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= = = Veliki Koren = = = |
Veliki Koren (; ) is an uninhabited settlement in the Municipality of Krško in eastern Slovenia. The area was traditionally part of Lower Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Lower Sava Statistical Region. |
Veliki Koren had a population of 29 in 1900, but is now uninhabited. In the fall of 1941, German forces evicted the residents of the village to make room for the planned resettlement of Gottschee Germans. By 1971 only two houses remained in the village, and these were already slated for demolition because of the gradual expansion of a mine for diatomaceous earth. |
= = = Sesame Street (comic strip) = = = |
Sesame Street is a nationally syndicated comic strip inspired by "Sesame Street". Written and drawn by veteran Sesame animator Cliff Roberts, the earliest concept art was created in 1970, and by 1971, a promotional booklet was created as the comic entered the market, courtesy of King Features. The strip debuted on November 15, 1971, in more than 175 newspapers, and ran until 1975. The strip, which ran both daily and on Sundays, was conceptually similar to the series in its pedagogical goals, but, in the first year of the strip, conspicuous by the absence of the Muppets. |
Instead, the strip featured several new characters created by Roberts, such as Jasper and Julius, Christopher Clumsy, and Miss Fortune; in 1972, all of these characters appeared in animated inserts on "Sesame Street" itself. Also regularly seen was Professor Drummond Bugle, a lecturer, similar to more generic characters used in Roberts' animated segments. Roberts fleshed out the strip's cast with a vast menagerie of newly minted animal characters. Amongst them were Lotta Elephant, Richard Bird, Hedda the frog, Balderdash the mouse, Titus the snake, Thomas Turtle, Crawley the worm, and an errant spider. A pair of nameless, Muppet-esque monsters also skulked through on occasion. |
Though the earlier version of the strip avoided the Muppets, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster joined the cast in December 1972, and appeared through the end of the strip's run in 1975. |
Like "Sesame Street", the comic strip was largely educational, using broad humor to relate learning concepts. The most frequent topics were parts of the body, shapes, and identification of objects. Other subjects included opposites or pairings (up and down, here and there, etc.) and emotions. Letters and numbers surfaced rarely, presumably because the strip's target audience was different from the largely pre-literate television audience. However, many strips were pure comedy, revolving around the characters' eccentricities and foibles. |
= = = SuperStar Search Slovakia (season 2) = = = |
SuperStar Search Slovakia () is a casting television show based on the popular British show "Pop Idol". The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in Slovakia and is shown by the national TV network STV. The second season premiered in November 2005 with castings held in Banská Bystrica, Žilina, Bratislava and Košice. |
Auditions were held in Bratislava, Košice, Banská Bystrica, Žilina in the summer of 2005. |
In Divadlo were 100 contestants. The contestants first emerged on stage in groups of 9 or 10 but performed solo unaccompanied, and those who did not impress the judges were cut after the group finished their individual performances. 40 contestants made it to the Semi-final. |
The 40 contestants who reached this stage in this season were referred to in the show as the finalists. Below are the four semi-final and one Second Chance semi-final groups with contestants listed in their performance order. In each group, two people advanced to the next round, based on votes by the viewers. |
Eleven contestants made it to the finals. The first single recorded by TOP 11 is called "So mnou môžeš rátať" (You can count on with me) and it was composed by judge Pavol Habera (music) and Slovak poem writer Daniel Hevier. Every final night has its theme. Audience can vote for contestants from the very beginning of the show, voting ends during result show on the same day. |
= = = Marguerite Bellanger = = = |
Marguerite Bellanger (10 June 1838 - 23 November 1886) was a French stage actress and courtesan. She was a celebrity of Second Empire France and known for her relationship with Napoleon III of France. She was often caricatured in contemporary press and is considered to be the model for Émile Zola's "Nana". A candy is also named after her. She was reputedly the most universally loathed of Napoleon III's mistresses, though perhaps his favorite. She outlived Napoleon's deposal in 1870 and died in 1886 aged 48. |
Marguerite Bellanger was born Julie Justine Marine Lebœuf on 10 June 1838 in Saint-Lambert-des-Levées, Maine-et-Loire to François Lebœuf and Julie Hanot. Born into poverty, she began working as a laundress in Saumur at the age of 15. |
After an affair with a lieutenant opened her eyes to the wider world, she became an acrobat and trick rider in a provincial circus, she travelled to Paris where she made her debut as an actress at the theater "La Tour d'Auvergne", under the name of Marguerite Bellanger (the surname of an uncle). |
