, collected airborne pollutants to form a thick layer of smog over the", "title": "Jinan" }, { "docid": "190089", "text": "largest metropolitan areas continue to cause severe environmental and health issues, even if smog levels have decreased dramatically since the 1970s and 1980s, and the presence of smog is becoming an increasingly rarer phenomenon and levels of sulphur dioxide are decreasing. Many watercourses and coastal stretches have also been contaminated by industrial and agricultural activity, while because of rising water levels, Venice has been regularly flooded throughout recent years. Waste from industrial activity is not always disposed of by legal means and has led to permanent health effects on inhabitants of affected areas, as in the case of the Seveso", "title": "Italy" }, { "docid": "17321139", "text": "that they are deeply concerned about air pollution in China. Around 70% of viewers said that they changed their view of smog and developed a better comprehension of the problem. Over 75% expressed a willingness to restrict car and air conditioner usage and take public transportation. Moreover, viewers believed that official bureaus, heavy-industry emitters, and legislatures should be accountable for the smog problem. While receiving many positive responses, criticism on the documentary also emerged among public. Some people doubted that the scientific numeric data on emission of air pollutant and the impacts on human health caused by smog were not", "title": "Under the Dome (film)" }, { "docid": "17622631", "text": "In Changchun, air pollution recorded at an all-time high and the levels of PM particulate matter rose to 845 micrograms per cubic metre on 22 October 2013. The smog eased on 25 October 2013 and had completely dissipated by the 28th due to a cold front that had moved in from Russia. Officials blamed the dense pollution on lack of wind, burning of crop waste in farmers' fields, and 20 October start-up of Harbin's coal-powered district heating system. Harbin lies in the north of China where winter temperatures can drop to , necessitating a six-month heating season. Air pollution in", "title": "2013 Northeastern China smog" }, { "docid": "359784", "text": "visible results. Coal-fired ger stoves release high levels of ash and other particulate matter (PM). When inhaled, these particles can settle in the lungs and respiratory tract and cause health problems. At two to 10 times above Mongolian and international air quality standards, Ulaanbaatar's PM rates are among the worst in the world, according to a December 2009 World Bank report. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates that health costs related to this air pollution account for as much as 4 percent of Mongolia's GDP. Smog is a regular problem in Southeast Asia caused by land and forest fires in", "title": "Smog" }, { "docid": "20373483", "text": "found on many everyday food items, even the shortest exposure(through breathing or eating) to high amounts of benzene can lead to extreme cases of nausea, dizziness/tiredness, and can cause damage to the central nervous system, leading to things like paralysis, coma or death. Benzene is also a known carcinogen, and can cause things like anemia, leukemia, and if in contact with eyes, can cause blindness. As for environmental damage, benzene is very similar to toluene in that it is a VOC, and can cause poisonous smog if in contact with high amounts of light and moisture, and is also a", "title": "Sharkey Landfill" }, { "docid": "627021", "text": "emissions to form photochemical smog. Smog is also caused by large amounts of coal burning, which creates a mixture of smoke and sulfur dioxide. World coal consumption was about 6,743,786,000 short tons in 2006 and is expected to increase 48% to 9.98 billion short tons by 2030. China produced 2.38 billion tons in 2006. India produced about 447.3 million tons in 2006. 68.7% of China's electricity comes from coal. The USA consumes about 14% of the world total, using 90% of it for generation of electricity. The sheer size and complexity of megacities gives rise to enormous social and environmental", "title": "Megacity" }, { "docid": "17720614", "text": "natural factors. While various causes such as coal burning and car emissions come from human activity, natural causes such as the humid weather and a lack of wind also contributed to the smog. A study in 2005 in Beijing showed that PM is mostly composed of carbon, SO salts, NO salts, and NH salts. PM is a byproduct of the process of coal burning from power stations and produces significant amounts of sulfate, black carbon, ammonium, and nitrate. In 1989, 32.7% of PM particulates in Beijing came from burning of coal, which decreased to 16.4% in 2000, as people started", "title": "2013 Eastern China smog" }, { "docid": "14000001", "text": "trapped in London Below and remained. In the book \"Un Lun Dun\" (2007) by China Miéville, the London Fog takes on the role of villain: the \"Smog\" of UnLondon. The Clean Air Act is misheard as the \"Klinneract\". In \"Act of God\", Season 1, Episode 4 of the Netflix series \"The Crown\", the events of the 1952 fog-deaths and their political ramifications take up the whole of the episode. Pea soup fog Pea soup fog, or a pea souper, also known as black fog, killer fog or smog is a very thick and often yellowish, greenish, or blackish fog caused", "title": "Pea soup fog" }, { "docid": "17622635", "text": "parents of the students and public. Other cities in the surrounding Jilin province, including Jilin, Songyuan and Fuyu, ordered to close the schools on 22 October. Daily particulate levels of more than 40 times the World Health Organization recommended maximum level were reported in parts of Harbin municipality. The smog remained as of 23 October, when \"almost all monitoring stations in Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning provinces reported readings above 200 [µg/m³] for PM2.5\". PM is the amount of particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter in the air, with the World Health Organization recommending a maximum 24-hour mean of", "title": "2013 Northeastern China smog" }, { "docid": "17833816", "text": "where he conducted research with Ralph J. Cicerone. After completing this research, he spent 25 years at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he eventually became the chairman of the department of atmospheric sciences. While an associate professor there, he was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Geophysical Research from 1985 to 1989, and, five years later, was the lead author on a study in \"Science\" which reported that ozone from photochemical smog may significantly reduce global food production. In the study, Chameides et al. wrote that about 60% of smog is produced in North America, Europe, China, and Japan,", "title": "William L. Chameides" }, { "docid": "12599043", "text": "paid about $235,000, which was stretched over the 80 victims who had participated in the lawsuit, leaving them little after legal expenses were factored in. Representatives of American Steel and Wire settled the more than $4.6 million claimed in 130 damage suits at about 5% of what had been sought, noting that the company was prepared to show at trial that the smog had been caused by a \"freak weather condition\" that trapped over Donora \"all of the smog coming from the homes, railroads, the steamboats, and the exhaust from automobiles, as well as the effluents from its plants.\" U.S.", "title": "1948 Donora smog" }, { "docid": "359744", "text": "agricultural fires and photochemical reactions of these emissions. Smog is often categorized as being either summer smog or winter smog. Summer smog is primarily associated with the photochemical formation of ozone. During the summer season when the temperatures are warmer and there is more sunlight present, photochemical smog is the dominant type of smog formation. During the winter months when the temperatures are colder, and atmospheric inversions are common, there is an increase in coal and other fossil fuel usage to heat homes and buildings. These combustion emissions, together with the lack of pollutant dispersion under inversions, characterize winter smog", "title": "Smog" }, { "docid": "8090445", "text": "(sometimes called the SMOG Index) is more easily used for mental math: SMOG conversion tables compiled by Harold C. McGraw are slightly inaccurate because they are based on the approximate formula. Furthermore, tables for texts of fewer than 30 sentences are statistically invalid, because the formula was normed on 30-sentence samples. SMOG The SMOG grade is a measure of readability that estimates the years of education needed to understand a piece of writing. SMOG is an acronym for Simple Measure of Gobbledygook. SMOG is widely used, particularly for checking health messages. The SMOG grade yields a 0.985 correlation with a", "title": "SMOG" }, { "docid": "17622632", "text": "Chinese cities is of increasing concern to China's leadership. Particulates in the air can adversely affect human health and also have impacts on climate and precipitation. Pollution from the burning of coal has reduced life expectancies by 5.5 years in the north of China, as a result of heart and lung diseases. According to the National Environmental Analysis released by Tsinghua University and The Asian Development Bank in January 2013, 7 of 10 most air polluted cities in the world are located in China, including Taiyuan, Beijing, Urumqi, Lanzhou, Chongqing, Jinan and Shijiazhuang. As air pollution in China is at", "title": "2013 Northeastern China smog" }, { "docid": "2103397", "text": "the real culprit behind Los Angeles smog. He visited Gary, Indiana, where steps were being taken to address sulfur dioxide pollution, and was struck by the characteristic smell of sulfur in the air. Returning, Beckman convinced McCabe that they needed to search for a different cause. Beckman got in touch with a Caltech professor who was working on smog, Arie Jan Haagen-Smit. They developed an apparatus to collect particulate matter from Los Angeles air, using a system of tubing intermittently cooled by liquid nitrogen. Haagen-Smit identified the substance they collected as a peroxy organic material. He agreed to spend a", "title": "Arnold Orville Beckman" }, { "docid": "8090443", "text": "SMOG The SMOG grade is a measure of readability that estimates the years of education needed to understand a piece of writing. SMOG is an acronym for Simple Measure of Gobbledygook. SMOG is widely used, particularly for checking health messages. The SMOG grade yields a 0.985 correlation with a standard error of 1.5159 grades with the grades of readers who had 100% comprehension of test materials. The formula for calculating the SMOG grade was developed by G. Harry McLaughlin as a more accurate and more easily calculated substitute for the Gunning fog index and published in 1969. To make calculating", "title": "SMOG" }, { "docid": "359747", "text": "Smoke\" for a meeting of the Public Health Congress. The 26 July 1905 edition of the London newspaper \"Daily Graphic\" quoted Des Voeux, \"He said it required no science to see that there was something produced in great cities which was not found in the country, and that was smoky fog, or what was known as 'smog'.\" The following day the newspaper stated that \"Dr. Des Voeux did a public service in coining a new word for the London fog.\" However, this is predated by a \"Los Angeles Times\" article of January 19, 1893, in which the word is attributed", "title": "Smog" }, { "docid": "7687132", "text": "that the price savings may not be able to justify. Some have questioned the viability of multinational supply chains tied to China, suggesting that a political disruption in China could cause major problems. China has been identified as a potential source of problems that could cause catastrophic results. Supply chain diversification Supply chain diversification is a manufacturing business terminology used to describe the act of increasing choices for when to order what supplies from whom to bring products to the market. In short, it describes the abundance and flexibility of the suppliers for a certain product. As in any business", "title": "Supply chain diversification" }, { "docid": "10649635", "text": "daily advertising messages. Twenty years later, that number has risen six fold, to 3,000 messages per day.” It is argued that \"Just as fat has replaced starvation as this nation’s number one dietary concern, information overload has replaced information scarcity as an important new emotional, social, and political problem.\" As per David Lewis, PhD in psychology, this attempt at consuming the majority of data, the result is what he calls \"information fatigue syndrome.\" This term refers to the data smog that we encounter daily that ultimately interferes with our sleep, concentration, and even affecting our immune systems. According to clinical", "title": "Data Smog" }, { "docid": "19723616", "text": "differ from the September11 pollution in significant ways that limit their usefulness as a point of comparison. Prior New York City smog events were chronic, cumulative, and caused by thousands of small sources, while the air impact of the September was sudden, intense, and the result of a single culpable source. The absence of prior events similar to the September11 attacks left \"a hole in the medical library,\" and presented medical experts with a challenge in the absence of \"hard knowledge about the health consequences of intense brief pollution.\" Other major air pollution, particularly in China, has been compared to", "title": "1966 New York City smog" }, { "docid": "2755757", "text": "urban areas seldom visible even within a mile, Californians were ready for changes. Over the next three decades, California enacted some of the strictest anti-smog regulations in the United States and has been a leader in encouraging nonpolluting strategies for various industries, including automobiles. For example, carpool lanes normally allow only vehicles with two/three or more occupants (whether the base number is two or three depends on what freeway you are on), but electric cars can use the lanes with only a single occupant. As a result, smog is significantly reduced from its peak, although local Air Quality Management Districts", "title": "History of Los Angeles" }, { "docid": "17720609", "text": "coughing and headaches. Citizens were advised to wear protective masks and use air purifiers. Many sanitation workers were required to wear dust masks during work early in the morning. Schools were closed as the government ordered children to stay indoors, and reduce outdoor activities as much as possible. Construction work was halted and authorities pulled nearly one-third of government vehicles from the roads. A majority of inbound flights were cancelled and more than 50 flights were diverted at Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The heavy smog greatly polluted central and southern Jiangsu Province, especially around Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu", "title": "2013 Eastern China smog" }, { "docid": "15424513", "text": "functional and OBDII compliant vehicle. The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) sends a registration renewal notice which indicates if a smog check is required. If the DMV requires a smog check for a vehicle, the owner must comply with the notice within 90 days and provide a completed smog check certificate. A smog check inspection is performed by a station that has been licensed by the California Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR). Depending on the situation, the owner may be required to take the vehicle to one of the following types of smog check stations: Until a smog certificate can", "title": "California Smog Check Program" }, { "docid": "8008282", "text": "is Brokkenbroll, the leader of unbrellas, or broken umbrellas from London. It creates servants from its Smog, such as Smombies (corpses re-animated with Smog), Smoglodytes (disfigured creatures made from Smog), and Stink-Junkies (humans forced to be addicted to the Smog). The Book is full of prophecy's that often end up wrong, or so they think. It befriends Deeba but is first reluctant about Hemi. The one thing that he thinks is wrong about the prophesy of the Shwazzy is that it says, \"The smog is afraid of Nothing and the Ungun.\" They think it is meant to say \"The Smog", "title": "Un Lun Dun" }, { "docid": "19723558", "text": "with some sources defining two main types of smog: smoky \"London Pea soup\"-style smog and hazy \"Los Angeles\"-style smog. London smog and Los Angeles smog are not exclusive to their namesake cities, and are found in urban areas throughout the world. Additionally, both types of smog are commonly found together in the same region. At the time of the 1966 smog and in the two decades prior, air pollution in New York City combined the characteristics of London smog and Los Angeles smog: the city's smog in that period was caused by both stationary sources such as industrial coal-burning and", "title": "1966 New York City smog" }, { "docid": "10653309", "text": "to smog. Smog alerts are issued by Toronto Public Health when the air quality is poor enough to warrant informing some segments of the public to limit their exposure to the smog, such as children, the elderly, and people with lung diseases or heart conditions. The best and worst years for smog in the city within the last five years were respectively 2006 with 11 smog alerts, and 2005 with 48 smog alerts. Another risk to health for citizens is exposure to crime in the city. Toronto has a rate of violent crime of 738 incidents per 100,000 people, though", "title": "Health in Toronto" }, { "docid": "359745", "text": "formation. While photochemical smog is the main smog formation mechanism during summer months, winter smog episodes are still common. Smog formation in general relies on both primary and secondary pollutants. Primary pollutants are emitted directly from a source, such as emissions of sulfur dioxide from coal combustion. Secondary pollutants, such as ozone, are formed when primary pollutants undergo chemical reactions in the atmosphere. Photochemical smog, as found for example in Los Angeles, is a type of air pollution derived from vehicular emission from internal combustion engines and industrial fumes. These pollutants react in the atmosphere with sunlight to form secondary", "title": "Smog" }, { "docid": "19041694", "text": "are largely borne by society and injuries to healthy productive citizens caused by car accidents have a cost of millions of disability adjusted life years every year. Vision zero is one approach to reduce road fatalities. Cars produce numerous harmful air pollutants in their exhaust such as Nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, low atmospheric ozone (indirectly) and in the case of leaded fuel, lead. Those pollutants are known to cause various respiratory and other health issues and cars are among the leading cause of smog in modern developed world cities. Cars significantly contribute to noise pollution. While on common perception the", "title": "Externalities of automobiles" }, { "docid": "14448911", "text": "purchased air from use. Both parts of the park are currently closed. Some of the main methods used to create Public Smog are the purchase and withholding of emissions offsets and attempting to add the Earth's atmosphere to UNESCO's World Heritage List. Public Smog Public Smog is an \"atmospheric park\" created by San Francisco-based artist Amy Balkin and her supporters through the use of financial, political, and legal methods. The goal of Public Smog is to \"highlight the complexities and contradictions of current environmental protocols.\". The public smog atmospheric park consists of two areas which fluctuate in size and location.", "title": "Public Smog" }, { "docid": "3808027", "text": "Some VOCs, such as styrene and limonene, can react with nitrogen oxides or with ozone to produce new oxidation products and secondary aerosols, which can cause sensory irritation symptoms. VOCs contribute to the formation of Tropospheric ozone and smog. Health effects include eye, nose, and throat irritation; headaches, loss of coordination, nausea; and damage to the liver, kidney, and central nervous system. Some organics can cause cancer in animals; some are suspected or known to cause cancer in humans. Key signs or symptoms associated with exposure to VOCs include conjunctival irritation, nose and throat discomfort, headache, allergic skin reaction, dyspnea,", "title": "Volatile organic compound" }, { "docid": "5348485", "text": "by the early 1970s also caused a backlash. With schools being closed routinely in urban areas for \"smog days\" when the ozone levels became too unhealthy and the hills surrounding urban areas seldom visible even within a mile, Californians were ready for changes. Over the next three decades, California enacted some of the strictest anti-smog regulations in the United States and has been a leader in encouraging nonpolluting strategies for various industries, including automobiles. For example, carpool lanes normally allow only vehicles with two/three or more occupants (whether the base number is two or three depends on what freeway you", "title": "History of California 1900–present" }, { "docid": "682259", "text": "becoming a substantial health issue, at least compared to cities in southeast Asia and industrial China. However, smog is extremely common and there is poor visibility throughout the city after rain-less days. Motor vehicle engine exhaust, particularly from motor scooters, is a source of air pollution in Taipei. There are higher levels of fine particulate matter and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the mornings because of less air movement; sunlight reduces some pollution. Occasionally, dust storms from Mainland China can temporarily bring extremely poor air quality to the city. Taipei City is home to 2,704,810 people (2015), while the metropolitan area", "title": "Taipei" }, { "docid": "359758", "text": "eruption is often known as vog to distinguish it as a natural occurrence. The chemical reactions that form smog following a volcanic eruption are different than the reactions that form photochemical smog. The term smog encompasses the effect when a large amount of gas phase molecules and particulate matter are emitted to the atmosphere, creating a visible haze. The event causing a large amount of emissions can vary but still result in the formation of smog. Plants are another natural source of hydrocarbons that could undergo reactions in the atmosphere and produce smog. Globally both plants and soil contribute a", "title": "Smog" }, { "docid": "16431799", "text": "of smog alerts and implement the air quality improvement strategies outlined in the City's Smog Alert Plan.\". In 2009, Sarnia had a record low three smog advisories and only five smog days. The County of Lambton reports that from 1995–2008, Sarnia experienced a high of thirteen smog advisories and forty-six smog days, both in 2005. Despite all Sarnia has done to improve its pollution, there are plans to bring shale gas into Chemical Valley by pipeline in mid-2013. This process is environmentally divisive because it necessitates hydraulic fracturing to extract the gas. Hydraulic fracturing involves injecting a liquid into rock,", "title": "Environmental impact of the chemical industry in Sarnia" }, { "docid": "14448910", "text": "Public Smog Public Smog is an \"atmospheric park\" created by San Francisco-based artist Amy Balkin and her supporters through the use of financial, political, and legal methods. The goal of Public Smog is to \"highlight the complexities and contradictions of current environmental protocols.\". The public smog atmospheric park consists of two areas which fluctuate in size and location. The upper park opened above the European Union in 2006 and the lower park is located over California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District’s Coastal Zone in 2004. Each was opened up through the purchasing of emissions offsets and then retiring the", "title": "Public Smog" }, { "docid": "19723596", "text": "will happen—with increasing frequency and in wider areas unless something is done to prevent it.\" In the 1968 book \"Killer Smog\", William Wise warned that the 1966 smog and the 1952 London smog represented a vulnerability to air pollution disasters among American cities: At the time of the smog event, only half of the urban population of the United States lived with local protections on air quality; the smog event catalyzed the call for federal regulation on the issue. Spencer R. Weart of the American Institute of Physics said the American public \"did not take the problem [of air pollution]", "title": "1966 New York City smog" }, { "docid": "15424520", "text": "failing the Roadside test. One was to develop a method for evaluating station performance. The other was to perform inspections immediately following certifications at smog check stations. Finally, the report recommended continued use of the Roadside test to evaluate the effectiveness of the Smog Check program. California Smog Check Program The California Smog Check Program requires vehicles that were manufactured in 1976 or later to participate in the biennial (every two years) smog check program in participating counties. The program’s stated aim is to reduce air pollution from vehicles by ensuring that cars with excessive emissions are repaired in accordance", "title": "California Smog Check Program" }, { "docid": "15424494", "text": "California Smog Check Program The California Smog Check Program requires vehicles that were manufactured in 1976 or later to participate in the biennial (every two years) smog check program in participating counties. The program’s stated aim is to reduce air pollution from vehicles by ensuring that cars with excessive emissions are repaired in accordance with federal and state guidelines. With some exceptions, gasoline-powered vehicles that are six years old or newer are not required to participate; instead, these vehicles pay a smog abatement fee for the first 6 years in place of being required to pass a smog check. The", "title": "California Smog Check Program" }, { "docid": "13019534", "text": "Smog Watch Smog Watch, also known as the Anti-Idling Sign, is a voluntary government protocol to prevent the Seattle, Washington, region from exceeding the federal health standards in relation to ozone. It aims at protection of public health during summers, where ozone levels are often found to be the highest. At certain times during the summer, agency meteorologists will issue a smog watch for 48 hours when there are elevated smog levels. During this 48-hour period, citizens of the Seattle district are encouraged to lower smog levels by taking steps to decrease pollution, including by: driving less, refueling when it", "title": "Smog Watch" }, { "docid": "16370577", "text": "advantages. In contrast, he also sometimes expresses a low opinion of U.S. military capabilities, with his 2012 assertion that the U.S. would \"run like a rabbit\" if China went to war with Japan over the Diaoyu Islands being an example. He also suggested that the PLAN might equip civilian fishing boats for suicide attacks against the United States Navy. Zhaozhong is known for his CCTV commentaries where he has, among other things, said that smog is a good thing for China because it would obscure US laser weapon systems in the event of an attack Zhang also publicly predicted at", "title": "Zhang Zhaozhong" }, { "docid": "289517", "text": "to the public, while Purple Mountain is covered with deciduous and coniferous forests preserving various historical and cultural sites. Meanwhile, a Yangtze River deep-water channel is under construction to enable Nanjing to handle the navigation of 50,000 DWT vessels from the East China Sea. A dense wave of smog began in the central and east parts of China on 2 December 2013 across a distance of around , including Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanghai and Zhejiang. A lack of cold air flow, combined with slow-moving air masses carrying industrial emissions, collected airborne pollutants to form a thick layer of", "title": "Nanjing" }, { "docid": "17720606", "text": "on 6 December 2013, with Shanghai reaching a high of 507. The U.S. Embassy categorizes air quality readings over 300 as hazardous to all humans, not just those with heart or lung ailments. According to a NASA Terra Satellite image, the thick haze stretches over Eastern China, across a distance of around . The polluted air appears gray on the image and most of the pollution is trapped in the lower boundary layer of a few hundred meters. Coal burning is a primary source of fine particle air pollution. It increased as the weather worsened during winter months and residents", "title": "2013 Eastern China smog" }, { "docid": "12598785", "text": "Donora Smog Museum Donora Smog Museum features a collection of archival materials documenting the Donora Smog of 1948, an air inversion of smog containing fluorine that killed 20 people in Donora, Pennsylvania, United States, a mill town 20 miles south of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River. Donora was home to U.S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works and its American Steel & Wire plant. The event is sometimes credited for initiating the clean-air movement in the United States, whose crowning achievement was the Clean Air Act. The museum, which opened October 20, 2008, is located at 595 McKean Avenue near Sixth Street", "title": "Donora Smog Museum" }, { "docid": "5673835", "text": "band's then-drummer, Chris Mars. The track \"Shooting Star\" was featured in the 1994 film \"Clerks\". \"On Golden Smog\" was reissued in 1996 by Rykodisc. Writing for Allmusic, music critic Jason Ankeny wrote of the album \"After a few years of haphazard shows in and about their native Minneapolis, the members of Golden Smog were approached by a small local label to put out a record; many, many beers later, On Golden Smog appeared.\" The band members of Golden Smog used pseudonyms in the credits. On Golden Smog On Golden Smog was the debut EP from American band Golden Smog, released", "title": "On Golden Smog" }, { "docid": "5996780", "text": "convert large numbers of coal-fired boilers to cleaner natural gas, to curb smog and pollution. In March 2009, CNPC began development of Ahdab, an oil field in Wasit Governorate holding a modest one billion barrels, becoming \"the first significant foreign investors\" in Iraq. The contract is a renegotiated version of a 1997 agreement between China and Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The project progressed despite security problems with local farmers. Dozens of farmers complained of damage to property because of work on the site and Iraqi oil officials claimed thievery from the oil site by local farmers. Adhab is not expected", "title": "China National Petroleum Corporation" }, { "docid": "13019535", "text": "is cool, refraining from using lawn mowers, partaking in pollution-free recreation, turning off car engines while idling, and volunteering for environmental sustainability programs. Smog Watch Smog Watch, also known as the Anti-Idling Sign, is a voluntary government protocol to prevent the Seattle, Washington, region from exceeding the federal health standards in relation to ozone. It aims at protection of public health during summers, where ozone levels are often found to be the highest. At certain times during the summer, agency meteorologists will issue a smog watch for 48 hours when there are elevated smog levels. During this 48-hour period, citizens", "title": "Smog Watch" }, { "docid": "12599037", "text": "Musial, the father of future baseball Hall of Famer Stan Musial, the 1948 National League MVP. Hydrogen fluoride and sulfur dioxide emissions from U.S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works and its American Steel & Wire plant were frequent occurrences in Donora. What made the 1948 event more severe was a temperature inversion, a situation in which warmer air aloft traps pollution in a layer of colder air near the surface. The pollutants in the air mixed with fog to form a thick, yellowish, acrid smog that hung over Donora for five days. The sulfuric acid, nitrogen dioxide, fluorine, and other poisonous", "title": "1948 Donora smog" }, { "docid": "2724400", "text": "dependent on this method of access to information where risks of the perpetuation of misinformation are greatly increased. In a 2018 literature review, Roetzel indicates that information overload can be seen as a virus—spreading through (social) media and news networks. In recent years, the term \"information overload\" has evolved into phrases such as \"information glut\", \"data smog\", and \"data glut\" (\"Data Smog\", Shenk, 1997). In his abstract, Kazi Mostak Gausul Hoq commented that people often experience an \"information glut\" whenever they struggle with locating information from print, online, or digital sources. What was once a term grounded in cognitive psychology", "title": "Information overload" }, { "docid": "12599048", "text": "of the event. 1948 Donora smog The 1948 Donora smog was a historic air inversion that resulted in a wall of smog that killed 20 people and caused respiratory problems for 6,000 people of the 14,000 population of Donora, Pennsylvania, a mill town on the Monongahela River southeast of Pittsburgh. The event is commemorated by the Donora Smog Museum. Sixty years later, the incident was described by \"The New York Times\" as \"one of the worst air pollution disasters in the nation's history\". Even 10 years after the incident, mortality rates in Donora were significantly higher than those in other", "title": "1948 Donora smog" }, { "docid": "12599035", "text": "1948 Donora smog The 1948 Donora smog was a historic air inversion that resulted in a wall of smog that killed 20 people and caused respiratory problems for 6,000 people of the 14,000 population of Donora, Pennsylvania, a mill town on the Monongahela River southeast of Pittsburgh. The event is commemorated by the Donora Smog Museum. Sixty years later, the incident was described by \"The New York Times\" as \"one of the worst air pollution disasters in the nation's history\". Even 10 years after the incident, mortality rates in Donora were significantly higher than those in other communities nearby. The", "title": "1948 Donora smog" }, { "docid": "12598786", "text": "in an old storefront. The museum has partnered with California University of Pennsylvania to develop a digital collection of primary sources that are archived on site. Donora Smog Museum Donora Smog Museum features a collection of archival materials documenting the Donora Smog of 1948, an air inversion of smog containing fluorine that killed 20 people in Donora, Pennsylvania, United States, a mill town 20 miles south of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River. Donora was home to U.S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works and its American Steel & Wire plant. The event is sometimes credited for initiating the clean-air movement in the", "title": "Donora Smog Museum" }, { "docid": "10649636", "text": "psychologist Michelle Weil \"the problems stem from people’s overuse or misuse of technologies and from technology’s ineffective presentation of information, researchers are finding.\" Ways in which to 'beat the smog': In 2004, Shenk's original term \"data smog\" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary Data Smog Data Smog is a 1997 book by journalist David Shenk and published by Harper Collins. It addresses the author's ideas on how the information technology revolution would shape the world, and how the large amount of data available on the Internet would make it more difficult to sift through and separate fact from fiction.", "title": "Data Smog" }, { "docid": "18377965", "text": "September 15, 2015 following the 2015 Australian leadership spill) and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (who stepped down on November 4, 2015 following the 2015 Canadian federal election). According to journalist John Pomfret, China spent $6 billion on preparations for the summit. China attempted to prevent Beijing's frequent smog from occurring during the meeting through various measures, including limiting driving and closing down factories in Beijing and the surrounding province of Hebei. The air was clear towards the beginning of the APEC week, but was predicted to be somewhat smoggy during the summit itself. The efforts created somewhat of a", "title": "APEC China 2014" }, { "docid": "12904945", "text": "2 pale boys Defnics Dissidents Face Value H.G. Lewis Idiot Humans Les Black and the Amazing Pink Holes Lurid New Creatures Numbskull Offbeats The Pagans Pere Ubu Pink Holes [Pistol Whip]] Prisoners Rocket From The Tombs Rubber City Rebels Step Sister The God Squad The New Christs The Other Kids THOR Tin Huey Unknown Instructors Vacancies Smog Veil Records Smog Veil Records is a Chicago, IL based independent record label. In addition to standard CD, DVD, and vinyl distribution, Smog Veil all distributes its media via the digital channels, including Napster and iTunes. In business since 1991, Smog Veil Records", "title": "Smog Veil Records" }, { "docid": "12599038", "text": "gases that usually dispersed into the atmosphere were caught in the inversion and accumulated until rain ended the weather pattern. Two of the heroes to emerge during the four-day smog were Chief John Volk of the Donora Fire Department and his assistant Russell Davis. Volk and Davis responded to calls from Friday night until Sunday night, depleting their supply of of oxygen, borrowing more from all nearby municipalities, including McKeesport, Monessen, and Charleroi. \"I didn’t take any myself. What I did every time I came back to the station was have a little shot of whiskey.\" The eight doctors in", "title": "1948 Donora smog" }, { "docid": "18161982", "text": "According to the chair of the Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, \"Jim Pitts was probably the single person most responsible for the understanding of what strategies we need to clean up Southern California's air...He was able to explain all of this in English to policymakers so that they would be able to accept that it was going to take extensive and difficult actions to control emissions.\" He often invited state and federal officials to his smog chamber at UC Irvine, including Jerry Brown and Ronald Reagan, to demonstrate the effects of smog and air pollution. In a common demonstration, Pitts", "title": "James Pitts (chemist)" }, { "docid": "10717614", "text": "from the massive use of coal and many Chinese cities suffer severe smog events. As a consequence the region of Beijing has decided to phase out all its coal-fired power generation by the end of 2015. In 2009, China had 172 GW of installed hydro capacity the largest in the world, producing 16% of China's electricity, the Eleventh Five-Year Plan has set a 300 GW target for 2020. China built the world's largest power plant of any kind, the Three Gorges Dam. In addition to the huge investments in coal power, China has 32 reactors under construction, the highest number", "title": "Fossil fuel phase-out" }, { "docid": "19723611", "text": "highlighted the 1966 smog at length: Johnson called for a bill regulating toxins in the air and increasing funding for pollution programs. Edmund Muskie, a Senator from Maine and political environmentalist, praised Johnson's words, pledged to hold hearings on the proposals, and would soon sponsor the Johnson administration's bill, which became the Air Quality Act. Muskie also co-sponsored bills in 1967 for research on non-polluting automobiles using either electric or fuel cell technology. While discussing the research bills on the Senate floor, Muskie said \"the serious air pollution situation in New York City [in November of 1966] dramatically illustrated what", "title": "1966 New York City smog" }, { "docid": "16932244", "text": "a political lesson, for what he would describe more than 30 years later as a \"dilatory response\" to the invitation, the politically powerful group invited U.S. President Ford, a Republican, to make the September 5, 1975, morning speech instead. Ford saw California's electoral votes as critical to his success in the 1976 United States presidential election and accepted the invitation to speak at the Host Breakfast. In early August 1975, \"The New York Times\" reported that United States Environmental Protection Agency had released a study entitled \"A Spectroscopic Study of California Smog\",\"\" showing that smog was widespread in rural areas.", "title": "Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento" } ]

[ "Houston Astros", "Los Angeles Dodgers" ]

[ { "docid": "19533451", "text": "2017 World Series The 2017 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2017 season. The 113th edition of the World Series, it was played between October 24 and November 1. The series was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the American League (AL) champion Houston Astros. It was sponsored by the Internet television service YouTube TV and officially known as the \"2017 World Series presented by YouTube TV\". The Astros defeated the Dodgers, four games to three, to win their first World Series in franchise history, also becoming the", "title": "2017 World Series" }, { "docid": "7641969", "text": "was under construction in nearby Flushing, Queens. The Mets lost a record 120 games while the Yankees won the 1962 World Series, their tenth in the past sixteen years, defeating the San Francisco Giants in seven games. It was the Yankees' last championship until 1977. The Yankees reached the 1963 World Series, but were swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers and their ace pitcher Sandy Koufax. After the season, Yogi Berra, who had just retired from playing, took over managerial duties. The aging Yankees returned the next year for a fifth straight World Series, but were beaten in seven games", "title": "New York Yankees" }, { "docid": "9926060", "text": "Hunter Pence Hunter Andrew Pence (born April 13, 1983) is a Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder who is a free agent. He previously played in MLB for the Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants. Pence stands tall and weighs . He bats and throws right-handed. He was a member of the 2012 World Series and 2014 World Series championship teams with the San Francisco Giants. Pence attended Arlington High School in Arlington, Texas. After playing outfield his first three years, he moved to shortstop his senior year. He attended Texarkana College for a year and was a", "title": "Hunter Pence" } ]

[ { "docid": "16691448", "text": "playing experience beyond the age of 12. This is where players get their baseball cleats muddy for the first time on standard 90' diamonds under Official Baseball Rules used by Major League Baseball. In this division, teams are eligible to enter tournament competition and move along the tournament trail, culminating in a World Series. Three World Series are held in this division: one for 13 Year-Old players, one for 13 and 14 Year-Old Players, and the renowned 13-15 World Series. Players often express a fear of competing with 14 and 15 Year-Old players who have already experienced one or two", "title": "Babe Ruth League" }, { "docid": "6223563", "text": "and called it \"the best role-playing game to appear for a long, long while\". In \"Computer Gaming World\", Scorpia wrote: \"Those who prefer the regular \"Ultima\" style of role-playing will probably want to skip this one. But players looking for pure, no-nonsense hack-n-slash will have a blast.\" Writing for \"CD-ROM Today\", Trent C. Ward stated that \"ShadowCaster\"s \"fantastic graphics, sound and storytelling ... completely immerse you in a virtual world both dark and wondrous\". He summarized it as \"an excellent addition to any gamer's library\". \"Shadowcaster\" was a runner-up for \"Computer Gaming World\"s Action Game of the Year award in", "title": "ShadowCaster" }, { "docid": "14591548", "text": "Wenceslas Lauret Wenceslas Lauret (born 28 March 1989) is a rugby union footballer, who currently plays for Racing 92 in the Top 14 French league. His usual position is flanker, but he can also play Lock. Lauret first arose on the professional scene during the 2007–08 Top 14 season for Biarritz Olympique. Although during this season, he played at academy level playing for the under 20's side. During that year, he was selected for the France U20's side to play in the inaugural IRB Junior World Championship in Wales. He made two appearance's for the U20's side, playing against Japan", "title": "Wenceslas Lauret" }, { "docid": "9054835", "text": "event called \"Ante Up for Africa\", hosted by actor Don Cheadle and poker pro Annie Duke. The final two players, Dan Shak and Brandon Moran, agreed to share first place and donate all prize money to charities in Darfur. The \"last woman standing\" of the 2007 Main Event was Maria Ho who finished in 38th place. Also this year, KEM Plastic Playing Cards were once again used for the events, rather than Copag brand plastic playing cards, which were used during the 2005 and 2006 World Series of Poker. The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 6", "title": "2007 World Series of Poker" }, { "docid": "18031245", "text": "Nations Cup. Samisoni Viriviri Samisoni Viriviri Nasagavesi (born 25 April 1988) is a Fiji rugby union player. He played for the Fiji sevens team, and in 2014 won the World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year award after leading the 2013-14 World Rugby Sevens Series in tries scored. He has signed with the French Top 14 club Montpellier.<ref name=\"http://www.planetrugby.com\"></ref> Viriviri started his career playing in the local 7's competition. He chased a dream borne out of the stories of his grandfather and namesake who was part of the legendary 1977 Fiji XV that beat the British and Irish Lions in", "title": "Samisoni Viriviri" }, { "docid": "18031240", "text": "Samisoni Viriviri Samisoni Viriviri Nasagavesi (born 25 April 1988) is a Fiji rugby union player. He played for the Fiji sevens team, and in 2014 won the World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year award after leading the 2013-14 World Rugby Sevens Series in tries scored. He has signed with the French Top 14 club Montpellier.<ref name=\"http://www.planetrugby.com\"></ref> Viriviri started his career playing in the local 7's competition. He chased a dream borne out of the stories of his grandfather and namesake who was part of the legendary 1977 Fiji XV that beat the British and Irish Lions in Suva. At", "title": "Samisoni Viriviri" }, { "docid": "14275182", "text": "Norrie Rowan Norman \"Norrie\" Rowan (born c. 1951) is a Scottish international rugby union player, from Edinburgh, who played for . He played for Forrester RFC and later Boroughmuir RFC, and was also nominated for \"Rugby World\"'s \"Unsung Hero\" award in 1989 - he was the only Scot to be given an award in that year, after playing in all Five Nations matches that year. He received thirteen caps playing as prop forward for the national team. Rowan excavated the Edinburgh Vaults, after he found a tunnel leading to them in the 1980s. From this tunnel he helped Romanian rugby", "title": "Norrie Rowan" }, { "docid": "14098760", "text": "the band, who had been playing alongside Sanchez, lead guitarist Travis Stever and bassist Michael Todd since 2007. Sanchez stated that: \"[Pennie] really kicked ass on this record. There are a lot of tunes on this album that I'm not so sure we would've been able to execute had we not have had him.\" \"Year of the Black Rainbow\" also completed the main tetralogy of The Amory Wars: \"Year of the Black Rainbow\"'s release was preceded by a series of eight intimate club gigs in the northeastern United States, all of which sold out. The band announced a U.S. tour", "title": "Year of the Black Rainbow" }, { "docid": "11520609", "text": "Calum MacRae Calum MacRae (born 26 January 1980 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the defence coach for Edinburgh Rugby. He was head coach of the Scotland rugby 7's team 2014-2017. MacRae played rugby union as a centre and had also operated at fullback and fly-half. After age grade rugby he played for a four-year period on the IRB Sevens World Series along with playing in the Celtic league for the Borders. He played his final tournament for Scotland at the 2005 RWC Sevens in Hong Kong. Following this he was in Frank Hadden's Scotland Training Squad for a 4-year period, however,", "title": "Calum MacRae" }, { "docid": "12373176", "text": "critic similarly remarked that \"Diablo\" is more of a modern incarnation of \"Gauntlet\" than an RPG, \"but with enough changes and improvements to make it a completely new experience, and one of the best titles so far this year.\" \"Diablo\" won the overall \"Game of the Year\" awards of \"Computer Gaming World\", \"GameSpot\" and \"Computer Game Entertainment\" for 1996, and was a runner-up for \"Computer Games Strategy Plus\"s award in this category. The editors of \"Computer Gaming World\" wrote, \"For this year, \"Diablo\" is the game that everyone will remember.\" It was also named 1996's best computer role-playing game by", "title": "Diablo (video game)" }, { "docid": "3883993", "text": "Conference, who said any flat rate system was unsustainable and \"naive\", \"Since that time, we have seen the official launch of many online gaming services, and most have learned what consumers and the press have been telling them all along: A fair flat rate is the only way services will get subscribers.\" The game received multiple awards, including the fantasy-role-playing game of the year for 1996. It was a finalist for \"Computer Gaming World\"s 1996 \"Role-Playing Game of the Year\" award, which ultimately went to \"\". However, it won CNET Gamecenter's award in this category. The editors called it \"arguably", "title": "Meridian 59" }, { "docid": "5607637", "text": "it can be overly so at times.\" She regarded it as \"a game for the hardest of hard-core role players—those who will fight anything, even a frustrating game system, to finish a quest.\" \"Star Trail\" received \"PC Gamer\"s 1994 \"Best Role-playing Game\" award, and was named the year's top \"Multi-Character Role-Playing Game\" by \"Computer Games Strategy Plus\". It was also a nominee for \"Computer Gaming World\"s \"Role-Playing Game of the Year\" prize, which went to \"\". The editors of \"Computer Gaming World\" called it an improvement upon \"\" that was \"well-suited for hard-core role-players\", while those of \"PC Gamer US\"", "title": "Realms of Arkania: Star Trail" }, { "docid": "2936140", "text": "praised the game's depth and storyline, but criticized its graphics and interface. \"Fallout 2\" was a finalist for \"Computer Gaming World\"s \"Best RPG\", GameSpot's \"Role-playing Game of the Year\", CNET Gamecenter's \"Best RPG of 1998\", IGN's \"Best RPG of the Year\" and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' \"Role Playing Game of the Year\" awards, all of which ultimately went to \"Baldur's Gate\". The editors of GameSpot wrote, \"A bigger, better \"Fallout\", this sequel to 1997's RPG of the Year was populated with more characters, more places to go, and more things to do.\" In 2013, GamesRadar ranked \"Fallout", "title": "Fallout 2" }, { "docid": "6445370", "text": "Wife and Kids\". In 2007 Thea Vidale made a guest appearance on the television series \"Ugly Betty\" playing a hairdresser in the episode \"Queens for a Day\". That same year, she played the part of Helen's grandmother on the Drake & Josh episode \"Really Big Shrimp\". She has also had roles in movies such as 1995's \"Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde\", Jerry Springer's \"Ringmaster\" in 1998, and the 2006 Master P comedy \"Repos\". Vidale made her début on World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in January 2006. She appeared as the mother to wrestler Shelton Benjamin, who had been going through difficulties", "title": "Thea Vidale" }, { "docid": "7430248", "text": "Alex, have a conflict, because one is a Yankees fan, and one a Sox fan. The \"cast\" includes those playing scripted fictional roles, while also including persons who appear as themselves, such former Red Sox star players, who made cameo appearances as themselves. Wait 'til This Year Wait 'til This Year is a reality-type docu-drama film which follows a Boston Red Sox fan during the 2004 baseball season, when the team ended their famous losing streak by winning the World Series. The film was aired on New England Sports Network (NESN) and then released on DVD afterward. Monika Lahiri starred", "title": "Wait 'til This Year" }, { "docid": "10659246", "text": "Alan Smurfit Alan Smurfit (born c. 1943) is an Irish retiree who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in his first ever World Series of Poker (WSOP) event, the 2007 $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event. Although Smurfit was a newcomer to the WSOP, he had been playing tournament poker for many years, with an early televised appearance in The Gaming Club World Poker Championship in 2004. He has also made several money finishes in the World Poker Tour, including the TV bubble finish for season 4's Mirage Poker Showdown, and winning the Palm Beach CelebPoker Classic 2005 event. When", "title": "Alan Smurfit" }, { "docid": "18003975", "text": "the NCAA changed the format from 64 teams playing in 8 regional tournaments to 16 regional tournaments With the winners advancing to 8 super regionals who then advanced to the World Series. The Championship Game featured UCLA and California. This would be their 2nd meeting in a Championship game in as many years and would end with UCLA claiming their 10th National Title (Not counting their vacated 1995 National Title or any titles won prior to 1982). This would also be the last year a National Champion would be crowned using the single Championship Game format. LSU pitcher Kristin Schmidt", "title": "2004 Women's College World Series" }, { "docid": "7580865", "text": "entitled \"Close and True\" (screened in 2000), which also starred Robson Green. Her guest appearances include \"UFO\", \"\", \"Z-Cars\", \"Special Branch\", \"Dalziel and Pascoe\", \"Hi-de-Hi!\" and \"Holby City\". In 2009 she was one of five actresses (alongside Emilia Fox, Barbara Flynn, Samantha Bond and Diana Quick) to portray Queen Elizabeth II in Channel 4's series \"The Queen\". Jameson is also a regular in BBC-produced \"Doctor Who\" audios, playing Mrs Wibbsey, the Doctor's housekeeper, in three series with Tom Baker, \"Hornets' Nest\" (2009), \"Demon Quest\" (2010) and \"Serpent Crest\" (2011). This was not her first foray into the world of \"Doctor", "title": "Susan Jameson" }, { "docid": "4919680", "text": "have a few limitations. That alone is not enough to drag the game down, and in the end, the end result is more than the sum of its parts. Choose to enter the land of Enroth, and you'll find yourself playing for well over 100 hours.\" \"Might and Magic VI\" was nominated for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' \"Role Playing Game of the Year\", \"Computer Gaming World\"s \"Best RPG\", \"PC Gamer US\"s \"The Best Roleplaying Game\", GameSpot's \"Role-playing Game of the Year\", IGN's \"Best RPG of the Year\" and \"Computer Games Strategy Plus\"s \"RPG of the Year\" awards,", "title": "Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven" }, { "docid": "7187627", "text": "\"Doctor Who\" radio drama \"Slipback\", alongside his \"Secret Army\" ex-fellow cast member Valentine Dyall, and the next year appeared in an episode of the BBC Jersey based crime drama series \"Bergerac\" entitled \"Fires in the Fall. In 1987 Pember began playing the role of \"Dennis Timson\" in the legal drama series \"Rumpole of the Bailey\", which he continued with for the next 6 years until his retirement from acting. Along with working in \"Rumpole of the Bailey\" in the late 1980's-early 1990's he finished his career as an in-demand actor, working as a cast member in several television drama series,", "title": "Ron Pember" }, { "docid": "19728901", "text": "has never suited up in a professional baseball game; instead Epstein relies on his Yale University education and the numbers behind the game to make many of his decisions. Epstein, known for his role in ending two of baseballs most historic streaks (the Boston Red Sox curse of the Great Bambino in 2004, and as recently as the 2016 World Series, helping end the 108-year drought between World Series wins for the Chicago Cubs), is a member of a growing community of brilliant minds in major league baseball who do not rely on years of major league playing experience. This", "title": "Sports analytics" }, { "docid": "7147716", "text": "game bracelets in the same year. World Series of Poker multiple bracelet winners Below is a list of all poker players who have won multiple World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, together with the year(s) in which the bracelets were won. The first person to win three bracelets in the same WSOP was Walter \"Puggy\" Pearson, at the 1973 WSOP. Since 1973, only five other players have won three bracelets in a single year, which encompasses the WSOP and either the WSOPE or WSOP APAC. Johnny Moss, with a win at the 1971 WSOP, became the first person to have", "title": "World Series of Poker multiple bracelet winners" }, { "docid": "11520611", "text": "qualified physical education teacher. Calum MacRae Calum MacRae (born 26 January 1980 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the defence coach for Edinburgh Rugby. He was head coach of the Scotland rugby 7's team 2014-2017. MacRae played rugby union as a centre and had also operated at fullback and fly-half. After age grade rugby he played for a four-year period on the IRB Sevens World Series along with playing in the Celtic league for the Borders. He played his final tournament for Scotland at the 2005 RWC Sevens in Hong Kong. Following this he was in Frank Hadden's Scotland Training Squad for", "title": "Calum MacRae" }, { "docid": "4126749", "text": "for \"Computer Gaming World\"s 1996 \"Role-Playing Game of the Year\" award, which ultimately went to \"\". The reviewer for \"Next Generation\" called \"Albion\" \"well-thought out and definitely worth checking out\", and praised it as a \"bright spot in the desert\" of computer role-playing games at the time. Chuck Klimushyn of \"Computer Games Strategy Plus\" considered \"Albion\" to be \"a breath of fresh air for the RPG crowd\", and he wrote that \"those who cut their teeth on the likes of \"Might and Magic\", \"Wizardry\", and \"Ultima\" may find that the future looks a little brighter because of this latest offering", "title": "Albion (video game)" }, { "docid": "137650", "text": "vast scope.\" \"Exile II: Crystal Souls\" won the 1995 Eddy Award Honorable Mention for Best Shareware Game of the Year, and received a 5 out of 5 star rating from ZiffNet. \"Exile III: Ruined World\" received the Shareware Game of the Year award from \"Computer Gaming World\" and Ziff-Davis Publishing. Inside Mac Games nominated the first \"Exile\" as its pick for the best role-playing game of 1996, but ultimately gave the award to \"\". \"Exile II\" was a finalist for \"MacUser\"s award for the best shareware game of 1996. More recently the \"Exile\" games have been remade as the \"Avernum\"", "title": "Exile (1995 video game series)" }, { "docid": "1874597", "text": "well\". The next game, 1989's \"Fantasy World Dizzy\", was a return to the adventure game format. It also saw the introduction of the Yolkfolk characters, who were prominent throughout the rest of the series. The extra characters allowed the Olivers to include more dialogue in the game, moving it further towards their original conception of an interactive cartoon. Following on from \"Fantasy World Dizzy\" later the same year came \"Kwik Snax\", another maze game, though this time with a much greater emphasis on puzzle solving. \"Kwik Snax\" was the last \"Dizzy\" game for the original Amstrad and Spectrum formats the", "title": "Dizzy (series)" }, { "docid": "10354560", "text": "Perry Green (poker player) Perry Green (b. c. 1936) is an American poker player who has won three World Series of Poker bracelets and who has made it to the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event twice. Green, a fur trader from Anchorage, Alaska, began playing at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the 1970s and won his first bracelet in 1976 in the $1,000 Ace to Five Draw event. In the following year, he won his second bracelet in the $500 Ace to Five event, then in 1979 won a third WSOP bracelet, in", "title": "Perry Green (poker player)" }, { "docid": "1274192", "text": "awarded to those who perform best overall in the series. Major poker tournaments such as the World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker, use standings to determine a player of the year. The most common playing format for poker tournaments is the \"freezeout\" format. All players still playing in a tournament constitute a dynamic pool. Whenever a player loses all his chips and gets eliminated, his table shrinks. To combat the constant shrinking of tables and avoid having tables play with varying numbers of players, players are moved between tables, with unnecessary tables getting closed as the tournament progresses.", "title": "Poker tournament" }, { "docid": "7147712", "text": "World Series of Poker multiple bracelet winners Below is a list of all poker players who have won multiple World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, together with the year(s) in which the bracelets were won. The first person to win three bracelets in the same WSOP was Walter \"Puggy\" Pearson, at the 1973 WSOP. Since 1973, only five other players have won three bracelets in a single year, which encompasses the WSOP and either the WSOPE or WSOP APAC. Johnny Moss, with a win at the 1971 WSOP, became the first person to have won multiple lifetime WSOP bracelets. Moss", "title": "World Series of Poker multiple bracelet winners" }, { "docid": "15764128", "text": "same year, 's \"Metal Max\" was an early non-linear, open-ended, post-apocalyptic, vehicle combat RPG that lacked a predetermined story path and instead allowed the player to choose which missions to follow in whatever order while being able to visit any place in the game world. The ending also can be determined by the player's actions, while they can continue playing the game even after the ending. The game also allowed the player to choose the character classes for each player character as well as create and modify the tanks used in battle. The \"Metal Max\" series continued to allow tank", "title": "History of Eastern role-playing video games" }, { "docid": "13729767", "text": "Evert-Lloyd, the world number two, took the title at Palm Beach, also in Florida. The table below shows the 1983 Virginia Slims World Championship Series schedule. \"No events were held this month\" Below are the 1983 WTA year-end rankings (December 5, 1983) in singles competition: Virginia Slims ranking points distribution. These tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 1983 Virginia Slims World Championship Series: the Grand Slam tournaments, the Year-end championships and regular events. The players/nations", "title": "1983 Virginia Slims World Championship Series" }, { "docid": "1817174", "text": "Boston's victory over St. Louis in the World Series. A four-game sweep of the World Series erased the Curse of the Bambino. On February 23, 2013, the first bloody sock was sold at a live auction at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion for $92,613 to an anonymous bidder. Schilling was once again runner-up in Cy Young voting in 2004, this time to Minnesota Twins hurler Johan Santana, who was a unanimous selection, receiving all 28 first-place votes. Schilling received 27 of the 28 second-place votes. Later, the entire Red Sox team was named \"Sports Illustrated\"'s 2004 Sportsmen of the Year, making Schilling", "title": "Curt Schilling" }, { "docid": "18688366", "text": "Piya Rangrezz Piya Rangrezz is an Indian television series, which premiered on Life OK on 27 April 2015. The series was produced by Sphere Origins and aired on Monday through Friday nights at 9pm IST. The show had UP backdrop with Gaurav S Bajaj and The show has UP backdrop with Gaurav S Bajaj and Kritida Mistry playing the lead roles, while Afzaal Khan, Neha Bagga and Narayani Shastri played negative roles. Shastri played a rustic don named Bhanwari Devi who set-up alcohol based business. After a 20-year leap, Kritida Mistry, the original female lead, opted out of the show", "title": "Piya Rangrezz" }, { "docid": "19378520", "text": "Kiss Me First (TV series) Kiss Me First is a British cyber-thriller drama series created by Bryan Elsley for Channel 4 and Netflix. The series began airing on 2 April 2018 on Channel 4. The series was made available on Netflix worldwide on 29 June 2018. Leila is a lonely 17-year-old girl addicted to a fictional massively multiplayer online role-playing game called Azana. While playing it, Leila meets Tess, a cool and confident party girl who harbours a dark secret. In the real world, the two girls become friends, but after Tess disappears Leila is quickly drawn into unravelling the", "title": "Kiss Me First (TV series)" }, { "docid": "16696991", "text": "Pio Nakubuwai Pio Nakubuwai is a Fijian rugby league player who represented Fiji in the 1995 World Cup. Nakubuwai played for Fiji at the 1992 World Sevens. Nakubuwai made his test debut in 1994, playing against France. He then appeared for Fiji at the 1995 World Cup, playing in all three matches. Nakubuwai played for the Yanco Wamoon Hawks in the Group 20 Rugby League competition and later switched to rugby union, playing for the Leeton Phantoms. His son, Ben who currently plays for Melbourne Storm in the Holden Cup Under 20's team, played for the Leeton Phantoms under-13's and", "title": "Pio Nakubuwai" }, { "docid": "3443057", "text": "gave it a 4.5/5 in its 1996 review, calling it \"no ordinary role-playing game\" with its \"complex\" immersive environment, traps, and riddles replacing \"the usual pits and levers and rolling rocks that are more common in role-playing dungeons.\" They also called the strategic turn-based combat \"very satisfying\" though \"it takes a little getting used to.\" \"Betrayal at Krondor\" was named 1993's best role-playing game and overall \"Game of the Year\" by \"Computer Games Strategy Plus\". In June 1994 \"Betrayal at Krondor\" won \"Computer Gaming World\"s Role-Playing Game of the Year award. The editors wrote that it \"is the quintessential example", "title": "Betrayal at Krondor" }, { "docid": "18654187", "text": "and in development and currently living in Spain whilst he writes his first novel. Carl Rice Carl Rice (born 1980) is a British actor from Liverpool. In 1980, Rice was born in Liverpool, England. Rice attended St. Joseph's R.C High School. Rice first appeared on screen at the age of eight in a late 1980s advert for milk. The advert famously proclaimed \"Accrington Stanley, Who Are They?\" Following this, he appeared in 15 other adverts. He also starred alongside Tony Robinson for three years on Channel 4's Storyworld, \"Children's Ward\" for 2 series, \"Brookside\" for one year playing Gavin Matthews", "title": "Carl Rice" }, { "docid": "2808524", "text": "a Spanish hacienda - Hacienda de los Hombres. The series was also aired on Channel 4's teen-strand, T4 on Saturdays. The original FOX version was a surprise hit on Dutch television, prompting RTL Nederland to create its own version in 2005. In \"Herken De Homo\" (Find the Gay One), the at the time 23 year old Nathalie Biermanns was sent to Mexico. She had to choose between 14 men. At the end, only Marcel remained who turned out to be straight. Both won 50,000 Euro each. Playing It Straight Playing It Straight is a 2004 American reality show in which", "title": "Playing It Straight" }, { "docid": "18654182", "text": "Carl Rice Carl Rice (born 1980) is a British actor from Liverpool. In 1980, Rice was born in Liverpool, England. Rice attended St. Joseph's R.C High School. Rice first appeared on screen at the age of eight in a late 1980s advert for milk. The advert famously proclaimed \"Accrington Stanley, Who Are They?\" Following this, he appeared in 15 other adverts. He also starred alongside Tony Robinson for three years on Channel 4's Storyworld, \"Children's Ward\" for 2 series, \"Brookside\" for one year playing Gavin Matthews and countless TV shows including Jimmy McGovern's \"Hearts and Minds\" alongside Chris Eccleston and", "title": "Carl Rice" }, { "docid": "17581156", "text": "though the Cubs did not start playing there until 1916. To mark the occasion, the Cubs wore different uniforms to represent each decade during ten homestands throughout the season. The season marked the third year of the Cubs rebuild under President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein and General Manager Jed Hoyer which would result in the Cubs breaking their 108-year World Series drought and lead the Cubs to the 2016 World Series championship. During the season, the Cubs drafted Kyle Schwarber with the fourth overall pick of the 2014 Draft who would play an important role in the 2016 World", "title": "2014 Chicago Cubs season" }, { "docid": "4221366", "text": "They wrote, \"It's a towering achievement, even for a series as revered as this one. Even for long-time fans of the series, playing \"Civilization IV\" is like discovering it for the very first time.\" \"Civilization IV\" also won \"PC Gamer US\"s \"Best Turn-Based Strategy Game 2005\" award. The magazine's Dan Stapleton called it \"a huge facelift to a winning formula.\" It was nominated as \"PC Gamer US\"s \"Best Multiplayer Game 2005\" and overall game of the year, but lost in these categories to \"Battlefield 2\". Civilization IV Civilization IV (also known as Sid Meier's Civilization IV) is a turn-based strategy", "title": "Civilization IV" }, { "docid": "12302903", "text": "the second tier this year in Sapporo Japan from March 12 to 21. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games. \"Norway was promoted to Pool A and Austria was relegated to Pool C for 1989.\" Eight teams contested the third tier this year in Belluno and Feltre, Italy from March 18 to 27. It was played in a simple round robin format, each team playing seven games. The North Korean juniors debuted this year. \"Denmark was initially promoted to Pool B for 1989, however because they used an ineligible player, a challenge series", "title": "1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships" }, { "docid": "19127086", "text": "Antoine Saout Antoine Saout (born 26 June 1984) is a French professional poker player who made the November Nine in the 2009 World Series of Poker finishing 3rd. In April 2007, Antoine Saout began playing poker online under the pseudonym \"tonio292\" while studying at the National School of Information Technology. He turned full-time professional a year and a half later. In late 2008, Saout switched his focus to live poker qualifying for several tournaments including the World Series of Poker through Everest Poker. In July 2009, Saout reached the final table in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event.", "title": "Antoine Saout" }, { "docid": "15764124", "text": "full control of the hero. This \"Tactics\" system is seen as a precursor to \"Final Fantasy XII\"'s \"Gambits\" system. \"Final Fantasy III\" introduced the classic \"job system\", a character progression engine allowing the player to change the character classes, as well as acquire new and advanced classes and combine class abilities, during the course of the game. That same year also saw the release of Nintendo's \"\", a game that set the template for the tactical role-playing game genre and was the first entry in the \"Fire Emblem\" series. Another notable strategy RPG that year was Koei's \"Bandit Kings of", "title": "History of Eastern role-playing video games" }, { "docid": "1999487", "text": "of BBC drama series \"Spooks\". Screened on the UK television network ITV1 in December 2005, McCutcheon appeared in \"The English Harem\", playing a woman in love with a Muslim man (Art Malik), who marries him, despite knowing he already has two wives. That same year she presented and performed on ITV's entertainment programme, \"Moviemusic Mania\". In 2007, McCutcheon was seen in two independent films, \"Withdrawal\" and \"Jump!\", as well as the \"Agatha Christie's Marple\" television series episode \"At Bertram's Hotel\". She was also a judge for the second series of ITV1's \"Soapstar Superstar\". Her appearance on the show drew criticism,", "title": "Martine McCutcheon" }, { "docid": "4341875", "text": "years later—by that time, the Braves had moved to Atlanta. As of 2017, this is the most recent World Series featuring the two previous Series winning teams. This was the first year New Yorkers had only one local team to root for; both the Giants and the Dodgers were now playing their home games more than away (in San Francisco and Los Angeles respectively). Both returnees to the Series had no problems repeating as league champions during the regular season. Milwaukee coasted to an eight-game lead over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League and the Yanks bested the Chicago", "title": "1958 World Series" }, { "docid": "9198411", "text": "Points'. Maflin also appeared twice on BBC1's popular snooker game show series \"Junior Big Break: Stars of the Future\" in 1997, and winning the contestant the grand prize of a holiday in 1998. He began his professional career by playing Challenge Tour in 2000, at the time the second-level professional tour. In 2001, Maflin reached the final of the English Open Championship and was runner-up in the European Championship Final staged in Riga, Latvia. The same year he won his place on World Snooker's Main Tour becoming the second youngest professional snooker player in the world at the time. Despite", "title": "Kurt Maflin" }, { "docid": "2268637", "text": "but this was abandoned due to difficulties in creating the character's unique personalities in the audio medium successfully on Big Finish's limited budget and cast. The \"Judge Dredd\" series drew heavily upon Big Finish's repertory company established through their \"Doctor Who\" series with many actors crossing over such as Toby Longworth (who voiced Dredd), Clare Buckfield, Nicholas Briggs, Mark Donovan and Teresa Gallagher who voiced Chief Judge Hershey. The series would also feature many special guest stars such as \"The League of Gentlemen\"'s Mark Gatiss playing Judge Death, \"Doctor Who\" companion actress Nicola Bryant (who would also direct \"99 Code", "title": "Big Finish Productions" }, { "docid": "2618496", "text": "appeared as a patient in the final two episodes of \"7th Heaven\"'s seventh season in 2003. In 2005, Bean appeared in the sitcom \"Two and a Half Men\" in an episode titled \"Does This Smell Funny to You?\", playing a former playboy whose conquests included actresses Tuesday Weld and Anne Francis. He appeared in the 2007 \"How I Met Your Mother\" episode \"Slapsgiving\" as Robin Scherbatsky's 41-year-old boyfriend, Bob. In 2009 he was cast in the recurring role of Roy Bender, a steak salesman, who is Karen McCluskey's love interest on the ABC series \"Desperate Housewives\". At the age of", "title": "Orson Bean" }, { "docid": "17065716", "text": "in search of the old man’'s long-lost love. The mage desperately wants his love to live on after him, so “Tanis has to find her and return to the present before the old mage dies.” Preludes (Dragonlance series) Preludes is a series of novels comprising two trilogies set in the Dragonlance world of the \"Dungeons & Dragons\" fantasy role-playing game. Darkness and Light was written by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. Carter, and is the first volume in the \"Preludes\" series. This novel details the travels of Kitiara and Sturm before the beginning of Dragonlance Chronicles, as they seek", "title": "Preludes (Dragonlance series)" }, { "docid": "20236492", "text": "Radio 3’s \"Breakfast\" and concerts in \"Radio 3 Live in Concert\". D’Arby started on Children's BBC (CBBC) in the 1990s before becoming the youngest woman to have her own chat show, \"Josie\", in 1999 on Channel 5. She has co-presented a number of cultural programs for the BBC including; Young Musician of the Year since 2012, Cardiff Singer of the World since 2009, \"Songs of Praise\" since 2014 and \"Young Choir of the Year\" (2018). Her acting credits include playing series regular WPC Jodie Finn, in BBC One drama \"Merseybeat\" from 2002–04. On 11 August 2018, it was revealed that", "title": "Eurovision Young Musicians 2018" }, { "docid": "6679059", "text": "Gavin Smith (poker player) Gavin Smith (born September 4, 1968, in Guelph, Ontario) is a Canadian professional poker player who won the World Poker Tour's Season IV Mirage Poker Showdown Championship event and the WPT Season IV Player of the Year award in 2005, then at the 2010 World Series of Poker he won the $2,500 Mixed Hold'em event along with his first bracelet. Smith learned how to play cards by playing cribbage and rummy with his father. He started playing poker at the age of 26, playing mixed games with co-workers. He became a poker dealer in 1996 and", "title": "Gavin Smith (poker player)" }, { "docid": "12485705", "text": "named \"Sports Illustrated\"s Sportsman of the Year for 2009. Matsui won the World Series MVP for his play, becoming the first Japanese player and first full-time designated hitter to win the award. Several items related to the series were sent to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum including bats from Jeter and Matsui; caps from Rivera, Lee, and Pettitte; and Johnny Damon's cleats. Matsui also joined Minnesota Twins radio analyst Dan Gladden as members from the 1994 world championship Yomiuri Giants team as players who have won championships in North America and Japan. The series win brought the", "title": "2009 World Series" }, { "docid": "4341773", "text": "DiMaggio, who retired afterward, and the first for rookies Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle. This was the last Subway Series the Giants played in. Both teams would meet again eleven years later after the Giants relocated to San Francisco. They have not played a World Series against each other since. This was the first World Series announced by Bob Sheppard, who was in his first year as Yankee Stadium's public address announcer. It was also the first World Series to be televised nationwide, as coaxial cable had recently linked both coasts. This World Series also matched up two of baseball's", "title": "1951 World Series" }, { "docid": "2660899", "text": "fantasy world, and featuring fan-written expansions and characters. The most recent version, published by Cumberland, was released in late September, 2012 through the Lulu print-on-demand system and on PDF. In September 2012, S. John Ross released a new version of \"Uresia\" as part of his All-Systems Library series of gaming material. The new version of \"Uresia\" is written as all setting, with no single specific role-playing game required to use it. Uresia: Grave of Heaven Uresia: Grave of Heaven is an anime-inspired fantasy world for role-playing games written by S. John Ross. Originally published for the \"Big Eyes, Small Mouth\"", "title": "Uresia: Grave of Heaven" }, { "docid": "5871981", "text": "& Sciences' \"Role Playing Game of the Year\", \"Computer Gaming World\"s \"Best RPG\", CNET Gamecenter's \"Best RPG of 1998\" and GameSpot's \"Role-playing Game of the Year\" awards, all of which ultimately went to \"Baldur's Gate\". Return to Krondor Return to Krondor is a role-playing video game set in Raymond Feist's fictional fantasy setting of Midkemia. A sequel to 1993's \"Betrayal at Krondor\", it was released for Windows 95 on the PC in time for the 1998 Christmas season. It was re-released on GOG.com in 2010 and again for Steam in 2016. Within the game, the player commands a group of", "title": "Return to Krondor" }, { "docid": "4342386", "text": "them coming in the ninth inning. After a ground out, Tony Kubek singled to right to start things off. Stengel decided to pinch hit lefty Joe Collins, who was 30-for-149 (.201) that year and was playing what turned out to be his final year, for the right-handed Coleman, who was a better 42-for-157 (.263) and also playing in his final season, to face right-handed pitcher Burdette. Collins popped to Johnny Logan at shortstop for the second out. Then, Stengel again opted to pinch hit for the pitcher, Bob Grim. Howard came up in his spot and singled to advance Kubek", "title": "1957 World Series" }, { "docid": "982790", "text": "ended up winning the World Series in the first year of Mattingly's retirement, not to mention the Yankees had the best record in the American League in 1994 before the strike. This World Series drought (1982–1995) was the longest in Yankees history since the start of the Babe Ruth era and it was worsened by the player's strike in 1994, which ended a promising chance for a World Series title. Buck Showalter, Mattingly's last manager during his playing days and a former teammate in the minor leagues, attributed Mattingly's calmness to the controversies he was subjected to during his time", "title": "Don Mattingly" }, { "docid": "3504314", "text": "bottom half of the frame on back-to-back RBI singles by Gino Cimoli and Smoky Burgess, Bobby Shantz relieved Turley and got Don Hoak to hit into the game-ending double play. This decisive Yankee victory tied the series at a game apiece. 1960's game 2 shares one peculiar record with 2002's game 5. The two games share the World Series record for most runs scored by a \"game-winning team\", 16, \"who ultimately went on to lose the series.\" For Game 3, the Series shifted to Yankee Stadium as Stengel sent Whitey Ford to the mound against Pittsburgh's Vinegar Bend Mizell. Ford", "title": "1960 World Series" }, { "docid": "5745830", "text": "upset over not playing in game 5 of the World Series. This marked the second time he has won a World Series but skipped the victory parade with the winning team; he also skipped the 2003 Florida Marlins World Series victory parade. The season marked Encarnación's tenth in the major leagues and his second with the Cardinals. Before the season, he had surgery on his left wrist and was not ready for opening day. He started the year on the 15-day disabled list. Encarnación rehabbed first in Florida at extended Spring training, homering twice in three games. He did not", "title": "Juan Encarnación" }, { "docid": "2666462", "text": "His performance won him the World Series MVP Award presented by \"SPORT\", as well as the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year. After the 1970 World Series, Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson quipped, \"I'm beginning to see Brooks in my sleep. If I dropped this paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.\" In his playing career, Robinson was selected for the All-Star team in 15 consecutive years (-74) and played in four World Series. He compiled a .267 career batting average with 2,848 hits, 268 home runs and 1357", "title": "Brooks Robinson" }, { "docid": "12899075", "text": "C. S. Lee Charlie S. Lee (born December 30, 1971), known professionally as C. S. Lee, is a Korean American actor and comedian. He is perhaps best known for playing sex-obsessed forensics analyst Vince Masuka on the Showtime drama series \"Dexter\". Lee was born in Cheongju, South Korea. Film became his passion in his junior year of high school while playing football at Hudson's Bay High School in Vancouver, Washington. Lee attended Cornish College of the Arts on an acting scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He graduated from the Yale School of Drama with a", "title": "C. S. Lee" }, { "docid": "16691454", "text": "of players from any geographical make-up and form a team to play other Xtreme teams in special games or tournaments throughout the year. Xtreme teams are eligible to play at their own facility or in local tournaments. Playing rules match High School and College playing rules to better prepare players for the next level of competition. Babe Ruth League consists of 8 Regions. Babe Ruth League offers 12 World Series to its leagues to compete in. The Babe Ruth World Series follows the tournament trail of Districts, States, Regionals, and the World Series. At the World Series, 8 Regional Champions", "title": "Babe Ruth League" }, { "docid": "6474528", "text": "Darren Lehmann Cricket Academy said he had been coaching batting and bowling there for four years. Peter Sleep Peter Raymond Sleep (born 4 May 1957 in Penola, South Australia) is a former Australian cricketer who played 14 Tests for Australia between 1979 and 1990. Nicknamed \"Sounda\", Sleep made his national debut during the World Series Cricket period, and although his performances were not high, Sleep publicly reported that he had turned down a $15,000/year offer to play for World Series Cricket. He was a leg spinner who was in and out of the team, rarely playing two games in succession,", "title": "Peter Sleep" }, { "docid": "15919086", "text": "of \"Doctor Who\"s return in 2005 is the 27th full series of the show, the production team officially restarted the series numbering from scratch. This was mainly due to the 16-year gap between Season 26 and the new series (not counting the 1996 television movie). Doctor Who (season 26) The twenty-sixth season of British science fiction television series \"Doctor Who\" began on 9 September 1989 with the serial \"Battlefield\", after a regular series of four serials was broadcast finishing with \"Survival\" which was the final episode of \"Doctor Who\" to air before a 16-year absence from episodic television following its", "title": "Doctor Who (season 26)" }, { "docid": "7272560", "text": "playing the role of Violet. On 24 December 2008, she appeared in the Christmas special of \"Gavin & Stacey\" as Edna, Pete Sutcliffe's (Adrian Scarborough) mother, once again playing a character affected by dementia. In February 2009 she held a small role in an episode of the new series of \"Minder\" on Five. She also played Grace in the Easter movie \"Skellig\". In January 2010, she appeared as Nin Gallagher, the grandmother of David Threlfall's iconic character Frank Gallagher, in Channel 4's popular comedy drama series, \"Shameless\". That same year she appeared in Mike Leigh's film \"Another Year\". In March", "title": "Edna Doré" }, { "docid": "13603774", "text": "In 1973, they starred alongside Vince Hill in BBC2's series \"They Sold A Million\". The same year saw another series: \"The Young Generation Big Top\", which featured Clodagh Rodgers, The Bachelors, Danny La Rue and Sandie Shaw. A second series of \"They Sold A Million\" aired in 1974, followed the same year by \"Ken Dodd's World Of Laughter\" on BBC1. Their last BBC series was \"The Musical Time Machine\" which aired on BBC2 in 1977. They continued to appear regularly with Vera Lynn on BBC shows, including \"A Jubilee Of Music\" in 1976. Later members of the group who had", "title": "Dougie Squires" }, { "docid": "10982132", "text": "Giorgio Cantarini Giorgio Cantarini (born 12 April 1992) is an Italian actor who, to date, has appeared in two Academy Award winning films: 1997's \"Life Is Beautiful\" () and 2000's \"Gladiator\". Raised in Orvieto, Italy, Giorgio Cantarini is born to Giuseppe Cantarini and Giovanna Martini. The couple separated after Giorgio's fifth birthday. His family nickname is \"Gio\". Cantarini made his film debut in the 1997 Roberto Benigni directed comedy-drama \"Life is Beautiful\", playing Benigni's four-year-old son 'Giosuè Orefice', who is sent with his Jewish-Italian father to a German concentration camp during World War II. The film won three Academy Awards.", "title": "Giorgio Cantarini" }, { "docid": "4342376", "text": "the left field line off the bat of Yogi Berra in the sixth inning, to start a double play. Amorós then threw to Pee Wee Reese and Reese relayed to Gil Hodges, who tagged Yankee Gil McDougald before McDougald could get back to first. This stymied possibly the Yankees' best chance of the day. Elston Howard grounded out to Reese for the final out; the two shared the dubious record for playing in the most losing World Series (six each). This would be the only time in Jackie Robinson's career when he did not play in his team's World Series", "title": "1955 World Series" }, { "docid": "4341973", "text": "1926 World Series The 1926 World Series, the 23rd playing of Major League Baseball's championship series, pitted the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals against the American League champion New York Yankees. The Cardinals defeated the Yankees four games to three in the best-of-seven series, which took place from October 2 to 10, 1926, at Yankee Stadium and Sportsman's Park. This was the first World Series appearance (and first National League pennant win) for the Cardinals, and would be the first of eleven World Series championships in Cardinals history. The Yankees were playing in their fourth World Series in six", "title": "1926 World Series" }, { "docid": "16455286", "text": "2012 FEI World Cup Finals (show jumping and dressage) The 2012 FEI World Cup Finals in 's-Hertogenbosch was held from April 19 to April 22, 2012. It was the final of the Show jumping and Dressage World Cup series. This finals was held in the Brabanthallen. Each year the horse show \"Indoor Brabant\" is held in the Brabanthallen in 's-Hertogenbosch. A World cup competition in dressage and also one in show juming are held here. Several times World Cup Finals are held as part of \"Indoor Brabant\": 1994 in show jumping; 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2008 and", "title": "2012 FEI World Cup Finals (show jumping and dressage)" }, { "docid": "17104052", "text": "the series as \"endearing\" and \"dreamlike\", while \"The Guardian\"s Naomi Alderman described them as \"enchanting\", \"whimsical\" and child-friendly. Indiegames.com writer, Michael Rose, noted that \"GROW\" games make the player \"feel all good inside\", and described the experience of playing \"GROW\" as akin to \"pressing buttons on an exhibit in a museum ... to watch the world evolve.\" GameSetWatch's Eric Caoili has emphasized On's use of humor to reward players who are making progress even when just exploring. The regularity of On's releases has also drawn praise from reviewers like the \"New York Times\"' Charles Herold. Industry insiders including game developers,", "title": "GROW (series)" }, { "docid": "14083531", "text": "Year in 2009. Kayange has also played for the Kenya national rugby union team (15s), playing at the 2011 World Cup Qualifiers. He is the older brother of IRB Sevens World Series top try scorer Collins Injera who also plays for Mwamba RFC. Their younger brother Michael Agevi has also played rugby for the Sevens in the past. In 2010 Kayange was awarded the presidential Order of Golden Warriors (OGW) alongside his brother Collins Injera, for their performance in the 2008/2009 IRB world series. In 2012 Kayange moved to Bristol, U.K. to undertake research into tenellin biosynthesis with Professor Christine", "title": "Humphrey Kayange" }, { "docid": "5123492", "text": "Luis Castillo (second baseman) Luis Antonio Castillo (born September 12, 1975) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman. Castillo is a three-time All-Star, three-time Gold Glove winner, and won the World Series with the Florida Marlins in 2003. He is also the only player who played for the Marlins in both of their World Series winning seasons who did not get traded in between the two seasons. On August 19, 1992 Castillo was signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Florida Marlins. In 1994 he played his first year of baseball in the Gulf Coast League, playing for", "title": "Luis Castillo (second baseman)" }, { "docid": "6474515", "text": "Peter Sleep Peter Raymond Sleep (born 4 May 1957 in Penola, South Australia) is a former Australian cricketer who played 14 Tests for Australia between 1979 and 1990. Nicknamed \"Sounda\", Sleep made his national debut during the World Series Cricket period, and although his performances were not high, Sleep publicly reported that he had turned down a $15,000/year offer to play for World Series Cricket. He was a leg spinner who was in and out of the team, rarely playing two games in succession, though after taking ten wickets in the 1986–87 Ashes he was retained for the next four", "title": "Peter Sleep" }, { "docid": "2263277", "text": "four games to none, as Baker batted .250. After the 1914 World Series, Mack began to sell off some of his best players. However, he had given Collins a multiyear contract during the 1914 season to prevent him from jumping to the upstart Federal League. Baker, who had just completed the first year of a three-year contract, attempted to renegotiate his terms, but Mack refused. Baker sat out the entire 1915 season as a result of this contract dispute. He remained in baseball, playing for a team representing Upland, Pennsylvania, in the semi-professional Delaware County League. Pressured by American League", "title": "Home Run Baker" }, { "docid": "35148", "text": "scene of \"\", playing a driver whose passenger (Dan Aykroyd) has a shocking secret. In James L. Brooks's hit \"Broadcast News\" (1987), Albert Brooks was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing an insecure, supremely ethical network TV reporter, who offers the rhetorical question, \"Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?\" He also won positive notices for his role in 1998's \"Out of Sight\", playing an untrustworthy banker and ex-convict. Brooks received positive reviews for his portrayal of a dying retail store owner who befriends disillusioned teen Leelee Sobieski", "title": "Albert Brooks" }, { "docid": "1829249", "text": "Top 2 teams advancing to the single elimination finals on Sunday. The team format is 3 Person Team Constructed with one player playing Standard, one Extended, and one Legacy. 352 players from 60 countries competed in the event. The national teams competition had 57 countries represented. The 2010 World Champion Guillaume Matignon earned enough pro points with his performance to equal Pro Player of the Year leader 's total. This led to a play-off for the Pro Player of the Year title at Pro Tour Paris 2011, which was ultimately won by Brad Nelson. Pro Player of the Year \"(Official", "title": "Magic: The Gathering World Championship" }, { "docid": "17091735", "text": "this year, SAP is in its second year of the series. Team Korea was a new team for 2013, skippered by Peter Burling The Wave, Muscat were the 2012 champions of the Extreme Sailing Series and are back again, with their skipper Leigh McMillan. A new team for 2013, Realteam will be skippered by Jérôme Clerc who led his D35 catamarans team to victory in 2012 and who has now turned his sights to Extreme 40's. As in previous years, host cities have the opportunity to enter their own entry into their home act. This year, all 'wildcard' entries will", "title": "2013 Extreme Sailing Series" }, { "docid": "997534", "text": "and Averey Tressler developed a mutual attraction, leading to a relationship that they continued for one year after filming ended. The level of sexual experience varies among a given season’s cast members. 's Julie Gentry, ’ Jon Brennan and Aaron Behle, 's Cory Murphy and Rachel Campos, ’s Rebecca Lord, ’ Matt Smith and Julie Stoffer, ' Mallory Snyder, ’s Lacey Buehler, and 's Chet Cannon, for example, all stated they were virgins during their respective seasons. On the other end of the spectrum was 2000 New Orleans’ David Broom and 's Joey Rozmus, who took pride in their promiscuity", "title": "Real World (TV series)" }, { "docid": "19245026", "text": "the same year in December, he started playing the lead role as grown-up Sagar, a lawyer in Banaras opposite Aditi Dev Sharma on &TV\" series \"Gangaa\" He also worked in Rashmi Sharma Telefilms Limited's show on Sony Entertainment Television titled Jaat Ki Jugni Vishal is currently playing the lead character Kanhaiya in Star Bharat 's show Jai Kanhaiya Lal Ki. Vishal Vashishtha was born on 13 February 1992 in Hyderabad India. He completed his schooling in Kolkata at The Heritage School following this, he graduated with a degree in Commerce from Bhawanipur Education Society College. His journey from Kolkata to", "title": "Vishal Vashishtha" }, { "docid": "3510354", "text": "Eilbacher was also featured in the 1983 miniseries \"The Winds of War\", playing Madeleine Henry. Eilbacher starred as Callie Shaw in \"The Hardy Boys Mysteries\" in 1977. The same year she appeared in the episode \"The Innocent\" of the short-lived \"Logan's Run\" TV series. She also appeared in the 1974 television movie \"Bad Ronald\", 1981's \"This House Possessed\", and several other theatrical and television films and episodes of television series. \"This House Possessed\" reunited her with Parker Stevenson, with whom she had worked on \"The Hardy Boys Mysteries\". Lisa Eilbacher Lisa Marie Eilbacher (born May 5, 1956) is an American", "title": "Lisa Eilbacher" }, { "docid": "7185914", "text": "Since then Horne has continued to appear in several Catherine Tates Nan specials. He reprised his role as Jamie in two festive episodes of Catherine Tates Nan in 2015. In 2003, he starred in Channel 4's \"20 Things to do Before You're 30\" and a year later earned the role of Ben, an atheist RE teacher, in the Channel 4 series \"Teachers\". He also appeared in the first series of ITV production \"Doc Martin\". In 2005, Horne appeared in an episode of \"The Smoking Room\", playing Dominic the nephew of Janet who was conducting a psychological study of the employees.", "title": "Mathew Horne" }, { "docid": "20665939", "text": "Queer\" King and bassist Chris \"B-Face\" Barnard, it was recorded in a single day with no rehearsals. They later criticized other bands who spent more time rehearsing and recording their entries in the series, saying \"You can't improve on the Ramones, they were the greatest punk rock band the world will ever know.\" The Queers' usual drummer, Hugh O'Neill, was on a forced leave of absence from the band; earlier that year, they had staged an intervention in order to convince him to stop using heroin. This accounted for his absence from \"Rocket to Russia\" and their following album, 1994's", "title": "Ramones covers album series" }, { "docid": "16455294", "text": "sign of mourning in the Grand Prix de Dressage. After the Grand Prix de Dressage a minute's silence in memory of Holger Schmezer was held. 2012 FEI World Cup Finals (show jumping and dressage) The 2012 FEI World Cup Finals in 's-Hertogenbosch was held from April 19 to April 22, 2012. It was the final of the Show jumping and Dressage World Cup series. This finals was held in the Brabanthallen. Each year the horse show \"Indoor Brabant\" is held in the Brabanthallen in 's-Hertogenbosch. A World cup competition in dressage and also one in show juming are held here.", "title": "2012 FEI World Cup Finals (show jumping and dressage)" }, { "docid": "17091734", "text": "sailing Extreme 40's, is a long-time sailing team competing in the World Match Racing Tour and supporting numerous sailors across all levels of the sport. The team this year will be skippered by William Tiller, an experienced match racer from New Zealand with the rest of the team consisting of Matt Steven (Tactician), Harry Thurston/Stewart Dodson (Mainsail Trim), Brad Farrand (Headsail Trim) and Shaun Mason/Ash Hammond (Bowman). Skippered by Roman Hagara, Red Bull is another regular who has been competing in the Extreme Sailing Series for a number of years. With skippers Rasmus Kostner and Jes Gram-Hansen sharing the duties", "title": "2013 Extreme Sailing Series" }, { "docid": "3522452", "text": "game projects, and input on curriculum. He was recognized as the NY-AMOA Man of the Year in 2009 and he received the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Pioneer Award in 2013 Jarvis is the only video game designer to have his work featured on a U.S. Postage Stamp - two 80's era children are depicted playing \"Defender\" on the video games stamp for the \"Celebrate the Century\" series. He also appeared on the TV series \"NewsRadio\" as \"Delivery Man #3\", a character who delivers a distracting video game to the office. The fictitious arcade game was called \"Stargate Defender\"", "title": "Eugene Jarvis" }, { "docid": "20558899", "text": "The Japan Audition\" by a classmate's recommendation while studying at Kagawa Prefecture Takamatsu West High School. She passed the actor division from 190,000 people and entered the entertainment industry. The following year, she debuted as a heroine role at TBS series \"Pu-Pu-Pu-\" where V6's Coming Century starred. Ike Nwala <includeonly>Please don't delete this article because this actor or actress is new and will play/is playing a lead, supporting or breakthrough role in the tokusatsu series \"Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger\" and will continue their career and make more roles, either lead or supporting, after the end of the", "title": "Ike Nwala" }, { "docid": "10129115", "text": "innings. The team would get back to the World Series the next year and also in 1933, their last Series while playing in Washington. 1924 Washington Senators season The 1924 Washington Senators won 92 games, lost 62, and finished in first place in the American League. Fueled by the excitement of winning their first AL pennant, the Senators won the World Series in dramatic fashion, a 12-inning game 7 victory. The Senators' offense was led by future Hall of Famer Goose Goslin, who was one of the youngest players on the team. He drove in a league-leading 129 runs. Walter", "title": "1924 Washington Senators season" }, { "docid": "7656006", "text": "who last played in the NBA Finals in 1951. \"Celtics win series 4–1\" 1961 NBA Finals The 1961 NBA World Championship Series was the championship series of the 1961 NBA Playoffs, which concluded the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 1960–61 season. The best-of-seven series was played between the Western Conference champion St. Louis Hawks and the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics. This was the fourth and final World Championship Series meeting between the two teams. It was also Celtics' fifth straight trip to the championship series, and they won the series against the Hawks, 4–1. , this remains the Hawks franchise’s", "title": "1961 NBA Finals" }, { "docid": "7970208", "text": "a supporting role on FX Networks' series \"The Shield\" as undercover ICE agent Hernan. He also has a small role in 2006's \"Babel\", directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. In 2007, Collins took the lead role in the indie feature \"The Perfect Game\", playing former baseball player Cesar Faz, who coaches a local Mexican youth league team, leading them all the way to the Little League World Series. In 2008, Collins directed two music videos for the country music group Zac Brown Band: \"Chicken Fried\" and \"Whatever It Is\". Collins starred in the comedy \"Sunshine Cleaning\" with Amy Adams, Emily Blunt", "title": "Clifton Collins Jr." }, { "docid": "13808549", "text": "tournament, playing in the 2015 Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Later in the English winter he was called back into the Test side, as wicket-keeper, during the tour of the West Indies. He continued in the role throughout the English summer, playing both Tests against New Zealand and all five Ashes Tests against Australia. Buttler's batting during the Ashes series was criticised by Geoffrey Boycott, who said \"Jos Buttler is like a rabbit caught in the headlights of Ashes cricket. A seven-year-old schoolboy would have played better. He hasn't made a run all series. He hasn't shown", "title": "Jos Buttler" }, { "docid": "16099762", "text": "restored it when he was 29 years old. With its origin, in the 16th century in Yongyouung, the navy force was established and every the last day of the year, people gathered to ceremony with mask playing. 30 musicians who were drafted in the navy from small islands practiced under the control starting the 28th of the twelfth month of the lunar year. They marched in procession in office district and then private houses from New Year´s Eve until the 15th of January. This playing was kind of a ceremony exorcising evil spirits. The name of mask Junggwandae leads the", "title": "Tongyeong ogwandae" }, { "docid": "15520006", "text": "episodes. With ratings rising, Series 3 followed in October in a new 45-minute format. It was set one year after the summer special as the holidaymakers took up the offer of a free holiday given to them by the Solana Resort. The regulars from series 2 returned but this time Martin did not bring Kate, instead he brought mischievous Brandy (Sheridan Smith) who was not all she seemed. The featuring of well-known guest stars was becoming something of a tradition with Keith Barron playing a very English Deputy Mayor, Tim Healy playing Geoff's transvestite blind date Les/Lesley, Robin Askwith playing", "title": "Benidorm (TV series)" }, { "docid": "3370255", "text": "Doctor. This performance followed years of rumours that Grant would play the Doctor in a film or new series, and indeed he had appeared as the \"Conceited Doctor\" in the Comic Relief special \"Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death\" in 1999. Grant subsequently went on to appear in the revived television series of \"Doctor Who\" as a guest villain in 2012's \"The Snowmen\" and 2013's \"The Bells of Saint John\" and \"The Name of the Doctor\". The Doctor's companion for this adventure, Alison Cheney, was voiced by Sophie Okonedo who a year later would be nominated for an", "title": "Scream of the Shalka" }, { "docid": "12502381", "text": "Ni no Kuni Ni no Kuni is a series of role-playing games developed by Level-5. The first games in the series chiefly follow the young Oliver, and his journey to another world to save his mother and stop the beckoning evil. The sequel follows Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum, a boy king who is usurped from his castle, and sets out to reclaim his kingdom. The games utilize several magic elements, allowing players to use magical abilities during gameplay, as well as creatures known as familiars, which can be tamed for suitability during battle. Conceived as a project for Level-5's tenth anniversary,", "title": "Ni no Kuni" }, { "docid": "8228407", "text": "aired on Wednesday or Thursday. The final game to date was aired on September 30, 2006. ESPN telecasts in 2006, posted an average of 1,115,000 household impressions, up 27% when compared to 2005's 875,000. The corresponding 1.2 rating this year marks a 20% increase over the 1.0 average in 2005. ESPN2's baseball telecasts have averaged 704,000 households, an increase of 34% over 2005's 525,000. Ratings on ESPN2 went up 33% (0.8 vs. 0.6). After the 2006 Division Series, ESPN lost the rights to broadcast playoff games on TV. All postseason games, from possible one-game playoffs to the World Series, have", "title": "ESPN Major League Baseball" }, { "docid": "6268154", "text": "the best FRP ever designed.\" Later that year, the magazine named \"Arena\" the 18th greatest game of all time. The editors praised it as \"next-generation role-playing that will satisfy both newcomers and veterans alike.\" The game was a runner-up for \"PC Gamer US\"s 1994 \"Best Role-playing Game\" award, losing to \"\". Barry Brenesal of \"Electronic Entertainment\" wrote, \"While \"The Elder Scrolls, Chapter One: Arena\" has nothing revolutionary to offer in role-playing fantasy, it is nevertheless a worthwhile game for the sheer depth of its quest capabilities that far outnumber the competition.\" \"Arena\" won \"Computer Gaming World\"s 1994 \"Role-Playing Game of", "title": "The Elder Scrolls: Arena" } ]

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[ { "docid": "2360613", "text": "at the hands of John Cena. Also, at WrestleMania XXX, The Shield defeated Kane and The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) in a six-man tag team match, and Cesaro won the first ever Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal by body slamming Big Show outside of the ring, in similar fashion to Hulk Hogan body slamming Andre the Giant, at WrestleMania III. WrestleMania 31 was held at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California on March 29, 2015. Brock Lesnar defended the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in the main event against Royal Rumble winner Roman Reigns, with Seth", "title": "WrestleMania" }, { "docid": "4507406", "text": "reviews, though most reviewers praised the main event between Hogan and Warrior. Jason Powell was among the reviewers who praised the main event, calling it \"A truly amazing match considering the limitations of both men, particularly Warrior\". However, he went on to say, \"The overall WrestleMania 6 card was softer than WrestleMania 5 card, but it was a better show that [sic] WrestleManias 1, 2, and 4\". The Hulk Hogan-Ultimate Warrior match was named 1990's \"Match of the Year\" by \"Pro Wrestling Illustrated\" magazine readers. The match between Roddy Piper and Bad News Brown has received heavy criticism for featuring", "title": "WrestleMania VI" }, { "docid": "17111177", "text": "original ones. The mode features a distinct roster of wrestlers and alternate gimmicks, who wrestled at WrestleMania(Especially in Main Events). In Wrestlemania mode, matches have primary objectives, required to beat the game, and bonus historical objectives, which result in recreated WrestleMania moments. Sometimes the player must follow a guided sequence of inputs, rather than freely control the character. In 45 primary matches, the player competes through storylines of various lengths, switching predetermined characters as they are completed. Each chapter has its own title and focus; \"Hulkamania Runs Wild\" focuses on Hulk Hogan and early WrestleManias, while \"The New Generation\" showcases", "title": "WWE 2K14" }, { "docid": "14994734", "text": "unable to live up to the hype, while the main event did. He labeled the match as being the match that could break or make the WrestleMania and ended in \"an amazing sequence.\" The Rock's victory was again stated as shocking and welcome, leaving people curious about the aftermath of the event. Yahoo's A. Orien Avery found The Rock vs. Hulk Hogan from WrestleMania X8 as the only comparable match from previous WrestleManias, though the Rock being in his prime would make the match more symbolic. WrestleMania XXVIII garnered 1,217,000 buys, making it the most purchased wrestling event in history,", "title": "WrestleMania XXVIII" }, { "docid": "1367330", "text": "described him as \"the biggest superstar in the history of WWE\". In \"Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting\", The Rock was described as \"for a long time, the WWE's biggest star and probably held the greatest international appeal\". R.D. Reynolds stated in his book \"The WrestleCrap Book of Lists\" that The Rock was \"the biggest star for WWE from 1999 until 2004\". Many wrestlers placed The Rock on their \"Mount Rushmore of Wrestling\" including Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Chris Jericho and John Cena. The Rock main-evented the most bought pay-per-view (PPV) worldwide in WWE history (WrestleMania XXVIII), the most bought pay-per-view", "title": "Dwayne Johnson" }, { "docid": "1367317", "text": "WrestleMania, The Rock and Cena had several verbal confrontations on \"Raw\". On March 12, 2012, episode, The Rock hosted his first \"Rock Concert\" segment since 2004, mocking Cena in his songs. He opined that, having beaten Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold Steve Austin at previous Wrestlemanias, beating Cena would make him the greatest wrestler of all time. On April 1 at WrestleMania XXVIII, The Rock faced Cena in the main event hyped for a year and billed with the tagline \"Once in a Lifetime\". When an overconfident Cena attempted the \"People's Elbow\" on The Rock, he countered with a \"Rock", "title": "Dwayne Johnson" }, { "docid": "4507313", "text": "Man and Demolition (Ax and Smash) against Powers of Pain and Mr. Fuji in a handicap match for the WWF Tag Team Championship. WrestleMania IV and V are the only two WrestleManias to be held at the same venue for two consecutive years. Run-DMC performed a \"WrestleMania Rap\" for the audience. Other celebrity guests in attendance for included Morton Downey Jr. and Donald Trump. The main feud heading into WrestleMania was between Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, with the two battling over the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. Hogan and Savage first crossed paths on the October 3, 1987, edition of", "title": "WrestleMania V" }, { "docid": "2866044", "text": "Aside from championships, Savage was the 1987 WWF King of the Ring and the 1995 WCW World War 3 winner. He headlined many pay-per-view events throughout his career, including WrestleManias IV, V and VIII (being part of a double main event at the last of those presentations), four of the first five SummerSlam shows, and the 1995 Starrcade. As WWF Champion, Savage held similar drawing power to that of Hulk Hogan. He was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2015. Poffo was born in Columbus, Ohio, the older son of Judy and Angelo Poffo. His father was", "title": "Randy Savage" } ]