Although her acting talent was limited, she was cunning. She became one of the most sought-after cocottes of all Paris. She led a princely lifestyle, and the climax of her gallant life took place in the years 1862-1866. She is reported to have said: "It is very nice Paris, but it is only habitable in the beautiful districts ... In the others, there are too many poor!" according to "Le Rappel" of 16 April 1871. Author and playwright, Ludovic Halévy, is reputed to have said that Bellanger had the "daintiest feet in Paris". |
Her celebrity status was such that she became a figure in the literary and artistic world. Zola quoted her as a friend of Nana. |
She was photographed in man's suit: to do this, she had asked permission from the police department. |
Bellanger was a favourite model of the sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, who represented her as an allegory of spring in an elegant terracotta bust in which is today in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris. |
In a painting by Édouard Manet in 1863, Olympia, the artist endeavoured to evoke an odalisque, who receives a bouquet of flowers brought by her maid. According to Phyllis A. Floyd's study, "The Puzzle of Olympia", he gave the painting the features of Marguerite Bellanger. |
In June 1863, while on a carriage ride in Saint-Cloud Park, Emperor Napoleon III spotted Bellanger sheltering from the rain beneath a tree. Napoleon was bewitched by his new encounter. |
Marguerite Bellanger become the mistress of the Emperor. Soon, with the knowledge of all including the Empress Eugénie, she followed him on private and official trips. |
Amongst his numerous presents, the Emperor gave her two houses, one at 57 rue des Vignes, Passy, the other at Saint-Cloud, in the park of Montretout, which had a back door to the gardens of the castle. |
In February 1864, Marguerite Bellanger gave birth to a son; whom she named Charles Jules Auguste François Marie Leboeuf. |
After the birth, Bellanger retired for a while to rue de Launay in Villebernier and received a pension. In November 1864, the Emperor offered "Margot" the castle of Villeneuve-sous-Dammartin, near Meaux. The Emperor also gave the child a boarding house and the castle of Mouchy, in the Oise, which he had bought very discreetly some time before. Bellanger became usufructuary of the property. |
Always seductive, Bellanger still attracted men when she settled in Villeneuve-sous-Dammartin at the end of 1864. Among her lovers were General de Lignières and, according to some sources, Léon Gambetta. |
She was the subject of caricatures and gossip. Paul Hadol, in his series of caricatures on the "Imperial Menagerie", portrayed her as a cat. |
Her affair with the emperor continued during the Franco-Prussian War, and even during his captivity in Westphalia. In 1873, when the emperor died in exile in England, she travelled to England to mourn her 'dear lord'. |
At the fall of the Empire, she again traveled to England and married William Louis Kulbach, a British army officer. The presence of the couple William Kulbach and Marguerite Bellanger is recorded in Monchy-Saint-Éloi (Oise), France in the census of 1872. Bellanger gave her age as 30 years, whereas according to the data in her biography, she was 33 or 34. |
She lived the rest of her life as a member of the upper class, devoting herself to charity and good works. |
Marguerite Bellanger died at the age of 48 on 23 November 1886 after contracting a cold during a walk in the park of the castle at Villeneuve-sous-Dammartin. According to the declaration of death, her husband lived in Pau. The religious ceremony took place on 27 November at the church of Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot and she was interred in Montparnasse Cemetery. |
Her brother Jules, who served as a gardener, benefited from her estate. He built a beautiful house in Brain-sur-Allonnes, which is now the town hall. |
Her only son, Charles Leboeuf, made a career as an officer and died without issue on 11 December 1941. He was buried with his mother. |
Bellanger's character appears in Christian-Jaque's film Nana (1955), in which her character is performed by Nicole Riche. |
Marguerite Bellanger has been associated with a chocolate specialty: a praline was created to honour her. A chocolatier from Saumur designed, with the help of archivists of the city of Saumur, a specialty "The Marguerite". |
The coat of arms of Marguerite Bellanger is reproduced on the chocolates: a daisy with a heart of silver and gold petals. The praline "with four spices" (cloves, cinnamon, pepper and nutmeg) echos the qualities that the second Empire sought to give her: a varnish of heart, a spicy charm and an imperial dress. |
= = = Lethbridge (surname) = = = |
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= = = Dödel Up = = = |
"Dödel Up" is a 2000 song by Guano Apes. It is the fourth and final single from "Don't Give Me Names", released on January 29, 2001 in Germany. Originally the post-grunge-influenced "I Want It" was going to be the fourth single as there was a video, however the band scrapped the video and chose to do "Dödel Up" instead. The music video for the single was a complete departure from the previous Apes music videos, as the video was purely animated, but blended with live footage. The video shows the band portrayed as half bodied pencil holders. |