[ { "docid": "2259401", "text": "the Ring tournament as well as the 1997, 1998 and 2001 Royal Rumbles, making him the only three-time winner of the event. Furthermore, he was awarded the unsanctioned Million Dollar Championship by Ted DiBiase. Austin has main evented multiple pay-per-view events for the WWE, including three WrestleManias (XIV, XV and X-Seven). He was forced to retire from in-ring competition in 2003 due to a series of knee injuries and a serious neck injury. Throughout the rest of 2003 and 2004, he was featured as the Co-General Manager and Sheriff of \"Raw\". Since 2005, he has continued to make occasional appearances,", "title": "Stone Cold Steve Austin" }, { "docid": "1367334", "text": "dictionaries since 2007. The Rock was the first wrestler to win the WWF/E Championship six times, then seven times. Rock's Intercontinental Championship's reign in 1997–98 lasted 265 days and is the longest intercontinental title reign of the modern era (the last 24 years). Rock is the only wrestler to introduce a different design of both the Intercontinental Championship (shortly after WrestleMania XIV) and the WWE Championship (on February 18, 2013 episode of \"Raw\"). The Rock also holds the record for most \"Raw\" shows main-evented in one year (38 in 2000), most SmackDown shows main evented in one year (36 in", "title": "Dwayne Johnson" }, { "docid": "2222609", "text": "his employment with WWE, at the behest of The Undertaker. The Undertaker then accepted Michaels' rematch offer, after initially declining, at WrestleMania XXVI in a Streak vs. career match, where Undertaker was victorious and Shawn Michaels was forced to retire. This match also made both the Undertaker and Michaels the first men in WWE history to main event WrestleMania in three different decades. (Undertaker main evented WrestleMania 13 and 24 in 1997 and 2008 and Micheals main evented WrestleMania's 12 and 14 in 1996 and 1998 and the 20th and 23rd editions in 2004 and 2007 respectively.) After a hiatus", "title": "The Undertaker" }, { "docid": "1367335", "text": "2000) and tied with Stone Cold Steve Austin (in 2001) for most PPV shows main evented in one year (12 in 2000). Johnson became a movie star through his wrestling popularity and noted work ethic. Over his acting career, he has become one of the highest paid and most successful actors in Hollywood. He began his acting career on television while wrestling. In his first television acting job, in 1999, he played his own father in an episode of \"That '70s Show\" called \"That Wrestling Show\". Nearly a year later, he appeared in the \"\" episode \"Tsunkatse\" as an alien", "title": "Dwayne Johnson" }, { "docid": "19203613", "text": "during the first three matches of the show. The show featured five matches in total, including the CMLL debut of Cibernético who worked for CMLL's main rival AAA for over 20 years. The Mexican wrestling company \"Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre\" (Spanish for \"World Wrestling Council\"; CMLL) has held a number of major shows over the years using the moniker \"Infierno en el Ring\" (\"Inferno in the Ring\"), all of which were main evented by a multi-man steel cage match, the eponymous \"Infierno en el Ring\" match. CMLL has use the \"Infierno en el Ring\" match on other shows, but", "title": "Infierno en el Ring (2015)" }, { "docid": "19841107", "text": "Persona and reception of Roman Reigns The persona and reception of Roman Reigns refers to the ascendency of American professional wrestler Roman Reigns (Leati Joseph Anoaʻi) within WWE, which has divided critical and public opinion. Reigns debuted on the WWE main roster in November 2012 (having performed in its developmental system since 2010) as part of stable The Shield and was well-received by fans and critics. Support began to dwindle upon Reigns's transition to a heroic main event singles act in 2014, largely due to his perceived forced push. This would manifest itself with Reigns main eventing consecutive WrestleManias (WWE's", "title": "Persona and reception of Roman Reigns" }, { "docid": "8250686", "text": "MsChif was unable to secure victory. As well as these promotions, MsChif has made various one-off and limited appearances for other companies. Perhaps the most famous of these companies was NWA: Total Nonstop Action (NWA:TNA) for their televised program \"TNA Xplosion\" in a losing effort against longtime enemy Daizee Haze. On October 8, 2012, MsChif made her first appearance in Japan in six years, when she main evented \"Joshi 4 Hope IV\", unsuccessfully challenging Hailey Hatred for the Remix Pro Women's Championship. Collins graduated from college as a genetics scientist. Along with her work in professional wrestling as MsChif, she", "title": "MsChif" }, { "docid": "749261", "text": "Body Shop\" was often hosted by Don Muraco). He began to do color commentary on television for \"All-Star Wrestling\", replacing Angelo Mosca, and later \"Superstars of Wrestling\", initially alongside Vince McMahon and the semi-retired Sammartino, and then just with McMahon after Sammartino's departure from the WWF in early 1988. Ventura most notably co-hosted \"Saturday Night's Main Event\" with McMahon, the first six WrestleManias (five of which were alongside Gorilla Monsoon), and most of the WWF's pay-per-views at the time with Monsoon, with the lone exception for Ventura being the first SummerSlam, in which Ventura served as the guest referee during", "title": "Jesse Ventura" }, { "docid": "2791124", "text": "of Extreme Rules and the 2016 edition of Survivor Series respectively. After Goldberg won the match following a Jackhammer, both men were given a Stone Cold Stunner by Austin on their way out. WrestleMania XX was the third WrestleMania at Madison Square Garden (after WrestleManias I and X) and the fourth of six WrestleManias in the New York metropolitan area (alongside WrestleManias I, 2, X, 29 and 35). The event grossed US$2.4 million in ticket sales, making the pay-per-view the highest grossing event ever for WWE at Madison Square Garden. More than 20,000 people from 16 countries, 48 states attended", "title": "WrestleMania XX" }, { "docid": "16931498", "text": "of The Shield has made their mark, and they all look like they will be big stars in the future\". All three former Shield members main evented a WWE pay-per-view event as a singles competitor within four months of the group's dissolution. In addition, Rollins won the 2014 Money in the Bank ladder match and subsequently cashed in his contract to become the WWE World Heavyweight Champion during the main event of WrestleMania 31, while Reigns won the 2015 Royal Rumble match and competed for the world title in the same main event of Rollins' cash in. Despite no longer", "title": "The Shield (professional wrestling)" }, { "docid": "4398392", "text": "and Atsushi Onita in an explosion match, a rematch of their FMW 4th Anniversary Show encounter. The deal fell through when Onita canceled. Although the show took place and was main evented by Nick Gage and the Wifebeater in the first ever 200 lightubes match in the United States, the show was later called 'They Said it Couldn't be Done'. On June 8, 2001, the company secured a TV taping for the show \"Take 1\". During the main event as part of a dual 20 ft balcony dive, Ric Blade suffered a broken leg after landing on Justice Pain, who", "title": "Combat Zone Wrestling" }, { "docid": "11559367", "text": "and announced a new partnership with Akira, who had turned on Tajiri and the WNC Seikigun the previous month. The two were also joined by Syuri, with all three feeling disgruntled by the supposed changes that had taken place since the transition from Smash. The following day in Osaka, StarBuck main evented his first WNC event, defeating Hajime Ohara. StarBuck, Akira and Syuri wrestled their first match as a unit on August 2, defeating Hajime Ohara, Kana and Tajiri in a six person tag team main event. The trio continued their winning ways during the following two days by first", "title": "Michael Majalahti" }, { "docid": "2061235", "text": "Mick Foley Michael Francis Foley Sr. (born June 7, 1965) is an American author, actor and former professional wrestler and color commentator currently signed to WWE. Foley has worked for many wrestling promotions, including the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and Global Wrestling Federation (GWF), as well as numerous promotions in Japan. Foley is widely regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers in the history of WWE, where he participated in the main event of WrestleManias XV and 2000 – as a", "title": "Mick Foley" }, { "docid": "20293867", "text": "Naito at Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall, having successfully defended the title eight times, and enters the match as the longest-reigning champion in the title's history. This match would mark Okada's fourth consecutive and overall fifth Wrestle Kingdom main event, while Naito had never main evented the show before. On November 5, 2017, at Power Struggle, Chris Jericho made a surprise return to NJPW, appearing in a video, where he challenged Kenny Omega to a match at Wrestle Kingdom 12 in Tokyo Dome. The challenge was quickly accepted by Omega, who had been engaged in a \"Twitter feud\" with his", "title": "Wrestle Kingdom 12" }, { "docid": "13655057", "text": "all of which were main evented by a multi-man steel cage match, the eponymous \"Infierno en el Ring\" match. CMLL has use the \"Infierno en el Ring\" match on other shows, but will intermittently hold a show billed specifically as \"Infierno en el Ring\", with the first such show held in 2008. It is not an annually recurring show, but instead held intermittently sometimes several years apart and not always in the same month of the year either. All \"Infierno en el Ring\" shows have been held in Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico which is CMLL's main venue, its", "title": "Infierno en el Ring (2009)" }, { "docid": "4612029", "text": "Styles and TNA president Dixie Carter. Three days later at Sacrifice, Daniels and Kazarian defeated Magnus and Samoa Joe to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship for the first time. Later in the event, Daniels and Kazarian cost A.J. Styles his match with Kurt Angle, who afterwards turned on the two, saving Styles from a beatdown. On May 31, Daniels main evented a live episode of \"Impact Wrestling\", losing to A.J. Styles in a singles grudge match. After the match, Daniels and Kazarian attacked both Styles and Angle, who attempted to make the save, before rolling an audio of", "title": "Christopher Daniels" }, { "docid": "11830912", "text": "Main Mall Row Main Mall Row is an adjoining group of nine commercial buildings along the northeast corner of the intersection of Main and Garden streets in downtown Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. They were mostly built after a fire in 1870 destroyed the previous buildings on the site. The new structures were three-to-four story buildings in the Renaissance Revival style, many with ornamental touches such as bracketed cornices, paneled friezes, arcaded facades and molded lintels. 315 Main Mall, at the east end, has an ornate cast iron facade. They are considered among the most architecturally significant commercial buildings in", "title": "Main Mall Row" }, { "docid": "6488158", "text": "ring name Enrique Llanes. In EMLL Llanes quickly rose through the ranks and became one of the most popular Mexican wrestlers during the early days of EMLL, where the biggest names were mostly from the United States. He formed a very successful tag team with his mentor Tarzán López that main evented many shows throughout the 1940s. In December, 1940 Llanes defeated Cavernario Galindo to win the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship. Llanes had to vacate the title in 1951 for unknown reasons. On September 24, 1951 Llanes defeated Sugi Sito to win the NWA World Middleweight Championship. Llanes defended", "title": "Enrique Llanes" }, { "docid": "19631491", "text": "won the AAA World Tag Team Championship. The duo, along with Konnan, would go on to form \"Los Gringos Locos\", the most hated \"rudo\" team in Mexico at the time. Barr and Guerrero main evented AAA's AAA When Worlds Collide, their first US broadcast PPV, losing an \"Apuesta\" match to El Hijo del Santo and Octagón. Barr died only 17 days after When Worlds Collide, with the official cause never being clearly stated. The \"Récord\" article also confirmed that AAA was planning in inducing a second person in the hall of fame but did not name that person. During the", "title": "Triplemanía XXIV" }, { "docid": "16693497", "text": "insinuating a relationship between Styles and TNA president Dixie Carter. Three days later at Sacrifice, Daniels and Kazarian defeated Magnus and Samoa Joe to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship for the first time. Later in the event, Daniels and Kazarian cost A.J. Styles his match with Kurt Angle, who afterwards turned on the two, saving Styles from a beatdown. On May 31, Daniels main evented a live episode of \"Impact Wrestling\", losing to A.J. Styles in a singles grudge match. After the match, Daniels and Kazarian attacked both Styles and Angle, who attempted to make the save, before", "title": "The Addiction (professional wrestling)" }, { "docid": "19602850", "text": "\"Lucha de Apuestas\", or \"bet matches\", where all wrestlers involved in the match would risk their wrestling mask or hair, \"betting\" it on the outcome of the match. In \"Lucha libre\" the traditions surrounding the \"Luchas de Apuestas\" match makes it the most prestigious type of match, more important to the Mexican fans and wrestlers alike than championship matches, The earliest anniversary show with confirmed results is the IWRG 5th Anniversary Show main evented by a best two-out-of-three falls eight-man tag team match with the team of Bombero Infernal, El Enterrador and \"Los Megas\" (Mega and Super Mega) defeating Black", "title": "IWRG Anniversary Shows" }, { "docid": "14505350", "text": "the four men who main evented the 2010 \"Homejane a Dos Leyendas\" face off once more as La Sombra and Volador Jr. teamed up with Brazo de Plata to take on Místico, El Felino and Negro Casas. The \"técnico\" team (good guy) of Sombra, Volador Jr. and Brazo de Plata came out first, with the Brazo de Plata wearing a \"Super Sky Team\" mask (Sombra and Volador Jr. at times wrestle as \"Super Sky Team\"), both as a show of unity and as a swipe at Místico who used to be part of the Super Sky Team. While the \"técnico\"", "title": "CMLL Super Viernes (April 2010)" }, { "docid": "16822715", "text": "Apache, Tiffany, Marcela, Dalys la Caribeña and Princesa Blanca). The show featured an additional five matches, three Best two-out-of-three falls six-man tag team matches, a Tag Team match and a \"Lightning match\", a one fall match with a 10-minute time limit. The Mexican wrestling company \"Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre\" (Spanish for \"World Wrestling Council\"; CMLL) has held a number of major shows over the years using the moniker \"Infierno en el Ring\" (\"Inferno in the Ring\"), all of which were main evented by a multi-man steel cage match, the eponymous \"Infierno en el Ring\" match. CMLL has use the", "title": "Infierno en el Ring (2012)" }, { "docid": "18189059", "text": "Maximo, Mr. Águila, Negro Casas, Rey Bucanero, Rey Escorpión, Rush and Shocker. In the end Shocker pinned Mr. Águila to win the match. The Mexican wrestling company \"Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre\" (Spanish for \"World Wrestling Council\"; CMLL) has held a number of major shows over the years using the moniker \"Infierno en el Ring\" (\"Inferno in the Ring\"), all of which were main evented by a multi-man steel cage match, the eponymous \"Infierno en el Ring\" match. CMLL has use the \"Infierno en el Ring\" match on other shows, but will intermittently hold a show billed specifically as \"Infierno", "title": "Infierno en el Ring (2013)" }, { "docid": "18398740", "text": "The Mexican wrestling company \"Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre\" (Spanish for \"World Wrestling Council\"; CMLL) has held a number of major shows over the years using the moniker \"Infierno en el Ring\" (\"Inferno in the Ring\"), all of which were main evented by a multi-man steel cage match, the eponymous \"Infierno en el Ring\" match. CMLL has use the \"Infierno en el Ring\" match on other shows, but will intermittently hold a show billed specifically as \"Infierno en el Ring\", with the first such show held in 2008. It is not an annually recurring show, but instead held intermittently sometimes", "title": "Infierno en el Ring (2014)" }, { "docid": "13822131", "text": "Mundial de Lucha Libre\" (Spanish for \"World Wrestling Council\"; CMLL) has held a number of major shows over the years using the moniker \"Infierno en el Ring\" (\"Inferno in the Ring\"), all of which were main evented by a multi-man steel cage match, the eponymous \"Infierno en el Ring\" match. CMLL has use the \"Infierno en el Ring\" match on other shows, but will intermittently hold a show billed specifically as \"Infierno en el Ring\", with the first such show held in 2008. It is not an annually recurring show, but instead held intermittently sometimes several years apart and not", "title": "Infierno en el Ring (2008)" }, { "docid": "3789613", "text": "Ross while he had Cole mounted and was landing punches on him. Ross has been involved in numerous other conflicts with other competitors as well such as Triple H, Val Venis, Jack Swagger, Vladimir Kozlov, Mankind, and Steve Austin, Ross has been bloodied in a match by then-Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff, and was even set on fire by Kane. Ross even main-evented the WWF's first-ever show from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, GA, an episode of \"Raw is War\" that took place on October 11, 1999. Ross teamed with Steve Austin to take on WWF Champion Triple H and", "title": "Jim Ross" }, { "docid": "16391324", "text": "These are peace-loving, religious, and friendly people in prosperous community that shares good food, music and lasting relationships. Karchelia is a town of row houses built along the main road passing through the village. It has main shopping bazaar, bus stand, BAPS Swaminarayan Temple, Prathmik school, and Hanumaan Temple along the main road. Before 1970, most of the Karchelia houses were 12 to 18 feet wide and 60 to 125 feet long. Most old houses have similar architecture and room layouts : they are mostly one or two story row houses, they share side walls, they are with three to", "title": "Karchelia" }, { "docid": "16051884", "text": "in a six-person tag team main event. The trio continued their winning ways during the following two days by first defeating the trio of Kana, Tajiri and Yusuke Kodama in a main event in Osaka and then the trio of Hanzo, Kana and Seiki in a semi-main event in Hiroshima. On August 30, the trio main evented another WNC event in Korakuen Hall, defeating Kana, Mikey Whipwreck and Tajiri in a Barbed Wire Board Deathmatch, during which Syuri took a bump onto one of the barbed wire boards. Syuri, Akira and StarBuck were also victorious in a rematch the following", "title": "Syuri" }, { "docid": "5383868", "text": "and over to the Furnace pit. Higham, South Yorkshire Higham is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The village falls within the Dodworth ward of the Barnsley MBC. The village of Higham is also known locally as 'Hickam', as the saying goes: 'Higham where they fry'em, Hickam where they stick'em.' Most of the population lived on 3 main rows of houses: Old Row, New Row and Concrete Row, although only the New Row now survives. Most of those houses were built to house the Coal Miners who used to work at the nearby collieries.", "title": "Higham, South Yorkshire" }, { "docid": "5383863", "text": "Higham, South Yorkshire Higham is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The village falls within the Dodworth ward of the Barnsley MBC. The village of Higham is also known locally as 'Hickam', as the saying goes: 'Higham where they fry'em, Hickam where they stick'em.' Most of the population lived on 3 main rows of houses: Old Row, New Row and Concrete Row, although only the New Row now survives. Most of those houses were built to house the Coal Miners who used to work at the nearby collieries. There used to be 3 pubs", "title": "Higham, South Yorkshire" }, { "docid": "11559368", "text": "defeating the trio of Kana, Tajiri and Yusuke Kodama in a main event in Osaka and then the trio of Hanzo, Kana and Seiki in a semi-main event in Hiroshima. StarBuck returned to singles action on August 6, losing to Tajiri in the main event. On August 30, StarBuck, Akira and Syuri main evented another WNC event in Korakuen Hall, defeating Mikey Whipwreck, Kana and Tajiri in a Barbed Wire Board Deathmatch. StarBuck, Akira and Syuri also won a rematch the following day in Osaka. In the second rematch on September 1, Whipwreck pinned StarBuck for the win, ending the", "title": "Michael Majalahti" }, { "docid": "5479799", "text": "In 1982 Hart main evented shows for Western States Wrestling. On June 24, 2011 Hart wrestled for the Great North Wrestling promotion in a match which he lost against The Spoiler. On May 24, 2013 he returned once again to the ring at the Grange Hall arena in Lefroy, Ontario in a match for Pure Wrestling Association where he defeated Mad Braddock. He was there together with his step-son Mike who also wrestled at the event. At the 1994 SummerSlam event Hart and his brothers can be seen attempting to climb the cage in which Bret and Owen Hart had", "title": "Smith Hart" }, { "docid": "6263944", "text": "The shows would feature 11 title defences and were main evented by NWA Title defenses by Harley Race against Ric Flair. When the promotional wars heated up between Crockett and Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation, Crockett felt he could no longer spare his top wrestlers for shows in Toronto, sending his B-team as attendance at the Gardens plummeted. Crockett's relationship with the promotion had become strained. He held a distrust of Tunney who persistently utilised talent from other promotions, including the WWF. Furthermore, George Scott, still a partner in the Toronto promotion, had chosen to leave Jim Crockett Promotions due", "title": "Jack Tunney" }, { "docid": "4252326", "text": "the Reclaiming the Glory tournament, falling to longtime rival Adam Pearce in the first round. He has also appeared briefly in the IWA in Puerto Rico. Aaron 'Jesus' Aguilera was part of the team Los Pochos Guapos with Kaos. The team main evented in the third episode of WSX, in a Tables, Ladders and Cervezas match ending their feud with Luke Hawx and Alkatrazz. Los Pochos Guapos, on a losing streak, got their first win over the team of Teddy Hart and Matt Cross, known as the Filth and the Fury. They then began a feud with The Cartel and", "title": "Aaron Aguilera" }, { "docid": "20569622", "text": "Thursday, December 28, 2017, main evented by Powerbomb TV Independent Champion Jonathan Gresham defending against Sonjay Dutt. Since then, NOVA has announced that they will continue to make shows available on the service, as well as produce more live streamed shows in 2018. In June, NOVA Pro produced both a men's and women's Commonwealth Cup, although the early rounds of the Women's Cup were not available live as the show was a matinee. In addition, in September, it was announced that NOVA Pro would do a show outside Virginia for the first time as the company would perform as part", "title": "NOVA Pro Wrestling" }, { "docid": "19666173", "text": "Team Championship against The Motor City Machine Guns. Though the two teams work in different weight divisions in NJPW, they had a history with each other from ROH, where the tag team division has no weight limits. This match would mark the first time in NJPW history that the reigning IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions challenge for the IWGP Tag Team Championship. Destruction in Kobe was main evented by Michael Elgin taking on Tetsuya Naito. The match was originally announced as a \"potential\" IWGP Intercontinental Championship match, provided that Elgin first successfully defended the title against Donovan Dijak at", "title": "Destruction (2016)" }, { "docid": "6862741", "text": "by the supposed changes that had taken place since the transition from Smash. The three wrestled their first match as a unit on August 2, defeating Hajime Ohara, Kana and Tajiri in a six-person tag team main event, with Akira pinning Ohara for the win. The trio continued their winning ways during the following two days by first defeating the trio of Kana, Tajiri and Yusuke Kodama in a main event in Osaka and then the trio of Hanzo, Kana and Seiki in a semi-main event in Hiroshima. On August 30, the trio main evented another WNC event in Korakuen", "title": "Akira Nogami" }, { "docid": "11336421", "text": "\"SmackDown\". On the September 19 episode of \"Raw\", Ryder won a non-title match against United States Champion Dolph Ziggler with the help of guest star Hugh Jackman who punched Ziggler mid-match. Following his victory over Ziggler, Ryder received a match for the United States Championship the following week and again at Vengeance but both unsuccessful due to interference from Jack Swagger. Ryder main evented \"Raw\" for the first time on November 7, teaming with John Cena in a losing effort against The Miz and R-Truth. At Survivor Series later in November, with Ryder not wrestling on the card, there were", "title": "Zack Ryder" }, { "docid": "18931733", "text": "that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Power Struggle was main evented by Shinsuke Nakamura defending the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against Karl Anderson. After regaining the title from Hirooki Goto on September 27, 2015, at Destruction in Kobe, Nakamura was immediately confronted and challenged by IWGP Tag Team Champion Karl Anderson, who noted he had defeated both Nakamura and Goto during the 2015 G1 Climax and therefore deserved a title shot. The", "title": "Power Struggle (2015)" }, { "docid": "20451874", "text": "as Israel's second promotion. The debut show, \"WrestleFest\", was held on 21 June in front of a sold out crowd of 600 fans. The show was sponsored and broadcast by Panet. On 21 November 2013 Joe E. Legend main evented the \"Autumn Fallout\" show which took place in Tel Aviv. On 29 May 2014 the promotion ran the first local professional wrestling show in Haifa, the show was taped and was broadcast on the Ego Total channel. \"WrestleFest III\" took place on 26 June 2014 and saw the debut of former WWE superstars Carlito and Chris Masters (who won the", "title": "Professional wrestling in Israel" }, { "docid": "18394885", "text": "Wrestle Kingdom III featured eleven professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Wrestle Kingdom III was main evented by Keiji Mutoh defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Hiroshi Tanahashi. On April 27, 2008, Mutoh defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship for the first time in eight years and four months. Mutoh, who was part of NJPW's \"golden age\" in the 1990s, was now representing All Japan", "title": "Wrestle Kingdom III" }, { "docid": "7887469", "text": "women's championship match main evented a dual–branded pay–per–view, Lynch lost the championship to Asuka after Ronda Rousey interfered and pushed both Lynch and Flair off a ladder, ending her reign at 91 days. Quin performed stunts for a 2013 episode of \"Vikings\". Lynch was written off WWE television for a few months in November 2017 so that Quin could film \"The Marine 6: Close Quarters\". Lynch has appeared in three WWE video games. She made her in-game debut as a playable character in \"WWE 2K17\" and also appeared in \"WWE 2K18\" and \"WWE 2K19\". Her entrance music is played after", "title": "Becky Lynch" }, { "docid": "13846185", "text": "tournament, defeating Abismo Negro to claim his second \"Rey de Reyes\". In early 2003 the original La Parka joined Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), AAA's main rival, as a result Antonio Peña took legal action against Adolfo Tapia, barring him from using the name \"La Parka\" or wear the signature \"skeleton suit\" in Mexico. After taking action against Tapia La Parka Jr. became known officially as just \"La Parka\". On June 15, 2003 La Parka main evented his first \"Triplemanía\" as he teamed with Lizmark, Octagón and Super Caló, defeating Abismo Negro, Cibernético and The Headhunters in the main", "title": "La Parka II" }, { "docid": "19602853", "text": "IWRG Guerra Revolucionaria The IWRG Guerra Revolucionaria (Spanish for the \"Revolutionary War\") is a major \"lucha libre\" show produced and scripted by the Mexican International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG; sometimes referred to as \"Grupo Internacional Revolución\" in Mexico) on a near-annual basis. The first \"Guerra Revolucionaria\" show was held in 2009. Since then IWRG has held a show in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2015. All \"Guerra Revolucionaria\" shows have taken place in Arena Naucalpan located in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, Mexico, which is IWRG's home promotion The \"Guerra Revolucionaria\" show is always main evented by a 20-man Battle Royal where", "title": "IWRG Guerra Revolucionaria" }, { "docid": "17056632", "text": "shows are usually main evented by a \"Lucha de Apuestas\" or \"Bet match\" where competitors wager either their wrestling mask or hair on the outcome of the match. CMLL has paid homage to its founder Salvador Lutteroth since Lutteroth's death in 1987 but it was not until 1995 that they held a specific event in his honor. On March 24, 1995, during their regular Friday night \"CMLL Super Viernes\" show they held a one night Trios tournament called the Salvador Lutteroth Trios Tournament. The following year CMLL decided to hold a special major event in March to commemorate Lutteroth, creating", "title": "Homenaje a Dos Leyendas" }, { "docid": "18852785", "text": "Okayama as well as Destruction in Kobe, which took place four days later, were the first major events taking place after NJPW's annual premier tournament, the G1 Climax. Destruction in Okayama was main evented by Togi Makabe defending his NEVER Openweight Championship against Kota Ibushi. The title match stemmed from the 2015 G1 Climax tournament, during which Ibushi defeated Makabe in a non-title match. Ibushi, a former three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, was looking for his first heavyweight title, having earlier in the year failed in his attempts to capture both the IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championships. Ibushi has", "title": "Destruction in Okayama (2015)" }, { "docid": "8086618", "text": "the \"New era\" has been credited as being the start of the \"women's revolution\". Shane McMahon would continue to appear in WWE, where he currently serves as SmackDown (rebranded as \"SmackDown Live\" with live episodes) Commissioner, while his sister Stephanie served as Raw Commissioner. Shane McMahon is credited with giving this era of the company its name. On the Raw-branded Hell in a Cell pay-per-view event, Charlotte Flair and Sasha Banks made history by not only being in the first WWE pay-per-view event main evented by women, but squaring off in the first ever women's Hell in a Cell match", "title": "History of WWE" }, { "docid": "18972188", "text": "history and was awarded a six-star rating by Dave Meltzer. Wrestle Kingdom 10 Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on January 4, 2016, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Tokyo Dome. It was the 25th January 4 Tokyo Dome Show, which is NJPW's biggest annual event and has been called \"the largest wrestling show in the world outside of the United States\" and the \"Japanese equivalent to the Super Bowl\". The event featured ten matches and was main evented by Kazuchika Okada defending the", "title": "Wrestle Kingdom 10" }, { "docid": "14723089", "text": "Gitano, Sensei, Hooligan, Monster, Puma King, Tiger Kid, Doctor X and Histeria. The match saw Ángel de Oro pin Fabián el Gitano to unmask him. The show also featured three Six-man \"Lucha Libre rules\" tag team match and a tag team match to open the show. The Mexican wrestling company \"Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre\" (Spanish for \"World Wrestling Council\"; CMLL) has held a number of major shows over the years using the moniker \"Infierno en el Ring\" (\"Inferno in the Ring\"), all of which were main evented by a multi-man steel cage match, the eponymous \"Infierno en el Ring\"", "title": "Infierno en el Ring (2010)" }, { "docid": "20125081", "text": "their hair on the outcome of the match. After eight women escaped the ring Zeuxis pinned La Vaquerita, forcing her to unmask and reveal her real name, Isabel Ordóñez Martínez, per \"lucha libre\" traditions. The show featured four additional matches and was shown live on CMLL's YouTube channel. The Mexican wrestling company \"Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre\" (Spanish for \"World Wrestling Council\"; CMLL) has held a number of major shows over the years using the moniker \"Infierno en el Ring\" (\"Inferno in the Ring\"), all of which were main evented by a multi-man steel cage match, the eponymous \"Infierno en", "title": "Infierno en el Ring (2016)" }, { "docid": "19697277", "text": "Wrestle Kingdom 11 Wrestle Kingdom 11 in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on January 4, 2017, at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. It was the 26th January 4 Tokyo Dome Show, which is NJPW's biggest annual event and has been called \"the largest wrestling show in the world outside of the United States\" and the \"Japanese equivalent to the Super Bowl\". The show was main evented by Kazuchika Okada successfully defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against the 2016 G1 Climax winner Kenny Omega. The match went into", "title": "Wrestle Kingdom 11" }, { "docid": "19697316", "text": "7 out of 5 stars. Wrestle Kingdom 11 Wrestle Kingdom 11 in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on January 4, 2017, at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. It was the 26th January 4 Tokyo Dome Show, which is NJPW's biggest annual event and has been called \"the largest wrestling show in the world outside of the United States\" and the \"Japanese equivalent to the Super Bowl\". The show was main evented by Kazuchika Okada successfully defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against the 2016 G1 Climax winner Kenny", "title": "Wrestle Kingdom 11" }, { "docid": "18972160", "text": "Wrestle Kingdom 10 Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on January 4, 2016, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Tokyo Dome. It was the 25th January 4 Tokyo Dome Show, which is NJPW's biggest annual event and has been called \"the largest wrestling show in the world outside of the United States\" and the \"Japanese equivalent to the Super Bowl\". The event featured ten matches and was main evented by Kazuchika Okada defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Hiroshi Tanahashi. As part of the", "title": "Wrestle Kingdom 10" }, { "docid": "20363247", "text": "working under amateur wrestling rules. The other nine matches featured NJPW wrestlers taking on Pro Wrestling Noah wrestlers. The second match saw the debut of Animal Hamaguchi trainee Takumi Honjo, who was defeated by Noah's Maybach Taniguchi. The show was main evented by NJPW veteran Yuji Nagata defeating Noah's Mitsuhiro Kitamiya. The second Lion's Gate Project event was held on May 19, 2016, in Tokyo at Shinjuku Face. Much like the first Lion's Gate Project show, the event featured several wrestlers from Pro Wrestling Noah as well as Ayato Yoshida from Kaientai Dojo (K-Dojo). All in all, the event featured", "title": "Lion's Gate Project" }, { "docid": "12119327", "text": "announced that Miyamoto was leaving All Japan for a new promotion called Kings Road. Originally Kings Road was rumored to have Toshiaki Kawada as their ace, but Kawada never appeared for the promotion. Defecting with Miyamoto included All Japan wrestler Shota Takanishi and Genichiro Tenryu. On the main event of the first Kings Road event, Miyamoto main evented against legend Genichiro Tenryu, with Tenryu picking up the victory. Miyamoto continued being the ace of Kings Road, main eventing against Takao Omori on the February event and teaming with Taichi Ishikari against Mitsuya Nagai and Daisuke Ikeda at the April event.", "title": "Kazushi Miyamoto" }, { "docid": "749331", "text": "dollars for HarperCollins.\" On June 16, 2015, attorneys for Ventura filed a lawsuit against Taya Kyle, Case # 2:2015mc00206 in the California Central District Court. The nature of the lawsuit is, \"Other Statutory Actions\". On July 18, 1975, three days after his twenty-fourth birthday, Ventura married his wife Terry. The couple has two children: a son, Tyrel, who is a film and television director and producer, and a daughter, Jade. With the exception of the first two WrestleManias, Ventura would always say hello to \"Terry, Tyrel and Jade back in Minneapolis\" during his commentary of the annual event. Tyrel also", "title": "Jesse Ventura" }, { "docid": "19303213", "text": "family issues\" and replaced him with Frankie Kazarian, and also added Matt Sydal and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson), who were regulars for both ROH and NJPW. NJPW released the cards for the shows on February 15. Both shows would feature eight matches each with three of them being contested for championships. The February 19 show would be main evented by Roderick Strong defending the ROH World Television Championship against Tomohiro Ishii. The February 20 show would feature Jay Briscoe, Mark Briscoe and Toru Yano defending the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship against the Bullet Club", "title": "Honor Rising: Japan 2016" }, { "docid": "2939123", "text": "evented \"Raw\" for the Women's Championship, making it the 3rd time in history for female talents to main event one of WWE's main shows. Moreover, Lita became the only female talent to main event \"Raw\" on three occasions including winning the Women's Championship. Lita and Stratus carried on and continued their feud entering the year of 2005. They faced each other again at the New Year's Revolution pay-per-view event, that led to Lita suffering another injury by tearing her ACL. However, she kept herself visible in Christy Hemme's feud with Stratus before transitioning into Edge's valet. Sensational Sherri made a", "title": "Women in WWE" }, { "docid": "6896744", "text": "Shiney Row Shiney Row is a village in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear. The village enjoys good travel links with not just the rest of Sunderland but also County Durham, South Shields & Newcastle. One of the City of Sunderland College's main centres was located in Shiney Row, however the college was retired in 2014 with plans to develop residential housing being pushed forward. In April 2015, this college was subject to a fire of unknown cause leading to the demolition of the college followed in early 2016 by the planned residential housing development. Some of the most notable people who", "title": "Shiney Row" }, { "docid": "2360578", "text": "XXVIII (78,363) in Miami, WrestleMania 29 (80,676) in East Rutherford, WrestleMania XXX (75,167) in New Orleans, WrestleMania 31 (76,976) in Santa Clara, and WrestleMania 32 (101,763) in Dallas. Since moving to large stadiums and running WrestleMania Axxess, the event produces a local economy boost for the host cities. WrestleMania centers on the main event matches, primarily for the WWE Championship (and between WrestleManias XIX and 29, the World Heavyweight Championship), as well as matches involving sportsmen such as American footballer Lawrence Taylor, multi-weight boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather, and sumo wrestler Akebono. Other WWE championships are also contested for, while", "title": "WrestleMania" }, { "docid": "5665864", "text": "Westwick Row Westwick Row is a place in Hertfordshire, in England. It is situated on the edge of Hemel Hempstead. Westwick Row today is a narrow rural lane in the village of Leverstock Green, part of it is within the jurisdiction of St Albans Rural District Council, and part with Dacorum Borough Council. It was originally within the parish of St Michael's, St Albans. It runs into the main St Albans Road at its most easterly end, at Corner Farm, and into Green Lane at its most westerly end, being connected to the main road also by Pancake Lane. At", "title": "Westwick Row" }, { "docid": "7354545", "text": "been met with audience disapproval. Reigns has headlined numerous WWE pay-per-view events, including the last four WrestleManias (31, 32, 33 and 34). Anoaʻi played football for three years at Pensacola Catholic High School and one year at Escambia High School. In his senior year, he was named Defensive Player of the Year by the \"Pensacola News Journal\". He then attended Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was a member of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team along with Calvin Johnson, who later became a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). Anoaʻi was a three-year starter beginning in", "title": "Roman Reigns" }, { "docid": "8874604", "text": "month lost in a tag team match to Marty Jannetty and Highlander, with Sabotage on his side. In November at the aptly titled \"Lo Down\", Galloway main evented in a double countout match against D'Lo Brown. He then had a brief series of feuds, as in March 2005 he defeated Jay Phoenix but their rematch in November, officiated by Mick Foley, ended in a no contest. In May 2006 after their lengthy feud in Irish Whip Wrestling, Galloway lost then won in successive matches against long-term rival Sheamus O'Shaunessy. In November 2006, Galloway teamed with Lionheart in the main event", "title": "Drew McIntyre" }, { "docid": "13695525", "text": "Park Row, Leeds Park Row is an important street in Leeds city centre, West Yorkshire, England. It divides the main financial districts from the main retail districts and forms a spine between City Square and The Headrow, two of Leeds' most sought after addresses. The street forms the western flank of the Public Transport Box, and as such is largely reserved for buses, taxis and cyclists. There is an exception for local access in some places. Most of the city's main banks are located on the street, as well as being home to many large companies including Pinsent Masons and", "title": "Park Row, Leeds" }, { "docid": "4507549", "text": "won the championship later that night. The event was attended by 16,891 fans, who paid a total of $1,100,000 in admission fees. This represents less than one-third of the number of fans at WrestleMania VIII, which had an attendance of 62,167. The pay-per-view drew a 2.3 buyrate, which was lower than the previous year's 2.8 buyrate. It was higher, however, than the buyrates for any of the following four WrestleManias. WrestleMania IX received overwhelmingly negative reviews. The event has received criticism for what some reviewers have perceived as a poorly booked event. Writing for \"SLAM! Wrestling\", John Powell states that,", "title": "WrestleMania IX" }, { "docid": "14700763", "text": "and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. This year, TNA changed the event's name from Hard Justice to Hardcore Justice in honor of the Extreme Championship Wrestling reunion show theme that it adopted. The show was originally going to be main evented by a match between Rob Van Dam and Jerry Lynn. However, the match had to be cancelled when Lynn pulled out due to a back injury. The replacement main event was Rob Van Dam vs. Sabu. The Whole", "title": "Hardcore Justice (2010)" }, { "docid": "20569620", "text": "was main evented by NOVA's first ever ladder match, between PWI Ultra J Champion Chet Sterling and Logan Easton Laroux. \"Cool for the Summer\", on August 18, 2017, marked the company's first ever sold out crowd, and was headlined by a No Disqualification intergender match between Angelus Layne and Keith Lee. This match came about as the focal point of a feud between Layne and promoter Mike E. King, after Layne threw a fireball at the promoter's face one month earlier. Lee was brought in to face Layne in the first intergender main event, though not the first or only", "title": "NOVA Pro Wrestling" }, { "docid": "16687953", "text": "teaming with Aoi Kizuki and Aya Yuki in a six-woman tag team main event, where they were defeated by Arisa Nakajima, Hanako Kobayashi and Hiroyo Matsumoto. On February 23, 2008, Okuda main evented another Sendai Girls' event, losing to Aja Kong in a rematch of their Oz Academy encounter. On March 15, Okuda made her third successful defense of the JWP Junior and POP Championships, defeating Aya Yuki. On April 20, Okuda entered Sendai Girls' first Jaja Uma tournament, defeating Ito Dojo representative Hanako Kobayashi in her first round match, and followed that up by defeating freelancer Kana in her", "title": "Shuri Okuda" }, { "docid": "2249759", "text": "for the Cruiserweight Championship. After just barely making weight, Hardy defeated Billy Kidman at No Way Out to win the Cruiserweight title. At WrestleMania XIX, he successfully defended it against Rey Mysterio. Hardy lost the Cruiserweight Championship to Mysterio in the main event of the June 5 episode of \"SmackDown\" - the first and only time a Cruiserweight Championship match main evented a show. After dropping the Cruiserweight Championship, Hardy briefly feuded with Eddie Guerrero, but was unsuccessful in capturing Guerrero's United States Championship or Tag Team Championship. The Mattitude faction then expanded to include Crash Holly as Moore's \"Moore-on\"", "title": "Matt Hardy" }, { "docid": "15480770", "text": "on 2 October, Knight lost to Allysin Kay in an Anything Goes match. In November 2011, Knight revived her all-female promotion WAWW, the sister promotion to her husband's World Association of Wrestling. The first show was called \"The Return\", and featured Shimmer Women Athletes wrestler Allison Danger in the main event against Knight for the vacant World Championship, which Danger would win. The company’s second show \"Bellatrix\" was held in March, and was main evented by Busty Keegan teaming with Destiny to face \"The Twisted Sisters\" of Sweet Saraya and EWW Women’s Champions Skarlett in a 2 out of 3", "title": "Sweet Saraya" }, { "docid": "11830914", "text": "sustain downtown by offering shoppers a similar experience. In 1973 the two blocks were closed to vehicle traffic. However, the decline of the downtown continued as most shoppers continued to choose the malls, especially after Luckey Platt closed in 1980. The city reopened the street and ended Main Mall in 2001, helping to revive commercial and residential development in the area. Main Mall Row Main Mall Row is an adjoining group of nine commercial buildings along the northeast corner of the intersection of Main and Garden streets in downtown Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. They were mostly built after a", "title": "Main Mall Row" }, { "docid": "6382883", "text": "Art Walk now attracts thousands of people, and the Historic Core and Gallery Row are becoming recognized as one of the most significant success stories in Los Angeles history. Gallery Row, Los Angeles Gallery Row is a district in Downtown Los Angeles designated by the City Council in 2003 to promote the concentration of art galleries along Main Street and Spring Street and to create a thriving, pedestrian-friendly, culturally abundant, urban neighborhood. Gallery Row spans north–south along Main and Spring Streets from 2nd Street in the north to 9th Street in the south. Gallery Row was started based on a", "title": "Gallery Row, Los Angeles" }, { "docid": "6775252", "text": "character was not about winning championships, but about the psychology of the character and actually scaring the audience, so while he did not win any titles as Kahoz it was considered a huge success and he main evented shows all over Mexico. While Peña had the mind for wrestling his body could not handle the heavy main event schedule that he wrestled as Kahoz and by 1985 he gave up the gimmick to work as \"Espectro de Ultratumba\" (\"The Ghost from Beyond the grave\"), giving the Kahoz gimmick to Astro Rey instead. Astro Rey's Kahoz was nowhere nearly as important", "title": "Antonio Peña" }, { "docid": "17161793", "text": "Saints Row IV Saints Row IV is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Volition and published by Deep Silver. It is the fourth title in the \"Saints Row\" series. In the game, the playable character is the leader of the 3rd Street Saints, a street gang that has become the world's most powerful and popular organization, and must fend off an alien invasion after becoming President of the United States and receiving superpowers. The player is free to explore their environment while completing main and side missions at their leisure. The game incorporates elements from science fiction video", "title": "Saints Row IV" }, { "docid": "19203612", "text": "shows were main evented by a multi-man steel cage match, contested under \"Lucha de Apuestas\", or bet match rules referred to as \"Infierno en el Ring\". According to the rules the loser of the match, the last person to remain in the cage, would be forced to have his hair shaved off per \"Lucha Libre\" traditions. The main event of the show saw 12 men put their mask on the line in the cage, with Súper Comando ending up being unmasked as a result of his loss. The show was offered as an internet-Pay Per View, but suffered major issues", "title": "Infierno en el Ring (2015)" }, { "docid": "18502478", "text": "posing with his IWGP Heavyweight Championship belt. The day after Invasion Attack 2015, NJPW announced that the IWGP Heavyweight Championship match between A.J. Styles and Kazuchika Okada would not be taking place at the following big event, Wrestling Dontaku 2015, as speculated, but instead at July's Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall, giving the title match a rare three-month build. Instead Wrestling Dontaku 2015 would be main evented by the IWGP Intercontinental Championship match between Shinsuke Nakamura and Hirooki Goto, while Tomohiro Ishii and Togi Makabe's NEVER Openweight Championship match would main event a show on April 29. In his review", "title": "Invasion Attack 2015" }, { "docid": "19930327", "text": "NJPW World, and featured English commentary. The main event of the show, along with two other matches, would air on AXS TV on June 30, the day before the live G1 Special in USA show. Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall featured ten professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall was main evented by Kazuchika Okada making his sixth defense of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship", "title": "Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall" }, { "docid": "3197830", "text": "Championship twice. In addition to world title success, Eudy held the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship once, among other accolades. During his tenures with the WWF and WCW, Eudy headlined multiple pay-per-views for both organizations, main-eventing WrestleManias VIII and 13 in 1992 and 1997 respectively, as well as WCW's counterpart to that event, Starrcade, in 2000. Eudy entered the wrestling sport after an encounter with Randy Savage and his brother Lanny Poffo. After being trained by Tojo Yamamoto, Eudy made his debut as he teamed with Austin Idol and wrestled the team of Nick Bockwinkel and Jerry Lawler. He then", "title": "Sid Eudy" }, { "docid": "19264524", "text": "Naito, ROH World Television Champion Tomohiro Ishii, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Kushida, Gedo, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jyushin Thunder Liger and Kazuchika Okada. On April 18, ROH added NJPW's IWGP Tag Team Champions Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) to the event, while also officially announcing the main event of the show. Global Wars featured eight professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Global Wars was main evented by", "title": "Global Wars (2016)" }, { "docid": "16407369", "text": "defense on May 26, defeating Joker member Spider J. On July 22, Buffalo main evented his second \"Hurricane\" event, in which he lost the Osaka Pro Wrestling Championship back to Daisuke Harada, ending his reign at 119 days. On November 3, Buffalo teamed with Tigers Mask to unsuccessfully challenge Harada's Glare stablemates Hayata and Tadasuke for the Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship. On January 19, 2013, Buffalo teamed with fellow Osaka Pro Seikigun members Kazuaki Mihara and Naoki Setoguchi in a six-man tag team main event, where they were defeated by Glare. After the match, Glare leader Daisuke Harada", "title": "Black Buffalo (wrestler)" }, { "docid": "254544", "text": "at $132,571 and GNI per capita at $183,150. It also has an unemployment rate of 2%, with over 48,000 workers who commute from France and Italy each day. According to the CIA World Factbook, Monaco has the world's lowest poverty rate and the highest number of millionaires and billionaires per capita in the world. For the fourth year in a row, Monaco in 2012 had the world's most expensive real estate market, at $58,300 per square metre. One of Monaco's main sources of income is tourism. Each year many foreigners are attracted to its casino and pleasant climate. It has", "title": "Monaco" }, { "docid": "12820371", "text": "on death row in the United States on January 1, 2013. Since 1977, the states of Texas (464), Virginia (108) and Oklahoma (94) have executed the most death row inmates. , California (683), Florida (390), Texas (330) and Pennsylvania (218) housed more than half of all inmates pending on death row. , the longest-serving prisoner on death row in the US who has been executed was Jack Alderman who served over 33 years. He was executed in Georgia in 2008. However, Alderman only holds the distinction of being the longest-serving \"executed\" inmate so far. A Florida inmate, Gary Alvord, arrived", "title": "Death row" }, { "docid": "12794009", "text": "In the 1851 Census the head of the household at No 1 Stoke Row was George Hope, who built \"The Hope\" public house. This was later called \"The Farmer\" and today is Hope House, at the junction of Main Street with Nottwood Lane. The parish has a Church of England primary school. Stoke Row, Oxfordshire Stoke Row is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills, about west of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire and about north of Reading. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 651. The earliest known surviving record of the toponym is from 1435. Stoke", "title": "Stoke Row, Oxfordshire" }, { "docid": "10174977", "text": "Gothic Revival, and Victorian. Most of the oldest of the buildings are of the Federal style, built before Upper High Street was renamed East Main Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Mansion Row Historic District The Mansion Row Historic District is a national historic district located at New Albany, Indiana. It features some of the various mansions of the city when New Albany was the largest city in Indiana around the time of the American Civil War. The main section is on Main Street from State Street (where the Scribner House is), to", "title": "Mansion Row Historic District" }, { "docid": "2360581", "text": "winner's choosing for up to one year, including the following year's WrestleMania. This lasted until 2010 when the Money in the Bank pay per view was introduced and thus the Money in the Bank ladder match was retired from WrestleMania. Forbes named WrestleMania one of the world's most valuable sports event brands from 2014 to 2017, ranking it sixth with a brand value of US$ 195 million in 2017 behind the Super Bowl, Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics, the FIFA World Cup and the NCAA Final Four. For five of the first six WrestleManias Gorilla Monsoon and Jesse Ventura served as", "title": "WrestleMania" }, { "docid": "15339455", "text": "his book, \"Listen, You Pencil Neck Geeks\", Freddie Blassie explored the relationship between the two \"Japanese\" heels. Tanaka had a long successful run with the WWF in the 1960s, including being #1 contender to champion Bruno Sammartino. In their first Madison Square Garden meeting, Tanaka was disqualified for throwing salt. He was pinned by Sammartino in a rematch six months later. Tanaka also main evented the Garden in tag matches, twice with Gorilla Monsoon vs. Sammartino and Spyros Arion (Tanaka and his partner winning the first via disqualification; losing the second in a Texas Death Match); a year later with", "title": "Professor Tanaka" }, { "docid": "17150823", "text": "main evented CMLL's 84th Anniversary Show, defeating Niebla Roja in a \"Lucha de Apuestas\" to take his mask. Gran Guerrero Gran Guerrero is a Mexican \"luchador enmascarado\", or masked professional wrestler, working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) portraying a \"rudo\" (\"bad guy\") wrestling character. Gran Guerrero's real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans. He was originally introduced to the wrestling world under the ring name \"Último Guerrero, Jr.\" in", "title": "Gran Guerrero" }, { "docid": "16336686", "text": "Reina X World, when she teamed with Puchi Tomato in a tag team match, where they were defeated by Arisa Nakajima and Manami Katsu. At the promotion's following event on July 16, Micro defeated Tomato in what was billed as a \"tryout\" match. At Reina X World's event on August 26, Micro worked under a mask, similar to that of Puchi Tomato, and the ring name Mini Tomato in a match, where she defeated Charlie Simone Aussie. On September 9, Micro, as Mini Tomato, main evented her first Reina X World event, where she and Aki Kanbayashi defeated Leon and", "title": "Chii Tomiya" }, { "docid": "8887646", "text": "HTTP using a model that conforms to the Evented API, but KRL is transport agnostic. For example, events could be transported by email, SMS, MQTT, or any other system supporting push-style notifications. Because the Evented API is a specialization of the webhook concept, any system that supports webhooks can raise events for KRL. KRL uses event channels to identify the entity for which the event is raised. An entity can have any number of event channels. Event channels are encoded in the URL for events transported over HTTP. An endpoint that generates an event may be observing some activity directly", "title": "Kinetic Rule Language" }, { "docid": "1538273", "text": "variables and the current value of those variables. These messages are also expressed in XML. A special initial event message is sent when a control point first subscribes; this event message contains the names and values for all \"evented\" variables and allows the subscriber to initialize its model of the state of the service. To support scenarios with multiple control points, eventing is designed to keep all control points equally informed about the effects of any action. Therefore, all subscribers are sent all event messages, subscribers receive event messages for all \"evented\" variables that have changed, and event messages are", "title": "Universal Plug and Play" }, { "docid": "12184256", "text": "following episode of \"Impact Wrestling\", Jesse defeated Young in a singles match. The following week, Jesse was pinned by Young in a three-way match, which also included Robbie E and forced Jesse to wear a turkey suit as part of the Thanksgiving theme. Jesse, now billed as Jessie Godderz, main evented \"Impact Wrestling\" for the first time on December 13, losing to Bully Ray despite outside interference from Tara. During the next two months, Godderz interfered in Tara's matches, especially ones relating to her title. After interfering in Tara's title match with Velvet Sky, Sky gained vengeance on the couple", "title": "Jessie Godderz" }, { "docid": "8874663", "text": "Davis, Roy Knight, Zak Knight, Rob Lynch, Alex Boylin, Dave Rayne and Sammy Smooth to win the Gauntlet match. On 25 June, Galloway main-evented the first HD iPPV in European Wrestling history when he returned to PCW at their \"Tribute to the Troops 3\" show, where he received his championship opportunity. He was defeated in a PCW Heavyweight Championship triple threat match with Sha Samuels and Noam Dar, when Dar caused Samuels to submit. On 19 August, Galloway debuted for the House of Glory (HOG) promotion in New York, where he faced a surprise opponent of Low Ki in a", "title": "Drew McIntyre" } ]

[ "Paris of Troy" ]

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[ { "docid": "3218536", "text": "could designate his successor. According to the \"Iliad\", the Phrygians were Trojan allies during the Trojan War. The Phrygia of Homer's \"Iliad\" appears to be located in the area that embraced the Ascanian lake and the northern flow of the Sangarius river and so was much more limited in extent than classical Phrygia. Homer's \"Iliad\" also includes a reminiscence by the Trojan king Priam, who had in his youth come to aid the Phrygians against the Amazons (\"Iliad\" 3.189). During this episode (a generation before the Trojan War), the Phrygians were said to be led by Otreus and Mygdon. Both", "title": "Phrygians" }, { "docid": "15217", "text": "Achilles In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus ( ; , \"Achilleus\" ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's \"Iliad\". His mother was the immortal Nereid Thetis, and his father, the mortal Peleus, was the king of the Myrmidons. Achilles' most notable feat during the Trojan War was the slaying of the Trojan hero Hector outside the gates of Troy. Although the death of Achilles is not presented in the \"Iliad\", other sources concur that he was killed near the end of the Trojan War by Paris, who shot him", "title": "Achilles" }, { "docid": "19487879", "text": "of Rome, the film retells the story of the Trojan War, despite some major changes from the Iliad storyline. Troy is an American epic adventure war film directed by Wolfgang Peterson. Based on Homer’s \"Iliad\", the film describes the story of the Trojan War following the attack of Troy by Greek forces as well as the stories of those involved. Although the Iliad describes the story of the rivalry between Achilles and Agamemnon in the ninth year, Troy tells the story of the entire decade-long war. The film’s ending is not taken from the Iliad but from Virgil’s \"Aeneid,\" showing", "title": "Greek epic in film" }, { "docid": "3018738", "text": "figure. Talthybius Talthybius () was herald and friend to Agamemnon in the Trojan War. He was the one who took Briseis from the tent of Achilles. Preceding the duel of Menelaus and Paris, Agamemnon charges him to fetch a sheep for sacrifice. He died at Aegium in Achaia. Talthybius appears in Euripides’ \"Hecuba\" and \"The Trojan Women\". In addition, he has a small role in The \"Iliad\". In \"The Iliad\", Agamemnon orders Talthybius to fetch the medic Machaon after Menelaus was wounded with an arrow shot by Pandarus. In \"Hecuba\" and \"The Trojan Women\", Talthybius seems to always be the", "title": "Talthybius" }, { "docid": "3018735", "text": "Talthybius Talthybius () was herald and friend to Agamemnon in the Trojan War. He was the one who took Briseis from the tent of Achilles. Preceding the duel of Menelaus and Paris, Agamemnon charges him to fetch a sheep for sacrifice. He died at Aegium in Achaia. Talthybius appears in Euripides’ \"Hecuba\" and \"The Trojan Women\". In addition, he has a small role in The \"Iliad\". In \"The Iliad\", Agamemnon orders Talthybius to fetch the medic Machaon after Menelaus was wounded with an arrow shot by Pandarus. In \"Hecuba\" and \"The Trojan Women\", Talthybius seems to always be the bearer", "title": "Talthybius" }, { "docid": "406362", "text": "the two epic poems traditionally credited to Homer, the \"Iliad\" and the \"Odyssey\", composed sometime between the 9th and 6th centuries BC. Each poem narrates only a part of the war. The \"Iliad\" covers a short period in the last year of the siege of Troy, while the \"Odyssey\" concerns Odysseus's return to his home island of Ithaca following the sack of Troy and contains several flashbacks to particular episodes in the war. Other parts of the Trojan War were told in the poems of the Epic Cycle, also known as the Cyclic Epics: the \"Cypria\", \"Aethiopis\", \"Little Iliad\", \"Iliou", "title": "Trojan War" }, { "docid": "875830", "text": "Pandarus Pandarus or Pandar (Ancient Greek: Πάνδαρος \"Pándaros\") is a Trojan aristocrat who appears in stories about the Trojan War. In Homer's \"Iliad\" he is portrayed as an energetic and powerful warrior, but in medieval literature he becomes a witty and licentious figure who facilitates the affair between Troilus and Cressida. In Shakespeare's play \"Troilus and Cressida\", he is portrayed as an aged degenerate and coward who ends the play by telling the audience he will bequeath them his \"diseases\". In Homer's \"Iliad\", Pandarus is a renowned archer and the son of Lycaon. Pandarus, who fights on the side of", "title": "Pandarus" }, { "docid": "8240657", "text": "by Athenaeus and Pausanias, while Strabo cites it frequently in his own discussion of the geography of northwestern Anatolia. Trojan Battle Order The Trojan Battle Order or Trojan Catalogue is an epic catalogue in the second book of the \"Iliad\" listing the allied contingents that fought for Troy in the Trojan War. The catalogue is noted for its deficit of detail compared to the immediately preceding Catalogue of Ships, which lists the Greek contingents, and for the fact that only a few of the many Trojans mentioned in the Iliad appear there. Structurally the Trojan Battle Order is evidently inserted", "title": "Trojan Battle Order" }, { "docid": "8240653", "text": "Trojan Battle Order The Trojan Battle Order or Trojan Catalogue is an epic catalogue in the second book of the \"Iliad\" listing the allied contingents that fought for Troy in the Trojan War. The catalogue is noted for its deficit of detail compared to the immediately preceding Catalogue of Ships, which lists the Greek contingents, and for the fact that only a few of the many Trojans mentioned in the Iliad appear there. Structurally the Trojan Battle Order is evidently inserted to balance the preceding Catalogue of Ships. It is, however, much shorter. Denys Page summarizes the prevailing explanation that", "title": "Trojan Battle Order" }, { "docid": "12485375", "text": "Even without Homer, the Trojan War story had remained central to Western European medieval literary culture and its sense of identity. Most nations and several royal houses traced their origins to heroes at the Trojan War. Britain was supposedly settled by the Trojan Brutus, for instance. William Shakespeare used the plot of the \"Iliad\" as source material for his play \"Troilus and Cressida\", but focused on a medieval legend, the love story of Troilus, son of King Priam of Troy, and Cressida, daughter of the Trojan soothsayer Calchas. The play, often considered to be a comedy, reverses traditional views on", "title": "Iliad" }, { "docid": "5367190", "text": "Hector's wife Andromache captive and kills Hector's baby son, Astyanax, by throwing him from the walls of the city. The \"Little Iliad\" does not seem to have been redacted in a single, authoritative version, according to varying accounts of its details that cannot securely be harmonised. Little Iliad The Little Iliad (Greek: , \"Ilias mikra\"; ) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the \"Trojan\" cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the \"Little Iliad\" comes chronologically after that of the", "title": "Little Iliad" }, { "docid": "5367183", "text": "Little Iliad The Little Iliad (Greek: , \"Ilias mikra\"; ) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the \"Trojan\" cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the \"Little Iliad\" comes chronologically after that of the \"Aethiopis\", and is followed by that of the \"Iliou persis\" (\"Sack of Troy\"). The \"Little Iliad\" was variously attributed by ancient writers to Lesches of Pyrrha (7th century BCE), Cinaethon of Sparta (8th century BCE), Diodorus of Erythrae, Thestorides of Phocaea, or Homer himself (8th century", "title": "Little Iliad" }, { "docid": "20029992", "text": "found in the \"Iliad\" and are not normally included in most modern adaptations. One of the show's most radical changes from earlier adaptations was its decision to include the Greek gods as human-like characters played by live actors who speak normal dialogue. While the gods are major figures in the original Homeric epics, ever since the mid-twentieth century, adaptations of the Trojan War have nearly always either removed the gods from the story or heavily reduced their role in it. Most twenty-first-century adaptations of the Trojan War, including the film \"Troy\" (2004), Alessandro Baricco's \"Iliad\" (2004), Margaret George's \"Helen of", "title": "Troy: Fall of a City" }, { "docid": "11042955", "text": "Troy (novel) Troy is a young adult novel by Adèle Geras, published in 2000. It is based on events in \"The Iliad\", incorporating original stories set in the heart of the city towards the end of the Trojan War. The novel was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Award. It starts ten years into the Trojan War. Xanthe and Marpessa are sisters living in Troy, which is besieged by the Greeks. After Paris swept Helen away from her husband in Greece to his home in Troy, Menelaus started a war to win her back. The", "title": "Troy (novel)" }, { "docid": "406434", "text": "and of the Mycenaean cities of Greece. Today many scholars agree that the Trojan War is based on a historical core of a Greek expedition against the city of Troy, but few would argue that the Homeric poems faithfully represent the actual events of the war. In November 2001, geologist John C. Kraft and classicist John V. Luce presented the results of investigations into the geology of the region that had started in 1977. The geologists compared the present geology with the landscapes and coastal features described in the \"Iliad\" and other classical sources, notably Strabo's \"Geographia\". Their conclusion was", "title": "Trojan War" }, { "docid": "8240550", "text": "Trojan language The language spoken by the Trojans in the \"Iliad\" is Homeric Greek. However, there has been some scholarly debate on what language the historical Trojans would have spoken at the time of the Trojan War, identified with the site Troy VIIa. The language likely to have been prevalent in the historical city is Luwian, although there are no direct records. The cultural context in which the lost Trojan language existed was described by Jaan Puhvel, \"Homer and Hittite\" (1991). The Trojans in the \"Iliad\" have no difficulty in speaking to their Greek opponents. However, this may merely be", "title": "Trojan language" }, { "docid": "8240654", "text": "\"the Catalogues are substantially Mycenaean compositions rather expanded than altered by the Ionians\" . Noting that the Greek catalogue occupies 265 lines but the Trojan catalogue only 61, Page wonders why the Ionian authors know so little about their native land and concludes they are not describing it but are reforming poetry inherited in oral form from Mycenaean times . Some examples of Mycenaean knowledge are : There is also some internal evidence that the Trojan catalogue was not part of the \"Iliad\" but was a distinct composition pre-dating the Trojan War and incorporated later into the \"Iliad\" : Page", "title": "Trojan Battle Order" }, { "docid": "5510798", "text": "named Altes, who was killed by Agamemnon. This city was sacked by Achilles. Pedasus Pedasus (Greek: Πήδασος) has been identified with several personal and place names in Greek history and mythology. In Homer's \"Iliad\", Pedasus was the name of a Trojan warrior, and the son of the naiad Abarbarea and human Bucolion. His twin brother was Aesepus; both were slain by Euryalus, the son of Mecisteus, during the Trojan War. In Homer's \"Iliad\", Pedasus was also the name of a swift horse taken as booty by Achilles when he killed Eetion. This horse was killed by a spear during a", "title": "Pedasus" }, { "docid": "164693", "text": "goddesses were enraged by this and through Helen's abduction by Paris they brought about the Trojan War. Hera plays a substantial role in \"The Iliad\", appearing in a number of books throughout the epic poem. In accordance with ancient Greek mythology, Hera's hatred towards the Trojans, which was started by Paris' decision that Aphrodite was the most beautiful goddess, is seen as through her support of the Greeks during the war. Throughout the epic Hera makes many attempts to thwart the Trojan army. In books 1 and 2, Hera declares that the Trojans must be destroyed. Hera persuades Athena to", "title": "Hera" }, { "docid": "2469562", "text": "Menestheus Menestheus (), the son of Peteus, son of Orneus, son of Erechtheus, and either Polyxene or Mnesimache, was a legendary King of Athens during the Trojan War. He was set up as king by the Dioscuri when Theseus travelled to the underworld, and exiled Theseus from the city after his return. Menestheus was one of the suitors of Helen of Troy, and when the Trojan War started he brought \"fifty black ships\" to Troy. In the \"Iliad\" it is noted that no one could arrange chariots and shield-bearing warriors in battle orders better than Menestheus, and that only Nestor", "title": "Menestheus" }, { "docid": "12608786", "text": "Menon (Trojan) Menon (in Greek Mένων) was a Trojan soldier killed by Leonteus in the Trojan War as detailed by Homer in the Iliad (XII.201). There is also a Trojan chieftain or king by the same name, mentioned by the twelfth-century Icelandic writer Snorri Sturluson in his prologue to the Prose Edda. Snorri states the chieftain's name as Múnón, yet also called Mennón. It is uncertain whether Snorri is referring to this Menon, the Trojan soldier, or to Memnon, or to someone else. According to Snorri, Múnón was one of the twelve chieftains who dwelt in Troy in the stronghold", "title": "Menon (Trojan)" }, { "docid": "473551", "text": "inhabitants of Thrace are Sunni Muslims. Ancient Greek mythology provides the Thracians with a mythical ancestor Thrax, the son of the war-god Ares, who was said to reside in Thrace. The Thracians appear in Homer's \"Iliad\" as Trojan allies, led by Acamas and Peiros. Later in the \"Iliad\", Rhesus, another Thracian king, makes an appearance. Cisseus, father-in-law to the Trojan elder Antenor, is also given as a Thracian king. Homeric Thrace was vaguely defined, and stretched from the River Axios in the west to the Hellespont and Black Sea in the east. The Catalogue of Ships mentions three separate contingents", "title": "Thrace" }, { "docid": "12608787", "text": "with the High King. Múnón was wedded to the daughter of the High King at that time, Priam. The daughter's name was Tróán. According to Snorri, Múnón and Tróán had a child named Trór, \"whom,\" Snorri states, \"we call Thor.\" Thus, in Snorri's euhemerized account of Norse mythology, Múnón is the father of Thor, who, according to Snorri, is the ancestor (eighteen generations later) of Odin. Menon (Trojan) Menon (in Greek Mένων) was a Trojan soldier killed by Leonteus in the Trojan War as detailed by Homer in the Iliad (XII.201). There is also a Trojan chieftain or king by", "title": "Menon (Trojan)" }, { "docid": "15540892", "text": "\"shieldless\" in the \"Iliad\" because he was wearing a two-piece corselet, which was thought to provide enough protection in the battle. Phorcys of Phrygia In Greek mythology, Phorcys (; , \"Phorkus\") was a Phrygian ally of King Priam in the Trojan War. Phorcys appears in \"The Iliad\" as the leader of the Phrygians, a son of Phaenops. The \"Bibliotheca\", however, refers to him as a son of Aretaon and brother of Ascanius, another Phrygian leader. Phorcys is mentioned among the Trojan allies whom Hector addresses with a speech in Book 17 of the \"Iliad\". He was killed in battle by", "title": "Phorcys of Phrygia" }, { "docid": "732551", "text": "fighting in the \"Iliad\". Nicostratus was a son of Menelaus by his concubine Pieris, an Aetolian slave. Megapenthes was a son of Menelaus by his concubine Tereis, no further origin. In Euripides's tragedy \"The Trojan Women\", Helen is shunned by the women who survived the war and is to be taken back to Greece to face a death sentence. This version is contradicted by two of Euripides' other tragedies Electra, which predates The Trojan Women, and Helen, as Helen is described as being in Egypt during the events of the Trojan War in each. From Antiquity, depicting Helen would be", "title": "Helen of Troy" }, { "docid": "16843934", "text": "Polites (prince of Troy) Polites () was the legitimate son of Priam and Hecuba. He was a prince of Troy, and brother of 49 other children, including 12 daughters. He was killed by Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus), son of Achilles, who then killed his father. Polites was born to Priam, King of Troy, and Hecuba, his wife. He lived in Troy during his youth, was crowned prince of Troy, and was styled \"his royal Majesty\". During his youth, Polites witnessed the Trojan War and was a supporting character in the Iliad. During the passage of the Trojan Horse in the Trojan War,", "title": "Polites (prince of Troy)" }, { "docid": "15089900", "text": "In Search of the Trojan War In Search of the Trojan War is a 6-part BBC TV documentary series written and presented by Michael Wood, first broadcast in 1985 on BBC2. It examines the extent to which historical and archeological evidence matches the tale of the Trojan War as recounted by Homer in \"The Iliad\". Terry Oldfield and David Pash are credited with the original musical score. \"In Search of the Trojan War\" was the first follow-up series to Michael Wood's initial major broadcasting success, the documentary series \"In Search of the Dark Ages\", which the BBC had aired between", "title": "In Search of the Trojan War" }, { "docid": "15089903", "text": "to take into account more recent developments in the search for Troy. In Search of the Trojan War In Search of the Trojan War is a 6-part BBC TV documentary series written and presented by Michael Wood, first broadcast in 1985 on BBC2. It examines the extent to which historical and archeological evidence matches the tale of the Trojan War as recounted by Homer in \"The Iliad\". Terry Oldfield and David Pash are credited with the original musical score. \"In Search of the Trojan War\" was the first follow-up series to Michael Wood's initial major broadcasting success, the documentary series", "title": "In Search of the Trojan War" }, { "docid": "568056", "text": "Menelaus In Greek mythology, Menelaus (; , \"Menelaos\", from μένος \"vigor, rage, power\" and λαός \"people,\" \"wrath of the people\") was a king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, and the son of Atreus and Aerope. According to the \"Iliad\", Menelaus was a central figure in the Trojan War, leading the Spartan contingent of the Greek army, under his elder brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. Prominent in both the \"Iliad\" and \"Odyssey\", Menelaus was also popular in Greek vase painting and Greek tragedy, the latter more as a hero of the Trojan War than as a", "title": "Menelaus" }, { "docid": "9314011", "text": "De bello Troiano Daretis Phrygii Ilias De bello Troiano (\"The Iliad of Dares the Phrygian: On the Trojan War\") is an epic poem in Latin, written around 1183 by the English poet Joseph of Exeter. It tells the story of the ten year Trojan War as it was known in medieval western Europe. The ancient Greek epic on the subject, the \"Iliad\", was inaccessible; instead, the sources available included the fictional \"diaries\" of Dictys of Crete and Dares of Phrygia. When Joseph's text was printed for the first time in 1541, it was actually erroneously attributed to Dares of Phrygia,", "title": "De bello Troiano" }, { "docid": "9314012", "text": "announced as the long-lost verse version of his story (\"quibus multis seculis caruimus\" – which we lacked for many centuries) supposedly put into Latin hexameters by Nepos. De bello Troiano Daretis Phrygii Ilias De bello Troiano (\"The Iliad of Dares the Phrygian: On the Trojan War\") is an epic poem in Latin, written around 1183 by the English poet Joseph of Exeter. It tells the story of the ten year Trojan War as it was known in medieval western Europe. The ancient Greek epic on the subject, the \"Iliad\", was inaccessible; instead, the sources available included the fictional \"diaries\" of", "title": "De bello Troiano" }, { "docid": "465619", "text": "attempt to stamp out the Jewish religion, directed that the temple at Jerusalem be profaned and rededicated to Zeus (Jupiter Olympius). The \"Iliad\" is a poem by Homer about the Trojan war and the battle over the City of Troy. As God of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order, justice, Zeus controlled ancient Greece and all of the mortals and immortals living there. The Iliad covers the Trojan War, in which Zeus plays a major part. Notable Scenes that include Zeus The most notable conflict in Zeus's history was his struggle for power. Zeus's parents Cronus and Rhea ruled the", "title": "Zeus" }, { "docid": "6676089", "text": "Asteropaios In the \"Iliad\", Asteropaios (; Greek: Ἀστεροπαῖος; Latin: \"Asteropaeus\") was a leader of the Trojan-allied Paeonians along with fellow warrior Pyraechmes. Asteropaios was the son of Pelagon, who was the son of the river god Axios and the mortal woman Periboia, daughter of Akessamenos (Greek: Ἀκεσσάμενος). Asteropaios was a newcomer to the war at the start of the \"Iliad\"; he had only been in Troy for less than two weeks. Asteropaios had the distinction in combat of being ambidextrous and would on occasion throw two spears at once. In Book XII of the \"Iliad\" as the Trojans attacked the", "title": "Asteropaios" }, { "docid": "19487880", "text": "Hector’s death and funeral instead. The film’s cast includes actors Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, and Eric Bana. Another Homeric epic often used in modern film, the \"Odyssey\" (Ὀδύσσεια) serves as a sort of sequel to the \"Iliad\". The poem narrates the journey home (or \"nostos\") of Greek hero Odysseus after ten years of fighting in the Trojan War. Like the \"Iliad\", the poem begins \"in medias res\", or \"in the middle of things,\" beginning Ulysses is a fantasy-adventure film based on Homer’s \"Odyssey\". The film tells the story of Ulysses’ attempt to return home after the Trojan War, as well", "title": "Greek epic in film" }, { "docid": "8460748", "text": "Where Troy Once Stood Where Troy Once Stood is a 1990 book by Iman Wilkens that argues that the city of Troy was located in England and that the Trojan War was fought between groups of Celts. The standard view is that Troy is located near the Dardanelles in Turkey. Wilkens claims that Homer's \"Iliad\" and \"Odyssey\", though products of ancient Greek culture, are originally orally transmitted epic poems from Western Europe. Wilkens disagrees with conventional ideas about the historicity of the \"Iliad\" and the location and participants of the Trojan War. His work has had little impact among professional", "title": "Where Troy Once Stood" }, { "docid": "16461700", "text": "the site of the Trojan War. Her opinion influenced Demetrius of Scepsis, who cited her as a source. According to the Homer scholar J. V. Luce, writing in \"Celebrating Homer's Landscapes: Troy and Ithaca Revisited\", neither Hestiaea nor Demetrius would have accepted the view espoused by the inhabitants of Ilium that their city marked the location of ancient Troy. Strabo mentions Hestiaea in his \"Geography\" (XIII.1.16, C599): \"Demetrius cites also Hestiaea of Alexandreia as a witness, a woman who wrote a work on Homer's \"Iliad\" and inquired whether the war took place round the present Ilium and the Trojan Plain,", "title": "Hestiaea" }, { "docid": "12485310", "text": "Iliad The Iliad (; \"\", in Classical Attic; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the \"Iliad\" mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about", "title": "Iliad" }, { "docid": "15271", "text": "1890, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria, had a summer palace built in Corfu. The building is named the \"Achilleion\", after Achilles. Its paintings and statuary depict scenes from the Trojan War, with particular focus on Achilles. Achilles In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus ( ; , \"Achilleus\" ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's \"Iliad\". His mother was the immortal Nereid Thetis, and his father, the mortal Peleus, was the king of the Myrmidons. Achilles' most notable feat during the Trojan War was the slaying of the Trojan", "title": "Achilles" }, { "docid": "2342354", "text": "the water of the magical river. Achilles grew up to be a man of war who survived many great battles. One day, a poisonous arrow shot at him was lodged in his heel, killing him shortly afterwards. The death of Achilles was not mentioned in Homer's \"Iliad\", but appeared in later Greek and Roman poetry and drama concerning events after the Iliad, later in the Trojan War. In the myths surrounding the war, Achilles was said to have died from a heel wound which was the result of an arrow—possibly poisoned—shot by Paris. Classical myths attribute Achilles's invulnerability to his", "title": "Achilles' heel" }, { "docid": "11761440", "text": "based on an absolute magnitude of 9.41. This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after the Lycian hero Sarpedon from the \"Iliad\", who was killed by Patroclus, during the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1981 (). 2223 Sarpedon 2223 Sarpedon, provisional designation \"\", is a dark Jupiter trojan from the Trojan camp, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 4 October 1977, by astronomers at the Purple Mountain Observatory near Nanking, China. The D-type asteroid belongs to the 30 largest Jupiter trojans and has a rotation period of", "title": "2223 Sarpedon" }, { "docid": "15540891", "text": "Phorcys of Phrygia In Greek mythology, Phorcys (; , \"Phorkus\") was a Phrygian ally of King Priam in the Trojan War. Phorcys appears in \"The Iliad\" as the leader of the Phrygians, a son of Phaenops. The \"Bibliotheca\", however, refers to him as a son of Aretaon and brother of Ascanius, another Phrygian leader. Phorcys is mentioned among the Trojan allies whom Hector addresses with a speech in Book 17 of the \"Iliad\". He was killed in battle by the Greek hero Ajax. Phorcys is referenced in Pausanias' \"Description of Greece\": the author explains that Phorcys was referred to as", "title": "Phorcys of Phrygia" }, { "docid": "5510796", "text": "Pedasus Pedasus (Greek: Πήδασος) has been identified with several personal and place names in Greek history and mythology. In Homer's \"Iliad\", Pedasus was the name of a Trojan warrior, and the son of the naiad Abarbarea and human Bucolion. His twin brother was Aesepus; both were slain by Euryalus, the son of Mecisteus, during the Trojan War. In Homer's \"Iliad\", Pedasus was also the name of a swift horse taken as booty by Achilles when he killed Eetion. This horse was killed by a spear during a duel between Patroclus and Sarpedon. Pedasus (Caria): In Caria, according to Herodotus, the", "title": "Pedasus" }, { "docid": "5366852", "text": "Aethiopis The Aethiopis or Aithiopis (Greek: , \"Aíthiopís\"; ) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the \"Trojan\" cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the \"Aethiopis\" comes chronologically immediately after that of the Homeric \"Iliad\", and is followed by that of the \"Little Iliad\". The \"Aethiopis\" was sometimes attributed by ancient writers to Arctinus of Miletus (8th century BC) (see Cyclic poets). The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. The \"Aethiopis\" was probably composed in the seventh", "title": "Aethiopis" }, { "docid": "3338520", "text": "Time\") and Vladimir Nabokov's novel \"\". In July 2004, \"Ilium\" received a Locus Award for best science fiction novel of 2004. The novel centers on three character groups: that of Hockenberry (a resurrected twentieth-century Homeric scholar whose duty is to compare the events of the \"Iliad\" to the reenacted events of the Trojan War), Greek and Trojan warriors, and Greek gods from the \"Iliad\"; Daeman, Harman, Ada, and other humans of an Earth thousands of years after the twentieth century; and the \"moravec\" robots (named for scientist and futurist Hans Moravec) Mahnmut the Europan and Orphu of Io, also thousands", "title": "Ilium (novel)" }, { "docid": "3720179", "text": "the fact that it is pointing towards the Sun, not away from it. The group of Jupiter trojan contains about 6,000 asteroid. They are named after figures from Greek mythology, typically after the heroes of the Trojan War as narrated in Homer's \"Iliad\". The Minor Planet Center credits the Uppsala–DLR Trojan Survey with the discovery of 62 numbered minor planets during 1996–1997. Uppsala–DLR Trojan Survey The Uppsala–DLR Trojan Survey (UDTS, also known as UAO–DLR Trojan Survey) is an astronomical survey to study the movements and locations of asteroids near Jupiter, which includes Jupiter trojans and other asteroids, which line-of sight", "title": "Uppsala–DLR Trojan Survey" }, { "docid": "5562279", "text": "genuine but predates the period of the Trojan War by about 300 years. Mask of Agamemnon The Mask of Agamemnon is a gold funeral mask discovered at the ancient Greek site of Mycenae. The mask, displayed in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, has been described by Cathy Gere as the \"\"Mona Lisa\" of prehistory\". German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the artifact in 1876, believed that he had found the body of the Mycenean king Agamemnon, leader of the Achaeans in Homer's epic of the Trojan War, the \"Iliad\", but modern archaeological research suggests that the mask predates the", "title": "Mask of Agamemnon" }, { "docid": "5562272", "text": "Mask of Agamemnon The Mask of Agamemnon is a gold funeral mask discovered at the ancient Greek site of Mycenae. The mask, displayed in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, has been described by Cathy Gere as the \"\"Mona Lisa\" of prehistory\". German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the artifact in 1876, believed that he had found the body of the Mycenean king Agamemnon, leader of the Achaeans in Homer's epic of the Trojan War, the \"Iliad\", but modern archaeological research suggests that the mask predates the period of the legendary Trojan War by about 300 years. German archaeologist Heinrich", "title": "Mask of Agamemnon" }, { "docid": "2191659", "text": "of Lydians and Mysians and all sons of Atys. Homer records that Miletus (later an Ionian city), together with the mountain of Phthries, the river Maeander and the crests of Mount Mycale were held by the Carians at the time of the Trojan War and that the Carians, qualified by the poet as being of incomprehensible speech, joined the Trojans against the Achaeans under the leadership of Nastes, brother of Amphimachos (\"he who fights both ways\") and son of Nomion. These figures appear only in the \"Iliad\" and in a list in Dares of Phrygia's epitome of the Trojan War.", "title": "Carians" }, { "docid": "20977126", "text": "as a soldier, who gives us the background to the plot, which takes place during the Trojan War. Immortalized in Greek mythology and Homer's Iliad, the war occurs because a Trojan prince, Paris, has stolen the beautiful Helen from her husband, King Menelaus of Sparta, and carries her home to Troy with him. In response, Menelaus gathers his fellow Greek kings, and they sail to Troy hoping to capture the city and reclaim Helen. Within the walls of Troy, Prince Troilus complains to Pandarus that he is unable to fight because of heartache; he is desperately in love with Pandarus's", "title": "Troilus and Cressida" }, { "docid": "856756", "text": "and Queen Clytemnestra. Her sisters were Iphigeneia and Chrysothemis, and her brother was Orestes. In the Iliad, Homer is understood to be referring to Electra in mentioning \"Laodice\" as a daughter of Agamemnon. Electra was absent from Mycenae when her father, King Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War. When he came back, he brought with him his war prize, the Trojan princess Cassandra, who had already borne him twin sons. Upon their arrival, Agamemnon and Cassandra were murdered, by either Clytemnestra herself, her lover Aegisthus or both. Clytemnestra had held a grudge against her husband for agreeing to sacrifice their", "title": "Electra" }, { "docid": "835221", "text": "Myrmidon, a king of Thessalian Phthia, who was the son of Zeus and of Eurymedousa, a princess of Phthia. Zeus took the physical form of an ant and seduced Eurymedousa, hence their son's name. According to Greek legend, the Myrmidons left their native island of Aegina and moved to Thessaly. From there, Aeacus' grandson, Achilles, led the Myrmidons to battle in the Trojan War as an ally of the Achaeans. Homer's \"Iliad\" gives an account of a portion of the Trojan War, with a focus on the role of Achilles. When King Agamemnon of the Achaeans disrespects Achilles, he abandons", "title": "Myrmidons" }, { "docid": "4228344", "text": "Zeleia Zeleia (Ζέλεια) is the name of an ancient town or city, according to the \"Iliad\", which was allied to Troy. It appears to have been located in the Troad and to have been inhabited by Trojans. Says Homer: \"They who lived in Zeleia below the foot of Mount Ida, who drank the dark water of Aesepus, Trojans.\" (\"Iliad\" 2.824). Zeleia led a force of warriors to aid Troy during the Trojan War, led by Pandarus, son of Lycaon (the latter Lycaon not to be confused with Lycaon, son of Priam. It is later related that the people of Zeleia", "title": "Zeleia" }, { "docid": "13021668", "text": "and expert\" horsemen. According to the Iliad, before the Trojan War, a young king Priam of Troy had taken an army to Phrygia to support it in a war against the Amazons. Homer calls the Phrygians \"the people of Otreus and godlike Mygdon\". According to Euripides, Quintus Smyrnaeus and others, this Mygdon's son, Coroebus, fought and died in the Trojan War; he had sued for the hand of the Trojan princess Cassandra in marriage. The name \"Otreus\" could be an eponym for Otroea, a place on Lake Ascania in the vicinity of the later Nicaea, and the name \"Mygdon\" is", "title": "Phrygia" }, { "docid": "406435", "text": "that there is regularly a consistency between the location of Troy as identified by Schliemann (and other locations such as the Greek camp), the geological evidence, and descriptions of the topography and accounts of the battle in the \"Iliad\". In the twentieth century scholars have attempted to draw conclusions based on Hittite and Egyptian texts that date to the time of the Trojan War. While they give a general description of the political situation in the region at the time, their information on whether this particular conflict took place is limited. Andrew Dalby notes that while the Trojan War most", "title": "Trojan War" }, { "docid": "6799981", "text": "help King Priam during the Trojan War - though this contingent was led not by Merops's sons, but by Asius, son of Hyrtacus, according to Homer's Iliad, one native from Percote was wounded in the Trojan War by Antilochus, two natives from Percote were killed in the Trojan War by Diomedes and Ullysses. The Meropidae (Amphius and Adrastus) instead lead a contingent from nearby Adrastea. A nephew of Priam, named Melanippus, son of Hicetaon, herded cattle (oxen) at Percote, according to Homer. According to Phanias of Eresus, Artaxerxes I of Persia had given to Themistocles the city of Percote with", "title": "Percote" }, { "docid": "14936909", "text": "Black Ships Before Troy Black Ships Before Troy: The story of the Iliad is a novel for children written by Rosemary Sutcliff, illustrated by Alan Lee, and published (posthumously) by Frances Lincoln in 1993. Partly based on the \"Iliad\", the book retells the story of the Trojan War, from the birth of Paris to the building of the Trojan Horse. For his part Lee won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognizing the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. \"Kirkus Reviews\" noted the \"compelling vision and sensitivity to language, history, and heroics\" that she", "title": "Black Ships Before Troy" }, { "docid": "17908363", "text": "of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. The album has three main parts; It kicks in with \"War I Wage\" (track 1) which is based on the Iliad. The Iliad relates a part of the Trojan War, the siege of Troy. It runs through some songs to meet the second station which is \"The Tempest\" (track 5), fully based on the Odyssey. The Odyssey describes Odysseus rough journey home. The album finishes with the last part of the Odyssey, Odysseus return to Ithaca, slaying of the suitors to find his", "title": "Undead Legacy" }, { "docid": "12485370", "text": "the war god. Yet great as you are I would not strike you by stealth, watching for my chance, but openly, so, if perhaps I might hit you. However, despite examples of disdain for this tactical trickery, there is reason to believe that the \"Iliad\", as well as later Greek warfare, endorsed tactical genius on the part of their commanders. For example, there are multiple passages in the \"Iliad\" with commanders such as Agamemnon or Nestor discussing the arraying of troops so as to gain an advantage. Indeed, the Trojan War is won by a notorious example of Greek guile", "title": "Iliad" }, { "docid": "12485312", "text": "\"Odyssey\", also attributed to Homer. Along with the \"Odyssey\", the \"Iliad\" is among the oldest extant works of Western literature, and its written version is usually dated to around the 8th century BC. In the modern vulgate (the standard accepted version), the \"Iliad\" contains 15,693 lines; it is written in Homeric Greek, a literary amalgam of Ionic Greek and other dialects. According to Michael N. Nagler, the \"Iliad\" is a more complicated epic poem than the \"Odyssey\". () After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches \"in medias res\" towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans", "title": "Iliad" }, { "docid": "3294004", "text": "quotation shows that the \"Little Iliad\" narrated how Neoptolemus took Andromache prisoner after the fall of Troy; however, in Proclus, the \"Little Iliad\" stops before the sack of Troy begins. Some scholars have argued that the \"Cypria\" as originally planned dealt with more of the Trojan War than Proclus' summary suggests; conversely, others argue that it was designed to lead up to the \"Iliad\", and that Proclus' account reflects the \"Cypria\" as originally designed. It is probable that at least some editing or \"stitching\" was done to edit epics together. For the last line of the \"Iliad\", ὣς οἵ γ᾽", "title": "Epic Cycle" }, { "docid": "6676092", "text": "4805 Asteropaios is named after the hero. Asteropaios In the \"Iliad\", Asteropaios (; Greek: Ἀστεροπαῖος; Latin: \"Asteropaeus\") was a leader of the Trojan-allied Paeonians along with fellow warrior Pyraechmes. Asteropaios was the son of Pelagon, who was the son of the river god Axios and the mortal woman Periboia, daughter of Akessamenos (Greek: Ἀκεσσάμενος). Asteropaios was a newcomer to the war at the start of the \"Iliad\"; he had only been in Troy for less than two weeks. Asteropaios had the distinction in combat of being ambidextrous and would on occasion throw two spears at once. In Book XII of", "title": "Asteropaios" }, { "docid": "11476737", "text": "Gorgythion In Greek mythology, Gorgythion (Greek: Γοργυθίων, gen.: Γοργυθίωνος) was one of the sons of King Priam of Troy at the time of the Trojan War and appears as a minor character in Homer's \"Iliad\". His mother was Castianeira of Aisyme. In the \"Iliad\", Gorgythion is described as beautiful, and his epithet is \"the blameless\". Jane Ellen Harrison pointed out that \"blameless\" (άμύμων) was an epithet of the heroized dead, who were venerated and appeased at shrines. Zeus even applies the epithet to Aegisthus, the usurper, Harrison observes. In applying \"blameless\" to Gorgythion, then, the poet may have been reflecting", "title": "Gorgythion" }, { "docid": "12042110", "text": "Eudoros In Greek mythology, Eudoros (Greek: Εὔδωρος), was the second of Achilles' five commanders at the Trojan War. According to the \"Iliad\", he commanded ten penteconters and five hundred Myrmidons. In Book XVI of the \"Iliad\", when Patroclus readies Achilles' men, Homer talks about him for fourteen lines - more than any of the other commanders in this passage. He is also the second most notable of the five, beaten only by Phoenix. Eudoros was a demigod, the son of Hermes and Polymele, who danced in Artemis' choir. Polymele's father Phylas brought him up after she married Echekles. Eudoros was", "title": "Eudoros" }, { "docid": "6698974", "text": "ankle by the Trojan Agenor. Lycomedes of Thebes In Greek mythology, Lycomedes (Ancient Greek: Λυκομήδης \"Lykomedes\") was a Theban armed sentry with Thrasymedes, son of Nestor during the Trojan War. Lycomedes was the son of Theban regent, Creon of Thebes and possibly his wife Eurydice or Henioche, and thus, the brother of Menoeceus (Megareus), Haemon, Megara, Pyrrha and Henoiche. Lycomedes fought on the side of the Argives in the Trojan War. No real significant background is given about him in the \"Iliad\". He was listed among the younger leaders and was not a king but of second rank. In the", "title": "Lycomedes of Thebes" }, { "docid": "13021670", "text": "Mysians in a battle with the Bebryces. According to some interpretations, Bebryces is an alternate name for Phrygians and this Mygdon is the same person mentioned in the Iliad. King Priam married the Phrygian princess Hecabe (or Hecuba) and maintained a close alliance with the Phrygians, who repaid him by fighting \"ardently\" in the Trojan War against the Greeks. Hecabe was a daughter of the Phrygian king Dymas, son of Eioneus, son of Proteus. According to the Iliad, Hecabe's younger brother Asius also fought at Troy (see above); and Quintus Smyrnaeus mentions two grandsons of Dymas that fell at the", "title": "Phrygia" }, { "docid": "16461702", "text": "Golden Aphrodite'.\" Apart from these three short citations, nothing now survives from Hestiaea's treatise on the \"Iliad\". Hestiaea is one of the 1038 women named in Judy Chicago's art installation \"The Dinner Party\". She is included in the Heritage Floor. Hestiaea Hestiaea of Alexandria, also Hestiaea, was a scholar who wrote a treatise on Homer's Iliad that discussed the question whether the Trojan War was fought near the city then called Ilium, and which was cited by Demetrius of Scepsis. None of her work is extant. Hestiaea is variously believed to have lived in the ancient Greek city Alexandria Troas,", "title": "Hestiaea" }, { "docid": "876344", "text": "in the writings of Karl Marx' and those of later Marxist literature in Soviet times much in the spirit of Hegel's construal. Heiner Müller casts Thersites in the role of Shepherd who also shears his sheep reflecting the contradictions broached by Hegel. Thersites In Greek mythology, Thersites (Ancient Greek: Θερσίτης) was a soldier of the Greek army during the Trojan War. In the \"Iliad\", he does not have a father's name, which may suggest that he should be viewed as a commoner rather than an aristocratic hero. However, a quotation from another lost epic in the Trojan cycle, the \"Aethiopis\",", "title": "Thersites" }, { "docid": "11737959", "text": "stopped a pestilence during the Trojan War as mentioned in Homer's \"Iliad\". Podalirius is the son of Asclepius and Epione and brother of Hygieia, Machaon (who was also a physician) and Panacea. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 June 1993 (). 4086 Podalirius 4086 Podalirius ( ), provisional designation \"\", is a large Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 9 November 1985, by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnij, on the Crimean peninsula. The assumed C-type asteroid belongs to the 40", "title": "4086 Podalirius" }, { "docid": "12485376", "text": "events of the Trojan War and depicts Achilles as a coward, Ajax as a dull, unthinking mercenary, etc. William Theed the elder made an impressive bronze statue of Thetis as she brought Achilles his new armor forged by Hephaesthus. It has been on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 2013. Robert Browning's poem \"Development\" discusses his childhood introduction to the matter of the \"Iliad\" and his delight in the epic, as well as contemporary debates about its authorship. George Chapman published his translation of the \"Iliad\", in installments, beginning in 1598, published in \"fourteeners\",", "title": "Iliad" }, { "docid": "3293995", "text": "Epic Cycle The Epic Cycle (, \"Epikos Kyklos\") was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the \"Cypria\", the \"Aethiopis\", the so-called \"Little Iliad\", the \"Iliupersis\", the \"Nostoi\", and the \"Telegony\". Scholars sometimes include the two Homeric epics, the \"Iliad\" and the \"Odyssey\", among the poems of the Epic Cycle, but the term is more often used to specify the non-Homeric poems as distinct from the Homeric ones. Unlike the \"Iliad\" and the \"Odyssey\", the cyclic epics survive only in fragments and summaries from Late Antiquity", "title": "Epic Cycle" }, { "docid": "480903", "text": "realizing his destiny, Thetis then had Hephaestus make a shield and armor. Thetis played a key part in the events of the Trojan War. Beyond the fact that the Judgement of Paris, which essentially kicked off the war, occurred at her wedding, Thetis influenced the actions of the Olympians and her son, Achilles.Nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War, the \"Iliad\" starts with Agamemnon, the King of the Achaeans, and Achilles, son of Thetis, arguing over Briseis, a war prize of Achilles. After initially refusing, Achilles relents and gives Briseis to Agamemnon. However, Achilles feels disrespect for having", "title": "Thetis" }, { "docid": "176819", "text": "papyri and other sources; some argue for a 'multi-text' view, rather than seeking a single definitive text. The nineteenth-century edition of Arthur Ludwich mainly follows Aristarchus's work, whereas van Thiel's (1991,1996) follows the medieval vulgate. Others, such as Martin West (1998-2000) or T.W. Allen fall somewhere between these two extremes. </div> This is a partial list of translations into English of Homer's \"Iliad\" and \"Odyssey\". Homer Homer (; , \"Hómēros\") is the legendary author of the \"Iliad\" and the \"Odyssey\", two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature. The \"Iliad\" is set during the Trojan War,", "title": "Homer" }, { "docid": "2935257", "text": "Nestor also sailed back from Troy stopping at Tenedos and island-hopping to Lesbos. \"The Odyssey\" mentions the Greeks leaving Troy after winning the war first traveled to nearby Tenedos, sacrificed there, and then went to Lesbos before pausing to choose between alternative routes. Homer, in the Iliad mention that between Tenedos and Imbros there was a wide cavern, in which Poseidon stayed his horses. Virgil, in the \"Aeneid\", described the Achaeans hiding their fleet at Tenedos's bay, toward the end of the Trojan War, to trick Troy into believing the war was over and allowing them to take the Trojan", "title": "Tenedos" }, { "docid": "2860369", "text": "the Caucones did not. (The Bithynians also expelled or absorbed other autochthonous tribes, such as the Mysians, although one – the Mariandyni – maintained their cultural independence, in area that became north-east Bithynia. Strabo [12.3.3] states that in earlier times the Bithynians were known as Mysians. Herodotus [7.20, 75] says that some time before the Trojan War, the Mysians, alongside the Teucrians, invaded Thessaly.) The Caucones appear in the \"Iliad\" Book X, when the Trojan herald Dolon reveals the array of Trojan allies, ranged among their neighbors like a lesson in geography: \"Towards the sea lie the Karians, and Paionians", "title": "Caucones" }, { "docid": "19090794", "text": "the body has an albedo of 0.083 and 0.075, with a diameter of 53.87 and 50.81 kilometers, respectively. The \"Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link\" assumes a standard albedo for carbonaceous C-type asteroids of 0.057 and calculates a diameter of 55.67 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 10.0. This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Orus, an Achaean warrior in Homer's \"Iliad\". He was killed in the Trojan War by the Trojan prince Hector, after whom the largest Jupiter trojan 624 Hektor is named. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 February 2016 ().", "title": "21900 Orus" }, { "docid": "337190", "text": "as their own combatants, collecting military and political intelligence from them, or indoctrinating them in new political or religious beliefs. For most of human history, depending on the culture of the victors, enemy combatants on the losing side in a battle who had surrendered and been taken as a prisoner of war could expect to be either slaughtered or enslaved. The first Roman gladiators were prisoners of war and were named according to their ethnic roots such as Samnite, Thracian, and the Gaul (Gallus). Homer's \"Iliad\" describes Greek and Trojan soldiers offering rewards of wealth to opposing forces who have", "title": "Prisoner of war" }, { "docid": "6702995", "text": "Thrasymedes (mythology) In Greek mythology, Thrasymedes (Ancient Greek: Θρασυμήδης) was a participant in the Trojan War. He was from Pylos and was the oldest son of Nestor and Eurydice (or Anaxibia), and the elder brother of Antilochus. Thrasymedes was one of the more prominent younger leaders portrayed in the \"Iliad\", though not to the extent of his brother. He fought bravely throughout the entire war. In the Iliad he was one of the lead sentries and was present at night when the Greek wall was built. When Diomedes and Odysseus went on a spying expedition he gave the former his", "title": "Thrasymedes (mythology)" }, { "docid": "176788", "text": "Homer Homer (; , \"Hómēros\") is the legendary author of the \"Iliad\" and the \"Odyssey\", two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature. The \"Iliad\" is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek kingdoms. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The \"Odyssey\" focuses on the journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, around 20 years after the fall of Troy. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical", "title": "Homer" }, { "docid": "12485372", "text": "many of its ideals, tactics, and instruction are. Hans van Wees argues that the period that the descriptions of warfare relate can be pinned down fairly specifically—to the first half of the 7th century BC. The \"Iliad\" was a standard work of great importance already in Classical Greece and remained so throughout the Hellenistic and Byzantine periods. Subjects from the Trojan War were a favourite among ancient Greek dramatists. Aeschylus' trilogy, the \"Oresteia\", comprising \"Agamemnon\", \"The Libation Bearers\" and \"The Eumenides\", follows the story of Agamemnon after his return from the war. Homer also came to be of great influence", "title": "Iliad" }, { "docid": "8240551", "text": "evidence that a fictional convention frequently used in narratives in later times had already been adopted by the poet of the \"Iliad\": for example, Jason finds no language barrier with Medea in Colchis, and Trojan Aeneas converses without difficulty both with Punic Dido and with Latin Turnus. Greek legend gives further indications on the subject of language at Troy. For one thing, the allies of Troy, listed at length in the Trojan Battle Order which closes book 2 of the \"Iliad\", are depicted as speaking various languages and thus needing to have orders translated to them by their commanders (2.802-6).", "title": "Trojan language" }, { "docid": "12485311", "text": "the siege; the earlier events, such as the gathering of warriors for the siege, the cause of the war, and related concerns tend to appear near the beginning. Then the epic narrative takes up events prophesied for the future, such as Achilles' imminent death and the fall of Troy, although the narrative ends before these events take place. However, as these events are prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, when it reaches an end the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War. The \"Iliad\" is paired with something of a sequel, the", "title": "Iliad" }, { "docid": "5369653", "text": "during a fishing expedition. Still another version relates that he was lured into a well in search of treasure, and then was crushed by stones. Although he is a major character in some accounts of the Trojan War, Palamedes is not mentioned in Homer's \"Iliad\". Ovid discusses Palamedes' role in the Trojan War in the \"Metamorphoses\". Palamedes' fate is described in Virgil's \"Aeneid\". In the \"Apology\", Plato describes Socrates as looking forward to speaking with Palamedes after death, and intimates in the \"Phaedrus\" that Palamedes authored a work on rhetoric. Euripides and many other dramatists have written dramas about his", "title": "Palamedes (mythology)" }, { "docid": "6698971", "text": "Lycomedes of Thebes In Greek mythology, Lycomedes (Ancient Greek: Λυκομήδης \"Lykomedes\") was a Theban armed sentry with Thrasymedes, son of Nestor during the Trojan War. Lycomedes was the son of Theban regent, Creon of Thebes and possibly his wife Eurydice or Henioche, and thus, the brother of Menoeceus (Megareus), Haemon, Megara, Pyrrha and Henoiche. Lycomedes fought on the side of the Argives in the Trojan War. No real significant background is given about him in the \"Iliad\". He was listed among the younger leaders and was not a king but of second rank. In the tenth year of the struggle", "title": "Lycomedes of Thebes" }, { "docid": "9863591", "text": "area was utilized during the Byzantine Age. Although historians have dated the Trojan war to 1178 BC by calculating Homer's solar eclipse, it was not immortalised in the Iliad until about 750 BC. Around the same period, the Mykonos pithamphora - which shows the wooden horse the Greeks used to infiltrate Troy - was manufactured on the island of Tinos. Referenced in both literature and art, that cunning end to the war - the Trojan Horse - had become synonymous with the name of Agamemnon. The house of Agamemnon claimed continuity at Cyme in Aeolia, associating themselves with the legends", "title": "Cyme (Aeolis)" }, { "docid": "885630", "text": "from whom the race of half-man, half-horse Centaurs then came. Lapithes was the eponymous ancestor of the Lapith people, and his descendants include Lapith warriors and kings, such as Ixion, Pirithous, Caeneus, and Coronus, and the seers Idmon and Mopsus. In the \"Iliad\" the Lapiths send forty manned ships to join the Greek fleet in the Trojan War, commanded by Polypoetes (son of Pirithous) and Leonteus (son of Coronus, son of Caeneus). The mother of Pirithous, the Lapith king in the generation before the Trojan War, was Dia, daughter of Eioneus or Deioneus; Ixion was the father of Pirithous, but", "title": "Lapiths" }, { "docid": "406363", "text": "Persis\", \"Nostoi\", and \"Telegony\". Though these poems survive only in fragments, their content is known from a summary included in Proclus' \"Chrestomathy\". The authorship of the Cyclic Epics is uncertain. It is generally thought that the poems were written down in the 7th and 6th century BC, after the composition of the Homeric poems, though it is widely believed that they were based on earlier traditions. Both the Homeric epics and the Epic Cycle take origin from oral tradition. Even after the composition of the \"Iliad\", \"Odyssey\", and the Cyclic Epics, the myths of the Trojan War were passed on", "title": "Trojan War" }, { "docid": "406445", "text": "in 1998. Ancient Greek historians variously placed the Trojan War in the 12th, 13th, or 14th centuries BC: Eratosthenes to 1184 BC, Herodotus to 1250 BC, and Duris of Samos to 1334 BC. Modern archaeologists associate Homeric Troy with archaeological Troy VII. In the \"Iliad\", the Achaeans set up their camp near the mouth of the River Scamander (presumably modern Karamenderes), where they beached their ships. The city of Troy itself stood on a hill, across the plain of Scamander, where the battles of the Trojan War took place. The site of the ancient city is some 5 km from", "title": "Troy" }, { "docid": "1692222", "text": "Quintus Smyrnaeus Quintus Smyrnaeus or Quintus of Smyrna, also known as Kointos Smyrnaios (), was a Greek epic poet whose \"Posthomerica\", following \"after Homer\" continues the narration of the Trojan War. He has traditionally been thought to have lived in the latter part of the 4th century AD, but early dates have also been proposed. His epic in fourteen books, known as the \"Posthomerica\", covers the period between the end of Homer's \"Iliad\" and the end of the Trojan War. Its primary importance is as the earliest surviving work to cover this period, the archaic works in the Epic Cycle,", "title": "Quintus Smyrnaeus" }, { "docid": "406365", "text": "important is the 1st century BC poet Virgil. In Book 2 of the \"Aeneid\", Aeneas narrates the sack of Troy; this section of the poem is thought to rely on material from the Cyclic Epic \"Iliou Persis\". The following summary of the Trojan War follows the order of events as given in Proclus' summary, along with the \"Iliad\", \"Odyssey\", and \"Aeneid\", supplemented with details drawn from other authors. According to Greek mythology, Zeus had become king of the gods by overthrowing his father Cronus; Cronus in turn had overthrown his father Uranus. Zeus was not faithful to his wife and", "title": "Trojan War" }, { "docid": "568061", "text": "Paris the most beautiful woman in all the world. After concluding a diplomatic mission to Sparta during the latter part of which Menelaus was absent to attend the funeral of his maternal grandfather Catreus in Crete, Paris ran off to Troy with Helen despite his brother Hector's prohibition. Invoking the oath of Tyndareus, Menelaus and Agamemnon raised a fleet of a thousand ships and went to Troy to secure Helen's return; the Trojans refused, providing a \"casus belli\" for the Trojan War. Homer's \"Iliad\" is the most expansive source for Menelaus’s exploits during the Trojan War. In Book 3, Menelaus", "title": "Menelaus" }, { "docid": "2301411", "text": "conte Aurelio Guglielmo Balleani at Jesi, of a manuscript of Dictys, in large part of the ninth century, that was described and collated by C. Annibaldi in 1907. For a medieval source on the Trojan War that is uniquely independent of Dictys and Dares, see the \"Rawlinson Excidium Troie\". Dictys Cretensis Dictys Cretensis or Dictys of Crete (; ) () of Knossus was the legendary companion of Idomeneus during the Trojan War, and the purported author of a diary of its events, that deployed some of the same materials worked up by Homer for the \"Iliad\". With the rise in", "title": "Dictys Cretensis" }, { "docid": "2301406", "text": "Dictys Cretensis Dictys Cretensis or Dictys of Crete (; ) () of Knossus was the legendary companion of Idomeneus during the Trojan War, and the purported author of a diary of its events, that deployed some of the same materials worked up by Homer for the \"Iliad\". With the rise in credulity in Late Antiquity, the story of his journal, an amusing fiction addressed to a knowledgeable and sophisticated Alexandrian audience, came to be taken literally. In the 4th century AD a certain Q. Septimius brought out \"Dictys Cretensis Ephemeris belli Trojani\" (\"Dictys of Crete, chronicle of the Trojan War\")", "title": "Dictys Cretensis" }, { "docid": "864618", "text": "unpleasant character. Deiphobus In Greek mythology, Deiphobus (Ancient Greek: Δηίφοβος, \"Deiphobos\") was a son of Priam and Hecuba. He was a prince of Troy, and the greatest of Priam's sons after Hector and Paris. Deiphobus killed four men of fame in the Trojan War. According to the \"Iliad\" (books XII, XIV, XXII), in the Trojan War Deiphobus, along with his brother Helenus, led a group of soldiers at the siege of the newly constructed Argive wall and killed many, and wounded the Achaean hero Meriones. As Hector was fleeing Achilles, Athena took the shape of Deiphobus and goaded Hector to", "title": "Deiphobus" }, { "docid": "864614", "text": "Deiphobus In Greek mythology, Deiphobus (Ancient Greek: Δηίφοβος, \"Deiphobos\") was a son of Priam and Hecuba. He was a prince of Troy, and the greatest of Priam's sons after Hector and Paris. Deiphobus killed four men of fame in the Trojan War. According to the \"Iliad\" (books XII, XIV, XXII), in the Trojan War Deiphobus, along with his brother Helenus, led a group of soldiers at the siege of the newly constructed Argive wall and killed many, and wounded the Achaean hero Meriones. As Hector was fleeing Achilles, Athena took the shape of Deiphobus and goaded Hector to make a", "title": "Deiphobus" }, { "docid": "857164", "text": "Chryses In Greek mythology, Chryses (; \"Khrúsēs\") was a Trojan priest of Apollo at Chryse, near the city of Troy. According to a tradition mentioned by Eustathius of Thessalonica, Chryses and Briseus (father of Briseis) were brothers, sons of a man named Ardys (otherwise unknown). During the Trojan War (prior to the actions described in Homer's \"Iliad\"), Agamemnon took Chryses' daughter Chryseis (Astynome) from Moesia as a war prize and when Chryses attempted to ransom her, refused to return her. Chryses prayed to Apollo, and he, in order to defend the honor of his priest, sent a plague sweeping through", "title": "Chryses" }, { "docid": "11195308", "text": "to offer mostly in form of a sacrifice an act of submission. In his prayer to Apollo (Iliad, I, 445-457), Chryses, a priest of the god in a Trojan-allied town in the Iliad, washes his hands and lifts his hands prior to requesting fulfillment of his wish. He admits his lower status in relation to the all mighty god, “who set your power about Chryse and Killa the sacrosanct, who are lord in strength over Tenedos” (Iliad, I, 451-3); the gods’ ruling over humanity is accepted. Similar is Achilleus' prayer to Zeus. The great hero holds a ritual, purifies himself,", "title": "Homeric Prayer" }, { "docid": "14068905", "text": "Caroline Alexander (author) Caroline Alexander (born 1956 in Florida) is an author and journalist. She obtained a PhD in classics at Columbia University, New York. In 2015 she became the first woman to publish a full-length English translation of Homer's Iliad. She has written for \"The New Yorker\", \"Granta\", and \"National Geographic\". Her books include \"One Dry Season: In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley\" (1989), \"The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War\" (2009), \"The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty\" (2004), and \"The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition\"", "title": "Caroline Alexander (author)" }, { "docid": "1692228", "text": "with newly edited text and commentary. Quintus Smyrnaeus Quintus Smyrnaeus or Quintus of Smyrna, also known as Kointos Smyrnaios (), was a Greek epic poet whose \"Posthomerica\", following \"after Homer\" continues the narration of the Trojan War. He has traditionally been thought to have lived in the latter part of the 4th century AD, but early dates have also been proposed. His epic in fourteen books, known as the \"Posthomerica\", covers the period between the end of Homer's \"Iliad\" and the end of the Trojan War. Its primary importance is as the earliest surviving work to cover this period, the", "title": "Quintus Smyrnaeus" }, { "docid": "13190869", "text": "sex from their husbands to prevent them from going to war. The \"Iliad\", an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameters traditionally attributed to Homer, is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, and tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. The \"Odyssey\", also ascribed to Homer, is, in part, a sequel to the \"Iliad\", and is fundamental to the modern Western canon. The \"Aeneid\", written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, tells the legendary", "title": "Military in the media" } ]

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[ { "docid": "265538", "text": "Marshall Plan The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (nearly $ billion in US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. Replacing the previous Morgenthau Plan, it operated for four years beginning on April 3, 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, improve European prosperity, and prevent the spread of Communism. The Marshall Plan required a lessening of interstate barriers, a", "title": "Marshall Plan" }, { "docid": "12167841", "text": "also mean that it's better to have died a victim than bear the shame of having dropped the bombs . \"Basket of Bread\" was used as propaganda for the European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan from 1947 to 1951. The Marshall Plan, which earned General George C. Marshall the Nobel Peace Prize, is credited with rebuilding European nations by restoring agricultural and industrial production and thereby restoring food supply and economic infrastructure in the aftermath of World War II. In the 1940s, William Nichols, managing editor of \"This Week\", saw an artist's work in an art gallery.", "title": "Basket of Bread" }, { "docid": "6237079", "text": "to halt the rampant inflation. This type of action to help the German economy had been prohibited by the directive and its execution also led to the setting up of a Soviet controlled puppet state in the eastern zone, to maintain Soviet control there. In 1948, the Deutsche Mark replaced the occupation currency as the currency of the Western occupation zones, leading to their eventual economic recovery. In 1947, the Marshall Plan, initially known as the \"European Recovery Program\" was initiated. In the years 1947–1952, some $13 billion of economic and technical assistance—-equivalent to around $140 billion in 2017—were allocated", "title": "Reconstruction of Germany" }, { "docid": "471289", "text": "Department that Chiang's success was vital to American interests, insisting that U.S. troops not become involved. After Marshall's return to the U.S. in early 1947, Truman appointed Marshall Secretary of State. He became the spokesman for the State Department's ambitious plans to rebuild Europe. On June 5, 1947 in a speech at Harvard University, he outlined the American proposal. The European Recovery Program, as it was formally known, became known as the Marshall Plan. Clark Clifford had suggested to Truman that the plan be called the Truman Plan, but Truman immediately dismissed that idea and insisted that it be called", "title": "George Marshall" }, { "docid": "8781104", "text": "in Southeast Asia, with the People's Republic of China, as the Chinese Communist Party emerged victorious from the Chinese Civil War in 1949. At the end of the war, millions of people were dead and millions more homeless, the European economy had collapsed, and much of the European industrial infrastructure had been destroyed. The Soviet Union, too, had been heavily affected. In response, in 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall devised the \"European Recovery Program\", which became known as the Marshall Plan. Under the plan, during 1948–1952 the United States government allocated US$13 billion (US$ billion in 2018 dollars)", "title": "Aftermath of World War II" }, { "docid": "4427294", "text": "of the Federal Reserve System (1940–1942). During World War II, he served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). From 1945 to 1947 he was Chief of the Division of Economic Affairs of Germany and Austria at the United States Department of State. Kindleberger was a leading architect of the Marshall Plan. In 1945–1947 he served at the Department of State as Acting Director of the Office of Economic Security Policy, and briefly from 1947-48 as counselor for the European Recovery Program. He described his around-the-clock work to develop and launch the Marshall Plan with singular passion in a 1973", "title": "Charles P. Kindleberger" }, { "docid": "1978752", "text": "JCS 1779, which instead stressed that \"[a]n orderly, prosperous Europe requires the economic contributions of a stable and productive Germany\". The most notable example of this change of policy was a plan established by US Secretary of State George Marshall, the \"European Recovery Program\", better known as the Marshall Plan, which in the form of loans instead of the free aid received by other recipients was extended to also include West Germany. A Handbook for Military Government in Germany was ready in August 1944: it advocated a quick restoration of normal life for the German people and reconstruction of Germany.", "title": "Morgenthau Plan" }, { "docid": "20409910", "text": "crucial in passing the Marshall Plan.\" Committee for the Marshall Plan The Committee for the Marshall Plan, also known as Citizens' Committee for the Marshall Plan to Aid European Recovery, was a short-term organization established to promote passage of the European Recovery Program known as the Marshall Plan – which \"fronted for a State Department legally barred from engaging in propaganda.\" The committee disbanded not long after April 3, 1948, when U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan into law, which granted $5 billion in aid to 16 European nations. Writing for the Marshall Foundation, History Professor Emeritus", "title": "Committee for the Marshall Plan" }, { "docid": "20409904", "text": "Committee for the Marshall Plan The Committee for the Marshall Plan, also known as Citizens' Committee for the Marshall Plan to Aid European Recovery, was a short-term organization established to promote passage of the European Recovery Program known as the Marshall Plan – which \"fronted for a State Department legally barred from engaging in propaganda.\" The committee disbanded not long after April 3, 1948, when U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan into law, which granted $5 billion in aid to 16 European nations. Writing for the Marshall Foundation, History Professor Emeritus explained that postwar anti-Communism, pullback to", "title": "Committee for the Marshall Plan" }, { "docid": "18534210", "text": "joined the Allies. The first move was the Franco-British alliance realized in the Dunkirk Treaty in March 1947. The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American initiative 1948–1951 to aid Europe, in which the United States gave away $17 billion (approximately $160 billion in current dollar value) in economic support to help rebuild European economies and foster European unity in the face of Soviet threats. France received $2.3 billion about 18% of the Marshall total. This allowed France to make heavy purchases of food and machinery from the United States. Counting other programs, the U.S. government", "title": "History of French foreign relations" }, { "docid": "2501430", "text": "in Europe, including the Marshall Plan, or European Recovery Program, and NATO, a 1949 military alliance between the U.S. and Western European nations. Because containment required detailed information about Communist moves, the government relied increasingly on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Established by the National Security Act of 1947, the CIA conducted espionage in foreign lands, some of it visible, more of it secret. Truman approved a classified statement of containment policy called NSC 20/4 in November 1948, the first comprehensive statement of security policy ever created by the United States. The Soviet Union's first nuclear test in 1949 prompted", "title": "Containment" }, { "docid": "11091338", "text": "Congress promptly approved over US$5 billion for the first year of the European Recovery Program. Until the Czech coup, the emphasis in Washington had been on economic containment of Communism, primarily through the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and a heavy reliance on atomic power as a shield to support it. President Harry S. Truman understood that in 1946 and 1947 the American people were not prepared for a massive conventional arms buildup or a confrontation with the Soviet Union. He was reluctant to increase the military budget dramatically and instead chose a gradual and balanced buildup. Expecting to", "title": "1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état" }, { "docid": "4417748", "text": "two reservoirs in the Kaprun Valley. Planning was discontinued during the Great Depression and was not resumed until the Austrian \"Anschluss\" to Nazi Germany in 1938. Commanded by Hermann Göring, construction began during World War II using prisoners of war from Belgium and other occupied countries and Jewish forced labourers. The inhumane conditions were depicted by Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek in her 2003 play \"Das Werk\". Construction stopped in 1942/43, and was restarted after the war by Allied-occupied Austria from 1947. Built with Bucyrus equipment and massive help from the Marshall Plan European Recovery Program, the power plant became an", "title": "Kaprun" }, { "docid": "5235788", "text": "currency relative to the dollar, leading some economists to argue that Bretton Woods \"dethroned\" gold as the default asset. While Bretton Woods institutionalized the dollar's importance following the war, Europe and Asia faced dollar shortages. The international community needed dollars to finance imports from the United States to rebuild what was lost in the war. In 1948 Congress passed the European Recovery Program - generally known as the Marshall Plan – giving dollars to European countries to purchase imports needed to rebuild their economies. The plan helped European countries by providing them dollars to purchase the imports needed to produce", "title": "History of the United States dollar" }, { "docid": "4461241", "text": "The beginning of modern development aid is rooted in the context of Post-World War II and the Cold War. Launched as a large-scale aid program by the United States in 1948, the European Recovery Program, or Marshall Plan, was concerned with strengthening the ties to the West European states to contain the influence of the USSR. Implemented by the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA), the Marshall Plan also expanded its reconstruction finance to strategic parts of the Middle East and Asia. The rationale was well summarized in the 'Point Four Program', in which United States president Harry Truman stated the anti-communist", "title": "Development aid" }, { "docid": "265542", "text": "Harry S. Truman as President. The Plan was largely the creation of State Department officials, especially William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan, with help from the Brookings Institution, as requested by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Marshall spoke of an urgent need to help the European recovery in his address at Harvard University in June 1947. The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to aid in the economic recovery of nations after WWII and to reduce the influence of Communist parties within them. To combat the effects of the Marshall Plan, the USSR", "title": "Marshall Plan" }, { "docid": "19392596", "text": "2019) over a four-year period. From the viewpoint of today, one of the most tangible result from the activities of the CEEC was the establishment in 1948 of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) to administer the Marshall plan from the European perspective. The OEEC is the precursor to today's Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). On 5 June 1947, George C. Marshall, at the time Secretary of State of the United States of America, gave an address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he proposed a plan to aid European recovery after the events of World", "title": "Committee of European Economic Co-operation" }, { "docid": "7330620", "text": "sense that it draws on the part of the German tradition that envisages some state role in the economy and a cautious attitude toward investment and risk-taking. It is dynamic in the sense that it is directed toward growth—even if that growth may be slow and steady rather than spectacular. It tries to combine the virtues of a market system with the virtues of a social welfare system. The economic reforms and the new West German system received powerful support from a number of sources: investment funds under the European Recovery Program, more commonly known as the Marshall Plan; the", "title": "Economic history of Germany" }, { "docid": "19392595", "text": "Committee of European Economic Co-operation The Committee of European Economic Co-operation (CEEC) was a joint European conference to determine the priorities for the recovery of the European economy after World War II, and to assist in the administration of the Marshall Plan. The committee, consisting of representatives from 16 European nations, met from 12 July to 22 September 1947 in Paris, France. The conference resulted in a request from those nations of Europe that participated in the deliberations of the committee, which did not include the Soviet Union and her satellite states, for a total of US$22.4 billion ( in", "title": "Committee of European Economic Co-operation" }, { "docid": "8647630", "text": "problems in Europe and make recommendation but was dissolved at the Potsdam Conference In June 1945, Strang became political adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of British forces in Germany, Bernard Montgomery. Strang again returned to the Foreign Office in 1947 and served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the German section from 1947 to 1949 and as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1949 to 1953. The six years Strang served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State saw the gradual recovery of Europe through the Marshall Plan, the establishment of the Western European Union and NATO and the breaking of", "title": "William Strang, 1st Baron Strang" }, { "docid": "265543", "text": "developed its own economic plan, known as the Molotov Plan, in spite of the fact that large amounts of resources from the Eastern Bloc countries to the USSR were paid as reparations, for countries participating in the Axis Power during the war. The phrase \"equivalent of the Marshall Plan\" is often used to describe a proposed large-scale economic rescue program. The reconstruction plan, developed at a meeting of the participating European states, was drafted on June 5, 1947. It offered the same aid to the Soviet Union and its allies, but they refused to accept it, as doing so would", "title": "Marshall Plan" }, { "docid": "844016", "text": "in American foreign policy that became known as the Truman Doctrine. Acheson designed the economic aid program to Europe that became known as the Marshall Plan. Acheson believed the best way to contain Stalin's Communism and prevent future European conflict was to restore economic prosperity to Western Europe, to encourage interstate cooperation there, and to help the U.S. economy by making its trading partners richer. On June 30, 1947 Acheson received the Medal for Merit from President Truman. In 1949, Acheson was appointed Secretary of State. In this position he built a working framework for containment, first formulated by George", "title": "Dean Acheson" }, { "docid": "265621", "text": "The Marshall Plan money was in the form of grants from the U.S. Treasury that did not have to be repaid. The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation took the leading role in allocating funds, and the OEEC arranged for the transfer of the goods. The American supplier was paid in dollars, which were credited against the appropriate European Recovery Program funds. The European recipient, however, was not given the goods as a gift but had to pay for them (usually on credit) in local currency. These payments were kept by the European government involved in a special counterpart fund. This", "title": "Marshall Plan" }, { "docid": "20409905", "text": "American isolationism, and general conservative backlash led U.S. Republican Party politicians like U.S. Representatives Howard Buffett (father of billionaire Warren Buffett) of Nebraska and Fred Busby of Illinois to oppose what Buffett called \"Operation Rathole\" (the Marshall Plan). The Citizens' Committee for the Marshall Plan to Aid European Recovery formed in late October 1947. Its leaders were prominent liberal Eastern internationalists, members of the Council on Foreign Relations and Brookings Institution, a balance of bipartisan politicians, and labor leaders. Major donors included John D. Rockefeller. Awareness of the Marshall Plan was already rising from July to December 1947, but the", "title": "Committee for the Marshall Plan" } ]

[ { "docid": "19392604", "text": "Plan (officially called the European Recovery Program, or ERP) counted 16 European participating nations: Austria, Belgium, Denmark (with the Faroe Isles and Greenland), France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy (with San Marino), Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal (with Madeira and the Azores), Sweden, Switzerland (with Liechtenstein), Turkey, and the United Kingdom. On 12 July 1947, 48 diplomats representing those 16 nations started meetings at Quai d'Orsay in Paris, France, with an invitation to the Soviet Union and her satellite states to join the conference in progress. The Committee of European Economic Co-operation was also known as the \"Conference of Sixteen\", referencing its", "title": "Committee of European Economic Co-operation" }, { "docid": "13297627", "text": "Truman promulgated his containment doctrine in early 1947, a major component of which was to be aid to the world's poor countries in order to blunt the appeals of radicalism to their hungry peoples and to bolster their anti-communist political elements. In May 1947 the U.S. government granted Greece $300 million in military and economic aid. Turkey received $100 million. The U.S. government gave Greece $362 million in 1949, and U.S. aid to Greece generally remained over $100 million annually until 1998. The most well-known, and largest, United States aid program in the immediate post-war years was the European Recovery", "title": "United States foreign aid" }, { "docid": "18384318", "text": "proposed the assistance of the United States 'in the return of normal economic health in the world' on June 5, 1947. The same year, 16 countries gathered at Paris to answer to Marshall's proposal, from their debates a common program as well as a new Organisation, the OEEC (Organisation for European Economic Cooperation) founded on April 16, 1948, will emerge. The OEEC, precursor of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) is created mainly to coordinate efforts under the European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan) for the reconstruction of a continent devastated by war. The total economic assistance provided by", "title": "Institute for the Study of Economic and Social Development" }, { "docid": "15908772", "text": "association was established in 1952. Small towns and cities alike sponsor cultural festivals as a way to attract tourism, with about 400 in Europe alone, including the Edinburgh International Festival. The rapid growth of festival events since the 1980s has put pressure on the towns and cities that compete for public funding and competition for better known performers has raised their prices. The association has more than seventy members. The oldest and best known member festival is the Edinburgh International Festival, which began in 1947. Its annual program features classical music, opera, theater and dance. International Festival Wratislavia Cantans is", "title": "European Festivals Association" }, { "docid": "19392606", "text": "22 September 1947. Volume II, containing reports by technical sub-committees, was delivered in October 1947. During the deliberations of the committee, the CEEC agreed to several conditions laid out by the United States since the beginning of the conference, one of which was the formation of a continuing organization after the conclusion of the committee meetings. The CEEC would meet again on 15 March 1948 to plan a permanent organization to take on the tasks of jointly administering this aid and recovery program. This body would turn into the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) on 16 April 1948, which", "title": "Committee of European Economic Co-operation" }, { "docid": "6134612", "text": "Ivanoe Bonomi to join his provisional antifascist government. Sforza in 1946 became a member of the Italian Republican Party. As foreign minister (1947–1951) he supported the European Recovery Program and the settlement of Trieste. He was a convinced advocate and one of the designers of Italy's pro-European policy and with De Gasperi he led Italy into the Council of Europe. On 18 April 1951 he signed the Treaty instituting the European Coal and Steel Community, making Italy one of the founder members. Count Carlo Sforza died in Rome in 1952. On 4 March 1911 in Vienna, Sforza married a Belgian", "title": "Carlo Sforza" }, { "docid": "2391003", "text": "that they could not deal with the international monetary system's economic problems. The United States set up the European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan) to provide large-scale financial and economic aid for rebuilding Europe largely through grants rather than loans. Countries belonging to the Soviet bloc, e.g., Poland were invited to receive the grants, but finally they were forced by Stalin to reject the aid. In a speech at Harvard University on 5 June 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall stated: From 1947 until 1958, the U.S. deliberately encouraged an outflow of dollars, and, from 1950 on, the United States", "title": "Bretton Woods system" }, { "docid": "11296120", "text": "from the work of Robert Meyers' community reinforcement approach and family training (CRAFT) program, which differs significantly from Al-Anon in that it is a behavioral program which advocates that the CSO can have a positive impact on the substance abuser. The CRAFT program has been demonstrated in Meyers' research to be more effective than the Vernon Johnson-type intervention or Al-Anon, with less negative side-effects and better outcomes, whether or not the substance abuser enters treatment. A 2018 longitudinal study compared the self-reported success of SMART Recovery, LifeRing Secular Recovery, Women For Sobriety, and Alcoholics Anonymous. After normalizing for income and", "title": "SMART Recovery" }, { "docid": "17686260", "text": "acted and better scripted, better lighted and better directed would have made a program\"\" The magazine reviewed the third episode more positively, saying that \"\"after two scannings, Super Suds' Station WABD's Here's How has eliminated most of the bugs that were in its first presentation\"\". Methods to record live television did not exist until late 1947, and as such \"Here's How\" is now lost. Billboard magazine indicates that some of the commercials were done on film, and it is not known if copies of these commercials still exist. A behind-the-scenes still photograph of the series in production can be seen", "title": "Here's How (TV series)" }, { "docid": "1978749", "text": "poverty held back the general European recovery. The continued scarcity in Germany also led to considerable expenses for the occupying powers, which were obligated to try to make up the most important shortfalls through the GARIOA program (Government and Relief in Occupied Areas). In view of the continued poverty and famine in Europe, and with the onset of the Cold War which made it important not to lose all of Germany to the communists, it was apparent by 1947 that a change of policy was required. The change was heralded by \"Restatement of Policy on Germany\", a famous speech by", "title": "Morgenthau Plan" }, { "docid": "19392599", "text": "should consist of friendly aid in the drafting of a European program and of later support of such a program so far as it may be practical for us to do so. The program should be a joint one, agreed to by a number, if not all, European nations. On 14 June 1947, the French Foreign Minister, George Bidault, invited his British counterpart, Ernest Bevin, to Paris to discuss the proposal by the United States. Reports indicated that the Soviet Union had been contacted to gauge whether they were interested in participating in this meeting. On 17 June 1947, the", "title": "Committee of European Economic Co-operation" }, { "docid": "735920", "text": "and a calculation of its orbit. Another program in Canada, the Meteorite Observation and Recovery Project, ran from 1971 to 1985. It too recovered a single meteorite, \"Innisfree\", in 1977. Finally, observations by the European Fireball Network, a descendant of the original Czech program that recovered Pribram, led to the discovery and orbit calculations for the Neuschwanstein meteorite in 2002. On August 10, 1972, a meteor which became known as the 1972 Great Daylight Fireball was witnessed by many people as it moved north over the Rocky Mountains from the U.S. Southwest to Canada. It was filmed by a tourist", "title": "Impact event" }, { "docid": "6995145", "text": "processing systems or telephone switches, are often inherently better monitored, at least by the users themselves, than systems which experience periodic lulls in demand. An alternative metric is mean time between failures (MTBF). Recovery time (or estimated time of repair (ETR), also known as recovery time objective (RTO) is closely related to availability, that is the total time required for a planned outage or the time required to fully recover from an unplanned outage. Another metric is mean time to recovery (MTTR). Recovery time could be infinite with certain system designs and failures, i.e. full recovery is impossible. One such", "title": "High availability" }, { "docid": "2274516", "text": "spending were not reduced. Later that month, the House and Senate passed a compromise European Recovery Program a few minutes apart, Taft stating he was hopeful the Appropriations Committees would reduce the cash total by ten percent and leading an unsuccessful attempt to trim the bill by the aforementioned amount. In June 1949, Taft indicated his support for reducing funding for the European Recovery Program, saying the Economic Corporation Administration could stand a 10 percent cut in the funding approved by the House. In August 1950, Taft stated the United States had invited the attack in Korea, adding that the", "title": "Robert A. Taft" }, { "docid": "6245438", "text": "light housings. Bullbars are sometimes used as a platform for mounting spotlights and vehicle recovery winches. Radio antennas for equipment such as CB radios are often mounted onto bullbars, even though mounting on the roof provides better performance. Bullbars incorporating a winch are often known as \"winch bumpers\", especially in the UK where the sale of bullbars that do not meet European standards, as mentioned above, was banned since 2007. However, the legislation was not retrospective, and steel frontal protection systems can still be legal, for instance when incorporating a winch fitting. As a safety feature, traditional bars are built", "title": "Bullbar" }, { "docid": "20240472", "text": "the two programs resulted in the detection of Razorback Sucker movement between basins which was previously thought to not exist. Through both efforts endangered fish recovery may be possible within the Upper Colorado River Basin. This endangered species recovery program is one of the few programs developed as a \"Recovery Implementation Program\" and is a successful alternative legal approach to endangered species recovery. San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program The San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program or (SJRIP) is a river management project that was established to recover two endangered fish species in the San Juan River, the", "title": "San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program" }, { "docid": "265562", "text": "address by Secretary of State George Marshall was planned. Marshall gave the address to the graduating class of Harvard University on June 5, 1947. Standing on the steps of Memorial Church in Harvard Yard, he offered American aid to promote European recovery and reconstruction. The speech described the dysfunction of the European economy and presented a rationale for US aid. The modern system of the division of labor upon which the exchange of products is based is in danger of breaking down. ... Aside from the demoralizing effect on the world at large and the possibilities of disturbances arising as", "title": "Marshall Plan" }, { "docid": "13995815", "text": "leadership and corporate stewardship\". \"To promote better business and society relations and improve long-term social and economic conditions by: Business Civic Leadership Center The Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) is a 501(c)3 affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Founded as the Center for Corporate Citizenship (CCC) in 1999, BCLC is focused on promoting corporate citizenship and developing partnerships among the private sector, government, and non-profit community. BCLC has four core programs - the Business & Society program, the Global Corporate Citizenship program, the Corporate Community Investment program, and the Disaster Assistance and Recovery program. BCLC also holds an annual", "title": "Business Civic Leadership Center" }, { "docid": "19724709", "text": "which is deemed unrecoverable. Enhanced oil recovery methods have been implemented in the Carabobo oil field to improve the low recovery factors. Along with microbial enhanced oil recovery, which involves using microorganisms as biosurfactants to reduce the viscosities of the extra heavy crudes, immiscible gas injection, polymer flooding, and in situ combustion, better known as fireflooding, have all been used to improve the recovery of oil in the field. The advancements in horizontal drilling techniques have led to the use of steam assisted gravity drainage in extra heavy oil reservoirs. Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) involves drilling two holes, one", "title": "Carabobo Field" }, { "docid": "7488414", "text": "2004, the U.S. FAA issued its first \"Airplane Upset Recovery Training Aid\". The second revision of that document was released in 2008 and is available at the FAA's website. New FAA rules are expected to be finalized in 2010, requiring specific training for pilots to recover from aircraft upset incidents. New training programs may be known under the term \"advanced maneuver – upset recovery training\" (AM-URT). In 2009, the Royal Aeronautical Society formed a new group of experts, who will form documentation to allow better simulations of aircraft upset conditions, and thus better training programs. Upset Prevention and Recovery Training", "title": "Aircraft upset" }, { "docid": "16241292", "text": "Foremost (software) Foremost is a forensic data recovery program for Linux used to recover files using their headers, footers, and data structures through a process known as file carving. Although written for law enforcement use, it is freely available and can be used as a general data recovery tool. Foremost was created in March 2001 to duplicate the functionality of the DOS program CarvThis for use on the Linux platform. Foremost was originally written by Special Agents Kris Kendall and Jesse Kornblum of the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations. In 2005, the program was modified by Nick", "title": "Foremost (software)" }, { "docid": "11111862", "text": "Thriving Communities Program for remote Indigenous communities and schools. Based in Western Australia, E.O.N.’s Thriving Communities Program is an early intervention, nutrition-based healthy lifestyle and disease prevention program focused on young Indigenous Australians and their families. P.T.A. also works in partnership with Phoenix Australia – Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, leading an international consortium of mental health researchers to develop a ground-breaking evidence-based recovery program for survivors of natural and man-mad disasters. Known as interPAR, this new program will allow communities, health services, and governments to access a recovery tool kit at any time, and at no cost, to", "title": "The Prince's Charities" }, { "docid": "265553", "text": "revalued old currency and deposits and introduced new currency. Taxes were also reduced and Germany prepared to remove economic barriers. During the first three years of occupation of Germany, the UK and US vigorously pursued a military disarmament program in Germany, partly by removal of equipment but mainly through an import embargo on raw materials, part of the Morgenthau Plan approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Nicholas Balabkins concludes that \"as long as German industrial capacity was kept idle the economic recovery of Europe was delayed.\" By July 1947 Washington realized that economic recovery in Europe could not go forward", "title": "Marshall Plan" }, { "docid": "13028704", "text": "Abraham Low Self-Help Systems Abraham Low Self-Help Systems (ALSHS) is a non-profit organization formed from the merger of Recovery International and the Abraham Low Institute. ALSHS facilitates the estimated 600 worldwide Recovery International meetings and all projects formerly run by the Abraham Low Institute including the Power to Change program. The organization is named after Abraham Low, founder of the mental health self-help organization now known as Recovery International. Recovery, Inc., often referred to simply as Recovery, was officially formed November 7, 1937, by neuropsychiatrist Abraham Low in Chicago, Illinois. Low created the organization to facilitate peer support self-help groups", "title": "Abraham Low Self-Help Systems" }, { "docid": "16572742", "text": "in response to increased lactate production from exercise, enhancing the brain function and recovery\". This exercise based program could potentially be used in conjunction with aerobic therapy to better improve concussion symptoms during the recovery process. Wu, Yi-Ning, \"Stable recovery after aerobic exercise with limb blood flow restriction and cooling in individuals with post-concussion syndrome\", Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America, p. 437-54. 2016.</ref>== See also As of 2011, all 32 NFL teams are required to have at least one Physical Therapist on staff. Physical Therapist can help with current and former NFL players that have experienced a", "title": "Concussions in American football" }, { "docid": "265927", "text": "accurate orbit for a recovered meteorite. Following the Pribram fall, other nations established automated observing programs aimed at studying infalling meteorites. One of these was the \"Prairie Network\", operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1963 to 1975 in the midwestern US. This program also observed a meteorite fall, the \"Lost City\" chondrite, allowing its recovery and a calculation of its orbit. Another program in Canada, the Meteorite Observation and Recovery Project, ran from 1971 to 1985. It too recovered a single meteorite, \"Innisfree\", in 1977. Finally, observations by the European Fireball Network, a descendant of the original Czech program", "title": "Meteorite" }, { "docid": "9444363", "text": "to obtain services from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. He has worked at the Center for Investigative Reporting since 2012, when it merged with The Bay Citizen, a non-profit media outlet that produced the Bay Area pages of \"The New York Times\". Before joining The Bay Citizen in October 2010, Glantz spent a year at New America Media, the ethnic media newswire, when he covered the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (better known as the stimulus). At New America Media, Glantz also administered a national fellowship program for ethnic media journalists covering the stimulus and conducted investigative journalism", "title": "Aaron Glantz" }, { "docid": "16275671", "text": "includes recovery management strategies from the federal to county level, also known as intergovernmental management of a disaster. The NCEOP understands that the success of recovery depends on the collaboration of agencies and organizations involved. This state plan was a coordinated effort to better ensure each organization knew the part they would need to play during the time of a hurricane. In the first appendix of the plan there is an outline dedicated to the proposed recovery actions that should take place. The first step was noted to begin determining the need for volunteers, goods, and services. The remaining notions", "title": "Hurricane recovery in North Carolina" }, { "docid": "12551724", "text": "July 26, 2012 the ECB’s president Mario Draghi launched the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) Program, which led to a significant increase in the value of sovereign bonds issued by European periphery countries. The regained stability of the European banking sector has not fully transferred into economic growth. The slow recovery is explained by bad credit allocations by zombie banks. New restrictions imposed on European banks by the European Union, which took effect from January 2016, are meant to protect taxpayers from picking up the bill for rescuing banks as happened during the financial crisis. After the 2008 crisis rigorous stress", "title": "Zombie bank" }, { "docid": "19152149", "text": "of the \"self-projects\" of inmate graduates of Louisiana State Penitentiary's (\"Angola's\") unique prison seminary program. Positive criminology Positive criminology is based on the perspective that integration and positive life influences that help individuals develop personally and socially will lead to a reduced risk of criminal behavior and better recovery of offenders. Integration works in three levels: inter-personal, intra-personal and spiritual . Positive influences include participation in recovery programs, such as those for drug and alcohol abuse. Factors that can make growth difficult include a long-standing pattern of criminal activity, serious adverse life events, and chronic mental health illness. The term", "title": "Positive criminology" }, { "docid": "20735060", "text": "available as a \"multinational force\" in accordance with article 42.3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). European Personnel Recovery Centre The European Personnel Recovery Centre (EPRC) is an intergovernmental military organisation that contributes to the development and harmonisation of policies and standards related to personnel recovery. The ERPC also provides support for education, training, exercises and operations. The EPRC was established on 8 July 2015 and is based at Poggio Renatico Air Base in Italy. The centre has seven participating states: Additionally, the EPRC has five partner states: The EPRC is not associated with the European Union Common Security", "title": "European Personnel Recovery Centre" }, { "docid": "6349225", "text": "also played a key role in the development of the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Rothbaum was president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Her term ended in late 2005. Barbara Rothbaum Barbara Rothbaum is a psychologist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a professor in the Psychiatry department and a pioneer in the treatment of anxiety-related disorders. Rothbaum is head of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program (TARP) at Emory as well as the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program. In the mid-1990s she founded a Virtual exposure therapy company called Virtually Better,", "title": "Barbara Rothbaum" }, { "docid": "6349224", "text": "Barbara Rothbaum Barbara Rothbaum is a psychologist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a professor in the Psychiatry department and a pioneer in the treatment of anxiety-related disorders. Rothbaum is head of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program (TARP) at Emory as well as the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program. In the mid-1990s she founded a Virtual exposure therapy company called Virtually Better, Inc. This company treats patients with anxiety disorders, addictions, pain, and the like using virtual reality instead of the actual place or scenario. It also allows the therapist to control the environment. She", "title": "Barbara Rothbaum" }, { "docid": "9627766", "text": "the European Spanish-language version of the movie \"Finding Nemo\", for which she received rave reviews. In 2018 she replaced Silvia Abril during the season 3 episode 14 in the TV program \"Cero en Historia\". Anabel Alonso Ana Isabel Alonso Gómez (born 11 November 1964 in Barakaldo, Biscay), better known as Anabel Alonso, is a Spanish comedy actress who has appeared in theatre plays, movies and television shows, including the popular sitcom \"7 Vidas\" and the movie \"Finding Nemo\" (as the voice of Dory). She also hosted several different television programs. Her best known role is arguably playing Diana Freire in", "title": "Anabel Alonso" }, { "docid": "16241295", "text": "NTFS, or FAT filesystems. Foremost can also be used via a computer to recover data from iPhones. Foremost (software) Foremost is a forensic data recovery program for Linux used to recover files using their headers, footers, and data structures through a process known as file carving. Although written for law enforcement use, it is freely available and can be used as a general data recovery tool. Foremost was created in March 2001 to duplicate the functionality of the DOS program CarvThis for use on the Linux platform. Foremost was originally written by Special Agents Kris Kendall and Jesse Kornblum of", "title": "Foremost (software)" }, { "docid": "16109602", "text": "and online, a \"location\" of its own which reaches 40,000+ people weekly. Notable ministries at Central include a successful chapter of \"Celebrate Recovery\", a faith-based recovery program for those struggling with addiction, Central is a non-denominational church. Wilhite is also the author of a number of books, including \"Torn\", \"Eyes Wide Open\", \"Uncensored Truth\", \"Uncensored Grace\", and \"Throw It Down\". In 2013, Wilhite released \"Hope on the Broken Road\" (Worthy Publishing, 2013, ), an elegantly designed, impulse gift book offers inspiration for those bogged down by circumstances of life, negative habits, dependencies, and even addictions. Jud Wilhite knows better than", "title": "Jud Wilhite" }, { "docid": "19392607", "text": "was the direct precursor of today's Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The report of the CEEC addressed the details on the European aid and recovery program in terms of internal production efforts, European economic, financial, and monetary stability, joint economic co-operation, import needs, and balance of payments. The goal of the program was to achieve the return of normalcy to the European economy by 1951, and therefore called for a four-year effort of increasing productivity of both the agricultural and industrial sectors, which had suffered significant war damage, estimated to be between 20 and 85 percent, depending on", "title": "Committee of European Economic Co-operation" }, { "docid": "953171", "text": "million in credit, 200,000 tons of grain, heavy machinery and factories. In July 1947, Stalin ordered these countries to pull out of the Paris Conference on the European Recovery Programme, which has been described as \"the moment of truth\" in the post–World War II division of Europe. Thereafter, Stalin sought stronger control over other Eastern Bloc countries, abandoning the prior appearance of democratic institutions. When it appeared that, in spite of heavy pressure, non-communist parties might receive in excess of 40% of the vote in the August 1947 Hungarian elections, repressions were instituted to liquidate any independent political forces. In", "title": "Eastern Bloc" }, { "docid": "20718776", "text": "throughout the United States. Ryan is an advisor to Rehab.com, a hub for people seeking information about drug and alcohol treatment centers. He spoke at a community forum entitled \"The Unforgettable Drug Program: The Cop and the Convict\", cosponsored by the local nonprofit group KidsMatter and the Naperville Police Department. He is an advocate for better treatment of people dealing with drug and alcohol use disorders. Ryan’s life story is detailed in his autobiography \"From Dope to Hope: A Man in Recovery\", published in 2017. The book introduces a man who lost everything to heroin and drug abuse and then", "title": "Tim Ryan (recovery advocate)" }, { "docid": "8781146", "text": "was done openly using tools such as the European Recovery Program, which encouraged European economic integration. The International Authority for the Ruhr, designed to keep German industry down and controlled, evolved into the European Coal and Steel Community, a founding pillar of the European Union. The United States also worked covertly to promote European integration, for example using the American Committee on United Europe to funnel funds to European federalist movements. In order to ensure that Western Europe could withstand the Soviet military threat, the Western European Union was founded in 1948 and NATO in 1949. The first NATO Secretary", "title": "Aftermath of World War II" }, { "docid": "15122974", "text": "on top of bounded model checker CBMC. There exist fault localization methods to find the bug location as these model checking tools return a long counter example trace and it is hard to find the exact faulty location. Dynamic program analysis is performed by running the program with sufficient test inputs to produce interesting behaviors. Safe Drive is a low overhead system for detecting and recovering from type safety violations in device drivers. With only 4% changes to the source code of Linux network drivers they were able to implement SafeDrive and give better protection and recovery to Linux kernel.", "title": "Device driver synthesis and verification" }, { "docid": "67997", "text": "European Commission for adopting the austerity measures and not hesitating to follow a tough reform program. In 2016, Moody's Investors Service changed its outlook on the Cypriot banking system to positive from stable, reflecting the view that the recovery will restore banks to profitability and improve asset quality. The quick economic recovery was driven by tourism, business services and increased consumer spending. Creditor confidence was also strengthened, allowing Bank of Cyprus to reduce its Emergency Liquidity Assistance to €2.0 billion (from €9.4 billion in 2013). Within the same period, Bank of Cyprus Chairman Josef Ackermann urged the European Union to", "title": "Economy of Cyprus" }, { "docid": "12732138", "text": "a US rule that proposed a \"barbarous\" dismantling of Germany. As president of the Alumni Association of Harvard University in June 1947 Laird Bell organized the commencement speeches where Secretary of State George Marshall launched the European Recovery Plan. (General Omar Bradley was the main speaker that day). In the spring of 1949, Bell joined Columbia President Dwight Eisenhower and a group of other notables, chaired by Allen Dulles, in The National Committee for Free Europe, Inc, a private organization which gave aid to intellectuals and political refugees in newly communist European countries. In 1956 he presided over Adlai Stevenson's", "title": "Laird Bell" }, { "docid": "2359043", "text": "an economic level with the lesser states of Central Europe, and which were now, increasingly, cut off from their traditional markets and suppliers in the rest of Europe. Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland had remained interested in Marshall aid despite the requirements for a convertible currency and market economies. These requirements, which would inevitably have resulted in stronger economic ties to free European markets than to the Soviet Union, were absolutely unacceptable to Stalin, who in July 1947, ordered these communist-dominated governments to pull out of the Paris Conference on the European Recovery Programme. This has been described as \"the moment", "title": "Comecon" }, { "docid": "2575988", "text": "but is complementary, to enable children to engage in their classroom program. An essential component of the Reading Recovery program is the training of the teachers who provide the tutorial instruction. Reading Recovery teachers learn to observe, analyse, and interpret the reading and writing behaviours of individual students and to design and implement an individual program to meet each student's needs. Just as the Reading Recovery children engage in learning through social interaction with the teacher, Reading Recovery teachers engage in learning through social interaction with their colleagues and mentors to construct a view of learning and teaching that supports", "title": "Reading Recovery" }, { "docid": "17279052", "text": "Raisman Program The Raisman Program (also known as Raisman Award), was a series of economic reforms programs enacted and established by Pakistan in 1951. Philosophical understanding of the program emerged in 1947 to provide economic distribution of total revenue, at parallel and perpendicular level, in the country. The program was announced by Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan in 1947, as part of his new economic policy to curbed the political discrepancies and economic preference. The civil servant, Sir Jeremy Raisman, in Prime Minister Ali Khan's government presented his recommendation in 1947; therefore the program was named after Raisman. In December", "title": "Raisman Program" }, { "docid": "7847191", "text": "Mapudungun, the Mapuche language. There is a group of people who want to have their language back and are working on a reclamation program called ¨I am not ashamed of speaking Tehuelche\" (kkomshkn e wine awkkoi 'a'ien). The Tehuelche people have their own flag. Tehuelche people The Aónikenk people, better known by the exonym Tehuelche, are a group of indigenous peoples of Patagonia and the southern regions of Argentina and Chile. They are widely believed to be the basis for the \"Patagones\" described by European explorers. It is possible the stories of the early European explorers about the Patagones, a", "title": "Tehuelche people" }, { "docid": "19828423", "text": "The Bill Goodwin Show (radio program) The Bill Goodwin Show is an old-time radio situation comedy in the United States. It was broadcast on CBS April 26, 1947 - December 13, 1947. In October 1947, the program's name was changed to Leave It To Bill. \"The Bill Goodwin Show\" centered around \"a hotshot insurance salesman\" who was \"an eager-beaver civic-improvement volunteer, with genius for landing behind eight-balls.\" Bill Goodwin, usually known as an announcer, became an actor to star in this program. Other regulars heard on the program and their roles are indicated in the table below. Source: \"On the", "title": "The Bill Goodwin Show (radio program)" }, { "docid": "674487", "text": "not a form of therapy, counseling, or addiction treatment. Some assistance is free, but the program requires some \"very modest charges\" for goods and services including books, articles, and audio CDs to assist in the recovery process. Much of the material is offered for free via the Internet, and an interested person can begin the Rational Recovery program through the Internet. The Rational Recovery program is based on the premise that the addict both desires and is capable of permanent, planned abstinence. However, the Rational Recovery program recognizes that, paradoxically, the addict also wants to continue using. This is because", "title": "Rational Recovery" }, { "docid": "16564379", "text": "how efficiently the protein is removed from the solution into the foam state, the higher the percentage, the better the process is at recovering protein from solute into the foam state. Foam hydrodynamics as well as many of the variables that affect on the success of foaming have limited understanding. This complicates using mathematical calculations to predict protein recovery by foaming. However some trends have been determined; high recovery rates have been linked to high concentrations of protein in the initial solution, high gas flow rates, and high feed flow rates. Enrichment is also known to increase when foaming is", "title": "Continuous foam separation" }, { "docid": "165214", "text": "agricultural sector. In the western sectors, most of the industrial plants had minimal bomb damage and the Allies dismantled 5% of the industrial plants for reparations. However, deindustrialization became impractical and the U.S. instead called for a strong industrial base in Germany so it could stimulate European economic recovery. The U.S. shipped food in 1945–47 and made a $600 million loan in 1947 to rebuild German industry. By May 1946 the removal of machinery had ended, thanks to lobbying by the U.S. Army. The Truman administration finally realised that economic recovery in Europe could not go forward without the reconstruction", "title": "History of Germany" }, { "docid": "4832257", "text": "was sentenced to time served plus 12 months in rehab at the Pasadena Recovery Center, the same California rehab center where Celebrity Rehab took place, and three additional years of probation. The judge's sentence followed a plea to the court on her behalf from Drew Pinsky, where he stated that while the treatment she received while on the show was not adequate considering her level of addiction, he felt that she would have a better chance of recovery if she participated in a year-long treatment program. As part of her probation terms, instead of a possible ten-year prison stint, Sierra", "title": "Jessica Sierra" }, { "docid": "1876068", "text": "world's largest 12 step recovery program for drug addiction. Alcoholics Anonymous was the first 12-step program, and through it many with drug and drinking problems found sobriety. The Fourth Tradition gives each AA group the autonomy to include or exclude non-alcoholic addicts from \"closed\" meetings where only those with an expressed desire to quit drinking may attend. At \"open\" AA meetings, non-alcoholics are welcome. As early as 1944, AA's co-founder Bill Wilson discussed a separate fellowship for drug addicts. In 1947, NARCO (also called Addicts Anonymous) met weekly at the U.S. Public Health Service's treatment center (Federal Medical Center, Lexington)", "title": "Narcotics Anonymous" }, { "docid": "8936179", "text": "billion to helping residents of Louisiana affected by Hurricane Katrina or Rita get back into their homes as quickly and fairly as possible. This groundbreaking program, called the Road Home, represents the largest single housing recovery program in U.S. history. The program affords eligible homeowners up to $150,000 in compensation for their losses to get back into their homes. As of February 1, 2008 the final number of applications received was 185,106. Of those applications received 159,406 were deemed eligible. Louisiana Recovery Authority The Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) is the governmental body created in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and", "title": "Louisiana Recovery Authority" }, { "docid": "16144175", "text": "C. Brice Ratchford Charles Brice Ratchford (better known as C. Brice Ratchford) (1920 – December 18, 1997) was the 15th president of the University of Missouri System from 1970 to 1976. Ratchford was raised in Gastonia, North Carolina. He attended junior college at Brevard College. He received a bachelors and masters in agricultural economics from North Carolina State University (then called college) in 1942 and 1947 respectively. He received a doctorate in economics from Duke University in 1951. He helped build North Carolina's extension program. He came to the University of Missouri in 1959 as director of the Missouri Cooperative", "title": "C. Brice Ratchford" }, { "docid": "37123", "text": "Country Programme (CP) has two parts: food and nutritional assistance to people with HIV/AIDS, and a school feeding program for all primary schools in the Sahel region. The HIV/AIDS nutrition program aims to better the nutritional recovery of those who are living with HIV/AIDS and to protect at-risk children and orphans from malnutrition and food security. As part of the school feeding component, the Country Programme's goals are to increase enrollment and attendance in schools in the Sahel region, where enrollment rates are below the national average. Furthermore, the program aims at improving gender parity rates in these schools, by", "title": "Burkina Faso" }, { "docid": "13969500", "text": "National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA) was a US labor law and consumer law passed by the US Congress to authorize the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery. It also established a national public works program known as the Public Works Administration (PWA, not to be confused with the WPA of 1935). The National Recovery Administration (NRA) portion was widely hailed in 1933, but by 1934 business' opinion of the act had soured. By March 1934 the \"NRA was engaged chiefly in drawing up", "title": "National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933" }, { "docid": "13969540", "text": "slightly modified form, still exists today at . National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA) was a US labor law and consumer law passed by the US Congress to authorize the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery. It also established a national public works program known as the Public Works Administration (PWA, not to be confused with the WPA of 1935). The National Recovery Administration (NRA) portion was widely hailed in 1933, but by 1934 business' opinion of the act had soured. By March 1934", "title": "National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933" }, { "docid": "17049337", "text": "are leading the exercise. \"What's learned during these four days will help them better mitigate public suffering in the event the real thing ever happens,\" said Georgia Army Guard Col. Anthony Abbott, Shared Horizons 2012 exercise director. \"In addition, the Georgians will be equipped and trained to respond better to the questions civilian media will ask.\" <br> Georgia–Georgia National Guard Partnership The Georgia–Georgia National Guard Partnership is one of 22 European partnerships that make-up the U.S. European Command State Partnership Program and one of 65 worldwide partnerships that make-up the National Guard State Partnership Program. The Georgia National Guard has", "title": "Georgia–Georgia National Guard Partnership" }, { "docid": "11123133", "text": "Celebrate Recovery Celebrate Recovery is an American Christian twelve-step program designed to facilitate recovery from a wide variety of troubling behavior patterns. Celebrate Recovery is a recovery program aimed at all \"hurts, habits, and hang-ups\", including but not exclusive to: high anxiety; co-dependency; compulsive behaviors; sex addiction; financial dysfunction; drug and alcohol addictions; and eating disorders. Celebrate Recovery is one of the seven largest addiction recovery support group programs. Promotional materials assert that over 3.5 million people have participated in a Celebrate Recovery step study in over 29,000 churches Approximately two-thirds of these participants are in recovery for something other", "title": "Celebrate Recovery" }, { "docid": "19724694", "text": "extra heavy crudes, the oil produced from the Carabobo field has extremely high viscosities. Typical heavy crudes produced are around 10,000 cp, which is the viscosity of corn syrup. Recoveries in this area are naturally very low. As a result, emerging technologies have recently made recoveries high enough to produce the extra heavy crudes economically. Specifically, enhanced oil recovery methods have dramatically improved recoveries. Methods such as immiscible gas injection, polymer flooding, and \"in situ\" combustion, better known as fireflooding, have all seen limited success in the Carabobo field. However, steam injection and microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) have seen", "title": "Carabobo Field" }, { "docid": "20735058", "text": "European Personnel Recovery Centre The European Personnel Recovery Centre (EPRC) is an intergovernmental military organisation that contributes to the development and harmonisation of policies and standards related to personnel recovery. The ERPC also provides support for education, training, exercises and operations. The EPRC was established on 8 July 2015 and is based at Poggio Renatico Air Base in Italy. The centre has seven participating states: Additionally, the EPRC has five partner states: The EPRC is not associated with the European Union Common Security and Defence Policy, CSDP); it is for instance not a project of the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO)", "title": "European Personnel Recovery Centre" }, { "docid": "3359992", "text": "Bob Braun, Wally Phillips, Jean Shepherd, NBC sportscasters Cris Collinsworth and Al Michaels, \"Sportstalk\" host Bob Trumpy, Dale Sommers (better known as the \"Truckin' Bozo\" and whose son Steve Sommers continues to hold the overnight slot to the present day), J. R. Gach, Gary Burbank (comedy talk host, impressionist, and creator of the nationally syndicated Earl Pitts monologues), former program director and personality Darryl Parks and former Clear Channel radio CEO Randy Michaels. Rod Serling, the creator of the classic TV series \"The Twilight Zone\", worked for WLW from 1947 to 1948 producing historical documentaries, community profiles and commercials, before", "title": "WLW" }, { "docid": "17479191", "text": "York at the age of 95. Kay Armen Armenuhi Manoogian (); November 2, 1915 – October 3, 2011), better known by her stage name Kay Armen (), was an American Armenian singer popular during the 1940s and 1950s. Her career in show business spanned almost six decades, as she worked in radio, television, onstage and in film. She wrote multiple songs, performed in nightclubs and recorded many records. Armen was born in Chicago, Illinois. She first appeared on radio at WSM in Nashville, Tennessee, performing on 12 programs per week. In 1947, she had her own weekly 15-minute program, \"Kay", "title": "Kay Armen" }, { "docid": "11123136", "text": "name Celebrate Recovery is a registered trademark of John Baker, and the national Celebrate Recovery organization requires that groups using this name hold closely to a standardized format. They may not use resources outside of the Bible and authorized Celebrate Recovery curriculum materials. Group facilitators must be trained and agree to a list of expectations, including standardized guidelines at each meeting. Celebrate Recovery Celebrate Recovery is an American Christian twelve-step program designed to facilitate recovery from a wide variety of troubling behavior patterns. Celebrate Recovery is a recovery program aimed at all \"hurts, habits, and hang-ups\", including but not exclusive", "title": "Celebrate Recovery" }, { "docid": "2141638", "text": "Under the plan, which President Harry S. Truman signed on 3 April 1948, the US government gave to Western European countries over $13 billion (equivalent to $189.39 billion in 2016) to rebuild the economy of Europe. Later, the program led to the creation of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation. The plan's aim was to rebuild the democratic and economic systems of Europe and to counter perceived threats to Europe's balance of power, such as communist parties seizing control through revolutions or elections. The plan also stated that European prosperity was contingent upon German economic recovery. One month later, Truman", "title": "Cold War" }, { "docid": "19301793", "text": "Marguerite Fund The 2020 European Fund for Energy, Climate Change and Infrastructure, known as the Marguerite Fund, is a pan-European equity fund that invests in renewables, energy and transport. It is based in Luxembourg. The Marguerite Fund was established in 2010 by the European Investment Bank, Caisse des dépôts et consignations, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Instituto de Crédito Oficial, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau and Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski as part of the European Economic Recovery Plan. The Marguerite Fund has invested in the Butendiek Wind Farm off Germany, the Tychovo and the Kukinia wind farms in Poland,]]. the Thorntonbank Wind", "title": "Marguerite Fund" }, { "docid": "2363438", "text": "was far more functional, and socially far better adapted, than in the years immediately following his accident. A social recovery hypothesis suggests that Gage's work as a stagecoach driver in Chile fostered this recovery by providing daily structure which allowed him to regain lost social and personal skills. Gage was the first of five children born to Jesse Eaton Gage and Hannah Trussell (Swetland) Gage of Grafton County, New Hampshire. Little is known about his upbringing and education beyond that he was literate. Town doctor John Martyn Harlow described Gage as \"a perfectly healthy, strong and active young man, twenty-five", "title": "Phineas Gage" }, { "docid": "13444560", "text": "Better (talk show) Better, also known as The Better Show, is a syndicated lifestyle and celebrity focused daytime talk show that aired in syndication from 2007 to 2015. It aired weekdays on 160 stations across the United States. The program was produced and distributed by Meredith Corporation. \"The Better Show\" got its name from and is based on Meredith's flagship publication, \"Better Homes and Gardens\". The show also tapped its other magazine's expert's in home, shelter and parenting. This was not \"Better Homes and Gardens\" first foray into television; in the 1990s, the magazine presented a similar syndicated weekly program,", "title": "Better (talk show)" }, { "docid": "10517735", "text": "Ladimir Kwiatkowski Ladimir Kwiatkowski (July 13, 1928 - March 2, 1994), better known as Ladmo, co-hosted \"The Wallace and Ladmo Show\", a daily children's variety show broadcast on KPHO in Phoenix, Arizona. The program featured clowns, cartoons and short comedy skits. Kwiatkowski was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Walter and Florence Kwiatkowski. His father was a Cleveland police detective. He graduated from high school in 1947. In 1949 Kwiatkowski decided to attend Arizona State College in Tempe. He wanted to be a sports broadcaster. He played baseball with the ASU team and was considered by scouts from the Cleveland Indians.", "title": "Ladimir Kwiatkowski" }, { "docid": "17479189", "text": "Kay Armen Armenuhi Manoogian (); November 2, 1915 – October 3, 2011), better known by her stage name Kay Armen (), was an American Armenian singer popular during the 1940s and 1950s. Her career in show business spanned almost six decades, as she worked in radio, television, onstage and in film. She wrote multiple songs, performed in nightclubs and recorded many records. Armen was born in Chicago, Illinois. She first appeared on radio at WSM in Nashville, Tennessee, performing on 12 programs per week. In 1947, she had her own weekly 15-minute program, \"Kay Armen-Songs\", on NBC-Blue. She appeared in", "title": "Kay Armen" }, { "docid": "11296116", "text": "is based on scientific knowledge and is intended to evolve as scientific knowledge evolves. The program uses principles of motivational interviewing found in motivational enhancement therapy (MET) and techniques taken from cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), particularly in the version called rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), as well as scientifically validated research on treatment. The organization's program emphasizes four areas, called the 4-Point Program, in the process of recovery: Building Motivation, Coping with Urges, Problem Solving, and Lifestyle Balance. The \"SMART Toolbox\" is a collection of various MET, CBT and REBT methods, or \"tools\", which address the 4 Points. SMART Recovery can", "title": "SMART Recovery" }, { "docid": "12268634", "text": "(\"America's Fighting Twins\"); and the namesake characters from the humor feature \"General and the Corporal\". As with many comics characters of the time, the monster found himself in the European theater of World War II fighting Nazis. Briefer's better-known version of the Frankenstein monster, however, developed upon the monster's return from the war, in \"Frankenstein\" #1 (undated, 1945). Like many returning veterans, Frankenstein settled into small-town life, becoming a genial neighbor who \"began having delightful adventures with Dracula, the Wolfman and other horrific creatures. The only two times he was featured on the \"Prize Comics\" cover (both in 1947), he", "title": "Frankenstein (Prize Comics)" }, { "docid": "8764581", "text": "introduced sportfish serve largely as a scapegoat. Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program The Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program is a multi-agency partnership to recover endangered fish in the upper Colorado River basin while water development proceeds in compliance with state and federal law (e.g., state water law, the Endangered Species Act, and interstate compacts). Four species of fish native to the Colorado River basin are in danger of becoming extinct: the Colorado pikeminnow, the razorback sucker, the bonytail, and the humpback chub. The goal of the program is to stem further reductions in numbers of these", "title": "Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program" }, { "docid": "12363302", "text": "the pioneer publication \"A Better World for All\" published jointly by the UN, World Bank, IMF and OECD and subsequently, at the end of the decade, to the UN's Millennium Development Goals. When the UN organised a peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone, (UNAMSIL), Doss became Deputy Special Representative if the mission and served concurrently as United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative where he provided oversight for the reintegration of war affected populations, UN support for the disarmament program, restoration of state authority, governance reform and the national recovery program. His appointment, following on the recommendations of the Brahimi", "title": "Alan Doss" }, { "docid": "19034570", "text": "into communities, in the sense of finding a partition that is correlated with the true partition significantly better than a random guess. In exact recovery, the goal is to recover the latent partition into communities exactly. The community sizes and probability matrix may be known or unknown. Stochastic block models exhibit a sharp threshold effect reminiscent of percolation thresholds. Suppose that we allow the size formula_1 of the graph to grow, keeping the community sizes in fixed proportions. If the probability matrix remains fixed, tasks such as partial and exact recovery become feasible for all non-degenerate parameter settings. However, if", "title": "Stochastic block model" }, { "docid": "14642100", "text": "Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre The Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre, or AARC, is a controversial drug rehabilitation centre for adolescents located in Calgary, Alberta. AARC specializes in treating young people suffering from drug addiction and alcoholism, and takes in patients who have been thought of as being too far-gone for recovery. The AARC program is a multifaceted drug treatment program that uses twelve-step recovery processes, positive peer pressure, family and group therapy. An independent survey found that AARC had an 80% success rate, and that former addicts can permanently abstain from using drugs or alcohol following treatment at the centre. AARC", "title": "Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre" } ]

[ "Theodore Roosevelt" ]

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[ { "docid": "10062326", "text": "coffee he drank was \"good to the last drop\" was used as the advertising slogan for Maxwell House coffee, which was served at and named after the hotel. The coffee brand is still in operation, and is now owned by Kraft Heinz. After being used for some years as a residential hotel, the Maxwell House Hotel was destroyed by fire on Christmas Night 1961. A newer hotel has been named for the old Maxwell House, the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel. The SunTrust Building was built on the site of the original hotel at 201 4th Avenue North. Maxwell House Hotel", "title": "Maxwell House Hotel" }, { "docid": "3121372", "text": "Maxwell House Maxwell House is a US brand of coffee manufactured by a like-named division of Kraft Heinz. Introduced in 1892 by wholesale grocer Joel Owsley Cheek (1852-1935), it was named in honor of the now-defunct Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, which was its first major customer. For nearly 100 years, until the late 1980s, it was the highest-selling coffee in the United States. The company's slogan is \"Good to the last drop\", which is often incorporated into their logo and is printed on their labels. In 1884 Joel Cheek moved to Nashville and met Roger Nolley Smith, a", "title": "Maxwell House" }, { "docid": "3121374", "text": "from his job as a coffee broker and, with partner Maxwell Colbourne, formed a wholesale grocery distributor known as the Nashville Coffee and Manufacturing Company. They specialized in coffee, with Maxwell House Coffee, as it came to be known, as the central brand. Later, the Nashville Coffee and Manufacturing Company was renamed as the Cheek-Neal Coffee Company. Over the next several years, the Maxwell House Coffee brand became a well-respected name that set it apart from the competition. In 1915 Cheek-Neal began using a \"Good to the last drop\" slogan to advertise their Maxwell House Coffee. For several years, the", "title": "Maxwell House" }, { "docid": "20708769", "text": "shop in Downtown Nashville in 1901. They persuaded the owners of the Maxwell House Hotel to serve their coffee, and they use the name of the hotel as their coffee brand. They began using the slogan \"good to the last drop\" in 1917. In 1928, Cheek sold the brand to Postum Co. for $42 million; it was subsequently purchased by General Foods. However, he was featured in Maxwell House advertisements until his death. Cheek \"gave away much of his fortune to educational institutions, civic improvement campaigns, recognized charities and other worthy causes.\" Cheek married Minnie Ritchey in 1873. He had", "title": "Joel Owsley Cheek" }, { "docid": "3121386", "text": "playing the Wicked Witch of the West in the popular 1939 film \"The Wizard of Oz,\" as Cora, the general store owner who proudly announced that Maxwell House was the only brand she sold. Maxwell House was also a well-known sponsor of the Burns and Allen radio show, during which Maxwell House spots were incorporated into the plots of the radio scripts. Along with television advertising, Maxwell House used various print campaigns, always featuring the tagline \"good to the last drop.\" The publication of its Passover Haggadah by the Joseph Jacobs Advertising Agency, beginning in 1932, made Maxwell House a", "title": "Maxwell House" }, { "docid": "19461038", "text": "\"Good to the Last Drop\" logo and the words \"Maxwell House Haggadah\" on a plain blue background, became a cultural icon. American Jews who remember using the Maxwell House Haggadah in their childhood homes consider it a tradition, continuing to use it at their own families' Passover Seders. In 1997 the Hallmark company reproduced the familiar blue cover of the Maxwell House Haggadahs on one of its Passover greeting cards, which described them as \"cultural iconsprized family possessions that have been handed down through the generations and are a warm reminder of the past\". The Maxwell House Haggadah is \"the", "title": "Maxwell House Haggadah" }, { "docid": "3121384", "text": "States.) Canadian advertising of Maxwell House has differed. In the early 1980s, actor Ricardo Montalban promoted Maxwell House in commercials with the theme \"Morning and Maxwell House.\" In 1985, the company switched to more upbeat 'Me and Max' campaigns with the common tagline \"Hugga Mugga Max\" and \"Good to the last drop.\" Maxwell House was the long-time sponsor of the early television series \"Mama,\" based on the play and film \"I Remember Mama.\" It starred Peggy Wood as the matriarch of a Norwegian-American family. It ran on the CBS network from 1949 to 1957. This was perhaps the first example", "title": "Maxwell House" }, { "docid": "20715138", "text": "everyday\"/ \"This my last mistake\"/ And I'm like OK, OK, OK/ OK, people change/ It don't matter to me/ I'ma be real good/ And I feel OK, OK, OK, OK\". Michael Love Michael from \"Papermag\" listed \"Okokok\" as one of the \"10 songs you need to start your weekend right\" saying \"the breezy pop track, is full of catchy tropical sounds and sweetly detached vocals from Burns that will have you dreaming of a drop-top summer.\" Mike Wass from Idolator described the track as \"an explosion of pop hooks with hip-hop-influenced production\". The video for \"Okokok\" was directed by Lucy", "title": "Okokok" }, { "docid": "1836453", "text": "featured shortened versions of the slogans on one, two, or three signs — the exact count is not recorded. The puns include a play on the Maxwell House Coffee slogan, standard puns, and yet another reference to the \"H\" joke: The war years found the company recycling a lot of their old signs, with new ones mostly focusing on World War II propaganda: 1963 was the last year for the signs, most of which were repeats, including the final slogan, which had first appeared in 1953: Possibly the ultimate in self-referencing signs, leaving out the product name. This one also", "title": "Burma-Shave" }, { "docid": "7062275", "text": "proprietor thereof, had served a special blend of coffee at the hotel's restaurant, and after drinking a cup of this coffee, Roosevelt proclaimed it \"good to the last drop!\" Cheek subsequently sold the blend to General Foods and to this day, Maxwell House coffee is enjoyed by millions. In 1913 Nashville was the last of several major cities in Tennessee to adopt a commission form of government, with all members of a small commission elected at-large. Compared to single-member districts, this change resulted in further limiting the political power of any African Americans who were able to vote, as their", "title": "History of Nashville, Tennessee" }, { "docid": "3121376", "text": "Corporation, and did not come from a Roosevelt remark overheard by Cheek-Neal. The phrase remains a registered trademark of the product and appears on its logo. The veracity of the Roosevelt connection to the phrase has never been historically established. In the local press coverage of Roosevelt's October 21 visit, a story concerning Roosevelt and the cup of coffee he drank features a quote that does not resemble the slogan. The Maxwell House Company claimed in its advertising that the Roosevelt story was true. In 2009, Maxwell House ran a commercial featuring Roosevelt repriser Joe Wiegand, who tells the \"Last", "title": "Maxwell House" }, { "docid": "8710044", "text": "made to the Arizona Republic, KKFR's then-PD Bruce St. James who joined KZON as its new PD in January 2010. said, \"What are they going to do? Play more Hip Hop than us? Really, I think we'll be ok.\". On December 1, 2008, KKFR dropped \"Where Hip Hop Lives\" in favor of the slogan \"The Valley's #1 Hit Music Station\" but retained its Rhythmic direction. Ironically, KZON adopted the latter slogan in November, a month before KKFR changed theirs. This move gave Phoenix two radio stations with the same format and slogan; KKFR decided to drop the slogan after nearly", "title": "KKFR" }, { "docid": "1439844", "text": "\"bye\" as in \"OK, bye.\" In Indonesia, \"OK\" is also used as a slogan of national television station RCTI since the year 1994. In Pakistan, \"OK\" has become a part of Urdu and Punjabi languages. In Germany, \"OK\" is spelled as \"o.k.\" or \"O.K.\" or \"okay\". It may be pronounced as in English, but /ɔˈkeː/ or /oˈkeː/ are also common. The meaning ranges from acknowledgement to describing something neither good nor bad, same as in US/UK usage. In Maldivian Okay is used in different ways, often used to agree with something, more often used while departing from a gathering \"Okay", "title": "OK" }, { "docid": "11952681", "text": "\"The Fitzpatricks\", which also starred Clark Brandon, Jimmy McNichol and Helen Hunt. From 1984 to 1985, he played the role of Brent Davis on \"The Young and the Restless\". In 1986, he starred in a Garry Marshall financed teleplay called \"Four Stars\", alongside actress Julie Paris. The film was directed by \"Happy Days\" actress and talent manager Lynda Goodfriend. During this period, he made a number of national television commercials, including a \"Good to the Last Drop\" Maxwell House spot. He voiced a goblin in the film \"\" in 1992. Kramer died of melanoma in Los Angeles on June 20,", "title": "Bert Kramer" }, { "docid": "5538646", "text": "The Lemon Drop Kid The Lemon Drop Kid is a 1951 comedy film based on the short story of the same name by Damon Runyon, starring Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell. Although Sidney Lanfield is credited as the director, Frank Tashlin reportedly was hired, uncredited, to finish the film. The story had previously been adapted as a 1934 movie starring Lee Tracy, with actress Ann Sheridan in a bit part. William Frawley is featured in both versions. The song \"Silver Bells,\" sung by Hope and Maxwell, was introduced in this film. On October 19, 2010, the film was released on", "title": "The Lemon Drop Kid" }, { "docid": "4068919", "text": "Léon. The proto-feminists of the French Revolution are credited with inspiring feminist movements in the 19th century. Jacques Roux, a Roman Catholic priest, was the leader of the Enragés. Roux supported the common people and the Republic. He participated in peasant movements and endorsed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, to which he swore an oath on 16 January 1791. Roux claimed: \"I am ready to give every last drop of my blood to a Revolution that has already altered the fate of the human race by making men equal among themselves as they are all for all eternity before", "title": "Enragés" }, { "docid": "16275143", "text": "and became known especially for three products: coffee, meat, and whiskey. Nelson saw whiskey as the most profitable of his products, and began to concentrate solely on the production and bottling of his spirit. Among his more noteworthy sales techniques, it is known that Charles was one of the first to sell whiskey by the bottle rather than the jug or barrel. According to family records, Nelson encouraged his coffee delivery boy, Joel Cheek, to take his blend to the Maxwell House Hotel in downtown Nashville, where it later was famously proclaimed as “good to the last drop”. Nelson also", "title": "Charles Nelson (businessman)" }, { "docid": "19424817", "text": "opponent's inability to come back with anything that would be worthy of a response. An early occurrence was Eddie Murphy in 1983 in his standup show \"Delirious\". The first recorded mic drop was by Judy Garland on a 1965 episode of The Ed Sullivan show. The gesture then became widely popular from 2012 onwards. President Obama performed a mic drop in April 2012 on \"Late Night with Jimmy Fallon\", which has been credited with popularising the meme. At the White House Correspondents' Dinner on 30 April 2016, President Obama ended his speech with the words \"Obama out\", just as a", "title": "Mic drop" }, { "docid": "160957", "text": "be able to say \"OK Google\", with the browser initiating an audio-based search, with no button presses required. After having the answer presented, users can follow up with additional, contextual questions; an example include initially asking \"OK Google, will it be sunny in Santa Cruz this weekend?\", hearing a spoken answer, and reply with \"how far is it from here?\" An update to the Chrome browser with voice-search functionality rolled out a week later, though it required a button press on a microphone icon rather than \"OK Google\" voice activation. Google released a browser extension for the Chrome browser, named", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "5538654", "text": "the escaped women. The Kid and his still-loyal friends hold off the gangsters as the police initiate a raid. Moran and Oxford Charlie are arrested. The Kid assures the judge who sentenced him earlier that he will focus his attention on the home, which he will make a reality. Nellie's husband Henry, free on parole, is joyously reunited with his wife. The Lemon Drop Kid The Lemon Drop Kid is a 1951 comedy film based on the short story of the same name by Damon Runyon, starring Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell. Although Sidney Lanfield is credited as the director,", "title": "The Lemon Drop Kid" }, { "docid": "1144987", "text": "the architectural character of the city and open sight-lines to the river. Downtown, Frank Sinatra Park and Sinatra Drive honor the man most consider to be Hoboken's most famous son, while uptown the name Maxwell recalls the factory with its smell of roasting coffee wafting over town and its huge neon \"Good to the Last Drop\" sign, so long a part of the landscape. The midtown section is dominated by the serpentine rock outcropping atop of which sits Stevens Institute of Technology (which also owns some, as yet, undeveloped land on the river). At the foot of the cliff is", "title": "Hoboken, New Jersey" }, { "docid": "5597004", "text": "companies. At Google China, Lee helped establish the company in the market and oversaw its growth in the country. He was responsible for launching the Google.cn regional website, and strengthened the company's teams of engineers and scientists in the country. On September 4, 2009, Lee announced his resignation from Google. He said \"With a very strong leadership team in place, it seemed a very good moment for me to move to the next chapter in my career.\" Alan Eustace, senior Google vice-president for engineering, credited him with \"helping dramatically to improve the quality and range of services that we offer", "title": "Kai-Fu Lee" }, { "docid": "19947859", "text": "Pixar in February 1997 as a technician managing the large libraries of data and images for rendering A Bug's Life. She has since been credited for leading work in visual effects, technical direction, and graphics. Outside of Pixar, she mentors girls to get them interested in STEM through groups like Girls Who Code. She says yes to every talk which provides a platform to inspire and encourage girls to dreams and pursue it by getting into STEM fields. In fact, the made with code, which is an initiative launched by Google, was kick started with her inspiring keynote. In 2015,", "title": "Danielle Feinberg" }, { "docid": "11060703", "text": "the late 1950s, Brooks pursued a career as a singer-songwriter, adopting the name \"Joey Brooks\" (later changed to \"Joe Brooks\" or \"Joseph Brooks\") He released several records on the Canadian-American label as \"Joey Brooks\", and on Decca as \"Joey Brooks and the Baroque Folk\". When his singing career failed, he drifted into advertising and occasional songwriting work, although he sporadically released several more records throughout the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1960s, Brooks composed advertising jingles for clients including Pepsi (\"You've Got a Lot to Live\") and Maxwell House (\"Good to the Last Drop Feeling\"). He received numerous Clio Awards", "title": "Joseph Brooks (songwriter)" }, { "docid": "18635909", "text": "movement. Garza is credited with inspiring the slogan when, after the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, she posted on Facebook: \"Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter, Black Lives Matter\" which Cullors then shared with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Garza's organization Black Lives Matter was spurred on by the deaths of black people by police in recent media and racial disparities within the U.S. criminal justice system. She was also struck by the similarities of Trayvon Martin to her younger brother, feeling that it could have been him killed instead. Garza led the 2015 Freedom Ride", "title": "Alicia Garza" }, { "docid": "7369827", "text": "Winners Don't Use Drugs Winners Don't Use Drugs is an anti-drug slogan that was included in arcade games imported by the American Amusement Machine Association into North America for 11 years from 1989 to 2000. The slogan appears on a screen that is shown during a game's attract mode. The messages are credited to FBI Director William S. Sessions, whose name appears alongside the slogan. Sessions reached a deal with AAMA president Robert Fay through which 20 arcade manufacturers agreed to include the slogan in their games. The slogan made its official debut on January 10, 1989, when three major", "title": "Winners Don't Use Drugs" }, { "docid": "8144065", "text": "Maxwell calls President Kennedy (Meader) to see if he and Jackie (Naomi Brossart) would be interested in going to a party she was hosting that evening. The President, however, politely declines because he is too embarrassed to admit that he and the First Lady have not already made Saturday night plans themselves. Elsa Maxwell Elsa Maxwell (May 24, 1883 – November 1, 1963) was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day. Maxwell is credited with the introduction of the scavenger hunt and treasure hunt", "title": "Elsa Maxwell" }, { "docid": "12924129", "text": "wounded. George Plimpton, former decathlete Rafer Johnson, and former professional football player Rosey Grier are credited with wrestling Sirhan to the ground after he shot the senator. As Kennedy lay mortally wounded, Juan Romero cradled his head and placed a rosary in his hand. Kennedy asked Romero, \"Is everybody OK?\", and Romero responded, \"Yes, everybody's OK.\" Kennedy then turned away from Romero and said, \"Everything's going to be OK.\" After several minutes, medical attendants arrived and lifted the senator onto a stretcher, prompting him to whisper, \"Don't lift me\", which were his last words. He lost consciousness shortly thereafter. He", "title": "Robert F. Kennedy" }, { "docid": "18508116", "text": "W. Maxwell Cowan William Maxwell Cowan (27 September 1931 – 30 June 2002) was a South African neuroscientist known for his work on developmental plasticity and neural connectivity. He is credited with helping to contribute to the growth of modern neuroanatomy through his use of novel anterograde tracing techniques which fundamentally transformed the field in the 1970s. Cowan was vice-president and chief scientific officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1987 until his retirement in 2000. William Maxwell Cowan was born to Scottish parents in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 27 September 1931. In the 1920s, Cowan's family, who previously", "title": "W. Maxwell Cowan" }, { "docid": "6517448", "text": "exams. In South Africa a \"Beready Besharp Berocca\" campaign was launched. Long-running Outdoor (poster) campaigns in the United Kingdom with the slogan \"Stay sharp\". In 2008 a television advert was launched featuring people dancing using treadmills similar to OK Go's music video for the 2006 song \"Here It Goes Again\". The music is \"Living on the Ceiling\" by the British synthpop band Blancmange, taken from their 1982 album \"Happy Families\". In September 2010, a new advertising campaign featuring lumberjacks dancing on water has been launched, with the slogan \"You, but on a really good day.\" In March 2011 the Health", "title": "Berocca" }, { "docid": "9716331", "text": "Seacole House in London. He has made a good recovery and has returned to work, including broadcasting. Maxwell Hutchinson John Maxwell Hutchinson (born 3 December 1948) is an English architect, broadcaster, and Anglican deacon. He is a former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Hutchinson was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire to Frank Maxwell Hutchinson and his wife Elizabeth Ross (née Wright). Hutchinson was educated at two independent schools in Northamptonshire: at Wellingborough Preparatory School, a day school in the market town of Wellingborough, followed by Oundle School, a boarding independent school in the market town of Oundle.", "title": "Maxwell Hutchinson" }, { "docid": "1653421", "text": "and performed a promotional slogan for NBC's 1982–83 television season, entitled \"We're NBC, Just Watch Us Now\". He also performed slogans for CBS and ABC, and recorded commercials for Amtrak (singing the slogan, \"There's something about a train that's magic\") and in 1985, for Coca-Cola. Havens also did corporate commercial work for Maxwell House Coffee, as well as sang \"The Fabric of Our Lives\" theme for the cotton industry. In 1982, he appeared at the UK's Glastonbury Festival, closing the show on the Sunday night. In 1993, Havens performed at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. Among the selections was", "title": "Richie Havens" }, { "docid": "19424818", "text": "retired basketball star and former Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant had done at the end of his last game in April 14th, 2016, followed by a mic drop. In 2017, RM, the leader of South Korean boy band BTS, revealed that the track \"MIC Drop\" from their extended play \"\" was inspired by President Obama's speech. A figurative use also features in a promotional video for the Invictus Games featuring Obama and the British Royal Family. Google introduced a \"mic drop\" feature to Gmail on 1 April 2016 as an April Fools' Day joke, allowing users to send a GIF", "title": "Mic drop" }, { "docid": "2902697", "text": "as well. On April 12, 2017, Burger King released a commercial entitled \"Connected Whopper\", in which a store employee says that while he could not explain a Whopper in 15 seconds, he had discovered a different way to do so, after which he states \"OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?\". The dialogue was designed to trigger voice searches on Android devices and Google Home smart speakers configured to automatically respond to the phrase \"OK Google\". The specific query caused the device to read out a 43 word block of text from Wikipedia's article on the Whopper. Prior to the", "title": "Whopper" }, { "docid": "18508122", "text": "mentored many fellow scientists, helping to encourage their careers. After coping with prostate cancer, Cowan died at home in Rockville, Maryland, at age 70. As author As editor W. Maxwell Cowan William Maxwell Cowan (27 September 1931 – 30 June 2002) was a South African neuroscientist known for his work on developmental plasticity and neural connectivity. He is credited with helping to contribute to the growth of modern neuroanatomy through his use of novel anterograde tracing techniques which fundamentally transformed the field in the 1970s. Cowan was vice-president and chief scientific officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1987", "title": "W. Maxwell Cowan" }, { "docid": "3121377", "text": "Drop\" story. In 1942 during World War II, General Foods Corporation, successor to the Postum Company established by Charles William Post, contracted to supply instant coffee to the U.S. armed forces. Beginning in the fall of 1945, this product, which by that time had come to be branded as Maxwell House Instant Coffee, entered test markets in the eastern U.S.; it began national distribution the following year. In 1966 the company introduced \"Maxwell House ElectraPerk,\" developed specifically for electric percolators. In 1969 General Foods in the UK launched granulated coffee in a presentation at the London Hilton hotel, using a", "title": "Maxwell House" }, { "docid": "16297294", "text": "former senator about gay people or the Marriage Equality referendum. On April 12, 2017, Burger King released a commercial in which an employee states that he could not explain a Whopper in 15 seconds, after which he states \"OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?\". The dialogue was designed to trigger voice searches on Android devices and Google Home smart speakers configured to automatically respond to the phrase \"OK Google\". The specific query causes the device to read out a snippet sourced from Wikipedia's article on the Whopper. However, prior to the ad's premiere, the article had been edited by", "title": "Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia" }, { "docid": "15721356", "text": "which are not individuals (such as organizations, companies, and publications) to set up profiles, or \"pages\", for the posting and syndication of posts. It is similar to Facebook Pages. Google+ Badges was quietly introduced to select enterprises beginning November 9, 2011 and officially released to the public on November 16. Badges are sidebar widgets which embed \"Add to Circles\" buttons and drop-down lists into off-site websites and blogs, similar to Facebook's Like Box widgets. This was officially treated by Google as a replacement for the older Google Friend Connect and its widgets, and GFC was announced by Senior Vice President", "title": "Google+" }, { "docid": "19335642", "text": "and family-friendly television personality. The slogan, \"\"This is the Age of the Train\"\", is credited to the advertising executive Rod Allen, also of ABM. The advertisements continued to be produced until 1984, when they were replaced with a new campaign based on the slogan, \"\"We're getting there\"\". In 2012, during the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal, it was alleged by a former BR lawyer that the decision to drop Savile from the adverts had been made due to suspicions he was a necrophiliac. The Age of the Train \"The Age of the Train\" was a television advertising campaign in the", "title": "The Age of the Train" }, { "docid": "13138745", "text": "Kordestani invited him to California to meet Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who subsequently appointed him as U.S. sales chief for Google. He held positions such as President of Google's Americas Operations (which included the United States and Latin America), Senior Vice President of Google Inc., Vice President of Ad Sales, and served on Google's global operating committee. While at Google, Armstrong was credited for building what \"The New Yorker\" describes as a \"direct-sales force of more than a thousand employees\", promoting advertisers and their agencies. Armstrong was instrumental in convincing Google that a significant amount of their revenue could", "title": "Tim Armstrong (executive)" }, { "docid": "1999059", "text": "'Whole Again' and more fucking 'Whole Again'\"; he was essentially dismissed and legally prohibited from contacting the band, before exiting the \"very dirty\" business of \"manufactured pop\". Released tracks from \"Feels So Good\" were \"It's OK\", \"The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)\", \"The Last Goodbye\",\"Love Doesn't Have to Hurt\", and \"Be With You\". The unreleased single was \"Feels So Good\" sung by Kylie Minogue and Atomic Kitten. \"The Last Goodbye\" was the 3rd single from their second studio album, \"Feels So Good\" and \"Be With You\" was from their third album, \"Ladies Night\". The first single, \"It's OK\", peaked", "title": "Atomic Kitten" }, { "docid": "11305293", "text": "$500,000 deal with Sherwood's former mistress and accuser helped boost Carney, who had consistently played the trump card of \"honor\", \"integrity\", and \"family values\" in his campaign. Many voters also resonated with Carney's vague yet inspiring vow \"to make Pennsylvania proud\", a slogan that became very familiar to the 10th District, as well as his impressive record as a senior terrorism advisor in the Pentagon and his Navy service. 2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania The 2006 United States House elections in Pennsylvania was an election for Pennsylvania's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which", "title": "2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania" }, { "docid": "17818037", "text": "found on the body of the bottle. The third of these is the “Drop for Drop” slogan printed around the top of each bottle. Fourth, is replacing the “O” in the word bottle with recycling logo reminding drinkers to recycle their bottle. The fifth component is a QR Code that the customer can scan with a smart phone. Upon scanning the customer can see which project they are helping to fund. Sixth is making a bottle that is eco-friendly and seventh is simply putting the company name “People” on the bottle. The last two components actually have to do with", "title": "People Water" }, { "docid": "17928472", "text": "shutter, and view photos on the watch. Third-party applications support using the phone camera as a streaming device, or more varied camera control. Events appear as cards on screen. \"OK Google, show my agenda\" will display the user's agenda. Watch faces also support marking out appointments (for instance with contrasting color to show periods with an appointment, and/or illuminating a lighted \"count-down\" line for upcoming appointments. Note taking is fully supported via Google Keep and other note-apps, as is marking-off check lists etc. Via voice commands such as \"OK Google, remind me to call Roy at work\", or \"Remind me", "title": "Wear OS" }, { "docid": "18509795", "text": "Cloudbleed (in reference to the Heartbleed bug that Google co-discovered). Tavis Ormandy Tavis Ormandy is an English computer security white hat hacker. He is currently employed by Google as part of their Project Zero team. Ormandy is credited with discovering severe vulnerabilities in Libtiff, Sophos' antivirus software and Microsoft Windows. With Natalie Silvanovich he discovered a severe vulnerability in FireEye products in 2015. His findings with Sophos' products led him to write a 30-page paper entitled \"Sophail: Applied attacks against Sophos Antivirus\" in 2012, which concludes that the company was \"working with good intentions\" but is \"ill-equipped to handle the", "title": "Tavis Ormandy" }, { "docid": "11082810", "text": "team along with Chef Charles Carroll, former Notre Dame football coach and ESPN commentator Lou Holtz, celebrity chef Robert Irvine, author Steve Kaplan, comedian Carmen Barton and U2 tribute band, L.A.vation. On November 15, 2014, Boris Cherniak joined the elite team of inspiring speakers of TED with \"I can do anything\" Ted talk at TEDxYouth event. On October 19, 2017, Boris continued to inspire with his second talk \"Your Emotional Success\" Ted talk at TEDx Chatham-Kent. Cherniak is credited as the inventor of the term \"google me\", having put it in an online press release on April 13, 2004. He", "title": "Boris Cherniak" }, { "docid": "20575246", "text": "Good News of 1938 Good News of 1938 is an American old-time radio program. It was broadcast on NBC from November 4, 1937, until July 25, 1940. As the years changed, so did the title, becoming \"Good News of 1939\" and \"Good News of 1940\". In its last few months on the air, it was known as \"Maxwell House Coffee Time\". Some sources also refer to the program as \"Hollywood Good News\". The program was notable for marking \"the first time that a national network joined hands with a major film studio to create a show for sale to a", "title": "Good News of 1938" }, { "docid": "15975770", "text": "Google Drive is available for PCs running Windows 7 or later, and Macs running OS X Lion or later. Google indicated in April 2012 that work on Linux software was underway, but there was no news on this as of November 2013. In April 2012, Google's then-Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai said that Google Drive would be tightly integrated with Chrome OS version 20. In October 2016, Google announced that, going forward, it will drop support for versions of the computer software older than 1 year. In June 2017, Google announced that a new app called Backup and Sync would", "title": "Google Drive" }, { "docid": "16817786", "text": "Russ Alben Bernard Russ Alben (December 27, 1929 – August 26, 2012) was an American advertising executive and composer. He served as the Vice President and Creative Director of Ogilvy & Mather from the early 1970s until his retirement in December 1981. Alben is credited with writing the Good & Plenty's Choo Choo Charlie jingle and creating the Timex watch advertising slogan, \"It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.\" Alben grew up in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York and graduated Midwood High School. He received a bachelor's degree in 1951 from Syracuse University, where he contributed to", "title": "Russ Alben" }, { "docid": "12645181", "text": "Archers, a Knight of Malta and Privy Chamberlain of the Pope. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire. Maxwell married Carolyn Carden in 1920 and they had two sons and four daughters. Maxwell died at Alresford House, Old Alresford near Winchester on 18 December 1959 aged 64. Gerald Maxwell Gerald Joseph Constable Maxwell (8 September 1895 – 18 December 1959) was a British First World War flying ace credited with twenty-six aerial victories. Maxwell was born in Beauly near Inverness, Scotland to the Honourable Bernard Constable-Maxwell (son of William Constable-Maxwell, 10th Lord Herries of Terregles) and the Honourable Alice", "title": "Gerald Maxwell" }, { "docid": "19461031", "text": "Maxwell House Haggadah The Maxwell House Haggadah is an English-Hebrew Passover Haggadah introduced by the Maxwell House company as a marketing promotion in 1932 and printed continuously since that time. With over 50 million copies in print, it is the best known and most popular Haggadah among American Jews, and is considered a cultural icon. It is used at Passover Seders in homes, schools, senior centers, prisons, and the United States Army, and was the edition used by President Obama and his guests at the White House Passover Seder conducted yearly from 2009 to 2016. In 2011 a new English", "title": "Maxwell House Haggadah" }, { "docid": "20421938", "text": "an administrative error. It's OK to be white It's okay to be white or It's OK to be white (IOTBW) is a slogan based on a poster campaign organized on the American imageboard 4chan in 2017, as a \"proof of concept\" that a \"harmless message\" would cause a media backlash. Posters and stickers containing the sentence \"It's okay to be white\" have been placed in streets in the United States as well as on campuses in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. The slogan has been spread by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and racist", "title": "It's OK to be white" }, { "docid": "20421928", "text": "It's OK to be white It's okay to be white or It's OK to be white (IOTBW) is a slogan based on a poster campaign organized on the American imageboard 4chan in 2017, as a \"proof of concept\" that a \"harmless message\" would cause a media backlash. Posters and stickers containing the sentence \"It's okay to be white\" have been placed in streets in the United States as well as on campuses in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. The slogan has been spread by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and racist groups including neo-Nazis", "title": "It's OK to be white" }, { "docid": "16654434", "text": "February 8, 2013, he left JPL to pursue a career at Google. Scott Maxwell (engineer) Scott Maxwell is an American engineer and a former Mars rover planning lead for Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Spirit and Opportunity at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. During early periods of the MER mission, Maxwell and other rover drivers lived on Mars time, in which each Martian \"Sol\" (day) is an additional 37 minutes, 23 seconds longer than Earth days, while his wife continued to live on Earth time. Maxwell published an Android app that helps keep track with Mars time at the", "title": "Scott Maxwell (engineer)" }, { "docid": "18594544", "text": "that push forward [the] House genre. Whatever it is. It’s open.\" The genre has been credited as being pioneered by Oliver Heldens. Future house is a subgenre of house music. Songs within the genre are normally characterized by a muted melody with a metallic, elastic-sounding drop and frequency-modulated basslines. The most common tempo is around 125 BPM, but it can vary around the 120-130 mark. Heldens' international chart successes \"Gecko (Overdrive)\" and \"Last All Night (Koala)\" brought the genre to wider mainstream recognition in 2014, leading to minor feuds between him and Tchami on social media. Artists such as Don", "title": "Future house" }, { "docid": "19461040", "text": "schools, senior centers, and prisons. The United States Army has issued it to soldiers in every military campaign since the 1930s. It was used in underground Seders in the Soviet Union, and by President Barack Obama and his guests at the annual White House Passover Seder during his presidency from 2009 to 2016. Maxwell House Haggadah The Maxwell House Haggadah is an English-Hebrew Passover Haggadah introduced by the Maxwell House company as a marketing promotion in 1932 and printed continuously since that time. With over 50 million copies in print, it is the best known and most popular Haggadah among", "title": "Maxwell House Haggadah" }, { "docid": "2611279", "text": "Trinity in 1870. He died in Cambridge and was buried beside his wife in Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge. His wealth when he died was £781 (). Despite the embarrassment over Neptune, Challis did make genuine contributions to astronomy. His blend of theology and science was in the spirit of Stokes, and his search for a unified theory akin to the endeavours of Thomson and Maxwell. However, despite his tenacity in advocating his physical and theological theories, they had little impact, and in fact Richard Carrington credited him as his professor with inspiring his decision to pursue astronomy rather than become", "title": "James Challis" }, { "docid": "8839803", "text": "non-compete agreement. His responsibilities as Vice-President of Social included Google's social networking and identity service, Google+. He is widely believed to be the man behind Google+, and was responsible for the controversial removal of social features from Google Reader. Apart from Google+, he is widely credited for his contributions to early versions of Google Maps (application) and Google I/O. On 24 April 2014, Gundotra announced his resignation from Google after almost 7 years of service. About a year later, accusations were made about his sexual harassment of at least one employee at Google. On 11 November 2015, Vic Gundotra announced", "title": "Vic Gundotra" }, { "docid": "17605714", "text": "Recruited donors included Malcolm Forbes, Cyndi Lauper, Clive Davis, Ben & Jerry, Thomas Mosser, New York Times President Lance Primis, and then White House Chief of Staff, John H. Sununu. At its peak, Street News employed over 2000 homeless men and women in New York City and had a circulation of 250,000. It is credited with being the first homeless sold newspaper, inspiring as many as 150 similar newspapers in major cities throughout the world. In 1994 Oxenhorn started a Board of Education approved public school program called Children of Substance. Children of Substance was a support group that helped", "title": "Wendy Oxenhorn" }, { "docid": "3121387", "text": "household name with many American Jewish families. This was part of a marketing strategy by advertiser Jacobs, who also hired an Orthodox rabbi to certify that the coffee bean was technically not \"kitniyot\" (because it was more like a berry than a bean) and was, consequently, \"kosher\" for Passover. Maxwell House was the first coffee roaster to target a Jewish demographic. The Maxwell House Haggadah was also the Haggadah of choice for the annual White House Passover Seder which President Barack Obama conducted during his presidency from 2009 to 2016. Of its major manufacturing facilities, the third was established by", "title": "Maxwell House" }, { "docid": "3635867", "text": "Berkeley called the eXperimental Computing Facility (XCF). Mattis graduated from Berkeley in 1997 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. According to Mattis in 1999: On free software and the motivations to write it and what makes good and enduring free software: Mattis was previously employed as an engineer for Google, and is credited for his work Google Servlet Engine as well as helping spearhead Colossus, a new version of the Google File System. In 2013, Mattis launched the company Viewfinder along with Kimball and Brian McGinnis, formerly of Lehman Brothers. The company developed an app that allowed", "title": "Peter Mattis" }, { "docid": "875879", "text": "of the album was about background noise and everything moving too fast and not being able to keep up. It was really obvious to have 'Tourist' as the last song. That song was written to me from me, saying, 'Idiot, slow down.' Because at that point, I \"needed\" to. So that was the only resolution there could be: to slow down.\" The \"unexpectedly bluesy waltz\" draws to a close as the guitars drop out, leaving only drums and bass, and concludes with the sound of a small bell. The title \"OK Computer\" is taken from the 1978 \"Hitchhiker's Guide to", "title": "OK Computer" }, { "docid": "13083136", "text": "Rumbough Jr. co-founded the \"Citizens for Eisenhower\" movement in an attempt to secure the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Willis continued his work for the Eisenhower campaign in 1952 by joining the campaign staff. He is credited for coining the iconic political slogan, \"I Like Ike.\" After Eisenhower's election in late 1952, Willis joined Eisenhower's staff and served as assistant to the assistant to the president from January 23, 1953, until June 30, 1955. Following Willis' departure from the White House, he served as assistant to the chairman of W. R. Grace and Company until 1957 when he became president", "title": "Charles F. Willis" }, { "docid": "2517945", "text": "text and can be considered as the first group. Google's web-based e-mail application Gmail supports drag-and-drop of images and attachments in the latest Google Chrome browser and Apple's Safari (5.x). And Google Image search supports drag & drop. Touch screen interfaces also include drag and drop, or more precisely, long press, and then drag, e.g. on the iPhone or Android home screens. iOS 11 implements a drag-and-drop feature which allows the user to touch items (and tap with other fingers to drag more) within an app or between apps on IPads. On iPhones, the functionality is only available within the", "title": "Drag and drop" }, { "docid": "20575251", "text": "was audible at inappropriate times and \"at least half a dozen mistakes\" in one episode when stars noticeably missed cues or mangled lines in the script. Good News of 1938 Good News of 1938 is an American old-time radio program. It was broadcast on NBC from November 4, 1937, until July 25, 1940. As the years changed, so did the title, becoming \"Good News of 1939\" and \"Good News of 1940\". In its last few months on the air, it was known as \"Maxwell House Coffee Time\". Some sources also refer to the program as \"Hollywood Good News\". The program", "title": "Good News of 1938" }, { "docid": "16085429", "text": "Jun, EVP President of mobile for Lenovo to TechRadar. To us, it was clear that Google wanted to own the IPs. So we thought we had an opportunity to own the hardware side. Google initially tried to do the hardware itself but then a year and a half later they reconsidered their strategy. The end of last year we got a call from Google, from Eric Schmidt. We were asked if we still had the interest. We always thought Motorola was a good buy so we said yes and signed the contract quickly.\" In April 2014, Lenovo announced that the", "title": "Lenovo smartphones" }, { "docid": "17445760", "text": "via Touchless Control. By speaking the hot phrase: \"Ok Google Now\" (even while the phone is asleep), the device will launch a voice assistant which taps into Google Now to control the phone and run natural language queries with the Google search engine without requiring physical input from the user. This function makes use of the natural language processor in the X8 system. Active Notifications displays relevant notifications to the user while the phone is face-up. The minimalist notifications show on the lock screen as white icons against a black background; power is conserved by not turning on pixels that", "title": "Droid MAXX" }, { "docid": "19771112", "text": "mobile data bands, unstable Bluetooth connections, unexpected battery shutdowns, and failing microphones. Google has acknowledged and released fixes for most of the issues. Google previously co-developed flagship Android devices with original equipment manufacturers through the Nexus program, which were designed to be \"reference\" devices for the Android platform, but the devices retained similarities to other devices made by their respective partners. Rick Osterloh, former president of Motorola, joined Google as its senior vice president of hardware in April 2016, and Google initiated development of an ecosystem of in-house products and platforms, including the Google Home smart speaker, Google Assistant intelligent", "title": "Pixel (smartphone)" }, { "docid": "11536793", "text": "House Coffee, MacDonald submits a slogan to Maxford House's slogan contest. Just as he is being fired by J. Bloodgood Baxter because he had brought a phonograph to work, a letter arrives informing him that he has won the prize. The Baxters and Whortleberry discuss their plans for rehiring Jimmy while he and Tulip are out to lunch. Jimmy enters with the flash of photographers. J. Bloodgood Baxter convinces Jimmy to drop the 2-year sales contract to Maxford House in exchange for a promotion to sales promotion manager and a raise to $5,000 a year. Jimmy begins sharing some of", "title": "A Cup of Coffee" }, { "docid": "16024765", "text": "on constructing affordable homes which reflected working class needs. Several prominent architects worked with her. Notably Maxwell Fry collaborated with her with his essays on the Modern Movement style: the scheme for low rental flats, Sassoon House in Peckham, which was completed in 1934, and the later Kensal House (1937) which was commissioned by the Gas, Light and Coke Company. Denby and Fry collaborated on this project for four years, but in 1937, Denby's name was omitted from the credit list for both schemes in two major publications.She is credited with prompting Fry to adopt a more progressive style. Denby's", "title": "Elizabeth Denby" }, { "docid": "3658790", "text": "OK Soda OK Soda was a soft drink created by The Coca-Cola Company in 1993 that aggressively courted the American Generation X demographic with unusual advertising tactics, including endorsements and even outright negative publicity. It did not sell well in select test markets and was officially declared out of production in 1995 before reaching nationwide distribution. The drink's slogan was \"Everything is going to be OK.\" In 1993, Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta rehired Sergio Zyman to be the chief of marketing for all Coca-Cola beverage brands, a surprising choice given that Zyman had worked closely with the New Coke campaign,", "title": "OK Soda" }, { "docid": "1603714", "text": "called Google Answers Researchers or GARs, answered them. Researchers were not Google employees, but contractors that were required to complete an application process to be approved to answer for the site. They were limited in number (according to Google, there were more than 500 Researchers; in practice, there were fewer active Researchers). The application process tested their research and communication abilities. Researchers with low ratings could be fired, a policy which encouraged eloquence and accuracy. Also, Google stated that people who commented might be selected to become Researchers, therefore inspiring high quality comments. In practice, however, hardly any new Researchers", "title": "Google Answers" }, { "docid": "160950", "text": "industry leaders SearchEngineWatch and SearchengineLand, the update was to drop down the medical and health related websites that were not user friendly and were not providing good user experience. This is why, the industry experts named it \"Medic\". Google reserves very high standard for YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) pages. This is because misinformation can affect users financially, physically or emotionally. Therefore, the update targeted particularly those YMYL pages that have low-quality content and misinformation. This resulted in the algorithm targeting health and medical related websites more than others. Google search consists of a series of localized websites. The", "title": "Google Search" }, { "docid": "14556374", "text": "Trías died, a victim of cancer. On July 7, 2018, which would have been Rodríguez Trías' 89th birthday, Google featured her in a Google Doodle in the United States. Helen Rodríguez Trías Helen Rodríguez Trías (July 7, 1929 – December 27, 2001) was a pediatrician, educator and women's rights activist. She was the first Latina president of the American Public Health Association, a founding member of the Women's Caucus of the American Public Health Association, and a recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal. She is credited with helping to expand the range of public health services for women and children", "title": "Helen Rodríguez Trías" }, { "docid": "2242359", "text": "Badoglio and General Carboni. The air drop near Rome to capture the city was called off at the last minute when Taylor realized that German forces were already moving in to cover the intended drop zones. Transport planes were already in the air when Taylor's message canceled the drop, preventing the mission. These efforts behind enemy lines got Taylor noticed at the highest levels of the Allied command. After the campaigns in the Mediterranean, Taylor was assigned to become the Commanding General (CG) of the 101st Airborne Division, nicknamed \"The Screaming Eagles\", which was then training in England in preparation", "title": "Maxwell D. Taylor" }, { "docid": "3474555", "text": "in 2001, Joni Earl took the helm and is widely credited with saving the agency. Largely, this was by being more realistic and being more honest with the public — reportedly she used the slogan \"Optimism is not our friend.\" Largely due to her efforts, by 2003 Sound Transit received a clean financial audit, and was re-rewarded the funding lost two years earlier. Despite this, the earlier crisis required Earl to drop about one-third of the originally promised light rail line. Sound Transit 2 (ST2) was part of a joint ballot measure with the Regional Transportation Investment District entitled Roads", "title": "Sound Transit" }, { "docid": "16287562", "text": "of Pilobolus 7 and Ok Go are in sea-foam green jumpsuits. The entire video was performed on top of a steel and plexiglass platform with a projector capturing the images from below. Pilobolus 7 performs a stage version of this that shows one of the frames with the performers all interacting with and around it. The music video was commissioned by Google Chrome as a Chrome Experiment for HTML5. Production for the video began shortly after the Tsunami in Japan. The Google Chrome team from Japan contacted OK Go to begin the project. The band described the song as \"a", "title": "All Is Not Lost (song)" }, { "docid": "7846756", "text": "photography art experiential aimed at inspiring New Yorkers and its global citizens to spend a day giving forth positive energy into the world. Maxwell took portraits of attendees and uploaded them exclusively to her profile page on The 8 App, one of her sponsors for the \"Awaken Love\" event. Today, Maxwell is the Founder and CEO of Live Limitlessly, the global online hub for personal mastery. Chenoa Maxwell Chenoa Maxwell (born November 16, 1969 ) is an American actress, transformation expert, and photographer. Maxwell is best known for her starring role in the 1997 romantic comedy \"Hav Plenty\" and as", "title": "Chenoa Maxwell" }, { "docid": "14860441", "text": "the seat until 1885. Heron-Maxwell was the last member of the Heron family to inherit the family seat of Kirroughtree House. In 1889 it was sold to Major Arthur Armitage and is now a hotel. Heron-Maxwell married Marguerite Stancomb, daughter of William Stancomb of Blount's Court, Wiltshire in 1868. Heron-Maxwell died at the age of 62. John Heron-Maxwell John Maxwell Heron-Maxwell (5 September 1836 – 26 January 1899) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. Heron-Maxwell was the son of Rev Michael Heron-Maxwell of Heron and Kirroughtree, and his wife", "title": "John Heron-Maxwell" }, { "docid": "12154616", "text": "People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), chairman of the All-China Women's Federation, and president of Soong Ching-ling Foundation. During the Cultural Revolution, Kang was under house arrest. She was later rehabilitated. After the fall of the Gang of Four, Kang was instated as the head of the All-China Women's Federation and is credited with centralising the organisation's bureacracy. She was a member of the 11th and 12th Central Committees of the Communist Party of China (1977-1987). Kang's ideology in the fight for women's liberation is embodied in the slogan 'Seek liberation in war, seek equality in production' (). 'Liberation in war'", "title": "Kang Keqing" }, { "docid": "13568667", "text": "is credited with inspiring his stage last name \"Ploutarchos\". In late 1998, Ploutarchos signed with Minos EMI and shortly after released his debut album titled \"Mono Esi\" (Only you), which received moderate success. From the album, \"Enas Theos\" (One god) became a hit, which is still considered one of his most popular songs to date. After his first album, he was featured in a duet titled \"I Kardia Mou Einai Zalismeni\" (My heart is dazed) with Konstantina on her album \"Simeio Epafis\", while he was also featured in a duet with Stratos Dionysiou on the song \"Orestiada\" from his album", "title": "Yannis Ploutarchos" }, { "docid": "18074646", "text": "child of the Maxwell's to survive infancy. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The home last sold in September 2017. The new owners are now restoring the home to its Second Empire Victorian glamour, to regain the legacy of the Maxwell family. Although it has been claimed by past owners, there are no negative spiritual forces at work in the home. Vance-Maxwell House Vance-Maxwell House, also known as the Maxwell-Nicholson-Murphy House, is a historic home located at Greenwood, Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was built around 1850, and remodeled between 1898 and 1904 in", "title": "Vance-Maxwell House" }, { "docid": "16665091", "text": "with Barbadian R&B singer Rihanna on her 777 Tour, he also remixed the song Diamonds. His most recent project is the remix of the Clockwork song \"Titan\", he decided the song was good enough already and he wanted to keep the bass drop so he made a Safari Edit instead of an actual remix. It included some drum samples and didn't edit the tempo. He collaborated with the Swedish House duo AN21 & Max Vangeli, the song was called Lost and it is credited as AN21 & Max Vangeli Vs Congorock instead of featuring. It was included on the AN21", "title": "Congorock" }, { "docid": "4822474", "text": "sessions led to four new members joining Fat Freddy's Drop: Warren Maxwell on tenor and alto saxophone, Tehimana Kerr on guitar, Iain Gordon on keyboards, and Joe Lindsay on trombone. Like the original three, the new members played with other groups in and around Wellington, and continued to for most of Fat Freddy's Drop's career. Iain Gordon was a fellow Bongmaster member with Faiumu and Tamaira. Gordon was also a member of the band Ebb which in 2001 performed an audiovisual concert and released an EP titled Plush Bomb, with Fat Freddy's Drop playing in support. Maxwell was in the", "title": "Fat Freddy's Drop" }, { "docid": "6767346", "text": "Anna Maxwell Martin Anna Maxwell Martin (born Anna Charlotte Martin; 10 May 1977), sometimes credited as Anna Maxwell-Martin, is an English actress who has played Lyra in \"His Dark Materials\" at the Royal National Theatre, Esther Summerson in the BBC's 2005 adaptation of \"Bleak House\", and \"N\" in Channel 4's 2008 adaptation of \"Poppy Shakespeare\". Anna Charlotte Martin was born in Beverley on 10 May 1977 to Rosalind (née Lugassy) and Ivan Martin. Her father was managing director of a pharmaceutical company and her mother was a research scientist. Her mother gave up her job to bring up Anna and", "title": "Anna Maxwell Martin" }, { "docid": "20347441", "text": "version of the song. At a press conference, BTS member RM revealed that the song was inspired by former US president Barack Obama's mic drop at his last White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2016. BTS garnered attention in the US during 2017 after appearances and performances on music award shows and on the \"Billboard\" charts. On September 17, 2017, it was announced that the group will release a single album on December 6 that includes the Japanese version of \"DNA\" and \"MIC Drop\" along with a new song titled \"Crystal Snow\". The album track \"Mic Drop\" is a hip hop", "title": "Mic Drop (song)" }, { "docid": "12172148", "text": "February 1967 salon known as the \"Houseboat Summit\") announced his agreement with a new ordering of the phrase as he said, \"I would agree to change the slogan to 'Drop out. Turn on. Drop in.'\" During his last decade, Leary proclaimed that the \"PC is the LSD of the 1990s\"—\"turn on, boot up, jack in\" reworked the existing phrase to suggest joining the cyberdelic counterculture. The phrase was referenced in several songs of the time. Psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock parodies the quote in their 1967 song \"Incense and Peppermints\", singing \"Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around\"", "title": "Turn on, tune in, drop out" }, { "docid": "5823854", "text": "19th century and was responsible for many buildings. The Château Frontenac in Quebec was one he and his brother worked on while the Shrine of the Báb in Haifa, Israel was his last design. In 1988 the school was opened with guest of honour Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum (Mary Maxwell, daughter of May and Sutherland) and wife of the Bahá'í Faith's Guardian, Shoghi Effendi. A tree was planted in dedication to the opening of the school. In the early 2006-2007 school year, the school board decided to drop \"Bahá'í\" from its name, changing it to \"Maxwell International School\". On 22 November", "title": "Maxwell International School" }, { "docid": "9553876", "text": "Drop the Debt Drop the Debt is the slogan of the late 1990s campaign for international debt cancellation led by the organisation Jubilee 2000. The phrase was coined by filmmaker Mike Christie. He and Jubilee 2000's Jamie Drummond set out to create a mainstream campaign to engage major figures within entertainment and music industries including Bono, and in turn the wider public. The slogan \"Drop The Debt\" garnered global recognition and is often assumed to be name of Jubilee 2000. The slogan was subsequently used as the name for the short-lived British NGO formed after the dissolution of Jubilee 2000.", "title": "Drop the Debt" }, { "docid": "12466192", "text": "to Bharosa, which later received five issued patents and has twelve patents pending. Fisher was also a co-patentee in the technology behind Glass at Work partner CrowdOptic, which triangulates two or more electronic devices focused in the same direction at the same time. Fisher's company remains the only Google Glass partner with issued patents. Fisher is known for making accurate predictions about the U.S. economy, particularly unemployment rates. Fisher has commented that the drop in housing starts is a good indicator of the direction the unemployment rate is headed. He writes: \"Historically, when new U.S. housing starts have plunged, unemployment", "title": "Jon Fisher" }, { "docid": "3946658", "text": "was retained in the code of conduct of Google. Around May 2018, the slogan was silently removed from the code's clauses, leaving only one generic reference in its last paragraph. Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships among websites. They called this new technology PageRank; it determined a website's relevance by", "title": "Google" }, { "docid": "17928468", "text": "always on feature and a \"tilt to wake screen\" setting, to light the screen automatically. Users can find directions by voice from the phone, choose transport mode, including bike, and start a journey. While traveling, the watch shows directions, and vibrates to indicate turns by feel. Via Google Fit and similar applications, Wear OS supports ride and run tracking (\"OK Google, start a run\"). On devices sporting the needed sensor, heart activity can be sampled automatically through the day or on demand (\"OK Google, what's my heart rate\"). Step-counting, calorie expenditure etc. are also monitored. These features work within the", "title": "Wear OS" }, { "docid": "4405384", "text": "2016, TEV Bursa Branch President Mehmet Caliskan said that the Foundation had helped 2,631 students with the Zeki Müren Scholarship Fund over tha last 20 years. After his death, the house in which the artist lived in Bodrum for the last years of his life was transformed into Zeki Müren Art Museum by the order of the Ministry of Culture and was opened to the public on 8 June 2000. On December 6, 2018, a Google Doodle was displayed to celebrate his 87th birthday. In addition to these, there are 12 other albums attributed to Zeki Müren published during 1968–1974", "title": "Zeki Müren" }, { "docid": "17598478", "text": "5, 2013. OK, Good OK, Good is an American independent film directed by Daniel Martinico. The film stars Hugo Armstrong as Paul Kaplan, a struggling actor on the verge of a breakdown. \"OK, Good\" premiered at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival, and made its international debut at the 59th Annual Sydney Film Festival. It subsequently screened at the Atlanta Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival of Boston, the New Orleans Film Festival, Raindance, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival, among others. The film is set to be distributed by Slamdance Studios in partnership with Cinedigm, with wide VOD release scheduled", "title": "OK, Good" }, { "docid": "17598477", "text": "OK, Good OK, Good is an American independent film directed by Daniel Martinico. The film stars Hugo Armstrong as Paul Kaplan, a struggling actor on the verge of a breakdown. \"OK, Good\" premiered at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival, and made its international debut at the 59th Annual Sydney Film Festival. It subsequently screened at the Atlanta Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival of Boston, the New Orleans Film Festival, Raindance, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival, among others. The film is set to be distributed by Slamdance Studios in partnership with Cinedigm, with wide VOD release scheduled for November", "title": "OK, Good" }, { "docid": "2224594", "text": "seen in numerous commercials for Maxwell House. Vance made a number of TV guest appearances in the 1970s, including a well-remembered 1975 episode of \"Rhoda,\" as well as appearing in a number of made-for-TV movies including \"The Front Page\" (1970), \"Getting Away From it All\" (1972), and \"The Great Houdini\" (1976). She and Ball appeared together one last time in the 1977 CBS special \"Lucy Calls the President.\" Vance made her final television appearance with Lucille Ball on the CBS special \"Lucy Calls the President\", which aired November 21, 1977. That same year, she suffered a stroke that left her", "title": "Vivian Vance" }, { "docid": "7675844", "text": "single from the album, was released to radio stations on June 23, 2006. \"Work\" was released as the second single, along with its music video, in late August. The band also released a music video for the album track \"Good Monsters\". In the September 2006 edition of \"CCM Magazine\", the band credited fellow artist Ashley Cleveland with inspiring the improvisational sound of the album. In an editor's fall albums overview in \"CCM Magazine\", Good Monsters was called, \"the album that Jars of Clay will be remembered for.\" It ended up taking the award for the CCM Magazine staff picks as", "title": "Good Monsters" }, { "docid": "16776528", "text": "rankings brings with it a major drop in traffic for the site.Google Penguin 4.0 Update To find out if a website has been affected by a Google penalty, website owners can use Google Webmaster Tools as well as analyze the timing of their traffic drop with the timing of known Google updates. Google has been updating its algorithm for as long as it has been fighting the manipulation of organic search results. However, up until May 10, 2012, when Google launched the Google Penguin update, many people wrongly believed that low-quality backlinks would not negatively affect ranks. While this viewpoint", "title": "Google penalty" }, { "docid": "3384481", "text": "it\". Bush joked about the issue in a February 4, 2007 speech to House Democrats, stating \"Now look, my diction isn't all that good. I have been accused of occasionally mangling the English language. And so I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party.\" Donald Trump has used the phrase repeatedly, both during his presidential campaign and as president. In a July 2018 campaign rally, he said that \"The Democratic Party sounds too good so I don't want to use that, OK?\" He added, \"I call it the Democrat Party. It sounds better rhetorically.\" At a September 2018", "title": "Democrat Party (epithet)" } ]

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[ { "docid": "2351512", "text": "mental engagement with nature certainly predates civilization and the record of history. Philosophical, and specifically non-religious thought about the natural world, goes back to ancient Greece. These lines of thought began before Socrates, who turned from his philosophical studies from speculations about nature to a consideration of man, viz., political philosophy. The thought of early philosophers such Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Democritus centered on the natural world. In addition, three presocratic philosophers who lived in the Ionian town of Miletus (hence the Milesian School of philosophy,) Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes, attempted to explain natural phenomena without recourse to creation myths involving", "title": "Natural philosophy" } ]