= = = La Bodinière = = = |
The Théâtre La Bodinière was a theater in Paris directed by Charles Bodinier between 1890 and 1902. |
It staged lectures and performances for a distinguished audience of aristocrats, grand bourgeois and intelligentsia. |
Charles Bodinier (1844–1911) was Secretary-General of the Comédie-Française from 1882 to 1889. |
From 1888 he was director of the Théâtre d'Application, a small theater for students of the Conservatory on rue Saint-Lazare. |
In 1890 he opened a theater called "La Bodinière", which staged performances until 1902. |
La Bodinière's audience including members of the Parisian upper class and the intelligentsia. |
Starting in 1890, Bodinier began to put on "matinées-causeries". |
Speakers at these events included literary figures such as the poet Maurice Bouchor, the poet and "conteur", Paul Armand Silvestre, the writer and critic Ferdinand Brunetière, the poet and novelist Anatole France, the poet and novelist François Coppée, the dramatist Maurice Donnay and the journalist and critic Francisque Sarcey. |
The historian and feminist Léopold Lacour gave well-attended talks on fashionable subject of feminism. |
Charles Bodinier invited the poet and dandy Robert de Montesquiou to give a lecture on 17 January 1894, assisted by Sarah Bernhardt. |
The event attracted an audience that included aristocrats, professors, actors, poets and artists, |
including Paul Verlaine and the sculptor Édouard Houssin. |
La Bodinière had a varied program. |
The Société Théâtrical with Émile Goudeau staged the play "Le Gardénia". |
Bodinier put on shadow shows such as "La Marche au Soleil" based on the poem by Léon Durocher with music by Georges Fragerolle. |
The popular singer Yvette Guilbert was engaged by the theater in January 1891 for five performances where the journalist Hugues Le Roux gave lectures and Guilbert performed. |
Yvette had huge success with this audience, who would not have wanted to be seen at the more low-brow venues where the singer usually performed. |
Bodinier staged a series of similar combined lectures and recitals after the success of Guilbert's performance, |
including Félicia Mallet, the well-known pantomime artist and singer. |
The poet and playwright Maurice Lefèvre introduced Mallet at these events. |
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= = = Lethem (surname) = = = |
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= = = Leto (surname) = = = |
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= = = 1301PE = = = |
1301PE is a gallery in Los Angeles founded by Brian D. Butler in 1992. |
Butler began Brain Multiples in 1991 to finance, edit, publish and distribute artists’ editions. Rather than representing artists, Butler collaborated with them on projects in which he found interest. Artists who have produced Brain Multiples with Butler include John Baldessari, Rachel Khedoori, Paul McCarthy, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno, Jason Rhoades, Katy Schimert, Diana Thater and Rirkrit Tiravanija, among others. |
The original incarnation of 1301PE was as 1301, which was located at Butler’s apartment, 1301 Franklin Street, Santa Monica, CA. The founding principle was to present world class exhibitions of artists primarily based in Los Angeles. The first show at 1301 was "Raw Material" by Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, which opened on 29 April 1992. Shows at 1301 featured work by artists Jamey Bair, Angela Bulloch, Meg Cranston, Sarah Seager and Thaddeus Strode, as well as a group show called "Into the Lapse" which presented video work by artists General Idea, Sean Landers, Jim Shaw, Diana Thater, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto and others. |
In 1996, 1301 became 1310PE, standing for Projects and Editions. For a period 1301PE had no permanent location, and Butler curated exhibitions in other galleries, such as an exhibition of the artist Angela Bulloch at the gallery owned by Marc Foxx. Other projects curated during this time included a collaboration between an Iranian carpet weaver and the artist Mike Kelley, the work "Ranch" by Jorge Pardo and Jason Rhoades, and Diana Thater’s presentation of "The best animals are the flat animals" and "The best space is the deep space" at MAK Center for Art and Architecture. |
In 1998, 1301PE reopened in its current location on the Miracle Mile in Los Angeles. Since its reopening, 1301PE has continued to exhibit the work of Los Angeles-based as well as internationally acclaimed artists. In addition to established artists whom the gallery has represented, such as Fiona Banner, Uta Barth, Charline von Heyl, Jack Goldstein, Ann Veronica Janssens, Judy Ledgerwood, Philippe Parreno, John Reynolds, Jessica Stockholder, Pae White, and Paul Winstanely, 1301PE also works with young artists including Jan Albers, Fiona Connor, Kirsten Everberg, Jorge Mendez Blake, Blake Rayne, SUPERFLEX, and Kerry Tribe. |
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