[ { "docid": "3419045", "text": "Contemporary philosophy Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy. The phrase \"contemporary philosophy\" is a piece of technical terminology in philosophy that refers to a specific period in the history of Western philosophy (namely the philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries). However, the phrase is often confused with modern philosophy (which refers to an earlier period in Western philosophy), postmodern philosophy (which refers to continental philosophers' criticisms of modern philosophy), and with a", "title": "Contemporary philosophy" }, { "docid": "10499644", "text": "Delos to the Parthenon in 454 BC. The wealth of Athens attracted talented people from all over Greece, and also created a wealthy leisure class who became patrons of the arts. The Athenian state also sponsored learning and the arts, particularly architecture. Athens became the centre of Greek literature, philosophy (see Greek philosophy) and the arts (see Greek theatre). Some of the greatest figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, and Sophocles, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the", "title": "Greece in the 5th century BC" }, { "docid": "8113867", "text": "philosophers during their lives, almost no woman philosophers have entered the philosophical Western canon. Historians of philosophy are faced with two main problems. The first being the exclusion of women philosophers from history and philosophy texts, which leads to a lack of knowledge about women philosophers among philosophy students. The second problem deals with what the canonical philosophers had to say about philosophy and women's place in it. In the past twenty-five years there has been an exponential increase in feminist writing about the history of philosophy and what has been considered the philosophical canon. According to Eugene Sun Park,", "title": "Women in philosophy" }, { "docid": "5394320", "text": "A History of Western Philosophy A History of Western Philosophy is a 1945 book by philosopher Bertrand Russell. A survey of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratic philosophers to the early 20th century, it was criticised for Russell's over-generalization and omissions, particularly from the post-Cartesian period, but nevertheless became a popular and commercial success, and has remained in print from its first publication. When Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950, \"A History of Western Philosophy\" was cited as one of the books that won him the award. Its success provided Russell with financial security for the last", "title": "A History of Western Philosophy" }, { "docid": "2947718", "text": "American republic of El Salvador in 1948. He lived and worked there for much of his life until his bloody assassination in 1989. In 1958, Ellacuría studied theology with Vatican II theologian Karl Rahner, S.J., in Innsbruck, Austria. He also lived in Ecuador and Spain. From the following references Ellacuría's philosophy takes as a starting point Xavier Zubiri's (1898–1983) critique of Western philosophy. For Zubiri, ever since Parmenides, Western thought separated sensing from intelligence. This error led to two results. The first one was what Zubiri called \"the logification of intelligence\" and the second one was what he called \"the", "title": "Ignacio Ellacuría" }, { "docid": "1434792", "text": "at-Turtushi, Ibn Hazm) Islamic philosophers, scholars and polymaths during the Islamic Golden Age. Early Islamic philosophy began in the 2nd century AH of the Islamic calendar (early 9th century CE) and lasted until the 6th century AH (late 12th century CE). The period is known as the Golden Age of Islam, and the achievements of this period had a crucial influence on the development of modern philosophy and science in the Western world; for Renaissance Europe, the influence represented from the Islamic Golden Age was “one of the largest technology transfers in world history”. This period began with al-Kindi in", "title": "Islamic philosophy" }, { "docid": "16506012", "text": "potential. The \"Dao tong\" (Confucian orthodoxy) was refashioned into the “history of Chinese philosophy,” effectively objectivizing a concept meant to be lived. The Chinese philosophy of the past included classical learning (jinxue), the learning of the ancient masters (zhuzixue) speculative learning (xuanxue), Buddhist learning, and learning of principle (lixue). While all these branches share common elements with Western philosophy, it was definitively decided that these were not philosophy in their original state. Hence, there was the subsequent distillation by later scholars using Western notions to form a history of Chinese philosophy. The Rules for Colleges and Universities in 1903 divided", "title": "Legitimacy of Chinese philosophy" }, { "docid": "10973121", "text": "but this plain also contained several hills, especially in the southwest part. On the west side the walls embraced the Hill of the Nymphs and the Pnyx, and to the southeast they ran along beside the Ilissos. There were many gates, among the more important there were: Among the more important streets, there were: The period from the end of the Persian Wars to the Macedonian conquest marked the zenith of Athens as a center of literature, philosophy (see Greek philosophy) and the arts (see Greek theatre). Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived", "title": "Classical Athens" }, { "docid": "16506025", "text": "connotation of philosophy, then the concept of philosophy should be widened to include Chinese thought. However, this sacrifices a conscious definition of what is and what is not philosophy. Those in favor of this prospect refer to the extension of the definition of religion by Western theologians to include Eastern religions. Philosophical models have varied from individuals and civilizations for all of history. Recognition of a pluralistic world culture by both Eastern and Western is necessary for a broader definition of philosophy. Some argue that Chinese philosophy and Western philosophy have evolved independently and are equally as legitimate. This view", "title": "Legitimacy of Chinese philosophy" }, { "docid": "9178912", "text": "cases of the sort may be found to exist, including philosophers of a gigantic stature, such as the Miletians, or even Aristotle himself. The same is to be said regarding the poetic form of Caxaro's extant philosophy. We have similar cases with philosophers of outstanding relevance, such as the Eleatics, including Parmenides himself, the father of philosophy. However, here, with Caxaro's case, the question is slightly more complex. We do not have to do with a then out-going poetic custom in an age where prose took the precedence, as in the Greek naturalistic philosophers (of the 5th century BCE). We", "title": "Pietru Caxaro" }, { "docid": "479071", "text": "\"will to power\" of the modern human subject, which is one way of forgetting this originary openness. Heidegger understands the commencement of the history of Western philosophy as a brief period of authentic openness to being, during the time of the pre-Socratics, especially Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Parmenides. This was followed, according to Heidegger, by a long period increasingly dominated by the forgetting of this initial openness, a period which commences with Plato, and which occurs in different ways throughout Western history. Two recurring themes of Heidegger's later writings are poetry and technology. Heidegger sees poetry and technology as two contrasting", "title": "Martin Heidegger" }, { "docid": "120006", "text": "History of Ecuador The History of Ecuador extends over an 8,000-year period. During this time a variety of cultures and territories influenced what has become the Republic of Ecuador. The history can be divided into five eras: Pre-Columbian, the Conquest, the Colonial Period, the War of Independence, Gran Colombia, and Simón Bolívar the final separation of his vision into what is known today as the Republic of Ecuador. During the pre-Inca period, people lived in ans, which formed great tribes, some allied with each other to form powerful confederations, as the Confederation of Quito. But none of these confederations could", "title": "History of Ecuador" }, { "docid": "454762", "text": "period. Women have engaged in philosophy throughout the field's history. There were female philosophers since ancient times, notably Hipparchia of Maroneia (active c. 325 BC) and Arete of Cyrene (active 5th–4th century BC), and some were accepted as philosophers during the ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary eras, but almost no female philosophers have entered the philosophical Western canon. In the early 1990s, the Canadian Philosophical Association claimed that there is gender imbalance and gender bias in the academic field of philosophy. In June 2013, a US sociology professor stated that \"out of all recent citations in four prestigious philosophy journals,", "title": "Western canon" }, { "docid": "5587444", "text": "Vermont. From 7000 to 1000 BC was the Archaic Period. During that era, Native Americans migrated year-round. From 1000 BC to 1600 AD was the Woodland Period, when villages and trade networks were established, and ceramic and bow and arrow technology were developed. The western part of the state became home to a small population of Algonquian-speaking tribes, including the Mohican and Abenaki peoples. The Sokoki lived in what is now southern Vermont; the Cowasucks in northeastern Vermont. Between 1534 and 1609, the Iroquois Mohawks drove many of the smaller native tribes out of the Champlain Valley, later using the", "title": "History of Vermont" }, { "docid": "8113876", "text": "the American Philosophical Association. Women thinkers such as Emma Goldman (1869–1940), an anarchist, and Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), a Marxist theorist, are known for their political views. Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy. Some influential women philosophers from this period include: Other notable philosophers include: Women in philosophy Women have engaged in philosophy throughout the field's history. While there were women philosophers since ancient times, and a relatively small number were accepted as", "title": "Women in philosophy" }, { "docid": "10895178", "text": "visiting professorships at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. During this period he became a close friend and colleague of the political philosopher Leo Strauss, who devoted the final chapter of his book \"What is Political Philosophy?\" to Riezler. Noting that Riezler's philosophy was \"shaped by both the influence of Heidegger and the reaction to him,\" Strauss concludes that it \"was ultimately because he grasped the meaning of shame and awe that Riezler was a liberal, a lover of privacy.\" Kurt Riezler returned to Europe in 1954, lived for some time in Rome and died in Munich in 1955.", "title": "Kurt Riezler" }, { "docid": "535033", "text": "in this short period. Already in October 1940, over 75% of schools used the Belarusian language, also in the regions where no Belarus people lived, e.g. around Łomża, what was Ruthenization. Western Belarus was sovietised, tens of thousands were imprisoned, deported, murdered. The victims were mostly Polish and Jewish. After twenty months of Soviet rule, Nazi Germany and its Axis allies invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. Soviet authorities immediately evacuated about 20% of the population of Belarus, killed thousands of prisoners and destroyed all the food supplies. The country suffered particularly heavily during the fighting and the", "title": "History of Belarus" }, { "docid": "70904", "text": "and internal pressures in the 8th century BC, and the country eventually splintered into smaller states during the Spring and Autumn period. These states became independent and warred with one another in the following Warring States period. Much of traditional Chinese culture, literature and philosophy first developed during those troubled times. In 221 BC Qin Shi Huang conquered the various warring states and created for himself the title of \"Huangdi\" or \"emperor\" of the Qin, marking the beginning of imperial China. However, the oppressive government fell soon after his death, and was supplanted by the longer lived Han dynasty (206", "title": "History of China" }, { "docid": "70923", "text": "the three remaining élite families in the Jin state – Zhao, Wei and Han – partitioned the state. Many famous individuals such as Lao Zi, Confucius and Sun Tzu lived during this chaotic period. The Hundred Schools of Thought of Chinese philosophy blossomed during this period, and such influential intellectual movements as Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism and Mohism were founded, partly in response to the changing political world. The first two philosophical thoughts would have an enormous influence on Chinese culture. After further political consolidation, seven prominent states remained by the end of 5th century BC, and the years in which", "title": "History of China" }, { "docid": "71836", "text": "Chinese philosophy Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period, during a period known as the \"Hundred Schools of Thought\", which was characterized by significant intellectual and cultural developments. Although much of Chinese philosophy begins in the Warring States period, elements of Chinese philosophy have existed for several thousand years; some can be found in the Yi Jing (the \"Book of Changes\"), an ancient compendium of divination, which dates back to at least 672 BCE. It was during the Warring States era that what Sima Tan termed the major philosophical schools of China: Confucianism, Legalism,", "title": "Chinese philosophy" }, { "docid": "16243888", "text": "of the Han dynasty, with the Dunhuang manuscripts (discovered in 1900) indicating that the military establishment in the northwest was maintained for most of the Eastern Han period. Following the end of the Han dynasty in 220, China disintegrated into warlord states, which in 280 were briefly reunited under the Western Jin dynasty (265316). There are ambiguous accounts of the Jin rebuilding the Qin wall, but these walls apparently offered no resistance during the Wu Hu uprising, when the nomadic tribes of the steppe evicted the Chinese court from northern China. What followed was a succession of short-lived states in", "title": "History of the Great Wall of China" }, { "docid": "3199201", "text": "1938 (and again from 1946 to 1949) he was Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Tsinghua. It was while at Tsinghua that Feng published what was to be his best-known and most influential work, his \"History of Chinese Philosophy\" (1934, in two volumes). In it he presented and examined the history of Chinese philosophy from a viewpoint which was very much influenced by the Western philosophical fashions prevalent at the time, which resulted in what Peter J. King of Oxford describes as a distinctly positivist tinge to most of the philosophers he described. Nevertheless, the book became the standard", "title": "Feng Youlan" }, { "docid": "17126492", "text": "1962. \"Unquantified Inductive Generalizations\", \"Analysis\", 23, 134–7. 1961. \"Collingwood’s Doctrine of Absolute Presuppositions\", \"Philosophical Quarterly\", 11, 49–60. 1960. \"Conscientiousness\", \"Australasian Journal of Philosophy\", 38, 218–24. 2009. \"Edmund Husserl,\" in John Daniel and Walford L. Gealy, eds. \"Hanes Athroniaeth y Gorllewin\" (History of Western Philosophy), Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 574–593 2005. \"Friedrich Nietzsche\", \"Efrydiau Athronyddol\" (Philosophical Studies), Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 114–138, also in John Daniel and Walford L. Gealy, eds.\"Hanes Athroniaeth y Gorllewin\" (History of Western Philosophy) John Llewelyn John Llewelyn (born 1928) is a Welsh-born British philosopher whose extensive body of work, published over a period of", "title": "John Llewelyn" }, { "docid": "5394322", "text": "edition' in 1961, but no new material was added. Corrections and minor revisions were made to printings of the British first edition and for 1961's new edition; no corrections seem to have been transferred to the American edition (even Spinoza's birth year remains wrong). The work is divided into three books, each of which is subdivided into chapters; each chapter generally deals with a single philosopher, school of philosophy, or period of time. \"A History of Western Philosophy\" received a mixed reception, especially from academic reviewers. Russell was somewhat dismayed at the reaction. Russell himself described the text as a", "title": "A History of Western Philosophy" }, { "docid": "13347775", "text": "philosophy in the winter of 1859-1860, Duprat’s Lausanne publisher printed her first lecture \"Introduction to the Philosophy of Women\". This lecture provides an early record of her thoughts and her attitudes to the role of women in society. Duprat soon moved with his family to Geneva but Royer continued to write reviews of books for his journal and herself lived in Geneva for a period during the winter of 1860-1861. When in 1860 the Swiss canton of Vaud offered a prize for the best essay on income tax, Royer wrote a book describing both the history and the practice of", "title": "Clémence Royer" }, { "docid": "16506022", "text": "a philosophical model that reflects the Chinese spirit, what has been created is an exaltation of the Western model by imitation. The creation of Chinese philosophy can also be seen as a response to the oppressive West. By establishing an independent discipline with a history just as long as the Western version, Chinese scholars hoped to challenge the domination of the West in this field, as well as stimulate national pride. A rejection of the term Chinese philosophy is a rejection of European ethnocentrism. The West has structured the subject, cultural identity, and history of the Third World in a", "title": "Legitimacy of Chinese philosophy" }, { "docid": "3303238", "text": "socialist philosophy exemplified by August Bebel, Friedrich Engels, Karl Kautsky, Paul Lafargue, Wilhelm Liebknecht, and Filippo Turati. Influenced by Neapolitan-born Gianbattista Vico's thoughts about art and history, he began studying philosophy in 1893. Croce also purchased the house in which Vico had lived. His friend, the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, encouraged him to read Hegel. Croce's famous commentary on Hegel, \"What is Living and What is Dead in the Philosophy of Hegel\", was published in 1907. As his fame increased, Croce was persuaded, against his initial wishes, to become involved with politics. He was appointed to the Italian Senate, a lifelong", "title": "Benedetto Croce" }, { "docid": "3906458", "text": "variation has determiend that only one species of \"Miohippus\" was present within a given member. Miohippus Miohippus (meaning \"small horse\") was a genus of prehistoric horse existing longer than most Equidae. \"Miohippus\" lived in what is now North America during the late Eocene to late Oligocene. \"Miohippus\" was a horse of the Oligocene. According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, Othniel Charles Marsh first believed \"Miohippus\" lived during the Miocene and thus named the genus using this incorrect conclusion. More recent research provides evidence that \"Miohippus\" actually lived during the Paleogene period. \"Miohippus\" species are commonly referred to as", "title": "Miohippus" }, { "docid": "3906454", "text": "Miohippus Miohippus (meaning \"small horse\") was a genus of prehistoric horse existing longer than most Equidae. \"Miohippus\" lived in what is now North America during the late Eocene to late Oligocene. \"Miohippus\" was a horse of the Oligocene. According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, Othniel Charles Marsh first believed \"Miohippus\" lived during the Miocene and thus named the genus using this incorrect conclusion. More recent research provides evidence that \"Miohippus\" actually lived during the Paleogene period. \"Miohippus\" species are commonly referred to as the three-toed horses. Their range was from Alberta, Canada to Florida to California. The type", "title": "Miohippus" }, { "docid": "4479575", "text": "was on the history of \"…Cleveland and the Western Reserve, and generally what relates to the history of Ohio and the Great West,\" it now concentrates on the history of Northeast Ohio.\" \"Between 1867 and 1898, the Society was located in downtown Cleveland in a building which stood on what is now (2011) the site of the KeyBank headquarters. During this period the Society's collections grew rapidly as did its means of support as leading citizens, including John D. Rockefeller, collectors, and scholars became associated with its operations. The growth and stature of its collections were such that it obtained", "title": "Western Reserve Historical Society" }, { "docid": "12192917", "text": "research). Additional future members of the G-13 were founded, including Université de Montréal and the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario in 1878 and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in 1887. University science curricula also changed during this period. Natural philosophy evolved into physics and became closely allied with mathematics. Natural history evolved into geology, biology, zoology and botany. Canada's first, \"national\" scientific/learned/professional association, the Canadian Medical Association was created during this period, in Quebec City in October 1867. In 1882 the founding of the Royal Society of Canada reflected the maturation of Canada's intellectual development by becoming the", "title": "Natural scientific research in Canada" }, { "docid": "3702022", "text": "arose as a strong competitor to Buddhism when it was adopted by the Japanese government. In 1872, the Japanese government decreed that Buddhist clerics could marry. These changes led to modernization efforts by Japanese Buddhism which saw the setting up of publishing houses and the study of Western philosophy and scholarship. In the post war period, Japanese new religions arose, many of them influenced by Buddhism. Chinese Buddhism meanwhile, suffered much destruction during the Christian-inspired Taiping rebellion (1850-64), but saw a modest revival during the Republican period (1912-49). A key figure was Taixu (T’ai-hsü, 1899–1947), who is associated with the", "title": "History of Buddhism" }, { "docid": "3641389", "text": "century BCE), known as the fordmakers of Jainism lived during this age. They propagated the religion of sramanas (previous Tirthankaras) and influenced Indian philosophy by propounding the principles of ahimsa (non-violence), karma, samsara and asceticism. Buddhism, also of the sramana tradition of India, was another of the world's most influential philosophies, founded by Siddhartha Gautama, or the Buddha, who lived during this period; its spread was aided by Ashoka, who lived late in the period. In China, the Hundred Schools of Thought were in contention and Confucianism and Taoism arose during this era, and in this area it remains a", "title": "Axial Age" }, { "docid": "71837", "text": "and Daoism, arose, along with philosophies that later fell into obscurity, like Agriculturalism, Mohism, Chinese Naturalism, and the Logicians. Early Shang Dynasty thought was based upon cycles. This notion stems from what the people of the Shang Dynasty could observe around them: day and night cycled, the seasons progressed again and again, and even the moon waxed and waned until it waxed again. Thus, this notion, which remained relevant throughout Chinese history, reflects the order of nature. In juxtaposition, it also marks a fundamental distinction from western philosophy, in which the dominant view of time is a linear progression. During", "title": "Chinese philosophy" }, { "docid": "2902320", "text": "Greek culture was a powerful influence in the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of Europe. Ancient Greek civilization has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, art and architecture of the modern world, particularly during the Renaissance in Western Europe and again during various neo-classical revivals in 18th and 19th-century Europe and the Americas. The \"Greek Dark Ages\" (ca. 1100 BC–800 BC) refers to the period of Greek history from the presumed Dorian invasion and end of the Mycenaean civilization in the 11th century BC to the rise of the first", "title": "History of Greece" }, { "docid": "10762259", "text": "was born on 25 September 1868 at Kolkata. Sen received Western education, supported by his father, who had been initiated into the Brahmo Samaj by Debendranath Tagore. Sen topped his class throughout his academic career. He mastered the intricacies of Western philosophy. After his graduation with honours in English and philosophy from the General Assembly’s Institution (now Scottish Church College) in 1888, he did his Master of Arts in history and philosophy from Calcutta University. He started working in Baharampur College and worked in Tej Narayan Jubilee College at Bhagalpur for a short period before joining Presidency College in 1893.", "title": "Benoyendranath Sen" }, { "docid": "7377153", "text": "what is now called the Rhineland massacres. Constantinople was sacked during the Fourth Crusade. However, the Crusades had a profound impact on Western civilisation: Italian city-states gained considerable concessions in return for assisting the Crusaders and established colonies which allowed trade with the eastern markets even in the Ottoman period, allowing Genoa and Venice to flourish; they consolidated the collective identity of the Latin Church under papal leadership; and they constituted a wellspring for accounts of heroism, chivalry, and piety that galvanised medieval romance, philosophy, and literature. The Crusades also reinforced a connection between Western Christendom, feudalism, and militarism. The", "title": "Crusades" }, { "docid": "10675449", "text": "his doctorate in theology and philosophy. He is the author of a Thomist philosophical system, \"Institutions of Philosophy\", published between 1881 and 1884 in three volumes: \"Logic\" (1881), \"Metaphysics\" (1882), and \"Moral Philosophy\" (1884). During the 20th century, the history of Romanian philosophy can be divided in three periods: the pre-communist period, the communist period, and the post-communist period. Two major \"schools\" of philosophy have produced, in the first half of the century, two peaks of Romanian philosophy: the school of Maiorescu, and the school of Nae Ionescu. Transylvanian philosophers can also be grouped together, mostly by reason of their", "title": "Romanian philosophy" }, { "docid": "20340299", "text": "styles of Architecture. A majority of settlements around the Black Sea were founded by Miletians, therefore architectural methods and styles of the Miletians were transferred on. But, in these same colonies, there was a sense of needing to legitimize their \"Greekness\". New rulers wanted to prove that they were just as Greek as cities in mainland Greece. Therefore, many elements found in traditional Greek fortification walls were also seen in colonies far from the mainland. At the site of Chersonesus, blocks were cut long and flat. Masonries purposefully used a style of untrimming to give a stylistic effect common in", "title": "Hellenistic fortifications" }, { "docid": "239073", "text": "and Remerschen. What is present-day Luxembourg, was inhabited by Celts during the Iron Age (from roughly 600 BC until 100 AD). The Gaulish tribe in what is present-day Luxembourg during and after the La Tène period was known as the Treveri; they reached the height of prosperity in the 1st century BC. The Treveri constructed a number of oppida, Iron Age fortified settlements, near the Moselle valley in what is now southern Luxembourg, western Germany and eastern France. Most of the archaeological evidence from this period has been discovered in tombs, many closely associated with Titelberg, a 50 ha site", "title": "History of Luxembourg" }, { "docid": "12770188", "text": "a castle there which would grow into the castle complex known as the Fasil Ghebbi, or Royal Enclosure. Fasilides also constructed several churches in Gondar, many bridges across the country, and expanded the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Aksum. During this time of religious strife Ethiopian philosophy flourished, and it was during this period that the philosophers Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat lived. Zera Yaqob is known for his treatise on religion, morality, and reason, known as Hatata. The Sultanate of Aussa (Afar Sultanate) succeeded the earlier Imamate of Aussa. The latter polity had come into existence", "title": "History of Ethiopia" }, { "docid": "19722380", "text": "student in philosophy at the Department of Western Philosophy History, Faculty of Philosophy, at Moscow State University. In 1978, he defended his PhD dissertation (‘kandidatskaya’) titled 'Parmenides' Teachings on Being’. In 1990, he defended his second dissertation (‘doktorskaya’) titled 'The Category of Being in Ancient Philosophy of the Classical Period’. Alexander Dobrokhotov started his academic career as a historian of Ancient Greek Philosophy and as an interpreter of Parmenides' and Heraclitus’ theories of being. His studies resulted in several books, one of which, ‘The Category of Being in Classical West-European Philosophy’ (1986), summarises his main ideas. From 1988 to 1995,", "title": "Alexander Dobrokhotov" }, { "docid": "307982", "text": "have been Socrates, Parmenides, Heraclitus and Pythagoras, although few of his predecessors' works remain extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from Plato himself. The \"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\" describes Plato as \"...one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy. ... He was not the first thinker or writer to whom the word “philosopher” should be applied. But he was so self-conscious about how philosophy should be conceived, and what its scope and ambitions properly are, and", "title": "Plato" }, { "docid": "11022343", "text": "is the philosophy of Western Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages, roughly extending from the Christianization of the Roman Empire until the Renaissance. Medieval philosophy is defined partly by the rediscovery and further development of classical Greek and Hellenistic philosophy, and partly by the need to address theological problems and to integrate the then widespread sacred doctrines of Abrahamic religion (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity) with secular learning. Early medieval philosophy was influenced by the likes of Stoicism, Neoplatonism, but, above all, the philosophy of Plato himself. Some problems discussed throughout this period are the relation of faith", "title": "Western philosophy" }, { "docid": "1341285", "text": "which saw many Taoist and Buddhist temples and institutions destroyed. Modern Japanese thought is strongly influenced by Western science and philosophy. Japan's rapid modernization was partly aided by the early study of western science (known as Rangaku) during the Edo Period (1603 – 1868). Another intellectual movement during the Edo period was Kokugaku (national study), which sought to focus on the study of ancient Japanese thought, classic texts and culture over and against foreign Chinese and Buddhist cultures. A key figure of this movement is Motoori Norinaga (1730 – 1801), who argued that the essence of classic Japanese literature and", "title": "Eastern philosophy" }, { "docid": "2559011", "text": "public opinion. Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles, the physician Hippocrates, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides, and the sculptor Phidias. The leading statesman of this period was Pericles, who used the tribute paid by the members of the Delian League to build the Parthenon and other great monuments of classical Athens. The city became, in Pericles's words, \"the school of Hellas [Greece].\" The resentment felt by other cities at the hegemony", "title": "History of Athens" }, { "docid": "6553452", "text": "women artists. Artists from the Renaissance era include Sofonisba Anguissola, Lucia Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Fede Galizia, Diana Scultori Ghisi, Caterina van Hemessen, Esther Inglis, Barbara Longhi, Maria Ormani, Marietta Robusti (daughter of Tintoretto), Properzia de' Rossi, Plautilla Nelli, Levina Teerlinc, Mayken Verhulst, and St. Catherine of Bologna (Caterina dei Vigri). This is the first period in Western history in which a number of secular female artists gained international reputations. The rise in women artists during this period may be attributed to major cultural shifts. One such shift was a move toward humanism, a philosophy affirming the dignity of all people,", "title": "Women artists" }, { "docid": "10313916", "text": "Albert Low Albert William Low was a western Zen master in the Philip Kapleau-lineage, an internationally published author, and a former human resources executive. He lived in England, South Africa, Canada, and the United States and resided in Montreal since 1979. He held a BA degree in Philosophy and Psychology, and was a trained counselor. In 2003, he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws for scholastic attainment and community service by Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario. He was born in London, England, on December 16, 1928. During the period of 1947 - 1949, he served two years", "title": "Albert Low" }, { "docid": "15114455", "text": "pertaining to the history of Near Eastern and Western civilisation, please refer to list of historical period drama films and series set in Near Eastern and Western civilization. The films on this page are divided into regions, and within each region the films are listed chronologically by subject matter. There are many more Indian historical movies which are not on the list, especially if movies concerning what may be called mythological movies, are hundreds. (Which are?) \"Jidaigeki\" 時代劇 is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. Literally \"period dramas\", they are most often set during the Edo period", "title": "Historical period drama films set in Asia" }, { "docid": "14384785", "text": "Medieval philosophy Medieval philosophy is a term used to refer to the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the Renaissance in the 15th century. Medieval philosophy, understood as a project of independent philosophical inquiry, began in Baghdad, in the middle of the 8th century, and in France, in the itinerant court of Charlemagne, in the last quarter of the 8th century. It is defined partly by the process of rediscovering the ancient culture developed in Greece and Rome during the Classical period,", "title": "Medieval philosophy" }, { "docid": "16848282", "text": "Self-fulfillment In philosophy and psychology, self-fulfillment is the realizing of one's deepest desires and capacities. The history of this concept can be traced to Ancient Greek philosophers and it still remains a notable concept in modern philosophy. Philosopher Alan Gewirth in his book \"Self-Fulfillment\" defined self-fulfillment as \"carrying to fruition one's deepest desires or one's worthiest capacities.\" Another definition states that self-fulfillment is \"the attainment of a satisfying and worthwhile life well lived.\" It is an ideal that can be traced to Ancient Greek philosophers, and one that has been common and popular in both Western and non-Western cultures. Self-fulfillment", "title": "Self-fulfillment" }, { "docid": "8786679", "text": "which society moved, effectively \"destabilising\" the linear progression of history (it is these comments, specifically, that provoked Sokal's criticism). History was, so to speak, outpaced by its own spectacular realisation. As Baudrillard himself caustically put it: This approach to history is what marks out Baudrillard's affinities with the postmodern philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard: the idea that society — and Western society in particular — has \"dropped out\" of the grand narratives of history (for example, the coming of Communism, or the triumph of civilised modern society). But Baudrillard has supplemented this argument by contending that, although this \"dropping out\" may", "title": "Historicity (philosophy)" }, { "docid": "8262264", "text": "is contrasted to what is \"by convention\". The concept of nature taken this far remains a strong tradition in modern western thinking. Science, according to Strauss' commentary of Western history is the contemplation of nature, while technology was or is an attempt to imitate it. Going further, the philosophical concept of nature or natures as a special type of causation - for example that the way particular humans are is partly caused by something called \"human nature\" is an essential step towards Aristotle's teaching concerning causation, which became standard in all Western philosophy until the arrival of modern science. Whether", "title": "Nature (philosophy)" }, { "docid": "10463543", "text": "Classical Greece Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (5th and 4th centuries BC) in Greek culture. This Classical period saw the annexation of much of modern-day Greece by the Persian Empire and its subsequent independence. Classical Greece had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire and on the foundations of Western civilization. Much of modern Western politics, artistic thought (architecture, sculpture), scientific thought, theatre, literature, and philosophy derives from this period of Greek history. In the context of the art, architecture, and culture of Ancient Greece, the Classical period corresponds to most of the 5th and 4th", "title": "Classical Greece" }, { "docid": "16983530", "text": "period, at which point Ancient Greece was incorporated into the Roman Empire. It dealt with a wide variety of subjects, including political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, ontology, logic, biology, rhetoric, and aesthetics. Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician and writer of philosophical dialogues. He was the founder of the Academy in Athens which was the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Inspired by the admonition of his mentor, Socrates, prior to his unjust execution that \"the unexamined life is not worth living\", Plato and his student, the political scientist Aristotle, helped lay the foundations of Western philosophy", "title": "History of Western civilization before AD 500" }, { "docid": "16700919", "text": "Valla's contemporaries paid little attention to it, his \"Disputations\" foreshadows what we now call \"philosophy of language\". Both Valla and Pico lived during a great era of Italian intellectual life, starting with Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio in the fourteenth century and ending with Giordano Bruno, Tommaso Campanella and Galileo in the seventeenth century. In the nineteenth century, Italian philosophers worked out the grand narrative of Italian thought in this earlier period – the Renaissance – and afterward: the construction of this story as an artifact of modern Italian politics, especially the Risorgimento and the Fascist regime, is another topic that", "title": "Brian Copenhaver" }, { "docid": "17408108", "text": "Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, in terrestrial sediments deposited during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 84 to 78 million years ago. This specimen is housed in the collection of the Museo Argentino Urquiza in Neuquén, Argentina. The specimen was found by Carlos Parada and family, who provided logistic support to museum staff as well as assistance during fieldwork. Overosaurus Overosaurus is an extinct genus of sauropod dinosaurs, containing only a single species, Overosaurus paradasorum. This species lived approximately 84 to 78 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period in what", "title": "Overosaurus" }, { "docid": "2142260", "text": "and many privileges were given to Buddhist monks during this period. However, the Joseon period saw the suppression of Buddhism, where Buddhist monks and temples were banned from the cities and confined to the countryside. In its place a strict form of Confucianism, which some see as even more strict than what had ever been adopted by the Chinese, became the official philosophy. Korean Confucianism was epitomized by the seonbi class, scholars who passed up positions of wealth and power to lead lives of study and integrity. Throughout Korean history and culture, regardless of separation, the traditional beliefs of Korean", "title": "Culture of Korea" }, { "docid": "13226003", "text": "a major role in saving works of Aristotle that had been lost to the Latin West. The influence of Greek philosophy on Islam was dramatically reduced In the 11th century when the views of Avicenna and Avveroes were strongly criticized by Al-Ghazali. His \"Incoherence of the Philosophers\" is among the most influential books in Islamic history. In Western Europe, meanwhile, the recovery of Greek texts during the Scholastic period had a profound influence on Latin science and theology from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance. In science, the theories of the Greco-Roman physician Galen dominated Western medical thought and practice", "title": "Legacy of the Roman Empire" }, { "docid": "14904042", "text": "Intercultural philosophy Intercultural philosophy (or sometimes world philosophy) is an approach to philosophy that had its precursors in the past but has started as a concept in the 1980s. It mostly emanates from the German-speaking parts of Europe and can be seen as a need to factor other cultures into one's own philosophical thinking and thus creating an intercultural perspective. In the long history of philosophical thought there has always been a claim for universality although many great thinkers from the past see philosophical value only in the western tradition and oversee what other parts of the world have achieved", "title": "Intercultural philosophy" }, { "docid": "12856792", "text": "and while some were brought over to Althouse College, many were not. Joining the university as a Faculty of Education (1974) contributed to attrition of non-research-based faculty, influencing them to either upgrade to a PhD-level or resign. During this period, the College began consolidating its many different departments. Stabler served as Dean for the London Teacher's College (1969–74), including the merging period to 1976. A graduate program was started later in the 1990s, the PhD program slowly growing with 6 students a year in 1999. Early teacher education at Althouse required students to enrol in Philosophy, History, and Psychology as", "title": "University of Western Ontario Faculty of Education" }, { "docid": "5662972", "text": "Romanticism, nationalism, scientific racism and esotericism (Theosophy) popular at the time (while conversely and contemporaneously, India had a similar effect on European culture with Orientalism, \"Hindoo style\" architecture, reception of Buddhism in the West and similar). According to Paul Hacker, \"the ethcial values of Neo-Hinduism stem from Western philosophy and Christianity, although they are expressed in Hindu terms.\" These reform movements are summarised under Hindu revivalism and continue into the present. An important development during the British colonial period was the influence Hindu traditions began to form on Western thought and new religious movements. An early champion of Indian-inspired thought", "title": "History of Hinduism" }, { "docid": "16849985", "text": "during the Indochina conflict, while the Western Bloc cultivated a myth of Chinese expansionism throughout the decade. Presented as a documentary on Chinese history, the film mixed Cold War-era anti-communist rhetoric with earlier Western Yellow Peril rhetoric into one, portraying China as seeking to gain control of Africa and Latin America before moving on to capture the United States. The film traces the political philosophy of Mao Zedong to the time of the building of the Great Wall, a period described in the film as an era of \"slave labor and thought control.\" The film's anonymous narrator accuses the People's", "title": "Red Chinese Battle Plan" }, { "docid": "15521401", "text": "Zakir Mammadov Zakir Jabbar Bey oglu Mammadov (Azerbaijani: Məmmədov Zakir Cabbar bəy oğlu) - Correspondent member (associate member) of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, doctor in philosophy. Correspondent member (associate member) of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, doctor in philosophy, Mammadov dealt with issues history of Eastern philosophy, especially history of Azerbaijani philosophy and wrote works in this field during his scientific activities for approximately forty years. The scholar refuted the thesis ‘no professional philosopher lived in Azerbaijan in Middle Ages except for Bahmanyar’ and analyzed by exposing the richness of our national legacy. Herewith he became a researcher of", "title": "Zakir Mammadov" }, { "docid": "4933950", "text": "written a thesis on the History of Buddhism in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Then he went on to study Indian Philosophy at Calcutta University and later studied Mahayana at the Sorbonne. It was during his time at the Sorbonne in the late 1950s that he produced \"What the Buddha Taught\", a highly regarded introductory text on Buddhism, for which he is best known. Walpola Rahula Thero is the first Buddhist monk to become a professor in a Western University. When he became Professor of History and Literature of Religions there were no Theravada Temples in the United States. He later became", "title": "Walpola Rahula Thero" }, { "docid": "10337829", "text": "religious iconography and carvings commonly seen across Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The first Jñāna Vigraham was designed and commissioned by a private art collector and researcher of Nārāyana Guru’s philosophy and teachings. It was primarily intended as a trendsetter to improve the quality of Nārāyana Guru’s statues, kept in homes and in small chapel-like places of reverence and worship called \"Guru Mandirams'. These shrines dot the length and breadth of Kerala, the south-western part of India where Nārāyana Guru was born and lived during the period 1856 to 1928. The Jñāna Vigraham was sculptured in wood by the sculptor Artist", "title": "Jnana Vigraham" }, { "docid": "15782704", "text": "a philosophy or theology in itself but a tool and method for learning which places emphasis on dialectical reasoning. Medieval philosophy is the philosophy of Western Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages, roughly extending from the Christianization of the Roman Empire until the Renaissance. Medieval philosophy is defined partly by the rediscovery and further development of classical Greek and Hellenistic philosophy, and partly by the need to address theological problems and to integrate the then widespread sacred doctrines of Abrahamic religion (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity) with secular learning. The history of western European medieval philosophy is traditionally", "title": "Christian culture" }, { "docid": "5632176", "text": "had no children. In 1905, Shaw wrote what remains the definitive history of Western Sudan and the modern settlement of Northern Nigeria, \"A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Soudan, With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria\" (London: Nisbet, 1905). While they lived in Hong Kong she helped her husband establishing the University of Hong Kong. During the First World War, she was prominent in the founding of the War Refugees Committee, which dealt with the problem of the refugees from Belgium, and she founded the Lady Lugard Hospitality Committee. In the", "title": "Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard" }, { "docid": "16286931", "text": "‘the most general attempt to make sense of things’, the study charts the evolution of metaphysics through various competing conceptions of its possibility, scope and limits: it deals with the early modern period, the late modern period in the analytic tradition and the late modern period in non-analytic traditions. Moore challenges the still prevalent conviction that there is some unbridgeable gulf between analytic philosophy and philosophy of other kinds. He also advances his own distinctive conception of what metaphysics is and why it matters. Moore is well known not only for his work in the areas or metaphysics and history", "title": "A. W. Moore (philosopher)" }, { "docid": "4110629", "text": "with philosophy, and pages 147–208 with a history of the known world from AD 153 to 1209. On the final page of the manuscript we find a note by the author \"With the assistance and great love of the blessed Lord, I finished this in the year 1210 on the 9th day of March.\". The expansion of the Ottoman Empire pushed many Albanians from their homeland during the period of the Western European Renaissance humanism. Among the Albanian émigrés that became known in the humanist world are historian Marin Barleti (1460–1513) who in 1510 published in Rome a history of", "title": "Albanian literature" }, { "docid": "3414466", "text": "Early modern philosophy Early modern philosophy (also classical modern philosophy) is a period in the history of philosophy at the beginning or overlapping with the period known as modern philosophy. The early modern period in history is roughly 1500–1789, but the label \"early modern philosophy\" is usually used to refer to a more specific period of time. In the narrowest sense, the term is used to refer principally to the philosophy of the 17th century, posited to have begun with René Descartes; to have included Thomas Hobbes, Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza; and to have ended with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and", "title": "Early modern philosophy" }, { "docid": "5394326", "text": "Russell's view that there is a sharp distinction between Leibniz's \"popular philosophy\" and his \"esoteric doctrine\". The critic George Steiner, writing in \"Heidegger\", described \"A History of Western Philosophy\" as \"vulgar\", noting that Russell omits any mention of Martin Heidegger. In Jon Stewart's anthology \"The Hegel Myths and Legends\" (1996), Russell's work is listed as a book that has propagated \"myths\" about Hegel. Stephen Houlgate writes that Russell's claim that Hegel's doctrine of the state justifies any form of tyranny is ignorant. The philosopher Roger Scruton, writing in \"A Short History of Modern Philosophy\", described \"A History of Western Philosophy\"", "title": "A History of Western Philosophy" }, { "docid": "14977886", "text": "Josef Bergenthal Josef Bergenthal (November 1, 1900 in Oberschledorn, Province of Westphalia – August 24, 1982) was a German writer and during the period of National Socialism was one of the intellectual supporters of the regime and Nazism. Bergenthal attended high school in Paderborn. Later he studied law and political sciences and philosophy, history, and drama. After graduation, he spent a year working for a theater magazine in Berlin. He then lived in Munster as a freelance writer and editor. He was often served as editor and also wrote for radio. In the era of National Socialism, he was active", "title": "Josef Bergenthal" }, { "docid": "3223554", "text": "weeks it was a question if he would survive his terrible experience, but, by the external use of lime water, his flesh was healed, although not with the loss of most of the first joints of his hands and feet. Notwithstanding his sore experiences Mons. VINCENT lived a long and useful life, during which he became wealthy, reared a large family and held the high respect of all who knew him. He was a man of liberal education, read VOLTAIRE and ROUSSEAU, and while in his Western home, was a student of history, philosophy, mathematics, ethics and music. He was", "title": "French Grant" }, { "docid": "16700974", "text": "relationship with the Lakota people began as a young man in the Dakota Territory in 1885 when he lived with them during a period of great sorrow. He returned to Du Bois, Pennsylvania, became a successful banker, and led the region into prominence as the biggest bituminous coal producers in the United States between 1890 and World War I. McCreight collaborated with Flying Hawk, an Oglala Lakota Chief, to write a Native American's view of U.S. history and classic accounts of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse and commentaries on Native American philosophy. The Wigwam, McCreight's home", "title": "Major Israel McCreight" }, { "docid": "14379434", "text": "at Gemini G.E.L., the print atelier he founded in Los Angeles. During this period Fisher re-united with her mother, who now lived and painted in Los Angeles and who once again became an important source of inspiration as well as an intellectual ally. At Gemini, she met Robert Irwin and R B Kitaj; each had a profound if contradictory influence on Fisher's own developing philosophy of art. She worked a few hours a week for the historian Ariel Durant, whose ideas about art history helped her come to terms with her current emphasis on style, an artifact from her years", "title": "Sandra Fisher" }, { "docid": "14154061", "text": "Joseph S. Freedman Joseph S. Freedman (born 1946) is Professor of History at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. He has been an Assistant (2000-2005), Associate (2005-2008), and Full Professor (2008-2012) of Education there. His primary area of research is academic philosophy (\"Schulphilosophie\") during the Early Modern Period with an emphasis on Central Europe. He publishes extensively on the history of philosophy and history of education. Freedman received his BA in History 1969, his MA in History in 1972, and his PhD in History in 1982, all from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His PhD dissertation focused on philosophy and philosophical", "title": "Joseph S. Freedman" }, { "docid": "5394325", "text": "of Western Philosophy\" was perhaps the worst of Russell's books. In his view, Russell was at his best when dealing with contemporary philosophy, and that in contrast \"his treatment of ancient and medieval doctrines is nearly worthless.\" \"A History of Western Philosophy\" was praised by physicists Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger. The philosopher Frederick Copleston, writing in \"A History of Philosophy\", described Russell's book as \"unusually lively and entertaining\", but added that Russell's \"treatment of a number of important philosophers is both inadequate and misleading.\" He credited Russell with drawing attention to the logical side of Leibniz's philosophy, but questioned", "title": "A History of Western Philosophy" }, { "docid": "2685656", "text": "Pleistocene period, muskoxen were much more widespread. Fossil evidence shows that they lived across the Siberian and North American Arctic, from the Urals to Greenland. The ancestors of today's muskoxen came across the Bering Land Bridge to North America between 200,000 and 90,000 years ago. During the Wisconsinan, modern muskox thrived in the tundra south of the Laurentide ice sheet, in what is now the Midwest, the Appalachians and Virginia, while distant relatives \"Bootherium\" and \"Euceratherium\" lived in the forests of the Southern United States and the western shrubland, respectively. Though they were always less common than other Ice Age", "title": "Muskox" }, { "docid": "3113791", "text": "historiography, the new knowledge of the Greeks and Arabs and its effects upon western science and philosophy\", as he stated in his preface. Haskins focused on high culture to prove that the twelfth century was indeed a period of dynamic growth. He looked at the history of art and science, the universities, philosophy, architecture and literature, and provided a celebratory view of the period. More recent views of the renewal have expanded the focus. Once the ice had been broken, other scholars concentrated on an earlier, more constrained revival of learning in some circles under the patronage of Charlemagne, and", "title": "Charles Homer Haskins" }, { "docid": "4832192", "text": "History of political science Political science as a separate field is a rather late arrival in terms of social sciences. However, the term \"political science\" was not always distinguished from political philosophy, and the modern discipline has a clear set of antecedents including also moral philosophy, political economy, political theology, history, and other fields concerned with normative determinations of what ought to be and with deducing the characteristics and functions of the ideal state. The antecedents of Western politics can be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers, and Aristotle (\"The Father of Political Science\") (384–322 BC). These authors, in", "title": "History of political science" }, { "docid": "1784867", "text": "offered centuries later by Leonti Mroveli, but the period of Jewish migration into Georgia is ascribed to Alexander the Great: Georgian sources also refer to the arrival of the first Jews in Western Georgia from the Byzantine Empire during the 6th century AD. Approximately 3,000 of the Jews fled to Eastern Georgia, which by that time was controlled by the Persians, to escape severe persecution by the Byzantines. The existence of the Jews in these regions during this period is supported by the archaeological evidence, which shows that Jews lived in Mtskheta, the ancient capital of the Eastern Georgian state", "title": "History of the Jews in Georgia" }, { "docid": "4832211", "text": "of Aristotle's \"Politics\", so he wrote a commentary on Plato's \"Republic\" instead. History of political science Political science as a separate field is a rather late arrival in terms of social sciences. However, the term \"political science\" was not always distinguished from political philosophy, and the modern discipline has a clear set of antecedents including also moral philosophy, political economy, political theology, history, and other fields concerned with normative determinations of what ought to be and with deducing the characteristics and functions of the ideal state. The antecedents of Western politics can be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers,", "title": "History of political science" }, { "docid": "8519660", "text": "of education under the Duchy of Warsaw and under the Congress Poland established by the Congress of Vienna, Stanisław Kostka Potocki (1755–1821). In some places, as at Krzemieniec and its Lyceum in southeastern Poland, this philosophy was to survive well into the nineteenth century. Though a belated philosophy from a western perspective, it was at the same time the philosophy of the future. This was the period between d'Alembert and Comte; and even as this variety of positivism was temporarily fading in the West, it was carrying on in Poland. At the turn of the nineteenth century, as Immanuel Kant's", "title": "History of philosophy in Poland" }, { "docid": "165878", "text": "\"Annals-biography\" format, which would become the standard for prestige history writing in China. In this genre a history opens with a chronological outline of court affairs, and then continues with detailed biographies of prominent people who lived during the period in question. Whereas Sima's had been a universal history from the beginning of time down to the time of writing, his successor Ban Gu wrote an annals-biography history limiting its coverage to only the Western Han dynasty, the Book of Han (96 CE). This established the notion of using dynastic boundaries as start- and end-points, and most later Chinese histories", "title": "Historiography" }, { "docid": "4846442", "text": "Aesthetic Movement architect, Wilson Eyre in 1890. Although they met in the early 1890s, it wasn't until 1901 that Fenollosa became Freer developed an important relationship with Ernest Fenollosa, the son of a Spanish immigrant, and authority on the art of China and Japan. Fenollosa, who lived and worked in Japan from 1880 through 1890, taught Philosophy and Logic at the Imperial University of Tokyo. During his tenure in Japan, Fenollosa studied art history, criticism, and methodology and applied what he learned to Japanese art and culture. Fenollosa published widely, both in English and Japanese, and in 1889 the Museum", "title": "Charles Lang Freer" }, { "docid": "16018646", "text": "medicine. This medical system was developed based on experience, along with philosophical and folk practices. Starting in the 16th century, the nature and values of Chinese society changed radically, with the arrival and dissemination of Western ideas, technology, and culture. In the declining period of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912), the entire Chinese philosophy and culture was re-examined. Chinese medicine, as part of the Chinese tradition, was re-evaluated in response to the perceived effectiveness of Western medicine. The conflict between Eastern and Western approaches reached a crisis point at the beginning of the Republican period. Larger segments within Chinese society began", "title": "History of qigong" }, { "docid": "5987544", "text": "Ladislav Klíma Ladislav Klíma (22 August 1878 – 19 April 1928), was a Czech philosopher and novelist influenced by George Berkeley, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. His philosophy is referred to varyingly as existentialism and subjective idealism. Ladislav Klíma was born in the town of Domažlice in western Bohemia. He came from a moderately wealthy family. After expulsion from the school system in 1895 for allegedly insulting the State, the Church, and — out of what he described as “historical analphabetism” — the Habsburgs, he lived alternately in Tyrol, Zurich, and Prague. As part of his philosophy he only ever took on", "title": "Ladislav Klíma" }, { "docid": "19916215", "text": "Lou Yulie Lou Yulie (; born October 10, 1934) is professor of philosophy and religious studies at Peking University who serves as Honorary Dean of Institutes of Religion and Culture and was the founding director of the Institute of Chinese Buddhist Cultural Studies. Lou has worked on the area of history of Chinese Philosophy, Chinese Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy in Peking University for more than 50 years. He is well known nationally and internationally for his study of the history of Chinese philosophy, especially the study of metaphysics during the Wei and Jin period (AD 220-420) and the modern philosophy", "title": "Lou Yulie" }, { "docid": "1814648", "text": "in Rotterdam until his death in 1706. As Bertrand Russell noted in his \"A History of Western Philosophy\" (1945), \"He [Descartes] lived in Holland for twenty years (1629–49), except for a few brief visits to France and one to England, all on business. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Holland in the 17th century, as the one country where there was freedom of speculation. Hobbes had to have his books printed there; Locke took refuge there during the five worst years of reaction in England before 1688; Bayle (of the \"Dictionary\") found it necessary to live there; and", "title": "Dutch Golden Age" }, { "docid": "19681576", "text": "of much needed transparency created the first abstract works. Influenced by the struggle for survival and the quest for integration in a foreign country, this was a difficult period but very liberating for his work. At last he could paint what he felt. He dedicated himself, inspired by the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, to study his own personal painting style of metaphysical abstraction and to develop his own color philosophy. This was followed by invitations for exhibitions locally in Switzerland than France and England. In 1964/65 the family lived in the United States. But out of concern that his son", "title": "Lajos Tscheligi" }, { "docid": "13813781", "text": "asking 'what should I do?', with third person observations about human behaviour. Chapter One presents a history of Western philosophy, noting that science and observation were usually an essential part of philosophy. Chapter Two deals with the challenges presented by behavioural science to ethics. Chapter Three covers intuition, and its role in ethics. The book notes that intuitive responses depend greatly on how a situation is framed. Chapter Four argue for ethical realism and ethical pluralism, within certain limits. Chapter Five, the last chapter, concludes that the purpose of ethics is to advise what he calls 'experiments in living', and", "title": "Experiments in Ethics" }, { "docid": "5394327", "text": "as elegantly written and witty, but faulted it for Russell's concentration on pre-Cartesian philosophy, lack of understanding of Immanuel Kant, and over-generalization and omissions. The philosopher A. C. Grayling writes of the work that, \"Parts of this famous book are sketchy ... in other respects it is a marvelously readable, magnificently sweeping survey of Western thought, distinctive for placing it informatively into its historical context. Russell enjoyed writing it, and the enjoyment shows; his later remarks about it equally show that he was conscious of its shortcomings.\" A History of Western Philosophy A History of Western Philosophy is a 1945", "title": "A History of Western Philosophy" }, { "docid": "5949813", "text": "convict history and genealogy throughout Australia. Convict era of Western Australia The convict era of Western Australia was the period during which Western Australia was a penal colony of the British Empire. Although it received small numbers of juvenile offenders from 1842, it was not formally constituted as a penal colony until 1849. Between 1850 and 1868, 9,721 convicts were transported to Western Australia on 43 convict ship voyages. Transportation ceased in 1868, and it was many years until the colony ceased to have any convicts in its care. The first convicts to arrive in what is now Western Australia", "title": "Convict era of Western Australia" }, { "docid": "1468066", "text": "most notable schools of Hellenistic philosophy were: The spread of Christianity throughout the Roman world, followed by the spread of Islam, ushered in the end of Hellenistic philosophy and the beginnings of Medieval philosophy, which was dominated by the three Abrahamic traditions: Jewish philosophy, Christian philosophy, and early Islamic philosophy. During the Middle Ages, Greek ideas were largely forgotten in Western Europe due to the Migration Period, which resulted into decline in literacy. In the Byzantine Empire Greek ideas were preserved and studied, and not long after the first major expansion of Islam, however, the Abbasid caliphs authorized the gathering", "title": "Ancient Greek philosophy" }, { "docid": "571447", "text": "History of Wales The history of Wales begins with the arrival of human beings in the region thousands of years ago. Neanderthals lived in what is now Wales, or \"Cymru\" in Welsh, at least 230,000 years ago, while \"Homo sapiens\" arrived by about 31,000 BC. However, continuous habitation by modern humans dates from the period after the end of the last ice age around 9000 BC, and Wales has many remains from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age. During the Iron Age the region, like all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, was dominated by the Celtic Britons", "title": "History of Wales" }, { "docid": "1515733", "text": "to do for theology what he had done for religion in his \"Speeches\". While he preached every Sunday, Schleiermacher also gradually took up in his lectures in the university almost every branch of theology and philosophy—New Testament exegesis, introduction to and interpretation of the New Testament, ethics (both philosophic and Christian), dogmatic and practical theology, church history, history of philosophy, psychology, dialectics (logic and metaphysics), politics, pedagogy, translation and aesthetics. In politics Schleiermacher supported liberty and progress, and in the period of reaction which followed the overthrow of Napoleon he was charged by the Prussian government with \"demagogic agitation\" in", "title": "Friedrich Schleiermacher" }, { "docid": "1503927", "text": "period to the Renaissance, historians alternated between focusing on subjects designed to improve mankind and on a devotion to fact. History was composed mainly of hagiographies of monarchs or of epic poetry describing heroic gestures (such as \"The Song of Roland\"—about the Battle of Roncevaux Pass (778) during Charlemagne's first campaign to conquer the Iberian peninsula). In the fourteenth century, Ibn Khaldun, who is considered one of the fathers of the philosophy of history, discussed his philosophy of history and society in detail in his \"Muqaddimah\" (1377). His work represents a culmination of earlier works by medieval Islamic sociologists in", "title": "Philosophy of history" }, { "docid": "7398376", "text": "Seiichi Hatano philosophy of religion dealing mostly with western religion and also western philosophical thoughts in theological aspects of Christianity. Hatano was born in Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture, and educated at Tokyo Imperial University, from which he graduated in 1899. He was very influential in stimulating the study in Japan of Western philosophy and religion, both through his teaching (he was the first to teach the history of Western philosophy at Tokyo Semmon Gakko, now Waseda University), and through his early writings. These included \"An Outline of the History of Western Philosophy\" (1897), \"The Origins of Christianity\" (1909), and \"A", "title": "Seiichi Hatano" }, { "docid": "3250305", "text": "Badiou's notion of truth procedures, see below.) Badiou consistently maintains throughout his work (but most systematically in \"Manifesto for Philosophy\") that philosophy must avoid the temptation to suture itself ('sew itself', that is, to hand over its entire intellectual effort) to any of these independent truth procedures. When philosophy does suture itself to one of its conditions (and Badiou argues that the history of philosophy during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is primarily a history of sutures), what results is a philosophical \"disaster.\" Consequently, philosophy is, according to Badiou, a thinking of the \"compossibility\" of the several truth procedures, whether", "title": "Alain Badiou" } ]

[ "Jennifer Holliday" ]

[ { "docid": "8696652", "text": "Not Going\", often considered the show's signature tune, describe Effie's love for Curtis, both strongly devoted and defiant. She refuses to let Curtis leave her behind, and boldly proclaims to him, \"I'm staying and you ... you're gonna love me.\" In addition to its presence in the musical, \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" is also notable as the debut single of two women who portrayed Effie. Jennifer Holliday originated the role on Broadway in 1981 and won a Tony Award for her performance as well as the Grammy for Best R&B Performance, Female for its re-release in", "title": "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" }, { "docid": "8696664", "text": "out-sing each other, ultimately resulting in embarrassing Martin. In \"Britain's Got Talent\" 2017, Sarah Ikumu sang this song as her audition piece. It won her the Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell which got her an unchallenged pass into the live finals. Jennifer Holliday version Rosabel with Jennifer Holliday version Jennifer Hudson version And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" (also known in short as just \"And I Am Telling You\") is a torch song from the Broadway musical \"Dreamgirls\", with lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger. In the", "title": "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" }, { "docid": "8658073", "text": "I Am Changing \"I Am Changing\" is a song from the second act of the long-running Broadway musical \"Dreamgirls\". Written by Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen, the song was performed by the character Effie White, originally portrayed on Broadway by Jennifer Holliday. \"I Am Changing\" tells the story of a woman who wants to leave behind the mistakes of her past and \"change my life\"—she sings, \"I need you, I need a hand\" and \"I need a friend to help me start all over again\". After the unexpected success of Holliday's first single, \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not", "title": "I Am Changing" }, { "docid": "8696652", "text": "Not Going\", often considered the show's signature tune, describe Effie's love for Curtis, both strongly devoted and defiant. She refuses to let Curtis leave her behind, and boldly proclaims to him, \"I'm staying and you ... you're gonna love me.\" In addition to its presence in the musical, \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" is also notable as the debut single of two women who portrayed Effie. Jennifer Holliday originated the role on Broadway in 1981 and won a Tony Award for her performance as well as the Grammy for Best R&B Performance, Female for its re-release in", "title": "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" }, { "docid": "8696657", "text": "with a voice like the young Aretha.\" On June 26, 2007, the 7th Annual BET Awards opened with Jennifer Holliday and Jennifer Hudson performing \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" live in their first duet together. Although it in essence is Hudson's first single release, it became her fourth top 75 hit in the United Kingdom after a performance on \"The X Factor\" in 2009 after being sung by Danyl Johnson. Hudson performed the song again at the 85th Academy Awards, as part of the \"Dreamgirls\" section in the tribute to movie musicals. A club remix was created", "title": "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" }, { "docid": "5475913", "text": "Jennifer Holliday Jennifer Yvette Holliday (born October 19, 1960) is an American singer and actress. She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as \"Dreamgirls\" (1981–83), \"Your Arms Too Short to Box with God\" (1980–81) and later became a successful recording artist. She is best known for her debut single, the \"Dreamgirls\" number and rhythm-and-blues/pop hit, \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\", for which she won a Grammy in 1983. She also won a 1982 Tony Award for \"Dreamgirls\". Holliday landed her first big role on Broadway in 1979 at age 19, the same day she auditioned", "title": "Jennifer Holliday" }, { "docid": "8696653", "text": "1982 for which it became a number-one R&B hit for Holliday. Jennifer Hudson portrayed Effie in the 2006 film adaptation of \"Dreamgirls\", winning an Oscar for the role. Hudson's version became a Top 20 R&B single, and a number-one dance hit. In 1982, Jennifer Holliday, the actress who portrayed Effie in the original Broadway production, released the song as a single. It was her first single release and it met with great success, topping the \"Billboard\" R&B charts and attaining top forty positions on both the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. In 1983, Holliday won the Grammy", "title": "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" } ]

[ { "docid": "19700443", "text": "D. Huff from \"Twisted Ears\" calls the song \"grand in its simplicity\" where as critic Doug Collette from \"All About Jazz\" praises Truck's slide guitar playing on the song, noting: \"he is readily identifiable on 'Who Am I Telling You?'\" but at the same time thinks that \"neither these, nor other arrangements allow for much extended improvisation during which Trucks–and/or Clapton and Cale.\" In 2016, a live version featuring Clapton and Cale was released on \"Live in San Diego\". Who Am I Telling You? \"Who Am I Telling You?\" is a song written by American singer-songwriter J. J. Cale who", "title": "Who Am I Telling You?" }, { "docid": "8696651", "text": "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" (also known in short as just \"And I Am Telling You\") is a torch song from the Broadway musical \"Dreamgirls\", with lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger. In the context of the musical, \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" is sung by the character Effie White, a singer with the girl group The Dreams, to her manager, Curtis Taylor Jr., whose romantic and professional relationship with Effie is quickly ending. The lyrics to \"And I Am Telling You I'm", "title": "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" }, { "docid": "19700442", "text": "Who Am I Telling You? \"Who Am I Telling You?\" is a song written by American singer-songwriter J. J. Cale who recorded the tune together with British rock guitarist Eric Clapton for their 2006 collaborative release \"The Road to Escondido\" for Duck- and Reprise Records. The song, which is of four minute and eight second duration, features lead slide guitar playing by Derek Trucks from The Derek Trucks Band and The Allman Brothers Band and is written in the key of F major. The song was recorded in August 2005 during the sessions for \"The Road to Escondido\". Journalist Philip", "title": "Who Am I Telling You?" }, { "docid": "6077050", "text": "Form of Flattery (original, Alessandrini) It's De-Merman (\"It's De-Lovely\", Porter) (volume 1) Old Fashioned Ballad (\"Old Fashioned Wedding\", Berlin) (volume 3) Gagtime (\"Ragtime\", Flaherty-Ahrens) A Really Long Note (\"The Wheels of a Dream\", Flaherty-Ahrens) Time I Said, \"Goodbye\" (\"Con te Partirò\", Sartori-Quarantotto) I Sleep with Everyone (\"Love Changes Everything\", Lloyd Webber-Rice-Hart) And I Am Telling You I'm Not Screaming (\"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\", Ayen-Krieger) Liza One-Note (original, Alessandrini, based on \"Johnny One-Note\", Rodgers-Hart) I Enjoy Being a Cat (\"I Enjoy Being a Girl\", Rodgers-Hammerstein) Memory (\"Memory\", Lloyd Webber-Eliot) Ambition (\"Tradition\", Bock-Harnick) Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition", "title": "Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition" }, { "docid": "8696655", "text": "a Broadway musical since Ethel Merman sang \"Everything's Coming Up Roses\" at the end of Act I of \"\"\" \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" remains Holliday's signature song. \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" was recorded in 2006 by former \"American Idol\" contestant Jennifer Hudson, who portrayed Effie White in the DreamWorks/Paramount motion picture adaptation of \"Dreamgirls\". Her recording of the song, the \"Dreamgirls\" film soundtrack's second single, peaked at number 60 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, and number 14 on the R&B chart. Hudson won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting", "title": "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" }, { "docid": "8136096", "text": "\"best moments\", he stated: \"I am the only one who loves court. I will swear to you now, I am the only one off set that lights up when there is a five page monologue. I have to tell you it was my first months on the show, and they gave me my first case, and it was about a black student who was suing the school system. I gave a speech, and I am telling you they had 12 on the jury and those extra’s cried, and that is all I cared about. That was like doing theatre.\" In", "title": "Michael Baldwin" }, { "docid": "17207029", "text": "New Zealand's Got Talent (series 3) New Zealand's Got Talent was a New Zealand reality television show, based on the original UK series, to find new talent. The third series began airing on TV One from 15 September 2013. Host Tamati Coffey returned to the show, along with judges Jason Kerrison and Rachel Hunter and key sponsor Toyota New Zealand. American choreographer Cris Judd also joined the judging panel. The series screened at 7.30pm on Sunday evenings. The series was won by 22-year-old singer Renee Maurice from Wellington, who performed \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\". Maurice had", "title": "New Zealand's Got Talent (series 3)" }, { "docid": "7187997", "text": "at the Inquiry during 2009 the Chairman Sir Anthony Campbell published his report on 14 December 2011 in Glasgow. A full copy of this report can be obtained online at Fingerprint Inquiry homepage. Scottish folk singer and poet Michael Marra has written a protest song condemning the way the McKie case was handled. The lyrics include: \"I am Shirley McKie. She is me and I am she. You are too, Shirley is you. We are she because Shirley is we.\" And referring to first minister Jack McConnell, they say, \"We lecture children if they're telling lies, they will not prosper", "title": "Shirley McKie" }, { "docid": "6995956", "text": "soundtrack, supported by a music video featuring Beyoncé. \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" was the \"Dreamgirls\" soundtrack's second single. Though a music video with all-original footage was once planned, the video eventually released for \"And I Am Telling You\" comprised the entire corresponding scene in the actual film. \"Dreamgirls\" premiered on December 4, 2006 at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City, where it received a standing ovation. The film's Los Angeles premiere was held on December 11 at the Wilshire Theater in Beverly Hills. Similar to the releases of older Hollywood musicals such as \"The Sound", "title": "Dreamgirls (film)" }, { "docid": "10851442", "text": "point is that people respect higher education and by telling people that I am a machinist that they have a lower opinion of who I am. Actually, I am quite proud of it. His thoughts on skilled trades and why they are good knowledge and experience for someone to have: Having a skill is like hitting the lotto. You will always have a job, you will always be able to earn a living. It is something that no one can ever take away. You can be a manager all you want, but if you ever go back to your tools", "title": "Ray McKinney" }, { "docid": "10790720", "text": "Who I Am (Amy Pearson album) Who I Am is the first album by singer Amy Pearson released by Sony BMG in Australia on 19 April 2008 (see 2008 in music). Although the album was planned for release in November 2007, it had been pushed back due to the releases of Delta Goodrem's and Kylie Minogue's albums during the same time. However the album was released in China around the original release date. It has so far released 3 singles in Australia without the help of the album release, \"Don't Miss You\", \"Not Me\" and \"Ready to Fly\". All three", "title": "Who I Am (Amy Pearson album)" }, { "docid": "8696654", "text": "Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female for the single. \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" was designed as the closing number of \"Dreamgirls\"' first act. Holliday's performance of the song, in a style owing much to gospel music singing traditions, was regularly staged to thunderous applause; it was hailed as the highlight of the show in several printed reviews of the musical. In his review of \"Dreamgirls' \"opening night performance, \"New York Times\" theatre critic Frank Rich referred to Holliday's \"And I Am Telling You\" as \"one of the most powerful theatrical coups to be found in", "title": "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" }, { "docid": "5997487", "text": "be handed over to them and they should be provided with proper wages. If you don’t obey me you will be sentenced to terrible hell.\" Neesan replied: \"Hey Mayon, now listen to me. You are going on telling about the Santror who were provided with maximum facilities. You are supporting the Santror, the caste which is the most backward. I will not reduce the tax even if I am to be killed. Till then my life exists, and I will use Santror as coolies. I am not going to care even if you go and settle with the Santror. Do", "title": "Thirumal in Thiruvananthapuram" }, { "docid": "2093152", "text": "hold a televised interview, and here I am before you telling you I was not poisoned.\" Two popular songs were written about Nasrallah during the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War, with vastly different views of the Hezbollah leader: The Hawk of Lebanon in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and , against Nasrallah, in Israel. In 2007 Lebanese singer Alaa Zalzali composed a tribute song entitled Ya Nasrallah. Another popular song composed in tribute to him was by Lebanese Christian singer Julia Boutros, called \"Ahebba'i\" meaning \"my loved ones\", which was inspired by Nasrallah's words in a televised message he sent to", "title": "Hassan Nasrallah" }, { "docid": "17375376", "text": "person grabbing it. I am just doing what I got to do. I’m the eastside moonwalker. I stay high, baby.” He also spoke about “Freddie Soprano”, saying: \"That’s the definitive verse from the album. Basically, telling y’all what it is. How I feel about what’s what.\" He spoke about “F.A.M.E.” which features Daz Dillinger and Spice 1, saying: \"[The acronym stands for] ‘Fuck All My Enemies.’ You know who I am talking about. If you an enemy—fuck you. I grew up listening to Daz and Spice-1. If it wasn’t for guys like that, I wouldn’t be rapping. Any project I", "title": "ESGN" }, { "docid": "17698812", "text": "who, if they knew the truth, would be ashamed to know you.<br><br> You cannot hide any more, for I am making you an accessory before the fact by telling you that I am going to shoot that girl rather than Joseph shall marry her and they shall live on my money. I am going to do it. Now hide, and pretend you think I don't mean it.\" A second letter, in the same handwriting, was also produced which warned 'Colonel Stratton Bates' that 'the ladies of his family' should not attend the wedding and would 'be safer elsewhere'. At the", "title": "Theresa Doughty Tichborne" }, { "docid": "4711460", "text": "original edit of the music video begins with a message to those fans that sent in their videos; \"Thank you to all those who chose to share their stories with the world.\" Subsequently, a personal message left by Carey is shown, reading \"After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears...\" Five testimonials from fans are shown, each telling of their own personal problems and hardships. In her testimonial, the third girl says \"I am fourteen years old, I'm a high school student, there is not one day that goes by that people don't make fun of me", "title": "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)" }, { "docid": "13984405", "text": "was offered the role of Grace after Whitney Houston declined to appear. The episode features cover versions of \"Don't Rain on My Parade\" by Barbra Streisand, \"You Can't Always Get What You Want\" by The Rolling Stones, \"My Life Would Suck Without You\" by Kelly Clarkson, \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" from \"Dreamgirls\", \"Don't Stop Believin' by Journey and \"Proud Mary\" by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Studio recordings of \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\", \"Don't Rain on My Parade\", \"You Can't Always Get What You Want\" and \"My Life Would Suck Without You\" were released", "title": "Sectionals" }, { "docid": "7602568", "text": "words of the Psalm are not a direct prediction, but the treachery and the fate of Ahithophel foreshadowed the treachery and the fate of Judas\". The Jerusalem Bible translates this verse as \"Someone who shares my table rebels against me\" (John 13:18). Francis Moloney identifies this verse not only with Judas' betrayal of Jesus, but also with Peter's denial of Him (John 18:15-27). The evangelist reports Jesus saying in John 13:19, \"I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who I am\". Indeed, the whole of John's Gospel", "title": "John 13" }, { "docid": "4927700", "text": "In the interview, Thomson said: \"When you try to live a more balanced life, traditional businessmen think that you are not a real man. But who is not the real man? You are telling me? You have not taken a weekend with your wife, you have no spare time that you use constructively, you do not have any hobbies, you do not know how to spell Mozart. And here you are telling me that I am weak?\" He resides in Toronto, Ontario. David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet (born 12", "title": "David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet" }, { "docid": "3303472", "text": "\"Thirty Odd Foot of Grunt\" They continued to win support slots to a number of artists including Ryan Adams, The Black Keys, You Am I and Rocket Science. During their shows with You Am I, lead singer Tim Rogers touted, \"Dallas Crane is the best band in the country\" and made reference to them in the You Am I single, \"Who Put the Devil in You\" (September 2002). Rogers curated the soundtrack for a feature film, \"Dirty Deeds\" (2002), and asked Dallas Crane to supply a cover version of \"Wild About You\", originally performed by Australian 1960's band, the Missing", "title": "Dallas Crane" }, { "docid": "6066006", "text": "Blues\" lengthens the song, telling a story of the protagonist seeking his lover at a train station, describing her appearance to the ticket agent, and includes a warning to avoid relationships with married women, \"\"cause their husband will grab ya, and beat ya ragged as a cedar tree\"\". The song then ends in a similar fashion, the addressing a lover to tell her he's leaving her; however, this time the singer warns \"\"I'ma tell you pretty mama exactly who I am, when I walk in that front door and hear that back door slam\"\". The White Stripes' cover version features", "title": "Lord, Send Me an Angel" }, { "docid": "16756720", "text": "out from other fans. A sasaeng fan was interviewed and gave an explanation regarding this obsessive behavior that is shared among sasaeng fans. She was quoted saying,“I feel like I get to know more about and get closer to the idol I love. If I go to a concert, there are thousands of people attending, so the idol would not know who I am. But if I become sasaeng, they will recognize me. If I keep telling them, ‘I am so-and-so. I saw you at that place before. I am so-and-so’, they will start to take note of me and", "title": "Sasaeng fan" }, { "docid": "18715065", "text": "is false. Clearly if Lewis indulges in six straight bitter songs about defiantly rebounding from a bad relationship (which she does on “I Am”), she obviously craves validation from the very person (or people) who did her dirty.\" Lewis performed \"I Am\" for the first time during a live showcase at the Hospital Club in London on 14 April 2015. The singer premiered four other tracks from \"I Am\" including \"Ladders\", \"I Got You\", \"Thank You\" and \"Fire Under My Feet\". Stefan Kyriazis of the \"Daily Star\" described \"I Am\" and \"Ladders\" as \"instant crowd pleasers\". Lewis later performed the", "title": "I Am (Leona Lewis song)" }, { "docid": "8661364", "text": "at being considered merely Curtis' property. Used in the film as a last-minute recording by Deena before leaving Curtis \"to find her own voice as a newly independent woman\", co-writer Anne Preven called \"Listen\" a song which \"Deena is exclaiming, 'You don't know who I am, and I know I do.'\" While working on the script adaptation for \"Dreamgirls\", screenwriter/director Bill Condon felt the second half of the film needed a song. The \"emotional punch\" of \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" led him to ask the musical team for \"Dreamgirls\" \"to create a new and equally moving", "title": "Listen (Beyoncé song)" }, { "docid": "5672356", "text": "not a ‘bienva,’ but a ‘malva’.\" The king angrily asked the Jewish minister to explain, threatening him with dire punishment. The minister said: \"Your Majesty, I am ready to accept your judgment. But first, I beg you, hear me out carefully. Your Majesty, when we were out in the field, you asked me to tell you the name of that plant. There you were, standing before me, Royal Highness, and I thought: By no means am I going to offend Your Majesty by telling you the plant's true name, ‘malva’ – ‘ill-going’! So I told you that the plant is", "title": "Benveniste" }, { "docid": "15662742", "text": "the nights overall ratings. The ratings boost was credited to 14 year-old singer Jack Vidgen who performed a cover of \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" from the \"Dreamgirls\" soundtrack. The grand final show on 26 July 2011, achieved an audience of 2,192,000, becoming the season's highest ratings to date. The grand final decider show on 2 August 2011, gained 2,855,000 viewers and topped the nights overall ratings. The ratings were the highest achieved in 2011 so far by a television show broadcast in Australia. Australia's Got Talent (season 5) Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television", "title": "Australia's Got Talent (season 5)" }, { "docid": "5798573", "text": "told... oshgot (osh+got), Kurdish (wigot) = He told... mogot (mo+got), Kurdish (megot) = We told... togot (to+got), Kurdish pl (wegot) = You(pl) told shogot (sho+got), Kurdish (wa-n got) = They told Another example: \"deda\" means \"see,\" and \"dee\" Kurdish (Deed or dee) is the root verb. So: omdee = I saw, Kurdish (mideed, midee, min deed, min dee) otdee= you saw, Kurdish (tu-te dee)... To create a simple present or continued present tense of a passive verb, here's another example: agota'em (a+got+aem):I am telling... agota'esh (a+got+aesh): You are telling... agotay (a+got+ay): He is telling... agota'am (a+got+a'am): We are telling... agotay", "title": "Achomi language" }, { "docid": "18281169", "text": "Thanksgiving. Quintavious Johnson Quintavious Johnson is an American rhythm and blues singer from Franklin, Tennessee. He was a finalist on the ninth season of \"America's Got Talent\" placing fifth in the competition. Quintavious's audition consisted of singing Beyoncé's \"Listen\", which was good enough to send him to Judgment Week. His performance in Judgment Week consisted of singing \"Who's Lovin' You\" by The Jackson 5. His performance was strong enough for the judges to send him to the Quarterfinals. His Week 4 Quarterfinals performance consisted of singing \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" which received enough votes to be", "title": "Quintavious Johnson" }, { "docid": "18281167", "text": "Quintavious Johnson Quintavious Johnson is an American rhythm and blues singer from Franklin, Tennessee. He was a finalist on the ninth season of \"America's Got Talent\" placing fifth in the competition. Quintavious's audition consisted of singing Beyoncé's \"Listen\", which was good enough to send him to Judgment Week. His performance in Judgment Week consisted of singing \"Who's Lovin' You\" by The Jackson 5. His performance was strong enough for the judges to send him to the Quarterfinals. His Week 4 Quarterfinals performance consisted of singing \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" which received enough votes to be sent", "title": "Quintavious Johnson" }, { "docid": "8276148", "text": "\"the Romanian land\", this being also the first mention of the name \"Romania\" in a Romanian text] wherever he pleases. And so you should know that our Basarab too is fearful of that thief Mahamet beg, even more so than you. And so I'm telling you as my superior about what I have found out. I am telling you, and you are wise and you should keep these words for yourself, so that no many people know, and you should take proper guard. And may God bring you happiness. Amen.\" Neacșu's letter The letter of Neacșu of Câmpulung (; Romanian", "title": "Neacșu's letter" }, { "docid": "17498930", "text": "perform three songs – her audition song (\"Hero\"), winner's single (\"Alive\") and last shot song (\"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\"). Her performance of \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\", which debuted at number 29 on the ARIA Singles Chart, got all four judges standing on the judges table. Redfoo said Im's performance was \"the best thing I've ever seen in my life\", while Minogue added that she is \"world class\". Im's performance of \"Hero\" debuted at number 62. During the grand final decider show the following day, Im was announced as the winner. After winning", "title": "Dami Im" }, { "docid": "3002124", "text": "off. I will take time off when I am with Allah, when I die in the battlefield and become a martyr.\" But he also describes Bakri as living in a semi-detached council house, enjoying watching Disney's Lion King video, being unable to hold a fish caught on a fishing line, and calling himself \"actually very nice.\" In a phone call after the 9/11 attack on the evening of his arrest and release without charge, Ronson reports Bakri as telling him, Oh Jon, I need you more than ever now. You know I am harmless, don't you? You know I am", "title": "Omar Bakri Muhammad" }, { "docid": "639158", "text": "when they first arrived in Germany. As the song progresses, Boe-B identifies himself within in this context of struggle when he raps, “We are losing life, losing blood/I was chosen to explain these things/Everybody screams ‘Tell us Boe-B’/ And I am telling our story as hip hop in Kadikoy’/…We tell you our experiences/we present you the news/we connect our neighbourhood and Kadikoy/we are doing real hip hop/and we tell it to you/…I am telling this story in a far land, Kadikoy. In distinguishing themselves from their German counterparts, Turkish hip hop culture in Germany creates a diasporic Turkish community essential", "title": "Turkish hip hop" }, { "docid": "8566821", "text": "2007, as a guest performer. The series two champion was Lee Lambert, who was also 13 years old at the time, and a singer. In the final he performed \"I Am What I Am\" in the disco style associated with Gloria Gaynor. Runners-up were David Ashley, a Frank Sinatra-style singer, and Faces of Disco, a comedy dance act who were subsequently semi-finalists in \"Britain's Got Talent\" 2009. Let Me Entertain You (2006 TV series) Let Me Entertain You was a daytime variety show presented by Brian Conley and Christine Bleakley that aired on BBC Two from 21 August 2006 to", "title": "Let Me Entertain You (2006 TV series)" }, { "docid": "9356084", "text": "The dance remix of \"And I Am Telling You...\" was produced by Craig C. All songs written by Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen. All songs written by Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen. Notes Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album is the cast album for the original Broadway production of the musical \"Dreamgirls\", which debuted at the Imperial Theatre on December 20, 1981. The album was issued by David Geffen, a co-financier of the musical and later producer of its 2006 film adaptation, on his Geffen Records label during the winter of 1982. The \"Dreamgirls\" cast album", "title": "Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album" }, { "docid": "864739", "text": "husband, and lived publicly and travelled about with the wife of a chorus-singer. I am that Professor of the Protestant College at Malta, who with two others was dismissed from my post for offences which the authorities cannot get themselves to describe. And now attend to me, such as I am, and you shall see what you shall see about the barbarity and profligacy of the Inquisitors of Rome. You speak truly, O Achilli, and we cannot answer you a word. You are a Priest; you have been a Friar; you are, it is undeniable, the scandal of Catholicism, and", "title": "John Henry Newman" }, { "docid": "2853616", "text": "and dressed in pink silk. Today, the painting hangs in the York Art Gallery. The art historian Anna Brownell Jameson described Charlotte Fitzroy as having \"rivaled her mother in beauty, but was far unlike her in every other respect.\" It appears that Charles II was a loving father. In 1682 he wrote to Charlotte: \"I must tell you I am glad to hear you are with child, and I hope to see you here before it be long, that I may have the satisfaction myself of telling you how much I love you, and how truly I am your kind", "title": "Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield" }, { "docid": "1307365", "text": "television documentary called \"Bullied\" on ABC Television, using hidden-camera footage to give a victim's-eye-view of bullying, It is scheduled to begin airing 14 March 2017. In a July 2014 televised interview with British talk show host Michael Parkinson Thorpe came out as gay, after years of denying his homosexuality publicly. He stated \"I'm comfortable saying I'm a gay man. And I don't want people to feel the same way I did. You can grow up, you can be comfortable and you can be gay.\" He added \"I am telling the world that I am gay … and I hope this", "title": "Ian Thorpe" }, { "docid": "3803145", "text": "or sailors or airmen, and he wrote that \"[i]t is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort...\" Copland considered several titles including \"Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony\" and \"Fanfare for Four Freedoms\"; to Goossens' surprise, however, Copland titled the piece \"Fanfare for the Common Man\". Goossens wrote, \"Its title is as original as its music, and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance. If it is agreeable to you, we will premiere it 12 March 1943 at income tax time\". Copland's reply was \"I [am]", "title": "Fanfare for the Common Man" }, { "docid": "13107639", "text": "have been trained, dealing with judges like Judge Wyatt who threw my conspiracy count out, and other judges like Borelli who made the same kind of sophisticated analysis of conspiracy law. Your natural assumption is that we will go in all or nothing because in every case we have gotten away with it. I am telling you that in this case you didn't get away with it. If you had been a competent prosecutor, which you are not, you would have hedged against the possibility that maybe the judge would disagree with you. But it never occurs in the mind", "title": "John E. Sprizzo" }, { "docid": "4976973", "text": "Lyrically, the song is an inspirational love song, in which the protagonist thanks God for finding her the perfect partner. According to Carey, it was inspired by the relationship she was in with Latin singer Luis Miguel at that time. She stated that she was telling a story through the song. Carey re-recorded her vocals for the song's main remix titled \"Thank God I Found You\" (Make It Last Remix). The remix is a remake of Keith Sweat's \"Make It Last Forever\" (1988), and bears few lyrical similarities to the original version of the song. Carey wrote new lyrics for", "title": "Thank God I Found You" }, { "docid": "3758583", "text": "their tongue: “I have not gone very far; still I have some news for you. I have discovered vines loaded with grapes.” “Are you telling the truth, my foster-father?” exclaimed Leif. “I am sure of telling the truth,” Tyrker said, “for in my native land there are vines in plenty.” This caused Leif to give the country the name of Vinland. Tyrker's origin is disputed. Germans like to claim him German, suggesting that his name is a variation of Dietrich (via Dirk > Thirk etc.). The Norse had this name in the form of Þjóðríkr, what became Tjodrik in Norwegian", "title": "Tyrker" }, { "docid": "6995951", "text": "maple syrup, and cayenne pepper (also known as the Master Cleanse), Knowles rapidly lost twenty pounds, which she gained back once production ended. Shooting was completed in the early-morning hours of April 8, 2006, after four days were spent shooting Jennifer Hudson's musical number \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\", which had purposefully been saved until the end of the shoot. Originally scheduled to be shot in one day, Condon was forced to ask for extra time and money to finish shooting the \"And I Am Telling You\" scene, as Hudson's voice would give out after four hours", "title": "Dreamgirls (film)" }, { "docid": "18788541", "text": "More Than You Think I Am \"More Than You Think I Am\" is a song co-written and recorded by American contemporary Christian singer Danny Gokey for his second studio album, \"Hope in Front of Me\" (2014). Gokey wrote the song with Tim Nichols and the track's producer, Bernie Herms. It was released to American Christian radio in November 2014 and official impacted the format on January 9, 2015 through BMG-Chrysalis as the album's second single. The song experienced moderate success on the \"Billboard\" Christian charts. \"More Than You Think I Am\" is a Christian pop song with influences of Worship", "title": "More Than You Think I Am" }, { "docid": "3686856", "text": "also quit, leaving just Wendy Richard (Pauline Fowler), Adam Woodyatt (Ian Beale), and Gillian Taylforth (Kathy Beale) as the only original cast remaining at that time. Dean, who was aged 26 at the time, has since reflected on her decision to leave, suggesting she went through an identity crisis when she found herself thinking \"who am I? Am I Sharon Watts or am I an actress?\". Sally Vincent, interviewing Dean for \"The Guardian\", surmised: \"it nagged away at [Dean] for ages until she thought, hell, she owed it to herself, and started telling the producers she'd been thinking about trying", "title": "Sharon Watts" }, { "docid": "18822978", "text": "later once Jenner got the right idea about the purpose of the series. \"She would have been so hounded for the story and that's why, in my understanding, she decided, ... so [she could] hopefully tell all of it in the right way,\" Jenkins speculated the reasons why Jenner accepted the series. \"Why did I decide to do a series? I am telling \"my story\" ... This is about getting to be who you really are,\" Jenner later herself explained the reasons for opening her life on television in one of the promotional videos. Several days later after the interview", "title": "I Am Cait" }, { "docid": "19011533", "text": "allegation in her resignation statement, \"In the spirit of radical transparency, I am embarrassed about some things I’ve said as a brazen entrepreneur, and I take full ownership of making brash statements that I regret. I am guilty of telling former employees “no corporate [insert profanity].” I am guilty of facilitating match-making introductions between staff to people outside the organization (but only with their explicit permission). I am certainly guilty of making some truly catastrophic hiring decisions.\" In Hoke's resignation letter, she says:“The fight against mass incarceration and cycles of recidivism is far from over, and until it is, you", "title": "Catherine Hoke" }, { "docid": "8696658", "text": "for this single, engineered by Richie Jones and Eric Kupper, and appears as a bonus track on the \"Deluxe Edition\" of the \"Dreamgirls\" soundtrack album. This version of Hudson's \"And I Am Telling You\" was a chart success, reaching the top of the \"Billboard\" Hot Dance Club Play chart in early 2007. A shortened edit of the full remix appeared on a Columbia Records promotional-only CD accompanying the Jones & Kupper remix of another \"Dreamgirls\" song, the Beyoncé Knowles/Anika Noni Rose/Sharon Leal/Jennifer Hudson rendition of \"One Night Only\". Also included were the Freemasons remixes of Beyoncé's singles \"Déjà Vu\" and", "title": "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" }, { "docid": "15517403", "text": "on American nationwide television on \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show\" on February 18, 2011 after Ellen DeGeneres saw her singing on YouTube and wanted to meet her in person. She was immediately signed to Ellen DeGeneres' record label eleveneleven in March 2011. Savannah came back to the show on March 30, 2011 to perform the song \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" with her favorite singer Jennifer Hudson. Savannah returns to be on \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show\" on November 11, 2011 to sing a cover of Christina Aguilera's \"Beautiful\". Savannah appeared singing Mariah Carey's \"All I Want for Christmas", "title": "Savannah Robinson" }, { "docid": "8458638", "text": "Xéro Tha 'Rtheis Xaná\"\") for her album \"Ναι\" (\"Yes\") in 1980. Legendary French singer Mireille Mathieu recorded a French version (\"Une Femme Amoureuse\") in 1980. Danish songstress Gitte Hænning recorded a German version titled \"Die Frau, die dich liebt\". Eleni Tzoka, a Polish singer of Greek descent, recorded a Polish cover of the song titled \"Zrobię ten błąd\" (I'll Make that Mistake). The lyrical idea is completely different from the original version. Turkish pop star Nilüfer recorded a Turkish version of the song called \"Ben Seni Seven Kadin\"(I am the woman who loves you) in 1981. In 1982 the Hungarian", "title": "Woman in Love" }, { "docid": "5997488", "text": "not approach me with any thing related to Santror. You can go anywhere.\" \"In all the previous yukams you regretted me. This is the final chance given for you. No one will be there to help you. Today you told me to go anywhere. Even now I am telling you if you want to save yourself obey me.\" Kalineesan replied, \"I need 10,000 gold coins for labourers. Daily in the morning and in the evening I need a hundred gold coins for performing puja to you. And for running all your temples I need 1100 gold coins. If I stop", "title": "Thirumal in Thiruvananthapuram" }, { "docid": "2633961", "text": "work and his mental battles. On January 20, 2006, two postings appeared on McKinstry's weblog. In one, entitled \"Very Serious Thoughts on Suicide\", he said, \"\"Why am I writing this? Just as a matter of record, to prove I was here and ahead of all of you. Time to go,\"\" and then quoted a dozen aphorisms about suicide, such as \"\"Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me — I quit.'\"\" (attributed to Bill Maher). The other posting, entitled \"So what exactly does a web suicide note look like?\", was a suicide note. Chris wrote, \"\"I am", "title": "Chris McKinstry" }, { "docid": "8658074", "text": "Going\", \"I Am Changing\" was released as the second single from the \"Dreamgirls\" cast album. However, the song didn't perform as well as \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\", peaking at #22 on Billboard's Black Singles Chart and failing to chart on Billboard's Pop Singles Chart. \"I Am Changing\" has been covered several times. Whitney Houston performed the song at the 10th Anniversary of Arista Records ceremony in 1984. This performance is included on her 2010 CD/DVD reissue of \"Whitney Houston – The Deluxe Anniversary Edition\". She also performed the song during the duration of her Greatest Love", "title": "I Am Changing" }, { "docid": "17238970", "text": "\"I was denied by the Sentinels, telling me that till they had Orders for my so doing, they would not suffer any Moor to land: Moor! said I, you are very much mistaken in that, for I am as good a Christian (though I am dressed in the Moorish Garb) as any of you all\" (4). Like other captives Pellow found it hard to re-adjust on coming home. His overall appearance would have been so shocking that even his parents did not recognise him when he arrived. Still it is thought by some scholars \"Under the circumstances, enslaved people in", "title": "Thomas Pellow" }, { "docid": "5958351", "text": "Sinéad Lohan Sinéad Lohan (born 1971) is an Irish singer and songwriter. A native of Cork, her song \"Sailing By\" appeared on the compilation \"A Woman's Heart 2\". In 1991 Sinéad began playing regular gigs at The Lobby, a renowned club in Cork, and soon thereafter began recording her first album, \"Who Do You Think I Am\", produced by Declan Sinnott. She has released two albums, \"Who Do You Think I Am\" in 1995, which scored several radio hits in Ireland, and \"No Mermaid\" in 1998, which has been rated 4/5 stars at Allmusic. \"No Mermaid\" was released by Interscope", "title": "Sinéad Lohan" }, { "docid": "12400891", "text": "to Napoli to kill some of these scumbags, and I will perform one of my best dramas: they must pay, understand?\"\" In another letter to Cutolo's sister, Rosetta, he used even stronger words while describing about his project: \"\"My dearest comare, regarding this crawling vermin (the traitors), be confident. I will give you full satisfaction. I was so nervous that my own liver rotted because i did not have a chance yet to meet and greet these scumbags. I am telling you: be calm. I will take care of them with the help of the people who love the prince", "title": "Pasquale Barra" }, { "docid": "3213744", "text": "You Am I You Am I are an Australian alternative rock band, fronted by lead singer-songwriter-guitarist, Tim Rogers. They formed in December 1989 and are the first Australian band to have released three successive albums, which have each debuted at the number-one position on the ARIA Albums Chart: \"Hi Fi Way\" (February 1995), \"Hourly, Daily\" (July 1996) and \"#4 Record\" (April 1998). Nine of their tracks appeared on the related ARIA Singles Chart top 50 with \"What I Don't Know 'bout You\" (February 1998), their highest charting, at No. 28. You Am I have received ten ARIA Music Awards from", "title": "You Am I" }, { "docid": "5475922", "text": "Lisa Knowles, often singing popular ballads. In 2001, she sang \"America The Beautiful\" on the first WWE pay-per-view to be held after the September 11 terrorist attacks. On June 26, 2007, Holliday made a surprise appearance at the BET Awards, singing \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\" in a duet with Jennifer Hudson, who had played Effie White in the 2006 film adaptation of \"Dreamgirls\", and won an Oscar for her performance. Holliday had not been offered a cameo role in the film and, feeling snubbed, had repeatedly expressed displeasure with the movie in the media. (Another original", "title": "Jennifer Holliday" }, { "docid": "9356082", "text": "many numbers were truncated or excised in order to fit onto one long-playing vinyl record. A 2006 special edition remastered version, issued to tie-in with both the musical's 25th anniversary and the DreamWorks/Paramount-produced \"Dreamgirls\" feature film adaptation, adds three previously unissued tracks from the original recording sessions. Also included is a bonus disc featuring instrumental mixes (prepared for personal appearances by the cast) and a dance version of the musical's signature number, \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\". Pop music producer David Foster served as producer of the cast album, which peaked at #11 on the \"Billboard\" 200,", "title": "Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album" }, { "docid": "11828182", "text": "greatest hits compilation albums. It was also included on the soundtrack for the 1978 film \"Thank God It's Friday\". \"Rolling Stone\" critic Mitchell Schneider described \"I Am What I Am\" as a \"human-rights anthem.\" Village People singer Randy Jones describes the song as \"a gay liberation statement, aimed directly at gays and lesbians who were standing up without apology for their lifestyle\" and as the group's \"first gay liberation song.\" He says that the theme of the song is the virtue of being yourself, and not just if you're gay or transgender but even just if you want to dress", "title": "I Am What I Am (Village People song)" }, { "docid": "8267354", "text": "Had he been outside where a son of a friend of mine had his head split by these goons operating under your orders, my boy today might have paid the penalty of permanent injury or a police record for desiring to come here and hear how this committee operates. If you think that I am going to cooperate with this collection of Judases, of men who sit there in violation of the United States Constitution, if you think I will cooperate with you in any way, you are insane! Mandel \"spent the remainder of his testimony respectfully telling his inquisitors", "title": "William Mandel" }, { "docid": "20802562", "text": "when I am falling short/ And when I don't belong, Lord you say I am yours/ And I believe, yes I believe what you say of me,\" she sings. The video has over 40 million views on YouTube. Daigle first performed the single \"You Say\" in the close out of the 2018 GMA Dove Awards. You Say \"You Say\" is the lead single by American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter Lauren Daigle for her third studio album, \"Look Up Child\". Written by Daigle, Paul Mabury and Jason Ingram, it was released as a single on July 13, 2018. It", "title": "You Say" }, { "docid": "11850220", "text": "they are, and implies that it is pleasurable enough to be \"used\" in that fashion that being \"used up\" completely would be welcome. The singer goes on to describe telling a relative who urges resistance to being \"walked on,\" that envy for the singer's circumstances would follow from really comprehending them. The singer admits that some of the lover's behavior is abusive—for example, snubbing him when with those of higher status. Finally, as the song fades out, the singer admits to being used, but says that \"it ain't too bad the way you're using me, 'cause I sure am using", "title": "Use Me (Bill Withers song)" }, { "docid": "17046567", "text": "Who I Am (Jason Castro album) Who I Am is the second studio album by contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter Jason Castro. It was released on November 9, 2010 via Atlantic Records and Word Records, and was the first record with Word and the last with Atlantic. The album has garnered mixed reviews from the critics and has already achieved success from the lead single \"You Are\". \"CCM Magazine\"'s Matt Conner gave the album a three-out-of-five-stars, noting that the album contains \"Melodic arrangements\", which \"remain simple and catchy\". Cross Rhythms' Stella Redburn gave the album an eight-out-of-ten-stars, praised the", "title": "Who I Am (Jason Castro album)" }, { "docid": "17046565", "text": "Who I Am (Jason Castro album) Who I Am is the second studio album by contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter Jason Castro. It was released on November 9, 2010 via Atlantic Records and Word Records, and was the first record with Word and the last with Atlantic. The album has garnered mixed reviews from the critics and has already achieved success from the lead single \"You Are\". \"CCM Magazine\"'s Matt Conner gave the album a three-out-of-five-stars, noting that the album contains \"Melodic arrangements\", which \"remain simple and catchy\". Cross Rhythms' Stella Redburn gave the album an eight-out-of-ten-stars, praised the", "title": "Who I Am (Jason Castro album)" }, { "docid": "18800882", "text": "You Say I Am\" shows a band with a knack for a hook and a promising future.\" Christian St. John, rating the album four and a half stars at Christian Review Magazine, states, \"\"Who You Say I Am\" is a breathtaking release.\" Giving the album a four star review from 365 Days of Inspiring Media, Joshua Andre says, \"a compelling and enjoyable album\". Logan Merrick, indicating in a four and a half out of five review by Christian Music Review, describes, \"this record has authentic lyrics and fun melodies\". Who You Say I Am Who You Say I Am is", "title": "Who You Say I Am" }, { "docid": "16469040", "text": "written next to the manuscript of \"Ulysses\", along with artifacts from the original interview. Other Formats I Am a Pole (And So Can You!) I Am a Pole (And So Can You!) is a 2012 spoof of inspirational children's books. It was written by Stephen Colbert and illustrated by Paul Hildebrand. The book tells the story of a fictional pole finding his purpose in life. The title is a play on Colbert's first book, \"I Am America (And So Can You!)\". All proceeds from the audiobook go to the United States Veterans Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to returning troops. The", "title": "I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)" }, { "docid": "18788544", "text": "Am\" entered the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs chart in December 2014 and reached a peak position of 17 on the chart dated May 9, 2015. The song reached numbers 8 and 21, respectively, on the format-specific Christian AC and Christian Hot AC/CHR airplay charts. No official music video was filmed for the song, but a lyric video was uploaded to Gokey's Vevo account on December 5, 2014. More Than You Think I Am \"More Than You Think I Am\" is a song co-written and recorded by American contemporary Christian singer Danny Gokey for his second studio album, \"Hope in Front", "title": "More Than You Think I Am" }, { "docid": "9320931", "text": "was nominated for thirteen Tony Awards, including two for Eyen: Best Book and Best Original Score. The show won six Tonys, including Best Book. It also earned Eyen a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Lyrics. The original cast album won Eyen a Grammy Award as lyricist, and one of the show's songs, \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\", as sung by Holliday, became a hit. In 1984, Eyen sought to duplicate his \"Dreamgirls\" success with \"Kicks: The Showgirl Musical\", a collaboration with composer Alan Menken about the Rockettes during World War II. The show never made it", "title": "Tom Eyen" }, { "docid": "10701351", "text": "George Jones albums discography George Jones was an American country music singer-songwriter who released many successful albums from the 1960s through the 80's. Though his most notable work was his releases on singles, there is much to appreciate about Jones in his many album releases. Oftentimes, Jones was called the \"Greatest Living Country Singer\", and has inspired many artists in not only country music's scope. Jones' most successful albums include: 1966's \"I'm a People\", 1972's \"A Picture of Me (Without You)\", 1980's \"I Am What I Am\", 1987's \"Super Hits\", and 1999's \"Cold Hard Truth\". The following is a list", "title": "George Jones albums discography" }, { "docid": "5785279", "text": "name, never mentioning Wellington House or the British government. An example of one of his many letters is as follows: Dear Sir, I am well aware that American enterprise has made available reprints of the official papers relating to the present European war; but the original British prints of these publications may not be accessible to those persons of influence who would study them for a true history of the conflict. I am venturing to send to you under another cover several of these official documents. I am sure you will not consider this an impertinence, but will realize that", "title": "Sir Gilbert Parker, 1st Baronet" }, { "docid": "8649643", "text": "me – I bring misfortune to all who care for me! It was then, in my grief, that love came to me. A voice full of harmony says, \"Keep on living, I am life itself! Your heaven is in my eyes! You are not alone. I collect all your tears I walk with you and support you! Smile and hope! I am Love! Are you surrounded by blood and mire? I am Divine! I am oblivion! I am the God who saves the World I descend from Heaven and make this Earth A heaven! Ah! I am love, love, love.\"", "title": "La mamma morta" }, { "docid": "21007243", "text": "25, 2018, 3Racha debuted with Stray Kids with the release of the, \"I Am NOT\" EP, and lead single \"District 9\". All three members of 3Racha participated in songwriting and production of the album. Stray Kids released two further albums in 2018, titled \"I Am Who\" and \"I Am You\", in which 3Racha have credits in songwriting and production in all tracks. Bang Chan Christopher Bang (born 3 October 1997), better known by his Korean name Bang Chan, is an Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the leader of South Korean boy group Stray Kids. Prior", "title": "Bang Chan" }, { "docid": "20018439", "text": "Where I Am (song) \"Where I Am\" is a song performed by Danish-Australian singer Anja Nissen. The song was released as a digital download on 28 February 2017, through Universal Music. Anja represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, and co-wrote the song with Angel Tupai and Michael D'Arcy. Nissen said: \"The song is about letting go, particularly in relationships. Breaking down the emotional walls and letting you give love and receive love. Haven't we all been in that situation where we've felt lost and we've felt we don't know who we are and that no one is going", "title": "Where I Am (song)" }, { "docid": "12752060", "text": "Trike (EP) Trike is an EP released by Australian rock band You Am I in 1997. It was released to make two tracks (\"Trike\" and \"Opportunities\") added to the international release of \"Hourly, Daily\" available to Australian fans, along with three extra B-sides. \"Trike\" and \"Opportunities\" were recorded in late 1996 and replaced \"Someone Else's Home\" and \"Moon Shines on Trubble\". \"Who Turned Out The Lights\" is a You Am I original. \"I Can Hear The Grass Grow\" is a cover of The Move song. \"(There's Gonna Be A) Showdown\" is a cover of the Gamble and Huff song first", "title": "Trike (EP)" }, { "docid": "12998614", "text": "Trike (song) Trike is a single released by Australian rock band You Am I in 1997. It was released to make two tracks (\"Trike\" and \"Opportunities\") that were added to the international release of \"Hourly, Daily\" available to Australian fans, along with three extra B-sides. \"Trike\" and \"Opportunities\" were recorded in late 1996 and replaced \"Someone Else's Home\" and \"Moon Shines on Trubble\" from the Australian release. \"Who Turned Out The Lights\" is a You Am I original. \"I Can Hear The Grass Grow\" is a cover of The Move song. \"(There's Gonna Be A) Showdown\" is a cover of", "title": "Trike (song)" }, { "docid": "18671476", "text": "the World Festival Association's (WAF) XI International contest for young talents \"Ezerski Biseri\" (\"Lake Pearls\"), held in Macedonia, in the \"solo pop singer\" category and she won the Grand Prix against competitors from Macedonia and all over the world. In 2014 Rotin took part in the Romanian TV talent show \"Next Star\" where she sang a cover of the Jessie J song \"Mamma Knows Best\" which won her a place in the \"People's Choice Awards\", the final of the series, where she sang the song \"And I Am Telling You\" from the musical \"Dreamgirls\". In 2015 Rotin competed in the", "title": "Veronica Rotin" }, { "docid": "17444391", "text": "five in Australia and the United States, among other nations. During an interview on \"Good Morning America\", when asked about the meaning of the song and what inspired them to make it, Nico Sereba said: \"Inspiration is coming from a small country, but having huge dreams and people telling you, man, that's not realistic, come on, you can't be on the top of America or the top of the world or whatever we dream of.\" \"Am I Wrong\" was originally released on 12 April 2013, following the moderately successful singles under their name Envy \"Set to Go\" (2010), \"One Song\"", "title": "Am I Wrong" }, { "docid": "18067524", "text": "just believe. A spirit just burns within us. Should I believe a lie? I know I am dead. Anthony answers it is only a lie to you. You never died. You have my brother's whistle and knife. Did you kill Jesus? I am a new man and am here to correct a wrong. Thomas slices the neck of Fernando. You hear the horn of a truck and see the city sign of Padua. Jesus and Fernando are walking into town and across the street the two Chinese women are waving and shouting friendly greetings. The Ornithologist (film) The Ornithologist (original", "title": "The Ornithologist (film)" }, { "docid": "6864300", "text": "said, \"I am not going to re-sign Shaq. I am not about to pay him $30 million a year or $80 million over three years ... His body is breaking down, and I don't want to pay that money to him when I can get value for him right now rather than wait ... It doesn't matter to me what you do in free agency because I do not want to pay [Shaq], period.\" O'Neal agreed with Bryant: \"There's no doubt in my mind Kobe is telling the truth. I believe him a thousand percent ... I would have respected", "title": "Shaq–Kobe feud" }, { "docid": "7612201", "text": "for Best of the Year. Period. Tim Rogers has a strong ear for melody, a telling eye for detail and the ability to make the listener feel a part of his somewhat solitary world.\" All songs by Rogers/You Am I Some copies of the album came with a live bonus disc, featuring songs recorded on tour in Seattle in 1994. Hi Fi Way Hi Fi Way is an album by the Australian rock band, You Am I, released in 1995. The album reached #1 on the local albums chart and is one of the most influential and critically acclaimed Australian", "title": "Hi Fi Way" }, { "docid": "18060333", "text": "for at least a year or more, or is it less? I can't be sure,\" the singer says. He then asks, \"How are you?\" The singer continues to question his friend, asking \"Are you still dreaming and making big plans? How are the nights are they still lonely? Are you still struggling the way that I am?\" However, the meeting begins to turn sour, with the singer saying, \"I know you're making all the same mistakes\", but then adds, \"Still no offence, no more hard feelings left on silly sentiment. No harm was ever felt or ever meant.\" He then", "title": "How Are You" }, { "docid": "13857353", "text": "operatic pop style influence, which may have roots in her 1984 album \"I Am What I Am\", which she recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, and the fact that in the latter mid-1980s she started working with a vocal coach, a former opera singer. Bassey returned to the Beatles with \"Yesterday\", as she had previously covered \"Something\" and \"Fool on the Hill\" successfully in the 1970s, and had performed \"Hey Jude\" frequently live. Another previously successful formula was used for the closing track \"Dio, Come Ti Amo (Oh God How Much I Love You)\" an Italian original in the tradition", "title": "Keep the Music Playing" }, { "docid": "12752061", "text": "recorded by Archie Bell & The Drells but then later covered by New York Dolls. Trike (EP) Trike is an EP released by Australian rock band You Am I in 1997. It was released to make two tracks (\"Trike\" and \"Opportunities\") added to the international release of \"Hourly, Daily\" available to Australian fans, along with three extra B-sides. \"Trike\" and \"Opportunities\" were recorded in late 1996 and replaced \"Someone Else's Home\" and \"Moon Shines on Trubble\". \"Who Turned Out The Lights\" is a You Am I original. \"I Can Hear The Grass Grow\" is a cover of The Move song.", "title": "Trike (EP)" }, { "docid": "13427744", "text": "stated, \"When I first started playing music, I was already covered ... wearing headscarves. And, like, normally, people would expect you to change, toss this part of your life away so that you could be a pop star. But I just wanted to make music, not really be a \"pop star\" pop star. And there's always people who wouldn't necessarily agree with what I'm doing right now. But ... I'm really happy with where I am right now, you know. I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music. And I don't try", "title": "Yuna (singer)" }, { "docid": "20547528", "text": "I just want to make sure that we do it right. I so want that ring and I so want this to work and I hope you know how committed to this and to you I am.\" Reunited on a live stage, Jen rejects Jerry's proposal, telling him, \"I think that you know I was so committed to this -- I hope that you know that -- and I really tried to make it work but I think we talked a lot and we saw each other and I think that we both came to the realization that we were", "title": "The Bachelorette (season 3)" }, { "docid": "10701352", "text": "chronicling the album release history of Jones: George Jones albums discography George Jones was an American country music singer-songwriter who released many successful albums from the 1960s through the 80's. Though his most notable work was his releases on singles, there is much to appreciate about Jones in his many album releases. Oftentimes, Jones was called the \"Greatest Living Country Singer\", and has inspired many artists in not only country music's scope. Jones' most successful albums include: 1966's \"I'm a People\", 1972's \"A Picture of Me (Without You)\", 1980's \"I Am What I Am\", 1987's \"Super Hits\", and 1999's \"Cold", "title": "George Jones albums discography" }, { "docid": "9999994", "text": "north, and they called it \"The National Defense Association\". The association has made a major impact, so Hananu decided to add more people. Hananu was talented speaker and he encouraged many people to fight with him after his famous speech when he said \" to all brave Syrians, to you who refuse injustice, from the top of the mountain i am telling you that our beloved country is occupied and threatened by colonist, those who attacked the sanctity of our independence and freedom, to all heroes let's fight.\". After that the number of militant in kafr Takharem reached 50 men,", "title": "Ibrahim Hananu" }, { "docid": "19652267", "text": "and the rousing \"Loretta\" paint two very different portraits of female perfection, the latter telling the story of a barroom girl who is perpetually twenty-two and \"tells me lies I love to b'lieve\". The title \"Rex's Blues\" alludes to Van Zandt's friend Rex Bell, with the singer commenting in his preamble to the song on \"Live at the Old Quarter\": \"This song's about this good friend of mine, uh, Rex Bell, who used to own half this place. It's called 'Rex's Blues.' If you cut cards with Rex and you get a three he'll get a two, y'know what I", "title": "The Nashville Sessions (Townes Van Zandt album)" }, { "docid": "14525568", "text": "song. According to the lyrics of \"Why Don't You Love Me\", Knowles impersonates a woman who questions her love interest about the reason for which he does not value her fabulousness, convincing him she's the best thing for him as she sings: \"Why don't you love me... when I make me so damn easy to love?... I got beauty... I got class... I got style and I got ass...\". The singer further tells her love interest that the decision not to choose her is \"entirely foolish\". Originally released as a pre-order bonus track on the deluxe edition of \"I Am...", "title": "Why Don't You Love Me (Beyoncé song)" }, { "docid": "13458093", "text": "sermons, he urged the faithful to help the workers. The Stalowa Wola strike ended on September 1, after the personal request of Lech Wałęsa, who called Wiesław Wojtas, telling him: “You are great, but please, end the strike, I am asking you in the name of Solidarity”. Following Wałęsa's request, 4,000 workers left the factory on September 1, at 7 p.m. Together with around 15,000 inhabitants of the city, they marched to the Church of Mary, Queen of Poland, where they were greeted by reverend Frankowski, who said: “Illegal priest is welcoming participants of the illegal strike”. On August 19,", "title": "1988 Polish strikes" }, { "docid": "12998615", "text": "the Gamble and Huff song first recorded by Archie Bell & The Drells but then later covered by New York Dolls. Trike (song) Trike is a single released by Australian rock band You Am I in 1997. It was released to make two tracks (\"Trike\" and \"Opportunities\") that were added to the international release of \"Hourly, Daily\" available to Australian fans, along with three extra B-sides. \"Trike\" and \"Opportunities\" were recorded in late 1996 and replaced \"Someone Else's Home\" and \"Moon Shines on Trubble\" from the Australian release. \"Who Turned Out The Lights\" is a You Am I original. \"I", "title": "Trike (song)" }, { "docid": "4375630", "text": "type of lingerie is also known as a torsolette, and is used in bridal lingerie, much like the bustier. The original merry widow was a corselet incorporating slim panels of black, elastic yarn netting. A heavy-duty zipper was inserted behind a velvet-backed hook-and-eye flange, and the entire garment was lined with nylon voile. Nine long, spiral wires were encased in black satin. Lana Turner is reported to have said, \"I am telling you, the merry widow was designed by a man. A woman would never do that to another woman.\" Around 1960, tights and trousers began to replace corselets. However,", "title": "Corselet" } ]

[ "Louis Van Amstel", "Edyta Sliwinska", "Charlotte Jorgensen", "Alec Mazo", "Ashly DelGrosso", "Jonathan Roberts" ]

[ { "docid": "10031791", "text": "remainder of the season. The season finale aired July 6, 2005, with the winners of the season being actress Kelly Monaco and her dance partner Alec Mazo. The six professionals and celebrities that competed were: This table only counts dances scored on a 30-point scale. The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' 30-point scale are as follows: Scores are based upon a potential 30-point maximum. \"Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.\" The celebrities and professional", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 1)" }, { "docid": "14079776", "text": "the week's earlier performances by the competitors, each results show features one or more guest musical performers/acts who perform at least one song. During each song, the Dancing with the Stars dance troupe or guest dancers perform a choreographed dance. Unless otherwise noted, the Dancing with the Stars dance troupe performed during the musical number. The Beach Boys featuring John Stamos performed \"California Girls\", \"Kokomo\", and \"Fun, Fun, Fun\", accompanied by dancers Cheryl Burke, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ashly Costa, Anna Trebunskaya, Louis van Amstel and Damian Whitewood. The \"Macy's Stars of Dance\" segment featured Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine with Haitian dancers. Reba McEntire", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 10)" }, { "docid": "10031836", "text": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 2) Season two of the \"Dancing with the Stars\" (U.S. edition) premiered on the ABC network on January 5, 2006, and ended February 24, 2006. This season expanded to ten couples from six in the previous season. All the professionals dancers from season one, with the exception of Alec Mazo (who was the incumbent champion) and Charlotte Jørgensen, were a part of season two. Tom Bergeron returned as host while Samantha Harris replaced Lisa Canning as co-host. Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges. Season two expanded each program from", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 2)" }, { "docid": "19364206", "text": "while Ginger Zee and Valentin Chmerkovskiy placed third. The cast was revealed on March 8, 2016 on \"Good Morning America\". Edyta Śliwińska returned as a professional dancer this season after an eleven-season hiatus. Also returning to the pro roster are Artem Chigvintsev and Peta Murgatroyd, both of whom did not appear last season as professional dancers, as well as Sasha Farber, who is once again promoted from troupe member to pro dancer. Last season's champion Derek Hough is not returning for this season. Also not returning are Allison Holker, Emma Slater, Anna Trebunskaya, and Louis van Amstel. Actress Jodie Sweetin", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 22)" }, { "docid": "8388213", "text": "Louis Van Amstel Louis van Amstel (born June 23, 1972) is a Dutch-American ballroom dance champion, professional dancer, and choreographer who appears on the U.S. reality television series \"Dancing with the Stars\". He is the creator of the popular dance fitness program LaBlast. Louis van Amstel was born in Amsterdam; his grandparents were competitive ballroom dancers. He began dancing at 10 and entered competitions at 15. He stopped attending school at 16 to pursue dancing full-time. Van Amstel competed professionally with Julie Fryer, and they were coached by Ruud Vermeij. In 1990, Van Amstel and Fryer became Dutch Latin Champions", "title": "Louis Van Amstel" }, { "docid": "14599948", "text": "Trebunskaya danced. Daughtry performed \"September\", featuring guest professional dancers. Santana performed two duets: one with India.Arie (\"While My Guitar Gently Weeps\") while Karina Smirnoff and Louis Van Amstel danced, and another with Chris Daughtry (\"Photograph\"), featuring Mark Ballas, Chelsie Hightower, Derek Hough, and Lacey Schwimmer dancing. Janelle Monáe performed \"Tightrope\", which featured her own dancers. Seal performed \"Weight of My Mistakes\", with Cheryl Burke, Chelsie Hightower, Kym Johnson, and Lacey Schwimmer dancing. This episode also featured a Macy's Stars of Dance performance choreographed by Rich and Tone. Michael Bolton performed \"Hallelujah\" and dancing was performed by Anna Trebunskaya and Jonathan", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 11)" }, { "docid": "9351527", "text": "Angeles has been one of his goals. He has one brother, Genya, who's also a ballroom dancer and has performed on the Dancing with the Stars tour. Alec Mazo is married to his long-time dancing partner dancer Edyta Śliwińska, a native of Poland. The couple have a son born in 2014 and a daughter born in 2017. Mazo appeared in the 1998 movie \"Dance With Me\". Mazo turned professional shortly before producers of \"Dancing with the Stars\" began their search for dancers to star on the show. Mazo won the first season of Dancing with the Stars with his partner,", "title": "Alec Mazo" }, { "docid": "15634848", "text": "danced one of these routines for each corresponding week: The dance troupe consists of six dancers, plus the first eliminated male and female pros, who this season were Val Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd. They are also sometimes joined by pros from other seasons (such as Louis Van Amstel, who danced with the troupe on the Week 4 competition show). Season 13 premiered September 19, 2011 on ABC airing on Monday at 8:00 PM. The performance show was two hours each Monday from 8:00–10:00. The results show was each Tuesday from 9:00–10:00. The season finale aired Tuesday November 22, 2011. Dancing", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 13)" }, { "docid": "14599950", "text": "Head\" and \"Georgia on My Mind\". The Mwano family performed \"Beggin'\", featuring the Mwano brothers, Chelsie Hightower, Kym Johnson, Lacey Schwimmer, Karina Smirnoff, and Anna Trebunskaya dancing. Shakira featured her own dancers while she sang her hit song \"Loca\". Heart sang \"Barracuda\". Chelsie Hightower, Derek Hough, Peta Murgatroyd, Karina Smirnoff, Louis Van Amstel, and Damian Whitewood danced to the number. Kylie Minogue sang \"Get Outta My Way\" and featured her own dancers. Macy's Stars of Dance presented a performance from the School of Rock band choreographed by Travis Wall. Taylor Swift sang \"Mine\" and \"White Horse\". Dmitry Chaplin, Tony Dovolani,", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 11)" }, { "docid": "5325656", "text": "Maksim, Jennifer & Derek and Kurt & Anna were on Ohno's team. On the results show of November 2, some awards were given out to past celebrity contestants and professionals. The 300th episode took place on the week 9 results show of season 16. Twenty-two professional dancers who had appeared on the show, both past and present, performed an opening number choreographed by Jason Gilkinson. Past pros who performed were Chelsie Hightower, Dmitry Chaplin, Louis Van Amstel, and Anna Trebunskaya. Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough danced their \"Argentine tango\" as the week's encore. However, the top 10 dances were not", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "14079779", "text": "featured Viva Elvis by Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil. Gipsy Kings performed two songs: \"You've Got A Friend In Me\" (featuring dancing by Cheryl Burke, Dmitry Chaplin, Tony Dovolani and Kym Johnson), and \"Bamboleo\", which featured DJ Guthrie, Tyne Stecklein and two other guest professional dancers. Sarah McLachlan sang both \"Angel\" (with Jonathan Roberts and Anna Trebunskaya dancing) and \"Loving You is Easy\" (featuring dancing by Dmitry Chaplin, Kym Johnson, Lacey Schwimmer, and Damian Whitewood). Miley Cyrus performed \"Can't Be Tamed\" featuring her own dancers. For the May 18th \"Design a Dance\" performance, viewers had voted in the weeks beforehand", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 10)" } ]

[ { "docid": "12371663", "text": "Dancing with the Stars: We Dance! Dancing with the Stars: We Dance! (Also called Dancing with the Stars: Get Your Dance On!) is a video game based on Dancing with the Stars. It is the sequel to the original Dancing with the Stars game. It is on Activision's \"Wee 1st\" label. The game's subtitle, \"We Dance\", was derived from the Namco-Bandai games; We Ski and We Cheer, also for the Wii. The game features stars including Mel B, Apolo Anton Ohno, Joey Fatone and Jennie Garth and new professional dancers including Derek Hough and his sister Julianne Hough. The Wii", "title": "Dancing with the Stars: We Dance!" }, { "docid": "18924476", "text": "Chmerkovskiy agreed to return to the show in November 2009, but he stated he would not perform with Smirnoff. Instead, Chmerkovskiy returned partnered with another \"Dancing with the Stars\" pro, Kym Johnson. The broadway run ended on January 10, 2010. The show had made plans to continue into February, however, those plans were scrapped. The opening night cast including the following dancers: Vocalists: Throughout the Broadway run, the following dancers joined the cast: In 2010, Burn the Floor performed a limited engagement at the Shaftesbury Theatre on London's West End. Featured guest stars for the 2010 run included Ali Bastian,", "title": "Burn the Floor" }, { "docid": "20314073", "text": "perfect scores by a celebrity in a season (9), surpassing Bindi Irwin (season 21) and Laurie Hernandez (season 23). \"Good Morning America\" announced the professional dancers who would be competing in the upcoming season. The two professionals from the previous season that did not return were Kym Johnson-Herjavec and Sasha Farber. Farber returned to the troupe, and Mark Ballas, who last appeared on season 22, also returned. Alan Bersten, a troupe member since season 20, was promoted to pro. On September 4, it was revealed that Cheryl Burke was the thirteenth pro added to the lineup. Drew Scott was announced", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 25)" }, { "docid": "18873229", "text": "Keo Motsepe Keoikantse \"Keo\" Motsepe (born 24 November 1989) is a South African dancer. His dancing styles are Latin and Ballroom. He is known for being the first black professional dancer on the ABC show \"Dancing with the Stars\". Motsepe started his career at 11 years of age by entering into in a competitive dance scene representing his country. In 2012 Motsepe joined the cast of \"Burn the Floor\". In 2014 it was announced that Motsepe would join the cast of pro dancers on \"Dancing with the Stars\". In season 19, Motsepe was paired up with Olympic athlete Lolo Jones.", "title": "Keo Motsepe" }, { "docid": "9217648", "text": "Maksim Chmerkovskiy Maksim \"Maks\" Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy (, ; born January 17, 1980) is a Ukrainian-American Latin–ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor. He is widely known as one of the professional dancers on the American television series \"Dancing with the Stars\", on which he first appeared in season two. In his 17 seasons as a competing pro on the show, Chmerkovskiy made it to the final round five times, with two runner-up and two third-place finishes. On May 20, 2014, Chmerkovskiy, paired with Olympic ice dancer Meryl Davis, won his first \"Dancing with the Stars\" title. Chmerkovskiy has also starred in", "title": "Maksim Chmerkovskiy" }, { "docid": "20840595", "text": "Milo and Witney placed second, Evanna and Keo placed third, while Alexis and Alan placed fourth. The thirteen professional dancers were revealed on \"Good Morning America\" on August 28, 2018. The ten professionals from last season returned, along with Cheryl Burke and Valentin Chmerkovskiy, who both last competed in season 25. Troupe dancer Brandon Armstrong made his debut in the pro lineup. Nancy McKeon was announced as the first celebrity competing for the season, partnered with Chmerkovskiy. On September 12, the rest of the cast was revealed on \"Good Morning America\". Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews returned as hosts, while", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 27)" }, { "docid": "19596439", "text": "\"Burn the Floor\" dancer Gorka Márquez, former \"Dancing with the Stars U.S.\" troupe member Oksana Platero and ex-Britain's Got Talent contestants AJ Pritchard, and Chloe Hewitt. Because the professional dancers outnumbered the celebrities, Chloe Hewitt and Neil Jones did not partner a celebrity, although they were on standby for any pro that may be injured or unable to compete and still did group dances and appear on the \"Strictly\" companion programme, \"\". On 8 August 2016, former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls was announced as the first celebrity contestant on the series, with more celebrities being announced throughout the month. The", "title": "Strictly Come Dancing (series 14)" }, { "docid": "18924477", "text": "a competitor on \"Strictly Come Dancing\", and her pro partner from Strictly, Brian Fortuna. The show was scheduled to run from July 21-September 5, 2010. The show returned to the Shaftesbury Theatre in 2013, this time with Robin Windsor and Kristina Rihanoff, pro dancers from \"Strictly Come Dancing\", in the roles of featured guest stars. The 2013 run began on March 6, 2013 and closed on June 30, 2013, although it was originally scheduled to run through September 1. Following closing on Broadway, the show embarked on a 2010 world tour, which included 30 cities in the United States. A", "title": "Burn the Floor" }, { "docid": "15186432", "text": "Winner Takes All Cha-cha-cha The celebrities and professional partners danced one of these routines for each corresponding week: In addition to recapping the week's earlier performances by the competitors, each results show features one or more guest musical performers/acts who perform at least one song. During each song, the \"Dancing with the Stars\" dance troupe or guest dancers perform a choreographed dance. Unless otherwise noted, the \"Dancing with the Stars\" dance troupe performed during the musical number. Chris Brown performed \"Yeah 3x\" and a medley of \"Forever\"/\"Beautiful People\" while his own dancers performed. The dance troupe also performed to the", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 12)" }, { "docid": "7755495", "text": "Dancing with the Stars (New Zealand TV series) Dancing with the Stars is a New Zealand television series based on the British series \"Strictly Come Dancing\". The show introduces New Zealand celebrities paired with professional ballroom dancers who each week compete against each other in a competition to impress a panel of judges and the viewing public in order to survive potential elimination. Through a telephone poll, viewers vote for those couples who should stay. The public vote and the average score given by the panel of judges equally go towards deciding who should leave. Proceeds from the voting go", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (New Zealand TV series)" }, { "docid": "12918142", "text": "Paris by Night 93 Paris by Night 93: Celebrity Dancing - Khiêu Vũ Của Các Ngôi Sao is a Paris by Night program produced by Thuy Nga that was filmed at the Charles M. Schulz Theatre in Knott's Berry Farm on May 14, 2008. The show is an adaptation from the international reality TV show \"Dancing with the Stars\" where Thúy Nga contracted-singers were paired up with professional ballroom dancers who have participated in \"Dancing with the Stars\" and \"So You Think You Can Dance\". The singers compete to become the winner of the show. Besides dancing, there are a", "title": "Paris by Night 93" }, { "docid": "15680370", "text": "Taniec kontra Dance Taniec kontra Dance (Eng. Dancing vs. Dance) was a Polish special television series which featured professional dancers from \"Dancing With The Stars\" and contestants of \"\" competing for viewers' votes. The show took place on 11 June 2011 in Białystok, which is said to be the Polish capital of dance. The \"Dancing With The Stars\" team was mentored by Rafał Maserak and the \"\" team's leader was Patricia Kazadi. The judging panel consisted of Michał Piróg (judge on \"\"), Maja Sablewska (judge on \"X Factor\") and Piotr Galiński (judge on \"Dancing With The Stars\"). Piotr Gąsowski, who", "title": "Taniec kontra Dance" }, { "docid": "15043967", "text": "of season 5. During season five, a dance course was aired in which the professional dancers taught the viewers the basics of the cha-cha-cha, rumba, jive, samba, paso doble, English waltz, slow foxtrot, quick step, tango and Viennese waltz. No Special Episodes were aired. After each show of Season 11, an episode of \"Dancing Stars Extra\" was aired in which the viewers got exclusive glimpses behind the scenes of the show. Dancing Stars (Austrian TV series) Dancing Stars is the Austrian version of \"Dancing with the Stars\" and is shown on ORF eins in Austria. Color key: The judges in", "title": "Dancing Stars (Austrian TV series)" }, { "docid": "10031790", "text": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 1) The first season of \"Dancing with the Stars\" debuted on ABC on June 1, 2005. Six celebrities were paired with six professional ballroom dancers. Tom Bergeron and Lisa Canning were the hosts for this season. The judges were Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli. The premiere drew over 13 million viewers, the second biggest summer debut ever for an American reality series after \"Survivor\". The second week climbed to 15 million viewers, and the show climbed to No. 1 in the summer 2005 TV season ratings, where it remained for the", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 1)" }, { "docid": "10031792", "text": "partners will dance one of these routines for each corresponding week: Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 1) The first season of \"Dancing with the Stars\" debuted on ABC on June 1, 2005. Six celebrities were paired with six professional ballroom dancers. Tom Bergeron and Lisa Canning were the hosts for this season. The judges were Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli. The premiere drew over 13 million viewers, the second biggest summer debut ever for an American reality series after \"Survivor\". The second week climbed to 15 million viewers, and the show climbed to No. 1 in", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 1)" }, { "docid": "19692883", "text": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 23) Season twenty-three of \"Dancing with the Stars\" premiered on September 12, 2016, on the ABC network. On November 23, 2016, Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez and Valentin Chmerkovskiy were announced the winner; IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe and Sharna Burgess placed second, and retired NFL player Calvin Johnson Jr. and Lindsay Arnold placed third. Having won at age 16, Hernandez is currently the youngest winner of the show, surpassing Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson (season 8). The first eight professional dancers were revealed on \"Good Morning America\" on August 23, 2016, and have all appeared on", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 23)" }, { "docid": "19692884", "text": "the show before. The six returning from the previous season include Lindsay Arnold, Sharna Burgess, Witney Carson, Artem Chigvintsev, Val Chmerkovskiy, and Sasha Farber; the two returning from past seasons are Allison Holker (last seen in season 21) and Gleb Savchenko (from season 16). Later, other returning dancers were announced: Emma Slater (last seen in season 21), Maksim Chmerkovskiy (last competed in season 18), Derek Hough (last competed season 21) and Cheryl Burke (last competed season 19). Past troupe member Jenna Johnson is the only new pro this season. Pros from the previous season who did not return this season", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 23)" }, { "docid": "10031844", "text": "negative feedback from the judges and scores that were much lower than his competitors, but he advanced to the finals. Even though Rice improved during the finals, some viewers and critics were disappointed with Rice getting into the finals over Lisa Rinna and 2nd place over Stacy Kiebler. Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 2) Season two of the \"Dancing with the Stars\" (U.S. edition) premiered on the ABC network on January 5, 2006, and ended February 24, 2006. This season expanded to ten couples from six in the previous season. All the professionals dancers from season one, with the", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 2)" }, { "docid": "19692894", "text": "celebrities and professional partners will dance one of these routines for each corresponding week: Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 23) Season twenty-three of \"Dancing with the Stars\" premiered on September 12, 2016, on the ABC network. On November 23, 2016, Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez and Valentin Chmerkovskiy were announced the winner; IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe and Sharna Burgess placed second, and retired NFL player Calvin Johnson Jr. and Lindsay Arnold placed third. Having won at age 16, Hernandez is currently the youngest winner of the show, surpassing Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson (season 8). The first eight professional dancers were", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 23)" }, { "docid": "5325659", "text": "\"Man in the Mirror\", and \"Thriller\" were performed—the first two songs by select professional dancers of the show, with all coming together for \"Thriller\". In season 10, professional Haitian dancers performed as a tribute to victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on March 30, 2010. One of the male dancers, Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine, had lost his son in the rubble. They were dancing to \"Dance Like This\" by Wyclef Jean. In season 24, to honor the passing of season 11 contestant Florence Henderson on November 24, 2016, a special tribute to Henderson was displayed on the dance floor. The season 24", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "17518653", "text": "judges will both replace Horner. Former champion and current \"Dancing with the Stars USA\" professional, Kym Johnson and actor/tap dancer Adam Garcia became the newest additions to the judges table, alongside McKenney and Richey. Twelve contestants and professional dancers participated in this season. The celebrities cast were revealed on 27 August 2013, via the networkers website, along with their professional partners and on \"Today Tonight\". This season also marks the show's return to the Tuesday 7.30pm timeslot as it has not been presented in this format since season 7. This was the first time three professional dancers had suffered injuries", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (Australian season 13)" }, { "docid": "11633569", "text": "Dance Chart The scores presented below represent the perfect scores which the celebrities gained in their original season. Dances performed with dancers other than the celebrity's original partner are counted in the total perfect scores with their original partner based on who choreographed the dance. The scores presented below represent the best overall accumulative average scores the celebrity gained each season. The scores presented below represent the worst overall accumulative average scores the celebrity gained each season. Opening: \"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love\" – Solomon Burke (Group VOLT) In May and June 2006 Seasons 1-3 participants went on a tour", "title": "Dancing with the Stars: Taniec z gwiazdami" }, { "docid": "15043965", "text": "in this order from left to right: Alfons Haider, Nicole Burns-Hansen, Thomas Schäfer-Elmayer and Hannes Nedbal.\" No Special Episodes were aired. After the finale of the second season a \"Dancing Stars Best of\" was aired. After the finale of the third season a \"Dancing Stars Best of\" was aired. After the \"Best of\" of Season 3 there was a special episode called \"Dancing Stars – Die Traumhochzeit\" (Dancing Stars – The Dream Wedding) in which the professional ballroom dancers Balázs Ekker and Alice Guschelbauer got married. Before the start of season four, ORF aired the reality show \"Dance with Me\"", "title": "Dancing Stars (Austrian TV series)" }, { "docid": "20721697", "text": "Dancing with the Stars: Juniors Dancing with the Stars: Juniors is an American children's dance competition television series that premiered on October 7, 2018 on ABC. It is a spin-off of the \"Dancing with the Stars\" series. The format of the show features celebrity children (either in their own right or having celebrity parentage) paired with professional junior ballroom dancers and mentored by an adult professional dancer. The couples compete against each other by performing choreographed dance routines in front of a panel of judges. Like \"Dancing with the Stars\", the scores used for eliminations are based 50% on judges", "title": "Dancing with the Stars: Juniors" }, { "docid": "11868789", "text": "three contestants were kept open, at the expense of those voting by SMS. The Network responded that they had \"operated according to policy\", and would not confirm or deny the allegations to respect the \"dignity of the stars\". Partners Ilanit & Haim Pershtein were forced to retire from the contest when Ilanit has a problem with her leg. Rokdim Im Kokhavim Rokdim Im Kokhavim (, \"Dancing with Stars\") is the Israeli version of the popular British TV show \"Strictly Come Dancing\". The show features local celebrities partnered with professional ballroom dancers, competing to be the most successful dancers in the", "title": "Rokdim Im Kokhavim" }, { "docid": "14599953", "text": "(Billy Joel's \"It's Still Rock and Roll to Me\"), and professionals to perform the dance (Cheryl Burke and Derek Hough). Also, Dancing with the Stars held an online contest in which viewers could submit concepts (costumes, story, etc.) for the dance and were eligible to win a free trip to the show. The viewers then voted on the finalists. Abby Stonewall Kapp from Charlotte, North Carolina, won with her idea of a 1950s themed dance. Christina Aguilera performed two songs: \"Show Me How You Burlesque\" (featuring the \"Burlesque\" dancers), and \"Beautiful\" (featuring her own dancers). Despite getting the lowest scores", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 11)" }, { "docid": "16366236", "text": "contestants were revealed in late February 2012. This cast has been seen as a \"star increase\" on the previous year's cast, particularly with the addition of new international co-host Mel B, and former Nine daytime talkshow host Kerri-Anne Kennerley. Six new professional dancers, including former American \"Dancing with the Stars\" professional Damian Whitewood, Christopher Page, Elena Samodanova, Jess Prince, Gleb Savchenko and Damien Samuel have been recruited to replace non-returning professional dancers Alana Patience, Brendon Midson, Arsen Kishishian, Masha Belash, Jade Brand and Mark Hodge. The celebrities and professional partners will dance one of these routines for each corresponding week.", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (Australian season 12)" }, { "docid": "12020998", "text": "on official YCD website around month before event This episode was live from Białystok. There were two teams - professional dancers from \"Dancing With The Stars\" (Taniec z Gwiazdam) and \"You Can Dance: Po prostu tańcz!\" dancers. DWTS team leader was Rafał Maserak (DWTS dancer) and YCD team Patricia Kazadi (YCD presenter). Piotr Gąsowski (DWTS presenter) was the presenter this show. 1st place: Dancing with the Stars team 2nd place: You Can Dance team You Can Dance: Po prostu tańcz! You Can Dance: Po prostu tańcz! (\"You Can Dance: Just Dance!\") is a televised Polish dance competition with a format", "title": "You Can Dance: Po prostu tańcz!" }, { "docid": "8759240", "text": "has two older brothers, one older sister, and four younger sisters. Her five sisters are also dancers. She performed with those sisters, Averie Michelle, Afton Skye, Autumn, Amber and Abrea Danielle, as a troupe in a third season results show the week after DelGrosso and partner Harry Hamlin were eliminated. Afton competed on the eighth season of \"Dancing with the Stars\" in a pro dancer competition to win a spot as a professional in the show's ninth season, but did not make past the third week of competition (four weeks in total). With Jonathan Gulledge, amateur dance partner, DelGrosso has", "title": "Ashly DelGrosso" }, { "docid": "5325663", "text": "it was announced that the series would begin airing on October 7, 2018, with filming taking place during August 2018. Professional skateboarder Sky Brown, junior pro JT Church and pro mentor Alan Bernsten were announced as the winners on December 9th, 2018. An unofficial live tour show called \"Dancing Pros: Live!\" toured with several \"Dancing\" pros since 2010. A \"Dancing with the Stars: Live!\" official tour was announced on November 3, 2014, for the 2014–2015 season starting on December 27, 2014, in Niagara Falls, New York and ending February 15, 2015, hitting 33 cities. A second tour, “Dancing with the", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "13015930", "text": "They performed their single, \"Move\", the lead-off single to their upcoming untitled second studio album. Before the band's foundation, Derek Hough and sister Julianne performed as professional dancers. They and Mark Ballas competed on the ABC television series \"Dancing with the Stars\". Before joining the roster of professional dancers of \"Dancing With The Stars,\" Derek Hough and Mark Ballas were living in Great Britain, as was Derek's sister Julianne. The three had previously been members of the musical team 2B1G, whose name stood for \"Two Boys, One Girl.\" After Julianne left this team, Mark and Derek formed another band, which", "title": "Ballas Hough Band" }, { "docid": "4512869", "text": "by a different production: GV Producciones. This show was hosted by Gisela Valcárcel and Giancarlo Chichizola and aired every Saturday night (from June to December). The show was like \"Dancing With The Stars\", but instead of professional dancers, there were amateur dancers. They danced every week in order to win a prize: to achieve a personal/humanitarian goal or \"dream\". The show had 2 series and the 4 first places of each series had the chance to dance on \"Reyes de la Pista\". Winners: The next year (2009), \"El Show de los sueños\" was shown every Saturday night (from May to", "title": "Dancing with the Stars" }, { "docid": "7639334", "text": "show on November 18, 2008. Performance On May 5, 2009, he returned to the eighth season of \"Dancing with the Stars\". He participated in the new pro dancer competition as Afton DelGrosso's partner/student because the final three pro dancers each had to teach a star from a previous season. Linley released his first single \"Breathe\" featuring Capo in September 2010. His debut album was released in 2012. He Released A Deathcore album in 2016 through Stay Sick Recordings. Linley was born in Lewisville, Texas, the son of Cathryn Sullivan, an acting coach, and Lee Linley. Linley made YouTube videos, called", "title": "Cody Linley" }, { "docid": "19660826", "text": "were too small for the large scale production of Dancing with the Stars would require, with the largest television studio at RTE Studio 4 at 6,525 Sq Ft would be too small and so the production have had to be based in Ardmore Studios located in County Wicklow, whose largest studio there are 15,000 Sq Ft. The format of the series follows celebrities being paired up with professional dancers, who perform predetermined dances each week for judges' scores and public votes, with the couple with the lowest amount of points being eliminated, until the winning couple remains. On 18 December", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (Irish TV series)" }, { "docid": "8388221", "text": "her original season. In Week 8, Van Amstel was chosen by Kelly Monaco and her partner Val Chmerkovskiy to be their partner in their trio dance. Van Amstel was not asked back for season 16 of \"Dancing with the Stars\". On September 2, 2015, he was announced as a pro for season 21 after a 5-season hiatus. He was paired with celebrity chef, Paula Deen. They were eliminated on week 6 of competition and finished in 9th place. During his time off from \"Dancing With The Stars\", Van Amstel set up a not-for profit dance company called \"Visionworx Dance Theater,\"", "title": "Louis Van Amstel" }, { "docid": "15680371", "text": "is the presenter on \"Dancing With The Stars\", presented the show. The competition was won by \"Dancing With The Stars\" team. The show featured music performances by \"X Factor\" finalists and Patricia Kazadi. Taniec kontra Dance Taniec kontra Dance (Eng. Dancing vs. Dance) was a Polish special television series which featured professional dancers from \"Dancing With The Stars\" and contestants of \"\" competing for viewers' votes. The show took place on 11 June 2011 in Białystok, which is said to be the Polish capital of dance. The \"Dancing With The Stars\" team was mentored by Rafał Maserak and the \"\"", "title": "Taniec kontra Dance" }, { "docid": "3734241", "text": "and Bruno Tonioli. Joanne Clifton was also featured on the tour, but not partner a celebrity. Pro Partners on the tour were as follows: The 2017 tour was presented by 2015 semi-finalist Anita Rani. The judges were Craig Revel Horwood, Len Goodman and Karen Hardy. The tour started on 20 January and finished on 12 February. The full tour line up was announced on 14 December: Due to Ed Balls not dancing in Manchester, Judge Rinder and Oksana Platero replaced him on the 4 and 5 February. Extra Dancers on Tour who were dancing in Group Dances: The 2018 tour", "title": "Strictly Come Dancing" }, { "docid": "20420379", "text": "Jade Hatcher Jade Hatcher (born 15 January 1990) is an Australian dancer. She competed as a professional dancer on multiple seasons of Australia's \"Dancing with the Stars\", winning in 2009. In 2017, she opened her own dance studio, Hatcher Dance. Hatcher's parents Gary and Babette were professional dancers. Hatcher began dancing at her family's dance studio at age 3. Hatcher competed as in Latin and ballroom dance, starting in 2002. Her last Dancesport competition results were in December 2007. Hatcher joined Australia's \"Dancing with the Stars\" at age 19, making her the youngest professional dancer on the show. For the", "title": "Jade Hatcher" }, { "docid": "20420382", "text": "to Australia. Jade Hatcher Jade Hatcher (born 15 January 1990) is an Australian dancer. She competed as a professional dancer on multiple seasons of Australia's \"Dancing with the Stars\", winning in 2009. In 2017, she opened her own dance studio, Hatcher Dance. Hatcher's parents Gary and Babette were professional dancers. Hatcher began dancing at her family's dance studio at age 3. Hatcher competed as in Latin and ballroom dance, starting in 2002. Her last Dancesport competition results were in December 2007. Hatcher joined Australia's \"Dancing with the Stars\" at age 19, making her the youngest professional dancer on the show.", "title": "Jade Hatcher" }, { "docid": "12726132", "text": "pro in season nine, is Anna Demidova. Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 8) Season eight of \"Dancing with the Stars\" premiered on Monday, March 10, 2009, as part of ABC's spring line-up. The show generally followed the format of previous seasons, with 13 couples, although there were some changes, including two new dances (Argentine tango and Lindy Hop), and an occasional dance-off between the bottom two couples, in order to determine who will be eliminated. The show was again hosted by Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris. Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba all returned as judges again", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 8)" }, { "docid": "20721698", "text": "scores and 50% on audience voting. There is no home audience voting like its parent series though, and voting is limited to the direct in-studio audience members during each week's episode recording. Each audience member uses a hand-held voting device to advance their preferred dancing team to the next round, with the team having the least votes and lowest judges scores overall eliminated. On August 1, 2018, the junior professional dancers and adult mentors were revealed. On September 25, during the second episode of season 27 of \"DWTS\", the junior celebrities were announced. \"Dancing with the Stars\" season 25 winner", "title": "Dancing with the Stars: Juniors" }, { "docid": "20910938", "text": "June had access to, and the backlash she received as the result of endorsing products claiming to treat the Ebola virus and cancer. In 2015, Alana and June appeared on an episode of \"The Doctors\", who urged June to take control of Alana's weight, which had reached 125 pounds, making Alana clinically obese. \"\" premiered on We TV on 24 February 2017. A second season aired the following year. Alana is set to appear on Dancing with the Stars: Juniors, a spin-off of Dancing with the Stars that will feature child stars and dancers. During their time on Toddlers &", "title": "Shannon family" }, { "docid": "3734235", "text": "Cheek\" tour of the UK. \"Strictly Come Dancing\" professionals Matthew Cutler and Kristina Rihanoff also performed a routine together. The DVD was released on 9 November 2009. The \"Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour\" took place in January and February 2010. Amanda Byram and Kate Thornton hosted on different nights. The judging panel consisted of four members: The following celebrities and professional dancers starred in the tour: Two other pro dancers danced on the tour: Nine professional show dancers took part in the first Strictly Come Dancing – The Professionals Tour between April to July 2010. It featured: The \"Strictly Come", "title": "Strictly Come Dancing" }, { "docid": "20029152", "text": "In the following days, Lindsay Arnold, Sharna Burgess, Witney Carson, Artem Chigvintsev, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Sasha Farber, Gleb Savchenko, and Emma Slater were all confirmed to be returning as professional dancers. Also, Kym Herjavec (who last competed in season 20) and Keo Motsepe (who last competed in season 22) were confirmed to be returning as professional dancers. Pros from the previous season not returning included Cheryl Burke, Allison Holker, Derek Hough, and Jenna Johnson. The full list of celebrities and pros was announced on March 1, 2017, on \"Good Morning America\". Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews returned as hosts, and Carrie", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 24)" }, { "docid": "5325657", "text": "revealed, nor were the achievements. The 400th episode took place on the season premiere of the twenty-fourth season. Tom Bergeron did mention so; however, no special dances took place. On April 28, 2015, during season 20, a special pre-recorded episode aired as a 10th anniversary special with many former stars and professional dancers returning to the ballroom. Many past stars performed and reflected on their time on the show. Patti LaBelle, Amber Riley, and Lil' Kim performed LaBelle's \"Lady Marmalade\". The show closed with the largest number of people dancing in the show's history as stars, pros, hosts, and judges", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "14599943", "text": "time since season seven. This is the first season to feature no new professional dancers, as each of the 12 pros has appeared on at least one previous season. Edyta Śliwińska, the only pro to have appeared throughout the entire run of the series, did not return this season. Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, and Carrie Ann Inaba continued as the judges. Several changes were introduced this season including an \"Acoustic Week,\" in which couples performed either the Rumba or the Argentine Tango, while the audience was brought closer to the dance floor, which was elevated and made circular, a \"TV", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 11)" }, { "docid": "14977512", "text": "The winners were actor Jan Uuspõld and his partner Aleksandra Žeregelja. The runners-up were World Figure Skating silver medallist Anna Levandi and her partner Mairold Millert. Tantsud tähtedega Tantsud tähtedega (Estonian: \"Dancing with the Stars\") is an Estonian television reality show airing on Kanal 2. It debuted on 8 October 2006, and it has become a popular television show in Estonia. It is based on the British reality show \"Strictly Come Dancing\". The show is produced by BEC productions. The show introduces eight Estonian celebrities paired with professional ballroom dancers who each week compete to impress a panel of judges", "title": "Tantsud tähtedega" }, { "docid": "18924474", "text": "dancers, who had their own ideas of how to make it more contemporary.\" Before the show hit Broadway, it had already been performed in 29 countries. Burn the Floor performed its first preview show on Broadway on July 25, 2009 at the Longacre Theatre. The show opened on August 2, 2009 after eight preview performances. Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff, known for appearing on the U.S. television series \"Dancing with the Stars\", were announced as special guest stars for the first three weeks of performances. At the time, Chmerkovskiy and Smirnoff were a couple off stage as well. Gilkison, who", "title": "Burn the Floor" }, { "docid": "11868787", "text": "Rokdim Im Kokhavim Rokdim Im Kokhavim (, \"Dancing with Stars\") is the Israeli version of the popular British TV show \"Strictly Come Dancing\". The show features local celebrities partnered with professional ballroom dancers, competing to be the most successful dancers in the contest. Each week the couple that gains the fewest votes from the show's judges and spectators is eliminated. Viewers vote for their favorites, in order to save them from elimination, via phone, SMS and online. Over 350,000 votes were cast on the show's 3rd-season finale. Partners Lucy Dubinchik & Dennis Belochrekovski were forced to retire from the contest", "title": "Rokdim Im Kokhavim" }, { "docid": "15560299", "text": "her single, \"Goin' In\". As a result of a meeting with international casting director Jamie King, who was working with Jennifer Lopez at the time, six members of ReQuest were contracted for Cirque du Soleil's , based in Las Vegas. Goebel herself was also contracted to serve as one of the choreographers for the show. Goebel was featured during season 15 of the US version of \"Dancing with the Stars\", performing on stage with several dancers from ReQuest and Royal Family. Parris also goes on tour called \"Skulls and Crowns\" with some lucky dancers from The Palace. In 2015, ReQuest", "title": "ReQuest Dance Crew" }, { "docid": "12676807", "text": "and TMZ that Mr. Dolinsek will be a 2019 contestant on the ABC television series Dancing With The Stars. Dancing With The Stars pairs a number of well known (and less well known) celebrities with professional ballroom dancers, who each week compete by performing one or more choreographed routines that follow the prearranged theme for that particular week. John Dolinsek John N. Dolinsek (born January 3, 1948 in Santa Rosa, CA) was an outfielder who is most notable for winning the 1969 College World Series Most Outstanding Player award while a junior at Arizona State University. He is one of", "title": "John Dolinsek" }, { "docid": "11633572", "text": "Dancers from \"So You Think You Can Dance\"\" http://przeambitni.com/2014/05/26/kto-zatanczy-w-kolejnej-edycji-tanca-z-gwiazdami/ Dancing with the Stars: Taniec z gwiazdami Dancing with the Stars: Taniec z gwiazdami (previously: \"Taniec z gwiazdami\") is a Polish light entertainment reality television series broadcast by Polsat. It is the Polish version of the BBC's popular \"Dancing with the Stars\"/\"Strictly Come Dancing\" franchise which has been sold to more than 40 countries worldwide. The 1st season of \"Taniec z gwiazdami\" aired in Poland on TVN in the spring of 2005, the 2nd season in the autumn of 2005, the 3rd season in the spring of 2006, the 4th season", "title": "Dancing with the Stars: Taniec z gwiazdami" }, { "docid": "14345753", "text": "sold millions of tickets in over 30 countries and 160 cities worldwide. He was a dancer with the company in 2009 making his Broadway debut. In 2010, Damian made the move to prime-time television in the US as one of the professional dancers on ABC’s top rated program, \"Dancing With The Stars\" on season 10. He was partnered with Pamela Anderson who he has continually been working with all around the world. Damian has guest appeared on the Israeli \"Rokdim Im Kokhavim\" רוקדים עם כוכבים, version of \"Dancing With The Stars\". He has also competed on the Argentine \"Bailando por", "title": "Damian Whitewood" }, { "docid": "20469347", "text": "performing 'Hearts On Fire' Dance-Off Dance-Off Dance-Off Guest act: Joanne Clifton and the cast of \"Flashdance the Musical\" performing a routine to 'Flashdance... What a Feeling' Dance-Off Guest act: Riverdance collaboration with the Dancing with the Stars professional dancers. \"The couples will perform two dances, the first being a song by an Irish artist to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day\" Dance-Off<br>\"For the dance-off Jake & Karen chose to perform their Rumba, while Erin & Ryan chose their Samba.\" Judges votes; Guest act: Picture This performing 'This Morning'. Dancing with the Stars (Irish series 2) Dancing with the Stars returned for a", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (Irish series 2)" }, { "docid": "10031869", "text": "as dancing could aid weight loss. Unfortunately, Tysonia wound up gaining five pounds from what she said, \"too much Slim Fast\". The season finale brought in 27.8 million viewers, making it the highest rated \"Dancing with the Stars\" season finale to date. Emmitt Smith was the celebrity winner from this season. The 11 celebrities and professional dancers that competed were: On October 12, 2006, Sara Evans announced her withdrawal from the competition to be with her kids after filing for divorce from her husband, Craig Schelske. In a \"final appearance\", a pre-taped interview with Evans about her decision was shown", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 3)" }, { "docid": "15949898", "text": "Chong performed with Emma Slater instead of Murgatroyd. Murgatroyd performed with Jonathan Bennett. Score given by guest judge Jessie J in place of Goodman. Score given by guest judge Pitbull in place of Goodman. For season 20, Murgatroyd was partnered with football player Michael Sam. The couple was eliminated on Week 4 and finished in 10th place. On August 19, 2015, \"Good Morning America\" announced Murgatroyd would be one of the pro dancers on the upcoming season 21 of \"Dancing with the Stars\". However, before the season premiered, Murgatroyd was forced to sit this season out due to an ongoing", "title": "Peta Murgatroyd" }, { "docid": "13140357", "text": "co-starred on the Disney Channel original series \"Shake It Up!\" as Ty Blue, Rocky's older brother. Fegan was featured on the 14th season of the ABC show \"Dancing with the Stars\". Chelsie Hightower was announced as Roshon's ballroom dance partner. He stayed on for eight weeks and was placed in the top 6. He also appeared on OWN's hit tv series \"Greenleaf\" as Isaiah Hambrick Roshon is a songwriter, producer, actor, artist and freestyle dancer who learned his moves by watching Michael Jackson and other influential dancers. A drummer since the age of two, Roshon also plays the piano and", "title": "Roshon Fegan" }, { "docid": "14079777", "text": "performed \"I Want a Cowboy\" (featuring Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Snejana Petrova and Edyta Śliwińska) and \"Consider Me Gone\" (with Dmitry Chaplin and Lacey Schwimmer dancing). Mark Ballas performed \"Malagueña\" while Chelsie Hightower and Derek Hough danced. Sade sang \"Babyfather\" while Chelsie Hightower and Damian Whitewood danced, and also sang \"The Sweetest Taboo\" (featuring her own dancers). The \"Macy's Stars of Dance\" segment featured Nuttin' But Stringz and Tiler Peck with other dancers. Maxwell performed \"Fistful of Tears\" while Teddy Forance and Tyne Stecklein danced. Debi Nova performed \"Drummer Boy\", featuring dancing by Dmitry Chaplin, Tony Dovolani, Derek Hough and", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 10)" }, { "docid": "2423202", "text": "show has been successfully exported to other countries as \"Dancing with the Stars\" or similar names in local languages. Come Dancing Come Dancing was a British ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off on the BBC from 1950 to 1998, becoming one of television's longest-running shows. Unlike its follow-up show, \"Strictly Come Dancing\", contestants were not celebrities. The show was created by Eric Morley, the founder of Miss World, and began in 1950 by broadcasting from regional ballroom studios, with professional dancers Syd Perkin and Edna Duffield on hand to offer teaching. In 1953, the format changed to", "title": "Come Dancing" }, { "docid": "10438970", "text": "cast was announced on \"Good Morning America\" by host Tom Bergeron, judge Carrie Ann Inaba, and reigning celebrity champion Apolo Anton Ohno. The 12 celebrities and professional dancers who competed were: The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' marks are as follows: \"Individual judges scores in charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.\" The third tour started in Seattle, Washington on December 18, 2007, and ended in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 10, 2008. The pairs performing in the tour were: Dancing", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 5)" }, { "docid": "17333170", "text": "and their professional partners was announced on September 4, 2013 on \"Good Morning America\". All of the previously competing professional dancers returned for season 17 with the exception of Gleb Savchenko, Lindsay Arnold, and Kym Johnson (who took the season off to be a judge in season 13 of the Australian version). They were replaced by Tyne Stecklein, Emma Slater, and Sasha Farber. However, Savchenko and Arnold joined Henry Byalikov and Witney Carson in the Dance Troupe replacing Julian Tocker and Oksana Dmytrenko, therefore reducing the troupe to four professional dancers. This table only counts for dances scored on a", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 17)" }, { "docid": "4512873", "text": "name \"Танці з зірками\" (\"Tantsi z zirkamy\") which stands for \"Dances With The Stars\". The show was hosted by Yuriy Horbunov and Tina Karol. The star contestants were paired with famous Ukrainian dancers, who had won major international competitions. The winners of the show were rewarded with the tour to the Rio Carnival, while the runners-up went to the Carnival on Cuba. The show was extremely popular with Ukrainian viewers. The show finale held on the November 26, 2006 had the TV rating of 26.83% with the share of 54.64%, meaning that a quarter of the Ukrainian population and more", "title": "Dancing with the Stars" }, { "docid": "5325658", "text": "were all out on the dance floor. In seasons 9 and 10, three tribute performances were done to honor the memory of artists and others. The first was a tribute to recently deceased actor Patrick Swayze, on Sep 23, 2009. \"She's Like the Wind\" from the \"Dirty Dancing\" soundtrack (originally written by Swayze for \"Dirty Dancing\"), \"Unchained Melody\" from his film \"Ghost\", and \"(I've Had) The Time of my Life\" from \"Dirty Dancing\" were performed by select professional dancers of the show. On Oct 20, 2009, a tribute was done for singer and dancer, Michael Jackson. \"I Want You Back\",", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)" }, { "docid": "15341752", "text": "western music, received complaints from actual line dancers. One line-dancer told \"BBC News\", \"Really, I think they were making a mockery of line-dancers. Line-dancing is a great form of dance, a great form of exercise - I don't like it when I see people making fun of it.\" Steve Healy, editor of a line-dancing website, added, \"People say line-dancing isn't cool, but you've had line-dancers who have gone on to dance with Kylie [Minogue] on-stage and choreograph stage shows. Line-dancing gets kids doing some sports and off the street.\" Cliff Parisi and Ricky Groves were given the \"Best Double Act\"", "title": "Minty Peterson" }, { "docid": "20513604", "text": "with Sasha Farber, were both announced as runners-up during the live finale show. However, it was revealed later that Josh and Sharna placed second, while Tonya and Sasha placed third. The professional dancers were announced on April 12, 2018. The eight professionals returning from last season are Lindsay Arnold, Alan Bersten, Sharna Burgess, Witney Carson, Artem Chigvintsev, Keo Motsepe, Gleb Savchenko, and Emma Slater. The two remaining professional dancers were both in the troupe last season, and have previously been professional dancers on the show: Sasha Farber (last competed in season 24) and Jenna Johnson (last competed in season 23).", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 26)" }, { "docid": "15186435", "text": "special. The April 26 episode also featured two duets between New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys, who performed \"Don't Turn Out the Lights\" accompanied by dancers Tony Dovolani and Lacey Schwimmer, and the dance troupe, and \"I Want It That Way\"/\"Step by Step\" with Peta Murgatroyd, Anna Trebunskaya, Joey McIntyre and Donnie Wahlberg dancing. On the same episode, Pia Toscano performed \"I'll Stand By You\" with Mark Ballas and Karina Smirnoff dancing. Nicki Minaj performed \"Moment 4 Life\" with Chelsie Hightower, Kiki Nyemchek, Sonny Pederson and Lacey Schwimmer dancing. Priscilla Ahn performed \"Dream\" while Patricia Zhou danced, and", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 12)" }, { "docid": "8972481", "text": "principal dancers, were the dream couple of the Bolshoi Ballet. Dancing as a pair for the first time in 1949 as classmates at the Moscow Ballet School, they were married in 1961. New York Times dance critic Anna Kisselgoff described the excitement of one of Vasiliev's United States performances with the Bolshoi Ballet: “Yekaterina Maksimova and Vladimir Vasiliev burst upon New York City in 1959, the greatest of the passionate young dancers who, with Moscow's more established stars, made the Bolshoi Ballet's American debut a total triumph.” The Bolshoi tour to London in 1969 was dominated by the sensational impact", "title": "Vladimir Vasiliev (dancer)" }, { "docid": "10332058", "text": "Schwimmer was announced as the first \"So You Think You Can Dance\" alum to be a professional dancer on season seven of \"Dancing with the Stars\" and was partnered with Lance Bass. \"TV Guide\" reported that Schwimmer had endometriosis but was still able to continue on the show as her condition did not require surgery. She returned for seasons 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13. During that time, she and professional dancers Chelsie Hightower and Dmitry Chaplin were the only former participants from \"So You Think You Can Dance\" to perform as regulars on \"Dancing with the Stars\". However, other", "title": "Lacey Schwimmer" }, { "docid": "3734226", "text": "the list of professionals participating in the thirteenth series was revealed. Professionals from the last series who did not return included Trent Whiddon, Iveta Lukosiute and Joanne Clifton. Clifton would remain involved in group dances and would feature on \"\" as a dance expert. Robin Windsor, absent from the previous series because of injury, also did not return for this series. Three new professional dancers were introduced: Russian dancer Gleb Savchenko (from the American, Australian, and Russian versions of \"Dancing with the Stars\"), South African dancer Oti Mabuse (from Germany's \"Let's Dance\") and Italian dancer Giovanni Pernice. On 3 October", "title": "Strictly Come Dancing" }, { "docid": "18014362", "text": "great\" in it and mentioned the Brazilian scenery was \"pretty awesome\". Martin performed \"Vida\" for first time at the 2014 Chinese Music Awards on April 23, 2014 where he also sang his 2013 single \"Come with Me\". He performed the song again on April 24 at the 2014 Billboard Latin Music Awards. A writer from \"Billboard\" described it as a \"vibrant, colorful performance\". On April 28, the singer performed \"Vida\" on a season eighteen episode of the American dance show competition \"Dancing with the Stars\"; he was accompanied by the show's Pro Dancers. Martin performed the single on \"The Ellen", "title": "Vida (Ricky Martin song)" }, { "docid": "11633567", "text": "female host. In season 14 both hosts were replaced by Krzysztof Ibisz, well-known television host and Anna Głogowska, dancer, television host and the winner of 13th season. She was the female host in seasons 14–17. In season 18 Anna Głogowska was replaced by Paulina Sykut-Jeżyna as the female host. The judging panel is composed of Iwona Szymańska-Pavlović, retired professional dancer and currently a dancing judge, Michał Malitowski, professional dancer, Ola Jordan, professional dancer and \"Strictly Come Dancing\" winner and Andrzej Grabowski, an actor and comedian. The show pairs a number of celebrities with professional ballroom dancers who each week compete", "title": "Dancing with the Stars: Taniec z gwiazdami" }, { "docid": "20469343", "text": "Dancing with the Stars (Irish series 2) Dancing with the Stars returned for a second series on 7 January 2018 on RTÉ One. Loraine Barry, Brian Redmond and Julian Benson returned to the judging panel for a second year, while Amanda Byram and Nicky Byrne also returned as hosts. Sean Smullen did not return for this series, however all other professional dancers did. Sean was replaced by former \"\" professional champion, Robert Rowiński. The competition was won by Jake Carter alongside professional partner Karen Byrne. On 25 March 2018, RTÉ announced that it would return for a third series in", "title": "Dancing with the Stars (Irish series 2)" }, { "docid": "9366935", "text": "various different versions of \"Strictly Come Dancing\" from across the globe. Booth of Truth: The \"Strictly\" professional dancers each enter a booth and are individually asked questions the other pros' personal habits. Janette and Melvin's Cha Cha Chart Show: Professional dancer Janette Manrara and her 2016 partner Melvin Odoom host a chart-based countdown of various past performances and iconic \"Strictly\" moments. Ballas Breakdown: Head judge Shirley Ballas explains and demonstrates steps from the dances. Ballroom Bingo: Professional dancer Anton Du Beke asks the pro dancers questions about the other pro dancers. Ore's Overview: Current champion Ore Oduba gives his say", "title": "Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two" }, { "docid": "11914298", "text": "Come Dancing and Dancing With The Stars USA, – Jonathan Platero – So You Think You Can Dance, The Apprentice USA, – and six more professional world-class dancers. In September 2017 Kristina launched her fashion line in collaboration with Pia Michi. On 5 January 2016, Rihanoff became a housemate in the 17th series of \"Celebrity Big Brother\". On Day 3 she announced, in the house, she and boyfriend Ben Cohen were expecting a child, and that was roughly 3 months into her pregnancy. The pair were dance partners on the 2013 series of Strictly Come Dancing and at the time", "title": "Kristina Rihanoff" }, { "docid": "4512864", "text": "for a total of twenty. Pairs were determined by audience SMS votes. The programme began airing in late 2007, in order to mark the anniversary of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from the UK to the People's Republic of China. The Indian version is called \"Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa\". It was first broadcast in September 2006 on Sony Entertainment Television (SET). A lot of people confuse \"Dancing With The Stars\" with \"Nach Baliye\" which airs on StarPlus. \"Nach Baliye\" and \"Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa\" have similar content and presentation but there are minor differences in the concept. The celebrity dancers on", "title": "Dancing with the Stars" }, { "docid": "8085035", "text": "was a backup-dancer on \"The X Factor USA\" working together with Brian Friedman. On April 30, 2013, she performed a dance routine on \"Dancing with the Stars\" with Stephen \"tWitch\" Boss. They danced to Crystallize, which was being performed live by Lindsey Stirling. In August 2014, Holker was announced as one of the 12 professional dancers on the 19th season of \"Dancing with the Stars\". The announcement of Holker, a contemporary dancer, as a cast member was met with controversy due to her limited experience with dancing and teaching Latin Ballroom dance. She partnered with \"Mean Girls\" actor Jonathan Bennett.", "title": "Allison Holker" }, { "docid": "15369548", "text": "On May 12, 2011, Sparks performed \"I Am Woman\" live for the first time on the tenth season of \"American Idol\". She wore a silver metallic trench coat and black heels for the first half of the performance, and was accompanied by female back-up dancers. During the second half, Sparks removed the coat to reveal a black, body-skimming, dress, and the female dancers were replaced by male dancers. Sparks performed the song on \"Live With Regis and Kelly\" on June 14. \"I Am Woman\" was performed on the thirteenth season of \"Dancing with the Stars\" results show on November 8", "title": "I Am Woman (Jordin Sparks song)" }, { "docid": "4685884", "text": "and live performances. As a result, Goldberg created a show that highlighted the music and the dancers while throwing cutaways to videos. Guest artists performed live (or live-to-track), none lip-synched. After Goldberg moved on, the set became more elaborate, the dancers' costuming became choreographed, the quality of the dancing declined, and most of the performances were lip-synced, with the exception of the DJs, who mixed the breaks as well as a short feature each episode. In 1988, some of the original featured dancers included The WiZ, Tori G (also an editor for Citytv), WARP-1, The Hoody Boyz, Brenda C, Kenrick", "title": "Electric Circus" }, { "docid": "4512863", "text": "the champion and wins a trophy. There have been a total of 381 winners of \"Dancing with the Stars\" around the world. <section begin=\"DWTS series\"/> <section end=\"DWTS series\"/> The Chinese version is a co-production between mainland China's HBS and Hong Kong's TVB, under licence from the BBC. In mainland China it is aired on Hunan Television and in Hong Kong on TVB Jade. The Chinese title () is difficult to translate, but could be rendered as \"Miracle Dancing\" or \"Miracles of Dance Moves\". The official English title is \"Strictly Come Dancing\". Each broadcaster provides five male and five female dancers,", "title": "Dancing with the Stars" }, { "docid": "4077555", "text": "Nicholas Brothers The Nicholas Brothers were a team of dancing brothers, Fayard (1914–2006) and Harold (1921–2000), who performed a highly acrobatic technique known as \"flash dancing\". With a high level of artistry and daring innovations, they were considered by many to be the greatest tap dancers of their day. Their performance in the musical number \"Jumpin' Jive\" (with Cab Calloway and his orchestra) featured in the movie \"Stormy Weather\" is considered by many to be the most virtuosic dance display of all time. Growing up surrounded by vaudeville acts as children, they became stars of the jazz circuit during the", "title": "Nicholas Brothers" }, { "docid": "4077567", "text": "deleted for screening in the South.\" Nicholas Brothers The Nicholas Brothers were a team of dancing brothers, Fayard (1914–2006) and Harold (1921–2000), who performed a highly acrobatic technique known as \"flash dancing\". With a high level of artistry and daring innovations, they were considered by many to be the greatest tap dancers of their day. Their performance in the musical number \"Jumpin' Jive\" (with Cab Calloway and his orchestra) featured in the movie \"Stormy Weather\" is considered by many to be the most virtuosic dance display of all time. Growing up surrounded by vaudeville acts as children, they became stars", "title": "Nicholas Brothers" }, { "docid": "17337328", "text": "the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City. Fellow \"Dancing with the Stars\" dancers Brittany Cherry, Jenna Johnson, and Emma Slater were among her bridesmaids, with Witney Carson serving as her maid of honor. At the age of 18, Arnold auditioned for the ninth season of \"So You Think You Can Dance.\" She made it through to the top twenty finalists. Her partner was martial arts fusion dancer Cole Horibe. When only ten dancers remained, the contestants switched partners to a new all-star each week. As she proceeded to the top 8 dancers, Arnold partnered with dancers Jakob Karr and", "title": "Lindsay Arnold" }, { "docid": "4512865", "text": "\"Nach Baliye\" are real life couples, and work with an assigned choreographer. The dancers on \"Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa\" have one celebrity paired with a trained dancer/choreographer. A notice at the end of the show verifies that the \"Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa\" is indeed a version of \"Dancing With The Stars\". \"Dancing with the Star Indonesia\" broadcast in March 2011 on Indosiar and hosted by Choky Sitohang & Cathy Sharon.On the 1st Series The 2nd Runner up is Hengky Kurniawan & Melissa, the 1st Runner up is Yuanita Christiani & Wawan, and the winner is Fadli & Trisna.The 2nd Series which is", "title": "Dancing with the Stars" }, { "docid": "6234374", "text": "runners up receive a cash prize of half the first prize amount. The show has drawn both acclaim and criticism. Traditionalists have criticised the show for its sometimes bizarre dance combinations and newer dances, whereas others praise it for testing out dancers versatility and adaptability to new styles. The show is also regarded to have started a new interest in dancing as a sport, with the Seven Network introducing its own dancing show \"Dancing with the Stars\", in which celebrities with no dance background are partnered with a professional dancer. The show features its own house band who play the", "title": "Strictly Dancing" }, { "docid": "14977509", "text": "Tantsud tähtedega Tantsud tähtedega (Estonian: \"Dancing with the Stars\") is an Estonian television reality show airing on Kanal 2. It debuted on 8 October 2006, and it has become a popular television show in Estonia. It is based on the British reality show \"Strictly Come Dancing\". The show is produced by BEC productions. The show introduces eight Estonian celebrities paired with professional ballroom dancers who each week compete to impress a panel of judges and the viewing public to survive potential elimination. Through a telephone poll, viewers vote for those couples who should stay. 50% of the public votes and", "title": "Tantsud tähtedega" }, { "docid": "16260899", "text": "Danse avec les stars (France season 3) The third season of the French version of \"Dancing with the Stars\" debuted on TF1 on October 6, 2012. 10 celebrities were paired with 10 professional ballroom dancers. Sandrine Quétier and Vincent Cerutti return as the hosts for this season. The participants of the season were officially announced by TF1 on September 18, 2012, though they were leaked a few days earlier by various media outlets. A notable contestant for the season was then 30-year-old Lorie, a singer wildly popular in the early 2000s that TF1 has tried to get on the previous", "title": "Danse avec les stars (France season 3)" }, { "docid": "17233917", "text": "in this order from left to right:: Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Jean-Marc Généreux, Shy'm, Chris Marques.\" The Table Lists in which order the contestants' fates were revealed by Quétier and Cerutti. The celebrities and professional partners danced one of these routines for each corresponding week. Danse avec les stars (France season 4) The fourth season of the French version of \"Dancing with the Stars\" premiered on TF1 on September 28, 2013. Like the previous season, 10 celebrities were paired with 10 professional ballroom dancers. Sandrine Quétier and Vincent Cerutti return as the hosts for this season. The participants of the season were", "title": "Danse avec les stars (France season 4)" }, { "docid": "18851333", "text": "Danse avec les stars (France season 6) The sixth season of the French version of \"Dancing with the Stars\" premiered on TF1 on October 24, 2015, a little over a year after the fifth season. This time, 10 celebrities are paired with 10 professional ballroom dancers, less than the 11 of the previous season. Vincent Cerutti will not return as the main host for the season, being replaced by Sandrine Quétier, while Quétier's previous spot will be taken over by Season 4 contestant Laurent Ournac. Meanwhile, Fauve Hautot, one of the program's most popular dancers, was promoted to the position", "title": "Danse avec les stars (France season 6)" }, { "docid": "17233913", "text": "Danse avec les stars (France season 4) The fourth season of the French version of \"Dancing with the Stars\" premiered on TF1 on September 28, 2013. Like the previous season, 10 celebrities were paired with 10 professional ballroom dancers. Sandrine Quétier and Vincent Cerutti return as the hosts for this season. The participants of the season were officially announced by TF1 on September 10, 2013 through an online event, though they'd been gradually revealed by various media outlets between April 15 and August 23 and several celebrities had spoken freely of their participation in the press prior to the official", "title": "Danse avec les stars (France season 4)" }, { "docid": "15281406", "text": "Danse avec les stars (France season 1) The first season of the French version of \"Dancing with the Stars\" debuted on TF1 on February 12, 2011. Eight celebrities were paired with eight professional ballroom dancers. Sandrine Quétier and Vincent Cerutti were the hosts for this season. This table only counts dances scored on the traditional 30-point scale. The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' marks are as follows: According to the traditional 30-point scale. \"Individual judges scores in the chart below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Alessandra Martines,", "title": "Danse avec les stars (France season 1)" } ]

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[ { "docid": "1950213", "text": "Richard Thomas (actor) Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor. He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama \"The Waltons\", for which he won one Emmy Award and received nominations for another Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. He also played Special Agent Frank Gaad on FX's spy thriller series \"The Americans\" (2013–2016), appeared in Stephen King's mini series \"IT\" (1990), and had a supporting role in the comedy-drama film \"Wonder Boys\" (2000). Thomas was born in Manhattan, the son of Barbara (\"née\" Fallis) and Richard", "title": "Richard Thomas (actor)" }, { "docid": "1950213", "text": "Richard Thomas (actor) Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor. He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama \"The Waltons\", for which he won one Emmy Award and received nominations for another Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. He also played Special Agent Frank Gaad on FX's spy thriller series \"The Americans\" (2013–2016), appeared in Stephen King's mini series \"IT\" (1990), and had a supporting role in the comedy-drama film \"Wonder Boys\" (2000). Thomas was born in Manhattan, the son of Barbara (\"née\" Fallis) and Richard", "title": "Richard Thomas (actor)" }, { "docid": "1950223", "text": "1975. They had one son born in 1976 and triplet daughters born in 1981. The couple divorced in 1993. Thomas married Georgiana Bischoff on November 20, 1994, and they had one son born in 1996. Bischoff has two daughters from previous marriages. Sources: TCM; AllMovie Sources: TCM; AllMovie; TV Guide Richard Thomas (actor) Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor. He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama \"The Waltons\", for which he won one Emmy Award and received nominations for another Emmy Award and two Golden", "title": "Richard Thomas (actor)" } ]

[ { "docid": "890289", "text": "38 years in the past and ended with its last reunion show set 28 years in the past. The story is about the family of John Walton Jr. (known as John-Boy): his six siblings, his parents John and Olivia Walton, and the elder John's parents Zebulon \"Zeb\" and Esther Walton. John-Boy is the oldest of the children (17 years old in the beginning), who becomes a journalist and novelist. Each episode is narrated at the opening and closing by a middle-aged John Jr. (voiced by author Earl Hamner on whom John-Boy is based). John Sr. manages to eke out a", "title": "The Waltons" }, { "docid": "7593059", "text": "operated the ferry until 1940 when it was taken over by the Virginia Department of Highways. A new ferry was built by the Virginia Department of Transportation, and it was rededicated in September 1973. The dedication ceremonies included actor Richard Thomas, who played the character John-Boy Walton on the TV series, \"The Waltons\", and Mrs. Doris Hamner, the mother of Waltons creator and writer Earl Hamner, Jr., who lived at nearby Schuyler provided the basis for the fictional stories. The Hatton Ferry is the last poled ferry in the United States. With most regular traffic crossing the river nearby using", "title": "Hatton Ferry" }, { "docid": "15039105", "text": "films: the thriller \"You'll Like My Mother\" (1972) and the Western \"Billy Two Hats\" (1974). She studied at the Pasadena Playhouse (1964–1965). She appeared in \"You'll Like My Mother\" (1972), starring Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy and Richard Thomas. For this role, Allen was nominated for the 1973 Golden Globe Award as Most Promising New Actress. She later garnered fame on two episodes of \"The Waltons\" (1973) as Jenny Pendleton, an early love interest of John-Boy Walton (reuniting her with Thomas, who played John-Boy and with whom she had appeared in \"You'll Like My Mother\" the previous year). Allen and Thomas", "title": "Sian Barbara Allen" }, { "docid": "5838913", "text": "Robert Wightman Robert Wightman is an American actor perhaps best known for replacing Richard Thomas in the role of John-Boy Walton in the TV series \"The Waltons\". He played the role beginning with the show's eighth season in 1979 until the end of the series in 1981. He also appeared in the role in the TV movie \"A Day of Thanks on Walton's Mountain\" in 1982. His movie credits include \"American Gigolo\" and the starring role in \"Stepfather III\" as the main character of the film, taking over the role originally played by Terry O'Quinn. He has worked often in", "title": "Robert Wightman" }, { "docid": "9191551", "text": "novelty product stores, still have the word \"Walton\" screwed into the wall, with the S possibly having been removed as a souvenir. Nearly all these stores closed in 1983 Miller Anderson Limited was acquired by Waltons Limited, as a result over its 1966 takeover of Marcus Clark & Co. Miller Anderson Limited had stores in the following locations: Waltons (department store) Waltons was an Australian department store chain, founded by John Walton (1904–1998). Walton bought a menswear store in 1951, located on George Street, Sydney, opposite the Queen Victoria Building and Sydney Town Hall and near Town Hall station. Over", "title": "Waltons (department store)" }, { "docid": "5838915", "text": "\"the excellent Robert Wightman\" as Edgar in LATC's \"King Lear\", and Hoyt Hilsman writing for \"Backstage\" praised his \"lovely and mysterious\" portrayal as Budge in the dark comedy \"The Day Room\" by Don DeLillo. Robert Wightman Robert Wightman is an American actor perhaps best known for replacing Richard Thomas in the role of John-Boy Walton in the TV series \"The Waltons\". He played the role beginning with the show's eighth season in 1979 until the end of the series in 1981. He also appeared in the role in the TV movie \"A Day of Thanks on Walton's Mountain\" in 1982.", "title": "Robert Wightman" }, { "docid": "9191547", "text": "Waltons (department store) Waltons was an Australian department store chain, founded by John Walton (1904–1998). Walton bought a menswear store in 1951, located on George Street, Sydney, opposite the Queen Victoria Building and Sydney Town Hall and near Town Hall station. Over the years it was expanded along Park Street with adjoining properties purchased. In 1955, Walton formed an alliance with the American retail giant Sears & Roebuck. In the early 1960s he started a finance company in partnership with Citibank, and also moved into insurance. That part of the business was sold to Norwich Union in 1980. There were", "title": "Waltons (department store)" }, { "docid": "3634784", "text": "the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. A year later, Little was hired as an ensemble player on the syndicated TV variety weekly \"The David Frost Revue\" and he portrayed Shogo in \"Narrow Road to the Deep North\" on Broadway. In 1971, Little was chosen to portray the blind radio personality Super Soul in the car-chase movie \"Vanishing Point\". The same year, he played Hawthorne Dooley in the pilot for \"The Waltons\" called \"The Homecoming: A Christmas Story\", helping John-Boy Walton search for his father; then again", "title": "Cleavon Little" }, { "docid": "6779893", "text": "the highly ineffective Colonel Fielding on the television adaptation of the movie, \"Private Benjamin\" and created the role of Sam Reynolds on \"Search for Tomorrow\"; Barbara Berjer (Lynn Franklin) who continued serial work, most notably on \"As the World Turns\" and \"Guiding Light\"; Richard Thomas (Richard), well known as John-Boy Walton #1 from \"The Waltons\" as well as other serial roles; Craig Huebing (Tom Jennings), later of \"General Hospital\"; Joseph Mascolo (Jack Lander), known for his roles as Stefano DiMera on \"Days of Our Lives\" and Massimo Marone on \"The Bold and the Beautiful\"; John Karlen, later known as Willie", "title": "From These Roots" }, { "docid": "5867224", "text": "cafe. She has reprised her role as the youngest Walton child in each of the Waltons' reunion movies and she occasionally makes speeches and personal appearances. In 2010, Cotler was seen on a \"Waltons\" cast reunion and series retrospective that aired on cable network INSP. She is married and has two children. Kami Cotler Kami Cotler (born June 17, 1965) is an American actress and educator. She is best known for her role as young Elizabeth Walton, which she played in the series \"The Waltons\", and the television film \"The Homecoming: A Christmas Story\" (1971) which inspired it, as well", "title": "Kami Cotler" }, { "docid": "5869201", "text": "Ronnie Claire Edwards Ronnie Claire Edwards (February 9, 1933 – June 14, 2016) was an American actress, best known for playing Corabeth Walton Godsey on the TV series \"The Waltons\". Edwards was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She acted professionally from 1963 and is best known for the role of the domineering Corabeth Walton Godsey, the wife of storekeeper Ike Godsey played by Joe Conley, in the CBS television series \"The Waltons\", created by Earl Hamner, Jr. She played Charlene's mother Ione Frazier on two episodes of CBS's \"Designing Women\". Edwards played Aunt Dolly in Hamner's series \"Boone\", which aired", "title": "Ronnie Claire Edwards" }, { "docid": "890293", "text": "save for one, two or three lights in the upstairs bedroom windows. Through voice-overs, two or more characters make some brief comments related to that episode's events, and then bid each other goodnight, after which the lights go out. After completing high school, John-Boy attends fictional Boatwright University (based on the University of Richmond) in the fictional nearby town of Westham. He later goes to New York City to work as a journalist. During the latter half of the 1976–77 season, Grandma Esther Walton suffers a stroke and returns home shortly before the death of her husband, Grandpa Zeb Walton", "title": "The Waltons" }, { "docid": "5972556", "text": "The Waltons (UK band) The Waltons were an anarchic band from the Isle of Wight in the UK. The socio-political post-punk/rock 5-piece fronted by Tony Gregson (aka Tony Walton), had one minor hit with \"Brown Rice\" (the long grain mix) in the mid-1980s, and starred in Annika, an early Colin Nutley movie shot on the Island about a boy falling in love with a Swedish exchange student. Later to be joined by Sean the Riddler, on various keyboards and found hubcaps. They were regular live performers on the Isle of Wight but never quite succeeded in totally breaking away from", "title": "The Waltons (UK band)" }, { "docid": "17304299", "text": "he had Susan, Jared, and Susan K. Henry Walton died in New York City on September 15, 1844, and is buried in the Trinity churchyard. Henry Walton (judge) Henry Walton (1768–1844) was a judge, early landowner, and hotel owner who played a significant role in the development of Saratoga Springs, New York in the early 1800s. Walton was born in New York City on October 8, 1768, the son of Jacob and Mary (Cruger) Walton. The Waltons were a prominent New York City family. Educated in England, Walton returned to New York in about 1788 and studied law under Aaron", "title": "Henry Walton (judge)" }, { "docid": "13074341", "text": "is married to the former Samantha Rhoten, who played basketball at Oral Roberts University. The Waltons have two sons, Brooks and Palmer, and a daughter, Camden. Tim Walton (softball) Timothy Ian Walton (born August 6, 1972) is an American college softball coach and a former college and professional baseball player. Walton is currently the head coach of the Florida Gators softball team of the University of Florida. Walton first attended Cerritos College in his hometown of Cerritos, California, where he played for the Cerritos Falcons baseball team in 1992 and 1993. After his sophomore year, he transferred to the University", "title": "Tim Walton (softball)" }, { "docid": "17304296", "text": "Henry Walton (judge) Henry Walton (1768–1844) was a judge, early landowner, and hotel owner who played a significant role in the development of Saratoga Springs, New York in the early 1800s. Walton was born in New York City on October 8, 1768, the son of Jacob and Mary (Cruger) Walton. The Waltons were a prominent New York City family. Educated in England, Walton returned to New York in about 1788 and studied law under Aaron Burr. In 1790 he moved to Ballston, New York. There he served as surrogate court judge, where he was known as Judge Henry Walton. In", "title": "Henry Walton (judge)" }, { "docid": "890294", "text": "(reflecting Ellen Corby's real-life stroke and the death of Will Geer, the actors who portrayed the characters). During the series' last few years, Mary Ellen and Ben start their own families; Erin, Jason and John-Boy are married in later television movie sequels. Conversely, the younger children Jim-Bob and Elizabeth, struggle to find and cement true love. World War II deeply affects the family. All four Walton boys enlist in the military. Mary Ellen's physician husband, Curtis \"Curt\" Willard, is sent to Pearl Harbor and is reported to have perished in the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. Years later, Mary", "title": "The Waltons" }, { "docid": "5972557", "text": "the island. They allegedly came to blows in the late 1980s whilst touring the Netherlands in an old hippy bus driven by ex-paratrooper and traveller, Sam Ganja. They disbanded soon afterwards due to problems with drugs, alcohol and mental illness. The Waltons (UK band) The Waltons were an anarchic band from the Isle of Wight in the UK. The socio-political post-punk/rock 5-piece fronted by Tony Gregson (aka Tony Walton), had one minor hit with \"Brown Rice\" (the long grain mix) in the mid-1980s, and starred in Annika, an early Colin Nutley movie shot on the Island about a boy falling", "title": "The Waltons (UK band)" }, { "docid": "8612013", "text": "Morgan Stevens Morgan Stevens (born October 16, 1951, in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American actor, primarily seen on television. He appeared as Paul Northridge in one episode of \"The Waltons\" and in three reunion movies. In \"A Wedding on Walton's Mountain\", his character married the character of Erin Walton (Mary Elizabeth McDonough). He also appeared in two subsequent movies, \"Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain\" and \"A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain\". He had also appeared as Sam Stodder (John-Boy's hospital roommate) in another episode of \"The Waltons.\" Stevens played teacher David Reardon during two seasons of \"Fame\" (1982-1984). He", "title": "Morgan Stevens" }, { "docid": "1267234", "text": "appeared on the NBC interview program \"Here's Hollywood\". Bergen appeared as Grandpa Zeb Walton in the original Waltons television movie, \"The Homecoming: A Christmas Story\" (1971). The role was played by Will Geer in the subsequent TV series. During the run of \"The Waltons\" — which took place throughout the 1930s and 1940s—the voices of Bergen and Charlie McCarthy were sporadically heard from the Waltons' radio, as family members regularly tuned in for that program. In 1941, Bergen met 19-year-old Frances Westerman, who had graduated from Los Angeles High School the year before, in the audience of Bergen's radio program", "title": "Edgar Bergen" }, { "docid": "9191548", "text": "changes in the retail scene in Australia in the 1960s and Waltons Limited bought out Marcus Clark & Co in 1966, and then Anthony Hordern & Sons, and merged its country store operation into the Walton's store group. That excluded the Brickfield Hill store in the south of the Sydney central business district, which by 1969 had already closed. Waltons then acquired McDowells in 1972. By 1972, the Waltons chain had expanded to 96 department stores before Walton retired as executive chairman. Sir John severed his ties with the company in 1976, and his son John took over. Alan Bond", "title": "Waltons (department store)" }, { "docid": "6779613", "text": "who had been educated in Boston. In real life Maunder had been reared in nearby Bangor, Maine. \"Lancer\" lasted for only fifty-one episodes, but critics cited the scripts and performances as excellent. Paul Brinegar co-starred as Jelly Hoskins, having played a similar role of \"Wishbone\" on CBS's earlier western series \"Rawhide\", with Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood. Duggan played the patriarch in the television film \"The Homecoming: A Christmas Story\" (1971). The part of John Walton in the series it inspired, \"The Waltons\", was played by Ralph Waite. In 1973, Duggan had a cameo appearance in the blaxploitation film \"Black", "title": "Andrew Duggan" }, { "docid": "20520353", "text": "the latter. Leslie Winston Leslie Winston (born 13 May 1956) is an American actress best known for playing Cindy, wife of Ben Walton, on the television series \"The Waltons\" from 1979 to 1981. Winston played the part of Cindy, wife of Ben Walton (played by Eric Scott), in 42 episodes through the last three seasons of the series. Her debut on the show was in an episode called \"The Outsider\" (season 7, episode 20) in which Ben surprises the family by introducing them to his new wife Cindy, who is the episode's eponymous character. Winston later played Cindy in four", "title": "Leslie Winston" }, { "docid": "20520350", "text": "Leslie Winston Leslie Winston (born 13 May 1956) is an American actress best known for playing Cindy, wife of Ben Walton, on the television series \"The Waltons\" from 1979 to 1981. Winston played the part of Cindy, wife of Ben Walton (played by Eric Scott), in 42 episodes through the last three seasons of the series. Her debut on the show was in an episode called \"The Outsider\" (season 7, episode 20) in which Ben surprises the family by introducing them to his new wife Cindy, who is the episode's eponymous character. Winston later played Cindy in four of the", "title": "Leslie Winston" }, { "docid": "4575557", "text": "Zebulon Walton, was portrayed by actor Edgar Bergen in the film. Corby went on to resume her role on the weekly television series \"The Waltons\". (She was the only adult actor from the original \"Homecoming\" pilot to carry her role over to the series.) Actor Will Geer played her husband in the series from 1972 until his death in 1978, at which time the character of Zebulon Walton was also buried. The series ran from 1972 to 1981, and resulted in six sequel films. For her work in \"The Waltons\", she gained three Emmy Awards and three more nominations as", "title": "Ellen Corby" }, { "docid": "16673161", "text": "for not knowing what it was. The \"Hindenburg\" disaster is chronicled in the popular 1970s television drama, \"The Waltons\" where John Boy Walton wins a writing contest to cover the landing of the \"Hindenburg\", witnessing the unforeseen tragedy in person. Original newsreel footage of the event was integrated into the episode's scenes. On the popular CBS situation comedy \"WKRP in Cincinnati\" episode \"Turkeys Away\" the depiction of falling turkeys by Les Nessman is intended to emulate Herbert Morrison's broadcast. In season 4 of the sitcom \"'Til Death\", Brad Garrett's character Eddy is writing a book on the \"Hindenburg\" disaster. In", "title": "Hindenburg disaster in popular culture" }, { "docid": "12196081", "text": "there were two additional elements which made Waltons' conduct unconscionable: a) element of urgency, b) Maher executed and forwarded on 11/11 and assumed execution by Walton was a formality. The award (though very similar to an expectation interest, as if it were a contract that was enforced) was only meant to cover reliance. Because Maher had acted to his detriment, in reliance on the encouragement of Walton Stores, which had acted unconscionably, equity would intervene. Mason CJ and Wilson J said the following Brennan J, Deane J and Gaudron J gave concurring judgments. Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd v Maher Waltons", "title": "Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd v Maher" }, { "docid": "18782607", "text": "The Master of Ballantrae (1984 film) The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was a co production between the US and England for the \"Hallmark Hall of Fame\". Michael York plays James Durie, the Master of Ballantrae (i.e. the eldest son who will inherit the state and also the title of Lord Durrisdeer). His younger brother, Henry Durie, is played by Richard Thomas, remembered largely because of his role as John Boy on \"The Waltons\". Their father, Lord Durrisdeer, is played by veteran action Sir John Gielgud, who earned", "title": "The Master of Ballantrae (1984 film)" }, { "docid": "13968736", "text": "of the 1975 film \"The Hindenburg\", which speculated sabotage as the cause of the 1937 disaster at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey. The studio model of the airship is now displayed in the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. John-Boy Walton, in the 1977 episode of The Waltons entitled \"The Inferno\", accompanies a news reporter to interview German immigrants after the landing of the Hindenburg. In the 1989 film \"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade\", Indiana Jones travels on a Zeppelin and escapes in an aircraft mounted by trapeze to the Zeppelin's underside. The 2004", "title": "Aircraft in fiction" }, { "docid": "8062092", "text": "In 1914, under Dr. Boatwright's leadership, the College moved from the Fan district of downtown Richmond to its current West End campus. Boatwright Memorial Library, opened in 1955 on the school's campus, is named in his honor. Earl Hamner, creator of the hit CBS-TV series \"The Waltons\", attended Richmond College during Boatwright's tenure, and named the fictional Boatwright University where the character of John-Boy Walton attended college after him. Frederic W. Boatwright Frederic W. Boatwright (January 28, 1868 – October 31, 1951) was president of Richmond College, now the University of Richmond, from 1895 to 1946. Born in White Sulphur", "title": "Frederic W. Boatwright" }, { "docid": "890302", "text": "Elizabeth Walton, said in a 2012 interview. However, CBS had enough faith in the show to devise a full-page newspaper ad flanked with the show's positive reviews, urging people to watch the show. This ad was attributed to saving \"The Waltons\", causing the ratings to radically increase. Ralph Waite was reluctant to audition for the part of John Walton because he didn't want to be tied to a long-running TV series, but his agent persuaded him by saying, \"It will never sell. You do the pilot. You pick up a couple of bucks and then you go back to New", "title": "The Waltons" }, { "docid": "696130", "text": "Howard guest starred as Seth Turner, the best friend of Jason Walton (Jon Walmsley), in \"The Waltons\", \"The Gift\". In the episode, Seth wants to learn to play an instrument in his father's band, but it looks as if he will not have the time; he has been diagnosed with leukemia. The concept of death — and the unfairness of it all — is an extremely difficult one for Jason to accept, and it is up to Grandpa to help the boy through this crisis. Featured in the cast as Dr. McIvers is Ron Howard's father Rance Howard. Howard played", "title": "Ron Howard" }, { "docid": "14253922", "text": "Cecile Walton Cecile Walton (29 March 1891 – 23 April 1956), was a Scottish painter, illustrator and sculptor. She and her husband Eric were two of the moving spirits of the Edinburgh chapter of the Symbolist movement in the early 20th century. Walton was born in Glasgow, the eldest of four children and daughter of the artists Helen and Edward Arthur Walton. In 1893, when Walton was two years old, her family moved to London, where from 1902 her neighbour was James Abbott McNeill Whistler. In 1904, the Waltons moved again to Edinburgh, and Walton was taught etching by John", "title": "Cecile Walton" }, { "docid": "14132980", "text": "few years, Jane's husband Charles was asked to travel 40 miles north and homestead a place that would eventually become Monticello, Utah. There, the Waltons joined six other families in developing the town. They lived there for several years until Jane's untimely death on July 24, 1891. Jane was shot and killed during a statehood celebration. Jane McKechnie Walton was the first person buried in the Monticello, Utah cemetery. Jane McKechnie Walton Jane McKechnie Walton was born on July 16, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was the daughter of Jane (Jean Tinto) Bee and John McKechnie. Her father was a", "title": "Jane McKechnie Walton" }, { "docid": "1674989", "text": "series \"The Waltons\"; she won a Golden Globe for her performance. In a 1999 interview with the Archive of American Television, \"Waltons\" creator Earl Hamner said he and producers were unsure if Neal's health would allow her to commit to the schedule of a weekly television series; so, instead, they cast Michael Learned in the role of Olivia Walton. Neal played a dying widowed mother trying to find a home for her three children in an episode of NBC's \"Little House on the Prairie\" broadcast in 1975. Neal played the title role in Robert Altman's movie \"Cookie's Fortune\" (1999). She", "title": "Patricia Neal" }, { "docid": "4575560", "text": "died in 1956. Corby in 1969 trained as a teacher of transcendental meditation. She had a stroke in November 1976 from which she recovered and returned to her role on \"The Waltons\" in March 1978. According to Michael Learned, who played Olivia Walton, Will Geer may have saved her life. When she failed to show up for work, Geer immediately suspected something was wrong and went with the show's producers to her home, where they found that she had suffered a stroke. Her stroke was written into the show, with Grandma Walton also suffering a stroke and struggling to regain", "title": "Ellen Corby" }, { "docid": "890288", "text": "years is therefore covered in nine seasons. There are some chronological inconsistencies, which ostensibly do not hinder the storyline. The first three reunion movies (\"A Wedding on Walton's Mountain\", \"Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain\", and \"A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain\"), all produced in 1982, are set in 1947. Of the later reunions, \"A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion\", filmed in 1993, is set in 1963, and revolves around President John F. Kennedy's assassination; \"A Walton Wedding\", made in 1995, is set in 1964; \"A Walton Easter\", filmed in 1997, is set in 1969. The series began relating stories that occurred", "title": "The Waltons" }, { "docid": "890305", "text": "syndicated reruns aired from 3-5pm and again at 7pm. \"The Walton's Reunion Movie Collection\": 1. \"A Wedding on Walton's Mountain\" (1982) 2. \"Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain\" (1982) 3. \"A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain\" (1982) 4. \"A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion\" (1993) 5. \"A Walton Wedding\" (1995) 6. \"A Walton Easter\" (1997) Warner Home Video has released all nine seasons and six TV movies of \"The Waltons\" on DVD in Region 1. Seasons 1–4 have been released in Region 2. The pilot movie, \"The Homecoming: A Christmas Story\", was released by Paramount Home Entertainment. Lorimar produced the series, CBS", "title": "The Waltons" }, { "docid": "6207975", "text": "name, \"I use the name Walton professionally, partly because I originally hoped to build up different lines of work under different names, partly because Walton is an old family name and appears on the Declaration of Independence. Not that I can trace any blood connection between my Quaker Waltons and the Declaration signer. They came from Virginia, and were supposed to have had a [Native American] man somewhere up the family tree. He may be the reason why both records and tradition trail off into vagueness. But when I was a child, old folk remembered the Waltons as very tall,", "title": "Evangeline Walton" }, { "docid": "890295", "text": "Ellen hears of sightings of her \"late\" husband, investigates and finds him alive (played by another actor), but brooding over his war wounds and living under an assumed name. She divorces him and later remarries. John-Boy's military plane is shot down, while Olivia becomes a volunteer at the VA hospital and is seen less and less; she eventually develops tuberculosis and enters an Arizona sanitarium. Olivia's cousin, Rose Burton, moves into the Walton house to look after the brood. Two years later, John Sr. moves to Arizona to be near Olivia. Grandma appears in only a handful of episodes during", "title": "The Waltons" }, { "docid": "3637995", "text": "an actor for his later portrayal of Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series \"The Waltons\". Geer was born in Frankfort, Indiana, the son of Katherine (née Aughe), a teacher, and Roy Aaron Ghere, a postal worker. His father left the family when the boy was only 11 years old. He was deeply influenced by his grandfather, who taught him the botanical names of the plants in his native state. Geer started out to become a botanist, studying the subject and obtaining a master's degree at the University of Chicago. While at Chicago, he also became a member", "title": "Will Geer" }, { "docid": "3638002", "text": "addition, he created a second \"Shakespeare Garden\" on the theater's grounds. By this time he was also working sporadically again on Broadway. In 1964 he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for \"110 in the Shade\". In 1972, he played the part of \"Bear Claw\" in \"Jeremiah Johnson\" along with Robert Redford. In 1972, he was cast as Zebulon Walton, the family patriarch on \"The Waltons,\" a role he took over from Edgar Bergen, who played the character in the pilot. He won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series", "title": "Will Geer" }, { "docid": "1950216", "text": "\"The Waltons\", which was based on the real life story of writer Earl Hamner, Jr. He appeared in the CBS television film \"The Homecoming: A Christmas Story\" (1971), which inspired the commissioning of the largely recast series, and then played the role continuously in 122 episodes until March 17, 1977. Thomas left the series and his role was taken over by Robert Wightman, but Thomas returned to the role in three Waltons TV movies, 1993–97. (The first was \"A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion\" in 1993.) Thomas won an Emmy for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1973. He enrolled in", "title": "Richard Thomas (actor)" }, { "docid": "6764024", "text": "death. , the Waltons collectively owned 50.8 percent of the company. In May 2018, the annual Sunday Times Rich List indicated the Walton family's wealth is at $US174.9 billion. The Walton family fortune breaks down as follows: Walton family The Walton family is an American family whose collective fortune makes them the richest family in the United States and among the richest in the world. The majority of their wealth derives from the heritage of Bud and Sam Walton, who were the co-founders of the world's largest retailer, Walmart. The three most prominent living members (Jim, Rob and Alice) have", "title": "Walton family" }, { "docid": "827294", "text": "social life will not be interrupted by the inconvenience of pregnancy. She suggests it as an option for her friend Mrs. William Carlo, who is with child. Mrs. Carlo has the abortion. The Waltons receive two new guests in their house almost simultaneously: Edith Walton's ne'er-do-well younger brother, and their maid's young daughter, Lillian. Smitten by the brother's advances, the maid's daughter is seduced and soon finds herself pregnant. She is taken to Dr. Malfit and then abandoned by the boy after the operation goes wrong. Making her way back to the Walton mansion, she collapses and dies from the", "title": "Where Are My Children?" }, { "docid": "5867222", "text": "Kami Cotler Kami Cotler (born June 17, 1965) is an American actress and educator. She is best known for her role as young Elizabeth Walton, which she played in the series \"The Waltons\", and the television film \"The Homecoming: A Christmas Story\" (1971) which inspired it, as well as a number of later \"Waltons\" reunion productions. Cotler significantly reduced her acting roles for many years while she attended University of California, Berkeley, earning a degree in Social Sciences. Her first teaching job, coincidentally, took her to a small rural Virginia school in the Blue Ridge Mountains, much like the fictional", "title": "Kami Cotler" }, { "docid": "5869204", "text": "of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in her sleep on June 14, 2016 at age 83. She left no immediate survivors. Her obituary in \"The Washington Post\" wrote \"Survivors include a brother and sister.\" Ronnie Claire Edwards Ronnie Claire Edwards (February 9, 1933 – June 14, 2016) was an American actress, best known for playing Corabeth Walton Godsey on the TV series \"The Waltons\". Edwards was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She acted professionally from 1963 and is best known for the role of the domineering Corabeth Walton Godsey, the wife of storekeeper Ike Godsey played by Joe Conley, in the", "title": "Ronnie Claire Edwards" }, { "docid": "20520351", "text": "series reunion TV movies from 1982 to 1993. These were \"A Wedding on Walton's Mountain\" (1982), \"Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain\" (1982), \"A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain\" (1982) and \"A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion\" (1993). She has also made appearances on \"Quincy M.E.\" and \"L.A. Law\". While filming \"The Waltons\", Winston became a close friend of Judy Norton and Mary McDonough, who played two of her sisters-in-law; the trio were known on the set as \"The Three Musketeers\". McDonough, who was a bridesmaid at Winston's marriage, stresses the strong bonds that were created among the series cast and states", "title": "Leslie Winston" }, { "docid": "19955200", "text": "College. Born in South Reading (now Wakefield), Mass., February 18, 1822, son of James and Elizabeth (Bryant) Walton, he was a lineal descendant of the Rev. William Walton, whose services as minister of the gospel at Marblehead covered a period of 30 years, 1638-68. The Waltons were the parents of five children, of whom three survived: Harriet Peirce, wife of Judge James R. Dunbar, of the Massachusetts Superior Court; Dr. George Lincoln Walton (Harv. Univ., A.B. 1875, M.D. 1880), neurologist, of Boston: and Alice Walton (Smith Coll., A.B. 1887; Cornell, Ph.D. 1892), who became associate professor of Latin and archaeology", "title": "Electa Nobles Lincoln Walton" }, { "docid": "13645331", "text": "David Walton (actor) David B. Walton (born October 27, 1978) is an American actor. He is known for his role in the television sitcom \"Cracking Up\" (2004), as Liam Connor. He has starred in several television programs, including the drama series \"Heist\" (2006), comedy series \"New Girl\" (2012-2018), and on the NBC comedies \"Perfect Couples\" (2010–2011), \"Bent\" (2012), and \"About a Boy\" (2014–2015). He played Dr. Rick in the comedy film \"Fired Up!\" (2009). Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to John Hunter Walton Jr. and his wife, Carolyn K. Walton, he is one of seven siblings. Walton attended The Park School", "title": "David Walton (actor)" }, { "docid": "4627085", "text": "for one more season, on the condition that she wouldn't have to work the full nine months. Her character's abrupt disappearance was explained by Olivia developing tuberculosis and entering a sanatorium in Arizona. She made occasional guest appearances until the show's cancellation and later appeared in four of the six \"Waltons\" reunion movies made during the 1980s and 1990s. For her portrayal of Olivia Walton, Learned was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards. During her run as Olivia Walton, Learned and \"The Waltons\" co-star, Will Geer, appeared together in the 1974 made-for-TV movie, \"Hurricane\". Learned starred as Nurse Mary Benjamin", "title": "Michael Learned" }, { "docid": "16844083", "text": "in the Georgetown neighborhood. One of his neighbors was Sen. John F. Kennedy, and Walton and the Kennedys became good friends. Kennedy nicknamed him \"Billy Boy\", while Jacqueline Kennedy called Walton \"Baron\" or \"Czar\". Walton introduced the Kennedys to \"Washington Post\" publisher Katharine Graham. Kennedy also collected some of Walton's paintings. Walton played a key role in Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign. He volunteered to work on the campaign in the spring of 1960, long before most people believed Kennedy had a chance at the nomination. During the 1960 Democratic presidential primaries, he helped run the Kennedy campaign operation in West", "title": "William Walton (painter)" }, { "docid": "6835049", "text": "town of Porter, Texas. (Porter isn't a fictional town, but there aren't any mountains where it is located on US 59 between Houston and Livingston) Gilman is the\" de facto\" sheriff in Porter. His friends in the town include Henrietta Porter, portrayed by Ellen Corby (who later played Esther Walton on CBS's \"The Waltons\"). She is the widow of the town's founder and owns \"The Porter Enterprise\" newspaper. Occasionally, his duties as a Texas Ranger took him out of town, where he used his fast gun to \"track down\" and apprehend wanted criminals throughout the Lone Star State. In the", "title": "Trackdown (TV series)" }, { "docid": "4404928", "text": "Waltons (band) Waltons were a Canadian folk rock band, active primarily in the 1990s. The band released three studio albums during their career, and won a Juno Award for Best New Group at the Juno Awards of 1994. The band was formed in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1987, by vocalist/guitarist Jason Plumb, bassist Keith Nakonechny and drummer David Cooney. The band was originally known as \"Neurotic Paperboy\", before changing to The Waltons; the name was derived from the fact that Plumb had been given the nickname \"Walton\" by a bandmate in an earlier musical project, although Plumb sometimes joked that the", "title": "Waltons (band)" }, { "docid": "14262103", "text": "a Hampshire doctor on 20 November 1918, and a son was born in 1920. In 1919 Walton attempted to revive his private practice, with the support of various friends and the Scottish portrait-painter William Oliphant Hutchison (1889–1970), who had married his niece, and painted a striking portrait of Walton 10 years before his death. He now worked mainly as a textile designer for Morton Sundour Fabrics of Carlisle, but this work also ceased due to the recession and a falling-off in demand for Art Nouveau designs. In March 1931 the Waltons moved to 70 Seabrook Road in Hythe to cut", "title": "George Henry Walton" }, { "docid": "7767137", "text": "Ellen Geer Ellen Ware Geer (born August 29, 1941) is an American actress, professor, and theatre director. Geer was born in New York City, the daughter of actors Herta Ware and Will Geer, who played grandfather Zebulon \"Zeb\" Walton on The Waltons. She is married to children's musician Peter Alsop, and was previously married to actor Ed Flanders. Her daughters are Megan and Willow; her son is Ian Geer Flanders. Geer began her film career appearing as a nun in the 1968 Richard Lester drama \"Petulia\". Already, in 1963, she had joined the Minnesota Theatre Company for the opening seasons", "title": "Ellen Geer" }, { "docid": "7767141", "text": "Botanicum, a professional repertory, open-air theater in Topanga Canyon, California. Geer has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor, teaching acting, at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater for 12 years. Ellen Geer Ellen Ware Geer (born August 29, 1941) is an American actress, professor, and theatre director. Geer was born in New York City, the daughter of actors Herta Ware and Will Geer, who played grandfather Zebulon \"Zeb\" Walton on The Waltons. She is married to children's musician Peter Alsop, and was previously married to actor Ed Flanders. Her daughters are Megan and Willow; her son", "title": "Ellen Geer" }, { "docid": "5667641", "text": "Mason Beardsley, an elderly man who returned to Waltons Mountain to live with his wife who he was expecting in a few days. The Walton family were excited for him and helped to fix up his home, only to learn that his wife had died a year earlier and, unable to accept this fact, he continued to look for her. He continued to work in films and television, notably as Judge Vail in the supernatural soap opera \"Dark Shadows\" (for 9 episodes), and also the theater up until the 1980s. Beal died at age 87 in Santa Cruz, California, two", "title": "John Beal (actor)" }, { "docid": "5830514", "text": "Judy Norton Taylor Judy Norton-Taylor (born January 29, 1958) is an American actress and theater director who is best known for her role as Mary Ellen Walton on \"The Waltons\" television series and subsequent Waltons TV movies. She was born in Santa Monica, California, to parents Harry and Constance (née Glazebrook) Norton. She began practicing Scientology at age 13, and became a minister in the church. She married Douglas Taylor in 1976 at the age of 19; the marriage ended in divorce in 1978. She was also married to former football player Lynn Hughes. Still being viewed as a child", "title": "Judy Norton Taylor" }, { "docid": "10032924", "text": "(WLAF) under head coach Roman Gabriel who played with Walton on the Rams and Eagles teams in the NFL and was his Offensive Coordinator (1985) for the Portland Breakers. Following his retirement from pro football, he returned to Elizabeth City, where he has served as a teacher and a member of the city council. Walton was elected to the Elizabeth City State University Hall of Fame on October 25, 1985. World Football League (WFL) John Walton (American football) John Booker Walton (born October 4, 1947) is a former college and professional American football quarterback. Walton played college football at Elizabeth", "title": "John Walton (American football)" }, { "docid": "17692340", "text": "John Walton (rugby league) John \"Jack\" Walton was a professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s. He played at club level for Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № 115), as a , or , i.e. number 8 or 10, or, 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums. Jack Walton played left-, i.e. number 11, in Wakefield Trinity's 17-0 victory over Hull F.C. in the 1909 Challenge Cup Final during the 1908–09 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Tuesday 20 April 1909, in front of a crowd of 23,587. Joseph Taylor played right-, i.e. number 10,", "title": "John Walton (rugby league)" }, { "docid": "17692341", "text": "in Wakefield Trinity's 8-2 victory over Huddersfield in the 1910 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1910–11 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 3 December 1910. Jack Walton played left-, i.e. number 8, in Wakefield Trinity's 20-13 victory over Australia in the 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain match at Belle Vue, Wakefield on Saturday 19 December 1908. John Walton (rugby league) John \"Jack\" Walton was a professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s. He played at club level for Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № 115), as a , or , i.e. number 8 or", "title": "John Walton (rugby league)" }, { "docid": "13848625", "text": "nomination for his role in \"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?\", was cast as serial killer Leo Kroll independently of director Burt Topper, who chose David McLean for the role of Lt. Frank Benson. McLean was known for his lead role in the 1960 Western television series \"Tate\". Veteran character actress Ellen Corby (later to become best known as Grandma Walton in \"The Waltons\") played Mrs. Kroll, and Jeanne Bates was Clara Thomas, her attending nurse. Among the unknowns cast were Davey Davison as Tally Raymond, and Diane Sayer as Barbara Wells, Tally's colleague at the amusement park stand from", "title": "The Strangler" }, { "docid": "8450590", "text": "Scott married Cynthia (Cindy) Ullman Wolfen. They have a daughter, Emma, born in 2001, and a son, Jeremy, who was born in 2004. Today, Scott owns Chase Messengers, a parcel delivery service, in Encino, California. Eric Scott (actor) Eric Scott (born Eric Scott Magat; October 20, 1958, in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American actor whose best known role is as Ben Walton, which he first played in the television film \"The Homecoming: A Christmas Story\" (1971), and in the series it inspired, \"The Waltons\". He was briefly married to actress Karey Louis. His second marriage was to", "title": "Eric Scott (actor)" }, { "docid": "6576245", "text": "F. Walton, that she was to become better known. In the year of their marriage they moved to Jerusalem where Octavius took up a ministry in a church on Mount Zion until 1879. While there in 1877, her book \"A Peep Behind The Scenes\" was published. It is the story of Rosalie, a child who works in a travelling theatre. The Waltons lived at Cally, Kirkcudbrightshire for a while, and from 1883 Octavius was in the ministry at the church of St Thomas's, York, moving to St Jude's, Wolverhampton, in 1893 and Leigh, Tonbridge, Kent, in 1906. There his wife", "title": "Amy Catherine Walton" }, { "docid": "4575559", "text": "with her stroke deficits as Corby was in real life. Although Corby was able to communicate after her stroke, her character's lines were usually limited to one word or one-phrased dialogue, such as \"No\" or \"Home\"; her role dropped to recurring during \"The Waltons\"' final two seasons, and she later resumed her role as Grandma Walton in five of the six \"Waltons\" reunion movies between 1982 and 1997. Ellen Hansen married Francis Corby, a film director/cinematographer who was two decades her senior, in 1934; they divorced in 1944. The marriage did not produce children and she never remarried. Francis Corby", "title": "Ellen Corby" }, { "docid": "14632557", "text": "moved to Boar's Hill south of Oxford and was renamed Plater College. Squatters moved into the area during the 1960s and 1970s, and have been dubbed 'Waltons'. Around 2000, The Waterways estate was built on the site of the British Motor Corporation's former Osberton Radiator Factory immediately to the north of Walton Well Road. Walton Well Road Walton Well Road is a road, about 400 metres (a quarter mile) long, near the centre of Oxford, England. It provides a link from central Oxford to Port Meadow. The road marks the northern edge of the district known as Jericho. At the", "title": "Walton Well Road" }, { "docid": "5867113", "text": "David W. Harper David William Harper (born October 4, 1961) is an American actor. Harper began his acting career appearing as Jim Bob Walton, the second-youngest of seven siblings, in the made-for-television film \"The Homecoming: A Christmas Story\" (1971). When the film was turned into \"The Waltons\" television series in 1972, Harper reprised his role and remained with the series throughout its nine-season run. When \"The Waltons\" ended in 1981, Harper appeared in the television miniseries \"The Blue and the Gray\" and the theatrical film \"Fletch\". Along with most of the other series regulars, Harper appeared in various Waltons reunion", "title": "David W. Harper" }, { "docid": "18037108", "text": "stake.” In 2013, Bernstein filed suit against The Rose and Thistle Group owners and Toronto attorneys, Norma and Ronauld Walton, under claims that the Waltons had diverted assets from real estate investments that Bernstein and the Waltons had jointly invested in. The Waltons have communicated publicly that they \"strongly disagree\" with the accusations and have appealed the findings of Ontario Superior Court's ordered investigation. In April 2014, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario ruled that Bernstein had repeatedly breached rules established by the College by advertising his weight-loss clinics through customer testimonials, before and after photos and medically", "title": "Stanley K. Bernstein" }, { "docid": "17546311", "text": "1765, and some slaves were smuggled into the colonies, but the Waltons' share of that trade was relatively small. His wife survived him many years. When the British took possession of the city, she abandoned her station, and took refuge in \"the Jersies\", according to an obituary notice in the \"New York Packet\" of May 15, 1786. She died in New Jersey on May 10, 1786, at 78 years of age. William Walton (merchant) William Walton (1706–1768) was the son of Captain William and Mary (Santford) Walton. He followed his father into the shipping and mercantile business and became a", "title": "William Walton (merchant)" }, { "docid": "18782614", "text": "revenge. Henry, initially kind and good, also becomes a darker person as the plot continues, because his brother drives him to despair. It was filmed on location in England and Wales. Richard Thomas was cast as the good brother Henry: When I began to read the novel I thought \"the last thing I need to play is the good brother, Henry. I played John Boy [on \"The Waltons\"] for five years and once that happened casting people weren't sending me a lot of heavies. But as I read \"Ballantrae\" through, the character of Henry becomes darker and more sinister. By", "title": "The Master of Ballantrae (1984 film)" }, { "docid": "9533618", "text": "for his use of editing and the depth of staging in his melodramas and crime films. Haggar was born in Dedham, Essex, where he was apprenticed as a shipbuilder and later a watchmaker. An accomplished musician, Haggar left home at the age of eighteen and joined a troupe of travelling players, working as a stage carpenter. In 1870 he married Sarah Walton, daughter of Richard Walton proprietor of a travelling theatre. The Waltons were a well-known family of professional actors and pantomimists who had been in the entertaining business for many generations. Shortly after their marriage Haggar and Sarah set", "title": "William Haggar" }, { "docid": "9255129", "text": "John Walton (darts player) John Michael Walton (born 10 November 1961 in Bradford, Yorkshire) is an English darts player. He is best known for winning the 2001 BDO World Darts Championship. He has adopted the nickname John Boy and used the song \"Cotton Eye Joe\" by Rednex as his walk-on theme. Walton picked up some small tournament victories in the early stages of his career, including the Websters 150 Championship in 1993 and the Highlands Open Championship in 1996 but didn't manage to qualify for the World Championship until 1999 when he lost 0-3 to Roland Scholten on his first", "title": "John Walton (darts player)" }, { "docid": "19186546", "text": "the two in his production of \"The Rose Maid\". They married that same year and together formed one of the most successful exhibition ballroom teams of the their day as well as became two of cabaret's earliest stars. Together they were promoted as Maurice and Walton, or simply \"The Waltons.\" During America's dance mania of the 1910s Florence Walton and Maurice Mouvet were considered as a team second only to The Castles. Walton claimed to be the first American to entertain American troops in the war zone during World War I, claiming in 1914 during a performance with Mouvet at", "title": "Florence Walton" }, { "docid": "5414535", "text": "Ralph Waite Ralph Waite (June 22, 1928 – February 13, 2014) was an American actor and political activist, best known for his role as John Walton, Sr. on \"The Waltons\" (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed. He also had a recurring role in \"NCIS\" as Jackson Gibbs, the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Waite had supporting roles in movies like \"Five Easy Pieces\" (1970), \"The Grissom Gang\" (1971), \"The Bodyguard\" (1992), and \"Cliffhanger\" (1993). Waite, the eldest of five children, was born in White Plains, New York on June 22, 1928, to Ralph H. Waite, a construction engineer, and Esther (née", "title": "Ralph Waite" }, { "docid": "890296", "text": "the eighth season (she was usually said to be visiting relatives in nearby Buckingham County). Six feature-length movies were made after the series' run; set from 1947 to 1969, they aired between 1982 and 1997. \"The Homecoming: A Christmas Story\" (1971) was not made as a pilot for a series, but it was so popular that it led to the broadcaster, CBS, initially commissioning one season of episodes based on the same characters, and the result was \"The Waltons\". Except for the children and Grandma Walton, the actors for the movie were not the same as for the series. The", "title": "The Waltons" }, { "docid": "4575558", "text": "Best Supporting Actress. She also won a Golden Globe award for best supporting actress in a TV series for the show \"The Waltons\", and was nominated another three times. She left the show early in 1977, owing to a massive stroke she had suffered on 10 November 1976, which impaired her speech and severely limited her mobility and function. She returned to the series during the final episode of the 1977–78 season, with her character depicted as also recovering from a stroke. She remained a regular on \"The Waltons\" through the end of the 1978–79 season, with Esther Walton struggling", "title": "Ellen Corby" }, { "docid": "8450589", "text": "Eric Scott (actor) Eric Scott (born Eric Scott Magat; October 20, 1958, in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American actor whose best known role is as Ben Walton, which he first played in the television film \"The Homecoming: A Christmas Story\" (1971), and in the series it inspired, \"The Waltons\". He was briefly married to actress Karey Louis. His second marriage was to Theresa Fargo, the mother of his daughter Ashley, until her death from acute myelomonocytic leukemia on November 5, 1992, not long after Ashley's birth. She had developed the disease during her pregnancy. In March 2000,", "title": "Eric Scott (actor)" }, { "docid": "9488028", "text": "up on the family farm and was educated at the local national school. Walton inherited a love of hurling from his father, John Walton, who won a championship medal with Tullaroan in 1887.. As well as hurling Walton also had a very keen interest in greyhound racing. He kept many championship greyhounds, the most famous of the all, Captain Sim, ran in the Waterloo Cup. Walton died in 1966. Sim Walton Simon F. \"Sim\" Walton (4 October 1880 – 27 December 1966) was an Irish hurler who played as a full-forward for the Kilkenny senior team. Born in Tullaroan, County", "title": "Sim Walton" }, { "docid": "5839000", "text": "accomplishments as an actor, most notably a nine-season run as Jason Walton on \"The Waltons\" (he also returned for all of the \"Waltons\" reunion projects during the 1980s and 1990s), as well as providing the voice of Christopher Robin for Disney's \"Winnie the Pooh\" cartoons. Jon Walmsley Jon Walmsley (born 6 February 1956 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England) is a British-American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, actor and producer. Walmsley is a veteran of the stage and studio, having worked with many notable artists including Richard Marx, Brian Setzer, David Pack, David Koz, the Doobie Brothers, Michael McDonald, Gregg Allman, Merle Haggard, Roy Acuff,", "title": "Jon Walmsley" }, { "docid": "4627090", "text": "the time she was cast in \"The Waltons\", she had \"hit rock bottom\". Then, at age 32, Learned realized she was an alcoholic. Taking herself to ex-husband Peter Donat's cabin on the California coast, she decided to \"get sober\" and that her time there was the beginning of a spiritual journey. Learned further stated in the article that she has been sober since 1977. Michael Learned Michael Learned (born April 9, 1939) is an American actress, known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series \"The Waltons\" (1972–1981). She has won a record four Primetime Emmy", "title": "Michael Learned" }, { "docid": "4627082", "text": "Michael Learned Michael Learned (born April 9, 1939) is an American actress, known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series \"The Waltons\" (1972–1981). She has won a record four Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; three for \"The Waltons\" (1973, 1974, 1976), and one for \"Nurse\" (1982). Learned was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter and oldest child of Elizabeth Duane \"Betti\" (née Hooper) and Bruce Learned, a diplomat. Her maternal grandfather was an attaché for the United States Embassy in Rome. She lived on a Connecticut farm with her", "title": "Michael Learned" }, { "docid": "890299", "text": "series. Hamner provided the voice-over of the older John-Boy, usually heard at the beginning and end of each episode. John-Boy Walton's fictional \"alma mater\", Boatwright University, is patterned after Richmond College, which became part of the University of Richmond on Boatwright Drive near Westham Station in The West End of Richmond, Virginia, about seventy miles east of Schuyler. The town of Walton's Mountain was built in the rear area of the main lot at Warner Bros. Studios, bordering the Los Angeles River, but the mountain itself was part of the Hollywood Hills range opposite Warner studios in Burbank, California (the", "title": "The Waltons" }, { "docid": "890290", "text": "living for his family by operating a lumber mill with his sons' help as they grow older. The family income is augmented by some small-scale farming, and John occasionally hunts to put meat on the table. In the simpler days of their country youth, all of the children are rambunctious and curious, but as times grow tough and the Walton youths grow up to deal with them, the children slowly depart from the innocent, carefree days of walking everywhere barefoot while clad in overalls and hand-sewn pinafores, and into the harsh, demanding world of adulthood and responsibility. The family shares", "title": "The Waltons" }, { "docid": "17546290", "text": "more than a hundred years the Walton family of merchants held the first place among the shipping magnates of New York City. The Waltons were of English origin, and probably came from the County of Norfolk. Two families of the name appear at about the same period, the one in New York, the other in Richmond County, Staten Island. In the New York branch of the family the name William was carried through a full century. The first William Walton of whom mention is made, was born in the latter part of the 17th century, about 1665. In 1698 he", "title": "William Walton (merchant)" }, { "docid": "6586980", "text": "\"Adam-12\", \"The F.B.I.\", \"Highway to Heaven\", \"Love, American Style\", \"Dan August\", \"Sanford and Son\", \"Ironside\", \"Falcon Crest\", \"L.A. Law\", \"All in the Family\", \"Hawaii Five-O\", \"The Waltons\", and \"The Fall Guy\". Sullivan wrote the play \"J for J\" (\"Journals for John\") which was prompted after she found a packet of unsent letters (in 1995) written by her father decades earlier to her older brother Johnny, who was mentally disabled. The play premiered on October 20, 2001. John Ritter, who in real life had a handicapped brother, played Johnny, Sullivan played herself, and Jeff Kober portrayed her father Barry. Sullivan was", "title": "Jenny Sullivan" }, { "docid": "11507640", "text": "\"Nanny and the Professor\", which aired on ABC as the \"Saturday Superstar Movie\" in limited showings in 1972 and 1973. In 1972, Doremus, at the age of fourteen, was cast as G.W. Haines, boyfriend of Mary Ellen Walton (Judy Norton Taylor) & later Erin Walton (Mary Beth McDonough) in the series \"The Waltons\". Doremus appeared through November 10, 1977. In the episode \"The First Casualty\", his character died in a training accident in the early phase of World War II. Doremus appeared on NBC's \"Bonanza\" in 1972. His last role was in 1981 as Chuck in the film \"Rivals\" on", "title": "David Doremus" }, { "docid": "890303", "text": "York.\" \"The Waltons\" won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 1973. Also in 1973 Richard Thomas won the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Michael Learned won the Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series three times (1973, 1974, and 1976). Ellen Corby was also a three-time winner in the Supporting Actress category, winning in 1973, 1975, and 1976. Will Geer was awarded the Supporting Actor Emmy in 1975. Veteran actress Beulah Bondi won an Emmy in 1977 for Lead Actress in a Single Performance for her guest appearance as Martha Corrine Walton in", "title": "The Waltons" }, { "docid": "11489575", "text": "took him close to 5 months, from March 26 to August 15 in 2003. During that period, each day he published a video of his swing on his website. \"One Shot a Day\" was featured in the \"Art of Sport Exhibition\" at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, New York. \"Red Ball\" an online project of Waltons', presented by Silent Gallery. In 2001 Walton had an online project where he placed a little Red Ball at a specific location in the city of San Francisco. The location of where the Red Ball should be placed depends solely on the participation of the", "title": "Lee Walton" }, { "docid": "17487999", "text": "Douglas Walton (actor) Douglas Walton (October 17, 1909 – November 15, 1961) was a Canadian actor who worked in American films during the 1930s and 1940s. He appeared in 60 films between 1931 and 1950. Born John Douglas Duder in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Walton began his acting career in the theatres of Chicago and New York City. Tall, blond and elegant, Walton played many aristocratic, intellectual or sophisticated English or European men in films such as \"The Count of Monte Cristo\" in 1934; \"The Bride of Frankenstein\" (1935), in which Walton memorably played the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in", "title": "Douglas Walton (actor)" }, { "docid": "8250192", "text": "in such television shows as \"I Love Lucy\", \"Hazel\", \"Bonanza\", \"Have Gun Will Travel\", \"Gunsmoke\", \"Sergeant Bilko\", \"Ironside\", \"Burke's Law\", \"Marcus Welby, M.D.\", \"All In The Family\", \"Hunter\", \"The Odd Couple\", \"Gidget\", \"Busting Loose\", \"MacGyver\", \"The Dukes of Hazzard\" (as Lulu Coltrane Hogg) and \"The Golden Girls\". She appeared in feature films, including \"Cold Turkey\" and \"In Country\". She joined the cast of \"The Waltons\" in 1979 as Rose Burton, a cousin of Olivia Walton, as sort of a surrogate parental figure replacing \"Ellen Corby\" (Grandma), \"Michael Learned\" (Olivia), and the following year, \"Ralph Waite\" (John). (She'd also previously appeared", "title": "Peggy Rea" }, { "docid": "16746497", "text": "daughter of John Robert Walton, founder of the Australian department store Waltons. From 1957 to 1960, Oxley studied art and design at East Sydney Technical College, now the National Art School. For the next two decades she worked as an interior designer in Sydney, Melbourne and New York City for firms and designers including Peddle Thorp & Walker (now PTW Architects and Raymond Loewy). In 1970 she married Anthony Oxley and together they co-founded Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in 1982. Together with her husband, Oxley has been an active supporter of the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; the Biennale of", "title": "Roslyn Oxley" }, { "docid": "890291", "text": "hospitality with relatives and strangers as they are able. The small community named after their property is also home to folk of various income levels, ranging from the well-to-do Baldwin sisters, two elderly spinsters who distill moonshine that they call \"Papa's recipe\"; Ike Godsey, postmaster and owner of the general store with his somewhat snobbish wife Corabeth (a Walton cousin; she calls her husband \"Mr. Godsey\"); an African-American couple, Verdie and Harley Foster; Maude, a sassy octogenarian artist who paints on wood; Flossie Brimmer, a friendly though somewhat gossipy widow who runs a nearby boarding house; and Yancy Tucker, a", "title": "The Waltons" }, { "docid": "5867114", "text": "specials produced in the 1980s and 1990s. Harper is not currently active in show business but does appear at such Waltons-related functions as collectible and memorabilia fairs. After working at a variety of jobs, he went to school to study business. David W. Harper David William Harper (born October 4, 1961) is an American actor. Harper began his acting career appearing as Jim Bob Walton, the second-youngest of seven siblings, in the made-for-television film \"The Homecoming: A Christmas Story\" (1971). When the film was turned into \"The Waltons\" television series in 1972, Harper reprised his role and remained with the", "title": "David W. Harper" }, { "docid": "6126275", "text": "a player; the others were (in chronological order of completing the feat), Matt Guokas, Sr. and his son Matt Guokas, Jr., Hall of Famer Rick Barry and his son Brent Barry, and Hall of Famer Bill Walton and his son Luke Walton. The Thompsons, along with the Waltons, are also the only father-son tandems to have each won two championships each, with the Thompsons being the only tandem to win in two consecutive years. Thompson and his family moved back to Portland in 1991 after his career. He worked on local sports radio in the area. He and his family", "title": "Mychal Thompson" }, { "docid": "1935830", "text": "Izaak Walton Killam Izaak Walton Killam (July 23, 1885 – August 5, 1955) was one of Canada's most eminent financiers. Born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Killam rose from paper boy in Yarmouth to become one of Canada's wealthiest individuals. As a young banker with the Union Bank of Halifax, Killam became close friends with John F. Stairs and Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook) who put Killam in charge of his Royal Securities. In 1919, Killam bought out Aitken and took full control of the company. Killam's business dealings primarily involved the financing of large pulp and paper and hydro-electric projects throughout", "title": "Izaak Walton Killam" }, { "docid": "16856493", "text": "Walton, on a Season 8 episode of \"The Waltons.\" He died on January 8, 1981 in Ojai of colon cancer. He was married to actress Erika Kapralik (September 6, 1911 – May 14, 1992 in Ojai, California). Woodrow Chambliss Woodrow \"Woody\" Lewis Chambliss (October 14, 1914 in Bowie, Texas – January 8, 1981 in Ojai, California) was an American character actor who appeared in both feature films and television. He is probably best known for his appearances as several characters in the TV hit \"Gunsmoke\", where he eventually settled into the recurring role of storekeeper Mr. Lathrop. He was sometimes", "title": "Woodrow Chambliss" }, { "docid": "13304721", "text": "there is a mock Walton scene. At first the narrator says “I love you to all” of these characters, who presumably already died. Then he goes on to talk about a movie called Longtime Companion, that he believes was a joke, and “could have been called The Waltons Do AIDS” (114). The movie is said to have been unrealistic and it appears that all the characters sort of died off one by one. Another movie referenced in this montage is Philadelphia (film), which has a bad reception as well. At the end of this scene the narrator says, “Ask the", "title": "Koolaids: The Art of War" } ]

[ "Heinrich Rudolf Hertz" ]

[ { "docid": "174976", "text": "by his life's work, on its home page. Heinrich Hertz Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (; ; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves theorized by James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. The unit of frequencycycle per secondwas named the \"hertz\" in his honor. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born in 1857 in Hamburg, then a sovereign state of the German Confederation, into a prosperous and cultured Hanseatic family. His father Gustav Ferdinand Hertz (originally named David Gustav Hertz) (1827–1914) was a barrister and later a senator. His", "title": "Heinrich Hertz" }, { "docid": "6965930", "text": "it was written off as electromagnetic induction at the time. The discovery of electromagnetic waves, including radio waves, by Heinrich Rudolf Hertz in the 1880s came about after over a half century theoretical development on the connection between electricity and magnetism starting in the early 1800s and culminated in a theory of electromagnetism developed by James Clerk Maxwell by 1873, which Hertz finally proved. The development of radio waves into a communication medium did not follow immediately afterwards. After their discovery Hertz considered them of little practical value and other experimenters who explored the physical properties of the new phenomenon,", "title": "Invention of radio" }, { "docid": "344463", "text": "could propagate through free space. It is likely that the first intentional transmission of a signal by means of electromagnetic waves was performed in an experiment by David Edward Hughes around 1880, although this was considered to be induction at the time. In 1888 Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was able to conclusively prove transmitted airborne electromagnetic waves in an experiment confirming Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. After the discovery of these \"Hertzian waves\" (it would take almost 20 years for the term \"radio\" to be universally adopted for this type of electromagnetic radiation) many scientists and inventors experimented with wireless transmission, some", "title": "History of radio" }, { "docid": "174954", "text": "Heinrich Hertz Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (; ; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves theorized by James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. The unit of frequencycycle per secondwas named the \"hertz\" in his honor. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born in 1857 in Hamburg, then a sovereign state of the German Confederation, into a prosperous and cultured Hanseatic family. His father Gustav Ferdinand Hertz (originally named David Gustav Hertz) (1827–1914) was a barrister and later a senator. His mother was Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn. Hertz's father converted", "title": "Heinrich Hertz" }, { "docid": "174976", "text": "by his life's work, on its home page. Heinrich Hertz Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (; ; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves theorized by James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. The unit of frequencycycle per secondwas named the \"hertz\" in his honor. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born in 1857 in Hamburg, then a sovereign state of the German Confederation, into a prosperous and cultured Hanseatic family. His father Gustav Ferdinand Hertz (originally named David Gustav Hertz) (1827–1914) was a barrister and later a senator. His", "title": "Heinrich Hertz" } ]

[ { "docid": "958489", "text": "light and similarities in electrical and magnetic observations. His mathematical theory, now called Maxwell's equations, described light waves and radio waves as waves of electromagnetism that travel in space, radiated by a charged particle as it undergoes acceleration. In 1887, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the reality of Maxwell's electromagnetic waves by experimentally generating radio waves in his laboratory, showing that they exhibited the same wave properties as light: standing waves, refraction, diffraction, and polarization. Radio waves, originally called \"Hertzian waves\", were first used for communication in the mid 1890s by Guglielmo Marconi, who developed the first practical radio transmitters and receivers.", "title": "Radio wave" }, { "docid": "19086587", "text": "in 1926 for a thesis on aspects of electromagnetic waves that she wrote in German. Taylor was awarded a Yarrow Research Fellowship which enabled her to remain at Göttingen and continue her work on electromagnetic waves with Professor Richard Courant. In 1929 Taylor returned to the UK and took up a post as Scientific Officer at the Radio Research Station in Slough, Berkshire (part of the UK Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the UK National Physics Laboratory, now the National Physical Laboratory). Here she continued to carry out research into the theory of electromagnetic waves, specialising in the", "title": "Mary Taylor Slow" }, { "docid": "14344071", "text": "Heinrich Hertz Medal (Gold Medal and Monetary Award, IEEE highest recognition for electromagnetic waves), (He was the first recipient, 1989) Microwave Career Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society in 1985 Son of Samuel and Rebecca M.(Feiner); Married Muriel Spanier, June 30, 1946; children – Andrew, Karen (Levy). Nathan Marcuvitz Nathan Marcuvitz (born December 29, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, d. February 14, 2010 in Naples, FL), was an American electrical engineer, physicist, and educator who worked in the fields of microwave and electromagnetic theory. He was head of the experimental group of the Radiation Laboratory (MIT). He", "title": "Nathan Marcuvitz" }, { "docid": "20613828", "text": "on modelling and applications of thin composite layers with engineered electromagnetic properties (metasurfaces), in particular, developing approaches to full control of reflected and transmitted waves. Sergei Tretyakov (scientist) Sergei Tretyakov () (born in 1956) is a Russian-Finnish scientist, focused in electromagnetic field theory, complex media electromagnetics and microwave engineering. He is currently a professor at Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University (former Helsinki University of Technology), Finland. His main research area in recent years is metamaterials and metasurfaces from fundamentals to applications. He was the president of the European Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials (”Metamorphose VI”)", "title": "Sergei Tretyakov (scientist)" }, { "docid": "14344061", "text": "Nathan Marcuvitz Nathan Marcuvitz (born December 29, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, d. February 14, 2010 in Naples, FL), was an American electrical engineer, physicist, and educator who worked in the fields of microwave and electromagnetic theory. He was head of the experimental group of the Radiation Laboratory (MIT). He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He had a PhD in electrical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. \"Dr. Nathan Marcuvitz stands out clearly as the leading figure in the field of electromagnetic waves for the period of at least two decades following World War II. He", "title": "Nathan Marcuvitz" }, { "docid": "108508", "text": "a light wave travels through a medium with a varying refractive index, or when a sound wave travels through a medium with varying acoustic impedance. Diffraction has an impact on the acoustic space. Diffraction occurs with all waves, including sound waves, water waves, and electromagnetic waves such as visible light, X-rays and radio waves. Since physical objects have wave-like properties (significantly at the atomic level, invisibly at macro level), diffraction also occurs with matter and can be studied according to the principles of quantum mechanics. Italian scientist Francesco Maria Grimaldi coined the word \"diffraction\" and was the first to record", "title": "Diffraction" }, { "docid": "3187680", "text": "Extremely high frequency Extremely high frequency (EHF) is the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) designation for the band of radio frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum from 30 to 300 gigahertz (GHz). It lies between the super high frequency band, and the far infrared band, the lower part of which is also referred to as the terahertz gap. Radio waves in this band have wavelengths from ten to one millimetre, giving it the name millimetre band or millimetre wave, sometimes abbreviated MMW or mmW. Millimetre-length electromagnetic waves were first investigated in the 1890s by Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose. Compared to lower", "title": "Extremely high frequency" }, { "docid": "174966", "text": "effects he was observing were results of Maxwell's predicted electromagnetic waves. Starting in November 1887 with his paper \"On Electromagnetic Effects Produced by Electrical Disturbances in Insulators\", Hertz would send a series of papers to Helmholtz at the Berlin Academy, including papers in 1888 that showed transverse free space electromagnetic waves traveling at a finite speed over a distance. In the apparatus Hertz used, the electric and magnetic fields would radiate away from the wires as transverse waves. Hertz had positioned the oscillator about 12 meters from a zinc reflecting plate to produce standing waves. Each wave was about 4", "title": "Heinrich Hertz" }, { "docid": "121421", "text": "for the electromagnetic field which suggested that waves in the field would travel with a speed that was very close to the known speed of light. Maxwell therefore suggested that visible light (as well as invisible infrared and ultraviolet rays by inference) all consisted of propagating disturbances (or radiation) in the electromagnetic field. Radio waves were first produced deliberately by Heinrich Hertz in 1887, using electrical circuits calculated to produce oscillations at a much lower frequency than that of visible light, following recipes for producing oscillating charges and currents suggested by Maxwell's equations. Hertz also developed ways to detect these", "title": "Electromagnetic radiation" }, { "docid": "14953014", "text": "James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics. His most notable achievement was to formulate the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, bringing together for the first time electricity, magnetism, and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon. Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism have been called the \"second great unification in physics\" after the first one realised by Isaac Newton. With the publication of \"A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field\" in 1865, Maxwell demonstrated that electric and magnetic fields travel through space as waves moving", "title": "James Clerk Maxwell" }, { "docid": "826430", "text": "a linearly polarized wave, a special case. A wave produced by moving your hand in a circle or an ellipse is a circularly or elliptically polarized wave, two other special cases. Electromagnetic waves behave in this same way. Electromagnetic waves are also two-dimensional transverse waves. Transverse waves are waves that travel perpendicular to the direction of the vibration. Ray theory does not describe phenomena such as interference and diffraction, which require wave theory (involving the phase of the wave). You can think of a ray of light, in optics, as an idealized narrow beam of electromagnetic radiation. Rays are used", "title": "Transverse wave" }, { "docid": "14401152", "text": "Walter Dieminger Walter Dieminger, (July 7, 1907 – September 29, 2000) was a German space scientist and director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy from 1955 to 1975. Dieminger's research was focused on the ionosphere. Dieminger studied physics between 1926 and 1935 at the University of Technology Munich. After receiving his Ph.D. for work on electromagnetic waves and the ionosphere with Jonathan Zenneck, he worked at the Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt (German Experimental Institute for Aviation). With his focus on research of the ionosphere and electromagnetic waves at his new institute, called the Zentralstelle für Funkberatung (Central Counseling Office", "title": "Walter Dieminger" }, { "docid": "2710665", "text": "digital receivers, a related problem is DC offset of the signal. This is corrected by a similar feedback system. Radio waves were first identified in German physicist Heinrich Hertz's 1887 series of experiments to prove James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. Hertz used spark-excited dipole antennas to generate the waves and micrometer spark gaps attached to dipole and loop antennas to detect them. These primitive devices are more accurately described as radio wave sensors, not \"receivers\", as they could only detect radio waves within about 100 feet of the transmitter, and were not used for communication but instead as laboratory instruments", "title": "Radio receiver" }, { "docid": "467680", "text": "by Charles Glover Barkla showed that X-rays exhibited phenomena associated with electromagnetic waves, including transverse polarization and spectral lines akin to those observed in the visible wavelengths. Single-slit experiments in the laboratory of Arnold Sommerfeld suggested that X-rays had a wavelength of about 1 angstrom. However, X-rays are composed of photons, and thus are not only waves of electromagnetic radiation but also exhibit particle-like properties. Albert Einstein introduced the photon concept in 1905, but it was not broadly accepted until 1922, when Arthur Compton confirmed it by the scattering of X-rays from electrons. Therefore, these particle-like properties of X-rays, such", "title": "X-ray crystallography" }, { "docid": "121381", "text": "interact with other charged particles, exerting force on them. EM waves carry energy, momentum and angular momentum away from their source particle and can impart those quantities to matter with which they interact. Electromagnetic radiation is associated with those EM waves that are free to propagate themselves (\"radiate\") without the continuing influence of the moving charges that produced them, because they have achieved sufficient distance from those charges. Thus, EMR is sometimes referred to as the far field. In this language, the near field refers to EM fields near the charges and current that directly produced them specifically, electromagnetic induction", "title": "Electromagnetic radiation" }, { "docid": "12288220", "text": "Ireland in the International Amateur Radio Union. Radio in Ireland can be traced back to the 1800s with Professor George Francis Fitzgerald of TCD who in conjunction with Heinrich Hertz clarified and confirmed James Clerk Maxwell's mathematical theories of the electromagnetic field. This work led Fitzgerald to conclude in 1883 that an oscillating electric current would produce electromagnetic waves, which was experimentally confirmed by Heinrich Hertz in 1888 and used in the development of wireless telegraphy. Fitzgerald was the first to suggest a method of producing radio frequency waves which forms the basis for modern radio. An early pioneer of", "title": "Irish Radio Transmitters Society" }, { "docid": "238082", "text": "From this, Maxwell concluded that light was a form of electromagnetic radiation: he first stated this result in 1862 in \"On Physical Lines of Force\". In 1873, he published \"A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism\", which contained a full mathematical description of the behaviour of electric and magnetic fields, still known as Maxwell's equations. Soon after, Heinrich Hertz confirmed Maxwell's theory experimentally by generating and detecting radio waves in the laboratory, and demonstrating that these waves behaved exactly like visible light, exhibiting properties such as reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference. Maxwell's theory and Hertz's experiments led directly to the development", "title": "Light" }, { "docid": "20613822", "text": "Possibility of existence of a backward wave medium, where electromagnetic waves propagate with anti-parallel phase and group velocities, was suggested by several scientists throughout the twentieth century: Arthur Schuster, Horace Lamb, Leonid Mandelstam, Victor Veselago, and others. However, due to the absence of materials with such properties in nature, wide interest to the backward wave media was generated only in the early 2000s, when the team of David R. Smith experimentally demonstrated first negative-index metamaterial. In 2003, Tretyakov and colleagues suggested an alternative way to achieve backward waves by using bianisotropic chiral materials. In this case, it is not required", "title": "Sergei Tretyakov (scientist)" }, { "docid": "129716", "text": "in the field. Analyzing the speed of these theoretical waves, Maxwell realized that they must travel at a speed that was about the known speed of light. This startling coincidence in value led Maxwell to make the inference that light itself is a type of electromagnetic wave. Maxwell's equations predicted an infinite number of frequencies of electromagnetic waves, all traveling at the speed of light. This was the first indication of the existence of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Maxwell's predicted waves included waves at very low frequencies compared to infrared, which in theory might be created by oscillating charges in", "title": "Electromagnetic spectrum" }, { "docid": "19635036", "text": "Edouard Sarasin Edouard Sarasin (20 May 1843 – 22 July 1917) was an independent scientist in Geneva. Born in a wealthy family, he established a private laboratory where he collaborated with other researchers. His studies included those on the properties of waves, resonance, radiowaves, radiation and geophysics. Sarasin came from a family of French descent who had settled in Geneva in the early sixteenth century. Sarasin studied physics at Paris, Heidelberg and Berlin and in 1867 he established a private laboratory on rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, and worked with other collaborators including Auguste de la Rive (1801-1873) and his son Lucien", "title": "Edouard Sarasin" }, { "docid": "295230", "text": "Prosper-René Blondlot was a professor of physics at the University of Nancy studying electromagnetic radiation. Blondlot was a respected member of the scientific community: he was one of eight physicists who were corresponding members of the French Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Academy's Gaston Planté prize in 1893 and the LaCaze prize in 1899. His attempts to measure the speed of electromagnetic waves were commended by Thomson and Henri Poincaré. After the discovery of X rays, Blondlot began investigating the nature of X rays, trying to determine whether they behaved as particles or electromagnetic waves. (This was before", "title": "N ray" }, { "docid": "14597166", "text": "basic \"cloaking device\", other related concepts have been proposed in peer reviewed, scientific articles, and are discussed here. Naturally, some of the theories discussed here also employ metamaterials, either electromagnetic or acoustic, although often in a different manner than the original demonstration and its successor, the \"broad-band cloak\". The first electromagnetic cloaking device was produced in 2006, using gradient-index metamaterials. This has led to the burgeoning field of transformation optics (and now transformation acoustics), where the propagation of waves is precisely manipulated by controlling the behaviour of the material through which the light (sound) is travelling. Waves and the host", "title": "Theories of cloaking" }, { "docid": "5519652", "text": "Anderson localization In condensed matter physics, Anderson localization (also known as strong localization) is the absence of diffusion of waves in a \"disordered\" medium. This phenomenon is named after the American physicist P. W. Anderson, who was the first to suggest that electron localization is possible in a lattice potential, provided that the degree of randomness (disorder) in the lattice is sufficiently large, as can be realized for example in a semiconductor with impurities or defects. Anderson localization is a general wave phenomenon that applies to the transport of electromagnetic waves, acoustic waves, quantum waves, spin waves, etc. This phenomenon", "title": "Anderson localization" }, { "docid": "20613820", "text": "metal wires, what is now referred as metasurfaces or two-dimensional metamaterials. During the doctoral studies, Tretyakov worked on ferrite-based anisotropic layered structures under supervision of Prof. M.I. Kontorovich. The first research visit to Helsinki University of Technology profoundly influenced his research interest, shifting it towards a novel and very promising direction of complex electromagnetic materials (now called metamaterials). From this time forth Tretyakov actively works in this research direction with the main contributions listed below. Tretyakov made important contributions to research of bianisotropic media. Together with co-authors, he developed the general theory of electromagnetic waves interactions with bianisotropic materials and", "title": "Sergei Tretyakov (scientist)" }, { "docid": "1697910", "text": "about 10 times the size. Infrasound is defined by the American National Standards Institute as \"sound at frequencies less than 20 Hz.\" The Allies of World War I first used infrasound to locate artillery. One of the pioneers in infrasonic research was French scientist Vladimir Gavreau. His interest in infrasonic waves first came about in his laboratory during the 1960s, when he and his laboratory assistants experienced shaking laboratory equipment and pain in the eardrums, but his microphones did not detect audible sound. He concluded it was infrasound caused by a large fan and duct system, and soon got to", "title": "Infrasound" }, { "docid": "17763520", "text": "1970s, Adair conducted physiology studies as a fellow at the John B. Pierce Laboratory in New Haven to learn how humans and animals react to heat. This work led her to focus on the controversial area of microwaves and their effect on human health. Experimenting on first on squirrel monkeys and then on human volunteers, she concluded that microwave radiation from microwave ovens, cells phones, and power lines is harmless to humans and animals. In 1996, she joined the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas as a senior scientist studying electromagnetic radiation effects. Adair was", "title": "Eleanor R. Adair" }, { "docid": "20606614", "text": "and low frequency alternating current (AC), but not much was known about frequencies above 20 kHz, what are now called radio frequencies. In 1887, four years previously, Heinrich Hertz had discovered Hertzian waves (radio waves), electromagnetic waves which oscillated at very high frequencies. This attracted much attention, and a number of researchers began experimenting with high frequency currents. Tesla's background was in the new field of alternating current power systems, so he understood transformers and resonance. In 1888 he decided that high frequencies were the most promising field for research, and set up a laboratory at 33 South Fifth Avenue,", "title": "History of the Tesla coil" }, { "docid": "6965931", "text": "such as Oliver Lodge and Jagadish Chandra Bose, while transmitting radio waves some distance, did not seem to see any value in developing a communication system based on them. In their experiments they did develop electronic components and methods to improve the transmission and detection of electromagnetic waves. In the mid 1890s, building on techniques physicists were using to study electromagnetic waves, Guglielmo Marconi developed the first apparatus for long distance radio communication. On 23 December 1900, the Canadian inventor Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to send audio (wireless telephony) by means of electromagnetic waves, successfully transmitting over", "title": "Invention of radio" }, { "docid": "17357813", "text": "Laboratory of Electromagnetic Research, which has developed into a world-class center for electro-magnetics, having a huge impact on the world's electromagnetic community and on electromagnetic research and education in the Netherlands. Dr. De Hoop's research interests are in the broad area of wavefield modeling in acoustics, electromagnetics and elastodynamics. His interdisciplinary insights and methods in this field can be found in his seminal Handbook of Radiation and Scattering of Waves (1995), with wavefield reciprocity serving as one of the unifying principles governing direct and inverse scattering problems and wave propagation in complex (anisotropic and dispersive) media. He spent a year", "title": "Adrianus de Hoop" }, { "docid": "11223638", "text": "Curran made an even greater contribution to victory, in 1945, than Sam.\" In early 1944 the Currans were part of a group of British scientists invited to go to the US to take part in the Manhattan Project – the Allied project to develop an atomic bomb. They joined the British Mission at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory in California, headed by Mark Oliphant, a distinguished Australian scientist that Joan knew from the Cavendish Laboratory. Oliphant also acted as \"de facto\" deputy to Ernest Lawrence, the director of the Radiation Laboratory. The mission of the laboratory was to develop the electromagnetic", "title": "Joan Curran" }, { "docid": "2844814", "text": "Natural and Experimental Philosophy in 1881. Along with Oliver Lodge, Oliver Heaviside and Heinrich Hertz, FitzGerald was a leading figure among the group of \"Maxwellians\" who revised, extended, clarified, and confirmed James Clerk Maxwell's mathematical theories of the electromagnetic field during the late 1870s and the 1880s. In 1883, following from Maxwell's equations, FitzGerald was the first to suggest a device for producing rapidly oscillating electric currents to generate electromagnetic waves, a phenomenon which was first shown to exist experimentally by the German physicist Heinrich Hertz in 1888. In 1883, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1899,", "title": "George Francis FitzGerald" }, { "docid": "344464", "text": "trying to develop a system of communication, some intentionally using these new Hertzian waves, some not. Maxwell's theory showing that light and Hertzian electromagnetic waves were the same phenomenon at different wavelengths led \"Maxwellian\" scientist such as John Perry, Frederick Thomas Trouton and Alexander Trotter to assume they would be analogous to optical signaling and the Serbian American engineer Nikola Tesla to consider them relatively useless for communication since \"light\" could not transmit further than line of sight. In 1892 the physicist William Crookes wrote on the possibilities of wireless telegraphy based on Hertzian waves and in 1893 Tesla proposed", "title": "History of radio" }, { "docid": "6965946", "text": "out up to the end of the year 1886 and the beginning of 1887. For the first time, electromagnetic radio waves (\"Hertzian waves\") were intentionally and unequivocally proven to have been transmitted through free space by a spark-gap device, and detected over a short distance. Hertz was able to have some control over the frequencies of his radiated waves by altering the inductance and capacitance of his transmitting and receiving antennas. He focused the electromagnetic waves using a corner reflector and a parabolic reflector, to demonstrate that radio behaved the same as light, as Maxwell's electromagnetic theory had predicted more", "title": "Invention of radio" }, { "docid": "9961260", "text": "Varian Associates Varian Associates was one of the first high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1948 by Russell H. and Sigurd F. Varian, William Webster Hansen, and Edward Ginzton to sell the klystron, the first vacuum tube which could amplify electromagnetic waves at microwave frequencies, and other electromagnetic equipment. Varian Associates split into three companies in 1999: Varian Medical Systems, Varian, Inc. and Varian Semiconductor. On April 20, 1948, the Articles of Incorporation were filed, signed by nine directors: Edward Ginzton, who had worked with the Varian brothers since his days as a doctoral student; William Webster", "title": "Varian Associates" }, { "docid": "121380", "text": "a transverse wave. The wavefront of electromagnetic waves emitted from a point source (such as a light bulb) is a sphere. The position of an electromagnetic wave within the electromagnetic spectrum can be characterized by either its frequency of oscillation or its wavelength. Electromagnetic waves of different frequency are called by different names since they have different sources and effects on matter. In order of increasing frequency and decreasing wavelength these are: radio waves, microwaves, infrared radiation, visible light, ultraviolet radiation, X-rays and gamma rays. Electromagnetic waves are emitted by electrically charged particles undergoing acceleration, and these waves can subsequently", "title": "Electromagnetic radiation" }, { "docid": "10580134", "text": "Tor Hagfors Tor Hagfors (18 December 1930 – 17 January 2007) was a Norwegian scientist, radio astronomer, radar expert and a pioneer in the studies of the interactions between electromagnetic waves and plasma. In the early 1960s he was one of a handful of pioneering theorists that independently developed a theory that explained the scattering of radio waves by the free electrons in a plasma and applied the result to the ionosphere. He became founding director of the new EISCAT facilities that were then under construction in 1975, by which time he already been director at most of the other", "title": "Tor Hagfors" }, { "docid": "154793", "text": "the transmission of telegraph messages without connecting wires as used by the electric telegraph. This was not a new idea; numerous investigators and inventors had been exploring wireless telegraph technologies and even building systems using electric conduction, electromagnetic induction and optical (light) signalling for over 50 years, but none had proven technically and commercially successful. A relatively new development came from Heinrich Hertz, who, in 1888, demonstrated that one could produce and detect electromagnetic radiation. At the time, this radiation was commonly called \"Hertzian\" waves, and is now generally referred to as radio waves. There was a great deal of", "title": "Guglielmo Marconi" }, { "docid": "1987102", "text": "physicist Heinrich Hertz published the results of his experiments on electromagnetism, which showed the existence of electromagnetic waves in free space. Subsequently, British physicist Oliver Lodge, who had also been researching electromagnetism, conducted a commemorative lecture in August 1894 (after Hertz's death) on the quasi-optical nature of \"Hertzian waves\" (radio waves) and demonstrated their similarity to light and vision including reflection and transmission at distances up to 50 metres. Lodge's work was published in book form and caught the attention of scientists in different countries, including Bose in India. The first remarkable aspect of Bose's follow-up microwave research was that", "title": "Jagadish Chandra Bose" }, { "docid": "13629867", "text": "the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (later renamed Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) as a computer scientist in 1976. He rose through the ranks from senior scientist, staff scientist, chief scientist, to laboratory fellow. In the 1980s, he was a member of the founding team who conceptualized and developed the core concepts for what is today’s William R. Wiley Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE scientific user facility located at PNNL. In the early 1990s, to address the problem of information overload, Thomas headed a team of information technology researchers to develop the SPIRE document Visualization (computer graphics) visualization and analytics system.", "title": "Jim Thomas (computer scientist)" }, { "docid": "14412524", "text": "induce a changing electric field and vice versa—the two are linked. These changing fields form electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic waves differ from mechanical waves in that they do not require a medium to propagate. This means that electromagnetic waves can travel not only through air and solid materials, but also through the vacuum of space. The \"\"history of metamaterials\"\" can have a variety starting points depending on the properties of interest. Related early wave studies started in 1904 and progressed through more than half of the first part of the twentieth century. This early research included the relationship of the phase", "title": "History of metamaterials" }, { "docid": "19635038", "text": "He also studied circular polarization in quartz with Jacques-Louis Soret from 1875. After Soret's death, Sarasin became director of the Archive of Geneva. He received an honorary doctorate from the Universities of Basel in 1885 and Geneva in 1909. Edouard Sarasin Edouard Sarasin (20 May 1843 – 22 July 1917) was an independent scientist in Geneva. Born in a wealthy family, he established a private laboratory where he collaborated with other researchers. His studies included those on the properties of waves, resonance, radiowaves, radiation and geophysics. Sarasin came from a family of French descent who had settled in Geneva in", "title": "Edouard Sarasin" }, { "docid": "129711", "text": "Electromagnetic spectrum The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of frequencies (the spectrum) of electromagnetic radiation and their respective wavelengths and photon energies. The electromagnetic spectrum covers electromagnetic waves with frequencies ranging from below one hertz to above 10 hertz, corresponding to wavelengths from thousands of kilometers down to a fraction of the size of an atomic nucleus. This frequency range is divided into separate bands, and the electromagnetic waves within each frequency band are called by different names; beginning at the low frequency (long wavelength) end of the spectrum these are: radio waves, microwaves, terahertz waves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet,", "title": "Electromagnetic spectrum" }, { "docid": "271287", "text": "research by exposing herself, animals and humans to microwave levels that made them feel warm or even start to sweat and feel quite uncomfortable. She found no adverse health effects other than heat. Microwaves were first generated in the 1880s and 1890s in some of the earliest radio experiments by physicists who thought of them as a form of \"invisible light\". James Clerk Maxwell in his 1873 theory of electromagnetism, now called Maxwell's equations, had predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves and proposed that light was composed of these waves. In 1888, German physicist Heinrich Hertz was the first to", "title": "Microwave" }, { "docid": "20592921", "text": "of that prediction with Helmholtz student Heinrich Hertz's 1888 detection of electromagnetic radiation, was a major triumph for physical theory and raised the possibility that even more fundamental theories based on the field could soon be developed. Experimental confirmation of Maxwell's theory was provided by Hertz, who generated and detected electric waves in 1886 and verified their properties, at the same time foreshadowing their application in radio, television, and other devices. In 1887, Heinrich Hertz discovered the photoelectric effect. Research on the electromagnetic waves began soon after, with many scientists and inventors conducting experiments on their properties. In the mid", "title": "19th century in science" }, { "docid": "2272157", "text": "advancements in all of history was the unification of light, electricity and magnetism through Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. A scientific understanding of electricity was necessary for the development of efficient electric generators, motors and transformers. David Edward Hughes and Heinrich Hertz both demonstrated and confirmed the phenomenon of electromagnetic waves that had been predicted by Maxwell. It was Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi who successfully commercialized radio at the turn of the century. He founded The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in Britain in 1897 and in the same year transmitted Morse code across Salisbury Plain, sent the first ever wireless communication", "title": "Second Industrial Revolution" }, { "docid": "6328271", "text": "the incoming aircraft while the \"Würzburg\" calculated the distance and height. In 1935, Hollmann wrote two books on microwaves, \"Physics and Technique of Ultra-short Waves\" and \"Seeing with Electromagnetic Waves\", which were the inspiration for the development of centimetre radar in other countries despite some censorship of their contents. During the war he supervised many research institutes in occupied countries and saved many scientists from being deported to Germany. His home and his laboratory in Berlin were destroyed during the war. After the war he was not allowed to work on microwaves but he turned his attention to a wide", "title": "Hans Hollmann" }, { "docid": "6952421", "text": "Medical laboratory scientist A medical laboratory scientist (MLS), also traditionally referred to as a clinical laboratory scientist (CLS), is a healthcare professional who performs chemical, hematological, immunologic, histopathological, cytopathological, microscopic, and bacteriological diagnostic analyses on body fluids such as blood, urine, sputum, stool, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), peritoneal fluid, pericardial fluid, and synovial fluid, as well as other specimens. Medical laboratory scientists work in clinical laboratories at hospitals, reference labs, biotechnology labs and non-clinical industrial labs. Educational and licensing requirements vary by country due to differing scopes of practice and legislative differences. In Australia, medical laboratory scientists complete a four-year undergraduate", "title": "Medical laboratory scientist" }, { "docid": "14469856", "text": "supposedly fills all evacuated or non evacuated spaces. The transmission of light or of radiant heat are allowed by the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the ether. Electromagnetic waves have similar characteristics to television and radio broadcasting waves they only differ in wavelength. All electromagnetic waves travel at the same speed; therefore, shorter wavelengths are associated with high frequencies. Since every body or fluid is submerged in the ether, due to the vibration of the molecules, any body or fluid can potentially initiate an electromagnetic wave. All bodies generate and receive electromagnetic waves at the expense of its stored energy", "title": "Radiation properties" }, { "docid": "9973970", "text": "Allan Carswell Allan Ian Carswell, CM, FRSC (born 1933) is an internationally recognized leader in the field of laser radar (lidar) applications since the technology's beginning in the early 1960s. Carswell has been actively engaged in the study of the properties and applications of lasers and coherent optical frequency radiation since 1963. He was a member of the Plasma Physics Laboratory at the RCA Victor Research Laboratories in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, studying electromagnetic waves with ionized gas systems. In 1965 Carswell was appointed Director of the RCA Optical and Microwave Research Laboratory, and led the group there that developed the", "title": "Allan Carswell" }, { "docid": "14642078", "text": "Gideon's Sword Gideon's Sword is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It was released on February 22, 2011 by Grand Central Publishing. The book is the first installment in the Gideon Crew series. The novel was optioned by Bay Films and will be produced by Michael Bay. The story introduces Gideon Crew, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who is also a former art thief/master-of-disguise. He learns from his mother that his mathematician father—who had developed a flawed encryption—had actually warned his boss about the flaws, only to be murdered. Gideon exacts revenge from his father's murderer.", "title": "Gideon's Sword" }, { "docid": "18145373", "text": "headed by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Leontovich at LIPAN (Laboratory of Measuring Instruments of the USSR Academy of Sciences) as today's Russian Research Centre \"Kurchatov Institute\" was known at the time. He examined tokamaks stability and gave some parameter estimation for Soviet tokamak experiments. He also dealt with shock waves in plasmas and interaction of electromagnetic waves with plasmas. Later, he worked intensively on stellarators. In 1981 he became the successor of Leontovich as head of the Theory Department of Nuclear Fusion at the Kurchatov Institute. Concepts such as the Shafranov shift (1959), the Kruskal-Shafranov stability criterion and limit value and the", "title": "Vitaly Shafranov" }, { "docid": "20613823", "text": "to engineer negative permittivity and permeability, instead, one should just ensure proper chiral response of the material. In the extreme case of so-called chiral nihility (when both relative permittivity and permeability are much smaller than the chirality parameter), two eigenwaves represent \"forward\" and \"backward\" circularly polarized waves with equal phase velocities. The existence of backward waves in chiral media was independently suggested by John Pendry in 2004. Inspired by the idea of transformation-optics based electromagnetic cloaking, Tretyakov's team developed an alternative realization of the same effect for cylindrical objects. In contrast to the previous designs, Tretyakov's cloaking device exhibits significantly", "title": "Sergei Tretyakov (scientist)" }, { "docid": "121379", "text": "Electromagnetic radiation In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EM radiation or EMR) refers to the waves (or their quanta, photons) of the electromagnetic field, propagating (radiating) through space, carrying electromagnetic radiant energy. It includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, (visible) light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. Classically, electromagnetic radiation consists of electromagnetic waves, which are synchronized oscillations of electric and magnetic fields that propagate at the speed of light, which, in a vacuum, is commonly denoted \"c\". In homogeneous, isotropic media, the oscillations of the two fields are perpendicular to each other and perpendicular to the direction of energy and wave propagation, forming", "title": "Electromagnetic radiation" }, { "docid": "2392770", "text": "Sir Oliver Lodge. During the absence of Oliver Lodge due to ill health, Barkla would replace him in lectures. In 1899 Barkla was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, with an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, to work in the Cavendish Laboratory under the physicist J. J. Thomson (discoverer of the electron). During his first two years at Cambridge, Barkla would, under the directions of Thomson, study the velocity of electromagnetic waves along wires of different widths and materials. After a year and a half at Trinity College, Cambridge, his love of music led", "title": "Charles Glover Barkla" }, { "docid": "6952464", "text": "doctors, due to the sometimes complex nature of the role. Medical laboratory scientist A medical laboratory scientist (MLS), also traditionally referred to as a clinical laboratory scientist (CLS), is a healthcare professional who performs chemical, hematological, immunologic, histopathological, cytopathological, microscopic, and bacteriological diagnostic analyses on body fluids such as blood, urine, sputum, stool, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), peritoneal fluid, pericardial fluid, and synovial fluid, as well as other specimens. Medical laboratory scientists work in clinical laboratories at hospitals, reference labs, biotechnology labs and non-clinical industrial labs. Educational and licensing requirements vary by country due to differing scopes of practice and legislative", "title": "Medical laboratory scientist" }, { "docid": "303041", "text": "is scattered by dense and turbulent gases, and thus delayed. The neutrino burst is expected to reach Earth before any electromagnetic waves, including visible light, gamma rays, or radio waves. The exact time delay of the electromagnetic waves' arrivals depends on the velocity of the shock wave and on the thickness of the outer layer of the star. For a Type II supernova, astronomers expect the neutrino flood to be released seconds after the stellar core collapse, while the first electromagnetic signal may emerge hours later, after the explosion shock wave has had time to reach the surface of the", "title": "Neutrino" }, { "docid": "7008548", "text": "non-radiative dielectric waveguides and the Goubau line, use both metal walls and dielectric surfaces to confine the wave. During the 1890s theorists did the first analyses of electromagnetic waves in ducts. Around 1893 J. J. Thomson derived the electromagnetic modes inside a cylindrical metal cavity. In 1897 Lord Rayleigh did a definitive analysis of waveguides; he solved the boundary-value problem of electromagnetic waves propagating through both conducting tubes and dielectric rods of arbitrary shape. He showed that the waves could travel without attenuation only in specific normal modes with either the electric field (TE modes) or magnetic field (TM modes),", "title": "Waveguide (electromagnetism)" }, { "docid": "7455747", "text": "for the system. Edison did not develop the patent commercially but according to his former assistant Francis Jehl, sold it to Guglielmo Marconi who developed it into radio. Etheric force Etheric force is a term Thomas Edison coined to describe a phenomenon later understood as high frequency electromagnetic waves—effectively, radio. Edison believed it was the mysterious force that some believed pervaded the ether. At the end of 1875, Edison and his assistants were experimenting with the Acoustic Telegraph when they noticed that a rapidly vibrating spark gap produced a spark in an adjacent relay. Subsequent investigation showed that the phenomenon", "title": "Etheric force" }, { "docid": "346508", "text": "radars, except when their detection is intended. Radar relies on its own transmissions rather than light from the Sun or the Moon, or from electromagnetic waves emitted by the objects themselves, such as infrared wavelengths (heat). This process of directing artificial radio waves towards objects is called \"illumination\", although radio waves are invisible to the human eye or optical cameras. If electromagnetic waves travelling through one material meet another material, having a different dielectric constant or diamagnetic constant from the first, the waves will reflect or scatter from the boundary between the materials. This means that a solid object in", "title": "Radar" }, { "docid": "656947", "text": "magnetic field. The distribution of telluric current density can be used to detect variations in electrical resistivity of underground structures. Geophysicists can also provide the electric current themselves (see induced polarization and electrical resistivity tomography). Electromagnetic waves occur in the ionosphere and magnetosphere as well as the Earth's outer core. Dawn chorus is believed to be caused by high-energy electrons that get caught in the Van Allen radiation belt. Whistlers are produced by lightning strikes. Hiss may be generated by both. Electromagnetic waves may also be generated by earthquakes (see seismo-electromagnetics). In the highly conductive liquid iron of the outer", "title": "Geophysics" }, { "docid": "8769329", "text": "Center in Princeton, New Jersey and scientist at Elcon Laboratory, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1961 to 1965 Uman was associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Arizona in Tucson. At Arizona Uman taught and conducted research in electromagnetics and gaseous electronics and became interested in the physics of lightning. From 1965 to 1971 Uman was fellow physicist at Westinghouse Research Labs in Pittsburgh. There he studied the physical and electromagnetic aspects of lightning and long laboratory sparks. In 1971 Uman became a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida in", "title": "Martin A. Uman" }, { "docid": "1294839", "text": "Royal Society, have used the Proca equation in an attempt to demonstrate photon mass as a longitudinal electromagnetic component of Maxwell's equations, suggesting that longitudinal electromagnetic waves could exist in a Dirac polarized vacuum. After Heaviside's attempts to generalize Maxwell's equations, Heaviside came to the conclusion that electromagnetic waves were not to be found as longitudinal waves in \"\"free space\"\" or homogeneous media. But Maxwell's equations do lead to the appearance of longitudinal waves under some circumstances, for example, in plasma waves or guided waves. Basically distinct from the \"free-space\" waves, such as those studied by Hertz in his UHF", "title": "Longitudinal wave" }, { "docid": "15351807", "text": "radio and satellite communications. Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum longer than infrared light. Like all other electromagnetic waves, they travel at the speed of light. Naturally occurring radio waves are made by lightning, or by astronomical objects. Artificially generated radio waves are used for fixed and mobile radio communication, broadcasting, radar and other navigation systems, satellite communication, computer networks and innumerable other applications. Different frequencies of radio waves have different propagation characteristics in the Earth's atmosphere; long waves may cover a part of the Earth very consistently, shorter waves can reflect", "title": "Non-ionizing radiation" }, { "docid": "11471453", "text": "can be used for both transmitting and receiving, even simultaneously, depending on the connected equipment. Once generated, electromagnetic waves travel through space either directly, or have their path altered by reflection, refraction or diffraction. The intensity of the waves diminishes due to geometric dispersion (the inverse-square law); some energy may also be absorbed by the intervening medium in some cases. Noise will generally alter the desired signal; this electromagnetic interference comes from natural sources, as well as from artificial sources such as other transmitters and accidental radiators. Noise is also produced at every step due to the inherent properties of", "title": "Radio" }, { "docid": "174970", "text": "the existence of airborne electromagnetic waves led to an explosion of experimentation with this new form of electromagnetic radiation, which was called \"Hertzian waves\" until around 1910 when the term \"radio waves\" became current. Within 10 years researchers such as Oliver Lodge, Ferdinand Braun, and Guglielmo Marconi employed radio waves in the first wireless telegraphy radio communication systems, leading to radio broadcasting, and later television. Today radio is an essential technology in global telecommunication networks, and the transmission medium underlying modern wireless devices. In 1892, Hertz began experimenting and demonstrated that cathode rays could penetrate very thin metal foil (such", "title": "Heinrich Hertz" }, { "docid": "4774034", "text": "steamships – prevented the British and French Allies from occupying Hangö, Sveaborg, and Saint Petersburg. Despite being greatly outnumbered by the technologically superior Allies, it was the Russian Fleet that introduced into naval warfare such novelties as torpedo mines, invented by Boris Yakobi. Other outstanding inventors who served in the Baltic Fleet were Alexander Stepanovich Popov (who was the first to demonstrate the practical application of electromagnetic (radio) waves), Stepan Makarov (the first to launch torpedoes from a boat), Alexei Krylov (author of the modern ship floodability theory), and Alexander Mozhaiski (co-inventor of aircraft). As early as 1861, the first", "title": "Baltic Fleet" }, { "docid": "7593227", "text": "open systems interacting with electromagnetic waves or various kinds of fields. Most famous propellantless methods are the gravity assist maneuver or gravitational slingshot of a spacecraft accelerating at the expense of the momentum of the planet it orbits, through the gravitational field, or beam-powered propulsion using the radiation pressure of electromagnetic waves from a distant source like a laser. More speculative methods have also been proposed, like the Woodward effect, the quantum vacuum plasma thruster or various hypotheses trying to explain the thrust apparently produced by the EmDrive. Because there is no well-defined \"center of mass\" in curved spacetime, general", "title": "Reactionless drive" }, { "docid": "13638413", "text": "three main components: the main ovals, which are bright, narrow (< 1000 km in width) circular features located at approximately 16° from the magnetic poles; the satellite auroral spots, which correspond to the footprints of the magnetic field lines connecting their ionospheres with the ionosphere of Jupiter, and transient polar emissions situated within the main ovals. The auroral emissions were detected in almost all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum from radio waves to X-rays (up to 3 keV). The X-ray monitor of Solwind, designated NRL-608 or XMON, was a collaboration between the Naval Research Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory.", "title": "X-ray transient" }, { "docid": "11325416", "text": "discovered electromagnetic emissions stimulated by powerful radio waves in the ionosphere during experiments in August 1981 at the EISCAT facility in Tromsø, Norway. For the first time it was shown that the plasma turbulence excited by powerful radio waves in the ionosphere radiates secondary electromagnetic radiation that can be detected and analysed on the ground. These stimulated electromagnetic emissions (SEE) exhibit a rich spectral structure, particularly near harmonics of the ionospheric electron gyro frequency. The SEE technique is now a useful tool in plasma turbulence research. For his discovery, Thidé was awarded the Edlund Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy", "title": "Bo Thidé" }, { "docid": "5491476", "text": "Company, and the results were covered up by STC's chairman Sir Frank Gill to maintain Bell's reputation. An early voice communicating device was invented around 1854 by Antonio Meucci, who called it a \"telettrofono\". In 1871 Meucci filed a caveat at the US Patent Office. His caveat describes his invention, but does not mention a diaphragm, electromagnet, conversion of sound into electrical waves, conversion of electrical waves into sound, or other essential features of an electromagnetic telephone. The first American demonstration of Meucci's invention took place in Staten Island, New York in 1854. In 1861, a description of it was", "title": "Invention of the telephone" }, { "docid": "6642989", "text": "Aleksandr Stoletov Alexander Grigorievich Stoletov (; 10 August 1839 – 27 May 1896) was a Russian physicist, founder of electrical engineering, and professor in Moscow University. He was the brother of general Nikolai Stoletov. Alexander Stoletov defended his doctoral dissertation in 1872 and became professor at Moscow University a year later. After defending his dissertation he became a renowned scientist worldwide. He attended the opening ceremony of the physical laboratory in Cambridge in 1874, and represented Russia at the first World Congress of Electricity in Paris in 1881, where he presented his work on links between electrostatic and electromagnetic values.", "title": "Aleksandr Stoletov" }, { "docid": "1176250", "text": "of the new Cavendish Laboratory is known for its inscription from the Book of Psalms in the Bible: \"The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.\" The department is named to commemorate British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish for contributions to science and his relative William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, who served as chancellor of the university and donated money for the construction of the laboratory. Professor James Clerk Maxwell, the developer of electromagnetic theory, was a founder of the lab and became the first Cavendish Professor of Physics. The Duke", "title": "Cavendish Laboratory" }, { "docid": "2031355", "text": "method from damped wave signals produced by earlier \"spark gap\" type transmitters. Very early radio transmitters used a spark gap to produce radio-frequency oscillations in the transmitting antenna. The signals produced by these spark-gap transmitters consisted of strings of brief pulses of sinusoidal radio frequency oscillations which died out rapidly to zero, called damped waves. The disadvantage of damped waves was that their energy was spread over an extremely wide band of frequencies; they had wide bandwidth. As a result, they produced electromagnetic interference (RFI) that spread over the transmissions of stations at other frequencies. This motivated efforts to produce", "title": "Continuous wave" }, { "docid": "10976182", "text": "Vibe Technologies had a Class I recall that was completed in 2012 Other ineffectual EMT therapy devices that have been marketed include: Radionics Radionics (also called electromagnetic therapy (EMT)) is a form of alternative medicine that claims disease can be diagnosed and treated by applying electromagnetic radiation (EMR), such as radio waves, to the body from an electrically powered device. It is similar to magnet therapy which also applies EMR to the body, but using a magnet that generates a static electromagnetic field. The concept behind radionics originated in the early 1900s with Albert Abrams (1864–1924), who became a millionaire", "title": "Radionics" }, { "docid": "14394498", "text": "Sea interferometry Sea interferometry, also known as Sea-cliff interferometry, is a form of radio astronomy that uses radio waves reflected off the sea to produce an interference pattern. It is the radio wave analogue to Lloyd's mirror. The technique was invented and exploited in Australia between 1945 and 1948. A radio detecting aerial is placed on top of a cliff, which detects electromagnetic waves coming directly from the source and waves reflected off the water surface. The two sets of waves are then combined to form an interference pattern such as that produced by two separate aerials. The reflected wavefront", "title": "Sea interferometry" }, { "docid": "3178495", "text": "Administration compiled a catalogue of more than 50 historical incidents probably associated with rogue waves. In 1826, French scientist and naval officer Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville reported waves as high as in the Indian Ocean with three colleagues as witnesses, yet he was publicly ridiculed by fellow scientist François Arago. In that era it was widely held that no wave could exceed . Author Susan Casey wrote that much of that disbelief came because there were very few people who had seen a rogue wave, and until the advent of steel double-hulled ships of the 20th century \"people who encountered", "title": "Rogue wave" }, { "docid": "14049761", "text": "soon realized that this could better be done using electromagnetic waves. In 1917, the Army established the Signal Corps Radio Laboratories at Camp Vail, in eastern New Jersey. After the war, this became Fort Vail, then in 1925, it was renamed Fort Monmouth. In 1926, Blair was assigned as the Chief of Research and Engineering. Coupling capabilities in electronics and meteorology, in 1929 the Laboratory developed and launched the first radio-equipped weather balloon. Going into the 1930s, the Great Depression with declining economic conditions led the Signal Corps to consolidate their widespread laboratories to Fort Monmouth. On June 30, 1930,", "title": "William R. Blair" }, { "docid": "15491072", "text": "lectures on electromagnetic theory inspired Scaife. After graduation, he began research into the properties of insulating materials under Tropper's direction. Scaife's doctoral research broke new ground in the study of dielectrics. Brendan Scaife was the first scientist to successfully measure the complex permittivity of a number of polar liquids such as eugenol, glycerol and water as a function of pressure up to 12 kbar. This is published in a research note in Proc. Phys. Soc. B, 68 (1955) 790. Up to that time, Chan and Danforth working in Bridgman's laboratory in the USA, had measured essentially the equilibrium relative permittivity", "title": "Brendan Scaife" }, { "docid": "3972679", "text": "the ship was sinking. They played a crucial role in maritime rescues such as the 1912 RMS \"Titanic\" disaster. After World War 1, transmitters based on vacuum tubes were developed, which were cheaper and produced continuous waves which had a greater range, produced less interference, and could also carry audio, making spark transmitters obsolete by 1920. The radio signals produced by spark-gap transmitters are electrically \"noisy\"; they have a wide bandwidth, creating radio frequency interference (RFI) that can disrupt other radio transmissions. This type of radio emission has been prohibited by international law since 1934. Electromagnetic waves are radiated by", "title": "Spark-gap transmitter" }, { "docid": "10777643", "text": "Code-E Code-E is a Japanese anime television series animated by Studio Deen. It is based on an original concept by Ichirō Sakaki and directed by Toshiyuki Katō. The first season consists of twelve episodes and first aired in Japan from July 3, 2007 to September 23, 2007. A second season titled Mission-E aired between July 7, 2008 and September 22, 2008. Chinami Ebihara is a high school student who emits electromagnetic waves when her emotions run wild. The waves affects electronics such as cell phones, televisions, and computers. Her ability forces her family to move from one location to another.", "title": "Code-E" }, { "docid": "17843471", "text": "Essam Heggy Essam Heggy ( ) is an Egyptian space scientist. Heggy obtained his Ph.D. in astronomy and planetary science in 2002 with distinguished honors from the Sorbonne University in Paris. His main science interests in space and planetary geophysics covers Mars, the Moon, icy satellites and near-Earth objects. His research involves probing structural, hydrological and volcanic elements in terrestrial and planetary environments using different types of radar imaging and sounding techniques as well as measuring the electromagnetic properties of rocks in the radar frequency range. His research expertise span from laboratory electromagnetic characterization of planetary analog materials, Radar sounding", "title": "Essam Heggy" }, { "docid": "9451890", "text": "speed of electromagnetic waves in a low-loss dielectric is given by where The speed of electromagnetic waves in a good conductor is given by where In copper at 60 Hz, formula_23 3.2 m/s. Some sprinters can run more than three times as fast. As a consequence of Snell's Law and the extremely low speed, electromagnetic waves always enter good conductors in a direction that is normal to the surface, regardless of the angle of incidence. This velocity is the speed with which electromagnetic waves penetrate into the conductor and is not the drift velocity of the conduction electrons. In the", "title": "Speed of electricity" }, { "docid": "14977776", "text": "from her position as Chief Scientist of the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate at the United States Army Research Laboratory(ARL). Ulery was among the first group of female managers at the US Army Research Laboratory. In these positions, she was also appointed Chair of the US Army Materiel Command Knowledge Management Council, and in 2002 was awarded the Army Knowledge Award for Best Transformation Initiative. She is listed in American Men and Women of Science, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in the East, Who’s Who in the World, and Who’s Who in America. She was named a Lifetime", "title": "Dana Ulery" }, { "docid": "958486", "text": "Radio wave Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum longer than infrared light. Radio waves have frequencies as high as 300 gigahertz (GHz) to as low as 30 hertz (Hz). At 300 GHz, the corresponding wavelength is 1 mm, and at 30 Hz is 10,000 km. Like all other electromagnetic waves, radio waves travel at the speed of light. They are generated by electric charges undergoing acceleration, such as time varying electric currents. Naturally occurring radio waves are emitted by lightning and astronomical objects. Radio waves are generated artificially by transmitters and received", "title": "Radio wave" }, { "docid": "8268755", "text": "themselves the task of experimentally demonstrating the truth of the theory. By 1871, he presented the \"Remarks on the mathematical classification of physical quantities\". In 1887, the German physicist Heinrich Hertz in a series of experiments proved the actual existence of electromagnetic waves, showing that transverse free space electromagnetic waves can travel over some distance as predicted by Maxwell and Faraday. Hertz published his work in a book titled: \"Electric waves: being researches on the propagation of electric action with finite velocity through space\". The discovery of electromagnetic waves in space led to the development of radio in the closing", "title": "History of electromagnetic theory" }, { "docid": "19466487", "text": "magnetic field created by charged particles moving along a medium. For example, radio waves are emitted by electricity moving along a radio transmitter, or even from a satellite. In the case of electromagnetic side-channel attacks, attackers are often looking at electromagnetic radiation emitted by computing devices, which are made up of circuits. Electronic circuits consist of semiconducting materials upon which billions of transistors are placed. When a computer performs computations, such as encryption, electricity running through the transistors create a magnetic field and electromagnetic waves are emitted. Electromagnetic waves can be captured using an induction coil and an analog to", "title": "Electromagnetic attack" }, { "docid": "695586", "text": "approach to quantifying autonomous capabilities is based on OODA terminology, as suggested by a 2002 US Air Force Research Laboratory, and used in the table below: Reactive autonomy, such as collective flight, real-time collision avoidance, wall following and corridor centring, relies on telecommunication and situational awareness provided by range sensors: optic flow, lidars (light radars), radars, sonars. Most range sensors analyze electromagnetic radiation, reflected off the environment and coming to the sensor. The cameras (for visual flow) act as simple receivers. Lidars, radars and sonars (with sound mechanical waves) emit and receive waves, measuring the round-trip transit time. UAV cameras", "title": "Unmanned aerial vehicle" }, { "docid": "14597182", "text": "electronic or mechanical components up to large earthquakes. Although most progress has been made on mathematical and theoretical solutions, a laboratory metamaterial device for evading sonar has been recently demonstrated. It can be applied to sound wavelengths from 40 to 80 kHz. Waves also apply to bodies of water. A theory has been developed for a cloak that could \"hide\", or protect, man-made platforms, ships, and natural coastlines from destructive ocean waves, including tsunamis. Theories of cloaking Theories of cloaking discusses various theories based on science and research, for producing an electromagnetic cloaking device. Theories presented employ transformation optics, event", "title": "Theories of cloaking" }, { "docid": "20191923", "text": "that the numerical value of this ratio was equal to the speed of electromagnetic waves. Maxwell recognised that the speed of electromagnetic waves (as derived from his equations) was also equal to the speed of light as measured by Fizeau and as previously measured in the 17th century by Ole Roemer. In his 1865 paper, Maxwell stated the immortal words \"“…it seems we have strong reason to conclude that light itself (including radiant heat and other radiations if any) is an electromagnetic disturbance in the form of waves propagated …according the electromagnetic laws”\". This was stated by the Nobel Laureate", "title": "James Clerk Maxwell Foundation" }, { "docid": "3097208", "text": "Pana Wave The Pana-Wave Laboratory () is a Japanese new religious group or \"Shinshūkyō\". Estimates of membership range from several hundred to 1,200. Pana-Wave is an offshoot of a religious group called Chino-Shoho (\"True Law of Chino\") based in Shibuya, Tokyo, founded by a woman called Yuko Chino in 1977 and combining elements of Christianity, Buddhism and New Age doctrines. In the mid 1980s, members calling themselves the \"scientific faction\", and warning of the evils of electromagnetic waves (which the group claimed were causing catastrophic environmental destruction and climate change) built the Pana-Wave Laboratory in Fukui Prefecture in an area", "title": "Pana Wave" }, { "docid": "3972690", "text": "built the first experimental spark gap transmitters during his historic experiments to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell in 1864, in which he discovered radio waves, See circuit diagram. Hertz's transmitters consisted of a dipole antenna made of a pair of collinear metal rods of various lengths with a spark gap \"(S)\" between their inner ends and metal balls or plates for capacitance \"(C)\" attached to the outer ends. The two sides of the antenna were connected to an induction coil (Ruhmkorff coil) \"(T)\" a common lab power source which produced pulses of high voltage,", "title": "Spark-gap transmitter" }, { "docid": "121403", "text": "vary in size, from very long radio waves the size of buildings to very short gamma rays smaller than atom nuclei. Frequency is inversely proportional to wavelength, according to the equation: where \"v\" is the speed of the wave (\"c\" in a vacuum, or less in other media), \"f\" is the frequency and λ is the wavelength. As waves cross boundaries between different media, their speeds change but their frequencies remain constant. Electromagnetic waves in free space must be solutions of Maxwell's electromagnetic wave equation. Two main classes of solutions are known, namely plane waves and spherical waves. The plane", "title": "Electromagnetic radiation" }, { "docid": "467681", "text": "as their ionization of gases, caused William Henry Bragg to argue in 1907 that X-rays were \"not\" electromagnetic radiation. Nevertheless, Bragg's view was not broadly accepted and the observation of X-ray diffraction by Max von Laue in 1912 confirmed for most scientists that X-rays were a form of electromagnetic radiation. Crystals are regular arrays of atoms, and X-rays can be considered waves of electromagnetic radiation. Atoms scatter X-ray waves, primarily through the atoms' electrons. Just as an ocean wave striking a lighthouse produces secondary circular waves emanating from the lighthouse, so an X-ray striking an electron produces secondary spherical waves", "title": "X-ray crystallography" }, { "docid": "7192053", "text": "electromagnetic waves propagate along null geodesics of the physical spacetime (as defined by the metric determined from geometrical measurements and timing experiments), while gravitational waves propagate along null geodesics of a \"flat background\" represented by the metric tensor of Minkowski spacetime. The gravitational potential can be expressed entirely in terms of waves retarded along the background metric, like the Liénard–Wiechert potential in electromagnetic theory. A cosmological constant can be introduced by changing the background metric to a de Sitter or anti-de Sitter metric. This was first suggested by G. Temple in 1923. Temple's suggestions on how to do this were", "title": "Whitehead's theory of gravitation" }, { "docid": "122655", "text": "(rather, it is indirectly produced by a sequences of changes in fields radiating out from them in the past). EMR consists of the radiations in the electromagnetic spectrum, including radio waves, microwave, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, and gamma rays. The many commercial applications of these radiations are discussed in the named and linked articles. A notable application of visible light is that this type of energy from the Sun powers all life on Earth that either makes or uses oxygen. A changing electromagnetic field which is physically close to currents and charges (see near and far field for", "title": "Electromagnetic field" }, { "docid": "11471440", "text": "Radio Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width. When radio waves strike an electrical conductor, the oscillating fields induce an alternating current in the conductor. The information in the waves can be extracted and transformed back into its original form. Radio systems need a transmitter to modulate (change) some property of the energy produced to impress a signal on it, for example using amplitude modulation or angle modulation (which can be frequency modulation", "title": "Radio" } ]

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First Lady Nancy Reagan was also enthusiastic about \"Air Force One\", recalling the first time she flew on the plane, \"Ronnie read reports and attended to paperwork, while I kept busy writing letters to friends back home on \"Air Force One\" letterhead. Look at me, I'm flying on \"Air Force One\"!\" The Reagans' last flight aboard the plane was on January 20, 1989, when the now-former President and First", "title": "VC-137C SAM 27000" }, { "docid": "502823", "text": "he preached to the miners of Kingswood, outside Bristol, in the open air. Because he was returning to Georgia he invited John Wesley to take over his Bristol congregations, and to preach in the open air for the first time at Kingswood and then at Blackheath, London. Whitefield accepted the Church of England's doctrine of predestination and disagreed with the Wesley brothers' views on the doctrine of the atonement, Arminianism. As a result, Whitefield did what his friends hoped he would not do—hand over the entire ministry to John Wesley. Whitefield formed and was the president of the first Methodist", "title": "George Whitefield" }, { "docid": "8769521", "text": "of the crew did not survive the encounter. In February 1943 Post stunned two friends with the admission that he thought he was going to die. He had been selected to accompany bomber missions with the 8th U.S. Air Force and would soon be departing for Germany. Post's friends, actress Leonora Corbett and war correspondent Helen Millbank of the \"Chicago Daily News\", tried to reassure him, but Post insisted he wasn't coming back. At the time, Post had been trying to hitch a ride on a bomber for two years, first with the RAF and later with the U.S. Army", "title": "Robert Post (journalist)" }, { "docid": "18294858", "text": "Will Ludford Will Ludford is a Blues/Rock guitarist. He was born in Dublin on 19 September 1948 and moved to the United Kingdom when he was 5 years of age .The family lived on an American air base in Wing Buckinghamshire where his father worked. When Will was 7 the family moved to Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire]] and Will went to Brooklands school. Will has been playing guitar for some time, starting in his first band in Leighton Buzzard with school friends. They played at local school functions and friends parties. They played music by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi", "title": "Will Ludford" }, { "docid": "9641626", "text": "followed and Teletoon aired the show's last episode in June 2007. The series' final episodes did not air in the United States until 2008 when several episodes which had yet to be broadcast in America were aired on Noggin. The show continued to air on Nick Jr. after its cancellation until September 12, 2014, when the show was pulled from the channel's daily lineup. The show would then be available on the Noggin streaming service until 2018. The same year, Qubo announced they would start airing reruns of the show beginning October 1st. Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends Miss Spider's", "title": "Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends" }, { "docid": "10919664", "text": "be a fighter pilot but Beckh had no particular aptitude for flying. By the time World War II broke out he had already occupied several positions on the General Staff and because of his age did not fly any combat sorties. Instead, he was lecturing at the Air War Academy. It was during 1940 as Jägerverbindungsoffizier in the Luftgaukommando Wiesbaden (fighter communications or liaison officer) that he became close friends with Werner Mölders, the two men served in Jagdgeschwader 134 \"Horst Wessel\". When Mölders became Geschwaderkommodore of JG 51 on 27 July 1940 he arranged for Beckh to transfer to", "title": "Friedrich Beckh" }, { "docid": "7827535", "text": "reflected when talent appears on screen, the Big Ten on ABC logo and branding is used for intro, program IDs, and replay wipes. This is the first time any regularly schedule sporting event outside of the National Spelling Bee has carried any ABC branding since 2006. \"All rankings are from that week's AP Poll. \"ABC did not air games on either October 21 or October 28 to avoid competing with the World Series.\" \"ABC did not air games on either September 8 or October 13 due to broadcasts of NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series races. \"ABC did not air games on", "title": "Saturday Night Football" }, { "docid": "7825331", "text": "as a student at the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation's flying school and flew for the first time on April 9, 1922, when he took to the air as a passenger in a two-seat Lincoln Standard \"Tourabout\" biplane piloted by Timm.Later, on April 16 and 17, Lindbergh, as a student pilot, had two more flights with Timm. The two remained friends, and when Timm built another Curtiss Pusher for film use in 1925, Lindbergh later bought it and stunt-flew it during the 1928 International Air Tournament. He built another one-off design in 1926, the two-place monoplane Collegiate. In 1922, Timm founded the", "title": "Otto Timm" }, { "docid": "4105085", "text": "show and suggesting Thomas contact the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts for a replacement. Thomas did just that and became connected with Roy Brown in this way. Roy Brown became the graphic artist for the show; he and Thomas quickly redesigned the Garfield puppet. Although Brown was still an art student and had no previous experience as a puppeteer when Thomas hired him for the show, Brown's talents for this type of work were quickly visible. Years after the program had left the air, Brown talked about his time working with Thomas, whom he described as a perfectionist. During those", "title": "Garfield Goose and Friends" }, { "docid": "9521813", "text": "plane, used at that time by Israeli air force. The first prototype Arava made its maiden flight on 27 November 1969, after 92 flights it was destroyed when a wing strut experienced flutter and failed during flight testing on 19 November 1970. The second prototype flew for the first time on 8 May 1971. In October 1973 three aircraft were leased for use by Squadron 122 in the Yom Kippur War, but were returned afterwards. The Israeli Air Force did not purchase the aircraft until 1983, when nine aircraft were bought. Production ended in 1988. 103 aircraft were produced, including", "title": "IAI Arava" }, { "docid": "9091793", "text": "carrier Ryūjō and her aircraft unit, until two destroyers were added in August. (At its inception, First Air Fleet did not include Third Kōkū Sentai and it did not include it on 7 December 1941. Third Kōkū Sentai (3rd Carrier Division, see table below) was attached to First Fleet, as distinct from First Air Fleet. On 1 April 1942, Third Kōkū Sentai was disbanded.) See the table titled \"Transition\", below. When formed on 10 April 1941, First Air Fleet was a naval battlegroup with the single most powerful concentration of carrier-based aircraft in the world at the time. Military historian", "title": "1st Air Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)" }, { "docid": "12838983", "text": "on Disney Junior from its launch in 2012, but was pulled off the air in May 2014. In this series, Timmy and his friends have to learn to share, make friends and accept their mistakes. They are supervised by two teachers, Harriet the Heron and Osbourne the Owl. The show is aimed at pre school aged children, which the company described as \"a natural step for Aardman\". The show is made up of ten minute episodes, which do not feature much dialogue, much like \"Shaun the Sheep\". Shaun, his friends, Bitzer and the Farmer did not appear. A filming of", "title": "Timmy Time" }, { "docid": "3248258", "text": "particularly the scene where Ross greets Rachel and opens an umbrella on her. The episode was syndicated for the first time on September 21, 1998. Several deleted scenes were restored to the episode, bringing its total running time to 37 minutes, for a one-hour timeslot. It gained a rating of 5.8/10, averaged across 40 stations. This made \"Friends\" the third-highest-rated off-network syndicated sitcom to air at that time, behind \"Home Improvement\" and \"Seinfeld\". Video Books The Pilot (Friends) The Pilot, also known as \"The One Where It All Began\", \"The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate\" and “The First One”,", "title": "The Pilot (Friends)" }, { "docid": "3522925", "text": "morning he would walk through the grounds to his office in the Priory. Dowding would often meet General Frederick Alfred Pile, who was the General Officer Commanding Anti-Aircraft Command, who was walking from his home, Glenthorn. The pair, who were firm friends, would use the time to talk about the war and other subjects. Dowding left visits to other stations in Fighter Command to his Staff Officers as he was much occupied with the work in his Priory office. However, he did pay regular night-time visits to research establishments and the air defences around London when The Blitz started in", "title": "RAF Bentley Priory" }, { "docid": "15589289", "text": "work together until they wrote three unrecorded songs in 1978. They then did not write together again until a reunion in 1989, when they wrote two songs - \"How Can I Love You\" which remains unrecorded, and \"Sunny Weather Lover\" which was eventually recorded by Dionne Warwick for her 1993 album \"Friends Can Be Lovers\". All songs written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David For the First Time (Stephanie Mills album) For the First Time is the second album by Stephanie Mills. Released in 1975 on the Motown label. Produced by Burt Bacharach and Hal David; directed by Phil Ramone.", "title": "For the First Time (Stephanie Mills album)" }, { "docid": "11526261", "text": "Gimpl has won many medals in Big Air in many different places. Stefan Gimpl won first place in Quebec City, on North American soil for the first time in five years. Stefan Gimpl Stefan Gimpl (Leogang, October 31, 1979) is a professional snowboarder from Austria. His specialty is the big air and he is the only rider so far who has won the Air & Style Contest three times in a row. In 2006 Stefan gimpl won his first gold medal in Big Air and he did not get another until 2008 when he won three gold medals in a", "title": "Stefan Gimpl" }, { "docid": "6179257", "text": "the influence or necessity of the Holy Spirit, Gurney placed the two as separate influences. He encouraged Friends to participate in government, including voting in elections (at the time, most Friends did not participate in politics). Gurney had decided as a young man not to wear the traditional Quaker clothing, stating once that he only wore a broad-brimmed hat one day of his life. He was a powerful minister and a prolific writer. Travelling among Orthodox Friends at a time when ministers were considered to be examples for the youth, he provided an example which was troubling to those Friends", "title": "Conservative Friends" }, { "docid": "9835041", "text": "joins the ladies in blue, yellow, and orange. She starts by describing them as three friends who shared every aspect of their lives. They remember a time when they all were attracted to the same man, but he only could choose one of them. The one who he chose loved him, but worried if her friends could hold out. One day she found the rose she left on his pillow on her friend's desk. The friend said she did not know what was going on, because the man said he was free. The three friends did not want to hurt", "title": "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf" }, { "docid": "18205039", "text": "same time as two of her best friends. When she sent off to an agent the idea for a book about three Yorkshire women who fall pregnant at the same time, based on her own experience of joining 'a club' of women in the know after having had babies, and the experiences derived from her parentcraft classes, she secured her first two-book deal with Simon and Schuster. Her first novel, \"The Yorkshire Pudding Club\" was published in 2007 and launched her unique style of humour and heart onto the market. The book title did not translate well when it was", "title": "Milly Johnson" }, { "docid": "6848782", "text": "\"Celebrity Big Brother\" began as a one-time spin-off series to the original \"Big Brother UK\", and premiered on Channel 4 on 9 March 2001. Following the successful first series, the show returned the following year for a second series. Though the show did not air for the next two years, it returned in 2005 and 2006. Following the highly controversial fifth series in 2007, the show did not return in 2008. It did air in 2009, but it was officially axed after the seventh series in 2010 when Channel 4 chose to cancel the programme as well as the main", "title": "Celebrity Big Brother (UK TV series)" }, { "docid": "2140015", "text": "\"EastEnders\". I’m a great fan of the show and think the recent 30th Anniversary was sensational and shows just how good British television can be. To be part of this family is an absolute privilege.\" Langford has supported the BBC's Children in Need appeal (1983 and 1987) and Comic Relief appeal (2007). During her 1987 Children in Need appearance, she had her ears pierced for the first time live on air after some of her friends had promised to make a large donation if she did so. She has also appeared in celebrity versions of game shows to support Childline", "title": "Bonnie Langford" }, { "docid": "12481543", "text": "taking part in cattle rustling in Arizona and New Mexico Territory some time around 1878. Although friends with the bunch, he was considered, by most accounts, to be more of an amusement to the others, who did not really take him seriously. During this time, he became friends with outlaw and Cowboy Sandy King, well known for his numerous and regular brawls in saloons, and for his outlaw activities in association with the Cochise County Cowboys. The two became good friends, despite being complete opposites. When King left Tombstone in early 1881, around the time that the troubles started between", "title": "William Tattenbaum" }, { "docid": "3231893", "text": "for two years at Upstairs at the Downstairs. Wyndham first made a name for herself when she played Charlotte Waring Fletcher Bauer (Tracy Delmar) on the soap opera \"Guiding Light\" from 1967 to 1971. When she left \"The Guiding Light\", she became a hot commodity in casting circles, with many soap operas offering contracts to her. She admitted in a \"TIME\" magazine interview that she almost did not follow through with a career in soap operas. Wyndham said, \"When I first went into soaps, I didn't tell my serious acting friends. I thought they'd laugh. But now I'm proud of", "title": "Victoria Wyndham" }, { "docid": "1292307", "text": "Her friendship with Ball dated back to the film \"Roman Scandals\", in which both appeared as Goldwyn Girls. She did, however, turn up in at least nine episodes of \"I Love Lucy\" in bit parts. Many of the characters' names were after Lucille Ball's family members or close friends; for example, Marion Strong was one of her best friends and roommate for a time in New York, and also set Lucy and Desi up on their first date. Lillian Appleby was a teacher of Lucy's when she was in an amateur production on the stage. Pauline Lopus was a childhood", "title": "I Love Lucy" }, { "docid": "4380980", "text": "to 90 minutes. The less profitable \"Edge\" was dropped instead, and \"Million Dollar Movie\" was pushed back into the 3-5 time slot until September 1992 (though KTRK did air some \"Afterschool Specials\"). Many of the other programs that channel 13 declined to air were not widely run in many markets, though KTRK did preempt the first half-hour of \"Good Morning America\" in favor of a local newscast, continuing into the early 1990s when the newscast was moved to a pre-7 a.m. start time. After 1991, the station's only regular preemption was the first half-hour of \"The Home Show\", an arrangement", "title": "KTRK-TV" }, { "docid": "6733405", "text": "forced to use his real name on the air.) Rogers heard Lassiter on WGBS and liked what he did, urging his own station to hire the newcomer. WINZ did hire Lassiter as a weekend host, but fired him in December 1985 when he uttered a profanity on the air. In September 1985, Tampa Bay's first all-talk station, WPLP-AM, lured Lassiter to Tampa with his first (low-paid) full-time position on weeknights. (At the time he was still working weekends on WINZ; the station intended to move Neil Rogers from nighttime to day and, until Lassiter was fired, was grooming him as", "title": "Bob Lassiter" }, { "docid": "657439", "text": "two became lifelong friends. Andrić felt he was destined to become a writer. He began writing in secondary school, but received little encouragement from his mother. He recalled that when he showed her one of his first works, she replied: \"Did you write this? What did you do that for?\" Andrić published his first two poems in 1911 in a journal called \"Bosanska vila\" (Bosnian Fairy), which promoted Serbo-Croat unity. At the time, he was still a secondary school student. Prior to World War I, his poems, essays, reviews, and translations appeared in journals such as \"Vihor\" (Whirlwind), \"Savremenik\" (The", "title": "Ivo Andrić" }, { "docid": "14426713", "text": "fashions, and being one of the first women of her society to cut her hair short. However, when her fiancé suddenly decided to join the Dominicans and her father went blind, her life fell apart. At the same time she began to notice that life did not seem absurd to her Christian friends, who still enjoyed life as much as she did. Suddenly, God's existence did not seem a complete impossibility anymore. She decided to kneel and pray, and also remembered Teresa of Avila's recommendation to silently think of God for five minutes each day. Madeleine called the year of", "title": "Madeleine Delbrêl" }, { "docid": "5807100", "text": "\"Friends of the Earth Handbook\" (1987) and encouraged Friends of the Earth to promote practical solutions in its local environmental campaigns, as well as thinking more globally and internationally. During his time as director, the membership of the organization expanded from 12,700 to 226,300. Looking back in 2012, Porritt stated that becoming director of Friends of the Earth \"was probably the best decision of my life.\" However, his affection for the organization has not stopped him from harshly criticizing it, as he did in 2015, when the group's top ten priority issues list did not include nuclear power. Porritt attended", "title": "Jonathon Porritt" }, { "docid": "3686900", "text": "and he will help her to feel more settled in life [...] There's always been a deep affection. I think she did love him greatly but when they first got together, when she was married to his brother Grant, that love was never allowed to blossom really. There's always been underlying feelings for him. This is the first time they can really be together properly and honestly and she wants him warts and all [...] She feels safe with Phil, she feels protected and she always has with him, even when they were just friends she always knew he'd be", "title": "Sharon Watts" }, { "docid": "15949148", "text": "the first time in his life with the painters of the French School of Barbizon. Two times he made a voyage to Switzerland/France; the first time as of September 1858, when he painted there together with some artist-friends in open air, in the Savoy. Later in 1859 he began painting in the county-area around Leiden, often 'meadows with cattle'. Here he tried to reproduce the moods that the Dutch flat landscape evoked by using peculiar light effects as well as 'a colored, fragrant warm grey.' In July 1860 he wrote: \"I am searching for a tone, which we call 'colored", "title": "Gerard Bilders" }, { "docid": "3100778", "text": "Opticoms but only sold around 100 units. Roberts wanted to design a new electronic calculator kit but his partners wanted out. Bob Zaller had already left MITS and Forrest Mims was out of the Air Force and wanted to become a full-time writer. Roberts bought his 3 partners out for $600 in cash and $350 in equipment. (Roberts' four-year commitment to the Air Force ended in mid-1972.) Mims and Roberts remained friends and collaborated on books, magazines and instruction manuals. Ed Roberts' interest in computers began in high school when he built a simple digital computer from relays. His first", "title": "Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems" }, { "docid": "4969931", "text": "with two episodes left unaired, including the series finale. That episode did not air until the show entered syndication. For the first season, the song \"Best of Friends\", performed by the Thrasher Brothers, served as the series' theme song. More specifically, the instrumental version of \"Best of Friends\" appeared at the beginning of each episode (and short clips of the instrumental version occasionally appeared within episodes, even after the first season), while the lyrical version appeared at the conclusion of each episode. At the beginning of the second season, the second and more recognizable instrumental theme song, composed by Barry", "title": "Simon & Simon" }, { "docid": "8741701", "text": "at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the performance, he follows her, and speaks to her in the U-Bahn. After the party in her friends' flat he accompanies her home, and chance throws them further together when an air raid warning forces them to take cover in the air raid shelter. Hanna reciprocates Paul's feelings, but after a night spent together Paul has to return immediately to the front. There now follows a whole series of misunderstandings, and one missed opportunity after another. While Hanna waits in vain for some sign of life from Paul, he", "title": "Die große Liebe" }, { "docid": "808988", "text": "filmmaker at the time was Brian De Palma, who said that: When I first got my 8mm sound camera, I'd carry it around like David Holzman and try to film everything I did and look at it. My friends and I had cameras all the time and we were all film directors. I filmed a whole section of my life—people I was going out with, my friends. I just shot everything. I directed the scenes, too. And it all came from \"David Holzman's Diary\". \"David Holzman's Diary\" has been referenced directly or indirectly in subsequent films including the 1969 drama", "title": "David Holzman's Diary" }, { "docid": "2273059", "text": "endurance with a candle lit, and found the flame did not challenge the air capacity of the snorkel. He also tested the speed of his two men cranking against that of two men rowing on the surface. \"Nautilus\" covered the course two minutes faster than the rowing crew. During this time he changed the screw propeller to one with four vanes, like a windmill, and modified the rudder. Through friends like Gaspard Monge and Pierre-Simon Laplace, Fulton obtained an interview with Napoleon, but was unable to garner support for his vessel; however, Fulton's friends pushed the Minister of Marine into", "title": "Nautilus (1800 submarine)" }, { "docid": "1181741", "text": "put down the rifle (which they did not know at the time was an air rifle) but Evans constantly refused. The police fired six shots, four hitting Evans and killing him. Evans had previously been awarded the badge of \"Honorary Sheriff of Los Angeles County\", but in the \"Los Angeles Times\", he was referred to as a \"jobless former road manager for the Beatles\". Evans was cremated on 7 January 1976, in Los Angeles. None of the former Beatles attended his funeral, but Harry Nilsson and other friends did. George Harrison arranged for Evans' family to receive £5,000, as Evans", "title": "Mal Evans" }, { "docid": "7526912", "text": "be with his friends all the time, until one day, in the Egyptian Youth League, Zamalek's youth coach at the time, Badr Haddad, insisted that he has to come and play for Zamalek. Haddad spoke to Hazem's father, Hamada, who was Zamalek's president at the time, and convinced him that his son is a real gem. Hazem went to then play for Zamalek's youth. Until in 1993, when Mahmoud El Goharry took charge of the team, he promoted young Hazem to the first team, and made his debut in November that same year. However, he did not make many appearances", "title": "Hazem Emam" }, { "docid": "8764975", "text": "Cameron County did not receive its own radio station until WLEM first signed on the air on March 2, 1958 followed by its same-named FM sister station 27 years later. WKBI remains the sole AM radio station in all of Elk County. For a time, WKBI was the flagship station of AMN, first having signed on the air July 23, 1950, and was thus the first station in the group. That changed five years later, when AMN founder Cary H. Simpson signed on WTRN in Tyrone. Operations for the AMN were then moved to Tyrone. WKBI gained an FM sister", "title": "WKBI (AM)" }, { "docid": "3717381", "text": "of peaceful domesticity and lends a much-needed cheerful air to several moments of the play. Bert — Bert is a little boy who lives in the neighborhood; he is friends with the Bayliss' son Tommy and frequently visits the Kellers' yard to play \"jail\" with Joe. He only appears twice in the play. The first time he appears, his part seems relatively unimportant, but the second time he appears his character gets more important as he sparks a verbal attack from mother when mentioning \"jail,\" which highlights Joe's secret. Larry Keller —Larry has been MIA for some years at the", "title": "All My Sons" }, { "docid": "6740711", "text": "to her developing the illness bulimia. Hannah later became much more confident and in control of her life. Hannah is also known to be slightly ditzy and sometimes spoiled. The character's first relationship came when a storyline saw her falling for her classmate John Paul McQueen. Their friends at the time Sarah and Craig, were also dating and set them up as a couple. Although at first the relationship appeared to be going well, John Paul was clearly uneasy and his hesitance made the relationship turbulent. When they eventually slept together, John Paul realised he did not want a relationship", "title": "Hannah Ashworth" }, { "docid": "7185407", "text": "duty. He was seriously wounded when he stepped on a landmine in Đà Nẵng. While stationed in Florida near Fort Walton Beach, he began frequenting gay bars in nearby Pensacola. \"I met a bank president, a gas station attendant – they were all homosexual\", Matlovich commented in a later interview. In 1973, when he was 30, he slept with another man for the first time. He \"came out\" to his friends, but continued to conceal the fact from his commanding officer. Having realized that the racism he had grown up around was wrong, he volunteered to teach Air Force Race", "title": "Leonard Matlovich" }, { "docid": "10366250", "text": "the 1970s, and later began simulcasting on 99.7 MHz in 1991, and its format continued on 99.7 FM for a time even after the AM station was sold. The KFRC call sign was moved to KFRC-FM 106.9 on May 17, 2007. The famous callsign letters were sequentially issued, as was common when KFRC signed on the air in 1924. They did not stand for \"Francisco\" or \"Frisco,\" nor did they stand for \"Known For Radio Clearness,\" though this was the slogan used when the station first signed on with 50 watts of power. Broadcasts had been heard over a much", "title": "KFRC (defunct)" }, { "docid": "10139365", "text": "viewers were confused by the episode and did not understand important concepts about divorce, the producers decided to not air it, despite the investment they had made. It was the first time and only time the show's producers made this kind of decision, and was cited as an example of the producer's practice of \"listening to the voices of children and by putting their needs first\", despite the costs. \"Sesame Street\" did not address the topic of divorce until November 2012, when they produced a video for limited audiences titled \"Little Children, Big Challenges: Divorce\" as part of their resiliency", "title": "Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce" }, { "docid": "2419418", "text": "this was when a good management of logistics came into help. This led to the eruption of full-scale war between India and Pakistan, though there was no formal declaration of war. During the war, the RIAF did not engage the Pakistan Air Force in air-to-air combat; however, it did provide effective transport and close air support to the Indian troops. When India became a republic in 1950, the prefix 'Royal' was dropped from the Indian Air Force. At the same time, the current IAF roundel was adopted. The IAF saw significant conflict in 1960, when Belgium's 75-year rule over Congo", "title": "Indian Air Force" }, { "docid": "7771897", "text": "Barrett's mother's house. Mason said about Barrett: \"In a period when everyone was being cool in a very adolescent, self-conscious way, Syd was unfashionably outgoing; my enduring memory of our first encounter is the fact that he bothered to come up and introduce himself to me.\" Noble and Metcalfe left the Tea Set in late 1963, and Klose introduced the band to singer Chris Dennis, a technician with the Royal Air Force (RAF). In December 1964, they secured their first recording time, at a studio in West Hampstead, through one of Wright's friends, who let them use some down time", "title": "Pink Floyd" }, { "docid": "732475", "text": "of Hollywood. I did not like my work. There were many days when I had to force myself to go to the studio… I really wanted to live another life.\" From the early days of her career, Garbo avoided industry social functions, preferring to spend her time alone or with friends. She never signed autographs or answered fan mail, and rarely gave interviews. Nor did she ever appear at Oscar ceremonies, even when she was nominated. Her aversion to publicity and the press was undeniably genuine, and exasperating to the studio at first. In an interview in 1928, she explained", "title": "Greta Garbo" }, { "docid": "20340440", "text": "upon for service, but she did not yield until she was fourteen years of age. At a large convention in Newport, Rhode Island, for the first time she addressed a public audience. Pratt was educated in the common schools and in the Friends' College in Providence, Rhode Island. When nineteen years of age, Hannah T. Pratt stepped into public fields, laboring for a time in temperance work with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in New Hampshire. Through her lectures before that organization and the Young Men's Reform Club her fame spread, and calls were made for her to lecture in", "title": "Hannah T. Pratt" }, { "docid": "8929370", "text": "with Jobs while he was at Reed. She also met his friend at Reed, Daniel Kottke, for the first time. Jobs also became friends with Reed's student body president, Robert Friedland. Brennan was now a senior at Homestead, and she did not have plans to attend college. She was supportive of Jobs when he told her that he planned to drop out of Reed because he did not want to spend his parents' money on it (neither her father nor Jobs's adoptive parents had gone to college). Jobs continued to attend by auditing his classes, which included a course on", "title": "Steve Jobs" }, { "docid": "10755421", "text": "been the essence of Yale football since his sophomore year, is William Barry Wood Jr., called \"Barry\" by sportswriters and \"Bill\" by friends.\" When the two met for the first time as freshmen, Yale's freshman team beat Harvard's 7–6. Harvard beat Yale in Wood's sophomore and junior years. The Crimson won the 1929 game 10-6 as Wood drop-kicked a field goal and an extra point. Booth, suffering from a leg injury, did not start and had a second-quarter field goal attempt blocked, although he did later throw a touchdown pass for Yale's only points; Booth also nearly took a second-half", "title": "Barry Wood (American football)" }, { "docid": "5713574", "text": "Air Canada Flight 621 The Air Canada Flight 621 crash near Toronto Pearson International Airport, took place on July 5, 1970, when an Air Canada Douglas DC-8, registered as CF-TIW, was attempting to land. It was flying on a Montreal–Toronto–Los Angeles route. All 100 passengers and 9 crew on board were killed, and at the time it was Canada's second deadliest aviation accident. Captain Peter Hamilton and First Officer Donald Rowland had flown on various flights together before, and had an ongoing discussion on when to arm the ground spoilers. They both agreed they did not like arming them at", "title": "Air Canada Flight 621" }, { "docid": "16276088", "text": "government set their standards for acid deposition, four years behind the State of Minnesota. In 1988 the Friends filed a Lawsuit over the Minnesota Air National Guard’s flights above the BWCAW. Sonic booms and jet noise had the potential to disrupt wildlife and threaten the wilderness character of the area. The Minnesota Air National Guard eventually settled in November 1989 and the flight area’s northern boundary was redrawn. This was the first time in history that the military had changed a flight path due to a wilderness area and set a precedent for other wilderness areas around the country. The", "title": "Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness" }, { "docid": "4407707", "text": "actresses who had played Peter onstage. All of them had had their hair cropped short for the role and wore green pants rather than a long green skirt. During a 1964 episode of the NBC game show \"Say When!!\", host Art James performed a commercial for Peter Pan, during which he unintentionally broke the glass jar he used as a prop. Before air time, James did a series of run-throughs, dropping a table knife into the near-empty Peter Pan jar, each time without incident. But when he did the actual commercial live on the air, the knife broke out the", "title": "Peter Pan (peanut butter)" }, { "docid": "400002", "text": "and to berate, beat up on, you see. What she did for five years was treat me like dirt, but come on to me at the same time.\" She once wrote him a letter saying that the \"only regret [she] ever had was giving him birth\". When his mother died in the spring of 1992, Sondheim did not attend her funeral. He had already been estranged from her for nearly 20 years. When Sondheim was about ten years old (around the time of his parents' divorce), he became friends with James Hammerstein, son of lyricist and playwright Oscar Hammerstein II.", "title": "Stephen Sondheim" }, { "docid": "20684004", "text": "the holiday, returns to his village from the military camp. Her sister wants her brother Santhosh to get married to her cousin Thamizhselvi but Thamizhselvi refuses to marry him for not getting enough money and humiliates them. When Divya wanted to introduce her lover Sindhu to her parents, Sindhu stood them up for various reasons. The first time, he got an opportunity to sing in a concert, so Divya's parents were understanding. While the second time, it was the last of college, therefore, his friends and he celebrated and got drunk, Divya and her parents were disappointed that he did", "title": "Thullum Kaalam" }, { "docid": "4638243", "text": "succeeding where \"Ellen\" failed, however, because Will has known about his homosexuality for twenty years. He's not exploring that awkward territory for the first time as Ellen did. The process of self-discovery and the pain most gay men go through is fascinating, but the average American is put off by it.\" Kohan also commented that rather than concentrating on Will's sexuality, \"Will & Grace\" is using it as a device: \"It's like that \"When Harry Met Sally...\" line when Billy Crystal says, 'A man and woman can never be friends, because sex always gets in the way.' What we want", "title": "Pilot (Will & Grace)" }, { "docid": "1911233", "text": "Defense planners did not foresee that the Korean campaign would be of long duration. Consequently, the Fifth Air Force modified its command structure only to meet immediate needs. When the time came to move tactical air units to Korean airfields, Fifth Air Force did not deploy its permanent wings because they were heavily committed to the air defense of Japan. Instead, it utilized temporary air base squadrons and air base units to support tactical units in Korea. By August, the situation called for larger organizations with greater allotments of personnel and equipment, and Fifth Air Force set up five temporary", "title": "USAF units and aircraft of the Korean War" }, { "docid": "7402957", "text": "proven right. He did not make a lot of friends, but he did his job. Intelligence analysts are expected to give policymakers' opinions both support and reality checks. The most effective products have several common features: Reality checking is not to be underestimated. In World War II, the Allies launched an air offensive against a target system that they really did not understand: the V-1 cruise missile. Their rationale to attack (\"if the enemy apparently valued it, then it must be worth attacking\") may have been rational when there were large numbers of aircraft and pilots, but it might not", "title": "Intelligence analysis" }, { "docid": "20275617", "text": "by Lockheed Martin F-35 site lead test pilot David \"Doc\" Nelson in air-to-air combat maneuvers against F-16s for the first time and, based on the results of these and earlier flight-envelope evaluations, said the aircraft can be cleared for greater agility as a growth option. AF-2 was the first F-35 to be flown to 9g+ and −3g, and to roll at design-load factor. Departure/spin resistance was also proven during high angle-of-attack (AOA) testing which eventually went as high as 110 deg. AOA. \"When we did the first dogfight in January, they said, ‘you have no limits,’\" says Nelson. \"It was", "title": "Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II development" }, { "docid": "16563080", "text": "with several friends (including his brother Xavier de Roux, his sister Marie-Helene de Roux and Jean Thibaudeau) the mimeographed bulletin \"L'Herne\", where he published his \"Confidences to Guillaume\", a chronic of lyrical cynicism addressed to his geranium. At the same time, he did his military service in France at an air base. In 1960 he married Jacqueline Brusset, daughter of Gaullist deputy Max Brusset. Their son Pierre-Guillaume Roux was born in 1963 and later became a publisher. In 1960 he published his first novel, \"Mademoiselle Anicet\", and redevelop his review in the final form of the Cahiers de l'Herne, a", "title": "Dominique de Roux" }, { "docid": "5146777", "text": "Winged Victory (novel) Winged Victory is a 1934 novel by English World War I fighter pilot Victor Maslin Yeates that is widely regarded as a classic description of aerial combat and the futility of war. The novel concerns World War I, the existence pilots lead and the fear involved in flying early biplanes. Its protagonist, Tom Cundall, plans to leave the Royal Air Force when his service is up and live on a West Country farm with his friends. However, by the time he is due to leave the Air Force, all his friends have \"gone west\". This leaves him", "title": "Winged Victory (novel)" }, { "docid": "12434975", "text": "pregnant Michiru is first seen walking in a fishing village area, wondering about her friends and a horrible death which occurred laments the fact that she did not have the ability to know what is in a person's heart, and therefore could not stop the death. However, she acknowledges that her friends are supporting her even though she betrayed Ruka. Present day Tokyo, Michiru is working at a beauty parlour when she sees her boyfriend, Sousuke Oikawa waving at her and pointing out a place to meet him for dinner. When she does, Sousuke gives her a cup for her", "title": "Last Friends" }, { "docid": "8441845", "text": "Brady Pub, often employing many of their family and friends. Over the years the pub has functioned as a second home for some of their grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and their first great-grandson, Will, spent a great deal of time there while he was growing up. Shawn has been married to Caroline Brady since he first appeared on-air in 1983. The son of Peter Brady, and the grandson of Patrick Aloysius and Nora Molly Brady, Shawn has a brother Eric and two sisters named Molly and Colleen. Shawn was devastated when he learned that his brother Eric had molested his daughter", "title": "Shawn Brady" }, { "docid": "720831", "text": "made friends with the Breton poets Saint-Pol-Roux in Camaret and Max Jacob in Quimper. In 1932, Pierre Cot, a Radical Socialist politician, named Moulin his second in command or \"chef adjoint\" when he was serving as Foreign Minister under Paul Doumer's presidency. In 1933, Moulin was appointed \"sous-préfet\" of Thonon-les-Bains, parallel to his function of head of cabinet of Pierre Cot in the Air ministry under Albert Lebrun. On 19 January 1934, Moulin was appointed \"sous-préfet\" of Montargis, but he did not assume this office and chose to remain under Pierre Cot. In the first half of April Moulin was", "title": "Jean Moulin" }, { "docid": "18481250", "text": "separate air force, and its establishment coincided with the decision to place defence spending on a peacetime basis for the first time since the First World War. In 1924, the Air Board described the RAAF's condition as most unsatisfactory and that it survived on a hand-to-mouth existence, with 65 officers and 300 men and only two machines fit for war. Defence funding became even tighter in the Great Depression years, and the situation did not improve until the mid-1930s with the growing threat of war and easing of the Depression. A particularly strong anti-RAAF move emerged in 1929 when there", "title": "Archerfield Second World War Igloos Complex" }, { "docid": "4234021", "text": "beggars. He was a strong moralist and always helped his wayward friends. Gangadhar was a vivacious, handsome boy in childhood. Gifted with prodigious memory, Gangadhar mastered the English alphabet in one day. Gangadhar first met Ramakrishna, the famous mystic and saint whom he later adopted as his Master, in 1884, when he was nineteen years old, in the temple of Dakshineswar. He visited Ramakrishna for the first time in the company of his friend Harinath (later Turiyananda). He had first seen Ramakrishna in the house of Dinanath Bose at a very young age. Ramakrishna did not want him to be", "title": "Akhandananda" }, { "docid": "3419186", "text": "to air on e.tv in the late 2000s. Only 73 episodes out of the 121 episodes were syndicated by The Program Exchange between 1993 and 2007, and aired on local stations such as WCIU-TV in Chicago from 2001 to 2004. This is due to the producers selling syndication rights when the show was still on air and CBS wanting to keep the rights for certain episodes. Since the 73-episode syndication package performed well enough on other stations, additional episodes were deemed unnecessary. On October 25, 2018, it was announced that the first 30 episodes of Garfield and Friends will be", "title": "Garfield and Friends" }, { "docid": "5948693", "text": "weekly meetings of the vegetarians of London he found a cause, and his first English friends.\" Salt's work allowed Gandhi for the first time to take part in collective action. Salt later went on to write a biography of Henry David Thoreau, who had a profound impact on Gandhi. Although Walden could as well have moved Gandhi, it was Civil Disobedience (Thoreau) that was of greater importance. Gandhi was already in the midst of a form of civil disobedience in South Africa when he read Thoreau. Not only did he adopt the name for the kind of struggle that he", "title": "Gandhism" }, { "docid": "12659171", "text": "of high school memory. Where he met his first and only love, Mituna (Apinya Sakuljaroensuk). At first, Singha and his pals mocked Mituna for being silent. He got friends with Lam who helped him survive under Kong who tried to kill him. Lam became close with Singha's group. Singha made fun of Mituna when they become dance partners. Until, Mituna fought back in the bus because they made fun of her for helping a mute woman. From that time on, Singha had been stalking Mituna because he wanna know where she lived. He asked forgiveness to her but Mituna did", "title": "Friendship (film)" }, { "docid": "4495498", "text": "a paragon of pop inanity.\" Gould contends further that, if \"friends like Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton heard something worthwhile in material like [Harrison's] 'All Things Must Pass'\" then only \"sheer egotism could account for the air of complete indifference with which Lennon and McCartney first greeted\" both that tune and \"I Me Mine\". After receiving his \"eternal problem\" inspiration when writing the song, Harrison played some chords to a 6/8 time signature. The melody was inspired by the incidental music for a BBC television program, \"Europa – The Titled and the Untitled\", which aired on 7 January 1969. Harrison", "title": "I Me Mine" }, { "docid": "3583518", "text": "time, he achieved the highest first-class score of his career, in a 1995–96 Red Stripe Cup match against Jamaica. In the first-innings of the match, which was eventually drawn, he scored 303 not out from 478 deliveries. In 2007, he subsequently joined Durham as an overseas player, and helped them to collect their first trophy by top-scoring in the final of the Friends Provident Trophy. In March 2008, Chanderpaul caused some controversy when, after batting for Guyana on the first day of a Carib Beer Series match, he left to attend the West Indies Players' Association awards and did not", "title": "Shivnarine Chanderpaul" }, { "docid": "15104373", "text": "show, but did so after encouragement from family and friends, as well as after having viewed a television commercial for the show; producers called her back the next day. She had not told anyone she was auditioning besides her brother and best friend, and instead told her parents about it shortly before the first episode was set to air. Tryfonos had also previously auditioned for the second season of rival Greek talent competition \"The X Factor\", and passed the audition phase before ultimately being cut before the live shows. In response, she later stated that she did not want to", "title": "Valanto Trifonos" }, { "docid": "15408356", "text": "Let's Be Friends Again, Marc Ellerby, Mr Solo, Sian Superman and Patrick McQuade. Argos was \"over the moon and incredibly flattered that these artists took time out to work\" on the comic. Argos says, \"When we first had the idea of creating an Art Brut comic I compiled a list of all my favourite artists and then handed the list to our manager (as I am far too shy to approach those people). I thought only one or two would say yes. I was completely blown away when they all did and then flattered they would take the time to", "title": "Brilliant! Tragic!" }, { "docid": "7140945", "text": "he puffs up his nose really big and couldn't fit in the door. After some jumps he gets his nose smacked by the rope first time he felt the rope smack his nose he went \"OW!\" then says \"Let me try that one more time. I'm sorry.\" then tries again but little did he know that after the same amount of jumps he got his nose smacked again. That made him go \"THAT HURT!\". Finally he had enough and said \"I'll show you when I have a longer one.\" When he greets he says \"\"Hello there.My name is ol' Nut'n", "title": "Deko Boko Friends" }, { "docid": "14289657", "text": "first time the Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture, he described them as old friends. He admired their accuracy to life, their grace and simplicity. The second major influence was the Arts & Crafts Movement, active throughout the period of his education. He completed an apprenticeship in stone carving, as a monumental mason, and attended art classes in his free time. Around 1912 he decided that art was to be paramount in his life, but this did not stop him from practising his craft when convenience or necessity made it advantageous to do so. When Lamb went to Paris he", "title": "William Lamb (sculptor)" }, { "docid": "19945528", "text": "was upset that he did not spend much time with her after her mother passed away. Yulia confesses her true feelings for Hekon in a phone call to Artyom, while Artyom arrives with his friends to beat up the alien. Hekon fights back, and when one of Artyom's friends tries to shoot Hekon, Ruslan is shot by accident instead. Artyom and one of his friends flee before the police would arrest them. He reports this incident to gather many supporters and form a group to attack Hekon's spaceship, and avenge Ruslan's death, whom he blames the alien for causing it.", "title": "Attraction (film)" }, { "docid": "18987267", "text": "for a time in a framing factory and did his military service in 1937 in the Regiment of Patricios. His first songwriting success came when he wrote Spanish interpretations of \"Silent Night\" by Franz Gruber and \"Jingle Bells\" by James Pierpont, which at the time had no Castilian versions. He had trouble convincing the musicians who frequented the cafés of Calle Corrientes to perform his songs until he became friends with the French pianist Paul Misraki, who had immigrated to Argentina in 1942, suggested he \"become French\". At that point, Moisés Smolarchik became Ben Molar, who supposedly came from Paris", "title": "Ben Molar" }, { "docid": "2656202", "text": "when he was 17. At the age of 19, Cox produced his first pair of shoes, for the Toronto-based designer Loucas Kleanthous, who suggested Cox consider a career as a designer. An interest in British fashion led Cox to study at Cordwainer's Technical College, London, a design school that was absorbed into the London College of Fashion in 2000. Cox studied at Cordwainer's from 1983 to 1985. He graduated with merit in July 1985. During his time as a student in London, Cox probably spent as much time in nightclubs as he did studying. Through his partying Cox became friends", "title": "Patrick Cox" }, { "docid": "16237412", "text": "town for the rest of their lives. While James became a successful business person, Suisted built her career as a writer. In 1878, the \"Otago Witness\" began publishing her stories, poems and sketches. From 1884, she was a political reporter, the first woman to do so. Her stories were published by the \"Otago Witness\" and wider afield in New Zealand and Australia. In 1893, Suisted traveled alone to England and Scandinavia. When friends expressed concern at her travelling alone (at a time when few women did), she replied \"'That\" depends on the lady'. While in England, she attended the opening", "title": "Laura Jane Suisted" }, { "docid": "4815329", "text": "day when they did a test-run of \"Savoir Faire\" with Osborne at the trial sessions. He recalls being offered a crack pipe by two of Anderson's friends. \"Naively assuming it to be a hash pipe, I took them up on the offer and was surprised to experience a sensation akin to inhaling several bottles of poppers at the same time. This was my first and last personal encounter with crack.\" Anderson was addicted to the drug for two and a half years, but stopped in late 1999 when somebody very close to him became ill. He has been clean since.", "title": "Head Music" }, { "docid": "16951660", "text": "PATjE PATjE was born with French nationality in Geneva. He was raised between Marseilles, Barcelona, and Geneva. His first experience in entertainment was theater, which he became passionate about when he was fourteen. After his high school diploma he did his Bachelors in America to improve his language skills. At that time his friends gave him the nickname PATJE (diminutive of Pat). Returning to Europe, he worked in advertising and became the editor of a magazine. When he left this multinational firm, he moved to Barcelona, Spain, in order to study at university, his love for entertainment and music came", "title": "PATjE" }, { "docid": "19309795", "text": "At this time, Roddy began to freestyle in cyphers with his friends. Roddy's friends were impressed by his skills, encouraged him to continue freestyling for them, and eventually suggested that he invest more time in his music. Despite this positive feedback and Roddy's genuine passion for music, he still did not see rap as a serious pursuit. Although he enjoyed freestyling, he was not recording music and resisted his cousin's repeated attempts to get him in the studio. Roddy was only goaded into visiting the studio when his cousin told him that Young Money would be recording in the same", "title": "Young Roddy" }, { "docid": "17796466", "text": "she hits him with her walking stick, causing him to bleed. Tamizh is embarrassed and is angry when his friends tease him about the incident. However, Kodi feels bad for what she did and apologizes to him the next time they meet. As their friendship grows deeper, Tamizh falls in love with Kodi. With the help of his friends, he composes a romantic poem for her which he records in a CD. When he goes to meet her at her school, he slips the CD into her bag, only to learn from her best friend that Kodi dreams of marrying", "title": "Cuckoo (2014 film)" }, { "docid": "20820626", "text": "University. She was for a time a successful school teacher. While attending Nebraska State University, she met William T. Bumstead, whom she married in 1880. She has had little time for writing but when she did write, it was mostly for the child-readers of \"St. Nicholas Magazine\" and \"The Youth's Companion\", having been a special contributor to the latter for several years. Bumstead was of Quaker descent, and is like the Friends in her quiet tastes and sincere manners. She had few friends. Remarkably well-informed and having an analytic mind, she was a keen, though kindly, disputant, accepting nothing as", "title": "Eudora Stone Bumstead" }, { "docid": "13601179", "text": "while, Geoffrey comes in with a tuxedo. He tells Will that Philip has invited several of his lawfirm colleagues to dinner and that he didn't know about Will being sent to Bel-Air at the time of the invitation. When Geoffrey leaves, Ashley enters the room. Will and Ashley become friends quickly, and he learns her how to rap. When she leaves, Philip comes in with Will's cousin Carlton. Will doesn't recnogize him at first, but when Philip tells him he starts to make jokes about Carlton. After being told to just do what Carlton does at the dinner, and seeing", "title": "The Fresh Prince Project" }, { "docid": "8045009", "text": "Communications. When Ray Rayner started his programs \"Ray Rayner and His Friends\" and the \"Dick Tracy Show\" on WGN-TV, Brown was hired as art director, creating a dog puppet called Tracer for the Tracy show. He also did puppetry on Rayner's morning show for a character called Cuddly Dudley, a large, orange dog created by WGN-TV's owner, the Chicago Tribune, as a promotional item. The Cuddly Dudley puppet and his dog house are now part of the Museum of Broadcast Communication's collection. He stayed on the Rayner show until it went off the air in 1981. When Rayner joined the", "title": "Roy Brown (clown)" }, { "docid": "6333479", "text": "Hotel, situated near the Shaktan Thampuran Private Bus Stand in Thrissur. \"Thoovanathumbikal\" was the first film to be shot there, the hotel and the bar has since appeared in many films. The film is based on Padmarajan's novel \"Udakappola\". Director Bharathan did illustration for this novel when it was serialised in \"Malayalanadu\" weekly. Part of this film, especially Jayakrishnan's lifestyle in the town, is loosely based on one of Padmarajan's friends, Karakath Unni Menon. Padmarajan met Unni Menon when the former was working at All India Radio, Thrissur. The friends of Jayakrishan were loosely based on the other friends of", "title": "Thoovanathumbikal" }, { "docid": "6314173", "text": "ceased operations when the station was unable to acquire a network affiliation. At the time, CBS was the only U.S. broadcast network that did not have an affiliate in Fresno. The network would eventually affiliate with KFRE-TV (channel 12, now ABC owned-and-operated station KFSN-TV on channel 30) when that station signed on in May 1956. The station first signed on the air on December 18, 1961, originally broadcasting on UHF channel 53; it was the first independent station to sign on in the Fresno market, beating eventual competitor KICU-TV (channel 43, channel allocation now occupied by KGMC) to the air", "title": "KAIL" }, { "docid": "12196395", "text": "WKHG WKHG (104.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Hot Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Leitchfield, Kentucky, United States, the station is currently owned by Heritage Media of Kentucky Inc and features programming from Fox News Radio and Fox Sports Radio. The station signed on the air as WMTL-FM on October 29, 1967. It first served as a full-time FM repeater of sister station WMTL-AM for its first 21 years on the air. It did not become a separate station until 1988, when the FM station's callsign was changed to the current WKHG, and began broadcasting its Hot Adult", "title": "WKHG" }, { "docid": "753817", "text": "He chose the United States Air Force, which had become a separate service in 1947, while Aldrin was still at West Point, and did not yet have its own academy. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant, and underwent basic flight training in T-6 Texans at Bartow Air Base in Florida. His classmates included Sam Johnson, who later became a prisoner of war in Vietnam. The two became lifelong friends. At one point, Aldrin attempted a double Immelmann turn in a T-28 Trojan and suffered a grayout. He recovered in time to pull out at , averting what would have", "title": "Buzz Aldrin" }, { "docid": "16951662", "text": "Paris. On 22 October 2010, PATjE became the first artist to launch his own digital radio station on the apple App Store PATjE.fm. PATjE PATjE was born with French nationality in Geneva. He was raised between Marseilles, Barcelona, and Geneva. His first experience in entertainment was theater, which he became passionate about when he was fourteen. After his high school diploma he did his Bachelors in America to improve his language skills. At that time his friends gave him the nickname PATJE (diminutive of Pat). Returning to Europe, he worked in advertising and became the editor of a magazine. When", "title": "PATjE" }, { "docid": "12675422", "text": "Anna did what she did, but Katy is less forgiving, and implies that Anna is a \"whore\". When Owen returns a few weeks later, Faye organises a meal for him and Anna, and reveals that it is going to get them back together. When Owen does not show up, Faye is livid, and Anna decides it is time to tell her about her and Phelan. She later disposes of the idea, and tells Owen to act like they are still a couple for their family's sake. When Faye goes out with her friends and gets drunk, Anna is furious at", "title": "Anna Windass" }, { "docid": "7721108", "text": "if he and his partner can \"still be friends.\" The song is generally assumed to be about Rundgren's breakup with long-time companion Bebe Buell in 1977. Rundgren played all the instruments and performed all the vocals on the track, as he did with the rest of the album. In 1994, this song made a prominent appearance in the movie \"Dumb and Dumber\". It also appears on the soundtrack for the 2001 film \"Vanilla Sky\", and the TV series \"Nip/Tuck\". In 1979, \"Can We Still Be Friends\" became a hit again when Robert Palmer recorded a version for his album \"Secrets\".", "title": "Can We Still Be Friends" }, { "docid": "8830113", "text": "to translate Warhol’s talent for making the banal glamorous and the glamorous banal into a diary practice which Auder himself did not consider fine art. Viva first used these collaborative tapes to create the first video novel The Baby published in 1975. His earliest works are travel logs and endearing portraits of friends including Hannah Wilke, Alice Neel, Annie Sprinkle, Eric Bogosian, Louis Waldon, and Larry Rivers. The label “video artist” was applied retroactively when Auder began exhibiting his work in 1980. At that time, he produced a series of works including scripted biographical material and video collages appropriating material", "title": "Michel Auder" }, { "docid": "5841232", "text": "lawyer with her role as a single mother of two young children. While the Kennedy and Reggie families were friends for many years, Vicki remembers (but Senator Kennedy did not) their first meeting, when Vicki was a summer intern in his Senate office's mailroom, the year following her college graduation. They began dating after meeting again in June 1991 at a party celebrating her parents' 40th wedding anniversary. Ted Kennedy said of this meeting, \"I had known Vicki before, but this was the first time I think I really saw her.\" The relationship became serious in September 1991. They were", "title": "Victoria Reggie Kennedy" }, { "docid": "2362877", "text": "one day they should play together. Cohen kept her friendship with Einstein even after he had fled Germany in 1933. Cohen would often visit him in Oxford, England where he settled for a short time. In 1934, after Einstein moved to the United States, Harriet Cohen did finally play that duet concert with Einstein to raise funds to bring Jewish scientists out of Nazi Germany. Cohen and Einstein remained friends thereafter and he referred to her as \"the beloved piano witch\". It was not until 1939 when she first met Chaim Weizmann, the future first President of Israel, that she", "title": "Harriet Cohen" }, { "docid": "9131072", "text": "United, have gateside monitors that show the upgrade (as well as general) standby list, and will also announce when First Class checks in full (i.e., no further upgrades will be given). In some cases, when a flight compartment is overbooked, an airline will designate all passengers who do not have a seat assignment as \"standby\" at some time prior to boarding. Airline employees and some of their family and friends may also travel standby, often at discounted fares or free of charge. They typically have lower priority than regular passengers and are only allocated a seat after all passengers paying", "title": "Standby (air travel)" }, { "docid": "561247", "text": "Narendra) to visit Ramakrishna. They probably first met personally in November 1881, though Narendra did not consider this their first meeting, and neither man mentioned this meeting later. At this time Narendra was preparing for his upcoming F. A. examination, when Ram Chandra Datta accompanied him to Surendra Nath Mitra's, house where Ramakrishna was invited to deliver a lecture. According to Paranjape, at this meeting Ramakrishna asked young Narendra to sing. Impressed by his singing talent, he asked Narendra to come to Dakshineshwar. In late 1881 or early 1882, Narendra went to Dakshineswar with two friends and met Ramakrishna. This", "title": "Swami Vivekananda" }, { "docid": "11534108", "text": "Mills) parachutes into the nearby loch and becomes the first patient, tended by Mrs. Barrington's pretty daughter Helen (Carla Lehmann). Mrs. Barrington moves Ronald to the main house, while Dimble and Perry remain in the cottage. Ronald makes friends with Mrs. Barrington's husband John (Leslie Banks), a brilliant but eccentric inventor, currently working on a bombsight for the Royal Air Force. However, he insists on working on his own. His assistant, Alan Trently (Michael Wilding), becomes jealous when Helen starts spending too much time with Perry. Eventually though, Helen lets Trently know that she prefers him. Meanwhile, the government grows", "title": "Cottage to Let" } ]

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[ { "docid": "4507516", "text": "Carlton Your Doorman Carlton Your Doorman is a 1980 television pilot for an animated spin-off of the live-action sitcom \"Rhoda\" (1974–78) that was never picked up as a series. It originally aired as a \"CBS Special Presentation\" on May 21, 1980 and has never been rebroadcast. The episode relates the adventures of Carlton, the Doorman (voiced by Lorenzo Music), the previously off-screen character from \"Rhoda\" who was heard via the intercom but almost never seen (except only his arm would occasionally appear from doors and he was once shown dancing while wearing a gorilla mask). It was produced by MTM", "title": "Carlton Your Doorman" }, { "docid": "4507516", "text": "Carlton Your Doorman Carlton Your Doorman is a 1980 television pilot for an animated spin-off of the live-action sitcom \"Rhoda\" (1974–78) that was never picked up as a series. It originally aired as a \"CBS Special Presentation\" on May 21, 1980 and has never been rebroadcast. The episode relates the adventures of Carlton, the Doorman (voiced by Lorenzo Music), the previously off-screen character from \"Rhoda\" who was heard via the intercom but almost never seen (except only his arm would occasionally appear from doors and he was once shown dancing while wearing a gorilla mask). It was produced by MTM", "title": "Carlton Your Doorman" }, { "docid": "1798650", "text": "Within a few months, it, too, was canceled by CBS. The following are well-known actors who feature in guest-starring roles on \"Rhoda\": Henry Winkler, Vivian Vance, Eileen Heckart, John Ritter, Norman Fell, Doris Roberts, Joan Van Ark, Tim Matheson, Linda Lavin, Judd Hirsch, Ruth Gordon, Howard Hesseman, Anne Jackson, Robert Alda, David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Stiller, Jack Gilford, René Auberjonois. Emmy Awards: Golden Globe Awards: Collectively, \"Rhoda\" garnered a total of 17 Emmy nominations and 7 Golden Globe nominations. An animated TV pilot titled \"Carlton Your Doorman\", a proposed spin-off of the Carlton, the doorman character (voiced by Lorenzo Music),", "title": "Rhoda" } ]

[ { "docid": "4507517", "text": "Enterprises and was the only animated production from MTM, although \"The Duck Factory\" – a sitcom set in an animation production company – included cartoon segments, and the closing credits of many MTM series included animated clothing and accessories superimposed on Mimsie the Cat. Carlton is a New York City doorman and a misfit who seeks to better himself and his position in society. In the pilot episode, Carlton seeks a replacement for his boss's wife's dog, Punkin, who died while in his care. He tries everything to replace the dog so his boss doesn't find out. It was revealed", "title": "Carlton Your Doorman" }, { "docid": "1846705", "text": "six years; he also co-wrote the theme song to the show with his wife Henrietta. Music continued writing for the \"Mary Tyler Moore Show\" spin-off \"Rhoda\". While casting \"Rhoda\", the producers were looking for a voice actor to play the part of a character that would be heard but never seen: Carlton the doorman. When they heard Music's sleepy, husky voice, they offered him that role, which made his voice recognizable to a worldwide television audience. The character was popular enough to warrant a one-off single in 1975 called \"Who Is It?\" (b/w \"The Girl in 510\", United Artists UA-XW643-X),", "title": "Lorenzo Music" }, { "docid": "4507518", "text": "in this episode that Carlton was a relatively young man, with shoulder-length blond hair and mustache. He also has a gray cat named Gringo. It is also one of the last animated pilots to use a laugh track, which was a common practice in the 1960s and 1970s. Shout! Factory released this episode as a bonus feature on \"Rhoda – Season Five: The Final Season\" DVD set on October 17, 2017. Primetime Emmy Award Carlton Your Doorman Carlton Your Doorman is a 1980 television pilot for an animated spin-off of the live-action sitcom \"Rhoda\" (1974–78) that was never picked up", "title": "Carlton Your Doorman" }, { "docid": "12070523", "text": "Year My Voice Broke\". Carlton trained with the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, Australia for many years learning the foundations of acting for screen and stage. Carlton starred in the short film \"Carmichael & Shane\", which was the winner of Tropfest in 2006. He also wrote, co-produced and co-directed the film. He co-starred with his real-life twin sons Jim and Leo Carlton, who played the title characters Carmichael and Shane. Carlton also won the award for Best Male Actor. In April 2011 Carlton starred in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's \"\" as the acerbic and charismatic king of Australian", "title": "Rob Carlton" }, { "docid": "1804124", "text": "Karel Doorman Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (23 April 1889 – 28 February 1942) was a Dutch naval officer during World War II who commanded remnants of the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command naval strike forces in the Battle of the Java Sea. He was killed in action when his flagship was torpedoed during the battle, choosing to go down with the ship. Doorman, born in Utrecht and raised Catholic, came from a family of professional soldiers. In 1906, he and his brother Lou ACM Doorman were commissioned as midshipmen. In 1910, he was promoted to officer rating. In the latter year", "title": "Karel Doorman" }, { "docid": "1804137", "text": "commemorations for the Battle of the Java Sea are regularly held. Karel Doorman Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (23 April 1889 – 28 February 1942) was a Dutch naval officer during World War II who commanded remnants of the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command naval strike forces in the Battle of the Java Sea. He was killed in action when his flagship was torpedoed during the battle, choosing to go down with the ship. Doorman, born in Utrecht and raised Catholic, came from a family of professional soldiers. In 1906, he and his brother Lou ACM Doorman were commissioned as midshipmen. In", "title": "Karel Doorman" }, { "docid": "7832947", "text": "who offers to share a bowl of Kasha. George declines, turns off his bedside lamp and lies back on his pillow, but Frank turns on the lamp on his side, preventing George from sleeping. The Doorman \"The Doorman\" is the 104th episode of the NBC sitcom \"Seinfeld\". This was the 17th episode for the sixth season. It aired on February 23, 1995. Jerry goes to pick up Elaine who is \"house-sitting\" Mr. Pitt's apartment. On his way in Jerry has an awkward conversation with the doorman, played by real-life friend Larry Miller. Walking down the street, Kramer, with the thought", "title": "The Doorman" }, { "docid": "9432587", "text": "he would be in frequent battle against rivals such as Hoff and the Bailey brothers throughout the decade. During this time, Duffy expanded into legitimate businesses including owning several prominent clubs, including the Perkin and the fashionable Club Cadix at 23rd and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia in 1924. He ran his bootlegging and numbers businesses from the old Ritz-Carlton hotel. Duffy was shot three times leaving the Club Cadix late on the night of February 25, 1927 by Francis Bailey and Peter Ford. His bodyguard, John Bricker, was killed, and Earl Brown, the club's doorman, was also wounded. This shooting", "title": "Mickey Duffy" }, { "docid": "1846706", "text": "which became a regional hit. Music also co-produced and co-wrote a 1980 animated special \"Carlton Your Doorman\" which won an Emmy Award. In 1976, he and Henrietta were given the opportunity to host a syndicated television variety show of their own. \"The Lorenzo and Henrietta Music Show\" was produced at a time when there was a glut of television variety shows, and it did not last. In 1983, Music voiced the character Ralph the All-Purpose Animal in the stop-motion animated film \"Twice Upon A Time\". In 1982, Jim Davis's \"Garfield\" was the most popular comic strip in America. Compilation books", "title": "Lorenzo Music" }, { "docid": "6771996", "text": "Zaran, one of Batroc's minions, who threw a sai that passed through Doorman and landed on his head. DeMarr feels that it is his fault that Grasshopper died and therefore sunk into a slight depression. During this time, he also tried to scare Squirrel Girl off the team, because he feared that she would also die while in service to the GLA, but he later apologizes to her. During the final battle, Doorman gets killed, sacrificing himself so that Mr. Immortal could stop Maelstrom. In the afterlife, he met the other deceased GLA members including Grasshopper who forgave him. Doorman", "title": "Doorman (comics)" }, { "docid": "9782537", "text": "in broadcasting in Melbourne, initiating programs such as \"Voice of the Voyager, Voice of the People, Voice of the Business Girl, Voice of the Shopper, Husbands and Wives, Junior Information, Spelling Bee, Victoree Varieties, Myer Musicale\" plus \"OBs\" (outside broadcasts) of football, tennis, athletics, swimming and other events. Although not the first to broadcast VFL football (Melbourne's 3AR was broadcasting ex-Carlton player Rod McGregor's descriptions of play at least as early as 1927), Banks was certainly a pioneer of football radio broadcasts, often overcoming extraordinary working conditions. At Princes Park, Carlton in 1931 he broadcast his first football match standing", "title": "Norman Banks (broadcaster)" }, { "docid": "563002", "text": "doorman and the night watchman are in the carriage, a beggar asks the doorman for some money. The doorman invites the beggar to the carriage and even gives a tip to the new doorman, who is now in charge of bringing the guests inside. Director F. W. Murnau was at the height of his film career in Germany and had high ambitions for his first film with UFA. He stated that \"All our efforts must be directed towards abstracting everything that isn't the true domain of the cinema. Everything that is trivial and acquired from other sources, all the tricks,", "title": "The Last Laugh (1924 film)" }, { "docid": "7832940", "text": "The Doorman \"The Doorman\" is the 104th episode of the NBC sitcom \"Seinfeld\". This was the 17th episode for the sixth season. It aired on February 23, 1995. Jerry goes to pick up Elaine who is \"house-sitting\" Mr. Pitt's apartment. On his way in Jerry has an awkward conversation with the doorman, played by real-life friend Larry Miller. Walking down the street, Kramer, with the thought that it would entertain German tourists on a tour bus, simulates robbing George, but ends up invoking fear in them instead. After George's parents' separation (\"The Chinese Woman\"), Frank Costanza is living with George.", "title": "The Doorman" }, { "docid": "6772006", "text": "explanation for his absence. Doorman then goes back to work when he gets a text from Bertha, who was injured while fighting Dr. Nob and his squad. During the battle, Dr. Nod takes more of the weight-loss supplements, becoming much bigger and monstrous. On Mr. Immortal's suggestion, the team performs a maneuver that has Doorman and Mr. Immortal get inside Dr. Nod's body, where Mr. Immortal manages to kill him by punching his heart. After their victory, the team is visited by Deadpool who tells them that they've been fired and can no longer use the Avengers name, leaving them", "title": "Doorman (comics)" }, { "docid": "14643154", "text": "day, under the headline 'Carlton rebukes own chairman for attacking documentary', the Independent published a statement by Carlton's Director of Factual Programmes, Richard Clemmow, and Executive Producer Polly Bide. \"Carlton stands by John Pilger's programme and its accuracy\" it read. \"The film went through the normal channels of editorial scrutiny prior to completion and senior executives at both Carlton and the ITV Network Centre approved its transmission. Michael Green's opinion is his own. He had no involvement in the programme or its transmission. The film sought to give a voice to people in the Palestinian and Israeli communities who are", "title": "Palestine Is Still the Issue" }, { "docid": "7832941", "text": "Jerry doesn't want to face the doorman again; he wants to wait until the doorman leaves so he and Elaine can go to the movies. However, Mr. Pitt calls from Scotland and Elaine must stay to check the mail. Walking down the street Jerry finds the doorman, who incidentally is standing outside his own apartment building. Later at Monk's Café Kramer mentions how George's father has man breasts (\"real hooters\"), and that he may use some undergarment for support. George is disturbed that it may be hereditary. Kramer leaves to work further on his idea. Elaine tells Jerry that the", "title": "The Doorman" }, { "docid": "6771997", "text": "was, however, intrigued by the absence of Hawkeye, until Mockingbird tells him that he became the new Swordsman. Shortly afterwards, the cosmic entity Oblivion summoned him declaring that he could prove useful to him because of his connection to the Darkforce Dimension, akin to Deathurge, who had been recently captured by Mr. Immortal. Doorman therefore replaced Deathurge and became Oblivion's new angel of death. Taking Deathurge's place, Doorman took Maelstrom to the afterlife, after he was tricked into killing himself by Mr. Immortal, and was able to return to the GLA. As a servant of Oblivion, he is able to", "title": "Doorman (comics)" }, { "docid": "3792506", "text": "Belgian frigate Leopold I (F930) Leopold I (F930) is a of the Marine Component of the Belgian Armed Forces. Prior to 29 March 2007, the ship was known as HNLMS \"Karel Doorman\" (F827). It is one of the two frigates of this class purchased from the Royal Netherlands Navy on 22 December 2005. HNLMS \"Karel Doorman\" was the first ship of the of multi-purpose frigates (also known as \"M-fregat\" class). She was the third ship in the Royal Netherlands Navy to be named after Admiral Karel Doorman, who was killed during the Battle of the Java Sea. The ship was", "title": "Belgian frigate Leopold I (F930)" }, { "docid": "7832942", "text": "doorman accused him of following the doorman back to his own building and harassing him. Jerry says the doorman is playing mind games with him. Again at Mr. Pitt's building, Jerry encounters the doorman, this time on the night shift. Jerry apologizes, saying he is not used to doormen, and just wants to be friends with him. The doorman leaves Jerry in charge while he goes out quickly to buy a beer. Jerry feels the pressure of being a doorman, even signs for a package, but as the doorman is taking too long, Jerry leaves his post and heads to", "title": "The Doorman" }, { "docid": "19542095", "text": "use of its application programming interface. By May 2016, Doorman operated locations in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City. Citing financial difficulties and operating at a loss Doorman ceased to operate on October 6, 2017. Doorman was founded in 2013 by Zander Adell and Kapil Israni and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. In February 2014, 500 Startups announced that Doorman would take part in Batch 8 of its business accelerator program. In October 2015, the company expanded its operations to Chicago. In November 2015, the company expanded its operations to New York City. According to Crunchbase, Doorman has", "title": "Doorman (company)" }, { "docid": "3715852", "text": "in both 2013 and 2014 reprised his role as the voice of Tuvok in the MMO \"Star Trek Online\". Russ appeared as Frank, a sarcastic doorman in Christina Applegate's ABC comedy, \"Samantha Who?\" from 2007 to 2009, and appeared for seven seasons as Principal Ted Franklin in Nickelodeon's show \"iCarly\". He also portrayed a surgeon on an episode of \"Hannah Montana\", \"I Am Hannah, Hear Me Croak.\" Russ won an Emmy Award in 2014 for public service ads he did for the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office on intellectual property theft and cyber bullying. Russ has been a musician for", "title": "Tim Russ" }, { "docid": "3346170", "text": "Carl Douglas Carlton George Douglas (born 10 May 1942), also known by his stage name Carl Douglas, is a Jamaican recording artist who rose to prominence with the 1974 disco single \"Kung Fu Fighting\". Douglas was born as Carlton George Douglas on 10 May 1942 in Kingston, Jamaica to Jamaican parents. After his grandmother passed away, his family relocated to the United Kingdom. He spent his childhood in England playing soccer, and vocal training. In his youth he developed a passion for jazz music (citing Sam Cooke and Otis Redding as his biggest influences) and a trained tenor voice, which", "title": "Carl Douglas" }, { "docid": "9516661", "text": "afterwards to become a trend writer for publications such as \"The Village Voice\" (where he wrote for founding editor Richard Goldstein), \"Vibe\", \"New York Magazine\", \"The New York Times\", and \"The Advocate\". He also wrote the popular nightlife column \"Night Watch\" for \"HX\" (magazine) in the late nineties, and was a regular on the Manhattan and Miami Beach gay party scene as a bartender, doorman, and party boy. Nutter went on to become the first writer to report on the influence of gay culture on straight men in a 2001 piece for the \"Village Voice\" called \"Post-Straight, How Gay Men", "title": "Christopher Lee Nutter" }, { "docid": "4130219", "text": "combat, the aircraft were present as a carrier based deterrent during the 1962 New Guinea Indonesia crisis. They served aboard between 1957 and 1964 until \"Karel Doorman\"s overhaul, after which the attack role was eliminated and 22 aircraft were transferred to land based reserve storage - they were all retired from service by the end of the 1960s after the sale of \"Karel Doorman\" to Argentina. HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81) HNLMS \"Karel Doorman\" (R81) was a of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Formerly the British ship , she was sold to the Netherlands in 1948 as a light attack carrier. In", "title": "HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81)" }, { "docid": "10302359", "text": "(QC), Canada, navigating upstream. She also stopped at Montreal's Old Port on 26 May 2015. At 10am on June 17, 2015, she docked at Phillipsburg in St. Maarten. On 19 June 2015 at 12pm, she docked at Oranjestad in Aruba. On February 3, 2016, \"Karel Doorman\" docked at Amsterdam in The Netherlands. In February it was decided that the Dutch navy would incidentally share the use of the \"Karel Doorman\" with the German Navy. HNLMS Karel Doorman (A833) HNLMS \"Karel Doorman\" () is a multi-function support ship for amphibious operations of the Royal Netherlands Navy , which is also used", "title": "HNLMS Karel Doorman (A833)" }, { "docid": "15908271", "text": "the memoirs of US Army veterans, \"Chicken Soup for the Veteran's Soul\", Jean P. Brody tells that in 1945, when the war ended, her husband Gene stayed at the Napoléon and had a fond memory of the doorman Jean Fratoni, who was very kind to the American soldiers. Jean Brody tells that 40 years later, when her husband returned to Paris, he was very surprised to meet the same doorman who recognized him and said: \"You were here when the war ended, didn't you?” Fratoni was extremely warm towards the Brodys, who were deeply moved. The winner of the Nobel", "title": "Hotel Napoleon" }, { "docid": "3565749", "text": "conflict resolution skills before, or rather than, resorting to brute force against troublemakers. However, the earlier history of the occupation suggests that the stereotype of bouncers as rough, tough, physical enforcers has indeed been the case in many countries and cultures throughout history. Historical references also suggest that the 'doorman' function of guarding a place and selecting who can have entry to it (the stereotypical task of the modern bouncer) could at times be an honorific and evolve into a relatively important position. The significance of the doorman as the person allowing (or barring) entry is found in a number", "title": "Bouncer (doorman)" }, { "docid": "4345323", "text": "and finally completed and commissioned by the Royal Netherlands Navy on 31 May 1991. The \"Karel Doorman\" was followed by the \"Willem van der Zaan\", \"Tjerk Hiddes\", \"Van Amstel\", \"Abraham van der Hulst\", \"Van Nes\", \"Van Galen\", and finally the Van Speijk. During the construction of the \"Karel Doorman\"-class, the Netherlands had tried to export the frigates and sign contracts to build also for foreign navies. However, after three failed attempts it ceased these attempts. Nonetheless, there would be \"Karel Doorman\"-class frigates operating for foreign navies in the future, since the Dutch government sold 6 of its \"Karel Doorman\"-class frigates", "title": "Karel Doorman-class frigate" }, { "docid": "6343616", "text": "he's reached his goal, the protagonist rushes out to Solla Sollew. At the gates of Solla Sollew, the protagonist is greeted by a friendly doorman. The doorman explains to the protagonist about the only trouble the city has: a key-slapping slippard who takes charge of the city has moved into the lock of the door, which happens to be the only way into Solla Sollew, and bugs the doorman by continuously slapping the key out of the keyhole whenever he tries to insert it, thereby preventing anyone from entering the city. Because killing a slippard is considered an omen of", "title": "I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew" }, { "docid": "6281802", "text": "patron lets Christine work in the costume department. Christine has no home or money, but Jean-Claude, the doorman, lets her stay in a storage room in the Opera House. Christine wanders onto the stage and sings to the empty theater. The Phantom is entranced by her voice. Hiding in the orchestra pit, he tells her that her voice is miraculous but untrained, and with proper technique her singing could reach its full potential. He offers to be her teacher, but must remain anonymous; that is why he wears a mask. They begin lessons, and the Phantom falls deeper in love", "title": "The Phantom of the Opera (miniseries)" }, { "docid": "6771998", "text": "summon skis to fly and is intangible. Doorman continues to be a member of the GLA. However, after he helped his friends save the universe from Maelstrom, he understands the team's importance and has a newfound respect for them. After receiving a subpoena from the real Avengers and discovering that they were all mutants, the team decided to change their name to the Great Lakes X-Men, complete with new costumes. During the \"GLX-Mas Special\", the team confronted Dr. Tannenbaum, who had released an army of living Christmas trees on the citizens of Wisconsin. Later, Doorman informed the team that he", "title": "Doorman (comics)" }, { "docid": "19196274", "text": "Carlton Benjamin Goodlett Carlton Benjamin Goodlett (July 23, 1914 – January 25, 1997) was a physician, newspaper publisher, political power broker, and civil rights leader in San Francisco, California. From 1951 until his death, he was the owner of Reporter Publishing Company, which published the \"Sun-Reporter\", the \"California Voice\", and seven other regional African-American weeklies in Northern California. Goodlett maintained a busy medical practice in his newspaper office until his retirement from medicine in 1983. But his greatest passion was political activism. He was born in Chipley, Florida, to Fannie T. Russ and Arthur Goodlett, and later migrated to Omaha,", "title": "Carlton Benjamin Goodlett" }, { "docid": "2076069", "text": "in the seventh season, Budd disappears toward the end of the season and is never mentioned again. Carlton Blanchard: played by William Hickey, Carlton is an old man with a high-pitched nasal voice whose outwardly meek yet privately demanding behavior causes everyone who meets him to shudder at his coming. He is also known for asking bizarre questions such as \"If you were to carpet Florida, how long would it take to vacuum it?\" and \"If a monkey were to bite you, what kind of drugs do you suppose they'd give you?\". He annoys Joe, Brian, Lowell and Antonio when", "title": "Wings (1990 TV series)" }, { "docid": "6413368", "text": "than any one dimension, whether it's his own sex-centered relationships or Gregory and Rose's sex-less marriage. Not long before sunrise, Gregory goes to Rose's apartment. When the doorman won't let him in, he stars screaming up to her window, eventually being tackled by the doorman who is trying to make him leave. Hannah acts appalled at Gregory's \"insane\" behavior, while Rose is overjoyed. She throws on a robe and a scarf and rushes out to break things up between Gregory and the doorman. He tells her that he loves her, and that what caused him to pull away that night", "title": "The Mirror Has Two Faces" }, { "docid": "1804128", "text": "he studied communication between aircraft and naval vessels, he was placed at the Department of the Navy at Batavia in December 1923. He was born in 1889 in Utrecht, Netherlands. From 1919 to 1934, Doorman was married to Justine A.D. Schermer. In 1928, his son Joop was born, and Doorman became a professor of philosophy. They had two other children before they divorced. After the divorce, he married Isabella J.J.J. Heyligers in 1934. He had one son with her. In 1926, for the first time in eleven years, Doorman landed a longer appointment on board a naval vessel, the armored", "title": "Karel Doorman" }, { "docid": "8088599", "text": "and its extremely accurate voice-impersonations of the leading characters. Most of the characters in the segment not portrayed by Carlton were portrayed by Australian actor and television personality Josh Zepps. Friday News Review was one of the last political satire programs on mainstream commercial media in Australia. On 18 September 2009, Carlton retired from his long-running 2UE Breakfast show after over 26 years on Australian morning radio citing an unwillingness to continue with early morning hours and a desire to spend more time with his family and newborn son. He was a columnist for \"The Sydney Morning Herald\", initially being", "title": "Mike Carlton" }, { "docid": "10344174", "text": "Brown's voice from being recognized, Stone overdubbed shouted vocals by Carlton \"King\" Coleman, a local radio DJ, onto the recording, though Brown's voice remains audible in the background. Leadership of the band was officially credited to Nat Kendrick, who was Brown's drummer at the time, while the writing was credited to \"Dessie Rozier\", a pseudonym for Brown. A simple twelve bar blues tune, \"(Do the) Mashed Potatoes\" became a Top Ten R&B hit in 1960 and fed what would eventually grow into a national dance craze. The band recorded several more singles under the Nat Kendrick & the Swans name,", "title": "(Do the) Mashed Potatoes" }, { "docid": "6772005", "text": "a coffin. He then brings him back to the surface, convincing him to help the others. After Connie Ferrari gets the other Great Lakes Avengers out of the police station, Doorman was present when Goodness Silva was added to the Great Lakes Avengers where she takes on the name of Good Boy. After the team discovers that Dick Snerd shut them down, Mr. Immortal returns and takes Flatman on patrol, while Bertha, Doorman and Good Boy go to Nain Rogue's bar to find clues. Upon entering the bar, Doorman is pulled into the Darkforce Dimension, where Oblivion angrily demands an", "title": "Doorman (comics)" }, { "docid": "1804134", "text": "May 1947 by Lieutenant-Admiral Conrad Helfrich, on board , attended by Prince Bernhard. The Royal Dutch Navy named four vessels after Karel Doorman, including a former British , the largest ship the Navy ever commissioned. Karel Doorman is often honoured because he signalled (I am attacking, follow me) during the Battle of the Java Sea, which was considered very gallant. On 27 February 1942, at approximately four in the afternoon, the Japanese and the allied squadrons spotted each other. Karel Doorman notably recognized that the Dutch fleet was smaller than the Japanese, and gallantly proceeded to attack the Japanese fleet", "title": "Karel Doorman" }, { "docid": "4345322", "text": "to the care and facilities for the crew. Furthermore, there is more privacy and the comfort is greatly improved for the crew. The \"Karel Doorman\"-class were designed as multi purpose frigates that could perform a wide range of missions. Their armament reflects this by incorporating many features, such as the ability to engage submarines, aircraft and surface vessels. Besides warfare the armaments can also be used to support anti-drug and piracy operations. The first frigate to be built in the \"Karel Doorman\"-class was the HNLMS \"Karel Doorman\" which was laid down on 26 February 1985, launched in 20 April 1988", "title": "Karel Doorman-class frigate" }, { "docid": "19542097", "text": "the service. Upon signing up, the user is given a unique shipping address (similar to a P.O. Box) at their local Doorman warehouse to have their goods shipped to. Doorman then notifies the user when it receives the users package via its smartphone app. When a user wants their package(s) delivered, he or she opens the app and schedules package delivery during the one or two-hour delivery window of their choice. In January 2016, Doorman announced the ability for customers to request the pickup of return items they purchased online. CEO Zander Adell pitched Doorman on Season 6 Episode 13", "title": "Doorman (company)" }, { "docid": "6771992", "text": "Doorman (comics) Doorman (DeMarr Davis) is a fictional character, a mutant superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by John Byrne, Doorman first appeared in the pages of the \"West Coast Avengers\" in 1989. Little is known of Doorman's life before he responded to Mr. Immortal's advertisement for a hero team. This team would eventually become the Great Lakes Avengers. It has been revealed, however, that he is a mutant and has an African-American complexion. Before joining the Great Lakes Avengers, DeMarr Davis was an average American youngster. Sometime during his years in college, DeMarr's mother", "title": "Doorman (comics)" }, { "docid": "10994385", "text": "Doorman (profession) A doorman (also porter in British English) is an individual hired to provide courtesy and security services at a residential building or hotel. They are particularly common in urban luxury highrises. At a residential building, a doorman is responsible for opening doors and screening visitors and deliveries. He will often provide other courtesy services such as signing for packages, carrying luggage between the elevator and the street, or hailing taxis for residents and guests. The occupation dates back at least to the time of Plautus under the Roman Republic where its name was \"iānitor\" (from \"iānua\", 'door', the", "title": "Doorman (profession)" }, { "docid": "15972277", "text": "Danny is instructed to not leave the apartment for 12 days by the Lawyer and then by the doorman Joe. Joe becomes his only contact to the outside world and brings him groceries, since if Danny leaves the apartment himself, the landlord could lock him out. After about three or four days he starts switching from the kid who had to be convinced to stay by the doorman, to the kid who feels that the apartment was for him, and only him. As the days progress further, Danny begins to suffer from cabin fever leading to delusions and hallucinations. Also", "title": "Occupant (film)" }, { "docid": "4130213", "text": "Dutch defence forces, which she delivered when she arrived at Hollandia, New Guinea. \"Karel Doorman\" was also to have visited Yokohama, Japan during this Asian cruise to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the establishment of Japanese-Dutch diplomatic relations but, due to Indonesian and local protests, Japan withdrew its invitation. After the 1964 refit, \"Karel Doorman\" served the rest of her career mostly conducting NATO anti-submarine patrols in the north Atlantic, no longer carrying strike or fighter aircraft as part of her regular air wing. \"Karel Doorman\" also regularly conducted various exercises near Scotland during her career. During the 1960 crisis,", "title": "HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81)" }, { "docid": "4345320", "text": "Karel Doorman-class frigate The Karel Doorman\" class is a class of eight multi-purpose frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Introducing CODOG propulsion into the Dutch Navy for economical cruising. The class is also known as the \"Multi-purpose\" or M\" class. The design was originally intended to play a role similar to the then current Holland class for patrol duties in the North Sea and Caribbean, with high automation and a crew of 80-100. The ships are named after famous Dutch naval officers, the lead ship being named after Karel Doorman. In the 1970s the \"Roofdier\"-class frigates were deemed by the", "title": "Karel Doorman-class frigate" }, { "docid": "19542094", "text": "Doorman (company) Doorman was a privately held American technology company specializing in logistics services and products. The company managed and operated fulfillment centers and independent driver fleets in densely-populated urban areas, addressing the last mile gap between online retailers and their customers. It also developed, marketed and operated the Doorman mobile app, which allowed consumers to use their iOS or Android-based smartphone to schedule evening delivery of goods purchased online, or arrange pick up of goods intended to be shipped back to an online retailer. The company also offered direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands fulfillment and same-day package delivery services through the", "title": "Doorman (company)" }, { "docid": "8923463", "text": "filed a $2 million law suit against Warner Brothers in Manhattan Supreme Court, alleging that the Clint Eastwood film Bird (1988 film) portrayed him (via actor Tony Cox) in an unflattering and demeaning manner. \"It's a shame what they did,\" he said. \"There's only one of me and everyone knows me.\" During this time, Marquette was working as a greeter and doorman at the Hawaii Kai restaurant in Times Square. A compact disc composed entirely of his emcee introductions, entitled \"Every Night at Birdland: The Lost Introductions\" was released in 2008. His voice can be heard making the introductions on", "title": "Pee Wee Marquette" }, { "docid": "563001", "text": "but death. The author took pity on him, however, and provided quite an improbable epilogue.\" At the end, the doorman reads in the newspaper that he inherited a fortune from a Mexican millionaire named A. G. Money, a patron who died in his arms in the hotel washroom. Jannings returns to the hotel, where he dines happily with the night watchman who showed him kindness. On their way to the carriage, the doorman gives tips to all the service personnel from the hotel, who quickly line up along his way. In the final scene of the film, when both the", "title": "The Last Laugh (1924 film)" }, { "docid": "3235327", "text": "1977–1978, and then returned to Melbourne to coach Coburg Football Club in 1981. Nicholls has remained loyal to Carlton, even through the recent lean years. In August 2010, at a function to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Carlton's memorable 1970 premiership, Nicholls took the opportunity to voice his displeasure at the way Carlton had been run by previous administrators since the 1995 premiership, which eventually led, among other things, to the club's first wooden spoon in 2002: The thing that annoys me more at the moment about Carlton is our lack of respect, generally, in the footballing public. I know", "title": "John Nicholls (footballer)" }, { "docid": "6136382", "text": "City. Betz continued working in summer and winter stock companies and also worked for a while as a doorman at Radio City Music Hall. Betz made his Broadway debut in 1952 in \"The Long Watch\", and toured with Veronica Lake in the summer stock play, \"The Voice of the Turtle\". He then appeared for 18 months as Collie Jordan on \"Love of Life\". Prior to his eight-year run on \"The Donna Reed Show\", Betz made guest appearances on such television series as \"Sheriff of Cochise\", \"Perry Mason\", \"Gunsmoke\", \"The Millionaire\", and \"Alfred Hitchcock Presents\". In 1958, Betz was cast as", "title": "Carl Betz" }, { "docid": "4059179", "text": "an accountant at the Clark's Business College while he was in high school. His mother occasionally worked as a maid for the daughter of Burleigh Sr.'s employer when she held musicales (musical gatherings) in her home. Burleigh served as a doorman when various famous musicians performed at those musicales, including Venezuelan pianist Teresa Carreño and Italian tenor Italo Campanini. Burleigh studied voice with George F. Brierly, and during and after his high school years became known as one of Erie's most accomplished classical singers. Several Erie churches and the Jewish synagogue hired him as a soloist, and he also sang", "title": "Harry Burleigh" }, { "docid": "17172063", "text": "on 26 January they referred Bahmanzadeh's conviction and sentence to the Court of Appeal. Bahmanzadeh was released from prison on bail on 13 July 2012; he had been serving his sentence at Ford Open prison while working on day-release at a Brighton charity shop. The appeal was heard at the Court of Appeal in November 2012. The court heard allegations that one of the witnesses for the prosecution at the original trial was a doorman who, after he had been sacked by Bahmanzadeh, supplied \"intelligence\" to the police about activities in the club. The court heard that the doorman had", "title": "Palace Theatre, Plymouth" }, { "docid": "3565751", "text": "higher position of the supervisor). Doormen or bouncers are usually larger persons who display great strength and size. The Romans had a position known as the 'Ostiarius' (doorkeeper), initially a slave, who guarded the door, and sometimes ejected unwanted people from the house whose gate he guarded. The term later become a low-ranking clergy title. Plautus, in his play \"Bacchides\" (written approximately 194–184 BC), mentions a \"large and powerful\" doorman / bouncer as a threat to get an unwelcome visitor to leave. Tertullian, an early Christian author living mainly in the 1st century AD, while reporting on the casual oppression", "title": "Bouncer (doorman)" }, { "docid": "6772009", "text": "his predecessor Deathurge. In fact, his only difference in appearance from Deathurge are the white \"eyes\" that were once the eyepieces of his original costume. Doorman (comics) Doorman (DeMarr Davis) is a fictional character, a mutant superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by John Byrne, Doorman first appeared in the pages of the \"West Coast Avengers\" in 1989. Little is known of Doorman's life before he responded to Mr. Immortal's advertisement for a hero team. This team would eventually become the Great Lakes Avengers. It has been revealed, however, that he is a mutant and", "title": "Doorman (comics)" }, { "docid": "6772003", "text": "leader of the team, after he was transferred to Wisconsin by Norman Osborn. During the \"Fear Itself\" storyline, the team confronts Asbestos Man, who takes advantage of the fear and chaos that is happening. None of the group actually wish to touch the man due to the toxicity of his suit. Mr. Immortal talks him into giving up in return for being remembered by the others. In the ongoing series \"The Great Lakes Avengers\", it is revealed that the team had disbanded and gone their separate ways. During that time, Doorman continued on his role as an angel of death.", "title": "Doorman (comics)" }, { "docid": "6771994", "text": "and the West Coast Avengers against \"That Which Endures.\" They also assisted Mockingbird in a holding action against Terminus. After aiding the Thunderbolts against the villain Graviton, the team clashed with the mercenary Deadpool. Doorman is, however, the most cynical of the Great Lakes Avengers, constantly comparing the team to the real Avengers, usually at the most inappropriate times, and feeling at times embarrassed by his friends. Nonetheless, DeMarr cares for them deeply, and values each and every member of the team. During the \"G.L.A.\" mini-series, the team took on Maelstrom who was trying to destroy the universe. After Dinah", "title": "Doorman (comics)" }, { "docid": "6771995", "text": "Soar's death, Mr. Immortal suffers a nervous break down leading Flatman and Doorman to search for new members. They went to New York City, where they failed to recruit a number of heroes. While in Central Park, they're saved by Squirrel Girl and her sidekick Monkey Joe from muggers. They offer to recruit her in the team and she accepts. Later, they hear an alarm on a nearby factory and encounter the Grasshopper, who was battling Batroc the Leaper and his minions. During the battle, Flatman offers to recruit him and Grasshopper quickly accepts, only to be instantly killed by", "title": "Doorman (comics)" }, { "docid": "1804133", "text": "encountered no Japanese forces. The failure to stop the Japanese led to the successful occupation of Bali. This engagement is known as the Battle of Badung Strait. Doorman was killed in action when his ship was hit by a Japanese long lance torpedo and sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea. Part of the crew was rescued, but Doorman, following old navy tradition, chose to go down with his ship. On 5 June 1942 he was posthumously made a Knight 3rd class in the Military William Order. The medal was awarded to the rear admiral's eldest son on 23", "title": "Karel Doorman" }, { "docid": "19542096", "text": "raised $3.37 million spanning its angel and two seed rounds. In August 2014, Doorman raised 371.k in angel funding at a $4M pre-money valuation from 500 Startups. In June 2015, the company raised $1.5 million in seed funding, led by Motus Ventures and included participation from WTI, MicroVentures, and VGO Ventures. In September 2015, Doorman raised an additional $1.5 million in seed funding from Matrix Partners, Structure Capital, VGO Ventures and others. Users must download the Doorman app to their iOS or Android-based phone, sign up, enter a valid phone number, and enter a valid form of payment to utilize", "title": "Doorman (company)" }, { "docid": "4130209", "text": "HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81) HNLMS \"Karel Doorman\" (R81) was a of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Formerly the British ship , she was sold to the Netherlands in 1948 as a light attack carrier. In 1960, she was involved in the decolonization conflict in Western New Guinea with Indonesia. In the mid 1960s the role was changed to anti-submarine warfare carrier and only ASW aircraft and helicopters were carried. An engine room fire took her out of service in 1968. She was sold to Argentina in 1969 and renamed . Built at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead on 3 December 1942, \"Venerable\"", "title": "HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81)" }, { "docid": "8092864", "text": "seen talking to Doorman, after pulling him into the Darkforce Dimension, and angrily questions his absence from his duties. Oblivion possesses infinite cosmic powers which it can use for various effects. It is virtually omniscient and omnipresent, and cannot be truly destroyed without massive consequences for reality. Originally, Oblivion only had dominance over creatures who did not die but were wiped out from existence (due to a time paradox or being hit by the Ultimate Nullifier for example), while its counterpart Death was set over the actual dead. In its recent appearances though, Oblivion has used Deathurge and Doorman as", "title": "Oblivion (comics)" }, { "docid": "3565799", "text": "non-EU North African countries like Morocco, Algeria or Libya, who are to turn away refugees (often with severe ill-treatment) before they can reach Europe to request asylum, analogous to a club bouncer turning away undesirable customers. In a similar analogy, some social theorists have expressed the state itself as a form of 'bouncer' which \"pushes and punches drifters [people who do not conform with social norms] back to where they are supposed to be\"—though, depending on society, some states may be much more heavy-handed and proactive in this. In general: In popular culture: Bouncer (doorman) A bouncer (also known as", "title": "Bouncer (doorman)" }, { "docid": "20910880", "text": "Gaetano Varcasia Gaetano Varcasia (September 6, 1959 – November 10, 2014) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Varcasia began his career in 1983. He had played key parts on stage and had even served as a director. He also had minor roles as a television actor, usually making at least one appearance on a TV series. He was more or less known as a voice dubber. He was the official Italian voice of Mickey Mouse from 1988 to 1995 and also dubbed characters from American television shows which include Tyrion Lannister from \"Game of Thrones\", Carlton Banks from \"The", "title": "Gaetano Varcasia" }, { "docid": "562999", "text": "the intertitles (title cards) of spoken dialogue or description that characterize most silent films, in the belief that the visuals themselves should carry most of the meaning. In 1955, the film was remade starring Hans Albers. Jannings' character is a doorman for a famous hotel, who takes great pride in his work and position. His manager decides that the doorman is getting too old and infirm to present the image of the hotel, and so demotes him to a less demanding job, of washroom attendant. He tries to conceal his demotion from his friends and family but, to his shame,", "title": "The Last Laugh (1924 film)" }, { "docid": "19788986", "text": "Cheetham Hillbillies resumed attacking club goers and staff. On one occasion, Johnson grabbed a microphone and stated that he was \"Top Dog\". A London Firm doorman related a conversion he had with Johnson: The doorman also related the following conversation as an example of Johnson's troublemaking attitude, which took place when Johnson sat on the bonnet of a car belonging to the Licensing Police, who occasionally visited the club: Later that year, Johnson threatened one of the doormen with a gun, leading Tony Wilson to again close The Haçienda. He made a spectacle to try to get the police to", "title": "Anthony \"White Tony\" Johnson" }, { "docid": "4968709", "text": "the key. Stan is the doorman in the building Oskar lives in. He alerts Oskar when he has mail. Buckminster is Oskar's cat. Jonathan Safran Foer's inspiration for his main character came when having difficulty with another project. In an interview, Foer stated, \"I was working on another story and I just started to feel the drag of it. And so, as a side project, I got interested in the voice of this kid. I thought maybe it could be a story; maybe it would be nothing. I found myself spending more and more time on it and wanting to", "title": "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" }, { "docid": "13036467", "text": "Carl Carlton (German musician) Carl Carlton (born Karl Walter Ahlerich Buskohl, 20 April 1955, Ihrhove, East Frisia, Germany) is a German rock musician, guitarist, composer and producer who has played in top international bands and with many well-known musicians. His collaboration with Robert Palmer culminated in the Grammy nominated album \"Drive\", which was released in 2003. In 2005, Carlton joined Eric Burdon and the Animals. The collaboration resulted in the Grammy nominated album \"Soul of a Man\", which was released in 2006. Carlton has released four albums with his own band, Carl Carlton and the Songdogs. Carlton, who grew up", "title": "Carl Carlton (German musician)" }, { "docid": "10302358", "text": "6 November she was sent on a three-month deployment to West Africa to deliver aid to Ebola-struck countries. She was loaded with different goods in 91 containers and 155 vehicles, including ambulances. On 18 November the ship arrived in Freetown, Sierra Leone for her first offload. After her third offload in Liberia and the replenishment of RFA \"Argus\" the ship returned to the Netherlands to pick up another load. On 24 April 2015 JLSS \"Karel Doorman\" was formally commissioned and hence forward HNLMS \"Karel Doorman\", pennant A833. Seen on 25 May on the St. Lawrence River, in front of Baie-St-Paul", "title": "HNLMS Karel Doorman (A833)" }, { "docid": "1804130", "text": "ship saw action against the rebels on HNLMS \"De Zeven Provinciën\" in February 1933. In January 1934 Doorman went back to the Netherlands with \"Evertsen, a\" period of three years as Chief of Staff of the naval commander in Den Helder followed. In 1936 Doorman wrote a request to the Secretary of Defence for a command of a cruiser in the Dutch East Indies. As a result, he left in 1937, now a Captain, to the Dutch East Indies as a commander of the cruisers and . In August 1938 he was appointed Commander of Naval Aviation in the Dutch", "title": "Karel Doorman" }, { "docid": "10994386", "text": "root of both \"January\" and \"janitor\"). The United States House of Representatives had an official doorkeeper until the post was abolished in 1995. In New York City, doormen and elevator operators are unionized and typically represented by SEIU 32BJ. They last went on strike in 1991 and other strikes were narrowly averted in 2006 and 2010. In Egypt, doormen are called bawab, and in modern times they have been described by the BBC as a security guard, porter, enforcer of social mores and general snoop, all rolled into one. Doorman (profession) A doorman (also porter in British English) is an", "title": "Doorman (profession)" }, { "docid": "10302352", "text": "HNLMS Karel Doorman (A833) HNLMS \"Karel Doorman\" () is a multi-function support ship for amphibious operations of the Royal Netherlands Navy , which is also used by the German Navy. The ship replaced both of the navy's replenishment oilers: HNLMS \"Zuiderkruis\" (scrapped in February 2014) and HNLMS \"Amsterdam\" (sold to Peru in December 2014). At she is the largest ship in service in the Netherlands navy. She was built at the Damen yard in Galati, Romania, being the largest warship ever built in Romania. On 16 August 2013 the ship arrived in Vlissingen, The Netherlands where final outfitting and installation", "title": "HNLMS Karel Doorman (A833)" }, { "docid": "7151917", "text": "leaving behind the painful memories associated with his former home. At the end of the film, Alan visits Charlie for the day and his wife calls and tells him \"I love you and just want you to come home.\" The apartment's doorman brings out Charlie's scooter, and tells Alan not to leave stuff lying around. Alan tells the doorman to take it back upstairs, but the doorman does not respond. Not knowing what to do, Alan decides to ride home on the scooter. As music was an important component to the plot, various songs were used during different parts of", "title": "Reign Over Me" }, { "docid": "4130211", "text": ". \"Karel Doorman\", frigate \"Johan Maurits van Nassau\", and light cruiser \"Jacob van Heemskerck\" made a voyage to the Netherlands Antilles on 2 January 1950. Embarked on \"Karel Doorman\" was Prince Bernhard. The ships returned to the Netherlands on 4 May. In 1954, during a North American cruise, she visited Montreal, Quebec, Canada for an air show appearance. Early in 1959 the ship made a trip to the United States (Newport, Rhode Island and Fort Lauderdale, Florida) and then continued on to visit the Antilles again. In 1960, during the Dutch decolonization and planned independence of Western New Guinea, a", "title": "HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81)" }, { "docid": "19542098", "text": "of the ABC investment television show \"Shark Tank\" (which also featured fellow San Francisco startup Coffee Meets Bagel, where it got an investment from shark Robert Herjavec. Adell frequently appears on both regional and national television broadcasts around the holidays. Adell has appeared on CNBC's \"Squawk Box, Good Morning America, and regional news broadcasts in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York on CBS, ABC, FOX, and NBC. Doorman (company) Doorman was a privately held American technology company specializing in logistics services and products. The company managed and operated fulfillment centers and independent driver fleets in densely-populated urban areas, addressing the", "title": "Doorman (company)" }, { "docid": "8508789", "text": "after Dorothy for her silver platform heels (a reference to the book version of \"The Wizard of Oz\" where Dorothy's shoes were silver instead of red as seen in the 1939 film version with Judy Garland). The Wiz then quotes \"Shut up Witch\" as the witch ends up getting doused with Cristal by the Wiz and melts. Afterwards, the party resumes. After the last line of the song, the video cuts back to the woman standing in line, being insulted by the doorman and when he turns his back, the woman sneaks into Brick City unnoticed, with the Wiz's voice", "title": "Oooh." }, { "docid": "2611315", "text": "\"put an end to maritime oil spills\" (\"The Voice\"), and a product that will put ketchup and mustard in the same bottle. In \"The Friar's Club\", he creates a concept restaurant that only serves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, which he calls P.B. & Js. He also comes up with the idea of a beach-scented cologne in \"The Pez Dispenser\", but a marketing executive for Calvin Klein tells him the idea is ridiculous. In \"The Doorman\", Kramer and Frank Costanza co-develop a prototype for a bra for men called the \"bro\" or the \"manssiere\". In \"The Muffin Tops\", Kramer cries", "title": "Cosmo Kramer" }, { "docid": "563007", "text": "of the drunk doorman. The artistic part of the movie was in the acting of Emil Jannings playing the role of the doorman. Jennings used creatively his facial expressions, postures and movements, to which the cameramen provided enhancements by using close ups and the location of camera in such a way that the viewer sees nearly through the eyes of the doorman. Decorations and presentation of contrasting environments were also significant in creating the impression. The contrast between the rich environment of the Atlantic hotel and the lower class housing, gives an impression of a realistic presentation of situations. The", "title": "The Last Laugh (1924 film)" }, { "docid": "6772001", "text": "tournament, ignoring the protests of former Champions of Los Angeles member Hercules. All of the Great Lakes Champions have registered with the United States government as required by the Superhuman Registration Act, as revealed when Deadpool mistakenly attempted to apprehend them for violating the Act, only to be defeated and informed that they had already registered. DeMarr has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of the comic book \"\" #1. Doorman and his teammates became the Initiative group in charge of Wisconsin, calling themselves the Great Lakes Initiative. They were given a", "title": "Doorman (comics)" }, { "docid": "4345333", "text": "at least four vessels are to be built (two for the Royal Dutch Navy and two for the Belgian Marine Component), with the possibility more will be ordered as soon as the acquisition procedure reaches a more definitive phase. Karel Doorman-class frigate The Karel Doorman\" class is a class of eight multi-purpose frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Introducing CODOG propulsion into the Dutch Navy for economical cruising. The class is also known as the \"Multi-purpose\" or M\" class. The design was originally intended to play a role similar to the then current Holland class for patrol duties in the", "title": "Karel Doorman-class frigate" }, { "docid": "5167794", "text": "Avengers are later released thanks to Connie Ferrari despite the accusations of councilman Dick Snerd, who is actually Nain Rouge. With Connie's help, the Great Lakes Avengers persuaded Goodness Silva to join up with them, where she takes the name of Good Boy. After the team discovers that Dick Snerd shut them down, Mr. Immortal returns and goes on patrol with Flatman, while Bertha, Doorman and Good Boy go to Nain Rogue's bar to find clues. At the bar, Bertha and Good Boy discover that Dick Snerd is Nain Rogue, upon finding him in his office drunk. Doorman is brought", "title": "Great Lakes Avengers" }, { "docid": "1869088", "text": "(and against one another) in \"The Busboy\", \"The Stall\" and \"The Slicer\". \"The Susie\" is the only episode where their relationship is as prominent as the relationships between the other characters. Some episodes, like \"The Raincoats\", \"The Money\", \"The Doorman\" and \"The Fusilli Jerry\", would suggest that Kramer has a more comfortable rapport with George's parents than George. He has an interest in nice restrooms and his personal bathroom habits border on obsession. In \"The Revenge\", he quits his real estate job solely because he is forbidden to use his boss' private bathroom. In \"The Voice\", he admits that one", "title": "George Costanza" }, { "docid": "14201488", "text": "the frustrated doorman to finally head back to the lobby and make an announcement over the intercom evicting all pets. Unfortunately for him, a veritable zoo calls the hotel home, and comes stampeding over him. Getting up, the doorman dizzily says Tweety's catch phrase: \"I tawt I taw a putty tat!\" Tweety, popping out of hiding, delivers the final punchline by replying, \"You did! You did! You taw a putty tat, a moo-moo tow, a big dowiwwa, a diddy-up hortey, and a wittle monkey!\" (A busker's monkey was the last animal to run over the doorman) Room and Bird Room", "title": "Room and Bird" }, { "docid": "7585343", "text": "Carlton Select Carlton Select was a British digital television channel, owned by Carlton Television. It was originally launched in June 1995 as \"SelecTV\" before being purchased by Carlton in 1997 who relaunched it as Carlton Select. On 14 February 1997, after SelecTV was rebranded, Carlton Select branded itself as \"The UK's leading entertainment cable channel\". Together with quiz shows, films and comedies, the channel brought viewers a wide-ranging choice of high quality programming. The channel was also available via satellite in Africa, on the South African DStv service. This channel was the result of a purchase by Pearson Television of", "title": "Carlton Select" }, { "docid": "5167788", "text": "pet squirrel Monkey Joe) and Grasshopper are then recruited. Although Maelstrom is defeated via Mr. Immortal's trickery, Doorman, Grasshopper and Monkey Joe are all killed (the last of these murdered by Gene Lorrene, who sought revenge against the GLA). Mr. Immortal is also killed several times, though he always recovers. Doorman is revived soon after his death and learns that he is connected to the Darkforce Dimension, and Mr. Immortal learns that as an immortal he is considered \"Homo sapiens supreme\". Despite defeating Maelstrom and saving the universe, the Great Lakes Avengers' victory goes unnoticed. After receiving a subpoena from", "title": "Great Lakes Avengers" }, { "docid": "15488856", "text": "for the Bears, Gaghan was delisted but would remain in Queensland with Kedron Grange. Neil Gaghan Neil Gaghan (born 24 March 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and the Brisbane Bears in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Gaghan, who had 23 disposals against Collingwood on his league debut, was formerly a Carlton Under-19s player. With Carlton playing finals football in 1985 and 1986, Gaghan was unable to establish himself in the seniors. He spent the entire 1986 season with the Carlton reserves and participated in their premiership team. Released by Carlton, Gaghan was signed up", "title": "Neil Gaghan" }, { "docid": "14102635", "text": "of Art and Science and the Irving Arts Center Dupree Gallery of the Dallas Metropolitan area. A comic novel about a single parent raising four children in North Carolina in the 1960s, The Woman Who Was Not All There was featured as a Book of the Month Club selection and awarded the Joe Savago New Voice Award by the Quality Paperback Book Club for “the most distinctive and promising work of fiction or non-fiction offered by the book club in 1988”. Carlton Smith of \"The San Diego Union\" likened Sharp's writing to that of Flannery O'Connor. While working as a", "title": "Paula Sharp" }, { "docid": "16403832", "text": "Grammar Carlton RFC Grammar Carlton Rugby Football Club was a rugby union club based in Auckland, New Zealand. The club was established in 1996 as a merger between the Grammar Old Boys and Carlton clubs. The club was affiliated with the Auckland Rugby Football Union. In 2013, Grammar Carlton merged with Teachers Eastern to form Grammar TEC. Grammar Carlton was formed in 1996, as a merger between Grammar Old Boys (established in 1914) and Carlton (established in 1982, as a merger between Cornwall and Grafton, who were themselves established in 1922 and 1874, respectively). The club are based at Cornwall", "title": "Grammar Carlton RFC" }, { "docid": "15488855", "text": "Neil Gaghan Neil Gaghan (born 24 March 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and the Brisbane Bears in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Gaghan, who had 23 disposals against Collingwood on his league debut, was formerly a Carlton Under-19s player. With Carlton playing finals football in 1985 and 1986, Gaghan was unable to establish himself in the seniors. He spent the entire 1986 season with the Carlton reserves and participated in their premiership team. Released by Carlton, Gaghan was signed up by Brisbane for their first VFL season in 1987. After managing just three appearances", "title": "Neil Gaghan" }, { "docid": "9689322", "text": "The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC is an American company that operates the luxury hotel chain known as The Ritz-Carlton. The company has 91 luxury hotels and resorts in 30 countries and territories. The current company was founded in 1983, when the previous owners sold the Ritz-Carlton brand name and the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The brand was subsequently expanded to other locations. The company is today a subsidiary of Marriott International. The story of The Ritz-Carlton begins with Swiss hotelier César Ritz, who was well known in the hotel industry as the \"king of hoteliers", "title": "The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company" }, { "docid": "11761202", "text": "were nominated for the AFL Rising Star award in 2008: Kreuzer ultimately polled eleven votes to finish fourth for the award. The following Carlton players were selected for representative teams during the 2008 season. Alex Jesaulenko, who played 256 games and won four premierships with Carlton between 1967–1979, was elevated to the status of \"Legend\" in the Australian Football Hall of Fame. The Carlton Football Club had a full affiliation with the Northern Bullants during the 2008 season. It was the sixth season of the clubs' affiliation, which had been in place since 2003. Carlton senior- and rookie-listed players who", "title": "2008 Carlton Football Club season" }, { "docid": "3455985", "text": "partners for basketball, including Tommy Hawkins and Billy Packer. Al DeRogatis was also Gowdy's partner for the college football games. After the 1975 World Series, he was removed from NBC's baseball telecasts, after a controversy over comments of a call by an umpire, and when sponsor Chrysler insisted on having Joe Garagiola (who was their spokesman in many commercials) be the lead play-by-play voice. While Gowdy was on hand in the press box for Carlton Fisk's legendary home run in game 6 of the 1975 Series, the actual calls went to two of Gowdy's Red Sox successors, Dick Stockton on", "title": "Curt Gowdy" }, { "docid": "9991196", "text": "the main characters on the Adult Swim comedy series \"Assy McGee\" and has lent his voice to several Soup2Nuts animated shows including \"O'Grady\", \"Home Movies\", and \"WordGirl\". He voices Teddy in the animated Fox series \"Bob's Burgers\". He voiced the hostile immigration officer Lt. Francis Grimes on the Comedy Central series \"Ugly Americans\". Murphy has appeared as a sketch actor on \"Late Night with Conan O'Brien\" and has a recurring role as \"Jay the Doorman\" on the Adult Swim live-action series \"Delocated\". He has toured with comedian Eugene Mirman and makes an appearance on his 2009 comedy album \"God is", "title": "Larry Murphy (actor)" }, { "docid": "6258463", "text": "Voice\" and founder of the \"Barbados Daily News\". Cozier's family descended from Scottish labourers who had emigrated in the 18th century to Barbados. Cozier studied journalism at Carleton University, Ottawa, and began his reporting career in 1958. He played hockey as a goalkeeper for Barbados and cricket as a batsman and wicket-keeper for local cricket clubs Wanderers and Carlton. He became the editor of the \"Barbados Daily News\" in 1961, where he worked with retired cricketer Everton Weekes, and covered the West Indies tour to England in 1963. He was subsequently the cricket correspondent of the \"Barbados Advocate\", and in", "title": "Tony Cozier" }, { "docid": "20012762", "text": "Ritz-Carlton Hotel (New York City) The Ritz-Carlton Hotel was a luxury hotel in New York City, owned by the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. It was located at 46th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The Ritz-Carlton Investing Company was established by Albert Keller, who bought and franchised the name in the United States. The New York hotel opened in 1911; it was the first Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the U.S. Louis Diat ran the kitchens and is believed to have invented the modern vichyssoise there. In 1911, the Ritz-Carlton Company announced its intention to expand the hotel, adding 100 rooms, a 300-seat", "title": "Ritz-Carlton Hotel (New York City)" }, { "docid": "19685743", "text": "wounds at his home in Arrowsmith, Illinois in May 2001. Notes found at the scene, as well as witness testimony, suggested that Carlton had intended to take his own life. His death was ruled a suicide. Guy Carlton Guy Albert Carlton (January 16, 1954 – May 11, 2001) was an American weightlifter who won a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1979 Pan American Games. Based out of Colorado, Carlton was the US National Heavyweight Champion twice, in 1981 and 1984. At the 1984 Summer Olympics, Carlton was a bronze medalist in the", "title": "Guy Carlton" }, { "docid": "13475557", "text": "the ships. At this time Japanese reconnaissance planes sighted the ABDA fleet, under Rear Admiral Karel Doorman, at Gasperstrasse on a northerly course. On Wavell's order, Doorman had collected the fleet, consisting of the Dutch cruisers , and , as well as the British cruiser and the Australian light cruiser with ten destroyers, to the south of Bali and sortied on 14 February in the direction of Sumatra. Japanese fighter aircraft of the \"Ryūjō\" and from Malaya attacked the ABDA fleet at midday of the next day and made Doorman pull back all his ships to the south. The invasion", "title": "Invasion of Sumatra (1942)" }, { "docid": "15891757", "text": "in Paris. After two years with Courrèges, he attempted to join Hubert de Givenchy, but that designer advised him to be an illustrator. Carlton began illustrating articles for ELLE Magazine, becoming a freelance artist for The London Sunday Times, The Daily Mail, The Observer, The New York Times, Mademoiselle Magazine and many other publications. He moved to New York, where he began writing freelance articles for \"The Village Voice\" and \"McCalls\", often centered on fashion, social issues or the media. After two years in New York, he returned to London to become Men's Wear Editor of The Sunday Times and", "title": "Harold Carlton" } ]

[ "Equal Protection Clause" ]

[ { "docid": "3687539", "text": "Equal Protection Clause The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect in 1868, provides \"nor shall any State [...] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws\". A primary motivation for this clause was to validate the equality provisions contained in the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which guaranteed that all citizens would have the guaranteed right to equal protection by law. As a whole, the Fourteenth Amendment marked a large shift in American constitutionalism, by applying substantially more constitutional restrictions against the", "title": "Equal Protection Clause" }, { "docid": "3687539", "text": "Equal Protection Clause The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect in 1868, provides \"nor shall any State [...] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws\". A primary motivation for this clause was to validate the equality provisions contained in the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which guaranteed that all citizens would have the guaranteed right to equal protection by law. As a whole, the Fourteenth Amendment marked a large shift in American constitutionalism, by applying substantially more constitutional restrictions against the", "title": "Equal Protection Clause" }, { "docid": "20117564", "text": "Alec Karakatsanis Alec Karakatsanis (born November 7, 1983) is an American civil rights lawyer, social justice advocate, co-founder of Equal Justice Under Law, and founder and Executive Director of Civil Rights Corps, a Washington D.C. impact litigation nonprofit. Karaktsanis' recent work has targeted the American monetary bail system. Using the novel legal strategy of suing jurisdictions under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, Civil Rights Corps won a series of landmark civil rights lawsuits which ended money bail systems in Mississippi, Missouri, Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, and other jurisdictions. Karakatsanis' long-term goals are ending American", "title": "Alec Karakatsanis" }, { "docid": "4485891", "text": "US Secretary of Transportation at that time. Mountain States Legal Foundation represented Adarand Constructors. The questions before the Court was primarily whether the presumption of disadvantage based on race alone, as well as the consequent allocation of favored treatment, was a discriminatory practice that violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment as well as the Due Process clause of the 5th Amendment. On September 5, 2005, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report finding that, ten years after the \"Adarand\" decision, federal agencies still largely fail to comply with the rule in \"Adarand\". Specifically, the Commission", "title": "Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña" }, { "docid": "8600790", "text": "and grant it to black families, which became the \"Forty acres and a mule\" policy. The proposal was never widely adopted due to strong political opposition, and Sherman's orders were soon revoked by President Andrew Johnson. Nearly a century later (1950s–1960s), the discussion of policies to assist classes of individuals reemerged during the Civil Rights Movement. Civil rights guarantees that came through the interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment affirmed the civil rights of people of color. In United States law, the term \"affirmative action\" appeared as early as 1935 in the National Labor Relations Act,", "title": "Affirmative action in the United States" }, { "docid": "20117568", "text": "Law School, NYU School of Law, and Princeton University (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8deyP4-42i0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF7pZMTNohw, for example). In addition, Karakatsanis has published articles in newspapers and law journals including: Alec Karakatsanis Alec Karakatsanis (born November 7, 1983) is an American civil rights lawyer, social justice advocate, co-founder of Equal Justice Under Law, and founder and Executive Director of Civil Rights Corps, a Washington D.C. impact litigation nonprofit. Karaktsanis' recent work has targeted the American monetary bail system. Using the novel legal strategy of suing jurisdictions under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, Civil Rights Corps won a series", "title": "Alec Karakatsanis" }, { "docid": "3066343", "text": "actually purports to confer any legal benefits upon white citizens. Representative Samuel Shellabarger said that it did not. After enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 by overriding a presidential veto, some members of Congress supported the Fourteenth Amendment in order to eliminate doubts about the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, or to ensure that no subsequent Congress could later repeal or alter the main provisions of that Act. Thus, the Citizenship Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment parallels citizenship language in the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and likewise the Equal Protection Clause parallels nondiscrimination language", "title": "Civil Rights Act of 1866" }, { "docid": "10941953", "text": "the U.S. Constitution had abolished slavery and guaranteed basic civil rights to African-Americans; the Civil Rights Act of 1875 extended this to \"public accommodation\" and jury selection, including the establishment of criminal penalties for court officers who interfered: The United States Supreme Court ruled in 1880 in \"Strauder v. West Virginia\" that laws excluding blacks from jury service violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment; yet in \"Virginia v. Rives\" (1879), the court denied an appeal from a black defendant who asked that black jurors be made at least one third of his jury, noting that an all-white", "title": "All-white jury" }, { "docid": "4849334", "text": "equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. In September 1953, Vinson died due to a heart attack. Justice Felix Frankfurter said: \"This is the first indication I have ever had that there is a God.\" Vinson was succeeded as chief justice by Earl Warren, who was known for his moderate views on civil rights. After the case was reheard in December, Warren set about persuading his colleagues to reach a unanimous decision overruling \"Plessy\". Five of the other eight judges were firmly on his side. He persuaded another two by saying that the decision would not touch greatly on the", "title": "Civil rights movement (1896–1954)" }, { "docid": "3109636", "text": "readopted by Congress during the Civil Rights Movement as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The 1964 and 1968 acts relied upon the Commerce Clause contained in of the Constitution of the United States rather than the Equal Protection Clause within the Fourteenth Amendment. Civil Rights Act of 1875 The Civil Rights Act of 1875 (–337), sometimes called Enforcement Act or Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era in response to civil rights violations to African Americans, \"to protect all citizens in their civil and", "title": "Civil Rights Act of 1875" }, { "docid": "483222", "text": "of association amidst growing authoritarianism. The Constitution of Canada includes the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which guarantees many of the same rights as the U.S. constitution, with the notable exceptions of protection against establishment of religion. However, the Charter does protect freedom of religion. The Charter also omits any mention of, or protection for, property. The United States Constitution, especially its Bill of Rights, protects civil liberties. The passage of the Fourteenth Amendment further protected civil liberties by introducing the Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. Human rights within the United States are", "title": "Civil liberties" }, { "docid": "3139171", "text": "the power to require congressional districts with equal populations. Harlan was the sole dissenter in \"Reynolds v. Sims\", in which the Court relied on the Equal Protection Clause to extend the one man, one vote principle to state legislative districts. He analyzed the language and history of the Fourteenth Amendment, and concluded that the Equal Protection Clause was never intended to encompass voting rights. Because the Fifteenth Amendment would have been superfluous if the Fourteenth Amendment (the basis of the reapportionment decisions) had conferred a general right to vote, he claimed that the Constitution did not require states to adhere", "title": "John Marshall Harlan (born 1899)" }, { "docid": "3687551", "text": "and immunities were only ensured at the Federal level and that it was government overreach to impose this standard on the states . Even in this halting decision the Court still acknowledged the context in which the Amendment was passed, stating that knowing the evils and injustice the 14th amendment was meant to combat is key in our legal understanding of its implications and purpose. With the abridgment of the Privileges and Immunities clause, legal arguments aimed at protecting Black American's rights became more complex and that is when the equal protection clause started to gain attention for the arguments", "title": "Equal Protection Clause" }, { "docid": "6114532", "text": "Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the US Constitution. Since the respondents were filing the action in Washington, DC, a federal territory, not a state, the constitutional provision the plaintiffs sued under was the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment instead of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Equal Protection Clause directly applies only to the states, but the Supreme Court ruled in \"Bolling v. Sharpe\" that the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, which applies to the federal government, contains an equal protection component. The Supreme Court held that under", "title": "Washington v. Davis" }, { "docid": "4882306", "text": "provide 'a remedy where state law was inadequate'; and 3) to provide 'a federal remedy where the state remedy, though adequate in theory, was not available in practice.' \" Now the statute stands as one of the most powerful authorities with which state and federal courts may protect those whose rights are deprived. Section 1983 of the 1871 Civil Rights Act provides a way individuals can sue to redress when their federally protected rights are violated, like the First Amendment rights and the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Section 1983 can be used", "title": "Third Enforcement Act" }, { "docid": "2432763", "text": "acts of the federal government. In \"McDonald v. City of Chicago\" (2010), the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment right of an individual to \"keep and bear arms\" is incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore fully applicable to states and local governments. Furthermore, \"United States v. Harris\" (1883) held that the Equal Protection Clause did not apply to an 1883 prison lynching on the basis that the Fourteenth Amendment applied only to state acts, not to individual criminal actions. In the \"Civil Rights Cases\" (1883), the Supreme Court allowed segregation by striking down", "title": "States' rights" }, { "docid": "10202947", "text": "law, authorized under the Tenth Amendment State Police powers to protect the health, safety, welfare, and morals of its citizens - vs- Dukes' Fourteenth Amendment right of equal protection of the law: The question for the court was whether the city of New Orleans' ordinance violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment? \"Per Curiam\": No. Case was Reversed. When local economic regulation is challenged solely as violating the Equal Protection Clause, this Court consistently defers to legislative determinations as to the desirability of particular statutory discriminations. Unless a classification trammels fundamental personal rights or is drawn upon inherently", "title": "City of New Orleans v. Dukes" }, { "docid": "7286470", "text": "Katzenbach v. Morgan Katzenbach v. Morgan, 384 U.S. 641 (1966), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the power of Congress, pursuant to Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, to enact laws that enforce and interpret provisions of the Constitution. Prior to the 1960s, many US states and municipalities used literacy tests to disenfranchise minorities. In 1959, the US Supreme Court held, in \"Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections\", that literacy tests were not necessarily violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, nor of the 15th Amendment. In 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act", "title": "Katzenbach v. Morgan" }, { "docid": "3687591", "text": "redundant. Indeed, it was on this argument, as well as on the legislative history of the Fourteenth Amendment, that Justice John M. Harlan (the grandson of the earlier Justice Harlan) relied in his dissent from \"Reynolds\". Harlan quoted the congressional debates of 1866 to show that the framers did not intend for the Equal Protection Clause to extend to voting rights, and in reference to the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments, he said: Harlan also relied on the fact that Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment \"expressly recognizes the States' power to deny 'or in any way' abridge the right of", "title": "Equal Protection Clause" }, { "docid": "3687550", "text": "14th amendment as the basis for his arguments to expand the protections afforded to Black Americans. Though the equal protection clause is one of the most cited ideas in legal theory, it received little attention during the ratification of the 14th amendment. Instead the key tenant of the Fourteenth Amendment at the time of its ratification was the Privileges and Immunities Clause. This clause sought to protect the privileges and immunities of all citizens which now included Black men. The scope of this clause was substantially narrowed following the Slaughterhouse Cases in which it was determined that a citizen's privileges", "title": "Equal Protection Clause" }, { "docid": "19200502", "text": "investigation, going as far as to file a declaratory judgment to stop the investigation. In February 2014 the DOJ released a report stating that investigators had found \"substantial evidence of gender bias\" in the Missoula County Attorney's Office which amounted to a violation of federal law, including the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels for the Civil Rights Division stated: \"We uncovered evidence of a disturbing pattern of deficiencies in the handling of these cases by the County Attorney’s Office, a pattern that not only denies victims meaningful access to justice, but places", "title": "Fred Van Valkenburg" }, { "docid": "5115292", "text": "the same treatment for all students, even though some students were disadvantaged due to their limited fluency in English, the school district was not required to make up for the different starting points of students. The students appealed the Court of Appeal's decision to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court issued its decision on January 21, 1974, with the Court unanimously ruling in favor of Lau. Instead of examining the equal protection clause from the 14th Amendment, the Court relied on Section 601 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Since the school system received federal funding, it was required", "title": "Lau v. Nichols" }, { "docid": "6539691", "text": "gender roles. Reflecting the then-position of labor and Kennedy's labor ties, the report avoided a flat statement about the Equal Rights Amendment. Instead, it stated that constitutional equality between men and women was essential and should be achieved through a Supreme Court decision holding that women were protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. The Commission stated that because women were already entitled to constitutional protection against discrimination, it did not \"now\" endorse a constitutional amendment. However, some key members of the Commission said privately that they would support an equal rights amendment if the Court refused to extend", "title": "Presidential Commission on the Status of Women" }, { "docid": "2249372", "text": "against them and it was to be enforced in Federal courts. The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution of 1868 (with its Equal Protection Clause) was the work of a coalition formed of both moderate and Radical Republicans. By 1866, the Radical Republicans supported federal civil rights for Freedmen, which Johnson opposed. By 1867, they defined terms for suffrage for freed slaves and limited early suffrage for many ex-Confederates. While Johnson opposed the Radical Republicans on some issues, the decisive Congressional elections of 1866 gave the Radicals enough votes to enact their legislation over Johnson's vetoes. Through elections in", "title": "Radical Republican" }, { "docid": "7205437", "text": "court to strike down Michigan's Proposal 2 as unconstitutional. The brief authors argue that Proposal 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution by creating procedural barriers for people of color. On 16 November 2012, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc upheld the earlier ruling that the Initiative is unconstitutional. Supporters announced their intention to appeal to the Supreme Court. On March 25, 2013 the Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari, agreeing to hear the case. Arguments were heard during the Supreme Court term beginning in October 2013. On April 22,", "title": "Michigan Civil Rights Initiative" }, { "docid": "1850229", "text": "civil rights case of \"Obergefell v. Hodges\" that the fundamental right of same-sex couples to marry on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples, with all the accompanying rights and responsibilities, is guaranteed by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The most prominent supporters of same-sex marriage are human rights and civil rights organizations as well as the medical and scientific communities, while the most prominent opponents are religious groups. The ruling of the Supreme Court in \"Obergefell\" occurred following decades of consistently rising national public", "title": "Same-sex marriage in the United States" }, { "docid": "503744", "text": "Constitution's 14th Amendment by several decades, that Vermont is free to provide rights to its citizens not granted by the federal constitution, and that the application of the Common Benefit Clause has historically been significantly different from the federal courts' application of the Equal Protection Clause. While the federal Equal Protection Clause is typically invoked only under very limited circumstances, the Common Benefit Clause has been read to require that \"statutory exclusions from publicly conferred benefits and protections must be 'premised on an appropriate and overriding public interest.'\" It found that the state's policy did not serve such an \"overriding", "title": "Baker v. Vermont" }, { "docid": "923404", "text": "that recognize marriage as a fundamental right that is guaranteed by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as first established in the 1967 landmark civil rights case of \"Loving v. Virginia\". Civil rights campaigning in support of marriage without distinction as to sex or sexual orientation began in the 1970s. In 1972, the now overturned \"Baker v. Nelson\" saw the Supreme Court of the United States decline to become involved. The issue became prominent from around 1993, when the Supreme Court of Hawaii ruled in \"Baehr v.", "title": "Same-sex marriage" }, { "docid": "12828371", "text": "in court decisions have made each of those requirements unconstitutional or a violation of federal law. The 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents denial or abridgment of the voting rights of a citizen 18 years of age or older. Federal court decisions have held that residency requirements of the type which were set forth in section 6, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. In addition, the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 generally prohibits literacy tests as a condition for eligibility to vote. Because of this, Oregon’s Attorney General in", "title": "2008 Oregon Ballot Measure 54" }, { "docid": "1850225", "text": "marriage as a fundamental right that is guaranteed by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as first established in the 1967 landmark civil rights case of \"Loving v. Virginia\". Civil rights campaigning in support of marriage without distinction as to sex or sexual orientation began in the 1970s. In 1972, the now overturned \"Baker v. Nelson\" saw the Supreme Court of the United States decline to become involved. The issue became prominent from around 1993, when the Supreme Court of Hawaii ruled in \"Baehr v. Lewin\" that", "title": "Same-sex marriage in the United States" }, { "docid": "4305818", "text": "a jury selected from residents of the state and district where the crime occurred Right to notice of accusations Right to confront adverse witnesses Right to compulsory process (subpoenas) to obtain witness testimony Right to assistance of counsel Right to jury trial in civil cases Re-Examination Clause Protection against excessive bail Protection against excessive fines Protection against cruel and unusual punishments A similar legal doctrine to incorporation is that of reverse incorporation. Whereas incorporation applies the Bill of Rights to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, in reverse incorporation, the Equal Protection Clause of the", "title": "Incorporation of the Bill of Rights" }, { "docid": "3109634", "text": "editorials finds the press was overwhelmingly opposed. The Supreme Court, in an 8–1 decision, declared sections of the act unconstitutional in the \"Civil Rights Cases\" on October 15, 1883. Justice John Marshall Harlan provided the lone dissent. The Court held the Equal Protection Clause within the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits discrimination by the state and local government, but it does not give the federal government the power to prohibit discrimination by private individuals and organizations. The Court also held that the Thirteenth Amendment was meant to eliminate \"the badge of slavery,\" but not to prohibit racial discrimination in public accommodations. The", "title": "Civil Rights Act of 1875" }, { "docid": "785694", "text": "Court in 1970 as \"Oregon v. Mitchell\". By this time, four states had a minimum voting age below 21: Georgia, Kentucky, Alaska and Hawaii. During debate of the 1970 extension of the Voting Rights Act, Senator Ted Kennedy argued that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment allowed Congress to pass national legislation lowering the voting age. In the 1966 decision of \"Katzenbach v. Morgan\", the Supreme Court had ruled that \"if Congress acts to enforce the 14th Amendment by passing a law declaring that a type of state law discriminates against a certain class of persons, the Supreme", "title": "Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "docid": "428767", "text": "text of the Fourteenth Amendment applies the Equal Protection Clause only against the states, the Supreme Court, since \"Bolling v. Sharpe\" (1954), has applied the Clause against the federal government through the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment under a doctrine called \"reverse incorporation.\" In \"Yick Wo v. Hopkins\" (1886), the Supreme Court has clarified that the meaning of \"person\" and \"within its jurisdiction\" in the Equal Protection Clause would not be limited to discrimination against African Americans, but would extend to other races, colors, and nationalities such as (in this case) legal aliens in the United States who", "title": "Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "docid": "3687543", "text": "that set the United States on the path to the Civil War which would lead the reconstruction amendments in which the Equal Protection Clause can be found. Before and during the Civil War, the Southern states violated the rights of free speech of pro-Union citizens, anti-slavery advocates, and northerners in general. During the Civil War, the Southern states stripped many white citizens of their state citizenship and banished them from the states, effectively confiscating their property. Shortly after the Union victory in the American Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment was proposed by Congress and ratified by the states in 1865,", "title": "Equal Protection Clause" }, { "docid": "3490389", "text": "had chosen to ignore the language, history, and original intent of the Equal Protection Clause, which did not extend to voting rights. The dissent strongly accused the Court of repeatedly amending the Constitution through its opinions, rather than waiting for the lawful amendment process: \"the Court's action now bringing them (state legislative apportionments) within the purview of the Fourteenth Amendment amounts to nothing less than an exercise of the amending power by this Court.\" The Court soon extended “one person, one vote” to all U.S. congressional districts in \"Wesberry v. Sanders\" (1964), but not to the Senate. Since the ruling", "title": "Reynolds v. Sims" }, { "docid": "14422611", "text": "State Board of Elections,\" the Supreme Court reversed its decision in \"Breedlove v. Suttles\" to also include state elections as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The \"Harper\" ruling was one of several that relied on the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment rather than the more direct provision of the 15th Amendment. In a two-month period in the spring of 1966, Federal courts declared unconstitutional poll tax laws in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on 9 February. Decisions followed for Alabama (3 March) and", "title": "Poll taxes in the United States" }, { "docid": "17945439", "text": "couple wanting to marry in Oregon, and by William Griesar and Robert Duehmig, a gay male couple together for 25 years who had married in Canada. The case was filed in the United States District Court of Oregon. The case claims that Oregon's constitutional ban on same gender marriage, , and all Oregon marriage statutes referring to husband and wife that government officials interpreted in a way that excluded full and equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples, violate the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The couples", "title": "Geiger v. Kitzhaber" }, { "docid": "4836891", "text": "Uniform Parental Rights Enforcement and Protection Act The Uniform Parental Rights, Enforcement and Protection Act (UPREPA) was developed in September 2000 as a petition to the United States, and to several of the individual states. It is founded upon the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. The purpose of the reform was to guarantee that a child's rights to equal contact with each parent were protected by Federal law. The UPREPA would eliminate the concepts of custody and visitation. This is a model legislation proposal, similar to the model legislation that has been proposed", "title": "Uniform Parental Rights Enforcement and Protection Act" }, { "docid": "19860828", "text": "education for illegal immigrants in Texas. In October 1980, a federal appeals court upheld the district court's ruling that charging tuition to children who did not have permanent immigration status was unconstitutional. In 1982, the supreme court also ruled that children of illegal immigrants have the right to free public schooling. According to the decision, by treating undocumented children differently, the school district violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Timeline of Latino civil rights in the United States Timeline of Latino civil rights in the United States. 1894: The AHA was founded in Arizona in 1894 to", "title": "Timeline of Latino civil rights in the United States" }, { "docid": "9614735", "text": "their respective cases. Marshall argues the equal protection clause extends far enough to the states to prohibit segregated schools. Davis counters that control of public schools is a \"states' rights\" issue that Congress never intended to be covered by the 14th Amendment when it was passed. Taking the case under advisement, the stalemated justices agree to allow Marshall and Davis an opportunity to re-argue their respective cases as to whether the equal protection clause specifically extends to the desegregation of schools. In the interim, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson dies and is replaced by a non-jurist, Governor Earl Warren of", "title": "Separate but Equal (film)" }, { "docid": "12359447", "text": "the Equal Protection Clause) in a number of cases. \"Boerne\" held that any statute that Congress enacted to enforce the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment (including the Equal Protection Clause) had to show \"a congruence and proportionality between the injury to be prevented or remedied and the means adopted to that end\". The Rehnquist Court's congruence and proportionality theory replaced the \"ratchet\" theory that had arguably been advanced in \"Katzenbach v. Morgan\" (1966). According to the \"ratchet\" theory, Congress could \"ratchet up\" civil rights beyond what the Court had recognized, but Congress could not \"ratchet down\" judicially recognized rights. According", "title": "William Rehnquist" }, { "docid": "4836892", "text": "for tort reform, contract law, and criminal law. The act has been proposed to each of the fifty states of the United States of America, along with federal oversight requirements similar to that proposed, passed and enacted under the UCCJA - Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act. Uniform Parental Rights Enforcement and Protection Act The Uniform Parental Rights, Enforcement and Protection Act (UPREPA) was developed in September 2000 as a petition to the United States, and to several of the individual states. It is founded upon the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. The purpose", "title": "Uniform Parental Rights Enforcement and Protection Act" }, { "docid": "2432764", "text": "the Civil Rights Act of 1875, a statute that prohibited racial discrimination in public accommodation. It again held that the Equal Protection Clause applied only to acts done by states, not to those done by private individuals, and as the Civil Rights Act of 1875 applied to private establishments, the Court said, it exceeded congressional enforcement power under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. By the beginning of the 20th century, greater cooperation began to develop between the state and federal governments and the federal government began to accumulate more power. Early in this period, a federal income tax was", "title": "States' rights" } ]

[ { "docid": "1299135", "text": "the Civil Rights Act of 1875, but under the Commerce Clause of Article I instead of the 14th Amendment; the Court held it to be constitutional in \"Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States\", . Civil Rights Cases The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), were a group of five US Supreme Court constitutional law cases. Against the famous dissent of Justice Harlan, a majority held the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional, because Congress lacked authority to regulate private affairs under the Fourteenth Amendment, and that the Thirteenth Amendment \"merely abolishes slavery\". The Civil Rights Act of", "title": "Civil Rights Cases" }, { "docid": "3687549", "text": "Jersey were included in those counted as ratifying the amendment. Many historians have argued that 14th amendment was not originally intended to grant sweeping political and social rights to the citizens but instead to solidify the constitutionality of the 1866 Civil rights Act. While it is widely agreed that this was a key reason for the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, many historians adopt a much wider view. It is a popular interpretation that the Fourteenth Amendment was always meant to ensure equal rights for all those in American. This argument was used by Charles Sumner when he used the", "title": "Equal Protection Clause" }, { "docid": "428828", "text": "who enforced such a clause were liable for civil damages. The Court addressed the white primary system in a series of decisions later known as the \"Texas primary cases\". In \"Nixon v. Herndon\" (1927), Nixon sued for damages under federal civil rights laws after being denied a ballot in a Democratic party primary election on the basis of race. The Court found in his favor on the basis of the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the law, while not discussing his Fifteenth Amendment claim. After Texas amended its statute to allow the political party's state executive committee to", "title": "Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "docid": "5668933", "text": "of these provisions became binding upon the states through selective incorporation into the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. When a provision is made binding on a state, a state can no longer restrict the rights guaranteed in that provision. Examples of provisions made binding upon the states are the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution which was made \"fully applicable\" by being Incorporated with the 14th Amendment in 2010, see, McDonald vs. City of Chicago; the 6th Amendment's guarantee of a right to confrontation of witnesses, known as the Confrontation Clause, and the various provisions of the", "title": "Constitutional right" }, { "docid": "5706443", "text": "Constitution in a 5–4 decision of the Supreme Court in the \"Slaughter-House Cases\" of 1873. The Clause has remained virtually dormant since, but in 2010 this clause was the basis for the fifth and deciding vote in the case of \"McDonald v. Chicago\", regarding application of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution to the states. In the \"Slaughter-House Cases\" the court recognized two types of citizenship. The rights citizens have by being citizens of the United States are covered under the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment, while the rights citizens have by being citizens of", "title": "Privileges or Immunities Clause" }, { "docid": "4305798", "text": "for ratification applied only to the federal government. In the 1833 case of \"Barron v. Baltimore\", the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Bill of Rights did not apply to state governments; such protections were instead provided by the constitutions of each state. After the Civil War, Congress and the states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, which included the Due Process Clause and the Privileges or Immunities Clause. While the Fifth Amendment had included a due process clause, the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment crucially differed from the Fifth Amendment in that it explicitly applied to", "title": "Incorporation of the Bill of Rights" }, { "docid": "7205413", "text": "it encompasses at the center of the controversy. Proponents argue that it bans programs in public hiring, public employment, and public education that \"give preferential treatment to\" or \"discriminate against\" individuals on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, or national origin. Opponents argue that Proposal 2 bans all affirmative action programs in the operation of public employment, education, or contracting. Proponents cite the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the \"Equal Protection\" clause of the 14th Amendment that forbids the United States or any state from denying \"equal protection of the law\" to any citizen as models for the proposal. It", "title": "Michigan Civil Rights Initiative" }, { "docid": "5706451", "text": "constitutes a revival of the Privileges or Immunities Clause. One of the arguments against interpreting the Privileges or Immunities Clause as a requirement that the states comply with the Bill of Rights has been that such an interpretation would render the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment redundant, due to the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause. Although constitutional scholars such as Raoul Berger have raised this question, Akhil Amar argues that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment wanted to extend the due process right not only to citizens, but to all other persons as well, which required a separate", "title": "Privileges or Immunities Clause" }, { "docid": "7097164", "text": "designed the sexes to occupy different spheres of action.\" Bradwell appealed to the United States Supreme Court, claiming that refusing to admit her to the bar because she was female violated her 14th Amendment rights. Despite the efforts of Senator Matthew Hale Carpenter, who argued on her behalf, that court held 7 to 1 that the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not include the right to practice a profession. Justice Joseph Bradley wrote, \"The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil", "title": "Myra Bradwell" }, { "docid": "9787617", "text": "citizenship. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 had already granted U.S. citizenship to all persons born in the United States \"not subject to any foreign power\". The 39th Congress proposed the principle underlying the Citizenship Clause due to concerns expressed about the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act during floor debates in Congress. The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment sought to entrench the principle in the Constitution in order to prevent its being struck down by the Supreme Court or repealed by a future Congress. Section 1, Clause 1, of the Fourteenth Amendment, reads: The reference to naturalization in the", "title": "Citizenship Clause" }, { "docid": "2977253", "text": "XIV) is one of the post-Civil War amendments, intended to secure rights for former slaves. It includes the due process and equal protection clauses among others. The amendment introduces the concept of incorporation of all relevant federal rights against the states. While it has not been fully implemented, the doctrine of incorporation has been used to ensure, through the Due Process Clause and Privileges and Immunities Clause, the application of most of the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights to the states. The incorporation of the First Amendment establishment clause in the landmark case of \"Everson v. Board of", "title": "Separation of church and state in the United States" }, { "docid": "2252030", "text": "protection clause of the 14th Amendment. However, Justice Kennedy's concurrence did hold that “avoiding racial isolation” and addressing “the problem of de facto resegregation in schooling” remain compelling state interests which can be addressed by narrowly tailored programs. Writing for the minority, Justice Breyer said the \"ruling contradicted previous decisions upholding race-conscious pupil assignments and would hamper local school boards' efforts to prevent 'resegregation' in individual schools\". The struggle to desegregate the schools received impetus from the Civil Rights Movement, whose goal was to dismantle legal segregation in all public places. The movement's efforts culminated in Congress passing the Civil", "title": "Desegregation busing" }, { "docid": "5706446", "text": "Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In the 1947 case of \"Adamson v. California\", Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black argued in his dissent that the framers intended the Privileges or Immunities Clause to apply the Bill of Rights against the states. Black argued that the framers' intent should control the Court's interpretation of the 14th Amendment, and he attached a lengthy appendix that quoted extensively from John Bingham's congressional statements. However, Black's position on the Privileges or Immunities Clause fell one vote short of a majority in the \"Adamson\" case. In the 1948 case of \"Oyama v. California\", a majority", "title": "Privileges or Immunities Clause" }, { "docid": "13556344", "text": "of Kalman, finding that Pennsylvania's blasphemy statute violated both the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Maine's law reads as follows: The last person to be jailed in the United States for blasphemy was Abner Kneeland in 1838 (a Massachusetts case: \"Commonwealth v. Kneeland\"). The Kneeland case preceded the ratification (1868) of the 14th Amendment, which incorporated the Bill of Rights and made it apply to the states and not just to the federal government. From 1925, the Supreme Court applied the Bill of Rights to all states. In 1921", "title": "Blasphemy law in the United States" }, { "docid": "1568618", "text": "would probably vote for the amendment. Historians speculate that Smith was trying to embarrass northern Democrats who opposed civil rights for women because the clause was opposed by labor unions. Representative Carl Elliott of Alabama later claimed, \"Smith didn't give a damn about women's rights...he was trying to knock off votes either then or down the line because there was always a hard core of men who didn't favor women's rights,\" and the \"Congressional Record\" records that Smith was greeted by laughter when he introduced the amendment. Smith asserted that he was not joking; he sincerely supported the amendment and,", "title": "Civil Rights Act of 1964" }, { "docid": "5706441", "text": "the Privileges or Immunities Clause was \"Garnes v. McCann\", Ohio Sup. Ct., in 1871. In it Judge John Day interpreted the clause to protect enumerated constitutional rights such as those listed in the Bill of Rights, but not unenumerated common-law civil rights. He wrote: This [case] involves the equity as to what privileges or immunities are embraced in the inhibition of this clause. We are not aware that this has been as yet judicially settled. The language of the clause, however, taken in connection with other provisions of the amendment, and of the constitution of which it forms a part,", "title": "Privileges or Immunities Clause" }, { "docid": "5456822", "text": "in the North and 18% in the South. After the Civil War, the 13th amendment in 1865, formally abolishing slavery, was ratified. Furthermore, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which broadened a range of civil rights to all persons born in the United States. Despite this, the emergence of \"Black Codes\", sanctioned acts of subjugation against blacks, continued to bar African-Americans from due civil rights. The Naturalization Act of 1790 limited U.S. citizenship to whites only, and in 1868 the effort toward civil rights was underscored with the 14th amendment which granted citizenship to blacks. The Civil Rights", "title": "Racism in the United States" }, { "docid": "8797674", "text": "In re Gault In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the \"Primary Holding\" was that the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment applies to juvenile defendants as well as to adult defendants. Juveniles accused of crimes in a delinquency proceeding must be afforded many of the same due process rights as adults, such as the right to timely notification of the charges, the right to confront witnesses, the right against self-incrimination, and the right to counsel. The court's opinion was written by Justice Abe Fortas, a noted proponent of children's", "title": "In re Gault" }, { "docid": "11703479", "text": "Farrington v. Tokushige Farrington v. Tokushige, 273 U.S. 284 (1927), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously struck down the Territory of Hawaii's law, making it illegal for schools to teach foreign languages without a permit, as it violated the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. Violation of the due process clause under the 14th Amendment was not considered as Hawaii was a territory of the United States at the time. The Court unanimously affirmed the lower court's decision: The Court stated that \"owners, parents and children\" are guaranteed rights by the due", "title": "Farrington v. Tokushige" }, { "docid": "2528944", "text": "v. Oregon\", 299 U.S. 353 (1937), \"Wolf v. Colorado\", 338 U.S. 25 (1949), and \"Gideon v. Wainwright\", 372 U.S. 335 (1963), to extend the reach of the Bill of Rights. Constitutional scholars refer to this as the \"incorporation doctrine,\" meaning that the Supreme Court has identified rights specified in the Bill of Rights and \"incorporated\" them into the liberties covered by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Recently, the Supreme Court, see, \"McDonald v. Chicago\", found the 2nd Amendment Right to \"...keep and bear arms,\" for lawful purposes such as self-defense both a fundamental and individual right of", "title": "Gitlow v. New York" }, { "docid": "5401008", "text": "to the federal constitution establishes freedom of religion as a constitutional right. While the wording of this amendment specifically bars Congress from restricting freedom of religion, current precedent holds that this amendment and the rest of the United States Bill of Rights are binding on the states by the liberty clause of the 14th Amendment. In addition to the 20 Articles listed above, numerous amendments (94 as of October 2015, per the link below) have been added. Though some amendments have been physically incorporated into the text of the Constitution (e.g. Amendment 1, adding Article 20 and Amendment 90, incorporated", "title": "Constitution of Arkansas" }, { "docid": "6820755", "text": "passed by a vote of 168 to 133. Smith expected that Republicans, who had included equal rights for women in their party's platform since 1940, would probably vote for the amendment. Some historians speculate that Smith in addition to helping women was trying to embarrass Northern Democrats, who opposed civil rights for women since labor unions opposed the clause. Smith insisted that he sincerely supported the amendment and along with Representative Martha Griffiths was the chief spokeswoman for the amendment. For 20 years, Smith had sponsored the Equal Rights Amendment, with no linkage to racial issues, in the House. He", "title": "Howard W. Smith" }, { "docid": "18028507", "text": "but civil. Bill of Rights violated as pointed out by the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) are the 1st amendment of freedom of association and the 5th amendment and 14th amendment rights to due process. Although it is thought to be keeping the community safe from gang crimes, it is violating the rights of those under the gang injunction at the same time. This increases the life chances for some but limits and causes \"premature death\" for others. Civil laws do not require as much proof as criminal actions. Therefore, they are easily implemented without requiring exact proof of activity and", "title": "Oakland gang injunctions" }, { "docid": "14095216", "text": "or an interest less than fee simple absolute, the habendum clause would specify the owner's rights as well as how those rights are limited (a specific time frame or certain prohibited activities, for instance). Many states, such as Pennsylvania, require a deed to have a habendum clause in order for the deed to be officially recorded and recognized by the Recorder of Deeds. Habendum clauses are also found in leases, particularly oil and gas leases. The habendum clause can define how long the interest granted will extend. Most oil and gas leases provide for a primary and secondary term. During", "title": "Habendum clause" }, { "docid": "20468715", "text": "Joseph R. Brodsky, Swinburne Hale, Walter Nelles, Isaac Shorr, Carol Weiss King, and King's brother-in-law Carl Stern. In 1925, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), he argued his first case before the United States Supreme Court in Gitlow v. New York, defending Communist Party member Benjamin Gitlow against his conviction for \"advocacy of criminal anarchy.\" The court upheld Gitlow's conviction but importantly recognized that the due process clause of the 14th Amendment incorporated and thus protected fundamental provisions of the Bill of Rights, including the freedom of speech. (New York State Governor Al Smith commuted Gitlow's sentence.)", "title": "Walter Pollak" }, { "docid": "428758", "text": "v. Parrish\" (1937). In \"Poe v. Ullman\" (1961), dissenting judge John Marshall Harlan II adopted a broad view of the \"liberty\" protected by the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process clause: This broad view of liberty was adopted by the Supreme Court in \"Griswold v. Connecticut\" (for further information see below). Although the \"freedom of contract\" described above has fallen into disfavor, by the 1960s, the Court had extended its interpretation of substantive due process to include other rights and freedoms that are not enumerated in the Constitution but that, according to the Court, extend or derive from existing rights. For example,", "title": "Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "docid": "700790", "text": "by the following resolving clause: As the joint resolution was passed on March 22, 1972, this effectively set a March 22, 1979 deadline for the amendment to be ratified by the requisite number of states. However, the 92nd Congress did not incorporate any time limit into the body of the actual text of the proposed amendment, as had been done with a number of other proposed amendments. In 1978, as the original 1979 deadline approached, the 95th Congress adopted House Joint Resolution No. 638 (H. J. Res. 638), by Representative Elizabeth Holtzman of New York, which purported to extend the", "title": "Equal Rights Amendment" }, { "docid": "15462146", "text": "Bullcoming v. New Mexico Bullcoming v. New Mexico, 564 U.S. 647 (2011), is a significant 6th Amendment Confrontation Clause case decided by the United States Supreme Court. On June 23, 2011, the Supreme Court considered the issue whether a defendant's Confrontation Clause rights extend to a non-testifying laboratory analyst whose supervisor testifies as to test results that the analyst transcribed from a machine. In a five to four decision authored by Justice Ginsburg, the Court held that the second surrogate analyst could not testify about the testimonial statements in the forensic report of the certifying analyst under the Confrontation Clause.", "title": "Bullcoming v. New Mexico" }, { "docid": "9238730", "text": "At issue was whether or not the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause extended to the states the 5th Amendment's Indictment Clause requiring indictment by grand jury. The following questions were presented: The Supreme Court ruled 7-1 that Hurtado's due process right was not violated by denial of a grand jury hearing and that the 14th Amendment was not intended to work retroactively to apply the 5th Amendment to state criminal trials. Writing for the majority, Justice Matthews stated that the states should be free to construct their own laws without infringement and that the 14th Amendment was not intended to", "title": "Hurtado v. California" }, { "docid": "7237474", "text": "Amendment from abridgment by Congress-are among the fundamental personal rights and 'liberties' protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from impairment by the States.\" This constitutionality raises a problem. The most popular alternative to the open primary is the closed primary. However, a mandatory closed primary can also be unconstitutional. In \"Tashjian v. Republican Party of Connecticut\", the United States Supreme Court determined that Connecticut's closed primary law was unconstitutional. The Connecticut closed primary law \"[required] voters in any political party primary to be registered members of that party\". The Republican Party of Connecticut, however, wanted to", "title": "Open primaries in the United States" }, { "docid": "6892107", "text": "Philadelphia. They opened a store to serve the needs of freedmen. Smalls also hired a teacher to help him study. That April, the Radical Republicans who controlled Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson's vetoes and passed a Civil Rights Act. In 1868, they passed the 14th Amendment, which was ratified by the states to extend full citizenship to all Americans regardless of race. Smalls invested significantly in the economic development of the Charleston-Beaufort region. In 1870, in anticipation of a Reconstruction-based prosperity, Smalls, with fellow representatives Joseph Rainey, Alonzo Ransier and others, formed the Enterprise Railroad, an 18-mile horse-drawn railway line", "title": "Robert Smalls" }, { "docid": "1452119", "text": "privileges or immunities clause protected the civil rights of citizens of a state from that state, the Fourteenth Amendment would in essence be granting to the federal government the power to protect all civil rights that had previously been protected by the states, and \"in the absence of language which expresses such a purpose too clearly to admit of doubt,\" that was too radical a change to be within the scope of the Fourteenth amendment: Justice Stephen J. Field wrote in his dissent (which was the only dissent in the case joined by all the other dissenting justices) that Miller's", "title": "Slaughter-House Cases" }, { "docid": "3957669", "text": "Constitution's provisions; at the same time, though, he maintains that the notion that judges may infer broad moral rights and values from the Constitution is radically undemocratic, whether the \"moralism\" of Ronald Dworkin or the libertarian Richard Epstein. Instead, Ely argued that the Supreme Court should interpret the Constitution so as to reinforce democratic processes and popular self-government, by ensuring equal representation in the political process (as in the Court's decision in \"Baker v. Carr\" [1961]). He argues \"ejusdem generis\" that the Constitution's unenumerated rights (such as the 9th Amendment or the Privileges or Immunities clause of the 14th Amendment)", "title": "John Hart Ely" }, { "docid": "2282410", "text": "of contract is properly found in the Privileges or Immunities Clause, not in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. David Bernstein, in \"Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform\", argues that the decision in \"Lochner\" was well grounded in Supreme Court precedent and that the decision's emphasis on limits to the states' police powers informed the Court's early civil liberties and civil rights cases. Lochner v. New York Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905), was a landmark U.S. labor law case in the US Supreme Court, holding that limits to working time violated the Fourteenth", "title": "Lochner v. New York" }, { "docid": "4104472", "text": "would probably vote for the amendment. Historians speculate that Smith was trying to embarrass northern Democrats who opposed civil rights for women because the clause was opposed by labor unions. Smith asserted that he sincerely supported the amendment and, indeed, along with Rep. Martha Griffiths, he was the chief spokesperson for the amendment. For twenty years Smith had sponsored the Equal Rights Amendment—with no linkage to racial issues—in the House because he believed in it. For decades he had been close to the National Woman's Party and especially Paul. She and other activists had worked with Smith since 1945 trying", "title": "National Woman's Party" }, { "docid": "428743", "text": "frequently litigated part of the Constitution. The Citizenship Clause overruled the Supreme Court's \"Dred Scott\" decision that black people were not citizens and could not become citizens, nor enjoy the benefits of citizenship. Some members of Congress voted for the Fourteenth Amendment in order to eliminate doubts about the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, or to ensure that no subsequent Congress could later repeal or alter the main provisions of that Act. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 had granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States if they were not subject to a foreign", "title": "Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "docid": "2146659", "text": "private individuals. Because the Civil Rights Act of 1875 applied to racial discrimination in private establishments, the Court said in the \"Civil Rights Cases\", it exceeded congressional enforcement power under section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. In \"Harris\", the Court ruled that the Clause did not apply to a prison lynching, since the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to private actors, as opposed to state actors. A sheriff (a state actor) had tried to prevent the lynching. According to \"Morrison\", \"assuming that there has been gender-based disparate treatment by state authorities in this case, it would not be enough to", "title": "United States v. Morrison" }, { "docid": "10868601", "text": "(i.e. the Confederacy), it did not end slavery as an institution. Abolition of all slavery (affecting four million people in the South, including Border States that had stayed in the Union) was achieved with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment gave ex-slaves full citizenship in the United States. The Fifteenth Amendment gave voting rights to adult males among the free people; as only adult males had the franchise among whites. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are known as the \"civil rights amendments\", the \"post-Civil War amendments\", and the \"Reconstruction Amendments\". To", "title": "Freedman" }, { "docid": "182251", "text": "states' secession and the American Civil War. During the reconstruction period immediately following the war, several amendments to the United States Constitution were made. These included the 13th amendment, banning slavery, the 14th amendment, assuring full citizenship and civil rights to all people born in the United States, and the 15th amendment, guaranteeing African Americans the right to vote. In Russia, the reformer Tsar Alexander II ended serfdom in 1861, although the freed serfs often faced restrictions of their mobility within the nation. Many groups and movements have achieved profound social changes over the course of the 20th century in", "title": "Human rights" }, { "docid": "316244", "text": "basic civil rights. The clause also embraces a right to travel, so that a citizen of one state can go and enjoy privileges and immunities in any other state; this constitutional clause was expressly extended to Puerto Rico by the U.S. Congress through the federal law and signed by the President Harry S. Truman in 1947. Other fundamental rights like the Due Process Clause and the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment was expressly extended to Puerto Rico by the U.S. Supreme Court. In a brief concurrence in the judgment of \"Torres v. Puerto Rico\", U.S. Supreme Court Justice", "title": "Politics of Puerto Rico" }, { "docid": "8369666", "text": "Carl Esbeck Carl H. Esbeck is the R.B. Price Distinguished Professor and the Isabelle Wade & Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law. He joined the law faculty in 1981. He has published in the areas of church-state relations and civil rights. He has taken the lead in advancing a structural view of the establishment clause of the first amendment, and is also credited as the primary author of the original charitable choice language in the 1996 welfare reform bill. Professor Esbeck regularly researches and publishes in the areas of religious liberties and", "title": "Carl Esbeck" }, { "docid": "759450", "text": "his influential 1977 book \"Government by Judiciary,\" make the case that \"Brown\" cannot be defended by reference to the original understanding of the 14th Amendment. They support this reading of the 14th amendment by noting that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 did not ban segregated schools and that the same Congress that passed the 14th Amendment also voted to segregate schools in the District of Columbia. Other originalists, including Michael W. McConnell, a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in his article \"Originalism and the Desegregation Decisions,\" argue that the Radical Reconstructionists", "title": "Brown v. Board of Education" }, { "docid": "3066342", "text": "that the Thirteenth Amendment does not require a state actor. To the extent that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 may have been intended to go beyond preventing discrimination, by conferring particular rights on all citizens, the constitutional power of Congress to do that was more questionable. For example, Representative William Lawrence argued that Congress had power to enact the statute because of the Privileges and Immunities Clause in Article IV of the original unamended Constitution, even though courts had suggested otherwise. In any event, there is currently no consensus that the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1866", "title": "Civil Rights Act of 1866" }, { "docid": "8218248", "text": "This clause was the basis for the US Supreme Court's ruling in \"Brown v. Board of Education\" (1954), that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, and its prohibition of laws against interracial marriage, in its ruling in \"Loving v. Virginia\" (1967). This amendment was the foundation of elements of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (this also relied on the 15th Amendment), legislation to end legal segregation in the states and to provide for oversight and enforcement by the federal government of citizens' rights to vote without discrimination. It has also been", "title": "Reconstruction Amendments" }, { "docid": "2382727", "text": "Amendment, and various statutory rights protected by § 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The district court dismissed the case, noting that the plaintiffs had presented no evidence in support of the 14th Amendment and Voting Rights Act claims, and lacked standing to bring the First Amendment claim. It interpreted the Supreme Court's \"Jones\" ruling to hold that the right to association involved in a dispute over a primary — and thus, standing to sue — belongs to a political party, not an individual voter. On appeal in May 2004, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld this result in", "title": "Cynthia McKinney" }, { "docid": "6404437", "text": "to reject the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution and so voted unsuccessfully to continue slavery beyond the Civil War. Delaware symbolically ratified the amendment on February 12, 1901–38 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Slavery ended in Delaware only when the Thirteenth Amendment took effect in December 1865. Delaware also rejected the 14th Amendment during the Reconstruction Era. Even though Delaware is nominally a northern state, and was mostly aligned with the Union during the American Civil War, it nonetheless was \"de facto\" and \"de jure\" segregated. Fearful that the 1875 Civil Rights Act passed by Congress might establish", "title": "History of Delaware" }, { "docid": "428745", "text": "Foner, who has explored the question of U.S. birthright citizenship to other countries, argues that: During the original congressional debate over the amendment Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan—the author of the Citizenship Clause—described the clause as having the same content, despite different wording, as the earlier Civil Rights Act of 1866, namely, that it excludes Native Americans who maintain their tribal ties and \"persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.\" According to historian Glenn W. LaFantasie of Western Kentucky University, \"A good number of his fellow", "title": "Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "docid": "3089062", "text": "the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.\" The Citizenship Clause was proposed by Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan on May 30, 1866, as an amendment to the joint resolution from the House of Representatives which had framed the initial draft of the proposed Fourteenth Amendment. The heated debate on the proposed new language in the Senate focused on whether Howard's proposed language would apply more broadly than the wording of the 1866 Civil Rights Act. Howard said that the clause \"is simply declaratory of", "title": "United States v. Wong Kim Ark" }, { "docid": "5706433", "text": "Privileges or Immunities Clause The Privileges or Immunities Clause is Amendment XIV, Section 1, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution. Along with the rest of the Fourteenth Amendment, this clause became part of the Constitution on July 9, 1868. The clause states: The primary author of the Privileges or Immunities Clause was Congressman John Bingham of Ohio. The common historical view is that Bingham's primary inspiration, at least for his initial prototype of this Clause, was the Privileges and Immunities Clause in Article Four of the United States Constitution, which provided that \"The Citizens of each State shall be", "title": "Privileges or Immunities Clause" }, { "docid": "16923027", "text": "the data ends with the 2016–2017 term. The term \"liberal\" in the Supreme Court Database represents the voting direction of the justices across the various issue areas. It is most appropriate in the areas of criminal procedure, civil rights, and First Amendment cases, where it signifies pro-defendant votes in criminal procedure cases, pro-women or -minorities in civil rights cases, and pro-individual against the government in First Amendment cases. In takings clause cases, however, a pro-government/anti-owner vote is considered liberal. The use of the term is probably less appropriate in union cases, where it represents pro-union votes against both individuals and", "title": "Ideological leanings of United States Supreme Court justices" }, { "docid": "476339", "text": "constitution gave blacks equal protection under the law. In the 1960s, Americans who knew only the potential of \"equal protection of the laws\" expected the president, the Congress, and the courts to fulfill the promise of the 14th Amendment. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and political rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or repression. Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental", "title": "Civil and political rights" }, { "docid": "5401007", "text": "Classified as a religious test, there are no known cases of this article being enforced in modern times, as religious freedom is provided for in the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights. In addition, Article Six of the United States Constitution is considered to prohibit such religious tests. It says: \"no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.\" Current legal precedent holds that this provision is binding on the states as well under the liberty clause of the 14th Amendment to the federal constitution. Additionally, the First Amendment", "title": "Constitution of Arkansas" }, { "docid": "3067088", "text": "\"Slaughter-House\" Court did not expressly preclude application of the Bill of Rights to the states, the clause largely ceased to be invoked in opinions of the Court following the \"Slaughter-House Cases\", and when incorporation did begin, it was under the rubric of due process. Scholars who share Justice Black's view, such as Akhil Amar, argue that the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment, like Senator Jacob Howard and Congressman John Bingham, included a due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment for the following reason: \"By incorporating the rights of the Fifth Amendment, the privileges or immunities clause would ... have prevented", "title": "Due Process Clause" }, { "docid": "476338", "text": "in the English Bill of Rights in 1689. They were enshrined at the global level and given status in international law first by Articles 3 to 21 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and later in the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In Europe, they were enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights in 1953. The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. In 1868, the 14th amendment to the", "title": "Civil and political rights" }, { "docid": "11703480", "text": "process clause of the Fifth Amendment with reference to \"Meyer v. Nebraska\", \"Bartels v. Iowa\", and \"Pierce v. Society of Sisters\". Farrington v. Tokushige Farrington v. Tokushige, 273 U.S. 284 (1927), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously struck down the Territory of Hawaii's law, making it illegal for schools to teach foreign languages without a permit, as it violated the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. Violation of the due process clause under the 14th Amendment was not considered as Hawaii was a territory of the United States at the time. The", "title": "Farrington v. Tokushige" }, { "docid": "7063125", "text": "in her district tipped the primary election to Majette. This itself is legal, as Georgia law opens primaries to all voters irrespective of party. After losing, McKinney filed a lawsuit claiming that open primaries are a violation of the 14th Amendment, but a court dismissed the case. The film also includes civil rights leader and U.S. Representative John Lewis with a powerful recounting of the march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Also Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders appears in this documentary speaking about the desire of big money to keep voter turnout low. This Documentary won", "title": "American Blackout" }, { "docid": "3158477", "text": "Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment nor of the Fifteenth Amendment. Southern states abandoned the literacy test only when forced to do so by federal legislation in the 1960s. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 provided that literacy tests used as a qualification for voting in federal elections be administered wholly in writing and only to persons who had completed six years of formal education. In part to curtail the use of literacy tests, Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Act prohibited jurisdictions from administering literacy tests to citizens who attained a sixth-grade education in an American", "title": "Literacy test" } ]

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[ { "docid": "2769479", "text": "No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. It supported standards-based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals could improve individual outcomes in education. The Act required states to develop assessments in basic skills. To receive federal school funding, states had to give these assessments to all students at select grade levels. The act did not assert a national achievement standard—each state developed its", "title": "No Child Left Behind Act" }, { "docid": "2769550", "text": "to replace the No Child Left Behind Act, the Every Student Succeeds Act, which was passed by the House on December 2 and the Senate on December 9, before being signed into law by President Obama on December 10, 2015. This bill affords states more flexibility in regards to setting their own respective standards for measuring school as well as student performance. No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. It", "title": "No Child Left Behind Act" }, { "docid": "16033210", "text": "people who seek treatment for mental health disorders is fewer than 30%. Finally, despite improvement in the rations of students to counselors in schools, the 2008-9 ratio of 457:1 still greatly exceeds the ration recommended by the ACA, which is 250:1 Mental health provisions in Title V of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 As a part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, congress passed into law two subparts of Part D of Title V (Promoting Informed Parental Choice and Innovative Programs) of that Act pertaining to mental health interventions as they relate to students.", "title": "Mental health provisions in Title V of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" }, { "docid": "16033200", "text": "Mental health provisions in Title V of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 As a part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, congress passed into law two subparts of Part D of Title V (Promoting Informed Parental Choice and Innovative Programs) of that Act pertaining to mental health interventions as they relate to students. Those subparts are Subpart 2, Section 5241: Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Programs and Subpart 14, Section 5541: Grants for the Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems and Section 5542: Promotion of School Readiness through Early Childhood Emotional and Social", "title": "Mental health provisions in Title V of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" }, { "docid": "17438263", "text": "Student Success Act The Student Success Act () is a bill that was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th Congress. The bill deals with education policy and would alter parts of both the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act. The Student Success Act passed in a House vote of 221-207 on July 19, 2013. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 had specific requirements for schools to pass increasingly high standards on state tests. The Obama administration waived some of the requirements of the NCLB. Republicans argued that", "title": "Student Success Act" }, { "docid": "2769481", "text": "The United States House of Representatives passed the bill on December 13, 2001 (voting 381–41), and the United States Senate passed it on December 18, 2001 (voting 87–10). President Bush signed it into law on January 8, 2002. No Child Left Behind requires all public schools receiving federal funding to administer a statewide standardized test annually to all students. Schools that receive Title I funding through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 must make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in test scores (e.g. each year, fifth graders must do better on standardized tests than the previous year's fifth graders).", "title": "No Child Left Behind Act" }, { "docid": "15980644", "text": "to perform on these exams. In 2002, Congress re-examined ESEA and reauthorized it as No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). ESEA created the accountability tool known as Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). AYP is a required statewide accountability system which requires each state to ensure that all schools and districts make AYP. AYP is simply a “statewide accountability system mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 which requires each state to ensure that all schools and districts make Adequate Yearly Progress\". Ever since ESEA was passed, states and schools across the country have been working to improve its", "title": "PARCC" }, { "docid": "2769479", "text": "No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. It supported standards-based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals could improve individual outcomes in education. The Act required states to develop assessments in basic skills. To receive federal school funding, states had to give these assessments to all students at select grade levels. The act did not assert a national achievement standard—each state developed its", "title": "No Child Left Behind Act" }, { "docid": "6012436", "text": "\"the Department of Defense should continue to exercise its long-standing statutory authority to support the activities of the BSA, in particular the periodic national and world Scout jamborees.\" The U.S. Congress has twice passed bills in response to the governmental resources access controversy. In 2001, the U.S. Congress passed the Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act, which was included as part of the No Child Left Behind Act, and which encouraged the BSA's access to educational facilities. In July 2005, the Senate voted 98 to 0 in favor of the Support Our Scouts Act, which was included as part", "title": "Boy Scouts of America membership controversies" }, { "docid": "20513303", "text": "districts from 1977 until 1994. From 1994 to 1996, Tompkins served at Pittsburg State University as the interim dean of the School of Education and the school's Special Services and Administrative Studies department. In 1996, Tompkins was hired as the Education Commissioner for Kansas. Tompkins served at a time when the State School Board was at odds on how to fund public schools and deleted any mention of the word \"evolution\" from the state's science studies. Tompkins also helped the state implement the No Child Left Behind Act, passed in 2001 by the United States Congress. Tompkins, who retired in", "title": "Andy Tompkins" }, { "docid": "9261819", "text": "shaped the changes in policy reflected in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement Act is a part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and acted as a replacement for the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, which expired in 2002 The focus of NCLB was for eligible academic institutions to become self-sufficient and expand their capacity to serve low-income students by providing funds to improve and strengthen the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of eligible institutions. The Bilingual Education Act of 1968, which was Title", "title": "Title III" }, { "docid": "16031938", "text": "and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) was reauthorized in 2001 under the administration of former president George W. Bush and renamed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The ultimate goal of this act is to \"To close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind.\" It is organized into ten \"titles\", each of which details one particular aspect of the goals of the act, and explains how funds will be allocated to State education agencies (SEAs), local education agencies (LEAs), and State agencies for higher education (SAHEs). Title II, Preparing, Training,", "title": "Highly qualified teachers" }, { "docid": "4784854", "text": "but implemented by states. Federal funding covers a variable portion of at least half of Medicaid costs, and states are expected to cover the remainder. This means that any federally mandated increase in Medicaid spending forces states to spend more. However, as state participation in Medicaid is voluntary, it is not technically an unfunded mandate. The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act was passed in response to widespread concern about the quality of public education in America. The act was meant to decrease the gap between students who were performing very well and students who were performing poorly. The act", "title": "Unfunded mandate" }, { "docid": "6401949", "text": "with academic content standards. The API These comprehensive accountability standards put California in a good position to meet the provisions of the 2001 federal law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and are the components the state uses for measuring Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). Public Schools Accountability Act The Public Schools Accountability Act (PSAA) was passed in California in 1999 as the first step in developing a comprehensive system to hold students, schools, and districts accountable for improving student performance. The system establishes a code of conduct for all teachers stating that their overall objective for the student is", "title": "Public Schools Accountability Act" }, { "docid": "3659349", "text": "It integrates early childhood education, adult education and family literacy. The No Child Left Behind Act was proposed by George W. Bush and passed by United States House of Representatives in 2001. The Act requires that all public schools receive federal funding to administer a standardized test annually to assess if students have made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). Schools must provide services to students who do not meet AYP in order to help them succeed and pass AYP the following year. In 2013, President Obama proposed the Preschool for All initiative. The goal of this program is to expand funding", "title": "Early Childhood Education Act" }, { "docid": "1544127", "text": "teacher accountability that other Democrats and the National Education Association did not like, in return for increased funding levels for education. The No Child Left Behind Act was passed by Congress in May and June 2001 and signed into law by Bush in January 2002. Kennedy soon became disenchanted with the implementation of the act, however, saying for 2003 that it was $9 billion short of the $29 billion authorized. Kennedy said, \"The tragedy is that these long overdue reforms are finally in place, but the funds are not,\" and accused Bush of not living up to his personal word", "title": "Ted Kennedy" }, { "docid": "13729830", "text": "July 6, 2009 as the third director of the office, which was established in 2002 during the George W. Bush administration pursuant to the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Social conservatives campaigned against Jennings' appointment because they alleged he condoned child molestation based on the 2004 incident over a teen's story he related in his book \"One teacher in 10 : LGBT educators share their stories\". The allegations were proven to be false when it was shown the student was above the age of consent and no sex", "title": "Kevin Jennings" }, { "docid": "4550553", "text": "recently, this legislation includes the No Child Left Behind Act, which was passed in 2001. In the 2006–2007 school year, Title I provided assistance to over 17 million students who range from kindergarten through twelfth grade. The majority of the funds (60%) were given to students between kindergarten through fifth grade. The next highest group that received funding were students in sixth through eighth grade (21%). Finally, 16% of the funds went to students in high school with 3% provided to students in preschool. In its original conception, Title I under the ESEA, was designed by President Lyndon B. Johnson", "title": "Elementary and Secondary Education Act" }, { "docid": "6401808", "text": "controversy surrounding George W. Bush administration's Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Private schools are not required to make AYP. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Sec. 1111 (b)(F), requires that \"each state shall establish a timeline for adequate yearly progress. The timeline shall ensure that not later than 12 years after the 2001-2002 school year, all students in each group described in subparagraph (C)(v) will meet or exceed the State's standards.\" These timelines are developed by state education agencies working under guidance from the federal government. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the law used as", "title": "Adequate Yearly Progress" }, { "docid": "2769530", "text": "use of federal education money. The NCLB increases were companions to another massive increase in federal education funding at that time. The Bush administration and congress passed very large increases in funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) at the same time as the NCLB increases. IDEA Part B, a state formula-funding program that distributes money to local districts for the education of students with disabilities, was increased from $6.3 billion in 2001 to $10.1 billion in 2004. Because a district's and state's performance on NCLB measures depended on improved performance by students with disabilities, particularly, students with", "title": "No Child Left Behind Act" }, { "docid": "15543440", "text": "April 22, 2011, which defines bullying in state law and outlines prevention policies for North Dakota public schools. North Dakota has been praised for their new law. Prior to its passage, North Dakota has passed an anti-bullying legislation. Georgia's anti-bullying legislation was strengthened in 2010 with the passage of Senate Bill 250, which included a provision allowing for those accused of bullying another student to be reassigned to another school in order to separate the offender from the victim of bullying. The Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act is part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.", "title": "Anti-bullying legislation" }, { "docid": "14417946", "text": "address issues such as the Workplace Religious Freedom Act, tax-exempt status for churches, the CARE act, international religious freedom, and antisemitism. Santorum added to the 2001 No Child Left Behind bill a provision that would have provided more freedom to schools in teaching about the origins of life, including the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolution. The bill, with the Santorum Amendment included, passed the Senate 91–8 and was hailed as a victory by intelligent design promoters, but before it became law, scientific and educational groups successfully urged its conference committee to strike the Santorum Amendment from the final version.", "title": "Rick Santorum" }, { "docid": "1740590", "text": "system has also contributed to the debate about standardized testing, including the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 that required standardized testing in public schools. U.S. Public Law 107-110, known as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, further ties public school funding to standardized testing. The goal of No Child Left Behind was to improve the education system in the United States by holding school and teachers accountable and attempting to close the educational gap between minority and non-minority children in public schools. Students' results on standardized tests were used to allocate funds and other resources such", "title": "Standardized test" }, { "docid": "16031935", "text": "Highly qualified teachers The highly qualified teacher provision is one of the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001. The term highly qualified teachers (HQT) comes from the original language of Title II (Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High Quality Teachers and Principals) of the No Child Left Behind Act. Title II of NCLB designates federal funds to educational agencies for the purpose of improving the student achievement through the professional development of highly qualified teachers and principals. To qualify for this funding, states must comply with a series of conditions stipulated in NCLB, and track their", "title": "Highly qualified teachers" } ]

[ { "docid": "19188048", "text": "plans and noted that a revised template may be issued. Every Student Succeeds Act The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a US law passed in December 2015 that governs the United States K–12 public education policy. The law replaced its predecessor, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and modified but did not eliminate provisions relating to the periodic standardized tests given to students. Like the No Child Left Behind Act, ESSA is a reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which established the federal government's expanded role in public education. The Every Student Succeeds Act passed", "title": "Every Student Succeeds Act" }, { "docid": "19188036", "text": "Every Student Succeeds Act The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a US law passed in December 2015 that governs the United States K–12 public education policy. The law replaced its predecessor, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and modified but did not eliminate provisions relating to the periodic standardized tests given to students. Like the No Child Left Behind Act, ESSA is a reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which established the federal government's expanded role in public education. The Every Student Succeeds Act passed both chambers of Congress with bipartisan support. The bill is", "title": "Every Student Succeeds Act" }, { "docid": "14644610", "text": "and state schools chiefs, with additional support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Pearson Publishing Company, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and others. Until the Every Student Succeeds Act was passed in December 2015, the US Department of Education had encouraged states to adopt the Common Core Standards by tying the grant of waivers from the No Child Left Behind Act to adoption of the Standards. However, the Every Student Succeeds Act not only replaced the No Child Left Behind Act, it also expressly prohibits the Department of Education from attempting to \"influence, incentivize, or coerce State adoption of", "title": "Common Core State Standards Initiative" }, { "docid": "2769480", "text": "own standards. NCLB expanded the federal role in public education through further emphasis on annual testing, annual academic progress, report cards, and teacher qualifications, as well as significant changes in funding. The bill passed in the Congress with bipartisan support. By 2015, criticism from right, left, and center had accumulated so much that a bipartisan Congress stripped away the national features of No Child Left Behind. Its replacement, the Every Student Succeeds Act, turned the remnants over to the states. It was coauthored by Representatives John Boehner (R-OH), George Miller (D-CA), and Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Judd Gregg (R-NH).", "title": "No Child Left Behind Act" }, { "docid": "16031339", "text": "lack of funding, during the years 2007-2009, the Department of Education issued regulations that allowed states, school districts, and individual schools to eliminate accountability for graduation rate, and allowed them to cease reporting of the graduation rate for minority students. Dropout Prevention Act The Dropout Prevention Act – also known as: Title I, Part H, of No Child Left Behind - is responsible for establishing the school dropout prevention program under No Child Left Behind. This part of No Child Left Behind was created to provide schools with support for retention of all students and prevention of dropouts from the", "title": "Dropout Prevention Act" }, { "docid": "16031333", "text": "Dropout Prevention Act The Dropout Prevention Act – also known as: Title I, Part H, of No Child Left Behind - is responsible for establishing the school dropout prevention program under No Child Left Behind. This part of No Child Left Behind was created to provide schools with support for retention of all students and prevention of dropouts from the most at-risk youth. It is estimated that 1.2 million American students drop out of high school each year. The US Department of Education assesses the dropout rate by calculating the percentage of 16- to 24-year-olds who are not currently enrolled", "title": "Dropout Prevention Act" }, { "docid": "16031336", "text": "placed on our schools to raise test scores, with very little attention paid to ensuring that students graduated. When the Bush Administration passed No Child Left Behind in 2002, they took a major step toward dropout accountability by instituting the Dropout Prevention Act within the law. The grants that come from this act are awarded for up to 60 months to local education agencies (LEA’s) and state education agencies (SEA’s) to support those agencies in student dropout prevention and reentry efforts for students that have dropped out. These grants can be used for the following: An example of one program", "title": "Dropout Prevention Act" }, { "docid": "15980643", "text": "Before No Child Left Behind, The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed in 1965 as a part of the \"War on Poverty\". In hopes of diminishing the achievement gap, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed to create equal opportunity and access to education through high standards and accountability. These standards and accountability techniques came in the form of standardized testing. For the first time, federal money was being sent into local schools and made the production of test-based evidence mandatory for all educators. Standards were being assessed on these state-created exams, and local schools were then accountable", "title": "PARCC" }, { "docid": "1131405", "text": "Left Behind Act, passed by a bipartisan coalition in Congress provided federal aid to the states in exchange for measures to penalize schools that were not meeting the goals as measured by standardized state exams in mathematics and language skills. In the same year, the U.S. Supreme Court diluted some of the century-old \"Blaine\" laws upheld an Ohio law allowing aid to parochial schools under specific circumstances. The 2006 Commission on the Future of Higher Education evaluated higher education. In December 2015, President Barack Obama signed legislation replacing No Child Left Behind with the Every Student Succeeds Act. The Great", "title": "Education in the United States" }, { "docid": "2769539", "text": "2007, former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, Co-Chairs of the Aspen Commission on No Child Left Behind, announced the release of the Commission's final recommendations for the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act. The Commission is an independent, bipartisan effort to improve NCLB and ensure it is a more useful force in closing the achievement gap that separates disadvantaged children and their peers. After a year of hearings, analysis, and research, the Commission uncovered the successes of NCLB, as well as provisions that must be significantly changed. The Commission's goals are:", "title": "No Child Left Behind Act" }, { "docid": "10318860", "text": "proper training is to get tutored by professionals or students who have gone through the material thoroughly and know what they are doing. In the US, parents can take advantage of the No child left behind act to qualify for free tutoring for their child. A company must be registered as a supplementary educational services (SES) provider. The child must meet state qualifications that often involve attendance of a failing no child left behind school and poor grades. When the child is qualified, the US government will pay for the tutoring. In-home tutoring In-home tutoring is a form of tutoring", "title": "In-home tutoring" }, { "docid": "9907549", "text": "from a four-year institution, be licensed in the state in which they wish to teach, and be fully competent in their subject area. However, individual competencies vary from state-to-state. Historically, music and fine arts had not been a part of core curriculum in schools in the United States, however, in July 2015, the United States Senate, passed a bipartisan revision naming music and art core subjects in curriculum under the Every Child Achieves Act. The core subjects that were added were \"technology, engineering, computer science, music, and physical education.\" This was an action against the No Child Left Behind Act,", "title": "Music education in the United States" }, { "docid": "2769503", "text": "schools to identify gifted students and provide them with an appropriate education, including grade advancement. Research tells us an IQ of 120 is needed. In other states, such as Michigan, state funding for gifted and talented programs was cut by up to 90% in the year after the Act became law. \"There's a fallacy in the law and everybody knows it,\" said Alabama State Superintendent Joe Morton on Wednesday, August 11, 2010. According to the No Child Left Behind Act, by 2014, every child is supposed to test on grade level in reading and math. \"That can't happen,\" said Morton.", "title": "No Child Left Behind Act" }, { "docid": "127883", "text": "Society and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act suffused public school programs with funds for sweeping education reforms. At the same time the influx of federal funding also gave rise to demands for accountability and the behavioral objectives approach of Robert F. Mager and others foreshadowed the No Child Left Behind Act passed in 2002. Against these critics eloquent spokespersons stepped forward in defense of the progressive tradition. The Open Classroom movement, led by Herb Kohl and George Dennison, recalled many of Parker's child centered reforms. The late 1960s and early 1970s saw a rise and decline in the number", "title": "Progressive education" }, { "docid": "18600770", "text": "of the associated course. In 2012, Susquehannock High School declined to Warning Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status under No Child Left Behind. In 2010 and 2011, Susquehannock High School achieved AYP status under No Child Left Behind. From 2003 through 2009, Susquehannock High School achieved AYP status each school year. Pennsylvania System of School Assessments, commonly called PSSAs are No Child Left Behind Act related examinations which were administered from 2003 through 2012, in all Pennsylvania public high schools. The exams were administered in the Spring of each school year. The goal was for 100% of students to be on", "title": "Susquehannock High School" }, { "docid": "3485979", "text": "providing work and stimulating the economy through public spending on projects, rather than on cash payment. The programs were in response to the Great Depression affecting the United States in the 1930s. An American education policy proposal from a Republican president is the No Child Left Behind Act. This Act took effect on January 8, 2002, and was put in place to raise standards in education so different individuals can have better educational outcomes. The No Child Left Behind Act requires every state to assess students on basic skills to receive federal funding. However, this Act did not create a", "title": "Social policy" }, { "docid": "2836900", "text": "said: \"No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Common Core — they're all big, bureaucratic programs that are failing our nation.\" This was a reversal of her position on federal education policies during her 2010 campaign for U.S. Senate from California. In that campaign, Fiorina issued a position paper in which she \"strongly advocated for metric-based accountability in schools\" and \"praised No Child Left Behind as setting high standards, and Race to the Top for using internationally-benchmarked measures.\" In California, Fiorina supported the DREAM Act, which would allow children brought to the U.S. by their parents when they were", "title": "Carly Fiorina" }, { "docid": "20084503", "text": "policymakers. Should the policy face pushback, policymakers must be open to negotiations for a compromise approach. The bottom-up approach emphasizes low level policy implementers, but policy learners must not attempt to frustrate the goals of top policymakers. In America, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) adopted policyies that would have benefited from bottom-up perspectives. When NCLB was passed, many states struggled to figure out what was required. All states had to get their education plans approved by U.S. Department of Education. Once the education plan was approved, each state had to incorporate NCLB into the state's framework of educational", "title": "Policy learning" }, { "docid": "2769490", "text": "in July 2005, showing improved student achievement in reading and math: These statistics compare 2005 with 2000 though No Child Left Behind did not even take effect until 2003. Critics point out that the increase in scores between 2000 and 2005 was roughly the same as the increase between 2003 and 2005, which calls into question how any increase can be attributed to No Child Left Behind. They also argue that some of the subgroups are cherry-picked—that in other subgroups scores remained the same or fell. Also, the makers of the standardized tests have been blamed for making the tests", "title": "No Child Left Behind Act" }, { "docid": "12599910", "text": "testing. In 2008, 50.3% of 8th graders passed Reading, 51.5% passed Math and 47.9% passed Science. 22.7% of students who were tested passed all three subjects. From 2005 to 2008, pass rates rose by an average of 2% to 5%. The school has failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind Act for every student category in Math, and every category in Reading except Asian/Pacific Islanders and Hispanics. The school offers classes in drawing and painting, journalism/yearbook. There are drama and band/orchestra, guitar, and choir music classes. Manufacturing technology students work with wood,", "title": "Aki Kurose Middle School Academy" }, { "docid": "8549249", "text": "far beyond the building's capacity and a referendum was passed allowing the board to build a new building. Opened in September 1955, the school was named Fenton Community High School after Frederick C. Fenton, the district's first superintendent. In 2007, Fenton had an average composite ACT score of 20.0, and graduated 87.3% of its senior class. The average class size is 17.9. Fenton has not made Adequate Yearly Progress on the Prairie State Achievement Examination, which with the ACT, acts as the test in Illinois to fulfill the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The school has not met the", "title": "Fenton High School (Illinois)" }, { "docid": "6985020", "text": "SD & Midland Borough SD due to no high schools) In 2009, the academic achievement of the students of Burrell School District was in the 66th percentile among 500 Pennsylvania school districts. Scale - (0-99; 100 is state best) In 2010 through 2012, Burrell School District achieved Adequate YEarly Progress (AYP) status under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2011, 94 percent of the 500 Pennsylvania Public School Districts achieved the No Child Left Behind Act progress level of 72% of students reading on grade level and 67% of students demonstrating on grade level math. In 2011, 46.9", "title": "Burrell School District" }, { "docid": "10378775", "text": "around education reform. Though Bush did not pass a major educational reform package during his presidency, his ideas influenced later reform efforts, including Goals 2000 and the No Child Left Behind Act. The disabled had not received legal protections under the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, and many faced discrimination and segregation as Bush took office. In 1988, Lowell P. Weicker Jr. and Tony Coelho had introduced the Americans with Disabilities Act, which barred employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities. The bill had passed the Senate but not the House, and it was reintroduced in 1989. Though some", "title": "Presidency of George H. W. Bush" }, { "docid": "2769494", "text": "one test inaccurately measures student success overall. No Child Left behind has failed to account for all these factors. Those opposed to the use of testing to determine educational achievement prefer alternatives such as subjective teacher opinions, classwork, and performance-based assessments. Under No Child Left Behind, schools were held almost exclusively accountable for absolute levels of student performance. But that meant that even schools that were making great strides with students were still labeled as \"failing\" just because the students had not yet made it all the way to a \"proficient\" level of achievement. Since 2005, the U.S. Department of", "title": "No Child Left Behind Act" }, { "docid": "6655523", "text": "in 1988. The changes this year served to: Funding for the 1988 amendments was $159 million, with regulations for how the money should be divided. Specifically, at least 60% should be spent developing programs and at least 25% of funds should be spent on training. The Bilingual Education Act (BEA) reauthorization in 1994 maintained the same tenets as the original BEA, introduced new grant categories, set up preference to programs promoting bilingualism, and took into account indigenous languages. Overall, the premise of this addition was to introduce a more systemic reform. No Child Left Behind (NCLB), passed in 2002, had", "title": "Bilingual Education Act" }, { "docid": "9663096", "text": "declined to Warning status when 8 of the 16 schools did not achieve AYP. In both 2010 and 2011, West Shore School District, as a whole, achieved AYP status under the federal No Child Left Behind law. In 2011, 7 of the District's schools did not achieve Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). In 2011, 94 percent of the 500 Pennsylvania public school districts achieved the No Child Left Behind Act progress level of 72% of students reading on grade level and 67% of students demonstrating on grade level math. In 2011, 46.9 percent of Pennsylvania school districts achieved Adequate Yearly Progress", "title": "West Shore School District" }, { "docid": "13920641", "text": "the \"No Child Left Inside Act of 2008\" (H.R. 3036 , 110th Congress) was passed by the House of Representatives on September 18, 2008, but was never voted on in the Senate. The bill was introduced in the Senate as S.866 by senator Jack Reed (Democrat, Rhode Island) with 17 co-sponsors and was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. On June 4, 2009, the bill was referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. The main goal of the proposed legislation is to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (No Child", "title": "No Child Left Inside (movement)" }, { "docid": "10890158", "text": "Education, 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2013, enrollment was reported as 858 pupils in 9th through 12th grades, with 41% of pupils eligible for a free lunch due to family poverty. Additionally, 10% of pupils received special education services, while 1% of pupils were identified as gifted. The school employed 41 teachers. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2011, the school reported an", "title": "Shikellamy School District" }, { "docid": "10038071", "text": "rate at Panther Valley School District was 85%. In 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Education issued a new, 4 year cohort graduation rate. Panther Valley Senior High School's rate was 75.97% for 2010. In 2011, Panther Valley High School declined to Corrective Action II 1st Year status due to achieving just 1 of 6 academic metrics under the No Child Left Behind Act. Academic achievement remains below state standards in both reading and mathematics. Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the school administration was required to notify parents of the school's poor achievement outcomes and to offer the", "title": "Panther Valley High School" }, { "docid": "14047184", "text": "achieved an academic score of 70 or higher. Pennsylvania 11th grade students no longer take the PSSAs. Instead, beginning in 2012, they take the Keystone Exams at the end of the associated course. In 2010 through 2012, Muncy Junior Senior High School achieved AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) status under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002. The School achieved AYP status every school year since 2003. Effective with Spring 2013, the Pennsylvania Department of Education discontinued administering the PSSA's to 11th graders. Pennsylvania System of School Assessments, commonly called PSSAs are No Child Left Behind Act related examinations", "title": "Muncy School District" }, { "docid": "9907550", "text": "which many United States Education Advocates felt had narrowed down the subjects incorporated into the core curriculum. The No Child Left Behind Act was initially entitled the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, but then was later renamed No Child Left Behind in 2002. The National Association for Music Education, or NAfME, is an \"organization of American music educators dedicated to advancing and preserving music education and as part of the core curriculum of schools in the United States.\" The NAfME is an organization founded in 1907 of more than 60,000 people who advocate for the benefits of music", "title": "Music education in the United States" }, { "docid": "8600820", "text": "race and ethnicity. They found that ―the gap between Black and Latino student versus White and Asian students has widened, despite the College Board’s recent efforts to change questions to eliminate cultural biases.\" To the administration, it was apparent that more work was needed to better the situation. The following year in 2010, Obama presented his plan regarding the past administration's policy, under George W. Bush, called the \"No Child Left Behind Act.\" Unlike the No Child Left Behind Act, president Obama's policy would instead reward schools and institutions for working with minorities and oppressed students. Additionally, in an indirect", "title": "Affirmative action in the United States" }, { "docid": "8053858", "text": "federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2014, enrollment was reported as 1,364 pupils in 9th through 12th grades, with 52% of pupils eligible for a free lunch due to family poverty. Additionally, 16% of pupils received special education services, while 2.9% of pupils were identified as gifted. The school employed 112 teachers. Per the PA Department of Education 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2013, enrollment was 1,351 pupils in grades 9th through 12th. According to a Pennsylvania Department of Education report 49.96% of its pupils qualified for", "title": "Central Dauphin East High School" }, { "docid": "6331290", "text": "100% of its teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Scenic Hills Elementary School is located at 235 Hillview Drive, Springfield. In 2013, the school's enrollment was 597 pupils in grades 2nd through 5th, with 9% of pupils receiving a federal free or reduced-price meals due to family poverty. Additionally, 15.5% of the pupils receive special education services, while 3% are identified as gifted. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated highly qualified under No Child Left Behind Act. The school was not a federally", "title": "Springfield School District (Delaware County)" }, { "docid": "16016569", "text": "curriculum in every school. President George Bush's No Child Left Behind Act essentially replaced the Goals 2000 program. The No Child Left Behind Act(NCLB) legislation was signed by President Bush in January 2002 and dramatically expanded federal influence over the nation's more than 90,000 public schools. The main implications of this legislation was states had to conduct annual student assessments linked to state standards to identify schools failing to make \"adequate yearly progress\" (AYP) toward the stated goal of having all students achieve proficiency in reading and math by 2013–2014 and to institute sanctions and rewards based on each school's", "title": "Racial achievement gap in the United States" }, { "docid": "11676703", "text": "Junior Senior High School employed 35 teachers, yielding a student–teacher ratio of 14:1. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 100% of its teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2012, Port Allegany Junior Senior High School declined to School ImprovementAYP status due to low student achievement in reading and mathematics. In 2010 and 2011, Port Allegany Junior Senior High School was in Warning AYP status. Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the school administration was required to notify parents of the school's poor achievement outcomes and to", "title": "Port Allegany School District" }, { "docid": "4768071", "text": "not owned by such school, within 1,000 feet of any such property, and within or immediately adjacent to school buses. The No Child Left Behind Act amended and reauthorized the Safe and Drug-Free Schools & Communities Act (SDFSCA) as Part A of Title IV-21st century schools. The No Child Left Behind Act authorized funds for SDFSCA program, which is the federal government’s major initiative to prevent drug abuse violence in and around schools. As part of the SDFSCA, Congress allocated millions to school districts to help them establish programs to prevent the use of alcohol and other drugs, but there", "title": "Drug-free school zone" }, { "docid": "2468141", "text": "government. In 2003, he was named Outstanding New Member of the Year by the Committee for Education Funding, the nation's largest and oldest non-partisan education coalition. The first bill Van Hollen introduces every session is the Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers (Keep Our PACT) Act, which would fully fund No Child Left Behind and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. He introduced an amendment, which passed, that repealed a 9.5 percent loophole in student loans that had allowed lenders to pocket billions of taxpayer dollars. Now, that money is available for additional student loans. Because many federal employees", "title": "Chris Van Hollen" }, { "docid": "9927828", "text": "teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The school is not a federally designated Title I school. In 2012, the Pennsylvania Department of Education reported that 100% of the 92 teachers at the high school were rated \"highly qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The school's enrollment was 1,219 students in grades 9th through 12, with 154 pupils eligible for a federal free or reduced-price lunch due to family poverty. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2010, the school reported an enrollment of 1,219 pupils in grades 9th", "title": "Lower Dauphin High School" }, { "docid": "9800269", "text": "pupils received special education services, while 1.6% of pupils were identified as gifted. The school employed 36 teachers. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The school served 1,321 pupils students in grades 7th-12th in 2013-2014. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 100% teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2006, the district's 7th through 12th enrollment was 1,573 pupils. In 2011, the Shikellamy School Board made a controversial decision to realigned the school", "title": "Shikellamy High School" }, { "docid": "9472585", "text": "federal No Child Left Behind Act. The lowered status was due to low graduation rate and underachievement of reading on grade level in the elementary school. In 2011, 94 percent of the 500 Pennsylvania public school districts achieved the No Child Left Behind Act progress level of 72% of students reading on grade level and 67% of students demonstrating on grade level math. In 2011, 46.9 percent of Pennsylvania school districts achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) based on student performance. An additional 37.8 percent of school districts made AYP based on a calculated method called safe harbor, 8.2 percent on", "title": "Pottsville Area School District" }, { "docid": "7733844", "text": "for the first three years enrolled in Colorado public schools, (3) for any students taking the Colorado Student Assessment Program Alternate (CSAPA) instead of the CSAP. The CSAPA was a version of the CSAP test for students who met certain eligibility requirements, primarily students with disabilities. All School Improvement Plans must address the requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act Section 1116(a)(3)(A). Schools needing additional funding can apply for a Federal Title I A School Improvement Grant. The Colorado Department of Education provides a How-To document for this purpose on their website. The No Child Left Behind Act has", "title": "Colorado Student Assessment Program" }, { "docid": "7651602", "text": "Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2012, 10 teachers were rated \"Non Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Unqualified teachers remain at the school in 2013. The PDE reported the SPP was 58.6 out of 100 points. Midd-West High School Keystone Exams mandated testing results were: 59.57% of students were on grade level in reading/literature and just 47.11% of students demonstrated on grade level in Algebra I. In Biology I, 43.6% of pupils demonstrated on grade level science understanding at the end", "title": "Midd-West School District" }, { "docid": "6707910", "text": "assessment—the \"Pennsylvania System of School Assessment\" (\"PSSA\") -- of the students of State College Area School District was in the 82nd percentile of Pennsylvania's 500 school districts. Scale (0-99; 100 is state best). In 2010 and 2011, State College Area School District achieved AYP status under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2011, 94 percent of all 500 Pennsylvania Public School Districts achieved the No Child Left Behind Act progress level of 72% of students reading on grade level and 67% of students demonstrating on grade level math. In 2011, 46.9 percent of Pennsylvania school districts achieved Adequate", "title": "State College Area School District" }, { "docid": "5641111", "text": "any district above the median point is exceeding expectations.\" In 2012, Bermudian Springs School District declined to Warning Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status, under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2004 through 2011, Bermudian Springs School District achieved AYP status. In 2003, Bermudian Springs School District was in Warning AYP status, due to lagging student achievement in reading. In 2011, 94 percent of the 500 Pennsylvania Public School Districts achieved the No Child Left Behind Act progress level of 72% of students reading on grade level and 67% of students demonstrating on grade level math. In 2011, 46.9", "title": "Bermudian Springs School District" }, { "docid": "18543502", "text": "at the end of the associated course. In 2012, Carbondale Area Junior Senior High School declined to School Improvement II Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP0 status due to continuing low student achievement and low graduation rates. Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the school administration was required to notify parents of the school's poor achievement outcomes and to offer the parent the opportunity to transfer to a successful school within the district. Pennsylvania System of School Assessments, commonly called PSSAs are No Child Left Behind Act related examinations which were administered from 2003 through 2012, in all Pennsylvania public", "title": "Carbondale Area Junior Senior High School" }, { "docid": "18137278", "text": "Education, 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2013, enrollment was reported as 686 pupils in 9th through 12th grades, with 34.8% of pupils eligible for a federal free or reduced price lunch due to the family meeting the federal poverty level. Additionally, 16% of pupils received special education services, while 6.7% of pupils were identified as gifted. The school employed 52 teachers. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The School is not a", "title": "Middletown Area High School" }, { "docid": "18095316", "text": "under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2013, the school's enrollment was reported as 586 pupils in 9th through 12th grades, with 32% of pupils eligible for a free or reduced-price lunch due to low family income. Additionally, 32% of pupils received special education services, while 3.4% of pupils were identified as being gifted. The school employed 47 teachers. Per the PA Department of Education 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The school is not a federally designated Title I school. In 2010, Mifflinburg Area High School had", "title": "Mifflinburg Area High School" }, { "docid": "18016282", "text": "the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2013, enrollment was reported as 687 pupils in 9th through 12th grades, with 53% of pupils qualifying for the federal free or reduced-price lunch due to the family meeting the federal poverty level. Additionally, 14% of pupils received special education services, while 1% of pupils were identified as being gifted. The school employed 40 teachers. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 4% of the teachers were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The school is a federally designated Title I school. The district does not offer its", "title": "Shamokin Area High School" }, { "docid": "17061327", "text": "Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2014, Harrisburg High School enrollment was reported as 1,146 pupils in 9th through 12th grades, with 81% of pupils eligible for a free lunch due to family poverty. Additionally, 29% of pupils received special education services, while 0.09% of pupils were identified as gifted. The school employed 117 teachers. According to the PA Department of Education 2% of the teachers were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The school is a federally designated Title I school. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in", "title": "Harrisburg High School (Pennsylvania)" }, { "docid": "16855480", "text": "Area High School declined to \"Warning\" Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status due to lagging achievement in reading and mathematics. The school missed every metric measured. Fairfield Area High School achieved AYP status under the Federal No Child Left Behind Act in 2011, 2010 and 2009. From 2004 to 2008, the school achieved AYP status each school year. In 2003, the school was in Warning AYP status due to lagging student achievement. Pennsylvania System of School Assessments, commonly called PSSAs, are No Child Left Behind Act related examinations which were administered from 2003 through 2012 in all Pennsylvania public high schools.", "title": "Fairfield Area High School" }, { "docid": "14057528", "text": "the PA Department of Education, 12% of the teachers were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2014, Shenandoah Valley Junior Senior High School enrollment was reported as 467 pupils in 7th through 12th grades, with 71% of pupils eligible for a free lunch due to family poverty. Additionally, 17.7% of pupils received special education services, while 2% of pupils were identified as gifted. The school employed 27 teachers. Per the PA Department of Education 100% of the teachers were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. According to the National", "title": "Shenandoah Valley School District" }, { "docid": "14056063", "text": "Biology, 76.67% showed on grade level science understanding. In 2003 through 2012, the Lewisburg Area High School achieved AYP status under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Pennsylvania System of School Assessments, commonly called PSSAs are No Child Left Behind Act related examinations which were administered from 2003 through 2012, in all Pennsylvania public high schools. The exams were administered in the Spring of each school year. The goal was for 100% of students to be on grade level or better in reading and mathematics, by the Spring of 2014. The tests focused on the state's Academic Standards for", "title": "Lewisburg Area School District" }, { "docid": "14050217", "text": "Per the PA Department of Education 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2013, enrollment was reported as 544 pupils in 7th through 12th grades, with 13.7% of pupils receiving special education services. Additionally 6% of pupils were identified as being gifted. The school employed 44 teachers. Per the PA Department of Education 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2010, the school reported an enrollment of 566 pupils in grades 7th", "title": "Line Mountain School District" }, { "docid": "13775291", "text": "the academic achievement of the students of Harmony Area School District was in the bottom 8 percentile among 500 Pennsylvania school districts. Scale – (0–99; 100 is state best) In 2010, 2011 and 2012, Harmony Area School District achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2011, 94 percent of the 500 Pennsylvania public school districts achieved the No Child Left Behind Act progress level of 72% of students reading on grade level and 67% of students demonstrating on grade level math. In 2011, 46.9 percent of Pennsylvania school districts achieved Adequate Yearly", "title": "Harmony Area School District" }, { "docid": "13539660", "text": "teachers. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2014, enrollment was reported as 385 pupils in 7th through 12th grades, with 36.6% of pupils eligible for a free lunch due to family poverty. Additionally, 8% of pupils received special education services, while 8.8% of pupils were identified as gifted. The school employed 27. Per the PA Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in", "title": "Coudersport Area School District" }, { "docid": "13480252", "text": "Carbondale Area Junior Senior High School declined further to School Improvement II AYP status due to continuing low student achievement and low graduation rates. Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the school administration was required to notify parents of the school's poor achievement outcomes and to offer the parent(s) the opportunity to transfer to a successful school within the district. Pennsylvania System of School Assessments, commonly called PSSAs are No Child Left Behind Act related examinations which were administered from 2003 through 2012, in all Pennsylvania public high schools. The exams were administered in the Spring of each", "title": "Carbondale Area School District" }, { "docid": "13442552", "text": "District, was in the 58th percentile among all 500 Pennsylvania school districts Scale (0–99; 100 is state best) In 2012, Benton Area School District achieved AYP status under the Federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2011, Benton Area School District achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). In 2011, 94 percent of the 500 Pennsylvania public school districts achieved the No Child Left Behind Act progress level of 72% of students reading on grade level and 67% of students demonstrating on grade level math. In 2011, 46.9 percent of Pennsylvania school districts achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) based on student performance.", "title": "Benton Area School District" }, { "docid": "13425388", "text": "23 teachers. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2014, enrollment was reported as 285 pupils in 7th through 12th grades, with 33% of pupils eligible for a free lunch due to family poverty. Additionally, 16.8% of pupils received special education services, while less than 1% of pupils were identified as gifted. The school employed 22 teachers. Per the PA Department of Education 2% of the teachers were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. According to the National Center", "title": "Sullivan County School District" }, { "docid": "12014572", "text": "22 teachers. Per the PA Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2013, enrollment was reported as 248 pupils in 9th through 12th grades, with 22% of pupils eligible for a free lunch due to family poverty. Additionally, 11.9% of pupils received special education services, while 2% of pupils were identified as gifted. The school employed 22 teachers. Per the PA Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. According to the National Center for Education", "title": "Greenwood School District (Pennsylvania)" }, { "docid": "11758813", "text": "to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 31 classes were taught by teachers who were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under No Child Left Behind Act and 6 teachers had emergency certification. In 2012, East Allegheny High School was in Making Progress: in School Improvement II AYP status due to receiving special exceptions like safe harbor on academic achievement. In 2011, East Allegheny High School declined to School Improvement II AYP status due to continuing low student achievement in reading and mathematics. The school missed all the academic achievement metrics in 2011. Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act,", "title": "East Allegheny School District" }, { "docid": "11363522", "text": "employed 28 teachers in 2013. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 5% of the teachers were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2013, Halifax Area High School's enrollment was 331 pupils grades 9th through 12th. Twenty four percent (24%) of pupils were from low income homes and 15% received special education services. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, just 89% of the teachers were \"Highly Qualified\" under the Federal No Child Left Behind Act. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2011, the school reported an enrollment of", "title": "Halifax Area High School" }, { "docid": "11103755", "text": "Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2012, enrollment was 860 pupils grades 9th through 12th. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2010, the school reported an enrollment of 1,023 pupils in grades 9th through 12th, with 279 pupils eligible for a federal free or reduced-price lunch. The school employed 81 teachers, yielding a student teacher ratio of 13:1. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 3 teachers were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under No Child Left Behind Act.", "title": "Tunkhannock Area High School" }, { "docid": "10211865", "text": "the teachers were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2013, enrollment was reported as 687 pupils in 9th through 12th grades, with 53% of pupils qualifying for the federal free or reduced-price lunch due to family poverty. Additionally, 14% of pupils received special education services, while 1% of pupils were identified as gifted. The school employed 40 teachers. Per the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 4% of the teachers were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The school is a federally designated Title I school. According to the National Center", "title": "Shamokin Area School District" }, { "docid": "9927837", "text": "score of 70 or higher. Pennsylvania 11th grade students no longer take the PSSAs. Instead, beginning in 2012, they take the Keystone Exams at the end of the associated course. In 2012, Lower Dauphin High School declined to Warning Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status due to missing 9 of 11 metrics measured. In 2011 and 2010, Lower Dauphin High School achieved AYP status under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2010, Lower Dauphin Senior High School achieved AYP status. Pennsylvania System of School Assessments, commonly called PSSAs are No Child Left Behind Act related examinations which were administered", "title": "Lower Dauphin High School" }, { "docid": "2769527", "text": "competitive-grant program called Reading First, funded at $1.02 billion in 2004, to help states and districts set up \"scientific, research-based\" reading programs for children in grades K–3 (with priority given to high-poverty areas). A smaller early-reading program sought to help states better prepare 3- to 5-year-olds in disadvantaged areas to read. The program's funding was later cut drastically by Congress amid budget talks. Funding Changes: Through an alteration in the Title I funding formula, the No Child Left Behind Act was expected to better target resources to school districts with high concentrations of poor children. The law also included provisions", "title": "No Child Left Behind Act" }, { "docid": "2440880", "text": "part of that effort, he co-founded the bipartisan Faith-Based Caucus. Green helped expand the Violence Against Women Act, and wrote the \"Two Strikes and You're Out Child Protection Act\", which would have established a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for twice-convicted child sex offenders. He also cosponsored the Debbie Smith Act, which was meant to assist law enforcement in modernizing DNA databases, and the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. He supported the death penalty and the No Child Left Behind Act. Green unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Wisconsin against incumbent Governor Jim Doyle, a Democrat. Green had no", "title": "Mark Andrew Green" }, { "docid": "14097820", "text": "the Prairie State Achievement Examination, a state test that is part of the No Child Left Behind Act. In 2009, 87% of junior high school students tested met or exceeded standards on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test, also a state test that is part of the No Child Left Behind Act. Many Illinois school districts see a decrease in percentile as grade level increases. However, other high schools in the 47% standards range are not marked as making adequate yearly progress, and have received an Academic Early Warning Status rather than being marked as Fully Recognized. The school's average high", "title": "Galva High School" }, { "docid": "127884", "text": "of progressive schools. There were several reasons for the decline: Progressive education has been viewed as an alternative to the test-oriented instruction legislated by the No Child Left Behind educational funding act. Alfie Kohn has been an outspoken critic of the No Child Left Behind Act and a passionate defender of the progressive tradition. Taxpayer revolts, leading to cuts in funding for public education in many states, have led to the founding of an unprecedented number of independent schools, many of which have progressive philosophies. The charter school movement has also spawned an increase in progressive programs. Most recently, public", "title": "Progressive education" }, { "docid": "1131500", "text": "since the 1950s and especially in recent years, that American schooling is undergoing a crisis in which academic performance is behind other countries, such as Russia, Japan, or China, in core subjects. Congress passed the National Defense Education Act in 1958 in an attempt to rectify these problems, and a series of other legislative acts in later decades such as No Child Left Behind. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, however, American students of 2012 ranked 25th in math, 17th in science, and 14th in reading compared with students in 27 other countries. In 2013, Amanda Ripley", "title": "Education in the United States" }, { "docid": "13449444", "text": "Child Left Behind Act in 2011. In 2012, Bradford Area High School was in \"Making Progress - School Improvement II\" AYP status. In 2011, Bradford Area High School declined to \"School Improvement II\" AYP status due to lagging student achievement in reading and mathematics. In 2010, Bradford Area High School continued in \"Making Progress: in School Improvement I\" AYP status. In 2009, the school was in \"School Improvement I\" due to low student achievement. Due to the low achievement the school administration was required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act to notify parents of their right to transfer", "title": "Bradford Area School District" }, { "docid": "9122948", "text": "continuing low student achievement. Under the federal No Child Left Behind ACT, the school administration was required to notify parents of their right to transfer their child to a successful school in the District. Additionally, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) required the administration write a School Improvement Plan to raise student achievement in reading and math as well as the graduation rate. The administration submitted the plan to the PDE for approval. Under No Child Left Behind, the school was required to notify parents of the low academic achievement at the school and to offer a transfer to a", "title": "Sto-Rox School District" }, { "docid": "14050490", "text": "federal No Child Left Behind Act. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2013, the school reported an enrollment of 355 pupils in grades preschool through 12th grade. In 2014, 1% of Galeton Area School District teachers are \"Non-Highly Qualified\" per a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2011, the district reported an enrollment of 336 pupils in grades preschool through 12th grade, According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 3 teachers were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Canton", "title": "Galeton Area School District" }, { "docid": "14046201", "text": "were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under the No Child Left Behind Act. According to the Center for Education Statistics, in 2011, Tuscarora Middle School reported an enrollment of 428 pupils in grades 6th through 8th, with 198 pupils receiving a federal free or reduced-price lunch due to family poverty. The school employed 31.7 teachers, yielding a student-teacher ratio of 13:1. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE), the majority of teachers were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under No Child Left Behind Act. The PDE reported that 53% of 8th grade students at Tuscarora Middle School students were on", "title": "Juniata County School District" }, { "docid": "14045046", "text": "under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2010, Millersburg Area Senior High School enrolled 275 students grades 9th through 12th, with 52 students receiving federal free or reduced-price lunch due to family poverty. The school employed 23 teachers, yielding a student–teacher ratio of 11:1. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 6 of its teachers were rated \"Non‐Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Millersburg Area Senior High School achieved 80.6 out of 100. Reflects on grade level reading, mathematics and science achievement. The PDE reported that 87% of the High School's", "title": "Millersburg Area School District" }, { "docid": "14031209", "text": "formula. A district finishing high on this rank is smashing expectations, and any district above the median point is exceeding expectations.\" In 2010 and 2011, Saint Marys Area School District achieved AYP status under the federal No Child Left Behind act. In 2011, 94 percent of the 500 Pennsylvania Public School Districts achieved the No Child Left Behind Act progress level of 72% of students reading on grade level and 67% of students demonstrating on grade level math. In 2011, 46.9 percent of Pennsylvania school districts achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) based on student performance. An additional 37.8 percent of", "title": "Saint Marys Area School District" }, { "docid": "14030694", "text": "42% of pupils receiving a federal free or reduced-price meals due to family poverty. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated highly qualified under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In 2011, the school had an enrollment of 184 pupils, with 94 pupils from low income homes. The school employed 14 teachers, yielding a student-teacher ratio of 13:1. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 100% of its teachers were rated \"Highly Qualified\" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Arendtsville Elementary School achieved a score", "title": "Upper Adams School District" } ]

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[ { "docid": "17947635", "text": "Perfect 3\" (2017). Hana Mae Lee Hana Mae Lee (born September 28, 1988) is an American actress, model, comedian, and fashion designer. She is best known for playing Lilly Onakuramara in the 2012 film \"Pitch Perfect\" and its sequels, \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015) and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). She also owns her own fashion line titled \"Hanamahn\". Lee, who is of Korean ancestry, was born in Southern California, and graduated from Otis College of Art and Design. She was 16 when she started modeling. Lee has appeared in campaigns for Honda, Jeep, Apple Inc., Nokia, Sebastian, American Express, HP, Cherry", "title": "Hana Mae Lee" }, { "docid": "16835407", "text": "brass, gorgeous gospel chorus and Guy's insane pitch-perfect vocal. They named \"Battle Scars\" as one of the best singles of the year, with \"stunning, crystal-clear, pitch-perfect vocals\" calling it \"superb home-grown pop\". In a review for \"Get Along\" they wrote, \"This one is designed to get you thinking. To tap into your emotions. 'Get Along' is a song about hope, peace and understanding and a dream that perhaps one day we'll all be united, together as one people, one world, despite our differences in opinion, religion, creed and race. [...] Good on Guy for shining some light and spreading the", "title": "Armageddon (Guy Sebastian album)" }, { "docid": "18773203", "text": "Shelley Regner Shelley Anne Regner (born December 21, 1988) is an American actress and singer, known for her role as Ashley in the musical films \"Pitch Perfect\" (2012), and its two sequels \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015) and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). Regner was born and raised in the Baton Rouge area, the daughter of Jan and Donald Regner, a businessman. She has a sister, Lauren Regner, who is also a performer. She is a graduate of Parkview Baptist High School, and graduated from Louisiana State University with a degree in theatre in 2011. In college, she was a member of", "title": "Shelley Regner" }, { "docid": "17947633", "text": "Hana Mae Lee Hana Mae Lee (born September 28, 1988) is an American actress, model, comedian, and fashion designer. She is best known for playing Lilly Onakuramara in the 2012 film \"Pitch Perfect\" and its sequels, \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015) and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). She also owns her own fashion line titled \"Hanamahn\". Lee, who is of Korean ancestry, was born in Southern California, and graduated from Otis College of Art and Design. She was 16 when she started modeling. Lee has appeared in campaigns for Honda, Jeep, Apple Inc., Nokia, Sebastian, American Express, HP, Cherry Coke and Midori.", "title": "Hana Mae Lee" }, { "docid": "18845916", "text": "short cameo performance. Principal photography on the film began on January 5, 2017, and took place in Atlanta, Georgia, and Cádiz, Spain and Nice, France and wrapped on April 3, 2017. \"Pitch Perfect 3\" was initially scheduled for July 21, and August 4, 2017. It had its world premiere in Sydney, Australia, on November 29, 2017, and was released in the United States on December 22, 2017. \"Pitch Perfect 3\" grossed $104.9 million in the United States and Canada and $79 million in other territories, for a total of $183.9 million, against a production budget of $45 million. In the", "title": "Pitch Perfect 3" }, { "docid": "3795259", "text": "2011, she starred alongside Evan Ross in the cautionary thriller \"96 Minutes\". On November 9, 2012, Snow was cast in the sitcom \"Ben and Kate\" as Lila, a love interest for Tommy. In 2012, Snow starred in the musical comedy film \"Pitch Perfect\", as a cappella singer Chloe, alongside Anna Kendrick, Anna Camp, Rebel Wilson, Alexis Knapp and Skylar Astin. She reprised her role in \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015) and \"Pitch Perfect 3\", released on December 22, 2017. Snow lives in Los Angeles, California, in a house she shares with her \"Pitch Perfect\" co-star Kelley Jakle. Snow has spoken openly", "title": "Brittany Snow" }, { "docid": "13487574", "text": "actor Michael Mosley by September 2008; they married in 2010 and filed for divorce in 2013. Camp began dating \"Pitch Perfect\" co-star Skylar Astin in 2013. The couple were reported to be engaged in January 2016. They married on September 10, 2016. Anna Camp Anna Ragsdale Camp (born September 27, 1982) is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her roles as the villainous Sarah Newlin in the HBO vampire drama \"True Blood\" and Aubrey Posen in the musical comedy films \"Pitch Perfect\" (2012), \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015), and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). She has had", "title": "Anna Camp" }, { "docid": "18792105", "text": "Pitch Perfect 2 (soundtrack) Pitch Perfect 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2015 musical comedy film \"Pitch Perfect 2\". It was released on May 12, 2015. Mark Mothersbaugh was hired to compose the music for the film on December 3, 2014. The album was preceded by Flashlight as the lead single, which was initially offered with the album's pre-order, but was made available eventually in April 23, 2015. The special edition was later released on August 8, 2015. \"Flashlight\" by Jessie J was made available on April 23, 2015, as the lead single of the", "title": "Pitch Perfect 2 (soundtrack)" }, { "docid": "18845913", "text": "Amy spin-off.\" Director, star, and producer of the second film Elizabeth Banks acknowledged the possibility of a third film during promotion of \"Pitch Perfect 2\", saying, \"I will say, it would be disingenuous to say that no one’s talking about a \"Pitch Perfect 3\"; the possibility of it.\" On June 10, 2015, a third film was officially confirmed, and Kay Cannon was set to return to write the script. On June 15, 2015, it was announced that Kendrick and Wilson would both reprise their roles, and on July 28, 2015, Brittany Snow signed on to return. Paul Brooks again produced", "title": "Pitch Perfect 3" }, { "docid": "18204230", "text": "cart his corpse out of her house. Principal photography for \"The Perfect Guy\" began on August 6, 2014, in Los Angeles. The film was shot mostly at night using Sony digital cameras and anamorphic lenses. Much of the shooting used available light to create a “mysterious” look because “David wanted the film to be dark,” according to the film's director of photography Peter Simonite. \"The Perfect Guy\" wrapped up its 34-day LA shoot in mid-September 2014. On June 3, 2015, Screen Gems debuted the first official trailer for \"The Perfect Guy\" on \"USA Today\"′s website. The film was released in", "title": "The Perfect Guy (2015 film)" }, { "docid": "9113488", "text": "Paquin. In 2012, Burnet completed work as a lead in the feature film \"Two Jacks\" alongside Sienna Miller. Other roles include work in \"Boxing Day (2012 film)\", a Leo Tolstoy adaptation directed by Bernard Rose, in the thriller \"Rites of Passage\" with Christian Slater and Stephen Dorff, and in \"Age of Heroes (film)\" a period war film with Sean Bean. Burnet then went on to play Ewan Mcgregor's partner in crime caper \"Mortdecai\" opposite Johnny Depp. Burnet co-starred in the musical comedy film \"Pitch Perfect 3\", opposite Anna Kendrick. Burnet is cast in \"Jacob's Ladder (2019 film)\" the upcoming remake", "title": "Guy Burnet" }, { "docid": "17849843", "text": "August 4, 2017 before moving back to the July 21 slot. In May 2016 it was moved again, this time being pushed back to December 22, 2017. Pitch Perfect 2 Pitch Perfect 2 is a 2015 American musical comedy film directed and produced by Elizabeth Banks and written by Kay Cannon. It is a sequel to the 2012 film \"Pitch Perfect\" and the second installment in the \"Pitch Perfect\" film series. The film centers on the fictional Barden University Bellas, an all-female a cappella singing group, who try to beat out the German national team in a world singing championship.", "title": "Pitch Perfect 2" }, { "docid": "17849823", "text": "Pitch Perfect 2 Pitch Perfect 2 is a 2015 American musical comedy film directed and produced by Elizabeth Banks and written by Kay Cannon. It is a sequel to the 2012 film \"Pitch Perfect\" and the second installment in the \"Pitch Perfect\" film series. The film centers on the fictional Barden University Bellas, an all-female a cappella singing group, who try to beat out the German national team in a world singing championship. The film features an ensemble cast, including Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld, Brittany Snow, Hana Mae Lee, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean, Chrissie Fit, Kelley Jakle, and", "title": "Pitch Perfect 2" }, { "docid": "16151393", "text": "who has a strong point of view on the world, who is funny and empathetic and someone who we can all relate to and root for.\" Of Kendrick she said, \"Anna is all those things, and there was no other choice.\" Fellow producer Brooks said \"I saw Anna in \"Up in the Air\" and thought it was the most exquisite, elegant, balanced, sublime performance. Anna was our first choice for the role of Beca.\" When casting the character of Jesse, Max Handelman said \"We were looking for a young John Cusack-type guy. We needed to find someone who was kind", "title": "Pitch Perfect" }, { "docid": "13487568", "text": "Anna Camp Anna Ragsdale Camp (born September 27, 1982) is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her roles as the villainous Sarah Newlin in the HBO vampire drama \"True Blood\" and Aubrey Posen in the musical comedy films \"Pitch Perfect\" (2012), \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015), and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). She has had recurring roles in the television series \"Mad Men\", \"The Good Wife\", and \"The Mindy Project\". She made her Broadway debut in the 2008 production of \"A Country House\" and played Jill Mason in the 2008 Broadway revival of Peter Shaffer's \"Equus\". In", "title": "Anna Camp" }, { "docid": "13487573", "text": "(2013). In 2011, Camp starred in the premiere of \"All New People\", a play written by Zach Braff and staged at Second Stage Theatre; the production was directed by Peter Dubois and also starred Justin Bartha, David Wilson Barnes and Krysten Ritter. Camp had a starring role in the first season of Fox sitcom \"The Mindy Project\", and played Aubrey Posen in the 2012 musical comedy film \"Pitch Perfect\", later reprising her role in the sequels \"Pitch Perfect 2\" and \"Pitch Perfect 3\". She has a recurring role in Netflix's \"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt\" as Deirdre Robespierre. Camp was engaged to", "title": "Anna Camp" }, { "docid": "16344639", "text": "series. Knapp also stars in the independent short film \"Wracked\", as Melissa. Knapp dated actor Ryan Phillippe in mid-2010, though they split up in September that year. After their breakup, Knapp discovered she was pregnant. She gave birth to their daughter in 2011; Phillippe was present during the birth. Alexis Knapp Alexis Merizalde Knapp (born July 31, 1989) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her role as Stacie Conrad in the musical films \"Pitch Perfect\" (2012) and its two sequels, \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015) and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). She is also known for her role", "title": "Alexis Knapp" }, { "docid": "16344636", "text": "Alexis Knapp Alexis Merizalde Knapp (born July 31, 1989) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her role as Stacie Conrad in the musical films \"Pitch Perfect\" (2012) and its two sequels, \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015) and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). She is also known for her role of Alexis in the party film \"Project X\" (2012), and her role on the first season of the TBS comedy \"Ground Floor\". Knapp was born in Avonmore, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Marjorie and Bradford Elwood Knapp. She grew up in the Outer Banks of North Carolina before leaving home", "title": "Alexis Knapp" }, { "docid": "9366549", "text": "She then created, executive produced the show \"Girlboss\" for Netflix based on the real life of Sophia Amoruso. Cannon's first produced feature screenplay was the a cappella comedy \"Pitch Perfect\" (2012). She wrote and co-produced the film's sequels, \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015) and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). Cannon made her directorial debut with \"Blockers\". The film was released by Universal Pictures on April 6, 2018. In 2004, Cannon married American comedian Jason Sudeikis after five years together. They separated in 2008 and divorced in 2010. Cannon and her second husband, comedy writer Eben Russell, had a daughter, Evelyn Rose \"Leni\"", "title": "Kay Cannon" }, { "docid": "17002351", "text": "a freshman. His nerves only get worse when he hears that Lassiter, the Acafellas’ pitch, is looking for a talented musician who knows how to blend, JB is hoping for a cool dude, and Philip wants a guy who won’t screw up their championship vibe. Simon knows he doesn’t exactly check those boxes. He gives a powerful but highly unorthodox audition with “Three Times A Lady”. Meanwhile, the Ladies in Red (Melody, Meghan, Mickey, Valerie, and their student manager Kerri) are already in crisis. Valerie apologizes for abandoning the group at Nationals last year by locking herself in the janitor's", "title": "Perfect Harmony (musical)" }, { "docid": "1381182", "text": "The early Pythagoreans, such as Hippasus and Philolaus, used this term in a music-theoretic context to mean a perfect fifth. The justly tuned pitch ratio of a perfect fifth means that the upper note makes three vibrations in the same amount of time that the lower note makes two. In the cent system of pitch measurement, the 3:2 ratio corresponds to approximately 702 cents, or 2% of a semitone wider than seven semitones. The just perfect fifth can be heard when a violin is tuned: if adjacent strings are adjusted to the exact ratio of 3:2, the result is a", "title": "Hemiola" }, { "docid": "3795255", "text": "Jenna Backstrom on \"Harry's Law\" (2011). Her film roles include Kate Spencer in \"John Tucker Must Die\" (2006), Amber Von Tussle in \"Hairspray\" (2007), Donna Keppel in \"Prom Night\" (2008), Emma Gainsborough in \"The Vicious Kind\" (2009), and Chloe Beale in the musical comedies \"Pitch Perfect\" (2012), \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015), and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). Snow is also the co-creator of the Love is Louder movement, a project dedicated to stop bullying in schools. Snow was born and raised in Tampa, Florida on March 9, 1986, the daughter of Cinda and John Snow. She has a half-brother, John, Jr.,", "title": "Brittany Snow" }, { "docid": "16151383", "text": "in December 2011, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The film premiered in Los Angeles on September 24, 2012 and was released on September 28, 2012 in the United States. The film received positive reviews from critics and became a sleeper hit, earning over $115 million worldwide. It is the first film in the film series and was followed by two sequels, \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015) and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). During the 2011 ICCA Finals at Lincoln Center, Barden University’s all-female a cappella group, the Barden Bellas, lose to their all-male rival group the Barden University Treblemakers, due to junior member", "title": "Pitch Perfect" }, { "docid": "5613628", "text": "film, Banks directed its sequel, \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015), making her feature directorial debut. She also co-produced, and again played Gail in, both \"Pitch Perfect 2\" and the next sequel \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). In 2015, she was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2015 Venice Film Festival. The festival is chaired by Alfonso Cuarón. Also in 2015, Banks became a spokeswoman for Realtor.com in their series of television commercials. As of mid-February 2016, Banks became the commercial face of Old Navy. She also played space alien Rita Repulsa in the 2017 \"Power", "title": "Elizabeth Banks" }, { "docid": "17783151", "text": "a movement in Montana that encourages teenagers not to smoke. Kelley Jakle Kelley Alice Jakle (born June 27, 1989) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as Jessica in \"Pitch Perfect\" (2012), and its two sequels \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015) and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). She is also known for her appearances on the first and second seasons of \"The Sing-Off\" in 2009 and 2010. Jakle was born in Carmichael, California. She was active in music from an early age, performing as part of the Sacramento Children's Chorus, singing \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" at sporting", "title": "Kelley Jakle" }, { "docid": "17783147", "text": "Kelley Jakle Kelley Alice Jakle (born June 27, 1989) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as Jessica in \"Pitch Perfect\" (2012), and its two sequels \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015) and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). She is also known for her appearances on the first and second seasons of \"The Sing-Off\" in 2009 and 2010. Jakle was born in Carmichael, California. She was active in music from an early age, performing as part of the Sacramento Children's Chorus, singing \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" at sporting events (including a San Francisco 49ers game in 2006) and", "title": "Kelley Jakle" }, { "docid": "13747103", "text": "Cynthia Rose in the hit movie \"Pitch Perfect\" (2012), which led to her co-starring in the sequels \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015) and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). Dean possesses a mezzo-soprano range. Her vocals were described by \"Billboard\" as \"raw, energetic vocals cover a wide range: from club banger to melodic doo-wop/hip-hop.\" Dean's vocals have also been described as similar to Rihanna and Nicki Minaj. \"The songwriter's voice is pitched dead center between two artists. The first is frequent collaborator Rihanna...the other is Nicki Minaj when she sings.\" In a 2012 article in \"The New Yorker\", Dean described her preferred method", "title": "Ester Dean" }, { "docid": "2496227", "text": "− \"n\". The concept of interval class accounts for octave, enharmonic, and inversional equivalency. Consider, for instance, the following passage: (To hear a MIDI realization, click the following: In the example above, all four labeled pitch-pairs, or dyads, share a common \"intervallic color.\" In atonal theory, this similarity is denoted by interval class—ic 5, in this case. Tonal theory, however, classifies the four intervals differently: interval 1 as perfect fifth; 2, perfect twelfth; 3, diminished sixth; and 4, perfect fourth. The unordered pitch class interval \"i\" (\"a\", \"b\") may be defined as where \"i\" <\"a\", \"b\"> is an ordered pitch-class", "title": "Interval class" }, { "docid": "18845919", "text": "of 100 based on 35 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"A–\" on an A+ to F scale, the same score earned by its predecessor. Owen Gleiberman of \"Variety\" praised the cast and said, \"The new film doesn't add anything revolutionary to the \"Pitch Perfect\" formula. It still sounds like we're in middle-period \"Glee\" written by someone who finds Ryan Murphy too solemn. But as directed by Trish Sie, the movie is bubbly, it's fast, it's hella synthetic-clever, and it's an avid showcase for the personalities of its stars.\"", "title": "Pitch Perfect 3" }, { "docid": "18845907", "text": "sing at an event. Arriving at the reunion, they learn that Emily simply invited them to see the new Bellas. They later gather at a bar in disappointment, but express how much they miss each other. Aubrey convinces them to join a USO tour, near her Army officer father. Emily fills in for Stacie, who is eight months pregnant. The Bellas land at a base in Spain, greeted by their liaisons, soldiers Chicago and Zeke. They also meet the other three bands, including the mean-spirited female quartet Evermoist. The others use musical instruments, helping them defeat the Bellas in a", "title": "Pitch Perfect 3" }, { "docid": "15661066", "text": "military personnel across the world, and describes it as \"the most rewarding experience of [his] life\". After meeting on the set of \"The Final Girls\" in 2014, DeVine began dating Chloe Bridges in February 2015. Adam DeVine Adam Patrick DeVine (born November 7, 1983) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and singer. He is one of the stars and co-creators of the Comedy Central series \"Workaholics\", as well as \"Adam DeVine's House Party\". He plays the role of Bumper in the musical films \"Pitch Perfect\" and \"Pitch Perfect 2\" and Andy in the sitcom \"Modern Family\". His other roles", "title": "Adam DeVine" }, { "docid": "8335872", "text": "In addition to conducting production business, the board discusses 1-3 plays each week that have been assigned by the literary chair. Discussions are open to the public. Discussion notes for each play, as well as a running list of all works read, are posted on the s&b webpage: www.sockandbuskin.org. Twice a month, the faculty join the students for a full board 'pitch meeting.' At these meetings, smaller groups of students pitch the plays they are most interested in pursuing further. Faculty members who are potential directors for the following season also pitch plays that they are particularly interested. A list", "title": "Sock and Buskin (Brown University)" }, { "docid": "15661056", "text": "Adam DeVine Adam Patrick DeVine (born November 7, 1983) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and singer. He is one of the stars and co-creators of the Comedy Central series \"Workaholics\", as well as \"Adam DeVine's House Party\". He plays the role of Bumper in the musical films \"Pitch Perfect\" and \"Pitch Perfect 2\" and Andy in the sitcom \"Modern Family\". His other roles include \"Neighbors\", \"The Intern\", \"The Final Girls\", \"Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates\", \"Game Over, Man!\" and \"When We First Met\". He has voiced characters in films including \"\" and \"The Lego Batman Movie\". DeVine", "title": "Adam DeVine" }, { "docid": "18963266", "text": "could play Aubrey as someone who could marshal the crazy but also was sympathetic.\" Kelley Jakle was brought in as a \"ringer\" due to her past experience as a two-time ICCA champion with the SoCal VoCals and had also appeared on two seasons of The Sing-Off. Pitch Perfect (film series) Pitch Perfect is an American musical comedy film series created by Kay Cannon, loosely based on the non-fiction book \"Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate a Cappella Glory\" by Mickey Rapkin. Jason Moore directed the first film, and Elizabeth Banks directed the second and Trish Sie directed the third. Paul", "title": "Pitch Perfect (film series)" }, { "docid": "20006287", "text": "Orlando (played by Francisco Reyes), an older man with whom she is in love and planning a future. After Orlando falls ill and dies, Marina is forced to face family and society, and fight again to show who she is: a fantastic woman. Critic Guy Lodge in a review for \"Variety\" praising Vega's performance said: \"Vega's tough, expressive, and subtly distressed performance deserves far more than political praise.\" He continued to note that \"It’s a multi-layered, emotionally polymorphous feat of acting, nurtured with pitch-perfect sensitivity by her director, who maintains complete candor on Marina’s condition without pushing her anywhere she", "title": "Daniela Vega" }, { "docid": "1281664", "text": "sharps or flats); this definition leads to the perfect intervals being only the unison, fourth, fifth, and octave, without appealing to degrees of consonance. The term \"perfect\" has also been used as a synonym of \"just\", to distinguish intervals tuned to ratios of small integers from those that are \"tempered\" or \"imperfect\" in various other tuning systems, such as equal temperament. The perfect unison has a pitch ratio 1:1, the perfect octave 2:1, the perfect fourth 4:3, and the perfect fifth 3:2. Within this definition, other intervals may also be called perfect, for example a perfect third (5:4) or a", "title": "Perfect fifth" }, { "docid": "18759272", "text": "\"Pitch Perfect 2\" soundtrack. The more subtle delivery would be welcome if the track weren't so paint-by-numbers, it plays like a pantomime of a Sia ballad, but without the emotive edge.\" The music video (directed by Hannah Lux Davis) was released on 23 April 2015 on YouTube. In the video, Jessie J heads to Barden University (the campus of UCLA) where she performs the ballad while watching the students go about their days while walking around the campus, while scenes from \"Pitch Perfect 2\" are shown. The song is first sung by Barden University freshman Emily (Hailee Steinfeld) for her", "title": "Flashlight (Jessie J song)" }, { "docid": "14649095", "text": "of a convenient integer value. With a Verdi pitch standard of 432 = 2⁴×3³, in just tuning all octaves (factor 2), perfect fourths (factor 4/3) and fifths (factor 3/2) will have pitch frequencies of integer numbers, but not the major thirds (factor 5/4) nor major sixths (factor 5/3) which have a prime factor 5 in their ratios. However scientific tuning implies an equal temperament tuning where the frequency ratio between each half tone in the scale is the same, being the 12th root of 2 (a factor of ≈ 1.059463), which is not a rational number: therefore in scientific pitch", "title": "Scientific pitch" }, { "docid": "3438444", "text": "guy, perfect pitch, he just knew what he was doing, he was a genius.\" The original Four Tops enjoyed continued success as a headline performance act and remained together for 43 years until Payton's death in 1997, aged 59, from liver cancer in Southfield, Michigan. He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery. Payton had 11 children. One of his sons, Roquel, went on to sing with the Four Tops who still enjoy popularity today as an in demand performance group, still featuring Abdul Fakir. Payton, as a member of the Four Tops, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of", "title": "Lawrence Payton" }, { "docid": "1577422", "text": "of the different concert pitches used by orchestras playing music from different styles (a baroque orchestra using period instruments might decide to use a higher-tuned pitch). Unlike absolute pitch (sometimes called \"perfect pitch\"), relative pitch is quite common among musicians, especially musicians who are used to \"playing by ear\", and a precise relative pitch is a constant characteristic among good musicians. Unlike perfect pitch, relative pitch can be developed through ear training. Computer-aided ear training is becoming a popular tool for musicians and music students, and various software is available for improving relative pitch. Some music teachers teach their students", "title": "Relative pitch" }, { "docid": "17450459", "text": "Chrissie Fit Chrissie Marie Fit (born April 3, 1984) is an American actress and singer. In 2007, Fit rose to prominence after she was cast as the character Mercedes Juarez in the medical drama, \"General Hospital\". She is also known for her role as CheeChee in the DCOMs \"Teen Beach Movie\" and \"Teen Beach 2\", and for her role as Florencia \"Flo\" Fuentes in \"Pitch Perfect 2\" and \"Pitch Perfect 3\". Chrissie Marie Fit was born in Miami, Florida and raised in Hialeah, the daughter of Maria Christina and Miguel Fit. She is of Cuban heritage. Chrissie started singing at", "title": "Chrissie Fit" }, { "docid": "8828986", "text": "the American satellite television network Dish Network launched a marketing campaign for its Hopper DVR featuring Wilson as the voice of the eponymous computer animated kangaroo. Wilson reprised her role in the sequels \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015) and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017). She also made a cameo in the television comedy \"Pompidou\". Wilson joined the voice cast for \"Kung Fu Panda 3\", however in September 2015, she was replaced with Kate Hudson. Wilson next appeared in the ensemble comedy \"How to Be Single\", released in February 2016. Nigel M Smith of \"The Guardian\" wrote \"Wilson is the standout, nailing every", "title": "Rebel Wilson" }, { "docid": "18845917", "text": "United States and Canada, \"Pitch Perfect 3\" was released alongside the openings of \"Downsizing\" and \"Father Figures\", as well as the wide expansions of \"The Shape of Water\" and \"Darkest Hour\", and was projected to gross $27–35 million from 3,447 theaters in its opening weekend. The film took in $2.1 million from Thursday night previews, about half of the $4.6 million earned by its predecessor. Over the three-day weekend, which included Christmas Eve, it grossed $19.9 million (down nearly 70% from the second film's $69.2 million debut), finishing third at the box office, behind \"\" and \"\". It grossed an", "title": "Pitch Perfect 3" }, { "docid": "16471949", "text": "to pitch a modern-era perfect game, at 22 years, 30 days old. Catfish Hunter's perfect game On May 8, 1968, Jim \"Catfish\" Hunter of the Oakland Athletics pitched the ninth perfect game in Major League Baseball history, defeating the Minnesota Twins 4-0 at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum. Hunter struck out 11 batters, including the last two batters he faced: Bruce Look and pinch-hitter Rich Reese. He also struck out Harmon Killebrew all three times the two future Hall-of-Famers faced each other. Only two batters got to a three-ball count: Tony Oliva in the second inning, who reached a 3-0 count before", "title": "Catfish Hunter's perfect game" }, { "docid": "18845920", "text": "Frank Scheck for \"The Hollywood Reporter\" wrote \"... what started out as a charmingly offbeat comic premise has inevitably degenerated into the sort of crass commercialism that probably would make the Bellas themselves turn up their noses.\" The official soundtrack was released on December 15, 2017. When asked about a sequel to \"Pitch Perfect 3\", director Trish Sie said, \"Of course that's above my pay grade and I have no idea and am not the one making the decisions but as far as I am concerned, I would see these movies on and on and on until they start sucking.", "title": "Pitch Perfect 3" }, { "docid": "18963263", "text": "was the most exquisite, elegant, balanced, sublime performance. Anna was our first choice for the role of Beca.\" When casting the character of Jesse, Max Handelman said \"We were looking for a young John Cusack-type guy. We needed to find someone who was kind of awkward but not a geek, but not so cool that you're not rooting for him.\" Skylar Astin was chosen for the role. Of Astin's audition, Banks said the chemistry between Skylar and Anna when they read together prior to shooting was \"clear and they were able to riff off each other.\" Rebel Wilson was recognized", "title": "Pitch Perfect (film series)" }, { "docid": "1281667", "text": "tuning in terms of integer ratios, and defined a \"lower imperfect fifth\" as a 40:27 pitch ratio, and a \"greater imperfect fifth\" as a 243:160 pitch ratio. His lower perfect fifth ratio of 1.48148 (680 cents) is much more \"imperfect\" than the equal temperament tuning (700 cents) of 1.4983 (relative to the ideal 1.50). Helmholtz uses the ratio 301:200 (708 cents) as an example of an imperfect fifth; he contrasts the ratio of a fifth in equal temperament (700 cents) with a \"perfect fifth\" (3:2), and discusses the audibility of the beats that result from such an \"imperfect\" tuning. W.", "title": "Perfect fifth" }, { "docid": "19938734", "text": "a further 12 months on top of that. He scored on his \"Seasiders\" debut with a 25-yard volley in a 3–3 draw with Macclesfield Town in an EFL Trophy group stage game on 4 September. Guy is an energetic 'box-to-box' midfielder. Callum Guy Callum Anthony Guy (born 25 November 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for League One club Blackpool, on loan from Championship side Derby County. He started his career at Derby County, before playing on loan at Port Vale during the 2016–17 season, and joined Bradford City on loan in January 2018. In", "title": "Callum Guy" }, { "docid": "130458", "text": "200... is the sequence of divisions of octave that provide better and better approximations of the perfect fifth. Related sequences contain divisions approximating other just intervals. This application: calculates the frequencies, approximate cents, and MIDI pitch bend values for any systems of equal division of the octave. Note that 'rounded' and 'floored' produce the same MIDI pitch bend value. The equal-tempered version of the Bohlen–Pierce scale consists of the ratio 3:1, 1902 cents, conventionally a perfect fifth plus an octave (that is, a perfect twelfth), called in this theory a tritave (), and split into thirteen equal parts. This provides", "title": "Equal temperament" }, { "docid": "18845918", "text": "additional $6.5 million on Christmas Day, for a four-day total of $26.4 million. It dropped 15% the following weekend, grossing $16.8 million, and a total of $21.7 million over the four-day New Year's frame. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 31% based on 118 reviews and an average rating of 4.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, \"\"Pitch Perfect 3\" strains to recapture the magic that helped the original spawn a franchise, but ends up sending this increasingly unnecessary trilogy out on a low note.\" On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 40 out", "title": "Pitch Perfect 3" }, { "docid": "1281665", "text": "perfect major sixth (5:3). In addition to perfect, there are two other kinds, or qualities, of fifths: the diminished fifth, which is one chromatic semitone smaller, and the augmented fifth, which is one chromatic semitone larger. In terms of semitones, these are equivalent to the tritone (or augmented fourth), and the minor sixth, respectively. The justly tuned pitch ratio of a perfect fifth is 3:2 (also known, in early music theory, as a \"hemiola\"), meaning that the upper note makes three vibrations in the same amount of time that the lower note makes two. The just perfect fifth can be", "title": "Perfect fifth" }, { "docid": "20338199", "text": "Conscious (Guy Sebastian album) Conscious is the eighth studio album from Australian singer-songwriter Guy Sebastian. It was released on 3 November 2017. Hayden Benfield from Renowned for Sound praised \"the funky guitars and R&B beats\" of \"High on Me\" before saying \"With \"Conscious\", Sebastian has sought to move away from his tendency to do take after take in search of the perfect vocal delivery, instead seeking to make it feel “a bit more real”\" adding \"For an artist who has grown so steadily through his career, \"Conscious\" neither represents stagnation or a backward step for Sebastian, but nor does it", "title": "Conscious (Guy Sebastian album)" }, { "docid": "1281565", "text": "the harmonic series as the interval between the third and fourth harmonics. The term \"perfect\" identifies this interval as belonging to the group of perfect intervals, so called because they are neither major nor minor (unlike thirds, which are either minor or major) but perfect. A perfect fourth in just intonation corresponds to a pitch ratio of 4:3, or about 498 cents (), while in equal temperament a perfect fourth is equal to five semitones, or 500 cents (see additive synthesis). Up until the late 19th century, the perfect fourth was often called by its Greek name, diatessaron. Its most", "title": "Perfect fourth" }, { "docid": "17450461", "text": "2012. She also wrote, directed and starred in the web series, \"The Subpranos\", playing the role of Denise Flores de la Rosa. She also appeared in episodes of \"Southland\", \"House M.D.\", \"\" and \"The Middleman\". In 2012, Fit returned to acting with \"Filly Brown\", where she played Lupe Tonorio. In 2013, she was cast as CheeChee in the Disney Channel Original Movie, \"Teen Beach Movie\". In 2015, she played Florencia \"Flo\" Fuentes in \"Pitch Perfect 2\" and reprised her role as CheeChee in the DCOM \"Teen Beach 2\". She later returned as Florencia in 2017's \"Pitch Perfect 3\". Fit is", "title": "Chrissie Fit" }, { "docid": "14311501", "text": "Hailee Steinfeld Hailee Steinfeld (born December 11, 1996) is an American actress and singer. She has been nominated for awards including an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and four Critics Choice Awards, winning one for Best Young Performer. Her breakthrough role was that of Mattie Ross in \"True Grit\" (2010), for which she was nominated for numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Thereafter, Steinfeld gained prominence for roles in \"Ender's Game\" (2013) and \"Romeo & Juliet\" (2013). She appeared as Emily Junk in \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015) and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017), and she received", "title": "Hailee Steinfeld" }, { "docid": "18845921", "text": "I think whether it's these women in the next stage of life or it's a new group of women going through these things, I think there are endless ways to chart the course of the girls' lives and a woman's life.\" Rebel Wilson posted a picture on social media alongside Brittany Snow, Anna Camp and Chrissie Fit all holding up 4 fingers. This could be a potential hint towards a fourth Pitch Perfect being in talks. During an interview at \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show\", when asked about the same photo, Wilson hinted that she would be \"filming another musical film", "title": "Pitch Perfect 3" }, { "docid": "13623233", "text": "2012, portraying a man who travels back in time to tell his past self that his life will get better if he cheats on his girlfriend. For his performance in the latter, \"Amazing Stories\"s Chris Garcia found his acting \"pitch perfect\" and added that Campo \"does an excellent job playing both sides of the same coin.\" In early 2012, Campo was cast for a recurring role in the third season of the supernatural drama TV series \"Being Human\". He plays the character of Max, a young-looking mortician who runs his own business and works extra hard to gain credibility. He", "title": "Bobby Campo" }, { "docid": "13589246", "text": "not only had to carry the show, they also had to have \"pitch-perfect\" chemistry with each other to make the family dynamic believable\". Bonnet says Disney Channel executives \"just fell in love with\" Bridgit Mendler, who stars as teenaged Teddy Duncan. \"She has all the attributes of a Disney star\", said Bonnet. Mendler first heard about \"Good Luck Charlie\" in late November 2008. After several rounds of auditions and cast reads, she finally secured the part in January 2009. Mendler and Jason Dolley, who plays Teddy's older brother PJ, have starred in preceding Disney Channel series and movies before both", "title": "Good Luck Charlie" }, { "docid": "3980295", "text": "game of the qualifiers Marquis started and threw 41 pitches over 3 innings, while giving up 2 hits and 1 earned run, while recording a strikeout and a walk. Under World Baseball Classic rules any pitcher who throws over 50 pitches cannot pitch again for four days, therefore by pulling Marquis before reaching this limit, enabled Israel to utilize Marquis again in the tournament. Marquis again started for the final game of the qualifier and threw 43 pitches over four perfect innings, while recording 5 strikeouts. Following his four perfect innings, Marquis said: \"I try to approach every opportunity I", "title": "Jason Marquis" }, { "docid": "13084004", "text": "James Byrd (guitarist) James Byrd is a guitarist from Kirkland, WA who came to prominence in the metal scene in the mid-1980s with the band Fifth Angel, considered a pioneer of the early Power Metal movement. Since this time he has released numerous solo albums on the labels Shrapnel Records, Mascot, JVC Victor and Lion Music as well as starting his own guitar company Byrd Guitars who market the original design Super Avianti instrument. James Byrd plays a hybrid of classic rock, metal and blues with classical influences and possesses an extremely musical vibrato along with perfect relative pitch. He", "title": "James Byrd (guitarist)" }, { "docid": "3428655", "text": "Selective Service System, overruled Ruffing's personal physician, who had ruled Ruffing unfit for service. The Army decided that Ruffing could serve in a non-combat role. Ruffing missed the 1943 and 1944 seasons due to his service during World War II. He served in the Sixth Ferrying Group of the Air Transport Command of the United States Army Air Forces at the rank of private. However, he did pitch for the Air Transport Command's baseball team, throwing a perfect game against Joe DiMaggio's team, and leading his team to the championship against Ted Lyons' team. In 1944, he played with an", "title": "Red Ruffing" }, { "docid": "16200677", "text": "Daniel Silverberg Daniel Silverberg is an American assistant director of film and television. Silverberg has served as the first assistant director on numerous, notable films including \"Pitch Perfect 2\" (2015), \"Daddy's Home\" (2015), \"Just Go With It\" (2011), \"Hairspray\" (2007), \"Bedtime Stories\" (2008), \"Cheaper By The Dozen 2\" (2005), \"The Pacifier\" (2005), \"Along Came Polly\" (2005) and \"Bringing Down the House\" (2003). He has also worked as an assistant director on a variety of television series including, \"Glee\"., \"Grounded for Life\", \"Andy Richter Controls the Universe\" and \"Numb3rs\". As a head director, he directed 2nd Unit on \"Pitch Perfect 3\",", "title": "Daniel Silverberg" }, { "docid": "1281662", "text": "perfect fifth is to hum the start of \"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star\"; the pitch of the first \"twinkle\" is the root note and pitch of the second \"twinkle\" is a perfect fifth above it. The term \"perfect\" identifies the perfect fifth as belonging to the group of \"perfect intervals\" (including the unison, perfect fourth and octave), so called because of their simple pitch relationships and their high degree of consonance. When an instrument with only twelve notes to an octave (such as the piano) is tuned using Pythagorean tuning, one of the twelve fifths (the wolf fifth) sounds severely discordant", "title": "Perfect fifth" }, { "docid": "1281673", "text": "tuning. A slightly narrowed perfect fifth is likewise the basis for meantone tuning. The circle of fifths is a model of pitch space for the chromatic scale (chromatic circle), which considers nearness as the number of perfect fifths required to get from one note to another, rather than chromatic adjacency. Perfect fifth In music theory, a perfect fifth is the musical interval corresponding to a pair of pitches with a frequency ratio of 3:2, or very nearly so. In classical music from Western culture, a fifth is the interval from the first to the last of five consecutive notes in", "title": "Perfect fifth" }, { "docid": "17783150", "text": "her background in a cappella. In 2013, Jakle appeared in \"42\", a biographical film about baseball player Jackie Robinson co-starring Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey, Jakle's great-grandfather. Jakle reprised her role as Jessica in \"Pitch Perfect 2\" in 2015 and \"Pitch Perfect 3\" in 2017. In 2013, Jakle released several singles, including a cover of \"Ain't It Fun\" by Paramore. On July 29, 2016, Jakle originated the role of Marilyn Monroe in \"Marilyn! The New Musical\" at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California. Jakle is the great-granddaughter of Major League Baseball executive Branch Rickey. Jakle is an ambassador for ReACT,", "title": "Kelley Jakle" }, { "docid": "5221904", "text": "Dynamics were the subject of a New York Times article a few days before they took the stage at Lincoln Center. Following their first ICCA win, and appearance on The Today Show in 2008, the SoCal VoCals were featured in an article in Newsweek Magazine. Various ensembles compete for the ICCA national title in the comedy \"Pitch Perfect\", while a fictionalized World Championship competition is portrayed in the 2015 sequel. \"Pitch Perfect 3\" was released on December 22, 2017. 12. Payson-Lewis, Dan. \"My Real Hollywood Ending.\" Newsweek. 9 Aug. 2008: 32. International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella The International Championship", "title": "International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella" }, { "docid": "17849824", "text": "Shelley Regner, as well as Skylar Astin, Ben Platt, Adam DeVine, John Michael Higgins, and Banks all reprising their roles. It was released in the United States on May 15, 2015 by Universal Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $287 million worldwide. It surpassed the total gross of the original film ($115.4 million) in five days, and also became the highest-grossing music comedy film of all-time, overtaking \"School of Rock\" ($131.3 million). A sequel, \"Pitch Perfect 3\", was released on December 22, 2017. Three years after winning the previous competition, the Barden Bellas are", "title": "Pitch Perfect 2" }, { "docid": "1798550", "text": "make the interval known as a justly tuned perfect fifth. Cascading twelve such fifths does not return to the original pitch class after going round the circle, so the 3:2 ratio may be slightly detuned, or tempered. Temperament allows perfect fifths to cycle, and allows pieces to be transposed, or played in any key on a piano or other fixed-pitch instrument without distorting their harmony. The primary tuning system used for Western (especially keyboard and fretted) instruments today, twelve-tone equal temperament, uses an irrational multiplier, 2, to calculate the frequency difference of a semitone. An equal-tempered fifth, at a frequency", "title": "Circle of fifths" }, { "docid": "17849841", "text": "would return for a third film, although she stated that she did not know if Anna Kendrick or any of the other cast members would also be reprising their roles. She added that she would be \"up for a Fat Amy spin-off,\" although nothing had yet been confirmed. Director, star, and producer Elizabeth Banks acknowledged the possibility of a third film, saying, \"I will say, it would be disingenuous to say that no one's talking about a \"Pitch Perfect 3\"; the possibility of it. We are really focused on getting as many butts in seats for this one. If fans", "title": "Pitch Perfect 2" }, { "docid": "15381222", "text": "3 4 5 5 4 3 2 3 4 5 5 4 3 2 notes per chord. These chords collectively form a harmonic double \"wave\", whose chord densities rise and fall twice. At the same time, a single wave of level of dissonance first increases from a unison at the beginning to a minor ninth in the middle, and then decreases back to perfect consonances (octave and perfect fifth) at the end . There are four superimposed instrumental layers corresponding to different musical processes. Each layer is effectively a melodic \"loop\" of fifteen notes, constantly repeating but transformed in pitch", "title": "Jubiläum" }, { "docid": "17070791", "text": "the pop version of \"Cups.\" The Ultimate Edition version of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on February 10, 2015, to coincide with the release of \"Pitch Perfect 2\". It contains all 24 tracks from the previous three releases (Original, Special Edition, and More From). A remixed and longer version of \"Cups\" by Kendrick was released to radio on March 26, 2013, and was later used as a theme song for the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup football tournament. In August 2013, it peaked at #6 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Pitch Perfect (soundtrack) Pitch Perfect: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack", "title": "Pitch Perfect (soundtrack)" }, { "docid": "16471947", "text": "3-2 pitches before striking out to end the game. Hunter relied mostly on his fastball during the game, only disagreeing with catcher Jim Pagliaroni's pitch-calling decisions twice. As a measure of his appreciation for his catcher's contribution to the perfect game, Hunter rewarded Pagliaroni with a gold watch that he had inscribed on back. Despite Hunter's performance, only 6,298 fans showed up for the evening contest. The perfect game was the American League's first regular season perfect game since Charlie Robertson's perfect game in 1922, as well as the first no-hitter in the Athletics' Oakland history, which was in only", "title": "Catfish Hunter's perfect game" }, { "docid": "221265", "text": "interval of a twelfth of the Pythagorean comma formula_3 (1.96 cents). A stack of 12 justly tuned perfect fifths, therefore, does not arrive at the same pitch class it began with. This new pitch class is one full Pythagorean comma \"higher\" than the starting pitch class, demonstrating how a continuous spiral of Pythagorean perfect fifths will generate an infinite collection of unique pitch classes within a frequency range. In Pythagorean tuning, the most consonant intervals are the perfect fifth and its inversion, the perfect fourth. The Pythagorean major third (81:64) and minor third (32:27) are complex and comparably much more", "title": "Just intonation" }, { "docid": "59156", "text": "use this method. In instruments with a fourth valve, such as tubas, euphoniums, piccolo trumpets, etc. that valve lowers the pitch by a perfect fourth; this is used to compensate for the sharpness of the valve combinations 1–3 and 1–2–3 (4 replaces 1–3, 2–4 replaces 1–2–3). All three normal valves may be used in addition to the fourth to increase the instrument's range downwards by a perfect fourth, although with increasingly severe intonation problems. When four-valved models without any kind of compensation play in the corresponding register, the sharpness becomes so severe that players must finger the note a half-step", "title": "Brass instrument" }, { "docid": "527872", "text": "perfect fourth apart and the natural minor key and Dorian mode a major second above the lowest note. The whistle is identified by its lowest note, which is the tonic of the lower of two major keys whose tonics are a perfect fourth apart that the whistle most easily plays in. Note that this method of determining the key of the instrument is different from the method used to determine the key of a chromatic instrument, which is based on the relationship between notes on a score and sounded pitch. Whistles are available in a wide variety of different keys.", "title": "Tin whistle" }, { "docid": "13545141", "text": "hurt his credibility as a recruiter. The switch moved him from a position with an abundance of talented players to one that allowed significantly more game action. As a converted wide receiver, he possessed sure hands, a valuable attribute for a defensive back. Friedgen said,\"He is really a phenomenal athlete and he really has tremendous hands. He made some plays the other day that were like, 'Whoa,' going up and catching the ball with one hand. He is a pretty good man-cover guy for a guy who is 6-3, 220 pounds. He plays on the slots, and Coach <nowiki>[</nowiki>James<nowiki>]</nowiki> Franklin", "title": "Kenny Tate" }, { "docid": "11028434", "text": "harmonic judgement based mainly on perfect pitch and an acute pair of ears ... [A] natural melodist—a creator of tunes capable of existing apart from their harmony\". McCartney commented, \"I prefer to think of my approach to music as ... rather like the primitive cave artists, who drew without training.\" McCartney's skill as a bass player has been acknowledged by other bassists, including Sting, Dr. Dre bassist Mike Elizondo, and Colin Moulding of XTC. Best known for primarily using a plectrum or pick, McCartney occasionally plays fingerstyle. He does not use slapping techniques. He was strongly influenced by Motown artists,", "title": "Paul McCartney" }, { "docid": "17070789", "text": "Pitch Perfect (soundtrack) Pitch Perfect: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the official music for the 2012 film \"Pitch Perfect\". The soundtrack was released digitally on September 25, 2012, and physically on October 2, 2012. Three songs from the album charted on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100: \"Cups\" by Anna Kendrick, which peaked at number 6; \"Bellas Finals\" by the Barden Bellas, which peaked at number 85; and \"Riff Of\" by the Barden Bellas, the Treblemakers, and the BU Harmonics, which peaked at number 86. The album was the sixth best-selling soundtrack of 2012, with 212,000 copies sold for the year. The", "title": "Pitch Perfect (soundtrack)" }, { "docid": "16151398", "text": "\"Hotel Transylvania\", grossing $14.8 million. The opening weekend audience was 81 percent female, which is considered overwhelming. The opening weekend also attracted a younger audience with 55% of the opening weekend audience being under the age of 25. The film is the third-highest-grossing music comedy film, behind its sequel, \"Pitch Perfect 2\", and \"School of Rock\". \"Pitch Perfect\" received positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 80% based on 147 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"\"Pitch Perfect\"s plot is formulaic, but the", "title": "Pitch Perfect" }, { "docid": "18963256", "text": "Pitch Perfect (film series) Pitch Perfect is an American musical comedy film series created by Kay Cannon, loosely based on the non-fiction book \"Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate a Cappella Glory\" by Mickey Rapkin. Jason Moore directed the first film, and Elizabeth Banks directed the second and Trish Sie directed the third. Paul Brooks, Max Handelman, and Banks produced the films. It features an ensemble cast, including Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin, Adam DeVine, Ben Platt, Alexis Knapp, Hana Mae Lee, Ester Dean, Hailee Steinfeld, Chrissie Fit, John Michael Higgins, and Banks. The series", "title": "Pitch Perfect (film series)" }, { "docid": "18792106", "text": "soundtrack album. It debuted on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart on 28 May 2015, at number 68. It eventually peaked at number 61. The second single, \"Crazy Youngsters\", performed by cast member Ester Dean, was released on May 10, 2015, with its music video to further promote the film's release. The soundtrack debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" 200, earning 107,000 album-equivalent units (92,000 copies of traditional sales) during its first week. Pitch Perfect 2 (soundtrack) Pitch Perfect 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2015 musical comedy film \"Pitch Perfect 2\". It was released", "title": "Pitch Perfect 2 (soundtrack)" }, { "docid": "16151382", "text": "Pitch Perfect Pitch Perfect is a 2012 American comedy film directed by Jason Moore and written by Kay Cannon. It features an ensemble cast, including Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Hana Mae Lee, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean, Adam DeVine, Ben Platt, John Michael Higgins, and Elizabeth Banks. The plot follows Barden University's all-girl a cappella group, The Barden Bellas, as they compete against another a cappella group from their college to win Nationals. The film is loosely adapted from Mickey Rapkin's non-fiction book, titled \"Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate a Cappella Glory\". Filming concluded", "title": "Pitch Perfect" }, { "docid": "7177388", "text": "friend Ajay, who never accepts him. \"Sify\" wrote: \"Allu Arjun is full of energy as the guy caught in the powerful current of love. Though he plays the part with negative shades, his characterization could evoke a lot of sympathy from the audiences. His dances are mind-blowing and he excels in emotional scenes.\" \"idlebrain.com\" wrote: \"Allu Arjun is perfect as Arya. His character in the movie has the qualities of a psychotic and he portrayed the character flawlessly. He shined in emotional scenes in the second half of the movie. Allu Arjun is probably the best dancer of current era", "title": "Allu Arjun" }, { "docid": "6640206", "text": "similar to The Monster Hit, except to win free furniture, \"a member of the Red Sox pitching staff has to pitch a perfect game during the last 72 games of the 2013 season\". According to BaseballReference.com, since 1865, there have been 23 Perfect Games pitched in 202,520 Major League Baseball games played. Therefore, one Perfect Game is pitched in every 8805 contests. Assuming a 72-game Jordan's contest period each season, Jordan's will award free furniture to customers an average of one time in the next 122.7 years. The Perfect Game promotion covered purchases made between April 3, 2013 and May", "title": "Jordan's Furniture" }, { "docid": "13026508", "text": "In the song, Allen describes her relationship with a boyfriend to which she describes him as \"the perfect guy\" yet is frustrated at his sexual laziness. She furthermore describes the situation as \"Not Fair\" because while he plays the perfect boyfriend in every other way, he's selfish when it comes to their sex life (\"all you do is take\") - thus the song gives the impression that all his niceness and concern may have been just a face to get what he wants from his girlfriend without any genuine concern with her satisfaction and happiness. The single was officially released", "title": "Not Fair" }, { "docid": "18204231", "text": "the Dolby Vision format in Dolby Cinema in North America. \"The Perfect Guy\" grossed $57 million in the United States and Canada and over $3.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total of over $60.3 million, against a budget of $12 million. Sony opted not to screen \"The Perfect Guy\" for critics or have Thursday night previews for the film. The film opened on Friday, September 11, 2015, earning $9.9 million on its opening day. For the weekend, the film finished first at the box office grossing $25.9 million at 2,221 North American theaters. \"The Perfect Guy\" became available", "title": "The Perfect Guy (2015 film)" }, { "docid": "14311510", "text": "for the English-language dub of the Japanese animated film \"When Marnie Was There\". Steinfeld plays Anna alongside Kiernan Shipka as Marnie. Steinfeld stars in the music video for Taylor Swift's single \"Bad Blood\". The video premiered at the 2015 \"Billboard\" Music Awards ceremony on May 17, 2015. In 2015, Steinfeld co-starred in \"Pitch Perfect 2\", alongside Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, and Elizabeth Banks, who also directed. She played some of her songs for a representative from Republic Records at an event in New York City, and the label signed her. In May, Republic Records announced the record deal and that", "title": "Hailee Steinfeld" }, { "docid": "13748584", "text": "Guy Haimov Guy Haimov (; born 9 March 1986) is an Israeli professional association football goalkeeper who currently plays for Maccabi Haifa. Haimov grew up playing for the Maccabi Tel Aviv youth systems . He was part of the youth team that won the 2003/2004 Youth Championship. Although he was a part of the senior squad for 3 seasons he never played a League match for Maccabi Tel Aviv but took part in Toto Cup matches. Haimov made his league debut in a Premier League match against Hakoah Maccabi Amidar/Ramat Gan on 10 February 2007 for Hapoel Kfar Saba with", "title": "Guy Haimov" }, { "docid": "18204223", "text": "The Perfect Guy (2015 film) The Perfect Guy is a 2015 American romantic thriller film directed by David M. Rosenthal, produced by Tommy Oliver and written by Alan B. McElroy and Tyger Williams and stars Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, Holt McCallany and Morris Chestnut. Ealy and Lathan also served as executive producers on the film. \"The Perfect Guy\" was released in North America on September 11, 2015. The film grossed $60.3 million against its budget of $12 million. Successful lobbyist Leah Vaughn breaks up with her boyfriend, Dave King, because he refuses to commit to her wishes of starting a", "title": "The Perfect Guy (2015 film)" }, { "docid": "11995818", "text": "breaking the momentum for Lowe, who on the next pitch surrendered a home run to Chase Utley that tied the score. After a Ryan Howard groundout, Pat Burrell homered to left and put the Phillies out front 3–2, and that would prove to be the final score. Brad Lidge tossed a perfect ninth for the save. Friday, October 10, 2008 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia starting pitcher Brett Myers surprisingly batted 3-for-3 with three RBIs as the Phillies opened up an 8–2 lead on the Dodgers, chasing Dodgers starter Chad Billingsley in the third inning. Billingsley was", "title": "2008 National League Championship Series" }, { "docid": "3393537", "text": "chop after taking a wicket. It has also been used by Professional Bowler Pete Weber after getting a strike, Weber himself is a fan of wrestling. The character Kenny Powers in the HBO series, \"Eastbound & Down\" also uses the gesture in a fantasy sequence where he walks through the halls of the school where he works. In a 2010 episode of \"Family Guy\", titled \"Extra Large Medium\", a cutaway shows Spock doing the crotch chop after he wins the lottery. In the 2012 film, “Pitch Perfect”, Beca does the crotch chop at the end of the Barden Bella’s rap", "title": "D-Generation X" }, { "docid": "14622076", "text": "\"I would tell [Galarraga], 'I feel for you. There have been only 20 perfect games in the history of baseball. The umpire situation was the same one I had—they blew it. At least I had the satisfaction of getting the no-hitter. You don't. I feel for you. You pitched a tremendous game. At least you have the satisfaction of the umpire saying he was sorry. But that doesn't help your situation as far as a perfect game.\" Pappas' own bid for a perfect game on September 2, 1972, was spoiled when umpire Bruce Froemming called a borderline 3-and-2 pitch to", "title": "Armando Galarraga's near-perfect game" }, { "docid": "11639024", "text": "only way he can relieve the tedium is by behaving despicably and I think the whole office would actually be sad if he left because it would suddenly be all very mundane. I mean I'm sure that's the case in a lot of real offices - it's like on reality-TV shows, everyone quite likes the bad guy in the Big Brother house, really.\" Tasche de Vasconcelos who plays Lauren in the first series said: \"It's a great show, I'm just so proud to have been able to do it. It's brilliantly written\". She later went on to describe Paul as", "title": "Perfect World (TV series)" }, { "docid": "11799878", "text": "was the musical comedy \"Pitch Perfect\" (2012), loosely based on the non-fiction book \"Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory\". Kendrick played the protagonist of the film, leading an ensemble cast including Skylar Astin, Rebel Wilson, Adam DeVine, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, and more. She played Beca Mitchell, a rebellious college freshman who joins an a cappella group called the Barden Bellas and finds that her more modern approach to music clashes with the traditional approach of the group's leader. The film emerged as a major commercial success and received mostly positive reviews from critics, who called Kendrick's", "title": "Anna Kendrick" }, { "docid": "9519175", "text": "critic wrote: ...although Daniels has the perfect swollen-sweater-girl look as the blonde ditz, it’s Drake who steals the show as her snarkier and more sensible companion. Among the men, veterans Randy Spears and Mike Horner have both made quite a reputation for their acting within the adult community – in both serious and humorous roles, sex and nonsex – and are as entertaining as expected. Meanwhile, Eric Masterson, the nominal male lead, plays a nebbishy film geek well, and Voodoo has a memorable comic turn as a jock/would-be tough guy. Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre", "title": "Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre" }, { "docid": "15234450", "text": "and Shanaya’s arch-nemesis. Abhimanyu \"Abhi\" Singh (Sidharth Malhotra) arrives at the college and becomes the classy new heartthrob. Abhi becomes the most popular guy in the college. He plays the role of the perfect student and a perfect man. He is an orphan from a middle-class family, and lives with his aunt, uncle and grandmother. His dream is to become a big business tycoon like Ashok. Rohan and Abhimanyu argue at first but soon become best friends. Rohan introduces Shanaya to Abhimanyu, warning Abhimanyu not to get involved with her romantically. Abhimanyu is invited to Rohan's elder brother's destination wedding", "title": "Student of the Year" }, { "docid": "15324883", "text": "which is great because he has perfect pitch, so he developed a MIDI keyboard that’s really based on relative pitches, and it’s pretty astounding. Leon, he’s an astounding player, he plays everything from Bebop to barrelhouse and then plays this kind of sci-fi crap too. And what I like about him is that he basically invented this whole other way of improvising as a keyboard player that’s pretty astounding. Keyboard Magazine has gotten in touch with him and only now that people are really starting to even get a sense of what he’s laying down. So it’s been my great", "title": "Samchillian" }, { "docid": "16151396", "text": "Banks and Handelman with his vocal skills. Anna Camp was chosen for the role of Aubrey. Producer Max Handelman said, \"Elizabeth and I were huge fans of Anna's from \"True Blood.\" Aubrey is set up as the antagonist for Beca, and Beca's already a bit hard-edged, so it was so important to find an actress who could play Aubrey as someone who could marshal the crazy but also was sympathetic.\" The film was released on September 28, 2012 in the United States. \"Pitch Perfect\" was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray/DVD combo pack on December 18, 2012. A 4K UHD", "title": "Pitch Perfect" } ]